They did something wrong, They launched the iPhone 4 saying that the new antenna was amazing and blows every other antenna they have done before (not exact words but you get the idea), then they show numbers, that if we trust them, those numbers says that they build an antenna that is a little worse than the iPhone 3G*, that is not a better antenna.
what's the moral of the story? when you sell something, do not overhype your product, and worse do not believe your own created media hype
When installing an Android application, the system warns you about the privileges you are granting, one of them is fine (GPS) and coarse (network based) location information so you can refuse to install it. There are a lot of applications I do not install for that same reason, applications that based on their functionality do not need my location
Wrong, Android open source code does not need Google accounts, you can implement applications that add accounts functionality to the OS, for example, the official Twitter client is able to sync contacts, you can build another account provider. What you see on many Android phones, is the base OSS version, plus Google provided closed code for their services
That is the easy way to do it, but not the only one. A long time ago I implemented an updater for our apps that worked this way.
Implement a Windows Service, no autostarted, security for that service was set to be started by anyone. The GUI application checked for updates and if it is found, it just start the service that downloaded, checked signature, updated, and stopped the service. The service was not always running, and there was no need for admin privileges to update the application
sorry for self replying, I am a Firefox/Linux user and even on Linux those browsers suffer the same problem, central management of settings. Epiphany with the use of GConf is the only one more easily managed from something like an LDAP server
Because many popular non IE browsers are very difficult to manage on a Windows network environment, not impossible but requires a lot of work and experienced windows admin (something everyone claims to be on their CV but they are not). IE has nice policies to set centrally.
Firefox (default with no additional AD integration extension) needs.dat files added to the installation directory, you need to code javascript to do anything user related and not globally to every user on that workstation.
Chrome is the worst, it install on %LOCAL_APPDATA%, not globally, so each user need their own copy (WTF Google %APPDATA% is for data not binaries)
No experience with Opera on enterprise installations
no, I do not think PIN = encryption, but I at least hope that casual copying must not be allowed easily. for example, I leave mi phone on my desktop, go to the bathroom, I do not want someone to be able to get my data with just a few seconds of using the device, I know, you can break the device, take the internal memory and get the data, but at least that is not something that could be done in the time I go to the bathroom and I will notice it
Android (I hope other devices too), at least the Nexus One 2.1 version when you plug the USB cable, you must confirm on the phone screen that you want to mount the device something you can not do if the device is locked , until you do that, it is only charging it. On the Nexus you get access only to the SD Card contents, not the internal databases like contacts, account passwords. You can extract the SD Card, but you will need to remove the battery, at least I will know someone messed with my phone.
I like the mount confirmation window, just because I can charge it on any random USB port, even on Windows and not be afraid of getting infected files to spread to other people using Windows.
Apple allowed applications development, so the comparison with a microwave locked firmware is not good. They defined some rules that Adobe followed, no VM environment, just native ARM code generated like any C compiler will do. Apple changed the rules later.
So Apple behaviour is like a Microwave manufacturer that allows you to develop applications. so you develop a tool that generated code for it, then it is killed when they change the rules because they want you to use their tool only, so you need to buy their brand of computer to develop for the microwave, something that was not an original restriction
I think the problem with the Apple platform is not the user wishes, but those from the developer, You are right, when you buy a device it has some capabilities and you must not demand new ones. Apple banned all VMs like Flash and Java from the iPhone, right, that is Apple decision to do what it wants with the store (ignore for now the fact that you can only install applications from the store unless you jailbreak the device).
Adobe following the rules, developed a tool that generated native ARM binaries, no interpreter, just a "compiler" to the iPhone environment. They worked hard to comply with the rules, but almighty nutcase Jobs wants Adobe out of the iPhone by any method, so they change the rules just a few days before Adobe launches their tool. So the issue is not that developer have the right to build Flash apps on the iPhone, they want stable rules not used to destroy your work
OGM used the Ogg page structure (mostly correctly) though with private data for the VfW framework. The result was parseable as Ogg container but containing an ugly Windows-specific hack. We objected because it was not well formed and confused users who thought it was regular Ogg. It was a quick and dirty fork.
