I disagree with what you are saying. Their right to hide those kind of details should only extend to secrets which are absolutely crucial to lives, not crucial to their propaganda.
No, really they don't have a right to know about the operational details of the war until it is over.
Well, by the standard you choose to adhere, I now want to see the Iraq documents, too. Because, you know, "Mission Accomplished".
But, that said, it's hard to condemn the kind of war propaganda perpetrated by our enemies on their citizens when we hold our military to such a low standard.
Hell, without leaks, we'd still have "operational details" like creating naked human pyramids and waterboarding the shit out of people (or do we still do that?).
Bullshit. The Wikileaks documents a lot of out-of-context reports, mostly from low-level soldiers and unit commanders. Essentially, it's an internal bug-tracking database for the war.
Look at any internal bug-tracking database for any reasonably-sized project and you'll immediately conclude that the project is a horrible steaming pile of crap that everyone hates.
And sometimes it is. Vista springs to mind.
You are correct, though. We cannot judge a project by bug reports alone. We should think of all the people that are benefiting from these wars.
Too right. The problem isn't your government. It's that, in the majority, you're a pack of complacent assholes who are quite happy to have murder committed in your name, as long as it isn't in your backyard.
I only wish I could say people in my country (Australia) were any better.
I seem to remember that Osama Bin Laden refuses to use cell phone technology to avoid detection. Now, I'm certainly no fan of his, but surely you cannot deny his effectiveness in that particular endeavour.
Maybe, just maybe, there might be a lesson worth considering there?
That said, I love the idea of every troop having 24/7 access to Wikileaks.
Microsoft could hardly have done a better job of driving its few remaining friends into the Android camp if they'd personally rebranded MSDN as an Android portal & given a free Nexus One to everybody who attended a Microsoft event in 2010.
You are probably actually right - the Microsoft name is *the* kiss of death in mobile device categories at the moment. Best way they could possibly compete is to get behind it.
Well, either that, or start "squirting" songs at people.
Liberal Arts is not about Theatre, Liberal Arts at the core is about thinking. This country needs more people who can think before they do, not more doers whose educations become obsolete before the ink on their diploma is dry.
there are many good essays on exactly what Liberal Arts is, you should try reading a few of them before penning ignorant rants.
My ADK running on eclipse under Linux definitely does not have this default.
Usability-minded as they are at Google, I guess they throw in a couple of unchecked permission defaults on Windows, just to make you feel at home.
Motorola are clearly assholes
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In relation to the Motorola Milestone, which shares the locked bootloader with the Droid X.
Motorola are now "deciding" whether to push out Android 2.2 (with, you know, the Flash support *promised on the box*) to the device at all
For me - I've "decided" that they aren't getting more of my business - as far as I am concerned, they can go f*** themselves.
From James King, Motorola Marketing Director:
Next European Milestone and 2.2 (Froyo). I have expressed over the last few days that the decision is pending. The team here has been collating key pieces of information and views from this community in the last month and providing input to relevant teams in Motorola so they are aware. I am pushing for that decision to be made as quickly as possible, and we can then all go from there. Some others ask why the decisions on upgrades take so long, and why does implementation then take much longer still. What I can say and have stated recently is that upgrades are not a walk in the park. Sure there are short cuts that people can take, but when you have to integrate software to a specific hardware, then test it and integrate with third party applications, let alone any innovation from ourselves, plus then get approvals to make this all official and safe its is a big undertaking that requires planning and resource and third party coordination to see this all through. As I say, once we have decision, we will inform. JK
Extreme historical importance = Little practical importance. If there is history out there that we don't know about, you can rest assured that even if we did know about it, we wouldn't learn anything from it.
It is like Starbucks getting into the light bulb industry and telling GE they're doing it wrong. It isn't worth dignifying with a response.
If Apple got into the light bulb business, they'd probably test their light bulbs using special lampshades to prevent anyone from seeing their "brilliant" design before Jobs delivered it in one of his awesome, mind-blowing "presentations". Never realising that dimness of the light was not an effect of lampshade, but of the big hulking Apple symbol on the bulb itself.
