Millions of people bought a device with bugs, certainly. The serious performance issues with the Captivate running the default ROM were on their own a serious QA failure.
What is "crippled" about BB OS, specifically? Is it the strong support for encryption? Conformance to Java standards? Excellent hardware, especially the radios?
It was originally in the Washington Post. It's beyond a subscriber wall, though.
The 3000 warhead number was based on the interpretation of one study group, and while it's interesting, I'd take it with a hefty grain of salt. 1000 sounds a bit more reasonable.
I'm an American, and I know that Iran only recently was able to reverse-engineer the F-5 (early 60's tech) and still hasn't been able to do the same for the F-14 (mid 70's tech.) If they can't reverse-engineer a fighter that they've had for thirty years, and is based on decades-old US technology, what makes you think they can reverse-engineer current US tech in a reasonable amount of time?
There's quite a distance between "they're all primitive camel-riders" and "they're a technological power to rival the United States."
The new National Defense Authorization Act contains an amendment allowing the military the authority to detain American citizens, on American soil, indefinitely and without access to an attorney. The President has said he'll veto it; write to him and hold him to it! This has wide bipartisan support, and while I'm typically hesitant of doomsaying about America becoming a police state, this is the legal codification of one!
Fuck xkcd. That's stupid and totally irrelevant. Nobody is trying to make a "standard" programming language for all things and situations, and nobody has ever tried since Java and ALGOL 68.
UNIX is a (bad) ripoff of Multics, and Multics's other children, VOS and GCOS, still put it to shame. Windows is merely the lovechild of DOS and RSX-11.
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What do you lose out on, specifically? The ability to run a slow pseudo-Java runtime?
Millions of people bought a device with bugs, certainly. The serious performance issues with the Captivate running the default ROM were on their own a serious QA failure.
US Cellular, MetroPCS, and other smaller carriers have significant market share in the areas that they're available.
Even better: MetroPCS has unlimited data for cheap, lets you activate any CDMA device you like, and has no fixed-length service contracts.
Employing people monetarily-driven might make them more of an espionage threat.
What is "crippled" about BB OS, specifically? Is it the strong support for encryption? Conformance to Java standards? Excellent hardware, especially the radios?
Despite your snark, CIQ is completely absent. Tested on devices from AT&T and Sprint.
It's nice to have a Blackberry through all of this. The WP7 users are probably pretty happy too.
It was originally in the Washington Post. It's beyond a subscriber wall, though.
The 3000 warhead number was based on the interpretation of one study group, and while it's interesting, I'd take it with a hefty grain of salt. 1000 sounds a bit more reasonable.
The US uses steam catapults, which are even better but are more expensive and are fairly involved to design.
Which specific people in "the banking community" would you have arrested, and for what specific crime?
I agree that they fucked things up, but going into witch-hunt mode might not be desirable.
If it's the only use they had for the PS3, why did they install the patch that removed it?
I'm an American, and I know that Iran only recently was able to reverse-engineer the F-5 (early 60's tech) and still hasn't been able to do the same for the F-14 (mid 70's tech.) If they can't reverse-engineer a fighter that they've had for thirty years, and is based on decades-old US technology, what makes you think they can reverse-engineer current US tech in a reasonable amount of time?
There's quite a distance between "they're all primitive camel-riders" and "they're a technological power to rival the United States."
In other words, technology the US had in 1960 and 1945, respectively. So impressive!
Let me know when they reverse-engineer the F-14. They've had 30 years to work on it.
There's a new one every year, dumb fuck. It provides the military budget. The amendment is only in the 2011 version.
Er, no it didn't. It's still in reconciliation committee.
The new National Defense Authorization Act contains an amendment allowing the military the authority to detain American citizens, on American soil, indefinitely and without access to an attorney. The President has said he'll veto it; write to him and hold him to it! This has wide bipartisan support, and while I'm typically hesitant of doomsaying about America becoming a police state, this is the legal codification of one!
http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/NDAA
What makes you think most pagan religions have a concept of sin? Asatruar certainly don't.
The multi-ton elephant in the room is Netflix.
It's sandboxed and doesn't run native code. It's more like Java applets.
It matters because plenty of people have these things called "smartphones" and "tablet computers" and wouldn't mind using webOS on them.
Fuck xkcd. That's stupid and totally irrelevant. Nobody is trying to make a "standard" programming language for all things and situations, and nobody has ever tried since Java and ALGOL 68.
Then you display adaptability. I know that's difficult for some people.
Why create C? We already had FORTRAN, COBOL, ALGOL, Lisp, and PL/I.
Why create C++? We already had C, Smalltalk. and ObjectPascal.
Why create Java? We already had C++, Eiffel, and Objective-C.
Why create C#? We already had VB, C++, and Java.
UNIX is a (bad) ripoff of Multics, and Multics's other children, VOS and GCOS, still put it to shame. Windows is merely the lovechild of DOS and RSX-11.