If Apple was giving up on Apple TV, it would have done it a long time ago
Apple is much like Microsoft these days in the fact their core business is making enough money that they can justify losses in other sectors.
iTV has been a complete and utter failure compared to other DVR systems. The market is already saturated with cheap DVR devices that can do more than the iTV can and this is obvious to the outside observer. Geeks are getting things like Boxee, normal people are getting Chinese made DVR's at walmart. Idiots are buying them from their Pay TV companies.
Hell, even setting up a Windows based media centre is a simple task for anyone with enough skill to install Windows 7. Apple lost out on this market with Apple TV yet they released another version. The only people with iTV's I know are the hopeless Apple fanboys who buy everything from Apple regardless (even the regular fanboys avoid iTV).
You describe the situation for the former A-G as terrible - it's only terrible for him. No-one else gives a fuck as it doesn't matter any more.
Pretty much what I was trying to say mate, you're reading into my melodrama a bit too much. Think of it as twisting the knife in Atkinson's side, his opposition to R18 means that R material is being released as M15.
The Classification Board (Fuck it, we need to rename it back to the Office of Film and Literature Classification) should only offer "ratings advice" not determine if a product can be sold in Australia. That is about the only useful job they have, to help people make more informed decisions about media purchases, not to decide for them. Certain individuals in this nation do not wish to see violent or possibly sexually exiting material, whilst I dont agree with them, I respect the rights of wingnuts to stick their heads in the sand and only buy G rated material, what I dont want is these wingnuts sticking my head in the sand at the same time.
I can understand why violence might need to be restricted, but nudity? Come on..
Perhaps I didn't make my point clearly enough. I did say "any level" of nudity, not any nudity.
The difference between an M (Mature) rated and an R (Restricted) rated film is normally the severity and frequency of violence and nudity.
Australia is not like the US, we have naked breasts on TV all the time, however when it becomes excessive or turns into full frontal nudity it tends to be a bit more restricted. Even simulated sex (heavy panting with the covers on) is not considered R rated material here.
Having some nudity is M rated, having a lot of nudity is R rated.
Games that have a lot of sexual or violent content should be R rated, I'm not talking about sexual innuendo or the odd naked breast but material that is clearly meant for adults (think sex scenes).
effectively evading the notoriously strict censors
The Classification Board is aware of just how much of a joke it's become. They've figured out that anything remotely popular now has to be given an M15+ rating regardless of content because they've been threatened by state governments to have their mandate pulled if they start trying to censor things. Basically they've become toothless, refuse classification and the media will drag you thought the mud so they'll just rubber stamp any level of violence and nudity even when it should be clearly restricted.
Basically this was the worst possible scenario for former attorney general Michael Atkinson, as 15 yr olds can now legally buy material that should be in the Restricted (R18+) category ironically because Atkinson opposed the introduction of a restricted category for video games. Hell, a 12 or 13 yr old could get it as they dont really do ID checks for M rated films, not to mention parents who dont understand the content that will buy it.
Well you made the bed Michael, now you have to lie in it.
My sisters Iphone 4 - drops calls all the time and that is very uncommon for phones in Australia. Just hold it and watch the bars drop away, even after the SW update that was meant to hide it.
My Motorola milestone has OK reception at my work and Bad reception at my house (but still works, it's about -85 to -95 dBm). An Iphone 4 has no reception at either place using Australia's supposedly "superior" Telstra network.
My anecdotal evidence rips your anecdotal evidence to shreds.
The CDMA iPhone actually does have an antenna change
But it's still on the outside, which is what the problem was with the GSM antenna. So it uses a different frequency and has a different electrical length, that's still going to be interfered with if you introduce a new conductor to the antenna.
So back to what the OP said, why would you expect a different result.
While even in the realm of first person perspective games, joypad can be quite great
So, you've never played a game with a keyboard and mouse before. It's OK, we dont hate you.
A control pad will never match the accuracy and speed of a mouse. For one, you cannot move a cursor directly from point to point, you must always base your movement on the centre of the joystick/thumbstick. For things like flight sim's this is a good thing but for looking and general movement it's terrible.
Secondly comes co-ordination. You can do far more operations per second, provided you have a minimum level of co-ordination using a keyboard and mouse doing separate things.
