I'm willing to sell you this license of Windows for $1, that you can easily re-sell for $100. The only catch is that you're not allowed to sell anything but Windows. The exclusivity clause only matters if you're in a monopoly position, which in the case of tablets I would suggest Apple holds that position.
If you purchase a computer with Windows, Linux, or OSX pre-installed I would suggest that getting from point A (opening the box) to point B (compiling an Android App) takes the same approximate amount of work. And in none of those cases would it require a command line. Ironically you'd be using the same tools to do that development any of the platforms so the existence or lack thereof for tooltips should be the same. If you use Windows because it's familiar then that's fine. If you use Excel (and hence Windows) because of market saturation/compatibility then that's fine also. But it's perfectly plausible to use any of the platforms listed without making any use of the command line. I personally use a mix of Windows and Linux and I rarely use the command line, and when I do it's stuff that generally exists on either platform (ping, telnet, etc.)
If you're serious, respond to this with some way for me to contact you. I grew up in OO land (as opposed to procedural land) so it's the "natural" way of me to think about coding. I've been writing Java for about 10 years and even though I haven't done more than a tutorial or two on Android development I would be happy to help by answering your "stupid questions" related to the Java language, Object Oriented design patterns, or just object orientation in general.
Of course Apple is trying to meet market demand to maximize profits, to suggest otherwise I think would be silly.. I'm saying the method through which they are attempting to meet the market demands is anti-competitive. Apple is getting exclusivity deals with the manufacturers of the components, and yet their devices are still cheaper and with higher profit margins. That tells me rather than Apple competing fairly by paying a price premium for the additional/exclusive capacity they are potentially using their market position in an anti-competitive way. If anyone wants to compete with Apple then it is the competitor that is required to pay the price premium because of Apple's anti-competitive market influence. In a free market everyone who meets a certain minimum capacity requirement (economies of scale obviously come into play) should be paying the same prices for components. Exclusivity deals are a yellow flag of monopoly/anti-competitive practices. It's one of the (many) things that got MSFT in big trouble back in the day.
It may not be a technical innovation, but it is a business/product innovation. In the same way that the portable music device or digital music store was not particularly new, but tying them together and making it relatively idiot proof made Apple a wild success.
I think you have to look at two sides of the situation. The first is what the people doing this *think* are the reasons for their behavior and I would wager that ranges from some semi-intellectual/political ideology all the way down to "Free stuff!" I would suggest that's only half (perhaps even less than half) of the real story. There's clearly some pent up frustration in these communities that could come from any number of places ranging from police brutality/racism, social inequality, economic inequality, etc. but those are not the types of things I would expect young and/or uneducated people to be able to articulate about their rage. Lack of respect for property has a tendency to be derived from a lack of your own property. In particular this young generation is facing a situation where the job market is already poor, older people are unable to retire because their investments went sour, and/or people with 10+ years of experience are out competing for entry level jobs that the young generation would usually be scooping up to get their foot in the door. They will truly be a lost generation because they will not have had the opportunity to create that foundation for building a career. Does that excuse their behavior? Of course not, they should all be locked up, but I do think it's important to understand what's going on so that we can make a point of attempting to help the people who may be in the same boat, but were wise enough not to get violent.
Only to the extent that it's anti-competitive. Apple clearly has the best tablet product on the market right now based on how well the thing is selling. It's one thing to be better than everyone else, it's a totally different thing to control the market in such a way that your competitors can't.. well.. compete.
Yep, your best bet is to hope to stay under the radar until you can get scooped up by a big company with a patent war chest of their own. Otherwise you'll eventually wind up in the cross-hairs of some patent troll.
Because apple buys all the manufacturing capacity. I work at a company that has close ties to the phone industry and they're having a really hard time getting components. One of the techniques Apple supposedly (hearsay, no citation) uses is to offer a manufacturer a bunch of money to help them re-tool or build a new plant and in exchange Apple gets exclusive rights to the output of the plant for some amount of time.
True, but Average Joe consumer was not setting up and/or using offsite/online backups. If "any idiot" can do it without much fuss then it's innovative in that they made it digestible to the proletariat.
I'm in this boat. I've never looked for anything on wikipedia that wasn't already there. Only very specific metrics that I had to get from the original source like the US census bureau or something.
