Evernote doubled their user base in the first week of the Mac App Store's existence (actual googling left as an exercise for the student.) I guess they are snickering all the way to the bank.
...especially the last decade, many people don't even know that "then" and "than" are different words...
I know "then" and "than" are different words. I know the meanings of "there," "they're" and "their." Same with "through" and "threw." And yet sometimes I type the wrong one, presumably because I associate the sound of the word with what I'm typing. Having sinned myself, I try to cut people a little slack (though I also try to proofread what I write.)
I blame Alanis Morissette for the confusion around irony. I hadn't heard "for all intensive purposes", but I'm not shocked. People use all sorts of expressions without any clue of their origins or original meaning. I'm not saying it's wonderful to misuse language, just that people learn language by speaking it with their peers and if enough people use it incorrectly - then the meaning of the word or expression changes. As a punctilious bastard it annoys me because I like that specificity, and subtlety of a word's denotations and connotations.
The day I dread is Merriam-Webster adding "figurative" as a valid interpretation of "literal." I'll get very drunk that day...
So what's wrong with "orientate?" The OED sites it as far back as 1849.
... If Torvalds et all changed the kernel's license to GPLv3, Google and the phone manufacturers would either have to comply with it or stop upgrading....
Google would just fork the latest GPLv2 version, maybe call it Antix. The 2.6 kernel is not going anywhere soon, companies that use Linux would continue to contribute to the GPLv2 fork and use it. There would be screaming and gnashing of teeth and then everything would be about the same. The embedded companies like MontaVista would switch to the GPLv2 fork, probably RedHat too. Maybe virtually everyone except Debian. In geek land there would be flamewars galore. Some of the volunteers might refuse to work on the v2 fork. But most people that get paid to work on Linux would end up doing on the new v2 fork. It's work, on a platform that doesn't suck, it pays the bills, and would still contribute back for others to use. No one else would notice.
Anyone else here miss the days when ios meant Cisco?
Not really, but reading "Apple" next to "IOS" still makes me rise an eyebrow.
As it should since Apple's trademark is on iOS. But I'm an old case-sensitve sort of guy even if the Slashdot "editors" are not. (Of course, HFS+ is not case sensitve by default, which annoys me. I must need coffee...)
Nope. I am fortunate enough to have upgraded myOS to a contextually sensitive parser and lexical analyzer. I can even handle the fact that there is an Ios Island in Greece that predates both Cisco IOS and Apple iOS.
Sorry, I'm a Slashdot-style armchair libertarian. I believe that the government cannot possibly do anything right, that being taxed is stealing my hard-earned money, and that everything the government does can be done better by the private sector. Furthermore, I believe that, with the exception of the freedoms and rights with which we were imbued, the only thing that matters in the world is money: everything has a value, and things which have no quantifiable value have no value at all.
Please explain to me why I should be in favor of the government funding particle physics research.
Why is Steven Colbert posting Anonymously? Dude, I love your show!
He was smart enough to become president. Yet he wasn't smart enough not to get caught lying under oath about sex acts with an Intern.
Thank God we spent $40 million dollars on a perpetual witch hunt to determine that JFK had better taste in women. Yes, he should have had the balls to take the fifth. Or maybe he could have tried "I don't recall," that always seems to work for the rich and connected.
...is that microsoft actually has 9%. Am I the only one who thought that Kin commercial (where the dude takes pictures of his ex-girlfriend) was super creepy?
It was definately creepy. I was amazed that commercial got past the story board phase. But I'm pretty sure the Kin did not effect MS's numbers much, there are a lot other Windows phones out there.
You have to be careful. One time I bought a bunch of spectrum at 730MHz in Tallahassee, Florida , and the guy said it was supposed to be good for the microcells.
But I think I got ripped off, because the bandwidth is swamping me.
Same thing happened to me in New York, but I ended up with a baggy of oregano.
Now, in my opinion, focusing on the imperialism and militarism of the US is still focusing on a symptom.
You're wrong because the US military was supporting American imperialism and bombarding towns for United Fruit before corporations had personhood.
I over simplified, no doubt. Yes, US corporations pursued imperialistic activities before personhood. I think that back in the day of the East Indian Trading Company corporations were "artificial persons" in the UK and could be regulated under common law. Yet they were extremely imperialist - leading to the American Revolution. Of course, they "could" be regulated, but they had huge influence over the government so all the regulations were in their favor. Like declaring US tea importers "smugglers" and taxing them out of business. When there was push back against corporations in the US in the late 1800s (more for local behaviors than imperialism) they started the long fight for personhood. Why? So they could do what ever they want, were ever they want and to keep the public in the dark, or better yet misinformed. All without accountability.
