Anyone that's done a little research knows the scientists there really did some questionable stuff. They would also know that they've (CRU/IPCC) been taken to task by others in the scientific community for doing so. This suit is about bad journalism. But it does not change the facts about the shenanigans at the CRU.
Yeah this is shocking given the typical government network is locked down to the Nth degree. When I contracted on site for the Dept. of Health they actually cut me off from the network because I used torrent to download a Linux ISO. I violated policy and it cut off soon after the download started, and the jack went dead. It wasn't just "you can't surf the internet anymore". It was "VIOLATER! KILL HIM!" and I got dressed down soon after. So they closely monitored it.
If only the entire software industry could figure that out. They're always too busy creating the next cluster fuck to be bothered making something solid. Well, most of the commercial houses that is. Open Source seems to stress quality over speed to market.
"A deal would make a lot of sense for Apple," said one trader. "That way, they could stop ARM's technology from ending up in everyone else's computers and gadgets."
And at the same time kill ARM's business! Hilarious.
This is juicy stuff. It kind of makes me change my mind a little towards Apple. Adobe has never really been my favorite but when I read a story about their support, or lack of, for OSX when it first came out and their feature-limited versions for that platform. Well it does change the landscape a bit and it starts to make more sense. I'm no fan of Flash but it seems it's more than that. This kind of confirms that.
Adobe screwed Apple over with Photoshop? Do tell. Seriously. I have no clue what you mean but I'm dying to hear the whole story of how their marriage fell apart. They used to be like two peas in a pod.
You joke but imagine this press release: "Adobe announced today that it's CS suite will no longer support OSX."
Never gonna happen but man I'd pay to see the jaws drop. OSX has made great progress as far as the software pool it has. But for a while Adobe was keeping them on life support IMHO.
Not sure about mafia wars, maybe in a few places it uses flash but that is mainly HTML-based. If flash is used there it's for eye candy and not functionality.
Farmville is fill-blown flash. Cafe World and others from Zynga use Flash. Zynga really is the big flash game developer on facebook. They rely on it a lot.
Some mentioned Google Docs and that is a good starting point. If you need more features you can always use the Google App Engine and their cloud hosting. Every install comes with Django and you can use other CMS tools (python and java support)
I'm sure there are others but my main point was this might be a use-case for software as a service. It's not right for every situation, but it might be something to look at. It may take some weight off of your shoulders.
I disagree. I've seen the church help the homeless, the down on their luck. I've seen them talk people through the most difficult times in their life. My step-father is a pastor and his main "job" is at the hospital talking with people in very difficult situations. Now you can call that a crutch, etc. But if it helps someone through difficult times..
Myself I don't subscribe to the idea of an "institution" telling me what God thinks. That doesn't even compute. So although my family runs a church I haven't been in about 15 years. They're okay with that. It's not a stopping point for their love.
That's what I think of when I think of religion. Not mega-churches filled with the rich. Not Islamic extremists blowing things up. Not the pedophile covering-up catholics (or others!). But instead a place where when everyone else has deserted you; When you have absolutely nothing to offer anyone - they will help you. And the only thing they ask in return is a moment of your time to tell you what they believe spiritually. Hardly a bad thing.
Hello of a post and it got me thinking. We're not so different the Islamic extremist and I. The common theme seems to be "I will kill for" and maybe that's the problem. We need more understanding and stop using violence as the problem solver. In the long run it only creates more violence and pain.
I do wonder about my own devotion to personal freedom. Would it be right to kill a man if he denied me those freedoms? Quite the conundrum. If I kill them then what have I truly gained? Personal freedom. But was the cost too much? Probably. I've become a beast again with my actions.
Hrm I'm not sure if that last part is fair to Jobs. We don't know the details of that situation. What if he truly believed he was sterile? What if the woman had other men around? Etc. The list of possibles can go on, but we simply don't know. I'm boycotting all things Apple right now but I think those type of quick summaries we see on people don't qualify as truly knowing them.
It's a moot point anyway. Because the iPhone _does_ allow porn. Playboy is porn right? Safari can view porn right? So he's basically full of shit claiming some moral high ground. It's a joke and that's what we're laughing at. So I'll get off your lawn, if you come and join the fun.
You can't blame religion for idiots any more than you can blame politics for idiots. Some people will use any excuse to force control on others - religion, politics, science; It's a power thing and it drives every human being on the planet. Most of us just wrangle it in to something reasonable.
