Apple doesn't have quite the same market stranglehold that Microsoft did/does.
And that's a pretty important difference. Thanks to Android and Samsung, Apple does not have a stranglehold and cannot play kingmaker like MS could on the PC market .
Because your privacy settings are defined on a scale that Facebook controls, separately to the T&Cs. If they want to sell something of yours, all that they have to do is change the definition of the 'private' setting to mean 'share only with people who pay money, or are on your authorised people list'.
And the best part is that after Facebook's brilliantly successful IPO, with their stock price shooting through there roof and each Facebook user generating a staggering 5% of the revenue a Google user generates per annum it's not as if Facebook management is under any kind of pressure to find new and innovative ways to generate revenue.
Facebook doesn't own my data, I still have all my photos I uploaded
Actually by uploading your private data to Facebook you granted them a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide IP-license to use any of your stuff long as it is on the Facebook network even if it isn't posted there under your account. From their EULA:
"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."
On the other hand Kaspersky wants profit, being the first to report on something like this will likely gain them space in the spotlight for the moment at least which translates to profit...
Profit? If I had been a victim of this malware I'd be pretty pissed at Kaspersky since I'd definitely prefer to keep a very tight lid on this. There is great value in using a tool like this, once it has been discovered, to feed it's operator (presumably the Mossad) a big and steaming pile of plausible bullshit.
a year - by which time you've already heard the spoilers...
if you want to watch pop culture, you want to watch it at the time it is actually popular and people are discussing it
I don't have to wait a year. I could subscribe to the local cannel that has licensed GOT but, unfortunately, the only way to do that is by buying a 'package' including around a dozen other (mostly football, basketball, golf and motor racing dominated) sports channels I have no interest in and the channel that airs GOT has little else I am interested in either. I'm not about to pay USD 70 just for a cable subscription so I can watch GOT, I'm definitely not shelling out for a satellite dish and GOT not available on iTunes or some similar online service right now so the only other option is to pirate it. If GOT was released on iTunes, say a month after airing on HBO, I'd actually be prepared to wait that long and pay. As things stand right now I'll download a crappy illegal copy of GOT with spanish or russian subtexts just to get my fix it and then buy the DVD set in a years time when it arrives.
It isn't as bad as it seems. For most app developers, you just set the minimum SDK level that you want to support in Eclipse, and then it won't allow you to use any earlier APIs. As for fragmentation, it is no worse than Windows - where you need to support various combinations of: 32-bit / 64-bit, XP (release+SP1,SP2,SP3) / Windows 7 (release+SP1), various hardware manufacturers Dell/Lenovo/HP/Acer/Toshiba... the testing departments of large companies doing Windows development test and certify across many platform combinations. Undoubtedly, this is harder than having a single hardware/software platform, but it is not impossible or unmanageable.
I didn't mean to suggest it's unmanageable let alone impossible, just time and effort consuming. According to that article his gripe seems to be mainly with API fragmentation, and the enormous variety of display resolutions. Making his app look good on gawd knows how many display sizes and resolutions must be a time consuming task.
The problem with Android is that it is becoming a clustereff! I have an Android phone and Android tablet. I also have an iPhone, and iPad. I prefer the iPhone and iPad.
Here are some issues:
1) lack of updates! We have two android tablets and one android phone and the updates just SUCK! 2) apps will not work across devices. I can understand that tablet apps will not work on a phone. But I have phone games where if they run on the tablet the graphics do really funky things and are completely unusable. 3) Why on earth is the chrome browser only on ICS, and not honey comb? There is no excuse. 4) Battery life truly does suck in comparison to my iOS devices. 5) Performance and usability is lackluster. Windows Phone, and iOS devices have superior UI response. This goes back to the architectural design of Android vs iOS/Windows Phone.
Every Android device vendor seems to have their own custom ROM and you can't rely on the fact that they will update it. Basically, as a user, you can be lucky with an Android device or you can be SOL. When people ask me which Android device to buy I usually recommend the device vendor that seems to have the best track record on updates. Check out the following link, it's one of the best visualizations of the state of Android fragmentation I have yet seen: http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php Developing for Android looks like a bit of a nightmare but this guy is still surprisingly optimistic considering the legions of exotic devices he has to deal with.
Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today. Not only has he singlehandedly steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets (mobile music, handsets and tablets) but in the process he has sacrificed the growth and profits of not only his company but âoeecosystemâ companies such as Dell, Hewlett Packard and even Nokia. The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value â" and jobs.
And that is bad how? What I mean by that is that I sympathize with Microsoft share holders but I also regularly thank a long list of deities that Microsoft does not dominate the mobile music, handset, and tablet markets as well as desktop computing.
Why should a program expressed in VHDL and uploaded to an FPGA be worthy of patent protection, whilst the same algorithm implemented in C and running on a CPU isn't? Why should engineers in every industry have to worry about patents, but software engineers be excused?
The right answer is: neither engineer needs patent protection to make viable, marketable products, and thus neither should have it.
Ok, the patent system is broken. Let's fix that by abolishing the patent system! That will allow us to move on to the more onerous problem of fixing the problem of business monopolies by abolishing trade! And come to think of it police officers sometimes abuse their power, let's fix that by disbanding the police force! Or... perhaps, we should just fix what's wrong with these things? The engineer may not need patents to make viable marketable products but they sure help you to recoup the investment in time and money you made while developing and perfecting your invention. I agree with most of what the anti patent people are saying, the patent system is broken, but shooting the dog in not necessarily the best way to stop it from barking.
Lighthouses have been more usurped by radar than by GPS. Almost every vessel has radar now, which allows them to navigate any shore instead of just the few ones that got lighthouses.
In a war zone where the enemy has knocked out or james your GPS, and if you are in command of a radar stealthy naval surface vessel turning on radar is the equivalent of putting up a big flashing "shoot me" sign. Any naval vessel that wants to stay hidden must rely on passive navigation.
seem to remember a documentary from a us aircraft carrier, at regular intervals during the day someone was picked to go out and find the ships position the old fashion way and report it to the captain who could then check the gps to verify that they still knew how to do it
Hehe... I approve, especially if the reward for failure is toilet cleaning duty, with a toothbrush. Any ranking ships officer on a military vessel who fails that test deserves it.
While no accidents have been caused as yet, it has caused quite some disruption and has made ocean going craft suffer as well due to their heavy reliance on GPS signals.
It's amazing how many pilots/captains have completely lost the ability to navigate their vessels without electronics and the problem is made worse by the fact that the infrastructure you need to navigate without it has been neglected or even systematically dismantled in many countries. I have sometimes wondered what effect it would have on a major NATO military maneuver if you specified half way through the war-game that: "The enemy just knocked out several of our GPS satellites, please simulate this by not making any use of your GPS equipment nor any GPS enabled munitions except those that have a fallback mode".
You raise a good point, but it seems equally apparent that representative democracies pretty much universally fall prey to corruption.
This pretty much sums it up for me, and it's equally true for left and right wings politicians: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
There are many cases of evolution leading to simpler or dumber creatures that have other traits that give them an edge in their environment. It's not a thinking, planning system.
Well.... that explains Sarah Palin and a whole bunch of her friends and followers.
The 2nd Amendment isn't about deer, duck, or dove hunting - it is about fighting back against enemies both foriegn and domestic.
So that's the reason why there is a sheriffs patrol boat cruising up and down the Mississippi river near Baton Rouge Louisiana sporting a heavy machine gun and a belt fed Mark19 grenade launcher? They must have some pretty big alligators around there who recently had an Islamic awakening and joined Al Qaeda. So what's next? Mounting one of those grenade launchers at the foot end of your bed for home defense?
The "small government" policies that the political Right have tried to pretend they believe in have NEVER materialized in the real world.
It is really funny how the Republicans in the US can't shut up about small government and then in the next breath they rage on about how the "liberals" want to make defense cuts when in reality the USA should be aiming for a 1000 aircraft F-22 fleet, set up a few air mobile armored brigades go back to a 600 ship navy and invade Iran. As if the armed forces aren't a part of the big, bloated and evil government whose operations they want to carve up and outsource to private enterprise. The same goes for right wingers in other countries although they tend to be less obsessive about the military. In my own country, paradoxically, a recently departed and long lasting right wing government who officially calls it self the party of small government and low taxes expanded the state apparatus more than any other government over the last 50 years (by a wide margin) and it's the social democrats who are now stuck making painful speeding cuts which means (irony, irony) that our right wing friends with their spendthrift habits are now favorites to win the next election. The idiocy of the voting public is the same everywhere.
