Umm nope, actually a $99 dev license will allow you to create whatever you want and either submit it for the apple store or simply keep it for yourself. Many enterprise clients deploy private app servers just for this purpose and can with apples full blessing run their own suite of software. I've seen companies with less than 100 people do that already for inventory apps, im sure it would be no problem at all for the NFL.
If you dont want your pictures all over the internet...dont put them on the internet. Sorry but whining about the use of pictures placed on imgur or flickr is the equivalent of dumping a pile of random pictures on a table in the break room of a busy office then complaining when one of them shows up on someones desk.
Wow looks like all that is left of SCO are lawsuits, debt and a pending appeal. You have to wonder why in the world anyone would want to buy the business division, considering the SCO name is poison to just about anyone who knows anything about Unix. My guess is they will do anything in their power to distance themselves from the SCO name.
The reason Music games aren't doing well isn't that they aren't a genre people are interested in, simply that releasing the same game every 3 months and adding minor crap can make even the biggest fan of the genre completely jaded. Over saturation of any genre especially one that specific will eventually result in a total lack of interest in new products.
Not when the flood of users are using the iPhone 4 and are locked into a contract. The iphone 4 is not LTE capable. Its starting to look like Apple pulled the same stunt with Verizon that they did with AT&T with the first iPhone. When the first iPhone was out 3g was already deployed in many areas but AT&T but the phone lacked support of it in favor of Edge. With Verizon and AT&T both planning full deployment of LTE this year, I'm thinking that AT&T will get the iPhone 5 with LTE support likely and Verizon users will be stuck waiting a while. AT&T has had to offer early upgrades in the past but never in less than a year...with Verizon canceling its "every 2 year plan" for upgrades I highly doubt they will be willing to eat subsidies after only a few months.
I dont go online with my PS3 its in the family room, haven't hacked it either but i'm not going to be forced to put it online, I've taken it into my office and run updates a few times but no way i'm going to do that everytime the kids or i want to play a game. Hopefully there will be noticeable warning on the box for titles that do that.
I dont call applications or programs on my desktop apps...and i dont call stuff on my portable devices applications or programs. I dont see this as anyone taking ownership of anything rather a term thats easily identifiable, to be fair what word would the author prefer? Widgets are used elsewhere, applets is basically the same just longer would you prefer "program like thingys", phone and tablet thingamajigs? Seriously aren't there better things to be concerned about rather than the supposed sullying an abbreviation for a word that actually describes the thing pretty well?
The problem with that idea is the platform. With full internet access on the iPad, why would someone want local news as brought to them by a company 1000's of miles away when its far easier to just download or create an icon link to a real local news source that is likely more current, more accurate and already familiar. It seems that Murdoch is trying to reinvent stuff that is already out there.
I checked it out. Its very pretty, but its just like having a pdf copy of any print magazine. If I wanted that I would just go to a newsstand a buy a magazine. There is nothing there to make you go "wow i haven't seen that before" and unfortunately for them without a wow factor this just isn't going to fly. Perhaps if it had imbedded photo galleries, interactive charts, etc, it might be more interesting but as it is, its comes across as a scanned version of a print magazine. Its just hard to believe they have already burned through 30 million and this is what they ended up with. For half a million a week, I would expect at least some level of interactivity and information I cant find elsewhere...so far they are delivering neither.
Wow, nothing screams "the reviewer must be right" like suing the reviewer. Its probably more likely the place was already having problems and the owner got the bright idea that suing someone would be an opportunity to recoup losses.
According to Volkswagen they plan to have the XL1 available worldwide by 2013 at a cost under $25k. If that happens I can see commuters opting for that without much effort. Its a little weak power wise but more than sufficient for travel from suburbs to city and back and at around 300 mpg at least for me the fuel savings would more than make up for the price. The Chevy volt also looks fairly promising though no where near the same efficiency and its supposed to be available nationwide by the end of this year. I really dont see 1 million purely electric cars but very efficient hybrids are definitely on the way and there is plenty of interest without subsidies.
I was living in Orlando at the time. I can remember going outside to watch the launch. All the neighbors did it, shuttle launches in my neighborhood were like tailgating is for sports in other towns. It was of course obvious something wasn't right but to most of us watching we thought one of the canisters simply dropped early. A few minutes into the launch one of the neighbors came running out of the house screaming that it blew up...I just remember a lot of screaming and crying., the shuttle was something Floridian's have a sense or pride and ownership with, its something that others identify the state with. The shock and grief pretty much killed my neighborhoods enthusiasm for launch parties, perhaps its superstitious but the rest of the time I lived there no one I knew made a point of watching launches again it was just too painful. The only lauch I personally watched live after that was when my father had been invited to watch from one of the observation decks on base, we were both extremely nervous the whole time, but it was rather healing when the launch went off without a hitch.
Which linux netbook is instant on? You forgot to factor in all the training, all the extra support, the extra work to get them all integrated, the extra batteries to get that kind of battery life, the extra weight and the lack of 3g in most netbooks. Why would I need to jailbreak an ipad or android tablet in a work environment to start with?
