I still don't understand why MS hasn't built a PDF converter into MS Word. If they did, they would probable wipe out half of acrobats user base.
I don't understand why they don't have print-to-PDF as a core part of the Windows OS like MacOS. It's awfully nice to be able to print anything and everything from any app directly out to a PDF as a basic feature of the OS.
Hmmm. I had a 14.4k modem in 1995, so my modern connection should be 14,000-28,000 kbit/s today. (looks around). Where is this slashodot? I don't have anything even close to the speed. Mine's only 750 k.
The minimum FiOS does anywhere is 15Mb down, and in my area you can't get less than 20Mb down and up to 50Mb. Cable modems range from 12Mb to 50Mb. So I'd say the original poster is pretty close to the money for what is "common" today.
Not to pick on you, but I haven't even heard of DSL only being 750Kb in awhile, so you probably live pretty far from your telephone switching station.
How do you determine if a review is independently written or not?
Well, in order to write a review on Apple's App Store you need to have bought the app, and to write a review for a specific version you have to have downloaded that version. Authors do get a small number of free codes and can have friends write a few reviews, but the more reviews an app has the more likely most of them are real.
Since this patent pretty much describes Google's core business model, I assume Apple is simply doing it as a way of keeping Google at bay. Do you seriously think a company which is as minimalist with its design as Apple would scatter ads over the desktop? No, they're just adding an idea to a patent portfolio as a bargaining chip when/if Google tries to implement this idea.
Nokia's revenues are also twice as big as Apple's and they generate more profit per quarter than Apple. And considering Apple's revenues have doubled over the last 2 years, you have to give them some leeway for ramping up their R&D, which has in fact risen 55% in the last year. Apple isn't exactly resting on its or anyone else's laurels.
Dell is closer in revenues to Nokia than Apple is, yet Dell spends almost half of what Apple does on R&D. HP is almost 4x as big as Apple yet spends less than 3x as much as Apple on R&D.
In short, I think your statement that Apple spends well below the "industry average" (where are you getting your "industry average" numbers?) is specious at best. There are companies that spend greater percentages of their revenue on R&D and Nokia is certainly one of them, as is IBM and Microsoft, but Apple is no lightweight in the R&D department and NONE of those other companies are expanding their R&D spending as fast as Apple.
Seriously, this thing could be a nice little Subversion/backup/collaboration server for a small iPhone development shop. With built-in CalDAV, email, wiki, svn, time machine, rsync, web server, etc., it's a nice little small workgroup server. It would be nice if they could have made it cost a little less, but having a small, quiet server in a home or small office is pretty valuable.
So RMS's basic assertion is that GPL itself wouldn't work as a viable way to develop a package like MySQL, and couldn't compete against someone with a proprietary license? Or am I missing something?
The whole point of the MySQL sale was that Sun paid money to acquire the copyright and trademark assets. If some external group wants to raise a billion dollars and buy the product back they can do what they'd like (including giving it away). Otherwise, they took the money and that's what happens.
[Citation Needed]. Do you have any quarterly/annual reports to back that up?
The reason this country has gone from 20+ flu vaccine manufacturers a decade ago to 2 today is because it's so unprofitable. It's possible the companies will make a profit on it this year because of the virulence of H1N1, but claiming some sort of profit motive for annual fly vaccine is, from my understanding, wildly innaccurate.
The Roomba does two things that I really appreciate: 1. Cleans up under the dinner table and gets all the stuff my kids drop, and 2. cleans the dust way under the bed that breeds dust mites.
No, it doesn't do as well as a regular vacuum. But it's small and does its thing however often you want.
Fortunately you're wrong-- they didn't decide it in 11 days. They just *nominated* him then. They decided much later after evaluating how much he had already done towards global cooperation, nuclear non-proliferation, strengthening international organizations, etc. No one has changed international attitudes faster than Obama in the history of the world, as far as I can see.
Judging from the international polling and studies to date, most notably the most recent global Pew poll (more details here), you're completely wrong. Obama has, in fact, genuinely changed the perception of both the United States and our interests. And the Nobel committee unanimously agreed that Obama has exemplified and personified the approach to world matters that the peace prize is meant to award.
