I'm not a software engineer but should any bad coding on Hulu's side be able to expose user data from a non-authenticated user? It seems that allowing "bad coding" to display personal information from some presumably secure location on FB's database is a serious security flaw with their API. What stops shady-individual-a from incorporating Facebook Connect into their site and engaging in "bad coding"?
It didn't work out well for IBM because they gave away the technical specifications of their core business offering. This would be akin to Google opening up their patents and search algorithms. Google have not done that, they have created a platform for their core business offering to thrive in. Very different.
As for your second note, yes, in the last decade Apple have done well. At one point, Myspace was also doing well. In the fast-paced tech-world, all it takes is one miss-step and you're relegated to historical marginalia. I think Apple got too greedy and thought they could continue market dominance indefinitely instead of including others. This was a massive miscalculation.
Finally, PC != Microsoft. I was discussing more the openness of the x86 architecture and the wide and varied hardware support it enjoyed than MS dominance. They are two very different things.
First, you don't replace Android on an Android-based smartphone. You replace the Android ROM, flavour, use-your-word-here. It's all based on Android-source however.
Second, on the flagship Android phones, currently the Samsung Nexus S, the handset manufacture works directly with Android developers to make everything fully documented and compliant with the Android vision as set by the Open Handset Alliance. These phones are now available from major service providers and subsidized on contract, so they are much more readily available to average consumers.
Third, and again, this point seems to be lost on so many people, the average Joe doesn't HAVE to care about openness, his device will work as described without any special knowledge or tweaking. However, should he decide to explore, he can. Despite what Apple would have you believe, choice is good.
Oh I'm sorry, I thought I was posting in my browsers Slashdot tab, not the Yourmom tab, or I would have made my post more Yourmom-friendly
In all seriousness though, I'm assuming you mean Android is too complicated for older users, and hence they will be drawn to iOS. Here, I disagree. Android is no more complicated than iOS, it just offers more options, features, etc, for those who are inclined to explore them. If you never want to go into the Settings menu, that is your prerogative and you can still enjoy a full featured smartphone experience. Even beyond that, due to the open source nature of the platform, nothing is stopping any manufacturer from creating a dumbed-down version of Android for use on a very basic phone for the elderly.
Choice is good, for the industry, for the consumer, for the developers and for your mom.
That's a backwards argument. You don't NEED to reinstall, tweak or download applications to make Android useful. Out of the box, a Samsung Captivate running Samsung's Touchwiz Android can do everything an iPhone can do, as well as many things iPhone's can't (eg. Swype).
If that is all you want out of your phone, great, unpack, power up, enjoy.
If, however, you are inclined to explore, Android allows for that in a way that iOS does not. That is the point I'm making, so comparing modern android to Window's BSOD's and forced tweaking, etc, is not fair or accurate. The reason I compared it to the x86 PC architecture (which by the way is much more than just Windows) is to highlight that the path Google took with this was based on a highly successful historical model.
The entire point of Android is openness and flexibility. If you do not like the stock manufacture-themed flavor of Android on your phone, you can use an app like Rom Manager to change to a different one. Can you do that on an iPhone? In Soviet Russia, rhetorical questions ask you.
As far as the battery being bad, you're doing it wrong. With no OS tweaks, and using just the stock Samsung ROM on the Captivate, battery is on par with any other smartphone. Sure, if you have your bluetooth, wifi, and gps permanently turned on, and your screen brightness cranked to maximum, you will run out of juice - but really, if that's how you're operating, your iPhone, your Blackberry and even your laptop will run out of juice as well. Forgetting stock for a moment though, using apps like Juice Defender to manager resource hogs, using a kernel that lets you undervolt and set different power regulators (eg, turn CPU to 100mhz when screen is off, etc) and making sure your application data-sync settings are set to realistic intervals will do magic for your battery life. In Sovie Russia, power manages you.
If you're using Android and complaining about the UI, you're doing it wrong. There is simply no other mobile operating system that provides you with so much easy customization. Even on your stock ROM you can download a different (and free) launcher from the market - say ADW. It will give you so much customization (and preset themes) that you will find it difficult to stop tinkering. You like the MIUI interface? Swell, just download the ADW MIUI theme and use it on your stock ROM. Choice is good, no?
Finally... are you really complaining about default-bloatware? Don't like an application? Uninstall it. Want a different application to use as a system default? Download it. From replacing your text messaging software, to the soft keyboard, to the camera, to the email client, to the browser, to the system launcher... Android gives you choice.
