from what i came to understood by reading you americans' posts on slashdot, american conservatives tend to label anything that is pro-freedom or free speech as 'left'.
I'm not sure illegally accessing someone's Yahoo account and posting the contents online is exactly pro-freedom or free speech. Doesn't really matter what your politics are, hacking or otherwise accessing without permission somebody's email account isn't permissible.
wtf are you doing on a 'left leaning' website anyway ?
I don't come here for politics, I come here for news related to technology. Did I misread the mantra here too?
[quote] What kinds of dummies try to release open source spyware? If the browser itself has any merit at all, then presumably someone will modify the source to remove the nasties and make it run on more platforms, then release it under a different name. Meanwhile I've got Firefox, Opera, K-meleon and OB1 - who needs another browser?[/quote]
If Google's browsers grabs serious market share and builds up their app platform (Gears or whatever they call it) - Google wins. If you recompile a cleaner installing version and YOURS grabs the marketshare and helps build up their app platform acceptance, then Google wins. The only difference is, they make ad revenue either way and you just sit and code.
Could you imagine if someone managed to hack that site and put up a list of all known iPhone apps...
I suspect it would be a very temporary inconvienence. I'd worry more about hacking their webmail servers and deleting your web page or their email servers and deleting your mail enmasse. This list appears to be a blacklist / remote disable - not a remote uninstaller. It probably just blocks execution. Once the app is removed, execution is allowed again. You still have the app on your Mac/PC plus your iPhone until you choose to remove it. Even if it were removed, since all apps can be redownloaded for free, it's still not a complete loss.
Remind me not to visit your hous... i mean hut. If the only way to build housing without creating pollution is to live in a hut, then no thanks, I'll take a little pollution and go back to my house.
[4,k: not] operate a server in connection with the Services including but not limited to mail, news, file, gopher, telnet, chat, web, or host configuration servers, multimedia streamers, or multi-user interactive forums;
That's why I won't move to Canada. If I can't run my gopher server - well, what's the point of living??
I totally agree with your statement, but not your sig! I figure if I'm willing to pay $36K for a Volt, I'll splurge and pay the $200 for a 220V outlet in my garage:-)
If the $36k breaks your bank and you REALLY can't afford $200 for an electrician, you can always unplug your dryer and get a clothesline if your washer/dryer are in the garage. If not, I suppose a really long extension cord might suffice.:)
Becoming more energy efficient and reducing our emission in any sensible way we can is a very reasonable path to take. Saying we shouldn't do it because China isn't doing anything isn't an argument.
True, but becoming more energy efficient, and reducing our emissions is possible without signing Kyoto. I also don't think drilling offshore is the solution to our energy woes. But it's a good thing to do ALSO. Be great if the government would allow leases of off shore drilling land, if a certain amount of the gross revenue was set aside for alternate fuel R&D. Just because it doesn't help us tomorrow doesn't mean it can't help us today if done right.
I also "surely wouldn't take advice from this crowd at slashdot for raising children..", but not because of your statement that the Slashdot crowd doesn't have good parenting advice. I'm sure some do, and some don't. As a general rule, I don't take parenting advice from random strangers of any crowd. I live in South Florida - my daughter's a bit older now, but we used to stroll through a park and hear random strangers tell us she needs to be bundled up more, she'll get cold, AND she's too bundled up and must be sweating. All on the same day, say weather, with the same amount or lack there-of of bundling.
I'm a reasonably well-informed parent, who makes reasonably well-informed choices. I'm not opposed to taking advice, but at that time was leaning more towards the advice of... well, my pediatrician, for example, and not some random person.
I'm not aware of any hardware features being removed, so I guess nothing was sacrificed. I suppose in the last year they were able to miniaturize other components to free up physical space inside the case. Here's a link:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/gps.html. You mentioned removing a speaker to squeeze in WiFi. iPhone has just one speaker too if I recall, although the bottom of the phone looks like there are two. The other one is a microphone.
You did say correct you if wrong... so here goes. iPhone 3G has a GPS. You are absolutely correct though, in that it does compete. I'm a happy iPhone user that wants to upgrade to get faster Internet, so obviously it's not a good choice for me. But it's a good phone.
The problem is, that I'd have to drop $400, not have 3G now, and HOPE that 3G becomes available and that it wasn't too much more to replace. That won't compete with a 3G iPhone or a 3G Android phone. Great start, and I hope their next release is even better.
