I think the maps are supposed to be bigger, so one square can be converted to 6 or 8 hexes, depending on orientation... Piles of more than 8 armies would have to expand farther away from the initial part.
So... Chrome OS will be Android with a full Chrome browser? How did it change from what was announced? A relatively minimal OS with a powerful browser was all Chrome OS advertising
Suppose I own a device, and I purchase/obtain an application, technically compatible with that device.
This is my property, only people that have an authority, either legal, social or moral, that I accept can forbid me to install the application on the device.
So, yeah, a court order can forbid me to use an application, a mentor can too, (though he will probably provide only counsel in this matter), because I would willingly accept his authority and guidance, for youngsters, a parent can play that role. Apple is neither the law nor a trusted moral authority figure (as far as I'm concerned), so it doesn't have a right to prevent me from using their device the way I want to.
This may not be a constitutional right, but I consider it fundamental enough to defend it and to consider Apple's behaviour as wrong.
When a company targets high-end users, I, as a high-end user, expect to be pleased.
For instance, the sound of a mobile device is horrible. Industry doesn't know how to build decent sound cards without big capacitors, so sound cards in all smartphones are not very good. 90% of the population doesn't make any difference between sound on their $10.000 HiFi monster and their iPod nano, So what, I can advertise it as the same?
It would be false advertising for the other 10%...
I take sound as an example because I know a little about it, and I can make a difference between HiFi CD player and 72 kbps MP3 played on $3 speakers, while I know next to nothing about picture resolution and screens in general; the problem is the same though. For those who can see the difference, it is false advertising, and those people are targeted by Apple.
By your failed logic, Apple would disallow tethering outside of the USA, which of course is not the case. This is simply AT&T dictating the use of their network.
This isn't exactly true. iPhone doesn't have tethering either here in France for instance; of course, I am not aware of every place in the world, but as tethering is available on android phones, and it doesn't seem to bother network operators, I wouldn't say that Apple is completely unblamable.
I've never had any problems with my three succeeding Nokia phones used as alarm clock myself. In 9 years And I relied exclusively on that. Android does the trick now, with virtually no problems in sight, except when I erroneously set the volume of the alarm to 0 (that was my bad actually). It has not been long enough for me to "rely" on it, so my Nokia phone without a sim sits near my bed "just in case", I would be doing that too if I had an iPhone for just a few months.
I second that. This looks like the company is going too far here. It is still legal to smoke (in France it is, and I'm fairly certain there are extremely few countries where it isn't)
You apparently do not understand how an EMP works.
You apparently have no sense of scale.
From the article:
Beyond a certain altitude a nuclear weapon will not produce any EMP, as the gamma rays will have had sufficient distance to disperse. In deep space or on worlds with no magnetic field (the moon or Mars for example) there will be little or no EMP.
The altitude in question is not given, unfortunately. But altitudes given as examples are 300 miles at their maximum, geosynchronous satellites are 20,000 miles high. That's more than 60 times the height.
Power varies with 1/(x^2) where x is the distance of the blast. 60 times the distance means 60^2 times less power to reach upper atmosphere where the EMP is emitted. That's 3,600. I'm pretty sure it won't do anything.
Geostationary satellite is 22,000 miles high. A nuclear explosion the magnitude of human-built devices will do a lot less harm to the upper atmosphere than the sun does continuously. Geostationary orbit is 165,000 miles in circumference. The closest satellites from Galaxy-15 are Americom-10 and Americom-11 and are both two degrees of longitude away from Galaxy-15 (that would be approximately between 900 and 1000 miles away!
So, the radiation field will cause no damage to other satellites and the upper atmosphere.
I am not aware of any treaties stopping the USA from nuking its own satellites.
It would still be completely impractical to use nuclear weapons in this case, just sending a rocket would be enough. Very expensive though.
When was it a comparison with other devices? I honestly don't know if it's good or not to have full details on every single piece of hardware in a smartphone. I would certainly like to have those details, personally, because I like knowing what I buy. I understand that the basic consumer doesn't want to know anything technical, and that he only wants the device to work. I understand that there is a middle ground to be found, and I don't really care, as long as I can read technical developer's documentation.
Details, Apple. You do not have them.
