I can almost quote you on this: "But calling the US government democratic is an extreme stretch. The candidates are severely restricted, the voting is largely rigged, and the main authority resides with the media who is not elected (not the President who has limited authority), and the Pentagon who is half appointed by the president and half by congress. It may become democratic one day, but right now it is mostly a plutocracy."
I disagree, we do have papers, just not standardized. At the most basic level you have the driver's license, which acts very much like a national id card. Try to get into a domestic commercial flight without one.
That would only make sense if the other people didn't have the same limitations as you. See what is so cool about playing FPS games on consoles is that there is a fair playing field, no guys who can see farther than others because of their nice video card, people that can use helicopters or jets better (Think Battlefield) because they have a joystick, and so on.
When you realize that both have the same chance and all you need is practice, you will see that playing Call of Duty or Battlefield can be one hell of an experience.
The more and more I read about this, I'm becoming convinced that Zuckerberg is definitely a genius. He goes to Harvard, a place with a lot of rich people and a big reputation, and outsmarts them by mere wits. Then goes to the holy grail of capitalism and outmaneuvers them. Even if he's called a douchebag and whatnot (lots of geeks fall into that category), you have to cheer for the nerd who succedeed.
You understand that every company, even if they don't go public, have shareholders? The only difference is that they decide who they make a partner. The only thing that is unfair to an investor is if they don't get their money's worth, be it with shares or profit.
The most valuable thing about going public isn't liquidity, it is the ability of shareholders to replace leadership when you have bad management. In a lot of privately-held companies that only happens after bankruptcy or heavy infighting. In either case it isn't a guarantee for the sucess of a company, since greed can also play a factor. Think of those cases where it was more profitable to sell a company in pieces instead of keeping the company afloat.
The discussion was about Google.com not Google Maps. As a European consider yourself in luck, at least you have several options, including viamichelin. Now in Latin America either Google Maps or Bing Maps or whatever are a mere toy somebody might use and nobody I know rely on them as Americans do with Google Maps, Mapquest, etc.
Having said that, about a couple of months ago I started testing Bing to see if I could replace Google search and I pretty much made the switch at this point. Not only it gives me the results I want but that background image they have everyday truly looks amazing. In my office I switched the default webpage from google to bing and I have been receiving praise just because of that background image. Silly I know.
After reading the article, I couldn't help but get the feeling of somebody whining about changes, like you know, people getting old. The reason I mention this is two-fold, I have been using the App Store quite extensively and I think it's a great idea to a big issue with Mac software, especially overseas, Mac software availability at retail stores. With the App Store I get an upgrade central which is very neat, kind of like Curse for World of Warcraft add-ons.
Now the other reason I see this as whining is because I learned how to program with Visual Basic 3, and everything was fine and dandy until VB6. When.NET arrived, the changes were so extensive that I felt it was a new language not worth learning, so I jumped shipped to the "holy grail" of programming at the time Java and C++. Recently I had to work on a VB.NET project, with the idea of either improving upon it or migrating it to something else. So after all was said and done, I now realize how foolish I was about rejecting some of those changes. They truly did improve the language in many ways that I wasn't able to grasp before without being exposed to C++ or similar languages. So I believe Marco Arment will eventually figure it out that the only way possible is forward, even if you don't like the changes and even if they truly suck.
So "people" have transferred their animosity to black people or hispanics. Do you live in a redneck community or what? As a hispanic I take offense on that kind of remark, to the point where it really brings down your whole argument about family values being lost. Thank god I live in a very tolerant society, where it doesn't matter if you are an italian, an arab or any other immigrant to be treated with respect and human dignity. After all, we all are immigrants in one way or another on this side of the planet.
As a long time owner of an AppleTV, I can say that both things can coexist. I would just get the cheapest package for local channels plus Discovery, etc. and then use the AppleTV for TV shows I really like and movies. Plus you can use the AppleTV for a lot more things, including using your TV to show pictures to your family and friends, enjoying youtube videos in a group setting, etc.
What you need to do is get a faster network. If you install one of those nifty 500 Mbps networks that use your home's electrical wiring, you can even stream HD content from that computer without noticing anything. I do it with a regular 100 Mbps network and have a 1 TB hard drive with a lot of movies that I transcode using Handbrake. Works wonders.
