You fail to realise the value of market share, and the value of dominance. If Sony carries no the way it's going, MS will be the only player left, and we all know how that goes.
Also, citation? Microsoft's Licensing fees per game are in the hundreds of thousands, just looking at the back catalog I fail to see how that hasn't made them tens to hundreds of millions with this alone?
Erm, I call bullshit on this one.
Drag car transmissions don't have to be very smart, they just have to be very quick, a drag car pulls off the line and the tranny knows exactly what points it has to change gear. There is so much power produced that losing a little to a torque converter can be completely offset by having perfect shifts every time. When you factor down-shifts and corners etc into the equation, it doesn't matter how smart your Automatic is, it cannot predict and account for these situations and therefore if you're making it spool the turbo up and you run into a corner that's unnecessary fuel used. There's a reason that when you see those Google self-driving cars, they use manuals; because its impossible to beat the efficiency of a stick shift without knowing the corners, stops and the road around you.
An interesting thing to point out is that if you google "18MPG V8" not a single car on the front page is designed for a non american market, and only two (a Nissan Truck and Toyota Cab for sale) are actually non-american design, so I think its not only fair to say that this is largely an American problem, but that the rest of the world have found a way to drive "so smooth you don't realise how fast you are going" without gulping 18mpg.
To be fair and honest, even supercars can average 20mpg, so its really about time someone went about finding an efficiency modification for Pony Car engines and made it somewhat compulsory. Many many engines can put out the same power at the same RPM with far less consumption.
Amazingly, I went to High School in the UK only 4 years ago (I'm 20) and I did not have a single lesson that was in any way meaningful. It made your touch typing class look like a lesson in intensive C programming.
I did a BTEC quad diploma in ICT in my formative GCSE years, but due to being transferred halfway through I was forced to reduce it to a triple because my new high school didn't offer it at quad level. The quad diploma was worth 4 GCSE's so I would only need to get a C or above in either Maths English or Science to get technically qualify into any College in the country. It was laughable, all things considered.
The first year I spent doing 4 Microsoft Office and the second year I spent doing Web lessons (@1hr each) a week. After doing Word, Excel, Access Databases, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash for most of the first year, we still hadn't touched anything more than basic SUM commands on Excel, could only use basic templates in Dreamweaver and couldn't write ANY HTML, we were probably most proficient in Flash, but knew no Actionscript let alone Java. I passed the triple with an A*, an to this day I wouldn't go near any of the programs because I know everything I learned in two years I could have taught myself in under 2 hours with the internet.
Seriously, this idea that IT means being a desk jockey riding off of MS and Adobe software is going to get us deeper and deeper into a dependency with the companies that make it, and that itself will kill computing by massively reducing the amount of programmers that come out of schools each year.
PS, for some reason formatting NEVER works for me, there are 3 new lines between this and the other two bodies of text, yet I preview and everyinth is just as one blob. I am only new to being a reg'd user on/. Am I doing something wrong?
Cos he isn't creating walled gardens left right and center so nobody else can actually use the things that Apple allegedly 'created' (but didn't create due to prior art).
Because of how bad they got their ass kicked the last time they tried the patent troll business model on M$. If they had won, windows might have never existed, and if it did it would have an Apple watermark on the background despite the fact that they could have been destroyed by prior art once again.
Apple never invented the GUI, but they patented it so they used it as a weapon to try and stop the Microsoft juggernaut.:S
Well imagine if IBM had patented the PC, then turned around and sued everyone for making IBM compatibles? There would either be no PC market, or it would be an IBM only market, but it would have grown at half the rate due to lack of competition and choice. Kind of reminds me of the growth of nearly every Apple business interest.
Apple may claim to be innovators, but really they are trying to systematically cripple everyone else with patents instead of innovating for themselves.
There was an article back in 2009 about the Iraqis being able to use the Predator Cams and GPS to track them with a $26 program because the data streams being sent to and from the Drones wasn't well encrypted. Why couldn't they send a virus downstream? It would be pretty persistent if the Predators themselves were relaying the data.
Edge cases you fool, like when there is an interrupt just before the prefs are read/ loaded into RAM, or code injection, or a host of other things that a serious 'clock by clock' assembly hacker can implement to bypass security just long enough to change a couple a bytes somewhere vital.
Erm, how does that fix the problem? Just infect the host. How many viruses out there use device drivers to propagate?
Well you can easily add device drivers to a VM whilst in user mode on the host. You would have to do a hell of a lot of system modification for that alone to not be a vulnerability, not to mention the processing power lost for running a VM.