Third, number of buttons. If you put 40 odd buttons on a joypad, it would be as big as a keyboard so you may as well have used one in the first place.
Pardon? Are you serious?
It's hard to name android devices that even got the bump from 1.6 to 2.0,
I've got 2.2 on my HTC Dream, the first Android phone to be released. In my nation it was released with Android 1.1. Everything past 1.6 is a community ROM but I've still got 2.2.
When Apple decided not to release new functionality for the older Iphones and Ipads, what other choice do you have but to buy a new one to get that functionality. Not like you can run unsigned code on an Ipad.
Apple is about the only tech company that doesn't make a habit of going to the market with beta products and fixing it afterwords.
Afterwards
Now awaken from your dreamy state and remove the rose coloured glasses.
Apple products have major flaws, just as big as other manufacturers. The Iphone 4 antenna, macbooks consistently overheating, the iphone music deletion bug and thats just from the last year. I do not berate Apple for having these issues, I berate Apple for not fixing them and their response to them. The response to overheating was just to ignore it, the Iphone 4 antenna was to first to pretend it didn't exist, then blame the users and finally hand out free cases without an admission that the problem was systemic.
If you can't match the quality of a competitor that launched eight months before you
When you consider that competitor was designed to crawl and never walk then that changes things.
The existing Android 2.2 tablets are orders of magnitude more complex than the Ipad. Sorry but the two just aren't compatible in terms of functionality.
The tablets built out of old technology like the Ipad such as the Dell Streak and Galaxy Tab performed quite well. Amazing how good things can be when you lower the bar enough.
No I haven't read the article, but from the summery it's sounds more like shitty engineering and design killed that Android tables.
And you'd be right, I doubt the poster to writer of TFA has used Android tablets, I have and you're spot on, apart from the assertion that Android tablets are dead.
I haven't found any to be flimsy but definitely a product designed and made with cheap, low quality components end up as products that are cheap and low quality.
GIGO is a well known principal amongst engineers, unfortunately not that well known amongst engineering managers.
BTW, if Android tablets are dead, then the entire tablet market is also dead which may not be that far off. I'm not convinced the tablet thing isn't a fad that will wear off in 12-18 months. Tablets have been around for years yet have not found an actual purpose outside of niche applications.
I don't think they were released too soon. They were the teething stage of tablets, the infancy where mistakes could be made. Thanks to this Google, Motorola and others have learned valuable lessons. Some of the previous Android tablets are hardly failures. Dell's Streak turned a profit, Samsung's Galaxy Tab sold well with a small return rate not to mention the Archos products which others have pointed out.
Basically the demand was there, proven by the 22% of tablets sold that were not made by Apple. So now armed with this knowledge, the multitude of manufacturers can create a truly competitive tablet market.
Personally I'm still not convinced tablets aren't a fad, much like an overpriced Tamigotchi or flares.
I know you're just trolling and I probably shouldn't respond, but the answer to your "question" is "zero". I mean, even ignoring the fact that 550 tons of yellowcake were found in Iraq,
What yellowcake did they find?
Do you mean the yellowcake that was on a UN weapons inspectors manifest since 2001 (so we knew exactly where it was, not like it was lost or anything).
Also worth noting that the natural uranium (yellowcake) in question was nowhere near suitable for nuclear weapons production or even use in a dirty bomb. In fact it wasn't even fissile enough to be used in a reactor. What your post doesn't say is that no centrifuges that could have been used to enrich the inert material were found.
So to correct your post, in 2008 the US completed removal of a known source of natural uranium. So no weapons of mass destruction found.
Please review this material before posting this again. In fact I strongly recommend you fact check before posting again, Thank you.
Simple is not better, it's just simple. I am a programmer, and I can't work with simple. I need that extra mile of control Windows and Linux give me.
So in other words you need "working" not "simple"?
Also IOS is not simple, it's reduced or neutered. Simple is when a complex task is made faster to do or requires less steps to perform. This can be done without reducing the number of steps by making each step lead into the next, this is the idea behind installation wizards although it's never pulled off correctly these days. IOS on the other hand simply removes features that have any complexity to perform, this does not make it simpler, rather it makes it less capable.
