And heck, if you really release something good, Apple might just decide to ban your app and release their own copycat app!
I'm not sure where that idea came from. As far as I know, Apple has only released two iPhone apps beyond the 15 or so that come bundled with the phone for adjusting the phone's basic settings, sending and receiving SMS messages, operating the camera etcetera. In other words, all the same types apps you'd get with any smart phone. The other two are both remote control apps; one allows you to use your phone to control iTunes playback on any computer on your local network and the other is for controlling a Keynote presentation. Both of them are free, BTW.
Apparently, Apple doesn't seem all that interested in releasing it's own apps for the iPhone so it seems doubtful that they'd steal one from a third party.
I can see this as a movie entitled "Kill Switch" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.......
Speaking as a native Californian, I'd like it very much if someone would install a "kill switch" into Ah-nuld the Governator himself. And real soon now, please.
Don't feel too bad, apparently no one else got it either. But it did lead to an interesting first for me: a +5, Informative comment and a -1, Flamebait comment in the same thread. I should get a Slashdot Achievement for that, I think.
IIRC, C# is the result of an embrace-extend-extinquish of Sun's Java. From the Wikipedia article:
James Gosling, who created the Java programming language in 1994, and Billy Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, the proprietor of Java, called C# an "imitation" of Java; Gosling further claimed that "[C# is] sort of Java with reliability, productivity and security deleted."
MSSQL
SQL Server is based on code that Microsoft purchased from Sybase in 1988
Microsoft produces some amazing and refined technology in key areas especially when the top people (Anders Hejlsberg, Jim Gray) in their field are running these programs with unfettered control.
That may very well be true but neither one of the examples you put forth shows it.
Apple also had representatives on the Board of fellow manufacturers of such devices so were well aware of long term product strategies
I'm not disputing your claim--I don't know if it's true or not--but can you please cite some proof? I'd like to see it. Google, of course, had a rep on Apple's board until very recently but I don't know who's boards Apple officers have sat on.
Is that actually based on anything though?
You have to remember that 'evil' is a point of view and when a company gets that large and that diversified obviously they are eventually going to step on the toes of someone who has a different interpretation of what is 'evil'.
Just so we understand each other, I'm not necessarily advocating Jobs's position, just quoting him. But I think that what you're saying is pretty much in line with what Jobs said, which is not that Google is evil, only that "Don't Be Evil" isn't really applicable.
Anyone know if this was addressed in that update? There are a few Webkit updates in there (mostly multimedia exploits).
Nothing about malicious OTP files in there anywhere, I don't think this latest thing has been addressed. It would surprise me of Apple (or any other computer company) could move that fast to fix a vulnerability.
George Carlin used to point out that if you put a large spike on the steering wheel so that the driver would suffer badly in a collision, the numbers of collisions would drop dramatically.
Chevrolet tried that on their 1956 model. People bought a lot of them and crashed them at a normal rate. Sammy Davis Jr. lost an eye to one, in fact. These days, it's hard to imagine a car company ever being able to get away with designing something like that.
although almost every hipster douchebag is an Apple consumer, not every Apple consumer is a hipster douchebag.
Thanks for that. I'm an Apple consumer and have been for the last 20 years. Yet, I live in the 'burbs, drive an 18-wheeler for a living and a pickup truck for my personal vehicle. That's about as un-hipster douchebag as it gets, I think.
I'm not a programmer myself so can someone tell me if C# really easier to use than C or Objective C as stated in TFA? Or is it just a matter of there being more people who are familiar with it?
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And heck, if you really release something good, Apple might just decide to ban your app and release their own copycat app!
I'm not sure where that idea came from. As far as I know, Apple has only released two iPhone apps beyond the 15 or so that come bundled with the phone for adjusting the phone's basic settings, sending and receiving SMS messages, operating the camera etcetera. In other words, all the same types apps you'd get with any smart phone. The other two are both remote control apps; one allows you to use your phone to control iTunes playback on any computer on your local network and the other is for controlling a Keynote presentation. Both of them are free, BTW.
Apparently, Apple doesn't seem all that interested in releasing it's own apps for the iPhone so it seems doubtful that they'd steal one from a third party.
From what my honest personal experience is [...] everybody loathes the iPhone
Uh, 60+ million iPhones/iPad Touches sold suggests that not everybody loathes the iPhone.
I can see this as a movie entitled "Kill Switch" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.......
