Wikipedia: FireWire is Apple's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple (in 1986[2]) and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and INMOS/SGS Thomson
I've been multitasking on my iPhone for years. It's really nice - just hold down the Home button, a little box pops up that says "Backgrounding Enabled" (this is reversible) and you return to the home screen. Voila! Pandora keeps playing while you play a game, or what have you. You can even double-click the Home button to get a process list!
It's already perfectly happy to multitask. Apple would just need to flip the switch for everyone - not just us jailbreakers.
I'll bet you that T-Mobile will be offering Micro-SIM by the time this is out.
I can never figure it out. Everybody - people who like them, and people who hate them - is convinced that Apple comes up with everything.
From Wikipedia: A micro-SIM is a smaller version of a SIM card. Micro-SIMs have been used for a number of years in embedded smart devices, such as power meters. The physical size of a micro-SIM is 12mm x 15mm.
The "micro-SIM" is part of the ISO 7816 specification
No, he doesn't. Hence the word mimic. I think the comparison is apt (ha!) - even though Apple's single source is mandatory, and you can add whatever sources you want to Ubuntu. They're otherwise quite similar.
What the hell are you talking about? iTunes uses MPEG-4 audio, no longer encrypted. There are alternative app stores. Their media devices use nothing *but* open formats, with the minor exception of Apple Lossless.
Firewire? Do you mean IEEE-1394? You know, the standard used in Macs and PC's and camcorders and cable boxes?
You sure missed a lot. How about ePub, UNIX, VNC, NFS, Kerberos, HTML5, WebKit...
I dunno about you but I see a lot of standards organizations in the above post. If that's not driving standards, then what the hell is?
With all due respect, perhaps you shouldn't have bought a book reader that didn't come with the ability to read books. Apple advertises no such functionality, and while I'm sure there are eReader apps, you don't know much about their quality or utility.
That being said, keep looking. I would be astounded if you couldn't find a book reader that didn't allow you to import your own documents.
Wow, that's a stupid and useless car. I wouldn't buy it. But I have an iPhone (jailbroken). What gives?
Let's accurate-up that description a bit.
All cars on the road work, but are a real pain to use. Some haven't changed since the 50's and barely have a cupholder. Some have cupholders, automatic transmissions, and crazy stereos, but are constantly stalling and the volume button is on the passenger door, so it never gets used.
Ford comes in and makes a car that doesn't have the most tricked out stereo, and less cupholders than some people might need, but enough for most. But most importantly, they put all the controls for this slightly-less functional stereo right on the wheel, where they can be used with barely any effort.
So people are using all the features of their cars, which is something that very few people had ever done before
But these come at a price. There's a custom fuel intake that grounds the nozzle before you put it in. It's not compatible with most fueling stations, but it almost entirely eliminates the risk of fire. Ford-brand gas is the only one who uses that gas nozzle, and no other company dare start a gas station that works.
But hobbyists have been making adapters since the month the car came out. You're limited to the safety of the adapter - which is usually very safe - but you're trusting the hobbyist.
Would you still buy the car, considering that you'd actually be able to use it's features and Ford has the largest network of gas stations in the world?
This isn't entirely apt - the iPhone/iPad can run without applications or indeed any interaction with the App Store - but close enough. Most people would place the value of having an easy-to-use moderately functional car over the value of being able to pick your own gas station, when it's easy enough to pick a Ford one.
Well it's actually quite methodical. Generally, there's a certain number of moves look-ahead (more with a faster processor) and it's simple to pick the optimal move that will result in the best scenario, say, 7 moves down the road.
I don't know if you've ever heard of a book called Godel Escher Bach, by a man named Douglas Hofstadter. But in it he posits that chess requires intelligent computers to play - this was written about 10 years before chess-playing computers. He didn't like the idea that it could just be brute-forced, but that's effectively how it happened...
I have, do, and will side with pedophiles in cases such as this. And publicly too, not just on the internet. I'm much happier having him wank to cartoons than children, and happier to have him wank to child porn than fucking a kid.
My personal opinion is that the creation of child pornography is immoral and heinous. Children truly don't know what they're getting themselves into. That's why the creation or purchase of CP should be met with very strict punishments.
But mere downloading? I doubt you'll convince anyone that it should be legal. Legalizing something (that is, repealing the law against it) says something more than just ignoring it, since it's an active process. Maybe a better (political) tactic is to not enforce it.
Now children don't know what they're doing, but teens sure do. I'd say 15 and up - after that point, you are as responsible about sex as you ever will be. Or, more accurately, if you mature further at all it'll definitely be after 18. I can support this with personal evidence from growing up, and collaboratory evidence from friends.
