Ah, but "the first one is free" applies here. We geeks all know the chips physically could be faster and know tricks to get the extra juice out... Much like car geeks. But just like car gearheads are finding out, modern engines have a CHIP limiting speeds and gears. Now cars have to have DMCA CRACKS to improve performance, etc.
This is probably the first shot fom intel.. Particularly nasty because companies like Apple like to Underclock things to meet power and heat needs.
So rather than meet Apple's challenge of "stop making crap" and only marketing the BEST STUFF. Intel is clearly trying to take the desktop the WRONG way. Desktops should be very close to the same now on terms of CPU... The inventive should be to reduce the desktop as much as possible... Like the Mac Mini is a sleek appliance. USERS SHOULDN'T CARE what speed their machine is running anymore. If a software says "Made for Windows" and I have a PC with Windows it should run... Unless it is some very special application that has special device needs, NOTHING, even Crysis, should have a blip on ANY NEW COMPUTER on the shelf.
THAT is the big threat to intel right now. If a PC can't play any PC game on the shelf, and you seriously tell the public those are not the "special game computers" then why SHOULDN'T the public buy iPads? At this point an iPad has MORE features, out-of-the-box than those stupid "Windows Starter" PCs. Clearly intel continues their roadmap into oblivion.
because with IBM the machine is purchased under a contract with IBM. In the Desktop computing world, CPUs are a "thing" a resource in a box with a 1 year defect warranty. Intel has no "rights" to what the chip in my machine does only that I don't violate their copyright by reverse engineering it. IBM machines come with thick books guaranteeing CPU, uptimes, power consumption, etc. as well as warranties and service contracts for not meeting any of those specifications.
Intel is selling a widget that does "computer stuff", good luck with software. IBM is selling the actual service/utility the CPU provides, a system that will do so many credit card transactions per minute, 24x7.
Except with CPUs it would be impractical to test every "location" on the wafer, so they have to make a map of which "chickens" will always make bigger eggs and which don't. That's where over clocking comes in because you might get one of the "smaller" chickens that only made Jumbo eggs 75% of the time so they had to exclude that spot. They also have daily shipments they need to make so they might need to fill some cartons with bigger eggs than on the label.
The NEWS here is that Intel has said in the "overclocking wars" that these chips were "burned in". Meaning they had firmware code that couldn't be changed after they left the factory. That's been the "party line" for the last DECADE of fixed multiplier chips.. now Intel is saying they might sell some upgrades?
I do agree, our treatment of "office" workers health is terrible. I'd go further on the mobility portion rather than hiring a chiropractor.... If you need one of those, you are not getting enough activity. Activity is NECESSARY to keep a sharp mind. I'd put one hour physical breaks during the day with 30+ minutes of aerobic activity.
Frankly, the USA does not rely on "cyber" nearly as much as suits think they do. We are staggeringly huge and decentralized compared kust about anybody else... Most of the GDP goes thru small business... And its still PO and Invoice based.. Email or edi might speed that up, but that's just billing, not the manual labor part. For heavy manufacturing, you need electronic exchange... And many places just switched from DIAL-UP MODEMS in the last 5 years simply because faster was not available. Even when faster Internet is available, SMB lines (and Windows) isn't very reliable.. I'd bet most "paperless" SMBs still use phone or paper orders at least several times a week...
You're missing that USB is divided into Hosts and Slaves. The port on your PHONE is backed by the same Host services chip that your desktop "master" USB port is. That is why USB has a clear distinction between ends A & B and no cable is supposed to have both A or both B. Very few phones have USB OUT on them. Because the design of the spec was to allow very CHEAP devices but handicap the device's ability to negotiate between themselves on their own.. so no "official" USB-to-USB cords.
because a Thunderbolt port "wraps" raw DisplayPort and PCI Express 4x connections. USB is no where NEAR close to doing that. For instance a company can build a little box with a PCIe 4x slot in it and let you attach WHATEVER you want... graphics, Nic, USB, Firewire controllers all the standard versions. It also has the ability to encapsulate protocols as well like... Much like Fiber Chanel can wrapper for IP... That makes it VERY powerful. USB is just for slave devices and ALL the bandwidth has to be managed by the drivers on the CPU.. no HARDWARE shortcuts. That's always been the Difference between Firewire and USB to begin with. USB is ultimately a "hub" technology, much like the old ethernet hubs. Firewire is like a switch, maybe even a managed switch, because ENDS can manage too. when you only have 2-3 devices a network hub works fine, with less overhead. When you need to actually share all 3, under load, hubs break down... that's the same result you see in the USB vs Firewire. And Thunderbolt is 10x what those are.
