+1. This is why other industry players (carriers / CurrentC / google wallet) are so upset about apple pay - while most people make money off of tracking what people buy, Apple doesn't even have access to the info (any purchases go straight to the CC and don't pass through apple servers.
its a two edge sword. lets say you make an app that fills a niche in apple's offerings. They may duplicate your functionality and freeze you out (by banning your app as duplicative or making themselves the default). Or they may snap you up for a couple $m and integrate you directly.
what's interesting about this is there's a long tail of reasons why things get rejected. The top ten rejection reasons comprise just 55% of rejections. This means that 45% are rejected for reasons other than the top ten, and any reason that's not in the top ten accounts for less than 4% of rejections.
"never let a good opportunity go to waste" - Pentagon. Not surprised that there are forces at work to use this epidemic as a chance to bring US one step closer to a military state. Good to know they have support on/. too.
Why does the summary link to an Al Jazeera article discussing domestic matters, especially when Al Jazeera themselves are just reporting on work that Rutgers did? Surely, NYTimes, WaPo and others are reporting on this as well, and would be more authoritative.
I applaud CVS and RiteAid for working with other retailers to provide an alternative to what I view as Apple's heavy-handed lock-in payment system.
Who'so locked in to what now? On the customer side, users of apple pay are locked in to Apple products. But on the email side, it's just a nfc terminal and any nfc payments system can participate.
The market will decide this just fine. By the time CurrentC actually comes to market (likely 12 months late and missing promised features) apple pay will already be deeply engrained and driving traffic to participating retailers. Then, once CurrentC is launched there will be a massive pwnage. Then, the current CurrentC backers will flee, people will get fired, and the system will die. Yes, the market works.
That the process of building these browsers from scratch is somewhat arcane will come as no surprise to any experienced developer. But that it's not so arcane that it's impractical to figure out is good news.
it sounded very impractical. FTFS: "these are complex pieces of software, each of them with rather idiosyncratic build systems, and that you should consider 100GB of disk space to build all the browsers, a few hours of download, and be prepared to learn lots of new, rather specific tools."" I'd say it's good that open source browsers are not impossible to build. But this is no apt-get or whatever people say.
no worries this can still get dystopian on this. probably the best way for NSTIC to secure people's records are through a national id cards. for extra security we better register people's biometrics too. better yet, link all gov interactions (traffic stop, flights, etc) to a national DB. also, for the kids. jumping the shark would be to implant RFID tags, so I won't go there.
if it has a big fancy video card then it must be outputting a signal, no? Also wouldn't a big beefy graphics card go to waste when connected to a wireless monitor?
are you using a really old ipad or something? I run ios8 on an ipad 4 (~2 years old), and it is smooth like butter. I've never had the problems you describe. I will say that I agree that some websites can be a bit wonky, but I don't think that's necessarily a deficiency on Apple's end, just an artifact of this weird transition to mobile.
We're a small company with just one overworked IT guy, so I don't think he was actively checking the logs and monitoring which computers were trying to access torrent ports. I chose not to draw attention to the fact that I was trying to torrent files (regardless of the justification), let alone be a person who was seen as complaining about it. That would raise eyebrows and be sent up the flagpole.
I ended up using Sync.com, which is a dropbox competitor based in Canada. I'm not naïve enough to think that NSA doesn't have access to their shizz, but at least they don't have Condi on the board. More of a protest vote on my part more than anything.
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+1. This is why other industry players (carriers / CurrentC / google wallet) are so upset about apple pay - while most people make money off of tracking what people buy, Apple doesn't even have access to the info (any purchases go straight to the CC and don't pass through apple servers.
So if you want my app, get Android. If you don't have one, sucks to be you.
remains to be seen... let me judge on the quality and utility of the app and I'll be the one to determine if it sucks to be me!
as pointed out above, a developer can distribute to up to 100 "test flight" devices without going through app store review.
its a two edge sword. lets say you make an app that fills a niche in apple's offerings. They may duplicate your functionality and freeze you out (by banning your app as duplicative or making themselves the default). Or they may snap you up for a couple $m and integrate you directly.
what's interesting about this is there's a long tail of reasons why things get rejected. The top ten rejection reasons comprise just 55% of rejections. This means that 45% are rejected for reasons other than the top ten, and any reason that's not in the top ten accounts for less than 4% of rejections.
