Archive for June, 2009
Microsoft is engaged in illegal activity again
Posted by grymoire in Technology on June 26, 2009
Microsoft is again using their monopoly to illegally force vendors to squash the competition.
In 2006, Microsoft put pressure on Wal-mart to stop selling Linux.
Then, Microsoft put pressure on Dell when Dell decided to support Linux.
So now you are looking for Linux on netbooks and smart phones? Good luck! The chicken-hearted vendors at the TAITRA were afraid to anger Microsoft. Then we heard about Acer offering a netbook with Android , codename snapdragon – but it’s a case of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t – thanks to Microsoft. So Ausustek backs down because of pressure from Microsoft.
Now we hear that HTC’s Sense UI won’t be available on Linux systems, because Microsoft won’t let it happen.
And the story continues.
Updated – see more here.
iPhone? Yawn…..
Posted by grymoire in Technology on June 9, 2009
Just glanced at the WWDC.
- Digital Compass – Oh please. Like this is important?
- Faster CPU. Uh-huh.
- Video – Uh-huh.
- Auto-focus camera – so Apple finally is catching up with European standards. Well, it does allow the iPhone to read UPC’s and other barcodes.
- And new software – cool, but all iPhones have this.
Not really exciting, but Apple fanboys get excited about little things.
Why not just let us keep the old phone, and unlock the old iPhone like the other carriers allow us to do – once we paid for it with the 2-year service contract.
Javascript vs Java
The whole JavaScript vs. Java is such a screw-up.
First there is the name similarity. Who known what long term damage that has done? people have enough problems understanding security without causing two completely opposite technologies to sound the same.
And remember the huge reaction against Java? People didn’t want software to run on their computer, so many people disabled Java.
Yet currently 95% people welcome the dangers of JavaScript with open arms.
JavaScript is DANGEROUS. Yes, Java has some problems, but the Java sandbox provides protection. JavaScript provides none.