"superior HTML version" of WHAT, exactly? The "Facebook apps" that are just HTML already work in Safari on iOS, the others employ Flash in addition - is FaceBook going to finance a conversion effort for those? It looks more like a competitor to Google's Chrome web store.
So, which parts of Windows are open source? Most parts of Mac OS X are, except a small number of features like the Aqua user interface. Does Windows ship with GCC etc. like Mac OS X does?
some Stallman-esque ideal service that doesn't exist
Sure it does: Or haven't you heard about the resounding success on OpenMoko, crushing competing closed phone platforms with its Open Fist? Or how the GP2X wiped the floor with proprietary Nintendo DS?
You need to learn that electronic devices can have more than one (type of) processor. The C in CPU is for central. The GPU on your computers graphics card, for instance, is not the CPU, it's a graphics processor. And the specialized circuits that perform encryption and decryption in a Blu-Ray player are not the CPU either.
Ironically, thirty-odd years later botulism toxin is intentionally sprayed into countless Hollywood actors and actresses... what, you didn't know what "Botox" consisted of?
Except they initially only wanted developers to make HTML+Javascript apps and only released a native SDK after developers demanded they do so.
Apple make money off the hardware, the 30% cut from the iOS apps that actually cost money (remember: there is no requirement for an iOS app to cost anything) just covers the costs of running the store.
No, as the HTML 5 proponents say, HTML 5 can do everything native apps can do. Now watch me remake Crysis 2 using the untapped powers of Canvas, SVG and Javascript...
It's a 0-year-old operating system. Microsoft is still selling it.
It's ten yers old dammit, you cannot say that I am 0 years old just because I am still alive after 41 years. It has reached its end of life and NO Microsoft are no longer selling it (that ended October 22 last year), some OEMs might but it is not exactly a future-proof sale...
During the Persian Gulf wars, the Western powers (including USA) were on Saddam's side against Iran, providing chemical weapons and whatnot. That is one case of previous engagement over there. Saddam was a dictator even then, but he was "our" dictator. Even when he gassed that Kurdish town the CIA first tried to blame it on the Iranians.
Why can't you see through the bullshit that Saddam was toppled for anything else than oil?
Faking "proof" for hacking from some country is easier than faking "proof" for WMDs in a country that had seen UN inspectors run around for a few years, removing what they found until they mysteriously were recalled.
And the U.S. has done the latter. Why is the former unrealistic?
Mod parent up - and also, thanks to whoever released it, the terrorists now have a new weapon in their arsenal and all other installations need to beef up their security...
What more would they need to do? The WMD "evidence" was disputed at the time and was later exposed as a lie. As were any ties between islamist Al-Quaida and the secular state run by CIA protégé Saddam. And he was just one of a whole bunch of dictators - hungry people in Burma and North Korea went to sleep at night, dreaming of having a life as good as that of most of the Iraqi population.
Prior to the invasion, the U.S. Government made a facade about caring for cultural treasures and had some archaeologists making plans for protecting sites and museums. These plans were promptly ignored after the "mission" was "accomplished", when the soldiers rushed to protect the oil ministry, leaving museums and dig sites to plunder - even comtributing to the plunder themselves.
If the U.S. decides to colonize and plunder in the Middle East... oh wait, too late.
No, the political branch of Hamas is also called Hamas. They were voted into power in Gaza because of the perceived corruption and disliked foreign-relations of the PA, remember?
The same way Microsoft got where they are today by ripping off Digital Research I guess? (MS-DOS being a cheap "clone" of CP/M)
Anyway:
"Eventually, a stripped-down version of the Alto, the Xerox Star 8010 Document Processor, was released to the public in 1981 for US$17,000. The Star had some differences from the Alto, most significantly the ability to overlap windows was removed as it was thought too confusing for the general public. Instead, the Star used tiled windows. As significant as the Star's release was, it was too little and too late for Xerox, who had by that time lost most of its top researchers to other companies." (A History of the GUI)
Usually you rip off" market successes, not failures. Apple saved GUI from the incompetent hands of Xerox is a more correct interpretation of history.
Can you prove that the PA or Palestinian universities as such are "terrorist assholes"? No? Then why do you think such a group is behind this condition for paying for the trip?
As for the other way around, the Israelis do not take lightly on people who express a desire to visit the Palestinian territories.
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"superior HTML version" of WHAT, exactly? The "Facebook apps" that are just HTML already work in Safari on iOS, the others employ Flash in addition - is FaceBook going to finance a conversion effort for those? It looks more like a competitor to Google's Chrome web store.
Well, Zynga already have native iOS versions of FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker and probably others...
... and if Ford patented the hovercar, only Fords would hover. BUY FORD!
This is merely a patent, not something that actually is or will be implemented.
No, most have a filter that blocks IR in front of the sensor, otherwise pictures would look "unnatural". We are not cats.
