MariaDB is GPL-licensed because of the MySQL business model, that has apparently failed.
Failed? More like worked. For many companies their ultimate objective is to get acquired and they managed doing this extremely well. Their model was not that different from the Aladdin Ghostscript business model FWIW.
The US is not applying pressure to SA nearly to the same degree as it used to. This is because of late they have been focused elsewhere. Namely Iraq and Afghanistan. But I doubt this will keep going on for much longer. You mentioned Cuba and Venezuela. But forgot to mention Chile, Haiti, Panama, etc. Even in Cuba there were certainly no shortage of efforts to remove Castro from power including targeted assassinations and the Bay of Pigs incident. It is just that those efforts failed.
If you can find stats showing Android users spending more per capita on apps, though, I'll be very surprised.
Have you read the post someone made here from gamasutra about user conversion on iOS vs Android games? Or about how they can't even sell a top game for $0.99 on iOS? I guess not.
Even if the APIs didn't change you still will not have the same rendering performance. Plus the fact is as hardware improves the APIs do change. Including OpenGL. You can have variable detail levels to cope but not only does that mean you need to do more programming work but players will have different gaming experiences as well.
IMO iOS and Android will basically own the mobile gaming market and likely a large chunk of the casual gaming market. But I just do not see either winning in the hardcore gaming market catered by the PS4 and XBox One. Nintendo is a different matter however. They have placed themselves in a real problem that they can only solve by producing exclusive titles for their platform. But even then it will be complicated.
What I mean by hardware costs is that for this crop of consoles the manufacturers are not going to take a hit with each console they sell to the same degree Sony did with the PS3. If they can recoup the hardware costs quicker, and there are indications neither Sony nor Microsoft will be losing money on hardware sales from day one, they can switch to new hardware in less time than they did in the previous generation. The costs to the game developer are indeed higher on traditional consoles. However the costs of iOS development are higher than what you are saying. Besides the hundred dollar a year developer account you need to have a Mac to develop for iOS.
I think you overestimate AppleTV retail sales. There have been 77 million PS3 sold so far vs 13 million AppleTV sales. Plus if Apple changes the AppleTV model every year, like they do with smartphones and tablets, the game developers would never be able to target the latest hardware because if they did they would lose a significant amount of market share.
While Apple and the Android vendors may displace the WiiU in casual gaming and the hand held consoles as well it is doubtful they will eat into the XBox One or PS4 market share. The market is different. Also the XBox One and PS4 and much lower hardware development costs and the vendors aren't selling it for a loss nearly to the level they did with the previous generation. This means they will be able to recoup costs quicker. It may just be consoles will go back to 5 year hardware development cycles again so I think it is overly pessimistic to think the next generation of consoles will be on the market for as long as the last gen.
You know ARM chipsets are going to have it because it is going to come bundled with Android. As for PCs you can program your decoder in CUDA or OpenCL so "hardware support" is not very important.
Tech which they managed to reuse in the A350 like composite construction. If all goes according to plan the A350 is going to launch two years after the 787. So not that bad IMO.
It is a sponsorship if the loans provided by the government are below market rate. Which I would assume they are otherwise no one would apply for them.
Plus like I said there are stage colleges and even universities like the University of California.
I think it is fairly obvious that professions which used to be learned on the job have been switching to college based for a long time. One example is programming and software development in general but there are certainly a whole lot more of them. At one time dentists did not require any special certification and in fact many hairdressers were dentists. This started changing in the XIXth century. In the case of dentistry in many places in the world you cannot do the job unless you have a degree. In the case of software development not having a degree will preclude you from being even considered as an employee in many places.
Those numbers are probably inflated by iPad numbers. If you check the Wikimedia stats the number of hits of iPhone and Android users is roughly the same. Although the iPhone still has some advantage.
The UK is one of the countries involved in Echelon. The BBC is a government channel. They supposedly are independent but I doubt they forget who their paymaster is.
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MariaDB is GPL-licensed because of the MySQL business model, that has apparently failed.
Failed? More like worked. For many companies their ultimate objective is to get acquired and they managed doing this extremely well. Their model was not that different from the Aladdin Ghostscript business model FWIW.
A few. Like Linux, glibc, GCC, Mozilla, MariaDB, etc.
Heck there are more new projects using the Apache license than the BSD license.
The US is not applying pressure to SA nearly to the same degree as it used to. This is because of late they have been focused elsewhere. Namely Iraq and Afghanistan. But I doubt this will keep going on for much longer. You mentioned Cuba and Venezuela. But forgot to mention Chile, Haiti, Panama, etc. Even in Cuba there were certainly no shortage of efforts to remove Castro from power including targeted assassinations and the Bay of Pigs incident. It is just that those efforts failed.
