If by demonstration of force you mean the way they ransacked a good chunk of London, set buildings on fire, stole from defenceless individuals, left people homeless, terrified neighbourhoods, caused millions' worth of property damage, disrupted the lives of millions of people, etc... then you got that right, those are the mechanics of opression.
If you're talking about the Police, who treated the rioters with kid gloves then you got it hopelessly wrong.
Yes, now the Honeycomb source is out you can troll about the App Inventor source for a few months until it's out I guess. Then you can move on to the next project while pointing out they are clearly evil and make claims about their horrible track record.
Gamers and computer enthusiasts might stick with it, but regular users will use specialized devices as they become more compact, power efficient and above all, cheap.
Android is growing massively, they lead in search and they've finally cracked social networking. Microsoft on the other hand are losing billions in both the search and mobile markets every single year. They've been so focused on Google they didn't notice Apple sneaking by and their OS business is far closer than most people realize to fading into irrelevancy over the next decade or so.
People bring up software patents all the time but these only really apply in the US. They're screwed.
Contrast this with Android which have fragmentation within the same generation of hardware.
The main fragmentation issues with Android are due to the carriers' reluctance to allow users to upgrade to newer versions of the OS. A 3.1 tablet or 2.3 phone can run the overwhelmingly vast majority of the apps in the market, with the exception of apps that targetted a specific device (i.e. Xperia Play) or they where the devs took shortcuts with their code (i,e, used fixed values when settings up screen layouts).
Before admitting that PC sales are down, people will start to include all kinds of devices in the PC category, like Ballmer did with the iPad. PCs tend to be associated with Windows, and investors could get antsy if the holy market share started to dip.
Are built on cheap hardware and run a version of Android developed for phones, Honeycomb tablets have so far priced themselves out of the market. Here's hoping Google and the manufacturers will pick up on that.
Spain loves to imitate the US, but generally half-asses it
Do you actually know anything about Spain?, because that statement makes no sense.
Beyond the obvious (Eating better, living longer, having clearly different political, institutional, educational and health systems). Spain's message against Piracy is not "don't steal or else", but rather "protect your culture".
The SGAE's "business practices" are indeed comparable to those of the ASCAP, only difference being, the justice system over there can actually do something about it.
Too late. I already found that with Bing I get primary sources rather than the first search result being Wikipedia followed by a bunch of blogs, so I switched. (And I hate Microsoft.)
If you hated Microsoft there's no way in hell you'd be using Bing, so I'll take your second statement as a lie, and by association the first statement as well.
By staring Google down in hopes that they'd blink, Microsoft managed to all but lose any relevance it might have had in the mobile OS business and barely gained a blip in the search space.
So you can come down to Slashdot and push your shitty search engine til your fingers bleed. It won't make any difference.
Mainly because it's simply not free, yes you can enjoy the games to a certain extent without paying a penny, but they are designed to squeeze as much money out of you as possible and in the long term are far more expensive than purchasing a retail product upfront.
There's no need to deflect attention,, this is not about Android, this is about Apple computers having the type of issues for which PCs have always been made fun of.
The reason Mac users are now targetted is because they are less computer savvy, have deep pockets and have been educated to open their wallet on command.
If you buy a tablet to do word processing then you are clearly missing the point. Tablets are media consumption devices. Netbooks may have a physical keyboard, buy they also have a fan, a smaller screen, shit battery life and weight twice as much.
They can't see beyond what's in front of them. Adobe are not just betting on the Flash player running old stuff that was made with mouse and keyboard in mind but also looking to it as a future development platform for touch based devices.
I'm not saying it is a good idea, but making fun of it because you can't play games that require a keyboard is missing the point entirely.
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If by demonstration of force you mean the way they ransacked a good chunk of London, set buildings on fire, stole from defenceless individuals, left people homeless, terrified neighbourhoods, caused millions' worth of property damage, disrupted the lives of millions of people, etc... then you got that right, those are the mechanics of opression.
If you're talking about the Police, who treated the rioters with kid gloves then you got it hopelessly wrong.
Yes, now the Honeycomb source is out you can troll about the App Inventor source for a few months until it's out I guess. Then you can move on to the next project while pointing out they are clearly evil and make claims about their horrible track record.
Gamers and computer enthusiasts might stick with it, but regular users will use specialized devices as they become more compact, power efficient and above all, cheap.
