Comment Re:GRAIL huh? (Score 1) 62
I'm not your GRAIL-Buddeh!
I'm not your GRAIL-Buddeh!
Yes. Breathtaking footage.
...no.
Enough with the wish-thinking, nerds. Hackers just aren't as populous as non-hackers and never will be, and it's the latter who are buying tablets in droves.
I don't own a single Apple product and most likely never will.
And yet Apple has still made your life better.
Episode 1: Creation
Episode 2: Noah's Ark
...will replace the entire nav-bar with a single "I'm feeling lucky" button.
It's probably fine.
Let Clarkson show you how it's done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3i-HRxf8z4#t=04m39s
(Skip to 4:39 if the link won't do it for you.)
Last year there were around 50,000 registered iOS developers. I think the number is at least double that today.
I don't think that 100,000 is shoring up Apple's numbers much.
...pro machine at the instant FCPX was released?
Damn Apple, that's some cold-ass shit.
If you want to make fanboys squirm, it's good to start by not being wrong. Apple changed an entire industry. Google copied their work and have so far made only obvious, incremental improvements.
I'm not saying this isn't praiseworthy, but being over-congratulatory is a far more myopic worldview than one that fairly acknowledges Apple's initial hammer-blow followed by steady (if slow) improvements.
I think Doc Searls and David Weinberger say it best:
What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.
* No one owns it.
* Everyone can use it.
* Anyone can improve it.
Because the Internet is an agreement, it doesn't belong to any one person or group. Not the incumbent companies that provide the backbone. Not the ISPs that provide our connections. Not the hosting companies that rent us servers. Not the industry associations that believe their existence is threatened by what the rest of us do on the Net. Not any government, no matter how sincerely it believes that it's just trying to keep its people secure and complacent.
To connect to the Internet is to agree to grow value on its edges. And then something really interesting happens. We are all connected equally. Distance doesn't matter. The obstacles fall away and for the first time the human need to connect can be realized without artificial barriers.
The Internet gives us the means to become a world of ends for the first time.
Net Neutrality is a non-issue because it is a fundamental constituent of the agreement that is the Internet. If you want to get rid of Net Neutrality, you have to get rid of the Internet.
Sorry for the cross-post with another story; I think the points made on that site are rather important to the matter at hand.
I think Doc Searls and David Weinberger say it best in their World of Ends site.
Here is an abridged version:
What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.
* No one owns it.
* Everyone can use it.
* Anyone can improve it.
Because the Internet is an agreement, it doesn't belong to any one person or group. Not the incumbent companies that provide the backbone. Not the ISPs that provide our connections. Not the hosting companies that rent us servers. Not the industry associations that believe their existence is threatened by what the rest of us do on the Net. Not any government, no matter how sincerely it believes that it's just trying to keep its people secure and complacent.
To connect to the Internet is to agree to grow value on its edges. And then something really interesting happens. We are all connected equally. Distance doesn't matter. The obstacles fall away and for the first time the human need to connect can be realized without artificial barriers.
The Internet gives us the means to become a world of ends for the first time.
Net Neutrality is a non-issue because it is a fundamental constituent of the agreement that is the Internet. If you want to get rid of Net Neutrality, you have to get rid of the Internet.
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