All "property" is government mandated and protected, why should patents be singled out?
Natural laws of ownership aren't going to help you when I come and take your car, is it? Whats the thing stopping me from taking your car? Government backed laws and the police force and courts to enforce those laws.
I'd agree with some of your points, except I had to investigate the potential of a BB version of an internal iPhone app last year - and fuck me, did the RIM documentation ever suck. Pages which changed content depending on how you arrived at them, pages with download links which resulted in 404 errors, pages which referred to tools which were out of date and no longer available. Eclipse plugins which didn't plugin without huge amount of effort, eventually resulting in having to revert to an older JDK (getting that from the Sun site was fun), and ending up with a Blackberry-plugin-orientated restart loop which takes manual hacking of the config file to resolve.
Entering the RIM code signing keys was a nightmare as well - the instructions tell you to do them one at a time (there are several for different things). Yeah, follow the instructions and the second time round you discover that the menu item you are told to use has vanished - Eclipse/BB-Plugin removes it once there is a key available, so its off to Google to see if there is another way to install the keys, and yes there is but its buried deep in the configuration screens.
Worst experience I could possibly have had. I will never touch BB again.
Point 4 - yes you can deliver over the air, its identical to the adhoc installation mechanism for general developers - in that case, you sign the app with the device IDs of the devices you wish to deploy to, Apple issues you the cert to do that signing, and then you put the packaged app up on a web server. The client down loads it, it installs and runs. If a device that isn't on the allowed list tries to install it, it fails.
The corporate enterprise method is similar, except that each device you bring into the business gets the corporate provisioning profile installed on it, you sign the app against that profile and deploy it as above.
Heh, your last statement is a bit insulting to smaller firms, and it does make me think that you assume that "small" means "more mobile", which is equally wrong - loads of the companies I consulted with had board rooms, and loads of them had decades long investment in systems they had in place. Hell, the place I left in 2009 only had 120 employees on site, and they had their own custom build offices, board room and legacy system from the 1980s.
Next time, think before you post.
Just because they don't have hundreds of thousands of users doesn't mean they don't face the same issues as the large companies.
I know you went for teh funneh, but iOS4 killed the 3G for a lot of people and invariably in different ways - for example, I found myself randomly (but more often than not) in the situation where my phone was ringing, the screen had the swipe thing up to answer, but the phone was not responding to the swipe. Once the call failed over to voice mail, the phone acted as normal.
Which version of SharePoint? I found 2007 to work OK with Firefox, but not brilliantly - and certainly the back end stuff (page designer etc) didn't work as well as IE, but SharePoint (including InfoPath) was still perfectly usable - and the situation is much improved with SharePoint 2010, Firefox is almost a first class citizen, with a few things not working the same as in IE.
MS product teams have broadly started to target non-IE browsers on the same level as that of IE, but its only happened recently (past two or so years).
You would be surprised by just how untrue that is - most businesses don't need ActiveX at all, while there seem to be some that have pervaded certain Slashdotters minds as the vocal minority (discounting idiot states such as South Korea and their banking setup).
Since I quite my day job last year to take on a degree, I have consulted with over three dozen businesses of varying sizes (from 10 users to 15,000), and not one have had a reliance on ActiveX.
Agreed - I haven't actually found anything in iOS4 for the iPad 1 that I have needed yet, besides the fact that they removed my favourite wallpaper from iOS4 (the desert island scene), so really I lost out:( Haven't found anywhere that offers it as a download yet either.
Also, they never fixed any of the annoyances I had - Safari should not randomly reload a page just because it feels like it (yeah, sure, its out of ram, so lets reload pages when you switch to them - bang goes my half filled form, or the page copy I had highlighted), and it most certainly should not open a new link in a "tab" it chose at random rather than a new one because I reached my limit of 9.... at least warn me before randomly fucking with my tabs.
Wrong - MSDN licenses are subscription based for continuous updates, but contain perpetual licenses for all software (production use for some, like the dev tools, and other software such as Office, Project, Windows 7 depending on the MSDN subscription level you went with, and development or testing only for the rest of the software base such as Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint etc etc), which means that when your 1 year or 3 year subscription expires, your copy of VS2010 is still validly licensed.
If the next version of Visual Studio is released during your subscription, you gain that license as well.
Try actually reading the licenses some time, rather than going with the FUD.
How is this "prior art"? Surely if anything it would be misrepresentation and copyright infringement, but real skywriting doesn't constitute prior art for a computer app which fakes it...
This is rather an example of MS making crap, MS pushing crap, and MS not being able to support their own crap, but still wanting everyone to use it. That's not damned if you do or don't, that's just everyone saying "It sucks, stop pushing it when you can't even use it."
Thanks, you just perfectly explained why they are damned either way - your example is everyones original stance on Silverlight, and the summaries stance seals it on the other end.
