There is no such thing as being "too young" to handle the word "nigger" or "injun" or any of the other racist slurs out there.
You DID touch briefly on the correct word however; mature.
If your maturity level is too low in order to handle such things, tough, they will continue to exist and having something censored or banned instead of simply not exposing yourself to it is equally immature.
I refuse to accept a dumbing down of everything I CAN read or hear or see in order to protect some imagined sensibilities.
Actually, e-books have nothing to do with this problem. The evil comes from those who do the censoring AS WELL AS those who call for it.
If I am FORCED to accept that censorship MUST exist, I want censored versions to be just like cigarettes; a big fat warning on the package that says "Censored Version".
Not knowing if you have the censored version or not is something that will send me into a rage like no other. I ended up buying a censored version of a CD one time that had NO indication of ANY kind that it was the mauled version. That was the last CD I ever bought. I am actively offended by censorship and I want to KNOW if what I have is censored. Of course I'd greatly prefer that censored versions did not exist in the first place, but you will always have people calling for them because they can't parent and it must be "safe for the childrens".
Again, It's not the information, or the format in which it's offered that's bad, it's those that demand censorship exist that must be stopped.
The problem is, these people aren't REALLY morons... they're just to afraid of the truth to accept the lessons in the book, the message it's sending is lost in the cacophony created by the war drums of political correctness.
Censorship is the poison of culture and of minds because it is the ultimate in controlling what we see and hear and say all in the fruitless quest to not offend ANYBODY. To make all that anyone CAN be exposed to as generic and boring as possible, to strip the color from existence in order to make it "safe".
It's an impossible task and simply drains away the richness of life, history, society and culture every time it's applied.
People demand censorship because something offends them... Well, I decry censorship because it, and those who call for it, offends ME.
I can say for certain that those who are creating for consumption (like indie game designers and myself) LOVE to hear complaints, comments and even flames in the form of cash! Priority, of course, will be given to larger denominations!
Speaking as a graphics designer with a multitude of creative hobbies including drawing, I can flat out say that creativity and the creative process isn't a dainty and delicate thing. It's dirty, it's messy and very often very ugly, ESPECIALLY to those creating!
I really don't mean to sound insulting here, but I see/hear the whole "creative people are often sensitive" shtik way, WAY too much.
Yes, there are circumstances where creative people SHOULD be sensitive about their work and the resulting feedback and it's usually where they are working on something for themselves or for a small, close group of people. This kind of personal project has meaning to them on what is a more "intimate" level and feedback should be more mellow, positive and sensitively handled for any negatives.
Then there are "public" projects, such as those done with the sole intention of sending them to the unwashed masses and/or for your job. You will get dumped on and you need, I repeat, NEED a thicker skin and/or a good sense of humor in order to get anything done at all. Negative feedback and (sane levels of) criticism are necessary and healthy in that kind of environment and if you can manage to handle them, it leads to improvements. Most of the time.
All of that said, I'm going to say that far more than anything else, those using/consuming/benefiting from/etc... from someone else's creativity and work need to learn how and when to give feedback, especially if it's negative or trying to be constructive toward the project.
As the article mentioned, there are too many people out there who just get nasty. I mean, rape your children, beat your spouse and then poison your houseplants, nasty when they are giving the simplest of feedback... like reporting a bug.
There is no need for this. Yes, anonymity + audience = asscandles but I can't help feel that there is another element in play also; self entitlement.
Too many people feel that they are "owed" something by those who create simply because they consume it. In their minds, if they don't like something or want something, it's "their way or the highway" and anyone who can't see the "brilliance" of their hurriedly or badly thought out idea/desire or even have the bug they discovered NOT be the most important thing EVER and be fixed post haste, their "target" is just plain wrong and it can't be any other way. So, when their idea is ignored or there isn't immediate action/resolution of the problem they need to get angry and lash out at the perceived personal slight against them.
That's when everything always seems to go sideways.
