Apple is a company that exists to bilk non computer saavy users out of their money.
Haters gonna hate, I see. Ignoring that a large number of software developers choose Macs over plastic Wintendo or "I'll start coding as soon as I have finished tweaking this Linux config" PCs is probably easy - if you cover you eyes..
Making Growl 1.3 closed and paid-for does not stop Adobe "cold" regarding the BSD-licensed Growl 1.2. Does 1.3 add any significant features that makes it superior in every way to 1.2, or is the version bump just to change the license?
Yes, a copyright complaint form one of the copyright holders got VLC taken off the iOS app store, and THEN the discussion arose about whether GPLed software could be distributed using the app store (given that Apple do not have a mechanism to provide source for apps they distribute binaries for).
One workaround could be that a button in the app sends a mail to you with a link to where you can download the source.
They probably saw how much moolah the American operations were raking in and decided that they wanted in on the copyright racket as well. I mean, claiming losses equal to the GNP of a small country? You cannot let such a chance go unused! They probably are not making as much money on their porn and illegal license key operations as they used to anyway.
I thought pedophiles abused children because of their sexual drives, not because they want to be taken pictures of...
But you are right in some sense: For instance, it has been shown that there is a strong correlation between a rise in reckless driving and TV crews in helicopters filming said reckless driving situations. 15 minutes of fame and all that. But do we take the driver's license from people who enjoy watching Americas Wildest Police Chases?
Possession of child pornography is no different than actual child abuse in my books, because the abusive images came from somewhere and by collecting them, you are providing the "customer demand" for more abuse of children.
1) So watching Americas Wildest Police Chases is equivalent to reckless driving? Observing an act is not the same as performing the act, in ANY circumstances.
2) I thought the sexual abuse followed from a sexual desire in the perpetrators, not from a photographic desire? Plenty of children are sexually abused without a single camera in the vicinity.
3) Child porn laws get extended all the time to e.g. cover drawings, text etc. - witness the American who was detained at the Canadian border for possession of a Japanese manga (comic book) depicting under-age girls.
1) U.S. companies and legislators practically dictate ACTA to cushion the corporate interests of the entertainment industries. 2) ACTA is presented as an "offer you cannot refuse" to the rest of the world. 3) Eventually, ACTA comes back to the U.S. as a treaty, ready to to be signed 4)... then it suddenly might not be acceptable to the people who (in practice) started the whole circus? 5) ??? 6) Confusion!
I also thought it is "required" for photographers to ask for a "model release" if they take recognizable pictures of people.
Not if the pictures are for personal use (e.g. trying out techniques etc.) For commercial use, there is such a clause yes, so that your visage will not adorn a vasectomy clinic ad for instance.
Well, some of the libraries are in C, like Core Graphics and Core Audio; and you can write most of your own code in C++ if you like, but usually have a naming convention where Objective-C++ code (to access objects from the Objective-C world) goes in.mm files instead of.m; you will need a thin-ish Objective-C wrapper since the application lifecycle use those calls; the rest can be done in C/C++ on a graphics context. I think most games that use e.g. the Unreal engine are done primarily in C/C++.
But, yes, Apple make no secret that they prefer you stick to and port to Objective-C for most of the code...
I think the impression devs get is that iOS users are willing to pay, whereas Android users are freeloaders (90% piracy rate anyone?) which makes it pointless to charge there, and instead make an ad-supported version for the fraction of Android users who can "install whatever they want on their device" and that includes ad blockers...
(Sure does not help that Google until recently was slow in making paid apps in their Marketplace available in more countries...)
Hey, can you compute how much 30% of the $0 price of a free app is? Yet they allow free apps there.
Oh, and let us totally forget that Google charges the same 30% in the Android Marketplace. (nothing of which goes to the phone makers). Amazon lets you off with a 10% cut, but then they get to set the price.
You are outdated: The "pure ObjC" clause was dropped months ago, i.e. MonoTouch and that Adobe thing are perfectly legal: Your app just cannot download executable code for non-Apple runtimes from the net (so emulators that ship with the binaries inside are OK).
