Tell that to all the people who can only get good service in all the places they go to on Verizon because the GSM carriers dont want to invest enough money to get the same coverage area as Verizon.
My Motorola e378i phone has no such requirements. I can make whatever java applets I like and download them to the phone (although being an i-mode phone, I have to write the applets with the DoJa SDK and put them on a web page somewhere instead of writing them with the normal SDK and uploading them with MIDWay)
Even if you live in america, you can still get a phone (either one that doesnt require signing or one that can be modified to not require signing). Some carriers (generally GSM carriers) dont require signing. Plus, you can always buy an unlocked non-carrier GSM phone and a GSM sim cart from the carrier of your choice and use that. Or you can buy a phone (from a carrier or otherwise) and modify or replace the software (either hacking it to remove the signature check or replacing the whole phone software with something that doesnt check signatures). Motorolas are particularly good when it comes to modifications (I should know, I own one:)
Basicly, anyone with a TV set or TV tuner card or whatever and a capable arial or cable or dish gets hit with the licence fee (like it is now).
People with normal PCs do not.
That way, anyone capable of watching BBC content coming over the air (i.e. normal TV programming) is paying for it. As for people moving to the internet, people who want to watch BBC internet programming would either need a TV licence (which would give them access) or a subscription to the BBC content. Problem solved and only those people who are capable of accessing BBC content (i.e. those with over-the-air capabilities to recieve it or those with access to the BBC web content) would be paying for it (which is the whole point of the licence system).
People who dont have a TV or pay the TV licence and who have a normal PC/mobile phone/whatever wouldnt be charged for content they are unable to access.
Here in australia, we pay tax and some of that tax pays for the ABC and SBS. Problem is, when its comming from tax, the government of the day can decide how much to give the ABC. So the ABC has to suck up to the government.
The BBC on the other hand gets all of its money directly from the licence fee and is therefore free of government interference.
The answer to all this is simple here. If you own a device that can recieve TV signals (e.g. a TV set with an arial or cable or sattelite dish or a PC with a TV tuner card and arial/cable/dish), you pay the TV licence. If you dont own that, you dont pay the TV licence.
Anyone who has paid the TV licence or who wishes to pay a subscription fee is then able to access the BBC online programming. Problem solved, anyone who is able to access BBC programming is paying their share.
Simple, if you own a TV set, you pay the licence as you do now. If you wish to access BBC programming online and you have paid the TV licence, you can do so. If you havent paid the licence, you pay to access the BBC content.
That way, anyone accessing BBC web content has paid for it and the BBC can continue to do what they have always done (offer grest programming free from interferance from government and from commercial interests)
This is the same as if the government decided it would give everyone free bus trips paid for by taxes. People who for whatever reason dont want to (or cant) take the bus (including car owners) would complain that their tax money is being spent on free bus trips for someone else.
Just get a no-restrictions GSM phone (even in america, getting a non-carrier phone is easy enough I believe) and a SIM card from the carrier you want and then develop away. No need to sign anything. There are probobly still APIs that you cant talk to but generally those APIs are private for good reasons (do you really want arbitrary java apps being able to read your phone book or download images (e.g. porn) and store them in your phones picture storage area?)
More than likely, the bad guy is going to want to kill you or at least injure you big time to prevent you from being able to call the cops or security or whoever before he can get into the building.
I wonder what this means for Rollercoaster Tycoon?
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Maybe this is why they have been so quiet on whether they are working on a new expansion pack for RCT3 or not...
Its like this: You are doing a task (say, writing some code) and your boss says that you need to deliver it by xyz date. So you deliver it by that date and it takes you whatever time it takes. Then your boss looks and sees that you spent x hours of that time reading the internet or playing games or whatever else other than working and assumes that if the employee wasnt "wasting company time" for those x hours, they could have delivered the item x hours earlier. Which is why they then ban "time wasting" items such as solitare and slashdot thinking it will increase productivity (it probobly wont though)
Online services are not responsible for what their users post (be it a message forum, want ads, job ads, for sale ads, auction site, classified ads, real-estate listings etc). If they are, then the law that covers that is broken.
