I would say Android is doing more than "holding up well" against iOS. Isn't it beating it by a handy margin now - even with iPads? If Motorola was smart they back a winning horse. Android is only going to get stronger over time.
iOS is still making most of the profit on both handsets and software sales. Android is the Windows of today: it may be forced on device manufacturers by its success and it'll ultimately provide the most benefit to Google, not them. Ultimately it might benefit companies more to try and create a viable platform now when the market is still relatively young. It needn't end up like the desktop with 1 dominant player and a couple of minor ones, there's room for several.
This is very much in violation of the spirit of Open Source, on which Google relies for its entire existence.
Actually it relies on advertising for its entire existence (96% of its revenue.) That's why it's in the smartphone, tablet business in the first place: because they don't want Apple (and their iAds) between you and them (and their Google ads.) If you think it has anything to do with open source you've drunken the cool-aid.
"With our trusty Droid 2's 1Ghz OMAP3 chip, we saw a slight but noticeable boost in framerate when playing a YouTube trailer at 480p, which admittedly only took that particular video from "unwatchable" to merely "fairly jerky." With the Tegra 2-toting Motorola Xoom, however, 480p videos ran perfectly smooth, even as the tablet had trouble rendering 720p content as anything but a series of images."
Pretty pathetic but that's flash: it's always going to work as it should next release, promise.
I seriously don't get it. Apple are evil because they prefer software under one OSI approved license to software under another OSI approved license ? Or because they decided to build on software using an open source license they like instead of writing their own from scratch ?
Apple are clearly aligning their codebases and they consider iOS to be their future. It makes sense they would want to avoid contributing to something they couldn't move into iOS if they wanted to, better to move into something that is compatible with their strategy as soon as is practical.
Either way, Apple wasn't planning on letting people modify the version of CIFS they shipped, or contribute fixes back to the Samba tree, so no real loss there. Long story short, we learned something about Apple's ideology and nothing more.
Wrong : "Apple has been updating and hardening a branch of the Open Group's DCE/RPC library. We'd decided to share these changes with the community at large and will continue to invest in modernizing and advancing this code base. The goal is to establish a common, authoritative DCE/RPC codebase that everyone can leverage or contribute to, under very liberal terms.
We have published Apple's contributions at http://www.dcerpc.org./ Please check out the web site for any more details. We are looking for someone to port it to the various Linux SMB implementations.
People can do a lot of things and can fool themselves quite successfully as evidenced by the placebo effect. We are a unique animal in that we can sometimes triumph over our own nature. I've no doubt there are people who genuinely believe they are reformed gays and who am I to argue. I don't think it's healthy though to create an environment where people who are doing no harm to themselves or others feel the need to sublimate their desires to conform.
Clearly, the only rights you have over your phone are the ones Apple says you can have.
You are confusing rights as in "civil right" with rights as in "copyright." You don't have all the "rights" on the software as in you can't sell copies of it, etc.
would you support an apple app that said instead of getting vaccinations, just hold the iphone to your forehead for 5 minutes while the app is running?
of course you wouldn't because its not a replacement for vaccinations, in fact its worse
The app didn't pretend to cure homosexuality, it provided information about the organization that pretends they can.
It has a unique input system in that it's touch + motion sensors so of course straight ports are going to have to adapt. If they don't then they won't be much good. There's a number of people that get it right though and I wouldn't say it was small. It's more like going back to the 80's and 90's before the industry was dominated by a few big companies and there were a lot of games from a lot of different companies but only some were real gems.
That wasn't the point anyhow, it was how the popularity of iOS as a gaming platform provides an even larger audience for people with OpenGL skills.
And doesn't the bible anyways tell one must not lie? Isn't it also a form of lying to know that you're homosexual deep inside but try to pose as a heterosexual person, both to yourself and possible partners and outside society? Ergo, wouldn't it be against the bible, too? It's something that has always bothered me. Then again, bible has lots of things that get contradicted by the very same book they're in..
The argument is that every person has urges and that some urges are sinful and should not be indulged. Those urges include stuff like masturbation, sex outside of matrimony and homosexual leanings. Those are all seen as temptations that exist because of the degenerate nature of man after the fall from grace. So ignoring those urges and posing as a hetero is actually seen as a very positive thing: ignoring the devil if you will and choosing to live like god ordered it despite your nature.
So, there's no need for such an app, since on all these iDevices, people can get that info right from their website? In addition, regardless of it being an app that just does that, would YOU want to support an organization/cult that has harmed so many people? Dig deep and research them. I for one, regardless of what their app does, would be vehemently against doing anything supportive.
Correct, I've since downloaded the app and it's just a front-end to their website, all it does is download the same pages and display them in the app. It's made with a lame automatic app creation tool to make cookie cutter apps. Shouldn't be in the AppStore in the first place. I guess they were counting on the Streisand Effect from some cheap publicity.
I don't support anything about this group. I once read an article about a guy that went under cover in one of those "gay cure" places they have and it seriously disturbed me. That said everybody has rights, even bigots. It's up to us sane ones to make sure there are rules that protect everyone, not to join the patients in the asylum.
