They paid one person more than that in their "payback" one year, payment for recruiting members or helping on the forums.
As for charities there's too many who gobble up 40 or so percent of the money in wage bills and advertising (those free pens aren't cheap) and often do things that should be state provided (which wouldn't require advertising then).
It's funny how applications can do the same on your computer with no warning and there's no controls to stop it either. Yet nobody complains or even know about it?
Why are phones different? possibly because people trust app stores to weed out the bad applications. Plus people keep more personal data on their phones (not everyone has phone numbers on their PC).
But ultimately it has been proven that mobile app developers can't be trusted and so further controls are going to be needed. This is a shame as it means huge annoyances in having to authorise access to so many APIs when running an application.
Well, they were taken over for a token payment and I imagine they would either shut the Game stores and bring the brand into Comet or they would keep them open and maybe sell a few TVs in there?
But to be honest, downloading games just like downloading movies and music is the way it is going. If second hand goes too it's a loss of quite a bit of sales.
In my town the independent game shop closed, Woolies is no longer with us, Game and Gamestation look like going which leaves pretty much HMV and Argos.
Just an example of the whole IP and rights thing gone mad. All that is left to do is for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings to be sold to Disney for it to become Disney's The Hobbit.
Lets face it, downloads are always going to be the future. Optical media is an 80s invention largely.
If you move beyond discs then you will have the risk of making it hard to get things onto the machine. Not vastly hard but a damn site harder than browsing a menu on the device and pressing "Buy".
The question is do you want to download on a PC, copy to a USB stick then install the game on the console. Or just press one button?
There's so many cores out there doing bugger all, I don't know why people can't be paid to process data via some background service. So long as it's not classified of course.
Some of us could solder a replacement on. It's irony that computer designed to teach people about the low level aspects of computing is delayed due to a manufacturing error. Perhaps they're learning too?
I really don't know why schools don't use Arduino or something.
Only a right charlie would invest in wind farms, probably why Prince Charles is doing so to try to bring him some income from the crown estate (which includes the sea around the UK).
Name a mobile phone that has ever done this? none. What if you removed the module with the phone on? what if someone removed the module then stuck their finger in there or something metallic? these are some reasons why.
What rock have you been hiding under if you think 4G is in the UK?
Honestly, if Apple stalls and releases 3G late (iPhone 1) then people complain. If Apple gives you 4G too early you complain.
Anything using radio frequency always creates problems when deployed elsewhere. So many countries have different TV and radio systems so it's always hard to create a standard that works around the world.
So tell me what ground-breaking features you would add to it?
Top Gear (for instance) are always raving about new cars when they get released, yet last time I looked they still (mostly) have 4 wheels, seats and drive along the ground.
Don't you think a resolution doubling is impressive enough? better than most HD TVs now yet a fraction of the size.
If this was a new Samsung tablet the fandroids would be saying how rubbish it makes the iPad look.
I can afford many things, doesn't mean I would accept a poor deal. You always try to get something at a good price, the thing with patents it you can't shop around. It is a monopoly position and hence why you have to haggle.
So a business should always accept a quote they are given? businessmen generally negotiate deals.
If you're going to sue anyone you sue the company making the most money. This is why they're patent enemy number 1. I imagine there are tons of other companies infringing, they're just not big enough to bother with.
Lets face it, we never had such a diverse number of applications on our desktop machines. Many apps are just more convenient ways of accessing web sites.
So your desktop machine could very easily be pillaged of personal data without it even needing to ask you. The difference is we didn't tend to install lots of free applications from people we've never heard of.
We simply can't trust people to play nice and so phone OSes are going to need a lot more in terms of restrictions to APIs.
Cores are today's megapixels. Another marketing tool so sales people can say that their model has something the competition doesn't (even if it is never used).
Multi-core on phones makes sense for very few things. There may be some games that will use it. There's a few music sequencer applications it would work for, but when it comes to using the web the 3G connection is the bottleneck.
It's just a shame they couldn't make them in the UK. While it would have taken longer and costs would have been higher for a time, it could have kick-started some manufacturing in the UK.
The guys over at MIDIBox see the potential of it. Having built two MIDI sound modules already and a 3rd one on the way I can see it being useful, it has HDMI and audio built in for starters.
There's quite a few MIDI synthesiser kits around using small computers like that for generating sound. They're great fun to build and produce some quite unique tones. Very cheap too.
Exactly. For most people it won't be much use, I suppose many are wanting it to get experience as if it does make it into schools there will be lots of support staff needed I guess?
It's one good thing about Mac land, things don't change so massively between releases of the OS. It's almost like Microsoft feel compelled to keep radically changing the UI to justify charging so much for the upgrade.
