Geesh.. give the guy a break. He does't have wifi at home, so there is no infrastructure for this and my guess is they'd rather not have to by the most expensive printer for someone who doesn't print very often.
Some AirPrint compatible devices support ad-hoc mode, and even if they don't its hardly expensive to setup compared to data costs for uploading and downloading every document you want to print over 3G/4G
BTW, I read "penchant for maliciously storing data about people" and initially thought Apple.
A company that makes huge profits by selling premium grade hardware items and provides a supporting ecosystem for those that want it, vs an advertising company that actively does all it can to track and identify your personal habits. Right, apple is the one to be worried about.
My father-in-law has a AirPrint capable printer and has all sorts of problems. So obviously this isn't an easy solution.
I once bought a car that was a lemon so I guess this idea of internal combustion automobiles is not an easy solution and should be ignored by all.
How about just getting him a fucking computer that doesn't rely on internet access and the services of a company with a penchant for maliciously storing data about people, to send a document to a printer next to him?
Even an iOS device can print without an internet connection, if your printer supports AirPrint, so why would you accept such a crippled device?
A trip back to Adelaide now is like a trip back in time. Comparing to queensland is like saying "Florida isn't that bad, at least we aren't in Alabama fucking our sisters".
Let me know when I can go to a supermarket after 8pm somewhere in the Adelaide suburbs.
That's the problem with you toe jam afficianados, you can't reject one thing rms says and accept that he has said fucked up shit. You just keep trying to make it sound like everything out of his mouth is absolute truth.
The parent asked about the FSF forming a committee to define "what is evil". The founder of the FSF has made numerous comments arguing against the criminal status of the topics I mentioned, some of which are generally considered "worst of the worst" crimes.
A committee to decide on what's "evil", by the organisation founded by a man who thinks necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, incest and pedophilia should be legal.
Next: CEO of McDonalds named Director-General of the World Health Organisation
Because that is a pain in the ass. Entering a pin and giving a signature adds a lot of annoyance without improving security much.
Tell me about it. My Visa is Chip+PIN issued in Australia. When I (not often now with local bank account) use it in Thailand, the attendant will ask (because the machine asks them) if I have a PIN for it, to which I say yes, and happily punch it in. The attendant though, will then insist I sign the bottom of the receipt that says clearly (in English at least, I assume in Thai also) "No signature required". If it happens once I have a locally issued card (and thus will use it more) I will press the issue and see what happens.
Which just gets people used to typing their password into a random web frame, if they can even remember what it is. This is why I normally use my Amex card for ordering online, it doesn't have any of this crap.
A couple of times I've had that "verified by visa" prompt come up (my card is issued by an australian bank) - apart from asking me to answer a question, it also shows a "Personal Assurance Message", which is effectively text i have supplied to the bank previously and is a sentence, not just a word like a dogs name or something.
What the fuck does this have to do with a wheel falling off a car? That is a clear and present danger.
GPS is at best, advice. ADVICE.
If i went and bought some piece of shit ford and the GPS gave me wrong directions, yes I would hold Ford responsible and expect them to fix it, but I would also not blame them if I was stupid enough to ignore multiple warning signs and a fucking gate, and thus drove onto a runway.
Take some fucking responsibility for your own actions.
They had to go through a fucking gate, and past multiple signs saying they shouldn't be driving there.
Yes Apple's maps have a bug, and they have said they are fixing it.
What has the airport management done to prevent unauthorised access to the runway?
What have the drivers done to improve their own common fucking sense?
And it's Apple's fault that this route is open to drivers?
Apple's data comes from third parties - a lot of it is aggregated by the likes of TomTom etc, from local authorities.
Remember the bullshit about people getting lost in Victoria (australia) looking for a town called Mildura?
The local mapping data had two locations for Mildura - one in the middle of a forrest, one where the town is. Any idiot that follows a navigation app's directions off a highway onto either a dirt track through a forrest or onto a fucking runway, deserves it.
They are assistants, not foolproof deities.
Yes, because apple believes HTC is infringing on their patents.
So because a company has been doing something longer, it's impossible that they could copy a new competitor's product(s) ?
I just looked at images of that LG phone, and I think anyone who claims it's a copy is stretching things a bit. People complain that Apple's lawsuit over the Samsung tablet is crap, and those two devices are much closer in design than the iPhone and this clunker.
