Would you use a cell phone OS made by an advertising company? I only have a lowly call-and-text phone, but if I were buying a smartphone I'd avoid Android like the plague. I don't care how open their app development is; I want to know they're not mining my text messages and emails....
The entire OS source is open, so you're free to flip through and find out exactly what sort of mining might be baked into the device.
But the platform is pretty irrelevant in this case. All your transmissions are being forwarded via your carrier. What makes you think your current carrier isn't mining your text messages and emails?
>Of course, if you buy Android you'll be using the extremely standards-compliant WebKit engine Apple put together
Err, webkit is a fork of KHTML, which Apple forked in 2002 and rebadged "webkit." Thank the KDE guys who wrote KHTML under a license that allows such things.
Wait.... are you against the forking of open source projects?
Seems like there could be some solution...staring me right in the face...I dunno....maybe no DRM....but nahhh. That's just crazy...
Your brilliant solution would also involve not having any proprietary movies or TV shows available to stream, because the copywrite owners would refuse to allow it.
But hey, Netflix is great even without proprietary content, right?
I wonder why/. does not have a section on economics...
We could point out stories that appear on front pages of various portals and news sites and discuss what really is going on behind the title on them, just like the title I linked to:
Stocks Rise on Renewed Hope for Fed Action
- which sounds as if it is a positive for the economy that stocks rise on 'Hope for Fed Action', when in reality, those who understand can tell you that "Fed Action" means more money printing/borrowing, which implies more inflation and debt, so rising stocks (and rising gold) in this situation means that there is an expectation of yet more inflation, so stocks will go up in nominal terms, but all US holdings will lose more purchasing power.
Isn't/. 'news for nerds' and isn't economy yet another 'nerdy' subject?
And of course, people that know things could point out that since we're falling into a deflationary spiral, money printing is actually an attempt to stabilize inflation at its historic 2%, permitting job growth and preventing a Japan-like lost decade (currently 10-year expectations are down to 1%, which increases the expected real burden of pre-crash debts and in turn creates a money shortage and severe job losses). I could provide links but you could also just go find a macroeconomics textbook and look up 'disinflation' and 'great depression'.
I really don't need to hear the misinformed opinions of slashdotters that think they know things about economics, thx.
Delays in the implementation, immature software, eaten employees...
For what it's worth, "gefressen" does mean devoured, but "angefressene" just means something more like 'flustered'. Even Germans argue about the exact definition though, so who knows.
What's easier: getting your openID taken down? Or changing all the passwords to sites that you gave the same or similar password to, everywhere on the internet?
I don't even have a list of all the sites I've given my crap password to. But if they were all authenticated with openID, I would only have one problem to fix.
You may be right technically, but in the long run, oil competes with all other energy sources. The reason we drive around in gasoline-consuming cars is because it's more efficient to carry around gasoline as an energy source than juiced-up batteries or hydrogen derived from electricity from the grid. If electricity became very cheap to generate thanks to solar power, and oil became more expensive due to scarcity, it would make more sense to use fuel cells or batteries as the power storage medium, obviating the need for oil as an energy source in most cases (although of course it will still be important for plastics).
I'm on TMo and my plan is unlimited. I never switch on my Wifi card, ever. I don't observe any speed difference when I do, and I have no financial incentive. I bet Verizon is the same way. I should mention I live in NYC where 'free wifi' is pretty much unheard of anywhere where you would actually want to use it.
It sounds to me like what you're actually saying is that AT&T's plans and network are so crappy you don't even use them.
City dwellers and suburbanites might not realize this, but there's still a whole lot of people who live out in the country and small rural towns where the population density isn't high enough for UPS, FedEx and broadband to be profitable enough to serve these citizens.
Small rural towns could just contract out to Fedex to make deliveries, I'm sure there's a price they would accept to do it. We live in a capitalist society and that generally means that enough money will buy anything. I'm sure private industry could serve small towns more effectively and at lower expense than a bureaucratic dinosaur like the USPS can, and we as a country are already paying USPS to do it. So it's not really a matter of small towns not being able to get service. It's a matter of small towns wanting the rest of the country to pay for that service.
And as someone who lives in the 'rest of the country', I don't really see why, if small towns want something, they shouldn't have to pay for it. (Disclaimer, I have no use for first class mail and don't even want to subsidize my own, much less anybody else's).
Furthermore, as if it weren't wrong enough already, Socrates was not executed for heresy but for corruption of youth.
Did you not check any sources when you wrote this?
Reading from the original text (Plato's Apology):
"Socrates is an evil-doer and corrupter of the youth, who does not receive the gods whom the state receives, but introduces other new divinities."
Just tried a bunch of UAs, and your'e right they are UA sniffing, only letting webkit through I guess.