When things get ugly on forums, it's usually one overly self important insensitive jerk saying something stupid or inflammatory (intentionally or otherwise) and then one and usually more, people get offended and start fanning the flames with their good intents of trying to put the jerk in his/her place.
It's not so much that creators shouldn't read their forums and the feedback, suggestions and ideas from fans as those giving it should learn a bit of moderation and civility. There is no reason to go ape over a bug preventing you from progressing in the game and if the unwashed had even the slightest inkling of a clue how difficult and soul consuming the creative process is, I strongly feel that many more of those extremist jerks would go away.
There is much to be said for walking a mile in someone elses' shoes. Maybe more of us should put ourselves there before posting ANY feedback on forums, or the net in general.
Your post seems to convey that people attempting to essentially illegally "wiretap" a cellphone for presumably malicious purposes are going to give half a care about FCC regulations...
I'd say something about "fail" but I think it goes without saying at this point.
Reporters wouldn't know the difference between RAM and permanent storage if it raped their mother.
I'll bet anything that it mean the machine has 2GB of FLASH and the initial article writer/translator got confused by the concept of more than one kind of memory.
Because the slashdot summary is little more than a steaming pile of FUD AND people are spazzing out all over the place and making wild assumptions, accusations and blind pro/anti Apple statements, I read TFA. Please note, despite my nickname, I'm no fan-boy, however, I do use a Mac and an iPhone and I like the clean, well engineered look and operation of them both, so I use them. If another company and product offered something better, then I'd use THEIR products.
I also use Linux and am fluent in even modern versions of Windows despite having abandoned it in personal use around Windows 98...
So, lets get this train wreck a goin'.
From the appearance of the patent, it's going to be much like the iAd framework that is already in iOS 4 and it's going to be used on and targeted toward application developers that will be written for the desktop.
The disabling of "features" seems to be referring to the application features, like the ability to advance to the next level, save, print, etc...
Not a big deal really, it's basically nagware but with a unified OS-level enforcement right?
Right.
So, why am I now saying that if Apple implements this that I WILL abandon Mac OS X and figure out a way to convert fully to Linux.
I'm already mostly there, it's just several applications I require that are pinning me to commercal OS's, like Adobe's Creative Suite, which can not run on linux, hence it's currently regulated to my laptop and it's well used there with my Mac desktop of course being my main "grunt" machine.
That said, I will not allow such an atrocity of a framework to infect my desktop. I hate advertising... No, hate is far too wishy washy of a word... I LOATH advertising, with every fiber of my being I despise it.
I can stomach it on my iPhone by ignoring the banner or (preferably) buying apps without ads, but if you, as a software developer, are going to use this "Apple Approved and Provided" cripple-ware bullshit and FORCE me to waste time watching ads in order to use parts of your badly coded piece of SHIT, then you are sadly mistaken AND you've lost a potential customer. Forever.
If this is definitely going to be implemented in a future version of Mac OS X, this long time Mac user will pre-emptively abandon that operation system and immediately begin discouraging people from using OS X instead of offering it to them as a potential alternative.
This is not an empty threat. I can and will abandon your operating system, Apple, and it'll be just as complete and effortless as when I dumped Windows.
I own the Brother MFC-5890CN that is networked, has 11"x17" printing, uses individual and inexpensive ink tanks, doesn't have HP's "chipped" cartridges, "stop working by" restrictions on "cartridge freshness", decent print quality and while feeling a bit "cheap" in it's build construction, it has proven to be an extremely solid and reliable workhorse.
I print 80-200 pages of mixed media (text and graphics) a month and haven't experienced any more of a hiccup than running out of paper or ink.
I congratulate you on your choice! I hope you'll be as happy with yours as I am with mine!
You mean these printers will ALSO leak out possibly sensitive information to the world (Yahoo) in order to target the advertisements that will be printed using the owner's ink and the owner's paper?
Talk about the mother of all bad ideas. Even if this printer was FREE with these ad subsidies, you still have to pay for ink cartridges that are excessively expensive and the paper as well, so this will also add to waste and user costs.
