Newspapers have always reported crimes. Yes, it can encourage vigilantism, but that's outweighed by the benefits of a well informed public. That's how a free society works: you don't limit access to information anymore than you have to. The public will often misuse that information, of course. That's an argument from A less free society, but we all know how that works out.
I don't think the WaPo was concerned about vigilantism when they decided not to crowdsource the map. The obvious issue is all the unreliable crap you can get that way. Wikipedia comes to mind.
But really, this isn't about censorship. This is about branding. Because Apple doesn't sell technology any more, they sell an image. And that image doesn't have room for stroke facilitation software.
My first encounter with JWZ was through the config files for Netscape 1.0. I was trying to make the software use the keyboard the way I was used to on Linux. The comments in the config files should have been an aid to that. Instead, I found a lot of angry rants signed "JWZ". Some lectured me that the usual way to configure the keyboard was stupid. Other were poorly-informed flames aimed at various UNIX workstations vendors. Very little actual technical info. I conceived a serious dislike for the dude then and there.
So I have to ask, What did JWZ ever actually accomplish? There must be something. (Working at Netscape long enough to retire on his share of the AOL buyout doesn't count.) If not, why does anybody pay attention to him?
Another tip: don't bother with a recruiter who tells you a listing is "urgent". A sure sign they're screwing with you. Also a waste of time to let them submit you below the going rate.
would you turn off Rush for a few minutes and do some actual reading? Try Googling "human trafficking". I think you'll find that many undocumented immigrants live under conditions little better than slavery.
What does George Orwell have to do with this? I wish people would stop overhyping stuff like this. Yes it's censorship, bit it's not Orwellian fascist, genocidal or any other word that hippies throw around when they feel frustrated.
Actually, the trend's the other way. Trains in Europe used to be much slower, so long trips were faster by plane. As the trains gotfaster, air travel on competing routes declined drastically.
Where'd your get that? Piston engines also have issues with ash. They need air too. Recall how your car stalled when you went too long without an air filter change. And if chap gets past the filters, goodbye pistons!
Well now, that's amusing. You see me as stereotyping Mac users, but you're led astray by your own stereotype of all iSkeptics as insecure Mac haters. Try actually reading my post before assigning it to a pigeonhole. I think you'll find that I was criticizing the whole culture in and around Apple, Inc., not just repeating a tired blog meme about people who use Macs. In point of fact, there are things about the Mac that I admire, and I've even been known to recommend them over PCs when usability is a primary issue.
(Incidentally, I am occasionally seen in the Starbucks in a Borders. Of course, I'm sipping a coffee — Starbucks cappuccino is vile — and using either my Toshiba netbook or Motion tablet. And I don't think a lot of the other folks in my local B/SB use Macs either.)
Let me describe to you one of my many negative experiences that led to my anti-Apple prejudice. I was an early adopter of the Newton. When I first got it, I loved the thing, and would spend hours just sitting around playing with it. But as I attempted to use it day-to-day, I came to see the thing as a classical case of technological hubris. I'm not talking about the sucky handwriting recognition (which did eventually improve). I'm talking about the countless fuckups. Like no easy way to fix handwriting errors (even a good recognizer screws up sometimes) or the fact that the tool that updated the recognizer dictionary didn't understand the concept of punctuation. Like no desktop synchronization. Like a form factor that's too big to put in your pocket and too small to replace a notebook. And a bunch of other stuff I can't even remember.
But the thing was full of cleverness. (How many different Easter Eggs were there?) I dimly recall a ton of clever little features and gimmicks that in the end just didn't fit together.
Except for my lovely little Apple IIe, I seem to have a similar experience every time I deal with Apple products: lots of little clevernesses, but the whole just a bit of a mess. The Mac itself is sort of an exception, since they did a good job of creating user interface standards for it — except over the years, they've drifted away from these standards in the interest of being More Cool.
I could go on an on. The time I tried to learn the API. The time I tried to run a web server on a Mac that my department had lying around. The time I bought an iPod Shuffle for my mom (she's old and easily confused, and the thing has a minimum of buttons) and ran into weirdness after weirdness making it talk to my PC. The time I decided to use iTunes to watch Battlestar Galactica and was driven to the breaking point by its UI weirdness and flaky codec.
And while I know and respect many Mac users, you can't tell me that the Steve Worship and the waiting in line for days to buy the first version of a product (and then going ballistic when the usual price drops occur) isn't just a little creepy.
It's the mindset at the center of the Apple Universe that bugs me. So take your psychologizing and stick it you know where.
Instead we've actually had what all the space fans claim to have wanted for years - a routine workaday program.
