I own an iPhone, but frankly I'm rooting for WP7 all the way. While there's a lot of excitement about developing for iOS *devices*, I don't see much excitement about iOS as a *development platform*. Closed app store, OS X development only, clunky programming language - no reason to rehash the whole list - you read slashdot. This is the one thing MS brings to the show - they know how to make software that appeals to developers, and that's what I expect out of WP7. Some excitement around it as a development platform. If they do that, which is what they're traditionally good at, they'll dominate. Sadly, I worry that they've not yet found their "developers, developers, developers" monkey dance mantra when it comes to mobile devices, but if history is an indicator they'll figure it out.
I have an iPad as well. The first thing you do when you open the box is plug it into your computer and wait. We're not in a post-PC world yet by a long shot, but I'll agree with you that MS got caught with their pants down when it comes to tablets and phones. But if history is any indication, they'll catch up, and I expect they'll do it quickly.
I know you're trying to be cute, but I think that's part of the problem. I run a Linux server at work for secure file transfers and we have a legacy Apache box serving PHP pages for an old website. We run Cygwin on many of our Windows servers. But the truth is - and I recognize I'm not in great company here at Slashdot - that Windows is plenty fine for most in the consumer space. Windows 7 is the best OS MS has ever released, and the adoption rate blew away OSX's total market share in a matter of months. I like OSX okay I guess (typing from it now), but I certainly wouldn't pay a premium for it. I paid the premium for superior hardware. That's what Apple does really, really well.
0.1% of the Slashdot crowd, maybe. But you delude yourself if you believe that plenty of folks aren't happy with Windows. Now, yes - the specs I wanted for my laptop aren't super-typical for someone in the market for a Dell, but so what? My point still stands - I highly doubt that Apple is killing Microsoft in any way right now in the markets where they actually compete. People aren't choosing Apple over some Microsoft alternative - that was the battle from 2 decades ago. The more interesting comparison is how Apple is doing against Dell, HP, Samsung, and Sony as Apple is a maker of devices... the software part of their business is ancillary.
I've been a lifelong Windows user (happy about it too), and up until recently never thought that would change. But, as I was researching my options for a new laptop, I found I couldn't get what I wanted (256GB SSD, 13", ultra light, long battery) for any cheaper buying Dell/HP/whatever so I bought a refurb Macbook. I'm a.NET developer though, and I never never never never never would have even thought of buying one without Parallels so that I could run Windows. I'm not sure that my anecdote is representative of the recent Mac surge at large, but I sure am one who can be counted in both camps. This is one of those statistics that I'm not sure represents the whole story. I wonder how many Mac owners run just OSX, because I suspect that most PC owners run Windows exclusively by a wide margin.
For example, "That you will defend the rights of those who are unable to defend themselves". Note that there is no provision to make this apply only occasionally, only when practical or even possible. Thus, anyone who is not defending the people in Libya, in China, and in Afghanistan, at the same time, is in violation of the license.
Add to that the defense of the unborn and then you wind up with real controversy. Without that one, you're just making trouble where there isn't any.
How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? - About like he's doing on all his other promises - bringing the troops home, closing Gitmo, etc. etc. Why we ever elected a hope-peddling amateur and expected any different I'll never know. Especially during such a precarious time in our nation's history. Maybe I'm wrong and Wall Street, Egypt, Japan and Lybia really do need their own 'community organizers' to solve their woes.
I live in OH, so while there are many benefits to **not** having the nanny-state of CA looking out for my "best interests", this is one of those rare times when I would actually prefer to be absolutely sure someone is holding corporations accountable to do the right thing. The easiest way to do that is to take responsibility myself and if it's a problem, take my business elsewhere.
During a purchase of a bottle of wine at Target along with some other odds and ends, the cashier asked for my drivers license. I thought nothing of it (though I haven't looked younger than 21 in a decade, but whatever). Foolishly, I let him hold it, which he then proceeded to swipe the magnetic strip on it. Now, there's a big difference between typing in a birthdate and storing all my driver's license info in their computer. Needless to say, my license never comes out of it's viewport in my wallet from then on. Watch out - I think a lot of stores are getting really brazen about how they collect your data.
Ever since Google stated returning results from sites like efreedom over the source content from stackoverflow, I've found myself using Bing more and more. While I know I can search with the "site:stackoverflow.com" hint, the fact that I have to do that and that Google has fallen prey to so many sites gaming their results has just made it less frustrating for me to search Bing first. I have to wonder why Google wants me to be logged in so badly when I'm searching so that it can "personalize" my results, but then they give me no ability to remove certain sites from ever coming up in those results. The relationship with Google and its users is very one-sided.
