Bullshit. Microsoft is asking for permission (with the cooperation of Google) to create a YouTube app on Windows Phone that is similar to the apps that already exists for iOS and Android. Remember, the HTML5 version of youtube.com works fine on Windows Phone, has since it became available.
What Google is doing is saying: "No, since we don't like your company, you will never be allowed to write an app for YouTube. Ever. We are assholes, and we own YouTube, and we hate Microsoft, so you can go f*ck your self".
There is no difference between what Google is doing right now and what Microsoft was doing to Lotus 123 (DOS X ain't done until Lotus won't run, or whatever that was). Evil is evil. This time Google is the perpetrator and Microsoft is in fact the victim, or rather Microsoft customers. Google is attempting to use areas where it has a de-facto monopoly to shut out a competitor.
For the standard/. crowd this is fine when done by Google but not OK when done by Microsoft. Identical behavior. Just shows how utterly moronic the average/.er has gotten. I long for the days when there was actual intelligent conversation on/. but due to morons like this, those is not likely to return.
Reposting as this was incorrectly modded down as "troll".
Google can determine the rules. What MS objects to is they are setting rules, deliberately preventing MS from following them, then saying "aha, you didn't follow the rules" and blocking MS. And if Google isn't careful, they are going to end up in court, that's the kind of activity that gets big companies in trouble.
If you bother to read the rest of the article, you'll see that Google and Apple apparently haven't figured out how to use HTML 5 for their Youtube apps either. Google is just casting about for reasons to block the Windows Phone app.
Are you CERTAIN you will never ever apply for a job where one of your former coworkers that you screwed over is working? Or that no one will ever mention "Oh yeah, Joe, he just walked out w/o notice, what a jerk"? Why go out of your way to piss people off, when it's so easy to avoid, just by doing the "normal" thing.
Well, it's a problem if I'm trying to actually read the code and understand what it does and what arguments it takes. Not to mention the wasted time when I pass the wrong argument type to a method and the problem doesn't show up until runtime. And god forbid that it's Ruby code using "method_missing", then I'm really screwed in so may ways it's hard to imagine. For example, in a Rails app you want to see if you are in the development environment:
if Rails.env.dev?
and that runs just fine... but ALWAYS returns false, because there is no "dev" environment, you should have said "development". It's so dynamic that it "works" even when it's wrong.
Again, Ruby has some cool ideas, but it's doesn't just throw out the baby with the bath water, it boils the baby in the water, and serves up the delicious (?) soup.
Yes and no. It's true that objects have classes, but that's entirely malleable, and there's no way to look at a particular piece of Ruby code and have any idea what class an object has, unless you actually see it being created (yes, yes, even then you don't know because classes can be modified on the fly, but let's ignore that for the moment). Basically, I can't look at a method and do anything except guess what parameters it takes. Personally, I think that's a bad thing.
Speaking of setting programming back, the current push in languages to get rid of declaring types of variables and parameters has set us back a few decades. In languages like Ruby, you can't say ANYTHING about your code without executing it. You have no idea what type of objects methods receive or return, whether formal and actual parameters match, or whether types are compatible in expressions, etc. I actually like a lot of aspects of Ruby, but it seems like it's thrown about 50 years of improvement in programming language development.
When company A buys company B, company B's finance and accounting departments are instantly vaporized. So the bean counters do have a bit to worry about.
If a company alleges that they must bring in foreign nationals because there are no qualified locals, and there are qualified locals, then they are going to get hit with lawsuits.
Nonsense. I've met some brilliant people and most of them have been quite socially adept. You don't have to put up with crappy behavior to get a great developer. Doesn't mean they are going to wear a 3 piece suit, but you can get an actual, reasonable human being that does great work.
Oh, please. Both open source and proprietary software has exploits. Just who is going to pay when a company uses open source gets hacked? "The community"?
But in the case of PCs, the variation is from "plenty big enough" to enormous. You can aim at the lowest common denominator on the PC and it's fine, and if the user has more real estate, great. On phones, you really have to take advantage of the space the machine gives you.
And given that the real info is at least a day old now, any chance that a Slashdot editor might correct the summary??? No, of course not, welcome to Slashdot / The National Inquirer.
The truth is way more mundane than the initial "the black helicopters are hovering outside" story.
"Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms 'pressure cooker bombs' and 'backpacks.'”
"After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature."
Sorry to burst everyone's paranoid "USA evil" bubbles.
That's the point. If you want to pay for the bandwidth to run a server business, you buy business class. You want residential, you pay residential. You try to run a business on residential, that's leeching.
If you read the post I replied to, you'd see that the expectation is that medical people are monitoring the machine. The robot isn't going to be sticking people if the staff are all doing CPR.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft are a bunch of hypocrites as ever
Bullshit. Microsoft is asking for permission (with the cooperation of Google) to create a YouTube app on Windows Phone that is similar to the apps that already exists for iOS and Android. Remember, the HTML5 version of youtube.com works fine on Windows Phone, has since it became available.
