Apple always keeps their 30%. The developer puts up 100% of the money for a refund. Simplified math for a refund: Developer pays 30% of the app's price to Apple.
Users have 30 days to ask for a refund from the app store. And you'd think many will ask for a refund when the service goes offline or shortly after. Why not? the app is useless to them.
If everyone who can ask for a refund does, the developers doesn't profit, doesn't break even, the developer loses big.
Click has acquired control of 22,000 home computers
Meaning they put out a porn and warez site infested with malware? Or did they buy a botnet? If they paid, are the botnet sellers also free of criminal intent?
The legality of what they ended up doing with the botnet might be up for debate. The acquisition, unquestionably illegal.
Isn't the point of the game to pretend/act like you can play guitar? I don't want to learn how to actually play guitar. I can barely be bothered with learning the controls.
"Use Your web browser and camera To Get Out of A Ticket"
There.
The so-called news here is that they finally got their site to work on iPhone's Safari.
To answer my own question, the G1, and lack of non-htc handsets on the horizon.
There's plenty to love as well. Android's flavor of JAVA is easy to pick up if you've done JAVA before. Active developer groups. Lots of code samples on the web. The API allows access to many of the phone's functions that other platforms block (you know who you are, Apple and RIM). Even the toolkit documentation is above average, and so is the emulator.
It's fun developing for Android, and it shows on the Android Market. I guess some of that is due to the gazillion bucks in prizes that Google put out for developers. But many of the developers are in it for the love.
Just please, please, give us some choice in handsets.
Does this mean screen readers are copyright violation machines?
Yes, it is. Also a copyright violation: reading out loud.
Damn those freeloading kids! I told you no bedtime stories or the Authors Guild will put your daddy in a bad, bad place.
They are charging $2.99 to access a streaming radio station. Two catches. You can only listen to it from your iPod, and the station only plays songs from one band.
Writing is half the battle, maybe less. Keeping the docs current and useful is the real issue.
Every time a new guy goes through a procedure for the first time (or first couple of times), hand him the docs and have an old guy watch over his shoulder. When the new guy hesitates or gets stuck, update the docs. When the old guy says "no no, we do it differently now", update the docs. Some will say you're using two people to do the work of one. But you're actually doing three things: Training, maintaining the docs, and executing the procedure. Four if you count "team-building".
Maybe goes without saying, but whatever format you choose for your docs, it needs to be version-controlled.
I didn't do it.
Nobody saw me do it.
You can't prove anything.
IANAL, but there has been trials (incidentally also featuring a Simpson) where the defendant said he didn't do it, and wasn't required to say who did. Prosecution was required to show he did.
You don't really have to frame your cat, but if you're a dog-person it's understandable.
It is in NO way open-source, by any of the definitions people use.
Shocking! That people would spew buzzwords in a way that totally deviates from definition. Such misuse of language is something you might expect from simpletons, but certainly not from marketers and journalists.
The Jewish Calendar is said to count years since the creation of the world. Currently at tav-shin-samech-tet which is* 5769 years. As to how they got the number, scholars took the bother to count year references in the bible and add them up. Things like "in the 5th year of the reign of King Whatshisname" and "Whatshisname's peace lasted for 40 years".
It's a lot of work. It's also flawed. In Judges there are so many periods tagged as lasting 40 years that it's quite clear the number should not be taken literally. Probably an idiomatic expression that means "a long time".
* Technically 769. Year notation omits the hei that represents 5000.
Having an e-ink screen and text-to-speech on the same device is an odd match. If you want to read, read. If you want to listen, get an audio book for your mp3 player. Spare yourself the synthetic voice. Unless you enjoy imagining Stephen Hawking is in your car reading to you.
I don't think anybody meant for it to be considered a big deal
You're right, of course. Though technically it's as big a deal as new year's eve, the turn of a decade, century, millenium, anyone's birthday.
You pick an arbitrary point in time (someone's birthday, maybe Jesus, or Jan 1st 1970). You pick an arbitrary unit of time (earth's trip around the sun, or the time it takes light to travel 299,792 meters). You pick an arbitrary number which seems "nice" (100, 2,000, or 1,234,567,890). You Sit next to the most precise timepiece you can afford and wait. When the moment arrives you celebrate by getting drunk and optionally having sex you'd regret later.
Sure, it seem silly. Most humans enjoy it. Let us have our fun.
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Apple always keeps their 30%. The developer puts up 100% of the money for a refund. Simplified math for a refund: Developer pays 30% of the app's price to Apple.
Users have 30 days to ask for a refund from the app store. And you'd think many will ask for a refund when the service goes offline or shortly after. Why not? the app is useless to them.
If everyone who can ask for a refund does, the developers doesn't profit, doesn't break even, the developer loses big.
Click has acquired control of 22,000 home computers
Meaning they put out a porn and warez site infested with malware? Or did they buy a botnet? If they paid, are the botnet sellers also free of criminal intent? The legality of what they ended up doing with the botnet might be up for debate. The acquisition, unquestionably illegal.