Routine? Hello! Challenger. Columbia. A space station that's been in maintenance-only mode for much of its lifespan -- a lifespan that will probably end before they finish building it.
If the shuttle program had delivered on its promise of cheap orbital access with a monthly launch schedule, and that had been used to theater some real space infrastructure, we'd be talking "routine". What we have is an expensive, dangerous set of toys that are mostly about PR, with a little bit of science along the way.
But that's not the kind of argument you can put on a bumpersticker or insert into a presidential speech.
Bumper sticker, no. Speech, well, you need the right president.
Where Bush had a space program that made him look good but would never accomplish anything, Obama has one that has folks scratching their heads but which might just take space travel out of its 40-year coma.
And no, I'm not blaming W for the mess that is NASA. Every President since JFK has put politics over real accomplishments in this area, though Bush was just a little more cold-blooded about it.
Oh please. Yes, you can glide a jetliner without engines, but it's not easy. As somebody already pointed out, the rate of descent is pretty nasty. Sometimes, very rarely, they get lucky and make it to a landing strip before they run out of altitude. Most of the time, they're not lucky.
... I don't own a Mac, iPhone, iPod, or any other iStuff. Apple does produce some really great technology. But I just can't deal with the whole Apple technology ecosystem. The company, its developers, and its users buy into a really obnoxious kind of groupthink, typified by those weird lovefests where the audience goes orgasmic every time Steve demonstrates something. Can you imagine any other place where they'd even consider a rule against "ridiculing public figures"? Gives a certain irony to that stupid commercial.
The least evil was Nader. So why didn't all of Gore's supporters, vote for him?
Maybe because he's a self righteous jerk with a platform out of Cloud Cuckoo land. As an attack dog, he's managed to do some good. As a political leader, he's a joke.
I'm not going to defend the two-party system. But supporting fringe bozos just because they tell you what you want to hear accomplishes nothing.
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Newspapers have always reported crimes. Yes, it can encourage vigilantism, but that's outweighed by the benefits of a well informed public. That's how a free society works: you don't limit access to information anymore than you have to. The public will often misuse that information, of course. That's an argument from A less free society, but we all know how that works out.
I don't think the WaPo was concerned about vigilantism when they decided not to crowdsource the map. The obvious issue is all the unreliable crap you can get that way. Wikipedia comes to mind.
Especially when the chief censor is this guy:
http://www.9to5mac.com/steve-jobs-hacks-phones-234556455
But really, this isn't about censorship. This is about branding. Because Apple doesn't sell technology any more, they sell an image. And that image doesn't have room for stroke facilitation software.
Lesson one needs to be something easy. Or did you miss the part about this being a class for newbies?
My first encounter with JWZ was through the config files for Netscape 1.0. I was trying to make the software use the keyboard the way I was used to on Linux. The comments in the config files should have been an aid to that. Instead, I found a lot of angry rants signed "JWZ". Some lectured me that the usual way to configure the keyboard was stupid. Other were poorly-informed flames aimed at various UNIX workstations vendors. Very little actual technical info. I conceived a serious dislike for the dude then and there.
So I have to ask, What did JWZ ever actually accomplish? There must be something. (Working at Netscape long enough to retire on his share of the AOL buyout doesn't count.) If not, why does anybody pay attention to him?
Whitespace and brainfuck are too damn elegant.Give me a properly obfuscated language like Intercal.
http://www.ofb.net/~jlm/intercal.html
Unfortunately, no. Few of them watch TV.
Another tip: don't bother with a recruiter who tells you a listing is "urgent". A sure sign they're screwing with you. Also a waste of time to let them submit you below the going rate.
Yeah, it's so inconsiderate of me to point out your ignorance.
would you turn off Rush for a few minutes and do some actual reading? Try Googling "human trafficking". I think you'll find that many undocumented immigrants live under conditions little better than slavery.
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The capacity of recruiters for absolute BS is amazing. Mind you there are smart ethical headhunters out there, but they're few and far between.
What does George Orwell have to do with this? I wish people would stop overhyping stuff like this. Yes it's censorship, bit it's not Orwellian fascist, genocidal or any other word that hippies throw around when they feel frustrated.
What? You're backing down? Uncool! This is where the flamefest is supposed to begin! You spoiled it!
Actually, the trend's the other way. Trains in Europe used to be much slower, so long trips were faster by plane. As the trains gotfaster, air travel on competing routes declined drastically.
Where'd your get that? Piston engines also have issues with ash. They need air too. Recall how your car stalled when you went too long without an air filter change. And if chap gets past the filters, goodbye pistons!
