The attitude I described isn't limited to big-name publishers, either. I peruse Gamasutra often, and there are a good number of smaller/indie developers that find charging $5 instead of $15 an insult to all the work they put into their game. I really don't understand it. If I could make 36,000% more total sales, I'd let my ego take the hit...
This pricing system is nothing new. All the modern Call of Duty games stay at $60 on Steam. The latest version rarely goes on sale, if so it's only like $10 off. Publishers of any sort only want to be paid what they think customers should pay.
Then, some indie mucky-muck makes something like Minecraft, Angry Birds, etc, charges so little, and sells millions. It's not fair!
In the Android world, there are plenty of bigger fish that could have been challenging Microsoft. I find it curious that a fairly minor player in the ebook/tablet area is the one doing it not HTC, Samsung, Motorola or even Amazon.
Well, my point to bonch, was just saying "Android is open source" carries no specific instructions with it. That is what the various licenses are for. "X is open source because it uses Y license" is a more appropriate statement. Then we can carry on and make sure the project and any other project that forks from that carry out the terms of said license.
"Android" is not one item released under one license. It is made up of a number of components under different licenses with varying openness. Google released source code for what it had to (ie GPL based), and kept back what it could (ie Apache license-based).
Who stood up when Android 1.0 was released and said, "This cannot be released under these other licenses, it must be all GPL!!" Hell, this site used to go on and on and on arguing the minutia of every license, what ones can be called "open source," etc. Today, it's just "Android is open source, release source to everything!"
No. There is no forgiveness for past deemed transgressions against the Open Source here! KDE is still kursed for using the unfree Qt! Loki porting games to Linux was shit because we don't need that binary-only crap! Wine is stupid because then developers won't need to make Linux-only ports.
Well, now that you have the source code to everything, you'll be able to pinpoint the exact lines that Google copied from another GPL software project and failed to release the source code before. You could make millions! Or have Larry/Sergey/Eric arrested, if it is "required by law" like you say.
Answer... It is all dependent on the license one chooses for their project. Some licenses might say, "release source for everything always," some say, "it's ok to keep some changes private."
Your homework is to figure out what license Google uses for the different parts of Android. Android is fairly modular, using apps for many user-facing functions. Must every binary executable that works on Linux be forced to be completely open source?
Tax the corporations, ie Amazon, to pay their fair share. Of course, they'll just increase the prices on their items to pay for this new tax, putting it on the individuals who are buying the items. So purchasers get to pay sales tax and corporate tax. It's a win, win! Sounds fair enough. Tax corporations!
I found the most interesting quote from the video wasn't his cursing, but the mom's statement, "Take it like a grown woman." That underscores their life in that house. I'm sure this happened to everyone in the house several times throughout the years.
So consult with your local lawmakers and draft the Judge's Standards Act, Politician's Standards Act, etc. to spell out just how each profession must behave at all times.
Then again, many said in the 90's Clinton was fine doing whatever in his personal life since it wasn't criminal. I guess it's different if you like the person in these cases.
Because he doesn't need to. Science is just right. Heh, I mean, what else is there to argue? His smirking and chuckling throughout his whole presentation show this view of his.
Besides, the Church is against divorce. Couples have to stay together miserable. 93% of the national science academy (REALLY smart people) are atheists or agnostics. Some priests commit pedophilia. They don't let women be priests.
I mean, come on! This is irrefutable evidence that science wins every time.
Almost all of Coyne's talk thus far hasn't had any debate. His speech has been full of so many logical fallacies, I can only think of Brian Dunning's posts on the subject.
Right near the beginning of the video, the second page of his presentation, "Religions: the universe is here for a reason." This is just how my years in Catholic schools evolved. Sure mistakes have been made in the science/religion debate over the centuries within Catholicism, ie Galileo. But science has been about understand how things work, leaving religion to ask "why are we here?" Thinking about our purpose in the universe, leads to living a good life, treat others well, etc. All of which makes for a stable society (no murdering, stealing, etc).
I'm halfway through the video, completing Mr. Haught's presentation, and isn't it funny how Mr. Science can't get his laptop to work through the projector. God works in mysterious ways.:)
Anyway, he opens with, "We're going to have a real debate." So there you have it folks, he wins! Everything Haught said is not real!! Game over.
I'm working through Haught's letter, will watch the video soon, but he brings up valid arguments about the "debate." If Coyne's presentation was just ad hominum and non sequitur fallacies, how is that a useful academic debate? How is bringing up the Catholic Church's stance on divorce, homosexuality, etc useful in a debate on Science/Religion?
