Yes, but as with the TouchPad, they could have issues with parts and vendors, in which they are trying to go with what results in the least loss. (For example, contract cancellation fees with their suppliers)
The idea that a carrier can lock me into a device that at some point be a second class citizen while I'm still locked in is unreasonable. Of course, you can still use the device as originally advertised, but that's not the point.
What if Dell or Apple sold you a computer today that couldn't support an OS upgrade in 12 months? (Granted, they don't subsidize but I suspect that in 12-18 months you've hit the break-even on the phone)
Remember that the iPhone 3GS, release 2 1/2 years ago, will run iOS 5.0.
Just remember why Deutsche Telekom wanted to get rid of T-Mobile: it's a bad business for them, they want out. They tried to sell before (to Orange). T-Mobile will still get bought, or will go under. Why did Sprint oppose the deal? They don't care who owns their competitors: they knew T-Mobile was in a death march, and knew they'd get customers when they flatlined. The AT&T deal kept them from getting that plunder. (To say nothing of the assets that will come available when T-Mobile declares bankruptcy)
Of course, T-Mobile gets a couple of billion dollars from AT&T due to the failed merger, which should hold off failure for a couple of years. Nonetheless, if you're a T-Mobile customer, you need to keep your eyes open and determine who your next carrier will be.
Chrome of course auto-updates, so it's easy for one version to rise to the top. However, we'll see IE take the lead back when they implement auto-updating (Not that I'm an IE fan, but I agree that stats like this are FUD-ish)
Yes, but the technology is essentially the same (as the article summary described it) - Flash memory on the PCB (the changes are to an upgraded SATA 6G interface)
That's oversimplification. Remember that the case was opened in 1991, before a single line of code had been written for Internet Explorer (or Netscape, or Winsock, or....) IE was central, but so was the abuse of OEM's, in a world where 95%+ of all new computers shipped with Windows. Microsoft abused those OEMs, forcing them to bundle certain software.
Apple is much different: 1. Smaller share of market. (Slashdot loves to trumpet about Android's higher market share) Microsoft was found to be an abusive monopoly in the computer industry, not the Windows industry - Apple has no such monopoly. 2. Apple doesn't abuse OEMs, since they manufacture their own devices.
A better example of a monopoly would be if Google abused the phone vendors by forcing them to load certain software in order to be allowed to license Android.
Keep in mind that most of the app stores out there (for example, deploying to the Nook) have very similar terms to what Apple is doing.
What about when a company has spent tons of money building out C# libraries - I think Mono gives them a migration path. Migrations (in this case, to open source alternatives) are more likely to get green-lighted when pieces of infrastructure can move, rather than all-or-none.
Then again, not sure in an enterprise how relevant baked-in Ubuntu packages are, or Ubuntu itself for that matter... after all, there's nothing preventing anyone from bringing in Banshee, mono, etc...
Since when has Linux been about "production" code only in distros? Projects should, and have, made into distros based on demand, not based on whether they have an RTM stamp. Great example: apt-get install nodejs (unless you update apt, it installs an old version, no less)
I can get not installing it based on the fact that it targets libraries that drive for-profit philosophy, but at least call it that. Of course, then why is there still wine? samba? tsclient? All of these support and encourage Windows use.
He's a bad person, to say the least. However, the state's statute of limitations expired, and the federal prosecutors could find no *federal* laws being broken. (Keep in mind which crimes are state, which are federal) To do otherwise would be to violate the legal system, no matter what you feel.
My brother in law when through four or so Motorola Droids before finally giving up. I suspect that when your first unit fails, the ones the carriers replace it with are refurbs, leading to a common death spiral. (He may have went with a refurb to start with, to save $$) Yes, he switched to an iPhone, and it has worked ever since.
Also, if you lump all Android phones into the same category, there's some real garbage in there. It's unfair to categorize a device from Samsung or Motorola with something from First Taipei Telecom.
This is an unavoidable problem with an open platform. There is nothing Google can do to prevent this. That's the failure: these are hardware failures, and if you could load Blackberry OS or iOS on those devices, you'd have the same problem. It's like blaming the maker of pipes or wiring on failures when installed in crummy houses by crummy installers.
I have a 2011 15" MacBook Pro. The new i7 quad-core + new GPU gets crazy hot. Often the temp gauge jumps to 80 degrees C + and the fans spin up. Those 2 fans maxed out at 6200 RPM is anything but quiet.
