From TFA: VA Shiva Ayyadurai claims is to have created the first "graphical front end for an electronic mail system", and was the first to copyright the term "EMAIL".
It is the craziness of the mass media that translates a copyright filing as "Invention".
Yes, you can get a $15 one-time discount on a single purchase from a highly questionable website in exchange for being registered to a pay service at the price of $16 / month. Sounds like you've found a real winner right there!
Actually, it does... But you wouldn't recognize it.
Sandboxing is enforced, signing is enforced, there are no remote administration packages installed, no local filesystem browser, it has forced updates that prevent you from logging in if you have not run updates...
Oh, but Sony is *letting* you re-purchase your PSP games for your PSVita at 15% off Retail (well, retail price at the time of original release of the title) for you to be able to download it to a slightly tweaked MicroSD card with a 300% markup!
They care about you, and want to enable you to continue to play the same game that you had yesterday... And to format shift your game, they are giving you a discount compared to needing to re-buy the same game over again! A discount!
They are doing *everything* that they can to make you happy, all the while helping their poor, defenseless developers who *need* to buy in at $12,500 / year to develop software for your game console. How would multinational corporations feed their children if they *didn't* charge you for continuing to use exactly what you had yesterday?
Sony decided to do a "pre-launch" in the US and EU at a 71% markup so that the early adopters could get it in their hands a week early.
Basically, shafting their own customer base who would stand in line on day one, but also creating two separate "stand in line" days, one for people whom money is not an issue and don't care the price as long as they get it now, one where the price is still significantly higher than any other handheld game console, but safely able to let their user base know "we aren't fisting you as much as we already did our early adopters!"
Just so we are on the same page, atheism and nihilism are two very different things.
Atheism is a disbelief in the existence of God or gods.
Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.
There can absolutely be Atheist Nihilists as the two do not share mutually exclusive belief sets, however the absence of contradictory belief sets does not show a corollary relationship. As such, not all Atheists are also Nihilists, just as not all Nihilists need be Atheists.
A Nihilist can absolutely believe that there is a god, but that said god has no interest, involvement, or even knowledge that our galaxy exists, let alone each individual on our own little planet, and that while said god may have created our universe, or even populated our region of space with life, that said life could have simply been an accident caused by flying too close to an exploding super nova, or a sneeze passing through a micro-wormhole within quantum foam, or even a simple set of pre-ordained natural laws governing graviton and electromagnetism.
Seems as though both have an equal reason to lie, both of which seem equally valid reasons to lie.
Peter Gleick has a reason to lie in order to advance his career by making *someone* besides his mum know who he is.
The Heartland Institute has a reason to lie because the information purportedly obtained by Mr. Gleick is highly prejudicial in nature.
The same could be said of *every* company. Marketing has a place in every business to enable said business to reach a customer base, and in turn generate revenue, which if sufficient to cover expenses converts to profits.
In the article, they mentioned that 700k was for the maintenance contract, and 30k was for the power.
They also stated that thy were keeping it around for a few projects that were slated to be terminated, but hadn't yet been and they had no desire to migrate services to standard servers.
It's also that $730,000 / year in ongoing maintenance for a Z9 is not really all that practical, especially considering that newer deployments based on GPGPUs have far lower operating costs, and provide higher performance than a 5 year old big iron.
Gingerbread's Web Browser also gets 100 on the Acid3 test.
is single-process
Chrome for Android also is single-process.
has a completely different UI stack
Different platforms *have* different UI stacks... As does Chrome for Android in comparison to Android as well as Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux as stated in TFA.
doesn't have the same level of data syncing support.
Yes, this seems to be the only *real* distinction between Chrome and Android's Web Browser.
The stock Android browser could be called "Chrome" only to the same degree that Safari could be called Chrome.
Chrome and Safari are pretty different, as they are WebKit + very different stuff.
Chrome and Android's web browser are both WebKit + V8, in which there was a fork from Chromium at Version 4, as outlined in the Google Android Commit Logs. Seems more as though Android's web browser has always been Chrome, with modifications to support mobile devices, from what was at the time a Current Chromium version (read: Chrome). Seems as though Google has simply made a more up-to-date build of their web browser available.
I have to wonder whether these mandates are more to do with the fact that Google now owns the #4 Android Vendor (Motorola)?