I guess this is just another in my long (and ever growing) list of reasons why I will never, EVER purchase a HP inkjet printer. I suggest everyone else vote with their wallets and abandon support for HP in favor of another company that doesn't steal information about what their users print in order to make users PAY with the ink they purchased to print advertisements based on information swiped from those very same users!
Odd, I've never once complained about Ubuntu's "Human" color scheme. Call me a tree huggin' hippy country boy if you want but the earthy colors were appealing to me and very calming to the eye.
I don't mind if they change the default theme, but I hope they keep "Human" around because I, for one, like it.
Never use the term 'KiB' for kiloBYTES ever again. Just don't do it. I don't CARE if it's "the new standard". Screw that, it's KB KiloBytes.
This "new" standard mandated by the IEC can eat me.
1024 bytes IS, and forever will be, 1 KiloByte (KB)
1000 bits IS, and forever will be, 1 KiloBit (Kb)
1999 and the IEC can DROP DEAD. I will never. EVER. Use the new """""""""""""standard"""""""""""".
That said, excellent job highlighting the dreadful editing, inaccuracies like that are so confusing to try and keep straight between what is written and what was MEANT. Thumps up for you!
Funny... My 12 year old Dual 1Ghz processor Powermac (Quicksilver) is running OS X 10.6....
Hmmmm... it seems to have made it through 6 major releases of OS X with no trouble what-so-ever....
Oh and guess what? It's still my main system. You can call me a "macfag" if you want, but OS X is powerful, much more so right out of the box than XP, Vista or 7, for no other reason than you have the flexibility of UNIX just underneath the surface. I run *nix software all the time, I work, I even play games on this ancient system and it works. EVERY. Single. Time.
It hasn't given me a single instance of trouble in 12 years. When has anyone said that about a Windows based machine?
Sure, someone REALLY wants to buy a copy of an operating system, they probably went to the Mac to escape from in the first place, to run either natively or in a VM... Which also cost money.
Oh and so does Crossover...
If he wanted to solve the problem by throwing a ton of money at it, then he wouldn't have HAD a problem.
Instead, he asked about a free solution for education so both the instructor and the students didn't have to pay through the nose. Seriously, is there a part of "free" don't you get?
See that vapor trail way up there over your head? That was the original question. Look down. See the ground? That's your answer.
Illogical extension actually. All Apple would have needed to do to prevent their keyboards and mice from working with anything other than Apple Hardware is write a custom driver and create a custom firmware. Bam, done.
I know this may sound like a hassle to you or I, but to a hardware/software company like Apple? No prob.
But they haven't and in fact have been issuing stock standard HID compliant keyboards and mice for nearly a decade now.
Perhaps they got these controllers on the cheap, cheaper than pre-printed deals. Perhaps they are planning on making a more flexible keyboard, or expanding the functionality of future keyboards tht would require the use of a microcontroller.
No one except Apple knows for sure. ionix's comment was trolling, if only lightly so.
IMHO, Ethics isn't the issue here. Someone either misunderstood or doesn't want to accept that GPL'd software can have a price put on it... So long as the source is available for free or less than the cost of the binary (I prefer free of course ^_^).
I checked out the authors site and lo! There was the source code and I even downloaded a copy for good measure.
There really isn't any reason that someone who has put a lot of work and money into building/porting/developing/fixing a GPL application can't charge for the complied binary other than having to listen to those who don't wish to pay and are far too lazy/technically lacking to compile their own from the source.
The only person "in the wrong" here was the one complaining.
I own a copy of XPilot for the iPhone as I couldn't resist the classical goodness. The author put a LOT of work into making it exceptionally polished and playable on a platform that it wasn't intended for. Not to mention (as the author did) the cost of development.
That was $3 gladly spent. As much as I rely on free apps, I don't much mind spending >10 on REALLY good portable device apps and >20 on desktop apps here and there. The thing is, they need to be significantly better than average to be "worth buying" in my mind. This is why I actually donate to authors of apps that are one, two or even three cuts above.
