Come on, think of the awesome sales pitch these guys are getting. "Don 't be Evil"? Screw that. Come to the dark side. You have no idea of the full financial advantage of the dark side. Watch those that believe in open standards tremble at your feet.
There's also the fact that Android is not limited by design, or artificially by Google in what parts of the interface can be replaced. There's really very little that that newer versions of the OS can do that cannot also be done with an app. I have an older Android phone... I can run ICS on it, but still run Gingerbread as I find it leaves me more memory on my old hardware.
If I ran the country (and I really think I should), government would be required to use an open format if one exists. Even if MS pulled slimy crap like they did with ISO, at least there would be a format there to use.
This is why businesses should push very hard to use nothing but open formats. Tying yourself to a single vendor for hardware or software is just asking for trouble. A company can abuse their customers much more if it's difficult to switch products.
Well, I say "I think" as I'm not American, nor am I an expert in American law, but I was under the impression that you do have the right to a secret ballot to protect you from having your vote coerced. If the barcode is tied to you voter registration number, it easily allows a machine to do what a human readable voter number would do, and tie your vote back to you.
It seems that everywhere in the world, governments and corporations have decided that because we have the technology, it's okay to use it to abuse people's rights and freedoms in ways that would be illegal if they were done in person, or on paper.
The biggest deal for me is that ads are quite a large exploit vector. I block ads in my browser because I consider them to be from an untrusted source. If these are simply text and PNG, then perhaps it's not so bad.
I was under the impression that Google had written ther own and it was quite a bit nicer than the old one. It may still be in the approval process... is it now in conflict with Apple's 'built-in' functionality?
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm actually currently a public employee, and have been before as well. From what I've seen over the past few years, the public should be quite angry.
The Ontario premier's wife is a teacher, and over the past eight years he's seemed to have little to no interest in doing anything but hiring more teachers and giving them large raises. Our teachers are already paid far more than in the US. When the budget shortfall became an obvious problem (although anyone with a clue could see it coming), did he start talking about freezing teacher salaries? No, he started talking about reducing *doctor* salaries.
Here in Canada they'r one of the biggest. The part about this that really irritates me is that they've been getting annual raises about four times the rate of inflation and threatened to strike during a huge budget shortfall at the first mention of pay freezes. A completely classless move. There are very large numbers of people waiting to get into teaching, yet the pay keeps going up. What ever happened to supply and demand? If there's that big a supply, the rate of pay increase (if any) should be at or below the rate of inflation, I think, especially for a public sector position like teaching.
It's harder with the MS posts, as there are three likely possibilites. There is the possibility of paid shill, troll, or in some circumstances, true fanboy. With Apple posts, I think the rate of paid shill is extremely low, if at all, but you could never tell the difference between paid shill and fanboy anyway. Same sort of problem with trolls... some people actually believe the same statements a troll would make. It's getting hard to tell who's who around here.
WSJ and Forbes both seem to have a bit of a hate on for Google these days though, so I'd take their comments with a grain of salt. I think they're right in the 'they need the killer app' comment though... something to make them something that everyone wants.
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Come on, think of the awesome sales pitch these guys are getting. "Don 't be Evil"? Screw that. Come to the dark side. You have no idea of the full financial advantage of the dark side. Watch those that believe in open standards tremble at your feet.
There's also the fact that Android is not limited by design, or artificially by Google in what parts of the interface can be replaced. There's really very little that that newer versions of the OS can do that cannot also be done with an app. I have an older Android phone ... I can run ICS on it, but still run Gingerbread as I find it leaves me more memory on my old hardware.
If I ran the country (and I really think I should), government would be required to use an open format if one exists. Even if MS pulled slimy crap like they did with ISO, at least there would be a format there to use.
This is why businesses should push very hard to use nothing but open formats. Tying yourself to a single vendor for hardware or software is just asking for trouble. A company can abuse their customers much more if it's difficult to switch products.
You can use it until they 'upgrade' the format. At some point few enough people will be using the older formats that they become effectively unusable.
It's not just SlashDot. Pretty much all media outlets do a huge amount of what boils down to free Apple advertising.
Well, I say "I think" as I'm not American, nor am I an expert in American law, but I was under the impression that you do have the right to a secret ballot to protect you from having your vote coerced. If the barcode is tied to you voter registration number, it easily allows a machine to do what a human readable voter number would do, and tie your vote back to you.
The readers are not. If this was a printed number and it was being recorded manually, I don't imagine it would be legal ... not that I think this is.
It seems that everywhere in the world, governments and corporations have decided that because we have the technology, it's okay to use it to abuse people's rights and freedoms in ways that would be illegal if they were done in person, or on paper.
The biggest deal for me is that ads are quite a large exploit vector. I block ads in my browser because I consider them to be from an untrusted source. If these are simply text and PNG, then perhaps it's not so bad.
Providing supporting links in an Apple related story is considered flamebait.
I was under the impression that Google had written ther own and it was quite a bit nicer than the old one. It may still be in the approval process ... is it now in conflict with Apple's 'built-in' functionality?
Has anyone heard of any progress on the 'open standard' that FaceTime was promised as?
They also give away the source on occasion ...
... or people have hit their breaking point. It's happening in a lot of areas.
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm actually currently a public employee, and have been before as well. From what I've seen over the past few years, the public should be quite angry.
Gasoline and food do seem to be included in all of the calculations of the Canadian cost of living index I could find.
I believe our teachers are already paid quite a lot more than US teachers as well. Up to about $100K, I believe.
The Ontario premier's wife is a teacher, and over the past eight years he's seemed to have little to no interest in doing anything but hiring more teachers and giving them large raises. Our teachers are already paid far more than in the US. When the budget shortfall became an obvious problem (although anyone with a clue could see it coming), did he start talking about freezing teacher salaries? No, he started talking about reducing *doctor* salaries.
Here in Canada they'r one of the biggest. The part about this that really irritates me is that they've been getting annual raises about four times the rate of inflation and threatened to strike during a huge budget shortfall at the first mention of pay freezes. A completely classless move. There are very large numbers of people waiting to get into teaching, yet the pay keeps going up. What ever happened to supply and demand? If there's that big a supply, the rate of pay increase (if any) should be at or below the rate of inflation, I think, especially for a public sector position like teaching.
Hardware patents perhaps, but personally I don't think software patents have helped in any way to further innovation. They are only a weapon.
It's easy: hate software patents for being weapons of anti-competition rather than protectors of innovation, and hate Apple for using the weapons.
It's harder with the MS posts, as there are three likely possibilites. There is the possibility of paid shill, troll, or in some circumstances, true fanboy. With Apple posts, I think the rate of paid shill is extremely low, if at all, but you could never tell the difference between paid shill and fanboy anyway. Same sort of problem with trolls ... some people actually believe the same statements a troll would make. It's getting hard to tell who's who around here.
You'll have to forgive Mr Coward. Mozilla and Google killed his parents.
WSJ and Forbes both seem to have a bit of a hate on for Google these days though, so I'd take their comments with a grain of salt. I think they're right in the 'they need the killer app' comment though ... something to make them something that everyone wants.