I see, so, you think you can tell us who's a "real" human based on your brush so broad, it fails to paint? How, sir, could you say that any successful genius wasn't one of those, one day? But no, you need someone easily digestible.. maybe you could toss "jew" and "n*gger" in there, too?

You doth toil too hard at failing!

trolololol you said "occupier" like a noun - because you can't handle the fact a movement can be composed of people from all walks of life. Life - you know - that thing you get when you stop toiling to sound like an ass.

but apple's implementation runs on that! and intel's offering is more powerful then what's in smartphones now anyway. (at least for the moment). What's your point?

you know, if done correctly, as apple did it, "eye candy" can be quite efficient. Unless you like your video card sitting there, doing nothing, being /efficient/ (rolls eyes)

so true! at least put security at the method call level, not in the code-body! A user of an API should NOT be capable of even running if the user does not have permission!

people obviously want it - they love iOS - they just don't know that's what they love about it. Neither, apparently, do the developers who seek to mimic Apple's success (which is really the realization of a basic programming pattern that they've had the time and money to really polish), but can't quite make it. Note how no one is serious competition for apple. That's because the competitor companies all think short term. Apple had the patience to do - and MAYBE Google has that patience too.. but the rest of the industry doesn't have the attention span to care about the enduser or developer (and if you don't consider developers a customer, man, you will NEVER have adoption worth anything. Apple understands this, hell they even sell their API for 99$ (the iOS app fee) to which developers feel they receive a product or service, and that further helps apple's image since people assign value to things they pay for.

You can't tell me choosing Java, and only Java, for android tablets was really caring about the dev community. Where is the interface builder and GUI for android? Is it an eclipse plugin? Bottom line, can i download it and write some code? No? WTF!

ah... no. It's what most people have been given. It is a failing of developers and PHB's.. They FAIL to realize the power of dynamically typed UI. They fail to realize the power of animation. They fail fail fail.

The reason apple is special is because Steve Jobs shouted down developers (probably reading this now - you - yes.. YOU) that obviously have no connection to their user base.

(The API's of windows and Android all come off like premature optimization. The thing got apple right was the power of Objective-C over C - and most of you developers that read this STILL won't get it. C++ - even Java - are horrible UI metaphors. You start with trash, you end up with trash)

well we [the industry] will be just happy selling encryption with the tagline: so secure - no one can break it - except your average McForensic dude with a software package you can torrent. See, secure!

um - ITS THE PEOPLE (finally, i knew they were somewhere) not a corporation... people that don't hire other people to lie full-time on the TV for them, so maybe it is a little less presentable to the media at large.. I think i'm okay with that.

Not the honor system, but it relies on the idea that a CD is a license to listen to the music. The RIAA should put their whole inventory online, assign them uuid's hashed with the users uuid, and provide a clearing house so that it's the NUMBER on the cd case that entitles you to the music, not the CD itself. it's a thought... closer to reality then stomping out the practice of selling used music is.

Not that I want to help those asshole culture pimps along or anything.

you are wrong. The chemical that TOTALLY screwed the pooch (not even benzene was close) was.... caffeine.

RIGHT the fuck on. +5, bigup, the facts of life.... here gentlemen - you have your answer.

the thing was as slow as molasses! oh my god, just flipping through numbers was a royal pain. Looks were all it had - and we. the public loved it. Says more about us then the phone ;(

if you want inexpensive and reliable, i loved the Kyocera Zio - you can probably find it without cell service, and with cricket its 60/mo unlimited everything. Bottom line, the device is slower, but has a BEAUTIFUL 800x480 screen that fits in your hand, and that, and price, make it my fav. phone and most recommended, by me.

My best idea is to use a hundred pulsed water guns and a laser that can be precisely aimed on the fly. You emit downward-dropped, fast-moving squirts of water algorithmically timed so that when the drop reaches the "pixel" the laser also illuminates that spot, making a pixel appear in midair. If the guns are in a row, that's a 2D plane. You could do this with a 100x100 water guns to make a 3d system, where 2d is the box of water guns on the ceiling, and 3D is when the drop is illuminated.

Make sense? I so want to do this!

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Every CS major knows the time/space tradeoff. Those majors never get taught the third tradeoff of the set: comprehension