Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't... and besides, the end of a life is not a situation where you can apply too many absolutes.
More to the point, however, I'd say Australia's government has been breaching their society's moral compass for some time now. So has mine, for that matter, and I'm American.
Has IBM responded to this? I can't imagine they don't recall what was said. I would be VERY interested in the response they come up with, and how they proceed once it's shown that they did indeed say wouldn't leverage those patents.
Believe me, the Nazgul remember everything. Whether or not they will admit to that is another story,
Unless Apple charges $99/year for the privilege to use their search engine.
The Apple cult would pay it.
That's not flamebait, folks (although, obviously some mod-point-wielding cult member was loose on the moderation system this evening.)
The truth is, many Apple people would pay for search because Apple would package it up very, very nicely and would make those users feel extremely special. That is, if nothing else, Job's stock-in-trade.
*) provided you root your phone to install a version not crippled by the phone company, losing quite a few preloaded apps in the process, and then try and get someone to write apps for it when there is hardly any money to be made.
I think you just described the iPhone there. Apple's cellular products are crippled right out of the box... you don't have to root your Android device to do many of the things that require jailbreaking on an iPhone. Tethering and multitasking for instance (although the latest generation of iPhones are supposed to do that I hear. Whatever... live by the Jobs, die by the Jobs.) Calling an Android handset "crippled" in comparison just because it's not rooted is disingenuous at best. There are certain apps that require rooting (overclocking for one, although that's not something your ordinary Android user would even think about) and flashing third-party ROMs. Matter of fact, that's a major plus for me: there are a number of quality ROMs out there, customized/optimized versions of Android that are readily available. My personal favorite is Cyanogenmod, but there are others.
You also don't "lose" your apps if you root... not sure where you got that.
Incidentally, that's also their biggest technical weakness.
Sure, it's a two-edged sword. Then again, for people like me that have no need of, nor interest in, an iPhone, and prefer to have an array of options available, Android is way cool. It's not that big a weakness, when you get right down to it, because it's offering millions upon millions of people that opportunity to select a handset that does what they want. Apple's approach is to limit options, but make those options work very well. The problem with that is that when the competition starts to be able to duplicate your functionality, you're screwed. That's evidenced by the fact that Apple has begun resorting to lawsuits (like the old saw goes, "when the competition begins threatening a lawsuit, you're doing something right.")
as a disabled user living with speech recognition full-time are high-powered PC, I can tell you, nobody does it right.
One of my best friends is disabled, and depends upon PC-based speech recognition. And you're right: it works reasonably well but is hardly conversational, and has enough quirks that it continually pisses him off.
However, this is where Google's ability to deploy applications on a truly large scale will come into play. The apps you mention are limited to the computing power that exists on a single PC. Yes, that's orders of magnitude more than we had a few decades ago, but it can't possibly compete with a network-based recognition engine that might run across hundreds or thousands of processors. As the GP pointed out, Google is already doing this and is continually refining it.
Apple has you in some sort of hypnosis that is causing you to go gaga over closed up commercial productions that you think you need to own.
Yes, the well-known "Jobs Reality-Distortion Field." No-one knows for sure whether he generates this field himself via some hitherto unknown internal organ, or if it is emitted by some piece of proprietary Apple technology. Either way, it's has a powerful effect upon the weak-minded.
Also, tools exist to unDRM and convert between just about every ebook format, including Mobi, Azw, Topaz, ePub, PDF, Lit, PDB, and others, so books can in fact travel with you as you upgrade devices in the future, should you choose to go this route.
Sure, but it's not legal in the United States to traffic in those tools, and with the rapid expansion of U.S.-style copyright to other parts of the world, it's going to be harder and harder to obtain them. Face it: there's a conspiracy here, it's at the highest levels of all the major world governments, and we're all going to pay through the nose for it.
People, snap out of it. Its just a tablet computer. They have been around for over 10 years and they have never been all that special. Apple has you in some sort of hypnosis that is causing you to go gaga over closed up commercial productions that you think you need to own.
Yes, but according to the linked article, The WiFi iPad is officially Apple model A1219, while the 3G iPad is A1337.
So the 3G version is 1337... how can you not want one?
None. Learn algorithms, data structures, and theory. You can and will change languages a half dozen or more times in your career. Theory works for everything. And the good employers know that.
Good engineering managers may, but HR departments don't.
just as compilers are automatic replacements for the grad students who used to translate programs into machine code.
Just as render farms replaced the "tweeners" who created all the in-between frames from the key frames drawn by a master animator. Automation, in a word. Whether that will be good for software engineering as a career is yet to be determined.