Sometimes I want my fat email client to get the duty of sending an e-mail when I click a mailto link. Other times I want to use gmail, other times hotmail. If I could register those different providers for that type of click then it'd make my life a little easier. When I go to [insert store here]'s website to find a local store it could show the directions using my pre-configured mapping solutions provider. If you prefer Bing over Google Maps you would get that automatically, or vice-versa. I don't envision it being "rock my world" type stuff, but it could improve the quality of your web browsing in ways that are not obvious to you at all.
You know how when you click a mailto: link it brings up your system's default e-mail client? Well, with this API you could register several e-mail clients, including web based ones, and choose which one you wanted to use on a per-click basis.
One example I would use is mapping/directions. Let's say Bing Maps, Google Maps, and Mapquest have asked to be registered as mapping suppliers and you've allowed all three. Now on my website rather than linking to a particular mapping provider I call an api that tells your browser to provide a map to my local store using your preferred mapping provider. So you'll be prompted whether you'd like the map provided by Bing, Google, or Mapquest. Or if you have it configured it'll just automagically go to your preferred provider. That's only the simplest example and the sorts of things that currently exist on the phones, I'm sure someone more creative than me will come up with better ideas.
That's why you use industry standard libraries like jquery or yui which will hide all the nasty implementation details of various platforms from you and make it simple to develop. Only a few dozen people ever need to be bothered by the low level APIs.
I have a different view. Megacorps view this stuff the same way they view the rampant theft at retail stores. It's a cost of doing business and it's passed on to competitors. It's only worth fighting to the extend that they can get a competitive advantage over their competitors to improve their margins. Given that the effort required to have a meaningful affect on the "hackers" is quite large and the return on that investment is quite small, it doesn't happen and the cost is just passed on to customers.
Part of the process of throwing spammers in jail involves tracking down and stopping the bot nets they use for spamming purposes. Killing the bot nets has definitely proven to reduce spam. Often practically overnight.
Why don't we fix the real problem and allow the government agencies responsible for these things to pay market wages for the best talent on the planet?
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Yes, and/or it would theoretically stop the progression of the alzheimer's if you get it early enough in the process.
I'm willing to sell you this license of Windows for $1, that you can easily re-sell for $100. The only catch is that you're not allowed to sell anything but Windows. The exclusivity clause only matters if you're in a monopoly position, which in the case of tablets I would suggest Apple holds that position.
If you purchase a computer with Windows, Linux, or OSX pre-installed I would suggest that getting from point A (opening the box) to point B (compiling an Android App) takes the same approximate amount of work. And in none of those cases would it require a command line. Ironically you'd be using the same tools to do that development any of the platforms so the existence or lack thereof for tooltips should be the same. If you use Windows because it's familiar then that's fine. If you use Excel (and hence Windows) because of market saturation/compatibility then that's fine also. But it's perfectly plausible to use any of the platforms listed without making any use of the command line. I personally use a mix of Windows and Linux and I rarely use the command line, and when I do it's stuff that generally exists on either platform (ping, telnet, etc.)
You had me right up until there's an exclusivity clause in the contract.
If you're serious, respond to this with some way for me to contact you. I grew up in OO land (as opposed to procedural land) so it's the "natural" way of me to think about coding. I've been writing Java for about 10 years and even though I haven't done more than a tutorial or two on Android development I would be happy to help by answering your "stupid questions" related to the Java language, Object Oriented design patterns, or just object orientation in general.
Is anyone still using GWT?
Of course Apple is trying to meet market demand to maximize profits, to suggest otherwise I think would be silly.. I'm saying the method through which they are attempting to meet the market demands is anti-competitive. Apple is getting exclusivity deals with the manufacturers of the components, and yet their devices are still cheaper and with higher profit margins. That tells me rather than Apple competing fairly by paying a price premium for the additional/exclusive capacity they are potentially using their market position in an anti-competitive way. If anyone wants to compete with Apple then it is the competitor that is required to pay the price premium because of Apple's anti-competitive market influence. In a free market everyone who meets a certain minimum capacity requirement (economies of scale obviously come into play) should be paying the same prices for components. Exclusivity deals are a yellow flag of monopoly/anti-competitive practices. It's one of the (many) things that got MSFT in big trouble back in the day.
It may not be a technical innovation, but it is a business/product innovation. In the same way that the portable music device or digital music store was not particularly new, but tying them together and making it relatively idiot proof made Apple a wild success.