"Look at the others, they're doing it even worse", isn't, and never will be a valid argument, This is not a comparison to other devices. It's a statement about Apple. You did not refute this statement.
My physics lessons a few years back scream at me that the XXXXXXX "2channels" is not possible. Light does not reflect that precisely through the fiber.
It's funny, when its in their favor, Apple fanboys here talk about the iPhone outselling every other phone (though it's not)...
No, people say it's the most popular, most in demand, best, etc. Not one person has said the iPhone outsells all other smart phones. It's just biased people like you who read it that way.
I've heard people say it exactly like that, I don't care if it's true or false, but some fanboys are quick to draw the "iPhone outsells every other phone", hopefully, not every single one of you does that.
Steve Jobs himself, in the iPad keynote said something of the like "Apple is the first seller of mobile platforms in the world", of course, he was talking about revenue in both phones and laptops, so that actually might be true, given the high price of the Apple hardware, but the point is, this topic exists out there. Some say that without doubt, iPhone is powerful in the market, the GGP is however very reserved on that issue.
If it were a story where the iPhone market share was a positive argument, GGP would have said "Of course, the iPhone has the market power, it is the first phone ever in sales volumes in the world, therefore [insert conclusion here]
You've got it exactly backwards. They don't want to be under anyone else's thumb. For example, Adobe's. If Apple allows Flash tools to compile apps for the iPhone, then all future iPhone updates will have to take into account Adobe's Flash tools.
Why not? I mean, saying "OK, Adobe has a flash application, it is like any other application, accessing the API, if the API changes, Adobe changes their app. Or they can compile it without needing the API, then, when hardware changes, Adobe must make the modifications. Where's the problem?
And if apps were a feature to sell more hardware, why not allowing third party? And market it as a feature? It would sell even more hardware!
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I think the maps are supposed to be bigger, so one square can be converted to 6 or 8 hexes, depending on orientation... Piles of more than 8 armies would have to expand farther away from the initial part.
Somehow, I just can not get excited about this feature at all: Why would I want to play old Civ4 map in brand new Civ 5 instead of starting new game?
Hopefully we can ignore this feature and never talk about it. It's not that bad, I guess, some people may be interested.
So... Chrome OS will be Android with a full Chrome browser? How did it change from what was announced? A relatively minimal OS with a powerful browser was all Chrome OS advertising
Suppose I own a device, and I purchase/obtain an application, technically compatible with that device.
This is my property, only people that have an authority, either legal, social or moral, that I accept can forbid me to install the application on the device.
So, yeah, a court order can forbid me to use an application, a mentor can too, (though he will probably provide only counsel in this matter), because I would willingly accept his authority and guidance, for youngsters, a parent can play that role. Apple is neither the law nor a trusted moral authority figure (as far as I'm concerned), so it doesn't have a right to prevent me from using their device the way I want to.
This may not be a constitutional right, but I consider it fundamental enough to defend it and to consider Apple's behaviour as wrong.
When a company targets high-end users, I, as a high-end user, expect to be pleased.
For instance, the sound of a mobile device is horrible. Industry doesn't know how to build decent sound cards without big capacitors, so sound cards in all smartphones are not very good. 90% of the population doesn't make any difference between sound on their $10.000 HiFi monster and their iPod nano, So what, I can advertise it as the same?
It would be false advertising for the other 10%...
I take sound as an example because I know a little about it, and I can make a difference between HiFi CD player and 72 kbps MP3 played on $3 speakers, while I know next to nothing about picture resolution and screens in general; the problem is the same though. For those who can see the difference, it is false advertising, and those people are targeted by Apple.
And the recent movie Prince of Persia was not so bad :)
Thanks for the insight.
Still, it is interesting that in France tethering is only available by jailbreak for the iPhone, or with Android with no additional software.
By your failed logic, Apple would disallow tethering outside of the USA, which of course is not the case. This is simply AT&T dictating the use of their network.
This isn't exactly true. iPhone doesn't have tethering either here in France for instance; of course, I am not aware of every place in the world, but as tethering is available on android phones, and it doesn't seem to bother network operators, I wouldn't say that Apple is completely unblamable.