The only real problem with Android is that it treats people as intelligent beings who will make rational choices and decisions. As Apple dwarfs almost every other technology firm, a few things are made clear: people are fickle, buy image and brands over features and benefits, and there are more stupid people on the planet than intelligent ones. I'm not saying anyone who uses an Apple product is in this category, there are many legitimate reasons to use an iPhone or an iOS device over anything else. What I'm saying, however, is that Apple has very specifically targeted the "dumb market" and lures them in with an unparalleled branding and marketing strategy that has people who shouldn't own a calculator buying $700 smartphones.
Google played this one brilliantly, Android is here and the irony is delicious. Apple lost the original Mac vs PC war at the onset due to control-freak behavior. They guarded their technical details jealously, IBM did not, it became easier to write for IBM hardware, clones began to appear, etc, etc, etc. Perhaps that didn't work out too well for IBM as a company, since their core business was consumer hardware and they lost that to clones, but Apple was the bigger loser. $DEITY smiled on them and gave them a second chance in the personal electronics and mobile computing realms. Rather than learn from the past and avoid losing the market again due to the same kind of control-freak behavior, they are doing the exact same thing again. In a decade, Android will be ubiquitous because every hardware maker gets to use it, and iOS devices will once again be relegated to a tiny share of the market. The technology market moves and shakes very quickly. All it will take is one line of highly successful Android MP3 players, phones, or tablets to completely reshape the field. All it will take is a sophisticated branding campaign from a hardware manufacturer who is saving millions on developing their own operating system and diverting those funds into marketing. It's not a matter of if, but rather, when. As for Google, they just wanted a mobile OS to eat advertising revenue from, and that's exactly what they got.
I'm a university student working in cellular sales part time and I can tell you that the trend I see is actually the opposite. People come into the store due to Apple marketing, wanting an iPhone. They are sometimes shocked that a touch screen demo phone they are playing with isn't actually an iPhone, but is a Windows Mobile 7 or Android device. Many people have no idea what a phone OS is or that there are touch screen phones that are not iPhones.
That being said, however, even the most basic users quickly see the advantage of Android over iOS. When people try Swype for the first time, it blows their mind. When people see live wall papers for the first time, it blows their mind. When people see home screen widgets for the first time, it blows their mind. When I show people my own Android device which is running a custom launcher called ADW EX, and how quickly and easily I can change my theme to look (and behave) like an iPhone, or like a Nexus S, or any other presets I've configured, it blows their mind.
For customers who don't care about any of that, and just want something easy, Windows Mobile 7 seems to offer a very strong alternative to iOS. It is extremely simple to use, well laid out, and the devices I've used have been blazing fast.
At this point in the game, both Apple and Microsoft are extremely concerned about Android. Google had a master stroke in creating and developing Android and providing it for free. They have gained unprecedented hardware support and once Google voice spreads to the rest of North America, and the world, it will only shake things up even more. I'm certain Google's hardware coup played a part in the Microsoft / Nokia merger, and the potential of Google voice must have played a role in the Microsoft purchase of Skype.
Betting against Apple is usually a suckers bet because they sell an image, not a product. That being said, my prediction for the mobile world five years from today is a landscape where Apple is marginalized to cult followers and the rest of the market is split fairly evenly between Google and Microsoft. I think Microsoft will fight for mobile as if their survival depended on it, and Windows Mobile 7 is probably the most iPhonesque non-Apple OS I've seen thus far. Will be fun to watch.
Define terrorist please. The definition you're using at the moment could fit anyone who participated in the Boston Tea Party or the American War of Independence. Not to mention the Israeli attack on the flotilla last year
Most plausible answer: Deep in Intel R&D labs, Skynet gained self-awareness and decided to act against McCaffee through an acquisition. Either that, or someone at acquisitions fucked up after being ordered to "go out and buy me a coffee"
So are you trying to say that it would have been better to continue the open discrimination against LGBTQ? If not, then please stop spoiling a small victory.
If your answer is “yes, because it’s legitimizing our war machine etc etc etc” sorry, that doesn’t fly. American corporations will continue to use the US military to secure cheap resources and promote their business interests – regardless of public opinion. Even if we don’t challenge your guesswork, it’s a major stretch to believe that this change in public opinion would strengthen US militarism. US militarism is dictated by corporate interests and the monied, it needs no help from public opinion because public opinion is easily purchased – ask Freedom Works.
All this repeal does is allow gay people to feel a little less “the other” – and that is a good thing. Please be happy for them.
