2010-04-04, 21:28 | Link #6781 | |
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Windows Phone 7 uses the same exact closed garden approach as Apple... I guess Microsoft wants a tight control of the device just like Apples... I dunno... but as long AT&T continues to cripple the Android devices, there is no appealing reason to switch and the Jailbreak at the moment is the only thing possible to make the iPhone a usable device. Can't be any worse than Sony, who took away my OtherOS feature on my fat Playstation 3.
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2010-04-04, 23:05 | Link #6782 |
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I'm not a big fan of the "closed garden", but the iPhone/iPad seems a bit more open than the Wii. From what I understand, you can't even get a Wii developer's kit unless Nintendo approves your IDEA. With the iPad, you can get a dev membership cheap or free and create what you want, test it on a virtual iPad, and even download it to an iPad locally. The wall is really around the App Store garden.
Also, the truly open platform is cloud-hosted through a browser. You can do that as much as you want without Apple's permission.
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2010-04-04, 23:25 | Link #6783 |
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And that's where the closed-wall encompasses the iPhone and it's derivatives, as the App Store is the only way to get native, non web-based, applications onto an iPhone, and is the only place that iPhone users can get applications. Apple also have this habit of rewriting the iPod music library database format with every major release of iTunes, breaking compatibility with 3rd party managers. I still cannot use the latest version of Floola to sync my iPod nano, without having to plug it into iTunes afterwards so it can rewrite my database.
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2010-04-05, 07:07 | Link #6784 | |
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2010-04-05, 08:10 | Link #6785 |
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I just can't stand the media circus surrounding the damn thing. The iPad is not breaking news, it does not deserve 30 min plus coverage every hour in a 24 hour newscycle, there is more pertinent news occuring across the globe, or even in our back yards. I swear journalism has gone to a place of no return, a place filled with vapid non news, only there to shill the next consumer good, or peddling the next fear inducing story. So much for staying informed with the "news".
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2010-04-05, 08:29 | Link #6786 |
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Gone? Meh. I don't see how the iPad buzz is any different from the host of things that by all rights shouldn't interest us, but do. News have always been filled with them. Sports results, happenings in the private lives of various celebrities, missing white girls...
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2010-04-05, 09:08 | Link #6787 | |
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2010-04-05, 10:20 | Link #6788 | |
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So what kind of news would interest you? Japan changing her currency from Yen to Moe? Scientists starting to breed catgirls?
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2010-04-05, 10:41 | Link #6790 | |
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Found something rather interesting... Well, extremist goes rogue and send ultimatums to governors to resign.
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While this film clearly doesn't seem destined for "boffo" returns in the US market, I wonder if its celebration of an atheist in conflict with early Christians gives a bit of scare to the folks in the executive suites. Quote:
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2010-04-05, 13:34 | Link #6792 | |
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Some people used amazon to purchase it, that's why it got attention. However, the company never intended the product to be sold outside of Japan, and never exported it anywhere. Basically people are up in arms about a product that they were not supposed to be able to purchase anyways. *shurg* you can't talk sense into nutcases though.
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2010-04-05, 23:03 | Link #6793 | |
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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/...033100398.html
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2010-04-06, 03:29 | Link #6794 | |
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2010-04-06, 12:26 | Link #6795 | |
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2010-04-06, 13:20 | Link #6796 | |
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2010-04-06, 13:31 | Link #6797 | |
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2010-04-06, 17:04 | Link #6798 | |
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From what I understand of this Ruling, it's not really about Net Neutrality, it's about Government Agencies making and enforcing policies all willy nilly with no Law or Resolution passed legalizing the specific policy. I look for this to affect the EPA as well. |
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2010-04-06, 23:56 | Link #6799 |
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Police or Samurai? Knife Maniac Taken Down in “Swordfight”
(TL Courtesy of Sankaku) I think they are doing this all for recruitment's sake. Either that or there ARE otaku in the police force too. Wish my local policemen do that too.
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New Japanese Political Party Formed
New Japanese Political Party to 'Stand Up for Japan'
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