Absolutely. Was he still considered a terrorist by the US, or did he live to see that finally set right?
Mandela was removed from the US terrorist list in 2008. However, he had been able to travel in and out of the US the entire time - and had even received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George Bush in 2002 - so this looks more like an oversight than anything else.
I found I could not change the language from Chinese. Some research showed I was expected to pay for an upgrade to get Windows, that I paid for, to actual be usable. Microsoft really don't promote legal use of their products with such attitudes!
I don't quite understand, you were surprised by this? You were in China and bought a netbook locally, of course it's going to be the Chinese version of Windows.
I understand the interfaces used on many Linux distros come with support for a large number of languages out of the box, but Windows comes in different versions for different languages and the ability to change the entire operating system to a different language is a feature you have to buy. It's always been that way and I'm not sure if that even changed in Windows 8. I'm sure part of this is to recoup the development costs with translating and localizing the OS.
The reason is not the recoup the development costs - the reason is Price Discrimination: The ability to charge a different price in different markets. The optimal price for Windows in the US is much different than the optimal price for Windows in China - and if you can charge different prices here, Microsoft will make more money. Restricting language change is one mechanism to avoid Americans paying Chinese prices.
Churchill also said that 'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'. As to your quote, I bet Churchill was laughing inside, saying this.
Churchill also said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"The Older Peron... throughout the period, global sea levels were 2.5 to 4 meters (8 to 13 feet) higher than the twentieth-century average."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Older_Peron
True, but infrastructure(there wasn't any) and populations were a lot more flexible then. Right now, with the concepts of property, cities, countries the impact of a 4 m rise in sea level would be catastrophic.
So.. AGW is not real because you don't like the proposed courses of action that might help counter it. Got it.
Or don't see that this course of action actually will fix the problem, for a variety of reasons - even though they recognize that the evidence of AGW is overwhelming.
Speaking of evidence - it's always seemed rather odd to me that the ones most opposed to AGW, "because of lack of evidence", are the same people that are most likely to be passionately religious. These two positions are at the complete opposite ends of the "proven" scale.
I was watching a live stream of the match, which also showed the next moves suggested by Houdini. Interestingly both players were pretty consistent in selecting the highest ranked moves. The exceptions were the "blunders" which lead to Anand's defeat.
Actually, while they often selected the best move, they also often selected a lower ranked possibility - e.g. 3 - 4. A computer won't do that. However, a computer won't blunder the way they did either. You can come quite far in chess if you never do a move that is shown to be a huge mistake in e.g. 5 moves for each side...
At the time, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer in the world with special purpose chess chips, a regular desktop today would be strong but not that ridiculously much stronger.
That is true, but software has also improved. We have better chess algorithms (especially pruning algorithms). But, even more importantly, we have better databases of previous games, and opening moves. Playing good chess has less to do with thinking, and more to do with remembering, than most people realize.
The new world champion is an interesting deviation here. The previous world champions have relied on extensive preparation - a main part of which is going through existing opening theory and finding weaknesses of the opponent, plus "new theory" - new ideas or moves from previously played opening positions. In some cases, these variations can go on for many moves - and a surprise there can topple an opponent. This requires extensive preparation and a requires a lot of memorisation.
Magnus Carlsen's trademark is to avoid most of these if possible - and get "out of the book" and into a position where the opponent must play, rather than base the game on memory, as early as possible. Of course, against a computer "the book" is so large - and keeps growing - that this will never happen. Eventually, you'll be playing against "the book" all of the time - the computer will follow successful games, and avoid blunders where they happened. Winning there, as a human, will be impossible.
Sweden is a rather expensive country - the standard of living, cost level etc. are higher than in the US
Sweden focuses on treatment to avoid relapse into crime, rather than punishment for its own sake. Thus, the prisoners would be treated far too well for US' tastes.
I'm sure Sweden would like to avoid any chance of US criminals ending up living in Sweden afterwards...
You are either mistaken or lying. There is no way in hell you are playing games on high settings on a 2560x1440 display with a laptop graphics card.
Or I don't play the same games you do - I don't play many FPSes, and the games used in benchmarks because they are the most demanding ones probably aren't available on the Mac. This is (Mac Pro excepted) the most powerful Mac ever released, so the "let's see what we can do with 2 780 GTX in SLI"-kind of games aren't what you'd be running here. They probably aren't even available.
