they've pretty much been whipping on the US Air Force when it comes to both aircraft and lasers and missile defense systems.
This has been going on since the 1950s.
Navy: F-8 Crusader. Air Force: F-100, F-101, etc... Navy: F-4 Phantom II Air Force: F-101, F-105 - Result: AF forced to buy Navy planes. Navy: A-4 and A-7. Air Force: THUNDERCHIEF! followed by A-7 (another AF forced to buy Navy planes) Navy: Standard Missile (Ground to air) Air Force: Bunch of crap. Nike, Bomarc, etc... Navy: Sparrow AAM Air Force: Falcon AAM Navy: Phoenix AAM Air Force: Still Falcon AAM Navy: Trident Air Force: MX - Guess which one is still in service. Navy: F-14 Air Force: F-15. Close, but the Navy aircraft had superior long range ability (100+Mile range with Phoenix AAM) and the Air Force craft was a little better dogfighter.
Basically, there are very few situations where the Navy has had inferior equipment to the Air Force since the mid 1950s. When it's close, as in the F-16 vs F/A-18 or the F-14 vs the F-15 (hated seeing the Tomcat wear out, carrier life is rough) usually the Navy aircraft costs a lot less to operate.
Well, it's what this whole thing reminds me of. Music simply isn't worth what it used to be because there's now more competition, and more choice in the market place. Warner needs to get smaller very quickly to survive.
If I ever start a band I will name it "Watching Diplodocus Starve"
Hmm. That must be what that "AutoFilter" menu item is for in OpenOffice? Perhaps you missed the "Group and Outline" menu, too? That little "AutoOutline" option is pretty neat, too (no wizard needed)
Or perhaps you just have *have not used* OpenOffice Spreadsheet lately?
The one place where Excel still has an much of an advantage is PivotTables.
Wrong. Let's not act like a product category that had been around for 10 years prior to iPhone was suddenly created by Apple. Apple did not create the smart phone. They did not even define the product:
Palm, Blackberry and Microsoft (to a lesser extent) defined the product. Apple came out with the best model in the 2008 model year. That is the extent of the achievement, and to give Apple more credit is simply an insult to the people that created iconic products like the Blackberry, Treo and to a lesser degree WinMo smartphones that defined the platform that Apple added incremental improvements to.
It is telling that even my lowly G-1 has more features than the same generation iPhone (keyboard, removable battery, 3G, removable memory, metal detector, etc...).
Finally, Android has *already won the war* with Apple. It's pretty much exactly like Mac vs. PC in the early 90s. Developers who pass on Android for iPhone will be seen as shortsighted by the end of this year as marketshare expands.
In the long run, I have little fear of China. First, their oppressive government will eventually moderate or fail as the population becomes more educated and more connected to the rest of the world. Second, as China engages with other nations, they have quickly learned how taking shortcuts such as using lead paint on toys is not the path to success. Third, there is the lesson of Google, where China is learning that there is a high cost to forcing the private sector at private expense to do the government's bidding. Finally, China's public health issues and personal liberty issues are on a collision course with it's government ability to stay in power.
I am seeing countries continually regressing in the moral and ethical obligations, a degradation of honesty, transparency, and openness all in the name of making more money.
You've obviously skipped political science and political philosophy courses. There are a few things that have not changed since man started scraping symbols on stone tablets:
* Justice rarely triumphs over power. * The victor writes the history books. * Self interest is the only value that matters to nation-states.
Don't plan on it changing because we are using electrons instead of chisels.
One might argue that the 20th century was the least repressive in history with the democratization of the west, the end of most slavery, and the establishment of the UN, GATT and World Court. Of course, this does not mean that the world is not a very brutal, oppressive place.
Oh, and transparency does not mean what all you transparency idiots think it does. It has opposite meanings: invisible and "not hiding anything". Unfortunately, when a political leader says "we are being transparent" you have no clue which meaning they intend. "Transparency" is the most perfect "double-speak" word in history. Of course, my ranting won't stop the Starbuckistan delegation to the UN from demanding more transparency.
This is incorrect. The reason apps are stored in internal memory is to prevent users from removing apps when they remove the SD card. That's it. Piracy is *NOT* even a factor in this decision as you can move applications off the phone using a myriad of FTP and File Manager apps.
That said, I totally disagree with not letting the user choose where to store applications.
If you are going to say you are not hearing good things about a product or a person, please share what that bad thing is. Otherwise, go back to your cubicle at your PR firm.
