Printing up counterfeit currency during WW2 by the Germans to destabilize Britain's currency certainly was part of the war and pieces of paper certainly aren't weapons in the killing and blowing up of things. They certainly are weapons in the sense of destroying the economy. So from that point of view any cyber attacks which aid in destabilizing the economy could be part of a war and would be weapons.
As far as there being some sort of treaty to prevent this, that's probably the most stupid thing I have ever heard of. It sounds like people are making things up to either create jobs or keep them. Just another waste of money and time by the useless UN.
This is funny. If it were me analyzing their results, it could also mean that developers are so frustrated with Objective-C that they have to use search engines to find help for the simplest of things instead of simply being able to code using provided documentation or books.
Unless of course Apple is making you walk away as in cases like this. You pay your entrance fee, you run 99.9% of the race and then Apple looks you over at the finish line and says you ran this racing wearing red sneakers and we don't like red sneakers. Thank you for your $99, your purchase of various iProds and a Mac, have a nice day. My advice to developers unless you have nothing better to do, walk away or don't get involved at all and no I'm not one of the rejected.
Fighting dirty for what purpose? Adobe is looking to sell the authoring tools. The runtime is FREE. Any further ways in which Flash apps can run sells more authoring tools. If I were them I'd be donating money and assistance to make this the most compatible and efficient runtime method as possible.
Gee I'll miss these sources.......not.......they'll simply be replaced by another source that I will view only because it showed up in Google. I would never have specifically gone to any of Rupy's papers only thru a Google link. That in turn might have led me to read other articles generating more ad revenue. Now they'll simply get zero from people like me of which I'm sure there are at least hundreds of thousands. What a boob.
Yet another reason software patents should not exist. Someone develops software it should be a copyright, period. Patents for what is blatantly obvious is just plain wrong. There will be a point where every bit of software is patented and no one will be able to develop anything better. For the US and any other country with software patents they are screwing themselves. New and better things will be developed outside of these countries and be sold outside of these countries and that patent protection becomes detrimental. It prevents innovation not encourages. Companies with the patents become complacent and do not innovate because they think they don't have to.
What a total scam. My carbon footprint is less that 10% of Al Gore's but he justifies his 10x + carbon footprint because he buys "offsets". What a bunch of crap. What justifies anyone having carbon offsets to sell? Why am I not able to sell my "offsets" to Al ?
First, I'm not a Flash programmer and not necessarily a fan of Flash. HOWEVER, Apple is pretty much a bunch of Nazis at this point. How is this any different than me buying a car and THEN being told you can only buy this BRAND of gas?
More specifically addressing this point, a company builds a state of the art refinery which will create gasoline that will run in this brand of car and others and then one or more of the car manufacturers say we are not going to allow people to use your brand of gas to put in their car even though it works just fine.
The Adobe tool creates native Apple apps using a Flash development IDE. Adobe is not looking to put the Flash runtime on iPhone/Touch/iPad.
Back to the gasoline analogy. If the refinery creates bad gas, people will not buy the bad gas. Apples claims of lack of quality go out the window when they approve a dozen or more iFart apps. Now you know why I chose gas as an example.
This is about Apple denying applications because they were built in a certain manner and in particular by a certain vendor tool. The Flash development tool is a programming aid that generates code which forms a genuine native app. There are other third party apps that also do the same thing. It's no different than if I created my own bunch of libraries and some macros that "generated" code for me.
This attack is solely against the Adobe tool. That's the problem. You either ban all development tools or you ban none. This is a cut and dry attack against Adobe, period.
To simplify it for you let's use an analogy. Apple initially makes no comment about how you can develop applications. Therefore 3rd parties develop based on this understanding. Apple then says you can only use a manual screwdriver to create applications. However, they aren't stopping the use of green, blue and orange power screwdrivers. They do, however, specifically say you cannot use a red power screwdriver. That's not acceptable. Just like you can use non car dealers to repair your car, non original parts to fix them, select gas from any supplier no matter how they made it as long as it runs your engine properly.
Adobe spent a significant amount of money to develop the tool which creates code which a human can replicate and it's being banned because a human didn't hand code it AND it was created by Adobe's tool. That's not acceptable.
Brilliant PR move by Apple. Let's convince a judge that the police should break into someones home, seize his computers, etc for exactly what purpose? Everything about the iPhone was out in the open. As to what's true or not will not be aided by the Nazi stormtrooper tactics that presumably Steve "Hitler" Jobs orchestrated. Of course we know the real reason this was done. It was to teach this guy and the rest of the world a lesson that Apple will not tolerate being messed with. Well Steve if I were a stockholder I would be pretty pissed off. The whole incident could have been dropped and have it quickly fade away. But no, Apple chooses to yet again make more enemies. Anyone that was on the fence about whether or not they had enough of Big Brother Steve dictating what Apple product owners can and cannot be using on their iPhones/Touch/etc are most likely not on the fence anymore. Congrats. Personally I look forward to the great success of the Android products.
