How? Android is open source, what you need a license for is the (non-open) Google app suite and they can easily replace those with their own. Remember: When you release something as open source, the horse is out of the barn.
Gain WHAT power? They are the fscking Governments! What more power do they need?
If you want to talk about fear mongering, look instead at the "terrorist threat" circus. But the "libertarians" are too busy fighting for the unrestricted rights of corporations to care.
Ah, Heartland Institute, the organization that most clearly shows that "libertarianism" is mostly just "you consumers and politicians should stop being mean to the wonderful mega-corporations".
Then again, I understand your skepticism: It's the same feeling I get whenever someone yells about those "Islamic terrorists" and then it turns out the yeller is a Christian - not exactly a neutral party in the inter-religious struggles.
If you want to see the effect of the "billions of dollars in climate research", turn on the Weather Channel. Also, it does not help that CO2 makes plants grow more if we keep cutting them down and burning them, and learn something about system equilibrium - +1C can be a lot in the right circumstances over time.
No: If mission-critical web app works in browser X and breaks in browser Y, the users will switch to browser X so that they can use the app. Browser Y has then become a liability to those users. Firefox is not a girlfriend, it can be very easily dumped.
Yes, profiling rests on the flawed assumption that someone not matching this "profile" is inherently a nice guy. Would any form of profiling have stopped Timothy McVeigh? Did Irish-Americans see increased scrutiny following his terrorist attack?
No, wasting money on TSA seems to be a hobby among politicians... maybe they will suggest it eventually? When they run out of other ways to spend money?
If the British suddenly must take the blame for Omagh etc., does it not follow that Americans must take the blame for 9/11? After all, would Osama had financed Al Quaida's attack if not for Desert Shield/Desert Storm? Remember, Osama did not care one iota for the secular dictator of Iraq, he got angry because the U.S. use of bases there meant "infidels" were allowed entry to Saudi-Arabia by what he considered a corrupt dynasty.
Apple licenses seem to be trust based. Just copy the damn thing; Apple clearly does not want your money. What are they going to say during an audit? "You should have purchased copies"? Well, "you should have sold me copies".
I guess FCPX is akin to FCE and FCPX plus a bunch of the coming plugins (two - Motion and Compressor - from the start) will be closer to the old and expensive FCP 7 - and closer in price as well...:P
But the lack of support for old formats is a big mistake. It's almost the same as if they had launched the Intel-based Macs without the Rosetta software to let them run existing PowerPC binaries... I expect an importer plugin is under development as we speak. Third-party developers have access to SDKs, it seems.
No, but you cannot buy new FCP 7 licenses for any new hires either since Apple have removed it from their store. However, since Apple's licenses are trust-based I guess you can just install copies freely since Apple no longer wants your money...:)
Why? When Android fans push their collective market share compared to Apple and RIM, they scoff when it is pointed out there is not one Android phone but a multitude. (As in: Each of those manufacturers compete with the others, a sale of an Xperia Play does not help Samsung one bit.) So if "Android" is supposed to be treated as one platform THEN, the Android fans should accept that Android is treated as one platform NOW.
Stop your Adobe worship. Flash is dying a well-deserved death, Facebook will be targeting HTML 5 in the future and the YouTube app deals with the other part.
"Oh noes, I do not get annoying ads on my iPad, it must be broken!"
Ah, that would explain why a shedload of Google and Sun employees use Macs. Or wait, it doesn't, it's just an AC spouting the usual stereotype ridicule.
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How? Android is open source, what you need a license for is the (non-open) Google app suite and they can easily replace those with their own. Remember: When you release something as open source, the horse is out of the barn.
You will be hard pressed to find a time line or alternative universe in which the Galaxy II predates the iPhone.
If you are thinking of the earlier Samsung phone that was dragged out as "proof", that too was preceded by the iPhone announcement by a few months.
Gain WHAT power? They are the fscking Governments! What more power do they need?
If you want to talk about fear mongering, look instead at the "terrorist threat" circus. But the "libertarians" are too busy fighting for the unrestricted rights of corporations to care.
