Because those are really first world, middle and upper class problems.
I don't think it's right but I don't think it's such a problem that we burn as many calories as we do on this problem.
Passing of ACTA isn't a huge problem.
The not passing of say, ENDA however, is. Given that ENDA, the end of DADT, even *talking* about reforming healthcare and others are on the table, it's just not fair to compare Obama to Bush. There's more to a president than what he thinks about bittorrent or what chinese pirates do with multi million dollar blockbusters.
The top brass only understand marketshare. The ones who think that open developmental linux based phone platforms are a threat aren't doing their jobs right. Granted Android and WebOS phones could overtake WinMo devices in the market place, but the real darling of the mobile industry IS the iPhone and they're the target to beat.
Them and BlackBerry devices. But I think the fight against RIM is lost.
They're trade representatives of their respective industries. No shit that Obama's going to back them.
As much as we like to shit on the MPAA and RIAA, they make IP. subsequently, and often foolishly, they try to protect their IP. Which is their right.
I can't get riled up over IP violation law anymore. There's just so much more to life than ripping DVDs to put on my PSP, Phone or for backup purposes. I'm not saying that the cause is lost, just, not worth burning calories on on slashdot.
Apple employees probably use Pages, Keynote and the rest of the iWork suite because they're quite good pieces of software. Microsoft probably doesn't have a raft of people who are using Open Office or Pages because well, even for Mac, Office v.x is pretty slick. Microsoft employees also probably are Xbox fans, by and large.
Mono-culture is one thing, being able to swallow your own dog food is another. Monocultures work when the products you sell are actually good.:) When you have to ENFORCE your monoculture, you're clearly doing something wrong in the market.
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I think headcrabs, cake lies, wall scribblings, turrets of all kinds, and creepy weird portal technology demands some sort of emotional response.
On the other hand, Portal doesn't have Chell interacting with anyone else BUT GLaDOS, but, it'd be nice to hear someone talk back to that smarmy and bitchy, computer. It's like the old OS8 Deforma I used in middle school with a voice synthesizer.
Portal was unique, it was fun, but it wasn't perfect. I hate being on the hook for finding out who anyone is, or what the hell's going on. Mystery's fun, but at the end, give me some god damned answers, and let the characters speak for themselves. The fact that Chell and Gordon are both completely voiceless is disturbing to me.
I would've told you to pick up a Hyundai Accent or a Ford Focus, but let's face it, unlike the Kia, the iPad has no competing devices in it's price range for what it does in it's form factor. Windows based tablets are what, a grand? MSI's got a 500 dollar tablet with Android, but Android doesn't have the same App support the iPhone/iPad has. Backgrounding is nice, but, really, not that important.
I'm not going to say that anyone who picks up an MSI tablet is doing themselves wrong, I just think that given the options, many consumers are going to go with the iPad.
You don't have to use the browser your company installs on your machine if you don't want to.
Not true. I once worked at a call center where they forced you to use IE6 for all of the internal tools and using anything else got you in trouble, possibly fired.
Ironically, like in many cases where IE6 is enforced, it's because the IT Security team enforced this mandate.
Typo on my part. I meant to type, "That's NOT to say."
Clearly keeping flash, annoying javascript and dealing with more... localized... needs for privacy works in our day to day lives, but, clearly, this idea of complete and utter privacy? Gone.
Given how interconnected our world is, if you want to participate, you have to do it in public. You have to connect to someone else's machine, hook up to someone else's fiber, talk to someone who you can't immediately trust, and you have to do it in the open.
That is to say, SSL, TOR, NoFlash, NoScript etc, still don't have a place in our lives as geeks. Just, forget privacy.
Besides, I think we live in a world where we have obscurity through density, instead of obscurity through privacy. Billions of people on this earth, nearly a billion of them connected to the 'net. Embrace it. Eventually, if enough personal data gets out there, it may become worthless to mine it due to the sheer volume available.
I think the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch UI will drive innovation for the next decade for mobile devices and we'll see touch products get cheap enough to be thrown in as a standard feature. Eventually the future is going to look more like an iPad but, run as a GP device. Eventually Mac OS 11 and Windows 8/9/10 are going to take huge cues from the iPad in terms of integrating touch in large devices.
not to mention there were only a small variety of iPhones versus god knows how many Blackberry devices currently available on the market for god knows how many networks.
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it's physical size relative to the iPhone and iPod touch make the price unbelievable to the iPod Touch purchasing consumer.
it's called "Marketing."
When combined with slick user centric and less engineer and devleoper centric tools, can create fuckin' magic.
Because those are really first world, middle and upper class problems.
I don't think it's right but I don't think it's such a problem that we burn as many calories as we do on this problem.
Passing of ACTA isn't a huge problem.
The not passing of say, ENDA however, is. Given that ENDA, the end of DADT, even *talking* about reforming healthcare and others are on the table, it's just not fair to compare Obama to Bush. There's more to a president than what he thinks about bittorrent or what chinese pirates do with multi million dollar blockbusters.
Legal Alchemy? iPad Magic?
Is this Cupertino we're talking about or Hogwarts?