Do any major game companies not support ESRB? ESRP ratings already list why they are rated whatever they are rated in fact its not just for teen and up titles. As for adding a warning that video games lead to aggression is absurd, participation in sports can "lead to aggression" should football helmets have the warning too. Driving on the highway has been shown to cause aggression in some people, perhaps we need the warning on cars as well. Hell politicians tend to piss me off more often than not...perhaps that warning should scroll across the bottom of c-span.
With most of my clients lack of choice is a bonus...in business environments I have found most of them prefer uniformity to selection. We buy 1 model of notebook, 1 model of desktop, everyone has the same phone, etc. When upgrades are done they all upgrade but usually they try and get as much life as possible out of a device. That requirement makes the phone vendors mostly a non-option since they seem to drop support and change models faster than I could even deploy them. My Galaxy S isn't even 6 months old and has already been replaced with the Nexus S (and changed manufacturers) and yet another version has been announced, I simply couldn't trust the galaxy tab to last a year much less have support past that. For reasons like that I cant see many of the phone vendors making much of a dent in the tablet market as far as enterprise deployment goes. Toshiba, HP, etc might have a shot but the only phone vendor I see other than apple with a track record of long term support would be RIM and they have their own non-android solution.
Your right they arent replacements but that was the xserves problem...there wasnt a market, downscaling to the mini server imho just opens up opportunities that simply didnt exist with regards to small businesses and home servers. Xserve was a decent product but failed to find any real foothold in any segment, I dont see killiing it as a mistake.
Sadly your right. I had high hopes for the ZuneHD, technology wise it was thing of wonder but they half assed the app store, screwed potential developers and basically killed any potential excitement for it before the device really even had a chance to get off the ground. Most of their "innovation" seems to be reactive rather than proactive, add in their absolute paranoia about controlling their skewed "perception" of the device (they did the same with the 360 which is why it still has no browser or keyboard support) and mostly everything they have come up with lately has been DOA.
hmm interesting...thanks for that. RIght now im using a script to forward faxes as pdf attachments..it works well but that might be alot more elegant, I will check it out. The client has both toshiba copiers and a toshiba phone system and luckily Toshiba's toolbox is decent enough that I have been able to mange forwarding both faxes and voicemail with native support to the ipads...its a bit kludgy on my part but it works.
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Umm nope, actually a $99 dev license will allow you to create whatever you want and either submit it for the apple store or simply keep it for yourself. Many enterprise clients deploy private app servers just for this purpose and can with apples full blessing run their own suite of software. I've seen companies with less than 100 people do that already for inventory apps, im sure it would be no problem at all for the NFL.
If you dont want your pictures all over the internet...dont put them on the internet. Sorry but whining about the use of pictures placed on imgur or flickr is the equivalent of dumping a pile of random pictures on a table in the break room of a busy office then complaining when one of them shows up on someones desk.
hmm you may be on to something with that....3 letter domains are awfully hard to come by.
Wow looks like all that is left of SCO are lawsuits, debt and a pending appeal. You have to wonder why in the world anyone would want to buy the business division, considering the SCO name is poison to just about anyone who knows anything about Unix. My guess is they will do anything in their power to distance themselves from the SCO name.
The reason Music games aren't doing well isn't that they aren't a genre people are interested in, simply that releasing the same game every 3 months and adding minor crap can make even the biggest fan of the genre completely jaded. Over saturation of any genre especially one that specific will eventually result in a total lack of interest in new products.
There are plenty of products out there than can dampen cell phone coverage, why not just install those and just eliminate the issue?
Not when the flood of users are using the iPhone 4 and are locked into a contract. The iphone 4 is not LTE capable. Its starting to look like Apple pulled the same stunt with Verizon that they did with AT&T with the first iPhone. When the first iPhone was out 3g was already deployed in many areas but AT&T but the phone lacked support of it in favor of Edge. With Verizon and AT&T both planning full deployment of LTE this year, I'm thinking that AT&T will get the iPhone 5 with LTE support likely and Verizon users will be stuck waiting a while. AT&T has had to offer early upgrades in the past but never in less than a year...with Verizon canceling its "every 2 year plan" for upgrades I highly doubt they will be willing to eat subsidies after only a few months.
I dont go online with my PS3 its in the family room, haven't hacked it either but i'm not going to be forced to put it online, I've taken it into my office and run updates a few times but no way i'm going to do that everytime the kids or i want to play a game. Hopefully there will be noticeable warning on the box for titles that do that.
Because they want you to pay for it...they just dont want you to actually use it.
I dont call applications or programs on my desktop apps...and i dont call stuff on my portable devices applications or programs. I dont see this as anyone taking ownership of anything rather a term thats easily identifiable, to be fair what word would the author prefer? Widgets are used elsewhere, applets is basically the same just longer would you prefer "program like thingys", phone and tablet thingamajigs? Seriously aren't there better things to be concerned about rather than the supposed sullying an abbreviation for a word that actually describes the thing pretty well?
