Not a popular fact here on Slashdot, but true. I've mentioned this many times when people were complaining about game prices.
When I bought a PS game in the 90's it was A$90, now it's up to A$110.
The only thing that has changed is that our economy is a lot better. Realistically, prices should have gone down with larger sales but they dont do this because people are used to paying A$90. The price in present day A$ goes up with each generation, they went up by A$10 with the Xbox/PS2 and went up again with the Xbox360/PS3. Only PC games in Australia have reduced in price due to competition from more stores entering the games market and grey imports.
Costed: to have something costed means to determine the cost of something beforehand. I.E. "I've costed the proposal, it will cost us $2500". This is typically an American (incl. Canada) thing, En_UK uses "costs" instead. I.E. "I have the costs for the proposal, it will cost $2500".
Posting because English lessons should be fucking polite.
The point he's trying to make is that Google seems to be trying to get in the middle of your primary TV viewing-- I gather from the article that it's supposed to sit between your cable box and your TV
That's how it's meant to work seeing as Pay (cable) TV providers refuse to allow their cards to be read in non-approved hardware.
Using this as a negative is rediclous as this is how it needs to work in order to record Pay TV.
He's saying that might be scary for some people,
Some very retarded people, but that's OK as they can pay someone to plug the cable from your de-scrambler box into the clearly marked "input" plug on the back. Exactly like hooking up a TV (well, they typically have to pay someone to do that too, so I fail to see the point here).
. Instead, it's an additional device, perhaps taking the place of a DVD player.
Now this is what John Q Moron^W Average hates, yet another bit of kit attached to his TV. Most TV's only have one or two HDMI or RCA inputs and typically only one component. The latter two will be phased out of newer TV's in favour of HDMI and TV manufacturers dont like putting in more then two interfaces because the average person hates having to swtich between connectors to get to the thing they want to view.
The author made his mind up before he even evaluated either product, he just spent the time looking for justifications for his decision.
To answer your question, fanboys cannot stand the notion that their platform is not number 1 in the eyes of everyone. They have too much emotionally invested in a product to allow themselves to see it fail in any possible way.
Is it really such a big problem if neither iOS or Android "win"?
No, As an Android fan (not fanboy, I am well aware of Android's flaws) I would also like to see some competition but I dont think the Iphone is up to the challenge. Android has surpassed the Iphone in every way except marketshare in just 18 months compared to 3 years without a mammoth marketing budget like Apple. Matching and overtaking Apple in marketshare is only a matter of time now with Android units shipping more then Apple units per day. Just like Microsoft, Apple are very slow to react to competition. It took almost a year since Android's release just to get copy/paste working on the Iphone and it's still nowhere near the implementation I had on my HTC Dream.
I place more stock in Meego or BlackBerry's yet unreleased OS (BB OS 6?) to keep Android on it's toes. WinMo is dead in the water and as much as I dont want to say this, WebOS is a dead horse that HP is trying to bring back to life by flogging it.
I saw how things stagnated when Microsoft dominated.
Not all monopolies end with stagnation, only artificially maintained ones like Microsoft are guaranteed to end up that way. Google has held a search monopoly for at least the last 8 years yet search has not stagnated, that is because Google has a natural monopoly in search which is maintained by improving their product as opposed to strong-arming suppliers and using underhanded tactics against the competition.
That being said, I dont like monopolies (or oligopolies) either.
While the CPU in the iPhone is an "Apple spec" CPU, most likely the radio chipset is from a third party.
The CPU in the Iphone is the Samsung developed and made Hummingbird core (bog standard ARMv7). The radio chipset is made by Infeneon (prolific maker of TPM's).
The Hummingbird core is also used in a Qualcomm SnapDragon SOC for the Samsung Galaxy S (or whatever the US networks have labelled it).
Whilst we're on it, the "Retina" display was developed and produced by LG Electronics. NAND Flash is Samsung.
I dont buy into Apple rumours, they've been saying that there will be a Verizon Iphone every year since it was released, the last one was meant to be 4G but wasn't. So I'll make this prediction, the Iphone 5 will be on the same carriers, with minor hardware improvements just like the Iphone 3G, 3GS and 4.
