Of course, all new iPhones already have the dual-core Apple A4 processors, so it would be sort of stupid to switch to Android to get a dual-core processor.
It's also about expectations of privacy. Clearly Europeans are under the impression that their privacy laws are in operation when they are using web sites owned by USA based companies, and just as clearly the US Federal government does not think that European privacy laws apply when those people are accessing services offered from the USA.
If this story isn't about tweets, then what, pray tell is it about? It's about twitter, the Federal Government, and privacy.
Of course it is. What Europeans should realize is that their data protection and privacy laws don't matter when they are communicating over web sites based in the USA.
I guess European citizens should probably avoid web sites based in totalitarian police states. After all, what is the European Parliament going to do, write a stern letter to Obama?
Here's what'll happen: People in authority will ignore that letter, the same way they currently ignore the Constitution, and just do whatever they claim is necessary to support their overly broad mandates. The politicians will yuk it up, knowing that they are free to do whatever they wish, and their buddies in the security theater business will continue pointing at brown people shouting "MUSLIM!!!" or "HOMEGROWN EXTREMIST!!!" and "THINK OF THE CHILDREN DERP DER DOO!!!" and the people on the street will wave their tiny American flags, too stupid to realize that they could be next.
Ultimately it's the fault of each and every US citizen that this sort of thing has been allowed to happen. If Europeans have to blame anybody for the fact that they are spied upon in their Twitters and Facebooks and Gmails, they should blame the next stupid American they meet.
Except I'm not wrong at all, and the AC is full of shit. The iAd API has the option to force a user to watch a full screen iAd on launch of an app, or at intervals.
Ohh, joy! Another fucking way of flashing advertisements in my face.
Thankfully this method shall be built into the OS itself, and most likely I will not be able to shut off the ads.
Makes me wonder, what is the logical conclusion of all of this? Will the iPad have an ad bar which is omnipresent on the screen? Will I have to pay attention to the ads and pass a little test periodically, to prove that I was paying attention to them?
Yeah, yeah, there are bugs in Solaris. Luckily Linux is free of bugs now. This is a perfectly cogent argument against wanting to use Solaris at all./sheesh
We don't have to justify gun ownership to anybody. We have them, we will have them, and that's that. In fact, recently the anti-gun nuts have lost battle after battle in their war to disarm the American public, and things have never looked worse for the cowardly anti-gun loons than they do now.
Mass shootings and murders are tragic, but that's just the price for having an armed society with so many people who are afraid to carry weapons themselves. If any of the victims had a firearm of their own, they would have had a chance to stop the assailant. That's the real tragedy - hoplophobia and the liberal agenda against guns has prevented another senseless tragedy from being interrupted. Perhaps the best outcome of an incident like this is that some more people will decide that carrying a concealed weapon themselves, and taking responsibility for their own safety, is the only realistic way to behave in an armed society.
Who is talking about Windows here? I dumped Linux for FreeBSD. You seem to think that I mentioned switching to it, seeing as how you repeatedly mention it. Yeah yeah, Windows sucks, I know. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck here. I just find FreeBSD to be an all-around better Unix than that finnish import. Not only does FreeBSD have a proper development cycle, and better long-term support for hardware, but it's more Free and has a stable ABI.
The lack of a stable ABI is merely due to laziness on the part of Linux core developers, and their unease with slowing down the development process. A properly thought out, long term stable ABI would take time to develop, and massive commitment. I have read the excuses made by the kernel developers and they just don't wash.
Of course most people with new comers don't browse the web these days. They are sitting at home inside a Faraday cage drawing pictures with Ms Paint./facepalm
Meanwhile, Solaris has had a stable ABI for well over a decade now and it makes life much more pleasant.
The lack of a stable ABI in Linux is due to nothing so much as poor planning, and the whim of Linus to throw any fucking shiny ass new shit he wants into the kernel. Look at how Alan Cox left, and you will see the problem.
This is what made me quit using Linux. No stable branch with long term support and bug fixes means that you're always updating to the latest kernel for your bug fixes. However, there is an awful lot of kernel code that hasn't been touched in years, that some people need to make their gizmos work, leaving them out of the loop for bug fixes and new feature support.
The damn thing of it is that the problems with this development model are obvious, but nobody wants to admit it.
I have never seen this with a well-formed PDF. In fact, Preview is the reference PDF renderer for several graphic artists I know precisely because Acrobat seems to produce funny output with a significant minority of files.
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Of course, all new iPhones already have the dual-core Apple A4 processors, so it would be sort of stupid to switch to Android to get a dual-core processor.
It's also about expectations of privacy. Clearly Europeans are under the impression that their privacy laws are in operation when they are using web sites owned by USA based companies, and just as clearly the US Federal government does not think that European privacy laws apply when those people are accessing services offered from the USA.
If this story isn't about tweets, then what, pray tell is it about? It's about twitter, the Federal Government, and privacy.
Of course it is. What Europeans should realize is that their data protection and privacy laws don't matter when they are communicating over web sites based in the USA.
What did you take away from the article?
Didn't we just hear about how about 40% of the science out there can't be duplicated? IE, it was wrong.
Sounds like this guy is just full of shit.
