It's a straw man argument. A religious bookstore is a specialist store, nobody expects them to sell books that are outside of that specialty. Apple on the other hand are presenting themselves as a general ebook seller.
You can't just fire up a turbofan engine and takeoff straight away. Likewise, you can just switch it off immediately after landing. Since the engines need to be running to warm up/cool down anyway, is it really wasting energy to use them for propulsion on the ground?
And if airlines made a point of telling passengers how much less fuel was used on their flight, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would brag about it, the same way I brag about my car's fuel economy.
Maybe they could quote it in terms of passenger miles per gallon, so smug idiots could stop feeling so smug about the milage they were getting in their single occupant Prius.
The "Too noisy" meme was started by Boeing to hurt sales of the Concorde
It was noisy. I've had them fly over my house on approach for landing. Other modern jets are almost silent from below when coming in on a descent path.
Instead of $15000 a copy for the engineering application, revenue drops to zero almost overnight as folks overseas bit torrent the cracked version and its attendant viruses.
As one of your folks overseas, I can assure you that the companies that are in the market for $15000 a copy software are not going to bit torrent the cracked version. Most of them are multinationals with auditing procedures in place to ensure that none of their facilities worldwide is doing crap like this. More likely the market for this application saturated fairly quickly, and since the developer did not follow up by continuing to add more value to the product, their sales channel dried up.
something has to be done to get cash flowing towards the developers of Android applications
Most applications just aren't worth paying for. Developers aren't entitled to a flood of cash just because they found a novel way to make a phone emulate a whoopee cushion. If you want to get paid for your app, make it something worth paying for, that is substantial enough that a bunch of free copycats is not going to pop up overnight. The bar for what is worth paying for is actually quite high - there are probably only two applications I would pay for on my phone (and they were both offered by their authors for free).
why aren't they all just getting Galaxy Nexus's since that's the one with the unlockable bootloader out of the box.
Samsung phones have unlocked bootloaders as well. If you flash a non-official image, it shows an exclamation mark as you boot up, to let the warranty department know they can try to point the finger at bad software, but there are no barriers to stop you from doing it.
I seriously doubt you could do it with iOS products either given that you can't charge huge sums of money for phone apps.
I did come across a VNC clone for iPad in the app store the other day with a selling price of USD$150. I'm not sure how many customers they have at that price though.
Who says that Windows works? Unless your the size of Microsoft or Adobe, being successful on Windows in this regard is really hard.
Who says that it should be any easier on Android than it is on Windows? The industry has already been through two bubbles caused by idiots thinking there was easy money to be made in software and the internet. When will people learn that there is no such thing as easy money?
Maybe this is where he's getting the idea of everyone being pirates. "My spyware reports that 90% of users are running Titanium Backup on their phones, therefore 90% of Android users are pirates".
This is actually pretty typical when technocrats are in charge. Because they have huge stockpiles of paid-for dosimeters that workers use every day, but which saturate at very low levels, they decide they're going to use those by putting them behind a shield and then adjusting the readings correspondingly. Makes sense, except they give absolutely no consideration to appearances. Ignorant journalists and nutty lefty conspiracy theorists then have a field day.
Nice try at a plausible explanation. So just show the ignorant journalists the calibration certificates for these lead shields, and give them a sample so they can independently verify that the calibration is correct, and everyone can calm down.
A lot of what has happened in the aftermath does have to do with bowing to corporations though, like the 7 out of 10 cleanup workers who did not question their employer's request to wear a lead lined pocket protector around their dosimeters.
Parent would be correct, or at the very least it's a tie.
It's not a tie. While a few very high profile sites like Pandora and NetFlix geoblock consumers from outside the US, most internet radio from the US is available worldwide. But try finding a Japanese internet radio station that plays music and is not blocked from outside Japan. Also, if you ever get the chance to watch the news on NHK Worldwide, witness how the entire sports segment of the news has the video replaced by a graphic stating "Due to rights issues, the video for this item is not available outside Japan", even though most of the sports being shown are local Japanese events that do not have rights holders outside of Japan to complain, and any other news channel is fine with showing short snippets of non-live sport, under fair use news reporting exceptions to whatever exclusive broadcast rights are in place for the sport.
7digital is mostly just a backend behind other branded online music stores. I wouldn't expect them to show up in a search for "Buy music in Canada", but some of their customers might.
Well, I endorse the intent of this, but the main reason the free flow of digital goods is blocked by region is because of the balkanized licensing of media. Geo-IP blocking is a consequence of this, not a cause of it.
Geo-IP blocking is an enabler for the balkanized licensing of media, it is not a consequence, and should not be accepted by the Australian public or anyone else as inevitable and not part of the real problem. Australia has in the past made other legal rulings on grey imports and DVD region coding that make it clear that they do not want to support the use of balkanized licensing, so forbidding Geo-IP blocking would be a natural next step. Unfortunately this will only affect sites that limit their audience to Australians, and will have no effect on the practices of the sites mentioned in the summary.
Were it true, you, being a slashdotter and thus years ahead would be composing this on a tablet. Apparently the soft-keyboard and such are no bother, nor is the lack of easy copy/paste functions.
I have an iPad and an Android phone. Both will use a Bluetooth or USB keyboard, and both have perfectly usable Copy/Paste functionality for text, which is sufficient for posting to Slashdot.