I'd say with can live without both.
People get shot on a daily basis in London and nobody bats an eyelid. A gangster is shot by the police and the world has to end? Please.
Android is growing massively, they lead in search and they've finally cracked social networking. Microsoft on the other hand are losing billions in both the search and mobile markets every single year. They've been so focused on Google they didn't notice Apple sneaking by and their OS business is far closer than most people realize to fading into irrelevancy over the next decade or so.
People bring up software patents all the time but these only really apply in the US. They're screwed.
New owner: Wait, you were spying on me?
MIT voyeur: Hey you agreed to this, it's in the EULA!
Contrast this with Android which have fragmentation within the same generation of hardware.
The main fragmentation issues with Android are due to the carriers' reluctance to allow users to upgrade to newer versions of the OS. A 3.1 tablet or 2.3 phone can run the overwhelmingly vast majority of the apps in the market, with the exception of apps that targetted a specific device (i.e. Xperia Play) or they where the devs took shortcuts with their code (i,e, used fixed values when settings up screen layouts).
Before admitting that PC sales are down, people will start to include all kinds of devices in the PC category, like Ballmer did with the iPad. PCs tend to be associated with Windows, and investors could get antsy if the holy market share started to dip.
I thought Jobs summed it up reasonably well here
You sound almost hopeful there. There's fragmentation in iOS devices as well and nobody seems to mind.
Are built on cheap hardware and run a version of Android developed for phones, Honeycomb tablets have so far priced themselves out of the market. Here's hoping Google and the manufacturers will pick up on that.
The way things are, this is as good a start as any.
Faces on Street View pictures are blurred, you cannot be identified through them.
I wouldn't call sneaking software into computers one doesn't own in order to grab pictures of people, "Art". He's clearly in big trouble.
Spain loves to imitate the US, but generally half-asses it
Do you actually know anything about Spain?, because that statement makes no sense.
Beyond the obvious (Eating better, living longer, having clearly different political, institutional, educational and health systems). Spain's message against Piracy is not "don't steal or else", but rather "protect your culture".
The SGAE's "business practices" are indeed comparable to those of the ASCAP, only difference being, the justice system over there can actually do something about it.
Too late. I already found that with Bing I get primary sources rather than the first search result being Wikipedia followed by a bunch of blogs, so I switched. (And I hate Microsoft.)
If you hated Microsoft there's no way in hell you'd be using Bing, so I'll take your second statement as a lie, and by association the first statement as well.
By staring Google down in hopes that they'd blink, Microsoft managed to all but lose any relevance it might have had in the mobile OS business and barely gained a blip in the search space.
So you can come down to Slashdot and push your shitty search engine til your fingers bleed. It won't make any difference.
Can't download apps from app store
This Penny Arcade strip pretty much sums it up for me.
Mainly because it's simply not free, yes you can enjoy the games to a certain extent without paying a penny, but they are designed to squeeze as much money out of you as possible and in the long term are far more expensive than purchasing a retail product upfront.
This gag order thing is going to make Ryan Giggs look far worse than whatever it is he's been doing without his wife's knowledge.
There's no need to deflect attention,, this is not about Android, this is about Apple computers having the type of issues for which PCs have always been made fun of.
The reason Mac users are now targetted is because they are less computer savvy, have deep pockets and have been educated to open their wallet on command.
More likely to enhance ad targeting, all your usual direct to server queries goes through Google search now, so they get properly tracked.
Yeah yeah we know, now then, was that Facebook or Microsoft who paid your PR firm to say that?
Maybe so, at least I am open minded enough not dismiss that which I don't understand. Trendiness will make way for ubiquity.
That's weird. My Psion Series 3a....
I guess now we know, people who don't "get" the tablet still live in 1993...
If you buy a tablet to do word processing then you are clearly missing the point. Tablets are media consumption devices. Netbooks may have a physical keyboard, buy they also have a fan, a smaller screen, shit battery life and weight twice as much.
They can't see beyond what's in front of them. Adobe are not just betting on the Flash player running old stuff that was made with mouse and keyboard in mind but also looking to it as a future development platform for touch based devices.
I'm not saying it is a good idea, but making fun of it because you can't play games that require a keyboard is missing the point entirely.
Android tablets have been out for a few months.There's your answer.