Not to mention that Android runs interface on normal priority, compared to iOS's high priority. I have no idea why they choose to do it so, because interface speed matters a lot to overall look and feel of the device.
It actually makes very little money for Google, while iOS is generating obscene profits for Apple.
This has nothing to do with Google giving the OS away for free. Obv.
-GiH
They don't, Google actually charges quite a lot from manufacturers who want to join the alliance. If you're selling devices you pretty much have to join it.
Yeah, repackaging with malware or scamming users seems to be a major problem with Android. There's trojans and all kinds of nasty stuff, like this trojan repackages popular games and apps, says it's free version and scams the user by sending premium rate SMS to the malware author. Google isn't even really trying to do anything about it, they remove them afterwards when news get out and by then thousands of users have been scammed already. Stuff like that isn't happening on neither Apple's or Microsoft's store.
It actually makes very little money for Google, while iOS is generating obscene profits for Apple.
The funny thing is that Android probably makes Microsoft more money than for Google. Microsoft gets something like $444 million annually from Android and they don't even need to develop it.
I also remember that some years ago there was lawyers paying really high clicks for some really specific cases. I think it was targeting some people who got major health problems as result of some company. They paid for those clicks really much because the amount of money they got from settlements etc was so good.
It's not only on television advertising, it happens with every kind of advertising. Internet, newspapers, magazines, even billboards. That's what makes both Google and Facebook advertising so lucrating and why Google is so desperately wanting to get their own social network - advertisers can directly target users with certain interests. Advertising to people with no interest about such things is useless. For example, Google has many advertisers targeting searches that might get searched only a few times a month, but when they do, advertisers are happy to pay more than $50 per click. They could get standard banner advertising to tens of thousands users at that price, but those are useless to them if it's a very targeted product or service. TV advertising mostly just works for brand names or products that almost anyone has use for. With internet you can target very specific people.
Now the thing is, this targeting translates badly to applications and games. When user plays games, he isn't interested in anything else. It's completely different situation to some where the user is actively looking for something. This is why app developers make better money by selling their apps or games. However, Android users aren't as willing to spend as iOS users. They have even got used to the idea of getting their apps for free with advertising. But because advertising isn't really effective for such, Android app space in general suffers badly. On top of that you have to deal with fragmented devices and Google's ignorance regarding their app store. You can buy gift cards for iTunes, but you cannot for Android store, so you're out of luck if you don't have credit card. So you have an userbase with fragmented market, increased support costs, users without ability to pay for apps even if they had cash and the general culture that expects free apps with ads where ads just don't work.
The funny thing is that even Windows Phone market has comparatively more developers, apps and games. Microsoft has went at great lengths to make app developing for WP7 pleasant experience. They provide great tools, XNA, Silverlight and you can code with.NET. It is relative easy to port your games between Windows, XBOX360 and WP7. The same services are used for all platforms. And while the amount of users as large as Android or iOS, the users are paying for apps and is exactly the kind of crowd developers want. You also have less competition, so you can earn more easily.
Spain and Italy take part of military operations all the time. Thailand doesn't, but they only have one carrier which is mostly used for disaster relief or transporting the royal family.
I think western people have it too easy too. If you have ever been to Asia you know how chaotic the traffic and driving can be. Yet it's an organized chaotism, and works out just fine. Most of the times when people hit something it's a dog, and that just leaves bruises on your legs and arms. Now, I don't really want to drive there and that's why I take tuktuks or go on back of my gf's scooter. But out of necessity they're much better drivers than you see in west. Stuff like this isn't uncommon either.
China doesn't really need carriers. They aren't offensive country like the U.S., they mostly need defensive forces. And carriers don't do much in that.
I would feel much safer to take off from a carrier that has ski-jump at end of the ramp. Without it you're basically taking off from under the deck, almost hitting water if you don't have enough speed. Ski-jump gives you much more vertical speed on take off.
On top of that it will also bring HTML5 features closer. While many sites will still probably use Flash and Silverlight, at least people will have a browser that is capable of showing HTML5 video and supports HTML5 tags. Sites won't start using it before IE9 is more widely used. And then we can finally stop the H264 vs WebM battle, because IE9 will only support H264.
I don't see how that's a problem. In Asia lots of people just go to internet cafe, if they want to access internet. Likewise, they do so for everything. It's a cultural thing. You want to do something? You go to place that offers that service. And they aren't pricey either, it's damn cheap. I kind of like that style too, it makes it social.
