If Sony wanted to, they could have a leg up on Apple.
This is make or break time, if Apple became dominant, Sony's only hope would be in selling panels for apple to include in their products. Were Sony to deliver a vendor neutral framework for program delivery over a connected TV, that they and other providers could use to monetize their content, it's just possible it could work. They need something like the RadioPlayer in the UK, that allows multiple radio stations, BBC and Commercial to utilize a single delivery tool
They'd effectively need to open source the framework, or at least the specifications allowing other manufacturers to adopt it too, but in the long term that would be in Sony's interest. Much better to have a share of a multi-vendor TV market than to be beholden to Apple for everything.
I suspect you are simply making this up. Ryanair does charge every passenger a fee, I believe it is €0.50 cents to recoup the cost of the services that they provide to disabled passengers. Obviously every other airline does this too, recouping the cost through ticketing charges, though they may not list the charge individually.
I am not aware of any fees for services to disabled passengers, suspect they would be illegal, and the ryanair website explicitly lists things such as wheelchair assistance as being free of charge.
This means that after 20 years of you making income-based payments, they forgive the remaining debt. In order to qualify for income-based payments, you can be making no more than 150% of the poverty line. In that case, you payments are no more than 10% of your income.
Where do you get this 150% of the poverty line bit? The White House Fact Sheet mentions nothing of the sort, and uses an example of a nurse earning $45k, a salary that would be well in excess of the Federal Poverty Line.
IBR is based on a borrower's discretionary income - i.e. income after taxes. A borrower will repay a maximum of 10% of their discretionary income rather than the 15% currently charged under IBR.
This isn't going to be very useful if it requires a user to be already logged in to work.
I presume you mean "this isn't going to be very useful to me".
I have supported loads of people who just need assistance doing something on their computer. Almost everyone bar you has helped family and friends with various computer tasks.
Sure you can do this with some existing technologies, but they tend to be either complex to set up or limited to a specific platform.
I'm sure that, if they can keep it secure, a free, easy to install, multi-platform remote desktop solution will be attractive to many on/.
Is the US District Court in Massachusetts is unusually swift, or has this not even been heard by a judge? Is there an actual opinion granting an injunction anywhere?
Unfortunately the law pretty much requires him to.
On what basis? I though injunctions were typically considered unusual and awarded where there was likely to be irreparable harm to the plaintiff by permitting continued publication - i.e. harm that could not be resolved by payment of damages in the event of a successful lawsuit.
I'd like to see what the defense filed in response.
I think by this point ARM will also have a decent portfolio of patents that would ensure other chip manufacturers probably don't want to go down that road.
Here in a major US college town, there are frequent armed robberies of students as they walk home unaccompanied in the early hours of the morning, often on otherwise major routes for vehicles and pedestrians. This is happening within a mile of campus.
Whatever your view of these cameras, it's worth bearing in mind that such robberies are significantly less common in areas of the UK covered by cameras.
I think it's important to weigh just how much of an expectation of privacy you have when walking on a public street (it's okay for Google to photograph it for maps, but not the police for public safety?) and also consider the potential benefits.
Personally, I have little objection to police monitored CCTV. I think the real concerns are things like automated facial recognition and data retention policies. So I don't object to the police using the video to watch for robberies as they occur or returning to video after an incident for evidence. I do object to any use of the database to profile where people are walking or to monitor and/or track people as they move about.
You need legal advice on what information you should track and collect if any. If you have logs that show infringement but you haven't taken action - because you missed it in amongst hundreds of thousands of other log lines - will your firm have increased liability?
You need legal advice before you can form a requirements specification. Then you can look for software, free or commercial, that meets those requirements.
Google has admitted that deleting a G+ account will seriously downgrade your other Google services.
From the article
In both scenarios, downgrading from Google+ will have no effect on other Google services like Gmail, Docs, etc.
So the article is at complete opposites with the posted summary. Did the OP just link to the article because they thought more links would increase the chance of story acceptance, or were they deliberately trying to mislead?
While manufacturers that have failed to grow a userbase that lets them compete with Apple may wish for tablets to be a bubble, I feel they're ignoring a new segment.
I have never purchased an apple device, bar an old 5G ipod in the past. When I saw Jobs present the iPad I could immediately see the utility. It doesn't compete with my laptop or my desktop. I use it in places my laptop doesn't work well. Say on the sofa, or in the kitchen. I can grab it and look something up while walking around. I can take it when traveling and use it to read news, watch video and still get emails or even remote desktop / ssh if needed.
