That the US carriers often seem to cripple the phones. Nokia have phones that are available in Europe and elsewhere but when they come to the US, the carriers have made them remove/disable features (front facing cameras for video calls since the US carriers seem to hate video calls for some reason, GPS functionality because US carriers want to charge thru the nose for navigation, WiFi etc) either because the carriers dont like those features or possibly (as in the case of removing actual hardware) because removing the feature lowers the cost of the phone.
Microsoft DID document a number of otherwise undocumented APIs. And they have internal processes to ensure that Microsoft programs like Office, FoxPro, Visual C++ etc dont call anything thats undocumented, see this: http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/archive/2005/01/26/361033.aspx
They did later document lots of network protocols but that was the EU and not the US that got them to do it.
It may well be that Microsoft keeps the Trident/MSHTML HTML rendering engine for all the things (HTML help, MSDN, Visual C++, games and game related support apps etc) that embed it and the decision will be which browser one wants to use for actual browsing.
If you are a web application developer, start by making 100% of your pages HTTPS. There is no valid reason to have, say, a web form on HTTP and the submit location HTTPS.
With HULU (and other legitimate ways to watch big media content online for free) on Boxee and other set-top-boxes, it gives people a lot less reason to keep paying for expensive cable/sattelite TV services. So people might drop those services or drop some of the tiers/channel options. Which is bad for the content providers (many of whom own cable providers and/or cable channels)
How does the RAV4 EV compare to the matching normal RAV4 in terms of things like speed, handling, acceleration, features (stereo, climate control etc) and the other things car buyers look for?
Can you still take a RAV4 EV to all the places a normal RAV4 can go? Can it handle the same as a normal RAV4 if you take it off road on dirt tracks or take it into snow or cold climates?
Even if you were to somehow wire a (hypothetical non existant device) into your optic nerves that could do image recognition on every card and feed it to a hyopthetical non existant device connected to your brain and tell your brain directly what move to make, the simple fact that you are winning far more than the laws of probability should suggest will give your game away.
Whilst it would be nice if OEMs shipped Firefox, Safari, Opera, SeaMonkey, Chrome or something else, fact is, they aren't. If they are going to ship IE, its FAR better that they ship IE8 instead of IE6. (IE8 is more standards compliant AND more secure than IE6)
If it has always applied, why haven't we seen some lawsuits against companies (like Motorola with the MOTOMAGX platform or HTC with the G1 for example) who lock their devices to only accept signed kernels.
If the bug is THIS serious and can cause such major problems, why are there any routers out there that haven't run the fix yet? Are they routers that are too important to bring down long enough to apply the fix? Too much risk involved (vs the smaller risk of actually being hit with the bug)? Too old to support the needed new version? Owners too stingy to pay for the new version that has the fix?
Could that argument be applied to any of the many devices that run Linux but which only accept signed kernels? Or is that a different matter altogether (which is where Tivoization and the GPLv3 comes in)
And urge them to support the Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act which will put an end to sweatshop labor by insisting that every product sold in the US must have been manufactured in a way that meets minimum standards for worker conditions. Point out that by not supporting this bill, they are effectively condoning sweatshops. (hey, it worked for George W. Bush and his "if you don't support the invasion of Iraq, you are supporting the terrorists" argument)
Find a country with the following conditions: 1.Stable government (long-running dictatorship might work even better than a democracy for this since a change of govt might mean a change of views on IP) 2.Doesn't need the US or "western countries" to stay alive (which is why Russia failed with allofmp3, they need the WTO and the west to stay around) 3.Has acceptable pipes to the rest of the world 4.Government doesn't respect western IP laws
Just put the illegal stuff in such a country.
Maybe Cuba could work, they have a stable communist government, no love for the US (and the US has no love back) and are building some new fiber lines AFAIK. Only question is whether the Cuban government respects western IP or not.
What would the big media companies do against a server in a country that didnt respect western IP laws, would they pressure the government to invade? Ram through laws requiring US ISPs to IP block/null route these servers?
The HTML rendering engine in Netscape 4.x is the WORST engine known to man. Whoever made the decision to throw that garbage away and write Gecko needs to be congratulated. Now if only Microsoft would realize how crap their own engine is and replace it with something else (written from scratch or grabbed from elsewhere)...
If you live in the US, write to your congressmen and senators. If you dont, write to your local elected official (in Australia, you can write to your local MP). Write a physical letter (politicians are a lot less likely to listen to an email than to a physical letter although the anthrax scare in the US may have changed things there). Say that you do not support piracy/copyright violations and that you are not arguing that it should be OK to violate someone else's copyright but that you believe that too much power is being given to large copyright holders to take down content/shutdown distribution methods even when that content or those distribution methods do not violate copyright law. Say that you think that copyright holders should be going after individual people who are violating their copyright as long as there is clear proof that a violation did take place. (remember that in most of the lawsuits to date, the proof hasn't been up to snuff which is why the RIAA keeps dropping them rather than risk a precedent against them) Say that you believe that if these new copyright protection measures are introduced that they should be available for ALL copyright violations regardless of the size of the violation, the size of the holder of the copyright or the financial status of the violator (if they are available for everyone and not just the big boys, then they could be used for GPL violations) Say that you do not support their position on the increasing powers being given to large copyright holders and that this issue will affect how you vote at the next election in your country (thats assuming that the relavent local representitive is in fact supporting such increased powers, if they dont support increased powers, tell them that you support their position on this issue and that their position on this issue will affect how you vote at the next election in your country)
Another option is to get a real petition going (on real paper with real people signing it) and send this to your local representitive. Come up with real world examples of how increased powers for large copyright holders will affect normal people.
