What most people think of as "navigation" in this context is turn-by-turn voice guidance like you get from a standalone GPS unit, from Google Navigation on Android or from any number of 3rd party apps for iOS. The stock maps applet on iOS does not give you turn-by-turn voice guidance.
The kind of "navigation" you get from the Maps app might be great for walkers and passable if you have a passenger in the car but without the turn-by-turn view and the voice guidance, its not really possible to use it to navigate your car.
We already have Sony who are both a tech company AND a media company and the media side clearly rules the roost there.
Remember when Sony was cool and made things like the Walkman, the Betamax video player (famous because of the victory by Sony in "Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc" that found recording of TV to watch later to be legal) and the 3 & 1/2 inch floppy disk.
That was before they bought CBS Records & Columbia Pictures (and later BMG records and a stake in MGM) and became a media company that happens to make consumer electronics.
I dont support those who think that shooting people or blowing people up is acceptable but I do believe that the Palestinians have as much right to a state/homeland as the Israelis or anyone else. If the Israelis had stuck to the borders set by the UN in the the late 1940s (and if Palestine had done likewise) this whole mess wouldn't have been such a big problem.
There may be evidence to suggest that Cannabis is addictive or that its bad for you or whatever. But I can walk into a supermarket/bottle shop and find about a dozen things, all of which are legal to buy and use and all of which are just as bad, if not worse, than Cannabis. I believe that instead of banning Cannabis, they should: 1.Legalize it 2.Regulate it and only allow it to be grown and packaged by licensed producers (similar to how Tobacco is regulated). 3.Stick a big tax on it 4.Introduce any laws necessary to make it a criminal offense to drive or do whatever else under the influence of Cannabis if doing those things puts other peoples lives at risk. Also introduce laws to make it illegal to smoke Cannabis anywhere its already illegal to smoke Tobacco (so that no-one has to worry about second-hand-pot-smoke) 5.Require the Cannabis product to only be sold through special outlets and be packaged in plain packages with absolutely no promotion or advertizing allowed. 6.Require warnings all over the sales outlet telling people of all the negative consequences of consuming it. and 7.Run education campaigns telling people how bad it is. If, after being told how bad it is people STILL want to consume it and their actions in consuming it do not impact other people in any way, let them consume it.
And this is comming from someone who had a family member with cannabis related problems and has seen what that stuff can do who believes that making it legal will reduce crime (as people wont have to steal to get money to buy pot). It will also stop drug dealers from using pot as a gateway to hard drugs like Ice or Heroin or Crack.
I see no reason someone couldn't invent a near-universal PROM programmer (and reader) using a suitable microcontroler. Give it a USB port so you can talk to it and send data to it and a large socket or header with lots of pins. Wire the pins in the header/socket up to cover all the possible pins the roms you want to read/write are using have (e.g. address lines, control lines, data lines, different power voltages etc) and then for each ROM type you want to read, build an adapter with the right chip socket and some wires to connect the chip socket pins to the right pins on the header/socket.
I have car dealer friends who have said that the Chinese cars now available in Australia (from Great Wall, Cherry and Geely) will likely never improve in quality in the way the Korean and Japanese cars did because the chinese cars are just made up of bits of other cars technology licensed, stolen, copied or otherwise obtained rather than being a whole coherent car.
I mean "windows product activation like functionality" So basically if the program isn't a valid license, it stops working. But in a way that isn't instantly visible to the operator of the software/appliance.
I see "EU v. Microsoft II" The EU is more likely to care (especially if pressured by those companies in the EU that make or sell open source software and OSs) than the US is.
A company like this should introduce Windows Product Activation functionality. Any license that isn't valid (e.g. pirate copies or those in countries where it isn't allowed to sell the software), they can blacklist it and make it so that it does not actually censor anything. (or update its censor list)
Can someone tell me how IE10 in Windows 8 will be any different to IE9 in Windows 7 regarding what browsers users use or how they choose that browser?
