I have reason to believe that one of my four email addresses is used by random strangers on a regular basis. Yes, that one up there really does get checked every ten minutes.
I personally prefer user@domain.tld and I have wondered (but not often) what eddies in the addressing continuum that may occasionally cause.
The only problem I have with that (other than the brackets making it kinda jarring to read) is that it confuses active attacks with passive disengagement. I myself boycott The Great Wal Mart. That doesn't mean I hurl explosives at their customers or employees, just that I personally refuse to put my money in their cash registers.
While I agree that the parent poster might be going a tad farther than most here may see as reasonable, as one of the few remaining slashbots who can claim never to have put a penny in Microsoft's cash registers in any way, shape or form, I definitely understand his motivations (that email address above this post is valid, ya know).
At the time MS bought $100 million in non-voting common stock, Apple had ~$4 billion cash on hand. That deal is generally assumed to have been part (or all?) of a settlement for ripping off large swaths of the NeXT kernel for use in WinNT. However, by the time the case was settled, Apple had purchased NeXT (or vice versa, depending on your point of view) so they were the ones to collect on it.
Which isn't to say that it wasn't also a successful PR ploy on the part of both companies.
I agree, it's a smoother acronym, but it's specifically backronyms I object to in this context. I am, however, open to suggestions. This is the only decent one I could come up with to communicate the idea, but I'm not tied to the result of BASTARDS. However, FUCKING TRAITORS doesn't have a 'B' in it.
Heh. I've got an Eltron (Zebra) card printer sitting right next to me. But none of the fancy stuff (RFID, satellite chip, etc.) installed.
I only made that suggestion in search of a +5, Funny. My goal as a traveller is always to have an uneventful flight with no lost luggage (or passengers), so I'll leave it to more enterprising (and less wise) slashbots to implement said gag.
What hilarity could ensue if I packed my own RFID tags? Of course, this would assume that I had the capability to encode them, knew Delta's encoding scheme, and wasn't scared by the thought of losing either my luggage or my personal freedom, but hey, what a hack, right?
DELTITE #1: "Uhh, Dave, the system shows 1,337 bags just came off that DC-9. I'm taking my lunch break now, let me know how that turns out."
But I still feel that Apple's actions in this instance are pretty shitty. Adaptation, competition, etc. are all totally valid. But can you say "look and feel?" I knew that ya could. I think there's definitely a line in cases like this, and I think they crossed it.
That said, I think this could turn out well for all involved. I know it'll turn out well for Apple, as this is a great thing to add to the OS, and therefore it will turn out well for the users. And it could turn out well for Konfabulator, as people can now get the killer new OS X UI innovation almost a year early. And with some hard work and a lot of luck, Arlo & Perry could end up with the preferred development environment for a suddenly booming widget market.
But I still don't like Steve quite as much today as I do most days.
I noticed this when I saw purported 10.4 screenshots that had neither ceased nor desisted over at macrumors.com (I almost never get there in time). In the comments somebody soon noticed the GNAA tagline on the submission, and informed Arn that he'd been hoaxed by some notorious slashdot trolls. Well, he acknowledged that yes, he had accepted a submission from GNAA, and yes, they did blatantly mention on their site (no link provided) that they had trolled macrumors.com, yet he still kept them up (although as an unverified "page 2" item). So imagine my surprise today when I saw the WWDC reports.
Elegantly designed Dashboard accessories animate in cool and interesting ways using the new Core Image technology built into Tiger. To change the color or font for a sticky note, flip the note around -- all Widgets controls are on the back to keep them out of sight until you need them. Configuring your Widgets is fun, too.
Complex transitions, movement and visual effects are just a few of the amazing visual feats that make Widgets as great looking as they are useful. Developers can build their own Widgets using the JavaScript language to take advantage of Core Image capabilities.
I'd say it's pretty much gotta be Konfabulator itself rolled up into the OS. The Dashboard screenshot on Apple's site has the same look as Konfabulator Widgets, and since when would Apple engineers pick Javascript as their end user scripting language of choice?
Well, to be totally up front about it, I'm glad Moore made this film because I feel that the truth needs to be shouted from the rooftops that Bush and his cronies/handlers/puppeteers/whatever are an absolute bastards that need to be removed from power in November before even more irreparable harm is done to our nation.
I do feel that most of what was presented in that movie was done in a truthful (if overly biased) manner, but it is a far cry from the way I would prefer to have seen it done. I don't feel that he's nearly as dishonest as Limbaugh, but regrettably the comparison is not entirely unfounded.
Aren't the images you're referring to the bodies of four American contractors who were killed and mutilated by a mob? Weren't those images then shown by every television station on earth?
Didn't he say Bush spent 42% of his time on vacation, when in fact Bush spent 42% of his time not at the White House (including weekends), but often working those days? Many of these days included meetings with foreign dignitaries, etc, but the meetings occurred in Crawford or at Camp David.
