Comment Thanks for reminding me... (Score 1) 608
...to donate to Wikipedia!
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Indeed, the basic concept is good, but reading the "quick" manual reveals a usability disaster, with overloaded inobvious functionality, and my favorite, it apparently freaks out if you move the switches too fast. And yeah, it's ugly as hell. Turns out simplicity is hard, and this company clearly didn't put in the effort.
"And the biggest bulls-eye appears to be on Android, in large part because its architecture is most like that of the desktop PC"
This seems like a very dubious claim to me. From my perspective, iOS seems much more similar in architecture to the desktop than Android.
iOS apps are native compiled, written in dialect of a language that is famous for buffer overruns (C), and the userland is a modified version of a desktop operating system.
Android, while also based on a desktop OS (Linux) at the kernel level, has much of the application code (and all third party apps) running in a manage VM environment, which while not invulnerable, seems much less likely to fall victim to poor coding practices. The exceptions would be of course apps that embed native libraries (I'm guessing these are the exception, not the rule).
Author Iam Bogus responds to the furor that arose over Moleskine's recent announcements that the end user agreement for their notebooks prohibits writing in them with anything other than approved Cross pens:
"[A] large number of writers seem to think that they have the right to compose essays in their Moleskine notebooks (or for anything else) in using Bic pens, or another writing instrument of their choosing. Literally, the right, not just the convenience or the opportunity. And many of them are quite churlish about the matter. This strikes me as a very strange sort of attitude to adopt. There's no question that Bic pens are useful and popular, and they have a large and committed user base. There's also no question that it's often convenient to be able to compose on different kinds of paper using writing instruments one already has. And likewise, there's a long history of cutting out items written on paper alien to a notebook and pasting it in in a fashion that makes it feel like it belongs there. But what does it say about the state of written composition at large when so many writers believe that their 'rights' are trampled because they cannot write in a particular notebook with a particular pen? Or that their 'freedom' as creators is squelched for the same reason?"
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