This is poor reasoning. You are deciding an objective fact (whether someone stole ideas from someone else) with a subjective assessment (whether someone is an amateur or a professional). As Apple themselves have demonstrated with their asinine "look and feel" lawsuits, intellectual property law does not work that way. You cannot blow off the accusation of stealing ideas by just pointing out that the end result sold more in the marketplace. If, tomorrow, I were to invent a novel topping for a hamburger and sell the idea to, say, Sonic drive in who sells a million a day and then McDonalds "copies" it and sells a billion a day that McDonalds is the "great artist". It's bullshit and you know it.
> This is what the netbook should have been - small, lightweight, keyboard... and Android.
The original netbooks were a lot closer to that than the jokes being sold to fools today. ASUS really screwed the pooch on that one, they practically invented a new form factor that was wildly popular and had all sorts of potential for breaking from the death grip of Microsoft. But instead of forging ahead and building something like Android or iOS, they switched to a castrated version of Windows. As a result the netbook went nowhere and the iPad became the revolution.
The social safety net is socialism!
Taxing the rich fairly is class warfare!
It is patriotic to advocate for the destruction of the US government!
Oh yeah, and war is peace!
Google could *easily* address these types of concerns by turning Android into a true open source platform. Open up the development and release process to the community, rather than simply throwing months-old code drops over the wall.
Yup, if they had opened it up immediately and there were any bugs, these same folks would be here bitching and moaning that they should have tested it first.
Would you buy a bicycle to commute? Many people would not, and yet millions of other people do. Just because *you* have some specific issues with this car doesn't mean there isn't a market for it. Slashdotters, in their rush to denounce everything that is new and different (cough ipod cough), seem to forget that a lot.
If they price it right (ie: much cheaper than a leaf) then I'd consider it. My commute in the morning is 10 miles each way, plus add 10 miles for a trip to the grocery store and this car can take care of 90% of my driving needs. I already own a mini-van with a trailer hitch so I am covered for long trips or for towing or carrying stuff.
Don't even get me started on the space program. What a waste of taxpayer dollars! In less than 50 years after we wasted billions to put a man on the moon, the much superior PRIVATE sector has already put a person into low earth orbit and promised us a rocket that will be delivered any day now that will be better than the ones we built in the 60's! And people wonder why everyone thinks the government is so inefficient and useless.
When you elect people who loudly and proudly proclaim to hate government or who want to "drown the government in a bathtub", why would you be so surprised when they do an absolutely terrible job at running things? You want someone to blame? Look in the mirror.
The Honda succeeded as reliable user-friendly everyday transportation. Yet the Tesla failed miserably as a supercar. That is all there is to it.
I can test drive and buy a Tesla today in something like 30 different cities around the world. Where can I buy a Honda FCX? Oh that's right, individual consumers cant really buy them at all. What was that about the FCX's "reliable every day transportation"? As far as I can see, the FCX fails at being an actual car, period.
If you watch Top Gear for responsible journalism, you are doing it wrong.
Gotta love how top gear apologists alternate between "the review was accurate" and "if you wanted accuracy, why did you watch 'top gear'?" seamlessly whenever the situation requires.
Personally, I'm glad Tesla is taking it to Top Gear, those disingenuous fucks need to be put in their place for their tabloid-level bullshit.
LOL. You sound like the "IBM guy" in the 80's arguing that the IBM PC-AT will crush the clones due to its obvious technical superiority. Compaq *destroyed* IBM in the PC market, because they realized that great technology can be defeated with even greater business model. In other words, while technical flaws can be fixed, fundamentally self-limiting business models can't. This is not to say that Apple and Microsoft will not continue to be profitable, but that Android will eat their lunch for the same kinds of reasons that other flawed technologies won against their (temporarily) superior competition.
It is also worth mentioning that alpha-dog libertarian anti-environmentalist and the chief editor of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, now subscribes to AGW. In his own words:
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
Shouldn't a critique of web design at least be done by people who are skilled in the art? Just look at their site. I am no professional web designer, but even I know that you probably shouldn't be using heavy, bright, noisy headers and you probably shouldn't be putting such long articles into a single un-adjustable column that is what, 800 pixels wide?
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This is poor reasoning. You are deciding an objective fact (whether someone stole ideas from someone else) with a subjective assessment (whether someone is an amateur or a professional). As Apple themselves have demonstrated with their asinine "look and feel" lawsuits, intellectual property law does not work that way. You cannot blow off the accusation of stealing ideas by just pointing out that the end result sold more in the marketplace. If, tomorrow, I were to invent a novel topping for a hamburger and sell the idea to, say, Sonic drive in who sells a million a day and then McDonalds "copies" it and sells a billion a day that McDonalds is the "great artist". It's bullshit and you know it.
