Ubuntu has always been the villain. Or, you know, the thing that you watch other people use in bemusement and begrudging appreciation that your goals at least are getting served even if it's not by methods of which you approve.
The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
A lot of that is incorrect. You do lose certain benefits by entering employment (housing benefit and council tax benefit being the most significant two) but those on minimum wage will receive working tax credit and possibly child tax credit too.
I don't know how this varies around the country, but the school my children attend (which is in a deprived area) subsidise the school trips and eligibility for school dinners (and many other subsidies) relies not on employment status, but whether you receive a higher rate of tax credits.
What Jobs has more than anything else is knowledge of when to say "NO".
A lot of what geeks perceive as flaws in the iPhone are very good examples of when to say "no".
SD card support, for example. No. SD cards are slow, and unpredictable. A bad SD card can severely hamper performance, and it negatively impacts the UI in a big way. Especially when people install their apps on them.
So, in the iPhone, you can't have one, and it's a better product for it.
Same goes for multitasking. The negative impact of having it outweigh the advantage of having it. So you can't have it. They've allowed it in a very limited capacity on iOS4 and IMO the platform suffers for it.
And it goes as far back as the iMac where he said NO to floppy drives and serial. It took everyone else a long time to catch up, but eventually everyone else realised that USB / ethernet / the internet were better ways of getting the job done.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I'm not even joking. A touted iOS4 feature was/is that it maintains your WLAN connection while asleep, to allow notifications to be delivered.
Wikipedia requires that any images be correctly licensed, and requires proof of same. Ergo most wikipedia celeb photos are fan-taken photos or similar.
I think this is a natural progression of ISPs-as-loss-leaders. Companies like Sky+BT, Talk Talk, Orange Mobile and so on give ISP access away for free. The money's got to come from somewhere, and the margins on the other services that those companies provide aren't enough.
Webkit has had Apple developing for it in the 8 or 9 years since they created it. It also has a much larger userbase than KHTML since it is used as the basis for Safari, Chrome and many mobile browsers (notably those on Symbian and Android, and of course iOS).
I'm far from an expert, but couldn't this be solved by a judiciously placed strip of electrical tape? Some care with a craft knife and you wouldn't even spoil the cosmetics all that much.
and that UI responsiveness is exactly what would be lost if they opened up the software it can run to include non-approved apps, apps that can run in the background and FUCKING FLASH.
I did this, and my brain hated it. Can't put my finger on why - maybe it was the asymmetric setup, or just because it wasn't what I was used to, but I used to find it uncomfortable just looking at it. Logically it was a much better setup, but I just couldn't get used to it.
Believe it or not, their deaths were actually reported when they happened, back in 2007. Here is just one example I found from a Reuters blog, but it was in all the mainstream media here in the UK as well. Those of us that pay attention to the news have known about this since it happened.
This sounds like it's going to be essentially the same service that 3 mobile have been offering in the UK for a few years now. The Skype calls are handled through a gateway at the carrier. Between the carrier and the handset they function the same as a regular voice call (so they're nice and tappable).
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So do 7 Digital, and have done for ages. I'm not sure why this has taken Apple so long.
Ubuntu has always been the villain. Or, you know, the thing that you watch other people use in bemusement and begrudging appreciation that your goals at least are getting served even if it's not by methods of which you approve.
The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
Virgin Media's TiVo offering is distinct from V+. it will, presumably, eventually supersede V+, but they are not the same thing.
http://tivo.virginmedia.com/
Someone has to serve Darth^H Jeff Vader his Penne A La Arrabiata, and make sure all the trays are wet ...
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A lot of that is incorrect. You do lose certain benefits by entering employment (housing benefit and council tax benefit being the most significant two) but those on minimum wage will receive working tax credit and possibly child tax credit too.
I don't know how this varies around the country, but the school my children attend (which is in a deprived area) subsidise the school trips and eligibility for school dinners (and many other subsidies) relies not on employment status, but whether you receive a higher rate of tax credits.
They can't offer XP, but they can offer FLP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs
(I thought it had been quietly dropped by MS, but apparently not)
What Jobs has more than anything else is knowledge of when to say "NO". A lot of what geeks perceive as flaws in the iPhone are very good examples of when to say "no". SD card support, for example. No. SD cards are slow, and unpredictable. A bad SD card can severely hamper performance, and it negatively impacts the UI in a big way. Especially when people install their apps on them. So, in the iPhone, you can't have one, and it's a better product for it. Same goes for multitasking. The negative impact of having it outweigh the advantage of having it. So you can't have it. They've allowed it in a very limited capacity on iOS4 and IMO the platform suffers for it. And it goes as far back as the iMac where he said NO to floppy drives and serial. It took everyone else a long time to catch up, but eventually everyone else realised that USB / ethernet / the internet were better ways of getting the job done.
It's not a bug, it's a feature. I'm not even joking. A touted iOS4 feature was/is that it maintains your WLAN connection while asleep, to allow notifications to be delivered.
Wikipedia requires that any images be correctly licensed, and requires proof of same. Ergo most wikipedia celeb photos are fan-taken photos or similar.
There shouldn't be any nukes.
I think this is a natural progression of ISPs-as-loss-leaders. Companies like Sky+BT, Talk Talk, Orange Mobile and so on give ISP access away for free. The money's got to come from somewhere, and the margins on the other services that those companies provide aren't enough.
In the UK at least. Free broadband deals are common loss-leaders from companies like Sky and Orange.
The pay services have scaled as well, so £35 per month buys you much more bandwidth than it did five years ago.
They already ARE locked down at the hardware level, genius. Just try installing a custom firmware on an iphone or ipod.
It's not KHTML by another name, it is a fork of KHTML.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
Webkit has had Apple developing for it in the 8 or 9 years since they created it. It also has a much larger userbase than KHTML since it is used as the basis for Safari, Chrome and many mobile browsers (notably those on Symbian and Android, and of course iOS).
"but i hope they will fix that in later releases."
This is basically now the KDE mantra.
I remember when I used to be excited by new KDE releases. Now I just greet every new one with a sense of dread at what they've broken this time.
I'm far from an expert, but couldn't this be solved by a judiciously placed strip of electrical tape? Some care with a craft knife and you wouldn't even spoil the cosmetics all that much.
DVI supports HDCP.
and that UI responsiveness is exactly what would be lost if they opened up the software it can run to include non-approved apps, apps that can run in the background and FUCKING FLASH.
I did this, and my brain hated it. Can't put my finger on why - maybe it was the asymmetric setup, or just because it wasn't what I was used to, but I used to find it uncomfortable just looking at it. Logically it was a much better setup, but I just couldn't get used to it.
Rotate your display by 90 degrees.
Believe it or not, their deaths were actually reported when they happened, back in 2007. Here is just one example I found from a Reuters blog, but it was in all the mainstream media here in the UK as well. Those of us that pay attention to the news have known about this since it happened.
Utter nonsense. The RAZR certainly didn't launch with GPS, and if it has it now, it is an addition to one of the very recent models.
I've seen it
Garlic bread?
This sounds like it's going to be essentially the same service that 3 mobile have been offering in the UK for a few years now. The Skype calls are handled through a gateway at the carrier. Between the carrier and the handset they function the same as a regular voice call (so they're nice and tappable).