IE9 is part of Windows 7 but I am free to choose other browsers if I want (just as I was on Windows XP and other versions of Windows before it, having never used IE as my primary browser)
Fact is, parts of IE are used by all sorts of OS components and applications (Microsoft and otherwise) as a networking library and rendering engine (e.g. MSN, Media Player, Explorer, Windows Update, Office, Visual Studio, HTML help and many many third party applications).
Apple is on a mission to DESTROY Android in any way it can. Why? Because Android is the only platform that is any kind of real threat to the iPhone and iPad.
And if someone does the same to you in reverse, tie em up in the courts for so long that their product is obsolete before it reaches the hands of consumers.
Here in Australia, I am paying about 8 bucks for mince, 2 bucks for pasta sauce and about 2 bucks for pasta. That gives me 4 servings of Spaghetti Bolognese (or more likely 5 if you didnt have huge servings) So that's about $15 if you count the small amount of oil and other things used in it. Call it $3 per person (assuming you are drinking water). If I looked, I could find other meals that are just as good value.
I dont go to McDonalds but I do go to Hungry Jacks (Aussie name for Burger King) and I would find it hard to get a hamburger (let alone a meal) for $3 (even buying the multi-person boxes would be more expensive than the $15 price for the food)
Going to KFC and buying a "family meal", you would be lucky to get 4-5 people worth of KFC for less than $20
And the spaghetti is much better for you than the fast food. (complex carbs in the pasta, iron in the meat and basically no sugar or other sweetener)
The biggest problem is that the food that is cheap is not generally the best food for people to be eating.
When its possible to feed a family at McDonalds for LESS than it would cost to feed that same family making a proper meal from good raw ingredients, there must be SOMETHING totally screwed up.
US agricultural policies are one of the major causes of obesity in the US.
I suspect that the latter issue (licensing) is going to be a problem for anyone who wants to move in because of the 800lb gorilla in the form of Telstra and specifically BigPond Movies. They have big deals with content producers (some of which may be exclusive deals) plus you can watch the content on your TV if you have a Telstra set-top-box (T-Box) or a compatible TV (some LG and Samsung models from the look of it). Plus if you are with BigPond for internet you get the movies quota free.
The biggest problem for netflix would be getting content deals without bumping into exclusivity deals that content producers have done with BigPond and other streaming services, with Foxtel/Austar (Pay TV) or with the free-to-air networks.
For one they need to change the way consolidation works and the way interest rates are calculated on student loans.
All student loans should be paid back based on the principle as it was at the time the loan was taken out and the current federal reserve interest rates. The whole "fixed-interest-rate" stuff has to go IMO.
Changes to the way loans are handled in bankruptcy proceedings are also necessary. What those changes are I dont know.
As for those who say the private sector should take over, why would any private sector lender lend you that much money for college given there is no guarantee of if/when the loan will be repaid So the only way to get the lenders to do it is for some sort of government involvement (e.g. subsidies, government backing up the loans and funding any that dont get repaid, laws requiring lenders to loan to students, whatever)
Except that the DMCA clearly provides not just a take-down procedure but also a counter-claim procedure where people can say "no, this isn't a violation", the hosting site can put it back and is then legally immune from being sued by whoever alleges copyright claims.
Did the guy who made the parody video file a proper DMCA section 512(c) put-back notice? If so, YouTube is required to tell Universal of the filed put-back notice and if Universal does not file an appropriate lawsuit against the guy who made the parody, YouTube is required to reinstate the content.
IANAL so I dont know exactly whats going on but this is my limited understanding of the DMCA
As an Aussie, I strongly agree with what is said. Sell me the content I want in a timely fashion and in a way that does not require expensive subscriptions for all sorts of content I dont want (e.g. Pay TV) to get it and I will buy it.
They tried this in the UK after the last UK election with a site collecting ideas for things the government should do. I dont think the UK government has listened to a single idea from that site (if they have, its likely something they were planning to do anyway)
If you get rid of all the loopholes and deductions and funky stuff, figuring out what is "income" becomes easier.
