From your link:
"None of the windows at Halden have bars"
That's not a remotely typical prison.
The prisoners make their own meals. In a typical prison, that would result in 125 dead of stab wounds.
It's not that different from most Norwegian prisons - it just happens to be the newest one. Norway puts a huge effort into rehabilitation, and as a result the recidivism rate is 20-30% - less than half of what it is in the UK, to give one example.
While one part of me doesn't want prison to be to comfortable and cushy, intellectually I prefer this as it makes most ex-cons a valuable part of society afterwards and they don't go back to prison.
"See that folder music? Put it in there" is an absolutely horrible way to deal with music
I completely disagree. You can put the songs of each album in a separate folder with the name of that album. It's really the only sane way to maintain a serious music collection. Its structure does not depend on any application except the file system itself. The location of each file is static, well known and searchable with standard file searching tools. And as a side benefit the structure of the collection is independent of the device as well.
iTunes does this - it is stored as "Artist/Album/discid-trackid track name" on the file system. However, the user interface exposes many attributes that are not visible when basing yourself on the filesystem as the interface: Genre, playlists, composer/director/artist, bpm and more. It also makes it easier to find tracks by individual artists on compilation albums.
Of course, the files are still independent on the device even if itunes are used on top...
That's the beauty of the Android system: you don't need a management tool, it just builds your library up from metadata in the tags on the device itself. Throw the files in there, use directories if you like or not if you prefer. As long as they are on there the music player app will sort them out for you.
Every music file you buy will be tagged correctly. Most ripping software auto-tags. It's a solved problem.
Unless your Android is the primary storage mechanism - where you keep all your audio files, and everywhere else is just copies - no, it isn't. Because you need to get a selection of it there.
Building a library based on metadata in tags is just what iTunes does - and fairly well, in my experience on a Mac. This allows me control what I listen to and transfer based on things like genre, certain attributes (orchestra, director, composer), artists, playlists etc much easier than a purely file system based system.
Don't get me wrong, building such a database on the device - and making it easier/possible for such apps on the computer to synchronize with the phone - is good. I'm just questioning the "it is so much better to manually manage my music on the file system and transfer what I want to listen to via drag and drop"-statement.
Look at the rumored (but very likely) "low cost iPhone". It's made of cheap plastic, which Apple had been trying to get away from for years with Jobs at the helm. Steve would have likely insisted that they find a way to build the iPhone out of its current materials but less expensively, and I'm sure the engineers would have lived up to the challenge.
He was a perfectionist, and while I didn't agree with all his decisions, his absolute refusal to compromise and insist that everything be exactly right is what led to Apple becoming what it is. I already see things going downhill and it's not going to be pretty moving forward.
Complaining about the materials in an unannounced product that been rumoured for years, but never appeared - and is completely contrary to the Apple DNA ("we build premium products only, screw the rest of the market") - is a bit early.
...ok, I'll bite. I bought my android phone because it has a physical keyboard, a better processor, the same amount of RAM, and the same amount of storage as an iphone, while being cheaper and giving me more control over the software than Apple does.
Does this make me a "fandroid"? Dunno, you tell me. All I care about is that my mobile device needs are met. Apple can't do that for me.
Comparing memory and CPU of an Android phone with an Apple phone makes little sense - from the reviews I read, phones with similar or equal specs to Apple's then top of the line often run sluggishly. Android needs more memory to run. Personally, I think being able to use Java and using more memory is a trade off well worth taking - but it means you don't compare oranges to oranges in this area.
Android's great strength is it's flexibility - you want a phone that's way too big to be practical? Check. Got a small, nice one that fits in your pocket? Check. Got a rugged, water tight phone? Check. Want a really cheap phone that's basically a feature phone? Check. Apple has decided on what is the best form factor - and I'm inclined to agree that it's the best single one. But Android has that, and every other base covered....
...and having to use that hideous iTunes app is an even greater agony.
and there you have it. iTunes is one of the most horrendous applications I've ever used. When I got my wife to switch to android she said "But how do I put music on it?!?!" so I clicked on the device and said "See that folder called music? Put it in there." all she said was "wow"
"See that folder music? Put it in there" is an absolutely horrible way to deal with music, unless all you have is one album. The overview and management of a tool like iTunes is indispensable when you have a large music library... I have 24 k items, mostly lossless audio, after all of my non-SACDs discs have been moved into the basement. Folders just don't cut it, and "put it in the music folder" don't scale at all.
