Can any of you seriously defend the civil rights record of this president? Anything GW Bush did with the patriot act (Obama actually strengthened it) pales in comparison to the jackboot Obama has on the throat of the American people.
Boy Genius and Engadget are circulating a report that says that Android has already overtaken Apple and RIM in the US. Android devices collectively represented a 34% share of the US market in the quarter, and with growth of 851% Android became the largest smart phone platform in the country.
When they posted the Apple Engineer's name and screen shots of his facebook page complete with picture I lost all sympathy for those bastards. Maybe a year in pound me in the ass prison is bad but afterwards he will go on a damn book tour like some kind of hippie hero. Meanwhile Gray Powell's life will still be ruined.
This guy is not only a grade A bastard he should be trusted even less than the person who coughed up the I-phone. The kid who leaked the I-phone did it on accident. He was careless. Gizmodo intentionally burned their source even going so far as to post screen caps of his facebook page and his picture on one of the most widely read tech blogs on the internet. Not even the lowest of tabloids will reveal a source like Gizmodo did. Gizmodo in general should be shunned and that bastard Jesus Diaz in specific should be fired and no media outlet should ever hire him again.
Since the I-phone is not 3G capable (read far slower than dialup transfer rates) you had better be near a wi-fi hotspot or plugged into your computer to get all these new apps. Also since you cant change the battery in the handset, if you are at a hotspot forget using the phone or bluetooth unless you want your battery to die in like 10 minutes. Except for visual voicemail which is very cool and safari which is useless anyway because of the over the air data transfer rates the I-phone is overpriced, overhyped and under performing in every metric that a smartphone can be. I am not drinking the kool-aid on this one.
1.) STFU and read the posts ahead of mine.
2.) RTFA not the badly written headline.
3.) The rule in Academia is publish or perish. You have to publish scientific work to get credit for it. Most corporations will patent their work first but the still publish it dumbass. Know what you are talking about before you post.
"I'm reading the posts here.. I do not see how they have mischaractierized the article." Do a "find in page" search for intelectual property, free or IP. If you want to see how stupid that statement is. No I not just petty name calling. Instead think of it as a worldview summary of the content of these kinds of post.
"Knowing the US, we'll probably bomb them because of some bullshit Patriot Act IP terrorist clause. The contrast makes me ill." This statement sums up the whole intent of his post and about 3/4 of the posts on this topic. Most idiots are confusing free flow of information and IP issues with the cost of publishing in a journal. While you may associate a monetary cost associated with "being heard" as a form of censorship not one poster especially this asshat has made the association. So unless you can make a leap in logic to connect the Patriot Act and the price of a magazine STFU.
You fucking idiot if you had read the article you would have a clue WTF you are talking about. This article was about the high cost of PUBLISHING in scientific journals. Not one word was said about Intellectual Property dumbass. So before we get another bout of Marxist slashdrone mentality at least know what you are talking about.
If 3\4 of the posters had RTFA they would have seen that it is about the cost of PUBLISHING research not disclosing Intellectual Property free of charge. Most Universities around the world and a lot of corporations do this for "free" anyway. The article said nothing about patents or copyright or anything remotely on that topic. This article should be used as an idiot filter for future postings on IP.
I am a technical support coordinator for Verizon wireless. I can tell you that EV-DO uses a CDMA cellular signal for the entire EV-DO capable part of the Verizon network. CDMA networks operate at either 800 or 1900 mhz which is HIGHLY regulated (and costly) spectrum. EV-DO is not an 802.11 technology from our end but as with most ISP's what you do with your bandwidth once you get it is up to you. You can set it up with a Wi-Fi router on your end but then as with anything else you are responsible for the security of the network that you set up.
I am not a Mac fanboy by any means but they are awesome machines. I think the O'Reilly article missed the point in his article though. The reason people are switching to macs is that you can do those things like office apps that windows machines are a little more useful for and can run a lot of very powerful Unix apps just by hitting a line command. Of course Macs have their downsides too but there a lot of damn good reasons for the switching in the article.