I defy anyone to tell me that a 15-16 year old has less of an ability to consent to sex than an 18-year-old on their birthday. Biologically, 16 is about the right time - so is it a surprise that us males are turned on by young-to-mid teens and up?
No, you're not crazy. I sympathize with you on your first statement, but even if I didn't I'd much rather have this guy looking at cartoons than real kids.
That is, if I was a rational person who wanted to protect children. Don't seem to be any of those left.
But it shouldn't make two shits worth of difference! Look, I personally think that we shouldn't persecute for mere possession of child porn (just purchase and obviously creation), but I can see the rationale. This makes no sense. It doesn't, or rather shouldn't matter if he enjoyed it or not - the fact of the matter is that cartoon pornography can not hurt children. There's a strong case that it lessens the demand for CP, but this also isn't the issue.
Point being that the response to "he had Simpsons porn on his computer" is "that's a little fucked up... weird guy" or some other variation of "whatever", not "let's throw him in jail".
We largely skipped UMTS over here and went straight to HSPA. That's what people in the US mean when they say 3G (except for Verizon, which is closer to 2.5g)
hehehe... that guy is full of it. "apple tablet connects to other tablets over wifi for gaming. There will be LAN parties with these things, people playing First person shooters"
Have you ever played Bioshock? If not, I highly recommend it. It's as much a commentary on the Randian philosophy as it is a game - the first you hear of the original antagonist (Ryan) is him saying: "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor. No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to God. No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone. I rejected those answers. Instead I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small."
As the game progresses, you hear a lot about "the parasite" wanting things for free, with signs asking "Who Is Atlas?"
Fascinating stuff, and a great game. And yes, this is OT, no need to mod it so.
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Oh God I hope so. It goes great with VoIP on the home-line side.
Why should there be a marginal cost to a phone call? There isn't - once you're paying for the infrastructure, it's free.
Alternative Bluetooth stacks are in the works for jailbroken phones. They already have file-sending working, and presumably Bluetooth HID are next.
All the way back in 1986, Apple created FireWire.
Wikipedia:
FireWire is Apple's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple (in 1986[2]) and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and INMOS/SGS Thomson
I've been multitasking on my iPhone for years. It's really nice - just hold down the Home button, a little box pops up that says "Backgrounding Enabled" (this is reversible) and you return to the home screen. Voila! Pandora keeps playing while you play a game, or what have you. You can even double-click the Home button to get a process list!
It's already perfectly happy to multitask. Apple would just need to flip the switch for everyone - not just us jailbreakers.
I'll bet you that T-Mobile will be offering Micro-SIM by the time this is out.
I can never figure it out. Everybody - people who like them, and people who hate them - is convinced that Apple comes up with everything.
From Wikipedia:
A micro-SIM is a smaller version of a SIM card. Micro-SIMs have been used for a number of years in embedded smart devices, such as power meters. The physical size of a micro-SIM is 12mm x 15mm.
The "micro-SIM" is part of the ISO 7816 specification
In other words, piss off.
To be fair, Google is using h264 because that's what they've already been using, because that's what hardware is built into mobile devices.
No, he doesn't. Hence the word mimic. I think the comparison is apt (ha!) - even though Apple's single source is mandatory, and you can add whatever sources you want to Ubuntu. They're otherwise quite similar.
Ostensibly it's for security. The idea is that visiting a webpage isn't dangerous, but native code is.
Up until a few years ago, you really couldn't run a PC without at least a PS/2 keyboard. It was pretty innovative to move to a unified connector
What the hell are you talking about? iTunes uses MPEG-4 audio, no longer encrypted. There are alternative app stores. Their media devices use nothing *but* open formats, with the minor exception of Apple Lossless.
Firewire? Do you mean IEEE-1394? You know, the standard used in Macs and PC's and camcorders and cable boxes?
You sure missed a lot. How about ePub, UNIX, VNC, NFS, Kerberos, HTML5, WebKit...
I dunno about you but I see a lot of standards organizations in the above post. If that's not driving standards, then what the hell is?
With all due respect, perhaps you shouldn't have bought a book reader that didn't come with the ability to read books. Apple advertises no such functionality, and while I'm sure there are eReader apps, you don't know much about their quality or utility.
That being said, keep looking. I would be astounded if you couldn't find a book reader that didn't allow you to import your own documents.
Wow, that's a stupid and useless car. I wouldn't buy it. But I have an iPhone (jailbroken). What gives?
Let's accurate-up that description a bit.
