You're one of the more level headed posters, AC is just a troll.
I dont agree with everything you say but I too predicted the utter fail that HTML 5 would become. You've got Microsoft, Google and Apple each pursuing their own implementation of a supposed "standard" hoping to become (or maintain) de-facto control over the way the web is rendered.
This is also why Flash isn't going anywhere. HTML 5 is a mess, Flash "just works" unless you're on a device that "just works unless you want to do something with it". A person who makes a website wants it to be usable to the widest audience possible, under HTML5 this means maintaining 3 + different versions of the same site, which is OK for just text and pictures but when you get into multimedia you're going to have some very expensive headaches. Headaches which Flash, for all it's many, many, oh so very many flaws avoids. Until HTML 5 can do the same, Flash will remain the better option.
So does iOS. It's up to the carrier to decide how they charge to use the features on their network.
But wait, I thought the great advantage of the Iphone was that carriers could not mess with it and do things like dictate what OS features you can or cant use.
Seriously, I hear this argument used against Android all the time but people forget things like this.
Android works like this:
Manufacturer -> Carrier -> User
Iphone works like this
Carrier -> Manufacturer -> User
Except with Android I can cut out the carrier by buying direct from the manufacturer. I currently have a non-carrier branded HTC Dream and Motorola Milestone.
It'll take some getting used to, but I don't mind the new design. Change != bad
Definitely better then the old design, a lot faster to boot.
Haven't tried it on my Android phone yet as I'm in Thailand and my expensive phone is still in OZ but I hope a new mobile UI has been included or at least the standard UI improved so it is works on mobile devices.
I may have to go to TukCom and buy a new Android phone, Samsung Galaxy 5 is only 6000 B (US/AU$200).
The real question is whether or not this style of combating terrorism is more effective than others.
It's a hell of a lot more effective then hiding under your bed watching a colour coded "be afraid" signal.
Or wasting trillions on a war that only delivers more eager recruits into the hands of your enemies by destroying their homes, families and livelihoods.
You just don't get what this says do you.
The Russian government have just given the organisers of this attack an effective middle finger whilst shouting "It takes more then that to scare a Russian". Nothing the US has done against terrorism in it's past has ever been quite as effective, it proves to the organisers of this attack that there was no real effect, no disruption of services, no over-reaction that will burn a lot of money. Terrorists can only pull off an attack like this every few years if they are well funded and extremely well organised, it's basically the same as developing an atomic weapon in terms of cost, manpower and planning but it hinges on people becoming scared to even work. If people don't get scared, the entire attack was for naught.
In the Private Sector you only get training if you jump up and down and make yourself loud enough. Training gets sparingly allocated because private organisations like to hoard their monies wherever they can.
Not in IT, well most IT orgs in OZ, the trick is to get in before the training budget is used up. If your own company provides the training it's even easier. I've been on a few training courses that had nothing to do with sys/net admin simply because I asked and we ran the courses ourselves.
I've never had a private sector employer send me on a training course, or even reimburse me for one i've sent myself on. And on the note of training sessions going past 4pm, the Novell, VMware and EMC courses I've been on over the last 4 years have all gone past 5pm on several days.
Either you and the AC are unlucky or I'm quite lucky.
Three out of three IT employers in the last 5 years have sent me on training courses. Especially vendor training that lets the company get special deals. Software dev houses love to push their staff into MCP's in my experience, hardware vendors push for resellers to have staff indoctrinated^W trained in their products.
Never been on a Novell or EMC course, but MS, Red Hat and Vmware always went 9-4 unless you were having trouble, any competent training provider will always add extra time in for students who struggle.
Ah, I screwed that up. I should have read the GP's post, then I would have understood h4rr4r's comment better. He posts so much, I should have given him the benefit of the doubt.
96% of desktops use IE6 and thats because most users are blocked from installing their own apps. Upgrades to IE are rare due to this breaking old web code that they rely on. This is less malice or conspiracy and more stagnancy than anything else.
That and retraining government employees is incredibly difficult.
Ironic seeing as in the DPS (Dreaded Private Sector) workers love free training as we can ask for more money, get a free lunch and a 3-5 day semi-holiday (when was the last training session you had that went past 4 PM).
Motorola's eFuse, on the other hand, seem nothing more than a way for them to control your phone; I don't see how it protects you.
All eFuse does is prevents you from loading an unsigned kernel. It's at the bootloader not the OS, once the OS is running you can do whatever you like.
asically, the application masquerades as an overly-permissive "voice recorder". It registers to receive notifications when the "phone state" changes, and when you place a call it starts recording. It processes the audio and pulls out voice and touch-tone number sounds. It then passes that information to the "Deliverer" application, which forwards it to the bad guy. Two applications written by the same developer can share data, so they probably use that channel.