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When Slashdot started to post political stories Cmdr Taco said: "We'll do our best to be fair with story selection. We think we can do a good job since the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies." I fail to see the objectivity in Slashdot posting. The left again fails to understand that when they control a given media outlet they have a responsibility to show evenhandedness as they excercise that control. This blatant bias is what gave birth to the likes of the Drudge Report and Fox News that the left hates so much. The left at one time had a virtual lock on all media outlets in the United States. They did a fairly good job as custodians of free speech and the public trust for a long time. Then they decided to use this control as a vehicle to influence public opinion. Net result, public backlash and along comes Fox News claiming to be fair and balanced (neither of which are entirely true). The incredible growth of Fox News and other outlets like Drudge for example have spurred conventional (read left wing) media attacks against conservative outlets which in turn fuels the continued rise of conservative media. The big loser in this situation is the public because there is nobody doing a credible job of presenting intelligent viewpoints from both ends of the spectrum. Note that I did not say an unbiased view just a fairly represented one. I believe that Slashdot is primed for a fork due to this type of irresponsibility and will lose a lot of its credibility and almost half of its readership when its "fair and balanced" alternative shows up. Thus will end the only unified forum for our community because Slashdot editors and a good chunk of the Slash community at large are constantly failing to learn that when some voices are silenced all of our voices are diminished.
Why this puff piece was posted is beyond me. I am planning on opening a gaming cafe in the next 3 months. This menas everything about gaming interests me these days. I want to know what is popular now and what may be popular in the future and why. Perhaps some discussion of market share or sales statistics. How about details on hardware specs or online services. Maybe information on their relationships with resellers and publishers. All this article does is try to convince people that Microsoft is still in the console business and attempts to convey the impression that Microsoft wont get its ass kicked by Sony again while providing excuses for when they do. If OSDN wants to sell Ad space they might as well be honest with us about it. Oh but wait, the whole purpose of the article was to give the Xbox some "street cred" with industry leaders that read slashdot wasnt it?
It deeply saddens me that Slashdot has reduced itself to this kind of sensationalism. Slashdot used to be a forum to discuss technology issues. It now seems to be increasingly driven by some sort of self destructive need to divide and alienate vast portions of the slashdot community. The mere fact that slashdot has a political articles section that posts these kinds of stories, let alone the fact they make it to the front page, is indicative of its impending demise as the leading technological discussion board and information site on the internet. When most open source communities take themselves too far down the divisive path that slashdot is clearly headed they simply fork. Forks always hurt the community overall and this is what I believe will happen to slashdot. We will divide ourselves into a hundred little "slash clone" sites according to our individual beliefs, each one with a sliver of the community at large. Our community will be less diverse, our voice not as loud and our influence diminished. This will be a sad day if our community allows it comes to pass.
This is not a new thing in the IT world. Here
is an example of Mac doing exactly the same thing. Although the practice is reprehensible it is common place.
I am a Mensa member, a PC user and an admirer of Mac hardware. However,I would like to point out that this kind of article by Mac zealots is just one more reason why I never get involved with the Mac community. The first thing the Mac evavgelists will tell you is how user friendly Macs are and preach to you about how any illiterate dumbass can use one. Well guess what, a product whose number one selling point is that any moron can use it is not exactly made for the intellectual elite now is it. If you are not a graphics or music professional using a Mac, you are some vegged out hippie who has just paid three times what a PC would cost you to do very little else than surf the web and run dated versions of Microsoft Office. Congratulations on your brilliant insight. Wait you say, Macs are so much more stable and secure. Ok, what you are now saying is that since you are too stupid (or lazy) to patch your machine and run anti-virus software you must pay three times the cost for an overpowered workstation not to have do so. Another sign of your doubtlessly superior insight. With their expensive cost, propietary architecture and limited software availability (especially video games) Macs are very much a niche market product right now. Having a user base who describe themsleves as evangelists and feel the need to insult the other 98% of the computing public to justify purchasing a Mac does not help either. Although I admire very much the intricate beauty and power of Macs especially now that they run on Unix. I PERSONALLY see no need to purchase a Mac. I also see no need to insult those that do. A flame baiting troll of an article like this never should have made it to the front page of slashdot and will effect my decsion to further support this website with my money and time if articles like this continue to be posted.