It's bad business planning, but it's also the way any big name linux distroy works. Something not working on your Red Hat Linux? No problem, call us! And that's how they make money. They make money on the promise of fixing problems, and that includes saying that their OS is broken.
Where have I said you cant connect to other servers with ssh? Where I have said I like PowerShell better?
Thing is, I do really like bash/sh environment. But I do understand why PowerShell is, well, powerful. Everything passed as objects is a better approach.
The fact is, I'm not personally promoting either Windows or Linux. Both have it's good sides, but slashdot persons usually decry Windows while they themselves just don't know how to use it.
They funny thing is, you're linking my personal opinions and posts to some random company that has not connection with me. Yes, that right there makes you really sane and it's why I should listen to any suggestions or your opinions!
We're seen this same shit since the 90's. Main function of it is to gain further laws in the US that makes it easier to abuse US nationals. Apart from the technical ignorance (if you were hacker, would you think of doing the connection yourself or using Chinese proxy!), US and Israel are the only countries in the world that want to use internet for sabotage. There have been numerous news about how hardly cybersabotage would hit US infrastucture, but it doesn't. It's a play to get acceptance towards U.S. doing that exact thing for nations they don't like, like Iran.
U.S. has every time shown that they ignore any good practices and just abuse when they can. I do not trust Iran any more, but since U.S. lies about their tactics too, why should I trust them either? Lieing to me makes you an asshole.
People are so damn risk averse these days they hardly live. If you've got nothing holding you down, why not live a bit and do something different? Lots of people take the yuppie way out and go work in Asia or Europe; not many do something different, like work in a war zone.
There are too many pussies in today's Western societies.
Spoken like a true armchair general. Why do you want to kill people? Go fuck yourself.
Yeah, knowing the slashdot stance on advertisements, I didn't exactly expect a good response to that. There are, however, positions on good SEO. Most of it comes improving both user experience, and what the robots know about the site (via tags, special coding etc). Google itself has quite an guide about good SEO practices.
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Not to mention that Android runs interface on normal priority, compared to iOS's high priority. I have no idea why they choose to do it so, because interface speed matters a lot to overall look and feel of the device.
This has nothing to do with Google giving the OS away for free. Obv.
-GiH
They don't, Google actually charges quite a lot from manufacturers who want to join the alliance. If you're selling devices you pretty much have to join it.
Yeah, repackaging with malware or scamming users seems to be a major problem with Android. There's trojans and all kinds of nasty stuff, like this trojan repackages popular games and apps, says it's free version and scams the user by sending premium rate SMS to the malware author. Google isn't even really trying to do anything about it, they remove them afterwards when news get out and by then thousands of users have been scammed already. Stuff like that isn't happening on neither Apple's or Microsoft's store.
It actually makes very little money for Google, while iOS is generating obscene profits for Apple.
The funny thing is that Android probably makes Microsoft more money than for Google. Microsoft gets something like $444 million annually from Android and they don't even need to develop it.
Here's one article that shows most expensive categories http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/18/most-expensive-google-adwords-keywords/
I also remember that some years ago there was lawyers paying really high clicks for some really specific cases. I think it was targeting some people who got major health problems as result of some company. They paid for those clicks really much because the amount of money they got from settlements etc was so good.
It's not only on television advertising, it happens with every kind of advertising. Internet, newspapers, magazines, even billboards. That's what makes both Google and Facebook advertising so lucrating and why Google is so desperately wanting to get their own social network - advertisers can directly target users with certain interests. Advertising to people with no interest about such things is useless. For example, Google has many advertisers targeting searches that might get searched only a few times a month, but when they do, advertisers are happy to pay more than $50 per click. They could get standard banner advertising to tens of thousands users at that price, but those are useless to them if it's a very targeted product or service. TV advertising mostly just works for brand names or products that almost anyone has use for. With internet you can target very specific people.
.NET. It is relative easy to port your games between Windows, XBOX360 and WP7. The same services are used for all platforms. And while the amount of users as large as Android or iOS, the users are paying for apps and is exactly the kind of crowd developers want. You also have less competition, so you can earn more easily.
Now the thing is, this targeting translates badly to applications and games. When user plays games, he isn't interested in anything else. It's completely different situation to some where the user is actively looking for something. This is why app developers make better money by selling their apps or games. However, Android users aren't as willing to spend as iOS users. They have even got used to the idea of getting their apps for free with advertising. But because advertising isn't really effective for such, Android app space in general suffers badly. On top of that you have to deal with fragmented devices and Google's ignorance regarding their app store. You can buy gift cards for iTunes, but you cannot for Android store, so you're out of luck if you don't have credit card. So you have an userbase with fragmented market, increased support costs, users without ability to pay for apps even if they had cash and the general culture that expects free apps with ads where ads just don't work.