What Google is doing is saying: "No, since we don't like your company, you will never be allowed to write an app for YouTube. Ever. We are assholes, and we own YouTube, and we hate Microsoft, so you can go f*ck your self".
There is no difference between what Google is doing right now and what Microsoft was doing to Lotus 123 (DOS X ain't done until Lotus won't run, or whatever that was). Evil is evil. This time Google is the perpetrator and Microsoft is in fact the victim, or rather Microsoft customers. Google is attempting to use areas where it has a de-facto monopoly to shut out a competitor.
For the standard /. crowd this is fine when done by Google but not OK when done by Microsoft. Identical behavior. Just shows how utterly moronic the average /.er has gotten. I long for the days when there was actual intelligent conversation on /. but due to morons like this, those is not likely to return.
Reposting as this was incorrectly modded down as "troll".
No, MS can complain when Google requires them to do something but won't supply the information they need to do it. Read the article.
Google can determine the rules. What MS objects to is they are setting rules, deliberately preventing MS from following them, then saying "aha, you didn't follow the rules" and blocking MS. And if Google isn't careful, they are going to end up in court, that's the kind of activity that gets big companies in trouble.
Did MS scan your data to figure out how to sell you stuff?
If you bother to read the rest of the article, you'll see that Google and Apple apparently haven't figured out how to use HTML 5 for their Youtube apps either. Google is just casting about for reasons to block the Windows Phone app.
I'm not all that bothered by it, just seems like a really dumb move.
Are you CERTAIN you will never ever apply for a job where one of your former coworkers that you screwed over is working? Or that no one will ever mention "Oh yeah, Joe, he just walked out w/o notice, what a jerk"? Why go out of your way to piss people off, when it's so easy to avoid, just by doing the "normal" thing.
Well, it's a problem if I'm trying to actually read the code and understand what it does and what arguments it takes. Not to mention the wasted time when I pass the wrong argument type to a method and the problem doesn't show up until runtime. And god forbid that it's Ruby code using "method_missing", then I'm really screwed in so may ways it's hard to imagine. For example, in a Rails app you want to see if you are in the development environment:
if Rails.env.dev?
and that runs just fine... but ALWAYS returns false, because there is no "dev" environment, you should have said "development". It's so dynamic that it "works" even when it's wrong.
Again, Ruby has some cool ideas, but it's doesn't just throw out the baby with the bath water, it boils the baby in the water, and serves up the delicious (?) soup.
Yes and no. It's true that objects have classes, but that's entirely malleable, and there's no way to look at a particular piece of Ruby code and have any idea what class an object has, unless you actually see it being created (yes, yes, even then you don't know because classes can be modified on the fly, but let's ignore that for the moment). Basically, I can't look at a method and do anything except guess what parameters it takes. Personally, I think that's a bad thing.
Speaking of setting programming back, the current push in languages to get rid of declaring types of variables and parameters has set us back a few decades. In languages like Ruby, you can't say ANYTHING about your code without executing it. You have no idea what type of objects methods receive or return, whether formal and actual parameters match, or whether types are compatible in expressions, etc. I actually like a lot of aspects of Ruby, but it seems like it's thrown about 50 years of improvement in programming language development.
How does the government "force" Mozilla to turn over SSL keys?
When company A buys company B, company B's finance and accounting departments are instantly vaporized. So the bean counters do have a bit to worry about.
If a company alleges that they must bring in foreign nationals because there are no qualified locals, and there are qualified locals, then they are going to get hit with lawsuits.
Nonsense. I've met some brilliant people and most of them have been quite socially adept. You don't have to put up with crappy behavior to get a great developer. Doesn't mean they are going to wear a 3 piece suit, but you can get an actual, reasonable human being that does great work.
640 x 480? You might want to fast forward to 2013.
Oh, please. Both open source and proprietary software has exploits. Just who is going to pay when a company uses open source gets hacked? "The community"?
A guy whose business model is based on streaming unlimited access to free content declares that his competitors are dead. Shocking.
But in the case of PCs, the variation is from "plenty big enough" to enormous. You can aim at the lowest common denominator on the PC and it's fine, and if the user has more real estate, great. On phones, you really have to take advantage of the space the machine gives you.
And given that the real info is at least a day old now, any chance that a Slashdot editor might correct the summary??? No, of course not, welcome to Slashdot / The National Inquirer.
The truth is way more mundane than the initial "the black helicopters are hovering outside" story.
"Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms 'pressure cooker bombs' and 'backpacks.'”
"After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature."
Sorry to burst everyone's paranoid "USA evil" bubbles.
That's the point. If you want to pay for the bandwidth to run a server business, you buy business class. You want residential, you pay residential. You try to run a business on residential, that's leeching.
You are being rational. That's forbidden by the Slashdot Terms of Service.
Machines can do one medical procedure, so they should do all medical procedures? got it.
If you read the post I replied to, you'd see that the expectation is that medical people are monitoring the machine. The robot isn't going to be sticking people if the staff are all doing CPR.
Every student in LA Public schools gets a good education. Now that would be news.
Wish I had points to mod you up. Sounds like a pretty bizarre waste unless this is going to replace all the textbooks.