A 'communist' OS (whose developers are paid by capitalist companies) in a 'communist' web browser (the development of which is funded by Google, a capitalist company).
In the EU, the seller would charge the VAT rate of the country they operate out of - so there's only one rate to be concerned with. Also, I don't know whether this applies to other countries in the EU, but sellers only have to charge VAT when they're annual sales exceed ~£80,000 in the UK.
I think the treatment of DigiNotar vs Comodo is really an issue of 'too big to fail'. Removing DigiNotar was essentially a painless exercise because nobody used their certs. I very much doubt they would follow the same course of action for a major player such as Comodo.
Taiyo Yuden claims a 70 year shelf life, but they have only been around for what, 8 years tops?
The company itself has been around for 60 years. Granted, they haven't been optical discs for all that time, however their oldest discs are coming up for 30 years now, so there should be some indicator of quality by now.
There are a ton of free (cost & licence) applications for Windows. For almost every Linux application, there will be an open source equivalent for Windows, often the exact same program.
Do you know why most of the applications in the Ubuntu package manager are free? Because almost nobody develops commercial software for Linux.
As to the cost of Android apps, Google only takes their cut if you sell through them. Unlike Apple's ecosystem, you have the choice to distribute through other marketplaces or just by throwing the APK online for people to download. I don't know if Google restricts the licences of apps distributed through their market, but no one can stop you releasing the source if you're distributing the app yourself.
Android is, for the most part, open source. As for other distros, perhaps you've heard of CyanogenMod?
Anyone can develop for Android. For free. Here's the SDK for you. And as I mentioned, you can freely distribute the APK once you've finished.
The latest reports claim 500,000 units per day, which is up from 300,000/day at the end of last year and 160,000/day from a year ago. If Microsoft could get $10 per phone at those numbers, that's almost $2 billion a year in effectively pure profit, or around 10% of their yearly profit. And in all likelihood Android's numbers are only going to continue growing.
There is no draft in the UK and the majority of countries in the EU (and I believe there's a civilian alternative in those countries which do practice conscription).
Well, yes, it's technically voluntary for ISPs to implement the blacklist. But the previous government essentially threatened to make it mandatory unless every ISP 'voluntarily' adopted it.
A collection of location data points that includes cell towers and WiFi access points, which generally have a range of less than 100 feet. In areas with higher population densities, there are usually multiple cell towers per square mile, which makes it incredibly misleading to drop the 100 mile figure.
Presumably the difference is that everybody uses PDFs and Javascript, but nobody uses [FOSS codec of choice], so there is greater value to the average user in including that former two rather than the latter.
The significant cost of rolling out a cable infrastructure is probably the barrier to entry, not government regulation. If you want a 20Mb unrestricted connection, you can get it. It'd be a leased line, and cost £500-£1000 per month, as opposed to the £45/month for Virgin's top end 100Mb down/10Mb up offering.
Virgin Media are pretty open with their limits; they've got a whole page here which details the limits, after which they reduce your speed by 75% - the highest end connection is uncapped. In my experience though, what it doesn't list on that page that it seems to screw with the latency after you've been capped, I've had ping times all over the place.
In terms of 'unlimited' connections, Virgin Media are the most transparent with their limits, most other providers resort to a fair use policy without any hard numbers given.
Search for 'download openssh' - you know, the order which makes more sense in English - and the results from Google and Bing are almost identical with openssh.com at the top.
But Android isn't competing in the non smartphone segment, so while the article may be misleading, the comparison is still apt. As smartphone adoption increases, Nokia becomes less relevant, deciding to bank on selling the same old phones they've had for 10 years in developing markets until what? Smart phone OSes are developed further, smartphones themselves become cheaper and kill their marketshare completely?
Because technical superiority isn't the only factor? Obviously, you can use anything you want. As can Google, and they've obviously decided not to support H.264 any more, at least in their browser.
The obvious reason for moving away from H.264 is financial cost. Somebody has to pay for the H.264 patent licences, and Google can't rely on the user having Quicktime installed. Users such as, for instance, a Linux user. Or an Android or Chrome OS user. So Google foots the cost of the patent licence. Obviously by supporting H.264 in their software, they are encouraging the proliferation of a patent encumbered algorithm. And what if MPEG-LA decides to change the licencing conditions or substantially increases the cost of licencing at some time in the future? And of course they need to pay the licence fee because of the threat of litigation, and it'll be a lot more painful to remove support when H.264 is de-facto standard for HTML5 video. Software patents are enforceable in the US, and bear in mind that the H.264 patent holders include Microsoft and Apple, who don't exactly have many reasons to go lightly on Google. Even if they win the suit, it can be dragged out for many years and cost them potentially hundreds of millions.
There is also an ideological aspect to it, and just general common sense. Why support a patent-encumbered format when there is an almost as good open source, patent-free format owned by them?
