I don't necessarily have a problem with trying to cut out the used games market. It's a dick move, but it's their IP, so I can understand it.
I'd much rather they require online access for first run only. If you want me to authenticate the purchase with a one time code? I won't like it, but I'm ok enough with it that I'm willing to still buy the product.
If they're going to require me to be online just to play? Homey don't play dat, and home certainly don't pay for dat
The point is that the amount being paid into social security by current workers is not equal to the amount going out each month, and it's only going to get worse as the next generation of retirees approached retirement age.
That would be bad enough if the government had just treated Social Security as a big old piggy bank and never done anything to grow the payments coming in. Besides that basic logistical flaw in Social Security, the government compounded their stupidity by using the money for stuff other than social security payments.
The federal government spends more than it takes in. Now you may be naive enough to believe that all that revenue gets put back into Social Security and that we only borrow for everything else, but the truth of the matter is that the payments going out to granny and gramps come from borrowed money just because the money isn't there anymore. And in order to make up the shortfall, the government has to borrow even more money!
And you think Social Security has a zero effect on the countries debt generation?
You know, I can't wait until these bleeding heart liberals who are defending social security so closely are old enough to actually collect and need it. When they find themselves getting a fraction of what they paid in (assuming the entire system doesn't collapse in on itself before then) and they need to go smile at people at the front doors of Wal-Mart, I suspect their opinions on Social Security may change somewhat.
I would gladly let the government keep everything I've ever paid into Social Security to date, without taking any benefits from it, ever, if they would let me opt out from this day forth. Just keep borrowing to cover the current payments, and when those folks die and their benefits are no longer on the books, we'll be able to disengage from the horribleness of the program and actually start paying down on the debt it generates instead of snowballing it.
On the other hand, that would reduce government revenues, and we can't have that, oh no
I'd like to say I'm amazed at the gross level of absurdity, but unfortunately you're hardly the only one to float this kind of nonsense.
Keynsian economics is horrible. You cannot deficit spend your way to prosperity, and the lie that debt is good is the greatest trick ever perpetuated on our society.
The only reason why we can continue to get away with the gross overspending that we've become accustomed to is because we have a good bit of the world over the barrel. Directly or indirectly, there are quite a few nations who've hitched their star to us. You're living in a dreamland if you think our gluttonous state can last indefinitely. If we weren't one of the biggest powers in the world, the free market economy would have punished us for our gross negligence long ago.
Instead, we're in a position where there appears to be no real consequences for leveraging ourselves to the hilt, and even that isn't enough - the government has decided it needs more of *my* money in order to continue spending on programs I don't approve of, all because I have the privilege to live in the world they've created.
... but I choose to remember the mag through the innocent eyes of the kids I was. I don't care that the entire mag was a marketing stump for Nintendo. I enjoyed the mag when I was a kid, and I haunted the mailbox whenever an issue was due. Early on, when they were publishing strategy guides, I got all kinds of use out of them (Particularly Super Mario 3 and Final Fantasy).
I grew up poor, getting a new game was a once, maybe twice if we were lucky, a year thing. Every month or two mom could afford to let us rent something for a few days, and Nintendo Power gave me a way to look at what was coming out and judge if it was something I wanted to spend those precious rental or acquisition opportunities on.
The adult in me agrees with all the scorn and criticism heaped on the mag, especially as it grew longer in the tooth.
But the wide eyed child in me remembers those first few years of Nintendo Power with great fondness.
There's nothing wrong with that. If you're part of the culture, I'm sure it seems like a waste of time.
I don't see a problem with trying to raise awareness of the community, and maybe correct some flawed stereotypes. I don't see why the community wouldn't want their story told.
Don't be naive. It's pretty easy for management to manufacture a reason to terminate 'for cause', especially in an at will state. While it's certainly possible that the performance reviews were legit and the person was terminated because they weren't great at their job, don't automatically assume that just because some manager said their performance was below par, that's fact.
I've had a few run ins with managers over the years who torpedoed my reviews for questionable reasons. The most memorable being the one who cited me for a lack of professionalism. Apparently, telling a manager they're wrong (privately, and very very conscientious of word choice, context, and tone) is unprofessional.
This is why I refuse to work for little tin gods. The second I find out my direct manager is of that vein, I'm either seeking a transfer or another employer. My discretion and ability at choosing who to work for has gotten much better with iteration.