This is really just even more damning though: they're sniffing UAs, and they sniff a different set of UAs when they think you're a dev than when they think you're a consumer.
It would be nice if they were this well-meaning, but they're not. Actually they do have a version of the same showcase that doesn't do a browser check: in the developer's page.
This is the showcase that checks your browser: http://www.apple.com/html5/
On that same page, scroll down and click on "Developers: Learn how to do it yourself," which I'm surprised no slashdotters have clicked on yet. It brings you to a new version of the gallery: http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/
Which is exactly the same, except it works on Google Chrome, and presumably any standards-compliant browser. My bet is, it actually does feature-sniffing, although I haven't checked (everything works fine in Chrome).
The message is clear: Are you a consumer? If so, Apple has the world's best browser which does all kinds of fancy stuff your browser doesn't.
...Oh wait, you mean you're a developer? Oh actually just kidding this is all standards compliant, any browser can do this stuff, how great is that?
There must be some strange use of the word "largest" that I don't understand
Largest as in "Largest currently existing" not "largest ever." For example, I can safely say that Great White sharks are the largest sharks, despite this.
The only reason why the iPhone, a case of convergence, was so successful was what he called the "pocket exception" - things that go in your pocket converge with each other..."And that's why everyone hates the iPad."
Um, no.
The personal computer is a stereo, a TV, a typewriter, a calculator, and serves infinite other random functions. But I mean, who would want one of those? Oh sorry I guess you keep yours in your pocket.
In their defense, they are in the midst of overhauling their mobile platform, and Windows Mobile 7 looks like it is going to be very awesome. Maybe this just shows how young I am, but I think this Gizmodo article might just be the most gushing preview of a Microsoft product I've ever seen from an independent source.
Also guys, "News for nerds, stuff that matters"? I think this is two of those words at best. But here I am commenting. Oh sigh...
Heavy. No e-ink (with a nod to Zoidbot above, I like my eyes, thanks). Terrible battery life.
From what I can tell, the e-reader options out there right now are pretty terrible. But it's silly to suggest that there's not a niche for such a thing. I can tell reading papers is not in your job description.
What's that sonny? Don't know anything about economics but love taking random facts out of context? Have a self-righteous tone? Sound vaguely like Ron Paul? Post it over on slashdot they love that there!
Mod parent up!
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Would you use a cell phone OS made by an advertising company? I only have a lowly call-and-text phone, but if I were buying a smartphone I'd avoid Android like the plague. I don't care how open their app development is; I want to know they're not mining my text messages and emails....
The entire OS source is open, so you're free to flip through and find out exactly what sort of mining might be baked into the device. But the platform is pretty irrelevant in this case. All your transmissions are being forwarded via your carrier. What makes you think your current carrier isn't mining your text messages and emails?
>Of course, if you buy Android you'll be using the extremely standards-compliant WebKit engine Apple put together
Err, webkit is a fork of KHTML, which Apple forked in 2002 and rebadged "webkit." Thank the KDE guys who wrote KHTML under a license that allows such things.
Wait.... are you against the forking of open source projects?
One word: iTunes. Nobody is sulking.
Seems like there could be some solution...staring me right in the face...I dunno....maybe no DRM....but nahhh. That's just crazy...
Your brilliant solution would also involve not having any proprietary movies or TV shows available to stream, because the copywrite owners would refuse to allow it.
But hey, Netflix is great even without proprietary content, right?
Dear slashdot, is my point made? Does anybody want this?
I wonder why /. does not have a section on economics...
We could point out stories that appear on front pages of various portals and news sites and discuss what really is going on behind the title on them, just like the title I linked to:
Stocks Rise on Renewed Hope for Fed Action
- which sounds as if it is a positive for the economy that stocks rise on 'Hope for Fed Action', when in reality, those who understand can tell you that "Fed Action" means more money printing/borrowing, which implies more inflation and debt, so rising stocks (and rising gold) in this situation means that there is an expectation of yet more inflation, so stocks will go up in nominal terms, but all US holdings will lose more purchasing power.
Isn't /. 'news for nerds' and isn't economy yet another 'nerdy' subject?
And of course, people that know things could point out that since we're falling into a deflationary spiral, money printing is actually an attempt to stabilize inflation at its historic 2%, permitting job growth and preventing a Japan-like lost decade (currently 10-year expectations are down to 1%, which increases the expected real burden of pre-crash debts and in turn creates a money shortage and severe job losses). I could provide links but you could also just go find a macroeconomics textbook and look up 'disinflation' and 'great depression'.
I really don't need to hear the misinformed opinions of slashdotters that think they know things about economics, thx.
Delays in the implementation, immature software, eaten employees...
