What an ignorant comment, especially coming from a Slashdot viewer.
Would you spread your legs for open standards? Because that is what Apple is promoting.
Now, if Apple were hawking their own proprietary Flash alternative, you'd have something.
We should be applauding Apple for concentrating on html5.
And, on the grounds that patent law originally specified that methods in and of themselves were not patentable
35 U.S.C. 101: "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title."
Methods are totally patentable, provided they do something useful. You're thinking "abstract algorithms."
Thom... stop the astroturfing. Sheesh.
Oh.. and OSNews is a shitty site. So pbhbhtptpbhh.
From the article:
Participants in these experiments are asked to describe their cultural beliefs. Some embrace new technology, authority and free enterprise. They are labeled the "individualistic" group. Others are suspicious of authority or of commerce and industry. Braman calls them "communitarians."
This seems to miss a huge group of people who mistrust authority, but embrace new technology, commerce, free enterprise and industry. It's bizarre to label those who embrace authority individualistic.
They're marketing to fanboys who want it to be trendy and 'just work', not to nerds.
I'm a hardcore geek. Been writing code since 1980, own tons of hardware running a huge variety of operating systems... probably have a better handle on computer fundamentals than 99% of Slashdot's audience... and I'm incredibly excited about the iPad.
It's going to be funny, again, watching all of the pundits blather on about how Apple's "really blown it this time", that the iPad is nothing but an oversized iPod Touch and a horrible "closed system"... and all the while Apple will be making money hand over fist selling millions of these things to the common man who actually use them... for work, for entertainment, for play.
Stop assuming that everybody wants technology to work the same way you do. Stop thinking that Apple's success stems from their customers' stupidity or ignorance... and that if they'd only see things your way, their lives would be so much better.
Reading code is not like reading prose. It's more like reading poetry, where how the text elements are spaced and aligned can say a lot about the author's intended meaning. If I'm reading a book, I definitely want it typeset with a proportional typeface. Code, on the other hand, is MUCH more legible when set monospaced.
Yes. You probably are the only person "completely satisfied" with USB 2.0 performance.
The oldest working piece of electronic (I have slide rules that are older) gear I have is my first computer, a TRS-80 Color Computer 1 from 1980. 32K of RAM, and Microsoft Extended Color Basic. 300 baud modem, and cassette tape for data storage. Still works perfectly.
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
