In the context of smart phones, Apple is just a small fry, that captured some early market and decided that it wasn't "hip" enough to cater to everyone, so others waltzed in and took and overtook the market. Classic Apple mistake. They'll soon be irrelevant again.
Obviously, if they refuse, the EU will just let this slide and give them a slap on the wrist and tell Google to never ever do something like that again......the same that happens with people that refuse to pay fines or taxes.
It is simple. Google has a near monopoly on smart phone OS and search. Apple does not. iOS has a world wide share of like 20%.
So, yes, you can use Android, but not the Google PlayStore without also installing all of Google's mandatory apps and services and make them defaults. Therein lies the problem. Google is leveraging its app store to force you to use Chrome and its search functions. This is what the EU has issue with, and a good thing too or we'd all be using Internet Explorer now.
It retains the same semantics as copying, until of course a block gets corrupted and *all* your backup copies are damaged in exactly the same spot. Then you realize it is actually not a copy, but a reference.
It's cute that you think prices are actually based on costs + a modest profit. In the real world however, prices are determined by what the market can bear and what they can get away with.
Patents granting monopolies means they can get away with quite a bit.
It wouldn't be the first time some public outcry would lower the price of a drug. If it was actually based on recovering costs this would not be possible.
I think you'll find hardware support for decoding HD video is quite essential. Doing real time software decoding of full HD (let alone 4k video) is very intensive, and only viable on some of the most powerful CPU's.
Back end development is only complex because you have to keep explaining to those front-end people that back-end shouldn't provide formatting, translations, styles, etc.
They'll ask for stupid stuff like "could you add a field that sums those rows together? and maybe a flag to indicate whether a price is negative?"... and then I have to explain about how we want to be able to deploy the back-end without having to upgrade front-ends and vice-versa and that tightly integrating them is gonna make that impossible.
They think they're the only kid on the block, while in reality the "back-end" is used for headless services, the web front end, the mobile front end, the "internal" front end, batch processes, etc.
Might as well work with monkeys, they can be trained at least.
People leave because companies don't pay them what they're worth. A person that knows all your systems is worth much more than a similarly skilled person that is starting fresh, yet they're often paid the system with a small margin of error (a couple of 2% raises each year).
So this person takes their new skills, applies somewhere else (but this time as a medior developer) and gets an instant 20-30% raise.
Explaining your reasoning to your manager / boss / HR drone results in *NOTHING*. But stuff often suddenly starts moving when you hand in your resignation. Of course, by then it's too late and even a generous offer will not be accepted as something else has been lined up already.
It's a huge mess. I can't even get voice/video calls to work through a firewall as it requires like 20 different rules for all sorts of ports -- it's ancient code, written in an ancient time when every new feature required its own port and protocol.
Compare that with Hangouts or Slack (the client), which just works out of the box without any changes to my firewall.
Besides, I'm sure 90% of the code is the bolted on library for serving you ads in the middle of your face.
You can't rewrite the ledger. The ledger is what everyone agrees on, and the "seller" in your scenario can simply wait until the ledger is distributed wide enough that rewriting history would be impossible.
In theory however, you could create a transaction (that fits on top of the currently accepted ledger) that assigns yourself a lot of wealth (either from thin air or from other people's wallets). However, this will fail as well, as new coin creation requires the proof of work.
Transferring from other wallets requires signing with the correct private key, so that won't work either.
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It's why it should be called gambling.
Brilliant idea. I'll get some servers and spin up a YouTube replacement, give me a couple.
In the context of smart phones, Apple is just a small fry, that captured some early market and decided that it wasn't "hip" enough to cater to everyone, so others waltzed in and took and overtook the market. Classic Apple mistake. They'll soon be irrelevant again.
Apple won't be next because they're a small player with their 20% market share compared to Android.
Obviously, if they refuse, the EU will just let this slide and give them a slap on the wrist and tell Google to never ever do something like that again... ...the same that happens with people that refuse to pay fines or taxes.
It is simple. Google has a near monopoly on smart phone OS and search. Apple does not. iOS has a world wide share of like 20%.
