Oh I am sure that Apple is making a profit. So are the developers. I have no illusion that Apple is just covering their costs. But I have worked in the software industry long enough that I think their iTunes app store is well worth what they take. Freedom haters? Dude I write code on Linux and have contributed to the Kernel. It was small but it is in there. Nobody MAKES you buy an iPhone. The iPhone and Touch are very nice devices. OS/X is a really nice development system. I don't own a Mac and only own a Touch which yes is a great little device. I use it mostly for free podcasts and for music I have ripped from my CDs. I have bought very little from the App store myself but I really do see the value in it. Just as I see the value in Steam. So please take your silly little fan boy rants someplace else. There is NO need to set up your own app store if you want to provide jailbroken apps. All you have to do is put them on a website. Which is fine by me. But complaining about the % Apple takes is just greed. Complaining about the approval process I can understand.
If they are really complaining about the 30% that apple is charging they they are just being greedy. You would pay a lot more than that if you sold it through a brick and mortar store. And setting up a good secure website with an online store isn't that cheap and easy. Between the marketing value and infrastructure the app store is worth what they charge. If you don't want to go through the apple approval process then just sell apps for people that have jailbroken phones.
Umm.. I guess you didn't understand that I was just making it all up too be funny and to feed the paranoid delusions of the the original poster.
Actually your post is totally valid. I keep forgetting that nobody can make up something on slashdot so sill that nobody will believe it. Maybe I should have added that they can track the RFID from space using spysats.
I say HUH? OpenCL is supported by Apple but also AMD and nVidia. The standard is being managed by a Not For Profit. Compared to CUDA it is actually very open. It is currently vapor ware but everything starts out that way for the most part.
OpenCL is more Closed BS than is CUDA or DX. I just hope that it actually becomes a working standard.
I would agree with you. I would add the Nintendo DS with Opera as well and the Sony PSP. Also a netbook could be an option. All depends on our website really.
My wife and I where actually sad to see Circuit City go out of business. We are both old enough to remember how excited we where when they first showed up in our small towns. But yes the discounts where largely false advertising. They where very few good deals and guess what sparky? If you LIE to people they often get ticked. My wife and I found a few deals. Not great but not terrible. We where nice to the employees because we felt bad for them loosing their jobs. They where actually pretty nice but yea I saw some people that I considered very rude. One was looking at the printers and crabbing about what was missing and other stuff. The printers where not great deals and stuff was missing. I even asked some questions and got polite answers from the employee. Why can't people just not buy if they don't like the product instead of being jerk faces?
That and the instant gratifcation doesn't work for software or music anymore. It is even iffy with video. A real problem wit the expert sales help is that people really don't want too pay for expert help anymore. Let's say that you have a great store with well paid people that really know what they are doing. This is what will happen. Somebody will come in and ask a lot of questions and then go home and check Amazon or Walmart. If they can get it for $10 less they will buy it from those stores.
Not to worry. Those little strip now have RFID tags in them so they can tack your use of money as well. They use face recognition software at all atms to track what you take out and then just track where the money goes. Plus if you buy too much with just cash you will just red flag yourself. Actually they use the term "person of interest".
The Z systems CPUs are based off the Power CPUs but use the Z System ISA. The Power line is such a good line that IBM can use a lot of the same technology. This PDF talks about their relationship http://speleotrove.com/decimal/IBM-z6-mainframe-microprocessor-Webb.pdf I always thought that if IBM had only known that the PC was going to last all this time they never would have used an X86. I bet that IBM would have used a simplified 360 ISA.
No the CPUs are based on the POWER line but they use the Z machine ISA. And how the heck can you point be valid? This was all about running Windows on a Z Series? Yea big whoop if it was running Windows on an X86 machine. Just get the right drivers and you should be all set. Of course the best part was you posted a snotty comment about how I didn't know "a lot about mainframes" and then where total wrong in the context of this thread. Then you post that you where wrong but your point was still valid.