The problem with that idea is the platform. With full internet access on the iPad, why would someone want local news as brought to them by a company 1000's of miles away when its far easier to just download or create an icon link to a real local news source that is likely more current, more accurate and already familiar. It seems that Murdoch is trying to reinvent stuff that is already out there.
I checked it out. Its very pretty, but its just like having a pdf copy of any print magazine. If I wanted that I would just go to a newsstand a buy a magazine. There is nothing there to make you go "wow i haven't seen that before" and unfortunately for them without a wow factor this just isn't going to fly. Perhaps if it had imbedded photo galleries, interactive charts, etc, it might be more interesting but as it is, its comes across as a scanned version of a print magazine. Its just hard to believe they have already burned through 30 million and this is what they ended up with. For half a million a week, I would expect at least some level of interactivity and information I cant find elsewhere...so far they are delivering neither.
Dont you mean the government is the lapdog of the media...it sure has seemed that way over the last decade or so.
Wow, nothing screams "the reviewer must be right" like suing the reviewer. Its probably more likely the place was already having problems and the owner got the bright idea that suing someone would be an opportunity to recoup losses.
According to Volkswagen they plan to have the XL1 available worldwide by 2013 at a cost under $25k. If that happens I can see commuters opting for that without much effort. Its a little weak power wise but more than sufficient for travel from suburbs to city and back and at around 300 mpg at least for me the fuel savings would more than make up for the price. The Chevy volt also looks fairly promising though no where near the same efficiency and its supposed to be available nationwide by the end of this year. I really dont see 1 million purely electric cars but very efficient hybrids are definitely on the way and there is plenty of interest without subsidies.
Even facebook wont get a dime out of this, but I would bet that asshole wont be in the spam business anymore.
I was living in Orlando at the time. I can remember going outside to watch the launch. All the neighbors did it, shuttle launches in my neighborhood were like tailgating is for sports in other towns. It was of course obvious something wasn't right but to most of us watching we thought one of the canisters simply dropped early. A few minutes into the launch one of the neighbors came running out of the house screaming that it blew up...I just remember a lot of screaming and crying., the shuttle was something Floridian's have a sense or pride and ownership with, its something that others identify the state with. The shock and grief pretty much killed my neighborhoods enthusiasm for launch parties, perhaps its superstitious but the rest of the time I lived there no one I knew made a point of watching launches again it was just too painful. The only lauch I personally watched live after that was when my father had been invited to watch from one of the observation decks on base, we were both extremely nervous the whole time, but it was rather healing when the launch went off without a hitch.
Are we sure the Sontarans arent behind this?
Which linux netbook is instant on? You forgot to factor in all the training, all the extra support, the extra work to get them all integrated, the extra batteries to get that kind of battery life, the extra weight and the lack of 3g in most netbooks. Why would I need to jailbreak an ipad or android tablet in a work environment to start with?
I totally forgot to buy cards to send out.
Do any major game companies not support ESRB? ESRP ratings already list why they are rated whatever they are rated in fact its not just for teen and up titles. As for adding a warning that video games lead to aggression is absurd, participation in sports can "lead to aggression" should football helmets have the warning too. Driving on the highway has been shown to cause aggression in some people, perhaps we need the warning on cars as well. Hell politicians tend to piss me off more often than not...perhaps that warning should scroll across the bottom of c-span.
With most of my clients lack of choice is a bonus...in business environments I have found most of them prefer uniformity to selection. We buy 1 model of notebook, 1 model of desktop, everyone has the same phone, etc. When upgrades are done they all upgrade but usually they try and get as much life as possible out of a device. That requirement makes the phone vendors mostly a non-option since they seem to drop support and change models faster than I could even deploy them. My Galaxy S isn't even 6 months old and has already been replaced with the Nexus S (and changed manufacturers) and yet another version has been announced, I simply couldn't trust the galaxy tab to last a year much less have support past that. For reasons like that I cant see many of the phone vendors making much of a dent in the tablet market as far as enterprise deployment goes. Toshiba, HP, etc might have a shot but the only phone vendor I see other than apple with a track record of long term support would be RIM and they have their own non-android solution.
Your right they arent replacements but that was the xserves problem...there wasnt a market, downscaling to the mini server imho just opens up opportunities that simply didnt exist with regards to small businesses and home servers. Xserve was a decent product but failed to find any real foothold in any segment, I dont see killiing it as a mistake.
Sadly your right. I had high hopes for the ZuneHD, technology wise it was thing of wonder but they half assed the app store, screwed potential developers and basically killed any potential excitement for it before the device really even had a chance to get off the ground. Most of their "innovation" seems to be reactive rather than proactive, add in their absolute paranoia about controlling their skewed "perception" of the device (they did the same with the 360 which is why it still has no browser or keyboard support) and mostly everything they have come up with lately has been DOA.
hmm interesting...thanks for that. RIght now im using a script to forward faxes as pdf attachments..it works well but that might be alot more elegant, I will check it out. The client has both toshiba copiers and a toshiba phone system and luckily Toshiba's toolbox is decent enough that I have been able to mange forwarding both faxes and voicemail with native support to the ipads...its a bit kludgy on my part but it works.