My point is that as long as the government is in the back pocket of the corporations, then the military will continue to be in their back pockets as well. After all, the US the military is under civilian rule. And as long lobbyist can exercise their billions of dollars of "free speech" to funnel money to political campaigns and misinform the actual citizens, nothing is going to change.
You can't tell me I should be REQUIRED to shower with someone who finds my gender sexually attractive?? by that reason women should have to shower with men in the military. And don't even start on you're calling everyone a homophobe with me, very far off the mark.
If they exercise self-control, what the hell does it matter? 5-10% of the population is gay. You've already showered with people that find your gender sexually attractive. You know, a lot of grief and suffering is caused because we worry way to much about what other people thinking. It's what people DO that matters.
... and that the internal oppression is used as a means of social control in order to divide people who might otherwise unite to stop the broader system of oppression.
All of which is to say, speaking as a queer personally, I do not see a meaningful improvement in the cause of justice by allowing queers to go kill and die for US imperialism.
A meaningful queer civil rights struggle would be anti-imperialist and anti-militarist by default, and the extent to which it disregards those values it is actively undermining the fundamental moral principle of equal rights.
As a straight man, I supported the repeal of DADT for the same reasons that I support gay marriage. First, I believe that it's none of the government's business. Second, I believe that these "issues," along with many others, are intentionally used to split the population and keep them from uniting on issues that are really in there best interests. So in a way, I agree with you. But there are gays that want to serve in the military, and there are gays that want to get married and the fact they can't is discrimination. As long as this issue is unresolved, it will be an effective wedge. That and I guess I'm just a bleeding heart.
Now, in my opinion, focusing on the imperialism and militarism of the US is still focusing on a symptom. The cause is that over the last 150 or so years corporations have been acquiring all the rights of individual humans (and shedding the responsibilities). Therefore we do not have a government of the people, by the people. The "American interests" we spend billions (oops, trillions) to promote and defend are rarely in the best interest of most actual Americans.
P.S. Now that the SCOTUS has reaffirmed that freedom of speech is a corporation's "right" and furthermore money is speech, it's only going to get worse.
And that, my friends, is the welfare state in a nutshell.
Yes, if there were a welfare state, someone unsavory may have children and those children may get fed, clothed and educated. Screw that, scrap the whole thing.
He worked for tax payers the whole time. How about Start a company? Employ some people. Make wealth. Have a job where your salary is not paid by tax payers? His "community works" was ACORN. Which is a bunch of non profits funded mostly by government grants. Teacher, Politician and Lawyer.
Why do people think running a company has anything to do with governing well? The goal of a company is to make money. To do this they usually: resist transparency, justify all actions as fiduciary responsibility, intentionally obfuscate public debate, etc... Besides that, the US government is already beholden to corporate interests so electing a "productive businessman" is redundant anyway.
... And I keep seeing suggestions that their numbers, power, and influence are growing. It's conceivable that they will eventually wield some real power (or you could argue they do already)...
There is not a single openly atheist/agnostic representative in high office in the US. I'm not saying that has anything to do with "The Family", just the nature of politics in the US.
Someone explain this?... So people are seriously buying that MacBook pro over that.. It makes my head hurt...
I'll bite. I like Linux (I used to love it.), I hate working in Windows, but for me OS X rocks. I leverage the holy crap out of Spotlight, the service extensions, automator, and system wide key bindings to minimize point click hell (yes on a Mac). OS X, Aqua, the consistency of most apps, the UNIX underpinnings, terminal, bash and friends are huge factors for me. I also like the industrial design of most Apple products, especially the MacBook Pros. I like the huge, glass mutli-touch track pad, the fit and finish and appreciate most of the trade offs: weight, size, battery life, etc. As to price vs. performance, that's not my key metric in making a laptop purchase. I spend all day using my computer and what matters most to me is that it allows me to work as efficiently as possible and doesn't piss me off. Enjoying my day is worth the money to me.
And some day, Steve Jobs will die. And without the cult of personality driving the marketing, slowly Apple will fall away...
I don't know what Apple's transition plan is, but Jobs drives more than "marketing." He drives product development. Not from an engineering sense, but from the jumping up and down and screaming when something isn't good enough from his perspective. That's a lot more than "marketing", it effects the actual products produced.
... The problem with a lot of people around here is that not only do they not care about rough edges, they don't even SEE rough edges.
