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Apparently, NoScript is the fastest browser available.
Do people really want video playing inside their browser? Who actually likes Hulu's user interface? Does anyone actually read PDF files in the plugin who knows how to turn that off? Sure, it's nice to group YouTube videos together on your blog, but does it really matter that they play in-situ?
Let's admit what the browser has become - a sandboxed runtime, with a plug-in component model that destroys whatever advantages that once entailed. It's a hack on top of a hack on top of a hack. When people realized that the browser could be a crude engine for applications, and not just a viewer for linked documents, everything went to hell.
"Microsoft's loss of IE market power, in turn, could have serious consequences for the company's efforts to compete with Google on the Web."
Um, Internet Explorer loads google.com just fine. Chrome loads microsoft.com just fine.
It doesn't matter what their market share is, Microsoft already lost. The web is now firmly based on open standards, not proprietary technology tied to a specific operating system.
What we should be more concerned with is the fact that everything depends on Javascript.
You're right. It's a lot closer to the fact that no one can sell a replacement to the default music player, despite the fact that the Apple player sucks, and Apple nearly has a monopoly on portable mp3 players, and doesn't allow interoperability with any competing device in iTunes, nor any competing DRM scheme from other music stores. Apple is "dumping" a music player just like Microsoft is "dumping" a web browser.
3. Change Apple's behavior by
a.) Educating people on how they're being controlled by Apple and making them ashamed of it
b.) Making the hypocrisy of Apple's marketing message synonymous with the brand itself
The key point is that Apple "treats people like a five year old".
They approved the app this time around because now the iPhone will have parental controls to filter objectionable material (included in the beta of 3.0).
So what you're saying is, because of Trent Reznor, Apple implemented parental controls in the week between the initial rejection and the application being accepted.
Wow, I had no idea he had that much influence. Trent Reznor is God.
Those features would all be nice, and I think 3.0 will fix many of those complaints
No it won't. And if the average user does not care either way, it makes more sense to give the sophisticated user the ability to run the applications of their choice, since the naive user won't be bothered to, if they actually cared about serving the customer's needs. But they don't. They serve Apple's needs, not the user, and not the developer.
It's called expectation management. If people don't know what is actually possible, they'll never ask for it. You are being controlled by Apple, and you are so whipped you're liking it.
Congratulations, you confused the consequence with the cause, not having the slightest understanding of the point being made. Have you considered a career in teaching? The pay is fairly low, but I hear the union guarantees benefits someone of your caliber could not get in a more competitive, merit-oriented market.
Oh, look, people blaming unions, without asking themselves why the unions have any power in the first place.
Why aren't there programmer unions? Why, because there are vast differences in skill and competence among programmers, and our salaries reflect that. Only the lowest dregs would ever consider forming a union, which would require us to reduce our output to undifferentiable units of work, like an assembly line. What makes sense in a factory does not make any sense in a profession that requires intelligence and creativity.
There are also vast differences in ability among teachers, but they are paid nearly the same regardless. Paid a salary that is pathetically poor for people of high intelligence and education. Their unit of work is the student, and all students are the same. Good teachers make test scores go up, and bad teachers make test scores go down. We are only willing to pay just enough to ensure that test scores don't go down. Education is expensive, after all. No sense in spending more than we have to.
We have a culture that does not value education, but does value cutting taxes, and generally has frowns upon "book learning" and intellectual pursuits. We have a profession that requires extensive education, higher than average intelligence, but pays barely above the poverty level, and considers the work output to be nearly indistinguishable.
And you blame the teachers for forming a union. Your children get the education you deserve.
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Henry McMaster, we all know that's you.
Only some fundie hick attorney would believe that all people looking for sex are in it for the money.
Unfortunately, Biden is making Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes Scholar.
Bill Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar. Biden makes Dan Quayle look like Bill Clinton?
That don't make no sense.
There is no honor in hiding the truth, you submissive little soldier.
It equally implies that the evidence underpinning the "denial" is incorrect.
So lets face it, there is very little science and an awful lot of jealous hatred of Al Gore motivating the deniers in this thread.
So you're telling us that cowardice is the categorical imperative?
Apparently, NoScript is the fastest browser available.
Do people really want video playing inside their browser? Who actually likes Hulu's user interface? Does anyone actually read PDF files in the plugin who knows how to turn that off? Sure, it's nice to group YouTube videos together on your blog, but does it really matter that they play in-situ?
Let's admit what the browser has become - a sandboxed runtime, with a plug-in component model that destroys whatever advantages that once entailed. It's a hack on top of a hack on top of a hack. When people realized that the browser could be a crude engine for applications, and not just a viewer for linked documents, everything went to hell.
Its open (EMCAScript) and finally has decent, standard support across major browsers.
