There aren't any antitrust issues here. Intel can do whatever it wants with it's processors so long as it doesn't use it's processors (I'm not even sure you could call Intel a monopoly in processors, but that would be for a court to decide) to give another of their products an unfair advantage.
Pretty much the same for Microsoft. Unless you think somehow Microsoft strong armed Intel into it, and can prove it in court. Even then it would be difficult. You would have to prove that Microsoft abused it's monopoly position in OSes to do so in a way that harms consumers. Good luck with that.
Simple. Write your app assuming a 960x640 points, and it'll work on every current iOS device including the new iPhone 5. Alternatively, program for 480x320 points, and it'll work on every current device AND the iPhone 3GS.
But even the GPS receiver is already abstracted for you by the OS, which is available across all the devices. I haven't actually looked that the location API, but it's quite easy to determine what is available. You probably just call a function that will tell you if it's never available, not currently available, or it is currently available or something to that extent. Devices with no GPS but have a cellular connection will still give you a location based on cell tower triangulation. Those with WIFI will use known WIFI SSID's to give you a location.
On the droid you'd need to check the currently running OS to even see if the API to check is available before you try to call it. Then you need to call to check to see it's status (if there is an API for it), otherwise you need to go looking yourself to see if the hardware is present (or which hardware of a few might be present), then try to abstract out the differences yourself. Much fun.
The API is consistant across all the devices. Even ones where facetime is not available, the API for it still is. You still have to check if facetime is currently available or not.
if (!facetime.IsCurrentlyAvailable) { facetimeButton.Hide(); }
Boy, that was hard. It handles iPhone, iPod, iPad. It handles if the iPhone is in airplane mode, the iPod in airplane mode, or the older iPods without a front facing camera, the iPad in airplane mode, any of the above when not on a WIFI connection, etc.
The equivalent code for a droid could easily exceed a couple dozen lines of code or a few thousand depending on what you needed to abstract.
Totally. And only if the auto industry had implemented perpetual motion devices in cars today, then we'd no longer have to buy oil from the middle east.
And google has an office with 13 people in it in Hamburg Germany? Yes, it would be impossible to move that many people to a location just over the border.
I'm not an expert, no, but I do have a fair amount of knowledge.
For example, I have enough to know that a company that has no presence inside a country does not have to abide by its laws, including Germany. Now Germany could for example make it difficult for German companies to do business with google, but even that would be difficult. Most of google's revenues come from serving ads and adwords, etc, so unless google has "offices" (including buildings serving content), I'm not exactly sure how Germany would plan to do squat. You think Germany would enact a ban of purchasing adwords from google? Could you imagine the uproar the German government would face from their own companies because now they are at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the world? Over some silly woman is trying to censor the internet?
Yes, I could see google putting their foot down. Why should Germany's first lady receive special treatment? Can anyone then demand google censor their results if something "bad" is said about them? Yeah, that's a slippery slope that I expect they'd be willing to not want to step on.
They wouldn't have to not service Germany, just don't have any offices there. Then they can let the German government decide if they want to block google, or not.
But Microsoft only has a monopoly on desktops. They hold less than 1% marketshare of mobiles. On the other hand, Apple does have a majority marketshare of mobiles (when counting ipod touches, iphones, and ipads -- as they are mobile, run apps, and browse the web)
Apple does have a majority marketshare in tablets. And ipod-like devices. And if you lump ipod touches and iphones together as "mobiles", they did have over a 50% marketshare for a few years.
And they sure do block everyone from installing another competing browser. You can not install firefox on a iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, or any other browser that actually does useful stuff like run javascript.
Well it should be something like $8 per view * the number of people on the internet (who missed to opportunity to watch it) * 100 for punitive damages for each occurrence of a false take down notice.
Well we've finally done it. We are obviously headed toward a new ice age. We've hit an "all time coldest day" today as far back as I can remember the daily temps (today and yesterday). Everyone run out and buy winter gear (soon as I buy some stock in winter gear companies first thing tomorrow morning!). So run out and stock up (but wait until atleast 10am, thanks!).
They should be allowed to run them, however, the consequence of them being wrong should place a large enough deterrent that they should not WANT to if it isn't extremely accurate.
Still, that's my decision to make with my money, not yours or "society's." "Society" might benefit from me not taking marijuana, but that still should be my decision to make. "Society" might benefit from the increased birth rate of forcing me to have children, but that still should be my decision to make.
I think "Society" might benefit if they forced you not to have children.
