Yeah, I built a 6-tube heterodyne AM receiver with a kit. How come my kids can't do that! Oh, wait. My kid works for Oracle. His kids are doing the usual experimentations in whatever field they like.
And remember the old days? Those great old experimenters who brought the world boot sector viruses that infected the computer when you put the floppy in? And Michelangelo!
It's not a free pass. On the contrary, Apple is being made the target of special conditions. Can you open the Kindle? Can you even do a tenth of what the iPad can do? No. Amazon is getting the free pass.
If you compare it to a netbook, it's plain that it's not for the same market at all. Some people who now use a netbook might find this very tempting. A Kindle fan might like it. No, not many serious laptop users will want this, I suppose, though some might get an iPad and decide that's all they need for laptops, since at home they use a desktop. In other words, it's not an assault on computing. It's not going to be like a black hole, swallowing up the known world. It's just an iPad.
Every jailbreak relies on finding a way to to crash the phone and insert code. This is a bug in the system, which has to be fixed to protect legions of other users, some of whom do their banking on their iPhone -- and remember, Bruce Schneier warned people not to do their banking on Windows, because it's too easy to "insert code" on a Windows computer. The banking apps on an iPhone are inherently more secure than anything on the web, or anything accessed through IE. A jailbreak so you can put on a cool program that Apple didn't pass can also put trojans there, too. Apple isn't being unduly mean to jailbreakers. If they really want to get good at it, they can figure out what to do next. Leave the debuggers to other platforms.
And that's all that Apple's "doing" to jailbreakers. Lots of people who want to do that are still doing that. No lawsuits that I know of.
I agree. I was in the hospital recently, and the pretty nurse happened to notice that I had an iPhone. She was very curious about it. I showed her e-mail, and the browser, and google maps, and IHeartRadio, and she decided there and then she'd go and buy one. She came back the next day and waved it at me. Now, she's a nurse, she's reasonably clever, but not computer person. She does have a computer, and knows how to dock the phone with iTunes. Does she want a philosophical discussion about open v. proprietary? No. It's just got to work.
3.1 million activations by AT&T in the US this last quarter. Oh, those poor sheep!
If you're on the AT&T network, you have to abide by their conditions. I'm presuming either that AT&T has decided to open things up -- that the $60 for their unlimited data is enough -- or that Apple has plans of moving to other networks during the life of iPhone OS 3.2.
I ran a Windows computer at work. And I had one at home. Never had a problem.
Then I went to another office. We had to spend a fair amount of time researching on the Web. All it took was one person landing on an illicit web site, and the shit hit the fan. All of a sudden, one after another, everybody's hit with trojans and God knows what else. No IT guy to run the thing, so I became the informal computer guy. Several computers are taken out and got the OS rebuilt. The only way to protect against the exploit that hit us is to update the OS. I do so, everything's fine with my machine. One computer after another gets hit with "You may be the victim of pirated software." Uh-oh. Turns out the boss bought the licenses for the software we used with Windows 2000. So then he upgraded to XP, but before the Microsoft Malicious Software (?) removal tool, nobody knew. Now it's picking up the proprietary program, reading the license, and going uh-uh. Can't upgrade. The new licenses would be about $8,000 per computer per year. (From the third-party software vendor. They only sell their program with the support, which costs that much. And they urge you to upgrade to the new version, which is another $13 grand.)
But we're going into recession. Not going to happen. So we have to go back to IE6 and Windows 2000 on some computers. They get hit again with web-based malware. It infects other software on the network. Could a good IT guy have fixed this? Yeah. We had 8 employees, and suddenly the phone wasn't ringing with the big contracts.
In the meantime, the Mac we had on the network for graphics and video conversions -- running like a top. Sure, I know. There are warning signs that show up on Security experts' blogs. Never, since I got a Mac in 1986, had an actual piece of malware. I realize I was a bit lucky in the early days, but I didn't exchange floppies with idiots, so I didn't get those old viruses.
