As long as I have to pay $99... to apps I develop on my own phone, I'm out
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1.Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools. 2.Create your Windows Phone app. 3.Test it in the Windows Phone Emulator. 4.Sell it in the Marketplace.
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Visual Studio 2010 Express For Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator Silverlight For Windows Phone XNA Game Studio 4.0 Expression Blend 4 For Windows Phone.
In the early ninties, a country profile for the Library of Congress estimated that North Korean had about 250,000 television sets and 3.75 million radio sets, all fixed to receive only government broadcasts. Visitors cannot bring a radio into the country.
Radio and TV sets in North Korea are pre-tuned to government stations that pump out a steady stream of propaganda. The state has been dubbed the world's worst violator of press freedom by the media rights body Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Press outlets and broadcasters - all of them under direct state control - serve up a menu of flattering reports about Kim Jong-il and his daily agenda. North Korea's economic hardships or famines are not reported. Ordinary North Koreans caught listening to foreign broadcasts risk harsh punishments, such as forced labour. The authorities attempt to jam foreign-based and dissident radio stations. The "only glimmer of hope", according to RSF, is the "communications black market" on the North Korean-Chinese border. Recordings of South Korean TV soaps and films are said to circulate.North Korea country profile [Oct 2, 2010]
If you just find one of these and don't realize that it belongs to the FBI, and think "doesn't belong" and destory it (or just toss it in a dumpster), are you liable to pay for it when the FBI comes to get it back
What happens when you destroy it - or pull some crack-brained stunt like planting the tracker on your ex-girl friend's car - is that you move up one, two, three or more notches on the watch list.
The smart thing to do is call the cops and let them remove the device and decide what to do with it.
Or more scary is the internet could have started as a purely commercial venture. Imagine if it had not existed, and AOL had created their own version of the internet. It is kind of what they were trying to do before the open internet kicked their butts. You would have several private nets (like in the 80s) and eventually, the big ones would buy out the small ones. You would have MUCH less content, as the price to enter the market with a website would be dictated by singular corporate interests.
What do you think you is happening now?
The "walled garden" of the iOS is bigger than Linux. iOS tops Linux
Facebook has 500 million active users, Steam 25 million. PlaystationHome has 14 million. AOL in its prime had 30 million.
You can't count web stats, because the user-agent can and often is spoofed.
I hear this argument repeated over and over again - and I simply don't believe it.
It demands that a statistically significant number of users know what a user agent is, how to change it and keep it readable, and have a sensible, intelligible, reason for doing so.
It doesn't tell me why Opera and the Mozilla Foundation are paying Net Applications for their fine-grained unpublished stats.
I dunno. I can buy a desktop computer with no OS without problems, but try to get a laptop without an OS. Impossible! I think Ubuntu is allowed to complain about that.
Bare bones is for the hobbyist and the IT pro.
The OEM system install under warranty solves so many problems for other users that your laptop can't be sold without it.
'The improvements we're making to Ubunutu... are a better route for us to reach out to users and get a bigger user base.'
The problem any mass market Linux distribution are perfectly clear and quite possibly unsolvable.
Linux arrived late to the party.
It needed to be there no later than Win 3.1. Certainly no later than Win 95.
The FOSS app can't be confined to a single operating system.
The forces that drive the port to Windows are many, visibility and financial support among them.
The geek needs to take a hard look at what is in his Linux repository and whether it offers any compelling reason for migration.
Planescape: Torment is a $6 download from Gog.com.
To atttract the PC gamer, you have to make your free gaming repository at least as compelling as the Windows bargain bin.
If you want the digital photo enthusiast you have to make The GIMP at least as easy and engaging to use as a hardware-acclerated Paint.NET - and you need to find a new name for your product.
The more you have to explain, the less people are willing to listen.
Migration to the alternative OS has all the appeal of root canal. It is a very, very tough sell.
H.264 is not a problem for Windows.
Netflix is not a problem for Windows.
Protected content or subscription services of any kind, are not a problem for Windows.
Microsoft doesn't care about what is politically correct. It cares about what is commercially viable.
Dell, HP and Lenovo don't put up " recommends Windows 7" on each page because they actually do recommend Windows 7. They do it because Microsoft pays them money to do it.
