If anything Android is under serious threat, by both manufacturers that refuse to release phones with unmolested Android as they want to differentiate and carriers that long for the good ole days of a locked down, zombified OS.
Ironically, what Android is *not* threatened by is the stillborn WinPhone.
For FOX, though, I don't think their #1 TV property (a little thing called the NFL) is going to be real happy at all with them becoming 'yet another cable station'.
THIS is why their temper tantrum is sound and fury signifying nothing.
Related: I hate Fox's NFL intro music; it sounds like a ensemble that forgot exactly how the middle part of Jingle Bells goes.
It wouldn't surprise me if the areas they will emphasize for study are mind reading, pain infliction (combined with shock supression), memory insertion, and remote control just for the hell of it.
Keep in mind this admin is perfectly comfortable with droning, Gitmo, permanent war...
Probably the same line of reasoning that will be moving a disease lab from an island to the campus of a centrallly-located public university (also within eyesight of the stadium, coliseum, and rec center): greed and pork-barrel politics.
I'm hoping we're about two years away from a real PC motherboard initiative along the lines of Raspberry PI. Wouldn't that be nice? A motherboard that isn't infected with vulnerable OEM black boxes and proprietary BS code and OS lock-in?
I quickly grew to despise Ohio State after they changed their official name to The Ohio State University. This is literally emphasized by former alums (heh) playing in the NFL when they announce their names and schools.
'The' Ohio State... was there really confusion about *which* state university in Ohio has a stadium large enough to be seen from orbit?
I just hope someday, a cheeky alum (maybe with a PhD in Literature!) will dedicate themselves to always state they went to An Ohio State University.
The folks at Kleenex must be worried. When people can print their own tissues at home, why would they buy a box of them in the store?
Dream on!
It took many, many decades to prefect a product that can survive the rigors of production, packaging, shipping, and stocking and only self-destruct in a cloud of lint when the end user pulls one out!
Call them simply what they are: Leeches. Taking everything civilized society has to offer (such as no roving hordes stringing up the filthy rich), but give nothing back but excrement.
The only entities that can afford to build a nuclear power plant such as Entergy, Duke, PG&E always end up doing the double whammy of cutting back on maintenance just as the plants start to age out. Then, they quickly spin off the plant ownership to a separate division, then a separate DBA, then quietly sell it or convert it to a wholly separate no-liability company just as the expensive chickens of total rebuilt or shutdown come home to roost.
As an aside, the folks running SONGS for PG&E decided to redesign the tube bundles when they had to be replaced. They arrogantly redesigned them - without even telling the NRC, mind you - to get more [Jeremy Clarkson] Power! [/JC], but only managed to make them wear out in mere months due to so much vibration the tubes eroded each other.
So nuclear power does make sense, if it weren't the actual short-term greedy bastards that own and run them.
This is one reason Portugal will be more brutally targeted by the IMF in the coming months: to change the government by bankruptcy threat, appointing their version of Pinochet or Shah to re-criminalize drug use and hand out ever more contracts to international prison corporations.
How many warrant requests - even in Canada - are not automatically rubberstamped by Judge Judy when handsome Constable John Law comes calling? Especially when there is no one arguing against the request or even know it's occuring.
It's the right ruling, but the effect will be depressingly miniscule.
Third-world countries could do a good business by awarding folks diplomatic courier status... for a fee. Any communications between two of them would be out. of. bounds.
It really bothers me when somebody has been selling a product 2 or 3 years, and then somebody comes around with a patent that's 10 years old, and then expects them to pay for all the infringing they did over the lifetime of the product.
The exact same extortion is occuring now, threatening podcast producers with some bullshit patent trolling - only *after* it was finally becoming financially viable for the real creative artists.
Regulate all the facets of ammunition instead - including the fine-particulate generation of a known toxic material (lead). Don't bother banning home loaders as they could never create a significant amount of ammo to worry about (space for the materials *and* the finished product for starters). However, 'ammo parties' using an entire rented National Guard armory or community center over a weekend should be right out.
Not fixing their execution of Android gives them an excuse to replace it with their own proprietary OS (including a locked down boot loader). At the very least, the anti-freedom US carriers would cheer such a move.
As long as their continues to be an Imperial Presidency with self-granted extra-judicial murder powers, it doesn't matter in which Palace stable these thouroughbreds are kept.
But Jobs is dead, and his corporate successors in Cupertino - tasked with leading Apple through a period of fierce competition - obviously looked at Lynch and decided he'd make a perfect fit as an executive.
The same guys that hired the dude from the down-market UK retail chain... how'd that work out?
