Pre-emptive lawsuits in US patent disputes are common. If you think someone is going to sue you over some patent they supposedly have, and you hold a patent on the same concept, then you sue first - it forces the other party to wait on that area until your patent case is decided (they cannot counter-sue over the same idea). It's called a smart legal move, akin to the general who moves his troops to the area where there is increasing enemy activity. Pre-emptive suits are used all the time, and are a common strategy. Fanboism notwithstanding.
Apple wants to own the next computer/consumer space. Google wants to own it, too. Rather than letting consumers make the decision, Apple will try to get the courts to decide for them. Easier to sway a single judge - or, at most, 12 jurors - than the entire consuming public.
Yes, they get a cut of subscription revenue. Apple is handling the platform, billing, and content delivery,
I thought AT&T/insert-carrier-here handled content delivery. And the subscription information comes from the magazine, on their own servers. Apple sells the program to let you look at that magazine's data over your carrier's bandwidth.
And for billing, they make a 30% commission. Funny, I can set up automated payments with Paypal, Bank of America, and hundreds of other vendors/creditors/institutions and it's free. That's the beauty of software - you don't need a person to process those transactions - they Just Work.
At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers. For example, when you purchase and activate your iPhone, you authorize Apple and its carrier to exchange the information you provide during the activation process to carry out service. If you are approved for service, your account will be governed by Apple and its carrier’s respective privacy policies. Personal information will only be shared by Apple to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.
Emphasis added. In other words, Apple doesn't want magazines to have that information to help their own sales, but Apple will gladly use your information - and share it with their own partners - to help themselves.
How open is it? Is it available to other people to implement? I know there's alternate readers.
Is open-ness a requirement of a standard? And Apple's proposed replacement - HTML5 - won't even BE a standard for 12 years. Flash is a de-facto standard now; all the browsers support it, save Safari on iOS. And that's a purely political decision at that.
Not on anything I can control -- I friggin' hate flash.
If you rolled flash out on your website, what percentage of the population could NOT view it? It's widespread. And you can control your own use of it - use it or not.
The alternative - HTML5 - isn't even a recommendation, let alone a standard.
Yep. But that's OK, Apple keeps telling us they're supporting the HTML5 standard and have implemented it. I mean, people claim Steve Jobs is some visionary, but that's 12 years in the future...
In the real world, flash is more of a standard than HTML5. Sure, the W3C hasn't formalized it, but at least it's deployed on pretty much every platform out there - save those that explicitly deny it (iOS).
As for Android applications, where all the applications are Java-based and depend on Dalvik, I don’t see any way that those applications will run on Chrome OS.
Yes because putting a Java JIT engine in a browser is easy; putting a Dalvik JIT engine in a browser is impossible! Google has NO WAY to leverage the base of tools and programs already created for their first OS, they will have to start from scratch...
When HTML5 becomes a standard, then maybe Microsoft (and Apple) can say they support it; per the editor of the HTML5 draft specs, Ian Hickson, expect HTML5 to be a W3C recommended standard in 2022.
At least Flash and Silverlight are available on a majority of platforms today...
SILENCE! We will not let facts and reality trump a good Microsoft bash! Only the all-powerful iOS from the Jobs (blessed be his name) can run 3D first person shooters! Only the UI from the Ive (blessed be his name) can be good and easy and useful! HERETIC!
The one thing I did not like was the constant requirement to use the Back button. If I want to close the software keyboard, I had to click Back. If I wanted to go back in a menu, I had to hit Back. This kind of thing seems like it should be done in the visual UI. The user shouldn't be expected to know that Back is a magical button.
I thought that was a great feature of WP7 - if you went to far, or want to go back to where you were, just press the Back button. It's not on a menu in the app (and thus can be out-of-order if the developer wants to move it around), it's not called many things (return, back, exit, cancel, whoops, George), it's just "Back". Went too far? Go Back. Done with this screen? Go Back. I think it simplifies the UI for people - you don't have to look at menus or options, just go Back.
Live icons. A combination of widgets and icons. It really works, it really does help the UI, and it really does offer functionality that is beneficial to the user.
You've obviously never touched a WinPhone 7 device. The UI is NOTHING like iOS or Android (both of which, by the way, borrow HEAVILY from SPB Mobile Shell and HTC TouchFLO - the original "icons on a grid with widgets added in" user interfaces), unless you want to claim that having colored pixels on a touch screen is a copy of a UI.
So glad the priorities are all about rear view cameras and TV commercial volume - that's EXACTLY what our Government should spend its time working on! Meanwhile, in the 10 seconds it took to type this entry, our wonderful Government blew another $412,227 in deficit spending...
You really need to educate yourself... China's total exports are about 20% of its GDP. China's exports to the US are 20% of its exports. Put those together: China's exports to the US are 4% of its GDP. If all exports to the US were stopped, it would be less of a GDP hit than the US had in 2009. At this point, we need them (and their manufacturing, production, and funding) more than they need us.
