While you are completely right about the transportation of gold and other metals from earth to the moon one good thing is that we do not have to bring it there to manufacture anything that comprises it.
I wonder if anyone here remembers who gave good ole FaceBook their legitimacy in 2007 as a multi-million dollar company they have already paid for Zucker mine as well collect.
Again, it doesn't matter, the one piece of protection the cable companies boxes provided were given via HCDP over HDMI now that is moot they want to license the tech out to as many suckers as possible before the DIY and Linux guys start grabbing IR blasters and rolling this stuff out by the dozens. Then again I have been wrong before....
I would put good money down that the change of heart has nothing to do with the consumer but the fact that the HDMI master keys have been discovered. Give it a couple of months and the Chinese will be selling cards and boxes like they are going out of style.
The difference is that if you are going to write a program that takes advantage of some sort of camera you can inform the user / purchaser before the purchase that they will need to make an additional purchase (or even include it with the software for an additional price). A hand held device on the other hand are much less likely to be able to add after market devices or at least in a way the user will find acceptable, for example if it was feasible to add an after market web cam to a hand held device would the user really want to walk around using it with a wire and a bulky camera on them?
In a sane world Google should mandate that all device manufacturers submit a profile of their device that will allow for developers to incorporate into their emulators. That way while debugging you can profile your code by seeing which lines are %100 percent across all devices and ones that are less. At least that way you can decide rather than getting crapped on by users who dump on your page with stuff like "This doesn't work on my hand set would not buy again!!!".
It's not exactly like developing for the PC. On PC (Win/x86) you can guarantee they at least have the same hardware available (sound,1GHz+CPU, 512MB RAM, some sort of video display(not including 3D capabilities) ) on a mobile platform you have accelerometers, GPS, Cellular access, WIFI access, Bluetooth, Ambient Light sensors, Compasses, h264 decoder/encoders, Video recording, cameras, etc,etc. How can you really plan on a catch all? At least if I develop a game on a PC I can have a low res fall back with out any hardware rendering that looks like crap but does not require a refund and I keep my cash from the sale. Using this methodology you could have massive sales and massive complaints / refunds based on non-existent hardware.
If that's the idea then why didn't they pay off the citizens mortgages and give them some pocket change while the current bankers went bankrupt so new ones could take over to invest the citizens money? Kinda like cutting off a piece of dead skin so new healthy skin can grow back.
This has as much to do with the manufacturer as patents on the latest fart app. This is done after the purchase, more than likely Android won't ship with anything else then some customized version thats already on there. Most companies will bastardize it with branding and plugins and that will in turn make people curious of alternatives. Being open source all of these companies with their IP will be able to see them coming a mile away and being open source it can be changed / fixed quickly. Being a Beta and free on top of it no one can really hold Mozilla to the grind stone because like Google's products it's in limbo anyway. Support for familiar extensions will bring a lot of people from the desktop to use it so I can't say it's a bad move.
Ha! I did something similar but during the first week of my first job after graduation. One of the IT staff was tracking down or attempting to track down an ip and find the hardware. I used the same command to send the pc a message so we could track it down. Feeling cool about everything I started sending "floppy drive on fire" messages to co-workers, little did I know the entire coast to coast operation was running in the same domain so "net send * 'floppy drive on fire'" sent to every office and warehouse from Vancouver BC to Newbrunswick. Lucky for me I was in the head office and the senior guys got a kick out of it. Next day IT came to my machine and told me I had a virus I got most of the day off to get a coffee. Those were the days.
So now layering some sort of digital safeguard is now the answer? Common how many protections have to be shot down before you realize that once it leaves the store people will mess with the device. Do these guys truly believe they can follow you home to force you to use their glass and plastic the way their marketing department intended? Well I guess they are clinging to that hope but this backup will just get hacked or jailbroken or whatever once they get access to the memory area that houses the backup data. After seeing a company the size of Intel getting shot down a la HCDP for massive clients like **AA's I am now a firm believer this is all just pissing in the wind. Notice to manufacturers the higher you build the wall just makes you look that much more stupid when I bring it down give it a break.