It costs both Microsoft and Apple more to USE the H.264 patents than they get back from owning some of them - neither is doing this for financial reasons, apart from perhaps, wanting to sell devices that work with the video form every man and his dog is creating and consuming.
If you actually read what I wrote, the browser native controls for the <video> tag should have a way to make it full screen - Safari for instance puts a full-screen button to the right of the scrubber, just as in Quicktime X.
If you just want to play the video back (as opposed to those who insist they have to use their own very specific player) , and you're relying on the Browser's native controls, a decent browser will have a full screen option.
if that isn't the case maybe you should blame your browser maker, or get a better browser.
Most of the fragmentation people talk about is because there are older Androids. Iphone has fragmentation to if you consider people that are still on iOs 3.
I would argue that Android fragmentation is caused by OEMs releasing handsets that are running old versions, with zero upgrade path.
Apple don't sell hardware that's running an older version of iOS with no upgrade path.
Bingo. Just as I said--a middleman between me and my data. Pay up or you lose access to whatever is stored. Sure, I could have a hard-copy(?) back-up on a drive just in case they do something like this, but what in the hell is the point of using them in the first place?
Monthly fees for a backup? Why not just purchase one-time-fee-and-you-own-the-fucking-thing hard drives? Long-term contracts? Didn't you people learn anything from the mobile providers?
You seem to be talking purely about storage (iDisk) here so I'll ignore the other parts of MobileMe
iDisk provides for a couple of scenarios for online file storage
off-site backup (yes, a local backup only costs you the initial purchase price of hardware+power, but it's also in the same physical building as your primary storage location - this makes it vulnerable to fire, flood, earthquake, lightning strike/surge, theft, etc.
access to a document at "any" computer - OS X includes an automatic mirroring system to keep a cached copy of the iDisk locally, Windows/Linux users can access it via WebDAV and there is also a web UI.
sharing a document with others, either secured or free-for-all
Now it is true that if you don't continue to pay the yearly fee, your iDisk will be deleted when the account expires (from memory they give you a little bit of "oops" time after the account expires), however it's not like they are going to suddenly say "hey if you want to access that data, cough up an extra $500.". If you don't want to renew the account, you just need to remember to copy any files stored only on iDisk back to your computer before the account expires. You can think of it like renting a house - if you don't want to live there any more, just remember to get your shit out before you leave.
Monthly fees? No. A yearly fee that has fairly generous limits - $99/year for 20GB of storage, with 200GB/month transfer allowance.
Long term contract? No. You pay the yearly fee. If you don't want to use it any more, you don't renew the account.
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Some AirPrint compatible devices support ad-hoc mode, and even if they don't its hardly expensive to setup compared to data costs for uploading and downloading every document you want to print over 3G/4G
A company that makes huge profits by selling premium grade hardware items and provides a supporting ecosystem for those that want it, vs an advertising company that actively does all it can to track and identify your personal habits. Right, apple is the one to be worried about.
I once bought a car that was a lemon so I guess this idea of internal combustion automobiles is not an easy solution and should be ignored by all.
How about just getting him a fucking computer that doesn't rely on internet access and the services of a company with a penchant for maliciously storing data about people, to send a document to a printer next to him?
Even an iOS device can print without an internet connection, if your printer supports AirPrint, so why would you accept such a crippled device?
I grew up in SA.
A trip back to Adelaide now is like a trip back in time. Comparing to queensland is like saying "Florida isn't that bad, at least we aren't in Alabama fucking our sisters".
Let me know when I can go to a supermarket after 8pm somewhere in the Adelaide suburbs.
Fucking children is not about personal liberties.
That's the problem with you toe jam afficianados, you can't reject one thing rms says and accept that he has said fucked up shit. You just keep trying to make it sound like everything out of his mouth is absolute truth.
Kiddie fucking, child porn and fucking apes and dolphins. That's insightful?
How is that off topic?
The parent asked about the FSF forming a committee to define "what is evil". The founder of the FSF has made numerous comments arguing against the criminal status of the topics I mentioned, some of which are generally considered "worst of the worst" crimes.
A committee to decide on what's "evil", by the organisation founded by a man who thinks necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, incest and pedophilia should be legal.
Next: CEO of McDonalds named Director-General of the World Health Organisation
No, but probably a barn yard scene, a nursery scene, and a graveyard scene.
Wait till you hear what he has to say about necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, incest and pedophilia.
