There has been a lot of misconception about the functionality of isostick. All the optical disk magic takes place in the isostick itself, it doesn't matter if you're in the computer's BIOS, an OS, anything -- whatever you plug it into will see both an optical drive and a flash drive. Absolutely no software is required for this. The software mentioned is a convenience for configuring it, but all settings are ultimately stored in config files on the flash portion, which you can edit however you please. I hope this clears up some confusion about the isostick, and I hope you like it!
Some BIOSes only see the first drive a device presents, so isostick's optical drive comes first so you don't have to worry about not being able to boot from it!
true, but FTA"In other words, this patent is old enough to predate much of what is now happening in both mobile and social media. Even worse -- for Apple's competitors -- it's broad. Here's the all-important first independent claim that helps set the scope for what the patent might legally cover:"
this is a 2000 patent. does that mean the new filing is retro to 2000 or does it only apply going forward?
and it sounds different to me because the companies you listed work by using GPS to find your location and track movement on a map local to the device. POIs, etc, must be updated by downloading new maps/databases. I never updated the maps on my TomTom - so I know a new gas station or whatever will not show up because it was opened after the version of the map I'm using was created.
this patent uses GPS and sends it off to the internet to determne location.. presumably, that new gas station will be returned to my device - because the "map" is always current thanks to the big database in the sky.
this service MIGHT not just return POIs, but the price of gas at that gas station.. or todays lunch special at the spot around the corner. a "service" wouldn't be necessary to tell you you're on the 3000 block of Main street - vanilla GPS has been doing that for years.
not a wif-fi network (as in 802.something) the unlicensed SPECTRUM meaning those available frequencies.. and "global" could not possibly be in the cards because the FCC doesn't regulate radio frequencies outside the US - so I imagine if he had pulled it off, it would be 5GHz (or whatever) in the US only.
well.. it's not doppler but Batman isn't real anyway:
Single device (headphone) mode:
This mode works on the iPhone 3GS (and newer), iPod touch 3rd Generation (and newer) and on all iPads. You either need one of those devices and headphones with a mic or headphones without a mic and a iOS device with a built-in mic (excluding the iPod touch 3rd Generation). The resolution in this mode is 1mm or 1/10 of an inch, depending on the unit system you have selected.
wait, you think the VP of Security for Apple is somehow supposed to be aware of a street crime 3000 miles away from Cupertino?
citizens are under no (legal) obligation to report a crime or intervene in any way. if you SAW a murder, you're under no obligation to even cooperate with the authorities unless you're served a subpoena.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony With the development of the modern law, this crime has been discarded in many jurisdictions, and is generally only applied against persons placed in a special position of authority or responsibility. In this case, the offence of misfeasance in public office or malfeasance in public office may be considered instead. For example, corrections officers who stand idly by while drug trafficking occurs within the prison may be prosecuted for this crime.
you think HBO doesn't want to sell directly to the public (via their apps or their site)? you can only use it if you already subscribe through a cable/sat providers, and I understand Time Warner Cable doesn't even allow that. HBO owns the content, but they can't even dictate how it's distributed (to non TV devices)
DirecTV got over 300k new subscribers in one quarter because of NFL Sunday Ticket. Somehow, no matter how badly the NFL wants it, i don't think you're going to see that on any other platform because of the contract with DTV. Hell, even if I did get Sunday Ticket, I still couldn't watch my local team (in their home market) because of blackout dates. what the fuck kind of rules are those (I know that's a NFL thing and not DTV)
I don't think Apple/Google/MS could pull it off even if they pooled their resources.
look at how fucked up the whole thing is. new movies for sale first, then rental (in the same god damn sotre).. some get it 30 days before anyone else.. the weirdness goes on and on. tv shows (for the most part) are not available until after they air because there's so much god damn money in advertising during prime time.
aside from airline ticket pricing, tv/movie distribution is the most convoluted business model i've ever seen.
all your content from us? is that so bad? how many channels in your cable package do you actually watch? i have to pay for more than the basic package to get Discovery, Science, History, etc but Oxgen and BET come with the basic? $5 bucks for OTA channels on DirecTV?
Apple didn't make you buy an album to get the 1-2 good songs.. I call that al la carte.. someting TV needs desperately.
the 100 year old business model for broadcasters needs to change.