The good thing about a folder interface is that someone else can recreate their vision of iTunes and use that to achieve the same thing. Not that you can do it yourself, that's masochism.
As a side note, spotify and others of that ilk are making this less and less necessary.
Other admins can access it if they change the permissions on the directory, naturally. If you don't trust the other admins on your system you are boned anyway.
The Keychain on Macand GNOME Keyring store the passwords encrypted - e.g. by the default, the Mac keychain is encrypted with the login password. If you read it, you can't use it. If you reset the user password, the passwords are still not accessible.
Of course, against a really determined admin attacker this won't be enough (provide custom system binaries), but it will raise the bar. And for many attacks, that will be enough. NSA or business espionage? No. Most jeaulous SOs or peeping siblings? Yes.
I think you've got that one covered already, it's called the 4th amendment. Too bad you guys have spent decades deciding that the Constitution is a 'living breathing document' instead of a foundational document which is immutable. And you have politicians who now run with that, and instead of laws being challenged against the document for a breach against the people, you use the mass of interpretations, and fine legal hair splitting so you get screwed over.
If the constitution wasn't a living, breathing document it would still allow slavery and it wouldn't include women's right to vote. The constitution of a country is a set of fundamental rules other laws are built on, and while there are less frequent need to update them than other laws there is still a need to do so.
Isn't an agency model the most logical form for a copyrighted product? It's simply a commission.
The beauty of Apple's MFN was it was just for new-release hardcover books; there would be a more competitive marketplace once the paperback edition came out. I think this one was poorly adjudicated.
It's logical, but the problem with Apple's MFN - as I see it - is that they apply the MFN price to the end price, including their cut. So if Amazon offered to sell at 20% commission - instead of Apple's 30% - they still couldn't sell at a lower price without Apple lowering their price (and thus the payment to the publisher).
"I disagree. In this market, you had en extremely dominant player with 80-90% market share [cnn.com] selling products at a loss."
How can this possibly true given that the paperback versions were pretty much always cheaper again and producing a paperback product is always drastically more expensive than producing a digital version.
I think the publishers might have been telling a little white lie about the whole "loss" thing.
The publishers weren't selling at a loss - but Amazon sold at a loss. When Amazon sells a copy, they pay an amount per book to the publisher. If the price is below this amount, they lose money. For the publisher, something similar could potentially apply - e.g. if the royalty is a fixed amount per book.
Also, it's important to know that paper doesn't cost that much. The dominant costs are fixed costs ("running the company", with all that entails of reviewing, editing, marketing, author advances), royalties etc. The same applies to e-books.
I would argue that "monopoly power" is the ability of *one* player to reset the price above the what would normally be a market price. Since the deal Apple brokered among publishers raised the cost of ebooks across all platforms, the term should apply here.
I disagree. In this market, you had en extremely dominant player with 80-90% market share selling products at a loss. One of the benefits of this was extending and maintaining the market share of the Kindle eco system, thus raising the barrier to entry to the market. Another was to train customers into a certain price range. Combining these, it is likely that they could later impose these prices on the suppliers.
Apple entering this unstable market gave the unhappy suppliers an option, which they took advantage of. A new player entering a previously almost monopolized market, and still being a by far smaller player - Kindle still has 50-60% of the market - and being hit by anti-trust laws sounds strange to me. Sure, they probably guessed that prices would increase but that was caused by the intrinsics of this specific market with the 800 lb gorilla selling at a loss.
While I think Apple's MFN tactic should be disallowed - at least as far as MFN being applied to the customer price, rather that what Apple would be paying - Amazon also had MFNs in their contracts.
Apple, back in 1998-1999, was on the brink of bankruptcy. Even the early years of Jobs return, Apple was putting out colorful plastic, underpowered computers. It wasn't until the introduction of the Ipod, and Apple's redirection into the consumer device market, did Apple dig itself out of its 1990's stupor.
