I for one, welcome a near monopoly that is both open source and standards compliant.
In recent years your debugging time was almost entirely devoted to Edge and Internet Exploder. With the introduction of Edge I was excited about the prospect of using vanilla Javascript. Unfortunately the Edge team managed to find a different interpretation of "standards" from everyone else and we're still using jQuery not just as a convenience but as a browser shim.
It is unfortunate, not only for America but the world, that climate science became a political issue with a party divide. Combined with the venomous team-sport nature of current politics, where people are groomed to be patriots only of their party rather than their country, whether or not a person is allowed to believe science is often dependant on whose political dogma they are soldiers of.
There may be some countries that have even more freedom of speech than the US, but the USA still produces more words. Therefore it does, mathematically, have more free speech than any other county on Earth. USA! USA! (c'mon everybody)
I'm not American but I didn't feel particularly oppressed by the country who invented the internet overseeing this function. But I would also be surprised if it turns out that Americans are the only decent, freedom loving people in the world.
Cut out the (wo)man period. Who needs jobs when you can help the folks at Uber join the 1%?
We may want to make sure employment doesn't go the way of the dodo and make some noise when it appears it might.
Sure, we bullied 54 nations into signing defense pacts, and we bullied Europe into sticking us with a huge bill for NATO. We bullied every other Nato country except for Poland and Britain into not paying the 2% of their GDP on defense that the treaty requires, so we could sociopathically pay for the gaps in their budgets, in addition to providing such a huge military force, that Germany, for instance, only needs to have available one light brigade of combat troops for NATO operations...
As a non-American in an allied country I can attest that America more than just a bully. Sometimes a bully, yes, but often a great help and friend.
I disagree. I think coders should all be forced to learn to learn the intricacies of investment.
Because, naturally, there can only be ONE human thinking skill which rules them all, and which people who are gifted in other areas should be forced to struggle through.
Not to worry, if the book had been about 2D game programming in Flash the majority of comments would be about how this really should have been done in Javascript.
Open source means the source code is available in full. Whether the creators/inner contributors run the project like the wild old days of Wikipedia or whether they are autocratic is up to them. e.g. I can't just tell Linus to put my code in the Linux kernel.
But if I have the motivation I can take the source and put in my changes myself. Perhaps it will gain traction, perhaps not. But I have the option.
Also, there is the little matter of transparency which only open source provides.
So in these ways Firefox is the only one of the aforementioned which is truly open, even though, as you say, they do not allow you any say in the development of their OS.
That said, who the hell said "let's make a dirt-cheap phone OS so the entire planet can enjoy the web!" and then decided to do everything in HTML and Javascript? Even Android is better than that. That's one of the areas where you would really want the speed and efficiency of a low-level language.
I think the idea was so the entire planet can not only use the phone but that it would be more accessible to build apps too.
Elon setting out to deplete the earth of natural resources and fill its atmosphere with burned rocket fuel also increases the likelyhood that we will need a Martian colony to survive.
Australia too charges income tax from money I earn abroad - namely the difference between the obscenely high Australian taxes and the much lesser taxes I pay in most other countries, even if I earned the money while working and living in those other countries
shhhh! You're new to America bashing aren't you?
So if Microsoft moves to Canada, does that mean they'll at least say "sorry" every time they do something bad?
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I for one, welcome a near monopoly that is both open source and standards compliant. In recent years your debugging time was almost entirely devoted to Edge and Internet Exploder. With the introduction of Edge I was excited about the prospect of using vanilla Javascript. Unfortunately the Edge team managed to find a different interpretation of "standards" from everyone else and we're still using jQuery not just as a convenience but as a browser shim.
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If only boorish behaviour and lack of moderation had been considered undesirable traits for POTUS...
People need to get over their support of Trump so they can succeed.
It is unfortunate, not only for America but the world, that climate science became a political issue with a party divide. Combined with the venomous team-sport nature of current politics, where people are groomed to be patriots only of their party rather than their country, whether or not a person is allowed to believe science is often dependant on whose political dogma they are soldiers of.
There may be some countries that have even more freedom of speech than the US, but the USA still produces more words. Therefore it does, mathematically, have more free speech than any other county on Earth. USA! USA! (c'mon everybody)
I'm not American but I didn't feel particularly oppressed by the country who invented the internet overseeing this function. But I would also be surprised if it turns out that Americans are the only decent, freedom loving people in the world.
Cut out the (wo)man period. Who needs jobs when you can help the folks at Uber join the 1%? We may want to make sure employment doesn't go the way of the dodo and make some noise when it appears it might.
Sure, we bullied 54 nations into signing defense pacts, and we bullied Europe into sticking us with a huge bill for NATO. We bullied every other Nato country except for Poland and Britain into not paying the 2% of their GDP on defense that the treaty requires, so we could sociopathically pay for the gaps in their budgets, in addition to providing such a huge military force, that Germany, for instance, only needs to have available one light brigade of combat troops for NATO operations...
As a non-American in an allied country I can attest that America more than just a bully. Sometimes a bully, yes, but often a great help and friend.
Germany>USA>China
uber alles...
It's a little like asking what we are doing to help bullies find a new way to shake down kids who have been taught how to stop bullying.
Feeling excluded is one thing. Telling people what to do is another.
I would mod "insightful"
I disagree. I think coders should all be forced to learn to learn the intricacies of investment.
Because, naturally, there can only be ONE human thinking skill which rules them all, and which people who are gifted in other areas should be forced to struggle through.
Not to be rude but this is probably a good time to start hitting the gym then.
It also doesn't account for the previously established fact that any proper zombie outbreak originates in BRITAIN.
I love USA as much as the next guy but seriously, you need to stop copy-catting every British hit.
Not to worry, if the book had been about 2D game programming in Flash the majority of comments would be about how this really should have been done in Javascript.
Funny how Sony has never shied away from hacking into users' data but as soon as the shoe is on the other foot it's a national crisis.
Open source means the source code is available in full. Whether the creators/inner contributors run the project like the wild old days of Wikipedia or whether they are autocratic is up to them. e.g. I can't just tell Linus to put my code in the Linux kernel.
But if I have the motivation I can take the source and put in my changes myself. Perhaps it will gain traction, perhaps not. But I have the option.
Also, there is the little matter of transparency which only open source provides.
So in these ways Firefox is the only one of the aforementioned which is truly open, even though, as you say, they do not allow you any say in the development of their OS.
Exactly. Typical Obama nanny state government thinks it's their business to protect us from ebola.
Annoying when a phone/tablet has more software available than a "laptop".
Unless the giant software ecosystem is insecure.
Firefox
That said, who the hell said "let's make a dirt-cheap phone OS so the entire planet can enjoy the web!" and then decided to do everything in HTML and Javascript? Even Android is better than that. That's one of the areas where you would really want the speed and efficiency of a low-level language.
I think the idea was so the entire planet can not only use the phone but that it would be more accessible to build apps too.
Elon setting out to deplete the earth of natural resources and fill its atmosphere with burned rocket fuel also increases the likelyhood that we will need a Martian colony to survive.
To say NASA needs to only use the $5000 car isn't in our long term interest.
I couldn't agree more. Using a $5000 car would make NASA nearly irrelevant as a space agency.
Australia too charges income tax from money I earn abroad - namely the difference between the obscenely high Australian taxes and the much lesser taxes I pay in most other countries, even if I earned the money while working and living in those other countries
shhhh! You're new to America bashing aren't you?
So if Microsoft moves to Canada, does that mean they'll at least say "sorry" every time they do something bad?