No, I mean I wasn't trying to be critical of Apple (not on this topic at least).
Let's say I run a bicycle building shop, making all the frames in house, but getting my wheels from a third-party supplier. Then I realise that if I buy that third-party or even just partner with him, I can maximize my profit by reducing expenses or getting a discounted rate.
That is NOT anti-competitive, that is good business sense.
What *is* anti-competitive is telling that third party that he can only supply wheels to me, but not to nobody else.
What Apple does is good business, whether it gives a flying expletive about it's customers is quite another issue.
b: Microsoft's reliance on proprietary protocols, many of which have a lot of known and probably even more unknown vulnerabilities.
And how is an open source protocol any better, seeing as how *everyone* has complete access to it's source code and can FIND a vulnerability that much easier than having to trawl through proprietary and possibly obfuscated binaries ?
In terms of fixing vulns, I agree with you... but in terms of finding them in the first place, I don't understand your argument ?
I think you'll find that the Queen has no real power. Yes, she can (in principle), veto any law that the Government wants to pass, but hasn't in practice actually vetoed one, ever AFAIK. In return for this behaviour, the Government gives her bucket loads of tax-free cash to maintain all her properties and extended family.
Boys grow to be men and need to be able to not be afraid (or at least keep that fear in check) while flushing that "5mm2 raisin with legs" down the toilet.
Yup the Ubuntu install is fast... the days of wasted time only start afterwards when you realise half your hardware isn't working and have to start trawling the newsgroups for kludges and fixes and annoying "helpful" advice like
"Oh you did that wrong, you should have done 'ln - s make install test -flag +flag gribble flop' from the command line you dumbo !"
As we keep hearing (ad nauseum) that Linux supports more hardware than Windows, I find it amazing that there *is* such a thing as "Linux Compatible Hardware" ?
Nothing like a discussion on AI to bring the religious nutters out of the woodwork.
Where is this "soul" you speak of ? Have you seen it ? Has anyone ? Ever ?
What gets me, and I've yet to hear a theologian explain it in any terms, logical or otherwise...
Presumably God creates the soul and puts it in the "body" (I use the term loosely for a handful of cells) at some point after conception. Then, (according to most mainstream religions), you have to live a good holy life, fear God and follow his rules, or else your soul goes to some nasty hot place when you die.
Now God created everything right ? Ergo he also created hell. If not, he certainly created the Devil (who apparently is in fact a fallen Angel), and the Devil created hell. God also created imperfect souls that were likely to "fail the test" and end up in that hell he directly or indirectly created. So why exactly didn't he do the job right in the first place, make all the souls perfect to start with, and save all the 70+ years of misery and testing that most people endure on this Earth in the name of religion ?
Do not pass Earth, go directly to Heaven, kind of thing ?
You are on Slashdot, which is supposedly tech news, not some "imaginary entity" discussion website.
How about they update the game... it's so 20th century.
Instead of the boat, car and dog, the player tokens are now leading members of the Republican and Democratic parties.
You can no longer buy properties, but you can repossess them.
If you find you are running short of cash, and you are the biggest player, you can apply for a government bailout (because you are too big to fail), and all the other players have to repay a portion of your bailout for the next 100 years, every time they pass "Go".
The "chance" cards will be named "Bernies", and each one involves you giving vast sums of money to some shady person with a pronounced nose who doesn't work on Saturdays. But beware, because within the "Bernie" cards is the "go to jail for 135 years card".
The "community chest" cards will be named "Reforms", for example the "healthcare reform" card, where you have to pay even more taxes to subsidise people who aren't even playing the game.
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But not it seems for the hundred of thousands who have died in his name since.
I'm sure chopping their heads off would work too ?
Until they either explode or the battery fails ...
No, I mean I wasn't trying to be critical of Apple (not on this topic at least).
Let's say I run a bicycle building shop, making all the frames in house, but getting my wheels from a third-party supplier. Then I realise that if I buy that third-party or even just partner with him, I can maximize my profit by reducing expenses or getting a discounted rate.
That is NOT anti-competitive, that is good business sense.
What *is* anti-competitive is telling that third party that he can only supply wheels to me, but not to nobody else.
What Apple does is good business, whether it gives a flying expletive about it's customers is quite another issue.
b: Microsoft's reliance on proprietary protocols, many of which have a lot of known and probably even more unknown vulnerabilities.
And how is an open source protocol any better, seeing as how *everyone* has complete access to it's source code and can FIND a vulnerability that much easier than having to trawl through proprietary and possibly obfuscated binaries ?
