If Microsoft goes this route and enforces controls and advertising ala Google/Android styl Android will gain the lead as a desktop OS.
1. Why would someone fleeing Windows 8 for Android like features goto Android (unless you meant Linux)?
2. It is never going to happen since most users only care about whether or not their OS lets them post far more information about themselves publicly on Facebook than any company could hope to quietly collect with software tracking.
If it is not a Russian airliner, how afraid would the US even be of that? Their military could probably crush any small Central/South American country's military no problem (they should have at least 10x the combined active personnel of Cuba and Venezuela) if they actually declared war on the United States. If it is Russia though then we have potential World War III.
Pathetically enough, this is probably true. If Snowden actually gets in the air bound for a country that intends to give him Asylum, the US will probably do anything in its power to make sure his plane is grounded (preferably in a country willing to arrest/extradite him) before he gets there.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent
Unless there is something else in there to prevent it, I imagine that "uses" would mean that if someone was willing for their organization to become the most hated in the country, they could go around suing every iPhone user in sight for patent infringement.
Someone mod this up. TFA even shows one of Google's not so good ideas for Street View on hiking trails (having someone hike with a huge Street View camera mounted to a backpack) that this is intended to replace.
What these money-hungry Hollywood and publishing executives don't seem to realize is that everything DRM'ed will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Even if they realize it, it is unlikely that they care if a movie they released is impossible to watch 100 years from now, as long as they get their money now.
That depends, how much punitive damages could they possibly get on it? If its anything like copyright infringement (RIAA suing people for downloading music), it probably would be profitable for a patent troll with a patent that the iPhone infringes to try to sue all iPhone owners. IANAL, but would they even be able to pull something like have a court order the carriers to release the information of all known iPhone users on their network so they would have their list of targets?
No they probably actually are. While such crimes have been going down, they are much more likely to be heard about across the country than they were 20 years ago. If someone got non-fatally stabbed at a high-crime area school in the 80s, it probably would have been local news for a day or two at best. Today it would likely spread quickly through social media and end up being seen as "breaking news" across the country for several days. It may be going down, but the amount of what does happen you hear about has gone up enough to give the perception that juvenile violent crime is going up.
6. Massive manhunt to find you (and you were probably identified pretty quickly by your license plate being recorded by the cop's dash cam).
Also, even if they don't call in a bomb squad before going anywhere near the phone, the cop would probably at least have you in handcuffs and search you first.
I can see the unfortunate implications of that now.
1. Get pulled over for going a couple of miles/kilometers over the speed limit.
2. Cop sees smartphone connected to car charger.
3. Under arrest for possession of a destructive device.
4chan (specifically/v/) hates EA enough that they rallied their extremely large amount of users into voting for EA in this, and knowing 4chan I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are using proxies and similar stuff to register even more votes for EA. And of course we already know that they have no problem with significantly influencing polls.
KHTML is LGPL, not GPL. While any modifications to the KHTML parts have to be open sourced, anything else linked to that can be under any license Apple, Google, Opera, or anyone else wants. If KHTML was actually under GPL, then while IANAL I am pretty sure that any proprietary code used in Safari, Chrome (not Chromium), or Opera (once it finishes switching from Presto) would be considered GPL violations. In addition releasing parts of Webkit/Blink under BSD (which is the case) would probably violate the GPL.
It is simple, a very sizable chunk of voters will give a shit if their precious guns are taken away, very few will give a shit if "those new-fangled video games for kids" are taken away. Given another sizable chunk of voters who want to "protect the children" and are likely dumb enough to be convinced that taking the later away will do as much as the former to protect the children, what do you think a politician who is interested in having a job beyond their next election do?
Does TSA even wave people through metal detectors any more? Last month I went on a trip and both ways (one of these was at a small regional airport probably like the one in this article, the other was a large international airport) the TSA was sending everyone through the full body scanner (and in my case I somehow got pulled over both times to have my hands swabbed). Just wondering if the TSA is trying to make the scanners the new "primary" method of screening as opposed to the metal detectors.