It'd be better to just sub contract the postal service out to UPS and FedEx at that point. ZOMG privatizing the postal service!
If they cut delivery dates, that limits my options and makes me even less likely to use them, especially if I need timely delivery of something like say a rent check or a bill payment (believe it or not, there are landlords and rental companies, as well as utilities and such that still only accept payment in person or a check in the mail as opposed to paying online)
If they raise rates, that makes them less competitive with their private industry counterparts.
If they were to do both, private industry would eat their lunch.
Full Disclosure: I am a network engineer for Comcast.
They are indeed hardcoded, but they are unique to each device.
When you're deploying customer CPE, it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Either we provide the same defaults, and no one ever changes them, which leads to an increase in the amount of security incidents, or we don't set them and the customer chooses their own and then forgets them and complains to our support about it because we don't know their passwords.
Or they can be hardcoded, with the option to let the customer change them. Most folks don't and just go with the defaults. Since they're unique defaults, this cuts down on the amount of security incidents, and since it's hardcoded, if the customer ever forgets their password, it's as simple as resetting the device to factory default and telling them to look for the sticker (if they did change them) or telling them to just look at the sticker (if they didn't).
This is only an Internet problem. A person or business who runs XP can do so for as long as their system works. Oops, but XP requires activation when reinstalled, as do Vista and 7. So Micro$hit still has the ultimate control when they stop activating a version of Windows.
In the case of XP Professional, the big businesses use Volume License keys, and they do not require online activation.
The final death will be when security updates are no longer pushed. No IT Director who wants to keep their job wants to be caught using an OS when that doesn't have active security updates if/when their company gets compromised.
They'll run it right up until End of Support, and then life will become utter hell for the admins and IT drones who will be responsible for carrying out a massive and frantic upgrade with little time for planning, and likely virtually no time for testing.
So IE 6 must have been the best browser in history! It had 90% of the marketshare in 2003! Windows 3.1 sold more copies than any gui driven platform to date 20 years ago. It must have been sooooo much better than the Mac and OS/2? McDonalds sold billions of cheeseburgers. It must be the best restuarant in the world!
People buy their crap. Doesn't mean they are fame. Andriod does have its issues too with the 2.x versions. I am tempted to replace my SamSung Galaxy 1 with a used IPhone 4s. It can't even sync with a pc and that is pretty primptive in my book. I heard others can, but AT&T probably loaded some shit where I can not even load up a picture I took with it. Anyway, stories like these remind me that perhaps I should look at a Windows 8 phone replacement rather than an Apple. I like the higher quality and detail but these guys are fucking a**holes.
You have an absolutely distorted view of fame. People know the products. People want the products. People pay for the products. The term iphone is synonymous with touchscreen telephone with apps. the term ipod is synonymous with music player. The term ipad is synonymous with touch screen tablet device.
Go find a random normal user (that you don't know personally). Ask them what any of the above three products are, I'll bet they can answer. Then ask the same user which Samsung Galaxy they'd prefer, and see if they can differentiate between the phone and the tablet.
Whether you like it or not, Apple has quite a bit of fame. They have a brand of good products, and they market *extremely* well.
But please, feel free to continue your angry denial of facts.
I prefer OS X as my main operating system, so having mobile devices with native and easy data sync to keep everything current is very important to me. I had numerous issues keeping iCal and Google Calendar sync'd up prior to iCloud's debut. Since iCloud was made available, keeping my data synced has been simple and painless, all I have to do it is turn it on and enter my login information when I acquire a new device, and it just works.
I spend many hours in any given week getting deep into this nerd crap. When I'm on my time, I want the nerd crap to interfere with it as little as possible. Apple has, in my opinion, the best presentation and interaction when it comes to getting out of the users way so they can do something meaningful, instead of needing to invest time on the backend to keep things running right.
And ever since my parents switched over to macs and iOS devices, I have not received a single support call. Not a single one.
My time is worth something to me, if others feel that their time is less valuable, that's their choice.
Sorry to all the Apple fanboys out there, but it becomes increasingly hard to feel any sympathies for Apple. Seems that Apple's fame is slowly declining...
Right, because a stock price that's still over $700/share and 2 million pre orders for the iPhone 5 in 24 hours is clearly an indication of declining fame.
So you think mere sales figures are a good measure of fame? Sorry, wrong measure -- unless you also believe that Apple was a shitty, fameless company in the 80s and 90s and Microsoft the creme de la creme of software makers during that period...