For the record, Tobias later joined Xiph along with his DirectShow filters[9] and deprecated OGM. OGM is no longer supported in our DirectShow offerings[10].
So your need is a video container format only for Windows?
Can you elaborate on that?, which games do you know requires to be logged in to play the offline/singleplayer mode?
I have a few PSN games and none of them requires to be logged in, unless you want to play a multiplayer match. Please do not mention Warhawk or SOCOM Confrontantion, because those two games are multiplayer only and obviously require you to be logged in. Be careful than some games automatically open the user and password dialog, but you still can press cancel and the game tell you that your score will not be tracked online or you will lose any other online only feature, but you can play offline
I think this is the first game with this rule, something that mark it on my "do not buy" list. but if someone knows about any other is it good to know
Why? because one manufacturer decided to add Flash to one device, now all Android devices must support Flash? If Motorola adds a Smalltalk runtime to the device, all Android manufacturers must do the same?
Do you want to develop for Android, use what Android has as a standard, If you want to develop using Flash, you know the current limitations (until 10.1 for Android that is expected to be installable and not embedded). It is not the platform developer, who must add all the possible runtime platforms, but it is their responsibility to add the APIs needed by those platforms to exists (like is happening with Flash, collaboration between Google and Adobe)
Anyone that says that you must focus on the least common denominator is a bad cross platform developer. I develop Java applications for a living, and my applications are not constrained by one platform, for example: I am adding right now support for the Windows 7 taskbar using JNA (JNI "wrapper") using runtime checks to know if the application is running on Windows 7
The fragmentation thing is an excuse for developer to do not work as needed. Will iPhone developers start to cry that they have now different screen sizes (IPad + iPhone) and that old iPhones that are not be able to "fake multitask" will force them to write code for both situations fragmenting the platform?
Some Android Phones already have an embedded Flash player, for example the HTC Hero. I think that flash player 10.1 for Android devices will be the version installable on other devices and not factory installed
I think it is a Java bug and not a browser bug, The researchers created a embed/object tag with parameters. They are adding a codebase parameter. embed/object parameters could be arbitrarily named, that is defined by the plugin to be used (Note the real standard object tag has a codebase attribute but they are not using it, they are using a param tag)
There is no way a browser will know how the plugin handle the arbitrarily named parameters, unless they specifically add it for the Java plugin, the browser send them to the plugin, in this case the Java plugin is the one that get that codebase and start javaws, so I think the Mac OS X plugin has checks that the standard Sun implementation or they are not starting javaws directly as another process
Grand parent has a point, for example when I write Java Swing code, Using Java2D, it does not matter to me which pipeline is Java using, OpenGL/Direct*/GDI, It is abstract to me.
The Basic Windows drawing routines should be abstract enough to be able to switch to hardware acceleration when possible,not at the application level (I am talking about basic 2D drawing operations)
It is easy to get access to root even when you have only access to an unprivileged user, change the user PATH in.bash_profile (for example), put a wrapper sudo or su to one of the directories added to the PATH, then you will get access to the root password or access to sudo if you fake it enough so the user believe you are using the real one. Only if Home directories where mounted noexec by default this could not work. I remember how people got users password on my college says just running a fake login prompt on the laboratory terminals
In general, the two new formats will be geared toward broadcast and document archiving, both industries that need to record and store massive libraries of digital content. But consumer versions will be available, "particularly in those regions where BD recorders have achieved broad consumer acceptance, " the BDA said.
It looks this is not a new format for the most predominant usage of Blu-ray media that is Video/Videogames. It is just a format for people that need that extra storage, They will kill Blu-ray movies if they start producing them on that new standard
so you advocate "make justice with your own hands"?
Apple violate patent laws (if this history of no licensing by Nokia is true) just to prove Nokia is evil and must RAND license the patents?
If Apple version is true, why not sue Nokia because they do not license with RAND terms as they "must do" because they added their patent to the standard before using the patents?