I'll be first in line for any company that let's me pay ONLY FOR WHAT I WANT TO WATCH, and not the shit on channels 0-200.
Follow these quick instructions, and you'll be adding tasks to Remember The Milk with Siri in no time.
Open Settings on your iPhone 4S Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars Tap Add Account... Tap Other Underneath Calendars, tap Add CalDav Account In the 'Server' field, enter: www.rememberthemilk.com In the 'User Name' and 'Password' fields, enter your Remember The Milk details Tap Next You should be returned to Mail, Contacts, Calendars, with the account added. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, and tap Default List Tap Remember The Milk You're done! Start asking Siri to remind you about tasks.:)
if you say "my wife is Jane Doe" and Jane Doe is in your contacts, you can say "tell my wife I'm on my way home" and Siri will build a message to Jane Doe.
"why is national infrastructure paid for at a local level?" it's not all like that.
each state gets Federal funds for things like interstate highways (those roads which cross state borders) - similar to your National Routes, I imagine.
from the summary "Amazon has brand recognition, a bevy of existing loyal Kindle e-reader owners, and a Web-based e-commerce platform that includes one-click access to buying e-books, movies, digital music downloads, its own Android app store, and streaming media catalog. That adds up to Amazon being uniquely suited to go head-to-head with Apple in the tablet market and become a formidable competitor across the industry."
completley different how? Does B&N have an app store? I thought the nook (out of the box) was a reader only.
based on this brief hands on, it sounds like it's squarely pointed at apple.
a week on the shuttle is manageable.. it's like camping. a months long stint on the ISS is a different story... for a mission of that duration, food becomes a significant factor in crew morale. same reason submarine food is also said to be very good.
these guys just got blackballed by Mozilla and Google. IE is next. They're not issuing anything ever again - for all intents and purposes they cease to be a CA - MS/GOOG/MOZ will never trust them again.
it's not impossible. Apple uses akamai for CDN.. so why not use AWS and Azure. Just because the compete in the consumer space doesn't mean they can't have partnerships for the infrastructure. More datacenters = better redundancy, and geo diversity also saves a lot of traffic on the backbones.. (seems inefficient, for example, for a California resident to download their music servers on the east coast.. even more so for customers overseas).
They're suing Sammy on one side, but buy a shit ton of parts on the other.
Apple says that its “data center environment consists of MacOS X, IBM/AIX, Linux and SUN/Solaris systems.” The Maiden facility will have a “heavy emphasis” on high availability technologies, including IBM’s HACMP and HAGEO solutions for high-availability clusters, Veritas Cluster Server, and Oracle’s DataGuard and Real Application Clusters. Job candidates are also asked to be familiar with storage systems using IBM, NetApp and Data Domain, and data warehousing systems from Teradata. Networking positions require a familiarity with Brocade and Qlogic switches.
After first telling this newspaper that it could find no record of its officers taking part in the search, SFPD on Friday acknowledged its personnel had gone to the house, but said only Apple employees went inside to search.
this is wrong in so many ways. I wonder if SFPD can be sued.. while the search wasn't conducted by LE (therefore technically no illegal search) - they were there which implies (to the resident) this is a sanctioned police action.
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FWIW this might just solve that problem
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elegantinvention/isostick-the-optical-drive-in-a-usb-stick
There has been a lot of misconception about the functionality of isostick. All the optical disk magic takes place in the isostick itself, it doesn't matter if you're in the computer's BIOS, an OS, anything -- whatever you plug it into will see both an optical drive and a flash drive. Absolutely no software is required for this. The software mentioned is a convenience for configuring it, but all settings are ultimately stored in config files on the flash portion, which you can edit however you please. I hope this clears up some confusion about the isostick, and I hope you like it!
Some BIOSes only see the first drive a device presents, so isostick's optical drive comes first so you don't have to worry about not being able to boot from it!
I expect a drug addict to steal, not a wall street banker.
I usually don't bother replying to Anonymous Cowards.. but
LOL What?
