I take it you don't meta mod very often. You'd be amazed at the crap that gets modded insightful, or how many informative posts get modded troll. Give it a try sometime.
Telling a bunch of geeks that they're morons for buying tech gadgets on a site specifically targeting the people who would purchase those items just seems...moronic. Or did you forget to click AC?
If you look at your own link, it specifically states for the iPod touch (emphasis mine):
Connectivity: USB through dock connector; component and composite video through dock connector (with AV cables or kit, sold separately); audio through headphone jack
In a not unexpected move... Well, then I'm not unglad to hear about this. I still can't not unbelieve that their initial lawyer didn't know how to handle the very basics of the case. I wasn't not hoping to hear that this case would just get thrown out completely...how much can't the US government not do about this though? Inquiring minds don't not want to know...
Persecution for your beliefs as an individual and persecution as a whole for allegedly breaking the federal laws in several countries are two completely different things. The general public won't see CoS followers being stoned in the street, sent to camps, etc. They'll see "CoS accused of extortion" in the newspaper. I don't see that situation bringing much sympathy to their cause.
I suppose we could toss in there that it restrengthens and retimes the signal as well. To me moving it from one place to another makes it sound like it doesn't care about source or destination. If I wasn't moving next weekend I could have pulled out some Cisco books and gone biblical on Jester's ass, but unfortunately those are packed away at the moment.
A hub just passes packets verbatim from one place to another verbatim...a router determines where the packet needs to go, determines what header/footer information needs to be changed, and rebuilds the packet for the next hop. Fixed that for you.
For MicroSD, 4GB are available online, and 8GB were announced a few months ago. I picked up a 2GB for ~$40 several months ago.
And the 8525 can already do everything the iPhone can do, minus the touch screen. The iPhone does bring a better interface (HTC's TouchFLO being a response to this), but the 8525 has a lot more functionality. I dunno if I'd call the Kaiser a Hermes on steroids, there aren't a whole lot of upgrades. The Hermes already has GPS onboard, but it's physically disabled. The only thing they really added was 128MB for the rom, 64MB for RAM, and a flip up style keyboard.
Still a nice device for sure, but nothing (as an 8525 owner) to get real exited about.
I'm not saying that I'm for this decision at all (I'd be SOL as well since I run Fedora at home...) but does that TV tax actually cover television programs distributed over the Internet? I'm trying to figure out if the government could actually do something about this, or if the petitions are going to fall on deaf ears.
Are they taking it off the air, and moving it to Internet distribution only though? It seems that they're merely adding a second distribution channel, and that it is still broadcast freely over the traditional channel.
Devil's advocate, but it seems to me that the law would apply to televisions only. You still have the right to view it on your television, correct? If you wanted, could you still put a CATV capture card into your computer to view television on your computer? So you're still receiving 100% of the benefits of paying that special tax, right? Or is the iPlayer going to hinder the use of your television? Which part of the law would actually apply to program distribution over the Internet?
Now I'm just confused. My understanding of the situation is that a corporation wants to release content free (as in beer) for people to view, but people are actually taking to the streets in protest that the delivery system isn't free (as in speech). Or is this something that everyone is paying for, or is the content somehow regulated by the UK government? It just sounds like a company wants to release a product that only works on Windows, and I'm pretty sure that's been done before.
Feel free to blast me for being ignorant of the situation, but I couldn't find any decent info on why this situation warrants protests and such hype. If it pushes OSS, I'm all for it, it just seems a little over the top. The only bad thing I could find was it's delivery system, which would push the net neutrality debate...
If they quit Viacom, it'd be kinda tough to get any more Daily Show or Colbert Report on the web, wouldn't it? They don't care about having their content "free" (as in speech) on YouTube. They want it on there "free" (as in beer) to generate a larger audience. They understand that if you give some users some free content, they'll be more likely to watch the show 'live' on TV when it first airs.
I know for me, watching Lazy Sunday on YouTube brought me back to checking out SNL again for the first time in several years...maybe that's just me though.
And finally, and most important, we can only hope that someone develops ScummVM and MAME, two game emulation platforms, soon. I want unlimited classic arcade games and Monkey Island in my iPhone. I hope all those classic games can be played with a single button...cause that's all you're getting.
