No KDE4 was just an upgrade to KDE3 with lots of new features. They just didn't make it clear that distributions should not switch and so there was huge backlash as the bugs got worked out.
If the OEMs were pimping Windows 8 they wouldn't be selling non touchscreen laptops without complex hinges. The OEMs have been "pimping" Windows 7 hardware with Windows 8 installed.
Now let's talk real life. Digia is porting to Windows 8. They don't think it is so bad they just have to port over the ANGLE library to Windows RT (which is their target, but that will get Metro soon after). Qt 5.3 included a Beta of this support.
It depends who is using them. People who come from functional language cultures use them all the time and they increase readability tremendously. Essentially you start breaking with imperative concepts, most of the time you don't need to understand order of evaluation / execution.
Have you ever tried LISP or Haskell or languages where closures are an absolutely standard part of programming, the way say for loops are in the Algol family?
Apple has always been hostile to unified look on their platform. They want their applications written by developers in the Apple culture. That being said, nothing has actually changed. They are just releasing a new language.
Tizen has a fairly nice application framework. It doesn't run Android applications. But that doesn't mean Tizen apps can't be written. And given that Tizen is designed much better for worse hardware they should be faster and more responsive. We'll see how good a job Samsung et. al. did but at least on paper Tizen could produce a far better experience on say a $100 phone in 2020.
1) I think you are grossly underestimating the complexity of doing this. Most commercial sites are very complex to analyze in terms of traffic sources. For example my stupid commercial website which runs about 100 visitors a month now has chunks of akamai (millions of potential IP addresses) because I bought a service that throws that in. That's in addition to people setting up all sorts of proxies. What you are talking about is a secure network. A secure network has to mostly assume that almost all users aren't trying to actively subvert it and that there is a big staff and complex infrastructure to monitor all the activity to catch those places where it being actively subverted. You don't have control of physical access to the network. You have a population of college students who are going to be actively subverting your security. I don't think you will be able to pull this off and if you did the costs would be astronomical, far greater than you'll ever generate in revenue.
Just start thinking about preventing active subversion. For example you can't have point to point traffic all traffic has to go through a firewall and all firewalls are going to need event analysis so that you can figure out what the users are doing. Your $1200 switches are now $30k at least.
2) But let's assume I were wrong. The big issue is you are no longer a common carrier. You know:
a) Charge people for access via rent i.e. they are subscribers. b) Charge people for access to your to your subscribers.
Which means you are publisher not a common carrier. That makes you liable for the content. That makes you liable for copyright. That makes you liable for obscenity. That make you potentially criminal liable for things like drugs. All the legal protections that a typical ISP has because they don't discriminate disappear because you do discriminate.
3) On top of all that. What is your cost of sales and support? You are going to have to approach places on the internet, negotiate and cut custom contracts. What are your users worth per head. Google maybe says they are worth $1 / mo / ea for total access, but you can't allow total access for subversion. Moreover most of the Google links won't work. So you just sell search to collect more data and say Google says that's worth $.10 / mo / ea. OK... Can you negotiate the contract, setup custom filters that allow Google search to work and maintain those. Remember you are now selling this service so you not Google are liable for making it work. What does that cost? What is the cost of sales for the 5 contracts that didn't go through to land this one $3500 / mo contract? And that's close to best case.
Under civil systems, inquisitorial systems, making any kind of false claim to the police results in a criminal trial where the claimant can get huge penalties. We don't have that in our common law / adversarial system but we could introduce it if people wanted. If you think it is a good idea push for it.
Do you mean the news agency fabricated the use of the word "zionist" from the judge? Otherwise I don't see how the news agency isn't conveying the clear message.
Windows 8 only wouldn't be a bad thing. That would allow IE 12 to have lots of touch based features or dual touch / mouse features that Windows 7 doesn't support. That would allow Windows to lead the move towards dual mode (keyboard + touch, mouse + touch + keyboard)... type sites the same way Apple led for retina.
I don't know about that. Beats has something like 2/3rds of the headphone industry selling $50 headphones for $200. Beats probably does about $1b in 2014 in sales. I'm hard pressed to see how that brand isn't easily worth $2b and for a control investor a like Apple who could leverage beats to also sell phones... I don't see the bubble.
Collectively 2002 when the Republicans ran on their strong support for the war on terror and the militarization of the police. 2004 when Americans continued to support an aggressive posture toward Al Qaeda and supported policies like the patriot act. and since then when pacifistic candidates have not had much traction most places in the USA.
As far as drones Obama ran on a switch towards targeting Al Qaeda in 2008 and won in a landslide. Prior to that he won in a primary against Clinton who was more traditional in her approach agreeing with Bush somewhat more.
