I'm not sure if you noticed, but the Palm Pre is a cellphone. It is not "based" in a fashion on iTunes sync capabilities. It's just another nice feature to have. If apple breaks it, it will be fixed again. If Apple continues to break it, I'm sure there will likely be a lawsuit... because, as has been quoted many times before, that sort of thing is frowned upon by the courts per the Clatyon act.
If the bbc could figure out it was there from reporters on the ground, outside of a secure zone, I'm fairly certain Russia, China, et al., knew exactly what was going on from spy satellites. You know... the people that this would actually be relevant to.
What are you talking about? Visa/MC are the ones who charge it. How would it be against "Visa/MC regs" to charge a fee themselves? Have you ever had a merchant account? They list fee's right here:
Furthermore, if they get hundreds of thousands of charge backs, their rating with Visa/MC will drop like a rock, and their fee's will skyrocket (relatively speaking).
If they allow you to pay by credit card, it's costing them money. There's a minimum service fee to accept a credit card payment, and I can pretty much guarantee it's more than.13.
And then when his windows only app doesn't work, he just has to install wine. And odds are good something still won't work, but that's ok, he can just post on the forums, and hope someone who actually knows what they're doing has run into the problem previously, and can give him a step-by-step rundown of the commands required to make it work.
Going shopping for a new digital camera? How many of those say "ubuntu supported" on the box? Or is this where you tell us all how end-users should just know which camera's are supported, and pictures can be captured from? Or maybe you can go on a rant about how people shouldn't buy hardware that isn't natively supported on linux.
And thus bittorrent was born. If the cable companies would embrace rather than fight the technology, the "local node" could offload much of the problem.
That's just it though, the civilian utilities gained from the war machine weren't necessarily what they were trying to invent at all. They just happened to stumble upon a civilian use of a military technology.
It's not like anyone had a rational reason for needing everyday American consumers to have a communications network with no single point of failure to link up computers that consumers didn't have, nor could they afford. Run-on-sentence be damned.
Nearly every major business I've worked with in the last 2 years has either moved to VOIP or is in the process of moving to VOIP. So it would seem internet is indeed just as critical as phone.
Or perhaps just local drought... the lake my cabin is on has dropped 8 feet in the last 5 years. 40 miles away they've had flooding 3 out of the last 4 years. If you localize your anecdotal evidence enough you can come to any conclusion you want:)
The only exploits they're going to discover are windows exploits. I hope you've made them well aware exploits exist for every platform, and if someone is directly targeting them rather than just being hit by run-of-the-mill worms, they're going to get in. You should focus your efforts on limiting the amount of damage someone can do once they do get in.
My "problem" is they repeatedly linked mid-sentence back to themselves as a source, then put a nondescript link at the bottom mixed with their ridiculous "tags" (really, 15 different tags?). Horrible user interface at its finest.
In any case, yet AGAIN, your summary, and their summary is dishonest at best. Did you come from the Bush public relations department? Clarkson said nothing CLOSE to what you're claiming, or they're claiming. The fact you got modded insightful is pathetic.
I read the link, who failed to cite their sources (no, linking back to yourself isn't acceptable). Now that you've finally actually cited Clarkson (and still failed to provide a link to said article), I see your summary is just as inflammatory as theirs. About what I expected.
I see you, just as they, failed to provide ANY citation to the claim that "Clarkson would have trashed the Roadster even if everything had been flawless".
Now now, if we're going to give Carter credit for the Taliban then Carter defeated the soviets and won the cold war. Can't have it both ways, sorry.
I took the traditional route of: it was nowhere near enough funding to get anything done, that most like to take. We can play it the other way if you'd like.
As Torvald's once said I have not set out to destroy MSFT it is a completely unintentional side effect.
Actually, no what he DID say was:
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Which is close, but not the same. And anyways, it once again shows what a pompous ass Linus is. Of course, he's failing miserably at "destroying" Microsoft. How's that market share going Linus?
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You forgot a step.
1) Con city into using Company A
2) Sign fat contract with Company A
3) Hold election (sweep massive FAIL under rug)
4) ????
5) Profit
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the Palm Pre is a cellphone. It is not "based" in a fashion on iTunes sync capabilities. It's just another nice feature to have. If apple breaks it, it will be fixed again. If Apple continues to break it, I'm sure there will likely be a lawsuit... because, as has been quoted many times before, that sort of thing is frowned upon by the courts per the Clatyon act.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6538
Apple can't do so or it would've a long time ago.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6538
It's the same reason Dell was forced to give refunds on laptops sold with Windows pre-installed.
