I'm ok with advances in technology and the new challenges it creates. What I'm not OK with is a director deciding to make the source material "better" by changing the narrative. Jackson completely gutted Tolkien's Hobbit, rearranged the important events, and has replaced a light-hearted adventure story with the dark themes from LotR. Mr. Peter Jackson, why do you hate the work of JRR Tolkien?
Thanks for pointing out that the OP was inaccurate and that you agree with his inaccuracy. A web browser engine is not the browser itself. If that kind of logic was accurate, then a '68 Camero is just a re-skinned '68 Nova because they use the same 350 engine.
Sorry, that's not Chrome. It's Safari with a Chrome skin, just like all the other "browsers" in the app store.
Sorry, but this is false. The logical mistake you are making is known as fallacy of composition and takes the form: Safari uses webkit, and Chrome uses webkit, therefore Chrome is Safari. What you need to understand is that webkit is not Safari, nor vice versa. Safari is based on webkit, and are all versions of Chrome... but they are very distinct browsers.
Mercury, and essentially every browser on iOS, is just a different UI on top of Safari.
A lot of people repeating this cynicism, which is false. Safari is a webkit-based browser, but Safari != webkit. All third party iOS browsers are based on webkit, with webkit rendering engines, but they are not all merely re-skinned Safari. Is the desktop version of Chrome (another webkit-based browser) merely re-skinned Safari? Is Konquerer (yet another webkit based browser) merely re-skinned Safari? I think not.
It was neither Steve Jobs nor Apple that discovered the problem with a vertical touch interface, but Ivan Sutherland that discovered in 1963 that a vertical touchscreen was a terrible idea.
...because the blood runs out of your hand in about 20 seconds and leaves it numb...
Suffice to say, Apple will not be releasing a touchscreen laptop.
Wow... kudos to the foreman... waiting in the tall grass for 20 years for some sweet payback... that billion dollar verdict against Samsung will make Seagate think twice before suing him into bankruptcy ever again. What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at Seagate... they must be shitting their pants, thinking "how did we let this guy fuck us over so hard?"/sarcasm
This makes no sense.
No... it does. The foreman is a twisted, evil person. You see... Seagate isn't without feelings, you know. If they care about people, they'll never do business with any other company again because they now know this foreman might be instrumental in leveraging a billion dollar verdict against anyone who does business with Seagate. This will drive Seagate to despair.
I am concerned. The only harddrives I've ever purchased are Seagate products. I love their multi-year product warranties, and most of my drives are still covered by Seagate's unmatched five year warranties. How can I protect myself against this relentless unforgiving agent of evil that is ruthlessly and systematically taking out anyone with which Seagate does business? Not sure or not if it's related, but someone has poisoned my dog. I'm taking my family on a vacation just to be safe... just until this blows over... I hear Cape Fear is nice this time of year.
Well, it didn't stop this bullshit flamebait article submission from outright stating in the headline that the foreman preciously "tangled" with Samsung. Slashdot has literally become Idiocracy.
No, it's business as usual. Slashdot has always been filled with intelligent but intellectually dishonest commenters.
Wow... kudos to the foreman... waiting in the tall grass for 20 years for some sweet payback... that billion dollar verdict against Samsung will make Seagate think twice before suing him into bankruptcy ever again. What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at Seagate... they must be shitting their pants, thinking "how did we let this guy fuck us over so hard?"
/sarcasm
By the way, beginning in March, the U.S. will switch from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system of granting patents. Hey, what could go wrong?"
The entire rest of the world works just fine using first-to-file for patents. The US is an anomaly with first-to-invent.
The only trouble with the America Invents Act of 2011 is it is not an Amendment to the Constitution, which it needs to be in order to change the original text of the Constitution which clearly specifies (re: "Inventors") the "first to invent" system over the "first to file" system. What could go wrong is the first time the first-to-file system is challenged in court it will necessarily be declared unconstitutional.