BTW, you've sumbled upon very good point, most people need an OS, by extention a computer that will do what they need it to. This is why Windows is still in command of the market, Windows is a bloated, buggy pile of shite but it does 90% of what 99% of people need it to do. Pretty is useless, functionality is everything.
He already has. Tim Cook has been running Apple for a while, and was solely in charge during Steve's previous leave of absence
Go out on to the street, ask 10 random people who runs Apple Inc.
Thought so, did you get 9 or 10 "Steve Jobs" replies. My bet is on 10. The average person doesn't know who Tim Cook is, let alone that he holds a high position in Apple Inc. In the last 8 odd years Apple have gone to great lengths to hide anyone who's name is not Steve Jobs and created a cult of personality around Jobs himself. The perception is now bigger than the man. That would become quite dangerous if the man were to disappear.
Most people dont even know that it was Jony Ives who designed the Iphone's antenna and outer casing. That it was Jony Ives that was responsible for the Iphone antenna problems. Apple has attached the name and image of Steve Jobs to everything, reality has no basis here, it's all about perception.
t seems Samsung is pulling the same crap with their holding back Android v2.2 from their older phones as a means of attracting people to buy the newer ones.
If you mean the Galaxy S (i9000) phones, then you'll find in Australia, Europe and Asia these models already have Android v2.2.
Only in the US where they are being rebranded as the Captivate or whatever are they having trouble getting v2.2. Perhaps this is not so much of a problem with Samsung and more a problem with US telco's demanding special versions?
If you got the Euro version of the Galaxy S, you wouldn't have an issue... apart from finding a telco to support it.
If you're worried about governments meddling with the Internet now, wait until they own the last mile.
If it weren't for the Australian government fixing wholesale prices, there would be nothing but a for-profit monopoly on the last mile in Australia.
You're making it seem as if private entities will never abuse a monopoly yet a government always will. What colour is the sky on your planet.
I bet the RIAA and MPAA are salivating at the possibility.
And what exactly is stopping a private entity from doing just that?
Competition, sorry buddy but that doesn't exist on the last mile in either of our nations unless you have four different pairs of copper running into your house, one from each telco.
I know it will be a hell of a lot harder for a monitoring organisation to get through governmental bureaucracy then it is for them to pay off the telco monopoly to look the other way. Hell, the telco would even cooperate, they want the big downloaders gone so they can keep overselling their infrastructure with fake "unlimited" promises.
As most people have said, it's not the backhaul that's the issue, it's the last mile.
In the end, it's the last mile that needs to be upgraded to fibre. Copper technologies are simply not good enough, especially on regular phone lines as most of the world has no access to HFC.
However the problem you have is that no private entity is willing to do it, with the long term scope of such a project and when a government does it they get bashed relentlessly by people who have no understanding of the technologies involved.
No, suicide bombers are usually college educated middle class people. I know that makes for a more confusing narrative than "Unstable, idealistic, and poor," but it is true.
Collage educated in developing nations world countries means someone who has passed a hospitality course required to work in McD's or has taken a trade. Often it's equivalent to a western yr 9 or 10 education where the average level of education is yr 5 or 6.
Peoples minds are most easily influenced when they are young, 16-21 years of age where they've just reached full maturity and are finding out how hard the real world is. Why do you think the highest suicide rates in western societies are in the 16-25 age group. So there is your unstable and idealistic.
Also when you live in a warzone, even if you've trained as a carpenter or have your certificate in hospitality there is often no place to work. There is your poor.
So they've worked hard, yet have no money, no hope and no future Or you could just call it, unstable, idealistic and poor. So some silver tongued extremist gives them a load of bollocks about how great their god/idea/cause is and shows them some kindness that the world has not. This kind of confidence trick gets played on young kids in western societies all the time, especially on young girls (I.E. 35 yr old peruses 18 yr old girl for sex by playing pandering to her feeling of hardship).
When quoting Wikipedia it's important to read the article to gain some context. From this very section of the article.
Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, found the majority of suicide bombers came from the educated middle classes. A study of the remains of 110 suicide bombers for the first part of 2007 by Afghan pathologist Dr. Yusef Yadgari, found 80% were missing limbs before the blasts, other suffered from cancer, leprosy, or some other ailments.
