Who cares? XML documents are trees. Not easy to store in a relational database unless you *also* just store the serialized data. whoop-de-do.

Everything involves trade-offs, right? So if the relational model is ideal for all data, then tell me why, after all these years and billions of dollars in research, why do we have a file system and store documents in opaque file formats? I mean everything can be ordered into rows and columns, right? Oh, wait, I know: relational databases can store BLOBs, right? But you said you haven't come across data that can't be represented relationally. Why must BLOBs exist? You can't stop there, you must break them down. We can't just say some things fit the model and others are just big opaque BLOBs. I can only imagine your sorrow at being such an idealist living in this evil mirror world.

Yeah that's great when your data fits the relational model.

And after that - 4K 360 degree 3D HDR video.

Actually all I really want is 3D ascii video.

A lot of these iPhone apps are so basic that most of the code is the UI, and without serious software engineering effort or the use of some cross-platform UI tool, no, there is very little that can be cross-platform. And doubly hard if the iPhone apps use apple data store technology like core data. Rewrites are easier. Remember, cross-platform apps are like unisex underwear: possible, but nobody wants it.

I don't see anything like this in (my slice of) the northeast US - philly to boston.

No no, see - your two year-old can do what you can't. Artists are just trying to get back to their two year-old selves that are free from all this cultural baggage that comes with growing up. But what the two year-old does isn't art because he hasn't taken the journey. Like a karate blackbelt that has worn through to white.

That's a bullshit argument. Apple's not leveraging a monopoly; Flash has been installed in 99% of every browser since, when, 1998? It's still on the Mac. iPhone OS is Apple's platform. Nobody has a right to the platform. If you make StupidPlugin, do you have a right to sue Apple to include your code? No.

I am still waiting for a game that plays like real life. You have ONE life. If you die, the game is over.

I, on the other hand, am waiting for saved games and checkpoints in real life.

Actually, the average Joe will most likely NEVER be pestered by FairPlay--or at least not until the average Joe gets his 6th computer and wants iTunes on it. That, however, won't be for years and years (we are talking average Joe, right)

actually, uh, most people use their five authorizations with their friends. It's the easy way to share itunes content.

you use a MBP for note taking? heheheheheh When I was in school we thought it was awesome to have a dumb terminal in our dorm rooms. I remember when the powerbook 100 came out. fuck yeah!