The problem with attacking religion is it's not the problem. So down the road when religion is destroyed the people will use another excuse to kill or control. The shit is never ending. But everywhere it appears we must fight it. Giving in to assholes that want to control you unreasonably is never an option. Death is more pleasing IMHO. I'll obey rules for the good of society, but not ones that are simply insane.
On a related note - why do HUMANS think they need to defend GOD? What is he the most nit picky SOB ever?
Those fuckers insulted me in a cartoon! I'll show all of them!..
What kind of God is that? If that is God then I'll take hell.
Which is exactly why Apple will repeat it's own history. They need developers. But yet at every turn they try to piss developers off. They claim it's in the name of technical superiority. But again, they're talking to developers who can pick those arguments apart no problem so they don't stand up under scrutiny. So then it comes down to simple control and the developer looks at it and says "you know what? no thanks" and goes to a more open platform.
IMHO it's inevitable unless Apple changes it's policies. I like their devices, I want them to succeed because I love their dev platform. But I can't work in an environment where I'm not in control. It's hard enough to ship code to datacenters, clouds, etc. But at least those processes are transparent and unbiased. With Apple it's a guessing game. No thanks, not right now. I'll skip the "you're gonna be rich!"-a-thon where developers sell out everything that should be important to them.
This is not about taking a local document, sending it to the cloud, and then having that routed to the printer. These documents are already in the cloud, residing on Google's servers in applications such as GMail or Google Docs. So sending them to your printer from Chrome OS can be accomplished without requiring printer driver support.
Not sure why they chose that route, just wanted to straighten up some apparent confusion here. I think some people assume it will be a "internet printer drivers" for your flavor of OS when in fact it's really for Google themselves and anyone that uses the Google App Engine.
I have no clue what to think honestly. After looking at it all I can say is "okay sure". Is it Good or bad? I can't really tell.
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Anyone that's done a little research knows the scientists there really did some questionable stuff. They would also know that they've (CRU/IPCC) been taken to task by others in the scientific community for doing so. This suit is about bad journalism. But it does not change the facts about the shenanigans at the CRU.
Yeah this is shocking given the typical government network is locked down to the Nth degree. When I contracted on site for the Dept. of Health they actually cut me off from the network because I used torrent to download a Linux ISO. I violated policy and it cut off soon after the download started, and the jack went dead. It wasn't just "you can't surf the internet anymore". It was "VIOLATER! KILL HIM!" and I got dressed down soon after. So they closely monitored it.
How does listening to publicly broadcasted information "steal bandwidth"?
If only the entire software industry could figure that out. They're always too busy creating the next cluster fuck to be bothered making something solid. Well, most of the commercial houses that is. Open Source seems to stress quality over speed to market.
Uhm, mods. I was the OP. How can I troll myself? lols. I was trying to correct a typo.
Quote also. WTF's a Qoute? Does it go well with chicken?
I love this quote:
"A deal would make a lot of sense for Apple," said one trader. "That way, they could stop ARM's technology from ending up in everyone else's computers and gadgets."
And at the same time kill ARM's business! Hilarious.
This is juicy stuff. It kind of makes me change my mind a little towards Apple. Adobe has never really been my favorite but when I read a story about their support, or lack of, for OSX when it first came out and their feature-limited versions for that platform. Well it does change the landscape a bit and it starts to make more sense. I'm no fan of Flash but it seems it's more than that. This kind of confirms that.
Just gonna state the obvious - if no one cared about flash on the iphone this wouldn't be a news article and there would be no hub bub.. bub.
Not that I care, phones are fucking toys. Real men play with whole data centers.
Adobe screwed Apple over with Photoshop? Do tell. Seriously. I have no clue what you mean but I'm dying to hear the whole story of how their marriage fell apart. They used to be like two peas in a pod.
You joke but imagine this press release: "Adobe announced today that it's CS suite will no longer support OSX."
Never gonna happen but man I'd pay to see the jaws drop. OSX has made great progress as far as the software pool it has. But for a while Adobe was keeping them on life support IMHO.
Not sure about mafia wars, maybe in a few places it uses flash but that is mainly HTML-based. If flash is used there it's for eye candy and not functionality.
Farmville is fill-blown flash. Cafe World and others from Zynga use Flash. Zynga really is the big flash game developer on facebook. They rely on it a lot.
I believe in God yet I feel no need to defend him or my views.
