A miracle would be if we never had natural disasters. Or if we had a giant earthquake and *not one person* died.
Isn't that what happened with the Chilean miners? I don't think there were any deaths... that's pretty miraculous.
I asked a TSA guy about this, and he said that "we're developing new x-ray scanning technology that can check drinks, but it won't be ready until 2012, and it is very expensive."
Huh? The Japanese have solved this problem with a fucking microwave oven, and we're wanking about with this ridiculous security theater?
Don't expect innovation when throwing money at the problem will suffice.
When it comes to servers, gaming consoles, smart phones, tablets, or any other internet devices: not so much...
Last I checked, their gaming console is doing pretty well. Their success there should give them ideas on how to expand into the mobile market. In fact, I would expect Windows Phone 7 to go just like the Xbox series has. The first version will be good, but not great. The second generation will be where they take a bite out of the market.
...this is probably a billion dollar investment for Apple.
Is that why the 11-inch Macbook Air costs $1000?
How is this any different the Ubuntu Linux? It doesn't come with flash either. You have to download it directly.
Because Apple's philosophy is to take the burden off the user. Here, they're increasing the burden on the user. That's what makes this noteworthy.
A platform is not really "open" if it's only open in a way that 1%ers (1% most technical users) can do anything with it that benefits from openness.
That's nonsense. How many Linux users do you think actually use the source provided? Probably close to 1%. Does that make Linux not open?
1% of Linux users? So what, like 5 guys?
"but in the consumer market who is going to actually purposefully buy a windows phone?" Me?.
You don't exist in Macboy's world.
If a 6600 used paper tape instead of core memory, it would use up tape at about 30 miles/second. -- Grishman, Assembly Language Programming
