It isn't selling well because it's still beta technology. Even the most expensive top-of-the-line 2011 models have problems with 3D. Either requiring stupid looking, battery-eating, oversized, heavy active glasses and/or cross-talk or other things. In a few years I think 3D will become more popular.
Where is America's Pirate Party? I wish to vote for them.
Here, but it seems that only Florida Pirate Party and Washington Pirate Party are active.
Don't expect a federal Pirate Party anytime soon, though. It wouldn't work very well in the winner-takes-it-all two party system of the US.
The Galaxy SII was announced in February and released in May. If anything it was their answer to the iPhone 4, not the 4S. More likely it was their answer to the HTC Desire HD.
This comment on the readwriteweb.com article was so good I decided to paste it here:
Stallman is the anti-Jobs in many ways. But they"re both brilliant, driven, uncompromising geniuses. And to say that Stallman hasn't had as much impact on the world as Jobs is wrong on it's face, in my opinion. I reckon more devices have Linux installed than any Apple OS. How many startups would have been crushed by server OS costs without GNU/Linux as an option, even just by driving down the price of competitors? How many pieces of software that started as hobby hacking wouldn't exist with a free C compiler? App store? Linux had this years before the iPhone? Safari's engine started in KDE. Mac interface descended from X. Super-computing, internet plumbing, all dominated by Linux and GNU for a reason. Then there's Android.
If you don't like him, Stallman gives you plenty of ammunition. The same could be said about Jobs (personal emails to disgruntled users?) He spoke his mind, and a lot of people may not like what he said. In his mind, the world of software is a secret war for the freedom of billions of people. He believes proprietary software is a precursor to real live Soviet style oppression. He thinks Jobs is/was creating the world that appeared in the iconic 1984 Mac commercial. And if he believes that, blunting his words would be a disservice to history and posterity.
Steve Jobs was one to the most powerful on the planet. He's gonna have enemies. He knew that and didn't much care. I doubt his family is surfing Stallman's website looking for an epitaph.
As for the spokesman thing, I don't see RMS as that. He's the visionary. He's supposed to be unbending, uncompromising, theory based. He's not supposed to sugercoat. He's a coder, not a CEO.
Because (IIRC) it just hides the ads after they are loaded instead of preventing them from loading at all like Firefox AdBlock+. There are also some tricky but common types of ads that Chrome AdBlock can't block that Firefox AdBlock can.
That's all well and good, but it's also incredibly stupid. No one knows I stole that fork, because there was no one in the building when I took it. But no one will buy it, because it's stolen. That's dumb.
No one also knows I killed that guy, because I was 100 miles from anyone / I was alone with them in their home, and when I exited, no one was on the street.
It's just silly. Sure, they can pretend they caught you by having some magic ward, but if they already have that, why does anyone even need guards? Just have your magic ward summon 100 guards as soon as any fight breaks out.
It's dumb.
I agree. I hope that the crime subsystem is at least somewhat more realistic in Skyrim.
There are still coming out new phones and tablets with fucking 2.2! Not even 2.3, ffs...
1.6-devices are still being sold in stores.
The only few tablets being sold with Honeycomb are more expensive than the iPad 2. As much as I prefer Android over iOS, if you ignore politics, lock-ins, etc for a little while, iPad 2 is simply the better product for 95% of the population right now, because it has the apps and its UI is quite polished, AND it's cheaper than less polished tablets with less apps.
When you compare two versions of the same operating system to determine which version is faster, you always use the exact same hardware configuration for both.
Yes. With modern hardware, Vista is (usually) faster than XP on the same hardware. Windows 7, more so. On old (or very cheap) hardware, XP is (usually) faster than Vista. Result vary between components and benchmarks though.
