So anyway, what does it matter? There are Nook and Kindle readers on iOS - that revenue stream should be fine. By not selling the hardware both companies save money, but lose on lock-in. The impact will probably be marginal, or possibly a small plus as more people move to nook/kindle and away from books.
Of course, it depends on the price. If the iPad mini comes out at $199 it's game over for everyone else. I doubt that price point because Apple generally doesn't sell its hardware at a loss or close to a loss. They just need to make it close. $300 sounds more realistic - that's $100 less than the Ipad 2 and overlaps well with the iPad touch pricing.
When you do your numbers at the end of the year with your accountant, they'll be like "WTF is this piece of shit accounting package you used? It'll take me a month to have someone re-enter all this info into Quickbooks, and I'll charge you $20/hr for it."
Don't bother. Do you really want to take the chance that some developer did your payroll tax calculations correctly -and- updated the forms that you needed for the latest tax year? Do you really want to be the one that finds the bug in the quarterly payroll tax submission code?
You're already going to be in a tough spot opening your business. Debugging your accounting software is something you should leave to professionals.
If you look at e clamshell phones, how many look like the razr? One.
How about the candy bar phones? They look similar, but different no manufacturer wants users to confuse their phones with someone elses.
Look at Samsung. They want their stuff to look like Apple's because it helps them sell. Period. In the documents they say as much.
People here freak out when a developer copies another developer's game...but when Samsung and google copy Apple people are like "oh, there's only one way to do it so we have to copy apple."
$100 won't get you a lot of bandwidth. What they need to do is buy fios for a whole lot of people and pay for it with the $100 - sort of like FoN. That'll make the number of exit nodes large enough that it'll be hard to monitor all the nodes.
40-50 preferred exit nodes means that someone sneaky can look at around 2% of the TOR traffic at any given time. As the intercepts in the past have shown, you can get a lot of interesting stuff from that 2%. They need to grow that pool tremendously...and paying for people's connection & bandwidth is the easiest way.
Is there a TOR dd-wrt port? They could provide that (or a pogoplug, etc) with the connection, and monitor the node so if the node goes offline the payments stop.
Funny, I was just thinking that. Most offices I've worked in and visited are terminally hard-up for power strips. If a box of 20 of them showed up they'd get used, no questions asked...although a bunch of them might make it into people's homes.
For industrial espionage, this would be priceless. Nobody checks to see if visitors are bringing power strips. Contractors bring their own all the time. Stick it in a conference room, or better yet an executive conference room, and you're golden. Does it come with a microphone?
I met the guy who was doing this, and I think it was written in Mac Common Lisp, which obviates any 68k knowledge.
The one thing it does do is change the NMI vector so you can't use the programmer's key to break into it. That was my small contribution. You may be able to bypass this by running it in multifinder, finding the process-specific NMI vector, and restoring it. You may also be able to set a breakpoint when the NMI vector changes and then reset it. It's been a really long time, and I've forgotten how multifinder dealt with the various vectors...but I do remember that they did get swapped out per-process.
I suppose it must refuse to run when it's run off of read-only media. The whole point was to make sure it only ran once then destroyed itself. You could bit copy it onto floppies - I'm not sure how to do that anymore either. Damn, was that was only 20 years ago.
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Tablets, we shall fight on the Apps and Stpres, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the tablet market, we shall defend our franchise, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in the consumer market, we shall fight in the enterprise space, we shall fight in the developers hearts and minds, we shall fight in Corporate IT; we shall never surrender!
Why buy at all? Not everyone has to be like Apple.
People think this stuff is easy - but Nokia's having issues and it's 150 years old. RIM knew its market too. Why would Microsoft be any different?
Apple makes it look easy, but it isn't. Look at the corpses strewn behind the iPhone, iPod, and iPad and you'll see some of the best companies of the era. And Apple has just started, or so they'd lie you to think.
Even the article doesn't support the broad conclusion. For a given test, music made performance worse. It's ridiculous to extrapolate that to any kind of real-world situation. WTF? And people here express a belief in science!
If you watched the Foxconn video (or seen any industrial production video), you'd see that for certain types of assembly it's cheaper and easier to get people to do it than to mechanize.
Mechanization requires lots of tooling and is relatively hard to change once built. It's easier to just hire a lot of people and change their procedures when needed.
There's no secret to mass assembly - it's just a serious logistical challenge. Everything needs to be specified, exactly.
Look, I understand that people who use their tools daily want to advertise them and it's a good thing if you like what you're using, but let's face it: C is just another unsafe, hopelessly outdated extension of assembly. It's great to get things done and sucks less than fortran, but it's not in any way a modern language nor is it based on a great language design.
Wow, you must suck at doing your taxes. If you're paying the full rate you should invest in something called "TurboTax." It's a software program that helps you file and do your taxes. It also suggests tax deductions you might want to take, etc.
