Let me guess. Your idea of a limitation for a Music Player is that it doesn't allow Wifi Skype to make phone calls?
No. My idea of 'limitation' is that I had to pay $0.99 for a metric-to-english calculator, whereas it would have been free on my Treo. I like the iPod, I'm sure I'd like an iPhone of my own, but I'm not looking forward to the blatant attempts to milk money out of me.
Our small startup was going to do iPhone apps with a nice chunk of funding from some venture capital types.
Android was a bit under the radar for awhile and the other people I am working with were caught up in the Apple marketing hype. But then more and more developer nightmare stories about dealing with Apple kept coming up. And these were above and beyond the absurd NDA crap and other secrecy Apple holds to with their product plans raised all sorts of alarms. Even the money guys were getting worried that they were going to dump all this cash into projects that were completely at the mercy and whim of Apple.
We were about to go out and waste money on expensive Macs for everyone - one of our guys was insisting on some 4 grand Mac laptop.
All those plans are now scrapped. We are all working on Android by simply downloading the free SDK and eclipse IDE and up and running on our own PCs. We don't have to waste time learning damn Objective-C that no one outside of the niche Mac dev community has any experience with and instead were able to jump right in with our existing Java skills.
The sky is the limit for Android. Solid technology base that is completely open. All the benefits of open source Linux without all the useless development and API fragmentation. The amount of interest from cellphone makers and people beyond the cellphone market in leveraging Android for their devices makes it clear that the huge amount of developer interest is just going to continue to grow rapidly.
Anything a user wants will be appearing on Android. It's so easy to modify for whatever end users need and desire.
Bye bye Apple and iPhone. Hello Android. Google really came through big time with this platform.
Okay. So how much more money are you going to make selling apps for Android over Apple? This is a serious question. For all of the nicities surrounding Android from a dev point of view, what are they doing to make your venture capitalists happy?
Could this possibly lead to my dream mobile phone? Could it? With the Android platform being open-source, I think it is just possible.
Um, no, actually it's going in the opposite direction. In fact, there's really no reason for you to be spouting that in this thread at all. Unless, of course, you're trying to recoup some lost karma points.;)
You aren't a fanboi. A fanboi is someone who follows someone or something without question and without financial compensation. You sound like someone who likes Apple's products. There is a difference.
This forum would be a lot less noisy if more people made that distinction. I, personally, would like to have an iPhone. I have an iPod Touch. It's great, its useful, its limitations suck but I can still get my value out of it. But... because I don't plan on leaving the country so I don't give a flying fuck about it being unlocked, I'm a 'fanboy'. Whatever.
If the masses don't know what DRM is then why do we have it?
It's real simple: The fatcats with Scrooge McDuckian money bins think you're going to go way out of your way to avoid fattening their wallets any further.
In this particular case, you're right, that shouldn't have been made redundant. That said, it's totally possible for a first post to be redundant. Here are a few examples:
"I just want a cell phone that only makes calls!"
"Does it run Linux?"
"Video game companies do this because you're all thieves!"
"...frickin shark!"
"George Lucas sucks."
"I hate the iPhone, so everybody else should too." ... and so on. There's a lot of repetitive noise here that doesn't become fresh just because it's in a different thread. This doesn't apply in your case, but it could a year from now when somebody carbon copies your post when another company has a policy like this.
Should "wassup" find itself in the dictionary, how will we sort the uneducated from the educated?
Considering that usage of a popular term has no relationship to the level of education that person has, you're facing that problem already. You're just going to have to find less shallow ways of judging people.
Why do I get the feeling that it's always the same pathetic loser madly hammering the refresh button just so he can make a post like this every single time?
Don't worry. Soon he'll find craig's list and won't want to solicit on Slashdot anymore.;)
While that may be the 'official' back-story, unless the Star Wars galaxy is much smaller than ours, that would be completely impossible. Going at light speed, it would take us about 5 years to get to the nearest star (Alpha Centuri). To cross the galaxy would be about 100,000 years. Nowhere near the few hours to a few days travel times as seen in the movies.
Well, we do know this:
1.) They use 'light speed' and variants of the term quite a bit in the original trilogy.
2.) Without a hyperdrive, they can still travel from planet to planet without being in transit so long they need to change clothes. (Possibly even system to system.)