Also it means nothing to Android, Android is looking to outpace Iphone in corporate uptake by Q1 next year and that's where Android will win, so that means the fight is vs RIM not Apple.
This is just the sort of attitude that permeates IT, sales, management, admin, financial services, analysts, engineers or pretty much anyone.
There, finished that for you.
Welcome to the modern workforce, try getting a Mechanical Engineer to move a filing cabinet. "Not my job" said the engineer. Why single out IT for this honour, oh yes, that's right IT is an easy target to pick on rather then having to go head to head with those uppity engineers. Frankly (spelling) this attitude disgusts me (not directly singling you out, just the familiar attitude that I encounter as a sysadmin).
Now seeing as your rant missed the point, drawing up a building diagram with all the physical locations on it is not my job because 1) I'm not trained for it, I've done some tech drawing in high school but I'd be fucked if I knew where to start, yes I can do quite detailed network diagrams but not floor plans. 2) It's not that important, if you need a map to find a 24 port switch, something is horribly wrong with your setup.
Now I do help people out (well that _is_ my job) as much as I can, if someone is moving something heavy and I've got time to help I'll offer it. If the receptionist needs help stocking the fridge, I can do it. Hell, I'll even get coffee for people. There have been damn few times where the reverse is true, Once a CEO in a SME got coffee for everyone in the office (about 12 people, rest worked on site) and another time a former syadmin helped me with a serious issue but for the most part end users will do nothing but complain (so I tend to remember the times when people do nice things for me).
I mean, I can only name like three or four of her songs from the early 2000s, but "a singer you've never heard of"?! Come on!
If you've ever heard any of her caterwauling you'd understand why many people actively try to forget who Dido is.
Further more if I were in any way, directly or indirectly able to be linked to Dido, I'd be suing like the dickens to try to sever that connection too.
When they are selling the iShit for serious money, why would they care what you do with them?
Because they use that to sell you more crap. In the Apple world, everyone uses an Ipad to read, An Iphone to call, listens to an Ipod, uses an Imac at home and takes a MacBook to work all tied together with Itunes.
Apple are trying to do what Microsoft did back in the 90's, leverage one part of their business which has a very powerful position in the market to get people to buy their other products and services. The only difference between Apple and Microsoft is that Microsoft was quite successful at it.
If they haven't done something to stop Android on the iPhone it's either a) the new unlocking rules or b) it's not very popular so they don't care (yet).
Ummm...
Apple uses the same kind of boot loader locking technology as Motorola has been criticised for using, not eFuse in particular, but something based on the SOC that prevents an unsigned kernal from runing. They did this with the Iphone 3GS after someone got Android 1.5 running on a 3G.
Do you think there isn't a reason the prolific Android hackers haven't put Android onto an Iphone 3GS/4 yet?
Do you challenge them on these beliefs? Do you tell them that their beliefs (and hatred and bigotry) are why you're no longer willing to consider them a friend?
Is it my job to correct all the hatred and idiocy in the world?
Nope, I agree with the OP, just get them out of your life. Some people just refuse to learn and will believe whatever it is they believe until the bitter end regardless of the truth.
I delegated my facebook account to a third party. She can let me know if anything worthwile has occured in my social parabola. (also maintain any farms, etc. I haven't actually looked at facebook in months.
I dont recomend outsourcing your Facebook to China. Try the Philippines, the people there speak better English and are more familiar with western cultural practices.
As an electrical engineer, I frequently have to work with IT folks to provide data gathering systems on the equipment we install in our manufacturing facilities. Some of these plant floor networks are huge, and have tentacles that reach into every machine and sub-system processor. I never cease to be amazed at the complete lack of documentation that the IT folks put into physically mapping their network equipment.
Not our job.
Physical mapping is considerably less important then logical mapping. It doesn't matter if the switch is is storage closet 1-B or Bangalore so long as we know exactly what kind of link is between Swtich A and Server B.
