What I'm implying is that if you, a comcast customer, using your comcast connection, request a PDF from my web server, why should my ISP (or myself) have to pay comcast anything? I'm not a comcast customer, YOU are. YOU already paid for the ability to do the very thing your greedy cable company wants me to pay for.
It's simple robber baron business practices. The only reason Comcast even dares to do crap like this is that they are huge. If they were small and even remotely concerned about competition they'd never even think about doing this.
I think Bill Maher is an attention seeking idiot. I think Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins are leftist morons. I think Nancy Pelosi is a female version of satan.
I still would contend that George W. Bush will be remembered as being the worst President in the past 100 years.
As for Palin, my dog is good and well meaning, but I wouldn't want it to be running any aspect of this country. Palin is exactly what you complain about - a celebrity opinion, an ignorant ranting pundit.
BTW, the reason I detest Pelosi is that she acts eactly like a neo-conservative would except she's on the left.
I don't care for Kerry, although any average amphibian would be a better choice than Bush, but to say you're being subjective about what Kerry did in 1971 (not 1973.)
Kerry went to Paris and met with BOTH sides that were attempting to negotiate peace. He went there in the presence of other US government officials, for example Senator Vance Hartke. He didn't attempt to negotiate anything with the North Vietnamese as you so clearly allude. He came back and told congress that his primary concern was getting back POWs and that he believed setting a timetable for a withdrawal from Vietnam would result in the immediate return of POWs.
He didn't commit treason, he did less than a US Senator did in meeting with the same parties FOR THE SAME REASON.
FFS, isn't anyone capable of being objective anymore? I don't want Kerry running the government, but I don't have to lie/slander/deceive people about him (a la Ann Coulter.)
First, only a right wing nutjob would think that any US politician wants to sit down with any terrorists and "give in to whatever they wanted." Even Neville Chamberlain, the greatest appeaser of all, didn't operate like that.
Second, Bush actually accomplished exactly that without sitting down with them. They wanted to change America, and he did it for them.
...to Google earth based upon traffic pattern analysis following local lunch times... Seriously, is this news? I mean, it is a tiny bit interesting because they try to identify the trees and automate the process, but people were doing this in the 90's for terrain datasets used with visual simulations (I personally did something like this for an OpenFlight based sim as a consulting gig based upon something I'd seen in a product at SIGGRAPH 96.)
The thing is, I don't dislike SONY despite the horrific crap they make you work with from a software point of view. So many of their things have this 'touch of genius' that I find myself excusing the most ridiculous things because I can say "but, omg that freakin' thing is FAST!" Then I find myself debugging something at 3AM thinking "I'd like to strangle the f***er that built the cell tool chain..."
...as threat indicators, I mean come on, how cool would it be to hear "*ding**dong*The Department of Homeland Security has deemed the current threat level to be 'Tapioca'"
Insinuating that SONY making use of Apple inspired development tools/specs/practices/whatever is validation of Apple in some way seems quite strange.
SONY is famous for being absolutely crap and producing/choosing/using development tools.
SONY's picking a development tool set related to Apple's only clear benefit is to people who have had to develop for SONY products in the past - ANYTHING is better than software that came out of SONY.
They sure used to make great hardware though, and that's starting to return a bit.
But adopting Apple-like dev environment(s)...? Water to a man dying of thirst and all that...
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You 'demand' that I elaborate? LOL. Well, I demand that you give yourself a swirlie...
I don't wish him any harm, but he's a terrible person by most objective accounts.
The ol' "two wrongs make a right" theory, eh?
You owe me for one Coke-zero damaged keyboard you funny b***ard...
You do understand that this is a peering issue, right?
My ISP isn't anymore a customer of Comcast than Comcast is a customer of my ISP.
No it isn't.
What I'm implying is that if you, a comcast customer, using your comcast connection, request a PDF from my web server, why should my ISP (or myself) have to pay comcast anything? I'm not a comcast customer, YOU are. YOU already paid for the ability to do the very thing your greedy cable company wants me to pay for.
It's simple robber baron business practices. The only reason Comcast even dares to do crap like this is that they are huge. If they were small and even remotely concerned about competition they'd never even think about doing this.
