I'm sick of both parties pointing fingers, and no one trying to make things better.
I foolishly believed during the past Presidential elections that while I wasn't crazy about either Vice Presidential candidate, both Presidential candidates had a history of crossing the aisle and working with the other party, so maybe the partisan rift would repair.
Neither party is truly evil. Neither is evil. Both their both two busy spinning to fucking fix anything.
When Obama was in Congress, he pressed Bush for all the missing emails. When he took over the White House and the media asked if he was now going to hunt down and release all those emails he promised, he said to drop the issue.
When preordering the phone, I wasn't aware it was defective and wouldn't be able to place or receive calls if I hold it in my left hand. I'm right-handed and tend to hold my phone in my left hand.
Selling a phone you can't hold in your hand is pretty damned bad.
As for the freedom to buy an Android phone, last year I desperately wanted an Android phone. T-Mobile has no service in Omaha, and neither Sprint nor Verizon would publicly announce Android phones.
My options were Windows Mobile phones, or the iPhone. That was it. I hated AT&T, and really wanted Android, but bought an iPhone for lack of better options.
I ended up preordering an iPhone 4 as an early upgrade. I could have waited another year and then jumped ship to Verizon now that they have Android phones, but the iPhone 4 is really an amazing piece of hardware in many ways.
I purchased a phone and it drops calls. I purchased the phone through AT&T on the understanding that it takes and places calls.
You can't provide me a working phone, then I demand a release from my contract minus the termination fees. I will raise a stink about it, contact the BBB, and encourage every other iPhone user to do as such as well.
Or you can provide me with the rubber bumper.
I shouldn't have to pay $30 for a small piece of rubber because you are selling a defective product.
Or they did all their testing with bumpers on the phones. If you have a piece of rubber between your hand, and the antenna, you don't complete the circuit.
You only care about Spock and Kirk having sex if you care about Star Trek. When you post that slash-fic, you're keeping Star Trek alive in the minds of other fans. Perpetuating the brand does add value to the brand.
Are people here up in arms about new Mario games, or new Final Fantasy titles?
Honestly, the PC adventure genre is all but non-existant these days. If Activision were going to release a classic PC adventure, it might make the Slashdot crowd squeal with delight. However, Activision would probably screw it all up, and try to turn it into more of a 3D action title.
In the early days of the web, Fox was trying to threaten every X-Files fan page for violating their trademark. Lucas threatened to sue every Star Wars page out there. Companies felt it was their duty to protect the IP. They didn't realize these fan pages weren't stealing money from them, but rather were adding value to their brands.
Fan pages and fan projects are free advertising. Any company who sues a non-commercial fan project is idiotic at best, and doesn't like receiving money from their customers.
So they don't want a porn webcam client built on Skype? I get that. Maybe that scared them from fully opening the client. But community development is beneficial.
But in the end, they own the Skype trademark. No one could call their client a Skype client without their permission. Just like Mozilla is protective of non-standard builds being labeled as Firefox.
iOS already runs on a modified Mac OS kernel. So they're already related, but that is as far as they'll go.
The two won't fully merge as predicted here.
Microsoft tried to model their mobile OS on their desktop OS, which turned out to be really stupid. Apple had the sense to design the OS around the device.
I don't know how much more you can do. I know you can write extensions basically in pure HTML5/JS.
The question is why bother releasing a Windows only browser that is basically Chrome plus javascript application layers that only duplicate existing functionality that is available on multiple platforms?
So now Flock is Chrome + Javascript application layer on top of that. The Flock devs are aware they can basically write javascript extensions, right? Those extensions will work on all 3 platforms of Chrome/Chromium.
Why not just release them as pure Chrome extensions and call it a day? What is the benefit of calling it a separate browser?
The Chromed Bird extension for Chrome was what caused my wife to switch over. It is my favorite Chrome extension for any platform.
Flock was taken a Linux/Mac/Win product and turned it into a Windows only product without offering anything new or worthwhile.
Interplay had some great development houses. The upper-level management of Interplay screwed them, didn't pay their bills and ran into bankruptcy. Those developers have all gone elsewhere. Interplay barely exists in name and is clinging to IP they own. They want to make a comeback, but without good developers they are nothing.
They've been talking Fallout Online for probably 5 years with absolutely nothing to show for it.
It isn't the resource hog the way Flash is, and it doesn't crash as often as Flash.
Microsoft keeps pumping up new versions of Silverlight left and right, but many sites that have Silverlight content are still basiclly just using 2.0.
Last time I checked months ago, Moonlight had most of the 3.0 features down. I wouldn't say they are no where near to releasing it.
Silverlight 4.0 just came out the door. If Moonlight is putting out 3.0 support the second Microsoft gets 4.0 tools into developers hands, that isn't bad given how fast that platform is moving.
Slashdot Mirror
"There a murder in Atlanta, and I can prove from your hair sample and this expensive test that you were in Atlanta at some point!"
"Or you proved that I drank a bunch of Coke bottled in Atlanta, and that you like to waste tax payer dollars on silly tests which prove nothing."
That's why I only drink liquid tin foil.
Who's laughing now?
I'm sick of both parties pointing fingers, and no one trying to make things better.
I foolishly believed during the past Presidential elections that while I wasn't crazy about either Vice Presidential candidate, both Presidential candidates had a history of crossing the aisle and working with the other party, so maybe the partisan rift would repair.
Neither party is truly evil. Neither is evil. Both their both two busy spinning to fucking fix anything.
