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In other words, "It's the apps, stupid."
If you build an environment that's expensive and painful for application developers then you won't have many decent apps. Should be common sense, really.
What I think is funny is that backward compatibility doesn't have to be uninnovative. Figuring out a way to combine an old API with a new one and not breaking anything can be very ambitious and innovative. While none come to mind offhand, I know there have been a few rewrites of system components in Windows so that they are backward compatible and retain legacy behavior.
I think hackers and/or developers embracing OSX reveals the singular truth about their interest in Linux: It was always driven by a kneejerk hatred of Microsoft. There is nothing on earth less open than an Apple system.
Hatred for Microsoft: Haven't seen that with people who contribute.
Thank you Miguel. I have been saying this for years. Packages are one of the biggest problems on Linux. I should be able to go to a website, download a piece of software and have it work.
I install an operating system to use applications.
I have never received a payment from Microsoft or Apple. If anything, I keep giving both money for their products.
No religious/hard-line/extremist group likes introspective criticism or anything that contradicts their long held beliefs. So the only possible explanation that you guys can muster is "how much does Microsoft pay you".
But we missed the big picture. We alienated every third party developer in the process.
Printing three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using “two-photon lithography”. With this technology, tiny structures on a nanometer scale can be fabricated. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have now made a major breakthrough in speeding up this printing technique: The high-precision-3D-printer at TU Vienna is orders of magnitude faster than similar devices (see video). This opens up completely new areas of application, such as in medicine.
I'm wondering if I could start an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to buy napalm and a stealth bomber.Hm, what's that sound from the sky?-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 04:40 AM)
BLACK HELICOPTERS!-f0dder (August 30, 2012, 05:52 AM)
The security staff seem to have been mindwiped for humour. Someone posted it on Facebook. No idea where it came from though...-Renegade (August 27, 2012, 01:01 AM)
"I'm sorry, Mr. Renegade, did you just admit to an act of copyright violation by reposting it here without knowing the source? Come along now."
Really, I'm amazed the Web 2.0 of "Sharing" hasn't collided more explosively with current copyright law.-TaoPhoenix (August 27, 2012, 06:32 AM)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) endangers the Internet and digital freedoms on par with ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA, and it does so in two significant ways: First, its intellectual property (IP) chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users’ freedoms and innovation, and second, the entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy. The TPP is a major threat because it will rewrite global rules on IP enforcement and restrict the public domain.
Not too much in the way of content or answering hard questions... so I'm pretty sure it was a staffer that he was dictating to. But really cool, nonetheless.-wraith808 (August 29, 2012, 06:43 PM)
There I was thinking I am keeping up with firefox changes-rgdot (August 29, 2012, 11:32 PM)
OpenMultipleSitesFromTextList.zip (741.39 kB - downloaded 304 times.)If I had my way, SEO fscktards would be publicly tortured, they're ruining the interwebs.-f0dder (August 29, 2012, 02:28 AM)
+1-Renegade (August 29, 2012, 02:41 AM)
Only if they crucify the spammers first.
...and the lawyers, and the politicians. And especially the lawyers turned politicians.-wraith808 (August 29, 2012, 01:01 PM)
@Renegade
Mostly hoax but I am curious does required amount of such coins really exist.-fenixproductions (August 29, 2012, 06:22 AM)
Wonder if that's true:
http://en.paperblog....-cents-coins-294795/-fenixproductions (August 29, 2012, 06:11 AM)
I think the whole issue needs to be resolved at ISP level. Just like we have certificates for websites ISPs should issue certificates for users and websites and email should only allow certified users to use the service. The ISP has to know who you are and where you are to bill you so when you sign up for an account your details could be fixed by the certificate issuing authority. It would also save having to fill in name and address details all the time.
Websites could then refuse access to someone who doesn't come with a verified certificate. Could potentially reduce the amount of spam if mail servers only accepted mail from genuine certificated users.
Would also stop fake accounts because the certified user would have to be registered at an address with credit card or bank details to get the certificate.-Carol Haynes (August 29, 2012, 06:06 AM)
If I had my way, SEO fscktards would be publicly tortured, they're ruining the interwebs.-f0dder (August 29, 2012, 02:28 AM)
^ Eliza 2.0?-wraith808 (August 29, 2012, 12:11 AM)
I expect Mr. Rutherford has a text editing software that automatically can vary a bunch of phrases - otherwise merely $20 (6,000/300) for a review really is too cheap, I think....-Curt (August 28, 2012, 04:47 PM)
{Yes|Affirmative|Right you are|Yes Sir|You got it mister}. The same kind of {program|software|code|magic} that {generates|produces|makes} those {articles|stories|pages|pages of text|blatherings} that {you|people|surfers|unfortunates} {find|locate|discover|happen upon|fall victim to} on the {internet|web|world-wide-web|www|intertubes|blagosphere|blagoblag} that {read|appear|look like|render} like {a hopped-up thesaurus junkie|someone who just discovered Word's thesaurus feature|a monkey with search and replace} {took a few too many liberties|went crazy on them|hates you and everyone who might come upon that site}.
And spin away...-cthorpe (August 28, 2012, 08:35 PM)
If Samsung tells Apple where to stick their contract, then
1) Samsung loses a lot more revenue in the long term
2) Samsung's word as a manufacturer becomes mud
It's to their benefit to keep that separation of producer vs. manufacturer in place.
(And that enemy of my enemy is my friend has been shown historically to be hilarious in a black comedy type manner...)-wraith808 (August 28, 2012, 11:34 AM)
I would say we live in a world where we always have to search for the lesser evil. There is little to no 'good' left.-rgdot (August 27, 2012, 07:32 PM)
Considering the rather fine line between lesser and different, seems to me that it's damned difficult just to find lesser evil
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-barney (August 27, 2012, 09:50 PM)
Hey, might as well choose the greater evil~!