It started with the state the universe was in around 13.7 billion years ago (not long after the Big Bang) and modeled the evolution of dark matter and energy up to the present day.
so... what happened when it reached the simulation of the simulation, and then eventually the simulation of the simulation of the simulation? I've long been told that it's turtles all the way down, but I'd like to see a citation.
weirdly... it kind of does. Once again I find myself questioning the alleged import of noting the distinction between so called dwarf planets and all the others. Why did we need to do that again?
It's not so long since Apple silently dropped the restriction about iOS apps for programming
There was never any such restriction. The restriction was concerning creating an environment that runs arbitrary code, such as an emulator environment, which would restrict any interpreted programming languages from running arbitrary user-created code on the device. So there was no such restriction as stated, and thus it was never "silently lifted." The restriction against a user running code in a non-native environment is still in place. What has happened is clever programmers are creating apps that access a backend up in the nets that executes the code, so now you can code on iOS (data entry, text editing), test your code on the backend somewhere else (i.e. code is not actually being executed on the iPad), and thus develop programming using an iPad on one of the many clever apps that use this architecture.
yeah... but buddy, geology isn't a trade, per se... geologists aren't so much "trained" as they are, uh... educated... and generally, it isn't the USGS that is educating them so much as they are, uh... employing them.
You have no idea what you're talking about... geologist are born. A friend of my cousin's was drafted by the USGS, trained at Top Rock, and did 2 tours in the Grand Canyon, and saw a lot of interesting sediment, so I know what I'm talking about!
On March 3, 1879 the United States Geological Survey established an elite school for the top one percent of its geologists. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best geologists in the world. They succeeded. Today, the USGS calls it the Department of Geology (found at various universities). The geologists call it: TOP ROCK.
Iceman: You two really are rockboys.
Maverock: What's your problem, Cavenski?
Iceman: You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go down in the cave, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous.
Maverock: That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous.
Unlike our sun, many stars are part of multiple-star systems
IIRC from my star fighter days, most stars, the vast majority of them, are part of multiple-star systems. Sol is very weird and a rare counter-example in that regard.
Personally I think the reason this topic raises the noise level on Slashdot is the posers that like to boaster their "credentials" by making derogatory remarks about something they don't understand.
Incorrect. You must be new here, for that is exactly very the reason all topics raise the noise level on Slashdot.
After much scrutiny of the tapes NASA concluded that the word "a" was not said at all.
Not only incorrect on all counts, you obviously just made up everything you just claimed. The scrutiny of the transmission supports Armstrong's claims:
"The 'a' was intended," Armstrong said. "I thought I said it. I can't hear it when I listen on the radio reception here on Earth, so I'll be happy if you just put it in parentheses."
Although no one in the world heard the "'a," some research backs Armstrong.
In 2006, a computer analysis found evidence that Armstrong said what he said he said.
Peter Shann Ford, an Australian computer programmer, ran a software analysis looking at sound waves and found a wave that would have been the missing "a." It lasted 35 milliseconds, much too quick to be heard. The Smithsonian's space curator, Roger Launius, looked at the evidence and found it convincing.
NASA has also stood by its moon man.
"If Neil Armstrong says there was an 'a,' then as far as we're concerned, there was 'a,'" NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said shortly before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
...
And in all honesty, Mr. Armstrong kinda' blew it by not reciting his prepared speech exactly right, and it must have bothered him enough that he attempted to hide his mistake... It's kind of funny to learn that this is what made him sweat a little bit.
You deserve to be punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin.
There were twelve.
Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
Charles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
David Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
James Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
John Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972
Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972
Given the fact that Armstrong is known to be such a fighter, it seems strange that he didn't fight through the USADA arbitration.
It does. Have you known many successful athletes? The best have what is called "heart" in pushing their bodies past the point of physical and mental exhaustion, but their competitive nature goes far beyond sport to social interaction. They compete at everything with everyone with an almost fanatical desire to win at everything, to be the best and be recognized as the best. They have an extreme level of self-confidence sometimes to the point of narcissism and beyond. However, any human can be broken. Sport is not for driving the individual until they die of exhaustion... all sport has rest and recovery period. The investigation of this agency and the scrutiny with which they drive at their prejudged goals has no rest period. It's possible he was simply beaten, financially, socially, emotionally and mentally, to the breaking point where he has given up.... doesn't seem likely but it is absolutely possible he made his decision to stop fighting the way prey will stop the pursuit of wolves by laying down and accepting their inevitable fate.