The top brass only understand marketshare. The ones who think that open developmental linux based phone platforms are a threat aren't doing their jobs right. Granted Android and WebOS phones could overtake WinMo devices in the market place, but the real darling of the mobile industry IS the iPhone and they're the target to beat.
Them and BlackBerry devices. But I think the fight against RIM is lost.
They're trade representatives of their respective industries. No shit that Obama's going to back them.
As much as we like to shit on the MPAA and RIAA, they make IP. subsequently, and often foolishly, they try to protect their IP. Which is their right.
I can't get riled up over IP violation law anymore. There's just so much more to life than ripping DVDs to put on my PSP, Phone or for backup purposes. I'm not saying that the cause is lost, just, not worth burning calories on on slashdot.
Eating their own dog food.
Apple employees probably use Pages, Keynote and the rest of the iWork suite because they're quite good pieces of software. Microsoft probably doesn't have a raft of people who are using Open Office or Pages because well, even for Mac, Office v.x is pretty slick. Microsoft employees also probably are Xbox fans, by and large.
Mono-culture is one thing, being able to swallow your own dog food is another. Monocultures work when the products you sell are actually good. :) When you have to ENFORCE your monoculture, you're clearly doing something wrong in the market.
I don't have the right to mass reproduce Iron Man 2 and sell them for 5 bucks a pop in the middle of Shanghai.
I get this feeling we're all getting our panties in a bunch over nothing.
That would explain Senator Tay Zonday
Really?
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I think headcrabs, cake lies, wall scribblings, turrets of all kinds, and creepy weird portal technology demands some sort of emotional response.
On the other hand, Portal doesn't have Chell interacting with anyone else BUT GLaDOS, but, it'd be nice to hear someone talk back to that smarmy and bitchy, computer. It's like the old OS8 Deforma I used in middle school with a voice synthesizer.
Portal was unique, it was fun, but it wasn't perfect. I hate being on the hook for finding out who anyone is, or what the hell's going on. Mystery's fun, but at the end, give me some god damned answers, and let the characters speak for themselves. The fact that Chell and Gordon are both completely voiceless is disturbing to me.
not when sitting in a storage locker, or a filing cabinet for years on end.
Have you SEEN Idol this season? :| Might as well label your data, "BEST OF CHEVY CHASE BLURAY ALSO INCLUDES VACATION MOVIES"
Never goes bad, never has a bad bit.
I would've told you to pick up a Hyundai Accent or a Ford Focus, but let's face it, unlike the Kia, the iPad has no competing devices in it's price range for what it does in it's form factor. Windows based tablets are what, a grand? MSI's got a 500 dollar tablet with Android, but Android doesn't have the same App support the iPhone/iPad has. Backgrounding is nice, but, really, not that important.
I'm not going to say that anyone who picks up an MSI tablet is doing themselves wrong, I just think that given the options, many consumers are going to go with the iPad.
The placebo effect isn't that powerful.
The placebo effect works for low grade pain, but anything that Tylenol can't handle, the placebo effect won't.
My code is horrible. I wouldn't ever go to court to defend ownership of it. If someone else wants to claim my crappy work as their own, fine.
Is there an open source license for this? "If you plan on stealing, please let us know" Public License?
ACTA's negotiations started under Bush. If they opened up the treaty negotiations now, it could crash and burn any negotiations already in place.
You don't have to use the browser your company installs on your machine if you don't want to.
Not true. I once worked at a call center where they forced you to use IE6 for all of the internal tools and using anything else got you in trouble, possibly fired.
Ironically, like in many cases where IE6 is enforced, it's because the IT Security team enforced this mandate.
Typo on my part. I meant to type, "That's NOT to say."
Clearly keeping flash, annoying javascript and dealing with more... localized... needs for privacy works in our day to day lives, but, clearly, this idea of complete and utter privacy? Gone.
Given how interconnected our world is, if you want to participate, you have to do it in public. You have to connect to someone else's machine, hook up to someone else's fiber, talk to someone who you can't immediately trust, and you have to do it in the open.
That is to say, SSL, TOR, NoFlash, NoScript etc, still don't have a place in our lives as geeks. Just, forget privacy.
Besides, I think we live in a world where we have obscurity through density, instead of obscurity through privacy. Billions of people on this earth, nearly a billion of them connected to the 'net. Embrace it. Eventually, if enough personal data gets out there, it may become worthless to mine it due to the sheer volume available.
I think the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch UI will drive innovation for the next decade for mobile devices and we'll see touch products get cheap enough to be thrown in as a standard feature. Eventually the future is going to look more like an iPad but, run as a GP device. Eventually Mac OS 11 and Windows 8/9/10 are going to take huge cues from the iPad in terms of integrating touch in large devices.
not to mention there were only a small variety of iPhones versus god knows how many Blackberry devices currently available on the market for god knows how many networks.
Kids at that age should be loud and crazy, simply because they won't get the opportunity to do that elsewhere or when they age
That's an interesting assertion.
Got any proof?
After GWB, I'm convinced that with LBJ as the other Datapoint, the problem isn't liberals or conservatives, the problem is Texas.