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and I'm no wiser as to how the system works, any chance of a summary beyond 'limited disclosure'?
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and stupidly expensive, with a battery that looked like it could start your car and anyone that bought one was obviously a pretentious asshole?
After using one of Apple's dinky phones for a while I'm convinced that for the vast majority of people this will be all the computer they need. Bluetooth keyboard, mouse and a dock to monitor lead and iPhone 1.0 would do for a large chunk of office workers, in 5 years time mobile computing is going to be a massive Market.
Keep em coming Steve.
The reason they've not bothered DRM'ing the iPhone vids is because you can't download anything on an iPhone, I repeat, Nothing, nada, all download links are disabled, and the reason is because there is nowhere to save anything you might want to download*. As such all you can do is stream video, if you lose your connection or the Beeb takes it off-line it's gone for good, no downloading and watching on the tube to work.
Mighty nice of them to trust user agents to identify iPhones though, I'd have expected more people would have been happy with this rather large loophole instead of seizing the chance for another pointless rant about DRM and Linux, kids these days eh?.
*Subject to change without notice, may not apply to jailbroken hardware.
App store was a given, free apps are free though, one off fee for comercial devs seems reasonable. Didn't realize the platform was at all suitable for games but there's some cool demos on the video. SDK is way more polished than I imagined, guessing we'll see some more updates to 1.0 arcitecture before June.
Exchange support worked as advertised, only fly in that ointment is the lack of availability until June.
Looking forward to seeing what turns up in the store.
They said the disk was 'server grade' and it is, as in: 'used in servers', the specs and the manufacturer also tell the same story.
I'll admit there's specialist areas where 15K disks make all the difference but for the vast majority of servers on this planet they're overkill, on this box though, which isn't a server and doesn't claim to be*, they'd be a retarded way to double the price, quarter the capacity, and demolish the sales.
* get a fecking grip, it's a consumer network backup box FFS.
I know there's that old myth about t' |ntertubes being safe from nuclear attacks by design but key word there is 'myth'.
if Skynet really was 'distributed on home computers and servers worldwide' then at the end of T3 it clearly commits suicide with the WW3 style nuckage. ROTM indeed.
Unlocked iPhones = most users picking them up without unlimited data plans.
iPhone without unlimited data plan = half the functions don't work without incurring massive charges.
Half the functions not working = terrible press reviews and no 90% user satisfaction rating.
Terrible reviews = no momentum, no iPod effect, no future.
Everyone assumes that the Networks were all courting Apple for exclusivity but the reality is that Apple absolutely needed to ensure every iPhone came with unlimited data, it's the key to the phones future.
The places you are most likely to ever watch mobile TV: bored antisocial passenger in car, train or tube are exactly the places it's clearly not going to bloody work because well, you're moving for a start and in the case of the tube, like underground.
Just another thing to run your battery down and frustrate those punters naive enough to think it might actually work.
Yet Another Stupid Idea, aggressively pursued by great big corps that can't ever know enough about us.
One login for all my sites? why exactly would I ever want something as retarded as that? Even in the remote case I was so lazy/damaged that I really thought one pass to rule them all was a cool idea why exactly would I ever trust my details and that single point of failure password with a comically mismatched bunch of bloated corporate muppets?
Same rant for all of you IT people working on Biometric ID's, you know who you are and you know what complete ass suck it's going to be when victimised punters start turning up at their banks asking for new fingerprints, irises or DNA because some cad seems to have cloned theirs and made happy with their hard earned.
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to 32GB, cool the way flash prices are falling, interesting that Apple are keeping the touch storage higher to distinguish them.
I bought an iPhone last month, can't say I'm that bothered about missing this extra 8GB though, waiting for a proper specs bump before my wallet opens again.
Remains by far the best phone I've ever owned.
I mean I could set up a VPN account for a private network with no internal or external accessible resources, so while I could claim anyone can connect a fat lot of good it will do them. Does the FCC requirement include specifics as to what access permissions a device connecting to this spectrum might actually have?
My laptop trackpad looks awful dull, I don't think some flashing lights will jolly it up much either. Why not just jam in an iPhone display instead? and while you're at it pop in some 3G and GPS chips, so it's always online like my phone and with a useful mapping do-dad. I'll be first in the queue for that lappy.
Once every while one of my Mac clients phones me worried they have a virus, in every case so far, further inspection reveals the software responsible for the system malfunction to be none other than the badly ported AV shiteware some well meaning but misguided soul infested their machine with.
The whole AV industry is as much a racket as the malware they ineffectively protect the low hanging windows users with, clued up users don't need AV and AV can't protect the clueless.
Coating the inside of a small box with this stuff would create a cool 'bottomless pit in a box' effect as well.
also "It's the weird colour scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. Hey, what is this, some kind of galactic hyper-hearse?"
I was [s]hoping[/s] praying for an ultraportable, something to replace my aging and battle weary PowerBook 12". Instead Apple deliver a feature crippled ultrathin with a very dodgy precedent setting sealed in battery.
