I'm afraid that my opinion is that apps whose developers have "gone away" is the exact opposite of a "perfectly good app(s)"... it's a liability that only grows over time. Keeping those abandonware apps running in VMs is a perfectly good solution, if only Apple wasn't so opposed to supporting VMs. This is just as radical as any other API change. And Apple closing the door on 32-bit should surprise no-one at this point. Software development is a treadmill, not a monument.
And it's one of the more fair taxes. It's progressive, and it's entirely on unearned income. If you think your forbears' money is yours by rights with no costs, you're a greedy dick.
A friend of mine who works at the local DMV remarked that Iowa has the same requirement. Of course, they have a reason they tell the public as well, but he confided sotto voce that the real reason was facial recognition.
Merchants have always been responsible for the costs, sure, and there's precious little chance of Lord Visa actually doing anything to *really* shore up security in their system, like say, making the lending banks more culpable. But having seen this sorry drama myself first-hand, I can tell you that whoever supplies the infrastructure to the merchants is an important piece of the puzzle as well. Not all merchants use a little black swipe-box for credit transactions. The bigger they are, the more likely it is that their credit authorization system will be tied directly into their point-of-sale system, and most merchants don't create their own POS.
For example, BigMart buys a HAL register system with its attendant back-end. The registers handle the swiping, and the back-end send the charges to the lending bank. Well, if the security on the back-end sucks (open ports/unpatched systems, anyone), then the system gets cracked and BigMart is left holding the bag. Welcome to the wonderful world of CISP return-of-compliance. And the HAL company certainly isn't going to be paying the costs.
CISP and PCI have improved the situation by mandating better security models. But when it comes down to liability, it's still a dog-eat-dog "whose ox is being gored" world of big business. Have a good lawyer.
As generous a gift as this is, I would hope that it wouldn't require a rich guy to feel philanthropic in order to vaccinate children worldwide. Comparing the open source community effort to the Gates Foundation doesn't quite have parity. Comparing the Gates Foundation with the millions of people who give a small amount on a regular basis, year after year... that's a better match-up.
Why, oh why is the Federal gummint wasting their time with this kind of legislation. Even ignoring the ham-handed paternalism that is the morality police, why don't they let this get handled at the community level? With finer granularity they could allow conservative communities to restrict game sales/rentals, while more liberal communities could allow the status quo.
Stupid gummint.
Of course, the basic issue is that you have to buy an operating system with their desktops and laptops, and probably most of their servers. I like their hardware. I just don't like their business partners.
Rumor has it that Brannon Braga detests TOS in its entirety. They really oughta retire it for ten years, and then decide if more Trek is worth it. But I guess their balance sheets show that it still is, currently. They're certainly not making another spin-off for love of the genre. That's for certain.
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I'm afraid that my opinion is that apps whose developers have "gone away" is the exact opposite of a "perfectly good app(s)" ... it's a liability that only grows over time. Keeping those abandonware apps running in VMs is a perfectly good solution, if only Apple wasn't so opposed to supporting VMs.
This is just as radical as any other API change. And Apple closing the door on 32-bit should surprise no-one at this point. Software development is a treadmill, not a monument.
And it's one of the more fair taxes. It's progressive, and it's entirely on unearned income. If you think your forbears' money is yours by rights with no costs, you're a greedy dick.
Rogue, not rouge. It's not wearing makeup.
A friend of mine who works at the local DMV remarked that Iowa has the same requirement. Of course, they have a reason they tell the public as well, but he confided sotto voce that the real reason was facial recognition.
Merchants have always been responsible for the costs, sure, and there's precious little chance of Lord Visa actually doing anything to *really* shore up security in their system, like say, making the lending banks more culpable. But having seen this sorry drama myself first-hand, I can tell you that whoever supplies the infrastructure to the merchants is an important piece of the puzzle as well. Not all merchants use a little black swipe-box for credit transactions. The bigger they are, the more likely it is that their credit authorization system will be tied directly into their point-of-sale system, and most merchants don't create their own POS.
For example, BigMart buys a HAL register system with its attendant back-end. The registers handle the swiping, and the back-end send the charges to the lending bank. Well, if the security on the back-end sucks (open ports/unpatched systems, anyone), then the system gets cracked and BigMart is left holding the bag. Welcome to the wonderful world of CISP return-of-compliance. And the HAL company certainly isn't going to be paying the costs.
CISP and PCI have improved the situation by mandating better security models. But when it comes down to liability, it's still a dog-eat-dog "whose ox is being gored" world of big business. Have a good lawyer.
As generous a gift as this is, I would hope that it wouldn't require a rich guy to feel philanthropic in order to vaccinate children worldwide. Comparing the open source community effort to the Gates Foundation doesn't quite have parity. Comparing the Gates Foundation with the millions of people who give a small amount on a regular basis, year after year ... that's a better match-up.
Carriers take forever to warp in. They should have gone with a couple of Scouts instead.
"You want my mechanical bee!"
Why, oh why is the Federal gummint wasting their time with this kind of legislation. Even ignoring the ham-handed paternalism that is the morality police, why don't they let this get handled at the community level? With finer granularity they could allow conservative communities to restrict game sales/rentals, while more liberal communities could allow the status quo. Stupid gummint.
Of course, the basic issue is that you have to buy an operating system with their desktops and laptops, and probably most of their servers. I like their hardware. I just don't like their business partners.
Rumor has it that Brannon Braga detests TOS in its entirety. They really oughta retire it for ten years, and then decide if more Trek is worth it. But I guess their balance sheets show that it still is, currently. They're certainly not making another spin-off for love of the genre. That's for certain.