A user who is too scared to be in developer mode is acknowledging they don't have sufficient knowledge to judge extensions. Therefore they are doing a perfectly rational thing and asking Google to exercise informed judgement on their behalf.
First off the selection of candidates in America is rather broad. There isn't some small group from which they are selected. The process of being selected is democratic it involves collecting signatures and then a primary or caucus. Moreover the preselection process is merely who gets position on the ballet. The voters can write in candidates during the general election. And that does happen for example Senator Lisa Murkowski was a write in candidate for her seat.
Of course, once elected, they're not obliged to behave according to the wishes of the people that elected them.
The USA has rather frequent elections. For example the House Representatives is every 2 years. In 2/3rds of the states one of the Senators is up for election every 2 years. Often in odd years the state houses, governors or state houses go up for election. And in many states there are direct ballet measures. So in theory if there were widespread opposition the people can react pretty strongly and effectively. It is complex because the USA system takes into account intensity of opinion not just opinion but I'd say that our policies mostly do look like an intensity weighted average of opinions. The problem is our electorate not our democracy.
That's why we have the armed police and the drones - we're so... democratic!
We have armed police and drones because the population overwhelming supports both. That is democratic. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it non democratic.
I understand people do it, but in my experience not as often as claimed. Mostly what happens is they complain they will have to upgrade, and then they upgrade the application. Some of course do it, and Microsoft provided a good transition in Windows 7 with the built in XP. In Windows 8 they are being more aggressive in trying to encourage application upgrades which is a good thing IMHO. I'm on OSX and we have annual OS upgrades for which about 1/3rd of non-upgraded applications would break. So everything upgrades regularly. A much better system IMHO.
That's a cute license but it could never be upheld. You can't prove damages from someone owning a shirt. Moreover you have to be a lot more specific about how licenses are responsible for determining whether Che wearing people are using your software.
Trusted computing is a published standard and not hard to implement. There is no reason that Germany couldn't produce their own trusted chips. If the Chinese government wasn't pro-piracy same applies.
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No KDE4 was just an upgrade to KDE3 with lots of new features. They just didn't make it clear that distributions should not switch and so there was huge backlash as the bugs got worked out.
If the OEMs were pimping Windows 8 they wouldn't be selling non touchscreen laptops without complex hinges. The OEMs have been "pimping" Windows 7 hardware with Windows 8 installed.
Now let's talk real life. Digia is porting to Windows 8. They don't think it is so bad they just have to port over the ANGLE library to Windows RT (which is their target, but that will get Metro soon after). Qt 5.3 included a Beta of this support.
There are code examples in their online documentation plenty: https://developer.apple.com/li...
Good catch! They are super explicit about this though in their documentation: https://developer.apple.com/li...
They have a neat operator unshare (i.e. b.unshare()) which means that b's copy is unique.
It depends who is using them. People who come from functional language cultures use them all the time and they increase readability tremendously. Essentially you start breaking with imperative concepts, most of the time you don't need to understand order of evaluation / execution.
Have you ever tried LISP or Haskell or languages where closures are an absolutely standard part of programming, the way say for loops are in the Algol family?
Apple has always been hostile to unified look on their platform. They want their applications written by developers in the Apple culture. That being said, nothing has actually changed. They are just releasing a new language.
Tizen has a fairly nice application framework. It doesn't run Android applications. But that doesn't mean Tizen apps can't be written. And given that Tizen is designed much better for worse hardware they should be faster and more responsive. We'll see how good a job Samsung et. al. did but at least on paper Tizen could produce a far better experience on say a $100 phone in 2020.
Here is my take and I'm not a lawyer.
1) I think you are grossly underestimating the complexity of doing this. Most commercial sites are very complex to analyze in terms of traffic sources. For example my stupid commercial website which runs about 100 visitors a month now has chunks of akamai (millions of potential IP addresses) because I bought a service that throws that in. That's in addition to people setting up all sorts of proxies. What you are talking about is a secure network. A secure network has to mostly assume that almost all users aren't trying to actively subvert it and that there is a big staff and complex infrastructure to monitor all the activity to catch those places where it being actively subverted. You don't have control of physical access to the network. You have a population of college students who are going to be actively subverting your security. I don't think you will be able to pull this off and if you did the costs would be astronomical, far greater than you'll ever generate in revenue.
Just start thinking about preventing active subversion. For example you can't have point to point traffic all traffic has to go through a firewall and all firewalls are going to need event analysis so that you can figure out what the users are doing. Your $1200 switches are now $30k at least.
2) But let's assume I were wrong. The big issue is you are no longer a common carrier. You know:
a) Charge people for access via rent i.e. they are subscribers.
b) Charge people for access to your to your subscribers.