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I take it you don't meta mod very often. You'd be amazed at the crap that gets modded insightful, or how many informative posts get modded troll. Give it a try sometime.
Telling a bunch of geeks that they're morons for buying tech gadgets on a site specifically targeting the people who would purchase those items just seems...moronic. Or did you forget to click AC?
Pretty close yeah. Here is an article with a more detailed explanation.
Not all of 'em are spineless.
/proud cheesehead
If using Newspeak gets rid of the double negative, I'm all for it.
Persecution for your beliefs as an individual and persecution as a whole for allegedly breaking the federal laws in several countries are two completely different things. The general public won't see CoS followers being stoned in the street, sent to camps, etc. They'll see "CoS accused of extortion" in the newspaper. I don't see that situation bringing much sympathy to their cause.
I suppose we could toss in there that it restrengthens and retimes the signal as well. To me moving it from one place to another makes it sound like it doesn't care about source or destination. If I wasn't moving next weekend I could have pulled out some Cisco books and gone biblical on Jester's ass, but unfortunately those are packed away at the moment.
I dunno, FreeBSD is pretty decent from what I hear.
It helps to may more than the activation fee when you buy your phone. Anything other than a crap feature phone allows you to do this.
Yeah. There are radio roms available that would enable the GPS. However, there are numerous problems enabling GPS on it.
For MicroSD, 4GB are available online, and 8GB were announced a few months ago. I picked up a 2GB for ~$40 several months ago.
And the 8525 can already do everything the iPhone can do, minus the touch screen. The iPhone does bring a better interface (HTC's TouchFLO being a response to this), but the 8525 has a lot more functionality. I dunno if I'd call the Kaiser a Hermes on steroids, there aren't a whole lot of upgrades. The Hermes already has GPS onboard, but it's physically disabled. The only thing they really added was 128MB for the rom, 64MB for RAM, and a flip up style keyboard.
Still a nice device for sure, but nothing (as an 8525 owner) to get real exited about.
I'm not saying that I'm for this decision at all (I'd be SOL as well since I run Fedora at home...) but does that TV tax actually cover television programs distributed over the Internet? I'm trying to figure out if the government could actually do something about this, or if the petitions are going to fall on deaf ears.
Are they taking it off the air, and moving it to Internet distribution only though? It seems that they're merely adding a second distribution channel, and that it is still broadcast freely over the traditional channel.
Devil's advocate, but it seems to me that the law would apply to televisions only. You still have the right to view it on your television, correct? If you wanted, could you still put a CATV capture card into your computer to view television on your computer? So you're still receiving 100% of the benefits of paying that special tax, right? Or is the iPlayer going to hinder the use of your television? Which part of the law would actually apply to program distribution over the Internet?
I realize that there's no cross platform DRM, but is there some UK law stating that a company's product must work across platforms?
Also, according to one of the links, people are demanding no DRM be used whatsoever.
Now I'm just confused. My understanding of the situation is that a corporation wants to release content free (as in beer) for people to view, but people are actually taking to the streets in protest that the delivery system isn't free (as in speech). Or is this something that everyone is paying for, or is the content somehow regulated by the UK government? It just sounds like a company wants to release a product that only works on Windows, and I'm pretty sure that's been done before.
Feel free to blast me for being ignorant of the situation, but I couldn't find any decent info on why this situation warrants protests and such hype. If it pushes OSS, I'm all for it, it just seems a little over the top. The only bad thing I could find was it's delivery system, which would push the net neutrality debate...
If they quit Viacom, it'd be kinda tough to get any more Daily Show or Colbert Report on the web, wouldn't it? They don't care about having their content "free" (as in speech) on YouTube. They want it on there "free" (as in beer) to generate a larger audience. They understand that if you give some users some free content, they'll be more likely to watch the show 'live' on TV when it first airs.
I know for me, watching Lazy Sunday on YouTube brought me back to checking out SNL again for the first time in several years...maybe that's just me though.
Even better was Yo Noid. Fantastic little platformer.
Try searching google for iPhoNES. It seems someone else may already have a pretty high page rank for that one.
Really? You'd have to be a pretty determined thief to try and pick a lock on a fiery door.