"VSS is by FAR the best granular Disaster recovery tool on the planet, it destroys all *nix versioning support."
Thanks for quite possibly the best laugh I have had in quite some time!
As a seasoned .Net developer I can say that VSS sucks. TFS (as version control) is average at best and bloody slow. Subversion is a way better product than VSS could ever be and Git is a little better than VSS (even though it doesn't have all of VSS feature-set).
I feel the whole "patent" side of it is just Google spreading FUD to try and weasel out of the world of pain they brought on themselves with the Oracle/Java case that is ongoing, whilst somehow trying to justify to themselves that "business conduct" wise it was not evil.
You too are only partially correct. Only non-independent ad agencies (who are owned by or primarily in the business of competing directly with Apple) are not allowed to collect analytics data.
A few independent ad agencies have already come out and said they aren't affected in the slightest by the new changes.
Apple is only locking Google (and other device/OS manufacturers) out iPhone for in-app ANALYTICS DATA-MINING. They can still advertise.
Also, worth pointing out there is no way Apple could prevent them advertising and collecting analytics data on the web, so they'll just have to do that won't they.
Google can hardly claim that web advertising/analytics isn't that good or useful, after all it's where nearly all their profit comes from.
"The only thing that Mike is pushing for is free music. If the price is FREE!, there will be no issue. Theft would go away if theprice was nothing, right? Why shoplift when it's free anyway?"
Wrong, copyright cannot be given away.
And when those who own the copyright want to assert their rights, free or not, downloading from an illegitimate source would still be illegal.
Well, firstly, if you buy a SUBSIDIZED handset, it isn't technically 100% yours. As until the subsidy has been paid off, part of the handset actually belongs to the operator your purchased it from.
"Even if an indy band is selling their material on Itunes, there is a middle man called Apple in the game."
Actually there is usually still a music publisher (CDBaby or some similar service) between Apple and an 'indy band' as Apple will not deal with individual artists/groups directly.
Just as with UK Ordnance Survey mapping data, Postal Codes belong to the Crown.
And just because you can find out postcode information freely online from the Royal Mail does not give you permission to scrape their site or allow you to redistribute that information, as I'm sure the Royal Mail website points out.
This is very much a non-issue.
Also with regards to Google, I think there is a licensing restriction (probably for a cheaper fee) that prevents them from displaying the full postcode on Google Maps (hence you only see the first half), although you can search with the full postcode.
Re: Hello, Sixth Amendment?
Doesn't ANY amendment of the constitution only apply to American citizens, making it kind of irrelevant in this case.?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Duh
"My Point is find any other software company that gives away for free what they charge money for"
Given the cost of their licenses, damn right they should include 2 free support calls.
Re: Re: Re: Duh
The support calls are tied to the license, so they couldn't have more than 2 freebie calls for a given license. Meh!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Lock in
@blaktron
"VSS is by FAR the best granular Disaster recovery tool on the planet, it destroys all *nix versioning support."
Thanks for quite possibly the best laugh I have had in quite some time!
As a seasoned .Net developer I can say that VSS sucks. TFS (as version control) is average at best and bloody slow. Subversion is a way better product than VSS could ever be and Git is a little better than VSS (even though it doesn't have all of VSS feature-set).
Haven't you just swallowed the MS FUD pill!
Re:
From your numbers it increased by just under 10% or "0.1 times"
Re: B's Opinion Only
Very true indeed.
I feel the whole "patent" side of it is just Google spreading FUD to try and weasel out of the world of pain they brought on themselves with the Oracle/Java case that is ongoing, whilst somehow trying to justify to themselves that "business conduct" wise it was not evil.
Re:
They could rely on the Xoom (Android OS), but that has hardly ANY users, compared to the iPad.
Re: Re: Re: But they're losing money!
But if you mod (hack/jailbreak) an Xbox360, Microsoft will ban you from Xbox Live, so I don't really see any real GAIN here?!?
Re: Junk Patent Problem Yet Again
Okay, this patent was FILED in 2004 (before everyone else started doing it).
But I do agree, however, that this is an OBVIOUS progression of technology.
Re: Ignorance
"Information lookups from a centralized server are fine for web aps. Anything that requires any persistent local storage is not."
I guess you've never heard that HTML5 and particularly Safari/Mobile Safari/Chrome/Firefox support offline SQLite databases for storage.
They work wonderfully, and as other browsers (Ibasically IE) pick this up it'll be great.
Hmmm, filed on 3rd Nov 1998
I don't see this really going anywhere, certainly not with Citrix who created "WinFrame" in Windows NT 3.1 in 1995.
It should hopefully die quite quickly.
Re: Partially Correct
@Glitch23
You too are only partially correct. Only non-independent ad agencies (who are owned by or primarily in the business of competing directly with Apple) are not allowed to collect analytics data.
A few independent ad agencies have already come out and said they aren't affected in the slightest by the new changes.
Re: Wrong thinking on platforms
Apple is only locking Google (and other device/OS manufacturers) out iPhone for in-app ANALYTICS DATA-MINING. They can still advertise.
Also, worth pointing out there is no way Apple could prevent them advertising and collecting analytics data on the web, so they'll just have to do that won't they.
Google can hardly claim that web advertising/analytics isn't that good or useful, after all it's where nearly all their profit comes from.
Competing where?
Apple is competing in (or rather, leading) the marketplace.
It's only Nokia that is competing in the courtroom "rather than the marketplace".
Apple is just defending itself from Nokia's crap!
Re: Funny
Not really, those "other industries" didn't have truck loads of money to be used to ensure they could carry on collecting truck loads of money.
Re: Re: Re:
"The only thing that Mike is pushing for is free music. If the price is FREE!, there will be no issue. Theft would go away if theprice was nothing, right? Why shoplift when it's free anyway?"
Wrong, copyright cannot be given away.
And when those who own the copyright want to assert their rights, free or not, downloading from an illegitimate source would still be illegal.
Re: Would this stand up?
Well, firstly, if you buy a SUBSIDIZED handset, it isn't technically 100% yours. As until the subsidy has been paid off, part of the handset actually belongs to the operator your purchased it from.
Re: Re: Re:
"Even if an indy band is selling their material on Itunes, there is a middle man called Apple in the game."
Actually there is usually still a music publisher (CDBaby or some similar service) between Apple and an 'indy band' as Apple will not deal with individual artists/groups directly.
Building Blocks of Life Patent
Surely there is an awful lot of prior art going back hundreds of thousands of years.
Does that mean every new parent is infringing this patent?
I hate this kind of thing. Most of the human genome is patented to hell. It just shouldn't be possible.
Could you patent Gravity?
Just as with UK Ordnance Survey mapping data, Postal Codes belong to the Crown.
And just because you can find out postcode information freely online from the Royal Mail does not give you permission to scrape their site or allow you to redistribute that information, as I'm sure the Royal Mail website points out.
This is very much a non-issue.
Also with regards to Google, I think there is a licensing restriction (probably for a cheaper fee) that prevents them from displaying the full postcode on Google Maps (hence you only see the first half), although you can search with the full postcode.