They also do it because the Windows PC sells in enormous numbers.
It is worthwhile, for example, for Walmart.com to keep 195 Windows laptops and 106 desktops in stock.
They also do it because of very profitable after-market sales of hardware, software and peripherals. Walmart.com keeps 101 Windows printers in stock. 118 speaker systems. 73 webcams.
But the Linux Stat Counter stats for countries like Argentina, Brazil, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Venezuela etc., are really quite pathetic. Either these countries have gone off-line or the FOSS geek has spent too much time listening to his own propaganda.
The picture is somewhat less bleak in Uruguay - one of OLPC's great success stories. But in Rwanda - where OLPC had a confirmed, significant, deployment of 100,000 units - Linux is easily outpaced by OSX and Win 7.
Unsurprisingly, unencumbered by restrictive laws, it grew fast in the intellectual works arena, at which point people (the ones who'd made a profit this way) wanted to keep things as they were, and so lobbied for ever more restrictive legislation to ensure nobody could get a slice of their pie
The US remained predominately rural and agricultural until 1860.
That is 250 years out from the Jamestown Settlement.
In 1790 the U.S. produced 3,000 bales of cotton.
In 1860, 3.8 million.
In 1860 six manufactuers controlled 50% of the total cotton gin market.
The cotton gin had become big business, a factory made, not craftsman product.
In 1820, Eli Whitney's patents, newly minted and with the industrial tech needed to back them up would have been a license to print money. Cotton Gin
The American railroad was financed in London.
The American railroad could be a marvel of improvisation. But the Amercan railroad was notoriously slow in adopting new tech.
The by then wholly constipated and inadequate American railroad system was nationalized in World War One - an $18 billion dollar industry re-organized and modernized by government fiat. USRA Light Mikado
Not everyone regarded trafficking in patent rights with equanimity. The scientist Joseph Henry, for example, refused as a matter of principle to patent any of his inventions, proclaiming that they had been "freely given" to the world, and sought, instead of pecuniary reward, the pleasure of discovering new truths, the satisfaction of advancing science, and the enjoyment of the "scientific reputation" to which his discoveries entitled him.
In contrast, the telegraph business evolved through patents, of which the most important were the patents that Morse had obtained in 1840 (the use of electricity to transmit signals over long distances) and 1846 (an electromagnetic relay).
Beginning in 1836, the patent office began once again to examine each filing to determine not only whether the submission had merit but also whether it infringed on any other patent already issued--thus establishing a filter between the inventor and the legal system and enhancing the value of applications that made it through the mesh by defining the rights of the patent holder. Once certification was required, patent rights became tradable assets that, like land assets or government securities, could be bought or sold. To capitalize on their value, promoters bundled together patents for related inventions into cartels known as "pools." The leading telegraph patents were pooled in 1859; telephone patents were pooled in 1879; radio patents in 1919.
No other government in the world had imposed a comparable requirement up to this time, imparting to Morse's patents a moral authority that set them apart not only from the patents issued to Americans before 1836, but also from those issued by Great Britain and France. The transformation of the U.S. Patent Office reinforced the seductive yet still controversial notion that self-interest could spur the technical advances that would foster moral progress. This syllogism received a classic formulation in 1859 when, in a popular lecture on "discoveries and inventions," the Illinois lawyer, patent holder, and politician Abraham Lincoln praised the country's patent laws for ensuring that the "fuel of interest" would stoke the "fire of genius."
The significance of Morse's invention was not only practical but also symbolic. Morse had been born and educated in the United States, a country not then known for scientific attainment, especially in a highly technical field such
so you go to court and they ask for the key. you tell them YOUR part of the key but one aspect is outside their control; while they had you locked up, time marched on. you were not 'at your desk' to refresh the clock or keygen and so the machine detected an abonormality. at that point, given this theoretical situation, you are now UNABLE to unlock the disk. you may WANT to, but its beyond your control. the machine that gives you the 2nd part is now out of sync and you 'cant fix it' since it may not be your own coding (again, lets say for agument sake)
It's at times like these, when I see the geek in full flight, that I start to think that Joe Arpaio may be on the right track after all.
