Mod parent up, Google are basically screwed no matter what they do. They take their ball home and delist the company they get sued even bigger. Company executives do not understand the Internet at all, some of them think they are owed something.
I was more referring to devices before HTC decided they would give people a method to unlock their bootloaders. However, they said all devices since September will be supported, that includes the Vigor. I think it's safe to presume HTC will include support for it soon enough, it's only been on sale like 6 weeks? If they are going to provide a method themselves, they can make it as hard as they want for any 3rd party to do it. Even call it a bit of fun for their engineers.
What their customers want (I am one) is software updates; fast with support of 2 years for top tier devices. This is a cop out, anybody interested in unlocking their bootloader can and has done without any help from HTC.
Google needs to keep the labels sweet. Their Google Music product (which is in a US only beta stage for those who aren't familiar with it) needs deals with them to succeed and at the moment I don't think everything is sorted. It's a major product for them and they can't afford another big product to fail. It's fair enough to assume Google will grant them favours, in this case control over content on Youtube to get deals sorted.
Of course, we're only hearing 1 side of this. I can easily imagine how this could come to be:
Oracle gives a quote that requires the University do things Oracle's way, on Oracle's timeline. University doesn't. Oracle then quotes a price to fix all the University's mistakes.
I can't for a minute imagine that Oracle wrote a contract for a fixed price that didn't outline exactly what the duties of each side were, and exactly what was covered.
However, I also can't imagine a University engaging in frivolous lawsuits.
It should be interesting to see what the facts are, and how this plays out.
Nail on the head. It worth noting that ERP projects are extremely difficult to implement and involve basically ripping up the whole entire infrastructure of an organisation and starting again. As well as being very costly and take years to get up and running. Half the time they aren't even worth the hit you take getting it up and running. When everything goes smooth and actually works, it's fantastic your organisation can make strategic decisions quickly and effectively, data becomes transparent across the organisation and systems become integrated. The problem is, this sort of situation that the university is now, is far to common.
If it wasn't for Mozilla the web browser landscape would be much worse state, than what it is now. They may have fallen behind because of their problems and Google managing to steal the hip and cool label off them but we owe them thanks. They broke Microsoft's monopoly which at one point seemed impossible. I wish them luck in the future, hopefully they will get their ship in order because at the end of the day they are the only group out there who has no secondary agenda. Microsoft, Google, Apple and Opera (to an extent) cannot be trusted.
Is to try and stop people using Atom chips on the server due to their low profit margins? Doesn't have me fooled atleast.
On the subject of the Pentium brand, it's best off where they left it. I think of Pentium I think slow, old and crap. To they extent I was put off the second I read the name.
How do we educate the not so tech savy population who don't really understand what they are doing by giving this information away? I think ideas like this are going to become mode widespread over time. It's bad enough all the information Facebook and Google have on me, never mind whoring it out to third parties like banks.
I've only started learning programing with Java at university and using Eclipse, no experience with anything else but Eclipse seems okay? I've picked up the basics of it pretty quickly and it's good at helping me with errors. What would slashdot recommend for me instead?
Well done Apple, you got the whole world's media to have a freekout over an old phone with a new processor (which isn't even really new even). Next step, sell a toaster, label it "revolutionary", sell it rather overpriced and see how many sales you get.
How stupid can these companies be? Can they not see all these product failures around about them? Never mind what history has shown us reguarding tablets. This tablet fad needs to die now. As much as it annoys me to say this, only Apple can/could pull it off, at the end of the day they could sell a toaster and market it into something the whole world wants. Note to everybody else: stop now, save yourself the time, effort and money, go back to R&D and think of something new.
Because the MPAA, being a shield organization, can't really change that. Its members have to come to the same realization, but they're paying the MPAA dues to keep from having to confront reality.
MPAA is paid to shield the movie studios from the reality that their business model is broken. When these things "hit the fan" so to speak, the MPAA takes the flak and the movie studios hype their next release. How many people gripe that Sony, Universal, or Disney do these things? None. They blame the MPAA. Thus the real culprits never face the wrath they deserve. And because of that, they never learn the lessons they need to learn.
The most worrying part of the cable is they admit one of the main reasons behind the higher rate of piracy in Australia is due to wait for content to broadcast in Australia and in some cases TV series and such never been released on DVD at all. They accept this, why the hell don't they tackle the real problem then instead of sueing everybody into oblivion just because their business model fails?
So many news articles I read these days are based around a facebook status or someone's tweets. Infact, about a week ago the front page of the newspaper I buy was about something some celebrity wrote on twitter. There so called journalists need to get a fucking grip, do their job right and and start reporting proper news that people actually care about from decent sources.
The anarchist inside me just wet himself a little bit at the idea of them launching a sophisticated attack bringing Facebook down..Back in reality but they will launch some crappy DDOS attack which will now fail that they have given some warning which some people will then get arrested for. Is it just me these little hypocritical script kiddies are starting to piss off?
The problem being the majority of these systems were designed at a time when malware and hacking were not as big an issue as today, common sense can stop most threats easily but, no internet access, restrict physical media. Sorted. On a bigger scale but, it really worries me, cyber warfare is here and nobody is prepared. Things are going to get messy, fun fun times are ahead.:)
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Mod parent up, Google are basically screwed no matter what they do. They take their ball home and delist the company they get sued even bigger. Company executives do not understand the Internet at all, some of them think they are owed something.
I was more referring to devices before HTC decided they would give people a method to unlock their bootloaders. However, they said all devices since September will be supported, that includes the Vigor. I think it's safe to presume HTC will include support for it soon enough, it's only been on sale like 6 weeks? If they are going to provide a method themselves, they can make it as hard as they want for any 3rd party to do it. Even call it a bit of fun for their engineers.