The 'knowledge' part renders any law useless.
Ge0hot, the guy that cracked the PS3 claimed to have no knowledge that Sony America existed and managed to get off pretty much scot free.
We'd have to take down Apple. Half of it patents are designed so it can patent troll if it ever finds itself being outmatched by a competitor. It patented the idea of a GUI with icons when the iPhone came out for gods sake!
Please tell me a single phone product that has come out with a consumer interface that has not used icons since Nokia came out with the color screen?
What if the child in question sends 3 sets of pictures on 3 separate occasions then is caught? He would be applicable to receive the maximum penalty on account of committing the crime multiple times on three different occasions, wouldn't he?
Has anyone turned around and realise that these are kids. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
Not to mention I'm 19 and in this country being a registered sex offender is a very big deal. you can't teach or have any association with children, which I think is grossly unfair as it implies that the fact that you having an interest in other people your age at the age of 16 means you will still like 16 year olds when you are 25, something that is obviously not true.
I would definitively be one if this law applied in my country as we used to bloody share the dirty pictures of our lady-friends from school.
£400 for an 8GB RAM Upgrade in 2011. Yeah, that's Applespeak for 'Configurable'.:S
Let's make a comparison of maybe the simplest facts about life in Appleville.
If you want a particular part for a PC, you wait till it comes out. Then you buy it. Everyone on the market is completing to give you the lowest price, so once the R&D has been paid for by the early adopters, the parts become fairly cheap. For example, the i7 2600k 3.4Ghz is $300 on buy.com because it hasn't yet covered its R&D. (I'm aware that most of slashdot is US based so I will talk in dollars despite being british)
In Appleville, where I have my holiday home, parts come out when Apple wants them to and upgrade parts never change price. For example, in the UK it still cost £400 ($600 with the debased currency from the depression) to upgrade a Mac mini 2011 to 8GB (from 2GB). On Apple US that cost is $300, still massively more expensive than doing it yourself.
Apple consistently takes advantage of the dumb masses in ways that I find morally dubious. I was in the Apple store last week and I asked the 'genius' how I could get a Mac if it was too expensive, expecting him to offer me finance options, instead he tried to sell me a 2010 Mac Mini refurb off the website. I asked him if a 2.4Ghz core two duo was fast, his eyes bulge and he goes 'Are you kidding! And it comes with 2!!! Gighertz of RAM' Totally expecting me not to understand a word of what he said.
It's pitiful really.
I personally would score this 5 as it is in-fact the reality of Apple software. Can anyone explain to me why OSX Lion requires 4GB or RAM to work reliably when Snow Leopard needs 2GB and Leopard only needs 1GB. And lets not forget that Lion removes Rosetta and Classic environments (removing all PowerPC and OS9 emulation code). Surely they cant be doubling the about of code every single time they release a new version of OS??
The fact is Apple's profits come from selling hardware. If Apple allows end users to believe that they don't need new hardware, then its sales will decline. If I hadn't bought a 2010 mac mini and therefore been disallowed from running anything older than the current OSX at the time of my products release, I would stillb e running Leopard, because to me, there is nothing 10.5.8 cannot do that Lion can that is anything more than meaningless eye candy.
You seem to forget how good Apple is a building an eco-system. You're not comparing a Dell to a Compaq here. Most people that go the Apple path once stay there, as its very costly to switch. You forget that once you go back you have to buy all your software once again, relearn to use different shortcuts, beat muscle memory, and deal with system errors/incompatibilities in a completely different way. That's cool for a power user like me, but generally thats too much hassle for someone who just want a computer for simple things aka 90% of Apples market.
Then there's the business users. I don't care what anyone says about graphic design, the biggest userbase for Apple machines is Music and Video Production.Why? Arguably the industry's best tools (Logic Pro, and Final Cut Pro) are made on them and all Audio applications run a hell of a lot smoother on them (CoreAudio makes things so simple).
On a more financial note, Apple will survive in this market. not because their price point is around $500 or even $5000, but because their finance options' structure makes it affordable to almost everyone. I went to a college populated by these things, but the endo f the year, there were 12 kids living on British equivalent to welfare that were rolling around with Macbook Pro's on finance, and the payments have been organised so they can all pay it off successfully. That's good business!
Because it's been done and worked brilliantly elsewhere (UK).
The NHS is constantly in billions of pounds of debt but the people are good and healthy and the government turns a blind eye to their debt. In fact now that you mention it, its probably hard not to turn a blind eye to their debt, seeing as it's dwarfed by the UK governments own debt!
