VLC on iPhone was killed because it breached the licensing terms of being able to copy it from the device to another device. To quote Wikipedia "VLC was available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch from the Apple AppStore, but was pulled due to a licensing conflict between the GPL and the iTunes Store agreement.[11]" Referenced details can be found here.
From memory the guy who forced the removal by suing Apple was an Linux/Android developer. So, no conflict of interest there at all. But feel free to blame Apple.
That's ok, the US keep trying to take away our communist PBS subsidies via trade treaties, so soon our medications will be as expensive as theirs.
BTW, while on the topic of expensive medications, did you see the article in the mainstream press today about Blackmores doing a deal to have pharmacists being automatically prompted to recommend vitamin suppliments to counteract side effects for perscription drugs.
Sunscreen is also now thought to be a major contributor to coral dieoff, as the oils and chemicals from the sunscreen wash off in the ocean and cause pollution.
I read an interesting article a few months back about research into corals natural sunscreen excretions and whether they could be used for human sunblock.
Given WoW 4.3 is due on PTR this week according to blue posts, I wouldn't be surprised if it will hit the production servers early Dec.
Even if it hits earlier, given the strong likelyhood that Bliz are going to announce the xpac @ Blizcon (21 Oct), they will probably just release a big chunk of expansion news the same week. Say a new race or profession, with a bucket of screen shots.
Maybe even some beta news, but I think it would be a bit early of the public beta. They probably won't want the public beta to compete with D3
I had a similar problem at University, our structural engineering lecturer had a thick accent and interesting pronuciations, we would be sitting there with our text books trying to work out if the word he used was a new term we had to learn or an existing one we should already know.
From memory I was one of about 15 people in my entire year that passed the course, and that was primarily due to my residential college having additional tutoring available.
If you want to say that taking photos in game has prior art, you might want to include Zelda: Wind Waker and Beyond Good and Evil as examples too.
That said, I personally know Morgan who is mentioned in the article (we used to game together many many years ago), and the idea for the game originally came from a War Correspondent. Much of the 'game' is whether you take footage or choose to interact with your potential subjects. and what footage you choose to show. It's about the moral choices rather than the quality of your framing.
I see you subscribe to the "it's better to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission" school.
For my part, the permission comes in if they have shared assets - you are asking for permission to spend a fairly large amount of cash on a luxery item - do you really have that much disposable cash lying around? If yes, go for it. If no, well you might want to consider whether it is really worth it.
Sorry, I forgot this thread had nothing to do with living in the real world with real responsibilities.
One of my grandmothers was afraid to eat eggs more than 3 times per week in case she turned into a chicken. I have no idea where she picked up that particular thought process.
Hrm... now I wonder if it's related that I play a lazor chicken in WoW...
I know this is supposed to be humour, but it's surprising how many people don't realise that basically all matter is a 'chemical' compound of some variety.
The great unwashed masses seem to be blissfully unaware that there is no such thing as 'chemical free chicken' or what ever marketing spiel the ad men decide to pitch to you.
What we are really poor at is distinguishing between harmful chemical compounds and comparitively harmless compounds. Even water (H2O) is harmful in sufficently high concentrations, either due to drowning or water poinsoning.
From the TFA they purchased 100 units and were planning to purchase a further 225 units out of the $200,000 fund. That's 325 units in total to being with, plus covers, insurance, spares, etc...
If you are going to argue based on math, at least get the variables correct.
Art Deco is largely the presentation layer, and was a fairly minimalist one that would have been fairly cheap to produce as it was generally just moulded concrete in execution.
Good design in an education environment can facilitate improved attention spans due to well performing lighting and ventilation (HVAC) systems. Plenty of schools in Australia are introducing solar power and rain water tanks to reduce the ecological foot print of the building. Good design can also minimise maintenance costs and make the site more compatible for multiplurpose usage, allowing the school to generate revenue by hiring out facilities when not in use for classes.
