A real win would be a floor cleaning robot with some smarts. Enough smarts to vacuum carpets, wash and dry hard floors, work around obstacles, use reaching tools to get into corners and crevices, notice when it finds something it can't clean and report it, recover small lost objects, stay out of the way of humans, recharge itself, clean itself, and replenish its supplies.
So long as it's available in the form of Jessica Alba, Maria Ozawa or Angelina Jolie
Instead of locking the punks up, make them pay the victim 7 times the value of the damaged property. Deny them welfare until they've paid it back
First off, if you deny someone on welfare, welfare how are they going to pay off the debt and live? Unless you expressly tell out what they can and cant do, but wait, isn't that what prisons already do?
Criminals who cause physical damage are rarely rich, if they were rich under this system they could walk all over poor people and just laugh off the costs. "Oh I'm so sorry I ran over your beloved German Shepard, here's $1200", then he hops into his BMW and gleefully runs over someone's lab.
But back to poor crims, they are typically violent criminals because they haven't got the money or brains to do anything else. So what do you propose to do when Billy Joe the Redneck cannot pay off his criminal debt. Well we could always bring back debt prisons but then you're back to square one.
Besides, if you start offering payouts to "victims of crime" backed by the government you'll have every crook and hustler coming out of the woodwork to make a claim.
(P.S. For anyone foolish enough to think otherwise, I personally use a more sophisticated Python script for this, don't waste your time trying to break into my email using this "information".)
I just use a "secret answer" completely unrelated to the question.
I wonder if this is a tactic to see just how much bullshit people will put up with.
By my experience, the answer to that is quite a bit.
Just recently I decided to test just how much trolling it would take to get one of my "friends" to unfriendly me. He wasn't really a friend, I added him back in the heady days of 2007 when we added everyone and their dog. Lets just call him Frank, Frank's a bit childish and petty to start off with so I thought he'd be a perfect target. Better yet he just started to use his facebook page as an amateur marketing tool for some "artists" he was "managing" (meaning local performers he kind of hung around with). So Frank is also a bit of a pillock.
Frank had already blocked me because I own an Android phone and Frank didn't like posts about the latest thing I was doing with it so I had to post under Franks posts. I began with intellectual trolling, countering his arguments with logical discussion, this normally ended up with "you don't know what you're talking about" being the height of his counter arguments but nothing else. After a while I moved onto Grammar Nazism, and the responses elevated to ad-hominem.
After about a week I elevated to obvious trolling, First Post and popular memes, most of these just got deleted. After about a week he disappeared from Facebook. He still logged on but stopped posting. Finally 2 weeks later he launched one of his bad attempts to market some band, I could of kept going with conventional trolling but instead I took the nuclear option and hit him with a two girls and one cup link. 20 minutes later I received a phone call from Frank, literally in tears asking me to stop and I simply asked him why didn't he just unfriendly me. Still sobbing he said he doesn't want his friend count to go down. I was already in the process of un-friending Frank. Frank took a lot of abuse for a tiny bit of social status, I think many Facebook users would be the same.
I've got two facebook accounts, one is my real friends (now excluding Frank and most people like Frank who I couldn't give a rats clacker about) which is a very small list. The second is an account not under my real name which has everybody added including a lot of Thai and Philippino girls (I live in OZ, it's easy to pop over to the phils for some cheap, no strings attached action, they get de-friended when they start to ask for a lot of money).
BTW, I'm not that much of a sociopath, this is not a normal experiment for me and I was just curious as to how much abuse it would take. It kind of spiralled out of control towards the end.
Really, if you find the idea that Android is not as bad as you think that offensive perhaps you should stop browsing Slashdot.
Sorry for the rant ladies and gentlemen but every time someone downmod's a post simply because they disagree with it weakens the moderation system, weaken it enough and it becomes useless. After that pandemonium, goatse links in the streets, two girls and one cup raining from the sky, cat and dog posting together.
Worse yet, someone else has to up mod the post to compensate, or the censorship of "distasteful" ideas works. It's a complete waste of modpoint and potentially insightful, informative or funny posts go unmoderated due to the intolerance of a few narrow minded individuals.
So please, those of us with mod points, stop the fanboy moderation. It helps no-one and serves no useful purpose.
No amount of Jailbreaking will let you modify the OS.
Actually the truth is just the opposite.
