Posts by QuinnDexter 92 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2011
@nematoad - so are you saying with Apple you get what you pay for? What does that mean for Samsung and other similatly proced Andriod phones where the service is nowhere near as good or timely?
I don't get trolling. Maybe I'm just young enough to be a geek and into all electronics but old enough so as to not have my eyes bleed every time I read a positive missive about a piece of hardware I don't own. Can't Fandroids and Fanbois just learn to get along?!
You almost had a low level of agreement right up unitl your "one last fact". Tim Berners Lee (and his team) are much smaller than the R&D departments of Apple and Samsung. He came up with an idea and a solution, and the solution to that involved many different pieces of hardware which would have had other patents for other companies involved, and you can bet the majority of them would not give their patents away for free. In this instance, an individual with an idea that cost him probably some time, but not much money giving it away for free and large conglomerates protecting their IP into which they had ploughed millions cannot be compared. Perhaps you only discovered TBL when he was on the Olympic opening ceremony or something...
"Whereas what users want is standard operations that work across the range of products from different suppliers. I don't want to have to learn a whole new set of pressy-swipey movements every time I decide to get a different tablet or Pc or phone - and I don't appreciate the extra difficulties that these software patents add to learning a new device."
Really? Is this missing the same <sarcasm> tags that I expected the main article to have?
How many phones were Samsung selling when iPhone launched in comparison with what Apple shipped? Perhaps they saw Apple selling squillions of phones more then them with a shit model and realised they had to do something to address that, and tried to emulate what Apple had done. If you're a business you watch what your competitors do and react if you need to
Hmmm. I can see the idea, and considering bus drivers and tube drivers (who just push and pull a lever) are getting additional payouts for the Olympics would seem to make sense. But then some squaddie who's based in North England gets pulled down to London to work a few hours a day and albeit probably lives in a tent for a fortnight, will still get to go drunk on LSSA and London rates for a fortnight. And if they're really lucky get entry to the big ceremonies and big events, and women's beach volleyball. (Get G4S out on the gates and turnstiles and doing the sh1t jobs!) Giving those squaddies some cash in the face of colleagues getting battered in Helmand might not be accepted too well beyond those that directly benefit, and the politicians who would use it to build kudos...
...though it needs some fancy moving parts and sound effects to emphasise when it's going from plane to rocket mode. And who doesn't want a matt black Bond villian-esque rocket? Looks like the hollowed out volcano will need to be remodelled to allow horizontal take-off and landing.
The sound on that video is terrible, btw.
Thanks Simon. But that still doesn't show that Apple have done anything illegal. Favoured nation means that Widget maker will make more money for eveyone but Apple. That's a choice, and a free choice for a free market, the widget maker makes to have his widgets sold to a new audience. Widget Inc signs up to the deal knowin the consequences for all the sellers it supplies to, and in the long run probably makes more money cos the other costs go up. That would shirley not be illegal of Apple unless they sat down and prescribed to Macmillan, Penguin et al their exact sales strategy
And Apple haven't said they can't sell their widgets anywhere else. I can even use Safari on an iPad to by a book from Amazon and download it to my Kindle App, and no money goes to Apple even though they hold the same ebook on the iBooks catalogue. That fulfills the free market aspect too...
(I'm getting myself ready to be shot down in flames for missing a point...)
Was that a mistake or a valid business statement, that is used in contracts all over the place. Paraphrasing, but I'd guess "To be an Apple partner, and thus gain limited entry to our walled-garden, we have to get the same good deals as everyone else. Offering an additionally discounted version to someone else would show this partnership is not respected, and would therefore become null and void."
So yes, Apple batters them with a 30% cut of the list price, but expects the same list price as that given to Amazon, B&N etc. Is that a mistake? Perhaps Apple's actions and proposed contracts have prompted Macmillan, Penguin et al to review and fix their prices regardless of the distributer, and if that is what the publishers have done, is that Apple's doing?
But how is a human better than a computer in avoiding these? Or to put it another way, how can you think that a computer taking control would not be. Better? A lot of cars now include this braking tech, ignoring the human interface when the computers notice something amiss, as computers react faster. Computers react faster. The people in the original shunt might be damaged, following car less likely. What part of that do you miss?
