What I don't get is why everyone groks that it's wrong to play pranks on heavily armed cops, but thinks that the cops overreacted when ATHF planted mysterious electronic gizmos all over Boston.
Because those people aren't stupid, thats why. The Boston PD did their job in inspecting a suspicious device. They did not do their jobs by freaking the fuck out over each and every one and shutting the down the whole damn town. Even if the signs, typically attached to structures like bridges, were bombs, they weren't large enough to damage the infrastructure or placed close enough to human traffic to be anti-personnel mines. These signs were placed in many cities across the U.S. but only Boston saw the sky falling on their heads.
Hardly, when "market" means "a handful of whiny anti-Apple fanboys". If Apple cared about those ten or eleven people, they would have added Ogg support years ago. Apple has had no problems selling SDKless iPhones any more than they've had problems selling iPods that don't play Ogg files.
No, they haven't released an SDK because all apps currently run as root. Fixing that before opening up the iPhone is just a little important so people don't get apps that start making 900 number calls left and right.
If Apple really cared about such pressure, they would have added Ogg support to the iPod to please those ten or twelve people that have been demanding it for the last few years.:)
Perhaps, but why would they have waited until now to announce it?
Why wait until everything is ready when you can make millions in the mean time? It's not like shipping a buggy game where incomplete features ruin the experience - an SDKless iPhone still works fine as a phone and media player.
Come on buddy, I like my Mac as much as the next guy and I'm typing this on a Macbook while my Mini does automating backups in the background, but Leopard is a point release. The changes between Windows XP and Windows XP SP1 were far more significant than those between OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Except Apple has this thing called professional pride. Sure, there is some stretching to claim "300 new features", but they try and bring stuff to the customer that is actually useful. As opposed to Microsoft, who strips out all the useful features because they can't code, throw a bunch of crap together and call it Vista, write each piece of crap down on a billeted list.
Inherent contempt is hard to use against an entire industry.
Entire industry? I didn't know we'd have to round up a few hundred thousand employees, Japanese internment style, to compel testimony. I was thinking more along the lines of arresting company officials who refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas.
More powerful is an impeachment trial. And not just Gonzales, but Bush and Cheney (who are also subject to inherent contempt).
Years overdue, but unfortunatly not likely to happen due to a combination of a lazy media, spineless Democrats, and Republicans who put loyalty to Bush over law.
We wouldn't be in this mess if Clinton (and Janet Reno) hadn't pushed so hard to pass the infamous "CALEA" legislation. CALEA is what put in place the technological infrastructure to allow easy wiretapping (even paying telecommunication companies hundreds of millions to install it).
Yes - WITH A WARRANT. The two aren't on the same planet, much less the same page. Don't be a tool.
As far as losing contracts...well...who ELSE would the government go to? It's not like a NASA contract and they have between Boeing and Lockheed-Martin.
Other telecos. This is what allegedly happened to Qwest in 2001, when the NSA wiretapping program started (BEFORE 9/11/01). Qwest had some fat government contracts coming, but were pulled when they refused to go along with the illegal wiretapping. This made for a bit a problem for their CEO Joseph Naccio, who sold a bunch of shares in the spring and was then prosecuted by the feds for insider trading when the stock price fell in the summer. His defense, which he was not allowed to provide evidence during the trial, was that he sold his shares when he thought these government contracts were going to make up for falling revenue in the rest of the company. If this is true, someone needs to go down hard for malicious prosecution.
It might not be true, but that's the problem with politicizing law enforcement. In high profile white collar prosecutions, it was almost reflexive that the defendant would claim the prosecution was political, and those claims would be dismissed as quickly. Such was the case with Don Siegelman, former governor of Alabama. Except it looks like he was right: a host of Republicans were implicated in a bribery scandal along with Siegelman, but only the Democrat was prosecuted, let alone investigated.
Waxman just needs to break out inherent contempt and have the House Sergent At Arms arrest anyone short of the president or vice president who refuses to testify.
