Macbook Air. Apple already has a "netbook" but it's more expensive than the generic equivalents of course. Form factor is the same, battery life is the same or better, and they get better battery life.
You might not be able to write programs yourself, or administer a *nix box, etc, but you could always hire somebody who can. The actual company who made the system may well go out of business and such, but you have the *SOURCE CODE* and the *LEGAL RIGHT TO CHANGE AND USE IT* so you can always fix your machine! ALWAYS!
This is the difference between the proprietary and Free models. You will never be at the mercy of a single party who can make your life difficult.
This story is entirely anecdotal. Sure, it may not be tracking your "every move" but we have no way of knowing if this guy's phone was even on for his whole train ride (for example).
His conclusion is "We don't know why Apple is collecting this information but it's not a big deal." What the hell? How do we know it's not a big deal?
Sorry, Apple, you guys fucked up. A random blog-pologist isn't going to save this one for you.
I don't buy it. Microsoft's whole product strategy is to promise the moon and deliver a slice of swiss cheese. Every single one of their releases after Windows 3.0 has been hyped up to an incredible degree, features have been promised that will revolutionize computing, and then 95% of it gets dropped when the next version of the OS comes out. This they have done time and time again, so often that it's a standard joke among people who are familiar with computers.
To suggest that they'd fire somebody who was sticking rigidly to the MS playbook is a little iffy. I simply don't buy it.
Of course Microsoft means native in the sense of using the Windows APIs. This is of course to be expected from them. They have been eating their own dog food for a long time now. I fact, I would argue that this is the default meaning of the term "native" regardless of whether or not the actual API set is cross-platform in nature.
A native Gnome application uses GTK and other Gnome based interfaces. A native KDE application uses native KDE APIs, and so forth.
Then you have something like Plan 9 or Inferno which while cross platform, uses it's own entirely native set of APIs.
Yeah, those were the days. I remember paying for a lot of applications with FreeBSD's built in credit card processing system. It was nicely integrated into the ports tree.
"1) Flash is by far the most ubiquitous end-user plattform in existance."
No, that would be far from the truth. HTML is more widespread at the moment.
"2) For a little more than a decade competitors have tried to dethrone Flash. And even the most promising of those failed miserably due to pure and utter incompetence in delivering what people want and rich client developers need. (Java Media Framework and JavaFX anyone?)"
Yes Java sucks, but only as badly as Flash sucks.
"3) Compared to it's penetration and availability, Flash actually is one of the safest plattforms out there. Which is why it's so popular. Duh. Or are you telling me that Firefox would have less security problems if it had a 97.5% worldwide installbase?... Didn't think so. And that 97.5% is a conservative estimate for Flash, btw."
Flash is not popular because it's secure, it's popular because people use it to throw together fuzzy bear games and whizzy shit, and because content distributors like to imagine that it helps combat piracy. Security isn't its strong suit, and never has been.
"So all of you know-all Flash bashers STFU and come up with a viable FOSS alternative."
This is why most software sucks. The new features are more important than bug free code. I'm not sure if this Drupal guy is joking or not but I now know to avoid it for my next project.
This is just basic data security. Of course, if a person uploads their photos to Facebook they could be gone at any time. It is indeed the submitter's daughter's fault if this happens.
What the fuck happened to personal responsibility?
He has to walk by the Starbucks on the way to the gas station, to get the coffee they sell there. You know, the coffee that, while not as "trendy" as the Starbucks coffee, does everything it does for less.
Sure it might not have a satisfying aroma, or taste, and maybe it's a bit older, but it does everything that fancy fucking pants coffee that the fashion-conscious people drink.
"I also haven't seen a blue screen since Windows XP SP2."
Of course you haven't. MS rejiggered the registry settings when SP2 came out, to instantly reboot in case of a crash, instead of actually showing the BSOD. You can reactivate it however, I forget how as Windows is dead to me and has been for years.
Yeah, unless you want a nicely working Unix environment that doesn't require fucking around with, or a high quality notebook computer that isn't flimsy as hell, or or or...
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Macbook Air. Apple already has a "netbook" but it's more expensive than the generic equivalents of course. Form factor is the same, battery life is the same or better, and they get better battery life.
The thing you are missing is that the entire Android experience is filtered through a Java (esque) layer that sucks cycles.
On any given hardware, the Apple solution will be faster just because it uses a bunch of C libs instead of Java.
You might not be able to write programs yourself, or administer a *nix box, etc, but you could always hire somebody who can. The actual company who made the system may well go out of business and such, but you have the *SOURCE CODE* and the *LEGAL RIGHT TO CHANGE AND USE IT* so you can always fix your machine! ALWAYS!
This is the difference between the proprietary and Free models. You will never be at the mercy of a single party who can make your life difficult.
