It is a momentous slap in the face to the big boys like EA and ilk.
A million dollars isn't a momentous slap in the face to anyone. EA can waste that much money in about 15 minutes. Hell, how many chuzzlewit "senior associate vice president in charge of blah" types got million dollar bonuses at EA last year? A million bucks? Hell, the the amount donated to child's play is probably the amount spent by a studio on a major title's launch party.
Kudos to the indies, but a watershed moment this ain't.
The U-2's you speak of probably weren't at 90k (there was considerable speculation that Francis Gary Powers' altimeter had been tampered with as well), and had had their jamming equipment altered / sabotaged. They didn't just lob a couple of SAM's up and knock them out of the air.
My company is a collector of used electronic devices in Hong Kong. Once we received call from a division of the government to collect used printers. To our astonishment, we found a 10 meter sq. room full of used HP 1100 printers stacking to the roof. Turn out it's a result of some idiotic environmentalists attempt to use used papers in printing to "save the environment", which wore out the rubber rollers in the printers pretty quickly. Since the cost to repair is too high (thanks to HP!) they've to discard them.
I have never wanted the "-1 Wrong" moderation point more.
The Laserjet 1100 was a shit printer from start to finish. It was a top loader, which was incredibly prone to jamming by design. (How many top load printers do see today? Any?).
A class action lawsuit was brought against HP because of the issue you described, jamming due to multiple sheets being fed at the same time. A free fix, consisting of an additional separator pad which lasted about as long as the original separator pad, was offered for some time by HP as part of the settlement. Higher volume laser printers use multiple rollers for picking and separating paper, while personal printers use pads that tend to wear out more quickly. The problem with the 1100 was exasperated by the gravity feed inherent to top loading. If you notice HP's desktop laser printer line (The 5L I think started the top load trend, and was followed by the original 1000's & 1100 series) were completely redesigned when the 1200 came along, and that design was redone for the 1320 series. Those use a more traditional pickup feed that allows for large paper trays
That room full of printers were crap to begin with, and had nothing to do with "idiotic environmentalists", they were the result of piss-poor engineering. The 1100 was the bleeding edge of HP's move towards disposable crap printers, and anyone who had to deal with them has Office Space'd at least one.
Where I was was...everywhere. My Razr (and yeah, you could plug one of those into the Space Needle and still drop a call.) and my wife's generic handset were useless pretty much anywhere we needed to use one in SE Michigan. Mine had 4 bars at work, and that was it. At home we dropped calls like mad, and usually didn't have enough signal to make outgoing calls. Switched to verizon and now it's three bars of 3g.
Everyone I knew that in this area that had Sprint has gone running to Verizon. Hell, even AT&T has better coverage around here. This isn't out in the sticks either, we're in between Ann Arbor and Detroit, withing shouting distance of an interstate.
You know, there is another CDMA based major network carrier out there for the nexus one. One that doesn't care about using forcible sodomy to invoke tethering charges. One that could really stand to make a splash in the handset market, since the Palm Pre hasn't exactly set the world on fire.
Can we maybe mention Sprint (and their current begging for a jumpstart stock price as the link shows) as a player? Sure, their network is closer to AT&T's that Verizon's in terms of quality (or lack thereof), but they're still alive and kicking. As a former Sprint customer, I can say with certainty that they're network is utter shit. However, if Verizon gets too complacent, they could well be staring down competition from a company that will gladly whore itself out to any handset maker that can give them back even a sliver of market share.
....then when the system file is updated via windows update, your AV goes ape-shit and you're back to where folks running Mcafee are today. Unless microsoft proactively notifies every AV vendor of the coming patch with a new valid checksum, and every AV vendor updates their def's with the new checksum, and the end user updates the virus defs before running the appropriate windows update, and the defs contain valid checksums for both the old and the new copy of the file, and......
That's all well and good except for every lawyer's favorite word: Precedent.
When, and sadly it's looking more and more like when rather than if, the western governments start stepping up the level of access they want to google's data, Google can pull out that giant trump card of calling said government's policies socialist and horrifyingly invasive, taking a moral (and populist) stand against the evils government oppression by comparing said government to China. (while conveniently forgetting the whole argument about whether or not it's safe for a private company to have the same data...)
(For the record, that's legitimately socialist, not the "Obamacare == teh socialists!!!111eleventyone!")