Did reality prove you wrong? Hasn't the Red Hat stock grown in multiples of its 1990's value? Did she sell it in the early 2000's?
Red Hat had a stock value of 140 before the dot-com crash.... with the amount of stock then in circulation, this was utterly insane and it fell to 2-3 dollars before going up to the 10-20 range a couple of years later. Lately, it's been 50-60 so still needs more than a doubling to reach the old top.
The pricing back then was utterly insane, though...
I'd say it is clearly more regional, but yes the places in which the "celebration of street crime/being a thug" occours, is often in areas in which there are high concentrations of African Americans. Of course there is the problem of when location is ignored and stupid assumptions are made. IE the white kid who grew up in the projects with a deadbeat dad, is considerably more likely to wind up in a gang or around violence than a black kid who grew up in a suburbs with wealthy parents etc... Of course in this case, both are irrelevant. Stupid accidents are stupid accidents, Playing with dangerous things, such as explosives (or mundane objects that will convert into explosives), or minor weapons without propor supervision, deserves a slap on the wrist, something to set in a note that you need to take care next time, and then move on. Neither of these kids deserved the book thrown at them.
From a European point of view, the entire American culture glorifies guns and violence. While a second of a covered nipple causes immediate outrage, violence causes no such reactions.
Which means Windows and OSX.
They will not make a linux or BSD plugin, had they wanted to stream to those platforms it would have already happened.
Netflix' computer solution is based on Silverlight, which is not available for platforms other than Windows and OSX. A plugin would be much simpler in scope.
Check out what Obama want's Bolden to do. Direct quote from Bolden:
"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."
Their "foremost" task is to make Muslims feel good. He literally said that. Yet he still heads NASA
Thanks, jackasses, for electing Obama.
That is no direct quote from Bolden at all - that is a myth.
Companies might have to start issuing license keys in this manner for their s/w to get around Apple's stubbornness..
- Download app for free from the store
- On first launch, app sends you to a webpage where you can buy a license
- Copy-paste license key into app (or something like that)
Apple's basically messing with the user experience by being stubborn.
This is not allowed. What is allowed, and many companies do, is that you sign up on their web site and can then access the service on iOS. Or you get free access if you already have the service, the IOS app is just another delivery mechanism - e.g. you get The Economist free on the iPad if you subscribe on paper.
There is a larger issue at hand I'd expect... subsequent billing... as services like SkyDrive, Office 365, Netflix, etc aren't just used on one device... and tend to be paid for on a regular cycle.
Letâ(TM)s take MS out of it... letâ(TM)s say you buy an iPad, download the Netflix app and sign up for an account (something I do not believe the app supports)... by doing so Apple gets it's 30% cut... each month in theory.
A year or three goes by and you decide to wipe your iPad and buy a non iOS device... in fact, you no longer have any Apple device in your home and now watch Netflix through a Roku or PS3... should Apple still be getting a 30% cut each and every month until you cancel the subscription and re-subscribe?
In this case, Apple still has to handle costs for credit card processing, international currency and VAT handling, some customer care for billing etc.
...how much it has to do with the fact that AMD already makes CPU/GPU combination packages(and seems interested in making more), while Nvidia has nothing of that sort except their 'Tegra', which might be a snappy mobile part...
This is my guess. AMD can offer an integrated part with good performance. If the choice of a PC-like architecture had already been made (no "cell 2"), then there were two other options: An integrated Intel solution (not very good graphics), or a combination of CPU from Intel and GPU from Nvidia. This would mean more/larger assembly, and two solutions to pay for rather than one.
Here's some fucking news, you cannot tax an economy into prosperity, unemployment is increasing and the cost of fucking hamburgers is going up thanks to Obama and all the socialists elected and supported by the NYT. They do not report news, they spin and transcribe what the elitists in government tell them to say. That's all.
What I do is none of your fucking business.
Sure you can tax into prosperity... Tax pays for services needed for prosperity, like security (police, defense), libraries, transport and communication infrastructure,
education, a legal system etc at a minimum. This obviously doesn't mean that "more tax is always better", but some level of tax is needed. Providing care for the elderly and children increases the workforce and thus prosperity, but also requires funding.