The games I ran were Civ 5 (with all expansions) and XCom: Enemy Unknown. The latter stopped working after the Mavericks upgrade, as it now believes the computer doesn't satisfy the minimum requirements and needs a patch.
Not for Windows 8.1, if you own Windows 8. It is a free upgrade. Microsoft has apparently learned a lesson from Apple.
Windows 8.1 is just an update. The upgrade would be from Windows 7 to Windows 8, and for that you have to pay. Given their different business models - Apple has a comfortable margin on their hardware allowing this pricing model, while Microsoft lives from software sales - that's understandable. But the cost of this should be taken into consideration, just as virus scanners - Microsoft recommends not using the free security essentials. This decreases the cost difference over the life of a system.
Interesting insight into the mind of an Apple buyer there. I note you use the word "surprising" a lot, as do Apple themselves in their marketing. You also don't quantify things like the time machine restore being "fast" - fast in comparison to what, and with how many apps and how much data? What does noiseless mean, presumably not 0db?
What I'm getting at is your impression of the machine is based entirely on your expectation of it. I'm not saying it isn't nice hardware, it is, but that is also the very definition of the Reality Distortion Field. The brand, the shiny retail space, the reassuringly high price that must mean it's made of better quality materials.
I'm not having a go at you personally, just pointing out how Apple operates, and why it's hard for the rest of us to take a "review"/anecdote like this too seriously.
First - this was not a review. This was list of impressions. For a review, I would need to compare it to something, go into technical details, measurements etc. This wasn't a review - and for what it was worth, I don't think the one in the original article was a good one either. I think this is a better example of a review, but it is of a different model.
As of my use of "surprising", I used it twice. Once for the weight. Since I had just moved my old 27 inch iMac, I had a good comparison - and this was 1/3rd lighter for what is still basically a computer attached to a screen. Only the optical unit is really missing. This felt slightly surprising to my muscle memory. The second time was describing the sound, and my surprise there is that it is even coming close to "passable for some light use" given the speakers. This is hardly what Apple's marketing would aspire to;) I would not consider using this without additional speakers.
As for "quantify" that time machine being fast - it was a couple of clicks. After that, it took an hour or two - it was about a terrabyte of data (mostly RAW images and music files). I didn't hang around to find out, but the involvement for me was "fast". As for "noiseless", it means I have a really hard time hearing that it's one - I have to put my ear to the screen.
As for "what you're getting at", you're wrong. I don't buy retail (there aren't even any Apple stores around here), and of course lower price is better. I just happen to look at what I get for my money rather than always choosing the lowest price, and previous experience (my own and people I trust) will have an influence on my decisions.
However it's a bit hard to get an Apple laptop for £400, that's why I got my Dell.
Indeed. Apple competes well in the segments they are, but they don't cover every segment. Cheap laptops, servers, gaming machines are just three of the segments they just aren't targeting.
Linux: Expect around 2-3 days of hunting for audio and display drivers and tweaking with the configs until it works
Cool! So you were using linux in 1998! It's good to see somebody that gave it a go way back then but it's changed somewhat over the last decade and a bit.
Now it's only MS Windows where you have to hunt around the net for drivers if you've lost your install CD.
In '98, it wasn't as much spending 2-3 days for display drivers as spending that (and more) time upfront researching and buying the right components. Of course, afterwards you spent far more than that tweaking the configuration, compiling your own kernels etc. to eek out as much of the performance as possible. It was both fun and educational:) That said, there is something to be said for "unwrap, plug in, turn on - done"-Macs.
Alas, nice package but more needed to be done to impress me...
The previous version - this one only changes the internal hardware - offered a VESA mount, so this might be made available again. As for USB on the keyboard, you'll get that if you select the wired keyboard rather than the wireless one.
I bought one - 27 inch, with all available upgrades except for the max memory. Memory is user replaceable, and it's cheaper to buy it elsewhere. Here are my impressions
Unpacking it and setting it up is, as always, a breeze. Take off the top lid, lift the surprisingly light computer to a desk, put in the power chord. Done. Initial setup of the computer is then done in a minute.
Restoring my user profile from a time machine hard drive, to get applications, user data etc. was fast and smooth
The high res screen is gorgeous. It's also very well calibrated out of the box - my calibration hardware hardly changed anything this time around. Compared to earlier iMacs -and most other screens today - there are no reflections, even though it is glossy.
