The government is saying "We want ALL traffic treated equally" Comcast is saying "we want to force Youtube, Netflix and Google to pay us or we'll THROTTLE their traffic" So Comcast will be taking away your choices, they'll be able to block sites, restrict traffic and essentially extort every major site on the internet. And you don't like it? tough. Where you going to go? AT&T? Verizon? They'll all be pulling the same shit. Your only choice will be between who you think will be throttling your service the least.
With the proposed plan by the government, AT&T, Comcast and Verizon will have to leave the traffic alone and guarantee a level of QoS. If all that video you are downloading is too expensive, they can charge you more, and THAT will be your choice. And that's the way it should be.
If I want to download 500GB of movies a week and video-chat on skype all day, I will have that choice and the services will be fast. But, I will have to pay for that just like anything else.
Why do you oppose that? Why do you support Comcast throttling competing services and extorting them? Why is that to be preferred over paying an extra $20 or $40 a month if you are a heavy bandwidth hog?
Frankly, I have had it with Americans who would rather toss-off their civil rights and protections in order to save a few bucks.
No one's saying Flash is a right. People however are flummoxed at Steve Job's iron-clad insistence to keep Flash OFF the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Essentially, he's pulling a Microsoft and BREAKING the internet experience by saying "our users don't need to access that flash enabled site or play their facebook games, if you're a shitty facebook developer, come and re-develop your game for my iPhone using my tools which cost you $100 and that's IF we let you"
Well, in the meantime Google has been working with Adobe and playing nicely. We see a new version of Chrome coming out with a more tightly coupled flash player, and we'll be seeing flash on Android phones IN THE BROWSER.
And at that point, when Joe six-pack sees he can play Mafia Wars and Farmville from his Facebook page on his Android phone and use media heavy sites that use flash on an Android device BUT NOT on the iPhone, Joe Six-pack will wonder why he'd want to pay more for the iPhone or buy an iPad where the "internet is broken". When he can PAY LESS for an Android phone that does the things HE wants to do.
And on that day, the AppStore and iTunes and all this walled garden tyranny from Jobs will start to see a huge drop in market share and the iPhone will slip to number 2 while Google mops up with Steve Jobs' sorry, old, tired and just fucking ornery ass.
If Steve Jobs is still CEO in 2011, Apple stands to see a market drop they haven't seen since the mid-90's. He's a fossil, a relic and just doesn't get the message. You can't control the internet or the technology that the internet will embrace. While HTML5 has some great new features, it is simply NOT the flash killer people are making it out to be. The iPhone is an internet platform, but he's thinking he can use it to control the technology on the internet itself, and that's just not the case. Apple has taken a very closed and tyrannical attitude when they need to be more open than ever and that's why Jobs needs to be ousted. Google understands that however, and that's why they will win this fight and why the iPhone will fall to the wayside if Jobs is not replaced soon. Seriously, the army of Google Android devices vs the iPhone/iPad is starting to look like a repeat of Windows x86 clones vs Macintosh
This is a source of CONSTANT contention with my clients in the video space. C-Level execs and even developers think that flash is DOOMED because of HTML5.
Why is it so hard to understand that the video tag is merely an interface spec for a built-in browser based video player? If Site B wanted to co-opt Site A's H.264 mp4 video and put it inside a flash video player, there's nothing to stop them from doing that, even if the site lacks a cross-domain xml file, that could easily be circumvented by a simple proxy script, routing the video bits through Site B's server. There is absolutely NOTHING that I see so far that is not a win for Flash. Both MS and Apple are behind MP4, Mozilla and Opera are Ogg-Theora and Google is going both ways (MP4+Ogg)
And what about sharing? Is HTML5 supposed to kill viral video too? How do you embed video in another person's site? Ohhh ya... just copy the video tag. But what of branding and click-through traffic? The video tag only supports LEECHING, no way to enforce reciprocating traffic or proper credits for the content. Youtube like sites would simply not exist if HTML4 had the video tag and flash never came about with video support.