3.) You can sit in an X-Wing for a while and go from Tatooine to Degobah without even needing a pit-stop. (Let alone a bunk to nap in.)
4.) A bunch of people were tied up in a net 30 feet (relative) off the ground and dropped, without so much as a broken bone.
The "small galaxy" theory actually nicely tidies up several of these problems, it even provides some motivation for the 'Force' to exist, if you get a little imaginitive anyway.
I've met resistance to this theory, though. It seems some of the fan-base just don't want to entertain any ideas that mean Starfleet could whip the Empire's ass. Personally I think it's a shame. If George had considered the size thing all along, I'd be impressed, even if he did rip it off from HitchHiker's.
Ding ding, the post-original movies explanation was that the run to kessel involves passing a cluster of supermassive blackholes where the goal to avoid detection as a smuggler was to trim the trip as close to the event horizon as possible without falling past the horizon.
The closer to the event horizon you go, the faster you need to be going to get out again, which requires a higher maximum velocity. Doing so in 12 parsecs is apparently a good indication of a fast ship.
*dorkhat off*
That's a lot of credit to give a guy who didn't seem to understand that a failed hyperdrive meant you weren't going to be going from planet to planet.
So the choice is to write down your favorite websites or use bookmarks to remember them?? How about just remembering them, that's what I do. When I want to go to one of my favorite sites, I just type the damn address in...
The only thing I use bookmarks for is those interesting sites you occasionally come across, and want to remember for later when you can use them. But every website I go to at least once a month or more, I just remember the url.
So, in short, that 'dumbing down' feature is useful to you.
Isn't it odd that you use this in defense of Microsoft in a discussion about an "article" that is nothing but a link to a bunch of people bitching about an Apple product?
Nope.
Wouldn't be weird if I said there were only 96 people in the world that are having this problem?
If anything, I would like to see Linux marketing towards the unwashed masses decline. Fewer idiots using Linux means less dumbing down, less time spent by the developers explaining basic usage, and more time actually improving the product. The end result then becomes better for those who don't need their hand held.
Making something intuitive or just making it work is not the same as dumbing it down. When Linux improves, you feel it to, even if you're so savvy you only use the 1 and 0 keys on the keyboard. Unless you'd prefer to have to write down your favorite websites instead of using bookmarks like us super intelligent people.
I think this attitude comes from the end of WWII where after seeing the evils that the Nazis did, with all the Germans just kinda letting it happen.
I think it's because people here use opinions to make themselves sound intelligent. "I wouldn't use the most popular product on the market. Instead, I'd use this one you've never heard of that's harder to use because it supports an obscure protocol that doesn't actually do me any good but the acronym sounds cool. Go back to your kiddie product."
But there are more people with no problems with Leopard than people with no problems with Vista.
How would you or anybody else know? The people with no problems don't bitch. The people who do bitch aren't necessarily even people with the product to have problems with. Noise on the internet != scientific statistical survey.
how the hell did I get redundant? I'm the first person to voice this (unpopular) view. Fuck I hate this site sometimes.
It's redundant because somebody says it in every thread. And, just like in your case, they never actually provide any facts to support their assumptions.
Well that and these industries have already proven they do it, not because people 'steal', but because they think they will. Look up Jack Valenti and Jack the Ripper some time.
Apple FUD on slashdot? Maybe the LHC is gearing up for armageddon after all.
Are you kidding? Ever since that line of people mysteriously turned up at an Apple Store, iPhone stories have become hate-fests on Slashdot. I'm not kidding. Somebody says they like the iPhone's web-browser and they're a 'fanboy'. But if somebody says the iPhone is 'useless', they're objective and rational.
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And you decided to spend the rest of your life with this woman, and mingle your genes with hers, and have her raise your children????
$5 says your wife asks the same question when you leave the toilet seat up.
Let me guess. Your idea of a limitation for a Music Player is that it doesn't allow Wifi Skype to make phone calls?
No. My idea of 'limitation' is that I had to pay $0.99 for a metric-to-english calculator, whereas it would have been free on my Treo. I like the iPod, I'm sure I'd like an iPhone of my own, but I'm not looking forward to the blatant attempts to milk money out of me.
Our small startup was going to do iPhone apps with a nice chunk of funding from some venture capital types.