And why should Objective-C give "a prohibitively high learning curve"? It's relatively straightforward as C-family languages go, as a Java dev I would have far more problems with e.g. modifying an open-source C++ program, but I don't go around blaming the language for it.
... the UN, through the ITU-T, already has its own set of protocols (X.400 et al) it can play around with, instead of giving bad advice to people inventing internet protocols and specifications. The internet does not need you, you are damage.
1) What ideas have they stolen? Do you still believe the myth about Jobs' visit to Xerox? Without bothering to check why Xerox' suit was thrown out? (Apple had paid for access to the tech, unlike Microsoft when Bill Gates went there.) 2) Innovators/inventors should patent their ideas, Apple included. If you want to attack ridiculous patents, go for the XOR cursor patent instead. 3) "Cannot innovate and are losing the tech battle" how exactly? Because they don't bother with a numbers game or wait with implementing tech like LTE until there is a demand for it? 4) Apple are still the target of lawsuits more often than they are the ones suing.
If you go prior to Windows, to the DOS days, they did exactly that - or indirectly: In order to get a major discount on DOS, the vendors had to sell a DOS license with every PC, no matter what OS the customer wanted (e.g. DR-DOS or CP/M). Apple does not have anything like this "Microsoft tax" - I can go into a store with mobile phones and buy a Sony Ericsson device without paying Apple anything - there is no "Apple tax".
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Apple is a company that exists to bilk non computer saavy users out of their money.
Haters gonna hate, I see. Ignoring that a large number of software developers choose Macs over plastic Wintendo or "I'll start coding as soon as I have finished tweaking this Linux config" PCs is probably easy - if you cover you eyes..
It runs World of Warcraft and Minecraft. What other games could you possibly need?
Making Growl 1.3 closed and paid-for does not stop Adobe "cold" regarding the BSD-licensed Growl 1.2. Does 1.3 add any significant features that makes it superior in every way to 1.2, or is the version bump just to change the license?
Yes, a copyright complaint form one of the copyright holders got VLC taken off the iOS app store, and THEN the discussion arose about whether GPLed software could be distributed using the app store (given that Apple do not have a mechanism to provide source for apps they distribute binaries for).
One workaround could be that a button in the app sends a mail to you with a link to where you can download the source.
And let's not forget that password hacking service. Face it, even if the porn had been "normal" these are not Mama's finest boys.
They probably saw how much moolah the American operations were raking in and decided that they wanted in on the copyright racket as well. I mean, claiming losses equal to the GNP of a small country? You cannot let such a chance go unused! They probably are not making as much money on their porn and illegal license key operations as they used to anyway.
In a normal interview it is illegal to ask an applicant's age
So in a job where you need to be 18, they should only hire people who are well over the age limit to avoid risking hiring a minor?
I thought pedophiles abused children because of their sexual drives, not because they want to be taken pictures of...
But you are right in some sense: For instance, it has been shown that there is a strong correlation between a rise in reckless driving and TV crews in helicopters filming said reckless driving situations. 15 minutes of fame and all that. But do we take the driver's license from people who enjoy watching Americas Wildest Police Chases?
Possession of child pornography is no different than actual child abuse in my books, because the abusive images came from somewhere and by collecting them, you are providing the "customer demand" for more abuse of children.
1) So watching Americas Wildest Police Chases is equivalent to reckless driving? Observing an act is not the same as performing the act, in ANY circumstances.
2) I thought the sexual abuse followed from a sexual desire in the perpetrators, not from a photographic desire? Plenty of children are sexually abused without a single camera in the vicinity.
3) Child porn laws get extended all the time to e.g. cover drawings, text etc. - witness the American who was detained at the Canadian border for possession of a Japanese manga (comic book) depicting under-age girls.
Naked and nonnaked nonobscene pictures of women can still turn many people on.
So what? A shoe store window display can turn a shoe fetishist on, should we then cover it up like the porn installation it obviously is?
