Who gives a fuck who did it first. The iPhone does it now, that's all that matters. You can say, "But... but my phone did it FIRST!" all you want, and nobody else is going to care.
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Wrong. Android came out only after Apple announced the SDK and App Store for the iPhone.
And the vast, vast majority of the cellphone market is still dumbphones. You know, the ones you get for free with a contract?
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Tell that to my G1. Its less old than the iPhone 3G, and yet it hasn't received as many updates, and won't be receiving an update to the newest firmware this summer.
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They're talking about dumbphones/featurephones. You know, the type of phone that is still the majority of the cellphone market. They're locked down way more than any Apple device, and yet none of you guys were out crying "Fascism!" about them.
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They've made it worse for the mobile market, by making it easier for developers to sell their wares, and for consumers to purchase them?
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What about all those people building supercomputers out of PS3s?
Only if that also would have killed any arguments against the App Store. You still have to pay Microsoft to develop for it, you distribute through their distribution channel (Xbox Live Arcade), and they have final approval power over what goes in their store.
Just to be a little pedantic, there is a difference between not making a profit, and operating as a non-profit charity. I believe that the relevant tax authority would actually have to declare them as being a non-profit organization, and that has a lot to do with what the organization actually does, how they go about doing it, and what the money they take in goes to.
In other words, simply not making any profit doesn't mean you're not operating for commercial purposes.
It is still one of the best postal services in the world. No private company would be able to deal with the restrictions that the USPS has to operate under (deliver a piece of mail to any address in the US, no matter how remote, for one flat rate across the nation), and be able to do it as cheaply or efficiently as the USPS. And privatization is not some cure-all that will make things better; ask residents of the UK how Royal Mail has been doing since it was privatized.
The Constitution gives the Federal government the right to coin money. Before then, under the Articles of Confederation, each state and even some cities just printed their own currency, and none of them would agree on a common exchange rate. Given that we are One Nation, it makes sense that we would have one common currency.
The only way a torrent site could offer its service with the prospect of no commercial gain would be if they didn't charge any membership fees, didn't ask for donations, and didn't run ads on the site. Given the costs involved, it would be quite difficult to do so.
I would think that something like this alone isn't enough to arrest the kid for, but enough to do a little investigation. After that, the decision on whether or not to arrest should come up.
I think the most important thing needed for confidence in any voting system is a voter verified paper trail, which would also keep a copy of the paper trail in a secure place.
True, but someone going to vote in a Primary election generally isn't going to be apathetic about the election. The people who show up to primaries are the activists, those who actually care.
There are videos showing Scantron style vote machines being fucked with too. However, they are a little better in that you still have the paper trail around.
That's what the paper trail is for. Presumably, the paper trail ballots would be securely stored, and in the event of a recount or some allegation of fraud, they would be used to double check the electronic records.
You misread me. I said, with Silverlight, you're just as locked into Microsoft as you were locked into Adobe while using Flash. I didn't say that using Adobe locked you into Microsoft (although that's practically true, as Windows is the only platform Flash runs worth a damn on).
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So why doesn't the phone prompt you when the app first attempts to do something with these, like the iPhone does?
Not compared to any other smartphone out there. Unsubsidized, most of them cost around $500. Hell, the N900 cost close to $800 when it was launched.
they need me to debug some web code
Is this really something you want to be doing from a phone anyway? It seems to me like that's something that can wait until I'm at a computer.
And now you can.
Who gives a fuck who did it first. The iPhone does it now, that's all that matters. You can say, "But... but my phone did it FIRST!" all you want, and nobody else is going to care.
Wrong. Android came out only after Apple announced the SDK and App Store for the iPhone.
And the vast, vast majority of the cellphone market is still dumbphones. You know, the ones you get for free with a contract?
Tell that to my G1. Its less old than the iPhone 3G, and yet it hasn't received as many updates, and won't be receiving an update to the newest firmware this summer.
They're talking about dumbphones/featurephones. You know, the type of phone that is still the majority of the cellphone market. They're locked down way more than any Apple device, and yet none of you guys were out crying "Fascism!" about them.
They've made it worse for the mobile market, by making it easier for developers to sell their wares, and for consumers to purchase them?
What about all those people building supercomputers out of PS3s?
Only if that also would have killed any arguments against the App Store. You still have to pay Microsoft to develop for it, you distribute through their distribution channel (Xbox Live Arcade), and they have final approval power over what goes in their store.
WRONG! Read the article, they're stored on the internal storage.
Then why do they persist through a factory reset?
A debug feature who's data persists through a factory reset? I don't buy it. And even if it is, its not ok.
Just to be a little pedantic, there is a difference between not making a profit, and operating as a non-profit charity. I believe that the relevant tax authority would actually have to declare them as being a non-profit organization, and that has a lot to do with what the organization actually does, how they go about doing it, and what the money they take in goes to.
In other words, simply not making any profit doesn't mean you're not operating for commercial purposes.
US Post Office (nearly bankrupt)
It is still one of the best postal services in the world. No private company would be able to deal with the restrictions that the USPS has to operate under (deliver a piece of mail to any address in the US, no matter how remote, for one flat rate across the nation), and be able to do it as cheaply or efficiently as the USPS. And privatization is not some cure-all that will make things better; ask residents of the UK how Royal Mail has been doing since it was privatized.
The Constitution gives the Federal government the right to coin money. Before then, under the Articles of Confederation, each state and even some cities just printed their own currency, and none of them would agree on a common exchange rate. Given that we are One Nation, it makes sense that we would have one common currency.
The only way a torrent site could offer its service with the prospect of no commercial gain would be if they didn't charge any membership fees, didn't ask for donations, and didn't run ads on the site. Given the costs involved, it would be quite difficult to do so.
I would think that something like this alone isn't enough to arrest the kid for, but enough to do a little investigation. After that, the decision on whether or not to arrest should come up.
I think the most important thing needed for confidence in any voting system is a voter verified paper trail, which would also keep a copy of the paper trail in a secure place.
The regulations and inspections on that rig happened on the GOP's watch.
True, but someone going to vote in a Primary election generally isn't going to be apathetic about the election. The people who show up to primaries are the activists, those who actually care.
There are videos showing Scantron style vote machines being fucked with too. However, they are a little better in that you still have the paper trail around.
That's what the paper trail is for. Presumably, the paper trail ballots would be securely stored, and in the event of a recount or some allegation of fraud, they would be used to double check the electronic records.
You misread me. I said, with Silverlight, you're just as locked into Microsoft as you were locked into Adobe while using Flash. I didn't say that using Adobe locked you into Microsoft (although that's practically true, as Windows is the only platform Flash runs worth a damn on).