You're kinda comparing apples and oranges: on the one hand, MS is trying to provide APIs, libraries features and tools for advanced, maybe even "innovative" features (maybe in misguided ways, but that's not my point), on the other hand, you list almost bare-metal APIs.
As far as I know, these haven"t changed in Windows much either, but most devs simply don't use them.
I'm fully aware that COBOL isn't dead either... It's just not where most of the jobs/money/action is, though I'm sure quite a few people are quite happy working in that space.
Move from one android vendor to another, your apps still work (as I said)
Move from one android handset to another android handset, your accessories may or may not still work (as I said)
You can change vendor or device and still access your android-compatible DRM movies
I didn't use the words "evil" nor "bad" (again, read my post ?). I used "closed", as in a single vendor, which by the way has a single device in each category, which also uses a proprietary and closed bus for peripherals, which also has a proprietary and closed store, from which it shuts out a large swathe of users (no iTunes on Android, Linux...). My take is there are good reasons to buy Apple hardware, but it means sinking a huge amount of money into apps, content and ancillary devices that'll go down the drain the moment you want other hardware. I'd rather invest in an "ecosystem" that supports diversity from the get go, and betters my chances of being able to switch vendors/devices w/o loosing so much. Plus the iPhone's screen is too darn small anyway, and the iPad and Macs too expensive for me.
Probably a bit of short-time pain, and a fair bit more of long-term gain.
It IS "classic vendor lock". Move away from Apple = lose your movies, apps, and accessories. Move away from a Windows/Android vendor to another Windows/Android vendor: Keep pour movies and apps; lose some accessoires, maybe.
Not only is the Apple ecosystem more closed, it is dedicated to a single vendor, while the competing ecosystems aren't. This a main reason why I won't buy Apple: I want to be able to go from an HTC phone to a Samsung, and back again; ditto for PCs. I want to be able to build my own PCs (or buy them premade), including a "mini" type thing for $350...
I'd like to know how they count both visitors and time sent.
Do my multiple brother, on multiple PCs, each count as a unique visitor ? Does my pretty much 24x6 background tab to gmail count as 24x6h/week of presence ?
For comparisons, this probably more or less averages out between sites (though usage patterns may vary ?), but as absolute numbers, of few buckets of salt are advisable, I think.
Indeed. I myself use Google a lot. I can understand people spending too much time on facebook. But MS ? I'd be curious to know where on MS's Web people go to. Last time I spent any amount of time there was tryng to make sense of 7's tiers and prices. Unless the backgroung page I keep open to my junkmail account on hotmail counts....
I think the issue is not them dropping Silverlight per se, but them selling Silverlight to partners like the best thing since sliced bread for a few years, and then dropping it like hot potatoes when management at last realized that nobody wants Yet Another Plugin (tm), especially one that does not much but duplicate pre-existing plugins, only with an MS badge and less multiplatform support.
Nobody ever really needed a competitor to Flash. We needed Flash to get better, and/or vanish. Not Flash Jr.
There's also the question of what Facebook counts as a user. I've got a bare page there, just so that friends of friends can track me. Never posted anything, barely go to visit friends' pages once a month when I'm bored, and when I get the facebook "please come baaaack" email.
I find my life not *that* interesting that I want to make a "book" out of it. And the interesting parts, are, mostly, too private to entrust to facebook. The same seems to be true about my friends' lives, except they do post, and ave no qualms about private stuff, mostly.
1st link: I'm sorry you don't like the facts. Are those not bare, cold, hard facts ? correlation vs causation: indeed, having more guns around probably has nothing to do with shootings, and gun-haters should just ask everyone around them, all the time, if they have guns. makes trips more interesting, if a teeny weeny bit longer 3rd link: Suicides are never a good thing. Trying and failing is a second chance. Having a very easy means to do it on impulse, and not fail, is not a good thing. And you're putting words in my mouth by seemingly implying that i'm against suicide. I'm just against the spur of the moment kind. You on the other hand, seem in love with it ?
you mean you don't know how to change shells and file managers in windows ? i'll give you the recompile thing for the kernel... what do you do with it ? MacOS is not open though, by far.
What is more reliable, safe, fast, ubiquitous,.. ?
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your PC in c++ ? your PC in javascript ? your connexion to the interwebs ? the cloud's servers ?