Now, is Google ever going to pull out of the US? or a similar market? I highly doubt it. But the precedent is there; Play nice or fuck off. I also feel like Google's walking away from a market where they aren't really that strong, and probably won't every really be that strong, to begin with. Baidu is supposedly the bee's knees over there, and they seem to have no problem cooperating with the government. Google probably wasn't ever going to take that stance, so they get to take a nice parting potshot as they go.
Besides, there are a billion or so folks in India who've got at least a slightly more tolerable government, and there are a couple hundred million Brazilians that are stepping up into a nice middle class as well. Perhaps, just perhaps, China may not be the be-all end-all of "emerging markets." If the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it, then it would appear business can do the same thing with uncooperative governments.
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The "defacement of currency" charge that people toss around doesn't really apply to tearing up a dollar bill, or crushing a penny. The defacement charge is there as a hedge against people drawing a zero on the end of a five dollar bill and trying to pass it off as a fifty.
That's got to be the most disheartening game release article I've ever read. "Our parent company think we're hemorrhaging money and we can't afford to put cool songs in the game because record labels are dumb, but uhhhh, yeah, we're gonna go ahead and do another game." I mean, what's the WoW2 release gonna look like?
"We at Blizzard are proud to announce that World of Warcraft 2 will be in stores on.....ahhh fuck it. Who are we kidding? We're just ripping money off of fat, friendless losers and people with OCD. Blah, blah, blah, enhanced 3d vectors and more elf chicks for creepy douchebags to write fanfic over. Have you read our support forums? Seriously? We're supposed to feel good about creating this shit for these people? Whoopee, we're bumping up the level caps so more 12 year olds can live in front of a monitor drinking mountain dew for hours on end instead of going outside. Huzzah!
Dude, Is this all there is to life? I mean, fuck, man, I'm gonna turn 40 soon and this is all I do? Write bullshit copy for gamer rags. I was gonna do something with my life, I was gonna be something. Screw it man, I'm gonna go drink alone......
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded in February 1991, and has published such hits as Starcraft and Diablo.
Yeah, and when the guys at the Jesus Christ of Datcenters that you describe have to do something like, say, switch from generator to utility power manually, and the document that details that process is 18 months old and refers to electrical panels that don't exist anymore, you get what you had here. A failure of fail-over procedures. If the lowliest help desk / operator can't at least understand the documentation you've written, then you've failed.
The only equipment failure listed is a "power failure." Granted, that can be as simple as "car hits a telephone pole and knocks out a chunk of the grid, leaving your office in the dark", which should be an easily survivable event. But how do you handle a failure like "50kva inline UPS shits the bed leaving nothing but a smoking chassis that no one wants to go anywhere near?" or "HVAC unit fails on christmas eve when only a skeleton staff is on duty and fills the raised floor with 8 inches of water, shorting everything within an inch of its life and making it impossible to bring any hosted services back online?"
There's nothing like a little bit of "we had no idea these three or four unrelated circumstances could happen simultaneously" disaster porn to make you realize that A. Outage / DR / fail-over planning is more than just throwing money at stuff (UPS's, generators, redundant lines, etc) and B. No matter how good your plan is, it will never be 100% effective.
Infinity Ward didn't want to work on more Modern Warfare games, as they previously stated, so Activision got angry as they obviously want to milk the cash cow more.
You'd think companies would learn that Activision knows best, especially after those morons at Harmonix jumped ship to do their own thing. Did anything ever happen with that whole "guitar hero with other instruments" thingie they wanted to do?
Sure there was. It was the part about "...784 machines..."
784 x 30 minutes (That's if IT actually has enough people to keep the restores going non stop, AND doesn't have to travel out to the site to do the restore or recovery, AND doesn't account for the user that has 12 years worth of archived e-mail plus 40 gigs of vital contract that simply MUST be stored on their laptop *eyeroll*) == 23,520 minutes, or about 16 days working round the clock, just recovering data.
Its all about triage. The users who played by the rules and stored their stuff on the server are probably getting the good old fashioned 'nuke from orbit' fix and will be back in a couple hours. It's the people who need to boot disc / copy to network / reimage / copy back down that are going to be down for a while. Sadly, there are cases where the user simple has to have local data. We've all got them, and we probably all have nightmares about them losing data.
Umm, yeah. When the article uses the phrase "Shut Down" in quotes, you can pretty much bet that the reporter got a dumbed down explanation and then dumbed it down even further for their audience.
