If you can't innovate litigate it's the Microsoft way. It's just more proof of how quickly they are losing relevance in the markets where the actual growth is.
This is FUD pure and simple and Oracle and or Microsoft probably paid the writer for it.
It's simple really is Linus or the kernel hackers making a copyright claim here? Is the free software foundation or EFF leading a challenge against this Bionic library? No of course not. However Oracle is making a patent claim against Google and Microsoft wouldn't mind if they got tied up in court. So chances are that is exactly where these claims come from.
Same dirty tricks from the same scurrilous players nothing to see here.
Actually there is a limit to the job creation capability of any economy . Here's the harsh reality whilst you continue to automate people out of a job management is also busy outsourcing a great many other jobs. This is fine as long as the economy itself creates new jobs to replace the old ones that were automated or outsourced. So for example the last two decades were buoyed by jobs created in IT and Internet related jobs. The Internet was an innovation that created whole multi billion dollar multinationals in short order and millions of jobs as well.
The problem lies with where we are now. We are in a global recession so our economy is not creating very many new jobs. And also there is no major innovation wave like the popularization of the Internet taking place either. And yet jobs are still being automated and outsourced and at a pace thats higher than ever. Which is why we have high unemployment and it's not changing.
Here's the part that's really bad instead of unemployment going down all indicators are that it's going to go up. Unless the global economy picks up a full head of steam or their is some new major innovation capable of creating the millions jobs necessary to offset the number of job losses plus some for job growth and population growth. In short the job prospects for Americans look particularly bleak and it is well time we start considering our actions relating to those job losses. It's not even about being ethical it's about being practical about the future of your own Country. State, Locality, Community, neighborhood. In short we are screwed so it would seem so circling the wagons is apropos.
It's not wrong to want to look out for your neighbors first. You should look after your fellow countrymen first. You can see that is exactly what the Chinese are doing by forcing American companies to partner with local Chinese companies and share whatever technology with them so they can create internal capability. And they also do this by favoring Chinese companies for whatever contracts they may give out as does our government favor American companies. This is shrewd national level planning for global competitiveness.
Americans better wake up and realize we are not running a charity here we are in a global competition with these countries and if we do not try to maintain jobs here in America ~10% unemployment won't last it will go much higher.
Sorry but I don't owe the Indians my job certainly my neighbor comes first if I get to make the decision. Naturally I would expect them to take the same approach for their neighbors should they get to decide.
How about you prove your horse shit statement you got any signed affidavits from the likes of Microsoft saying they won't sue some open source project that implements H.264 if they get too big and threaten a cash cow for them? I seriously doubt it you basically pulled that statement out of your ass. There just a bunch of laid back pragmatists according to you while all of reality such as SCO vs. Novell and every other thing Microsoft has done to kill competition points to exactly the opposite. Apple is probably even worse than Microsoft historically they sue for far far less. You even get super excited about one of their products post some leaked pics on your blog they will sue you... give me a break! See below for proof of Microsoft's dirty tricks.
Is that even the default? no you are asked to choose on first startup which search engine to use and might I add that choice is far more straight forward than the convoluted way MS implemented the choice on IE as a pop under tab.
No one pays anything to use chrome and further chromium is completely open source. Quit trying to equate Google that genrally does good things with cartels like MPEG-LA that's just rubbish.
Don't forget a lot of people hate Microsoft generally for being douches. Don't really care how good Bing has gotten will never ever use it. Microsoft is a terrible company and would just as soon see them go bankrupt. What goes around come around.
That's exactly what pro mode is in RB 3. I play with the Fender mustang pro midi controller in pro mode on RB 3. There are lessons that show you how to play. There are different difficulty songs for you to work through.
There are high scores, stars your performance is rated, you also have achievements, your friends pro scores show up for you to try and beat. I also play real guitar and when you play a song in RB3 in pro mode on expert you are playing the song note for note but it also scales down so on easy you are playing a simplified version of the song to get you started. It is exactly what you just described.
The problem is that the Fender mustang pro controller which has over 100 buttons is cool and allows you to play pro mode, but it's not quite a real guitar it has buttons not strings. Right now everyone is waiting for the Fender Squire that is coming out for RB3 in March which is a real 6 string guitar that is built for RB3.
And the other thing is a lot of people like me already have kick ass guitars that they would love to use with RB3. For example I have a very nice Les Paul custom I would love to use with RB 3. The problem there is every way to currently do it is super expensive Roland GR20 or GI20 with GK3 pickup is like 900 bucks just for the midi pieces so is this guys Axon AX100, Roland GK3 solution. Cool if you already have that gear but I can't see spending almost a grand just to use my guitar with RB3. I will wait for the Fender Squire for RB3 unless somebody comes out with a cheaper alternative. Roland you paying attention?
