Pentium 4, released 2000, still runs the most current OS.
Pentium 4 costs less than iPhone.
So, Apple should be supporting their devices for at least 6 years by my rough guesstimate (allowing for the fact that phones do in fact get treated a bit worse than computers).
It's not a path - they'd be used to demonstrate two distinct actions. Running calc to demonstrate remote process execution, and writing the file to demonstrate sandbox escaping.
When a phone costs as much as a desktop, two years is an unacceptably short lifetime. In fact, at the price, an iPhone should be maintained for at least the length of time that HP or Dell provide updates for their desktops. Every year on a phone may be like four on a desktop, but that should not be the case.
I think the actual owners of those games (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and so forth) might not be too happy with that idea - to be frank, in the event Valve goes under I can reasonably say that I guarantee that they will not release any games, except potentially Valve games, without DRM- since they legally cannot do so, not being the copyright owner and all.
Also, "financial fraud"? There are documented cases in which Valve has charged for a purchase, refused to provide access to it, and then outright blocked the account of the customer when they charged back the purchase which Valve refused to fulfil. Case in point, the people who somehow managed to get a copy of the Korean (I think - don't quote me on which country) copy of Left 4 Dead because it was 10 times cheaper, and Valve refused to allow them to activate or play it.
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Yeah, my gf has an Android based from Samsung. I don't think it's had an OS upgrade from them. At least Apple keep pushing the updates to current and older phones without expecting you to buy a newer model.
Original iPhone and iPhone 3G owners would disagree with you, and they're only 3 years old.
No one's taking those egotistical self-aggrandizing whack-jobs seriously so long as their decreed replacement for the commonly accepted KILOBYTE (1024 bytes) sounds like something my cat vomited up.
This has never been confusing before now, up until fucking Apple decided to decree that hard drive manufacturer kilobytes are the real ones.
Unless "what you want" is to pay the same price as someone in the country next to you pays for a game, or "what you want" is to continue playing your games after you've done something that falls under Valve's "we can terminate your access at any time" policy.
Be careful though, some handset manufacturers are DRMing the boot loader to only load signed code so that you can't remove operator branding and install custom ROMs.
Because the flip side is you could listen to cool indie music (and some not so cool indie music, but them's the breaks).
There's lots of downsides to proposals like this, but the main premise of being able to listen to whatever you want without a direct cost sure as shit isn't one of them.
That's kind of funny, considering Eclipse is a steaming pile of crap when compared to VS (or hell, even compared to Notepad). Seriously, it uses more RAM and starts slower than Firefox, which is an amazing achievement worthy of a Guiness World Record. And the UI is worse than GIMP.
For bonus points, get a Google Apps Premier account with even a single user, and you can get a Google support engineer on the horn if you have any issues with Chrome.
Only if it contradicts it directly. Remember, it also reserves anything not explicitly enumerated to the states, meaning that (for example) Illinois could pass any law it likes, as long as it does not directly contradict any of the basic rights enumerated in the document. Many Americans forget that point when screaming "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" at some law or another.
Dude, gas station coffee is awesome. Over here, they even make it on the spot, just like Starbucks do, for $4 instead of $8. And, you can get a really good sausage roll for $2 with it.
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Pentium 4, released 2000, still runs the most current OS.
Pentium 4 costs less than iPhone.
So, Apple should be supporting their devices for at least 6 years by my rough guesstimate (allowing for the fact that phones do in fact get treated a bit worse than computers).
It's not a path - they'd be used to demonstrate two distinct actions. Running calc to demonstrate remote process execution, and writing the file to demonstrate sandbox escaping.
Ah, but you'll also be able to buy it for $2.99 on the Mac App Store, due to "accounting regulations"!
When a phone costs as much as a desktop, two years is an unacceptably short lifetime. In fact, at the price, an iPhone should be maintained for at least the length of time that HP or Dell provide updates for their desktops. Every year on a phone may be like four on a desktop, but that should not be the case.
That doesn't make Apple's approach any better, it just makes them both suck.
I think the actual owners of those games (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and so forth) might not be too happy with that idea - to be frank, in the event Valve goes under I can reasonably say that I guarantee that they will not release any games, except potentially Valve games, without DRM- since they legally cannot do so, not being the copyright owner and all.
Also, "financial fraud"? There are documented cases in which Valve has charged for a purchase, refused to provide access to it, and then outright blocked the account of the customer when they charged back the purchase which Valve refused to fulfil. Case in point, the people who somehow managed to get a copy of the Korean (I think - don't quote me on which country) copy of Left 4 Dead because it was 10 times cheaper, and Valve refused to allow them to activate or play it.
And according to Apple, you are wrong:
Yeah, my gf has an Android based from Samsung. I don't think it's had an OS upgrade from them. At least Apple keep pushing the updates to current and older phones without expecting you to buy a newer model.
Original iPhone and iPhone 3G owners would disagree with you, and they're only 3 years old.
No one's taking those egotistical self-aggrandizing whack-jobs seriously so long as their decreed replacement for the commonly accepted KILOBYTE (1024 bytes) sounds like something my cat vomited up.
This has never been confusing before now, up until fucking Apple decided to decree that hard drive manufacturer kilobytes are the real ones.
Unless "what you want" is to pay the same price as someone in the country next to you pays for a game, or "what you want" is to continue playing your games after you've done something that falls under Valve's "we can terminate your access at any time" policy.
Be careful though, some handset manufacturers are DRMing the boot loader to only load signed code so that you can't remove operator branding and install custom ROMs.
All depends how much you listen to in a month, does it not?
Oh shit. Don't ever mention that file...
Because the flip side is you could listen to cool indie music (and some not so cool indie music, but them's the breaks).
There's lots of downsides to proposals like this, but the main premise of being able to listen to whatever you want without a direct cost sure as shit isn't one of them.
That's kind of funny, considering Eclipse is a steaming pile of crap when compared to VS (or hell, even compared to Notepad). Seriously, it uses more RAM and starts slower than Firefox, which is an amazing achievement worthy of a Guiness World Record. And the UI is worse than GIMP.
For bonus points, get a Google Apps Premier account with even a single user, and you can get a Google support engineer on the horn if you have any issues with Chrome.
Except that the article is not.
It's specifically about the Mac App Store.
The crappy service applies equally to when you're paying for it.
And Telecom New Zealand did much the same with large sections of in use telecomms infrastructure. Your point?
I wrote medical software for 15+ years, and was quite familiar with HIPAA. Encrypting HL7 messages was never a requirement to comply
And if you do turn on encryption, it's about as effective as ROT13 anyway.
I've worked it out. Michael Kristopeit is an Eliza bot!
Only if it contradicts it directly. Remember, it also reserves anything not explicitly enumerated to the states, meaning that (for example) Illinois could pass any law it likes, as long as it does not directly contradict any of the basic rights enumerated in the document. Many Americans forget that point when screaming "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" at some law or another.
But it does mean you can install OS X on your toaster were you so inclined - it is after all an "Apple-labelled product".
Dude, gas station coffee is awesome. Over here, they even make it on the spot, just like Starbucks do, for $4 instead of $8. And, you can get a really good sausage roll for $2 with it.
So basically, they're reimplementing .NET ClickOnce? Yeah, because that went well.