I suppose that is true in most ways. You need to pay extra for the ability, as does anyone you want to give the software too, and you need to buy a Mac, correct? The XBox model is similar I think. I would still consider both a walled garden, and therefore a curated general purpose environment. You can consider U-EFI the same way. If you install a software development environment you can run anything you want, as long as it's under their OS. There are varying degrees of openness. I do think this is the start of a downward slide though.
He mentions U-EFI bootloaders, but gives Apple a pass on their walled garden. I think that's one of the big factors making a lot of this sort of control more acceptable. And before you bring it up, yes, I realize that the OS X still lets you install any software you want. I'm specifically referring to iOS here. I think it's rise is the knee in the downward curve of general purpose computing.
Aren't all the third party browsers for iOS just shells over the existing webkit engine, except for Opera Mini, which gets around the restrictions by rendering on their servers? Android actually has competing browsers, as well as the other software you mention, with the possible exception of an X server (I assume you meant server), although I haven't looked for one.
You do realize that patenting of patenting hash table parsing would mean that even if someone came up with a different way of doing it, it would still be in violation, don't you? That's one of the problems with software patents... it's not the implementation that's patented, it's the idea.
Why would there be an "AntennaGate"? With Android phones, pretty much and OS feature can be done in non-OS software, so even OS upgrades aren't critical in most cases. Yes, suppliers should keep up with OS updates for a few years, but some don't. Learn which manufacturers to avoid.
I find the slashes are one of the worst field separators for dates, as they tend to get in the way and look like "1's" with some fonts. Periods or dashes are a superior separator in my rarely humble opinion. As for general field order though, yeah... I don't even give clients an option for that in software if I can help it. Anything other than 'yyyymmdd' is just going to cause confusion at some point.
CyanogenMod RC1 of CM9 is out, for the Captivate at least. After Samsung's 'improvements' I'd far rather have a CyanogenMod version anyway. Faster updates, no laggy filesystem.
I've got exactly the same config as a backup, and yes, every once in a while I ask myself why I'm trying to adapt to what is effectively a less usable interface.
The extensions are what's really needed. The hidden bar at the bottom is a very silly idea as a default. I keep ranting about not having a persistent visible notification for Thunderbird messages. With a handful of extension that have already added, Gnome-shell is getting close to acceptable, but there's a few very important things that are missing. Unity is still buggy and slow.
Each of these wins keeps competition out of the market for a while. Most of their competitors come out with new hardware and new features much faster than Apple does. Every little delay is a win for them.
You can't come up with an alternate approach to an idea. Software patents are ridiculous because a completely different implementation still infringes.
I find it completely incomprehensible that anyone in the software development field can defend Apple in any way, or buy or recommend any of their products with the attitude and behaviour they've had the last couple of years. Yes, they have some nice hardware, and used to be the underdog, but enough is enough. They need to be shown that it's not acceptable behaviour.
Do these same rules apply if you use them to run a domain Google Apps account? I would think that with an apps account, you take the responsibility on yourself. Admittedly, this will cost you about $10 per year for the domain, but you do get the benefit of not being tied to a specific email provider.
The unfortunate part is that there seem to be some applications that only seem to like "Sun Java v6" that comes from the repositories. I've tried the manual install of Java 7 from oracle, and Open JDK and neither work for them. I may have to leave the exploitable version installed just to use this software (and only this software, hopefully).
PCMCIA seems to be what happens when a marketing droid forces design constraints on something. "It needs to be the size of a credit card"! If if smaller and thicker, connectors would have been much sturdier.
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I'm quite surprised they didn't have to bury them together.
I suppose that is true in most ways. You need to pay extra for the ability, as does anyone you want to give the software too, and you need to buy a Mac, correct? The XBox model is similar I think. I would still consider both a walled garden, and therefore a curated general purpose environment. You can consider U-EFI the same way. If you install a software development environment you can run anything you want, as long as it's under their OS. There are varying degrees of openness. I do think this is the start of a downward slide though.
