I wonder if Americans are surprised on a daily basis that there is life outside the US.
There are no borders on the Internet, except the ones between gross, creepy and simply unnatural and they are fuzzy at best.
Basically, it's too late to stop downloading and streaming. Consumers are not passively accepting networks scheduling any more.
They must understand they are now selling content, not a continous shedule. People will pick what they want to watch and everything else is nicely filtered out by their PVR's or simply not downloaded.
Give users a proper option with easy subscriptions and a system that works for distribution and they will pay. That means no insane prices where a simple episode cost the same as a month of network tv, nor a 1-time watch deal where you only have access to your episode for 6 or 24 hours. A proper service that allows the user to be informed about new shows and series as well as keep track of what shows are ready to watch and what have already been watched.
It also means actually supplying a lot of content, not just a few select series that don't sell well on dvd anymore.
It is not hard, and the pirates have already laid down the groundwork. No ammount of legislation will force users back on old schedules again, it's time to step up and meet the demand.
We can build it inside a mountain somewhere so even the fanatics feel safe and then we can start burning nuclear waste!
Then we export the energy as electricity and in just a few years we build up another fund bigger than the oil fund!
Hmm, does nuclear fund or electricity fund sound best? Or maby just e-fund.
Sure it will cost a tad to build the plant, but we'd ofcource charge for receiving the nuclear waste we'll partially use as fuel to offset that...
Can you be sure your hard work will even reach the appstore? They change the rules of what is accepted every day.
Can you compile an app and send it to 20 ppl to test, or deliver it privately to a customer?
Can you be sure that the devtool isn't sending information of your top secret app to be delivered directly to customer (and owned by your customer) to Apple?
Btw, I never moaned about what you say.
I also didn't mean closed as in source. Nor secret as in undocumented hardware or api. It was more of a "not allowed to" reference.
As for transfering the built app... You have to use itunes while on android you can simply copy a file via any mass storage compatible system. The same goes for your music and you can sync with as many computers as you want and even use your device to keep the comps synced. (rsync anyone?)
And every month someone with a autowelder comes and closes it again.
He also removes any addons you may have installed and makes sure the welds are stronger this time.
Btw, my friend tried to park his iCar in my garage and iGarage wanted to erase the tapes in his 8-track and glovebox.
Will I have to install a new carport to avoid it (tinker?) or will someone relax a bit soon?
I feel the iStuff (tm?) is suited for people who need to be told they are special and successfull. Btw, would you buy a extra large rubber bumper for your car to avoid it breaking from a slight ding or would you rather it be designed to actually withstand normal use? Would you have bought it if it had been designed with that rubber bumper prefitted and non-removeable instead?
That being said. I do agree on one point, stuff needs to work out of the box.
When it comes to android stuff I have never been dissappointed and never had to tinker to get it working. I have however never been prevented from distributing my app to my customers without apple requiring payment either.
That is exactly how I feel the ipad is. Polished on the outside, secret on the inside and I am not allowed to peek inside nor add any update not approved by the manufacturer and without paying the manufacturer a piece of the update-price.
Oh, and the ipad comes without a passanger-seat and lighter-plug meaning if someone wants a ride, they have to take my seat, and I can't plug in anything.
First off, I never said they would be able to do this via screens.
Secondly, peopel are already moving away from shutterglasses. Polarized glasses give just as good a experience but at a fraction of the cost allowing larger audiences.
You are ofcource right though. Every user needs custom content and as such delivery will probably have to be a personal viewer.
To allow for correct depth focus and parralax from tracking eyes you need to render the image for each user. It is not enough to just tweak it.
This means you can't *film* a movie in 3D, you have to create it and have it rendered in real time.
It will happen, just not quite yet...
Not true.
This new web crap has the opportunity of brilliant DOS attacks on both servers and your machine.
You can easily bog it down so it becomes nearly unusable with a linked ad or a poorly written snippet trying to utilize thet silly canvas.
It is, as mentioned before unnecessary and a solution to a non-existant problem.
If your pdf reader takes time to load, I suggest you try something proper like windows, or upgrade your computer.
You may also want to unload that silly pdf reader from the third party and load a proper one that works while giving you searchability and zoom in the schematics too.
If anything this is to justify the whole new web crappola. In all fairness, it is development and change for development and change's sake. Nothing more. It creates work as buisinesses get orders from "upstairs" to port their solution to yet another new solution. Hopefully they will be done before they need to go to the next one.
I for one would like to know how many don't want one, regardless of changes.
I assume it will still be overpriced and hyped as well as limited and very easy to break.
By increasing the number-crunching we increase the power requirements of the CPU and the energy in, and heat out.
This much is self-evident.
However, is number-crunching work? If so how much work?
