"It has been said that git is the worst form of source control except all the others that have been tried."
I've had my fair share of problems with Git, especially since the company product is cross-platform and that includes Windows, but when I compare it to problems I've had with SVN, CVS, or heaven forbid Visual SourceSafe...
Not only that, but note that it's a "$1bn cash-and-stock deal." What's undisclosed is how much of that was cash, how much of it was stock. I'd wager that a good majority of it was in stock at FB's ludicrous valuation, and not actual real money. Agreed, however, that it's dotcom insanity 2.0. Or is it 3.0? I keep losing track.
Agreed with Patorian. I forget where I've heard this, and I can't find anything to back it up concretely, but the rule of thumb is that the cost to a company in terms of the abovementioned as well as HR costs, insurance, and benefits (Don't forget the States' insane health care costs) is triple the base salary. That's why some companies are eager to hire contractors instead; they only pay the base salary, and it's the contractor's duty to tackle the expenses.
So using that offhand guess, we've got an average salary more in the 62K range, which makes a lot more sense.
If you search the USPTO, there IS a patent number US001042012, dated Oct 22, 1912. Only it's for an air valve for radiators. Ah, the good old days when patents were actually about real things,
Because this is at the poles, inside a crater. Either the ice is in the shadow of one side of the crater wall, or in the shadow of the other side of the crater wall.
Full disclosure: I work for Appcelerator, on making the iOS part of the platform, but if it matters, my personal phone is an HTC Amaze. I'm still waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich. My views do not reflect that of Appcelerator, IDC, yadda yadda yadda, and I should probably get back to work.
I won't comment on fragmentation being real or not, it being FUD or not, because that I can't state from fact. I can state the survey was of the perceptions of the developers that use Appcelerator's product, Titanium, and may be influenced by what Titanium currently supports on each platform. But mostly, I want to clarify the purpose of the survey, and dispel beliefs that it's paid-for.
Follow the money: Appcelerator makes a platform/frameworks that runs on iOS, Android, Mobile Web, and a few others that haven't been announced yet. That's the bread and butter; that's the money source. Nobody 'pays' for the survey in terms of influencing opinion, because if they want to influence company decisions on whom to support, there's more effective means. The survey's primary focus is to internally know how the company's doing and determine what other platforms to support/focus on; the actual survey also included developer opinions on documentation, SDK, IDE, support, etc. The secondary focus is to get media attention and free advertising by people covering the report. Whether or not the report is favorable to iOS, Android, or the Commodore 64 doesn't matter; it'll still get media coverage.
If you want to be most cynical about survey-rigging, it would be in Appcelerator's best interest to indicate a cross-platform solution like Titanium is best. That would involve a survey showing all the platforms neck and neck, and NOT to show iOS taking a larger lead.
Not only are you switching between square miles and acres, instead of defaulting to metric, but you didn't even convert to proper Reg units! ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/ )
For your convenience, the islands are 168 wales of ocean, but only 39 milliwales of land, all less than 4 and a third linguine above sea level. They're going to buy less than one milliwales.
Space shuttle orbit altitude: 300 km average, sometimes 600 km.
Lunar orbit: 362,600km to 405,400km.
Thinking that the Space Transport System (AKA shuttles) would get us to the moon makes as much sense as trying to get to the International Space Station by going to New York City and getting on an elevator.
You've never worked in a software company, especially one that does Continuous Integration, then.
They have these wonderful machine setups designed to compile code without running risks of creating unexpected library dependancies or whatever dreck the individual developer has installed. Sometimes, it means having a different environment setup. This means installing libraries (wow!), compiling software (zowee!), and after that's done, cleaning up for the next task including removing libraries (wowee!). Since they build software for testing or production, they're called build servers (Ooooh).
With continuous integration, that means you can easily have this process happen with each code commit, possibly dozens of times a day.
