If the Public Domain erodes, so too does our cultural identity. Sounds hyperbolic, but it is true. How far back do you want to go? Shall we just end the PD as a possibility, and all things are owned for all time? Who does that benefit, outside those whose items would be escheated to?
Still fails to deliver outdated 1990s email paradigms that only the stodgiest of business users still care about. Flags? Really? If flags are that big a deal, use Gmail via MobileSafari. And show me one phone that junk filters.
Damn troll article. How did this actually get posted?
They would rather have a ridiculous sum in judgement than to seek the reasonable. A reasonable verdict is what they want to avoid because if we start seeing reasonable verdicts, the headlines go away, and the lawyers' gravy train ends.
This is so true. It's just microeconomics for students. I thought it'd be cool to be a whitecoat when I was a kid, but business is where the money is at. I saw teachers and grad degrees all struggle throughout my academic career -- why would I have ever chosen that?
Instead, I went to IT. I have a Finance degree. At some point, it's nearly infallible. If you want people like me who had a choice, you had better make them today's "athletes". Only medical doctors make money. Most other doctorates are hippies that have office hours and Birkenstocks. That's what computer science was twenty years ago.
The opportunity is there, should the Government actually want to emphasize such things...
Here's a second. This is a ridiculous premise. It works for now, and today's browser won't work as well in several years. You're making it sound like this is somehow supposed to be Safari5 for 2020.
Weak sauce.
If you actually want a solution, you want to start migrating towards platform independence. Our XP machines are moving to OSX for the most part. In doing so, it is making our company more nimble insofar as we are no longer tied into a specific hardware solution. When GoogleOS comes out, maybe we'll move our old machines onto that.
Your best play is to make OS choices a lot less relevant to lock in.
What happened, did W move from Texas to Ohio? This tramples so many basic legal principles, the bright lights of common sense need to be shone all over these cockroaches.
Another day, another/. bag on Apple's policy article. I don't get it; those crying monopoly are insane. This is no different than a Costco. No one makes them carry a certain kind of anything. They have buyers, a submission process, a fickle price negotiation for margin, and a decision about whether the company should carry a specific product. Why is this any different?
I know you guys get annoyed with this, but the fact is Apple gets to sell what it wants, period. Your rejection, my safe store.
At this point, if you don't understand this, don't dick around with apps that are clearly in the "our paint looks better than Apple's" and cry to mommy when they finally notice.
You co-opt the look and feel of the device, and expect Apple to not be pissed? That does fall under the "don't do what we do" doctrine. Sorry; no sympathy here. Maybe Android will let you sell a shiny coat of paint, but you can't act surprised and be believable on this.
Low fat diets would keep us skinny and healthy. Opposite happened. Why would we trust that kind of governmental science? We're looking for answers, not facts. Jesus will solve that, since the FDA didn't.
Religion will always offer an answer that science must admit it does not know. Science, by not knowing, is beautiful to me. It is the search. The problem is when people don't have the simplistic car analogy or capacity/education to understand something, they'd rather compartmentalize their unknown to a rational, safe place. This is SOP for people because it is at the center of their coping mechanisms. At one time, it was a man-god with a flaming chariot crossing the sky of a flat earth. As Pumba reckoned, it's a nuclear fusion fireball... but he was an odd duck. Most people don't want to care because they have no control over it. If the Sun goes off with a harsh explosion, we all have 8 minutes. Do we sit and worry about the huge fusion nuke bomb going off all the time, or do we go get a tan? A tan is more rational. But once you decide the Sun is a good thing, you don't think about it all the time. 2000 years ago, it was better to let Apollo do his daily deal, and not worry about it. Not much has changed; just the rationalizations made by the people spewing the garbage to maintain ever more social control. The more things get complex, the more this phenomenon will permeate.
We're peaking as a species with what we understand as individuals. We are too specialized. So instead of explaining the basics of new things, we do car analogies and football fields, and failing that, we say to the rest that it's God's Will, and Allah's Might. And 7,000,000,000 idiots all get along to a lesser degree.
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If the Public Domain erodes, so too does our cultural identity. Sounds hyperbolic, but it is true. How far back do you want to go? Shall we just end the PD as a possibility, and all things are owned for all time? Who does that benefit, outside those whose items would be escheated to?
Still fails to deliver outdated 1990s email paradigms that only the stodgiest of business users still care about. Flags? Really? If flags are that big a deal, use Gmail via MobileSafari. And show me one phone that junk filters. Damn troll article. How did this actually get posted?
