For Google, I am a customer and their main source of revenue. If I leave and others do like me, Google dies. Some may say the customers are advertisers and websites displaying the ads, but the truth is that this entire business is based off the premise of someone using the services.
For my government, I am a nuisance that must be kept under control, watched and neutered so as to cause no problems for them. I am merely there to provide a vote (which is pretty much useless at this time since all parties are alike), and even then they'd probably prefer I not vote because they know I won't vote for them.
That's like saying Slashdot is a misleading open source website because it's ran by Geeknet. The fact it is backed up by a company does not in any way change that it wasn't competing, it was promoting their games!
Next up, why don't they sue people who don't paint their little Space Marines in the proper official colors?
So in order to get full functionality, I need to either go illegal or pay 100 bucks a year? Wow, you're really answering my points with viable options now. I totally would do that.
Oh ya, and non-developers don't know what "compiling" is and probably won't dare trying the former. As you so aptly said, next lame counter-argument please?
If I get an iPad, I want it to be portable. Getting a Bluetooth keyboard on top of that defeats that purpose, since suddenly you're carrying around two things (at which point a netbook becomes a better investment).
Compared to a netbook, it is crippled. I want to be able to install whatever I want, whenever I want, from whoever I want without Jobs policing me. If I want Flash, well I'm stuck on the iPad (like it or not, Flash is still very widespread and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future; yes it's still brought up and all the fanbois crying that Flash is so 2000s are obviously disconnected from reality). If I want to do anything serious, I won't use an onscreen keyboard. Do you touch type? I do, and I can tell you it's quite a bit more effective than going one-finger on a touchscreen. Even if you became used to it, you can never expect to be as fast as you would on a normal keyboard.
Honestly, the number one reason it sells to well is that it is very simple to use and that Apple's sales and marketing teams are amongst the best in the industry. That's it.
Ah, so you get a 10h-long story (sometimes much more) with extremely crisp visuals going at 720p, 5.1 surround sound, ACTUAL buttons and online multiplayer including leaderboards, arranged teams, competitive play with 16+ people and all that?
I'm alright with people saying the iPad has games, but damn it, I compare iPad games with PSN or XBL games, not full-fledged disc-based stuff!
That's changing too, hopefully. I was surprised to see that the new Steam UI runs all of its web pages on WebKit. Although the move makes sense since they want to port Steam to OSX and Linux (WebKit being compatible with all three platforms while IE obviously isn't), this is still a very good development. The fewer things use IE's rendering engine, the better.
I don't know if anyone's been in the same situation as I have, but the only times I've had to use system restore were a disaster. For virus infections, the restore data tends to be infected too, so that's useless. For restoring from bad drivers, applications, etc. the only time I had to do that I went from no network connection to BSoD on boot which took me two days to fix.
I have disabled System Restore now, and I never ever suggest using it to anyone I know.
You're assuming all these students will stick through it. Lots of people daydream about designing games while going through some quick Halo matches. The reality is much different.
You may see a slight increase, but for the most part these people will drop out when they realize there's *gasp* work involved.
See it this way: you're paying for a few months of entertainment. This is an MMO without the monthly fee, so even getting only 60 hours of gameplay means you'd be happy with it if it weren't called an MMO.
Think about it, Guild Wars is probably one of the best bang for your buck you can get as far as RPGs go, if you forget for a second that it's a MMO on top of that.
We already have evidence of at least one plane nearly crashing due to volcanic ashes. Is this guy saying that we should take the chance? Would he say that to the families of those who could die because of it?
To be honest from what I've read in your post and elsewhere, I think India is a lot better off than many other countries. At least you're moving forward whereas a good part of the "modern" and "developed" world is going backwards, let alone other developing countries.
I doubt Canada will be proactive in environment for as long as the Conservatives are in power. They have no interest to do it, seeing as their major voting populace comes from the prairies, which make piles of money from oil...
Not that the Liberals would do much more; Ignatief has no backbone whatsoever, nearly worse than Dion.
The difference being that Apple's doings are legal while Microsoft's were (are?) not. I don't like what Apple is doing at all and I discourage everyone I know to buy their products, but they can do whatever the hell they please because you have viable alternatives within reach.
Should sensible laws ever be passed that gave back users the control of the hardware they purchased, many more companies than just Apple would be at risk (Sony anyone?). That's also why it won't happen.
Look for a computer sold with Linux. Do the same experiment with OSX. Now do it with Windows. Compare the results.
If one of them so incredibly overwhelms the others that you cannot consider it to be a balanced competition, then you have a monopoly. Remember though that the issue isn't so much the monopoly as to what one does with it. It's absolutely legal to have a monopoly, but it is not legal to, like Microsoft did, use this monopoly to push other products that have nothing to do with the original monopoly.