He was probably suspected of having pictures of his 17-year old naked self on his computer. I instinctively assume that anyone who brings up child porn accusations is lying
and if the key is recovered and the data proves you wrong, what then?
Your rage as an AC will count for nothing and the precedent established will be all the stronger.
so if what you have encrypted is worth more than that, keep your mouth shut and do your time
The contempt citation means you remain in the lock-up until hell freezes over or a judge sets you free, whichever comes first. I believe the record in a divorce case is 14 years.
Short answer: No. Through some creative legal thinking producing your encryption password is now considered equal to handing over the key to your safe, not to compel information from your mind. It's bullshit but Britain takes 1984 as a role model, not a warning.
The location and use of a physical key must also be found and extracted from your head.
There is no useful distinction to be made here.
The level of protection in the U.S. Constitution is framed in only fourteen words:
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself
The origins of the privilege lie in the use of torture to extract confessions.
The primary meaning of the word "witness" is this context is your testimony in open court.
Not the simple actions a judge can order you to do to advance a civil or criminal investigation.
The farther you are from your turn on the witness stand, and the more civilized the means of compulsion, the more likely a court will insist on your compliance.
you could still protect yourself if you simply said "I don't recall that password." You may notice that not being able to recall is used a lot when under oath. The reason is that there really isn't any way to challenge it. We forget shit all the time (hell everyone seems to forget their passwords if my job is any indication). You can't prove someone hasn't. So they say "What is the password and the 5th amendment doesn't protect you," you say "Sorry, I can't recall that password."
You can say it.
But a judge isn't obliged to believe it.
In the real world, "plausible deniability" translates to six months in pink undies, tenting out in the desert sun with a bunk mate named Big Mike --- with no end in sight.
They took money and work from the community, then they sold themselves to microsoft, and achieved none of all their goals
The XO was presented as a solution for every culture.
The XO hardware.
The FOSS software.
The constructivist philosophy of education straight from the Western media lab.
The education minister was not invited or encouraged to express any doubts.
He only task was to sign the purchase order.
The Microsoft pitch was simpler:
We will sell you an OS and an office suite.
The rest is up to you.
We won't tell you what to teach your kids. We won't tell you how to teach your kids.
Significant deployments of the XO outside of Latin America were perhaps 10% of the whole - and that as much as anything shatters the illusion of universality. Deployment of XO laptops
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As long as I have to pay $99 ... to apps I develop on my own phone, I'm out
Discover Windows Phone 7 Development
1.Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools.
2.Create your Windows Phone app.
3.Test it in the Windows Phone Emulator.
4.Sell it in the Marketplace.
The - Free - Windows Phone Tools:
[Vista and Windows 7 Only]
Visual Studio 2010 Express For Windows Phone
Windows Phone Emulator
Silverlight For Windows Phone
XNA Game Studio 4.0
Expression Blend 4 For Windows Phone.
Visual Studio Express 2010 For Microsoft Phone
Channel 9
Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit
Getting started with Windows Phone
Silverlight for Windows Phone
XNA Framework 4.0 for Windows Phone
If you can move entirely to software which runs on Linux, you won't need Windows. Microsoft is therefore suffering the death of a thousand cuts
It's Linux that suffers the death of a thousand cuts with each port of a FOSS app to Windows.
I'd be willing to bet that the only reason Windows 7 is any good is because of the competition from Linux.
Linux is scarcely a blib on the radar.
On the monthly Statcounter GLobal Stats, Linux ranks lower than "Other." It is falling off the edge of the world.
What drives Microsoft onward is it's thirty year run with Apple.
In the early ninties, a country profile for the Library of Congress estimated that North Korean had about 250,000 television sets and 3.75 million radio sets, all fixed to receive only government broadcasts. Visitors cannot bring a radio into the country.
Radio and TV sets in North Korea are pre-tuned to government stations that pump out a steady stream of propaganda. The state has been dubbed the world's worst violator of press freedom by the media rights body Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Press outlets and broadcasters - all of them under direct state control - serve up a menu of flattering reports about Kim Jong-il and his daily agenda. North Korea's economic hardships or famines are not reported.