I'd rather have some junkie take the change in my car than a Wall St. banker drain my account.
true, but FTA"In other words, this patent is old enough to predate much of what is now happening in both mobile and social media. Even worse -- for Apple's competitors -- it's broad. Here's the all-important first independent claim that helps set the scope for what the patent might legally cover:"
this is a 2000 patent. does that mean the new filing is retro to 2000 or does it only apply going forward?
and it sounds different to me because the companies you listed work by using GPS to find your location and track movement on a map local to the device. POIs, etc, must be updated by downloading new maps/databases. I never updated the maps on my TomTom - so I know a new gas station or whatever will not show up because it was opened after the version of the map I'm using was created.
this patent uses GPS and sends it off to the internet to determne location.. presumably, that new gas station will be returned to my device - because the "map" is always current thanks to the big database in the sky.
this service MIGHT not just return POIs, but the price of gas at that gas station.. or todays lunch special at the spot around the corner. a "service" wouldn't be necessary to tell you you're on the 3000 block of Main street - vanilla GPS has been doing that for years.
not a wif-fi network (as in 802.something) the unlicensed SPECTRUM meaning those available frequencies.. and "global" could not possibly be in the cards because the FCC doesn't regulate radio frequencies outside the US - so I imagine if he had pulled it off, it would be 5GHz (or whatever) in the US only.
well.. it's not doppler but Batman isn't real anyway:
Single device (headphone) mode:
This mode works on the iPhone 3GS (and newer), iPod touch 3rd Generation (and newer) and on all iPads. You either need one of those devices and headphones with a mic or headphones without a mic and a iOS device with a built-in mic (excluding the iPod touch 3rd Generation). The resolution in this mode is 1mm or 1/10 of an inch, depending on the unit system you have selected.
wait, you think the VP of Security for Apple is somehow supposed to be aware of a street crime 3000 miles away from Cupertino?
citizens are under no (legal) obligation to report a crime or intervene in any way. if you SAW a murder, you're under no obligation to even cooperate with the authorities unless you're served a subpoena.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony
With the development of the modern law, this crime has been discarded in many jurisdictions, and is generally only applied against persons placed in a special position of authority or responsibility. In this case, the offence of misfeasance in public office or malfeasance in public office may be considered instead. For example, corrections officers who stand idly by while drug trafficking occurs within the prison may be prosecuted for this crime.
he stepped down because it was bad PR.
and where are you going to get the content?
you think HBO doesn't want to sell directly to the public (via their apps or their site)? you can only use it if you already subscribe through a cable/sat providers, and I understand Time Warner Cable doesn't even allow that. HBO owns the content, but they can't even dictate how it's distributed (to non TV devices)
DirecTV got over 300k new subscribers in one quarter because of NFL Sunday Ticket. Somehow, no matter how badly the NFL wants it, i don't think you're going to see that on any other platform because of the contract with DTV. Hell, even if I did get Sunday Ticket, I still couldn't watch my local team (in their home market) because of blackout dates. what the fuck kind of rules are those (I know that's a NFL thing and not DTV)
I don't think Apple/Google/MS could pull it off even if they pooled their resources.
look at how fucked up the whole thing is. new movies for sale first, then rental (in the same god damn sotre).. some get it 30 days before anyone else.. the weirdness goes on and on. tv shows (for the most part) are not available until after they air because there's so much god damn money in advertising during prime time.
aside from airline ticket pricing, tv/movie distribution is the most convoluted business model i've ever seen.
all your content from us? is that so bad? how many channels in your cable package do you actually watch? i have to pay for more than the basic package to get Discovery, Science, History, etc but Oxgen and BET come with the basic? $5 bucks for OTA channels on DirecTV?
Apple didn't make you buy an album to get the 1-2 good songs.. I call that al la carte.. someting TV needs desperately.
the 100 year old business model for broadcasters needs to change.
I'll be first in line for any company that let's me pay ONLY FOR WHAT I WANT TO WATCH, and not the shit on channels 0-200.
that's why.
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/siri/
Follow these quick instructions, and you'll be adding tasks to Remember The Milk with Siri in no time.
Open Settings on your iPhone 4S :)
Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Tap Add Account...
Tap Other
Underneath Calendars, tap Add CalDav Account
In the 'Server' field, enter: www.rememberthemilk.com
In the 'User Name' and 'Password' fields, enter your Remember The Milk details
Tap Next
You should be returned to Mail, Contacts, Calendars, with the account added. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, and tap Default List
Tap Remember The Milk
You're done! Start asking Siri to remind you about tasks.
if you say "my wife is Jane Doe" and Jane Doe is in your contacts, you can say "tell my wife I'm on my way home" and Siri will build a message to Jane Doe.
does that qualify as learning?
http://labs.vectorform.com/2011/10/the-impact-of-apple’s-siri-release-from-the-former-lead-iphone-developer-of-siri/
AI or not, it's still an interesting read. (he was the lead dev at Siri before Apple bought them)
I'd say there's a ton of potential here.. it's more than a chatterbox.
i'll believe it when they kill off the MacPro.