So, which parts of Windows are open source? Most parts of Mac OS X are, except a small number of features like the Aqua user interface. Does Windows ship with GCC etc. like Mac OS X does?
Select Android phones with IR transmitters? ANDROID FRAGMENTATION ALERT!
some Stallman-esque ideal service that doesn't exist
Sure it does: Or haven't you heard about the resounding success on OpenMoko, crushing competing closed phone platforms with its Open Fist? Or how the GP2X wiped the floor with proprietary Nintendo DS?
You need to learn that electronic devices can have more than one (type of) processor. The C in CPU is for central. The GPU on your computers graphics card, for instance, is not the CPU, it's a graphics processor. And the specialized circuits that perform encryption and decryption in a Blu-Ray player are not the CPU either.
Ironically, thirty-odd years later botulism toxin is intentionally sprayed into countless Hollywood actors and actresses... what, you didn't know what "Botox" consisted of?
Except they initially only wanted developers to make HTML+Javascript apps and only released a native SDK after developers demanded they do so.
Apple make money off the hardware, the 30% cut from the iOS apps that actually cost money (remember: there is no requirement for an iOS app to cost anything) just covers the costs of running the store.
No, as the HTML 5 proponents say, HTML 5 can do everything native apps can do. Now watch me remake Crysis 2 using the untapped powers of Canvas, SVG and Javascript...
You would have a point if it weren't for the weirdness that Bart and Lisa Simpson cartoon porn also counts as child porn many places.
It's a 0-year-old operating system. Microsoft is still selling it.
It's ten yers old dammit, you cannot say that I am 0 years old just because I am still alive after 41 years. It has reached its end of life and NO Microsoft are no longer selling it (that ended October 22 last year), some OEMs might but it is not exactly a future-proof sale...
Photos remain on the devices/cards/etc. they were taken with or stored on. Only the iCloud COPIES will go away.
Seriously, having photos backed up for 30 days in the cloud is more backup than she ever had, I'd wager.
Was the rock you slept under comfortable? Apple licensed the use of the iOS name form Cisco years ago.
Meaning?
During the Persian Gulf wars, the Western powers (including USA) were on Saddam's side against Iran, providing chemical weapons and whatnot. That is one case of previous engagement over there. Saddam was a dictator even then, but he was "our" dictator. Even when he gassed that Kurdish town the CIA first tried to blame it on the Iranians.
Why can't you see through the bullshit that Saddam was toppled for anything else than oil?
There are perhaps undeclared wars? I am starting to believe the Book of Tricks in the White House is as thick as the Rules of Baseball.
Faking "proof" for hacking from some country is easier than faking "proof" for WMDs in a country that had seen UN inspectors run around for a few years, removing what they found until they mysteriously were recalled.
And the U.S. has done the latter. Why is the former unrealistic?
Mod parent up - and also, thanks to whoever released it, the terrorists now have a new weapon in their arsenal and all other installations need to beef up their security...
What more would they need to do? The WMD "evidence" was disputed at the time and was later exposed as a lie. As were any ties between islamist Al-Quaida and the secular state run by CIA protégé Saddam. And he was just one of a whole bunch of dictators - hungry people in Burma and North Korea went to sleep at night, dreaming of having a life as good as that of most of the Iraqi population.
Prior to the invasion, the U.S. Government made a facade about caring for cultural treasures and had some archaeologists making plans for protecting sites and museums. These plans were promptly ignored after the "mission" was "accomplished", when the soldiers rushed to protect the oil ministry, leaving museums and dig sites to plunder - even comtributing to the plunder themselves.
If the U.S. decides to colonize and plunder in the Middle East... oh wait, too late.
No, the political branch of Hamas is also called Hamas. They were voted into power in Gaza because of the perceived corruption and disliked foreign-relations of the PA, remember?
Why? The display division of Samsung does not owe the phone division any favors.
The same way Microsoft got where they are today by ripping off Digital Research I guess? (MS-DOS being a cheap "clone" of CP/M)
Anyway:
"Eventually, a stripped-down version of the Alto, the Xerox Star 8010 Document Processor, was released to the public in 1981 for US$17,000. The Star had some differences from the Alto, most significantly the ability to overlap windows was removed as it was thought too confusing for the general public. Instead, the Star used tiled windows. As significant as the Star's release was, it was too little and too late for Xerox, who had by that time lost most of its top researchers to other companies." (A History of the GUI)
Usually you rip off" market successes, not failures. Apple saved GUI from the incompetent hands of Xerox is a more correct interpretation of history.
Can you prove that the PA or Palestinian universities as such are "terrorist assholes"? No? Then why do you think such a group is behind this condition for paying for the trip?
As for the other way around, the Israelis do not take lightly on people who express a desire to visit the Palestinian territories.
PA != Hamas. Dammit, at least try to keep up.