So now everybody does an App--even if all the App does is display web pages. This is where the App Store ends up getting polluted.
In my opinion, if the App doesn't do anything worthwhile that can't be done on a webpage, I'd say don't accept it. I rashly assume that this App fits the bill.
I agree. I've downloaded this app to see if maybe I can inject some fact based opinion in the conversation here (I must be new here, right) and it does seem to be just a front-end that downloads pages straight from their website (created with a lame automatic app-creation tool . No added value at all. I'd ban it for that, not for the content even though I completely disagree with it.
OR you could read RTFA and find out this has happened before :
"However, when faced with a similar issue last November, after an app was created around the Manhattan Declaration which is hostile to gay marriage, Apple came down on the side of gay rights and removed the app."
OR you could have a look at the website and see that the app looks like pretty much just an app-version of their website, with a calendar and twitter feed and so on... real scary stuff (!)
Nah, let's just all stay ill-informed proceed with the hysterics.
From the website it just seems like an app that shows the organization's events and explains their points of view. You may not like their points of view but it's pretty harmless. And given the rating it received it's highly unlikely it discusses sexuality at all.
Honesty in advertising. Makes me think of George Carlin :
"When a businessman sits down and negotiate a deal, the first thing he does is to automatically assume that the other guy is a complete lying prick who's trying to fuck him out of his money. So he's gotta do everything he can to fuck the other guy a little bit faster and a little bit harder. And he's gotta do it with a big smile on his face. You know that big bullshit businessman smile? And if you are a customer, whoa. That's when you get the really big smile. Customer always gets the real big smile, as the businessman carefully positions himself, directly behind the customer, and unzips his pants, and proceeds to service the account. "I am serving this account. This customer needs service". Now you know what they mean when they say: "we specialize in customer service". Whoever coined the phrase: "Let the buyer beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole." "
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I would say Android is doing more than "holding up well" against iOS. Isn't it beating it by a handy margin now - even with iPads? If Motorola was smart they back a winning horse. Android is only going to get stronger over time.
iOS is still making most of the profit on both handsets and software sales. Android is the Windows of today: it may be forced on device manufacturers by its success and it'll ultimately provide the most benefit to Google, not them. Ultimately it might benefit companies more to try and create a viable platform now when the market is still relatively young. It needn't end up like the desktop with 1 dominant player and a couple of minor ones, there's room for several.
This is very much in violation of the spirit of Open Source, on which Google relies for its entire existence.
Actually it relies on advertising for its entire existence (96% of its revenue.) That's why it's in the smartphone, tablet business in the first place: because they don't want Apple (and their iAds) between you and them (and their Google ads.) If you think it has anything to do with open source you've drunken the cool-aid.
Yeah the reviews are "great" :
"With our trusty Droid 2's 1Ghz OMAP3 chip, we saw a slight but noticeable boost in framerate when playing a YouTube trailer at 480p, which admittedly only took that particular video from "unwatchable" to merely "fairly jerky." With the Tegra 2-toting Motorola Xoom, however, 480p videos ran perfectly smooth, even as the tablet had trouble rendering 720p content as anything but a series of images."
Pretty pathetic but that's flash: it's always going to work as it should next release, promise.
Hopefully Google won't get a free pass on this one.
I see this is your first visit to Slashdot. Welcome !
I seriously don't get it. Apple are evil because they prefer software under one OSI approved license to software under another OSI approved license ? Or because they decided to build on software using an open source license they like instead of writing their own from scratch ?
Personally, I think Apple is trying to totally close their software and hardware ecosystems so only they can provide software,
You're right – that's why last time apple dropped a GPLv3 hot potato (GCC) they released their own alternative using the BSD license. Wait... no.
They use Clang now right ? That's open source under a BSD-like license.
Apple are clearly aligning their codebases and they consider iOS to be their future. It makes sense they would want to avoid contributing to something they couldn't move into iOS if they wanted to, better to move into something that is compatible with their strategy as soon as is practical.
Either way, Apple wasn't planning on letting people modify the version of CIFS they shipped, or contribute fixes back to the Samba tree, so no real loss there. Long story short, we learned something about Apple's ideology and nothing more.
Wrong : "Apple has been updating and hardening a branch of the Open Group's DCE/RPC library. We'd decided to share
these changes with the community at large and will continue to invest in modernizing and advancing this
code base. The goal is to establish a common, authoritative DCE/RPC codebase that everyone can leverage
or contribute to, under very liberal terms.
We have published Apple's contributions at http://www.dcerpc.org./ Please check out the web site for any
more details. We are looking for someone to port it to the various Linux SMB implementations.
Regards,
James Peach and George Colley
Apple"
People can do a lot of things and can fool themselves quite successfully as evidenced by the placebo effect. We are a unique animal in that we can sometimes triumph over our own nature. I've no doubt there are people who genuinely believe they are reformed gays and who am I to argue. I don't think it's healthy though to create an environment where people who are doing no harm to themselves or others feel the need to sublimate their desires to conform.
Clearly, the only rights you have over your phone are the ones Apple says you can have.