And what of DRM? Some people don't want Site B to show their content, but don't want to limit their audience to IE or any other browser specific DRM solution. How does HTML5 provide for DRM? Ohhh... wait... they don't. It's implementation specific.
All in all, I think this rally for HTML5 video as the flash killer is a grandiose clusterfuck of BS and I am appalled that the tech community has so far been so gullible to eat this turd sandwhich and not called it out as it really is: 1998 all over again with a shit-shine.
Steve Jobs is a tired old fuck who is on the wrong side of the internet video issue. He's letting his grudge against Adobe and his thirst for a locked down proprietary Apple controlled App-store based world blind him to reality.
Flash is here to stay for the foreseeable future and the iPhone and iPad will suffer if Jobs stays at the helm past 2010. Jobs' time has come, he needs to step aside and let the his products grow, banning technology is not the way to do it. Otherwise, Android with Flash support featuring a 100% functional internet will destroy the AppStore empire he's built.
Since it only lasted a year on the market and quickly fell into disuse, I do not see how we've had 15 years of Bob. Instead, we've seen user interfaces and platforms change quite a bit in that time.
The more I see of Obama, the more I want him impeached. I feel like I made a BIG MISTAKE voting for the guy.
Like many people, I laughed at the right wing hysterics as mindless wharrgarbl, but this guy seems to be taking it upon himself to trample the constitution even more than Bush did. And while the Bush administration might have lied and cheated their way through getting Congress and the UN to back the Iraq war, at least they followed protocol and used proper channels.
The fact that Obama's health care plan took his promise for single payer universal coverage and turned it into a socialized cash-cow for insurance corporations with a unique provision forcing us to buy coverage or pay a "tax-penalty" and seeing him now trying to claim some sort of dictatorial power to force ACTA down our throats is startling. This is the second time he's taken a decidedly pro-corporate and potentially anti-consumer stance.
What next? Declaring we will get lower media prices and be allowed to use P2P freely without persecution, but must buy x-amount of MP3s, CDs and DVDs a month or pay a "tax" penalty? While it remains to be seen, I think the HCR Bill will prove to be the first of many attempts to socialize industry while forcing citizens to buy from or otherwise subsidize those industries with their non-taxed dollars.
Frankly, I think this direction he's taken towards establishing a socialized corporate state is alarming and a serious threat to our civil liberties. It could quite literally end up making US citizen's indentured servants to corporations by levying "mandates" to force us to spend our non-taxed dollars on corporate goods and services. And while this may sound unprecedented and extreme, so have been the actions of Obama in regards to the HCR BIll and ACTA.
At the minimum, I think Obama needs to stand up and make his intentions clear. Why is he so adamant about ACTA? How can he declare victory with the HCR when it seems all he did was take away the socialist system he promised the PEOPLE and gave it to the corporations who have an obvious conflict of interest and have been little more than foxes guarding the henhouse? Obama's been great when it comes to grandstanding with photo ops and buzzwords. But what about a truly informative statement about his intentions with these brazenly pro-corporate endeavors?
I don't watch Hulu. Instead, I settled on PAYING a la carte via Netflix and iTunes. Personally, Netflix Instant-Cue is my preferred choice, but iTunes has reasonable pricing on the Daily Show and Colbert Report as a bundle and offers House, Better of Ted and a couple other shows that I can't get off of Netflix.
I refuse to watch Hulu because it is tethered to my computer, and even if I went through the effort of getting it on my TV, it's still a clunky web interface and not at all the simple TV-friendly interface I want when watching on my TV.
All in all, I pay about $100 a season, get all the shows I want and am quite happy. This is down from about $120 a month I was forking over to Comcast. And the joy of it all is I don't have to watch a single commercial.
Ya, good luck with that. The sad fact is, even in cases where the government would seem to have harmed someone unduly, there is little if any recourse. Also, I believe Childs waived his right to a speedy trail, more than likely at the urging of his lawyer, such a move is not uncommon.
Very good assessment, as a resident of SF and frequenter of SFGate, I am well aware of Newsom's plummeting popularity. And while I didn't read this particular article, anytime names such as Gavin Newsom, Chris Daly or Kamala Harris show up, it's a total bashfest.
