Did it even REMOTELY occur to you that selling this stuff in the US could get ugly? Ever heard of obscenity laws? Yes, they're fucking stupid, but they're still out there, and Amazon could get busted for distribution of it. They stand to lose a lot more money from that than a few dozen pedos getting butthurt that they can't get yaoi on Amazon anymore.
I think it's more about a uniform DRM layer they can tie into on the phones. I'm guessing that the listed phones included some hooks Netflix could use to ensure copy protection that was up to the standards of the MPAA. Others may not have those hooks.
You missed one big, key element: Sony has a central leadership structure. Christianity does not. Various sects may, but not Christianity as a whole. Enough shit has gone on at Sony that you can tell it's rotten to the top. A lot of these things wouldn't have happened without upper management knowing about it.
Except mum could buy a new computer and probably figure out how to move her data over with a thumbdrive. Not too many PCs come with Linux preinstalled these days.
True, but the odds are greater for an inkjet than a laser that you wouldn't get simple plug 'n' play functionality. You might just have to go get that driver first.
O RLY? I've been running Windows 7 for over a year now on one computer and have used it quite a bit. I've had to pull a handful of tracking cookies out with Malwarebytes and that's about it. How long is that matter of time, anyway?
Newsflash: Windows 7 is a great deal more secure than XP. I doubt we'll EVER see the petri dish days of the early XP service packs again.
Good luck getting grandma to take her XP box, back up all her data, install Linux, restore her data, get all the necessary software, and if need be, locate and install the necessary drivers. If she has someone to do that for her, then she'll probably be okay.
Unreasonable? Because XP is DEFINITELY more secure than Windows 7 and is far less likely to become part of a massive Chinese botnet used to attack business/government networks in the US, right?
I'm sure the NSA has absolutely no interest in trying to keep US citizens from becoming virtual typhoid marys.
When did you last use XP? Adding network printers isn't exactly straightforward, but if the admins did their job right, you don't need to punch in the IP and can just find the darned thing. Also, XP is not the latest version of Windows and shouldn't be measured against current Linux distros.
Yeah, but that's a Laserjet, in which case Postscript is a pretty universal language for it, so at least basic driver functionality isn't too difficult to implement. Inkjets...not so much.
Java is a lumbering, bloated behemoth that everyone seems to know, but far less know well. C# is what happened when Microsoft knew Java in a Biblical sense.
Java has been using chained linked lists in hashtables since 1.2. Adding garbage collection to it isn't exactly difficult or innovative. I'll wager someone did that long before these guys patented it. Maybe not in a standard library, but it's virtually guaranteed that something like this was implemented in software prior to their filing.
This is why the patent system needs, at the very least, a massive overhaul and an abolition on software patents.
Games like this have been around for a while, sure, but seriously, take a look at both. AB is almost literally CtC on a touchscreen with different graphics. It's virtually the same thing. It's one thing to use the idea of flinging crap in a parabola. It's quite another to take someone else's implementation of that idea and use it verbatim.
Angry Birds was whipped up quickly because it's was horridly ripped off from "Crush the Castle", a game which was on the internet in Flash form nine months previous. AB is virtually CtC reskinned.
Depending on Microsoft is a Hobson's choice: take it or leave it. Depending on a Linux distributor means there will probably be more than one distributor with an acceptable offer.
How many distros have support from more than one party? That's the catch. If your company goes with Debian, then great, but you've got one company on which to rely for support. Want to switch to another distro? Yeah, good luck with that. There's no guarantee of compatibility between distros. You could be looking at an IT nightmare unless you spend a lot of time and money ensuring that your system will run fine on another distro.
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Did it even REMOTELY occur to you that selling this stuff in the US could get ugly? Ever heard of obscenity laws? Yes, they're fucking stupid, but they're still out there, and Amazon could get busted for distribution of it. They stand to lose a lot more money from that than a few dozen pedos getting butthurt that they can't get yaoi on Amazon anymore.
I think it's more about a uniform DRM layer they can tie into on the phones. I'm guessing that the listed phones included some hooks Netflix could use to ensure copy protection that was up to the standards of the MPAA. Others may not have those hooks.