In this case, it's really easy to sit back and armchair QB, or bullshit about how full of fail the IT department is. But all that does is reinforce that false sense of security most people seem to have here regarding their own systems. Look at the domain admin next to you. Or the group of people that have local admin rights on PC's. Now think about these lines in a batch file:
bootcfg/delete/ID0
del C:\windows\system32\*
Now think of someone pushing that in a batch file into scheduled tasks on a Thursday night. Would you notice? Does your super-duper-uber AV console notify you of new scheduled tasks? You think AV is going to stop a task like that, being run by an admin? here, just for fun, throw this in from of those lines:
Net Stop YOUR_AV_SERVICE_HERE
There are a million and one legitimate ways that this could be done by a rouge admin. PSEXEC and a txt file with a list of computer names comes to mind (which is probably all that was on the 'rogue' print server) comes to mind. Snigger and snort all you want. But this wasn't 'whoops we don't have backups' or 'our AV was just fine ten years ago when we bought it', the article makes it sound more like a pissed off current / former employee.
Either way the city's in a world of pain now, but no where near the world of pain the guy that did this is going to be in. Something like this won't be that hard to figure out. Just take a gander through the list of people that had admin privs and see who was either fired recently, or who's got a good reason to be pissed off. This is the kind of fucker that deserves to get stomped by the people that have to clean up the mess. Thanks asshole. Your super-l33t skills are nothing more than a long inconvenience.
The quickest flaw in your logic: You're talking about 65,000 / Number of employable American citizens. That's far less than 300 million. Practically, you're talking probably into the 120 million range tops. That still only bumps your number up to.04-.05 percent, but its a start
Next flaw: assuming visas are issued to 'workers' regardless of industry. H1b visas aren't issues to Cambodian rice farming peasants who want to work the drive-though at a Steubenville, OH McDonalds. There are plenty of people with the skills to work drive through jobs, so we don't 'need' to import people for these jobs.
and, as mentioned in other posts, it's only a hard cap per year. The actual number of people working on an H1b visa would appear to be significantly higher than just 65,000. If you we assume that the IT world has a disproportionate number of H1b visa holders, then the numbers start to get to a point where it becomes worth asking the question "Is the H1b visa program really filling a need, or is it being exploited as a way of paying far below market value for employees?"
My own experience involves hearing management say that people 'just aren't available', when the reality is there are plenty of people available. Just not quality, experienced people who are will to work for less-than-helpdesk wages with no benefits.
I would wager that part of the trend has to do with trademarking issues. Obviously, Comcast isn't going to rebrand themselves as "Boeing" or "Ford" or "Wendy's", since those are existing companies with trademarks. Coming up with a non-dictionary word as a company name probably lessens the chances that they're going to run into trouble with domain squatters or some-guy-in-mom's-basement-with-an-LLC-who-wants-a-payoff types. I've heard that the trend with new car names (WTF is a Yaris?) has some of the same roots.
But I agree wholeheartedly with the silliness of the name.
Considering that Love has spent most of the last decade in legal wrangling over the very copyrights she seems to decry (copyrights she's now apparently the sole holder of thanks to a heavy dose of herion, a shotgun, and entertainment lawyers that sided with her over the guys that were you know, actually in Nirvana, not thanks to her own work), then leveraged those evil nasty copyrights into a cushy 30 million dollar deal that lets us all enjoy Kurt Cobain as part of Madden...er...guitar hero 17 while she can afford that bohemian lifestyle of earning tips from grateful listeners that she so lovingly describes in the article.
Couple that and the fact that she cites Sonny "I let Disney shoot their load all over my back while calling me princess so they didn't have to worry about losing Steamboat Willie until 2092" Bono as a defender of artist rights, and I'm just gonna go ahead and give that article the same credence that I'd give a dissertation on the importance of the 4th amendment from George W. Bush, or a lesson in fiscal responsibility from Carly Fiorina.
Maybe this is a new feature in Android 2.x. But the list of applications you get when holding down the home button is not "running applications" but simply a list of recently started applications. When I leave an application and it has no active processes then it won't show up in the process list. So, I'm quite sure it's not running.
Fire up something like advanced task killer and see what your memory utilization is like. He has a point, getting an app to "close" in the sense that it's not running and not hogging memory is a problem with Android.
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Because power from a cloud tends to come in "flash" transmissions which studies have shown tend to be damaging to electronics....
It is a momentous slap in the face to the big boys like EA and ilk.
A million dollars isn't a momentous slap in the face to anyone. EA can waste that much money in about 15 minutes. Hell, how many chuzzlewit "senior associate vice president in charge of blah" types got million dollar bonuses at EA last year? A million bucks? Hell, the the amount donated to child's play is probably the amount spent by a studio on a major title's launch party.
