You can use the web apps without silverlight - it degrades nicely. Silverlight adds additional features, but its not required for basic use. Even without Silverlight, these web apps are certainly more than equal to those from Google - add the SL option there for those who wish to use it and you have a very nice offering.
I don't see Google with an on-premise deployment option - how is that 'catch up'? (And no, I don't mean the desktop versions of Office, Microsoft has an on-premise version of its Office Web Apps so you don't have to trust your data to third party servers)
We've already reached the point where many works have died, never to be seen again, simply because some shithead stuck (for instance) the degrading original film negatives into a vault to become unusable while there were no other copies around.
How would shorter copyright terms solve that issue? Copyright law didn't prevent someone else storing an archival copy until copyright expiration, and you would still have no right to go and take those original negatives...
It actually occurred in both countries, in a legal sense. People saying it only occurred on one country are showing either a bias of opinion on the matter, or ignorance.
The 'regulation' you comment on is not actually anything other than the 80x80 meter box on which airport gates and parking spaces are based - there is nothing legally to limit wingspan length.
The Concorde never made a profit because it used expensive turbojets with afterburners.
Concorde (its not "the") made an operating profit for British Airways after they took over operational control of the aircraft when the airline was privitised in the 1980s.
Remember the SR71 was designed in the 50's and is still the fastest aircraft.
I'm an aviation enthusiast and I always roll my eyes when someone says that - the sole reason the SR-71 is still the fastest aircraft is because the military and civilian need for a faster aircraft is vanishingly small.
The SR-71 was designed for survivability through speed, as a follow on to the U-2 which was designed for survivability through altitude. Other factors have allowed survivability to be handled via other means these days, such as stealth - extreme speed was no longer required.
The SR-71 needed survivability because it was designed to directly penetrate the USSR - no other nation on earth (including the USSR) was conducting high risk surveillance flights into its opponents airspace, so no other nation needed the survivability factor.
I have no doubt that if a faster aircraft were required, it would be produced. That requirement has
Neither is Microsoft a 'convicted monopolist' - the case against them was a civil action, you can only be convicted of something in a criminal court. The term 'convicted monopolist' is nothing more than a slashdot marketing term.
My main issue with the iPhone was not dropped calls, it was calls coming in but the front screen not responding to the swipe to answer - it would take a good 5 or 6 swipes until it would answer it. The screen is clean and dirt free, and is responsive at other times in the same area so I do not think its a damaged or dirty screen that is causing the lack of response to input.
At my last job, our UPS worked flawlessly - until a fan needed replacing, and the switch back from maintenance bypass to protected flow caused a massive overvolt condition on two of the phases, killing a large chunk of our switches, PCs and a lot of redundant power supplies in the servers.
When safety equipment goes bad, there's not a lot you can really do.
Nice generalisation - *this* cloud doesn't solve anything (but I never considered EC2 to be properly cloud anyway). Its the equivalent of how one vendors badly designed RAID card doesn't invalidate the entire concept of RAID.
You do realise that they could have used a small number of developer kits to port a custom Linux install to the PS3, sign it and deploy it and then be in the same position?
In *this* case they have not done anything like you are suggesting - in *this* case the equivalent car analogy would be if you bought a car with satnav, drove it around for a while and then went back to the dealer and bought another car, but between the two purchases the dealer had removed the option from sale.
The firmware update issue does not apply here - the USAF's issues are not related to a firmware update, they are related to Sony no longer selling new PS3's with the feature advertised on older models.
So in *this* case they have not done anything 'evil'. Sony's promise of a feature to you with regard to your old purchase does not stand with regard to a new purchase. Now, I agree that they have completely fucked up with regard to teh firmware update killing already purchased features, but thats not at issue here.
No, what it drives home is that, when you purchase a piece of hardware, it belongs to you, and no vendor should have the legal right to modify what you have purchased without your consent, nor to coerce consent for modifications that reduce or cripple the capabilities of something you have purchased.
Sony aren't modifying the USAFs PS3's - they have removed the OS from new versions of the PS3, which means the USAF cannot buy replacements for dead units. Sony hasn't actually done anything 'evil' in this case, its a non-story.
The USAF's issue has nothing to do with the firmware update - its to do with the fact that the new PS3's do not support the Other OS feature at all, and the older PS3's that do support it (before the firmware update) are becoming hard to get hold of. The only link between the two issues (firmware and new hardware versions) are the lawsuit links at the bottom of the summary.
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You can use the web apps without silverlight - it degrades nicely. Silverlight adds additional features, but its not required for basic use. Even without Silverlight, these web apps are certainly more than equal to those from Google - add the SL option there for those who wish to use it and you have a very nice offering.
I don't see Google with an on-premise deployment option - how is that 'catch up'? (And no, I don't mean the desktop versions of Office, Microsoft has an on-premise version of its Office Web Apps so you don't have to trust your data to third party servers)
We've already reached the point where many works have died, never to be seen again, simply because some shithead stuck (for instance) the degrading original film negatives into a vault to become unusable while there were no other copies around.