As many of the reply pointed out, shareware isn't/wasn't freeware, nor public domain software. I've written both. As to how I know that there were literally hundreds of thousands of downloads, and how many were actually in use long over the 30-day trial period, that differs depending on which one. One was easy because it was used online (An implementation -- the *ONLY* implementation) of the Ymodem-G protocol for the client, and BBSs, compuserve, etc gathered statistics on which file transfer protocols were used. It's amazing when you see 90% of all file transfers, amounting to tens of millions of downloads being done with Ymodem-G across the nation, and there is only one program that does it, it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a statistician to realize it's more than 3 people, or 30, or even 300. Of course, I also saw how many times it was actually downloaded as well, but as you suggest, that doesn't really tell how many people were using it regularly.
Others I couldn't gather hard numbers on, but I would see it at *EVERY* computer conference/gathering I went to, I saw many many people demoing it to others. Only once did I even bother to mention that I wrote it (see above), but only after the guy went on to brag about how long he'd been using it and how great it was.
Protip: Using "Protip" makes you sound like an 8 year one who reads game review magazines like it was a religion. Or a meme. Or both.
Trying to change the subject is for those that understand that their position is weak. Please continue.
BTW, where do you park your car? Because well, cars are just too expensive, and I probably wouldn't pay what you paid for yours. It is likely a piece of crap, but I feel entitled to it anyhow, but it is just not worth what you would sell it for. Don't worry, I'm not taking anything, because you'll get the value back (most of it anyhow) from your insurance eventually.
I did the whole donation thing too -- although back in the day, we called it shareware. Fully functional software that you were supposed to buy if you continued to use it beyond a certain point (usually 30-45 days).
I think it was the point that after a hundred thousand downloads, and getting *3* checks was a bit of a turn off. Or when a guy at a computer gathering told me about this awesome software, and offered to make me a copy for free... OF MY OWN SOFTWARE. Of course, he'd been using it for a year every day and thought it was the best thing ever, but he wasn't one of the 2 checks I got. His was the 3rd after I he realized who I was.
I realized then either I needed to write software that was less user friendly and needed more support, or I needed to change tactics.
OK, so you don't like the theater. That is fair, I hate most theaters too.
However, why are you pirating bluray rips, when obviously they are available for purchase. I'm sure you might have a reason other than because it's cheaper, but you didn't give it. Of course cheaper isn't a reason on it's own, otherwise you are condoning stealing because that too is cheaper.
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There aren't any antitrust issues here. Intel can do whatever it wants with it's processors so long as it doesn't use it's processors (I'm not even sure you could call Intel a monopoly in processors, but that would be for a court to decide) to give another of their products an unfair advantage.
Pretty much the same for Microsoft. Unless you think somehow Microsoft strong armed Intel into it, and can prove it in court. Even then it would be difficult. You would have to prove that Microsoft abused it's monopoly position in OSes to do so in a way that harms consumers. Good luck with that.
I think I already saw that video on the internets, pick a new toy.
Siri requires a noise cancellation technology that is hardware accelerated in the chip that the last generation iPad does not have.
Simple. Write your app assuming a 960x640 points, and it'll work on every current iOS device including the new iPhone 5. Alternatively, program for 480x320 points, and it'll work on every current device AND the iPhone 3GS.
But even the GPS receiver is already abstracted for you by the OS, which is available across all the devices. I haven't actually looked that the location API, but it's quite easy to determine what is available. You probably just call a function that will tell you if it's never available, not currently available, or it is currently available or something to that extent. Devices with no GPS but have a cellular connection will still give you a location based on cell tower triangulation. Those with WIFI will use known WIFI SSID's to give you a location.
On the droid you'd need to check the currently running OS to even see if the API to check is available before you try to call it. Then you need to call to check to see it's status (if there is an API for it), otherwise you need to go looking yourself to see if the hardware is present (or which hardware of a few might be present), then try to abstract out the differences yourself. Much fun.
The API is consistant across all the devices. Even ones where facetime is not available, the API for it still is. You still have to check if facetime is currently available or not.
if (!facetime.IsCurrentlyAvailable) { facetimeButton.Hide(); }
Boy, that was hard. It handles iPhone, iPod, iPad. It handles if the iPhone is in airplane mode, the iPod in airplane mode, or the older iPods without a front facing camera, the iPad in airplane mode, any of the above when not on a WIFI connection, etc.
The equivalent code for a droid could easily exceed a couple dozen lines of code or a few thousand depending on what you needed to abstract.
Totally. And only if the auto industry had implemented perpetual motion devices in cars today, then we'd no longer have to buy oil from the middle east.
Yes, because the majority of users who take screenshots are reviewing graphic cards.
Rarely, unless it's an extremely small screenshot like 16 pixels by 16 pixels, but it'd be hard to play WoW on that.
And google has an office with 13 people in it in Hamburg Germany? Yes, it would be impossible to move that many people to a location just over the border.
I'm not an expert, no, but I do have a fair amount of knowledge.