Wow buddy you have your head straight up your ass don't you? Ok, so let's say we take all the geeks, fighters, number crunchers and thinkers nation wide, train them and deploy them in some fashion. Who are you going to fight? If all of the politicians are corrupt who is going to know on a world scale who is bad and who is good? Bomb everybody? That hasn't worked out well for anybody before, hack everybody? They'll just hack back. Start a war with the middle east? All the politicians now want to screw with them and if they are apparently not on the side of their own country then you are just serving "the spy". So where do you propose this great militia should go, who should they kill? Maybe with all of this propaganda going around you feel you need to kill someone but in reality you don't need to. As far as we know the whole 9/11 thing could have been a result of one diplomat making fun of anothers wifes dress. How much do you hear when they talk face to face? Maybe they golf and laugh about all this shit behind closed doors. But somehow you want one group of people to attack another group of people because of politicians who are talking shit in the ears of both sides?
I have to admit one of the big things holding back OSS is not the quality of the software it is the physical presence of the people banging down your door to get you to use it. To use a bad car analogy you could say Microsoft is a big 3 low end sedan, it looks decent, drives decent, decent room and decent mileage. OSS is like getting a high end crank shaft, motor, drive train, body and the rest but they deliver it all in boxes and crates. What you need to do is hire a mechanic that actually understands the components rather than just letting the car run and turn up the volume when it makes sounds. If you can find someone with that kind of talent you can run either car equally well and that is when not having to pay for the parts becomes huge. We need more consultants that actually know what they are doing rather than some one who took a couple MS certs to get in your door to make a pitch. If your time is money then learning how these components work together you will be able to compare your own personal services against a company like Microsoft and look pretty good.
If a company the size of MS is going to pull a move like this they will already have their bases covered. A major part of their business is not only writing software but filing and buying patents, this is the reason MS hasn't had lawsuits against them for their OS's. If a patent troll had anything on them they would be all over them as we speak cause I can guarantee they would be able to get more out of them then RIM and all the other combined could pony up. Companies that size look at patents the same way most look at sports cards they know which ones are valuable and which ones will be valuable in time, the only thing they think about is what will you accept in trade or is their anything they can use to make you give it up. I predict to back up the value of their claim you will start to see lawsuit after lawsuit as frivolous as it may seem pop up in the near future against everyone and anyone with anything that resembles a mobile phone right down to the classic cans and string. You heard it here first people.
Danger and fear will lead to curiosity and respect. By rounding every corner and adding sponge to every surface these important things will never get taught or learned. Like common one of the greatest feelings of getting to ride a bicycle was being able to not fall on my face shouldn't we be encouraging this kind of thing? It's not like I think chemistry sets for kids should come with toxic chemicals but seeing a reaction that fizzes out of control, let's out a loud bang or changes the composition of the chemicals in question would give me the same feeling as riding a bike for the first time why should we keep it back from an entire generation?
If we are going down this road then why not shut down all the industries that are putting chemicals into the air down the street from the local parks and schools, the companies that taint water and make beaches useless. These kids are probably lucky to get chemistry sets they'll probably find a fix for the massive amounts of pollution in their neighborhoods. If anything these are the same people who should be ordering all children to stay inside with out an approved breathing apparatus.
The point I was trying to make was that if they did not require you to give them the keys then it would likely prove they were moot to begin with. Something called false sense of security...
Just as a thought. Now that these types of self service are starting to gain popularity. In the age of smart phones with cameras how long till people take a snap of the bar codes of the cheaper stuff and present it to the scanner on check out?
I agree with you that these little devices are great for browsing for info and basic tasks but when I compare them to tablets I realize that they won't fit in my pocket. Most of the time I use my iPhone to look up quick info but it's because I already have it on me. If I had a tablet would I carry it around with me as much as my cell? Not likely. I would like to see one with much better specs as far as CPU, graphics, USB, SSD and HDMI and way more RAM(at least 1GB). With these specs I would definately use on as a laptop replacement, I don't really play games and the time wasters you can pick up for free are usually good enough for me. I could use it for small presentations and might even get a small laser projector(another tech gadget I'm watching closely) and a laser keyboard I'll be set.
It will take the first generation to dissipate before we start to see this kind of stuff out there so early adopters...
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While you are completely right about the transportation of gold and other metals from earth to the moon one good thing is that we do not have to bring it there to manufacture anything that comprises it.
Same qualifications as Dr Dre actually.