Fusion drive - Apple's automated tiering solution - works very well. For most practical purposes, it worked just as well as my last SSD-based iMac - but this time, I don't have to do manual file management of SSD vs. HD.
The computer is noiseless
Performance is good (photo and movie editing), but that's obviously to be expected. My Linux VMs are very happy too.
The games I tried work well on high settings, but the Witcher 1 doesn't work at all - first, a bug causes it to believe that the system doesn't meet minimum requirements (the older, slower one did). Some editing of config files later, it starts - but videos don't display (sound only) and the 3D display have all objects except text rendered black.
While the sound coming out of the chassis sound surprisingly good, you really want separate speakers or good headphones if you are listening to music while you work.
The suit, originally brought forth by five software engineers in 2011, alleges that the anti-poaching agreements served to lessen their employment opportunities, thereby weakening their negotiating power and ultimately affecting the salaries they were able to command.
Wait, what?
I've been told for years that the only way employees can ever fight their employer is if a union represents them and does all the negotiations. Now you mean to tell me that even non-union employees have rights, too?
That depends. If you are able to sell a unique skill - yourself - you can do that well. If you are more of a commodity, you'll be nickel and dimed. Often with a salary so low you need public support on top of it, and also forego healthcare. These could really need a union.
That said, where I live I think unions are too strong. But they are a needed balance.
Well Windows Phone 7 seems to be great when it comes to power management.
Android is awful. (Suppose WP8 will be as bad as the rest).
You're right, my WP7 phone (a Lumia 900) lasts way longer than my Galaxy S3... Never mind that WP7 can't run any apps in the history of ever (most notably it cant run a microsoft account-capable version of Skype, a microsoft product) but hey the battery will be there when I NEED it...
Windows Phone has optimized the battery lifetime by analyzing typical usage patterns - by far the most power on iPhones and android phone is spent on running apps. By realizing this, and making sure that Windows Phone have on few, and rather bad, apps, battery lifetime on the phone goes sky high.
Not in my experience. Over the past twenty years I've run Linux on a large number of designed-for-Windows laptops; I've never seen worse battery performance under Linux than under Windows, and on some machine (including my current Asus Zenbook) considerably better.
Linux didn't run on many laptops in '93... and for a long time even this milennium, Linux on laptops was painful because of partially functioning hardware (docking and screen mirroring/dual screens), poorly working suspend/resume and poor battery life. While Linux was great for workstations - and by far the best choice for servers - let's not paint too pretty a picture. Working well on laptops is a far more recent addition.
I just wish somebody could explain to me and Anand why Windows is so awful at managing idle power.
OK, Jeff and Anand, listen up: it's because Windows is doing things in the background.
What is it doing? Ask the engineers that built it. But there's no reason to ask stupid vague questions like that when the general answer is so obvious. Windows does a lot of things in the background, all the time. It sounds like that carried over to the mobile version. If you want to know exactly what it's doing in the background (for academic purposes, I assume, since that knowledge isn't very useful) then feel free to ask the people who designed and wrote the software instead of the general public.
The benchmark used by the Anand and Jeff is OS X, which is doing a lot better batterywise than Windows 8. Neither of these are mobile, and both of these have a lot of background processes.
This is the CEO implementing the classic death spiral - reduce employees rapidly to get a few good financial quarters until the customers desert. It can be difficult and expensive for customers to change vendors so you have time to collect enormous sums before the eventual collapse of earnings. I hear there is even a Harvard business school class on how to convert a dying company's assets to personal wealth.
OTOH, when a company is struggling and have been losing money for years you do need to cut costs. And Alcatel-Lucent has been losing money for a while. According to the article, they want to cut "sales, support and administrative areas" - in addition to legacy tech. So it looks as if they are trying to preserve most of their R&D.
Would you please switch to 64-bit already? It's the year 2013, no one who uses the newest Firefox has a 32-bit system anymore, and it's not possible in practice to fix crashes due to running out of memory in C/C++.
Firefox is 64 bit on Mac, unlike Chrome which is still just 32 bit. The latter is fairly annoying, since that means you can't run java in Chrome on 64 bit. When using a credit card issued b a Norwegian bank, you frequently need java to handle credit card authorization with an app and your security device.
Except Pandora is pretty much US only, and even though Spotify is available in about 3 dozen countries or so, still doesn't have a user base of more than 20 million. I suspect iTunes Radio will be available for every market where there's a local iTunes music store. A much much much bigger possible market.Will Pandora survive? Probably, though it will probably lose listeners. Spotify may not. In either case, I would think that iTunes radio would have a much bigger userbase than both combined.