Isn't the point of the game to pretend/act like you can play guitar? I don't want to learn how to actually play guitar. I can barely be bothered with learning the controls.
It requires a broadband connection that is at least 2.7Mbps or faster
My broadband connection is at least 2.7 or slower. Can I still has streaming TV?
"Use Your web browser and camera To Get Out of A Ticket"
There.
The so-called news here is that they finally got their site to work on iPhone's Safari.
He proposed half an hour after we met and I said maybe. After a day, he had convinced me.
Lack of handsets (mobile devices, phones). Not headsets.
To answer my own question, the G1, and lack of non-htc handsets on the horizon.
There's plenty to love as well. Android's flavor of JAVA is easy to pick up if you've done JAVA before. Active developer groups. Lots of code samples on the web. The API allows access to many of the phone's functions that other platforms block (you know who you are, Apple and RIM). Even the toolkit documentation is above average, and so is the emulator.
It's fun developing for Android, and it shows on the Android Market. I guess some of that is due to the gazillion bucks in prizes that Google put out for developers. But many of the developers are in it for the love. Just please, please, give us some choice in handsets.
Does this mean screen readers are copyright violation machines?
Yes, it is. Also a copyright violation: reading out loud.
Damn those freeloading kids! I told you no bedtime stories or the Authors Guild will put your daddy in a bad, bad place.
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They are charging $2.99 to access a streaming radio station. Two catches. You can only listen to it from your iPod, and the station only plays songs from one band.
I feel bad when people take it out on a monitor, it's rarely the monitor's fault.
Writing is half the battle, maybe less. Keeping the docs current and useful is the real issue.
Every time a new guy goes through a procedure for the first time (or first couple of times), hand him the docs and have an old guy watch over his shoulder. When the new guy hesitates or gets stuck, update the docs. When the old guy says "no no, we do it differently now", update the docs. Some will say you're using two people to do the work of one. But you're actually doing three things: Training, maintaining the docs, and executing the procedure. Four if you count "team-building".
Maybe goes without saying, but whatever format you choose for your docs, it needs to be version-controlled.
At least you won't have to twist and shake like an idiot for very long. Newer camera-phones enter camera mode pretty fast, less than 10 seconds.
I didn't do it.
Nobody saw me do it.
You can't prove anything.
IANAL, but there has been trials (incidentally also featuring a Simpson) where the defendant said he didn't do it, and wasn't required to say who did. Prosecution was required to show he did. You don't really have to frame your cat, but if you're a dog-person it's understandable.
What is special about "Canadian content" anyhow?
Most likely, same thing they do with Radio and TV. A bunch of low-budget knockoffs. Websites like aboot.com and slashdoot.org.
Not a formal study. But sighted people using the internet make a strong case in favor of "no link".
It is in NO way open-source, by any of the definitions people use.
Shocking! That people would spew buzzwords in a way that totally deviates from definition. Such misuse of language is something you might expect from simpletons, but certainly not from marketers and journalists.
Step one. Cut a hole in the box.
Step two. Put your data center in the box.
Step three. Get her to open the box.
The Jewish Calendar is said to count years since the creation of the world. Currently at tav-shin-samech-tet which is* 5769 years. As to how they got the number, scholars took the bother to count year references in the bible and add them up. Things like "in the 5th year of the reign of King Whatshisname" and "Whatshisname's peace lasted for 40 years".
It's a lot of work. It's also flawed. In Judges there are so many periods tagged as lasting 40 years that it's quite clear the number should not be taken literally. Probably an idiomatic expression that means "a long time".
* Technically 769. Year notation omits the hei that represents 5000.
on everything from Abba to Zappa
So posts on ZZ Top are safe? Good.
Having an e-ink screen and text-to-speech on the same device is an odd match. If you want to read, read. If you want to listen, get an audio book for your mp3 player. Spare yourself the synthetic voice. Unless you enjoy imagining Stephen Hawking is in your car reading to you.
I don't think anybody meant for it to be considered a big deal
You're right, of course. Though technically it's as big a deal as new year's eve, the turn of a decade, century, millenium, anyone's birthday.
You pick an arbitrary point in time (someone's birthday, maybe Jesus, or Jan 1st 1970). You pick an arbitrary unit of time (earth's trip around the sun, or the time it takes light to travel 299,792 meters). You pick an arbitrary number which seems "nice" (100, 2,000, or 1,234,567,890). You Sit next to the most precise timepiece you can afford and wait. When the moment arrives you celebrate by getting drunk and optionally having sex you'd regret later.
Sure, it seem silly. Most humans enjoy it. Let us have our fun.
I'm sure the automatic updater will remove itself the day Google Earth comes out of beta.
Scanning a bar code and looking up info and prices on the internet is such a a cool idea. In fact, it's such a super-cool idea that it won a prize. Last year. On Android. See:
http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/
and
http://www.android.com/market/#app=compareeverywhere