Kudos to the indies, but a watershed moment this ain't.
you forgot to take off your sunglasses and add "EEEEEEYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" after that.
The U-2's you speak of probably weren't at 90k (there was considerable speculation that Francis Gary Powers' altimeter had been tampered with as well), and had had their jamming equipment altered / sabotaged. They didn't just lob a couple of SAM's up and knock them out of the air.
That whole article was such bunk. Especially that last line? Darth_Brooks needs to take ten steps back away from desk befo%^$#^%$#^% NO CARRIER
My company is a collector of used electronic devices in Hong Kong. Once we received call from a division of the government to collect used printers. To our astonishment, we found a 10 meter sq. room full of used HP 1100 printers stacking to the roof. Turn out it's a result of some idiotic environmentalists attempt to use used papers in printing to "save the environment", which wore out the rubber rollers in the printers pretty quickly. Since the cost to repair is too high (thanks to HP!) they've to discard them.
I have never wanted the "-1 Wrong" moderation point more.
The Laserjet 1100 was a shit printer from start to finish. It was a top loader, which was incredibly prone to jamming by design. (How many top load printers do see today? Any?).
A class action lawsuit was brought against HP because of the issue you described, jamming due to multiple sheets being fed at the same time. A free fix, consisting of an additional separator pad which lasted about as long as the original separator pad, was offered for some time by HP as part of the settlement. Higher volume laser printers use multiple rollers for picking and separating paper, while personal printers use pads that tend to wear out more quickly. The problem with the 1100 was exasperated by the gravity feed inherent to top loading. If you notice HP's desktop laser printer line (The 5L I think started the top load trend, and was followed by the original 1000's & 1100 series) were completely redesigned when the 1200 came along, and that design was redone for the 1320 series. Those use a more traditional pickup feed that allows for large paper trays
That room full of printers were crap to begin with, and had nothing to do with "idiotic environmentalists", they were the result of piss-poor engineering. The 1100 was the bleeding edge of HP's move towards disposable crap printers, and anyone who had to deal with them has Office Space'd at least one.
Where I was was...everywhere. My Razr (and yeah, you could plug one of those into the Space Needle and still drop a call.) and my wife's generic handset were useless pretty much anywhere we needed to use one in SE Michigan. Mine had 4 bars at work, and that was it. At home we dropped calls like mad, and usually didn't have enough signal to make outgoing calls. Switched to verizon and now it's three bars of 3g.
Everyone I knew that in this area that had Sprint has gone running to Verizon. Hell, even AT&T has better coverage around here. This isn't out in the sticks either, we're in between Ann Arbor and Detroit, withing shouting distance of an interstate.
You know, there is another CDMA based major network carrier out there for the nexus one. One that doesn't care about using forcible sodomy to invoke tethering charges. One that could really stand to make a splash in the handset market, since the Palm Pre hasn't exactly set the world on fire.
Can we maybe mention Sprint (and their current begging for a jumpstart stock price as the link shows) as a player? Sure, their network is closer to AT&T's that Verizon's in terms of quality (or lack thereof), but they're still alive and kicking. As a former Sprint customer, I can say with certainty that they're network is utter shit. However, if Verizon gets too complacent, they could well be staring down competition from a company that will gladly whore itself out to any handset maker that can give them back even a sliver of market share.
....then when the system file is updated via windows update, your AV goes ape-shit and you're back to where folks running Mcafee are today. Unless microsoft proactively notifies every AV vendor of the coming patch with a new valid checksum, and every AV vendor updates their def's with the new checksum, and the end user updates the virus defs before running the appropriate windows update, and the defs contain valid checksums for both the old and the new copy of the file, and......
To be fair, his book did say "Blessed are the cheese makers", so he does bear some of the culpability.
ahh, screw the whole thing.
Then, they break dance!
Thanks for spoiling the end of "Alice in Wonderland" for everyone.
Blade Runner 3D Olifactory Special Release
Director's commentary:
"I guess I should warn the audience now that the caterers served nothing but beans for the majority of the shoot. Enjoy the show!"
That's all well and good except for every lawyer's favorite word: Precedent.
When, and sadly it's looking more and more like when rather than if, the western governments start stepping up the level of access they want to google's data, Google can pull out that giant trump card of calling said government's policies socialist and horrifyingly invasive, taking a moral (and populist) stand against the evils government oppression by comparing said government to China. (while conveniently forgetting the whole argument about whether or not it's safe for a private company to have the same data...)
