I love people that think they are the only one's in this life that ever had a 10 yr. old daughter and somehow think they have special insight by comparing every moment of their lives to the yammerings of a child.
Only very special moments, like those provided by people who can't use words or punctuate correctly (unlike my daughter, who knows when and when not to use the apostrophe).
Android is an OS that leverages the Linux Kernel. Android is not Linux. There is this notion that the Linux community wants to spread that anyone who borrows the kernel is just another Linux distro. Android has it's own VM, it's own system libraries, etc. It runs a java language for apps that is not common to Linux.
The worst part is that Google is enjoying this confusion as a big benefit. They are closing the doors on the garden with Android, yet many Linux fanatics are comfortable entering to have tea with Brin.
Someone would have to be paying me quite a lot before I could say all that with a straight face.
According to her bio, she was born on Taiwan of Chinese parents. Due to this circumstance, some people might consider her Chinese. I'm not saying they're right or wrong, I'm just sayin'...
Your DEADBEEF in the grocery analogy itself does not bear up. On account of precisely what VortexC was talking about--being able to sell any number of copies with no corresponding increase in production costs. Good luck in doing this with a cow.
And they don't *want* MySQL to succeed: they want it *dead* in the industrial space, so people will use Oracle's much more prifitable databases. They bought Sun to get the commercial database customer list, to shoot that incompatible Sun architectural oddness through the head, and to shut MySQL down.
This is EXACTLY why Oracle have, I dunno, *doubled* the number of devs and QA working on MySQL! It's all a ruse! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Oracle do a lot of things. Things that waste tonnes of money--e.g. paying hundreds of staff to develop a product you're planning to discontinue--are generally not among them.
I had one of those Zen X-FIs, too. They rocked. They *stored, transferred, and played back music files* quite nicely.
In other words, they acted the way a reasonable media player ought. My sole gripe was that they didn't play all media files and there was no way to add support for those that were lacking.
Smartphone takes care of that now, though. VLC works fine on all 3 of my Android devices, and I've yet to find a format it doesn't play, and thus I've no need for any other media player software on any of the platforms I use (Android, Linux, and occasionally Windows) or, any longer, for dedicated hardware, for that matter.
I was wondering what this 'SkyNet' thing was, but thankfully the summary and the super helpful wikipedia link made it all clear to me.
Except that they got it wrong:
...SkyNet, the supercomputer from the Terminator movies that's so intelligent, it decides that the world would be better off if it ruled over humanity."
This would be true if and only if "ruled over" were the same as "exterminated".
People who have never seen a film should not pretend to know what's in it.
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The daughters' names are My (pronounced "mü") and Maria. But don't take my word for it--look it up in your Funk & Wagnells.
Er, Google it. Whatever.
I love people that think they are the only one's in this life that ever had a 10 yr. old daughter and somehow think they have special insight by comparing every moment of their lives to the yammerings of a child.
Only very special moments, like those provided by people who can't use words or punctuate correctly (unlike my daughter, who knows when and when not to use the apostrophe).
Android is an OS that leverages the Linux Kernel. Android is not Linux. There is this notion that the Linux community wants to spread that anyone who borrows the kernel is just another Linux distro. Android has it's own VM, it's own system libraries, etc. It runs a java language for apps that is not common to Linux.
The worst part is that Google is enjoying this confusion as a big benefit. They are closing the doors on the garden with Android, yet many Linux fanatics are comfortable entering to have tea with Brin.
Someone would have to be paying me quite a lot before I could say all that with a straight face.
Right. So it's pretty much just like the Transformer, only with the rich, creamy taste of Windows.
She's not even Chinese.
According to her bio, she was born on Taiwan of Chinese parents. Due to this circumstance, some people might consider her Chinese. I'm not saying they're right or wrong, I'm just sayin'...
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You've found the fabled Lost Verse of "Glass Onion". Congratulations.
Your DEADBEEF in the grocery analogy itself does not bear up. On account of precisely what VortexC was talking about--being able to sell any number of copies with no corresponding increase in production costs. Good luck in doing this with a cow.
I love people who learn some new phrase and think it suddenly makes them look wise.
My daughter does that. She's 10.
And they don't *want* MySQL to succeed: they want it *dead* in the industrial space, so people will use Oracle's much more prifitable databases. They bought Sun to get the commercial database customer list, to shoot that incompatible Sun architectural oddness through the head, and to shut MySQL down.
This is EXACTLY why Oracle have, I dunno, *doubled* the number of devs and QA working on MySQL! It's all a ruse! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Oracle do a lot of things. Things that waste tonnes of money--e.g. paying hundreds of staff to develop a product you're planning to discontinue--are generally not among them.
Named for his 2 daughters, who were named by their mothers.
Yes, it's fun and easy to slap one-word push-peoples-buttons labels on things that are actually quite complicated.
I had one of those Zen X-FIs, too. They rocked. They *stored, transferred, and played back music files* quite nicely.
In other words, they acted the way a reasonable media player ought. My sole gripe was that they didn't play all media files and there was no way to add support for those that were lacking.
Smartphone takes care of that now, though. VLC works fine on all 3 of my Android devices, and I've yet to find a format it doesn't play, and thus I've no need for any other media player software on any of the platforms I use (Android, Linux, and occasionally Windows) or, any longer, for dedicated hardware, for that matter.
I was wondering what this 'SkyNet' thing was, but thankfully the summary and the super helpful wikipedia link made it all clear to me.
Except that they got it wrong:
...SkyNet, the supercomputer from the Terminator movies that's so intelligent, it decides that the world would be better off if it ruled over humanity."
This would be true if and only if "ruled over" were the same as "exterminated".
People who have never seen a film should not pretend to know what's in it.
... and teh left-handers??? These are all taking away your Ay-Murkin FREEDOMS!!11!1111!!111
Actually, we southpaws got bored with taking candy from babies and moved abroad.
(A bit off-topic and undoing my mods, but what the hell.)
sure, blame the pot because my handle is Ganjadude, negating the fact that I made this handle when I was in my teens...
I too have undergone a couple of reboots since this account was created.
You'll need to come up with a new backstory to explain the nickname. :)
(And since I am obviously joking, I hope you'll take seriously what I'm saying.)
What's most fortunate is that his post will be found by employment attorneys for years to come.
TFTFY. B^)
Because anything that doesn't work out the way we expected couldn't possibly represent a free market.
"Free market" only works when the market is actually free. Ransoming a unique resource is not the free market in action.
Thank you, kind Sir/Ma'am/Fido. That's the funniest thing I've read all morning.
Nice way to miss the point, which is: Paul hasn't done diddley-squat with any of the power already entrusted to him.
Let me connect some dots for you, fanboi:
Stock price is an indicator of how much a company is expanding.
In American capitalism, the only metric that is deemed to matter in determining a firm's value is its growth.
By this metric, Apple is currently a failure. Next quarter, it might not be.
"Rediculous"? One diculous wasn't enough, then?
As a fellow ex-journo, I salute you.
Nice work there. Thanks for digging this out.
Acerbic political commentary from APK.
Only on Slashdot, folks.
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Thank YOU for your intellectual integrity, something which seems sadly lacking in many of these discussions.