Who gives a shit? Let's just grit our teeth and fucking book it through the next one and a half years. Little reform of the executive will be accomplished as long as the direction from the top continues to be so stubborn in its denial of popular reality—and nothing we've seen since this fucker's first inauguration has shown he can be anything but.
Cost is not an issue since it's not a "disposable" device. You buy it once and use it for YEARS...
Yeah, and that's why it would suck. Not that everything needs to be disposable (what a waste!) but if something's going to try to substitute, in my life, for "every current issue of newspaper and magazine in the world," I specifically don't want something I have to worry about keeping track of. That's the whole appeal of paper, that it's cheap and ubiquitous enough for me to be able to pick up and read the folded AM New York someone else left folded on the train for the next passenger. That's what this technology is missing.
Actually, I doubt it, seeing as this stuff still looks to be too expensive and fragile to be treated as disposable.
I think a lot of these "e-paper" technologies kind of miss the whole point of paper, which is not that it happens to be flexible and reflective, or even in color, but that it's cheap enough and portable enough to bring with you literally anywhere. Paper was ubiquitous long before the invention of four-color separation.
Or you could get involved in the political process earlier, like in the primaries, before all the loonies have been weeded out. But then, of course, you'd be giving up the chance to whine endlessly about door one and door two.
That's the point, you already know he's going to have a perspective, because he's a human being. So knowing where he's coming from helps you interpret what he's saying.
Are you really still stuck on the idea that there's such a thing out there as the objective truth? Bleh.
OK, err. After having actually visited the URL in your post, I have no problem with Obama's campaign wanting to distance itself from that site. Now excuse me while I clear my cache.
Obama's authoritarian tendencies?! Now I really have heard it all.
Look, I don't know all the details about those incidents you referenced (though I heard about the Myspace thing), and without hearing Obama's side of the story, it does sound like his campaign went too far. But golly, calling Obama "authoritarian" just makes you sound uninformed.
People accuse Obama of being many things—too deliberative, too self-doubting, too lightweight, even fake. Nobody, to my knowledge, accuses him of being "authoritarian."
John Siracusa? He's a longtime Mac user, and that makes him statistically likely to be smarter than you.
For the record, he's absolutely right. Open source developers fail to think holistically, and this bleakness of vision is apparent in the results. As Steve Jobs says, great computer systems aren't built by great computer scientists; they're built by "musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happen to be the best computer scientists in the world."
Thumbs up, man. And I guess all of us longtime Mac users owe you a thanks, regardless of the Consumerist bcc:, for alerting Steve to your horror story with AppleCare. Who knows? Maybe with enough bitchy emails, he'll start whipping some asses into line down at the Texas facility.
(Side note: I've had no problems of my own with Apple's warranty service, but it does seem anecdotally that when things go wrong with AppleCare, they go really, really wrong.)
Here's the text of that email thread between Steve and some blogger, regarding opinions on Cocoa/Objective-C vs. C#/VB/.NET (warning, top-posted). And for good measure, another anecdote about Steve's personal touch (diehard cynics will note there's no proof of Steve's personal involvement with this one... but, absent reason to doubt, I'm a believer).
So again—and yes, I've come to terms with my implied elitism here—let's not ruin a good thing by blabbering about how amazing it is that Steve replies to personal emails. Please.
You know, some of us have known for a while that Steve replies to his email, or at least a small subset of the torrents he probably receives every day (a couple of public examples). He's answered a few of the questions I've emailed him over the years, too, and I'm just a regular Slashdotter Joe.
But the more publicity he gets for doing it, and the more people actually try to email him, the less likely he'll be to read and respond, and the less personal it's actually going to get. It's obvious from the numbers. Part of me hates myself for saying this, and I acknowledge that it's elitist as all hell, but I sort of wish these guys (the ones "in the know" about Steve's responsiveness over email) would keep it to themselves. Because if Steve stops answering his email, that's another piece gone of the old Apple spirit.
Of course, I suppose we must all eventually succumb to inevitability—but there's no harm delaying that end, while possible. So please. Enough. Let me suggest we simply appreciate Steve for keeping it real, and not trumpet it all over the blog-o-spierre.
If I were a copyright holder trying to track down pirates, I'd make damn sure to use IPs not in PeerGuardian's list. In fact, I might even go to the extra trouble of specifically targeting people using PeerGuardian. Why? Because the value of antipiracy initiatives comes ultimately from making examples of people, and I'd want to send a clear message that pirates will be identified and punished regardless of evasive measures.
