If Microsoft wanted to charge you $100 to run Firefox on Windows, you would burn them at the stake. The only thing that makes Apple different is that they aren't a monopoly... yet.
Sorry, but this is different. See, Apple has never said you cannot run Firefox on their device. You are free to write it and make it work. You figure out a way to do that, congratulations. You can do whatever the hell you want with the iPhone. But how are you going to get this app on the iPhone? It's up to you to figure that part out, and if you brick your iPhone, that's your problem. All they are saying is that you cannot use their SDK to develop these apps. That's part of their licensing agreement. Don't agree? Don't use their SDK and go it on your own, you have that right after all.
Property right? Yeah, sure, but you're missing something. See, Apple has never said that you can't install whatever you want on your phone. How has this been accomplished to date? Through jailbreak. Knock yourself out. If you brick your phone, it's your problem because, after all, it is now YOUR hardware. What Apple has said is that you cannot develop these particular apps using their SDK. By licensing their SDK, your are agreeing to their terms. You violate the terms of the software they have licensed to you to use, and as such, they are free to enforce the agreement that you agreed to.
Well, then suck it up. Sorry, but that's the scenario. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Hell, Apple even creating an SDK is quite a step. What if they just said STFU, and decided not to release an SDK at all. Sure, a lot of people would be whining, but that's just too bad now isn't it. Apple made the device, and they have no obligations to allow you to run whatever you want on your hardware. Now, they cannot prevent you from running whatever you want, but they don't have to facilitate it. For instance, you buy a toaster from GE, and you want to run Linux on it. GE doesn't have to help you, and if you choose to make it happen, that's your prerogative. Same thing here, no different.
And if you want a big touchscreen, there are other options from palm, HTC, samsung and LG. How about you go get the LG and figure out how to install your own apps, because LG won't be helping you in the slightest.
As a former PC gamer and now a console gamer, there's just something different about sitting back on a couch, in front of a tv, with surround sound and playing games with your buddies that the PC didn't capture. Can you get a PC to do that, sure, but I also buy a console and I don't have to upgrade it for 5 years in a vain attempt to keep my system able to play the latest and greatest games.
Ah, but you see there is a system in place so I can have both, and that is region-locking. Look at this another way. Movie theaters show movies so they can make money. They don't make money off of showing movies mind you, but they make money by selling you concessions. Now, if you have a ton of people that are importing my movie, they don't go to the theater to watch it. As a result, the theaters don't need to order as many copies of the film because they won't have as many moviegoers AND they will have reduced sales of concessions because of fewer patrons. As such, they aren't going to want to pay me as much to show my movie in their theater. I lose money again, and so do they. So, the system is in place, and if you don't like it, then too bad. Does it really kill you to wait an extra few months?
Doesn't suprise me. Really, Microsoft would be absolutely stupid if they didn't create an Blu-ray add-on concurrently with the HD-DVD add-on on the off chance that HD-DVD would lose. If that played out, they could then very quickly flip the switches and fill the pipeline with a blu-ray drive.
But, there's a reason that you delay release dates. For instance, a movie can come out here, get a lot of good press (ratatouille) and it can result in a lot of people in another country to go see it. This positive press allows you to spend less on advertising because you can then reduce the amount you advertise in foreign cinemas. Don't think there isn't a reason that the studios do it this way.
The real impressive part is how large of a distance that truly is. We see basketball players dunk a basketball. They maybe are clearing something like 3 feet. If they pick up their legs, they could clear 5. Olympic high jumpers can get around 6 feet by arching their back. Now, double this.
The world record for long jump is ~30 feet, but these guys are only getting a couple of feet off the ground. In any case, these are extraordinary human beings. But, this was just a normal tiger. The capabilities of such an animal is mind-boggling. It's easy to see why the enclosure was so small. The original designers looked at this huge cat, built a wall, built a moat, and figured that it would be impossible for this large animal to perform such a feat.
Well, I'd imagine it got pulled to the ground, faster and faster, accelerating at a rate of, of I don't know, how about 9.8 m/s^2? It hit the ground. Even if it was traveling at Mach 5, and hit something at a height of 1 meter, it'd hit the ground a quarter of a second later after traveling about a quarter mile. Usually training areas are hundreds of square miles. The United States has miles and miles and miles of absolutely nothing. No real danger here.
