As a consumer, in this poor economy we have going on here, if can get the 'same' thing for a 1/3 of the cost i don't think it matters much who's R&D budget was used. Well, if the "same" thing runs Windows Mobile instead of iPhone OS...
Perhaps you've heard of "games". There are dozens available for any given handset through the GIN store
I'm sure some people buy games here and there, but what beyond that? I'm doubting much.
I find that a little hard to believe too. Yes, it'll be cheaper to lose money by giving away free iPhone apps, but it's still a loss
A one-time loss of a few movie tickets worth of money to be able to distribute some really cool application to millions of people, even for free? Right, I can't imagine the appeal.
Heck, release one app for a buck, and if 143 people buy it, you already made a profit.
You see wars only cost money two ways. to pay for the troops, and to replace what you already pay for and used up. Missiles guns, bullets, etc fall into the last category. The USA stocked up for the cold war. Russian supplies got stolen and thinned out by arms dealers selling to countries around the world.
the USA kept their cold war stock pile. Weapons don't last forever. And the Cold War stockpile was mostly nuclear - that's why it stayed cold. As for your estimate on Tomahawks: Total Program 4 170 missiles ($11,210,000,000 - total program cost (TY$)). And that page hasn't been updated since at least 2000. At least replacing them is cheap - $500,000 current production Unit Cost.
Vietnam and North Korea had weapons support from china. iran and North Korea wouldn't last three months on their own. Palenstine can't keep isreal out, let alone anyone else. I think you mean Pakistan. Pakistan would fight bravely and even win a few battles but would be overcome.
China,India, and Russia though would. Any fight with either is just stupid. We walked over Iraq, and afganistan because they didn't have weapon support from russia or China. Actualyy, I think you couldn't even attack Iran right now, because you wasted all the high-tech weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq. How many Tomahawks does the US have left?
Cut the guy some slack. For some reason, people whose last name ends in "-ak", are just incapable of understanding the marketing side of Apple products. (Ya, I'm, lookin' at you John C.) Gee, I hope not - Know who Greg Joswiak is?
The undocumented part means that firefox developers can't use it. The "undocumented" part means that its use is there in publicly available code for everyone to see (else the author wouldn't have found it) and in fact use it. The "you are so stupid it hurts" part means that there is no need to use the "undocumented" API, because the documented way to do it does the exact same thing - and doesn't even need any changes to code.
True. It would have been much more accurate to say that Apple cripples every piece of software equally, and then secretly uncripples its own. Well, then Apple must be pretty stupid to tell everyone how to uncripple every app without a change to the code.
Right, because preventing software from redrawing more often than the monitor can possibly display it is crippling. Hey, I bet this complaint comes from the same people whining that the bouncing icon in the dock "wastes cycles".
Smuggled back into China? Rubbish!
Far, far more likely is that the factory that makes them is making a hell of a lot more than they are reporting to apple and selling these on the sly. So what is your explanation for the "missing" iPhones Apple sold but where not activated nor jailbroken? Alien collectors?
There's no need, but most Americans believed what the right wing told them about infinite growth, and somehow thought they could get rich whilst everybody else did the hard work.
The right wing? You must mean the Clintons instead, the most China-friendly couple you'd ever want to meet. During their eight years in power, China and offshoring flourished. Vast right wing conspiracy indeed. Does Wal-Mart board of directors ring a bell?
Are you trying to prove that Republicans are all a bunch of liars? Or just those who are like you?
"people who defend 'intellectual property' are usually the same people as the people who decry big government,"
What? Are you insane? People on all ends of the political spectrum defend IP.
I don't think so. Very few people defend 'intellectual property', and they're almost exclusively on the hard right.
It's always easy to deny others property when you don't have a chance to ever own something. Even easier when intellect (or lack thereof) comes into play.
Isn't encryption outside the case actually more secure? Yes, but it is also pretty much useless for a portable drive that is supposed to be pluggable into just about any computer - but only usable when the RFID key is present.
To the OS this is just an USB2 drive, unless the key is missing - then it's a brick, also to anyone who "finds" it. Or it would be, if it had decent encryption.
Would something like TrueCrypt, where you can easily look at the source, be a better solution? At the very least, it could avoid problems like these. Since we are talking about en-/de- cryption inside the hard drive case - no, not really.
> The U.S. only had to take one more step - starve the prisoners and put them in gas chambers
Um, sure, but that's a pretty significant step isnt it. "You're just the same as those guys who went round massacring the jews, except for the actual massacre bit..." Well, if you then take into account things like the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" or MKULTRA, the pretty significant step is just a few inches long.
They're not going to have a lot of luck hijacking it either. Funny, "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" was just on TV. Of course, they didn't have much luck.
When I was in elementary school, I came up with (44713649/1500)^(1/9), which I believe is accurate to 11 decimal places, and is useless for any purpose but proving that I don't get out much. You didn't get out much? You sound like you also didn't watch much TV, read much, or in fact didn't do much of anything but thinking about a nice approximation to Pi. Or you had a computer who didn't go out much.
You'll notice it's not the "Songwriting Industry Association of America", nor the "Music Publishing Industry Association of America"? Funny thing: the third party in this case (or second if you want to believe TFS) is called National Music Publishers' Association - no artists there either.
Anyway, an article far less screwed up then TFA (let alone the submission) is here.
Let's look at what the NMPA actually wants: instead of 9.1 cents per song, they want 12.5 cents per song - almost 40% more. Note that they don't want a share (percentage) of the price, they want a lump sum no matter what the song is sold for. Hell, that would even be fine for the RIAA's plans for online music sales - 12.5 cents off of a $2 song is a smaller loss for them than 9.1 cents off of 99 cents. But it also means that any savings between digital distribution vs. physical distribution will not be used to lower the price of the song, but shall go into the coffers of the NMPA.