"never let a good opportunity go to waste" - Pentagon. Not surprised that there are forces at work to use this epidemic as a chance to bring US one step closer to a military state. Good to know they have support on /. too.
Why does the summary link to an Al Jazeera article discussing domestic matters, especially when Al Jazeera themselves are just reporting on work that Rutgers did? Surely, NYTimes, WaPo and others are reporting on this as well, and would be more authoritative.
There was an article in NYTimes recently, written by a mother whose autistic son had bonded with Siri. It was a very sweet story.
The fees are needed mostly to pay off credit card fraud
I'm pretty sure that the fees are mostly used for champagne, hookers and blow.
Mine dont
I applaud CVS and RiteAid for working with other retailers to provide an alternative to what I view as Apple's heavy-handed lock-in payment system.
Who'so locked in to what now? On the customer side, users of apple pay are locked in to Apple products. But on the email side, it's just a nfc terminal and any nfc payments system can participate.
The market will decide this just fine. By the time CurrentC actually comes to market (likely 12 months late and missing promised features) apple pay will already be deeply engrained and driving traffic to participating retailers. Then, once CurrentC is launched there will be a massive pwnage. Then, the current CurrentC backers will flee, people will get fired, and the system will die. Yes, the market works.
+1 for calling out the heart of the matter. I'm surprised they didn't mention CurrentC in the summary.
There is no enemy, since the US isn't in a state of war with anybody.
I thought we were at war with Eastasia? Or was it Eurasia? I'm so confused.
dude that's kind of harsh. why all the hate for a guy who's just doing his thing? he didn't do anything to you.
That the process of building these browsers from scratch is somewhat arcane will come as no surprise to any experienced developer. But that it's not so arcane that it's impractical to figure out is good news.
it sounded very impractical. FTFS: "these are complex pieces of software, each of them with rather idiosyncratic build systems, and that you should consider 100GB of disk space to build all the browsers, a few hours of download, and be prepared to learn lots of new, rather specific tools."" I'd say it's good that open source browsers are not impossible to build. But this is no apt-get or whatever people say.
no worries this can still get dystopian on this. probably the best way for NSTIC to secure people's records are through a national id cards. for extra security we better register people's biometrics too. better yet, link all gov interactions (traffic stop, flights, etc) to a national DB. also, for the kids. jumping the shark would be to implant RFID tags, so I won't go there.
if it has a big fancy video card then it must be outputting a signal, no? Also wouldn't a big beefy graphics card go to waste when connected to a wireless monitor?
close... earth radius is ~6,000km, not 40,000km!) Saturn is 50,000 km, Neptune is 25,00km.
I don't think the mir is up that high. it's probably more like 400km, no? geosync must be about 50k km. The moon 1m km?
Hadn't heard anything of this before today, I'll have to look for videos. I guess he didn't want to draw any attention.
well the other guys needed to be publicity whores to raise the needed cash, but this guy just paid for it out of his own pocket.
the dessert druggies.
mmm dessert drugs, you know, for after dinner. that would be epic.
are you using a really old ipad or something? I run ios8 on an ipad 4 (~2 years old), and it is smooth like butter. I've never had the problems you describe. I will say that I agree that some websites can be a bit wonky, but I don't think that's necessarily a deficiency on Apple's end, just an artifact of this weird transition to mobile.
We're a small company with just one overworked IT guy, so I don't think he was actively checking the logs and monitoring which computers were trying to access torrent ports. I chose not to draw attention to the fact that I was trying to torrent files (regardless of the justification), let alone be a person who was seen as complaining about it. That would raise eyebrows and be sent up the flagpole.
I ended up using Sync.com, which is a dropbox competitor based in Canada. I'm not naïve enough to think that NSA doesn't have access to their shizz, but at least they don't have Condi on the board. More of a protest vote on my part more than anything.
To borrow from Samuel Johnson's quip, he was like a dog walking on its hind legs: It wasn't done well, but it was a surprise to see it done at all.
Maybe his language ability is like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it.