One more thing: it would sell like hotcakes, because even dimmer than the bulb are the Apple faithful who favour form over function.
We haven't found a way around the laws of physics yet.
My Motorola Milestone (Droid) has just broken the laws of physics, then! 5 bars no matter how I hold it! Who's got the magical device now, huh,Steve Jobs?
What value has your freedom when your freedoms are extended more to your past and present enemies than to yourselves? Which one of your domestic agencies gets the same privileges? Let alone (holy fuck!) the actual domestic *users* of the software?
Excuse me when I quietly say *pffft* next time I hear another hypocritical cunt spout off about freedom with no consideration for the responsibility in preserving those freedoms. Truth is, most care more for comfort. Not a problem, but it bothers me when it is nested in a halo of moral rectitude.
Maybe the elderly mother also values integrity more than than the prize money (which could well have been offered to her, for all we know). It's not uncommon for children to inherit the values of their elders.
Either way, it's none of our damn business, we should all focus on our own efforts to make a contribution to society, rather than pass judgement on the morality of those who obviously have.
That said, I can't help but think that this guy would be more productive if he weren't so reclusive and eccentric.
Said the guy who has likely achieved little to nothing of value to humanity at large to the Fields Medal and Millennium Prize winner who has made ground-breaking achievements in his field.
So a veiled reference to "how badly Bush bungled" -- the Mission Accomplished fiasco was his, not Obama's -- has been replaced by a "Big nasty oil company probably one of Bush's friends!" counter?
Or is Olbermann being clear and referring to it as a counter of "how many days Pres. Obama has shown almost no leadership or sense of urgency about an issue that could fuck over the economy (and people) of an entire region of America for several generations"?
Would McCain be any better? Likely not. Does that mean Obama is doing a "good job" of handling it? Not in the least. It's possible to be disappointed & upset with the behavior of your leaders in circumstances like this. Obama rightly deserves criticism for some of what he's done, regardless of whether you believe McCain would have been worse.
Hey, the majority of you guys elected the majority of those guys. If I were leader, I wouldn't bother to show leadership or a sense of urgency about anything where the beneficiaries of my largesse were (in the majority) ignorant, short-minded fools. I'd just wait for the next election, and trot out one of the old standards. Gays getting married, Mexicans working or Muslims doing, well, anything.
But hell, you guys already gave my dream electoral system a run - electing the leader who appears drunker - and 2 wars says that doesn't work, so I'm fresh out of ideas.
Think like a truck driver, dude. A "self-adjustable drinking cup" would make those long haul trips much faster, when the "tripod" needs an empty. Third leg 'ahoy!
'Tis simply the nature of magical devices, traveller. One must not lay hands on the precious without firm grounding in the mystic depths of the reality distortion field.
Are there already good alternatives for bittorrents?
1. See it in the theater.
2. Buy the DVD/Blu-Ray
3. Rent the DVD/Blu-Ray
4. Watch on Pay Per View Cable/DBS
5. Watch on HBO/Showtime pay cable
6. Wait until it's rerun on basic cable.
Yeah, but none of these provide the simple satisfaction of stealing shit from a pack of rich assholes. Like Robin Hood style, before Robin Hood was ruined by the latest acquisition...
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and it's the only rapid development platform Microsoft and Windows has
You mean, other than Visual Studio + .net, right?
If I had mod points, they'd go to the parent
No, really they don't have a right to know about the operational details of the war until it is over.
Well, by the standard you choose to adhere, I now want to see the Iraq documents, too. Because, you know, "Mission Accomplished".
But, that said, it's hard to condemn the kind of war propaganda perpetrated by our enemies on their citizens when we hold our military to such a low standard.
Hell, without leaks, we'd still have "operational details" like creating naked human pyramids and waterboarding the shit out of people (or do we still do that?).
