It's documented and easily found as those are ALL public companies.
Nintendo/etc credit most of the sale in the quarter it was made, but keep some of the revenue held back for 4-8 quarters (depending on the company and product, again you can find this info if you look for it) for continued R&D and upgrades.
Apple does this NOW with most of their new products. This is why it pretty much only applies to old products. They did not do it in the past, and thus cannot magically fix it.
I bought my iPhone from optus, but I can use it on ANY carrier in the world who is 3g. In Australia that includes optus, telstra, vodaphone, and three.
Oh, you mean AT&T won't unlock the phone you bought from them? And they are preventing apple from unlocking it due to contract? Ahhhh, blame where it should lie.
The only way to get apps on is through their sandboxed, java based app store. Unless you bought a developer phone the G1 does not give you root (they've patched all known exploits).
Were facebook actually DESIGNED instead of "oh shit, people showed up, what now?" evolved, this would not be a problem.
Instead of apps getting access to your data, they should get event notification ability + write access to your wall.
So you subscribe to the "Friend used this app" event, and facebook notifies that app that someone launched it, and they take action.
Take it a step further, give them an identity key which changes per event, with rescripting.
So your friend (bob) does X. FB notifies the plugin that "ID555 did X and is friends with you." For anything they want to post to the wall they use the key ID555 and FB turns that back into "bob" on their side. "ID555" changes EVERY event, so the plugin cannot build a profile of who you are friends with.
Late reply, but no, you can't. You can play 1080p shitty stuff you get from the internet, OR you can play using CoreAVC which is FAST but drops detail so that you never lose frames.
Try decoding a blu-ray on that cpu. Hell, try decoding and deinterlacing a 1080i recording from the HD_PVR.
This answer I can see. Either both are evil, or both are helpful. In fact, I'd say suns is worse because it preloads things into memory without asking you. All that the MS one does is change your user agent string to reflect that you have dotnet 3.5 installed. This then lets servers send down clickonce apps, as they won't do it (by default) if it doesn't think you can run it.
OR everyone will have dual/quad core 1ghz atom-esque processors that cost $10 (and thus have no margins), and all compositing/video decode/specialist heavy lifting will be done by a "GPU/PPU" type chip.
Look at the nvidia ION for this exact situation... using a web browser doesn't need grunt. Working on a word doc doesn't need grunt. Watching an HD video does, and the CPU is horrible at it.
I keep reading reports on these sites (and have had a few consulting companies call me up) to point out how because microsoft isn't open source it's both insecure AND "immoral" (whatever THAT means in software!). They also point out that "TCO" is a scam invented by capitalist know-nothings, and that things MUST be free. They also keep pointing out how *I* can write patches to fix ANYTHING in Linux, no matter how complex! Isn't that what a vendor is for?
If they'd chosen Linux instead they wouldn't have drivers for the touchscreen. On to of that audio would drop out randomly and GPU accellerated video wouldn't work with their ATI graphics card.
Google Maps shows you... googles maps. You can't use it to zoom around that map of your pants you have, or to create a navigable an zoomable web display of a huge panarama shot you made.
Seadragon lets you take any gigapixel photo(or photo grid) *YOU* have and create a "googlemaps" type thing out of it.
SeaDragon is an SDK + 3 end user apps (silverlight, ajax, iphone).
EBGames in Australia has a 7 day return policy for any game, opened or not. This is an "I don't like it" return policy too, it does not have to be "unfit for purpose" (which has a longer warranty).
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It's documented and easily found as those are ALL public companies.
Nintendo/etc credit most of the sale in the quarter it was made, but keep some of the revenue held back for 4-8 quarters (depending on the company and product, again you can find this info if you look for it) for continued R&D and upgrades.
Apple does this NOW with most of their new products. This is why it pretty much only applies to old products. They did not do it in the past, and thus cannot magically fix it.
I bought my iPhone from optus, but I can use it on ANY carrier in the world who is 3g. In Australia that includes optus, telstra, vodaphone, and three.
Oh, you mean AT&T won't unlock the phone you bought from them? And they are preventing apple from unlocking it due to contract? Ahhhh, blame where it should lie.
NTFS has this issue. Next?
You don't own an android phone, do you...
The only way to get apps on is through their sandboxed, java based app store. Unless you bought a developer phone the G1 does not give you root (they've patched all known exploits).
