"More serious concerns", like your previously addressed child labor?
News flash: Apple is pretty much the only tech company that is actually addressing that concern. Apple actually investigates their manufacturers and drop them if they use child labor. Other tech companies by and large don't.
I did. I quote and pasted a link to apples eula to demonstrate this. Unless you're telling me it doesn't apply to OSX itunes purchases.. I did not see that language anywhere. If the code exists in ios it likely exists in the osx itunes application as well.. You'd be a fool to assume otherwise.
An EULA does not magically make things technologically possible. And no, the code does not exist in OS X. I would not be a "fool" to assume so, I'd be well-informed. I actually know things about OS X. You, on the other hand, have zero knowledge yet you are making big claims that you can not back up.
This is tangential to my point about control over software purchases,
No, it is exactly the point you made from the start. You are now trying to move the goalposts when you find out you can't actually support your original argument. You said nothing whatsoever about "app stores setting limits on what functionality is allowed" in your original post.
Even if they (or the authors) yank the app from the store (or update it into uselessness) and choose not to yank it from your device, how will you get it back later or install it elsewhere?
How will you do that if somebody stops selling a program outside an app store? You are in the exact same situation there. Whether or not you are using an app store is entirely irrelevant to that question.
I'm sure the code is there, and even if not, you can't tell me it's not coming for OSX eventually.
No, the "code" is not "there". Do us all a favor and limit your arguments to facts based in reality.
authors can release 'updates' that yank functionality. At least with the traditional desktop I'd have to install them manually, and I have a way out should I need to get the old version back.
You still have to approve updates to App Store apps. And you can just make a copy of the app for downgrading later. If you use Time Machine, that happens automatically.
why would apple have this functionality if they never intended to use it or allow 'rights holders' to use it?
I already told you: So they can yank malware. That is all it has ever been used for in the years it has existed on iOS.
As far as I know, Apple has no mechanism for doing this in the OS X app store. It can be done on iOS, but it is pretty much never done, and when it is done it is because malware somehow managed to sneak through review and is putting users at risk.
Also, that is only Apple. App creators themselves most definitely do not have any way whatsoever to revoke an app.
The video shows them flying it just above the heads of the crowd, though.
Actually, I'm not sure they should be doing that, there's no guard around the rotors on that thing, and although it won't kill you, it can definitely give you some pretty good cuts if you happen to run into it. Speaking from experience...
No, people block your ads because somebody else had annoying ads that made them install an adblocker that blocks everything, no matter what. Good luck dealing with that.
If you are an honest person, then here's how you deal with annoying ads: Stop going to that site.
But they are going to be, because this is the one and only form of copy protection that can actually work. Publishers are not going to give that up any time soon.
"Copyright" is, by definition, special treatment. And we grant that special treatment because we want to encourage people to create things.
We could have gotten cheaper physical books a long time ago if we just abolished copyright and let anyone publish anything, and compete on price. However, that would destroy the incentive to create new things.
With digital things, we can crash the price even lower, all the way to zero. This does not mean it is a good thing to do so.
The time scale of ANY asteroid deflection project is measured in years if not decades. This one is slightly slower, but not by that much. Very small deflections are sufficient if you just start early enough.
Appeal to authority is, in many, many cases, a perfectly valid argument. Appeal to authority is the entire reason our society can even function at all. We offload complicated decisions to people who are better at them than us.
And in this case, it is once again correct. Neil deGrasse Tyson does indeed know what he is talking about. The gravity tractor idea has been around for a long time, and in theory works just fine.
You realize that hosting companies actually need to care about the physical dimensions of the machines they are hosting? They don't just leave a few PC towers in the corner of a room and call it a day.
In addition to all the other explanations of how you missed the point, Deflate is also used in PNG. This will allow you to make smaller PNG files, too, which can be quite a significant part of your bandwidth.
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"More serious concerns", like your previously addressed child labor?
News flash: Apple is pretty much the only tech company that is actually addressing that concern. Apple actually investigates their manufacturers and drop them if they use child labor. Other tech companies by and large don't.
I did. I quote and pasted a link to apples eula to demonstrate this. Unless you're telling me it doesn't apply to OSX itunes purchases.. I did not see that language anywhere. If the code exists in ios it likely exists in the osx itunes application as well.. You'd be a fool to assume otherwise.