When every Android device is now going to look alike, wouldn't the general customer base be a little more likely to buy an Android device from the company that *makes* Android?
The question "Do you believe in Global Warming?" has done more to hurt the scientific community than any other reports, claims of tampering with data, and email correspondence.
Global Warming is now officially and forever bundled with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy,...
Yesterday, wasn't the general consensus from the scientific community that we were 1500 years off from the next ice age, and that the current concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere would result in pushing that off for at least another 1000 years?
We as a species should just decide on whether we want to live in the tropics or the arctic. This constant back and forth is getting tiring.
Except the BG Group's stock price has actually continued an upward trend since before Mr. Flexman was "forced to quit", and has actually risen by $100 / share in the past 5 days.
Seems as though they would have a hard time proving that Mr. Flexman leaving has negatively impacted them. Sure there are additional considerations, including the obvious Streisand effect that could have led to this change, but it is obvious that they did not see a mass exodus or a decrease on brand confidence with their investors.
You set functions within your code that will not be writing to use a read-only connector into your data store.
You can also assign a class for your user accounts themselves where if they are only to "read" data and not actually add anything that their read-only connector takes precedence in execution.
If a user shouldn't be adding records, don't provide them with the privilege.
If a user shouldn't be modifying records, don't provide them with the privilege.
If a user shouldn't be deleting records, don't provide them with the privilege.
And finally, you validate any requests that will result in adding, changing or deleting data in your code *prior* to running against your database to ensure that things are on the level.
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From TFA: VA Shiva Ayyadurai claims is to have created the first "graphical front end for an electronic mail system", and was the first to copyright the term "EMAIL".
It is the craziness of the mass media that translates a copyright filing as "Invention".
I will have to take your word for that, as since I don't have a PS Vita, I am not allowed to see the price of their Download-Only Titles.
Sony - All PS Vita Games
Super Stardust Delta
Of note, they don't even list Escape Plan or Plants vs Zombies...
Yes, you can get a $15 one-time discount on a single purchase from a highly questionable website in exchange for being registered to a pay service at the price of $16 / month. Sounds like you've found a real winner right there!
Not sure where you are seeing an actual game for the PSVita for $15!
I am seeing DLC available for $15, but not an actual game...
Actually, it does... But you wouldn't recognize it.
Sandboxing is enforced, signing is enforced, there are no remote administration packages installed, no local filesystem browser, it has forced updates that prevent you from logging in if you have not run updates...
Oh, but Sony is *letting* you re-purchase your PSP games for your PSVita at 15% off Retail (well, retail price at the time of original release of the title) for you to be able to download it to a slightly tweaked MicroSD card with a 300% markup!
They care about you, and want to enable you to continue to play the same game that you had yesterday... And to format shift your game, they are giving you a discount compared to needing to re-buy the same game over again! A discount!
They are doing *everything* that they can to make you happy, all the while helping their poor, defenseless developers who *need* to buy in at $12,500 / year to develop software for your game console. How would multinational corporations feed their children if they *didn't* charge you for continuing to use exactly what you had yesterday?
Sony decided to do a "pre-launch" in the US and EU at a 71% markup so that the early adopters could get it in their hands a week early.
Basically, shafting their own customer base who would stand in line on day one, but also creating two separate "stand in line" days, one for people whom money is not an issue and don't care the price as long as they get it now, one where the price is still significantly higher than any other handheld game console, but safely able to let their user base know "we aren't fisting you as much as we already did our early adopters!"
Just so we are on the same page, atheism and nihilism are two very different things.
Atheism is a disbelief in the existence of God or gods.
Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.
There can absolutely be Atheist Nihilists as the two do not share mutually exclusive belief sets, however the absence of contradictory belief sets does not show a corollary relationship. As such, not all Atheists are also Nihilists, just as not all Nihilists need be Atheists.
A Nihilist can absolutely believe that there is a god, but that said god has no interest, involvement, or even knowledge that our galaxy exists, let alone each individual on our own little planet, and that while said god may have created our universe, or even populated our region of space with life, that said life could have simply been an accident caused by flying too close to an exploding super nova, or a sneeze passing through a micro-wormhole within quantum foam, or even a simple set of pre-ordained natural laws governing graviton and electromagnetism.
Doesn't this whole situation seem childish?