Actually, it's in reverse order. Least corrupt at the top, most corrupt at the bottom. Those third world countries are far more corrupt than the US. Also, at the top it says to pay a parking ticket in Finland because it's the least corrupt government, though they have them at #3. So we are the 17th LEAST corrupt government around. Out of ~160, I like where we stand.
From Wikipedia:
French, from Middle French, court official charged with transportation of supplies, pack animal driver, from Old Provençal saumalier pack animal driver, from sauma pack animal, load of a pack animal, from Late Latin sagma packsaddle.
Agreed. My fiance has two movies that she watches about once a week (per movie). If it was on tape, she would've long worn them out. And I always get the hankering to watch movies that I have from time to time as well. What I think it happening though is that people are creating libraries for themselves. Instead they are just getting movies that they know they will watch repeatedly.
A couple of differences, one being is that during a face to face conversation, you tend to not talk extremely loud. Some phones incorporate a slight "echo" so that you can actually hear yourself talking (much like landlines). Many phones don't, and what ends up happening is people yell into the phone, which is exactly what Alexander Graham Bell discovered when he first invented the thing.
Additionally, we perceive face-to-face conversations as normal. Cellphone conversations are just weird to us humans (being a relatively new thing). Also, and perhaps slightly more nosy, people like to listen to other people's conversations, and when you can only hear one half of the conversation, it probably annoys people on some unconscious level. It's just programmed into us that communication exists face-to-face, or at least that's how it primarily has been for eons.
I know this won't help you in your case, but American Airlines MD-80's (a fairly old aircraft) have power adapters in coach under the seats. When you book your next flight, check out Seat Guru and it will tell you if a particular aircraft has power adapters.
Did you even read what I wrote, or did you stop one after that one comment. I said that I know VZ pushes their UI onto the manufacturer. They've currently had to support buggy software, and they have now realized that they don't want to. So, they remove their UI restrictions, making the manufacturer responsible, and everybody's happy.
And you know what? I can't really blame them. Handset support should fall to Motorola/Samsung/Apple. If something like a calendar application on your phone is buggy, why should Verizon be trying to deal with it. The handset makers made it, have them fix it. I do realize that Verizon has pushed certain things onto the manufacturers like using their UI, etc. But I would much rather see the original software on a phone. So I guess I can't complain to much. By loosening their restrictions, Verizon will actually be saving money AND making their customers happier. And I, as a Verizon customer am now seriously considering staying with them. I was all amped up to dump them and go with ATT and the iPhone next August, but now I'm thinking of staying on for a bit.
Ah, but you see as time marches on, things become available to the amateurs for much less than what it used to cost. So, what happens when you have a bunch of highly skilled "amateurs" working on something they love? You can get good content for next to nothing. Granted, this probably won't continue forever, but it does exist. And with distribution costs being reduced far below what it used to, it now is easy for fans to access it. Look at things like Red vs. Blue, or that myspace girl that everyone watched, or even some of the Star Wars fan films are decent.
Well, that's all well and good if I invented something like the Slinky and I see something on a store shelf. But on a hard drive, if what I patented is on there, what would drive me to rip open a hard drive and check it out. Let's say I invented some type of bearing or seal that could be used in a multitude of different applications. How would I know to go and buy all of these different devices, tear them apart, examine them and see if they infringed on my patent. But, let's now say that through the grapevine I read an article ten years later where in an industry publication someone mentions that they have been using my seal or bearing for 5 years. Why should I be faulted for not having the cash to go tear thousands of dollars of equipment apart, looking for infringement? What if the thought hadn't crossed my mind that my technology could be used in a certain application? Should I get screwed over for that? No.
No, they can't. They may try, but they are prohibited under Federal Law from doing that. I think that Federal Law trumps some stupid little HOA bylaws. I thankfully have an understanding HOA. They know this, and when I went to put up a satellite dish, they told me where they would like it installed so as to be as unobtrusive as possible. But, they knew that if reception could not be achieved from that spot that they would have to deal with it. Fortunately, it worked just fine where they wanted it.
