You are mistaken. As yesterday's thread clearly demonstrates, Apple and its admirers are firmly on the side of restricting your devices for your own "protection".
My Zire 71 could play mp3s in the background with no perceptible affect on performance, and it had only 16 MB of memory. My Nokia and Pocket PC devices of the same era could do the same, with multiple applications running, in around 32 MB of memory.
Oh, and BTW, on all these devices that was total memory. There was no 8 to 32 gigabytes of non-volatile memory to use as storage or scratch space. I suppose if you could afford the wait you could write to a CF or SD card, but the use case would really have to require it.
Exactly how stupid do you think programmers are? You're basically accusing Apple's engineers, and all iPhone developers, of being incompetent.
You obviously don't understand the realities of embedded devices.
But here's a challenge to prove yourself: explain to us how the BlackBerry manages to run many background processes, receives push email and other content, and still manages to last longer than the iPhone on a single charge.
Apple assumes that its users are stupid, and its programmers are stupid. And you people eat it right up.
Apple is the new Microsoft. Even the Apple zealots agree. Point out some flaw with Apple products, and they will invariably link to a similar example by Microsoft. I don't know why they are so quick to make the association, but I think it is similar to how Republicans like to ingratiate themselves to the public by showing how similar they are to Bill Clinton.
It is true that the interface libraries are also covered by the GPL. But this can be gotten around easily enough by writing your own interface libraries, or having a GPLed thunk which speaks a proprietary protocol to your proprietary application and then uses the MySQL GPLed interface layer to talk to MySQL.
Wow, freedom sure sounds complicated.
In other words, "The GPL of MySQL is awesomer because, with a lot of work, you can violate its intent without violating the license!"
I have a theory that Republicans and Apple zealots have almost the same in-group / out-group mental processes.
They perceive themselves as underdogs and have inferiority complexes. They are in reality quite successful, due to careful planning and clever marketing and unwavering commitment to certain goals. The elites have a deep understanding of human psychology, and exploit it on both their enemies and followers ruthlessly. Criticism of their leader or "platform" is interpreted as personal attacks by every member of the group. They employ a very selective morality, and seem incapable of recognizing hypocrisy. Nothing less than the complete acceptance of the standard dogma is tolerated for membership in the "tribe".
Of course, the difference is, after actually attaining power, Apple remains competent.
If doom wasn't predicted, why would architects of the Green Revolution such as Norman Borlaug consider increasing food production a moral imperative? You people keep dismissing the cause for the effect.
Blind faith in technological progress is particularly dangerous mental disease. Ten years ago the Tofflerians were saying the Internet would never be controlled, that it would bring about some kind of intellectual utopia, and that we didn't government policy protecting its beautiful state of anarchy because it was bigger than any one government.
And yet, here were are, with clandestine traffic shaping, people being banned for actually using what was advertised, and the governments of the world censoring it and finding it an easier means to spy on everyone.
Think about it - if you let developers install instant messengers as background tasks, how will you handle that in the UI? As you are typing an email, a big popup box jumps in your way? Or maybe you clutter the screen with little taskbar-like icons blinking and flashing and beeping?
I know! It's like when I'm listening to music, and my phone rings. I'm not running the phone application, so who the fuck do these programmers think they are, assuming that I want my music interrupted to tell me I have a phone call? Idiots!
I'm not sure which is more pathetic - the fact that so few Democrats are willing to risk their careers to really go after these traitors, or that there are so many whiners who blame them instead of the Republicans committing the treason.
Though this is a standard psychological coping mechanism - the powerless blame an external entity instead of their actual oppressor. That way, they get to complain with their ego intact, rather than bring attention to how they're actually being dominated.
In terms of just giving an opinion, every person on Earth has exactly the same right as anyone else. There's no such as having more of a "right" than someone else. You have it or you don't, period.
So, then, why are all these Apple zealots telling people to STFU?
Objective C is a viable language on one platform. Ok, if you count the iPhone separately, two platforms. Java is available on practically every platform in active use. Java is the middleware platform of choice. I'd probably be underestimating if I said there is over 1000 times the amount software written in Java over Objective C.
BlackBerry, the currently dominant smartphone, is based entirely on Java. Android is also based on Java, though with a custom bytecode and runtime engine. And J2ME on feature phones is still the largest market for mobile applications. There are some seriously good business reasons why the iPhone needs Java.
