Which scares you more, Stuxnet and Flame, which at the very least appear to have been fairly specifically targeted, or Iran with nuclear weapons?
The scariness of Stuxnet and Flame is easily mitigated by running BSD or Linux, or more specifically, by not running Microsoft Windows on any machine with access to data intended to be secure. What scares the crap out of me is there are nuclear weapons out there somewhere with control systems that do run on top of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows is far more devastating to economy and infrastructure than any virus or malware, directed or otherwise. It is known. I know I'd sleep better if Microsoft abandoned this foolish notion of the need to support legacy software in perpetuity, and at least attempted to do what Apple has successfully done at least three times in the last 20 years. Microsoft should abandon the Digital Equipment Corporation's NT kernel, and move towards using their own rather impressive creation, backwards compatibility with legacy software used by a backward minority be damned!
Iran does not have any yet and so far, no proof has been provided that they actually are planning to produce them.
In February 2010, the IAEA issued a report scolding Iran for failing to explain purchases of sensitive technology as well as secret tests of high-precision detonators and modified designs of missile cones to accommodate larger payloads. Such experiments are closely associated with atomic warheads.
the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies believe that Iran has yet to decide whether to resume a parallel program to design a nuclear warhead — a program they believe was essentially halted in 2003 and which would be necessary for Iran to build a nuclear bomb.
You are massively uninformed. There is plenty of evidence of Iran's past intent, plenty of evidence in the last decade that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program. Due to the effectiveness of Olympic Games, their ability to enrich weapons grade uranium has been considerably reduced. But the fact that Iran was so vocal for so long about not having a nuclear weapons program when they absolutely did, and the efforts they went through to deceive U.N. oversight, doesn't make me feel any more secure that today we have no evidence of the future intent of Iran to restart their nuclear weapons program.
Marketing wasn't the only problem. The Zune was the best PMP on the market beating the iPod Classic. The problem was that Apple moved the goal posts and the iPod Touch wasn't a PMP.
Apple also leveraged the increasingly popular iTunes ecosystem, which is probably more important than the devices themselves. Microsoft didn't have that, though the Zune likely benefited from it.
When William Tecumseh Sherman said "War is Hell," he wasn't talking about a place, but an emotional state, and yet Hell is properly capitalized in all instances of this phrase.
confirmed:
War is Hell.
This quote originates from his address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy (19 June 1879); but slightly varying accounts of this speech have been published:
I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!
Letter to the City Council of Atlanta (12 September 1864)
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. But you cannot have peace and a division of our country. If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war. The United States does and must assert its authority, wherever it once had power; for, if it relaxes one bit to pressure, it is gone, and I believe that such is the national feeling.
Sherman wasn't talking about the address of Hell, he was talking about an emotional state, as is verified by his previous statements about war. "Hell" and "Heaven" are proper nouns, even when not recognized as such by those that insist on making up their own rules of the English language. They are both properly captialized, and incorrectly uncapitalized.
Heaven and Hell are place names, heaven and hell are descriptions of situations or emotional states. "I'm in Heaven" implies I'm dead, "I'm in heaven" implies I'm on the recieving end of a blow job.
I have trouble understanding this. So if you are in a french restaurant in Queens, taste some flambé, and are emotionally moved by this... might you anounce with enthusiasm "I am in paris" or "this tastes like paris?" No. You always capitalize Paris even if it is describing an emotional state, because the emotional state is actually using a place name to describe the brainstate. The distinction you and others are making is suspect, because only Heaven and Hell have these odd rules applied to them. When William Tecumseh Sherman said "War is Hell," he wasn't talking about a place, but an emotional state, and yet Hell is properly capitalized in all instances of this phrase.
Then again, Apple does stay on bleeding edge technology.
Bleeding edge? Pfftbt. Apple has just taken stuff that already exists, made it smaller, made the features the predecessor advertised actually work with a shiny UI that people can immediately understand and use, addressed real concerns like battery life, and created the template for all their competitors to attempt to imitate.
Thanks for posting, I am in full agreement. All Apple has done was make a few products that don't suck and leverage their marketing and massive sales of these pathetically non-sucky products to make Apple the most recognized brand in the world and the world's richest company. Any company could do this and some company was bound to, and moreso, some company had to do this. Why people are so fascinated by these mundane and trivial accomplishments is also beyond the scope of my own comprehension.
Just because something is imaginary or metaphorical doesn't mean it's name is not a proper noun. There are valid cases where the words "heaven" and "hell" should not have a capital H.