Is the paperwork. Even if you have a licence from the copyright holder for every single minute of airtime, you have to fill in mountains of paperwork just to "prove" to the RIAA that you arent pirating their crap. Plus, if you DO want to play RIAA music, you have to pay far more than any over-the-air radio station would ever have to pay. The RIAA hates internet radio because it is close to the BEST way to find music you would never have otherwise find if you listen to a stream specific to the genre you care about.
But what happens when the computer has a built-in Trusted Computing chip that uses RSA to verify that the BIOS is correct before the system will boot. And, what happens when the BIOS manufacturer is the only one with the private key for that.
Dont think you can just disable it either, it wont be that easy once the manufacturers put it on the same die as important stuff like the PCI express controler. (You would probobly need an electron microsocope, a fully kitted out lab and a degree in eletrical engineering and integrated circut designing before you could even attempt to reverse engineer a modern chip like that)
Just try and defeat the protection then. (and dont think you can just brute-force, steal or otherwise obtain the RSA key either, look at the RSA signing key for XBOX games, that is one of the few aspects of the consoles security that HASNT been broken by the hackers)
Halo might not be the best FPS ever but it IS (AFAIK) one of the best FPSs with large open spaces (most FPSs I have played dont have large outdoor areas like Halo does)
What happens right now is that if you dont have a hardware accelerated driver for OpenGL installed, windows will use a 100% software OpenGL implementation (which implements pretty much no extentions or recent GL features). On Vista, the software implementation will be replaced with an implementation that implements more of the core GL features and extentions but does it on top of Direct3D.
In both cases, if you install the drivers from NVIDIA or ATI or whoever, you will still get full hardware accelerated OpenGL with all the extentions your vendor has chosen to provide. But, on Vista, using that will disable some of the 3D Accelerated Aeroglass UI crap. Even more to the point, the display vendors say it should be possible to build a driver that can handle both the Aeroglass UI AND OpenGL at the same time.
What would be bad about the chinese floating the yuan? Pretty much every other major capatilist economy has a floating currency with the value decided by market forces (US$, CAN$, Euros, Pounds, AU$, NZ$, Swiss Francs, Yen etc)
Anyone running an email server with more than a handfull of users should be running an email anti-virus checker on it anyway, to stop the email viruses before they even GET to the mailbox. My ISP runs virus filtering on the email and I havent seen an email virus in ages and any ISP that doesnt do the same doesnt deserve to be in business IMO.
Given the obvious cost savings, why do employers hate telecommuniting so much? Some employers seem to say that telecommuting is ok but not telecommuting 100% of the time which defeats most of the cost savings since having someone come in 3 days and work from home 2 days is probobly MORE expensive than having them come in to work for 5 days a week. On the other hand, having someone work from home 5 days a week is significantly cheaper than having them work in the office 5 days a week (since they dont even need a desk, office or cube)
But, the spare parts that are too big to fit on the russian capsules can be shifted into orbit by unmanned rockets large enough to carry them (and there are quite a few that fit that description)
Microsoft uses it, as do various other propriatory vendors.
Its only Open Source Software that misses out:( Perhaps we can convince Borland to give a licence for the patent that allows you to use it but only in code licenced under the GPL...
There WAS a cellphone that had iTunes on it (the Motorola E1 ROKR) but it wasnt a very good MP3 player OR a very good phone. Apple insisted on hobbling the E1 because they didnt want it to compete with the iPod.
Specifically, US patent 5,628,016 on structured exception handling. This patent is preventing the Wine, ReactOS, GCC and MingW people from supporting exception handling that is compatible with the Microsoft implementation.
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Tell that to all the people who can only get good service in all the places they go to on Verizon because the GSM carriers dont want to invest enough money to get the same coverage area as Verizon.