That was still 18 years ago. The Honda fit which is an economy car now goes 0-60 in 8.3 seconds. Much quicker than your CRX or my old GTI. Things have changed. The CRX was a cool little car in the day as was my GTI. My Mazda 3 is bigger, faster, safer, cleaner, and gets around 30 MPG which is pretty dang fast. Now my Honda CB750 gets even better milage than your CRX:)
But without... Airbags, anti-lock brakes, traction control, modern emissions, or any number of other features. A new car will be a lot cleaner and safer than even a mint Honda CRX. The other difference is what is considered acceptable performance is a lot different these days. I had an 84 VW GTI. It could do 0-60 in just under 10 seconds. That was fast back then. Now that is dirt slow. Also back then the speed limit was 55 and people drove at 60-65. Now it is 70 and people cruse at 75-80 on the interstate.
Add in all the safety features, emissions, and even if you keep your same level of performance you will see your mileage drop like a rock.
The Ford Festiva was exactly like the Festiva sold in the Europe back then. That was the problem. No automatic. The current Ford Focus has been getting good reviews for years and gets good mileage. I bought a Mazda 3 because I liked it more than the Focus. "Mazda was "owned" by Ford back then and Ford is still their biggest stock holder. The Fusion gets as good gas mileage as the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord. The new Fusion hybrid gets better mileage than the Camry hybrid does. The Fusion also matches or betters they reliability rating even in Consumer Reports. Over all I think Ford is doing a very good job. I have also read a lot of good things about the Chevy Malibu. Does any US car company make a car that really competes with the Honda Fit/ Nissan Versa? I would say no. But they do make some very good cars these days. It is a real shame that they get such a bad rap from the bad old days. Kind of like people that think Linux is super hard to use and only has a command line.
Well actually I would bet that it uses a JIT compiler or even an IPL translation system. Also emulating or a JIT compiler, or IPL translation system on a Z System is really way different than doing it on an ARM. It would still be great to see this GPLed but I wouldn't hold my breath. Drop windows compatibility and offer good Linux apps for a netbook. I still feel that that a good way to buy and sell Linux software like the iTunes store or even Steam for Linux is really what we need. I hear that there are good games for Linux like Doom3 and Pry but for the life of me I can never find them and never seen them advertised.
Frankly I would say the same thing about you. This is about running Windows on a Z Series IBM mainframe. The Z Series is descended from the 360/370/390 line. It is a CISC ISA and is nothing like the X86 ISA! The current Z Series CPU is based on the POWER but uses a the Z Series ISA and not the POWER ISA. So simply What the heck are you talking about?
And it is still available on YouTube. So they can watch it on YouTube for free. It is just such a waste of money to have to pay for any hosting of the video.
All the online imagery and street view are extremely valuable for terrorist attacks. There are any number of technology that makes terrorist attacks easier. Computers, the internet, cell phones, and goodness knows what else. But in an open society like the US digital imagery isn't all that needed. Get a phone book to get a school address. Or the Schools web site. Go to that town and drive by and click pictures with a cell phone if you want. Odds are nobody will even notice. Pay as you go Cell phones that you by at Walmart seem more dangerous then imagery. Make great remote hard to trace detonators.
1. Don't except cookies. Frankly cookies can not steal your identity or really hurt you unless you use the same password everywhere. 2. Don't sign in and they can not send you email. If you don't like beacons then don't open the email or use Thunderbird and tell it not to load images. Really not hard to deal with or all that scary.
Actually I was thinking even more new user friendly. 1. A section on what is Linux. 2. A list of Distros and who they are recommended for. 3. Instructions on how to burn a CD/DVD. 4. Maybe a store where you can for a small price BUY Linux CDs, DVDs, and Swag. 5. Links to companies that sell computers with Linux preinstalled. 6. Links to "Linux approved" hardware. Stuff that has been tested and is known to work.
The UK goverment doesn't broadcast anything. I simply feel that the US government should allow anyone to host the file that wants too and should just post in on the free sites that are available.
I tend to agree. The thing is that the government doesn't pay for the broadcast of the press release. I would have no problem with the BBC streaming the addresses themselves. Or CBS, NBC, Hulu, PBS, NPR, or any other news service. Just for the US me as a tax payer to pay for it. As I said at the start I so don't have a problem with it being on YouTube at all. But this will probably end up costing millions all over a cookie.
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Oh I am sure that Apple is making a profit. So are the developers.
I have no illusion that Apple is just covering their costs. But I have worked in the software industry long enough that I think their iTunes app store is well worth what they take.
Freedom haters? Dude I write code on Linux and have contributed to the Kernel. It was small but it is in there.
