Yes, and you _could_ argue that about the iPhone, you _could_ develop for Android or one of the totally open platforms... and yet the iPhone has been given an exemption from the DMCA. My point is for consistency they either have to allow the "running non approved software" argument to apply to all closed systems, or to none. To just apply it to the iPhone is like passing a law saying you can only do home-mechanics on a Ford.

Okay, but this R4 is needed for Homebrew, which is exactly like non-apple-approved apps on the iPhone. How can I install non-Nintendo approved apps onto my DS?

In the past the UK has always seemed more sensible on these issues. Now it seems that things are improving in the USA, and getting worse in the UK.

How can it be legal to gaol break an iPhone (new DMCA exemption) but not a games-console? The rationale for the iPhone was that the manufacturer should not stop you installing unapproved software, however the locks on a game console serve exactly the same purpose (for example NDS Homebrew).

epoll has already been tried see: "http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26700" The conclusion: "Results shows that the cost of NIO selectors coupled with OS polling mechanism (in this case efficient epoll VS selector/poll) has a significant overhead compared to the cost of context switching 1700 threads on an NPTL Linux kernel."

They probably do not, I cannot say for certain. But I know of designer labels who do - although this fact is not publicised. Really the quality is very good, and if you did not know, you would not guess... So what kind of fashion design do these designer friends of you wife do (If its not clothing)? It might be easier to understand why outsourcing production is not possible if more details were available.

And that's what you get for trying to be helpful... Some people seem to disagree about wedding dresses being designer fashion by the way, a few from Google: http://www.ianstuart-bride.com/ http://www.maggiesottero.com/ http://www.carolinecastigliano.co.uk/ Would you like to email them and tell them they are not fashion designers?

So you agree that it is logistically possible for small businesses, that is progress. So lets address the point about generic and simple: Since when have wedding dresses been generic and simple? The patterns are complicated, have many layers and different fabrics, and everyone wants theirs to be unique.

I know wedding dress designers in the UK that get the dresses made in china and shipped over. It is entirely possible for this to work for a small business. It is even economical to have one dress made and shipped over.

Cant your designer friends get their goods made cheaply in china too? A business is more about customers than supply really. If you have the loyal customers (who buy into the designers vision) they will pre-order unique items that can be cheaply made in china.

But who is to say that even the standard 8bit RGB colour space aligns with the monitors RGB colour space. Surely MPEG colour space will be based on CRTs which have a wider gamut than LCDs in the first place. The extra yellow pixel could be reclaiming some of the colour space lost when moving from CRT to LCD?

Eh? That would mean native iPhone apps that make graphics API calls would also be slow? Sorry don't get your point. Flash (ActionScript) is basically the same thing as JavaScript (same type of language works in the same way, similar syntax). A particular implementation may be slow (badly coded) but that does not mean all implementations will be slow. If JavaScript can do it, then so can Flash. This is definitely a political decision. If Apple wanted flash they could help Adobe produce a good fast implementation on the iPhone, just like they did with JavaScript.

Choice is good, Vendor lock-in is bad. These are the lessons of history, ignore them at you peril. What Apple is doing is good for Apple, it is not good for the consumer nor the developer. The only one who is benefiting from Apples stance on this is Apple. To think that the consumer really benefits from these policies is just post-rationalisation of your purchase decision to buy an iPhone.

This is not possible on Android (Technically you would have to break the flash interpreter, then break the JavaVM, then break the Linux kernel to get one activity to alter another activities private data), as each program runs in its own VM, and each VM has its own "userid". One app cannot affect/infect another. Basically its like a linux system where every app you install gets a new user created to run it. When you start an app Android "logs-in" as that user and runs the app. So android is as secure as a linux system where you cannot su or sudo to root, and every app runs in a separate user account. Kind of like log in as firefox to run the web browser, then start a new x-server and log in as thunderbird on a different virtual console to read your email. For each application you would need to log-in separately and switch virtual consoles to switch between running applications.

Admittedly Flash is not great, but is very much like JavaScript. If the iPhone can technically run JavaScript apps, then it can technically run Flash apps. Anything said to the contrary is political not technical.