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They did something wrong, They launched the iPhone 4 saying that the new antenna was amazing and blows every other antenna they have done before (not exact words but you get the idea), then they show numbers, that if we trust them, those numbers says that they build an antenna that is a little worse than the iPhone 3G*, that is not a better antenna.
what's the moral of the story? when you sell something, do not overhype your product, and worse do not believe your own created media hype
maybe that means... "I have a lot of money to waste and you not" jaja
When installing an Android application, the system warns you about the privileges you are granting, one of them is fine (GPS) and coarse (network based) location information so you can refuse to install it. There are a lot of applications I do not install for that same reason, applications that based on their functionality do not need my location
Main difference with a console, rules do not change with Steve Jobs mood
Wrong, Android open source code does not need Google accounts, you can implement applications that add accounts functionality to the OS, for example, the official Twitter client is able to sync contacts, you can build another account provider. What you see on many Android phones, is the base OSS version, plus Google provided closed code for their services
That is the easy way to do it, but not the only one. A long time ago I implemented an updater for our apps that worked this way.
Implement a Windows Service, no autostarted, security for that service was set to be started by anyone. The GUI application checked for updates and if it is found, it just start the service that downloaded, checked signature, updated, and stopped the service. The service was not always running, and there was no need for admin privileges to update the application
sorry for self replying, I am a Firefox/Linux user and even on Linux those browsers suffer the same problem, central management of settings. Epiphany with the use of GConf is the only one more easily managed from something like an LDAP server
Because many popular non IE browsers are very difficult to manage on a Windows network environment, not impossible but requires a lot of work and experienced windows admin (something everyone claims to be on their CV but they are not). IE has nice policies to set centrally.
Firefox (default with no additional AD integration extension) needs .dat files added to the installation directory, you need to code javascript to do anything user related and not globally to every user on that workstation.
Chrome is the worst, it install on %LOCAL_APPDATA%, not globally, so each user need their own copy (WTF Google %APPDATA% is for data not binaries)
No experience with Opera on enterprise installations
no, I do not think PIN = encryption, but I at least hope that casual copying must not be allowed easily. for example, I leave mi phone on my desktop, go to the bathroom, I do not want someone to be able to get my data with just a few seconds of using the device, I know, you can break the device, take the internal memory and get the data, but at least that is not something that could be done in the time I go to the bathroom and I will notice it
Android (I hope other devices too), at least the Nexus One 2.1 version when you plug the USB cable, you must confirm on the phone screen that you want to mount the device something you can not do if the device is locked , until you do that, it is only charging it. On the Nexus you get access only to the SD Card contents, not the internal databases like contacts, account passwords. You can extract the SD Card, but you will need to remove the battery, at least I will know someone messed with my phone.
I like the mount confirmation window, just because I can charge it on any random USB port, even on Windows and not be afraid of getting infected files to spread to other people using Windows.
And the Xbox do not need to be open too? Another excuse to not support the PS3?
Apple allowed applications development, so the comparison with a microwave locked firmware is not good. They defined some rules that Adobe followed, no VM environment, just native ARM code generated like any C compiler will do. Apple changed the rules later.
So Apple behaviour is like a Microwave manufacturer that allows you to develop applications. so you develop a tool that generated code for it, then it is killed when they change the rules because they want you to use their tool only, so you need to buy their brand of computer to develop for the microwave, something that was not an original restriction
I think the problem with the Apple platform is not the user wishes, but those from the developer, You are right, when you buy a device it has some capabilities and you must not demand new ones. Apple banned all VMs like Flash and Java from the iPhone, right, that is Apple decision to do what it wants with the store (ignore for now the fact that you can only install applications from the store unless you jailbreak the device).
Adobe following the rules, developed a tool that generated native ARM binaries, no interpreter, just a "compiler" to the iPhone environment. They worked hard to comply with the rules, but almighty nutcase Jobs wants Adobe out of the iPhone by any method, so they change the rules just a few days before Adobe launches their tool. So the issue is not that developer have the right to build Flash apps on the iPhone, they want stable rules not used to destroy your work
manipulate the DOM with a Firefox/Chrome plugin that removes the video URL on document load?
OGM used the Ogg page structure (mostly correctly) though with private data for the VfW framework. The result was parseable as Ogg container but containing an ugly Windows-specific hack. We objected because it was not well formed and confused users who thought it was regular Ogg. It was a quick and dirty fork.
For the record, Tobias later joined Xiph along with his DirectShow filters[9] and deprecated OGM. OGM is no longer supported in our DirectShow offerings[10].