Uhm, for the reason I gave... usage patterns on regular PCs are heavier than usage patterns on mobile devices?
Its not just about "I can stream Netflix, so why can I....", its that people tend to not just do one thing on a regular PC - I have some torrents going, I'm listening to some streamed internet radio, I have two files downloading, I have 10 tabs open in Safari, my PC might be downloading updates etc etc etc.
Again, no - its been well documented that Dropbox does global deduplication and single instance storage, across all data in their database. That would not work anywhere near as well for them if each account used its own encryption key - until they turned it off recently due to abuse, you could shove an Ubuntu iso into your local Dropbox and have it "synced" 100% in seconds, as the Dropbox servers realise that they already have it in their global pool, and simply tell your client not to upload it.
They terminated all sessions to force users to log back in - and Dropbox staffers are always approachable to roll back accounts to a point in time, so if you need to request a roll back due to third party activity you just need to log a support ticket.
I'm guessing they don't have a log of which sessions were illegitimate, as that would require storing presented usernames and passwords and having the ability to recheck them at a later date, so an automatic roll back of any changes would not be on the cards here because Dropbox themselves would not know which activity was legitimate and which was not.
No, they have never claimed that the password was involved in the encryption they use - they use one single encryption key for all data stored. Their terms of service did say that your data is inaccessible without your password, but this is nothing more than permissions rather than per-account encryption.
There has been lots of valid shit thrown around about Dropbox over the recent weeks, but please do try and get stuff right before you complain.
Remember that - there were rumours of a maintained x86 version of OSX around for years before the PPC to Intel switch was ever seriously considered by anyone following Apple. And low and behold, Apple releases a fully workable x86 build very quickly.
Its the same here - no public support, but for a major OS developer it makes sense to maintain a low key, low resource port just incase.
Considering the items involved that require you to have a readers pass, yes of course it is difficult - they are one of a kind items, often needing to be handled in specific ways and treated with extreme respect, costing millions of pounds to restore, thousands of pounds to store and cannot be replaced. They are exactly the items that need a gate keeper to look after them.
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All "property" is government mandated and protected, why should patents be singled out?
Natural laws of ownership aren't going to help you when I come and take your car, is it? Whats the thing stopping me from taking your car? Government backed laws and the police force and courts to enforce those laws.
I'm sorry, I didn't realise you wanted magic.
I can't think of one device that works like that - not even the BB experience is that slick.
I'd agree with some of your points, except I had to investigate the potential of a BB version of an internal iPhone app last year - and fuck me, did the RIM documentation ever suck. Pages which changed content depending on how you arrived at them, pages with download links which resulted in 404 errors, pages which referred to tools which were out of date and no longer available. Eclipse plugins which didn't plugin without huge amount of effort, eventually resulting in having to revert to an older JDK (getting that from the Sun site was fun), and ending up with a Blackberry-plugin-orientated restart loop which takes manual hacking of the config file to resolve.
Entering the RIM code signing keys was a nightmare as well - the instructions tell you to do them one at a time (there are several for different things). Yeah, follow the instructions and the second time round you discover that the menu item you are told to use has vanished - Eclipse/BB-Plugin removes it once there is a key available, so its off to Google to see if there is another way to install the keys, and yes there is but its buried deep in the configuration screens.
Worst experience I could possibly have had. I will never touch BB again.
Point 4 - yes you can deliver over the air, its identical to the adhoc installation mechanism for general developers - in that case, you sign the app with the device IDs of the devices you wish to deploy to, Apple issues you the cert to do that signing, and then you put the packaged app up on a web server. The client down loads it, it installs and runs. If a device that isn't on the allowed list tries to install it, it fails.
The corporate enterprise method is similar, except that each device you bring into the business gets the corporate provisioning profile installed on it, you sign the app against that profile and deploy it as above.
Heh, your last statement is a bit insulting to smaller firms, and it does make me think that you assume that "small" means "more mobile", which is equally wrong - loads of the companies I consulted with had board rooms, and loads of them had decades long investment in systems they had in place. Hell, the place I left in 2009 only had 120 employees on site, and they had their own custom build offices, board room and legacy system from the 1980s.
Next time, think before you post.
Just because they don't have hundreds of thousands of users doesn't mean they don't face the same issues as the large companies.
Thanks, turned out I misremembered it - twas the palm oasis one :D
Nope, this was an almost cartoony desert island with palm trees scene - you could see the entire island in a deep blue sea.
I know you went for teh funneh, but iOS4 killed the 3G for a lot of people and invariably in different ways - for example, I found myself randomly (but more often than not) in the situation where my phone was ringing, the screen had the swipe thing up to answer, but the phone was not responding to the swipe. Once the call failed over to voice mail, the phone acted as normal.