I think you have to look at two sides of the situation. The first is what the people doing this *think* are the reasons for their behavior and I would wager that ranges from some semi-intellectual/political ideology all the way down to "Free stuff!" I would suggest that's only half (perhaps even less than half) of the real story. There's clearly some pent up frustration in these communities that could come from any number of places ranging from police brutality/racism, social inequality, economic inequality, etc. but those are not the types of things I would expect young and/or uneducated people to be able to articulate about their rage. Lack of respect for property has a tendency to be derived from a lack of your own property. In particular this young generation is facing a situation where the job market is already poor, older people are unable to retire because their investments went sour, and/or people with 10+ years of experience are out competing for entry level jobs that the young generation would usually be scooping up to get their foot in the door. They will truly be a lost generation because they will not have had the opportunity to create that foundation for building a career. Does that excuse their behavior? Of course not, they should all be locked up, but I do think it's important to understand what's going on so that we can make a point of attempting to help the people who may be in the same boat, but were wise enough not to get violent.
Only to the extent that it's anti-competitive. Apple clearly has the best tablet product on the market right now based on how well the thing is selling. It's one thing to be better than everyone else, it's a totally different thing to control the market in such a way that your competitors can't.. well.. compete.
Yep, your best bet is to hope to stay under the radar until you can get scooped up by a big company with a patent war chest of their own. Otherwise you'll eventually wind up in the cross-hairs of some patent troll.
Because apple buys all the manufacturing capacity. I work at a company that has close ties to the phone industry and they're having a really hard time getting components. One of the techniques Apple supposedly (hearsay, no citation) uses is to offer a manufacturer a bunch of money to help them re-tool or build a new plant and in exchange Apple gets exclusive rights to the output of the plant for some amount of time.
True, but Average Joe consumer was not setting up and/or using offsite/online backups. If "any idiot" can do it without much fuss then it's innovative in that they made it digestible to the proletariat.
I'm in this boat. I've never looked for anything on wikipedia that wasn't already there. Only very specific metrics that I had to get from the original source like the US census bureau or something.
I read a study from MIT that says studies from Yale are rubbish.
Sometimes I want my fat email client to get the duty of sending an e-mail when I click a mailto link. Other times I want to use gmail, other times hotmail. If I could register those different providers for that type of click then it'd make my life a little easier. When I go to [insert store here]'s website to find a local store it could show the directions using my pre-configured mapping solutions provider. If you prefer Bing over Google Maps you would get that automatically, or vice-versa. I don't envision it being "rock my world" type stuff, but it could improve the quality of your web browsing in ways that are not obvious to you at all.
You know how when you click a mailto: link it brings up your system's default e-mail client? Well, with this API you could register several e-mail clients, including web based ones, and choose which one you wanted to use on a per-click basis.
One example I would use is mapping/directions. Let's say Bing Maps, Google Maps, and Mapquest have asked to be registered as mapping suppliers and you've allowed all three. Now on my website rather than linking to a particular mapping provider I call an api that tells your browser to provide a map to my local store using your preferred mapping provider. So you'll be prompted whether you'd like the map provided by Bing, Google, or Mapquest. Or if you have it configured it'll just automagically go to your preferred provider. That's only the simplest example and the sorts of things that currently exist on the phones, I'm sure someone more creative than me will come up with better ideas.
That's why you use industry standard libraries like jquery or yui which will hide all the nasty implementation details of various platforms from you and make it simple to develop. Only a few dozen people ever need to be bothered by the low level APIs.
I have a different view. Megacorps view this stuff the same way they view the rampant theft at retail stores. It's a cost of doing business and it's passed on to competitors. It's only worth fighting to the extend that they can get a competitive advantage over their competitors to improve their margins. Given that the effort required to have a meaningful affect on the "hackers" is quite large and the return on that investment is quite small, it doesn't happen and the cost is just passed on to customers.
Part of the process of throwing spammers in jail involves tracking down and stopping the bot nets they use for spamming purposes. Killing the bot nets has definitely proven to reduce spam. Often practically overnight.
When you consider the gravitational field rather than line of sight then the "shadow" that Earth casts is really quite large.
Why don't we fix the real problem and allow the government agencies responsible for these things to pay market wages for the best talent on the planet?
Awesome! That'll pay for 15 graduate students!
More like 15 graduate credits. Inflation gets you every time.
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