The society might also find that handling things like health together through the tax system has benefits - when looked at purely through the numbers, US clearly pays far more (as %GDP) than anyone else with not very good results.
I'd be interested to know how you can separate words like "free" and "open" (as in "free" and "open source" software) from ideology.
For businesses, separating "ideology" and "free"/"open" is the norm. Many companies use e.g. LAMP and Red Hat Enterprise Linux because it's the best for them.
Why would someone use anything other than Chrome or Chromium on any platform?
On Mac, one good reason would be because it is just 32 bit - unlike the rest of the system. This means that e.g. java does not work in Chrome on Mac. While that might be seen as a good thing at some times;), this means that you can't use many of the banks here in Norway - or do online credit card payments.
Also, some might think that Google knows enough about you already...
Windows 8 has a real chance at beating iOS/Android in the enterprise, which eventually makes it a challenger at home also, and this is in large part due to the ability to run Office - and *the full Office suite* at that. Why would Microsoft want to give away this advantage in exchange for short term Office sales?
Because if it is phrased like that, anti trust authorities in many countries would take action: Using a monopoly/dominant position in one area (office software) to expand market share in a different area (mobile devices) is not considered a good/legal thing to do.
It's difficult (at best) to compare apples-to-apples
Sometimes it's difficult to compare Apples to Apples.
"I'd like to Max out my RAM. I have an iMac"
"Sure, but what version? That makes all the difference for what RAM it can use"
"Um, it's got a black back and I bought it in 2011 from a friend who upgraded to a newer Mac. I don't see a version number."
"Call your friend and find out when it was purchased from Apple"
Just select "About this Mac" and then "More info" and you get the information you need - "Macbook Air, 13 inch, Mid 2011" in my case. Plus some extra information about processor, memory (installed size, type and speed) etc.
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From your link: "None of the windows at Halden have bars"
That's not a remotely typical prison.
The prisoners make their own meals. In a typical prison, that would result in 125 dead of stab wounds.
It's not that different from most Norwegian prisons - it just happens to be the newest one. Norway puts a huge effort into rehabilitation, and as a result the recidivism rate is 20-30% - less than half of what it is in the UK, to give one example.
While one part of me doesn't want prison to be to comfortable and cushy, intellectually I prefer this as it makes most ex-cons a valuable part of society afterwards and they don't go back to prison.
Citation needed. Who said anything about them "deliberately" misusing Safari's broken features? Maybe you just pulled that part outta your ass?
Google was fined for tricking itself around "do not track" and "block third party cookies". The details are in the second url.
"See that folder music? Put it in there" is an absolutely horrible way to deal with music
I completely disagree. You can put the songs of each album in a separate folder with the name of that album. It's really the only sane way to maintain a serious music collection. Its structure does not depend on any application except the file system itself. The location of each file is static, well known and searchable with standard file searching tools. And as a side benefit the structure of the collection is independent of the device as well.
iTunes does this - it is stored as "Artist/Album/discid-trackid track name" on the file system. However, the user interface exposes many attributes that are not visible when basing yourself on the filesystem as the interface: Genre, playlists, composer/director/artist, bpm and more. It also makes it easier to find tracks by individual artists on compilation albums.
Of course, the files are still independent on the device even if itunes are used on top...
That's the beauty of the Android system: you don't need a management tool, it just builds your library up from metadata in the tags on the device itself. Throw the files in there, use directories if you like or not if you prefer. As long as they are on there the music player app will sort them out for you.
Every music file you buy will be tagged correctly. Most ripping software auto-tags. It's a solved problem.
Unless your Android is the primary storage mechanism - where you keep all your audio files, and everywhere else is just copies - no, it isn't. Because you need to get a selection of it there.
Building a library based on metadata in tags is just what iTunes does - and fairly well, in my experience on a Mac. This allows me control what I listen to and transfer based on things like genre, certain attributes (orchestra, director, composer), artists, playlists etc much easier than a purely file system based system.
Don't get me wrong, building such a database on the device - and making it easier/possible for such apps on the computer to synchronize with the phone - is good. I'm just questioning the "it is so much better to manually manage my music on the file system and transfer what I want to listen to via drag and drop"-statement.