Whilst I may disagree with their tactics, I'm certainly not going to tell them how to run their business
Why not? Everyone and their mother tells Microsoft how to run their business. Steve Jobs told the music industry how to run their business. What's wrong with telling Apple how to avoid shooting itself in the foot? What's wrong with helping people with free advice?
Also, remember that every contributor to BSD, WebKit, libxml, gcc, etc. has code on the iPhone. Are you going to say they can't express an opinion on how it should be used?
Why should they? How much of the software on the device did Apple actually originally write? The "they made it, they control it" argument is a weak cop-out. Legally, they can do what they want with it, but any appeal to artistic moral rights is pure bullshit. There is no iPhone without the contributions of thousands who have come before it, who forged the smartphone market, who invented the technologies Apple merely licensed, who wrote the BSD kernel, WebKit, and several other FOSS libraries that are part of the SDK. They are standing on the shoulders of giants, and they have a responsibility to let this revolutionary device live up to its full potential.
Nothing beautiful ever grows out of ham-fisted control.
So why is closing a Mac window harder than threading a needle? And with the close button so small, why do standard dialogs generally lack an "OK" or "Close" button, with the expectation that we use those itty-bitty buttons way up in the corner?
Oh, but it's Apple, that means the UI is good by definition!
But he is a laughingstock, and more and more people are coming to realize that. He is the best spokesperson for anti-game hysteria we could possibly wish for. Give the man a camera and a mic, and he'll hang himself over and over again.
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Is it private property? Any schmuck can put up a "Private Road" sign, it doesn't mean they own the road.
So should you. Stop being angry. It helps nothing and wastes your energy pointlessly.
So ends the wall of bold text.
Submissive and defeated is no way to go through life. Don't rationalize it by taking the side of your enemies.
No, their official statements and the EULA of the iPhone SDK demonstrate their policies and intentions. Have you not been paying attention?
Wishing for something hard enough does not make it come true, and your speculation is just wishful thinking.
You are mistaken. As yesterday's thread clearly demonstrates, Apple and its admirers are firmly on the side of restricting your devices for your own "protection".
My Zire 71 could play mp3s in the background with no perceptible affect on performance, and it had only 16 MB of memory. My Nokia and Pocket PC devices of the same era could do the same, with multiple applications running, in around 32 MB of memory.
Oh, and BTW, on all these devices that was total memory. There was no 8 to 32 gigabytes of non-volatile memory to use as storage or scratch space. I suppose if you could afford the wait you could write to a CF or SD card, but the use case would really have to require it.
Exactly how stupid do you think programmers are? You're basically accusing Apple's engineers, and all iPhone developers, of being incompetent.
You obviously don't understand the realities of embedded devices.
But here's a challenge to prove yourself: explain to us how the BlackBerry manages to run many background processes, receives push email and other content, and still manages to last longer than the iPhone on a single charge.
Apple assumes that its users are stupid, and its programmers are stupid. And you people eat it right up.
Apple is the new Microsoft. Even the Apple zealots agree. Point out some flaw with Apple products, and they will invariably link to a similar example by Microsoft. I don't know why they are so quick to make the association, but I think it is similar to how Republicans like to ingratiate themselves to the public by showing how similar they are to Bill Clinton.
So who clean room reverse-engineered the in-memory structure of the WoW client and wrote a specification that he could code against?
Yeah, I don't think they'll have any trouble proving that he's copied the software and agreed to the EULA by logging into the game.
It is true that the interface libraries are also covered by the GPL. But this can be gotten around easily enough by writing your own interface libraries, or having a GPLed thunk which speaks a proprietary protocol to your proprietary application and then uses the MySQL GPLed interface layer to talk to MySQL.
Wow, freedom sure sounds complicated.
In other words, "The GPL of MySQL is awesomer because, with a lot of work, you can violate its intent without violating the license!"
See, Apple and Google wrote their own software from the ground up.
lolwut?
I have a theory that Republicans and Apple zealots have almost the same in-group / out-group mental processes.
They perceive themselves as underdogs and have inferiority complexes.
They are in reality quite successful, due to careful planning and clever marketing and unwavering commitment to certain goals.
The elites have a deep understanding of human psychology, and exploit it on both their enemies and followers ruthlessly.
Criticism of their leader or "platform" is interpreted as personal attacks by every member of the group.