Newsom represents the best of breed in SF liberalism. They are only for protecting rights and freedoms when it's THEIR rights and freedoms. Since this guy is a nobody who's being showed who his daddy in by the SF government workers, it's not Gavin's concern at all. To him, this guy deserves to rot in jail at the behest of some ticked off department head.
The sad thing is, this guy's life has been irreparably harmed by this incident, an acquittal will do nothing but put him out on the streets. By now I'm sure he's lost his home and possessions. And the lawyer will take whatever is left in the bank. Frankly, he'd be better off being found guilty and being handed the life sentence he apparently deserves in accordance to that $5 million in bail.
Users smashing their phone to scam AT&T or smashing their phone because they are stuck using AT&T's "3G" service and finally snap after spending 20 minutes trying to get that informative webpage they need *right now* to load?
But let's get real. How much intentional smashing is really going on? I dropped my 3G iPhone last month when I fumbled it while taking it out of my pocket. It hit the pavement end up, smack on the upper right hand edge... which is a real sweet-spot when it comes to shattering the glass display. I walked into an AppleStore 15 minutes later and upgraded to a 3GS with a new 2yr contract and bought a hardshell protector to prevent a similar fate befalling it.
No scam, pure accident. Maybe if Apple could... I don't know, not use glass in their portable device displays...
"The usual accusations of anti Americanism are getting very tiresome... With his 2 year ban expired, he was planning to compete in this year's race. It looks like some people in France really wish he didn't."
Great way to make a point.
First you say everyone howling about the French being sour grape swilling soilsports is tiresome then turn around and state how these actions indicate the French don't want Landis competing. Which is tantamount to saying that the entire ordeal of the repeated Armstrong/Landis doping allegations, is indeed nothing more than underhanded trickery if not outright fraud by french nationalists.
Interesting that most everyone on "western" nations would state that their democracy is a game of "Good Cop vs Bad Cop" Please.. educate us as to why you bother to vote with a ballot rather than a bullet. And no "doing my part" is not a reasonable answer.
"Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), in which he argued that ancient peoples did not access consciousness (did not possess an introspective mind-space), but instead had their behavior directed by auditory hallucinations, which they interpreted as the voice of their chief, king, or the gods. Jaynes argued that the change from this mode of thinking (which he called the bicameral mind) to consciousness (construed as self-identification of interior mental states) occurred over a period of centuries about three thousand years ago and was based on the development of metaphorical language and the emergence of writing."
Put down the SnowCrash and get back to reality and empirical evidence with the rest of us please. Just because an author of popular fiction incorporates an idea into their book does not make it real or factual.
Clone the guy and see if he is capable of learning and living in this more advanced human environment.
if he can then there will be a lot to say about god and darwin.
And what, exactly would that be? That modern-humans can learn and adapt behavior patterns from those around them? A human born within the last 5,000 years or so is not all that different, especially in terms of cranial capacity. So I would suspect that the individual would be able to learn at a reasonable rate compared to the rest of us and display the ability to follow social norms just as any other person.
Now, seeing whether or not this person's immune system could stand up to today's stronger viruses and engineered pharmaceuticals would be interesting. However, it might prove to be a very good case NOT to bring back archaic forms of life.
About time the EU showed some backbone and told the US where to stick it. The US has bent everyone else over and had their way far too long. Now that the US's economy is a mess, the dollar is weak and getting weaker and the Euro is fast taking the place the Dollar once had, the US needs to be sent a strong, loud and clear message that it's hay day is over and it's going to have to rely upon diplomacy, cooperation and fair play instead of idle threats and ham-fisted foreign policy towards it's allies.
And ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the argumentum ad hominem.
Let us take a moment to ponder this posters ability to take a tone of superiority, all the while unawares of the stupendous amount of ignorance being displayed by his own statement.
