The poor pay proportionally 12 times as much of their income on compliance, making this a very regressive system.
And yet we continue to allow Jackson Hewitt, H&R Block, Liberty Tax, et. al. to dupe them with prep fees, Refund Anticipation Loans (RAL), Refund Anticipation Check (RAC) and other stupid products.
Paying somebody to prepare a 1040EZ is extremely ignorant. I'd like to see George Soros or somebody with some cash fund a media campaign telling people to save their money and do the EZ themselves with direct deposit.
From what I could tell, the prep fee alone is $39 for a 1040EZ at H&R Block and $29 for a state income tax return, before being upsold a RAC or RAL. Got a mortgage? The price goes up. The IRS could probably garner less hate if we regulated the retail Tax Prep industry more closely, and educated people with a media campaign. Ridiculous.
For that matter, there should probably be another level of simplified 1040EE to catch the next most common group of complications that are beyond an EZ.
It will take years to optimize HTML5 to something comparable to Flash.
Why? The Flash Player has over a decade of poor design decisions in SWF, bug-for-bug reproduction, etc, that it has to keep backward compatibility with. HTML5 canvas gets a nice fresh start having (hopefully) learned those lessons. IMHO, you'll see a lot of work with phenomenal improvements optimizing the runtimes, just like we saw with Javascript, in a quick surge. A lot of the same engineers who did did the magic on javascript are working on the HTML5 canvas implementations.
I don't think Flash game dev's will move to HTML5 in 5 or 8 years. Flash will still be more interesting.
I think that depends on whether Adobe makes the judgment call as to whether its more important to keep their Flash tools on top or not. If they conclude that the future is HTML5, they will bring their Flash/Flex/Air dev tools to be first class development environments for targeting HTML5 canvas; rather than being marginalized and losing their market share to a competitor in web animation authoring. Or perhaps they'll choose to compete on the platform itself, so they can own it. Time will tell.
Owning the APIs has proven time after time to be where the money is at. Microsoft has written that in stone. If there's one thing Steve Jobs, et. al. have learned, is: don't sit on your ass and let somebody else run away with your golden goose. They let Microsoft run away with it once. So did IBM. Which is why he gets it, the lesson is learned - if you let another platform take over your device, you lose any control over the quality of the experience.
You go on about 'we're developers we just want to provide a tool'. Do you really trust your non-developer (maybe you forget once upon a time, Jobs wrote software too) executives at Adobe don't get the power they have to mint money with their platform? To open their own open app store? To begin to charge a per-end-user licensing fee for the next version of the flash compiler for the iphone, once its indispensible?
Let's look at the facts. There's tons and tons of people out there that have some Flash experience and some with actual professional training, and lots without either that can manage to produce something with Flash. Let's call these Flash people "flashies". I'm not comfortable calling them developers, programmers or coders, out of respect to the people that really are. Some very well may be, but if we're going to draw a Venn diagram of Flashies, we all know that's a fairly small percentage of the set that gets to overlap into Software Engineer or Developer. I'm taking the middle road, nothing derogatory.
So these Flashies are out there; they can pound out some moving pictures and stitch it together to do something. Great. See what's happened in Android? You've got a load of crap out there. Steve doesn't like a load of crap. He's trying to do something different than the load of crap permeating the Microsoft ecosystem.
Also, I really appreciate your remarks about how open the Adobe culture is, when obivously your boss said, edit that shit on your blog right now, even if you did say, its' my own personal opinion.
So you are the SWF evangelist. You have drunk the SWF kool-aid. I suppose I might have drunk the Tim Berners-Lee kool-aid. Your platform is not an open standard. Nobody has to give it due respect just because the tools are easy to get started on. Just like some people are visual learners, some are visual Flashies. Cool, y'all seem to have developed a tool to target SWF whether a Flashie is visual, ore more technical. That's neat. You're tools are pretty cool. It would be cooler if you'd open your format up. I know, that would allow competitors an even keel to compete with you on your tools, but hey, that's better for Flashies.
