if you buy the iPhone from Apple or CIngular/AT&T.
Either.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Tom Scola - May 31, 2007 3:57:01 am PDT #1759 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Theodosia - May 31, 2007 3:58:58 am PDT #1760 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm very briefly tempted, being a jobfree type person who could theoretically wait in line at the Apple Store about a mile.5 from here. But then I expect the alpha version to be buggish and annoying.
Stephanie - May 31, 2007 4:04:34 am PDT #1761 of 25496
Trust my rage
Yeah, that's my hesitation too. Do you really want to spend all that on a something with bugs. But it looks so cool.
le nubian - May 31, 2007 4:10:44 am PDT #1762 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
cingular comes with a 30 day MBG. So theoretically, if someone buys an iphone and hates it, they should be able to return it.
Jessica - May 31, 2007 4:54:14 am PDT #1763 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So Apple IS going to be selling them directly? I've heard so many conflicting rumours I can't keep track any more.
NoiseDesign - May 31, 2007 9:19:29 am PDT #1764 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
If they are coming out tomorrow I'm going to be there. Is there any confirmation of this anywhere?
le nubian - May 31, 2007 9:28:37 am PDT #1765 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - May 31, 2007 9:41:25 am PDT #1766 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A new street-level zoom feature on Google Maps debuted recently, to much freakout and fanfare... The company performing the drive-by surveillance and image capture services for Google is Immersive Media, and here's a blog post from the PR guy who reps them. What a scary/cool little 11-sided camera that is on the "Street Level View-Mobile."
I love the 11-sided camera. Looks like something Darth Vader would use (but I think a VW Bug would be about the last car Vader would drive).
tommyrot - May 31, 2007 9:50:34 am PDT #1767 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This I did not know....
Apple hides account info in DRM-free music, too
With great power comes great responsibility, and apparently with DRM-free music comes files embedded with identifying information. Such is the situation with Apple's new DRM-free music: songs sold without DRM still have a user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them, which means that dropping that new DRM-free song on your favorite P2P network could come back to bite you.
I'd be skeptical, but EFF confirms this: [link]
Jon B. - May 31, 2007 10:06:14 am PDT #1768 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Surely, it's only a matter of hours before someone writes a utility to strip the file of any identifying information?