Why will wages go up? China has an almost unlimited supply of workers when compared to the US. At the current rates we pay them, they will never lose demand for work from us, and therefore we will never have to raise our prices.
Don't foolishly compare the global advancement of technology to inflation, declining GDP and job losses. It's not nearly that simple.
I'm British, and the EU has already made that disaster come into full effect here. We have 10 million people unemployed in a country that only has 55 million total. Now those with jobs think they are upper class simply because they 'actually pay taxes' and don't realize that the real big wigs are taking advantage of even them because everyone the whole country is desperate to hold on to a job.
Now let me break down for your small mind exactly why outsourced labour is wrong. In the UK it costs approximately £12 for ten loafs of bread. Now assuming it costs ten loafs of bread for a man to feed himself of the week (to keep this simple) a company would have to pay a british worker ten loafs of bread to work for a week. Now when the business turns around and says, 'No' and builds the factory in Croatia where they can charge £3 a week and the people there still have good living conditions, they don't realize its that cheap to hire labour because £3 can buy 10 loafs of bread in Croatia. not only do they grow fat from the free imports they can carry out (EU) all of the money they pay out goes into Croatia's economy, meaning not only does £3 and land development costs go to Croatia, but the state is forced to pay that british man his £12 to survive, none of which is being paid by the country that outsourced in the first place.
Solution, introduce import taxes on labour.
Exactly. Tiny companies don't have to have a team of lawyers making sure they don't come remotely cloast ot breaking the lay in the 200+ countries they work in, whereas if XYZ app store did, I doubt anyone would notice.
This is Google we're talking about. If it breaks the law it WILL get caught.
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You fail to realise the value of market share, and the value of dominance. If Sony carries no the way it's going, MS will be the only player left, and we all know how that goes. Also, citation? Microsoft's Licensing fees per game are in the hundreds of thousands, just looking at the back catalog I fail to see how that hasn't made them tens to hundreds of millions with this alone?
Erm, I call bullshit on this one. Drag car transmissions don't have to be very smart, they just have to be very quick, a drag car pulls off the line and the tranny knows exactly what points it has to change gear. There is so much power produced that losing a little to a torque converter can be completely offset by having perfect shifts every time. When you factor down-shifts and corners etc into the equation, it doesn't matter how smart your Automatic is, it cannot predict and account for these situations and therefore if you're making it spool the turbo up and you run into a corner that's unnecessary fuel used. There's a reason that when you see those Google self-driving cars, they use manuals; because its impossible to beat the efficiency of a stick shift without knowing the corners, stops and the road around you.
An interesting thing to point out is that if you google "18MPG V8" not a single car on the front page is designed for a non american market, and only two (a Nissan Truck and Toyota Cab for sale) are actually non-american design, so I think its not only fair to say that this is largely an American problem, but that the rest of the world have found a way to drive "so smooth you don't realise how fast you are going" without gulping 18mpg. To be fair and honest, even supercars can average 20mpg, so its really about time someone went about finding an efficiency modification for Pony Car engines and made it somewhat compulsory. Many many engines can put out the same power at the same RPM with far less consumption.
Amazingly, I went to High School in the UK only 4 years ago (I'm 20) and I did not have a single lesson that was in any way meaningful. It made your touch typing class look like a lesson in intensive C programming. I did a BTEC quad diploma in ICT in my formative GCSE years, but due to being transferred halfway through I was forced to reduce it to a triple because my new high school didn't offer it at quad level. The quad diploma was worth 4 GCSE's so I would only need to get a C or above in either Maths English or Science to get technically qualify into any College in the country. It was laughable, all things considered. The first year I spent doing 4 Microsoft Office and the second year I spent doing Web lessons (@1hr each) a week. After doing Word, Excel, Access Databases, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash for most of the first year, we still hadn't touched anything more than basic SUM commands on Excel, could only use basic templates in Dreamweaver and couldn't write ANY HTML, we were probably most proficient in Flash, but knew no Actionscript let alone Java. I passed the triple with an A*, an to this day I wouldn't go near any of the programs because I know everything I learned in two years I could have taught myself in under 2 hours with the internet. Seriously, this idea that IT means being a desk jockey riding off of MS and Adobe software is going to get us deeper and deeper into a dependency with the companies that make it, and that itself will kill computing by massively reducing the amount of programmers that come out of schools each year. PS, for some reason formatting NEVER works for me, there are 3 new lines between this and the other two bodies of text, yet I preview and everyinth is just as one blob. I am only new to being a reg'd user on /. Am I doing something wrong?