You aren't just buildling the tools. You are selling a proprietary platform too. So is Apple. A lot of their code is open source, and free software at that. And a lot of it isn't. They are competing against RIM & Microsoft and Google for all the marbles right now. Adobe is on all of their radars now as coming hard after the platform. You don't think the Adobe executives let the Flash team go and spend all that development time on the compiler out of the goodness of their hearts, or because it would be paid for by selling the tools to developers. No, there's a lot more craft in the economics of that business decision.
Also, you guys could be bought by Microsoft or Google tomorrow or two years from now, and really fuck Apple in the ass. The scenario: lots of great killer apps are running on your SDK for the iPhone, the apple sdk is no longer in the mindshare of developers... then Microsoft or Google, hai, we bought it, dead now. *poof* the app marketplace is disrupted and the platform dies. Your market cap of $20 billion dollars is fuck you money to those guys. Sorry.
Yeah, when there's this much money involved, and the dynamics are such: it's happened before and it will happen again. All the strategy thinkers at Adobe, Apple, RIM, Google, and Microsoft have learned the lessons from mistakes made by Apple and IBM in launching, and letting platform be marginalized or wrested by a thir
I propose that we cease our never-ending war on drugs, quit policing the world, and drop our silly security theater in airports and plow the billions we spend there into medical research.
Meh. Enough already with the medical research. There's plenty of market incentive there as it is. Let's spend it on physics research, where globalization has really cut back massively on research dollars by private firms.
And wired.com posted the microsoft document in its entirety in a piece on this situation... nice legs on this. Not having their PR department ready with a release on it also points to it being a flubbed operation by their contractor.
Did this make it up to the chain to their General Counsel? I'd think this would be noteworthy enough to make for at least a few minutes with Brad Smith before they go strong-arming Cryptome.
That it comes from their outsourced piracy protection people smells like they did not.
I mean are they really wanting to make precedent out of it? You would think Microsoft would presume that Cryptome and the EFF, etc., would fight the DMCA being used in this way.
I have to conclude that the contractor acted above their pay grade on this one...
Because its supposed to be a progressive tax system. That's why you get the standard deduction, tax credits, deductions for head of household and other things.
You decided to be philanthropic and not keep part of your wages? Then you don't have to pay income tax on that - just on your "net income" (ok tax nerds: adjusted gross income). That is why we have all these deductions for things where you aren't keeping your wages... including unreimbursed business expenses, medical insurance premiums, other taxes paid, etc.
No, its not a religion thing.
Since it doesn't allow you to distinguish between "work friends" and "party friends" and "closet friends"
What you want is compartmentalization of your life. In the days of old, this wasn't so much expected, but these days it is.
May I suggest that some of you that see things this way might have a multiple personality disorder?
And what is a "closet" friend? I'd take that as a misspelling, but somehow I wonder if you don't somehow mean, "friends that I don't want my other friends to know about".
We've proven that the people are by and large too stupid to have complete control over their "PC" in a networked environment. So, why not have a managed thin client instead of a desktop? Anywhere that the unit is captive to an enterprise / office / school, F the "PC" model. It's done. Waste of power to run. Waste of resources to build each unit. Waste of money to manage and troubleshoot the 'workstations'. I laughed the first time I heard a "PC" called a workstation. The fad is coming to an end.
Of course, developers and bastards like me will continue on using our UNIX however we see fit, whereever we see fit. UNIX on a fast laptop...how about that? Hell. UNIX on a phone? (the iPhone)
I've had great results with Brother's printers. Postscript, good driver support, etc. etc.
Also, the ones with wireless are pretty handy too. Ethernet for cheap, and decent consumables, both offbrand and onbrand.
e.g. HL-5370DW PCL, Postscript clone, duplex, straight paper path (cardstock!), wireless 11g, ethernet & usb. Paper trays available. $249 USD
Also, total MFC with Fax, flatbed: MFC-8890DW $499 and down.
