Apple does not want Samsung to compromise by bending over, it wanted to kill Android and discourage others from sharing their bed swith Google.
Microsoft likely feels the same way, and this licensing scheme is just the first volley in a larger campaign against Android. What is interesting to me is that Android clearly represents a legitimately big threat to both Apple and Microsoft. It would not surprise me in the least to see them join forces at some point to squash Android (and perhaps all Linux based products).
In 2008 a story was posted on slashdot about a woman getting brain surgery remotely in Calgary Alberta Canada. And here's a story in SciAm about remote surgery done across the Atlantic ocean between NY and Strasbourg France in 2001.
Personally I have stopped browsing without NoScript enabled. I sincerely hope that the functionality it provides is adapted as a base feature in future browsers. Javascript is simply too dangerous to be trusted by default. Sites need to earn that trust, IMHO.
I like how you dismiss a detailed real world design example based simply on a claimed feature without any further substantiation. Very classy. I'm not saying you are wrong, but would it kill you to go into a little more detail about why these folks need "luck" when they are clearly very successful with their existing design?
Can anyone explain to me why Ford has so many kinds of cars? Tesla has had a 2 seat roadster for years (admittedly, several versions, but never any compatibility issues that I've come across), and Ford has, what, 73 or something?! Is it really that hard to get it right?
I think it is hubris - the idea that "I'm smarter than everyone else in the industry, and I have ideas that none of them do".
Wow. Hubris? Really?
There is a longhistory of people doing stuff they personally find cool and interesting and succeeding wildly at it. Sure there are also a lot of failures, but you cannot succeed without taking risks, and it is pretty pathetic to see that your lame attitude is so prevalent these days.
This web tablet may fail terribly, or it might succeed wildly, but thank Dog there are still people willing to try.
Hopefully, negative press/reviews/articles like this will encourage people to buy more open platforms
That's the kind of reaction one would hope people would have instead of this pathetic begging for Apple to change their minds. Unfortunately the Apple brand image is so strong right now that, like Microsoft and Sony before them, they are forgiven all sorts of behaviour that other companies would never get away with. Luckily, again like Microsoft and Sony before them, all this anti-consumer behaviour should eventually catch up to them.
I am in favour of completely eliminating ALL taxes on corporations so long as they are NOT considered a "person" under the law. So long as they are, then they should be subject to taxation, just as any other person is.
IMHO, the iPod Touch is a terribly overrated device. It's too small, slow and buggy to be useful for anything more than light use as a web browsing device.
If you like the Movit, you might also consider the AI Touchbook.
Basically, an Ipod touch that has about 4-5x the screen size would be exactly what I (and by extension everyone else) want.
Hell no. I own an iPod Touch 16GB and if this thing were shipped with the iPod's closed, buggy and brain-dead operating system, I'd avoid it like the plague. The only feature I would want to share with the iPod is the multi-touch support.
by any chance do you drive a Ford or Volkswagen? Do you live in the US (a country that did not join the fight against Hitler until it was attacked by Japan many years into the war). Do you own land in the USA? Land that was essentially stolen from the natives who inhabited it before your ancestors arrived? Have you PERSONALLY paid reparations to the native americans who have suffered for hundreds of years as a result of your ancestors actions?
There is plenty of historical shit to go around if you really want to start flinging. I personally find it hypocritical of people on slashdot to hold IBM up to a standard that they themselves are not willing to live up to.
So called "interferometric modulator" displays (IMOD for short) would be what you are looking for. It'll be a while before they are printed onto cereal boxes, but the potential is there.
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Programming is like driving a car, everyone thinks they are really good at it but everyone else sucks.
Microsoft likely feels the same way, and this licensing scheme is just the first volley in a larger campaign against Android. What is interesting to me is that Android clearly represents a legitimately big threat to both Apple and Microsoft. It would not surprise me in the least to see them join forces at some point to squash Android (and perhaps all Linux based products).
