This president has been going around Congress on every other possible issue, so why should you expect him to be doing anything different here? Barrack Obama is a lot like Steve Jobs in that he feels that he knows better what is right for us and what we need than we do ourselves.
The Apple security officers are all busy at the moment raiding houses in SF with SFPD. Please take a number and your request will be fulfilled as soon as they return.
There is a growing bipolarity on G+ of people who think the "public" option should be eradicated and those who think that circles as a sharing option should be eradicated. Both groups think the other group is insane and literally can't empathize with their mindset. Kind of like the deletionists vs the non-a-holes on wikipedia (sorry for it being honest/slanted but I forgot the name of the non-deletionist party at this instant)
You make it sound like the Progressives verses the Tea Party. Couldn't be that bad.
Well, duh. I've worked for a bunch of tech companies, and when they decided that spending a ton of money on a fancy office was better than spending the money on hardware and employees, that was always a pretty good sign that it was going downhill.
Solyndra -- there, I've just shortened your post to one word for you.
This post has received a lot of attention. For anyone here who arrived from The Greater Internet - I stand ready to remove this post if asked. As I mentioned before, I was given permission to keep it up.
Google's openness to allow us to keep this message posted on its own social network is, in my opinion, a far greater asset than any SaS platform. In the end, a company's greatest asset is its culture, and here, Google is one of the strongest companies on the planet.
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May I strongly suggest making your own copy of this now before it does disappear.
He's always been a bit of an odd ball/loose cannon. He's a strong believer in psychics and thinks that UFOs are actually visiting aliens. He also claims to have been involved in remote healing and ESP. He founded the very New Agey Institute for Noetic Sciences (some may remember them for getting some degree of reference in Dan Brown's last book.) A lot of NASA has had very little patience with him.
The big question is: How did he get it through quarantine on his return 40 years ago? Like nobody noticed that he had this movie camera in his pocket at the time and said, "Hey Edgar, is that a camera in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
Does Bulldozer really have to be the fastest chip ever? Or simply fast enough to run everything that you want to run at the best price/power available? While some people will insist that Too Fast is simply not possible, I am the other 99% that says too expensive isn't worth it.
Would it be illegal if I got my time-machine working again (spares are really hard to find for these things), went a month into the future (okay, 2 months to avoid the crowds), legally bought an iPhone 4S, brought it back, and sold it now for a huge markup (to pay for those spares)?
Or a year ahead for an iPhone 5?
Or would a better use of it be to see what people are using now, go back 5 years to patent it myself, and become a Super Patent Troll? Has anyone checked out these other patent trolls for illegal time machines lately?
This prosecutor sounds more like he was trying to enforce Apple Justice than Real Justice. I'd like to see an investigation of his bank accounts for any recent large deposits.
Note to Apple: If you want to keep your secrets, keep them on your campus and don't let them out into the Real World.
Seattle should be totally ashamed of themselves. Not just the police and justice system, but the citizens who tolerate this kind of police and judicial system. How long before it will become illegal to even defend yourself up there?
As much as I dislike patent trolls, it's really hard to feel sorry for Amazon in this one. They are the ones who patented one-click-purchase, after all. What goes around comes around.
It isn't that Amazon patented 1-click. That could simply have been defensive to keep asshats like Acacia off of their backs. It's that they tried to enforce it afterwards that makes them less sympathetic now.
If Acacia isn't presently selling actual products with their patented technology then they have no real loses and deserve to lose those patents -- in a sane society, at least.
The US Supreme Court also upheld the Constitutional right of Americans to own guns. I wonder if Gov. Brown will use this wholesale attitude be signing all legislation to uphold the right to arms and vetoing all gun control legislation?
Except that he didn't. He signed a bill banning unloaded open carry this week as well.
This is the same governor Brown who appointed Rose Bird to the California State Supreme Court in his first term. The California State Supreme Court is definitely NOT good enough
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This president has been going around Congress on every other possible issue, so why should you expect him to be doing anything different here? Barrack Obama is a lot like Steve Jobs in that he feels that he knows better what is right for us and what we need than we do ourselves.
why wait for and pay for a security officer.
The Apple security officers are all busy at the moment raiding houses in SF with SFPD. Please take a number and your request will be fulfilled as soon as they return.
So have we /.'ed Google yet?
