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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse It's an attitude founded on ignorance and arrogance, and, unfortunately, all too prevalent today. There's the pot calling the kettle black. If the figures from this trip are ever made public (which they …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Really? In what ways is government not accountable? What sort of actions does it take with a lack of accountability? Does it need to get bigger to actually invest in infrastructure and other necessary expend…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Everyone who has a fortune, "lucks into," it in one way or another. Inheritance, circumstances of birth, being in the right place at the right time, stumbling on what turns out to be a good idea, etc. etc. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton How are you even connected to the Internet right now without luxury technology? I thought the only way you communicated with anyone outside of your subsistence-living commune was by goat courier. Ok…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Steve-J I don't agree that private charity is any substitute for governmental programs. For example, Catholic Charities would not allow gay couples to adopt children in need. I wholeheartedly disagree. I believe t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Yes, most people use the word "should" when standing on soapboxes and pulpits. And did you just say nobody needs Apple's products? Who are you to declare what mankind's needs are? A century ago, peop…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jhende7 So let me see what you think should have happened: Buffet should have been taxed marginally higher because of his success (lets say 50% of his total earnings as a hyperbole). That 20B goes to the government whe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If someone wins the lottery and gives a portion away, I wouldn't describe it as an achievement. No single individual should be able to accumulate and control $44b. It's nice that he decided to donate over $37b t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Foo2 You don't get it? No matter how easy the update process is theoretically, it's impossible to update when an update hasn't been provided--the typical state of Android devices and a never-happened occurrence (knock …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin "We created a new compiler front end that allowed LLVM [Low Level Virtual Machine] to understand ActionScript 3 and used its existing ARM back end to output native ARM assembly code," explains Adobe senior produ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Objective-C on the Mac is only used because of the frameworks, which aren't available on Windows. Without the frameworks, nobody would bother with Objective-C because it's an alien language to most devs who use …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jasenj1 I haven't read through the whole thread, but there appears to be lots of whining about Flash. Can we ignore Flash for a second? What about the other popular frameworks - especially Unity and GameSalad. GameSala…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. But plenty of developers will will not follow the rules and still make money. With other, growing OSs. The developers who choose a different game will make apps for other platforms. And iPhone users will…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse I was starting to wonder if "Sue" were posting from an Adobe IP Wouldn't surprise me... it would explain why it has taken Adobe the better part of a decade trying to make Flash on the Mac suck less. They…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sue Denim There's a few problems. 1) Just because you can't write good flash, doesn't mean others can't. 2) Programmers seem to do worse with Flash than non-programmers. And there's many tools to deliver Flash -- …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sue Denim Before Apple's choice, I would be able to get Wired Magazine written in Air, which was rocking app and a BETTER experience than the website. Now what? It'll cost Wired more time and money to bring it to m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sue Denim To say "Flash Sucks" shows ignorant of software development. Flash is a tool. Do we argue "a screwdriver sucks? It does at pounding nails or cutting wood -- for driving screws, it isn't that bad. There are ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 In the long run I'd really like to see a Python or Ruby IDE on iPad directly supported by Apple - will that happen? If they ever decide to allow GC in the iPhone platform, we would be able to look forward t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by amitofu I think that these are indeed Apple's intentions. And I think they're the right intentions. But I think the way Apple expresses these intentions in their developer agreement has an unintended consequence. Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sue Denim Either Steve Jobs is completely stupid, or thinks we are. Is MacOS X written in machine code? Or does it use intermediate layers like Assembler code, C, or ObjectiveC (which is an intermediate layer betwe…