No, I think that 2 million people pre-ordering a product that hasn't shipped yet, as well as the inevitable lines (and the news coverage that will come from those lines) when it's released to the public for all the folks that didn't pre-order is a pretty good indication of fame. The general public does not pay attention to patent lawsuits, why the hell do you think patent reform isn't even on the radar for the presidential election?
What the general public pays attention to is what's shiny, trendy, and cool, and Apple is still king in that arena.
And yes, I imagine Apple is quite famous in the financial markets. Alot of people have made alot of money betting on Apple. The general public loves Apple. Wall Street loves Apple. The only people who don't love Apple are haters who bitch about anything trendy or cool, people who can't actually afford Apple products, and people who's business sense is inversely proportional to their moral outrage.
Apple, as a company (note I did not say platform, as a company) owns the mobile market. Everyone else was playing catchup to RIM when they dropped the iPhone, and changed the game. Yeah, yeah, I understand that other folks did similar things first. I understand that other folks had similar stuff in development. They either failed to properly monetize, or they got beat to market. Apple was first to market with the modern smartphone, and they are ruthlessly protecting their interests. Everyone who tried to make a market for a tablet before failed miserably, but Apple drove the latest incarnation of their market with their product and showed that you can in fact make money with it, and once again, everyone else is playing catch up. And once again, they are ruthlessly defending their presence.
Whether or not it's good for the consumer, and whether or not you like it, it *is* good business, and I can't blame them for it. If someone wants to dethrone them, they're going to have to implement their own game changer rather than trying to make a marginally better iteration of what we already have.
Right, because 2 million iPhone 5 pre orders in 24 hours is *clearly* an indication of declining fame.
Given 1.3 million Android registrations per day, Apple aren't even holding parity on launch events.
Ok, let's do some simple logic -
#1 - That includes tablets
#2 - That includes all Android suppliers, not just one manufacturer. If Samsung sells a brand new Android phone, HTC doesn't see a cent of that money. Apple gets a cut of *every* new iPhone sold. So not only do the Android manufacturers have to compete with Apple, they have to compete with each other... just like Apple.
#3 - While people may be buying Android devices, the usage numbers show iOS well in the lead. To me, that says people are buying the product, and then electing not to use it. Which tells me that it's not a very good product.
#4 - Google says 430 Million Android devices worldwide, at 1.3 million activations per day. The Samsung/Apple lawsuit revealed Apple's sales figures. 250 million iPhone sales worldwide (pre iPhone 5). 46.5 million iPod touch units (hey, if you get to total up all Android units, we get to total up all iOS units). 84 million iPads, which by my math puts Apple at about 380 million units world wide, So Apple has shipped 50 million less of their platform, stacked against, what, at least 10 other companies who develop on the same paltform. And at a much higher profit margin.
I strongly suspect that if you could get the individual players to reveal their actual sales figures, that not a single one of them could individually beat Apple in sales. You have to aggregate all of Apple's competitors against them to get a figure that's appreciable.
But yeah, I guess you're right, Apple is doing *horrible* in sales.
Sorry to all the Apple fanboys out there, but it becomes increasingly hard to feel any sympathies for Apple. Seems that Apple's fame is slowly declining...
Right, because a stock price that's still over $700/share and 2 million pre orders for the iPhone 5 in 24 hours is clearly an indication of declining fame.
Most people don't know about or care about this litigation. They just know Apple makes stuff they like.
I don't like alot of the things Apple does as a company, but I like the products they make. I don't like the products that their competitors make, they don't fulfill my needs.
So what am I going to do, refuse to buy Apple out of some sense of moral outrage? Sorry, not going to make myself less productive as a show of support for some other big mega-corp? Samsung is not some innocent bystander getting picked on by the big kid on the block. There's sin enough to go around for *all* players invovled in the smartphone market, so the moral reprehension is pretty much a wash for me.
So in the end it boils down to who has the product I prefer to use. Those are the people who get my money.
You'd honestly be surprised at the number of folks who do work remotely. I've worked IT staff for a couple law firms and a couple accounting firms, and without fail, there was always a vpn, there was usually a citrix server, and email was always accessible from outside the office. There were many many nights when I was awoken because some lawyer or some accountant was working late and was having connectivity problems at home.
