correct. And they allow others to use their invention if they pay an agreed royalty.
Otherwise there wouldn't be any incentive for them to invent new things. They spent time and money creating the new tech and they need to get a return. As they are not a product company then they rely upon royalties and such to keep inventing the next great thing!
I think you will find his complaint was that he was spending all his time making up for androids fragmentation and thus not producing content.
He uses Unity which is a great tool for doing much of the underlying work so the developer can focus more on the game. But if android is dragging him back to messing around with boring details (platform specific and multiple variation for that platform) then the cost/fun/productivity balance gets all wonky.
Apple has led the way with its design in the Music Player, OS, Phone, Tablet etc markets. Hardware wise they aren't great money for value but add in the design and ease of use and you have a leading product.
Many of the copiers haven't innovated at all they have just copied Apple's original work and many times missed the point of the Apple Designs.
I am not a great supporter of Patents but Apple has the right to try and protect its IP from cheap knockoffs.
Many of these companies would be much better off trying to work out Apples design DNA and innovate the market (not just copy).
I live in a new suburb in Melbourne and the infrastructure installed in the new suburb by Telstra (the local monopoly) is Fibre to the Node. Which is great. Except they go an put rubbish equipment at the nodes. So across the suburb about 40% of people can get ADSL1 and the rest get nothing (except a basic phone line).
I spent 4 months sending applications to the local ISP until eventually one of my neighbours sells up and disconnects from the node and luckily I get his spot.
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"URBI is a Universal Real-time Behavior Interface and gives you a simple but powerful way to control any robot or complex system like a video game, using a convenient and easy to use scripting language that can be interfaced with several popular programming languages (C++, Java, Matlab,...) and OS (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux). URBI is based on a client/server architecture, which give a great deal of flexibility. URBI includes powerful features compared to existing scripting solutions: parallel execution of commands, event programming, command tagging, dynamic variables,... Currently, URBI is used as well by academic research labs, the industry and by hobbyists."
Perhaps, but wouldn't it have more to do with infrastructure limitations? You have a good point but I don't think that is why they did it. Telstra the wholesaler limited the connection to 1.5M (from your house to the exchange). The individual ISPs are responsible for providing the capability for the volume of traffic that is used on this infrastructure. There was no physical reason why the limited it 1.5M (to my knowledge). The link to the exchange isn't dependent upon bandwidth (you get what you get... no sharing). This has been shown to be true when they turned on the 8M plans. They always could do it (part of the standard ADSL specification) but just choose not too).
Here is another insight. In the old days (a couple of years ago), when you ask your isp to test to see if you can get ADSL, they ask telstra to check. Telstra then do a check and tell you if you can get 1.5M or not. This is the only test they do. So if you sign up with your ISPs for 512k and Telstra comes back and says you cannot get 1.5M. There is no way of knowing if you could get 512k (you might be able to get it but telstra don't test it they just test 1.5M). So lots of people who couldn't get ADSL could probably get 512k but not 1.5M. Just and insight into how messed up the system is.
the 1.5 speed was deemed by the wholesaler/retailer (Telstra) as "as much speed as a domestic user would require" and prior to the opening up of the wholesale market (caused by the watchdog) it was all you could get without going over to the very expensive commerical options (which is what they where trying to protect with the speed limitations).
This has changed now as we have 256k, 512k, 1.5M, 8M+ and 24M+ (where the + indicates the maximum potential speed) but we still have download quotas (part of a duoploy on connections outside of the country and our remoteness).
To give you an insite to the crazyness. As telstra was forced to provide other ISPs access to their exchanges to install the isps own adsl2+ hardware (which they charge like wounded bulls for) they started to get some competition problems. So what did they do. They introduced their own adsl2+ plans by taking the artificial restrictions off their hardware, so now you can get adsl2+ from telstra. But only from their retail arm (refuse to wholesale it) and only where another isp has installed their hardware (and not in the rest of the country where they could do it but choose not to.)
Bollocks. Nothing is stopping other telcos and ISPs from installing their own equipment in exchanges and providing any damn speed they want, which is exactly what has happened with ADSL2. It's the companies wanting to make a quick buck by reselling Telstra's product that could only offer 1.5M. excuse me but do you have any idea how much that costs. especially at the rates that Telstra charge (it only became an option for isp due to Telstra lack of adsl2+ infrastructure (until recently) and the ACCC (watchdog)'s intervention).
there is a fundamental problem when the wholesaler (infrastructure provider) is also one of the retailers (selling the product). Telstra have used their monopoly of the wholesale business to control and slow down broadband (literally).
99% looks great on paper but is most likely political vapour ware (or even worse not a core promise)
The Australian Government has allowed the Telstra monopoly to restrict ADSL broadband in this country to
an artificial limit of 1.5Mbit downloads for years now (only just releasing the full 8M plans). We also have restricted downloads (quotas per month).
So the metric of 99% looks like we would be miles ahead but considering it is a political promise and the quota on downloads it isn't as good as it sounds.
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Come on we can keep it going for a few more years.......
Can't we!
correct. And they allow others to use their invention if they pay an agreed royalty.
