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Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by halostatue »

halostatue wrote: post #24
jasonlotito wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounded cool until I read the press release: "A selection of AirPrint enabled printers including the HP Photosmart, HP LaserJet Pro and HP Officejet will be the first to support printing direct from iOS devices." I take that to mean the printer needs to support this, which means AirPrint replaces the driver, and rather than adapt the driver to the OS, the printer adapts to the driver. Is this the case? It would…

You can enable non-AirPrint printers by sharing them through iTunes 10 (PC) or Mac OS X 10.6.5 (Mac).

Too late to edit it, but as others pointed out, I'm wrong. I hadn't checked things out since I had done something stupid with my Mac that required a re-install, so I simply assumed that the feature was still there.

Mea culpa.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by megrimlock »

alextgordon wrote: post #65
kemiller wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Says the guy in the arbitrarily-set-in-1847 +0:00 time zone. ;)

It's not entirely arbitrary. There's a limited number of places you can put the prime meridian without the date line bisecting some significant land mass (which would be very inconvenient for the people living there). Britain happens to be one of those places.

Even putting the IDL over the sparsely populated Pacific is inconvenient enough that it was drawn to zig-zag across 40 degrees of longitude, or 2.5 hours of timezones, to be less annoying!

You know... we should optimize the IDL with a graph partitioning algorithm. We can measure inconvenience by the number of times any human's life trajectory passes the IDL. That's impossible to measure, so let's use recorded passenger airline / boat transportation numbers as a proxy. That also quantizes our graph into distinct origin and destination nodes. We penalize any graph edge that transits the IDL. Then we just find the min-cut of that graph, and draw the new IDL across the cut. That still leaves us lee-way about where to cross each edge in the cut, so we can apply aesthetic heuristics to try to draw a maximally straight line, or one most aligned with meridians. Then this will no longer be arbitrary.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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alextgordon wrote: post #65
kemiller wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Says the guy in the arbitrarily-set-in-1847 +0:00 time zone. ;)

It's not entirely arbitrary. There's a limited number of places you can put the prime meridian without the date line bisecting some significant land mass (which would be very inconvenient for the people living there). Britain happens to be one of those places.

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Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by kemiller »

alextgordon wrote: post #65
kemiller wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Says the guy in the arbitrarily-set-in-1847 +0:00 time zone. ;)

It's not entirely arbitrary. There's a limited number of places you can put the prime meridian without the date line bisecting some significant land mass (which would be very inconvenient for the people living there). Britain happens to be one of those places.

Sure, that's why they chose it. ;) And rightly so, since they came up with a good idea. But California came up with the iP(ad|od|hone) so it gets to set timing for that.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by mitjak »

marknutter wrote: post #56
jswinghammer wrote: post #26

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Seriously. I have needed folders for months now.

For me the biggy has been lack of multitasking. It's so annoying to open a link in a new tab, only to come back and have safari reload the entire page I was just on. It's like the iPad's browser has Alzheimer's.

I wouldn't get too excited. With only 256MB of RAM, it's still going to happen on the iPad :/

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

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Post by kazuya »

tibbon wrote: post #10
jeroen wrote: post #3

Improvements for iPhone: - AirPlay - The Find My iPhone feature is now free to use without a MobileMe℠ subscription - AirPrint ("a next-generation Wi-Fi print architecture that dramatically simplifies printing by completely eliminating printer drivers") (thanks, rufo) The free Find feature is only for "iPhone 4, iPad or new iPod touch (4th generation)"

I wonder why the free Find feature is only for the newest devices? Most of the time Apple is pretty good about only locking devices out if their hardware can't handle it. The 3GS should be able to handle it, right?

Read the fine print:

  * Create a free Find My iPhone account on any iPhone 4, iPad, or iPod touch
   (4th generation) running iOS 4.2. Once you create an account on a
   qualifying device, use your Apple ID and password to enable Find My iPhone
   on your other devices running iOS 4.2. Find My iPhone is not available in
   all countries.
So you can use iPhone 4 to activate the feature on 3GS, though I have not tried yet.
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