If companies like yours drop blackberry support it would be a long road back... It's easy enough to justify connecting an iphone or android device to the existing imap or activesync server, but convincing a company to install a blackberry server for a small subset of users would never fly.
Do you actually think people actually compare the merits of various platforms and make an informed decision about which is better? Most don't, they buy whats cheapest, or what their network offers, or whats on show in the local phone store... They have no idea about anything thats not displayed prominently in the advertising material.
Yes but the point is, there are now sufficient users running browsers other than IE that you have to develop for them... A few years ago, sites were developed for IE6 and nothing else, causing problems for people on non windows systems.
The fact that developers are still burdened with having to make sites compatible with IE doesn't really effect end users so much, it's much easier to develop a site that works with modern standards compliant browsers than it is to kludge a site to work with IE6.
Cant get outside of Dalvik? I have a nexus one, and i can get a root bash shell on it (legitimately, not via any exploiting/jailbreaking process), and from here i can run native binaries easily.
Many operators let you do a legitimate unlock these days, o2 in the uk for instance will unlock your iphone for free if you have it on contract while some other providers will charge you. You can also buy factory unlocked iphones from apple now...
Having a legit unlock on my 3gs means i don't need to worry about baseband updates relocking the phone.
Isn't Windows meant to be a graphical OS where you never need to use the CLI? Isn't it Linux that's supposed to require the commandline to do anything remotely advanced?
I am wary of Google Chrome for the same reason.. Google, even more so than MS make money from advertising online. Firefox too derives much revenue indirectly from advertising, through their google sponsorship...
At least the source code for these browsers is available, giving users the opportunity to check the code over and provide third party builds with better privacy features, something you can't do with IE.
There's always Opera if you want a closed source browser, since they aren't an ad broker.
I even mentioned that you can buy commercially supported versions of open source software, i suggest you read the post again. Hint: it's the second paragraph.
The difference is that open source gives you the choice, you can get the software free and self support, you can pay for support, you can even pay for the software if you choose, and there are often multiple sources you can buy support from. Proprietary software takes away these choices, you have to pay for the software, in most cases you then have to pay *AGAIN* for support, and only the original supplier has the source code so only they can provide an adequate level of support.
Use of the term "open sores" is laughable, and no better than those who refer to Microsoft as M$.
Also, your use of "you're" makes no sense, did you mean to write "your" instead? As it stands, what you wrote reads as "You are stuff is no longer really free....", print yourself a t-shirt and you can earn a place on engrish.com.
The word "cost" is spelled "c o s t", the "$" symbol is not a letter, it represents a form of currency, or denotes variables in some kinds of programming. And i can see that your "s" key is not broken because you've used the letter "s" in other places.
Over all, a very poor troll. I feel insulted to be trolled by you.
Were I in their shoes, I would realise that commercial software comes with no more of a warranty than open source. Despite all the money they extract from you, commercial vendors provide you no warranty whatsoever and you have to agree to these terms before they will let you use the software.
You can also buy commercially supported versions of open source, there are a huge number of such products available now.
If you want a system so critical that it flies a plane then you typically write it in house (there aren't that many places that actually build planes). you test it extremely thoroughly (far more so than any commercial vendor does), and then you have multiple redundant backup systems too.
The reality is that many decision makers in business and government simply don't understand very much when it comes to technology, they buy into propaganda that open source is bad but will happily buy things like cisco asa firewalls without realising they run linux.
DVDs for backup are probably not the best choice, its likely the dye in the writable dvd will rot and become unreadable before your hard drive dies... At least, i have machines which are positively ancient (like a vax from the late 1980s) with hard drives that still work, but i have dvds burned in 2006 on expensive media and stored in a protective sleeve inside a drawer which are unreadable.
I'd rather just use another drive or two for backup, external drives are cheap fast and large.
Many of the people who design these systems just don't know anything else, so they design around what they know while being completely ignorant that they could improve security and save money by using something else.
While that would be an ideal situation, it just doesn't work like that...
Once competition was eliminated the non profit would slack off, but instead of making huge profits would just become extremely wasteful and corrupt... The organisation as a whole wouldn't make any profit, but high up individuals would embezzle large amounts of money.
While corruption clearly occurs in for-profit companies, individual corruption (ie people embezzling) is generally much lower than in government or charity because at least some of the people at the top have a vested interest in the company as a whole.
The trouble here, is that if you did that to one misbehaving company, losing the requirement to make a profit would effectively kill any competitors in the market.
But i do agree punishments for corporations need to be far more severe, at the moment the people at the top of these corps know they can get away with virtually anything and receive little more than a slap on the wrist. There needs to be a real danger of losing everything and being thrown in jail for these people, only then will they consider the law worth obeying.
At the moment they treat breaking the law like any other business risk, potential high profits for a relatively low risk? why wouldn't they?
If you buy a used car which you knew was stolen, then you are guilty of handling stolen goods and not only will you lose the car if the police find out, but you will also be punished for committing the crime.
The only problem is when people unwittingly bought a stolen car, the police will usually go easy on them in that case but they will still lose the car.