Who gets to select the experts, and boot them ? Do they have to say "this is bad for the game's buyers" (do you need to be an expert for that ? on the other hand, your definition of "experts" seems to be "gamers", which is more than iffy) Or judge whether or not customers were mislead ? place a x-year hosting minimum on all games offering online play (I assume that means a bunch of money in escrow pre game launch, so all games with not that much money not launched ? isn't that worse for customers ?) what about patches/fixes ? mandatory too ? should that cover all software, or just online ?
So your solution is committees of academics/philosophers ? You do realize those same academics have shown they'll take big corps' money (I'm sure philosophers would too, if anybody offered). Ever heard of Lyssenko ?
Your solution lacks a big element: accountability. I'm assuming you're young, possibly still a student, with faith in god-like infallible father figures. There are nowhere near enough of those. The next best solution is elected politicians.
On the other hand, who do you think is all-knowledgable enough to make all those decisions for us ? Some government agency ? Companies ? The church ?
The free market was never advocated as an instantaneously perfect solution to all problems. It probably is the overall best one in the long run. The one issue is ensuring the market remains free, and neither sellers nor buyers take advantage of relative strength by changing contracts terms unilaterally. OK, That's 2 issues, there may be more.
I'm wondering if this one does not fall into the "false advertising" category. Are they still selling the game with "online" on he box ? What are reasonable expectations of a game's useful life ?
Everyone can find a fringe case to suit their needs. It's the totals that counts. Unless you're in that famous category of people who can drink and drive, drink and text, don't need no speed limits...
Depends on whether the other shareholders agree with you ?
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I remember having a very strong sense of loss at several points while reading the books way back when: at the very end of the books, all elves and mages leave; bilbo repeatedly is described as dying soon; frodo too, and he takes the boat. The ones left behind do not fare much better, I remember feeling sad for Aragorn, essentially reigning over decay, and the remaining hobbits, once again ensconced in their little lives. The only ones who seem to fare OK are the dwarves, back into their mines.
I found it much darker than comics, with their endless resurrections and deus ex machinas.
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You're kinda comparing apples and oranges: on the one hand, MS is trying to provide APIs, libraries features and tools for advanced, maybe even "innovative" features (maybe in misguided ways, but that's not my point), on the other hand, you list almost bare-metal APIs.
As far as I know, these haven"t changed in Windows much either, but most devs simply don't use them.
I'm fully aware that COBOL isn't dead either... It's just not where most of the jobs/money/action is, though I'm sure quite a few people are quite happy working in that space.
read my post:
Move from one android vendor to another, your apps still work (as I said)
Move from one android handset to another android handset, your accessories may or may not still work (as I said)
You can change vendor or device and still access your android-compatible DRM movies
I didn't use the words "evil" nor "bad" (again, read my post ?). I used "closed", as in a single vendor, which by the way has a single device in each category, which also uses a proprietary and closed bus for peripherals, which also has a proprietary and closed store, from which it shuts out a large swathe of users (no iTunes on Android, Linux...). My take is there are good reasons to buy Apple hardware, but it means sinking a huge amount of money into apps, content and ancillary devices that'll go down the drain the moment you want other hardware. I'd rather invest in an "ecosystem" that supports diversity from the get go, and betters my chances of being able to switch vendors/devices w/o loosing so much. Plus the iPhone's screen is too darn small anyway, and the iPad and Macs too expensive for me.
Probably a bit of short-time pain, and a fair bit more of long-term gain.
It IS "classic vendor lock". Move away from Apple = lose your movies, apps, and accessories. Move away from a Windows/Android vendor to another Windows/Android vendor: Keep pour movies and apps; lose some accessoires, maybe.
Not only is the Apple ecosystem more closed, it is dedicated to a single vendor, while the competing ecosystems aren't. This a main reason why I won't buy Apple: I want to be able to go from an HTC phone to a Samsung, and back again; ditto for PCs. I want to be able to build my own PCs (or buy them premade), including a "mini" type thing for $350...
I'd like to know how they count both visitors and time sent.
Do my multiple brother, on multiple PCs, each count as a unique visitor ?
Does my pretty much 24x6 background tab to gmail count as 24x6h/week of presence ?
For comparisons, this probably more or less averages out between sites (though usage patterns may vary ?), but as absolute numbers, of few buckets of salt are advisable, I think.
Indeed. I myself use Google a lot. I can understand people spending too much time on facebook. But MS ? I'd be curious to know where on MS's Web people go to. Last time I spent any amount of time there was tryng to make sense of 7's tiers and prices. Unless the backgroung page I keep open to my junkmail account on hotmail counts ....
sorry, missed a cut and paste.
All that why not really, frankly, appraising developpers of what the outlook for Silverlight is.