Jailbreaking allows you to modify or replace anything in the OS you desire.
Where are all the custom IOS ROM's then?
Can I load IOS onto a HD2?
Thought not.
The really sad truth is that you cannot make modifications to IOS no matter how much you hack. What's even sadder is that you cannot replace IOS on the Iphone 3GS or above because the 3GS requires code the be signed by Apple before it can run.
Sorry but you cant have it both ways, the most common thing I hear about IOS is that it supposedly "Just Works(TM)" but then you're trying to convince us that it's many times more hackable than any other mobile OS. The simple fact that there are no custom IOS ROMs means it is nowhere near the level of hack-ability that Android and WinMo 6 has.
I'm absolutely certain you'll say this is possible, as certain as I am it isn't but you cant rip out and replace the IOS kernel like you can with Android, jailbreaks just haven't gained that kind of access for some time. You've even said this yourself.
In fact modern Jailbreaking is all about installing "MobileSubstrate" which allows you to hook your own custom code
I suggest you look up what a "substrate" is. Yes they've used the term correctly, it's a base or foundation for applications, however it sits on top of the operating system and does not give you access to modify the OS's code. Essentially it sits on top of an OS in the way the substrate of a building sits on top of the ground, the substrate provides a stable surface to build on but does not allow the building to modify the ground.
To be fair, I get the same with people, the machines aren't really any dumber.
Hold music fades...
Me: OK, I have a problem with my application.
Them: I can see your application.
M: Can you see how my name is misspelled.
T: Yes.
M: Can you fix it, it's just two transposed letters
T: I'll need you to send in your original birth certificate with a copy of your credit card, with passport, drivers license or other photo ID in addition to a urine sample, proof of noble linage, papal bull, letter from your doctor and bill less then three months old with your current address on it.
M: OK, can you cancel my application.
T: I'll need you to send in your original birth certificate
M: No I want to...
T: with a copy of your credit card, with passport, drivers license
M: No.
T: or other photo
M: Stop.
T: in addition to a urine sample, proof of noble linage, papal
M: SILENCE
T:...
M: I would like to cancel my application.
T: I'll need to transfer you to another department.
They will give the AI a heavy Indian accent, because it's what callers expect.
They already have machines that are supposed to understand human voices and match them against a list of queries but unfortunately "Cancel my application" is mistranslated as "Hod do I check my balance" and "Connect me to a human you obstinate piece of shit" is misunderstood as "access my telephone banking system". Only after getting through this system so Kafka-esque in design it would make Mordac the preventer of information services weap are you connected to a person...
As someone with ridiculously large hands and fingers, I find using iOS a lot easier than some of the teensy keyboards found on other smart phones.
As someone with quite large hands I call bollocks on this.
I much prefer the physical KB on my Moto Milestone or an E71. Small keys are not an issue because of the gaps in between them, using an OSK is painful, especially the one in IOS where it thinks it knows what you're saying better than you (typing in En_AU is ridiculously painful). If I try to thumb over one of IOS's tiny on screen keys I end up getting two, with a physical KB despite my finger covering more than one key, I only press one.
Right, but it can't cut both ways - that argument works, but it counteracts the "fragmentation is not an issue" argument that people like to also air on slashdot (in a 'android can do no wrong' sort of way. (although I agree with your argument)
Explain how.
Thought not.
You see a custom ROM like Darky's for the Samsung Galaxy S is still using the same version of Dalvik and the native compiler for C. You can run the same programs on it and how is the later version of Dalvik not backwards compatible. I don't think you understand what fragmentation is which is why you're making a big deal out of it.
But then again, it really is the best thing you've got to attack Android, especially seeing as the key word in the article is "allegedly" as in "T-Mobile allegedly has an update for".
Hows all that "open platform" "not locked to a walled garden" "no need to jailbreak" Android working out for all the people that rant and rave against the iPhone?
Quite well thank you, I've got my Motorola Milestone on Cyanogen Mod 6.1 and my HTC dream on stock 1.6. Thanks for asking
When an article starts out with the line:
I've talked about Android fragmentation here before
It's typically trying to set the tone of the article to be negative. Especially using FUD.
But being the fair minded person I am I read on. Then I read this:
T-Mobile allegedly has an update
So, we have no actual proof.
