If you keep saying things like that here, Apple is gonna stop sponsoring (paying for) the apple.slashdot.org sub-domain. If that happens where will the iBots do their astroturfing?
Not that Apple should be expecting me any time soon, clutching the $99 in my hand:-)
It's more than the $99. You also need to own a fairly recent vintage Intel Macintosh to do the developing on.
The Android dev tools run on Windows, Linux, or Macintosh. There are also dev tools that run right on your Android Tablet and produce real SDK-derived apps.
True. But I have a metal license plate that is UNIX, too. The Open Group sells it because they are the owner of the UNIX trademark and they decide what can be called UNIX.
And OS X isn't Unix. Darwin is UNIX, and OS X is a GUI layer that runs on top of it. Like Windows used to run on top of MS-DOS back in the day.
Actually, Word was a contemporary of WordPerfect, not a copy. Lots of us used Microsoft Word for DOS. It went through 6 major versions before the Windows version.
Regarding Google and Chrome: I have started using an Andriod tablet. At first it made me nervous, because you are very "checked in" to the googleplex when using Chrome on an Android tablet. Everything is keyed to your Google Play account, and you're generaly logged in on your account when using the browser. Then I discovered Firefox for Android. Now it's almost the only browser I use on my Galaxy Tab.
adding new technology to the market earlier tends to improve end user productivity and satisfaction
You aren't seriously taking about the Big Automakers, are you?
The Model-Year paradigm that they exist within involves creating false new 'fashion' reasons for there to be a new model every year. The market is driven by marketing superficial cosmetic changes. The market is imperiled by innovative companies like Tesla coming into it.
Big Auto most assuredly does NOT add new technology quickly. They're controlled by the marketing fucks, not the engineers.
and were the undisputed industrial giants of the world.
America was also the last standing free industrialized economy after the end of WWII. It isn't surprisiing that we were 'undisputed giants.' The rest of the industrial world was in ruins and it took decades to rebuild.
Then let it go broke, like it did in 1934 and 1971.
There are too many leaches attached to the government teat. Can you really imagine what it would be like if the strident ranting fools in the Civil Service would be like if they were turned out of their offices and just set free to fend for themselves?
They wouldn't starve without taking everyone else down with them. This isn't Ukraine in the 1930's.
Oh, puhlease. Gore wraps himself up in a 'scientist robe' and pretends effectively enough to fool enough people to get a soapbox to stand on. That's it.
So your solution is to become even more fascistic and top-down controlled?
How disappointing. We don't need to become more like China to compete with China. Maybe you think that, but what does that make you?
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these don't have to be Shakespeares
That brings up an interesting point. I have a 'facsimile of the First Folio'* copy of Shakespeare's works in my library. Part of why I enjoy reading Shakespear in the first folio edition is the spelling. In Shakespeare's time there were no refined 'rules' for spelling in the modern sense. Words are spelled out the way they sound, with variants. Once you see Shakespeare printed that way you start to notice that the "silent e's" sometimes make the poetry work better if they're pronounced.
My point? Shakespeare possibly would get marks on his paper in a modern school for 'bad spelling.' The nattering pedants who fuss excessively about spelling are a modern phenomenon.
(* grab a Facsimile First Folio if you can get one. I am not sure that it's in print anymore. I bet Google has one, or part of one, online.)
When I was in college and after, I had the plastic version of the Minnesota Learner's permit. A valid form of ID for all purposes except driving without being practicing driving. I used it for many years as my ID. They don't issue you the plastic version until you've carried the paper version for a year. I was a nerd. I rode my bike and the bus everywhere I wanted to go until I got a drivers license when I was 23.
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You're nit-picking. Substitue 'USB Flash drive' like everybody else has.
Power, when exercised, doesn't get "used up".
Ah, but an empty suit, when opened up, drops to the ground.
If you keep saying things like that here, Apple is gonna stop sponsoring (paying for) the apple.slashdot.org sub-domain. If that happens where will the iBots do their astroturfing?
Why do I sense that the modded-down posts that I'm not seeing that you're responding to all read:
"Awk! I'm melting, I'm melting!"
Firefox is in the Google Play store. Also, Flash Player (which, in Firefox is disabled with click-to-play by default)
Don't bother looking in the iOS store for anything like that. The third-party browsers for iOS are by-design crippled.
Not that Apple should be expecting me any time soon, clutching the $99 in my hand :-)
It's more than the $99. You also need to own a fairly recent vintage Intel Macintosh to do the developing on.