Physical mapping is less important because physical distances matter less, well designed bit of infrastructure will have everything labelled and most equipment will be in a server room, MDF (Main Distribution Facility) or IDF (Intermediate Distribution Facility) which for most orgs will be a closet on each floor. The only time physical mapping really becomes important in most IT orgs is linking patches to end points as you need to know where patch A27 terminates when at the patch panel, cable in hand.
If you dont have a logical diagram, as a net admin you're really up a creek.
Open our governments R&D dept to beyond defense and license the tech out to the private sector to pay for our infrastructure, and help create a real need for scientists.
Create regulations to stop the salary collusion that goes on in every executive board room, bring back excess taxes to discourage excessive greed.
Good luck with that. They'll just find new ways to do you actually punish the companies involved, then they'll just re-incorporate in Dubai.
Plus you've got all the nutbars who think reducing taxes on the rich will result in more jobs (As far as I can figure out it works like this: 1. give the rich more money, 2. ????? 3. Jerbs).
Reform our tax structure to pay from the bottom up, instead of top down. Make my city pay to my state, who pays to the feds.
You mean how the lieutenants pay the Capo and the Capo's pay the Don?
This system has too many flaws, it will just result in one side holding the other hostage. It's better that Income Tax is collected on a federal level then levies and fees for services (such as land tax) is collected on a state and local level. In AU, Lgov (local Government) pays for garbage collection, so they charge each land owner in their district a yearly fee for council services (not just garbage collection). State Gov pays for roads, so the state gov collects the fuel levies so they are not entirely dependent on Canberra for funds.
Fine countries for each citizen found illegally residing in our country, *10 for repeat offenders.
Good luck with that...
Say about 90% of the illegal in my nation are Visa over-stayers from first world nations, we normally fine them individually but if we can just send that bill to Washington... when can I collect my check.
While we'll probably never know due to the lack of transparency about the whole process, it's likely due to AT&T.
First thing, I thought Apple had the carriers under thumb, at least that what I keep being told whenever something bad happens to Android.
Secondly, what about WiFi only, this didn't get banned because it used 3G data, it got banned because it downloaded data onto the device.
Thirdly, what about all the other telco's, Vodafone (worldwide), Hutchinson (Worldwide) T-Mobile/Deutsche telecom (Europe), Orange (Europe) and so forth who just act as a dumb pipe and dont give a crap how you use bandwidth. Apple already discriminate via location in Itunes, if this was an AT&T issue, why are AU Vodafone users being punished (HINT: In AU, it's illegal for Voda to say how you can and cannot use the data you've paid for).
I'm going to answer my own question, this application was banned because it got around Itunes allowing users to directly download media and files onto their device.
but I don't understand how that's related to them at all.
It's not.
Torrenting is a way around Itunes. Getting around Itunes eliminates apple's ability to control the device as well as trying to get you into Apple's other products and services (the fanboys will lambaste me for this but that doesn't change the fact Apple is using Itunes in the exact same way as MS used Windows to leverage IE, except Apple is less successful). The big problem is not piracy, if it was Apple would prevent you from loading unlicensed music in Itunes, the problem is that it gets around Apples control.
this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store.
I can see why they don't want to get embroiled in any of the legal stuff associated with Torrents
You're marketspeak to English appears to be a bit rusty, I'll help you out:
Translation: "This procedure allows end users to get around the controls we've placed in Itunes".
You've got to be delusional to think Apple cares about piracy of other peoples products. If they did they'd be doing license checks in Itunes and not permitting any unlicensed music, but they aren't so it's all about keeping Apple users locked into Itunes.
All the monitors are 16x9 now (1920x1080). I have the same problem - I don't want to go "up" to 1920 from 1600x1200 (20" 4:3 flat panel I have from 2002 - cost 1000$) and lose 180 vertical pixels!
Actually you lose 120 pixels per row. That leads to a total loss of 192000 pixels over 1600 rows. Horizontally you're gaining 345600 pixels so it's a net gain of 153600 pixels.
Or you can just stop whining and buy a 16:10 monitor like the Samsung 2443BW with a 1920x1200 resolution, for fecks sake you can get them in Australia for A$300 so they should be cheaper on the other side of the Indian-Pacific Price Dilation field, 16:10's are decreasing in price, just not as fast as 16:9's. I switched to a 16:10 LCD (1680x1050) years ago and haven't looked back, I wont be going to 16:9 any time soon either.