But lets say I accept this dubious allegation as fact for a minute. How does this affect Android, the problem is with Samsung and T-Mobile. It doesn't affect Australian Galaxy S users, or French, English, Japanese, Korean or even non T-mo American users. Nor does it affect users of Darky's ROM.
Give a little more time for HTML5 to become common
thanks, best laugh I've had all day.
HTML5 is not currently even a standard and thus far the three big browser giants, Apple, Google and Microsoft are implementing it differently (lumping Google and Firefox). You think web dev is a nightmare now, wait until you've got to code for 5 versions of the Canvas and Video tag rather.
HTML5 will not be usable until the coming standards war is finished, depending on who wins it, it may never be completely usable.
And if it adds substantial value then it will be used. And if it doesn't then someone else will come along and offer a website that works without your app and eat your lunch.
Unless your site does not work properly on your phones browser. Using Android myself so I dont get this but I've heard it's a problem on other platforms.
But I find a lot of companies are using applications rather then mobile sites when they should be using mobile sites. Banks especially, my bank has a mobile site and an application, the application is superfluous and dangerous, there is no way to make sure that the application is up to date and it opens up a whole new avenue for fraud, how is a user supposed to be sure that the Bank of Kasblahistan application from the BOK App Team is real, you could rely on someone else to vet it but that hasn't turned out too well.
It is interesting the comparisons if you drop an iPhone and a Droid X side by side.
Actually I've found that if you drop an Iphone and Droid side by side the Iphone will crack and break because it is a uni-body design made from rigid plastic or glass where as the Droid battery cover will come off because it's designed to break apart and is made from more tensile plastic, aluminium and rubberised plastic.
Which is that 99/100 iPhone users don't know the clock rate of their phone.
or the battery capacity vs draw, or the sound quality or the compatibility with existing standards.
Iphone buyers purchase an Iphone because the marketing tells them it's the bestest thing evar and it will make them cool and sexy and hip.
Unless your point was to say that iPhone users are making rational decisions
Unless your point was that Android users are the ones making rational decisions while Iphone users are obsessed with buying something that they can show off to gain some kind of status.
First, a good reason to NOT be dual core is battery life - slower is better. iPhone hardware has always lagged the Android models
To be fair, they've always played a game of leapfrog. Iphone 3G - HTC Dream - Iphone 3GS - Moto Droid - HTC Desire - Iphone4 - Nexus S/HTC Desire HD/Z. However I expect this to change, 2010 was really the year when manufacturers started taking Android seriously.
First, a good reason to NOT be dual core is battery life
This is only really an issue whilst the cores are being used. Idling will use very liitle power, as another poster has already pointed out, the display is the major power draw on todays phones, Iphone and Android alike. The newer 45 nm proc's in the HTC Desire Z are using less power then the same processors that were fab'ed in 65 nm.
I do agree that the Iphone 5 won't be dual core. Apple are very slow at adopting new technologies, the current Macbook 13" is still being sold with a C2D a year after Dell started selling i3 and i5 procs in their Vostro and latitude lines.
The issue is that you, the user or developer were never and still are not permitted to use it.
Basically it's like a car that can drive brilliantly at 150 KM/h but it's has a speed governor limiting it's speed to 20 KM/h because the builder doesn't think you will ever need to go faster than 20 KM/h. Yes I could remove the speed governor and "jailbreak" my engine but why should the I have to.
Making or wanting to make money is not intrinsically evil. Like just about everything it can be done with good effect, bad effect and no real effect on the old Fallout Karma scale.
Peter Bright isn't really that far off the mark. He is quite correct in the claims he makes, which essentially boild down to two points: One, H.264 is an open standard, where "open" needs to be read in the context of standards, and none of the other are (though they are "open" in other senses of the word). And two, the move is more about having a free-as-in-beer standard than a free-as-in-speech one.
Wait, let me get this right.
You think that he's right because he wants you to use his definition of open, not the accepted definition.
Yes the name calling by the submitter was stupid but that does not automatically give the article credence or authority. H.264 is very far from open, it is heavily patent encumbered and not free to implement. Meaning simply that when I get NBN access and 50/50 Mbit Fibre drops to about A$300/m so it's quite feasible to run a Beowulf cluster of Windows Home Servers out of my spare room to host video, I'd need to pay a licensing fee to MPEG-LA just to share my cat videos with the world.
Fallout New Vegas also has serious choices. The choices you make will shape the city's present and future. They matter immediately and in the long-run both.
