no not eclipse, but it is being eclipsed.

I mean, the feature set they offer has fallen behind other systems...except for multi-touch..

My G1 has had pretty much all the features for 8 months that the iPhone is just now getting. I still have more features.

The reviews of the next iPhone had no real innovation either; which surprised me.

I thinking that may have ridden the iPod/iPhone innovations to the end.

I hope not, I always like companies raising the bar. I just don't see the same thing that was there a few years ago.

This may slide a bit off topic, but how the hell professionalism got such a good reputation? Is it some measure of quality that people who create a product must be persuaded with money to do something they wouldn't otherwise do? Maybe I do too much thinking instead of watching commercials, but for me the word professional has closer connotations to prostitution than quality.

Also MythTV along with most free software projects are done by amateurs, by definition being motivated by love to what they do, so demanding professionalism is an oxymoron.

Of course TFA is about how FF may become more chrome-like. I found FF 3 to be a good middle road between the austere Chrome and the Baroque IE.

The problem with most, if not all of these surveys is that they consider every pirated instance or download a loss of profit whether the person would have paid for or even uses it or not. A pirated instance of photoshop is not a loss of profit if the individual would have never paid for it in the first place. Granted there is some profit lost to pirated software but its signifigantly less than what these studies seem to suggest. That doesnt make it any more ethically acceptable but it's the truth. In my opinion this may simply a lobbying tactic to gain sympathy from law makers for more strict legislation.

> This, of course, puts them into a bind: Without enough viewers, you can't justify the advertising
> costs for specific slots so you either charge less for a specific time slot in order to attract
> advertisers or you lose them. If you lose them, you're not bringing in the revenue

Of course, anyone with cable or equivalent should know already.... the upside is, that for any given time slot, there isn't all that much competition. Nearly every time I hit "guide" and look for a show to relax and watch for a few, I find myself wondering why I even pay for TV.

1100 channels of nothing worth watching is impressive, but, not uncommon.

-Steve

Which is no surprise, really, when you look at his record on running his own businesses... or should I say the businesses that were given to him by family and friends.

And if an advanced user can't tweak it sufficiently so that the things they do repeatedly can be done in one or two keystrokes, then it's meant only for the new users... Thus my disappointment with Chrome.

What a hate filled post you wrote. Seek some counseling or something.

There is nothing fanatical about understanding statics that show one company has 21% of the revenue, while several other companies have to divide 28%...

In regards to user-base, its a significant difference if the product is paid for or given away. That's lost revenue. It effects the sharholders.

Exactly, which is why either Wikipedia has it wrong (that antitrust and competition are interchangeable in common usage), or people are misreporting what it is that Adobe is claiming and what the inquiry means.

I'm pretty sure Adobe (and other 3rd party toolkit devs/users) don't care what the semantics of the term is, other than Apple could be construed as acting in an anti-competitive way by saying you can only compile code in Objective C/Xcode, and that is what this inquiry will investigate.

Price fixing, tying, refusal to deal, dumping, etc. are all anti-competitive activities that can and are regulated without the perpetrator being a monopolist.

See Dunbar's number. This is a concept covered, as my Anonymous sibling is correct to believe, in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

Interesting. I thought you could use other tools to write games for consoles. I swear I've at least heard of "middleware" tools for consoles.

Apparently NEC's standards are not as high as their own customers standards are.

Yes, you can RDP on Android. Not sure about iPhone.

I'd argue that BP was probably not innocent in any shortcuts Halliburton took, and I'm not talking legally. And I see no reason to give BP the benefit of the doubt. But you're right, "obviously" was overstating things.

Refusing to help start a spying program is quite a bit different than refusing to hand over access to the city's systems. If you can't see the difference, I really hope for your sake you don't work in an IT department, or if you do you have a realy good lawyer.