I think the conclusion is that multiple device manufacturers are creating Android-based smartphones, some of which are pretty low-spec and with a contract sell for circa 100 pounds in the UK (which I guess would mean 100 dollars in the US). What would be interesting to know is how handset sales are doing - i.e. what are the top-selling handsets and what OS does each run.
I suspect that the OS at the "stack 'm' high, sell 'm' cheap" end of the spectrum is far less important in the long-term because those people are less likely to exploit the various ongoing revenue streams, and those handset manufacturers are more likely to hop OS whenever convenient because there's just selling a phone rather than a long-term revenue stream.
iPhone redefined the high-end phone market place, and I think it's fair to say that Android has redefined it again - what will be interesting is how it looks in 6 months when the dust has settled and Windows Phone starts to be a viable. It will also be interesting to see how much Android retains its image - there's a high risk of fragmentation as different handset manufacturers try to differentiate their products and people could begin to realise that buying 'Android' doesn't necessarily guarantee what you're getting.
Congratulations: an entire class of devices, with several different handsets from each manufacturer, has managed to surpass the sales of a single (small) range of devices from one manufacturer.
Yup - inline assembler. It was awesome, you could take a basic program and carefully rewrite key parts in assembler, it would compile and then run the code in place.
Wouldn't you of preferred a Mac book air reconfigured into a slate running both snow leopard and ios
I really wouldn't have, no. I want a keyboard on y notebook, that's why I bought a notebook. None of my Snow Leopard apps would work well in a touch-screen/no mouse/no KB format.
That's not six months, both products you quote are not yet available ("pre-order") and the iPad was released on the 3rd of April 2010, so you're looking at 9-12 months' difference. That's an eternity in tech. You should be comparing these to the iPad 2 (or whatever Apple decide to call it) which will probably be actually in the shops at the same time as these.
Thanks for the info. So what better products can you point to that were available to buy with 1-2 months of the iPad release? You lose points for mentioning anything newer, particularly if it blatantly copies the iOS interface.
I think that would be a big win for Apple. The previous efforts with licensing failed because Apple was allowing their licensees to compete with their own mid-price boxes. If Apple allowed licensing to only genuine server-class products (e.g. by only allowing Xeon or equivalent CPUs, insisting or RAID, etc.) then they could keep that market, and avoid losing in other areas. Recording studios are starting to switch away from Macs because there's no recent models that support PCI, and legacy (but still very good and very expensive) Protools HD hardware requires this. By allowing limited licensing, Apple could keep market share, and not lose a dozen MacBook Pro sales per small workplace that switches away from big Apple hardware. It seems like the writing on the wall for big Apple hardware, and they certainly can't maintain the range of different machine specs that would satisfy everyone, so I wonder whether as they switch focus to phones, tablets and notebooks, they'll eventually move to this model.
The problems do apply to nurses, but on of the real issues for junior doctors in the UK is that we move around departments and even hospitals/trusts every 3-6 months. The longest job I've done has been for a year. So although nurses do have a rough time, there's a lot more scope for them to figure out how to have a workable life/work balance because they stay in a dept. for a long time and figure out the system. For junior doctors, it's like starting 2-4 new jobs every year. Having said that, most juniors are better paid than most nurses.
Yes, you did miss something: "any third party". You stated "...we are not under obligation to give our sources to random hackers...". I'm not a lawyer, and I wonder whether "any third party" means something more restrictive in this context, but a plain English reading implies that anyone at all can request a copy of the source, and you would be obliged to comply.
Just accept that you don't know what you're talking about. In British English, this was as strong a "take down notice" as you're likely to see - a senior figure in one organisation writing to (what they clearly thought is) a senior figure in another organisation.
NO WAY!! I can grow crops WITHOUT LIGHT, and WITHOUT OXYGEN. I've got enough crops growing on the dark side of the moon to feed the entire world TWICE. When my spaceship.one project is complete, I will fly to the moon like the space cadet that I am and bring them back and be KING OF THE ENTIRE COSMOS. Don't think I have funding? You idiot!!111! I do!! Ask Bono, he has been behind this from the beginning, even when I thought of it age 3.
When I have fed the entire world, TWICE! Then I will buy Microsoft and Apple and release Windows OS X 10.7 which will usher in an era of world piece and harmony, and I am the smartest person alive.
Actually, in my mind the question is: why teach the quadratic formula at all? I was never taught it, I derived it while the rest of the class were working on the previous chapter. Almost all of the formulas I ever learnt I derived myself (perhaps with pointers from the teacher). I don't think anyone should be memorising or using the quadratic formula unless they derived it themself - if their maths isn't up to it, they should keep working on basic algebra until it is.