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If Microsoft wanted to charge you $100 to run Firefox on Windows, you would burn them at the stake. The only thing that makes Apple different is that they aren't a monopoly... yet. Sorry, but this is different. See, Apple has never said you cannot run Firefox on their device. You are free to write it and make it work. You figure out a way to do that, congratulations. You can do whatever the hell you want with the iPhone. But how are you going to get this app on the iPhone? It's up to you to figure that part out, and if you brick your iPhone, that's your problem. All they are saying is that you cannot use their SDK to develop these apps. That's part of their licensing agreement. Don't agree? Don't use their SDK and go it on your own, you have that right after all.
Property right? Yeah, sure, but you're missing something. See, Apple has never said that you can't install whatever you want on your phone. How has this been accomplished to date? Through jailbreak. Knock yourself out. If you brick your phone, it's your problem because, after all, it is now YOUR hardware. What Apple has said is that you cannot develop these particular apps using their SDK. By licensing their SDK, your are agreeing to their terms. You violate the terms of the software they have licensed to you to use, and as such, they are free to enforce the agreement that you agreed to.
Well, then suck it up. Sorry, but that's the scenario. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Hell, Apple even creating an SDK is quite a step. What if they just said STFU, and decided not to release an SDK at all. Sure, a lot of people would be whining, but that's just too bad now isn't it. Apple made the device, and they have no obligations to allow you to run whatever you want on your hardware. Now, they cannot prevent you from running whatever you want, but they don't have to facilitate it. For instance, you buy a toaster from GE, and you want to run Linux on it. GE doesn't have to help you, and if you choose to make it happen, that's your prerogative. Same thing here, no different.
And if you want a big touchscreen, there are other options from palm, HTC, samsung and LG. How about you go get the LG and figure out how to install your own apps, because LG won't be helping you in the slightest.
As a former PC gamer and now a console gamer, there's just something different about sitting back on a couch, in front of a tv, with surround sound and playing games with your buddies that the PC didn't capture. Can you get a PC to do that, sure, but I also buy a console and I don't have to upgrade it for 5 years in a vain attempt to keep my system able to play the latest and greatest games.
Congrats. I remember reading your story a few months ago.
Ah, but you see there is a system in place so I can have both, and that is region-locking. Look at this another way. Movie theaters show movies so they can make money. They don't make money off of showing movies mind you, but they make money by selling you concessions. Now, if you have a ton of people that are importing my movie, they don't go to the theater to watch it. As a result, the theaters don't need to order as many copies of the film because they won't have as many moviegoers AND they will have reduced sales of concessions because of fewer patrons. As such, they aren't going to want to pay me as much to show my movie in their theater. I lose money again, and so do they. So, the system is in place, and if you don't like it, then too bad. Does it really kill you to wait an extra few months?
Doesn't suprise me. Really, Microsoft would be absolutely stupid if they didn't create an Blu-ray add-on concurrently with the HD-DVD add-on on the off chance that HD-DVD would lose. If that played out, they could then very quickly flip the switches and fill the pipeline with a blu-ray drive.
But, there's a reason that you delay release dates. For instance, a movie can come out here, get a lot of good press (ratatouille) and it can result in a lot of people in another country to go see it. This positive press allows you to spend less on advertising because you can then reduce the amount you advertise in foreign cinemas. Don't think there isn't a reason that the studios do it this way.
Interestingly enough, that first one sounds like something in the computer is messed up....hmm, software maybe?
The world record for long jump is ~30 feet, but these guys are only getting a couple of feet off the ground. In any case, these are extraordinary human beings. But, this was just a normal tiger. The capabilities of such an animal is mind-boggling. It's easy to see why the enclosure was so small. The original designers looked at this huge cat, built a wall, built a moat, and figured that it would be impossible for this large animal to perform such a feat.
Wow, Godwin showed up pretty early today.
You're close, but you forgot to divide by 2. (KE = 1/2 mv^2) So, once shot every 2 flights.
Well, I'd imagine it got pulled to the ground, faster and faster, accelerating at a rate of, of I don't know, how about 9.8 m/s^2? It hit the ground. Even if it was traveling at Mach 5, and hit something at a height of 1 meter, it'd hit the ground a quarter of a second later after traveling about a quarter mile. Usually training areas are hundreds of square miles. The United States has miles and miles and miles of absolutely nothing. No real danger here.