Speaking as a native Californian, I'd like it very much if someone would install a "kill switch" into Ah-nuld the Governator himself. And real soon now, please.
A single atom they say? Que random decay in 4 3 2 1 ...
But just think--that will give us a new excuse:
"Sorry I'm late for work, boss--the aluminum atom in my alarm clock decayed..."
Don't feel too bad, apparently no one else got it either. But it did lead to an interesting first for me: a +5, Informative comment and a -1, Flamebait comment in the same thread. I should get a Slashdot Achievement for that, I think.
It was supposed to be a joke, you know. I guess the Microsoft fanbois didn't get it.
To name a couple... C#
IIRC, C# is the result of an embrace-extend-extinquish of Sun's Java. From the Wikipedia article:
MSSQL
SQL Server is based on code that Microsoft purchased from Sybase in 1988
Microsoft produces some amazing and refined technology in key areas especially when the top people (Anders Hejlsberg, Jim Gray) in their field are running these programs with unfettered control.
That may very well be true but neither one of the examples you put forth shows it.
Yeah, not enough coffee, I guess, was feeling a little slow yesterday. Right after I posted that, I realized you were being ironic.
Apple also had representatives on the Board of fellow manufacturers of such devices so were well aware of long term product strategies
I'm not disputing your claim--I don't know if it's true or not--but can you please cite some proof? I'd like to see it. Google, of course, had a rep on Apple's board until very recently but I don't know who's boards Apple officers have sat on.
Gee, Mr. Ballmer, I would have thought you had more important uses for your time than posting here on Slashdot. We here are flattered, however.
Is that actually based on anything though? You have to remember that 'evil' is a point of view and when a company gets that large and that diversified obviously they are eventually going to step on the toes of someone who has a different interpretation of what is 'evil'.
Just so we understand each other, I'm not necessarily advocating Jobs's position, just quoting him. But I think that what you're saying is pretty much in line with what Jobs said, which is not that Google is evil, only that "Don't Be Evil" isn't really applicable.
Earth really is "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy..."
It is called Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. I thought it only applies to MS. Well I think, Do no Evil is gone through the window :)
Well, we know what Steve Jobs said about Google's "Don't Be Evil" mantra--"It's bullshit." Or, "a load of crap," depending on your source.
I wouldn't trade my 65 years of experiences and my white hair for anything in this world.
I'd trade for some better teeth, though.
there's got to be some advantage to your youth
Makes me think of that old adage: "Youth is wasted on the young."
As a certified (and possibly certifiable) old fart of 56, that seems to become more believable every passing year.
Apple released a security update for the iPhone and iPod Touch today.
Anyone know if this was addressed in that update? There are a few Webkit updates in there (mostly multimedia exploits).
Nothing about malicious OTP files in there anywhere, I don't think this latest thing has been addressed. It would surprise me of Apple (or any other computer company) could move that fast to fix a vulnerability.
Manufacturing costs are a lot lower.
True, but production time is much longer--in the range of 340 to 342 day per mule
George Carlin used to point out that if you put a large spike on the steering wheel so that the driver would suffer badly in a collision, the numbers of collisions would drop dramatically.
Chevrolet tried that on their 1956 model. People bought a lot of them and crashed them at a normal rate. Sammy Davis Jr. lost an eye to one, in fact. These days, it's hard to imagine a car company ever being able to get away with designing something like that.
Unless you're driving them ironically ;)
Trying to figure out how I'd do that...
head asplodes!
although almost every hipster douchebag is an Apple consumer, not every Apple consumer is a hipster douchebag.
Thanks for that. I'm an Apple consumer and have been for the last 20 years. Yet, I live in the 'burbs, drive an 18-wheeler for a living and a pickup truck for my personal vehicle. That's about as un-hipster douchebag as it gets, I think.
It was a tax on people who don't understand the basic laws of thermodynamics.
I'm not a programmer myself so can someone tell me if C# really easier to use than C or Objective C as stated in TFA? Or is it just a matter of there being more people who are familiar with it?
Eventually, this would culminate in banning manual vehicles on major highways in about 2050-2060
It will take away my livelihood but that's okay--in all probability I'll be quite dead by then. Maybe even retired.
How many Libraries Of Congress will the source code amount to?
It depends. Are we talking a metric LoC or an imperial LoC?
Who are you, anyhow? RedNeckAnalogyGuy?
No, but that gives me a great idea for a new Slashdot new sock puppet account name...