Microsoft knows this too well as it was close to losing its trademark over Windows before it settled with what is now known as "Linspire."
Do tell. I've always seen it as Lindows getting beat senseless by a huge corporation. I mean, Lindows changed its name. Microsoft didn't seem to do much at all. Even if they gave Lindows money, it probably made little to them.
That's because OS X and iPhone have different markets. Note, however, that they're fundamentally the same OS underneath, allowing Apple to push similar development skills, and to combine the two as soon as devices fully converge.
Strangely, you forgot the fucked up bosses and employers, who have little respect for highly skilled IT workers. I mean, seriously... many IT people started studying their art before they were 10 years old. How many Doctors can say that?
Because mobile phones are no longer just phones, or even just smartphones. They're becoming full-blown operating systems, which require long-term investment and long lifespans to be fully realised. As a result, people expect to see belief and commitment on the part of the companies pushing those operating systems. You can do that for one OS, but you can't hedge your bets and promote two completely different systems, like they're both the future you believe in and plan to create.
Oh, wow. I read this as Google is porting android. Intel porting android is a much more interesting bit of news. Either Intel is so big that they have multiple departments with the same goal, and completely contradictory strategies, or they've decided that Meego is crap already, and are abandoning it for Android.
I guess this is a reponse to Meego 1.0 coming out for netbooks as a free download. I don't think meego will amount to much, but if it creates enough competition to push android ahead, that'll be cool.
Still... regarding Android on x86, I'd really prefer to see an ARM/OMAP-3 release, to run on N900s etc. There's a hack available now, but device drivers are still an issue.
More importantly... what's the status of Marketplace on this "port"? Is marketplace now open for anyone to use if they install Android? If not, this port will be useless, except as a dev platform or an interesting proof of concept.
Agreed. For services like this, open can't mean any less than open protocols and distributed p2p servers that anyone can run, which all share an open, downloadable database.
Mark my words, you're only sowing the seeds of a revolution your trying to avoid.
Umm.. the "seed" here is the Internet. China didn't "sow" that; the DARPA did. More astute observers familiar with concepts such as cultural export as a propaganda tool might find that interesting.
You raise a fair point, but I was specifically referring to schoolchildren killing classmates due to societal pressures, not to the varied attacks that have SOMEHOW been related to schools in countries with huge populations. A crime of passion between and adult schoolteacher and an adult lover that spills over to her students, for instance, isn't quite the same, in terms of judging the nurturing qualities of a society.
There is a stark difference between a parent setting such rules for their children and a state doing it on their behalf
No, you just like to imagine there's a stark difference. There's a lot of gray area and general governmental complexity, but as other commenters have explained in other ways, the distinction isn't so clear at all. What it all boils down to is that government is an extension of family values; that government is essentially expected to create the kind of society that families want their kids to grow up in.
We have, in the West, grown accustomed to a number of stark distinctions - between family and state, between the political and the economic, between the civil and the religious/philosophical - that do not apply in other cultures, and do not really stand up to deep scrutiny in our own.
Exactly. I'm reminded of the Vietnamese finding "Uncle Ho" a much more likeable and believable pretender for the crown than the cold, Western-like South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
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Boinc, even.
Boink has half a million computers, many of which probably have more than 2 cores.
Do tell. I've always seen it as Lindows getting beat senseless by a huge corporation. I mean, Lindows changed its name. Microsoft didn't seem to do much at all. Even if they gave Lindows money, it probably made little to them.
Shyeah, right.
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And the bad guys from Final Fantasy V too, it seems.
And we all know 2012 is the end of the world.
Investors charged? Naw man, investors suck their power from alternate dimensions.
That's because OS X and iPhone have different markets. Note, however, that they're fundamentally the same OS underneath, allowing Apple to push similar development skills, and to combine the two as soon as devices fully converge.
Strangely, you forgot the fucked up bosses and employers, who have little respect for highly skilled IT workers. I mean, seriously... many IT people started studying their art before they were 10 years old. How many Doctors can say that?
I think it's misleading language.
I think GP's point was more that misleading people should NEVER be allowed, by ANY business.
Because mobile phones are no longer just phones, or even just smartphones. They're becoming full-blown operating systems, which require long-term investment and long lifespans to be fully realised. As a result, people expect to see belief and commitment on the part of the companies pushing those operating systems. You can do that for one OS, but you can't hedge your bets and promote two completely different systems, like they're both the future you believe in and plan to create.
Oh, wow. I read this as Google is porting android. Intel porting android is a much more interesting bit of news. Either Intel is so big that they have multiple departments with the same goal, and completely contradictory strategies, or they've decided that Meego is crap already, and are abandoning it for Android.
I guess this is a reponse to Meego 1.0 coming out for netbooks as a free download. I don't think meego will amount to much, but if it creates enough competition to push android ahead, that'll be cool.
Still... regarding Android on x86, I'd really prefer to see an ARM/OMAP-3 release, to run on N900s etc. There's a hack available now, but device drivers are still an issue.
More importantly... what's the status of Marketplace on this "port"? Is marketplace now open for anyone to use if they install Android? If not, this port will be useless, except as a dev platform or an interesting proof of concept.
Also, the part where it's not telescopic is a bit of a problem.
Or some sort of ancient chair that shoots missiles into space.
Yes, but now the 3D star wars holograms are being done with open codecs, HTML5, and CSS instead of old-style tables.
Agreed. For services like this, open can't mean any less than open protocols and distributed p2p servers that anyone can run, which all share an open, downloadable database.
Umm.. the "seed" here is the Internet. China didn't "sow" that; the DARPA did. More astute observers familiar with concepts such as cultural export as a propaganda tool might find that interesting.
You raise a fair point, but I was specifically referring to schoolchildren killing classmates due to societal pressures, not to the varied attacks that have SOMEHOW been related to schools in countries with huge populations. A crime of passion between and adult schoolteacher and an adult lover that spills over to her students, for instance, isn't quite the same, in terms of judging the nurturing qualities of a society.
Yep. This story was so wrong that it made me laugh out loud.
No, you just like to imagine there's a stark difference. There's a lot of gray area and general governmental complexity, but as other commenters have explained in other ways, the distinction isn't so clear at all. What it all boils down to is that government is an extension of family values; that government is essentially expected to create the kind of society that families want their kids to grow up in.
Exactly. I'm reminded of the Vietnamese finding "Uncle Ho" a much more likeable and believable pretender for the crown than the cold, Western-like South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Who cares? That's not the definition of theft, so they're simply wrong.
Sorry, you don't get to call other people dishonest because you disagree with their beliefs. I stopped reading at this point.