The original EyeToy camera for the PS2 was also a Logitech job. At least that is what I remember it identified as when I plugged it into a PC just to test.
Borland established itself as a name with cheap (relatively) dev tools back in the DOS and Turbo days, pity they left that with the more expensive Delphi product lines.
Yes, it's as if they do not understand that "experience means senior, senior means more expensive". At some point there has to be a realization that someone needs to actually provide the environment where a junior can GET that "required experience".
The funniest "experience" requirement I heard of was back in Java's earliest days, when someone wanted "10 years of Java expertise", which would only be possible if you were on Sun's original Oak team...
Applications you've made because of a school project will not count.
Why not? Because someone else provided the specifications? Isn't that what corporate software development is built around? Not to mention that school projects are done in teams, so your contribution to that team can show how well you will work in a dev team? Soloist codemonkeys do not good employees make.
Yes, IF. A very big if. For instance, IF the federal government in the future bans sites like Slashdot we will no longer be able to discuss that on Slashdot. That is also a big if. The logic applied when people say that Mac OS X will become as closed as iOS is suspicious at best, and there are explicit statements form Apple it will not happen.
(The logic seems to go along the lines: if A has features x and y, then if B has gfeature x then it will also eventually have feature y. x seems to be "something called an app store" and y apparently "installs limited to those from the app store")
Yes I am sure the retail stores they sell through today do so pro bono.
Face it, that price includes media, printing, shipping etc. - taking a 30% cut to gain access to the app store channel for purely binary downloads of their stuff is well within acceptable business costs.
We shall see what Microsoft ends up with as the business model for their (constantly postponed) Windows app store. So far they have been copying Apple. Heck, their dev program for WP7 has the same $99/year cost, even.
Is this one of those "in 30 days you will have 31 husbands" kind of patterns? I mean, there are TWO (count them - two) sample points here.
You have already started to use words like "obvious" and "naive" instead of presenting arguments, you should take that as a sign you have a really weak case.
My company sells and supports business software and gets bombarded all the time about "a Mac version".
I think that is something that Business 101 calls demand.
But don't worry, someone will come along and satisfy the customers you leave behind. Just like Ashton-Tate learned when they thought that their DOS-based DBase products were irreplaceable for people developing desktop database solutions...
And here it is: *clench fist, raise middle finger*
Seriously, It's obvious Apple do not believe in Blu-Ray, and that is their prerogative. Mac buyers can easily find that this is Apple's stance, and decide whether this means they choose a different platform, or get an external drive (which still is an option). Maybe Apple bought into Toshiba's FUD back in the 3rd Format Wars where Blu-Ray was branded as a Sony-controlled format.
But in reality they are focusing on the future being in streaming content over the net instead of physical media, and it seems the market is moving in that direction, if ever so slowly. Then what good does replacing a known component like their "Superdrive" with some newfangled device that will just increase costs?
Of course Spotify does not benefit musicians - after all, it is owned in part by the Big Four record companies... Spotify thus especially screws indie labels not in their slave pens.
So what I do is I listen to old music on Spotify, and discover new music there - which I then proceed to buy on iTunes. The latter would have been a blessing to indie artists if it weren't for the requirement that you have to go through a record label - but cdbaby and magnatune come to the rescure there I guess.
So: Spotify has value to musicians because it provides "free" advertising. The listeners can then go and buy the actual music. But do we really want to keep letting the layers between artist and consumer siphon off their "take" much longer?
Especially since you can count the number of PC models shipping with a Blu-Ray drive on one hand. Now that spells demand.
I am sure the few people who need a Blu-Ray can buy themselves an external drive (e.g. LaCie has one). Especially if they start coming out with Thunderbolt connectors.
Yes, the $99/year gives access to the developer services that include generating the certificates, keys and profiles necessary to get an iOS device to accept apps signed using those certificates.
How much does a Windows Phone 7 code signing certificate cost, though?
Don't you think they would have released those numbers if they were any good? I have seen Xoom estimates ranging from 25,000 to 125,000, not exactly iPad figures...
Probably just some web site in Russia. Trail ENDS.
Yes, there appear to be some more organized trading networks of pedophiles out there, and there is the occasional news report about such networks getting busted by international police. However, they seem to be the exceptions, and the big numbers are the "casual", curious loners out there. Maybe some people just need to get out more and interact with actual people?
And the child porn laws need to be reined in to actually cover what the public actually think is child porn, i.e. recorded sexual abuse of children. Or are we going to fill jails and the sex offender registry with people who had a picture of Bart Simpson nailing Lisa on their computer?
Possession of nude photos of kids or teens is not a crime ignorant.
Then explain the multiple actual cases where that has landed people in jail. Reality wants to kick your theory in the butt.
Child porn is porn where the person depicted is (or in some cases merely looks like being) under the age of 18. And porn does not merely limit itself to depictions of sexual acts. Apparently there are exceptions made for "artistic" purposes (thus you will not go to jail for possessing movies like Pretty Baby) which could cover the books you talk about.