Name a company that announces an upcoming product? When you can find one, please find one that isn't vaporware. Apple goes through rigorous work before they even launch the product, having to get the product through the famous Steve filter. Reportedly, this is the umpteenth Apple tablet since at least 2003, and Steve has rejected each one.
Notice, these are rumors, which can't be confirmed. Now, when you're a bunch of engineers working on a new product, you get walled off from the world, like the Mac, like the iMac, etc., and nobody knows anything until the release day. Of course, rumors leak out -- but they're so few that there's a thriving business making them up. Now, how many press releases and ads have you seen about the new launch this Wednesday? Nada. Well, one. "Come see our new creation." Probably a leak or two to the Wall Street Journal. I think.
How would the world be enriched by the next tech object being designed in public? I don't think it would at all. The process of design is boring. The idiotic information leeches would still be gossiping about it all the time, spreading rumors to prove idiot's thesis a or b. It would be a reality show, and you know those are anything but. They're just "don't pay the writers" shows. The design would be the product of political compromise and consensus. Let Obama tell you how well that works.
Openness, meaning the ability of the user to access any information he wants while using his information appliance, sure. Meaning the ability to compile code, to get free software, etc.? Yeah. Meaning the ability to boot other OSes? Sure. Meaning, sitting in on the meetings where Steve criticizes and belittles the bad designs? I don't think anyone would want to be there if they weren't an engineer.
Jobs is a very gifted man, after all. A genius. Look at his track record.
Which means, the judge handed them their asses on the basic complaint, and left a slight opening (you can appeal) about the EFI stuff. So, when there's all kinds of code floating around that does the same thing, why the hell would anyone want to use this?
It should have been painfully obvious to you that Psystar was headed for the trashheap. I am not disapproving of hackers who put Mac software on generic hardware. Fine with me, and you don't get much fight from Apple, either. But running this operation? Seriously? Have they ever heard of Apple's lawyers? The judge flatly rejected their arguments, which you often still see in these forums. It's a straight case of copyright law.
Like Dylan said, you can live outside the law, but you better be honest when you do. YOU DON'T NEED that piece of commercial crap you bought because you were a good Party member.
There's lots of places you can work. The condition for this place is that they control the news about future developments. Firing makes you pay attention.
There's a possibility that the projects never were live. Steve has definitely been known to "leak" false information, because when it shows up it also identifies the leaker.
They lost the case, but the young man running Think Secret did fold up because of legal expenses.
The thing is, they, and some others, were getting real, honest-to-god leaks of real-life products. Steve doesn't like that, you'll notice. No crowd sourcing for him. He wants that moment of surprise on the announcement. He fires people who leak, and everyone knows it. One of the things that Apple has done is plant false stories with one person inside. Then, if that false story leaks, that inside source gets his desk packed up. There was a while, a few years back, when the new Steve keynote had been called, with specific details, indicating real leaks. He clamped down, creating the kind of secrecy for the iPhone that the CIA wishes they could provide. Then, six months ahead, vague rumors started. Probably from a few well-placed facts, and some guesses, just like this article implies. The buzz was on. This way, the publicity is done by the Apple fans. And the Apple-haters play their unpaid part!
Compare this to the Microsoft publicity departments, a bunch of check-suited retards who manipulate standard, boilerplate PR and stock footage to make... 1975-style publicity, a la Herb Tarlick on WKRP in Cincinnati.
This is Microsoft's pattern. The iPhone was about to be announced. It had touch control. So that weekend, Microsoft announces the Microsoft Table for Business, or whatever they call it. It's always something. This would be the... fourth (?) tablet that Microsoft has done. Three were total failures. Howsabout trying for 4?
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Yeah, I built a 6-tube heterodyne AM receiver with a kit. How come my kids can't do that! Oh, wait. My kid works for Oracle. His kids are doing the usual experimentations in whatever field they like.
Yeah, please people, if you want good hacking, try Windows machines!
And remember the old days? Those great old experimenters who brought the world boot sector viruses that infected the computer when you put the floppy in? And Michelangelo!
