If Samsung had changed a single thing on their products there would be no case. Square buttons or a different colour or differently shaped speakers. Anything and the case would never have even been filed.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has no face buttons at all. The earlier (7") Galaxy Tab had four face buttons (not one), and none of them looked anything at all like home buttons on iOS devices. Sure looks like Samsung changed (at least) "a single thing"...
Your argument would hold more weight if it weren't for the fact that AT&T has had many negative effects on iOS despite the fact that iOS isn't open. (recent example: tethering) So yes, carriers can exploit the openness of Android to screw their customers, but they also can, and have, make Apple do their bidding. So it appears that the issue of whether your carrier will screw up your phone is orthogonal to whether the OS is "open". In that case, I'll take open.
Install an alternate input method (eg: Swype), run an emulator that lets you run downloaded software (eg: Ftodo 64 or NESoid), automatically adjust volume settings based on criteria like location, time or phone orientation (eg: Locale, Off the hook or Volume timer), automatically upload photos/videos to sharing services (eg: Pic push).
Don't forget that it wasn't too long ago that you couldn't even play Pandora in the background on the iPhone, and even now the multitasking on iOS is bizarrely restricted (eg: you can do arbitrary things in the background as long as you also audio).
Using that logic you could ignore the developer agreement restrictions entirely by having virtually all of your code in a "library". Your application would then be just an entry point that calls into the library.
Any libraries you link into your app are part of your app and are subject to the same restrictions.
The developer agreement says "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine". There are no provisions for using other languages for any part of your application. Need to use a numerical library written in Fortran, or a parser written in ANTLR? Too bad.
I love car analogies. No, Ford does not prohibit you from installing a Chevy engine in your Mustang. They also do _NOTHING_ to enable you.
Actual technical limitations are fine. Artificially imposed legal/contractual limitations aren't.
More specifically: I don't expect Apple to provide a compiler for my favorite language (which is not Flash, I should add). If they only provide an Objective-C compiler I'm fine with that. On the other hand, if someone develops a compiler that can convert code from my favorite language into Objective-C, then I am not okay with Apple saying "you can't use that tool - you have to hand-write your code in Objective-C".
I don't know that I'd go as far as to say that what Apple is doing isn't within their rights, but that doesn't mean I have to like what they're doing. They're handicapping their developer base by limiting the tools they can use. Some developers will stay and put up with the handicaps, and others will leave. I have a hard time believing that that will work out for them in the end.
So if I write a C compiler in [insert slowest language you can think of here] then C programs compiled with that compiler would be no faster than [insert slowest language you can think of here]? Sorry, no, that isn't the way it works.
This reminds me of a study I'd read about a few years ago that found that children fell into two different groups based on their behavior when playing with building blocks:
build something and then preserve it
build something, wait a while, destroy it, and repeat
I suspect that your experience has nothing to do with how specialized the pieces were, but rather the fact that your boyfriend's 8-year-old falls into the first camp: once something is built it is preserved. An interesting experiment would be to get her some building blocks or some basic (unspecialized) Lego bricks and see what she does with them. Does she build one thing and then try to preserve it, or does she tear it down after a little while to build something new?
Which is the typical user more likely to search for: the same thing they searched for yesterday, or something they've never searched for, but many other people have searched for? Your browser only knows about the former, not the latter.
The drug war started out as a form of government backed opression against... Asians (who used opium)...
WTF?!? The Asians only used opium because it was brought there by Westerners. If you go and read A Short History of the Opium Wars, on the same site you linked to, you'll see that:
most opium came from Turkey and India, not China
in 1800 importing opium into China was forbidden by the imperial government
despite this, many countries, particularly the US and Britain, imported vast quantities of opium into China
When the Chinese tried to put a stop to the opium trade by confiscating opium, Britain went to war with them. Eventually Britain, France and the US forced China to allow the importation of opium.
However I have not found one place where they didn't know what a soda was.
I suspect that's because Hollywood (like most of California) uses the term "soda". Even though I grew up calling carbonated beverages "pop", I knew that everyone on TV called them "soda".
Yeah, I know. The OP was talking about American vs Candian English, so that's what I was focusing on, but I'm aware of where the Canadian spelling comes from.;-)
When spoken, Canadian English sounds almost the same as American English (with a few exceptions), but when written, the British spelling is generally used. The only exception to the latter that I can think of is "tire" vs "tyre".
Canadians also tend to use American phrasing. So Canadians say "elevator", "truck" and "aluminum", not "lift", "lorry" and "aluminium". (I suppose one could argue that the latter is an alternate spelling, rather than a separate word) Much of the slang in Canada is the same as in the US as well.
Actually, the Pop vs Soda thing isn't Canadian vs American. Take a look at this map, which shows which term is predominantly used in each part of the US and Canada.
The biggest differences between American and Canadian English that I know of have to do with spelling. eg: colour vs color, metre vs meter, etc. The only differences I've noticed in spoken English are zed vs zee thing, and the nonsensical way Americans use "quarter of" when referring to the time. (to me "quarter of 12" is 3, but to Americans it apparently means "a quarter to 12")
Your first point made sense, but your second point did not. Returning a "useful result" and dumping to an output stream are logically equivalent when the operation you're performing on said result is concatenation.
That redirect is signed so they know exactly where you are being linked to
Huh? What does it mean for a redirect to be "signed"? And since Yahoo is generating the links, how would they not know where I'm being linked to, even if they weren't using redirects?
You don't get mad cow disease from corn-fed beef. You get it from cow-fed beef. In particular, a cow becomes infected only by ingesting brain or nerve tissue from another infected cow.
