| Dear kahawe, One thing you said is that "all YOU do is talk." If you looked into my activities in more detail you would realize that one of my main areas of research is improving web browsing techniques. This is because I consider manual installation to be the most important HCI problem today, and web browsing is the main means of escaping it. I do not consider Google to "our saviors", I actually consider the open web to be. Here are a few reasons: - It will allow client operating systems to download and cache resources from the network, so that the problem of managing the installation process isn't being placed on the user. - It will allow us to escape closed platforms like those produced by Microsoft and Apple. - It will give us a good medium for delivering intelligent services such as machine translation and prediction. Google just happens to be one of the greatest supportors of this effort and they deserve considerable praise for that. > Advertising is at least as evil a concept as DRM Why? Advertisments are one of the main reasons companies like Google are capable of giving out services for free to everyone, so in this sense advertisments are actually relatively good. > see a bit of positive that apple has brought What good have Apple or Microsoft brought exactly? They took Xerox PARC's innovations, then they built closed and restrictive platforms around them, the exact sort of closed platforms I want to replace with the open web. > In addition you laugh at a person's (actually tragic) death. The only thing I am glad about is that Steve Jobs cannot do any more harm to computing by acting as the CEO of Apple. it is a tragedy that he personally had to die. This is also what Stallman said. > I am done talking to you and I regret HN doesn't offer a killfile. You certainly are no longer interested in having a civilised discussion with me. You are now resorting to personal attacks such as "hypocrite", "troll", "asshole", "terrible human being", etc. Thank you for the mature topics that you did discuss before. Sincerely yours, Joon Hee. |