Did you read the post you're replying to? I certainly looks like you didn't.
The point of the GP is that even bands that release their digital music for free can turn a profit by selling it through another channel, simply by adapting the marketing.
Anyhow, there is no way anyone will succeed in forbidding people to exchange information freely. That's the basics for the posts you are trying to debunk. No way. And music is information.
You can whine about it, but that's the way it is. Not saying it's right or wrong, just saying that's the way it is.
Given the current backlog at the USPTO, I think that your solution would considerably slow the process down. What we need over here is a tiny bit more:
>> If the patent is rejected, bill the applicant with the price of the process.
Granted, it will make it more risky (for a small company or an individual) to file a patent. OTOH, it will make it dangerously expensive for a big company to file 1000 patents a day.
Well, I don't believe the BSD license requires derivations to be similarly licensed
Sure it does:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
What you are describing is a very important process that is not likely to go away. However, the average joe doesn't necessarily want to tinker with his phone. You know, he just wants it to work. A second (or third?) store, that some carriers will lock in, others lock out, others will propose exclusively isn't necessarily something from which Android will benefit.
That's not exactly how it works. First of all, its not exclusive of Google services, and secondly, anyone can install third party apps on their Android phone without rooting it. Feel free to install some other search apk instead.
I guess it kind of depends on how much the provider locked your phone down. If they removed the Google Marketplace and the ability to add a store, I guess you're wrong on that count. What the parent says is that Android's openness gives liberty to the carrier. The carrier will decide what liberty is left to you and what liberty is kept from you. In other word, it's not Android that gives you liberty but it is the phone maker+carrier that may give you freedom. Or rooting, but on that count the iPhone is as open as Android.
The fact remains that my mother uses an iPhone and knows how to read/send emails and SMSs. I would never ever have tried to explain that to her on any other smartphone, ever (that was 2 years ago, things have changed)
Because what makes non tecchies scared of a computer is that you can put by accident the computer in a state where you don't know how to get out of. You know, a computer is stateful. iOS, for all its criticism address this issue with the one button that consistently brings you back to the starting point. That is a core part of the user experience: making sure no user ever gets lost.
In my view, Apple is the only company focusing on the user experience (and the only company focusing on the user) as opposed to feature lists products that will be close to become unusable. As a result, they release more expensive products, sell more of those than the competition, and then get a bigger revenue. This revenue is invested in R&D. In Apple's terminology, R&D means exploring existing technologies and finding how they can be integrated into end user products.
The users we speak of here are not slashdot readers, they are the general public.
As a result of all that, they get good press. And it seems well deserved.
This is my view on Apple, so you may express your view but you may not say I'm wrong because I don't claim to express a fact.
You get 100-200ms when you are connected to your cell. The thing is that after a few seconds your phone will disconnect to save battery. It needs to request for a new connection in order to get connected again. This delay can be counted in seconds, not in ms. Hence the high latency.
3G is high bandwidth but high latency. That doesn't change with HSPA+ AFAIK. A DSL line is high bandwidth low latency.
That said, I have 60mbps over my cable connection, so HSPA is never going to approach that. Moreover, 3G is a hog on battery. Plus the offered plans are always capped some way or another.
So all in all, Wifi still has a place in my home, and for quite a few years !.
This is the type of tablet that existed for a few years now and never took off because a finger/stylus is not a mouse?
Now, I am expecting a lot from Android, but it is just about ready for smartphones. Do anyone really thinks it is going to play well with a 7" tablet? I mean, it is going to be much better than Windows, for sure, but it is going to be anywhere as useable as an iPad?
In my view, a bigger screen means different usage. And different usage mean different UI.
Well, I wonder what will happen when the exoskeleton will be infected by a virus. Same question with the pacemakers and other stuff assisting life.
Given that all the stupid computers in hospitals are running windows, this threat is actually already there, and does not seem to have caused many problems so far. Yet, I'm still very anxious to see these things more and more popular.
So I understand you mock the iPad because it cannot print.
Well, given the success of the damn thing as of today, I guess it has several other qualities that appeal to the general public. Imagine what it will become with printing !!
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That said, an aqueduct is not a tunnel. So yes, we can still compare man made stuff, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.
But you have a heck of a lot of gadgets to sell back on eBay if you need cash !
(like :w to save, instead of Alt+F, S)
Despite the fact that I agree with whatever you're talking about here, I can't let that pass away...
vim: :w - Three strokes all across the keyboard, two hands needed.
Word: Ctrl-S - Two keystrokes, one hand needed.
Did you read the post you're replying to? I certainly looks like you didn't.
The point of the GP is that even bands that release their digital music for free can turn a profit by selling it through another channel, simply by adapting the marketing.
Anyhow, there is no way anyone will succeed in forbidding people to exchange information freely. That's the basics for the posts you are trying to debunk. No way. And music is information.
