Then you're in a tiny minority among a tiny minority among a tiny minority, I'm sad to say. Besides, Debian's policy of complete openness has been in place so long it served as the inspiration for the Open Source definition, so really, you have no excuse.
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It brings awareness that companies out there are caving to pressure from the US government, it grabs headlines and makes it far more costly for other companies to bow down to the US.
Of course, in theory an universal, peaceful protest done by refusing to use the services of Visa, Mastercard et al would've been far better and more effective, but in the real world we know how effective that would've been (ie, not at all).
No. The easiest way to unite a group is not to provide them with somebody to rally behind, but to give them somebody to rally *against*. And given its actions this past decade, it should be no wonder that the US government has become the perfect entity for that role.
The tremendous success of generic MP3/MP4 players in most developing economies, where the iPod is at best "yet another bit player", shows that either you over there in the US are particularly stupid, or the horrors of dealing with an USB storage device through Windows Explorer rather than iTunes are greatly overrated.
Pick up a typical Dell/HP/Asus/Toshiba/etc laptop by a corner. Feel that cheap plastic casing flex under the weight. Hear it creak. Close and open it and feel that cheap plastic clip click into place in a way that lets you just ~know~ it's going to break after a year or two.
Now pick up a Macbook Pro in the same way. It's chalk and cheese.
That's because the typical Dell/HP/Asus/Toshiba is a $400 POS. Try it with a mid- to high-end Sony or Lenovo and you'll get something fairly comparable to the MacBook Pro. Try it with a well-maintained IBM, however, and you'll see what solid design truly is.
And as a bonus, neither Sony nor Lenovo have had the serious issues with overheating that Apple's laptops are known for. Well, Sony had a bad run with batteries a while ago, but then again so did Apple.
In the end namespaces are very little more than appending more characters on a name.
In languages with only token support for it, yeah. In languages that implement namespaces properly however, actually applying some common sense to it, no it really isn't. Having a namespace named "Ada.Numerics.Complex_Arrays" is a lot more readable than "CA", but I think we can all agree that typing "AdaNumericsComplexArrays_ComplexVector v = AdaNumericsComplexArrays_ComposeFromCartesian(arg1, arg2)" isn't what a sane man would find comfortable.
Yes, there is a possibility for clashes if someone chooses a string which is the same as yours but how often do people use outside classes other than the ones in the Cocoa frameworks?
Isn't that a bit chicken and egg? rather than "it's not a problem because people don't use it much", I'd argue that "people don't use it much because it's a problem". After all, using outside classes is very common in the Java and C# worlds, in spite of the fact that both languages come with very powerful frameworks out-of-the-box as well.
If that were the case they'd go the *other* way, include a solid scripting language or runtime by default and push the hell out of it over anything that compiles to an architecture-dependant binary.
Just like Apple fanboys "re-crafting" information in order to try and make it as if Wozniak said Android was crap, you mean?
The zealots on both sides are pretty goddamned dishonest, as are zealots everywhere. Don't just put the blame only on one side, or you'll look like you belong to the opposite camp.
You know a lot of people have turned the price of a Mac and their $99 Developer Program expenses into a shit ton of cash.
Far less than the number of people who have turned the price of a Windows license and a MSDN subscription into a shit ton of cash, I assure you. After all, corporations pay a lot better than hipsters.
You do know the whole reason The Beatles were so bloody popular at the time was because they were the first band to use "million dollar ad campaigns", right? they're the Ur Example of boy bands, for God's sake.
Ahh well, you don't have much to live anyways. You'll be brutally murdered the instant a musician close to you sees you comparing Mozart and The Beatles, and rightfully so.
There are very few significant tech companies that push open internet standards as much as Apple does.
Ehh... no. Sure they may make some PR mouthpieces advocating openness every once in a while, but then again so does everyone else, even Microsoft. Their actions, however, show a drastically different story altogether.
About the only large tech company seriously pushing for open standards right now is Google, and even that's not out of ethical reasons but simply the fact that they've got the most to lose from a closed 'net, particularly one controlled by Apple or Microsoft.
