Maybe, but they'd also be more inclined to blame-storming and proving they were right while the shitstorm goes critical. I myself being a techie having dealt with many start-ups, it's clear that most techies have too much ego and lack the discipline to shut the fuck up and work as a truly tight-knit team to meet an objective on a moments notice.
These men aren't mere grunts. They are trained and skilled military men who have demonstrable technical aptitude and skill. Like many things in the world, it CAN be both things, not just one or the other. So stop pretending these guys aren't as technically qualified as you.
I think it's very possible that Steve Jobs is at the heart of this. Take in the factor the common knowledge that Steve Jobs has always been a nickel and dimer with Apple having long been one of the lowest paying big name hi-tech firms in the Bay Area. So seeing both Pixar and Disney on this list is not in the least bit surprising. Then you take a look at Google and ask "How did that happen?" Well, considering that Eric Schmidt was an Apple board member not too long ago, the answer once again is Steve Jobs. Intel's and Jobs' relations have also been buddy-buddy and though Adobe and Steve's have been publicly acrimonious, they are still very close.
Not saying that this is indeed a fact, but considering half the companies on that list have Jobs at the helm and the others have direct dealings with him, it's hard not to bring this up. Frankly, Jobs has looked like a bigger jerk than ever since he got his iLiver. For me at least, his image just keeps sinking lower and lower.
Maybe not a closed committee composed entirely of medical doctors, but a standard trial with a jury composed entirely of learned men with at least a graduate degree in a medical or scientific discipline would suffice IMO. As it is, I think the current system is failing to provide a standard up to the level guaranteed by the constitution in malpractice cases as physicians ARE NOT being judged by a jury of their peers but by a gaggle of near illiterate rubes easily swayed by a slick talking lawyer.
California is a Right to Work State, you want to sue to prevent someone from having a job? Then move to Washington or New York. Here in California we recognize the need for a person to earn a living plying their skill is more important than your need to treat people like property. But hey, since those lawyers are salaried, better to use them to harass Mr. Sexual Harassment to put those payroll dollars to work am I right?
What the hell are you talking about Mr Mac-Hating Fanboy?
I switched to Mac in 2001 because I could run the entire LAMP stack without emulation or dual-booting and access it from a commandline and whatever GUI tools while being able to run apps like Creative Suite that were a 100% requirement. That's something you can't do on either Linux or Windows. And that's what I paid for. Nice looks, good UI and lightweight form-factor are all just icing on the cake.
So maybe your needs aren't as intensive as mine, but when it comes to a professional solution for software architects and web developers, OS X is the best platform out there hands down.
FYI, Tim Berners-Lee created HTTP on a Next, which is essentially the precursor to OS X. So in a way, you owe those shiny apples your ability to post your bullshit drivel on this site to begin with.
We already see how industries with few players tend to mirror each others policies and pricing, creating a homogenized marketplace. Even if you did have a choice between multiple large ISPs, you'd find that their terms of service, business practices and pricing would all be very similar. So no, we've already seen how "consumer choice" is an illusion in the telecom markets.
Moreover, these anti-netneutrality apologists constantly fail to point out the very real damage disposing of net-neutrality will have on American innovation. Without Net-Neutrality Youtube would never have happened, how would a startup afford to pay the extortionist pricing for QoS to every single major ISP in the nation on top of their own hosting fees? Without innovation means the market stagnates, new jobs aren't created as rapidly and we fall behind overseas competition whose markets are freer than ours.
The bottom line is "bad for America" really means "bad for big corporation who is scared of having to compete against new online services that may be better than their own". Comcast, AT&T and others want to close the internet up and control streaming media. In essence, this is a brazen money grab.
We need to capture Mr. Wikileaks, try him and hang him. No prison, just the rope.
Enough pussyfooting around traitors who act deliberately against us, their nation. There was a day we'd execute people for doing less harm than this person has done. We need to return to that policy.
I'll sleep better at night when I hear this threat to our nation's security has been neutralized.
Every time? You speak of this like it's some common occurrence. If something like that his happening around with with that degree of frequency, I'd be more inclined to suspect that something was in fact wrong. And no... not with people "planting" stuff, but with these people actively engaging and trading.
Keyboards, Mice and XBox aside, Microsoft should stay the hell out of the hardware business and focus on shoring up it's core apps as well as bringing those apps online to compete with Google. Actually... on second thought anything that aids or abets the demise of Microsoft is a good thing... RELEASE THE KINZABLET!
These can hold 20x the capacity, but you'll still have to buy the theatrical and extended special editions of LOTR separately So really, Hollywood execs will render these discs moot, at lest as far as home entertainment purposes go.
Isn't that when the Super NES came out? Considering that game sales and rentals are now impacting movie sales and rentals, I wonder if it's not a coincidence.