What you're doing is saying "I'm dumb and other people aren't - those other people should be penalized." That's patently unfair. Why should other people get penalized for your stupidity?
I'm not sure what part of the word 'loan' people don't understand.
Give me that money, and I'll pay it back. There you go. If you don't pay, you don't get what you bought with your loan.
If you stop paying your car loan, what happens? Repo. If you stop paying your college loans, what? Well, they can't take your education away...but they can take verification away.
That seems perfectly straightforward.
To be honest, after a while nobody asks for your transcript anyway. Nobody really cares about that crap, unless you're going to graduate school. I've interviewed lots of people, and never asked for one. Who cares how you did in school?
If an instruction set is licensable, then an API can be too...although it's unclear from what I've read if the licensing covered the instruction set itself or the right to manufacture something compatible with that instruction set. Either way, that should cover the API.
Any kind of nanotechnology is in general bad news, because it'll be hard to control in the wild. Once you can make a lot of them, you can let them loose on a subject population and well, at least they'll wear out after a while.
Because they're so small you pretty much need a trigger nanobot/signal to activate it ie: in the the presence of bot A bot B starts its thing, like disassembling RNA.
There's not a lot you could do against these things, except stay out of the way. The good thing is that they probably wouldn't be very contagious - they'd go in via your lungs/nose and stay there.
Poison is still cheaper, but with nano you can really get to scale.
You can search the real literature if you'd like; that was one of the first hits I found. Once you can teach your kids to count beyond 5, they've already beaten most of humanity.
Baboons can recognize drawn shapes. Oh boy. Next thing they'll show that baboons can't drive cars. Oh boy. Soon they'll show that, after 50,000 years of existence baboons have the cognitive skills of an 8-month old. Great.
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There is no tablet market per se. There's an iPad market, an e-reader market, and a grab bag of every other manufacturer.
The Samsung Tab? Apparently it sold 37k units in the US last quarter, which makes it a total non-competitor to the iPad.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/10/apple-sold-5-7-million-tablets-in-the-u-s-last-quarter-court-documents-show-samsung-sold-37000/
http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/screen-shot-2012-08-10-at-7-33-07-am.png
So anyway, what does it matter? There are Nook and Kindle readers on iOS - that revenue stream should be fine. By not selling the hardware both companies save money, but lose on lock-in. The impact will probably be marginal, or possibly a small plus as more people move to nook/kindle and away from books.
Of course, it depends on the price. If the iPad mini comes out at $199 it's game over for everyone else. I doubt that price point because Apple generally doesn't sell its hardware at a loss or close to a loss. They just need to make it close. $300 sounds more realistic - that's $100 less than the Ipad 2 and overlaps well with the iPad touch pricing.
When you do your numbers at the end of the year with your accountant, they'll be like "WTF is this piece of shit accounting package you used? It'll take me a month to have someone re-enter all this info into Quickbooks, and I'll charge you $20/hr for it."
Don't bother. Do you really want to take the chance that some developer did your payroll tax calculations correctly -and- updated the forms that you needed for the latest tax year? Do you really want to be the one that finds the bug in the quarterly payroll tax submission code?
You're already going to be in a tough spot opening your business. Debugging your accounting software is something you should leave to professionals.
Like the way Samsung copied the expression of the idea of the iPhone?
If you look at e clamshell phones, how many look like the razr? One.
How about the candy bar phones? They look similar, but different no manufacturer wants users to confuse their phones with someone elses.
Look at Samsung. They want their stuff to look like Apple's because it helps them sell. Period. In the documents they say as much.
People here freak out when a developer copies another developer's game...but when Samsung and google copy Apple people are like "oh, there's only one way to do it so we have to copy apple."
How fucking lame is that?
$100 won't get you a lot of bandwidth. What they need to do is buy fios for a whole lot of people and pay for it with the $100 - sort of like FoN. That'll make the number of exit nodes large enough that it'll be hard to monitor all the nodes.
40-50 preferred exit nodes means that someone sneaky can look at around 2% of the TOR traffic at any given time. As the intercepts in the past have shown, you can get a lot of interesting stuff from that 2%. They need to grow that pool tremendously...and paying for people's connection & bandwidth is the easiest way.
Is there a TOR dd-wrt port? They could provide that (or a pogoplug, etc) with the connection, and monitor the node so if the node goes offline the payments stop.
Funny, I was just thinking that. Most offices I've worked in and visited are terminally hard-up for power strips. If a box of 20 of them showed up they'd get used, no questions asked...although a bunch of them might make it into people's homes.
For industrial espionage, this would be priceless. Nobody checks to see if visitors are bringing power strips. Contractors bring their own all the time. Stick it in a conference room, or better yet an executive conference room, and you're golden. Does it come with a microphone?
I met the guy who was doing this, and I think it was written in Mac Common Lisp, which obviates any 68k knowledge.
