They haven't closed the source, they're delaying the source because they're worried about the user experience when it inevitably gets ported to a phone.
So they've closed the source then?
When it has been released THEN it will be open. Until then it's closed.
When farming went away as a mass employer, industry took over. When industry left, service took over. If service goes away... what is left?
Nothing. Country falls apart, resource-rich provinces declare independence and strike out on their own. It's happened uncounted times throughout history, it will happen again, and the next cab off the rank is the soon-to-be Former United States.
"Considering the way they drove Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox into near oblivion with devious practices, this seems a lot like sending a valentine’s day card to your rape victim, every year."
If there's a technology that can be used for surveillance of its own citizens, the US will throw unlimited resources at it. Cure for cancer? Mission to Mars? Not so much.
No, the right wing are the ones to watch for. They're the conservatives, meaning they're taking care of the old guard. The left wing are in liberals, they're in favor of change, so they're not as concerned with making sure the ones with family money keep it.
Bear in mind of course that anywhere else in the civilised world the US Democratic Party would be regarded as ultra-right religio-fascists. They're only "left wing" to Americans.
No, really I don't. I listen to music I like because I LIKE THE MUSIC, not because I like the fidelity with which the music is reproduced. I'd rather listen to a third-generation analog magnetic tape recording of an AM radio broadcast of The Beatles than a pristine 24-bit digital reproduction of the latest American Idol winner's latest single.
No, they're not doing well. Revenues and profits are plummeting. They have a big marketshare but they make no money out of it.
Re:In that case, MS has failed beyond belief
on
Why Nokia Is Toast
·
· Score: 1
MS doesn't want to kill Nokia, they've just taken it over.
Nokia doesn't exist anymore other than as the phone hardware department of Microsoft Inc.
Re:A Microsoft Nokia bad-analogy award
on
Why Nokia Is Toast
·
· Score: 0
Hint: burning through billions of dollars a year in order to finally almost break even in one year is not "a phenomenal success". I think the sales of Wii Sports alone are greater than all the sales of all games for Xbox and Xbox 360. Ever. Combined.
Re:A Microsoft Nokia bad-analogy award
on
Why Nokia Is Toast
·
· Score: 0
No-one will EVER forget Xbox. In terms of destruction of shareholder value, it's quite possibly the greatest technology blunder of all time.
"the technology shows potential for allowing TMS to better treat a variety of brain disorders and diseases in humans, such as severe depression and schizophrenia and religion."
Did your org write its own mail clients, browsers, and VPN software?
If not, then it was trusting patient info to systems belonging to a third party. I fail to see the substantive difference between that and trusting other cloud services.
it's also wholly unsuitable for any business needing absolute confidentiality, just like every cloud solution
Just like every solution that involves clients, nodes, servers, networks, and software not designed, built, operated, and controlled only by you. Which is pretty much all of them.
If your communications are so sensitive that HTTP over SSL with a corporation that offers you an SLA isn't enough, and you choose to send email in the clear without encryption, then your communications obviously aren't as sensitive as you think.
Slashdot Mirror
Australia's totally metric, but because we pity the stupid (hi Americans!) we can understand when you talk in your funny "chains" and "hogsheads".
Yep. I remember Jo but Sarah Jane will always be THE Companion in my mind. RIP.
They haven't closed the source, they're delaying the source because they're worried about the user experience when it inevitably gets ported to a phone.
So they've closed the source then?
When it has been released THEN it will be open. Until then it's closed.
...raised by the parent article is covered in this piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-10-12-03-the-agri-cultural-contradictions-of-obesity.html
America being a nation of fatties isn't an accident.
When farming went away as a mass employer, industry took over. When industry left, service took over. If service goes away... what is left?
Nothing. Country falls apart, resource-rich provinces declare independence and strike out on their own. It's happened uncounted times throughout history, it will happen again, and the next cab off the rank is the soon-to-be Former United States.
Is there some way to objectively measure it? Number of patents, number of papers, what?
Yeah, you go to the back of the line if your country has a "Creation Museum".
"Considering the way they drove Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox into near oblivion with devious practices, this seems a lot like sending a valentine’s day card to your rape victim, every year."
When these paid advertorials get posted, could the editors at least mark them as such?
If there's a technology that can be used for surveillance of its own citizens, the US will throw unlimited resources at it. Cure for cancer? Mission to Mars? Not so much.
Taken a look at Congress any time in the past twenty years? Waaaaay too late.
End of the net... in the United States.
Bear in mind of course that anywhere else in the civilised world the US Democratic Party would be regarded as ultra-right religio-fascists. They're only "left wing" to Americans.
No, really I don't. I listen to music I like because I LIKE THE MUSIC, not because I like the fidelity with which the music is reproduced. I'd rather listen to a third-generation analog magnetic tape recording of an AM radio broadcast of The Beatles than a pristine 24-bit digital reproduction of the latest American Idol winner's latest single.
No, they're not doing well. Revenues and profits are plummeting. They have a big marketshare but they make no money out of it.
MS doesn't want to kill Nokia, they've just taken it over.
Nokia doesn't exist anymore other than as the phone hardware department of Microsoft Inc.
Hint: burning through billions of dollars a year in order to finally almost break even in one year is not "a phenomenal success". I think the sales of Wii Sports alone are greater than all the sales of all games for Xbox and Xbox 360. Ever. Combined.
No-one will EVER forget Xbox. In terms of destruction of shareholder value, it's quite possibly the greatest technology blunder of all time.
fixed that for you
The real solution to the deficit is to raise taxes
And when the Baby Boomers all retire within the next ten years, they stop paying tax. And put their hands out. And start getting sicker.
Whee!
mod parent up times infinity.
The Kims didn't use a GPS, they used a paper map.
"the technology shows potential for allowing TMS to better treat a variety of brain disorders and diseases in humans, such as severe depression and schizophrenia and religion."
Did your org write its own mail clients, browsers, and VPN software?
If not, then it was trusting patient info to systems belonging to a third party. I fail to see the substantive difference between that and trusting other cloud services.
it's also wholly unsuitable for any business needing absolute confidentiality, just like every cloud solution
Just like every solution that involves clients, nodes, servers, networks, and software not designed, built, operated, and controlled only by you. Which is pretty much all of them.
If your communications are so sensitive that HTTP over SSL with a corporation that offers you an SLA isn't enough, and you choose to send email in the clear without encryption, then your communications obviously aren't as sensitive as you think.
Doesn't the elastic tension make it an onager?
Can't believe I'm having this discussion on Slashdot in a thread about drug importation.