No native controls makes sense, but "no debugging" doesn't follow from the "can't run in the simulator" statement. With Apple's toolchain, you can still debug while the software is running on the actual device (not the simulator). It's possible that Adobe has done something similar with this. I don't know. It would be interesting to find out one way or the other.
This may be a stupid question, but if there is no perceived gravity in a "perfect" orbit, but the ISS orbit is decaying, wouldn't that mean that the decay is being caused by acceleration, causing it to be less than a perfect microgravity environment. If you, on the other hand, had a tiny thruster operating 100% of the time that kept the ISS in its perfect orbit, wouldn't that mean a BETTER microgravity environment, not a worse one? In other words, by constantly counteracting the drag of the atmosphere instead of letting it build up then using significant thrust, wouldn't you go from microgravity 99% of the time to even better microgravity 100% of the time?
You seem to think that "proprietary and locked in" is insulting to Mac or iPhone users
That's not what I thought was insulting... it was this...
and my experience with most (but not all) Apple users is that they pay a premium price in order to join an exclusive little club where they are permitted to sneer at anyone who doesn't use Apple products without having any requirement to give any technical justifications for it. That, in turn, creates the anti-Apple backlash.
You haven't looked very hard. Most Mac communities are accepting folks who would rather generate content than tinker with their machines, but otherwise don't particularly sneer at anyone or act exclusively that I've seen.
Yes, maybe if Apple were less proprietary and locked in than Microsoft
When's the last time you recompiled your Windows kernel from its open source distribution, like you can with MacOS? Or used a Microsoft browser's nightly builds?
Anyway, I understand if you don't like the Mac or iPhone, but there's no reason to go around insulting those who do.
Ebay is legally required to take it down if they are served with a DMCA notice. However, if you file a counter-notice, they are correspondingly legally required to put it back up unless the Copyright owner files suit against you.
Your comment is the exact opposite of true. This vaccine offered a 30% less chance of acquiring HIV, but once acquired offered no protection against AIDS. It's the first vaccine trial ever to show efficacy against HIV infection, but had no effect on HIV levels in the blood in the infected. All participants started HIV-negative.
While you're correct that invasive species have always managed to travel without human help, humanity has accelerated the pace far beyond what could have been achieved through the natural distribution mechanism of these species. Jumping large bodies of water is possible but unlikely to happen very often. Upstream is usually slower than downstream. Existing forestation blocks light for new ground species. Wildfires clear out some species more than others, and stopping them upsets a balance there.
Basically, yes, species invade. But humanity is turning the planet into a big melting pot, and homogeneity isn't very healthy from either a Darwinian point of view or for humanity in particular.
Chrysler I find really disgusting considering it's the second time that that shit company has been bailed out.
The first time they got a loan from the government then repaid it early with interest. The government made out nicely, and a lot of jobs were saved. I fail to see the downside there. This past bailout was a very different beast, as assets were bought below market value in an attempt to infuse money into the system with no promise of repayment.
Yes... the 360 has lost significantly less money than the Zune! Heck, that division actually reached break-even once! How much money has the iPod division lost to date? What... it actually MAKES money?
The fact that the iPod is even competitive, let alone ahead of a company who has subsidized their market entry so heavily is testament to Apple's ability to execute.
Someone is very biased, but I'm not sure it was the submitter. The very fact that Zune even has a headline on Slashdot considering its 1% market share and fourth-place finish behind iPod, Sandisk, and "Other" comes close to astroturfing in my book. Zune is irrelevant in the market and pretending this is a viable product launch at ALL is awfully biased in a pro-Microsoft way.
They don't have an app store yet because it's hard and they don't want to invest in it for a potentially dying platform.
They aren't merging with Windows Mobile because that strategy is a mess (6.5? 7.0?) and a moving target. ("Make extra sure the Zune is perfect"? What does that even mean?)
The marketing folks at Microsoft are trying hard to spin, but their explanations make no sense if you examine how the current market leader won.
They can't kill the project, but they can deny any app written with it from the App Store, which they will almost certainly do as any sort of interpreted code is already a violation of the iPhone SDK licensing agreement. Unless this compiles everything all the way down to ARM machine code, it's already banned.
