iDevices are platforms for 'consuming' (spending money on) content. In-app purchases are a feature that both developers and consumers appreciate. As much as I find it personally distasteful, many people enjoy these freemium apps, so for their sake I say "this is why we can't have nice things".
Let's not kid around, iPhones toys for adults, not children. It is not appropriate to let a child use one unsupervised. End of story.
Hold on there. You state that the patent promise is contrary to financial responsibility, but that is not apparent at all. Yes, they are closing the door on one potential revenue source (raising money by rent-seeking) but that is only an opportunity cost of opening other doors.
The directors will argue that it would be fiscally irresponsible to persue rent-seeking over real innovation, and they would be right. Honestly, directors do have a lot of leeway to peruse whatever path they want pursuant to financial responsibility, and as long as they can justify it to their shareholders (or a court, should it come to that) they are golden.
ICS runs great on Lumia 900 level hardware. High-end android phones are so powerful because of a highly competitive market, not because it is required to run the OS.
_Why_ would Nokia be dead in 5 years if they went with Android? Do you believe that Nokia could not compete with the likes of HTC? If that's truly the case, then hiding behind an offering the market doesn't want isn't exactly the best solution.
Agreed, with over 30 extensions the last time I had breakage was updating to Firefox 3.x
All this FUD over Firefox update "breakage" is very reminiscent of Android "fragmentation" - a theoretical issue that has completely failed to affect me over the course of 3 devices and dozens of roms.
To be fair, manual navigation usually involves knowing a fixed point (north) so you can correctly orientate your map. I don't see a huge issue letting a electronic system do the orientation for you.
To some extent. You can always install another DE later on, but some distros are more... brittle then others when it comes to being able to customise stuff.
In general, the more plug-and-play distro's are less flexible due to the large amount of customised software and integration work they have carried out. These customisations can also change drastically between major updates, which is fine if you are just upgrading a vanilla ubuntu install from 10.10 to 11.04 but will can really trash your system if you make moderate customizations to the OS.
None of these problems are impossible to work around, but the amount of effort you will expend will be greater in the long run then just using a more generic system designed that is designed for modification in the first place.
But don't get obsessed about picking the distro that is just right on your first install. You just need to use one and get your feet wet. You'll soon work out what you like and what you need from your distro.
That didn't work in Australia thanks to our competition watchdog. The best ebay could manage was to require all sellers offer paypal as an option (previously you could elect not to offer paypal at all). I wonder if the same will apply to Google?
No, but it does say you can't use the network in a way that prevents others being able to use it.
That's the thing, isn't it? We have to accept AT&T's word that we are affecting other users. If throttling came on at peak times when the network is actually experiencing load, I could buy it.
There is not now nor has there ever been a promise, advertisement, or guarantee of 100% speed 100% of the time to 100% of the users.
Nobody is saying they expect that. They expect not to be gouged under pretense. If there is no congestion at the moment, I should have full speed, regardless of how much I have already downloaded this month.
I suspect the 12GB ceiling is for 3G. A typical home internet plan in Australia ranges from 150GB to 400GB (for between $50-$100). After that you are shaped (no overages). And yes, I do believe that knowing what you are paying for - and getting it - is better then the US system.
The "busy" pointer does that just fine. If you really must display something you can use the operating system's standard progress dialog. Splash screens are part of the same obnoxious school of thinking that that says branding and product differentiation are more important then clean user interfaces.
That's not what is says in the fine article. The European Commission fined intel a billion dollars after finding “Intel has harmed millions of customers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for many years”. HP and Dell didn't seem to be denying the allegations either - and with 3/4 of their operating budget paid for by intel, how could they? Finally, intel admitted culpability as part of the settlement to drop the US lawsuits.
There is nothing wrong with appealing to emotion in the face of the kind of unfeeling, self-serving rationalization that passes off human suffering as progress.
Yes, there is cheap labor to be had in China. And yes, both sides in the trade can benefit from that imbalance. You'll get no argument from me there. We get cheap products, they grow their economy. Everybody wins.
But what we are seeing is not mutual capitalization of this economic imbalance. If it was, Chinese factory workers would be working ~8 hour days and earning the local equivalent of a living wage. What we ARE seeing some of the most profitable corporations in history writing off human and environmental damage on a massive scale as externalities.
But thanks for the emotionally manipulative ad hominem attacks. The hypocrisy is staggering.
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They were footing the bill for Nvidia's screw-up long before they were guaranteed of getting anything back.
Actually no, they weren't. Apple's lawyers told the court that the repairs don't cost Apple a dime - Nvidia pays the bill.
iDevices are platforms for 'consuming' (spending money on) content. In-app purchases are a feature that both developers and consumers appreciate. As much as I find it personally distasteful, many people enjoy these freemium apps, so for their sake I say "this is why we can't have nice things".
Let's not kid around, iPhones toys for adults, not children. It is not appropriate to let a child use one unsupervised. End of story.
