Do they REALLY think that this is the way to compete against the 800lb. Gorilla that is the Apple App Store?
Probably not, considering that the Apple App Store is for iOS devices and Amazon's store for Android. Here, Amazon is competing with Google's Android Market.
I have been using Dropbox for quite some time and loved it's ease of use. But security concerns and the rather steep price of additional space made me look for alternatives. Enter Wuala.
Support for Linux, Windows and Android? Check (+ others like Mac) Encrypted on client, Passphrase nevers leaves the Client? Check (as long as we trust the makers, of course) Mobile access via web browser? Check (Java, so not available everywhere, but almost) Inexpensive options to add additional space? Check (I currently can use 50 GB withouth paying a cent, by sharing some of my hard drive space to store encrypted data of other users, only viable if you have a rather decent broadband connection without data caps)
I do agree: Wuala is not perfect, but close enough.
Reducing the resale value reduces the number of first hand sales. People, who bought the game expecting to get some of the money back might not do so when there is no resale value.
To keep those people the developer would have to set a lower price.
In the end, a second hand sale helps the developer to keep a certain price level, so it earns money.
If the original buyer sells the game, he is obviously bored with it. It's not a situation of original buyer playing two years or original buyer playing one year and other player playing one year.
But it is neither a simple case of "without used games the developer would have sold twice as many games".
Not only my the person who bought the game used never have bought the game for full price, but the person who bought the game new might not have done so without knowing that he can get some of his money back by selling it to somebody else after a few months.
So used games help the developer (to some degree) by enabling more sales or keeping the price up.
IANAL, but registering trademarks is not necessary. As far as I understand a registration was needed in the US in the past, but to harmonize with international laws that was changed.
Still, registering a trademark helps to determine who has priority, but with a term like bitcoin it would be quite easy to prove that one has been using that term commercially way before this lawyer tried to trademark it.
I got an invite into Google+, was on for a very short time (around 10 minutes I would guess), in which I already had several people "pre-add" me to their lists - for a brand new account (so how exactly have these relationships been formed, or is this some Buzz "feature" where certain people are automatically just linked to my Google+ account?)
Those people added your email address to one of their circles. The moment you signed on that was converted to your Google+ account.
When you found the container, you take out a memento the last person placed there and put another one there yourself. Some (all?) caches also seem to contain a sheet of paper with a list of the geocachers who have been to this cache, where you would add your name and the date.
Disclaimer: I'm not a geocacher, but I know a few.
That's a strange argument. The market for smartphones is fragmented, yet most people don't seem to have a problem deciding which one to buy.
Fragmantation may be a problem from the technical perspective of a developer, but for consumers it means that they have a lot of choices, which is a good thing.
What I don't get is the whole appeal of "wanting to have it". Some people seem so eager to claim they have Asperger's that you'd think it gave you a nine inch dick.
The point is this: If you spent all your live struggling to understand the way social interaction works, if you always hat problems understanding why people behave this way or that and why they expect you to do this, it helps a lot if you get to know why you have these problems fitting in.
When you know that it's a medical condition and that you are not doing anything 'wrong', you can concentrate on living your life, rather than spent time trying to figure out the why.
Sure, a lot of people may misdiagnose themselves. But that doesn't mean that everybody who assumes he has Asperger's is wrong about this.
A contributor to the GPL'ed software would have the right to sue.
Which Mr. Welte is. He wrote part of iptables, if I'm not mistaken.
The defendant, Mr. Welte, might not have the right to sue AVM to put their code under the GPL, but luckily he is the defendant.
He is not. He is not working or representing Cybits, the company sued by AVM. But he entered the dispute as someone who owns (part) of the copyright of the product in question.
Actually, companies can do more than one thing at a time, as opposed to, say, some posters here on./ who have problems breathing and typing at the same time, as can be easily seen by the contents of their posts, that can only be explained by acute lack of oxygen.
I don't know in what world you're living, but I have been using the term "app" for applications/programs/software years before the iPhone was released. Just because you might never have heard the term except in the context of Apple doesn't mean it wasn't used elsewhere.
And by the way, when taking about linux I hardly ever use the word 'software'. The simple world where everything fits nicely into a drawer doesn't exist.
