GPS might have been military first but what about directions? google maps and even the old mapquest were a lot better than the directions i would get with my old military GPS. and what about modern encryption? yes we had cool crypto tech in the military, but there are a lot of R&D dollars going into consumer encryption that will be better than what the military has.
ARM CPU development is being driven by consumer spending and those are better than anything in mobile military devices. same with modern display devices. 3D gaming has always been consumer tech and the military has taken it for their own simulations
the US Military is even looking at giving each soldier an iphone or android phone because it's cheaper than developing their own solutions
i remember the days when all the new cool tech was only seen in the government and large corporations first and then trickled down to us peons. these days with our rampant consumerism it's the opposite. we see cool stuff like this first and it's cheap and the big boys are now playing catch up because things move so fast
if it wasn't for our vane consumerism this would be a government project costing tens of millions of $$$ in R&D and the devices would be single use devices that also cost some ridiculous amount of money
big problem is that even toys depend on hundreds if not thousands of patents. unlike the cotton gin or the original photo camera that was one product one patent or a few patents
something like an ipod touch depends on wifi, file systems, MP3 and other audio patents, video decoding patents and the list goes on
except apple doesn't license any patents to anyone, industry consortiums do. same concept as open source except there is money involved. if you want to make a new cell phone, license the patents from GSM, Wifi Alliance and whoever else and add on your own tech.
how do you think VCR's and DVD players were sold from so many manufacturers? companies come together, pool their patents and you sell your product and pay part of your revenue to the consortium that goes back to the members to fund future R&D. VHS, DVD, Blu-RAM, JEDEC, bluetooth, cell phones, wifi and a long list of other technologies are funded by royalties paid to patent consortiums
no it doesn't, just license the patents. almost every new product has a built in licensing cost built in since it's covered by so many patents. Apple pays out a lot of money in licensing costs for every iphone sold. Estimates are $50 or so. you have to pay the GSM people, wi-fi people and a long list of others who developed tech for it. same with Windows, Android phones, x-boxes, playstations and almost everything else
i know people that shop in wally world and a lot of them say that a lot of things are more expensive. and electronics are only cheaper in wally world because they are usually either brand X stuff, special models that are made cheaper or just the cheapest configuration for something like computers.
on things like X-Boxes and iPods the retailers don't make any money. the money is made on the accessories. the $300 x-box means $280 in revenue for the store after you account for the CC merchant fee. then you have to pay Microsoft for the x-box and with the cost of doing business it's a loss leader for the store
one time i worked at a place where every 6 months they would randomly change your password to a random 8 letter string of letters, numbers and a special character. and your username was some cryptic combination of initials, numbers and department. needless to say most people would keep a copy under the keyboard. meanwhile the admins thought they were james bond with their cool security
due to OEM's manufacturers use higher model numbers but sometimes the chip is last generation or gimped. reason is that you make GPU's you're going to get a lot of chips that don't pass all tests. the best ones get the higher model numbers and highest prices. the rest have circuits disabled and go to lower performance and price tiers. this is why sometimes previous generation cards beat newer generation cards in performance
most traffic spikes after the workday is over. people come home from work, pick up kids, eat dinner and then stream netflix or youtube. and if you are a steam customer or downloading a new game purchase to your x-box or PS3 it will probably download during the night
do you know how long it takes to upgrade something like this? it costs tens of thousands of $$$ just to buy the hardware which must be approved by management only after evidence is collected that it's needed. then you have to add the new hardware to maintenance contracts. and provisioning new circuits takes months of waiting while it's installed and tested. and then you have to schedule maintenance to add it to your network, routing tables, etc. it's not like buying a new home wifi router or asking mommy to upgrade to the Turbo service
i'd say something like 99.999% of amazon's listed products are legit and they will take action of if informed of pirated goods. the domain names seized clearly had names that used other brands to make people think they could get luis vutton for cheap
the article says and even links to the fact that the US Government busted people selling counterfeit or pirated goods. selling a pirated copy of a movie is not the same thing as sharing it. it's a real criminal offense
most of those are posted by marketing firms and meant for idiots who don't know any better. it's like when my wife is bugging me about something she says that cnet gave it a good review. i tell her that no one reads cnet anymore
i paid $6.99 or so for Chaos Rings and still haven't finished it. bought a bunch of iOS games last year for $.99 each that i haven't played yet. lately i've been reading on my commute and no gaming
that's why you keep the phone for yourself and once you buy a new one give the old one to your kids as an iPod touch. did it with my 3 year old. i'm guessing i can get 4-5 years of life out of every iPhone i buy
the games better not cost $50. i know they are generally better than iOS but most iOS games i buy are $2.99 or less. and iOS games are getting better and better. with a lot of iOS games i can buy it and forget it about. since it's so cheap i don't think about the purchase and read reviews to make sure i get value.
i have an iPhone 3GS and last i read is that the CPU and GPU in there is faster than the PSP. the software has just not caught up yet but John Carmack and the company behind the Unreal engine have done some amazing work porting their software to iOS
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no, that's the nice thing about iTunes. the file is on your computer as a .app file and you can use it on your iphone as long as you want.
time to let everyone pirate software just like in the 90's. next step is to change the serial # back to all 1's
GPS might have been military first but what about directions? google maps and even the old mapquest were a lot better than the directions i would get with my old military GPS. and what about modern encryption? yes we had cool crypto tech in the military, but there are a lot of R&D dollars going into consumer encryption that will be better than what the military has.