Ordinary North Koreans caught listening to foreign broadcasts risk harsh punishments, such as forced labour. The authorities attempt to jam foreign-based and dissident radio stations.
The "only glimmer of hope", according to RSF, is the "communications black market" on the North Korean-Chinese border. Recordings of South Korean TV soaps and films are said to circulate. North Korea country profile [Oct 2, 2010]
If you need to avoid all the manual formatting and want great quality, then you should prefer LaTeX or a suitable *TeX.
Or you could sent your manuscript out to a publisher who has professionals working full time in typography, layout, design and illustration.
but isn't PKD the author who has the most works that have been translated to the silver screen?
"The Prince and the Pauper" was filmed by the Edison studios in 1909 - at Mark Twain's home in Conneticut!
There have been at least 120 credited and uncredited adaptations of Twain's stories.
292 tales from Dickens.
232 adaptations of Sherlock Holmes.
223 productions based on the novels and stories of Robert Lewis Stevenson.
201 adaptations from O.Henry, 137 from Jules Verne.
83 from H.G. Wells, 77 from Rudyard Kipling.
As improbable as it sounds, there is new version of The Three Musketeers in production. The first was in 1898.
If you just find one of these and don't realize that it belongs to the FBI, and think "doesn't belong" and destory it (or just toss it in a dumpster), are you liable to pay for it when the FBI comes to get it back
What happens when you destroy it - or pull some crack-brained stunt like planting the tracker on your ex-girl friend's car - is that you move up one, two, three or more notches on the watch list.
The smart thing to do is call the cops and let them remove the device and decide what to do with it.
Or more scary is the internet could have started as a purely commercial venture. Imagine if it had not existed, and AOL had created their own version of the internet. It is kind of what they were trying to do before the open internet kicked their butts. You would have several private nets (like in the 80s) and eventually, the big ones would buy out the small ones. You would have MUCH less content, as the price to enter the market with a website would be dictated by singular corporate interests.
What do you think you is happening now?
The "walled garden" of the iOS is bigger than Linux. iOS tops Linux
Facebook has 500 million active users, Steam 25 million. PlaystationHome has 14 million. AOL in its prime had 30 million.
You can't count web stats, because the user-agent can and often is spoofed.
I hear this argument repeated over and over again - and I simply don't believe it.
It demands that a statistically significant number of users know what a user agent is, how to change it and keep it readable, and have a sensible, intelligible, reason for doing so.
It doesn't tell me why Opera and the Mozilla Foundation are paying Net Applications for their fine-grained unpublished stats.
I dunno. I can buy a desktop computer with no OS without problems, but try to get a laptop without an OS. Impossible! I think Ubuntu is allowed to complain about that.
Bare bones is for the hobbyist and the IT pro.
The OEM system install under warranty solves so many problems for other users that your laptop can't be sold without it.
'The improvements we're making to Ubunutu ... are a better route for us to reach out to users and get a bigger user base.'
The problem any mass market Linux distribution are perfectly clear and quite possibly unsolvable.
Linux arrived late to the party.
It needed to be there no later than Win 3.1. Certainly no later than Win 95.
The FOSS app can't be confined to a single operating system.
The forces that drive the port to Windows are many, visibility and financial support among them.
The geek needs to take a hard look at what is in his Linux repository and whether it offers any compelling reason for migration.
Planescape: Torment is a $6 download from Gog.com.
To atttract the PC gamer, you have to make your free gaming repository at least as compelling as the Windows bargain bin.
If you want the digital photo enthusiast you have to make The GIMP at least as easy and engaging to use as a hardware-acclerated Paint.NET - and you need to find a new name for your product.
The more you have to explain, the less people are willing to listen.
Migration to the alternative OS has all the appeal of root canal. It is a very, very tough sell.
H.264 is not a problem for Windows.
Netflix is not a problem for Windows.
Protected content or subscription services of any kind, are not a problem for Windows.
Microsoft doesn't care about what is politically correct. It cares about what is commercially viable.
Dell, HP and Lenovo don't put up " recommends Windows 7" on each page because they actually do recommend Windows 7. They do it because Microsoft pays them money to do it.
They also do it because the Windows PC sells in enormous numbers.
