What I would like to know if there is some "call in" feature, too? Maybe not a phone number, but a way to call and then be connected to Google Hangouts.
In addition to broadcasting corrective messages, WAAS/EGNOS geostationary satellites also broadcast the same positioning and ranging information as GPS satellites; however, due to the fact that they are geostationary, their coverage area is static.
The claim of 16GB of internal storage for the Nook Tablet is disingenuous: 15GB of it can only be used for B&N content -- which is, currently, just books and magazines. Since the Nook Tablet is nearly unhackable, this restriction will be very difficult to circumvent.
On AT&T's network at least, the iPhone, even jail-broken ones typically, sends its tethering traffic to a different APN (AT&T access point). Making it very easy to detect when an iOS device is tethering unofficially. Android doesn't segregate its tethering traffic like iOS -- which makes it much more cost prohibitive to detect its tethering traffic; consequently, because of this, and because the number of Android devices on AT&T's network is dwarfed by that of iOS devices, it's likely that Android devices will be excluded from the crack down.
Google wanted to purchase the patents as a defensive measure to forestall litigation. So, joining with Microsoft and Apple to buy them would defeat the purpose -- since they are the two principal companies Google would like to defend against.
It's not death I fear so much as anything that's boundless, endless. When I was a child, I scared the shit out of myself when I tried to really understand what it meant for something to go on forever; I had a reaction similar to the robot from Lost in Space: "Does not compute". Which was the reason why I never found consolation in religion. So, for me, whether it's everlasting life in heaven, eternal torture in a lake of fire, or an infinity fucking Helen of Troy, it's all hell.
He wants apps written for the iPhone, not apps that try to shoehorn some kind of cross-platform abstraction on top of the iPhone, because that usually sucks, and (at least in his eyes) it makes the iPhone look bad if the apps look bad.
This is a patently ridiculous generalization. Adobe Flash CS5 is a translator with associated API libraries -- similar in kind to a C compiler and the C standard library. So, an analogous argument would be that all code built with GCC sucks; and, therefore, only assembly can be used.
I wish I could view with indifference all of the people that drink the Apple Kool-Aid; but, I fear that little choice and freedom will remain in the wake of a tide of lemmings rushing off Apple's cliff of corporate lock-in.
There's and even worse possibility for Comcast: this ruling could result in the FCC reclassifying DSL and other broadband services as Title II telecommunications services, and subjecting them to common carrier regulations.
You missed the point...completely. To aid your, apparently, limited reading comprehension, I'll restate the point: Apple's actions are anti-competitive; and, they hurt the consumer and the marketplace, overall. Your responses, to paraphrase, that "Apple is just trying to maintain/gain an advantage", and "Apple actions are common business practice" are irrelevant. Essentially, those same arguments can be, and have been, used to justify the actions of Microsoft. The question is 'Does Apple's actions hurt the consumer?'. I say yes; and, there's nothing in your reply that militate against that.
Perhaps, you need to spend a little more time in your basement with a book, or two, or three...
I'll concede the point that Apple makes quality products -- although, personally, I find them less than compelling. My issue with Apple is that their business practices are anti-competitive in effect if not actually illegal; and, I believe their actions hurt consumers -- especially, those either not able or not willing to pay the Apple Premium.
For example,
Assuming this story is correct. As described in IEEE Spectrum, Intrinsity is an unique company that produces technology capable of significantly boosting the performance of many ARM processors. Considering the ubiquity of ARM, this technology could've potentially benefited a large range of consumers; but, apparently, that benefit will, now, only fall on those purchasing Apple products.
E-book Price Increase: This is an instance of Apple using its virtual monolopy in the mind share if not the market share of mobile devices to hurt the consumer. Perhaps, previous e-book prices were artificially low; I won't argue that point. The fact remains that Apple's entry into the e-book business has resulted in higher prices for the consumer -- with one concrete instance being the 43% increase in NY Times subscriptions.
