Correlation != causation. Otherwise, since throughout the day Thursday I had ZERO password reset attempts on my Apple ID we must assume that the data was not taken or was taken and not partially encrypted.
Obviously both arguments are silly.
(PS, like you I have written apps for other companies but have not published any under my own name).
^ this, I would mod that up if I had some mod points.
Ocarina of Time is what really drew me in to the series. I played the top down versions but Ocarina of time gave the franchise some depth (in more ways than one!). Twilight princess was great and I am finally getting some time to try Skyward Sword. I bought a Wii U the other week in anticipation of a new Zelda, Super Smash Bro, Paper Mario and MarioKart!
Apple's point is that their installed base (no matter what size or market share it is) has very little fragmentation allowing those who develop for the platform to target only the newest iOS. For developers this is a big deal.
Getting market share because you re selling junk like this the Samsung Pocket that still comes with Android 2.3 is not helping out anybody. The security implications of running this older OS is also an issue.
I am not advocating one side or the other. I am saying the OP countered the point Apple were making with a somewhat irrelevant argument.
I agree with the previous poster, you are a moron!
Coding is bloody easy once you learn the fundamentals. Teaching them the concepts of sequencing, conditional branching, looping and procedural abstraction is far more important than introducing them to some obscure nix based text editor. They will be very unlikely to ever need to use vi in their lifetime.
All you are trying to do is show them something so foreign and unintuitive that has nothing to do with programming that it pumps up your nerd ego to show them how brainy you are. In reality, your an egotistical wanker and the wrong person to be introducing people to programming.
GvR is a great platform to learn programming. It teaches loops and conditionals and problem solving. It is written in Python so will work cross platform. The only negative is that I think it is not localised.
The main problem I see with this is the ability to lend games to friends, or have friends lend games to me! This is what hooked me in with COD 4 and the reason I purchased an Xbox. My mate lent me his copy for a day and boom I was hooked.
When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
If you read the article further yourself, not only does the company have to pay for their education, but also pay the child the same wage it was earning!
To quote the article: When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
I don't think anybody who has posted read the article at all.
$7bn is a very tidy sum for developers of paid apps.
That sum doesn't not include iAd revenue, or more significantly, all the money developers make creating custom made applications for businesses. So developers can make decent bank developing on iOS.
Others on here are arguing about the 30% cut Apple are taking.
For that 30%, they are paying for all the infrastructure, credit card transaction fees, iTunes card costs. If a super market charges $20 for a iTunes voucher, at least here in NZ, they would have made some money, plus GST of 15% is included in that price.
So $20 credit probably brakes down to something like:
Now not all transactions will cost Apple that much, such as when iTunes credit is purchased via credit card, then GST is still factored within that $20 plus credit card transaction fees would leave Apple with about ~$3.20.
The point is, after you take away POS costs, infrastructure costs (data centres, human phone support etc), they do not make as much money as you think they do from their 30% cut.
There are probably a dozen things I have missed but I am sure/. will point them out to me:P
The reason geeks hate Windows 8 is that they made the computer easier to use and less confusing for the non geeks. This makes being a computer geek less, well, geeky, because anybody can use it without screwing up as much. The "Start" button was flawed in design and usability right from the beginning.
The UI formally known as Metro (Metro), is a great advancement in usability. How many clicks does it take the average user to access an 90% of the applications they use now compared to pre Metro? 1 click in metro vs minimum of 2 using the start menu. The applications are onscreen and obvious and easy to locate unlike in the convoluted Start menu (remember, I said for the average user, which most of slashdot are not).
Cool, make sure you boycott products from these FOXCONN customers too then: Acer Inc. (Taiwan) Amazon.com (United States) In 2011, Amazon and Foxconn formed a joint-design manufacturing company. The move was meant to produce an Amazon branded smartphone sometime in 2012. Apple Inc. (United States) ASRock (Taiwan) Asus (Taiwan) Barnes & Noble (United States) Cisco (United States) Dell (United States) EVGA Corporation (United States) Hewlett-Packard (United States) Intel (United States) IBM (United States) Lenovo (China) Logitech (Switzerland) Microsoft (United States) MSI (Taiwan) Motorola (United States) Netgear (United States) Nintendo (Japan) Nokia (Finland) Panasonic (Japan) Philips (Netherlands) Samsung (South Korea) Sharp (Japan) Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden) Toshiba (Japan) Vizio (United States)
...but when Samsung sue somebody (which this LG counter measure is retaliation for) they are not evil?
Personally I would just love it if everything but copycat patents/lawsuits disappeared. In otherwords, don't make a blatant rip off of counterfeit where you are really just trying to deceive the consumer, and everything else is fine.
(awaits they inevitable down mod).
Quick question:
Do you think you would have a decent Android device right now if the iPhone came out?
The answer is absolutely not. Ultimately though, people need to just enjoy the devices they have and the choices they made. Let the companies do what they have to do and enjoy what you have.
.... they protect innovation. If there were no patents, then companies would not invest huge amounts of money inventing and innovating. Instead they would sit back and wait for somebody else to spend the cash and then just copy them!