Professional photographer had access to more powerful lenses than what's on an iPhone. I can only imagine this being the end of photo-journalism as we know it. Flickr is as good as dead
What idiot doesn't check user input with at least a regex replace to look for offending tags in fields *YOU KNOW* will be rendered by an HTML interpreter (browser)? Languages like PHP even have built-in routines that will strip out all HTML tags except for safe one you specify, it's been a few years, but I believe it's called htmlSafeTags(string, array of safe tags).
This isn't a simple mistake, it's a sign of pure incompetence since the developer put no forethought into the uses of the tool he was developing and blindly trusted user input from a textarea. User input is dirty, dirty dirty and any developer who does not clean and sanitize it before consuming it is not doing his/her job.
The EU should have a definitive say in day to day operations and strategy in ALL large sized IT corporations. Because EU style bureaucracy is EXACTLY what the IT industry needs.
I for one can't wait for operating systems and applications that are more culturally sensitive, painstakingly non-offensive and record every keystroke and constantly surveil us with built-in webcams and microphones... or better yet, how about Apple, MS and all other big name players form a pact to tell the EU to go fuck itself and if the EU starts giving them grief, they limit their product offerings and keep the EU lagging behind the rest of the world.
hear hear, I too think Red Dead Redemption is great and more importantly, my girlfriend enjoys playing it as well. She's very finicky in her gaming choices, and while she was let down with the "morality" in GTA IV after getting hooked on GTA III, she doesn't seem to have a problem with the morality in Red Dead Redemption and enjoys the gameplay.
However, no game or movie or any other product should ever expect bad reviews across the board. They should look forward to bad reviews that offer solid criticism on game play and character/story development and use that to try to make better games.
Once again you have spared me from having to make choices. Please bring the appstore to the Apple Desktop, and force all OS X developers go through your glorious appstore so all Apple users can benefit from your infinite wisdom. Just think, you could pocket 30% off that hefty $1500 CS5 price-tag... if you didn't bar Adobe apps all together -- and wouldn't that be a hoot!
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EXACTLY!
As a developer you'll be far more valuable being able to deliver an app to as many platforms as possible.
Maybe, but they'd also be more inclined to blame-storming and proving they were right while the shitstorm goes critical. I myself being a techie having dealt with many start-ups, it's clear that most techies have too much ego and lack the discipline to shut the fuck up and work as a truly tight-knit team to meet an objective on a moments notice.
These men aren't mere grunts. They are trained and skilled military men who have demonstrable technical aptitude and skill.
Like many things in the world, it CAN be both things, not just one or the other. So stop pretending these guys aren't as technically qualified as you.
I think it's very possible that Steve Jobs is at the heart of this. Take in the factor the common knowledge that Steve Jobs has always been a nickel and dimer with Apple having long been one of the lowest paying big name hi-tech firms in the Bay Area. So seeing both Pixar and Disney on this list is not in the least bit surprising. Then you take a look at Google and ask "How did that happen?" Well, considering that Eric Schmidt was an Apple board member not too long ago, the answer once again is Steve Jobs. Intel's and Jobs' relations have also been buddy-buddy and though Adobe and Steve's have been publicly acrimonious, they are still very close.
Not saying that this is indeed a fact, but considering half the companies on that list have Jobs at the helm and the others have direct dealings with him, it's hard not to bring this up.
Frankly, Jobs has looked like a bigger jerk than ever since he got his iLiver. For me at least, his image just keeps sinking lower and lower.
Life in prison for giving secrets to nations with strong anti-American sentiments?
There was a day this would call for the Death Penalty.
This is Microsoft we're talking about, they still believe they are the *only* platform.
Yes, yes... that's all fine but does it speak Bocce?
Maybe not a closed committee composed entirely of medical doctors, but a standard trial with a jury composed entirely of learned men with at least a graduate degree in a medical or scientific discipline would suffice IMO. As it is, I think the current system is failing to provide a standard up to the level guaranteed by the constitution in malpractice cases as physicians ARE NOT being judged by a jury of their peers but by a gaggle of near illiterate rubes easily swayed by a slick talking lawyer.
California is a Right to Work State, you want to sue to prevent someone from having a job? Then move to Washington or New York.
Here in California we recognize the need for a person to earn a living plying their skill is more important than your need to treat people like property.
But hey, since those lawyers are salaried, better to use them to harass Mr. Sexual Harassment to put those payroll dollars to work am I right?
What the hell are you talking about Mr Mac-Hating Fanboy?
I switched to Mac in 2001 because I could run the entire LAMP stack without emulation or dual-booting and access it from a commandline and whatever GUI tools while being able to run apps like Creative Suite that were a 100% requirement. That's something you can't do on either Linux or Windows. And that's what I paid for. Nice looks, good UI and lightweight form-factor are all just icing on the cake.
So maybe your needs aren't as intensive as mine, but when it comes to a professional solution for software architects and web developers, OS X is the best platform out there hands down.