For example, eliminating capital gains tax and taxing capital gains as income means you no longer need complex mechanisms and laws to figure out whether something is a "capital gain" or whether its income.
Eliminating all the deductions makes the system simpler too since all you need to do is to list all your income for the year and which category it falls under (e.g. "wages", "gambling winnings", "dividends", "
Another idea would be to eliminate the complexity surrounding contest winnings/giveaways/gifts and to say that those no longer count as winnings. Like that guy who won a once-in-a-lifetime trip to space but couldn't take it because they couldn't afford the huge tax bill it would have left them with. Or those people who get given cars on Oprah and then have to declare them as income.
Keep the tax on gambling winnings and require the casinos/betting shops/lotteries agents to remit the 9% income tax to the government directly before you get your winnings.
Corporate tax would be simple too, it would just be a flat 9% on whatever number is listed in the "profit" column after whatever gets classed as "income" gets taken out (so money paid to owners of the company and taxed at the 9% income rate doesn't get taxed at the 9% corporate rate)
Figuring out what constitutes a "sale" is easy too, you just tax everything people buy. Buy a couch? 9% tax. Buy a car? 9% tax. Buy a house? 9% tax. Buy a candy bar? 9% tax. Buy a beer? 9% tax. Buy a haircut? 9% tax. Buy a restaurant meal? 9% tax. Buy services from a plumber? 9% tax. Buy internet service? 9% tax. Buy a stay in a hotel room? 9% tax. Buy a hotel? 9% tax. Simple as that.
Require the 9% tax to be calculated and collected at the time of purchase and listed on invoices, receipts etc and then remitted to the government by the seller.
Because its a flat 9% on everything, its simple for any business/entity to work out how much tax they need to give the government, whether they are a part-time eBay seller or a multinational corporation.
It may not be a bug if its "by design" but that doesn't mean the design is fixed and can't be changed as a result of users submitting enhancement requests...
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What most people think of as "navigation" in this context is turn-by-turn voice guidance like you get from a standalone GPS unit, from Google Navigation on Android or from any number of 3rd party apps for iOS. The stock maps applet on iOS does not give you turn-by-turn voice guidance.
The kind of "navigation" you get from the Maps app might be great for walkers and passable if you have a passenger in the car but without the turn-by-turn view and the voice guidance, its not really possible to use it to navigate your car.
We already have Sony who are both a tech company AND a media company and the media side clearly rules the roost there.
Remember when Sony was cool and made things like the Walkman, the Betamax video player (famous because of the victory by Sony in "Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc" that found recording of TV to watch later to be legal) and the 3 & 1/2 inch floppy disk.
That was before they bought CBS Records & Columbia Pictures (and later BMG records and a stake in MGM) and became a media company that happens to make consumer electronics.
I dont support those who think that shooting people or blowing people up is acceptable but I do believe that the Palestinians have as much right to a state/homeland as the Israelis or anyone else.
If the Israelis had stuck to the borders set by the UN in the the late 1940s (and if Palestine had done likewise) this whole mess wouldn't have been such a big problem.
There may be evidence to suggest that Cannabis is addictive or that its bad for you or whatever.
But I can walk into a supermarket/bottle shop and find about a dozen things, all of which are legal to buy and use and all of which are just as bad, if not worse, than Cannabis.
I believe that instead of banning Cannabis, they should:
1.Legalize it
2.Regulate it and only allow it to be grown and packaged by licensed producers (similar to how Tobacco is regulated).
3.Stick a big tax on it
4.Introduce any laws necessary to make it a criminal offense to drive or do whatever else under the influence of Cannabis if doing those things puts other peoples lives at risk. Also introduce laws to make it illegal to smoke Cannabis anywhere its already illegal to smoke Tobacco (so that no-one has to worry about second-hand-pot-smoke)
5.Require the Cannabis product to only be sold through special outlets and be packaged in plain packages with absolutely no promotion or advertizing allowed.
6.Require warnings all over the sales outlet telling people of all the negative consequences of consuming it.
and 7.Run education campaigns telling people how bad it is.