Android is remarkably difficult to crash. There are some applications that crash from time to time, but an application crash does not take your phone offline. Google's built in aps are remarkably reliable. Third party applications can extend or replace included applications (like the dialer or address book) it is possible that an unstable 3rd party app can make things less stable. That's the price you pay for having an open platform, and well worth it based on the functionality that I have on my phone that you can never, ever have with an iPhone (try to get Google Voice, Handcent SMS, Locale and Lattitude on an iPhone).
It's remarkable that the gadget press still treats each Android phone as some kind of unique product. Reality is that Android phones are "clones" so it's a lot like comparing an ALR 386 vs a Compaq 386 back in 1990. There are differences between models, but Android phones are more of a category that a single product.
Oh, and the gadget press just got jobbed by some great PR work by Google, T-Mobile and HTC. They fell for "ooooh a new Google Phone yet again." (have to answer phone - my G-1 is ringing).
This isn't to to poster. Now that you've got the word out, you might find a buyer.
Everyone else: stop telling these people they can't do it, and are idiots for asking. They are smarter than you as they have got 50,000-60,000 people who are now aware of what they have. Also, no one has a freaking clue the first time you sell a company, and often after selling a few. Why? BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY FEW RULES. Just make sure you are getting paid in something that has real value and will continue to unitl your no-sell period ends. Having a lawyer is a give on deals like these.
Are you interviewing for the Compete Manager position? If so, you will help OO.o's cause immeasurable as you clearly have no grasp of:
A) What OO.o's value prop is. B) How much the market likes the newer, less ugly versions of Office (hint: they aren't racing to upgrade) C) $450 vs. $0
I sometimes wonder if Fanbois run on their favorite operating systems. Then I realize:
Mac Fanbois would be friendlier and more animated. Linux Fanbois would be much more reliable, open and respect others freedom to choose. Amiga Fanbois could multitask meaning discuss more than an OS that has been gone for 15 years. Windows Fanbois would randomly stop talking due to crashing. iPhone Fanbois could not do more than one thing at a time. Android Fanbois would still be strange.
Medical already have tablets. Since about 2002. See Motion Computing, HP, Fujitsu and others. They do all this stuff already. And Windows is needed because the EMR software is Windows based already. Yes, the problems are all the same ones you describe, with the exception of displaying 2d images. That's childs play for todays dual core machines.
Drop the YOU aren't in the target market crap. If Apple doesn't make what I want I'll buy from somewhere else, and so will others like me. If Apple makes what I want, then I'll buy an Apple.
The UI developers have somehow created a UI system that somehow blows dozens of MB but actually provides less customisability and ease of use than Windows.
You were doing OK until you hit this. There are few standards on the Windows platform for GUI that matter. Look at Windows Media Player, MS Word and, just for the hell of it, Internet Explorer 8. Toss in Lotus Notes, Quickbooks, iTunes and you have a full swing helpdesk nightmare. KDE and Gnome applications are remarkably consistent in their respective UIs. On top of that, I can run KDE apps on Gnome and Gnome apps on KDE. It just works.
I'll take Linux over Windows every day because the business model is not selling defective by design software and then extorting money from the user to fix known defects. Your hardware, driver, and developer rant? I've never experienced the same issue - save hardware documentation. I've had many hardware manufacturers who have withheld documentation, but nary an open source project that did or failed to have workable documentation after the first version or two (about par for the course for proprietary software, anyway..
Is it that security requires the sandboxing of Java and there is no other adequate way to handle that? s no other adequate way to handle that?
Not at all. Android takes a compile to Virtual Machine strategy to ensure compatibility. Both achieve similar results, but with Android, you get one binary that runs everywhere, where with C you get one source that compiles and then might run everywhere.
Regardless of who the hacker was or the moral turpitude of the hacker, it does not change the absolutely destructive nature of the contents of these emails. Those emails give good reason to question everything. This issue cannot be scotched, and it would best serve humanity to deal with with complete transparency so that we can get back to the important business of saving the earth.
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Um... only F-16 in the current Air Force inventory is single engine... and it costs more to maintain than does F/A-18...
they've pretty much been whipping on the US Air Force when it comes to both aircraft and lasers and missile defense systems.
This has been going on since the 1950s.
Navy: F-8 Crusader. Air Force: F-100, F-101, etc...
Navy: F-4 Phantom II Air Force: F-101, F-105 - Result: AF forced to buy Navy planes.