Free? Why free? Anyway, if you drop the free requirement, they already addressed both your needs. You can use any external hard drive, but for those who are just Joe Average users who walk into an Apple Store and say "I want to use that Time Machine thing" they can buy a Time Capsule, which combines a 802.11n router with a 500gb or 1tb hard drive that's setup to backup all Macs in the home.
As far as online components go, there's always.Mac-soon-to-be-MobileMe which provides 10gb (now) and 20gb (soon) of space for documents, email, web, etc. They also Sync Services to backup contacts, calendars, etc and synchronize them to all Macs. You can use their free-for-subscribers Backup application to automate backups to their online file storage solution (iDisk).
I wouldn't imagine you should expect any of this to be free from them anytime soon though.
By the way, if I recall, the first time you pop in an external drive, I believe Time Machine pops up a window and automatically asks you if you'd like to start using it for the backups. Couldn't get any easier.
The death (slowly) of DOS, plug and play, functional networking, Direct X, gateway to 32-bit computing--all were huge at the time.
It certainly brought the beginning of the end to DOS, and def. had MUCH better networking, and Direct X certainly rushed in a new era of games... but plug and play? I don't think it worked very well back then, until the OSR releases of Win95 and more importantly until about Win 98 SE. In the early days, too, wasn't half of the graphic capability in Direct X also available in Win32G for Win 3.11?
The REAL question is: Are there *ANY* *nix system admins out there that WANT MS to manage their systems? My head about exploded when I read the title. On second reading, well, it makes sense to be able to deal with all things in the data center. I'm just not sure if MS has the m4d sk1l5 for doing so. I have yet to see a well managed MS data center installation.
Probably not, or at least a very small number for sure, but the real question is are there IT shops that are mostly Windows, use MOM, and have 1 or 2 Linux servers running some package they got from a vendor that they'd like to monitor.
If they can do the same amount of work in 10 minutes that others do in 2 hours, they should be getting the same compensation because they're worth it. They save the company time and make it more productive. So why should they be paid what is effectively a much lower hourly fee?
If I had two employees like that, I suspect I would be interested in how long it really took to accomplish the amount of work. Unfortunately, sometimes programmers finish work 'too quickly', by rushing through and assuming they understand everything around them. When you work on a process that may or may not interact with other processes, you can introduce problems in your own code, or perhaps another part of the system you are working on. Some coders take TOO long, but others jump right in and write lines of code without understanding the big picture.
I can take mine into jury duty because it's old. No camera, no need to leave it in an unsecure location (like the car). So I guess I'm screwed.
How often do you serve on a jury? My area (Florida) won't call you for 12 months minimum after you serve. I can't imagine the cell carriers want to run an analog network so you can bring your old crappy phone to jury duty once every year or so.
Bono says: "We want our audience to have a more intimate online relationship with the band, and Apple can help us do that. With iPod and iTunes, Apple has created a crossroads of art, commerce and technology which feels good for both musicians and fans."
Guitarist edge says: "iPod and iTunes look like the future to me and it's good for everybody involved in music."
When Apple released iTunes for Windows, Bono joined the stage via iChat video conference and said said the new service was a "really, really cool thing."
"That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass," said Bono, drawing a huge laugh and applause from the crowd. "I don't do that for everyone."
That's right, but you also tend to make it sound like the record labels are totally benign and that artists get paid fairly. That's also not the case, as recording artist after recording artist has come out and said. You also make it sound like the RIAA don't try to control what gets played on the airwaves. They have rules, you know, for radio stations that says that if they want to play RIAA content, they can't play it alongside of non-RIAA content -- i.e., indie rock. Some radio stations have even expressed this view as completely ridiculous, but abide by it because they feel they have no choice. Doesn't this sound like the tactics of another big monopoly? One that starts with an 'M', ends with a 't' and has a Vista in the middle?
While I agree with your comments re: the radio stations not being allowed to play non-RIAA and RIAA content - if that's true, that's absolutely wrong, I have much less sympathy for the artists being paid 'fairly'. I feel for the smaller artists, but blame the larger ones. The TV writers also feel they aren't being compensated fairly. While I'm not typically a huge fan of unions, I have to admit, their union is handling it perfectly. Band together and stop writing until they get a deal they consider fair.
Big music publishers can be made to pay fairly... nobody has banded together to do it. Perhaps the artists don't want to go hungry in the short term by not working, and turning down contracts. The writers decided it was ok to do, maybe the musicians can too.
