Likewise zipped attachments are something that is used for desktop, but I don't know why anyone would use them on a mobile device
Because Bob sends me the entire web site and I'd like to read the changelog whilst on the road.
This has dozens of legitimate uses. I dont want to have to drag a laptop around where I dont need it. Right now on Android I can download zip files to the file system (SDcard) and open them with a file browser.
If Apple sees that this increases Android usage, they'll reverse policy on the Flash block, and users everywhere will praise Steve for his insight and timing.
Your optimism is amusing.
Lord Steve has spoken and Flash is no more regardless of what reality says.
They don't want you to have freedom? How so? They control one aspect of their phone. I guess Sony and Microsoft don't want me to have freedom? Or my local grocer doesn't, either, right?
Explain?
If you buy a Sony TV, does Sony decide who your PayTV provider is and what channels you are permitted to subscibe to? Apple does this on the Iphone.
Does your local grocer prevent you from buying groceries from a different grocer? Apple does this on the Iphone.
Does Microsoft prevent you from installing software from non-MS approved sources on Windows? Apple does this on the Iphone.
Apple does not control one aspect of the Iphone, Apple controls all aspects of the Iphone. Your rant makes no sense.
2. Let you opt out (not only from iAds, using oo.apple.com, but also in the phone itself, by either turning Location Services off entirely, or on an app-by-app basis, as each app must first ask before it can access your location).
Didn't read the article did you. This isn't tied to iAd and includes more then just location services. Further more you cannot install anything from Itunes until you agree to the updated terms and conditions and Apple does not permit you to install from anything other then Itunes.
3. Updating iOS to show you exactly when your location is being accessed, and give you a list of apps that accessed it in the past 24 hours, as well as the ability to revoke permission to any app you wish.
1. But this doesnt tell you who Apple have given the data to. 2. Many programs will refuse to work if not given permission. 3. Apple have the ability to override your settings.
Your reasons also do not make sense, I suppose at least it's consistent.
It looks to me like they are actually respecting our privacy,
By selling your data to third parties. What colour is the sky in your world?
The critical difference is that Google and FOSS are pretty damn quick in fixing bugs. Apple and to a lesser extent Microsoft are happy to leave known bugs and vulnerabilities unpatched for months or even years. Google fixes Android bugs in short order. Bugfix versions like 1.1 and 2.01 dropped very quickly after their parent releases.
What I find "amazing" is that the people moderating have no idea the post is a copy/paste.
So, the exact same argument used to defend Google: +5 insightful.
Defend Apple, -1 Troll...
Context is relevent. The Google and Apple issues are only marginally related. Google collected informatoin that is as visible as the front of your house and got slapped for it. Apple has changed the terms and conditions without consultation after the sale.
Huh. Who are the fanboys?
By the fact that you either want a Google defence modded down or an bad Apple defence modded up I suggest the fanboy is as close as the nearest mirror.
I bet they don't actually use OCR on a PDF with typed text as they can just extract it from the PDF, they probably use that on images inside PDFs though.
Have you tried it on a PDF that was an image of text, such as a scanned or photographed text document. That's the real test.
I thought you Aussies were laid-back, laissez-faire sort of people? Not in the pure capitalism sense, but in the "you mind your business, I'll mind mine and we'll chill together" sense? Why the sudden conservative turn?
Newsflash, Politicians are arseholes everywhere, even in Australia.
This is just a report, someone will make some recommendations and there may even be some talk on the subject. Politicians will agree that some fireviruses and anti-walls should be installed whilst everyone else ignores them.
Nothing happens, a lot of smoke is blown up the arses of people we don't care about, business as usual.
Until one of those partners happens to be Facebook, Google, Twitter, Myspace, Microsoft, etc. Once they can link up one or two "randomized" location histories with times and IPs that certain users log in from, BAM! those users are tied to a "randomized" primary key.
The quotes were meant to indicate sarcasm. I know it's pretty hard to do over the intertubes.
Of course this is what will happen and what I was eluding to (you did put it a but better though). Tying a user to a randomly selected primary key simply gets the "personally identifiable" part out of the way. Companies who sell their clients/users/customers information to the highest bidder should be stripped of all of their trademarks, patents and IP regardless of if it's "personally identifiable".