So when the FBI uses stings to catch international arms traffickers [chicagotribune.com], organized crime figures [eagleworldnews.com], corrupt public officials [nj.com], and embezzlers [post-gazette.com], are they "morons" too, or just would-be terrorists? Your post is nonsense.
Anybody who believes that Stingers are freely available on the US black market is a moron. It's probably easier to smuggle MANPADs into the USA than it is to obtain Stingers from illegal sources in the US. He has a point, these traps will catch complete idiots, any Al Quaeda operatives with a modicum of training will be a lot more careful.
Not anywhere around London anyway... This is why I'm fairly safe in my assumption that by the time a missile launches, the jet will likely be in its terminal dive, or close enough to it to not really matter otherwise.
The missiles involved sound like some sort of multiple round MANPAD on steroids that was designed to take out gunships or fast moving, low flying mud-movers. Not exactly your first choice for shooting down hijacked airliners so unless they are expecting air strikes on the Olympic stadiums or a gunship attack I think we can safely assume this measure is being taken mostly for propaganda value. Let's hope this doesn't backfire on the Britishers when the media, in a fit of collective reality detachment, launches a spectacular news analysis of what the damage will be if a jet airliner is shot down by a SAM and crashes in central London. I'm rather looking forward to the Olympics and it would be a pity if the tabloids were allowed to spoil it.
What do you have in mind when you call Hitler the movement right wing? (Amusingly, we're talking about the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but what's in a name?)
I meant only that it would be strange if something left wing came out of something as resolutely right wing as the Freikorps. Are you trying to make the argument that: socialist==left wing therefore everything with socialist in it's name must be left wing? If that is the case the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (that's North Korea) must be a constitutional republic and representative democracy (like the USA). There are many takes on both the left and right wing of politics and the both wings have borrowed heavily from each other. The Nazis were no exception. What I meant by: Strangely enough there is now an effort being made to pronounce the Nazis a left wing movement is that modern day conservatives are desperate to push Nazism out of their niece (the right wing) by blaming the Nazi movement and all of it's atrocities on the political left. If the best they can do justify this claim is to point at the word socialist in National Socialist German Workers' Party I'm not impressed.
I came here to say the same thing. Banning publication is a service to anyone who, like me, might have the misguided belief that they'd learn something by reading it. Other than that Hitler was a semi-literate drooling moron with a god complex, I mean, which can be learned from other far less painful sources.
Why do people insist on calling him a moron? Hitler was a homicidal sociopath, a racist and a right wing fanatic but he was also an astute politician, quite intelligent and strangely enough, judging from statements by people who met him, he was also very charming. Just because somebody is a Nazi doesn't make them stupid. The French and the British made assumptions about Hitler and it turned out to be an expensive mistake. If this publication helps to dispel myths about Nazism I'm all for it. Strangely enough there is now an effort being made to pronounce the Nazis a left wing movement which is pretty funny if you know anything about the Freikorps, Anton Drexler and the rest of that ilk. Nazism was an attempt to create a right wing counterpart to communism.
Isn't that the right time to ditch a product? If you don't think it's going to work out, it seems much better to ditch it before you launch it.
I would say it's better to test the product if you can by putting it on the market. I can't remember more than a few of 'industry analysts" who thought the iPad would succeed the ay it has. At best they thought it would play a distant second fiddle to the the iPod/iPhone. Now the iPad has overtaken the iPod as the item chosen by first time customers and Apple sold 15 million units just in 2010. Sometimes products will succeed despite the opinions of long time observers and industry experts including you own.
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Apple doesn't have quite the same market stranglehold that Microsoft did/does.