When they shook their iron fist at their own customers regarding DRM. Or when they shook their iron fist at the W3C over a Free vs patented technology for the Web. Though in the latter one they did manage to get a partial victory.
And yet you continue to pay for software that's inextricably tied to the Intel x86 platform and Microsoft's monopoly.
Really, if you wanted to be paranoid you should've gone the whole way and demanded full source-code availability from your games, not just lack of online activation.
Anyone else see games pulled over time? I haven't. Half-life 2 came out in 2004 and I can still download and play it on any machine I'm logged into steam on
From Steam? I have, many times. They do, however, allow owners to download them whenever they want to wherever they want to just as with normal games, they just remove them from the store so new customers can't buy them.
Compare and contrast with GoG for instance, whose praises are sung by many of the anti-Steam crowd. Bought ToCA3 from them a few years back? sucks to be you, idio... *ehem* dear customer. Bought it from Steam? double click on it on your Games List, wait until it's finished downloading and off you go, you paid for it you get it and Codemasters' licensing issues be damned.
The only way to ensure you'll be able to play your game ten or fifteen years from now is to get the full source-code. Anything else is making a tradeoff between safety and diversity, it just so happens that other people hold a different criteria as to what the risks are.
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Then you're in a tiny minority among a tiny minority among a tiny minority, I'm sad to say. Besides, Debian's policy of complete openness has been in place so long it served as the inspiration for the Open Source definition, so really, you have no excuse.
It brings awareness that companies out there are caving to pressure from the US government, it grabs headlines and makes it far more costly for other companies to bow down to the US.
Of course, in theory an universal, peaceful protest done by refusing to use the services of Visa, Mastercard et al would've been far better and more effective, but in the real world we know how effective that would've been (ie, not at all).
No. The easiest way to unite a group is not to provide them with somebody to rally behind, but to give them somebody to rally *against*. And given its actions this past decade, it should be no wonder that the US government has become the perfect entity for that role.
The tremendous success of generic MP3/MP4 players in most developing economies, where the iPod is at best "yet another bit player", shows that either you over there in the US are particularly stupid, or the horrors of dealing with an USB storage device through Windows Explorer rather than iTunes are greatly overrated.
Well, or both.
Pick up a typical Dell/HP/Asus/Toshiba/etc laptop by a corner. Feel that cheap plastic casing flex under the weight. Hear it creak. Close and open it and feel that cheap plastic clip click into place in a way that lets you just ~know~ it's going to break after a year or two.
Now pick up a Macbook Pro in the same way. It's chalk and cheese.
That's because the typical Dell/HP/Asus/Toshiba is a $400 POS. Try it with a mid- to high-end Sony or Lenovo and you'll get something fairly comparable to the MacBook Pro. Try it with a well-maintained IBM, however, and you'll see what solid design truly is.
And as a bonus, neither Sony nor Lenovo have had the serious issues with overheating that Apple's laptops are known for. Well, Sony had a bad run with batteries a while ago, but then again so did Apple.
I don't think they were referring to that kind of social networking.
In the end namespaces are very little more than appending more characters on a name.
In languages with only token support for it, yeah. In languages that implement namespaces properly however, actually applying some common sense to it, no it really isn't. Having a namespace named "Ada.Numerics.Complex_Arrays" is a lot more readable than "CA", but I think we can all agree that typing "AdaNumericsComplexArrays_ComplexVector v = AdaNumericsComplexArrays_ComposeFromCartesian(arg1, arg2)" isn't what a sane man would find comfortable.
Yes, there is a possibility for clashes if someone chooses a string which is the same as yours but how often do people use outside classes other than the ones in the Cocoa frameworks?
Isn't that a bit chicken and egg? rather than "it's not a problem because people don't use it much", I'd argue that "people don't use it much because it's a problem". After all, using outside classes is very common in the Java and C# worlds, in spite of the fact that both languages come with very powerful frameworks out-of-the-box as well.
