Nostalgia is a deceptive mistress. It tends to glorify things that weren't objectively good but carry sentimental feelings. You miss communicating directly with hardware and editing DOS startup files, but the DOS developers who had to support everybody's esoteric PC hardware sure don't. In fact, those days were a step back from the initial push in the 60s and early 70s toward higher-level abstraction that we've only now come back around to but took a detour from during the initial commoditization of low-end PC hardware. But you explained why you liked it--a sense of mastery that mentally justified the time investment.
Slashdot today is more of a political geek site, where a specific demographic comes to rant about copyrights, the DMCA, Apple, etc. Probably generates more revenue that way. I remember when programming articles used to make it to the front page.
I didn't say they did. The point is that getting rid of copyright means removing all power the GPL has, because it is a copyright license that protects code. People around here do care about the GPL. No idea why my OP would be modded down as "Troll" when I'm making a valid point. These pirate parties and religions are just things the rest of the world points and laughs at. It does no good for serious, legitimate copyright reform movements.
Does anyone really take things like this seriously? This and the "Pirate Party" only hurt copyright reform movements. Not to mention that if "everything should be shared freely online without copyright", the GPL wouldn't be able to protect code anymore.
He's a subscriber, so it's not surprising he has first post. Is anything even remotely critical of Android on Slashdot these days automatically considered an Apple or MS shill?
The negative moderations of the OP are downright psychotic. There's nothing trollish about it at all, and it's backed by linked evidence. If only the majority of Slashdot comments put in the effort.
They're simply mandating support for a default UI, which isn't as a good as an official standard, but it may act as a de facto standard, which is at least a step in the right direction for Android.
"but it's a good bet they had fighting lawsuits in mind."
Why does Slashdot assume this? Motorola actively went after Apple, and Google owns Motorola. In spite of Google's public words, they are quite happy to go after others over patents.
"Fair business practice"?! They just got caught doing the same SEO tactics they've punished other companies for! They slapped themselves on the wrist only after a huge explosion of negative press across the web yesterday.
What Google did is the exact opposite of fairness. It would be like praising a cop for no longer beating his wife.
Chrome intentionally doesn't allow the blocking of ad resources before they are downloaded, which cripples AdBlock Plus. This is likely so Google can still report "ad views" to its advertisers. Combined with the bundling of the closed Flash plugin after all the talk about openness when they removed H.264 support, I lost interest in Chrome.
Welp, this is Slashdot, which will seek any reason to 1.) absolve Google of guilt, and 2.) somehow differentiate Google from the "other companies." Here, Google can actually get caught doing what it punishes others for and get praised for it. Someone even used the phrase "level of integrity." That's the very last thing Google has earned from this!
Level of integrity? Huh?! Google just got caught doing the exact same thing that JC Penney got totally reamed for early last year. JC Penney even gave the same excuse, that they didn't know what the SEO company they hired was doing. They're not different at all from the others.
The punishment isn't even a punishment, because Google pays itself to place a Chrome ad at the top of the search results regardless of what the search engine actually returns beneath it.
It almost sounds like you were already a supporter of Google, and you are using this as an excuse to shrug off negative criticism. Getting caught being hypocritical isn't something worth praise, nor is it proof that they're different--it's proof that they're the same!
How is Google on the positive side of it just because so many companies do the wrong thing? They are the curators of the web, for god's sake. They dole out punishments to other companies over things like this. As a position of authority, they should be above it. There's really no excuse.
This is Slashdot. It will seek any reason to feel good about supporting Google. Outside of this place, people have been ripping the company to shreds over this.
Why would you have positive feelings over this? Google was caught doing the same SEO tactics they punished JC Penney for. JC Penney even gave the exact same excuse, which was that they had no idea their external SEO company was doing such evil things. But this is worse, because Google is supposed to be the moral authority about this stuff since they are in a monopoly position when it comes to web search.
They had to do this after the huge amount of negative press yesterday, and they only did it after that press. But even worse, it doesn't even matter because the search term still returns Chrome as the top result via the sponsored links. How convenient for Google that it can pay itself and get the top result regardless of the neutral algorithmic results beneath, and therefore, regardless of whatever punishment it doles out to itself to make Google fans feel better about being Google fans.
No, this is nothing to feel positive about at all. If Google does the same things it punishes others for, it's no better.
What's funny is that Slashdot and all the other tech blogs was pro-net neutrality all last year, and posters like me who criticized that kind of government intervention were downmodded into oblivion because it went against the opinion of the hivemind. Now with SOPA, people have seen just what it's like when politicians try to regulate the internet from Washington, and suddenly it's cool again to keep politicians away from technology! My head gets dizzy sometimes from the back and forth in trends.
