This is so stupid, it makes me hate to world.

That this is a bad idea with a long history is what makes it so grating, and if it's a joke -- which I hope -- it's one that's been done before, better.

RIM seems to be the Commodore of this decade. Good product, dedicated following, "killer management".

I'm not sure what lesson you drew from the Amiga (which was definitely killed by bad [un]management, not because it was closed (which it wasn't) or even overly expensive), but I agree with the general sentiment that Open (which currently equals Android) will win in the long run. It will win on price and volume and being "good enough". Here's an interesting graph ("The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing") which I have not verified in any way. Look at the slope of android vs the apple products. That to me says "android will win in a couple of years".

This assumes that Apple will continue to be AAPL and position themselves as selling exclusive high-end products, meaning they'll try to keep margins very high while refusing to play in some markets on pure principle (like the 7" tablet form which IIRC Jobs didn't want)

What we can expect is ever more litigation from AAPL as the balance of power starts shifting. Perhaps in two years we'll have have a more or less clean split between ios android and win8. In the end though, the march of Commoditization is relentless, and it favors cheap-and-open, neither of which describes MS and Apple.

I've actually been thinking that the phone form factor as we know it today may well go the way of the dodo in the future. Who really makes calls any more? Maybe that Galaxy Note is a transitional form to a bigger device ("tablet") which CAN make calls but is really optimized for reading/dictating. Heck, in the future what's to say that your speech won't be recognized into text or phonemes from text AND speech alike, burst over an IP channel and then synthezied -- possibly in "your voice" -- on the other end. But I digress.

How does your version of grep work and look? Do you draw automatons with the mouse?

You're saying Nigel Farage is a slightly paranoid, homophobic bigot, like Chuck?

Oracle Cloud is combine best of both world: cheap of Oracle Enterprise DB and simple of J2EE.

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I don't agree. Agnosticism is just weak atheism, and only relevant if you ascribe special importance to some religions and their gods. Otherwise, what's the point of being agnostic about EVERYTHING you can't know whether it exists or not? It's nonsense. "Oh, I'm an agnostic about the invisible pink unicorn (blessed be her holy hooves), and about Kropal the mighty God of Making Holes in Socks, and about Thor and about Klaatu and about Mohammed and about Jesus and about Cats being the avatars of our master race and about ...".

Anyone who can seriously invent a god and then say that the only scientific viewpoint is to be agnostic about it (because you know, who knows, right?), is just hiding behind their mother's skirts.

It's not hard to imagine scenarios in which terrorists use children as mules.

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>People in general don't just suddenly switch from non-religious to religious.

Sure they do. They're born athiests, and take up their parents uninformed beliefs so early that no amount of post-infection reason can turn them non-religious.

Hence the infection spreads...

Cool. And when I find you lying in the street having a heart-attack or stroke, I'll just stand there and stare at you because I have no phone on account of there being no contract that was actually usable.

Communication is too important to be left to the "invisible hand". You sound like someone who just had their first economy class and is high on free market ideals.

Because they collude and no telco will offer the service that people want at a reasonable price, that's why. Also, telcos and ISPs shouldn't be allowed to interfere with traffic in any way shape or form beyond what's necessary to make sure it's delivered to its proper destination.

The "VideoCore IV" (aka BCM2763) is hardly mentioned, so the answer is that this document doesn't include the interesting parts. When they say it could be used to port a new OS to the chip, that port wouldn't include any interesting [accelerated] video output.

I'll take this opportunity to state again, publicly, that I have multiple encrypted disks, partitions and files to which I no longer know the password.

Well, if the FBI and the Yard does not have anything to hide, then why are they so upset about being listened in on? They LOVE to live in a surveillance society so much that they're the primary force in bringing it to be!

You should ALWAYS listen to what the police say.

Perhaps the lesson is rather that Anon isn't ONLY made up of scriptkiddies. I know, goes against the talking points, but at some point they do get a bit tired.