Companies that have these 'edge cases' of build servers include Google (for Android and Chrome if nothing else), Apple, Oracle, Red Hat, Microsoft, and pretty much any serious company that makes stuff that go onto shiny plastic disks that aren't just video and audio.
" A brand new company in Silicon Valley may well use Google, but are established companies migrating from desktop Office to Google? "
The plural of anecdote is not data, but as an interesting note, the company where I work started with google Docs, gmail, etc for everything while in startup mode, but as soon as we needed to actually grow and got a full-time IT person, the company jumped over to Office for everything.
Not surprised from the sampling. By the same sampling, "pretty much all" use ikea or folding tables, and no actual heavy-built furniture.
Wouldn't that mean there's a danger of some idjit* drinking, taking the pill, and not being too sloshed to stop drinking? Surely this pill doesn't counteract alcohol poisoning.
* Yeah, it'd be their own dang fault, and go into the darwin award category. It might have implications for bar owners in the states, unfortunately.
As mentioned elsewhere, putting multiple layers in a package is already done. Even Apple's A4 has the RAM on top of the CPU ( http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-A4-Teardown/2204/1 ). The novel part here, however, is coming up with an adhesive that serves as not only to position the parts, but also serves as the wiring kills a great many birds with one stone and shan't be easy.
I, for one, welcome our multilayered glued overlords.
Random trolling about definition of open and evil. Random trolling about iPhone and walled garden. Flames and counter-flames. Clucking and taking about corporate practices. Counterarguments about this being standard for businesses. Mentions of Oracle somewhere in there. Incompatible ideological rants with regards to patents, trolling, lawsuits, and the like.
Did I forget anything? Oh, right, conspiracy theories and talk of market share. Now that that's settled, let's talk about interesting and new aspects of this.
I'm interested to see how second-tier Android OEMs react to the dirty laundry. Perhaps sly calls to MSFT or HP?
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
I wish I remembered where I heard it, or even if it's true, but there was a story of a hacker who was paid to break into a medical database and change some information. According to the story, he later discovered that the changed caused the patient to get the wrong prescription and die; effectively a murder by hacking.
Again, I can't verify this, but it's certainly feasible.
I, too, used to use words like 'M$' and 'Windoze', long ago. While my words may be sardonic, trust me when I say that such name-calling really does not help one's cause once one hits puberty.
So you use Linux, or if you want to cement the stereotype, complete with beard and suspenders, Gnu/Linux. Congrats for you. But it still behooves one to not celebrate too early, even if you, like I, avoid Windows, because it still affects you. Every time you get spam, it's affecting you. Every time there's lag due to too many packets out there, it's affecting you. Every time some company is exploited and has your personal information, it's affecting you. Every service that you use where Windows is there, it's affecting you.
And that's why the unnecessarily smug attitude is not helpful.
Only these 'defensive root kits' are known as antivirus software... The problem is that it's always a reactionary position to take and there's valid reasons why they don't self-propagate to known-infected systems.
I'm not sure about the UK laws, but if it's akin to the Yanks, suppose the claims are correct, and the scot in question is not the hacker wanted. But they have his computer and a warrant to inspect it. And if they find a smoking gun for some other crime there, prosecution will happen, even if it wasn't for the LulzSec incident.
Turns out, as of Leopard or possibly before (So, what, 2007?) setting a firmware password will turn off DMA access for firewire and other external devices. So while this attack is possible by default, it's not as if this issue hasn't already been addressed years ago.
Heck, you can disable the ports via firmware. So save yourself the superglue.
Yes, but where do you think Sinclair and Acorn got their ideas from?
Before the Apple I (1976) hobby systems were more like the Altair, where you manually programmed, literal byte by byte, using toggle switches and lights. After the Apple I? Keyboards and TV output. The Apple II (1977) was already shipping by the time Sinclair's MK14(1978) or ZX80(1980) and Acorn System 1 (1979) or Atom (1980)
Disclosure: Yes, I am from the US. I ask these not to troll, but actual curiosity.