> This is what the netbook should have been - small, lightweight, keyboard ... and Android.
The original netbooks were a lot closer to that than the jokes being sold to fools today. ASUS really screwed the pooch on that one, they practically invented a new form factor that was wildly popular and had all sorts of potential for breaking from the death grip of Microsoft. But instead of forging ahead and building something like Android or iOS, they switched to a castrated version of Windows. As a result the netbook went nowhere and the iPad became the revolution.
IBM doesn't patent things to "sit on them". They rake in billions of dollars a year trolling^H^H^H^H licensing their portfolio.
The social safety net is socialism! Taxing the rich fairly is class warfare! It is patriotic to advocate for the destruction of the US government! Oh yeah, and war is peace!
How dare you bring "facts" to yet another slashdot anti-enviromental hit job?
Google could *easily* address these types of concerns by turning Android into a true open source platform. Open up the development and release process to the community, rather than simply throwing months-old code drops over the wall.
Apple did it first.
Schweaty balls of Mars.
Out of curiosity, how many thousand-desktop IT systems do you run?
Then why did they just spend so much money (potentially billions of dollars) purchasing these patents?
Taint all that good.
Yeah, just look at how big a failure the Wii was.
Pretty much all scrutiny (and all anti-trust inquiries) of Microsoft was dropped when George W. Bush took office.
Yup, if they had opened it up immediately and there were any bugs, these same folks would be here bitching and moaning that they should have tested it first.
Would you buy a bicycle to commute? Many people would not, and yet millions of other people do. Just because *you* have some specific issues with this car doesn't mean there isn't a market for it. Slashdotters, in their rush to denounce everything that is new and different (cough ipod cough), seem to forget that a lot.
If they price it right (ie: much cheaper than a leaf) then I'd consider it. My commute in the morning is 10 miles each way, plus add 10 miles for a trip to the grocery store and this car can take care of 90% of my driving needs. I already own a mini-van with a trailer hitch so I am covered for long trips or for towing or carrying stuff.
Don't even get me started on the space program. What a waste of taxpayer dollars! In less than 50 years after we wasted billions to put a man on the moon, the much superior PRIVATE sector has already put a person into low earth orbit and promised us a rocket that will be delivered any day now that will be better than the ones we built in the 60's! And people wonder why everyone thinks the government is so inefficient and useless.
When you elect people who loudly and proudly proclaim to hate government or who want to "drown the government in a bathtub", why would you be so surprised when they do an absolutely terrible job at running things? You want someone to blame? Look in the mirror.
The Honda succeeded as reliable user-friendly everyday transportation. Yet the Tesla failed miserably as a supercar. That is all there is to it.
I can test drive and buy a Tesla today in something like 30 different cities around the world. Where can I buy a Honda FCX? Oh that's right, individual consumers cant really buy them at all. What was that about the FCX's "reliable every day transportation"? As far as I can see, the FCX fails at being an actual car, period.
If you watch Top Gear for responsible journalism, you are doing it wrong.
Gotta love how top gear apologists alternate between "the review was accurate" and "if you wanted accuracy, why did you watch 'top gear'?" seamlessly whenever the situation requires.
Personally, I'm glad Tesla is taking it to Top Gear, those disingenuous fucks need to be put in their place for their tabloid-level bullshit.
It's an iPhone, it's not designed to make calls. :)
LOL. You sound like the "IBM guy" in the 80's arguing that the IBM PC-AT will crush the clones due to its obvious technical superiority. Compaq *destroyed* IBM in the PC market, because they realized that great technology can be defeated with even greater business model. In other words, while technical flaws can be fixed, fundamentally self-limiting business models can't. This is not to say that Apple and Microsoft will not continue to be profitable, but that Android will eat their lunch for the same kinds of reasons that other flawed technologies won against their (temporarily) superior competition.
You shouldn't be. Most TV's these days have a full computer inside them, and a large percentage of them run Linux. Here's the list of Sony TV's that run Linux, for example.
Shouldn't a critique of web design at least be done by people who are skilled in the art? Just look at their site. I am no professional web designer, but even I know that you probably shouldn't be using heavy, bright, noisy headers and you probably shouldn't be putting such long articles into a single un-adjustable column that is what, 800 pixels wide?