You mean like that "walled garden" known as Android that has the same user options to only install from the Android market or to allow "Other sources"?
Naively assuming that Citigroup, Time Warner, Sony or Vivendi are going to sell their labels that make up the "big four" within the RIAA? Keep dreaming.
You do realize that they can't just up and purchase one of the music labels, right? Pretty much all of them are subsidiaries of companies larger than Google. And it's unlikely any of the parent companies are going to sell them off to Google in the first place.
And how is Google going to so so? You do realize that they can't just wave their wand and buy up shares, right? It's highly doubtful that any single one if these companies has any group of controlling shareholders who would sell their shares off.
Sorry but Google Maps was not a new product and neither was internet map services when Google acquired it. Mapquest was around since 1996 and even OpenStreetMap predates it and there were plenty of other services. But hey we gotta keep up the Google defenses!
No it wont make loss leaders illegal. This is just typical punishment against anti-competitive tactics of using a near monopoly in one segment to finance pushing your competitors out of another segment. You know like what Microsoft was punished for with IE?
So they can waste more money on a claim that will get thrown out? Enforcing your patents is not extortion. Well unless your Samsung and then it's okay to use FRAND patents as a bludgeon.
So what? Facilitation of copyright infringement is against the law and the Swedish court upheld this. You can keep repeating that lame defense but the law doesn't care.
How are we moving away from multithreaded? Most cpu can execute multiple threads at once. Not to mention that most OSes can efficiently schedule multiple threads across cores.
How is he missing the point? The iPhone 4S is more expensive due to having many more features than the Pi (touchscreen, gps, cell radio, wifi, internal storage, more RAM, Bluetooth, wifi, built-in camera, etc.). Also it's GPU is constrained by power restrictions due to battery life. Comparing the two is dishonestdishonest and not analogous.
Also the only reason this can be sold art $25 is heavy subsidizing by Broadcom. Again making this a dishonest comparison.
As far as I can see, that simple strategy alone would ensure Mozilla never becomes irrelevant, and that neither Apple nor Google can effectively take webkit private, which is a clear and present danger at the moment.
Since WebKit is mostly LGPL unless they plan on violating the license how exactly are they going to take it private?
Except they were selling the rare earth metals cheaper than others which WAS making it too expensive for the competition to stay open. Especially when the costs of environmental regulation compliance is factored in.
I'm not arguing anything. GCC adds an extension to C89 that allows mixed declarations and code. Yes, you can use C99 and get this as part of the standard but it doesn't change the fact that it is a GCC extension when not compiling in C99 mode.
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You mean like that "walled garden" known as Android that has the same user options to only install from the Android market or to allow "Other sources"?
Because you think people can't be easily tricked into giving permission for this and then it used for spam?
Riiight. Because no one will ever find a way to abuse it. No, that never happens.
It's old. This is new and hip. It's more Web 2.0 (hell it might be Web 3.0) than RSS.
Yay! A new spam vector!
Naively assuming that Citigroup, Time Warner, Sony or Vivendi are going to sell their labels that make up the "big four" within the RIAA? Keep dreaming.
You do realize that they can't just up and purchase one of the music labels, right? Pretty much all of them are subsidiaries of companies larger than Google. And it's unlikely any of the parent companies are going to sell them off to Google in the first place.
And how is Google going to so so? You do realize that they can't just wave their wand and buy up shares, right? It's highly doubtful that any single one if these companies has any group of controlling shareholders who would sell their shares off.
Sorry but Google Maps was not a new product and neither was internet map services when Google acquired it. Mapquest was around since 1996 and even OpenStreetMap predates it and there were plenty of other services. But hey we gotta keep up the Google defenses!
No it wont make loss leaders illegal. This is just typical punishment against anti-competitive tactics of using a near monopoly in one segment to finance pushing your competitors out of another segment. You know like what Microsoft was punished for with IE?
So they can waste more money on a claim that will get thrown out? Enforcing your patents is not extortion. Well unless your Samsung and then it's okay to use FRAND patents as a bludgeon.
So what? Facilitation of copyright infringement is against the law and the Swedish court upheld this. You can keep repeating that lame defense but the law doesn't care.
How are we moving away from multithreaded? Most cpu can execute multiple threads at once. Not to mention that most OSes can efficiently schedule multiple threads across cores.
whereas individual CPU performance has been stagnating
Except not. The cores themselves are also more efficient and performant as well. Performance != gigahertz rating.
How is he missing the point? The iPhone 4S is more expensive due to having many more features than the Pi (touchscreen, gps, cell radio, wifi, internal storage, more RAM, Bluetooth, wifi, built-in camera, etc.). Also it's GPU is constrained by power restrictions due to battery life. Comparing the two is dishonestdishonest and not analogous.
Also the only reason this can be sold art $25 is heavy subsidizing by Broadcom. Again making this a dishonest comparison.
Not true as there are plenty of private APIs. Windows, for example, has plenty of them. APIs are not necessarily always for public consumption.
Except doing such a thing would drive away the very developers they are trying to bring in thus would kill their site.
The sad thing is that the about.com link even states that it's false.
Description: Urban legend
Circulating since: 1997 (as Netlore)
Status: False
As far as I can see, that simple strategy alone would ensure Mozilla never becomes irrelevant, and that neither Apple nor Google can effectively take webkit private, which is a clear and present danger at the moment.
Since WebKit is mostly LGPL unless they plan on violating the license how exactly are they going to take it private?
Except they were selling the rare earth metals cheaper than others which WAS making it too expensive for the competition to stay open. Especially when the costs of environmental regulation compliance is factored in.
See China raising prices on rare earth metals once most of the competing mining operations were run out of business.
Oh and you don't even have to take my word for it. From GCC's own documentation:
5 Extensions to the C Language Family ...
Mixed Declarations: Mixing declarations and code.
Fail much, bro?
I'm not arguing anything. GCC adds an extension to C89 that allows mixed declarations and code. Yes, you can use C99 and get this as part of the standard but it doesn't change the fact that it is a GCC extension when not compiling in C99 mode.
Since when did they ever have a monopoly within the DoD? Oh right, they didn't.
Because the author of the article is an idiot and probably has no DoD experience or works in any capacity within or contracting for the DoD.