Yes, lightsquared was taking advantage of the system. Absolutely. While it's not ethical, that kind of crap is pretty much legal in the states.
so it becomes a competitive question here - why aren't GPS devices better designed? why isn't L2 trying to avoid neighboring spectrum? etc. It's no longer "L2's fault" but both - to imply L2 when you acknowledge both have an issue (manufacturing to specs should be regulated by the FCC and isn't, yet FCC is regulating Lightsquared) is to focus on one side of the issue.
Regardless of lightsquared, we should be hearing an excessively large amount of things being done by the FCC to regulate GPS. Their lack of doing anything is more telling than lightsquared or the GPS mfr's themselves.
again, how does this explain the israeli situation where they use excessively minimal amounts of water and yet it sure as hell seems sustainable for them so far?
None of them can run the other easily, but can do it.
It's quite easy to run $OS in $OS, a more false statement could not have been made by you.
Running windows under anything other than windows? Linux: Wine OSX: bootcamp/wine Whose fault is this? Microsoft's for making it a pain in the ass.
Running linux under windows? mingw is one solution, virtualbox is another Running linux under OSX? already does it natively
Running android under windows? there's like 5 different ways running android under linux/osx? there's already been multiple ways to do this, whether emulating or otherwise.
You must be a special kind of retarded.
Until the fud ends, nobody will want to acknowledge that in the long term, OSX and windows are simply not going to last. It's absolutely guaranteed. This doesn't mean that somehow they aren't in full use - just that people like to deny reality. Same line of thought as creationists, politicians, and anyone else anti-science.
If you put something on the net, you're already paying for it.
If you want people to pay for access - whether asinine, contrived, or legitimate - require them to pay for access.
If you try to make money off people by putting ads on the site, you have zero right to bitch about people saying "no thanks" to those ads. If that's a problem? find a way to make money. It's 2012. If you aren't giving people a reason to want to support your site, then you don't deserve to be on the net.
I will use adblockers on every site, because I don't need that shit.
The minute you make an excuse for when censorship's okay, you can now bend that excuse to fit "Anything you don't like". Exactly as you said.
So now it becomes "we think that $antitunisia.com is supporting child pornography". Bam. Website down, even though it's just dissidence.
Hate it or not, *NOTHING* should be censored from the internet. Is child porn illegal to have? yes. That doesn't mean it simply can't be on the internet - it just means the people involved are easier to find. $childporn.ftp = oh hai police.
It is this argument (preventing child porn) which is used regularly in reverse to take away people's rights. Make a censorship bill called "preventing child pornography" even though it says "without judicial review, and when suspected", and bam - you have DMCA for anything. That is in fact part of how DMCA was pushed for.
The whole article is basically crap. It's all "linux did it first, windows did it now, windows is automatically better".
It reads like a microsoft press release.
For Mr.EricSir's bullshit below, I point you to the fact that a bunch of apps already installed auto-mount ISO's already. You don't even need command line; it's merely a second option.
Technically, all of the world runs on linux and not sun - why the misleading? This actually hasn't changed very much - linux was always on the backend, and now it's simply surging for the end users too.
Suns' engineers have confirmed that android is not java - yet android and not ios is heading towards the largest marketshare in the world (see india custom tablet for example). Windows has been on a gigantic decline but has pushed hard to not have studies that mix mobile and desktop OS marketshare as windows is heading towards irrelevant whereas ios will remain relevant.
I'm highly impressed how you managed to spin this entire discussion (or attempt to) into being anti-google and still manage to not even say the old A word (apple).
Anytime you feel like doing something for a living that involves ethics, feel free to stop posting on slashdot.
Saying "others are worse, focus on them" when apple serves as the standard for quality over there (if they're saying they do the best), means that if apple is doing this badly, they should be setting the example for doing better. Everyone, including the "worst" should be raising bar. Just because others may be worse is not in any way, an excuse for apple.
Ok, if there's a cost for windows and it's greater than zero dollars. And you get it back.
Then the cost of the laptop becomes X minus windows cost.
That means that it's more expensive with the windows license. this isn't exactly difficult to understand, right?
The crapware is fine because it can be *REMOVED*. It sucks, it's stupid, but it's not the biggest deal. They could bundle it under linux and people would probably actually thank them.
except that every phone released in the last 5-10 years already has noise reduction software of increasingly better quality built in to every phone. Hell, even the iphone 4 had substantially improved noise cancelling - in fact, one might even say it's identical to the 4s, cept that it's not on a chip.
So it will be just as good at recognizing what you say in everyday environments when it comes to audio microphone capability.
Whether it's as polished or not, will be up to vlingo.
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Yes, lightsquared was taking advantage of the system. Absolutely. While it's not ethical, that kind of crap is pretty much legal in the states.
so it becomes a competitive question here - why aren't GPS devices better designed? why isn't L2 trying to avoid neighboring spectrum? etc. It's no longer "L2's fault" but both - to imply L2 when you acknowledge both have an issue (manufacturing to specs should be regulated by the FCC and isn't, yet FCC is regulating Lightsquared) is to focus on one side of the issue.
Regardless of lightsquared, we should be hearing an excessively large amount of things being done by the FCC to regulate GPS. Their lack of doing anything is more telling than lightsquared or the GPS mfr's themselves.
yep. lobbying will again be squashing potential competition.
again, how does this explain the israeli situation where they use excessively minimal amounts of water and yet it sure as hell seems sustainable for them so far?
It's no different than when they "accidentally" (note the word) flagged chrome as a virus before.
