I worked at a startup. Loved it. But I did burn out after 10 months of 10-12 hour days, 6-7 days a week. One nice thing, though... whenever we ran out of toilet paper for the bathrooms, we just had them print up more options.
Wow. Your memory and debating skills are pathetic. But you are a decent troll, and I loves to feeds me some trolls. Did you miss my quip about facist package management? Yeah, I was basically saying the OP argument is absurd. Don't like the App Store? Don't use it. Or don't use the IOS devices. Certainly, the App Store doesn't force people to buy Apple. I see there should be some criticism of Apple for their methods, but the article is absurd... the App Store in no way shape or form affects the Internet in any way.
I didn't mean to promote heroin addiction. I was merely saying that slashdot is indeed likely more harmful than heroin.
But point taken about long lived smokers. The native americans smoked tobacco for centuries and live to ripe old ages. I believe the real killer is stress, and this is borne out by pipe smokers, who tend to live longer than other smokers because of their laid back, low stress personalities.
You've totally failed to make a point, or your point was entirely misplaced. Apple restricts, the SDK restricts... but the App Store didn't restrict those apps. Again, anything you see in there you can install. There's nothing in there that is taunting you because you can't install it. I think you may have a little trouble with the way you think about certain concepts. Apple runs the App Store, not the other way around.
Or more to the point, when did apt, or rpm restrict your access to some package you wanted to install.
Perhaps we should agree not to feed the trolls.
Please provide an example of what you are talking about. App Store doesn't restrict... ? Anything you see in there you can install. What are you talking about?
I believe my point has been made. The App Store is a package manager. It matters not that it sells stuff... Cydia is a package manager based on apt, it sells stuff too, it is still a package manager. This is a detail that Microsoft has missed in their lawsuit against the App Store trademark. "App Store" is NOT generic. Package manager is the generic.
RPM is to RedHat what
pkgsrc is to NetBSD (and others) what
apt(itude) is to linux what
(arguably) Software Update is to OS X what
(arguably) Microsoft (or Windows) Update is to Windows what
App Store is to iOS
Contrary to popular belief, Apple DID NOT invent package management with the release of App Store. App Store is NOT an app store... it's a package manager.
Slashdot has damaged me more than had I been a heroin addict all these years.
Undoutedly. Heroin just isn't that bad for you. William S. Boroughs lived to his 80's... alcoholics and smokers never make it that far. Heroin is destructive socio-economically, but not all that much biologically (assuming no dirty needles or overdoses).
dude... you're trolling. I know what tethering is. In fact, I make fun of people that use terms like "wifi tethering" because it's not truly tethering, which by definition is via a usb cable or even bluetooth. But in the instance of my inquiry, tethering and wifi hotspotting serve the same purpose: use your cell data for another device.
so back to the point... AT&T is charging for the data... then, if you tether (or presumably, if you use hotspotting), AT&T charges you AGAIN for teh SAME DATA. I call this double billing. I'd like to get some interest up for perhaps a class action lawsuit against AT&T.
AT&T has several partnerships with Qwest and other regional bells to use their Hotspots. I'm not being charged by the use of it. It's a feature in my Qwest DSL contract.
I'm not talking about hotspots around town... down at the McD's or Starbucks. I'm talking about turning your iPhone into a hotspot (functions the same way as tethering). But thanks for responding.
When AT&T or Verizon charges for 2GB data, and then they charge again for tethering or hotspoting that data, what they are effectivelydoing is this. And, if I remember my John Grisham, each time they mail a bill out double charging for the data, they are committing mail fraud, and each offense is punishable up to 5 years, not to be served concurrently.
I know there's some sharp lawyers here... let's go get AT&T!!
Also interesting to note is the lack of mention of the Mobile Hotspot feature rumored to be included in 4.3 for all iOS devices by the Verizon announcement yesterday."
Now that it settled... How do we stop AT&T from double charging for data? Pay for 2GB data, you should be able to use it how you wish... why would it matter to AT&T whether that data was going directly to iPhone, or by proxy to another device? It's still data you pay for.
someone must have an idea... it doesn't seem legal for them to do this for anyone but the "true" unlimited users.
nice... keep up the good work! I, for one, am sick and tired of the incorrect notion that Windows systems are less expensive... in the long run, they never are (mostly due, I think, to Windows rot)... and afaict, sticking with Windows systems that barely work is a scheme to keep Windows specialists employed (because it's nearly always broken, it always needs fixing).
Well, interestingly, iPhone 3G was the 2nd generation, and iPhone 3GS was the third,
Actually not. The iPhone 3G was the second iPhone, but not the second generation of iPhone. The 3G is exactly the same as the original iPhone internally except for a new baseband radio for 3G. The 3GS is the proper 2nd gen device, as it used a new CPU at a higher speed. Technically, the iPhone 4 is still only the 3rd Gen iPhone, and still uses 3G cell technology. Apple screwed up here IMHO. The iPhone 4 should have been named the iPhone HD so that when the 4G cell technologies are available, they could have unconfusingly called the new one the iPhone 4G (which many journalist were incorrectly calling the iPhone 4 prior to release)... which is doubtful they will do now as it will cause confusion between it and the current iPhone 4.