It is worthwhile, for example, for Walmart.com to keep 195 Windows laptops and 106 desktops in stock.
They also do it because of very profitable after-market sales of hardware, software and peripherals. Walmart.com keeps 101 Windows printers in stock. 118 speaker systems. 73 webcams.
It's an uphill battle, and we've still got a ways to go, but Linux in general and Ubuntu specifically has been making great strides here.
Linux is treading water.
In most stats, it is barely visible as also-ran.
Stat Counter Global Stats
I want expecting this.
But the Linux Stat Counter stats for countries like Argentina, Brazil, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Venezuela etc., are really quite pathetic. Either these countries have gone off-line or the FOSS geek has spent too much time listening to his own propaganda.
The picture is somewhat less bleak in Uruguay - one of OLPC's great success stories. But in Rwanda - where OLPC had a confirmed, significant, deployment of 100,000 units - Linux is easily outpaced by OSX and Win 7.
Top Operating System Share Trend, iOS Tops Linux
Even when you factor in Android, the numbers don't change all that much.
OS Platform Statistics
24% Win 7: Up from 0% in Jan 09, Linux 4.5%: Up from 2.2% in Mar 03. The W3Schools stats for Linux are as good as it gets.
The most popular of these, the Atari VCS/2600, sold games for $30 new, and $25 for older titles.
What cost $30 in 1978 cost $97.60 in 2009. The Inflation Calculator
Unsurprisingly, unencumbered by restrictive laws, it grew fast in the intellectual works arena, at which point people (the ones who'd made a profit this way) wanted to keep things as they were, and so lobbied for ever more restrictive legislation to ensure nobody could get a slice of their pie
The US remained predominately rural and agricultural until 1860.
That is 250 years out from the Jamestown Settlement.
In 1790 the U.S. produced 3,000 bales of cotton.
In 1860, 3.8 million.
In 1860 six manufactuers controlled 50% of the total cotton gin market.
The cotton gin had become big business, a factory made, not craftsman product.
In 1820, Eli Whitney's patents, newly minted and with the industrial tech needed to back them up would have been a license to print money. Cotton Gin
The American railroad was financed in London.
The American railroad could be a marvel of improvisation. But the Amercan railroad was notoriously slow in adopting new tech.
THE GREAT RAIL WRECK AT REVERE, "ST. GEORGE" WESTINGHOUSE
The by then wholly constipated and inadequate American railroad system was nationalized in World War One - an $18 billion dollar industry re-organized and modernized by government fiat. USRA Light Mikado
Not everyone regarded trafficking in patent rights with equanimity. The scientist Joseph Henry, for example, refused as a matter of principle to patent any of his inventions, proclaiming that they had been "freely given" to the world, and sought, instead of pecuniary reward, the pleasure of discovering new truths, the satisfaction of advancing science, and the enjoyment of the "scientific reputation" to which his discoveries entitled him.
In contrast, the telegraph business evolved through patents, of which the most important were the patents that Morse had obtained in 1840 (the use of electricity to transmit signals over long distances) and 1846 (an electromagnetic relay).
Beginning in 1836, the patent office began once again to examine each filing to determine not only whether the submission had merit but also whether it infringed on any other patent already issued--thus establishing a filter between the inventor and the legal system and enhancing the value of applications that made it through the mesh by defining the rights of the patent holder. Once certification was required, patent rights became tradable assets that, like land assets or government securities, could be bought or sold. To capitalize on their value, promoters bundled together patents for related inventions into cartels known as "pools." The leading telegraph patents were pooled in 1859; telephone patents were pooled in 1879; radio patents in 1919.
No other government in the world had imposed a comparable requirement up to this time, imparting to Morse's patents a moral authority that set them apart not only from the patents issued to Americans before 1836, but also from those issued by Great Britain and France. The transformation of the U.S. Patent Office reinforced the seductive yet still controversial notion that self-interest could spur the technical advances that would foster moral progress. This syllogism received a classic formulation in 1859 when, in a popular lecture on "discoveries and inventions," the Illinois lawyer, patent holder, and politician Abraham Lincoln praised the country's patent laws for ensuring that the "fuel of interest" would stoke the "fire of genius."
