Companies are consciously creating incompatible platforms (Android, iOS, WP7, Flash, Silverlight,...) in order to make developer skills non-transferable. Nobody should be surprised to hear that it costs more time to train new developers.
You can rate websites with "like" and "don't like" and then Stumbleupon starts to show you websites submitted by people with similar interest vectors. Stumbleupon also shows you the people with similar interest vectors so you can chat with them or just subscribe to their feeds.
That doesn't sound wise to me. I would recommend to leave the ambitious trips for later. Use a series of incrementally more challenging trips to test the design and gain experience with the controls of the vehicle. Chances are there is software involved and I don't want to see more bad news on Slashdot.
Actually it's not quite that easy. Once your browser loads the button, the website and your IP goes into Google's log. From there on it's just a matter of connecting the dots. However for Firefox with Adblock Plus there is a list to prevent loading of "social" buttons: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/ Note that Google Chrome's ad-blocking only hides content but still loads it.
I couldn't have said it better. I think Redhat is way more efficient than Microsoft or Apple. They deliver more value for a fraction of the cost. They are also less noise because they don't waste so much money on advertising and retail.
The last thing we need now is Intellectual Ventures and their toxic patents. Nuclear research already is crippled enough in the interest of national security.
It's important that the emergency services can rely on citizens to be autonomous in terms of food for a certain amount of time. http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/epc.pdf
If you don't need cutting edge graphics, give Intel Graphics a go. The drivers are free software -> distributors are permitted to integrate them properly -> installation is a breeze.
In a few years we will have phones with WP7 and Linux dual-boot. The market of mobile devices is just like the PC market and worse: Full of politics, platforms, and redundant software. As a software developer I am appalled by the waste of developer time.
But as Steve Ballmer so eloquently says: "We are going to give customers exiting choices."
I'd rather recommend Kubuntu 10.04 (Long term release). I admit that it didn't work flawlessly out of the box. Also Canonical offers desktop support for 88.42£/year. And once your kids grow up they'll be able to fix your computer for free anyway;)
Why? I mean, it's not like they didn't know that as soon as they released their software under the GPL then anyone could modify and compile it for any platform they liked? If they wanted to retain control they should have picked a different license.
Porting VLC to another operating system is good for the project and that is not the issue here. The issue is that VLC should remain free software and it should not be controlled by anyone.
And: what 30% Apple tax? You mean the cut they take from paid apps (in case you missed it VLC is free) for providing all the services (payment, bandwidth, iTunes presence) you otherwise would have to get elsewhere?
Bandwidth? Give me a break. Have you looked at Amazon EC2 prices for hosting bandwidth recently? And they are not even the cheapest. If Apple's offering was so great, they wouldn't use DRM to technically lock out potential competitors.
That cut is small compared to what a J2ME developer has to live with for instance. Do you also consider the 50% of CD proce that the store gets to be a "record store tax"?
AFAIK GetJar charges 0% for hosting paid J2ME applications.
However, the spirit of the GPL software is that anybody should be able to get the source code, adapt it, and use the modified software. Here we have a developer who actively prevents people from doing just that. You can argue all you want about app store rules and walled gardens and so on, but this guy clearly does not want people to have the freedom to modify software that he participated in developing and to make it work on the device that they want it to work on.
What prevents you from just downloading the application from somewhere else? It's not as if the binaries are not available any more.
The developer requested compliance with the GPL. I.e. customers should have the same freedoms when Apple distributes GPL software to them. The problem is that Apple wants to be the sole distributor of software. If I where a software developer of VLC, I would be really pissed off about my work becoming the carrot to Apple's stick.
I understand Apple and why they are doing this. I think the company's survival instinct has turned to greed at some point in time.
What I don't understand is their customers. Why do they side with Apple when they are at the receiving end of a policy which is designed to prevent them from bypassing the 30% Apple-tax they are paying on every song, book, and piece of software? What do faithful customers gain from this? A job at Apple for one in a million? A simple life where somebody else makes decisions and takes their money? A sense of community by paying the bill together?
This kind of things make me think that mankind is doomed.
MacOS is a nice operating system but there are far more superior solutions for the desktop like KDE that aren't encumbered by Apple's DRM harassment. Plus the MacOS interface on the Psystar PC was pretty bad. I'd be concerned if it was the only game in town. This is Apple's loss.
It's not about reputation. It's just about money. Having good relations with the government might help next time the legislators consider something which might interfere with business.
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This is coming very shortly after the congressional hearing where Eben Moglen gave testimony among others (see C-SPAN at 1:37:52). He actually explained AdblockPlus to counter the argument that the advertisment industry would collapse if privacy in the Internet would be restored.
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Companies are consciously creating incompatible platforms (Android, iOS, WP7, Flash, Silverlight, ...) in order to make developer skills non-transferable. Nobody should be surprised to hear that it costs more time to train new developers.
You can rate websites with "like" and "don't like" and then Stumbleupon starts to show you websites submitted by people with similar interest vectors. Stumbleupon also shows you the people with similar interest vectors so you can chat with them or just subscribe to their feeds.