In terms of fixing vulns, I agree with you ... but in terms of finding them in the first place, I don't understand your argument ?
At least as secure as a 4 digit bank PIN ? So the Apple only has 10000 address locations ?
Renaming the account to Anonymous Idiot was inspired, starting with yourself.
I think you'll find that the Queen has no real power. Yes, she can (in principle), veto any law that the Government wants to pass, but hasn't in practice actually vetoed one, ever AFAIK. In return for this behaviour, the Government gives her bucket loads of tax-free cash to maintain all her properties and extended family.
How is it anti-competitive for a software company to start manufacturing it's own hardware too ?
It's the same thing Apple has been doing for 20 years, and no one blinks an eyelid.
It's a space station !
Wow, way to solve the unemployment problem ... 8 hour shifts listening to white noise with the occasional burst of Kylie and Jason ?
No, hang on ... we don't want to give the RIAA too many ideas.
43 *billion* dollars ? That must be some expensive cable ?
Boys grow to be men and need to be able to not be afraid (or at least keep that fear in check) while flushing that "5mm2 raisin with legs" down the toilet.
FTFY
Until it either explodes or melts.
Well if there's two of you, why don't you meet and NOT take is up the ass together. You can hold hands or something ...
Yup the Ubuntu install is fast ... the days of wasted time only start afterwards when you realise half your hardware isn't working and have to start trawling the newsgroups for kludges and fixes and annoying "helpful" advice like
"Oh you did that wrong, you should have done 'ln - s make install test -flag +flag gribble flop' from the command line you dumbo !"
30 and 1220 ARE two numbers !!!
30 mins is the time when you install Windows 7 on a Big Blue.
1220 mins is the time when you install Windows 7 on a ZX81.
The rest of us will be somewhere between these TWO extremes.
Whatever happened to reading comprehension ?
As we keep hearing (ad nauseum) that Linux supports more hardware than Windows, I find it amazing that there *is* such a thing as "Linux Compatible Hardware" ?
The engines'll no take it capn'
They might even fix it and return it to Rob out of pity.
Sorry, but I have the patent on putting my pinky at the corner of my mouth and demanding huge ransoms while laughing in a maniacal way.
Oh, and it's usually 1 million, billion, fufillion, shabidydillion ... yen !!!
I'm pretty certain they should, as both Voltaire and Watt were the people who named the units.
Nothing like a discussion on AI to bring the religious nutters out of the woodwork.
Where is this "soul" you speak of ? Have you seen it ? Has anyone ? Ever ?
What gets me, and I've yet to hear a theologian explain it in any terms, logical or otherwise ...
Presumably God creates the soul and puts it in the "body" (I use the term loosely for a handful of cells) at some point after conception. Then, (according to most mainstream religions), you have to live a good holy life, fear God and follow his rules, or else your soul goes to some nasty hot place when you die.
Now God created everything right ? Ergo he also created hell. If not, he certainly created the Devil (who apparently is in fact a fallen Angel), and the Devil created hell. God also created imperfect souls that were likely to "fail the test" and end up in that hell he directly or indirectly created. So why exactly didn't he do the job right in the first place, make all the souls perfect to start with, and save all the 70+ years of misery and testing that most people endure on this Earth in the name of religion ?
Do not pass Earth, go directly to Heaven, kind of thing ?
You are on Slashdot, which is supposedly tech news, not some "imaginary entity" discussion website.
The uses are not mutually exclusive.
US soldiers have a nasty habit of getting in the way of US bullets ... friendly fire, I believe they call it.
If they are wearing exoskeletons, then maybe they won't end up disabled / immobile at the hands of their own generals ?
How about they update the game ... it's so 20th century.
Instead of the boat, car and dog, the player tokens are now leading members of the Republican and Democratic parties.
You can no longer buy properties, but you can repossess them.
If you find you are running short of cash, and you are the biggest player, you can apply for a government bailout (because you are too big to fail), and all the other players have to repay a portion of your bailout for the next 100 years, every time they pass "Go".
The "chance" cards will be named "Bernies", and each one involves you giving vast sums of money to some shady person with a pronounced nose who doesn't work on Saturdays. But beware, because within the "Bernie" cards is the "go to jail for 135 years card".
The "community chest" cards will be named "Reforms", for example the "healthcare reform" card, where you have to pay even more taxes to subsidise people who aren't even playing the game.
We could call it Obamapoly ?
MS have given Linux all the useful patents :-
Treble Clicking
Square Mouse Wheels
Clippy
Bob
etc etc