Ohh wait, that is what just happened, Apple Innovated, Samsung copied... never mind, move on.
Seriously though, you all act like Apple is the only company on earth that has sued another company.
Get off the Apple hateraid bandwagon and get back to living your life.
PS. Is it just me or is Microsoft the only company innovating in the OS market right now?
Ocean Marketing, we're everywhere, we're in everything!
Ocean Marketings emails reminded me of Lindal Global (I think thats the name) from the movie "The Other Guys".
They could bring their profiles? or sign in with their profile for the multiplayer part?
Under their current method you would have to pay $10 for each of the games your friends bring around to play if they are different to those that you the host play. If they are the same then my suggestion also works in that you would have already had a code to play with your game. So no difference.
Personally I think they should just lump it and not charge at all, but they are.
I honestly believe when you buy software (or licenses to use software as you do when you buy a game etc) you should be given the same rights as the original owner.
If they cared more about allowing only one person at a time to use the software, then they should make it so that once a new user enters the original code, the previous user loses rights to MP. That would surely cut out piracy fears as only one code would be generated for the original purchaser who bought the game.
They have control of the network, so they would be able to control the single use of the serial (or pass code or whatever they want to call it).
That would kick piracy in the bum as well as control swapping of games.
I used to play this game along with Shadow Keep back in the day.
We even had Marathon 2 and Infinity on the School network and would have LAN matches. Good times!
I remember one time I was playing Marathon on my Powerbook 1400cs at night with headphones in and no lights on. Because of the ambient sounds etc and the intense story i caught myself being tense, slightly scared and waiting what was gonna happen around the corner like a horror movie. My heart rate was fast and I was on edge cause my life was low and It was like I thought I was going to die in real life haha!
Marathon = 3D style shooter with intense story line, awesome multiplayer and map making tools. All back in 1992-96:D
For those interested in the game it was opensourced by the makers (Bungie Software!) and has been actively developed since then. check out http://source.bungie.org/index.php/Main_Page
Sooooo, you have never owned a gaming console? A GPS navigation system? Hell even a car with electronic fuel injection? They all require some sort of hacking to be able to run applications not initially approved for it....
I use Connect360 and MediaLink from Nullriver to stream from my Mac to my Xbox 360 and PS3. Works great so I dont see all the fuss when everybody been doing for years what Windows 7 is allowing (one way or another) so meh.
Theres a cheap easy solution for whatever platform you running (Linux, Windows XP/Vista or Mac OS X) already available so go out and get it.
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Correlation != causation.
Otherwise, since throughout the day Thursday I had ZERO password reset attempts on my Apple ID we must assume that the data was not taken or was taken and not partially encrypted.
Obviously both arguments are silly.
(PS, like you I have written apps for other companies but have not published any under my own name).
^ this, I would mod that up if I had some mod points.
Ocarina of Time is what really drew me in to the series. I played the top down versions but Ocarina of time gave the franchise some depth (in more ways than one!). Twilight princess was great and I am finally getting some time to try Skyward Sword. I bought a Wii U the other week in anticipation of a new Zelda, Super Smash Bro, Paper Mario and MarioKart!
You account details have been hacked.....click this link to reset your password.
Seems legit!
Apple's point is that their installed base (no matter what size or market share it is) has very little fragmentation allowing those who develop for the platform to target only the newest iOS. For developers this is a big deal.
Getting market share because you re selling junk like this the Samsung Pocket that still comes with Android 2.3 is not helping out anybody. The security implications of running this older OS is also an issue.
I am not advocating one side or the other. I am saying the OP countered the point Apple were making with a somewhat irrelevant argument.
I agree with the previous poster, you are a moron!
Coding is bloody easy once you learn the fundamentals. Teaching them the concepts of sequencing, conditional branching, looping and procedural abstraction is far more important than introducing them to some obscure nix based text editor. They will be very unlikely to ever need to use vi in their lifetime.
All you are trying to do is show them something so foreign and unintuitive that has nothing to do with programming that it pumps up your nerd ego to show them how brainy you are. In reality, your an egotistical wanker and the wrong person to be introducing people to programming.
He said "Or one that I can localise myself" It is written in Python, he could easily localise it himself...
GvR is a great platform to learn programming. It teaches loops and conditionals and problem solving. It is written in Python so will work cross platform. The only negative is that I think it is not localised.
http://gvr.sourceforge.net/index.php
I had a mate staying at my house with an Xbox. I used this to play COD 4 and decided to buy my own xbox and COD 4 game.
Always on always turns me off.
The main problem I see with this is the ability to lend games to friends, or have friends lend games to me! This is what hooked me in with COD 4 and the reason I purchased an Xbox. My mate lent me his copy for a day and boom I was hooked.
That wont be happening again I guess....
Read the article idiot!
When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
If you read the article further yourself, not only does the company have to pay for their education, but also pay the child the same wage it was earning!
To quote the article:
When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
I don't think anybody who has posted read the article at all.
$7bn is a very tidy sum for developers of paid apps.
That sum doesn't not include iAd revenue, or more significantly, all the money developers make creating custom made applications for businesses. So developers can make decent bank developing on iOS.