Uh, I guess for you it's "open sand, insert head". You've crossed over from damn lies to statistics. While true in once sense, your numbers paint the rosy little picture that matches your ideology so you don't have to think. Here are some charts to help set the record straight.
See
here, and here.
And in case you care to pay attention to our unemployment problem, which is where the government actually gets its money, see here.
Incentivize does not have to mean hand them taxpayer money, but I guess we're into printing money for every entitlement program under the sun lately, so I can see why you'd make that mistake. There are plenty of ways to incentivize the industry to standardize without playing tax games. Think outside the box for a minute and you'll get there.
No, certainly not "do nothing". Help incentive the industry to set their own common standard, not dictate one to them. And build in a facility for it to change without government intervention. Government should be about setting policy, not about setting specific standards. There's a subtle but important distinction, lost on most who believe government is the solution to all our woes.
If the equation for getting married consists only of cold practicalities, I think you lost more of yourself in the divorce than you realize, ZenDragon.
Get back to us when Microsoft actually rely on.Net and related technologies for their own flagship products like Office
Nice little straw man you've built there. Sun never built Open Office or Solaris in Java, but you can''t be foolish to think that that was a vote of no-confidence in the future of Java.
I'll judge.NET's success on two factors - employment opportunities and continued innovation and development from Microsoft. And let's face it - while a lot of copying and catch-up was done for the first few iterations of.NET, that was over and done with after the 2.0 release and ever since then MS has been blowing past everyone else out there. Visual Studio is arguably the best IDE out there, Linq was a total game changer, and ASP.NET MVC fixed the travesty that was the past decade of Webforms. The future looks really bright for.NET, and not so much for Java. But, things change quickly and I'm hoping that the Java community can pull itself together because MS does better when they are forced to compete.
Uh... developers? No seriously - if MS can get corporate IT staff developing business applications for mobile devices, that's a completely untapped market. Android would be the closest to that today, but MS could seal that deal quick if they play this right. Every.NET developer out there has the potential to be a WM7 dev. Every iPhone developer out there had to hold their nose and code objective-c and hope that the app store accepted their product. Full disclosure - I'm a.NET dev professionally, but own a second hand iPhone 3G.
...and useful to extend to pool of developers that can write programs for the Linux platform. Developers are the only way to get and keep users. That seems to be the one meme that Microsoft has always gotten right, and the place where the Linux community could use some serious self evaluation.
You're kidding right? I think it's significantly more cruel what we do to kids now. We let them grow up with this sense of entitlement and utter disregard for others, not to mention selling them this lie that everyone is equal to everyone else in skill and aptitude. Everyone's a winner, so no one is. I say it's time for parent's to quit farming off the education and disciple of their kids to the school and the government and start taking responsibility. Of course, in regards to this particular story, spanking would have sufficed and the lawsuit should have been laughed out of court.
Geez. This seems like the old zero-gravity pen vs just using a pencil in outer space argument. In High School, we had homeroom at the start of the day for someone to lay eyes on you and take attendance. Then attendance was informally taken in each class afterward. Low tech and simple. Why some people see the need for a high tech solution to a low tech problem is beyond me!
If you want better transparency, that's up to CONGRESS to make the laws. I for one am glad the Supreme Court decided as it did - I may not like the results of the decision as it stands now, but that's not the fault of the Supreme Court whose job it is to interpret the Constitution, not to make new laws. If you're mad, vote 'em out next week.
Sorry, but you've got a problem if your iPhone battery isn't lasting more than a handful of hours. I consistently get 2 days life out of my hand-me-down iPhone 3G. At its worst, I'd get no more than 10 hours, but that's after extremely heavy wifi and/or phone use. And that's a two year old phone. Turn off all those extra push notifications and poorly behaving apps and you'll be a lot happier with your battery life.
You also live in whole countries a third the size of some of our states. Easy to provide full coverage in those scenarios. Your concept of 'rural' is not really the same as ours. States and municipalities are better able to represent the people living in them than the federal government in every area except financially.