Can we please cut back on iCrap related stuff already? We've had more iPad news in the last weeks than Linux news in the last months. Will we get flooded by iPhone stuff now? Is this "News for Geeks" or "News for Hip Teenagers"? I don't give a shit about the iPhone, the iPad or whatever else Jobs can pull out his arse. It's alright to speak about it; I don't mind that. But this is bordering in spamming, sometimes two articles on the same damn thing per DAY! Are we going to get a news item every time someone farts at Apple?
I'm sorry, but there's just so much stuff that can be covered that splashing/. with iPhone/iPad news feels like wasted bandwidth.
The wear of defragmentation is never worth the POSSIBLE increase in performance. All manufacturers say it, all tech journalists worth anything say it. Until I'm told by a reputable source (with numbers backing it all up) that defragmentation has a potential benefit for SSDs, I'll listen to the advice given by those who know what they're talking about.
As for filesystem issues, using a modern OS like Windows 7 or recent Linux or OSX releases will mostly take care of that as there have been updates to take advantage of SSDs. Sure, if you're still using Windows 95 with FAT, you may have issues, but anything built in the last few years will take care of that nicely (and continuously improving firmware and drivers further improve performance while diminishing issues).
The problem isn't so much that the iPhone/iPad shouldn't be running Flash due to performance/battery limitations, it's that Apple changed the rules without telling Adobe. It's as if you worked for 2 years on a shiny sports car only to be told, 3 days before you'd be able to take it on the road, that its category had been banned from using the roads ever again. I don't think Adobe would've been that pissed off had Apple told them BEFORE they started working on their Flash exporter.
I just don't know what Apple is thinking here though because as the GP said, Apple needs Adobe as much if not more than Adobe needs Apple. Adobe's products are a major reason Apple sells well in the first place.
I wonder... What if someone were to make thousands of "books" consisting entirely of computer-generated high-profile keywords (IE spam) with no value, no purpose and no use and submit those to Amazon using print-on-demand, hence spamming the search results to death with fake results, what would they do?
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For Google, I am a customer and their main source of revenue. If I leave and others do like me, Google dies. Some may say the customers are advertisers and websites displaying the ads, but the truth is that this entire business is based off the premise of someone using the services.
For my government, I am a nuisance that must be kept under control, watched and neutered so as to cause no problems for them. I am merely there to provide a vote (which is pretty much useless at this time since all parties are alike), and even then they'd probably prefer I not vote because they know I won't vote for them.
Right now I'd say I'm more worried about what the government or my ISP will do with my private information than I am by what Google will do with it.
That's like saying Slashdot is a misleading open source website because it's ran by Geeknet. The fact it is backed up by a company does not in any way change that it wasn't competing, it was promoting their games!
Next up, why don't they sue people who don't paint their little Space Marines in the proper official colors?
bluray
Am I the only one who sees that word as "blurry" unless it is capitalized "BluRay"?
Maybe you're seeing a bit blurry?
So in order to get full functionality, I need to either go illegal or pay 100 bucks a year? Wow, you're really answering my points with viable options now. I totally would do that.
Oh ya, and non-developers don't know what "compiling" is and probably won't dare trying the former. As you so aptly said, next lame counter-argument please?
If I get an iPad, I want it to be portable. Getting a Bluetooth keyboard on top of that defeats that purpose, since suddenly you're carrying around two things (at which point a netbook becomes a better investment).
Compared to a netbook, it is crippled. I want to be able to install whatever I want, whenever I want, from whoever I want without Jobs policing me. If I want Flash, well I'm stuck on the iPad (like it or not, Flash is still very widespread and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future; yes it's still brought up and all the fanbois crying that Flash is so 2000s are obviously disconnected from reality). If I want to do anything serious, I won't use an onscreen keyboard. Do you touch type? I do, and I can tell you it's quite a bit more effective than going one-finger on a touchscreen. Even if you became used to it, you can never expect to be as fast as you would on a normal keyboard.
Honestly, the number one reason it sells to well is that it is very simple to use and that Apple's sales and marketing teams are amongst the best in the industry. That's it.
Ah, so you get a 10h-long story (sometimes much more) with extremely crisp visuals going at 720p, 5.1 surround sound, ACTUAL buttons and online multiplayer including leaderboards, arranged teams, competitive play with 16+ people and all that?
I'm alright with people saying the iPad has games, but damn it, I compare iPad games with PSN or XBL games, not full-fledged disc-based stuff!
That's changing too, hopefully. I was surprised to see that the new Steam UI runs all of its web pages on WebKit. Although the move makes sense since they want to port Steam to OSX and Linux (WebKit being compatible with all three platforms while IE obviously isn't), this is still a very good development. The fewer things use IE's rendering engine, the better.