> The Queen is our head of state, a role which has several remaining powers attached to it
From what I can tell (Admittedly a brief search), most of those powers are almost figurehead in nature. For example, save for a few hung parliaments, appointing the PM has been predetermined by the election of seats in the House of Commons, outside the Queen's actions.
On this side of the pond, most news we get about the UK government mentions the PM or Parliament, not the Queen. And most news we get about the royal family is along the lines of drama such as the royal wedding or Fergie in a Dr. Pepper advert.
Now, I'd much rather the royal family than Paris Hilton or Linsey Lohan, who appear to fill the role of drama news for drama's sake. But what sort of decisions, speeches, or proclamations that have originated from the Queen have recently and significantly affected Britain or its relationship with other governments?
Sprint uses CDMA like Verizon, not GSM like, well, the rest of the world. So even after jail-breaking, the current iPhones won't work with Sprint. The CDMA iPhones come out Feb 10th, so it's 100% moot until then, and even after then, the jail-breaking to switch carriers may be significantly different with the new chipset.
TL;DR version: No iPhones on Sprint because it's not AT&T. No jailbroken iPhones on Sprint because it's not GSM. No new iPhones on Sprint because it's not Verizon.
> us corporate fuddy duddies are gonna hate the app store with a passion
Fortunately, there's two ways to nip it in the bud. Either blacklist com.apple.appstore (The program's bundle identifier) and thus block users from running the app store; or redirect *.phobos.apple.com to a black hole at the firewall and thus block the app store and the iTunes music store from contacting Apple.
"We are actively working with Congress and the Administration to find ways to retain funds in excess of the $1.887 billion spending cap"...
It's not that they collect $2B and only get a sliver of it. It's that they collect $2B and cannot keep more than $1.88B of it. What that means, and how that compares to the money spent in patenting things, I don't know. But it does mean they keep 94% of the fees, not 6% as implied.
So what happens when someone upload various photos of animal behinds, and tags them as [Acceptable target/unliked politician]? Purely in the name of science, of course.
Because we click on the stories, then click on the forums and rail on it. And we fall for it each and every time! I don't begrudge El Reg for making a bit of ad revenue, heck I've got them on my flash blocker whitelist. But yeah, we're suckers for this.
The US can contain 38 United Kingdoms and perhaps an additional Ireland or two. Or, all of Europe, including Turkey, has less land mass than the United States (And yes, the US has less land mass than Canada). Yes, the US still lags in many ways, and there's many parts that are backwards. But if you want to consider something on the same difficulty to grid as the US, and consider the US as a single entity, you'd have to count all of Europe, grouping the UK with Serbia, Lithuania, and Croatia, as a single technological entity.
Remember Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes? There people who got their feet xrayed once a year did not suffer nearly as much radiation as the person who operated the machine day in and day out.
It could be that those biggest hit with the radiation are those who get prolonged exposure, even if they're not in the direct beam, being the TSA goons themselves.
Dell, look, yes I'm an Apple fanboy, but it hurts even me to see you stumble about like this. You're going to hurt yourself and others if you keep this up. Look, put the intel subsidy down, you don't need another drink. It's time we talked about your real problem: Support.
No, adding pink won't help this. Listen. It's more than just hardware. Do you think Apple's getting all Intel's secret stash of good chips? Of course not. Macs break just like any other computer. It's what happens after the hardware breaks.
Yes, your hardware breaks too. But it's important what happens after it breaks. And frankly, we're all tired of having to call some poor schlebb working minimum wage with a script that asks to reboot the computer and reinstall Windows. And when a lot of hardware breaks, do you do a recall? Do you extend the warranty? Or do you deny everything until you lose the court case?
That's what Apple has been doing right, with the genius bar in the Apple stores. Yes, I know you installed a kiosk next to them, but one person going, 'buy a computer' isn't support. It means training your users, having actual ability to repair systems, maybe even a taste of the enterprise support.
