From a software vendor point, it's one of the main reasons not to develop for such a platform. Supporting multiple Windows versions is already a pain for a smaller software developer.
1) Smartphones are defined by what apps they run. If you can't run the current, or at least a recent OS, then chances are you can't run any of the newer apps as well. 2) Apple has no problem doing it. My 2.5 years old iPhone 3GS is running the latest OS.
And this is the main reason why my next smartphone will be another iPhone. I have a bit of lock-in because of my existing apps, but that's less than $100, so I would not mind switching to something more free. Currently I'm still on my 2.5 years old iPhone 3GS, for as least as long as it still gets updates and the battery is good.
Stories like this give me very little in Android, Google might lose to Microsoft what it gained the last couple of years very quickly.
I don't know of any european car that has the last row as individual seats, like I find on images of the GMC Safari. The last row is always a solid couch and some kind of (removable) cover to the back door/hatch/window, I think also for safety reasons as it prevents things that are in the trunk from flying though the cabin in case of an accident or just emergency break.
I think the higher car safety standards in the EU might have as a side effect that all cars have closed/closable trunks. The only exception I can find is the two seater Smart.
Put some wood chips, or something else solid that floats into it as well. Nothing better than small particles to clog up a fuel pump, line or injection system and ruin things properly. Wasn't the sugar in fuel thing busted as a myth by the Mythbusters?
If you can't hide it and you can't lock it, take it with you.
This is the only real solution.
If you do have to hide it in your car, put it in the trunk before you leave, not when you arrive where you park.
I use an inconspicuous backpack and a kensington cable for my laptop and camera stuff whenever possible. I don't leave it behind unless I have to. Same thing with the front panel of my car stereo, I remove it and take it with me, even if just posting a letter or something like that.
The only thing people have ever tried to steal is my car itself. Fortunately that car was very hard to steal (they did break my ignition lock) and my new car has a good burglar alarm.
He he he. I was surprised about your second link, where Windows-Firefox on Wine outperforms Linux-Firefox, probably due to the better compiler. Nice test to think of.
I've never had a contribution I made be reverted or removed. What kind of articles are people writing on Wikipedia that this happens to? (I write both on the Dutch and English Wikipedia, although not a lot).
I prefer a company do something out in the open that is clearly visible, instead of money changing hands behind closed doors.
Imagine an issue where you could get both Bing (and Yahoo) and Google search to shut down during office hours in whatever country the protest targets. I think it would be front page news around the world, affect the stock market and shock people.
It's not such a basic utility as electricity, but many people would be affected and nearly anyone would be aware.
Single photon detectors have existed for more than 10 years I think. A guy I knew in the second half of the nineties was building them, I remember him getting an article published about it in Nature so it must have been pretty cool back then.
A movie star was in charge of California for several years, I am pretty sure we had a professional wrestler as the govenor of another state in the last 15 years.
In general I agree with you, but I think you should not underestimate Arnold. His list of accomplishments is very long. - Successful businessman (he's got an MBA, and has (co)founded several companies, among which Planet Holywood) - Successful body building career (he's been Mr. Universe several times) - Successful acting career (do I really need to give examples?) - Successful political career (Governor of Califoria)
Each one of those careers would have been more than most people accomplish.
I'm not a fan, but I do respect him, and in my mental dictionary, he's the first example under "Overachiever".
Homeland security does not have a budget of a trillion dollars. They don't even have a budget of 100 billion. In 2011, they had a budget of $55 billion.
The entire spending of the Greek government is about $110 billion. Croatia, Syria, Ecuador or Luxembourg have a GDP of around $55 billion.
Sure those countries are a lot smaller, but $55 billion is still a lot of money.
Russia and has a total government budget of about $300 billion, and is about half the size of the USA in population, if you want to put things into perspective. India and Canada get run on about $270 billion.
In US politics, 'moral' has come to mean 'social conservative.' They hijacked the word to justify their policies, most of which seem to revolve around fighting anything to to with sex.
I'm not sure. I think we'll go the way of libraries, where you get access to everything for a certain fee/month. Basically Spotify, Netflix like models.
What the hell is wrong with our IT industry and its hostility towards their users? When did this start and where did we go wrong that brought us to this state?!
The same thing that is wrong with all other industries: More and more focus on shareholder value at the cost of customers, suppliers and employees. As it often also is bad for the long term survival of the company, I think the problem will fix itself in the long run. Might still take a couple of decades though.
Because bookstores aren't build for going in with a list and finding exactly those titles. They are built for browsing by general catagory. I enjoy good bookstores when I don't know what I want to buy. Online when I do know.
No one goes to brick and mortar bookshops for themselves anymore, or at least its a very small percentage.
Yeah, I still go to the bookstore if I need advice what to buy. Occasionally I end up browsing for myself as well, but not very often.
Plus, there must be a certain squeamishness about gouging your own market while film is actually filling your pay-packet.
I think this is actually the key factor. I think the real issue is in the fear of out competing your existing profitable product is where a lot of innovation fails.
I associate Kodak mostly with film. On Camera's the first name that comes to mind is Canon, and then Nikon, and then others like Pentax, Leica, Agfa, Hasselblad, Minolta, Olympus and Zeiss. I'm not even sure if all of those still make cameras, but those are the names that come to mind.
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As long as the source is open, I think they would just use it without the trademark.
** Now with HTC Sense v 4.1 ** is the same to most people as ** with Android v4.1 **
It would be different if Google could block access to the Andriod app stores for such devices.
The same is true for Linux isn't it?
From a software vendor point, it's one of the main reasons not to develop for such a platform. Supporting multiple Windows versions is already a pain for a smaller software developer.
