I've been reading message board forums that claim the following bugs:
Installer ignores the user request to update without a restore - this can mean it takes up to several hours to apply the update while it syncs all of your files. I'm not sure if the phone is accessible while the restore is happening
MMS feature no longer allows attaching pictures or video to text messages for some users
Landscape mode doesn't work for some users in the iPod app - even with the screen orientation locking option turned off
Granted that last issue wouldn't really affect business use, but in general the quality control in many Apple products has gone to hell in the past few years. In all fairness, software companies across the board seem to be releasing utter crap for each major release and then issue patches to fix all of the issues. I wonder if Apple had to move employees from internal software testing to external software testing for the App store. In any event, I think most businesses will stick with BlackBerry, if for no other reason than the physical keyboard.
And congratulations on entirely missing the point. Regardless of whether or not the federal government is capable of securing civilian nets by taking control, the point is that this system could be abused too easily to silence the portions of the net with dissenting political views.
Obviously you have not watched this episode. The intent of putting Muhammad in a bear suit was not to mock Muhammad but to criticize the fact that no one is allowed to depict Muhammad at all in his human form. South Park has made fun of just about every celebrity, religious figure, and political leader possible. They regularly make fun of Jesus in a country full of Christians and are not threatened by violence, but simply depicting Muhammad without even showing his human form subjects them to threats on their lives. The social commentary is simply that these people are way too extreme and this reaction is certainly proving them right. This isn't "fire in a crowded theater" material - it is about censorship of discussing fire in general.
This approach seems similar to the one taken by Microsoft in their Singularity OS. I wonder if the issue of context switching will become an issue and if it does, how will it be addressed.
Hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in US District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the 'unparalleled' theft of millions of credit card numbers from major US retailers.
If I was Albert Gonzalez, I would have asked for 480 concurrent 1-month sentences instead. Then when the judge finalized the sentence, I'd show him the definition of the word "concurrent".
WHAT ENTITLEMENT???!! This bill has NOTHING to do with entitlement. This bill was supposed to prevent insurance companies from collecting tens of thousands of dollars over the course of years from someone and then drop their coverage as soon as that person gets sick. This bill was supposed to provide a public option that someone can afford to PAY for their own health care plan in the event that they get laid off or are too sick to work. But you'll be happy to know that that those provisions have been watered down or removed completely so we can continue to enjoy our freedom - freedom to be poor if we get sick or laid off. We're the richest country in the world, but we can't even bother to do these two things to bring up the standard of health care coverage to that of nations that have a fraction of our resources.
This bill has been neutered so badly that I don't think it matters whether it passes or not. If it does pass, the Democrats will claim victory despite the fact that most of the important stuff had to be cut out of the bill just to get it to pass. The Republicans will claim it's the end of the world despite the fact that the bill does very little to actually reform health care. At the end of the day, we're basically right where we started.
And on that note, trying to improve anything in this country is a waste of effort. Americans seem happy with what we have and there is no motivation to make things better despite the fact that there's plenty of room for improvement. It's gotten to the point where anyone who tries to make things better here is either an idiot or completely masochistic. But on the bright side, at least it's Friday!
That seems a harsh way to find out that your Windows machine has been rooted.
Don't worry, I'm sure the author(s) of the rootkit released a patch within 24 hours that automatically updated the infected machines to make the rootkit "compatible" with the security update.
That line reveals a lot about the character of this man. It's bad enough we live in a society where people feel entitled to money for their suffering, even if it was caused by a freak accident or their own carelessness. But this guy has a Pavlovian reaction to demanding money anytime someone feels any iota of enjoyment from his company's product. I had no idea arrogance could be taken to such an extreme height.
You hit the nail on the head. MPEG-LA is simply trying to fatten the cow of H264 marketshare so that they can slaughter it with charges in 2016.
And for those claiming that another codec will be dominant in six years, while that may be possible, MPEG-2 has been around since 1996 and is still one of the most popular video formats 14 years later.
