Right, my argument goes "poof" because Apple's restrictions are buggy and can be broken. Truly a champion of open source and modern digital rights. It's almost as if it were plausible, if it weren't self-evident bullshit.
Thanks for disproving your own point: anyone technically inclined could add WebM support to Safari if they jailbreak iOS. In other words, the only thing obstructing you from installing WebM support is Apple's active restrictions, meaning you can take your claim of "modern digital rights" and file them under Lies.
Buying apps for everything under the sun (oh, but you can't) doesn't help against the fact that you can't properly support open source on the web under iOS. SuperKendall's claim was that Apple was a champion of open source and "modern digital rights". It isn't, QED: SuperKendall is a fraud and a liar.
Yeah, let's pretend "there's an app for that" solves every problem. Let's pretend we're talking about plug-ins that execute arbitrary code... no wait, let's be honest: we're talking about codec support. Fact of the matter is, native support for free codecs is impossible to implement on iOS. I repeat: you're a dishonest bunch.
Like i said: you're a dishonest bunch. Apple actively blocks support for open formats in iOS. You cannot make a plug-in for supporting WebM in Safari on iOS.
As one of the consistent anti-Apple posters here the last few years, I'll just let you know that the reason why I bother with it is people like you. All since the introduction of OS X made Apple somewhat geek-credible, Slashdot has been swamped by fanboys of your kind, people who do nothing but advertise one company's products. Most of the time, you're full of shit. In the end, people get fed up with it and point it out. People like you remove any reason to add, for balance, that Apple's laptops are kind of nice.
You do tolerate "misfactual statements". You make them regularly yourself. Even now:
Frankly it's also a desire to see Open Source and other modern digital rights succeed. I've seen Apple become one of the few large companies championing those rights on auger level, thus I support them so in turn they can continue to help open up digital rights further and prevent collapse into a maelstrom of media company interests.
Right. Since blocking support for open formats like Vorbis, WebM, etc., is championing of open source. You're just an astroturfing liar.
People are still harping on about this, due to the media hype, but it's bullshit. Mobile phones are great for exactly one thing: mobility. For everything else, they suck. Email? Suck. Web browsing? Suck. Word processing? You're joking. Even for things they do better than the desktop computer, like book reading, the mobile phone sucks for (compared to, say, a Kindle or an actual book). Phones aren't replacing desktop or laptop computers, they're additions.
Gaming especially sucks, as even the best gaming phones have lousy controls compared to an Xbox360 or a desktop PC. There's a reason why only point-and-drool games like Angry Birds have any success on mobile (and conversely little success on the desktop): they are easy enough to play on a touch screen, but far too simple for anyone to care about on the desktop. Then consider playing a game like Assassin's Creed or GTA4 on a touch screen. No can do.
Basically, today's mobile gaming is like gaming in the 1980s on the C64 and the Amiga, just with more colour and sound, and more primitive controls. Unfortunately, good controls -- which in fact include the visuals -- take up a lot of space.
No, the standard Mesa drivers (even when hardware acceleration is in place) simply do not support s3tc. The reason why S3 "didn't bother" with the other one is that it's mainly distributed as source code or through unofficial channels. Distros won't touch it due to the patent situation.
From the Phoronix forums, I see that HTC has a history of open source hostility (even refusing to release kernel source code), so I don't expect anything to change.
Not quite. There's an unlicensed s3tc implementation for Mesa not ordinarily distributed in binary by most distributions, and of course not paid for either. It will be interesting to see whether HTC bothers with a transferable and non-exclusive exemption. There are plenty of games that don't work properly under Linux without the s3tc extension.
What more you can ask for? Functionality. If your computer already does what you want it to do, you don't need to run extra apps. An OS isn't just an ultra-fancy application launcher.
Your reasoning is insane: even though you may have done okay without paying attention in school, it doesn't prove shit about how to attain high literacy. Perhaps you would have done better if you actually did pay attention, and learned how to think and reason instead of just being a semi-advanced bullshitter.
It's not. Not at all. Cost-cutting is a common approach to short-term profits, often leading to lower quality which may cost money in the long term as the product no longer sells.
Sure there has been an iPod killer: the smartphone. It's why Apple made a phone in the first place, as the iPod is now a redundant device. Of course, instead of saying the iPod is doomed, DOOMED!!! (which in fact it is), the press is just hyping Apple's other products. Meanwhile, the netbook is DEAD, ignoring the fact that you can get full-featured laptops with Intel's i3 or Core2Duos at netbook prices.
Exactly. It's not dead, the sales are just declining due to a saturated market (when everybody has got one, it's hard to find new buyers), with new competition from other gadgets as well. Fast forward a few years, and the same will have happened to the tablets.
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"+5, interesting" for coming up with a story in which the iGadget survived.
yarr, EA sucks.
Right, my argument goes "poof" because Apple's restrictions are buggy and can be broken. Truly a champion of open source and modern digital rights. It's almost as if it were plausible, if it weren't self-evident bullshit.