While you are right in that UK/US had the same thing,
I fear that waiting for it to sort itself out isn't the best answer. Outright boycott and grandstanding aren't the answer as you rightly mention, but the socialism and unionizing that arose last time around won't be the answer for the portions of Foxxconn that are in Communist China.
It's really easy to simply ignore it, or wrap it up into the usual pointless Apple/Anti-Apple flames, but that simply sidelines it. One possible partial solution is indeed public pressure. Remember Nike and the backlash of their third world factories using child labor?
A less altruistic leverage, I suppose, is to make it an advertising point. although this works more for small shops and with software where manufacturing is low. That is, "Made locally, so there's no language barrier/lead/bad karma!" may put pressure to clean up offshore factories to remove the FUD. Perhaps, even, we can use jingoism for good purposes and not just bad ones.
Finally, I suppose, would be a cultural shift is required in the developing countries. Nothing so extreme as an armed revolution, but enlightenment-era concepts and beliefs are necessary (although not sufficient).
Then again, it's easy for me to say these things without actually doing anything about it.
To be fair, the defining feature of a patent troll is that they don't actually make any product, which makes it even harder to defend as there's nothing to countersue. MSFT makes its money through Windows and Office, not litigation.
I'm hard pressed to think of a large tech company that DOESN'T play this patent lawsuit game. It's like a mexican standoff, each company not willing to lower their software patents until the others do so first.
iTunes Plus doesn't have DRM, save for the email being embedded in the file. That, and a higher bitrate, is the big selling point of them. While I'm rambling, here's the full breakdown:
iTunes music, non plus: DRMed, due to RIAA demands.
iTunes music plus: non DRMed.
iTunes video: DRMed, probably because Jobs has a second hat labeled Disney.
iTunes iPhone apps: DRMed (called code signing), probably to make sure devs pay that $99 yearly fee.*
* There are valid reasons for codesigning, and it's less of a royal pain than it used to be, but still, yeesh, such a headache when provisioning profiles expire.
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Linux on the desktopIPv6!There's the old saying...
Once you go full-on with IPv6, you can't go 127.0.0.1 again.
Re: Over-exaggerated?
It's alright to exaggerate a little bit, but do it too much and it's the end of the world.
Let's paraphrase Churchill and be done with it.
"It has been said that git is the worst form of source control except all the others that have been tried."
I've had my fair share of problems with Git, especially since the company product is cross-platform and that includes Windows, but when I compare it to problems I've had with SVN, CVS, or heaven forbid Visual SourceSafe...
Re: Smells like... the dotcom years again!
Not only that, but note that it's a "$1bn cash-and-stock deal." What's undisclosed is how much of that was cash, how much of it was stock. I'd wager that a good majority of it was in stock at FB's ludicrous valuation, and not actual real money. Agreed, however, that it's dotcom insanity 2.0. Or is it 3.0? I keep losing track.
Where'd the badger paws icon go?
Re: Re:
Agreed with Patorian. I forget where I've heard this, and I can't find anything to back it up concretely, but the rule of thumb is that the cost to a company in terms of the abovementioned as well as HR costs, insurance, and benefits (Don't forget the States' insane health care costs) is triple the base salary. That's why some companies are eager to hire contractors instead; they only pay the base salary, and it's the contractor's duty to tackle the expenses.
So using that offhand guess, we've got an average salary more in the 62K range, which makes a lot more sense.
The date is correct, and the patent is real...
If you search the USPTO, there IS a patent number US001042012, dated Oct 22, 1912. Only it's for an air valve for radiators. Ah, the good old days when patents were actually about real things,
Re: tidally locked?
Because this is at the poles, inside a crater. Either the ice is in the shadow of one side of the crater wall, or in the shadow of the other side of the crater wall.