I see the Apple aficionados are starting to repeat this. It's not so:
From the article -
For permanent digital downloads, NMPA is proposing a rate of 15 cents per track because the costs involved are much less than for physical products. The RIAA has proposed the outrageous rate of approximately 5 - 5.5 cents per track, and DiMA is proposing even less.
So instead of the 9 cents they get for a song on CD, they now want 15 cents (not percent) for a digital song download, no matter how much it costs. Not including anything for the performer.
IOW you cheer for somebody who wants to jack up the prices for digital music downloads 6 cent per song.
This 4% proposal is for Internet Radio, not for Digital Music Sales. From the article:
Incorrect. Apple doesn't want to pay anything For streaming music. The 4% is for permanent digital downloads. Greedy Assholes. They don't care what they would have to pay for streaming music, because they don't offer it you shithead. Another low in your Jihad against Apple.
kdawson got the story wrong. Apple doesn't have anything to do with the 9% to 8% reduction demanded by the RIAA. DiMA (Apple) just wants the Internet radio royalty structure to be the same as for ordinary radio. Nice trick to get more attention, kdawson! Not even that, what does Apple have to do with "Internet radio"? Apple doesn't do streaming audio.
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I'm sure some people buy games here and there, but what beyond that? I'm doubting much.
I find that a little hard to believe too. Yes, it'll be cheaper to lose money by giving away free iPhone apps, but it's still a loss
A one-time loss of a few movie tickets worth of money to be able to distribute some really cool application to millions of people, even for free? Right, I can't imagine the appeal.
Heck, release one app for a buck, and if 143 people buy it, you already made a profit.
You see wars only cost money two ways. to pay for the troops, and to replace what you already pay for and used up. Missiles guns, bullets, etc fall into the last category. The USA stocked up for the cold war. Russian supplies got stolen and thinned out by arms dealers selling to countries around the world.
the USA kept their cold war stock pile. Weapons don't last forever. And the Cold War stockpile was mostly nuclear - that's why it stayed cold. As for your estimate on Tomahawks: Total Program 4 170 missiles ($11,210,000,000 - total program cost (TY$)). And that page hasn't been updated since at least 2000. At least replacing them is cheap - $500,000 current production Unit Cost.
China,India, and Russia though would. Any fight with either is just stupid. We walked over Iraq, and afganistan because they didn't have weapon support from russia or China. Actualyy, I think you couldn't even attack Iran right now, because you wasted all the high-tech weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq. How many Tomahawks does the US have left?
Welcome to Google's translation oddities. "Appareil" = "apparatus", "appliance", "device" - "plane" = "avion", "appareil". Thus "plane" = "appareil" = "plane" - always.
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The right wing? You must mean the Clintons instead, the most China-friendly couple you'd ever want to meet. During their eight years in power, China and offshoring flourished. Vast right wing conspiracy indeed. Does Wal-Mart board of directors ring a bell?
Are you trying to prove that Republicans are all a bunch of liars? Or just those who are like you?By the second half of the 1980s, China had become the sixteenth largest trading partner of the United States, and the United States was China's third largest; in addition, over 140 American firms had invested in China. High-level exchanges, such as Premier Zhao Ziyang's visit to the United States and President Ronald Reagan's trip to China, both in 1984, and President Li Xiannian's 1985 tour of the United States demonstrated the importance both sides accorded their relations.
What? Are you insane? People on all ends of the political spectrum defend IP.
I don't think so. Very few people defend 'intellectual property', and they're almost exclusively on the hard right.
It's always easy to deny others property when you don't have a chance to ever own something. Even easier when intellect (or lack thereof) comes into play.To the OS this is just an USB2 drive, unless the key is missing - then it's a brick, also to anyone who "finds" it. Or it would be, if it had decent encryption.
Um, sure, but that's a pretty significant step isnt it. "You're just the same as those guys who went round massacring the jews, except for the actual massacre bit..." Well, if you then take into account things like the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" or MKULTRA, the pretty significant step is just a few inches long.
You'll notice it's not the "Songwriting Industry Association of America", nor the "Music Publishing Industry Association of America"? Funny thing: the third party in this case (or second if you want to believe TFS) is called National Music Publishers' Association - no artists there either.
Anyway, an article far less screwed up then TFA (let alone the submission) is here.
Let's look at what the NMPA actually wants: instead of 9.1 cents per song, they want 12.5 cents per song - almost 40% more. Note that they don't want a share (percentage) of the price, they want a lump sum no matter what the song is sold for. Hell, that would even be fine for the RIAA's plans for online music sales - 12.5 cents off of a $2 song is a smaller loss for them than 9.1 cents off of 99 cents. But it also means that any savings between digital distribution vs. physical distribution will not be used to lower the price of the song, but shall go into the coffers of the NMPA.
Read up on Whiney McDickhead, it sure is a Jihad for him.
From the article - So instead of the 9 cents they get for a song on CD, they now want 15 cents (not percent) for a digital song download, no matter how much it costs. Not including anything for the performer.
IOW you cheer for somebody who wants to jack up the prices for digital music downloads 6 cent per song.
Incorrect. Apple doesn't want to pay anything For streaming music. The 4% is for permanent digital downloads. Greedy Assholes. They don't care what they would have to pay for streaming music, because they don't offer it you shithead. Another low in your Jihad against Apple.