and as much as I know Apple would be doing the same thing against everybody else if they had those patents, I can't help but to fell for their loss this time. Apple didn't lose. With the exception of the lawyers, we all lost.
Microsoft Office.
Not even Apple's OSX could survive without that. If we could just all agreed and adopt the open document format standards then that wouldn't be a problem. But as long as academic papers, banking, government and trade documents use microsoft formats nothing is going to change.
At least, based on my experience, Word and Excel up to 2007 work great under Wine. Although that is far too much trouble for a freaking word editor.
Can't agree with this. Back then MS was working for another company and then decided to make their own product. Nowadays MS is making other companies work for them and now is trying to ditch them. The direction money is flowing around MS is the opposite for each case.
Not copyright but trademark. Copyright is for content and can only be granted upon the creation and publication of content. Trademark is for branding and can be registered at any moment, however defending them can be a bitch some times but if you don't do so you lose it.
Same here. As for now the only 14-15 inch laptop I'm willing to buy(and actually bought) is the MBP retina and even though I don't like Apple either. Sure the first thing I do is installing Windows 7 and Virtual Box for Ubuntu(it's a shame that bootcamp doesn't support linux). As a previous Vaio Z owner(and fan) I'm disappointed at sony for not having a modern display on their high end laptops. They're losing a costumer.
However, for 13 inch and bellow, I think the newest 1080p Asus Zenbook with the discrete graphics chip is good enough for me. High resolution is great and everything but I don't see the need on such small devices. I'm not a tablet user but if I used one I would prefer the Transformer 700 over the nexus 10 since it already has a 1080p display on a 10 inch and on top of that USB ports, microSD card support and the best docking keyboard in the market and software support is decent.
Finally, I just would like to say that there are other important factors to a display other than ppi. My Xperia Acro HD phone has an IPS 720p display on 4.3 inch which means 344ppi. That is freaking excessive. I'd rather they reduced the resolution by ~30% and instead used an OLED based display for better colors, view angles and contrast. OLED displays on laptops and desktops, specially for artists, doctors/medical staff and scientists/engineers that deal with a lot of visual data is without a doubt a killer feature. High resolution is great but shouldn't be the sole focus just for the sake of marketing.
Same opinion here. Mickey should be public domain by now and yet not only they trademarked him effectively having exclusive rights forever but they're extremely draconian when comes to protect their IP. That is kind infuriating considering lots of successful Disney franchises are based of public domain fairy tales.
Ubuntu has a default app store too. It's called "Ubuntu Sofware Center". You can download both free and paid software, including popular games such as Bastion and Amnesia. On top of that now there is also Amazon search installed by default, which can also be used to by games. The problem is not Windows Market Place, but the problem the only version of windows that is open is the x86 Windows 8. Windows 8 RT and Mobile are as closed as iOS.
"But Valve doesn't support ARM so it doesn't matter". Yet. Ubuntu(or any other linux, including Android) on ARM is as open their x86 desktop versions. No other OS has this advantage and there is nothing stopping a company as successful as Valve from expanding in to other platforms.
Also Gaben is getting slimmer. Either he has cancer or he's on a diet since last year.
I don't think apple, just like most big business, ever really recognized actual work. Steve Wozniak never got the recognition he deserved back in the 80s so I doubt Jony Ive will get his. As long as Tim Cook manages to put up a show and keep numbers like 5 million iPhones pre-orders, he will be the boss. By the way, some current bad choices, such as Siri current low capabilities and the use of skeuomorphic interfaces, were made when Jobs was still alive.
Windows, Android, OSX, iOS are successful because they are sold already installed on their respective devices. The only reason Linux is not a major desktop OS is the lack of commercial support from a major consumer electronics company. Most people hate computers and don't want to install OSes. If Dell/HP/Sony/Toshiba/Acer/Asus decide to stop sucking milk from Balmers fat tits and deploy their computers with well supported Linux desktop environment while also promoting 3rd part app development there is no reason for it not to be successful. Given the open nature of Linux I fail to see anything Linus can do that could be a problem.
I just finished reading the preface and that was probably one of the most pleasant and understandable English manuscript I've read the entire week(or month). I usually don't read "ancient" unedited texts, but in my very limited experience the older the text the harder to read. Texts from 19th century or earlier can be quite frustrating. Other than the use of the integral symbol as the 's' character, it was a smooth read and it felt like the text was written very recently. I'm not even a native English speaker. It makes me wonder, did someone "translated" it into modern English?
