I haven't stopped using FictionWise/eReader, but after B&N bought them I (as an European) haven't been allowed to buy anything from there. Heck, I don't konow if I have been able to buy anything there since when eReader was known as PeanutPress, then Palm Books.
CARS ARE USEFUL. That is the gist of the posting that you got so worked up about, and which King Nicotine is refusing to let you see, because I mentioned tobacco, your God.
King Nicotine is telling you he is necessary for your survival? You SO need to seek treatment.
Well, the cigarette is certainly fucking you. If your stinking smoke did not drift over to those of us who choose not to ingest poison and ruin our lungs irreversibly, and my taxes did not go toward futilly trying to heal you sick bastards who smoke away your money instead of investing in your health, you would have a point.
The "box" should not cost two bucks, not seven bucks, it should not be sold period. Do you really like to finance an industry that tricks poor children in developing countries into ruining their bodies?
I have long said that Webbrowsers should be scripting language independent. They should be (like) plug-ins. With the same API exposed into it.
Yeah! And we could call it... Windows Scripting Host! And third-party languages like ActivePython would work like a charm in the browsers! At least as long as it is Internet Explorer...
You should not be so quick to dismiss the benefits to known default passwords. Once I had to install an application targeting an Oracle database, but when I got there none of the techs present were Oracle administrators. Luckily, the people who had set up the database hadn't bothered with changing defaults, so I was able to do the install via the SYSTEM user. Didn't check if they also had default on DBA (or was it called SYSDBA?) since that default password is too long to bother with.
But if I make CRAP and try to sell five thousand copies and noone buys it because it is CRAP, then can I claim lost revenues for the unsold copies, or do I have to admit that the world does not owe me success in business?
People who do not buy product A include people that download an unpaid/unlicensed copy, but also include some subsistence farmer in the African countryside who hasn't even heard of your product. You do not get to count the latter as "lost" revenue, why should you count the former?
The pirate is just a leech, and should just be discounted from the equation, unless he causes actual costs/losses (by e.g. using resources by playing a networked game with the same servers the paying customers use). Then bring out the pitchforks if you can identify them.
(Or do as the *IAA and treat your paying customers as potential pirates and screw up their paid-for product with crap that the pirates avoid, like copy ptotection or that stupid propaganda video on DVDs.)
Oh, $99, what a fortune. I mean it's a whopping 15% of the cost of Photoshop CS4! For that you get code signing certificates, which for a Windows Mobile developer only cost $250 from Verisign!
If you cannot afford the $99/year to develop iPhone apps, do something else like searching trashcans for food scraps...
Actually, there is a more important rule: that you should not make the application look too much like one of Apple's. AppBox Pro, which basically is a cheap collection of functions that other devs hawk single-function apps for, has a very distinct look to its "menu", so that the user does not think they are looking at the "Home screen app" that is the iPhone's main menu.
Which Nokia is that? Symbian 40? Symbian 60? Symbian 90? Maemo? Java Micro Edition? Which profile? Ovi? Which channel will you use to distribute it? The average download site which lets you keep 20% after they and the carrier have taken their cuts? The Ovi store which is the only channel for the latter (with a beta SDK)?
Well, they call themselves communist, the same way North Korea calls itself a democracy. But it is not for them to redefine: Both "communist" Russia and China were in effect feudal dictatorships with the Party taking the place of the aristocracy. Plenty of the followers of Lenin and Mao who believed in socialist and communist ideals were crushed (sometimes literally) when they saw the police states set up to repress the "liberated" people.
.... except Microsoft pressured PC vendors to exclude competitors by tying license prices to exclusivity; that is, PC vendors lost money if they dared sell a PC without the Microsoft product. That is not conductive to choice. That restricts alternatives and turns the cost of Microsoft OSes into a "Microsoft tax" that you need to pay even if you really wanted something else.
Come on, that is even recent history. Are you totally unaware that they have been found guilty of such abusive practices? Have you repressed the memory? Or do you think courts are irrational? Maybe the laws are? That only you are rational?
Spare some thought on the multitude of NT 3.5 users, happily running on MIPS or Alpha, when EVIL Microsoft decided to just release NT 4.0 on Intel hardware!
Seriously, it's their product. Want to run an operating system on Atom? Make and sell one! There is a market opportunity for you to exploit instead of whining.