I've read way too many posts in so many different places that Yelp is an extortion game at the least. Numerous people have written that their posts of negative reviews have either never appeared on Yelp or disappeared in a day or so. They even reposted a bad review and that too disappeared. That along with numerous restaurant owners claiming Yelp reps have visited them promising to make bad things "go away" are just too many to ignore. This latest claim of an "algorithm" is just absolutely absurd. Hopefully everyone will get smart and ignore this piece of crap business.
We have wine nearly every day. There's no need to spend more than $100 and there's plenty of wines under $60. I'm talking wine store not restaurant. The number of wines that I've had over $200 that I've went wow this is amazing is pretty much zero. There were a handful of wines in the $100-$200 and those wines are at that price because they got high ratings which drove them up. Before that they were sub $100. I've spoken to numerous winemakers and quite a number of them say we have to have a >$100 wine because so and so has one and people that know nearly nothing about wine but have a lot of money will buy just on price, that being expensive. Seek out the little brothers of wines like Grange which are considerably less in cost. The same holds true for some of the high end Spanish wines and some of the Italian wines. If the year is a good one for 20-40% of the flagship wine you get a really great bottle and that wine is being made from some of the same grapes in the high end wine. For $15-$30 there's probably a thousand good/very good wines. Yes, there are some really great finds for even less than that and even in a box. For parties, Powers Cabernet from Washington State is quite good. $6 bottle in a box, $13 in glass. Same wine. It boils down to one thing drink what you like regardless of cost but do try others when given the chance because you might be surprised on what you're missing. Go to wine tastings where you can taste the overpriced but more importantly try wines in the price range which you will spend when buying. It really irks me when people go from table to table and just taste the 1 or 2 most expensive wines at a table of 12-20.
This feeling that "the government" or "the law" must protect the idiots from themselves has got to stop. I guess we'll need to convert gas stoves to electric because they should have eliminated the flame so that a towel dropped onto a lit burner would light up quicker than if it was an electric burner. But then again, maybe it shouldn't be electric because that will likely start a fire eventually so we should all just have magnetic induction stoves.
Wow and my father used salt excessively for years and has LOW blood pressure. He would salt his food prior to even tasting it. This guy is an idiot, oh wait he's a politician, never mind, that's a redundant statement.
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Printing up counterfeit currency during WW2 by the Germans to destabilize Britain's currency certainly was part of the war and pieces of paper certainly aren't weapons in the killing and blowing up of things. They certainly are weapons in the sense of destroying the economy. So from that point of view any cyber attacks which aid in destabilizing the economy could be part of a war and would be weapons.
As far as there being some sort of treaty to prevent this, that's probably the most stupid thing I have ever heard of. It sounds like people are making things up to either create jobs or keep them. Just another waste of money and time by the useless UN.
I kind of think it more like North Korea. Dear Leader Steve. Rumor has it the next major OS X version will be codenamed Red Apple.
This is funny. If it were me analyzing their results, it could also mean that developers are so frustrated with Objective-C that they have to use search engines to find help for the simplest of things instead of simply being able to code using provided documentation or books.
Unless of course Apple is making you walk away as in cases like this. You pay your entrance fee, you run 99.9% of the race and then Apple looks you over at the finish line and says you ran this racing wearing red sneakers and we don't like red sneakers. Thank you for your $99, your purchase of various iProds and a Mac, have a nice day. My advice to developers unless you have nothing better to do, walk away or don't get involved at all and no I'm not one of the rejected.
Fighting dirty for what purpose? Adobe is looking to sell the authoring tools. The runtime is FREE. Any further ways in which Flash apps can run sells more authoring tools. If I were them I'd be donating money and assistance to make this the most compatible and efficient runtime method as possible.
Gee I'll miss these sources.......not.......they'll simply be replaced by another source that I will view only because it showed up in Google. I would never have specifically gone to any of Rupy's papers only thru a Google link. That in turn might have led me to read other articles generating more ad revenue. Now they'll simply get zero from people like me of which I'm sure there are at least hundreds of thousands. What a boob.
Well you saved me the time of writing it. Exactly.
Yet another reason software patents should not exist. Someone develops software it should be a copyright, period. Patents for what is blatantly obvious is just plain wrong. There will be a point where every bit of software is patented and no one will be able to develop anything better. For the US and any other country with software patents they are screwing themselves. New and better things will be developed outside of these countries and be sold outside of these countries and that patent protection becomes detrimental. It prevents innovation not encourages. Companies with the patents become complacent and do not innovate because they think they don't have to.
What a total scam. My carbon footprint is less that 10% of Al Gore's but he justifies his 10x + carbon footprint because he buys "offsets". What a bunch of crap. What justifies anyone having carbon offsets to sell? Why am I not able to sell my "offsets" to Al ?
First, I'm not a Flash programmer and not necessarily a fan of Flash. HOWEVER, Apple is pretty much a bunch of Nazis at this point. How is this any different than me buying a car and THEN being told you can only buy this BRAND of gas?
More specifically addressing this point, a company builds a state of the art refinery which will create gasoline that will run in this brand of car and others and then one or more of the car manufacturers say we are not going to allow people to use your brand of gas to put in their car even though it works just fine.