The funny thing is that even Windows Phone market has comparatively more developers, apps and games. Microsoft has went at great lengths to make app developing for WP7 pleasant experience. They provide great tools, XNA, Silverlight and you can code with
Spain and Italy take part of military operations all the time. Thailand doesn't, but they only have one carrier which is mostly used for disaster relief or transporting the royal family.
You don't want to forget droppable oil, spikes and other traps either. Takes out people behind you much easier than missiles.
I think western people have it too easy too. If you have ever been to Asia you know how chaotic the traffic and driving can be. Yet it's an organized chaotism, and works out just fine. Most of the times when people hit something it's a dog, and that just leaves bruises on your legs and arms. Now, I don't really want to drive there and that's why I take tuktuks or go on back of my gf's scooter. But out of necessity they're much better drivers than you see in west. Stuff like this isn't uncommon either.
China doesn't really need carriers. They aren't offensive country like the U.S., they mostly need defensive forces. And carriers don't do much in that.
I would feel much safer to take off from a carrier that has ski-jump at end of the ramp. Without it you're basically taking off from under the deck, almost hitting water if you don't have enough speed. Ski-jump gives you much more vertical speed on take off.
On top of that it will also bring HTML5 features closer. While many sites will still probably use Flash and Silverlight, at least people will have a browser that is capable of showing HTML5 video and supports HTML5 tags. Sites won't start using it before IE9 is more widely used. And then we can finally stop the H264 vs WebM battle, because IE9 will only support H264.
How do you look at porn then?
You don't. You go buy relevant services from real people.
I don't see how that's a problem. In Asia lots of people just go to internet cafe, if they want to access internet. Likewise, they do so for everything. It's a cultural thing. You want to do something? You go to place that offers that service. And they aren't pricey either, it's damn cheap. I kind of like that style too, it makes it social.
It's bad business planning, but it's also the way any big name linux distroy works. Something not working on your Red Hat Linux? No problem, call us! And that's how they make money. They make money on the promise of fixing problems, and that includes saying that their OS is broken.
and kept under wraps at Google's request
They even tried to hide their patent request. So if anyone ever wants to make a driverless car, you shall pay Google for the patent.
That comment was about interactive shell. Yes, you can connect and run list of commands. However, you cannot interact with them.
Where have I said you cant connect to other servers with ssh? Where I have said I like PowerShell better?
Thing is, I do really like bash/sh environment. But I do understand why PowerShell is, well, powerful. Everything passed as objects is a better approach.
The fact is, I'm not personally promoting either Windows or Linux. Both have it's good sides, but slashdot persons usually decry Windows while they themselves just don't know how to use it.
They funny thing is, you're linking my personal opinions and posts to some random company that has not connection with me. Yes, that right there makes you really sane and it's why I should listen to any suggestions or your opinions!
This right here is why it's fun to mess with nerds minds.
We're seen this same shit since the 90's. Main function of it is to gain further laws in the US that makes it easier to abuse US nationals. Apart from the technical ignorance (if you were hacker, would you think of doing the connection yourself or using Chinese proxy!), US and Israel are the only countries in the world that want to use internet for sabotage. There have been numerous news about how hardly cybersabotage would hit US infrastucture, but it doesn't. It's a play to get acceptance towards U.S. doing that exact thing for nations they don't like, like Iran.
U.S. has every time shown that they ignore any good practices and just abuse when they can. I do not trust Iran any more, but since U.S. lies about their tactics too, why should I trust them either? Lieing to me makes you an asshole.
To be honest, I was just flamebaiting those idiots who think everyone on slashdot is a shill. That stuff gets old, you know.
People are so damn risk averse these days they hardly live. If you've got nothing holding you down, why not live a bit and do something different? Lots of people take the yuppie way out and go work in Asia or Europe; not many do something different, like work in a war zone.
There are too many pussies in today's Western societies.
Spoken like a true armchair general. Why do you want to kill people? Go fuck yourself.
Yeah, knowing the slashdot stance on advertisements, I didn't exactly expect a good response to that. There are, however, positions on good SEO. Most of it comes improving both user experience, and what the robots know about the site (via tags, special coding etc). Google itself has quite an guide about good SEO practices.
hi-tech human abuse?
Yes, point lasers at me and blind me. That's really healthy. Why does all these news always come from UK?