Trolling time
Maybe Paul Allen or Bill Gates will buy them and do even more trolling?
Why compete when you can impede.
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It uses Bluetooth for a good reason. Most if not all Macs have Bluetooth built in. There's no way Apple are going to have a annoying USB dongle sticking out of the computer to use this thing. Proprietary RF dongles are just that, custom to each device. So if you had a wireless mouse and a wireless keyboard from two different manufacturers then you would waste two USB ports.
Bluetooth was invented to provide a standard low bandwidth wireless networking protocol, it's better to use standards then not.
Anyway, PS3 is all bluetooth and I believe the Nintendo Wii uses it for the Wiimotes. It's in more widespread use than you think.
Lets face it, this hole wouldn't be possible if Microsoft's code execution protection worked properly.
Adding DEP and Intel adding a flag to stop the contents of the stack being executable has not stopped attacks being possible.
Sure, this exploit is via Quicktime, but I'm sure there are many other applications which could be used.
Why attack just Apple when the problem with with Microsoft's OS as well. This fault hasn't been mentioned as being exploitable in OSX.
There's no way in hell that this car will be able to overtake cyclists carefully.
If you're driving along a country lane and you need to overtake how will it know not to overtake on a bend?
There's going to be so many glitches and people killed due to "bugs". That is if it is ever approved.
It looks nice, but 7 inch screen? a bit small.
If you are pitching a device between a smartphone and a laptop then halfway in terms of screen is a good bet.
Halfway between a 3.5 inch smartphone screen and a 15 inch laptop screen is 9.25 inches. Close to the iPad screen size.
You can already get a Archos media tablet with a 7 inch screen.
They were doing okay in the mobile market, but like IE they let it stagnate for too long, had no ideas on where to move too. All the other phone platforms were just as clunky and tired.
Now that there's Android and iPhone around Microsoft has plenty of competitors ideas to innovate into their product.
Stick it on a network and someone will figure out how to download it. If you really want to keep it secure then don't make it available for download! Have they not heard of RSA tokens?
Also, review copies are where many of the leaks onto the Internet start from. DVD screeners were always popping up on the net.
A Windows 7 tablet will fail. Only a mobile or tablet specific Windows OS will cut the mustard.
The problem with Microsoft's approach to mobile and tablet devices is it's been lazy or under-resourced.
They were too slow to react to Google, too slow to react to Apple, only just managed to save Internet Explorer from obsolescence.
They only reacted fast enough to compete with Sony by cutting corners, hence why the XBox 360 has been unprofitable due to warranty claims.
Microsoft needs to restructure, the internal competition just isn't working. Also, they need a geek in charge again or at least someone with some technical ability, good taste or high standards.
Seems to be standard practice for OEMs to just give into network demands and ruin user experience by letting them customise the OS. Although the precedent was set by Windows OEMs installing crapware on new computers.
Mobile networks are trying their hardest to push their pet projects on the masses, but forgetting that if you make a service that is good then people will flock to it. Bundling a service and force feeding it to people doesn't work.
Mobile networks are never going to provide anything to rival Google. They should just sack all their service software people and pass on the savings to the customer.
People may moan about the slowness, but there is at least a fix in the works. I can't think of many phone makers who would bother to support a two year old handset.
Look at the poor HTC Hero owners, phone released July 2009, took a year before they got a 2.1 upgrade and 2.2 isn't planned. 2.1 apparently also erased all user data.
I've always wondered if they keep updating the Mac version to make money or to keep everyone using Office.
Given the high number of Mac laptops sold to students it seems to me like it is about keeping Microsoft Office in use by future generations as well as the current generation. I doubt Microsoft see it as a cash cow.
In some ways it is a bit of a shame that so many people are still so Office orientated. Editing documents, spreadsheets and mailing them around to people is so 1990s.
Why Chrome OS and not Android? The UI is lame, Android is more powerful.
For once Ballmer was on the money when he accused Google of being confused. Google say that Android and Chrome OS are for different markets, mobile and personal computing?
Surely they are the same thing? a personal computer device just needs to be a bit more powerful and bigger.
Chrome OS will access remote applications. So no network link, no apps?
If you have to ask the price then you can't afford it.
Lets not forget the exchange rate isn't great for dollars to pounds at the moment. Apple doesn't change their price every week, it's there for the duration of the product's life no matter what exchange rates do.
Also, you probably don't want to run OSX or want an easier life.
They seem expensive when you think in "Wintel" terms. But Mac owners keep their machines for 5 years on average and still can get a few hundred quid for them when they are that old. There is no resale value for a 5 year old PC.