I think the issue is not them dropping Silverlight per se, but them selling Silverlight to partners like the best thing since sliced bread for a few years, and then dropping it like hot potatoes when management at last realized that nobody wants Yet Another Plugin (tm), especially one that does not much but duplicate pre-existing plugins, only with an MS badge and less multiplatform support.
Nobody ever really needed a competitor to Flash. We needed Flash to get better, and/or vanish. Not Flash Jr.
Thanks for the clraification
That's sadly demagogic then. I guess in a couple of years they'll increment version numbers by ten at a time, and declare victory ....
maybe because that statement would be false ? are you comparing guns to seat belts now ?
I mean, are they just changing their numbering scheme, or actually doing more work ?
'coz if numbers magically become features, windows 2000 becomes much better than WIndows 7 ?
that's always the case: music, stars, films, even games...
There's also the question of what Facebook counts as a user. I've got a bare page there, just so that friends of friends can track me. Never posted anything, barely go to visit friends' pages once a month when I'm bored, and when I get the facebook "please come baaaack" email.
I find my life not *that* interesting that I want to make a "book" out of it. And the interesting parts, are, mostly, too private to entrust to facebook. The same seems to be true about my friends' lives, except they do post, and ave no qualms about private stuff, mostly.
slashdot should allow modding sigs up !
"not really" should have been your clue. If you would kindly kindly "get" clues next, I would appreciate not wasting my time.
Smartphones already have 3 radios: Phone, Wifi, Bluetooth. Do we really need, or want, a 4th one ?
1st link: I'm sorry you don't like the facts. Are those not bare, cold, hard facts ?
correlation vs causation: indeed, having more guns around probably has nothing to do with shootings, and gun-haters should just ask everyone around them, all the time, if they have guns. makes trips more interesting, if a teeny weeny bit longer
3rd link: Suicides are never a good thing. Trying and failing is a second chance. Having a very easy means to do it on impulse, and not fail, is not a good thing. And you're putting words in my mouth by seemingly implying that i'm against suicide. I'm just against the spur of the moment kind. You on the other hand, seem in love with it ?
because it's not coming from ms ?
you mean you don't know how to change shells and file managers in windows ?
i'll give you the recompile thing for the kernel... what do you do with it ? MacOS is not open though, by far.
your PC in c++ ? your PC in javascript ? your connexion to the interwebs ? the cloud's servers ?
You've got your answer !
Who gets to select the experts, and boot them ?
Do they have to say "this is bad for the game's buyers" (do you need to be an expert for that ? on the other hand, your definition of "experts" seems to be "gamers", which is more than iffy) Or judge whether or not customers were mislead ? place a x-year hosting minimum on all games offering online play (I assume that means a bunch of money in escrow pre game launch, so all games with not that much money not launched ? isn't that worse for customers ?) what about patches/fixes ? mandatory too ? should that cover all software, or just online ?
So your solution is committees of academics/philosophers ? You do realize those same academics have shown they'll take big corps' money (I'm sure philosophers would too, if anybody offered). Ever heard of Lyssenko ?
Your solution lacks a big element: accountability. I'm assuming you're young, possibly still a student, with faith in god-like infallible father figures. There are nowhere near enough of those. The next best solution is elected politicians.
On the other hand, who do you think is all-knowledgable enough to make all those decisions for us ? Some government agency ? Companies ? The church ?
The free market was never advocated as an instantaneously perfect solution to all problems. It probably is the overall best one in the long run. The one issue is ensuring the market remains free, and neither sellers nor buyers take advantage of relative strength by changing contracts terms unilaterally. OK, That's 2 issues, there may be more.
I'm wondering if this one does not fall into the "false advertising" category. Are they still selling the game with "online" on he box ? What are reasonable expectations of a game's useful life ?
The more guns, the more deaths. Some protection !
Everyone can find a fringe case to suit their needs. It's the totals that counts. Unless you're in that famous category of people who can drink and drive, drink and text, don't need no speed limits...
Depends on whether the other shareholders agree with you ?
I remember having a very strong sense of loss at several points while reading the books way back when: at the very end of the books, all elves and mages leave; bilbo repeatedly is described as dying soon; frodo too, and he takes the boat. The ones left behind do not fare much better, I remember feeling sad for Aragorn, essentially reigning over decay, and the remaining hobbits, once again ensconced in their little lives. The only ones who seem to fare OK are the dwarves, back into their mines.
I found it much darker than comics, with their endless resurrections and deus ex machinas.