umm... and which monopolies would those be?

yeah, it's called China. IP/copyright means nothing to them and trying to enforce it is impossible.

Just sayin'

I'm not a shill, I just think your logic is flawed.

So because they are large makes them evil? Yes, they have a lot of products some of which are bought and they make them easy to use together with optional integration which honestly makes them easier to use. Yes, they do scrap together information about you is to send you relevant adverts because that is their ENTIRE business model!

Everything I've seen indicates that Google has a very different MO from your typical business.

- Their business is advertisement but they dont assault you with intrusive ads and they dont try to stop programs like AdBlock which completely undermines their business model. Hell, they even make it easy to install in Chrome's app store.
- Everything they make is free and you aren't forced to use or even have them. They support Mozilla even though they have a competing browser. You can uninstall all Google related apps on Android if you want, straight up replace Android or even use a fork of Android (see Cyanogen).
- Whenever they screw up, they fess up and try to make it right instead of burying it and denying it. Remember the wifi stuff? They could have easily denied it, buried and deleted all information related to it but instead they fessed up, helped governments determine the harm they had done and took the fines doled out.
- You also don't see Google suing people to death, they have only launched countersuits against those suing them (a MAD tactic). Everyone in the mobile market seems to be suing everyone else but Google isn't playing that game. Remember when they caught MS copying results and putting them in Bing? Google didn't take legal action against MS, they just outed MS for doing it. Furthermore, MS denied that they did at all and then said they used "different vectors" of obtaining data. If it were the other way around, MS would have sued their pants off of Google.

So tell me, what have they done that is so evil, collect information to serve you relevant and easily blocked advertisments?

I like Google (and some of their products) because they are the most ethical (for profit) company I know and they honestly seem to be trying to improve the world rather than just bleed it dry for money.

are you sure this is true about ARMv8? i saw they made significant strides in power consumption which i'm betting relates mostly to the higher frequencies.

i get the feeling that this is high enough profile where the extortionist is going to get a beatdown by one of the tech companies involved.

if it's so seldom accessed that it has to be moved to an optical disc, email the person and ask if they want to keep it and if they dont respond or say no, just delete it. if you have forgotten all about using your facebook account, it's unlikely that you want it to be on record for all time.

power efficiency which is important in datacenters. electricity isnt free.

the first version always sucks. wait for TwoDrive.

The same can be said for processors, programming languages, pop culture icons/events or video games. there are billions of ARM based devices and yet few have even heard of an ARM processor. people all around the world use magnetrons on a daily basis and yet few people even know the very name of them or even where they are. there is no reason anyone should have to know about the existence of any of these because they will never need to.

it's all about relevance.

why is it that i've only heard of "internet addiction" being a problem in china and it only being a problem in minors? there seems to be a large piece of the puzzle missing and possibly being swept under the rug.

i'm so glad it's clearly defined in the summary so that i dont have to look it up.

this is why we cant have nice things.

the toolkit is split into modules that can be used completely independently of each other. If you only want the GUI stuff, you can use just the GUI module.

binding are completely third party software to Qt. you might as well complain about gtkmm while you're at it.

obviously you have not used Qt in the last five years.

where is the "-1 Ignorant" mod?

so... how many US journalists do you think have one of these monitoring devices?

My Darling Oracle,
Please add as many bells and whistles as you can, throw in all the experimental features that are poorly tested and don't worry about security. If you would be so kind to do this, everyone would finally agree to uninstall Java and never ever use it again. You have sabotaged all the other things you have bought so why not Java? Come on, you know you want to.

Love,
Every Server Admin Ever

Yes, we can have mature conversation about Java.

1) Should become a Java developer? Consider all the hate so many people project at Java. Do you think people just hate it because it's so great? You dont get respect if dont act respectable.
2) Java keeps needlessly expanding and some parts get dropped.
3) Java is not a long-lived everyday programming language. Java showed up about the mid 1990s. C has been going strong since the early 1970s. C++ was an extension of C that came around in the 1980s.
3.1) How many programs do you have that are written in Java? The one's on your smartphone? Well, do you want to write those forever?
3.2) OSes are written in C and C++.
3.3) You can go with C# but you will be stuck on Windows until MS decides to reinvent the wheel again and C and C++ will still be widely used.

Java: write once, slow everywhere.