ARM CPU development is being driven by consumer spending and those are better than anything in mobile military devices. same with modern display devices.
3D gaming has always been consumer tech and the military has taken it for their own simulations
the US Military is even looking at giving each soldier an iphone or android phone because it's cheaper than developing their own solutions
i remember the days when all the new cool tech was only seen in the government and large corporations first and then trickled down to us peons. these days with our rampant consumerism it's the opposite. we see cool stuff like this first and it's cheap and the big boys are now playing catch up because things move so fast
if it wasn't for our vane consumerism this would be a government project costing tens of millions of $$$ in R&D and the devices would be single use devices that also cost some ridiculous amount of money
big problem is that even toys depend on hundreds if not thousands of patents. unlike the cotton gin or the original photo camera that was one product one patent or a few patents
something like an ipod touch depends on wifi, file systems, MP3 and other audio patents, video decoding patents and the list goes on
except apple doesn't license any patents to anyone, industry consortiums do. same concept as open source except there is money involved. if you want to make a new cell phone, license the patents from GSM, Wifi Alliance and whoever else and add on your own tech.
no because it's been done for decades
how do you think VCR's and DVD players were sold from so many manufacturers? companies come together, pool their patents and you sell your product and pay part of your revenue to the consortium that goes back to the members to fund future R&D. VHS, DVD, Blu-RAM, JEDEC, bluetooth, cell phones, wifi and a long list of other technologies are funded by royalties paid to patent consortiums
no it doesn't, just license the patents. almost every new product has a built in licensing cost built in since it's covered by so many patents. Apple pays out a lot of money in licensing costs for every iphone sold. Estimates are $50 or so. you have to pay the GSM people, wi-fi people and a long list of others who developed tech for it. same with Windows, Android phones, x-boxes, playstations and almost everything else
not really
i know people that shop in wally world and a lot of them say that a lot of things are more expensive. and electronics are only cheaper in wally world because they are usually either brand X stuff, special models that are made cheaper or just the cheapest configuration for something like computers.
on things like X-Boxes and iPods the retailers don't make any money. the money is made on the accessories. the $300 x-box means $280 in revenue for the store after you account for the CC merchant fee. then you have to pay Microsoft for the x-box and with the cost of doing business it's a loss leader for the store
one time i worked at a place where every 6 months they would randomly change your password to a random 8 letter string of letters, numbers and a special character. and your username was some cryptic combination of initials, numbers and department. needless to say most people would keep a copy under the keyboard. meanwhile the admins thought they were james bond with their cool security
due to OEM's manufacturers use higher model numbers but sometimes the chip is last generation or gimped. reason is that you make GPU's you're going to get a lot of chips that don't pass all tests. the best ones get the higher model numbers and highest prices. the rest have circuits disabled and go to lower performance and price tiers. this is why sometimes previous generation cards beat newer generation cards in performance
it's not a showstopper bug so the product can ship and be fixed later. it's almost 2011, get with the program. even TV's have service packs these days
most traffic spikes after the workday is over. people come home from work, pick up kids, eat dinner and then stream netflix or youtube. and if you are a steam customer or downloading a new game purchase to your x-box or PS3 it will probably download during the night
ClearWire WiMax service is $50 a month for unlimited 4G internet. 3G is 5GB max per month. that's your competition
do you know how long it takes to upgrade something like this? it costs tens of thousands of $$$ just to buy the hardware which must be approved by management only after evidence is collected that it's needed. then you have to add the new hardware to maintenance contracts. and provisioning new circuits takes months of waiting while it's installed and tested. and then you have to schedule maintenance to add it to your network, routing tables, etc. it's not like buying a new home wifi router or asking mommy to upgrade to the Turbo service
and how fast is the speed past your ISP? how fast can you access data around the world?
i'd say something like 99.999% of amazon's listed products are legit and they will take action of if informed of pirated goods. the domain names seized clearly had names that used other brands to make people think they could get luis vutton for cheap
the article says and even links to the fact that the US Government busted people selling counterfeit or pirated goods. selling a pirated copy of a movie is not the same thing as sharing it. it's a real criminal offense
most of those are posted by marketing firms and meant for idiots who don't know any better. it's like when my wife is bugging me about something she says that cnet gave it a good review. i tell her that no one reads cnet anymore
i paid $6.99 or so for Chaos Rings and still haven't finished it. bought a bunch of iOS games last year for $.99 each that i haven't played yet. lately i've been reading on my commute and no gaming
that's why you keep the phone for yourself and once you buy a new one give the old one to your kids as an iPod touch. did it with my 3 year old. i'm guessing i can get 4-5 years of life out of every iPhone i buy
the games better not cost $50. i know they are generally better than iOS but most iOS games i buy are $2.99 or less. and iOS games are getting better and better. with a lot of iOS games i can buy it and forget it about. since it's so cheap i don't think about the purchase and read reviews to make sure i get value.
i have an iPhone 3GS and last i read is that the CPU and GPU in there is faster than the PSP. the software has just not caught up yet but John Carmack and the company behind the Unreal engine have done some amazing work porting their software to iOS
from what i can tell all the books are scanned in, including the new ones
this is pretty bad since i like to read books in landscape mode on my iphone
on the plus side they have a huge selection of project Gutenberg books
everyone always calls each other by their title and the way to convince people is to tell them it's the right thing to do
this is the second or third huge US government leak and so far there is no smoking gun about baby killers or a fascist conspiracy to kill democracy
except you want the signal to be out in the street