They employ a very selective morality, and seem incapable of recognizing hypocrisy.
Nothing less than the complete acceptance of the standard dogma is tolerated for membership in the "tribe".
Of course, the difference is, after actually attaining power, Apple remains competent.
If doom wasn't predicted, why would architects of the Green Revolution such as Norman Borlaug consider increasing food production a moral imperative? You people keep dismissing the cause for the effect.
Blind faith in technological progress is particularly dangerous mental disease. Ten years ago the Tofflerians were saying the Internet would never be controlled, that it would bring about some kind of intellectual utopia, and that we didn't government policy protecting its beautiful state of anarchy because it was bigger than any one government.
And yet, here were are, with clandestine traffic shaping, people being banned for actually using what was advertised, and the governments of the world censoring it and finding it an easier means to spy on everyone.
Think about it - if you let developers install instant messengers as background tasks, how will you handle that in the UI? As you are typing an email, a big popup box jumps in your way? Or maybe you clutter the screen with little taskbar-like icons blinking and flashing and beeping?
I know! It's like when I'm listening to music, and my phone rings. I'm not running the phone application, so who the fuck do these programmers think they are, assuming that I want my music interrupted to tell me I have a phone call? Idiots!
I'm not sure which is more pathetic - the fact that so few Democrats are willing to risk their careers to really go after these traitors, or that there are so many whiners who blame them instead of the Republicans committing the treason.
Though this is a standard psychological coping mechanism - the powerless blame an external entity instead of their actual oppressor. That way, they get to complain with their ego intact, rather than bring attention to how they're actually being dominated.
In terms of just giving an opinion, every person on Earth has exactly the same right as anyone else. There's no such as having more of a "right" than someone else. You have it or you don't, period.
So, then, why are all these Apple zealots telling people to STFU?
Objective C is a viable language on one platform. Ok, if you count the iPhone separately, two platforms. Java is available on practically every platform in active use. Java is the middleware platform of choice. I'd probably be underestimating if I said there is over 1000 times the amount software written in Java over Objective C.
BlackBerry, the currently dominant smartphone, is based entirely on Java. Android is also based on Java, though with a custom bytecode and runtime engine. And J2ME on feature phones is still the largest market for mobile applications. There are some seriously good business reasons why the iPhone needs Java.
Whilst I may disagree with their tactics, I'm certainly not going to tell them how to run their business
Why not? Everyone and their mother tells Microsoft how to run their business. Steve Jobs told the music industry how to run their business. What's wrong with telling Apple how to avoid shooting itself in the foot? What's wrong with helping people with free advice?
Also, remember that every contributor to BSD, WebKit, libxml, gcc, etc. has code on the iPhone. Are you going to say they can't express an opinion on how it should be used?
When it succumbs to its darker impulses, I hope that it at least remembers to live by the Code of Isaac.
Why should they? How much of the software on the device did Apple actually originally write? The "they made it, they control it" argument is a weak cop-out. Legally, they can do what they want with it, but any appeal to artistic moral rights is pure bullshit. There is no iPhone without the contributions of thousands who have come before it, who forged the smartphone market, who invented the technologies Apple merely licensed, who wrote the BSD kernel, WebKit, and several other FOSS libraries that are part of the SDK. They are standing on the shoulders of giants, and they have a responsibility to let this revolutionary device live up to its full potential.
Nothing beautiful ever grows out of ham-fisted control.
(Thankfully, Google seems to understand this: there is another...)
What, flip-flopping on having a real SDK doesn't look worried to you?
So why is closing a Mac window harder than threading a needle? And with the close button so small, why do standard dialogs generally lack an "OK" or "Close" button, with the expectation that we use those itty-bitty buttons way up in the corner?
Oh, but it's Apple, that means the UI is good by definition!
But he is a laughingstock, and more and more people are coming to realize that. He is the best spokesperson for anti-game hysteria we could possibly wish for. Give the man a camera and a mic, and he'll hang himself over and over again.
Why is there never a listing for IQ?
Or, for that matter, weight?
Those two numbers alone would drastically increase the value of the search criteria of internet matchmaking services.
Good idea. While we're at it, let's pretend China doesn't exist, either. There shall be no discussion of any computer made there.
Toshiba will think twice next time when it comes to forcing competing formats on consumers.
I bet you post comments on YouTube.