It's funny how BeOS could handle playback of multiple videos extremely smoothly on a Celeron 400Mhz from year 1998, but modern browsers struggle with it. Of course, the complexity of the codecs has increased, but it's still kind of strange given the huge advances in hardware.
Thanks for the link. I donated as well. Isn't OpenSSH used by a lot of companies? $20,000 a year would be extremely trivial for many companies where it is widely used, without even splitting it among them. Doesn't Apple ship OpenSSH by default? Wish they would step in.
This would be interesting to see with StreetView photos or with Microsoft's equivalent. Imagine virtually driving to your destination before starting out there, will help with the confusing turns etc.
Now imagine doing it on your smartphone mounted as a GPS while you drive, will make driving even more easier.
I am happy that Apple doesn't need to encroach on user privacy to make money, atleast for now. All this giving away stuff for free and then storing private information forever to drive ads is getting very annoying.
That's an interesting argument, but I guess it fell flat because the work itself is subject to copyright, and someone else can now "invent" a Watson that never played rugby.
Agreed, every situation is pretty unique out there and things change a lot between different domains. Advice on HN seems to be projected as absolute but breaking into B&M markets is extremely tough and takes a lot more than buying ads on Google or having nice landing and sign up pages.
>5.17% of the 13,000 prostitutes in Sonagachi are estimated to be HIV positive
>According to some sources, prostitutes from Sonagachi who test HIV positive are not told about the results, and live with the disease without knowing about it "because the DMSC is worried that HIV positive women will be ostracized."[5] Some prostitutes in Sonagachi have stated that "the clients, at least three quarters of them" refuse to use condoms and "if we force them to use the condom, they will just go next door. There are so many women working here, and in the end, everyone is prepared to work without protection for fear of losing trade.”[5]
I already knew about that, but not sure what you're implying here.
The link says this:
>in 1994, a California jury ruled the infringement by Microsoft was not willful, but awarded Stac $120 million in compensatory damages, coming to about $5.50 per copy of MS-DOS 6.0 that had been sold. The jury also agreed with a Microsoft counterclaim that Stac had misappropriated the Microsoft trade secret of a pre-loading feature that was included in Stacker 3.1, and simultaneously awarded Microsoft $13.6 million on the counterclaim. [2]
Are you alleging that Microsoft bought the judge and/or jury off? Why would they award such a high amount then? They ruled that the infringement wasn't intentional, and certainly they had way more access to the facts and testimony of the case than you or me.
I have to ask, did you even read your own history lesson before teaching it to others?
Also, it's funny that no company can even sell the equivalent of DriveSpace these days for Chromebooks, iPads and iPhones. Android phones would probably need the user to get root and/or unlock the bootloader which is a nonstarter for already niche software. Would even be banned from the Mac App Store. Yet people buy them and cheer them on just because they're more anti-MS while pretending to be pro software freedom.
Everytime a big company implements a feature or rolls out something, they affect companies working in that area.
You can find similar things about almost any company or person, but for some reason the bad things about Microsoft are always amplified.
My point is that someone fed a steady diet of bad stories about one company while barely being exposed to good stories ends up not liking them and everyone knows how many tech sites and journalists and news sites like Slashdot and HN's bias in story selection because of the vocal minority who sometimes appear to be on a crusade of ends justifying the means.
What would you prefer to see, $xx billion burnt in a hurry in 10 years and then run out of money, or have a foundation that keeps on working for upliftment of the most vulnerable human beings decades or centuries using money from its past investments after Bill and Melinda run out of time in this world?
Also, lets say the foundation did not invest in Walmart shares. How much evilness of Walmart would've been reduced?
From the perspective of web users, there is choice(even if heavily skewed by default search in browsers). But from the perspective of web sites/web companies/web devs/web advertisers, there is very less choice and bordering a monopoly, as this example illustrates. Even worse if you're someone like MapQuest, a shopping site, or Yahoo Finance, since most people tend to search locations on search engines/browser and are quickly steered to their equivalent competitors from the search engine company. Anyway, usually antitrust regulations are about market power and influence, for example see DoJ vs. Apple over eBooks, even though iOS never even had majority share, forget about a monopoly.
>Do you believe they couldn't use the Motorola patent portfolio against those companies if they wanted to?
Huh, haven't they been using them against Apple and MS? MS now pays them for H.264 patents, though considerably less than what demanded, and Motorola got convicted and fined by a jury for FRAND abuse.
The author seems miss the point in the comparison to the Moto G's price, since ZTE does not have a ~$50B search business to subsidize its phone business(Motorola's been losing money at a fast clip) and needs to make money on every phone it sells, it's not really a valid comparison. Android phones in the < $150 price range are quite slow too.
That said, it seems to be underperforming other OSes. I remember WebOS on my HP Touchpad had issues with scroll and lagging even on a dual core 1.5GHz processor.
Anyone know how the CPU in the ZTE Open(single core Cortex A5 at 1GHz) compares to the Qualcomm MSM7227A Snapdragon
CPU Cortex-A5 in the Lumia 510(A WP7 phone)? Both have the same GPU(Adreno 200) and 256MB RAM, but the 510 doesn't seem to have that many issues with lag despite the ZTE Open being clocked 25% higher.