Using you're logic, that's something they would be forced to do every time there is admin turnover.
Quite the opposite: They (may have) had to do it because Childs behaved the way he did. The way he was acting, they had to make sure there are no more backdoors for him.
If an admin leaves on good terms, gives his superior all the relevant information, keys et. al., then it's most probably not necessary to check the network.
Childs, on the other hand, made sure that he was the only one who could keep the network running and nobody else could take over for him. That's paranoid at the best and malicious at the worst.
Ah, yes arrogance. Let me guess - you're from Europe? That's the only part of the world that has the arrogance to insist everyone else should live, act, and think exactly like they do. Woe to the person(s) who don't.
I have to resist the urge to point out all the ways that Americans insist everyone else should live, act and think exactly as they do.
I think it is clear from what I wrote that, had we had the fortune to deploy our power grid from scratch commencing 1945
Europe had to rebuild much of it's infrastructure in the 20th century, in some areas twice, which cost's a lot of money and time, and still we managed.
What's your excuse for not getting your system up to date? You didn't have the same drawbacks that we did.
GP is right: You are one of those people that take any factual statement as a personal insult and lash out.
I'd go for N.A. - S.A. and S.A. - Australia. Shorter bridges, so less expensive.
Or we go N.A. - S.A., S.A. - Antarctica, Antarctica - Australia (via Tasmania). Who doesn't want to spend 2 months on a train to see the penguins in their natural habitat?;)
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Funny thing: One of Germany biggest retailers just started selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab. They argue that the injunction is only against Samsung.
It's not so much the recognition itself it's the fact that FB stores that information and let's others, who do not know you, "recognise" you.
Do they REALLY think that this is the way to compete against the 800lb. Gorilla that is the Apple App Store?
Probably not, considering that the Apple App Store is for iOS devices and Amazon's store for Android.
Here, Amazon is competing with Google's Android Market.
Same here.
I have been using Dropbox for quite some time and loved it's ease of use. But security concerns and the rather steep price of additional space made me look for alternatives. Enter Wuala.
Support for Linux, Windows and Android? Check (+ others like Mac)
Encrypted on client, Passphrase nevers leaves the Client? Check (as long as we trust the makers, of course)
Mobile access via web browser? Check (Java, so not available everywhere, but almost)
Inexpensive options to add additional space? Check (I currently can use 50 GB withouth paying a cent, by sharing some of my hard drive space to store encrypted data of other users, only viable if you have a rather decent broadband connection without data caps)
I do agree: Wuala is not perfect, but close enough.
Ok, so one example proves that for ANY case?
Math and logic aren't you strong suits, right?
Reducing the resale value reduces the number of first hand sales.
People, who bought the game expecting to get some of the money back might not do so when there is no resale value.
To keep those people the developer would have to set a lower price.
In the end, a second hand sale helps the developer to keep a certain price level, so it earns money.
If the original buyer sells the game, he is obviously bored with it. It's not a situation of original buyer playing two years or original buyer playing one year and other player playing one year.
But it is neither a simple case of "without used games the developer would have sold twice as many games".
Not only my the person who bought the game used never have bought the game for full price, but the person who bought the game new might not have done so without knowing that he can get some of his money back by selling it to somebody else after a few months.
So used games help the developer (to some degree) by enabling more sales or keeping the price up.
IANAL, but registering trademarks is not necessary.
As far as I understand a registration was needed in the US in the past, but to harmonize with international laws that was changed.
Still, registering a trademark helps to determine who has priority, but with a term like bitcoin it would be quite easy to prove that one has been using that term commercially way before this lawyer tried to trademark it.
I got an invite into Google+, was on for a very short time (around 10 minutes I would guess), in which I already had several people "pre-add" me to their lists - for a brand new account (so how exactly have these relationships been formed, or is this some Buzz "feature" where certain people are automatically just linked to my Google+ account?)
Those people added your email address to one of their circles. The moment you signed on that was converted to your Google+ account.
When you found the container, you take out a memento the last person placed there and put another one there yourself. Some (all?) caches also seem to contain a sheet of paper with a list of the geocachers who have been to this cache, where you would add your name and the date.
Disclaimer: I'm not a geocacher, but I know a few.