Even using that as an attempt the rationalize this, the iPhone 5's problem is worse, the actual flares now have purple tinges, not just the sun itself See http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/tech/mobile/iphone-5-purple-photos/ for example.
But the iPhone 5 has huge scratch problems all over the back of the phone, especially compared to the iPhone 4, this has been widely reported, even on arrival of the product. Every other manufacturer did the smart thing as far as the actual camera lens is concerned, and recessed it so it couldn't be scratched. Not to mention even if the iPhone 4 has a similar problem it is far less visible. E.G http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/apple-says-iphone-5-scratches-normal-aluminum-products-222413716.html http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/schiller-says-iphone-5-scratches-are-normal-as-light-leaks-reported-1099691 http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/136835-apple-responds-to-iphone-5-scuffgate-scratches-and-chips-are-normal http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/913150-iphone-5-users-complain-about-scratched-phones http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/24/3381462/iphone-5-scuff-damage-aluminum That enough evidence, or are you saying you would rather a scratched case with a clear lens than no scratches at all (as on the iPhone 4)
Cos he isn't creating walled gardens left right and center so nobody else can actually use the things that Apple allegedly 'created' (but didn't create due to prior art).
Because of how bad they got their ass kicked the last time they tried the patent troll business model on M$. If they had won, windows might have never existed, and if it did it would have an Apple watermark on the background despite the fact that they could have been destroyed by prior art once again. Apple never invented the GUI, but they patented it so they used it as a weapon to try and stop the Microsoft juggernaut. :S
Well imagine if IBM had patented the PC, then turned around and sued everyone for making IBM compatibles? There would either be no PC market, or it would be an IBM only market, but it would have grown at half the rate due to lack of competition and choice. Kind of reminds me of the growth of nearly every Apple business interest. Apple may claim to be innovators, but really they are trying to systematically cripple everyone else with patents instead of innovating for themselves.
There was an article back in 2009 about the Iraqis being able to use the Predator Cams and GPS to track them with a $26 program because the data streams being sent to and from the Drones wasn't well encrypted. Why couldn't they send a virus downstream? It would be pretty persistent if the Predators themselves were relaying the data.
Edge cases you fool, like when there is an interrupt just before the prefs are read/ loaded into RAM, or code injection, or a host of other things that a serious 'clock by clock' assembly hacker can implement to bypass security just long enough to change a couple a bytes somewhere vital.
Erm, how does that fix the problem? Just infect the host. How many viruses out there use device drivers to propagate? Well you can easily add device drivers to a VM whilst in user mode on the host. You would have to do a hell of a lot of system modification for that alone to not be a vulnerability, not to mention the processing power lost for running a VM.
The 'knowledge' part renders any law useless. Ge0hot, the guy that cracked the PS3 claimed to have no knowledge that Sony America existed and managed to get off pretty much scot free.
We'd have to take down Apple. Half of it patents are designed so it can patent troll if it ever finds itself being outmatched by a competitor. It patented the idea of a GUI with icons when the iPhone came out for gods sake! Please tell me a single phone product that has come out with a consumer interface that has not used icons since Nokia came out with the color screen?
What if the child in question sends 3 sets of pictures on 3 separate occasions then is caught? He would be applicable to receive the maximum penalty on account of committing the crime multiple times on three different occasions, wouldn't he?
Has anyone turned around and realise that these are kids. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!! Not to mention I'm 19 and in this country being a registered sex offender is a very big deal. you can't teach or have any association with children, which I think is grossly unfair as it implies that the fact that you having an interest in other people your age at the age of 16 means you will still like 16 year olds when you are 25, something that is obviously not true. I would definitively be one if this law applied in my country as we used to bloody share the dirty pictures of our lady-friends from school.
£400 for an 8GB RAM Upgrade in 2011. Yeah, that's Applespeak for 'Configurable'. :S
Let's make a comparison of maybe the simplest facts about life in Appleville.
If you want a particular part for a PC, you wait till it comes out. Then you buy it. Everyone on the market is completing to give you the lowest price, so once the R&D has been paid for by the early adopters, the parts become fairly cheap. For example, the i7 2600k 3.4Ghz is $300 on buy.com because it hasn't yet covered its R&D. (I'm aware that most of slashdot is US based so I will talk in dollars despite being british)
In Appleville, where I have my holiday home, parts come out when Apple wants them to and upgrade parts never change price. For example, in the UK it still cost £400 ($600 with the debased currency from the depression) to upgrade a Mac mini 2011 to 8GB (from 2GB). On Apple US that cost is $300, still massively more expensive than doing it yourself.