Also consider what is middle class in Afghanistan. This would be to own a bit of land, a few head of livestock and be able to work your own land. I'm currently in Thailand and they would call that poor, I work an average IT job in OZ and the Thai's call me rich. Context is very, very important.
Also
Use of suicide terror against civilian targets has differing effects on the attackers' goals (see reaction below). Some economists suggest that this tactic goes beyond symbolism and is actually a response to commodified, controlled, or devalued lives, as the suicide attackers apparently consider family prestige and financial compensation from the community as compensation for their own lives.
So money is a consideration as is the raising of their families status. In developing nations I've visited in Asia, a families status is very important. We don't place much value on it in the west because we've more or less done away with class systems but in poorer nations they haven't. To a Thai, the family status is very important, they will lie and cheat to prevent an uncomfortable truth from harming their face and status, high status enables you to break laws without consequence and in Thailand your status is very much influenced by the amount of money you have.
Taking the long view, we're just about to see the Decline and Fall of Flash
Depends how long of a view, Certainly not in the next 5 years and certainly not from HTML 5 because HTML 5 is a complete mess.
Right now, for HTML 5 I have to maintain different sites for Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Lets forget IE who has 40% of the market in my country but does not support HTML 5 at all. Plus all the people using older versions of a browser.
Now for a simple multimedia experience for my audience I need to either code 4 websites for 4 different browsers or code it once in flash. Flash has many, many flaws but HTML 5 has one big one that makes it inferior to Flash, Flash is write once, run anywhere, HTML 5 is write 4 times and hope people have an up to date browser.
I'm sorry for having to point this out to the HTML 5 fanboys but Flash isn't going anywhere because a single bit of HTML5 code cant run everywhere.
I hope my 1-trick for the next decade is to learn simple HTML 5
Why not just learn HTML. HTML 5 offers no advantage over simple HTML, the only advantage in HTML 5 was supposedly the simplification of multimedia, but thanks to Apple and Microsoft trying to "guide" the standard into what they want (vendor lock in and proprietary codecs) that isn't going to happen.
It never had complete control, but it did its job. It established a level playing field and and brought parity (more or less) to four different browser engines
Today, a web dev has to maintain four different versions of any website that gets more complex then text and pictures. For non web dev's who need to maintain a website (I.E. most companies in existence) this is an expensive headache.
Dont get me wrong, I don't blame the W3C for this, they tried their hardest to establish open standards for cross browser rendering but Microsoft and Apple tried even harder to destroy open standards. Both are trying to lock people into a vendor controlled experience on the web using proprietary codecs and patented code. Google and Mozilla seem to be interested in creating something interoperable even if Google is doing it out of self interest (they really want to stop paying H.264 fees on YouTube) it doesn't make it a bad thing(TM).
Now it's all about innovation and compatibility.
Unfortunately no. I really wish it were but now it's about lock in and incompatibility. There is a concerted effort to diminish open standards and get site owners to use proprietary standards and codecs.
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Apple is much like Microsoft these days in the fact their core business is making enough money that they can justify losses in other sectors.
iTV has been a complete and utter failure compared to other DVR systems. The market is already saturated with cheap DVR devices that can do more than the iTV can and this is obvious to the outside observer. Geeks are getting things like Boxee, normal people are getting Chinese made DVR's at walmart. Idiots are buying them from their Pay TV companies.
Hell, even setting up a Windows based media centre is a simple task for anyone with enough skill to install Windows 7. Apple lost out on this market with Apple TV yet they released another version. The only people with iTV's I know are the hopeless Apple fanboys who buy everything from Apple regardless (even the regular fanboys avoid iTV).
Pretty much what I was trying to say mate, you're reading into my melodrama a bit too much. Think of it as twisting the knife in Atkinson's side, his opposition to R18 means that R material is being released as M15.
The Classification Board (Fuck it, we need to rename it back to the Office of Film and Literature Classification) should only offer "ratings advice" not determine if a product can be sold in Australia. That is about the only useful job they have, to help people make more informed decisions about media purchases, not to decide for them. Certain individuals in this nation do not wish to see violent or possibly sexually exiting material, whilst I dont agree with them, I respect the rights of wingnuts to stick their heads in the sand and only buy G rated material, what I dont want is these wingnuts sticking my head in the sand at the same time.