It's true that you're not going to work 40+ hours a week holding your hands up to a wall. But brainstorming sessions and meetings will probably benefit from this. I think multi-touch and large screen interactive displays definitely have a utility, but we're going to have to explore its limitations over the next few years. Like speech recognition, it will probably find niches before it finds widespread acceptance.
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I don't understand why they don't have print-to-PDF as a core part of the Windows OS like MacOS. It's awfully nice to be able to print anything and everything from any app directly out to a PDF as a basic feature of the OS.
The minimum FiOS does anywhere is 15Mb down, and in my area you can't get less than 20Mb down and up to 50Mb. Cable modems range from 12Mb to 50Mb. So I'd say the original poster is pretty close to the money for what is "common" today.
Not to pick on you, but I haven't even heard of DSL only being 750Kb in awhile, so you probably live pretty far from your telephone switching station.
Well, in order to write a review on Apple's App Store you need to have bought the app, and to write a review for a specific version you have to have downloaded that version. Authors do get a small number of free codes and can have friends write a few reviews, but the more reviews an app has the more likely most of them are real.
Since this patent pretty much describes Google's core business model, I assume Apple is simply doing it as a way of keeping Google at bay. Do you seriously think a company which is as minimalist with its design as Apple would scatter ads over the desktop? No, they're just adding an idea to a patent portfolio as a bargaining chip when/if Google tries to implement this idea.
Nokia's revenues are also twice as big as Apple's and they generate more profit per quarter than Apple. And considering Apple's revenues have doubled over the last 2 years, you have to give them some leeway for ramping up their R&D, which has in fact risen 55% in the last year. Apple isn't exactly resting on its or anyone else's laurels.
Dell is closer in revenues to Nokia than Apple is, yet Dell spends almost half of what Apple does on R&D. HP is almost 4x as big as Apple yet spends less than 3x as much as Apple on R&D.
In short, I think your statement that Apple spends well below the "industry average" (where are you getting your "industry average" numbers?) is specious at best. There are companies that spend greater percentages of their revenue on R&D and Nokia is certainly one of them, as is IBM and Microsoft, but Apple is no lightweight in the R&D department and NONE of those other companies are expanding their R&D spending as fast as Apple.
Seriously, this thing could be a nice little Subversion/backup/collaboration server for a small iPhone development shop. With built-in CalDAV, email, wiki, svn, time machine, rsync, web server, etc., it's a nice little small workgroup server. It would be nice if they could have made it cost a little less, but having a small, quiet server in a home or small office is pretty valuable.
So RMS's basic assertion is that GPL itself wouldn't work as a viable way to develop a package like MySQL, and couldn't compete against someone with a proprietary license? Or am I missing something?
The whole point of the MySQL sale was that Sun paid money to acquire the copyright and trademark assets. If some external group wants to raise a billion dollars and buy the product back they can do what they'd like (including giving it away). Otherwise, they took the money and that's what happens.
[Citation Needed]. Do you have any quarterly/annual reports to back that up?
The reason this country has gone from 20+ flu vaccine manufacturers a decade ago to 2 today is because it's so unprofitable. It's possible the companies will make a profit on it this year because of the virulence of H1N1, but claiming some sort of profit motive for annual fly vaccine is, from my understanding, wildly innaccurate.
The Roomba does two things that I really appreciate: 1. Cleans up under the dinner table and gets all the stuff my kids drop, and 2. cleans the dust way under the bed that breeds dust mites.
No, it doesn't do as well as a regular vacuum. But it's small and does its thing however often you want.
I think Marge is just doing this to pay off gambling debts...
Fortunately you're wrong-- they didn't decide it in 11 days. They just *nominated* him then. They decided much later after evaluating how much he had already done towards global cooperation, nuclear non-proliferation, strengthening international organizations, etc. No one has changed international attitudes faster than Obama in the history of the world, as far as I can see.
(Pew report showing changing world opinions this year)
Judging from the international polling and studies to date, most notably the most recent global Pew poll (more details here), you're completely wrong. Obama has, in fact, genuinely changed the perception of both the United States and our interests. And the Nobel committee unanimously agreed that Obama has exemplified and personified the approach to world matters that the peace prize is meant to award.
