It's obvious to the GP. It's not obvious to the P. It's obvious to me. So "obvious" is not an objective argument.
IMHO, it boils down to intent, and I believe that someone at Google tried to leverage the association. So, reiterating what the GP is saying, a non-evil company would have approached or still can approach the estate. If the estate acted or acts like a bunch of douchebags, then Google could act with respect to that data point.
Not only is it a thought experiment, it is waaaaaaaaaaay old f'ing news: I made a submission on it over a year ago and it's only getting play on/. now? Oh yeah, this is/....
TFA makes it pretty clear that this (on his personal blog) is a thought experiment, not an actual plan he has any intention to follow through. More, he is speculating about moves that Microsoft or others might take to bring Google down and what that would do to the market.
Frankly, it as much use as mine our your random musings on business: the only motivation for it making the Slashdot front page seems to be that this guy coincidentally happens to have a billion dollars.
If you want to know what cool apps are going to be coming out for the iPhone, pay attention to the cool apps that are already out for Android and iPhone developers will soon copy them and pass them off as their new iPhone exclusive inventions.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of NaviCAD.
Okay, I'll bite. We actually started this project almost a year ago. We had no intention of claiming the functionality as one of our "new iPhone exclusive inventions," but decided that we'd work on it in our spare time because:
1. we had iPhones 2. we liked the Google 3D Warehouse 3. we thought that showcasing the technology would generate practical apps 4. we had iPhones
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of this app.
I tried to submit a story on our app to/. pointing out some of the technical challenges on developing a complex-model 3D app on the iPhone thinking that this angle would be appreciated by the/. crowd, but it wasn't accepted. When I saw this submission come out, I have no doubt that comments would be critical with respect to the contest.
The main challenges included the fixed memory footprint and the relatively slow processor (all of us iPhone developers dream of performance equal to that of the simulator). Perhaps we will try and submit a technical article to the likes of Ars Technica and see how that's received.
Yes it's just a [insert your choice of bad word here] model viewer, but like other technologies, we threw spaghetti against the wall just to showcase possibilities for the platform. We have several 'practical' applications in the works that probably won't merit an accepted submission here:-)
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers for this app.
Parsing the XML on the iPhone platform does take some time. In an update (waiting for approval from Apple), we will be serializing the model on the client so at least on second viewing, the model loads much faster. In a later update, we may do the serialization on the server and just serve up the serialized model to the client.
Dude, if you can really build such cheaper, reliable, fast storage systems, you're set for life since, as has been mentioned, many professionals rely on such. Call every photographer you can find in the "Yellow Pages" to start...
So DOJ can prevent a deal at the expense (read:death) of another company? Don't they have to give up draft picks or something? Oh wait, this is/., that analogy will go nowhere...
Interesting. Then for the iPhone specifically (and you can extrapolate to the other phones):
When will there be FF or other third-party browsers that leverage the iPhone location API.
Will Safari support location-specific calls (it already does have orientation callbacks, but I haven't been able to find any information on future support for location callbacks).
If you build a web app, it might not be able to take advantage of the phone's hardware, like the GPS. I originally built a web app but bit the bullet and wrote a native iPhone app for this very reason.
I take it you don't have kids? The not-so-small group of people who do would rather have their kids going to school in the morning in daylight, not darkness.
I'm not going to argue with you about what the Academy of Sciences has become, but this thing is definitely a planetarium. The opening show is more movie than planetarium show, but so what? The fact that it can show movies doesn't mean it's not a planetarium.
In fact, the opening scene takes full advantage of the spherical shape by showing the interior one of the other domes--I really thought I was "OUTSIDE" the planetarium for a second, which means it did exactly what a planetarium is supposed to do, IMHO.
I was in Belize with my family this summer, and we took my daughter's MacBook and my wife's ThinkPad. After dinner, we would hang out near the pool connecting to the hotel's WiFi. The MacBook would connect within seconds, the ThinkPad took several minutes to think about it and would maybe connect w/o a reboot, that after taking several minutes to come out of its moon icon (the MacBook, of course, was instant-on).
When we were leaving, I got stopped and searched by security. I waved my wife, son, and daughter on to get on the plane while the inspector opened my bag and told me to turn on the ThinkPad. My wife had turned it off. It took literally 15 minutes for me to turn it on and shut it down. My wife was panicking on the plane thinking I was being detained.
The price point is an interesting topic. IMHO, U.S. law should be changed so that those who are filing lawsuits against Yahoo! for not executing the sale at $33/$34 to M$ should be forced to sell if the stock goes above that price and pay fines for a frivolous lawsuit--otherwise, they get their cake and eat it too...
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Imagine if they launched their campaign with this commercial instead. Palm's life would be SOOOO different.
As long as it lets me run ChatRoulette, I don't give a hoot about any distinction :-)
RTFA? You do know this is /., right?
That's your opinion, of course. But remember that pr0n, more than anything else, drives technology...
If "China like rules" means banning political things, the P is right.
If it means throwing people into jail, the GP is right.
Let's define things like mud^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclearly.
It's obvious to the GP. It's not obvious to the P. It's obvious to me. So "obvious" is not an objective argument.