You're one of the lucky ones. My close friend is blind in his left eye due to a botched early (experimental) version of this proceedure (from scar tissue, I believe). Also, any time you go under general anesthesia, there is a chance you will never wake up... most that take elective surgeries ignore the statistical dangers of "going under," but they are quite real.
It will reuse the shuttle external tank as the primary core for the liquid booster (the same tank design that is currently giving the Discovery shuttle launch so many problems).
Confiscating the phones seems like sillyness. Yes, cut them off... but the cost is in the service, not the phones. And does CA have some special non-contract with their providers that they can just stop paying the bill? Wouldn't they be responsible for paying the rest of their contracts? I suppose they have to start somewhere, but something tells me that CA will now be paying for services on thousands of cellphones for as long as the next 2 years that no one is using. Perhaps a better recall strategy is needed for these phones.
This tracking system appears to violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which provides that "no state shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
We can all agree that a file format is different from an application, they have 2 distinct meanings. And you (and I in other posts) point out that app is also a file format (which happens to be specific now to Apple). There are a lot of homonyms in the English language.
Yes, it does. It's called "coining a word," even if Apple is using "App" as a specific subset of a larger class of software programs. Let me remind you that "App Store" is the trademarked term, not "app." Apple is using App to describe something different and more specific than how the abbreviation has been used in the vernacular. Concerning Apple's iOS devices, "App" specifically refers to the little applications available in the App Store (which itself is an app... a package management app!). We usually refer to this sort of thing as "defining your terms." Apple defined their terms.
I can see you and the other responders here in your JrH algebra classes when your teacher says "let x equal the number" and you say "hey, you can call that number x, but x is a letter! Just because you say x is the number doesn't make it so!"
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I worked at a startup. Loved it. But I did burn out after 10 months of 10-12 hour days, 6-7 days a week. One nice thing, though... whenever we ran out of toilet paper for the bathrooms, we just had them print up more options.
Wow. Your memory and debating skills are pathetic. But you are a decent troll, and I loves to feeds me some trolls. Did you miss my quip about facist package management? Yeah, I was basically saying the OP argument is absurd. Don't like the App Store? Don't use it. Or don't use the IOS devices. Certainly, the App Store doesn't force people to buy Apple. I see there should be some criticism of Apple for their methods, but the article is absurd... the App Store in no way shape or form affects the Internet in any way.
prove that a computer can be programmed to understand
Never. Parse? sure... Interpret? why not? But understand? No. A computer will never understand.
But point taken about long lived smokers. The native americans smoked tobacco for centuries and live to ripe old ages. I believe the real killer is stress, and this is borne out by pipe smokers, who tend to live longer than other smokers because of their laid back, low stress personalities.
You've totally failed to make a point, or your point was entirely misplaced. Apple restricts, the SDK restricts... but the App Store didn't restrict those apps. Again, anything you see in there you can install. There's nothing in there that is taunting you because you can't install it. I think you may have a little trouble with the way you think about certain concepts. Apple runs the App Store, not the other way around.
Or more to the point, when did apt, or rpm restrict your access to some package you wanted to install.
Perhaps we should agree not to feed the trolls.
Please provide an example of what you are talking about. App Store doesn't restrict... ? Anything you see in there you can install. What are you talking about?
Why would it make it any less of a package manager if it has things for sale?
A software package management system (PMS) is a collection of software tools to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages for a computer's operating system in a consistent manner. It typically maintains a database of software dependencies and version information to prevent software mismatches and missing prerequisites.
I believe my point has been made. The App Store is a package manager. It matters not that it sells stuff... Cydia is a package manager based on apt, it sells stuff too, it is still a package manager. This is a detail that Microsoft has missed in their lawsuit against the App Store trademark. "App Store" is NOT generic. Package manager is the generic.
RPM is to RedHat what
pkgsrc is to NetBSD (and others) what
apt(itude) is to linux what
(arguably) Software Update is to OS X what
(arguably) Microsoft (or Windows) Update is to Windows what
App Store is to iOS
Contrary to popular belief, Apple DID NOT invent package management with the release of App Store. App Store is NOT an app store... it's a package manager.
the ones I've seen put the device into DFU for you, no button pressing necessary
Slashdot has damaged me more than had I been a heroin addict all these years.
Undoutedly. Heroin just isn't that bad for you. William S. Boroughs lived to his 80's... alcoholics and smokers never make it that far. Heroin is destructive socio-economically, but not all that much biologically (assuming no dirty needles or overdoses).