You are confusing rights as in "civil right" with rights as in "copyright." You don't have all the "rights" on the software as in you can't sell copies of it, etc.
Well at least it'll be able to warn you if it hears anyone approach.
would you support an apple app that said instead of getting vaccinations, just hold the iphone to your forehead for 5 minutes while the app is running?
of course you wouldn't because its not a replacement for vaccinations, in fact its worse
The app didn't pretend to cure homosexuality, it provided information about the organization that pretends they can.
Please point to the paragraph in the EULA where it says this. Or are you just karma whoring ?
Damned if they do, damned if they don't. And whatever they do Slashdot will be there to bitch about it.
...all they did was get drunk, skip class, and screw hookers all the time.
All I did was get drunk, skip class, and program all the time and now I'm a gainfully employed sw developer...
You'd better mean you were writing a "traveling salesman" algorithm to find the best route to all those hookers ;-)
Wait, if God made bananas easy for humans to eat and bananas are radioactive does that mean God's trying to kill us ?
It has a unique input system in that it's touch + motion sensors so of course straight ports are going to have to adapt. If they don't then they won't be much good. There's a number of people that get it right though and I wouldn't say it was small. It's more like going back to the 80's and 90's before the industry was dominated by a few big companies and there were a lot of games from a lot of different companies but only some were real gems.
That wasn't the point anyhow, it was how the popularity of iOS as a gaming platform provides an even larger audience for people with OpenGL skills.
umm.... The Gay men I know have shagged more straight men than Gay men...
It's not gay unless balls are touching.
And doesn't the bible anyways tell one must not lie? Isn't it also a form of lying to know that you're homosexual deep inside but try to pose as a heterosexual person, both to yourself and possible partners and outside society? Ergo, wouldn't it be against the bible, too? It's something that has always bothered me. Then again, bible has lots of things that get contradicted by the very same book they're in..
The argument is that every person has urges and that some urges are sinful and should not be indulged. Those urges include stuff like masturbation, sex outside of matrimony and homosexual leanings. Those are all seen as temptations that exist because of the degenerate nature of man after the fall from grace. So ignoring those urges and posing as a hetero is actually seen as a very positive thing: ignoring the devil if you will and choosing to live like god ordered it despite your nature.
Of course it's all bullshit.
So, there's no need for such an app, since on all these iDevices, people can get that info right from their website? In addition, regardless of it being an app that just does that, would YOU want to support an organization/cult that has harmed so many people? Dig deep and research them. I for one, regardless of what their app does, would be vehemently against doing anything supportive.
Correct, I've since downloaded the app and it's just a front-end to their website, all it does is download the same pages and display them in the app. It's made with a lame automatic app creation tool to make cookie cutter apps. Shouldn't be in the AppStore in the first place. I guess they were counting on the Streisand Effect from some cheap publicity.
I don't support anything about this group. I once read an article about a guy that went under cover in one of those "gay cure" places they have and it seriously disturbed me. That said everybody has rights, even bigots. It's up to us sane ones to make sure there are rules that protect everyone, not to join the patients in the asylum.
So now everybody does an App--even if all the App does is display web pages. This is where the App Store ends up getting polluted.
In my opinion, if the App doesn't do anything worthwhile that can't be done on a webpage, I'd say don't accept it. I rashly assume that this App fits the bill.
I agree. I've downloaded this app to see if maybe I can inject some fact based opinion in the conversation here (I must be new here, right) and it does seem to be just a front-end that downloads pages straight from their website (created with a lame automatic app-creation tool . No added value at all. I'd ban it for that, not for the content even though I completely disagree with it.
OR you could read RTFA and find out this has happened before :
"However, when faced with a similar issue last November, after an app was created around the Manhattan Declaration which is hostile to gay marriage, Apple came down on the side of gay rights and removed the app."
OR you could have a look at the website and see that the app looks like pretty much just an app-version of their website, with a calendar and twitter feed and so on ... real scary stuff (!)
Nah, let's just all stay ill-informed proceed with the hysterics.
From the website it just seems like an app that shows the organization's events and explains their points of view. You may not like their points of view but it's pretty harmless. And given the rating it received it's highly unlikely it discusses sexuality at all.
Don't blame the lack of DirectX for the lack of games on Linux. OpenGL works just fine on it, as it does on Windows.
And Mac, much to the delight of the four people who want to play games under OS X.
Don't forget iOS ! Pretty popular gaming platform these days and it supports OpenGL ES 2.0.
Honesty in advertising. Makes me think of George Carlin :
"When a businessman sits down and negotiate a deal, the first thing he does is to automatically assume that the other guy is a complete lying prick who's trying to fuck him out of his money. So he's gotta do everything he can to fuck the other guy a little bit faster and a little bit harder. And he's gotta do it with a big smile on his face. You know that big bullshit businessman smile? And if you are a customer, whoa. That's when you get the really big smile. Customer always gets the real big smile, as the businessman carefully positions himself, directly behind the customer, and unzips his pants, and proceeds to service the account. "I am serving this account. This customer needs service". Now you know what they mean when they say: "we specialize in customer service". Whoever coined the phrase: "Let the buyer beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole." "