Goalposts? I'm not the one arguing a tautology. Perhaps you misunderstood my original comment. I was comparing the ideology of communism to the ideology of web development, and in particular, the belief in the historical inevitability of them both sweeping the world.
They'd like to think the web browser is special, but it is nothing more than a document viewer that has been coerced into being a runtime. There are better runtimes, and there are better toolkits for writing applications. Native development is not going anywhere. In fact, thanks to Android and the iPhone, it is going through something of a resurgency in spite of all the "web 2.0" hype. And for some reason, despite having perfectly capable modern browsers on these phones, many web properties are distributing native applications instead of improving the mobile version of their web interface.
Have you not heard of Javascript? Find me a major site that doesn't use it.
Every application ever written in the history of computers that doesn't use Javascript?
(I'm not sure what you mean by "site". Are you referring to the place where an application is installed, or where it is executed, or only where its data is stored?)
It's taken time to develop the standards that enable platform agnosticism of more vanilla HTML standards, and it will take time to flesh out new standards that compete with native toolkits for interaction. But it will happen, and compiled, single platform application development will be nearly unheard of.
The whole world, on one inferior runtime simply because it is the same everywhere? No, it did not happen for communism, and will not happen for web development.
I wonder how many people realize that a low-level drawing API undermines the very ideology that says HTML-based applications are better than native applications.
The "Think Tank MBA" contest is not affiliated with any school or MBA program, but is run by a right-wing advocacy organization. The contestant in question is not even a student, but is an employee of another right-wing advocacy organization.
To think, I used to read that moron's old blog. I guess I've grown up since then.
I'm not convinced that industry can solve this mess that government created.
You people are like children. Mommy, let us do this! Mommy, let us do that! Then things don't work out quite the way you wanted them to. Mommy, it's all your fault!
It would take more than that to make a huge multinational blink, but I'm sure they'd love a reduction in the patent arms race. Patent attorneys are expensive, most patents don't generate any licensing revenue. Do you think they're going to cry when filing becomes cost prohibitive for their smaller competitors?
Requiring a company that has been granted exceptional access to the market on monopoly terms to behave is far different than requiring Apple to adopt a business model they consider harmful, when there's other players in the market capable of adopting the business model you want.
Players who have been sued over supposed patent violations. Apple wants a monopoly, and without Android, they'd damn near have it.
Besides, I have a choice between Comcast, AT&T, and Clearwire, just as I have a choice between Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry. It is an artifact of their negotiation with the state that gives the state authority to regulate what telecommunication companies can dictate to their customers. That has no bearing on the "rightness" or "wrongness" of what they're doing. Remember, too, that Apple's ability to dictate the terms by which we use their devices, which are, after all, the property of the owners and not Apple, is made possible by copyright law and the owner's inability to put software on the device without using, in some way or another, a copy of Apple's software. Copyright is granted by the state, just as Comcast's access to easements is granted.
And Comcast has the right to block your Internet when it sees you watching Hulu instead of subscribing to its cable channels.
Be careful where letting the legal framework lead your norms, rather than your norms leading your legal framework, takes you. This shit isn't physics, there are no absolutes in human affairs.
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Quotations or GTFO.
Not believing in the divinity of Jesus is pretty much the very definition of "not Christian".
Goalposts? I'm not the one arguing a tautology. Perhaps you misunderstood my original comment. I was comparing the ideology of communism to the ideology of web development, and in particular, the belief in the historical inevitability of them both sweeping the world.
They'd like to think the web browser is special, but it is nothing more than a document viewer that has been coerced into being a runtime. There are better runtimes, and there are better toolkits for writing applications. Native development is not going anywhere. In fact, thanks to Android and the iPhone, it is going through something of a resurgency in spite of all the "web 2.0" hype. And for some reason, despite having perfectly capable modern browsers on these phones, many web properties are distributing native applications instead of improving the mobile version of their web interface.