No, child porn is NOT necessarily the result of child molestation.
1) It is perfectly possible to molest children without recording the act. Children were abused (especially back when they were in effect property) long before the first camera. 2) Child porn laws cover way more than recorded sexual abuse. You can get sent to jail for photographing your own, happy, bathing baby.
If child porn laws were as focused as you seem to naively believe, there would be no cases like teens getting branded as sex offenders for taking lewd self-portraits or grandmothers sent to prison for taking candid pictures of their grandchildren.
Children were abused long before the first camera was invented. Going after child porn is perhaps easier for the Feds than actually trying to prevent the act in the first place? And, again: Child porn laws are so wide they cover way more than pictures of sexual child abuse, no matter how much you try to just focus on that part.
viewing it makes you part of the production process as an end (ab)user
How? Since when is observing an act, or in this case a record of it, comparable to committing it? If I watch news footage of a clash between protesters and police, am I a protester? Or am I part of the police force? Is the severity of a crime dependent on the number of observers?
Also, you seem not to understand how wide the child porn definition is. A 17-year old girl snapping a nude picture of herself with a cellphone camera and sending it to her boyfriend has committed the crime of manufacturing and distributing child porn (since the model is under 18 years) and her boyfriend can in turn be charged with possession of child porn. Do you want those two to end up on the sex offender register, or do you want the FBI to focus on stopping actual child abuse instead? Chasing after the fluttering images does not help the victims, it just creates more prisoners.
But child porn laws get expanded to cover drawings and text; if someone has a picture of Bart Simpson doing his sister, which child gets exploited?
And in the case of actual abuse, it's not like not looking at a picture of the abuse undoes the act. Instead it documents it.
(There has been an observed correlation between TV coverage of car chases and the frequency of such chases - 15 minutes of fame and all that. Yet TV stations are not banned from showing the footage. We do not take the driver's license from people who watch America's Wildest Police Chases...)
As long as you don't happen to pick one of the Android handsets that ARE locked down, preventing both custom OS builds and often side-loading as well...
But as you state: Android is an alternative, and some people are picking it.
Get with the program! You are confusing phones: We are talking about TouchWiz on the Samsung Galaxy S, and the Apple-"inspired" packaging of that, not the F700. Get yourself educated.
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The original EyeToy camera for the PS2 was also a Logitech job. At least that is what I remember it identified as when I plugged it into a PC just to test.
Abandoned years ago.
But "Where's the Internet Explorer for Mac?" is akin to "Where's the dung for my sandwich?"
Po-tah-to chips or po-tay-to chips?
Borland established itself as a name with cheap (relatively) dev tools back in the DOS and Turbo days, pity they left that with the more expensive Delphi product lines.
Yes, it's as if they do not understand that "experience means senior, senior means more expensive". At some point there has to be a realization that someone needs to actually provide the environment where a junior can GET that "required experience".
The funniest "experience" requirement I heard of was back in Java's earliest days, when someone wanted "10 years of Java expertise", which would only be possible if you were on Sun's original Oak team...
Applications you've made because of a school project will not count.
Why not? Because someone else provided the specifications? Isn't that what corporate software development is built around? Not to mention that school projects are done in teams, so your contribution to that team can show how well you will work in a dev team? Soloist codemonkeys do not good employees make.
Yes, IF. A very big if. For instance, IF the federal government in the future bans sites like Slashdot we will no longer be able to discuss that on Slashdot. That is also a big if. The logic applied when people say that Mac OS X will become as closed as iOS is suspicious at best, and there are explicit statements form Apple it will not happen.
(The logic seems to go along the lines: if A has features x and y, then if B has gfeature x then it will also eventually have feature y. x seems to be "something called an app store" and y apparently "installs limited to those from the app store")
Yes I am sure the retail stores they sell through today do so pro bono.
Face it, that price includes media, printing, shipping etc. - taking a 30% cut to gain access to the app store channel for purely binary downloads of their stuff is well within acceptable business costs.
We shall see what Microsoft ends up with as the business model for their (constantly postponed) Windows app store. So far they have been copying Apple. Heck, their dev program for WP7 has the same $99/year cost, even.
Is this one of those "in 30 days you will have 31 husbands" kind of patterns? I mean, there are TWO (count them - two) sample points here.
You have already started to use words like "obvious" and "naive" instead of presenting arguments, you should take that as a sign you have a really weak case.
My company sells and supports business software and gets bombarded all the time about "a Mac version".
I think that is something that Business 101 calls demand.
But don't worry, someone will come along and satisfy the customers you leave behind. Just like Ashton-Tate learned when they thought that their DOS-based DBase products were irreplaceable for people developing desktop database solutions...
Why? Adobe does not need to sell the Mac versions of CS in the App Store, they sell boxed copies and are happy to do so.
Yep, you can probably just use 1 finger.