So while Microsoft tried to shoehorn the Windows desktop approach onto the mobile with their Pocket PC platform (later renamed Windows mobile), they are now making a similar mistake of changing what is primary a desktop OS into a mobile OS.
It's 700Mhz but an old ARM core too. But it's perfectly fast enough for teaching kids to program on (although I still don't see why they need external hardware to do that).
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Re: Gave up reading at
Indeed. Amiga had pre-emptive multitasking and a micro kernel in 1985. It took Mac OS until 2001 to get something similar.
Oh and it was colour, how many years was the Mac only available in mono?
Just get rid of SIMs and SIM locks full stop.
Re: Unity and Gnome Shell should have been a warning to them
I wouldn't call it a desktop UI, but a tile that provides a compatibility view for all the old Windows applications.
Re: Risky business?
It's almost like they knew it would tank, so why bother?
Re: Stoopid
Microsoft doesn't make tablets, phones or laptops. So no Apple kit is in direct competition in terms of hardware.
Re: hmmm
They paid one person more than that in their "payback" one year, payment for recruiting members or helping on the forums.
As for charities there's too many who gobble up 40 or so percent of the money in wage bills and advertising (those free pens aren't cheap) and often do things that should be state provided (which wouldn't require advertising then).
Second hand cars kill the new car market. So what?
Is it unreasonable that in these risk aversive times that we pay full price for something we may not like?
Re: Go get a grip, Mr Braben
You don't own software, you have a licence to use it.
You buy a jumper and you have a jumper to wear, but you don't have the right to produce and sell an identical product yourself.
They could surely use facebook or twitter for the time being? it's what the rioters used, so it can't be that bad.
Re: Samsung supplies parts?
Samsung is a huge company with many divisions. If it doesn't sell to Apple then it loses quite a huge chunk of business.
Sharp tried to make the screen but couldn't do it well enough. So they licenced the required patents to Samsung so they could.
It's funny how applications can do the same on your computer with no warning and there's no controls to stop it either. Yet nobody complains or even know about it?
Why are phones different? possibly because people trust app stores to weed out the bad applications. Plus people keep more personal data on their phones (not everyone has phone numbers on their PC).
But ultimately it has been proven that mobile app developers can't be trusted and so further controls are going to be needed. This is a shame as it means huge annoyances in having to authorise access to so many APIs when running an application.
Did you not see that Orange (Everything Everywhere?) are being given the chance to launch it this year?
Is it called Metro because it will be underground soon? (ie. buried).
Make no mistake, Metro is Microsoft Bob 2.
Re: Comet?
Well, they were taken over for a token payment and I imagine they would either shut the Game stores and bring the brand into Comet or they would keep them open and maybe sell a few TVs in there?
But to be honest, downloading games just like downloading movies and music is the way it is going. If second hand goes too it's a loss of quite a bit of sales.
In my town the independent game shop closed, Woolies is no longer with us, Game and Gamestation look like going which leaves pretty much HMV and Argos.
Just an example of the whole IP and rights thing gone mad. All that is left to do is for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings to be sold to Disney for it to become Disney's The Hobbit.
Re: Hear No
It's funny how they can take the money instantly, yet can't do the same when paying it out.
Sorry but you have to split consumer from office to make sense of the numbers. Tablets are largely bought by consumers.
Lets face it, downloads are always going to be the future. Optical media is an 80s invention largely.
If you move beyond discs then you will have the risk of making it hard to get things onto the machine. Not vastly hard but a damn site harder than browsing a menu on the device and pressing "Buy".
The question is do you want to download on a PC, copy to a USB stick then install the game on the console. Or just press one button?
It was tried with the PSP Go and it failed miserably. The other problem is no competition, a single source means no price competition.
There's so many cores out there doing bugger all, I don't know why people can't be paid to process data via some background service. So long as it's not classified of course.
Some of us could solder a replacement on. It's irony that computer designed to teach people about the low level aspects of computing is delayed due to a manufacturing error. Perhaps they're learning too?
I really don't know why schools don't use Arduino or something.
Only a right charlie would invest in wind farms, probably why Prince Charles is doing so to try to bring him some income from the crown estate (which includes the sea around the UK).
Re: Plug-in
Name a mobile phone that has ever done this? none. What if you removed the module with the phone on? what if someone removed the module then stuck their finger in there or something metallic? these are some reasons why.
What rock have you been hiding under if you think 4G is in the UK?
Honestly, if Apple stalls and releases 3G late (iPhone 1) then people complain. If Apple gives you 4G too early you complain.
Anything using radio frequency always creates problems when deployed elsewhere. So many countries have different TV and radio systems so it's always hard to create a standard that works around the world.
