It costs that much because you basically are getting unrestricted access to to a finite network because they have no control over what you can load on your laptop.
The cell networks are not only of a lower capacity than regular networks but you are basically sharing network nodes much like the old days of cable where you would have only a few nodes for a large area and everyone would get bogged down.
What do you suggest they do? Cellphone towers can only be built up to a certain density and there is no way of knowing what density of users will be present at any one time within a particular cell and yet there is a finite capacity on each cell.
I have a dedicated wired ISP at home that I use for my data needs on my computers. Why would I need or want to use cellular networks for my main data?
While completely off-topic, I applaud you for having the courage for calling out racists of all colours. There is no such thing as reverse racism. Racism affects every ethnic group out there.
One of the reasons for the size of the updates is that OS X is a multilingual OS by default so everything in the UI is localized with multiple sets of resource files for each language. With Vista/WIndows 7, you have to be running the most expensive version (Ultimate) in order to download additional language packs while that functionality is included by default on each OS X install.
This localization does not just go down to the level of text strings but also images, icons and even the complete form layout can be different for each language offering a great deal of flexibility.
Unless if you bought an iPod touch, bought the iPhone at full price or you paid out the contract termination fee, it's not your phone until your contract is up.
Vista cost me $100 the week it came out - legally at that. You're either doing it wrong or you're being disingenuous for the sake of argument.
That was for a retail license? If you are not actually a system builder, ie. someone who assembles and and sells said hardware to customers, then you in a legal gray area. MSFT produces retail version of the full version and upgrades for purpose. It is not for fun.
Here is a video of a guy saying many of the same things I've been trying to express here on slashdot about what is missing. Sure, there is Linux Standard base but until all the distros get behind it, you will see fragmentation. X.org has to be fixed or replaced and the driver model on linux needs a rework. I also agree with him that the the linux community has to pick one audio framework and make it the standard. If you want to include other frameworks in your distro, go ahead but be sure to include the common one in the default install options.
Sure, just as soon as the zealots like RMS are told to take a hike with their ideas for a totally unworkable viral GPL v3 and linux agrees on choosing either KDE or GNOME as the standard GUI for linux.
Upon investigation it turns that I was right - although you may have been right too. After your post I went back to check my info and found that Canada uses 1900 for 3G which I'm told is not used anywhere else in the world.
Rogers/Fido use the same GSM frequencies as AT&T use in the US.
Rogers use 850 and 1900 for 3G while Fido use 850 and 2100 for 3G.
Bell and Telus plan on using 850 and 1900 for their LTE/3G support in the future.
The iPhone supports 850, 1900, 2100 for 3G and 850 900 1800 1900 for GPRS/GSM.
If my boss decides to pay me 0, i will stop working for him... So long as i continue working, i should continue being paid for my work. Why should artists be any different? Keep performing, keep getting paid. Stop performing, stop getting paid.
Should i have the right to continue demanding money from my boss 70 years after i have stopped working for him?
So you think all musicians are supposed to be street musicians basically? Do you think paintings and other works of are are worthless as well and that we should only pay for artists for performance art where the create the artwork in the streets? Is that what you are trying to say?
Of course you should not make a demand of your boss to get paid for 70 years. What does that have to do with anything?
So to sum up, you would like to see all musicians become buskers effectively where they would rely on the generosity of strangers passing by to feed their families and pay the bills. Would you be willing to rely on donations? I doubt that very much. As we have seen with open source software projects, the donation model usually fails and some of the most successful open source projects are funded by corporations such as google.
A recording is not a performance but it still requires effort to create and this does not change by the fact that recordings are now digital and can be reproduced in full fidelity. If people here on slashdot expect the GPL to be respected then the rights of all creators of content should be respected as well. This respect not only encompasses not releasing of derived works without permission but also not distributing the original work without permission of the copyright holder.
Sorry but patents and copyright are completely different things. Why do you have so little respect for creative works? Is it because you have no talent or creativity of your own or are you too damn lazy to try to create something new?
If you ever had to prepare for a performance you might have some respect for the arts. As a spectator it must seem easy to you. I assure you that it is not easy and a good live performance can take hours of practice over a period of months to get right.
I've reduced the copyright duration I'm willing to observe to 0 years.
How would you feel if your boss decided to do the same with your paycheck? Or are you trying to tell us that your work deserves compensation while the work of others does not?
