If the lack of wholly GPL software on iOS bothers enough customers, there are other smartphone platforms that are known for not having such a tightly controlled app ecosystem.
That is EXACTLY what the article is about!
Unfortunately it won't make a lick of difference because the only people using VLC are geeks who already know the score with regards to Apple's app store policies. Now if Angry Birds was a GPL app and you took it away from everyone's i Phone/Pad/Touch...well I don't even want to think what would happen.
Maybe there's more to Wi-Fi Direct than what Ad Hoc networking offers - I really don't know..
So you could take a minute to post the fact you are uninformed to slashdot, or you could have spent that same minute informing yourself...
From the FAQ linked in the article... Is this the same as Ad Hoc mode?
No. Ad Hoc, or IBSS, mode is a legacy protocol for Wi-Fi devices, and Wi-Fi Direct is a new innovation. Wi-Fi Direct brings important security features, ease of setup, and higher performance that is not currently available in Ad Hoc mode. With Wi-Fi Direct, a device can maintain a simultaneous connection to an infrastructure network – this isn’t possible with Ad Hoc.
uhhh, Apple TV has been out for many years and works fine with non-apple wifi and non apple computers. It does require iTunes, but last I heard iTunes was software, not hardware.
There's no reason to assume the new Apple TV won't work the same way, just without the streaming of video from whatever computer iTunes is on.
Okay so you lead the cops to the address of the guy that has 'your' phone.
They confiscate the phone (if it is still there) and it is now evidence in a case. It sits in the police evidence room for 6 months or more awaiting a court date...you really don't gain anything from the whole procedure, except maybe getting the privilege of spending a significant amount of time on the whole process.
The police barely have enough time to find lo-jacked cars, never mind $200 cell phones...
says base price is 49k (though they are including a tax credit, which seems fair to me. As long as I end up putting out less than 50k, then that was effectively the price.)
Huh - so if base price is $49K you are looking at about $55k out the door...sounds to me like that is more than $50K
Demand for rentals is THROUGH THE ROOF right now due to the downturn
Not it's not - in most places anyways. There was just a thing on npr about this - lots of people are moving back with parents or renting a room in a house, as opposed to getting their own apartment. There is a rental glut due to inmvestors buying houses cheap and renting them out.
I have a rental and am not looking forward to finding new renters when my current renters leave in a few months.
Let's do the math...new dell laptop that is now 'used'...optimistically $1500 for a higher end laptop. Insurance deductible, is probably no less than $500 probably $750 or $1000.
So the insurance company will be out $500-$1000, and will raise rates to recoup some of that.
Actually the Ferraris from the early 80s aren't particularly highly valued, neither are the Porsches from that era - they generally are underpowered due to the perception of a gas shortage at that time.
One would do well with a mid to late 70's ferrari - still carbeurated and significantly more powerful than an 80-85.
the energy imparted to an object by wind is basically area x density of air x speed.
given a constant wind speed and density you find you need a specific area 'A' to propel a mass forward.
You then double the area 'A' - what happens to all the extra energy you are inputting into the system? All you need to do is find a way to use this extra energy for forward propulsion and you will find a way to go faster than the wind, which apparently these guys have done, contrary to the supposed impossibility of it.
If they were to privatize Dell, the stockholders would more than likely make out like bandits as the offer has to be accepted by the majority of shareholders which generally means the offer is very favourable to the shareholders.
Watch HP with WebOS. Watch Google, when they get around to doing a real tablet version of Android. Watch Apple (obviously). And watch Microsoft, when it eventually occurs to them that they need to do a tablet version of Windows Phone 7 rather than pushing desktop Windows 7 on tablets.
Uhhh...from the article...
the ASUS Eee Pad will be available in 10-inch (EP101TC) and 12-inch (EP121) variants, and offer Windows Embedded Compact 7 and Windows 7 Home Premium respectively
revenue generation features for third-party developers built into the system
Asustek was also working with Intel and Microsoft to push out its own version of an app store, Shih said
Will they do a good job? Maybe, maybe not, however they certainly aren't oblivious...
Why would you want Windows on a tablet? Even if they somehow got the OS to work right with a tablet - which I can't imagine since it'd mean a total redesign of the OS
Well it wouldn't be a redesign of the OS, just a redesign of the interface. Apple already 'redesigned' OSX for the iPhone and Android has done the same with Linux, so clearly that isn't impossible.
Have you used an Incredible? I switched from a 3G and have not noticed any user experience deficiencies. In fact when it comes to things like sharing photos via email/mms/social networking sites, it is way ahead.
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If the lack of wholly GPL software on iOS bothers enough customers, there are other smartphone platforms that are known for not having such a tightly controlled app ecosystem.
That is EXACTLY what the article is about!
Unfortunately it won't make a lick of difference because the only people using VLC are geeks who already know the score with regards to Apple's app store policies. Now if Angry Birds was a GPL app and you took it away from everyone's i Phone/Pad/Touch...well I don't even want to think what would happen.
Well their total wireless revenue was about $61B in 2009...that is just wireless revenue...$108B overall.
You do that math...
Maybe there's more to Wi-Fi Direct than what Ad Hoc networking offers - I really don't know..
