The rolling blackouts where caused by the greedy white men from Texas running Enron calling power generating stations and taking them offline - there was no real shortage of electric power generation at the time. You need to watch Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room sometime.
It interests me that the geek is comfortable with the Monolith so long as it is his own creation
It is a mental disease that I call "Google On The Brain". The main symptom is that no matter what Google does, It Is Good. Blind unthinking faith in one of the greatest evil corporate entities.
"everything is a web app" approach sounds more elegant to me
Except when your Internet connection goes down for several hours - which happened to me earlier today.
Thanks to a real operating system with real, local, applications I could keep on working and not read about the latest idiotic excretion from Google on/.
Or maybe your are from another universe where things work differently?
In Canada, Bell and Telus just started offering the iPhone. At the exact same, if not higher prices than the incumbent Rogers. So much for 'free market competition'.
What all the Android fanbois don't know, or tell you, is that Android has a 256 MB app storage limit. While Apple limits you to 2 GB for your maximum app size download. Google, just WTF where you thinking?
This is the part that people don't fully grok about the iPhone. The iPhone isn't just a piece of hardware, it is the hardware + the software + the infrastructure behind it. The App Store and iTunes are a huge part of what makes it what it has become. Not to mention the absolutely wonderful Xcode development environment and the functionality of the iPhone OS itself. And then there is the iPod touch - it is basically an iPhone without the phone and camera bits. Over 60 million units of iPhone + iPod touch have been sold to date - over 7 million iPhones in the last quarter alone. If you where a developer wanting to make a living off of mobile devices, which platform would you choose?
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Remember the rolling blackouts?
The rolling blackouts where caused by the greedy white men from Texas running Enron calling power generating stations and taking them offline - there was no real shortage of electric power generation at the time. You need to watch Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room sometime.
To paraphrase "In a corrupt monarchy, man takes advantage of man. In a corrupt democracy, it is the other way around".
It interests me that the geek is comfortable with the Monolith so long as it is his own creation
It is a mental disease that I call "Google On The Brain". The main symptom is that no matter what Google does, It Is Good. Blind unthinking faith in one of the greatest evil corporate entities.
"everything is a web app" approach sounds more elegant to me
Except when your Internet connection goes down for several hours - which happened to me earlier today.
Thanks to a real operating system with real, local, applications I could keep on working and not read about the latest idiotic excretion from Google on /.
Yes, but will it help browse /. any faster?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Discovery+Channel
Chode? Is that you?
You mean like the "exotic financial instruments" crap excreted from Wall Street?
You haven't been around much, have you?
Or maybe your are from another universe where things work differently?
In Canada, Bell and Telus just started offering the iPhone. At the exact same, if not higher prices than the incumbent Rogers. So much for 'free market competition'.
government has already taken over
Welcome to the beginning of The New World Order...
Still no KDE User Network Tool...
The correct solution would be to send a $19.95 butt plug to creators of Transformers 2 to send them a message about their creation.
Are you really 100% sure those entries are truly "deleted" and that "feature" is really, truly 100% "deactivated"?
Or are you foolishly believing what a web page from the evilest company in the history of the world tells you?
de-facto standard ATM
Some saying about when the only tool you have is a hammer comes to mind here...
fertilizing with human manure illegal
Shouldn't be. Human manure, especially that from politicians and lawyers, is some of the finest crap on the planet.
And connected to a robotic arm that would smack the driver in the back of the head first.
Watched some dumb bitch run a red light while flapping her stupid mouth on a cell phone yesterday.
What all the Android fanbois don't know, or tell you, is that Android has a 256 MB app storage limit. While Apple limits you to 2 GB for your maximum app size download. Google, just WTF where you thinking?
"The [polished] turd needs some more polish".
"Vishing" is what it is called when Vishnu goes fishing.
google transcribes your voice mail
AKA "wire taps".
If you think WebOS is good stuff, you will orgasm non-stop for weeks once you see what is in the iPhone OS and SDK.
Sounds like you want a Netbook with phone functionality. Get yourself a Nokia Booklet.
the iPhone is a piece of hardware
This is the part that people don't fully grok about the iPhone. The iPhone isn't just a piece of hardware, it is the hardware + the software + the infrastructure behind it. The App Store and iTunes are a huge part of what makes it what it has become. Not to mention the absolutely wonderful Xcode development environment and the functionality of the iPhone OS itself. And then there is the iPod touch - it is basically an iPhone without the phone and camera bits. Over 60 million units of iPhone + iPod touch have been sold to date - over 7 million iPhones in the last quarter alone. If you where a developer wanting to make a living off of mobile devices, which platform would you choose?
Vista == "Turd"
Windows 7 == "Polished Vista" == "Polished Turd"
Benefit? It's "Polished"!
Or Google. They already wire-tap your voice mails, index them and post the results for public consumption.