As another poster pointed out, this was in their "Sneaks" show, where various engineers showed off pet projects. No promise this will be in a future project. It really was a serious of scripts the engineer had written, and it might require more horsepower/wait time than your typical Photoshop machine/customer has.
For those who can't see the video, it was at least as amazing as you think it would be. I personally thought the Sneaks were more impressive than the keynotes.
I can't speak to the "entire" 99%. However, there's a large number who fall in this category: Middle class, busting their ass, struggling with credit cards, student loans, car payments, mortgages. Just making it. They're angry at the right people - but they have the wrong idea. The middle class are more than happy to keep signing up for credit - this is how the rich have become the new Monarchy. You don't kill that power with signs and cries to the government: you do it by choosing to stop giving them all your keys to personal power.
Teach your children: Debt is bad. Go to college on grants and scholarship, bust your ass working to pay for the rest. (Make 70% of a Harvard salary, but with $100,000+ less debt) (You'll have to teach your kids to get past the fantasy they've been sold that college is foremost about the social experience - work your ass off, study your ass off, and if you have any left over time, that's for socializing)
No credit cards. If you don't have the cash (yes, I mean debit card, silly) to buy the latest iPhone/clothes/Christmas present, then plan better. Or accept that you simply can't afford it.
No car loans. No car leases. First car will be garbage. Pay yourself what you'd pay in a car payment - every 3-5 years you'll have a pretty nice car and no debt ever. New cars - never. Horrible loss of value. Always buy something 2-5 years old.
Mortgage: This is the hard one. Most people can't save up $150,000-$300,000. Actually they can.. but let's assume you need to rely on the bank. Never get into a house with less than 20% down. Then attack that mortgage. Don't pay the minimum and keep the rest so you can have the latest shiny beepy and your kids can have the latest plastic happy. Live crazy cheap for 7 years - most people can pay off their house in this time. If you start off early, and have a decent job (and aren't strangling yourself with debt), it's possible to save up and just write a check.
Obviously all this is a bit insane, but let's stop believing the lies: we have to go to the best school, the only safe car is a new car, that credit card payments are a way of life. Your best tools aren't your picket signs and your Tumblog: it's your income. Take it back, and make it the force behind changing your life.
For those already in the hole, there are some sacrifices to be made, but it's possible.
An average person, 100% debt free by age 35, will be a multi-millionnaire by the time they are 70 (assuming they aren't a total idiot about how they spend their $ after debt).
Apple? Maybe a few sales, but there's enough differentiating factors (camera, 3G, etc), and some people would buy a rotting rat carcass if you stuck an Apple logo on it.
Who really suffers? Samsung, Motorola, etc. All those living in their happy little fantasy world where they can sell an iPad alternative for iPad dollars.
In a year, I'd be surprised if the market of Android tablets isn't cut in half.
Amen to that. Burned through 2 Vertex 3's in my latest build. Even went through some firmware battles.
I had hope because I heard about how fast they were. They were fast - and I'll tell you what, they were also really fast to reboot every single time the machine blue screened, which was pretty often. Went with Crucial instead, and no problems since.
While the caching approach is slightly different, the idea is not new - I've had a Seagate Momentus XT in my MacBook for over a year now. It's a bearable price premium ($100 vs. about $60-70 for a typical 2.5" 500GB 7200 RPM drive) and there's definitely a performance difference.
Best part: it's a single unit, so it'll work in a laptop. No additional software needed. You don't have to deal with OCZ's prices ($300-500 per the article)
In the article, on the last page of the indictment, the foreperson is signed as "/s/"
I know "/b" is the virtual home of Anonymous, but never knew that "Beautiful Sexy Women" was filled with so much government powers. Explains a lot, actually...
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Yes, but as with the TouchPad, they could have issues with parts and vendors, in which they are trying to go with what results in the least loss. (For example, contract cancellation fees with their suppliers)
The idea that a carrier can lock me into a device that at some point be a second class citizen while I'm still locked in is unreasonable. Of course, you can still use the device as originally advertised, but that's not the point.
What if Dell or Apple sold you a computer today that couldn't support an OS upgrade in 12 months? (Granted, they don't subsidize but I suspect that in 12-18 months you've hit the break-even on the phone)
Remember that the iPhone 3GS, release 2 1/2 years ago, will run iOS 5.0.
