As far as crimes against humanity goes Celine Dion is somewhere between Nagasaki and the Armenian genocide. Perhaps the smallpox blankets given by the US to it's natives is a better analogy. Damn you Canada!!
Excuse me? I kind of the doubt the EU wants Canada's Francophone culture when even most Canadians don't. I jest I jest, I love the people of Quebec! But I know some of my Canadian friends don't share that sentiment.
I think Bill Gates will get off the hook precisely because of his efforts to promote his image. Look at Carnegie and Rockefeller, those guys were devils and thanks to their libraries and a few donations they are considered heroes. Like Gates they took a ton from the public good, put a little back in, and in the end got preferential treatment in the public eye. Nothing much has changed since then.
The Deniers never really cared about silly things like evidence, or the opinions of pretty much every expert in the field. The whole "Climategate" was just a warm fuzzy excuse to be proud of their intellectual bankruptcy. Now that this red harring is off the table I hardly expect these enlightened thinkers to change course and face reality. Thank god I have some karma to burn, because I'm certain there will be a denier with modpoints.
Don't get me wrong, Google has done a lot to push good open web standards, but this decision is one to cater to the masses instead of leading them. Flash needs to die. I love the web, but I also love obscure BeOS based OSS operating systems- which while Chrome doesn't support, its marketshare certainly influences the web sites we ALL visit. If Google starts bundling Flash, then it becomes even more "required" than it already is. I know I'm not alone here especially with the influx of new mobiles and mobile OS's that struggle with the same problems us alternative OS people do.
No, you arn't. But the vast majority of the folks attending these rallys holding these signs and chanting their hate are indeed racists. Most of the people against healthcare reform are not racists, but most of the so called "Tea Partiers" seem much more suspect. Just turn on the TV and watch these people- they are the one's shutting down the debate.
Excuse me but what the fuck are you talking about? No need to be an asshole to the OP, only douche bags insult people for no reason other than their own ignorance;-) Oh and tone down the political rhetoric, you make us Dems look like a bunch reactive idiots.
Looks really cool and feature packed, but I wonder if it will last a resonable amount of time on a single charge? If you ask me only in the last year or so have 3G radios become efficient enough to be usefull daylong in something like a phone. If WiMax/"4G" is like early 3G headsets it will likely last an unreasonably short amount of time on a charge. But hey if I'm wrong sign me up!
Indeed I noticed that as well. It's bizarre that any post than isn't openly hostile to the United States is somehow deemed shilling or pro-US. The OP was right comparing the imperfect somewhat broken US system to the hopelessly corrupt- dare I say evil PRC stance- is just insane.
I may be missing something, and feel free to tell me. But I have no problem with donors being higher on the list. It makes sense to reward altruism in society and this certainly fits the bill. Sure some religions might interject, but just like organ donation religious practices are a choice and like every choice they carry consequences. That's not to say non-donors shouldn't get organs, but they should not be the priority.
I was pretty fine with Hugo until his whole president for life thing. Now I know who he really is. For once the right wing nutjobs might have been right about something.
Sounds to me like with the exception of the (possibly) the last bullet point those kind of ads should be banned. They play into people's fears and constant need to "enhance" themselves. These companies are just hoping to make us all hypochondriacs and it seems to be working sadly. The ins and outs of various diseases and medicines should be left to the expert, the doctor, not some half-brained twit who rots their brain watching hours and hours of pharma ads.
I would argue that RIM offers a better deal to many organizations as opposed to MS. In my experience Blackberry deployment has almost always been smoother than WinMo.
The thing about Symbian is that it really isn't a "global" player despite having a large marketshare. No matter what you think about the US it is a primary source of SW development as well as hype and branding. Nokia for some unknown reason has essentially abandoned the American market starting about 5 years ago. You can find them here and there but back in the day everybody owned a Nokia. Today it just simply isn't on the radar of Americans or more importantly the significant American software and services companies. You won't for instance ever see a Nokia featured in American TV or films. The smartphone industry is in many ways a popularity contest ignoring a significant market, especially one as culturally influential as the US is just plain dumb. Hopefully they will smarten up but until then the hype and interested will be on RIM, Apple, and Google. Mindshare is powerfull stuff.
As a mostly Mac and Windows user I adore PBI's. Don't get me wrong a package manager is good stuff too, but PBI's are very farmiliar to those of us tied to non-free OS's. Free-BSD really is a great OS frankly, if only it had games!
For those of us visiting/reporting on the Olympics good fast internet is hard to find. Just don't call the cops when you see a very cold neckbeard in your driveway!
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And most of us would rather be dead than live in a frozen abyss like Alberta. Lucky we live where we do eh?
As far as crimes against humanity goes Celine Dion is somewhere between Nagasaki and the Armenian genocide. Perhaps the smallpox blankets given by the US to it's natives is a better analogy. Damn you Canada!!