If that were the case they'd go the *other* way, include a solid scripting language or runtime by default and push the hell out of it over anything that compiles to an architecture-dependant binary.
You know, like Google does with Java on Android.
The poster boys for capitalism, Wall Street CEOs, are amongst the most loathed figures on the world scene today.
Right after the poster boys for socialism, the Chinese government. Which is about as socialist as the US is capitalist.
Next time, pick your strawmans better.
Just like Apple fanboys "re-crafting" information in order to try and make it as if Wozniak said Android was crap, you mean?
The zealots on both sides are pretty goddamned dishonest, as are zealots everywhere. Don't just put the blame only on one side, or you'll look like you belong to the opposite camp.
You know a lot of people have turned the price of a Mac and their $99 Developer Program expenses into a shit ton of cash.
Far less than the number of people who have turned the price of a Windows license and a MSDN subscription into a shit ton of cash, I assure you. After all, corporations pay a lot better than hipsters.
The fact that you chose my post to make that remark rather than its parent is telling ;)
Never, ever underestimate the zeal of The Beatles fanboys. Or music fanboys at all. Or, really, any kind of fanboy whatsoever.
In fact, I don't know that many Beatles fans (not being one myself), but I haven't known a single one who owns their albums on a single medium.
Who says you have to?
Dunno. Certainly not the OP.
You do know the whole reason The Beatles were so bloody popular at the time was because they were the first band to use "million dollar ad campaigns", right? they're the Ur Example of boy bands, for God's sake.
Ahh well, you don't have much to live anyways. You'll be brutally murdered the instant a musician close to you sees you comparing Mozart and The Beatles, and rightfully so.
There are very few significant tech companies that push open internet standards as much as Apple does.
Ehh... no. Sure they may make some PR mouthpieces advocating openness every once in a while, but then again so does everyone else, even Microsoft. Their actions, however, show a drastically different story altogether.
About the only large tech company seriously pushing for open standards right now is Google, and even that's not out of ethical reasons but simply the fact that they've got the most to lose from a closed 'net, particularly one controlled by Apple or Microsoft.
It's pretty much confirmed to be the Beatles' catalogue on iTunes.
I'm not able to install third-party apps on my microwave or my refrigerator either, why does Apple still allow it on their phones, then?
Answer that, and you'll have the answer as to why being able to run arbitrary code on your phone matters.
When they shook their iron fist at their own customers regarding DRM. Or when they shook their iron fist at the W3C over a Free vs patented technology for the Web. Though in the latter one they did manage to get a partial victory.
Yet stating that WebKit was 'put together' by Apple is akin to saying Ubuntu is built upon Red Hat's kernel, something no knowledgeable man would do.
And yet you continue to pay for software that's inextricably tied to the Intel x86 platform and Microsoft's monopoly.
Really, if you wanted to be paranoid you should've gone the whole way and demanded full source-code availability from your games, not just lack of online activation.
Anyone else see games pulled over time? I haven't. Half-life 2 came out in 2004 and I can still download and play it on any machine I'm logged into steam on
From Steam? I have, many times. They do, however, allow owners to download them whenever they want to wherever they want to just as with normal games, they just remove them from the store so new customers can't buy them.
Compare and contrast with GoG for instance, whose praises are sung by many of the anti-Steam crowd. Bought ToCA3 from them a few years back? sucks to be you, idio... *ehem* dear customer. Bought it from Steam? double click on it on your Games List, wait until it's finished downloading and off you go, you paid for it you get it and Codemasters' licensing issues be damned.
The only way to ensure you'll be able to play your game ten or fifteen years from now is to get the full source-code. Anything else is making a tradeoff between safety and diversity, it just so happens that other people hold a different criteria as to what the risks are.
No DRM on GOG software. I'm buying the damn game, not licensing it.
Really? try selling copies of it, then, you'll find quickly enough how much you've "bought".
If you can't tell, assume it's a joke. Innocent until proven otherwise and all that.