Bullshit. The Wikileaks documents a lot of out-of-context reports, mostly from low-level soldiers and unit commanders. Essentially, it's an internal bug-tracking database for the war.
Look at any internal bug-tracking database for any reasonably-sized project and you'll immediately conclude that the project is a horrible steaming pile of crap that everyone hates.
And sometimes it is. Vista springs to mind.
You are correct, though. We cannot judge a project by bug reports alone. We should think of all the people that are benefiting from these wars.
Ummm.... Haliburton employees?
Too right. The problem isn't your government. It's that, in the majority, you're a pack of complacent assholes who are quite happy to have murder committed in your name, as long as it isn't in your backyard.
I only wish I could say people in my country (Australia) were any better.
I seem to remember that Osama Bin Laden refuses to use cell phone technology to avoid detection. Now, I'm certainly no fan of his, but surely you cannot deny his effectiveness in that particular endeavour.
Maybe, just maybe, there might be a lesson worth considering there?
That said, I love the idea of every troop having 24/7 access to Wikileaks.
I don't consider that a port: that's an abortion.
CurmudgeonGamer.Com? That's not a site, it needs an abortion.
...that they'd even consider the iPhone. Don't they have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in relation to that kind of thing? *ducks*
The point, though, is that they were so far ahead, and now they are falling behind. Just as newsworthy as any other Apple story on here.
Just like if Windows was outsold by the combination of it's competitors, that would be a story too.
Microsoft could hardly have done a better job of driving its few remaining friends into the Android camp if they'd personally rebranded MSDN as an Android portal & given a free Nexus One to everybody who attended a Microsoft event in 2010.
You are probably actually right - the Microsoft name is *the* kiss of death in mobile device categories at the moment. Best way they could possibly compete is to get behind it.
Well, either that, or start "squirting" songs at people.
Liberal Arts is not about Theatre, Liberal Arts at the core is about thinking. This country needs more people who can think before they do, not more doers whose educations become obsolete before the ink on their diploma is dry.
there are many good essays on exactly what Liberal Arts is, you should try reading a few of them before penning ignorant rants.
This is one of them, http://www2.fiu.edu/~hauptli/MyViewofTheNatureofALiberalArtsEducation.html
This is a page that describes the expectations of a student that has graduated with a degree in Liberal Arts (please note that I did not say Theatre or Art Appreciation, those are part of Liberal Arts, but They are not all of Liberal Arts [if you don't understand why this is so, then you should review your logic]).
http://www.evergreen.edu/about/expectations.htm
I'll think about that whilst wiping my ass with your degree.
My ADK running on eclipse under Linux definitely does not have this default. Usability-minded as they are at Google, I guess they throw in a couple of unchecked permission defaults on Windows, just to make you feel at home.
In relation to the Motorola Milestone, which shares the locked bootloader with the Droid X.
Motorola are now "deciding" whether to push out Android 2.2 (with, you know, the Flash support *promised on the box*) to the device at all
For me - I've "decided" that they aren't getting more of my business - as far as I am concerned, they can go f*** themselves.
From James King, Motorola Marketing Director:
Next European Milestone and 2.2 (Froyo). I have expressed over the last few days that the decision is pending. The team here has been collating key pieces of information and views from this community in the last month and providing input to relevant teams in Motorola so they are aware. I am pushing for that decision to be made as quickly as possible, and we can then all go from there. Some others ask why the decisions on upgrades take so long, and why does implementation then take much longer still. What I can say and have stated recently is that upgrades are not a walk in the park. Sure there are short cuts that people can take, but when you have to integrate software to a specific hardware, then test it and integrate with third party applications, let alone any innovation from ourselves, plus then get approvals to make this all official and safe its is a big undertaking that requires planning and resource and third party coordination to see this all through. As I say, once we have decision, we will inform. JK
Extreme historical importance = Little practical importance. If there is history out there that we don't know about, you can rest assured that even if we did know about it, we wouldn't learn anything from it.
