Looking at the app store I see roughly 2 dozens of browsers for iPads/iPhones. Most of them iOS only. So independend developers easily can make a browser for iOS... and even make money from it, but Mozilla can't? Sorry this claim is ridiculous.
The limitation is that those browsers must use the Webkit built into iOS, so Chrome was an easy one - they already use Webkit.
They are also limited to inferior Webkit/Javascript engine while Safari uses optimized (like NitroJS for JavaScript while inferior javascript engine is available for 3rd party apps.
Because mozilla want's to keep their browser theirs, not using iOS 3rd party accessible version of rendering & JavaScript engine. Even if they actually had access to optimized webkit/NitroJS Safari use they won't want that. Now you complain that someone doesn't want to change their product to something else because you won't get it on iOS?
"Unified user experience" vs. "User-selectible choice" is like "Capitalism" vs. "Socialism" - Everyone with half-brain can see that best 1st word countries (USA not being one of them) have mixed system, and that's how it should work here too.
P.S. What if you company or school mandated students to buy, for example, iPads?
One last interesting note from the article: "it wasn't the first time his speed dial had jammed but that Renault had looked at the car and assured him that it was fine." That's probably where the legal complaint comes into play
Yeah, that's quite the big one...
I don't understand these people trying to shift the blame, ignoring the fact about the Renault technicians role in story (or perhaps genuinely believing that their mr. smartypants answer is really something so clever that the technician wouldn't have thought about it), I mean.... what's their motive?
The state of Linux gaming gets better which will surely increase number of users who consider Linux to be better than Windows for their needs though... It don't mean that Linux is now the perfect gaming platform, but it does make it better.
Indeed, when I was a wee child I used to be baffled about why parents were always there when we (me & my lil sis) "did something" and tried to be quiet but not when we were making noise - took a while to understand and feel dumb about it =)
I would think that most of us would have actually tried at curiosity filled age of childhood - I did and I could still taste... Sure you can't taste as well when you have, for example, common flu and can't smell but the connection between the two doesn't mean they are totally dependant on each other.
Bah, it was OK - and it's even more OK now that people can move from these issues and choose to show ${X}B or ${X}iB depending which they mean, binary or decimal kilo based units.
In this case (with no idea of his country, but as his non-american-fellowman) I really would prefer that. I flame Americans/Yanks now and then, but I never do it claiming that a person is bad/sucks/whatever because his American, or generalize some common things I criticize about American culture or people to be all targets of what I criticize.
Also I accept that there are things to criticize about any country, mine too...
Was there GiB's (or rather MiB's, gigabyte drives were not common yet) when HD manufacturers started using 1000-base (and that weird 1024*1000 on floppies - what's that about then?)? And was 1024 for kilo already used on computers - like HD manufacturers knew - for pretty much anything, right or wrong?
So what was their motive? To use units that people understood? Ha...
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Compare this with Ubuntu - based on Debian unstable - which is both up-to-date and stable
Heard or Debian Backports (3rd party repository)?
Good in my opinion too, but for other reasons.
Looking at the app store I see roughly 2 dozens of browsers for iPads/iPhones. Most of them iOS only. So independend developers easily can make a browser for iOS ... and even make money from it, but Mozilla can't?
Sorry this claim is ridiculous.
The limitation is that those browsers must use the Webkit built into iOS, so Chrome was an easy one - they already use Webkit.
They are also limited to inferior Webkit/Javascript engine while Safari uses optimized (like NitroJS for JavaScript while inferior javascript engine is available for 3rd party apps.
Because mozilla want's to keep their browser theirs, not using iOS 3rd party accessible version of rendering & JavaScript engine. Even if they actually had access to optimized webkit/NitroJS Safari use they won't want that. Now you complain that someone doesn't want to change their product to something else because you won't get it on iOS?
For stating the truth about those here who actually think that way?
I want my game to Apple App Store, ok? Sure, just use our game engine.
Ok.
Right?
"Unified user experience" vs. "User-selectible choice" is like "Capitalism" vs. "Socialism" - Everyone with half-brain can see that best 1st word countries (USA not being one of them) have mixed system, and that's how it should work here too.
P.S. What if you company or school mandated students to buy, for example, iPads?
You might not, I however do and I'm sure I'm not alone.
It's funny because it's true :)
Yes it's a movie, but we all know how movies effect people.
I'm not sure we do actually...
I'm sure that you are a lot smarter than the Renault engineer too.
RTFA. No? Didn't think so.
Lay off the movies.
One last interesting note from the article: "it wasn't the first time his speed dial had jammed but that Renault had looked at the car and assured him that it was fine." That's probably where the legal complaint comes into play
Yeah, that's quite the big one...
I don't understand these people trying to shift the blame, ignoring the fact about the Renault technicians role in story (or perhaps genuinely believing that their mr. smartypants answer is really something so clever that the technician wouldn't have thought about it), I mean.... what's their motive?
That would be a bonehead way to design an automobile.
I agree.... Scary as it may be there are boneheads designing this stiff.
The state of Linux gaming gets better which will surely increase number of users who consider Linux to be better than Windows for their needs though... It don't mean that Linux is now the perfect gaming platform, but it does make it better.
Indeed, when I was a wee child I used to be baffled about why parents were always there when we (me & my lil sis) "did something" and tried to be quiet but not when we were making noise - took a while to understand and feel dumb about it =)
I would think that most of us would have actually tried at curiosity filled age of childhood - I did and I could still taste... Sure you can't taste as well when you have, for example, common flu and can't smell but the connection between the two doesn't mean they are totally dependant on each other.
Just drop some acid then :)
Thanks, I logged in to facebook (and temporarily allowed their scripts), which I almost never do these days, to post this too.
Bah, it was OK - and it's even more OK now that people can move from these issues and choose to show ${X}B or ${X}iB depending which they mean, binary or decimal kilo based units.
In this case (with no idea of his country, but as his non-american-fellowman) I really would prefer that. I flame Americans/Yanks now and then, but I never do it claiming that a person is bad/sucks/whatever because his American, or generalize some common things I criticize about American culture or people to be all targets of what I criticize.
Also I accept that there are things to criticize about any country, mine too...
Just a note, connection speeds are normally in bits, not bytes, etc. 1Mbps = 1 megabit per second.
Was there GiB's (or rather MiB's, gigabyte drives were not common yet) when HD manufacturers started using 1000-base (and that weird 1024*1000 on floppies - what's that about then?)? And was 1024 for kilo already used on computers - like HD manufacturers knew - for pretty much anything, right or wrong?
So what was their motive? To use units that people understood? Ha...
Kb is kilobits, not kilobytes. KB is kilobytes.