I save all my Office documents in the old format -.doc,.ppt,.xls. I do that for two reasons: backwards compatibility, which matters to some of my colleagues and international collaborators, and compatibility with the version of Office I have at home.
I guess there are more people like me, that need to cooperate with people around the world, and cannot expect that everyone has paid the Microsoft tax recently.
Even Google said that Samsung was probably making their products look a little too much like the iPhone.
Because Google assumed Apple would go after Samsung on ridiculous grounds, like rounded corners and icons in a grid. That doesn't make Apple's grounds legitimate.
And then you've got the Nokia Lumia series, which not only doesn't infringe (and is a design that Apple themselves used to show that you can build a non-infringing phone), it's far and away the most beautiful phone design on the market today, in my mind. I WISH Apple would make something that looks like that. (I like my iPhone 4, but that Lumia really does look amazing.)
Oh, and the Windows phone OS design is ALSO an indication that you can build something that isn't anything close to the iOS design.
Apple knows damn well that Windows Phone doesn't pose any threat to their dominant position. Add to that the fact that Apple and Microsoft invested together in the establishment of a gigantic patent troll, and then you see how Apple would want to pretend like there is a competitor that "doesn't infringe". Let's conveniently forget the fact that the Samsung Galaxy S III was designed from top to bottom not to infringe in any of Apple's ridiculous patents, and yet Apple still wants it banned from the US market.
I think the actual issue is that we might be thinking about what infrastructure is needed for this in the wrong way.
I don't currently own a car (lucky enough to live in a London suburb with great public transport), but if I did, then an electric vehicle would make a lot of sense for what I'd use it for - short shopping trips and the like. However, the apartment complex I live in has no charging facilities in its car-park, so even though I own a parking space there (which currently sits empty), I'd have no way of charging one. Getting charging facilities installed would be seriously expensive.
I've often wondered if the conceptual model we use for electric cars isn't the wrong one. The current assumption is that when you buy an electric car, you also buy and own the battery, and you are responsible for keeping it charged.
Now - maybe there are umpteen good reasons why this couldn't work - but has anybody ever tried a different approach? I'm talking about a model where the cars have easily-swapped batteries, which the driver leases, rather than owning. So... you buy your car and you pay an upfront deposit for the lease of a battery. When your battery runs low, you go into a gas station (or in this case, gas/charging station), the battery gets removed and replaced by a fresh one from the station's "charging room".
You pay a fee to the station covering your share of its electricity costs for charging the battery plus whatever profit margin it requires (much like paying for your gas at the moment), and you drive off a few minutes after arriving. Meanwhile, "your" old battery is charged up at the station and swapped with another customer's empty battery once it's finished recharging. This eliminates a lot of the charge-time complaints associated with electric vehicles at the moment and also means that we don't need charging points in homes or at the roadside.
I'm sure there must be good reasons why this wouldn't work, given it never seems to get consideration - but what are they?
Of course Apple doesn't _need_ that money. The money is a welcome side effect. What Apple wants is to stop Samsung from making phones that copy iPhone features by making it expensive for them. And there isn't only this patent case, there have been reports quite recently that Apple has moved some major orders for memory and for displays from Samsung to other manufacturers, which will also cost them money.
And the plan seems to be working. At least if you look at Samsung's Galaxy adverts that seem to become more and more desperate. I wonder what happens at Samsung internally. If I was the guy at Samsung responsible for producing and selling components to the whole world, I'd want to punch the guy responsible for selling smartphones right in the face.
Re-redub their version to make the group's religious message blasphemous to Islamists.
Two issues with this: I actually watched the three videos linked in TFS, and saw that the religious group/association did more than just re-dub one of the videos. It's a derivative work, sure, but they didn't use the video as-is.
The other problem is a bit more practical: if the OP were to do what you suggest, eventually it would be found out that it's actually him who did the blasphemous dub, and that would put his life at risk.
Now that Unity has gained Ubuntu such a great usage/market share and cemented user loyalty, Canonical can bring home the moolah by integrating Amazon ads with Unity.
(This pas was written in an alternative universe where the above makes sense)
I bought the same $45 Android tablet for the missus' birthday off of AliExpress; it came with Android 4.0, and shipping cost $20 more. It has (almost) everything the original Kindle Fire had, but with better battery life, and minus the DRM or spamvertising.
I've been browsing the tablets on AliExpress for a while, but there's such a cornucopia of 'em, I can't make up my mind. Plus, it's hard to tell which one is reliable. I was looking at buying one for my son to play with. Are you satisfied with yours? Could you please tell me what brand/model it is? You could make a dad's life 10% easier.
There's this common perception that throwing money at education will solve the problem. History has shown that this isnt true. Why is it that charter schools get better results with fewer resources? It's simple: they don't have teachers unions. Teachers unions allow them to get high pay for doing a shit job.
Dafuq? I live in Finland, where teachers are 100% unionized, and our unions have some muscle, and flex it from time to time. And yet Finland has one of the best education systems in the world, based on results.