I'm not suggesting that the buildings need to be gold plated, but there can be long term advantages to 'architecture' in a school envinronment.
I was in the 3rd year intake of a wholey new school when I was in secondary school. Most of our buildings were 'portable' steel sheds as they built the permanent school around us. I remember thinking how awesome the new wings were as they came online - a sports and entertainment centre with an inside gym, a theatre/auditorium, media labs. The arts and trade wings with the dedicated labs for the major trade streams. The chemistry labs. A real library. Sadly the core english/maths/physics courses were still in tin cans when I was finishing school. I don't know if they were fully replaced.
The difference between attending a class in one of the new wings vs. the portables in the depths of winter or height of summer had to be experienced to be believed. It's hard to concentratte when you are nearly passing out from heat exhaustion or freezing your arse off.
What I am trying to say is don't underestimate the impact a good built environment has on your ability to concentrate and learn.
I use the aloe vera infused ones, otherwise within a few hours of the first real runny nose sniffling I have cracked and bleeding skin. Tissues are essentially sawdust and kerosene, awesome for cleaning spilt toner off your hands, crap for your skin if you expect prolonged or repeated exposure.
[quote]A protective case for an iPad? I'll tell you what kind of protective case he'd need for an iPad - a gun safe. With a biometric lock - he's clever and destructive.[/quote]
Thanks, now I need to clean the screen... of my iPad.:P
We do this, anytime we get an appliance with a wall wart, we label it with a Dymo label. We do the same with the network cables around the studay, everything is labelled at each end with what device it is hooked up to.
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VLC on iPhone was killed because it breached the licensing terms of being able to copy it from the device to another device. To quote Wikipedia "VLC was available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch from the Apple AppStore, but was pulled due to a licensing conflict between the GPL and the iTunes Store agreement.[11]" Referenced details can be found here.
The story was even reported on some tech blogs...
From memory the guy who forced the removal by suing Apple was an Linux/Android developer. So, no conflict of interest there at all. But feel free to blame Apple.
That's ok, the US keep trying to take away our communist PBS subsidies via trade treaties, so soon our medications will be as expensive as theirs.
BTW, while on the topic of expensive medications, did you see the article in the mainstream press today about Blackmores doing a deal to have pharmacists being automatically prompted to recommend vitamin suppliments to counteract side effects for perscription drugs.
Sunscreen is also now thought to be a major contributor to coral dieoff, as the oils and chemicals from the sunscreen wash off in the ocean and cause pollution.
I read an interesting article a few months back about research into corals natural sunscreen excretions and whether they could be used for human sunblock.
Whom are you, whom whom, whom whom.
You are awfully disparaging about these fried-whores...
Mmmm... fried whores.... tasty. :P
Soon
Seriously though, Bliz never announce patch dates. The best we would get is being told that the servers are going down tonight to apply the patch.
Given the 20 Dec is a Tuesday, the 13th or 20th wouldn't be a surprise.
Given WoW 4.3 is due on PTR this week according to blue posts, I wouldn't be surprised if it will hit the production servers early Dec.
Even if it hits earlier, given the strong likelyhood that Bliz are going to announce the xpac @ Blizcon (21 Oct), they will probably just release a big chunk of expansion news the same week. Say a new race or profession, with a bucket of screen shots.
Maybe even some beta news, but I think it would be a bit early of the public beta. They probably won't want the public beta to compete with D3
I had a similar problem at University, our structural engineering lecturer had a thick accent and interesting pronuciations, we would be sitting there with our text books trying to work out if the word he used was a new term we had to learn or an existing one we should already know.
From memory I was one of about 15 people in my entire year that passed the course, and that was primarily due to my residential college having additional tutoring available.
These guys aren't first time developers.
If you want to say that taking photos in game has prior art, you might want to include Zelda: Wind Waker and Beyond Good and Evil as examples too.
That said, I personally know Morgan who is mentioned in the article (we used to game together many many years ago), and the idea for the game originally came from a War Correspondent. Much of the 'game' is whether you take footage or choose to interact with your potential subjects. and what footage you choose to show. It's about the moral choices rather than the quality of your framing.