Feeding n watts into a system and crunching math at m mips. Does that leave us with n-k*m power out where k is some magic constant not necessarily unrelated to m already and varying with the machine?
Do you then want a low k-factor or will they simply increase the power in so that you don't freeze?
Classic examples of microstransactions gone wrong.
The games are free, and you can buy clothing/apparal with "credits" you earn as a soldier. However, they need to make money too, so the ithems you buy are always time limited to only a day or 3. For longer periods or permanent purchases you need to spend real money which you have exchanged for battlefunds.
This is all fine, except that the more powerfull weapons are ONLY purchasable via battlefunds, making them inaccessible to those without a creditcard or not wanting to spend more any or money. The kids running around with dads creditcard now starts ruening the gameplay by buying the most insane weapons and prancing around like invincable nitwits. Using healing-items like they were tictacs and blasting everyone away on first shot with some insane cannon costing around $20 or more.
With such microtransactions in play there is always the temptation to alter gameplay, prices and items to try and make more money. This is almost always viewed by the players as unfair as the items they invest in suddently become low-ranking tinkertoys to the new silly stuff they add. Oh, and you may not sell em back/trade so you can't get any money back. (Heroes is actually the worst as the purchasable weapons are a lot more powerfull than free ones.)
Isn't this like the game "go fish"?
Have any cat fanatics? 10!
Have any porn addicts? 10000!
And every response or query about more information, or even downloading of image-data for the ad, outs the users targeted by the bank on behalf of the banks spam-client.
If you can be accomplice to murder, you can sell private information by proxy too.
Yes there appears to be safer designs. The problem is, they haven't been used as much as so are considered less safe. Basically unknown = unsafe in nuclear industry. They want stats and numbers so they can take a "calculated risk" rather than trust in something all scientists that study it sais will be safer.
A few things they wanted to address:
- Pressure, the new reactor principles work on low pressure to avoid blowouts
- Heat, the new reactors have a higher tolerance for heat, and are self-regulating in that increased heat slows down the reaction instead of accellerating it.
- Shutdown, the new reactors have a inherently safe powerloss-state where a full powerloss and lack of cooling will shut the ractor down safely by draining the working-medium out of the reactor and into the emergency dump tanks where the fuel is stored in a non-critical configuration meaning it will cool down by itself and due to the higher thermal allowances the tanks can contain it safely while this happens.
- Fuel source, Due to the nature of the fuel source it will be cheaper to extract, and more countrys have abundant supplies. (Many don't like this ofcource as it's not how they like to make money.)
Hey, I just provide a solution.
If you want me to fix all the kinks too, that will cost extra.
But seriously, if this can lead the way to open platforms that are well documented allowing OS-merchants to actually support them easily, then it's a win-win.
Really though, HTC can still support their users while using a open OS like that, even though they do not themselves supply it. It's open after all.
In fact, let me outline a procedure here, right now to prevent it from being patented by some moron:
User-selectable operating-system on a mobile phone or computing-platform with non-preloaded operating-systems.
A deployment-method for a product wherein the user can select an operating-system online, download it and have it transferred to the phone via their own computer or via the phone itself(!) without any os-specific components being preinstalled on the device.
This can be accomplished via a universal and openly documented bootloader-like system which can (but is not limited to) find an operating-system on the device and start it. Other functionality may be direct web-browsing and self-downloading of any publically available operating-system or a paid system through portals/networks for this task.
Outlet-stores may offer this downloading as a free service or at a charge, but any OS-choice is the users sole responsibility as long as this has been made clear to the customer in advance.
The outlined procedure is posted in the public domain and is considered free to use. No sole right to it's use can be claimed and no patents filed unless already filed. I did not read any such patents, nor be aware of them at the time of writing this and it comes as obvious to me that this is not patentable. If you run a journal accepted by the patent-animals, please feel free to cite this to make sure this is not lost as prior art. Any patent applications not yet approved would "appreciate" a referral aswell to make sure they are never approved.
Marketing is done discretely. Like saying "No, you can only buy 1 iPad."
There is also the "You can't afford this." and the "For successfull people only." lines that you either hear about, read about or deduct yourself based on carefully placed bits of information designed to make you react in the classic "Oooh, shiney! I want one."-way. They are not alone in this, but they are incredibly good at it.
You can infact polish a turd.
This is from Mythbusters showing exactly this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
I am not claiming apple products are polished turds, but polished they are, and gold they ain't.
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I wonder if Americans are surprised on a daily basis that there is life outside the US.
There are no borders on the Internet, except the ones between gross, creepy and simply unnatural and they are fuzzy at best.
Basically, it's too late to stop downloading and streaming. Consumers are not passively accepting networks scheduling any more.
