Having an app signed is a good thing for business devices. It takes away the burden of verifying every single one developer of that 99cent flashlight app yourself. On the other hand I totally get the GPL3 motivation. So may be there is a meaningful way that resolves both challenges - the one of a user and of a tinkerer.
I am working in a big corp myself. Pretty much everybody who can get an iPhone drops BB. Only the geeks like me keep the BB.:-):-( And for me the reason is twofold: - I am a data analyst so my email and data really have to be secure. - And I am a Linux user at home and at work need to have Windows. So no Apple laptop and no use of iTunes too. My case is really a exception where I work, though. So no, general office folks don't care about all this stuff and get themselves an iPhone.
I totally hear what the article author is saying about the Playbook. Just to give BB credit, where it's due, development and deployment for BB _handsets_ is actually free. The only thing you have to pay for is for inclusion into the BB app store. And this, only after the 10th release currently. For the handsets you need a key to sing your apps if you want to use BB API. The keys registration fee was lifted just recently. To deploy you can put your app on any web-server and share the link for installation. Unlike iPhone there is no jailbreaking needed for "out of app store" install. I have just written a BB app and offering it for free under GPL for installation here
Download a free (as in the beer) app http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience/free-download and see for yourself what current commercial software can do. I load as much as a hundred GB into the RAM for analytics with this application. Just keep in mind that star schema is the best for this software. Get your tables from an existing database as flat files, load them "as is" and start analysis immediately.
Russia seems to fullfill the proverbial "In Soviet Russia" joke. So much "leaked" stuff is being published there in the official press that nobody cares anymore. Especially because authoryties were mostly not impressed either and did not do anything after the articles were published.
Interesting enough recent blog posts in the livejournal tend to get direct attention up to president and prime minister level (Medvedev/Putin). I would explain it with the elitarist stucture of Russian society. The online crowd represents mostly the middle/upper class of it and so gets real attention. Whereas newspapers and TV are for the unwashed masses.
Russian is my mothertongue and Google has an acceptable translation of the article (originally in Russian). The OP has got the citation in a wrong context. Second part of the article is almost completely dedicated to the situation in Russia and its dominant oil export industry.
FYI: Some are talking about the "oil damnation" of the country in Russia a.k.a. as Dutch disease. Good news is that current Russian President openly aknowleges it in a way. Shifting weight of the Russian export from natural resources to the innovative and industrial production is a topic for active discussion in Russian media. This is the context of that problem.
Very large companies need to have a disaster recovery plan in place, and contacts to call when downtime is costing money.... So you don't modify the code, and you buy the support package.
# Very large companies would die if they loose their key personnel, because it's the very reason they grew big. I doubt any vendor can do enough to rescue such a company in a case of a disaster.
If we need to by anything, best chances gets the poduct, which:
* is a good stable product
* has all the inner workings of the product
* has all the tools required to support the product
How about writing down who lives where, and what time they leave their home in the morning? How about doing that for John Lennon? Or may be Darl McBride?:-)
Should this to persist and people to get frightened by the harvesters, they would stop buying wifi devices. The whole market will be destroyed. This scandal is even good for Google in the long run, because this particular feature (wifi navigation) will not be banned completely. They just will have to obey certain rules (privacy laws).
and personally identifiable or communication data, this is what matters.
Technically you could fish out letters out of a letterbox. You are breaking the law if you do it even if you do not open and read them, right? Here Google was reading and even copying the messages. Also it was doing it over the property border lines, which may also be prohibited n Germany but IANAL.
IANAL but was reading up on this subject. In Germany there are laws governing harvesting of the personal information. So not all publicly accessible information may be collected and used in an automatic manner. Also the fact that one does not need to license the wifi installation does not mean mean that it is legal to establish a connection to a private network of somebody else. The keyword here is communication over the propertly border lines. This is just to give an idea what is problematic with Googles action, not a definitive explanation.
I had once to ask a question on the Handbrake irc channel. I was impressed by the intolerance of the developers to somebody asking an honest question. Handbrake counts its origin from BeOS, which I did not know at the time. http://www.bebits.com/app/3478 If this is the culture they had in BeOS developer community, no wonder Palm could not integrate them. Probably nobody could.
Handbrake has attracted my attention by being a complete tool from a user perspective. However I have ended up using the old good mencoder for my tasks. It does not crash, there are tons of documentation and howtos and it is much faster. My guess is that mencoder developers just listened to their end-users better.
If you are not willing to fight for what is right then don't be surprised if it fails
His point was that it has no sense to fight a fight in a community that accepts mediocre integrity. Because you can be a distinguished member, but of what community? This is what I got from TFA. And anyways, if one's to chose not to work, who is to blame him? In soviet Russia people work when they need food, not the other way around:-)
but at the time I knew her (1986-1972) could not be described as an unhappy person.
I have always suspected at least half of the mathematicians to be contra-motes (living back in time), just for a symmetrical reason. We physics know that time is not symmetrical, guilty be thermodynamics.
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Having an app signed is a good thing for business devices. It takes away the burden of verifying every single one developer of that 99cent flashlight app yourself. On the other hand I totally get the GPL3 motivation. So may be there is a meaningful way that resolves both challenges - the one of a user and of a tinkerer.
this was my comment, did not notice that FF4.0 have not took over the cookies from the 3.6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namcub
How long does it take before there is a hotkey combination for Emacs? And until it is applicable to humans?