BTO RAID, dual 6 core Westmere @3GHz, Fiber networking, 64GB RAM and 4x512GB SSDs...for the consumer.
yeah.. $17,000 for ichat and facetime - monitor extra
I'd like permission to treat my counsel as a hostile witness...
"why is national infrastructure paid for at a local level?"
it's not all like that.
each state gets Federal funds for things like interstate highways (those roads which cross state borders) - similar to your National Routes, I imagine.
divided by sales?
tax on goods shipped (or billed?) to Illinois goes to Illinois?
"national" doesn't necessarily mean it goes to the Fed, it could just mean a common rate.
kinda sucks for Oregon (no sales tax) but could be good for California where sales tax is almost 10%
Jesus Christ. And you wonder why Ars started moderating comments. /. needs to rename Anonymous Coward to Chicken Shit Troll.
wouldn't it be true since apple takes 30% from all, so the remainder is split as mentioned?
Apple is in a completely different area?
from the summary
"Amazon has brand recognition, a bevy of existing loyal Kindle e-reader owners, and a Web-based e-commerce platform that includes one-click access to buying e-books, movies, digital music downloads, its own Android app store, and streaming media catalog. That adds up to Amazon being uniquely suited to go head-to-head with Apple in the tablet market and become a formidable competitor across the industry."
completley different how? Does B&N have an app store? I thought the nook (out of the box) was a reader only.
based on this brief hands on, it sounds like it's squarely pointed at apple.
I like MG Siegler, yet despise techcrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/
actually - it's sounds pretty tasty. it's not like they take boxes of MREs.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Food_for_Space_Flight.html
not all of it is dehydrated... they have (irridiated) steaks
scroll down for the base menu
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/factsheets/food.html
a week on the shuttle is manageable.. it's like camping.
a months long stint on the ISS is a different story... for a mission of that duration, food becomes a significant factor in crew morale. same reason submarine food is also said to be very good.
these guys just got blackballed by Mozilla and Google. IE is next. They're not issuing anything ever again - for all intents and purposes they cease to be a CA - MS/GOOG/MOZ will never trust them again.
it's not impossible. Apple uses akamai for CDN.. so why not use AWS and Azure. Just because the compete in the consumer space doesn't mean they can't have partnerships for the infrastructure. More datacenters = better redundancy, and geo diversity also saves a lot of traffic on the backbones.. (seems inefficient, for example, for a California resident to download their music servers on the east coast.. even more so for customers overseas).
They're suing Sammy on one side, but buy a shit ton of parts on the other.
I don't see Xservs: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/06/steve-jobs-provides-a-look-inside-the-idatacenter/
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/07/21/the-technology-inside-apples-new-idatacenter/
Apple says that its “data center environment consists of MacOS X, IBM/AIX, Linux and SUN/Solaris systems.”
The Maiden facility will have a “heavy emphasis” on high availability technologies, including IBM’s HACMP and HAGEO solutions for high-availability clusters, Veritas Cluster Server, and Oracle’s DataGuard and Real Application Clusters.
Job candidates are also asked to be familiar with storage systems using IBM, NetApp and Data Domain, and data warehousing systems from Teradata.
Networking positions require a familiarity with Brocade and Qlogic switches.
"I'm not going to buy any touchpad until it meets this requirement, and I'm not buying an iPad period." ...so why not a Samsung tab?
surely, they can read PDFs and there are Android versions of the comic apps/readers?
What. The. Fuck.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18816728
After first telling this newspaper that it could find no record of its officers taking part in the search, SFPD on Friday acknowledged its personnel had gone to the house, but said only Apple employees went inside to search.
this is wrong in so many ways. I wonder if SFPD can be sued.. while the search wasn't conducted by LE (therefore technically no illegal search) - they were there which implies (to the resident) this is a sanctioned police action.
think of it this way.
immoral - "bad"
amoral - don't give a shit.