No reason to suspect iTunes Radio will be available for every market where there's a local iTunes music store - it's missing in quite a few countries. E.g here in Norway. And there are tight links between iTunes Match and iTunes Radio - there's no ads in the radio if you have iTunes Match.
What is the patent involved here? Establishing a connection between two entities on an IP network? NAT traversal techniques? Usage of Interactive Connectivity Establishment protocols?
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It's not like there are no other verbs that are also nouns.
Verbing weirds language.
Absolutely. Was he still considered a terrorist by the US, or did he live to see that finally set right?
Mandela was removed from the US terrorist list in 2008. However, he had been able to travel in and out of the US the entire time - and had even received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George Bush in 2002 - so this looks more like an oversight than anything else.
I found I could not change the language from Chinese. Some research showed I was expected to pay for an upgrade to get Windows, that I paid for, to actual be usable. Microsoft really don't promote legal use of their products with such attitudes!
I don't quite understand, you were surprised by this? You were in China and bought a netbook locally, of course it's going to be the Chinese version of Windows. I understand the interfaces used on many Linux distros come with support for a large number of languages out of the box, but Windows comes in different versions for different languages and the ability to change the entire operating system to a different language is a feature you have to buy. It's always been that way and I'm not sure if that even changed in Windows 8. I'm sure part of this is to recoup the development costs with translating and localizing the OS.
The reason is not the recoup the development costs - the reason is Price Discrimination: The ability to charge a different price in different markets. The optimal price for Windows in the US is much different than the optimal price for Windows in China - and if you can charge different prices here, Microsoft will make more money. Restricting language change is one mechanism to avoid Americans paying Chinese prices.
Churchill also said that 'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'. As to your quote, I bet Churchill was laughing inside, saying this.
Churchill also said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
About 7000 years ago:
"The Older Peron... throughout the period, global sea levels were 2.5 to 4 meters (8 to 13 feet) higher than the twentieth-century average."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Older_Peron
True, but infrastructure(there wasn't any) and populations were a lot more flexible then. Right now, with the concepts of property, cities, countries the impact of a 4 m rise in sea level would be catastrophic.
So.. AGW is not real because you don't like the proposed courses of action that might help counter it. Got it.
Or don't see that this course of action actually will fix the problem, for a variety of reasons - even though they recognize that the evidence of AGW is overwhelming.
Speaking of evidence - it's always seemed rather odd to me that the ones most opposed to AGW, "because of lack of evidence", are the same people that are most likely to be passionately religious. These two positions are at the complete opposite ends of the "proven" scale.
I was watching a live stream of the match, which also showed the next moves suggested by Houdini. Interestingly both players were pretty consistent in selecting the highest ranked moves. The exceptions were the "blunders" which lead to Anand's defeat.
Actually, while they often selected the best move, they also often selected a lower ranked possibility - e.g. 3 - 4. A computer won't do that. However, a computer won't blunder the way they did either. You can come quite far in chess if you never do a move that is shown to be a huge mistake in e.g. 5 moves for each side...
At the time, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer in the world with special purpose chess chips, a regular desktop today would be strong but not that ridiculously much stronger.
That is true, but software has also improved. We have better chess algorithms (especially pruning algorithms). But, even more importantly, we have better databases of previous games, and opening moves. Playing good chess has less to do with thinking, and more to do with remembering, than most people realize.
The new world champion is an interesting deviation here. The previous world champions have relied on extensive preparation - a main part of which is going through existing opening theory and finding weaknesses of the opponent, plus "new theory" - new ideas or moves from previously played opening positions. In some cases, these variations can go on for many moves - and a surprise there can topple an opponent. This requires extensive preparation and a requires a lot of memorisation.
Magnus Carlsen's trademark is to avoid most of these if possible - and get "out of the book" and into a position where the opponent must play, rather than base the game on memory, as early as possible. Of course, against a computer "the book" is so large - and keeps growing - that this will never happen. Eventually, you'll be playing against "the book" all of the time - the computer will follow successful games, and avoid blunders where they happened. Winning there, as a human, will be impossible.
be outsourced? This is EXACTLY what USA need.
Not likely an attractive option:
The games I tried work well on high settings
You are either mistaken or lying. There is no way in hell you are playing games on high settings on a 2560x1440 display with a laptop graphics card.
