I can install just about any software I care to on this machine and Steve Jobs is not going to show up with a baseball bat.
Not yet. However, if a critical mass of people are willing to accept the locked down iOS model for their laptop/desktop machines as well, then there you go. It is not paranoia. It is simply a matter of acknowledging that in free markets, businesses target the "average person".
The problem is that Bing is too much focused on the average user. What google does right is that they are appealing to techies, and this gives them all sorts of extra benefits that MS is not getting.
I think it would be fair that most community-built sites lower their data walls. Not just facebook, but also, e.g., Amazon, and IMdb, which have huge collections of user-reviews, and let's not forget youtube.
Actually, you have good points. But I find the way Apple is using the open-source community against itself, well, nothing less than detesting. As a developer, I certainly wouldn't want to be a part of what Apple is doing. Maybe there should be something between BSD and GPL, to keep Apple from being so evil, while still enjoying the openness of a BSD license, but I have no idea (right now) what it should be.
Is this the final proof that Apple is not compatible with (GPL'ed) OSS? I sincerely hope so, because then we can finally lose the fanboys and talk about more interesting stuff here.
And maybe for those occasions where somebody still has an urge to talk about Apple, we can change the icon into something borg-like, as we have for M$.
What metric should one use to compare supercomputers? Using the amount of floating point operations performed per second (FLOPS) comes across as a little silly, because if you just pile together a sufficient amount of standard PC's, you should be able to top it (maybe Folding@home could be considered a bigger supercomputer). Therefore, I assume that the interconnectivity (and the speed related to it) of the CPU's should have something to do with it...
Isn't this also relevant when using Linux on a server? I mean, if one process or thread is copying a large file, you don't want your server to come to a crawl.
It doesn't sound like just a "desktop" issue to me.
Can we now finally change the apple icon on slashdot? A Borg icon like the one M$ has would do, or maybe a rotten apple. Or, perhaps an apple where a worm comes out with the face of Steve Jobs, and with an evil laugh.
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Yes, that idea, but then "on a computer". That's a big difference there. (cough)
Control the people, and you *keep* control of the media.
But let's see what happens when youtube starts banning Italy.
By the time everybody is using the technique you mentioned, google will file a new patent, for sending out different versions of spam to each account.
they wants their PhDs back.
Such a basic operation, and still not working as intended? Something is terribly wrong here if you ask me...
It must be Apple's "magic" that's causing the trouble.
No, observing the behavior of people, I'd say we definitely need a gesture interface in the car first!
That's why we need a "+5 perfect grammar" on slashdot. That might change things.
Perhaps we can still use it here on Slashdot, as the icon for Apple stories.
I can install just about any software I care to on this machine and Steve Jobs is not going to show up with a baseball bat.
Not yet. However, if a critical mass of people are willing to accept the locked down iOS model for their laptop/desktop machines as well, then there you go. It is not paranoia. It is simply a matter of acknowledging that in free markets, businesses target the "average person".
If not, I look forward to increased adoption of appropriate browser extensions.
Nah, it's time to replace the internet by a darknet altogether.
This is actually what TFA says.
The problem is that Bing is too much focused on the average user. What google does right is that they are appealing to techies, and this gives them all sorts of extra benefits that MS is not getting.
I think it would be fair that most community-built sites lower their data walls. Not just facebook, but also, e.g., Amazon, and IMdb, which have huge collections of user-reviews, and let's not forget youtube.
Yes, but you could "invite" them?
That's why copyright infringement != theft
What is very interesting about this, is that <rest of comment optimized away>
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time.
This sounds an awful lot like: the real problem is that you're holding it the wrong way.
Actually, you have good points. But I find the way Apple is using the open-source community against itself, well, nothing less than detesting. As a developer, I certainly wouldn't want to be a part of what Apple is doing. Maybe there should be something between BSD and GPL, to keep Apple from being so evil, while still enjoying the openness of a BSD license, but I have no idea (right now) what it should be.
Is this the final proof that Apple is not compatible with (GPL'ed) OSS?
I sincerely hope so, because then we can finally lose the fanboys and talk about more interesting stuff here.
And maybe for those occasions where somebody still has an urge to talk about Apple, we can change the icon into something borg-like, as we have for M$.
By the way... if only BSD had a GPL license...
But... GUIs are a lot like APIs, and /they/ are allowed to be copyrighted. (Not that I find that reasonable).
What metric should one use to compare supercomputers? Using the amount of floating point operations performed per second (FLOPS) comes across as a little silly, because if you just pile together a sufficient amount of standard PC's, you should be able to top it (maybe Folding@home could be considered a bigger supercomputer). Therefore, I assume that the interconnectivity (and the speed related to it) of the CPU's should have something to do with it...
Yes, or you can put a note with robots.txt rules in your underwear.
What OS will their servers run?
Isn't this also relevant when using Linux on a server? I mean, if one process or thread is copying a large file, you don't want your server to come to a crawl.
It doesn't sound like just a "desktop" issue to me.
Can we now finally change the apple icon on slashdot? A Borg icon like the one M$ has would do, or maybe a rotten apple. Or, perhaps an apple where a worm comes out with the face of Steve Jobs, and with an evil laugh.