When exactly did thin become such a desirable goal that it became ok to leave out everything else? Am I supposed to get a new thinner laptop case to reclaim that .5cm? MacBook Air? PHBook more like.
This long time Apple fan/technician is going to get an EeePC, it isn't exactly what I want but at least it's light and small, two qualities that tend to be top of your list when you have to lug the bastard thing around all day.
A couple of times I've had someone ring my mobile and say "hello, hello, can you hear me?" in a noisy environment and hang up, as an IT support company I expect to get phone enquiries, the number looks like a mobile, so I returned the call, happily Orange intercepted this and informed me that the number I was dialling wasn't a mobile but was a premium rate line, I hung up before the call was connected.
I'm sick of all the scum that think it's ok to rob the rest of us rather than do an ounce of work, but more than that, I'm disgusted with just how easy Ofcom made it for them by using the same 07 prefix for mobiles and premium lines.
By the time they get these gadgets down to a price where joe public doesn't just point and laugh, the market for them will have already been borged by Smartphones.
Only positive aspect is that they encourage epaper development, because I want eWallpaper™ stuck on my walls one day.
I'd bet that you can take any modern desktop computer that's been used for more than a six months and find some encrypted files on it that the current user has either no knowledge of or has long since forgotten.
Assuming the readership of El Reg are mostly IT pro's, Answer me this:
A client asks you to audit their network to ensure that every encrypted file can be decrypted and take responsibility (2 years jail-time), for any that you miss.
How many of you would you take that job on?
How many of you expect a regular user would stand a chance in hell of successfully completing that task?
This law as stands means as near as makes no difference, all computer users are by default criminals, a threat that our supposedly elected representatives and policing authorities are clearly going to use whenever it suits their agenda, which will inevitably mean always.
That it's being used now against a group that the majority see as 'gagging for a slap' is SOP, next soft target will be the filesharers, after that you're all game.
Guilty till proven innocent, Churchill is no doubt turning in his grave.
They would follow Apple's path, take an open source browser that already works then stick a badge on it.
There's only one reason MS bothers at all with IE and that's because they get to control the search box (and the ad revenue that represents).
They could take Firefox, 'tweak' the search box to default to Live Search, slap on a bit of chrome to make it blend in with the rest of the system, Job done, *everyone* is happy.
If Jobs says the phone will ship on June 29th that's when it ships.
So the Devs had 5 months to turn a prototype into something that will reliably work on the network, and it had better look damn good doing it.
A result of this is the very visible slippage of Leopard as devs were appropriated to ensure the iPhone Just Works™
A less visible result was the massive focus on the UI rather than the underlying OS, funnily enough it's probably only Apple that would ever develop in this manner, 'ensure it's pretty and a joy to use, we'll clean up the insides later'.
So basically, if you want to know how the code inside the iPhone will evolve over the next few firmware updates just head over to Apple.com, and peruse the security features in Leopard.
How long will that take? Jobs says February, and those Apple devs won't make him a liar if they know what's good for them.
"There is nothing evil about smoking as long as you are just hurting yourself"
Funnily enough that's exactly what the 7 year long 12 nation study into the effects of 'second hand' smoke undertaken by the WHO embarrassingly revealed, turns out we really are just hurting ourselves, you might object to the smell just like I object to your BO or veggie breath but that's all it is, a very subjective annoyance.
But why rely on science when old wives tales are good enough?
Ban everything, barcode everyone, nothing could ever be safe enough for us children of the State.
I've read other reports that say this French law only applies after six months, is this the case? and if not how does Orange selling an even more expensive unlocked phone remove them from the legal obligation with the normal iPhone?
If I can daytrip to Paris and pick up an unlocked iPhone for €399 I'm buying one, otherwise Apple won't see my Sterling until v2 with 3rd party apps.
The current situation, where most punters don't even realise Windows isn't part of a PC and the few major brands that will sell Linux based machines somehow manage to make them more expensive and with inferior specs is pure lunacy, this is not a free market, there is no competition, it's a racket.
This solution isn't the answer though, all it's going to do is confuse the hell out of joe public and allow MS a great opportunity to double/treble the windows tax while blaming someone else. Some commenters seem to be suggesting that your average PC Planet staff member not only knows what Linux is, but might endorse it, shame on you, in your heart you know this to be pure fantasy.
The root of the problem is clearly the contracts MS is making with OEM's that pretty much forbid them from either selling alternative OS machines or bundling other OS's in a dual boot machine. Crack down hard on those deals, mandate the software costs are prominently included in PC Prices and lets see how the market deals with dual boot machines, because I guarantee you that when Windows inevitably slows to a crawl and dies those Linux partitions are going to get used, and a whole bunch of people will discover it's more than capable enough for what they need.
It's f'king insulting.
Amazon Paperback: $8
Amazon Nardcover: $16
MobiPocket eBook $20+
Sadder still there must be muppets out there that think this is a good deal or they wouldn't be trading, the same muppets that click on spam and buy ringles no doubt.
The Golgafrinchans had the right idea.