Huawei was the company who proudly showed excellent quality selfies produced with their new phones - and then it turned out that they were actually taken by a professional with a professional DSLR camera. Not on a phone as they claimed.
And the iPhone XS and XS Max have significantly longer battery life than the older models.
There's never a huge dramatic change when Apple adds an "s" or "S" to the model name. They save the really big changes for when the Number is incremented.
I think the amount of internal changes tends to be about the same. But 4 to 4s is no external change, 4s to 5 is, 5 to 5s isn't, 5s to 6 is etc. In any case, not enough reason to upgrade for existing customers.
If you buy a new phone every two year, you either started with a 4 and stayed on the "no s" line or you started with a 4s and stayed with the "s" line.
Why didn't they ask for their usual 6,386,456 * $250,000 = $1,596,614,000,000, call it $1.5 trillion, in fines?
Because statutory damages are _per work_. How many works were copied? One. The number of copies doesn't matter. So statutory damages are up to $150,000.
Google already uses e-sims for Google Fi service. The Pixel's still have a physical slot for a physical sim though. As long as Apple leaves the option for a physical sim card nothing is really changing.
Something _has_ changed. iPhones could have one Sim card. Now they have an eSim card, which you can use for the network that you use all the time, and you have an empty slot where you can add a second sim whenever you like.
Tim Cook stated you change it with a QR code. Maybe swapping back and forth is possible...
I'll be interested how this works in the UI, because the user will have to decide which number to use for dialling (for example if you use your phone as private and company phone and obviousy want to keep your numbers apart).
The actor Bruce Willis got into a case where he wanted to leave his legally purchased song downloads to his children in his will and he had to go to court for the right to do that. He won. The providers of his downloads basically argued that Willis had entered into what was, in effect, a rental agreement for the songs, and as such no rights were transferable upon his death. He won and established the idea that he actually paid for the songs, he owned his copies, and as such they were his property to give away to his heirs in his will if he wished.
That is actually not true. I can believe that Bruce Willis, as a musician (yes, he is a musician as well), has a huge collection of music, and that he would like his kids to have it one day, but the story that he sued anyone for the rights is completely made up. It's a good story, and it could have been true, but it isn't.
You didn't purchase movies. You entered into an agreement which allows you access to content as long as Apple feels like providing it. LOL. Silly users, thinking you "owned" movies.
Except you _did_ purchase movies. You entered into an agreement which allowed you to download the content and keep it forever. After the first download, you could download it again as long as Apple can make it available to you, but all the downloads are yours to keep forever.
This is why I buy the Blu-ray and rip it to my NAS; at least on shows I want to still have access to in 20 years. (Yes, I still have VHS tapes and a VCR)
And if you buy a movie from Apple, and put it on your NAS, and your NAS or its backups survive long enough, you will still have access to it in 20 years.
Serious question: Is there ACTUALLY a downloaded file transferred to your device when you "Purchase" (or even "Rent") a movie from iTunes?
If so, where is it stored, and can you actually access the file if your purchase/rent is made on something like an iPad or AppleTV, or do you need to do your iTunes Rental/Purchasing on a Computer for that to be possible?
After you pressed the "Purchase" button and confirmed the purchase, the "Purchase" button turns into "Download". In the EU, you have the legal right for seven days or so to change your mind and get the money back - as long as you don't press the "Download" button.
Once you press "Download", the movie gets downloaded to your computer. Or onto your iPhone. Or both (up to six or so devices under the same AppleID or belonging to your family). That's why some people want a 256 GB iPhone. And that download is yours to keep forever.
Not at all. This is unequivocally Apple's fault for describing it as a "purchase" instead of as a "rental".
It is indeed a purchase. You pay your money, and you can download the movie to your computer or another device. And it stays there forever unless you remove it yourself. You can back it up and restore it.
As a convenience, Apple allows you to download more copies. _That's_ the part that stops when Apple doesn't have the right anymore to sell or rent the movie. But that's a separate thing.
All the copies that you downloaded are yours forever to keep. You just may not be able to download further copies at some point.
Please for the love of god NEVER use strncpy. If your buffer doesn't have enough space, it copies the bytes from source and doesn't write a trailing zero byte, so now you have a trap just waiting to spring on you. It's the worst design possible.
In addition, calling strncpy() to copy into a buffer of n bytes takes O (n). 5 bytes into a megabyte buffer sets a million bytes to 0.
Write two helper functions. One that creates a shortened, valid C string if it doesn't fit. One that is guaranteed to crash if it doesn't fit.
People who buy Apple products aren't sensitive to price.
What Apple will likely do (there's precedence for when the UK changed VAT a few years ago), is add the exact cost to the purchase price. So if a phone for $799 has additional cost of $28, then the new price will be an unusual $827. Which makes it very visible for everyone that they are paying an extra $28 for something else than their phone.
If this person REALLY cared about the American People, they would resign and publicly speak out against Donald Trump and openly disclose "Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses."
Well, no. If they resign and publicly speak out, nobody Is going to listen. A brave man or woman would accept being called "coward" and "gutless", stay where they are, and make a difference where they can.