So basically all I have to do to get around this is use the browser application to make my credit card purchases?
Who uses voice for credit card transactions these days?
Further more, voice recognition is terrible, How is it going to deal with my okka Aussie accent*. Apple cant make one that recognises Australian accents properly, Android for the first year couldn't recognise a thing unless you sounded exactly like a google engineer.
It's easy for us to sit back and judge these actions, but I know that if I was in his position and someone was threatening my family business that has been built up over generations, I would fight back. Hard.
By all means, work against counterfeiters but law suits and censorship are not the answer. If that $750,000 had of been spent on advertising, R&D or even payoffs to store owners it would have been a hell of a lot more effective at combating counterfeiters then going to the lawyers who have effectively failed to stem the flow of counterfeit goods.
Remember what he's proposing, the artificial restriction of freedom (to information), there is, in my humble opinion no justification for that.
When I buy guitar strings, I generally look for Made in USA or Made in Japan because the quality of the metal used counts for a lot (bad strings == bad sound). The A$2 extra it costs is worth it. Same with pliers, the last pair of Chinese made pliers I bought have an bottom E string sized dent in the jaws (plus side, I now have a pair of cable strippers).
Perhaps you should do some research before you judge. From the comments on the Tech Dirt article (TFA), a comment by Jim D'Addario...
I did. It's bollocks. Sounds like Gerry Harvey whining that he cant compete with businesses that don't have assanine procedures.
His post if full of weak thought terminating cliche's meant to distract you from what he's actually trying to do
You really should visit and talk to some companies that are living this experience.
That's right, you could never understand. Now eat your Censor-O's and be happy obediant citizens. This is a call to (his) authority on the grounds that no-one else could know
We are family owned business in the USA
Appeal to patriotism.
However last year we spent $750,000 on legal battles
Not our problem that you've chosen a business model based on suing customers rather then securing your own supply chain.
We would be bankrupt trying to protect the 1000 jobs
Appeal to fear. Completely unfounded.
the Chinese were not counterfeiting our product
Finally, find an enemy to blame it on. One distant and foreign (scary) enough that no-one questions it.
I stopped reading after that because the bollocks was just too obvious. Clearly written by a marketer under the guise of a heartfelt message from John.
I have one question, can users actually tell the difference between real and counterfeit strings. I play the guitar casually and I can, but I don't buy his strings (not available in OZ, due to legal difficulties). If you're worried customers cant tell the difference, you're doing it wrong.
People who realize that voting doesn't matter are a tiny minority of the population. We are outnumbered 100 to 1 by the ignorant masses
100 to 1 still means there are 3 million of you, if you could congregate in one state then you should be able to guide political processes without worrying about the mouth breathing masses.
He said we wouldn't look at Mule because it was OSS and "you know you can't get any support for open source."
It's not about support, it's about blame.
He isn't asking "who can I get OSS support from" he is really asking "who do I blame if OSS goes wrong".
My psychic prediction is that you've instantaneously found the same problem I did, or as a discussion with an CFO in an old company went:
CFO: But who do we sue of it goes wrong?
ME: Who do we sue when Microsoft products go wrong?
CFO: Microsoft.
ME: Nope, you gave up that right when I pressed F8.
You cant blame MS, Adobe, Apple or anyone else even when it is clearly their fault because of cleverly worded EULA's, Even if parts of them are completely unenforceable, they still do their primary job which is to protect their own backsides from potential customer law suits.
Are we really so weak that we absolutely cannot do without a smart phone until manufacturers actually start giving us what we want?
How many Iphones sold last quarter?
The art of marketing is to make people perceive that they need your product. So essentially quite deceitful and little more then a massive confidence trick. Unfortunately it's a very successful con.
There is power in being a consumer, and it's astounding that people have been so diddled by advertisement and marketing voodoo that they won't even consider using that power to get what they want.
Getting 20 people to decide on what to have for lunch is a quite difficult task, trying to organise say 20,000 which should be enough to be effective would be nigh on impossible. Boycotts tend not to work because of the advertisement and marketing voodoo and because corporate entities can just out wait the masses until they become disorganised again.
For any kind of consumer action to be successful it needs to either:
1. Have the backing of a powerful consumer protection organisation like the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) in Australia which can enact punishment on companies who are deceiving or otherwise acting in bad faith towards their customers. The US BBB does not cut it because it cannot enact punishment, only advise people.
2. Use the same marketing voodoo that is being used against them. Previously this was not possible on any large scale, now days we cannot underestimate the power of viral marketing, see the United Breaks Guitars song, made for pennies, seen by millions, a lot of damage done.
Pretty much as was demonstrated here. A youTube video of a Moto rep saying stupid things was passed around the Android community, made it onto Slashdot and this has caused Moto to start back-pedalling at a phenomenal speed.