Show them some love people and perhaps fewer developers would charge you for the pleasure of initially using it in the first place!
Is there a "-1, Clueless" option for moderators? If not, there should be.
There is no "connection" between EDGE and 3G. Zero. Zilch. Nada. None, at all. Two TOTALLY separate technologies. One does not require the other and vise-versa.
Odds are your wireless device (Not an iPhone I might add because you cannot disable EDGE in the iPhone) was falling back on the EDGE data connection due to saturation or unavailability of the 3G network.
I agree, but as a graphics professional, try getting and LCD that WASN'T in the bargin bin.
After checking out over 40 models in person, I spent a pretty penny... or 80,000 on my 24" LCD and the gamut and view angle is stunning, only a tiny color variance vertically at around 130 degrees and and nearly negligible variance on the horizontal.
The only possible complaint I have is this model is discontinued and the replacement sucks so much I think the LHC spawned a black hole there....
Not really, think of DirectX as a package of features, I'll use DirectFart(tm)(r)(c) as an example to help you understand.
You not only get the DirectPrawn/Direct3DD Graphics hardware acceleration and DirectFhysics allow your graphics engine to have a killer particle engine to produce those greenish vapors and even flames if you have the DirectLighter extention, but you also have to consider the DirectInpoot to control the user experience (usually through tacos and mexican food) and DirectSowwnd to produce the EAX positional audio effects.
Of course you can't forget the most important and distinguishing feature of DirectFart, DirectSmell and DirectX/Forced for when you really gotta push your system to use it's DirectFart feature set.
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There is no such thing as being "too young" to handle the word "nigger" or "injun" or any of the other racist slurs out there.
You DID touch briefly on the correct word however; mature.
If your maturity level is too low in order to handle such things, tough, they will continue to exist and having something censored or banned instead of simply not exposing yourself to it is equally immature.
I refuse to accept a dumbing down of everything I CAN read or hear or see in order to protect some imagined sensibilities.
You do not have the right to NOT be offended.
Actually, e-books have nothing to do with this problem. The evil comes from those who do the censoring AS WELL AS those who call for it.
If I am FORCED to accept that censorship MUST exist, I want censored versions to be just like cigarettes; a big fat warning on the package that says "Censored Version".
Not knowing if you have the censored version or not is something that will send me into a rage like no other. I ended up buying a censored version of a CD one time that had NO indication of ANY kind that it was the mauled version. That was the last CD I ever bought. I am actively offended by censorship and I want to KNOW if what I have is censored. Of course I'd greatly prefer that censored versions did not exist in the first place, but you will always have people calling for them because they can't parent and it must be "safe for the childrens".
Again, It's not the information, or the format in which it's offered that's bad, it's those that demand censorship exist that must be stopped.
Outstanding excerpt from Russell Baker!
The problem is, these people aren't REALLY morons... they're just to afraid of the truth to accept the lessons in the book, the message it's sending is lost in the cacophony created by the war drums of political correctness.
Censorship is the poison of culture and of minds because it is the ultimate in controlling what we see and hear and say all in the fruitless quest to not offend ANYBODY. To make all that anyone CAN be exposed to as generic and boring as possible, to strip the color from existence in order to make it "safe".
It's an impossible task and simply drains away the richness of life, history, society and culture every time it's applied.
People demand censorship because something offends them... Well, I decry censorship because it, and those who call for it, offends ME.
You know what? You spooked me there for about 20 seconds and I was about to go on a rampage until I realized the reference to NewSouth Books...
Then I scared the hell out of myself when I was that ready to accept that this was already happening.
Such a sad state is this world.
I can say for certain that those who are creating for consumption (like indie game designers and myself) LOVE to hear complaints, comments and even flames in the form of cash! Priority, of course, will be given to larger denominations!
Speaking as a graphics designer with a multitude of creative hobbies including drawing, I can flat out say that creativity and the creative process isn't a dainty and delicate thing. It's dirty, it's messy and very often very ugly, ESPECIALLY to those creating!