Fallout NV had a very good way of integrating a linear story in with choices. You had minor choices which changed attitudes towards you and then presented with a few massive choices. Then there was the faction and karma systems. Personally I found Fallout NV a lot more engaging, on my first play-through I thought siding with the NCR would be a good choice, they seemed alright but then they had me kill Mr House, then Papa Khan and I realised I was little more then a government sponsored assassin, but what was I to do, I'd made my bed so it was not like I could run off to Caesar. Of course I put a bullet into Papa Khan and sweet talked a treaty out of the new leader.
But the best integration of choice into a linear story to me is still Deus Ex. There seemed to be a hundred ways things could change without the linear story being taken away, the first choice you make in the game can influence what happens near the end.
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Matt tee sizz ick.
I think it's the national sport in Poland to try and create a name with the highest number of redundant consonants.
So long as it's available in the form of Jessica Alba, Maria Ozawa or Angelina Jolie
First off, if you deny someone on welfare, welfare how are they going to pay off the debt and live? Unless you expressly tell out what they can and cant do, but wait, isn't that what prisons already do?
Criminals who cause physical damage are rarely rich, if they were rich under this system they could walk all over poor people and just laugh off the costs. "Oh I'm so sorry I ran over your beloved German Shepard, here's $1200", then he hops into his BMW and gleefully runs over someone's lab.
But back to poor crims, they are typically violent criminals because they haven't got the money or brains to do anything else. So what do you propose to do when Billy Joe the Redneck cannot pay off his criminal debt. Well we could always bring back debt prisons but then you're back to square one.
Besides, if you start offering payouts to "victims of crime" backed by the government you'll have every crook and hustler coming out of the woodwork to make a claim.
Investigator: Lifting Unit 753473, please show me on this bender doll where the programmer touched you.
I just use a "secret answer" completely unrelated to the question.
By my experience, the answer to that is quite a bit.
Just recently I decided to test just how much trolling it would take to get one of my "friends" to unfriendly me. He wasn't really a friend, I added him back in the heady days of 2007 when we added everyone and their dog. Lets just call him Frank, Frank's a bit childish and petty to start off with so I thought he'd be a perfect target. Better yet he just started to use his facebook page as an amateur marketing tool for some "artists" he was "managing" (meaning local performers he kind of hung around with). So Frank is also a bit of a pillock.
Frank had already blocked me because I own an Android phone and Frank didn't like posts about the latest thing I was doing with it so I had to post under Franks posts. I began with intellectual trolling, countering his arguments with logical discussion, this normally ended up with "you don't know what you're talking about" being the height of his counter arguments but nothing else. After a while I moved onto Grammar Nazism, and the responses elevated to ad-hominem.
After about a week I elevated to obvious trolling, First Post and popular memes, most of these just got deleted. After about a week he disappeared from Facebook. He still logged on but stopped posting. Finally 2 weeks later he launched one of his bad attempts to market some band, I could of kept going with conventional trolling but instead I took the nuclear option and hit him with a two girls and one cup link. 20 minutes later I received a phone call from Frank, literally in tears asking me to stop and I simply asked him why didn't he just unfriendly me. Still sobbing he said he doesn't want his friend count to go down. I was already in the process of un-friending Frank. Frank took a lot of abuse for a tiny bit of social status, I think many Facebook users would be the same.
I've got two facebook accounts, one is my real friends (now excluding Frank and most people like Frank who I couldn't give a rats clacker about) which is a very small list. The second is an account not under my real name which has everybody added including a lot of Thai and Philippino girls (I live in OZ, it's easy to pop over to the phils for some cheap, no strings attached action, they get de-friended when they start to ask for a lot of money).
BTW, I'm not that much of a sociopath, this is not a normal experiment for me and I was just curious as to how much abuse it would take. It kind of spiralled out of control towards the end.
Really, if you find the idea that Android is not as bad as you think that offensive perhaps you should stop browsing Slashdot.
Sorry for the rant ladies and gentlemen but every time someone downmod's a post simply because they disagree with it weakens the moderation system, weaken it enough and it becomes useless. After that pandemonium, goatse links in the streets, two girls and one cup raining from the sky, cat and dog posting together.
Worse yet, someone else has to up mod the post to compensate, or the censorship of "distasteful" ideas works. It's a complete waste of modpoint and potentially insightful, informative or funny posts go unmoderated due to the intolerance of a few narrow minded individuals.