It's fascinating how some people are so predisposed to just doing the unimaginative, annoying, cliche, tried, tired, brain-dead thing. I have great difficult understanding the first post thing. Nobody thinks it is funny, clever, or any kind of accomplishment - yet the trend persists./boggle
Too long, did not read, but you should get a hobby, or a penpal, or a gaming console, and probably visit with a professional who can tell you why you felt so compelled to write that mini-novel.
If missing the obvious point and making a slashdot-funny is your automatic reaction to a fairly straight-forward comment, perhaps you're the one who should be going out and making some actual friends.
The parents observation was that two generations worth of his immediate family members use Facebook, and that he sees that as sufficient proof that the service has a wide appeal and is broadly used. But don't let what's obvious get in the way of snarky comment.
While claims like these, particularly when considering the source, are easy to brush off as ludicrous, I feel an open mind is warranted. The United States has a long and sordid history when it comes to discretely tampering with foreign states (some of it now declassified).
Combined with the recent rise of so-called astrotrufing (fake grassroots movements), and the trend of PR firms working for foreign governments in order to exact policy change (eg as documented regarding Kuwait, in Armed Madhouse), I think that there is something to consider here.
That being said, in this particular case would it be a good thing if elements in the US government were using an American based technology firm to help give a voice to oppressed peoples in China? Probably, yes...
But I think the intellectual, tech-savvy elite have a bit of a responsibility to judge this kind of accusation based on merit rather than on the (dismal) track record of the nation making this claim. Why? Because if we close our eyes when the tactic is being used on a foreign, despotic regime, we risk ignoring a potential threat which could be used internally as well. Freedom works, anyone?
here is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it actually exist.
Asperger-monsters are the most self-centered, selfish pieces of shit on the planet. Devoid of empathy, social reasoning, social context, or self awareness, they are subhuman meat-calculators, who live to collect and catalogue items like barcodes and bottletops.
So you've seen manifestations of a condition which you deny exists? Fascinating.
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I'm not a software engineer but should any bad coding on Hulu's side be able to expose user data from a non-authenticated user? It seems that allowing "bad coding" to display personal information from some presumably secure location on FB's database is a serious security flaw with their API. What stops shady-individual-a from incorporating Facebook Connect into their site and engaging in "bad coding"?
Tell me, what software feature that an iPhone has out of the box, does a modern Google android phone lack?
It didn't work out well for IBM because they gave away the technical specifications of their core business offering. This would be akin to Google opening up their patents and search algorithms. Google have not done that, they have created a platform for their core business offering to thrive in. Very different.
As for your second note, yes, in the last decade Apple have done well. At one point, Myspace was also doing well. In the fast-paced tech-world, all it takes is one miss-step and you're relegated to historical marginalia. I think Apple got too greedy and thought they could continue market dominance indefinitely instead of including others. This was a massive miscalculation.
Finally, PC != Microsoft. I was discussing more the openness of the x86 architecture and the wide and varied hardware support it enjoyed than MS dominance. They are two very different things.
First, you don't replace Android on an Android-based smartphone. You replace the Android ROM, flavour, use-your-word-here. It's all based on Android-source however.
Second, on the flagship Android phones, currently the Samsung Nexus S, the handset manufacture works directly with Android developers to make everything fully documented and compliant with the Android vision as set by the Open Handset Alliance. These phones are now available from major service providers and subsidized on contract, so they are much more readily available to average consumers.
Third, and again, this point seems to be lost on so many people, the average Joe doesn't HAVE to care about openness, his device will work as described without any special knowledge or tweaking. However, should he decide to explore, he can. Despite what Apple would have you believe, choice is good.
Oh I'm sorry, I thought I was posting in my browsers Slashdot tab, not the Yourmom tab, or I would have made my post more Yourmom-friendly
In all seriousness though, I'm assuming you mean Android is too complicated for older users, and hence they will be drawn to iOS. Here, I disagree. Android is no more complicated than iOS, it just offers more options, features, etc, for those who are inclined to explore them. If you never want to go into the Settings menu, that is your prerogative and you can still enjoy a full featured smartphone experience. Even beyond that, due to the open source nature of the platform, nothing is stopping any manufacturer from creating a dumbed-down version of Android for use on a very basic phone for the elderly.
Choice is good, for the industry, for the consumer, for the developers and for your mom.
That's a backwards argument. You don't NEED to reinstall, tweak or download applications to make Android useful. Out of the box, a Samsung Captivate running Samsung's Touchwiz Android can do everything an iPhone can do, as well as many things iPhone's can't (eg. Swype).
