Just because Slashdot nerds have the (utterly unreasonable) expectation that they are so right that everyone else should shut up doesn't mean that the rest of the world is under any obligation to follow along.

What does being first to market mean? How many pre-Google search engines do people bother using today?

There's nothing quite like a person ignorantly admitting ignorance to make me laugh out loud.

This is the world where sleeping in the park is the method to achieve greater corporate accountability.

It's not so much cognitive dissonance as utter lack of cognition.

The comments in this thread are interesting, to say the least. All manner of Android fans reading all manner of things not said, and responding with FANBOY FURY.

Fun stuff!

If noone can't do it, no one can.

Well, we should give up without trying, I guess.

I know! Let's just demand those who have already succeeded take care of us! That way we don't have to do anything at all. We can all sleep in a park to make this happen. It's BRILLIANT.

I highly suspect that your anecdotal evidence is worth the paper you wrote it on.

I find your faith in authority disturbing

Probably because the pirates grasp the advantages of free entertainment and refuse to pay for stuff, so the publishers hope to make that painful?

Doesn't work, of course, but at least it's fun to watch everyone on all sides shit in the well and then complain that the water tastes funny...

You mean atmospheric models aren't perfect predictors of atmospheric phenomena? DENIERS!

All the time, and winning, at that.

I suppose if you start from the supposition that you have no chance, things would seem a lot more bleak, but I'm not sure how much credit you want for giving up before you've even tried. No one gives points for that.

Can you explain to me how allowing people to copy something wholesale is innovation, whereby enforcing a framework that causes people to come up with new ways of achieving things stifles invention? I have such a hard time understanding this, particularly in light of the fact that the technology marketplace is thriving, larger than ever, and showing no signs of slowing down.

You should watch with the arrogant phrasing when your point is so stupid. It makes you look twice as foolish.

One might ask "why bother to hire a xenophobe who has given up on competing because things aren't handed to him?"