May 2010 Section 6. LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY. Except as otherwise specified in these Bylaws, no member shall act in the name of the Association or take any action that would bind the Association. No Meeting Notice member may use the Association name, logos, All meetings, June through November, will be at symbols, or other such intellectual property as the Board may designate in the furtherance of any purpose the Grande Prairie Library at 3479 W 183rd St., without the express written consent of the Board. Hazel Crest. The December meeting will be Section 7. TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP. held at the Homewood Public Library. a. BY ASSOCIATION. Within one month of the April members meeting, regular meetings (April or NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING. December) of members, the Membership Secretary There will be a special meeting at 7:00 pm on June will mail a reminder notice to any member who is not 8, 2010 at the Grande Prairie Library for the current in dues. Membership shall be terminated if purpose of voting on the proposed amendments dues are not paid by the annual meeting next regular below. meeting (December or April). b. BY MEMBER. Membership shall be terminated when a letter of resignation is tendered. Proposed Bylaw Amendments + Proviso While the bylaws authorize the board to set the amount dues, it makes sense to have the payment schedule in the bylaws. Therefore, the EDITORIAL board recommends adoption of the following amendments: Apple censors Pulitzer Prize Winning (1) an addition to Article III Sec 3 authorizing the new payment schedule (below) and Cartoonist (2) several fixes to Article III Sec 7a (below) (source: all over the web) regarding the new payment schedule. The board has already passed a proviso until the end of 2010 to prorate dues at $2.50 per month. Article III is printed Mark Fiore, who won the Pulitzer Prize in its entirety below. for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an ARTICLE III -- MEMBERS iPhone app that it earlier rejected Section 1. MEMBERSHIP. The Association shall because it “ridicules public figures.” have one class of members. Members of the Association shall be all persons who have paid membership dues and whose membership has not As a librarian, this greatly upsets me – it terminated. is a perfect example of why censorship, Section 2. VOTING RIGHTS. Each member shall be of almost any kind, never works and entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote of the members. Membership dues must be paid up to mostly backfires on the censor. It be eligible to vote or hold office. reminds me of the time that Apple Section 3. MEMBERSHIP FEES. Annual dues censored Gray’s Anatomy (the book, not shall be payable January 1. The annual dues for membership shall be determined by the Board. the TV show). PalmPilot sells handhelds with pre-loaded medical software, I Section 4. TRANSFER OF MEMBERSHIP. guess Apple did not want that market. Membership in the Association is not transferable or assignable. Section 5. CERTIFICATES. No membership (In My Humble Opinion Apple should certificates of the Association shall be required. check for functionality only – does it work – and nothing else. At the very should be able to decide what I do or do least Apple should hire censors who not find useful or proper. Free enterprise, know what is going on. The history of you know. ed.) censorship is littered with examples of ignorant censors. Ed.) Hewlett Packard buys Palm for 1.2 billion. [Related Editorial: Apple relented on this application, but continues to censor Apple buys Siri, another chipmaker. other editorial cartoonists. They also refuse to list programs because they are Apple has patented a large number of not “of general interest”. How do they “gestures” – my guess is that the next think they can know what I would want lap- and desk- tops will be more ‘touch to use on my “iTouch”? That is like an screen”. Some of the gestures seem to auto maker saying that people can’t go call for more dexterity than your editor to, say, Corbin KY, because it is not a has. place that a lot of people want to go there. Suppose car makers only allowed Apple had huge profits last quarter, the their cars to be driven in glamorous biggest product was the iPhone. places? It has been predicted that the iPhone will Ok, Apple only has so much space on its be gone in five years – I agree because servers – why do they have to be the sole Apple will have introduced a successor. channel for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad software?] People have begun getting word that their iPad 3Gs started shipping April 28. Apple is eliminating its Macintosh Software page. Mac developers, and at iPhones have been used as gunsights, least one