The only one on Slashdot that knows the difference between "hardware" and "software"?
Really?
We live in a world where my mother understands her computer is made by Acer but Windows is made by Microsoft. The separation of OS and hardware has been around long enough that people now know there is a difference. It's like saying that Ford made your Kenwood stereo, even the dumbest hick will now correct you.
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No no no,
When we strike him down, he becomes more powerful then we could even imagine.
You're one of the more level headed posters, AC is just a troll.
I dont agree with everything you say but I too predicted the utter fail that HTML 5 would become. You've got Microsoft, Google and Apple each pursuing their own implementation of a supposed "standard" hoping to become (or maintain) de-facto control over the way the web is rendered.
This is also why Flash isn't going anywhere. HTML 5 is a mess, Flash "just works" unless you're on a device that "just works unless you want to do something with it". A person who makes a website wants it to be usable to the widest audience possible, under HTML5 this means maintaining 3 + different versions of the same site, which is OK for just text and pictures but when you get into multimedia you're going to have some very expensive headaches. Headaches which Flash, for all it's many, many, oh so very many flaws avoids. Until HTML 5 can do the same, Flash will remain the better option.
Uh, no. It shows that the Palestinians made offers and reneged on them when push came to shove in negotiations. But nice straw man.
Please read the content you are commenting on, before commenting on it.
So basically we are back to what I said. Both sides are arrogant and belligerent.
But wait, I thought the great advantage of the Iphone was that carriers could not mess with it and do things like dictate what OS features you can or cant use.
Seriously, I hear this argument used against Android all the time but people forget things like this.
Android works like this:
Manufacturer -> Carrier -> User
Iphone works like this
Carrier -> Manufacturer -> User
Except with Android I can cut out the carrier by buying direct from the manufacturer. I currently have a non-carrier branded HTC Dream and Motorola Milestone.
Given that 77% of Iphone 4's were sold to owners of previous Iphone models I'd say no.
More like existing Iphone owners _may_ switch. Then again maybe not. Perhaps the Iphone has reached maximum saturation.
Definitely better then the old design, a lot faster to boot. Haven't tried it on my Android phone yet as I'm in Thailand and my expensive phone is still in OZ but I hope a new mobile UI has been included or at least the standard UI improved so it is works on mobile devices. I may have to go to TukCom and buy a new Android phone, Samsung Galaxy 5 is only 6000 B (US/AU$200).
It's a hell of a lot more effective then hiding under your bed watching a colour coded "be afraid" signal.
Or wasting trillions on a war that only delivers more eager recruits into the hands of your enemies by destroying their homes, families and livelihoods.
You just don't get what this says do you.
The Russian government have just given the organisers of this attack an effective middle finger whilst shouting "It takes more then that to scare a Russian". Nothing the US has done against terrorism in it's past has ever been quite as effective, it proves to the organisers of this attack that there was no real effect, no disruption of services, no over-reaction that will burn a lot of money. Terrorists can only pull off an attack like this every few years if they are well funded and extremely well organised, it's basically the same as developing an atomic weapon in terms of cost, manpower and planning but it hinges on people becoming scared to even work. If people don't get scared, the entire attack was for naught.
Proves (evidence points to) what everyone already figured out for themselves, both states are far too arrogant and belligerent.
From knowing Australian Jew's, the smart Jew's have left Israel and I'm sure the Palestinians that could, have escaped Palestine.
Not in IT, well most IT orgs in OZ, the trick is to get in before the training budget is used up. If your own company provides the training it's even easier. I've been on a few training courses that had nothing to do with sys/net admin simply because I asked and we ran the courses ourselves.
Either you and the AC are unlucky or I'm quite lucky.
Three out of three IT employers in the last 5 years have sent me on training courses. Especially vendor training that lets the company get special deals. Software dev houses love to push their staff into MCP's in my experience, hardware vendors push for resellers to have staff indoctrinated^W trained in their products.
Never been on a Novell or EMC course, but MS, Red Hat and Vmware always went 9-4 unless you were having trouble, any competent training provider will always add extra time in for students who struggle.
I now require you to turn in your snark badge.
That and retraining government employees is incredibly difficult.
Ironic seeing as in the DPS (Dreaded Private Sector) workers love free training as we can ask for more money, get a free lunch and a 3-5 day semi-holiday (when was the last training session you had that went past 4 PM).
All eFuse does is prevents you from loading an unsigned kernel. It's at the bootloader not the OS, once the OS is running you can do whatever you like.
So it can't protect you one bit.
Actually there were originally 47 dwarfs.
But when that whittled down to 8 the others began to suspect Hungry.
I guess he didn't Greece enough palms.