It's not a free pass. On the contrary, Apple is being made the target of special conditions. Can you open the Kindle? Can you even do a tenth of what the iPad can do? No. Amazon is getting the free pass.
If you compare it to a netbook, it's plain that it's not for the same market at all. Some people who now use a netbook might find this very tempting. A Kindle fan might like it. No, not many serious laptop users will want this, I suppose, though some might get an iPad and decide that's all they need for laptops, since at home they use a desktop. In other words, it's not an assault on computing. It's not going to be like a black hole, swallowing up the known world. It's just an iPad.
Every jailbreak relies on finding a way to to crash the phone and insert code. This is a bug in the system, which has to be fixed to protect legions of other users, some of whom do their banking on their iPhone -- and remember, Bruce Schneier warned people not to do their banking on Windows, because it's too easy to "insert code" on a Windows computer. The banking apps on an iPhone are inherently more secure than anything on the web, or anything accessed through IE. A jailbreak so you can put on a cool program that Apple didn't pass can also put trojans there, too. Apple isn't being unduly mean to jailbreakers. If they really want to get good at it, they can figure out what to do next. Leave the debuggers to other platforms.
And that's all that Apple's "doing" to jailbreakers. Lots of people who want to do that are still doing that. No lawsuits that I know of.
It's a data-only connection. I'm presuming that means Skype is okay, though.
AT&T promised it. We're still waiting.
I agree. I was in the hospital recently, and the pretty nurse happened to notice that I had an iPhone. She was very curious about it. I showed her e-mail, and the browser, and google maps, and IHeartRadio, and she decided there and then she'd go and buy one. She came back the next day and waved it at me. Now, she's a nurse, she's reasonably clever, but not computer person. She does have a computer, and knows how to dock the phone with iTunes. Does she want a philosophical discussion about open v. proprietary? No. It's just got to work.
3.1 million activations by AT&T in the US this last quarter. Oh, those poor sheep!
If you're on the AT&T network, you have to abide by their conditions. I'm presuming either that AT&T has decided to open things up -- that the $60 for their unlimited data is enough -- or that Apple has plans of moving to other networks during the life of iPhone OS 3.2.
Apple AND Google AND Microsoft AND HTML5 may kill off the bloated, useless crap, though.
It will dock with a keyboard.
Go to YouTube and enroll in the HTML 5 beta. Except that there's no full-screen there, it rocks.
Flash does have some good content, but it bites the big one.
You're watching the H.264 version.
I ran a Windows computer at work. And I had one at home. Never had a problem.
Then I went to another office. We had to spend a fair amount of time researching on the Web. All it took was one person landing on an illicit web site, and the shit hit the fan. All of a sudden, one after another, everybody's hit with trojans and God knows what else. No IT guy to run the thing, so I became the informal computer guy. Several computers are taken out and got the OS rebuilt. The only way to protect against the exploit that hit us is to update the OS. I do so, everything's fine with my machine. One computer after another gets hit with "You may be the victim of pirated software." Uh-oh. Turns out the boss bought the licenses for the software we used with Windows 2000. So then he upgraded to XP, but before the Microsoft Malicious Software (?) removal tool, nobody knew. Now it's picking up the proprietary program, reading the license, and going uh-uh. Can't upgrade. The new licenses would be about $8,000 per computer per year. (From the third-party software vendor. They only sell their program with the support, which costs that much. And they urge you to upgrade to the new version, which is another $13 grand.)
But we're going into recession. Not going to happen. So we have to go back to IE6 and Windows 2000 on some computers. They get hit again with web-based malware. It infects other software on the network. Could a good IT guy have fixed this? Yeah. We had 8 employees, and suddenly the phone wasn't ringing with the big contracts.
In the meantime, the Mac we had on the network for graphics and video conversions -- running like a top. Sure, I know. There are warning signs that show up on Security experts' blogs. Never, since I got a Mac in 1986, had an actual piece of malware. I realize I was a bit lucky in the early days, but I didn't exchange floppies with idiots, so I didn't get those old viruses.