Re: the big question
Full disclosure: I work for Appcelerator, on making the iOS part of the platform, but if it matters, my personal phone is an HTC Amaze. I'm still waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich. My views do not reflect that of Appcelerator, IDC, yadda yadda yadda, and I should probably get back to work.
I won't comment on fragmentation being real or not, it being FUD or not, because that I can't state from fact. I can state the survey was of the perceptions of the developers that use Appcelerator's product, Titanium, and may be influenced by what Titanium currently supports on each platform. But mostly, I want to clarify the purpose of the survey, and dispel beliefs that it's paid-for.
Follow the money: Appcelerator makes a platform/frameworks that runs on iOS, Android, Mobile Web, and a few others that haven't been announced yet. That's the bread and butter; that's the money source. Nobody 'pays' for the survey in terms of influencing opinion, because if they want to influence company decisions on whom to support, there's more effective means. The survey's primary focus is to internally know how the company's doing and determine what other platforms to support/focus on; the actual survey also included developer opinions on documentation, SDK, IDE, support, etc. The secondary focus is to get media attention and free advertising by people covering the report. Whether or not the report is favorable to iOS, Android, or the Commodore 64 doesn't matter; it'll still get media coverage.
If you want to be most cynical about survey-rigging, it would be in Appcelerator's best interest to indicate a cross-platform solution like Titanium is best. That would involve a survey showing all the platforms neck and neck, and NOT to show iOS taking a larger lead.
For shame, author!
Not only are you switching between square miles and acres, instead of defaulting to metric, but you didn't even convert to proper Reg units! ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/ )
For your convenience, the islands are 168 wales of ocean, but only 39 milliwales of land, all less than 4 and a third linguine above sea level. They're going to buy less than one milliwales.
Standards people, standards!
Re: Drill baby, drill...
Empire state building: 0.381km.
Space shuttle orbit altitude: 300 km average, sometimes 600 km.
Lunar orbit: 362,600km to 405,400km.
Thinking that the Space Transport System (AKA shuttles) would get us to the moon makes as much sense as trying to get to the International Space Station by going to New York City and getting on an elevator.
So what you're saying is...
You've never worked in a software company, especially one that does Continuous Integration, then.
They have these wonderful machine setups designed to compile code without running risks of creating unexpected library dependancies or whatever dreck the individual developer has installed. Sometimes, it means having a different environment setup. This means installing libraries (wow!), compiling software (zowee!), and after that's done, cleaning up for the next task including removing libraries (wowee!). Since they build software for testing or production, they're called build servers (Ooooh).
With continuous integration, that means you can easily have this process happen with each code commit, possibly dozens of times a day.
Companies that have these 'edge cases' of build servers include Google (for Android and Chrome if nothing else), Apple, Oracle, Red Hat, Microsoft, and pretty much any serious company that makes stuff that go onto shiny plastic disks that aren't just video and audio.
Now you know.
"People murdering people is neat," she said "but lovemakers are dirty?"
Ayup. Welcome to the US.
"In the army they give you a medal for spraying napalm on people. Civilian life, you go to jail for giving someone an orgasm." --George Carlin
Bingo
" A brand new company in Silicon Valley may well use Google, but are established companies migrating from desktop Office to Google? "
The plural of anecdote is not data, but as an interesting note, the company where I work started with google Docs, gmail, etc for everything while in startup mode, but as soon as we needed to actually grow and got a full-time IT person, the company jumped over to Office for everything.
Not surprised from the sampling. By the same sampling, "pretty much all" use ikea or folding tables, and no actual heavy-built furniture.
So what you're saying is...
You do or you don't want to come over for the Gilroy Garlic Festival?
Mmm. Garlic ice cream, anyone?
Joking aside
Wouldn't that mean there's a danger of some idjit* drinking, taking the pill, and not being too sloshed to stop drinking? Surely this pill doesn't counteract alcohol poisoning.