Sounds like the only way to get your own documents onto it is to send it them where the will "convert" it, and then "allow" you to receive it wirelessly on your kindle for a "small" fee.
Not true. Only way to wirelessly receive your own documents is a small fee (10 cents I think I read). It's done via email, and the device has an email address of it's own. You can also send documents via email to your computer, and a regular email address, and sync them through USB for no charge.
My only real complaints is that it's about $200 too much money and that it's a BUTT UGLY DEVICE. Come on, it's hideous! My father has a Sony reader, and it's at least a stylish looking device. This looks like a next generation Speak & Say. Sorry, but the design of my notebook, camera, iPod, and iPhone are too stylish. I can't imagine carrying this next to it!
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from what i came to understood by reading you americans' posts on slashdot, american conservatives tend to label anything that is pro-freedom or free speech as 'left'.
I'm not sure illegally accessing someone's Yahoo account and posting the contents online is exactly pro-freedom or free speech. Doesn't really matter what your politics are, hacking or otherwise accessing without permission somebody's email account isn't permissible.
wtf are you doing on a 'left leaning' website anyway ?
I don't come here for politics, I come here for news related to technology. Did I misread the mantra here too?
Really? Only popular among Mac users at first? I wonder if that had something to do with the first ones only supporting Macs?
[quote] What kinds of dummies try to release open source spyware? If the browser itself has any merit at all, then presumably someone will modify the source to remove the nasties and make it run on more platforms, then release it under a different name. Meanwhile I've got Firefox, Opera, K-meleon and OB1 - who needs another browser?[/quote] If Google's browsers grabs serious market share and builds up their app platform (Gears or whatever they call it) - Google wins. If you recompile a cleaner installing version and YOURS grabs the marketshare and helps build up their app platform acceptance, then Google wins. The only difference is, they make ad revenue either way and you just sit and code.
Could you imagine if someone managed to hack that site and put up a list of all known iPhone apps...
I suspect it would be a very temporary inconvienence. I'd worry more about hacking their webmail servers and deleting your web page or their email servers and deleting your mail enmasse. This list appears to be a blacklist / remote disable - not a remote uninstaller. It probably just blocks execution. Once the app is removed, execution is allowed again. You still have the app on your Mac/PC plus your iPhone until you choose to remove it. Even if it were removed, since all apps can be redownloaded for free, it's still not a complete loss.
Remind me not to visit your hous... i mean hut. If the only way to build housing without creating pollution is to live in a hut, then no thanks, I'll take a little pollution and go back to my house.
[4,k: not] operate a server in connection with the Services including but not limited to mail, news, file, gopher, telnet, chat, web, or host configuration servers, multimedia streamers, or multi-user interactive forums;
That's why I won't move to Canada. If I can't run my gopher server - well, what's the point of living??
If the $36k breaks your bank and you REALLY can't afford $200 for an electrician, you can always unplug your dryer and get a clothesline if your washer/dryer are in the garage. If not, I suppose a really long extension cord might suffice. :)
True, but becoming more energy efficient, and reducing our emissions is possible without signing Kyoto. I also don't think drilling offshore is the solution to our energy woes. But it's a good thing to do ALSO. Be great if the government would allow leases of off shore drilling land, if a certain amount of the gross revenue was set aside for alternate fuel R&D. Just because it doesn't help us tomorrow doesn't mean it can't help us today if done right.
I also "surely wouldn't take advice from this crowd at slashdot for raising children..", but not because of your statement that the Slashdot crowd doesn't have good parenting advice. I'm sure some do, and some don't. As a general rule, I don't take parenting advice from random strangers of any crowd. I live in South Florida - my daughter's a bit older now, but we used to stroll through a park and hear random strangers tell us she needs to be bundled up more, she'll get cold, AND she's too bundled up and must be sweating. All on the same day, say weather, with the same amount or lack there-of of bundling. I'm a reasonably well-informed parent, who makes reasonably well-informed choices. I'm not opposed to taking advice, but at that time was leaning more towards the advice of ... well, my pediatrician, for example, and not some random person.
I'm not aware of any hardware features being removed, so I guess nothing was sacrificed. I suppose in the last year they were able to miniaturize other components to free up physical space inside the case. Here's a link: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/gps.html. You mentioned removing a speaker to squeeze in WiFi. iPhone has just one speaker too if I recall, although the bottom of the phone looks like there are two. The other one is a microphone.