I really don't mean to sound insulting here, but I see/hear the whole "creative people are often sensitive" shtik way, WAY too much.
Yes, there are circumstances where creative people SHOULD be sensitive about their work and the resulting feedback and it's usually where they are working on something for themselves or for a small, close group of people. This kind of personal project has meaning to them on what is a more "intimate" level and feedback should be more mellow, positive and sensitively handled for any negatives.
Then there are "public" projects, such as those done with the sole intention of sending them to the unwashed masses and/or for your job. You will get dumped on and you need, I repeat, NEED a thicker skin and/or a good sense of humor in order to get anything done at all. Negative feedback and (sane levels of) criticism are necessary and healthy in that kind of environment and if you can manage to handle them, it leads to improvements. Most of the time.
All of that said, I'm going to say that far more than anything else, those using/consuming/benefiting from/etc... from someone else's creativity and work need to learn how and when to give feedback, especially if it's negative or trying to be constructive toward the project.
As the article mentioned, there are too many people out there who just get nasty. I mean, rape your children, beat your spouse and then poison your houseplants, nasty when they are giving the simplest of feedback... like reporting a bug.
There is no need for this. Yes, anonymity + audience = asscandles but I can't help feel that there is another element in play also; self entitlement.
Too many people feel that they are "owed" something by those who create simply because they consume it. In their minds, if they don't like something or want something, it's "their way or the highway" and anyone who can't see the "brilliance" of their hurriedly or badly thought out idea/desire or even have the bug they discovered NOT be the most important thing EVER and be fixed post haste, their "target" is just plain wrong and it can't be any other way. So, when their idea is ignored or there isn't immediate action/resolution of the problem they need to get angry and lash out at the perceived personal slight against them.
That's when everything always seems to go sideways.
When things get ugly on forums, it's usually one overly self important insensitive jerk saying something stupid or inflammatory (intentionally or otherwise) and then one and usually more, people get offended and start fanning the flames with their good intents of trying to put the jerk in his/her place.
It's not so much that creators shouldn't read their forums and the feedback, suggestions and ideas from fans as those giving it should learn a bit of moderation and civility. There is no reason to go ape over a bug preventing you from progressing in the game and if the unwashed had even the slightest inkling of a clue how difficult and soul consuming the creative process is, I strongly feel that many more of those extremist jerks would go away.
There is much to be said for walking a mile in someone elses' shoes. Maybe more of us should put ourselves there before posting ANY feedback on forums, or the net in general.
Thanks for listening.
Microsoft controls my Ubuntu install?
Who knew?
I have the same router, but apparently the script is broken if you have your internal DHCP server dishing out any other IP range BESIDES 192.168.1.x
Mine is set to 192.168.25.1 and the script failed on an unprotected browser.
Could this be another win for non-standard setups... Or would this be easy enough to code around?
Your post seems to convey that people attempting to essentially illegally "wiretap" a cellphone for presumably malicious purposes are going to give half a care about FCC regulations...
I'd say something about "fail" but I think it goes without saying at this point.
Reporters wouldn't know the difference between RAM and permanent storage if it raped their mother.
I'll bet anything that it mean the machine has 2GB of FLASH and the initial article writer/translator got confused by the concept of more than one kind of memory.
Because the slashdot summary is little more than a steaming pile of FUD AND people are spazzing out all over the place and making wild assumptions, accusations and blind pro/anti Apple statements, I read TFA.
Please note, despite my nickname, I'm no fan-boy, however, I do use a Mac and an iPhone and I like the clean, well engineered look and operation of them both, so I use them. If another company and product offered something better, then I'd use THEIR products.
I also use Linux and am fluent in even modern versions of Windows despite having abandoned it in personal use around Windows 98...
So, lets get this train wreck a goin'.
From the appearance of the patent, it's going to be much like the iAd framework that is already in iOS 4 and it's going to be used on and targeted toward application developers that will be written for the desktop.
The disabling of "features" seems to be referring to the application features, like the ability to advance to the next level, save, print, etc...
Not a big deal really, it's basically nagware but with a unified OS-level enforcement right?
