They don't have a "bubble", they have something drastically opposite. The thing that most articles fail to note, that Chinese actually save money rather than spend money. So if that inverse-bubble inflates, they end up richer and would buy up more stuff.
Nice! So ICBM's don't count as power projection?
And the other thing. Even in the soviet days USSR had no strategy on projecting massive forces anywhere in the world. US on the other hand has basically troops in every region. And US is the only country to have such a wide network of foreign bases. And people in the US wonder where do people get their hatred of US from?
Sure, there are places where such bases are logical and beneficial, but there are a lot more that are remnants of the cold war.
Russian military and military equipment is, with very few exceptions, concentrated on defence.
Does Mono have OIN behind it? I believe that Linux kernel has all OIN members behind the kernel. I have no idea how OIN handles Mono.
Otherwise Mono might just disappear in a light puff of smoke.
I hate to break it to you, but JVM source was available for a long time. And DalvikVM is most probably based on Apache Harmony VM, rahter than the GPL'ed Java. The platform source has traces of Harmony. The only reason DalvikVM is called DalvikVM is that Sun ownes the Java trademark and lets only the organisations that have licenses call their VM's Java.
A: It uses the word "may".
B: Intellectual output should be patentable or copyrightable, never both.
C: Patent's idea is to make sure the knowledge is not kept secret. As it was with guilds in those days. Therefore patents are publicly available.
OMFG! MobileMe is a classic central server system. In no way MobileMe is a cloud! Branding something a "cloud" just because some idiot baboons at Apple corporate marketing decided to does not make it true.
A cloud is a "multiplicity", not a "singularity". MobileMe, and most of Apple's products, are as far from the cloud concept as they ever were.
There is one problem with assumption that Microsoft will prop up Novell. The problem is Microsoft itself. They are not in the business for the "cred", they are there for the money.
And as business sense goes, the company that actually has any business interest in keeping SuSE alive is IBM. Last time I checked, SLES11 was the Linux that came from a non-competing company. RedHat does run on IBM's platforms, but face it, RedHat's JBoss is a competitor to IBM's WebSphere stuff.
Ironically to the whole report, I can get a FttP for USD$30!!!!! Full speed, both ways. In fact, I have a Ethernet cable coming up from the basement, since all communications are over FttB, except DSL obviously.
There might be other issues. Take Italy as an example, they could build a good infra, but wherever they try to lay the damn cable, they stumble upon some x thousand year old settlement and down the drain goes the whole project. Ironically with all the references, the tel.co's don't crap money for these kind of projects. I bet Greece is has some similar problem, of the ancient past holding the future/progress back.
A) Don't you void the warranty by jailbreaking? And the fact, that you need to jailbreak for some features, makes the device closed, not open.
B) It's not $160, it's $1159 (try adding the price of a Mac OSX equipped laptop to the mix, or do you get it for free?) or at least $759(with a cheap Mac Mini)
C) Last time I checked, world class was an airline designation of the economy class. So basically crap.
I hate to defend those people, but if they have an iPhone* they might want to have an application for some specific purposes. They have paid the $99 for the right to put their application on their own phone, so it's a no brainer that they would start distributing it through the AppStore.
*- Face it, when it came out, it was the most usable smartphone out there by far.
Hm.. How about NOT NEEDING TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE for an advantage? You know that Java is probably the most wide-spread programming language ATM, do you? That is the whole point. Not how people feel about Java, not drawbacks of a VM based system and so on...
Mobile Chrome, same damn shit as mobile Safari(WebKit anyone?). Chrome has a better JS engine though - Google V8.
Android's media player, at least the one in Nexus One, is far more simpler and less confusing than in my iPod Touch. Playlist creation on the device PERIOD!(More than one.)
Multitouch is optional, realy it is. There is a very little amount of cases where it's essential. I have not seen a single time a stack trace on my phone, unless I'm actually in debug mode.
FYI: Nexus One and most new phones don't have Zoom In/Out buttons.
You can actually do 99% of the code of an app for Android in C/C++ also. Because the Launcher application/framework is Java, your point of entry needs to be a Java application, but that is the extent of the requirement.
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They don't have a "bubble", they have something drastically opposite. The thing that most articles fail to note, that Chinese actually save money rather than spend money. So if that inverse-bubble inflates, they end up richer and would buy up more stuff.
Nice! So ICBM's don't count as power projection?
And the other thing. Even in the soviet days USSR had no strategy on projecting massive forces anywhere in the world. US on the other hand has basically troops in every region. And US is the only country to have such a wide network of foreign bases. And people in the US wonder where do people get their hatred of US from?