Does not. Completely different user base.
In space, no one can smell ice cream.
Well now, that's amusing. You see me as stereotyping Mac users, but you're led astray by your own stereotype of all iSkeptics as insecure Mac haters. Try actually reading my post before assigning it to a pigeonhole. I think you'll find that I was criticizing the whole culture in and around Apple, Inc., not just repeating a tired blog meme about people who use Macs. In point of fact, there are things about the Mac that I admire, and I've even been known to recommend them over PCs when usability is a primary issue.
(Incidentally, I am occasionally seen in the Starbucks in a Borders. Of course, I'm sipping a coffee — Starbucks cappuccino is vile — and using either my Toshiba netbook or Motion tablet. And I don't think a lot of the other folks in my local B/SB use Macs either.)
Let me describe to you one of my many negative experiences that led to my anti-Apple prejudice. I was an early adopter of the Newton. When I first got it, I loved the thing, and would spend hours just sitting around playing with it. But as I attempted to use it day-to-day, I came to see the thing as a classical case of technological hubris. I'm not talking about the sucky handwriting recognition (which did eventually improve). I'm talking about the countless fuckups. Like no easy way to fix handwriting errors (even a good recognizer screws up sometimes) or the fact that the tool that updated the recognizer dictionary didn't understand the concept of punctuation. Like no desktop synchronization. Like a form factor that's too big to put in your pocket and too small to replace a notebook. And a bunch of other stuff I can't even remember.
But the thing was full of cleverness. (How many different Easter Eggs were there?) I dimly recall a ton of clever little features and gimmicks that in the end just didn't fit together.
Except for my lovely little Apple IIe, I seem to have a similar experience every time I deal with Apple products: lots of little clevernesses, but the whole just a bit of a mess. The Mac itself is sort of an exception, since they did a good job of creating user interface standards for it — except over the years, they've drifted away from these standards in the interest of being More Cool.
I could go on an on. The time I tried to learn the API. The time I tried to run a web server on a Mac that my department had lying around. The time I bought an iPod Shuffle for my mom (she's old and easily confused, and the thing has a minimum of buttons) and ran into weirdness after weirdness making it talk to my PC. The time I decided to use iTunes to watch Battlestar Galactica and was driven to the breaking point by its UI weirdness and flaky codec.
And while I know and respect many Mac users, you can't tell me that the Steve Worship and the waiting in line for days to buy the first version of a product (and then going ballistic when the usual price drops occur) isn't just a little creepy.
It's the mindset at the center of the Apple Universe that bugs me. So take your psychologizing and stick it you know where.
Routine? Hello! Challenger. Columbia. A space station that's been in maintenance-only mode for much of its lifespan -- a lifespan that will probably end before they finish building it.
If the shuttle program had delivered on its promise of cheap orbital access with a monthly launch schedule, and that had been used to theater some real space infrastructure, we'd be talking "routine". What we have is an expensive, dangerous set of toys that are mostly about PR, with a little bit of science along the way.
No, Apple still cultivates the "think different" image. It's always been BS.
Sigh. You're arguing with something I didn't say. They reading past the first sentence. Or even reading the first sentence carefully.
Bumper sticker, no. Speech, well, you need the right president.
Where Bush had a space program that made him look good but would never accomplish anything, Obama has one that has folks scratching their heads but which might just take space travel out of its 40-year coma.
And no, I'm not blaming W for the mess that is NASA. Every President since JFK has put politics over real accomplishments in this area, though Bush was just a little more cold-blooded about it.
Oh please. Yes, you can glide a jetliner without engines, but it's not easy. As somebody already pointed out, the rate of descent is pretty nasty. Sometimes, very rarely, they get lucky and make it to a landing strip before they run out of altitude. Most of the time, they're not lucky.
... I don't own a Mac, iPhone, iPod, or any other iStuff. Apple does produce some really great technology. But I just can't deal with the whole Apple technology ecosystem. The company, its developers, and its users buy into a really obnoxious kind of groupthink, typified by those weird lovefests where the audience goes orgasmic every time Steve demonstrates something. Can you imagine any other place where they'd even consider a rule against "ridiculing public figures"? Gives a certain irony to that stupid commercial.
Clearly a Republican In Name Only. He's ignoring the fundamental creed.of the GOP: never say anything positive about Barack Obama!
Maybe because he's a self righteous jerk with a platform out of Cloud Cuckoo land. As an attack dog, he's managed to do some good. As a political leader, he's a joke.
I'm not going to defend the two-party system. But supporting fringe bozos just because they tell you what you want to hear accomplishes nothing.