This story is entirely anecdotal. Sure, it may not be tracking your "every move" but we have no way of knowing if this guy's phone was even on for his whole train ride (for example).
His conclusion is "We don't know why Apple is collecting this information but it's not a big deal." What the hell? How do we know it's not a big deal?
Sorry, Apple, you guys fucked up. A random blog-pologist isn't going to save this one for you.
I don't buy it. Microsoft's whole product strategy is to promise the moon and deliver a slice of swiss cheese. Every single one of their releases after Windows 3.0 has been hyped up to an incredible degree, features have been promised that will revolutionize computing, and then 95% of it gets dropped when the next version of the OS comes out. This they have done time and time again, so often that it's a standard joke among people who are familiar with computers.
To suggest that they'd fire somebody who was sticking rigidly to the MS playbook is a little iffy. I simply don't buy it.
Oh bullcrap. They closed the source. This whole "not ready for release" excuse is wearing thin.
Of course Microsoft means native in the sense of using the Windows APIs. This is of course to be expected from them. They have been eating their own dog food for a long time now. I fact, I would argue that this is the default meaning of the term "native" regardless of whether or not the actual API set is cross-platform in nature.
A native Gnome application uses GTK and other Gnome based interfaces. A native KDE application uses native KDE APIs, and so forth.
Then you have something like Plan 9 or Inferno which while cross platform, uses it's own entirely native set of APIs.
Really? Which news site streams OT?
I think you mean "runtime."
Yeah, those were the days. I remember paying for a lot of applications with FreeBSD's built in credit card processing system. It was nicely integrated into the ports tree.
Ah, so you must be a member of a music union of some kind.
You're next.
Windows 8 will be an OS. "Platform" has had a pretty standard definition for many years now - it means the hardware.
iOS is an OS, not a platform.
"Google isn't a search company. It's an algorithm company."
It's both, but only in support of selling ads there buddy.
How's that? Did you hear it somewhere or can you prove it?
You read the article?
How many pages long was it, and what was the banner ad count?
Go to the chrome experiments site. How about a re-implementation of the classic DOS game, OOTW?
If that can be done in HTML5, all of your links (which, BTW, give me a "MISSING PLUGIN" notice on a blank screen) can be too.
Sorry, buddy. Flash is fucking finished.
"1) Flash is by far the most ubiquitous end-user plattform in existance."
No, that would be far from the truth. HTML is more widespread at the moment.
"2) For a little more than a decade competitors have tried to dethrone Flash. And even the most promising of those failed miserably due to pure and utter incompetence in delivering what people want and rich client developers need. (Java Media Framework and JavaFX anyone?)"
Yes Java sucks, but only as badly as Flash sucks.
"3) Compared to it's penetration and availability, Flash actually is one of the safest plattforms out there. Which is why it's so popular. Duh. Or are you telling me that Firefox would have less security problems if it had a 97.5% worldwide installbase? ... Didn't think so. And that 97.5% is a conservative estimate for Flash, btw."
Flash is not popular because it's secure, it's popular because people use it to throw together fuzzy bear games and whizzy shit, and because content distributors like to imagine that it helps combat piracy. Security isn't its strong suit, and never has been.
"So all of you know-all Flash bashers STFU and come up with a viable FOSS alternative."
HTML5 + Canvas + Video tag. There you go.
Two reasons - they haven't been built yet, and maybe the Chinese have a different set of benchmarks that they use.
This is why most software sucks. The new features are more important than bug free code. I'm not sure if this Drupal guy is joking or not but I now know to avoid it for my next project.
Just a little quibble here:
People do not buy Android phones. They are given away "for free" with the contract. The only phones people are really buying is the iPhone.
I think at the root of this issue you will find a BSD or GPL licensed near-copy of an original Unix time zone support file...
This is just basic data security. Of course, if a person uploads their photos to Facebook they could be gone at any time. It is indeed the submitter's daughter's fault if this happens.
What the fuck happened to personal responsibility?
He has to walk by the Starbucks on the way to the gas station, to get the coffee they sell there. You know, the coffee that, while not as "trendy" as the Starbucks coffee, does everything it does for less.
Sure it might not have a satisfying aroma, or taste, and maybe it's a bit older, but it does everything that fancy fucking pants coffee that the fashion-conscious people drink.
It's a noble form of suffering.
"I also haven't seen a blue screen since Windows XP SP2."
Of course you haven't. MS rejiggered the registry settings when SP2 came out, to instantly reboot in case of a crash, instead of actually showing the BSOD. You can reactivate it however, I forget how as Windows is dead to me and has been for years.
"get more for less"
Yeah, unless you want a nicely working Unix environment that doesn't require fucking around with, or a high quality notebook computer that isn't flimsy as hell, or or or...