Look at the rumored (but very likely) "low cost iPhone". It's made of cheap plastic, which Apple had been trying to get away from for years with Jobs at the helm. Steve would have likely insisted that they find a way to build the iPhone out of its current materials but less expensively, and I'm sure the engineers would have lived up to the challenge.
He was a perfectionist, and while I didn't agree with all his decisions, his absolute refusal to compromise and insist that everything be exactly right is what led to Apple becoming what it is. I already see things going downhill and it's not going to be pretty moving forward.
Complaining about the materials in an unannounced product that been rumoured for years, but never appeared - and is completely contrary to the Apple DNA ("we build premium products only, screw the rest of the market") - is a bit early.
...ok, I'll bite. I bought my android phone because it has a physical keyboard, a better processor, the same amount of RAM, and the same amount of storage as an iphone, while being cheaper and giving me more control over the software than Apple does. Does this make me a "fandroid"? Dunno, you tell me. All I care about is that my mobile device needs are met. Apple can't do that for me.
Comparing memory and CPU of an Android phone with an Apple phone makes little sense - from the reviews I read, phones with similar or equal specs to Apple's then top of the line often run sluggishly. Android needs more memory to run. Personally, I think being able to use Java and using more memory is a trade off well worth taking - but it means you don't compare oranges to oranges in this area.
Android's great strength is it's flexibility - you want a phone that's way too big to be practical? Check. Got a small, nice one that fits in your pocket? Check. Got a rugged, water tight phone? Check. Want a really cheap phone that's basically a feature phone? Check. Apple has decided on what is the best form factor - and I'm inclined to agree that it's the best single one. But Android has that, and every other base covered....
...and having to use that hideous iTunes app is an even greater agony.
and there you have it. iTunes is one of the most horrendous applications I've ever used. When I got my wife to switch to android she said "But how do I put music on it?!?!" so I clicked on the device and said "See that folder called music? Put it in there." all she said was "wow"
"See that folder music? Put it in there" is an absolutely horrible way to deal with music, unless all you have is one album. The overview and management of a tool like iTunes is indispensable when you have a large music library... I have 24 k items, mostly lossless audio, after all of my non-SACDs discs have been moved into the basement. Folders just don't cut it, and "put it in the music folder" don't scale at all.
The good thing about a folder interface is that someone else can recreate their vision of iTunes and use that to achieve the same thing. Not that you can do it yourself, that's masochism.
As a side note, spotify and others of that ilk are making this less and less necessary.
Other admins can access it if they change the permissions on the directory, naturally. If you don't trust the other admins on your system you are boned anyway.
The Keychain on Macand GNOME Keyring store the passwords encrypted - e.g. by the default, the Mac keychain is encrypted with the login password. If you read it, you can't use it. If you reset the user password, the passwords are still not accessible.
Of course, against a really determined admin attacker this won't be enough (provide custom system binaries), but it will raise the bar. And for many attacks, that will be enough. NSA or business espionage? No. Most jeaulous SOs or peeping siblings? Yes.
Ones that say that yes they do need a warrant.
I think you've got that one covered already, it's called the 4th amendment. Too bad you guys have spent decades deciding that the Constitution is a 'living breathing document' instead of a foundational document which is immutable. And you have politicians who now run with that, and instead of laws being challenged against the document for a breach against the people, you use the mass of interpretations, and fine legal hair splitting so you get screwed over.
If the constitution wasn't a living, breathing document it would still allow slavery and it wouldn't include women's right to vote. The constitution of a country is a set of fundamental rules other laws are built on, and while there are less frequent need to update them than other laws there is still a need to do so.
PS: I'm not unhappy about the removal of part in the Norwegian constitution forbidding the entry of Jews, Jesuits and monastic orders into the realm.
Isn't an agency model the most logical form for a copyrighted product? It's simply a commission.
The beauty of Apple's MFN was it was just for new-release hardcover books; there would be a more competitive marketplace once the paperback edition came out. I think this one was poorly adjudicated.
It's logical, but the problem with Apple's MFN - as I see it - is that they apply the MFN price to the end price, including their cut. So if Amazon offered to sell at 20% commission - instead of Apple's 30% - they still couldn't sell at a lower price without Apple lowering their price (and thus the payment to the publisher).