I didn't even bother with vocational school much less university. I learned programming for $100 in books from Borders. Within 3 months, I was pulling in $75k a year and now I make a salary that's pushing on a third of a million a year as a contractor, which is better than a lot of "white collar" people make. I have considered leaving development and going into management, such as taking a Director position, which I have been offered a few times. But, I'm not sure I'd be happy in management, so I've yet to act on that notion. And even as a Director, I doubt I'd be able to make much more than $150k a year, which is about the max I could get as an FT coder at most software houses. Which is why I contract... the money is so much better if like me, you are good at keeping the work flowing.
Anyway, it all comes down to what YOU can get someone to pay you. If you let your level of education dictate the level of salary you make, you just aren't very good at playing the game.
I tried Genius for awhile, but I recently disabled it for two reasons:
1) The "recommendations" were not very good nor did they maintain a "common theme", by which I mean, I chose a rather edgy electronica/punk song by Crystal Castles... three songs down we get something by The Nationals... which is very mellow rock. If I choose a song that is edgy, electric, and with a faster pace, I want ALL the songs in that 25 song playlist to be at least within a similar genre.
2) It takes up too much time when importing vast libraries to new machines. I recently centralized my 300+ GB music library on a Mac Mini Server, iTunes was unusable due to genius choking on the sheer volume of data it had to deal with.
In the end, it's really nothing more than a way for Apple to try to get you to buy more crap from the Apple store. They lost my wallet years ago to Amazon MP3 store who had no DRM. I see no reason to go back to iTMS even now that their DRM is gone. Especially seeing what dicks Apple has been with their conduct around ACC, "fair play", and App Store lock-down.
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You are deluded.
The government is saying "We want ALL traffic treated equally"
Comcast is saying "we want to force Youtube, Netflix and Google to pay us or we'll THROTTLE their traffic"
So Comcast will be taking away your choices, they'll be able to block sites, restrict traffic and essentially extort every major site on the internet.
And you don't like it? tough. Where you going to go? AT&T? Verizon?
They'll all be pulling the same shit. Your only choice will be between who you think will be throttling your service the least.
With the proposed plan by the government, AT&T, Comcast and Verizon will have to leave the traffic alone and guarantee a level of QoS.
If all that video you are downloading is too expensive, they can charge you more, and THAT will be your choice.
And that's the way it should be.
If I want to download 500GB of movies a week and video-chat on skype all day, I will have that choice and the services will be fast.
But, I will have to pay for that just like anything else.
Why do you oppose that?
Why do you support Comcast throttling competing services and extorting them?
Why is that to be preferred over paying an extra $20 or $40 a month if you are a heavy bandwidth hog?
Frankly, I have had it with Americans who would rather toss-off their civil rights and protections in order to save a few bucks.
No one's saying Flash is a right. People however are flummoxed at Steve Job's iron-clad insistence to keep Flash OFF the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Essentially, he's pulling a Microsoft and BREAKING the internet experience by saying "our users don't need to access that flash enabled site or play their facebook games, if you're a shitty facebook developer, come and re-develop your game for my iPhone using my tools which cost you $100 and that's IF we let you"
Well, in the meantime Google has been working with Adobe and playing nicely.
We see a new version of Chrome coming out with a more tightly coupled flash player, and we'll be seeing flash on Android phones IN THE BROWSER.
And at that point, when Joe six-pack sees he can play Mafia Wars and Farmville from his Facebook page on his Android phone and use media heavy sites that use flash on an Android device BUT NOT on the iPhone, Joe Six-pack will wonder why he'd want to pay more for the iPhone or buy an iPad where the "internet is broken". When he can PAY LESS for an Android phone that does the things HE wants to do.
And on that day, the AppStore and iTunes and all this walled garden tyranny from Jobs will start to see a huge drop in market share and the iPhone will slip to number 2 while Google mops up with Steve Jobs' sorry, old, tired and just fucking ornery ass.
If Steve Jobs is still CEO in 2011, Apple stands to see a market drop they haven't seen since the mid-90's.
He's a fossil, a relic and just doesn't get the message. You can't control the internet or the technology that the internet will embrace.