Unnamed Democrat: Rick, you are anti-science.
Rick: You're anti-science!
Seems as though both have an equal reason to lie, both of which seem equally valid reasons to lie.
Peter Gleick has a reason to lie in order to advance his career by making *someone* besides his mum know who he is.
The Heartland Institute has a reason to lie because the information purportedly obtained by Mr. Gleick is highly prejudicial in nature.
I think that we have discovered a logical fallacy.
The same could be said of *every* company. Marketing has a place in every business to enable said business to reach a customer base, and in turn generate revenue, which if sufficient to cover expenses converts to profits.
In the article, they mentioned that 700k was for the maintenance contract, and 30k was for the power.
They also stated that thy were keeping it around for a few projects that were slated to be terminated, but hadn't yet been and they had no desire to migrate services to standard servers.
It's also that $730,000 / year in ongoing maintenance for a Z9 is not really all that practical, especially considering that newer deployments based on GPGPUs have far lower operating costs, and provide higher performance than a 5 year old big iron.
Currently 10 cents per GB, on average, as opposed to this time 1 quarter ago when you were looking at 5 cents per GB.
with far worse support for newer web standards
Gingerbread's Web Browser also gets 100 on the Acid3 test.
is single-process
Chrome for Android also is single-process.
has a completely different UI stack
Different platforms *have* different UI stacks... As does Chrome for Android in comparison to Android as well as Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux as stated in TFA.
doesn't have the same level of data syncing support.
Yes, this seems to be the only *real* distinction between Chrome and Android's Web Browser.
The stock Android browser could be called "Chrome" only to the same degree that Safari could be called Chrome.
Chrome and Safari are pretty different, as they are WebKit + very different stuff.
Chrome and Android's web browser are both WebKit + V8, in which there was a fork from Chromium at Version 4, as outlined in the Google Android Commit Logs. Seems more as though Android's web browser has always been Chrome, with modifications to support mobile devices, from what was at the time a Current Chromium version (read: Chrome). Seems as though Google has simply made a more up-to-date build of their web browser available.
Chrome = WebKit + V8
Safari = WebKit + SunSpider
Konqueror = WebKit + KJS
So, no... Safari is not Chrome.
However, do you care to explain what else is necessary to make something a browser besides some UI bits?
Didn't Android *always* have Chrome?
When Google first announced Android, they stated it's web browser was based on WebKit with the V8 JavaScript engine, just like Chrome on the Desktop.
However, religious tests are required for the popularity contest that is reaching a public office.
I have to wonder whether these mandates are more to do with the fact that Google now owns the #4 Android Vendor (Motorola)?
When every Android device is now going to look alike, wouldn't the general customer base be a little more likely to buy an Android device from the company that *makes* Android?
The question "Do you believe in Global Warming?" has done more to hurt the scientific community than any other reports, claims of tampering with data, and email correspondence.
...
Global Warming is now officially and forever bundled with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy,
Yesterday, wasn't the general consensus from the scientific community that we were 1500 years off from the next ice age, and that the current concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere would result in pushing that off for at least another 1000 years?
We as a species should just decide on whether we want to live in the tropics or the arctic. This constant back and forth is getting tiring.
Except the BG Group's stock price has actually continued an upward trend since before Mr. Flexman was "forced to quit", and has actually risen by $100 / share in the past 5 days.
Yahoo Finance - BG Group
Seems as though they would have a hard time proving that Mr. Flexman leaving has negatively impacted them. Sure there are additional considerations, including the obvious Streisand effect that could have led to this change, but it is obvious that they did not see a mass exodus or a decrease on brand confidence with their investors.
I can be "interested" in something like Career Opportunities without having a dissatisfaction with my current job, or a desire to leave.
Frankly, I find a lot of things interesting.
The idea that such an interest could get me fired is very disconcerting.
You set functions within your code that will not be writing to use a read-only connector into your data store.
You can also assign a class for your user accounts themselves where if they are only to "read" data and not actually add anything that their read-only connector takes precedence in execution.
If a user shouldn't be adding records, don't provide them with the privilege.
If a user shouldn't be modifying records, don't provide them with the privilege.
If a user shouldn't be deleting records, don't provide them with the privilege.
And finally, you validate any requests that will result in adding, changing or deleting data in your code *prior* to running against your database to ensure that things are on the level.