People on Slashdot don't get it at all you really believe in some Pollyanna ideal that people in the world love each other. With someone like North Korea it is kill or be killed show no mercy because they will certainly show you no quarter. If you don't understand that there are people out there still brutish and uncivilized then you are very naive. And hopefully someone so naive is not in charge when that time comes.
One could argue that we are still uncivilized and brutish and that is to some degree true because that is how the world STILL works you must protect you and yours or others WILL take it from you and have their way with it.
Dude you live in a fantasy land all of those facts were very well known. The Pakistanis knew their government was complicit in the drone strikes they said as much on the street and with suicide bombs in protest. And the Afghanis knew all too well that there government was corrupt since they were the ones that had to pay the bribes. What fairy planet with unicorns do you live on? So thanks for playing but you have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
If anything the only real revelation was that we were doing the bombing for the Yemeni government and they were taking the credit for it. And how does that help democracy since that only provides propaganda for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which are Islamic extremists?
Lot's of companies are mutli-national how is that relevant? They are America companies born of American invention so suck it. Ford is not almost bankrupt. And what are you even doing here with such disdain for us. Why would you bother just stick to eurotrash.com. See my basic point is we don't need you and won't miss you. Fuck right off douche.
Wow you just exposed yourself as an Idiot. Apparently you are not familiar with America? Have you not heard of Google, Facebook, Hollywood, Boeing, Ford, Yahoo, Apple, Amazon, Hewlett Packard, Exxon, Valero,
America is the largest market money wise in the world. Do you think the Chinese and Indians are buying BMWs and Mercedes? Really?
You clearly don't understand what I mean so let me give a clear concrete example. I was considering buying a BMW for my next car I am no longer considering such a move. In other words I will no longer do business with countries that show little respect for ours. That's the price for your anti Americanism.
If America were to show the same disrespect for France or Germany I would expect the same in kind. In other words your actions don't happen in a vacuum there will be consequence. And the consequence will be the US not being predisposed to doing business with or liking your country much.
What monopoly? You don't even know what that means do you? Are you saying Google is abusing monopoly power that they don't even have by burying a site the was some 80% duplicate content. Basically a vertical search landing site that adds no real value and is an SEO spam site? Really is that what you are saying?
1. Don't be a pedant and grammar Nazi 2. Suck my balls
Hey man no one said it was the ONLY great country so don't put words in my mouth. If you don't like the USA you are free to go live in one of those other great countries you mentioned trust me we won't miss you.
And if you are already in on of those other countries then enjoy your life and please stay out of the USA if you don't mind. I happen to LOVE my country even if it's not perfect and if you come here on one of our bulletin boards to talk shit about our country then prepared to be told to eat shit.
Knew about what exactly? What was in there we didn't all already know? That the King of Saudi Arabia wants us to bomb Iran? That Germany is basically fucking nuts? What exactly put the US in to a bad light?
Feel free to be anti-American just don't expect us to give a shit about you and yours in the future. In other words feel free to go fuck yourselves if your going to be anti-American douches. Don't expect that we sit idly by and do nothing about it either. There will be a comeuppance.
Then your ignorant of your own nation and it's opportunities. People still come here from those first world countries for better opportunities here. Because in many of those countries class and station determine more about who you end up being rather than merit which is why they come here to participate in what is essentially a meritocracy without so much of the old world baggage. You must be a sad and bitter person that dislikes themselves to dislike your country so much. When said country IS one of the greatest countries ever conceived and executed even despite it's gaffs and flaws.
Governments are elected to act in the interest of their people which the American government does and I am glad for that. Additionally so do the european governments. Here's the rub though when europe in particular continues to act against American interests. Like in the case of going after Google. Or in the case of assuming when Obama extended an olive branch to the Iranians that he was simply doing so for commercial gain. Then europe should really expect much at all from America in the future in other words feel free to go fuck yourselves we never did and certainly don't now owe anyone in the world anything. What comes around goes around and all this anti Americanism has it's price as well. Seriously with friends like europe who needs enemies you can't expect their won't be a fallout over such behavior.
Well I see two sides to this. On the one hand the fact that MS treats the internal memory and SD card as one volume is pretty cool. I hate that my nexus one has only 512 MB internal flash I mean whats 4gb of flash cost HTC these days like $5.00 or probably even less. But that limitation would not matter if it treated it with the SD card as one big pool.