The Android dev tools run on Windows, Linux, or Macintosh. There are also dev tools that run right on your Android Tablet and produce real SDK-derived apps.
True. But I have a metal license plate that is UNIX, too. The Open Group sells it because they are the owner of the UNIX trademark and they decide what can be called UNIX.
And OS X isn't Unix. Darwin is UNIX, and OS X is a GUI layer that runs on top of it. Like Windows used to run on top of MS-DOS back in the day.
Actually, Word was a contemporary of WordPerfect, not a copy. Lots of us used Microsoft Word for DOS. It went through 6 major versions before the Windows version.
A pendulum swings back and forth between Microsoft and Apple? It's still either/or??
For petes sake, it's not 1991. They are both increasingly less important players in the market.
Regarding Google and Chrome: I have started using an Andriod tablet. At first it made me nervous, because you are very "checked in" to the googleplex when using Chrome on an Android tablet. Everything is keyed to your Google Play account, and you're generaly logged in on your account when using the browser. Then I discovered Firefox for Android. Now it's almost the only browser I use on my Galaxy Tab.
adding new technology to the market earlier tends to improve end user productivity and satisfaction
You aren't seriously taking about the Big Automakers, are you?
The Model-Year paradigm that they exist within involves creating false new 'fashion' reasons for there to be a new model every year. The market is driven by marketing superficial cosmetic changes. The market is imperiled by innovative companies like Tesla coming into it.
Big Auto most assuredly does NOT add new technology quickly. They're controlled by the marketing fucks, not the engineers.
and were the undisputed industrial giants of the world.
America was also the last standing free industrialized economy after the end of WWII. It isn't surprisiing that we were 'undisputed giants.' The rest of the industrial world was in ruins and it took decades to rebuild.
Then let it go broke, like it did in 1934 and 1971.
There are too many leaches attached to the government teat. Can you really imagine what it would be like if the strident ranting fools in the Civil Service would be like if they were turned out of their offices and just set free to fend for themselves?
They wouldn't starve without taking everyone else down with them. This isn't Ukraine in the 1930's.
Gore is a scientist at heart,
Oh, puhlease. Gore wraps himself up in a 'scientist robe' and pretends effectively enough to fool enough people to get a soapbox to stand on. That's it.
So your solution is to become even more fascistic and top-down controlled?
How disappointing. We don't need to become more like China to compete with China. Maybe you think that, but what does that make you?
these don't have to be Shakespeares
That brings up an interesting point. I have a 'facsimile of the First Folio'* copy of Shakespeare's works in my library. Part of why I enjoy reading Shakespear in the first folio edition is the spelling. In Shakespeare's time there were no refined 'rules' for spelling in the modern sense. Words are spelled out the way they sound, with variants. Once you see Shakespeare printed that way you start to notice that the "silent e's" sometimes make the poetry work better if they're pronounced.
My point? Shakespeare possibly would get marks on his paper in a modern school for 'bad spelling.' The nattering pedants who fuss excessively about spelling are a modern phenomenon.
(* grab a Facsimile First Folio if you can get one. I am not sure that it's in print anymore. I bet Google has one, or part of one, online.)
They were told to 'stand down' not to 'take what time you need to get there as fast as possible.'
Note that I'm not defending the Obama administration's actions in any way.
Actually, you're 'treading water' in a big tank full of Obama's shit. It's kinda fun watching your head bob in and out.
Ask Julian Assange about how much that matters.
Hopefully we'll get to, eventually. It won't be the most important question asked, of course.
It didn't work out very well for Joe Paterno.
He was scheduled to testify before Congress as the Director of the CIA regarding the Benghazi attacks a few days from now.
Falling on his sword?
(I vote for Biden to become president in 2013, btw.)
When I was in college and after, I had the plastic version of the Minnesota Learner's permit. A valid form of ID for all purposes except driving without being practicing driving. I used it for many years as my ID. They don't issue you the plastic version until you've carried the paper version for a year. I was a nerd. I rode my bike and the bus everywhere I wanted to go until I got a drivers license when I was 23.
Nixon won in 1972. Watergate was an issue before and after the election.
Obama won in 2012. Benghazi is an issue before and after the election.
Those books are expensive. And they don't have nearly enough screen shots. Where's the 'OK' button to click?
I have a rack-mount Tektronix Oscilloscope. It's all vacuum tube.
Don't wee all over yourself thinking about that.