An EULA does not magically make things technologically possible. And no, the code does not exist in OS X. I would not be a "fool" to assume so, I'd be well-informed. I actually know things about OS X. You, on the other hand, have zero knowledge yet you are making big claims that you can not back up.
This is tangential to my point about control over software purchases,
No, it is exactly the point you made from the start. You are now trying to move the goalposts when you find out you can't actually support your original argument. You said nothing whatsoever about "app stores setting limits on what functionality is allowed" in your original post.
Even if they (or the authors) yank the app from the store (or update it into uselessness) and choose not to yank it from your device, how will you get it back later or install it elsewhere?
How will you do that if somebody stops selling a program outside an app store? You are in the exact same situation there. Whether or not you are using an app store is entirely irrelevant to that question.
I'm sure the code is there, and even if not, you can't tell me it's not coming for OSX eventually.
No, the "code" is not "there". Do us all a favor and limit your arguments to facts based in reality.
authors can release 'updates' that yank functionality. At least with the traditional desktop I'd have to install them manually, and I have a way out should I need to get the old version back.
You still have to approve updates to App Store apps. And you can just make a copy of the app for downgrading later. If you use Time Machine, that happens automatically.
why would apple have this functionality if they never intended to use it or allow 'rights holders' to use it?
I already told you: So they can yank malware. That is all it has ever been used for in the years it has existed on iOS.
As far as I know, Apple has no mechanism for doing this in the OS X app store. It can be done on iOS, but it is pretty much never done, and when it is done it is because malware somehow managed to sneak through review and is putting users at risk.
Also, that is only Apple. App creators themselves most definitely do not have any way whatsoever to revoke an app.
The video shows them flying it just above the heads of the crowd, though.
Actually, I'm not sure they should be doing that, there's no guard around the rotors on that thing, and although it won't kill you, it can definitely give you some pretty good cuts if you happen to run into it. Speaking from experience...
That's the whole point of multirotor camera drones, you can fly them very low and very close. See the video in the article.
Yes, people just didn't want that money.
Now I know what we all think about actually reading articles around here, but,
Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system.
Works pretty well for World of Warcraft.
Guess what? Those people exist only inside your head.
No, people block your ads because somebody else had annoying ads that made them install an adblocker that blocks everything, no matter what. Good luck dealing with that.
If you are an honest person, then here's how you deal with annoying ads: Stop going to that site.
Games shouldn't be rentals.
But they are going to be, because this is the one and only form of copy protection that can actually work. Publishers are not going to give that up any time soon.
"Copyright" is, by definition, special treatment. And we grant that special treatment because we want to encourage people to create things.
We could have gotten cheaper physical books a long time ago if we just abolished copyright and let anyone publish anything, and compete on price. However, that would destroy the incentive to create new things.
With digital things, we can crash the price even lower, all the way to zero. This does not mean it is a good thing to do so.
The point being that Microsoft is always wrong, no matter what it does.
Why would they not know? And why would they care? They are not offering this to their own citizens. They are just doing it to poke the US in the eye.
The time scale of ANY asteroid deflection project is measured in years if not decades. This one is slightly slower, but not by that much. Very small deflections are sufficient if you just start early enough.
It's a big remix of several different crackpots from Slashdot and elsewhere, plus a liberal sprinkling of famous Slashdot trolls and old memes.
Appeal to authority is, in many, many cases, a perfectly valid argument. Appeal to authority is the entire reason our society can even function at all. We offload complicated decisions to people who are better at them than us.
And in this case, it is once again correct. Neil deGrasse Tyson does indeed know what he is talking about. The gravity tractor idea has been around for a long time, and in theory works just fine.
Pngout uses kzip, which was included in the benchmarking of Zopfli, and which it seems to beat.
You realize that hosting companies actually need to care about the physical dimensions of the machines they are hosting? They don't just leave a few PC towers in the corner of a room and call it a day.
So when you put your guns down, I can take them?
Why, if this can do better?
In addition to all the other explanations of how you missed the point, Deflate is also used in PNG. This will allow you to make smaller PNG files, too, which can be quite a significant part of your bandwidth.
It's too bad they didn't publish any kind of article that would explain to you what kind of content would benefit.
Oh, then, since your guns aren't people, I can take them away, right?