Bonch is, like me, a slashdot subscriber. You can tell this by the little * next to our UIDs. In return for paying (ridiculously cheap) membership fees to slashdot we get a few bonus features. Among these are the ability to read back any poster's entire comment history, to turn off advertisements, and to see articles a few minutes before they're posted without scanning the Firehose for them.
For me to agree with something Bonch has to say is exceedingly rare. But in this specific case he's got plenty of time to prepare any comment he likes and get it posted first, as do I. I'm guilty of calling copypasta now and then too on AC and new accounts, though I'm trying to get away from that as it doesn't add to the discussion more than it takes away. But the * makes calling copypasta totally inappropriate.
I've not been a fan of stealing content, but I'm coming around to that point of view. Copyright is a social contract where creators get something (a monopoly) in return for something (the improvement of the public domain when the monopoly expires). They're using the corruption of law to get their something without paying the something by preventing the expiration of the monopoly. Complying with this encourages corruption of law. So in the interest of good citizenship until they restore the balance of getting something in return for something, violating copyright isn't a sin: it's your civic duty.
The President is a Constitutional scholar, and it doesn't surprise me that he would come out against these bills that violate our freedoms of speech and due process. I wish I wasn't so cynical that I thought the popular uprising had more to do with it than his skills and experience, his good citizenship.
Microsoft's Windows on Arm (WoA) effort will not launch until fall at the earliest, and rumors have it that fall is a stretch goal now because multicore isn't stable yet. At that time there will be over 300 million iOS devices and 300 million Android devices installed in the field at least - almost all of them recent technologies from the last three years, in vast variety. 600 million units is orders of magnitude larger than the WoA addressable market, and choice initially will be quite limited. Those iOS and Android customers are getting invested in apps and content that share smoothly across their devices, increasing lock-in. They are getting familiarity and comfort, which is hard to displace. And when it launches it will be their usual V1 effort.
Well you were modded down, but I think you were insightful. The mac dig was probably what did it. If this practice offends you, don't buy the product. That should solve the problem in short order.
Every place they get a solid start, they go for monopoly. It's not enough for them to win: everybody else has to lose also. Then they shut down progress and commence rent-seeking. Better to not give them an opening.
Very much this. They ruined netbooks, and this is what they get. No wonder we don't want them to get started on phones and tablets. The cure for the fine article: Just Don't Buy It. Ever.
It's worse than that. They want to strip you of your rights to due process and freedom of speech as a preventive measure to protect their IP. That's not OK. A big Seattle TV station, KING 5 supports SOPA. They have comments, so you can let them know how you feel about this here.
If you have a Wordpress blog you can add a plugin that takes your site dark for the 18th - redirecting to an education page. But it's a 503 redirect, so it won't kill your search engine rankings. Every little bit helps.
Forgot to mention a couple of the best ones. Minecraft and mojang will go dark (19M users). The entire family of icanhazcheezburger humor pic sites too, including FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, Memebase and The Daily What (16M users). I do believe that the lack of lolcats will spur some serious action. Firefall company Red 5 Studios will also go dark. nVidia has come out strongly opposed to the legislation, but hasn't announced any action yet. This is really starting to roll, and blackout day is still 5 days away.
While we wait for Wikimedia to do their committee thing it looks like about a dozen game companies and communities are going completely dark in sync with Reddit. I see a couple rumors that Google's having internal talks about how to get involved - but it's a very tricky thing. We like other websites, but many of us actually need Google. If enough small fry get involved it could become a big enough deal.
I forget... where were we on shutting down/. for the day?
Don't include me in that figure. I have a Galaxy S and am quite happy with it. Gingerbread is quite nice. I can do all the things I like to do, like Netflix and Facebook, browse the Internet and whatnot. It has the 80 apps I like. I wrote this with it. It doesn't need ICS to make me happy.
In the fall when my new phone is due I'll get a quad core ICS phone and this will be a nice media player/wif browser for the kids for years to come. Until then, I'm good.
Most of the 400,000 Android applications will run just fine: they're just bytecode. No doubt Intel will have their own Atom Zone like nVidia has their Tegra Zone, with full dev kits for native code and drivers for their special parts, and killer apps for free or sale that leverage these. Because that's a clever idea. And of course they'll run right over to Tegra Zone, build an app list, and dispatch the crews to negotiate with the developers for whatever it takes to get a port to their platform (prerelease hardware, on-call support engineers with highest level access, coding assistance, marketing and financial incentives...) - because Intel knows that a couple killer apps go a long way.
Who's in a bad way is the OEMs that try to start from scratch without that 400,000 app non-native code ecosystem on WoA.
I think this was intended to be a fun play on "Android Army," which has been a common term for a while. "Android Nation" is more like it these days, as the headcount trends to exceed the US population by May.
Point of order: Desktop PCs do not always come with a keyboard and mouse. Almost all tablets support BlueTooth versions of these devices. Sadly, you can't get the Unicomp keyboard in a bluetooth model - but there are plans out there to convert one if you're handy. The google search for that is, I believe "god's own bluetooth keyboard" (without the quotes).
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Bonch is, like me, a slashdot subscriber. You can tell this by the little * next to our UIDs. In return for paying (ridiculously cheap) membership fees to slashdot we get a few bonus features. Among these are the ability to read back any poster's entire comment history, to turn off advertisements, and to see articles a few minutes before they're posted without scanning the Firehose for them.
For me to agree with something Bonch has to say is exceedingly rare. But in this specific case he's got plenty of time to prepare any comment he likes and get it posted first, as do I. I'm guilty of calling copypasta now and then too on AC and new accounts, though I'm trying to get away from that as it doesn't add to the discussion more than it takes away. But the * makes calling copypasta totally inappropriate.