The Adobe tool creates native Apple apps using a Flash development IDE. Adobe is not looking to put the Flash runtime on iPhone/Touch/iPad.
Back to the gasoline analogy. If the refinery creates bad gas, people will not buy the bad gas. Apples claims of lack of quality go out the window when they approve a dozen or more iFart apps. Now you know why I chose gas as an example.
Your argument or whatever it is is absurd.
This is about Apple denying applications because they were built in a certain manner and in particular by a certain vendor tool. The Flash development tool is a programming aid that generates code which forms a genuine native app. There are other third party apps that also do the same thing. It's no different than if I created my own bunch of libraries and some macros that "generated" code for me.
This attack is solely against the Adobe tool. That's the problem. You either ban all development tools or you ban none. This is a cut and dry attack against Adobe, period.
To simplify it for you let's use an analogy. Apple initially makes no comment about how you can develop applications. Therefore 3rd parties develop based on this understanding. Apple then says you can only use a manual screwdriver to create applications. However, they aren't stopping the use of green, blue and orange power screwdrivers. They do, however, specifically say you cannot use a red power screwdriver. That's not acceptable. Just like you can use non car dealers to repair your car, non original parts to fix them, select gas from any supplier no matter how they made it as long as it runs your engine properly.
Adobe spent a significant amount of money to develop the tool which creates code which a human can replicate and it's being banned because a human didn't hand code it AND it was created by Adobe's tool. That's not acceptable.
Is this even legal?
Brilliant PR move by Apple. Let's convince a judge that the police should break into someones home, seize his computers, etc for exactly what purpose? Everything about the iPhone was out in the open. As to what's true or not will not be aided by the Nazi stormtrooper tactics that presumably Steve "Hitler" Jobs orchestrated. Of course we know the real reason this was done. It was to teach this guy and the rest of the world a lesson that Apple will not tolerate being messed with. Well Steve if I were a stockholder I would be pretty pissed off. The whole incident could have been dropped and have it quickly fade away. But no, Apple chooses to yet again make more enemies. Anyone that was on the fence about whether or not they had enough of Big Brother Steve dictating what Apple product owners can and cannot be using on their iPhones/Touch/etc are most likely not on the fence anymore. Congrats. Personally I look forward to the great success of the Android products.
I've read way too many posts in so many different places that Yelp is an extortion game at the least. Numerous people have written that their posts of negative reviews have either never appeared on Yelp or disappeared in a day or so. They even reposted a bad review and that too disappeared. That along with numerous restaurant owners claiming Yelp reps have visited them promising to make bad things "go away" are just too many to ignore. This latest claim of an "algorithm" is just absolutely absurd. Hopefully everyone will get smart and ignore this piece of crap business.
We have wine nearly every day. There's no need to spend more than $100 and there's plenty of wines under $60. I'm talking wine store not restaurant. The number of wines that I've had over $200 that I've went wow this is amazing is pretty much zero. There were a handful of wines in the $100-$200 and those wines are at that price because they got high ratings which drove them up. Before that they were sub $100. I've spoken to numerous winemakers and quite a number of them say we have to have a >$100 wine because so and so has one and people that know nearly nothing about wine but have a lot of money will buy just on price, that being expensive. Seek out the little brothers of wines like Grange which are considerably less in cost. The same holds true for some of the high end Spanish wines and some of the Italian wines. If the year is a good one for 20-40% of the flagship wine you get a really great bottle and that wine is being made from some of the same grapes in the high end wine. For $15-$30 there's probably a thousand good/very good wines. Yes, there are some really great finds for even less than that and even in a box. For parties, Powers Cabernet from Washington State is quite good. $6 bottle in a box, $13 in glass. Same wine. It boils down to one thing drink what you like regardless of cost but do try others when given the chance because you might be surprised on what you're missing. Go to wine tastings where you can taste the overpriced but more importantly try wines in the price range which you will spend when buying. It really irks me when people go from table to table and just taste the 1 or 2 most expensive wines at a table of 12-20.
You must be referring to Monster Wine. Uh oh......
This feeling that "the government" or "the law" must protect the idiots from themselves has got to stop. I guess we'll need to convert gas stoves to electric because they should have eliminated the flame so that a towel dropped onto a lit burner would light up quicker than if it was an electric burner. But then again, maybe it shouldn't be electric because that will likely start a fire eventually so we should all just have magnetic induction stoves.
Obviously these loons have attended the Tariq Aziz School of Public Relations.
Wow and my father used salt excessively for years and has LOW blood pressure. He would salt his food prior to even tasting it. This guy is an idiot, oh wait he's a politician, never mind, that's a redundant statement.
Yeah, me too
Nice to see not everyone in "government" is controlled by Hollywood
Do I smell a class action lawsuit? Seems like it might make sense.
I heard he invented the internet too despite what Al Gore claims.
Assuming this is true, then if they idiots spend $5 billion on alternatives then the idiots really spent $15 billion. That's just beautiful.
Bribe, apparently the usual practice there.