Here in Texas, services are not considered a "sale". I'd have to provide some kind of product for consulting to be taxable here. It's why I keep no inventory, and I require my clients to acquire their own hardware (I'll gladly tell them exactly what they need).
I think they must have meant Microsoft-literate. Perhaps they are concerned that the current uprising of youth is not learning Windows 8 like they are supposed to.
The problem with UAC is that it is highly obnoxious and intrusive. As it was put to me recently, an admin account will let you install drivers and modify system files, but user access is all they need to get into the average user's email, finances, social networks, and so on.
Root/admin access should be available to everyone who wants it, but many of the functions that require it really shouldn't for most users outside certain environments. And the interfaces should absolutely make it clearer and easier for people to elevate (with appropriate credentials if applicable) to the needed priveleges.
Ever try to edit a hosts file in Win7 on an administrator account, and then still had to reopen the file running AS administrator to accomplish it, making sure to keep your changes available to paste back in? It's nonsense. I have an app for changing the hosts file on my Galaxy Tab for the hosts file on my Galaxy Tab. After all, I have a LAN at home with hosts I access rather a lot. Did I have to root my tablet to do it? You betcha.
But that's nothing compared to all the things I had to jailbreak my old iPhone for.
I think you're confusing racism with nationalism. This isn't about a Chinese "race", but about the Chinese government and its western (well ok, more the Anglo-American) counterparts.
The addition of restrictions, stipulations, and additional regulations on government acquisitions (especially military) here in the States certainly inflates the price of any military-bound purchases. I don't see why additional restrictions from the Australian government on broader software imports would do anything but increase the end users' prices.
...when I misread the title as "when you smoke or overheat". One little H turns it from a bizarre desire to know why people's mouths are overheating to an "anyone who would have this installed voluntarily is an idiot, and anyone who would allow it to be installed involuntarily needs a backbone installed as well."
Minor verbiage nitpick here. It's not a "right" to hunt them which this protects. It's the right to properly equip yourself to do so in case it becomes necessary. You're absolutely right about that reason though in spirit.
Apple and the Android groups have one major advantage over Windows Phone: Each has a stunning amount of control over what they are releasing. HTC, Samsung, et al don't care what the market share of Android itself is so long as people want their phone. Not their OS, their device.
At the same time, the iOS and Android devices pay nothing per unit for the privelege of running their device on that platform. To develop your own flavor of android for your device is cheap and attainable. Drivers may be proprietary, but the chipmakers have nothing to lose by letting you use them. Even for iOS, Apple owns it and can install it as many times as they like without incurring additional cost. Microsoft, you can be sure, takes a different view. In fact, as of March, Nokia disclosed that for the remaining life of their existing Windows Phone contract, they have to pay Microsoft â500 million.I've got to admit that odds are, they'll come out in the black on this proposition in the end. But certainly with their pockets â500 million lighter than if they'd sold the same number of Android phones at the same price point. At â10 a license, that's 50 million units, and at â20 a license, that's 25 million units. If they sell only 10 million units, that's â50 per unit.
You don't get deep pockets by giving away unnecessary slices of your pie.
Now if we could just get the wheels of justice to turn quicker on this one. Every day this is delayed is potentially one more day before this nonsense is put to an end.
Though realistically, the NSA will keep doing it and just try harder to hide it. It's quite clear they operate outside of any actual level of control.
If you're looking to get into that fight, go elsewhere. I've had enough of bickering with partisan trolls today. It's always a crapshoot as to which major party's political trolls will show up on a given day.
I often wonder if Google Voice's transcription service for voicemail is a way for Google to get people to provide them with voice-rec feedback. They have those buttons to allow Google to use individual voicemail messages and transcripts to "improve" their service. You can bet they've got an angle.
We have several television channels that exist specifically so people with the same fine character traits on the opposite end of the political spectrum can do exactly the same thing, so I'm not going to join you in singling out a single radio host when there are so many worse people out there. Rev. Sharpton comes to mind.
One that completely randomizes what it sends to sites as my "interests" while simultaneously blocking whatever content that causes those servers to send.
The two go hand in hand. I've worked in a couple game development houses, and found that the good games we released were all titles we had fun making. Of course, there were fun games to make that we were flops as well, but literally every game that wasn't fun to make, indeed, felt like work to make, felt like work to play.
A fun game will always be fun to make. If your dev teams ever, EVER reach the point of, "Fuck this shit, I hate my job, kill me now," I promise you the game will be utter garbage.
You know, I was visiting Delaware when Coons was running for office. His signs were everywhere. They read, "Elect Coons". I initially assumed some racist troll with a lot of money put up the signs, but it turned out to be an actual guy. Go figure!
I don't have it in front of me, but I seem to recall a metal border to it. Can't say I paid that much attention to the body, the screen was all I really gave any attention to.
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I still have no idea what it means.
Here in Texas, services are not considered a "sale". I'd have to provide some kind of product for consulting to be taxable here. It's why I keep no inventory, and I require my clients to acquire their own hardware (I'll gladly tell them exactly what they need).
Manually installed today, prebundled as an unremovable system app with every new phone tomorrow.
Offtopic, I know, but this is one of the best damn posts I've seen on this site in a long time.