1) U.S. companies and legislators practically dictate ACTA to cushion the corporate interests of the entertainment industries. ... then it suddenly might not be acceptable to the people who (in practice) started the whole circus?
2) ACTA is presented as an "offer you cannot refuse" to the rest of the world.
3) Eventually, ACTA comes back to the U.S. as a treaty, ready to to be signed
4)
5) ???
6) Confusion!
I also thought it is "required" for photographers to ask for a "model release" if they take recognizable pictures of people.
Not if the pictures are for personal use (e.g. trying out techniques etc.) For commercial use, there is such a clause yes, so that your visage will not adorn a vasectomy clinic ad for instance.
Because the culture of uploading pictures to Facebook makes the society fake and shallow
While the old culture of taking pictures and putting them in albums you showed to every poor visitor was not?
They should start with "0. Rules are void where they conflict with The Fucking Law" though.
What, in the 51st state? Surely it does...
(At least, to the extent the US tries to export its copyright laws through ACTA. you can just assume at some point it will be adopted.)
Well, some of the libraries are in C, like Core Graphics and Core Audio; and you can write most of your own code in C++ if you like, but usually have a naming convention where Objective-C++ code (to access objects from the Objective-C world) goes in .mm files instead of .m; you will need a thin-ish Objective-C wrapper since the application lifecycle use those calls; the rest can be done in C/C++ on a graphics context. I think most games that use e.g. the Unreal engine are done primarily in C/C++.
But, yes, Apple make no secret that they prefer you stick to and port to Objective-C for most of the code...
Most of them do.
- Sony with PS3
- Microsoft with XBox 360, Zune, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 Metro
- Nintendo with Wii, DS, DSi, 3DS...
I think the impression devs get is that iOS users are willing to pay, whereas Android users are freeloaders (90% piracy rate anyone?) which makes it pointless to charge there, and instead make an ad-supported version for the fraction of Android users who can "install whatever they want on their device" and that includes ad blockers...
(Sure does not help that Google until recently was slow in making paid apps in their Marketplace available in more countries...)
Hey, can you compute how much 30% of the $0 price of a free app is? Yet they allow free apps there.
Oh, and let us totally forget that Google charges the same 30% in the Android Marketplace. (nothing of which goes to the phone makers). Amazon lets you off with a 10% cut, but then they get to set the price.
You are outdated: The "pure ObjC" clause was dropped months ago, i.e. MonoTouch and that Adobe thing are perfectly legal: Your app just cannot download executable code for non-Apple runtimes from the net (so emulators that ship with the binaries inside are OK).
And why should Objective-C give "a prohibitively high learning curve"? It's relatively straightforward as C-family languages go, as a Java dev I would have far more problems with e.g. modifying an open-source C++ program, but I don't go around blaming the language for it.
... the UN, through the ITU-T, already has its own set of protocols (X.400 et al) it can play around with, instead of giving bad advice to people inventing internet protocols and specifications. The internet does not need you, you are damage.
1) What ideas have they stolen? Do you still believe the myth about Jobs' visit to Xerox? Without bothering to check why Xerox' suit was thrown out? (Apple had paid for access to the tech, unlike Microsoft when Bill Gates went there.)
2) Innovators/inventors should patent their ideas, Apple included. If you want to attack ridiculous patents, go for the XOR cursor patent instead.
3) "Cannot innovate and are losing the tech battle" how exactly? Because they don't bother with a numbers game or wait with implementing tech like LTE until there is a demand for it?
4) Apple are still the target of lawsuits more often than they are the ones suing.
If you go prior to Windows, to the DOS days, they did exactly that - or indirectly: In order to get a major discount on DOS, the vendors had to sell a DOS license with every PC, no matter what OS the customer wanted (e.g. DR-DOS or CP/M). Apple does not have anything like this "Microsoft tax" - I can go into a store with mobile phones and buy a Sony Ericsson device without paying Apple anything - there is no "Apple tax".
Since I never play online?
Didn't think so...
Well, I guess I could sell just the PSN Pass code to someone...
Crippled? Flash is a stop-gap solution. Stop worshiping Adobe like that.