Now, now, there's no need for facts on this site. All religions are creationists, all smart people that matter on the internet are evolutionists. You cannot debate unreasonable people because they are just wrong.
Yea, but, but, all it takes is one little opt-in and Google is being sent all your tracking information!!
But this is second to Amazon's scam. I put my credit card info in there just to see what they would do with it. Then I clicked the innocent-enough-looking "Buy now" button and they started charging my credit card! I am out real money because of them. This needs to be addressed ASAP folks! Boycott these scammer web sites.
Google has been answering natural language questions for a long time. I know many people that just type "Where is Amazon?" into Google's search box. I don't know of the ones who type "amazon.com" in Google's box are better or worse than them though...
That said, the regular Voice Search app on Android is pretty good. I watched a Siri demo on Youtube and asked the same questions they did. Android did quite well at keeping up with it. The results are spoken back to me, but that's certainly possible. I was talking with my brother who gets every Iphone immediately about Siri. He mentioned setting his alarm when he's too lazy. So, I told my phone the same, "Set alarm 4:30am," and it worked. This wasn't documented by Google when they came out with the app. They only listed 6 or so functions (send text, send email, call, map to, etc). So, I'm not sure if it's Google's app which set the alarm or if my clock app (what comes with CM7) just hooked itself into the API. Nonetheless, it worked.
Man, who are you gonna believe. Some joker on Blogspot, where anyone can make an account, or a place named ExtremeTech.com. My underpants moved a little just typing that domain.
And for everyone with Google Apps accounts that are in panic mode, see this from Dave Girouard from Google Apps. It's just "days" away.
They also said yesterday or today that Apps support for Plus is coming real soon. So perhaps this will be it. I know we've been waiting for a very long time for our Apps accounts to become full Google accounts. Moving Reader would be far too foolish if the merge wasn't ready on day one.
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Ok, every time someone uses the word "polish," you have to take a drink of something containing alcohol.
The conversation here will get interesting soon enough.
The attitude I described isn't limited to big-name publishers, either. I peruse Gamasutra often, and there are a good number of smaller/indie developers that find charging $5 instead of $15 an insult to all the work they put into their game. I really don't understand it. If I could make 36,000% more total sales, I'd let my ego take the hit...
This pricing system is nothing new. All the modern Call of Duty games stay at $60 on Steam. The latest version rarely goes on sale, if so it's only like $10 off. Publishers of any sort only want to be paid what they think customers should pay.
Then, some indie mucky-muck makes something like Minecraft, Angry Birds, etc, charges so little, and sells millions. It's not fair!
In the Android world, there are plenty of bigger fish that could have been challenging Microsoft. I find it curious that a fairly minor player in the ebook/tablet area is the one doing it not HTC, Samsung, Motorola or even Amazon.
Well, my point to bonch, was just saying "Android is open source" carries no specific instructions with it. That is what the various licenses are for. "X is open source because it uses Y license" is a more appropriate statement. Then we can carry on and make sure the project and any other project that forks from that carry out the terms of said license.
"Android" is not one item released under one license. It is made up of a number of components under different licenses with varying openness. Google released source code for what it had to (ie GPL based), and kept back what it could (ie Apache license-based).
Who stood up when Android 1.0 was released and said, "This cannot be released under these other licenses, it must be all GPL!!" Hell, this site used to go on and on and on arguing the minutia of every license, what ones can be called "open source," etc. Today, it's just "Android is open source, release source to everything!"
No. There is no forgiveness for past deemed transgressions against the Open Source here! KDE is still kursed for using the unfree Qt! Loki porting games to Linux was shit because we don't need that binary-only crap! Wine is stupid because then developers won't need to make Linux-only ports.
Welcome to Slashdot.
Well, now that you have the source code to everything, you'll be able to pinpoint the exact lines that Google copied from another GPL software project and failed to release the source code before. You could make millions! Or have Larry/Sergey/Eric arrested, if it is "required by law" like you say.
Handset. You keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means.
Define "open source." Good luck.
Answer... It is all dependent on the license one chooses for their project. Some licenses might say, "release source for everything always," some say, "it's ok to keep some changes private."
Your homework is to figure out what license Google uses for the different parts of Android. Android is fairly modular, using apps for many user-facing functions. Must every binary executable that works on Linux be forced to be completely open source?