And here it is: *clench fist, raise middle finger*
Seriously, It's obvious Apple do not believe in Blu-Ray, and that is their prerogative. Mac buyers can easily find that this is Apple's stance, and decide whether this means they choose a different platform, or get an external drive (which still is an option). Maybe Apple bought into Toshiba's FUD back in the 3rd Format Wars where Blu-Ray was branded as a Sony-controlled format.
But in reality they are focusing on the future being in streaming content over the net instead of physical media, and it seems the market is moving in that direction, if ever so slowly. Then what good does replacing a known component like their "Superdrive" with some newfangled device that will just increase costs?
Of course Spotify does not benefit musicians - after all, it is owned in part by the Big Four record companies... Spotify thus especially screws indie labels not in their slave pens.
So what I do is I listen to old music on Spotify, and discover new music there - which I then proceed to buy on iTunes. The latter would have been a blessing to indie artists if it weren't for the requirement that you have to go through a record label - but cdbaby and magnatune come to the rescure there I guess.
So: Spotify has value to musicians because it provides "free" advertising. The listeners can then go and buy the actual music. But do we really want to keep letting the layers between artist and consumer siphon off their "take" much longer?
Yes: Your phone should be an OpenMoko FreeRunner, and your handheld gaming device should be a GP2X...
Especially since you can count the number of PC models shipping with a Blu-Ray drive on one hand. Now that spells demand.
I am sure the few people who need a Blu-Ray can buy themselves an external drive (e.g. LaCie has one). Especially if they start coming out with Thunderbolt connectors.
Yes, the $99/year gives access to the developer services that include generating the certificates, keys and profiles necessary to get an iOS device to accept apps signed using those certificates.
How much does a Windows Phone 7 code signing certificate cost, though?
Don't you think they would have released those numbers if they were any good? I have seen Xoom estimates ranging from 25,000 to 125,000, not exactly iPad figures...
Probably just some web site in Russia. Trail ENDS.
Yes, there appear to be some more organized trading networks of pedophiles out there, and there is the occasional news report about such networks getting busted by international police. However, they seem to be the exceptions, and the big numbers are the "casual", curious loners out there. Maybe some people just need to get out more and interact with actual people?
And the child porn laws need to be reined in to actually cover what the public actually think is child porn, i.e. recorded sexual abuse of children. Or are we going to fill jails and the sex offender registry with people who had a picture of Bart Simpson nailing Lisa on their computer?
Possession of nude photos of kids or teens is not a crime ignorant.
Then explain the multiple actual cases where that has landed people in jail. Reality wants to kick your theory in the butt.
Child porn is porn where the person depicted is (or in some cases merely looks like being) under the age of 18. And porn does not merely limit itself to depictions of sexual acts. Apparently there are exceptions made for "artistic" purposes (thus you will not go to jail for possessing movies like Pretty Baby) which could cover the books you talk about.
No, child porn is NOT necessarily the result of child molestation.
1) It is perfectly possible to molest children without recording the act. Children were abused (especially back when they were in effect property) long before the first camera.
2) Child porn laws cover way more than recorded sexual abuse. You can get sent to jail for photographing your own, happy, bathing baby.
If child porn laws were as focused as you seem to naively believe, there would be no cases like teens getting branded as sex offenders for taking lewd self-portraits or grandmothers sent to prison for taking candid pictures of their grandchildren.
Children were abused long before the first camera was invented. Going after child porn is perhaps easier for the Feds than actually trying to prevent the act in the first place? And, again: Child porn laws are so wide they cover way more than pictures of sexual child abuse, no matter how much you try to just focus on that part.
viewing it makes you part of the production process as an end (ab)user
How? Since when is observing an act, or in this case a record of it, comparable to committing it? If I watch news footage of a clash between protesters and police, am I a protester? Or am I part of the police force? Is the severity of a crime dependent on the number of observers?
Also, you seem not to understand how wide the child porn definition is. A 17-year old girl snapping a nude picture of herself with a cellphone camera and sending it to her boyfriend has committed the crime of manufacturing and distributing child porn (since the model is under 18 years) and her boyfriend can in turn be charged with possession of child porn. Do you want those two to end up on the sex offender register, or do you want the FBI to focus on stopping actual child abuse instead? Chasing after the fluttering images does not help the victims, it just creates more prisoners.
But child porn laws get expanded to cover drawings and text; if someone has a picture of Bart Simpson doing his sister, which child gets exploited?
And in the case of actual abuse, it's not like not looking at a picture of the abuse undoes the act. Instead it documents it.
(There has been an observed correlation between TV coverage of car chases and the frequency of such chases - 15 minutes of fame and all that. Yet TV stations are not banned from showing the footage. We do not take the driver's license from people who watch America's Wildest Police Chases...)
As long as you don't happen to pick one of the Android handsets that ARE locked down, preventing both custom OS builds and often side-loading as well...
But as you state: Android is an alternative, and some people are picking it.
Get with the program! You are confusing phones: We are talking about TouchWiz on the Samsung Galaxy S, and the Apple-"inspired" packaging of that, not the F700. Get yourself educated.