They already do, it's called oracle express.
If the bbc could figure out it was there from reporters on the ground, outside of a secure zone, I'm fairly certain Russia, China, et al., knew exactly what was going on from spy satellites. You know... the people that this would actually be relevant to.
What are you talking about? Visa/MC are the ones who charge it. How would it be against "Visa/MC regs" to charge a fee themselves? Have you ever had a merchant account? They list fee's right here:
http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/april-2009-visa-usa-interchange-rate-sheet.pdf
Furthermore, if they get hundreds of thousands of charge backs, their rating with Visa/MC will drop like a rock, and their fee's will skyrocket (relatively speaking).
If they allow you to pay by credit card, it's costing them money. There's a minimum service fee to accept a credit card payment, and I can pretty much guarantee it's more than .13.
I've got balls of steel.
I've got balls of steel.
I've got balls of...
And then when his windows only app doesn't work, he just has to install wine. And odds are good something still won't work, but that's ok, he can just post on the forums, and hope someone who actually knows what they're doing has run into the problem previously, and can give him a step-by-step rundown of the commands required to make it work.
Going shopping for a new digital camera? How many of those say "ubuntu supported" on the box? Or is this where you tell us all how end-users should just know which camera's are supported, and pictures can be captured from? Or maybe you can go on a rant about how people shouldn't buy hardware that isn't natively supported on linux.
And thus bittorrent was born. If the cable companies would embrace rather than fight the technology, the "local node" could offload much of the problem.
This story is almost as cool as it was when it was posted 2 months ago!
That's just it though, the civilian utilities gained from the war machine weren't necessarily what they were trying to invent at all. They just happened to stumble upon a civilian use of a military technology.
It's not like anyone had a rational reason for needing everyday American consumers to have a communications network with no single point of failure to link up computers that consumers didn't have, nor could they afford. Run-on-sentence be damned.
Nearly every major business I've worked with in the last 2 years has either moved to VOIP or is in the process of moving to VOIP. So it would seem internet is indeed just as critical as phone.
SNMP and java webstart aren't "large chunks" and don't make the product "unusable".
Or perhaps just local drought... the lake my cabin is on has dropped 8 feet in the last 5 years. 40 miles away they've had flooding 3 out of the last 4 years. If you localize your anecdotal evidence enough you can come to any conclusion you want :)
The only exploits they're going to discover are windows exploits. I hope you've made them well aware exploits exist for every platform, and if someone is directly targeting them rather than just being hit by run-of-the-mill worms, they're going to get in. You should focus your efforts on limiting the amount of damage someone can do once they do get in.
My "problem" is they repeatedly linked mid-sentence back to themselves as a source, then put a nondescript link at the bottom mixed with their ridiculous "tags" (really, 15 different tags?). Horrible user interface at its finest.
In any case, yet AGAIN, your summary, and their summary is dishonest at best. Did you come from the Bush public relations department? Clarkson said nothing CLOSE to what you're claiming, or they're claiming. The fact you got modded insightful is pathetic.
I read the link, who failed to cite their sources (no, linking back to yourself isn't acceptable). Now that you've finally actually cited Clarkson (and still failed to provide a link to said article), I see your summary is just as inflammatory as theirs. About what I expected.
They would only be "profitable" because they threw down massive layoffs.
I see you, just as they, failed to provide ANY citation to the claim that "Clarkson would have trashed the Roadster even if everything had been flawless".
Now now, if we're going to give Carter credit for the Taliban then Carter defeated the soviets and won the cold war. Can't have it both ways, sorry.
I took the traditional route of: it was nowhere near enough funding to get anything done, that most like to take. We can play it the other way if you'd like.
Right, and Reagan created Bin Laden in the first place. If we're going to go back in time to place blame, let's start at the source.
As Torvald's once said I have not set out to destroy MSFT it is a completely unintentional side effect.
Actually, no what he DID say was:
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Which is close, but not the same. And anyways, it once again shows what a pompous ass Linus is. Of course, he's failing miserably at "destroying" Microsoft. How's that market share going Linus?
I think you're both missing the point that it isn't free because of anti-trust law. I didn't realize I was going to have to spell it out.
Refer to previous anti-trust comment...