Now explain the USA, the 50 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and their voting, citizenship, taxation and representation....
For much the same reason, they are all old systems evolved over a long period and now have many exceptions...
But the UK Telecom and ISP market is at least competitive, you have multiple carriers and ISP's in all areas, you can change carrier/ISP, and it is relatively easy
Note that Vigin is an ISP, Mobile Network, Cable TV provider, etc...
and Everything Everywhere are what were Orange and T-Mobile run by Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom and are the main carriers of virgin Mobile traffic
This leaves O2 and Hutchison 3G as the only mobile carriers to sign up...
5 Products (all but 2-3 are obsolete) against (after a quick look) more than 100 current products, from more than 10 manufacturers.... how exactly do they delay all of these in all countries ?
So hardware acceleration of image rendering will speed up reading and unpacking files.... amazing I thought it would just speed up the display of graphics...?
This has very little to do with displaying the image, it has a lot to do with reading the files, and unpacking them both of which hardware acceleration will not help with at all...?
Almost everything that needs hardware acceleration to be fast enough already has it, everything else it should be irrelevant, except MS is pushing whizzy graphics on Metro apps - you know those annoying animations that people have been complaining about for years.....
Across the EU there are individual countries laws some of which can cause a takedown however most cannot
Copyright is a civil matter and so it is between the copyright holder and the alleged infringer, the ISP is not involved and have their own policies if they comply with takedown notices or not... none of this is a police matter
Most of the takedown requests are DCMA (mostly mis-applied out of jurisdiction) or cite the wrong law or are badly worded.... so any cleanup of this would be appreciated, but a no cost DMCA like guilty until you can prove otherwise is not a good idea....
Both Google Glass and Kinect are based on well known readily available (to the specialists in the market) concepts and have been done many times before
What is new in both cases is that instead of being a very expensive system sold to large corporations or the military they are small cheap consumer targeted systems..i.e. for the rest of us
There is nothing innovative in the iPhone, Facebook, or twitter , they just won by being the in thing and capturing a wave of popularity, there were plenty of rivals out there but they won the marketing war and got enough people to use it so that everyone else followed
On iPhone your only option is...well you don't get to see the rights the app needs and so you don't know and aren't asked, you just have to trust Apple...
Thus showing that the system depends not on performance but on other metrics that are mostly nothing to do with work
So the people who are good but not willing to play leave The people who are average play the game or leave the poor performers play the game in order to stay employed
So your team ends up with poor performers, some average performers, and maybe one high achiever... and you have lost all the other high achievers and most of the average... and your team performs worst because of this...
As with all performance evaluation systems Be careful what you measure as that will be what people do....
I joined Facebook because a lot of people I know are on it, this is mostly the same reason most people joined, I don't think much of it but my friends are still there, (mostly because so is everyone else)
They would have to seriously annoy their users to lose them, this is what happened to MySpace, and the biggest complaint against Google+ was that "no one is on it"...
Why would you leave Facebook to join another similar system that has only a few of your friends on it...?
Apple are trying to block a competing product on a small number of trivial features, none of these technical patents are must buy features, and the design patent is very hard to argue, there are so many products that looked essentially the same before Apple even took it out...
If any of these were killer features that were the reason people were buying the Apple product then it would be valid, but most people are not even aware that these features exist
The design patent simply allows them to block too similar products that were made the same to intentionally confuse the consumer - The word "SAMSUNG" stamped across the top of the Samsung products might be a bit of a giveaway however....
My car : I can prove I own it, and you don't, so no you can't drive it... Wether it was you who stole it is a matter for the courts...
But this is a physical object, this is a patent, and with all Patents and Copyright cases it is open to interpretation if anyone has even committed a crime or not, this is effectively Apple saying that Samsung have stolen from them, and Samsung saying no we haven't.... and there is little or no proof on either side
Porsche is a German company and so has not signed up to the collective madness of the USA Patents system, instead it is based in a country where software patents are invalid...
Application that is supplied is incompatible - Alternative easily (and in the EU forced to be) available are Chrome, Firefox, Opera all three of which support SVG+SMIL
Platform of PC/OSX or iPhone-iPad/IOS cannot have these installed (thanks to policy of AppStore) so is the only platform that cannot support it (as opposed to does not support out of the box)
*Users* of Linux don't need a CLI... (can be helpful in some cases but they don't need to ever use it) same as in windows
Patching the registry with.REG files is the same as sending a BAT file (which is simply a scripted command line)
There are three reasons why Windows rules the desktop - not quality but availability
1) Business Applications - most do not run on anything but windows 2) Games - most do not run on anything but Windows/Consoles 3) Preinstallation - Most machines come preinstalled with Windows
Note this is a circle, business applications are written for windows because people have windows, people have windows because business apps are written for windows...