Just as Apple has done many things associated with iPhone and the like and later backpeddled, later when all this has blown over it will be re-introduced
There, fixed that for you.
I think Apple has well and truly planned for any potential backlash. They'll backpedal and say "look we care about your privacy" and two months later Apple will be selling your data to the highest bidder.
I'm guessing that it is a "anonymized identifier that can uniquely identify a user
You think too much (solly, I'm still in SE Asia).
This is overbuilt and fraught with legal woes. All they need to do is link each account to a "randomised" primary key, that way they can still stay it's anonymised ("not personally identifiable" I believe is the catch phrase) whilst allowing Apple and it's partners to know who they should target. With this they can make sure all Iphone owners in Leeds are directed towards the nearest weahterspoons rather then a decent pub, meanwhile Apple are protected because they are just a bunch of unidentifiable numbers.
In an updated version of its privacy policy, the company added a paragraph noting that once users agree, Apple and unspecified 'partners and licensees' may collect and store user location data.
Well not quite, Google does not explicitly state they are planning on selling your data.
When users attempt to download apps or media from the iTunes store, they are prompted to agree to the new terms and conditions. Until they agree, they cannot download anything through the store.
Does anyone still wonder why it is bad to be beholden to a single supply chain?
So Apple does not want you to have freedom or respects your privacy.
I can do fluid dynamics simulations on my desktop PC that would have required a mediocre supercomputer ten years ago...
There will always be improvements to be made, but their magnitude and relevance will necessarily decrease as time goes on.
Exactly my point.
Increases in speed and power are going to be gradual, inperceptible to the average person. The real innovation in PC hardware is going to be in cost. PC prices wont drop much but they wont rise with the increase of disposable income, the net result is that they are cheaper. With desktop computers approaching the power of a small server farm 10 years back people are needing to buy less to get the same job done.
In 5 to 10 years the same thing will happen to smart phones.
PCs are failing hard at something the same vendors have figured out is really important for mobile computing, and that is UI responsiveness.
No, they aren't.
You are just looking in the wrong places.
If you look at Linux you have GUI advances from low end GUI's like Xfce and flashy GUI's involving Compiz and Fusion. Even Windows has had some enhancements in Win7, yes Vista was a dog but you know damn well MS never gets anything right on the first go (for the most part, neither does FOSS). Your experience with a single vendor does not equate to an industry wide problem. Chances are most if not all of your issues come down to a poorly configured OS/Software environment (HINT, poorly configured by the user). I'm a gamer and I tweak the hell out of my systems, my box at home runs fine, my box at work is 3 years old and runs fine. They run fine because I set them up correctly.
UI is just a fanboy argument to justify why simple things make them so upset. They tend to use terms like "snappy" which are completely unquantifiable rather then using measurements that are useful. GUI's are good enough, they allow people to get the job done without getting in the way. There is no impetus for them to become better, trying to force this will only lead to more complex and/or less functional GUI's.
I'm type this on a C2D, 2.1 GHz, 2GB RAM, Intel X4500 laptop. I get no issues running a web browser, VPN and RDP session at the same time on either Windows (XP) or Linux (Ubuntu 10.04).
Man, complaining about Intel's market dominance and not even one mention of AMD? If Intel was holding everyone back with your proposed CPU and Chipset conspiracy, don't you think that would just prime the market for AMD to pair up with VIA or someone and just wreck Intel?
It's even simpler then that.
PC's and x86 are mature technologies that have been in widespread use for decades. ARM and smartphones are just beginning to enter widespread use. Its logical that there is little room for innovation in x86-64 because it already meets needs thus has no impetus for rapid change. ARM on the other hand has a need for change, requirements are outstripping existing ARM processors and chipsets. Not just a need for more speed but also lower power draw.
There is innovation on the x86-64 side, it's just not that fast because its a mature technology. AMD has been working on fusion for some time, Intel have released the Core i3/5/7 architectures, die sizes have shrunk and new kinds of multi-core chips are released (tri-core, six core).
No conspiracy here, just a market that's been around for a long time. It's like saying you don't see any innovation in Microwaves yet they keep getting cheaper and higher powered. An industry always reaches a point where it can no longer advance in leaps and bounds and starts taking smaller steps forward instead, this happened with PC's and will happen with Mobiles in a few years.