I am working in a big corp myself. Pretty much everybody who can get an iPhone drops BB. :-) :-(
Only the geeks like me keep the BB.
And for me the reason is twofold:
- I am a data analyst so my email and data really have to be secure.
- And I am a Linux user at home and at work need to have Windows. So no Apple laptop and no use of iTunes too.
My case is really a exception where I work, though.
So no, general office folks don't care about all this stuff and get themselves an iPhone.
If BB platform becomes unattractive for lack of apps and goes belly up there will be nothing to compete for.
I totally hear what the article author is saying about the Playbook.
Just to give BB credit, where it's due, development and deployment for BB _handsets_ is actually free. The only thing you have to pay for is for inclusion into the BB app store. And this, only after the 10th release currently.
For the handsets you need a key to sing your apps if you want to use BB API. The keys registration fee was lifted just recently. To deploy you can put your app on any web-server and share the link for installation.
Unlike iPhone there is no jailbreaking needed for "out of app store" install.
I have just written a BB app and offering it for free under GPL for installation here
Download a free (as in the beer) app http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience/free-download and see for yourself what current commercial software can do. I load as much as a hundred GB into the RAM for analytics with this application. Just keep in mind that star schema is the best for this software. Get your tables from an existing database as flat files, load them "as is" and start analysis immediately.
Russia seems to fullfill the proverbial "In Soviet Russia" joke. So much "leaked" stuff is being published there in the official press that nobody cares anymore. Especially because authoryties were mostly not impressed either and did not do anything after the articles were published.
Interesting enough recent blog posts in the livejournal tend to get direct attention up to president and prime minister level (Medvedev /Putin). I would explain it with the elitarist stucture of Russian society. The online crowd represents mostly the middle/upper class of it and so gets real attention. Whereas newspapers and TV are for the unwashed masses.
So if you'd need to impeach Obama, Georgia is a place to go to?
Russian is my mothertongue and Google has an acceptable translation of the article (originally in Russian). The OP has got the citation in a wrong context. Second part of the article is almost completely dedicated to the situation in Russia and its dominant oil export industry.
FYI: Some are talking about the "oil damnation" of the country in Russia a.k.a. as Dutch disease. Good news is that current Russian President openly aknowleges it in a way. Shifting weight of the Russian export from natural resources to the innovative and industrial production is a topic for active discussion in Russian media. This is the context of that problem.
until recently ISP were reasonably quiet about your serving habits. Don't you agree?
#
Very large companies would die if they loose their key personnel, because it's the very reason they grew big. I doubt any vendor can do enough to rescue such a company in a case of a disaster.
If we need to by anything, best chances gets the poduct, which:
* is a good stable product
* has all the inner workings of the product
* has all the tools required to support the product
If this is higher at Red Hat than it is at MS or some other closed source OS player - then they are fine.
Why bothering with the market cap?
In Germany o2 offers the 3g package with 5 GB for 15 Euro. So 500mb seems to be more of a default data plan for smartphones.
If users can get 65 GB in a month. But the überusage seems to be the hidden marketing cost of advertising an unlimited plan.
How about writing down who lives where, and what time they leave their home in the morning? :-)
How about doing that for John Lennon?
Or may be Darl McBride?
Should this to persist and people to get frightened by the harvesters, they would stop buying wifi devices. The whole market will be destroyed. This scandal is even good for Google in the long run, because this particular feature (wifi navigation) will not be banned completely. They just will have to obey certain rules (privacy laws).
Prosecuting Google is the way to prevent it from becoming a "real issue"
and personally identifiable or communication data, this is what matters.
Technically you could fish out letters out of a letterbox. You are breaking the law if you do it even if you do not open and read them, right? Here Google was reading and even copying the messages.
Also it was doing it over the property border lines, which may also be prohibited n Germany but IANAL.
IANAL but was reading up on this subject.
In Germany there are laws governing harvesting of the personal information. So not all publicly accessible information may be collected and used in an automatic manner.
Also the fact that one does not need to license the wifi installation does not mean mean that it is legal to establish a connection to a private network of somebody else. The keyword here is communication over the propertly border lines.
This is just to give an idea what is problematic with Googles action, not a definitive explanation.
I had once to ask a question on the Handbrake irc channel. I was impressed by the intolerance of the developers to somebody asking an honest question. Handbrake counts its origin from BeOS, which I did not know at the time. http://www.bebits.com/app/3478 If this is the culture they had in BeOS developer community, no wonder Palm could not integrate them. Probably nobody could.
Handbrake has attracted my attention by being a complete tool from a user perspective. However I have ended up using the old good mencoder for my tasks. It does not crash, there are tons of documentation and howtos and it is much faster. My guess is that mencoder developers just listened to their end-users better.
./s
or something.
His point was that it has no sense to fight a fight in a community that accepts mediocre integrity. Because you can be a distinguished member, but of what community? :-)
This is what I got from TFA.
And anyways, if one's to chose not to work, who is to blame him? In soviet Russia people work when they need food, not the other way around
I have always suspected at least half of the mathematicians to be contra-motes (living back in time), just for a symmetrical reason. We physics know that time is not symmetrical, guilty be thermodynamics.