For what it's worth, "gefressen" does mean devoured, but "angefressene" just means something more like 'flustered'. Even Germans argue about the exact definition though, so who knows.
What's easier: getting your openID taken down? Or changing all the passwords to sites that you gave the same or similar password to, everywhere on the internet?
I don't even have a list of all the sites I've given my crap password to. But if they were all authenticated with openID, I would only have one problem to fix.
But if Google wanted to use Java in a different way they should create their own derivative like Microsoft did with C#.
They did create their own derivative. It's called Dalvik.
You may be right technically, but in the long run, oil competes with all other energy sources. The reason we drive around in gasoline-consuming cars is because it's more efficient to carry around gasoline as an energy source than juiced-up batteries or hydrogen derived from electricity from the grid. If electricity became very cheap to generate thanks to solar power, and oil became more expensive due to scarcity, it would make more sense to use fuel cells or batteries as the power storage medium, obviating the need for oil as an energy source in most cases (although of course it will still be important for plastics).
I'm on TMo and my plan is unlimited. I never switch on my Wifi card, ever. I don't observe any speed difference when I do, and I have no financial incentive. I bet Verizon is the same way. I should mention I live in NYC where 'free wifi' is pretty much unheard of anywhere where you would actually want to use it.
It sounds to me like what you're actually saying is that AT&T's plans and network are so crappy you don't even use them.
City dwellers and suburbanites might not realize this, but there's still a whole lot of people who live out in the country and small rural towns where the population density isn't high enough for UPS, FedEx and broadband to be profitable enough to serve these citizens.
Small rural towns could just contract out to Fedex to make deliveries, I'm sure there's a price they would accept to do it. We live in a capitalist society and that generally means that enough money will buy anything. I'm sure private industry could serve small towns more effectively and at lower expense than a bureaucratic dinosaur like the USPS can, and we as a country are already paying USPS to do it. So it's not really a matter of small towns not being able to get service. It's a matter of small towns wanting the rest of the country to pay for that service.
And as someone who lives in the 'rest of the country', I don't really see why, if small towns want something, they shouldn't have to pay for it. (Disclaimer, I have no use for first class mail and don't even want to subsidize my own, much less anybody else's).
Furthermore, as if it weren't wrong enough already, Socrates was not executed for heresy but for corruption of youth.
Did you not check any sources when you wrote this?
Reading from the original text (Plato's Apology): "Socrates is an evil-doer and corrupter of the youth, who does not receive the gods whom the state receives, but introduces other new divinities."
This sounds a lot like heresy to me...
I have a monitor and a keyboard and moues at my desk at work. I plug them into my laptop when I come in. If I want power, I use a server.
No desktop machine is involved.
This is really just even more damning though: they're sniffing UAs, and they sniff a different set of UAs when they think you're a dev than when they think you're a consumer.
This is the showcase that checks your browser:
http://www.apple.com/html5/
On that same page, scroll down and click on "Developers: Learn how to do it yourself," which I'm surprised no slashdotters have clicked on yet. It brings you to a new version of the gallery:
http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/
Which is exactly the same, except it works on Google Chrome, and presumably any standards-compliant browser. My bet is, it actually does feature-sniffing, although I haven't checked (everything works fine in Chrome).
The message is clear: Are you a consumer? If so, Apple has the world's best browser which does all kinds of fancy stuff your browser doesn't.
...Oh wait, you mean you're a developer? Oh actually just kidding this is all standards compliant, any browser can do this stuff, how great is that?
There must be some strange use of the word "largest" that I don't understand
Largest as in "Largest currently existing" not "largest ever." For example, I can safely say that Great White sharks are the largest sharks, despite this.
I think they meant the largest currently existing airship; the article explicitly mentions that the Hindenburg was much larger.
I'm betting humanzee.
The only reason why the iPhone, a case of convergence, was so successful was what he called the "pocket exception" - things that go in your pocket converge with each other..."And that's why everyone hates the iPad."
Um, no.
The personal computer is a stereo, a TV, a typewriter, a calculator, and serves infinite other random functions. But I mean, who would want one of those? Oh sorry I guess you keep yours in your pocket.
Also guys, "News for nerds, stuff that matters"? I think this is two of those words at best. But here I am commenting. Oh sigh...
Heavy. No e-ink (with a nod to Zoidbot above, I like my eyes, thanks). Terrible battery life. From what I can tell, the e-reader options out there right now are pretty terrible. But it's silly to suggest that there's not a niche for such a thing. I can tell reading papers is not in your job description.
The notion of evolving males is not silly.
Silly or not, the headline of this article is deceptive.
What's that sonny? Don't know anything about economics but love taking random facts out of context? Have a self-righteous tone? Sound vaguely like Ron Paul? Post it over on slashdot they love that there! Mod parent up!
You mean something like this phone?