So, Sir or Madam:... take a look at the bigger picture, and kindly get a clue.
Increase your medication, that might help you understand the difference between something that exists (the NBN) and something that doesn't (the filter)
I see you forgot to read the part of my post that said credible.
WHO said it had anything to do specifically with the NBN?
The article is about the NBN, if you bothered to read anything on the NBN you'd know it was an existing project with a fixed mandate that was already underway. BIG CLUE they cant change it now. The NBN had nothing to do with the proposed filter that will never pass parliament.
None of your links mention the NBN, that is completely different from the proposed filter. Just doing a scrape of Google for inflammatory links proves nothing.
1. The NBN has passed parliment and is a working project.
2. The proposed filter has failed to pass parliament, twice.
3. The NBN is a completely different infrastructure project.
4. The proposed filter is at the ISP level, not the cable level (CLUE, the NBN only covers cabling).
5. The proposed filter has been shelved. This means it will not go before parliment again for a long time.
So after all of your poinless linking, we get the NBN and it has nothing to do with a non-existent filter. You can tell the difference between something that is real and something that isn't cant you?
Calling you retarded is an insult to people with down syndrome.
None of you folks have been watching the news, have you?
I've read the NBN proposal. Have you?
News, and by "News" I mean biased and uninformed reporting is not a trustworthy source of information. Especially if it's a US news channel. I highly doubt you have any credible information that I don't already posses, but if you think you do front it up rather then making false statements.
The NBN is an infrastructure program, like building water pipes or power lines. The government leases these lines out to anyone who wants them and the government maintains them. My service will be with iinet, Internode, Optus or any other private telecommunications operator I choose. You have to be certifiably retarded to call this "nationalised" when services can and will be provided in their entirety by private entities.
We've had 15 years of a private entity maintaining the copper in AU, in that time jack has been done to upgrade it. But I guess that's OK because the "ebil gubbermint" has nothing to do with it. Sir or Madam, kindly get a clue.
1. Put old system into barrels marked "nuclear waste".
2. Throw barrels off cliff.
3. Pick working system like that from Australia or Canada.
4. Copy it.
5. Don't let the rebulocrats change anything.
6. Profit.
I'm serious, even if you choose to keep private health your premiums will go down as they now have to compete with the lowest cost alternative (public health), which is net profit for you. Another boon will be increased service from private health funds as public health sets the minimum standard for care.
Come on, Australia has a population of 21MM people!
21 MilliMetres?
I think you mean 22 Million people.
If it joined the US, it would make it our 3rd largest state population-wise and that largest state area-wise!
Just to clarify, Australia is 7,617,930 km2 whilst the continental United states is 8,080,464.25 km2. We are almost as big as 48 of your states put together.
And we are getting better Internet infrastructure (how are those local monopolies working out, our regulation is great) not to mention health care, education and so forth.
No point in having area a population statistics when talking about services.
or nationalized broadband
Where does it say this?
Nowhere?
Perhaps you made it up to justify your poorly thought out rant.
The broadband will not be nationalised, The government is building the infrastructure and this will be leased to all private telco's. It's not like this was the NBN's stated goal from the word go, nor has it changed. Australia has not had a government owned telco in over 15 years. this is exactly like state owned powerlines, anyone can lease them.
And you're damned right, when the NBN is a success, European governments will follow suit, however the US will still be beholden to private corporations who want tax money to maintain the status quo. Let us know how that works out for you.
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Begun, the great pie war has.
Hey American, stop laughing. We've already had a Rum Rebellion.
Because Bob sends me the entire web site and I'd like to read the changelog whilst on the road.
This has dozens of legitimate uses. I dont want to have to drag a laptop around where I dont need it. Right now on Android I can download zip files to the file system (SDcard) and open them with a file browser.
Your optimism is amusing.
Lord Steve has spoken and Flash is no more regardless of what reality says.
Whole what?
Because they're shit.
Try Balfours.
Explain?
If you buy a Sony TV, does Sony decide who your PayTV provider is and what channels you are permitted to subscibe to? Apple does this on the Iphone.
Does your local grocer prevent you from buying groceries from a different grocer? Apple does this on the Iphone.
Does Microsoft prevent you from installing software from non-MS approved sources on Windows? Apple does this on the Iphone.