While HTML5 has some great new features, it is simply NOT the flash killer people are making it out to be.
The iPhone is an internet platform, but he's thinking he can use it to control the technology on the internet itself, and that's just not the case.
Apple has taken a very closed and tyrannical attitude when they need to be more open than ever and that's why Jobs needs to be ousted.
Google understands that however, and that's why they will win this fight and why the iPhone will fall to the wayside if Jobs is not replaced soon.
Seriously, the army of Google Android devices vs the iPhone/iPad is starting to look like a repeat of Windows x86 clones vs Macintosh
This is a source of CONSTANT contention with my clients in the video space.
C-Level execs and even developers think that flash is DOOMED because of HTML5.
Why is it so hard to understand that the video tag is merely an interface spec for a built-in browser based video player?
If Site B wanted to co-opt Site A's H.264 mp4 video and put it inside a flash video player, there's nothing to stop them from doing that, even if the site lacks a cross-domain xml file, that could easily be circumvented by a simple proxy script, routing the video bits through Site B's server.
There is absolutely NOTHING that I see so far that is not a win for Flash.
Both MS and Apple are behind MP4, Mozilla and Opera are Ogg-Theora and Google is going both ways (MP4+Ogg)
And what about sharing? Is HTML5 supposed to kill viral video too? How do you embed video in another person's site? Ohhh ya... just copy the video tag. But what of branding and click-through traffic? The video tag only supports LEECHING, no way to enforce reciprocating traffic or proper credits for the content. Youtube like sites would simply not exist if HTML4 had the video tag and flash never came about with video support.
And what of DRM? Some people don't want Site B to show their content, but don't want to limit their audience to IE or any other browser specific DRM solution. How does HTML5 provide for DRM? Ohhh... wait... they don't. It's implementation specific.
All in all, I think this rally for HTML5 video as the flash killer is a grandiose clusterfuck of BS and I am appalled that the tech community has so far been so gullible to eat this turd sandwhich and not called it out as it really is: 1998 all over again with a shit-shine.
Steve Jobs is a tired old fuck who is on the wrong side of the internet video issue.
He's letting his grudge against Adobe and his thirst for a locked down proprietary Apple controlled App-store based world blind him to reality.
Flash is here to stay for the foreseeable future and the iPhone and iPad will suffer if Jobs stays at the helm past 2010.
Jobs' time has come, he needs to step aside and let the his products grow, banning technology is not the way to do it.
Otherwise, Android with Flash support featuring a 100% functional internet will destroy the AppStore empire he's built.
So decimal now mans Base-100% instead of Base-10?
Your post is annoying non-sense. Thanks for sharing.
Since it only lasted a year on the market and quickly fell into disuse, I do not see how we've had 15 years of Bob.
Instead, we've seen user interfaces and platforms change quite a bit in that time.
The more I see of Obama, the more I want him impeached.
I feel like I made a BIG MISTAKE voting for the guy.
Like many people, I laughed at the right wing hysterics as mindless wharrgarbl, but this guy seems to be taking it upon himself to trample the constitution even more than Bush did. And while the Bush administration might have lied and cheated their way through getting Congress and the UN to back the Iraq war, at least they followed protocol and used proper channels.
The fact that Obama's health care plan took his promise for single payer universal coverage and turned it into a socialized cash-cow for insurance corporations with a unique provision forcing us to buy coverage or pay a "tax-penalty" and seeing him now trying to claim some sort of dictatorial power to force ACTA down our throats is startling. This is the second time he's taken a decidedly pro-corporate and potentially anti-consumer stance.
What next? Declaring we will get lower media prices and be allowed to use P2P freely without persecution, but must buy x-amount of MP3s, CDs and DVDs a month or pay a "tax" penalty? While it remains to be seen, I think the HCR Bill will prove to be the first of many attempts to socialize industry while forcing citizens to buy from or otherwise subsidize those industries with their non-taxed dollars.
Frankly, I think this direction he's taken towards establishing a socialized corporate state is alarming and a serious threat to our civil liberties.