Right.
So, why am I now saying that if Apple implements this that I WILL abandon Mac OS X and figure out a way to convert fully to Linux.
I'm already mostly there, it's just several applications I require that are pinning me to commercal OS's, like Adobe's Creative Suite, which can not run on linux, hence it's currently regulated to my laptop and it's well used there with my Mac desktop of course being my main "grunt" machine.
That said, I will not allow such an atrocity of a framework to infect my desktop. I hate advertising... No, hate is far too wishy washy of a word... I LOATH advertising, with every fiber of my being I despise it.
I can stomach it on my iPhone by ignoring the banner or (preferably) buying apps without ads, but if you, as a software developer, are going to use this "Apple Approved and Provided" cripple-ware bullshit and FORCE me to waste time watching ads in order to use parts of your badly coded piece of SHIT, then you are sadly mistaken AND you've lost a potential customer. Forever.
If this is definitely going to be implemented in a future version of Mac OS X, this long time Mac user will pre-emptively abandon that operation system and immediately begin discouraging people from using OS X instead of offering it to them as a potential alternative.
This is not an empty threat. I can and will abandon your operating system, Apple, and it'll be just as complete and effortless as when I dumped Windows.
Well, this article just gave me a FABULOUS idea!
One USB thumbdrive, one self-spreading virus for usb thumbdrives and every kiosk in town...
Even if I only get a few, it should STILL be good fun! Especially considering I offer a local virus removal service...
I own the Brother MFC-5890CN that is networked, has 11"x17" printing, uses individual and inexpensive ink tanks, doesn't have HP's "chipped" cartridges, "stop working by" restrictions on "cartridge freshness", decent print quality and while feeling a bit "cheap" in it's build construction, it has proven to be an extremely solid and reliable workhorse.
I print 80-200 pages of mixed media (text and graphics) a month and haven't experienced any more of a hiccup than running out of paper or ink.
I congratulate you on your choice! I hope you'll be as happy with yours as I am with mine!
You mean these printers will ALSO leak out possibly sensitive information to the world (Yahoo) in order to target the advertisements that will be printed using the owner's ink and the owner's paper?
Talk about the mother of all bad ideas. Even if this printer was FREE with these ad subsidies, you still have to pay for ink cartridges that are excessively expensive and the paper as well, so this will also add to waste and user costs.
I guess this is just another in my long (and ever growing) list of reasons why I will never, EVER purchase a HP inkjet printer. I suggest everyone else vote with their wallets and abandon support for HP in favor of another company that doesn't steal information about what their users print in order to make users PAY with the ink they purchased to print advertisements based on information swiped from those very same users!
So much win... You sir are my new favorite person.
Odd, I've never once complained about Ubuntu's "Human" color scheme. Call me a tree huggin' hippy country boy if you want but the earthy colors were appealing to me and very calming to the eye. I don't mind if they change the default theme, but I hope they keep "Human" around because I, for one, like it.
No. Just no.
Never use the term 'KiB' for kiloBYTES ever again. Just don't do it. I don't CARE if it's "the new standard". Screw that, it's KB KiloBytes.
This "new" standard mandated by the IEC can eat me.
1024 bytes IS, and forever will be, 1 KiloByte (KB)
1000 bits IS, and forever will be, 1 KiloBit (Kb)
1999 and the IEC can DROP DEAD. I will never. EVER. Use the new """""""""""""standard"""""""""""".
That said, excellent job highlighting the dreadful editing, inaccuracies like that are so confusing to try and keep straight between what is written and what was MEANT. Thumps up for you!
Funny... My 12 year old Dual 1Ghz processor Powermac (Quicksilver) is running OS X 10.6.... Hmmmm... it seems to have made it through 6 major releases of OS X with no trouble what-so-ever.... Oh and guess what? It's still my main system. You can call me a "macfag" if you want, but OS X is powerful, much more so right out of the box than XP, Vista or 7, for no other reason than you have the flexibility of UNIX just underneath the surface. I run *nix software all the time, I work, I even play games on this ancient system and it works. EVERY. Single. Time. It hasn't given me a single instance of trouble in 12 years. When has anyone said that about a Windows based machine?