Pompous much? If you get pulled over for going 5 mph over the speed limit, wouldn't you think a $3,000 fine is a bit much? How about when you go to trial and it gets bumped up to $220,000? Get a sense of proportion, man.
The problem with you wingers is that you are wrong so reliably on -everything- that you're going to make the rest of us lazy. Could you try and be right on one thing, just for once? Let's start with something easy: is water wet? Or is that too hard for you?
Yes, yes it was. That link was an example of a "phony soldier".
No, that was the pathetic Fox Noise spin to explain Rush's comments, which also included John Murtha and Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, who is still in Iraq.
You are clearly ignorant of the whole smear campaign and thus not intellectually qualified to comment.
I know about that bill, but it was too little too late. Some of the same media outlets that covered the Moveon "controversy" are the same ones that invite Ann Coulter on the air everytime she has a new hardcover rag to sell, because the media plays softball with conservatives and hardball with everyone else. This bill wont get a tenth the coverage that the Moveon "controversy" got; the time to make a point was with the original bill when the media would have no choice but to talk about it.
Developers go where the customers are, not were Microsoft wants them to go. Given a choice between 80-90% of the market or using.NET 4.0, which do you think they are going to choose?
Considering it's only been the last few months where I've run into applications that don't run on Windows 2000, I'm not exactly breaking out in a cold sweat here. And since business, government and education are avoiding Vista like the plague, it's going to be a very long time before moving to Vista becomes a necessity to run new applications.
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Given the fact that people have been shot by cops for a lot less than that, in situations were they weren't called in, yes he was lucky.
What I don't get is why everyone groks that it's wrong to play pranks on heavily armed cops, but thinks that the cops overreacted when ATHF planted mysterious electronic gizmos all over Boston.
Because those people aren't stupid, thats why. The Boston PD did their job in inspecting a suspicious device. They did not do their jobs by freaking the fuck out over each and every one and shutting the down the whole damn town. Even if the signs, typically attached to structures like bridges, were bombs, they weren't large enough to damage the infrastructure or placed close enough to human traffic to be anti-personnel mines. These signs were placed in many cities across the U.S. but only Boston saw the sky falling on their heads.
"I have no sense of humor and and overly defensive by five or six orders of magnitude."
Apple caved to pressure from the market.
Hardly, when "market" means "a handful of whiny anti-Apple fanboys". If Apple cared about those ten or eleven people, they would have added Ogg support years ago. Apple has had no problems selling SDKless iPhones any more than they've had problems selling iPods that don't play Ogg files.
No, they haven't released an SDK because all apps currently run as root. Fixing that before opening up the iPhone is just a little important so people don't get apps that start making 900 number calls left and right.
Translation: They rushed it to market.
No they didn't. At launch the iPhone did exactly as it was supposed to do: work as an iPod and a phone. The SDK next year is just a bonus.
If Apple really cared about such pressure, they would have added Ogg support to the iPod to please those ten or twelve people that have been demanding it for the last few years. :)
That's why they signed the five year deal with AT&T: so they would have that wiggle room.
Perhaps, but why would they have waited until now to announce it?
Why wait until everything is ready when you can make millions in the mean time? It's not like shipping a buggy game where incomplete features ruin the experience - an SDKless iPhone still works fine as a phone and media player.
Of course, I'm sure that some Mac fan is going to point out how this is another Apple innovation.
I don't know, you've set quite a high bar of snobbery for that person to top.
Yes, because if I want to buy five albums I'd so much rather make 50-100 transactions than five.
Come on buddy, I like my Mac as much as the next guy and I'm typing this on a Macbook while my Mini does automating backups in the background, but Leopard is a point release. The changes between Windows XP and Windows XP SP1 were far more significant than those between OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Liar.
Sure, but they'll run out of predator cats to name after. "Domestic Shorthair" doesn't have the same ring as "Tiger". :)
Except Apple has this thing called professional pride. Sure, there is some stretching to claim "300 new features", but they try and bring stuff to the customer that is actually useful. As opposed to Microsoft, who strips out all the useful features because they can't code, throw a bunch of crap together and call it Vista, write each piece of crap down on a billeted list.