It could quite literally end up making US citizen's indentured servants to corporations by levying "mandates" to force us to spend our non-taxed dollars on corporate goods and services. And while this may sound unprecedented and extreme, so have been the actions of Obama in regards to the HCR BIll and ACTA.
At the minimum, I think Obama needs to stand up and make his intentions clear. Why is he so adamant about ACTA? How can he declare victory with the HCR when it seems all he did was take away the socialist system he promised the PEOPLE and gave it to the corporations who have an obvious conflict of interest and have been little more than foxes guarding the henhouse? Obama's been great when it comes to grandstanding with photo ops and buzzwords. But what about a truly informative statement about his intentions with these brazenly pro-corporate endeavors?
I don't watch Hulu. Instead, I settled on PAYING a la carte via Netflix and iTunes. Personally, Netflix Instant-Cue is my preferred choice, but iTunes has reasonable pricing on the Daily Show and Colbert Report as a bundle and offers House, Better of Ted and a couple other shows that I can't get off of Netflix.
I refuse to watch Hulu because it is tethered to my computer, and even if I went through the effort of getting it on my TV, it's still a clunky web interface and not at all the simple TV-friendly interface I want when watching on my TV.
All in all, I pay about $100 a season, get all the shows I want and am quite happy.
This is down from about $120 a month I was forking over to Comcast.
And the joy of it all is I don't have to watch a single commercial.
Ya, good luck with that. The sad fact is, even in cases where the government would seem to have harmed someone unduly, there is little if any recourse. Also, I believe Childs waived his right to a speedy trail, more than likely at the urging of his lawyer, such a move is not uncommon.
Very good assessment, as a resident of SF and frequenter of SFGate, I am well aware of Newsom's plummeting popularity.
And while I didn't read this particular article, anytime names such as Gavin Newsom, Chris Daly or Kamala Harris show up, it's a total bashfest.
Newsom represents the best of breed in SF liberalism. They are only for protecting rights and freedoms when it's THEIR rights and freedoms.
Since this guy is a nobody who's being showed who his daddy in by the SF government workers, it's not Gavin's concern at all.
To him, this guy deserves to rot in jail at the behest of some ticked off department head.
The sad thing is, this guy's life has been irreparably harmed by this incident, an acquittal will do nothing but put him out on the streets.
By now I'm sure he's lost his home and possessions. And the lawyer will take whatever is left in the bank.
Frankly, he'd be better off being found guilty and being handed the life sentence he apparently deserves in accordance to that $5 million in bail.
And by that logic, they should be killing off all 3rd party mail client POP and IMAP inbox access for everyone in 3... 2...
Users smashing their phone to scam AT&T or smashing their phone because they are stuck using AT&T's "3G" service and finally snap after spending 20 minutes trying to get that informative webpage they need *right now* to load?
But let's get real. How much intentional smashing is really going on? I dropped my 3G iPhone last month when I fumbled it while taking it out of my pocket. It hit the pavement end up, smack on the upper right hand edge... which is a real sweet-spot when it comes to shattering the glass display.
I walked into an AppleStore 15 minutes later and upgraded to a 3GS with a new 2yr contract and bought a hardshell protector to prevent a similar fate befalling it.
No scam, pure accident.
Maybe if Apple could... I don't know, not use glass in their portable device displays...
"The usual accusations of anti Americanism are getting very tiresome ... With his 2 year ban expired, he was planning to compete in this year's race. It looks like some people in France really wish he didn't."
Great way to make a point.
First you say everyone howling about the French being sour grape swilling soilsports is tiresome then turn around and state how these actions indicate the French don't want Landis competing. Which is tantamount to saying that the entire ordeal of the repeated Armstrong/Landis doping allegations, is indeed nothing more than underhanded trickery if not outright fraud by french nationalists.
Good job numbnut.
Interesting that most everyone on "western" nations would state that their democracy is a game of "Good Cop vs Bad Cop"
Please.. educate us as to why you bother to vote with a ballot rather than a bullet.
And no "doing my part" is not a reasonable answer.
