I just tried to make a call on my Arduino, then to get a real-time updated map based on my current GPS location. All it did was blink an LED at me. I think I'm going to return this Arduino and get an iPhone.
Let me amend that. Nobody stole anything. Nobody lost anything.
If I break my company's rules and use my company issued cell phone for personal calls and you catch me and play my voicemails over the P.A. to embarrass me, *I* may get disciplined or fired, you probably won't.
If Sarah Palin breaks the government's rules and uses her government issued cell phone for personal calls and you catch her and play her voicemails over the P.A. you go to federal prison for a year.
If I leave a hundred dollars on my desk and you take it, I tell my manager a hundred dollars is gone and I think you took it. He calls you into his office and yells at you. You give back the hundred dollars. Depending on the manager you may or may not be disciplined, and you may or may not be fired.
If Sarah Palin leaves a hundred dollars on her desk and you take it, you go to federal prison for a year.
Just three or four years ago nobody had ever called a software program an "app". That term is new and unique to the iPhone. Software was sold as "software", "programs", and sometimes "software applications", but I had never heard the term "app" before the iPhone.
Go read the old marketing for the Blackberry, for Windows CE, for Palm. None of them use the term "app". Just because the iPhone has such a dominant marketing position the term "app" has come to mean cell phone software.
Micro"SOFT" sells software. It's not MicroApp, is it? Apple made a cute catchy term for it's programs. Let Microsoft try to do the same. I'm sure Microsoft marketing can come up with something catchy, like "There's an executable for that".
Who do you work for, Spun? My guess: the city or the federal gov't. Perhaps a union job at a Fortune-500.
I work very long and hard for my money and I am surrounded by people in union jobs who lean on a broom from 9-5. Explain to me how my eyes have been affected by propaganda.
> It's a great way to share activities (such as vacation) with families
My problem with Facebook is that I can only have one circle of friends on it. In real life I have many different separate circles. Why would I want my co-workers and my clients to read about that funny thing I did after drinking too much at the family reunion?
> nothing Facebook does prevents people from trying out other services.
You are overlooking the fact that Facebook, unlike your other examples, benefits spectacularly from the 'network effect'. Each connection between people adds value to the network as a whole. Why would you join 'BetterBook' if your friends weren't on it?
> It's hard to think how Microsoft can make the next Windows better from Windows 7.
Really?
How about when I click on a folder in the Windows Explorer navigation pane it opens it without automatically scrolling the navigation pane so that the folder I just opened, the one I am clearly interested in, is at the bottom of the window with all of the information I just clicked to see off the bottom of the window. It's infuriating trying to use Windows Explorer now. Trying to browse folders is like trying to swat cockroaches. You see what you want to hit, but it keeps running away from you.
How about letting ME decide how to organize my folders instead of the terrible "Libraries" idea that aggregates things I don't care about into fake folders so when always show up when I open Explorer?
Windows 7 is better than XP in many ways. It's certainly better than the unusable Vista. But claiming it's "perfect"? You've got to be kidding. I could go on for hours with irritations minor and major in Windows 7.
Our breathable atmosphere didn't happen by accident. Earth had the same toxic mixture I expect we'll find elsewhere until early life started exhaling Oxygen and changing our atmosphere into the cozy blanket we call home.
> loss of a producing citizen/taxpayer as well as diversion of law-enforcement funds > pay his room and board for years, in a prison already overcrowded
Follow the money. The prison industry has a powerful lobby pushing for mandatory prison sentences and longer sentences for more and more offenses. A Pennsylvania Judge was caught sending kids to jail over the smallest infractions and getting kickbacks from the jail owner. (citation: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html )
The points you cited above are reasons they put MORE people in jail, not arguments against it. The money goes like this: all of us -> taxes -> prisons -> lobbyists -> congress -> laws that put more people in prison. Repeat. The USA has more incarcerated people per capita than any other country in the world, by a large margin. (google it)
Yet by many measures we have less crime than most other countries. This is a testament to how broken and corrupt our Congress has become.