Sure, someone REALLY wants to buy a copy of an operating system, they probably went to the Mac to escape from in the first place, to run either natively or in a VM... Which also cost money.
Oh and so does Crossover...
If he wanted to solve the problem by throwing a ton of money at it, then he wouldn't have HAD a problem.
Instead, he asked about a free solution for education so both the instructor and the students didn't have to pay through the nose. Seriously, is there a part of "free" don't you get?
See that vapor trail way up there over your head? That was the original question. Look down. See the ground? That's your answer.
Illogical extension actually. All Apple would have needed to do to prevent their keyboards and mice from working with anything other than Apple Hardware is write a custom driver and create a custom firmware. Bam, done.
I know this may sound like a hassle to you or I, but to a hardware/software company like Apple? No prob.
But they haven't and in fact have been issuing stock standard HID compliant keyboards and mice for nearly a decade now.
Perhaps they got these controllers on the cheap, cheaper than pre-printed deals. Perhaps they are planning on making a more flexible keyboard, or expanding the functionality of future keyboards tht would require the use of a microcontroller.
No one except Apple knows for sure. ionix's comment was trolling, if only lightly so.
IMHO, Ethics isn't the issue here. Someone either misunderstood or doesn't want to accept that GPL'd software can have a price put on it... So long as the source is available for free or less than the cost of the binary (I prefer free of course ^_^).
I checked out the authors site and lo! There was the source code and I even downloaded a copy for good measure.
There really isn't any reason that someone who has put a lot of work and money into building/porting/developing/fixing a GPL application can't charge for the complied binary other than having to listen to those who don't wish to pay and are far too lazy/technically lacking to compile their own from the source.
The only person "in the wrong" here was the one complaining.
I own a copy of XPilot for the iPhone as I couldn't resist the classical goodness. The author put a LOT of work into making it exceptionally polished and playable on a platform that it wasn't intended for. Not to mention (as the author did) the cost of development.
That was $3 gladly spent. As much as I rely on free apps, I don't much mind spending >10 on REALLY good portable device apps and >20 on desktop apps here and there. The thing is, they need to be significantly better than average to be "worth buying" in my mind. This is why I actually donate to authors of apps that are one, two or even three cuts above.
Show them some love people and perhaps fewer developers would charge you for the pleasure of initially using it in the first place!
Is there a "-1, Clueless" option for moderators? If not, there should be.
There is no "connection" between EDGE and 3G. Zero. Zilch. Nada. None, at all. Two TOTALLY separate technologies. One does not require the other and vise-versa.
Odds are your wireless device (Not an iPhone I might add because you cannot disable EDGE in the iPhone) was falling back on the EDGE data connection due to saturation or unavailability of the 3G network.
4.) Laziness and $$. Support is hard work and expensive.
I agree, but as a graphics professional, try getting and LCD that WASN'T in the bargin bin.
After checking out over 40 models in person, I spent a pretty penny... or 80,000 on my 24" LCD and the gamut and view angle is stunning, only a tiny color variance vertically at around 130 degrees and and nearly negligible variance on the horizontal.
The only possible complaint I have is this model is discontinued and the replacement sucks so much I think the LHC spawned a black hole there....
Not really, think of DirectX as a package of features, I'll use DirectFart(tm)(r)(c) as an example to help you understand.
You not only get the DirectPrawn/Direct3DD Graphics hardware acceleration and DirectFhysics allow your graphics engine to have a killer particle engine to produce those greenish vapors and even flames if you have the DirectLighter extention, but you also have to consider the DirectInpoot to control the user experience (usually through tacos and mexican food) and DirectSowwnd to produce the EAX positional audio effects.
Of course you can't forget the most important and distinguishing feature of DirectFart, DirectSmell and DirectX/Forced for when you really gotta push your system to use it's DirectFart feature set.