But if you have 5.1 vorbis, how do you play it back? I have optical cables to my receiver, when playing a dvd the raw ac3 sound is sent over this cable to the received and decoded there... I don't think it has the capability to send 5.1 channels of raw pcm audio over this link, so the only way to get it to the receiver is to either encode it back to ac3 or use the 8 individual analog channel inputs on the receiver which would get extremely messy with long cables...
And the worst thing is, none of this is insurmountable...
Consoles these days have hard drives, so games could be written to load user created content from the drives, this is probably not supported out of paranoia, wanting to keep the console secure - not secure for the user's sake but secure to stop homebrew (ie people writing games without paying the console maker their cut and bypassing the big publishers)...
Consoles also have USB ports, to which keyboards and mice can easily be connected, it just needs the actual games to support them.
PC gaming is a slightly more open platform, but not entirely open as it stands, unless you count the small number of linux based games.
And those people would also use the train or their car to go somewhere within their own country... So the only time they would be in an airport is if they're travelling to a country further away than their near neighbors.
Besides, if you take the train you will still find yourself in a foreign train station waiting around which isn't much different from an airport really.
A microchip is much harder to copy... It will take time and require specialized equipment to reverse engineer the chip, then it will require specialized equipment to actually manufacture new chips... In a competitive market for something as complex as a processor, by the time you have gone to the time effort and expense to clone a processor, the original vendor has come out with something new and you're left selling last years technology at bargain bucket prices with very thin margins. Even the latest technology in a commodity market like processors has relatively thin margins, making it unattractive to cloners.
And your example does not result in job losses of blue collar workers, the chinese clone company will need just as many blue collar workers as the american manufacturer (and chances are the american manufacturer will have outsourced its manufacturing to the chinese anyway).
Counterfeiting is only profitable in markets where the margins are unreasonably fat, like fashionable clothes (cost the same to manufacture as generic brands, but cost 100 times more), intangible media like music/video/software, and overpriced "enterprise" equipment like routers or firewalls (open up a lowend router or firewall and see just how generic the components are). If you charge a reasonable price for your goods relative to how much it cost to produce, you wouldn't have a problem with counterfeits... Noone tries to produce counterfeit walmart jeans.
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If companies like yours drop blackberry support it would be a long road back...
It's easy enough to justify connecting an iphone or android device to the existing imap or activesync server, but convincing a company to install a blackberry server for a small subset of users would never fly.
Linux is great for most users, the problem is a lack of advertising and preinstalls more than anything else.
Do you actually think people actually compare the merits of various platforms and make an informed decision about which is better?
Most don't, they buy whats cheapest, or what their network offers, or whats on show in the local phone store... They have no idea about anything thats not displayed prominently in the advertising material.
Blackberry got in there early with mobile email before anyone else, a lot of companies have already got themselves tied in to it...
They do offer a consumer service, but it's pretty half assed and expensive. Android/iphone offer a much better experience from a consumer perspective.
Yes but the point is, there are now sufficient users running browsers other than IE that you have to develop for them...
A few years ago, sites were developed for IE6 and nothing else, causing problems for people on non windows systems.
The fact that developers are still burdened with having to make sites compatible with IE doesn't really effect end users so much, it's much easier to develop a site that works with modern standards compliant browsers than it is to kludge a site to work with IE6.
Cant get outside of Dalvik? I have a nexus one, and i can get a root bash shell on it (legitimately, not via any exploiting/jailbreaking process), and from here i can run native binaries easily.
Many operators let you do a legitimate unlock these days, o2 in the uk for instance will unlock your iphone for free if you have it on contract while some other providers will charge you.
You can also buy factory unlocked iphones from apple now...
Having a legit unlock on my 3gs means i don't need to worry about baseband updates relocking the phone.
Isn't Windows meant to be a graphical OS where you never need to use the CLI?
Isn't it Linux that's supposed to require the commandline to do anything remotely advanced?
I am wary of Google Chrome for the same reason.. Google, even more so than MS make money from advertising online.
Firefox too derives much revenue indirectly from advertising, through their google sponsorship...
At least the source code for these browsers is available, giving users the opportunity to check the code over and provide third party builds with better privacy features, something you can't do with IE.
There's always Opera if you want a closed source browser, since they aren't an ad broker.
Go and read the original post.
Support contracts for *ANYTHING* cost money...
I even mentioned that you can buy commercially supported versions of open source software, i suggest you read the post again. Hint: it's the second paragraph.
The difference is that open source gives you the choice, you can get the software free and self support, you can pay for support, you can even pay for the software if you choose, and there are often multiple sources you can buy support from. Proprietary software takes away these choices, you have to pay for the software, in most cases you then have to pay *AGAIN* for support, and only the original supplier has the source code so only they can provide an adequate level of support.
Use of the term "open sores" is laughable, and no better than those who refer to Microsoft as M$.
Also, your use of "you're" makes no sense, did you mean to write "your" instead? As it stands, what you wrote reads as "You are stuff is no longer really free....", print yourself a t-shirt and you can earn a place on engrish.com.