Banning of Google Voice App: In additional to a multitude of other features, Google Voice allow users to make free domestic VOIP calls; so, the adverse affect to consumers of this rejection should be obvious. Furthermore, this isn't an isolated instance: Apple has a historyof rejectingapps that compete against its products or those of its business partners.
In terms of the server business, Oracle, in addition to increasing its investment in the Solaris operating system, will also accelerate its investment in its SPARC processor-based server line, and will continue to focus on forward binary compatibility, Fowler said.
You seem to be missing a degree of freedom inherent in the relationship: the publisher is free to sell their books to Amazon at any price they choose, or not sell them to Amazon at all. So, the publisher has the prerogative to set the whole sale price which makes the most business sense for it. All amazon is doing here is attempting to exercise the same right: the ability to sell its previously purchased merchandise at the price that makes the most business sense for it.
Oh well, I just won't bother reading it then. I will read www.bbc.co.uk
It never ceases to amaze me how people who expect their own work to be valued and remunerated balk at compensating, or even acknowledging the value of, that of others.
The ability of the BBC to provide "free" content is based in part, if not wholly, on a subsidy from the British government. A free press is essential to a strong democracy; and, the British have taken action to ensure that regardless of the vagaries of the economy, or the whims of advertisers, their stream of objective journalism will remain unimpeded. If fact, to add to a long list of our dubious distinctions, America is one of the few Western democracies that don't provide a substantial subsidy to the press -- as detailed in "How to Save Journalism"
For the most part, it's the work of reporters at newspapers that generates the news:
APR was originally a part of Apache HTTP Server, but has now been spun off into a separate project of the Apache Software Foundation, and is used by other applications to achieve platform independence.
The range of platform-independent functionality provided by APR includes:
* Memory allocation and memory pool functionality
* Atomic operations
* Dynamic library handling
* File I/O
* Command argument parsing
* Locking
* Hash tables and arrays
* Mmap functionality
* Network sockets and protocols
* Thread, process and mutex functionality
* Shared memory functionality
* Time routines
* User and group ID services
Newton's asshole-ness aside, he had some justification for believing that Leibniz plagiarized him:
Newton's work on Calculus was principally completed during the years 1664-1666 -- while Leibniz didn't start his work until 1673.
Also, as perhaps another personality flaw, Newton was very reticent to publish his work; and, it was possible that Leibniz was influenced by the unpublished work of Newton.
Newton began his work on calculus no later than 1666, and Leibniz did not begin his work until 1673. Leibniz visited England in 1673 and again in 1676, and was shown some of Newton's unpublished writings. He also corresponded with several English scientists (as well as with Newton himself), and may have gained access to Newton's manuscripts through them. It is not known how much this may have influenced Leibniz.
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What I would like to know if there is some "call in" feature, too? Maybe not a phone number, but a way to call and then be connected to Google Hangouts.
Yes, as detailed at Hangouts 2.3 Update Brings Remaining Google Voice Integration ..., you can configure the updated Hangouts app to ring for incoming calls to your Google Voice number.
In addition to broadcasting corrective messages, WAAS/EGNOS geostationary satellites also broadcast the same positioning and ranging information as GPS satellites; however, due to the fact that they are geostationary, their coverage area is static.
Moderation rollback.
Maybe 18 months is longer for you than it is for me but...
1/5/2010 Nexus One released
9/24/2011 Nexus One updated to Android 2.3.6
This comment is essentially a /. Moderator rollback: meant to mod your comment up...mistakenly did the reverse.
The claim of 16GB of internal storage for the Nook Tablet is disingenuous: 15GB of it can only be used for B&N content -- which is, currently, just books and magazines. Since the Nook Tablet is nearly unhackable, this restriction will be very difficult to circumvent.