Yesterday don't mean shit. Just let it go.
Banks don't pay people who find ways to get into their vaults.
People who know how to find a way in don't send an invoice.
It is like Starbucks getting into the light bulb industry and telling GE they're doing it wrong. It isn't worth dignifying with a response.
If Apple got into the light bulb business, they'd probably test their light bulbs using special lampshades to prevent anyone from seeing their "brilliant" design before Jobs delivered it in one of his awesome, mind-blowing "presentations". Never realising that dimness of the light was not an effect of lampshade, but of the big hulking Apple symbol on the bulb itself.
One more thing: it would sell like hotcakes, because even dimmer than the bulb are the Apple faithful who favour form over function.
Yeah, that, and also, maybe the idea to hold a "Come to work dressed as Michael Jackson" week at the Apple testing facility was poorly timed.
We haven't found a way around the laws of physics yet.
My Motorola Milestone (Droid) has just broken the laws of physics, then! 5 bars no matter how I hold it! Who's got the magical device now, huh,Steve Jobs?
Yo America!
What value has your freedom when your freedoms are extended more to your past and present enemies than to yourselves? Which one of your domestic agencies gets the same privileges? Let alone (holy fuck!) the actual domestic *users* of the software?
Excuse me when I quietly say *pffft* next time I hear another hypocritical cunt spout off about freedom with no consideration for the responsibility in preserving those freedoms. Truth is, most care more for comfort. Not a problem, but it bothers me when it is nested in a halo of moral rectitude.
Maybe the elderly mother also values integrity more than than the prize money (which could well have been offered to her, for all we know). It's not uncommon for children to inherit the values of their elders.
Either way, it's none of our damn business, we should all focus on our own efforts to make a contribution to society, rather than pass judgement on the morality of those who obviously have.
That said, I can't help but think that this guy would be more productive if he weren't so reclusive and eccentric.
Said the guy who has likely achieved little to nothing of value to humanity at large to the Fields Medal and Millennium Prize winner who has made ground-breaking achievements in his field.
Idiot.
So a veiled reference to "how badly Bush bungled" -- the Mission Accomplished fiasco was his, not Obama's -- has been replaced by a "Big nasty oil company probably one of Bush's friends!" counter?
Or is Olbermann being clear and referring to it as a counter of "how many days Pres. Obama has shown almost no leadership or sense of urgency about an issue that could fuck over the economy (and people) of an entire region of America for several generations"?
Would McCain be any better? Likely not. Does that mean Obama is doing a "good job" of handling it? Not in the least. It's possible to be disappointed & upset with the behavior of your leaders in circumstances like this. Obama rightly deserves criticism for some of what he's done, regardless of whether you believe McCain would have been worse.
Hey, the majority of you guys elected the majority of those guys. If I were leader, I wouldn't bother to show leadership or a sense of urgency about anything where the beneficiaries of my largesse were (in the majority) ignorant, short-minded fools. I'd just wait for the next election, and trot out one of the old standards. Gays getting married, Mexicans working or Muslims doing, well, anything.
But hell, you guys already gave my dream electoral system a run - electing the leader who appears drunker - and 2 wars says that doesn't work, so I'm fresh out of ideas.
Think like a truck driver, dude. A "self-adjustable drinking cup" would make those long haul trips much faster, when the "tripod" needs an empty. Third leg 'ahoy!
'Tis simply the nature of magical devices, traveller. One must not lay hands on the precious without firm grounding in the mystic depths of the reality distortion field.
Are there already good alternatives for bittorrents?
1. See it in the theater. 2. Buy the DVD/Blu-Ray 3. Rent the DVD/Blu-Ray 4. Watch on Pay Per View Cable/DBS 5. Watch on HBO/Showtime pay cable 6. Wait until it's rerun on basic cable.
Yeah, but none of these provide the simple satisfaction of stealing shit from a pack of rich assholes. Like Robin Hood style, before Robin Hood was ruined by the latest acquisition...