Actually, most of the postal service is paid for by that postage I pay - user fees, not taxes. In fact, the USPS makes a big deal out of not "being the Government" and mostly financing itself via postage rates.
I use Carbonite. Auto backup of all files, decent retrieval capabilities, and unlimited storage (I have 178 GB backed up right now), for $55 per year. It's not a replacement for a full SVN repository and other tools, but a great, automatic/no-worry means to backup everything on my drive (and I back up everything).
The more that our government uses the internet for the purpose of public services (ie. pay your taxes online and such) the more it becomes a necessity.
Wonderful! Then the Government will pay the postage for my tax return if I mail it in? Or are they going to selectively decide which means to subsidize the filing of your taxes?
Go price commercial or residential real estate in downtown Shanghai; it's more expensive than this price. Remember the saying in real estate: Location, Location, Location. This is a very desirable location in NYC - you're going to pay top-dollar for it, even in a real estate dip.
I'll make sure and demand my next purchase of Thai farmland be in square meters, rather than the Government-accepted rai. And I'll make sure and get all dimensions of Japanese rooms only in meters, rather than tatami
Fixing the economy is HARD when you spend billions on wars overseas and continue to provide unnecessary tax cuts to a minority of wealthy individuals!
Yeah.... $70 billion in "tax cuts for the wealthy" and $100 billion for the wars are the source of $1.3 trillion in deficit spending. Having another 200,000 unemployed ex-soldiers here in the US would do WONDERS to the unemployment situation.
Let all the Bush tax cuts expire (raising taxes another $200 billion a year), eliminate the ENTIRE DOD budget (cutting spending by $700 billion annually, including the supplemental bills), and we'd still have a $500 billion deficit. It goes deeper than spending against your favorite pet peeve. It's because Congress consistently dodges dealing with the real world, to spend their time on nonsense like this.
Of course, this is the same Government who loves to tout and push GM's new Volt, never mind GM loses money on every Volt they sell. I guess if deficit spending is good enough for the Federal Government, it's good enough for everyone else. Why try to work on real problems that you were elected to address, when there's annoying commercials between your favorite sitcoms to worry about?
I mean, why worry about 9.6% unemployment, $1.3 trillion of deficit spending, $13 trillion in debt, a falling USD, the highest rate of troop casualties ever in Afghanistan, Congressmen ignoring the very tax laws they create, and $200 million junkets to India? We've got TEE VEE and commercials to address!
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Pre-emptive lawsuits in US patent disputes are common. If you think someone is going to sue you over some patent they supposedly have, and you hold a patent on the same concept, then you sue first - it forces the other party to wait on that area until your patent case is decided (they cannot counter-sue over the same idea). It's called a smart legal move, akin to the general who moves his troops to the area where there is increasing enemy activity. Pre-emptive suits are used all the time, and are a common strategy. Fanboism notwithstanding.
Apple wants to own the next computer/consumer space. Google wants to own it, too. Rather than letting consumers make the decision, Apple will try to get the courts to decide for them. Easier to sway a single judge - or, at most, 12 jurors - than the entire consuming public.
Yes, they get a cut of subscription revenue. Apple is handling the platform, billing, and content delivery,
I thought AT&T/insert-carrier-here handled content delivery. And the subscription information comes from the magazine, on their own servers. Apple sells the program to let you look at that magazine's data over your carrier's bandwidth.
And for billing, they make a 30% commission. Funny, I can set up automated payments with Paypal, Bank of America, and hundreds of other vendors/creditors/institutions and it's free. That's the beauty of software - you don't need a person to process those transactions - they Just Work.
Emphasis added. In other words, Apple doesn't want magazines to have that information to help their own sales, but Apple will gladly use your information - and share it with their own partners - to help themselves.
How open is it? Is it available to other people to implement? I know there's alternate readers.
Is open-ness a requirement of a standard? And Apple's proposed replacement - HTML5 - won't even BE a standard for 12 years. Flash is a de-facto standard now; all the browsers support it, save Safari on iOS. And that's a purely political decision at that.
Not on anything I can control -- I friggin' hate flash.
If you rolled flash out on your website, what percentage of the population could NOT view it? It's widespread. And you can control your own use of it - use it or not.
The alternative - HTML5 - isn't even a recommendation, let alone a standard.
In the real world, flash is more of a standard than HTML5. Sure, the W3C hasn't formalized it, but at least it's deployed on pretty much every platform out there - save those that explicitly deny it (iOS).
See this post.
THANK YOU...;)
As for Android applications, where all the applications are Java-based and depend on Dalvik, I don’t see any way that those applications will run on Chrome OS.