I've brought this up before. Users do want freedom, they just don't realize it until they've completely lost it and then have a use for it.
He mentions U-EFI bootloaders, but gives Apple a pass on their walled garden. I think that's one of the big factors making a lot of this sort of control more acceptable. And before you bring it up, yes, I realize that the OS X still lets you install any software you want. I'm specifically referring to iOS here. I think it's rise is the knee in the downward curve of general purpose computing.
"Published APIs" would probably be a better description for what I think they're trying to say.
Aren't all the third party browsers for iOS just shells over the existing webkit engine, except for Opera Mini, which gets around the restrictions by rendering on their servers? Android actually has competing browsers, as well as the other software you mention, with the possible exception of an X server (I assume you meant server), although I haven't looked for one.
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My apologies. it's difficult to determine what's a joke and what isn't when discussing software patents.
You do realize that patenting of patenting hash table parsing would mean that even if someone came up with a different way of doing it, it would still be in violation, don't you? That's one of the problems with software patents ... it's not the implementation that's patented, it's the idea.
Why would there be an "AntennaGate"? With Android phones, pretty much and OS feature can be done in non-OS software, so even OS upgrades aren't critical in most cases. Yes, suppliers should keep up with OS updates for a few years, but some don't. Learn which manufacturers to avoid.
I find the slashes are one of the worst field separators for dates, as they tend to get in the way and look like "1's" with some fonts. Periods or dashes are a superior separator in my rarely humble opinion. As for general field order though, yeah ... I don't even give clients an option for that in software if I can help it. Anything other than 'yyyymmdd' is just going to cause confusion at some point.
The SGS with Cm7.1 and a custom kernel is an awesome phone ... but yeah, it took some work to get there.
CyanogenMod RC1 of CM9 is out, for the Captivate at least. After Samsung's 'improvements' I'd far rather have a CyanogenMod version anyway. Faster updates, no laggy filesystem.
I've got exactly the same config as a backup, and yes, every once in a while I ask myself why I'm trying to adapt to what is effectively a less usable interface.
Yes. Also known as the economy where you can only actually make money if you're a lawyer, right up until the economy crashes. I give it seven years.
They're complaining about the quality of Chinese patents?
The extensions are what's really needed. The hidden bar at the bottom is a very silly idea as a default. I keep ranting about not having a persistent visible notification for Thunderbird messages. With a handful of extension that have already added, Gnome-shell is getting close to acceptable, but there's a few very important things that are missing. Unity is still buggy and slow.
I was actually thinking that Google and a few other companies should move a significant portion of their operations to Canada.
Each of these wins keeps competition out of the market for a while. Most of their competitors come out with new hardware and new features much faster than Apple does. Every little delay is a win for them.
You can't come up with an alternate approach to an idea. Software patents are ridiculous because a completely different implementation still infringes.
I find it completely incomprehensible that anyone in the software development field can defend Apple in any way, or buy or recommend any of their products with the attitude and behaviour they've had the last couple of years. Yes, they have some nice hardware, and used to be the underdog, but enough is enough. They need to be shown that it's not acceptable behaviour.
Do these same rules apply if you use them to run a domain Google Apps account? I would think that with an apps account, you take the responsibility on yourself. Admittedly, this will cost you about $10 per year for the domain, but you do get the benefit of not being tied to a specific email provider.
The unfortunate part is that there seem to be some applications that only seem to like "Sun Java v6" that comes from the repositories. I've tried the manual install of Java 7 from oracle, and Open JDK and neither work for them. I may have to leave the exploitable version installed just to use this software (and only this software, hopefully).
PCMCIA seems to be what happens when a marketing droid forces design constraints on something. "It needs to be the size of a credit card"! If if smaller and thicker, connectors would have been much sturdier.
... and if you're picking Microsoft over another company for ethical reasons, people should really think about how bad that company must be.