I am hereby announcing that my votes are for sale. In any local, regional, or national election I will be voting for the candidate with the courage to stop our slippery slide into fascism by dismantling the TSA's stupid useless invasive degrading policies. I will take my chances on the airplane.
Sign up people. Let's get enough votes to get ourselves a politician.
I am as outraged as the rest of Slashdot and BoingBoing over 'Big Content's influence and control of the US government. It may help to understand WHY this is happening (IMHO). The US doesn't MAKE anything any more. The only thing we produce is ideas and entertainment. We can see the writing on the wall, China and others are stepping up their ability to produce ideas and entertainment as well. If we aren't to lose our position as a (the) global economic powerhouse we need to either start making stuff again, or make sure we can squeeze every dollar possible out of our ideas and control everything to do with the creation , distribution and consumption of those ideas.
Personally I don't think it will work, but I think that is the driving force behind these efforts to force the rest of the world to obey our IP laws and have our government act as a tax-funded police force for 'Big Content'.
This is a non-problem. You should have backups of your iPhone even if this weren't the case. Remote wipes from your office is not remotely (hah get it?) the most likely way to lose all of your iPhone data. I can think of a hundred more likely scenarios starting with dropping the phone on a street and moving on through my dog burying it.
Back up all your data, or consider your data already lost. It's just a matter of time.
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I just tried to make a call on my Arduino, then to get a real-time updated map based on my current GPS location. All it did was blink an LED at me. I think I'm going to return this Arduino and get an iPhone.
> As someone who had a pretty good view of communism (just 10 miles to the next communist country)
Sarah Palin, is that you?
Let me amend that. Nobody stole anything. Nobody lost anything.
If I break my company's rules and use my company issued cell phone for personal calls and you catch me and play my voicemails over the P.A. to embarrass me, *I* may get disciplined or fired, you probably won't.
If Sarah Palin breaks the government's rules and uses her government issued cell phone for personal calls and you catch her and play her voicemails over the P.A. you go to federal prison for a year.
Now how fair does it sound?
More like:
If I leave a hundred dollars on my desk and you take it, I tell my manager a hundred dollars is gone and I think you took it. He calls you into his office and yells at you. You give back the hundred dollars. Depending on the manager you may or may not be disciplined, and you may or may not be fired.
If Sarah Palin leaves a hundred dollars on her desk and you take it, you go to federal prison for a year.
Does that seem right?
It does raise my suspicions that he listed 'TimeCube' in his citations attached to the paper.
Short repeating loop of "CES crowd" sounds = fake.
Just three or four years ago nobody had ever called a software program an "app". That term is new and unique to the iPhone. Software was sold as "software", "programs", and sometimes "software applications", but I had never heard the term "app" before the iPhone.
Go read the old marketing for the Blackberry, for Windows CE, for Palm. None of them use the term "app".
Just because the iPhone has such a dominant marketing position the term "app" has come to mean cell phone software.
Micro"SOFT" sells software. It's not MicroApp, is it?
Apple made a cute catchy term for it's programs. Let Microsoft try to do the same. I'm sure Microsoft marketing can come up with something catchy, like "There's an executable for that".
Who do you work for, Spun?
My guess: the city or the federal gov't. Perhaps a union job at a Fortune-500.
I work very long and hard for my money and I am surrounded by people in union jobs who lean on a broom from 9-5.
Explain to me how my eyes have been affected by propaganda.
> It's a great way to share activities (such as vacation) with families
My problem with Facebook is that I can only have one circle of friends on it. In real life I have many different separate circles.
Why would I want my co-workers and my clients to read about that funny thing I did after drinking too much at the family reunion?
> nothing Facebook does prevents people from trying out other services.
You are overlooking the fact that Facebook, unlike your other examples, benefits spectacularly from the 'network effect'. Each connection between people adds value to the network as a whole. Why would you join 'BetterBook' if your friends weren't on it?
> It's hard to think how Microsoft can make the next Windows better from Windows 7.
Really?
