Google provides the answer: "For inspiration, the first thing I did was go to the supermarket, buy a bag of apples and slice them up. I just stared at the wedges for hours," recalls Janoff. The fruit of his labor: a simple 2-D monochromatic apple, with a healthy bite taken from the right side. Jobs loved the conceit-only he suggested it be more colorful. Janoff's boss disagreed, insisting the logo be made all black to save on printing costs. "But Jobs was resolute, arguing that color was the key to humanizing the company," says Janoff. "So I just put colors where I thought they should be, not even thinking about a prism."
I still can't quite wrap my head around the concept that a country in Europe has literal thought police that put someone in jail for THREE YEARS.
It's not thought police, it's speech police. Irving wasn't convicted for "thinking the wrong thoughts" -- he was convicted for spreading antisemitist propaganda -- not his thoughts, not even his books but a lecture he gave (to a group of neo-nazis, as I've read) in Austria. The fact that Austria has such strict laws concerning the Nazi era obviously means they have problems with this. Not with people thinking the "wrong" thoughts (I don't think most of them are even capable of critical thought) but people actively trying to realize these thoughts.
Let's see. Your comment was modded redundant. This could mean that there's no point in asking this question, as Ferguson is going to die soon. At the same time, however, it could also mean "He's not going to die! Stop asking these stupid questions!" So I really don't know whether he is going to die soon or not. The information you (and the mods) have provided me with is insufficient to determine the this. Sorry.
and Joseph Stalin declares that gulags are good for political opponents.
Actually, Stalin would have his opponents declare that the Gulag was good for them. I think the RIAA could take a lesson from this and a) have consumers publicly state that the broadcast flag is good for them and has led to a "drastically improved listening experience", b) have some people voluntarily turn in their non-compliant hardware (or turn themselves in as filesharers), or c) surrender to the French.
... and in any event, what hype is it that we're talking about here ?
To a fanboy, the "conspicious" silence says more than a large advertising campaign ("Out Soon!" "Behold!" "Prepare To See Things You've Never Seen Before!") ever could. It's sort of like some conspiracy theories: Apple's not telling anyone anything (yet) or hyping anything, therefore they must be hiding something.
There are books that I use a lot, and would recommend to others, yet I don't necessarily rate them all that high. Heck, I'd probably even review them on Slashdot, if I found them suitable for this site (which I don't). Yet I wouldn't score them higher than, say, four out of ten. Or maybe three. What I would do is, I'd point out the absolutely brilliant bit that made the book worth its price for me, and explain that it's really worth it, even though the rest of it is crap. But I'd never give it 8 out of 10 just because that one part was "just brilliant".
where would GAIM be without MSN,ICQ/AIM, and all the other important chat networks
Err, if MSN, AIM and others didn't exist, don't you think Gaim would sort of lose its purpose?
Besides, you're totally missing my point here. What I'm trying to say is (and what Larry Ellison also seems to be trying to say is), there's no such thing as a free lunch. Even Open Source projects cost something. And while it is possible to support smaller projects (like Gaim or Debian) by means of donations only, it's hardly possible when things get big.
Of course it's also the other way around: big businesses -- Microsoft, perhaps, excluded -- need Open Source. But that's already a completely different story.
In the blurb, it reads:...and denied that Oracle's recent open source acquisitions were designed to harm its rival, whereas the link (also in the Related Links bar) to the article itself reads Oracle's recent open source acquisitions were designed to harm its rival. Nice editorializing, mate.
Pardon my cynicism, but on the internet, and especially on sites with more or less anonymous commenting, you can claim to be anyone and get away with it, because everyone will just take your words for granted. So I find that I have reason to doubt the AC's claims of being Chinese. Yet I still find it rather ironic that he got modded down for telling the truth: most of the people commenting here don't actually know a shit about what's really going on in China -- or in any other foreign country, for that matter.
Why is the European president talking about taking over the American market?
