There are plenty of ways to get a C/C++ compiler for Windows that you dont need to pay for. You can download the Visual C++ Express Edition IDE which includes the same compiler as in the paid version (including all the optimization switches and stuff) You can download various Microsoft SDKs that include the C/C++ compiler Or if you dont like the Microsoft compiler, there is OpenWatcom, the free version of the Borland compiler and of course various GCC ports. And there are probably others I haven't listed.
It doesn't really have anything to do with Comcast owning NBC, it has to do with Comcast wanting to block services that threaten to kill their cable revenues (remember that you have to have Cable to get the Comcast streaming video)
how a court ruling in a US court has any bearing on the German legal system and why the German legal system (and whichever authorities are responsible for enforcing the decision by the German judge) has to even care what the US court said and cant just say "screw the US, we are going to enforce the ban starting right now"
Or is there some sort of international treaty that applies here?
The world is moving away from the idea of linear channels with schedules set by other people towards a world where you watch what you want when you want and the dinosaurs in the media companies are scared to death of it because they know that they will never make as much money in the post-broadcast world as they do now.
Its not just internet streaming, they dont like PVRs much either because firstly PVRs let you skip the ads (either with an ad skip button or just by fast-forwarding them) and secondly most stuff watched on PVRs isn't counted in the numbers used to figure out how much to charge advertisers and viewers for the channel/content.
Probably a diesel engine like most ships. Then again, Clive Palmer DOES own a few coal mines so he could probably use coal to run the thing like they did back then...
Here in Australia I have had a number of jobs and the only thing I have had that is in any way prying into my background was for my most recent job where I was working for a government department in a software engineering job (where I would have access to all sorts of personal details via the databases I was interacting with) and needed a standard police clearance (probably just to make sure I wasn't a pedophile or something where I would abuse the data I had access to). But I have never had to take a drug test, urine test, blood test, medical anything, give any details about my financial history, hand over passwords for anything personal or otherwise give details about my private life.
Your BMW example isn't the best example as that BMW M3 will have both import tariffs and fees (designed to protect what is left of the local car manufacturing industry) and luxury car tax (introduced by the Howard government in order to ensure the difference in the tax rate between luxury cars and normal cars remained the same under the GST as it did under the old wholesale sales tax system)
Lets look at a better example: Take the LEGO Star Wars Super Star Destroyer. In the US you can buy one for US$399.99. To buy one in Australia you would need to pay AU$699.99. Thats $300 more here in Australia than it is in the US. Is it any wonder more Aussies are importing everything from toys to books to car tires from overseas?
I know of people who have been able to get a set of 4 car tires bought from online stores in the USA, shipped to Australia AND fully fitted at a tire shop for LESS than it would have cost to buy those same tires in Australia. (and remember the shipping on car tires is expensive because they are heavy and bulky)
Forget the 1% vs 99% debate. Forget the economic debates. Forget the debates over healthcare, abortion, contraception, the environment, climate change, trade, copyright, patents or anything else.
The #1 issue in the United States of America is that there is a government and congress in Washington that continues to pass laws and carry out acts that violate the civil liberties and constitutionally protected rights of ordinary Americans, rights that George Washington and 100s of Americans fought to preserve.
And the American people are too brainwashed by TV news, newspapers and political propaganda to notice it and too busy watching Reality TV, and eating Big Macs to care.
My bank has a second layer of authentication (either one-time-use SMS codes or a second password) that is used any time you want to transfer to someone not on your "approved payees" list. They also have password entry done (both the main password and this extra password) through an on-screen keyboard where you have to click the letters and the keyboard moves slightly when you click it.
On the minus side, they have a stupid limit of 10 characters for the passwords.
As a user of the Nokia N900, I 100% agree with you that the Nokia Linux phones are GREAT and if a new Linux-based "open" phone came out (from Nokia or anyone else) that had a hardware keyboard as good as the one on my N900, I would buy one in a heartbeat to replace my current N900 when it eventually dies.
Android isn't the solution as all the phones with a hardware keyboard that doesn't suck are locked down and require unauthorized 3rd party hacks to open up (e.g. to run a new kernel)
Allowing "side-loading" where people can write their own stuff and load it on their own phones would allow people who might want to get into Windows Phone 7 development to play with things before taking the plunge and spending the money on a developer subscription to actually get your app out into the world.