A more likely option would be to have a combo option ala Cell where you have a single Core processor (i.e. one core from a Core 2 Quad) to do general game work and the other 3/4ths of the die space filled with Larabee cores dedicated to graphics and number crunching (picture physics code optimized for Larabee for example)
The GPU in Poulsbo is not an Intel GPU. Its a PowerVR GPU that Intel bought the license to and has included into its chipset. So Intel cant release the code without permission from PowerVR (something PowerVR wont be giving in a hurry)
I have a Motorola Z6 and it charges up exactly the same if I use the USB cable from my Maxtor external HDD as if I use the cable that came with the phone.
Motorola have been using USB on their phones for years. Many no-name MP3 players and other devices are using USB (mostly those that dont have a recharger and generally charge up over USB when plugged in) If everyone adopted USB (not just for power but data as well) then we wouldn't need 100s of different power adapters. (just one for USB and then those for devices that cant take power over USB like laptops)
The real push for this was from those stations concerned about of a loss of ad revenue when their analog stations go dark and all of a sudden a whole bunch of people cant watch them anymore.
Those networks who think they can switch and not loose too many eyeballs will do so. Those who cant (e.g. those that know that lots of people in their transmission area don't have digital yet) will delay the switch-off until more people get digital boxes.
Is there a reason Microsoft cant put BitLocker, AppLocker, Cornerstone, Direct Access, Branch Cache etc into Windows 7 Professional and then just have Enterprise be a volume license product (like XP pro corp was for XP pro)?
Is it purely a case of "those who need it can pay extra for Ultimate and get this stuff, those who dont shouldn't have to pay for it"? (i.e. money) Or is there more to it?
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That the US carriers often seem to cripple the phones. Nokia have phones that are available in Europe and elsewhere but when they come to the US, the carriers have made them remove/disable features (front facing cameras for video calls since the US carriers seem to hate video calls for some reason, GPS functionality because US carriers want to charge thru the nose for navigation, WiFi etc) either because the carriers dont like those features or possibly (as in the case of removing actual hardware) because removing the feature lowers the cost of the phone.
Microsoft DID document a number of otherwise undocumented APIs. And they have internal processes to ensure that Microsoft programs like Office, FoxPro, Visual C++ etc dont call anything thats undocumented, see this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/archive/2005/01/26/361033.aspx
They did later document lots of network protocols but that was the EU and not the US that got them to do it.
It may well be that Microsoft keeps the Trident/MSHTML HTML rendering engine for all the things (HTML help, MSDN, Visual C++, games and game related support apps etc) that embed it and the decision will be which browser one wants to use for actual browsing.
If you are a web application developer, start by making 100% of your pages HTTPS. There is no valid reason to have, say, a web form on HTTP and the submit location HTTPS.
With HULU (and other legitimate ways to watch big media content online for free) on Boxee and other set-top-boxes, it gives people a lot less reason to keep paying for expensive cable/sattelite TV services. So people might drop those services or drop some of the tiers/channel options. Which is bad for the content providers (many of whom own cable providers and/or cable channels)
How does the RAV4 EV compare to the matching normal RAV4 in terms of things like speed, handling, acceleration, features (stereo, climate control etc) and the other things car buyers look for?
Can you still take a RAV4 EV to all the places a normal RAV4 can go? Can it handle the same as a normal RAV4 if you take it off road on dirt tracks or take it into snow or cold climates?
Even if you were to somehow wire a (hypothetical non existant device) into your optic nerves that could do image recognition on every card and feed it to a hyopthetical non existant device connected to your brain and tell your brain directly what move to make, the simple fact that you are winning far more than the laws of probability should suggest will give your game away.
Whilst it would be nice if OEMs shipped Firefox, Safari, Opera, SeaMonkey, Chrome or something else, fact is, they aren't. If they are going to ship IE, its FAR better that they ship IE8 instead of IE6. (IE8 is more standards compliant AND more secure than IE6)
The same thing applies to Windows and Mac also, there comes a time when your hardware wont run the newest version of the OS.
If it has always applied, why haven't we seen some lawsuits against companies (like Motorola with the MOTOMAGX platform or HTC with the G1 for example) who lock their devices to only accept signed kernels.
If the bug is THIS serious and can cause such major problems, why are there any routers out there that haven't run the fix yet? Are they routers that are too important to bring down long enough to apply the fix? Too much risk involved (vs the smaller risk of actually being hit with the bug)? Too old to support the needed new version? Owners too stingy to pay for the new version that has the fix?