That's a strange argument.
The market for smartphones is fragmented, yet most people don't seem to have a problem deciding which one to buy.
Fragmantation may be a problem from the technical perspective of a developer, but for consumers it means that they have a lot of choices, which is a good thing.
What I don't get is the whole appeal of "wanting to have it". Some people seem so eager to claim they have Asperger's that you'd think it gave you a nine inch dick.
The point is this:
If you spent all your live struggling to understand the way social interaction works, if you always hat problems understanding why people behave this way or that and why they expect you to do this, it helps a lot if you get to know why you have these problems fitting in.
When you know that it's a medical condition and that you are not doing anything 'wrong', you can concentrate on living your life, rather than spent time trying to figure out the why.
Sure, a lot of people may misdiagnose themselves. But that doesn't mean that everybody who assumes he has Asperger's is wrong about this.
A contributor to the GPL'ed software would have the right to sue.
Which Mr. Welte is. He wrote part of iptables, if I'm not mistaken.
The defendant, Mr. Welte, might not have the right to sue AVM to put their code under the GPL, but luckily he is the defendant.
He is not. He is not working or representing Cybits, the company sued by AVM.
But he entered the dispute as someone who owns (part) of the copyright of the product in question.
See above.
Dropbox only synchs parts of big files that have been changed.
But Apple has to produce the iPhones, whereas Nokia basically gets money for doing nothing.
I'd say I'd prefer to be Nokia in this situation.
Actually, companies can do more than one thing at a time, as opposed to, say, some posters here on ./ who have problems breathing and typing at the same time, as can be easily seen by the contents of their posts, that can only be explained by acute lack of oxygen.
Nay, an Adamantium roll-cage will suffice.
But we need lots of red lasers and blue fur and stuff.
I don't know in what world you're living, but I have been using the term "app" for applications/programs/software years before the iPhone was released.
Just because you might never have heard the term except in the context of Apple doesn't mean it wasn't used elsewhere.
And by the way, when taking about linux I hardly ever use the word 'software'. The simple world where everything fits nicely into a drawer doesn't exist.
Windows CE only shares the name with desktop Windows.
It's basically a different OS.
Windows 8 (as I unterstand) will be the same OS compiled for a different platform.
But yes, Microsoft has experience with mulitplattform OS': Windows NT ran on Alpha and other architectures.
Using you're logic, that's something they would be forced to do every time there is admin turnover.
Quite the opposite: They (may have) had to do it because Childs behaved the way he did.
The way he was acting, they had to make sure there are no more backdoors for him.
If an admin leaves on good terms, gives his superior all the relevant information, keys et. al., then it's most probably not necessary to check the network.
Childs, on the other hand, made sure that he was the only one who could keep the network running and nobody else could take over for him.
That's paranoid at the best and malicious at the worst.
Your statement would be interessting, if it had anything to do with reality.
Yes, the article was posted on a non-American website.
But guess what: The article nowhere says that Brussels is in Switzerland.
So this was added by the editor here at ./ or by the person submitting the story. Either of whom are most probably American.
Ah, yes arrogance. Let me guess - you're from Europe? That's the only part of the world that has the arrogance to insist everyone else should live, act, and think exactly like they do. Woe to the person(s) who don't.
I have to resist the urge to point out all the ways that Americans insist everyone else should live, act and think exactly as they do.
I think it is clear from what I wrote that, had we had the fortune to deploy our power grid from scratch commencing 1945
Europe had to rebuild much of it's infrastructure in the 20th century, in some areas twice, which cost's a lot of money and time, and still we managed.
What's your excuse for not getting your system up to date?
You didn't have the same drawbacks that we did.
GP is right: You are one of those people that take any factual statement as a personal insult and lash out.
Here in Germany, I only ever see buttons to signal the bus driver.
N.A. - Australia this is getting difficult
S.A. - Antarctica now that's ridiculous.
I'd go for N.A. - S.A. and S.A. - Australia.
Shorter bridges, so less expensive.
Or we go N.A. - S.A., S.A. - Antarctica, Antarctica - Australia (via Tasmania). ;)
Who doesn't want to spend 2 months on a train to see the penguins in their natural habitat?