I have 31 apps on my Android phone. 50% of them are paid apps. I have not paid for any of them. Finding paid apps for free is as easy as plugging in the name of the app into google + app + cracked.
I do not like paying for apps. I've never paid for apps and never will pay for apps.
Major reason why I use Android is precisely because I can download paid apps for free.
Developers should find other business models. Keep Android free please!
I have no idea whether American firms are "in on it" but if I was running Windows and I needed AV solution, Kaspersky AV would be my top choice simply because of their track record.
LOL... Nvidia faked a graphics board with a piece of PCB-looking plastic/wood that was screwed to the side of a PC with common hardware-store grade wood screws.
I'm really sick of Google sycophants who don't see what kind of a monstrosity Google has become. Yes, Google supported Linux and they were a "good guy" once but you gotta admit that Google has complete monopoly in many areas and they exercise their monopolistic power quite heavy-handedly. They're the new Microsoft and they have potential to be a magnitude more evil than MS ever was.
... because these "free" gifts are not free at all. There's always a cost associated with them and the cost is often higher than if you paid few dollars each month for them.
Google's become a giant corporation and they're not an underdog that we all loved to cheer for at some point. Now they're trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of "their" assets. These assets are your private information which Google has abused in the past and they'll abuse in the future.
If you want to scare yourself, give their TOS a read and then think twice before you give them another piece of your information.
Personally, I've stopped using their products altogether and now only use their Search once in a while and I do it without being logged in (don't even have an account with them anymore).
I too prefer Firefox because I don't trust Google. Chrome sends so much data to Google (every keystroke that you type into OmniBar) and I prefer not to give Google any of my data. Firefox has no such issues.
Issue with Chrome's ad blocking is that ad blocking in Chrome works by DOM modification and all the ads are downloaded before they're hidden. That also means that all the ad companies have your IP and browser fingerprint as well and that also means that you waste bandwidth downloading ads. Firefox, again, has no such issues because it filters actual requests.
That's extremely impressive. I work at a different industry and we're also looking at iPad to replace a bunch of laptops and a ton of antiquated software.
Have you contacted Apple with this story? You should. I'd love to read a case study and send it to our CTO.
At least a large portion of the iPhone's cost comes back to Apple as a revenue and supports American programmers.
Since Android is completely free and Google does not license it, NO PORTION of most of the Andorid's phones comes back to US. It goes almost completely back to Taiwan and China.
RIM's a Canadian company and all of their revenue goes to Canada.
PS: Be careful when you try to throw stones in a glass house.
Why should a company help its competition? Why should Apple allow Google to spy on its customers and their platform when Google closely guards their advertising platform and doesn't allow 3rd party ad networks anywhere on their search properties?
If a Ford makes a truck, do they have to allow GM to have a compatible engine for it?
PS: I'm just asking and I'm not being confrontational.
You're obviously not allowed to criticize Google on Slashdot. The company that has virtual monopoly in search and advertising and doesn't allow advertising from other networks on their properties.
Even if you can't, Scribd has always allowed you to download the original PDF.
Not true at all. Person who uploads PDF can prevent download of files. A person who upload can even prevent you from copying text out of files!
I personally dislike Scribd simply because they host a ton of other people's content. I found 4 of my PDFs there ( 3 presentations, one ebook) and the people who uploaded them were making money off it and so was Scribd (ads).
Big issue with Android is that it doesn't come with patent indemnity clause so when you use it, you have zero protection from lawsuits (as HTC has found out with Apple smackdown). MS provides indemnification with their Windows 7 Mobile.
Since HTC passed on the deal, and they actually had use for extra patents, that tells us that Palm's patent portfolio is not that strong.
Skein is getting a lot of attention because Bruce Schneier is one of it's authors. It's a fine algorithm. Personally, after going through a bunch of them, I like BLAKE the best since its extremely simple and relies on old and proven functions that have withstood the test of time. Not to mention that it's extremely fast. I also like Blue Midnight Wish. I think the NIST will pick one of these three.
Take a look at this demo of ShapeWriter from IBM. It's the same thing as Swype and was invented 5 years ago. Dr Zhai has formed a company around the tech and you can see it here: ShapeWriter.
You'd be surprised how much tech is locked up in "black" programs. Heck, if I told you stealth was achievable, you'd call me crazy 30 years ago too. Electrogravitics is very real and they use it in B-2 to reduce the weight by few percent.
The most interesting thing about B-2 is that it purportedly uses electrogravitics and that it also charges its leading sections of wings to reduce the drag.
I have numerous documents, all published openly in the United States, which purport to explain how the B-2 is even stranger - far stranger - than it appears. Most are articles published in commercial magazines, some are openly published US Patents, while a few are open USAF publications by Wright Aeronautical Laboratory and Air Force Systems Command's Astronautics Laboratory. They deal with such topics as electric-field propulsion, and electrogravitics (or anti-gravity), the transient alteration of not only thrust but also a body's weight. Sci-Fi has nothing on this stuff.