You fucking worthless entertainment industry, copyright was created as an incentive for artists to create works that would enter the public domain (i.e. the culture) after a while. You know, as opposed to doing useful work like the rest of us.
You have perverted this into an abomination, its purpose to artificially boost your business model.
You are just leeches who practice price-fixing, have what are in effect cartels, and get away with it because the part of your income that isn't spent on cocaine is spent on lobbying politicians or outright buying them. If companies in ANY other industry practiced what you do they would be fined, and those responsible sent to jail.
You produce focus group-based industry entertainment products, 90 % of which will be forgotten long before the insane copyrights eventually expire. You produce shit that no one really needs and trick consumers into giving you money instead of spending it on something worthwhile. And then you attack your very customers with shit like "oh it's not a product so you really ought not to resell it or rip it onto your music player without paying us extra, but for these tax purposes it is a product though".
How many poor and elderly are helped by J-lo wriggling her butt on a video? How many roads get built by Amy Winehouse's endless chain of rehabs?
Get a fucking job, asshats. And leave culture to the cultured.
And that nobody prevents applications appearing in the market because they may impact on the profitability of the device manufacturer?
That "nobody" is apparently the telephone carrier - if you want tethering or VoIP over wireless instead of 3G or... well anything the carrier dislikes.
On the Mackbook Pro before mine they used a radeon 9600 128 MB.
Sure about that? I have what I am sure is a 1st gen MBP (just two USB ports instead of the three the sequel got), and that has an ATI X1600 with 256 MB video memory. It does say ("total") though so half of it could be relegated to system RAM.
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I haven't stopped using FictionWise/eReader, but after B&N bought them I (as an European) haven't been allowed to buy anything from there. Heck, I don't konow if I have been able to buy anything there since when eReader was known as PeanutPress, then Palm Books.
... and the Acorn Atom predates both.
An _accidental_ demand.
CARS ARE USEFUL. That is the gist of the posting that you got so worked up about, and which King Nicotine is refusing to let you see, because I mentioned tobacco, your God.
King Nicotine is telling you he is necessary for your survival? You SO need to seek treatment.
Well, the cigarette is certainly fucking you. If your stinking smoke did not drift over to those of us who choose not to ingest poison and ruin our lungs irreversibly, and my taxes did not go toward futilly trying to heal you sick bastards who smoke away your money instead of investing in your health, you would have a point.
The "box" should not cost two bucks, not seven bucks, it should not be sold period. Do you really like to finance an industry that tricks poor children in developing countries into ruining their bodies?
There are useful things that can be a potential health hazard: Cars, mobile phones etc.
And then there are useless items that are known to be health hazards, like tobacco.
People worried about the former should take a break until we have banned the latter.
You pirate you.
We held them until the end of hostilities.
Didn't you see the "Mission accomplished"? It was on a huge banner behind a Shrub.
I have long said that Webbrowsers should be scripting language independent. They should be (like) plug-ins. With the same API exposed into it.
Yeah! And we could call it... Windows Scripting Host! And third-party languages like ActivePython would work like a charm in the browsers! At least as long as it is Internet Explorer...
You should not be so quick to dismiss the benefits to known default passwords. Once I had to install an application targeting an Oracle database, but when I got there none of the techs present were Oracle administrators. Luckily, the people who had set up the database hadn't bothered with changing defaults, so I was able to do the install via the SYSTEM user. Didn't check if they also had default on DBA (or was it called SYSDBA?) since that default password is too long to bother with.
But if I make CRAP and try to sell five thousand copies and noone buys it because it is CRAP, then can I claim lost revenues for the unsold copies, or do I have to admit that the world does not owe me success in business?
People who do not buy product A include people that download an unpaid/unlicensed copy, but also include some subsistence farmer in the African countryside who hasn't even heard of your product. You do not get to count the latter as "lost" revenue, why should you count the former?
The pirate is just a leech, and should just be discounted from the equation, unless he causes actual costs/losses (by e.g. using resources by playing a networked game with the same servers the paying customers use). Then bring out the pitchforks if you can identify them.
(Or do as the *IAA and treat your paying customers as potential pirates and screw up their paid-for product with crap that the pirates avoid, like copy ptotection or that stupid propaganda video on DVDs.)