I'm expecting that by the end of the year a random person from the federal House to introduce a bill to make all FPS games be considered to be only appropriate for 18+ whether the ESRB likes it or not (and if necessary replace the ESRB with a federal agency).
Many colleges utilize graphing calculators in courses now instead of requiring all work to be done out on paper. Calculator apps on smartphones are generally disallowed due to the possibility of switching into another app (such as a web browser or text messaging) during an exam.
Are you confusing MegaBITS and MegaBYTES? 10 Megabytes would be pretty close to 100 Megabits. Then again I don't know if ISPs in Australia are deceptive like the ones here in America and love causing confusion by advertising speeds in Megabits when any web browser or whatever is going to use Megabytes.
My guess it would be at the beginning of the year "you and a parent must sign this or face consequences ranging from detention to expulsion". Basically how K-12 schools in my area get students to agree to school policies.
So that's why Steam went with OSX after Apple's own app store was already in place? Your theory goes against the evidence.
Steam for OSX was announced on March 8, 2010 and released on May 12, 2010. The Mac App Store was announced on October 20, 2010 and released on January 6, 2011. So Apple's App Store was released several months later unless you are counting the iOS Store as something Valve would have been concerned about.
Apple/Microsoft/*insert Google competitor here* fanboys will still spam the Firehose with "OH MAI GAWD GOOGLE IS EVIL" stories until one of the editors posts it. So "no slashdot discussion" is probably a lost cause.
Steam is only a 1.5MB download (probably a bit more after actually being installed), nothing compared to the disk usage of the Source SDK (I think that is about 1GB) and Black Mesa (about 8GB).
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If Microsoft goes this route and enforces controls and advertising ala Google/Android styl Android will gain the lead as a desktop OS.
1. Why would someone fleeing Windows 8 for Android like features goto Android (unless you meant Linux)?
2. It is never going to happen since most users only care about whether or not their OS lets them post far more information about themselves publicly on Facebook than any company could hope to quietly collect with software tracking.
If it is not a Russian airliner, how afraid would the US even be of that? Their military could probably crush any small Central/South American country's military no problem (they should have at least 10x the combined active personnel of Cuba and Venezuela) if they actually declared war on the United States. If it is Russia though then we have potential World War III.
Pathetically enough, this is probably true. If Snowden actually gets in the air bound for a country that intends to give him Asylum, the US will probably do anything in its power to make sure his plane is grounded (preferably in a country willing to arrest/extradite him) before he gets there.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent
Unless there is something else in there to prevent it, I imagine that "uses" would mean that if someone was willing for their organization to become the most hated in the country, they could go around suing every iPhone user in sight for patent infringement.
Someone mod this up. TFA even shows one of Google's not so good ideas for Street View on hiking trails (having someone hike with a huge Street View camera mounted to a backpack) that this is intended to replace.
What these money-hungry Hollywood and publishing executives don't seem to realize is that everything DRM'ed will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Even if they realize it, it is unlikely that they care if a movie they released is impossible to watch 100 years from now, as long as they get their money now.
That depends, how much punitive damages could they possibly get on it? If its anything like copyright infringement (RIAA suing people for downloading music), it probably would be profitable for a patent troll with a patent that the iPhone infringes to try to sue all iPhone owners. IANAL, but would they even be able to pull something like have a court order the carriers to release the information of all known iPhone users on their network so they would have their list of targets?
No they probably actually are. While such crimes have been going down, they are much more likely to be heard about across the country than they were 20 years ago. If someone got non-fatally stabbed at a high-crime area school in the 80s, it probably would have been local news for a day or two at best. Today it would likely spread quickly through social media and end up being seen as "breaking news" across the country for several days. It may be going down, but the amount of what does happen you hear about has gone up enough to give the perception that juvenile violent crime is going up.