The significance of Morse's invention was not only practical but also symbolic. Morse had been born and educated in the United States, a country not then known for scientific attainment, especially in a highly technical field such
so you go to court and they ask for the key. you tell them YOUR part of the key but one aspect is outside their control; while they had you locked up, time marched on. you were not 'at your desk' to refresh the clock or keygen and so the machine detected an abonormality. at that point, given this theoretical situation, you are now UNABLE to unlock the disk. you may WANT to, but its beyond your control. the machine that gives you the 2nd part is now out of sync and you 'cant fix it' since it may not be your own coding (again, lets say for agument sake)
It's at times like these, when I see the geek in full flight, that I start to think that Joe Arpaio may be on the right track after all.
He was probably suspected of having pictures of his 17-year old naked self on his computer. I instinctively assume that anyone who brings up child porn accusations is lying
and if the key is recovered and the data proves you wrong, what then?
Your rage as an AC will count for nothing and the precedent established will be all the stronger.
so if what you have encrypted is worth more than that, keep your mouth shut and do your time
The contempt citation means you remain in the lock-up until hell freezes over or a judge sets you free, whichever comes first. I believe the record in a divorce case is 14 years.
Short answer: No. Through some creative legal thinking producing your encryption password is now considered equal to handing over the key to your safe, not to compel information from your mind. It's bullshit but Britain takes 1984 as a role model, not a warning.
The location and use of a physical key must also be found and extracted from your head.
There is no useful distinction to be made here.
The level of protection in the U.S. Constitution is framed in only fourteen words:
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself
The origins of the privilege lie in the use of torture to extract confessions.
The primary meaning of the word "witness" is this context is your testimony in open court.
Not the simple actions a judge can order you to do to advance a civil or criminal investigation.
The farther you are from your turn on the witness stand, and the more civilized the means of compulsion, the more likely a court will insist on your compliance.
you could still protect yourself if you simply said "I don't recall that password." You may notice that not being able to recall is used a lot when under oath. The reason is that there really isn't any way to challenge it. We forget shit all the time (hell everyone seems to forget their passwords if my job is any indication). You can't prove someone hasn't. So they say "What is the password and the 5th amendment doesn't protect you," you say "Sorry, I can't recall that password."
You can say it.
But a judge isn't obliged to believe it.
In the real world, "plausible deniability" translates to six months in pink undies, tenting out in the desert sun with a bunk mate named Big Mike --- with no end in sight.
The shocking thing about this whole story is that in retrospect, his idea seems obvious and is scientifically sound, but was ignored.
It is 1837.
Precision manufacturing is in its infancy, Complex mechanisms are difficult to build and maintain.
The only immeadiate need for a "computer" is in the construction of more accurate mathematical tables.
But the need for greater precision there is similiarly limited by your abilty to make any practical use of it.
because usage like this stat is actually a important statistic, while market share is useless since market share does not equal usage.
Nonsense.
Web stats are built from the actions of users.
Which is why Net Applications numbers Apple, D&B, Microsoft, Nokia, Opera, the Mozilla Foundation, RIM and the WSJ among its clients.
Fundling for client-side apps goes to the platforms which are commercially viable.
Chrome Frame or Firefox port to Windows isn't an act of charity when AdSense pays your bills.
Neither can you crack through the "walled garden" when your platform has a 0.85% share of the mass consumer market. iOS tops Linux
That attidude made the XO a plaything for the geek - when what it was meant to be was a learning aid for the grade school child.
How are kids supposed to learn unbounded when they have to deal with Windows?
The XO targeted grade school kids - in third-world countries. Think Reader Rabbit not hacking the kernel.
The XO was presented as a solution for every culture.
The XO hardware.
The FOSS software.
The constructivist philosophy of education straight from the Western media lab.
The education minister was not invited or encouraged to express any doubts.
He only task was to sign the purchase order.
The Microsoft pitch was simpler:
We will sell you an OS and an office suite.
The rest is up to you.
We won't tell you what to teach your kids. We won't tell you how to teach your kids.
Significant deployments of the XO outside of Latin America were perhaps 10% of the whole - and that as much as anything shatters the illusion of universality. Deployment of XO laptops