I've never had any problems with my three succeeding Nokia phones used as alarm clock myself. In 9 years And I relied exclusively on that. Android does the trick now, with virtually no problems in sight, except when I erroneously set the volume of the alarm to 0 (that was my bad actually). It has not been long enough for me to "rely" on it, so my Nokia phone without a sim sits near my bed "just in case", I would be doing that too if I had an iPhone for just a few months.
I second that. This looks like the company is going too far here. It is still legal to smoke (in France it is, and I'm fairly certain there are extremely few countries where it isn't)
Well... He is a physicist.
I was tricked by this once however :(
You apparently do not understand how an EMP works.
You apparently have no sense of scale.
From the article:
Beyond a certain altitude a nuclear weapon will not produce any EMP, as the gamma rays will have had sufficient distance to disperse. In deep space or on worlds with no magnetic field (the moon or Mars for example) there will be little or no EMP.
The altitude in question is not given, unfortunately. But altitudes given as examples are 300 miles at their maximum, geosynchronous satellites are 20,000 miles high. That's more than 60 times the height.
Power varies with 1/(x^2) where x is the distance of the blast. 60 times the distance means 60^2 times less power to reach upper atmosphere where the EMP is emitted. That's 3,600. I'm pretty sure it won't do anything.
How could it be solved then? You'd have to "cheat"?
No it won't, nearest satellite is almost a thousand miles away!
Geostationary satellite is 22,000 miles high. A nuclear explosion the magnitude of human-built devices will do a lot less harm to the upper atmosphere than the sun does continuously. Geostationary orbit is 165,000 miles in circumference. The closest satellites from Galaxy-15 are Americom-10 and Americom-11 and are both two degrees of longitude away from Galaxy-15 (that would be approximately between 900 and 1000 miles away!
So, the radiation field will cause no damage to other satellites and the upper atmosphere.
I am not aware of any treaties stopping the USA from nuking its own satellites.
It would still be completely impractical to use nuclear weapons in this case, just sending a rocket would be enough. Very expensive though.
So, others are even worse, it make Apple great?
When was it a comparison with other devices? I honestly don't know if it's good or not to have full details on every single piece of hardware in a smartphone. I would certainly like to have those details, personally, because I like knowing what I buy. I understand that the basic consumer doesn't want to know anything technical, and that he only wants the device to work. I understand that there is a middle ground to be found, and I don't really care, as long as I can read technical developer's documentation.
Details, Apple. You do not have them.
"Look at the others, they're doing it even worse", isn't, and never will be a valid argument, This is not a comparison to other devices. It's a statement about Apple. You did not refute this statement.
Isn't this an option that can be deactivated ?
Demonstration on a laptop says: "Look, it doesn't use much power", regardless of what it really uses.
6+ ? Last motherboard I bought had fourteen.
My physics lessons a few years back scream at me that the XXXXXXX "2channels" is not possible. Light does not reflect that precisely through the fiber.
Multiple wavelength works great though.
It's funny, when its in their favor, Apple fanboys here talk about the iPhone outselling every other phone (though it's not)...
No, people say it's the most popular, most in demand, best, etc. Not one person has said the iPhone outsells all other smart phones. It's just biased people like you who read it that way.
I've heard people say it exactly like that, I don't care if it's true or false, but some fanboys are quick to draw the "iPhone outsells every other phone", hopefully, not every single one of you does that.
Steve Jobs himself, in the iPad keynote said something of the like "Apple is the first seller of mobile platforms in the world", of course, he was talking about revenue in both phones and laptops, so that actually might be true, given the high price of the Apple hardware, but the point is, this topic exists out there. Some say that without doubt, iPhone is powerful in the market, the GGP is however very reserved on that issue.
If it were a story where the iPhone market share was a positive argument, GGP would have said "Of course, the iPhone has the market power, it is the first phone ever in sales volumes in the world, therefore [insert conclusion here]
You've got it exactly backwards. They don't want to be under anyone else's thumb. For example, Adobe's. If Apple allows Flash tools to compile apps for the iPhone, then all future iPhone updates will have to take into account Adobe's Flash tools.
Why not? I mean, saying "OK, Adobe has a flash application, it is like any other application, accessing the API, if the API changes, Adobe changes their app. Or they can compile it without needing the API, then, when hardware changes, Adobe must make the modifications. Where's the problem?
And if apps were a feature to sell more hardware, why not allowing third party? And market it as a feature? It would sell even more hardware!