Name a company that announces an upcoming product? When you can find one, please find one that isn't vaporware. Apple goes through rigorous work before they even launch the product, having to get the product through the famous Steve filter. Reportedly, this is the umpteenth Apple tablet since at least 2003, and Steve has rejected each one.
Notice, these are rumors, which can't be confirmed. Now, when you're a bunch of engineers working on a new product, you get walled off from the world, like the Mac, like the iMac, etc., and nobody knows anything until the release day. Of course, rumors leak out -- but they're so few that there's a thriving business making them up. Now, how many press releases and ads have you seen about the new launch this Wednesday? Nada. Well, one. "Come see our new creation." Probably a leak or two to the Wall Street Journal. I think.
How would the world be enriched by the next tech object being designed in public? I don't think it would at all. The process of design is boring. The idiotic information leeches would still be gossiping about it all the time, spreading rumors to prove idiot's thesis a or b. It would be a reality show, and you know those are anything but. They're just "don't pay the writers" shows. The design would be the product of political compromise and consensus. Let Obama tell you how well that works.
Openness, meaning the ability of the user to access any information he wants while using his information appliance, sure. Meaning the ability to compile code, to get free software, etc.? Yeah. Meaning the ability to boot other OSes? Sure. Meaning, sitting in on the meetings where Steve criticizes and belittles the bad designs? I don't think anyone would want to be there if they weren't an engineer.
Jobs is a very gifted man, after all. A genius. Look at his track record.
Which means, the judge handed them their asses on the basic complaint, and left a slight opening (you can appeal) about the EFI stuff. So, when there's all kinds of code floating around that does the same thing, why the hell would anyone want to use this?
I'm sorry, this metaphor is too ridiculous to live.
"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
It should have been painfully obvious to you that Psystar was headed for the trashheap. I am not disapproving of hackers who put Mac software on generic hardware. Fine with me, and you don't get much fight from Apple, either. But running this operation? Seriously? Have they ever heard of Apple's lawyers? The judge flatly rejected their arguments, which you often still see in these forums. It's a straight case of copyright law.
Like Dylan said, you can live outside the law, but you better be honest when you do. YOU DON'T NEED that piece of commercial crap you bought because you were a good Party member.
There's lots of places you can work. The condition for this place is that they control the news about future developments. Firing makes you pay attention.
When they're hired, they're told this is a firing offense. So it goes.
Apple does not comment on unreleased products.
There's a possibility that the projects never were live. Steve has definitely been known to "leak" false information, because when it shows up it also identifies the leaker.
They lost the case, but the young man running Think Secret did fold up because of legal expenses.
The thing is, they, and some others, were getting real, honest-to-god leaks of real-life products. Steve doesn't like that, you'll notice. No crowd sourcing for him. He wants that moment of surprise on the announcement. He fires people who leak, and everyone knows it. One of the things that Apple has done is plant false stories with one person inside. Then, if that false story leaks, that inside source gets his desk packed up. There was a while, a few years back, when the new Steve keynote had been called, with specific details, indicating real leaks. He clamped down, creating the kind of secrecy for the iPhone that the CIA wishes they could provide. Then, six months ahead, vague rumors started. Probably from a few well-placed facts, and some guesses, just like this article implies. The buzz was on. This way, the publicity is done by the Apple fans. And the Apple-haters play their unpaid part!
Compare this to the Microsoft publicity departments, a bunch of check-suited retards who manipulate standard, boilerplate PR and stock footage to make... 1975-style publicity, a la Herb Tarlick on WKRP in Cincinnati.
Go ahead and criticize. Just don't make up some phony complaint and expect no argument.
Had to do with the application for an FCC clearance, after which all kinds of things were going to become public anyway.
This is Microsoft's pattern. The iPhone was about to be announced. It had touch control. So that weekend, Microsoft announces the Microsoft Table for Business, or whatever they call it. It's always something. This would be the... fourth (?) tablet that Microsoft has done. Three were total failures. Howsabout trying for 4?