If they implement the side-loading in a way that requires some effort and know-how to actually use (e.g. you have to install Visual Studio and the Windows Phone SDK in order to side-load) then they dont have to worry about people using side-loading to distribute their app and avoid the marketplace (ala the jailbroken-device alternative app stores on iOS). And if they sandbox side-loaded apps (very much possible since they are managed code.NET apps and only have access to what the.NET run-time lets them access), they can block apps that interfere with the hardware too much or that otherwise do things Microsoft doesn't want.
Unless the engineers at Boeing working on this are total idiots (which is highly unlikely) all that a cell tower would see (fake or otherwise) is an encrypted stream (probably a VPN) heading between the handset and some locked down secure server out there.
No, the correct response is for the Australian Government to stop acting like the 51st state and to start saying NO to America on things that dont directly benefit Australia.
It does NOT benefit Australia to store data belonging to Australian Governments (Federal, State and Local) or Australian Government departments on overseas hosts (both because of the risks of what foreign governments can do with that data if its on their soil AND because of the high costs for bandwidth between Australia and the rest of the world)
It does NOT benefit Australia to be so closely tied to the USA militarily (US troops in Darwin, spending big $$$ on US military hardware like the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter etc) and in fact we should be making closer military ties with countries to our north like Indonesia.
It does NOT benefit Australia to sign "free trade" agreements that require Australia to open its trade even further whilst allowing the USA to remain essentially closed to Australian agricultural exports through US tariff and subsidy programs.
It does NOT benefit Australia to give in to the demands of the big content producing companies when they ask for stronger protection for their content (weakening of ISP safe harbor, forced disconnection of ISP customers alleged to be pirates, ability to obtain ISP user details without presenting sufficient evidence that the user they want information on was in fact violating their copyright etc)
It does NOT benefit Australia to make it easier for law enforcement and intelligence agencies (Australian, US or otherwise) to spy on random people (Australian, US or otherwise) where there is no specific evidence to back up their claims that spying or wiretapping that person will allow the agency in question to catch or identify the bad guys.
Oh and it does NOT benefit Australia to send troops to far flung countries when there is not a threat to Australia or to the world at large. Afghanistan was a justified war initially but now its gone on for too long and we should let the democratically elected government of Afghanistan handle their own security. Iraq 1 was a justified war because Iraq did invade another country and at the time they did have powerful weapons that were a threat to other countries (SCUD missiles, chemical weapons etc) Iraq 2 was NOT a justified war as there was not enough evidence that Iraq at the time presented a threat to its neighbors or to the world at large.
The difference is that the Peoples Republic of China doesn't have a vested interest in stopping the US from taking over Iraq or Iran.
The PRC doesn't particularly like the idea of a nuclear armed North Korea but they like the idea of the land currently labeled "North Korea" controlled by the South Koreans or the US even less.
The root issue is clauses in the terms publishers signed with Apple that prohibit books being sold on a competitors store cheaper than they are on the iBookstore.
What the DOJ is looking into is evidence that the publishers and Apple colluded to set up the pricing model (the so-called "Agency" model) in order to allow the publishers to dictate pricing for eBooks and ensure that no ebookstore can sell below what the publishers want.
Is this guy retaining logs matching IP addresses to customers? Its hard to tell from TFA if he is but if he is not it becomes very very difficult to link a visit to a web page or a download from a Torrent back to the human being that carried out the action.
Many people (myself included) who hate Sony because of what their music arm, movie/TV arm and gaming arm have done are boycotting all of Sony.
I will not purchase ANY product that says Sony, Blu-Ray, BRAVIA, Sony Erricson, PlayStation, VIAO, CyberShot, Memory Stick or is otherwise connected to the Sony empire.
I am also going to boycott Sony produced films coming out this year including 21 Jump Street, The Vow, Men In Black 3 (not hard to boycott that one given that I am also boycotting Will Smith because his films suck) and that animated pirates one.
Not sure what the last Sony film I saw at the theater was, only film I have seen in the last 6 months that I cant identify the maker of was the Tintin animated film.
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There are plenty of ways to get a C/C++ compiler for Windows that you dont need to pay for.
You can download the Visual C++ Express Edition IDE which includes the same compiler as in the paid version (including all the optimization switches and stuff)
You can download various Microsoft SDKs that include the C/C++ compiler
Or if you dont like the Microsoft compiler, there is OpenWatcom, the free version of the Borland compiler and of course various GCC ports. And there are probably others I haven't listed.
