I think it comes down to them seeing themselves as a utility. You wouldn't want to be prompted for payment confirmation every time you plug something into an outlet, but this does mean that you'll have a huge unexpected charge if you accidentally leave on the air conditioner when you go on vacation.
I think part of the reason that utilities can get away with this is the fact that the maximum bill you are likely to run up is generally 2x-3x your normal bill. This doesn't well for Amazon because your actual bill can be orders of magnitude larger than what you expect.
I'm sure they see it that way. The problem here is that they aren't a utility unless the utility was also selling air conditioners and microwaves, and those air conditioners and microwaves had a button that said "Charge met 10x my normal bill this month" on them.
When I was learning Go a few years ago, I build a simple way to generate line graphs from the command line by piping to a cURL command. A few people still actually use it.
The photos are CC licensed. I think they plan to own the algorithms on top extracting value from the photos. But, I totally agree that there should be simple DB download.
The strange part is that while their legal page confirms the CC license [0], the homepage specifically says "All photos are free for personal, NGO, and educational use." which doesn't imply the same freedoms. Sounds like to me that they're not being completetly honest about the license.
I think if I were a user I'd prefer it be pulled. Breaking the app I paid for by releasing an update that fundamentally changes it feels like a much bigger betrayal than not allowing new downloads.
Is Bluetooth less open to innovate on than the 3.5mm jack? I agree that it's important to be able to create hardware add-ons "without Apple's permission", but wouldn't most of those use cases just use Bluetooth today?
Also you can't really screw up the 3.5mm plug, while on the other hand a low-quality Bluetooth chip will ensure you constant sources of irritation when you try to use cheap wireless headsets. Source: bought a few different kinds in Shenzhen, and was universally disappointed by the BT issues (mostly pairing problems and random audio lags on the BT stack, though one particular headset managed to consistently hang up my S4).
There's orders of magnitude of difference in complexity between Bluetooth and 3.5mm jack. Also, last time I heard, you couldn't even use Bluetooth to transfer files from an iPhone to a non-Apple device, so there's that.
EDIT changed "data" to "files", because that's what I meant.
I don't have an iPhone, but my cow-orker whose friend has one tells me that it's still the case that you can't transfer files between an iPhone and a non-Apple device over a Bluetooth connection.
I can confirm this, I've never tried before but my wife has an iPhone and I wanted to transfer something from her phone to mine in an area where neither of us had good service. Apple has some "AirDrop" nonsense that uses bluetooth to set up a direct wifi file transfer between iPhones, but to transfer directly to a non-iPhone, you need a third-party app, generally installed on both phones.
I doubt my wife will get another iPhone, especially without a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Gmane is a bi-directional gateway from Mailing Lists to NNTP (the 'Newsgroups' protocol), with some extra features like spam control, search, web interface, and RSS feeds.
It's also an archive of the above. This archive functionality is in common with Google Groups.
I think your argument that discriminatory companies will lose out to companies willing to hire more broadly is flawed for a few reasons:
1. Markets are not perfectly efficient. If Apple decided not to hire female engineers they wouldn't immediately be overtaken by another company that can use access to a larger labor pool as a decisive advantage. Even if this would be a disadvantage because other companies would hire women, they might still win due to other advantages.
2. Often the same prejudice that affects hiring is held by the customers. If a restaurant in a racist community refuses to hire minorty workers, they might do better than other restaurants. This makes it even more important to enforce fair hiring practices judicially.
If you're using the library for a commercial purpose, a $10 lifetime license seems pretty cheap. You only pay more than that if you want support/themes.
