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I saw nothing that constituted a "lie." This is an article from an obvious Android fan (looking at Seth Weintraub's other articles, it's all Google, all the time) who didn't like that Apple took some shots at competing tablets. I have to agree with one of the comments to the article that says Android fanboys are as bad as Apple fanboys, maybe even worse because they act like the fact Android is open source is some great benevolent act of morality--Google is simply an advertising company giving people free services in order to index their data for contxt-sensitive advertising space.

I imagine that a lot of Apple competitors and their fans were upset at the iPad 2 announcement, because it really seems as if will be another hit.

What an odd headline. I guess "Chrome Finally Gets 50% Of What Firefox Has" doesn't make Chrome look good enough. The stats show that Firefox still has about 20% share, while Chrome only has about 10%. While there is a downward trend for Firefox right now, that's also attributable to Firefox 4 not being available yet.

This headline seems like the author's conclusion getting pushed on the reader. There's no telling whether or not Chrome will capture Firefox at all, because anything can happen in the future. Perhaps Firefox 4 will be great; perhaps Chrome marketshare will flatten out; perhaps IE9 will be a huge success that draws users from all the other browsers.

The Kochs have donated to several libertarian causes, many of which would be considered "liberal," such as in favor of abortion. Hell, David Koch was the 1980 vice-presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.

The people attacking the Koch brothers are from the Left--left-wing blogs, left-wing radio hosts, and so on. You don't give any reasons why my statements missed the mark, so I can only assume you have none. You may not like the phrase simply because you don't like being labeled--I'm sure the Right feels the same way.

Anonymous is just a label any anonymous people can use, and I didn't make a determination about who any anonymous people belonged to. I simply described the recent attacks on the Koch brothers, which is most definitely coming from the Left.

The sudden attacks on the libertarian Koch brothers from the Left is pretty silly and closed-minded.

In that 0.000001% of the time (snicker), your email is 100% inaccessible.

"If you need or rely on a 100% accurate re-representation of your content, Word should not be your tool. Never. Use PDFs."

Or a Mac.

What about people whining about the people whining? You could fix the bug and shut everyone up!

That seems unusual. My experience with Windows 7 is that it's simply a repackaged Vista with an OS X dock.

> However, the video game industry has matured since then, and walled gardens are no longer very helpful (there are far more than sufficient resources these days to determine which games to buy and which to avoid based on individual preferences).

The game console industry is still very much based on walled gardens.

I believe Google wants the Android Store to be full of free apps...that just happen to be supported by Google ads. Otherwise, Google doesn't get anything out of the Android platform.

I think it's weird that they differentiate between blogs and Facebook. Facebook is a blog, like Myspace was. Even Twitter is just a mini-blog.

Identity politics? No, it's a simple statement of maturity. Youth today live longer at home with their parents, for example, and adulthood is postponed longer than previous generations. Many of them justify it with bitterness toward standard expectations, such as with your comment about a "parenthood hobby" and your derision of population numbers.

Penn & Teller on bottled water:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0A7v8PeFNk (1/2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3px6o-6-w (2/2)

A pre-adult is an embarrassing man-child who thinks playing videogames and posting anime on 4chan is something grownups do. It's a state of perpetual teen.

Your software would still be open under a BSD license. Using it in a closed-source project doesn't automatically remove the existence of the open source version.

It's hard to know the tone and context of the statement in its era. Perhaps it was simply a philosophical statement about God's intentions; perhaps it was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek; perhaps it was mis-translated.

My favorite has always been the one by Wilbur Wright:

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions."

Reminds me of the Bill Gates 640kb quote. Gates has denied saying it, but even if he had, it would have been an accurate statement at the time it was supposedly made.

"Soon your browser will be synonymous with your computer."

This prediction is going on 20 years old. :)

Like most things in life, there's a middle-ground and a balance between the extremes that isn't easy to figure out. There's no easy answer for such things.

Wave was definitely overhyped. That's why so many sought beta invites and why so many were confused and disappointed when they finally got in.

Many people thought replacing email and IM with some grand collaborative technology would be spectacular too. A lot of articles were written about Wave, breathlessly reciting the history of email in their opening paragraphs as if it was already a given that Wave was a successor of equal magnitude.

I'm not convinced at this point in time that NaCl offers enough advantages over the rapid development of JavaScript or the power and speed of operating system APIs. Apps running in the browser was attempted in the 90s with Java, and NaCl been around for a few years now. This link is just announcing that it's supporting the Pepper plug-in interface in Chrome.

"Suing people who are giving you money...spending millions on propaganda deeming sharing an illegal act."

How is someone who is pirating music giving the RIAA money? Isn't sharing copyrighted materials in fact an illegal act?

I've long thought that a lot of the RIAA hatred stems from pirates looking for a scapegoat to portray as the "real" bad guy so as to negate their own guilty feelings. It's easier to rip artists off if you feel like you're ripping off some evil, faceless corporation instead. It's silly that anyone was upset with the RIAA over suing people who were pirating their copyrighted materials. They were well within their rights to do so, and it's their job to protect the rights of the content owners they represent.

Unfortunately, opinions like this one are often drowned out. Many people have grown so accustomed to the free ride that they don't want it taken away, and they don't want to be reminded that they are in fact ripping artists off. The artists must always be kept out of the equation.

/r/programming has become more like a generic technology link dump. The few programming-related links it does get tend to be either about functional-programming-language-of-the-month or a pointless JavaScript demo.

The most recent and best example is when a bunch of Redditors attacked some girl doing a cancer fundraiser:

http://gawker.com/#!5751581/misguided-internet-vigilantes-at...

Apple doesn't want to own everything. They're happy being the BMW of tech and generate massive profits.

Comparing this situation to monarchies and abuses of power is stupid. It's just an in-app subscription model for a mobile OS that nobody is being forced to use.

Sure can't wait for "net neutrality." What could possibly go wrong in having politicians determine what fair traffic is rather than letting sysadmins manage the bandwidth on their privately-owned networks as they wish?

"great for GUIs, not so great for writing drivers"

NeXTStep had DriverKit, a framework for writing drivers in Objective-C, and this was on 1990s-era PCs. Driver performance is I/O-bound and typically has little to do with the language the driver was compiled in.

The point of a dictatorship is that the people don't have a say. The dictator does what he wants and portrays himself as benevolent through state-run media.

NeXTStep drivers were written in Objective-C using a framework called DriverKit, and this was on 90s machines.

Objective-C is just C; there is no inherent performance penalty other than the dynamic dispatch of messages. In situations where that would actually be an issue, you'd be avoiding object-oriented features in C++ as well.

However, driver performance bottlenecks are typically in I/O throughput, not the language the driver was compiled in. The fact OS X drivers are written in a C++ subset likely has to do with the demands of device manufacturers coming over from MacOS 9, just like the existence of Carbon was to appease application developers like Adobe.