In 2008 a story was posted on slashdot about a woman getting brain surgery remotely in Calgary Alberta Canada. And here's a story in SciAm about remote surgery done across the Atlantic ocean between NY and Strasbourg France in 2001.
Do you also support a parent's "right" to forbid their children from receiving any education based on, say, their sex?
Personally I have stopped browsing without NoScript enabled. I sincerely hope that the functionality it provides is adapted as a base feature in future browsers. Javascript is simply too dangerous to be trusted by default. Sites need to earn that trust, IMHO.
Haven't you heard? Newtonian physics has been discredited after someone hacked into his quill and pen set.
Maybe the knee jerk slashdot technopessimists will be right this time.
It does for me.
I like how you dismiss a detailed real world design example based simply on a claimed feature without any further substantiation. Very classy. I'm not saying you are wrong, but would it kill you to go into a little more detail about why these folks need "luck" when they are clearly very successful with their existing design?
AKA: "The more people I meet, the more I like my dog."
Can anyone explain to me why Ford has so many kinds of cars? Tesla has had a 2 seat roadster for years (admittedly, several versions, but never any compatibility issues that I've come across), and Ford has, what, 73 or something?! Is it really that hard to get it right?
I think it is hubris - the idea that "I'm smarter than everyone else in the industry, and I have ideas that none of them do".
Wow. Hubris? Really?
There is a long history of people doing stuff they personally find cool and interesting and succeeding wildly at it. Sure there are also a lot of failures, but you cannot succeed without taking risks, and it is pretty pathetic to see that your lame attitude is so prevalent these days.
This web tablet may fail terribly, or it might succeed wildly, but thank Dog there are still people willing to try.
Years ago I bought a linux server from a company in Edmonton, and they seem to still be around. Their site is woefully out of date though.
http://www.harddata.com/
Hopefully, negative press/reviews/articles like this will encourage people to buy more open platforms
That's the kind of reaction one would hope people would have instead of this pathetic begging for Apple to change their minds. Unfortunately the Apple brand image is so strong right now that, like Microsoft and Sony before them, they are forgiven all sorts of behaviour that other companies would never get away with. Luckily, again like Microsoft and Sony before them, all this anti-consumer behaviour should eventually catch up to them.
Option A) Apple products.
Option B) The freedom to do what you want with the stuff you buy.
Pick one and stop complaining.
I am in favour of completely eliminating ALL taxes on corporations so long as they are NOT considered a "person" under the law. So long as they are, then they should be subject to taxation, just as any other person is.
6a. "Here are a bunch of straw men, watch me knock them down!" - Arthur Grumbine
IMHO, the iPod Touch is a terribly overrated device. It's too small, slow and buggy to be useful for anything more than light use as a web browsing device.
If you like the Movit, you might also consider the AI Touchbook.
Basically, an Ipod touch that has about 4-5x the screen size would be exactly what I (and by extension everyone else) want.
Hell no. I own an iPod Touch 16GB and if this thing were shipped with the iPod's closed, buggy and brain-dead operating system, I'd avoid it like the plague. The only feature I would want to share with the iPod is the multi-touch support.
What a co-incidence, the Canadian government is apparently asking very similar questions.
1998 called, it wants its anti-open-source arguments back.
by any chance do you drive a Ford or Volkswagen? Do you live in the US (a country that did not join the fight against Hitler until it was attacked by Japan many years into the war). Do you own land in the USA? Land that was essentially stolen from the natives who inhabited it before your ancestors arrived? Have you PERSONALLY paid reparations to the native americans who have suffered for hundreds of years as a result of your ancestors actions?
There is plenty of historical shit to go around if you really want to start flinging. I personally find it hypocritical of people on slashdot to hold IBM up to a standard that they themselves are not willing to live up to.
OS X? Eww.
So called "interferometric modulator" displays (IMOD for short) would be what you are looking for. It'll be a while before they are printed onto cereal boxes, but the potential is there.
Nice little collection of ad hominems you put together there.
The fact is, if you are American, then you are NOT free to visit Cuba and find out for yourself.