Apple does not control one aspect of the Iphone, Apple controls all aspects of the Iphone. Your rant makes no sense.
Didn't read the article did you. This isn't tied to iAd and includes more then just location services. Further more you cannot install anything from Itunes until you agree to the updated terms and conditions and Apple does not permit you to install from anything other then Itunes.
1. But this doesnt tell you who Apple have given the data to.
2. Many programs will refuse to work if not given permission.
3. Apple have the ability to override your settings.
Your reasons also do not make sense, I suppose at least it's consistent.
By selling your data to third parties. What colour is the sky in your world?
The critical difference is that Google and FOSS are pretty damn quick in fixing bugs. Apple and to a lesser extent Microsoft are happy to leave known bugs and vulnerabilities unpatched for months or even years. Google fixes Android bugs in short order. Bugfix versions like 1.1 and 2.01 dropped very quickly after their parent releases.
Context is relevent. The Google and Apple issues are only marginally related. Google collected informatoin that is as visible as the front of your house and got slapped for it. Apple has changed the terms and conditions without consultation after the sale.
By the fact that you either want a Google defence modded down or an bad Apple defence modded up I suggest the fanboy is as close as the nearest mirror.
Newsflash, Politicians are arseholes everywhere, even in Australia.
This is just a report, someone will make some recommendations and there may even be some talk on the subject. Politicians will agree that some fireviruses and anti-walls should be installed whilst everyone else ignores them.
Nothing happens, a lot of smoke is blown up the arses of people we don't care about, business as usual.
The quotes were meant to indicate sarcasm. I know it's pretty hard to do over the intertubes.
Of course this is what will happen and what I was eluding to (you did put it a but better though). Tying a user to a randomly selected primary key simply gets the "personally identifiable" part out of the way. Companies who sell their clients/users/customers information to the highest bidder should be stripped of all of their trademarks, patents and IP regardless of if it's "personally identifiable".
There, fixed that for you.
I think Apple has well and truly planned for any potential backlash. They'll backpedal and say "look we care about your privacy" and two months later Apple will be selling your data to the highest bidder.
Whilst I expected fanboys to come rushing to the defence of Apple, I also expected something a little more original then a copy/paste troll.
As the warning says when I accidentally double post, "try to be more original".
You think too much (solly, I'm still in SE Asia).
This is overbuilt and fraught with legal woes. All they need to do is link each account to a "randomised" primary key, that way they can still stay it's anonymised ("not personally identifiable" I believe is the catch phrase) whilst allowing Apple and it's partners to know who they should target. With this they can make sure all Iphone owners in Leeds are directed towards the nearest weahterspoons rather then a decent pub, meanwhile Apple are protected because they are just a bunch of unidentifiable numbers.
Well not quite, Google does not explicitly state they are planning on selling your data.
Does anyone still wonder why it is bad to be beholden to a single supply chain?
So Apple does not want you to have freedom or respects your privacy.
Exactly my point.
Increases in speed and power are going to be gradual, inperceptible to the average person. The real innovation in PC hardware is going to be in cost. PC prices wont drop much but they wont rise with the increase of disposable income, the net result is that they are cheaper. With desktop computers approaching the power of a small server farm 10 years back people are needing to buy less to get the same job done.
In 5 to 10 years the same thing will happen to smart phones.
That's a bit redundant, you already said the Ipad will have fans.
No, they aren't.
You are just looking in the wrong places.
If you look at Linux you have GUI advances from low end GUI's like Xfce and flashy GUI's involving Compiz and Fusion. Even Windows has had some enhancements in Win7, yes Vista was a dog but you know damn well MS never gets anything right on the first go (for the most part, neither does FOSS). Your experience with a single vendor does not equate to an industry wide problem. Chances are most if not all of your issues come down to a poorly configured OS/Software environment (HINT, poorly configured by the user). I'm a gamer and I tweak the hell out of my systems, my box at home runs fine, my box at work is 3 years old and runs fine. They run fine because I set them up correctly.
UI is just a fanboy argument to justify why simple things make them so upset. They tend to use terms like "snappy" which are completely unquantifiable rather then using measurements that are useful. GUI's are good enough, they allow people to get the job done without getting in the way. There is no impetus for them to become better, trying to force this will only lead to more complex and/or less functional GUI's.