Plus give it a few years, 16:9 is pretty much at a dead end with 1920x1080 as there's no demand for a higher 16:9 resolution, in 5 years, we'll see affordable WQXGA (2560×1600) monitors appearing.
You're new to this whole computing thing aren't you.
In what way is having to remember what a specific button does in a specific situation actually progress?... In what way is having to learn how a hierarchical file system works actually progress?
I love how Iphone fanboys try to steer the conversation into very specific points in order to support their flawed conclusions.
In answer to your question, good HCI design is to have a button do the most logical function in that situation, this means that you can have a contextual volume button that changes the volume of media when playing a movie or change the volume of a ringtone in other situations. Another example is the use of a back button, which will stop a web page loading when one is loading or exit the application when one is not. If you can't see how contextual actions are an important part of HCI I truly pity you.
Why do I have to learn how a computer works
Why do I have to learn how to drive, Why do I have to learn how to write.
Because these are both inherently complex actions that require training. As an end result you have an additional skill that will be useful in your future life. A person who does not know how to use a computer has not advantage over someone who does not use a computer, to paraphrase Mr Twain.
The computer is much better at remembering things than me.
Clearly, but this means you have a problem, not the computer.
But a computer should be able to process things, otherwise it's no better then any other storage medium like tape, paper or stone tablet. But that is the strength of a computer, the ability to react to your input.
Your statements can be summed up in one phrase "I am dumb, do everything for me" and is endemic of what is wrong in modern western society. If you are unwilling to learn how to use technology, dont complain when it becomes too complex for you to use as it's entirely because of your own ignorance.
You just can't directly compare the user interface of a traditional computer to this old kind of system.
There, fixed that for you.
The Iphone uses the old style menu based system which has been in use on phones for a long time now. They have just switched from a physical direction pad to a touch screen. It's considerably less sophisticated then WinMo phones.
Now Android actually bridges the gap between mobile and desktop by bringing desktop concepts to the phone such as a navigable file system, desktop, windowing (in the form of widgets) and contextual input (changing the function of the physical buttons as well as a long press acting as a right click).
I own an iPhone, and the App Store with its "250,000+" apps is a usability mess when shown 25 or 50 apps at a time. Keyword spamming makes searches near totally useless for finding relevant apps, and popularity charts enforce a herd mentality.
Wait...
That's exactly what Iphone owners tell me what is wrong with the Android Marketplace, well apart from the keyword spamming.
The simple fact is that all markets tend to work this way, even physical ones. Go to a market in Bangkok, where they'll shout "T-Shirt", "Suit" or "wallet" at you as you walk by, every stall selling the same thing and you are entirely reliant on what other people tell you as to which one should you go to. Why do iFanboys think their market will be any different.
This isn't about tree-hugging developers, it's about being treated like an adult with a modicum of intelligence,
Agreed, physical markets figured this one out long ago. It does tend to become an arms race between the inventiveness of vendors and the intelligence of buyers (I.E. vendors came up with the idea of listing an item as $0.99, buyers now read that at $1).
Considering how locked down consoles can be, I'd rather not be pushed into having my options in mobile technology be so limited as to have no real open options.
He's talking about the convergence between Console (locked down gaming devices) and Mobile Phones (locked down communications devices*). No one is talking about the death of the PC...
OK, they've been talking about that for 20 years but that "reality" is no closer now then it was 20 years ago when the NES heralded the end of gaming on the PC.
With low powered casual gaming becoming more popular then the uber-powerful "hardcore" consoles this is the next logical conclusion, I said from the first day of Iphone gaming that if it takes off, EA will muscle their way in and squeeze out the little guy. This is still on track. The convergence between mobile and console will continue as phone hardware becomes more powerful and HDMI ports become more ubiquitous. Sony is already rumoured to be working on an Android** powered PSP Phone, combine that with a HDMI port and release before Nintendo comes up with the same idea and they'll have a winner until Nintendo releases the same product.
