Right up until Apple decides that it competes with their own software and removes it. Now Microsoft is out all of the money it spent developing an iOS version of Office because they foolishly trusted an environment where a direct competitor dictates what can and cannot be sold, plus they marginalized the only upside to their own mobile OS. Staying out of Apple's walled garden is the only move that makes sense.
68% of the market is occupied by almost all the other smart phone companies put together. In other words, they're all tiny minorities. The iPhone rules.
I think that you are missing the point. For many people if you say "mp3 player" they hear "iPod". The same may have been true for "smartphone" and "iPhone" at one point, but the numbers suggest that it isn't true anymore.
EPEAT probably is going to have to give on this or be replaced if that is the trend.
Right, because when environmental standards become inconvenient for big companies to adhere to then the standards need to change. We certainly can't expect companies to lessen their impact on the environment in order to meet these standards, can we?
What exactly is the point of having these standards if we just change them every time some big company decides it will be profitable?
C# (has a constant vague patent cloud over it that he dismisses)
So, what is the alternative then? I'm sure that you are aware that Java has its own vague patent cloud these days. The market has shown that there is a need for a JIT compiled platform for architecture neutral binaries. If Java and.net are out then what can we use?
The summary specifically mentions web development. I'm a big fan of using visual studio for developing compiled software, but I'll take vim over visual studio any day of the week for web development.
This is exactly correct. Oil and coal are finite. So long as they remain the cheapest source of energy someone, somewhere will continue to burn them. If you aren't operating under the assumption that the vast majority of the world's oil and coal reserves will be burned regardless of politics then you are being naive.
If burning oil and coal changes the climate, then the climate will change. All resources spent on slowing that change are ultimately wasted. The only real options left are devising a power source that is cheaper and as convienant as oil or investing in adapting to the inevitable. The odds of a revolutionary new energy source coming to market before we run out of carbon-based resources approach nil so the only thing left to do is get ready.
KnoxOS is so locked down that the only way to install software on your machine is to mail your passport and a hand-written request to the company that wrote it.
BasementOS is written in javascript, tries to execute anything it receives on a socket and has a mandatory root shell with no password accessible on port 23.
KnoxOS runs on the security system at fort knox while BasementOS runs on a super nintendo in someone's basement. Several trojans are written for KnoxOS because everyone wants that gold, but they are never installed because the admin isn't stupid. Zero malware is written for BasementOS because nobody cares about some basement dwellers super nintendo.
If we apply your metrics, BasementOS is more secure than KnoxOS.
Any sufficiently advanced operating system can have malware written for it. Counting how many trojans are written for an OS might give you an idea of how valuable of a target it is, but it doesn't tell you how secure it is.
Counting "malware" is a ridiculous way to judge security. If I sat down and wrote 1,000 linux programs that did bad things if you were dumb enough to run them as root would I have made linux less secure?
GM: "Your party is enriching uranium when suddenly one of your centrifuges begins accelerating outside its operational parameters. How do you react?"
China: "We cast clairvoyance on the US to see what technology they use to respond to this issue."
US: "We summon a tarasque in the middle east and shout for everyone to look over there."
Is the government then required to make the source available to each individual that it distributes the binary to, or are those individuals considered to be the same entity as the government in the context of the GPL?
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Right up until Apple decides that it competes with their own software and removes it. Now Microsoft is out all of the money it spent developing an iOS version of Office because they foolishly trusted an environment where a direct competitor dictates what can and cannot be sold, plus they marginalized the only upside to their own mobile OS. Staying out of Apple's walled garden is the only move that makes sense.
Big on data, small on bullshit = actual science = no grant money
If they aren't going to tell me how these wells cause cancer and kill children then I don't want to hear about them.
How do you think the dolphins paid all the whales to pose as the island?
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68% of the market is occupied by almost all the other smart phone companies put together. In other words, they're all tiny minorities. The iPhone rules.
I think that you are missing the point. For many people if you say "mp3 player" they hear "iPod". The same may have been true for "smartphone" and "iPhone" at one point, but the numbers suggest that it isn't true anymore.
They had that. It was poorly labeled as the Media stream.
It sounds like you didn't heed the warning about your remaining eye...
EPEAT probably is going to have to give on this or be replaced if that is the trend.
Right, because when environmental standards become inconvenient for big companies to adhere to then the standards need to change. We certainly can't expect companies to lessen their impact on the environment in order to meet these standards, can we?
What exactly is the point of having these standards if we just change them every time some big company decides it will be profitable?
Try 'wget slashdot.org && grep Apple *' in your home directory.
and several eternal wars (e.g. war against drugs, war against error)
Looks like we are losing that last one...
C# (has a constant vague patent cloud over it that he dismisses)
So, what is the alternative then? I'm sure that you are aware that Java has its own vague patent cloud these days. The market has shown that there is a need for a JIT compiled platform for architecture neutral binaries. If Java and .net are out then what can we use?
Wait, Apple has other departments?
The summary specifically mentions web development. I'm a big fan of using visual studio for developing compiled software, but I'll take vim over visual studio any day of the week for web development.
So its like taking your car to the mechanic for an oil change and having him repair the failing alternator he noticed while he was in there?
We take standards seriously here at slashdot and would like you to please be more careful in the future.
This is exactly correct. Oil and coal are finite. So long as they remain the cheapest source of energy someone, somewhere will continue to burn them. If you aren't operating under the assumption that the vast majority of the world's oil and coal reserves will be burned regardless of politics then you are being naive.
If burning oil and coal changes the climate, then the climate will change. All resources spent on slowing that change are ultimately wasted. The only real options left are devising a power source that is cheaper and as convienant as oil or investing in adapting to the inevitable. The odds of a revolutionary new energy source coming to market before we run out of carbon-based resources approach nil so the only thing left to do is get ready.
You can't martial arts a big company, and nobody cares about individuals unless they are children.
Let's try a hypothetical example:
KnoxOS is so locked down that the only way to install software on your machine is to mail your passport and a hand-written request to the company that wrote it.
BasementOS is written in javascript, tries to execute anything it receives on a socket and has a mandatory root shell with no password accessible on port 23.
KnoxOS runs on the security system at fort knox while BasementOS runs on a super nintendo in someone's basement. Several trojans are written for KnoxOS because everyone wants that gold, but they are never installed because the admin isn't stupid. Zero malware is written for BasementOS because nobody cares about some basement dwellers super nintendo.
If we apply your metrics, BasementOS is more secure than KnoxOS.
Any sufficiently advanced operating system can have malware written for it. Counting how many trojans are written for an OS might give you an idea of how valuable of a target it is, but it doesn't tell you how secure it is.
Counting "malware" is a ridiculous way to judge security. If I sat down and wrote 1,000 linux programs that did bad things if you were dumb enough to run them as root would I have made linux less secure?
Confirmation makes the comments in this thread from January of last year a lot more entertaining.
Some of us are still developing software for it.
Based on that criteria they are literally giving away cars at your local dealer.
What we have here is a pen-and-paper exercise
GM: "Your party is enriching uranium when suddenly one of your centrifuges begins accelerating outside its operational parameters. How do you react?"
China: "We cast clairvoyance on the US to see what technology they use to respond to this issue."
US: "We summon a tarasque in the middle east and shout for everyone to look over there."
Is the government then required to make the source available to each individual that it distributes the binary to, or are those individuals considered to be the same entity as the government in the context of the GPL?
The point is, a great artist isn't going to learn anything by going to a kindergarden art class and watching 6 year olds scribble with crayons.
Well, unless you count modern art.
Yeah, but who has ever heard of a class action criminal suit? Won't somebody think of the lawyers?