...as non-flash animations - how were they made before, as GIF's, or Movies, or using a more modern format
They should be made as SVG animations, notable the only platform that cannot support these are Apple products...(everything else can support, but might not by default)
...and all the people who don't want an all singing all dancing toy of a phone for a large amount of money, buy one of the others... note: this is the majority
Apple make money on phones the same way they make money on Desktop computers, a prestige product for a prestige price, large profit with (relatively) low volume
They are not volume box shifters, and never will be
Apple makes a lot of money selling expensive prestige handsets, just like they made a lot of money selling expensive prestige PC's the actual volume is irrelevant to them
Samsung make a handset with most of the same features and ease of use but it is cheaper
Blackberry was the Microsoft of the market, enterprise focused, with little innovation until they realised they were losing market share
There are the usual other players in the market who have always struggled to make money but still manage to, just like the PC industry, but these are the ones that people actually buy in volume - they never get the headlines but are a steady revenue stream...
Simple solution : If what they do is not losing them customers in droves (as it should) then treat it as the crime it is (fraud, embezzling etc..) and prosecute the person ultimately responsible the head of the company...the buck truly stops there
It might force people to actually run their companies, and put in place systems so they know what is going on and mechanisms to stop things that might land them in jail...
These are open websites, no confidential information, it is just a public facing system
Like people "hacking the FBI" it is meaningless to have access to a website that only provides information, you already have the information before you hacked it...
This is security company scanning websites that don't care and finding they are "insecure" according to their own tool......most of these tools have scary warnings that a system is insecure "in flashing bright red letters" for very minor and largely irrelevant issues
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Now explain the USA, the 50 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and their voting, citizenship, taxation and representation....
For much the same reason, they are all old systems evolved over a long period and now have many exceptions ...
But the UK Telecom and ISP market is at least competitive, you have multiple carriers and ISP's in all areas, you can change carrier/ISP, and it is relatively easy
Note that Vigin is an ISP, Mobile Network, Cable TV provider, etc ...
and Everything Everywhere are what were Orange and T-Mobile run by Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom and are the main carriers of virgin Mobile traffic
This leaves O2 and Hutchison 3G as the only mobile carriers to sign up ...
5 Products (all but 2-3 are obsolete) against (after a quick look) more than 100 current products, from more than 10 manufacturers .... how exactly do they delay all of these in all countries ?
So hardware acceleration of image rendering will speed up reading and unpacking files .... amazing I thought it would just speed up the display of graphics ...?
This has very little to do with displaying the image, it has a lot to do with reading the files, and unpacking them both of which hardware acceleration will not help with at all ...?
Almost everything that needs hardware acceleration to be fast enough already has it, everything else it should be irrelevant, except MS is pushing whizzy graphics on Metro apps - you know those annoying animations that people have been complaining about for years .....
Across the EU there are individual countries laws some of which can cause a takedown however most cannot
Copyright is a civil matter and so it is between the copyright holder and the alleged infringer, the ISP is not involved and have their own policies if they comply with takedown notices or not... none of this is a police matter
Most of the takedown requests are DCMA (mostly mis-applied out of jurisdiction) or cite the wrong law or are badly worded .... so any cleanup of this would be appreciated, but a no cost DMCA like guilty until you can prove otherwise is not a good idea ....
Both Google Glass and Kinect are based on well known readily available (to the specialists in the market) concepts and have been done many times before
What is new in both cases is that instead of being a very expensive system sold to large corporations or the military they are small cheap consumer targeted systems ..i.e. for the rest of us
There is nothing innovative in the iPhone, Facebook, or twitter , they just won by being the in thing and capturing a wave of popularity, there were plenty of rivals out there but they won the marketing war and got enough people to use it so that everyone else followed
On iPhone your only option is ...well you don't get to see the rights the app needs and so you don't know and aren't asked, you just have to trust Apple ...
...Assuming 1m thick it's abound 450 trillion kg
Thus showing that the system depends not on performance but on other metrics that are mostly nothing to do with work
So the people who are good but not willing to play leave
The people who are average play the game or leave
the poor performers play the game in order to stay employed
So your team ends up with poor performers, some average performers, and maybe one high achiever... and you have lost all the other high achievers and most of the average... and your team performs worst because of this ...
As with all performance evaluation systems Be careful what you measure as that will be what people do....
I joined Facebook because a lot of people I know are on it, this is mostly the same reason most people joined, I don't think much of it but my friends are still there, (mostly because so is everyone else)
They would have to seriously annoy their users to lose them, this is what happened to MySpace, and the biggest complaint against Google+ was that "no one is on it" ...