The patent is from 2000. It only covers systems where the digital-audio conversion takes place inside the same enclosure as the speakers. So 1990's era receivers with digital input are not quite prior art (though whether the idea of moving it into the speaker enclosure is novel is something that should be challenged in court IMHO, given the prior existence of both receivers with digital inputs and single-box amplifier and speaker combinations).
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As is any Samsung designed phone or tablet.
It's a straw man argument. A religious bookstore is a specialist store, nobody expects them to sell books that are outside of that specialty. Apple on the other hand are presenting themselves as a general ebook seller.
I was thinking that was why it failed in Korea. Everyone just signs their comments as being from Kim.
You can't just fire up a turbofan engine and takeoff straight away. Likewise, you can just switch it off immediately after landing. Since the engines need to be running to warm up/cool down anyway, is it really wasting energy to use them for propulsion on the ground?
Maybe they could quote it in terms of passenger miles per gallon, so smug idiots could stop feeling so smug about the milage they were getting in their single occupant Prius.
It was noisy. I've had them fly over my house on approach for landing. Other modern jets are almost silent from below when coming in on a descent path.
Only when written typographically rich to show off that you have some inkling of what it means.
As one of your folks overseas, I can assure you that the companies that are in the market for $15000 a copy software are not going to bit torrent the cracked version. Most of them are multinationals with auditing procedures in place to ensure that none of their facilities worldwide is doing crap like this. More likely the market for this application saturated fairly quickly, and since the developer did not follow up by continuing to add more value to the product, their sales channel dried up.
Most applications just aren't worth paying for. Developers aren't entitled to a flood of cash just because they found a novel way to make a phone emulate a whoopee cushion. If you want to get paid for your app, make it something worth paying for, that is substantial enough that a bunch of free copycats is not going to pop up overnight. The bar for what is worth paying for is actually quite high - there are probably only two applications I would pay for on my phone (and they were both offered by their authors for free).
Samsung phones have unlocked bootloaders as well. If you flash a non-official image, it shows an exclamation mark as you boot up, to let the warranty department know they can try to point the finger at bad software, but there are no barriers to stop you from doing it.
I did come across a VNC clone for iPad in the app store the other day with a selling price of USD$150. I'm not sure how many customers they have at that price though.
Who says that it should be any easier on Android than it is on Windows? The industry has already been through two bubbles caused by idiots thinking there was easy money to be made in software and the internet. When will people learn that there is no such thing as easy money?
Maybe this is where he's getting the idea of everyone being pirates. "My spyware reports that 90% of users are running Titanium Backup on their phones, therefore 90% of Android users are pirates".
You'll just have to carry your 20A jumper cables around with you instead.
You don't need to root an Android device to install a pirated game, only to extract the game to upload/seed it.
Nice try at a plausible explanation. So just show the ignorant journalists the calibration certificates for these lead shields, and give them a sample so they can independently verify that the calibration is correct, and everyone can calm down.
How can a foreign doctor know anything about the unique physiology of the Japanese anyway?
A lot of what has happened in the aftermath does have to do with bowing to corporations though, like the 7 out of 10 cleanup workers who did not question their employer's request to wear a lead lined pocket protector around their dosimeters.
It's not a tie. While a few very high profile sites like Pandora and NetFlix geoblock consumers from outside the US, most internet radio from the US is available worldwide. But try finding a Japanese internet radio station that plays music and is not blocked from outside Japan. Also, if you ever get the chance to watch the news on NHK Worldwide, witness how the entire sports segment of the news has the video replaced by a graphic stating "Due to rights issues, the video for this item is not available outside Japan", even though most of the sports being shown are local Japanese events that do not have rights holders outside of Japan to complain, and any other news channel is fine with showing short snippets of non-live sport, under fair use news reporting exceptions to whatever exclusive broadcast rights are in place for the sport.
You mean an analog potentiometer? I don't think I've seen one of those on a mobile phone ever, and on a desk phone, not since the 1980's.
7digital is mostly just a backend behind other branded online music stores. I wouldn't expect them to show up in a search for "Buy music in Canada", but some of their customers might.
Geo-IP blocking is an enabler for the balkanized licensing of media, it is not a consequence, and should not be accepted by the Australian public or anyone else as inevitable and not part of the real problem. Australia has in the past made other legal rulings on grey imports and DVD region coding that make it clear that they do not want to support the use of balkanized licensing, so forbidding Geo-IP blocking would be a natural next step. Unfortunately this will only affect sites that limit their audience to Australians, and will have no effect on the practices of the sites mentioned in the summary.
I have an iPad and an Android phone. Both will use a Bluetooth or USB keyboard, and both have perfectly usable Copy/Paste functionality for text, which is sufficient for posting to Slashdot.
They seem to realise this, and are making the most of the 0xB16B00B5 (or vagina) while they still can.
The patent is from 2000. It only covers systems where the digital-audio conversion takes place inside the same enclosure as the speakers. So 1990's era receivers with digital input are not quite prior art (though whether the idea of moving it into the speaker enclosure is novel is something that should be challenged in court IMHO, given the prior existence of both receivers with digital inputs and single-box amplifier and speaker combinations).