Homeland Security is what tons of government agencies all roll-up to. I believe the Secret Service historically has been in charge of dealing with counterfeit product sales, and now they roll up to Homeland Security.
It could also affect dollar amounts. This is the same Apple who wants to offer $1 per device total for several major feature parents from Motorola, but thinks minor design patents means Samsung should pay $30-$40 per device to Apple. Divulging the deal with HTC will likely show that Apple never negotiated in good faith with Samsung and that damages should be much lower, or perhaps change the verdict in an appeal.
If FB is intentionally hiding those posts from fans who've opted into seeing them (precisely what people are accusing FB of because metrics have gone down so sharply at the same time FB is pushing for paid, promoted posts), then that is exactly bait and switch.
This is where you are mistaken. FB only shows posts to a percentage of users. Haven't you heard people bitching about missing key updates from friends and family because they just don't show up? And that percentage seems to be going down all the time to the point that several companies are accusing FB of being broken on purpose to necessitate paying for posts for anyone to see them.
These aren't just wild accusations. They're backed up with metrics on reach for posts over time.
NASA engineers need employee data on an unencrypted laptop in the middle of a hurricane? In what scenario? And even in hurricane-affected areas, cell phone signals usually work. One of the laptops that was lost was carrying personnel data which should NEVER be on a laptop, especially an unencrypted laptop in any scenario. We're not talking about field data here.
LTE networks are faster than home broadband in many cases. And you're not transferring all the data across the network to your laptop, which is precisely what you don't want to do. The data needs to reside solely on the server. The laptop and VPN just needs to carry a low-bandwidth remote session. Cell phone networks are more than capable of that.
Your ignorance and insecurity is not the same as me having an ego.
It isn't that this is difficult or impossible for them to do, which is precisely why now that they'd made the decision they'll have it rolled out in a few months. The problem really here was apathy and poor security policies.
All my data is on servers as well, not on my laptop, though my laptop is encrypted. And so long as I can get a cell phone signal, I can convert that to wifi and VPN in to the data. I can even do that with free tools.
This is so complicated that NASA can't figure it out with a budget of billions and brilliant engineers?
This is precisely a bait and switch. You promise a free service, refuse to offer the free service and then demand money for the exact same functionality that was promised for free.
Combine this with recent accusations that Facebook's feeds have been broken on purpose as of late to necessitate promoting posts, and accusations of click-fraud eating up paid advertising and you have to wonder if Facebook is beginning to shoot themselves in the foot. They have tons of users, but they don't seem to know how to monetize that well.
Valve hasn't had a Half-Life game since the Orange Box made its way to consoles. I don't think that is a coincidence. I think Valve realized that current-gen consoles are limited. They had to squeeze Source onto existing hardware, and it didn't leave much room for innovation.
I think what you're going to see is Valve negotiate with Sony and Microsoft with the next-gen of consoles in the 2013 holiday season. Either they allow Steam to operate on their networks and consoles directly, or Valve comes to market with their own console and competes with them. Either way, Half Life 3 with have a Holiday 2013 release on consoles and PCs simultaneously.
Ubuntu is allowing Amazon search results in their search results. I'm not sure that constitutes direct advertisement or bloatware. They're just opening search to also include a commercial entity.
The guy who gave us Wing Commander and Privateer is working on a new game that provides off-line single-player space combat, as well as online campaigns, a persistent universe and Eve Online-like trading/economy.
You are correct that Roboto is a fantastic font for readability on small displays. Really, it is just a great font all around.
You are also correct that isn't needed as much as resolution increases, but even on "retina" displays on phones, iPhone text isn't incredible readable.
I use my phone an awful lot. I have unlimited minutes and unlimited data. On my Sprint plan, if I needed to add another unlimited line it would be $20 for the new line, and $10 for the new smartphone fee.
$30 a month x 24 months = $720. I'm saving $400 with the phone subsidy. So unless prepaid is saving me $400 over the same period, prepaid wouldn't help me on a new line.
On my primary line, I'm paying closer to $60 a month, but even then, that is $1440 over two years total cost. $400 of that again is phone subsidy. So prepaid would have to be less than $1000 over two years to be worth it, and with unlimited data and minutes, I doubt that would the case.