Strange, I havent noticed it.
SlashResponse: the patent system is broken and needs to change to support innovators, not lawyers.
SlashResponse: the patent system is broken and needs to change to support innovators, not lawyers.
So basically all I have to do to get around this is use the browser application to make my credit card purchases?
Who uses voice for credit card transactions these days?
Further more, voice recognition is terrible, How is it going to deal with my okka Aussie accent*. Apple cant make one that recognises Australian accents properly, Android for the first year couldn't recognise a thing unless you sounded exactly like a google engineer.
* Not really that okka.
By all means, work against counterfeiters but law suits and censorship are not the answer. If that $750,000 had of been spent on advertising, R&D or even payoffs to store owners it would have been a hell of a lot more effective at combating counterfeiters then going to the lawyers who have effectively failed to stem the flow of counterfeit goods.
Remember what he's proposing, the artificial restriction of freedom (to information), there is, in my humble opinion no justification for that.
When I buy guitar strings, I generally look for Made in USA or Made in Japan because the quality of the metal used counts for a lot (bad strings == bad sound). The A$2 extra it costs is worth it. Same with pliers, the last pair of Chinese made pliers I bought have an bottom E string sized dent in the jaws (plus side, I now have a pair of cable strippers).
What PopeRatzo said.
Every one of your tastes is influenced by marketing. The only difference between you and I is that I recognise this fact.
I did. It's bollocks. Sounds like Gerry Harvey whining that he cant compete with businesses that don't have assanine procedures. His post if full of weak thought terminating cliche's meant to distract you from what he's actually trying to do
That's right, you could never understand. Now eat your Censor-O's and be happy obediant citizens. This is a call to (his) authority on the grounds that no-one else could know
Appeal to patriotism.
Not our problem that you've chosen a business model based on suing customers rather then securing your own supply chain.
Appeal to fear. Completely unfounded.
Finally, find an enemy to blame it on. One distant and foreign (scary) enough that no-one questions it.
I stopped reading after that because the bollocks was just too obvious. Clearly written by a marketer under the guise of a heartfelt message from John.
I have one question, can users actually tell the difference between real and counterfeit strings. I play the guitar casually and I can, but I don't buy his strings (not available in OZ, due to legal difficulties). If you're worried customers cant tell the difference, you're doing it wrong.
100 to 1 still means there are 3 million of you, if you could congregate in one state then you should be able to guide political processes without worrying about the mouth breathing masses.
It's not about support, it's about blame.
He isn't asking "who can I get OSS support from" he is really asking "who do I blame if OSS goes wrong".
My psychic prediction is that you've instantaneously found the same problem I did, or as a discussion with an CFO in an old company went:
CFO: But who do we sue of it goes wrong?
ME: Who do we sue when Microsoft products go wrong?
CFO: Microsoft.
ME: Nope, you gave up that right when I pressed F8.
You cant blame MS, Adobe, Apple or anyone else even when it is clearly their fault because of cleverly worded EULA's, Even if parts of them are completely unenforceable, they still do their primary job which is to protect their own backsides from potential customer law suits.
How many Iphones sold last quarter?
The art of marketing is to make people perceive that they need your product. So essentially quite deceitful and little more then a massive confidence trick. Unfortunately it's a very successful con.
Getting 20 people to decide on what to have for lunch is a quite difficult task, trying to organise say 20,000 which should be enough to be effective would be nigh on impossible. Boycotts tend not to work because of the advertisement and marketing voodoo and because corporate entities can just out wait the masses until they become disorganised again.
For any kind of consumer action to be successful it needs to either:
1. Have the backing of a powerful consumer protection organisation like the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) in Australia which can enact punishment on companies who are deceiving or otherwise acting in bad faith towards their customers. The US BBB does not cut it because it cannot enact punishment, only advise people.
2. Use the same marketing voodoo that is being used against them. Previously this was not possible on any large scale, now days we cannot underestimate the power of viral marketing, see the United Breaks Guitars song, made for pennies, seen by millions, a lot of damage done.
Pretty much as was demonstrated here. A youTube video of a Moto rep saying stupid things was passed around the Android community, made it onto Slashdot and this has caused Moto to start back-pedalling at a phenomenal speed.
The only one on Slashdot that knows the difference between "hardware" and "software"?
Really?
We live in a world where my mother understands her computer is made by Acer but Windows is made by Microsoft. The separation of OS and hardware has been around long enough that people now know there is a difference. It's like saying that Ford made your Kenwood stereo, even the dumbest hick will now correct you.
Personally I've got quite positive experiences with Huawei and HTC customer service. Granted you've got a good point about Sony.
They do however, listen to bad press which is why Moto is backpedaling.
There's a reason HTC is going gangbusters at the moment.