I'm not an Apple shill. I'm just anti-neckbeard. Slashdot has become the most out-of-touch tech community on the internet. Note how you had no problem with his post, but when I respond with the same kind of snark, suddenly there's an issue.
Needs more of? Did you read the semantic line interface link or the comments in the discussion? It was just some guy's indecipherable blog post about his text box idea.
Most of us (at least on Slashdot) don't picture the ideal computing experience as Apple slapping our ass and calling us a good girl as it does us from behind.
I picture you giggling to yourself as you typed this, idly scratching your neckbeard and staring doe-eyed at the Linus Torvalds poster on your wall. You don't have control in your life, so you seek it in computers. It's textbook. You need to justify the time you invest, so you feel compelled to tweak things and to invent evil enemies to fight against like Apple so that you feel like a freedom fighter from one of your favorite animes and not just the 1,153,867th nerd on Slashdot, named "GameboyRMH."
You're a relic. Suffering from Early Onset Crotchety Syndrome, you stand in the corner with your arms crossed, grumbling at the popular things while everyone else has fun.
Oh, come on. What a dumb post. You don't refute anything in the article.
The article is a measure of browser usage. As for what mobile OS has the most marketshare, that would be iOS by a wide margin because of iPads and iPod touches. If you're talking about just smartphone marketshare, that would be Android due to sheer volume.
Which one is most "popular" is a subjective conclusion, really, though I'd be comfortable pointing at iOS on that one.
What's amusing is how Slashdotters still fetishize marketshare like it's the only metric for determining success, as if you've lost if you don't have the most marketshare. Years of ranting about Windows marketshare has bred an incorrect view of how business works. You can have the most marketshare and still not make any money or have any happy customers, and you can be #3 or #4 or whatever in marketshare yet be the market leader making the most profits.
This is supposed to be one of those dumb watercooler stories. People who don't get the internet are supposed to roll their eyes at the big, bad internet making things worse. Cheesy morning radio shows read this stories like this.
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Nostalgia is a deceptive mistress. It tends to glorify things that weren't objectively good but carry sentimental feelings. You miss communicating directly with hardware and editing DOS startup files, but the DOS developers who had to support everybody's esoteric PC hardware sure don't. In fact, those days were a step back from the initial push in the 60s and early 70s toward higher-level abstraction that we've only now come back around to but took a detour from during the initial commoditization of low-end PC hardware. But you explained why you liked it--a sense of mastery that mentally justified the time investment.
Slashdot today is more of a political geek site, where a specific demographic comes to rant about copyrights, the DMCA, Apple, etc. Probably generates more revenue that way. I remember when programming articles used to make it to the front page.
I didn't say they did. The point is that getting rid of copyright means removing all power the GPL has, because it is a copyright license that protects code. People around here do care about the GPL. No idea why my OP would be modded down as "Troll" when I'm making a valid point. These pirate parties and religions are just things the rest of the world points and laughs at. It does no good for serious, legitimate copyright reform movements.
I have to say, this is an openly pro-Linux website and has supported Google for many years, so posts about shills are admittedly pretty ironic.
There's always at least one "squad" of 4-8 MS shills operating on Slashdot.
Yes, what an open-minded, neutral place Slashdot would be if not for 4-8 MS shills.
Does anyone really take things like this seriously? This and the "Pirate Party" only hurt copyright reform movements. Not to mention that if "everything should be shared freely online without copyright", the GPL wouldn't be able to protect code anymore.
He's a subscriber, so it's not surprising he has first post. Is anything even remotely critical of Android on Slashdot these days automatically considered an Apple or MS shill?
The negative moderations of the OP are downright psychotic. There's nothing trollish about it at all, and it's backed by linked evidence. If only the majority of Slashdot comments put in the effort.
They're simply mandating support for a default UI, which isn't as a good as an official standard, but it may act as a de facto standard, which is at least a step in the right direction for Android.
"but it's a good bet they had fighting lawsuits in mind."
Why does Slashdot assume this? Motorola actively went after Apple, and Google owns Motorola. In spite of Google's public words, they are quite happy to go after others over patents.
"Fair business practice"?! They just got caught doing the same SEO tactics they've punished other companies for! They slapped themselves on the wrist only after a huge explosion of negative press across the web yesterday.
What Google did is the exact opposite of fairness. It would be like praising a cop for no longer beating his wife.