By the way, in case anyone reading this hasn't derived it themself: give it a go! Just start with ax^2 + bx + c = 0 and rearrange until done.
Actually, I've always presumed it meant a modulated signal - baseband would still be using symbols, not just shifting DC on the wire, in fact variations on FSK I think. Broadband uses a carrier signal and is much more like transimitting a radio signal using the phone line as a wire. I guess I don't understand the technology all that well, but using 'broadband' as a term for data rate is definitely wrong. Even worse is 'narrowband' which just makes me want to cringe.
Actually, if you read the article, it's not just a matter of procedure. The judge specifically mentions the 'unusual' aspects of the claim, for instance the injunctions requested were to require the defendants to secure their internet connections, not to stop breaking copyright law which would be the logical and reasonable approach. The judge also mentions points of law, for instance there's UK legislation where 'authorising' copyright violations is an offence, but the lawyers were equating this with 'allowing', and then equating having a poorly secured wireless router with 'allowing' in order to show culpability, something which the judge threw out.
I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning. I wonder whether it might be legitimate protest to stage a DDOS. IRL, the pubic at large can choose to blockage a company headquarters or a branch office, and if enough of the public are interested and concerned by the cause they can create disruption and media interest. DDOS attacks could be regarded as the online equivalent - they create disruption but when the attack ceases everything goes back to normal. The mainstream media tends to report these as 'hacking' attacks, which isn't really true at all, and it's certainly not terrorism.
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All of the HDTVs that I've come across have a direct scan mode, called by a number of different names e.g. "actual pixels", "direct scan", "source direct" etc., that takes out all the processing and makes the TV into a large and colour-inaccurate DVI or HDMI monitor. You probably just need to dig a bit deeper.
I think part of that is that the majority of Beatles music on CDs has been mastered shockingly badly. I kept my vinyl turntable pretty much for the purpose of listening to old Beatles LPs because I couldn't stand the couple of CDs I bought. Whether the iTunes versions are any better I don't know - haven't had time to audition yet - but I suspect they are.
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I think the conclusion is that multiple device manufacturers are creating Android-based smartphones, some of which are pretty low-spec and with a contract sell for circa 100 pounds in the UK (which I guess would mean 100 dollars in the US). What would be interesting to know is how handset sales are doing - i.e. what are the top-selling handsets and what OS does each run.
I suspect that the OS at the "stack 'm' high, sell 'm' cheap" end of the spectrum is far less important in the long-term because those people are less likely to exploit the various ongoing revenue streams, and those handset manufacturers are more likely to hop OS whenever convenient because there's just selling a phone rather than a long-term revenue stream.
iPhone redefined the high-end phone market place, and I think it's fair to say that Android has redefined it again - what will be interesting is how it looks in 6 months when the dust has settled and Windows Phone starts to be a viable. It will also be interesting to see how much Android retains its image - there's a high risk of fragmentation as different handset manufacturers try to differentiate their products and people could begin to realise that buying 'Android' doesn't necessarily guarantee what you're getting.
Don't panic, Lion won't end your ability to install whatever software you want on your Mac.
Congratulations: an entire class of devices, with several different handsets from each manufacturer, has managed to surpass the sales of a single (small) range of devices from one manufacturer.
Yup - inline assembler. It was awesome, you could take a basic program and carefully rewrite key parts in assembler, it would compile and then run the code in place.
Wouldn't you of preferred a Mac book air reconfigured into a slate running both snow leopard and ios
I really wouldn't have, no. I want a keyboard on y notebook, that's why I bought a notebook. None of my Snow Leopard apps would work well in a touch-screen/no mouse/no KB format.
That's not six months, both products you quote are not yet available ("pre-order") and the iPad was released on the 3rd of April 2010, so you're looking at 9-12 months' difference. That's an eternity in tech. You should be comparing these to the iPad 2 (or whatever Apple decide to call it) which will probably be actually in the shops at the same time as these.
Thanks for the info. So what better products can you point to that were available to buy with 1-2 months of the iPad release? You lose points for mentioning anything newer, particularly if it blatantly copies the iOS interface.
I think that would be a big win for Apple. The previous efforts with licensing failed because Apple was allowing their licensees to compete with their own mid-price boxes. If Apple allowed licensing to only genuine server-class products (e.g. by only allowing Xeon or equivalent CPUs, insisting or RAID, etc.) then they could keep that market, and avoid losing in other areas. Recording studios are starting to switch away from Macs because there's no recent models that support PCI, and legacy (but still very good and very expensive) Protools HD hardware requires this. By allowing limited licensing, Apple could keep market share, and not lose a dozen MacBook Pro sales per small workplace that switches away from big Apple hardware. It seems like the writing on the wall for big Apple hardware, and they certainly can't maintain the range of different machine specs that would satisfy everyone, so I wonder whether as they switch focus to phones, tablets and notebooks, they'll eventually move to this model.