The page talks about all of the things Apple has stolen from the open source community while still remaining closed source. If OS X is committed to the open source model then point me to the download for OS X source code, or the x86 port of OS X. Perhaps I missed the part in the OS X Eula where it gave me permission to download, install, modify and redistribute OS X free of charge. Apple takes a lot from OSS without giving a lot in return. If OS X was open source Microsoft would have been out of business a long time ago. Apple, just like Microsoft wants to be the evil monopolistic overlord of choice.
Nonsense, if what you are saying is true then they would allow an OS X port for the x86 platform and Microsft would be shaking in its boots. They are a closed source monopoly who just happens to sell quality products.
Steve Jobs is a "non-monopolist" WTF??? Apple is just as much of a monopoly as Microsoft. Unless you don't consider closed source propietary code, total hardware/software lock in with every product they sell (like the I-pod) and massive DRM as monopolistic behavior. The only differences between Apple and Microsoft are Microsoft's larger market share and Mac's superior quality/technology.
I wonder if they will discuss the dangers of free software being used in propietary and closed source applications like Mac is doing with OS X. If there is one thing we should have learned from the SCO debacle it is that the guy who acts like your friend today can have you in court tommorow.
Microsoft will take exploit information from outside sources where they can get it too. It is irrelevant whether or not you can view the code but how you are allowed to use it that matters. Yes they will let you send them patches for their OS but that is about the only way they will let you mod their code. Try to bundle it with some other hardware or crack the DRM in Itunes and see what happens.
Proprietary processors and mainboards for starters. Just because you can use an off the shelf hard drive doesn't mean the you dont have a proprietary architecture.
1. OS X intentionally only runs on Mac Hardware. It is irrelevant whether it is coded this way or licensed that way, this fact makes it proprietary.
2. Even though OS X uses BSD as a base you still cant bundle it with any hardware, even Mac hardware, unless you are Apple themselves. Any shop that has tried to use legally purchased hardware and software for this purpose has been sued into oblivion. So forget about Mac clones and please dont mention the failed performa.
3. Mac chips and mainboards are built for and to be used exclusively by Mac Software.
4. When it is made for and used exclusively by your company and you sue the hell out of anybody that tries anything different whether it uses BSD roots or not it is proprietary.
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Can any of you seriously defend the civil rights record of this president? Anything GW Bush did with the patriot act (Obama actually strengthened it) pales in comparison to the jackboot Obama has on the throat of the American people.
Please read my post carefully and refer to the article in the link. This refers to a different survey where Android has already passed RIM.
Boy Genius and Engadget are circulating a report that says that Android has already overtaken Apple and RIM in the US. Android devices collectively represented a 34% share of the US market in the quarter, and with growth of 851% Android became the largest smart phone platform in the country.
When they posted the Apple Engineer's name and screen shots of his facebook page complete with picture I lost all sympathy for those bastards. Maybe a year in pound me in the ass prison is bad but afterwards he will go on a damn book tour like some kind of hippie hero. Meanwhile Gray Powell's life will still be ruined.
This guy is not only a grade A bastard he should be trusted even less than the person who coughed up the I-phone. The kid who leaked the I-phone did it on accident. He was careless. Gizmodo intentionally burned their source even going so far as to post screen caps of his facebook page and his picture on one of the most widely read tech blogs on the internet. Not even the lowest of tabloids will reveal a source like Gizmodo did. Gizmodo in general should be shunned and that bastard Jesus Diaz in specific should be fired and no media outlet should ever hire him again.
Since the I-phone is not 3G capable (read far slower than dialup transfer rates) you had better be near a wi-fi hotspot or plugged into your computer to get all these new apps. Also since you cant change the battery in the handset, if you are at a hotspot forget using the phone or bluetooth unless you want your battery to die in like 10 minutes. Except for visual voicemail which is very cool and safari which is useless anyway because of the over the air data transfer rates the I-phone is overpriced, overhyped and under performing in every metric that a smartphone can be. I am not drinking the kool-aid on this one.
1.) STFU and read the posts ahead of mine. 2.) RTFA not the badly written headline. 3.) The rule in Academia is publish or perish. You have to publish scientific work to get credit for it. Most corporations will patent their work first but the still publish it dumbass. Know what you are talking about before you post.
"I'm reading the posts here.. I do not see how they have mischaractierized the article." Do a "find in page" search for intelectual property, free or IP. If you want to see how stupid that statement is. No I not just petty name calling. Instead think of it as a worldview summary of the content of these kinds of post.