So please, those of us with mod points, stop the fanboy moderation. It helps no-one and serves no useful purpose.
Where are all the custom IOS ROM's then?
Can I load IOS onto a HD2?
Thought not.
The really sad truth is that you cannot make modifications to IOS no matter how much you hack. What's even sadder is that you cannot replace IOS on the Iphone 3GS or above because the 3GS requires code the be signed by Apple before it can run.
Sorry but you cant have it both ways, the most common thing I hear about IOS is that it supposedly "Just Works(TM)" but then you're trying to convince us that it's many times more hackable than any other mobile OS. The simple fact that there are no custom IOS ROMs means it is nowhere near the level of hack-ability that Android and WinMo 6 has.
I'm absolutely certain you'll say this is possible, as certain as I am it isn't but you cant rip out and replace the IOS kernel like you can with Android, jailbreaks just haven't gained that kind of access for some time. You've even said this yourself.
I suggest you look up what a "substrate" is. Yes they've used the term correctly, it's a base or foundation for applications, however it sits on top of the operating system and does not give you access to modify the OS's code. Essentially it sits on top of an OS in the way the substrate of a building sits on top of the ground, the substrate provides a stable surface to build on but does not allow the building to modify the ground.
To be fair, I get the same with people, the machines aren't really any dumber.
...
Hold music fades...
Me: OK, I have a problem with my application.
Them: I can see your application.
M: Can you see how my name is misspelled.
T: Yes.
M: Can you fix it, it's just two transposed letters
T: I'll need you to send in your original birth certificate with a copy of your credit card, with passport, drivers license or other photo ID in addition to a urine sample, proof of noble linage, papal bull, letter from your doctor and bill less then three months old with your current address on it.
M: OK, can you cancel my application.
T: I'll need you to send in your original birth certificate
M: No I want to...
T: with a copy of your credit card, with passport, drivers license
M: No.
T: or other photo
M: Stop.
T: in addition to a urine sample, proof of noble linage, papal
M: SILENCE
T:
M: I would like to cancel my application.
T: I'll need to transfer you to another department.
Cue the hold music.
They already have machines that are supposed to understand human voices and match them against a list of queries but unfortunately "Cancel my application" is mistranslated as "Hod do I check my balance" and "Connect me to a human you obstinate piece of shit" is misunderstood as "access my telephone banking system". Only after getting through this system so Kafka-esque in design it would make Mordac the preventer of information services weap are you connected to a person...
in India.
Witness the Iphone with tethering blocked from the carrier level, thanks to AT&T wanting to charge a tethering fee.
Iphones are still screwed with by the carrier, they just don't get to put their badging on the front (which affects the operation of the phone how).
As someone with quite large hands I call bollocks on this.
I much prefer the physical KB on my Moto Milestone or an E71. Small keys are not an issue because of the gaps in between them, using an OSK is painful, especially the one in IOS where it thinks it knows what you're saying better than you (typing in En_AU is ridiculously painful). If I try to thumb over one of IOS's tiny on screen keys I end up getting two, with a physical KB despite my finger covering more than one key, I only press one.
Explain how.
Thought not.
You see a custom ROM like Darky's for the Samsung Galaxy S is still using the same version of Dalvik and the native compiler for C. You can run the same programs on it and how is the later version of Dalvik not backwards compatible. I don't think you understand what fragmentation is which is why you're making a big deal out of it.
But then again, it really is the best thing you've got to attack Android, especially seeing as the key word in the article is "allegedly" as in "T-Mobile allegedly has an update for".
Quite well thank you, I've got my Motorola Milestone on Cyanogen Mod 6.1 and my HTC dream on stock 1.6. Thanks for asking
When an article starts out with the line:
It's typically trying to set the tone of the article to be negative. Especially using FUD.
But being the fair minded person I am I read on. Then I read this:
So, we have no actual proof.
But lets say I accept this dubious allegation as fact for a minute. How does this affect Android, the problem is with Samsung and T-Mobile. It doesn't affect Australian Galaxy S users, or French, English, Japanese, Korean or even non T-mo American users. Nor does it affect users of Darky's ROM.
But my beloved Android phone costs half as much as an Iphone for the same hardware. That tells me someone is taking us for a ride.
thanks, best laugh I've had all day.