That seems a little hypocritical to me. Maybe you have no idea how hard it is to learn a song for a performance let alone the effort it requires to write an arrangement of a piece of a completely new song from scratch.
If you only knew how much effort it takes, maybe you would actually respect the rights of others and be willing to pay for performances that you enjoy. If you don't think that something is worth paying for then it should not be worth acquiring unless you are some kind of compulsive hoarder.
There is your problem right there. Forget KDE and forget GNOME. There is way too much political bullshit entangled in those projects which scares away a lot of potential developers. I'd like to see both of those projects relegated to the same level as Enlightenment and other window managers. I think the community should look at bringing the cross *nix GUI standard of X-Windows into the 21st century instead of fracturing efforts into linux centric projects like GNOME and KDE. This fractured landscape makes it a real chore to port things like Monodevelop to UNIX platforms like OS X Leopard since it relies on GTK so much.
You assume that "serious commercial software developers like Adobe" are required.
You are assuming that features = functionality when features without a usable interface are usually ignored by the majority of users. You seem to assume that if you throw enough developers and enthusiast beta testers a usable product will just magically create a usable product. The commercial products have usable UIs because a lot of research money was poured into developing them over the years. It is extremely rare that you will find an open source project with usability experts and even rarer to find a developer who understands usability.
Linux appears to be getting on just fine without them.
This is a perfect example of the kind of attitude which is holding back the linux platform. Even though I do not see a need for using linux on the desktop in my own home, I would love to see both OS X and linux gain ground against the windows hegemony. You seem to be completely ignorant of the fact that many of the actual developers who donate their time to open source projects earn a living developing the very commercial software that you hate so much. If it was not for that software, linux would probably still be relegated to a fringe server OS. Closed source software is not the problem. The problem is a lack of open standards and format as it is open standards and formats that promote interoperability, not open source licenses.
You can have the slickest interface (which Ubuntu does not have) but if you lack applications or applications that are out there have no consistent look and feel then that slick UI is useless to anyone other than a nerdy fanboy. Most people are looking to get stuff done be it for business or creative pursuits and that requires good software with consistent UIs and consistent interoperability through stuff like copy and paste/drag and drop.
I remember being a windows user applying all sorts of Aqua themes and running all kinds of menu bar emulators and docks but at some point I realized that none of that stuff changed the inherent lack of usability of windows. The drag and drop still sucked, the window management still sucked and the performance sucked even worse with all of those hacks running in the background.
The linux community needs to create a standard set of controls and application frameworks. This has to be in place before they can attract serious commercial software developers like Adobe to linux and before linux will be taken seriously as a desktop OS.
The 3d web doesn't work. What "problem" are they trying to fix? That's the main reason it keeps failing.
-- incubus
I know that this is slashdot but did you not read the summary? This could allow for Google Earth to function in a similar way to how Microsoft virtual earth 3D does within IE without need for a fat client on the desktop. The main difference would be that it would be more open and cross platform/browser compatible.
I've almost never had to return a product. Either I'm lucky or I'm just not the typical amoral pond scum who frequent big box stores with lenient return policies.
I remember having to return a 1TB lacie hard drive recently which I think the sales guy at futureshop broke before he handed it to me by placing it on a large speaker that was turned on. I also had to return my first Amiga 500 many years back which I had also bought from future shop but other than that, I have not had any dead pixels or other problems that I can recall.
No asswipe, you are not supposed to break things or just use them and then return them when they are either broken or the novelty has worn off. I would have to guess that you are neither retarded or clueless but just an amoral ass.
What evidence do you have that New Brunswick actually sees that 13%? It's your responsibility to pay it, so if ncix or newegg doesn't choose to remit it to NB, will anyone even notice?
New Brunswick does not actually see 13%. The tax is actually a harmonized sales tax made of a 5% federal GST (VAT for Europeans) and 8 percent goes to the province but it is collected intially by the federal government IIRC. In BC, there is a 5% federal GST and 7% Provincial sales tax where the two levels of government collect their own portion from retailers.
So to sum up, you talked adnauseum about hardware platforms that might end up using Android when the question was about usability of the software UI of Android versus the iPhone and the related software ecosystem. Watch who you call a moron Einstein.
Would those elite haxors be the guy who was given direct access to the mac with a privileged account? IIRC, OS X could not be compromised remotely with the default install settings so things had to be opened up in order for an attack to take place and that the successful hack involved the "hacker" walking up to the mac, browsing with Safari to a specially crafted website.