How would shorter copyright terms solve that issue? Copyright law didn't prevent someone else storing an archival copy until copyright expiration, and you would still have no right to go and take those original negatives...
It actually occurred in both countries, in a legal sense. People saying it only occurred on one country are showing either a bias of opinion on the matter, or ignorance.
I've yet to see an official statement to this effect - and I'm developing apps for Windows Mobile 7!
You do realise you can pick up the Visual Studio Express editions for free, right? Perfectly good for most development you need to do.
The 'regulation' you comment on is not actually anything other than the 80x80 meter box on which airport gates and parking spaces are based - there is nothing legally to limit wingspan length.
It's not a new idea, although it's never been done for reasons of practicality
Acutally, both the A380 and the 787 (and forthcoming A350) all use the same double bubble design concept, just vertically.
The Concorde never made a profit because it used expensive turbojets with afterburners.
Concorde (its not "the") made an operating profit for British Airways after they took over operational control of the aircraft when the airline was privitised in the 1980s.
Remember the SR71 was designed in the 50's and is still the fastest aircraft.
I'm an aviation enthusiast and I always roll my eyes when someone says that - the sole reason the SR-71 is still the fastest aircraft is because the military and civilian need for a faster aircraft is vanishingly small.
The SR-71 was designed for survivability through speed, as a follow on to the U-2 which was designed for survivability through altitude. Other factors have allowed survivability to be handled via other means these days, such as stealth - extreme speed was no longer required.
The SR-71 needed survivability because it was designed to directly penetrate the USSR - no other nation on earth (including the USSR) was conducting high risk surveillance flights into its opponents airspace, so no other nation needed the survivability factor.
I have no doubt that if a faster aircraft were required, it would be produced. That requirement has
Neither is Coca Cola a monopoly, and yet they have been restricted from anti-competative actions for decades.
First, Apple is not a convicted monopolist like Microsoft
Neither is Microsoft a 'convicted monopolist' - the case against them was a civil action, you can only be convicted of something in a criminal court. The term 'convicted monopolist' is nothing more than a slashdot marketing term.
My main issue with the iPhone was not dropped calls, it was calls coming in but the front screen not responding to the swipe to answer - it would take a good 5 or 6 swipes until it would answer it. The screen is clean and dirt free, and is responsive at other times in the same area so I do not think its a damaged or dirty screen that is causing the lack of response to input.
Wheres the net neutrality issue here? I can't see one, even if I squint a lot.
At my last job, our UPS worked flawlessly - until a fan needed replacing, and the switch back from maintenance bypass to protected flow caused a massive overvolt condition on two of the phases, killing a large chunk of our switches, PCs and a lot of redundant power supplies in the servers.
When safety equipment goes bad, there's not a lot you can really do.
Nice generalisation - *this* cloud doesn't solve anything (but I never considered EC2 to be properly cloud anyway). Its the equivalent of how one vendors badly designed RAID card doesn't invalidate the entire concept of RAID.
I've used a developer box, you can self sign and deploy to other PS3's, you just don't have a license to deploy commercially.
You do realise that they could have used a small number of developer kits to port a custom Linux install to the PS3, sign it and deploy it and then be in the same position?
Xbox360 is PowerPC based, and uses modified versions of the PPE used in the Cell.
In *this* case they have not done anything like you are suggesting - in *this* case the equivalent car analogy would be if you bought a car with satnav, drove it around for a while and then went back to the dealer and bought another car, but between the two purchases the dealer had removed the option from sale.
The firmware update issue does not apply here - the USAF's issues are not related to a firmware update, they are related to Sony no longer selling new PS3's with the feature advertised on older models.
So in *this* case they have not done anything 'evil'. Sony's promise of a feature to you with regard to your old purchase does not stand with regard to a new purchase. Now, I agree that they have completely fucked up with regard to teh firmware update killing already purchased features, but thats not at issue here.
You are not limited to the Sony supplied OS with the dev kit.
You only need a small number of them, to compile and package for the other units.
No, what it drives home is that, when you purchase a piece of hardware, it belongs to you, and no vendor should have the legal right to modify what you have purchased without your consent, nor to coerce consent for modifications that reduce or cripple the capabilities of something you have purchased.
Sony aren't modifying the USAFs PS3's - they have removed the OS from new versions of the PS3, which means the USAF cannot buy replacements for dead units. Sony hasn't actually done anything 'evil' in this case, its a non-story.
The USAF's issue has nothing to do with the firmware update - its to do with the fact that the new PS3's do not support the Other OS feature at all, and the older PS3's that do support it (before the firmware update) are becoming hard to get hold of. The only link between the two issues (firmware and new hardware versions) are the lawsuit links at the bottom of the summary.
Or just bought a PS3 commercial developers kit and bypassed all of this.