Nobody MAKES you buy an iPhone. The iPhone and Touch are very nice devices. OS/X is a really nice development system. I don't own a Mac and only own a Touch which yes is a great little device. I use it mostly for free podcasts and for music I have ripped from my CDs. I have bought very little from the App store myself but I really do see the value in it. Just as I see the value in Steam.
So please take your silly little fan boy rants someplace else.
There is NO need to set up your own app store if you want to provide jailbroken apps. All you have to do is put them on a website. Which is fine by me. But complaining about the % Apple takes is just greed. Complaining about the approval process I can understand.
If they are really complaining about the 30% that apple is charging they they are just being greedy.
You would pay a lot more than that if you sold it through a brick and mortar store. And setting up a good secure website with an online store isn't that cheap and easy.
Between the marketing value and infrastructure the app store is worth what they charge.
If you don't want to go through the apple approval process then just sell apps for people that have jailbroken phones.
Dude we are talking about a librarian. If it is a chick it doesn't matter if she is cute. If it is a guy well then it really doesn't matter.
Umm.. I guess you didn't understand that I was just making it all up too be funny and to feed the paranoid delusions of the the original poster.
Actually your post is totally valid. I keep forgetting that nobody can make up something on slashdot so sill that nobody will believe it.
Maybe I should have added that they can track the RFID from space using spysats.
I say HUH?
OpenCL is supported by Apple but also AMD and nVidia. The standard is being managed by a Not For Profit.
Compared to CUDA it is actually very open.
It is currently vapor ware but everything starts out that way for the most part.
OpenCL is more Closed BS than is CUDA or DX.
I just hope that it actually becomes a working standard.
I would agree with you.
I would add the Nintendo DS with Opera as well and the Sony PSP. Also a netbook could be an option.
All depends on our website really.
My wife and I where actually sad to see Circuit City go out of business. We are both old enough to remember how excited we where when they first showed up in our small towns. But yes the discounts where largely false advertising. They where very few good deals and guess what sparky? If you LIE to people they often get ticked.
My wife and I found a few deals. Not great but not terrible. We where nice to the employees because we felt bad for them loosing their jobs. They where actually pretty nice but yea I saw some people that I considered very rude. One was looking at the printers and crabbing about what was missing and other stuff. The printers where not great deals and stuff was missing. I even asked some questions and got polite answers from the employee. Why can't people just not buy if they don't like the product instead of being jerk faces?
That and the instant gratifcation doesn't work for software or music anymore. It is even iffy with video.
A real problem wit the expert sales help is that people really don't want too pay for expert help anymore.
Let's say that you have a great store with well paid people that really know what they are doing.
This is what will happen.
Somebody will come in and ask a lot of questions and then go home and check Amazon or Walmart. If they can get it for $10 less they will buy it from those stores.
Not to worry. Those little strip now have RFID tags in them so they can tack your use of money as well. They use face recognition software at all atms to track what you take out and then just track where the money goes.
Plus if you buy too much with just cash you will just red flag yourself. Actually they use the term "person of interest".
The Z systems CPUs are based off the Power CPUs but use the Z System ISA. The Power line is such a good line that IBM can use a lot of the same technology.
This PDF talks about their relationship http://speleotrove.com/decimal/IBM-z6-mainframe-microprocessor-Webb.pdf
I always thought that if IBM had only known that the PC was going to last all this time they never would have used an X86.
I bet that IBM would have used a simplified 360 ISA.
No the CPUs are based on the POWER line but they use the Z machine ISA.
And how the heck can you point be valid? This was all about running Windows on a Z Series?
Yea big whoop if it was running Windows on an X86 machine. Just get the right drivers and you should be all set.
Of course the best part was you posted a snotty comment about how I didn't know "a lot about mainframes" and then where total wrong in the context of this thread. Then you post that you where wrong but your point was still valid.
That was still 18 years ago. The Honda fit which is an economy car now goes 0-60 in 8.3 seconds.
Much quicker than your CRX or my old GTI.
Things have changed. The CRX was a cool little car in the day as was my GTI. My Mazda 3 is bigger, faster, safer, cleaner, and gets around 30 MPG which is pretty dang fast.
Now my Honda CB750 gets even better milage than your CRX:)
But without...
