How is it hyperbole? Look at Secunia. There are more than 1000 vulnerabilities between the combined versions of the JVM. They average around 200 per version which is actually worse than Flash player.
What revolt? Dell still will sell 99% of the PCs with Windows. Valve has only committed so far to porting 1 game and isn't dropping Steam for Windows since that is where the vast majority of games will only run natively and will still be the prime platform for AAA games. Blizzard isn't going anywhere either. Mozilla? LOL, you think Mozilla has any sway over the choice users make about which OS to run? Acer is a low quality brand that is doubtful any significant amount of people would recognize offhand.
Currently the linux distrubution Android is outselling Windows 7 with about 50%.
No it's not. Microsoft sells more than 300 million licenses a year to Windows 7. Even at the 700,000 a day Android activations (assuming each are a unique sale) that is still less than all the license sales in a year.
It's definitely unusual because it was most likely an unauthorized code leak. If this was really an "official" open sourcing of the game all the headers would have been properly updated and you wouldn't have code in there that said it is specifically not supposed to be publicly disclosed.
This must have been flying under people's radar since this has been on Google Code since last September. But I'd imagine anyone really distributing this code is going to have hell to pay.
In-app purchases must now use Google Play's payment system unless it's for goods or services used outside the app itself.
Goddamn money-grubbing, parasitic Apple always trying to take a take a cut from other people's hard work. Oh wait, this is Google doing it? Oh, never mind then.
What the hell does your blabbering have to do with anything? This isn't about people running software they choose. It is abut a UK comany exporting malware to what was a dictatorial regime to spy on political dissidents.
Funny since I have 2 month old Dell monitors with only DVI inputs and no copy protection. I guess I should alert somene to them selling illegal monitors?
Did you miss the part where Congress has the Consitutional power to define the jurisdiction of the inferior courts of the federal judiciary and can limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court? When did you think they were ever beholden to court orders when it's the body given sole authority to create the courts and vest them with authority. The only thing Congress can't limit is anying that falls under the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, but that doesn't apply in this case.
Huh? He was talking about the Firefox UI. Even still, if people have to needlessly dick around to get your DE or prgram usable you have failed big time. No one said take away cuatomizability, but you need sensible defaults or you just drive people away.
The point wasn't how well Pepsi sells or sold, the point is those new Coke taste tests gave erroneous results such as the Pepsi Challenge did. And Pepsi wasn't outselling Coke as your own link says:
and it was only Coke's greater availability in restricted markets (such as soda vending machines and fast food outlets) that was keeping its numbers ahead of Pepsi's.
I can see the advantage in having the keywords be in your native language, for the most part the keyword itself gives some indication of its function and makes it much easier to remember and look up than it would a word in a different language.
Or you just provide documentation in the native language of the programmer that explains what the English keyword means rather than translating the keyword and doing nothing but cause confusion between programmers of different native languages?
It's not imperialistic. English is the language of trade and science and is also the language from which the vast majority of computer-related neologisms originated. To have programming languages use English for its keywords makes it unambiguous to all users rather than you having some sub-par translated version that makes it impossible to use, say, MDN because you can't match up the keywords from the English version to your own.
English is also the language in which most of the computer-related neologisms originated. Leaving the terms in English makes them unambiguous whereas translating them has constantly been shown to do nothing but confuse people. This guy probably things he originated the idea of translating computer programming languages, but this has been done before many times and all such efforts have pretty much died out and for good reason: they suck.
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How is it hyperbole? Look at Secunia. There are more than 1000 vulnerabilities between the combined versions of the JVM. They average around 200 per version which is actually worse than Flash player.
"Land of the Free" does not include allowing you to be "free" to break the law.
Yeah and their tablets running Android have been selling extremely poorly by their own admission.
What revolt? Dell still will sell 99% of the PCs with Windows. Valve has only committed so far to porting 1 game and isn't dropping Steam for Windows since that is where the vast majority of games will only run natively and will still be the prime platform for AAA games. Blizzard isn't going anywhere either. Mozilla? LOL, you think Mozilla has any sway over the choice users make about which OS to run? Acer is a low quality brand that is doubtful any significant amount of people would recognize offhand.