I believe T-Mobile is the only US company who does, but I hesitate to call them a major carrier. They don't cover the whole country, and they are going bankrupt.
I don't think any of the major US wireless carriers offer discounted monthly rates for buying your phone outright. You might as well reap the price of discounted phones if your bill is the same rate.
In Europe, you have the option of a contract subsidizing your phone, or no contract and a cheaper rate, but buying an expensive phone outright upfront.
When you talk about Intel being price competitive, it depends.
AMD clearly wins on budget gaming systems where the processors and motherboards are much cheaper, but Intel has the fastest high end systems out there right now.
Just a couple months ago I priced two builds with similar benchmark numbers on NewEgg, and the AMD budget gaming rig was around $800, and the Intel equivalent was around $1100.
Vista was released 5 years ago. The very first release of Compiz had that problem, but Compiz was handling 3D desktops and openGL at the same time just fine 5 years ago.
I'm confused. When Vista came out with their Aero effects, it was a massive CPU and memory hog in addition to requiring GPU power. Compiz on the other hand ran on very basic hardware and did far more.
In Linux I have more control over font rendering and sub-pixel hinting.
In what way has Linux desktop graphics lagged at all? Mac OS X and Linux have led the way while Windows has followed poorly. And in case you haven't been paying attention, Windows 8 is coming out. It is 2012, and they still haven't figured out how to scale down to small displays, and scale up to very high resolution displays.
Every major OS shipping today supports IPv6 natively, the same with all new networking equipment these days. IPv6 already works. Wayland isn't quite there.
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Homeland Security is what tons of government agencies all roll-up to. I believe the Secret Service historically has been in charge of dealing with counterfeit product sales, and now they roll up to Homeland Security.
It could also affect dollar amounts. This is the same Apple who wants to offer $1 per device total for several major feature parents from Motorola, but thinks minor design patents means Samsung should pay $30-$40 per device to Apple. Divulging the deal with HTC will likely show that Apple never negotiated in good faith with Samsung and that damages should be much lower, or perhaps change the verdict in an appeal.
If FB is intentionally hiding those posts from fans who've opted into seeing them (precisely what people are accusing FB of because metrics have gone down so sharply at the same time FB is pushing for paid, promoted posts), then that is exactly bait and switch.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/11/is-facebook-broken-on-purpose-to-sell-promoted-posts/
This is where you are mistaken. FB only shows posts to a percentage of users. Haven't you heard people bitching about missing key updates from friends and family because they just don't show up? And that percentage seems to be going down all the time to the point that several companies are accusing FB of being broken on purpose to necessitate paying for posts for anyone to see them.
These aren't just wild accusations. They're backed up with metrics on reach for posts over time.
Their front page.
"It's free and always will be."
NASA engineers need employee data on an unencrypted laptop in the middle of a hurricane? In what scenario? And even in hurricane-affected areas, cell phone signals usually work. One of the laptops that was lost was carrying personnel data which should NEVER be on a laptop, especially an unencrypted laptop in any scenario. We're not talking about field data here.
LTE networks are faster than home broadband in many cases. And you're not transferring all the data across the network to your laptop, which is precisely what you don't want to do. The data needs to reside solely on the server. The laptop and VPN just needs to carry a low-bandwidth remote session. Cell phone networks are more than capable of that.
Your ignorance and insecurity is not the same as me having an ego.
It isn't that this is difficult or impossible for them to do, which is precisely why now that they'd made the decision they'll have it rolled out in a few months. The problem really here was apathy and poor security policies.
All my data is on servers as well, not on my laptop, though my laptop is encrypted. And so long as I can get a cell phone signal, I can convert that to wifi and VPN in to the data. I can even do that with free tools.
This is so complicated that NASA can't figure it out with a budget of billions and brilliant engineers?
This is precisely a bait and switch. You promise a free service, refuse to offer the free service and then demand money for the exact same functionality that was promised for free.
Combine this with recent accusations that Facebook's feeds have been broken on purpose as of late to necessitate promoting posts, and accusations of click-fraud eating up paid advertising and you have to wonder if Facebook is beginning to shoot themselves in the foot. They have tons of users, but they don't seem to know how to monetize that well.
http://memeburn.com/2012/11/is-facebook-really-broken-on-purpose/
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-accused-of-click-fraud-by-advertiser-2012-7
They exist in the same universe on some level (Portal references Black Mesa), but they are different franchises.