Just remember why Deutsche Telekom wanted to get rid of T-Mobile: it's a bad business for them, they want out. They tried to sell before (to Orange). T-Mobile will still get bought, or will go under. Why did Sprint oppose the deal? They don't care who owns their competitors: they knew T-Mobile was in a death march, and knew they'd get customers when they flatlined. The AT&T deal kept them from getting that plunder. (To say nothing of the assets that will come available when T-Mobile declares bankruptcy)
Of course, T-Mobile gets a couple of billion dollars from AT&T due to the failed merger, which should hold off failure for a couple of years. Nonetheless, if you're a T-Mobile customer, you need to keep your eyes open and determine who your next carrier will be.
Chrome of course auto-updates, so it's easy for one version to rise to the top. However, we'll see IE take the lead back when they implement auto-updating (Not that I'm an IE fan, but I agree that stats like this are FUD-ish)
Yes, but the technology is essentially the same (as the article summary described it) - Flash memory on the PCB (the changes are to an upgraded SATA 6G interface)
Seagate's new Momentus XT 2.5-in solution
Had a 500 GB version in my laptop since they came out last year (Summer I think) And yes, it's much faster than a typical 7200 rpm drive.
Good thing they have an Intel in the iPhone now, right?
Average game development costs are estimated to be around $20M-$30M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_development
..over 20M in 2010
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/108/1082176p1.html
Obviously the forces driving commercial games and games for the public sector are different, but the relative cost shouldn't be ignored.
Running Android for now, but plans are to offer an Ubuntu version, as well as Windows 8
... the ARM-based hardware can run Ubuntu Linux currently and future versions should be able to run the ARM version of Windows 8
That's oversimplification. Remember that the case was opened in 1991, before a single line of code had been written for Internet Explorer (or Netscape, or Winsock, or ....) IE was central, but so was the abuse of OEM's, in a world where 95%+ of all new computers shipped with Windows. Microsoft abused those OEMs, forcing them to bundle certain software.
Apple is much different:
1. Smaller share of market. (Slashdot loves to trumpet about Android's higher market share) Microsoft was found to be an abusive monopoly in the computer industry, not the Windows industry - Apple has no such monopoly.
2. Apple doesn't abuse OEMs, since they manufacture their own devices.
A better example of a monopoly would be if Google abused the phone vendors by forcing them to load certain software in order to be allowed to license Android.
Keep in mind that most of the app stores out there (for example, deploying to the Nook) have very similar terms to what Apple is doing.
What about when a company has spent tons of money building out C# libraries - I think Mono gives them a migration path. Migrations (in this case, to open source alternatives) are more likely to get green-lighted when pieces of infrastructure can move, rather than all-or-none.
Then again, not sure in an enterprise how relevant baked-in Ubuntu packages are, or Ubuntu itself for that matter ... after all, there's nothing preventing anyone from bringing in Banshee, mono, etc ...
Since when has Linux been about "production" code only in distros? Projects should, and have, made into distros based on demand, not based on whether they have an RTM stamp. Great example: apt-get install nodejs (unless you update apt, it installs an old version, no less)
I can get not installing it based on the fact that it targets libraries that drive for-profit philosophy, but at least call it that. Of course, then why is there still wine? samba? tsclient? All of these support and encourage Windows use.
One more example of the lack of reading the article on Slashdot at its finest.
He's a bad person, to say the least. However, the state's statute of limitations expired, and the federal prosecutors could find no *federal* laws being broken. (Keep in mind which crimes are state, which are federal) To do otherwise would be to violate the legal system, no matter what you feel.
My brother in law when through four or so Motorola Droids before finally giving up. I suspect that when your first unit fails, the ones the carriers replace it with are refurbs, leading to a common death spiral. (He may have went with a refurb to start with, to save $$) Yes, he switched to an iPhone, and it has worked ever since.
Also, if you lump all Android phones into the same category, there's some real garbage in there. It's unfair to categorize a device from Samsung or Motorola with something from First Taipei Telecom.
This is an unavoidable problem with an open platform. There is nothing Google can do to prevent this. That's the failure: these are hardware failures, and if you could load Blackberry OS or iOS on those devices, you'd have the same problem. It's like blaming the maker of pipes or wiring on failures when installed in crummy houses by crummy installers.
" ... minimum cooling fan noise ..."
I have a 2011 15" MacBook Pro. The new i7 quad-core + new GPU gets crazy hot. Often the temp gauge jumps to 80 degrees C + and the fans spin up. Those 2 fans maxed out at 6200 RPM is anything but quiet.