Slashdotters in Austin: Join Your ACLU Chapter
The Central Texas Chapter of the ACLU works with the police department to correct issues.
I'm sure the chapter president there is already calling to express her objections.
Right, because obviously the ultimate evolution of computer languages for all time is C and C++. There's never any need to further innovate that technology whatsoever.
Are you @#$@ kidding? It wasn't that funny.
I take issue with the assertion that nobody ever caught on with it. GNUStep? NeXT has been around for something like 15 years in industry now. EDS and others used it. Ross Perot was so impressed he invested in it and because a director at NeXT. It has a very feature rich set of frameworks associated with it, depending on your OS deployment. The only thing that sucks is Apple dropping OPENSTEP / Obj-C for Windows. But Steve didn't care about the enterprise market anymore at the time, and it might have eroded some mac hardware sales, and you couldn't very well charge a license for it. (I disagree, I think you could and can)
Yes, but trying to be an expert on computing without using, or believe in, the web is a bit like trying to be an automotive expert who doesn't use or believe in roads. Yes you can have a car which never goes on roads, and the automotive insight of someone who doesn't use roads can be applicable, but if you don't use your car the way everyone else does, then you're very likely to be out of touch with how everyone else views cars. Same with RMS and computing.
Simply put, there is a LOT more to computing than the web. It's really not the most important thing going in computing, intellectually. It does have impact, but the issues RMS champions are the same with or without the web, and predate the web. They are much more foundational than your browsing experience of The Smoking Gun, Fark & TMZ.
I remember panning the GUI web browser as a toy too. Hell, I panned this website as a piss poor replacement for FirstClass & the like. I didn't use a web browser hardly at all until I took a software development job at a "new media" firm. Kinda had to get familiar with it =P
Why are we even arguing all of this, RMS is a raving nutter, and he's just getting nuttier. He is, at the very least paranoid, seeing absolutely everything as the beginning of the end and the thin edge of the wedge. The fact that he's the most vocal advocate of open source is a tragedy for the whole movement. The GNU suite of software is very good, but put RMS in the back room and lock the door, let him code and keep him away from people like the rest of the dungeon nerds.
He just expects you to actually think when communicating or listening. I know, it's naive and idealistic of him. But it is very optimistic!
I don't really use it anymore, but I have a TRS-80 Model IV and it works. I haven't used the modem in a long time. That's only about 26 years old though.
The PowerBook 165c also works, and that's from 1993, making it 16 years old. Bonus for the SCSI ethernet adapter.
Trade Anonymity for security? The very idea sounds like trading liberty for security. Not everyone lives in a free-ish country.
Anonymity is key for using the internet in the promulgation of freedom. The democratic nature of its communications is not the 'killer app' as classically defined, but it is the paradigm shift that comes along for the ride as national telecoms shifted to ubiquitous IP transport for POTS.
I'll take my spam and the other bullshit as the cost of this breakthrough. I'm not interested in a effective online network to pay my bills, or wank my thang as a fat westerner who has the right to disagree with their government already. Besides, there's plenty of efficient software to deal with this issue.
Now, if a government/conspiracy/interest group wanted to end net neutrality and free speech of the internet, I'd start going after the software that lets us effectively deal with the chaff, like BrightMail, and other AV/Anti-Phish research in general.
That all being said, whatever they TRY to engineer, it will break down in the end. It's like DRM, we can beat it, it would just be an arms race, and a complete waste of resources. Such reinvention that seeks the promise of 100% security will just serve to further criminalize those who need their anonymity to pursue their free speech rights. And require more technical expertise to successfully execute.
David Akin: If you build a new Internet and you want me to get a license to drive on it, sorry. I'm hanging out here in v.1."