There is a growing bipolarity on G+ of people who think the "public" option should be eradicated and those who think that circles as a sharing option should be eradicated. Both groups think the other group is insane and literally can't empathize with their mindset. Kind of like the deletionists vs the non-a-holes on wikipedia (sorry for it being honest/slanted but I forgot the name of the non-deletionist party at this instant)
You make it sound like the Progressives verses the Tea Party. Couldn't be that bad.
Well, duh. I've worked for a bunch of tech companies, and when they decided that spending a ton of money on a fancy office was better than spending the money on hardware and employees, that was always a pretty good sign that it was going downhill.
Solyndra -- there, I've just shortened your post to one word for you.
Poster one, "Hey I found NEO a 1,000 miles out" +1 Interesting
"Hey I found NEO a 1,000 miles out" +1 Informative
Parent: +1 Insightful.
Wouldn't this be something that lends itself to automation more easily than crowd sourcing? Just asking...
Hey, you work at Google. Nobody has your perks or extras, guy.
From the original post:
***UPDATE #2***
This post has received a lot of attention. For anyone here who arrived from The Greater Internet - I stand ready to remove this post if asked. As I mentioned before, I was given permission to keep it up.
Google's openness to allow us to keep this message posted on its own social network is, in my opinion, a far greater asset than any SaS platform. In the end, a company's greatest asset is its culture, and here, Google is one of the strongest companies on the planet.
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May I strongly suggest making your own copy of this now before it does disappear.
"its" is a contraction of "it is".
Actually "it's" is the contraction for "it is". If you're going to be a grammar Nazi, your own grammar must be impeccable.
(Note how I used "you're" and "your" properly.)
And how smart is this guy if he shares a private post with the entire world by accident? Does he think that he's a congressman?
Insightful is not the first word I think of when it comes to rants. If it's insightful, is it really a rant?
He's always been a bit of an odd ball/loose cannon. He's a strong believer in psychics and thinks that UFOs are actually visiting aliens. He also claims to have been involved in remote healing and ESP. He founded the very New Agey Institute for Noetic Sciences (some may remember them for getting some degree of reference in Dan Brown's last book.) A lot of NASA has had very little patience with him.
But what if he's right?
I think the government just make laws up on the fly these days.
This government does.
The big question is: How did he get it through quarantine on his return 40 years ago? Like nobody noticed that he had this movie camera in his pocket at the time and said, "Hey Edgar, is that a camera in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
Does Bulldozer really have to be the fastest chip ever? Or simply fast enough to run everything that you want to run at the best price/power available? While some people will insist that Too Fast is simply not possible, I am the other 99% that says too expensive isn't worth it.
Would it be illegal if I got my time-machine working again (spares are really hard to find for these things), went a month into the future (okay, 2 months to avoid the crowds), legally bought an iPhone 4S, brought it back, and sold it now for a huge markup (to pay for those spares)?
Or a year ahead for an iPhone 5?
Or would a better use of it be to see what people are using now, go back 5 years to patent it myself, and become a Super Patent Troll? Has anyone checked out these other patent trolls for illegal time machines lately?
This prosecutor sounds more like he was trying to enforce Apple Justice than Real Justice. I'd like to see an investigation of his bank accounts for any recent large deposits.
Note to Apple: If you want to keep your secrets, keep them on your campus and don't let them out into the Real World.
Seattle should be totally ashamed of themselves. Not just the police and justice system, but the citizens who tolerate this kind of police and judicial system. How long before it will become illegal to even defend yourself up there?
As much as I dislike patent trolls, it's really hard to feel sorry for Amazon in this one. They are the ones who patented one-click-purchase, after all. What goes around comes around.
It isn't that Amazon patented 1-click. That could simply have been defensive to keep asshats like Acacia off of their backs. It's that they tried to enforce it afterwards that makes them less sympathetic now.
If Acacia isn't presently selling actual products with their patented technology then they have no real loses and deserve to lose those patents -- in a sane society, at least.
The US Supreme Court also upheld the Constitutional right of Americans to own guns. I wonder if Gov. Brown will use this wholesale attitude be signing all legislation to uphold the right to arms and vetoing all gun control legislation?
Except that he didn't. He signed a bill banning unloaded open carry this week as well.
This is the same governor Brown who appointed Rose Bird to the California State Supreme Court in his first term. The California State Supreme Court is definitely NOT good enough
Californians are idiots to have ever let that man back in the governor's mansion again.
Amazon is a traitor to the consumer.