Don't confuse the Ph.D. student work routine with the standard worker's. There quite a few key differences here
The major one being that Ph.D. students are still students, not some company employees. They are their own bosses(at least the intelligent ones). The amount of time they spend in the lab is based on their own pace, their own norms, their own ambitions as well as their own skill and competence. Some students just love to be in the lab. Others are extremely unlucky and are surrounded by technical troubles and bureaucracy. Of course there are also the imcompetent ones that just can't get anything done in time.
I'm first year (medical) Engineering Ph.D. student. And of all countries, I happen to live in Japan, a place were they just go overtime. And yet, thanks to the great scholarship and grants and the fact my research is going very smooth, I on average stay at the lab 40 hours a week. Only very lately I've been going overtime, but not because people are telling me to do so, but because I'm also trying to expand my research in to a venture business. Everything I do is my choice.
Also it's important to notice that when people say Ph.D. student, they probably are talking about hard science students. From MY experience, their reality is much harsher.
If you skip Windows 8, you lose the appealing opportunity to synchronize all of your devices on a single platform
Linux(Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch/etc+Android)
Doubt it. The first reason AppleTVs are not popular is because home consoles even though they cost way more. The PS3 and Xbox360 can do everything the AppleTV do and much more(Bluray and DVD, real games, more digital content etc, better media streaming tools, better control interfaces and recording capabilities). The only thing I know more complete than a PS3 to hook up to a home theater setup is a custom made HTPC.
The other reason is the bad marketing. Apple success is marketing and when they find a way to distort the reality around the appleTV, it will fly off the shelves.
Regardless if you agree or disagree with their message, those "fan" games are fun. Monter Hunter has both "animal" cruelty and "animal" product consumption. They have NO excuse not to make a parody for that franchise. Hopefully they will make "good" use of WebGL 3D acceleration technologies in order to reproduce an experience similar to the original games.
Like removing the great Google Maps app for their own worthless version. If that is not anti-competitive then I don't know what it is.
And please don't tell me that is because it's apple own device and they can do anything they want, because google services are on google servers and they should be able to do anything they want as well.
Well, on their defense they add a 250GB for the lower end model, 25000 yen model($200-250 in US?, exchange rates don't apply), which is almost two times more than we have here in Japan.
Plus, for the price point, it's the best media device you can hook up to the TV. Not even the yet to be released WiiU is as featured as the PS3. The only superior product I can think of is a custom made HTPC.
I'm more curious to know how entanglement is even relevant to this study. I'm just an engineer, not a physicist, but from my understand of the article, they basically used an almost standard laser communication. However, in this case with two slightly different beams(different polarization) for transferring the encryption key. The reason they called this "quantum" was simply because they were reading the key signals by directly measuring the photon state due to polarization. That is important because, if someone tried to intercept the signal they'd necessarily use some sort of lens or mirror that would change the signal polarization. This change is measurable and if detected, the keys must be changed. AFAIK, no entanglement phenomena is used in this study.
The "New scientist" article mentions entanglement when mentioning that 143km "teleportation" study (sorry, but that hardly looked like any teleportation at all, more like quantum state transfer using laser beams/optical communications). And by mentioning a complete independent Nature study, they can get more clicks.
Sorry if there are any mistakes in my post.
Now that is what I'm talking about. Instead of trying to prevent global warming(something I doubt is even possible, regardless if global warming is human made or a natural event), why not try to take advantage of it. Humans survived to this day not because we stopped things from happening, but because we adapted to live with or overcome them.
What is the point? The only people who may take advantage of this hack are the pirates.
Any serious homebrewer may want to use the Playstation Mobile SDK. Not only you will be able to publish your games and apps on the Vita(and future devices), but any other PS certified devices, including nonsony devices(ASUS and HTC are some of the partners). And of top of that you will be able to potentially make money through the PSN and your product will have far more exposure than uploading it to some obscure homebrew community site.
Developers are already scared of the Vita due to the low sales and sony's bad marketing strategy. At this point of time, this will only worsen the problem, to the point it may even kill the product. So even the pirates won't have any games to pirate as a result. So seriously, what is the point?
Slashdot Mirror
and as much as I know Apple would be doing the same thing against everybody else if they had those patents, I can't help but to fell for their loss this time. Apple didn't lose. With the exception of the lawyers, we all lost.
Microsoft Office.
