Apple has business reasons for their policies. Most people want to consume only and they are happy with what they get from the AppStore. Apple has its profit. Without profit, they would not do this.
Of course there are some geeks like us, who want more. We get the jailbreak. It's no big deal and it looks like it's ok with Apple too. I mean they are not really fighting much against it. So, we have the choice.
I was never "finding new ways to break in" to my iphone, I just waited a few days for the jailbreak to be available. It's always coming, there is no such thing as an unbreakable system. And then I'm happily writing my apps in Java, because I feel like that.
I see no reason to panic about the iPad. It will be jailbroken. And then you do whatever you want if you feel like. Or, you don't jailbreak, if all you want is to consume, there's nothing wrong about it.
If you make a photo of my wife and then destroy the picture, I did not lost anything.
If you sell it to a magazine, I want some money also.
There is a big difference between stealing a physical object or creating an unathorized photo, and making a copy of a digital product. The last one does not make any harm to that digital thing.
Actually in the old days we did whistle into the phone to see if the modem on the other end responds at all. It was a primitive but sometimes useful diagnostic method.
When I give lectures about highly technical topics like J2EE, half of my presentation is writing buzzwords to the whiteboard and explaining what it actually means. Most of the time I finish with: "See, this is really trivial. It was made to LOOK complicated, because the business needs it. But you are technical experts, you should know how simple it is."
The Finnish Post has agreement with most of the companies that send bills to people: your bill originally arrives in pdf format, you receive an email notification, you read the bill on the post's secure website, you might even pay it right there.
There is no magic. TCP is reliable even using IP because there are timeouts. If your data cannot be transmitted for a certain time limit, you will get timeout wich is perfectly legal result.
Once I had a happy linux on a 386SX-16MHz very old laptop, without any working hard disc. The floppy was enough to boot it, 4 Megs RAM is perfect for a small kernel, some shells and telnets, everything else (even the swap) comes through PLIP on the printer port. It was much funnier than my VT420 terminal:)
People beieved in VRML: there were couple of books about it, there were browsers (plugins) for different platforms (of course also for Linux:), but probably the most successful was Cosmo player from SGI.
And here might be the answer: it might just died when SGI did.
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Apple has business reasons for their policies. Most people want to consume only and they are happy with what they get from the AppStore. Apple has its profit. Without profit, they would not do this.
Of course there are some geeks like us, who want more. We get the jailbreak. It's no big deal and it looks like it's ok with Apple too. I mean they are not really fighting much against it.
So, we have the choice.
I was never "finding new ways to break in" to my iphone, I just waited a few days for the jailbreak to be available. It's always coming, there is no such thing as an unbreakable system. And then I'm happily writing my apps in Java, because I feel like that.
I see no reason to panic about the iPad. It will be jailbroken. And then you do whatever you want if you feel like.
Or, you don't jailbreak, if all you want is to consume, there's nothing wrong about it.
If you make a photo of my wife and then destroy the picture, I did not lost anything.
If you sell it to a magazine, I want some money also.
There is a big difference between stealing a physical object or creating an unathorized photo, and making a copy of a digital product.
The last one does not make any harm to that digital thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
If the violator made profit, that could have went to the copyright holder. So there is a potential loss.
On the other hand, if there was no profit, it is not missing from the copyright holder either.
And there are hundreds of intelligent people making comments here and not many reach this conclusion that the whole case is _ridiculous_.
Actually in the old days we did whistle into the phone to see if the modem on the other end responds at all. It was a primitive but sometimes useful diagnostic method.
And even on windows you use cygwin, right?
When I give lectures about highly technical topics like J2EE, half of my presentation is writing buzzwords to the whiteboard and explaining what it actually means. Most of the time I finish with: "See, this is really trivial. It was made to LOOK complicated, because the business needs it. But you are technical experts, you should know how simple it is."
Excellent Xmas present, thanks!
The Finnish Post has agreement with most of the companies that send bills to people:
your bill originally arrives in pdf format,
you receive an email notification,
you read the bill on the post's secure website,
you might even pay it right there.
No paper involved at all.
There is no magic. TCP is reliable even using IP because there are timeouts. If your data cannot be transmitted for a certain time limit, you will get timeout wich is perfectly legal result.
And of course I was able to compile the kernel on it for itself! :)
Took several hours, but it worked
Once I had a happy linux on a 386SX-16MHz very old laptop, without any working hard disc. :)
The floppy was enough to boot it, 4 Megs RAM is perfect for a small kernel, some shells and telnets, everything else (even the swap) comes through PLIP on the printer port.
It was much funnier than my VT420 terminal
Yes, standards are very good but not enough. Even some big company behind the standard is not enough. Just see the discussions about VRML.
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Something else is missing. The masses? Microsoft? To be declared COOL by Wired Magazine?
Just remember, how hardly Sun had to fight in the old days to get Java survive.
People beieved in VRML: there were couple of books about it, there were browsers (plugins) for different platforms (of course also for Linux :), but probably the most successful was Cosmo player from SGI.
And here might be the answer: it might just died when SGI did.
So what happened to VRML?
I think the appropriate language to program rats would be LOGO.
Some border areas still have malaria threat but Bangkok and all the popular tourist places are completely safe.