How about when I click on a folder in the Windows Explorer navigation pane it opens it without automatically scrolling the navigation pane so that the folder I just opened, the one I am clearly interested in, is at the bottom of the window with all of the information I just clicked to see off the bottom of the window. It's infuriating trying to use Windows Explorer now. Trying to browse folders is like trying to swat cockroaches. You see what you want to hit, but it keeps running away from you.
How about letting ME decide how to organize my folders instead of the terrible "Libraries" idea that aggregates things I don't care about into fake folders so when always show up when I open Explorer?
Windows 7 is better than XP in many ways. It's certainly better than the unusable Vista.
But claiming it's "perfect"? You've got to be kidding. I could go on for hours with irritations minor and major in Windows 7.
America in the 21st century:
Disappointment. Get used to it.
you've just described Dropbox. (and SugarSync and many others)
Our breathable atmosphere didn't happen by accident. Earth had the same toxic mixture I expect we'll find elsewhere until early life started exhaling Oxygen and changing our atmosphere into the cozy blanket we call home.
> loss of a producing citizen/taxpayer as well as diversion of law-enforcement funds
> pay his room and board for years, in a prison already overcrowded
Follow the money. The prison industry has a powerful lobby pushing for mandatory prison sentences and longer sentences for more and more offenses. A Pennsylvania Judge was caught sending kids to jail over the smallest infractions and getting kickbacks from the jail owner. (citation: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html )
The points you cited above are reasons they put MORE people in jail, not arguments against it.
The money goes like this: all of us -> taxes -> prisons -> lobbyists -> congress -> laws that put more people in prison. Repeat.
The USA has more incarcerated people per capita than any other country in the world, by a large margin. (google it)
Yet by many measures we have less crime than most other countries. This is a testament to how broken and corrupt our Congress has become.
No Bittorrent client will be complete until it has an email client built in. A flight simulator would be nice too.
standard disclaimer, child porn is bad, etc etc
> I believe that the laws prohibiting possession of child pornography have been shown to reduce the production of same
Citation needed.
I find it hard to believe that throwing someone in jail and ruining their life for having a drawing of Bart Simpson having sex has any beneficial effect. (Here's my citation: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/bart-simpson-child-pornography-and-free-speech/ )
I am hereby announcing that my votes are for sale.
In any local, regional, or national election I will be voting for the candidate with the courage to stop our slippery slide into fascism by dismantling the TSA's stupid useless invasive degrading policies. I will take my chances on the airplane.
Sign up people. Let's get enough votes to get ourselves a politician.
I am as outraged as the rest of Slashdot and BoingBoing over 'Big Content's influence and control of the US government.
It may help to understand WHY this is happening (IMHO). The US doesn't MAKE anything any more. The only thing we produce is ideas and entertainment. We can see the writing on the wall, China and others are stepping up their ability to produce ideas and entertainment as well. If we aren't to lose our position as a (the) global economic powerhouse we need to either start making stuff again, or make sure we can squeeze every dollar possible out of our ideas and control everything to do with the creation , distribution and consumption of those ideas.
Personally I don't think it will work, but I think that is the driving force behind these efforts to force the rest of the world to obey our IP laws and have our government act as a tax-funded police force for 'Big Content'.
Disclaimer: IANAL, IANAC, IANAxIAA.
But... but... nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...
I'm going to trim the edges off all the cookies.
It worked on my college roommate's cookies. It will work on the InterTubes.
Contrary to what you and the Supreme Court seem to believe, corporations are not people.
Oh yeah? I licked YOUR keyboard while reading your post.
Bring it on.
This is a non-problem. You should have backups of your iPhone even if this weren't the case. Remote wipes from your office is not remotely (hah get it?) the most likely way to lose all of your iPhone data. I can think of a hundred more likely scenarios starting with dropping the phone on a street and moving on through my dog burying it.
Back up all your data, or consider your data already lost. It's just a matter of time.
Man I loved Desqview. It had true preemptive multitasking and separate virtual desktops for processes years before Windows.