As far a "loss" in an external connection, Intel has had Infiniband and similar tech for a VERY long time.. that literally bundled up the entire PCI bus (literally the raw hardware lines) to an external enclosure about 6 feet or so long. They've been doing external PCI enclosures on SERVERS for decades. The cable doesn't have to be 1-inch thick anymore!
They're the US government... They've been known to just walk in and TAKE what they want... Then tell you that YOU can't tell anybody, or sell your product.
Best not to complain like that.... After all THEY write the patent laws!
it's the "pressurized" container problem. Just like you can easily stand on a pop can still filled all day. Take the pop out of the can and you can still stand on it but VERY carefully as you'll damage the container's SHAPE and cause failure. But the can is not "rigid" in the metallurgy sense of the word by a long shot. Rigid means filled with "metal". Foam and even most plastics wouldn't count as much past filler.. but they DO count because they help maintain the SHAPE of the container allowing the metal to do it's job without stress points. Today's small cars are lighter than a Ford Pinto anyway... but far more safe because of advanced geometry and FME being used.
That's what the article is saying. In response to another article somewhere....
I know in my state they passed a law a few years back to make Tractor Trailers have "car-ish" height rear guards... I'd fail to call them "bumpers" because they're just raw steel bars.
Frankly, the fix is that states should start enforcing SUVs and trucks as "commercial" vehicles... with the associated bump in plates. The big joke for a while was that SUVs got BIGGER because Trucks over 6000 lbs counted for a "work" tax credit.. even though you weren't a COMPANY moms were buying them all over the country. That's how "trucks" went from plain $14k work trucks to $39k SUVs. The state of COMMERCIAL vehicles is the problem, not smaller cars. Granted, when commercial trucks and semis hit things it's really not that often for how much they are on the road, but the results are almost always severe in both human and property damage. I'd think the states could affect insurance laws as well... adjust the liability balance when commercial-class vehicles are involved so their insurance pays a higher portion of medical bills. Right now, insurance actually penalizes drivers of efficient, safe cars because "they might" hit one of the giant SUVs? so rather than get SUVs off the road, they just want to reward everybody for driving one? That's counter-intuitive on a bunch of levels.
The problem is not "trucks" if anybody hits a stake truck or semi, even an SUV or ANOTHER heavy truck is getting demolished by that. So the PROBLEM is specifically PRIVATELY OWNED trucks at the top of the "residential" weight classes. As far as transportation duties, the Feds already reclassified MINIVANS as CARS for passenger safety, which is why the crop of cross-overs started popping up a few years back. A minivan can do almost everything an SUV can do as far as hauling people around. They make better vehicles for salesmen and delivery men because they "lock up" better than Pickup trucks.
the BEST way to fix the economy and safety problem is for the Feds to revisit the 20-cent gas tax... really, that was fine when gas was $1 but now it's $3-$4 and going to be there for a while.. We're paying $7 TRILLION on a war for GAS... knock the "oil-based fuel" tax on ALL vehicles up to about $0.75 -$1 and watch folks scramble for smaller cheaper trucks in a heartbeat. Watch electric vehicles take off because Natural gas and coal are North American made and wouldn't be affected. Watch all the other alternate power sources like bio-diesel and ethanol take off because they are US made as well. Besides we have a $7Trilion dollar hole to dig out of... specifically because people like driving around in cars!! it makes sense people should pay for that. It will also foster LOCAL businesses because shipping costs will increase.... meaning more things (like food stuff, farm products, services, etc) will be cost-effective to do at home if they can't be done electronically. Socially, we've needed a way to stop the ever expanding "suburban commuter" thing for a while too... it's just a bad thing for our culture. Lastly it would make mass transit more lucrative... the feds could give THEM a tax credit.... according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation) we should probably use Vans or Trains, not Buses though.
They use PROTOTYPE equipment all the time... He owns the peeps that can set the channel to whatever Steve wants.
It actually makes sense that Steve would set the network up that way.. It would also keep "nuisance" hackers out of his demo. It does make it extra funny to know Steve was using a channel people in the room should not have been able to access... Not a slightly geeky crowd much?