Airbags, anti-lock brakes, traction control, modern emissions, or any number of other features.
A new car will be a lot cleaner and safer than even a mint Honda CRX.
The other difference is what is considered acceptable performance is a lot different these days.
I had an 84 VW GTI. It could do 0-60 in just under 10 seconds. That was fast back then.
Now that is dirt slow. Also back then the speed limit was 55 and people drove at 60-65. Now it is 70 and people cruse at 75-80 on the interstate.
Add in all the safety features, emissions, and even if you keep your same level of performance you will see your mileage drop like a rock.
The Ford Festiva was exactly like the Festiva sold in the Europe back then. That was the problem. No automatic.
The current Ford Focus has been getting good reviews for years and gets good mileage. I bought a Mazda 3 because I liked it more than the Focus. "Mazda was "owned" by Ford back then and Ford is still their biggest stock holder.
The Fusion gets as good gas mileage as the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord. The new Fusion hybrid gets better mileage than the Camry hybrid does.
The Fusion also matches or betters they reliability rating even in Consumer Reports.
Over all I think Ford is doing a very good job. I have also read a lot of good things about the Chevy Malibu.
Does any US car company make a car that really competes with the Honda Fit/ Nissan Versa? I would say no. But they do make some very good cars these days. It is a real shame that they get such a bad rap from the bad old days.
Kind of like people that think Linux is super hard to use and only has a command line.
Well actually I would bet that it uses a JIT compiler or even an IPL translation system.
Also emulating or a JIT compiler, or IPL translation system on a Z System is really way different than doing it on an ARM. It would still be great to see this GPLed but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Drop windows compatibility and offer good Linux apps for a netbook.
I still feel that that a good way to buy and sell Linux software like the iTunes store or even Steam for Linux is really what we need.
I hear that there are good games for Linux like Doom3 and Pry but for the life of me I can never find them and never seen them advertised.
Frankly I would say the same thing about you. This is about running Windows on a Z Series IBM mainframe. The Z Series is descended from the 360/370/390 line. It is a CISC ISA and is nothing like the X86 ISA! The current Z Series CPU is based on the POWER but uses a the Z Series ISA and not the POWER ISA.
So simply What the heck are you talking about?
They scary thing is that this really isn't going to be virtualization. It will be emulation. I can promise you that they don't us X86 Cpus.
And it is still available on YouTube.
So they can watch it on YouTube for free.
It is just such a waste of money to have to pay for any hosting of the video.
All the online imagery and street view are extremely valuable for terrorist attacks. There are any number of technology that makes terrorist attacks easier. Computers, the internet, cell phones, and goodness knows what else.
But in an open society like the US digital imagery isn't all that needed. Get a phone book to get a school address. Or the Schools web site.
Go to that town and drive by and click pictures with a cell phone if you want. Odds are nobody will even notice.
Pay as you go Cell phones that you by at Walmart seem more dangerous then imagery.
Make great remote hard to trace detonators.
1. Don't except cookies. Frankly cookies can not steal your identity or really hurt you unless you use the same password everywhere.
2. Don't sign in and they can not send you email. If you don't like beacons then don't open the email or use Thunderbird and tell it not to load images.
Really not hard to deal with or all that scary.
Actually I was thinking even more new user friendly.
1. A section on what is Linux.
2. A list of Distros and who they are recommended for.
3. Instructions on how to burn a CD/DVD.
4. Maybe a store where you can for a small price BUY Linux CDs, DVDs, and Swag.
5. Links to companies that sell computers with Linux preinstalled.
6. Links to "Linux approved" hardware. Stuff that has been tested and is known to work.
The UK goverment doesn't broadcast anything.
I simply feel that the US government should allow anyone to host the file that wants too and should just post in on the free sites that are available.
You don't have to ever log into Youtube to watch the videos...
No credentials needed.
I tend to agree. The thing is that the government doesn't pay for the broadcast of the press release.
I would have no problem with the BBC streaming the addresses themselves. Or CBS, NBC, Hulu, PBS, NPR, or any other news service.
Just for the US me as a tax payer to pay for it. As I said at the start I so don't have a problem with it being on YouTube at all. But this will probably end up costing millions all over a cookie.
1. It is a youtube link. Who doesn't go to youtube?
2. Turn on reject cookies.
I mean really just how big of a problem is this?