...I am paying Comcast for already?
In other news, Sarah Palin suggests that GizModo should be 'targeted like the Taliban!'
"Verbal carpet bombing" - I think that is a very apt description...
I think Bill Maher is an attention seeking idiot. I think Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins are leftist morons. I think Nancy Pelosi is a female version of satan.
I still would contend that George W. Bush will be remembered as being the worst President in the past 100 years.
As for Palin, my dog is good and well meaning, but I wouldn't want it to be running any aspect of this country. Palin is exactly what you complain about - a celebrity opinion, an ignorant ranting pundit.
BTW, the reason I detest Pelosi is that she acts eactly like a neo-conservative would except she's on the left.
Too bad they won't abolish the party system.
Calling Terry a dim bulb is fine as long as when you compare him to Bush you describe bush as a Grue...
I don't care for Kerry, although any average amphibian would be a better choice than Bush, but to say you're being subjective about what Kerry did in 1971 (not 1973.)
Kerry went to Paris and met with BOTH sides that were attempting to negotiate peace. He went there in the presence of other US government officials, for example Senator Vance Hartke. He didn't attempt to negotiate anything with the North Vietnamese as you so clearly allude. He came back and told congress that his primary concern was getting back POWs and that he believed setting a timetable for a withdrawal from Vietnam would result in the immediate return of POWs.
He didn't commit treason, he did less than a US Senator did in meeting with the same parties FOR THE SAME REASON.
FFS, isn't anyone capable of being objective anymore? I don't want Kerry running the government, but I don't have to lie/slander/deceive people about him (a la Ann Coulter.)
First, only a right wing nutjob would think that any US politician wants to sit down with any terrorists and "give in to whatever they wanted." Even Neville Chamberlain, the greatest appeaser of all, didn't operate like that.
Second, Bush actually accomplished exactly that without sitting down with them. They wanted to change America, and he did it for them.
I had never been ashamed of the American people (not to be confused with the American government) until the day Bush was re-elected.
Only if your measure of what is newsworthy is 'how many eyeballs' are on it.
...to Google earth based upon traffic pattern analysis following local lunch times... Seriously, is this news? I mean, it is a tiny bit interesting because they try to identify the trees and automate the process, but people were doing this in the 90's for terrain datasets used with visual simulations (I personally did something like this for an OpenFlight based sim as a consulting gig based upon something I'd seen in a product at SIGGRAPH 96.)
You want me to care? Can't... Eatin' and watchin' 'ouch my balls'...
A looong time ago, in a galaxy uncomfortably close...
Not personally.
The thing is, I don't dislike SONY despite the horrific crap they make you work with from a software point of view. So many of their things have this 'touch of genius' that I find myself excusing the most ridiculous things because I can say "but, omg that freakin' thing is FAST!" Then I find myself debugging something at 3AM thinking "I'd like to strangle the f***er that built the cell tool chain..."
...as threat indicators, I mean come on, how cool would it be to hear "*ding**dong*The Department of Homeland Security has deemed the current threat level to be 'Tapioca'"
Insinuating that SONY making use of Apple inspired development tools/specs/practices/whatever is validation of Apple in some way seems quite strange.
SONY is famous for being absolutely crap and producing/choosing/using development tools.
SONY's picking a development tool set related to Apple's only clear benefit is to people who have had to develop for SONY products in the past - ANYTHING is better than software that came out of SONY.
They sure used to make great hardware though, and that's starting to return a bit.
But adopting Apple-like dev environment(s)...? Water to a man dying of thirst and all that...
Funny, the only thing I find Android lacking in comparison to iOS is DRM...
Apple does not make daemons/services possible for anyone other than Apple. You CANNOT write a daemon/service for a non-jailbroken iPhone/iPad.
I don't care if they demand the source code for the daemon/service to make sure it doesn't waste CPU/cycles, just make it possible.
You can already drain a user's battery with their current, poor, approach to multi-tasking on the Touch.
Heck, Android lets you write services, Symbian, just about every other smart phone OS too, but not Apple...
So, you're not apple, you're better than apple.