The word "cost" is spelled "c o s t", the "$" symbol is not a letter, it represents a form of currency, or denotes variables in some kinds of programming. And i can see that your "s" key is not broken because you've used the letter "s" in other places.
Over all, a very poor troll. I feel insulted to be trolled by you.
Were I in their shoes, I would realise that commercial software comes with no more of a warranty than open source. Despite all the money they extract from you, commercial vendors provide you no warranty whatsoever and you have to agree to these terms before they will let you use the software.
You can also buy commercially supported versions of open source, there are a huge number of such products available now.
If you want a system so critical that it flies a plane then you typically write it in house (there aren't that many places that actually build planes). you test it extremely thoroughly (far more so than any commercial vendor does), and then you have multiple redundant backup systems too.
The reality is that many decision makers in business and government simply don't understand very much when it comes to technology, they buy into propaganda that open source is bad but will happily buy things like cisco asa firewalls without realising they run linux.
The UK citizen in question couldn't afford the bribes, er campaign contributions of a large corporation.
DVDs for backup are probably not the best choice, its likely the dye in the writable dvd will rot and become unreadable before your hard drive dies...
At least, i have machines which are positively ancient (like a vax from the late 1980s) with hard drives that still work, but i have dvds burned in 2006 on expensive media and stored in a protective sleeve inside a drawer which are unreadable.
I'd rather just use another drive or two for backup, external drives are cheap fast and large.
Many of the people who design these systems just don't know anything else, so they design around what they know while being completely ignorant that they could improve security and save money by using something else.
You could use your hands to punch someone, or commit various other types of crimes... Better have them removed.
You could use your penis to commit rape...
Nature is a murderous beast then, since there are countless wild animals that will hunt and kill other creatures.
While that would be an ideal situation, it just doesn't work like that...
Once competition was eliminated the non profit would slack off, but instead of making huge profits would just become extremely wasteful and corrupt... The organisation as a whole wouldn't make any profit, but high up individuals would embezzle large amounts of money.
While corruption clearly occurs in for-profit companies, individual corruption (ie people embezzling) is generally much lower than in government or charity because at least some of the people at the top have a vested interest in the company as a whole.
The trouble here, is that if you did that to one misbehaving company, losing the requirement to make a profit would effectively kill any competitors in the market.
But i do agree punishments for corporations need to be far more severe, at the moment the people at the top of these corps know they can get away with virtually anything and receive little more than a slap on the wrist. There needs to be a real danger of losing everything and being thrown in jail for these people, only then will they consider the law worth obeying.
At the moment they treat breaking the law like any other business risk, potential high profits for a relatively low risk? why wouldn't they?
Well, they effectively were buying parts cheaply... Intel was effectively giving them a rebate on parts they bought from them.
If you buy a used car which you knew was stolen, then you are guilty of handling stolen goods and not only will you lose the car if the police find out, but you will also be punished for committing the crime.
The only problem is when people unwittingly bought a stolen car, the police will usually go easy on them in that case but they will still lose the car.
But if you have 5.1 vorbis, how do you play it back?
I have optical cables to my receiver, when playing a dvd the raw ac3 sound is sent over this cable to the received and decoded there... I don't think it has the capability to send 5.1 channels of raw pcm audio over this link, so the only way to get it to the receiver is to either encode it back to ac3 or use the 8 individual analog channel inputs on the receiver which would get extremely messy with long cables...
And the worst thing is, none of this is insurmountable...
Consoles these days have hard drives, so games could be written to load user created content from the drives, this is probably not supported out of paranoia, wanting to keep the console secure - not secure for the user's sake but secure to stop homebrew (ie people writing games without paying the console maker their cut and bypassing the big publishers)...
Consoles also have USB ports, to which keyboards and mice can easily be connected, it just needs the actual games to support them.
PC gaming is a slightly more open platform, but not entirely open as it stands, unless you count the small number of linux based games.
And those people would also use the train or their car to go somewhere within their own country...
So the only time they would be in an airport is if they're travelling to a country further away than their near neighbors.
Besides, if you take the train you will still find yourself in a foreign train station waiting around which isn't much different from an airport really.
A microchip is much harder to copy...
It will take time and require specialized equipment to reverse engineer the chip, then it will require specialized equipment to actually manufacture new chips... In a competitive market for something as complex as a processor, by the time you have gone to the time effort and expense to clone a processor, the original vendor has come out with something new and you're left selling last years technology at bargain bucket prices with very thin margins. Even the latest technology in a commodity market like processors has relatively thin margins, making it unattractive to cloners.
And your example does not result in job losses of blue collar workers, the chinese clone company will need just as many blue collar workers as the american manufacturer (and chances are the american manufacturer will have outsourced its manufacturing to the chinese anyway).
Counterfeiting is only profitable in markets where the margins are unreasonably fat, like fashionable clothes (cost the same to manufacture as generic brands, but cost 100 times more), intangible media like music/video/software, and overpriced "enterprise" equipment like routers or firewalls (open up a lowend router or firewall and see just how generic the components are). If you charge a reasonable price for your goods relative to how much it cost to produce, you wouldn't have a problem with counterfeits... Noone tries to produce counterfeit walmart jeans.