...if the cars remain under the control of humans. And that's the point. The interface will be a computer aided by cameras and IR and radars and other gadgets, not a person on the phone, changing a radio and lighting a cig. Dunno if you'd noticed but technology generally does things quicker than people
I see this as a good thing, but a few years too late. Perhaps as an augmentation of the almost driverless cars that Google have been working on. "Want to pay £500 to save fuel, then this patch will give you the ability to be part of a road train"
The only problem is the cars would communicate with one another to find out who is going where and thus build the most efficient road trains, which would mean agreeing to pass your SatNav data over to Google, who will then bombard your HUD with Googletastic marketing about shops near your destination.
Perhaps that's an advertising stream I could patent. Movies or TV programmes from HUDFlix(TM) beamed to your HUD, interspersed with marketing directed at your end desitination...
A working space elevator is actually a fantastic idea. All this nonsense about building a base on the moon to launch missions to Mars. Someone on Mock the Week likened it to RyanAir saying "Yes, we fly to Manchester" but then landing in Leeds and putting you on a bus...
Movies is one thing. As long as we have Blockbuster that review was going nowhere, and now Netflix / LoveFilm have given the opportunity to dump the case. Just the excuse the comp commission was looking for... They just need an excuse now to dump any investigation into Sky Sports, if there even is a review at all
And who needs bike locks when you could just use your smartphone to immobilise the darn thing?
Right.... but it's light enough to carry away, and I don't think any App is going to magically increase the weight by a few tons (or tonnes) to stop it being robbed.
...with the combination of manual pedalling, can produce speeds of up to 50mph.
IIRC, that means it needs a licence, as a powered vehicles that can go over 15mph, but I expect to be corrected by someone swiftly...
So spinning disc is cheap, and high capacity but slow, noisy and all those moving parts take lots of electrickery
Solid state are lightning quick, efficient and quiet but expensive and not too roomy... but they are decreasing in price and increasing in capacity.
Hybrids mean you can start up faster than spinning disc, and that's about it. I reckon they might be able to fool some of the people for about a year
Also, the graphic shows that the cost of the "atennae" also decreases as part of the overal cost, whilst as a percentage everything else increases and hybrid drives lessen their cut. Ignoring the spelling and the fact that insects have antennae, and comms stuff has antennas, that pricing change makes as much sense to me as hybrid drives
That's just one of the tools I can see them use
"Come 2016, online will still account for just 17 per cent of sales revenue, with pay TV yielding eight per cent and sales of physical media 75 per cent."
With the cost of downloads falling the rate of downloading has increased, and in a year or so it will likely be seen as the norm, as IPTV / Sky Anytime+ / et al take over from BlockBuster. it's at the point that the pricing strategy will shift - we punters will be used to and enjoy the (relative) freedom that downloading brings us, and unlikely revert to solid media for our general entertainment fixes. DVDs' and Blu-Rays' prices will drop in order to keep that market going for the repeat viewer / special owners packs, and as soon as that happens the digital copies' prices will increase to tend to the needs of "infrastructure improvements to cope with the unprecedented demand". Cos they can't see this coming of course. Those prices will remain high, and then physical media's reduced price to keep that markey going will be reversed until two overpriced markets remain tending to the needs of the manstream downloading public, and the niche collectors who actually want something to hold.
Aaron Em - A couple of people make references above to reading material and the information held within, which you haven't read, and neither have I. "Mr Tompkins in Paperback"? WTF is that? I'm not even going to deem it worthy of a quick check on Wiki, but I will berate the commentor.
Richard Neill - hang your head in shame. Perhaps you should just do me and Aaron a favour and burn that book so that we don't have to.
Aaron - I agree with you - if you go to the expense of buying a gaming magazine, why would you go to the effort of reading any of the editorials, or comments or anything not specifically related with a game review? How many trees have been devastated due to this nonsense that is worthless and should be removed from all gaming magazines forthwith.
How dare these people reference things you and I haven't read and therefore don't understand. Don't they realise the internet revolves around people like you I, and rules regarding our lowest common denominator status need to be adherred to? Every conversation, every thread and every comment on the internet must be specific to our beliefs, or at least all conversations / threads / comments must be only based upon those things of which we have an understanding and therefore relevant opinion.
When I read this, all I got was "We don't really care what they do in Tehran about the game, but here's a random soundbite that may make it appear that we actually care, and even if that's not what comes across, we really don't care. As long as they spell Battlefield 3 right ever time it's mentioned in the press..."