Android was a bit under the radar for awhile and the other people I am working with were caught up in the Apple marketing hype. But then more and more developer nightmare stories about dealing with Apple kept coming up. And these were above and beyond the absurd NDA crap and other secrecy Apple holds to with their product plans raised all sorts of alarms. Even the money guys were getting worried that they were going to dump all this cash into projects that were completely at the mercy and whim of Apple.
We were about to go out and waste money on expensive Macs for everyone - one of our guys was insisting on some 4 grand Mac laptop.
All those plans are now scrapped. We are all working on Android by simply downloading the free SDK and eclipse IDE and up and running on our own PCs. We don't have to waste time learning damn Objective-C that no one outside of the niche Mac dev community has any experience with and instead were able to jump right in with our existing Java skills.
The sky is the limit for Android. Solid technology base that is completely open. All the benefits of open source Linux without all the useless development and API fragmentation. The amount of interest from cellphone makers and people beyond the cellphone market in leveraging Android for their devices makes it clear that the huge amount of developer interest is just going to continue to grow rapidly.
Anything a user wants will be appearing on Android. It's so easy to modify for whatever end users need and desire.
Bye bye Apple and iPhone. Hello Android. Google really came through big time with this platform.
Okay. So how much more money are you going to make selling apps for Android over Apple? This is a serious question. For all of the nicities surrounding Android from a dev point of view, what are they doing to make your venture capitalists happy?
Could this possibly lead to my dream mobile phone? Could it? With the Android platform being open-source, I think it is just possible.
Um, no, actually it's going in the opposite direction. In fact, there's really no reason for you to be spouting that in this thread at all. Unless, of course, you're trying to recoup some lost karma points. ;)
You aren't a fanboi. A fanboi is someone who follows someone or something without question and without financial compensation. You sound like someone who likes Apple's products. There is a difference.
This forum would be a lot less noisy if more people made that distinction. I, personally, would like to have an iPhone. I have an iPod Touch. It's great, its useful, its limitations suck but I can still get my value out of it. But... because I don't plan on leaving the country so I don't give a flying fuck about it being unlocked, I'm a 'fanboy'. Whatever.
If the masses don't know what DRM is then why do we have it?
It's real simple: The fatcats with Scrooge McDuckian money bins think you're going to go way out of your way to avoid fattening their wallets any further.
In 99% of cases, if you freak out and do stupid shit, it's cause you're weak, not because the workplace really is that bad.
It is a LOT easier for a burger flipper to say that than a cubicle dweller.
Flamebait? One of you dudes was offended by that? Pussy. :P
Can anyone say DRM?
Yeah, but the masses can't tell you what it stands for.
In 99% of cases, if you freak out and do stupid shit, it's cause you're weak, not because the workplace really is that bad.
It is a LOT easier for a burger flipper to say that than a cubicle dweller.
How can a first post be modded Redundant?
In this particular case, you're right, that shouldn't have been made redundant. That said, it's totally possible for a first post to be redundant. Here are a few examples:
"I just want a cell phone that only makes calls!"
"Does it run Linux?"
"Video game companies do this because you're all thieves!"
"...frickin shark!"
"George Lucas sucks."
"I hate the iPhone, so everybody else should too."
... and so on. There's a lot of repetitive noise here that doesn't become fresh just because it's in a different thread. This doesn't apply in your case, but it could a year from now when somebody carbon copies your post when another company has a policy like this.
That sounds like blatant libel.
Not until he drops his pants and produces a ruler!
I bet it was Omegatron!
Unlikely. That ride was removed from Worlds of Fun years ago. Unless it walked off... hmmm...
Should "wassup" find itself in the dictionary, how will we sort the uneducated from the educated?
Considering that usage of a popular term has no relationship to the level of education that person has, you're facing that problem already. You're just going to have to find less shallow ways of judging people.
Why do I get the feeling that it's always the same pathetic loser madly hammering the refresh button just so he can make a post like this every single time?
Don't worry. Soon he'll find craig's list and won't want to solicit on Slashdot anymore. ;)
While that may be the 'official' back-story, unless the Star Wars galaxy is much smaller than ours, that would be completely impossible. Going at light speed, it would take us about 5 years to get to the nearest star (Alpha Centuri). To cross the galaxy would be about 100,000 years. Nowhere near the few hours to a few days travel times as seen in the movies.