Excuse me? I kind of the doubt the EU wants Canada's Francophone culture when even most Canadians don't. I jest I jest, I love the people of Quebec! But I know some of my Canadian friends don't share that sentiment.
I think Bill Gates will get off the hook precisely because of his efforts to promote his image. Look at Carnegie and Rockefeller, those guys were devils and thanks to their libraries and a few donations they are considered heroes. Like Gates they took a ton from the public good, put a little back in, and in the end got preferential treatment in the public eye. Nothing much has changed since then.
The Deniers never really cared about silly things like evidence, or the opinions of pretty much every expert in the field. The whole "Climategate" was just a warm fuzzy excuse to be proud of their intellectual bankruptcy. Now that this red harring is off the table I hardly expect these enlightened thinkers to change course and face reality. Thank god I have some karma to burn, because I'm certain there will be a denier with modpoints.
Don't get me wrong, Google has done a lot to push good open web standards, but this decision is one to cater to the masses instead of leading them. Flash needs to die. I love the web, but I also love obscure BeOS based OSS operating systems- which while Chrome doesn't support, its marketshare certainly influences the web sites we ALL visit. If Google starts bundling Flash, then it becomes even more "required" than it already is. I know I'm not alone here especially with the influx of new mobiles and mobile OS's that struggle with the same problems us alternative OS people do.
No, you arn't. But the vast majority of the folks attending these rallys holding these signs and chanting their hate are indeed racists. Most of the people against healthcare reform are not racists, but most of the so called "Tea Partiers" seem much more suspect. Just turn on the TV and watch these people- they are the one's shutting down the debate.
Excuse me but what the fuck are you talking about? No need to be an asshole to the OP, only douche bags insult people for no reason other than their own ignorance ;-) Oh and tone down the political rhetoric, you make us Dems look like a bunch reactive idiots.
Wow I really hope you are on the Sony payroll otherwise its just sad.
Looks really cool and feature packed, but I wonder if it will last a resonable amount of time on a single charge? If you ask me only in the last year or so have 3G radios become efficient enough to be usefull daylong in something like a phone. If WiMax/"4G" is like early 3G headsets it will likely last an unreasonably short amount of time on a charge. But hey if I'm wrong sign me up!
Indeed I noticed that as well. It's bizarre that any post than isn't openly hostile to the United States is somehow deemed shilling or pro-US. The OP was right comparing the imperfect somewhat broken US system to the hopelessly corrupt- dare I say evil PRC stance- is just insane.
Coming from a Libyan I would not be put too much stock in what you say. You certainly have experience with nationalistic un-democratic indoctrination.
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I may be missing something, and feel free to tell me. But I have no problem with donors being higher on the list. It makes sense to reward altruism in society and this certainly fits the bill. Sure some religions might interject, but just like organ donation religious practices are a choice and like every choice they carry consequences. That's not to say non-donors shouldn't get organs, but they should not be the priority.
I was pretty fine with Hugo until his whole president for life thing. Now I know who he really is. For once the right wing nutjobs might have been right about something.
I think you missed my point. I wasn't referring to OTC products.
Sounds to me like with the exception of the (possibly) the last bullet point those kind of ads should be banned. They play into people's fears and constant need to "enhance" themselves. These companies are just hoping to make us all hypochondriacs and it seems to be working sadly. The ins and outs of various diseases and medicines should be left to the expert, the doctor, not some half-brained twit who rots their brain watching hours and hours of pharma ads.
This is great for Mac users. But its also good movement for Linux users. An OpenGL based Source engine would be fairly trivial to port.
I would argue that RIM offers a better deal to many organizations as opposed to MS. In my experience Blackberry deployment has almost always been smoother than WinMo.
The thing about Symbian is that it really isn't a "global" player despite having a large marketshare. No matter what you think about the US it is a primary source of SW development as well as hype and branding. Nokia for some unknown reason has essentially abandoned the American market starting about 5 years ago. You can find them here and there but back in the day everybody owned a Nokia. Today it just simply isn't on the radar of Americans or more importantly the significant American software and services companies. You won't for instance ever see a Nokia featured in American TV or films. The smartphone industry is in many ways a popularity contest ignoring a significant market, especially one as culturally influential as the US is just plain dumb. Hopefully they will smarten up but until then the hype and interested will be on RIM, Apple, and Google. Mindshare is powerfull stuff.
As a mostly Mac and Windows user I adore PBI's. Don't get me wrong a package manager is good stuff too, but PBI's are very farmiliar to those of us tied to non-free OS's. Free-BSD really is a great OS frankly, if only it had games!
For those of us visiting/reporting on the Olympics good fast internet is hard to find. Just don't call the cops when you see a very cold neckbeard in your driveway!
And a new internet meme is spawned. Cheers!
Uggghh. When did being an apologist for the man get to be so trendy?
Does anybody actually believe that we have progressed significantly in our use of tech to educate? I sure don't.