Sure, there are places where such bases are logical and beneficial, but there are a lot more that are remnants of the cold war.
Russian military and military equipment is, with very few exceptions, concentrated on defence.
Does Mono have OIN behind it? I believe that Linux kernel has all OIN members behind the kernel. I have no idea how OIN handles Mono.
Otherwise Mono might just disappear in a light puff of smoke.
BTW: Nice work on Mono on your part.
Isn't Stack Overflow the best known site based Microsoft's stack? So I would imagine there are a lot of people asking stupid questions.
Windows Phone 7 runs on WinCE 6.
And history shows that you'll get screwed anally!
I hate to break it to you, but JVM source was available for a long time. And DalvikVM is most probably based on Apache Harmony VM, rahter than the GPL'ed Java. The platform source has traces of Harmony. The only reason DalvikVM is called DalvikVM is that Sun ownes the Java trademark and lets only the organisations that have licenses call their VM's Java.
Signature is not encryption. Maybe there are legal requirements for paperless office. I know I would have to comply to a law in my country.
A: It uses the word "may".
B: Intellectual output should be patentable or copyrightable, never both.
C: Patent's idea is to make sure the knowledge is not kept secret. As it was with guilds in those days. Therefore patents are publicly available.
Replace monopoly with dominant market position, where anti-trust laws are also applied.
And the iPad is definitely not for your aunt. Since iPad REQUIRES a conventional computer to be present in the household.
No!!! That would be both open and closed at the same, sick, time.
OMFG! MobileMe is a classic central server system. In no way MobileMe is a cloud! Branding something a "cloud" just because some idiot baboons at Apple corporate marketing decided to does not make it true.
A cloud is a "multiplicity", not a "singularity". MobileMe, and most of Apple's products, are as far from the cloud concept as they ever were.
There is one problem with assumption that Microsoft will prop up Novell. The problem is Microsoft itself. They are not in the business for the "cred", they are there for the money.
And as business sense goes, the company that actually has any business interest in keeping SuSE alive is IBM. Last time I checked, SLES11 was the Linux that came from a non-competing company. RedHat does run on IBM's platforms, but face it, RedHat's JBoss is a competitor to IBM's WebSphere stuff.
They will ban you from their approved users list, leaving you with an email message on your iPhone standing right before a closed door :-D
FYI: GPL covers only and only distribution. So GPL was only to make sure that copyright stays lax.
Ironically to the whole report, I can get a FttP for USD$30!!!!! Full speed, both ways. In fact, I have a Ethernet cable coming up from the basement, since all communications are over FttB, except DSL obviously.
There might be other issues. Take Italy as an example, they could build a good infra, but wherever they try to lay the damn cable, they stumble upon some x thousand year old settlement and down the drain goes the whole project. Ironically with all the references, the tel.co's don't crap money for these kind of projects. I bet Greece is has some similar problem, of the ancient past holding the future/progress back.
No, it's very like you staying on your couch and your competition training for the Olympics day and night. And you wonder why they win!?!?!?!
A) Don't you void the warranty by jailbreaking? And the fact, that you need to jailbreak for some features, makes the device closed, not open.
B) It's not $160, it's $1159 (try adding the price of a Mac OSX equipped laptop to the mix, or do you get it for free?) or at least $759(with a cheap Mac Mini)
C) Last time I checked, world class was an airline designation of the economy class. So basically crap.
I hate to defend those people, but if they have an iPhone* they might want to have an application for some specific purposes. They have paid the $99 for the right to put their application on their own phone, so it's a no brainer that they would start distributing it through the AppStore.
*- Face it, when it came out, it was the most usable smartphone out there by far.
As in Drag-And-Drop WYSIWYG editor that comes with Eclipse plugin is hard for you?
Hm.. How about NOT NEEDING TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE for an advantage? You know that Java is probably the most wide-spread programming language ATM, do you? That is the whole point. Not how people feel about Java, not drawbacks of a VM based system and so on...
Mobile Chrome, same damn shit as mobile Safari(WebKit anyone?). Chrome has a better JS engine though - Google V8.
Android's media player, at least the one in Nexus One, is far more simpler and less confusing than in my iPod Touch. Playlist creation on the device PERIOD!(More than one.)
Multitouch is optional, realy it is. There is a very little amount of cases where it's essential. I have not seen a single time a stack trace on my phone, unless I'm actually in debug mode.
FYI: Nexus One and most new phones don't have Zoom In/Out buttons.
You can actually do 99% of the code of an app for Android in C/C++ also. Because the Launcher application/framework is Java, your point of entry needs to be a Java application, but that is the extent of the requirement.