I doubt they own FB but I can just about guarantee there was a long piece of paper that had to be signed before they signed the check.
I wonder if anyone here remembers who gave good ole FaceBook their legitimacy in 2007 as a multi-million dollar company they have already paid for Zucker mine as well collect.
Again, it doesn't matter, the one piece of protection the cable companies boxes provided were given via HCDP over HDMI now that is moot they want to license the tech out to as many suckers as possible before the DIY and Linux guys start grabbing IR blasters and rolling this stuff out by the dozens. Then again I have been wrong before....
I would put good money down that the change of heart has nothing to do with the consumer but the fact that the HDMI master keys have been discovered. Give it a couple of months and the Chinese will be selling cards and boxes like they are going out of style.
The difference is that if you are going to write a program that takes advantage of some sort of camera you can inform the user / purchaser before the purchase that they will need to make an additional purchase (or even include it with the software for an additional price). A hand held device on the other hand are much less likely to be able to add after market devices or at least in a way the user will find acceptable, for example if it was feasible to add an after market web cam to a hand held device would the user really want to walk around using it with a wire and a bulky camera on them?
In a sane world Google should mandate that all device manufacturers submit a profile of their device that will allow for developers to incorporate into their emulators. That way while debugging you can profile your code by seeing which lines are %100 percent across all devices and ones that are less. At least that way you can decide rather than getting crapped on by users who dump on your page with stuff like "This doesn't work on my hand set would not buy again!!!".
It's not exactly like developing for the PC. On PC (Win/x86) you can guarantee they at least have the same hardware available (sound,1GHz+CPU, 512MB RAM, some sort of video display(not including 3D capabilities) ) on a mobile platform you have accelerometers, GPS, Cellular access, WIFI access, Bluetooth, Ambient Light sensors, Compasses, h264 decoder/encoders, Video recording, cameras, etc,etc. How can you really plan on a catch all? At least if I develop a game on a PC I can have a low res fall back with out any hardware rendering that looks like crap but does not require a refund and I keep my cash from the sale. Using this methodology you could have massive sales and massive complaints / refunds based on non-existent hardware.
Just don't slam it like that!
How can you disconnect your customers at the tune of 10K per day and still intend to be in business?
If that's the idea then why didn't they pay off the citizens mortgages and give them some pocket change while the current bankers went bankrupt so new ones could take over to invest the citizens money? Kinda like cutting off a piece of dead skin so new healthy skin can grow back.
This has as much to do with the manufacturer as patents on the latest fart app. This is done after the purchase, more than likely Android won't ship with anything else then some customized version thats already on there. Most companies will bastardize it with branding and plugins and that will in turn make people curious of alternatives. Being open source all of these companies with their IP will be able to see them coming a mile away and being open source it can be changed / fixed quickly. Being a Beta and free on top of it no one can really hold Mozilla to the grind stone because like Google's products it's in limbo anyway. Support for familiar extensions will bring a lot of people from the desktop to use it so I can't say it's a bad move.
Ha! I did something similar but during the first week of my first job after graduation. One of the IT staff was tracking down or attempting to track down an ip and find the hardware. I used the same command to send the pc a message so we could track it down. Feeling cool about everything I started sending "floppy drive on fire" messages to co-workers, little did I know the entire coast to coast operation was running in the same domain so "net send * 'floppy drive on fire'" sent to every office and warehouse from Vancouver BC to Newbrunswick. Lucky for me I was in the head office and the senior guys got a kick out of it. Next day IT came to my machine and told me I had a virus I got most of the day off to get a coffee. Those were the days.
So now layering some sort of digital safeguard is now the answer? Common how many protections have to be shot down before you realize that once it leaves the store people will mess with the device. Do these guys truly believe they can follow you home to force you to use their glass and plastic the way their marketing department intended? Well I guess they are clinging to that hope but this backup will just get hacked or jailbroken or whatever once they get access to the memory area that houses the backup data. After seeing a company the size of Intel getting shot down a la HCDP for massive clients like **AA's I am now a firm believer this is all just pissing in the wind. Notice to manufacturers the higher you build the wall just makes you look that much more stupid when I bring it down give it a break.
