Yet IBM does still patent a shitload of actual discoveries. In fact IBM's research department(which is BTW is not the same as R&D) does research not only in IT related areas - basic applied physics, medical research, energy, etc...
Sure... You have to figure out how to install a wheel from a non-Ford approved manufacturer, but you apparently don't need to figure that out when you get one from a Ford approved manufacturer?
If getting a private jet pilot's license would be as easy as getting a driver's license and prices of private jet's would be comparable to cars, then you could say that. Otherwise people just don't have a comparable alternative.
I bet that if Google would give back to the manufacturers some of the money that their handsets produce in app purchases, the handsets would be kept up-to-date longer...
That is the whole point of the argument. iPad is a CONSUMPTION device. PERIOD. Producing stuff on an iPad is like torture or (external keyboard and stand) renders the whole idea of the device useless(takes out mobile out of Mobile Internet Device).
Oh... So you're basically making the iPad into an underpowered, less feature laptop...
And iPad is crap where you have to actually DO something, not just read off the screen. If you just need to read docs, monitor systems and type in some lines of text(IM or a quick email reply) anything beyond, you're much more productive with a MacBook Air or T410s or similar.
Problem with AppStore mentality is that enterprises cannot distribute internal applications without going through public AppStore. Until Apple delivers functionality to have private distribution channels, iPhone and iPad will not "reign supreme" in medium/large enterprises...
Well iPad could have been even more successful if Apple gave more guidance how to use it. 6 months after it's release people started understanding that it's a media consumption device. Result? Only "strong" sales in a market where competition in that class of product is nonexistent....
That is because you are not used to it. When you get used to it, you can easily do budgeting and have spending limits and "feel the money". Granted, you have to check your account often online.
Big stores with corporate accounts pay a monthly fee. Small ones pay 1 to 3 Eur cents per TX. That's almost all over the scandinavian countries and baltic states. There is a terminal cost though...
Well that is a problem of greedy middlemen. Try going to the 3 of the Baltic states and see how properly an effective banking operation is set-up. Even when interacting with a cashier, most of what you have to do is sign. Only in rare cases do you have to fill in something by hand, if you're a customer on file. It's gotten to such a degree, that you may have forgotten your ID and they will allow you to perform some operations because they have a scan of your ID available to them.
Transaction costs is a cover-up. A sign of outdated infrastructure and unwillingness to move forward. Or a better way of paying for the support licenses that Oracle charges...
PS: Taxi rides can be paid using a CC. Every time I'm in Dublin on a business trip I pay with my Visa card for taxi.
Bollocks! And donkeycock!
It's one of those fallacies that your code has to scale to sizes of Facebook. Read less high scalability blogs because it's affecting you....
Your code will be rewritten 100 times in different languages before it will be the centrepiece of anything at Google's scale...
Everybody, meaning you? Yes, the PM does technically run the country, but president is so much powerful... Power in Russia changes hands very slowly. Putin got to his full power as a president only after a few years(reducing the remnants of Yeltsin's era)... Medvedev will acquire that power also, so it looks less and less likely for Putin to make a comeback.
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Yet IBM does still patent a shitload of actual discoveries. In fact IBM's research department(which is BTW is not the same as R&D) does research not only in IT related areas - basic applied physics, medical research, energy, etc...
Well... if you personally don't follow the tech news then it's really not his problem, is it now?
You do know that you can point to another DNS server, don't you? Unless a smart ISP that will just block all DNS queries using deep packet inspection.
Didn't you see the commercials? Kinect is not the controller, you are the controller....
Ever heard of "MS DOS ain't done, till Lotus won't run"? MS has been breaking stuff for a long time to "lock out" competition.
Well, if that space wasn't paid for than I would agree, but the developer license costs $99 per year.
Sure... You have to figure out how to install a wheel from a non-Ford approved manufacturer, but you apparently don't need to figure that out when you get one from a Ford approved manufacturer?
If getting a private jet pilot's license would be as easy as getting a driver's license and prices of private jet's would be comparable to cars, then you could say that. Otherwise people just don't have a comparable alternative.
I bet that if Google would give back to the manufacturers some of the money that their handsets produce in app purchases, the handsets would be kept up-to-date longer...
Sure you can produce on an iPad, just it makes iPad as portable as a nettop.
That is the whole point of the argument. iPad is a CONSUMPTION device. PERIOD. Producing stuff on an iPad is like torture or (external keyboard and stand) renders the whole idea of the device useless(takes out mobile out of Mobile Internet Device).
Oh... So you're basically making the iPad into an underpowered, less feature laptop...
And iPad is crap where you have to actually DO something, not just read off the screen. If you just need to read docs, monitor systems and type in some lines of text(IM or a quick email reply) anything beyond, you're much more productive with a MacBook Air or T410s or similar.
Well if you're watching movies you are no longer a business user, are you now?
But, iPad is primarily a media consumption device. So no wonder...
They are in enterprise multimedia production only. But generally speaking they are a consumer company.
Problem with AppStore mentality is that enterprises cannot distribute internal applications without going through public AppStore. Until Apple delivers functionality to have private distribution channels, iPhone and iPad will not "reign supreme" in medium/large enterprises...
PDF? Really? I wish PDF was the most common doc format... Most stuff that I get is still in crappy Word DOC format!!!!
Well iPad could have been even more successful if Apple gave more guidance how to use it. 6 months after it's release people started understanding that it's a media consumption device. Result? Only "strong" sales in a market where competition in that class of product is nonexistent....
Yet most of iPad owners still quietly complain that it's to damn heavy!* * - brought to you by the Rent is Too Damn High party.
That is because you are not used to it. When you get used to it, you can easily do budgeting and have spending limits and "feel the money". Granted, you have to check your account often online.
Big stores with corporate accounts pay a monthly fee. Small ones pay 1 to 3 Eur cents per TX. That's almost all over the scandinavian countries and baltic states. There is a terminal cost though...
Oh, you mean like you not actually reading that GGP went into an alternative solution exploration in the rest of his post?
Well that is a problem of greedy middlemen. Try going to the 3 of the Baltic states and see how properly an effective banking operation is set-up. Even when interacting with a cashier, most of what you have to do is sign. Only in rare cases do you have to fill in something by hand, if you're a customer on file. It's gotten to such a degree, that you may have forgotten your ID and they will allow you to perform some operations because they have a scan of your ID available to them. Transaction costs is a cover-up. A sign of outdated infrastructure and unwillingness to move forward. Or a better way of paying for the support licenses that Oracle charges... PS: Taxi rides can be paid using a CC. Every time I'm in Dublin on a business trip I pay with my Visa card for taxi.
Bollocks! And donkeycock!
It's one of those fallacies that your code has to scale to sizes of Facebook. Read less high scalability blogs because it's affecting you....
Your code will be rewritten 100 times in different languages before it will be the centrepiece of anything at Google's scale...
Everybody, meaning you? Yes, the PM does technically run the country, but president is so much powerful... Power in Russia changes hands very slowly. Putin got to his full power as a president only after a few years(reducing the remnants of Yeltsin's era)... Medvedev will acquire that power also, so it looks less and less likely for Putin to make a comeback.
If they fired all of their Russian developers than KGB would loose half of their agents in US!