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If Samsung had changed a single thing on their products there would be no case. Square buttons or a different colour or differently shaped speakers. Anything and the case would never have even been filed.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has no face buttons at all. The earlier (7") Galaxy Tab had four face buttons (not one), and none of them looked anything at all like home buttons on iOS devices. Sure looks like Samsung changed (at least) "a single thing"...
Your argument would hold more weight if it weren't for the fact that AT&T has had many negative effects on iOS despite the fact that iOS isn't open. (recent example: tethering) So yes, carriers can exploit the openness of Android to screw their customers, but they also can, and have, make Apple do their bidding. So it appears that the issue of whether your carrier will screw up your phone is orthogonal to whether the OS is "open". In that case, I'll take open.
A few things off the top of my head:
Install an alternate input method (eg: Swype), run an emulator that lets you run downloaded software (eg: Ftodo 64 or NESoid), automatically adjust volume settings based on criteria like location, time or phone orientation (eg: Locale, Off the hook or Volume timer), automatically upload photos/videos to sharing services (eg: Pic push).
Don't forget that it wasn't too long ago that you couldn't even play Pandora in the background on the iPhone, and even now the multitasking on iOS is bizarrely restricted (eg: you can do arbitrary things in the background as long as you also audio).
Yes it is. Type alt-+
Does he have a time machine? How did he write an article about XML that predates HTML by years when HTML predates XML?
Holy run-on sentence Batman!
Periods are a renewable resource. Feel free to use them.
Using that logic you could ignore the developer agreement restrictions entirely by having virtually all of your code in a "library". Your application would then be just an entry point that calls into the library.
Any libraries you link into your app are part of your app and are subject to the same restrictions.
The developer agreement says "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine". There are no provisions for using other languages for any part of your application. Need to use a numerical library written in Fortran, or a parser written in ANTLR? Too bad.
Actual technical limitations are fine. Artificially imposed legal/contractual limitations aren't.
More specifically: I don't expect Apple to provide a compiler for my favorite language (which is not Flash, I should add). If they only provide an Objective-C compiler I'm fine with that. On the other hand, if someone develops a compiler that can convert code from my favorite language into Objective-C, then I am not okay with Apple saying "you can't use that tool - you have to hand-write your code in Objective-C".
I don't know that I'd go as far as to say that what Apple is doing isn't within their rights, but that doesn't mean I have to like what they're doing. They're handicapping their developer base by limiting the tools they can use. Some developers will stay and put up with the handicaps, and others will leave. I have a hard time believing that that will work out for them in the end.
You're thinking of Macs. This is about iPhone OS.
So if I write a C compiler in [insert slowest language you can think of here] then C programs compiled with that compiler would be no faster than [insert slowest language you can think of here]? Sorry, no, that isn't the way it works.
- build something and then preserve it
- build something, wait a while, destroy it, and repeat
I suspect that your experience has nothing to do with how specialized the pieces were, but rather the fact that your boyfriend's 8-year-old falls into the first camp: once something is built it is preserved. An interesting experiment would be to get her some building blocks or some basic (unspecialized) Lego bricks and see what she does with them. Does she build one thing and then try to preserve it, or does she tear it down after a little while to build something new?Which is the typical user more likely to search for: the same thing they searched for yesterday, or something they've never searched for, but many other people have searched for? Your browser only knows about the former, not the latter.
Some cars don't have ABS. Some do. So I'm pretty sure it isn't mandatory.
WTF?!? The Asians only used opium because it was brought there by Westerners. If you go and read A Short History of the Opium Wars, on the same site you linked to, you'll see that:
- most opium came from Turkey and India, not China
- in 1800 importing opium into China was forbidden by the imperial government
- despite this, many countries, particularly the US and Britain, imported vast quantities of opium into China
When the Chinese tried to put a stop to the opium trade by confiscating opium, Britain went to war with them. Eventually Britain, France and the US forced China to allow the importation of opium.How often is that going to come up?
However presumably the victim had no other course of action than to sue someone to get some sort of compensation.
I'd think that the victim could get compensation from the insurance companies.
However I have not found one place where they didn't know what a soda was.
I suspect that's because Hollywood (like most of California) uses the term "soda". Even though I grew up calling carbonated beverages "pop", I knew that everyone on TV called them "soda".
Yeah, I know. The OP was talking about American vs Candian English, so that's what I was focusing on, but I'm aware of where the Canadian spelling comes from. ;-)
When spoken, Canadian English sounds almost the same as American English (with a few exceptions), but when written, the British spelling is generally used. The only exception to the latter that I can think of is "tire" vs "tyre".
Canadians also tend to use American phrasing. So Canadians say "elevator", "truck" and "aluminum", not "lift", "lorry" and "aluminium". (I suppose one could argue that the latter is an alternate spelling, rather than a separate word) Much of the slang in Canada is the same as in the US as well.
Actually, the Pop vs Soda thing isn't Canadian vs American. Take a look at this map, which shows which term is predominantly used in each part of the US and Canada.
The biggest differences between American and Canadian English that I know of have to do with spelling. eg: colour vs color, metre vs meter, etc. The only differences I've noticed in spoken English are zed vs zee thing, and the nonsensical way Americans use "quarter of" when referring to the time. (to me "quarter of 12" is 3, but to Americans it apparently means "a quarter to 12")
Google has the answer
Your first point made sense, but your second point did not. Returning a "useful result" and dumping to an output stream are logically equivalent when the operation you're performing on said result is concatenation.
That redirect is signed so they know exactly where you are being linked to
Huh? What does it mean for a redirect to be "signed"? And since Yahoo is generating the links, how would they not know where I'm being linked to, even if they weren't using redirects?
You don't get mad cow disease from corn-fed beef. You get it from cow-fed beef. In particular, a cow becomes infected only by ingesting brain or nerve tissue from another infected cow.
The rest of your point is valid, however.
What about "F" becoming "fF"? That seems to happen a lot in your posts...