* Yeah, it'd be their own dang fault, and go into the darwin award category. It might have implications for bar owners in the states, unfortunately.
Correct, it's the glue!
As mentioned elsewhere, putting multiple layers in a package is already done. Even Apple's A4 has the RAM on top of the CPU ( http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-A4-Teardown/2204/1 ). The novel part here, however, is coming up with an adhesive that serves as not only to position the parts, but also serves as the wiring kills a great many birds with one stone and shan't be easy.
I, for one, welcome our multilayered glued overlords.
Right, let's get this over with.
Random trolling about definition of open and evil. Random trolling about iPhone and walled garden. Flames and counter-flames. Clucking and taking about corporate practices. Counterarguments about this being standard for businesses. Mentions of Oracle somewhere in there. Incompatible ideological rants with regards to patents, trolling, lawsuits, and the like.
Did I forget anything? Oh, right, conspiracy theories and talk of market share. Now that that's settled, let's talk about interesting and new aspects of this.
I'm interested to see how second-tier Android OEMs react to the dirty laundry. Perhaps sly calls to MSFT or HP?
Obligatory quote
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Well, it did solve the problem.
He'll no longer be tracked on that computer now, will he?
We need a BOFH icon here.
Borged? What are you talking about?
Nokia's a finnish company, and has nothing to do with Victor Borge, who was from Denmark.
Dangit, now I'll have to reread the article with phonetic punctuation.
"NOT intended to be protective..."
The covers are excessively expensive, but offer no protection. How appropriate for something from Bernie Madoff.
Actually, it's possible
I wish I remembered where I heard it, or even if it's true, but there was a story of a hacker who was paid to break into a medical database and change some information. According to the story, he later discovered that the changed caused the patient to get the wrong prescription and die; effectively a murder by hacking.
Again, I can't verify this, but it's certainly feasible.
And yet, you should still care.
Dear sir,
I, too, used to use words like 'M$' and 'Windoze', long ago. While my words may be sardonic, trust me when I say that such name-calling really does not help one's cause once one hits puberty.
So you use Linux, or if you want to cement the stereotype, complete with beard and suspenders, Gnu/Linux. Congrats for you. But it still behooves one to not celebrate too early, even if you, like I, avoid Windows, because it still affects you. Every time you get spam, it's affecting you. Every time there's lag due to too many packets out there, it's affecting you. Every time some company is exploited and has your personal information, it's affecting you. Every service that you use where Windows is there, it's affecting you.
And that's why the unnecessarily smug attitude is not helpful.
Some of them do...
Only these 'defensive root kits' are known as antivirus software... The problem is that it's always a reactionary position to take and there's valid reasons why they don't self-propagate to known-infected systems.
Stuck on?
Am I the only one disappointed that the superglue website didn't act as a honeypot and catch the trojan?
Handle identity might not matter
I'm not sure about the UK laws, but if it's akin to the Yanks, suppose the claims are correct, and the scot in question is not the hacker wanted. But they have his computer and a warrant to inspect it. And if they find a smoking gun for some other crime there, prosecution will happen, even if it wasn't for the LulzSec incident.
Turning off DMA?
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Leopard_Security_Config_2nd_Ed.pdf (Page 48)
Turns out, as of Leopard or possibly before (So, what, 2007?) setting a firmware password will turn off DMA access for firewire and other external devices. So while this attack is possible by default, it's not as if this issue hasn't already been addressed years ago.
Heck, you can disable the ports via firmware. So save yourself the superglue.
Because it never is really anonymous.
Anyone remember when AOL released the search data, supposedly anonymized, but when examined, the search texts themselves were revealing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal
What's an alicebot?
potted plant with a slight a-progressive tinge?
unionized worker proletariat?
blacktied-brownshirted (but presumably lavishly funded) alicebots?
Um, HB Gary? You may want to tweak the AI that posts to El Reg. It looks like it crossbred with AManFromMars.