So you could take a minute to post the fact you are uninformed to slashdot, or you could have spent that same minute informing yourself...
From the FAQ linked in the article...
Is this the same as Ad Hoc mode?
No. Ad Hoc, or IBSS, mode is a legacy protocol for Wi-Fi devices, and Wi-Fi Direct is a new innovation. Wi-Fi Direct brings important security features, ease of setup, and higher performance that is not currently available in Ad Hoc mode. With Wi-Fi Direct, a device can maintain a simultaneous connection to an infrastructure network – this isn’t possible with Ad Hoc.
yes, that is what esx or esxi are.
a 'little' more expensive? $700 vs $100? That sounds like a LOT more expensive to me.
uhhh---he got a speeding ticket...
uhhh, Apple TV has been out for many years and works fine with non-apple wifi and non apple computers. It does require iTunes, but last I heard iTunes was software, not hardware.
There's no reason to assume the new Apple TV won't work the same way, just without the streaming of video from whatever computer iTunes is on.
(how long do they wait to put them up on the Comedy Central site for free?
Daily Show and Colbert are there the next day...
Okay so you lead the cops to the address of the guy that has 'your' phone.
They confiscate the phone (if it is still there) and it is now evidence in a case. It sits in the police evidence room for 6 months or more awaiting a court date...you really don't gain anything from the whole procedure, except maybe getting the privilege of spending a significant amount of time on the whole process.
The police barely have enough time to find lo-jacked cars, never mind $200 cell phones...
says base price is 49k (though they are including a tax credit, which seems fair to me. As long as I end up putting out less than 50k, then that was effectively the price.)
Huh - so if base price is $49K you are looking at about $55k out the door...sounds to me like that is more than $50K
Demand for rentals is THROUGH THE ROOF right now due to the downturn
Not it's not - in most places anyways. There was just a thing on npr about this - lots of people are moving back with parents or renting a room in a house, as opposed to getting their own apartment. There is a rental glut due to inmvestors buying houses cheap and renting them out.
I have a rental and am not looking forward to finding new renters when my current renters leave in a few months.
Except that microUSB is so new and scarce that my local electronics store wanted to charge me $30 for clearly a $5 cable.
scarce and rare? I went to Fry's and they had them on the shelf. $6.99 for 6ft, $5.99 for 3 foot.
If you are trying to focus with a low res LCD (or any lcd for that matter) I can see why you wouldn't see the need for manual focus...
By unifying video and audio into a single cable manufacturers have been able to make their products easier to set up than ever before
in 1985 we'd hook up our VCR to the TV with a single coax cable...
You don't need PROOF to get a subpoena, if you had PROOF, you could go straight to the trial.
Let's do the math...new dell laptop that is now 'used'...optimistically $1500 for a higher end laptop. Insurance deductible, is probably no less than $500 probably $750 or $1000.
So the insurance company will be out $500-$1000, and will raise rates to recoup some of that.
How hard do you think they'll work?
Actually the Ferraris from the early 80s aren't particularly highly valued, neither are the Porsches from that era - they generally are underpowered due to the perception of a gas shortage at that time.
One would do well with a mid to late 70's ferrari - still carbeurated and significantly more powerful than an 80-85.
the energy imparted to an object by wind is basically area x density of air x speed.
given a constant wind speed and density you find you need a specific area 'A' to propel a mass forward.
You then double the area 'A' - what happens to all the extra energy you are inputting into the system? All you need to do is find a way to use this extra energy for forward propulsion and you will find a way to go faster than the wind, which apparently these guys have done, contrary to the supposed impossibility of it.
If they were to privatize Dell, the stockholders would more than likely make out like bandits as the offer has to be accepted by the majority of shareholders which generally means the offer is very favourable to the shareholders.
When did the Apple tablet come out?> the newton? I believe people said about the same to it.
Technology changes - what didn't work before won't necessarily fail now.
Watch HP with WebOS. Watch Google, when they get around to doing a real tablet version of Android. Watch Apple (obviously). And watch Microsoft, when it eventually occurs to them that they need to do a tablet version of Windows Phone 7 rather than pushing desktop Windows 7 on tablets.
Uhhh...from the article...
the ASUS Eee Pad will be available in 10-inch (EP101TC) and 12-inch (EP121) variants, and offer Windows Embedded Compact 7 and Windows 7 Home Premium respectively
revenue generation features for third-party developers built into the system
Asustek was also working with Intel and Microsoft to push out its own version of an app store, Shih said
Will they do a good job? Maybe, maybe not, however they certainly aren't oblivious...
Why would you want Windows on a tablet? Even if they somehow got the OS to work right with a tablet - which I can't imagine since it'd mean a total redesign of the OS
Well it wouldn't be a redesign of the OS, just a redesign of the interface. Apple already 'redesigned' OSX for the iPhone and Android has done the same with Linux, so clearly that isn't impossible.
is there an option to buy a subscription to the ipad version? How much does it cost?
Have you used an Incredible? I switched from a 3G and have not noticed any user experience deficiencies. In fact when it comes to things like sharing photos via email/mms/social networking sites, it is way ahead.
. They just didn't have a chance to getting working along with everything else they had to make happen to get the iPad out in a reasonable time frame.
iPhoto, not so much...