A "dinky developer" with millions of players and which wasted $100k on iOS marketing on launch for one game. Yeah I wish I was such a dinky developer.
Seriously. Do you think everyone is EA and Activision or what?
If you can find stats showing Android users spending more per capita on apps, though, I'll be very surprised.
Have you read the post someone made here from gamasutra about user conversion on iOS vs Android games? Or about how they can't even sell a top game for $0.99 on iOS? I guess not.
they're not even thinking of their phones as smartphones. They don't browse the web,
Perhaps you need to look at different web statistics. Android users do browse the web. But sure keep deluding yourself.
Even if the APIs didn't change you still will not have the same rendering performance. Plus the fact is as hardware improves the APIs do change. Including OpenGL. You can have variable detail levels to cope but not only does that mean you need to do more programming work but players will have different gaming experiences as well.
IMO iOS and Android will basically own the mobile gaming market and likely a large chunk of the casual gaming market. But I just do not see either winning in the hardcore gaming market catered by the PS4 and XBox One. Nintendo is a different matter however. They have placed themselves in a real problem that they can only solve by producing exclusive titles for their platform. But even then it will be complicated.
What I mean by hardware costs is that for this crop of consoles the manufacturers are not going to take a hit with each console they sell to the same degree Sony did with the PS3. If they can recoup the hardware costs quicker, and there are indications neither Sony nor Microsoft will be losing money on hardware sales from day one, they can switch to new hardware in less time than they did in the previous generation. The costs to the game developer are indeed higher on traditional consoles. However the costs of iOS development are higher than what you are saying. Besides the hundred dollar a year developer account you need to have a Mac to develop for iOS.
I think you overestimate AppleTV retail sales. There have been 77 million PS3 sold so far vs 13 million AppleTV sales. Plus if Apple changes the AppleTV model every year, like they do with smartphones and tablets, the game developers would never be able to target the latest hardware because if they did they would lose a significant amount of market share.
While Apple and the Android vendors may displace the WiiU in casual gaming and the hand held consoles as well it is doubtful they will eat into the XBox One or PS4 market share. The market is different. Also the XBox One and PS4 and much lower hardware development costs and the vendors aren't selling it for a loss nearly to the level they did with the previous generation. This means they will be able to recoup costs quicker. It may just be consoles will go back to 5 year hardware development cycles again so I think it is overly pessimistic to think the next generation of consoles will be on the market for as long as the last gen.
Google Maps, Stanza come to mind.
Misery for 10 million households as BT raises prices.
BT's 6% landline price rise.
What a wondrous manager. To increase profits with a telecoms monopoly. Like that is a difficult thing to do. All he needed to do was raise prices.
From the same people who made Big Dog I present to you the Cheetah Robot.
The C64 had serial. parallel and ROM cartridge I/O. It also cost a lot less.
Most of those are old and obsolete superseded by other chips which do have VP8 support.
You know ARM chipsets are going to have it because it is going to come bundled with Android. As for PCs you can program your decoder in CUDA or OpenCL so "hardware support" is not very important.
So you think an external component with its own power supply is going to be cheaper? Pretty naive.
This is a step backwards not forward. I still remember Amiga A500 external expansions.
Eventually I guess but the airlines need to pay off the airplanes first.
Tech which they managed to reuse in the A350 like composite construction. If all goes according to plan the A350 is going to launch two years after the 787. So not that bad IMO.
If you are talking about the 787 the A350 is not really in the same weight category. The A350 airplane is a lot larger and competes with the 777.
What gmx.net? It used to be popular several years back.
It is a sponsorship if the loans provided by the government are below market rate. Which I would assume they are otherwise no one would apply for them.
Plus like I said there are stage colleges and even universities like the University of California.
I think it is fairly obvious that professions which used to be learned on the job have been switching to college based for a long time. One example is programming and software development in general but there are certainly a whole lot more of them. At one time dentists did not require any special certification and in fact many hairdressers were dentists. This started changing in the XIXth century. In the case of dentistry in many places in the world you cannot do the job unless you have a degree. In the case of software development not having a degree will preclude you from being even considered as an employee in many places.
A modern cellphone or tablet should have enough raw hardware power to run a MMORPG. It is just a question of someone developing such a game for it.
Those numbers are probably inflated by iPad numbers. If you check the Wikimedia stats the number of hits of iPhone and Android users is roughly the same. Although the iPhone still has some advantage.
Even in the US there are state colleges. Not to mention state sponsored student loans and the like.
The UK is one of the countries involved in Echelon. The BBC is a government channel. They supposedly are independent but I doubt they forget who their paymaster is.