One website had a few videos. First one of a woman jumping from behind a tree onto the street, right in front of a car, but estimating the jump wrong and getting badly hurt. One was a car overtaking a truck, braking hard but not managing to cause a crash, going on the fast line and falling back, overtaking again and repeating the manouvre. With everything caught on the truck's dash cam.
Maybe, but that 0.001% has tremendous influence on the purchasing decisions of OTHERS. Who do people looking for a new phone ask for advice? The 0.001% who root & reflash their phones.
Most people that I know buy a phone without asking me for permission and advice. And some of the 0.001% are honest to themselves, and that while they might like to root their phone, it might not be a good idea for their mates to do it.
Facebook just got their VPN app removed from the store. As you would have expected, spying on their users, which is _really_ what you expect from a VPN. Not.
I develop an app that is free, but requires companies to pay for an expensive license. It's easy. The app is free. The customer buys a license for 100 users which allows them to print 100 invitation codes. To use the app, the user downloads the free app and enters the invitation code. For reviews, we give Apple two invitation codes (because the app is not very useful for a single user).
The important thing where the OP probably failed is that the app never asks for money, and never links you to any website where you could pay.
Look, it's simple. If you can purchase things that go on your device through the app, then you have to go through the App Store. If you can purchase outside of the app, and your app doesn't link to the outside payment, then you don't need it.
You only need in-app payments for in-app sales. Remove the in-app sales.
One of those awful things that SuperProf did? They sent her a text at a number she used for contacts with students without her permission! The cads!
In the interest of public humiliation, we should note that other problems were claiming that she offered one free lesson for anyone (which she doesn't), reducing her hourly rate (which is really good for business), and worst changing her from a clarinet teacher to a saxophone teacher. The dolts!
All these things seem like manual intervention. I'd be curious if you are in any way related to the company.
I had to look up how to change the encryption key for an encrypted SQL database, and the first answer that google showed contained an SQL injection vulnerability. So if a password like this could damage some website, I would be disappointed, but not surprised.
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Huawei was the company who proudly showed excellent quality selfies produced with their new phones - and then it turned out that they were actually taken by a professional with a professional DSLR camera. Not on a phone as they claimed.
And the iPhone XS and XS Max have significantly longer battery life than the older models.
There's never a huge dramatic change when Apple adds an "s" or "S" to the model name. They save the really big changes for when the Number is incremented.
I think the amount of internal changes tends to be about the same. But 4 to 4s is no external change, 4s to 5 is, 5 to 5s isn't, 5s to 6 is etc. In any case, not enough reason to upgrade for existing customers.
If you buy a new phone every two year, you either started with a 4 and stayed on the "no s" line or you started with a 4s and stayed with the "s" line.
Why didn't they ask for their usual 6,386,456 * $250,000 = $1,596,614,000,000, call it $1.5 trillion, in fines?
Because statutory damages are _per work_. How many works were copied? One. The number of copies doesn't matter. So statutory damages are up to $150,000.
Google already uses e-sims for Google Fi service. The Pixel's still have a physical slot for a physical sim though. As long as Apple leaves the option for a physical sim card nothing is really changing.
Something _has_ changed. iPhones could have one Sim card. Now they have an eSim card, which you can use for the network that you use all the time, and you have an empty slot where you can add a second sim whenever you like.
Tim Cook stated you change it with a QR code. Maybe swapping back and forth is possible...
I'll be interested how this works in the UI, because the user will have to decide which number to use for dialling (for example if you use your phone as private and company phone and obviousy want to keep your numbers apart).
Even if you do do this, you can't easily get a new standalone SIM card for a few bucks in the US.
Interesting. Here in the UK, I can get a £0.99 Sim card in the supermarket.
But you are okay with Apple spying on?
I wouldn't be Ok with Apple spying on me. But do you have any evidence it does?
The actor Bruce Willis got into a case where he wanted to leave his legally purchased song downloads to his children in his will and he had to go to court for the right to do that. He won. The providers of his downloads basically argued that Willis had entered into what was, in effect, a rental agreement for the songs, and as such no rights were transferable upon his death. He won and established the idea that he actually paid for the songs, he owned his copies, and as such they were his property to give away to his heirs in his will if he wished.
That is actually not true. I can believe that Bruce Willis, as a musician (yes, he is a musician as well), has a huge collection of music, and that he would like his kids to have it one day, but the story that he sued anyone for the rights is completely made up. It's a good story, and it could have been true, but it isn't.
You didn't purchase movies. You entered into an agreement which allows you access to content as long as Apple feels like providing it. LOL. Silly users, thinking you "owned" movies.
Except you _did_ purchase movies. You entered into an agreement which allowed you to download the content and keep it forever. After the first download, you could download it again as long as Apple can make it available to you, but all the downloads are yours to keep forever.
This is why I buy the Blu-ray and rip it to my NAS; at least on shows I want to still have access to in 20 years. (Yes, I still have VHS tapes and a VCR)
And if you buy a movie from Apple, and put it on your NAS, and your NAS or its backups survive long enough, you will still have access to it in 20 years.