Were facebook actually DESIGNED instead of "oh shit, people showed up, what now?" evolved, this would not be a problem.
Instead of apps getting access to your data, they should get event notification ability + write access to your wall.
So you subscribe to the "Friend used this app" event, and facebook notifies that app that someone launched it, and they take action.
Take it a step further, give them an identity key which changes per event, with rescripting.
So your friend (bob) does X. FB notifies the plugin that "ID555 did X and is friends with you." For anything they want to post to the wall they use the key ID555 and FB turns that back into "bob" on their side. "ID555" changes EVERY event, so the plugin cannot build a profile of who you are friends with.
How do you explain that hulu lets you embed their videos on any web page you choose, just like youtube does?
In australia it was:
-proposed more than a year ago
-went through trials
-is having large amounts of public scrutiny
-has not been passed as law yet
and
-will not pass due to public outcry and a shifting sentiment in the senate.
Compare this to the US, where you'd only find out 18 months after it was implemented, and anyone asking about it would have been jailed.
Everyone doing DIY PVRs are using shepherd...
Most big companies will not deal with individual LLCs. They have a "panel" of agencies (say between 3 and 10) that you have to go through.
Freezepop is a real band. I remember getting an album of theirs sometime around 2000/2001 from a roommate.
Late reply, but no, you can't. You can play 1080p shitty stuff you get from the internet, OR you can play using CoreAVC which is FAST but drops detail so that you never lose frames.
Try decoding a blu-ray on that cpu. Hell, try decoding and deinterlacing a 1080i recording from the HD_PVR.
This answer I can see. Either both are evil, or both are helpful. In fact, I'd say suns is worse because it preloads things into memory without asking you. All that the MS one does is change your user agent string to reflect that you have dotnet 3.5 installed. This then lets servers send down clickonce apps, as they won't do it (by default) if it doesn't think you can run it.
What does the MS one do that's not benign?
OR everyone will have dual/quad core 1ghz atom-esque processors that cost $10 (and thus have no margins), and all compositing/video decode/specialist heavy lifting will be done by a "GPU/PPU" type chip.
Look at the nvidia ION for this exact situation... using a web browser doesn't need grunt. Working on a word doc doesn't need grunt. Watching an HD video does, and the CPU is horrible at it.
With a EULA you gain the right to run the software.
I'm not saying I think they're a good thing, but you're wrong on that point.
Someone better tell Optus to send AT&T and Apple monthly kickbacks for all the outright iphones they're selling then...
I keep reading reports on these sites (and have had a few consulting companies call me up) to point out how because microsoft isn't open source it's both insecure AND "immoral" (whatever THAT means in software!). They also point out that "TCO" is a scam invented by capitalist know-nothings, and that things MUST be free. They also keep pointing out how *I* can write patches to fix ANYTHING in Linux, no matter how complex! Isn't that what a vendor is for?
How can I stop this barrage of fud?
Apple is a mobile service provider now? Who did they buy, or did they just start putting up towers without FCC approval?
They have them for any ISP. Linksys WRT54G3G will work with almost any PCMCIA based 3g modem (works with all providers in AU, theyupdate often).
There's ones by netcomm that work with any USB 3g dongle as well.
If they'd chosen Linux instead they wouldn't have drivers for the touchscreen. On to of that audio would drop out randomly and GPU accellerated video wouldn't work with their ATI graphics card.
(posted from my mythbuntu machine...)
It allows the apache developers to do compatability testing on MS os's without having to go to the store and buy a copy of each OS for each developer.
At will does not mean "anything they do is legal, you can just leave." It merely means that there is no implied contract about severance or notice.
Is this an office doing construction? Because he said it's being BUILT on slave labour.
Your co-workers are the ones the GP is referring to who are taking advantage of the things built by said labour.
Google Maps shows you... googles maps. You can't use it to zoom around that map of your pants you have, or to create a navigable an zoomable web display of a huge panarama shot you made.
Seadragon lets you take any gigapixel photo(or photo grid) *YOU* have and create a "googlemaps" type thing out of it.
SeaDragon is an SDK + 3 end user apps (silverlight, ajax, iphone).
EBGames in Australia has a 7 day return policy for any game, opened or not. This is an "I don't like it" return policy too, it does not have to be "unfit for purpose" (which has a longer warranty).