You mean like they're already doing?
I think they must have meant Microsoft-literate. Perhaps they are concerned that the current uprising of youth is not learning Windows 8 like they are supposed to.
The problem with UAC is that it is highly obnoxious and intrusive. As it was put to me recently, an admin account will let you install drivers and modify system files, but user access is all they need to get into the average user's email, finances, social networks, and so on.
Root/admin access should be available to everyone who wants it, but many of the functions that require it really shouldn't for most users outside certain environments. And the interfaces should absolutely make it clearer and easier for people to elevate (with appropriate credentials if applicable) to the needed priveleges.
Ever try to edit a hosts file in Win7 on an administrator account, and then still had to reopen the file running AS administrator to accomplish it, making sure to keep your changes available to paste back in? It's nonsense. I have an app for changing the hosts file on my Galaxy Tab for the hosts file on my Galaxy Tab. After all, I have a LAN at home with hosts I access rather a lot. Did I have to root my tablet to do it? You betcha.
But that's nothing compared to all the things I had to jailbreak my old iPhone for.
I think you're confusing racism with nationalism. This isn't about a Chinese "race", but about the Chinese government and its western (well ok, more the Anglo-American) counterparts.
The addition of restrictions, stipulations, and additional regulations on government acquisitions (especially military) here in the States certainly inflates the price of any military-bound purchases. I don't see why additional restrictions from the Australian government on broader software imports would do anything but increase the end users' prices.
Ah, so you admit you're trying to pick a fight. Thanks for the clarification, please go elsewhere.
...when I misread the title as "when you smoke or overheat". One little H turns it from a bizarre desire to know why people's mouths are overheating to an "anyone who would have this installed voluntarily is an idiot, and anyone who would allow it to be installed involuntarily needs a backbone installed as well."
Minor verbiage nitpick here. It's not a "right" to hunt them which this protects. It's the right to properly equip yourself to do so in case it becomes necessary. You're absolutely right about that reason though in spirit.
Wait, you mean it's not so we can go hunting?
The Administration and NSA didn't care about the constitution before Snowden, they're not going to start now.
Apple and the Android groups have one major advantage over Windows Phone: Each has a stunning amount of control over what they are releasing. HTC, Samsung, et al don't care what the market share of Android itself is so long as people want their phone. Not their OS, their device.
At the same time, the iOS and Android devices pay nothing per unit for the privelege of running their device on that platform. To develop your own flavor of android for your device is cheap and attainable. Drivers may be proprietary, but the chipmakers have nothing to lose by letting you use them. Even for iOS, Apple owns it and can install it as many times as they like without incurring additional cost. Microsoft, you can be sure, takes a different view. In fact, as of March, Nokia disclosed that for the remaining life of their existing Windows Phone contract, they have to pay Microsoft â500 million.I've got to admit that odds are, they'll come out in the black on this proposition in the end. But certainly with their pockets â500 million lighter than if they'd sold the same number of Android phones at the same price point. At â10 a license, that's 50 million units, and at â20 a license, that's 25 million units. If they sell only 10 million units, that's â50 per unit.
You don't get deep pockets by giving away unnecessary slices of your pie.
Now if we could just get the wheels of justice to turn quicker on this one. Every day this is delayed is potentially one more day before this nonsense is put to an end.
Though realistically, the NSA will keep doing it and just try harder to hide it. It's quite clear they operate outside of any actual level of control.
If you're looking to get into that fight, go elsewhere. I've had enough of bickering with partisan trolls today. It's always a crapshoot as to which major party's political trolls will show up on a given day.
You might think that, but no, I would have refused even a year ago.
I absolutely would, especially as a start-up. Buckle when you're small and you'll lose what customers you have and go out of business.
I often wonder if Google Voice's transcription service for voicemail is a way for Google to get people to provide them with voice-rec feedback. They have those buttons to allow Google to use individual voicemail messages and transcripts to "improve" their service. You can bet they've got an angle.
We have several television channels that exist specifically so people with the same fine character traits on the opposite end of the political spectrum can do exactly the same thing, so I'm not going to join you in singling out a single radio host when there are so many worse people out there. Rev. Sharpton comes to mind.
One that completely randomizes what it sends to sites as my "interests" while simultaneously blocking whatever content that causes those servers to send.
I sure hope all countries adopt this system soon! I just can't seem to figure out why my bank converted all my currency to yuan...
Being a complete jackass doesn't guarantee a person has ambition. I've known an awful lot of lazy jackasses.
The two go hand in hand. I've worked in a couple game development houses, and found that the good games we released were all titles we had fun making. Of course, there were fun games to make that we were flops as well, but literally every game that wasn't fun to make, indeed, felt like work to make, felt like work to play.
A fun game will always be fun to make. If your dev teams ever, EVER reach the point of, "Fuck this shit, I hate my job, kill me now," I promise you the game will be utter garbage.
You know, I was visiting Delaware when Coons was running for office. His signs were everywhere. They read, "Elect Coons". I initially assumed some racist troll with a lot of money put up the signs, but it turned out to be an actual guy. Go figure!
I don't have it in front of me, but I seem to recall a metal border to it. Can't say I paid that much attention to the body, the screen was all I really gave any attention to.