But on topic, short of having firmware access to unlicensed bands, there's not much you can do. Perhaps convention halls should get infrastructure level equipment put in and force everybody to use their channels? That would fix the problem of battling networks kicking each other out. Then YOU, the presenter, would still have to use VPN fir your products to prevent snooping.
If he enjoys mowing then there is no optimum solution. The BEST solution is one that shows the NEIGHBORHOOD you are better than them.
Go for the cross-cross checkerboard pattern... REAL LAWN FANS don't use circles! The problem is not efficiency, but how to mow the lawn and the trim around obstacles without leaving "tracks" or "foot prints" and without those tack circles around everything...
With proper security, you shouldn't be left unattended with that axe very long.
But in this case the intention is to protect utility control rooms and such... What protects a cell phone tower from hackers just going inside and plugging in? Or just turning the thing OFF? That's what these are marketed for, the HUGE amount of infrastructure in the USA that is basically kept in "doghouses".
Most of this is to protect isolated control rooms... Think the water testing valve for a city wellhead. Once you are in and deal damage, you'll have plenty of time to flee, damage will actually happen up to miles away from here.
The USA is dotted with power, telco, gas, water lines that cross miles of country. Hell, most of my local utility offices are "unattended" now. Just plain brick buildings.
Although I learned from Mythbusters that different explosives have different purposes. For locks Thermite might be a better choice because it "cuts" meaning you'll still have a room on the other side of that door to rob!!!
Missing the point kids..Net should have been running on "everything Microsoft". Phones, desktop, server, even Zune and XBox (1). Out of the gate it should have had AGGRESSIVE cross hardware settings. At this point 90% of Windows stuff should be.Net like Apple uses Objective C. An app being 100%.Net should have been a selling point... 5years ago. Both as a sign of forward and backward compatibility, and as a sign that companies cared enough about their products (that are HIGHLY PROFITABLE) to get in there and rewrite code after a SEVEN YEAR OS break.
At this point a regular Windows server should have nothing but core Server apps (SQL, exchange, ect) running as native.., everything else should be native.Net v4 code, and ONLY.Net code....Net has all those thing built right in so a bad app doesn't crash the system. Microsoft refused to LEAD the rewrite charge and FORCE companies tonkeep up.
Companies not shipping.Net v4 codecshould be getting the same bad press as iPhone devs that aren't keeping up on iOS 5 betas. But that never really happened. I still have Windows tools from IBM that don't properly use the Vista-era theme manager... There's just no excuse, Microsiftvlet that go on WAY too long.
The FAILURE is that Microsoft did not demonstrate the kind of "closed door" leadership we got from Apple... With a 5 year head start.
All the things iPhone has... Comparable APIs, locked down code, sandboxing...Net had out-of-the-box almost at introduction. Microsoft's first screw up was that they tried to position it as a Java killer and tried to use PR and Marketing poorly.
Frankly, they lacked the ability to achieve long-term results.. Microsoft failed to port their MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCTS (Office and VS) to the new language.
Look how Apple pulled off OSX, and Intel, and iPad... The plans and tools to create iPad in 2010 were laid in the earliest OSX versions. Steve's famous "one more thing" with OSX, on Intel Macs, running almost all the standard Apps NATIVELY... On stage right NOW... That is BANG!
Microsoft never delivered a.Net Office... Vista should have been.Net all the way through... Along with Office and Visual Studio. it should have been a "clean break". Old apps run in the XP emulator, new ones use.Net... With the benefit that.net would go BACK to XP as much as possible, but no more. Microsoft had a SEVEN YEAR gap in OS versions.. They easily could have pushed a LOT of "breaking" on devs, but they barely got Vista out the door and working on launch date.
Microsoft had most of a decade with THE MOST CASH in the industry.. Yet they are incapable of getting a rewrite out the door, and making CASH from the huge number of PhDs they hire at Microsoft Research.
The problem is not technology. The problem is that they spent so much time being afraid of underdogs, looking back, they just plain ran off the path into a tree..
But what situation would they devalue your app so badly that the 20% rule kicked in? Their definition of "list price" is the OPPOSITE of what a traditional MSRP would be... The whole thing is "Hollywood" accounting at it's finest...