When AMD is licensing feature sets from Intel, yes I expect their compiler to support that. Since the compiler is detecting the CPU type and not whether or not those CPU's support the Intel sets, that's either A) Underhanded or B) stupid.
As has been shown, there is overwhelming evidence that the supposed 'optimization' is not for Intel chips. The optimized code runs fine on non-Intel chips. That puts my opinion on the matter solidly with option A.
Sort of... if the project were based out of the US, it'd be limited in where it could be exported. Remember the flack Zimmerman caught over PGP?
Canadian export laws regarding software which makes heavy use of encryption (which OBSD does) are much less restrictive, especially if that software is in the public domain.
I'm often quite amazed at how... sensitive my fellow computer nerds can be. The only thing I've ever really heard OpenBSD faulted for is Theo. Sure, he's a militant asshole who wants things done his way. And what's the result? His project puts out some damn fine software. He is, perhaps, a little too militant when it comes to the licensing, but considering the lawsuit that almost brought BSD down, I can understand that. And really, that militancy isn't always such a bad thing. When IPF's license changed to something Theo didn't like, they ripped it out of OpenBSD and wrote an entirely new firewall set which pretty much beats the snot out of everything else out there.
I'd heard the name OpenBSD since the project was formed but never gave it a look. A few months ago, I tried it out after being encouraged by a friend who's judgement I trusted. I was skeptical, but I gave it a run on a spare box. And I was hooked. OpenBSD rocks.
So yeah, Theo's an asshole. So what? If you're posting here, chances are, you are too;)
Oh, I agree with the fact that given the IP space is so large, there's no *need* for home routers. But one of the main reasons home routers came about in the first place wasn't for their cute little firewall protections, it's so folks could share the internet connection. Why? Because ISP's weren't A) willing to give you extra IP's for the same connection or B) wanted to up your monthly bill by an insane amount. Who's to say the ISP's won't try the same damn thing with IP6? If there's a chance for money to be made, someones going to be stupid enough to try it.
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I don't necessarily have a problem with trying to cut out the used games market. It's a dick move, but it's their IP, so I can understand it.
I'd much rather they require online access for first run only. If you want me to authenticate the purchase with a one time code? I won't like it, but I'm ok enough with it that I'm willing to still buy the product.
If they're going to require me to be online just to play? Homey don't play dat, and home certainly don't pay for dat
I'd expect those reboots to go to Joss Whedon.
Though, come to think of it, Joss would probably do a pretty good Star Wars flick if push came to shove.
Aye, we could do that.
But we won't. We'd rather go see it, and then spend years bitching about it if it sucks.
You are grossly missing the point.
The point is that the amount being paid into social security by current workers is not equal to the amount going out each month, and it's only going to get worse as the next generation of retirees approached retirement age.
That would be bad enough if the government had just treated Social Security as a big old piggy bank and never done anything to grow the payments coming in. Besides that basic logistical flaw in Social Security, the government compounded their stupidity by using the money for stuff other than social security payments.
The federal government spends more than it takes in. Now you may be naive enough to believe that all that revenue gets put back into Social Security and that we only borrow for everything else, but the truth of the matter is that the payments going out to granny and gramps come from borrowed money just because the money isn't there anymore. And in order to make up the shortfall, the government has to borrow even more money!
And you think Social Security has a zero effect on the countries debt generation?
You know, I can't wait until these bleeding heart liberals who are defending social security so closely are old enough to actually collect and need it. When they find themselves getting a fraction of what they paid in (assuming the entire system doesn't collapse in on itself before then) and they need to go smile at people at the front doors of Wal-Mart, I suspect their opinions on Social Security may change somewhat.
I would gladly let the government keep everything I've ever paid into Social Security to date, without taking any benefits from it, ever, if they would let me opt out from this day forth. Just keep borrowing to cover the current payments, and when those folks die and their benefits are no longer on the books, we'll be able to disengage from the horribleness of the program and actually start paying down on the debt it generates instead of snowballing it.
On the other hand, that would reduce government revenues, and we can't have that, oh no
I'd like to say I'm amazed at the gross level of absurdity, but unfortunately you're hardly the only one to float this kind of nonsense.
Keynsian economics is horrible. You cannot deficit spend your way to prosperity, and the lie that debt is good is the greatest trick ever perpetuated on our society.
The only reason why we can continue to get away with the gross overspending that we've become accustomed to is because we have a good bit of the world over the barrel. Directly or indirectly, there are quite a few nations who've hitched their star to us. You're living in a dreamland if you think our gluttonous state can last indefinitely. If we weren't one of the biggest powers in the world, the free market economy would have punished us for our gross negligence long ago.