For me, the year of linux on desktops is now. With Steam coming to Linux [steampowered.com], along with Crossover and pure Linux-ported games, the inevitable has happened. I'm glad Visual Studio [microsoft.com] also runs perfectly on Wine (I'm also making sure to have a party with my friends on Visual Studio 2012 Virtual Launch Party, where thousands of geeks around the globe connect together to party the release of latest Visual Studio).
A bit of "linux on the desktop" ass-licking, followed by a big, fat Visual Studio plug.
Ladies and gents, we have a shill. A very smart one, but a shill none the less. Modded up by a few other plants, no doubt.
2. Android is "open", so they could probably go the Amazon route, fork Android,
Well gee wiz knock me out with a feather! That is the whole point. Amazon is happily their thing, garden-walled a version of Android and Google lets them. But Google doesn't need to provide assistance for purposefully fragmenting Android.
In Firefox OS, the window manager is an HTML page. Gecko (that is, Firefox) shows the window manager. All your apps, are iframes (with special attributes on them). The browser is an app (a special iframe). The browser's tabs are more special iframes inside the browser iframe. There are a lot of iframes in Firefox OS.
To me, an outsider, this still sounds like ChromeOS, just with a slightly different implementation and nomenclature.
As an end user you shouldn't have to care, but when the upstream guys haven't done their work and you can't access newpopularsoscialsite.com, which is IPv6 only, then you start getting annoyed
He married an 8-year old for political reasons, but stayed married to her long after she reached maturity. If he was a pedophile, would he not have ditched her for another child instead?
Married her when she was 6 and consumed the marriage when she was 9.
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I save all my Office documents in the old format - .doc, .ppt, .xls. I do that for two reasons: backwards compatibility, which matters to some of my colleagues and international collaborators, and compatibility with the version of Office I have at home.
I guess there are more people like me, that need to cooperate with people around the world, and cannot expect that everyone has paid the Microsoft tax recently.
No thanks. The GPS in the Nexus 7 makes it a much more useful device, for people on the go such as me.
Especially if you have the tendency to get lost while bicycling around town.... as I do :/
Good choice, considering that neither the Amazon nor the BN tablets have GPS.
The Nexus 7 does, though!
I think ClamWin is a pretty bad recommendation given that last time I checked it lacked an on-demand scanner.
Huh? I've been using CleWin for 3 years now, and it always had on-demand scanning.
It's free (as in beer) and open-source. It's also very light-weight and works and updates without a hitch.
Even Google said that Samsung was probably making their products look a little too much like the iPhone.
Because Google assumed Apple would go after Samsung on ridiculous grounds, like rounded corners and icons in a grid. That doesn't make Apple's grounds legitimate.
And then you've got the Nokia Lumia series, which not only doesn't infringe (and is a design that Apple themselves used to show that you can build a non-infringing phone), it's far and away the most beautiful phone design on the market today, in my mind. I WISH Apple would make something that looks like that. (I like my iPhone 4, but that Lumia really does look amazing.)
Oh, and the Windows phone OS design is ALSO an indication that you can build something that isn't anything close to the iOS design.
Apple knows damn well that Windows Phone doesn't pose any threat to their dominant position. Add to that the fact that Apple and Microsoft invested together in the establishment of a gigantic patent troll, and then you see how Apple would want to pretend like there is a competitor that "doesn't infringe". Let's conveniently forget the fact that the Samsung Galaxy S III was designed from top to bottom not to infringe in any of Apple's ridiculous patents, and yet Apple still wants it banned from the US market.
I think the actual issue is that we might be thinking about what infrastructure is needed for this in the wrong way.
I don't currently own a car (lucky enough to live in a London suburb with great public transport), but if I did, then an electric vehicle would make a lot of sense for what I'd use it for - short shopping trips and the like. However, the apartment complex I live in has no charging facilities in its car-park, so even though I own a parking space there (which currently sits empty), I'd have no way of charging one. Getting charging facilities installed would be seriously expensive.
I've often wondered if the conceptual model we use for electric cars isn't the wrong one. The current assumption is that when you buy an electric car, you also buy and own the battery, and you are responsible for keeping it charged.
Now - maybe there are umpteen good reasons why this couldn't work - but has anybody ever tried a different approach? I'm talking about a model where the cars have easily-swapped batteries, which the driver leases, rather than owning. So... you buy your car and you pay an upfront deposit for the lease of a battery. When your battery runs low, you go into a gas station (or in this case, gas/charging station), the battery gets removed and replaced by a fresh one from the station's "charging room".
You pay a fee to the station covering your share of its electricity costs for charging the battery plus whatever profit margin it requires (much like paying for your gas at the moment), and you drive off a few minutes after arriving. Meanwhile, "your" old battery is charged up at the station and swapped with another customer's empty battery once it's finished recharging. This eliminates a lot of the charge-time complaints associated with electric vehicles at the moment and also means that we don't need charging points in homes or at the roadside.