I do agree the guys could have been sharper on the contract... Except the way those percents are written they are INTENDED to be misread because the "sale price" is scattered on 5 different pages of the contract.
it's all about the "list price".. but you wouldn't think a SPECIAL SALE PRICE would affect the list price, right? Why else would Amazon have the flat 70% OR 20% of list if they choose to have a sale on the app? What's a situation where Amazon's price would be lower than list... and how would that ever be LOWER than the straight 70%? The whole paragraph dealing with that is nothing but funny business...
WOW! Amazon is cheap bastards... Apple offers 70% (Seven - Zero) of sales. And you set your price... Apple NEVER does.
I think the confusion is the "0% revenue share" in APPLE Store talk that means the HOUSE cut would be 0%... so it SOUNDS like a good deal. Until you realize it's YOU that is getting the "revenue sharing"... for your OWN APP. I can see people wanting to try out Amazon.. for the sole purpose of it being "not Apple" and "not Google" but under terms like that there's just no way.
it's easy to see how a developer could be confused. If that email is read DIFFERENTLY, that "revenue sharing" could actually mean Amazon is trying to CHARGE THE DEVELOPER for putting their app on sale!!!! You gotta love that section 5i that defines "list price"... in other words because they put the app on sale, the "list price" became zero that day because it was the lowest price.. it's not hard to comprehend. But when you deal with terms in clauses.. that reference clauses... in other paragraphs... reading the WHOLE story for "lets put your app on sale" is not the TRUTH.
It makes sense... If anything when would a teacher NEED a private communication with a student that is NOT via School provided email, office space, etc?
As a teacher, don you really want to know all the stuff that's going on... Risk seeing pics you shouldn't or have your posts taken out of context? Look at it this way.. This ALSO prevents teachers from friending kids just to ratt them out!! That's the cheif source of material principals use against students... Right.
From a purely pragmatic standpoint, this PROTECTS teachers from getting in situations where they might be accused of wrongdoing later... That's not all bad.
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Ah, but "the first one is free" applies here. We geeks all know the chips physically could be faster and know tricks to get the extra juice out... Much like car geeks. But just like car gearheads are finding out, modern engines have a CHIP limiting speeds and gears. Now cars have to have DMCA CRACKS to improve performance, etc.
This is probably the first shot fom intel.. Particularly nasty because companies like Apple like to Underclock things to meet power and heat needs.
So rather than meet Apple's challenge of "stop making crap" and only marketing the BEST STUFF. Intel is clearly trying to take the desktop the WRONG way. Desktops should be very close to the same now on terms of CPU... The inventive should be to reduce the desktop as much as possible... Like the Mac Mini is a sleek appliance. USERS SHOULDN'T CARE what speed their machine is running anymore. If a software says "Made for Windows" and I have a PC with Windows it should run... Unless it is some very special application that has special device needs, NOTHING, even Crysis, should have a blip on ANY NEW COMPUTER on the shelf.
THAT is the big threat to intel right now. If a PC can't play any PC game on the shelf, and you seriously tell the public those are not the "special game computers" then why SHOULDN'T the public buy iPads? At this point an iPad has MORE features, out-of-the-box than those stupid "Windows Starter" PCs. Clearly intel continues their roadmap into oblivion.
because with IBM the machine is purchased under a contract with IBM. In the Desktop computing world, CPUs are a "thing" a resource in a box with a 1 year defect warranty. Intel has no "rights" to what the chip in my machine does only that I don't violate their copyright by reverse engineering it. IBM machines come with thick books guaranteeing CPU, uptimes, power consumption, etc. as well as warranties and service contracts for not meeting any of those specifications.
Intel is selling a widget that does "computer stuff", good luck with software. IBM is selling the actual service/utility the CPU provides, a system that will do so many credit card transactions per minute, 24x7.
Except with CPUs it would be impractical to test every "location" on the wafer, so they have to make a map of which "chickens" will always make bigger eggs and which don't. That's where over clocking comes in because you might get one of the "smaller" chickens that only made Jumbo eggs 75% of the time so they had to exclude that spot. They also have daily shipments they need to make so they might need to fill some cartons with bigger eggs than on the label.
The NEWS here is that Intel has said in the "overclocking wars" that these chips were "burned in". Meaning they had firmware code that couldn't be changed after they left the factory. That's been the "party line" for the last DECADE of fixed multiplier chips.. now Intel is saying they might sell some upgrades?