Let's face it, they could put a "Hated by the Iranian Government" sticker on it, and you'd probably see sales increase in some parts of the US...
I've got Sky Go on my iPad and regularly watch the sports channels. I'll point out that I don't subscribe to the movie package, and would never intend to, but that additional functionality at no extra cost to those who currently enjoy it is great and should be applauded
Is the license fee I pay each year good value when I only watch Top Gear and MotD on terrestrial tele? Whether it is a bargain or not is all a point of perspective...
Or protecting intellectual property. Don't want to have to pay someone for using a solution they inventedto a problem that you have? Invent your f@cking own solution.
I'd expand on what Tony Hoyle says above and suggest that there are probably tax breaks (or at least reduced taxes paid) for all companies affected when you pay them to use their patents, and less taxes paid against earnings if the company can squirrel that income against a different column on a ledge somewhere. There's probably even tax loss calculations that can be taken into consideration if things go to court and you lose...
I've always wondered when I saw these comparisons. Isn't it more accurate that consumers care more about the fact that it's a Samsung or LG or Sony Ericsson or Apple handset rather than the OS installed? Angry Birds and FaceBook run on all OSs...
If it were to do with OS alone then should the comparison be Android 2.1 Vs Android 2.2 Vs Android Vs 2.3 Vs iOS4 Vs WinPho7 Vs Android 2.1&Vodafone interface Vs Android 2.2&Vodafone interface etc...
Which has a larger install base then?
Isn't this kind of like comparing selling replica football shirts with selling season tickets? The two are aligned in a very round about way in that they are for the same team, but don't really bear any proper correlation...
How many billion people are there in China? If Vodafone were in there they'd be bottom of the heap. They charge less in developing countries, but profit margins are larger. In effect they're charging more in sub-Saharan Africa for instance in terms of a worker's annual wage when compared with Britland, even if the price per minute is less when just the exchange rate is taken into consideration. The same is true with China. With the population difference and GDP difference, you can't just work out the cost difference based on the exchange rate between GBP and ¥ in terms of price per minute, or average spend per customer
"Facebook, Twitter and RIM have been called to meet the Home Secretary on Thursday to discuss issues around the disturbances and Cameron's apparent desire to get such networks switched off as he or subsequent Prime Ministers may order."
My flabber has been ghasted.
Pompus self serving cnuts. Who the fcuk do they think they are?! Do you think Egyptians are thankful that their leaders were not actually such a bunch of cnuts after all? Hopefully FB, Twitter and BBerry tell the Home Secretary and Cameron to get fcuked when they're asked to switch off in times designated as unwelcoming to Tory mantra and ethos. Cnuts.
As one who contemplated trying to get the joke "#PleaseLootMeA" trending on Twitter I'm glad I didn't. This poor idiotic bloke's sentence for a stupid joke (which was probably meant as a stupid joke, rather than just a normal joke) is completely OTT. If it weren't for the other cases that are no doubt going through the paperwork at the minute then we could have a protest, but everyone is probably scared of having protests now due to the heavy handed sentencing, and there are probably going to be so many other cases that local protestors would be spread very thin...
Really? People aren't buying the 3DS cos of the EULA? Is that what you actually think, that people are protesting against the amount of supposed remote control over a device?
Of course, that's got to be exactly why people haven't bought it. Nothing to do with the stupid angular styling, that fact it looks like it has been built in five different scaled parts and superglued together poorly, the *fear* over headaches or eye damage, lack of good games, or the fact that its expensive. No. It's the EULA.
You, sir, are a tit.
Of course, people haven't been buying the HP TouchPad because of the font that was used, and they changed the font last night and that's why everyone has bought it today.
Circular reasoning, it's what Christians do with the Bible to show that it's a complete work of fact. It's where a statement is or collection of statements refer to itself / themselves to show that they are true.
"We know *this* is true in chapter and verse, because this other unrelated chapter and verse refers to it / infers to it / vaguely points in the same direction". So the belief in one section of a self-serving manuscript compiled by those with their own agenda justifies the belief in another section of that same self-serving manuscript compiled by the same tw@ts.
And lo, it came to pass that Apple is dealt with in the same terms. One piece of nonsense is grasped and used to justify all other peices of nonsense that litter the web about the future of the true way, the righteous path that is owning a forbidden-sustenance-adorned mechanisation.
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