No USB ports on Ipad!
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From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 22:34 [snips] Peter K�hlmann wrote: > There is *no* excuse for censorship. > And because of this behaviour, european publishers are *very* shy to the > iPad. > Just count on it: The iPad is dead in europe when apple is doing this > stunt *ever* again. No contents, no iPad And let's not forget that Apple screwed - to the point of killing their business - at least one app vendor, and severly crippling another's business. Without so much as a "by your leave". By banning apps they'd previously accepted. By changing the rules and screwing the developers, instead of doing something as breathtakingly novel as, say, categorizing some apps as "mature" and not displaying them by default. "Come develop for the App Store - where we might ban your app because it's, oh, Tuesday."
From: -hh on 28 Mar 2010 23:00 Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarna...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Wes Groleau wrote: > > chrisv wrote: > >> Idiot. Have you no idea of the usefulness of removable storage? You > >> are utterly without a clue. > > > Your unnecessary repetition of "idiot" may be projection. > > It's not. Nospam and his cohort hh are about as stupid as people can be > and not actually collapse in on themselves due to the immense > gravitational pull of their own fundamental cluelessness. More namecalling. How...credible. > > Anyway, I find removeable storage VERY useful. > > No kidding. Its merely one tool. Not the only tool in the toolbox. > > It's > > one of the ways I transfer things between non-portable > > devices. > > > Wouldn't add much value to a portable device. > > Depends on too many factors. For one, just how much storage is on the > device itself - and how much of that is in use? If you have, say, a > video file a hundred gigs or more in size, it ain't gonna fit no matter > what, and even a considerably smaller one might not fit. Hence, the joker who suggested a 300GB file in an attempt to try to "win" his argument. > As just an example, I've got a 16GB USB key here wihch I use for > transferring files. It can readily handle, say, 4 or more DVD rips > without consuming a byte of "on device" store - meaning I don't have to > potentially rip several gigs' worth of stuff off the device just to > watch a video. Assuming, of course, that the I/O transfer rate from the USB is sufficient for streaming the video in real time. If not, then its going to have to be transferred to the main storage anyway. So much for "saving space". > Or, for a different example... if one tends to lug said device about, it > effectively becomes a portable storage medium (eg it _is_ a USB thumb > drive, among other things). Which is great. That document you've been > working on at home? Wireless shot over to the portable, head off to > work, where you can give it to the boss. > > Oops. Your portable hasn't been authenticated on the network? No > wireless access? No problem, just use my USB key to copy the file. > Oops, sorry, no USB. Hmm. Maybe you can jack in a cat 5 cable, with a > dinky home-class router you dig up? Surely there's a cat 5 connector on > the device, right? > > So now you get to try to chase down the IT guy, if he's available and > not busy with something else, and convince him to authorize your device. > Which probably means talking to management to get authorization. Which > means more delays. And more still while the IT guy does it. > > This process, depending on management and the IT load, can take anywhere > from a couple of minutes to a couple of days.. and could have been > entirely avoided if you'd just stuck your USB key in, pulled the data > off and handed it over to the guy who needs it. Its a nice story ... but it assumes a level of personal home IT instead of corporate Enterprise IT policies, such as a requirement for USB thumb drives to be authenticated to be allowed on the network...otherwise, you're shut down because it never gets by their Enterprise's USB Blocker. > Mind you, if you were using a netbook or laptop instead of an iTouch > with a glandular condition, the problem wouldn't even exist, as > connecting to your own (or his) USB key is simply a matter of plugging > it in. As is connecting to a LAN port, or a router if you have one, > or... Which just provides more credence that all of the claims that an iPad is a Netbook - - are incorrect. -hh
From: Terry Porter on 28 Mar 2010 23:03 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:16:28 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote: > nospam wrote: > >> In article <slrnhqt9s1.2tl.jedi(a)nomad.mishnet>, JEDIDIAH >> <jedi(a)nomad.mishnet> wrote: >> >>> Wifi is insecure, slow and unreliable. >> >> nonsense, and you can use vpn if you're that paranoid. > > Wireless N tops out around 300Mbps - *if* your devices support it, *if* > you've set up bonding, *if* you don't get any significant interference. > Much more typical is less than half that - 100Mbps or less. I usually get around 80Mbits/s from my bridge links after config and testing. This is on 2.5 and 5Ghz mode N. Bonding is already part of the units where two radio subsystems are inbuilt. Only one of my WiFi devices (Ubiquity RouterStation Pro) has a Gbit Ethernet port, and it's only good for around 300Mbit/s as the CPU (700Mhz) isn't fast enough for higher speeds. > > Which sounds good, until you comare it to something like, say, USB 2, > which - as of 1999 - was defined at 480Mbs, faster than the _best_ you > can expect from wireless... and not nearly as suscptible to > interference. Lan or fibre is always the preferable choice, if it's a option. > > Or to people snooping packets, or running any of a dozen or more > wireless security cracking tools. Or Baby Monitors, and elcheapo "wifi" AV gear that just splashes across the unlicensed spectrum. > > And, of course, if your existing devices - camera, for example - don't > do wireless (most current ones don't) but _do_ do USB (most current ones > do), then it's not a case of "which is better, wireless or USB", but one > of "Where the *&^^ is the ^*&%^^&%$ing USB connector so I can actually > USE the **&^()(ing device?" Get a decent Linux powered camera (such as Mobotics) with a network port :) -- This machine running Gnu/Linux Mint 8 and posting via Pan. Get your Free copy NOW! http://linuxmint.com/
From: JF Mezei on 28 Mar 2010 23:19 Kelsey Bjarnason wrote: > And completely unusable with standard devices - which also use ports and > mechanisms long standardized Funny, my GPS USB cable is not compatible with my phone USB plug, nor with my cameras. Each device has its own cable. The plugs may look simular, but they are of different sizes. Ipods not any different, except their conmector is completely diffderent than the small ones used on other devices.
From: nospam on 28 Mar 2010 23:43
In article <jve587-96i.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, really, I mean, who would *ever* want to plug their existing > collection of perfectly good accessories in? *Much* better to throw > them all out and replace them with the Apple Idiocy of the Week, right? > Or to fork over dough for a completely pointless adapter. yeah really. i mean, who would ever want to plug in their existing collection of perfectly good serial devices in? much better to throw them all out and replace them with usb, right? or to fork over dough for a completely pointless usb-serial adapter. oh wait, that's what happened. > Yes, obviously, these are vastly better solutions than simply including > a standard port like the rest of the universe manages quite handily. yes, obviously, usb is a vastly better solution than simply including a standard rs-232 serial port or ps/2 mouse port like the rest of the universe managed quite handily for many years. |