It doesn't really have anything to do with Comcast owning NBC, it has to do with Comcast wanting to block services that threaten to kill their cable revenues (remember that you have to have Cable to get the Comcast streaming video)
how a court ruling in a US court has any bearing on the German legal system and why the German legal system (and whichever authorities are responsible for enforcing the decision by the German judge) has to even care what the US court said and cant just say "screw the US, we are going to enforce the ban starting right now"
Or is there some sort of international treaty that applies here?
The world is moving away from the idea of linear channels with schedules set by other people towards a world where you watch what you want when you want and the dinosaurs in the media companies are scared to death of it because they know that they will never make as much money in the post-broadcast world as they do now.
Its not just internet streaming, they dont like PVRs much either because firstly PVRs let you skip the ads (either with an ad skip button or just by fast-forwarding them) and secondly most stuff watched on PVRs isn't counted in the numbers used to figure out how much to charge advertisers and viewers for the channel/content.
Probably a diesel engine like most ships.
Then again, Clive Palmer DOES own a few coal mines so he could probably use coal to run the thing like they did back then...
I wonder how biased (and in which direction) something like The News Hour on PBS is.
Here in Australia I have had a number of jobs and the only thing I have had that is in any way prying into my background was for my most recent job where I was working for a government department in a software engineering job (where I would have access to all sorts of personal details via the databases I was interacting with) and needed a standard police clearance (probably just to make sure I wasn't a pedophile or something where I would abuse the data I had access to). But I have never had to take a drug test, urine test, blood test, medical anything, give any details about my financial history, hand over passwords for anything personal or otherwise give details about my private life.
Your BMW example isn't the best example as that BMW M3 will have both import tariffs and fees (designed to protect what is left of the local car manufacturing industry) and luxury car tax (introduced by the Howard government in order to ensure the difference in the tax rate between luxury cars and normal cars remained the same under the GST as it did under the old wholesale sales tax system)
Lets look at a better example:
Take the LEGO Star Wars Super Star Destroyer. In the US you can buy one for US$399.99. To buy one in Australia you would need to pay AU$699.99.
Thats $300 more here in Australia than it is in the US. Is it any wonder more Aussies are importing everything from toys to books to car tires from overseas?
I know of people who have been able to get a set of 4 car tires bought from online stores in the USA, shipped to Australia AND fully fitted at a tire shop for LESS than it would have cost to buy those same tires in Australia. (and remember the shipping on car tires is expensive because they are heavy and bulky)
Forget the 1% vs 99% debate.
Forget the economic debates.
Forget the debates over healthcare, abortion, contraception, the environment, climate change, trade, copyright, patents or anything else.
The #1 issue in the United States of America is that there is a government and congress in Washington that continues to pass laws and carry out acts that violate the civil liberties and constitutionally protected rights of ordinary Americans, rights that George Washington and 100s of Americans fought to preserve.
And the American people are too brainwashed by TV news, newspapers and political propaganda to notice it and too busy watching Reality TV, and eating Big Macs to care.
My bank has a second layer of authentication (either one-time-use SMS codes or a second password) that is used any time you want to transfer to someone not on your "approved payees" list.
They also have password entry done (both the main password and this extra password) through an on-screen keyboard where you have to click the letters and the keyboard moves slightly when you click it.
On the minus side, they have a stupid limit of 10 characters for the passwords.
Tandy no longer exists, having been re-badged by Woolworths as Dick Smith a few years back.
If you dont think the opposition is going to support this, you probably have rocks in your head.
The opposition is just as pro-big-media as the government is.
Even more reason for me to support the efforts to port a more recent Gecko run-time to the thing :)
Does this affect ARM platform devices like my Nokia N900?
As a user of the Nokia N900, I 100% agree with you that the Nokia Linux phones are GREAT and if a new Linux-based "open" phone came out (from Nokia or anyone else) that had a hardware keyboard as good as the one on my N900, I would buy one in a heartbeat to replace my current N900 when it eventually dies.
Android isn't the solution as all the phones with a hardware keyboard that doesn't suck are locked down and require unauthorized 3rd party hacks to open up (e.g. to run a new kernel)
Allowing "side-loading" where people can write their own stuff and load it on their own phones would allow people who might want to get into Windows Phone 7 development to play with things before taking the plunge and spending the money on a developer subscription to actually get your app out into the world.