I do agree, our treatment of "office" workers health is terrible. I'd go further on the mobility portion rather than hiring a chiropractor.... If you need one of those, you are not getting enough activity. Activity is NECESSARY to keep a sharp mind. I'd put one hour physical breaks during the day with 30+ minutes of aerobic activity.
Frankly, the USA does not rely on "cyber" nearly as much as suits think they do. We are staggeringly huge and decentralized compared kust about anybody else... Most of the GDP goes thru small business... And its still PO and Invoice based.. Email or edi might speed that up, but that's just billing, not the manual labor part. For heavy manufacturing, you need electronic exchange... And many places just switched from DIAL-UP MODEMS in the last 5 years simply because faster was not available. Even when faster Internet is available, SMB lines (and Windows) isn't very reliable.. I'd bet most "paperless" SMBs still use phone or paper orders at least several times a week...
You're missing that USB is divided into Hosts and Slaves. The port on your PHONE is backed by the same Host services chip that your desktop "master" USB port is. That is why USB has a clear distinction between ends A & B and no cable is supposed to have both A or both B. Very few phones have USB OUT on them. Because the design of the spec was to allow very CHEAP devices but handicap the device's ability to negotiate between themselves on their own.. so no "official" USB-to-USB cords.
because a Thunderbolt port "wraps" raw DisplayPort and PCI Express 4x connections. USB is no where NEAR close to doing that. For instance a company can build a little box with a PCIe 4x slot in it and let you attach WHATEVER you want... graphics, Nic, USB, Firewire controllers all the standard versions. It also has the ability to encapsulate protocols as well like... Much like Fiber Chanel can wrapper for IP... That makes it VERY powerful. USB is just for slave devices and ALL the bandwidth has to be managed by the drivers on the CPU.. no HARDWARE shortcuts. That's always been the Difference between Firewire and USB to begin with. USB is ultimately a "hub" technology, much like the old ethernet hubs. Firewire is like a switch, maybe even a managed switch, because ENDS can manage too. when you only have 2-3 devices a network hub works fine, with less overhead. When you need to actually share all 3, under load, hubs break down... that's the same result you see in the USB vs Firewire. And Thunderbolt is 10x what those are.
As far a "loss" in an external connection, Intel has had Infiniband and similar tech for a VERY long time.. that literally bundled up the entire PCI bus (literally the raw hardware lines) to an external enclosure about 6 feet or so long. They've been doing external PCI enclosures on SERVERS for decades. The cable doesn't have to be 1-inch thick anymore!
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"Best not to complain like that.... After all THEY write the patent laws" ... Or rather they get to enforce them with guns when they choose.
They're the US government... They've been known to just walk in and TAKE what they want... Then tell you that YOU can't tell anybody, or sell your product.
Best not to complain like that.... After all THEY write the patent laws!
it's the "pressurized" container problem. Just like you can easily stand on a pop can still filled all day. Take the pop out of the can and you can still stand on it but VERY carefully as you'll damage the container's SHAPE and cause failure. But the can is not "rigid" in the metallurgy sense of the word by a long shot. Rigid means filled with "metal". Foam and even most plastics wouldn't count as much past filler.. but they DO count because they help maintain the SHAPE of the container allowing the metal to do it's job without stress points. Today's small cars are lighter than a Ford Pinto anyway... but far more safe because of advanced geometry and FME being used.
That's what the article is saying. In response to another article somewhere....
I know in my state they passed a law a few years back to make Tractor Trailers have "car-ish" height rear guards... I'd fail to call them "bumpers" because they're just raw steel bars.
Frankly, the fix is that states should start enforcing SUVs and trucks as "commercial" vehicles... with the associated bump in plates. The big joke for a while was that SUVs got BIGGER because Trucks over 6000 lbs counted for a "work" tax credit.. even though you weren't a COMPANY moms were buying them all over the country. That's how "trucks" went from plain $14k work trucks to $39k SUVs. The state of COMMERCIAL vehicles is the problem, not smaller cars. Granted, when commercial trucks and semis hit things it's really not that often for how much they are on the road, but the results are almost always severe in both human and property damage. I'd think the states could affect insurance laws as well... adjust the liability balance when commercial-class vehicles are involved so their insurance pays a higher portion of medical bills. Right now, insurance actually penalizes drivers of efficient, safe cars because "they might" hit one of the giant SUVs? so rather than get SUVs off the road, they just want to reward everybody for driving one? That's counter-intuitive on a bunch of levels.