Wow buddy you have your head straight up your ass don't you? Ok, so let's say we take all the geeks, fighters, number crunchers and thinkers nation wide, train them and deploy them in some fashion. Who are you going to fight? If all of the politicians are corrupt who is going to know on a world scale who is bad and who is good? Bomb everybody? That hasn't worked out well for anybody before, hack everybody? They'll just hack back. Start a war with the middle east? All the politicians now want to screw with them and if they are apparently not on the side of their own country then you are just serving "the spy". So where do you propose this great militia should go, who should they kill? Maybe with all of this propaganda going around you feel you need to kill someone but in reality you don't need to. As far as we know the whole 9/11 thing could have been a result of one diplomat making fun of anothers wifes dress. How much do you hear when they talk face to face? Maybe they golf and laugh about all this shit behind closed doors. But somehow you want one group of people to attack another group of people because of politicians who are talking shit in the ears of both sides?
I have to admit one of the big things holding back OSS is not the quality of the software it is the physical presence of the people banging down your door to get you to use it. To use a bad car analogy you could say Microsoft is a big 3 low end sedan, it looks decent, drives decent, decent room and decent mileage. OSS is like getting a high end crank shaft, motor, drive train, body and the rest but they deliver it all in boxes and crates. What you need to do is hire a mechanic that actually understands the components rather than just letting the car run and turn up the volume when it makes sounds. If you can find someone with that kind of talent you can run either car equally well and that is when not having to pay for the parts becomes huge. We need more consultants that actually know what they are doing rather than some one who took a couple MS certs to get in your door to make a pitch. If your time is money then learning how these components work together you will be able to compare your own personal services against a company like Microsoft and look pretty good.
If a company the size of MS is going to pull a move like this they will already have their bases covered. A major part of their business is not only writing software but filing and buying patents, this is the reason MS hasn't had lawsuits against them for their OS's. If a patent troll had anything on them they would be all over them as we speak cause I can guarantee they would be able to get more out of them then RIM and all the other combined could pony up. Companies that size look at patents the same way most look at sports cards they know which ones are valuable and which ones will be valuable in time, the only thing they think about is what will you accept in trade or is their anything they can use to make you give it up. I predict to back up the value of their claim you will start to see lawsuit after lawsuit as frivolous as it may seem pop up in the near future against everyone and anyone with anything that resembles a mobile phone right down to the classic cans and string. You heard it here first people.
Danger and fear will lead to curiosity and respect. By rounding every corner and adding sponge to every surface these important things will never get taught or learned. Like common one of the greatest feelings of getting to ride a bicycle was being able to not fall on my face shouldn't we be encouraging this kind of thing? It's not like I think chemistry sets for kids should come with toxic chemicals but seeing a reaction that fizzes out of control, let's out a loud bang or changes the composition of the chemicals in question would give me the same feeling as riding a bike for the first time why should we keep it back from an entire generation?
If we are going down this road then why not shut down all the industries that are putting chemicals into the air down the street from the local parks and schools, the companies that taint water and make beaches useless. These kids are probably lucky to get chemistry sets they'll probably find a fix for the massive amounts of pollution in their neighborhoods. If anything these are the same people who should be ordering all children to stay inside with out an approved breathing apparatus.
The point I was trying to make was that if they did not require you to give them the keys then it would likely prove they were moot to begin with. Something called false sense of security...
You know what would be really funny? If they pass all these laws and don't demand your master keys ;)
Just as a thought. Now that these types of self service are starting to gain popularity. In the age of smart phones with cameras how long till people take a snap of the bar codes of the cheaper stuff and present it to the scanner on check out?
I agree with you that these little devices are great for browsing for info and basic tasks but when I compare them to tablets I realize that they won't fit in my pocket. Most of the time I use my iPhone to look up quick info but it's because I already have it on me. If I had a tablet would I carry it around with me as much as my cell? Not likely. I would like to see one with much better specs as far as CPU, graphics, USB, SSD and HDMI and way more RAM(at least 1GB). With these specs I would definately use on as a laptop replacement, I don't really play games and the time wasters you can pick up for free are usually good enough for me. I could use it for small presentations and might even get a small laser projector(another tech gadget I'm watching closely) and a laser keyboard I'll be set.
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It will take the first generation to dissipate before we start to see this kind of stuff out there so early adopters
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