However writing a security code to the card such that it can't be formatted on any other device just seems nucking futz crazy draconian MS lockdown.
Hey Google if your paying attention make raid storage volumes like this an OPTION in android. Just don't permanently fuxor the card to do it that would be win win.
This whole premise is flawed a true monopoly of information in the traditional sense is not really happening on the Internet as far as I can tell. Sure the vast majority of people see Facebook as the Ineternet and spend entirely too much time on there posting inane updates, doing inane quizzes and playing terrible web games. However that does not stop Slashdot, Reddit or Penny Arcade or xckcd or hack a day or cnczone from existng and doing just fine for people that want or have a thought rattling around between their ears. The cost of entry is not high in fact with tech like Amazon ec2 it's stupid low at this point. Anyone can start a web site and make money it's just most people suck at it (me included).
They used to say the same about the JVM I.E. that it would never be fast enough. And also fast enough for what? If you really need speed you can easily make calls to c for the stuff that really needs to be tight.
Your buying in to Suns marketing terms Java was and essentially interpreted the JVM takes the byte code and runs it as does Python, PERL, Ruby, Parrot and other VMs they all fundamentally work the same. Is the JVM more advanced at this point than say Python's VM or Parrot? Yes but thats not really the point. If the same effort was put in to Python or Ruby or Parrot or other VMs then they too could be made to function similarly to Javas JVM. So when Java came out was it's VM in the state it's in now of course not they didn't have JIT and such at first. Was that reason not to use it?? No it was a huge step forward from straight C++ in many repsects. Could Python or PERL or Ruby or take your pick be made to do JIT? I think the answer is yes we just need to move that direction and get companies like Google and IBM helping out. Is Python or Ruby a step forward from Java syntactically? I think so.
Sunk cost is sunk cost sticking with Java simply because it already exists and is mature even though it's owned by Oracle and they are litigious and even though there are more elegant languages developed between now and the mid 90s is short sighted.
Bottom line if you like Java knock yourself out but your are doing yourself a huge disservice not to explore some of the newer languages out there just for the sake of sticking with what you know.
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If you can't innovate litigate it's the Microsoft way. It's just more proof of how quickly they are losing relevance in the markets where the actual growth is.
This is FUD pure and simple and Oracle and or Microsoft probably paid the writer for it.
It's simple really is Linus or the kernel hackers making a copyright claim here? Is the free software foundation or EFF leading a challenge against this Bionic library? No of course not. However Oracle is making a patent claim against Google and Microsoft wouldn't mind if they got tied up in court. So chances are that is exactly where these claims come from.
Same dirty tricks from the same scurrilous players nothing to see here.
Nuclear fission powered trains then? Yeah lets do it!
Actually there is a limit to the job creation capability of any economy . Here's the harsh reality whilst you continue to automate people out of a job management is also busy outsourcing a great many other jobs. This is fine as long as the economy itself creates new jobs to replace the old ones that were automated or outsourced. So for example the last two decades were buoyed by jobs created in IT and Internet related jobs. The Internet was an innovation that created whole multi billion dollar multinationals in short order and millions of jobs as well.
The problem lies with where we are now. We are in a global recession so our economy is not creating very many new jobs. And also there is no major innovation wave like the popularization of the Internet taking place either. And yet jobs are still being automated and outsourced and at a pace thats higher than ever. Which is why we have high unemployment and it's not changing.
Here's the part that's really bad instead of unemployment going down all indicators are that it's going to go up. Unless the global economy picks up a full head of steam or their is some new major innovation capable of creating the millions jobs necessary to offset the number of job losses plus some for job growth and population growth. In short the job prospects for Americans look particularly bleak and it is well time we start considering our actions relating to those job losses. It's not even about being ethical it's about being practical about the future of your own Country. State, Locality, Community, neighborhood. In short we are screwed so it would seem so circling the wagons is apropos.
It's not wrong to want to look out for your neighbors first. You should look after your fellow countrymen first. You can see that is exactly what the Chinese are doing by forcing American companies to partner with local Chinese companies and share whatever technology with them so they can create internal capability. And they also do this by favoring Chinese companies for whatever contracts they may give out as does our government favor American companies. This is shrewd national level planning for global competitiveness.
Americans better wake up and realize we are not running a charity here we are in a global competition with these countries and if we do not try to maintain jobs here in America ~10% unemployment won't last it will go much higher.
Sorry but I don't owe the Indians my job certainly my neighbor comes first if I get to make the decision. Naturally I would expect them to take the same approach for their neighbors should they get to decide.