Yes, but where do you think Sinclair and Acorn got their ideas from?
Before the Apple I (1976) hobby systems were more like the Altair, where you manually programmed, literal byte by byte, using toggle switches and lights. After the Apple I? Keyboards and TV output. The Apple II (1977) was already shipping by the time Sinclair's MK14(1978) or ZX80(1980) and Acorn System 1 (1979) or Atom (1980)
Please clarify for us Yanks
Disclosure: Yes, I am from the US. I ask these not to troll, but actual curiosity.
> The Queen is our head of state, a role which has several remaining powers attached to it
From what I can tell (Admittedly a brief search), most of those powers are almost figurehead in nature. For example, save for a few hung parliaments, appointing the PM has been predetermined by the election of seats in the House of Commons, outside the Queen's actions.
On this side of the pond, most news we get about the UK government mentions the PM or Parliament, not the Queen. And most news we get about the royal family is along the lines of drama such as the royal wedding or Fergie in a Dr. Pepper advert.
Now, I'd much rather the royal family than Paris Hilton or Linsey Lohan, who appear to fill the role of drama news for drama's sake. But what sort of decisions, speeches, or proclamations that have originated from the Queen have recently and significantly affected Britain or its relationship with other governments?
No sense listing what can't be used
Sprint uses CDMA like Verizon, not GSM like, well, the rest of the world. So even after jail-breaking, the current iPhones won't work with Sprint. The CDMA iPhones come out Feb 10th, so it's 100% moot until then, and even after then, the jail-breaking to switch carriers may be significantly different with the new chipset.
TL;DR version: No iPhones on Sprint because it's not AT&T. No jailbroken iPhones on Sprint because it's not GSM. No new iPhones on Sprint because it's not Verizon.
So why even mention them in a Sprint article?
Corporate solution
> us corporate fuddy duddies are gonna hate the app store with a passion
Fortunately, there's two ways to nip it in the bud. Either blacklist com.apple.appstore (The program's bundle identifier) and thus block users from running the app store; or redirect *.phobos.apple.com to a black hole at the firewall and thus block the app store and the iTunes music store from contacting Apple.
Well, since you asked...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000+south+african+rand+in+british+pounds
A thousand rand is 95.23 pounds.
Minor correction
"We are actively working with Congress and the Administration to find ways to retain funds in excess of the $1.887 billion spending cap"...
It's not that they collect $2B and only get a sliver of it. It's that they collect $2B and cannot keep more than $1.88B of it. What that means, and how that compares to the money spent in patenting things, I don't know. But it does mean they keep 94% of the fees, not 6% as implied.
Sounds ripe for testing
So what happens when someone upload various photos of animal behinds, and tags them as [Acceptable target/unliked politician]? Purely in the name of science, of course.
While I agree with you that ads should only be images
There have been exploits that trigger on little more than buffer overruns by corrupt images. So, um, yeah. If you really want to be safe, use Lynx.
Yes, yes, but
What's Qatar's policies on Vuvuzelas? This might solve the buzzing!
I'm guessing
...that I'll see half a dozen similar posts above mine, but posting just in case. It's called nominative determinism.
Why on earth do you publish these stories?
Because we click on the stories, then click on the forums and rail on it. And we fall for it each and every time! I don't begrudge El Reg for making a bit of ad revenue, heck I've got them on my flash blocker whitelist. But yeah, we're suckers for this.
Let's take it to numbers in terms of land mass.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=size+united+kingdom+vs+size+united+states
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=size+europe+with+Turkey+vs+size+united+states
The US can contain 38 United Kingdoms and perhaps an additional Ireland or two. Or, all of Europe, including Turkey, has less land mass than the United States (And yes, the US has less land mass than Canada). Yes, the US still lags in many ways, and there's many parts that are backwards. But if you want to consider something on the same difficulty to grid as the US, and consider the US as a single entity, you'd have to count all of Europe, grouping the UK with Serbia, Lithuania, and Croatia, as a single technological entity.