HTML5 is not currently even a standard and thus far the three big browser giants, Apple, Google and Microsoft are implementing it differently (lumping Google and Firefox). You think web dev is a nightmare now, wait until you've got to code for 5 versions of the Canvas and Video tag rather.
HTML5 will not be usable until the coming standards war is finished, depending on who wins it, it may never be completely usable.
Unless your site does not work properly on your phones browser. Using Android myself so I dont get this but I've heard it's a problem on other platforms.
But I find a lot of companies are using applications rather then mobile sites when they should be using mobile sites. Banks especially, my bank has a mobile site and an application, the application is superfluous and dangerous, there is no way to make sure that the application is up to date and it opens up a whole new avenue for fraud, how is a user supposed to be sure that the Bank of Kasblahistan application from the BOK App Team is real, you could rely on someone else to vet it but that hasn't turned out too well.
Actually I've found that if you drop an Iphone and Droid side by side the Iphone will crack and break because it is a uni-body design made from rigid plastic or glass where as the Droid battery cover will come off because it's designed to break apart and is made from more tensile plastic, aluminium and rubberised plastic.
I've actually done this test,
Iphone - 0
Droid - 1
or the battery capacity vs draw, or the sound quality or the compatibility with existing standards.
Iphone buyers purchase an Iphone because the marketing tells them it's the bestest thing evar and it will make them cool and sexy and hip.
Unless your point was that Android users are the ones making rational decisions while Iphone users are obsessed with buying something that they can show off to gain some kind of status.
To be fair, they've always played a game of leapfrog. Iphone 3G - HTC Dream - Iphone 3GS - Moto Droid - HTC Desire - Iphone4 - Nexus S/HTC Desire HD/Z. However I expect this to change, 2010 was really the year when manufacturers started taking Android seriously.
This is only really an issue whilst the cores are being used. Idling will use very liitle power, as another poster has already pointed out, the display is the major power draw on todays phones, Iphone and Android alike. The newer 45 nm proc's in the HTC Desire Z are using less power then the same processors that were fab'ed in 65 nm.
I do agree that the Iphone 5 won't be dual core. Apple are very slow at adopting new technologies, the current Macbook 13" is still being sold with a C2D a year after Dell started selling i3 and i5 procs in their Vostro and latitude lines.
The issue is that you, the user or developer were never and still are not permitted to use it.
Basically it's like a car that can drive brilliantly at 150 KM/h but it's has a speed governor limiting it's speed to 20 KM/h because the builder doesn't think you will ever need to go faster than 20 KM/h. Yes I could remove the speed governor and "jailbreak" my engine but why should the I have to.
Could have, but I'd killed the people I needed to get onside about 6 game days earlier. It was my first play through.
How is this contrary to doing good things?
Making or wanting to make money is not intrinsically evil. Like just about everything it can be done with good effect, bad effect and no real effect on the old Fallout Karma scale.
Since when has turning a profit, turned you evil?
Wait, let me get this right.
You think that he's right because he wants you to use his definition of open, not the accepted definition.
Yes the name calling by the submitter was stupid but that does not automatically give the article credence or authority. H.264 is very far from open, it is heavily patent encumbered and not free to implement. Meaning simply that when I get NBN access and 50/50 Mbit Fibre drops to about A$300/m so it's quite feasible to run a Beowulf cluster of Windows Home Servers out of my spare room to host video, I'd need to pay a licensing fee to MPEG-LA just to share my cat videos with the world.
Open* by Peter Bright.
* offers no illusion of openness
Fallout NV had a very good way of integrating a linear story in with choices. You had minor choices which changed attitudes towards you and then presented with a few massive choices. Then there was the faction and karma systems. Personally I found Fallout NV a lot more engaging, on my first play-through I thought siding with the NCR would be a good choice, they seemed alright but then they had me kill Mr House, then Papa Khan and I realised I was little more then a government sponsored assassin, but what was I to do, I'd made my bed so it was not like I could run off to Caesar. Of course I put a bullet into Papa Khan and sweet talked a treaty out of the new leader.
But the best integration of choice into a linear story to me is still Deus Ex. There seemed to be a hundred ways things could change without the linear story being taken away, the first choice you make in the game can influence what happens near the end.
Microsoft is accusing Google of trying to lock people into their standard?
Is someone at MS taking the piss?