My Motorola e378i phone has no such requirements.
:)
I can make whatever java applets I like and download them to the phone (although being an i-mode phone, I have to write the applets with the DoJa SDK and put them on a web page somewhere instead of writing them with the normal SDK and uploading them with MIDWay)
Even if you live in america, you can still get a phone (either one that doesnt require signing or one that can be modified to not require signing). Some carriers (generally GSM carriers) dont require signing. Plus, you can always buy an unlocked non-carrier GSM phone and a GSM sim cart from the carrier of your choice and use that. Or you can buy a phone (from a carrier or otherwise) and modify or replace the software (either hacking it to remove the signature check or replacing the whole phone software with something that doesnt check signatures). Motorolas are particularly good when it comes to modifications (I should know, I own one
Go GSM and get the phone you want and not the phone the carriers want you to have.
I recon the first company to combine the coverage of a carrier like Verizon with no "feature locking" and an acceptable price tag will make a MINT.
Basicly, anyone with a TV set or TV tuner card or whatever and a capable arial or cable or dish gets hit with the licence fee (like it is now).
People with normal PCs do not.
That way, anyone capable of watching BBC content coming over the air (i.e. normal TV programming) is paying for it.
As for people moving to the internet, people who want to watch BBC internet programming would either need a TV licence (which would give them access) or a subscription to the BBC content. Problem solved and only those people who are capable of accessing BBC content (i.e. those with over-the-air capabilities to recieve it or those with access to the BBC web content) would be paying for it (which is the whole point of the licence system).
People who dont have a TV or pay the TV licence and who have a normal PC/mobile phone/whatever wouldnt be charged for content they are unable to access.
Here in australia, we pay tax and some of that tax pays for the ABC and SBS.
Problem is, when its comming from tax, the government of the day can decide how much to give the ABC. So the ABC has to suck up to the government.
The BBC on the other hand gets all of its money directly from the licence fee and is therefore free of government interference.
The answer to all this is simple here.
If you own a device that can recieve TV signals (e.g. a TV set with an arial or cable or sattelite dish or a PC with a TV tuner card and arial/cable/dish), you pay the TV licence.
If you dont own that, you dont pay the TV licence.
Anyone who has paid the TV licence or who wishes to pay a subscription fee is then able to access the BBC online programming. Problem solved, anyone who is able to access BBC programming is paying their share.
Simple, if you own a TV set, you pay the licence as you do now.
If you wish to access BBC programming online and you have paid the TV licence, you can do so.
If you havent paid the licence, you pay to access the BBC content.
That way, anyone accessing BBC web content has paid for it and the BBC can continue to do what they have always done (offer grest programming free from interferance from government and from commercial interests)
This is the same as if the government decided it would give everyone free bus trips paid for by taxes. People who for whatever reason dont want to (or cant) take the bus (including car owners) would complain that their tax money is being spent on free bus trips for someone else.
Just get a no-restrictions GSM phone (even in america, getting a non-carrier phone is easy enough I believe) and a SIM card from the carrier you want and then develop away. No need to sign anything. There are probobly still APIs that you cant talk to but generally those APIs are private for good reasons (do you really want arbitrary java apps being able to read your phone book or download images (e.g. porn) and store them in your phones picture storage area?)
More than likely, the bad guy is going to want to kill you or at least injure you big time to prevent you from being able to call the cops or security or whoever before he can get into the building.
Maybe this is why they have been so quiet on whether they are working on a new expansion pack for RCT3 or not...
Its like this:
You are doing a task (say, writing some code) and your boss says that you need to deliver it by xyz date.
So you deliver it by that date and it takes you whatever time it takes.
Then your boss looks and sees that you spent x hours of that time reading the internet or playing games or whatever else other than working and assumes that if the employee wasnt "wasting company time" for those x hours, they could have delivered the item x hours earlier.
