I'm not talking about an open API, but about upgrades which disable hacks on purpose. If I want to modify my HD tv to run linux on it, the manufacturer is not going to push an firmware upgrade to lock me out.
Of course, it is also without taking into account the fact that you are giving examples with bad faith. All your examples are not equipped with general purpose computing chips, while the iPad is.
Allowing people to thinker directly with the iPad and not trough a SDK wouldn't reduce the usability of the device.
Even if the basic consumer of a iPad is someone who don't care about computers, why going directly against a group of the population who do indeed care ?
There is a difference between being geek friendly and being antigeek.
The author is not complaining that the iPad is not geek friendly, but overtly anti geek. Apple is now trying to prevent people from tinkering with their bought hardware/software by blocking all ways of access.
It is the same mentally as the car makers who lock down all access to the internal working of their car by way of proprietary protocols/special screw, etc.
For this whole locking down thing, most people are not complaining that it doesn't go their way, but that some random person decided that their way is not authorized or worthy anymore and they can't walk it.
True, I can see where they're coming from. However I would imagine counting online views as a portion/percentage.
For example a typical show on Hulu has the same number of commercial breaks as the broadcast equivalent, but maybe 1/5 of the total commercials. IE, for every break there's usually a single 15-60 second commercial (averaging around 30 seconds a piece). So maybe count 5 Hulu viewings as 1 Nielson viewing.
This make sense. If you have 5 times the number of viewer on one media with 1/5 of the advertisement, it means you are doubling the advertisement (from the original media + the new media). Since Hulu is a successful platform, they should also count it. It is not that difficult I guess, just puting a new column in their Excel thingy with a factor number. For those buying the shows online, just put the factor as a pourcentage of what you make in ads (if you are selling the show twice the price you make in ads, put a 2.0 factor). This way, they can take into account all forms of media and have a clearer picture of what going on.
Have you ever done something for free just for the pleasure of doing so ? You know, there are other rewards in live than money. Try to do a PhD thesis for example. It is not really rewarding in term of money, but much more in not physical terms. I like to code just because I like to code, and I don't mind contributing my code back to the community when I can. This kind of thinking can also be applied to other form of activities, like writing, painting, finding rare coins, etc. You don't have to be paid to do stuff.
I guess you never used a cluster. I still have to see a scientific cluster (most computer intensive thing you can find) running under something else than linux, unix or bsd (this last one is for the mac clusters out there). As an astrophysicist, i already used a correct number of top 100 clusters, all running under a variant of Linux.
Coding, like painting or photography, cost nothing beside time. You have to believe some people are just happy to code in their free time and bring something to other people. There is no better reward than having your code merged with the main tree of a project.
I can tell you that if the music/movie industry would work like research and coding are working, the world would be an really different place. I don't remember last time i received royalties for publishing an article...
"Linux can run on a 1024-core computer, but it can't play a Flash movie without stuttering" problem. At this rate, it'll never improve.
This have nothing to do with linux. If you have any complaint, post them to http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html . People are working on providing an alternative to the closed source adobe flash libraries, but i guess it is quite hard since they are closed source to begin with... and since i posted this, i can't even moderate you as troll or ignorant...
Fedora12 is perfectly stable. Using it right now on 3 computers. Two of them are Intel based, one is AMD based. And they have all three of ATI, NVidia and Intel graphic chips. Didn't have any problem at all and the installer is quite stable.
The overall problem is more complex than just a ad problem. In many European countries, the shows have to legally be dubbed (France, Germany, Spain) or at least subbed (Danmark, Sweden). So, if they diffuse them oversea, they are making themself fool of the law. I don't know for internet if the applied law if the law of the served country or the serving country, but in all cases, it is a more complex problem than just "do it".
On a side note, I find totally rubbish the laws about forcing dubbing and subbing, and if Hulu was available in France/Germany, I would use it instead of tpb. But right now I don't have a choice, and it just piss me off.
You didn't get it. This is perfectly normal. Microsoft always said it would sell Win7 cheaper in third world countries, and at a higher price in developed countries.
I can't imagine anyone making a living off of reading software patents. Every time I read them, I think to myself, "whoever those patent examiners are, they are not getting paid enough."
Einstein was so bored when he was at the patent office that he did some thought experiments there.
Is it possible to have a more complete short version of the article ? I don't have a fraking clue about this is all about.
Waste Management sued SAP in March 2008 over a failed ERP project
What is Waste Management ? a company ? what is SAP ? what is ERP (Wikipedia give me a full list of results, with "Erotic Role-playing, a sexual form of Role-playing" among them, but i guess this is not what it is about)
? Where is this story located ?
Remember that you have audiance which is not from the US and sometimes don't have a clue on what you are talking about.
The industry has largely been selling SATA II devices to unwitting consumers based on the perceived promise of 3GBps performance
Well, knowing that the standard is backward compatible (from TFA), what is the point in crying ? You will get a faster interface for the same price as the old one, being able to use your current hardware, and when the drives reach this speed, you will be ready (and from previous posting, looks like SSD are close to saturate SATA II).
I just checked 3 areas where i'm most likely to be. In Danemark, Germany and France. All 3 three area are literally full of Fon access points. You don't have to move more than a couple hundred meters before you can find one, and this is in the smallest of the 3 towns (25000 habs).