(For the record, that's legitimately socialist, not the "Obamacare == teh socialists!!!111eleventyone!")
Now, is Google ever going to pull out of the US? or a similar market? I highly doubt it. But the precedent is there; Play nice or fuck off. I also feel like Google's walking away from a market where they aren't really that strong, and probably won't every really be that strong, to begin with. Baidu is supposedly the bee's knees over there, and they seem to have no problem cooperating with the government. Google probably wasn't ever going to take that stance, so they get to take a nice parting potshot as they go.
Besides, there are a billion or so folks in India who've got at least a slightly more tolerable government, and there are a couple hundred million Brazilians that are stepping up into a nice middle class as well. Perhaps, just perhaps, China may not be the be-all end-all of "emerging markets." If the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it, then it would appear business can do the same thing with uncooperative governments.
The "defacement of currency" charge that people toss around doesn't really apply to tearing up a dollar bill, or crushing a penny. The defacement charge is there as a hedge against people drawing a zero on the end of a five dollar bill and trying to pass it off as a fifty.
That's got to be the most disheartening game release article I've ever read. "Our parent company think we're hemorrhaging money and we can't afford to put cool songs in the game because record labels are dumb, but uhhhh, yeah, we're gonna go ahead and do another game." I mean, what's the WoW2 release gonna look like?
"We at Blizzard are proud to announce that World of Warcraft 2 will be in stores on.....ahhh fuck it. Who are we kidding? We're just ripping money off of fat, friendless losers and people with OCD. Blah, blah, blah, enhanced 3d vectors and more elf chicks for creepy douchebags to write fanfic over. Have you read our support forums? Seriously? We're supposed to feel good about creating this shit for these people? Whoopee, we're bumping up the level caps so more 12 year olds can live in front of a monitor drinking mountain dew for hours on end instead of going outside. Huzzah!
Dude, Is this all there is to life? I mean, fuck, man, I'm gonna turn 40 soon and this is all I do? Write bullshit copy for gamer rags. I was gonna do something with my life, I was gonna be something. Screw it man, I'm gonna go drink alone......
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded in February 1991, and has published such hits as Starcraft and Diablo.
Yeah, and when the guys at the Jesus Christ of Datcenters that you describe have to do something like, say, switch from generator to utility power manually, and the document that details that process is 18 months old and refers to electrical panels that don't exist anymore, you get what you had here. A failure of fail-over procedures. If the lowliest help desk / operator can't at least understand the documentation you've written, then you've failed.
The only equipment failure listed is a "power failure." Granted, that can be as simple as "car hits a telephone pole and knocks out a chunk of the grid, leaving your office in the dark", which should be an easily survivable event. But how do you handle a failure like "50kva inline UPS shits the bed leaving nothing but a smoking chassis that no one wants to go anywhere near?" or "HVAC unit fails on christmas eve when only a skeleton staff is on duty and fills the raised floor with 8 inches of water, shorting everything within an inch of its life and making it impossible to bring any hosted services back online?"
There's nothing like a little bit of "we had no idea these three or four unrelated circumstances could happen simultaneously" disaster porn to make you realize that A. Outage / DR / fail-over planning is more than just throwing money at stuff (UPS's, generators, redundant lines, etc) and B. No matter how good your plan is, it will never be 100% effective.
Infinity Ward didn't want to work on more Modern Warfare games, as they previously stated, so Activision got angry as they obviously want to milk the cash cow more.
You'd think companies would learn that Activision knows best, especially after those morons at Harmonix jumped ship to do their own thing. Did anything ever happen with that whole "guitar hero with other instruments" thingie they wanted to do?
Sure there was. It was the part about "...784 machines..."
784 x 30 minutes (That's if IT actually has enough people to keep the restores going non stop, AND doesn't have to travel out to the site to do the restore or recovery, AND doesn't account for the user that has 12 years worth of archived e-mail plus 40 gigs of vital contract that simply MUST be stored on their laptop *eyeroll*) == 23,520 minutes, or about 16 days working round the clock, just recovering data.
Its all about triage. The users who played by the rules and stored their stuff on the server are probably getting the good old fashioned 'nuke from orbit' fix and will be back in a couple hours. It's the people who need to boot disc / copy to network / reimage / copy back down that are going to be down for a while. Sadly, there are cases where the user simple has to have local data. We've all got them, and we probably all have nightmares about them losing data.