Valve hasn't had a Half-Life game since the Orange Box made its way to consoles. I don't think that is a coincidence. I think Valve realized that current-gen consoles are limited. They had to squeeze Source onto existing hardware, and it didn't leave much room for innovation.
I think what you're going to see is Valve negotiate with Sony and Microsoft with the next-gen of consoles in the 2013 holiday season. Either they allow Steam to operate on their networks and consoles directly, or Valve comes to market with their own console and competes with them. Either way, Half Life 3 with have a Holiday 2013 release on consoles and PCs simultaneously.
Ubuntu is allowing Amazon search results in their search results. I'm not sure that constitutes direct advertisement or bloatware. They're just opening search to also include a commercial entity.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen
The guy who gave us Wing Commander and Privateer is working on a new game that provides off-line single-player space combat, as well as online campaigns, a persistent universe and Eve Online-like trading/economy.
Android does do sub-pixel hinting.
You are correct that Roboto is a fantastic font for readability on small displays. Really, it is just a great font all around.
You are also correct that isn't needed as much as resolution increases, but even on "retina" displays on phones, iPhone text isn't incredible readable.
I use my phone an awful lot. I have unlimited minutes and unlimited data. On my Sprint plan, if I needed to add another unlimited line it would be $20 for the new line, and $10 for the new smartphone fee.
$30 a month x 24 months = $720. I'm saving $400 with the phone subsidy. So unless prepaid is saving me $400 over the same period, prepaid wouldn't help me on a new line.
On my primary line, I'm paying closer to $60 a month, but even then, that is $1440 over two years total cost. $400 of that again is phone subsidy. So prepaid would have to be less than $1000 over two years to be worth it, and with unlimited data and minutes, I doubt that would the case.
I believe T-Mobile is the only US company who does, but I hesitate to call them a major carrier. They don't cover the whole country, and they are going bankrupt.
I don't think any of the major US wireless carriers offer discounted monthly rates for buying your phone outright. You might as well reap the price of discounted phones if your bill is the same rate.
In Europe, you have the option of a contract subsidizing your phone, or no contract and a cheaper rate, but buying an expensive phone outright upfront.
I'm literally holding an iPhone 4S and Samsung S3 in my hand at the same time (work phone and personal phone).
The S3 has the supposedly crappy pentile display, the 4S has the non-pentile display, with a higher DPI to boot.
Yet text is far crisper and easier to read on the S3 because Apple doesn't know how to do sub-pixel hinting for reasons I can't comprehend.
When you talk about Intel being price competitive, it depends.
AMD clearly wins on budget gaming systems where the processors and motherboards are much cheaper, but Intel has the fastest high end systems out there right now.
Just a couple months ago I priced two builds with similar benchmark numbers on NewEgg, and the AMD budget gaming rig was around $800, and the Intel equivalent was around $1100.
But people will have non-Metro applications and the OS can't handle it properly.
It was supposed to remove load from the CPU, but every benchmark showed it added CPU load.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/just-how-much-extra-system-resources-does-vista-aero-ui-take/107
Vista was released 5 years ago. The very first release of Compiz had that problem, but Compiz was handling 3D desktops and openGL at the same time just fine 5 years ago.
It's called a typo. My posts are rife with them.
I'm confused. When Vista came out with their Aero effects, it was a massive CPU and memory hog in addition to requiring GPU power. Compiz on the other hand ran on very basic hardware and did far more.
In Linux I have more control over font rendering and sub-pixel hinting.
In what way has Linux desktop graphics lagged at all? Mac OS X and Linux have led the way while Windows has followed poorly. And in case you haven't been paying attention, Windows 8 is coming out. It is 2012, and they still haven't figured out how to scale down to small displays, and scale up to very high resolution displays.
http://techreport.com/review/23631/how-windows-8-scaling-fails-on-high-ppi-displays
He already said years ago that he intends for Ubuntu to use it as soon as it is ready. I expect Ubuntu will likely be the first major distro to do so.
Every major OS shipping today supports IPv6 natively, the same with all new networking equipment these days. IPv6 already works. Wayland isn't quite there.