Really David? you think that various forces wouldn't shut down v.1, not especially quick in non-free regions? Those people understand what a threat free mass communication is to their stranglehold on power. THAT is their business.
"It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs.
And:
The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce, assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left struggling to put closed captions on online videos.
And finally...
Another White House official whose transition cellphone was disconnected left a message temporarily referring callers to his wife's phone.
I'm confounded that the Presidential Transition Office staff wouldn't take their resources, hardware, servers, etc with them. Transition staff with disconnected cell phones? Come on. The Transition is about getting a running start on the EOP. What an opportunity to refresh and innovate your network services. Hopefully not a problem of private donations to government ethics or such. I guess its more likely a question of not stepping on existing government staff toes.
remember the entire premise of Microsoft in the beginning was based on was to avoid the 'timesharing charges and have your own computer'...
Oh hell yeah. You cut right to the truth of it. In this case, the market will rule the day.
As unlikely as it ever seemed, they could actually do themselves in with this rental model and hand it over to a competitor, or the anti-competitor, GNU.
Unless of course MS sues the shit out of everyone for violating their inanely obvious software patents portfolio. Including the patents they have cross-licensing benfits for. Oh yeah, those cross-licensing terms that allowed Microsoft to defend your patent for you? That's what the terms in the contract are for.
In that respect its the inverse of thoughtful, society-benefitting government regulation. It would be government protection of a monopoly predicated on the abuse of our patent system.
however, these guys can actually say this sort of thing with a straight face: "probably a stray gamma ray"
Does the old routine of 'hmm' walk over to the right side of the building, look out the window, squinting hard for 15 seconds, and simply saying 'damn sunspots' not work anymore?
Can anyone quantify and define an S3 object? How is that different than a file? Wouldn't it be useful to report the amount of storage used... I donut care that two users have 2 billion objects of 4 different image views of their online catalog:P
The CTO title implies that the position comes with delegated authority from the president and is in charge of a federal information technology agency. Yes on advisory role. Maybe the point is that the federal agency appointees aren't equipped to make their own technology decisions. Not that they would be made without consultation.
This is an offensive psuedo-criminal abuse of civil torts.
I suppose we have more of this to look forward to with the new Intellectual Property Enforcement Bill passed in the US under the cover of our financial crisis.
I blame Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for colluding with the Bush Administration on this one. Such legislation with sweeping chilling effects deserved its own time for debate and public outrage.
Jason Jones & crew have more talent in their foreskin than any of these yahoos at Microsoft & Ensemble have in their whole brain.
All hail the new independent Bungie. Game on.
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And yet we continue to allow Jackson Hewitt, H&R Block, Liberty Tax, et. al. to dupe them with prep fees, Refund Anticipation Loans (RAL), Refund Anticipation Check (RAC) and other stupid products.
Paying somebody to prepare a 1040EZ is extremely ignorant. I'd like to see George Soros or somebody with some cash fund a media campaign telling people to save their money and do the EZ themselves with direct deposit.
From what I could tell, the prep fee alone is $39 for a 1040EZ at H&R Block and $29 for a state income tax return, before being upsold a RAC or RAL. Got a mortgage? The price goes up. The IRS could probably garner less hate if we regulated the retail Tax Prep industry more closely, and educated people with a media campaign. Ridiculous.
For that matter, there should probably be another level of simplified 1040EE to catch the next most common group of complications that are beyond an EZ.
Fine, I'll lobby for it.
Why? The Flash Player has over a decade of poor design decisions in SWF, bug-for-bug reproduction, etc, that it has to keep backward compatibility with. HTML5 canvas gets a nice fresh start having (hopefully) learned those lessons. IMHO, you'll see a lot of work with phenomenal improvements optimizing the runtimes, just like we saw with Javascript, in a quick surge. A lot of the same engineers who did did the magic on javascript are working on the HTML5 canvas implementations.