Or I don't play the same games you do - I don't play many FPSes, and the games used in benchmarks because they are the most demanding ones probably aren't available on the Mac. This is (Mac Pro excepted) the most powerful Mac ever released, so the "let's see what we can do with 2 780 GTX in SLI"-kind of games aren't what you'd be running here. They probably aren't even available.
The games I ran were Civ 5 (with all expansions) and XCom: Enemy Unknown. The latter stopped working after the Mavericks upgrade, as it now believes the computer doesn't satisfy the minimum requirements and needs a patch.
Not for Windows 8.1, if you own Windows 8. It is a free upgrade. Microsoft has apparently learned a lesson from Apple.
Windows 8.1 is just an update. The upgrade would be from Windows 7 to Windows 8, and for that you have to pay. Given their different business models - Apple has a comfortable margin on their hardware allowing this pricing model, while Microsoft lives from software sales - that's understandable. But the cost of this should be taken into consideration, just as virus scanners - Microsoft recommends not using the free security essentials. This decreases the cost difference over the life of a system.
Interesting insight into the mind of an Apple buyer there. I note you use the word "surprising" a lot, as do Apple themselves in their marketing. You also don't quantify things like the time machine restore being "fast" - fast in comparison to what, and with how many apps and how much data? What does noiseless mean, presumably not 0db?
What I'm getting at is your impression of the machine is based entirely on your expectation of it. I'm not saying it isn't nice hardware, it is, but that is also the very definition of the Reality Distortion Field. The brand, the shiny retail space, the reassuringly high price that must mean it's made of better quality materials.
I'm not having a go at you personally, just pointing out how Apple operates, and why it's hard for the rest of us to take a "review"/anecdote like this too seriously.
First - this was not a review. This was list of impressions. For a review, I would need to compare it to something, go into technical details, measurements etc. This wasn't a review - and for what it was worth, I don't think the one in the original article was a good one either. I think this is a better example of a review, but it is of a different model. As of my use of "surprising", I used it twice. Once for the weight. Since I had just moved my old 27 inch iMac, I had a good comparison - and this was 1/3rd lighter for what is still basically a computer attached to a screen. Only the optical unit is really missing. This felt slightly surprising to my muscle memory. The second time was describing the sound, and my surprise there is that it is even coming close to "passable for some light use" given the speakers. This is hardly what Apple's marketing would aspire to ;) I would not consider using this without additional speakers.
As for "quantify" that time machine being fast - it was a couple of clicks. After that, it took an hour or two - it was about a terrabyte of data (mostly RAW images and music files). I didn't hang around to find out, but the involvement for me was "fast". As for "noiseless", it means I have a really hard time hearing that it's one - I have to put my ear to the screen.
As for "what you're getting at", you're wrong. I don't buy retail (there aren't even any Apple stores around here), and of course lower price is better. I just happen to look at what I get for my money rather than always choosing the lowest price, and previous experience (my own and people I trust) will have an influence on my decisions.
However it's a bit hard to get an Apple laptop for £400, that's why I got my Dell.
Indeed. Apple competes well in the segments they are, but they don't cover every segment. Cheap laptops, servers, gaming machines are just three of the segments they just aren't targeting.
Cool! So you were using linux in 1998! It's good to see somebody that gave it a go way back then but it's changed somewhat over the last decade and a bit. Now it's only MS Windows where you have to hunt around the net for drivers if you've lost your install CD.
In '98, it wasn't as much spending 2-3 days for display drivers as spending that (and more) time upfront researching and buying the right components. Of course, afterwards you spent far more than that tweaking the configuration, compiling your own kernels etc. to eek out as much of the performance as possible. It was both fun and educational :) That said, there is something to be said for "unwrap, plug in, turn on - done"-Macs.
OS updates cost money with Windows? News to me.
An OS update is free with Windows, but an OS upgrade will cost you. On Mac, both kinds are free now.
Why don't support vesa mount?
Why no USB on keyboard?
Alas, nice package but more needed to be done to impress me...
The previous version - this one only changes the internal hardware - offered a VESA mount, so this might be made available again. As for USB on the keyboard, you'll get that if you select the wired keyboard rather than the wireless one.
