Even that wouldn't tell us anything. I'm pretty sure we spend less percentage wise on food than the average person did in 1917, opportunity cost might actually be able to tell us something, finding out that we pay "more" in absolute dollars could only tell us that saving absolute dollars from 1917 to 2011 would have been a bad idea.
Once you use something for currency the value gets disconnected from the value of the item itself, so the only real (if questionable) advantage is the enforced scarcity. Otherwise it is still subject to economic fluctuations and currency speculation.
This decoupling puts undue burden on anyone using the item for practical purposes, suddenly you have to be a monetary broker with everything in the economy messing up the price of your commodities, instead of being just a plug manufacturer.
The average person has few means to determine the authenticity of coins (this was true even back when the imprint was actually hard to recreate, much less now. At the very least you have to carry a well calibrated scale with you at all times, but that only ensures that any given coin has the right weight...
If the supply of money doesn't grow with the economy people are rewarded for simply having money, if I have to explain why this is problematic feel free to disregard the whole post.
In 1917 you couldn't buy a computer for any price, how does that figure in your calculations? Absolute numbers do not matter, unless you see the purpose of currency to be something that you get rewarded for taking out of circulation for a hundred years.
Hanging on to money (as opposed to saving for future use) shouldn't be a way to get right, it leads to hoarding instead of investing into actual wealth creation.
You have a road that leads to nothing but the local whore house? Putting a guy with the camera in front of it might actually get you some evidence, potholes somewhere nearby don't prove shit.
You either plug it in with a booster (and there are several iPad cases that have one built in, so that the iPad essentially "docks" with the case and provides power via the dock connector, or you swap devices and just hit up the server for a resync.
Or you can get a device that will have a swappable battery with a much better trade off then a booster or second device. And as mentioned, not everything can be on a server all the time, it may only be out of sync by a few hours but it would still be out of sync. Not so coincidentally such applications would usually be served better with a second battery than even more crap to lug around.
My understanding is that anything you put in GPL code becomes GPL.
More precisely, anything you combine with GPL code (as in the same codebase) has to not place additional restrictions on use or distribution. The 3 clause BSD is generally agreed to be compatible with that. In short, there wouldn't be licensing issues even if GPL code was added to the kernel, neither license restricts what you can run it with, so there really isn't a problem.
For those that need to replace the battery, it can be done at a service, or you can do it yourself with a third party replacement.
Problem is, you can't replace it RIGHT NOW. Now the NFL might just have a backup with the same plays and can just swap devices (bad way, but if you rely on it that much...), but what about other places where iPads are supposed to be great like medical? If you are capturing data locally, you can't even switch to another one.
You can thank the people shouting down everyone using GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux. Here's a "Linux" (Debian will still act and feel like Debian, everyday usage wouldn't see any difference), that doesn't actually use Linux.
So supermodels should work for free too, since they don't talk, they don't dance, they didn't create the clothes nor did they do their own makeup.
They are paid to do some very specific things (e.i. they are contract workers), that has nothing to do with what they don't do. It also has nothing to do with photography.
These officials usually have the final say, and a 'well written' (but wrong) report in those hands can be a menace.
If you want to blame officials for judging on appearances instead of just checking who it was done by, that's fine with me. Blaming a person for taking the effort to make their work look good on the other hand...
Not quite. Apple doesn't have any specific clauses excluding GPL licensed software, they do however add some restrictions to stuff distributed trough them. This is generally seen as a GPL violation and Apple has taken down software upon request by the copyright holders who haven't agreed to relicense in a compatible way.
There's one caveat, app store restrictions arguably fall under the:
You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
So technically building your own game on top of the a GPLed engine, while perfectly accpetable in other contexts, can still be a problem with the app store.
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Ah yes, another "debunking" without actual violations given. AKA FUD.
Even that wouldn't tell us anything. I'm pretty sure we spend less percentage wise on food than the average person did in 1917, opportunity cost might actually be able to tell us something, finding out that we pay "more" in absolute dollars could only tell us that saving absolute dollars from 1917 to 2011 would have been a bad idea.
It has serious problems:
In 1917 you couldn't buy a computer for any price, how does that figure in your calculations? Absolute numbers do not matter, unless you see the purpose of currency to be something that you get rewarded for taking out of circulation for a hundred years.
Hanging on to money (as opposed to saving for future use) shouldn't be a way to get right, it leads to hoarding instead of investing into actual wealth creation.
You have a road that leads to nothing but the local whore house? Putting a guy with the camera in front of it might actually get you some evidence, potholes somewhere nearby don't prove shit.
Hell, it was called even before the issue cropped up in the wild: http://translate.google.dk/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comon.dk%2Fnyheder%2FEr-iPhone-4-foedt-med-antenne-problemer-1.362104.html&sl=da&tl=en
And destroys the sleek look that the fancy new antenna was supposed to facilitate...
Or you can get a device that will have a swappable battery with a much better trade off then a booster or second device. And as mentioned, not everything can be on a server all the time, it may only be out of sync by a few hours but it would still be out of sync. Not so coincidentally such applications would usually be served better with a second battery than even more crap to lug around.
More precisely, anything you combine with GPL code (as in the same codebase) has to not place additional restrictions on use or distribution. The 3 clause BSD is generally agreed to be compatible with that. In short, there wouldn't be licensing issues even if GPL code was added to the kernel, neither license restricts what you can run it with, so there really isn't a problem.
Problem is, you can't replace it RIGHT NOW. Now the NFL might just have a backup with the same plays and can just swap devices (bad way, but if you rely on it that much...), but what about other places where iPads are supposed to be great like medical? If you are capturing data locally, you can't even switch to another one.
You can thank the people shouting down everyone using GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux. Here's a "Linux" (Debian will still act and feel like Debian, everyday usage wouldn't see any difference), that doesn't actually use Linux.
They are paid to do some very specific things (e.i. they are contract workers), that has nothing to do with what they don't do. It also has nothing to do with photography.
That would *never* happen to Google, nope, can't feed synthetic result to them.
Well, you can at least translate internal addresses 1-to-1 to external with IPv6. No reason to use a many-to-single NAT that IPv4 has forced on us.
Just out of curiosity, why would you want that?
Clearly we must have a standard of grammar/spelling errors per X words and typographical fuckups per Y pages.
While we're at it, outlaw non-officials from entering government buildings in a well fitting suit. Someone might just mistake them for officials.
If you want to blame officials for judging on appearances instead of just checking who it was done by, that's fine with me. Blaming a person for taking the effort to make their work look good on the other hand...
The proper way to make up statistics is to attach a number, e.g. 93.8 percent of all monopolies throughout history were government creations,
Not quite. Apple doesn't have any specific clauses excluding GPL licensed software, they do however add some restrictions to stuff distributed trough them. This is generally seen as a GPL violation and Apple has taken down software upon request by the copyright holders who haven't agreed to relicense in a compatible way.
LOL ur s0 rite.
So technically building your own game on top of the a GPLed engine, while perfectly accpetable in other contexts, can still be a problem with the app store.
You're being dense, the review checks if the app is within the rules, one of the rules is "you have to have the rights to distribute this".
What do you mean by "*and*", that didn't happen!
They still get a cut of the lower cost one, potential income is just that, actual income is obvious and indisputable.