I think that depends on whether Adobe makes the judgment call as to whether its more important to keep their Flash tools on top or not. If they conclude that the future is HTML5, they will bring their Flash/Flex/Air dev tools to be first class development environments for targeting HTML5 canvas; rather than being marginalized and losing their market share to a competitor in web animation authoring. Or perhaps they'll choose to compete on the platform itself, so they can own it. Time will tell.
Owning the APIs has proven time after time to be where the money is at. Microsoft has written that in stone. If there's one thing Steve Jobs, et. al. have learned, is: don't sit on your ass and let somebody else run away with your golden goose. They let Microsoft run away with it once. So did IBM. Which is why he gets it, the lesson is learned - if you let another platform take over your device, you lose any control over the quality of the experience.
You go on about 'we're developers we just want to provide a tool'. Do you really trust your non-developer (maybe you forget once upon a time, Jobs wrote software too) executives at Adobe don't get the power they have to mint money with their platform? To open their own open app store? To begin to charge a per-end-user licensing fee for the next version of the flash compiler for the iphone, once its indispensible?
Let's look at the facts. There's tons and tons of people out there that have some Flash experience and some with actual professional training, and lots without either that can manage to produce something with Flash. Let's call these Flash people "flashies". I'm not comfortable calling them developers, programmers or coders, out of respect to the people that really are. Some very well may be, but if we're going to draw a Venn diagram of Flashies, we all know that's a fairly small percentage of the set that gets to overlap into Software Engineer or Developer. I'm taking the middle road, nothing derogatory.
So these Flashies are out there; they can pound out some moving pictures and stitch it together to do something. Great. See what's happened in Android? You've got a load of crap out there. Steve doesn't like a load of crap. He's trying to do something different than the load of crap permeating the Microsoft ecosystem.
Also, I really appreciate your remarks about how open the Adobe culture is, when obivously your boss said, edit that shit on your blog right now, even if you did say, its' my own personal opinion.
So you are the SWF evangelist. You have drunk the SWF kool-aid. I suppose I might have drunk the Tim Berners-Lee kool-aid. Your platform is not an open standard. Nobody has to give it due respect just because the tools are easy to get started on. Just like some people are visual learners, some are visual Flashies. Cool, y'all seem to have developed a tool to target SWF whether a Flashie is visual, ore more technical. That's neat. You're tools are pretty cool. It would be cooler if you'd open your format up. I know, that would allow competitors an even keel to compete with you on your tools, but hey, that's better for Flashies.
You aren't just buildling the tools. You are selling a proprietary platform too. So is Apple. A lot of their code is open source, and free software at that. And a lot of it isn't. They are competing against RIM & Microsoft and Google for all the marbles right now. Adobe is on all of their radars now as coming hard after the platform. You don't think the Adobe executives let the Flash team go and spend all that development time on the compiler out of the goodness of their hearts, or because it would be paid for by selling the tools to developers. No, there's a lot more craft in the economics of that business decision.
Also, you guys could be bought by Microsoft or Google tomorrow or two years from now, and really fuck Apple in the ass. The scenario: lots of great killer apps are running on your SDK for the iPhone, the apple sdk is no longer in the mindshare of developers... then Microsoft or Google, hai, we bought it, dead now. *poof* the app marketplace is disrupted and the platform dies. Your market cap of $20 billion dollars is fuck you money to those guys. Sorry.
Yeah, when there's this much money involved, and the dynamics are such: it's happened before and it will happen again. All the strategy thinkers at Adobe, Apple, RIM, Google, and Microsoft have learned the lessons from mistakes made by Apple and IBM in launching, and letting platform be marginalized or wrested by a thir
Meh. Enough already with the medical research. There's plenty of market incentive there as it is. Let's spend it on physics research, where globalization has really cut back massively on research dollars by private firms.
And wired.com posted the microsoft document in its entirety in a piece on this situation... nice legs on this. Not having their PR department ready with a release on it also points to it being a flubbed operation by their contractor.