Navy: A-4 and A-7. Air Force: THUNDERCHIEF! followed by A-7 (another AF forced to buy Navy planes)
Navy: Standard Missile (Ground to air) Air Force: Bunch of crap. Nike, Bomarc, etc...
Navy: Sparrow AAM Air Force: Falcon AAM
Navy: Phoenix AAM Air Force: Still Falcon AAM
Navy: Trident Air Force: MX - Guess which one is still in service.
Navy: F-14 Air Force: F-15. Close, but the Navy aircraft had superior long range ability (100+Mile range with Phoenix AAM) and the Air Force craft was a little better dogfighter.
Basically, there are very few situations where the Navy has had inferior equipment to the Air Force since the mid 1950s. When it's close, as in the F-16 vs F/A-18 or the F-14 vs the F-15 (hated seeing the Tomcat wear out, carrier life is rough) usually the Navy aircraft costs a lot less to operate.
Well, it's what this whole thing reminds me of. Music simply isn't worth what it used to be because there's now more competition, and more choice in the market place. Warner needs to get smaller very quickly to survive.
If I ever start a band I will name it "Watching Diplodocus Starve"
Hmm. That must be what that "AutoFilter" menu item is for in OpenOffice? Perhaps you missed the "Group and Outline" menu, too? That little "AutoOutline" option is pretty neat, too (no wizard needed)
Or perhaps you just have *have not used* OpenOffice Spreadsheet lately?
The one place where Excel still has an much of an advantage is PivotTables.
Here's what the movie, record industry and politicians don't get:
Safe harbor and peer to peer networking made the Internet possible.
Wrong. Let's not act like a product category that had been around for 10 years prior to iPhone was suddenly created by Apple. Apple did not create the smart phone. They did not even define the product:
Palm, Blackberry and Microsoft (to a lesser extent) defined the product. Apple came out with the best model in the 2008 model year. That is the extent of the achievement, and to give Apple more credit is simply an insult to the people that created iconic products like the Blackberry, Treo and to a lesser degree WinMo smartphones that defined the platform that Apple added incremental improvements to.
It is telling that even my lowly G-1 has more features than the same generation iPhone (keyboard, removable battery, 3G, removable memory, metal detector, etc...).
Finally, Android has *already won the war* with Apple. It's pretty much exactly like Mac vs. PC in the early 90s. Developers who pass on Android for iPhone will be seen as shortsighted by the end of this year as marketshare expands.
In the long run, I have little fear of China. First, their oppressive government will eventually moderate or fail as the population becomes more educated and more connected to the rest of the world. Second, as China engages with other nations, they have quickly learned how taking shortcuts such as using lead paint on toys is not the path to success. Third, there is the lesson of Google, where China is learning that there is a high cost to forcing the private sector at private expense to do the government's bidding. Finally, China's public health issues and personal liberty issues are on a collision course with it's government ability to stay in power.
I am seeing countries continually regressing in the moral and ethical obligations, a degradation of honesty, transparency, and openness all in the name of making more money.
You've obviously skipped political science and political philosophy courses. There are a few things that have not changed since man started scraping symbols on stone tablets:
* Justice rarely triumphs over power.
* The victor writes the history books.
* Self interest is the only value that matters to nation-states.
Don't plan on it changing because we are using electrons instead of chisels.
One might argue that the 20th century was the least repressive in history with the democratization of the west, the end of most slavery, and the establishment of the UN, GATT and World Court. Of course, this does not mean that the world is not a very brutal, oppressive place.
Oh, and transparency does not mean what all you transparency idiots think it does. It has opposite meanings: invisible and "not hiding anything". Unfortunately, when a political leader says "we are being transparent" you have no clue which meaning they intend. "Transparency" is the most perfect "double-speak" word in history. Of course, my ranting won't stop the Starbuckistan delegation to the UN from demanding more transparency.
Analysts still don't get that Android is no longer owned by Google. It is now owned by the Open Handset Alliance.
If Wikileaks does this, it will take about 30 seconds for a new and free alternative to step up.
This is incorrect. The reason apps are stored in internal memory is to prevent users from removing apps when they remove the SD card. That's it. Piracy is *NOT* even a factor in this decision as you can move applications off the phone using a myriad of FTP and File Manager apps.
That said, I totally disagree with not letting the user choose where to store applications.
You can console yourself that there are more flatulence apps of better quality for iPhone than Android.
So, Apple still wants to be Apple; and Google wants to be the new Microsoft.
Except Google no longer owns Android. The term Google phone means it comes with Google applications installed.