Because that is a pain in the ass. Entering a pin and giving a signature adds a lot of annoyance without improving security much.
Tell me about it. My Visa is Chip+PIN issued in Australia. When I (not often now with local bank account) use it in Thailand, the attendant will ask (because the machine asks them) if I have a PIN for it, to which I say yes, and happily punch it in. The attendant though, will then insist I sign the bottom of the receipt that says clearly (in English at least, I assume in Thai also) "No signature required". If it happens once I have a locally issued card (and thus will use it more) I will press the issue and see what happens.
Which just gets people used to typing their password into a random web frame, if they can even remember what it is. This is why I normally use my Amex card for ordering online, it doesn't have any of this crap.
A couple of times I've had that "verified by visa" prompt come up (my card is issued by an australian bank) - apart from asking me to answer a question, it also shows a "Personal Assurance Message", which is effectively text i have supplied to the bank previously and is a sentence, not just a word like a dogs name or something.
Presumably the car would realise it shouldn't go through a fucking gate without confirmation?
What the fuck does this have to do with a wheel falling off a car? That is a clear and present danger. GPS is at best, advice. ADVICE. If i went and bought some piece of shit ford and the GPS gave me wrong directions, yes I would hold Ford responsible and expect them to fix it, but I would also not blame them if I was stupid enough to ignore multiple warning signs and a fucking gate, and thus drove onto a runway.
Or why they would be removed after a GPS app is updated?
Take some fucking responsibility for your own actions. They had to go through a fucking gate, and past multiple signs saying they shouldn't be driving there. Yes Apple's maps have a bug, and they have said they are fixing it. What has the airport management done to prevent unauthorised access to the runway? What have the drivers done to improve their own common fucking sense?
And it's Apple's fault that this route is open to drivers? Apple's data comes from third parties - a lot of it is aggregated by the likes of TomTom etc, from local authorities. Remember the bullshit about people getting lost in Victoria (australia) looking for a town called Mildura? The local mapping data had two locations for Mildura - one in the middle of a forrest, one where the town is. Any idiot that follows a navigation app's directions off a highway onto either a dirt track through a forrest or onto a fucking runway, deserves it. They are assistants, not foolproof deities.
Session cookies should contain a Session identifier, not login credentials.
Yes, because apple believes HTC is infringing on their patents. So because a company has been doing something longer, it's impossible that they could copy a new competitor's product(s) ? I just looked at images of that LG phone, and I think anyone who claims it's a copy is stretching things a bit. People complain that Apple's lawsuit over the Samsung tablet is crap, and those two devices are much closer in design than the iPhone and this clunker.
Just because the US Federal Reserve is run by Chimps in suits, doesn't mean ours is.
It costs both Microsoft and Apple more to USE the H.264 patents than they get back from owning some of them - neither is doing this for financial reasons, apart from perhaps, wanting to sell devices that work with the video form every man and his dog is creating and consuming.
Oh yeah, it's the lack of H.264 support that's stopped Linux on the desktop from taking off. Sure. You keep telling yourself that.
If you actually read what I wrote, the browser native controls for the <video> tag should have a way to make it full screen - Safari for instance puts a full-screen button to the right of the scrubber, just as in Quicktime X.
If you just want to play the video back (as opposed to those who insist they have to use their own very specific player) , and you're relying on the Browser's native controls, a decent browser will have a full screen option.
if that isn't the case maybe you should blame your browser maker, or get a better browser.
I would argue that Android fragmentation is caused by OEMs releasing handsets that are running old versions, with zero upgrade path.
Apple don't sell hardware that's running an older version of iOS with no upgrade path.
You seem to be talking purely about storage (iDisk) here so I'll ignore the other parts of MobileMe
iDisk provides for a couple of scenarios for online file storage
Now it is true that if you don't continue to pay the yearly fee, your iDisk will be deleted when the account expires (from memory they give you a little bit of "oops" time after the account expires), however it's not like they are going to suddenly say "hey if you want to access that data, cough up an extra $500.".
If you don't want to renew the account, you just need to remember to copy any files stored only on iDisk back to your computer before the account expires. You can think of it like renting a house - if you don't want to live there any more, just remember to get your shit out before you leave.
Monthly fees? No. A yearly fee that has fairly generous limits - $99/year for 20GB of storage, with 200GB/month transfer allowance.
Long term contract? No. You pay the yearly fee. If you don't want to use it any more, you don't renew the account.