The literature goes back to Faraday, but the idea of electrogravitics really took off in the 1920s when an American physicist, Townsend T. Brown, carried out extensive experiments. He may have been the first to recognize that a capacitor (a dielectric material sandwiched between positive and negative plates) experiences a force tending to move it in the direction of the positive face. He found that the electrostatic charge induced a gravity field between the two plates. Soon he was making capacitors rotate on whirling arms, and measuring the loss in weight of capacitors with the positive face turned uppermost.
In 1953, Brown demonstrated to the USAF a whirling rig of 50ft (15.2m) diameter, which at 150,000 volts (150kV) became a mere blur. The subject was immediately classified, and for the next 40 years, while 'black' research in this field made astonishing progress, it was not reported. Though private individuals continued to experiment, and to take out unclassified patents, not much surfaced. Exceptions were Electrogravitics Systems (February 1956) and The Gravitics Situation (December 1956), published for subscribers only by Aviation Studies (International). This was a London-based 'think tank' run by two very bright young men: R G 'Dicky' Worcester and John Longhurst. Unlike the established journals, they published reports and informed comment without the slightest regard for questions of 'security'. The only time they were taken to court, they won their case and collected heavy damages.
You should ALWAYS use quotes for specific phrases. if you've done some SEO work or actually tried paying for AdWords, you'd realize how important phrase searches are on Google.
GIT lost the version control war early on. Its focus on Linux development with little to no support for Windows and Mac made it unpopular. That's a situation that has changed (somewhat), but the stigma is still attached to it. Which is not really a problem. GIT was developed to meet the needs of the Linux Kernel Project. If it happens to meet the needs of other projects, great. If it doesn't, that's just as fine.
Huh? Git didn't have windows support very early on but very soon you could compile it with Cygwin. As for Mac support... it got it very quickly. In fact, I'm willing to claim that not having very early Win support didn't do anything to adoption rate. Target audience were Linux hackers so having support for various other systems wouldn't have done much at all.
As for "changed (somewhat)", what do you mean somewhat? I use Git daily on my Mac laptop and have even used it under Vista without any issues.
Git is HUGE these days. Rails project, for example, has completely switched to Git. Same is happening to Pythin community as more and more things are moving to places like GitHub (which is amazing btw). Also, Google Code now provides Git repos for almost ALL of the projects.
As for Hg, it's lost the war. Git has won. If you want proof, try some searches for "git tutorial" and "mercurial tutorial" and see who's winning. Searches with " tutorial" appeneded are great because they indicate adoption rate and indicate that there are people out there who are trying to get started.
in short, Git has already won and expect it to be the biggest source code versioning system in less than two years from now.
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I have 31 apps on my Android phone. 50% of them are paid apps. I have not paid for any of them. Finding paid apps for free is as easy as plugging in the name of the app into google + app + cracked.
I do not like paying for apps. I've never paid for apps and never will pay for apps.
Major reason why I use Android is precisely because I can download paid apps for free.
Developers should find other business models. Keep Android free please!
I have no idea whether American firms are "in on it" but if I was running Windows and I needed AV solution, Kaspersky AV would be my top choice simply because of their track record.
The irony in this is that this is coming from a company that presented chunks of wood as their next-gen graphics cards.
I had no idea what you were talking about but a quick search showed this:
http://semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidia-fakes-fermi-boards-gtc/
LOL... Nvidia faked a graphics board with a piece of PCB-looking plastic/wood that was screwed to the side of a PC with common hardware-store grade wood screws.
Yeah, I'm sure Google can't do wrong. Right.
I'm really sick of Google sycophants who don't see what kind of a monstrosity Google has become. Yes, Google supported Linux and they were a "good guy" once but you gotta admit that Google has complete monopoly in many areas and they exercise their monopolistic power quite heavy-handedly. They're the new Microsoft and they have potential to be a magnitude more evil than MS ever was.
Google needs to be put in check.
I simply do not trust Google with anything personal and I will not use this service.
... because these "free" gifts are not free at all. There's always a cost associated with them and the cost is often higher than if you paid few dollars each month for them.
Google's become a giant corporation and they're not an underdog that we all loved to cheer for at some point. Now they're trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of "their" assets. These assets are your private information which Google has abused in the past and they'll abuse in the future.
If you want to scare yourself, give their TOS a read and then think twice before you give them another piece of your information.
Personally, I've stopped using their products altogether and now only use their Search once in a while and I do it without being logged in (don't even have an account with them anymore).
Thanks Rob! I've enjoyed this site for many many years and have enjoyed your direction and editorial. Good luck wherever you end up!
I don't think you understand what iCloud is. Google does things completely differently and it doesn't have app data backup, device backup etc.
Close their software?