"Knowing the US, we'll probably bomb them because of some bullshit Patriot Act IP terrorist clause. The contrast makes me ill." This statement sums up the whole intent of his post and about 3/4 of the posts on this topic. Most idiots are confusing free flow of information and IP issues with the cost of publishing in a journal. While you may associate a monetary cost associated with "being heard" as a form of censorship not one poster especially this asshat has made the association. So unless you can make a leap in logic to connect the Patriot Act and the price of a magazine STFU.
You fucking idiot if you had read the article you would have a clue WTF you are talking about. This article was about the high cost of PUBLISHING in scientific journals. Not one word was said about Intellectual Property dumbass. So before we get another bout of Marxist slashdrone mentality at least know what you are talking about.
If 3\4 of the posters had RTFA they would have seen that it is about the cost of PUBLISHING research not disclosing Intellectual Property free of charge. Most Universities around the world and a lot of corporations do this for "free" anyway. The article said nothing about patents or copyright or anything remotely on that topic. This article should be used as an idiot filter for future postings on IP.
I am a technical support coordinator for Verizon wireless. I can tell you that EV-DO uses a CDMA cellular signal for the entire EV-DO capable part of the Verizon network. CDMA networks operate at either 800 or 1900 mhz which is HIGHLY regulated (and costly) spectrum. EV-DO is not an 802.11 technology from our end but as with most ISP's what you do with your bandwidth once you get it is up to you. You can set it up with a Wi-Fi router on your end but then as with anything else you are responsible for the security of the network that you set up.
I am not a Mac fanboy by any means but they are awesome machines. I think the O'Reilly article missed the point in his article though. The reason people are switching to macs is that you can do those things like office apps that windows machines are a little more useful for and can run a lot of very powerful Unix apps just by hitting a line command. Of course Macs have their downsides too but there a lot of damn good reasons for the switching in the article.
When Slashdot started to post political stories Cmdr Taco said: "We'll do our best to be fair with story selection. We think we can do a good job since the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies." I fail to see the objectivity in Slashdot posting. The left again fails to understand that when they control a given media outlet they have a responsibility to show evenhandedness as they excercise that control. This blatant bias is what gave birth to the likes of the Drudge Report and Fox News that the left hates so much. The left at one time had a virtual lock on all media outlets in the United States. They did a fairly good job as custodians of free speech and the public trust for a long time. Then they decided to use this control as a vehicle to influence public opinion. Net result, public backlash and along comes Fox News claiming to be fair and balanced (neither of which are entirely true). The incredible growth of Fox News and other outlets like Drudge for example have spurred conventional (read left wing) media attacks against conservative outlets which in turn fuels the continued rise of conservative media. The big loser in this situation is the public because there is nobody doing a credible job of presenting intelligent viewpoints from both ends of the spectrum. Note that I did not say an unbiased view just a fairly represented one. I believe that Slashdot is primed for a fork due to this type of irresponsibility and will lose a lot of its credibility and almost half of its readership when its "fair and balanced" alternative shows up. Thus will end the only unified forum for our community because Slashdot editors and a good chunk of the Slash community at large are constantly failing to learn that when some voices are silenced all of our voices are diminished.
Why this puff piece was posted is beyond me. I am planning on opening a gaming cafe in the next 3 months. This menas everything about gaming interests me these days. I want to know what is popular now and what may be popular in the future and why. Perhaps some discussion of market share or sales statistics. How about details on hardware specs or online services. Maybe information on their relationships with resellers and publishers. All this article does is try to convince people that Microsoft is still in the console business and attempts to convey the impression that Microsoft wont get its ass kicked by Sony again while providing excuses for when they do. If OSDN wants to sell Ad space they might as well be honest with us about it. Oh but wait, the whole purpose of the article was to give the Xbox some "street cred" with industry leaders that read slashdot wasnt it?