It's just my own observation, but it seems Java enjoys a stronger long term trust.
And I'd agree with you, because there was longer term trust in Sun than there was in Microsoft. The problem is, now Sun has been replaced by Oracle (Oracle. Why did it have to be Oracle? I'd rather IBM had ended up with Java, personally) as the official steward of Java, and nobody trusts Larry Ellison and Co. Any trust that Sun Microsystems earned in the Java space isn't worth jack, anymore, and that's sure to drive some Java types right in to Ballmer's arms.
and the like are cheap when compared to when you are first starting.
And generally getting cheaper. Communications infrastructure is, in general, getting cheaper and faster... not that our wireless carriers have much interest in passing any savings on to us. And that's okay, as long as they invest some of those windfalls into building out and improving their networks.
the Android OS seems solid enough with or without an official marketplace.
There's no absolute need for a centralized marketplace for what amount to pocket-sized personal computers any more than there is for a laptop or a regular PC. I give Apple points for applying the idea to a cell phone, but it's hardly a requirement. It's just a convenience, nothing more, and if Apple or Google didn't provide this service, believe me, someone else would have very quickly.
Now I'm not encouraging violence here, but if a problem looks like a nail, then a hammer is the tool you want. Let some kids do that, and you'll suddenly have administrators much more worried.
I tend to agree. I was picked on as a kid, until my ex-Marine uncle took me aside.
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breaches the moral compass of society.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't ... and besides, the end of a life is not a situation where you can apply too many absolutes.
More to the point, however, I'd say Australia's government has been breaching their society's moral compass for some time now. So has mine, for that matter, and I'm American.
Has IBM responded to this? I can't imagine they don't recall what was said. I would be VERY interested in the response they come up with, and how they proceed once it's shown that they did indeed say wouldn't leverage those patents.
Believe me, the Nazgul remember everything. Whether or not they will admit to that is another story,
Unless Apple charges $99/year for the privilege to use their search engine. The Apple cult would pay it.
That's not flamebait, folks (although, obviously some mod-point-wielding cult member was loose on the moderation system this evening.)
The truth is, many Apple people would pay for search because Apple would package it up very, very nicely and would make those users feel extremely special. That is, if nothing else, Job's stock-in-trade.
That's the brown Zune you're thinking of. Let's you squirt at people.
Thanks, I needed that image. No, really, I did.
*) provided you root your phone to install a version not crippled by the phone company, losing quite a few preloaded apps in the process, and then try and get someone to write apps for it when there is hardly any money to be made.
I think you just described the iPhone there. Apple's cellular products are crippled right out of the box ... you don't have to root your Android device to do many of the things that require jailbreaking on an iPhone. Tethering and multitasking for instance (although the latest generation of iPhones are supposed to do that I hear. Whatever ... live by the Jobs, die by the Jobs.) Calling an Android handset "crippled" in comparison just because it's not rooted is disingenuous at best. There are certain apps that require rooting (overclocking for one, although that's not something your ordinary Android user would even think about) and flashing third-party ROMs. Matter of fact, that's a major plus for me: there are a number of quality ROMs out there, customized/optimized versions of Android that are readily available. My personal favorite is Cyanogenmod, but there are others.
... not sure where you got that.
You also don't "lose" your apps if you root
Incidentally, that's also their biggest technical weakness.
Sure, it's a two-edged sword. Then again, for people like me that have no need of, nor interest in, an iPhone, and prefer to have an array of options available, Android is way cool. It's not that big a weakness, when you get right down to it, because it's offering millions upon millions of people that opportunity to select a handset that does what they want. Apple's approach is to limit options, but make those options work very well. The problem with that is that when the competition starts to be able to duplicate your functionality, you're screwed. That's evidenced by the fact that Apple has begun resorting to lawsuits (like the old saw goes, "when the competition begins threatening a lawsuit, you're doing something right.")
as a disabled user living with speech recognition full-time are high-powered PC, I can tell you, nobody does it right.
One of my best friends is disabled, and depends upon PC-based speech recognition. And you're right: it works reasonably well but is hardly conversational, and has enough quirks that it continually pisses him off.
However, this is where Google's ability to deploy applications on a truly large scale will come into play. The apps you mention are limited to the computing power that exists on a single PC. Yes, that's orders of magnitude more than we had a few decades ago, but it can't possibly compete with a network-based recognition engine that might run across hundreds or thousands of processors. As the GP pointed out, Google is already doing this and is continually refining it.