Several years ago (before the likes of Rhapsody and other services), I considered writing an application that would allow you to share your music library by allowing anyone using that software to search for songs and stream that file so long as no one else was streaming that same song. Essentially you were just borrowing the song the same way you would borrow a CD from a library. In order for this software to be considered legal, I would have had to implement DRM and I did not trust my software engineering skills enough at that time, so I just let the idea pass, but it was interesting because I'm sure the members of the RRIA would have hated it, yet legally it would be analogous to a public library. I wonder if there will be digital versions of public libraries for books in the future.
The same thing happened with 802.11g. I remember going through four 802.11g PCI cards before finding one that could communicate with my 802.11g router at a distance of more than three feet. I was not aware that the devices were pre-draft (they didn't state "pre-draft" on the packaging like they do now), so I did not realize that was causing my problem. Eventually the standard was ratified, and if my memory is correct, the manufacturers released firmware updates so that the devices complied with the ratified standard.
I doubt that this practice will go away since the manufacturers want to release bleeding-edge technology to stay ahead of the competition, but at least their packaging now states "pre-draft" so that cautious consumers will know to avoid it.
I have been running one of the Chrome nightly builds on Leopard for several weeks and I am extremely impressed with its speed and stability. I have never had a single tab crash on me. I'm sure that people will complain about the lack of support for extensions compared to Firefox, and rightly so. But if you don't need many extensions, I highly recommend trying out Chrome.
I thought that Microsoft's OEM license prevented manufacturers from loading other operating systems in a dual-boot configuration alongside Windows. Wasn't that the heart of the lawsuit from Be Inc. against Microsoft?
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This is definitely humorous (and sad), but it still doesn't top China
Steve Jobs doesn't care about left handed people. - Kanye
Granted that last issue wouldn't really affect business use, but in general the quality control in many Apple products has gone to hell in the past few years. In all fairness, software companies across the board seem to be releasing utter crap for each major release and then issue patches to fix all of the issues. I wonder if Apple had to move employees from internal software testing to external software testing for the App store. In any event, I think most businesses will stick with BlackBerry, if for no other reason than the physical keyboard.
Right on! It's not like the federal government created the internet. And they certainly didn't create multiple generations of software that actively monitor almost all internet traffic. And it's not like they have some agency that specializes in developing additional security onto our current technology.
And congratulations on entirely missing the point. Regardless of whether or not the federal government is capable of securing civilian nets by taking control, the point is that this system could be abused too easily to silence the portions of the net with dissenting political views.
but I imagine it will be harder to convince your mom to log in.
You'd be surprised at how easy it is for your mom to "log in".
What the hell was Australia doing out in space?
I wish it would kill System Idle Process. That thing is always using 99% of my CPU - idle my ass!
Obviously you have not watched this episode. The intent of putting Muhammad in a bear suit was not to mock Muhammad but to criticize the fact that no one is allowed to depict Muhammad at all in his human form. South Park has made fun of just about every celebrity, religious figure, and political leader possible. They regularly make fun of Jesus in a country full of Christians and are not threatened by violence, but simply depicting Muhammad without even showing his human form subjects them to threats on their lives. The social commentary is simply that these people are way too extreme and this reaction is certainly proving them right. This isn't "fire in a crowded theater" material - it is about censorship of discussing fire in general.
If they can find a way to collect it they can have it
This approach seems similar to the one taken by Microsoft in their Singularity OS. I wonder if the issue of context switching will become an issue and if it does, how will it be addressed.
If I was Albert Gonzalez, I would have asked for 480 concurrent 1-month sentences instead. Then when the judge finalized the sentence, I'd show him the definition of the word "concurrent".