I don't know if anyone's been in the same situation as I have, but the only times I've had to use system restore were a disaster. For virus infections, the restore data tends to be infected too, so that's useless. For restoring from bad drivers, applications, etc. the only time I had to do that I went from no network connection to BSoD on boot which took me two days to fix.
I have disabled System Restore now, and I never ever suggest using it to anyone I know.
You're assuming all these students will stick through it. Lots of people daydream about designing games while going through some quick Halo matches. The reality is much different.
You may see a slight increase, but for the most part these people will drop out when they realize there's *gasp* work involved.
See it this way: you're paying for a few months of entertainment. This is an MMO without the monthly fee, so even getting only 60 hours of gameplay means you'd be happy with it if it weren't called an MMO.
Think about it, Guild Wars is probably one of the best bang for your buck you can get as far as RPGs go, if you forget for a second that it's a MMO on top of that.
Isn't Office Live a response to Google Docs?
We already have evidence of at least one plane nearly crashing due to volcanic ashes. Is this guy saying that we should take the chance? Would he say that to the families of those who could die because of it?
To be honest from what I've read in your post and elsewhere, I think India is a lot better off than many other countries. At least you're moving forward whereas a good part of the "modern" and "developed" world is going backwards, let alone other developing countries.
I doubt Canada will be proactive in environment for as long as the Conservatives are in power. They have no interest to do it, seeing as their major voting populace comes from the prairies, which make piles of money from oil...
Not that the Liberals would do much more; Ignatief has no backbone whatsoever, nearly worse than Dion.
The difference being that Apple's doings are legal while Microsoft's were (are?) not. I don't like what Apple is doing at all and I discourage everyone I know to buy their products, but they can do whatever the hell they please because you have viable alternatives within reach.
Should sensible laws ever be passed that gave back users the control of the hardware they purchased, many more companies than just Apple would be at risk (Sony anyone?). That's also why it won't happen.
Look for a computer sold with Linux. Do the same experiment with OSX. Now do it with Windows. Compare the results.
If one of them so incredibly overwhelms the others that you cannot consider it to be a balanced competition, then you have a monopoly. Remember though that the issue isn't so much the monopoly as to what one does with it. It's absolutely legal to have a monopoly, but it is not legal to, like Microsoft did, use this monopoly to push other products that have nothing to do with the original monopoly.
Which doesn't matter since Apple also prohibited what you described.
Yeah, now every one of them is hated in equal part. Well, maybe except kdawson.
Can we please cut back on iCrap related stuff already? We've had more iPad news in the last weeks than Linux news in the last months. Will we get flooded by iPhone stuff now? Is this "News for Geeks" or "News for Hip Teenagers"? I don't give a shit about the iPhone, the iPad or whatever else Jobs can pull out his arse. It's alright to speak about it; I don't mind that. But this is bordering in spamming, sometimes two articles on the same damn thing per DAY! Are we going to get a news item every time someone farts at Apple?
/. with iPhone/iPad news feels like wasted bandwidth.
I'm sorry, but there's just so much stuff that can be covered that splashing
You said it yourself: Beijing. That's as if you were basing the cost of housing in the USA off the cost of housing in Silicon Valley.
[citation needed]
The wear of defragmentation is never worth the POSSIBLE increase in performance. All manufacturers say it, all tech journalists worth anything say it. Until I'm told by a reputable source (with numbers backing it all up) that defragmentation has a potential benefit for SSDs, I'll listen to the advice given by those who know what they're talking about.
As for filesystem issues, using a modern OS like Windows 7 or recent Linux or OSX releases will mostly take care of that as there have been updates to take advantage of SSDs. Sure, if you're still using Windows 95 with FAT, you may have issues, but anything built in the last few years will take care of that nicely (and continuously improving firmware and drivers further improve performance while diminishing issues).
The problem isn't so much that the iPhone/iPad shouldn't be running Flash due to performance/battery limitations, it's that Apple changed the rules without telling Adobe. It's as if you worked for 2 years on a shiny sports car only to be told, 3 days before you'd be able to take it on the road, that its category had been banned from using the roads ever again. I don't think Adobe would've been that pissed off had Apple told them BEFORE they started working on their Flash exporter.
I just don't know what Apple is thinking here though because as the GP said, Apple needs Adobe as much if not more than Adobe needs Apple. Adobe's products are a major reason Apple sells well in the first place.
They should have a chat with Brad Wardell.
I wonder... What if someone were to make thousands of "books" consisting entirely of computer-generated high-profile keywords (IE spam) with no value, no purpose and no use and submit those to Amazon using print-on-demand, hence spamming the search results to death with fake results, what would they do?