Which is why they then ban "time wasting" items such as solitare and slashdot thinking it will increase productivity (it probobly wont though)
Online services are not responsible for what their users post (be it a message forum, want ads, job ads, for sale ads, auction site, classified ads, real-estate listings etc). If they are, then the law that covers that is broken.
Is the paperwork.
Even if you have a licence from the copyright holder for every single minute of airtime, you have to fill in mountains of paperwork just to "prove" to the RIAA that you arent pirating their crap.
Plus, if you DO want to play RIAA music, you have to pay far more than any over-the-air radio station would ever have to pay.
The RIAA hates internet radio because it is close to the BEST way to find music you would never have otherwise find if you listen to a stream specific to the genre you care about.
But what happens when the computer has a built-in Trusted Computing chip that uses RSA to verify that the BIOS is correct before the system will boot. And, what happens when the BIOS manufacturer is the only one with the private key for that.
Dont think you can just disable it either, it wont be that easy once the manufacturers put it on the same die as important stuff like the PCI express controler. (You would probobly need an electron microsocope, a fully kitted out lab and a degree in eletrical engineering and integrated circut designing before you could even attempt to reverse engineer a modern chip like that)
Just try and defeat the protection then. (and dont think you can just brute-force, steal or otherwise obtain the RSA key either, look at the RSA signing key for XBOX games, that is one of the few aspects of the consoles security that HASNT been broken by the hackers)
Halo might not be the best FPS ever but it IS (AFAIK) one of the best FPSs with large open spaces (most FPSs I have played dont have large outdoor areas like Halo does)
No, they are not.
What happens right now is that if you dont have a hardware accelerated driver for OpenGL installed, windows will use a 100% software OpenGL implementation (which implements pretty much no extentions or recent GL features).
On Vista, the software implementation will be replaced with an implementation that implements more of the core GL features and extentions but does it on top of Direct3D.
In both cases, if you install the drivers from NVIDIA or ATI or whoever, you will still get full hardware accelerated OpenGL with all the extentions your vendor has chosen to provide. But, on Vista, using that will disable some of the 3D Accelerated Aeroglass UI crap.
Even more to the point, the display vendors say it should be possible to build a driver that can handle both the Aeroglass UI AND OpenGL at the same time.
What would be bad about the chinese floating the yuan?
Pretty much every other major capatilist economy has a floating currency with the value decided by market forces (US$, CAN$, Euros, Pounds, AU$, NZ$, Swiss Francs, Yen etc)
Anyone running an email server with more than a handfull of users should be running an email anti-virus checker on it anyway, to stop the email viruses before they even GET to the mailbox.
My ISP runs virus filtering on the email and I havent seen an email virus in ages and any ISP that doesnt do the same doesnt deserve to be in business IMO.
Given the obvious cost savings, why do employers hate telecommuniting so much? Some employers seem to say that telecommuting is ok but not telecommuting 100% of the time which defeats most of the cost savings since having someone come in 3 days and work from home 2 days is probobly MORE expensive than having them come in to work for 5 days a week. On the other hand, having someone work from home 5 days a week is significantly cheaper than having them work in the office 5 days a week (since they dont even need a desk, office or cube)
But, the spare parts that are too big to fit on the russian capsules can be shifted into orbit by unmanned rockets large enough to carry them (and there are quite a few that fit that description)
Microsoft uses it, as do various other propriatory vendors.
:(
Its only Open Source Software that misses out
Perhaps we can convince Borland to give a licence for the patent that allows you to use it but only in code licenced under the GPL...
There WAS a cellphone that had iTunes on it (the Motorola E1 ROKR) but it wasnt a very good MP3 player OR a very good phone. Apple insisted on hobbling the E1 because they didnt want it to compete with the iPod.
Specifically, US patent 5,628,016 on structured exception handling. This patent is preventing the Wine, ReactOS, GCC and MingW people from supporting exception handling that is compatible with the Microsoft implementation.
I remember when Delphi first came out. It was light years ahead of Visual Basic at the time and not only that, it could use VB control libraries too.