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A 'communist' OS (whose developers are paid by capitalist companies) in a 'communist' web browser (the development of which is funded by Google, a capitalist company).
Ugh. Their.
In the EU, the seller would charge the VAT rate of the country they operate out of - so there's only one rate to be concerned with. Also, I don't know whether this applies to other countries in the EU, but sellers only have to charge VAT when they're annual sales exceed ~£80,000 in the UK.
Someone else gets to take the financial risk?
They advertise one year 'complimentary support', as perfectly illustrated on their store pages for AppleCare.
Probably because Verizon are selling the 32GB version, whereas only the 16GB version is available in the UK
Chrome does this for a number of plugins, including Java.
I think the treatment of DigiNotar vs Comodo is really an issue of 'too big to fail'. Removing DigiNotar was essentially a painless exercise because nobody used their certs. I very much doubt they would follow the same course of action for a major player such as Comodo.
Ninite is a similar product with a wider range of software, although they charge $10 per year for their automatic updater.
The company itself has been around for 60 years. Granted, they haven't been optical discs for all that time, however their oldest discs are coming up for 30 years now, so there should be some indicator of quality by now.
The latest reports claim 500,000 units per day , which is up from 300,000/day at the end of last year and 160,000/day from a year ago. If Microsoft could get $10 per phone at those numbers, that's almost $2 billion a year in effectively pure profit, or around 10% of their yearly profit. And in all likelihood Android's numbers are only going to continue growing.
The wholesale cost of roaming data is capped at 0.5 EUR/MB, but providers are under no obligation to pass savings on to customers.
Why would Mike at Computerworld submit a link the release notes? He doesn't get pageviews that way.
There is no draft in the UK and the majority of countries in the EU (and I believe there's a civilian alternative in those countries which do practice conscription).
Well, yes, it's technically voluntary for ISPs to implement the blacklist. But the previous government essentially threatened to make it mandatory unless every ISP 'voluntarily' adopted it.
A collection of location data points that includes cell towers and WiFi access points, which generally have a range of less than 100 feet. In areas with higher population densities, there are usually multiple cell towers per square mile, which makes it incredibly misleading to drop the 100 mile figure.
Presumably the difference is that everybody uses PDFs and Javascript, but nobody uses [FOSS codec of choice], so there is greater value to the average user in including that former two rather than the latter.
The significant cost of rolling out a cable infrastructure is probably the barrier to entry, not government regulation. If you want a 20Mb unrestricted connection, you can get it. It'd be a leased line, and cost £500-£1000 per month, as opposed to the £45/month for Virgin's top end 100Mb down/10Mb up offering.
QWERTZ keyboard perhaps? In which case, 'a' would be above the 'y' key.
So... you want a Windows based tablet then? The kind which have been available for many years, and nobody bought.
Virgin Media are pretty open with their limits; they've got a whole page here which details the limits, after which they reduce your speed by 75% - the highest end connection is uncapped. In my experience though, what it doesn't list on that page that it seems to screw with the latency after you've been capped, I've had ping times all over the place.
In terms of 'unlimited' connections, Virgin Media are the most transparent with their limits, most other providers resort to a fair use policy without any hard numbers given.
Search for 'download openssh' - you know, the order which makes more sense in English - and the results from Google and Bing are almost identical with openssh.com at the top.
But Android isn't competing in the non smartphone segment, so while the article may be misleading, the comparison is still apt. As smartphone adoption increases, Nokia becomes less relevant, deciding to bank on selling the same old phones they've had for 10 years in developing markets until what? Smart phone OSes are developed further, smartphones themselves become cheaper and kill their marketshare completely?
Because technical superiority isn't the only factor? Obviously, you can use anything you want. As can Google, and they've obviously decided not to support H.264 any more, at least in their browser.
The obvious reason for moving away from H.264 is financial cost. Somebody has to pay for the H.264 patent licences, and Google can't rely on the user having Quicktime installed. Users such as, for instance, a Linux user. Or an Android or Chrome OS user. So Google foots the cost of the patent licence. Obviously by supporting H.264 in their software, they are encouraging the proliferation of a patent encumbered algorithm. And what if MPEG-LA decides to change the licencing conditions or substantially increases the cost of licencing at some time in the future? And of course they need to pay the licence fee because of the threat of litigation, and it'll be a lot more painful to remove support when H.264 is de-facto standard for HTML5 video. Software patents are enforceable in the US, and bear in mind that the H.264 patent holders include Microsoft and Apple, who don't exactly have many reasons to go lightly on Google. Even if they win the suit, it can be dragged out for many years and cost them potentially hundreds of millions.
There is also an ideological aspect to it, and just general common sense. Why support a patent-encumbered format when there is an almost as good open source, patent-free format owned by them?