I'll say nothing on this; except there are a lot of factors,
Alcohol is the biggest (drug) killer in Australia (don't have time to back that one up, do some Googling) but not because it's directly killing people, rather it's the side effect of doing something whilst impaired (drunk). A drunk driver rarely only takes out himself, 2 or 3 other people also in the car and that's if he hits a static object like a tree.
As for direct effect, I think Heroin kills the highest percentage of users.
If marijuana is legalised, I think we'll have to look out for the same problem as Alcohol, driving baked will also become deadly.
You took way too many words to say what can be translated as "I really dont know what I'm talking about, not one bit, but just the same I've formed an opinion that the market obeys MS's technical standards and will write half a page of guff to ignore the pink elephant in the room".
Whatever reasons MS used to make DX10 Vista only, it backfired because 3 and a bit years later most people are still using DX9c. This does mean MS screwed up with DX10, if they made it too complex for XP on purpose or accident it was still a failure, this does mean DX10 is broken as the market wants to stick with XP and no game dev is willing to drop XP support. The market has decided that DX10 is a failure because everyone is still coding for DX9, when DX 9 was released, for how many years did they keep coding for DX 8 (HINT: everyone pretty much dropped it immediately).
When MS announced that dx10(and up) would not be upgraded in XP... What MS did was strictly a marketing ploy in my mind and an attempt to get money out of my pocket.
Which backfired horribly, no developer with an ounce of brain between them would dare to code for DX 10 or above, so DX9c remains the dominant gaming platform. If only OpenGL could lift their game we might be able to get rid of specific OS requirements. Out of all the games I've still got from the 90's, the ones that work the best on XP are OpenGL based.
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The OP asked for the make of the CPU, in this context the CPU is the Hummingbird core. A SOC contains far more then a CPU thank you.
When I bought a PS game in the 90's it was A$90, now it's up to A$110.
The only thing that has changed is that our economy is a lot better. Realistically, prices should have gone down with larger sales but they dont do this because people are used to paying A$90. The price in present day A$ goes up with each generation, they went up by A$10 with the Xbox/PS2 and went up again with the Xbox360/PS3. Only PC games in Australia have reduced in price due to competition from more stores entering the games market and grey imports.
FYI, Cost is the past tense of cost.
Costed: to have something costed means to determine the cost of something beforehand. I.E. "I've costed the proposal, it will cost us $2500". This is typically an American (incl. Canada) thing, En_UK uses "costs" instead. I.E. "I have the costs for the proposal, it will cost $2500".
Posting because English lessons should be fucking polite.
That's how it's meant to work seeing as Pay (cable) TV providers refuse to allow their cards to be read in non-approved hardware.
Using this as a negative is rediclous as this is how it needs to work in order to record Pay TV.
Some very retarded people, but that's OK as they can pay someone to plug the cable from your de-scrambler box into the clearly marked "input" plug on the back. Exactly like hooking up a TV (well, they typically have to pay someone to do that too, so I fail to see the point here).
Now this is what John Q Moron^W Average hates, yet another bit of kit attached to his TV. Most TV's only have one or two HDMI or RCA inputs and typically only one component. The latter two will be phased out of newer TV's in favour of HDMI and TV manufacturers dont like putting in more then two interfaces because the average person hates having to swtich between connectors to get to the thing they want to view.
The author made his mind up before he even evaluated either product, he just spent the time looking for justifications for his decision.
No, As an Android fan (not fanboy, I am well aware of Android's flaws) I would also like to see some competition but I dont think the Iphone is up to the challenge. Android has surpassed the Iphone in every way except marketshare in just 18 months compared to 3 years without a mammoth marketing budget like Apple. Matching and overtaking Apple in marketshare is only a matter of time now with Android units shipping more then Apple units per day. Just like Microsoft, Apple are very slow to react to competition. It took almost a year since Android's release just to get copy/paste working on the Iphone and it's still nowhere near the implementation I had on my HTC Dream.
I place more stock in Meego or BlackBerry's yet unreleased OS (BB OS 6?) to keep Android on it's toes. WinMo is dead in the water and as much as I dont want to say this, WebOS is a dead horse that HP is trying to bring back to life by flogging it.