And that's a pretty important difference. Thanks to Android and Samsung, Apple does not have a stranglehold and cannot play kingmaker like MS could on the PC market
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I do wish people would stop using that as some sort of gauge of intelligence - it has very little to do with intelligence, and just modernity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iq#Criticism_and_views
Now that's just plain funny...
Because your privacy settings are defined on a scale that Facebook controls, separately to the T&Cs. If they want to sell something of yours, all that they have to do is change the definition of the 'private' setting to mean 'share only with people who pay money, or are on your authorised people list'.
And the best part is that after Facebook's brilliantly successful IPO, with their stock price shooting through there roof and each Facebook user generating a staggering 5% of the revenue a Google user generates per annum it's not as if Facebook management is under any kind of pressure to find new and innovative ways to generate revenue.
Facebook doesn't own my data, I still have all my photos I uploaded
Actually by uploading your private data to Facebook you granted them a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide IP-license to use any of your stuff long as it is on the Facebook network even if it isn't posted there under your account. From their EULA:
"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."
On the other hand Kaspersky wants profit, being the first to report on something like this will likely gain them space in the spotlight for the moment at least which translates to profit...
Profit? If I had been a victim of this malware I'd be pretty pissed at Kaspersky since I'd definitely prefer to keep a very tight lid on this. There is great value in using a tool like this, once it has been discovered, to feed it's operator (presumably the Mossad) a big and steaming pile of plausible bullshit.
If Fox can't generate sufficient revenue to continue broadcasting, because people are skipping ads, then Fox should stop broadcasting.
One can only hope...
a year - by which time you've already heard the spoilers...
if you want to watch pop culture, you want to watch it at the time it is actually popular and people are discussing it
I don't have to wait a year. I could subscribe to the local cannel that has licensed GOT but, unfortunately, the only way to do that is by buying a 'package' including around a dozen other (mostly football, basketball, golf and motor racing dominated) sports channels I have no interest in and the channel that airs GOT has little else I am interested in either. I'm not about to pay USD 70 just for a cable subscription so I can watch GOT, I'm definitely not shelling out for a satellite dish and GOT not available on iTunes or some similar online service right now so the only other option is to pirate it. If GOT was released on iTunes, say a month after airing on HBO, I'd actually be prepared to wait that long and pay. As things stand right now I'll download a crappy illegal copy of GOT with spanish or russian subtexts just to get my fix it and then buy the DVD set in a years time when it arrives.
It isn't as bad as it seems. For most app developers, you just set the minimum SDK level that you want to support in Eclipse, and then it won't allow you to use any earlier APIs. As for fragmentation, it is no worse than Windows - where you need to support various combinations of: 32-bit / 64-bit, XP (release+SP1,SP2,SP3) / Windows 7 (release+SP1), various hardware manufacturers Dell/Lenovo/HP/Acer/Toshiba ... the testing departments of large companies doing Windows development test and certify across many platform combinations. Undoubtedly, this is harder than having a single hardware/software platform, but it is not impossible or unmanageable.
I didn't mean to suggest it's unmanageable let alone impossible, just time and effort consuming. According to that article his gripe seems to be mainly with API fragmentation, and the enormous variety of display resolutions. Making his app look good on gawd knows how many display sizes and resolutions must be a time consuming task.
The problem with Android is that it is becoming a clustereff! I have an Android phone and Android tablet. I also have an iPhone, and iPad. I prefer the iPhone and iPad.
Here are some issues:
1) lack of updates! We have two android tablets and one android phone and the updates just SUCK!
2) apps will not work across devices. I can understand that tablet apps will not work on a phone. But I have phone games where if they run on the tablet the graphics do really funky things and are completely unusable.
3) Why on earth is the chrome browser only on ICS, and not honey comb? There is no excuse.
4) Battery life truly does suck in comparison to my iOS devices.
5) Performance and usability is lackluster. Windows Phone, and iOS devices have superior UI response. This goes back to the architectural design of Android vs iOS/Windows Phone.
Every Android device vendor seems to have their own custom ROM and you can't rely on the fact that they will update it. Basically, as a user, you can be lucky with an Android device or you can be SOL. When people ask me which Android device to buy I usually recommend the device vendor that seems to have the best track record on updates. Check out the following link, it's one of the best visualizations of the state of Android fragmentation I have yet seen:
http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php Developing for Android looks like a bit of a nightmare but this guy is still surprisingly optimistic considering the legions of exotic devices he has to deal with.
Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today. Not only has he singlehandedly steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets (mobile music, handsets and tablets) but in the process he has sacrificed the growth and profits of not only his company but âoeecosystemâ companies such as Dell, Hewlett Packard and even Nokia. The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value â" and jobs.
And that is bad how? What I mean by that is that I sympathize with Microsoft share holders but I also regularly thank a long list of deities that Microsoft does not dominate the mobile music, handset, and tablet markets as well as desktop computing.
Why should a program expressed in VHDL and uploaded to an FPGA be worthy of patent protection, whilst the same algorithm implemented in C and running on a CPU isn't? Why should engineers in every industry have to worry about patents, but software engineers be excused?
The right answer is: neither engineer needs patent protection to make viable, marketable products, and thus neither should have it.
Ok, the patent system is broken. Let's fix that by abolishing the patent system! That will allow us to move on to the more onerous problem of fixing the problem of business monopolies by abolishing trade! And come to think of it police officers sometimes abuse their power, let's fix that by disbanding the police force! Or... perhaps, we should just fix what's wrong with these things? The engineer may not need patents to make viable marketable products but they sure help you to recoup the investment in time and money you made while developing and perfecting your invention. I agree with most of what the anti patent people are saying, the patent system is broken, but shooting the dog in not necessarily the best way to stop it from barking.
Lighthouses have been more usurped by radar than by GPS. Almost every vessel has radar now, which allows them to navigate any shore instead of just the few ones that got lighthouses.
In a war zone where the enemy has knocked out or james your GPS, and if you are in command of a radar stealthy naval surface vessel turning on radar is the equivalent of putting up a big flashing "shoot me" sign. Any naval vessel that wants to stay hidden must rely on passive navigation.
seem to remember a documentary from a us aircraft carrier, at regular intervals during the day someone was picked to go out and find the ships position the old fashion way and report it to the captain who could then check the gps to verify that they still knew how to do it
Hehe... I approve, especially if the reward for failure is toilet cleaning duty, with a toothbrush. Any ranking ships officer on a military vessel who fails that test deserves it.
While no accidents have been caused as yet, it has caused quite some disruption and has made ocean going craft suffer as well due to their heavy reliance on GPS signals.
It's amazing how many pilots/captains have completely lost the ability to navigate their vessels without electronics and the problem is made worse by the fact that the infrastructure you need to navigate without it has been neglected or even systematically dismantled in many countries. I have sometimes wondered what effect it would have on a major NATO military maneuver if you specified half way through the war-game that: "The enemy just knocked out several of our GPS satellites, please simulate this by not making any use of your GPS equipment nor any GPS enabled munitions except those that have a fallback mode".
You raise a good point, but it seems equally apparent that representative democracies pretty much universally fall prey to corruption.
This pretty much sums it up for me, and it's equally true for left and right wings politicians:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
There are many cases of evolution leading to simpler or dumber creatures that have other traits that give them an edge in their environment. It's not a thinking, planning system.
Well.... that explains Sarah Palin and a whole bunch of her friends and followers.
The 2nd Amendment isn't about deer, duck, or dove hunting - it is about fighting back against enemies both foriegn and domestic.
So that's the reason why there is a sheriffs patrol boat cruising up and down the Mississippi river near Baton Rouge Louisiana sporting a heavy machine gun and a belt fed Mark19 grenade launcher? They must have some pretty big alligators around there who recently had an Islamic awakening and joined Al Qaeda. So what's next? Mounting one of those grenade launchers at the foot end of your bed for home defense?
The "small government" policies that the political Right have tried to pretend they believe in have NEVER materialized in the real world.