Why would you leave Facebook to join another similar system that has only a few of your friends on it ...?
Apple are trying to block a competing product on a small number of trivial features, none of these technical patents are must buy features, and the design patent is very hard to argue, there are so many products that looked essentially the same before Apple even took it out ...
If any of these were killer features that were the reason people were buying the Apple product then it would be valid, but most people are not even aware that these features exist
The design patent simply allows them to block too similar products that were made the same to intentionally confuse the consumer - The word "SAMSUNG" stamped across the top of the Samsung products might be a bit of a giveaway however ....
My car : I can prove I own it, and you don't, so no you can't drive it ... Wether it was you who stole it is a matter for the courts ...
But this is a physical object, this is a patent, and with all Patents and Copyright cases it is open to interpretation if anyone has even committed a crime or not, this is effectively Apple saying that Samsung have stolen from them, and Samsung saying no we haven't .... and there is little or no proof on either side
Porsche is a German company and so has not signed up to the collective madness of the USA Patents system, instead it is based in a country where software patents are invalid ...
Platform is PC/Windows
Application that is supplied is incompatible - Alternative easily (and in the EU forced to be) available are Chrome, Firefox, Opera all three of which support SVG+SMIL
Platform of PC/OSX or iPhone-iPad/IOS cannot have these installed (thanks to policy of AppStore) so is the only platform that cannot support it (as opposed to does not support out of the box)
*Users* of Linux don't need a CLI ... (can be helpful in some cases but they don't need to ever use it) same as in windows
Patching the registry with .REG files is the same as sending a BAT file (which is simply a scripted command line)
There are three reasons why Windows rules the desktop - not quality but availability
1) Business Applications - most do not run on anything but windows
2) Games - most do not run on anything but Windows/Consoles
3) Preinstallation - Most machines come preinstalled with Windows
Note this is a circle, business applications are written for windows because people have windows, people have windows because business apps are written for windows ...
Firefox and Chrome succeeded for the same reason Linux desktop fails
Can I run Outlook, Can I run (MS) Office ? If the answer to these questions is no, or even No But ... The business user has already stopped listening
Firefox and Chrome can be run without stopping you running these ...
...as non-flash animations - how were they made before, as GIF's, or Movies, or using a more modern format
They should be made as SVG animations, notable the only platform that cannot support these are Apple products ...(everything else can support, but might not by default)
Download Opera Mobile Browser - Works now
iOS needs to catch up ....No Flash, No SVG+SMIL ...
Cars
USA Market which is hard for European and Japanese manufacturers to break into
Chrysler, Ford, GM
Most other countries either do not have a car industry, or have a set of local manufacturers competing mostly in their home market
The exceptions being Germany, and Japan for historical reasons ...
Toilet Paper: Under a variety of names
Kimberly-Clark, Procter & Gamble....
Whiskey and Cheese are specialist markets where a large number of small players can sell a prestige product in very small volumes and stay in business
Now count how many Generic Bulk Cheese and Whiskey manufacturers there are ...
...and all the people who don't want an all singing all dancing toy of a phone for a large amount of money, buy one of the others ... note: this is the majority
Apple make money on phones the same way they make money on Desktop computers, a prestige product for a prestige price, large profit with (relatively) low volume
They are not volume box shifters, and never will be
Apple makes a lot of money selling expensive prestige handsets, just like they made a lot of money selling expensive prestige PC's the actual volume is irrelevant to them
Samsung make a handset with most of the same features and ease of use but it is cheaper
Blackberry was the Microsoft of the market, enterprise focused, with little innovation until they realised they were losing market share
There are the usual other players in the market who have always struggled to make money but still manage to, just like the PC industry, but these are the ones that people actually buy in volume - they never get the headlines but are a steady revenue stream ...
Simple solution : If what they do is not losing them customers in droves (as it should) then treat it as the crime it is (fraud, embezzling etc ..) and prosecute the person ultimately responsible the head of the company...the buck truly stops there
It might force people to actually run their companies, and put in place systems so they know what is going on and mechanisms to stop things that might land them in jail ...
These are open websites, no confidential information, it is just a public facing system
Like people "hacking the FBI" it is meaningless to have access to a website that only provides information, you already have the information before you hacked it ...
This is security company scanning websites that don't care and finding they are "insecure" according to their own tool ... ...most of these tools have scary warnings that a system is insecure "in flashing bright red letters" for very minor and largely irrelevant issues
PC's caught on because they were made from off the shelf hardware, and so could be made by multiple completing companies, and so were cheap ....
IBM designed them, and sold them for huge amounts, until someone realised they could undercut IBM ...