Limited is not the same as no DRM. There should be some measure of DRM, in my opinion, just to dissuade the most basic of copies. But DRM should never inconvenience those who pay for the final product.
I have yet to see how Amazon's DRM does that, the books I buy work on my Phone, iPad, Kindle and any computer I own(up to 6 devices can share the same book at one time). It's anything but restrictive, in my opinion.
You do know that converting anything from e-Pub to mobi is trivial, right? And the device won't lock you out if you get a book version without DRM (nor will any of the kindle apps).
The value you get from the kindle and the nook is actually way better than any of the other readers. What you say is a lock, I say it's convenience.
And if you know how it isn't hard to remove DRM from a book you bought from anywhere else.
No one is forcing you or anyone to buy the e-book, I, for one, only buy kindle books when it's worth it (I payed 10$ less for A Dance with Dragos, 7$ less for the latest Dreaden Files and more or less 8$ less for the Inheritance e-book.
But then I bought The Lies of Locke Lamora on paper.
And even though I don't regret it, I might not do it again just to save 2$. The convenience of the whole Amazon infrastructure combined with instant delivery anywhere in the world for free, not to mention the lousy quality of pocket paperbacks...
In theory this is all very cool, but how do you propose to make it backward compatible and / or to convince everyone that something that works reasonably well should be changed / invested in?
The methods for a secure DNS (and POP and IMAP and SMTP and ) have been here for years and are actually taught to most CS majors, but having the tech is rarely the only concern (unfortunately)
How do you propose to verify someone's (or some site's) identity without having a trusted third party telling you that you should? What you say is kind of utopic, it might work to connect to somewhere you know, but it'll fail on a larger scale.
And don't forget that it's not just you having to verify the website's identity, sometimes it is also the website asking to verify yours. Even if they used their own CA to hand you a certificate, they still needed a trust based system.
Yes, I see your point, on a basic level ssh only relies on an asymmetric key exchange and sygnatures and not on CA's, but the problem is way bigger than that.
I've change mouse buttons, configured gestures, ntfs drivers and remote ssh mounting with popups and clicks. They don't even come close in user friendliness, sorry.
Not that, but maybe some mac users (I'm one of them) used to use linux but decided to get a mac simply because it doesn't require you to read 3 manuals just to change some configuration while still allowing you to have a really powerful console.
Because of my Linux past, I tend to use macports or homebrew to get almost anything, so I suppose I don't count to the sourceforge statistics
This is actually something acceptable. You can also write in the console and have infinite money, but that won't make your game any more enjoyable. This follows under the same category, in my opinion. you'll only screw yourself out of a great experience if you want to - no one is forcing anything.
And honestly, whoever thought about this, deserves that piece of bread that got stolen. Genius
If you chose to delete your google+ account, it says it'll "try and destroy all data".
Keyword, try - I deleted mine, no idea if they really destroyed anything, but it says there was no way to recover my account if I went through with it.
Actually, I saw some study on why the growth of mac os x didn't mean the decline of windows... Most people that own a mac still boot into windows sometimes and/or have a windows machine somewhere that they use to do those things mac os x can't (like play games or open highly formatted word documents).
I'm a prime example, in my houshold we own 3 macs, but I'm currently typing from a windows machine (:
So, yeah, I agree that windows isn't loosing it's spot anytime soon, unless they decide that windows 8 won't be backward compatible and a closed platform at the same time (or something like that).
Actually, all your examples can already be achieved with voice commands on Android.
What Siri does best is the interface with the user, unlike voice commands, it provides some kind of natural language processing and gives reasonable feedback... And that's something no one ever thought about. Most developers worked on trying to have the phone recognize your voice really well, and spent very little time in the actual user interaction.
My hat goes out to Siri, but if google wanted they could achieve Siri in a week, based on their voice recognition engine and already extremely exact web results. But now they'll just be following apple instead of innovating.
And you commented that you'd never use it in an elevator... Neither would I. But I already talk to my phone while driving, so it's not all that much of a "fad"
For casual computing, and I mean real casual computing (check your e-mail, browse and maybe reading a book/watching movies), tablets are ideal. Even if you coach something, imagine instead of taking all your student files, the planning and even having the ability to take notes on a single device (instead of a file that weights 3x more).
There is a market for tablets, some might even say it is the real personal computer for people that don't like computers (I don't agree with them, but I see the point).
