I am not a hater. I have nothing against Apple or its products (which I don't mind admitting are the best thing out there for ordinary consumers). However, this Apple fanboi is a "hater", because he told malicious lies in an attempt to damage the business interests of Microsoft and Nokia. I happen to have a business interest in the success of the WP7 platform, and it makes me angry that he told a malicious lie to spread FUD.
...because GPLv3 would require Microsoft to disclose the signing certificate keys for DRM'ed apps. Apparently Microsoft isn't the only group capable of spreading FUD.
When will they leave the rest of the world alone? Not only was that a really obnoxious lie to spread, it likely had an effect on stock values. It would be moderately gratifying to me if the SEC fined this clown (if he's in the USA, which I guess I don't know).
Apple's so-called "financiers" are also the benefactors of its remarkable success. If Jobs digs in his heels and decides to keep it secret, I predict they're not going to actually do anything. Or at least not until after Jobs might (unfortunately) pass away.
Where can you watch Star Wars Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back) streaming online, legally? There are times when I would pay $5 or $6 to watch the specific movie that I want to watch (darnit), and it's not available. In the 21st century I shouldn't have to go to a brick and mortar store, as long as I'm willing to spend money. OK, so I'm lazy; but I honestly don't understand why they don't want my money.
...that so many "A" titles are unavailable for streaming from any source (not just Netflix). C'mon, people, it's the 21st century. Put everything up there; I'll gladly pay a buck or two to rent what I want, whenever I want; and I think most adults have the same attitude (not necessarily a lot of Slashdot readers, but anyway).
Um, I don't know what you're smoking, but your last example wasn't a "real... call to violence" either. Former Democratic Congressman Kanjorski was just saying the equivalent of "he oughta be shot", which is unfortunately a common expression, although more common in days gone by than right now. So was it a stupid and exaggerative mode of speech? Sure. But his meaning should be interpreted as: "The government should arrest this criminal, and subject him to a trial followed by death by firing squad." There's no way Congressman Congressman Kanjorski was advocating assassination by vigilantes, and anybody who says otherwise is overreacting.
Friend, that train has left the station, not sure why you're still standing around. As the facts have come out, we have learned that the shooter favored Democrats over Republicans in American politics. Not that the Democrats are to blame in any way whatsoever for this guy's perverted actions, just a useful observation to help clear conservatives from the slanderous libel that has been spewn around indiscriminately over the last week.
And actually, in regard to your quote, I can think of a solid "leftist equivalent" for each of those, but I don't think I'll waste my time doing so. The "somebody's wrong on the internet" syndrome only activates in me when I think the other person will actually pay attention to facts.
I'm not interested in playing a "numbers game". I've made my point that President Obama uses the same kind of verbiage, and also that such verbiage doesn't bother me as long as the speaker is speaking metaphorically, and isn't truly advocating violence. Which brings me back to my prescription of a "chill pill".
From Obama's 2008 campaign trail: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
Go take a pill and calm down a bit. Neither Obama nor those Republican leaders you linked to were really advocating shooting people, nor was their rhetoric unreasonable.
OK, where did Beck, Palin, Hannity and House Repubs call for political violence? Maybe you include voting Dems out of office under the category of "political violence"?
That's not so strange. Palin's poster was fine at the time it was written. But based on current events, it's not appropriate anymore. No reasonable person would interpret her poster as inciting violence, but most reasonable people would find it to be in bad taste to display today in light of recent events.
Video game publishers deal with this kind of thing all the time -- if there's some recent world event that would cause their otherwise harmless material to be interpreted in an offensive way, they will delay release and rework it, or cancel the title outright. Such things have been discussed on Slashdot many times, and it's not fair to Palin to judge her based on the actions of this homicidal criminal.
Sarah Palin isn't responsible for this violence in any reasonable sense, nor would any reasonable person believe that she intended such violence to occur.
As far as the GOP "hate and fear mongering", that little dig is really offensive in the context of this article -- maybe you are a "troll" too. But since it was also totally vague as mudslingings go, I'll just slap a [citation needed] here and move along.