If you set up a booth at a market where you let people tear the wings off of mosquitos for fun, you could possibly (and rightfully imho) face animal abuse charges. If you instead set up a mosquito trap killing 100000 mosquitos in an evening you should get a medal instead. In other words, it has all to do with intent. In the first case you're causing pain for profit and sadistic pleasure, in the second case it's just thoughtless killing. With this definition (my own) of what is animal abuse, killing cute animals IS worse than killing insects or other slimy/creepy animals because killing a cute animal requires a colder heart. Also, torture is worse than causing a painful death because of neclect, which in turn is worse than simple thoughtless killing.
While you live your life in fear for a hypothetical future scenario, I'll try to live a happy life in the present instead. If your fears come true, we'll probably die at about the same time anyway.
First of all, this was in 2001 or so. Second, the HP/UX server ran on PA-RISC, not x86. Not sure if there even existed HP/UX-compatible PC-emulators good enough to run a Windows web server back then.:)
Well, yeah. I once was yelled at because I told a manager that IIS couldn't be installed on a HP/UX server. I tried to explain why as nicely and non-technical as possible but in the end he still couldn't accept the fact that IIS couldn't be installed on a HP/UX server. Then he went to my boss telling her how stupid and incompetent I was. Luckily she was a very good boss with good technical knowledge (although not on the geeky low level) and she just bursted into laugh.
Are they really trying to claim that developing a proprietary disc format, and having the hardware used to read it custom made is going to be cheaper than just using a format which already exists, and for which drives are already being mass produced cheaply?
No, only that they will use a proprietary disc format. Most likely it will be standard, cheap, mass produced hardware with custom firmware to support whatever is non-standard, be it sector sizes, spin direction or something else. Possibly the hardware will have a minor, Wii U-specific modification but nothing big. Just enough to make copying the discs unfeasible for the general public for the forseeable future.
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They've done worse...
So that dreaded walled garden has it's upsides then huh?
Yes, for Apple.
Very good summary, Mr. Coward. If I had modpoints I would mod you up.
It isn't selling well because it's still beta technology. Even the most expensive top-of-the-line 2011 models have problems with 3D. Either requiring stupid looking, battery-eating, oversized, heavy active glasses and/or cross-talk or other things. In a few years I think 3D will become more popular.
Great idea! I found a picture of a nice Italian restaurant and Mamma Mia! Now my pizza tastes much better.
Where is America's Pirate Party? I wish to vote for them.
Here, but it seems that only Florida Pirate Party and Washington Pirate Party are active. Don't expect a federal Pirate Party anytime soon, though. It wouldn't work very well in the winner-takes-it-all two party system of the US.
Well, one goal of ACTA is to unify the different IP policies of nationstates.
That is also the long term goal of the Pirate Party.
The Galaxy SII was announced in February and released in May. If anything it was their answer to the iPhone 4, not the 4S. More likely it was their answer to the HTC Desire HD.
I sense that you are upset...
Stallman is the anti-Jobs in many ways. But they"re both brilliant, driven, uncompromising geniuses. And to say that Stallman hasn't had as much impact on the world as Jobs is wrong on it's face, in my opinion. I reckon more devices have Linux installed than any Apple OS. How many startups would have been crushed by server OS costs without GNU/Linux as an option, even just by driving down the price of competitors? How many pieces of software that started as hobby hacking wouldn't exist with a free C compiler? App store? Linux had this years before the iPhone? Safari's engine started in KDE. Mac interface descended from X. Super-computing, internet plumbing, all dominated by Linux and GNU for a reason. Then there's Android.
If you don't like him, Stallman gives you plenty of ammunition. The same could be said about Jobs (personal emails to disgruntled users?) He spoke his mind, and a lot of people may not like what he said. In his mind, the world of software is a secret war for the freedom of billions of people. He believes proprietary software is a precursor to real live Soviet style oppression. He thinks Jobs is/was creating the world that appeared in the iconic 1984 Mac commercial. And if he believes that, blunting his words would be a disservice to history and posterity.
Steve Jobs was one to the most powerful on the planet. He's gonna have enemies. He knew that and didn't much care. I doubt his family is surfing Stallman's website looking for an epitaph.