Thus ensuring that comment systems reinvent the wheel, poorly, everywhere, while Facebook snoops on your every page view.
"Microsoft's loss of IE market power, in turn, could have serious consequences for the company's efforts to compete with Google on the Web."
Um, Internet Explorer loads google.com just fine. Chrome loads microsoft.com just fine.
It doesn't matter what their market share is, Microsoft already lost. The web is now firmly based on open standards, not proprietary technology tied to a specific operating system.
What we should be more concerned with is the fact that everything depends on Javascript.
let me miss my usual train too
The next Microsoft commercial: Apple makes you late for work.
You're right. It's a lot closer to the fact that no one can sell a replacement to the default music player, despite the fact that the Apple player sucks, and Apple nearly has a monopoly on portable mp3 players, and doesn't allow interoperability with any competing device in iTunes, nor any competing DRM scheme from other music stores. Apple is "dumping" a music player just like Microsoft is "dumping" a web browser.
obviously not about control because you can get apps by other means
Are you referring to the DMCA violation known as "jailbreaking"? How deliciously absurd.
Of course, many are quick to remind that it is Apple's store and they are free to do whatever they want with it.
Kind of like it is Microsoft's operating system, and they are free do anything they like with it. Except, it seems, provide a web browser.
That analogy will end up with you getting punched in the face.
NERD RAGE!
Don't fuck with the IT guy! He'll strangle you with cat-5! He'll stab you with a heat sink! He'll give you purple nurples with a hex screwdriver!
Luckily, you can smell him in time to make your getaway.
Companies seem to think that the IT dept is the most expendable for some reason.
Perhaps they are? Pretending you are the same as an engineer or software developer doesn't mean you create value like one.
It is easy to leapfrog over anyone whose knowledge is constrained by learning only what was necessary to complete a job.
College is four years of undirected play time. Smart people use that to make themselves smarter. The smartest don't even have to pay for it.
Correlation != causation, dammit.
If you actually understood what that means, why are you trying to claim that parental controls have anything to do with it?
3. Change Apple's behavior by
a.) Educating people on how they're being controlled by Apple and making them ashamed of it
b.) Making the hypocrisy of Apple's marketing message synonymous with the brand itself
The key point is that Apple "treats people like a five year old".
They approved the app this time around because now the iPhone will have parental controls to filter objectionable material (included in the beta of 3.0).
So what you're saying is, because of Trent Reznor, Apple implemented parental controls in the week between the initial rejection and the application being accepted.
Wow, I had no idea he had that much influence. Trent Reznor is God.
Wharrgarbl + Preemptive moderation whining + Signs post = Comedy gold!
The solution to despotic control over the things you own is to exploit security flaws within it? And that is praise for the despot?
Rationalize, you magnificent fanboy, rationalize!
getting up to snuff with their own application solutions
Oh, you ruined it! You can do more with a five year old Symbian phone than you can do with the iPhone.
Those features would all be nice, and I think 3.0 will fix many of those complaints
No it won't. And if the average user does not care either way, it makes more sense to give the sophisticated user the ability to run the applications of their choice, since the naive user won't be bothered to, if they actually cared about serving the customer's needs. But they don't. They serve Apple's needs, not the user, and not the developer.
It's called expectation management. If people don't know what is actually possible, they'll never ask for it. You are being controlled by Apple, and you are so whipped you're liking it.
None of that money was backed by gold, so it actually never existed!
Congratulations, you confused the consequence with the cause, not having the slightest understanding of the point being made. Have you considered a career in teaching? The pay is fairly low, but I hear the union guarantees benefits someone of your caliber could not get in a more competitive, merit-oriented market.
Oh, look, people blaming unions, without asking themselves why the unions have any power in the first place.
Why aren't there programmer unions? Why, because there are vast differences in skill and competence among programmers, and our salaries reflect that. Only the lowest dregs would ever consider forming a union, which would require us to reduce our output to undifferentiable units of work, like an assembly line. What makes sense in a factory does not make any sense in a profession that requires intelligence and creativity.
There are also vast differences in ability among teachers, but they are paid nearly the same regardless. Paid a salary that is pathetically poor for people of high intelligence and education. Their unit of work is the student, and all students are the same. Good teachers make test scores go up, and bad teachers make test scores go down. We are only willing to pay just enough to ensure that test scores don't go down. Education is expensive, after all. No sense in spending more than we have to.
We have a culture that does not value education, but does value cutting taxes, and generally has frowns upon "book learning" and intellectual pursuits. We have a profession that requires extensive education, higher than average intelligence, but pays barely above the poverty level, and considers the work output to be nearly indistinguishable.
And you blame the teachers for forming a union. Your children get the education you deserve.