The one thing it does do is change the NMI vector so you can't use the programmer's key to break into it. That was my small contribution. You may be able to bypass this by running it in multifinder, finding the process-specific NMI vector, and restoring it. You may also be able to set a breakpoint when the NMI vector changes and then reset it. It's been a really long time, and I've forgotten how multifinder dealt with the various vectors...but I do remember that they did get swapped out per-process.
I suppose it must refuse to run when it's run off of read-only media. The whole point was to make sure it only ran once then destroyed itself. You could bit copy it onto floppies - I'm not sure how to do that anymore either. Damn, was that was only 20 years ago.
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Tablets, we shall fight on the Apps and Stpres, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the tablet market, we shall defend our franchise, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in the consumer market, we shall fight in the enterprise space, we shall fight in the developers hearts and minds, we shall fight in Corporate IT; we shall never surrender!
With the right add-ons you can do everything this device does...except expand the internal storage. Kludge? Hardly.
Let the trolling begin! Muahahaha!
If the patents were worth something, don't you think RIM and Nokia would already be in court trying to monetize them?
Also from what I remember, Apple already has licensed the appropriate patents from Nokia.
Why buy at all? Not everyone has to be like Apple.
People think this stuff is easy - but Nokia's having issues and it's 150 years old. RIM knew its market too. Why would Microsoft be any different?
Apple makes it look easy, but it isn't. Look at the corpses strewn behind the iPhone, iPod, and iPad and you'll see some of the best companies of the era. And Apple has just started, or so they'd lie you to think.
Hey, we're still here, aren't we?
Apocalyptic visions of the future seems to be a human pastime. Ignoring them seems to be the other human pastime.
Did anyone actually read the linked article?
Even the article doesn't support the broad conclusion. For a given test, music made performance worse. It's ridiculous to extrapolate that to any kind of real-world situation. WTF? And people here express a belief in science!
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/11767/1/Will-Background-Music-Improve-Your-Concentration.html
Not sure how exciting this is, as they needed physical access to the chip to get anything out of it.
Big words - can you back that up with data? Apple has, or will, in court.
The poster is trolling on a lot of levels. Late capitalism?
Anyway, as usual, the war itself went great - it was the peace that was the problem.
If you watched the Foxconn video (or seen any industrial production video), you'd see that for certain types of assembly it's cheaper and easier to get people to do it than to mechanize.
Mechanization requires lots of tooling and is relatively hard to change once built. It's easier to just hire a lot of people and change their procedures when needed.
There's no secret to mass assembly - it's just a serious logistical challenge. Everything needs to be specified, exactly.
Look, I understand that people who use their tools daily want to advertise them and it's a good thing if you like what you're using, but let's face it: C is just another unsafe, hopelessly outdated extension of assembly. It's great to get things done and sucks less than fortran, but it's not in any way a modern language nor is it based on a great language design.
Wow, you must suck at doing your taxes. If you're paying the full rate you should invest in something called "TurboTax." It's a software program that helps you file and do your taxes. It also suggests tax deductions you might want to take, etc.
What you're doing is saying "I'm dumb and other people aren't - those other people should be penalized." That's patently unfair. Why should other people get penalized for your stupidity?
I'm not sure what part of the word 'loan' people don't understand.
Give me that money, and I'll pay it back. There you go. If you don't pay, you don't get what you bought with your loan.
If you stop paying your car loan, what happens? Repo. If you stop paying your college loans, what? Well, they can't take your education away...but they can take verification away.
That seems perfectly straightforward.
To be honest, after a while nobody asks for your transcript anyway. Nobody really cares about that crap, unless you're going to graduate school. I've interviewed lots of people, and never asked for one. Who cares how you did in school?
Intel licensed the x86 instruction set to AMD.
If an instruction set is licensable, then an API can be too...although it's unclear from what I've read if the licensing covered the instruction set itself or the right to manufacture something compatible with that instruction set. Either way, that should cover the API.
Any kind of nanotechnology is in general bad news, because it'll be hard to control in the wild. Once you can make a lot of them, you can let them loose on a subject population and well, at least they'll wear out after a while.
Because they're so small you pretty much need a trigger nanobot/signal to activate it ie: in the the presence of bot A bot B starts its thing, like disassembling RNA.
There's not a lot you could do against these things, except stay out of the way. The good thing is that they probably wouldn't be very contagious - they'd go in via your lungs/nose and stay there.
Poison is still cheaper, but with nano you can really get to scale.
There are studies that show the "natural" conception of numbers is one, two, many, a lot.
http://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-many-a-myth/
You can search the real literature if you'd like; that was one of the first hits I found. Once you can teach your kids to count beyond 5, they've already beaten most of humanity.
Baboons can recognize drawn shapes. Oh boy. Next thing they'll show that baboons can't drive cars. Oh boy. Soon they'll show that, after 50,000 years of existence baboons have the cognitive skills of an 8-month old. Great.