Google Play is the only major service selling DRM free audiobooks. Audible/Amazon has DRM, iTunes has DRM.
iTunes audio books come from Audible. So Google Play is DRM free, Amazon is not.
Serious question: Is there ACTUALLY a downloaded file transferred to your device when you "Purchase" (or even "Rent") a movie from iTunes?
If so, where is it stored, and can you actually access the file if your purchase/rent is made on something like an iPad or AppleTV, or do you need to do your iTunes Rental/Purchasing on a Computer for that to be possible?
After you pressed the "Purchase" button and confirmed the purchase, the "Purchase" button turns into "Download". In the EU, you have the legal right for seven days or so to change your mind and get the money back - as long as you don't press the "Download" button.
Once you press "Download", the movie gets downloaded to your computer. Or onto your iPhone. Or both (up to six or so devices under the same AppleID or belonging to your family). That's why some people want a 256 GB iPhone. And that download is yours to keep forever.
Not at all. This is unequivocally Apple's fault for describing it as a "purchase" instead of as a "rental".
It is indeed a purchase. You pay your money, and you can download the movie to your computer or another device. And it stays there forever unless you remove it yourself. You can back it up and restore it.
As a convenience, Apple allows you to download more copies. _That's_ the part that stops when Apple doesn't have the right anymore to sell or rent the movie. But that's a separate thing.
All the copies that you downloaded are yours forever to keep. You just may not be able to download further copies at some point.
Please for the love of god use strncpy.
Please for the love of god NEVER use strncpy. If your buffer doesn't have enough space, it copies the bytes from source and doesn't write a trailing zero byte, so now you have a trap just waiting to spring on you. It's the worst design possible.
In addition, calling strncpy() to copy into a buffer of n bytes takes O (n). 5 bytes into a megabyte buffer sets a million bytes to 0.
Write two helper functions. One that creates a shortened, valid C string if it doesn't fit. One that is guaranteed to crash if it doesn't fit.
As far as I'm concerned, "if (a = b)" doesn't compile. Because it generates a warning that I turn on, and I don't allow warnings. Problem solved.
You _can_ write "if ((a = b))" and the double parentheses convince the compiler that the assignment was indeed what you wanted.
People who buy Apple products aren't sensitive to price.
What Apple will likely do (there's precedence for when the UK changed VAT a few years ago), is add the exact cost to the purchase price. So if a phone for $799 has additional cost of $28, then the new price will be an unusual $827. Which makes it very visible for everyone that they are paying an extra $28 for something else than their phone.
If this person REALLY cared about the American People, they would resign and publicly speak out against Donald Trump and openly disclose "Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses."
Well, no. If they resign and publicly speak out, nobody Is going to listen. A brave man or woman would accept being called "coward" and "gutless", stay where they are, and make a difference where they can.
One website had a few videos. First one of a woman jumping from behind a tree onto the street, right in front of a car, but estimating the jump wrong and getting badly hurt. One was a car overtaking a truck, braking hard but not managing to cause a crash, going on the fast line and falling back, overtaking again and repeating the manouvre. With everything caught on the truck's dash cam.
Maybe, but that 0.001% has tremendous influence on the purchasing decisions of OTHERS. Who do people looking for a new phone ask for advice? The 0.001% who root & reflash their phones.
Most people that I know buy a phone without asking me for permission and advice. And some of the 0.001% are honest to themselves, and that while they might like to root their phone, it might not be a good idea for their mates to do it.
It may work for you, but not for your friends.
Facebook just got their VPN app removed from the store. As you would have expected, spying on their users, which is _really_ what you expect from a VPN. Not.
I develop an app that is free, but requires companies to pay for an expensive license. It's easy. The app is free. The customer buys a license for 100 users which allows them to print 100 invitation codes. To use the app, the user downloads the free app and enters the invitation code. For reviews, we give Apple two invitation codes (because the app is not very useful for a single user).
The important thing where the OP probably failed is that the app never asks for money, and never links you to any website where you could pay.
Look, it's simple. If you can purchase things that go on your device through the app, then you have to go through the App Store. If you can purchase outside of the app, and your app doesn't link to the outside payment, then you don't need it.
You only need in-app payments for in-app sales. Remove the in-app sales.
One of those awful things that SuperProf did? They sent her a text at a number she used for contacts with students without her permission! The cads!
In the interest of public humiliation, we should note that other problems were claiming that she offered one free lesson for anyone (which she doesn't), reducing her hourly rate (which is really good for business), and worst changing her from a clarinet teacher to a saxophone teacher. The dolts!
All these things seem like manual intervention. I'd be curious if you are in any way related to the company.
superrobert';deleteusers--
I had to look up how to change the encryption key for an encrypted SQL database, and the first answer that google showed contained an SQL injection vulnerability. So if a password like this could damage some website, I would be disappointed, but not surprised.
Looks like someone needs tutoring in security. ;)
And your password is supergravis.