"Pat Robertson never flew an airplane into a building or blew up a bus full of women and children."
Neither have all the terrorists.
"but we're still talking about a large number of sects within Islam with millions of completely faithful followers ready, willing, and thrilled to do violence in the name of their god as their belief structure requires."
Millions of Islamic terrorists? What do you base that on?
Charge the defendant with everything you can think of even if you don't believe he's guilty of all of it and then negotiate down to the only charges you had any chance proving in the first place.
It's like raising prices just before a sale marks them down.
"When Steve Jobs goes, so does the rest of the company. There's only one man who can inspire people to work 90 hour weeks when they could be making more money with better benefits at Google, Microsoft, Cisco, etc."
Sure, everyone knows overworked and sleep-deprived people do the best work.
"It was Steve's vision that if you made every single computer with the same exact OS and the same amount of memory, developers would always have a fixed platform for which to develop, making their jobs easier."
The problem is that browsers aren't completely the same and they probably never will be because every browser maker wants to differentiate their product.
If we could actually get all the parties to agree to implement a standard, we could just have a desktop standard API that includes web services. Then we wouldn't have to carry the browser model baggage.
But that's not going to happen and neither is the browser-based utopia.
If they said they both the Mac and the iPhone used the Mac OS X and didn't qualify that statement, then it's reasonable to assume the APIs are the same.
The problem is that everybody seems to be defining an OS as a brand rather than a specific functional set. How much can you remove or change in an OS and still legitimately give it the same name?
I developed for NT for a number of years and I didn't see a problem with stability. The only thing I noticed was that Lotus CCmail would crash all the Windows 9x machines and we NT users would just carry on as if nothing happened.
I was forced once to develop a Windows app using Ada. Trying to develop an application on Android based on standard Java GUI libraries sounds about equally wise.
"Microsoft maintains strict backwards compatibility at all risks.And this is the big difference between Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft cares more for their developers and the companies that make money off of them than they do their users. Apple cares more about the users than they do about the developers."
Sure, the last thing users want is to have their old applications run on the new OS when they could just wait for vendors to upgrade and then buy the new version.
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It's not about TRUE religions it's about the truth. The truth is that most people regardless of religion aren't that bad.
"Pat Robertson never flew an airplane into a building or blew up a bus full of women and children."
Neither have all the terrorists.
"but we're still talking about a large number of sects within Islam with millions of completely faithful followers ready, willing, and thrilled to do violence in the name of their god as their belief structure requires."
Millions of Islamic terrorists? What do you base that on?
Alas, like all people who fail to be "really smart", I sometimes create a typo.
If you're drunk and happen to drive into a lake or river, your children can use their iPads as flotation devices.
When looking out the window did you see any old guys waving their arms while standing on their lawn?
"Yes, bringing a collection of a hundred DVDs is far easier than storing those hundred on 64GB of flash memory."
A hundred DVDs! What part of the Solar System to you intend to drive to?
Damn. I should have checked before posting my own version of what you said. Bring on the Redundant Mods.
"Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used by Microsoft". So I have to ask: What did MS use the photos for?
Too be fair, the terrorists are no more about Islam then Pat Robertson is about Christianity.
Charge the defendant with everything you can think of even if you don't believe he's guilty of all of it and then negotiate down to the only charges you had any chance proving in the first place.
It's like raising prices just before a sale marks them down.
In the case of OJ I wouldn't worry about being sued for either.
"He's arguably the greatest living expert on human-computer interaction and design."
If so, what's your argument?
"When Steve Jobs goes, so does the rest of the company. There's only one man who can inspire people to work 90 hour weeks when they could be making more money with better benefits at Google, Microsoft, Cisco, etc."
Sure, everyone knows overworked and sleep-deprived people do the best work.
"It was Steve's vision that if you made every single computer with the same exact OS and the same amount of memory, developers would always have a fixed platform for which to develop, making their jobs easier."
Isn't the subject of geniuses off-topic when discussing Steve Jobs?
It's not a limitation, it's a bad practice trap!
"An internet-famous geek celebrity."
Old-timers would define the above as a n00b (if we adopted that newfangled leet language). Now get that Internet off my lawn!
I think you're wrong. Just because a poster has a monster size ID doesn't mean his posts are more potent.
The problem is that browsers aren't completely the same and they probably never will be because every browser maker wants to differentiate their product.
If we could actually get all the parties to agree to implement a standard, we could just have a desktop standard API that includes web services. Then we wouldn't have to carry the browser model baggage.
But that's not going to happen and neither is the browser-based utopia.
If they said they both the Mac and the iPhone used the Mac OS X and didn't qualify that statement, then it's reasonable to assume the APIs are the same.
The problem is that everybody seems to be defining an OS as a brand rather than a specific functional set. How much can you remove or change in an OS and still legitimately give it the same name?
I developed for NT for a number of years and I didn't see a problem with stability. The only thing I noticed was that Lotus CCmail would crash all the Windows 9x machines and we NT users would just carry on as if nothing happened.
Cute, but the criteria included selling.
I was forced once to develop a Windows app using Ada. Trying to develop an application on Android based on standard Java GUI libraries sounds about equally wise.
"Microsoft maintains strict backwards compatibility at all risks.And this is the big difference between Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft cares more for their developers and the companies that make money off of them than they do their users. Apple cares more about the users than they do about the developers."
Sure, the last thing users want is to have their old applications run on the new OS when they could just wait for vendors to upgrade and then buy the new version.
"If you are really good you can get a job anywhere, visa or not."
Sure, as long as you have money to bribe people and you keep your head down in the boat.