Have you not heard of Javascript? Find me a major site that doesn't use it.
Every application ever written in the history of computers that doesn't use Javascript?
(I'm not sure what you mean by "site". Are you referring to the place where an application is installed, or where it is executed, or only where its data is stored?)
The whole world, on one inferior runtime simply because it is the same everywhere? No, it did not happen for communism, and will not happen for web development.
A drawing API allows drawing!
I wonder how many people realize that a low-level drawing API undermines the very ideology that says HTML-based applications are better than native applications.
Need vacations? Watch TV.
The Travel Channel is exactly like manned space exploration, because you're never going to leave this rock. It's vicarious tourism.
Unmanned exploration is National Geographic, because the point is to learn something.
Yes, and unmanned drones are how we will maintain air superiority. We can lead just as effectively with unmanned space exploration.
That's what jailbreaking is for.
Oh, dear, an anonymous coward compared me to a straw man!
Go on, I've got over ten years of posting history. Surely you can come up with an actual example of my feeble intellect.
Seriously though, if you thought that was real, your BS detector is broken.
Not real?
http://www.atlasnetwork.org/networknews/wp-content/uploads/nonetbrutality-ppt.ppt
That is not a Power Point presentation. It is only a mirage.
The contest in question was *funded* by lobbyists.
The "Think Tank MBA" contest is not affiliated with any school or MBA program, but is run by a right-wing advocacy organization. The contestant in question is not even a student, but is an employee of another right-wing advocacy organization.
To think, I used to read that moron's old blog. I guess I've grown up since then.
Also, you do not have a god given right to the internet.
No, God specifically told me I have a right to the Internet. He said we all do.
Trustworthy people usually don't have such a whiny sense of entitlement. They've probably been a honeypot all along.
That is one seriously weak set of data you chose for supporting your thesis.
A retarded blog post about a Breitbart story? What's next, embedded YouTube of Glenn Beck?
Taco, be a fucking editor. Employ some editorial discretion.
I'm not convinced that industry can solve this mess that government created.
You people are like children. Mommy, let us do this! Mommy, let us do that! Then things don't work out quite the way you wanted them to. Mommy, it's all your fault!
Because making filing a patent cost as much as as house is really going help the independent inventor.
It would take more than that to make a huge multinational blink, but I'm sure they'd love a reduction in the patent arms race. Patent attorneys are expensive, most patents don't generate any licensing revenue. Do you think they're going to cry when filing becomes cost prohibitive for their smaller competitors?
And the vast majority of cost in filing a patent is not in the filing fee. You are naive.
They don't call out Ken Cuccinelli by name. I don't see why not, that mofo needs all the bad publicity we can muster.
Sorry, we need those resources to send heavy bags of water to Mars!
Requiring a company that has been granted exceptional access to the market on monopoly terms to behave is far different than requiring Apple to adopt a business model they consider harmful, when there's other players in the market capable of adopting the business model you want.
Players who have been sued over supposed patent violations. Apple wants a monopoly, and without Android, they'd damn near have it.
Besides, I have a choice between Comcast, AT&T, and Clearwire, just as I have a choice between Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry. It is an artifact of their negotiation with the state that gives the state authority to regulate what telecommunication companies can dictate to their customers. That has no bearing on the "rightness" or "wrongness" of what they're doing. Remember, too, that Apple's ability to dictate the terms by which we use their devices, which are, after all, the property of the owners and not Apple, is made possible by copyright law and the owner's inability to put software on the device without using, in some way or another, a copy of Apple's software. Copyright is granted by the state, just as Comcast's access to easements is granted.
And Comcast has the right to block your Internet when it sees you watching Hulu instead of subscribing to its cable channels.
Be careful where letting the legal framework lead your norms, rather than your norms leading your legal framework, takes you. This shit isn't physics, there are no absolutes in human affairs.
If the "right" existed independent on social norms, why was it ignored? Why was its existence not self-evident?
No, one social norm conquered a different one.