There's pretty much no chance this will stand up in a lawsuit. Plenty of other companies beat them to market with a product like this. Foursquare for instance.
I think this is a great thing though. If we can put this idiocy to bed once and for all, then it'll be totally worth it. As long as motorola keeps making popular android phones, they'll do just fine. The risks of pursuing this kinda of litigation are substantial when you consider what microsoft stands to lose if they lose the whole suit. It'd almost be a slap down for almost all future litigation surrounding these sorts of things, and could all-but guarantee future losses for any other actions they take like this in the future.
Of course the inverse would suck greatly. It would do nothing but hurt consumers. Something MS is famously good at already.
You wouldn't necessarily need a code download to update a cheat detection system. You could just design a way to update the system based on new "config" (for lack of a better term).
It all depends on the consumer, the netbook and the tablet you're talking about. The iPad can definitely take the place of a netbook for ME. Other people might want a full featured office client and a mouse in which case NO Tablet would be a suitable replacement. We've also not yet seen a real foray into the market of a competitive Android tablet.
Use what works for you, and whoever "wins" will be left standing at the end. And maybe they'll all win.
Except if I dont ask for updates of what my CPU is doing every billion cycles.
If suddenly nothing is getting done, I know something is wrong. A daily standup + watching burndown charts & task lists is all that someone need in order to detect this.
Anything else is a HUGE detriment to productivity, and there are plenty of studies proving this, and the inverse. Anyone ever heard of the "hour long ten minute meeting?"
Yeah, I generally just ignore those weekly/daily/whatever status report calendar events. If they want to see what I'm doing, they can look at how empty my sprint story list is getting. I'm just utterly uninterested in wasting more time telling people what I'm doing when I already do in a daily standup meeting once per day. I can't stand management types that get all uptight about junk like this.
I solve a lot of work & other problems when I'm driving on the way to or from work. I spend about 2 hrs in the car per day... It's amazing when your brain isn't "busy," how many solutions just "spontaneously" come to you.
While it's not always a good idea to allow devs unrestricted access to prod, sometimes it IS needed in order to solve problems.
The fact is that most Infrastructure teams that generally manage the production environment simply don't have the technical chops to debug and ferret out issues that are only appearing in production.
If the infrastructure teams were "team players" it'd be one thing, but they tend to be overbearing, territorial types that insist on debugging by proxy which takes 100x as long and often flat out fails.
Without some semblance of prod access, at least for emergencies, it's just a world of hurt waiting to happen.
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RTFA fail :-(
Bull. They didn't even show up.
So if there were humans killed in this house fire, how would you feel about this stupid $75 fee?
There's pretty much no chance this will stand up in a lawsuit. Plenty of other companies beat them to market with a product like this. Foursquare for instance.
All I'm saying is that it's a good thing EMS services don't operate under the same principal...
Or a moral compass for that matter...
You're forgetting that the VAST majority of owners of the droid incredible don't know about the rom restrictions and wouldn't care if they DID know.
There's only a very small corner of the consumer market that wants to hack the crap out of their android phones. Most people just want a fancy phone.
Obviously they just feel left out of the fun.
Yeah, I had the same thought...
I think this is a great thing though. If we can put this idiocy to bed once and for all, then it'll be totally worth it. As long as motorola keeps making popular android phones, they'll do just fine. The risks of pursuing this kinda of litigation are substantial when you consider what microsoft stands to lose if they lose the whole suit. It'd almost be a slap down for almost all future litigation surrounding these sorts of things, and could all-but guarantee future losses for any other actions they take like this in the future.
Of course the inverse would suck greatly. It would do nothing but hurt consumers. Something MS is famously good at already.
Almighty precedence.
Truly a tragedy. I've been a huge proponent of Xmarks for a while now, and I was anxiously awaiting their android release :-/
You wouldn't necessarily need a code download to update a cheat detection system. You could just design a way to update the system based on new "config" (for lack of a better term).
It all depends on the consumer, the netbook and the tablet you're talking about. The iPad can definitely take the place of a netbook for ME. Other people might want a full featured office client and a mouse in which case NO Tablet would be a suitable replacement. We've also not yet seen a real foray into the market of a competitive Android tablet.
Use what works for you, and whoever "wins" will be left standing at the end. And maybe they'll all win.
I just look at it and I see the rousing lack of success of google buzz...
Yeah if they shove any more crap into iTunes, they're going to have to rebrand it as iTunesOS...
While I wouldn't be so bitter in my analysis, there's probably a great deal of scientific truth to what you're saying...
I'd wager it has something to do with the relative stress levels of the people.
Alcohol is great for relaxing, and one might argue that people who are wine or beer drinkers tend to be more laid back across the board.
Alcohol can also kill off yucky bacteria that you might have in your throat or mouth.
It can also thin your blood a bit and decrease the risk of blood clots and various other things of that sort.
Haha, I see it from your angle, but I also see it from mine. :-P
I think it's all about the context, the circumstance, and the particular technology.
You also find that while you may be a great sysadmin to work with, many are controlling, territorial, and generally hard to work with.
Any LAMP developer worth his salt, especially a self-trained one, is going to understand almost all the fundamentals of being a sysadmin.
They most definitely do transfer both ways in a LOT of instances.
Except if I dont ask for updates of what my CPU is doing every billion cycles.
If suddenly nothing is getting done, I know something is wrong. A daily standup + watching burndown charts & task lists is all that someone need in order to detect this.
Anything else is a HUGE detriment to productivity, and there are plenty of studies proving this, and the inverse. Anyone ever heard of the "hour long ten minute meeting?"
Yeah, I generally just ignore those weekly/daily/whatever status report calendar events. If they want to see what I'm doing, they can look at how empty my sprint story list is getting. I'm just utterly uninterested in wasting more time telling people what I'm doing when I already do in a daily standup meeting once per day. I can't stand management types that get all uptight about junk like this.
I solve a lot of work & other problems when I'm driving on the way to or from work. I spend about 2 hrs in the car per day... It's amazing when your brain isn't "busy," how many solutions just "spontaneously" come to you.
While it's not always a good idea to allow devs unrestricted access to prod, sometimes it IS needed in order to solve problems.
The fact is that most Infrastructure teams that generally manage the production environment simply don't have the technical chops to debug and ferret out issues that are only appearing in production.
If the infrastructure teams were "team players" it'd be one thing, but they tend to be overbearing, territorial types that insist on debugging by proxy which takes 100x as long and often flat out fails.
Without some semblance of prod access, at least for emergencies, it's just a world of hurt waiting to happen.
Problem is, while I MAINLY use it for reading, I also use it for many of its other awesome uses. :-P Simple e-readers just don't cut it.
Only shilling idiots compare the iPad to a simple e-reader. Get a clue.