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If anything Android is under serious threat, by both manufacturers that refuse to release phones with unmolested Android as they want to differentiate and carriers that long for the good ole days of a locked down, zombified OS.
Ironically, what Android is *not* threatened by is the stillborn WinPhone.
THIS is why their temper tantrum is sound and fury signifying nothing.
Related: I hate Fox's NFL intro music; it sounds like a ensemble that forgot exactly how the middle part of Jingle Bells goes.
It wouldn't surprise me if the areas they will emphasize for study are mind reading, pain infliction (combined with shock supression), memory insertion, and remote control just for the hell of it.
Keep in mind this admin is perfectly comfortable with droning, Gitmo, permanent war...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_is_a_racket
A hundred years and nothing has changed.
Probably the same line of reasoning that will be moving a disease lab from an island to the campus of a centrallly-located public university (also within eyesight of the stadium, coliseum, and rec center): greed and pork-barrel politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility
I'm hoping we're about two years away from a real PC motherboard initiative along the lines of Raspberry PI. Wouldn't that be nice? A motherboard that isn't infected with vulnerable OEM black boxes and proprietary BS code and OS lock-in?
I quickly grew to despise Ohio State after they changed their official name to The Ohio State University. This is literally emphasized by former alums (heh) playing in the NFL when they announce their names and schools.
'The' Ohio State... was there really confusion about *which* state university in Ohio has a stadium large enough to be seen from orbit?
I just hope someday, a cheeky alum (maybe with a PhD in Literature!) will dedicate themselves to always state they went to An Ohio State University.
Clearly a Ford man.
Dream on!
It took many, many decades to prefect a product that can survive the rigors of production, packaging, shipping, and stocking and only self-destruct in a cloud of lint when the end user pulls one out!
"Caaaaart!"
Call them simply what they are: Leeches. Taking everything civilized society has to offer (such as no roving hordes stringing up the filthy rich), but give nothing back but excrement.
Brawndo! It's got what batteries crave! It's got electrolytes!
The only entities that can afford to build a nuclear power plant such as Entergy, Duke, PG&E always end up doing the double whammy of cutting back on maintenance just as the plants start to age out. Then, they quickly spin off the plant ownership to a separate division, then a separate DBA, then quietly sell it or convert it to a wholly separate no-liability company just as the expensive chickens of total rebuilt or shutdown come home to roost.
As an aside, the folks running SONGS for PG&E decided to redesign the tube bundles when they had to be replaced. They arrogantly redesigned them - without even telling the NRC, mind you - to get more [Jeremy Clarkson] Power! [/JC], but only managed to make them wear out in mere months due to so much vibration the tubes eroded each other.
So nuclear power does make sense, if it weren't the actual short-term greedy bastards that own and run them.
This is one reason Portugal will be more brutally targeted by the IMF in the coming months: to change the government by bankruptcy threat, appointing their version of Pinochet or Shah to re-criminalize drug use and hand out ever more contracts to international prison corporations.
Profit! indeed.
How many warrant requests - even in Canada - are not automatically rubberstamped by Judge Judy when handsome Constable John Law comes calling? Especially when there is no one arguing against the request or even know it's occuring.
It's the right ruling, but the effect will be depressingly miniscule.
Third-world countries could do a good business by awarding folks diplomatic courier status... for a fee. Any communications between two of them would be out. of. bounds.
You do NOT place matters of life and death in the hands of a fucking for-profit corporation!
Screw the soulless greedy bastards of PlanetIQ and damned be any Randian pinhead politician that would go along with such craven garbage.
Call it Iridium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications_Inc.
The exact same extortion is occuring now, threatening podcast producers with some bullshit patent trolling - only *after* it was finally becoming financially viable for the real creative artists.
'Pay no attention to the massive amount of public water usage!'
Regulate all the facets of ammunition instead - including the fine-particulate generation of a known toxic material (lead). Don't bother banning home loaders as they could never create a significant amount of ammo to worry about (space for the materials *and* the finished product for starters). However, 'ammo parties' using an entire rented National Guard armory or community center over a weekend should be right out.
Not fixing their execution of Android gives them an excuse to replace it with their own proprietary OS (including a locked down boot loader). At the very least, the anti-freedom US carriers would cheer such a move.
I don't know if I should blame the poster, Slashdot, IE8, or all three, but after the tenth Ã(TM)s, I gave up reading.
Maybe it is a DRM side effect.
As long as their continues to be an Imperial Presidency with self-granted extra-judicial murder powers, it doesn't matter in which Palace stable these thouroughbreds are kept.
The same guys that hired the dude from the down-market UK retail chain... how'd that work out?
Magic's gone.