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I own an iPhone, but frankly I'm rooting for WP7 all the way. While there's a lot of excitement about developing for iOS *devices*, I don't see much excitement about iOS as a *development platform*. Closed app store, OS X development only, clunky programming language - no reason to rehash the whole list - you read slashdot. This is the one thing MS brings to the show - they know how to make software that appeals to developers, and that's what I expect out of WP7. Some excitement around it as a development platform. If they do that, which is what they're traditionally good at, they'll dominate. Sadly, I worry that they've not yet found their "developers, developers, developers" monkey dance mantra when it comes to mobile devices, but if history is an indicator they'll figure it out.
I have an iPad as well. The first thing you do when you open the box is plug it into your computer and wait. We're not in a post-PC world yet by a long shot, but I'll agree with you that MS got caught with their pants down when it comes to tablets and phones. But if history is any indication, they'll catch up, and I expect they'll do it quickly.
I know you're trying to be cute, but I think that's part of the problem. I run a Linux server at work for secure file transfers and we have a legacy Apache box serving PHP pages for an old website. We run Cygwin on many of our Windows servers. But the truth is - and I recognize I'm not in great company here at Slashdot - that Windows is plenty fine for most in the consumer space. Windows 7 is the best OS MS has ever released, and the adoption rate blew away OSX's total market share in a matter of months. I like OSX okay I guess (typing from it now), but I certainly wouldn't pay a premium for it. I paid the premium for superior hardware. That's what Apple does really, really well.
0.1% of the Slashdot crowd, maybe. But you delude yourself if you believe that plenty of folks aren't happy with Windows. Now, yes - the specs I wanted for my laptop aren't super-typical for someone in the market for a Dell, but so what? My point still stands - I highly doubt that Apple is killing Microsoft in any way right now in the markets where they actually compete. People aren't choosing Apple over some Microsoft alternative - that was the battle from 2 decades ago. The more interesting comparison is how Apple is doing against Dell, HP, Samsung, and Sony as Apple is a maker of devices... the software part of their business is ancillary.
I've been a lifelong Windows user (happy about it too), and up until recently never thought that would change. But, as I was researching my options for a new laptop, I found I couldn't get what I wanted (256GB SSD, 13", ultra light, long battery) for any cheaper buying Dell/HP/whatever so I bought a refurb Macbook. I'm a .NET developer though, and I never never never never never would have even thought of buying one without Parallels so that I could run Windows. I'm not sure that my anecdote is representative of the recent Mac surge at large, but I sure am one who can be counted in both camps. This is one of those statistics that I'm not sure represents the whole story. I wonder how many Mac owners run just OSX, because I suspect that most PC owners run Windows exclusively by a wide margin.
For example, "That you will defend the rights of those who are unable to defend themselves". Note that there is no provision to make this apply only occasionally, only when practical or even possible. Thus, anyone who is not defending the people in Libya, in China, and in Afghanistan, at the same time, is in violation of the license.
Add to that the defense of the unborn and then you wind up with real controversy. Without that one, you're just making trouble where there isn't any.
Um... that's what primaries are for. Both sides screwed up big time on that one.
How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? - About like he's doing on all his other promises - bringing the troops home, closing Gitmo, etc. etc. Why we ever elected a hope-peddling amateur and expected any different I'll never know. Especially during such a precarious time in our nation's history. Maybe I'm wrong and Wall Street, Egypt, Japan and Lybia really do need their own 'community organizers' to solve their woes.
I live in OH, so while there are many benefits to **not** having the nanny-state of CA looking out for my "best interests", this is one of those rare times when I would actually prefer to be absolutely sure someone is holding corporations accountable to do the right thing. The easiest way to do that is to take responsibility myself and if it's a problem, take my business elsewhere.
During a purchase of a bottle of wine at Target along with some other odds and ends, the cashier asked for my drivers license. I thought nothing of it (though I haven't looked younger than 21 in a decade, but whatever). Foolishly, I let him hold it, which he then proceeded to swipe the magnetic strip on it. Now, there's a big difference between typing in a birthdate and storing all my driver's license info in their computer. Needless to say, my license never comes out of it's viewport in my wallet from then on. Watch out - I think a lot of stores are getting really brazen about how they collect your data.
So you say the stylistic HTML is broken, and I say the way NVDA works is broken. You so toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-tow. And round and round it goes.
Ever since Google stated returning results from sites like efreedom over the source content from stackoverflow, I've found myself using Bing more and more. While I know I can search with the "site:stackoverflow.com" hint, the fact that I have to do that and that Google has fallen prey to so many sites gaming their results has just made it less frustrating for me to search Bing first. I have to wonder why Google wants me to be logged in so badly when I'm searching so that it can "personalize" my results, but then they give me no ability to remove certain sites from ever coming up in those results. The relationship with Google and its users is very one-sided.