If they implement the side-loading in a way that requires some effort and know-how to actually use (e.g. you have to install Visual Studio and the Windows Phone SDK in order to side-load) then they dont have to worry about people using side-loading to distribute their app and avoid the marketplace (ala the jailbroken-device alternative app stores on iOS). .NET apps and only have access to what the .NET run-time lets them access), they can block apps that interfere with the hardware too much or that otherwise do things Microsoft doesn't want.
And if they sandbox side-loaded apps (very much possible since they are managed code
Unless the engineers at Boeing working on this are total idiots (which is highly unlikely) all that a cell tower would see (fake or otherwise) is an encrypted stream (probably a VPN) heading between the handset and some locked down secure server out there.
No, the correct response is for the Australian Government to stop acting like the 51st state and to start saying NO to America on things that dont directly benefit Australia.
It does NOT benefit Australia to store data belonging to Australian Governments (Federal, State and Local) or Australian Government departments on overseas hosts (both because of the risks of what foreign governments can do with that data if its on their soil AND because of the high costs for bandwidth between Australia and the rest of the world)
It does NOT benefit Australia to be so closely tied to the USA militarily (US troops in Darwin, spending big $$$ on US military hardware like the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter etc) and in fact we should be making closer military ties with countries to our north like Indonesia.
It does NOT benefit Australia to sign "free trade" agreements that require Australia to open its trade even further whilst allowing the USA to remain essentially closed to Australian agricultural exports through US tariff and subsidy programs.
It does NOT benefit Australia to give in to the demands of the big content producing companies when they ask for stronger protection for their content (weakening of ISP safe harbor, forced disconnection of ISP customers alleged to be pirates, ability to obtain ISP user details without presenting sufficient evidence that the user they want information on was in fact violating their copyright etc)
It does NOT benefit Australia to make it easier for law enforcement and intelligence agencies (Australian, US or otherwise) to spy on random people (Australian, US or otherwise) where there is no specific evidence to back up their claims that spying or wiretapping that person will allow the agency in question to catch or identify the bad guys.
Oh and it does NOT benefit Australia to send troops to far flung countries when there is not a threat to Australia or to the world at large. Afghanistan was a justified war initially but now its gone on for too long and we should let the democratically elected government of Afghanistan handle their own security. Iraq 1 was a justified war because Iraq did invade another country and at the time they did have powerful weapons that were a threat to other countries (SCUD missiles, chemical weapons etc) Iraq 2 was NOT a justified war as there was not enough evidence that Iraq at the time presented a threat to its neighbors or to the world at large.
The difference is that the Peoples Republic of China doesn't have a vested interest in stopping the US from taking over Iraq or Iran.
The PRC doesn't particularly like the idea of a nuclear armed North Korea but they like the idea of the land currently labeled "North Korea" controlled by the South Koreans or the US even less.
The root issue is clauses in the terms publishers signed with Apple that prohibit books being sold on a competitors store cheaper than they are on the iBookstore.
What the DOJ is looking into is evidence that the publishers and Apple colluded to set up the pricing model (the so-called "Agency" model) in order to allow the publishers to dictate pricing for eBooks and ensure that no ebookstore can sell below what the publishers want.
Is this guy retaining logs matching IP addresses to customers? Its hard to tell from TFA if he is but if he is not it becomes very very difficult to link a visit to a web page or a download from a Torrent back to the human being that carried out the action.
Many people (myself included) who hate Sony because of what their music arm, movie/TV arm and gaming arm have done are boycotting all of Sony.
I will not purchase ANY product that says Sony, Blu-Ray, BRAVIA, Sony Erricson, PlayStation, VIAO, CyberShot, Memory Stick or is otherwise connected to the Sony empire.
I am also going to boycott Sony produced films coming out this year including 21 Jump Street, The Vow, Men In Black 3 (not hard to boycott that one given that I am also boycotting Will Smith because his films suck) and that animated pirates one.
Not sure what the last Sony film I saw at the theater was, only film I have seen in the last 6 months that I cant identify the maker of was the Tintin animated film.
If its a device AT&T sold, they can probably detect via IMEI.
No, AT&T will still detect that you have a "smartphone" (whatever their definition of that happens to be) and force you to buy a data plan.