If you grant physical access to a machine, it is no longer a special feat in my mind.
You guys are all way too busy arguing about how the library is not GPL. Guess what? It's still a free world and the copyright holder can still choose whatever license or distribution method he/she wants because it is their "right" to do so. None of you have the right to dictate which license software you had no part in writing should be distributed. Linux will never become mainstream as long as fanatics sit around talking about the GPL rather than actually writing good software. The average end user does not give a crap about open source other than seeing it as a way to get "free" as in beer software.
I would bet that the vast majority of you advocating or discussing the GPL have probably never written code that is in use by someone other than yourself if any code at all. Stop being such posers. You are great "fans" of linux and open source but would probably never lift a finger to help develop software.
If you expect people to take open source software seriously then you have to take copyright holder rights seriously and get over the illusion that the GPL somehow removes rights from the original author which it does not. No license can do that other than selling of the actual copyright to another party.
BTW. I just love how so many of you automatically assume that they must have stolen GPL code in there. Bloody hypocrites.
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The cell networks are not only of a lower capacity than regular networks but you are basically sharing network nodes much like the old days of cable where you would have only a few nodes for a large area and everyone would get bogged down.
What do you suggest they do? Cellphone towers can only be built up to a certain density and there is no way of knowing what density of users will be present at any one time within a particular cell and yet there is a finite capacity on each cell.
I have a dedicated wired ISP at home that I use for my data needs on my computers. Why would I need or want to use cellular networks for my main data?
While completely off-topic, I applaud you for having the courage for calling out racists of all colours. There is no such thing as reverse racism. Racism affects every ethnic group out there.
This localization does not just go down to the level of text strings but also images, icons and even the complete form layout can be different for each language offering a great deal of flexibility.
Unless if you bought an iPod touch, bought the iPhone at full price or you paid out the contract termination fee, it's not your phone until your contract is up.
Vista cost me $100 the week it came out - legally at that. You're either doing it wrong or you're being disingenuous for the sake of argument.
That was for a retail license? If you are not actually a system builder, ie. someone who assembles and and sells said hardware to customers, then you in a legal gray area. MSFT produces retail version of the full version and upgrades for purpose. It is not for fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPHS8TjQrcc
Feel free to search Youtube for other iPhone game reviews.
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzkzMjUsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=
Sure, just as soon as the zealots like RMS are told to take a hike with their ideas for a totally unworkable viral GPL v3 and linux agrees on choosing either KDE or GNOME as the standard GUI for linux.
Upon investigation it turns that I was right - although you may have been right too. After your post I went back to check my info and found that Canada uses 1900 for 3G which I'm told is not used anywhere else in the world.
Rogers/Fido use the same GSM frequencies as AT&T use in the US.
Rogers use 850 and 1900 for 3G while Fido use 850 and 2100 for 3G.
Bell and Telus plan on using 850 and 1900 for their LTE/3G support in the future.
The iPhone supports 850, 1900, 2100 for 3G and 850 900 1800 1900 for GPRS/GSM.
If my boss decides to pay me 0, i will stop working for him... So long as i continue working, i should continue being paid for my work. Why should artists be any different? Keep performing, keep getting paid. Stop performing, stop getting paid.
Should i have the right to continue demanding money from my boss 70 years after i have stopped working for him?
So you think all musicians are supposed to be street musicians basically? Do you think paintings and other works of are are worthless as well and that we should only pay for artists for performance art where the create the artwork in the streets? Is that what you are trying to say?
Of course you should not make a demand of your boss to get paid for 70 years. What does that have to do with anything?
A recording is not a performance but it still requires effort to create and this does not change by the fact that recordings are now digital and can be reproduced in full fidelity. If people here on slashdot expect the GPL to be respected then the rights of all creators of content should be respected as well. This respect not only encompasses not releasing of derived works without permission but also not distributing the original work without permission of the copyright holder.
If you ever had to prepare for a performance you might have some respect for the arts. As a spectator it must seem easy to you. I assure you that it is not easy and a good live performance can take hours of practice over a period of months to get right.
I've reduced the copyright duration I'm willing to observe to 0 years.
How would you feel if your boss decided to do the same with your paycheck? Or are you trying to tell us that your work deserves compensation while the work of others does not?