Well, we do know this:
1.) They use 'light speed' and variants of the term quite a bit in the original trilogy.
2.) Without a hyperdrive, they can still travel from planet to planet without being in transit so long they need to change clothes. (Possibly even system to system.)
3.) You can sit in an X-Wing for a while and go from Tatooine to Degobah without even needing a pit-stop. (Let alone a bunk to nap in.)
4.) A bunch of people were tied up in a net 30 feet (relative) off the ground and dropped, without so much as a broken bone.
The "small galaxy" theory actually nicely tidies up several of these problems, it even provides some motivation for the 'Force' to exist, if you get a little imaginitive anyway.
I've met resistance to this theory, though. It seems some of the fan-base just don't want to entertain any ideas that mean Starfleet could whip the Empire's ass. Personally I think it's a shame. If George had considered the size thing all along, I'd be impressed, even if he did rip it off from HitchHiker's.
*dorkhat*
Ding ding, the post-original movies explanation was that the run to kessel involves passing a cluster of supermassive blackholes where the goal to avoid detection as a smuggler was to trim the trip as close to the event horizon as possible without falling past the horizon.
The closer to the event horizon you go, the faster you need to be going to get out again, which requires a higher maximum velocity. Doing so in 12 parsecs is apparently a good indication of a fast ship.
*dorkhat off*
That's a lot of credit to give a guy who didn't seem to understand that a failed hyperdrive meant you weren't going to be going from planet to planet.
So the choice is to write down your favorite websites or use bookmarks to remember them?? How about just remembering them, that's what I do. When I want to go to one of my favorite sites, I just type the damn address in...
The only thing I use bookmarks for is those interesting sites you occasionally come across, and want to remember for later when you can use them. But every website I go to at least once a month or more, I just remember the url.
So, in short, that 'dumbing down' feature is useful to you.
Thank you. :)
Man, I agree with you on every single point.
Take care. :)
Isn't it odd that you use this in defense of Microsoft in a discussion about an "article" that is nothing but a link to a bunch of people bitching about an Apple product?
Nope.
Wouldn't be weird if I said there were only 96 people in the world that are having this problem?
If anything, I would like to see Linux marketing towards the unwashed masses decline. Fewer idiots using Linux means less dumbing down, less time spent by the developers explaining basic usage, and more time actually improving the product. The end result then becomes better for those who don't need their hand held.
Making something intuitive or just making it work is not the same as dumbing it down. When Linux improves, you feel it to, even if you're so savvy you only use the 1 and 0 keys on the keyboard. Unless you'd prefer to have to write down your favorite websites instead of using bookmarks like us super intelligent people.
eat my ass you homos
You're requesting a bunch of males intimately interact with your ass. Everybody else is the 'homo'?
I think this attitude comes from the end of WWII where after seeing the evils that the Nazis did, with all the Germans just kinda letting it happen.
I think it's because people here use opinions to make themselves sound intelligent. "I wouldn't use the most popular product on the market. Instead, I'd use this one you've never heard of that's harder to use because it supports an obscure protocol that doesn't actually do me any good but the acronym sounds cool. Go back to your kiddie product."
But there are more people with no problems with Leopard than people with no problems with Vista.
How would you or anybody else know? The people with no problems don't bitch. The people who do bitch aren't necessarily even people with the product to have problems with. Noise on the internet != scientific statistical survey.
how the hell did I get redundant? I'm the first person to voice this (unpopular) view. Fuck I hate this site sometimes.
It's redundant because somebody says it in every thread. And, just like in your case, they never actually provide any facts to support their assumptions.
Well that and these industries have already proven they do it, not because people 'steal', but because they think they will. Look up Jack Valenti and Jack the Ripper some time.
Apple FUD on slashdot? Maybe the LHC is gearing up for armageddon after all.
Are you kidding? Ever since that line of people mysteriously turned up at an Apple Store, iPhone stories have become hate-fests on Slashdot. I'm not kidding. Somebody says they like the iPhone's web-browser and they're a 'fanboy'. But if somebody says the iPhone is 'useless', they're objective and rational.
It has gotten rather obnoxious lately.