"I disagree. In this market, you had en extremely dominant player with 80-90% market share [cnn.com] selling products at a loss."
How can this possibly true given that the paperback versions were pretty much always cheaper again and producing a paperback product is always drastically more expensive than producing a digital version.
I think the publishers might have been telling a little white lie about the whole "loss" thing.
The publishers weren't selling at a loss - but Amazon sold at a loss. When Amazon sells a copy, they pay an amount per book to the publisher. If the price is below this amount, they lose money. For the publisher, something similar could potentially apply - e.g. if the royalty is a fixed amount per book.
Also, it's important to know that paper doesn't cost that much. The dominant costs are fixed costs ("running the company", with all that entails of reviewing, editing, marketing, author advances), royalties etc. The same applies to e-books.
I would argue that "monopoly power" is the ability of *one* player to reset the price above the what would normally be a market price. Since the deal Apple brokered among publishers raised the cost of ebooks across all platforms, the term should apply here.
I disagree. In this market, you had en extremely dominant player with 80-90% market share selling products at a loss. One of the benefits of this was extending and maintaining the market share of the Kindle eco system, thus raising the barrier to entry to the market. Another was to train customers into a certain price range. Combining these, it is likely that they could later impose these prices on the suppliers.
Apple entering this unstable market gave the unhappy suppliers an option, which they took advantage of. A new player entering a previously almost monopolized market, and still being a by far smaller player - Kindle still has 50-60% of the market - and being hit by anti-trust laws sounds strange to me. Sure, they probably guessed that prices would increase but that was caused by the intrinsics of this specific market with the 800 lb gorilla selling at a loss. While I think Apple's MFN tactic should be disallowed - at least as far as MFN being applied to the customer price, rather that what Apple would be paying - Amazon also had MFNs in their contracts.
Apple, back in 1998-1999, was on the brink of bankruptcy. Even the early years of Jobs return, Apple was putting out colorful plastic, underpowered computers. It wasn't until the introduction of the Ipod, and Apple's redirection into the consumer device market, did Apple dig itself out of its 1990's stupor.
Did reality prove you wrong? Hasn't the Red Hat stock grown in multiples of its 1990's value? Did she sell it in the early 2000's?
Red Hat had a stock value of 140 before the dot-com crash.... with the amount of stock then in circulation, this was utterly insane and it fell to 2-3 dollars before going up to the 10-20 range a couple of years later. Lately, it's been 50-60 so still needs more than a doubling to reach the old top.
The pricing back then was utterly insane, though...
I'd say it is clearly more regional, but yes the places in which the "celebration of street crime/being a thug" occours, is often in areas in which there are high concentrations of African Americans. Of course there is the problem of when location is ignored and stupid assumptions are made. IE the white kid who grew up in the projects with a deadbeat dad, is considerably more likely to wind up in a gang or around violence than a black kid who grew up in a suburbs with wealthy parents etc... Of course in this case, both are irrelevant. Stupid accidents are stupid accidents, Playing with dangerous things, such as explosives (or mundane objects that will convert into explosives), or minor weapons without propor supervision, deserves a slap on the wrist, something to set in a note that you need to take care next time, and then move on. Neither of these kids deserved the book thrown at them.
From a European point of view, the entire American culture glorifies guns and violence. While a second of a covered nipple causes immediate outrage, violence causes no such reactions.
Which means Windows and OSX. They will not make a linux or BSD plugin, had they wanted to stream to those platforms it would have already happened.
Netflix' computer solution is based on Silverlight, which is not available for platforms other than Windows and OSX. A plugin would be much simpler in scope.
... for electing Obama.
Check out what Obama want's Bolden to do. Direct quote from Bolden:
"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."
Their "foremost" task is to make Muslims feel good. He literally said that. Yet he still heads NASA
Thanks, jackasses, for electing Obama.
That is no direct quote from Bolden at all - that is a myth.
Companies might have to start issuing license keys in this manner for their s/w to get around Apple's stubbornness..
- Download app for free from the store - On first launch, app sends you to a webpage where you can buy a license - Copy-paste license key into app (or something like that)
Apple's basically messing with the user experience by being stubborn.