Go back in time and look at how Microsoft used to provide Windows all enabled and not restricted. Users would then require the skills to lock it all down and make it secure. Firewall included but not activated for example!!!
You can't rely on the user knowing what all the terms mean. For example: GPS may mean nothing to some people, "Allow this application to monitor and share my location" means something. I've not used the software in question, but Android does seem a bit geeky and "made by techies, by techies".
Secure by default is better for avoiding viruses, ID theft and the like. Okay, maybe not for tech support people who have to then explain how to enable and unlock things.
If the OS is changed to allow control of available APIs to an application then it would fix such things.
Have a preferences panel for each app in there you can have checkboxes for:
[ ] Internet/LAN access
[ ] Phone access
[ ] SMS access
Would be pretty simple to deny access for specific applications. Obviously some advert supported applications would then need to refuse to run until Internet access was restored, but you would at least then know that application was trying to connect to the Internet and get rid of it.
It's pretty bad that mobile security is poor on all handsets at present. I'm not sure if any of the application stores have software that reviews the application (checks for API references).
I wouldn't imagine many developers would be happy having to submit their code for review, so reviewing the binary seems to be the only option.
There's just so many other people involved in this deal beside band members. There's only two Beatles still alive and neither of them really need the money.
What is really at stake is people who don't have as much money wanting to line their pockets.
What the consumer is missing out on is the chance to just cherry pick specific songs. It's something Pink Floyd don't like as they considered each song to be a chapter and the whole record a novel.
But the rest of us don't like buying albums with filler tracks.
I wonder how many of these Windows licences are actually in use?
If you buy a Mac you're almost certainly are going to use OSX. If you buy a Windows PC you might be formatting it and installing Linux or your existing Windows licence.
There must be two Windows licences for every PC out there.
Sounds like Microsoft is really adding features for the hell of it, marketing reasons.
The same company that thought it would be a good idea to have the browser as part of the desktop or thought that ActiveX in the browser was good.
I wonder how long it will be before some exploit appears for this?
Nice rewrite of history.
The use of the iPad name was authorised.
Xerox demonstrated their UI to Apple. Many of the people who worked on the Xerox GUI went to work at Apple.
Apple were just first to market. Everyone else then ripped off Apple. Atari, Commodore, Acorn, Microsoft and so on.
It's funny how the iPad, iPhone and iPod have spawned so many clones or killer alternatives (which never end up being as popular).
I don't see many people cloning Kin phones or Zunes.
Why are people so negative about councils improving the way they work?
If they have a document on the iPad it can be edited, searched easily, emailed and so on. Paper can't do that and lugging a laptop around is a pain too (especially through doors with security locks).
Tablets have a place in the paperless office, just because Microsoft didn't understand tablets and produced a rubbish tablet OS doesn't mean everyone else is prone to failure. If anything Microsoft had no Apple or Xerox to rip off this time.
Even with the Slate they still don't seem to understand that desktop design paradigms don't work on mobile touch screen devices. You have to scrap the existing interface and start again!
Technical skills are no antidote to a rubbish user interface. A poorly designed user interface can be dangerous or result in data loss or accidental deletion of data.
Think poorly labelled buttons, badly layout of buttons, lack of confirmation messages (accidental button pushes do happen, especially on a phone) and other such things.
I think you seriously need to go back to 1996 prior to the launch of the iPhone and look at the sorry state of smartphones back then. It was all crude UIs on top of Windows Mobile, or phones based on Symbian S60 or UIQ. Shocking usability, slow clunky interfaces and about attractive as Windows 3.11.
Apple left the PowerPC architecture for this reason. The PowerPC chips were not being produced for general desktop or laptop purposes. They were either high end server CPUs or for embedded devices.
The G5 was never going to be suitable for a laptop and a modern Mac Mini is faster than a G5 using 10% of the electricity.
Then Apple needs to have the words "Ad supported" in the description. Not a big deal.
The advert is different to a trojan, you have to click on it and the advert is fairly clear that it is about a phone product. You can see the first time you run the app that the advert is there. You don't get that with a trojan, it remains hidden.
I'm paying £10 a month for unlimited texts, 100 minutes (I don't call people often) and totally unlimited data, not 1GB or some other limit. This is with GiffGaff, which was started by O2.
PAYG and I can alter the package at any time, for a £35 top up you can get unlimited everything.
Have you used one?
Where did the reports of problems come from? an Apple support forum. What are user support forums for? they are for people asking questions when they are having problems with something. They aren't full of people saying "I just had to write that my phone is working great".
If you went and sat in a hospital waiting room you would also conclude that the human body is no good as well as they are people there having problems with their health.