The problems do apply to nurses, but on of the real issues for junior doctors in the UK is that we move around departments and even hospitals/trusts every 3-6 months. The longest job I've done has been for a year. So although nurses do have a rough time, there's a lot more scope for them to figure out how to have a workable life/work balance because they stay in a dept. for a long time and figure out the system. For junior doctors, it's like starting 2-4 new jobs every year. Having said that, most juniors are better paid than most nurses.
I think you're reading way too much into that. Nowhere in the GPL does it discuss hardware changing hands in order for source to be provided.
Yes, you did miss something: "any third party". You stated "...we are not under obligation to give our sources to random hackers...". I'm not a lawyer, and I wonder whether "any third party" means something more restrictive in this context, but a plain English reading implies that anyone at all can request a copy of the source, and you would be obliged to comply.
Just accept that you don't know what you're talking about. In British English, this was as strong a "take down notice" as you're likely to see - a senior figure in one organisation writing to (what they clearly thought is) a senior figure in another organisation.
There's no such thing as a class action suit in the UK, so no chance of that.
THANKS YOU!! I appoint you number TWO in my peaceful empire. All hail king Fulcrum of Evil, I rename you THE Fulcrum of Peace!!
NO WAY!! I can grow crops WITHOUT LIGHT, and WITHOUT OXYGEN. I've got enough crops growing on the dark side of the moon to feed the entire world TWICE. When my spaceship.one project is complete, I will fly to the moon like the space cadet that I am and bring them back and be KING OF THE ENTIRE COSMOS. Don't think I have funding? You idiot!!111! I do!! Ask Bono, he has been behind this from the beginning, even when I thought of it age 3.
When I have fed the entire world, TWICE! Then I will buy Microsoft and Apple and release Windows OS X 10.7 which will usher in an era of world piece and harmony, and I am the smartest person alive.
Actually, in my mind the question is: why teach the quadratic formula at all? I was never taught it, I derived it while the rest of the class were working on the previous chapter. Almost all of the formulas I ever learnt I derived myself (perhaps with pointers from the teacher). I don't think anyone should be memorising or using the quadratic formula unless they derived it themself - if their maths isn't up to it, they should keep working on basic algebra until it is.
By the way, in case anyone reading this hasn't derived it themself: give it a go! Just start with ax^2 + bx + c = 0 and rearrange until done.
ADSL 2+ isn't just to for dedicated lines, I have it on my voice line. What you're describing as narrowband is called 'base band'.
Actually, I've always presumed it meant a modulated signal - baseband would still be using symbols, not just shifting DC on the wire, in fact variations on FSK I think. Broadband uses a carrier signal and is much more like transimitting a radio signal using the phone line as a wire. I guess I don't understand the technology all that well, but using 'broadband' as a term for data rate is definitely wrong. Even worse is 'narrowband' which just makes me want to cringe.
Actually, if you read the article, it's not just a matter of procedure. The judge specifically mentions the 'unusual' aspects of the claim, for instance the injunctions requested were to require the defendants to secure their internet connections, not to stop breaking copyright law which would be the logical and reasonable approach. The judge also mentions points of law, for instance there's UK legislation where 'authorising' copyright violations is an offence, but the lawyers were equating this with 'allowing', and then equating having a poorly secured wireless router with 'allowing' in order to show culpability, something which the judge threw out.
I love the fourth picture on the product page.
I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning. I wonder whether it might be legitimate protest to stage a DDOS. IRL, the pubic at large can choose to blockage a company headquarters or a branch office, and if enough of the public are interested and concerned by the cause they can create disruption and media interest. DDOS attacks could be regarded as the online equivalent - they create disruption but when the attack ceases everything goes back to normal. The mainstream media tends to report these as 'hacking' attacks, which isn't really true at all, and it's certainly not terrorism.
All of the HDTVs that I've come across have a direct scan mode, called by a number of different names e.g. "actual pixels", "direct scan", "source direct" etc., that takes out all the processing and makes the TV into a large and colour-inaccurate DVI or HDMI monitor. You probably just need to dig a bit deeper.
Article: "...engineers are already experimenting with ultrasonic waves..." - i.e., the field of ultrasonics exists.
You can copyright a character though. I think PacMan would qualify for protection.
I think part of that is that the majority of Beatles music on CDs has been mastered shockingly badly. I kept my vinyl turntable pretty much for the purpose of listening to old Beatles LPs because I couldn't stand the couple of CDs I bought. Whether the iTunes versions are any better I don't know - haven't had time to audition yet - but I suspect they are.