Otherwise there wouldn't be any incentive for them to invent new things. They spent time and money creating the new tech and they need to get a return. As they are not a product company then they rely upon royalties and such to keep inventing the next great thing!
I think you will find his complaint was that he was spending all his time making up for androids fragmentation and thus not producing content.
He uses Unity which is a great tool for doing much of the underlying work so the developer can focus more on the game. But if android is dragging him back to messing around with boring details (platform specific and multiple variation for that platform) then the cost/fun/productivity balance gets all wonky.
The DNA thing is suppose to be an analogy ... you know the company has design, usability and innovation engrained in its culture....
Apple has led the way with its design in the Music Player, OS, Phone, Tablet etc markets. Hardware wise they aren't great money for value but add in the design and ease of use and you have a leading product.
Many of the copiers haven't innovated at all they have just copied Apple's original work and many times missed the point of the Apple Designs.
I am not a great supporter of Patents but Apple has the right to try and protect its IP from cheap knockoffs.
Many of these companies would be much better off trying to work out Apples design DNA and innovate the market (not just copy).
http://www.asc.rssi.ru/radioastron/index.html
It will be called Honeybread cause for some reason Gingercomb just doesn't work!
Sent from my iPad!
But I guess it is a start!
Some of the key people are involved in the following programme
http://astrobiology.asu.edu/Astrobiology/Home/Home.html
This is could be interesting!
I have some friends that have put together a online game that uses remote controlled tanks.
They cannot use ads as they only have a few tanks. Sponsors... maybe but again stuck with low volume. So they are trying pay per play.
have a look at it http://www.rctiger.com/
great idea... not sure if it is going to work though!!
I live in a new suburb in Melbourne and the infrastructure installed in the new suburb by Telstra (the local monopoly) is Fibre to the Node. Which is great. Except they go an put rubbish equipment at the nodes. So across the suburb about 40% of people can get ADSL1 and the rest get nothing (except a basic phone line).
I spent 4 months sending applications to the local ISP until eventually one of my neighbours sells up and disconnects from the node and luckily I get his spot.
This is not as uncommon.
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http://www.urbiforge.com/ "URBI is a Universal Real-time Behavior Interface and gives you a simple but powerful way to control any robot or complex system like a video game, using a convenient and easy to use scripting language that can be interfaced with several popular programming languages (C++, Java, Matlab,...) and OS (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux). URBI is based on a client/server architecture, which give a great deal of flexibility. URBI includes powerful features compared to existing scripting solutions: parallel execution of commands, event programming, command tagging, dynamic variables,... Currently, URBI is used as well by academic research labs, the industry and by hobbyists."
ok.... who says it cannot be uplifting ....
note to self....next time use the preview button.....
How says science cannot be uplifting.... literally.
Here is another insight. In the old days (a couple of years ago), when you ask your isp to test to see if you can get ADSL, they ask telstra to check. Telstra then do a check and tell you if you can get 1.5M or not. This is the only test they do. So if you sign up with your ISPs for 512k and Telstra comes back and says you cannot get 1.5M. There is no way of knowing if you could get 512k (you might be able to get it but telstra don't test it they just test 1.5M). So lots of people who couldn't get ADSL could probably get 512k but not 1.5M. Just and insight into how messed up the system is.
the 1.5 speed was deemed by the wholesaler/retailer (Telstra) as "as much speed as a domestic user would require" and prior to the opening up of the wholesale market (caused by the watchdog) it was all you could get without going over to the very expensive commerical options (which is what they where trying to protect with the speed limitations).
This has changed now as we have 256k, 512k, 1.5M, 8M+ and 24M+ (where the + indicates the maximum potential speed) but we still have download quotas (part of a duoploy on connections outside of the country and our remoteness).
To give you an insite to the crazyness. As telstra was forced to provide other ISPs access to their exchanges to install the isps own adsl2+ hardware (which they charge like wounded bulls for) they started to get some competition problems. So what did they do. They introduced their own adsl2+ plans by taking the artificial restrictions off their hardware, so now you can get adsl2+ from telstra. But only from their retail arm (refuse to wholesale it) and only where another isp has installed their hardware (and not in the rest of the country where they could do it but choose not to.)
there is a fundamental problem when the wholesaler (infrastructure provider) is also one of the retailers (selling the product). Telstra have used their monopoly of the wholesale business to control and slow down broadband (literally).
99% looks great on paper but is most likely political vapour ware (or even worse not a core promise)
The Australian Government has allowed the Telstra monopoly to restrict ADSL broadband in this country to an artificial limit of 1.5Mbit downloads for years now (only just releasing the full 8M plans). We also have restricted downloads (quotas per month).
So the metric of 99% looks like we would be miles ahead but considering it is a political promise and the quota on downloads it isn't as good as it sounds.
All English speaking countries except Australia....8->
Who was expecting honesty from the land of convicts down under...
or maybe we are better at smelling a setup...
Law of the land vs Law of common sense. my money is on the law of the land.... (never bet on common sense... it is neither common nor makes sense)
the comic value of poor translation software may serve as a great ice break between the locals and the troops.
but no HOPE for you.... sorry but nice typo
Homeworld yes....I can remember feeling all choked up when they played the adago for strings when their planet was destroyed (at the beginning)....