So, yes, you can use Android, but not the Google PlayStore without also installing all of Google's mandatory apps and services and make them defaults. Therein lies the problem. Google is leveraging its app store to force you to use Chrome and its search functions. This is what the EU has issue with, and a good thing too or we'd all be using Internet Explorer now.
It retains the same semantics as copying, until of course a block gets corrupted and *all* your backup copies are damaged in exactly the same spot. Then you realize it is actually not a copy, but a reference.
...because we all the speed of writing code is restricted by how fast programmers can type.
Compare that to the speed of how fast people can read code... that's limited by how easy the code can be understood with limited context.
..or a big raincoat with newspaper print on it...
It's cute that you think prices are actually based on costs + a modest profit. In the real world however, prices are determined by what the market can bear and what they can get away with.
Patents granting monopolies means they can get away with quite a bit.
It wouldn't be the first time some public outcry would lower the price of a drug. If it was actually based on recovering costs this would not be possible.
I think you'll find hardware support for decoding HD video is quite essential. Doing real time software decoding of full HD (let alone 4k video) is very intensive, and only viable on some of the most powerful CPU's.
Back end development is only complex because you have to keep explaining to those front-end people that back-end shouldn't provide formatting, translations, styles, etc.
They'll ask for stupid stuff like "could you add a field that sums those rows together? and maybe a flag to indicate whether a price is negative?"... and then I have to explain about how we want to be able to deploy the back-end without having to upgrade front-ends and vice-versa and that tightly integrating them is gonna make that impossible.
They think they're the only kid on the block, while in reality the "back-end" is used for headless services, the web front end, the mobile front end, the "internal" front end, batch processes, etc.
Might as well work with monkeys, they can be trained at least.
Use the interface, and donot repeat the generic by using the diamond operator that has been around for the last 5 years.
Yes, because all programmers are capped by typing speed.
Which is why internet here is only available through proxy, which only certain apps know about, and that does not include Windows.
It means Windows Update can't find anything, Telemetry can't send anything, Cortana doesn't work, Tiles donot update, etc.
It just amazes me people can live with a computer that doesn't do exactly what you tell it to.
I just billed my hours as usual in the first and last "hackathon" I participated in.
Unless of course if it needed to be - 2 because I'm doing something with pairs of elements...
Anyway, good luck with this, let me know how it turns out.
Before we get to that stage though, I think there will be quite a few in between steps that won't turn out so well.
For the same reason as why all our climate control efforts are going to fail. Profit and short term gain.
Another Great Filter I'm sure, and I doubt we will pass it.
paid the system=paid the same
People leave because companies don't pay them what they're worth. A person that knows all your systems is worth much more than a similarly skilled person that is starting fresh, yet they're often paid the system with a small margin of error (a couple of 2% raises each year).
So this person takes their new skills, applies somewhere else (but this time as a medior developer) and gets an instant 20-30% raise.
Explaining your reasoning to your manager / boss / HR drone results in *NOTHING*. But stuff often suddenly starts moving when you hand in your resignation. Of course, by then it's too late and even a generous offer will not be accepted as something else has been lined up already.
It's a huge mess. I can't even get voice/video calls to work through a firewall as it requires like 20 different rules for all sorts of ports -- it's ancient code, written in an ancient time when every new feature required its own port and protocol.
Compare that with Hangouts or Slack (the client), which just works out of the box without any changes to my firewall.
Besides, I'm sure 90% of the code is the bolted on library for serving you ads in the middle of your face.
This is incorrect.
You can't rewrite the ledger. The ledger is what everyone agrees on, and the "seller" in your scenario can simply wait until the ledger is distributed wide enough that rewriting history would be impossible.
In theory however, you could create a transaction (that fits on top of the currently accepted ledger) that assigns yourself a lot of wealth (either from thin air or from other people's wallets). However, this will fail as well, as new coin creation requires the proof of work.
Transferring from other wallets requires signing with the correct private key, so that won't work either.
They say they want an AI expert, and then tell them to built a chat bot.
This is normal. It just takes 3-4 years on average to find such a person.