As long as the iTunes store requires installing and running Apple's iTunes software, it is proprietary.
And Amazon requires that you use Windows, making it more proprietary than iTunes.
Inherent contempt is hard to use against an entire industry.
Entire industry? I didn't know we'd have to round up a few hundred thousand employees, Japanese internment style, to compel testimony. I was thinking more along the lines of arresting company officials who refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas.
More powerful is an impeachment trial. And not just Gonzales, but Bush and Cheney (who are also subject to inherent contempt).
Years overdue, but unfortunatly not likely to happen due to a combination of a lazy media, spineless Democrats, and Republicans who put loyalty to Bush over law.
We wouldn't be in this mess if Clinton (and Janet Reno) hadn't pushed so hard to pass the infamous "CALEA" legislation. CALEA is what put in place the technological infrastructure to allow easy wiretapping (even paying telecommunication companies hundreds of millions to install it).
Yes - WITH A WARRANT. The two aren't on the same planet, much less the same page. Don't be a tool.
As far as losing contracts...well...who ELSE would the government go to? It's not like a NASA contract and they have between Boeing and Lockheed-Martin.
Other telecos. This is what allegedly happened to Qwest in 2001, when the NSA wiretapping program started (BEFORE 9/11/01). Qwest had some fat government contracts coming, but were pulled when they refused to go along with the illegal wiretapping. This made for a bit a problem for their CEO Joseph Naccio, who sold a bunch of shares in the spring and was then prosecuted by the feds for insider trading when the stock price fell in the summer. His defense, which he was not allowed to provide evidence during the trial, was that he sold his shares when he thought these government contracts were going to make up for falling revenue in the rest of the company. If this is true, someone needs to go down hard for malicious prosecution.
It might not be true, but that's the problem with politicizing law enforcement. In high profile white collar prosecutions, it was almost reflexive that the defendant would claim the prosecution was political, and those claims would be dismissed as quickly. Such was the case with Don Siegelman, former governor of Alabama. Except it looks like he was right: a host of Republicans were implicated in a bribery scandal along with Siegelman, but only the Democrat was prosecuted, let alone investigated.
Waxman just needs to break out inherent contempt and have the House Sergent At Arms arrest anyone short of the president or vice president who refuses to testify.
Pompous much? If you get pulled over for going 5 mph over the speed limit, wouldn't you think a $3,000 fine is a bit much? How about when you go to trial and it gets bumped up to $220,000? Get a sense of proportion, man.
The problem with you wingers is that you are wrong so reliably on -everything- that you're going to make the rest of us lazy. Could you try and be right on one thing, just for once? Let's start with something easy: is water wet? Or is that too hard for you?
Yes, yes it was. That link was an example of a "phony soldier".
No, that was the pathetic Fox Noise spin to explain Rush's comments, which also included John Murtha and Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, who is still in Iraq.
You are clearly ignorant of the whole smear campaign and thus not intellectually qualified to comment.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Bitch.
I know about that bill, but it was too little too late. Some of the same media outlets that covered the Moveon "controversy" are the same ones that invite Ann Coulter on the air everytime she has a new hardcover rag to sell, because the media plays softball with conservatives and hardball with everyone else. This bill wont get a tenth the coverage that the Moveon "controversy" got; the time to make a point was with the original bill when the media would have no choice but to talk about it.
About those "phony soldiers". If you can't handle the truth, don't click.
I did click and it was NOT about the "phony soldiers". Try again.
If you can however, watch this too.
Yawn.
Developers go where the customers are, not were Microsoft wants them to go. Given a choice between 80-90% of the market or using .NET 4.0, which do you think they are going to choose?
Considering it's only been the last few months where I've run into applications that don't run on Windows 2000, I'm not exactly breaking out in a cold sweat here. And since business, government and education are avoiding Vista like the plague, it's going to be a very long time before moving to Vista becomes a necessity to run new applications.
Dude the times is a liberal paper.
That word does not mean what you think it means.