If that is all you want out of your phone, great, unpack, power up, enjoy.
If, however, you are inclined to explore, Android allows for that in a way that iOS does not. That is the point I'm making, so comparing modern android to Window's BSOD's and forced tweaking, etc, is not fair or accurate. The reason I compared it to the x86 PC architecture (which by the way is much more than just Windows) is to highlight that the path Google took with this was based on a highly successful historical model.
The entire point of Android is openness and flexibility. If you do not like the stock manufacture-themed flavor of Android on your phone, you can use an app like Rom Manager to change to a different one. Can you do that on an iPhone? In Soviet Russia, rhetorical questions ask you.
As far as the battery being bad, you're doing it wrong. With no OS tweaks, and using just the stock Samsung ROM on the Captivate, battery is on par with any other smartphone. Sure, if you have your bluetooth, wifi, and gps permanently turned on, and your screen brightness cranked to maximum, you will run out of juice - but really, if that's how you're operating, your iPhone, your Blackberry and even your laptop will run out of juice as well. Forgetting stock for a moment though, using apps like Juice Defender to manager resource hogs, using a kernel that lets you undervolt and set different power regulators (eg, turn CPU to 100mhz when screen is off, etc) and making sure your application data-sync settings are set to realistic intervals will do magic for your battery life. In Sovie Russia, power manages you.
If you're using Android and complaining about the UI, you're doing it wrong. There is simply no other mobile operating system that provides you with so much easy customization. Even on your stock ROM you can download a different (and free) launcher from the market - say ADW. It will give you so much customization (and preset themes) that you will find it difficult to stop tinkering. You like the MIUI interface? Swell, just download the ADW MIUI theme and use it on your stock ROM. Choice is good, no?
Finally... are you really complaining about default-bloatware? Don't like an application? Uninstall it. Want a different application to use as a system default? Download it. From replacing your text messaging software, to the soft keyboard, to the camera, to the email client, to the browser, to the system launcher... Android gives you choice.
The only real problem with Android is that it treats people as intelligent beings who will make rational choices and decisions. As Apple dwarfs almost every other technology firm, a few things are made clear: people are fickle, buy image and brands over features and benefits, and there are more stupid people on the planet than intelligent ones. I'm not saying anyone who uses an Apple product is in this category, there are many legitimate reasons to use an iPhone or an iOS device over anything else. What I'm saying, however, is that Apple has very specifically targeted the "dumb market" and lures them in with an unparalleled branding and marketing strategy that has people who shouldn't own a calculator buying $700 smartphones.
Google played this one brilliantly, Android is here and the irony is delicious. Apple lost the original Mac vs PC war at the onset due to control-freak behavior. They guarded their technical details jealously, IBM did not, it became easier to write for IBM hardware, clones began to appear, etc, etc, etc. Perhaps that didn't work out too well for IBM as a company, since their core business was consumer hardware and they lost that to clones, but Apple was the bigger loser. $DEITY smiled on them and gave them a second chance in the personal electronics and mobile computing realms. Rather than learn from the past and avoid losing the market again due to the same kind of control-freak behavior, they are doing the exact same thing again. In a decade, Android will be ubiquitous because every hardware maker gets to use it, and iOS devices will once again be relegated to a tiny share of the market. The technology market moves and shakes very quickly. All it will take is one line of highly successful Android MP3 players, phones, or tablets to completely reshape the field. All it will take is a sophisticated branding campaign from a hardware manufacturer who is saving millions on developing their own operating system and diverting those funds into marketing. It's not a matter of if, but rather, when. As for Google, they just wanted a mobile OS to eat advertising revenue from, and that's exactly what they got.
I'm a university student working in cellular sales part time and I can tell you that the trend I see is actually the opposite. People come into the store due to Apple marketing, wanting an iPhone. They are sometimes shocked that a touch screen demo phone they are playing with isn't actually an iPhone, but is a Windows Mobile 7 or Android device. Many people have no idea what a phone OS is or that there are touch screen phones that are not iPhones.
That being said, however, even the most basic users quickly see the advantage of Android over iOS. When people try Swype for the first time, it blows their mind. When people see live wall papers for the first time, it blows their mind. When people see home screen widgets for the first time, it blows their mind. When I show people my own Android device which is running a custom launcher called ADW EX, and how quickly and easily I can change my theme to look (and behave) like an iPhone, or like a Nexus S, or any other presets I've configured, it blows their mind.