How strong did bitcoin get before investors dumped their bitcoins and developed a rumor to eliminate buying confidence and dramatically reduce the bitcoin value against the dollar? What was the bitcoin exchange rate trend before the story broke, and what is it now?
I don't think that bitcoin development is a bad idea on its face (anonymous money), and I don't see any pyramid scam, but without regulation or oversight, the bitcoin market is ripe for manipulation with impunity.
I suppose "Big Oil" puts a gun to your head and makes you fill up at the gas station too?
Poor comparison. For the metaphor to make sense, you'd have to be a gas reseller. Let's say the large oil companies came out with a new product. In order to force the gas stations to sell it, all they'd need do is raise the prices of the standard products slightly, unless the gas station agrees to sell some amount of the new product. If the station hits that nut, the standard products get 'discounted' down to the normal, regular prices. Otherwise, if the station doesn't agree to sell the new product or doesn't sell enough, they're paying premium prices on the standard products and forced to raise their retail prices slightly, causing customers to get gas elsewhere to save a dime.
Patients generally aren't doctor-shopping (unless they're already addicts). Pharmaceutical companies offer inventives to doctors/hospitals using similar tactics. A good case-study of what the GP seems to be talking about is OxyContin. This is a relatively new drug formulation that could have been a miracle drug in specific instances of chronic pain or terminal patients, but Big Pharm pushed this pain-killer in a huge way for years under the FDA's radar, giving doctors incentives to overprescribe, and within a few short years on the market we have pregnant women robbing pharmacies to get at it. Big Pharm and the physicians they manipulated effectively created a new narcotic drug epidemic and were successful in massively boosting sales and profits on a drug formulation that initially had a limited application. Subsequently, the drug has been again reformulated, hopefully in a way that is a disincentive for abuse, but new stories are now coming out that its been replaced on the street with a different new drug, a time-release pill formulation of synthetic morphine... once again, a formulation that is completely unnecessary with questionable benefits to legitimate patients and is already proving to have an enourmous abuse vector. But Big Pharm needed a new synthetic morphine because the old synthetic morphine's patent had expired, which reminds us of why they needed synthetic morphine in the first place, because formulations of regular old morphine (which still works just fine and is regarded as a gold standard of severe pain relief) predate the drug patent system by a century.
Once you're hooked to a strong narcotic, no one needs to put a gun to your head for the body to want the drug. It changes the chemistry of your brain forever and the craving for it never goes away.
The Space Shuttles TPS tiles are some amazing material... though even they are only spec'ed to maybe 1500C, but what is facinating about them, to me, is that they don't hold heat. They can be seared to 1200C and seconds later will be cool. So maybe a system that uses this technology combined with an extra liquid-based fast heat-removal system?
What material can withstand 100,000C ??? How do we test that?
Apple will be able to buy Google lock, stock and barrel without breaking a sweat,
Apart from the minor issue that the US and/or EU competition bodies would definitely block such a takeover.
Not as cut and dry as we'd initially expect... technically, Google and Apple are not really competing. Apple is a hardware company, and Google is a web technolgies company... but actually, and by the vast majority, Google's revenue stream comes from advertising, while Apple's comes from, again, hardware. Apple doesn't license iOS, and Google gives Android away... so the competition between the two companies is not so obvious. With Motorola mobile in the mix, it appears it might be different but it is not... Apple could have bought Motorola with no problem, as there are countless other mobile competitors. In the same way Microsoft has many times purchased companies simply to kill a single competitor, Apple could do the same, so long as there is plenty of other competition in the market, and there is that. Slashdot commenters seem to forget, Android is not a company, nor is it a typical 'product.' It is Apache licensed open source software. Again, in the same way Oracle purchased Sun and killed Open Solaris (and, effectively, Solaris), Apple could do the same to Google and Android. However, as Android is OSS, it could fork and Apple would have no control over that even if they did purchase Google... the same way Oracle has no control over nor can Solaris benefit from illumOS or projects based on the forks of Open Solaris.