user, are worried about what now the phrase is ‘augmented driving’. this means for Macintosh. Certainly the imaGinyze has introduced a $2.99 iPhone is the big seller. I, for one, will program for the iPhone that gives own a desktop computer if it’s a Mac something approaching a Heads Up great, but it’s beginning to look like my Display for cars using an iPhone. Sadly, next computer might be a Windows box. it doesn’t see anything more than what I’m not excited that my iMac is really a the driver does. I want to be able to see MacBook in two parts. I really don’t like in fog, rain, snow, etc. Still, it’s a start. HAVING to be exactly in front of the To see a video go to YouTube or the monitor to see clearly. company’s web site. “The phrase that +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ pays” is “Augmented Driving”. SHORT NEWS Source: “All over the Web” Apple is going to eliminate its Macintosh software page. It seem that the Justice Department is investigating Apple for anti-trust Apple is now the largest cell phone violations. (What did Apple do? See my manufacturer in the US, passing editorial. I, at least, agree with DOJ. I, as Motorola. the customer, who is always right, There were several articles saying that if platform. If developers grow (we) had bought Apple stock instead of dependent on third party development Apple hardware we’d all be rich, or at libraries and tools, they can only take the very least comfortable. That advantage of platform enhancements if presupposes that somebody bought and when the third party chooses to Apple hardware. If we all bought stock adopt the new features. We cannot be instead of hardware Apple would have at the mercy of a third party deciding had plenty of stockholders, but no sales. if and when they will make our +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ enhancements available to our Jobs feuds with Adobe developers.” As many of you know, Adobe’s Flash (Adobe responded less than positively, has become as much an issue with Steve Microsoft has joined Apple in its Jobs as iAd has become with me. He campaign against Flash and Adobe is recently listed five problems he has with re-writing the application it wrote for Flash: Wired Magazine in a different Jobs argues five points against Flash: computer language.) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Flash is 100% proprietary, unlike the As people may know, Gizmodo open standards Apple supports, like recently published an article about the HTML5 and H.264. upcoming iPhone. What follows is an article about how the controversy Adobe claims that 75% of video on web about how they (may have) got a is in Flash but Jobs argues that Adobe sneak preview. ignores the fact that much of this video is also available in H.264. Apple's iPhone 4G Debacle: A Timeline Ian Paul Flash has poor security and is the Apr 20, 2010 number one reason why software on PC World Mac OS X crashes. (update from iLounge) Flash performs poorly on mobile March 18, 2010: Apple engineer Gray platforms because of using software Powell makes a nighttime visit to The decoding. Gourment Haus Stadt. Powell was carrying with him an iPhone prototype-- Flash has almost no support for touch- purportedly the next-generation iPhone based interfaces. device--made to look like an iPhone 3GS. At the Haus Stadt, about a 24- Jobs’ parting shot: minute drive from Apple's headquarters, Powell had a few drinks, updated his “We know from painful experience Facebook status using the supposed that letting a third party layer of iPhone 4G and left the establishment. software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in March 18, 2010-March 19, 2010: sub-standard apps and hinders the Unbeknownst to Powell, he left behind enhancement and progress of the his iPhone test unit at the beer garden in Redwood City, where it was eventually commenter provides a photo of the picked up by an anonymous stranger. purported iPhone 4G claiming the device is a knock-off widely available in Japan . March 19, 2010: The next morning, the The Macrumors photo is later anonymous stranger, aware that Powell discredited. was the owner of the phone, tried turning on what he still believed to be an iPhone April 18, 2010: Engadget posts an older, 3GS. But the phone had already been very blurry, photo that shows something bricked by remote wipe, rendering the similar to the purported iPhone 4G lying device inoperable. After careful next to a pre-launch iPad , presumably at examination of the device, the stranger an Apple test lab. Later that day, Daring realized it was not a normal iPhone. Fireball blogger John Gruber, who is Eventually, he was able to remove the known for his contacts within Apple, iPhone's phony 3GS exterior, and calls his sources and subsequently discovered the iPhone prototype inside.