Did this make it up to the chain to their General Counsel? I'd think this would be noteworthy enough to make for at least a few minutes with Brad Smith before they go strong-arming Cryptome.
That it comes from their outsourced piracy protection people smells like they did not.
I mean are they really wanting to make precedent out of it? You would think Microsoft would presume that Cryptome and the EFF, etc., would fight the DMCA being used in this way.
I have to conclude that the contractor acted above their pay grade on this one...
Because its supposed to be a progressive tax system. That's why you get the standard deduction, tax credits, deductions for head of household and other things. You decided to be philanthropic and not keep part of your wages? Then you don't have to pay income tax on that - just on your "net income" (ok tax nerds: adjusted gross income). That is why we have all these deductions for things where you aren't keeping your wages... including unreimbursed business expenses, medical insurance premiums, other taxes paid, etc. No, its not a religion thing.
May I suggest that some of you that see things this way might have a multiple personality disorder?
And what is a "closet" friend? I'd take that as a misspelling, but somehow I wonder if you don't somehow mean, "friends that I don't want my other friends to know about".
We've proven that the people are by and large too stupid to have complete control over their "PC" in a networked environment. So, why not have a managed thin client instead of a desktop? Anywhere that the unit is captive to an enterprise / office / school, F the "PC" model. It's done. Waste of power to run. Waste of resources to build each unit. Waste of money to manage and troubleshoot the 'workstations'. I laughed the first time I heard a "PC" called a workstation. The fad is coming to an end.
Of course, developers and bastards like me will continue on using our UNIX however we see fit, whereever we see fit. UNIX on a fast laptop...how about that? Hell. UNIX on a phone? (the iPhone)
I've had great results with Brother's printers. Postscript, good driver support, etc. etc. Also, the ones with wireless are pretty handy too. Ethernet for cheap, and decent consumables, both offbrand and onbrand. e.g. HL-5370DW PCL, Postscript clone, duplex, straight paper path (cardstock!), wireless 11g, ethernet & usb. Paper trays available. $249 USD Also, total MFC with Fax, flatbed: MFC-8890DW $499 and down.
Slashdotters in Austin: Join Your ACLU Chapter The Central Texas Chapter of the ACLU works with the police department to correct issues. I'm sure the chapter president there is already calling to express her objections.
Right, because obviously the ultimate evolution of computer languages for all time is C and C++. There's never any need to further innovate that technology whatsoever.
Are you @#$@ kidding? It wasn't that funny.
I take issue with the assertion that nobody ever caught on with it. GNUStep? NeXT has been around for something like 15 years in industry now. EDS and others used it. Ross Perot was so impressed he invested in it and because a director at NeXT. It has a very feature rich set of frameworks associated with it, depending on your OS deployment. The only thing that sucks is Apple dropping OPENSTEP / Obj-C for Windows. But Steve didn't care about the enterprise market anymore at the time, and it might have eroded some mac hardware sales, and you couldn't very well charge a license for it. (I disagree, I think you could and can)
Simply put, there is a LOT more to computing than the web. It's really not the most important thing going in computing, intellectually. It does have impact, but the issues RMS champions are the same with or without the web, and predate the web. They are much more foundational than your browsing experience of The Smoking Gun, Fark & TMZ.
I remember panning the GUI web browser as a toy too. Hell, I panned this website as a piss poor replacement for FirstClass & the like. I didn't use a web browser hardly at all until I took a software development job at a "new media" firm. Kinda had to get familiar with it =P
He just expects you to actually think when communicating or listening. I know, it's naive and idealistic of him. But it is very optimistic!
I don't really use it anymore, but I have a TRS-80 Model IV and it works. I haven't used the modem in a long time. That's only about 26 years old though. The PowerBook 165c also works, and that's from 1993, making it 16 years old. Bonus for the SCSI ethernet adapter.