Others on here are arguing about the 30% cut Apple are taking.
For that 30%, they are paying for all the infrastructure, credit card transaction fees, iTunes card costs. If a super market charges $20 for a iTunes voucher, at least here in NZ, they would have made some money, plus GST of 15% is included in that price.
So $20 credit probably brakes down to something like:
15% GST = $2.69
SuperMarket cut = $2
Apple = $15.39
Developer payout = $14
Leaves Apple with $1.39
Now not all transactions will cost Apple that much, such as when iTunes credit is purchased via credit card, then GST is still factored within that $20 plus credit card transaction fees would leave Apple with about ~$3.20.
The point is, after you take away POS costs, infrastructure costs (data centres, human phone support etc), they do not make as much money as you think they do from their 30% cut.
There are probably a dozen things I have missed but I am sure /. will point them out to me :P
7 Billion dollars.....
What you have to realise is that is just payout form Apple.
Many developers (including myself) make a living developing custom applications for businesses. So that figure is just for those who sell their wares.
The reason geeks hate Windows 8 is that they made the computer easier to use and less confusing for the non geeks. This makes being a computer geek less, well, geeky, because anybody can use it without screwing up as much.
The "Start" button was flawed in design and usability right from the beginning.
The UI formally known as Metro (Metro), is a great advancement in usability. How many clicks does it take the average user to access an 90% of the applications they use now compared to pre Metro? 1 click in metro vs minimum of 2 using the start menu. The applications are onscreen and obvious and easy to locate unlike in the convoluted Start menu (remember, I said for the average user, which most of slashdot are not).
Embrace the new, forget the old and evolve.
Cool, make sure you boycott products from these FOXCONN customers too then:
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)
In 2011, Amazon and Foxconn formed a joint-design manufacturing company. The move was meant to produce an Amazon branded smartphone sometime in 2012.
Apple Inc. (United States)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Samsung (South Korea)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)
...but when Samsung sue somebody (which this LG counter measure is retaliation for) they are not evil? Personally I would just love it if everything but copycat patents/lawsuits disappeared. In otherwords, don't make a blatant rip off of counterfeit where you are really just trying to deceive the consumer, and everything else is fine. (awaits they inevitable down mod).
Quick question: Do you think you would have a decent Android device right now if the iPhone came out? The answer is absolutely not. Ultimately though, people need to just enjoy the devices they have and the choices they made. Let the companies do what they have to do and enjoy what you have.
.... they protect innovation. If there were no patents, then companies would not invest huge amounts of money inventing and innovating. Instead they would sit back and wait for somebody else to spend the cash and then just copy them! Ohh wait, that is what just happened, Apple Innovated, Samsung copied... never mind, move on. Seriously though, you all act like Apple is the only company on earth that has sued another company. Get off the Apple hateraid bandwagon and get back to living your life. PS. Is it just me or is Microsoft the only company innovating in the OS market right now?
Whether its a dead OS or not, in an attempt to make me feel better about using Mac OS X and iOS I donated :P
Ocean Marketing, we're everywhere, we're in everything! Ocean Marketings emails reminded me of Lindal Global (I think thats the name) from the movie "The Other Guys".
They could bring their profiles? or sign in with their profile for the multiplayer part? Under their current method you would have to pay $10 for each of the games your friends bring around to play if they are different to those that you the host play. If they are the same then my suggestion also works in that you would have already had a code to play with your game. So no difference. Personally I think they should just lump it and not charge at all, but they are.
I honestly believe when you buy software (or licenses to use software as you do when you buy a game etc) you should be given the same rights as the original owner. If they cared more about allowing only one person at a time to use the software, then they should make it so that once a new user enters the original code, the previous user loses rights to MP. That would surely cut out piracy fears as only one code would be generated for the original purchaser who bought the game. They have control of the network, so they would be able to control the single use of the serial (or pass code or whatever they want to call it). That would kick piracy in the bum as well as control swapping of games.
I used to play this game along with Shadow Keep back in the day. We even had Marathon 2 and Infinity on the School network and would have LAN matches. Good times! I remember one time I was playing Marathon on my Powerbook 1400cs at night with headphones in and no lights on. Because of the ambient sounds etc and the intense story i caught myself being tense, slightly scared and waiting what was gonna happen around the corner like a horror movie. My heart rate was fast and I was on edge cause my life was low and It was like I thought I was going to die in real life haha! Marathon = 3D style shooter with intense story line, awesome multiplayer and map making tools. All back in 1992-96 :D
For those interested in the game it was opensourced by the makers (Bungie Software!) and has been actively developed since then. check out http://source.bungie.org/index.php/Main_Page
Sooooo, you have never owned a gaming console? A GPS navigation system? Hell even a car with electronic fuel injection? They all require some sort of hacking to be able to run applications not initially approved for it....
I use Connect360 and MediaLink from Nullriver to stream from my Mac to my Xbox 360 and PS3. Works great so I dont see all the fuss when everybody been doing for years what Windows 7 is allowing (one way or another) so meh. Theres a cheap easy solution for whatever platform you running (Linux, Windows XP/Vista or Mac OS X) already available so go out and get it.