All cars on the road work, but are a real pain to use. Some haven't changed since the 50's and barely have a cupholder. Some have cupholders, automatic transmissions, and crazy stereos, but are constantly stalling and the volume button is on the passenger door, so it never gets used.
Ford comes in and makes a car that doesn't have the most tricked out stereo, and less cupholders than some people might need, but enough for most. But most importantly, they put all the controls for this slightly-less functional stereo right on the wheel, where they can be used with barely any effort.
So people are using all the features of their cars, which is something that very few people had ever done before
But these come at a price. There's a custom fuel intake that grounds the nozzle before you put it in. It's not compatible with most fueling stations, but it almost entirely eliminates the risk of fire. Ford-brand gas is the only one who uses that gas nozzle, and no other company dare start a gas station that works.
But hobbyists have been making adapters since the month the car came out. You're limited to the safety of the adapter - which is usually very safe - but you're trusting the hobbyist.
Would you still buy the car, considering that you'd actually be able to use it's features and Ford has the largest network of gas stations in the world?
This isn't entirely apt - the iPhone/iPad can run without applications or indeed any interaction with the App Store - but close enough. Most people would place the value of having an easy-to-use moderately functional car over the value of being able to pick your own gas station, when it's easy enough to pick a Ford one.
Well it's actually quite methodical. Generally, there's a certain number of moves look-ahead (more with a faster processor) and it's simple to pick the optimal move that will result in the best scenario, say, 7 moves down the road.
I don't know if you've ever heard of a book called Godel Escher Bach, by a man named Douglas Hofstadter. But in it he posits that chess requires intelligent computers to play - this was written about 10 years before chess-playing computers. He didn't like the idea that it could just be brute-forced, but that's effectively how it happened...
I have, do, and will side with pedophiles in cases such as this. And publicly too, not just on the internet. I'm much happier having him wank to cartoons than children, and happier to have him wank to child porn than fucking a kid.
My personal opinion is that the creation of child pornography is immoral and heinous. Children truly don't know what they're getting themselves into. That's why the creation or purchase of CP should be met with very strict punishments.
But mere downloading? I doubt you'll convince anyone that it should be legal. Legalizing something (that is, repealing the law against it) says something more than just ignoring it, since it's an active process. Maybe a better (political) tactic is to not enforce it.
Now children don't know what they're doing, but teens sure do. I'd say 15 and up - after that point, you are as responsible about sex as you ever will be. Or, more accurately, if you mature further at all it'll definitely be after 18. I can support this with personal evidence from growing up, and collaboratory evidence from friends.
I defy anyone to tell me that a 15-16 year old has less of an ability to consent to sex than an 18-year-old on their birthday. Biologically, 16 is about the right time - so is it a surprise that us males are turned on by young-to-mid teens and up?
No, you're not crazy. I sympathize with you on your first statement, but even if I didn't I'd much rather have this guy looking at cartoons than real kids.
That is, if I was a rational person who wanted to protect children. Don't seem to be any of those left.
But it shouldn't make two shits worth of difference! Look, I personally think that we shouldn't persecute for mere possession of child porn (just purchase and obviously creation), but I can see the rationale. This makes no sense. It doesn't, or rather shouldn't matter if he enjoyed it or not - the fact of the matter is that cartoon pornography can not hurt children. There's a strong case that it lessens the demand for CP, but this also isn't the issue.
Point being that the response to "he had Simpsons porn on his computer" is "that's a little fucked up... weird guy" or some other variation of "whatever", not "let's throw him in jail".
Why? I, for one, look forward to having a unique address for every computer. It is, after all, the original intent of the Internet.
We largely skipped UMTS over here and went straight to HSPA. That's what people in the US mean when they say 3G (except for Verizon, which is closer to 2.5g)
as a dock accessory.
they do have 3g. just announced
hehehe... that guy is full of it. "apple tablet connects to other tablets over wifi for gaming. There will be LAN parties with these things, people playing First person shooters"
Your post is the second result on Google. Congratulations.
Dude you gotta cut back, on, the commas.
Absolutely. It's probably one of the best games ever.
Hint: Run into the castle and go to the door with the blank star. Jump into the picture :)
Have you ever played Bioshock? If not, I highly recommend it. It's as much a commentary on the Randian philosophy as it is a game - the first you hear of the original antagonist (Ryan) is him saying:
"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor. No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to God. No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone. I rejected those answers. Instead I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small."
As the game progresses, you hear a lot about "the parasite" wanting things for free, with signs asking "Who Is Atlas?"
Fascinating stuff, and a great game. And yes, this is OT, no need to mod it so.