Maybe Fon is more an European phenomena than a American one.
Now, all it needs is the possibility to write papers about his new discoveries, and soon enough, it will get a PhD. At this point, we just have to sit back and wait for the FTL engine in 10 years.
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Of course, it is also without taking into account the fact that you are giving examples with bad faith. All your examples are not equipped with general purpose computing chips, while the iPad is.
Even if the basic consumer of a iPad is someone who don't care about computers, why going directly against a group of the population who do indeed care ?
The author is not complaining that the iPad is not geek friendly, but overtly anti geek. Apple is now trying to prevent people from tinkering with their bought hardware/software by blocking all ways of access.
It is the same mentally as the car makers who lock down all access to the internal working of their car by way of proprietary protocols/special screw, etc.
For this whole locking down thing, most people are not complaining that it doesn't go their way, but that some random person decided that their way is not authorized or worthy anymore and they can't walk it.
True, I can see where they're coming from. However I would imagine counting online views as a portion/percentage.
For example a typical show on Hulu has the same number of commercial breaks as the broadcast equivalent, but maybe 1/5 of the total commercials. IE, for every break there's usually a single 15-60 second commercial (averaging around 30 seconds a piece). So maybe count 5 Hulu viewings as 1 Nielson viewing.
This make sense. If you have 5 times the number of viewer on one media with 1/5 of the advertisement, it means you are doubling the advertisement (from the original media + the new media). Since Hulu is a successful platform, they should also count it. It is not that difficult I guess, just puting a new column in their Excel thingy with a factor number. For those buying the shows online, just put the factor as a pourcentage of what you make in ads (if you are selling the show twice the price you make in ads, put a 2.0 factor). This way, they can take into account all forms of media and have a clearer picture of what going on.
Have you ever done something for free just for the pleasure of doing so ? You know, there are other rewards in live than money. Try to do a PhD thesis for example. It is not really rewarding in term of money, but much more in not physical terms. I like to code just because I like to code, and I don't mind contributing my code back to the community when I can. This kind of thinking can also be applied to other form of activities, like writing, painting, finding rare coins, etc. You don't have to be paid to do stuff.
If Linux wants to sit at the adults' table.
I guess you never used a cluster. I still have to see a scientific cluster (most computer intensive thing you can find) running under something else than linux, unix or bsd (this last one is for the mac clusters out there). As an astrophysicist, i already used a correct number of top 100 clusters, all running under a variant of Linux.
Nuff said...
Coding, like painting or photography, cost nothing beside time. You have to believe some people are just happy to code in their free time and bring something to other people. There is no better reward than having your code merged with the main tree of a project.
I can tell you that if the music/movie industry would work like research and coding are working, the world would be an really different place. I don't remember last time i received royalties for publishing an article...
"Linux can run on a 1024-core computer, but it can't play a Flash movie without stuttering" problem. At this rate, it'll never improve.
This have nothing to do with linux. If you have any complaint, post them to http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html . People are working on providing an alternative to the closed source adobe flash libraries, but i guess it is quite hard since they are closed source to begin with... and since i posted this, i can't even moderate you as troll or ignorant...
Fedora12 is perfectly stable. Using it right now on 3 computers. Two of them are Intel based, one is AMD based. And they have all three of ATI, NVidia and Intel graphic chips. Didn't have any problem at all and the installer is quite stable.
On a side note, I find totally rubbish the laws about forcing dubbing and subbing, and if Hulu was available in France/Germany, I would use it instead of tpb. But right now I don't have a choice, and it just piss me off.
There is not any Hell option in the modding list... but there is not any Paradise option either, and I think you are right, so.. well...
In fact, it may be the only kind of machine powerful enough to run Matlab...
Don't know the status for Windows or for ATI.
I also predict the death of internet porn at the same time.
Welcome to the academic world.
You didn't get it. This is perfectly normal. Microsoft always said it would sell Win7 cheaper in third world countries, and at a higher price in developed countries.
I can't imagine anyone making a living off of reading software patents. Every time I read them, I think to myself, "whoever those patent examiners are, they are not getting paid enough."
Einstein was so bored when he was at the patent office that he did some thought experiments there.
We all know what he found while bored...
Waste Management sued SAP in March 2008 over a failed ERP project
What is Waste Management ? a company ? what is SAP ? what is ERP (Wikipedia give me a full list of results, with "Erotic Role-playing, a sexual form of Role-playing" among them, but i guess this is not what it is about) ? Where is this story located ?
Remember that you have audiance which is not from the US and sometimes don't have a clue on what you are talking about.
The industry has largely been selling SATA II devices to unwitting consumers based on the perceived promise of 3GBps performance
Well, knowing that the standard is backward compatible (from TFA), what is the point in crying ? You will get a faster interface for the same price as the old one, being able to use your current hardware, and when the drives reach this speed, you will be ready (and from previous posting, looks like SSD are close to saturate SATA II).
I second this. Does anyone knows a good crossplatform VOIP with webcam and open source if possible?
Maybe Fon is more an European phenomena than a American one.
Oups, my bad, they can already write papers... http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/#generate
RIAAphilia ? Now this one is twisted.
Am i the only one to read Orbital Canon in the title ? I freaked out just before realizing... No more C&C for me.