Why would a government agency be rating movies, anyway? The only possible explanation is that they know something we don't about 2012, and it actually is going to be the end of the world. The top gubmint politicians and military brass are confident that they have their secret shelters and caves to flee to, but the masses are being psychologically conditioned to quietly walk right into their doom.
The worst thing is, the few brave voices that speak out against this stuff tend to get a bullet in the head without warni
I have two WP7 apps in the Marketplace, and I don't see this as a disaster, for several reasons: (1) I think it will help Windows Phones get a reputation as a homebrew-capable platform, which will help it build street cred; (2) Microsoft will certainly respond to each of these hacks with counter-measures (and actually the author of this very hack suggested a technique to frustrate it); (3) if people are ripping off my apps, that must mean they really want them -- and it's a fair assumption that most people would just pay a buck and not bother to go through the hassle to pirate them. (4)... (5) Profit!!!
If you have a strong desire to believe all that, I don't suppose anything I say would make any difference.
It's my impression, though, that Palin's ideological and political foes have grown a whole crop of nasty urban legends out of that one bad interview with Katie Couric, wherein Palin declined to answer which news source(s) she reads. The nasty interpretation is that she never reads anything, because she is an idiot. The more reasonable and rational interpretation is that she simply refused to answer the question -- perhaps because she wasn't sure the McCain campaign wanted her to admit to reading various right-wing counterparts to the Huffington Post. A more skillful politician would have deflected the question more gracefully, instead of falling on her face like she did. But she lives and learns -- and to be fair, Obama has had similarly face-planting interview moments.
Oh, and just for your information, the saying "it's not the end of the world" is a very common expression internationally, that has nothing to do with US-centric thinking. You should do some reading yourself, and I'm sure you'll encounter it.
I think there are much more qualified candidates than Palin, but I get tired of those who attack her intellect or credentials based on standards that would very quickly sink President Obama or VP Biden. Yes, Palin has made dumb statements in unscripted interviews. But there is a reason Pres. Obama uses a teleprompter all the time -- without it he stutters and stumbles and basically goes incoherent. Joe Biden doesn't go incoherent -- he actually goes all Huckleberry Finn on you, which embarrasses everybody in a different way in the post-interview analysis.
Sarah Palin is not dumb. She is reasonably smart and articulate, and might do an OK job as President, if she does like all good Presidents in history have done and let teams of smarter people do analysis work for her.
If she wanted to get elected and last more than one term, she would have to drop and/or repudiate some of her fringe baggage, just like Obama did (Rev. Wright, anyone?). Point is, it could happen, and it actually wouldn't be the end of the world.
At my high school, in order to take advanced placement computer science courses, you had to pass some WPM typing course. Rarely have I felt a course to be such a complete waste of time and genuinely a turnoff to people looking to study programming.
On the one hand, I agree that a particular WPM shouldn't be an absolute prerequisite for advanced programming classes. I am a software engineer, and informally mentor a partially handicapped teen neighbor of mine -- he can't type very fast, but does excellent work, and basically is a living example of why Jeff Atwood is full of baloney.
On the other hand, I see nothing wrong with forcing normal, healthy high school students to improve their typing. They may be bored in typing class, they may hate it, but it will probably be useful to them at some point.
Having said all that, if my GF was involved in a shooting, I would much rather it be her who pulled the trigger. Not the perp.
Of course you would prefer that. And the family of the individual who was shot would prefer the other outcome. This is not about emotions.
If policemen/women shoot people for inappropriate reasons, they need to answer for it in criminal court, the same as anybody else. What's unfortunate is that we see lying and coverups that sometimes happen among "brother officers" to cover each other's backs -- a real shame. That's where citizen recording can promote justice and help fix the system.
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I am not a hater. I have nothing against Apple or its products (which I don't mind admitting are the best thing out there for ordinary consumers). However, this Apple fanboi is a "hater", because he told malicious lies in an attempt to damage the business interests of Microsoft and Nokia. I happen to have a business interest in the success of the WP7 platform, and it makes me angry that he told a malicious lie to spread FUD.
