(...)They don't have any agenda. They won't make more money either way and they aren't any different from any other researcher I know.(...)
Sorry, but the moment a Nobel was handed out based on global warming, research grants were definitely handed out preferably to those trying to prove global warming instead of disproving. That's where climate researchers' agenda comes from. It's not evil, just egoistic.
Oh, if you just want one link of a climatologist going all apocalyptic, that's easy enough: Hurricane Irene’s dangerous power can be traced to global warming
Now, please stop shouting and swearing. It does make you look like a dumbass.
Bad for who? The developers who make over 17x more money on the Apple app store than the Google app market
That argument is a double edged sword. If the developers make 17x more, and Apple does not have 17x the market, then consumers are hurting by paying 17x more for the same content. You know, fixed high prices is a sign of a non-efficient market.
I concur with the OP. You did follow the easiest route, and it does seem the feeble willed attitude. You both overestimate the work to maintain an Android install (similar to iOS), the existing malware (again, similar) and underestimate the evil that lurks in Apple's management of the market (removal of apps competing with Apple itself, namely).
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing", Edmund Burke
Now, you either: a) Disagree with Burke; b) Defend that Apple is not evil in any way; c) Defend that you can make business with Apple and still pressure towards betterment, or; d) Concede that you don't care and then it's perfectly OK to say fuck you all to those people that took the high road and are now expressing their feelings towards your position (but at least man up and really assume your position).
That said, as an American living in Europe, I admit to having a bit of a preference for the US model: it seems that the European mobile companies (or at least those I've used in Switzerland and Germany) charge significant rates for a mobile user to call a number on other domestic mobile carriers (on the order of $0.40 USD per minute in Switzerland depending on carrier, a bit less in Germany), and lower-but-still-steep rates (about $0.20-$0.30 USD per minute) to call landlines. Landline-to-mobile calls are about $0.35/minute.
Those are caused by "termination fees", which are fees charged by a telecom operator to any other operator that wants to call a subscriber on its network. They are unjustifiably high in Europe, and the root cause for the large roaming costs between EU countries. Fortunately, the European Commission has already put out a plan to almost eliminate these fees, gradually until, I believe, 2015. These are being passed into national law at EU countries, at each parliament's own rate.
It is more flexible, can handle certain situations that cannot be handled elegantly in class-based inheritance
like what?
You have to try hard not to see good examples out there in use. The most common case is the prototype version of the Decorator pattern, seen in the uniformization of DOM support across browsers done by jQuery (and similar libraries). Decorator patterns with multiple-class subclassing gets ugly fast, and is trivial with JS.
Rubbish attitude - this is why software is regarded as a 'hobby' for inexperienced and generally poor developers - you're too busy 'learning something new' all the time and not focussing on getting things done.
You can't possibly be a top-notch developer. Any good coder out there is just a bit hampered by the use of a new language in a new project. Languages are easy. It's a couple of hours to grasp the syntax. APIs are more difficult, but then again, the slowness in developing against a new API wears off in a week of work.
Unless some new unknown paradigms are introduced, in the language and/or in the API, it's like dancing the tango to a new tune: You make it up, just like you made it up before.
Not to support the loonies here, but your test could fail even if the effects are valid. Simple example, happens with me and some people I know: I am able to hear the very high-pitch sound emitted by old CRTs. I can clearly distinguish some of them being switched on or off immediately (I'm looking at you Sony Black Trinitron), some I can't hear ever, but some are on the threshold of conscious hearing: i.e. I get a sense of relief once the TV is shut-off, but wouldn't have picked up it being switched on.
I would fail a blind test testing for the ability to hear CRT TVs, and I know for sure that I can hear them.
The light we see with our eyes is really a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Just so you know...
I'll take a language that has strong support for subclassing, thanks.
Given that javascript is a classless object-oriented language, your comment really makes it sound like you haven't yet reached that A-HA moment about javascript.
Prototype-based inheritance is much much more powerful than any kind of subclassing I've seen on any class-based OO language.
I installed 11.04 this week, and I totally disagree. I absolutely love top-level navigation taking over horizontal space instead of vertical space, as well as other vertical-space saving features, such as moving the menu onto the title bar. Naturally, I appreciate this more because my laptop has a 12" display. Were I on a 24" desktop LCD and I could spare space for the menus. However, if you are so inclined, this is just a gtk option. It's easy to move menus to their standard location, Unity does not bind you to that decision.
As for readability with icons on the left, just maximize your windows or move them to the left of the screen. It will push the icons away.
Sometimes, I think people criticize ANY change. I'm not involved with Unity and have not accompanied its development. The final result was a total surprise to me this week. I like it. There are corners to be polished, for sure, but it's an excellent first version.
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