Perhaps I didn't make my point clearly enough. I did say "any level" of nudity, not any nudity.
The difference between an M (Mature) rated and an R (Restricted) rated film is normally the severity and frequency of violence and nudity.
Australia is not like the US, we have naked breasts on TV all the time, however when it becomes excessive or turns into full frontal nudity it tends to be a bit more restricted. Even simulated sex (heavy panting with the covers on) is not considered R rated material here.
Having some nudity is M rated, having a lot of nudity is R rated.
Games that have a lot of sexual or violent content should be R rated, I'm not talking about sexual innuendo or the odd naked breast but material that is clearly meant for adults (think sex scenes).
The Classification Board is aware of just how much of a joke it's become. They've figured out that anything remotely popular now has to be given an M15+ rating regardless of content because they've been threatened by state governments to have their mandate pulled if they start trying to censor things. Basically they've become toothless, refuse classification and the media will drag you thought the mud so they'll just rubber stamp any level of violence and nudity even when it should be clearly restricted.
Basically this was the worst possible scenario for former attorney general Michael Atkinson, as 15 yr olds can now legally buy material that should be in the Restricted (R18+) category ironically because Atkinson opposed the introduction of a restricted category for video games. Hell, a 12 or 13 yr old could get it as they dont really do ID checks for M rated films, not to mention parents who dont understand the content that will buy it.
Well you made the bed Michael, now you have to lie in it.
Forgive me father, for iHave sinned.
Uhhh... the parent was comparing them to Android and IOS devices, how is that Android trolling?
Is it just that you dont want IOS being able to be compared with Android? Are you that scared of it.
Someone please mod parent retarded.
My Motorola Milestone - no death grip.
My mates Samsung Galaxy S - no death grip.
My sisters Iphone 4 - drops calls all the time and that is very uncommon for phones in Australia. Just hold it and watch the bars drop away, even after the SW update that was meant to hide it.
My Motorola milestone has OK reception at my work and Bad reception at my house (but still works, it's about -85 to -95 dBm). An Iphone 4 has no reception at either place using Australia's supposedly "superior" Telstra network.
My anecdotal evidence rips your anecdotal evidence to shreds.
But it's still on the outside, which is what the problem was with the GSM antenna. So it uses a different frequency and has a different electrical length, that's still going to be interfered with if you introduce a new conductor to the antenna.
So back to what the OP said, why would you expect a different result.
So, you've never played a game with a keyboard and mouse before. It's OK, we dont hate you.
A control pad will never match the accuracy and speed of a mouse. For one, you cannot move a cursor directly from point to point, you must always base your movement on the centre of the joystick/thumbstick. For things like flight sim's this is a good thing but for looking and general movement it's terrible.
Secondly comes co-ordination. You can do far more operations per second, provided you have a minimum level of co-ordination using a keyboard and mouse doing separate things.
Third, number of buttons. If you put 40 odd buttons on a joypad, it would be as big as a keyboard so you may as well have used one in the first place.
I've got 2.2 on my HTC Dream, the first Android phone to be released. In my nation it was released with Android 1.1. Everything past 1.6 is a community ROM but I've still got 2.2.
When Apple decided not to release new functionality for the older Iphones and Ipads, what other choice do you have but to buy a new one to get that functionality. Not like you can run unsigned code on an Ipad.
Afterwards
Now awaken from your dreamy state and remove the rose coloured glasses.
Apple products have major flaws, just as big as other manufacturers. The Iphone 4 antenna, macbooks consistently overheating, the iphone music deletion bug and thats just from the last year. I do not berate Apple for having these issues, I berate Apple for not fixing them and their response to them. The response to overheating was just to ignore it, the Iphone 4 antenna was to first to pretend it didn't exist, then blame the users and finally hand out free cases without an admission that the problem was systemic.
Compare this to other devices in the same sector having a 2% return rate.
You were saying,
It's best to check your sources, rather than believing every rumour on the internet.
When you consider that competitor was designed to crawl and never walk then that changes things.
The existing Android 2.2 tablets are orders of magnitude more complex than the Ipad. Sorry but the two just aren't compatible in terms of functionality. The tablets built out of old technology like the Ipad such as the Dell Streak and Galaxy Tab performed quite well. Amazing how good things can be when you lower the bar enough.