When HP liquidated their touchpad stock I grabbed one of those too. The iPad's app store is certainly a huge draw, but $100 is easily worthwhile for the web browser, video player and email. The trouble for the manufacturers who aren't Apple is that while $100-$200 is easily justifiable for that device, at the $400-500 price point folk want an iPad, mostly because of the Apps.
The touchpad doesn't have a Netflix client. I can't fathom why HP didn't just pay Netflix to develop it, as it would easily have helped drive sales. I'm pretty sure they could have partnered with Amazon too for video and music services. At the moment, every non-apple brand of tablet is a compromise, yet there's no discount on price to reflect this. As a result, their userbase remains small and the apps remain undeveloped.
Unless someone really tries to compete with Apple, either by offering a better product at the same price point, or a similar product at a discount, tablet sales will continue and only one manufacturer will benefit.
I'm not sure Apple's profit margin is that crazy compared to many other premium IT products that are marked up > 100% above manufacturing cost.
However, this move by AT&T is intended to increase the cost to the consumer of that phone by $240 over the lifetime of the plan. That is outrageous. Even more so when the company they wish to buy, T-Mobile, offers unlimited text messaging as a $5/month add on, making AT&T's proposed price, $360 more expensive.
This stuff with infected attachments tends to get caught. Of course the consequences of any getting through are higher than for run of the mill spam.
Still, I've seen a lot of spam recently containing random links to hijacked websites and sent from valid MTAs. That stuff can be hard to filter out without collateral damage.
Zimbra does supprt caldav for open source calendar syncing, carddav for open source contact syncing and imap with idle support for open source push email.
I'd be investigating a new client if your mobile devices are having trouble syncing given these open source license free protocols are all available to you.
I suspect the electric utilities will be able to sense the usage trend and adjust accordingly. It's preposterous to imagine consumers will change their power consumption habits all on the same day, same week, or even the same month.
I think the fear is that devices will be programmed to start running when electricity drops below a certain cost. So, say the price drops below 10c/kwh suddenly everyone's electric car will start charging at once, and that surge could cause problems for the supply network. Of course it's also easily dealt with by introducing random small delays in the price update time or other programmatic methods.
The rest of the world already has peak and off peak tariffs. This is really no different.
Given not everyone will get a smart meeter at once, it should be easy for them to map how usage changes along with price and time of day. The suppliers can know before customers what price changes are about to happen, and should be able to adjust their supply accordingly.
When their licensing costs from the studios went from 180Million to 1.8Billion over the course of two years... what did you really expect? How much more gradual could it be?
That's not in any way a useful figure. We'd need to know the licensing cost per subscriber and ideally net revenue per subscriber.
I do know that there's been little change in prices at the post office, little change in DVD retail prices and little change in salaries. It looks like it's the streaming subscriptions that are increasing in costs, yet they're doing nothing to encourage members to keep using them. I like many others I know only use the postal service for a handful of movies per month - usually older ones not available to stream. If I want a new release, I can get it from redbox for a dollar.
Indeed - the only reason for that was because the consumer could copy then return. That, however, is not a concern here as the App Store should be able to deactivate the software on the client.
I wonder if they will pull out of the UK too? The UK has distance selling regulations that mandate a seven day "cooling off period" for internet sales.
Indeed, it looks like these regulations should be EU wide and I don't see any exemption for software sales.
This sounds like someone trying to justify the status quo, rather than looking to see if a change is worthwhile.
There's no description of what build system changes and testing infrastructure changes are needed. There are several packaging tools available to create MSIs - other small and tiny projects make them. Can the process be automated, and if so, what would the ongoing cost per release be? Most of the costs should be incurred in setting the system up - the ongoing work should be very small - principally checking that the correct files end in the correct location with the correct permissions.
If Mozilla want to spend their minutes affecting millions of users, this may achieve that goal. Perhaps they are correct and the costs would be too high. If they'd really made an assessment, they'd be able to estimate these costs, rather than provide a simplistic list of excuses like the one you quoted.
I wonder though if Mozilla re making the best use of their available minutes?
For example, how much work would be involved in making an MSI installer and allowing preferences to be set as a group policy? I'd imagine the work would be pretty small, but it would make firefox much easier to deploy to many millions of desktops at enterprises which don't need to extensively and rigorously test every release.
