Posted on 04/26/2010 1:40:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Police search house of Gizmodo blogger, take Mac, cell phone in iPhone leak investigation
FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- A blogger who posted pictures and details of a lost iPhone prototype has given up his computer, digital camera and cell phone to law enforcement.
A special computer-crime task force made up of different law enforcement agencies searched Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen's house and car, according to a statement and search warrant documents provided by Gizmodo.
The warrant says the computer and other devices may have been used to commit a felony.
Apple did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
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I have an i7 notebook. Most tasks will not lift the meter above 25%. However when I convert HD video, I can keep it at 90% for hours. Temps are not a problem but the manufacturer chose a CPU about 30% slower than what Apple chose.
Apple may have chosen the Wrong CPU for the cooling profile of this notebook.
I’ll hand it to Apple, they provide good support for manufacturing problems but I’ll wonder how they will compensate customers if the fix is underclocking the CPU?
” including the name of the mother of one of Apple’s engineer’s in some of the padding”
Jeeeeezzzzzz.........
There IS no "interpretation" about it, Doc. The three interlocking agreements settling the lawsuit between Microsoft and Apple signed the same morning make it explicit exactly what happened and who owed who what.
The spin came after the fact from a Microsoft captive press and the fact that the agreements were sealed for a period of time. There was no bailout. Apple added the money to it's cash holdings. It did not need it to meet operational obligations.
what are you talking about? The Mac comes with OSX. And I matched the Dell feature for feature to the Mac. . . and those are the prices. What do you think you have to add to the Mac to compare to the Dell work station that brought the Mac price to $3299?
Link, or didn’t happen. :-)
I just played with an iPad running Star Traveller over lunch. It has an awesome mode where you hold the iPad up in the direction of the sky you’re interested in, and between compass, GPS and accelerometer it shows you the stars you’ll see in that direction. Given that kind of interface, I wonder how long until iP* Google Earth does the same with Street View: indicate a spot on the map (including where you are right now), and you could use Street View as a VR/augmented-reality window to look around where you want to explore.
LOL ... well... the weenie dogs have requested their privacy ... :-)
A decent theory at the start of this saga, but not now when SWAT teams are breaking down doors and confiscating property to figure out what happened. Regardless of who started that conversation, I'm sure it ended with Apple saying "yes, we believe a crime was committed." Apple would not be biding their time before stopping a criminal investigation with "sorry, it really was planted."
Fine: match up laptops, feature for feature, spec for spec, and show the final price. There are reasons why some components are more expensive than others with cursory equal specs; there’s more to component matching than just GHzs and GBs, there’s bandwidth & MTBF & weight/size & range & etc.
It has an awesome mode where you hold the iPad up in the direction of the sky you’re interested in, and between compass, GPS and accelerometer it shows you the stars you’ll see in that direction.
Is this the program you're talking about?
Just wondering, as it sounds real cool ... :-)
Yeah, that’s it. Browsing this thread, I conflated it’s name with your handle. And yes it’s very cool; I can see a LOT of applications featuring such a “virtual window” interface.
That sounds really cool.
I have a program on my PC that is similar, It’s called Starry night.
Of course since my PC has no GPS i have to manually enter in my coordinants.
but it shows the sky around my house and every star, galaxy, etc thats out there.
Really neat. i’ve used it for years.
Being able to lift the I-pad up in the general direction and see what the stars are that you are looking at sounds awesome.
How much did the program cost?
ok, ok, reading the article is a hindrance to a good outburst.
Dunno; it was on the demo unit. Check the iTunes Store.
That’s pretty cool.
It’s not that straight forward, Apple was bleeding employees up until that cash settlement. Maybe Microsoft would have lost the lawsuit, but with our legal system nothing is a lock and even then, Microsoft could have kept it in courts for another decade using their cash to force Apple to burn their dollars fighting appeals.
You cannot deny that at that time, the worst thing for Microsoft would have been for the at-the-time weak Apple to have left the market.
I don’t want to beat a dead horse but Apple was not doing well and Microsoft for their own purposes were better off with a weak Apple than no Apple.
Now nearly a decade and a half later, Microsoft may be wondering if they would have been better off taking their chances with the Feds, LOL.
How much did the program cost?
It is $5.00 (well... $4.99 actually ... :-) ...).
And talking about Starry Night... I've got that, too, and it's probably the best one out there. I've got the Starry Night Pro and it's great!
By the way, there are some "star chart programs" on the iPhone, too -- that are free. And they're great for just identifying some simple stars if you're out and around.
That's one of the great things about the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad... not everything costs money and it's still a good app, anyway (even being free). And when they do cost some money -- they are pretty darned cheap.
That reminds me of an article done where Microsoft was criticizing the Apple App Store saying that their problem was that the apps were way too cheap -- and that's a bad thing ... doncha know ... LOL ... Apparently, Microsoft was going to "correct the problem" with theirs and make sure that the apps were more expensive ... :-)
Google SkyMap is one of my favorite programs. Hold it up and the map shows you exactly which stars you are looking at. Type in a sky feature and the indicator guides you right to it in the sky.
Must look even better with the big screen.
It’s not that straight forward ...
Ummmm..., it was certainly "that straightforward" -- but probably not in the way you're thinking.
It was "that straightforward" as soon as Steve Jobs came back to the company. There's the key to the whole thing -- right there...
At that point (even though there was a settlement with Microsoft for their stealing of Apple code), it wouldn't have made any difference in regards to a settlement -- with Steve Jobs running the show from that point forward. :-)
Jobs has now instilled "right thinking" back into the company, which was unfortunately hampered prior to that time, by people who didn't know how to "think different"
“That person apparently tried to return the handset to Apple...”
OK, so if the guy who found it tried to return it to Apple and Apple said “nope, not ours”, how is he guilty of violating the California law that says you can’t sell found property that you know belongs to someone else?
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