Which version of SharePoint? I found 2007 to work OK with Firefox, but not brilliantly - and certainly the back end stuff (page designer etc) didn't work as well as IE, but SharePoint (including InfoPath) was still perfectly usable - and the situation is much improved with SharePoint 2010, Firefox is almost a first class citizen, with a few things not working the same as in IE.
MS product teams have broadly started to target non-IE browsers on the same level as that of IE, but its only happened recently (past two or so years).
You would be surprised by just how untrue that is - most businesses don't need ActiveX at all, while there seem to be some that have pervaded certain Slashdotters minds as the vocal minority (discounting idiot states such as South Korea and their banking setup).
Since I quite my day job last year to take on a degree, I have consulted with over three dozen businesses of varying sizes (from 10 users to 15,000), and not one have had a reliance on ActiveX.
Agreed - I haven't actually found anything in iOS4 for the iPad 1 that I have needed yet, besides the fact that they removed my favourite wallpaper from iOS4 (the desert island scene), so really I lost out :( Haven't found anywhere that offers it as a download yet either.
Also, they never fixed any of the annoyances I had - Safari should not randomly reload a page just because it feels like it (yeah, sure, its out of ram, so lets reload pages when you switch to them - bang goes my half filled form, or the page copy I had highlighted), and it most certainly should not open a new link in a "tab" it chose at random rather than a new one because I reached my limit of 9.... at least warn me before randomly fucking with my tabs.
Wrong - MSDN licenses are subscription based for continuous updates, but contain perpetual licenses for all software (production use for some, like the dev tools, and other software such as Office, Project, Windows 7 depending on the MSDN subscription level you went with, and development or testing only for the rest of the software base such as Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint etc etc), which means that when your 1 year or 3 year subscription expires, your copy of VS2010 is still validly licensed.
If the next version of Visual Studio is released during your subscription, you gain that license as well.
Try actually reading the licenses some time, rather than going with the FUD.
How is this "prior art"? Surely if anything it would be misrepresentation and copyright infringement, but real skywriting doesn't constitute prior art for a computer app which fakes it...
Thanks, you just perfectly explained why they are damned either way - your example is everyones original stance on Silverlight, and the summaries stance seals it on the other end.
This is a perfect example of "damned if they do, damned if they don't".
Oh, and typical Slashdot bullshit :)
Its not absurd at all, they don't have to support someones pet project...
Bitcoin has nothing at all to do with internet freedom - it is you that is trying to somehow link the two.
If you had read the articles linked, you would have seen that yes, they are slowly releasing them so they aren't flooding the market.
What does this have anything to do with being a "defender of freedom"? Why does the EFF have to support BitCoin?
Uhm, for the reason I gave... usage patterns on regular PCs are heavier than usage patterns on mobile devices?
Its not just about "I can stream Netflix, so why can I....", its that people tend to not just do one thing on a regular PC - I have some torrents going, I'm listening to some streamed internet radio, I have two files downloading, I have 10 tabs open in Safari, my PC might be downloading updates etc etc etc.
This comes up every time....
Data usage on a mobile phone produces different usage patterns than usage on a regular PC.
So while the same data cap applies, the tethered device can put a higher demand on the network. That is what the tethering charge is for.
Again, no - its been well documented that Dropbox does global deduplication and single instance storage, across all data in their database. That would not work anywhere near as well for them if each account used its own encryption key - until they turned it off recently due to abuse, you could shove an Ubuntu iso into your local Dropbox and have it "synced" 100% in seconds, as the Dropbox servers realise that they already have it in their global pool, and simply tell your client not to upload it.
So yes, they use a single key.
They terminated all sessions to force users to log back in - and Dropbox staffers are always approachable to roll back accounts to a point in time, so if you need to request a roll back due to third party activity you just need to log a support ticket.
I'm guessing they don't have a log of which sessions were illegitimate, as that would require storing presented usernames and passwords and having the ability to recheck them at a later date, so an automatic roll back of any changes would not be on the cards here because Dropbox themselves would not know which activity was legitimate and which was not.
No, they have never claimed that the password was involved in the encryption they use - they use one single encryption key for all data stored. Their terms of service did say that your data is inaccessible without your password, but this is nothing more than permissions rather than per-account encryption.
There has been lots of valid shit thrown around about Dropbox over the recent weeks, but please do try and get stuff right before you complain.
Never publicly supported....
Remember that - there were rumours of a maintained x86 version of OSX around for years before the PPC to Intel switch was ever seriously considered by anyone following Apple. And low and behold, Apple releases a fully workable x86 build very quickly.
Its the same here - no public support, but for a major OS developer it makes sense to maintain a low key, low resource port just incase.
Considering the items involved that require you to have a readers pass, yes of course it is difficult - they are one of a kind items, often needing to be handled in specific ways and treated with extreme respect, costing millions of pounds to restore, thousands of pounds to store and cannot be replaced. They are exactly the items that need a gate keeper to look after them.