Which means you are publisher not a common carrier. That makes you liable for the content. That makes you liable for copyright. That makes you liable for obscenity. That make you potentially criminal liable for things like drugs. All the legal protections that a typical ISP has because they don't discriminate disappear because you do discriminate.
3) On top of all that. What is your cost of sales and support? You are going to have to approach places on the internet, negotiate and cut custom contracts. What are your users worth per head. Google maybe says they are worth $1 / mo / ea for total access, but you can't allow total access for subversion. Moreover most of the Google links won't work. So you just sell search to collect more data and say Google says that's worth $.10 / mo / ea. OK... Can you negotiate the contract, setup custom filters that allow Google search to work and maintain those. Remember you are now selling this service so you not Google are liable for making it work. What does that cost? What is the cost of sales for the 5 contracts that didn't go through to land this one $3500 / mo contract? And that's close to best case.
Under civil systems, inquisitorial systems, making any kind of false claim to the police results in a criminal trial where the claimant can get huge penalties. We don't have that in our common law / adversarial system but we could introduce it if people wanted. If you think it is a good idea push for it.
Do you mean the news agency fabricated the use of the word "zionist" from the judge? Otherwise I don't see how the news agency isn't conveying the clear message.
Agree with your point. But you mean Netscape. There was no Firefox then. The Mozilla project came in reaction to Netscape's collapsing marketshare.
Windows 8 only wouldn't be a bad thing. That would allow IE 12 to have lots of touch based features or dual touch / mouse features that Windows 7 doesn't support. That would allow Windows to lead the move towards dual mode (keyboard + touch, mouse + touch + keyboard)... type sites the same way Apple led for retina.
I don't know about that. Beats has something like 2/3rds of the headphone industry selling $50 headphones for $200. Beats probably does about $1b in 2014 in sales. I'm hard pressed to see how that brand isn't easily worth $2b and for a control investor a like Apple who could leverage beats to also sell phones... I don't see the bubble.
I'll agree the technology is worth $0.
Collectively 2002 when the Republicans ran on their strong support for the war on terror and the militarization of the police.
2004 when Americans continued to support an aggressive posture toward Al Qaeda and supported policies like the patriot act.
and since then when pacifistic candidates have not had much traction most places in the USA.
As far as drones Obama ran on a switch towards targeting Al Qaeda in 2008 and won in a landslide. Prior to that he won in a primary against Clinton who was more traditional in her approach agreeing with Bush somewhat more.
IT managers aren't effected in the same way: https://support.google.com/chr...
A user who is too scared to be in developer mode is acknowledging they don't have sufficient knowledge to judge extensions. Therefore they are doing a perfectly rational thing and asking Google to exercise informed judgement on their behalf.
Excellent post. Well done.
That's precisely what does exist. People who want sideloading use the developer version of the browser.
First off the selection of candidates in America is rather broad. There isn't some small group from which they are selected. The process of being selected is democratic it involves collecting signatures and then a primary or caucus. Moreover the preselection process is merely who gets position on the ballet. The voters can write in candidates during the general election. And that does happen for example Senator Lisa Murkowski was a write in candidate for her seat.
The USA has rather frequent elections. For example the House Representatives is every 2 years. In 2/3rds of the states one of the Senators is up for election every 2 years. Often in odd years the state houses, governors or state houses go up for election. And in many states there are direct ballet measures. So in theory if there were widespread opposition the people can react pretty strongly and effectively. It is complex because the USA system takes into account intensity of opinion not just opinion but I'd say that our policies mostly do look like an intensity weighted average of opinions. The problem is our electorate not our democracy.
I don't know about "deceived" I'd say convinced. But in any case if you read 4 posts above: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
We have armed police and drones because the population overwhelming supports both. That is democratic. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it non democratic.
I understand people do it, but in my experience not as often as claimed. Mostly what happens is they complain they will have to upgrade, and then they upgrade the application. Some of course do it, and Microsoft provided a good transition in Windows 7 with the built in XP. In Windows 8 they are being more aggressive in trying to encourage application upgrades which is a good thing IMHO. I'm on OSX and we have annual OS upgrades for which about 1/3rd of non-upgraded applications would break. So everything upgrades regularly. A much better system IMHO.
That's a cute license but it could never be upheld. You can't prove damages from someone owning a shirt. Moreover you have to be a lot more specific about how licenses are responsible for determining whether Che wearing people are using your software.
Trusted computing is a published standard and not hard to implement. There is no reason that Germany couldn't produce their own trusted chips. If the Chinese government wasn't pro-piracy same applies.