Instead, we're in a position where there appears to be no real consequences for leveraging ourselves to the hilt, and even that isn't enough - the government has decided it needs more of *my* money in order to continue spending on programs I don't approve of, all because I have the privilege to live in the world they've created.
Such hubris rarely goes unpunished.
Your enthusiasm has convinced me, even if I still harbor doubts as to your sincerity! I must have one of these things as well!
... but I choose to remember the mag through the innocent eyes of the kids I was. I don't care that the entire mag was a marketing stump for Nintendo. I enjoyed the mag when I was a kid, and I haunted the mailbox whenever an issue was due. Early on, when they were publishing strategy guides, I got all kinds of use out of them (Particularly Super Mario 3 and Final Fantasy).
I grew up poor, getting a new game was a once, maybe twice if we were lucky, a year thing. Every month or two mom could afford to let us rent something for a few days, and Nintendo Power gave me a way to look at what was coming out and judge if it was something I wanted to spend those precious rental or acquisition opportunities on.
The adult in me agrees with all the scorn and criticism heaped on the mag, especially as it grew longer in the tooth.
But the wide eyed child in me remembers those first few years of Nintendo Power with great fondness.
Sure, it's a fluff piece.
The author is trying to sell some books.
There's nothing wrong with that. If you're part of the culture, I'm sure it seems like a waste of time.
I don't see a problem with trying to raise awareness of the community, and maybe correct some flawed stereotypes. I don't see why the community wouldn't want their story told.
Don't be naive. It's pretty easy for management to manufacture a reason to terminate 'for cause', especially in an at will state. While it's certainly possible that the performance reviews were legit and the person was terminated because they weren't great at their job, don't automatically assume that just because some manager said their performance was below par, that's fact. I've had a few run ins with managers over the years who torpedoed my reviews for questionable reasons. The most memorable being the one who cited me for a lack of professionalism. Apparently, telling a manager they're wrong (privately, and very very conscientious of word choice, context, and tone) is unprofessional. This is why I refuse to work for little tin gods. The second I find out my direct manager is of that vein, I'm either seeking a transfer or another employer. My discretion and ability at choosing who to work for has gotten much better with iteration.
I tried, but since my hate machine is running Windows ME, Windows Update tells me to frak myself.
It'd be better to just sub contract the postal service out to UPS and FedEx at that point. ZOMG privatizing the postal service! If they cut delivery dates, that limits my options and makes me even less likely to use them, especially if I need timely delivery of something like say a rent check or a bill payment (believe it or not, there are landlords and rental companies, as well as utilities and such that still only accept payment in person or a check in the mail as opposed to paying online) If they raise rates, that makes them less competitive with their private industry counterparts. If they were to do both, private industry would eat their lunch.
Full Disclosure: I am a network engineer for Comcast. They are indeed hardcoded, but they are unique to each device. When you're deploying customer CPE, it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Either we provide the same defaults, and no one ever changes them, which leads to an increase in the amount of security incidents, or we don't set them and the customer chooses their own and then forgets them and complains to our support about it because we don't know their passwords. Or they can be hardcoded, with the option to let the customer change them. Most folks don't and just go with the defaults. Since they're unique defaults, this cuts down on the amount of security incidents, and since it's hardcoded, if the customer ever forgets their password, it's as simple as resetting the device to factory default and telling them to look for the sticker (if they did change them) or telling them to just look at the sticker (if they didn't).
This is only an Internet problem. A person or business who runs XP can do so for as long as their system works. Oops, but XP requires activation when reinstalled, as do Vista and 7. So Micro$hit still has the ultimate control when they stop activating a version of Windows.
In the case of XP Professional, the big businesses use Volume License keys, and they do not require online activation. The final death will be when security updates are no longer pushed. No IT Director who wants to keep their job wants to be caught using an OS when that doesn't have active security updates if/when their company gets compromised. They'll run it right up until End of Support, and then life will become utter hell for the admins and IT drones who will be responsible for carrying out a massive and frantic upgrade with little time for planning, and likely virtually no time for testing.
So IE 6 must have been the best browser in history! It had 90% of the marketshare in 2003! Windows 3.1 sold more copies than any gui driven platform to date 20 years ago. It must have been sooooo much better than the Mac and OS/2? McDonalds sold billions of cheeseburgers. It must be the best restuarant in the world!
