Strange, in almost every motorcycle accident I've seen involving a car, the car *was* at fault. The 'left turn in front of an oncoming bike' is the classic one that kills motorcyclists.
A walled garden does not preclude allowing the ability to turn it off. Apple (and soon, Microsoft) is not limiting you to the walled garden out of the goodness of their hart. It is pure greed. They could quite easily add an 'opt out' and let people install outside software at their own risk.
How about eye tracking for keeping the display on? innovative, yes. Patent-worthy, no but many have patents on far less innovate ideas. How the hell did we get to the point that you could patent ideas anyway?
TV and movie people are the biggest fanboys around, as they've tended to use predominantly Apple hardware for a very long time. Have a look at what's on people's desks on most TV shows. That media push once they started to be relevant again has gone a long way in getting Apple free advertising.
The only good thing that has come of this is the media attention for how Apple is behaving. I was reading the comments on a 'normal' news website about another Apple patent related matter, and the dislike for them was very prevalent. Anti-Apple sentiments seemed to be about 90% of the comments. You can't be that much of a dick for that long without losing business. Look at Sony. Apple will always have the blind followers who have been using them for years, but most i think they'll lose in the end.
Trichinosis. Poorly prepared or stored pork can kill you. It's not a fact that that's where the dietary restriction came from, just a theory. I've also heard that the Catholic "fish on Fridays" thing was to help out Portuguese fishermen. Again, perhaps a myth.
Stopping women from working/learning is a specific example. All of the religions mentioned have faith based rules that are generally not as harmul, but do exist. Not eating pork, no contraception, can't use modern medicine, etc. Simply put, they have rules in place that are based on what their invisible friend in the sky is imagined to have said.... and yes, I do ealize that some of these once had a historical purpose (not eating pork for example), but I'm sure at one point women were less safe in public as well.
This package actually does a few more things as well ( DLNA, DNS, Dynamic DNS, Email, FTP(S), Proxy, SMS Gateway, Time, HTTP(S), (secure) WebDAV), and the performance seems pretty impressive for what it is. Of course, the power consumption is really low as well. I'm pretty damn impressed by the app in general.
With their 'Metro Market' lock-in, I figured the new logo would be a stylized graphic of Balmer bending a customer over a table and shoving an apple up the customers ass. Of course, I did poorly at marketing.
If you search around, you'll find this is actually a pretty common problem with the macbooks. Ignore it if you wish, it's your money (soon to be Apple's money.
The lack of such protection almost killed Apple in the 1990s
I disagree. I think an operating system that was cheaper, more open, and had a better variety of hardware killed them. People rememberd what it was like when IBM was in Apple's position and they didn't like it. Most people these days don't remember that, but I'm guessing some of them are finding out why it's a bad thing.
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Strange, in almost every motorcycle accident I've seen involving a car, the car *was* at fault. The 'left turn in front of an oncoming bike' is the classic one that kills motorcyclists.
A walled garden does not preclude allowing the ability to turn it off. Apple (and soon, Microsoft) is not limiting you to the walled garden out of the goodness of their hart. It is pure greed. They could quite easily add an 'opt out' and let people install outside software at their own risk.
When software patents are tossed, everybody wins ... except maybe some lawyers, but I can live with that.
Reality has an anti-Apple bias.
... yet they have patents on them?
Apple insists they never pay for product placement. Of course, they've lied about a rather large number of other things, so you never know.
They didn't actually invent any of that. Every singe one of those was 'copied' from those who invented them.
How about eye tracking for keeping the display on? innovative, yes. Patent-worthy, no but many have patents on far less innovate ideas. How the hell did we get to the point that you could patent ideas anyway?
TV and movie people are the biggest fanboys around, as they've tended to use predominantly Apple hardware for a very long time. Have a look at what's on people's desks on most TV shows. That media push once they started to be relevant again has gone a long way in getting Apple free advertising.
The only good thing that has come of this is the media attention for how Apple is behaving. I was reading the comments on a 'normal' news website about another Apple patent related matter, and the dislike for them was very prevalent. Anti-Apple sentiments seemed to be about 90% of the comments. You can't be that much of a dick for that long without losing business. Look at Sony. Apple will always have the blind followers who have been using them for years, but most i think they'll lose in the end.
Trichinosis. Poorly prepared or stored pork can kill you. It's not a fact that that's where the dietary restriction came from, just a theory. I've also heard that the Catholic "fish on Fridays" thing was to help out Portuguese fishermen. Again, perhaps a myth.
Stopping women from working/learning is a specific example. All of the religions mentioned have faith based rules that are generally not as harmul, but do exist. Not eating pork, no contraception, can't use modern medicine, etc. Simply put, they have rules in place that are based on what their invisible friend in the sky is imagined to have said. ... and yes, I do ealize that some of these once had a historical purpose (not eating pork for example), but I'm sure at one point women were less safe in public as well.
This is something like a mass murder saying "I only kill the occasional person now, stop hating me."
Actions speak louder than words.
Lawyers win. Why would they change that?
If you want a wired connection, use USB OTG, although I think most many phones would need to have an updated ROM installed.
This package actually does a few more things as well ( DLNA, DNS, Dynamic DNS, Email, FTP(S), Proxy, SMS Gateway, Time, HTTP(S), (secure) WebDAV), and the performance seems pretty impressive for what it is. Of course, the power consumption is really low as well. I'm pretty damn impressed by the app in general.
For Android phones, use it as a Web/FTP/DNLA/DNS/Email/Proxy server.
With their 'Metro Market' lock-in, I figured the new logo would be a stylized graphic of Balmer bending a customer over a table and shoving an apple up the customers ass. Of course, I did poorly at marketing.
Sadly, I think the effect may be offset completely by the "Twilight" "novels".
That's the Apple way.
Yeah, but they didn't try to develop *on* them.
... if the iOS 'creep' continues, they'll be a lot closer to a TV or microwave than most developers will like.
If you search around, you'll find this is actually a pretty common problem with the macbooks. Ignore it if you wish, it's your money (soon to be Apple's money.
The lack of such protection almost killed Apple in the 1990s
I disagree. I think an operating system that was cheaper, more open, and had a better variety of hardware killed them. People rememberd what it was like when IBM was in Apple's position and they didn't like it. Most people these days don't remember that, but I'm guessing some of them are finding out why it's a bad thing.