The cloud is a bubble in part BECAUSE it is a fad way of renaming existing technologies under one umbrella label.
"...in the cloud" is the new '...on the internet!' of the dotcom bubble
Nice try Stephen.
Indeed, although one would have thought Oracle reviewed this very question before getting to court.
Hold on there. You state that the patent promise is contrary to financial responsibility, but that is not apparent at all. Yes, they are closing the door on one potential revenue source (raising money by rent-seeking) but that is only an opportunity cost of opening other doors.
The directors will argue that it would be fiscally irresponsible to persue rent-seeking over real innovation, and they would be right. Honestly, directors do have a lot of leeway to peruse whatever path they want pursuant to financial responsibility, and as long as they can justify it to their shareholders (or a court, should it come to that) they are golden.
ICS runs great on Lumia 900 level hardware. High-end android phones are so powerful because of a highly competitive market, not because it is required to run the OS.
_Why_ would Nokia be dead in 5 years if they went with Android? Do you believe that Nokia could not compete with the likes of HTC? If that's truly the case, then hiding behind an offering the market doesn't want isn't exactly the best solution.
Oh, jokes on the internet are okay... just not on reddit. That place is always serious business.
Pretty much this. Give the student an "A" for finding it and leave it at that.
Agreed, with over 30 extensions the last time I had breakage was updating to Firefox 3.x
All this FUD over Firefox update "breakage" is very reminiscent of Android "fragmentation" - a theoretical issue that has completely failed to affect me over the course of 3 devices and dozens of roms.
To be fair, manual navigation usually involves knowing a fixed point (north) so you can correctly orientate your map. I don't see a huge issue letting a electronic system do the orientation for you.
To some extent. You can always install another DE later on, but some distros are more... brittle then others when it comes to being able to customise stuff.
In general, the more plug-and-play distro's are less flexible due to the large amount of customised software and integration work they have carried out. These customisations can also change drastically between major updates, which is fine if you are just upgrading a vanilla ubuntu install from 10.10 to 11.04 but will can really trash your system if you make moderate customizations to the OS.
None of these problems are impossible to work around, but the amount of effort you will expend will be greater in the long run then just using a more generic system designed that is designed for modification in the first place.
But don't get obsessed about picking the distro that is just right on your first install. You just need to use one and get your feet wet. You'll soon work out what you like and what you need from your distro.
That didn't work in Australia thanks to our competition watchdog. The best ebay could manage was to require all sellers offer paypal as an option (previously you could elect not to offer paypal at all). I wonder if the same will apply to Google?
No, but it does say you can't use the network in a way that prevents others being able to use it.
That's the thing, isn't it? We have to accept AT&T's word that we are affecting other users. If throttling came on at peak times when the network is actually experiencing load, I could buy it.
There is not now nor has there ever been a promise, advertisement, or guarantee of 100% speed 100% of the time to 100% of the users.
Nobody is saying they expect that. They expect not to be gouged under pretense. If there is no congestion at the moment, I should have full speed, regardless of how much I have already downloaded this month.
I don't have an AT&T contract. Pray tell me, does it include the definition of 'network abuser' or is that only in the shareholder's reports?
'Network abusers'? You really did drink the coolaid. How about your duty to deliver what your customers have paid for?
I'm pretty sure it was written by chatterbot trained on previous slashdot submissions.
I suspect the 12GB ceiling is for 3G. A typical home internet plan in Australia ranges from 150GB to 400GB (for between $50-$100). After that you are shaped (no overages). And yes, I do believe that knowing what you are paying for - and getting it - is better then the US system.
The "busy" pointer does that just fine. If you really must display something you can use the operating system's standard progress dialog. Splash screens are part of the same obnoxious school of thinking that that says branding and product differentiation are more important then clean user interfaces.
If the system was working we wouldn't be having this discussion now, would we?
That's not what is says in the fine article. The European Commission fined intel a billion dollars after finding “Intel has harmed millions of customers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for many years”. HP and Dell didn't seem to be denying the allegations either - and with 3/4 of their operating budget paid for by intel, how could they? Finally, intel admitted culpability as part of the settlement to drop the US lawsuits.
What, are you crazy? You NEVER connect a Windows machine to the internet.
The problem is that the concept of "minimum" health has no place outside of video games.
There is nothing wrong with appealing to emotion in the face of the kind of unfeeling, self-serving rationalization that passes off human suffering as progress.
Yes, there is cheap labor to be had in China. And yes, both sides in the trade can benefit from that imbalance. You'll get no argument from me there. We get cheap products, they grow their economy. Everybody wins.
But what we are seeing is not mutual capitalization of this economic imbalance. If it was, Chinese factory workers would be working ~8 hour days and earning the local equivalent of a living wage. What we ARE seeing some of the most profitable corporations in history writing off human and environmental damage on a massive scale as externalities.
But thanks for the emotionally manipulative ad hominem attacks. The hypocrisy is staggering.