i must say i'm puzzled by the downvotes. coming to the main debate articles' points are signs of the "word" i used which i shouldnt. even if i wrote without that intention but i sounded rude. sorry for that. thanks for pohl and mechanical_fish for the comments.
maybe downvoters didnt get my point and/or Gruber's point. i'm saying that OS does not matter as it used to be to be developed by other players such as HP or Dell. asking again what is wrong with this???
can someone please tell me why it's downvoted? buy it or not these are my arguments against ones in the article and i DO think that OS does not have the same importance as had in 80s. what is wrong with this?
Classic Apple fanboy-ism at best with missing knowledge here and there. If OS does matter that much first Google couldn't be such a success and second Apple couldn't enjoy its current success because first 2 (even 3) Mac OS X releases were horribly slow and have very little app support!
it is not just .net tech anymore. now with php, ruby and most weird JAVA! but i have two reserves how is library support for dynamic languages and how does overall performance compare to the ec2+s3.
It's online food delivery site. It gets orders from customers, routes back to the restaurant and gets a cut from the process. Basically it's a middleman.
Points Tim has got wrong:
- Google and Amazon does not have the platform value as Apple or Facebook has!
- This era is not different from PC era at all. He just does not want or have courage to say it: Google is the new Microsoft. It's doing the exact opposite (of MS) and still locks customers in. If you want free GPS then you MUST buy Android phone from THE carrier(s). Amazon is not on the Google level but if you want to buy (e-)book who would be your choice? Amazon, of course. Does this count as lock-in? Yes it does.
- Microsoft and champion of open web? How will that be so?
MS uses and hosts free too. what is your point? i'm talking about progressing current successful open source projects. fyi, its library has overlap with jquery core too!
i DONT get this attitude of Google. even MS uses jquery but the open source king Google do not. is this so hard to improve upon Firefox or Ubuntu or even much less complex jquery?
Do you think there will be considerable performance difference when using Redis instead of a two column MySQL table for this purpose? What is the utility of using Redis there?
your search engine is very quick and thinking that you're doing faceted search it's incredible. do you use sphinx, lucene or custom search engine implementation?
i agree with data export point. @antirez if we could clone you and distribute to other KV projects then all KV datastores skyrocket in popularity. first and foremost issue in KV popularity is ability to try quickly. if there would be a small php script that converts an sql dump into a KV datastore (and vice versa) then much more people will be trying and they know that if it wouldnt work out they can easily opt out. i hope you'll continue to be thoughtful for others who are not C++ or Java wizards. thanks!
In the Facebook scale or similar scales if one relies only on OS instead of extra cache layers what would be the numbers? With this pace we would be talking about power efficient SRAM based caches in 10 years.
On the Ballmer side, he is such "great" at this kind of sentences that two of his greatest hits: (Google is a) deck of cards. (iphone) does not appeal to biz customers.
Intel gives incentives to OEMs to lock out AMD.
Google pays Mozilla to lock out other search engines on Firefox start page and search bar (and it does not allow customization at install time).
Apple does not allow 3rd party apps colliding with Apple produced ones on App Store.
Any comments on these other monopolies' actions? Every company does the same.
because carriers want more control over this process and make it harder to use by other means in order you to use your beloved phone, which completely bounded by your carrier, more.
Article says that listing is free and no comission is taken on transactions. Without these I'm very curious how Taobao generates 200mm/year. It says revenues are from adverts but what is the trick?
does nicest mean most elegant design? because software support had been weak even if for a period of time microsoft made NT avaliable on mips and alpha. i'm curious about what went wrong primarily.
another thing is that in today's power first times where are the mips guys? how would they stack up against arm or ion?
last thing is can we have fabs that custom produce cpu much bigger than intel/amd ones but smaller than homebrew ones?
afaik, they try not to store popular items. otoh they do the opposite for the long tail titles. probably from ny times article, they also have changed their package format (both material and shape) 10 times or more.