Really? Did you ever check what is the price of a 27" IPS screen? A bit more expensive, sure, but not by much, at least not the iMacs. You can argue that you don't need an IPS panel, and that's ok, but if you factor in all the separate pieces plus the price of actually buying windows and subsequent upgrades, in the end of your computer's lifetime you haven't payed that much more.
Yes, because every single phone would have an integrated google experience like Android does (pulling you to their services), or sell adds via google services (like 90% of the applications do - imagine every mobile phone using iAd, how much money would google make from that?).
Android gives google a boatload of money every day. If you can't see that, then you're either very very blind or haven't lived in this world for long.
They don't make as much as apple, in the end they don't sell the devices themselves, but they are making a lot of money ( and have been posting record quarters, even in a world in crisis )
Well, then I can choose to use the alternatives that don't charge me anything to get stuff into my phone, while not forcing me to use the IDE they developed. Apple would make shitloads of money without having to charge the 99$ anyways, they just do that because people like you pay for it (or think it is ok to be charged money to develop for something you bought).
Google also provide you with tools for everything and won't even force you to use their market. And, clearly, they are losing money on android (irony). Poor google.
Apple won't subsidize anything. They get a 30% cut of everything you make!
If that student does such a good app he still might not risk the appstore or even iOS because he can't even use his app in his phone.
The flaw is the 99$ just to be able to send the thing to the phone and nothing more. I don't want apple to subsidize me anything, nor do I want charity, I just want to use what I payed for (at the very least).
You like having to pay 99$ per year to get things on your phone (not even the store), good for you. But its still as ridiculous as saying that having big pockets makes you a great developer that won't put out crap.
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No, and this is a common misconception.
The books you bought on Amazon will work on iPads, iPhones, Android Tablets, Android Phones and any mac/PC, up to 6 at the same time.
True, they won't work on other e-book readers, but if you bought the book removing the amazon DRM is easy (allowing you to move it anywhere you want).
You can read your purchased kindle books on all those platforms at the same time (up to 6)
And removing amazon's DRM is actually trivial, if you bought the books.
Limited is not the same as no DRM. There should be some measure of DRM, in my opinion, just to dissuade the most basic of copies. But DRM should never inconvenience those who pay for the final product.
I have yet to see how Amazon's DRM does that, the books I buy work on my Phone, iPad, Kindle and any computer I own(up to 6 devices can share the same book at one time). It's anything but restrictive, in my opinion.
You do know that converting anything from e-Pub to mobi is trivial, right? And the device won't lock you out if you get a book version without DRM (nor will any of the kindle apps).
The value you get from the kindle and the nook is actually way better than any of the other readers. What you say is a lock, I say it's convenience.
And if you know how it isn't hard to remove DRM from a book you bought from anywhere else.
No one is forcing you or anyone to buy the e-book, I, for one, only buy kindle books when it's worth it (I payed 10$ less for A Dance with Dragos, 7$ less for the latest Dreaden Files and more or less 8$ less for the Inheritance e-book.
But then I bought The Lies of Locke Lamora on paper.
And even though I don't regret it, I might not do it again just to save 2$. The convenience of the whole Amazon infrastructure combined with instant delivery anywhere in the world for free, not to mention the lousy quality of pocket paperbacks...
had no idea ">" and "" could be used as html tags, and so some of my text got eaten.
where it reads ... and SMTP and ) should be ... and (insert most original internet protocols)
In theory this is all very cool, but how do you propose to make it backward compatible and / or to convince everyone that something that works reasonably well should be changed / invested in?
The methods for a secure DNS (and POP and IMAP and SMTP and ) have been here for years and are actually taught to most CS majors, but having the tech is rarely the only concern (unfortunately)
How do you propose to verify someone's (or some site's) identity without having a trusted third party telling you that you should? What you say is kind of utopic, it might work to connect to somewhere you know, but it'll fail on a larger scale.
And don't forget that it's not just you having to verify the website's identity, sometimes it is also the website asking to verify yours. Even if they used their own CA to hand you a certificate, they still needed a trust based system.
Yes, I see your point, on a basic level ssh only relies on an asymmetric key exchange and sygnatures and not on CA's, but the problem is way bigger than that.
No, I'm quite sure it is a requirement in some countries (I'd even guess that every country has a law requirement for certain themes).
I guess you'd prefer to have Google censor the whole website because they were blocked from running it instead of trying to verify your age..
I've change mouse buttons, configured gestures, ntfs drivers and remote ssh mounting with popups and clicks. They don't even come close in user friendliness, sorry.
Not that, but maybe some mac users (I'm one of them) used to use linux but decided to get a mac simply because it doesn't require you to read 3 manuals just to change some configuration while still allowing you to have a really powerful console.