The problem is not "trucks" if anybody hits a stake truck or semi, even an SUV or ANOTHER heavy truck is getting demolished by that. So the PROBLEM is specifically PRIVATELY OWNED trucks at the top of the "residential" weight classes. As far as transportation duties, the Feds already reclassified MINIVANS as CARS for passenger safety, which is why the crop of cross-overs started popping up a few years back. A minivan can do almost everything an SUV can do as far as hauling people around. They make better vehicles for salesmen and delivery men because they "lock up" better than Pickup trucks.
the BEST way to fix the economy and safety problem is for the Feds to revisit the 20-cent gas tax... really, that was fine when gas was $1 but now it's $3-$4 and going to be there for a while.. We're paying $7 TRILLION on a war for GAS... knock the "oil-based fuel" tax on ALL vehicles up to about $0.75 -$1 and watch folks scramble for smaller cheaper trucks in a heartbeat. Watch electric vehicles take off because Natural gas and coal are North American made and wouldn't be affected. Watch all the other alternate power sources like bio-diesel and ethanol take off because they are US made as well. Besides we have a $7Trilion dollar hole to dig out of... specifically because people like driving around in cars!! it makes sense people should pay for that. It will also foster LOCAL businesses because shipping costs will increase.... meaning more things (like food stuff, farm products, services, etc) will be cost-effective to do at home if they can't be done electronically. Socially, we've needed a way to stop the ever expanding "suburban commuter" thing for a while too... it's just a bad thing for our culture. Lastly it would make mass transit more lucrative... the feds could give THEM a tax credit.... according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation) we should probably use Vans or Trains, not Buses though.
HE'S APPLE!
They use PROTOTYPE equipment all the time... He owns the peeps that can set the channel to whatever Steve wants.
It actually makes sense that Steve would set the network up that way.. It would also keep "nuisance" hackers out of his demo. It does make it extra funny to know Steve was using a channel people in the room should not have been able to access... Not a slightly geeky crowd much?
But on topic, short of having firmware access to unlicensed bands, there's not much you can do. Perhaps convention halls should get infrastructure level equipment put in and force everybody to use their channels? That would fix the problem of battling networks kicking each other out. Then YOU, the presenter, would still have to use VPN fir your products to prevent snooping.
If he enjoys mowing then there is no optimum solution. The BEST solution is one that shows the NEIGHBORHOOD you are better than them.
Go for the cross-cross checkerboard pattern... REAL LAWN FANS don't use circles! The problem is not efficiency, but how to mow the lawn and the trim around obstacles without leaving "tracks" or "foot prints" and without those tack circles around everything...
The correct answer may mean moving trees, etc...
Sheep!
With proper security, you shouldn't be left unattended with that axe very long.
But in this case the intention is to protect utility control rooms and such... What protects a cell phone tower from hackers just going inside and plugging in? Or just turning the thing OFF? That's what these are marketed for, the HUGE amount of infrastructure in the USA that is basically kept in "doghouses".
Most of this is to protect isolated control rooms... Think the water testing valve for a city wellhead. Once you are in and deal damage, you'll have plenty of time to flee, damage will actually happen up to miles away from here.
The USA is dotted with power, telco, gas, water lines that cross miles of country. Hell, most of my local utility offices are "unattended" now. Just plain brick buildings.
And if that don't work... Try 4 pounds?
Although I learned from Mythbusters that different explosives have different purposes. For locks Thermite might be a better choice because it "cuts" meaning you'll still have a room on the other side of that door to rob!!!
Exact change only.... duh!
Exactly... Nice door lock there... Crowbar works just fine on the WINDOW too.
The difference it that real criminals have no problem leaving a broken mess...
Locks like these still miss the point that a big enough hammer is going to take the lock off the door.. Then a plain screwdriver can open it!
Missing the point kids. .Net should have been running on "everything Microsoft". Phones, desktop, server, even Zune and XBox (1). Out of the gate it should have had AGGRESSIVE cross hardware settings. At this point 90% of Windows stuff should be .Net like Apple uses Objective C. An app being 100% .Net should have been a selling point... 5years ago. Both as a sign of forward and backward compatibility, and as a sign that companies cared enough about their products (that are HIGHLY PROFITABLE) to get in there and rewrite code after a SEVEN YEAR OS break.