As for the spokesman thing, I don't see RMS as that. He's the visionary. He's supposed to be unbending, uncompromising, theory based. He's not supposed to sugercoat. He's a coder, not a CEO.
Because (IIRC) it just hides the ads after they are loaded instead of preventing them from loading at all like Firefox AdBlock+. There are also some tricky but common types of ads that Chrome AdBlock can't block that Firefox AdBlock can.
May the Messier object win...
That's all well and good, but it's also incredibly stupid. No one knows I stole that fork, because there was no one in the building when I took it. But no one will buy it, because it's stolen. That's dumb.
No one also knows I killed that guy, because I was 100 miles from anyone / I was alone with them in their home, and when I exited, no one was on the street.
It's just silly. Sure, they can pretend they caught you by having some magic ward, but if they already have that, why does anyone even need guards? Just have your magic ward summon 100 guards as soon as any fight breaks out.
It's dumb.
I agree. I hope that the crime subsystem is at least somewhat more realistic in Skyrim.
http://xkcd.com/322/
What does does this tag mean? Where's your ring snow? What the hell is "ring snow"? Sounds kind of nasty...
Stop hustling him. The topic is how to run several colonels on the same hard wear.
There are still coming out new phones and tablets with fucking 2.2! Not even 2.3, ffs...
1.6-devices are still being sold in stores.
The only few tablets being sold with Honeycomb are more expensive than the iPad 2. As much as I prefer Android over iOS, if you ignore politics, lock-ins, etc for a little while, iPad 2 is simply the better product for 95% of the population right now, because it has the apps and its UI is quite polished, AND it's cheaper than less polished tablets with less apps.
On shitty hardware, yes.
When you compare two versions of the same operating system to determine which version is faster, you always use the exact same hardware configuration for both.
Yes. With modern hardware, Vista is (usually) faster than XP on the same hardware. Windows 7, more so. On old (or very cheap) hardware, XP is (usually) faster than Vista. Result vary between components and benchmarks though.
If you set up a booth at a market where you let people tear the wings off of mosquitos for fun, you could possibly (and rightfully imho) face animal abuse charges. If you instead set up a mosquito trap killing 100000 mosquitos in an evening you should get a medal instead. In other words, it has all to do with intent. In the first case you're causing pain for profit and sadistic pleasure, in the second case it's just thoughtless killing. With this definition (my own) of what is animal abuse, killing cute animals IS worse than killing insects or other slimy/creepy animals because killing a cute animal requires a colder heart. Also, torture is worse than causing a painful death because of neclect, which in turn is worse than simple thoughtless killing.
While you live your life in fear for a hypothetical future scenario, I'll try to live a happy life in the present instead. If your fears come true, we'll probably die at about the same time anyway.
Yeah, if we just ignore C++11 the world's problems will go away.
First of all, this was in 2001 or so. Second, the HP/UX server ran on PA-RISC, not x86. Not sure if there even existed HP/UX-compatible PC-emulators good enough to run a Windows web server back then. :)
Well, yeah. I once was yelled at because I told a manager that IIS couldn't be installed on a HP/UX server. I tried to explain why as nicely and non-technical as possible but in the end he still couldn't accept the fact that IIS couldn't be installed on a HP/UX server. Then he went to my boss telling her how stupid and incompetent I was. Luckily she was a very good boss with good technical knowledge (although not on the geeky low level) and she just bursted into laugh.
Are they really trying to claim that developing a proprietary disc format, and having the hardware used to read it custom made is going to be cheaper than just using a format which already exists, and for which drives are already being mass produced cheaply?
No, only that they will use a proprietary disc format. Most likely it will be standard, cheap, mass produced hardware with custom firmware to support whatever is non-standard, be it sector sizes, spin direction or something else. Possibly the hardware will have a minor, Wii U-specific modification but nothing big. Just enough to make copying the discs unfeasible for the general public for the forseeable future.
Cool, but not as cool as the JavaScript C64 emulator.