No I haven't read the article, but from the summery it's sounds more like shitty engineering and design killed that Android tables.
And you'd be right, I doubt the poster to writer of TFA has used Android tablets, I have and you're spot on, apart from the assertion that Android tablets are dead.
I haven't found any to be flimsy but definitely a product designed and made with cheap, low quality components end up as products that are cheap and low quality.
GIGO is a well known principal amongst engineers, unfortunately not that well known amongst engineering managers.
BTW, if Android tablets are dead, then the entire tablet market is also dead which may not be that far off. I'm not convinced the tablet thing isn't a fad that will wear off in 12-18 months. Tablets have been around for years yet have not found an actual purpose outside of niche applications.
I don't think they were released too soon. They were the teething stage of tablets, the infancy where mistakes could be made. Thanks to this Google, Motorola and others have learned valuable lessons. Some of the previous Android tablets are hardly failures. Dell's Streak turned a profit, Samsung's Galaxy Tab sold well with a small return rate not to mention the Archos products which others have pointed out.
Basically the demand was there, proven by the 22% of tablets sold that were not made by Apple. So now armed with this knowledge, the multitude of manufacturers can create a truly competitive tablet market.
Personally I'm still not convinced tablets aren't a fad, much like an overpriced Tamigotchi or flares.
What yellowcake did they find?
Do you mean the yellowcake that was on a UN weapons inspectors manifest since 2001 (so we knew exactly where it was, not like it was lost or anything).
Also worth noting that the natural uranium (yellowcake) in question was nowhere near suitable for nuclear weapons production or even use in a dirty bomb. In fact it wasn't even fissile enough to be used in a reactor. What your post doesn't say is that no centrifuges that could have been used to enrich the inert material were found.
So to correct your post, in 2008 the US completed removal of a known source of natural uranium. So no weapons of mass destruction found.
Please review this material before posting this again. In fact I strongly recommend you fact check before posting again, Thank you.
So in other words you need "working" not "simple"?
Also IOS is not simple, it's reduced or neutered. Simple is when a complex task is made faster to do or requires less steps to perform. This can be done without reducing the number of steps by making each step lead into the next, this is the idea behind installation wizards although it's never pulled off correctly these days. IOS on the other hand simply removes features that have any complexity to perform, this does not make it simpler, rather it makes it less capable.
BTW, you've sumbled upon very good point, most people need an OS, by extention a computer that will do what they need it to. This is why Windows is still in command of the market, Windows is a bloated, buggy pile of shite but it does 90% of what 99% of people need it to do. Pretty is useless, functionality is everything.
Go out on to the street, ask 10 random people who runs Apple Inc.
Thought so, did you get 9 or 10 "Steve Jobs" replies. My bet is on 10. The average person doesn't know who Tim Cook is, let alone that he holds a high position in Apple Inc. In the last 8 odd years Apple have gone to great lengths to hide anyone who's name is not Steve Jobs and created a cult of personality around Jobs himself. The perception is now bigger than the man. That would become quite dangerous if the man were to disappear.
Most people dont even know that it was Jony Ives who designed the Iphone's antenna and outer casing. That it was Jony Ives that was responsible for the Iphone antenna problems. Apple has attached the name and image of Steve Jobs to everything, reality has no basis here, it's all about perception.
If you mean the Galaxy S (i9000) phones, then you'll find in Australia, Europe and Asia these models already have Android v2.2.
Only in the US where they are being rebranded as the Captivate or whatever are they having trouble getting v2.2. Perhaps this is not so much of a problem with Samsung and more a problem with US telco's demanding special versions? If you got the Euro version of the Galaxy S, you wouldn't have an issue... apart from finding a telco to support it.
You're assuming there's enough fanboys to prevent that from happening.
Most Apple users are just following the crowd, when the crowd moves on, so will they.
Apple does not have to lose 100% of its business to go under, hell it could lose 50% and return to 1990's levels of sales and share price.
If it weren't for the Australian government fixing wholesale prices, there would be nothing but a for-profit monopoly on the last mile in Australia.
You're making it seem as if private entities will never abuse a monopoly yet a government always will. What colour is the sky on your planet.