If, after being told how bad it is people STILL want to consume it and their actions in consuming it do not impact other people in any way, let them consume it.
And this is comming from someone who had a family member with cannabis related problems and has seen what that stuff can do who believes that making it legal will reduce crime (as people wont have to steal to get money to buy pot). It will also stop drug dealers from using pot as a gateway to hard drugs like Ice or Heroin or Crack.
Actually, if you can fool Apples servers into thinking you have a 4s (by modifying what goes out over the network) then you can get it working.
I see no reason someone couldn't invent a near-universal PROM programmer (and reader) using a suitable microcontroler. Give it a USB port so you can talk to it and send data to it and a large socket or header with lots of pins. Wire the pins in the header/socket up to cover all the possible pins the roms you want to read/write are using have (e.g. address lines, control lines, data lines, different power voltages etc) and then for each ROM type you want to read, build an adapter with the right chip socket and some wires to connect the chip socket pins to the right pins on the header/socket.
I have car dealer friends who have said that the Chinese cars now available in Australia (from Great Wall, Cherry and Geely) will likely never improve in quality in the way the Korean and Japanese cars did because the chinese cars are just made up of bits of other cars technology licensed, stolen, copied or otherwise obtained rather than being a whole coherent car.
I mean "windows product activation like functionality"
So basically if the program isn't a valid license, it stops working. But in a way that isn't instantly visible to the operator of the software/appliance.
I see "EU v. Microsoft II"
The EU is more likely to care (especially if pressured by those companies in the EU that make or sell open source software and OSs) than the US is.
A company like this should introduce Windows Product Activation functionality. Any license that isn't valid (e.g. pirate copies or those in countries where it isn't allowed to sell the software), they can blacklist it and make it so that it does not actually censor anything. (or update its censor list)
Can someone tell me how IE10 in Windows 8 will be any different to IE9 in Windows 7 regarding what browsers users use or how they choose that browser?
IE9 is part of Windows 7 but I am free to choose other browsers if I want (just as I was on Windows XP and other versions of Windows before it, having never used IE as my primary browser)
Fact is, parts of IE are used by all sorts of OS components and applications (Microsoft and otherwise) as a networking library and rendering engine (e.g. MSN, Media Player, Explorer, Windows Update, Office, Visual Studio, HTML help and many many third party applications).
Apple is on a mission to DESTROY Android in any way it can. Why? Because Android is the only platform that is any kind of real threat to the iPhone and iPad.
And if someone does the same to you in reverse, tie em up in the courts for so long that their product is obsolete before it reaches the hands of consumers.
Here in Australia, I am paying about 8 bucks for mince, 2 bucks for pasta sauce and about 2 bucks for pasta. That gives me 4 servings of Spaghetti Bolognese (or more likely 5 if you didnt have huge servings) So that's about $15 if you count the small amount of oil and other things used in it. Call it $3 per person (assuming you are drinking water). If I looked, I could find other meals that are just as good value.
I dont go to McDonalds but I do go to Hungry Jacks (Aussie name for Burger King) and I would find it hard to get a hamburger (let alone a meal) for $3 (even buying the multi-person boxes would be more expensive than the $15 price for the food)
Going to KFC and buying a "family meal", you would be lucky to get 4-5 people worth of KFC for less than $20
And the spaghetti is much better for you than the fast food. (complex carbs in the pasta, iron in the meat and basically no sugar or other sweetener)
The biggest problem is that the food that is cheap is not generally the best food for people to be eating.
When its possible to feed a family at McDonalds for LESS than it would cost to feed that same family making a proper meal from good raw ingredients, there must be SOMETHING totally screwed up.
US agricultural policies are one of the major causes of obesity in the US.
I suspect that the latter issue (licensing) is going to be a problem for anyone who wants to move in because of the 800lb gorilla in the form of Telstra and specifically BigPond Movies.
They have big deals with content producers (some of which may be exclusive deals) plus you can watch the content on your TV if you have a Telstra set-top-box (T-Box) or a compatible TV (some LG and Samsung models from the look of it). Plus if you are with BigPond for internet you get the movies quota free.
