The Cortex A8 and A9 are in the ARMv7 family. That's probably where the confusion arises.

Don't confuse lack of familiarity with bad design.

You're right. A tool should be all things to all people. In fact, I'm not sure why anyone uses anything except Emacs.

Well ... you know .... users immediately disable as much security on their boxes as they are able to and then click on everything they see, generally prefer Facebook and Farmville over something better, don't understand what a browser is, and confuse their word processors with their OSes. So, yeah, users are on average bad and don't know how to use their tools. Once (if) they learn a tool, they would rather live in perpetual inefficiency than relearn.

I still have hope that this will happen. Google+ is changing so quickly now that making a proposal would be self-defeating. There are quite a few projects that started closed and then opened when the API settled down. Heck, why not publish the source? Google would be smart to open-source Google Apps, too, since its success depends mostly on Google's massive data centers and only slightly on technology itself.

You need to research this and then come back. The issue revolves around responsible disclosure. There are numerous cases of Microsoft refusing to fix a bug for years, sitting on it until the researcher gets frustrated and releases it to the public. Microsoft then tries to ruin the researcher's life in the name of "responsible disclosure."

Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that the definition of responsible disclosure includes giving the vendor a reasonable amount of time before releasing. They believe that it means that the researcher doesn't talk to anyone else, ever. Once they tell the researcher "we're not moving on this right now," all bets are off.

I support responsible disclosure, but that's not what MS offers.

1) I don't read Groklaw. I just linked to it for the court dates, etc. 2) Bill Gates was the CEO then, not Ballmer. You're trying to argue against history, here. The Gates and Ballmer eras are completely different. 3) Vista was released during Microsoft's probation and Ballmer's leadership. 4) And yeah, I remember it all because I lived through it. Seriously. It's all in the court records. Get some perspective and quit trying to re-frame the argument.

Did Ford do it by illegal coercion and exclusivity contracts? Because that's what Microsoft has been convicted of. How about partnering with competing car companies, stealing their secret technology, and then using on Ford cars? MS has been found guilty of that (in the computer field) too.

Since Jonney Shih publicly apologized to Microsoft on stage for daring to show an Android netbook at Computex 2009, I think we can agree that he did that under pressure from MS. What kind of pressure? No one knows. To make a major CEO crawl and scrape, though ....

So you forget Microsoft's deal with the U.S. government to use it and with OEMs to bundle Word, which is really what made almost every large business move to MS Office. Oh, and that was the time when MS switched APIs on WP last minute on the roll-out of Win95, a confusion which the MS Office team didn't suffer from. A combination of savvy business and unethical behavior. That was and is Microsoft's business model. That's why they're still in court over the whole mess.

Because Slashdot is a joke now. It used to be a place where IT people hung out.

And it's finished, folks. The FOSS blog of CmdrTaco has now devolved into Mac vs. Windows arguments. Where are the other options in that equation?

Double-tap headshot to the Zune-bie.

Do not take this as an attack on you or your lifestyle, but I am still confused that there are people who have earplugs in so much of their lives that they need to carry around 50-100 days of 24-hour music. For me, 1-2 hours of music would be fine for a day. Maybe 15 hours for a week's vacation. But 10,000 hours or similar? I can't even imagine ever listening to that much music -- maybe not even in my lifetime, since I listed to songs that I like repeatedly.

I mean, an iPod requires a computer and iTunes to sync to, right?

And, yeah, I'm old. Walkman generation.

Given the history of such purchases over the last ten years, I'd say anyone who buys "lifetime" or "unlimited" anything is just wasting money.