Rise up! Break the crushing bonds of facist package managment!
so back to the point... AT&T is charging for the data... then, if you tether (or presumably, if you use hotspotting), AT&T charges you AGAIN for teh SAME DATA. I call this double billing. I'd like to get some interest up for perhaps a class action lawsuit against AT&T.
but I'm being trolled... so I get no joy.
AT&T has several partnerships with Qwest and other regional bells to use their Hotspots. I'm not being charged by the use of it. It's a feature in my Qwest DSL contract.
I'm not talking about hotspots around town... down at the McD's or Starbucks. I'm talking about turning your iPhone into a hotspot (functions the same way as tethering). But thanks for responding.
replying to my own post here...
When AT&T or Verizon charges for 2GB data, and then they charge again for tethering or hotspoting that data, what they are effectivelydoing is this. And, if I remember my John Grisham, each time they mail a bill out double charging for the data, they are committing mail fraud, and each offense is punishable up to 5 years, not to be served concurrently.
I know there's some sharp lawyers here... let's go get AT&T!!
Also interesting to note is the lack of mention of the Mobile Hotspot feature rumored to be included in 4.3 for all iOS devices by the Verizon announcement yesterday."
Nope. Actually, it was mentioned by some leaky devs:
they even provided screen shots
Now that it settled... How do we stop AT&T from double charging for data? Pay for 2GB data, you should be able to use it how you wish... why would it matter to AT&T whether that data was going directly to iPhone, or by proxy to another device? It's still data you pay for.
someone must have an idea... it doesn't seem legal for them to do this for anyone but the "true" unlimited users.
nice... keep up the good work! I, for one, am sick and tired of the incorrect notion that Windows systems are less expensive... in the long run, they never are (mostly due, I think, to Windows rot)... and afaict, sticking with Windows systems that barely work is a scheme to keep Windows specialists employed (because it's nearly always broken, it always needs fixing).
Well, interestingly, iPhone 3G was the 2nd generation, and iPhone 3GS was the third,
Actually not. The iPhone 3G was the second iPhone, but not the second generation of iPhone. The 3G is exactly the same as the original iPhone internally except for a new baseband radio for 3G. The 3GS is the proper 2nd gen device, as it used a new CPU at a higher speed. Technically, the iPhone 4 is still only the 3rd Gen iPhone, and still uses 3G cell technology. Apple screwed up here IMHO. The iPhone 4 should have been named the iPhone HD so that when the 4G cell technologies are available, they could have unconfusingly called the new one the iPhone 4G (which many journalist were incorrectly calling the iPhone 4 prior to release)... which is doubtful they will do now as it will cause confusion between it and the current iPhone 4.
You're one of the lucky ones. My close friend is blind in his left eye due to a botched early (experimental) version of this proceedure (from scar tissue, I believe). Also, any time you go under general anesthesia, there is a chance you will never wake up... most that take elective surgeries ignore the statistical dangers of "going under," but they are quite real.
It will reuse the shuttle external tank as the primary core for the liquid booster (the same tank design that is currently giving the Discovery shuttle launch so many problems).
fyi, not a "design issue" but a materials issue:
for Discovery's prolonged grounding, shuttle program manager John Shannon said a combination of inferior material and assembly issues is to blame. Cracks occurred in five of the 108 aluminum alloy struts in the center of the tank, which holds instruments. The damaged struts have been patched. Technicians will reinforce the remaining struts as a safety precaution, using thin 6-inch strips of aluminum.
Confiscating the phones seems like sillyness. Yes, cut them off... but the cost is in the service, not the phones. And does CA have some special non-contract with their providers that they can just stop paying the bill? Wouldn't they be responsible for paying the rest of their contracts? I suppose they have to start somewhere, but something tells me that CA will now be paying for services on thousands of cellphones for as long as the next 2 years that no one is using. Perhaps a better recall strategy is needed for these phones.
yes. Consumers don't buy Chunnel drills, either. Don't get me wrong -- I WANT ONE, but it's not gonna happen.
People do get added to the sex offender list for the wrong reasons, IMHO.
food for thought: That means, Mr. Allender wrote, based on studies of teenage sexual activity, that “nearly half of the teenagers in North Carolina and Virginia are felons.”
This tracking system appears to violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which provides that "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
We can all agree that a file format is different from an application, they have 2 distinct meanings. And you (and I in other posts) point out that app is also a file format (which happens to be specific now to Apple). There are a lot of homonyms in the English language.
I can see you and the other responders here in your JrH algebra classes when your teacher says "let x equal the number" and you say "hey, you can call that number x, but x is a letter! Just because you say x is the number doesn't make it so!"
ah... then UNIX is no different than a dashboard widget... and "Hello World" is also a software application. Yes, I can see where it gets confusing ;)