They had the "option" of skipping it (and focus on a different language) from day one, but the lure of exploiting the vast developer base was too strong.
So can I on my Mac. Did your PC "fall off a truck"? If you do not count the cost of the machine in case A, why do so in case B? Unless you consider owning a Windows PC to be mandatory?
The problem is that when you say "features" you really mean tech specs.
Not usage patterns and possibilities.
Tell you what: Go to the average ten year old boy and ask if they want a Ferrari or a Volvo when they grow up. When they inevitably answer Ferrari, try to tell them that a Ferrari is way overpriced for a device that gets you from A to B, it has terrible space for storage and passengers... not gonna work.
Yes, we should add together the cost of paper and ink for an issue and say to PCWorld that that should be the price of the magazine... see if they agree.
Does the laptop have a touch screen? No. It is thus incapable. Not more capable, just simply incapable.
Hard drive? Really? You count that as a plus? Compared to flash memory/SSD?
Yes, it is hard for the old timers to understand how tablets fit a need that a laptop doesn't. Just like it was hard to understand why someone would want one of those expensive laptops back when they were new.
All trade is person A trading X to person B, getting Y in return. Money is just supposed to be a postponement of one of these when person A is less interested in Y than some person C with goods or service Z. Expand to a whole economy as needed.
In this case having a common "thing" the money is attached to (like an amount of gold) is a mere convenience.
"Crappy copy"? Do the Linux distro repositories - show you what the apps look like? - allow easy search? - make suggestions on what other apps you might like? - tell you what apps are outdated and let you easily upgrade all with a single click?
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No, the Internet is a loose-ish mesh of cooperating individual network operators. Some are in the US, most are not.
The most commonly used and generally agreed-upon root DNS is "owned" by a US entity, that is correct. But the DNS can be replaced if needed be...
They had the "option" of skipping it (and focus on a different language) from day one, but the lure of exploiting the vast developer base was too strong.
Well, they are not calling it Java-the-VM (which Dalvik isn't), but they DO refer to Java-the-language, since that is what they use.
DS as in Directory Server. Your nerd-fu is weak, you play too many games.
I believe all traces of iPlanet/SunOne were exorcised when Glassfish junked the last native parts when going from version 2.x to 3.x
OpenAM (OpenSSO) still calls its cookie iPlanetDirectoryPro though...
Libre is also French.
Freedom is not Gratisdom.
At seven years old, the "fad" of which you speak seems very persistent.
What next, the Internet itself is a "fad"?
TSA agents get to fondle children without being convicted and registered as sex offenders - this is peanuts in comparison...
They want access to his facebook account in order that they can have a look at the sorts of things he says and people he hangs out with
"Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the American Communist Party?" comes next.
Here you go:
http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/audacity-grope-tsas-new-pat-down
I mean that was ridiculously easy to find. Did you even try looking?
Well, perhaps you can count the cost of OS X - people are apparently running that virtualized on Linux and succeeding.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/276907/starting-iphone-app-development-in-linux
We'll still have chick.com to entertain us.
So can I on my Mac. Did your PC "fall off a truck"? If you do not count the cost of the machine in case A, why do so in case B? Unless you consider owning a Windows PC to be mandatory?
The problem is that when you say "features" you really mean tech specs.
Not usage patterns and possibilities.
Tell you what: Go to the average ten year old boy and ask if they want a Ferrari or a Volvo when they grow up. When they inevitably answer Ferrari, try to tell them that a Ferrari is way overpriced for a device that gets you from A to B, it has terrible space for storage and passengers... not gonna work.
Yes, we should add together the cost of paper and ink for an issue and say to PCWorld that that should be the price of the magazine... see if they agree.
Why? The numbers are pointless.
Does the laptop have a touch screen? No. It is thus incapable. Not more capable, just simply incapable.
Hard drive? Really? You count that as a plus? Compared to flash memory/SSD?
Yes, it is hard for the old timers to understand how tablets fit a need that a laptop doesn't. Just like it was hard to understand why someone would want one of those expensive laptops back when they were new.
... and yopu can buy two Fiat 500s for the price of a BMW X3. I doubt the BMW owner cries himself to sleep over that.
Sooo.... I guess the Archos sells boatloads more than the iPad then?
No?
You are talking about a generation that stares on an LCD screen for hours on end when playing WoW or whatever. They will evolve to suit the device...
All trade is person A trading X to person B, getting Y in return. Money is just supposed to be a postponement of one of these when person A is less interested in Y than some person C with goods or service Z. Expand to a whole economy as needed.
In this case having a common "thing" the money is attached to (like an amount of gold) is a mere convenience.
And the house you need to sit in comfort while coding.
Or people who shop at a security-guarded mall instead of tempting fate by going downtown.
Well, the code can run in an emulator.
Do you add a PC to the cost of developing for Windows? What about the cost of the house you sit in while coding? The food you eat while coding?
"Crappy copy"? Do the Linux distro repositories
- show you what the apps look like?
- allow easy search?
- make suggestions on what other apps you might like?
- tell you what apps are outdated and let you easily upgrade all with a single click?
Sour grapes do not a convincing argument make.
... in which case the VLC port could be distributed in source to other iOS developers, to build at their leisure and put on their devices...