Except you are wrong! I work for a company that recently built a mobile version of one of their apps and initially we went down the path of building native versions of the app due to the insistence of one key person. At the end, we ended up using Xamarin studio because native development offered nothing of value and ended costing extra time and money. For example on Android if you want to provide something as simple as an action bar across all version of the OS, you will have to resort to using a 3rd party library like ActionBarSherlock (http://actionbarsherlock.com/) because not all features are available across all version of the OS and that is just on Android; we offer our app under Apple (and previously BlackBerry) as well and each of those platforms have similar complexities. Unless you are building some resource intensive app or 3D game, it makes no sense to go down the path of native development. People on the internet who have no experience in the real world development always have this mentality that native is better, the idea that c/c++ > Java/C# when in the real world you have to be smart and pick the RIGHT TOOL for the job and not make a irrational and emotional decision.

You can built incredible apps and UI using PhoneGap. Browse the list below and you'll be surprised how many popular apps are built using nothing more than Javascript and HTML5:

http://phonegap.com/app/

Just because an app is using something like PhoneGap doesn't mean it will provide you with a inferior experience than a native app. A lot of apps these days are using things like PhoneGap and Xamarin Studio, you just don't realize it. Browse to the list of apps built with PhoneGap below, you'll be surprised how many popular apps were built using Javascript and HTML5: http://phonegap.com/app/

Except most app developers want to target as many users across as many devices as possible so it makes more sense to use tools that target the most "common denominator". It makes very little financial sense to spend months on a native app that runs on handful of devices rather than most device using a tool like PhoneGap.

I'll put it this way, chance of creating an AI like the Skynet which forms conciousness with the ultimate goal of hurting humans, then managing to spread computer to computer to protect itself from getting unplugged and somehow getting hold of a robot assembly to build vessels is remote to none. To form the conciousness required to match or rival the humans you need insane processing power which we simply don't have yet, a simple PC ain't going to cut it and frankly I doubt even the Chinese super computer is enough to run an AI which could form the complex conciousness and self awareness required to form ideas about hurting humans. Its just not going to happen any time soon.

I swear Netflix's House of Cards foreshadows everything we are seeing in American politics. Its almost like watching a documentary.

The article is discussing aligning AI with human values and making sure it is not harmful! I don't think these neural nets are what they are concerned with. All these guys like this Stuart Russell, Stephen Hawkings and Elon Musk are talking about AI that we are not even remotely close to building, and if we do manage to build one anytime soon, it will be so primitive that we can just pull the plug out the wall if it becomes a real concern.

When we have an AI that can form a basic thought, maybe then we can start to have a discussion about the ramifications, until then all these guys are putting the cart before the horse.

No it should be illegal! Just because you see some people abuse it doesn't mean the system doesn't work and should be abandoned completely. There are legitimate reasons why these laws exist, for example: http://www.businessinsurance.c...|70|83|329|302|339|91

Firstly, people go to Emirates for a different reason, they put up with abuse and lack of human rights so they can save up money and eventually go somewhere else such as United States. Secondly, people come to US for many reason aside from wealth and freedom, equality is one them. They want their children to have equal opportunity rather than be treated as second class citizens because of their race, gender, sex and sexual orientation.

No-one is talking about some Affirmative action or racial quotas, I'm talking about laws that protect people from abuse such as the one linked in the article above.

This is the dumbest thing I have ever read! So what you say is people should just give up and be discriminated against? Listen the reason why to this day US is an attractive destination for immigration (to a point where someone is welling to accept lower pay just to get here) is because we have laws that protect people against this kind of discrimination. If we just give up and allow our values to erode then we will be going backwards when countries like India and China are fighting to achieve what we have here in west in terms of equality.

Yes there are! I personally know one at my company who is as a matter of fact very good at what he does and incredibly knowledgeable. Your assumption that Microsoft products somehow attracts idiots more than other products is stupid.

Most CIO aren't worth shit, trust me at the company I work for our CIO is a total fucking moron and god knows how he landed his job, I doubt its any different at LG.

You must be thick in the head, that statement isn't ordering you to comply, it is simply advising users against running it. So by all means go ahead and run it and stop looking for reasons to complain!

That's a dumb reason to prosecute! If a company buys nude photos from a minor without checking their age, then the responsibility should be on the company not the child.

And why is doing C/C++ work more important or valuable than doing web development work? Just because your UI is built using HTML/CSS/Javascript it does not automatically become less challenging. Here is a short list of what is involved with the web development project I'm involved in:

• Interfacing with the billing system using SOAP
• Interfacing with Oracle EBS for inventory and logistics
• Development in accordance to PCI guidelines for credit card handling
• User tracking and analytics
• Error handling and logging
• Reporting
• CMS integration
• Front end development using: AngularJS, Bootstrap, less, Grunt, nodejs
• Unit testing

And this is just some of what is involved with this one project, so how is this less challenging than creating some application using C/C++? Just because C++ requires manual memory allocation or bounds checks it is somehow more challenging? I have worked as a C++ developer for several years on a very large commercial software and it had its own challenges, but it was no more challenging than building large enterprise applications geared towards the web.