You did say correct you if wrong... so here goes. iPhone 3G has a GPS. You are absolutely correct though, in that it does compete. I'm a happy iPhone user that wants to upgrade to get faster Internet, so obviously it's not a good choice for me. But it's a good phone.
The problem is, that I'd have to drop $400, not have 3G now, and HOPE that 3G becomes available and that it wasn't too much more to replace. That won't compete with a 3G iPhone or a 3G Android phone. Great start, and I hope their next release is even better.
That's about all I have to say... 2.5G... if not for that I'd keep my existing iPhone but because of it I'm upgrading next month.
Free? Why free? Anyway, if you drop the free requirement, they already addressed both your needs. You can use any external hard drive, but for those who are just Joe Average users who walk into an Apple Store and say "I want to use that Time Machine thing" they can buy a Time Capsule, which combines a 802.11n router with a 500gb or 1tb hard drive that's setup to backup all Macs in the home. As far as online components go, there's always .Mac-soon-to-be-MobileMe which provides 10gb (now) and 20gb (soon) of space for documents, email, web, etc. They also Sync Services to backup contacts, calendars, etc and synchronize them to all Macs. You can use their free-for-subscribers Backup application to automate backups to their online file storage solution (iDisk).
I wouldn't imagine you should expect any of this to be free from them anytime soon though.
By the way, if I recall, the first time you pop in an external drive, I believe Time Machine pops up a window and automatically asks you if you'd like to start using it for the backups. Couldn't get any easier.
It certainly brought the beginning of the end to DOS, and def. had MUCH better networking, and Direct X certainly rushed in a new era of games... but plug and play? I don't think it worked very well back then, until the OSR releases of Win95 and more importantly until about Win 98 SE. In the early days, too, wasn't half of the graphic capability in Direct X also available in Win32G for Win 3.11?
So what do they own, 11 patents?
Yes, putty on a USB key isn't a big deal - but knowing that the port 22 is open wherever you are going is.
Probably not, or at least a very small number for sure, but the real question is are there IT shops that are mostly Windows, use MOM, and have 1 or 2 Linux servers running some package they got from a vendor that they'd like to monitor.
If I had two employees like that, I suspect I would be interested in how long it really took to accomplish the amount of work. Unfortunately, sometimes programmers finish work 'too quickly', by rushing through and assuming they understand everything around them. When you work on a process that may or may not interact with other processes, you can introduce problems in your own code, or perhaps another part of the system you are working on. Some coders take TOO long, but others jump right in and write lines of code without understanding the big picture.
How often do you serve on a jury? My area (Florida) won't call you for 12 months minimum after you serve. I can't imagine the cell carriers want to run an analog network so you can bring your old crappy phone to jury duty once every year or so.
Guitarist edge says: "iPod and iTunes look like the future to me and it's good for everybody involved in music."
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9991#mainContent (MacWorld UK)
When Apple released iTunes for Windows, Bono joined the stage via iChat video conference and said said the new service was a "really, really cool thing." "That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass," said Bono, drawing a huge laugh and applause from the crowd. "I don't do that for everyone."
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2003/10/60851 (Wired)
Because that list wouldn't be stored on that server.
While I agree with your comments re: the radio stations not being allowed to play non-RIAA and RIAA content - if that's true, that's absolutely wrong, I have much less sympathy for the artists being paid 'fairly'. I feel for the smaller artists, but blame the larger ones. The TV writers also feel they aren't being compensated fairly. While I'm not typically a huge fan of unions, I have to admit, their union is handling it perfectly. Band together and stop writing until they get a deal they consider fair.
Big music publishers can be made to pay fairly... nobody has banded together to do it. Perhaps the artists don't want to go hungry in the short term by not working, and turning down contracts. The writers decided it was ok to do, maybe the musicians can too.
Sounds like the only way to get your own documents onto it is to send it them where the will "convert" it, and then "allow" you to receive it wirelessly on your kindle for a "small" fee.
Not true. Only way to wirelessly receive your own documents is a small fee (10 cents I think I read). It's done via email, and the device has an email address of it's own. You can also send documents via email to your computer, and a regular email address, and sync them through USB for no charge.
My only real complaints is that it's about $200 too much money and that it's a BUTT UGLY DEVICE. Come on, it's hideous! My father has a Sony reader, and it's at least a stylish looking device. This looks like a next generation Speak & Say. Sorry, but the design of my notebook, camera, iPod, and iPhone are too stylish. I can't imagine carrying this next to it!
Somehow this is going to convince record executives that we need stronger DRM.