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Comment Re:Didn't Trillian do this? (Score 1) 242

by TobesWSU (#43603593) Attached to: The Balkanization of Chatting
I've never traveled outside the US with my iphone, but I've sent/received texts via SMS/imessage fine between my brother's iphone and mine without problems. If my phone and his have a good enough data signal it'll send it via imessage but if one of us doesn't or one of our phones is off or in airplane mode or something it'll send via sms. Maybe turning off iMessage via settings->messsages when traveling would help?

Comment Re:Fair request (Score 1) 413

by TobesWSU (#38664146) Attached to: Amazon To Collect Indiana Sales Tax In 2014
Sales taxes aren't taxes on businesses, but rather taxes on the populace that are collected by businesses rather than trying to collect from every individual. Local brick and morter shops fall under the authority of local governments and thus have to collect the tax. Online stores don't fall under these governments' jurisdictions and thus don't have to collect it the tax that is still technically owed by residents. People are supposed to report mail-order and internet purchases to the state when filling out their taxes but enforcing this is rather difficult. Amazon has distribution centers in Indiana but until now has been able to legally say that Indiana residents are purchasing goods from their centers in other states. Either local governments have to move away from sales taxes or convince the federal government to enforce such taxes.

Comment Re:Total Lack of Cognitive Dissonance (Score 5, Insightful) 2115

by TobesWSU (#37444098) Attached to: White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax"
Teachers do NOT get 4 months to "chill off". They're often at school for a week or so after the students leave in June and are working to set up for the next year a few weeks before school begins in mid august. They get 2 months tops and a good portion of that is spent doing prep work. You sir are a douchebag of the highest order.

Comment Re:We're all mind readers (Score 1) 441

by TobesWSU (#31038048) Attached to: Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store

Yeah, it annoys me that the iPod has niggly faults (no power switch, no reset button, no battery compartment lid, no watchdog timer to resolve 'hanging') that more development would have cured, but instead Apple spent time and money artificially restricting and obfuscating basic functions.

I mean, really, you transfer your mp3 file (lovingly taken from vinyl and hand-finished with the correct spelling and umlauts and everything) to the thing and it RENAMES THE FILE WITHOUT ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION! Nice going, guys. Good data handling procedures there, ALTERING FUCKING USER DATA WITHOUT THE COURTESY OF MAKING A BACKUP. Excuse me while I instead copy the mp3 onto micro-sd ready to be crammed into my phone or car radio.

I could MAYBE put up with all the iPod's deficiencies if it was some POS Kazakhstani device i picked up at Asda for £10. Ludicrously, the crappy £10 music player/usb stick i DID buy from Asda is less crippled.

You know you could just NOT HAVE ITUNES ORGANIZE YOUR FILES!! It's a setting it asks you about when you first launch the program. I like having it organize my music so I don't have to give a fuck about what the files are named. If you care for some reason then don't have it organize your music!
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Submission + - Apple TV to be a centrally controlled P2P network?

Submitted by Rolgar
Rolgar writes: This week, Bob Cringely states that since the Apple TV will be an always on device (unless you unplug it) with a 40GB hard drive, Apple will distribute content to Apple TVs for every ISP, and then use centrally controlled P2P sharing on those Apple TVs to distribute the content to the rest of the owners of the Apple TV, cutting their own bandwidth costs and providing video faster to the consumers. The ISPs will incur higher (essentially free) bandwidth locally, possibly lose some subscribers to cable TV, but have fewer costs through the Tier II Internet backbone providers, which I suspect would possibly undercut the Apple and Google's need to worry about net neutrality for video. Bob also expects that Google will be involved with their fiber network and advertising expertise, and I suspect that they'll bundle in YouTube content as well and maybe Google has worked out a way to distribute YouTube video to PCs through this network. Bob suspects that they won't get around to announcing the full details of this plan until they hit a half million units or more, and that this Apple and Google pairing will become the equivalent of a cable TV provider with almost none of the infrastructure costs, and that eventually the real HD revolution will come from Apple and Google.

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