"All you read and wear or see and hear on [the internet] is a product begging for your fatass dirty dollar" -- Tool
WHAT ENTITLEMENT???!! This bill has NOTHING to do with entitlement. This bill was supposed to prevent insurance companies from collecting tens of thousands of dollars over the course of years from someone and then drop their coverage as soon as that person gets sick. This bill was supposed to provide a public option that someone can afford to PAY for their own health care plan in the event that they get laid off or are too sick to work. But you'll be happy to know that that those provisions have been watered down or removed completely so we can continue to enjoy our freedom - freedom to be poor if we get sick or laid off. We're the richest country in the world, but we can't even bother to do these two things to bring up the standard of health care coverage to that of nations that have a fraction of our resources.
This bill has been neutered so badly that I don't think it matters whether it passes or not. If it does pass, the Democrats will claim victory despite the fact that most of the important stuff had to be cut out of the bill just to get it to pass. The Republicans will claim it's the end of the world despite the fact that the bill does very little to actually reform health care. At the end of the day, we're basically right where we started.
And on that note, trying to improve anything in this country is a waste of effort. Americans seem happy with what we have and there is no motivation to make things better despite the fact that there's plenty of room for improvement. It's gotten to the point where anyone who tries to make things better here is either an idiot or completely masochistic. But on the bright side, at least it's Friday!
That seems a harsh way to find out that your Windows machine has been rooted.
Don't worry, I'm sure the author(s) of the rootkit released a patch within 24 hours that automatically updated the infected machines to make the rootkit "compatible" with the security update.
That line reveals a lot about the character of this man. It's bad enough we live in a society where people feel entitled to money for their suffering, even if it was caused by a freak accident or their own carelessness. But this guy has a Pavlovian reaction to demanding money anytime someone feels any iota of enjoyment from his company's product. I had no idea arrogance could be taken to such an extreme height.
You hit the nail on the head. MPEG-LA is simply trying to fatten the cow of H264 marketshare so that they can slaughter it with charges in 2016.
And for those claiming that another codec will be dominant in six years, while that may be possible, MPEG-2 has been around since 1996 and is still one of the most popular video formats 14 years later.
Several years ago (before the likes of Rhapsody and other services), I considered writing an application that would allow you to share your music library by allowing anyone using that software to search for songs and stream that file so long as no one else was streaming that same song. Essentially you were just borrowing the song the same way you would borrow a CD from a library. In order for this software to be considered legal, I would have had to implement DRM and I did not trust my software engineering skills enough at that time, so I just let the idea pass, but it was interesting because I'm sure the members of the RRIA would have hated it, yet legally it would be analogous to a public library. I wonder if there will be digital versions of public libraries for books in the future.
I doubt it since his mom's garage spends most of its time being occupied by my Gremlin.
The same thing happened with 802.11g. I remember going through four 802.11g PCI cards before finding one that could communicate with my 802.11g router at a distance of more than three feet. I was not aware that the devices were pre-draft (they didn't state "pre-draft" on the packaging like they do now), so I did not realize that was causing my problem. Eventually the standard was ratified, and if my memory is correct, the manufacturers released firmware updates so that the devices complied with the ratified standard. I doubt that this practice will go away since the manufacturers want to release bleeding-edge technology to stay ahead of the competition, but at least their packaging now states "pre-draft" so that cautious consumers will know to avoid it.
I have been running one of the Chrome nightly builds on Leopard for several weeks and I am extremely impressed with its speed and stability. I have never had a single tab crash on me. I'm sure that people will complain about the lack of support for extensions compared to Firefox, and rightly so. But if you don't need many extensions, I highly recommend trying out Chrome.
http://www.seenonslash.com/
Canadians?
I thought that Microsoft's OEM license prevented manufacturers from loading other operating systems in a dual-boot configuration alongside Windows. Wasn't that the heart of the lawsuit from Be Inc. against Microsoft?
Wow, that doesn't sound like an optimistic outlook for a smooth landing of their craft.
It reminds me of a line I like to use on women: Baby, by the third date I'll be thoroughly disappointing you in bed.