People decrying this are the teachers who are in fear of change. Nobody said his solution has to be the final one but guess what - do you see any of these teachers who are complaining doing anything to create online teaching methods?
If anything, Khan should be commended for apparently doing what some teachers have not - and for free, no less.
usually if you want to claim that nobody's paying for your app you usually want to look at why. In this case, it's being a jackass dev and trying to force customers to pay for things in-game along with a paid app.
Is it that hard to figure out that your fans aren't as stupid as you'd like to treat them?
There was a youtube video that went viral showing a bunch of incompetent people trying to open a box. That was it, literally. Equally anecdotally I don't know anyone who has had difficulty opening the nexus 7 box.
as noted - selling it without the windows tax is significant. Only selling a high end model is not going to foster adoption, however. It's when they sell the low end models that Dell would actually matter. People who spend $1500 on a laptop are not as common as those who spend $500.
we're in a near monopoly of only 3 major carriers - and every "minor" carrier is owned by the majors or runs along their networks.
We lack so much competition it's a lie to simply act like it makes a difference at the moment. They need to be regulated into common carrier status instead of abusing it.
To act like rates are going to fix this is to not pay attention to what is causing the rates: the greed/taking advantage of the situation.
Uh, one thing at a time. Think of how long this browser investigation has taken. Even this is taking a long time. They can't just simply prosecute MS for being MS, there has to be specific stuff. One tie-in at a time.
of the "450k" the question is how many aren't bots?
It's probably harder to find legitimate users than it is to find bots overall with all of yahoo's services. They never seem to care about the spam/abuse in general.
Uh, how was it circumventing paying for content? If you mean that he paid them directly (more profit directly to artists) instead of through the label, then yes.
Since when is it his job, even remotely, to monitor how people use his service if it's not a child porn issue? In no country on the planet does such a requirement actually exist except China, I suppose.
He has indeed tried to pay artists as highlighted by the anon post - in taking this down a number of artists *lost* a revenue stream for distributing their music. Plenty of Independent artists started on megaupload.
He's not an official court transcriber, nor is he transcribing the recording. If they try to argue that he is (and prosecute him), then that means anyone can transcribe any case they are simply in the courtroom for. So either they let him go or acknowledge 1st amendment. I don't see any ways around that.
there have already been studies done to show that traffic signals increase accidents and decrease traffic congestion while increasing efficiency - what do you think comes next? less cars on the road = easier to cross.
Since when does apple have control over an individual's freedom of speech?
If people haven't figured out that NFC is a great tool for a ton of things but also anything but secure by now, I would say that they are completely oblivious. They're simply thinking that a communication tool (NFC) can also be relied on for security. I don't see anything wrong with him exposing exploits on the presumption that he already warned apple about them (which he commonly does). I don't think that has anything to do with "embarrassment" so much as calling into question why anyone would think that mobile phone + anything = secure?
If "showing apple that there are security holes" = embarrass/criticize, then you are simply misled.
Perhaps this is a sign of just how desperate we all are to get away from the control of the big console manufacturers
Yep. 100%. The big manufacturers are shit and add DRM to games. Of course people want competition. The question is, how much can Ouya really do, and how out of date/not will the hardware be by the time it's released? If the hardware sucks (binary issues, etc), it might not even be a competition for android handsets.
To me the humor is this: why are they going after apple? Let them, surely - but why do they think it is apple who is out innovating them as opposed to the entire technology industry at large?
What makes you think adding DRM is simply going to stop cheating? That's pretty hilarious by itself. Also considering that a non-arm laptop/desktop doesn't require this type of secureboot lockdown, what makes you think not enforcing your own security mechanism is going to do *anything*?
If you can't figure out which corporations put their own profits above *anything else*, you need to do some research. Don't label a corporation "innocent" just because it's not a person. That would be like saying "there's nothing inherently evil about foreclosures" even though the "corporations" involved robo-signed a bunch of illegal foreclosures to get people out of houses.
It's really not a gray area by any stretch.
I'm not saying all corporations or governments are evil, I don't even get where that comes from? I'm saying specific ones are clearly putting profits ahead of society (to their own gain).
Yet people have been denying this from day one on the phrase of "oh it's philanthropic".
If someone can't figure out that working with Glaxosmithkline, Monsanto and Coca Cola (who happily works with Cargill, as if they aren't bad enough on their own) might be a bad thing, then they deserve to have a fast one pulled on them by the Gates foundation.
Maybe now people will realize that Bill Gates didn't step down to do "Great things for the world". He stepped down to continue the Microsoft concept of business and expand it *further*, outside of the US's reach.
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Google said themselves individual devices count - not a change in OS.
Please spread less fud.
People decrying this are the teachers who are in fear of change. Nobody said his solution has to be the final one but guess what - do you see any of these teachers who are complaining doing anything to create online teaching methods?
If anything, Khan should be commended for apparently doing what some teachers have not - and for free, no less.
pretty much. Gartner analysis has always leaned towards those who pay the most for the studies, in order to get in their magic quadrants.
usually if you want to claim that nobody's paying for your app you usually want to look at why. In this case, it's being a jackass dev and trying to force customers to pay for things in-game along with a paid app.