It is really funny how the Republicans in the US can't shut up about small government and then in the next breath they rage on about how the "liberals" want to make defense cuts when in reality the USA should be aiming for a 1000 aircraft F-22 fleet, set up a few air mobile armored brigades go back to a 600 ship navy and invade Iran. As if the armed forces aren't a part of the big, bloated and evil government whose operations they want to carve up and outsource to private enterprise. The same goes for right wingers in other countries although they tend to be less obsessive about the military. In my own country, paradoxically, a recently departed and long lasting right wing government who officially calls it self the party of small government and low taxes expanded the state apparatus more than any other government over the last 50 years (by a wide margin) and it's the social democrats who are now stuck making painful speeding cuts which means (irony, irony) that our right wing friends with their spendthrift habits are now favorites to win the next election. The idiocy of the voting public is the same everywhere.
That's not the worst of it. The real outcome is that TSA will now ban all electronic devices as deadly terrorist weapons.
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/651/
So when the FBI uses stings to catch international arms traffickers [chicagotribune.com], organized crime figures [eagleworldnews.com], corrupt public officials [nj.com], and embezzlers [post-gazette.com], are they "morons" too, or just would-be terrorists? Your post is nonsense.
Anybody who believes that Stingers are freely available on the US black market is a moron. It's probably easier to smuggle MANPADs into the USA than it is to obtain Stingers from illegal sources in the US. He has a point, these traps will catch complete idiots, any Al Quaeda operatives with a modicum of training will be a lot more careful.
Not anywhere around London anyway... This is why I'm fairly safe in my assumption that by the time a missile launches, the jet will likely be in its terminal dive, or close enough to it to not really matter otherwise.
The missiles involved sound like some sort of multiple round MANPAD on steroids that was designed to take out gunships or fast moving, low flying mud-movers. Not exactly your first choice for shooting down hijacked airliners so unless they are expecting air strikes on the Olympic stadiums or a gunship attack I think we can safely assume this measure is being taken mostly for propaganda value. Let's hope this doesn't backfire on the Britishers when the media, in a fit of collective reality detachment, launches a spectacular news analysis of what the damage will be if a jet airliner is shot down by a SAM and crashes in central London. I'm rather looking forward to the Olympics and it would be a pity if the tabloids were allowed to spoil it.
I wish I could mod you up.
What do you have in mind when you call Hitler the movement right wing? (Amusingly, we're talking about the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but what's in a name?)
I meant only that it would be strange if something left wing came out of something as resolutely right wing as the Freikorps. Are you trying to make the argument that: socialist==left wing therefore everything with socialist in it's name must be left wing? If that is the case the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (that's North Korea) must be a constitutional republic and representative democracy (like the USA). There are many takes on both the left and right wing of politics and the both wings have borrowed heavily from each other. The Nazis were no exception. What I meant by: Strangely enough there is now an effort being made to pronounce the Nazis a left wing movement is that modern day conservatives are desperate to push Nazism out of their niece (the right wing) by blaming the Nazi movement and all of it's atrocities on the political left. If the best they can do justify this claim is to point at the word socialist in National Socialist German Workers' Party I'm not impressed.
I came here to say the same thing. Banning publication is a service to anyone who, like me, might have the misguided belief that they'd learn something by reading it. Other than that Hitler was a semi-literate drooling moron with a god complex, I mean, which can be learned from other far less painful sources.
Why do people insist on calling him a moron? Hitler was a homicidal sociopath, a racist and a right wing fanatic but he was also an astute politician, quite intelligent and strangely enough, judging from statements by people who met him, he was also very charming. Just because somebody is a Nazi doesn't make them stupid. The French and the British made assumptions about Hitler and it turned out to be an expensive mistake. If this publication helps to dispel myths about Nazism I'm all for it. Strangely enough there is now an effort being made to pronounce the Nazis a left wing movement which is pretty funny if you know anything about the Freikorps, Anton Drexler and the rest of that ilk. Nazism was an attempt to create a right wing counterpart to communism.
Isn't that the right time to ditch a product? If you don't think it's going to work out, it seems much better to ditch it before you launch it.
I would say it's better to test the product if you can by putting it on the market. I can't remember more than a few of 'industry analysts" who thought the iPad would succeed the ay it has. At best they thought it would play a distant second fiddle to the the iPod/iPhone. Now the iPad has overtaken the iPod as the item chosen by first time customers and Apple sold 15 million units just in 2010. Sometimes products will succeed despite the opinions of long time observers and industry experts including you own.