That seems a little hypocritical to me. Maybe you have no idea how hard it is to learn a song for a performance let alone the effort it requires to write an arrangement of a piece of a completely new song from scratch.
If you only knew how much effort it takes, maybe you would actually respect the rights of others and be willing to pay for performances that you enjoy. If you don't think that something is worth paying for then it should not be worth acquiring unless you are some kind of compulsive hoarder.
There is your problem right there. Forget KDE and forget GNOME. There is way too much political bullshit entangled in those projects which scares away a lot of potential developers. I'd like to see both of those projects relegated to the same level as Enlightenment and other window managers. I think the community should look at bringing the cross *nix GUI standard of X-Windows into the 21st century instead of fracturing efforts into linux centric projects like GNOME and KDE. This fractured landscape makes it a real chore to port things like Monodevelop to UNIX platforms like OS X Leopard since it relies on GTK so much.
You assume that "serious commercial software developers like Adobe" are required.
You are assuming that features = functionality when features without a usable interface are usually ignored by the majority of users. You seem to assume that if you throw enough developers and enthusiast beta testers a usable product will just magically create a usable product. The commercial products have usable UIs because a lot of research money was poured into developing them over the years. It is extremely rare that you will find an open source project with usability experts and even rarer to find a developer who understands usability.
Linux appears to be getting on just fine without them.
This is a perfect example of the kind of attitude which is holding back the linux platform. Even though I do not see a need for using linux on the desktop in my own home, I would love to see both OS X and linux gain ground against the windows hegemony. You seem to be completely ignorant of the fact that many of the actual developers who donate their time to open source projects earn a living developing the very commercial software that you hate so much. If it was not for that software, linux would probably still be relegated to a fringe server OS. Closed source software is not the problem. The problem is a lack of open standards and format as it is open standards and formats that promote interoperability, not open source licenses.
I remember being a windows user applying all sorts of Aqua themes and running all kinds of menu bar emulators and docks but at some point I realized that none of that stuff changed the inherent lack of usability of windows. The drag and drop still sucked, the window management still sucked and the performance sucked even worse with all of those hacks running in the background.
The linux community needs to create a standard set of controls and application frameworks. This has to be in place before they can attract serious commercial software developers like Adobe to linux and before linux will be taken seriously as a desktop OS.
OS X comes with Preview which handles a variety of formats including multiple page PDF documents. In fact, the imaging system is based on PDF.
The 3d web doesn't work. What "problem" are they trying to fix? That's the main reason it keeps failing.
-- incubus
I know that this is slashdot but did you not read the summary? This could allow for Google Earth to function in a similar way to how Microsoft virtual earth 3D does within IE without need for a fat client on the desktop. The main difference would be that it would be more open and cross platform/browser compatible.
I remember having to return a 1TB lacie hard drive recently which I think the sales guy at futureshop broke before he handed it to me by placing it on a large speaker that was turned on. I also had to return my first Amiga 500 many years back which I had also bought from future shop but other than that, I have not had any dead pixels or other problems that I can recall.
No asswipe, you are not supposed to break things or just use them and then return them when they are either broken or the novelty has worn off. I would have to guess that you are neither retarded or clueless but just an amoral ass.
What evidence do you have that New Brunswick actually sees that 13%? It's your responsibility to pay it, so if ncix or newegg doesn't choose to remit it to NB, will anyone even notice?
New Brunswick does not actually see 13%. The tax is actually a harmonized sales tax made of a 5% federal GST (VAT for Europeans) and 8 percent goes to the province but it is collected intially by the federal government IIRC. In BC, there is a 5% federal GST and 7% Provincial sales tax where the two levels of government collect their own portion from retailers.
So to sum up, you talked adnauseum about hardware platforms that might end up using Android when the question was about usability of the software UI of Android versus the iPhone and the related software ecosystem. Watch who you call a moron Einstein.
If you grant physical access to a machine, it is no longer a special feat in my mind.
I would bet that the vast majority of you advocating or discussing the GPL have probably never written code that is in use by someone other than yourself if any code at all. Stop being such posers. You are great "fans" of linux and open source but would probably never lift a finger to help develop software.
If you expect people to take open source software seriously then you have to take copyright holder rights seriously and get over the illusion that the GPL somehow removes rights from the original author which it does not. No license can do that other than selling of the actual copyright to another party.
BTW. I just love how so many of you automatically assume that they must have stolen GPL code in there. Bloody hypocrites.