Actually...
Remember Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes? There people who got their feet xrayed once a year did not suffer nearly as much radiation as the person who operated the machine day in and day out.
It could be that those biggest hit with the radiation are those who get prolonged exposure, even if they're not in the direct beam, being the TSA goons themselves.
So wait,
Does this mean that Active X is NOT the wave of the future?
An Intervention
Dell, look, yes I'm an Apple fanboy, but it hurts even me to see you stumble about like this. You're going to hurt yourself and others if you keep this up. Look, put the intel subsidy down, you don't need another drink. It's time we talked about your real problem: Support.
No, adding pink won't help this. Listen. It's more than just hardware. Do you think Apple's getting all Intel's secret stash of good chips? Of course not. Macs break just like any other computer. It's what happens after the hardware breaks.
Yes, your hardware breaks too. But it's important what happens after it breaks. And frankly, we're all tired of having to call some poor schlebb working minimum wage with a script that asks to reboot the computer and reinstall Windows. And when a lot of hardware breaks, do you do a recall? Do you extend the warranty? Or do you deny everything until you lose the court case?
That's what Apple has been doing right, with the genius bar in the Apple stores. Yes, I know you installed a kiosk next to them, but one person going, 'buy a computer' isn't support. It means training your users, having actual ability to repair systems, maybe even a taste of the enterprise support.
No, don't add new speakers on it! Guh.
While you are right in that UK/US had the same thing,
I fear that waiting for it to sort itself out isn't the best answer. Outright boycott and grandstanding aren't the answer as you rightly mention, but the socialism and unionizing that arose last time around won't be the answer for the portions of Foxxconn that are in Communist China.
It's really easy to simply ignore it, or wrap it up into the usual pointless Apple/Anti-Apple flames, but that simply sidelines it. One possible partial solution is indeed public pressure. Remember Nike and the backlash of their third world factories using child labor?
A less altruistic leverage, I suppose, is to make it an advertising point. although this works more for small shops and with software where manufacturing is low. That is, "Made locally, so there's no language barrier/lead/bad karma!" may put pressure to clean up offshore factories to remove the FUD. Perhaps, even, we can use jingoism for good purposes and not just bad ones.
Finally, I suppose, would be a cultural shift is required in the developing countries. Nothing so extreme as an armed revolution, but enlightenment-era concepts and beliefs are necessary (although not sufficient).
Then again, it's easy for me to say these things without actually doing anything about it.
Who says they aren't?
To be fair, the defining feature of a patent troll is that they don't actually make any product, which makes it even harder to defend as there's nothing to countersue. MSFT makes its money through Windows and Office, not litigation.
I'm hard pressed to think of a large tech company that DOESN'T play this patent lawsuit game. It's like a mexican standoff, each company not willing to lower their software patents until the others do so first.
Pah.
It's just a cover. We all REALLY know that Stuxnet is just the start of the Martian invasion, and amanfromMars is here as a mole.
Plus means "we've removed the sucky bit!"
iTunes Plus doesn't have DRM, save for the email being embedded in the file. That, and a higher bitrate, is the big selling point of them. While I'm rambling, here's the full breakdown:
iTunes music, non plus: DRMed, due to RIAA demands.
iTunes music plus: non DRMed.
iTunes video: DRMed, probably because Jobs has a second hat labeled Disney.
iTunes iPhone apps: DRMed (called code signing), probably to make sure devs pay that $99 yearly fee.*
* There are valid reasons for codesigning, and it's less of a royal pain than it used to be, but still, yeesh, such a headache when provisioning profiles expire.
And in related news...
Floppy disk drive makers have announced a hybrid drive, allowing for 512MB of flash embedded into their 3.5" drives in order to save space.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
If they really were rabid fans, they'd be writing in Objective C or Java exclusively, not using Titanium, and wouldn't be in the survey.
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