FYI, Tim Berners-Lee created HTTP on a Next, which is essentially the precursor to OS X.
So in a way, you owe those shiny apples your ability to post your bullshit drivel on this site to begin with.
I'd like my car to say something that suits my charming personality
I see, so Oracle, and Apple = BAD/EVIL
While MS = GOOD/TRUSTWORTHY
Arbitrary logic is arbitrary.
We already see how industries with few players tend to mirror each others policies and pricing, creating a homogenized marketplace.
Even if you did have a choice between multiple large ISPs, you'd find that their terms of service, business practices and pricing would all be very similar.
So no, we've already seen how "consumer choice" is an illusion in the telecom markets.
Moreover, these anti-netneutrality apologists constantly fail to point out the very real damage disposing of net-neutrality will have on American innovation.
Without Net-Neutrality Youtube would never have happened, how would a startup afford to pay the extortionist pricing for QoS to every single major ISP in the nation on top of their own hosting fees? Without innovation means the market stagnates, new jobs aren't created as rapidly and we fall behind overseas competition whose markets are freer than ours.
The bottom line is "bad for America" really means "bad for big corporation who is scared of having to compete against new online services that may be better than their own".
Comcast, AT&T and others want to close the internet up and control streaming media. In essence, this is a brazen money grab.
We need to capture Mr. Wikileaks, try him and hang him.
No prison, just the rope.
Enough pussyfooting around traitors who act deliberately against us, their nation.
There was a day we'd execute people for doing less harm than this person has done.
We need to return to that policy.
I'll sleep better at night when I hear this threat to our nation's security has been neutralized.
Every time? You speak of this like it's some common occurrence.
If something like that his happening around with with that degree of frequency, I'd be more inclined to suspect that something was in fact wrong.
And no... not with people "planting" stuff, but with these people actively engaging and trading.
Keyboards, Mice and XBox aside, Microsoft should stay the hell out of the hardware business and focus on shoring up it's core apps as well as bringing those apps online to compete with Google.
Actually... on second thought anything that aids or abets the demise of Microsoft is a good thing... RELEASE THE KINZABLET!
These can hold 20x the capacity, but you'll still have to buy the theatrical and extended special editions of LOTR separately
So really, Hollywood execs will render these discs moot, at lest as far as home entertainment purposes go.
"I hate Apple and Steve Jobs (smug bastard) vehemently ... crApple"
And I hate smug arrogant geeks who get off on hating things.
Writing crap like that turns your entire post into a load of puerile drivel.
Isn't that when the Super NES came out?
Considering that game sales and rentals are now impacting movie sales and rentals, I wonder if it's not a coincidence.
Professional photographer had access to more powerful lenses than what's on an iPhone.
I can only imagine this being the end of photo-journalism as we know it.
Flickr is as good as dead
What idiot doesn't check user input with at least a regex replace to look for offending tags in fields *YOU KNOW* will be rendered by an HTML interpreter (browser)?
Languages like PHP even have built-in routines that will strip out all HTML tags except for safe one you specify, it's been a few years, but I believe it's called htmlSafeTags(string, array of safe tags).
This isn't a simple mistake, it's a sign of pure incompetence since the developer put no forethought into the uses of the tool he was developing and blindly trusted user input from a textarea. User input is dirty, dirty dirty and any developer who does not clean and sanitize it before consuming it is not doing his/her job.
The EU should have a definitive say in day to day operations and strategy in ALL large sized IT corporations.
Because EU style bureaucracy is EXACTLY what the IT industry needs.
I for one can't wait for operating systems and applications that are more culturally sensitive, painstakingly non-offensive and record every keystroke and constantly surveil us with built-in webcams and microphones. .. or better yet, how about Apple, MS and all other big name players form a pact to tell the EU to go fuck itself and if the EU starts giving them grief, they limit their product offerings and keep the EU lagging behind the rest of the world.
What? You've never heard of NSFW Wednesdays?
hear hear, I too think Red Dead Redemption is great and more importantly, my girlfriend enjoys playing it as well.
She's very finicky in her gaming choices, and while she was let down with the "morality" in GTA IV after getting hooked on GTA III, she doesn't seem to have a problem with the morality in Red Dead Redemption and enjoys the gameplay.
However, no game or movie or any other product should ever expect bad reviews across the board.
They should look forward to bad reviews that offer solid criticism on game play and character/story development and use that to try to make better games.
I'm sure farmville and mafiawars will get higher framerates on these systems and have a totally unfair advantage
Once again you have spared me from having to make choices.
Please bring the appstore to the Apple Desktop, and force all OS X developers go through your glorious appstore so all Apple users can benefit from your infinite wisdom. Just think, you could pocket 30% off that hefty $1500 CS5 price-tag... if you didn't bar Adobe apps all together -- and wouldn't that be a hoot!