And what exactly is stopping a private entity from doing just that?
Competition, sorry buddy but that doesn't exist on the last mile in either of our nations unless you have four different pairs of copper running into your house, one from each telco.
I know it will be a hell of a lot harder for a monitoring organisation to get through governmental bureaucracy then it is for them to pay off the telco monopoly to look the other way. Hell, the telco would even cooperate, they want the big downloaders gone so they can keep overselling their infrastructure with fake "unlimited" promises.
In the end, it's the last mile that needs to be upgraded to fibre. Copper technologies are simply not good enough, especially on regular phone lines as most of the world has no access to HFC.
However the problem you have is that no private entity is willing to do it, with the long term scope of such a project and when a government does it they get bashed relentlessly by people who have no understanding of the technologies involved.
Collage educated in developing nations world countries means someone who has passed a hospitality course required to work in McD's or has taken a trade. Often it's equivalent to a western yr 9 or 10 education where the average level of education is yr 5 or 6.
Peoples minds are most easily influenced when they are young, 16-21 years of age where they've just reached full maturity and are finding out how hard the real world is. Why do you think the highest suicide rates in western societies are in the 16-25 age group. So there is your unstable and idealistic.
Also when you live in a warzone, even if you've trained as a carpenter or have your certificate in hospitality there is often no place to work. There is your poor.
So they've worked hard, yet have no money, no hope and no future Or you could just call it, unstable, idealistic and poor. So some silver tongued extremist gives them a load of bollocks about how great their god/idea/cause is and shows them some kindness that the world has not. This kind of confidence trick gets played on young kids in western societies all the time, especially on young girls (I.E. 35 yr old peruses 18 yr old girl for sex by playing pandering to her feeling of hardship).
When quoting Wikipedia it's important to read the article to gain some context. From this very section of the article.
Also consider what is middle class in Afghanistan. This would be to own a bit of land, a few head of livestock and be able to work your own land. I'm currently in Thailand and they would call that poor, I work an average IT job in OZ and the Thai's call me rich. Context is very, very important.
Also
So money is a consideration as is the raising of their families status. In developing nations I've visited in Asia, a families status is very important. We don't place much value on it in the west because we've more or less done away with class systems but in poorer nations they haven't. To a Thai, the family status is very important, they will lie and cheat to prevent an uncomfortable truth from harming their face and status, high status enables you to break laws without consequence and in Thailand your status is very much influenced by the amount of money you have.
Depends how long of a view, Certainly not in the next 5 years and certainly not from HTML 5 because HTML 5 is a complete mess.
Right now, for HTML 5 I have to maintain different sites for Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Lets forget IE who has 40% of the market in my country but does not support HTML 5 at all. Plus all the people using older versions of a browser.
Now for a simple multimedia experience for my audience I need to either code 4 websites for 4 different browsers or code it once in flash. Flash has many, many flaws but HTML 5 has one big one that makes it inferior to Flash, Flash is write once, run anywhere, HTML 5 is write 4 times and hope people have an up to date browser.
I'm sorry for having to point this out to the HTML 5 fanboys but Flash isn't going anywhere because a single bit of HTML5 code cant run everywhere.
Why not just learn HTML. HTML 5 offers no advantage over simple HTML, the only advantage in HTML 5 was supposedly the simplification of multimedia, but thanks to Apple and Microsoft trying to "guide" the standard into what they want (vendor lock in and proprietary codecs) that isn't going to happen.
Today, a web dev has to maintain four different versions of any website that gets more complex then text and pictures. For non web dev's who need to maintain a website (I.E. most companies in existence) this is an expensive headache.
Dont get me wrong, I don't blame the W3C for this, they tried their hardest to establish open standards for cross browser rendering but Microsoft and Apple tried even harder to destroy open standards. Both are trying to lock people into a vendor controlled experience on the web using proprietary codecs and patented code. Google and Mozilla seem to be interested in creating something interoperable even if Google is doing it out of self interest (they really want to stop paying H.264 fees on YouTube) it doesn't make it a bad thing(TM).
Unfortunately no. I really wish it were but now it's about lock in and incompatibility. There is a concerted effort to diminish open standards and get site owners to use proprietary standards and codecs.