It deeply saddens me that Slashdot has reduced itself to this kind of sensationalism. Slashdot used to be a forum to discuss technology issues. It now seems to be increasingly driven by some sort of self destructive need to divide and alienate vast portions of the slashdot community. The mere fact that slashdot has a political articles section that posts these kinds of stories, let alone the fact they make it to the front page, is indicative of its impending demise as the leading technological discussion board and information site on the internet. When most open source communities take themselves too far down the divisive path that slashdot is clearly headed they simply fork. Forks always hurt the community overall and this is what I believe will happen to slashdot. We will divide ourselves into a hundred little "slash clone" sites according to our individual beliefs, each one with a sliver of the community at large. Our community will be less diverse, our voice not as loud and our influence diminished. This will be a sad day if our community allows it comes to pass.
This is not a new thing in the IT world. Here is an example of Mac doing exactly the same thing. Although the practice is reprehensible it is common place.
I am a Mensa member, a PC user and an admirer of Mac hardware. However,I would like to point out that this kind of article by Mac zealots is just one more reason why I never get involved with the Mac community. The first thing the Mac evavgelists will tell you is how user friendly Macs are and preach to you about how any illiterate dumbass can use one. Well guess what, a product whose number one selling point is that any moron can use it is not exactly made for the intellectual elite now is it. If you are not a graphics or music professional using a Mac, you are some vegged out hippie who has just paid three times what a PC would cost you to do very little else than surf the web and run dated versions of Microsoft Office. Congratulations on your brilliant insight. Wait you say, Macs are so much more stable and secure. Ok, what you are now saying is that since you are too stupid (or lazy) to patch your machine and run anti-virus software you must pay three times the cost for an overpowered workstation not to have do so. Another sign of your doubtlessly superior insight. With their expensive cost, propietary architecture and limited software availability (especially video games) Macs are very much a niche market product right now. Having a user base who describe themsleves as evangelists and feel the need to insult the other 98% of the computing public to justify purchasing a Mac does not help either. Although I admire very much the intricate beauty and power of Macs especially now that they run on Unix. I PERSONALLY see no need to purchase a Mac. I also see no need to insult those that do. A flame baiting troll of an article like this never should have made it to the front page of slashdot and will effect my decsion to further support this website with my money and time if articles like this continue to be posted.
The page talks about all of the things Apple has stolen from the open source community while still remaining closed source. If OS X is committed to the open source model then point me to the download for OS X source code, or the x86 port of OS X. Perhaps I missed the part in the OS X Eula where it gave me permission to download, install, modify and redistribute OS X free of charge. Apple takes a lot from OSS without giving a lot in return. If OS X was open source Microsoft would have been out of business a long time ago. Apple, just like Microsoft wants to be the evil monopolistic overlord of choice.
Nonsense, if what you are saying is true then they would allow an OS X port for the x86 platform and Microsft would be shaking in its boots. They are a closed source monopoly who just happens to sell quality products.
Steve Jobs is a "non-monopolist" WTF??? Apple is just as much of a monopoly as Microsoft. Unless you don't consider closed source propietary code, total hardware/software lock in with every product they sell (like the I-pod) and massive DRM as monopolistic behavior. The only differences between Apple and Microsoft are Microsoft's larger market share and Mac's superior quality/technology.
I wonder if they will discuss the dangers of free software being used in propietary and closed source applications like Mac is doing with OS X. If there is one thing we should have learned from the SCO debacle it is that the guy who acts like your friend today can have you in court tommorow.
Microsoft will take exploit information from outside sources where they can get it too. It is irrelevant whether or not you can view the code but how you are allowed to use it that matters. Yes they will let you send them patches for their OS but that is about the only way they will let you mod their code. Try to bundle it with some other hardware or crack the DRM in Itunes and see what happens.
Proprietary processors and mainboards for starters. Just because you can use an off the shelf hard drive doesn't mean the you dont have a proprietary architecture.
1. OS X intentionally only runs on Mac Hardware. It is irrelevant whether it is coded this way or licensed that way, this fact makes it proprietary. 2. Even though OS X uses BSD as a base you still cant bundle it with any hardware, even Mac hardware, unless you are Apple themselves. Any shop that has tried to use legally purchased hardware and software for this purpose has been sued into oblivion. So forget about Mac clones and please dont mention the failed performa. 3. Mac chips and mainboards are built for and to be used exclusively by Mac Software. 4. When it is made for and used exclusively by your company and you sue the hell out of anybody that tries anything different whether it uses BSD roots or not it is proprietary.