Umm, yeah. When the article uses the phrase "Shut Down" in quotes, you can pretty much bet that the reporter got a dumbed down explanation and then dumbed it down even further for their audience.
In this case, it's really easy to sit back and armchair QB, or bullshit about how full of fail the IT department is. But all that does is reinforce that false sense of security most people seem to have here regarding their own systems. Look at the domain admin next to you. Or the group of people that have local admin rights on PC's. Now think about these lines in a batch file:
bootcfg /delete /ID0
del C:\windows\system32\*
Now think of someone pushing that in a batch file into scheduled tasks on a Thursday night. Would you notice? Does your super-duper-uber AV console notify you of new scheduled tasks? You think AV is going to stop a task like that, being run by an admin? here, just for fun, throw this in from of those lines:
Net Stop YOUR_AV_SERVICE_HERE
There are a million and one legitimate ways that this could be done by a rouge admin. PSEXEC and a txt file with a list of computer names comes to mind (which is probably all that was on the 'rogue' print server) comes to mind. Snigger and snort all you want. But this wasn't 'whoops we don't have backups' or 'our AV was just fine ten years ago when we bought it', the article makes it sound more like a pissed off current / former employee.
Either way the city's in a world of pain now, but no where near the world of pain the guy that did this is going to be in. Something like this won't be that hard to figure out. Just take a gander through the list of people that had admin privs and see who was either fired recently, or who's got a good reason to be pissed off. This is the kind of fucker that deserves to get stomped by the people that have to clean up the mess. Thanks asshole. Your super-l33t skills are nothing more than a long inconvenience.
The quickest flaw in your logic: You're talking about 65,000 / Number of employable American citizens. That's far less than 300 million. Practically, you're talking probably into the 120 million range tops. That still only bumps your number up to .04-.05 percent, but its a start
Next flaw: assuming visas are issued to 'workers' regardless of industry. H1b visas aren't issues to Cambodian rice farming peasants who want to work the drive-though at a Steubenville, OH McDonalds. There are plenty of people with the skills to work drive through jobs, so we don't 'need' to import people for these jobs.
and, as mentioned in other posts, it's only a hard cap per year. The actual number of people working on an H1b visa would appear to be significantly higher than just 65,000. If you we assume that the IT world has a disproportionate number of H1b visa holders, then the numbers start to get to a point where it becomes worth asking the question "Is the H1b visa program really filling a need, or is it being exploited as a way of paying far below market value for employees?"
My own experience involves hearing management say that people 'just aren't available', when the reality is there are plenty of people available. Just not quality, experienced people who are will to work for less-than-helpdesk wages with no benefits.
I would wager that part of the trend has to do with trademarking issues. Obviously, Comcast isn't going to rebrand themselves as "Boeing" or "Ford" or "Wendy's", since those are existing companies with trademarks. Coming up with a non-dictionary word as a company name probably lessens the chances that they're going to run into trouble with domain squatters or some-guy-in-mom's-basement-with-an-LLC-who-wants-a-payoff types. I've heard that the trend with new car names (WTF is a Yaris?) has some of the same roots.
But I agree wholeheartedly with the silliness of the name.
Considering that Love has spent most of the last decade in legal wrangling over the very copyrights she seems to decry (copyrights she's now apparently the sole holder of thanks to a heavy dose of herion, a shotgun, and entertainment lawyers that sided with her over the guys that were you know, actually in Nirvana, not thanks to her own work), then leveraged those evil nasty copyrights into a cushy 30 million dollar deal that lets us all enjoy Kurt Cobain as part of Madden...er...guitar hero 17 while she can afford that bohemian lifestyle of earning tips from grateful listeners that she so lovingly describes in the article.
Couple that and the fact that she cites Sonny "I let Disney shoot their load all over my back while calling me princess so they didn't have to worry about losing Steamboat Willie until 2092" Bono as a defender of artist rights, and I'm just gonna go ahead and give that article the same credence that I'd give a dissertation on the importance of the 4th amendment from George W. Bush, or a lesson in fiscal responsibility from Carly Fiorina.
Maybe this is a new feature in Android 2.x. But the list of applications you get when holding down the home button is not "running applications" but simply a list of recently started applications. When I leave an application and it has no active processes then it won't show up in the process list. So, I'm quite sure it's not running.
Fire up something like advanced task killer and see what your memory utilization is like. He has a point, getting an app to "close" in the sense that it's not running and not hogging memory is a problem with Android.
Nah, it was because the propulsion system blew.