Not even Apple's OSX could survive without that. If we could just all agreed and adopt the open document format standards then that wouldn't be a problem. But as long as academic papers, banking, government and trade documents use microsoft formats nothing is going to change.
At least, based on my experience, Word and Excel up to 2007 work great under Wine. Although that is far too much trouble for a freaking word editor.
Can't agree with this. Back then MS was working for another company and then decided to make their own product. Nowadays MS is making other companies work for them and now is trying to ditch them. The direction money is flowing around MS is the opposite for each case.
Not copyright but trademark. Copyright is for content and can only be granted upon the creation and publication of content. Trademark is for branding and can be registered at any moment, however defending them can be a bitch some times but if you don't do so you lose it.
Same here. As for now the only 14-15 inch laptop I'm willing to buy(and actually bought) is the MBP retina and even though I don't like Apple either. Sure the first thing I do is installing Windows 7 and Virtual Box for Ubuntu(it's a shame that bootcamp doesn't support linux). As a previous Vaio Z owner(and fan) I'm disappointed at sony for not having a modern display on their high end laptops. They're losing a costumer.
However, for 13 inch and bellow, I think the newest 1080p Asus Zenbook with the discrete graphics chip is good enough for me. High resolution is great and everything but I don't see the need on such small devices. I'm not a tablet user but if I used one I would prefer the Transformer 700 over the nexus 10 since it already has a 1080p display on a 10 inch and on top of that USB ports, microSD card support and the best docking keyboard in the market and software support is decent.
Finally, I just would like to say that there are other important factors to a display other than ppi. My Xperia Acro HD phone has an IPS 720p display on 4.3 inch which means 344ppi. That is freaking excessive. I'd rather they reduced the resolution by ~30% and instead used an OLED based display for better colors, view angles and contrast. OLED displays on laptops and desktops, specially for artists, doctors/medical staff and scientists/engineers that deal with a lot of visual data is without a doubt a killer feature. High resolution is great but shouldn't be the sole focus just for the sake of marketing.
Same opinion here. Mickey should be public domain by now and yet not only they trademarked him effectively having exclusive rights forever but they're extremely draconian when comes to protect their IP. That is kind infuriating considering lots of successful Disney franchises are based of public domain fairy tales.
Ubuntu has a default app store too. It's called "Ubuntu Sofware Center". You can download both free and paid software, including popular games such as Bastion and Amnesia. On top of that now there is also Amazon search installed by default, which can also be used to by games. The problem is not Windows Market Place, but the problem the only version of windows that is open is the x86 Windows 8. Windows 8 RT and Mobile are as closed as iOS.
"But Valve doesn't support ARM so it doesn't matter". Yet. Ubuntu(or any other linux, including Android) on ARM is as open their x86 desktop versions. No other OS has this advantage and there is nothing stopping a company as successful as Valve from expanding in to other platforms.
Also Gaben is getting slimmer. Either he has cancer or he's on a diet since last year.
I don't think apple, just like most big business, ever really recognized actual work. Steve Wozniak never got the recognition he deserved back in the 80s so I doubt Jony Ive will get his. As long as Tim Cook manages to put up a show and keep numbers like 5 million iPhones pre-orders, he will be the boss. By the way, some current bad choices, such as Siri current low capabilities and the use of skeuomorphic interfaces, were made when Jobs was still alive.
Windows, Android, OSX, iOS are successful because they are sold already installed on their respective devices. The only reason Linux is not a major desktop OS is the lack of commercial support from a major consumer electronics company. Most people hate computers and don't want to install OSes. If Dell/HP/Sony/Toshiba/Acer/Asus decide to stop sucking milk from Balmers fat tits and deploy their computers with well supported Linux desktop environment while also promoting 3rd part app development there is no reason for it not to be successful. Given the open nature of Linux I fail to see anything Linus can do that could be a problem.
Can't wait for the valve_week of the Linux desktop.
I just finished reading the preface and that was probably one of the most pleasant and understandable English manuscript I've read the entire week(or month). I usually don't read "ancient" unedited texts, but in my very limited experience the older the text the harder to read. Texts from 19th century or earlier can be quite frustrating. Other than the use of the integral symbol as the 's' character, it was a smooth read and it felt like the text was written very recently. I'm not even a native English speaker. It makes me wonder, did someone "translated" it into modern English?
Mr. Ovshinsky is man much greater than Edison could ever dream.