Not all monopolies end with stagnation, only artificially maintained ones like Microsoft are guaranteed to end up that way. Google has held a search monopoly for at least the last 8 years yet search has not stagnated, that is because Google has a natural monopoly in search which is maintained by improving their product as opposed to strong-arming suppliers and using underhanded tactics against the competition.
That being said, I dont like monopolies (or oligopolies) either.
The CPU in the Iphone is the Samsung developed and made Hummingbird core (bog standard ARMv7). The radio chipset is made by Infeneon (prolific maker of TPM's).
The Hummingbird core is also used in a Qualcomm SnapDragon SOC for the Samsung Galaxy S (or whatever the US networks have labelled it).
Whilst we're on it, the "Retina" display was developed and produced by LG Electronics. NAND Flash is Samsung.
I dont buy into Apple rumours, they've been saying that there will be a Verizon Iphone every year since it was released, the last one was meant to be 4G but wasn't. So I'll make this prediction, the Iphone 5 will be on the same carriers, with minor hardware improvements just like the Iphone 3G, 3GS and 4.
Also it means nothing to Android, Android is looking to outpace Iphone in corporate uptake by Q1 next year and that's where Android will win, so that means the fight is vs RIM not Apple.
There, finished that for you.
Welcome to the modern workforce, try getting a Mechanical Engineer to move a filing cabinet. "Not my job" said the engineer. Why single out IT for this honour, oh yes, that's right IT is an easy target to pick on rather then having to go head to head with those uppity engineers. Frankly (spelling) this attitude disgusts me (not directly singling you out, just the familiar attitude that I encounter as a sysadmin).
Now seeing as your rant missed the point, drawing up a building diagram with all the physical locations on it is not my job because 1) I'm not trained for it, I've done some tech drawing in high school but I'd be fucked if I knew where to start, yes I can do quite detailed network diagrams but not floor plans. 2) It's not that important, if you need a map to find a 24 port switch, something is horribly wrong with your setup.
Now I do help people out (well that _is_ my job) as much as I can, if someone is moving something heavy and I've got time to help I'll offer it. If the receptionist needs help stocking the fridge, I can do it. Hell, I'll even get coffee for people. There have been damn few times where the reverse is true, Once a CEO in a SME got coffee for everyone in the office (about 12 people, rest worked on site) and another time a former syadmin helped me with a serious issue but for the most part end users will do nothing but complain (so I tend to remember the times when people do nice things for me).
If you've ever heard any of her caterwauling you'd understand why many people actively try to forget who Dido is.
Further more if I were in any way, directly or indirectly able to be linked to Dido, I'd be suing like the dickens to try to sever that connection too.
Because they use that to sell you more crap. In the Apple world, everyone uses an Ipad to read, An Iphone to call, listens to an Ipod, uses an Imac at home and takes a MacBook to work all tied together with Itunes.
Apple are trying to do what Microsoft did back in the 90's, leverage one part of their business which has a very powerful position in the market to get people to buy their other products and services. The only difference between Apple and Microsoft is that Microsoft was quite successful at it.
Ummm...
Apple uses the same kind of boot loader locking technology as Motorola has been criticised for using, not eFuse in particular, but something based on the SOC that prevents an unsigned kernal from runing. They did this with the Iphone 3GS after someone got Android 1.5 running on a 3G.
Do you think there isn't a reason the prolific Android hackers haven't put Android onto an Iphone 3GS/4 yet?
Is it my job to correct all the hatred and idiocy in the world?
Nope, I agree with the OP, just get them out of your life. Some people just refuse to learn and will believe whatever it is they believe until the bitter end regardless of the truth.
I dont recomend outsourcing your Facebook to China. Try the Philippines, the people there speak better English and are more familiar with western cultural practices.
Not our job.
Physical mapping is considerably less important then logical mapping. It doesn't matter if the switch is is storage closet 1-B or Bangalore so long as we know exactly what kind of link is between Swtich A and Server B.