I recall that it was explicitly state as "42% of his time on vacation" and not just "away from D.C." I recall less clearly reading a while back that GWB's vacation numbers are kinda silly relative to his predecessors, but don't have anything on hand to back that up.
Let's see, did he not imply that the Taliban visited Bush in Texas while he was governer, when in fact Bush did not meet with them and they were in the country at the invitation of the Clinton administration?
I walked away with the impression that he had met with the two gentleman shown, yes. I know nothing of this incident, though. Oughta be interesting to read up on.
Didn't he say that the Secret Service only guards the Saudi embassy, when in fact it's uniformed division guards many embassies?
As I recall, it was one of the agents themselves who said that it was not the norm for them to be patrolling there or in that manner, but I suppose that could be a result of malicious recontextualization.
Didn't he make a big deal of Bush et al getting hair/makeup care before public appearances, making them appear vain and shallow? If that's legitimate, I guess nearly all public figures and most women qualify. Sheesh, what a misuse of "facts"!
Yeah. While amusing, I didn't think it was terribly fair myself. Until later in the film, when we were told (which I may well have missed earlier) that Bush's makeup footage was from a State Of The Union address. I don't recall which one it was, but since all of them he's delivered have been incredibly serious, war-ridden things, he does seem unnaturally lighthearted thirty seconds before making such an address.
We could go on, but the fact is Moore is vociferous and entertaining, but not terribly talented nor concerned with the truth.
I can't condemn him that strongly. This film definitely isn't what I would like it to be, but I am very glad that he made it.
Halliburton is just another Beltway Bandit, just like the hundreds of other companies that milk the Federal government on a daily basis.
Score:-1, Poor Logic
Saying that other firms are also massively defrauding our country, so picking on poor, beleaguered Halliburton is just a bunch of tin foil hat conspiracy theory is just not sound reasoning.
Could you let us know what specific claims are truthful?
That of course is a silly question. There are a whole lot of claims made. (In fact, that was one downside to the movie, there is a *lot* stuffed into ~2 hours.) What I'm waiting to see are which claims anybody can actually disprove (as opposed to merely shouting down). Moore's style of filmmaking doesn't actually do it for me, and he's certainly not the person I would nominate to make such an important film. But, fortunately, he did it anyway, as who else really could or would?
Now there are a whole lot of instances in which the viewer is expected to read between the lines, at various levels of subtlety. One of the more amusing (if juvenile) is the bit in the beginning about GWB's military records: as they fade back and forth from two sets of his service records, one with text redacted and an earlier version, there's a brief yet loud and recognizable riff from a certain Clapton tune when it is read aloud that he lost his flight certification for missing his regular medical exams. While I laughed along with the rest of the audience, that's not how I would have handled that.
So in essence, please tone it down a notch or three Mr. Moore, but in the mean time... rock on!
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Heh. Totally and incomprehensibly offtopic, but... Anybody here remember the Wunderputer Virus from the QuadList?
Excellent Ghia, man!
I mean c'mon, WebSideStory confirmed it today and all.
I guess they could create a new program to do the UI layout in HTML/CSS/JS but that really seems like reinventing the wheel.
Or adapt Interface Builder to generate HTML/CSS/JS layouts. Wouldn't that just r0x0r?
I have reason to believe that one of my four email addresses is used by random strangers on a regular basis. Yes, that one up there really does get checked every ten minutes.
I personally prefer user@domain.tld and I have wondered (but not often) what eddies in the addressing continuum that may occasionally cause.
The only problem I have with that (other than the brackets making it kinda jarring to read) is that it confuses active attacks with passive disengagement. I myself boycott The Great Wal Mart. That doesn't mean I hurl explosives at their customers or employees, just that I personally refuse to put my money in their cash registers.
While I agree that the parent poster might be going a tad farther than most here may see as reasonable, as one of the few remaining slashbots who can claim never to have put a penny in Microsoft's cash registers in any way, shape or form, I definitely understand his motivations (that email address above this post is valid, ya know).
The good old "Weapons of Mass Destruction" search gives some interesting sponsored links, though.
i can always be a road scholar like a former presient anyways.
Doubtful. On many levels.
I don't see how Dell will be able to woo very many people away from an iPod (even if it's a dead iPod).
Now if that isn't a ringing endorsement!
You reading this, Ashcroft?
At the time MS bought $100 million in non-voting common stock, Apple had ~$4 billion cash on hand. That deal is generally assumed to have been part (or all?) of a settlement for ripping off large swaths of the NeXT kernel for use in WinNT. However, by the time the case was settled, Apple had purchased NeXT (or vice versa, depending on your point of view) so they were the ones to collect on it.
Which isn't to say that it wasn't also a successful PR ploy on the part of both companies.
I agree, it's a smoother acronym, but it's specifically backronyms I object to in this context. I am, however, open to suggestions. This is the only decent one I could come up with to communicate the idea, but I'm not tied to the result of BASTARDS. However, FUCKING TRAITORS doesn't have a 'B' in it.