How about you prove your horse shit statement you got any signed affidavits from the likes of Microsoft saying they won't sue some open source project that implements H.264 if they get too big and threaten a cash cow for them? I seriously doubt it you basically pulled that statement out of your ass. There just a bunch of laid back pragmatists according to you while all of reality such as SCO vs. Novell and every other thing Microsoft has done to kill competition points to exactly the opposite. Apple is probably even worse than Microsoft historically they sue for far far less. You even get super excited about one of their products post some leaked pics on your blog they will sue you... give me a break! See below for proof of Microsoft's dirty tricks.
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf
Rubbish
What did you pay for chrome? Nothing
Are you forced to use google search? No
Is that even the default? no you are asked to choose on first startup which search engine to use and might I add that choice is far more straight forward than the convoluted way MS implemented the choice on IE as a pop under tab.
No one pays anything to use chrome and further chromium is completely open source. Quit trying to equate Google that genrally does good things with cartels like MPEG-LA that's just rubbish.
Don't forget a lot of people hate Microsoft generally for being douches. Don't really care how good Bing has gotten will never ever use it. Microsoft is a terrible company and would just as soon see them go bankrupt. What goes around come around.
That's exactly what pro mode is in RB 3. I play with the Fender mustang pro midi controller in pro mode on RB 3. There are lessons that show you how to play. There are different difficulty songs for you to work through.
There are high scores, stars your performance is rated, you also have achievements, your friends pro scores show up for you to try and beat. I also play real guitar and when you play a song in RB3 in pro mode on expert you are playing the song note for note but it also scales down so on easy you are playing a simplified version of the song to get you started. It is exactly what you just described.
The problem is that the Fender mustang pro controller which has over 100 buttons is cool and allows you to play pro mode, but it's not quite a real guitar it has buttons not strings. Right now everyone is waiting for the Fender Squire that is coming out for RB3 in March which is a real 6 string guitar that is built for RB3.
And the other thing is a lot of people like me already have kick ass guitars that they would love to use with RB3. For example I have a very nice Les Paul custom I would love to use with RB 3. The problem there is every way to currently do it is super expensive Roland GR20 or GI20 with GK3 pickup is like 900 bucks just for the midi pieces so is this guys Axon AX100, Roland GK3 solution. Cool if you already have that gear but I can't see spending almost a grand just to use my guitar with RB3. I will wait for the Fender Squire for RB3 unless somebody comes out with a cheaper alternative. Roland you paying attention?
People on Slashdot don't get it at all you really believe in some Pollyanna ideal that people in the world love each other. With someone like North Korea it is kill or be killed show no mercy because they will certainly show you no quarter. If you don't understand that there are people out there still brutish and uncivilized then you are very naive. And hopefully someone so naive is not in charge when that time comes.
One could argue that we are still uncivilized and brutish and that is to some degree true because that is how the world STILL works you must protect you and yours or others WILL take it from you and have their way with it.
Power talks and UN resolutions do squat.
Dude you live in a fantasy land all of those facts were very well known. The Pakistanis knew their government was complicit in the drone strikes they said as much on the street and with suicide bombs in protest. And the Afghanis knew all too well that there government was corrupt since they were the ones that had to pay the bribes. What fairy planet with unicorns do you live on? So thanks for playing but you have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
If anything the only real revelation was that we were doing the bombing for the Yemeni government and they were taking the credit for it. And how does that help democracy since that only provides propaganda for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which are Islamic extremists?
Lot's of companies are mutli-national how is that relevant? They are America companies born of American invention so suck it. Ford is not almost bankrupt. And what are you even doing here with such disdain for us. Why would you bother just stick to eurotrash.com. See my basic point is we don't need you and won't miss you. Fuck right off douche.
Wow you just exposed yourself as an Idiot. Apparently you are not familiar with America? Have you not heard of Google, Facebook, Hollywood, Boeing, Ford, Yahoo, Apple, Amazon, Hewlett Packard, Exxon, Valero,
America is the largest market money wise in the world. Do you think the Chinese and Indians are buying BMWs and Mercedes? Really?
http://www.economywatch.com/economies-in-top/
You clearly don't understand what I mean so let me give a clear concrete example. I was considering buying a BMW for my next car I am no longer considering such a move. In other words I will no longer do business with countries that show little respect for ours. That's the price for your anti Americanism.
If America were to show the same disrespect for France or Germany I would expect the same in kind. In other words your actions don't happen in a vacuum there will be consequence. And the consequence will be the US not being predisposed to doing business with or liking your country much.