They must understand they are now selling content, not a continous shedule. People will pick what they want to watch and everything else is nicely filtered out by their PVR's or simply not downloaded.
Give users a proper option with easy subscriptions and a system that works for distribution and they will pay. That means no insane prices where a simple episode cost the same as a month of network tv, nor a 1-time watch deal where you only have access to your episode for 6 or 24 hours. A proper service that allows the user to be informed about new shows and series as well as keep track of what shows are ready to watch and what have already been watched.
It also means actually supplying a lot of content, not just a few select series that don't sell well on dvd anymore.
It is not hard, and the pirates have already laid down the groundwork. No ammount of legislation will force users back on old schedules again, it's time to step up and meet the demand.
We can build it inside a mountain somewhere so even the fanatics feel safe and then we can start burning nuclear waste!
Then we export the energy as electricity and in just a few years we build up another fund bigger than the oil fund!
Hmm, does nuclear fund or electricity fund sound best? Or maby just e-fund.
Sure it will cost a tad to build the plant, but we'd ofcource charge for receiving the nuclear waste we'll partially use as fuel to offset that...
Can you be sure your hard work will even reach the appstore? They change the rules of what is accepted every day.
Can you compile an app and send it to 20 ppl to test, or deliver it privately to a customer? Can you be sure that the devtool isn't sending information of your top secret app to be delivered directly to customer (and owned by your customer) to Apple?
Btw, I never moaned about what you say.
I also didn't mean closed as in source. Nor secret as in undocumented hardware or api. It was more of a "not allowed to" reference.
As for transfering the built app... You have to use itunes while on android you can simply copy a file via any mass storage compatible system. The same goes for your music and you can sync with as many computers as you want and even use your device to keep the comps synced. (rsync anyone?)
And every month someone with a autowelder comes and closes it again.
He also removes any addons you may have installed and makes sure the welds are stronger this time.
Btw, my friend tried to park his iCar in my garage and iGarage wanted to erase the tapes in his 8-track and glovebox.
Will I have to install a new carport to avoid it (tinker?) or will someone relax a bit soon?
Thankyou! You seem to be the only one getting it...
Mods! Attention please! This guy actually gets it! Mod up please!
I feel the iStuff (tm?) is suited for people who need to be told they are special and successfull. Btw, would you buy a extra large rubber bumper for your car to avoid it breaking from a slight ding or would you rather it be designed to actually withstand normal use? Would you have bought it if it had been designed with that rubber bumper prefitted and non-removeable instead?
That being said. I do agree on one point, stuff needs to work out of the box.
When it comes to android stuff I have never been dissappointed and never had to tinker to get it working. I have however never been prevented from distributing my app to my customers without apple requiring payment either.
Err 5GB.
6GB wouldn't store more than half a game would it?
That is exactly how I feel the ipad is. Polished on the outside, secret on the inside and I am not allowed to peek inside nor add any update not approved by the manufacturer and without paying the manufacturer a piece of the update-price.
Oh, and the ipad comes without a passanger-seat and lighter-plug meaning if someone wants a ride, they have to take my seat, and I can't plug in anything.
First off, I never said they would be able to do this via screens.
Secondly, peopel are already moving away from shutterglasses. Polarized glasses give just as good a experience but at a fraction of the cost allowing larger audiences.
You are ofcource right though. Every user needs custom content and as such delivery will probably have to be a personal viewer.
To allow for correct depth focus and parralax from tracking eyes you need to render the image for each user. It is not enough to just tweak it.
This means you can't *film* a movie in 3D, you have to create it and have it rendered in real time.
It will happen, just not quite yet...
Not true.
This new web crap has the opportunity of brilliant DOS attacks on both servers and your machine.
You can easily bog it down so it becomes nearly unusable with a linked ad or a poorly written snippet trying to utilize thet silly canvas.
It is, as mentioned before unnecessary and a solution to a non-existant problem.
If your pdf reader takes time to load, I suggest you try something proper like windows, or upgrade your computer.
You may also want to unload that silly pdf reader from the third party and load a proper one that works while giving you searchability and zoom in the schematics too.
If anything this is to justify the whole new web crappola. In all fairness, it is development and change for development and change's sake. Nothing more. It creates work as buisinesses get orders from "upstairs" to port their solution to yet another new solution. Hopefully they will be done before they need to go to the next one.
I for one would like to know how many don't want one, regardless of changes.
I assume it will still be overpriced and hyped as well as limited and very easy to break.
By increasing the number-crunching we increase the power requirements of the CPU and the energy in, and heat out.
This much is self-evident.
However, is number-crunching work? If so how much work?
Feeding n watts into a system and crunching math at m mips. Does that leave us with n-k*m power out where k is some magic constant not necessarily unrelated to m already and varying with the machine?