I'm sure there must be good reasons why this wouldn't work, given it never seems to get consideration - but what are they?
It's a pity nobody thought about this.
Of course Apple doesn't _need_ that money. The money is a welcome side effect. What Apple wants is to stop Samsung from making phones that copy iPhone features by making it expensive for them. And there isn't only this patent case, there have been reports quite recently that Apple has moved some major orders for memory and for displays from Samsung to other manufacturers, which will also cost them money.
And the plan seems to be working. At least if you look at Samsung's Galaxy adverts that seem to become more and more desperate. I wonder what happens at Samsung internally. If I was the guy at Samsung responsible for producing and selling components to the whole world, I'd want to punch the guy responsible for selling smartphones right in the face.
What a flaming Apple fanboy.
Tone it down a notch, maybe?
in much the same way that the steam that rises from a boiling pot is hotter than the water in the pot.
While I agree with the content of your post, I must point out that the temperatures of the water vapor is exactly the same of the boiling water.
Re-redub their version to make the group's religious message blasphemous to Islamists.
Two issues with this: I actually watched the three videos linked in TFS, and saw that the religious group/association did more than just re-dub one of the videos. It's a derivative work, sure, but they didn't use the video as-is.
The other problem is a bit more practical: if the OP were to do what you suggest, eventually it would be found out that it's actually him who did the blasphemous dub, and that would put his life at risk.
The DMCA Doesn't mean shit outside the USA.
Fuck yeah!
Now that Unity has gained Ubuntu such a great usage/market share and cemented user loyalty, Canonical can bring home the moolah by integrating Amazon ads with Unity.
(This pas was written in an alternative universe where the above makes sense)
Charity = tax status, possible "good feelings" for donatee
Crowdfunding = low value donations en mass for negligable reward, possible "good feelings" for donatee
Correctin: replace "donatee" with "donor". The "donatee" has always good feelings when getting donations.
Thanks. I think I've seen it, but since I was looking for a 10" model, I automatically forgot about it, and the low price.
And was, for similar reasons, assuming that you bought a 10" model as well.
10 word review?
"Dearer"? You mean more expensive?
In NZ and Oz, "dear" is more commonly used than "expensive".
I can imagine a lot of people misreading "Google Spanner" as "Google Spammer".
I bought the same $45 Android tablet for the missus' birthday off of AliExpress; it came with Android 4.0, and shipping cost $20 more. It has (almost) everything the original Kindle Fire had, but with better battery life, and minus the DRM or spamvertising.
I've been browsing the tablets on AliExpress for a while, but there's such a cornucopia of 'em, I can't make up my mind. Plus, it's hard to tell which one is reliable. I was looking at buying one for my son to play with.
Are you satisfied with yours? Could you please tell me what brand/model it is? You could make a dad's life 10% easier.
There's this common perception that throwing money at education will solve the problem. History has shown that this isnt true. Why is it that charter schools get better results with fewer resources? It's simple: they don't have teachers unions. Teachers unions allow them to get high pay for doing a shit job.
Dafuq? I live in Finland, where teachers are 100% unionized, and our unions have some muscle, and flex it from time to time. And yet Finland has one of the best education systems in the world, based on results.
For me, the year of linux on desktops is now. With Steam coming to Linux [steampowered.com], along with Crossover and pure Linux-ported games, the inevitable has happened. I'm glad Visual Studio [microsoft.com] also runs perfectly on Wine (I'm also making sure to have a party with my friends on Visual Studio 2012 Virtual Launch Party, where thousands of geeks around the globe connect together to party the release of latest Visual Studio).
A bit of "linux on the desktop" ass-licking, followed by a big, fat Visual Studio plug.
Ladies and gents, we have a shill. A very smart one, but a shill none the less. Modded up by a few other plants, no doubt.
2. Android is "open", so they could probably go the Amazon route, fork Android,
Well gee wiz knock me out with a feather! That is the whole point. Amazon is happily their thing, garden-walled a version of Android and Google lets them. But Google doesn't need to provide assistance for purposefully fragmenting Android.
With Xen?
In Firefox OS, the window manager is an HTML page. Gecko (that is, Firefox) shows the window manager. All your apps, are iframes (with special attributes on them). The browser is an app (a special iframe). The browser's tabs are more special iframes inside the browser iframe. There are a lot of iframes in Firefox OS.
To me, an outsider, this still sounds like ChromeOS, just with a slightly different implementation and nomenclature.
As an end user you shouldn't have to care, but when the upstream guys haven't done their work and you can't access newpopularsoscialsite.com, which is IPv6 only, then you start getting annoyed
Hey, you misspelled "newpopularsocialsite.com"!.
IPv6 could be the Windows Vista of the IP world.
That was IPv5. We're safe.
He married an 8-year old for political reasons, but stayed married to her long after she reached maturity. If he was a pedophile, would he not have ditched her for another child instead?
Married her when she was 6 and consumed the marriage when she was 9.
I do think he was a pedophile.