I see you subscribe to the "it's better to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission" school.
For my part, the permission comes in if they have shared assets - you are asking for permission to spend a fairly large amount of cash on a luxery item - do you really have that much disposable cash lying around? If yes, go for it. If no, well you might want to consider whether it is really worth it.
Sorry, I forgot this thread had nothing to do with living in the real world with real responsibilities.
God forbid the Mouse ever patents anything of significance given what they have done to copyright terms.
No wonder Cthulhu is pissed.
I see a flaw with your theory. It involves common sense. Which we all know is rarer than kryptonite both here on /. and in the wider world.
You are not confused. The anti-Apple Slashdot trolls are. You are actually right that this fraud doesn't involve apple at all. But that won't matter.
FTFY :)
Language exists to express ideas. If you don't provide clarity and context, you're wasting everyone's time.
Hrm... I need to make that into a sig file. Or an auto responder on twitter.
One of my grandmothers was afraid to eat eggs more than 3 times per week in case she turned into a chicken. I have no idea where she picked up that particular thought process.
Hrm... now I wonder if it's related that I play a lazor chicken in WoW...
I know this is supposed to be humour, but it's surprising how many people don't realise that basically all matter is a 'chemical' compound of some variety.
The great unwashed masses seem to be blissfully unaware that there is no such thing as 'chemical free chicken' or what ever marketing spiel the ad men decide to pitch to you.
What we are really poor at is distinguishing between harmful chemical compounds and comparitively harmless compounds. Even water (H2O) is harmful in sufficently high concentrations, either due to drowning or water poinsoning.
From the TFA they purchased 100 units and were planning to purchase a further 225 units out of the $200,000 fund. That's 325 units in total to being with, plus covers, insurance, spares, etc...
If you are going to argue based on math, at least get the variables correct.
Art Deco is largely the presentation layer, and was a fairly minimalist one that would have been fairly cheap to produce as it was generally just moulded concrete in execution.
Good design in an education environment can facilitate improved attention spans due to well performing lighting and ventilation (HVAC) systems. Plenty of schools in Australia are introducing solar power and rain water tanks to reduce the ecological foot print of the building. Good design can also minimise maintenance costs and make the site more compatible for multiplurpose usage, allowing the school to generate revenue by hiring out facilities when not in use for classes.
I'm not suggesting that the buildings need to be gold plated, but there can be long term advantages to 'architecture' in a school envinronment.
I was in the 3rd year intake of a wholey new school when I was in secondary school. Most of our buildings were 'portable' steel sheds as they built the permanent school around us. I remember thinking how awesome the new wings were as they came online - a sports and entertainment centre with an inside gym, a theatre/auditorium, media labs. The arts and trade wings with the dedicated labs for the major trade streams. The chemistry labs. A real library. Sadly the core english/maths/physics courses were still in tin cans when I was finishing school. I don't know if they were fully replaced.
The difference between attending a class in one of the new wings vs. the portables in the depths of winter or height of summer had to be experienced to be believed. It's hard to concentratte when you are nearly passing out from heat exhaustion or freezing your arse off.
What I am trying to say is don't underestimate the impact a good built environment has on your ability to concentrate and learn.
I use the aloe vera infused ones, otherwise within a few hours of the first real runny nose sniffling I have cracked and bleeding skin. Tissues are essentially sawdust and kerosene, awesome for cleaning spilt toner off your hands, crap for your skin if you expect prolonged or repeated exposure.
Hrm... guess who spends far too much time on sites that use BBCode...
Thanks, now I need to clean the screen... of my iPad. :P
I second the ziploc bag suggestion, I then toss all the ziploc bags in a big stackable tub.
We do this, anytime we get an appliance with a wall wart, we label it with a Dymo label. We do the same with the network cables around the studay, everything is labelled at each end with what device it is hooked up to.