Internet Explorer is not what it once was. Chrome is fast, stable and has an increasing range of plugins. Mozilla needs to be careful, as if people become used to using other good or good enough browsers at work, they may start using those at home too. Especially if Mozilla isn't offering anything distinctive enough to merit learning two browsers.
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This graph is probably more useful for the average investor.
http://goo.gl/UA2qc
Over the past five years MS have outperformed the NASDAQ and the S&P500 by 20%
If Sony wanted to, they could have a leg up on Apple.
This is make or break time, if Apple became dominant, Sony's only hope would be in selling panels for apple to include in their products. Were Sony to deliver a vendor neutral framework for program delivery over a connected TV, that they and other providers could use to monetize their content, it's just possible it could work. They need something like the RadioPlayer in the UK, that allows multiple radio stations, BBC and Commercial to utilize a single delivery tool
They'd effectively need to open source the framework, or at least the specifications allowing other manufacturers to adopt it too, but in the long term that would be in Sony's interest. Much better to have a share of a multi-vendor TV market than to be beholden to Apple for everything.
I suspect you are simply making this up. Ryanair does charge every passenger a fee, I believe it is €0.50 cents to recoup the cost of the services that they provide to disabled passengers. Obviously every other airline does this too, recouping the cost through ticketing charges, though they may not list the charge individually.
I am not aware of any fees for services to disabled passengers, suspect they would be illegal, and the ryanair website explicitly lists things such as wheelchair assistance as being free of charge.
The value if the iPad is in the Apps. Quite simply the iPad has more apps and they're of better quality.
I presume you mean "this isn't going to be very useful to me".
I have supported loads of people who just need assistance doing something on their computer. Almost everyone bar you has helped family and friends with various computer tasks.
Sure you can do this with some existing technologies, but they tend to be either complex to set up or limited to a specific platform.
I'm sure that, if they can keep it secure, a free, easy to install, multi-platform remote desktop solution will be attractive to many on /.
Hang on - this case was only filed on September 30th:
http://web.mit.edu/jhawk/tmp/tz/gov.uscourts.mad.139342.2.0.pdf
Is the US District Court in Massachusetts is unusually swift, or has this not even been heard by a judge? Is there an actual opinion granting an injunction anywhere?
On what basis? I though injunctions were typically considered unusual and awarded where there was likely to be irreparable harm to the plaintiff by permitting continued publication - i.e. harm that could not be resolved by payment of damages in the event of a successful lawsuit.
I'd like to see what the defense filed in response.
I think by this point ARM will also have a decent portfolio of patents that would ensure other chip manufacturers probably don't want to go down that road.
Here in a major US college town, there are frequent armed robberies of students as they walk home unaccompanied in the early hours of the morning, often on otherwise major routes for vehicles and pedestrians. This is happening within a mile of campus.
Whatever your view of these cameras, it's worth bearing in mind that such robberies are significantly less common in areas of the UK covered by cameras.
I think it's important to weigh just how much of an expectation of privacy you have when walking on a public street (it's okay for Google to photograph it for maps, but not the police for public safety?) and also consider the potential benefits.
Personally, I have little objection to police monitored CCTV. I think the real concerns are things like automated facial recognition and data retention policies. So I don't object to the police using the video to watch for robberies as they occur or returning to video after an incident for evidence. I do object to any use of the database to profile where people are walking or to monitor and/or track people as they move about.
And a lawyer is exactly who OP needs to talk to.
You need legal advice on what information you should track and collect if any. If you have logs that show infringement but you haven't taken action - because you missed it in amongst hundreds of thousands of other log lines - will your firm have increased liability?
You need legal advice before you can form a requirements specification. Then you can look for software, free or commercial, that meets those requirements.
From the summary:
From the article
So the article is at complete opposites with the posted summary. Did the OP just link to the article because they thought more links would increase the chance of story acceptance, or were they deliberately trying to mislead?
If you get a standard flip over case, you can use a bungee cord around the headrest and the tablet can be viewed nicely from the rear seats.
I'd expect you'll be able to find such cases cheaply now too.
While manufacturers that have failed to grow a userbase that lets them compete with Apple may wish for tablets to be a bubble, I feel they're ignoring a new segment.
I have never purchased an apple device, bar an old 5G ipod in the past. When I saw Jobs present the iPad I could immediately see the utility. It doesn't compete with my laptop or my desktop. I use it in places my laptop doesn't work well. Say on the sofa, or in the kitchen. I can grab it and look something up while walking around. I can take it when traveling and use it to read news, watch video and still get emails or even remote desktop / ssh if needed.