They release a ton of open source stuff. Even their SMB implementation is open source:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/smb/
Not to mention their work on llvm and Clang. And they're even under a less restrictive BSD licenses.
Browse the repo sometime before you make wild assertions: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/
As the article suggests, problem is that Samba has poor SMB2 support and given Samba's history, stable Samba4 will arrive too late for Apple.
I too prefer Firefox because I don't trust Google. Chrome sends so much data to Google (every keystroke that you type into OmniBar) and I prefer not to give Google any of my data. Firefox has no such issues.
Issue with Chrome's ad blocking is that ad blocking in Chrome works by DOM modification and all the ads are downloaded before they're hidden. That also means that all the ad companies have your IP and browser fingerprint as well and that also means that you waste bandwidth downloading ads. Firefox, again, has no such issues because it filters actual requests.
That's extremely impressive. I work at a different industry and we're also looking at iPad to replace a bunch of laptops and a ton of antiquated software.
Have you contacted Apple with this story? You should. I'd love to read a case study and send it to our CTO.
Thanks for writing.
At least a large portion of the iPhone's cost comes back to Apple as a revenue and supports American programmers.
Since Android is completely free and Google does not license it, NO PORTION of most of the Andorid's phones comes back to US. It goes almost completely back to Taiwan and China.
RIM's a Canadian company and all of their revenue goes to Canada.
PS: Be careful when you try to throw stones in a glass house.
Why should a company help its competition? Why should Apple allow Google to spy on its customers and their platform when Google closely guards their advertising platform and doesn't allow 3rd party ad networks anywhere on their search properties?
If a Ford makes a truck, do they have to allow GM to have a compatible engine for it?
PS: I'm just asking and I'm not being confrontational.
You're obviously not allowed to criticize Google on Slashdot. The company that has virtual monopoly in search and advertising and doesn't allow advertising from other networks on their properties.
You obviously haven't read my question: why doesn't google allow 3rd party ad networks on any of their properties?
Why doesn't Google allow 3rd party ad networks? Why doesn't Google allow 3rd party ad networks in their SERPs (search engine result pages)?
Google's great at crying and bitching but they're the absolute worst monopolist in ad space today.
Not true at all. Person who uploads PDF can prevent download of files. A person who upload can even prevent you from copying text out of files!
I personally dislike Scribd simply because they host a ton of other people's content. I found 4 of my PDFs there ( 3 presentations, one ebook) and the people who uploaded them were making money off it and so was Scribd (ads).
Big issue with Android is that it doesn't come with patent indemnity clause so when you use it, you have zero protection from lawsuits (as HTC has found out with Apple smackdown). MS provides indemnification with their Windows 7 Mobile.
Since HTC passed on the deal, and they actually had use for extra patents, that tells us that Palm's patent portfolio is not that strong.
Skein is getting a lot of attention because Bruce Schneier is one of it's authors. It's a fine algorithm. Personally, after going through a bunch of them, I like BLAKE the best since its extremely simple and relies on old and proven functions that have withstood the test of time. Not to mention that it's extremely fast. I also like Blue Midnight Wish. I think the NIST will pick one of these three.
Take a look at this demo of ShapeWriter from IBM. It's the same thing as Swype and was invented 5 years ago. Dr Zhai has formed a company around the tech and you can see it here: ShapeWriter.
You'd be surprised how much tech is locked up in "black" programs. Heck, if I told you stealth was achievable, you'd call me crazy 30 years ago too. Electrogravitics is very real and they use it in B-2 to reduce the weight by few percent.
The most interesting thing about B-2 is that it purportedly uses electrogravitics and that it also charges its leading sections of wings to reduce the drag.
Here's what Bill Gunston, one of the most respected aviation journalists has to say on the topic (his bio is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gunston )
More here: http://engines.fighter-planes.com/jet_engine.htm
You should ALWAYS use quotes for specific phrases. if you've done some SEO work or actually tried paying for AdWords, you'd realize how important phrase searches are on Google.
Huh? Git didn't have windows support very early on but very soon you could compile it with Cygwin. As for Mac support... it got it very quickly. In fact, I'm willing to claim that not having very early Win support didn't do anything to adoption rate. Target audience were Linux hackers so having support for various other systems wouldn't have done much at all.
As for "changed (somewhat)", what do you mean somewhat? I use Git daily on my Mac laptop and have even used it under Vista without any issues.
Git is HUGE these days. Rails project, for example, has completely switched to Git. Same is happening to Pythin community as more and more things are moving to places like GitHub (which is amazing btw). Also, Google Code now provides Git repos for almost ALL of the projects.
As for Hg, it's lost the war. Git has won. If you want proof, try some searches for "git tutorial" and "mercurial tutorial" and see who's winning. Searches with " tutorial" appeneded are great because they indicate adoption rate and indicate that there are people out there who are trying to get started.
in short, Git has already won and expect it to be the biggest source code versioning system in less than two years from now.