It's called style and fashion. It looks odd at first and then a few years later you barely notice them.
They still have to make money on the thing. They would ship billions if it cost £1.
Re: Connectivity
Yes, even the MK1 iPad can do that.
You can plug in a USB adaptor or an SD card. Even works with SLRs.
Looks like they're desperate for money given their HQ:
http://www.imaginechina.com/showStoryDetail.ic?id=20120215_26305
Re: Apps
They damn well need to, since there's so few decent tablet apps for Android.
Scaled up apps are pointless, you might as well just get a bigger phone.
Re: Quite yawntastic
So tell me what ground-breaking features you would add to it?
Top Gear (for instance) are always raving about new cars when they get released, yet last time I looked they still (mostly) have 4 wheels, seats and drive along the ground.
Don't you think a resolution doubling is impressive enough? better than most HD TVs now yet a fraction of the size.
If this was a new Samsung tablet the fandroids would be saying how rubbish it makes the iPad look.
Re: Hmm
To stop people buying the old iPad 2 and then complaining they didn't know the new model was coming out.
Re: Peole don't say tablet - they say iPad
If you want iOS on a tablet you can only buy from Apple and have a choice of Wifi/3G and a few capacities.
If you want Android on a tablet you have a choice of about 200 devices and all manner of shapes, sizes, form factors and so on.
Choice can be good, but when there's too much choice and you have the money you just buy the one you know you won't be disappointed with.
Re: @Lance 3
I can afford many things, doesn't mean I would accept a poor deal. You always try to get something at a good price, the thing with patents it you can't shop around. It is a monopoly position and hence why you have to haggle.
So a business should always accept a quote they are given? businessmen generally negotiate deals.
If you're going to sue anyone you sue the company making the most money. This is why they're patent enemy number 1. I imagine there are tons of other companies infringing, they're just not big enough to bother with.
3D cards are looking more and more like a Dustbuster with every generation.
Re: $35 million and can't afford an iPad?
It's more likely they just didn't want to give any money to Apple.
Pong was later followed the Breakout game that Steve Jobs got Woz to help him on, but didn't let on about the big bonus he got as a result.
Lets face it, we never had such a diverse number of applications on our desktop machines. Many apps are just more convenient ways of accessing web sites.
So your desktop machine could very easily be pillaged of personal data without it even needing to ask you. The difference is we didn't tend to install lots of free applications from people we've never heard of.
We simply can't trust people to play nice and so phone OSes are going to need a lot more in terms of restrictions to APIs.
Re: Errm...
Exactly right. First and third are the best.
Is there going to be some George Lucas re-imagining on these releases?
Re: The usual call to...
They're just weapons in a patent war. Until people stop firing the race for bigger better weapons will continue.
Re: Disappointed and impressed at the same time
Perhaps this is Windows for the next generation? you do almost wonder if this OS has been optimised for people who live on Twitter and Facebook.
As an OS for creating things it will be quite annoying and distracting.
Finally some sense
Cores are today's megapixels. Another marketing tool so sales people can say that their model has something the competition doesn't (even if it is never used).
Multi-core on phones makes sense for very few things. There may be some games that will use it. There's a few music sequencer applications it would work for, but when it comes to using the web the 3G connection is the bottleneck.
It's just a shame they couldn't make them in the UK. While it would have taken longer and costs would have been higher for a time, it could have kick-started some manufacturing in the UK.
Re: Re: Re: I cant wait for mine!
The guys over at MIDIBox see the potential of it. Having built two MIDI sound modules already and a 3rd one on the way I can see it being useful, it has HDMI and audio built in for starters.
Re: Re: I cant wait for mine!
There's quite a few MIDI synthesiser kits around using small computers like that for generating sound. They're great fun to build and produce some quite unique tones. Very cheap too.
Re: Pre-Order
Exactly. For most people it won't be much use, I suppose many are wanting it to get experience as if it does make it into schools there will be lots of support staff needed I guess?
Re: It's all a bit moot, anyway
It's one good thing about Mac land, things don't change so massively between releases of the OS. It's almost like Microsoft feel compelled to keep radically changing the UI to justify charging so much for the upgrade.
A repeat of the Pocket PC mistake
So while Microsoft tried to shoehorn the Windows desktop approach onto the mobile with their Pocket PC platform (later renamed Windows mobile), they are now making a similar mistake of changing what is primary a desktop OS into a mobile OS.
Re: Re: big-name sellers
Just waiting for Maplin to sell it at twice the price.
Re: Re: @Jason
It's 700Mhz but an old ARM core too. But it's perfectly fast enough for teaching kids to program on (although I still don't see why they need external hardware to do that).
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