Because of my Linux past, I tend to use macports or homebrew to get almost anything, so I suppose I don't count to the sourceforge statistics
Actually, it isn't missing in action. The ICS source tree includes the honeycomb code, even though it isn't tagged... So, technically, it's there.
This is actually something acceptable. You can also write in the console and have infinite money, but that won't make your game any more enjoyable. This follows under the same category, in my opinion. you'll only screw yourself out of a great experience if you want to - no one is forcing anything.
And honestly, whoever thought about this, deserves that piece of bread that got stolen. Genius
If you chose to delete your google+ account, it says it'll "try and destroy all data".
Keyword, try - I deleted mine, no idea if they really destroyed anything, but it says there was no way to recover my account if I went through with it.
Actually, I saw some study on why the growth of mac os x didn't mean the decline of windows... Most people that own a mac still boot into windows sometimes and/or have a windows machine somewhere that they use to do those things mac os x can't (like play games or open highly formatted word documents).
I'm a prime example, in my houshold we own 3 macs, but I'm currently typing from a windows machine (:
So, yeah, I agree that windows isn't loosing it's spot anytime soon, unless they decide that windows 8 won't be backward compatible and a closed platform at the same time (or something like that).
Actually, all your examples can already be achieved with voice commands on Android.
What Siri does best is the interface with the user, unlike voice commands, it provides some kind of natural language processing and gives reasonable feedback... And that's something no one ever thought about. Most developers worked on trying to have the phone recognize your voice really well, and spent very little time in the actual user interaction.
My hat goes out to Siri, but if google wanted they could achieve Siri in a week, based on their voice recognition engine and already extremely exact web results. But now they'll just be following apple instead of innovating.
And you commented that you'd never use it in an elevator... Neither would I. But I already talk to my phone while driving, so it's not all that much of a "fad"
Because not the whole world uses windows and sometimes you need to do something that will run everywhere without needing independent versions.
Oh, and Android.
For casual computing, and I mean real casual computing (check your e-mail, browse and maybe reading a book/watching movies), tablets are ideal. Even if you coach something, imagine instead of taking all your student files, the planning and even having the ability to take notes on a single device (instead of a file that weights 3x more).
There is a market for tablets, some might even say it is the real personal computer for people that don't like computers (I don't agree with them, but I see the point).
Really? Did you ever check what is the price of a 27" IPS screen? A bit more expensive, sure, but not by much, at least not the iMacs. You can argue that you don't need an IPS panel, and that's ok, but if you factor in all the separate pieces plus the price of actually buying windows and subsequent upgrades, in the end of your computer's lifetime you haven't payed that much more.
Yes, because every single phone would have an integrated google experience like Android does (pulling you to their services), or sell adds via google services (like 90% of the applications do - imagine every mobile phone using iAd, how much money would google make from that?).
Android gives google a boatload of money every day. If you can't see that, then you're either very very blind or haven't lived in this world for long.
don't doubt. Last year, when the activations were on the 200000's and not 500000's they were already making money ( http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-08-05/tech/30018597_1_google-s-android-android-based-phones-search-revenue ).
They don't make as much as apple, in the end they don't sell the devices themselves, but they are making a lot of money ( and have been posting record quarters, even in a world in crisis )
Yes, I'm paying for all that. I could also be sending money out the window, doesn't mean I will.
And it is hard to shell out 99$. It doesn't come in 12 easy payments, it's 99$ now just to be able to send the app to a phone or iPad.
Well, then I can choose to use the alternatives that don't charge me anything to get stuff into my phone, while not forcing me to use the IDE they developed. Apple would make shitloads of money without having to charge the 99$ anyways, they just do that because people like you pay for it (or think it is ok to be charged money to develop for something you bought).
Google also provide you with tools for everything and won't even force you to use their market. And, clearly, they are losing money on android (irony). Poor google.
And having those 99$ be recurring and a barrier to test apps on the phone, is that also to avoid fart apps?
Apple won't subsidize anything. They get a 30% cut of everything you make!
If that student does such a good app he still might not risk the appstore or even iOS because he can't even use his app in his phone.
The flaw is the 99$ just to be able to send the thing to the phone and nothing more. I don't want apple to subsidize me anything, nor do I want charity, I just want to use what I payed for (at the very least).
You like having to pay 99$ per year to get things on your phone (not even the store), good for you. But its still as ridiculous as saying that having big pockets makes you a great developer that won't put out crap.