No native controls makes sense, but "no debugging" doesn't follow from the "can't run in the simulator" statement. With Apple's toolchain, you can still debug while the software is running on the actual device (not the simulator). It's possible that Adobe has done something similar with this. I don't know. It would be interesting to find out one way or the other.
This may be a stupid question, but if there is no perceived gravity in a "perfect" orbit, but the ISS orbit is decaying, wouldn't that mean that the decay is being caused by acceleration, causing it to be less than a perfect microgravity environment. If you, on the other hand, had a tiny thruster operating 100% of the time that kept the ISS in its perfect orbit, wouldn't that mean a BETTER microgravity environment, not a worse one? In other words, by constantly counteracting the drag of the atmosphere instead of letting it build up then using significant thrust, wouldn't you go from microgravity 99% of the time to even better microgravity 100% of the time?
That's not what I thought was insulting... it was this...
You haven't looked very hard. Most Mac communities are accepting folks who would rather generate content than tinker with their machines, but otherwise don't particularly sneer at anyone or act exclusively that I've seen.
When's the last time you recompiled your Windows kernel from its open source distribution, like you can with MacOS? Or used a Microsoft browser's nightly builds?
Anyway, I understand if you don't like the Mac or iPhone, but there's no reason to go around insulting those who do.
Ebay is legally required to take it down if they are served with a DMCA notice. However, if you file a counter-notice, they are correspondingly legally required to put it back up unless the Copyright owner files suit against you.
Your comment is the exact opposite of true. This vaccine offered a 30% less chance of acquiring HIV, but once acquired offered no protection against AIDS. It's the first vaccine trial ever to show efficacy against HIV infection, but had no effect on HIV levels in the blood in the infected. All participants started HIV-negative.
I think you need to re-read the article.
While you're correct that invasive species have always managed to travel without human help, humanity has accelerated the pace far beyond what could have been achieved through the natural distribution mechanism of these species. Jumping large bodies of water is possible but unlikely to happen very often. Upstream is usually slower than downstream. Existing forestation blocks light for new ground species. Wildfires clear out some species more than others, and stopping them upsets a balance there.
Basically, yes, species invade. But humanity is turning the planet into a big melting pot, and homogeneity isn't very healthy from either a Darwinian point of view or for humanity in particular.
You sound like a real pro. Do you have any actual advice?
You make some good points but...
The first time they got a loan from the government then repaid it early with interest. The government made out nicely, and a lot of jobs were saved. I fail to see the downside there. This past bailout was a very different beast, as assets were bought below market value in an attempt to infuse money into the system with no promise of repayment.
Yes... the 360 has lost significantly less money than the Zune! Heck, that division actually reached break-even once! How much money has the iPod division lost to date? What... it actually MAKES money?
The fact that the iPod is even competitive, let alone ahead of a company who has subsidized their market entry so heavily is testament to Apple's ability to execute.
Someone is very biased, but I'm not sure it was the submitter. The very fact that Zune even has a headline on Slashdot considering its 1% market share and fourth-place finish behind iPod, Sandisk, and "Other" comes close to astroturfing in my book. Zune is irrelevant in the market and pretending this is a viable product launch at ALL is awfully biased in a pro-Microsoft way.
They don't have an app store yet because it's hard and they don't want to invest in it for a potentially dying platform.
They aren't merging with Windows Mobile because that strategy is a mess (6.5? 7.0?) and a moving target. ("Make extra sure the Zune is perfect"? What does that even mean?)
The marketing folks at Microsoft are trying hard to spin, but their explanations make no sense if you examine how the current market leader won.
They can't kill the project, but they can deny any app written with it from the App Store, which they will almost certainly do as any sort of interpreted code is already a violation of the iPhone SDK licensing agreement. Unless this compiles everything all the way down to ARM machine code, it's already banned.
It's true that you're not going to work 40+ hours a week holding your hands up to a wall. But brainstorming sessions and meetings will probably benefit from this. I think multi-touch and large screen interactive displays definitely have a utility, but we're going to have to explore its limitations over the next few years. Like speech recognition, it will probably find niches before it finds widespread acceptance.