Uh, I guess for you it's "open sand, insert head". You've crossed over from damn lies to statistics. While true in once sense, your numbers paint the rosy little picture that matches your ideology so you don't have to think. Here are some charts to help set the record straight.
See here, and here.
And in case you care to pay attention to our unemployment problem, which is where the government actually gets its money, see here.
Incentivize does not have to mean hand them taxpayer money, but I guess we're into printing money for every entitlement program under the sun lately, so I can see why you'd make that mistake. There are plenty of ways to incentivize the industry to standardize without playing tax games. Think outside the box for a minute and you'll get there.
No, certainly not "do nothing". Help incentive the industry to set their own common standard, not dictate one to them. And build in a facility for it to change without government intervention. Government should be about setting policy, not about setting specific standards. There's a subtle but important distinction, lost on most who believe government is the solution to all our woes.
If the equation for getting married consists only of cold practicalities, I think you lost more of yourself in the divorce than you realize, ZenDragon.
Get back to us when Microsoft actually rely on .Net and related technologies for their own flagship products like Office
Nice little straw man you've built there. Sun never built Open Office or Solaris in Java, but you can''t be foolish to think that that was a vote of no-confidence in the future of Java. I'll judge .NET's success on two factors - employment opportunities and continued innovation and development from Microsoft. And let's face it - while a lot of copying and catch-up was done for the first few iterations of .NET, that was over and done with after the 2.0 release and ever since then MS has been blowing past everyone else out there. Visual Studio is arguably the best IDE out there, Linq was a total game changer, and ASP.NET MVC fixed the travesty that was the past decade of Webforms. The future looks really bright for .NET, and not so much for Java. But, things change quickly and I'm hoping that the Java community can pull itself together because MS does better when they are forced to compete.
You better bring something that no one else has.
Uh... developers? No seriously - if MS can get corporate IT staff developing business applications for mobile devices, that's a completely untapped market. Android would be the closest to that today, but MS could seal that deal quick if they play this right. Every .NET developer out there has the potential to be a WM7 dev. Every iPhone developer out there had to hold their nose and code objective-c and hope that the app store accepted their product. Full disclosure - I'm a .NET dev professionally, but own a second hand iPhone 3G.
...and useful to extend to pool of developers that can write programs for the Linux platform. Developers are the only way to get and keep users. That seems to be the one meme that Microsoft has always gotten right, and the place where the Linux community could use some serious self evaluation.
The 80s were such a cruel time to grow up.
You're kidding right? I think it's significantly more cruel what we do to kids now. We let them grow up with this sense of entitlement and utter disregard for others, not to mention selling them this lie that everyone is equal to everyone else in skill and aptitude. Everyone's a winner, so no one is. I say it's time for parent's to quit farming off the education and disciple of their kids to the school and the government and start taking responsibility. Of course, in regards to this particular story, spanking would have sufficed and the lawsuit should have been laughed out of court.
True, but Firefox has pretty much already lost me to Chrome v7. Not saying I won't go ever back, but it's going to be a hard sell.
Geez. This seems like the old zero-gravity pen vs just using a pencil in outer space argument. In High School, we had homeroom at the start of the day for someone to lay eyes on you and take attendance. Then attendance was informally taken in each class afterward. Low tech and simple. Why some people see the need for a high tech solution to a low tech problem is beyond me!
If you want better transparency, that's up to CONGRESS to make the laws. I for one am glad the Supreme Court decided as it did - I may not like the results of the decision as it stands now, but that's not the fault of the Supreme Court whose job it is to interpret the Constitution, not to make new laws. If you're mad, vote 'em out next week.
Sorry, but you've got a problem if your iPhone battery isn't lasting more than a handful of hours. I consistently get 2 days life out of my hand-me-down iPhone 3G. At its worst, I'd get no more than 10 hours, but that's after extremely heavy wifi and/or phone use. And that's a two year old phone. Turn off all those extra push notifications and poorly behaving apps and you'll be a lot happier with your battery life.
You also live in whole countries a third the size of some of our states. Easy to provide full coverage in those scenarios. Your concept of 'rural' is not really the same as ours. States and municipalities are better able to represent the people living in them than the federal government in every area except financially.