Trade Anonymity for security? The very idea sounds like trading liberty for security. Not everyone lives in a free-ish country.
Anonymity is key for using the internet in the promulgation of freedom. The democratic nature of its communications is not the 'killer app' as classically defined, but it is the paradigm shift that comes along for the ride as national telecoms shifted to ubiquitous IP transport for POTS.
I'll take my spam and the other bullshit as the cost of this breakthrough. I'm not interested in a effective online network to pay my bills, or wank my thang as a fat westerner who has the right to disagree with their government already. Besides, there's plenty of efficient software to deal with this issue.
Now, if a government/conspiracy/interest group wanted to end net neutrality and free speech of the internet, I'd start going after the software that lets us effectively deal with the chaff, like BrightMail, and other AV/Anti-Phish research in general.
That all being said, whatever they TRY to engineer, it will break down in the end. It's like DRM, we can beat it, it would just be an arms race, and a complete waste of resources. Such reinvention that seeks the promise of 100% security will just serve to further criminalize those who need their anonymity to pursue their free speech rights. And require more technical expertise to successfully execute.
Really David? you think that various forces wouldn't shut down v.1, not especially quick in non-free regions? Those people understand what a threat free mass communication is to their stranglehold on power. THAT is their business.
I'm confounded that the Presidential Transition Office staff wouldn't take their resources, hardware, servers, etc with them. Transition staff with disconnected cell phones? Come on. The Transition is about getting a running start on the EOP. What an opportunity to refresh and innovate your network services. Hopefully not a problem of private donations to government ethics or such. I guess its more likely a question of not stepping on existing government staff toes.
Oh hell yeah. You cut right to the truth of it. In this case, the market will rule the day.
As unlikely as it ever seemed, they could actually do themselves in with this rental model and hand it over to a competitor, or the anti-competitor, GNU.
Unless of course MS sues the shit out of everyone for violating their inanely obvious software patents portfolio. Including the patents they have cross-licensing benfits for. Oh yeah, those cross-licensing terms that allowed Microsoft to defend your patent for you? That's what the terms in the contract are for.
In that respect its the inverse of thoughtful, society-benefitting government regulation. It would be government protection of a monopoly predicated on the abuse of our patent system.
End ALL software patents now.
Does the old routine of 'hmm' walk over to the right side of the building, look out the window, squinting hard for 15 seconds, and simply saying 'damn sunspots' not work anymore?
holy crap. You DOCUMENTED your regular expression? You shall be thrown into the pit!
Can anyone quantify and define an S3 object? How is that different than a file? Wouldn't it be useful to report the amount of storage used... I donut care that two users have 2 billion objects of 4 different image views of their online catalog :P
The CTO title implies that the position comes with delegated authority from the president and is in charge of a federal information technology agency. Yes on advisory role. Maybe the point is that the federal agency appointees aren't equipped to make their own technology decisions. Not that they would be made without consultation.
Oh no, Taco! I've actually \written\ serious creepware. And deployed for Fortune 50's. I'm way more qualified than j00.
slashcode? that old steaming pile? pffbbt. I'll stick with FirstClass. You know what I mean. ;-)
This is an offensive psuedo-criminal abuse of civil torts.
I suppose we have more of this to look forward to with the new Intellectual Property Enforcement Bill passed in the US under the cover of our financial crisis.
I blame Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for colluding with the Bush Administration on this one. Such legislation with sweeping chilling effects deserved its own time for debate and public outrage.
mother#@$#@@#ers.
Frog Blast the Ventcore, indeed.
Want some inspiration and satisfaction? Look in the internet archive, say March 2003, for marathon.com
Tagged bitch. We were bungie fans. Posterity.
It was either that or make it flash 'no blood for oil' every 100th visit... ;)
Jason Jones & crew have more talent in their foreskin than any of these yahoos at Microsoft & Ensemble have in their whole brain. All hail the new independent Bungie. Game on.