...because GPLv3 would require Microsoft to disclose the signing certificate keys for DRM'ed apps. Apparently Microsoft isn't the only group capable of spreading FUD.
When will they leave the rest of the world alone? Not only was that a really obnoxious lie to spread, it likely had an effect on stock values. It would be moderately gratifying to me if the SEC fined this clown (if he's in the USA, which I guess I don't know).
"From the partridge-in-a-pair-tree dept" -- did I miss a pun, or was "pear" just misspelled here?
(Yeah, I know, "ja wohl, mein dictionary" and all that.)
Apple's so-called "financiers" are also the benefactors of its remarkable success. If Jobs digs in his heels and decides to keep it secret, I predict they're not going to actually do anything. Or at least not until after Jobs might (unfortunately) pass away.
Where can you watch Star Wars Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back) streaming online, legally? There are times when I would pay $5 or $6 to watch the specific movie that I want to watch (darnit), and it's not available. In the 21st century I shouldn't have to go to a brick and mortar store, as long as I'm willing to spend money. OK, so I'm lazy; but I honestly don't understand why they don't want my money.
...that so many "A" titles are unavailable for streaming from any source (not just Netflix). C'mon, people, it's the 21st century. Put everything up there; I'll gladly pay a buck or two to rent what I want, whenever I want; and I think most adults have the same attitude (not necessarily a lot of Slashdot readers, but anyway).
Um, I don't know what you're smoking, but your last example wasn't a "real ... call to violence" either. Former Democratic Congressman Kanjorski was just saying the equivalent of "he oughta be shot", which is unfortunately a common expression, although more common in days gone by than right now. So was it a stupid and exaggerative mode of speech? Sure. But his meaning should be interpreted as: "The government should arrest this criminal, and subject him to a trial followed by death by firing squad." There's no way Congressman Congressman Kanjorski was advocating assassination by vigilantes, and anybody who says otherwise is overreacting.
Friend, that train has left the station, not sure why you're still standing around. As the facts have come out, we have learned that the shooter favored Democrats over Republicans in American politics. Not that the Democrats are to blame in any way whatsoever for this guy's perverted actions, just a useful observation to help clear conservatives from the slanderous libel that has been spewn around indiscriminately over the last week.
And actually, in regard to your quote, I can think of a solid "leftist equivalent" for each of those, but I don't think I'll waste my time doing so. The "somebody's wrong on the internet" syndrome only activates in me when I think the other person will actually pay attention to facts.
You missed my point -- I am aware that Obama didn't mean it literally, and am claiming that Palin et alia didn't either. Good grief.
I'm not interested in playing a "numbers game". I've made my point that President Obama uses the same kind of verbiage, and also that such verbiage doesn't bother me as long as the speaker is speaking metaphorically, and isn't truly advocating violence. Which brings me back to my prescription of a "chill pill".
From Obama's 2008 campaign trail: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
Go take a pill and calm down a bit. Neither Obama nor those Republican leaders you linked to were really advocating shooting people, nor was their rhetoric unreasonable.
OK, where did Beck, Palin, Hannity and House Repubs call for political violence? Maybe you include voting Dems out of office under the category of "political violence"?
That's not so strange. Palin's poster was fine at the time it was written. But based on current events, it's not appropriate anymore. No reasonable person would interpret her poster as inciting violence, but most reasonable people would find it to be in bad taste to display today in light of recent events.
Video game publishers deal with this kind of thing all the time -- if there's some recent world event that would cause their otherwise harmless material to be interpreted in an offensive way, they will delay release and rework it, or cancel the title outright. Such things have been discussed on Slashdot many times, and it's not fair to Palin to judge her based on the actions of this homicidal criminal.
Sarah Palin isn't responsible for this violence in any reasonable sense, nor would any reasonable person believe that she intended such violence to occur.
As far as the GOP "hate and fear mongering", that little dig is really offensive in the context of this article -- maybe you are a "troll" too. But since it was also totally vague as mudslingings go, I'll just slap a [citation needed] here and move along.