On AT&T's network at least, the iPhone, even jail-broken ones typically, sends its tethering traffic to a different APN (AT&T access point). Making it very easy to detect when an iOS device is tethering unofficially. Android doesn't segregate its tethering traffic like iOS -- which makes it much more cost prohibitive to detect its tethering traffic; consequently, because of this, and because the number of Android devices on AT&T's network is dwarfed by that of iOS devices, it's likely that Android devices will be excluded from the crack down.
Google wanted to purchase the patents as a defensive measure to forestall litigation. So, joining with Microsoft and Apple to buy them would defeat the purpose -- since they are the two principal companies Google would like to defend against.
It's not death I fear so much as anything that's boundless, endless. When I was a child, I scared the shit out of myself when I tried to really understand what it meant for something to go on forever; I had a reaction similar to the robot from Lost in Space: "Does not compute". Which was the reason why I never found consolation in religion. So, for me, whether it's everlasting life in heaven, eternal torture in a lake of fire, or an infinity fucking Helen of Troy, it's all hell.
Damn /.'s mod system! I mistakenly selected the wrong moderation, and I was forced to comment to undo it. So...here you go: +1 Insightful.
This is a patently ridiculous generalization. Adobe Flash CS5 is a translator with associated API libraries -- similar in kind to a C compiler and the C standard library. So, an analogous argument would be that all code built with GCC sucks; and, therefore, only assembly can be used.
I wish I could view with indifference all of the people that drink the Apple Kool-Aid; but, I fear that little choice and freedom will remain in the wake of a tide of lemmings rushing off Apple's cliff of corporate lock-in.
There's and even worse possibility for Comcast: this ruling could result in the FCC reclassifying DSL and other broadband services as Title II telecommunications services, and subjecting them to common carrier regulations.
You missed the point...completely. To aid your, apparently, limited reading comprehension, I'll restate the point: Apple's actions are anti-competitive; and, they hurt the consumer and the marketplace, overall. Your responses, to paraphrase, that "Apple is just trying to maintain/gain an advantage", and "Apple actions are common business practice" are irrelevant. Essentially, those same arguments can be, and have been, used to justify the actions of Microsoft. The question is 'Does Apple's actions hurt the consumer?'. I say yes; and, there's nothing in your reply that militate against that.
Perhaps, you need to spend a little more time in your basement with a book, or two, or three...
For example,
You seem to be missing a degree of freedom inherent in the relationship: the publisher is free to sell their books to Amazon at any price they choose, or not sell them to Amazon at all. So, the publisher has the prerogative to set the whole sale price which makes the most business sense for it. All amazon is doing here is attempting to exercise the same right: the ability to sell its previously purchased merchandise at the price that makes the most business sense for it.
It never ceases to amaze me how people who expect their own work to be valued and remunerated balk at compensating, or even acknowledging the value of, that of others.
The ability of the BBC to provide "free" content is based in part, if not wholly, on a subsidy from the British government. A free press is essential to a strong democracy; and, the British have taken action to ensure that regardless of the vagaries of the economy, or the whims of advertisers, their stream of objective journalism will remain unimpeded. If fact, to add to a long list of our dubious distinctions, America is one of the few Western democracies that don't provide a substantial subsidy to the press -- as detailed in "How to Save Journalism"
For the most part, it's the work of reporters at newspapers that generates the news:
And, with the loss of other sources of revenue, advertising alone simply isn't sufficient to sustain that endeavor.
Note: I am a very pleased Kindle owner, and I make no pretense of being completely unbiased.
Pros
Caveats: The LendMe feature will only allow a book to be lent one time only -- for at most two weeks; and, according to some souces (http://reviews.cnet.com/e-book-readers/barnes-noble-nook/4505-3508_7-33786175.html), the Wi-Fi connection will only be enabled at the Barnes & Nobles stores.
Cons
APR:
http://apr.apache.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Portable_Runtime
APR
Well...you could always build your own.
History of Calculus
May not be for much longer: many public libraries are hurting for funds.
...or reading it: The Predator may eventually become the Prey.