I was hoping that I could avoid comparing Android to Windows as it's a much better product at this point in it's life than was Windows.
If you are going to say you are not hearing good things about a product or a person, please share what that bad thing is. Otherwise, go back to your cubicle at your PR firm.
Android is remarkably difficult to crash. There are some applications that crash from time to time, but an application crash does not take your phone offline. Google's built in aps are remarkably reliable. Third party applications can extend or replace included applications (like the dialer or address book) it is possible that an unstable 3rd party app can make things less stable. That's the price you pay for having an open platform, and well worth it based on the functionality that I have on my phone that you can never, ever have with an iPhone (try to get Google Voice, Handcent SMS, Locale and Lattitude on an iPhone).
It's remarkable that the gadget press still treats each Android phone as some kind of unique product. Reality is that Android phones are "clones" so it's a lot like comparing an ALR 386 vs a Compaq 386 back in 1990. There are differences between models, but Android phones are more of a category that a single product.
Oh, and the gadget press just got jobbed by some great PR work by Google, T-Mobile and HTC. They fell for "ooooh a new Google Phone yet again." (have to answer phone - my G-1 is ringing).
This isn't to to poster. Now that you've got the word out, you might find a buyer.
Everyone else: stop telling these people they can't do it, and are idiots for asking. They are smarter than you as they have got 50,000-60,000 people who are now aware of what they have. Also, no one has a freaking clue the first time you sell a company, and often after selling a few. Why? BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY FEW RULES. Just make sure you are getting paid in something that has real value and will continue to unitl your no-sell period ends. Having a lawyer is a give on deals like these.
Are you interviewing for the Compete Manager position? If so, you will help OO.o's cause immeasurable as you clearly have no grasp of:
A) What OO.o's value prop is.
B) How much the market likes the newer, less ugly versions of Office (hint: they aren't racing to upgrade)
C) $450 vs. $0
Good luck with the interview.
I sometimes wonder if Fanbois run on their favorite operating systems. Then I realize:
Mac Fanbois would be friendlier and more animated.
Linux Fanbois would be much more reliable, open and respect others freedom to choose.
Amiga Fanbois could multitask meaning discuss more than an OS that has been gone for 15 years.
Windows Fanbois would randomly stop talking due to crashing.
iPhone Fanbois could not do more than one thing at a time.
Android Fanbois would still be strange.
Medical already have tablets. Since about 2002. See Motion Computing, HP, Fujitsu and others. They do all this stuff already. And Windows is needed because the EMR software is Windows based already. Yes, the problems are all the same ones you describe, with the exception of displaying 2d images. That's childs play for todays dual core machines.
Drop the YOU aren't in the target market crap. If Apple doesn't make what I want I'll buy from somewhere else, and so will others like me. If Apple makes what I want, then I'll buy an Apple.
P.S. I don't sit at a desk all day.
The UI developers have somehow created a UI system that somehow blows dozens of MB but actually provides less customisability and ease of use than Windows.
You were doing OK until you hit this. There are few standards on the Windows platform for GUI that matter. Look at Windows Media Player, MS Word and, just for the hell of it, Internet Explorer 8. Toss in Lotus Notes, Quickbooks, iTunes and you have a full swing helpdesk nightmare. KDE and Gnome applications are remarkably consistent in their respective UIs. On top of that, I can run KDE apps on Gnome and Gnome apps on KDE. It just works.
I'll take Linux over Windows every day because the business model is not selling defective by design software and then extorting money from the user to fix known defects. Your hardware, driver, and developer rant? I've never experienced the same issue - save hardware documentation. I've had many hardware manufacturers who have withheld documentation, but nary an open source project that did or failed to have workable documentation after the first version or two (about par for the course for proprietary software, anyway..
Is it that security requires the sandboxing of Java and there is no other adequate way to handle that? s no other adequate way to handle that?
Not at all. Android takes a compile to Virtual Machine strategy to ensure compatibility. Both achieve similar results, but with Android, you get one binary that runs everywhere, where with C you get one source that compiles and then might run everywhere.
Woosh.
Calling your opponent names does not help your credibility much, Mart. It does serve to prove the point that your opponent is making.
Regardless of who the hacker was or the moral turpitude of the hacker, it does not change the absolutely destructive nature of the contents of these emails. Those emails give good reason to question everything. This issue cannot be scotched, and it would best serve humanity to deal with with complete transparency so that we can get back to the important business of saving the earth.