If the commodities speculators weren't running amok, the price of gas (and every other commodity) would come down. I read somewhere recently that oil speculators add $.70 to the price of a gallon of gas at the pump.
I'm not buying it either. I think it's highly convenient that this is announced eight years to the day that Bush gave his speech in front of that infamously stupid banner. Why did it take them since last August to make this move? How could the most wanted man in the world stay hidden for so long? Whether or not you measure from when this "lead" was established or from the original attack.
Since he was killed in a US military operation, he is now a martyr to his followers: this is not the good news it appears to be.
If they ever show the body, I certainly want to see the effects of more than a decade of diabetes.
Android tablets don't have a single-minded and focused marketing (spelled h-y-p-e) machine behind them.
Tablets are doomed to fail except in vertical markets where consuming data is more common than producing data. For personal use they're a fad, little more than an overly capable media player. The people who might want a tablet but don't want an iPad are few.
In my view, the genesis of human understanding did not progress thusly:
Fire
Origin of the universe
Ore smelting
Wheel
(Apologies if I have these out of order)
If you have any respect for science (of which technology is the practical application), then all the stone age creation stories are at best implausible. The likelyhood that tribal peoples wandering around 4k-10k years ago worked out where everything came from is near nil.
Sure, no one may understand quantum mechanics now, but that will change. Every area of science has a point in time where no one understood it. That's part of the nature of discovery.
They probably won't use their compiled profiles for things like blackmail, but you can bet your ass that this information is being sold to other companies, especially those the person does business with: banks, retail stores, probably even spammers, and maybe the government.
Data Miners wouldn't do it if there wasn't some way to profit from it. Joel Stein has struck a major blow to personal privacy, and passively helped usher in the insidious and pervasive personal data overuse that Philip K Dick imagined in Minority Report.
If "most popular" == "best", than Debian is "best" in the same way that NT4 is the "best" Windows, I guess: NT4 and its derivatives are the most widely used.
Popularity does not necessarily equate to quality, though.
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Wow, they made a sequel to Canada?
I bet there are some developers now (and more in the future) who would oblige Jobs with an anger bang.
If the commodities speculators weren't running amok, the price of gas (and every other commodity) would come down. I read somewhere recently that oil speculators add $.70 to the price of a gallon of gas at the pump.
The difference is what they sell to get that profit.
Skype sells time to use their service for web<->phone calls. Their product is their product.
Facebook sells their users' information to advertisers. Their users are their product.
I'm not buying it either. I think it's highly convenient that this is announced eight years to the day that Bush gave his speech in front of that infamously stupid banner. Why did it take them since last August to make this move? How could the most wanted man in the world stay hidden for so long? Whether or not you measure from when this "lead" was established or from the original attack.
Since he was killed in a US military operation, he is now a martyr to his followers: this is not the good news it appears to be.
If they ever show the body, I certainly want to see the effects of more than a decade of diabetes.
Android tablets don't have a single-minded and focused marketing (spelled h-y-p-e) machine behind them.
Tablets are doomed to fail except in vertical markets where consuming data is more common than producing data. For personal use they're a fad, little more than an overly capable media player. The people who might want a tablet but don't want an iPad are few.
You have summed up Minority Report. Now the question is, how does Apple relate to pre-crime?
In my view, the genesis of human understanding did not progress thusly:
(Apologies if I have these out of order)
If you have any respect for science (of which technology is the practical application), then all the stone age creation stories are at best implausible. The likelyhood that tribal peoples wandering around 4k-10k years ago worked out where everything came from is near nil.
Sure, no one may understand quantum mechanics now, but that will change. Every area of science has a point in time where no one understood it. That's part of the nature of discovery.
Aptly put, sir.
So in two years when WP7 is still an also-ran in the mobile market, MS has another reason to trigger their patent bomb to defend .NET. Brilliant.
IE6, 7, or 8 trying to render any acid test.
And by "plenty", you mean all of them. "Web 2.0" was a vapid marketing phrase that had no technical meaning.
Because apparently AT&T wants to repurpose T-Mobile's 3G spectrum for 4G. Source: AP via Y! news.
And then Taco Bell buys all the other service-specific corporations.
Some corrections for you, off the top of my head:
Elijah Wood (Frodo) is coming back to do some narration.
Orlando Bloom (Legolas) is still negotiating over his appearance.
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Christopher Lee (Saruman), and Hugo Weaving (Elrond) are all returning, and of course Ian McKellan (Gandalf).
I too am looking forward to seeing Smaug. I really hope they base Smaug's design on Tolkien's painting, and not the silly concept that Guillermo del Toro came up with.
Surely AT&T could fix up their own network for less than the cost of T-Mobile.
Because what the world doesn't need is another crappy phpNuke clone/fork/offshoot/derivative.
I suspect that very soon "social networking" will be rechristened "social engineering network".
They probably won't use their compiled profiles for things like blackmail, but you can bet your ass that this information is being sold to other companies, especially those the person does business with: banks, retail stores, probably even spammers, and maybe the government.
Data Miners wouldn't do it if there wasn't some way to profit from it. Joel Stein has struck a major blow to personal privacy, and passively helped usher in the insidious and pervasive personal data overuse that Philip K Dick imagined in Minority Report.
Much faster and easier to just go to Stack Overflow.
Wow, someone else who (still?) has a 200LX.
If "most popular" == "best", than Debian is "best" in the same way that NT4 is the "best" Windows, I guess: NT4 and its derivatives are the most widely used.
Popularity does not necessarily equate to quality, though.
The appropriate time for this website was at least 5 years ago.
Exposure.
Are you wearing your flag pin like a good little patriot? If not, better run and find it before someone calls you a commie.