I guess European citizens should probably avoid web sites based in totalitarian police states. After all, what is the European Parliament going to do, write a stern letter to Obama?
Here's what'll happen: People in authority will ignore that letter, the same way they currently ignore the Constitution, and just do whatever they claim is necessary to support their overly broad mandates. The politicians will yuk it up, knowing that they are free to do whatever they wish, and their buddies in the security theater business will continue pointing at brown people shouting "MUSLIM!!!" or "HOMEGROWN EXTREMIST!!!" and "THINK OF THE CHILDREN DERP DER DOO!!!" and the people on the street will wave their tiny American flags, too stupid to realize that they could be next.
Ultimately it's the fault of each and every US citizen that this sort of thing has been allowed to happen. If Europeans have to blame anybody for the fact that they are spied upon in their Twitters and Facebooks and Gmails, they should blame the next stupid American they meet.
Except I'm not wrong at all, and the AC is full of shit. The iAd API has the option to force a user to watch a full screen iAd on launch of an app, or at intervals.
I do know what I'm talking about. The fact that you posted AC sort of proves that you're a turd and afraid to be called out on your lies.
Ohh, joy! Another fucking way of flashing advertisements in my face.
Thankfully this method shall be built into the OS itself, and most likely I will not be able to shut off the ads.
Makes me wonder, what is the logical conclusion of all of this? Will the iPad have an ad bar which is omnipresent on the screen? Will I have to pay attention to the ads and pass a little test periodically, to prove that I was paying attention to them?
My gut tells me that we ain't seen nothin' yet.
Licensed:
I do not think this word means what you think it means.
Did Sony explicitly grant a "license" to use OtherOS? Or was it simply a "feature" provided without any explicit license?
Yeah, yeah, there are bugs in Solaris. Luckily Linux is free of bugs now. This is a perfectly cogent argument against wanting to use Solaris at all. /sheesh
We don't have to justify gun ownership to anybody. We have them, we will have them, and that's that. In fact, recently the anti-gun nuts have lost battle after battle in their war to disarm the American public, and things have never looked worse for the cowardly anti-gun loons than they do now.
Mass shootings and murders are tragic, but that's just the price for having an armed society with so many people who are afraid to carry weapons themselves. If any of the victims had a firearm of their own, they would have had a chance to stop the assailant. That's the real tragedy - hoplophobia and the liberal agenda against guns has prevented another senseless tragedy from being interrupted. Perhaps the best outcome of an incident like this is that some more people will decide that carrying a concealed weapon themselves, and taking responsibility for their own safety, is the only realistic way to behave in an armed society.
Apple is now a bigger company than Microsoft, and makes *MORE MONEY* which makes me wonder, how do you think they are losing?
Market share is nothing. Profit is what matters.
"You have to have a legitimate need to even want a stable ABI, you have not presented one."
Yes, I did. Old drivers just work on FreeBSD whether or not anybody is maintaining them. The same is true with Solaris.
Who is talking about Windows here? I dumped Linux for FreeBSD. You seem to think that I mentioned switching to it, seeing as how you repeatedly mention it. Yeah yeah, Windows sucks, I know. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck here. I just find FreeBSD to be an all-around better Unix than that finnish import. Not only does FreeBSD have a proper development cycle, and better long-term support for hardware, but it's more Free and has a stable ABI.
The lack of a stable ABI is merely due to laziness on the part of Linux core developers, and their unease with slowing down the development process. A properly thought out, long term stable ABI would take time to develop, and massive commitment. I have read the excuses made by the kernel developers and they just don't wash.
Yes, but now you can run anything you like. What's Sony going to do this time, take away your PS3?
Of course most people with new comers don't browse the web these days. They are sitting at home inside a Faraday cage drawing pictures with Ms Paint. /facepalm
Meanwhile, Solaris has had a stable ABI for well over a decade now and it makes life much more pleasant.
The lack of a stable ABI in Linux is due to nothing so much as poor planning, and the whim of Linus to throw any fucking shiny ass new shit he wants into the kernel. Look at how Alan Cox left, and you will see the problem.
This is what made me quit using Linux. No stable branch with long term support and bug fixes means that you're always updating to the latest kernel for your bug fixes. However, there is an awful lot of kernel code that hasn't been touched in years, that some people need to make their gizmos work, leaving them out of the loop for bug fixes and new feature support.
The damn thing of it is that the problems with this development model are obvious, but nobody wants to admit it.
Neither does the ability to program qualify a person as a hacker. A hacker is somebody who thinks outside the box, with playfulness and creativity.
I have never seen this with a well-formed PDF. In fact, Preview is the reference PDF renderer for several graphic artists I know precisely because Acrobat seems to produce funny output with a significant minority of files.
Careful, MS will actually name their next cloud service thusly.
Your anecdote doest change the fact that my iPod has lasted since 2002 just fine.
See? I can do it too. Now go wash your mouth out you filthy little cock sucker.
"So George (Lucas) took me upstairs. He showed me Wookies and all kinds of different animals. About this time, my headache got much worse."
I see your upside-down garbage can and raise you a creepy woman with her Gom Jabar.
Looks like you totally missed the Hadley CRU mail scandal.
That's what RSS is for. It queues up web pages for you.