And be sure to watch the old episodes. You know, back when SNL was good.
I agree. It went downhill fast after the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" left the show.
Four posts on SNL and I'm offtopic?
Apple has you in some sort of hypnosis that is causing you to go gaga over closed up commercial productions that you think you need to own.
Yes, the well-known "Jobs Reality-Distortion Field." No-one knows for sure whether he generates this field himself via some hitherto unknown internal organ, or if it is emitted by some piece of proprietary Apple technology. Either way, it's has a powerful effect upon the weak-minded.
you can hardly find a PC in stores anymore...
lol
-1: Missed Point, both of you.
Also, tools exist to unDRM and convert between just about every ebook format, including Mobi, Azw, Topaz, ePub, PDF, Lit, PDB, and others, so books can in fact travel with you as you upgrade devices in the future, should you choose to go this route.
Sure, but it's not legal in the United States to traffic in those tools, and with the rapid expansion of U.S.-style copyright to other parts of the world, it's going to be harder and harder to obtain them. Face it: there's a conspiracy here, it's at the highest levels of all the major world governments, and we're all going to pay through the nose for it.
People, snap out of it. Its just a tablet computer. They have been around for over 10 years and they have never been all that special. Apple has you in some sort of hypnosis that is causing you to go gaga over closed up commercial productions that you think you need to own.
Yes, but according to the linked article, The WiFi iPad is officially Apple model A1219, while the 3G iPad is A1337.
... how can you not want one?
So the 3G version is 1337
What irks me is the "I don't like/want it therefore it's crap" attitude
Quite the opposite for myself. It's crap, therefore I don't like/want it.
Who cares.
Fanbois like you, obviously.
I have a 95 yr old neighbor who uses an old Windows machine and AOL dialup.
So what you're saying is that the iPad is a way to put him out of his misery without resorting to euthanasia?
I wager that the iPad is a form of euthanasia. The Personal Computer Revolution is fading into oblivion ... and no-one can even feel the loss.
Or Bruce Banner. But it's probably not a good idea to pick on that guy.
Yeah ... you might suffer some cyberretribution.
None. Learn algorithms, data structures, and theory. You can and will change languages a half dozen or more times in your career. Theory works for everything. And the good employers know that.
Good engineering managers may, but HR departments don't.
just as compilers are automatic replacements for the grad students who used to translate programs into machine code.
Just as render farms replaced the "tweeners" who created all the in-between frames from the key frames drawn by a master animator. Automation, in a word. Whether that will be good for software engineering as a career is yet to be determined.
It's just my own observation, but it seems Java enjoys a stronger long term trust.
And I'd agree with you, because there was longer term trust in Sun than there was in Microsoft. The problem is, now Sun has been replaced by Oracle (Oracle. Why did it have to be Oracle? I'd rather IBM had ended up with Java, personally) as the official steward of Java, and nobody trusts Larry Ellison and Co. Any trust that Sun Microsystems earned in the Java space isn't worth jack, anymore, and that's sure to drive some Java types right in to Ballmer's arms.
If somebody has a requirement that only Windows succeeds in fulfilling, then use Windows.
Such as, for example, Direct X 11?
And be sure to watch the old episodes. You know, back when SNL was good.
I agree. It went downhill fast after the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" left the show.
and the like are cheap when compared to when you are first starting.
And generally getting cheaper. Communications infrastructure is, in general, getting cheaper and faster ... not that our wireless carriers have much interest in passing any savings on to us. And that's okay, as long as they invest some of those windfalls into building out and improving their networks.
the Android OS seems solid enough with or without an official marketplace.
There's no absolute need for a centralized marketplace for what amount to pocket-sized personal computers any more than there is for a laptop or a regular PC. I give Apple points for applying the idea to a cell phone, but it's hardly a requirement. It's just a convenience, nothing more, and if Apple or Google didn't provide this service, believe me, someone else would have very quickly.
You're also more likely to be a superhero; Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Susan Storm...
Or date a superhero; Lois Lane...
Don't forget Lana Lang.
anti-anti pirate-pirate-pirates?
(Look, Natasha! Is moose and squirrel!)
Boris: Gots to use strategy.
Natasha: Oh, Boris, what strategy?
Boris: Here, strategy rope across de door.
It's been forty-five years. Now why do I remember that?
Now I'm not encouraging violence here, but if a problem looks like a nail, then a hammer is the tool you want. Let some kids do that, and you'll suddenly have administrators much more worried.
I tend to agree. I was picked on as a kid, until my ex-Marine uncle took me aside.