Just create a new form of life and embed your source code in its DNA. Then build a rocket/ion drive/stasis chamber to deliver your new life form to a neighboring star where it can then land and seed life on another planet. The real bitch is starting all over every time you release a patch.
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I'm ok with advances in technology and the new challenges it creates. What I'm not OK with is a director deciding to make the source material "better" by changing the narrative. Jackson completely gutted Tolkien's Hobbit, rearranged the important events, and has replaced a light-hearted adventure story with the dark themes from LotR. Mr. Peter Jackson, why do you hate the work of JRR Tolkien?
Thanks for pointing out that the OP was inaccurate and that you agree with his inaccuracy. A web browser engine is not the browser itself. If that kind of logic was accurate, then a '68 Camero is just a re-skinned '68 Nova because they use the same 350 engine.
Sorry, that's not Chrome. It's Safari with a Chrome skin, just like all the other "browsers" in the app store.
Sorry, but this is false. The logical mistake you are making is known as fallacy of composition and takes the form: Safari uses webkit, and Chrome uses webkit, therefore Chrome is Safari. What you need to understand is that webkit is not Safari, nor vice versa. Safari is based on webkit, and are all versions of Chrome... but they are very distinct browsers.
Mercury, and essentially every browser on iOS, is just a different UI on top of Safari.
A lot of people repeating this cynicism, which is false. Safari is a webkit-based browser, but Safari != webkit. All third party iOS browsers are based on webkit, with webkit rendering engines, but they are not all merely re-skinned Safari. Is the desktop version of Chrome (another webkit-based browser) merely re-skinned Safari? Is Konquerer (yet another webkit based browser) merely re-skinned Safari? I think not.
It was neither Steve Jobs nor Apple that discovered the problem with a vertical touch interface, but Ivan Sutherland that discovered in 1963 that a vertical touchscreen was a terrible idea.
Suffice to say, Apple will not be releasing a touchscreen laptop.
Wow... kudos to the foreman... waiting in the tall grass for 20 years for some sweet payback... that billion dollar verdict against Samsung will make Seagate think twice before suing him into bankruptcy ever again. What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at Seagate... they must be shitting their pants, thinking "how did we let this guy fuck us over so hard?" /sarcasm
This makes no sense.
No... it does. The foreman is a twisted, evil person. You see... Seagate isn't without feelings, you know. If they care about people, they'll never do business with any other company again because they now know this foreman might be instrumental in leveraging a billion dollar verdict against anyone who does business with Seagate. This will drive Seagate to despair.
I am concerned. The only harddrives I've ever purchased are Seagate products. I love their multi-year product warranties, and most of my drives are still covered by Seagate's unmatched five year warranties. How can I protect myself against this relentless unforgiving agent of evil that is ruthlessly and systematically taking out anyone with which Seagate does business? Not sure or not if it's related, but someone has poisoned my dog. I'm taking my family on a vacation just to be safe... just until this blows over... I hear Cape Fear is nice this time of year.
Well, it didn't stop this bullshit flamebait article submission from outright stating in the headline that the foreman preciously "tangled" with Samsung. Slashdot has literally become Idiocracy.
No, it's business as usual. Slashdot has always been filled with intelligent but intellectually dishonest commenters.
Wow... kudos to the foreman... waiting in the tall grass for 20 years for some sweet payback... that billion dollar verdict against Samsung will make Seagate think twice before suing him into bankruptcy ever again. What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at Seagate... they must be shitting their pants, thinking "how did we let this guy fuck us over so hard?"
/sarcasm
This makes no sense.
By the way, beginning in March, the U.S. will switch from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system of granting patents. Hey, what could go wrong?"
The entire rest of the world works just fine using first-to-file for patents. The US is an anomaly with first-to-invent.