So your need is a video container format only for Windows?
Can you elaborate on that?, which games do you know requires to be logged in to play the offline/singleplayer mode?
I have a few PSN games and none of them requires to be logged in, unless you want to play a multiplayer match. Please do not mention Warhawk or SOCOM Confrontantion, because those two games are multiplayer only and obviously require you to be logged in. Be careful than some games automatically open the user and password dialog, but you still can press cancel and the game tell you that your score will not be tracked online or you will lose any other online only feature, but you can play offline
I think this is the first game with this rule, something that mark it on my "do not buy" list. but if someone knows about any other is it good to know
Why? because one manufacturer decided to add Flash to one device, now all Android devices must support Flash? If Motorola adds a Smalltalk runtime to the device, all Android manufacturers must do the same?
Do you want to develop for Android, use what Android has as a standard, If you want to develop using Flash, you know the current limitations (until 10.1 for Android that is expected to be installable and not embedded). It is not the platform developer, who must add all the possible runtime platforms, but it is their responsibility to add the APIs needed by those platforms to exists (like is happening with Flash, collaboration between Google and Adobe)
Anyone that says that you must focus on the least common denominator is a bad cross platform developer. I develop Java applications for a living, and my applications are not constrained by one platform, for example: I am adding right now support for the Windows 7 taskbar using JNA (JNI "wrapper") using runtime checks to know if the application is running on Windows 7
The fragmentation thing is an excuse for developer to do not work as needed. Will iPhone developers start to cry that they have now different screen sizes (IPad + iPhone) and that old iPhones that are not be able to "fake multitask" will force them to write code for both situations fragmenting the platform?
Some Android Phones already have an embedded Flash player, for example the HTC Hero. I think that flash player 10.1 for Android devices will be the version installable on other devices and not factory installed
I think it is a Java bug and not a browser bug, The researchers created a embed/object tag with parameters. They are adding a codebase parameter. embed/object parameters could be arbitrarily named, that is defined by the plugin to be used (Note the real standard object tag has a codebase attribute but they are not using it, they are using a param tag)
There is no way a browser will know how the plugin handle the arbitrarily named parameters, unless they specifically add it for the Java plugin, the browser send them to the plugin, in this case the Java plugin is the one that get that codebase and start javaws, so I think the Mac OS X plugin has checks that the standard Sun implementation or they are not starting javaws directly as another process
and add to that a Chinese CA certificate inside Firefox and even SSL could be sniffed
Apple want people to upgrade to the 3GS, then they will announce 3GS2, double charge for you
Grand parent has a point, for example when I write Java Swing code, Using Java2D, it does not matter to me which pipeline is Java using, OpenGL/Direct*/GDI, It is abstract to me.
The Basic Windows drawing routines should be abstract enough to be able to switch to hardware acceleration when possible,not at the application level (I am talking about basic 2D drawing operations)
It is easy to get access to root even when you have only access to an unprivileged user, change the user PATH in .bash_profile (for example), put a wrapper sudo or su to one of the directories added to the PATH, then you will get access to the root password or access to sudo if you fake it enough so the user believe you are using the real one. Only if Home directories where mounted noexec by default this could not work. I remember how people got users password on my college says just running a fake login prompt on the laboratory terminals
From the article
In general, the two new formats will be geared toward broadcast and document archiving, both industries that need to record and store massive libraries of digital content. But consumer versions will be available, "particularly in those regions where BD recorders have achieved broad consumer acceptance, " the BDA said.
It looks this is not a new format for the most predominant usage of Blu-ray media that is Video/Videogames. It is just a format for people that need that extra storage, They will kill Blu-ray movies if they start producing them on that new standard
You can perform the search and save a bookmark, Your example adds to the url something like this
#search/is%3Aunread+in%3Ainbox
Or activate the Labs feature named "Quick Links"
so you advocate "make justice with your own hands"?
Apple violate patent laws (if this history of no licensing by Nokia is true) just to prove Nokia is evil and must RAND license the patents?
If Apple version is true, why not sue Nokia because they do not license with RAND terms as they "must do" because they added their patent to the standard before using the patents?