I'm type this on a C2D, 2.1 GHz, 2GB RAM, Intel X4500 laptop. I get no issues running a web browser, VPN and RDP session at the same time on either Windows (XP) or Linux (Ubuntu 10.04).
It's even simpler then that.
PC's and x86 are mature technologies that have been in widespread use for decades. ARM and smartphones are just beginning to enter widespread use. Its logical that there is little room for innovation in x86-64 because it already meets needs thus has no impetus for rapid change. ARM on the other hand has a need for change, requirements are outstripping existing ARM processors and chipsets. Not just a need for more speed but also lower power draw.
There is innovation on the x86-64 side, it's just not that fast because its a mature technology. AMD has been working on fusion for some time, Intel have released the Core i3/5/7 architectures, die sizes have shrunk and new kinds of multi-core chips are released (tri-core, six core).
No conspiracy here, just a market that's been around for a long time. It's like saying you don't see any innovation in Microwaves yet they keep getting cheaper and higher powered. An industry always reaches a point where it can no longer advance in leaps and bounds and starts taking smaller steps forward instead, this happened with PC's and will happen with Mobiles in a few years.
Increase your medication, that might help you understand the difference between something that exists (the NBN) and something that doesn't (the filter)
The article is about the NBN, if you bothered to read anything on the NBN you'd know it was an existing project with a fixed mandate that was already underway. BIG CLUE they cant change it now. The NBN had nothing to do with the proposed filter that will never pass parliament.
None of your links mention the NBN, that is completely different from the proposed filter. Just doing a scrape of Google for inflammatory links proves nothing.
1. The NBN has passed parliment and is a working project.
2. The proposed filter has failed to pass parliament, twice.
3. The NBN is a completely different infrastructure project.
4. The proposed filter is at the ISP level, not the cable level (CLUE, the NBN only covers cabling).
5. The proposed filter has been shelved. This means it will not go before parliment again for a long time.
So after all of your poinless linking, we get the NBN and it has nothing to do with a non-existent filter. You can tell the difference between something that is real and something that isn't cant you?
Calling you retarded is an insult to people with down syndrome.
Maybe's he's not browsing at -1 as any post not suggesting that the Iphone is the greatest invention to grace the earth is modded down by fanboys.
I've read the NBN proposal. Have you?
News, and by "News" I mean biased and uninformed reporting is not a trustworthy source of information. Especially if it's a US news channel. I highly doubt you have any credible information that I don't already posses, but if you think you do front it up rather then making false statements.
The NBN is an infrastructure program, like building water pipes or power lines. The government leases these lines out to anyone who wants them and the government maintains them. My service will be with iinet, Internode, Optus or any other private telecommunications operator I choose. You have to be certifiably retarded to call this "nationalised" when services can and will be provided in their entirety by private entities.
We've had 15 years of a private entity maintaining the copper in AU, in that time jack has been done to upgrade it. But I guess that's OK because the "ebil gubbermint" has nothing to do with it. Sir or Madam, kindly get a clue.
1. Put old system into barrels marked "nuclear waste".
2. Throw barrels off cliff.
3. Pick working system like that from Australia or Canada.
4. Copy it.
5. Don't let the rebulocrats change anything.
6. Profit.
I'm serious, even if you choose to keep private health your premiums will go down as they now have to compete with the lowest cost alternative (public health), which is net profit for you. Another boon will be increased service from private health funds as public health sets the minimum standard for care.
21 MilliMetres?
I think you mean 22 Million people.
Just to clarify, Australia is 7,617,930 km2 whilst the continental United states is 8,080,464.25 km2. We are almost as big as 48 of your states put together.
And we are getting better Internet infrastructure (how are those local monopolies working out, our regulation is great) not to mention health care, education and so forth.
No point in having area a population statistics when talking about services.
Where does it say this?
Nowhere?
Perhaps you made it up to justify your poorly thought out rant.
The broadband will not be nationalised, The government is building the infrastructure and this will be leased to all private telco's. It's not like this was the NBN's stated goal from the word go, nor has it changed. Australia has not had a government owned telco in over 15 years. this is exactly like state owned powerlines, anyone can lease them.
And you're damned right, when the NBN is a success, European governments will follow suit, however the US will still be beholden to private corporations who want tax money to maintain the status quo. Let us know how that works out for you.