Actually, I think a lot people around here see rough edges as a feature. If they use something "easy", then it's not obvious that they are special and smarter than everyone else... God forbid that you point out it's all built on UNIX with a terminal (on the Mac) and has free developer tools, documentation, example code, and training videos.
Well, if nothing else this might motivate him to get fit... I mean, the physical demands aren't that great compared to the skills needed to drive that car.
Driving a real car that level, undergoing constant changing G forces, takes a great deal of core strength. Otherwise you flop around like a rag doll and it is impossible to employ the required skills with any finesse. No doubt, there is a marketing angle, but Jimmie Johnson won the Associated Press Athlete of the Year of 2009.
In the long run our only hope (in the US) is to amend our constitution to explicitly state that "artificial people/legal constructs" (corporations) do not have all the freedoms of natural humans. Right now they can buy legislators (and therefore legislation) because: corporation == person and money == freedom of speech. Lying is free speech, so no more pesky truth in advertising. Right to free speech, right to privacy, rights against self-incremination, but immortal, virtually infinite financial resources, and can not be jailed or executed. Until then, I think actions like the DoS attacks will only fuel the absurd over reactions of our legislators that ultimately are in the corporation's back pocket. They can not get elected without playing ball - there is no such thing as a large, non-astroturfed, grass roots movement that can outspend all the usual suspects.
No idea how we'd ever get it through, but all the US fear of "big government" is a brilliant misdirection by our real overlords. Yes, I'm serious. No, I don't where a tinfoil hat. It's not a conspiracy, just the natural result of the thinking that multinational corporations with 10s of billions of dollars cash (each), deserve the same protections as humans - including participating in the political process. Actually, they have more protections because they can afford them.
... with no consultation of the people, and by an institution that many of us already consider to be nowhere near democratically accountable enough.
Do they expect us to follow it?
According to Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann,
we've been putting up with it for decades in the US. And now that the SCOTUS says money == speech and corporations == people, we're totally screwed.
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I wonder how many Mac Apps were sold the first day.
Evernote doubled their user base in the first week of the Mac App Store's existence (actual googling left as an exercise for the student.) I guess they are snickering all the way to the bank.
...especially the last decade, many people don't even know that "then" and "than" are different words...
I know "then" and "than" are different words. I know the meanings of "there," "they're" and "their." Same with "through" and "threw." And yet sometimes I type the wrong one, presumably because I associate the sound of the word with what I'm typing. Having sinned myself, I try to cut people a little slack (though I also try to proofread what I write.)
I blame Alanis Morissette for the confusion around irony. I hadn't heard "for all intensive purposes", but I'm not shocked. People use all sorts of expressions without any clue of their origins or original meaning. I'm not saying it's wonderful to misuse language, just that people learn language by speaking it with their peers and if enough people use it incorrectly - then the meaning of the word or expression changes. As a punctilious bastard it annoys me because I like that specificity, and subtlety of a word's denotations and connotations.
The day I dread is Merriam-Webster adding "figurative" as a valid interpretation of "literal." I'll get very drunk that day...
So what's wrong with "orientate?" The OED sites it as far back as 1849.
... If Torvalds et all changed the kernel's license to GPLv3, Google and the phone manufacturers would either have to comply with it or stop upgrading. ...
Google would just fork the latest GPLv2 version, maybe call it Antix. The 2.6 kernel is not going anywhere soon, companies that use Linux would continue to contribute to the GPLv2 fork and use it. There would be screaming and gnashing of teeth and then everything would be about the same. The embedded companies like MontaVista would switch to the GPLv2 fork, probably RedHat too. Maybe virtually everyone except Debian. In geek land there would be flamewars galore. Some of the volunteers might refuse to work on the v2 fork. But most people that get paid to work on Linux would end up doing on the new v2 fork. It's work, on a platform that doesn't suck, it pays the bills, and would still contribute back for others to use. No one else would notice.
Really? I miss the days when Cisco didn't make POS routers and switches.
Ah, the good ol' days of UUCP when Fred Fish was our patron saint.
Not really, but reading "Apple" next to "IOS" still makes me rise an eyebrow.
As it should since Apple's trademark is on iOS. But I'm an old case-sensitve sort of guy even if the Slashdot "editors" are not. (Of course, HFS+ is not case sensitve by default, which annoys me. I must need coffee...)
...miss the days when ios meant Cisco?
Nope. I am fortunate enough to have upgraded myOS to a contextually sensitive parser and lexical analyzer. I can even handle the fact that there is an Ios Island in Greece that predates both Cisco IOS and Apple iOS.