For example, I have enough to know that a company that has no presence inside a country does not have to abide by its laws, including Germany. Now Germany could for example make it difficult for German companies to do business with google, but even that would be difficult. Most of google's revenues come from serving ads and adwords, etc, so unless google has "offices" (including buildings serving content), I'm not exactly sure how Germany would plan to do squat. You think Germany would enact a ban of purchasing adwords from google? Could you imagine the uproar the German government would face from their own companies because now they are at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the world? Over some silly woman is trying to censor the internet?
Yes, I could see google putting their foot down. Why should Germany's first lady receive special treatment? Can anyone then demand google censor their results if something "bad" is said about them? Yeah, that's a slippery slope that I expect they'd be willing to not want to step on.
They wouldn't have to not service Germany, just don't have any offices there. Then they can let the German government decide if they want to block google, or not.
No, because Apple doesn't have an effective monopoly of tablet PCs.
Really? 64% marketshare isn't an effective monopoly?
But Microsoft only has a monopoly on desktops. They hold less than 1% marketshare of mobiles. On the other hand, Apple does have a majority marketshare of mobiles (when counting ipod touches, iphones, and ipads -- as they are mobile, run apps, and browse the web)
The law contains a threshold, you just haven't bothered to look it up.
Apple does have a majority marketshare in tablets. And ipod-like devices. And if you lump ipod touches and iphones together as "mobiles", they did have over a 50% marketshare for a few years.
And they sure do block everyone from installing another competing browser. You can not install firefox on a iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, or any other browser that actually does useful stuff like run javascript.
Well it should be something like $8 per view * the number of people on the internet (who missed to opportunity to watch it) * 100 for punitive damages for each occurrence of a false take down notice.
Well we've finally done it. We are obviously headed toward a new ice age. We've hit an "all time coldest day" today as far back as I can remember the daily temps (today and yesterday). Everyone run out and buy winter gear (soon as I buy some stock in winter gear companies first thing tomorrow morning!). So run out and stock up (but wait until atleast 10am, thanks!).
They should be allowed to run them, however, the consequence of them being wrong should place a large enough deterrent that they should not WANT to if it isn't extremely accurate.
Still, that's my decision to make with my money, not yours or "society's." "Society" might benefit from me not taking marijuana, but that still should be my decision to make. "Society" might benefit from the increased birth rate of forcing me to have children, but that still should be my decision to make.
I think "Society" might benefit if they forced you not to have children.
Your math proves your right, for all instances where "anytime soon" is less than 90 days.
As many of the reply pointed out, shareware isn't/wasn't freeware, nor public domain software. I've written both. As to how I know that there were literally hundreds of thousands of downloads, and how many were actually in use long over the 30-day trial period, that differs depending on which one. One was easy because it was used online (An implementation -- the *ONLY* implementation) of the Ymodem-G protocol for the client, and BBSs, compuserve, etc gathered statistics on which file transfer protocols were used. It's amazing when you see 90% of all file transfers, amounting to tens of millions of downloads being done with Ymodem-G across the nation, and there is only one program that does it, it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a statistician to realize it's more than 3 people, or 30, or even 300. Of course, I also saw how many times it was actually downloaded as well, but as you suggest, that doesn't really tell how many people were using it regularly.
Others I couldn't gather hard numbers on, but I would see it at *EVERY* computer conference/gathering I went to, I saw many many people demoing it to others. Only once did I even bother to mention that I wrote it (see above), but only after the guy went on to brag about how long he'd been using it and how great it was.
Protip: Using "Protip" makes you sound like an 8 year one who reads game review magazines like it was a religion. Or a meme. Or both.
Trying to change the subject is for those that understand that their position is weak. Please continue.
BTW, where do you park your car? Because well, cars are just too expensive, and I probably wouldn't pay what you paid for yours. It is likely a piece of crap, but I feel entitled to it anyhow, but it is just not worth what you would sell it for. Don't worry, I'm not taking anything, because you'll get the value back (most of it anyhow) from your insurance eventually.
Your reasoning is weak, face it.
I did the whole donation thing too -- although back in the day, we called it shareware. Fully functional software that you were supposed to buy if you continued to use it beyond a certain point (usually 30-45 days).
I think it was the point that after a hundred thousand downloads, and getting *3* checks was a bit of a turn off. Or when a guy at a computer gathering told me about this awesome software, and offered to make me a copy for free... OF MY OWN SOFTWARE. Of course, he'd been using it for a year every day and thought it was the best thing ever, but he wasn't one of the 2 checks I got. His was the 3rd after I he realized who I was.
I realized then either I needed to write software that was less user friendly and needed more support, or I needed to change tactics.
OK, so you don't like the theater. That is fair, I hate most theaters too.
However, why are you pirating bluray rips, when obviously they are available for purchase. I'm sure you might have a reason other than because it's cheaper, but you didn't give it. Of course cheaper isn't a reason on it's own, otherwise you are condoning stealing because that too is cheaper.