So it seems that maybe we might still get something out of raising a genetically cloned baby and infecting it with H5N1 and SARS.
Add some lipstick and eyeliner and maybe PETA would finally be happy.
From the Wikipedia entry on Julian Jaynes:
"Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), in which he argued that ancient peoples did not access consciousness (did not possess an introspective mind-space), but instead had their behavior directed by auditory hallucinations, which they interpreted as the voice of their chief, king, or the gods. Jaynes argued that the change from this mode of thinking (which he called the bicameral mind) to consciousness (construed as self-identification of interior mental states) occurred over a period of centuries about three thousand years ago and was based on the development of metaphorical language and the emergence of writing."
Put down the SnowCrash and get back to reality and empirical evidence with the rest of us please. Just because an author of popular fiction incorporates an idea into their book does not make it real or factual.
Clone the guy and see if he is capable of learning and living in this more advanced human environment.
if he can then there will be a lot to say about god and darwin.
And what, exactly would that be? That modern-humans can learn and adapt behavior patterns from those around them? A human born within the last 5,000 years or so is not all that different, especially in terms of cranial capacity. So I would suspect that the individual would be able to learn at a reasonable rate compared to the rest of us and display the ability to follow social norms just as any other person.
Now, seeing whether or not this person's immune system could stand up to today's stronger viruses and engineered pharmaceuticals would be interesting. However, it might prove to be a very good case NOT to bring back archaic forms of life.
About time the EU showed some backbone and told the US where to stick it. The US has bent everyone else over and had their way far too long. Now that the US's economy is a mess, the dollar is weak and getting weaker and the Euro is fast taking the place the Dollar once had, the US needs to be sent a strong, loud and clear message that it's hay day is over and it's going to have to rely upon diplomacy, cooperation and fair play instead of idle threats and ham-fisted foreign policy towards it's allies.
He had to rape Darth Vader too
Well, I can imagine my neighbors would hear me shouting "Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" as my PS3 sailed past their windows.
... that all this time I've been using a fork to help me determine the tastiness of beef.
Ohh, I weep at my naivety.
I give it 48 hours till he's found dead in his cell by apparent "suicide" by drowning himself in a pissbucket
And ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the argumentum ad hominem.
Let us take a moment to ponder this posters ability to take a tone of superiority, all the while unawares of the stupendous amount of ignorance being displayed by his own statement.
Truly a remarkable creature.
I didn't even bother with vocational school much less university. I learned programming for $100 in books from Borders.
Within 3 months, I was pulling in $75k a year and now I make a salary that's pushing on a third of a million a year as a contractor, which is better than a lot of "white collar" people make. I have considered leaving development and going into management, such as taking a Director position, which I have been offered a few times. But, I'm not sure I'd be happy in management, so I've yet to act on that notion. And even as a Director, I doubt I'd be able to make much more than $150k a year, which is about the max I could get as an FT coder at most software houses. Which is why I contract... the money is so much better if like me, you are good at keeping the work flowing.
Anyway, it all comes down to what YOU can get someone to pay you.
If you let your level of education dictate the level of salary you make, you just aren't very good at playing the game.
I tried Genius for awhile, but I recently disabled it for two reasons:
1) The "recommendations" were not very good nor did they maintain a "common theme", by which I mean, I chose a rather edgy electronica/punk song by Crystal Castles... three songs down we get something by The Nationals... which is very mellow rock. If I choose a song that is edgy, electric, and with a faster pace, I want ALL the songs in that 25 song playlist to be at least within a similar genre.
2) It takes up too much time when importing vast libraries to new machines. I recently centralized my 300+ GB music library on a Mac Mini Server, iTunes was unusable due to genius choking on the sheer volume of data it had to deal with.
In the end, it's really nothing more than a way for Apple to try to get you to buy more crap from the Apple store.
They lost my wallet years ago to Amazon MP3 store who had no DRM. I see no reason to go back to iTMS even now that their DRM is gone. Especially seeing what dicks Apple has been with their conduct around ACC, "fair play", and App Store lock-down.