Sorry, I'm a Slashdot-style armchair libertarian. I believe that the government cannot possibly do anything right, that being taxed is stealing my hard-earned money, and that everything the government does can be done better by the private sector. Furthermore, I believe that, with the exception of the freedoms and rights with which we were imbued, the only thing that matters in the world is money: everything has a value, and things which have no quantifiable value have no value at all.
Please explain to me why I should be in favor of the government funding particle physics research.
Why is Steven Colbert posting Anonymously? Dude, I love your show!
. . .
He was smart enough to become president. Yet he wasn't smart enough not to get caught lying under oath about sex acts with an Intern.
Thank God we spent $40 million dollars on a perpetual witch hunt to determine that JFK had better taste in women. Yes, he should have had the balls to take the fifth. Or maybe he could have tried "I don't recall," that always seems to work for the rich and connected.
...is that microsoft actually has 9%. Am I the only one who thought that Kin commercial (where the dude takes pictures of his ex-girlfriend) was super creepy?
It was definately creepy. I was amazed that commercial got past the story board phase. But I'm pretty sure the Kin did not effect MS's numbers much, there are a lot other Windows phones out there.
You have to be careful. One time I bought a bunch of spectrum at 730MHz in Tallahassee, Florida , and the guy said it was supposed to be good for the microcells.
But I think I got ripped off, because the bandwidth is swamping me.
Same thing happened to me in New York, but I ended up with a baggy of oregano.
Now, in my opinion, focusing on the imperialism and militarism of the US is still focusing on a symptom.
You're wrong because the US military was supporting American imperialism and bombarding towns for United Fruit before corporations had personhood.
I over simplified, no doubt. Yes, US corporations pursued imperialistic activities before personhood. I think that back in the day of the East Indian Trading Company corporations were "artificial persons" in the UK and could be regulated under common law. Yet they were extremely imperialist - leading to the American Revolution. Of course, they "could" be regulated, but they had huge influence over the government so all the regulations were in their favor. Like declaring US tea importers "smugglers" and taxing them out of business. When there was push back against corporations in the US in the late 1800s (more for local behaviors than imperialism) they started the long fight for personhood. Why? So they could do what ever they want, were ever they want and to keep the public in the dark, or better yet misinformed. All without accountability.
My point is that as long as the government is in the back pocket of the corporations, then the military will continue to be in their back pockets as well. After all, the US the military is under civilian rule. And as long lobbyist can exercise their billions of dollars of "free speech" to funnel money to political campaigns and misinform the actual citizens, nothing is going to change.
You can't tell me I should be REQUIRED to shower with someone who finds my gender sexually attractive?? by that reason women should have to shower with men in the military. And don't even start on you're calling everyone a homophobe with me, very far off the mark.
If they exercise self-control, what the hell does it matter? 5-10% of the population is gay. You've already showered with people that find your gender sexually attractive. You know, a lot of grief and suffering is caused because we worry way to much about what other people thinking. It's what people DO that matters.
... and that the internal oppression is used as a means of social control in order to divide people who might otherwise unite to stop the broader system of oppression.
All of which is to say, speaking as a queer personally, I do not see a meaningful improvement in the cause of justice by allowing queers to go kill and die for US imperialism.
A meaningful queer civil rights struggle would be anti-imperialist and anti-militarist by default, and the extent to which it disregards those values it is actively undermining the fundamental moral principle of equal rights.
As a straight man, I supported the repeal of DADT for the same reasons that I support gay marriage. First, I believe that it's none of the government's business. Second, I believe that these "issues," along with many others, are intentionally used to split the population and keep them from uniting on issues that are really in there best interests. So in a way, I agree with you. But there are gays that want to serve in the military, and there are gays that want to get married and the fact they can't is discrimination. As long as this issue is unresolved, it will be an effective wedge. That and I guess I'm just a bleeding heart.
Now, in my opinion, focusing on the imperialism and militarism of the US is still focusing on a symptom. The cause is that over the last 150 or so years corporations have been acquiring all the rights of individual humans (and shedding the responsibilities). Therefore we do not have a government of the people, by the people. The "American interests" we spend billions (oops, trillions) to promote and defend are rarely in the best interest of most actual Americans.
P.S. Now that the SCOTUS has reaffirmed that freedom of speech is a corporation's "right" and furthermore money is speech, it's only going to get worse.
And that, my friends, is the welfare state in a nutshell.
Yes, if there were a welfare state, someone unsavory may have children and those children may get fed, clothed and educated. Screw that, scrap the whole thing.
You realize they will get born either way, right?