The only trouble with the America Invents Act of 2011 is it is not an Amendment to the Constitution, which it needs to be in order to change the original text of the Constitution which clearly specifies (re: "Inventors") the "first to invent" system over the "first to file" system. What could go wrong is the first time the first-to-file system is challenged in court it will necessarily be declared unconstitutional.
Relics s06e04
Moonraker
It started with the state the universe was in around 13.7 billion years ago (not long after the Big Bang) and modeled the evolution of dark matter and energy up to the present day.
so... what happened when it reached the simulation of the simulation, and then eventually the simulation of the simulation of the simulation? I've long been told that it's turtles all the way down, but I'd like to see a citation.
weirdly... it kind of does. Once again I find myself questioning the alleged import of noting the distinction between so called dwarf planets and all the others. Why did we need to do that again?
It's not so long since Apple silently dropped the restriction about iOS apps for programming
There was never any such restriction. The restriction was concerning creating an environment that runs arbitrary code, such as an emulator environment, which would restrict any interpreted programming languages from running arbitrary user-created code on the device. So there was no such restriction as stated, and thus it was never "silently lifted." The restriction against a user running code in a non-native environment is still in place. What has happened is clever programmers are creating apps that access a backend up in the nets that executes the code, so now you can code on iOS (data entry, text editing), test your code on the backend somewhere else (i.e. code is not actually being executed on the iPad), and thus develop programming using an iPad on one of the many clever apps that use this architecture.
A USGS trained analytical geologists opinion...
yeah... but buddy, geology isn't a trade, per se... geologists aren't so much "trained" as they are, uh... educated... and generally, it isn't the USGS that is educating them so much as they are, uh... employing them.
You have no idea what you're talking about... geologist are born. A friend of my cousin's was drafted by the USGS, trained at Top Rock, and did 2 tours in the Grand Canyon, and saw a lot of interesting sediment, so I know what I'm talking about!
On March 3, 1879 the United States Geological Survey established an elite school for the top one percent of its geologists. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best geologists in the world. They succeeded. Today, the USGS calls it the Department of Geology (found at various universities). The geologists call it: TOP ROCK.
Unlike our sun, many stars are part of multiple-star systems
IIRC from my star fighter days, most stars, the vast majority of them, are part of multiple-star systems. Sol is very weird and a rare counter-example in that regard.
Personally I think the reason this topic raises the noise level on Slashdot is the posers that like to boaster their "credentials" by making derogatory remarks about something they don't understand.
Incorrect. You must be new here, for that is exactly very the reason all topics raise the noise level on Slashdot.
After much scrutiny of the tapes NASA concluded that the word "a" was not said at all.
Not only incorrect on all counts, you obviously just made up everything you just claimed. The scrutiny of the transmission supports Armstrong's claims:
And in all honesty, Mr. Armstrong kinda' blew it by not reciting his prepared speech exactly right, and it must have bothered him enough that he attempted to hide his mistake... It's kind of funny to learn that this is what made him sweat a little bit.
You deserve to be punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin.
There were twelve.
Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
Charles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
David Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
James Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
John Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972
Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing)
Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972
Given the fact that Armstrong is known to be such a fighter, it seems strange that he didn't fight through the USADA arbitration.
It does. Have you known many successful athletes? The best have what is called "heart" in pushing their bodies past the point of physical and mental exhaustion, but their competitive nature goes far beyond sport to social interaction. They compete at everything with everyone with an almost fanatical desire to win at everything, to be the best and be recognized as the best. They have an extreme level of self-confidence sometimes to the point of narcissism and beyond. However, any human can be broken. Sport is not for driving the individual until they die of exhaustion... all sport has rest and recovery period. The investigation of this agency and the scrutiny with which they drive at their prejudged goals has no rest period. It's possible he was simply beaten, financially, socially, emotionally and mentally, to the breaking point where he has given up.... doesn't seem likely but it is absolutely possible he made his decision to stop fighting the way prey will stop the pursuit of wolves by laying down and accepting their inevitable fate.
How strong did bitcoin get before investors dumped their bitcoins and developed a rumor to eliminate buying confidence and dramatically reduce the bitcoin value against the dollar? What was the bitcoin exchange rate trend before the story broke, and what is it now?