Also consider that since you're blocking off such a fucking huge percentage of your peers on the internet—isn't it something like 35% using SafePeer (which derives from PeerGuardian)?—you're taking significantly longer to download your music and DVDs, exposing you for that much longer to snoops.
Uh, why would they bother falsifying evidence to finger an innocent individual? Sure, they can be wrongheaded and evil, but why would they go out of their way to be evil? It's not as if they're lacking real filesharers to finger. The court would ask the same thing.
Look, it's staggeringly naïve to expect that antipiracy investigations will only ever originate from well-known IPs. That's a foolhardiness that can only result from willful ignorance, to be charitable (I'm trying very hard now not to call it sheer stupidity).
Whether the evidence holds up in court is another matter, but as for that, I have a hard time understanding why you think a court would consider the RIAA or MPAA—disinterested parties concerning the identities of specific defendants—likely to fabricate evidence in an antipiracy suit. You're correct about electronic documents being easy to fake, but think about this for longer than two seconds: all parties furnishing the incriminating evidence (including your ISP, remember) have basically no motive to forge documents. Unless you can demonstrate that the litigants have some sort of grudge against you, you're only going to fuck yourself harder by choosing to waste the court's time with your peabrained protests.
Justice Department, motherfucker, have you heard of it? If we'd had a President who appointed an AG like Eliot Spitzer, rather than a political hack with a taste for bureaucratic fuckery, I tend to think Sony et al. would think twice about pulling shit like this.
Too many people listened to idiots like you back in 2000, and we've been paying the price for your stupidity ever since. No difference between Bush and Gore, eh? Thanks for fucking over untold millions, including at least 500,000 who have lost their lives, by my count, thanks to your ignorant bleating. Now it's time for you to go fuck yourself.
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You have wireless. You have more space than a Nomad. And you still don't "get it"?
Lame.
It's called poetic license.
Or just this: tell application "System Events" to get the name of the front window of the current application
Who gives a shit? Let's just grit our teeth and fucking book it through the next one and a half years. Little reform of the executive will be accomplished as long as the direction from the top continues to be so stubborn in its denial of popular reality—and nothing we've seen since this fucker's first inauguration has shown he can be anything but.
Er, at the risk of sounding flamebaity, that's really nothing new—since when was Microsoft ever able to design anything usable?
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Ah, TextMate, is there anything it can't do?
Cost is not an issue since it's not a "disposable" device. You buy it once and use it for YEARS...
Yeah, and that's why it would suck. Not that everything needs to be disposable (what a waste!) but if something's going to try to substitute, in my life, for "every current issue of newspaper and magazine in the world," I specifically don't want something I have to worry about keeping track of. That's the whole appeal of paper, that it's cheap and ubiquitous enough for me to be able to pick up and read the folded AM New York someone else left folded on the train for the next passenger. That's what this technology is missing.
Actually, I doubt it, seeing as this stuff still looks to be too expensive and fragile to be treated as disposable.
I think a lot of these "e-paper" technologies kind of miss the whole point of paper, which is not that it happens to be flexible and reflective, or even in color, but that it's cheap enough and portable enough to bring with you literally anywhere. Paper was ubiquitous long before the invention of four-color separation.
You know why Obama's so hugely popular, even among people who usually dislike Democrats? Because he's not a condescending asshat like you.
Why is it that those constantly making reference to "sheeple" seem, in fact, the most obnoxious bleaters of all?
I bet you voted for Nader in 2000, didn't you? No difference between Bush and Gore? Jesus fucking hell, get a clue.
Or you could get involved in the political process earlier, like in the primaries, before all the loonies have been weeded out. But then, of course, you'd be giving up the chance to whine endlessly about door one and door two.
That's the point, you already know he's going to have a perspective, because he's a human being. So knowing where he's coming from helps you interpret what he's saying.
Are you really still stuck on the idea that there's such a thing out there as the objective truth? Bleh.
Thanks for demonstrating the point: Intelligence is GPL-incompatible.
Please never reproduce.
OK, err. After having actually visited the URL in your post, I have no problem with Obama's campaign wanting to distance itself from that site. Now excuse me while I clear my cache.
Obama's authoritarian tendencies?! Now I really have heard it all.
Look, I don't know all the details about those incidents you referenced (though I heard about the Myspace thing), and without hearing Obama's side of the story, it does sound like his campaign went too far. But golly, calling Obama "authoritarian" just makes you sound uninformed.