Why would you be involved with and much less bang _any_ feminist activist? Is there a more worthless subspecies of humanity _anywhere_?
Misogynists?
He worked for tax payers the whole time. How about Start a company? Employ some people. Make wealth. Have a job where your salary is not paid by tax payers? His "community works" was ACORN. Which is a bunch of non profits funded mostly by government grants. Teacher, Politician and Lawyer.
Why do people think running a company has anything to do with governing well? The goal of a company is to make money. To do this they usually: resist transparency, justify all actions as fiduciary responsibility, intentionally obfuscate public debate, etc... Besides that, the US government is already beholden to corporate interests so electing a "productive businessman" is redundant anyway.
... And I keep seeing suggestions that their numbers, power, and influence are growing. It's conceivable that they will eventually wield some real power (or you could argue they do already) ...
They already wield a lot of power.
There is not a single openly atheist/agnostic representative in high office in the US. I'm not saying that has anything to do with "The Family", just the nature of politics in the US.
FFS, isn't anyone capable of being objective anymore? ...
No. Political "debate" is now essentially verbal carpet bombing of the "enemy," the truth is collateral damage and the ends justify the means.
Someone explain this? ... So people are seriously buying that MacBook pro over that.. It makes my head hurt...
I'll bite. I like Linux (I used to love it.), I hate working in Windows, but for me OS X rocks. I leverage the holy crap out of Spotlight, the service extensions, automator, and system wide key bindings to minimize point click hell (yes on a Mac). OS X, Aqua, the consistency of most apps, the UNIX underpinnings, terminal, bash and friends are huge factors for me. I also like the industrial design of most Apple products, especially the MacBook Pros. I like the huge, glass mutli-touch track pad, the fit and finish and appreciate most of the trade offs: weight, size, battery life, etc. As to price vs. performance, that's not my key metric in making a laptop purchase. I spend all day using my computer and what matters most to me is that it allows me to work as efficiently as possible and doesn't piss me off. Enjoying my day is worth the money to me.
And some day, Steve Jobs will die. And without the cult of personality driving the marketing, slowly Apple will fall away...
I don't know what Apple's transition plan is, but Jobs drives more than "marketing." He drives product development. Not from an engineering sense, but from the jumping up and down and screaming when something isn't good enough from his perspective. That's a lot more than "marketing", it effects the actual products produced.
... The problem with a lot of people around here is that not only do they not care about rough edges, they don't even SEE rough edges.
Actually, I think a lot people around here see rough edges as a feature. If they use something "easy", then it's not obvious that they are special and smarter than everyone else... God forbid that you point out it's all built on UNIX with a terminal (on the Mac) and has free developer tools, documentation, example code, and training videos.
Well, if nothing else this might motivate him to get fit... I mean, the physical demands aren't that great compared to the skills needed to drive that car.
Driving a real car that level, undergoing constant changing G forces, takes a great deal of core strength. Otherwise you flop around like a rag doll and it is impossible to employ the required skills with any finesse. No doubt, there is a marketing angle, but Jimmie Johnson won the Associated Press Athlete of the Year of 2009.
In the long run our only hope (in the US) is to amend our constitution to explicitly state that "artificial people/legal constructs" (corporations) do not have all the freedoms of natural humans. Right now they can buy legislators (and therefore legislation) because: corporation == person and money == freedom of speech. Lying is free speech, so no more pesky truth in advertising. Right to free speech, right to privacy, rights against self-incremination, but immortal, virtually infinite financial resources, and can not be jailed or executed. Until then, I think actions like the DoS attacks will only fuel the absurd over reactions of our legislators that ultimately are in the corporation's back pocket. They can not get elected without playing ball - there is no such thing as a large, non-astroturfed, grass roots movement that can outspend all the usual suspects.
No idea how we'd ever get it through, but all the US fear of "big government" is a brilliant misdirection by our real overlords. Yes, I'm serious. No, I don't where a tinfoil hat. It's not a conspiracy, just the natural result of the thinking that multinational corporations with 10s of billions of dollars cash (each), deserve the same protections as humans - including participating in the political process. Actually, they have more protections because they can afford them.
Actually, I thought the entities we refer to as "corporations" were non-corporeal. So does that make them spirits?
Excellent question, but I think they are becoming more like Gods than mere spirits.
... with no consultation of the people, and by an institution that many of us already consider to be nowhere near democratically accountable enough.
Do they expect us to follow it?
According to Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann, we've been putting up with it for decades in the US. And now that the SCOTUS says money == speech and corporations == people, we're totally screwed.