When Obama was in Congress, he pressed Bush for all the missing emails. When he took over the White House and the media asked if he was now going to hunt down and release all those emails he promised, he said to drop the issue.
When preordering the phone, I wasn't aware it was defective and wouldn't be able to place or receive calls if I hold it in my left hand. I'm right-handed and tend to hold my phone in my left hand.
Selling a phone you can't hold in your hand is pretty damned bad.
As for the freedom to buy an Android phone, last year I desperately wanted an Android phone. T-Mobile has no service in Omaha, and neither Sprint nor Verizon would publicly announce Android phones.
My options were Windows Mobile phones, or the iPhone. That was it. I hated AT&T, and really wanted Android, but bought an iPhone for lack of better options.
I ended up preordering an iPhone 4 as an early upgrade. I could have waited another year and then jumped ship to Verizon now that they have Android phones, but the iPhone 4 is really an amazing piece of hardware in many ways.
If only it could keep a fucking signal.
You have metal around the case to bring the front and back pieces together. Why not make that piece of metal useful?
Sounds like reasonable engineering to me, except for the fact that it ended up introducing a new problem.
Didn't Wave and Voice both just leave beta?
Do they have a major product/service still in beta?
Take the case to AT&T then.
I purchased a phone and it drops calls. I purchased the phone through AT&T on the understanding that it takes and places calls.
You can't provide me a working phone, then I demand a release from my contract minus the termination fees. I will raise a stink about it, contact the BBB, and encourage every other iPhone user to do as such as well.
Or you can provide me with the rubber bumper.
I shouldn't have to pay $30 for a small piece of rubber because you are selling a defective product.
Or they did all their testing with bumpers on the phones. If you have a piece of rubber between your hand, and the antenna, you don't complete the circuit.
You only care about Spock and Kirk having sex if you care about Star Trek. When you post that slash-fic, you're keeping Star Trek alive in the minds of other fans. Perpetuating the brand does add value to the brand.
Can I like P.O.O.P. on Facebook?
Pluto will always be a planet in my heart.
Are people here up in arms about new Mario games, or new Final Fantasy titles?
Honestly, the PC adventure genre is all but non-existant these days. If Activision were going to release a classic PC adventure, it might make the Slashdot crowd squeal with delight. However, Activision would probably screw it all up, and try to turn it into more of a 3D action title.
In the early days of the web, Fox was trying to threaten every X-Files fan page for violating their trademark. Lucas threatened to sue every Star Wars page out there. Companies felt it was their duty to protect the IP. They didn't realize these fan pages weren't stealing money from them, but rather were adding value to their brands.
Fan pages and fan projects are free advertising. Any company who sues a non-commercial fan project is idiotic at best, and doesn't like receiving money from their customers.
So they don't want a porn webcam client built on Skype? I get that. Maybe that scared them from fully opening the client. But community development is beneficial.
But in the end, they own the Skype trademark. No one could call their client a Skype client without their permission. Just like Mozilla is protective of non-standard builds being labeled as Firefox.
Not only are they massively profitable, they are continuing to grow. Apparently growth means tanking.
The UI is part of the OS.
iOS already runs on a modified Mac OS kernel. So they're already related, but that is as far as they'll go.
The two won't fully merge as predicted here.
Microsoft tried to model their mobile OS on their desktop OS, which turned out to be really stupid. Apple had the sense to design the OS around the device.
This makes complete sense. You can use all your iPhone/iPod/iPad apps on your iMac. Your iMac has a multi-touch capacitive screen and accelerometers.
Oh, wait.
Apple takes pride in the right interface for the right device. This will never happen.
I don't know how much more you can do. I know you can write extensions basically in pure HTML5/JS.
The question is why bother releasing a Windows only browser that is basically Chrome plus javascript application layers that only duplicate existing functionality that is available on multiple platforms?
If Chromed Bird is any example, you can add an icon to the toolbar, pop up a mini-window to display content, do animations and transitions, etc.
So now Flock is Chrome + Javascript application layer on top of that. The Flock devs are aware they can basically write javascript extensions, right? Those extensions will work on all 3 platforms of Chrome/Chromium.
Why not just release them as pure Chrome extensions and call it a day? What is the benefit of calling it a separate browser?
The Chromed Bird extension for Chrome was what caused my wife to switch over. It is my favorite Chrome extension for any platform.
Flock was taken a Linux/Mac/Win product and turned it into a Windows only product without offering anything new or worthwhile.
Interplay had some great development houses. The upper-level management of Interplay screwed them, didn't pay their bills and ran into bankruptcy. Those developers have all gone elsewhere. Interplay barely exists in name and is clinging to IP they own. They want to make a comeback, but without good developers they are nothing.
They've been talking Fallout Online for probably 5 years with absolutely nothing to show for it.
They blocked a dictionary app because the dictionary also had definitions for inappropriate words.
Oddly enough, they don't block the Wikipedia app. You can find nudity on Wikipedia. Quick alert Gestapo Steve Jobs!
I disagree.
Flash runs like shit on every platform.
It isn't the resource hog the way Flash is, and it doesn't crash as often as Flash.
Microsoft keeps pumping up new versions of Silverlight left and right, but many sites that have Silverlight content are still basiclly just using 2.0.
Last time I checked months ago, Moonlight had most of the 3.0 features down. I wouldn't say they are no where near to releasing it.
Silverlight 4.0 just came out the door. If Moonlight is putting out 3.0 support the second Microsoft gets 4.0 tools into developers hands, that isn't bad given how fast that platform is moving.