Are you kidding? Dell and HP make a third of all PCs (and half of the ones sold in the US, where Apple's share is peaking at 15%). And they (along with ASUS) are some of FoxConn's biggest customers. They surely have as much pull as Apple, but they don't use it, do they?
[Reposting because I wasn't logged-in. I stand behind these words, sorry for any confusion.]
His arguments appear to be logical -- at least, posters here seem not to be contesting the arguments but instead castigating the person. So we'll see if he's right this time. Maybe he learned something from pissing you people off, or is it your opinion that no one learns anything after age, oh, 28?
We get plenty of stories front-paged on
No, it's a transcript of Nixon in the White House.
You can thank No Child Left Behind for a lot of that.
There you have it — market share is theft!
If a "moderate" Republican wants to spend $223 million on a quarter-mile "bridge to nowhere" then "moderate" has no meaning.
And there's still the mystery of why he inserted an earmark for a contributor in Florida after the bill involved had passed the House and Senate. That bit of extra-Constitutional law-jiggering was hardly the act of a moderate, Republican or not.
Although you can download the development environment (Xcode) and work with non-beta iOS SDKs for free, you still need to pay that $99/year for the iOS developer program if you want to upload code to your own iDevice instead of using the simulator, regardless of whether you want to sell in the App Store. Any developer will have to decide if that's acceptable.
Otherwise I'm generally in agreement.
You seem to be confused and that is okay, there is an almost concerted effort lately among the faithful to confuse the scientific method with faith.
Yes, and there's a similar effort among the scientific faithful to confuse science with religion. Symptoms include believing "myth" and "truth" are opposites and a patronizing tone towards anyone evincing a different point of view on the subject. Since you seem to be able to use Wikipedia, I'd suggest looking up "scientism".
Me, I'm an atheist and I don't see science and religion as being incompatible so much as entirely distinct. They're both tools that we can use, for good or for bad, and if we forget that we're being used by them instead. What many of the more outspoken atheists seem to be doing is imitating the fundamentalism of their would-be opponents, not transcending it — hardly an improvement.
(It's been fun watching my first comment get moderated up, then down, then up, then down again. You'd think something so rational wouldn't be controversial, but what the hey.)
And no, rationality isn't all that's necessary. It's necessary, not sufficient. That shouldn't be a hard concept for someone familiar with Godel.
Whoosh! Do you really think that's not what I'm saying? Is there some other Gödel I'm not familiar with?
Seems to me your patronizing tone is mis-aimed. (That's hardly rational, is it?)
Try teaching belief systems to someone who has been raised without myths and given reason and critical thinking skills.
Such a person would be quite remarkable, but I doubt any such exists. Even science (yes, *S*C*I*E*N*C*E*) has its myths and belief systems, not all of which are true (or provable).
Rationality is under-appreciated by those who have less of it, but often wildly overvalued by many who think they have more — they tend to have an irrational, pre-Gödel belief that a)they are completely and totally rational, and b)rationality is all that's necessary to live a doubleplusgood life. And maybe they'd get away with it, if it weren't for the other 6.3 billion of us meddling with their perfect world.
Remember he's a convicted criminal too, kids.
Yes, credit card fraud when he was 17 (three months' sentence), thirty-five years ago. Then he went to Cambridge, joined the Footlights, and began a brilliant career. (This was all covered in the BBC's celebration of Fry and Hugh Laurie's work just last Wednesday.)
From Wikipedia: "In December 2006 he was ranked sixth for the BBC's Top Living Icon Award, was featured on The Culture Show, and was voted most intelligent man on television by readers of Radio Times. [...] BBC Four dedicated two nights of programming to Fry on 17 and 18 August 2007, in celebration of his 50th birthday. The first night, comprising programs featuring Fry, began with a sixty-minute documentary entitled Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out. The second night was composed of programs selected by Fry, as well as a 60-minute interview with Mark Lawson and a half-hour special, Stephen Fry: Guilty Pleasures. Stephen Fry Weekend proved such a ratings hit for BBC Four that it was repeated on BBC Two on 16 and 17 of that September."
So if anything you're implying an early conviction is a good career move. But I'm sure you've never done anything illegal in your famously-productive life. What kind of example does that set for the kids? Go out and get convicted today!
This is more or less their philosophy. Look at their attempts to squash scripting languages, runtimes & browsers on iOS. There is absolutely zero technical reason for this, it's all to force developers to code to Apple's APIs.
I really doubt you are correct in this. Though the hardware resources available to iDevices are orders of magnitude greater than, say, the original Mac, it's still very easy to bring the CPU to its knees with an ill-chosen line or two of code, and the introduction of even limited multitasking just makes it easier.
I'm not saying there are "absolutely zero" politico-corporate reasons for Apple's decisions in this area, and I can empathize about disliking the tradeoffs in autonomy for iOS developers (the Mac is much less restrictive, and free once you have the hardware), but Apple's had to do a lot of software optimization to assure a reasonable user experience (responsiveness, battery life, etc), and "bare-metal" runtimes that don't work through the public APIs aren't likely to benefit.
You may well be right about Android. Otoh Apple will probably be happy just to skim most of the profits from the smartphone/tablet market as they do now. Both approaches are useful, pick the one that meets your needs.
It' d be interesting to see if there's an analog to the collective behavior of slime molds in Life.
A pretty poor showing for somebody who thinks other people are too dumb to know what democracy is if they disagree with you.
Wow! You're a real fucking idiot!
Ah, I see. If people disagree with you they're idiots. That's entirely different, isn't it?
I may be a fucking idiot, but I hope you're not, as it's probably best for all of us if you don't reproduce. (I can explain that for you if we've exceeded your attention span again. Don't hesitate to ask!)
Wow, I had completely forgotten about the existence of Techdirt.
Yeah, it's been, like a couple of days?
Even Masnick is tired of writing "Streisand effect".
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