Another option might be to use a SaaS-based CMS tool like bitsybox: http://www.bitsybox.com/
Some mentioned Google Docs and that is a good starting point. If you need more features you can always use the Google App Engine and their cloud hosting. Every install comes with Django and you can use other CMS tools (python and java support)
I'm sure there are others but my main point was this might be a use-case for software as a service. It's not right for every situation, but it might be something to look at. It may take some weight off of your shoulders.
I disagree. I've seen the church help the homeless, the down on their luck. I've seen them talk people through the most difficult times in their life. My step-father is a pastor and his main "job" is at the hospital talking with people in very difficult situations. Now you can call that a crutch, etc. But if it helps someone through difficult times..
Myself I don't subscribe to the idea of an "institution" telling me what God thinks. That doesn't even compute. So although my family runs a church I haven't been in about 15 years. They're okay with that. It's not a stopping point for their love.
That's what I think of when I think of religion. Not mega-churches filled with the rich. Not Islamic extremists blowing things up. Not the pedophile covering-up catholics (or others!). But instead a place where when everyone else has deserted you; When you have absolutely nothing to offer anyone - they will help you. And the only thing they ask in return is a moment of your time to tell you what they believe spiritually. Hardly a bad thing.
Hello of a post and it got me thinking. We're not so different the Islamic extremist and I. The common theme seems to be "I will kill for" and maybe that's the problem. We need more understanding and stop using violence as the problem solver. In the long run it only creates more violence and pain.
I do wonder about my own devotion to personal freedom. Would it be right to kill a man if he denied me those freedoms? Quite the conundrum. If I kill them then what have I truly gained? Personal freedom. But was the cost too much? Probably. I've become a beast again with my actions.
Hrm I'm not sure if that last part is fair to Jobs. We don't know the details of that situation. What if he truly believed he was sterile? What if the woman had other men around? Etc. The list of possibles can go on, but we simply don't know. I'm boycotting all things Apple right now but I think those type of quick summaries we see on people don't qualify as truly knowing them.
It's a moot point anyway. Because the iPhone _does_ allow porn. Playboy is porn right? Safari can view porn right? So he's basically full of shit claiming some moral high ground. It's a joke and that's what we're laughing at. So I'll get off your lawn, if you come and join the fun.
You can't blame religion for idiots any more than you can blame politics for idiots. Some people will use any excuse to force control on others - religion, politics, science; It's a power thing and it drives every human being on the planet. Most of us just wrangle it in to something reasonable.
The problem with attacking religion is it's not the problem. So down the road when religion is destroyed the people will use another excuse to kill or control. The shit is never ending. But everywhere it appears we must fight it. Giving in to assholes that want to control you unreasonably is never an option. Death is more pleasing IMHO. I'll obey rules for the good of society, but not ones that are simply insane.
On a related note - why do HUMANS think they need to defend GOD? What is he the most nit picky SOB ever?
Those fuckers insulted me in a cartoon! I'll show all of them!..
What kind of God is that? If that is God then I'll take hell.
Which is exactly why Apple will repeat it's own history. They need developers. But yet at every turn they try to piss developers off. They claim it's in the name of technical superiority. But again, they're talking to developers who can pick those arguments apart no problem so they don't stand up under scrutiny. So then it comes down to simple control and the developer looks at it and says "you know what? no thanks" and goes to a more open platform.
IMHO it's inevitable unless Apple changes it's policies. I like their devices, I want them to succeed because I love their dev platform. But I can't work in an environment where I'm not in control. It's hard enough to ship code to datacenters, clouds, etc. But at least those processes are transparent and unbiased. With Apple it's a guessing game. No thanks, not right now. I'll skip the "you're gonna be rich!"-a-thon where developers sell out everything that should be important to them.
They're making things invisible. It's kind of hard. So cut them a break? It's not like it's been done before and they just half-assed it after all.
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na APPLE
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na APPLE
Suck you off like a circus seal you beautiful APPLE
That money only buys a window into the walled garden experience.
Either you're quite the joker or that April Fool's joke went over very very well.
This is not about taking a local document, sending it to the cloud, and then having that routed to the printer. These documents are already in the cloud, residing on Google's servers in applications such as GMail or Google Docs. So sending them to your printer from Chrome OS can be accomplished without requiring printer driver support.
Not sure why they chose that route, just wanted to straighten up some apparent confusion here. I think some people assume it will be a "internet printer drivers" for your flavor of OS when in fact it's really for Google themselves and anyone that uses the Google App Engine.
I have no clue what to think honestly. After looking at it all I can say is "okay sure". Is it Good or bad? I can't really tell.