Apple consistently takes advantage of the dumb masses in ways that I find morally dubious. I was in the Apple store last week and I asked the 'genius' how I could get a Mac if it was too expensive, expecting him to offer me finance options, instead he tried to sell me a 2010 Mac Mini refurb off the website. I asked him if a 2.4Ghz core two duo was fast, his eyes bulge and he goes 'Are you kidding! And it comes with 2!!! Gighertz of RAM' Totally expecting me not to understand a word of what he said.
It's pitiful really.
I personally would score this 5 as it is in-fact the reality of Apple software. Can anyone explain to me why OSX Lion requires 4GB or RAM to work reliably when Snow Leopard needs 2GB and Leopard only needs 1GB. And lets not forget that Lion removes Rosetta and Classic environments (removing all PowerPC and OS9 emulation code). Surely they cant be doubling the about of code every single time they release a new version of OS?? The fact is Apple's profits come from selling hardware. If Apple allows end users to believe that they don't need new hardware, then its sales will decline. If I hadn't bought a 2010 mac mini and therefore been disallowed from running anything older than the current OSX at the time of my products release, I would stillb e running Leopard, because to me, there is nothing 10.5.8 cannot do that Lion can that is anything more than meaningless eye candy.
You seem to forget how good Apple is a building an eco-system. You're not comparing a Dell to a Compaq here. Most people that go the Apple path once stay there, as its very costly to switch. You forget that once you go back you have to buy all your software once again, relearn to use different shortcuts, beat muscle memory, and deal with system errors/incompatibilities in a completely different way. That's cool for a power user like me, but generally thats too much hassle for someone who just want a computer for simple things aka 90% of Apples market. Then there's the business users. I don't care what anyone says about graphic design, the biggest userbase for Apple machines is Music and Video Production.Why? Arguably the industry's best tools (Logic Pro, and Final Cut Pro) are made on them and all Audio applications run a hell of a lot smoother on them (CoreAudio makes things so simple). On a more financial note, Apple will survive in this market. not because their price point is around $500 or even $5000, but because their finance options' structure makes it affordable to almost everyone. I went to a college populated by these things, but the endo f the year, there were 12 kids living on British equivalent to welfare that were rolling around with Macbook Pro's on finance, and the payments have been organised so they can all pay it off successfully. That's good business!
Because it's been done and worked brilliantly elsewhere (UK). The NHS is constantly in billions of pounds of debt but the people are good and healthy and the government turns a blind eye to their debt. In fact now that you mention it, its probably hard not to turn a blind eye to their debt, seeing as it's dwarfed by the UK governments own debt!
But if they change all the keyboard shortcuts, like they did before, you can't minimise the ribbon. You see what MS has done there??
not country, company (in the last sentence)
Why will wages go up? China has an almost unlimited supply of workers when compared to the US. At the current rates we pay them, they will never lose demand for work from us, and therefore we will never have to raise our prices.
Don't foolishly compare the global advancement of technology to inflation, declining GDP and job losses. It's not nearly that simple. I'm British, and the EU has already made that disaster come into full effect here. We have 10 million people unemployed in a country that only has 55 million total. Now those with jobs think they are upper class simply because they 'actually pay taxes' and don't realize that the real big wigs are taking advantage of even them because everyone the whole country is desperate to hold on to a job. Now let me break down for your small mind exactly why outsourced labour is wrong. In the UK it costs approximately £12 for ten loafs of bread. Now assuming it costs ten loafs of bread for a man to feed himself of the week (to keep this simple) a company would have to pay a british worker ten loafs of bread to work for a week. Now when the business turns around and says, 'No' and builds the factory in Croatia where they can charge £3 a week and the people there still have good living conditions, they don't realize its that cheap to hire labour because £3 can buy 10 loafs of bread in Croatia. not only do they grow fat from the free imports they can carry out (EU) all of the money they pay out goes into Croatia's economy, meaning not only does £3 and land development costs go to Croatia, but the state is forced to pay that british man his £12 to survive, none of which is being paid by the country that outsourced in the first place. Solution, introduce import taxes on labour.
Exactly. Tiny companies don't have to have a team of lawyers making sure they don't come remotely cloast ot breaking the lay in the 200+ countries they work in, whereas if XYZ app store did, I doubt anyone would notice. This is Google we're talking about. If it breaks the law it WILL get caught.