Expect these accidents to become more frequent as microsoft panics about google competition.
Apparently this has to happen more than 50 times before people accept that it's not just some magic "mistake".
see http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/09/problems-with-microsoft-security.html
We call them politicians in the US, actually.
This is comedy, straight up.
None of them can run the other easily, but can do it.
It's quite easy to run $OS in $OS, a more false statement could not have been made by you.
Running windows under anything other than windows?
Linux: Wine
OSX: bootcamp/wine
Whose fault is this? Microsoft's for making it a pain in the ass.
Running linux under windows?
mingw is one solution, virtualbox is another
Running linux under OSX?
already does it natively
Running android under windows?
there's like 5 different ways
running android under linux/osx?
there's already been multiple ways to do this, whether emulating or otherwise.
You must be a special kind of retarded.
Until the fud ends, nobody will want to acknowledge that in the long term, OSX and windows are simply not going to last. It's absolutely guaranteed. This doesn't mean that somehow they aren't in full use - just that people like to deny reality. Same line of thought as creationists, politicians, and anyone else anti-science.
It's called willful blindness, in the case of the teacher's union.
There's been a lot of research into wifi - not into cellphones, but into wifi? absolutely.
If you put something on the net, you're already paying for it.
If you want people to pay for access - whether asinine, contrived, or legitimate - require them to pay for access.
If you try to make money off people by putting ads on the site, you have zero right to bitch about people saying "no thanks" to those ads. If that's a problem? find a way to make money. It's 2012. If you aren't giving people a reason to want to support your site, then you don't deserve to be on the net.
I will use adblockers on every site, because I don't need that shit.
uh, preventing spam and flood prevention is not censorship. it's preventing spam.
let's not lump that crap together.
Let them keep it up. They're just building a case for patent misuse - the B&N case will be a simple how-to sue for patent misuse to be used on Apple.
I'm an aries, you insensitive clod!
Prices have been on an upward trend, haven't you noticed?
Hello "automatic $30 charge on every phone in the form of mandatory data plan". Looking at you, all US carriers.
So yeah, umm, keep imagining you saved money when they pocketed it for themselves AND charged you extra.
Bingo. This is the reality.
The minute you make an excuse for when censorship's okay, you can now bend that excuse to fit "Anything you don't like". Exactly as you said.
So now it becomes "we think that $antitunisia.com is supporting child pornography". Bam. Website down, even though it's just dissidence.
Hate it or not, *NOTHING* should be censored from the internet. Is child porn illegal to have? yes. That doesn't mean it simply can't be on the internet - it just means the people involved are easier to find. $childporn.ftp = oh hai police.
It is this argument (preventing child porn) which is used regularly in reverse to take away people's rights. Make a censorship bill called "preventing child pornography" even though it says "without judicial review, and when suspected", and bam - you have DMCA for anything. That is in fact part of how DMCA was pushed for.
That's because of advances in technology and competition, not because of ATT passing their savings onto you.
It's not even a change. You could already flag comments as "needing moderation" via email, this is just an easier and more public way.
So yeah it's been run by the community for....at least 3 years, if not more - just that now it's public.
I like this, a lot - as long as it isn't abused. I suppose that is the nature of moderation anyway though.
Much ado about nothing, nice feature change, etc.
Why bother?
The whole article is basically crap. It's all "linux did it first, windows did it now, windows is automatically better".
It reads like a microsoft press release.
For Mr.EricSir's bullshit below, I point you to the fact that a bunch of apps already installed auto-mount ISO's already. You don't even need command line; it's merely a second option.
Technically, all of the world runs on linux and not sun - why the misleading? This actually hasn't changed very much - linux was always on the backend, and now it's simply surging for the end users too.
Suns' engineers have confirmed that android is not java - yet android and not ios is heading towards the largest marketshare in the world (see india custom tablet for example). Windows has been on a gigantic decline but has pushed hard to not have studies that mix mobile and desktop OS marketshare as windows is heading towards irrelevant whereas ios will remain relevant.
wow, that was fast, apple sockpuppet.
I'm highly impressed how you managed to spin this entire discussion (or attempt to) into being anti-google and still manage to not even say the old A word (apple).
Anytime you feel like doing something for a living that involves ethics, feel free to stop posting on slashdot.
the judge only refused an injunction, not actually made any kind of ruling.
The whole point is this:
Saying "others are worse, focus on them" when apple serves as the standard for quality over there (if they're saying they do the best), means that if apple is doing this badly, they should be setting the example for doing better. Everyone, including the "worst" should be raising bar. Just because others may be worse is not in any way, an excuse for apple.
How fucking hard is this to understand?
You mean like, I don't know.....cd roms as hard drives? or DVD's? or Laserdisc?
Ok, if there's a cost for windows and it's greater than zero dollars. And you get it back.
Then the cost of the laptop becomes X minus windows cost.
That means that it's more expensive with the windows license. this isn't exactly difficult to understand, right?
The crapware is fine because it can be *REMOVED*. It sucks, it's stupid, but it's not the biggest deal. They could bundle it under linux and people would probably actually thank them.
says the anon who sadly didn't post creative ascii art.
except that every phone released in the last 5-10 years already has noise reduction software of increasingly better quality built in to every phone. Hell, even the iphone 4 had substantially improved noise cancelling - in fact, one might even say it's identical to the 4s, cept that it's not on a chip.
So it will be just as good at recognizing what you say in everyday environments when it comes to audio microphone capability.
Whether it's as polished or not, will be up to vlingo.