6. Massive manhunt to find you (and you were probably identified pretty quickly by your license plate being recorded by the cop's dash cam). Also, even if they don't call in a bomb squad before going anywhere near the phone, the cop would probably at least have you in handcuffs and search you first.
I can see the unfortunate implications of that now. 1. Get pulled over for going a couple of miles/kilometers over the speed limit. 2. Cop sees smartphone connected to car charger. 3. Under arrest for possession of a destructive device.
4chan (specifically /v/) hates EA enough that they rallied their extremely large amount of users into voting for EA in this, and knowing 4chan I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are using proxies and similar stuff to register even more votes for EA. And of course we already know that they have no problem with significantly influencing polls.
Windows RT doesn't even have the desktop mode and locks you into a walled garden of Windows Store apps.
KHTML is LGPL, not GPL. While any modifications to the KHTML parts have to be open sourced, anything else linked to that can be under any license Apple, Google, Opera, or anyone else wants. If KHTML was actually under GPL, then while IANAL I am pretty sure that any proprietary code used in Safari, Chrome (not Chromium), or Opera (once it finishes switching from Presto) would be considered GPL violations. In addition releasing parts of Webkit/Blink under BSD (which is the case) would probably violate the GPL.
It is simple, a very sizable chunk of voters will give a shit if their precious guns are taken away, very few will give a shit if "those new-fangled video games for kids" are taken away. Given another sizable chunk of voters who want to "protect the children" and are likely dumb enough to be convinced that taking the later away will do as much as the former to protect the children, what do you think a politician who is interested in having a job beyond their next election do?
last time I checked no one ever made a turtle cart and raced around town throwing banana's on the ground
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Does TSA even wave people through metal detectors any more? Last month I went on a trip and both ways (one of these was at a small regional airport probably like the one in this article, the other was a large international airport) the TSA was sending everyone through the full body scanner (and in my case I somehow got pulled over both times to have my hands swabbed). Just wondering if the TSA is trying to make the scanners the new "primary" method of screening as opposed to the metal detectors.
I'm expecting that by the end of the year a random person from the federal House to introduce a bill to make all FPS games be considered to be only appropriate for 18+ whether the ESRB likes it or not (and if necessary replace the ESRB with a federal agency).
Many colleges utilize graphing calculators in courses now instead of requiring all work to be done out on paper. Calculator apps on smartphones are generally disallowed due to the possibility of switching into another app (such as a web browser or text messaging) during an exam.
Are you confusing MegaBITS and MegaBYTES? 10 Megabytes would be pretty close to 100 Megabits. Then again I don't know if ISPs in Australia are deceptive like the ones here in America and love causing confusion by advertising speeds in Megabits when any web browser or whatever is going to use Megabytes.
My guess it would be at the beginning of the year "you and a parent must sign this or face consequences ranging from detention to expulsion". Basically how K-12 schools in my area get students to agree to school policies.
So that's why Steam went with OSX after Apple's own app store was already in place? Your theory goes against the evidence.
Steam for OSX was announced on March 8, 2010 and released on May 12, 2010. The Mac App Store was announced on October 20, 2010 and released on January 6, 2011. So Apple's App Store was released several months later unless you are counting the iOS Store as something Valve would have been concerned about.
Knowing Valve, the time between beta/final release will be (close to) eternal anyways.
Apple/Microsoft/*insert Google competitor here* fanboys will still spam the Firehose with "OH MAI GAWD GOOGLE IS EVIL" stories until one of the editors posts it. So "no slashdot discussion" is probably a lost cause.
Valve has been getting faster FPS (but not by a huge amount) in Linux than in Windows.
Windows (DirectX): 270.6 FPS
Windows (OpenGL): 303.4 FPS
Linux: 315 FPS
Steam is only a 1.5MB download (probably a bit more after actually being installed), nothing compared to the disk usage of the Source SDK (I think that is about 1GB) and Black Mesa (about 8GB).