You're totally missing the bigger picture here. Obviously, the man knows something you don't: that in six months, Europe will take over America. So it's perfectly logical that Microsoft's European president will be taking over Ballmer's job.
If no one reports it, then soon no one will be aware of it happening.
Good point. But there's always the threat that if it's reported as a "possible threat to privacy" too often, people will/might stop perceiving it as a threat and only shrug slightly when they see yet another "horror story" and forget about it.
What in the fuck does that have to do with a REAL NEWS STORY that yes, has been reported here and other places before, have to do with your retort.
Oh, nothing, except for the fact that it has been reported on Slashdot so many times already that it's hardly news! In fact, it's been reported so many times that posting yet another story on the same subject is already beginning to resemble the story of the boy crying wolf. And all that comes out of this is idiots (like you and me) flaming each other over things that have been discussed so many times before. Now, do you think they really care about this issue? The odds are that some of them do, but most of the readers will simply forget about it in 3...2...1...forgotten.
Oh, for Christ's sake, michael!
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You know, michael, you're beating a dead horse down the road. Hell, you even admit it yourself -- and then you still have to post another story on the subject, just to inform everyone that "you called it first". I mean, it's not as if this topic hasn't been discussed on Slashdot thousands of times before. Again and again, someone reports of the "terrible news" that new cars are being fitted with black boxes.
And now, i can already see the flamewars erupting all over again. Some people crying out "1984!" and others saying that the first are stupid. It's nothing new. Neither is this story. Was it really necessary to report this? Do we really have to go through these flames all over again, if they will not add anything new to the story anyway?
The Titanic was also supposed to have been perfectly safe, even practically indestructible. And yet all it took was a single iceberg. The moral being that nothing is "perfectly safe".
Now, as for nuclear plants: do you really think noone has ever considered the possibility of an attempt to blow up a nuclear plant? Well, maybe noone has and they really have been completely unguarded until recently, but I don't buy it. I'm quite sure they were possible targets for Soviet saboteurs; surely the US and European governments thought of this. And yet they still built those plants. Why would the current situation be any different?
Well, the fact that beer bubbles sink was actually already known thousand of years ago. But it has to be "re-discovered" in every two years or so, otherwise the world would come to an end. And reporting this "discovery" in media is just a part of the ritual.
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Google provides the answer: "For inspiration, the first thing I did was go to the supermarket, buy a bag of apples and slice them up. I just stared at the wedges for hours," recalls Janoff. The fruit of his labor: a simple 2-D monochromatic apple, with a healthy bite taken from the right side. Jobs loved the conceit-only he suggested it be more colorful. Janoff's boss disagreed, insisting the logo be made all black to save on printing costs. "But Jobs was resolute, arguing that color was the key to humanizing the company," says Janoff. "So I just put colors where I thought they should be, not even thinking about a prism."
It's not thought police, it's speech police. Irving wasn't convicted for "thinking the wrong thoughts" -- he was convicted for spreading antisemitist propaganda -- not his thoughts, not even his books but a lecture he gave (to a group of neo-nazis, as I've read) in Austria. The fact that Austria has such strict laws concerning the Nazi era obviously means they have problems with this. Not with people thinking the "wrong" thoughts (I don't think most of them are even capable of critical thought) but people actively trying to realize these thoughts.
I wonder if they'll sue the cracker?
Let's see. Your comment was modded redundant. This could mean that there's no point in asking this question, as Ferguson is going to die soon. At the same time, however, it could also mean "He's not going to die! Stop asking these stupid questions!" So I really don't know whether he is going to die soon or not. The information you (and the mods) have provided me with is insufficient to determine the this. Sorry.
Actually, Stalin would have his opponents declare that the Gulag was good for them. I think the RIAA could take a lesson from this and a) have consumers publicly state that the broadcast flag is good for them and has led to a "drastically improved listening experience", b) have some people voluntarily turn in their non-compliant hardware (or turn themselves in as filesharers), or c) surrender to the French.