In that case, you bought the wrong phone. What you should have bought is a Nexus. HTC will still be voiding your warranty for using their unlocker.
What their customers want (I am one) is software updates; fast with support of 2 years for top tier devices. This is a cop out, anybody interested in unlocking their bootloader can and has done without any help from HTC.
The day Google lost the social networking game.
So was communism, according to Marx.
I think you are confusing communism and socialism. Marx suggested socialism as the stepping stone between capitialism and communism.
Google needs to keep the labels sweet. Their Google Music product (which is in a US only beta stage for those who aren't familiar with it) needs deals with them to succeed and at the moment I don't think everything is sorted. It's a major product for them and they can't afford another big product to fail. It's fair enough to assume Google will grant them favours, in this case control over content on Youtube to get deals sorted.
Of course, we're only hearing 1 side of this. I can easily imagine how this could come to be:
Oracle gives a quote that requires the University do things Oracle's way, on Oracle's timeline. University doesn't. Oracle then quotes a price to fix all the University's mistakes.
I can't for a minute imagine that Oracle wrote a contract for a fixed price that didn't outline exactly what the duties of each side were, and exactly what was covered.
However, I also can't imagine a University engaging in frivolous lawsuits.
It should be interesting to see what the facts are, and how this plays out.
Nail on the head. It worth noting that ERP projects are extremely difficult to implement and involve basically ripping up the whole entire infrastructure of an organisation and starting again. As well as being very costly and take years to get up and running. Half the time they aren't even worth the hit you take getting it up and running. When everything goes smooth and actually works, it's fantastic your organisation can make strategic decisions quickly and effectively, data becomes transparent across the organisation and systems become integrated. The problem is, this sort of situation that the university is now, is far to common.
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If it wasn't for Mozilla the web browser landscape would be much worse state, than what it is now. They may have fallen behind because of their problems and Google managing to steal the hip and cool label off them but we owe them thanks. They broke Microsoft's monopoly which at one point seemed impossible. I wish them luck in the future, hopefully they will get their ship in order because at the end of the day they are the only group out there who has no secondary agenda. Microsoft, Google, Apple and Opera (to an extent) cannot be trusted.
Didn't find Facebook and it confused poor chrome into thinking it's German. No Thanks.
Is to try and stop people using Atom chips on the server due to their low profit margins? Doesn't have me fooled atleast. On the subject of the Pentium brand, it's best off where they left it. I think of Pentium I think slow, old and crap. To they extent I was put off the second I read the name.
How do we educate the not so tech savy population who don't really understand what they are doing by giving this information away? I think ideas like this are going to become mode widespread over time. It's bad enough all the information Facebook and Google have on me, never mind whoring it out to third parties like banks.
I've only started learning programing with Java at university and using Eclipse, no experience with anything else but Eclipse seems okay? I've picked up the basics of it pretty quickly and it's good at helping me with errors. What would slashdot recommend for me instead?
but I'm close to tears, very sad day for the technology world.
Well done Apple, you got the whole world's media to have a freekout over an old phone with a new processor (which isn't even really new even). Next step, sell a toaster, label it "revolutionary", sell it rather overpriced and see how many sales you get.
How stupid can these companies be? Can they not see all these product failures around about them? Never mind what history has shown us reguarding tablets. This tablet fad needs to die now. As much as it annoys me to say this, only Apple can/could pull it off, at the end of the day they could sell a toaster and market it into something the whole world wants. Note to everybody else: stop now, save yourself the time, effort and money, go back to R&D and think of something new.
Jerry Yang has commited suicide.
Because the MPAA, being a shield organization, can't really change that. Its members have to come to the same realization, but they're paying the MPAA dues to keep from having to confront reality.
MPAA is paid to shield the movie studios from the reality that their business model is broken. When these things "hit the fan" so to speak, the MPAA takes the flak and the movie studios hype their next release. How many people gripe that Sony, Universal, or Disney do these things? None. They blame the MPAA. Thus the real culprits never face the wrath they deserve. And because of that, they never learn the lessons they need to learn.
Exactly! :) * imaginary mod points*
The most worrying part of the cable is they admit one of the main reasons behind the higher rate of piracy in Australia is due to wait for content to broadcast in Australia and in some cases TV series and such never been released on DVD at all. They accept this, why the hell don't they tackle the real problem then instead of sueing everybody into oblivion just because their business model fails?
I totally forgot about SCO vs. Autozone. Yeah, the zombie is going to continue to crawl out of the ground for some time to come.
Perhaps SCOTUS will simply merge all of the cases together and tell SCO to die once and for all. Somehow I doubt it.
The SCO v Autozone case was settled confidentially out of court in 2009 after SCO had entered bankruptcy.
Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, my applications work just fine without the need for a web browser.
So many news articles I read these days are based around a facebook status or someone's tweets. Infact, about a week ago the front page of the newspaper I buy was about something some celebrity wrote on twitter. There so called journalists need to get a fucking grip, do their job right and and start reporting proper news that people actually care about from decent sources.
The anarchist inside me just wet himself a little bit at the idea of them launching a sophisticated attack bringing Facebook down..Back in reality but they will launch some crappy DDOS attack which will now fail that they have given some warning which some people will then get arrested for. Is it just me these little hypocritical script kiddies are starting to piss off?
The problem being the majority of these systems were designed at a time when malware and hacking were not as big an issue as today, common sense can stop most threats easily but, no internet access, restrict physical media. Sorted. On a bigger scale but, it really worries me, cyber warfare is here and nobody is prepared. Things are going to get messy, fun fun times are ahead. :)