Could that argument be applied to any of the many devices that run Linux but which only accept signed kernels? Or is that a different matter altogether (which is where Tivoization and the GPLv3 comes in)
And urge them to support the Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act which will put an end to sweatshop labor by insisting that every product sold in the US must have been manufactured in a way that meets minimum standards for worker conditions.
Point out that by not supporting this bill, they are effectively condoning sweatshops. (hey, it worked for George W. Bush and his "if you don't support the invasion of Iraq, you are supporting the terrorists" argument)
Find a country with the following conditions:
1.Stable government (long-running dictatorship might work even better than a democracy for this since a change of govt might mean a change of views on IP)
2.Doesn't need the US or "western countries" to stay alive (which is why Russia failed with allofmp3, they need the WTO and the west to stay around)
3.Has acceptable pipes to the rest of the world
4.Government doesn't respect western IP laws
Just put the illegal stuff in such a country.
Maybe Cuba could work, they have a stable communist government, no love for the US (and the US has no love back) and are building some new fiber lines AFAIK. Only question is whether the Cuban government respects western IP or not.
What would the big media companies do against a server in a country that didnt respect western IP laws, would they pressure the government to invade? Ram through laws requiring US ISPs to IP block/null route these servers?
Who in this day and age takes cheques but wont take other forms of payment? (be it credit cards, cash, paypal or whatever else)
The HTML rendering engine in Netscape 4.x is the WORST engine known to man.
Whoever made the decision to throw that garbage away and write Gecko needs to be congratulated.
Now if only Microsoft would realize how crap their own engine is and replace it with something else (written from scratch or grabbed from elsewhere)...
Anyone who actually needs more than this version can provide will just buy (or pirate) Home Premium
If you live in the US, write to your congressmen and senators. If you dont, write to your local elected official (in Australia, you can write to your local MP). Write a physical letter (politicians are a lot less likely to listen to an email than to a physical letter although the anthrax scare in the US may have changed things there). Say that you do not support piracy/copyright violations and that you are not arguing that it should be OK to violate someone else's copyright but that you believe that too much power is being given to large copyright holders to take down content/shutdown distribution methods even when that content or those distribution methods do not violate copyright law. Say that you think that copyright holders should be going after individual people who are violating their copyright as long as there is clear proof that a violation did take place. (remember that in most of the lawsuits to date, the proof hasn't been up to snuff which is why the RIAA keeps dropping them rather than risk a precedent against them) Say that you believe that if these new copyright protection measures are introduced that they should be available for ALL copyright violations regardless of the size of the violation, the size of the holder of the copyright or the financial status of the violator (if they are available for everyone and not just the big boys, then they could be used for GPL violations) Say that you do not support their position on the increasing powers being given to large copyright holders and that this issue will affect how you vote at the next election in your country (thats assuming that the relavent local representitive is in fact supporting such increased powers, if they dont support increased powers, tell them that you support their position on this issue and that their position on this issue will affect how you vote at the next election in your country)
Another option is to get a real petition going (on real paper with real people signing it) and send this to your local representitive. Come up with real world examples of how increased powers for large copyright holders will affect normal people.
A more likely option would be to have a combo option ala Cell where you have a single Core processor (i.e. one core from a Core 2 Quad) to do general game work and the other 3/4ths of the die space filled with Larabee cores dedicated to graphics and number crunching (picture physics code optimized for Larabee for example)
Ok, my phone will only charge if I have the Motorola drivers loaded. But it will work with any mini-USB cable.
The GPU in Poulsbo is not an Intel GPU. Its a PowerVR GPU that Intel bought the license to and has included into its chipset. So Intel cant release the code without permission from PowerVR (something PowerVR wont be giving in a hurry)
I have a Motorola Z6 and it charges up exactly the same if I use the USB cable from my Maxtor external HDD as if I use the cable that came with the phone.
Motorola have been using USB on their phones for years.
Many no-name MP3 players and other devices are using USB (mostly those that dont have a recharger and generally charge up over USB when plugged in)
If everyone adopted USB (not just for power but data as well) then we wouldn't need 100s of different power adapters. (just one for USB and then those for devices that cant take power over USB like laptops)
The real push for this was from those stations concerned about of a loss of ad revenue when their analog stations go dark and all of a sudden a whole bunch of people cant watch them anymore.
Those networks who think they can switch and not loose too many eyeballs will do so. Those who cant (e.g. those that know that lots of people in their transmission area don't have digital yet) will delay the switch-off until more people get digital boxes.
Is there a reason Microsoft cant put BitLocker, AppLocker, Cornerstone, Direct Access, Branch Cache etc into Windows 7 Professional and then just have Enterprise be a volume license product (like XP pro corp was for XP pro)?
Is it purely a case of "those who need it can pay extra for Ultimate and get this stuff, those who dont shouldn't have to pay for it"? (i.e. money) Or is there more to it?