To a fanboy, the "conspicious" silence says more than a large advertising campaign ("Out Soon!" "Behold!" "Prepare To See Things You've Never Seen Before!") ever could. It's sort of like some conspiracy theories: Apple's not telling anyone anything (yet) or hyping anything, therefore they must be hiding something.
There are books that I use a lot, and would recommend to others, yet I don't necessarily rate them all that high. Heck, I'd probably even review them on Slashdot, if I found them suitable for this site (which I don't). Yet I wouldn't score them higher than, say, four out of ten. Or maybe three. What I would do is, I'd point out the absolutely brilliant bit that made the book worth its price for me, and explain that it's really worth it, even though the rest of it is crap. But I'd never give it 8 out of 10 just because that one part was "just brilliant".
How come the books reviewed here are always rated 8, 9, or 10? Some of them must surely be shittier than that.
George W. Bush owns an iPod Shuffle. Coincidence? I think not.
Eh?
Err, if MSN, AIM and others didn't exist, don't you think Gaim would sort of lose its purpose?
Besides, you're totally missing my point here. What I'm trying to say is (and what Larry Ellison also seems to be trying to say is), there's no such thing as a free lunch. Even Open Source projects cost something. And while it is possible to support smaller projects (like Gaim or Debian) by means of donations only, it's hardly possible when things get big.
Of course it's also the other way around: big businesses -- Microsoft, perhaps, excluded -- need Open Source. But that's already a completely different story.
Where would Debian be without IBM (and other companies) supporting Linux kernel development?
In the blurb, it reads: ...and denied that Oracle's recent open source acquisitions were designed to harm its rival, whereas the link (also in the Related Links bar) to the article itself reads Oracle's recent open source acquisitions were designed to harm its rival. Nice editorializing, mate.
Pardon my cynicism, but on the internet, and especially on sites with more or less anonymous commenting, you can claim to be anyone and get away with it, because everyone will just take your words for granted. So I find that I have reason to doubt the AC's claims of being Chinese. Yet I still find it rather ironic that he got modded down for telling the truth: most of the people commenting here don't actually know a shit about what's really going on in China -- or in any other foreign country, for that matter.
Actually, no. We don't believe anything we hear, but we do believe everything we see or read, including your comment.
You're totally missing the bigger picture here. Obviously, the man knows something you don't: that in six months, Europe will take over America. So it's perfectly logical that Microsoft's European president will be taking over Ballmer's job.
Good point. But there's always the threat that if it's reported as a "possible threat to privacy" too often, people will/might stop perceiving it as a threat and only shrug slightly when they see yet another "horror story" and forget about it.
Oh, nothing, except for the fact that it has been reported on Slashdot so many times already that it's hardly news! In fact, it's been reported so many times that posting yet another story on the same subject is already beginning to resemble the story of the boy crying wolf. And all that comes out of this is idiots (like you and me) flaming each other over things that have been discussed so many times before. Now, do you think they really care about this issue? The odds are that some of them do, but most of the readers will simply forget about it in 3...2...1...forgotten.
And now, i can already see the flamewars erupting all over again. Some people crying out "1984!" and others saying that the first are stupid. It's nothing new. Neither is this story. Was it really necessary to report this? Do we really have to go through these flames all over again, if they will not add anything new to the story anyway?
Does this mean that for "Windows users", Tux will be replaced with Tinky-Winky?
Yeah! Roadmaps are for sheep! Real Men pretend to know where they're going!
Now, as for nuclear plants: do you really think noone has ever considered the possibility of an attempt to blow up a nuclear plant? Well, maybe noone has and they really have been completely unguarded until recently, but I don't buy it. I'm quite sure they were possible targets for Soviet saboteurs; surely the US and European governments thought of this. And yet they still built those plants. Why would the current situation be any different?
That'd be the Boss level.
Well, the fact that beer bubbles sink was actually already known thousand of years ago. But it has to be "re-discovered" in every two years or so, otherwise the world would come to an end. And reporting this "discovery" in media is just a part of the ritual.