You can whine about it, but that's the way it is. Not saying it's right or wrong, just saying that's the way it is.
Given the current backlog at the USPTO, I think that your solution would considerably slow the process down. What we need over here is a tiny bit more:
>> If the patent is rejected, bill the applicant with the price of the process.
Granted, it will make it more risky (for a small company or an individual) to file a patent. OTOH, it will make it dangerously expensive for a big company to file 1000 patents a day.
If someone runs into your backyard and shoots at squirrels - because he doesn't like them - you are supposed to grab your gun and give him a hand?
You may, but you are certainly not obliged nor compelled to. Especially if the guy is a perfect stranger.
What does javascript has to do with anything on this story? Was that an attempt at being funny?
Well, I don't believe the BSD license requires derivations to be similarly licensed
Sure it does:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
If the store has apps that people want, there will be a pressure for the carriers not to lock it out, or their phones sales will suffer.
Well, carriers preload their phones with huge loads of crap from the dawn of times. Users don't like it, but they keep doing it. Go figure.
What you are describing is a very important process that is not likely to go away. However, the average joe doesn't necessarily want to tinker with his phone. You know, he just wants it to work. A second (or third?) store, that some carriers will lock in, others lock out, others will propose exclusively isn't necessarily something from which Android will benefit.
That's not exactly how it works. First of all, its not exclusive of Google services, and secondly, anyone can install third party apps on their Android phone without rooting it. Feel free to install some other search apk instead.
I guess it kind of depends on how much the provider locked your phone down. If they removed the Google Marketplace and the ability to add a store, I guess you're wrong on that count. What the parent says is that Android's openness gives liberty to the carrier. The carrier will decide what liberty is left to you and what liberty is kept from you. In other word, it's not Android that gives you liberty but it is the phone maker+carrier that may give you freedom. Or rooting, but on that count the iPhone is as open as Android.
The fact remains that my mother uses an iPhone and knows how to read/send emails and SMSs. I would never ever have tried to explain that to her on any other smartphone, ever (that was 2 years ago, things have changed)
Because what makes non tecchies scared of a computer is that you can put by accident the computer in a state where you don't know how to get out of. You know, a computer is stateful. iOS, for all its criticism address this issue with the one button that consistently brings you back to the starting point. That is a core part of the user experience: making sure no user ever gets lost.
Can you list the products that Apple "sell(s) more of than the competition"?
Phones?
In my view, Apple is the only company focusing on the user experience (and the only company focusing on the user) as opposed to feature lists products that will be close to become unusable. As a result, they release more expensive products, sell more of those than the competition, and then get a bigger revenue. This revenue is invested in R&D. In Apple's terminology, R&D means exploring existing technologies and finding how they can be integrated into end user products.
The users we speak of here are not slashdot readers, they are the general public.
As a result of all that, they get good press. And it seems well deserved.
This is my view on Apple, so you may express your view but you may not say I'm wrong because I don't claim to express a fact.
Are you thinking multicast? Because this is the real need here.
Can anyone fill us in on where is multicast on the internet right now? It seems pretty far away - even further away than IPv6.
Phones only have LED flash. Those produce much less heat.
irta, did not match any record. Did you mean: IRTFA ?
What difference is there between a fact and an opinion in the end ?
... I pretty much always have some sockets open...
how much battery life are you getting out of your phone????
You get 100-200ms when you are connected to your cell. The thing is that after a few seconds your phone will disconnect to save battery. It needs to request for a new connection in order to get connected again. This delay can be counted in seconds, not in ms. Hence the high latency.
3G is high bandwidth but high latency. That doesn't change with HSPA+ AFAIK. A DSL line is high bandwidth low latency.
That said, I have 60mbps over my cable connection, so HSPA is never going to approach that. Moreover, 3G is a hog on battery. Plus the offered plans are always capped some way or another.
So all in all, Wifi still has a place in my home, and for quite a few years !.
This is the type of tablet that existed for a few years now and never took off because a finger/stylus is not a mouse?
Now, I am expecting a lot from Android, but it is just about ready for smartphones. Do anyone really thinks it is going to play well with a 7" tablet? I mean, it is going to be much better than Windows, for sure, but it is going to be anywhere as useable as an iPad?
In my view, a bigger screen means different usage. And different usage mean different UI.
Looks like you have a two legged spider between your legs ...
If not exciting, it is at least intriguing !
Well, I wonder what will happen when the exoskeleton will be infected by a virus. Same question with the pacemakers and other stuff assisting life.
Given that all the stupid computers in hospitals are running windows, this threat is actually already there, and does not seem to have caused many problems so far. Yet, I'm still very anxious to see these things more and more popular.
So I understand you mock the iPad because it cannot print.
Well, given the success of the damn thing as of today, I guess it has several other qualities that appeal to the general public. Imagine what it will become with printing !!