I don't know about you, but if you look real close about what Chrome is doing, even if you have that instant search feature turned off, the browser will redirect even full urls that you type down like www.something.com to google.com with some unique user id belonging to whatever cookie you have and then finally showing you the website. If that isn't a case to get paranoid I don't know what is.
This goes right to the point. I was raised with the notion that communist countries indoctrinated their people in any way possible, then I went to study in the US, and ranging from subjects like international relations to history in general, it was amazing to find out that there was always this attitude of USA number 1, or that the angle was somehow worked out, or if you watch history channel for instance, even something as remote as the Russian Japanese war of 1904, there is always some US reference embedded to it. It is a very subtle form of propaganda and very hard to detect it. It's like Apple marketing in a refined way:).
But all in all, I believe all governments try to push their agenda. The US is no different and even with that, to all my American friends, you still live in a great country. Live long enough somewhere else and you will realize how cool it still is, even if everybody keeps talking bs about it.
It's not a right-wing mindset. The guy does have a point. There is some weird stuff going on right now where people were trying to ban WiFi in schools because of health concerns. The same people were still happy to use cellphones it seems. There is a bunch of goofs pushing agendas over there without real scientific evidence and the problem is that sometimes they are making a lot of people believe in that crap. Kind of like that "aliens kidnapped me" mindset and a lot of people actually believing it.
Omg, I totally agree with you. A Canadian friend forwarded me some of the "fact sheets" about the whole WiFi issue that almost felt like you were dealing with the writings of an LSD junkie. It seems that superstition is taking a lot of people for a ride, at least in small towns in the British Columbia area.
Good to see good scientists speaking out against that crap.
Call it whatever you want, but we just got the first major malware outbreak in OS X recently after so many years. On the iPhone that is unheard of. Much as in the Windows world and the much hated Vista security system that kept asking you, do you want to do this, or allow that?, that security model is fail since regular users will start saying yes to everything and then end up with a problem. Call Apple what it is, an overpriced hardware/software company that likes to keep the lid closed, but as far as their products running trouble free in general, I will have to agree with the article. But hey, everybody is free to think whatever they want.
So in that sense we should also forbid the free flow of capital, natural resources, telecommunications and just live in our own separate tribes. Then war can make things better when said tribes have an issue because whoever loses gets assimilated or becomes slave labor. Yeah, it definitely is a better system.
He's aiming to secure the vote of the extreme right since he's in a bad shape for elections. Even the French Communist Party ranks rose from 7% to 15%, so the left in the form of the Front Gauche is poised to sweep the idiot out of power. This latest comment from him is just but a continuation of his crazy remarks that shows his desperation. The other infamous one is the "there are too many foreigners in France", especially ironic when his father immigrated to France himself from Turkey.
He did gain some points for handling the gunman crisis well, but not so much to overcome either Hollande or Melanchon on a second round of voting.
Just because you and a bunch of English/American people hate France doesn't mean everybody hates France. The guy who carried the attacks was pretty much targeting the Western world in any case, and in the case of Sarkozy, he's very afraid of losing the elections since the leftist candidate is going to win so he has started making crazy and racist comments.
Easy to say when war isn't knocking on your door. After suffering the majority of human losses in WW1 the French hardly wanted to go thru that again and have their cities destroyed in the process. Unless you are talking about Vietnam where the US pretty much did the same thing as the French.
In any case, their fighter jets have been a success story, especially the Mirage family. It seems they are going to get good contracts from now on from third world countries again based on the same premises that made the Mirage so good: low price, good quality and political independence. When the Rafales came out they were deemed too expensive.
The Russian retreat after victory? Borodino was a marginal victory and with Moscow, there was no such victory, the Russians burned the capital and left without fighting, then the Russian winter did the rest of the job. Say what you will of Napoleon, but it took all of Europe to bring him down. To me that guy is a major hero for kicking the ass of those puny and corrupt monarchs.
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I can almost quote you on this: "But calling the US government democratic is an extreme stretch. The candidates are severely restricted, the voting is largely rigged, and the main authority resides with the media who is not elected (not the President who has limited authority), and the Pentagon who is half appointed by the president and half by congress. It may become democratic one day, but right now it is mostly a plutocracy."