Two reasons:
1) Smartphones are defined by what apps they run. If you can't run the current, or at least a recent OS, then chances are you can't run any of the newer apps as well.
2) Apple has no problem doing it. My 2.5 years old iPhone 3GS is running the latest OS.
And this is the main reason why my next smartphone will be another iPhone. I have a bit of lock-in because of my existing apps, but that's less than $100, so I would not mind switching to something more free. Currently I'm still on my 2.5 years old iPhone 3GS, for as least as long as it still gets updates and the battery is good.
Stories like this give me very little in Android, Google might lose to Microsoft what it gained the last couple of years very quickly.
My condolences.
I don't know of any european car that has the last row as individual seats, like I find on images of the GMC Safari. The last row is always a solid couch and some kind of (removable) cover to the back door/hatch/window, I think also for safety reasons as it prevents things that are in the trunk from flying though the cabin in case of an accident or just emergency break.
I think the higher car safety standards in the EU might have as a side effect that all cars have closed/closable trunks. The only exception I can find is the two seater Smart.
Put some wood chips, or something else solid that floats into it as well. Nothing better than small particles to clog up a fuel pump, line or injection system and ruin things properly. Wasn't the sugar in fuel thing busted as a myth by the Mythbusters?
If you can't hide it and you can't lock it, take it with you.
This is the only real solution.
If you do have to hide it in your car, put it in the trunk before you leave, not when you arrive where you park.
I use an inconspicuous backpack and a kensington cable for my laptop and camera stuff whenever possible. I don't leave it behind unless I have to. Same thing with the front panel of my car stereo, I remove it and take it with me, even if just posting a letter or something like that.
The only thing people have ever tried to steal is my car itself. Fortunately that car was very hard to steal (they did break my ignition lock) and my new car has a good burglar alarm.
He he he. I was surprised about your second link, where Windows-Firefox on Wine outperforms Linux-Firefox, probably due to the better compiler. Nice test to think of.
No no no, that's Emacs.
I've never had a contribution I made be reverted or removed. What kind of articles are people writing on Wikipedia that this happens to? (I write both on the Dutch and English Wikipedia, although not a lot).
I prefer a company do something out in the open that is clearly visible, instead of money changing hands behind closed doors.
Imagine an issue where you could get both Bing (and Yahoo) and Google search to shut down during office hours in whatever country the protest targets.
I think it would be front page news around the world, affect the stock market and shock people.
It's not such a basic utility as electricity, but many people would be affected and nearly anyone would be aware.
Meh, they must have figured out that we're not part of their electorate.
Single photon detectors have existed for more than 10 years I think. A guy I knew in the second half of the nineties was building them, I remember him getting an article published about it in Nature so it must have been pretty cool back then.
Yeah. And that's why I don't like the ribbon interface. If I wanted to have to constantly switch context, I'd use vi.
A movie star was in charge of California for several years, I am pretty sure we had a professional wrestler as the govenor of another state in the last 15 years.
In general I agree with you, but I think you should not underestimate Arnold. His list of accomplishments is very long.
- Successful businessman (he's got an MBA, and has (co)founded several companies, among which Planet Holywood)
- Successful body building career (he's been Mr. Universe several times)
- Successful acting career (do I really need to give examples?)
- Successful political career (Governor of Califoria)
Each one of those careers would have been more than most people accomplish.
I'm not a fan, but I do respect him, and in my mental dictionary, he's the first example under "Overachiever".
That's why I'm still on Firefox 3.6.
It's the only version where all the plugins work.
Excellent explanation. Thanks.
Homeland security does not have a budget of a trillion dollars. They don't even have a budget of 100 billion. In 2011, they had a budget of $55 billion.
The entire spending of the Greek government is about $110 billion. Croatia, Syria, Ecuador or Luxembourg have a GDP of around $55 billion.
Sure those countries are a lot smaller, but $55 billion is still a lot of money.
Russia and has a total government budget of about $300 billion, and is about half the size of the USA in population, if you want to put things into perspective. India and Canada get run on about $270 billion.
In US politics, 'moral' has come to mean 'social conservative.' They hijacked the word to justify their policies, most of which seem to revolve around fighting anything to to with sex.
Or science.
I'm not sure. I think we'll go the way of libraries, where you get access to everything for a certain fee/month. Basically Spotify, Netflix like models.
What the hell is wrong with our IT industry and its hostility towards their users? When did this start and where did we go wrong that brought us to this state?!
The same thing that is wrong with all other industries: More and more focus on shareholder value at the cost of customers, suppliers and employees. As it often also is bad for the long term survival of the company, I think the problem will fix itself in the long run. Might still take a couple of decades though.
Because bookstores aren't build for going in with a list and finding exactly those titles. They are built for browsing by general catagory. I enjoy good bookstores when I don't know what I want to buy. Online when I do know.
No one goes to brick and mortar bookshops for themselves anymore, or at least its a very small percentage.
Yeah, I still go to the bookstore if I need advice what to buy. Occasionally I end up browsing for myself as well, but not very often.
I think the lesson should be to be willing to sacrifice your current technology success to become the leader in the new technology.
Plus, there must be a certain squeamishness about gouging your own market while film is actually filling your pay-packet.
I think this is actually the key factor. I think the real issue is in the fear of out competing your existing profitable product is where a lot of innovation fails.
I associate Kodak mostly with film. On Camera's the first name that comes to mind is Canon, and then Nikon, and then others like Pentax, Leica, Agfa, Hasselblad, Minolta, Olympus and Zeiss. I'm not even sure if all of those still make cameras, but those are the names that come to mind.