People buy their crap. Doesn't mean they are fame. Andriod does have its issues too with the 2.x versions. I am tempted to replace my SamSung Galaxy 1 with a used IPhone 4s. It can't even sync with a pc and that is pretty primptive in my book. I heard others can, but AT&T probably loaded some shit where I can not even load up a picture I took with it. Anyway, stories like these remind me that perhaps I should look at a Windows 8 phone replacement rather than an Apple. I like the higher quality and detail but these guys are fucking a**holes.
You have an absolutely distorted view of fame. People know the products. People want the products. People pay for the products. The term iphone is synonymous with touchscreen telephone with apps. the term ipod is synonymous with music player. The term ipad is synonymous with touch screen tablet device. Go find a random normal user (that you don't know personally). Ask them what any of the above three products are, I'll bet they can answer. Then ask the same user which Samsung Galaxy they'd prefer, and see if they can differentiate between the phone and the tablet. Whether you like it or not, Apple has quite a bit of fame. They have a brand of good products, and they market *extremely* well. But please, feel free to continue your angry denial of facts.
I prefer OS X as my main operating system, so having mobile devices with native and easy data sync to keep everything current is very important to me. I had numerous issues keeping iCal and Google Calendar sync'd up prior to iCloud's debut. Since iCloud was made available, keeping my data synced has been simple and painless, all I have to do it is turn it on and enter my login information when I acquire a new device, and it just works. I spend many hours in any given week getting deep into this nerd crap. When I'm on my time, I want the nerd crap to interfere with it as little as possible. Apple has, in my opinion, the best presentation and interaction when it comes to getting out of the users way so they can do something meaningful, instead of needing to invest time on the backend to keep things running right. And ever since my parents switched over to macs and iOS devices, I have not received a single support call. Not a single one. My time is worth something to me, if others feel that their time is less valuable, that's their choice.
Sorry to all the Apple fanboys out there, but it becomes increasingly hard to feel any sympathies for Apple. Seems that Apple's fame is slowly declining...
Right, because a stock price that's still over $700/share and 2 million pre orders for the iPhone 5 in 24 hours is clearly an indication of declining fame.
So you think mere sales figures are a good measure of fame? Sorry, wrong measure -- unless you also believe that Apple was a shitty, fameless company in the 80s and 90s and Microsoft the creme de la creme of software makers during that period...
No, I think that 2 million people pre-ordering a product that hasn't shipped yet, as well as the inevitable lines (and the news coverage that will come from those lines) when it's released to the public for all the folks that didn't pre-order is a pretty good indication of fame. The general public does not pay attention to patent lawsuits, why the hell do you think patent reform isn't even on the radar for the presidential election? What the general public pays attention to is what's shiny, trendy, and cool, and Apple is still king in that arena. And yes, I imagine Apple is quite famous in the financial markets. Alot of people have made alot of money betting on Apple. The general public loves Apple. Wall Street loves Apple. The only people who don't love Apple are haters who bitch about anything trendy or cool, people who can't actually afford Apple products, and people who's business sense is inversely proportional to their moral outrage. Apple, as a company (note I did not say platform, as a company) owns the mobile market. Everyone else was playing catchup to RIM when they dropped the iPhone, and changed the game. Yeah, yeah, I understand that other folks did similar things first. I understand that other folks had similar stuff in development. They either failed to properly monetize, or they got beat to market. Apple was first to market with the modern smartphone, and they are ruthlessly protecting their interests. Everyone who tried to make a market for a tablet before failed miserably, but Apple drove the latest incarnation of their market with their product and showed that you can in fact make money with it, and once again, everyone else is playing catch up. And once again, they are ruthlessly defending their presence. Whether or not it's good for the consumer, and whether or not you like it, it *is* good business, and I can't blame them for it. If someone wants to dethrone them, they're going to have to implement their own game changer rather than trying to make a marginally better iteration of what we already have.
Right, because 2 million iPhone 5 pre orders in 24 hours is *clearly* an indication of declining fame.
Given 1.3 million Android registrations per day, Apple aren't even holding parity on launch events.
