The article confuses iCal, Apple's calendaring iApp, with iCal, short for iCalendar, the widely used vcal derived calendering format standard. Apple did not create iCal the standard. iCal the standard predated iCal, Apple's application, by quite some time. Apple's iCal the calendering app was one of the first major applications to adopt iCalendar/iCal/vcal the standard (although Ximian/Novell's Evolution beat them to it.) I'm still trying to decide if coopting the name iCal was a purposeful attempt to associate the standard with their application or just an unfortunate, but beneficial, mistake. Confusions like this make me hope that they name some future apps "iNoVeryFastComputer" or "iNoMindStretchingTheTruth" or simply "iSuck".
While everybody on Slashdot flames Al Gore, I'll be an idiot and step in to the fire. Al Gore is not a charismatic man. Nobody debates that. But as far as Al Gore being some kind of regular politician, (or some kind of fake environmentalist/technology guy) well I want to disagree. No, Al Gore is not a rainforest specialist who's spent years researching strange tribes in the Amazon basin. What Al Gore seems to be is a regular guy who cares about important things that other national level politicians don't seem to pay attention to. Thus, Al Gore was the only US national politician who supported the Kyoto environmental meetings. If you think Al Gore is a fake environmentalist, well who does the Sierra Club or GreenPeace endorse?
As far as Al Gore inventing the "Information Superhighway", well he made an idiot of himself. But remember your alternatives. George W. Bush scares the hell out of me, and I'm Texan. He's no better than Al Gore policy wise, and he cares jack about the environment. Liddy Dole might be nice, but her main themes mirror Bush's: decrease taxes, decentralize gov't, increase military spending. We're already doing that, and she doesn't have any other agendas. The other republicans are scary since they're two issue candidates: Raise Taxes and Turn everybody into a bible thumping christians.
I just want/.'s to not jump on Gore's back for being a stiff, and remember that George Bush didn't back the Microsoft antitrust trial and republicans want to cut appropriations for the justice dept. antitrust division.
Maybe i'm so paranoid because I'm black, and as J.C. Watt's father said (J.C. Watts is the only black republican congressman), a black person voting for a republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
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The article confuses iCal, Apple's calendaring iApp, with iCal, short for iCalendar, the widely used vcal derived calendering format standard. Apple did not create iCal the standard. iCal the standard predated iCal, Apple's application, by quite some time. Apple's iCal the calendering app was one of the first major applications to adopt iCalendar/iCal/vcal the standard (although Ximian/Novell's Evolution beat them to it.) I'm still trying to decide if coopting the name iCal was a purposeful attempt to associate the standard with their application or just an unfortunate, but beneficial, mistake. Confusions like this make me hope that they name some future apps "iNoVeryFastComputer" or "iNoMindStretchingTheTruth" or simply "iSuck".
While everybody on Slashdot flames Al Gore, I'll be an idiot and step in to the fire. Al Gore is not a charismatic man. Nobody debates that. But as far as Al Gore being some kind of regular politician, (or some kind of fake environmentalist/technology guy) well I want to disagree. No, Al Gore is not a rainforest specialist who's spent years researching strange tribes in the Amazon basin. What Al Gore seems to be is a regular guy who cares about important things that other national level politicians don't seem to pay attention to. Thus, Al Gore was the only US national politician who supported the Kyoto environmental meetings. If you think Al Gore is a fake environmentalist, well who does the Sierra Club or GreenPeace endorse?
/.'s to not jump on Gore's back for being a stiff, and remember that George Bush didn't back the Microsoft antitrust trial and republicans want to cut appropriations for the justice dept. antitrust division.
As far as Al Gore inventing the "Information Superhighway", well he made an idiot of himself. But remember your alternatives. George W. Bush scares the hell out of me, and I'm Texan. He's no better than Al Gore policy wise, and he cares jack about the environment. Liddy Dole might be nice, but her main themes mirror Bush's: decrease taxes, decentralize gov't, increase military spending. We're already doing that, and she doesn't have any other agendas. The other republicans are scary since they're two issue candidates: Raise Taxes and Turn everybody into a bible thumping christians.
I just want
Maybe i'm so paranoid because I'm black, and as J.C. Watt's father said (J.C. Watts is the only black republican congressman), a black person voting for a republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.