Physical mapping is less important because physical distances matter less, well designed bit of infrastructure will have everything labelled and most equipment will be in a server room, MDF (Main Distribution Facility) or IDF (Intermediate Distribution Facility) which for most orgs will be a closet on each floor. The only time physical mapping really becomes important in most IT orgs is linking patches to end points as you need to know where patch A27 terminates when at the patch panel, cable in hand.
If you dont have a logical diagram, as a net admin you're really up a creek.
It's amazing other, more enlightened governments did not think of this before.
Good luck with that. They'll just find new ways to do you actually punish the companies involved, then they'll just re-incorporate in Dubai.
Plus you've got all the nutbars who think reducing taxes on the rich will result in more jobs (As far as I can figure out it works like this: 1. give the rich more money, 2. ????? 3. Jerbs).
You mean how the lieutenants pay the Capo and the Capo's pay the Don?
This system has too many flaws, it will just result in one side holding the other hostage. It's better that Income Tax is collected on a federal level then levies and fees for services (such as land tax) is collected on a state and local level. In AU, Lgov (local Government) pays for garbage collection, so they charge each land owner in their district a yearly fee for council services (not just garbage collection). State Gov pays for roads, so the state gov collects the fuel levies so they are not entirely dependent on Canberra for funds.
Good luck with that...
Say about 90% of the illegal in my nation are Visa over-stayers from first world nations, we normally fine them individually but if we can just send that bill to Washington... when can I collect my check.
First thing, I thought Apple had the carriers under thumb, at least that what I keep being told whenever something bad happens to Android.
Secondly, what about WiFi only, this didn't get banned because it used 3G data, it got banned because it downloaded data onto the device.
Thirdly, what about all the other telco's, Vodafone (worldwide), Hutchinson (Worldwide) T-Mobile/Deutsche telecom (Europe), Orange (Europe) and so forth who just act as a dumb pipe and dont give a crap how you use bandwidth. Apple already discriminate via location in Itunes, if this was an AT&T issue, why are AU Vodafone users being punished (HINT: In AU, it's illegal for Voda to say how you can and cannot use the data you've paid for).
I'm going to answer my own question, this application was banned because it got around Itunes allowing users to directly download media and files onto their device.
It's not.
Torrenting is a way around Itunes. Getting around Itunes eliminates apple's ability to control the device as well as trying to get you into Apple's other products and services (the fanboys will lambaste me for this but that doesn't change the fact Apple is using Itunes in the exact same way as MS used Windows to leverage IE, except Apple is less successful). The big problem is not piracy, if it was Apple would prevent you from loading unlicensed music in Itunes, the problem is that it gets around Apples control.
You're marketspeak to English appears to be a bit rusty, I'll help you out:
Translation: "This procedure allows end users to get around the controls we've placed in Itunes".
You've got to be delusional to think Apple cares about piracy of other peoples products. If they did they'd be doing license checks in Itunes and not permitting any unlicensed music, but they aren't so it's all about keeping Apple users locked into Itunes.
Actually you lose 120 pixels per row. That leads to a total loss of 192000 pixels over 1600 rows. Horizontally you're gaining 345600 pixels so it's a net gain of 153600 pixels.
Or you can just stop whining and buy a 16:10 monitor like the Samsung 2443BW with a 1920x1200 resolution, for fecks sake you can get them in Australia for A$300 so they should be cheaper on the other side of the Indian-Pacific Price Dilation field, 16:10's are decreasing in price, just not as fast as 16:9's. I switched to a 16:10 LCD (1680x1050) years ago and haven't looked back, I wont be going to 16:9 any time soon either.
Plus give it a few years, 16:9 is pretty much at a dead end with 1920x1080 as there's no demand for a higher 16:9 resolution, in 5 years, we'll see affordable WQXGA (2560×1600) monitors appearing.
I love how Iphone fanboys try to steer the conversation into very specific points in order to support their flawed conclusions.
In answer to your question, good HCI design is to have a button do the most logical function in that situation, this means that you can have a contextual volume button that changes the volume of media when playing a movie or change the volume of a ringtone in other situations. Another example is the use of a back button, which will stop a web page loading when one is loading or exit the application when one is not. If you can't see how contextual actions are an important part of HCI I truly pity you.