When HP liquidated their touchpad stock I grabbed one of those too. The iPad's app store is certainly a huge draw, but $100 is easily worthwhile for the web browser, video player and email. The trouble for the manufacturers who aren't Apple is that while $100-$200 is easily justifiable for that device, at the $400-500 price point folk want an iPad, mostly because of the Apps.
The touchpad doesn't have a Netflix client. I can't fathom why HP didn't just pay Netflix to develop it, as it would easily have helped drive sales. I'm pretty sure they could have partnered with Amazon too for video and music services. At the moment, every non-apple brand of tablet is a compromise, yet there's no discount on price to reflect this. As a result, their userbase remains small and the apps remain undeveloped.
Unless someone really tries to compete with Apple, either by offering a better product at the same price point, or a similar product at a discount, tablet sales will continue and only one manufacturer will benefit.
I'm not sure Apple's profit margin is that crazy compared to many other premium IT products that are marked up > 100% above manufacturing cost.
However, this move by AT&T is intended to increase the cost to the consumer of that phone by $240 over the lifetime of the plan. That is outrageous. Even more so when the company they wish to buy, T-Mobile, offers unlimited text messaging as a $5/month add on, making AT&T's proposed price, $360 more expensive.
Or your filters could be less effective?.
This stuff with infected attachments tends to get caught. Of course the consequences of any getting through are higher than for run of the mill spam.
Still, I've seen a lot of spam recently containing random links to hijacked websites and sent from valid MTAs. That stuff can be hard to filter out without collateral damage.
Zimbra does supprt caldav for open source calendar syncing, carddav for open source contact syncing and imap with idle support for open source push email.
I'd be investigating a new client if your mobile devices are having trouble syncing given these open source license free protocols are all available to you.
I think the fear is that devices will be programmed to start running when electricity drops below a certain cost. So, say the price drops below 10c/kwh suddenly everyone's electric car will start charging at once, and that surge could cause problems for the supply network. Of course it's also easily dealt with by introducing random small delays in the price update time or other programmatic methods.
The rest of the world already has peak and off peak tariffs. This is really no different.
Given not everyone will get a smart meeter at once, it should be easy for them to map how usage changes along with price and time of day. The suppliers can know before customers what price changes are about to happen, and should be able to adjust their supply accordingly.
That's not in any way a useful figure. We'd need to know the licensing cost per subscriber and ideally net revenue per subscriber.
I do know that there's been little change in prices at the post office, little change in DVD retail prices and little change in salaries. It looks like it's the streaming subscriptions that are increasing in costs, yet they're doing nothing to encourage members to keep using them. I like many others I know only use the postal service for a handful of movies per month - usually older ones not available to stream. If I want a new release, I can get it from redbox for a dollar.
I'm not sure I mind relevant ads if they're targeted at me as part of an anonymous group.
Indeed - the only reason for that was because the consumer could copy then return. That, however, is not a concern here as the App Store should be able to deactivate the software on the client.
I wonder if they will pull out of the UK too? The UK has distance selling regulations that mandate a seven day "cooling off period" for internet sales.
Indeed, it looks like these regulations should be EU wide and I don't see any exemption for software sales.
This sounds like someone trying to justify the status quo, rather than looking to see if a change is worthwhile.
There's no description of what build system changes and testing infrastructure changes are needed. There are several packaging tools available to create MSIs - other small and tiny projects make them. Can the process be automated, and if so, what would the ongoing cost per release be? Most of the costs should be incurred in setting the system up - the ongoing work should be very small - principally checking that the correct files end in the correct location with the correct permissions.
If Mozilla want to spend their minutes affecting millions of users, this may achieve that goal. Perhaps they are correct and the costs would be too high. If they'd really made an assessment, they'd be able to estimate these costs, rather than provide a simplistic list of excuses like the one you quoted.
I wonder though if Mozilla re making the best use of their available minutes?
For example, how much work would be involved in making an MSI installer and allowing preferences to be set as a group policy? I'd imagine the work would be pretty small, but it would make firefox much easier to deploy to many millions of desktops at enterprises which don't need to extensively and rigorously test every release.
Internet Explorer is not what it once was. Chrome is fast, stable and has an increasing range of plugins. Mozilla needs to be careful, as if people become used to using other good or good enough browsers at work, they may start using those at home too. Especially if Mozilla isn't offering anything distinctive enough to merit learning two browsers.