Chrome intentionally doesn't allow the blocking of ad resources before they are downloaded, which cripples AdBlock Plus. This is likely so Google can still report "ad views" to its advertisers. Combined with the bundling of the closed Flash plugin after all the talk about openness when they removed H.264 support, I lost interest in Chrome.
Welp, this is Slashdot, which will seek any reason to 1.) absolve Google of guilt, and 2.) somehow differentiate Google from the "other companies." Here, Google can actually get caught doing what it punishes others for and get praised for it. Someone even used the phrase "level of integrity." That's the very last thing Google has earned from this!
Level of integrity? Huh?! Google just got caught doing the exact same thing that JC Penney got totally reamed for early last year. JC Penney even gave the same excuse, that they didn't know what the SEO company they hired was doing. They're not different at all from the others.
The punishment isn't even a punishment, because Google pays itself to place a Chrome ad at the top of the search results regardless of what the search engine actually returns beneath it.
It almost sounds like you were already a supporter of Google, and you are using this as an excuse to shrug off negative criticism. Getting caught being hypocritical isn't something worth praise, nor is it proof that they're different--it's proof that they're the same!
How is Google on the positive side of it just because so many companies do the wrong thing? They are the curators of the web, for god's sake. They dole out punishments to other companies over things like this. As a position of authority, they should be above it. There's really no excuse.
This is Slashdot. It will seek any reason to feel good about supporting Google. Outside of this place, people have been ripping the company to shreds over this.
Why would you have positive feelings over this? Google was caught doing the same SEO tactics they punished JC Penney for. JC Penney even gave the exact same excuse, which was that they had no idea their external SEO company was doing such evil things. But this is worse, because Google is supposed to be the moral authority about this stuff since they are in a monopoly position when it comes to web search.
They had to do this after the huge amount of negative press yesterday, and they only did it after that press. But even worse, it doesn't even matter because the search term still returns Chrome as the top result via the sponsored links. How convenient for Google that it can pay itself and get the top result regardless of the neutral algorithmic results beneath, and therefore, regardless of whatever punishment it doles out to itself to make Google fans feel better about being Google fans.
No, this is nothing to feel positive about at all. If Google does the same things it punishes others for, it's no better.
What's funny is that Slashdot and all the other tech blogs was pro-net neutrality all last year, and posters like me who criticized that kind of government intervention were downmodded into oblivion because it went against the opinion of the hivemind. Now with SOPA, people have seen just what it's like when politicians try to regulate the internet from Washington, and suddenly it's cool again to keep politicians away from technology! My head gets dizzy sometimes from the back and forth in trends.
I'm not an Apple shill. I'm just anti-neckbeard. Slashdot has become the most out-of-touch tech community on the internet. Note how you had no problem with his post, but when I respond with the same kind of snark, suddenly there's an issue.
Needs more of? Did you read the semantic line interface link or the comments in the discussion? It was just some guy's indecipherable blog post about his text box idea.
I picture you giggling to yourself as you typed this, idly scratching your neckbeard and staring doe-eyed at the Linus Torvalds poster on your wall. You don't have control in your life, so you seek it in computers. It's textbook. You need to justify the time you invest, so you feel compelled to tweak things and to invent evil enemies to fight against like Apple so that you feel like a freedom fighter from one of your favorite animes and not just the 1,153,867th nerd on Slashdot, named "GameboyRMH."
You're a relic. Suffering from Early Onset Crotchety Syndrome, you stand in the corner with your arms crossed, grumbling at the popular things while everyone else has fun.
Oh, come on. What a dumb post. You don't refute anything in the article.
The article is a measure of browser usage. As for what mobile OS has the most marketshare, that would be iOS by a wide margin because of iPads and iPod touches. If you're talking about just smartphone marketshare, that would be Android due to sheer volume.
Which one is most "popular" is a subjective conclusion, really, though I'd be comfortable pointing at iOS on that one.
What's amusing is how Slashdotters still fetishize marketshare like it's the only metric for determining success, as if you've lost if you don't have the most marketshare. Years of ranting about Windows marketshare has bred an incorrect view of how business works. You can have the most marketshare and still not make any money or have any happy customers, and you can be #3 or #4 or whatever in marketshare yet be the market leader making the most profits.
I find it ironic that Slashdotters like you always claim copyright violations aren't theft yet are always the first to cry out over "stolen" GPL code.
This is supposed to be one of those dumb watercooler stories. People who don't get the internet are supposed to roll their eyes at the big, bad internet making things worse. Cheesy morning radio shows read this stories like this.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! How many times can the same story be recycled over the course of two years?
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