Is it that hard to figure out that your fans aren't as stupid as you'd like to treat them?
No, there's not. Might want to look into who owns/controls Verizon - which is mostly (majority) Sprint.
It's also a piece of garbage when it comes to hardware. a P4600? You can buy a new laptop for $350 with better hardware.
There was a youtube video that went viral showing a bunch of incompetent people trying to open a box. That was it, literally.
Equally anecdotally I don't know anyone who has had difficulty opening the nexus 7 box.
as noted - selling it without the windows tax is significant. Only selling a high end model is not going to foster adoption, however. It's when they sell the low end models that Dell would actually matter. People who spend $1500 on a laptop are not as common as those who spend $500.
This just in:
existing cell phone plans don't get cheaper with time - they go up with additional fees and cramming.
we're in a near monopoly of only 3 major carriers - and every "minor" carrier is owned by the majors or runs along their networks.
We lack so much competition it's a lie to simply act like it makes a difference at the moment. They need to be regulated into common carrier status instead of abusing it.
To act like rates are going to fix this is to not pay attention to what is causing the rates: the greed/taking advantage of the situation.
Uh, one thing at a time. Think of how long this browser investigation has taken. Even this is taking a long time. They can't just simply prosecute MS for being MS, there has to be specific stuff. One tie-in at a time.
of the "450k" the question is how many aren't bots?
It's probably harder to find legitimate users than it is to find bots overall with all of yahoo's services. They never seem to care about the spam/abuse in general.
Uh, how was it circumventing paying for content? If you mean that he paid them directly (more profit directly to artists) instead of through the label, then yes.
Since when is it his job, even remotely, to monitor how people use his service if it's not a child porn issue? In no country on the planet does such a requirement actually exist except China, I suppose.
He has indeed tried to pay artists as highlighted by the anon post - in taking this down a number of artists *lost* a revenue stream for distributing their music. Plenty of Independent artists started on megaupload.
He's not an official court transcriber, nor is he transcribing the recording. If they try to argue that he is (and prosecute him), then that means anyone can transcribe any case they are simply in the courtroom for. So either they let him go or acknowledge 1st amendment. I don't see any ways around that.
there have already been studies done to show that traffic signals increase accidents and decrease traffic congestion while increasing efficiency - what do you think comes next? less cars on the road = easier to cross.
Since when does apple have control over an individual's freedom of speech?
If people haven't figured out that NFC is a great tool for a ton of things but also anything but secure by now, I would say that they are completely oblivious. They're simply thinking that a communication tool (NFC) can also be relied on for security. I don't see anything wrong with him exposing exploits on the presumption that he already warned apple about them (which he commonly does). I don't think that has anything to do with "embarrassment" so much as calling into question why anyone would think that mobile phone + anything = secure?
If "showing apple that there are security holes" = embarrass/criticize, then you are simply misled.
Yep. 100%. The big manufacturers are shit and add DRM to games. Of course people want competition. The question is, how much can Ouya really do, and how out of date/not will the hardware be by the time it's released? If the hardware sucks (binary issues, etc), it might not even be a competition for android handsets.
To me the humor is this: why are they going after apple? Let them, surely - but why do they think it is apple who is out innovating them as opposed to the entire technology industry at large?
Actually, I'd say about 1/2 to 1/3 of a war. Since we wont' even be finished with it before we have a scorched earth situation.
What, you've never heard of having to vote between a giant douche (Obama) and a Turd Sandwich (Mitt)?
Our entire voting system is flawed anyway, and creates this situation.
What makes you think adding DRM is simply going to stop cheating? That's pretty hilarious by itself. Also considering that a non-arm laptop/desktop doesn't require this type of secureboot lockdown, what makes you think not enforcing your own security mechanism is going to do *anything*?
Aren't people working on indoor GPS via triangulation of wifi points, mobile points, etc? I thought I read up on something about that the other day similar to http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/get-ready-indoor-gps-tracks-your-every-step-735448 . Not sure if that's an alternate to your question or not.
If you can't figure out which corporations put their own profits above *anything else*, you need to do some research. Don't label a corporation "innocent" just because it's not a person. That would be like saying "there's nothing inherently evil about foreclosures" even though the "corporations" involved robo-signed a bunch of illegal foreclosures to get people out of houses.
It's really not a gray area by any stretch.
I'm not saying all corporations or governments are evil, I don't even get where that comes from? I'm saying specific ones are clearly putting profits ahead of society (to their own gain).
man, a microsoft guy who is convinced that it is actual android spam as opposed to that people could say "sent from yahoo! mail on android"?
say it ain't so!
It's almost like jumping to conclusions or something.
Yet people have been denying this from day one on the phrase of "oh it's philanthropic".
If someone can't figure out that working with Glaxosmithkline, Monsanto and Coca Cola (who happily works with Cargill, as if they aren't bad enough on their own) might be a bad thing, then they deserve to have a fast one pulled on them by the Gates foundation.
Maybe now people will realize that Bill Gates didn't step down to do "Great things for the world". He stepped down to continue the Microsoft concept of business and expand it *further*, outside of the US's reach.