So not to be confused with their previous release, Froyo. Their picture in your mind would be practically the same. Now it's more distinct.
Tax the corporations, ie Amazon, to pay their fair share. Of course, they'll just increase the prices on their items to pay for this new tax, putting it on the individuals who are buying the items. So purchasers get to pay sales tax and corporate tax. It's a win, win! Sounds fair enough. Tax corporations!
I found the most interesting quote from the video wasn't his cursing, but the mom's statement, "Take it like a grown woman." That underscores their life in that house. I'm sure this happened to everyone in the house several times throughout the years.
So consult with your local lawmakers and draft the Judge's Standards Act, Politician's Standards Act, etc. to spell out just how each profession must behave at all times.
Then again, many said in the 90's Clinton was fine doing whatever in his personal life since it wasn't criminal. I guess it's different if you like the person in these cases.
Next on Slashdot, Siri is tracking your every word spoken while using it!!
You're talking wrong. :)
What Mr. Apple says, is.
Because he doesn't need to. Science is just right. Heh, I mean, what else is there to argue? His smirking and chuckling throughout his whole presentation show this view of his.
Besides, the Church is against divorce. Couples have to stay together miserable. 93% of the national science academy (REALLY smart people) are atheists or agnostics. Some priests commit pedophilia. They don't let women be priests.
I mean, come on! This is irrefutable evidence that science wins every time.
Almost all of Coyne's talk thus far hasn't had any debate. His speech has been full of so many logical fallacies, I can only think of Brian Dunning's posts on the subject.
Right near the beginning of the video, the second page of his presentation, "Religions: the universe is here for a reason." This is just how my years in Catholic schools evolved. Sure mistakes have been made in the science/religion debate over the centuries within Catholicism, ie Galileo. But science has been about understand how things work, leaving religion to ask "why are we here?" Thinking about our purpose in the universe, leads to living a good life, treat others well, etc. All of which makes for a stable society (no murdering, stealing, etc).
I'm halfway through the video, completing Mr. Haught's presentation, and isn't it funny how Mr. Science can't get his laptop to work through the projector. God works in mysterious ways. :)
Anyway, he opens with, "We're going to have a real debate." So there you have it folks, he wins! Everything Haught said is not real!! Game over.
Citation needed.
I'm working through Haught's letter, will watch the video soon, but he brings up valid arguments about the "debate." If Coyne's presentation was just ad hominum and non sequitur fallacies, how is that a useful academic debate? How is bringing up the Catholic Church's stance on divorce, homosexuality, etc useful in a debate on Science/Religion?
And if you disagree, well, you're a poopoo head.
Now, now, there's no need for facts on this site. All religions are creationists, all smart people that matter on the internet are evolutionists. You cannot debate unreasonable people because they are just wrong.
Yea, but, but, all it takes is one little opt-in and Google is being sent all your tracking information!!
But this is second to Amazon's scam. I put my credit card info in there just to see what they would do with it. Then I clicked the innocent-enough-looking "Buy now" button and they started charging my credit card! I am out real money because of them. This needs to be addressed ASAP folks! Boycott these scammer web sites.
Google has been answering natural language questions for a long time. I know many people that just type "Where is Amazon?" into Google's search box. I don't know of the ones who type "amazon.com" in Google's box are better or worse than them though...
That said, the regular Voice Search app on Android is pretty good. I watched a Siri demo on Youtube and asked the same questions they did. Android did quite well at keeping up with it. The results are spoken back to me, but that's certainly possible. I was talking with my brother who gets every Iphone immediately about Siri. He mentioned setting his alarm when he's too lazy. So, I told my phone the same, "Set alarm 4:30am," and it worked. This wasn't documented by Google when they came out with the app. They only listed 6 or so functions (send text, send email, call, map to, etc). So, I'm not sure if it's Google's app which set the alarm or if my clock app (what comes with CM7) just hooked itself into the API. Nonetheless, it worked.
I think I will be toying with this a lot more.
Man, who are you gonna believe. Some joker on Blogspot, where anyone can make an account, or a place named ExtremeTech.com. My underpants moved a little just typing that domain.
And for everyone with Google Apps accounts that are in panic mode, see this from Dave Girouard from Google Apps. It's just "days" away.
They also said yesterday or today that Apps support for Plus is coming real soon. So perhaps this will be it. I know we've been waiting for a very long time for our Apps accounts to become full Google accounts. Moving Reader would be far too foolish if the merge wasn't ready on day one.