At this point a regular Windows server should have nothing but core Server apps (SQL, exchange, ect) running as native.., everything else should be native .Net v4 code, and ONLY .Net code... .Net has all those thing built right in so a bad app doesn't crash the system. Microsoft refused to LEAD the rewrite charge and FORCE companies tonkeep up.
Companies not shipping .Net v4 codecshould be getting the same bad press as iPhone devs that aren't keeping up on iOS 5 betas. But that never really happened. I still have Windows tools from IBM that don't properly use the Vista-era theme manager... There's just no excuse, Microsiftvlet that go on WAY too long.
The FAILURE is that Microsoft did not demonstrate the kind of "closed door" leadership we got from Apple... With a 5 year head start.
All the things iPhone has... Comparable APIs, locked down code, sandboxing.. .Net had out-of-the-box almost at introduction. Microsoft's first screw up was that they tried to position it as a Java killer and tried to use PR and Marketing poorly.
Frankly, they lacked the ability to achieve long-term results.. Microsoft failed to port their MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCTS (Office and VS) to the new language.
Look how Apple pulled off OSX, and Intel, and iPad... The plans and tools to create iPad in 2010 were laid in the earliest OSX versions. Steve's famous "one more thing" with OSX, on Intel Macs, running almost all the standard Apps NATIVELY... On stage right NOW... That is BANG!
Microsoft never delivered a .Net Office... Vista should have been .Net all the way through... Along with Office and Visual Studio. it should have been a "clean break". Old apps run in the XP emulator, new ones use .Net... With the benefit that .net would go BACK to XP as much as possible, but no more. Microsoft had a SEVEN YEAR gap in OS versions.. They easily could have pushed a LOT of "breaking" on devs, but they barely got Vista out the door and working on launch date.
Microsoft had most of a decade with THE MOST CASH in the industry.. Yet they are incapable of getting a rewrite out the door, and making CASH from the huge number of PhDs they hire at Microsoft Research.
The problem is not technology. The problem is that they spent so much time being afraid of underdogs, looking back, they just plain ran off the path into a tree..
But what situation would they devalue your app so badly that the 20% rule kicked in? Their definition of "list price" is the OPPOSITE of what a traditional MSRP would be... The whole thing is "Hollywood" accounting at it's finest...
I do agree the guys could have been sharper on the contract... Except the way those percents are written they are INTENDED to be misread because the "sale price" is scattered on 5 different pages of the contract.
it's all about the "list price".. but you wouldn't think a SPECIAL SALE PRICE would affect the list price, right? Why else would Amazon have the flat 70% OR 20% of list if they choose to have a sale on the app? What's a situation where Amazon's price would be lower than list... and how would that ever be LOWER than the straight 70%? The whole paragraph dealing with that is nothing but funny business...
WOW! Amazon is cheap bastards... Apple offers 70% (Seven - Zero) of sales. And you set your price... Apple NEVER does.
I think the confusion is the "0% revenue share" in APPLE Store talk that means the HOUSE cut would be 0%... so it SOUNDS like a good deal. Until you realize it's YOU that is getting the "revenue sharing" ... for your OWN APP. I can see people wanting to try out Amazon.. for the sole purpose of it being "not Apple" and "not Google" but under terms like that there's just no way.
There are some older terms here: http://www.slashgear.com/amazon-android-app-store-tcs-leak-29104993/
it's easy to see how a developer could be confused. If that email is read DIFFERENTLY, that "revenue sharing" could actually mean Amazon is trying to CHARGE THE DEVELOPER for putting their app on sale!!!! You gotta love that section 5i that defines "list price"... in other words because they put the app on sale, the "list price" became zero that day because it was the lowest price.. it's not hard to comprehend. But when you deal with terms in clauses.. that reference clauses... in other paragraphs... reading the WHOLE story for "lets put your app on sale" is not the TRUTH.
It makes sense... If anything when would a teacher NEED a private communication with a student that is NOT via School provided email, office space, etc?
As a teacher, don you really want to know all the stuff that's going on... Risk seeing pics you shouldn't or have your posts taken out of context? Look at it this way.. This ALSO prevents teachers from friending kids just to ratt them out!! That's the cheif source of material principals use against students... Right.
From a purely pragmatic standpoint, this PROTECTS teachers from getting in situations where they might be accused of wrongdoing later... That's not all bad.