I bought one - 27 inch, with all available upgrades except for the max memory. Memory is user replaceable, and it's cheaper to buy it elsewhere. Here are my impressions
The suit, originally brought forth by five software engineers in 2011, alleges that the anti-poaching agreements served to lessen their employment opportunities, thereby weakening their negotiating power and ultimately affecting the salaries they were able to command.
Wait, what?
I've been told for years that the only way employees can ever fight their employer is if a union represents them and does all the negotiations. Now you mean to tell me that even non-union employees have rights, too?
That depends. If you are able to sell a unique skill - yourself - you can do that well. If you are more of a commodity, you'll be nickel and dimed. Often with a salary so low you need public support on top of it, and also forego healthcare. These could really need a union.
That said, where I live I think unions are too strong. But they are a needed balance.
Well Windows Phone 7 seems to be great when it comes to power management.
Android is awful. (Suppose WP8 will be as bad as the rest).
You're right, my WP7 phone (a Lumia 900) lasts way longer than my Galaxy S3... Never mind that WP7 can't run any apps in the history of ever (most notably it cant run a microsoft account-capable version of Skype, a microsoft product) but hey the battery will be there when I NEED it...
Windows Phone has optimized the battery lifetime by analyzing typical usage patterns - by far the most power on iPhones and android phone is spent on running apps. By realizing this, and making sure that Windows Phone have on few, and rather bad, apps, battery lifetime on the phone goes sky high.
Not in my experience. Over the past twenty years I've run Linux on a large number of designed-for-Windows laptops; I've never seen worse battery performance under Linux than under Windows, and on some machine (including my current Asus Zenbook) considerably better.
Linux didn't run on many laptops in '93... and for a long time even this milennium, Linux on laptops was painful because of partially functioning hardware (docking and screen mirroring/dual screens), poorly working suspend/resume and poor battery life. While Linux was great for workstations - and by far the best choice for servers - let's not paint too pretty a picture. Working well on laptops is a far more recent addition.
It really is a simple question.
I just wish somebody could explain to me and Anand why Windows is so awful at managing idle power.
OK, Jeff and Anand, listen up: it's because Windows is doing things in the background.
What is it doing? Ask the engineers that built it. But there's no reason to ask stupid vague questions like that when the general answer is so obvious. Windows does a lot of things in the background, all the time. It sounds like that carried over to the mobile version. If you want to know exactly what it's doing in the background (for academic purposes, I assume, since that knowledge isn't very useful) then feel free to ask the people who designed and wrote the software instead of the general public.
The benchmark used by the Anand and Jeff is OS X, which is doing a lot better batterywise than Windows 8. Neither of these are mobile, and both of these have a lot of background processes.
This is the CEO implementing the classic death spiral - reduce employees rapidly to get a few good financial quarters until the customers desert. It can be difficult and expensive for customers to change vendors so you have time to collect enormous sums before the eventual collapse of earnings. I hear there is even a Harvard business school class on how to convert a dying company's assets to personal wealth.
OTOH, when a company is struggling and have been losing money for years you do need to cut costs. And Alcatel-Lucent has been losing money for a while. According to the article, they want to cut "sales, support and administrative areas" - in addition to legacy tech. So it looks as if they are trying to preserve most of their R&D.
Would you please switch to 64-bit already? It's the year 2013, no one who uses the newest Firefox has a 32-bit system anymore, and it's not possible in practice to fix crashes due to running out of memory in C/C++.
Firefox is 64 bit on Mac, unlike Chrome which is still just 32 bit. The latter is fairly annoying, since that means you can't run java in Chrome on 64 bit. When using a credit card issued b a Norwegian bank, you frequently need java to handle credit card authorization with an app and your security device.
Except Pandora is pretty much US only, and even though Spotify is available in about 3 dozen countries or so, still doesn't have a user base of more than 20 million. I suspect iTunes Radio will be available for every market where there's a local iTunes music store. A much much much bigger possible market.Will Pandora survive? Probably, though it will probably lose listeners. Spotify may not. In either case, I would think that iTunes radio would have a much bigger userbase than both combined.
No reason to suspect iTunes Radio will be available for every market where there's a local iTunes music store - it's missing in quite a few countries. E.g here in Norway. And there are tight links between iTunes Match and iTunes Radio - there's no ads in the radio if you have iTunes Match.
What is the patent involved here? Establishing a connection between two entities on an IP network? NAT traversal techniques? Usage of Interactive Connectivity Establishment protocols?
Following links in the article will eventually get you to an article listing the patents.