Ah, Heartland Institute, the organization that most clearly shows that "libertarianism" is mostly just "you consumers and politicians should stop being mean to the wonderful mega-corporations".
[citation needed]
Then again, I understand your skepticism: It's the same feeling I get whenever someone yells about those "Islamic terrorists" and then it turns out the yeller is a Christian - not exactly a neutral party in the inter-religious struggles.
If you want to see the effect of the "billions of dollars in climate research", turn on the Weather Channel. Also, it does not help that CO2 makes plants grow more if we keep cutting them down and burning them, and learn something about system equilibrium - +1C can be a lot in the right circumstances over time.
"There is no customer."
- Gneo, The FOSS Matrix
No: If mission-critical web app works in browser X and breaks in browser Y, the users will switch to browser X so that they can use the app. Browser Y has then become a liability to those users. Firefox is not a girlfriend, it can be very easily dumped.
Yes, profiling rests on the flawed assumption that someone not matching this "profile" is inherently a nice guy. Would any form of profiling have stopped Timothy McVeigh? Did Irish-Americans see increased scrutiny following his terrorist attack?
A chain of security checkpoints stretching TO INFINITY... AND BEYOND!
No, wasting money on TSA seems to be a hobby among politicians... maybe they will suggest it eventually? When they run out of other ways to spend money?
If the British suddenly must take the blame for Omagh etc., does it not follow that Americans must take the blame for 9/11? After all, would Osama had financed Al Quaida's attack if not for Desert Shield/Desert Storm? Remember, Osama did not care one iota for the secular dictator of Iraq, he got angry because the U.S. use of bases there meant "infidels" were allowed entry to Saudi-Arabia by what he considered a corrupt dynasty.
Apple licenses seem to be trust based. Just copy the damn thing; Apple clearly does not want your money. What are they going to say during an audit? "You should have purchased copies"? Well, "you should have sold me copies".
Yeah, when you installed iLife '09 it kept the old iMovie around (just renamed) in addition to the newly installed iMovie HD.
I guess FCPX is akin to FCE and FCPX plus a bunch of the coming plugins (two - Motion and Compressor - from the start) will be closer to the old and expensive FCP 7 - and closer in price as well... :P
But the lack of support for old formats is a big mistake. It's almost the same as if they had launched the Intel-based Macs without the Rosetta software to let them run existing PowerPC binaries... I expect an importer plugin is under development as we speak. Third-party developers have access to SDKs, it seems.
No, but you cannot buy new FCP 7 licenses for any new hires either since Apple have removed it from their store. However, since Apple's licenses are trust-based I guess you can just install copies freely since Apple no longer wants your money... :)
Why? When Android fans push their collective market share compared to Apple and RIM, they scoff when it is pointed out there is not one Android phone but a multitude. (As in: Each of those manufacturers compete with the others, a sale of an Xperia Play does not help Samsung one bit.) So if "Android" is supposed to be treated as one platform THEN, the Android fans should accept that Android is treated as one platform NOW.
Bad experiences with crappy hardware running Android will tarnish the Android name in the consumer's mind.
That what.
(until capping is gone through competition between carriers)
Ah, the naïvety of youth. I guess competing providers will come to your area Any Day Now.
Stop your Adobe worship. Flash is dying a well-deserved death, Facebook will be targeting HTML 5 in the future and the YouTube app deals with the other part.
"Oh noes, I do not get annoying ads on my iPad, it must be broken!"
I am sure an IRC client is bundled with some of the Gopher and Usenet News apps...
Ah, that would explain why a shedload of Google and Sun employees use Macs. Or wait, it doesn't, it's just an AC spouting the usual stereotype ridicule.
Ask them what Adam's hair, skin and eye colors were. Ask them where all the other variants among humans come from.
Which is why you would need Eden 1022 for humans from Blond Hair Fair Skin God, Eden 4233 for Red Hair Frecklish Skin God, etc...
Unless they effing start accepting that mutations are not inherently detrimental to a species.
Ah, you know of the Fourth Little Pig.
FarmVille is already in the native iOS app store. You need a different example.