They would rather have a ridiculous sum in judgement than to seek the reasonable. A reasonable verdict is what they want to avoid because if we start seeing reasonable verdicts, the headlines go away, and the lawyers' gravy train ends.
Cameras don't prevent crime; they make it easier to convict. They do not make anyone safer.
This is so true. It's just microeconomics for students. I thought it'd be cool to be a whitecoat when I was a kid, but business is where the money is at. I saw teachers and grad degrees all struggle throughout my academic career -- why would I have ever chosen that? Instead, I went to IT. I have a Finance degree. At some point, it's nearly infallible. If you want people like me who had a choice, you had better make them today's "athletes". Only medical doctors make money. Most other doctorates are hippies that have office hours and Birkenstocks. That's what computer science was twenty years ago. The opportunity is there, should the Government actually want to emphasize such things...
Here's a second. This is a ridiculous premise. It works for now, and today's browser won't work as well in several years. You're making it sound like this is somehow supposed to be Safari5 for 2020. Weak sauce.
China doesn't give a shit about workers, so why should Apple?
If you actually want a solution, you want to start migrating towards platform independence. Our XP machines are moving to OSX for the most part. In doing so, it is making our company more nimble insofar as we are no longer tied into a specific hardware solution. When GoogleOS comes out, maybe we'll move our old machines onto that. Your best play is to make OS choices a lot less relevant to lock in.
Not much.
You want regulation by the FCC? The same toolbox that can't even regulate Net Neutrality? You're smokin' crack...
Bring on Windows Ocho (tm) already. 7 is another swing and miss.
What happened, did W move from Texas to Ohio? This tramples so many basic legal principles, the bright lights of common sense need to be shone all over these cockroaches.
Another day, another /. bag on Apple's policy article. I don't get it; those crying monopoly are insane. This is no different than a Costco. No one makes them carry a certain kind of anything. They have buyers, a submission process, a fickle price negotiation for margin, and a decision about whether the company should carry a specific product. Why is this any different?
There are no LOLCats and LOLDogs in India... They're LOLLunch and LOLDinner.
It's their lack of tweeting, texting, IMing, and 13375p33k. like zomg FTW!!!!!!!11!!!eleventyone!!1
They get good because they practice daily with ridiculously long names!
We need the Shamwow Guy to do commercials comparing this to his caulk.
I know you guys get annoyed with this, but the fact is Apple gets to sell what it wants, period. Your rejection, my safe store. At this point, if you don't understand this, don't dick around with apps that are clearly in the "our paint looks better than Apple's" and cry to mommy when they finally notice.
You co-opt the look and feel of the device, and expect Apple to not be pissed? That does fall under the "don't do what we do" doctrine. Sorry; no sympathy here. Maybe Android will let you sell a shiny coat of paint, but you can't act surprised and be believable on this.
Low fat diets would keep us skinny and healthy. Opposite happened. Why would we trust that kind of governmental science? We're looking for answers, not facts. Jesus will solve that, since the FDA didn't.
Religion will always offer an answer that science must admit it does not know. Science, by not knowing, is beautiful to me. It is the search. The problem is when people don't have the simplistic car analogy or capacity/education to understand something, they'd rather compartmentalize their unknown to a rational, safe place. This is SOP for people because it is at the center of their coping mechanisms. At one time, it was a man-god with a flaming chariot crossing the sky of a flat earth. As Pumba reckoned, it's a nuclear fusion fireball... but he was an odd duck. Most people don't want to care because they have no control over it. If the Sun goes off with a harsh explosion, we all have 8 minutes. Do we sit and worry about the huge fusion nuke bomb going off all the time, or do we go get a tan? A tan is more rational. But once you decide the Sun is a good thing, you don't think about it all the time. 2000 years ago, it was better to let Apollo do his daily deal, and not worry about it. Not much has changed; just the rationalizations made by the people spewing the garbage to maintain ever more social control. The more things get complex, the more this phenomenon will permeate. We're peaking as a species with what we understand as individuals. We are too specialized. So instead of explaining the basics of new things, we do car analogies and football fields, and failing that, we say to the rest that it's God's Will, and Allah's Might. And 7,000,000,000 idiots all get along to a lesser degree.
Seriously? I just meant you wouldn't be able to plug in a device without first knowing if it's a 110, 220, or who knows what... Whatever.
Imagine if electricity utilities were allowed to put out the wattage level they saw fit. Ya, that'd work well... Same goes for the interwebs.
Clearly he didn't measure in football fields.
For what it's worth, Microsoft outsourced their IT to India. You're asking a question of fountains, and your bosses see extraneous plumbing...