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Until you've actually used an iPhone/ iPod Touch, you can't fully understand the user experience. I think that once people start getting hands-on demos of the iPad, they might decide that it is in fact exactly the kind of thing they'd find useful / enjoyable to have around the house.
Logical criticisms can sometimes evaporate once you try a device in real life. The lack of app multitasking for example, becomes a non-issue for most people, especially when each app occupies the entire screen area when it has focus.
Pint, because you have to drink it to appreciate it fully.
AC:
"Applications should not be written in such a way that they REQUIRE running as root - someone mentioned the other day that Flash comes under this category. This is plain stupid."
Flash doesn't require Admin rights on Windows XP. I insist on running as Limited User all the time (unless I have to install S/W or drivers) and Flash works just fine.
I haven't used any AV products for the past three years, either:
http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/pages/TOC.aspx
"Apple wanted to reinvent the iPhone"
No they didn't - they wanted to redefine what people wanted from a netbook. Time will tell whether they've achieved that or not. I already use my iPod Touch more than my netbook for the kind of things the iPad is designed for. I reckon Apple have got it pretty much perfect.
I thought the App Store allowed Apple to control the types of things apps could and could not do. Letting through crap like this leaves a bad taste in the mouth, especially after turning off call confirmation. I've got an iPod Touch, so I'm immune to it making premium rate calls but it's all too easy to touch an ad by mistake when playing a game / whatever. The number of times Safari has launched to go to the app maker's home page !
The great thing about the Wii is that the remotes are separated from the screen. Your arms can be flailing about while you can still watch the action. This phone combination just doesn't work for bowling, tennis, etc. For example, the iBowl game for the iPod Touch is quite nice, but isn't a patch on playing Wii Sports bowling in front of your telly. The accelerometer-based games which work best on the iPod Touch are those which simulate gravity, such as Topple, Jellycar or Labyrinth. The only large-gesture based app I really feel works is the Light-Saber simulator, because it's the sound that's important, not the visuals.
iPint's quite fun, too !
"If the experts know about truecrypt then they'll demand both keys."
But that's exactly how TrueCrypt achieves plausible deniability - there's no way to distinguish between unused space on a TC volume with one password or a hidden volume (with a second password). [*]
In other words, you can't tell from a unique TC volume whether there is one key or two. If someone was convicted and sent to prison for "not revealing the second key" without there being solid evidence of a hidden volume existing in the unused space, I'd be looking to leave this country.
I use TrueCrypt so that I can keep my private files on my HD without them being accessible to any other users, even if I leave it logged into my user account. I've found it to be the most useful encryption program out there - once you mount the encrypted volume it behaves transparently just like another disk. Unmount it once you're finished and you end up with a file that just looks like random noise again. Simples and free (as-in-beer).
[*] If you have previous copies of the TC volume container file, then there ARE ways to detect the presence of a hidden volume if its contents have changed. In that case, expect to have the RIPA book thrown at you.
"To send someone with mental health problems to jail for not remembering something is beyond belief; I'm disgusted."
He didn't forget the password; he deliberately withheld it on principle. There's a big difference and I admire him for his convictions. Much as I'd love to do the same in his situation, I'd crumble facing the threat of prison time AND being branded a potential paedo. I've heard life inside isn't too pleasant for those so accused.
Yes, the guy seems like a bit of a weirdo loner but if he's truly a threat to society, why wasn't he sectioned previously ?
I've seen too many people die from the Big C (I've also seen a lot of people cured lately, so things are looking up).
PA's a bit of a hero of mine, mostly for this reason:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC
(Read the "Origin and Development" section for a tale of Real Programmer prowess).
Windows 7 seems like a nice version but I can't see any huge advantage to running it on my current home PC. Sure, it'll be nice to have it bundled when I upgrade my hardware but XP does exactly what it says on the tin for me. There are no killer apps within Win7 itself and no killer apps which require Win7. Any software house would be crazy to release a product in the next couple of years which was incompatible with XP.
The old logo was a bit like a cross between a super-hero logo and Blake's Seven. This new one looks dark and mysterious. Hope they also revamp the theme tune to get rid of the epic strings and make it more like Delia Derbyshire's haunting orginal.
Mind you, it's good to see the Beeb are playing to the 'dad vote' by putting Karen Gillan in a policewoman's outfit with miniskirt.
Go on - ask me what's with the 3D glasses ?
I noticed that on the Nickelodeon TV show iCarly, they use 'Pear' branded computers. I was wondering if anyone knew the reasoning behind this - did Nick get threatened with anything or is it a way of avoiding allegations of product placement ? Citations would be nice as all I could find online was fan speculation.