Heh. I've got an Eltron (Zebra) card printer sitting right next to me. But none of the fancy stuff (RFID, satellite chip, etc.) installed.
I only made that suggestion in search of a +5, Funny. My goal as a traveller is always to have an uneventful flight with no lost luggage (or passengers), so I'll leave it to more enterprising (and less wise) slashbots to implement said gag.
What hilarity could ensue if I packed my own RFID tags? Of course, this would assume that I had the capability to encode them, knew Delta's encoding scheme, and wasn't scared by the thought of losing either my luggage or my personal freedom, but hey, what a hack, right?
DELTITE #1: "Uhh, Dave, the system shows 1,337 bags just came off that DC-9. I'm taking my lunch break now, let me know how that turns out."
DELTITE #2: "!"
*applauds*
It does.
It's funny. I agree with every word you said.
But I still feel that Apple's actions in this instance are pretty shitty. Adaptation, competition, etc. are all totally valid. But can you say "look and feel?" I knew that ya could. I think there's definitely a line in cases like this, and I think they crossed it.
That said, I think this could turn out well for all involved. I know it'll turn out well for Apple, as this is a great thing to add to the OS, and therefore it will turn out well for the users. And it could turn out well for Konfabulator, as people can now get the killer new OS X UI innovation almost a year early. And with some hard work and a lot of luck, Arlo & Perry could end up with the preferred development environment for a suddenly booming widget market.
But I still don't like Steve quite as much today as I do most days.
I noticed this when I saw purported 10.4 screenshots that had neither ceased nor desisted over at macrumors.com (I almost never get there in time). In the comments somebody soon noticed the GNAA tagline on the submission, and informed Arn that he'd been hoaxed by some notorious slashdot trolls. Well, he acknowledged that yes, he had accepted a submission from GNAA, and yes, they did blatantly mention on their site (no link provided) that they had trolled macrumors.com, yet he still kept them up (although as an unverified "page 2" item). So imagine my surprise today when I saw the WWDC reports.
A sad day, indeed, if what he's saying/implying is true.
I'd say it's pretty much gotta be Konfabulator itself rolled up into the OS. The Dashboard screenshot on Apple's site has the same look as Konfabulator Widgets, and since when would Apple engineers pick Javascript as their end user scripting language of choice?
Well, to be totally up front about it, I'm glad Moore made this film because I feel that the truth needs to be shouted from the rooftops that Bush and his cronies/handlers/puppeteers/whatever are an absolute bastards that need to be removed from power in November before even more irreparable harm is done to our nation.
I do feel that most of what was presented in that movie was done in a truthful (if overly biased) manner, but it is a far cry from the way I would prefer to have seen it done. I don't feel that he's nearly as dishonest as Limbaugh, but regrettably the comparison is not entirely unfounded.
Aren't the images you're referring to the bodies of four American contractors who were killed and mutilated by a mob? Weren't those images then shown by every television station on earth?
I walked away with the impression that he had met with the two gentleman shown, yes. I know nothing of this incident, though. Oughta be interesting to read up on.
As I recall, it was one of the agents themselves who said that it was not the norm for them to be patrolling there or in that manner, but I suppose that could be a result of malicious recontextualization.
Yeah. While amusing, I didn't think it was terribly fair myself. Until later in the film, when we were told (which I may well have missed earlier) that Bush's makeup footage was from a State Of The Union address. I don't recall which one it was, but since all of them he's delivered have been incredibly serious, war-ridden things, he does seem unnaturally lighthearted thirty seconds before making such an address.
I can't condemn him that strongly. This film definitely isn't what I would like it to be, but I am very glad that he made it.
Halliburton is just another Beltway Bandit, just like the hundreds of other companies that milk the Federal government on a daily basis.
Score:-1, Poor Logic
Saying that other firms are also massively defrauding our country, so picking on poor, beleaguered Halliburton is just a bunch of tin foil hat conspiracy theory is just not sound reasoning.
Could you let us know what specific claims are truthful?
That of course is a silly question. There are a whole lot of claims made. (In fact, that was one downside to the movie, there is a *lot* stuffed into ~2 hours.) What I'm waiting to see are which claims anybody can actually disprove (as opposed to merely shouting down). Moore's style of filmmaking doesn't actually do it for me, and he's certainly not the person I would nominate to make such an important film. But, fortunately, he did it anyway, as who else really could or would?
Now there are a whole lot of instances in which the viewer is expected to read between the lines, at various levels of subtlety. One of the more amusing (if juvenile) is the bit in the beginning about GWB's military records: as they fade back and forth from two sets of his service records, one with text redacted and an earlier version, there's a brief yet loud and recognizable riff from a certain Clapton tune when it is read aloud that he lost his flight certification for missing his regular medical exams. While I laughed along with the rest of the audience, that's not how I would have handled that.
So in essence, please tone it down a notch or three Mr. Moore, but in the mean time... rock on!