The biggest problem for netflix would be getting content deals without bumping into exclusivity deals that content producers have done with BigPond and other streaming services, with Foxtel/Austar (Pay TV) or with the free-to-air networks.
Find an institution that didnt get involved in all the high-risk assets. Maybe a credit union.
For one they need to change the way consolidation works and the way interest rates are calculated on student loans.
All student loans should be paid back based on the principle as it was at the time the loan was taken out and the current federal reserve interest rates. The whole "fixed-interest-rate" stuff has to go IMO.
Changes to the way loans are handled in bankruptcy proceedings are also necessary. What those changes are I dont know.
As for those who say the private sector should take over, why would any private sector lender lend you that much money for college given there is no guarantee of if/when the loan will be repaid So the only way to get the lenders to do it is for some sort of government involvement (e.g. subsidies, government backing up the loans and funding any that dont get repaid, laws requiring lenders to loan to students, whatever)
Except that the DMCA clearly provides not just a take-down procedure but also a counter-claim procedure where people can say "no, this isn't a violation", the hosting site can put it back and is then legally immune from being sued by whoever alleges copyright claims.
Did the guy who made the parody video file a proper DMCA section 512(c) put-back notice? If so, YouTube is required to tell Universal of the filed put-back notice and if Universal does not file an appropriate lawsuit against the guy who made the parody, YouTube is required to reinstate the content.
IANAL so I dont know exactly whats going on but this is my limited understanding of the DMCA
As an Aussie, I strongly agree with what is said. Sell me the content I want in a timely fashion and in a way that does not require expensive subscriptions for all sorts of content I dont want (e.g. Pay TV) to get it and I will buy it.
They tried this in the UK after the last UK election with a site collecting ideas for things the government should do. I dont think the UK government has listened to a single idea from that site (if they have, its likely something they were planning to do anyway)
If you get rid of all the loopholes and deductions and funky stuff, figuring out what is "income" becomes easier.
For example, eliminating capital gains tax and taxing capital gains as income means you no longer need complex mechanisms and laws to figure out whether something is a "capital gain" or whether its income.
Eliminating all the deductions makes the system simpler too since all you need to do is to list all your income for the year and which category it falls under (e.g. "wages", "gambling winnings", "dividends", "
Another idea would be to eliminate the complexity surrounding contest winnings/giveaways/gifts and to say that those no longer count as winnings. Like that guy who won a once-in-a-lifetime trip to space but couldn't take it because they couldn't afford the huge tax bill it would have left them with. Or those people who get given cars on Oprah and then have to declare them as income.
Keep the tax on gambling winnings and require the casinos/betting shops/lotteries agents to remit the 9% income tax to the government directly before you get your winnings.
Corporate tax would be simple too, it would just be a flat 9% on whatever number is listed in the "profit" column after whatever gets classed as "income" gets taken out (so money paid to owners of the company and taxed at the 9% income rate doesn't get taxed at the 9% corporate rate)
Figuring out what constitutes a "sale" is easy too, you just tax everything people buy. Buy a couch? 9% tax. Buy a car? 9% tax. Buy a house? 9% tax. Buy a candy bar? 9% tax. Buy a beer? 9% tax. Buy a haircut? 9% tax. Buy a restaurant meal? 9% tax. Buy services from a plumber? 9% tax. Buy internet service? 9% tax. Buy a stay in a hotel room? 9% tax. Buy a hotel? 9% tax. Simple as that.
Require the 9% tax to be calculated and collected at the time of purchase and listed on invoices, receipts etc and then remitted to the government by the seller.
Because its a flat 9% on everything, its simple for any business/entity to work out how much tax they need to give the government, whether they are a part-time eBay seller or a multinational corporation.
Why would Samsung use a TI OMAP processor in the Galaxy Nexus when they have their own line of ARM SOCs?
It may not be a bug if its "by design" but that doesn't mean the design is fixed and can't be changed as a result of users submitting enhancement requests...