People accuse Obama of being many things—too deliberative, too self-doubting, too lightweight, even fake. Nobody, to my knowledge, accuses him of being "authoritarian."
John Siracusa? He's a longtime Mac user, and that makes him statistically likely to be smarter than you.
For the record, he's absolutely right. Open source developers fail to think holistically, and this bleakness of vision is apparent in the results. As Steve Jobs says, great computer systems aren't built by great computer scientists; they're built by "musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happen to be the best computer scientists in the world."
Thumbs up, man. And I guess all of us longtime Mac users owe you a thanks, regardless of the Consumerist bcc:, for alerting Steve to your horror story with AppleCare. Who knows? Maybe with enough bitchy emails, he'll start whipping some asses into line down at the Texas facility.
(Side note: I've had no problems of my own with Apple's warranty service, but it does seem anecdotally that when things go wrong with AppleCare, they go really, really wrong.)
Here's the text of that email thread between Steve and some blogger, regarding opinions on Cocoa/Objective-C vs. C#/VB/.NET (warning, top-posted). And for good measure, another anecdote about Steve's personal touch (diehard cynics will note there's no proof of Steve's personal involvement with this one... but, absent reason to doubt, I'm a believer).
So again—and yes, I've come to terms with my implied elitism here—let's not ruin a good thing by blabbering about how amazing it is that Steve replies to personal emails. Please.
You know, some of us have known for a while that Steve replies to his email, or at least a small subset of the torrents he probably receives every day (a couple of public examples). He's answered a few of the questions I've emailed him over the years, too, and I'm just a regular Slashdotter Joe.
But the more publicity he gets for doing it, and the more people actually try to email him, the less likely he'll be to read and respond, and the less personal it's actually going to get. It's obvious from the numbers. Part of me hates myself for saying this, and I acknowledge that it's elitist as all hell, but I sort of wish these guys (the ones "in the know" about Steve's responsiveness over email) would keep it to themselves. Because if Steve stops answering his email, that's another piece gone of the old Apple spirit.
Of course, I suppose we must all eventually succumb to inevitability—but there's no harm delaying that end, while possible. So please. Enough. Let me suggest we simply appreciate Steve for keeping it real, and not trumpet it all over the blog-o-spierre.
If I were a copyright holder trying to track down pirates, I'd make damn sure to use IPs not in PeerGuardian's list. In fact, I might even go to the extra trouble of specifically targeting people using PeerGuardian. Why? Because the value of antipiracy initiatives comes ultimately from making examples of people, and I'd want to send a clear message that pirates will be identified and punished regardless of evasive measures.
Also consider that since you're blocking off such a fucking huge percentage of your peers on the internet—isn't it something like 35% using SafePeer (which derives from PeerGuardian)?—you're taking significantly longer to download your music and DVDs, exposing you for that much longer to snoops.
Uh, why would they bother falsifying evidence to finger an innocent individual? Sure, they can be wrongheaded and evil, but why would they go out of their way to be evil? It's not as if they're lacking real filesharers to finger. The court would ask the same thing.
Look, it's staggeringly naïve to expect that antipiracy investigations will only ever originate from well-known IPs. That's a foolhardiness that can only result from willful ignorance, to be charitable (I'm trying very hard now not to call it sheer stupidity).
Whether the evidence holds up in court is another matter, but as for that, I have a hard time understanding why you think a court would consider the RIAA or MPAA—disinterested parties concerning the identities of specific defendants—likely to fabricate evidence in an antipiracy suit. You're correct about electronic documents being easy to fake, but think about this for longer than two seconds: all parties furnishing the incriminating evidence (including your ISP, remember) have basically no motive to forge documents. Unless you can demonstrate that the litigants have some sort of grudge against you, you're only going to fuck yourself harder by choosing to waste the court's time with your peabrained protests.
Justice Department, motherfucker, have you heard of it? If we'd had a President who appointed an AG like Eliot Spitzer, rather than a political hack with a taste for bureaucratic fuckery, I tend to think Sony et al. would think twice about pulling shit like this.
Too many people listened to idiots like you back in 2000, and we've been paying the price for your stupidity ever since. No difference between Bush and Gore, eh? Thanks for fucking over untold millions, including at least 500,000 who have lost their lives, by my count, thanks to your ignorant bleating. Now it's time for you to go fuck yourself.