I disagree, we do have papers, just not standardized. At the most basic level you have the driver's license, which acts very much like a national id card. Try to get into a domestic commercial flight without one.
That would only make sense if the other people didn't have the same limitations as you. See what is so cool about playing FPS games on consoles is that there is a fair playing field, no guys who can see farther than others because of their nice video card, people that can use helicopters or jets better (Think Battlefield) because they have a joystick, and so on.
When you realize that both have the same chance and all you need is practice, you will see that playing Call of Duty or Battlefield can be one hell of an experience.
The more and more I read about this, I'm becoming convinced that Zuckerberg is definitely a genius. He goes to Harvard, a place with a lot of rich people and a big reputation, and outsmarts them by mere wits. Then goes to the holy grail of capitalism and outmaneuvers them. Even if he's called a douchebag and whatnot (lots of geeks fall into that category), you have to cheer for the nerd who succedeed.
You understand that every company, even if they don't go public, have shareholders? The only difference is that they decide who they make a partner. The only thing that is unfair to an investor is if they don't get their money's worth, be it with shares or profit.
The most valuable thing about going public isn't liquidity, it is the ability of shareholders to replace leadership when you have bad management. In a lot of privately-held companies that only happens after bankruptcy or heavy infighting. In either case it isn't a guarantee for the sucess of a company, since greed can also play a factor. Think of those cases where it was more profitable to sell a company in pieces instead of keeping the company afloat.
The discussion was about Google.com not Google Maps. As a European consider yourself in luck, at least you have several options, including viamichelin. Now in Latin America either Google Maps or Bing Maps or whatever are a mere toy somebody might use and nobody I know rely on them as Americans do with Google Maps, Mapquest, etc.
Having said that, about a couple of months ago I started testing Bing to see if I could replace Google search and I pretty much made the switch at this point. Not only it gives me the results I want but that background image they have everyday truly looks amazing. In my office I switched the default webpage from google to bing and I have been receiving praise just because of that background image. Silly I know.
After reading the article, I couldn't help but get the feeling of somebody whining about changes, like you know, people getting old. The reason I mention this is two-fold, I have been using the App Store quite extensively and I think it's a great idea to a big issue with Mac software, especially overseas, Mac software availability at retail stores. With the App Store I get an upgrade central which is very neat, kind of like Curse for World of Warcraft add-ons.
Now the other reason I see this as whining is because I learned how to program with Visual Basic 3, and everything was fine and dandy until VB6. When .NET arrived, the changes were so extensive that I felt it was a new language not worth learning, so I jumped shipped to the "holy grail" of programming at the time Java and C++. Recently I had to work on a VB.NET project, with the idea of either improving upon it or migrating it to something else. So after all was said and done, I now realize how foolish I was about rejecting some of those changes. They truly did improve the language in many ways that I wasn't able to grasp before without being exposed to C++ or similar languages. So I believe Marco Arment will eventually figure it out that the only way possible is forward, even if you don't like the changes and even if they truly suck.
So "people" have transferred their animosity to black people or hispanics. Do you live in a redneck community or what? As a hispanic I take offense on that kind of remark, to the point where it really brings down your whole argument about family values being lost. Thank god I live in a very tolerant society, where it doesn't matter if you are an italian, an arab or any other immigrant to be treated with respect and human dignity. After all, we all are immigrants in one way or another on this side of the planet.
As a long time owner of an AppleTV, I can say that both things can coexist. I would just get the cheapest package for local channels plus Discovery, etc. and then use the AppleTV for TV shows I really like and movies. Plus you can use the AppleTV for a lot more things, including using your TV to show pictures to your family and friends, enjoying youtube videos in a group setting, etc.
Exactly! He's just joining the long list of people who underestimated Apple and then regretted it.
What you need to do is get a faster network. If you install one of those nifty 500 Mbps networks that use your home's electrical wiring, you can even stream HD content from that computer without noticing anything. I do it with a regular 100 Mbps network and have a 1 TB hard drive with a lot of movies that I transcode using Handbrake. Works wonders.
And Jobs did say the the company wasn't about technology anymore and was just being run by a bunch of suits. Your comment was right on the spot.