Do you then want a low k-factor or will they simply increase the power in so that you don't freeze?
Come now, Note my id... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/homologene/105311 FTW or just koinkidink?
Classic examples of microstransactions gone wrong.
The games are free, and you can buy clothing/apparal with "credits" you earn as a soldier. However, they need to make money too, so the ithems you buy are always time limited to only a day or 3. For longer periods or permanent purchases you need to spend real money which you have exchanged for battlefunds.
This is all fine, except that the more powerfull weapons are ONLY purchasable via battlefunds, making them inaccessible to those without a creditcard or not wanting to spend more any or money. The kids running around with dads creditcard now starts ruening the gameplay by buying the most insane weapons and prancing around like invincable nitwits. Using healing-items like they were tictacs and blasting everyone away on first shot with some insane cannon costing around $20 or more.
With such microtransactions in play there is always the temptation to alter gameplay, prices and items to try and make more money. This is almost always viewed by the players as unfair as the items they invest in suddently become low-ranking tinkertoys to the new silly stuff they add. Oh, and you may not sell em back/trade so you can't get any money back. (Heroes is actually the worst as the purchasable weapons are a lot more powerfull than free ones.)
Isn't this like the game "go fish"?
Have any cat fanatics? 10!
Have any porn addicts? 10000!
And every response or query about more information, or even downloading of image-data for the ad, outs the users targeted by the bank on behalf of the banks spam-client.
If you can be accomplice to murder, you can sell private information by proxy too.
To keep my e-banking card in.
Yes there appears to be safer designs. The problem is, they haven't been used as much as so are considered less safe. Basically unknown = unsafe in nuclear industry. They want stats and numbers so they can take a "calculated risk" rather than trust in something all scientists that study it sais will be safer.
A few things they wanted to address:
- Pressure, the new reactor principles work on low pressure to avoid blowouts
- Heat, the new reactors have a higher tolerance for heat, and are self-regulating in that increased heat slows down the reaction instead of accellerating it.
- Shutdown, the new reactors have a inherently safe powerloss-state where a full powerloss and lack of cooling will shut the ractor down safely by draining the working-medium out of the reactor and into the emergency dump tanks where the fuel is stored in a non-critical configuration meaning it will cool down by itself and due to the higher thermal allowances the tanks can contain it safely while this happens.
- Fuel source, Due to the nature of the fuel source it will be cheaper to extract, and more countrys have abundant supplies. (Many don't like this ofcource as it's not how they like to make money.)
Probably others too, but those were off the top of my head.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment to get some idea of what has been going on.
For a quick 16 min intro to the principles watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk
It's quite interesting how little funding and research went into this compared to the classic wepons grade reactor...
The patent shows a SLECTOR whatever that is.
I suggest they use a MUX or SELECTOR instead. Or atleast describe their solutions as using one.
Hey, I just provide a solution.
If you want me to fix all the kinks too, that will cost extra.
But seriously, if this can lead the way to open platforms that are well documented allowing OS-merchants to actually support them easily, then it's a win-win.
Really though, HTC can still support their users while using a open OS like that, even though they do not themselves supply it. It's open after all.
Let it be up to the user what to run on it!
In fact, let me outline a procedure here, right now to prevent it from being patented by some moron:
User-selectable operating-system on a mobile phone or computing-platform with non-preloaded operating-systems.
A deployment-method for a product wherein the user can select an operating-system online, download it and have it transferred to the phone via their own computer or via the phone itself(!) without any os-specific components being preinstalled on the device.
This can be accomplished via a universal and openly documented bootloader-like system which can (but is not limited to) find an operating-system on the device and start it. Other functionality may be direct web-browsing and self-downloading of any publically available operating-system or a paid system through portals/networks for this task.
Outlet-stores may offer this downloading as a free service or at a charge, but any OS-choice is the users sole responsibility as long as this has been made clear to the customer in advance.
The outlined procedure is posted in the public domain and is considered free to use. No sole right to it's use can be claimed and no patents filed unless already filed. I did not read any such patents, nor be aware of them at the time of writing this and it comes as obvious to me that this is not patentable. If you run a journal accepted by the patent-animals, please feel free to cite this to make sure this is not lost as prior art. Any patent applications not yet approved would "appreciate" a referral aswell to make sure they are never approved.
Marketing is done discretely. Like saying "No, you can only buy 1 iPad."
There is also the "You can't afford this." and the "For successfull people only." lines that you either hear about, read about or deduct yourself based on carefully placed bits of information designed to make you react in the classic "Oooh, shiney! I want one."-way. They are not alone in this, but they are incredibly good at it.
You can infact polish a turd.
This is from Mythbusters showing exactly this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
I am not claiming apple products are polished turds, but polished they are, and gold they ain't.