You cannot sell paid Android apps in the majority of markets. Kind of narrows down the potential income unless you opt for free+ads.
Oh, $99, what a fortune. I mean it's a whopping 15% of the cost of Photoshop CS4! For that you get code signing certificates, which for a Windows Mobile developer only cost $250 from Verisign!
If you cannot afford the $99/year to develop iPhone apps, do something else like searching trashcans for food scraps...
Actually, there is a more important rule: that you should not make the application look too much like one of Apple's. AppBox Pro, which basically is a cheap collection of functions that other devs hawk single-function apps for, has a very distinct look to its "menu", so that the user does not think they are looking at the "Home screen app" that is the iPhone's main menu.
Which Nokia is that? Symbian 40? Symbian 60? Symbian 90? Maemo? Java Micro Edition? Which profile? Ovi? Which channel will you use to distribute it? The average download site which lets you keep 20% after they and the carrier have taken their cuts? The Ovi store which is the only channel for the latter (with a beta SDK)?
iPhone or Android development it is, then.
Well, they call themselves communist, the same way North Korea calls itself a democracy. But it is not for them to redefine: Both "communist" Russia and China were in effect feudal dictatorships with the Party taking the place of the aristocracy. Plenty of the followers of Lenin and Mao who believed in socialist and communist ideals were crushed (sometimes literally) when they saw the police states set up to repress the "liberated" people.
Marxio and Luengels.
Fun fact: All Java class files start with 0xCAFEBABE - I think Gosling had a crush on someone? Ah romantic hex.
.... except Microsoft pressured PC vendors to exclude competitors by tying license prices to exclusivity; that is, PC vendors lost money if they dared sell a PC without the Microsoft product. That is not conductive to choice. That restricts alternatives and turns the cost of Microsoft OSes into a "Microsoft tax" that you need to pay even if you really wanted something else.
Come on, that is even recent history. Are you totally unaware that they have been found guilty of such abusive practices? Have you repressed the memory? Or do you think courts are irrational? Maybe the laws are? That only you are rational?
Spare some thought on the multitude of NT 3.5 users, happily running on MIPS or Alpha, when EVIL Microsoft decided to just release NT 4.0 on Intel hardware!
Seriously, it's their product. Want to run an operating system on Atom? Make and sell one! There is a market opportunity for you to exploit instead of whining.
You fucking worthless entertainment industry, copyright was created as an incentive for artists to create works that would enter the public domain (i.e. the culture) after a while. You know, as opposed to doing useful work like the rest of us.
You have perverted this into an abomination, its purpose to artificially boost your business model.
You are just leeches who practice price-fixing, have what are in effect cartels, and get away with it because the part of your income that isn't spent on cocaine is spent on lobbying politicians or outright buying them. If companies in ANY other industry practiced what you do they would be fined, and those responsible sent to jail.
You produce focus group-based industry entertainment products, 90 % of which will be forgotten long before the insane copyrights eventually expire. You produce shit that no one really needs and trick consumers into giving you money instead of spending it on something worthwhile. And then you attack your very customers with shit like "oh it's not a product so you really ought not to resell it or rip it onto your music player without paying us extra, but for these tax purposes it is a product though".
How many poor and elderly are helped by J-lo wriggling her butt on a video? How many roads get built by Amy Winehouse's endless chain of rehabs?
Get a fucking job, asshats. And leave culture to the cultured.
Do you also complain when airplanes don't flap their wings? (Sci-fi's Ornithopters excempted of course.)
Knowledge systems/rules engines and neural networks can deduce answers, that is sufficient to be labeled "intelligence" in my book.
CASE == the old name for what is called "Model Driven Develoment" today. Which basically is a sales pitch from tool vendors.
And that nobody prevents applications appearing in the market because they may impact on the profitability of the device manufacturer?
That "nobody" is apparently the telephone carrier - if you want tethering or VoIP over wireless instead of 3G or... well anything the carrier dislikes.
http://phandroid.com/2009/04/02/tethering-apps-are-back-not-with-t-mobile/
On the Mackbook Pro before mine they used a radeon 9600 128 MB.
Sure about that? I have what I am sure is a 1st gen MBP (just two USB ports instead of the three the sequel got), and that has an ATI X1600 with 256 MB video memory. It does say ("total") though so half of it could be relegated to system RAM.