I don't know about you, but if you look real close about what Chrome is doing, even if you have that instant search feature turned off, the browser will redirect even full urls that you type down like www.something.com to google.com with some unique user id belonging to whatever cookie you have and then finally showing you the website. If that isn't a case to get paranoid I don't know what is.
This goes right to the point. I was raised with the notion that communist countries indoctrinated their people in any way possible, then I went to study in the US, and ranging from subjects like international relations to history in general, it was amazing to find out that there was always this attitude of USA number 1, or that the angle was somehow worked out, or if you watch history channel for instance, even something as remote as the Russian Japanese war of 1904, there is always some US reference embedded to it. It is a very subtle form of propaganda and very hard to detect it. It's like Apple marketing in a refined way :).
But all in all, I believe all governments try to push their agenda. The US is no different and even with that, to all my American friends, you still live in a great country. Live long enough somewhere else and you will realize how cool it still is, even if everybody keeps talking bs about it.
It's not a right-wing mindset. The guy does have a point. There is some weird stuff going on right now where people were trying to ban WiFi in schools because of health concerns. The same people were still happy to use cellphones it seems. There is a bunch of goofs pushing agendas over there without real scientific evidence and the problem is that sometimes they are making a lot of people believe in that crap. Kind of like that "aliens kidnapped me" mindset and a lot of people actually believing it.
Omg, I totally agree with you. A Canadian friend forwarded me some of the "fact sheets" about the whole WiFi issue that almost felt like you were dealing with the writings of an LSD junkie. It seems that superstition is taking a lot of people for a ride, at least in small towns in the British Columbia area.
Good to see good scientists speaking out against that crap.
Call it whatever you want, but we just got the first major malware outbreak in OS X recently after so many years. On the iPhone that is unheard of. Much as in the Windows world and the much hated Vista security system that kept asking you, do you want to do this, or allow that?, that security model is fail since regular users will start saying yes to everything and then end up with a problem. Call Apple what it is, an overpriced hardware/software company that likes to keep the lid closed, but as far as their products running trouble free in general, I will have to agree with the article. But hey, everybody is free to think whatever they want.
So in that sense we should also forbid the free flow of capital, natural resources, telecommunications and just live in our own separate tribes. Then war can make things better when said tribes have an issue because whoever loses gets assimilated or becomes slave labor. Yeah, it definitely is a better system.
He's aiming to secure the vote of the extreme right since he's in a bad shape for elections. Even the French Communist Party ranks rose from 7% to 15%, so the left in the form of the Front Gauche is poised to sweep the idiot out of power. This latest comment from him is just but a continuation of his crazy remarks that shows his desperation. The other infamous one is the "there are too many foreigners in France", especially ironic when his father immigrated to France himself from Turkey.
He did gain some points for handling the gunman crisis well, but not so much to overcome either Hollande or Melanchon on a second round of voting.
Just because you and a bunch of English/American people hate France doesn't mean everybody hates France. The guy who carried the attacks was pretty much targeting the Western world in any case, and in the case of Sarkozy, he's very afraid of losing the elections since the leftist candidate is going to win so he has started making crazy and racist comments.
Easy to say when war isn't knocking on your door. After suffering the majority of human losses in WW1 the French hardly wanted to go thru that again and have their cities destroyed in the process. Unless you are talking about Vietnam where the US pretty much did the same thing as the French.
In any case, their fighter jets have been a success story, especially the Mirage family. It seems they are going to get good contracts from now on from third world countries again based on the same premises that made the Mirage so good: low price, good quality and political independence. When the Rafales came out they were deemed too expensive.
The Russian retreat after victory? Borodino was a marginal victory and with Moscow, there was no such victory, the Russians burned the capital and left without fighting, then the Russian winter did the rest of the job. Say what you will of Napoleon, but it took all of Europe to bring him down. To me that guy is a major hero for kicking the ass of those puny and corrupt monarchs.
That's my point, it's like getting a link to RT. Media that you know it's going to be heavily biased.
It would be great if Slashdot could link to ANY news media outlet other than Fox News. With them you always have to do defensive reading.
Go to France. Labor laws in there are incredible. It actually makes you feel like you landed in a different planet.