For customers who don't care about any of that, and just want something easy, Windows Mobile 7 seems to offer a very strong alternative to iOS. It is extremely simple to use, well laid out, and the devices I've used have been blazing fast.
At this point in the game, both Apple and Microsoft are extremely concerned about Android. Google had a master stroke in creating and developing Android and providing it for free. They have gained unprecedented hardware support and once Google voice spreads to the rest of North America, and the world, it will only shake things up even more. I'm certain Google's hardware coup played a part in the Microsoft / Nokia merger, and the potential of Google voice must have played a role in the Microsoft purchase of Skype.
Betting against Apple is usually a suckers bet because they sell an image, not a product. That being said, my prediction for the mobile world five years from today is a landscape where Apple is marginalized to cult followers and the rest of the market is split fairly evenly between Google and Microsoft. I think Microsoft will fight for mobile as if their survival depended on it, and Windows Mobile 7 is probably the most iPhonesque non-Apple OS I've seen thus far. Will be fun to watch.
I caught one once too. I still have him.
and Moscow will order them in bulk for the Kremlin's next attempt to infiltrate the U S of A.
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Define terrorist please. The definition you're using at the moment could fit anyone who participated in the Boston Tea Party or the American War of Independence. Not to mention the Israeli attack on the flotilla last year
Most plausible answer: Deep in Intel R&D labs, Skynet gained self-awareness and decided to act against McCaffee through an acquisition. Either that, or someone at acquisitions fucked up after being ordered to "go out and buy me a coffee"
Like say if you had to buy a bumper of some kind to stop the device from turning off if you held it in your left hand.
So are you trying to say that it would have been better to continue the open discrimination against LGBTQ? If not, then please stop spoiling a small victory.
If your answer is “yes, because it’s legitimizing our war machine etc etc etc” sorry, that doesn’t fly. American corporations will continue to use the US military to secure cheap resources and promote their business interests – regardless of public opinion. Even if we don’t challenge your guesswork, it’s a major stretch to believe that this change in public opinion would strengthen US militarism. US militarism is dictated by corporate interests and the monied, it needs no help from public opinion because public opinion is easily purchased – ask Freedom Works.
All this repeal does is allow gay people to feel a little less “the other” – and that is a good thing. Please be happy for them.
lol
Why is the iPad consistently compared to netbooks, when it is priced like a notebook?
Stop letting Apple dictate the narrative, the fact is that for the price you pay for an iPad, it is extremely limited.
Well color me black and call me Kettle, Pot.
It's fascinating how some people are so predisposed to just doing the unimaginative, annoying, cliche, tried, tired, brain-dead thing. I have great difficult understanding the first post thing. Nobody thinks it is funny, clever, or any kind of accomplishment - yet the trend persists. /boggle
Too long, did not read, but you should get a hobby, or a penpal, or a gaming console, and probably visit with a professional who can tell you why you felt so compelled to write that mini-novel.
whoosh
If missing the obvious point and making a slashdot-funny is your automatic reaction to a fairly straight-forward comment, perhaps you're the one who should be going out and making some actual friends.
The parents observation was that two generations worth of his immediate family members use Facebook, and that he sees that as sufficient proof that the service has a wide appeal and is broadly used. But don't let what's obvious get in the way of snarky comment.
While claims like these, particularly when considering the source, are easy to brush off as ludicrous, I feel an open mind is warranted. The United States has a long and sordid history when it comes to discretely tampering with foreign states (some of it now declassified).
Combined with the recent rise of so-called astrotrufing (fake grassroots movements), and the trend of PR firms working for foreign governments in order to exact policy change (eg as documented regarding Kuwait, in Armed Madhouse), I think that there is something to consider here. That being said, in this particular case would it be a good thing if elements in the US government were using an American based technology firm to help give a voice to oppressed peoples in China? Probably, yes... But I think the intellectual, tech-savvy elite have a bit of a responsibility to judge this kind of accusation based on merit rather than on the (dismal) track record of the nation making this claim. Why? Because if we close our eyes when the tactic is being used on a foreign, despotic regime, we risk ignoring a potential threat which could be used internally as well. Freedom works, anyone?
lol. +1 funny
here is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it actually exist.
Asperger-monsters are the most self-centered, selfish pieces of shit on the planet. Devoid of empathy, social reasoning, social context, or self awareness, they are subhuman meat-calculators, who live to collect and catalogue items like barcodes and bottletops.
So you've seen manifestations of a condition which you deny exists? Fascinating.