What monopoly? You don't even know what that means do you? Are you saying Google is abusing monopoly power that they don't even have by burying a site the was some 80% duplicate content. Basically a vertical search landing site that adds no real value and is an SEO spam site? Really is that what you are saying?
1. Don't be a pedant and grammar Nazi
2. Suck my balls
Hey man no one said it was the ONLY great country so don't put words in my mouth. If you don't like the USA you are free to go live in one of those other great countries you mentioned trust me we won't miss you.
And if you are already in on of those other countries then enjoy your life and please stay out of the USA if you don't mind. I happen to LOVE my country even if it's not perfect and if you come here on one of our bulletin boards to talk shit about our country then prepared to be told to eat shit.
Knew about what exactly? What was in there we didn't all already know? That the King of Saudi Arabia wants us to bomb Iran? That Germany is basically fucking nuts? What exactly put the US in to a bad light?
Feel free to be anti-American just don't expect us to give a shit about you and yours in the future. In other words feel free to go fuck yourselves if your going to be anti-American douches. Don't expect that we sit idly by and do nothing about it either. There will be a comeuppance.
Then your ignorant of your own nation and it's opportunities. People still come here from those first world countries for better opportunities here. Because in many of those countries class and station determine more about who you end up being rather than merit which is why they come here to participate in what is essentially a meritocracy without so much of the old world baggage. You must be a sad and bitter person that dislikes themselves to dislike your country so much. When said country IS one of the greatest countries ever conceived and executed even despite it's gaffs and flaws.
Governments are elected to act in the interest of their people which the American government does and I am glad for that. Additionally so do the european governments. Here's the rub though when europe in particular continues to act against American interests. Like in the case of going after Google. Or in the case of assuming when Obama extended an olive branch to the Iranians that he was simply doing so for commercial gain. Then europe should really expect much at all from America in the future in other words feel free to go fuck yourselves we never did and certainly don't now owe anyone in the world anything. What comes around goes around and all this anti Americanism has it's price as well. Seriously with friends like europe who needs enemies you can't expect their won't be a fallout over such behavior.
Cylon infiltrator clearly
Well I see two sides to this. On the one hand the fact that MS treats the internal memory and SD card as one volume is pretty cool. I hate that my nexus one has only 512 MB internal flash I mean whats 4gb of flash cost HTC these days like $5.00 or probably even less. But that limitation would not matter if it treated it with the SD card as one big pool.
However writing a security code to the card such that it can't be formatted on any other device just seems nucking futz crazy draconian MS lockdown.
Hey Google if your paying attention make raid storage volumes like this an OPTION in android. Just don't permanently fuxor the card to do it that would be win win.
This whole premise is flawed a true monopoly of information in the traditional sense is not really happening on the Internet as far as I can tell. Sure the vast majority of people see Facebook as the Ineternet and spend entirely too much time on there posting inane updates, doing inane quizzes and playing terrible web games. However that does not stop Slashdot, Reddit or Penny Arcade or xckcd or hack a day or cnczone from existng and doing just fine for people that want or have a thought rattling around between their ears. The cost of entry is not high in fact with tech like Amazon ec2 it's stupid low at this point. Anyone can start a web site and make money it's just most people suck at it (me included).
They used to say the same about the JVM I.E. that it would never be fast enough. And also fast enough for what? If you really need speed you can easily make calls to c for the stuff that really needs to be tight.
Your buying in to Suns marketing terms Java was and essentially interpreted the JVM takes the byte code and runs it as does Python, PERL, Ruby, Parrot and other VMs they all fundamentally work the same. Is the JVM more advanced at this point than say Python's VM or Parrot? Yes but thats not really the point. If the same effort was put in to Python or Ruby or Parrot or other VMs then they too could be made to function similarly to Javas JVM. So when Java came out was it's VM in the state it's in now of course not they didn't have JIT and such at first. Was that reason not to use it?? No it was a huge step forward from straight C++ in many repsects. Could Python or PERL or Ruby or take your pick be made to do JIT? I think the answer is yes we just need to move that direction and get companies like Google and IBM helping out. Is Python or Ruby a step forward from Java syntactically? I think so.
Sunk cost is sunk cost sticking with Java simply because it already exists and is mature even though it's owned by Oracle and they are litigious and even though there are more elegant languages developed between now and the mid 90s is short sighted.
Bottom line if you like Java knock yourself out but your are doing yourself a huge disservice not to explore some of the newer languages out there just for the sake of sticking with what you know.