Actually, it's in reverse order. Least corrupt at the top, most corrupt at the bottom. Those third world countries are far more corrupt than the US. Also, at the top it says to pay a parking ticket in Finland because it's the least corrupt government, though they have them at #3. So we are the 17th LEAST corrupt government around. Out of ~160, I like where we stand.
From Wikipedia: French, from Middle French, court official charged with transportation of supplies, pack animal driver, from Old Provençal saumalier pack animal driver, from sauma pack animal, load of a pack animal, from Late Latin sagma packsaddle.
Agreed. My fiance has two movies that she watches about once a week (per movie). If it was on tape, she would've long worn them out. And I always get the hankering to watch movies that I have from time to time as well. What I think it happening though is that people are creating libraries for themselves. Instead they are just getting movies that they know they will watch repeatedly.
A couple of differences, one being is that during a face to face conversation, you tend to not talk extremely loud. Some phones incorporate a slight "echo" so that you can actually hear yourself talking (much like landlines). Many phones don't, and what ends up happening is people yell into the phone, which is exactly what Alexander Graham Bell discovered when he first invented the thing. Additionally, we perceive face-to-face conversations as normal. Cellphone conversations are just weird to us humans (being a relatively new thing). Also, and perhaps slightly more nosy, people like to listen to other people's conversations, and when you can only hear one half of the conversation, it probably annoys people on some unconscious level. It's just programmed into us that communication exists face-to-face, or at least that's how it primarily has been for eons.
I know this won't help you in your case, but American Airlines MD-80's (a fairly old aircraft) have power adapters in coach under the seats. When you book your next flight, check out Seat Guru and it will tell you if a particular aircraft has power adapters.
Did you even read what I wrote, or did you stop one after that one comment. I said that I know VZ pushes their UI onto the manufacturer. They've currently had to support buggy software, and they have now realized that they don't want to. So, they remove their UI restrictions, making the manufacturer responsible, and everybody's happy.
And you know what? I can't really blame them. Handset support should fall to Motorola/Samsung/Apple. If something like a calendar application on your phone is buggy, why should Verizon be trying to deal with it. The handset makers made it, have them fix it. I do realize that Verizon has pushed certain things onto the manufacturers like using their UI, etc. But I would much rather see the original software on a phone. So I guess I can't complain to much. By loosening their restrictions, Verizon will actually be saving money AND making their customers happier. And I, as a Verizon customer am now seriously considering staying with them. I was all amped up to dump them and go with ATT and the iPhone next August, but now I'm thinking of staying on for a bit.
Ah, but you see as time marches on, things become available to the amateurs for much less than what it used to cost. So, what happens when you have a bunch of highly skilled "amateurs" working on something they love? You can get good content for next to nothing. Granted, this probably won't continue forever, but it does exist. And with distribution costs being reduced far below what it used to, it now is easy for fans to access it. Look at things like Red vs. Blue, or that myspace girl that everyone watched, or even some of the Star Wars fan films are decent.
Well, that's all well and good if I invented something like the Slinky and I see something on a store shelf. But on a hard drive, if what I patented is on there, what would drive me to rip open a hard drive and check it out. Let's say I invented some type of bearing or seal that could be used in a multitude of different applications. How would I know to go and buy all of these different devices, tear them apart, examine them and see if they infringed on my patent. But, let's now say that through the grapevine I read an article ten years later where in an industry publication someone mentions that they have been using my seal or bearing for 5 years. Why should I be faulted for not having the cash to go tear thousands of dollars of equipment apart, looking for infringement? What if the thought hadn't crossed my mind that my technology could be used in a certain application? Should I get screwed over for that? No.
Here's a great example of this too:
You can tell the PS3 to rip the contents of a CD to the PS3's harddrive. It can do it automatically when you insert the CD into the drive.
No, they can't. They may try, but they are prohibited under Federal Law from doing that. I think that Federal Law trumps some stupid little HOA bylaws. I thankfully have an understanding HOA. They know this, and when I went to put up a satellite dish, they told me where they would like it installed so as to be as unobtrusive as possible. But, they knew that if reception could not be achieved from that spot that they would have to deal with it. Fortunately, it worked just fine where they wanted it.
D) Get an antenna and view NBC via OTA hi-def?
There are options here, and they aren't that tough if you are really don't want cable, yet you want to watch Heroes.