"Apple's reasoning for keeping the iPhone a closed platform is that they don't want to 'potentially gum up the provider's network'.
Oh, c'mon, they're still using that BS argument? AT&T -- where you know this statement is really coming from; like Apple could give a rip about AT&T's network -- was arguing this same malarkey decades ago before their ban on third-party phones and phone equipment was struck down. And - *gasp* - what a surprise: the PSTN network still works without a hitch today!
Once I've made the software my own, it becomes my problem to support it.
To apply this logic to a PC, if you install Doom on your machine, the warranty is voided.
How the heck is this flamebait? The poster here is quite correct.
I'm willing to bet that Apple intentionally put in extra engineering effort to break iPhones containing third party software applications as well as those that have been hacked or unlocked because it doesn't fit in with Apple's pompous software-locked-to-hardware "philosophy".
Nothing gets me more fuming than when some pompous, pretentious entity assumes "rights" and "ownership" over a technology or a concept and uses it to strong-arm everyone else into padding their already-thick pocket books instead of letting it out for the common good.
And then they have the audacity to (continue to) call themselves the "Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization".
I say to the IEEE: implement and build it anyway. Watch people flock to it in droves and we'll see how much the CSIRO actually cares about the "commonwealth".
Why is it that I have to go to a communist, dictated country instead of the "Land of the Free" (yes, you're allowed to laugh) to get a product that is open, has more functionality, not locked to a single carrier, less expensive and actually places the customers' needs and desires above corporate hog-tying?
Oh, wait, I know why it'll fail...IT HAS BUTTONS! OH NOES!!!1111!1oneeleventyone
I don't think the concept of terrorism can be applied when there's no shocking violence involved. That's what the very core of terrorist means is all about. Otherwise we would have to invent another word.
While 8% are coming to complain about people making terminator jokes or to read about said complaining. Remaining 2% are those who genuinely thought the article is dealing with Terminator.
Well, it turns out that building your products in a way that adds value for your customers is better than intentionally creating a way to continually rip them off (ie: building as much of the printer's "brains" as possible into each ink cartridge)! What a surprise!
Maybe we need to take commercialization out of connectivity infrastructure. Internet connectivity could become a utility like water, natural gas or electricity. I think we can agree that it's getting pretty close to be being that essential. The biggest problem with this, of course, would be finding administrators with the right capabilities, principles, concepts and vision (think people not named Ted...)
No more AT&T morons whining about "usin' ma papes fer free!", Shaws packet shaping to inhibit BitTorrent usage or Telco-ISP combo-corps "accidentally" dropping VoIP packets to benefit their own vested interests would all be nice things to see vanish.
AT&T's gotta go.
Ed is either too stupid to understand how the Internet is actually structured and truly believes that everyone is getting a "free ride" or he's just plain greedy and then isn't the kind of person we should have running one of the largest ISPs anyway.
I'm not sure Palm has any reason to be worried. They have a proper operating system on which you can install third party applications and tweak things just about all you want. That puts Jobs' BS about locking you in for the "safety of the network" to shame.
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Nothing gets me more fuming than when some pompous, pretentious entity assumes "rights" and "ownership" over a technology or a concept and uses it to strong-arm everyone else into padding their already-thick pocket books instead of letting it out for the common good.
And then they have the audacity to (continue to) call themselves the "Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization".
I say to the IEEE: implement and build it anyway. Watch people flock to it in droves and we'll see how much the CSIRO actually cares about the "commonwealth".
Seriously, you just egged that one on.
Why is it that I have to go to a communist, dictated country instead of the "Land of the Free" (yes, you're allowed to laugh) to get a product that is open, has more functionality, not locked to a single carrier, less expensive and actually places the customers' needs and desires above corporate hog-tying?
Oh, wait, I know why it'll fail...IT HAS BUTTONS! OH NOES!!!1111!1oneeleventyone
Do not taunt happy fun ball...
1. Illegal trespassing upon a computer system ("hacking" or "cracking")
2. Doctoring the screenshot
So how is it that this "evidence" is even allowed?
What, no backup?
Well, it turns out that building your products in a way that adds value for your customers is better than intentionally creating a way to continually rip them off (ie: building as much of the printer's "brains" as possible into each ink cartridge)! What a surprise!
Maybe we need to take commercialization out of connectivity infrastructure. Internet connectivity could become a utility like water, natural gas or electricity. I think we can agree that it's getting pretty close to be being that essential. The biggest problem with this, of course, would be finding administrators with the right capabilities, principles, concepts and vision (think people not named Ted...)
No more AT&T morons whining about "usin' ma papes fer free!", Shaws packet shaping to inhibit BitTorrent usage or Telco-ISP combo-corps "accidentally" dropping VoIP packets to benefit their own vested interests would all be nice things to see vanish.
Yes, of course I'm joking...
AT&T's gotta go. Ed is either too stupid to understand how the Internet is actually structured and truly believes that everyone is getting a "free ride" or he's just plain greedy and then isn't the kind of person we should have running one of the largest ISPs anyway.
I'm not sure Palm has any reason to be worried. They have a proper operating system on which you can install third party applications and tweak things just about all you want. That puts Jobs' BS about locking you in for the "safety of the network" to shame.
Big RAM huh? I dunno, those SO-DIMMs are pretty small.
drm, rgb, hdcp, hdmi, cgms-a, css, aacs, dvi, hdcp, dtv, hdtv, dcps, cppm, bd+, rpc, cprm, dtcp, cpsa, cptwg...
/. lameness filter, I had to lowercase all of the cool acronyms, thereby lessening the impact of the reply ...now that's lame!)
I can't keep up either.
Can you really blame them now that Microsoft is in some sweet lovin' with Hollywood?
(Arggh! Stupid