I've not been a fan of stealing content, but I'm coming around to that point of view. Copyright is a social contract where creators get something (a monopoly) in return for something (the improvement of the public domain when the monopoly expires). They're using the corruption of law to get their something without paying the something by preventing the expiration of the monopoly. Complying with this encourages corruption of law. So in the interest of good citizenship until they restore the balance of getting something in return for something, violating copyright isn't a sin: it's your civic duty.
The President is a Constitutional scholar, and it doesn't surprise me that he would come out against these bills that violate our freedoms of speech and due process. I wish I wasn't so cynical that I thought the popular uprising had more to do with it than his skills and experience, his good citizenship.
Microsoft's Windows on Arm (WoA) effort will not launch until fall at the earliest, and rumors have it that fall is a stretch goal now because multicore isn't stable yet. At that time there will be over 300 million iOS devices and 300 million Android devices installed in the field at least - almost all of them recent technologies from the last three years, in vast variety. 600 million units is orders of magnitude larger than the WoA addressable market, and choice initially will be quite limited. Those iOS and Android customers are getting invested in apps and content that share smoothly across their devices, increasing lock-in. They are getting familiarity and comfort, which is hard to displace. And when it launches it will be their usual V1 effort.
This one is already over.
This is probably a good time to point out that Android devices have sold - at least - A QUARTER BILLION UNITS. Almost all in the last two years.
Well you were modded down, but I think you were insightful. The mac dig was probably what did it. If this practice offends you, don't buy the product. That should solve the problem in short order.
Every place they get a solid start, they go for monopoly. It's not enough for them to win: everybody else has to lose also. Then they shut down progress and commence rent-seeking. Better to not give them an opening.
Very much this. They ruined netbooks, and this is what they get. No wonder we don't want them to get started on phones and tablets. The cure for the fine article: Just Don't Buy It. Ever.
They have more Linux devices in their datacenter than they know about too. It's in almost all firewalls, some storage appliances, and so on.
Really? If they can be caught spamming some 100-reader blog in India nobody ever heard of, slashdot should be a no brainer.
It looks like the anti-SOPA efforts are having some effect, as the President has now come out against it. But he hasn't promised a veto yet.
It's worse than that. They want to strip you of your rights to due process and freedom of speech as a preventive measure to protect their IP. That's not OK. A big Seattle TV station, KING 5 supports SOPA. They have comments, so you can let them know how you feel about this here.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
If you have a Wordpress blog you can add a plugin that takes your site dark for the 18th - redirecting to an education page. But it's a 503 redirect, so it won't kill your search engine rankings. Every little bit helps.
Domain registrar and shareware repository Tucows will be going dark in opposition of SOPA on the 18th.
The sites going "dark" will replace their content with the necessary educational literature.
Forgot to mention a couple of the best ones. Minecraft and mojang will go dark (19M users). The entire family of icanhazcheezburger humor pic sites too, including FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, Memebase and The Daily What (16M users). I do believe that the lack of lolcats will spur some serious action. Firefall company Red 5 Studios will also go dark. nVidia has come out strongly opposed to the legislation, but hasn't announced any action yet. This is really starting to roll, and blackout day is still 5 days away.
While we wait for Wikimedia to do their committee thing it looks like about a dozen game companies and communities are going completely dark in sync with Reddit. I see a couple rumors that Google's having internal talks about how to get involved - but it's a very tricky thing. We like other websites, but many of us actually need Google. If enough small fry get involved it could become a big enough deal.
I forget... where were we on shutting down /. for the day?
Don't include me in that figure. I have a Galaxy S and am quite happy with it. Gingerbread is quite nice. I can do all the things I like to do, like Netflix and Facebook, browse the Internet and whatnot. It has the 80 apps I like. I wrote this with it. It doesn't need ICS to make me happy.
In the fall when my new phone is due I'll get a quad core ICS phone and this will be a nice media player/wif browser for the kids for years to come. Until then, I'm good.
His role used to be "world's most expensive babysitter" but the kids had already grown up.
You can update a dumb HDTV to these features with a $79 HDMI dongle.
Well we can ask God for just that. And Her mode of granting the prayer is likely to be Her commonest way: letting us figure it out.
You were. You just don't know it yet.
Most of the 400,000 Android applications will run just fine: they're just bytecode. No doubt Intel will have their own Atom Zone like nVidia has their Tegra Zone, with full dev kits for native code and drivers for their special parts, and killer apps for free or sale that leverage these. Because that's a clever idea. And of course they'll run right over to Tegra Zone, build an app list, and dispatch the crews to negotiate with the developers for whatever it takes to get a port to their platform (prerelease hardware, on-call support engineers with highest level access, coding assistance, marketing and financial incentives...) - because Intel knows that a couple killer apps go a long way.
Who's in a bad way is the OEMs that try to start from scratch without that 400,000 app non-native code ecosystem on WoA.
I think this was intended to be a fun play on "Android Army," which has been a common term for a while. "Android Nation" is more like it these days, as the headcount trends to exceed the US population by May.
Point of order: Desktop PCs do not always come with a keyboard and mouse. Almost all tablets support BlueTooth versions of these devices. Sadly, you can't get the Unicomp keyboard in a bluetooth model - but there are plans out there to convert one if you're handy. The google search for that is, I believe "god's own bluetooth keyboard" (without the quotes).
Wow. There's over a billion Itaniums installed and people are calling it out every five minutes for "Fragmentation"? That doesn't seem likely.