Yes because putting a Java JIT engine in a browser is easy; putting a Dalvik JIT engine in a browser is impossible! Google has NO WAY to leverage the base of tools and programs already created for their first OS, they will have to start from scratch...
HTML4 of course.
When HTML5 becomes a standard, then maybe Microsoft (and Apple) can say they support it; per the editor of the HTML5 draft specs, Ian Hickson, expect HTML5 to be a W3C recommended standard in 2022.
At least Flash and Silverlight are available on a majority of platforms today...
SILENCE! We will not let facts and reality trump a good Microsoft bash! Only the all-powerful iOS from the Jobs (blessed be his name) can run 3D first person shooters! Only the UI from the Ive (blessed be his name) can be good and easy and useful! HERETIC!
The one thing I did not like was the constant requirement to use the Back button. If I want to close the software keyboard, I had to click Back. If I wanted to go back in a menu, I had to hit Back. This kind of thing seems like it should be done in the visual UI. The user shouldn't be expected to know that Back is a magical button.
I thought that was a great feature of WP7 - if you went to far, or want to go back to where you were, just press the Back button. It's not on a menu in the app (and thus can be out-of-order if the developer wants to move it around), it's not called many things (return, back, exit, cancel, whoops, George), it's just "Back". Went too far? Go Back. Done with this screen? Go Back. I think it simplifies the UI for people - you don't have to look at menus or options, just go Back.
Live icons. A combination of widgets and icons. It really works, it really does help the UI, and it really does offer functionality that is beneficial to the user.
You've obviously never touched a WinPhone 7 device. The UI is NOTHING like iOS or Android (both of which, by the way, borrow HEAVILY from SPB Mobile Shell and HTC TouchFLO - the original "icons on a grid with widgets added in" user interfaces), unless you want to claim that having colored pixels on a touch screen is a copy of a UI.
So glad the priorities are all about rear view cameras and TV commercial volume - that's EXACTLY what our Government should spend its time working on! Meanwhile, in the 10 seconds it took to type this entry, our wonderful Government blew another $412,227 in deficit spending...
You really need to educate yourself... China's total exports are about 20% of its GDP. China's exports to the US are 20% of its exports. Put those together: China's exports to the US are 4% of its GDP. If all exports to the US were stopped, it would be less of a GDP hit than the US had in 2009. At this point, we need them (and their manufacturing, production, and funding) more than they need us.
Actually, most of the postal service is paid for by that postage I pay - user fees, not taxes. In fact, the USPS makes a big deal out of not "being the Government" and mostly financing itself via postage rates.
BUSH'S FAULT! Wait...
I use Carbonite. Auto backup of all files, decent retrieval capabilities, and unlimited storage (I have 178 GB backed up right now), for $55 per year. It's not a replacement for a full SVN repository and other tools, but a great, automatic/no-worry means to backup everything on my drive (and I back up everything).
The more that our government uses the internet for the purpose of public services (ie. pay your taxes online and such) the more it becomes a necessity.
Wonderful! Then the Government will pay the postage for my tax return if I mail it in? Or are they going to selectively decide which means to subsidize the filing of your taxes?
Go price commercial or residential real estate in downtown Shanghai; it's more expensive than this price. Remember the saying in real estate: Location, Location, Location. This is a very desirable location in NYC - you're going to pay top-dollar for it, even in a real estate dip.
I'll make sure and demand my next purchase of Thai farmland be in square meters, rather than the Government-accepted rai. And I'll make sure and get all dimensions of Japanese rooms only in meters, rather than tatami
Fixing the economy is HARD when you spend billions on wars overseas and continue to provide unnecessary tax cuts to a minority of wealthy individuals!
Yeah.... $70 billion in "tax cuts for the wealthy" and $100 billion for the wars are the source of $1.3 trillion in deficit spending. Having another 200,000 unemployed ex-soldiers here in the US would do WONDERS to the unemployment situation.
Let all the Bush tax cuts expire (raising taxes another $200 billion a year), eliminate the ENTIRE DOD budget (cutting spending by $700 billion annually, including the supplemental bills), and we'd still have a $500 billion deficit. It goes deeper than spending against your favorite pet peeve. It's because Congress consistently dodges dealing with the real world, to spend their time on nonsense like this.
Of course, this is the same Government who loves to tout and push GM's new Volt, never mind GM loses money on every Volt they sell. I guess if deficit spending is good enough for the Federal Government, it's good enough for everyone else. Why try to work on real problems that you were elected to address, when there's annoying commercials between your favorite sitcoms to worry about?
Bread and circuses for the masses, everyone!
I mean, why worry about 9.6% unemployment, $1.3 trillion of deficit spending, $13 trillion in debt, a falling USD, the highest rate of troop casualties ever in Afghanistan, Congressmen ignoring the very tax laws they create, and $200 million junkets to India? We've got TEE VEE and commercials to address!
Compromise? COMPROMISE? Two words: I won.