Don't confuse the Ph.D. student work routine with the standard worker's. There quite a few key differences here
The major one being that Ph.D. students are still students, not some company employees. They are their own bosses(at least the intelligent ones). The amount of time they spend in the lab is based on their own pace, their own norms, their own ambitions as well as their own skill and competence. Some students just love to be in the lab. Others are extremely unlucky and are surrounded by technical troubles and bureaucracy. Of course there are also the imcompetent ones that just can't get anything done in time.
I'm first year (medical) Engineering Ph.D. student. And of all countries, I happen to live in Japan, a place were they just go overtime. And yet, thanks to the great scholarship and grants and the fact my research is going very smooth, I on average stay at the lab 40 hours a week. Only very lately I've been going overtime, but not because people are telling me to do so, but because I'm also trying to expand my research in to a venture business. Everything I do is my choice.
Also it's important to notice that when people say Ph.D. student, they probably are talking about hard science students. From MY experience, their reality is much harsher.
Not necessarily. That would be like saying micro-USB is the Betamax just because most mobile accessories come with a Apple Dock connector.
If you skip Windows 8, you lose the appealing opportunity to synchronize all of your devices on a single platform
Linux(Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch/etc+Android)
Doubt it. The first reason AppleTVs are not popular is because home consoles even though they cost way more. The PS3 and Xbox360 can do everything the AppleTV do and much more(Bluray and DVD, real games, more digital content etc, better media streaming tools, better control interfaces and recording capabilities). The only thing I know more complete than a PS3 to hook up to a home theater setup is a custom made HTPC.
The other reason is the bad marketing. Apple success is marketing and when they find a way to distort the reality around the appleTV, it will fly off the shelves.
I second this comment. Plus on the top of that you can use C++ for iOS and Android(NDK) programming as well.
If we had enough tech to terraform Mars, we could easily fix the Earth.
Regardless if you agree or disagree with their message, those "fan" games are fun. Monter Hunter has both "animal" cruelty and "animal" product consumption. They have NO excuse not to make a parody for that franchise. Hopefully they will make "good" use of WebGL 3D acceleration technologies in order to reproduce an experience similar to the original games.
As well as most google products.
Like removing the great Google Maps app for their own worthless version. If that is not anti-competitive then I don't know what it is. And please don't tell me that is because it's apple own device and they can do anything they want, because google services are on google servers and they should be able to do anything they want as well.
Well, on their defense they add a 250GB for the lower end model, 25000 yen model($200-250 in US?, exchange rates don't apply), which is almost two times more than we have here in Japan.
Plus, for the price point, it's the best media device you can hook up to the TV. Not even the yet to be released WiiU is as featured as the PS3. The only superior product I can think of is a custom made HTPC.
I'm more curious to know how entanglement is even relevant to this study. I'm just an engineer, not a physicist, but from my understand of the article, they basically used an almost standard laser communication. However, in this case with two slightly different beams(different polarization) for transferring the encryption key. The reason they called this "quantum" was simply because they were reading the key signals by directly measuring the photon state due to polarization. That is important because, if someone tried to intercept the signal they'd necessarily use some sort of lens or mirror that would change the signal polarization. This change is measurable and if detected, the keys must be changed. AFAIK, no entanglement phenomena is used in this study. The "New scientist" article mentions entanglement when mentioning that 143km "teleportation" study (sorry, but that hardly looked like any teleportation at all, more like quantum state transfer using laser beams/optical communications). And by mentioning a complete independent Nature study, they can get more clicks. Sorry if there are any mistakes in my post.
Now that is what I'm talking about. Instead of trying to prevent global warming(something I doubt is even possible, regardless if global warming is human made or a natural event), why not try to take advantage of it. Humans survived to this day not because we stopped things from happening, but because we adapted to live with or overcome them.
What is the point? The only people who may take advantage of this hack are the pirates.
Any serious homebrewer may want to use the Playstation Mobile SDK. Not only you will be able to publish your games and apps on the Vita(and future devices), but any other PS certified devices, including nonsony devices(ASUS and HTC are some of the partners). And of top of that you will be able to potentially make money through the PSN and your product will have far more exposure than uploading it to some obscure homebrew community site.
Developers are already scared of the Vita due to the low sales and sony's bad marketing strategy. At this point of time, this will only worsen the problem, to the point it may even kill the product. So even the pirates won't have any games to pirate as a result. So seriously, what is the point?