Thanks for disproving your own point: anyone technically inclined could add WebM support to Safari if they jailbreak iOS. In other words, the only thing obstructing you from installing WebM support is Apple's active restrictions, meaning you can take your claim of "modern digital rights" and file them under Lies.
Buying apps for everything under the sun (oh, but you can't) doesn't help against the fact that you can't properly support open source on the web under iOS. SuperKendall's claim was that Apple was a champion of open source and "modern digital rights". It isn't, QED: SuperKendall is a fraud and a liar.
Yeah, let's pretend "there's an app for that" solves every problem. Let's pretend we're talking about plug-ins that execute arbitrary code ... no wait, let's be honest: we're talking about codec support. Fact of the matter is, native support for free codecs is impossible to implement on iOS. I repeat: you're a dishonest bunch.
Like i said: you're a dishonest bunch. Apple actively blocks support for open formats in iOS. You cannot make a plug-in for supporting WebM in Safari on iOS.
As one of the consistent anti-Apple posters here the last few years, I'll just let you know that the reason why I bother with it is people like you. All since the introduction of OS X made Apple somewhat geek-credible, Slashdot has been swamped by fanboys of your kind, people who do nothing but advertise one company's products. Most of the time, you're full of shit. In the end, people get fed up with it and point it out. People like you remove any reason to add, for balance, that Apple's laptops are kind of nice.
You do tolerate "misfactual statements". You make them regularly yourself. Even now:
Right. Since blocking support for open formats like Vorbis, WebM, etc., is championing of open source. You're just an astroturfing liar.
People are still harping on about this, due to the media hype, but it's bullshit. Mobile phones are great for exactly one thing: mobility. For everything else, they suck. Email? Suck. Web browsing? Suck. Word processing? You're joking. Even for things they do better than the desktop computer, like book reading, the mobile phone sucks for (compared to, say, a Kindle or an actual book). Phones aren't replacing desktop or laptop computers, they're additions.
Gaming especially sucks, as even the best gaming phones have lousy controls compared to an Xbox360 or a desktop PC. There's a reason why only point-and-drool games like Angry Birds have any success on mobile (and conversely little success on the desktop): they are easy enough to play on a touch screen, but far too simple for anyone to care about on the desktop. Then consider playing a game like Assassin's Creed or GTA4 on a touch screen. No can do.
Basically, today's mobile gaming is like gaming in the 1980s on the C64 and the Amiga, just with more colour and sound, and more primitive controls. Unfortunately, good controls -- which in fact include the visuals -- take up a lot of space.
No, the standard Mesa drivers (even when hardware acceleration is in place) simply do not support s3tc. The reason why S3 "didn't bother" with the other one is that it's mainly distributed as source code or through unofficial channels. Distros won't touch it due to the patent situation.
From the Phoronix forums, I see that HTC has a history of open source hostility (even refusing to release kernel source code), so I don't expect anything to change.
Not quite. There's an unlicensed s3tc implementation for Mesa not ordinarily distributed in binary by most distributions, and of course not paid for either. It will be interesting to see whether HTC bothers with a transferable and non-exclusive exemption. There are plenty of games that don't work properly under Linux without the s3tc extension.
What more you can ask for? Functionality. If your computer already does what you want it to do, you don't need to run extra apps. An OS isn't just an ultra-fancy application launcher.
Windows 7 is a very capable OS, though.
You're an idiot.
If you think there's a contradiction between a) the warmest decade on record and b) no warming trend for that decade, you need a brain transplant.
Thanks for using your first post to turn an article critical of Amazon's app store into yet another Android vs Apple fanboy bullshitting contest.
Just what is it that makes iOS so glaringly obviously better? I mean in real, quantifiable ways, not the usual fiction.
No, that's a moebius strip. A tube has an inside and an outside.
Your reasoning is insane: even though you may have done okay without paying attention in school, it doesn't prove shit about how to attain high literacy. Perhaps you would have done better if you actually did pay attention, and learned how to think and reason instead of just being a semi-advanced bullshitter.
You mean you drop it into the ocean.
It's not. Not at all. Cost-cutting is a common approach to short-term profits, often leading to lower quality which may cost money in the long term as the product no longer sells.
In Europe.
Sure there has been an iPod killer: the smartphone. It's why Apple made a phone in the first place, as the iPod is now a redundant device. Of course, instead of saying the iPod is doomed, DOOMED!!! (which in fact it is), the press is just hyping Apple's other products. Meanwhile, the netbook is DEAD, ignoring the fact that you can get full-featured laptops with Intel's i3 or Core2Duos at netbook prices.
Since 2008.
If you look carefully, you'll find that the iPod sales are declining even faster.
Exactly. It's not dead, the sales are just declining due to a saturated market (when everybody has got one, it's hard to find new buyers), with new competition from other gadgets as well. Fast forward a few years, and the same will have happened to the tablets.