That doesn't sound wise to me. I would recommend to leave the ambitious trips for later. Use a series of incrementally more challenging trips to test the design and gain experience with the controls of the vehicle. Chances are there is software involved and I don't want to see more bad news on Slashdot.
Actually it's not quite that easy. Once your browser loads the button, the website and your IP goes into Google's log. From there on it's just a matter of connecting the dots.
However for Firefox with Adblock Plus there is a list to prevent loading of "social" buttons: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/
Note that Google Chrome's ad-blocking only hides content but still loads it.
I couldn't have said it better. I think Redhat is way more efficient than Microsoft or Apple. They deliver more value for a fraction of the cost. They are also less noise because they don't waste so much money on advertising and retail.
The last thing we need now is Intellectual Ventures and their toxic patents. Nuclear research already is crippled enough in the interest of national security.
It's important that the emergency services can rely on citizens to be autonomous in terms of food for a certain amount of time.
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/epc.pdf
My laptop has an Intel Mobile Series 4 graphics card. KDE compositing rarely drops below 25 frames/second.
If you don't need cutting edge graphics, give Intel Graphics a go. The drivers are free software -> distributors are permitted to integrate them properly -> installation is a breeze.
... will not make me trust the currency.
I'd really like to know whether not supporting Qt4 on WP7 is part of the agreement.
In a few years we will have phones with WP7 and Linux dual-boot. The market of mobile devices is just like the PC market and worse: Full of politics, platforms, and redundant software. As a software developer I am appalled by the waste of developer time.
But as Steve Ballmer so eloquently says: "We are going to give customers exiting choices."
LOL
They are supposed to teach and not to preach.
Princess Leia + Kinect = red hot blob changing shape in real-time
If you think this is a bad development, just do your job and outbreed them.
Another problem is that you need to be able to evacuate the airplane swiftly. If it wasn't for this, the Airbus A380 would have a wider body today.
I'd rather recommend Kubuntu 10.04 (Long term release). I admit that it didn't work flawlessly out of the box. Also Canonical offers desktop support for 88.42£/year. And once your kids grow up they'll be able to fix your computer for free anyway ;)
Why? I mean, it's not like they didn't know that as soon as they released their software under the GPL then anyone could modify and compile it for any platform they liked? If they wanted to retain control they should have picked a different license.
Porting VLC to another operating system is good for the project and that is not the issue here. The issue is that VLC should remain free software and it should not be controlled by anyone.
And: what 30% Apple tax? You mean the cut they take from paid apps (in case you missed it VLC is free) for providing all the services (payment, bandwidth, iTunes presence) you otherwise would have to get elsewhere?
Bandwidth? Give me a break. Have you looked at Amazon EC2 prices for hosting bandwidth recently? And they are not even the cheapest. If Apple's offering was so great, they wouldn't use DRM to technically lock out potential competitors.
That cut is small compared to what a J2ME developer has to live with for instance. Do you also consider the 50% of CD proce that the store gets to be a "record store tax"?
AFAIK GetJar charges 0% for hosting paid J2ME applications.
However, the spirit of the GPL software is that anybody should be able to get the source code, adapt it, and use the modified software. Here we have a developer who actively prevents people from doing just that. You can argue all you want about app store rules and walled gardens and so on, but this guy clearly does not want people to have the freedom to modify software that he participated in developing and to make it work on the device that they want it to work on.
What prevents you from just downloading the application from somewhere else? It's not as if the binaries are not available any more.
for cursing the banks?
The developer requested compliance with the GPL. I.e. customers should have the same freedoms when Apple distributes GPL software to them. The problem is that Apple wants to be the sole distributor of software. If I where a software developer of VLC, I would be really pissed off about my work becoming the carrot to Apple's stick.
I understand Apple and why they are doing this. I think the company's survival instinct has turned to greed at some point in time.
What I don't understand is their customers. Why do they side with Apple when they are at the receiving end of a policy which is designed to prevent them from bypassing the 30% Apple-tax they are paying on every song, book, and piece of software? What do faithful customers gain from this? A job at Apple for one in a million? A simple life where somebody else makes decisions and takes their money? A sense of community by paying the bill together?
This kind of things make me think that mankind is doomed.
MacOS is a nice operating system but there are far more superior solutions for the desktop like KDE that aren't encumbered by Apple's DRM harassment. Plus the MacOS interface on the Psystar PC was pretty bad. I'd be concerned if it was the only game in town. This is Apple's loss.
It reminds me of ... ah. Forget it!
It's not about reputation. It's just about money. Having good relations with the government might help next time the legislators consider something which might interfere with business.
You can also use ...) from tracking if web sites continue to rely on them to host their content.
* EasyPrivacy: abp:subscribe?location=https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt&title=EasyPrivacy
* Social Annoyances: abp:subscribe?location=https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-addon.txt&title=fanboy-annoyances
which are both lists for Adblock+. Of course one can't prevent cloud-providers (Amazon, Microsoft,
This is coming very shortly after the congressional hearing where Eben Moglen gave testimony among others (see C-SPAN at 1:37:52). He actually explained AdblockPlus to counter the argument that the advertisment industry would collapse if privacy in the Internet would be restored.