Why would a government agency be rating movies, anyway? The only possible explanation is that they know something we don't about 2012, and it actually is going to be the end of the world. The top gubmint politicians and military brass are confident that they have their secret shelters and caves to flee to, but the masses are being psychologically conditioned to quietly walk right into their doom.
The worst thing is, the few brave voices that speak out against this stuff tend to get a bullet in the head without warni
I have two WP7 apps in the Marketplace, and I don't see this as a disaster, for several reasons: (1) I think it will help Windows Phones get a reputation as a homebrew-capable platform, which will help it build street cred; (2) Microsoft will certainly respond to each of these hacks with counter-measures (and actually the author of this very hack suggested a technique to frustrate it); (3) if people are ripping off my apps, that must mean they really want them -- and it's a fair assumption that most people would just pay a buck and not bother to go through the hassle to pirate them. (4) ... (5) Profit!!!
If you have a strong desire to believe all that, I don't suppose anything I say would make any difference.
It's my impression, though, that Palin's ideological and political foes have grown a whole crop of nasty urban legends out of that one bad interview with Katie Couric, wherein Palin declined to answer which news source(s) she reads. The nasty interpretation is that she never reads anything, because she is an idiot. The more reasonable and rational interpretation is that she simply refused to answer the question -- perhaps because she wasn't sure the McCain campaign wanted her to admit to reading various right-wing counterparts to the Huffington Post. A more skillful politician would have deflected the question more gracefully, instead of falling on her face like she did. But she lives and learns -- and to be fair, Obama has had similarly face-planting interview moments.
Oh, and just for your information, the saying "it's not the end of the world" is a very common expression internationally, that has nothing to do with US-centric thinking. You should do some reading yourself, and I'm sure you'll encounter it.
Excellent.
I think there are much more qualified candidates than Palin, but I get tired of those who attack her intellect or credentials based on standards that would very quickly sink President Obama or VP Biden. Yes, Palin has made dumb statements in unscripted interviews. But there is a reason Pres. Obama uses a teleprompter all the time -- without it he stutters and stumbles and basically goes incoherent. Joe Biden doesn't go incoherent -- he actually goes all Huckleberry Finn on you, which embarrasses everybody in a different way in the post-interview analysis.
Sarah Palin is not dumb. She is reasonably smart and articulate, and might do an OK job as President, if she does like all good Presidents in history have done and let teams of smarter people do analysis work for her.
If she wanted to get elected and last more than one term, she would have to drop and/or repudiate some of her fringe baggage, just like Obama did (Rev. Wright, anyone?). Point is, it could happen, and it actually wouldn't be the end of the world.
At my high school, in order to take advanced placement computer science courses, you had to pass some WPM typing course. Rarely have I felt a course to be such a complete waste of time and genuinely a turnoff to people looking to study programming.
On the one hand, I agree that a particular WPM shouldn't be an absolute prerequisite for advanced programming classes. I am a software engineer, and informally mentor a partially handicapped teen neighbor of mine -- he can't type very fast, but does excellent work, and basically is a living example of why Jeff Atwood is full of baloney.
On the other hand, I see nothing wrong with forcing normal, healthy high school students to improve their typing. They may be bored in typing class, they may hate it, but it will probably be useful to them at some point.
Having said all that, if my GF was involved in a shooting, I would much rather it be her who pulled the trigger. Not the perp.
Of course you would prefer that. And the family of the individual who was shot would prefer the other outcome. This is not about emotions.
If policemen/women shoot people for inappropriate reasons, they need to answer for it in criminal court, the same as anybody else. What's unfortunate is that we see lying and coverups that sometimes happen among "brother officers" to cover each other's backs -- a real shame. That's where citizen recording can promote justice and help fix the system.
Yeah, bugmenot is cool. I use it for my online banking.
I noticed that, too. Makes you sick to see the biggest circle drop like that. What a tragic waste, not to mention crime against humanity.
Yeah. And when a friend of mine soils his Depends, I am happy to loan him a clean pair. Past disagreements don't matter.
(j/k, but would that be more or less weird than you getting into bar fights?)