Why do I have to learn how to drive, Why do I have to learn how to write.
Because these are both inherently complex actions that require training. As an end result you have an additional skill that will be useful in your future life. A person who does not know how to use a computer has not advantage over someone who does not use a computer, to paraphrase Mr Twain.
Clearly, but this means you have a problem, not the computer.
But a computer should be able to process things, otherwise it's no better then any other storage medium like tape, paper or stone tablet. But that is the strength of a computer, the ability to react to your input.
Your statements can be summed up in one phrase "I am dumb, do everything for me" and is endemic of what is wrong in modern western society. If you are unwilling to learn how to use technology, dont complain when it becomes too complex for you to use as it's entirely because of your own ignorance.
There, fixed that for you.
The Iphone uses the old style menu based system which has been in use on phones for a long time now. They have just switched from a physical direction pad to a touch screen. It's considerably less sophisticated then WinMo phones.
Now Android actually bridges the gap between mobile and desktop by bringing desktop concepts to the phone such as a navigable file system, desktop, windowing (in the form of widgets) and contextual input (changing the function of the physical buttons as well as a long press acting as a right click).
Wait...
That's exactly what Iphone owners tell me what is wrong with the Android Marketplace, well apart from the keyword spamming.
The simple fact is that all markets tend to work this way, even physical ones. Go to a market in Bangkok, where they'll shout "T-Shirt", "Suit" or "wallet" at you as you walk by, every stall selling the same thing and you are entirely reliant on what other people tell you as to which one should you go to. Why do iFanboys think their market will be any different.
Agreed, physical markets figured this one out long ago. It does tend to become an arms race between the inventiveness of vendors and the intelligence of buyers (I.E. vendors came up with the idea of listing an item as $0.99, buyers now read that at $1).
He's talking about the convergence between Console (locked down gaming devices) and Mobile Phones (locked down communications devices*). No one is talking about the death of the PC...
OK, they've been talking about that for 20 years but that "reality" is no closer now then it was 20 years ago when the NES heralded the end of gaming on the PC.
With low powered casual gaming becoming more popular then the uber-powerful "hardcore" consoles this is the next logical conclusion, I said from the first day of Iphone gaming that if it takes off, EA will muscle their way in and squeeze out the little guy. This is still on track. The convergence between mobile and console will continue as phone hardware becomes more powerful and HDMI ports become more ubiquitous. Sony is already rumoured to be working on an Android** powered PSP Phone, combine that with a HDMI port and release before Nintendo comes up with the same idea and they'll have a winner until Nintendo releases the same product.
* Android excepted.
** OK, mostly excepted.
Alcohol is the biggest (drug) killer in Australia (don't have time to back that one up, do some Googling) but not because it's directly killing people, rather it's the side effect of doing something whilst impaired (drunk). A drunk driver rarely only takes out himself, 2 or 3 other people also in the car and that's if he hits a static object like a tree.
As for direct effect, I think Heroin kills the highest percentage of users.
If marijuana is legalised, I think we'll have to look out for the same problem as Alcohol, driving baked will also become deadly.
You took way too many words to say what can be translated as "I really dont know what I'm talking about, not one bit, but just the same I've formed an opinion that the market obeys MS's technical standards and will write half a page of guff to ignore the pink elephant in the room".
Whatever reasons MS used to make DX10 Vista only, it backfired because 3 and a bit years later most people are still using DX9c. This does mean MS screwed up with DX10, if they made it too complex for XP on purpose or accident it was still a failure, this does mean DX10 is broken as the market wants to stick with XP and no game dev is willing to drop XP support. The market has decided that DX10 is a failure because everyone is still coding for DX9, when DX 9 was released, for how many years did they keep coding for DX 8 (HINT: everyone pretty much dropped it immediately).
Which backfired horribly, no developer with an ounce of brain between them would dare to code for DX 10 or above, so DX9c remains the dominant gaming platform. If only OpenGL could lift their game we might be able to get rid of specific OS requirements. Out of all the games I've still got from the 90's, the ones that work the best on XP are OpenGL based.