The recent accomplishments of the Steve Jobs Foundation and the Richard M. Stallman Foundation listed below:
As another poster pointed out, this was in their "Sneaks" show, where various engineers showed off pet projects. No promise this will be in a future project. It really was a serious of scripts the engineer had written, and it might require more horsepower/wait time than your typical Photoshop machine/customer has.
For those who can't see the video, it was at least as amazing as you think it would be. I personally thought the Sneaks were more impressive than the keynotes.
I can't speak to the "entire" 99%. However, there's a large number who fall in this category: Middle class, busting their ass, struggling with credit cards, student loans, car payments, mortgages. Just making it. They're angry at the right people - but they have the wrong idea. The middle class are more than happy to keep signing up for credit - this is how the rich have become the new Monarchy. You don't kill that power with signs and cries to the government: you do it by choosing to stop giving them all your keys to personal power.
Teach your children: Debt is bad. Go to college on grants and scholarship, bust your ass working to pay for the rest. (Make 70% of a Harvard salary, but with $100,000+ less debt) (You'll have to teach your kids to get past the fantasy they've been sold that college is foremost about the social experience - work your ass off, study your ass off, and if you have any left over time, that's for socializing)
No credit cards. If you don't have the cash (yes, I mean debit card, silly) to buy the latest iPhone/clothes/Christmas present, then plan better. Or accept that you simply can't afford it.
No car loans. No car leases. First car will be garbage. Pay yourself what you'd pay in a car payment - every 3-5 years you'll have a pretty nice car and no debt ever. New cars - never. Horrible loss of value. Always buy something 2-5 years old.
Mortgage: This is the hard one. Most people can't save up $150,000-$300,000. Actually they can.. but let's assume you need to rely on the bank. Never get into a house with less than 20% down. Then attack that mortgage. Don't pay the minimum and keep the rest so you can have the latest shiny beepy and your kids can have the latest plastic happy. Live crazy cheap for 7 years - most people can pay off their house in this time. If you start off early, and have a decent job (and aren't strangling yourself with debt), it's possible to save up and just write a check.
Obviously all this is a bit insane, but let's stop believing the lies: we have to go to the best school, the only safe car is a new car, that credit card payments are a way of life. Your best tools aren't your picket signs and your Tumblog: it's your income. Take it back, and make it the force behind changing your life.
For those already in the hole, there are some sacrifices to be made, but it's possible.
An average person, 100% debt free by age 35, will be a multi-millionnaire by the time they are 70 (assuming they aren't a total idiot about how they spend their $ after debt).
Apple? Maybe a few sales, but there's enough differentiating factors (camera, 3G, etc), and some people would buy a rotting rat carcass if you stuck an Apple logo on it.
Who really suffers? Samsung, Motorola, etc. All those living in their happy little fantasy world where they can sell an iPad alternative for iPad dollars.
In a year, I'd be surprised if the market of Android tablets isn't cut in half.
You see the word "Android" once - when referring to Amazon's App Store for Android, and that's far down in the page.
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-Multi-touch-Display-Wi-Fi/dp/B0051VVOB2/ref=amb_link_357575542_7?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=00NAMFF4675KA3CSQ3SB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321408942&pf_rd_i=507846
Funny thing is, you see "iPad" in the first feature.
Amazon is following the Apple playbook here: Focus on customer experience, and put your brand first.
Amen to that. Burned through 2 Vertex 3's in my latest build. Even went through some firmware battles.
I had hope because I heard about how fast they were. They were fast - and I'll tell you what, they were also really fast to reboot every single time the machine blue screened, which was pretty often. Went with Crucial instead, and no problems since.
While the caching approach is slightly different, the idea is not new - I've had a Seagate Momentus XT in my MacBook for over a year now. It's a bearable price premium ($100 vs. about $60-70 for a typical 2.5" 500GB 7200 RPM drive) and there's definitely a performance difference.
Best part: it's a single unit, so it'll work in a laptop. No additional software needed. You don't have to deal with OCZ's prices ($300-500 per the article)
In the article, on the last page of the indictment, the foreperson is signed as "/s/"
I know "/b" is the virtual home of Anonymous, but never knew that "Beautiful Sexy Women" was filled with so much government powers. Explains a lot, actually...
Despite the political rhetoric, you don't get arrested for your potential threat, you get arrested for an alleged crime. Pretty simple concept.
If I spray-paint "My mom's a whore call here at 555-1212" on the side of your car, I broke the law. It doesn't matter if I'm homeless or not.