IMHO, it boils down to intent, and I believe that someone at Google tried to leverage the association. So, reiterating what the GP is saying, a non-evil company would have approached or still can approach the estate. If the estate acted or acts like a bunch of douchebags, then Google could act with respect to that data point.
...I'll wait for the Nexus Seven to come out.
I'll be here all day...
Not only is it a thought experiment, it is waaaaaaaaaaay old f'ing news: I made a submission on it over a year ago and it's only getting play on /. now? Oh yeah, this is /. ...
TFA makes it pretty clear that this (on his personal blog) is a thought experiment, not an actual plan he has any intention to follow through. More, he is speculating about moves that Microsoft or others might take to bring Google down and what that would do to the market.
Frankly, it as much use as mine our your random musings on business: the only motivation for it making the Slashdot front page seems to be that this guy coincidentally happens to have a billion dollars.
If you want to know what cool apps are going to be coming out for the iPhone, pay attention to the cool apps that are already out for Android and iPhone developers will soon copy them and pass them off as their new iPhone exclusive inventions.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of NaviCAD.
Okay, I'll bite. We actually started this project almost a year ago. We had no intention of claiming the functionality as one of our "new iPhone exclusive inventions," but decided that we'd work on it in our spare time because:
1. we had iPhones
2. we liked the Google 3D Warehouse
3. we thought that showcasing the technology would generate practical apps
4. we had iPhones
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of this app.
I tried to submit a story on our app to /. pointing out some of the technical challenges on developing a complex-model 3D app on the iPhone thinking that this angle would be appreciated by the /. crowd, but it wasn't accepted. When I saw this submission come out, I have no doubt that comments would be critical with respect to the contest.
The main challenges included the fixed memory footprint and the relatively slow processor (all of us iPhone developers dream of performance equal to that of the simulator). Perhaps we will try and submit a technical article to the likes of Ars Technica and see how that's received.
Yes it's just a [insert your choice of bad word here] model viewer, but like other technologies, we threw spaghetti against the wall just to showcase possibilities for the platform. We have several 'practical' applications in the works that probably won't merit an accepted submission here :-)
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers for this app.
Parsing the XML on the iPhone platform does take some time. In an update (waiting for approval from Apple), we will be serializing the model on the client so at least on second viewing, the model loads much faster. In a later update, we may do the serialization on the server and just serve up the serialized model to the client.
Earlier the female chose her mate...
This is /., right? Why are we talking about females choosing mates? What is this concept? ;-)
Too bad for Bill that Monica's blue dress didn't have that coating. Oh wait, does it work on THAT substance too?
Dude, if you can really build such cheaper, reliable, fast storage systems, you're set for life since, as has been mentioned, many professionals rely on such. Call every photographer you can find in the "Yellow Pages" to start...
So DOJ can prevent a deal at the expense (read:death) of another company? Don't they have to give up draft picks or something? Oh wait, this is /., that analogy will go nowhere...
Sorry, but your kids are going to school in the dark regardless of what happens.
a) without the clock change, they'd be mushrooms longer
b) a long winter break mitigates the latest sunrises
>https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation [mozilla.org]
Interesting. Then for the iPhone specifically (and you can extrapolate to the other phones):
If you build a web app, it might not be able to take advantage of the phone's hardware, like the GPS. I originally built a web app but bit the bullet and wrote a native iPhone app for this very reason.
THIS is what I'm aware of:
These days, the sun rises later and later, and if the clocks don't change soon, they'll be going to school in the dark.
So its NON-existence affects winter hours, right?
I take it you don't have kids? The not-so-small group of people who do would rather have their kids going to school in the morning in daylight, not darkness.
>It is not a planetarium. It is an IMAX movie.
I'm not going to argue with you about what the Academy of Sciences has become, but this thing is definitely a planetarium. The opening show is more movie than planetarium show, but so what? The fact that it can show movies doesn't mean it's not a planetarium.
In fact, the opening scene takes full advantage of the spherical shape by showing the interior one of the other domes--I really thought I was "OUTSIDE" the planetarium for a second, which means it did exactly what a planetarium is supposed to do, IMHO.
WARNING!!! ANECDOTAL!!!
I was in Belize with my family this summer, and we took my daughter's MacBook and my wife's ThinkPad. After dinner, we would hang out near the pool connecting to the hotel's WiFi. The MacBook would connect within seconds, the ThinkPad took several minutes to think about it and would maybe connect w/o a reboot, that after taking several minutes to come out of its moon icon (the MacBook, of course, was instant-on).
When we were leaving, I got stopped and searched by security. I waved my wife, son, and daughter on to get on the plane while the inspector opened my bag and told me to turn on the ThinkPad. My wife had turned it off. It took literally 15 minutes for me to turn it on and shut it down. My wife was panicking on the plane thinking I was being detained.
CONCLUSION: I just got my wife the new MacBook...
So much for having fun with commands like "make love" and "describe bush's stupidity" too...
The price point is an interesting topic. IMHO, U.S. law should be changed so that those who are filing lawsuits against Yahoo! for not executing the sale at $33/$34 to M$ should be forced to sell if the stock goes above that price and pay fines for a frivolous lawsuit--otherwise, they get their cake and eat it too...