Problem is, it's sold in chunks. So an incumbent wireless provider can buy a single region and completely prevent any other player from having a national wireless network.
If they can't get 4.6B for the spectrum, they'll remove the two open access restrictions? WTF?
It should be the other way around... if they can't get 4.6B for the spectrum, then they'll ADD the two open-access restrictions that they didn't include. Then at least, they know Google would bid 4.6B and maximize their profits while also having a more open network.
To make a great game usually takes a lot of cash. Using alternate distribution channels severely lowers your sales potential. While it's a nice thought, I doubt no matter how good, the big blockbuster games couldn't pay for themselves if they couldn't sell retail.
Only so much TV can fit down those tubes! I mean, just the other day I was sent an internet and it took three days to get to me because some kid in hoboken was watching power rangers.
Isn't seeding kind of like operating a distribution server? I mean, sure, you don't actually spend all the bandwidth yourself but you are acting as the primary distributor, correct?
Does comcast have a no-server policy? Many residential ISP's do. If they do, this just seems like it's enforcing that policy.
Does it suck, yeah. Does it make comcast evil? I'm not so sure.
I can't even take a picture and download it to my computer without paying my phone company, I don't expect any phones to become truly open anytime soon:(
Making sure your page renders well while it loads can help solve this type of issue.
Putting scripts at the bottom of the page, explictly specifying image heights/widths, and having a single stylesheet at the top of a page can all help.
And there's certainly no watermarking that isn't noticeable that can't deliberately be removed.
I assume "They" want to catch the sophisticated pirates distributing tons of material, not the unsophisticated share-1-song with a friend people. Oh wait... that would make sense in a sane world.
Yup... AIR was kind of "meant" to go from web app -> desktop app easily. I'm doing the reverse, coming out with the desktop app first. But there will definitely be a web version soon after that.
Actually, I lied... it won't be a competitor. I want to do something different than what project wants you to do. I don't believe in ever setting the start or end date of tasks. You should be able to enter them all in, set up rules for how they behave, and the software should do it all for you. It's similar to the MS Project concept of leveling resources, but it actually understands what "today" is, and knows when things are late or ahead of schedule and adjusts automatically. If you like MS Project, you'll probably hate this. If you hate project, you might like this tool.
Microsoft has NEVER supported a competitor at first and then let that version slip to a very sub-optimal state so the Windows-only version seems better, have they?
If using the compiler is a determining factor, then I've developed on both GNU/OSX and GNU/Windows! If cross compiling counts, I've even used GNU/Palm!
"I believe there is a place for open source and commercial software in schools."
Commercial software for specialized learning applications. Open source for OS and general tools (office, graphics, web, etc). It's hard for a school to use OS operating systems when the software they need is not written for them.
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There is no project mayhem.
So... who did they sell the database to? :(
Problem is, it's sold in chunks. So an incumbent wireless provider can buy a single region and completely prevent any other player from having a national wireless network.
If they can't get 4.6B for the spectrum, they'll remove the two open access restrictions? WTF?
It should be the other way around... if they can't get 4.6B for the spectrum, then they'll ADD the two open-access restrictions that they didn't include. Then at least, they know Google would bid 4.6B and maximize their profits while also having a more open network.
I imagine this is how the mob would get into the net neutrality / protection racket.
People bitching about Flash because of ads is like people bitching about C because of viruses.
To make a great game usually takes a lot of cash. Using alternate distribution channels severely lowers your sales potential. While it's a nice thought, I doubt no matter how good, the big blockbuster games couldn't pay for themselves if they couldn't sell retail.
So... spam should only be ok for advertising illegal activities? Yeah.. that makes sense.
We don't have a right to break other countries laws because we have moral objection to those laws.
I guess the next wave of the internet will be based around much freakier porn than today's internet.
Only so much TV can fit down those tubes! I mean, just the other day I was sent an internet and it took three days to get to me because some kid in hoboken was watching power rangers.
"free" ... on an iPhone bill... cute
Isn't seeding kind of like operating a distribution server? I mean, sure, you don't actually spend all the bandwidth yourself but you are acting as the primary distributor, correct?
Does comcast have a no-server policy? Many residential ISP's do. If they do, this just seems like it's enforcing that policy.
Does it suck, yeah. Does it make comcast evil? I'm not so sure.
I can't even take a picture and download it to my computer without paying my phone company, I don't expect any phones to become truly open anytime soon :(
if you supply a self addressed stamped envelope.
$10 says the lawyers are the only winners.
Making sure your page renders well while it loads can help solve this type of issue.
Putting scripts at the bottom of the page, explictly specifying image heights/widths, and having a single stylesheet at the top of a page can all help.
"Let's say that the number 1234 is watermarked in 2 files"
How?
If it's not noticeable, then decoding the audio and re-encoding it will usually strip the watermark right out.
And there's certainly no watermarking that isn't noticeable that can't deliberately be removed.
I assume "They" want to catch the sophisticated pirates distributing tons of material, not the unsophisticated share-1-song with a friend people. Oh wait... that would make sense in a sane world.
Yup... AIR was kind of "meant" to go from web app -> desktop app easily. I'm doing the reverse, coming out with the desktop app first. But there will definitely be a web version soon after that.
Meant to put more info in, but got distracted.
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Actually, I lied... it won't be a competitor. I want to do something different than what project wants you to do. I don't believe in ever setting the start or end date of tasks. You should be able to enter them all in, set up rules for how they behave, and the software should do it all for you. It's similar to the MS Project concept of leveling resources, but it actually understands what "today" is, and knows when things are late or ahead of schedule and adjusts automatically. If you like MS Project, you'll probably hate this. If you hate project, you might like this tool.
Here's some earlier info on it from when we were just starting out:
http://www.rogue-development.com/blog/2007/07/i-h
http://www.rogue-development.com/blog/2007/07/pro
http://www.agileagenda.com/
Shameless plug...
http://www.agileagenda.com/
It is funny that MS is pushing into Adobe's world with Silverligh, but Adobe is also pushing into Microsoft's world with AIR...
Microsoft has NEVER supported a competitor at first and then let that version slip to a very sub-optimal state so the Windows-only version seems better, have they?
If using the compiler is a determining factor, then I've developed on both GNU/OSX and GNU/Windows! If cross compiling counts, I've even used GNU/Palm!
"I believe there is a place for open source and commercial software in schools."
Commercial software for specialized learning applications. Open source for OS and general tools (office, graphics, web, etc). It's hard for a school to use OS operating systems when the software they need is not written for them.