This is not allowed. What is allowed, and many companies do, is that you sign up on their web site and can then access the service on iOS. Or you get free access if you already have the service, the IOS app is just another delivery mechanism - e.g. you get The Economist free on the iPad if you subscribe on paper.
There is a larger issue at hand I'd expect... subsequent billing... as services like SkyDrive, Office 365, Netflix, etc aren't just used on one device... and tend to be paid for on a regular cycle.
Letâ(TM)s take MS out of it... letâ(TM)s say you buy an iPad, download the Netflix app and sign up for an account (something I do not believe the app supports)... by doing so Apple gets it's 30% cut... each month in theory.
A year or three goes by and you decide to wipe your iPad and buy a non iOS device... in fact, you no longer have any Apple device in your home and now watch Netflix through a Roku or PS3... should Apple still be getting a 30% cut each and every month until you cancel the subscription and re-subscribe?
In this case, Apple still has to handle costs for credit card processing, international currency and VAT handling, some customer care for billing etc.
...how much it has to do with the fact that AMD already makes CPU/GPU combination packages(and seems interested in making more), while Nvidia has nothing of that sort except their 'Tegra', which might be a snappy mobile part...
This is my guess. AMD can offer an integrated part with good performance. If the choice of a PC-like architecture had already been made (no "cell 2"), then there were two other options: An integrated Intel solution (not very good graphics), or a combination of CPU from Intel and GPU from Nvidia. This would mean more/larger assembly, and two solutions to pay for rather than one.
NYT journalist?
Here's some fucking news, you cannot tax an economy into prosperity, unemployment is increasing and the cost of fucking hamburgers is going up thanks to Obama and all the socialists elected and supported by the NYT. They do not report news, they spin and transcribe what the elitists in government tell them to say. That's all.
What I do is none of your fucking business.
Sure you can tax into prosperity... Tax pays for services needed for prosperity, like security (police, defense), libraries, transport and communication infrastructure, education, a legal system etc at a minimum. This obviously doesn't mean that "more tax is always better", but some level of tax is needed. Providing care for the elderly and children increases the workforce and thus prosperity, but also requires funding.
The society might also find that handling things like health together through the tax system has benefits - when looked at purely through the numbers, US clearly pays far more (as %GDP) than anyone else with not very good results.
I'd be interested to know how you can separate words like "free" and "open" (as in "free" and "open source" software) from ideology.
For businesses, separating "ideology" and "free"/"open" is the norm. Many companies use e.g. LAMP and Red Hat Enterprise Linux because it's the best for them.
Why would someone use anything other than Chrome or Chromium on any platform?
On Mac, one good reason would be because it is just 32 bit - unlike the rest of the system. This means that e.g. java does not work in Chrome on Mac. While that might be seen as a good thing at some times ;), this means that you can't use many of the banks here in Norway - or do online credit card payments.
Also, some might think that Google knows enough about you already...
I'll take that into account the first time i see 'colour' in a manual.
I wonder how you spell "whoosh" in Australian.
In Australia, the "whoosh" goes the other way. No wonder it's expensive to localize everything!
Windows 8 has a real chance at beating iOS/Android in the enterprise, which eventually makes it a challenger at home also, and this is in large part due to the ability to run Office - and *the full Office suite* at that. Why would Microsoft want to give away this advantage in exchange for short term Office sales?
Because if it is phrased like that, anti trust authorities in many countries would take action: Using a monopoly/dominant position in one area (office software) to expand market share in a different area (mobile devices) is not considered a good/legal thing to do.
It's difficult (at best) to compare apples-to-apples
Sometimes it's difficult to compare Apples to Apples. "I'd like to Max out my RAM. I have an iMac" "Sure, but what version? That makes all the difference for what RAM it can use" "Um, it's got a black back and I bought it in 2011 from a friend who upgraded to a newer Mac. I don't see a version number." "Call your friend and find out when it was purchased from Apple"
Just select "About this Mac" and then "More info" and you get the information you need - "Macbook Air, 13 inch, Mid 2011" in my case. Plus some extra information about processor, memory (installed size, type and speed) etc.