I don't think that bitcoin development is a bad idea on its face (anonymous money), and I don't see any pyramid scam, but without regulation or oversight, the bitcoin market is ripe for manipulation with impunity.
I suppose "Big Oil" puts a gun to your head and makes you fill up at the gas station too?
Poor comparison. For the metaphor to make sense, you'd have to be a gas reseller. Let's say the large oil companies came out with a new product. In order to force the gas stations to sell it, all they'd need do is raise the prices of the standard products slightly, unless the gas station agrees to sell some amount of the new product. If the station hits that nut, the standard products get 'discounted' down to the normal, regular prices. Otherwise, if the station doesn't agree to sell the new product or doesn't sell enough, they're paying premium prices on the standard products and forced to raise their retail prices slightly, causing customers to get gas elsewhere to save a dime.
Patients generally aren't doctor-shopping (unless they're already addicts). Pharmaceutical companies offer inventives to doctors/hospitals using similar tactics. A good case-study of what the GP seems to be talking about is OxyContin. This is a relatively new drug formulation that could have been a miracle drug in specific instances of chronic pain or terminal patients, but Big Pharm pushed this pain-killer in a huge way for years under the FDA's radar, giving doctors incentives to overprescribe, and within a few short years on the market we have pregnant women robbing pharmacies to get at it. Big Pharm and the physicians they manipulated effectively created a new narcotic drug epidemic and were successful in massively boosting sales and profits on a drug formulation that initially had a limited application. Subsequently, the drug has been again reformulated, hopefully in a way that is a disincentive for abuse, but new stories are now coming out that its been replaced on the street with a different new drug, a time-release pill formulation of synthetic morphine... once again, a formulation that is completely unnecessary with questionable benefits to legitimate patients and is already proving to have an enourmous abuse vector. But Big Pharm needed a new synthetic morphine because the old synthetic morphine's patent had expired, which reminds us of why they needed synthetic morphine in the first place, because formulations of regular old morphine (which still works just fine and is regarded as a gold standard of severe pain relief) predate the drug patent system by a century.
Once you're hooked to a strong narcotic, no one needs to put a gun to your head for the body to want the drug. It changes the chemistry of your brain forever and the craving for it never goes away.
The Space Shuttles TPS tiles are some amazing material... though even they are only spec'ed to maybe 1500C, but what is facinating about them, to me, is that they don't hold heat. They can be seared to 1200C and seconds later will be cool. So maybe a system that uses this technology combined with an extra liquid-based fast heat-removal system?
What material can withstand 100,000C ??? How do we test that?
Apple will be able to buy Google lock, stock and barrel without breaking a sweat,
Apart from the minor issue that the US and/or EU competition bodies would definitely block such a takeover.
Not as cut and dry as we'd initially expect... technically, Google and Apple are not really competing. Apple is a hardware company, and Google is a web technolgies company... but actually, and by the vast majority, Google's revenue stream comes from advertising, while Apple's comes from, again, hardware. Apple doesn't license iOS, and Google gives Android away... so the competition between the two companies is not so obvious. With Motorola mobile in the mix, it appears it might be different but it is not... Apple could have bought Motorola with no problem, as there are countless other mobile competitors. In the same way Microsoft has many times purchased companies simply to kill a single competitor, Apple could do the same, so long as there is plenty of other competition in the market, and there is that. Slashdot commenters seem to forget, Android is not a company, nor is it a typical 'product.' It is Apache licensed open source software. Again, in the same way Oracle purchased Sun and killed Open Solaris (and, effectively, Solaris), Apple could do the same to Google and Android. However, as Android is OSS, it could fork and Apple would have no control over that even if they did purchase Google... the same way Oracle has no control over nor can Solaris benefit from illumOS or projects based on the forks of Open Solaris.
Just create a new form of life and embed your source code in its DNA. Then build a rocket/ion drive/stasis chamber to deliver your new life form to a neighboring star where it can then land and seed life on another planet. The real bitch is starting all over every time you release a patch.
wow... how did you... how did... you... prognosticate... the next frontpage slashdot summary??!!