Ok, let's do some simple logic - #1 - That includes tablets #2 - That includes all Android suppliers, not just one manufacturer. If Samsung sells a brand new Android phone, HTC doesn't see a cent of that money. Apple gets a cut of *every* new iPhone sold. So not only do the Android manufacturers have to compete with Apple, they have to compete with each other... just like Apple. #3 - While people may be buying Android devices, the usage numbers show iOS well in the lead. To me, that says people are buying the product, and then electing not to use it. Which tells me that it's not a very good product. #4 - Google says 430 Million Android devices worldwide, at 1.3 million activations per day. The Samsung/Apple lawsuit revealed Apple's sales figures. 250 million iPhone sales worldwide (pre iPhone 5). 46.5 million iPod touch units (hey, if you get to total up all Android units, we get to total up all iOS units). 84 million iPads, which by my math puts Apple at about 380 million units world wide, So Apple has shipped 50 million less of their platform, stacked against, what, at least 10 other companies who develop on the same paltform. And at a much higher profit margin. I strongly suspect that if you could get the individual players to reveal their actual sales figures, that not a single one of them could individually beat Apple in sales. You have to aggregate all of Apple's competitors against them to get a figure that's appreciable. But yeah, I guess you're right, Apple is doing *horrible* in sales.
Sorry to all the Apple fanboys out there, but it becomes increasingly hard to feel any sympathies for Apple. Seems that Apple's fame is slowly declining...
Right, because a stock price that's still over $700/share and 2 million pre orders for the iPhone 5 in 24 hours is clearly an indication of declining fame. Most people don't know about or care about this litigation. They just know Apple makes stuff they like. I don't like alot of the things Apple does as a company, but I like the products they make. I don't like the products that their competitors make, they don't fulfill my needs. So what am I going to do, refuse to buy Apple out of some sense of moral outrage? Sorry, not going to make myself less productive as a show of support for some other big mega-corp? Samsung is not some innocent bystander getting picked on by the big kid on the block. There's sin enough to go around for *all* players invovled in the smartphone market, so the moral reprehension is pretty much a wash for me. So in the end it boils down to who has the product I prefer to use. Those are the people who get my money.
My bets are on Visionaries
You'd honestly be surprised at the number of folks who do work remotely. I've worked IT staff for a couple law firms and a couple accounting firms, and without fail, there was always a vpn, there was usually a citrix server, and email was always accessible from outside the office. There were many many nights when I was awoken because some lawyer or some accountant was working late and was having connectivity problems at home.
When AMD is licensing feature sets from Intel, yes I expect their compiler to support that. Since the compiler is detecting the CPU type and not whether or not those CPU's support the Intel sets, that's either A) Underhanded or B) stupid. As has been shown, there is overwhelming evidence that the supposed 'optimization' is not for Intel chips. The optimized code runs fine on non-Intel chips. That puts my opinion on the matter solidly with option A.
Sort of... if the project were based out of the US, it'd be limited in where it could be exported. Remember the flack Zimmerman caught over PGP? Canadian export laws regarding software which makes heavy use of encryption (which OBSD does) are much less restrictive, especially if that software is in the public domain.
I'm often quite amazed at how... sensitive my fellow computer nerds can be. The only thing I've ever really heard OpenBSD faulted for is Theo. Sure, he's a militant asshole who wants things done his way. And what's the result? His project puts out some damn fine software. He is, perhaps, a little too militant when it comes to the licensing, but considering the lawsuit that almost brought BSD down, I can understand that. And really, that militancy isn't always such a bad thing. When IPF's license changed to something Theo didn't like, they ripped it out of OpenBSD and wrote an entirely new firewall set which pretty much beats the snot out of everything else out there. I'd heard the name OpenBSD since the project was formed but never gave it a look. A few months ago, I tried it out after being encouraged by a friend who's judgement I trusted. I was skeptical, but I gave it a run on a spare box. And I was hooked. OpenBSD rocks. So yeah, Theo's an asshole. So what? If you're posting here, chances are, you are too ;)
Yes, because I want *my* enterprise level servers running an OS that's simply 'good enough' instead of the best it's creator can make it!
Oh, I agree with the fact that given the IP space is so large, there's no *need* for home routers. But one of the main reasons home routers came about in the first place wasn't for their cute little firewall protections, it's so folks could share the internet connection. Why? Because ISP's weren't A) willing to give you extra IP's for the same connection or B) wanted to up your monthly bill by an insane amount. Who's to say the ISP's won't try the same damn thing with IP6? If there's a chance for money to be made, someones going to be stupid enough to try it.