If it didn't work during the Vista fail why would it work now?
Currently the linux distrubution Android is outselling Windows 7 with about 50%.
No it's not. Microsoft sells more than 300 million licenses a year to Windows 7. Even at the 700,000 a day Android activations (assuming each are a unique sale) that is still less than all the license sales in a year.
It's definitely unusual because it was most likely an unauthorized code leak. If this was really an "official" open sourcing of the game all the headers would have been properly updated and you wouldn't have code in there that said it is specifically not supposed to be publicly disclosed.
This must have been flying under people's radar since this has been on Google Code since last September. But I'd imagine anyone really distributing this code is going to have hell to pay.
If it's LGPL why weren't the copyright headers updated? Most still just say things like:
Copyright 1997-1999 Pandemic Studios, Dark Reign
Seems a bit iffy at the moment.
In-app purchases must now use Google Play's payment system unless it's for goods or services used outside the app itself.
Goddamn money-grubbing, parasitic Apple always trying to take a take a cut from other people's hard work. Oh wait, this is Google doing it? Oh, never mind then.
What the hell does your blabbering have to do with anything? This isn't about people running software they choose. It is abut a UK comany exporting malware to what was a dictatorial regime to spy on political dissidents.
Because malware can't be written for OS X or Linux?
Funny since I have 2 month old Dell monitors with only DVI inputs and no copy protection. I guess I should alert somene to them selling illegal monitors?
(i.e. sticking with 320x480 for almost 4 years is embarrassing for any other company)
You mean like this phone from Samsung? Oh and it is only about a month old at this point.
Did you miss the part where Congress has the Consitutional power to define the jurisdiction of the inferior courts of the federal judiciary and can limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court? When did you think they were ever beholden to court orders when it's the body given sole authority to create the courts and vest them with authority. The only thing Congress can't limit is anying that falls under the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, but that doesn't apply in this case.
Huh? He was talking about the Firefox UI. Even still, if people have to needlessly dick around to get your DE or prgram usable you have failed big time. No one said take away cuatomizability, but you need sensible defaults or you just drive people away.
And you ignore the fact that most users don't want to dick around with shit just to get back to what should be the sensible default.
The point wasn't how well Pepsi sells or sold, the point is those new Coke taste tests gave erroneous results such as the Pepsi Challenge did. And Pepsi wasn't outselling Coke as your own link says:
and it was only Coke's greater availability in restricted markets (such as soda vending machines and fast food outlets) that was keeping its numbers ahead of Pepsi's.
Yes, in sip tests people liked New Coke more, but ths was a flawed testing method consistent with the erroneous results of the 'Pepsi Challenge'.
In taste tests, people also routinely say they like Pepsi more than Coke. But this is purely becuase the taste tests are just small samples while many people can't stand drinking a full can of Pepsi because it's too sweet. This was the same with New Coke. The taste tests of old vs new Coke gave them an erroneous result because it used the same flawed testing as the Pepsi Challenge.
I can see the advantage in having the keywords be in your native language, for the most part the keyword itself gives some indication of its function and makes it much easier to remember and look up than it would a word in a different language.
Or you just provide documentation in the native language of the programmer that explains what the English keyword means rather than translating the keyword and doing nothing but cause confusion between programmers of different native languages?
It's not imperialistic. English is the language of trade and science and is also the language from which the vast majority of computer-related neologisms originated. To have programming languages use English for its keywords makes it unambiguous to all users rather than you having some sub-par translated version that makes it impossible to use, say, MDN because you can't match up the keywords from the English version to your own.
English is also the language in which most of the computer-related neologisms originated. Leaving the terms in English makes them unambiguous whereas translating them has constantly been shown to do nothing but confuse people. This guy probably things he originated the idea of translating computer programming languages, but this has been done before many times and all such efforts have pretty much died out and for good reason: they suck.
It's only outrageous because they spent all their allowance on cheetos and pizza rolls.
AMD have been releasing specs for their video cards since 2007. Did you miss the memo?