You missed one big, key element: Sony has a central leadership structure. Christianity does not. Various sects may, but not Christianity as a whole. Enough shit has gone on at Sony that you can tell it's rotten to the top. A lot of these things wouldn't have happened without upper management knowing about it.
So clock speed means everything when comparing different CPUs and not their raw performance. Got it.
Furthermore, there is no 10 year old CPU that runs at 3ghz unless you did some absurd overclocking.
It would be an engineering sample, which typically has much lower clocks than what ships out in the final product. We'll have to wait and see.
Except mum could buy a new computer and probably figure out how to move her data over with a thumbdrive. Not too many PCs come with Linux preinstalled these days.
True, but the odds are greater for an inkjet than a laser that you wouldn't get simple plug 'n' play functionality. You might just have to go get that driver first.
O RLY? I've been running Windows 7 for over a year now on one computer and have used it quite a bit. I've had to pull a handful of tracking cookies out with Malwarebytes and that's about it. How long is that matter of time, anyway?
Newsflash: Windows 7 is a great deal more secure than XP. I doubt we'll EVER see the petri dish days of the early XP service packs again.
You missed one thing:
YOU INSTALLED IT FOR HER.
Good luck getting grandma to take her XP box, back up all her data, install Linux, restore her data, get all the necessary software, and if need be, locate and install the necessary drivers. If she has someone to do that for her, then she'll probably be okay.
Unreasonable? Because XP is DEFINITELY more secure than Windows 7 and is far less likely to become part of a massive Chinese botnet used to attack business/government networks in the US, right?
I'm sure the NSA has absolutely no interest in trying to keep US citizens from becoming virtual typhoid marys.
When did you last use XP? Adding network printers isn't exactly straightforward, but if the admins did their job right, you don't need to punch in the IP and can just find the darned thing. Also, XP is not the latest version of Windows and shouldn't be measured against current Linux distros.
Yeah, but that's a Laserjet, in which case Postscript is a pretty universal language for it, so at least basic driver functionality isn't too difficult to implement. Inkjets...not so much.
...Were account passwords encrypted or hashed?
Java is a lumbering, bloated behemoth that everyone seems to know, but far less know well. C# is what happened when Microsoft knew Java in a Biblical sense.
Well, unless you really, really like assembly. Then you're probably a masochist and this would be right up the ol' alley.
This is true. The contents of that .db file are never sent to Apple or anyone else.
Just one?
Java has been using chained linked lists in hashtables since 1.2. Adding garbage collection to it isn't exactly difficult or innovative. I'll wager someone did that long before these guys patented it. Maybe not in a standard library, but it's virtually guaranteed that something like this was implemented in software prior to their filing.
This is why the patent system needs, at the very least, a massive overhaul and an abolition on software patents.
Java used linked list chaining in hashtables as of Java 1.2. This patent is bloody absurd.
Is it just me, or does this patent describe a hashtable?
Games like this have been around for a while, sure, but seriously, take a look at both. AB is almost literally CtC on a touchscreen with different graphics. It's virtually the same thing. It's one thing to use the idea of flinging crap in a parabola. It's quite another to take someone else's implementation of that idea and use it verbatim.
Angry Birds was whipped up quickly because it's was horridly ripped off from "Crush the Castle", a game which was on the internet in Flash form nine months previous. AB is virtually CtC reskinned.
Um, no, MS would not do that. The PR would be godawful and it's a guaranteed class action lawsuit involving most of the developed world.
Depending on Microsoft is a Hobson's choice: take it or leave it. Depending on a Linux distributor means there will probably be more than one distributor with an acceptable offer.
How many distros have support from more than one party? That's the catch. If your company goes with Debian, then great, but you've got one company on which to rely for support. Want to switch to another distro? Yeah, good luck with that. There's no guarantee of compatibility between distros. You could be looking at an IT nightmare unless you spend a lot of time and money ensuring that your system will run fine on another distro.
Right. Now try to keep up with the kind of update schedule that something like Ubuntu has in a corporate environment. You'll have loads of fun.