Your comment is a little confusing. Place names are always proper nouns and thus always capitalized, even ficticious places such as Xanadu, Romulus, and Narnia, and even real places like New York, Paris and Rome. In the context of this article, Heaven and Hell are the names of places, even if they are spiritual in nature, even if this "place" is a psychological state of mind (such as feeling so bad you are "in Hell," or so pleased with the taste of pie that you are "in Heaven"), and thus should be capitalized. In most cases Heaven and Hell should be capitalized, and in most cases they are, incorrectly, not.
Religion, no. Hell, yes. If humans believe in both Heaven and Hell there will be no net effect on the crime rates.
Ha! Suck it fundamentalist deists! You're on the no statistical significance side of the evolution fight this time!
Thanks for properly capitalizing the names of places, even if personally and usually considered imaginary or metaphorical. I'll never understand the insistance of those that are hostile towards religion and belief to use incorrect grammar... as though it is a directed insult to the very idea itself, which is, of course, an absurd intention.
Strange that we have an American deserter turning up so close to Assange getting here. I wonder if there will be two people on that plane back to the US of A.
The deserter will likely be brought back to the US. I doubt the US gov. intends to bring Assange any where near the US. If they did, he would necessarily have certain rights they are not inclined to afford him.
(I am an American and a patriot and a Constitutionalist, and I am very embarrassed by my government in this matter... the free press is not to be harrassed by the government... it is the 1st Amendment in our Bill of Rights, and it's applicability is intended to be universal, granted by We the People...)
I expect Chinese people living in China will be surprised to learn that they are now Asian-American. It will be be very confusing for them. Please reconsider.
One of the few very American cultural jokes is to quote popular movies out of context. It is not unexpected that the humor can be lost in translation, so to speak.
All Chinamen talk funny therefore all Chinamen dumb?
What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
Thanks for posting. No slashdot summary comment browsing is complete these days without an unbiased and independent thinking commenter scrutinizing Apple with a well constructed bashing.
Semantically Apple named the PDA, rather than inventing it.
My comment was tongue in cheek, but by all means we must downplay the importance of anything that Apple does, at all costs, no matter what, and make sure no one ever gives even the slightest amount of credit where credit is due... even if Apple is ultimately responsible for the label we use for an entire class of digiital technology which has been universally adopted.
Just finished reading... very very nice. You wrote that in 2005? Come on, Speed!... time to get that published on dead tree. Having years of experience in printing and publishing (from the production stand point), allow me to personally recommend finding a good letterpress printer, and use quality binding in the hardbound version. Everyone appreciates a well made book in the classical style... please don't cheap-out on the printing (or the paper, typesetting, design and binding... go traditional as much as you can, all the way). Also... just a suggestion... I think you take too much time bashing the Newton... the Newton-zealots are pretty much extinct or have crawled back in the holes they came from, so you might want to dial that back a bit... its the history of hand held computer, PDA and the like, not the history of Apple fanatics. Also, it is worth a minor nod to Sculley for coining the term "PDA," and noting when it happpened, if only because the term was adopted so widely by, at the very least, consumers, and at best defining the entire device "type" (vs. "token"). You spend more time talking about companies trying to avoid using the term than you do explaining where it came from... and exactly how it came about (why not give Sculley a phone interview and get the real story behind where it came from? Regardless of your personal feelings about Apple, this is objectively important, and for the detail you've given everything else, worth at least a paragraph, not a mere sentence dismissing its importance.) Otherwise an AMAZING READ. Seriously... its time to get that published. I can't BELIEVE you've waited this long! WHO ARE YOU? You deserve the recognition for objectively documenting this important history (speaking as a student of the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, via VA Tech). Thank you for creating that! My apologies that I had to read an illegal unauthorized version of the work... but get it in print and I will buy it! and copies for friends! Good luck! And... did I mention hurry up?
What asshole modded you down? This is a fascinating coincidence if nothing else... and it IS something else, living copyright infringement... and not just downloading a movie and watching it yourself because you're poor, but taking something and redistributing it for the benefit of people that are not you. Fucking Slashdot has seriously changed, man...
as an employer I would not differentiate between an employee who is addicted to cocaine or Mephedrone.
Then it is unfortunate that all testing employers do by the nature of how long these drugs are still detectable after use. You could use cannibis once in your life, and three weeks later test positive, get the boot. But you could be high on heroin or cocaine for decades, stop for two days to pass a test, then go right on using, no one ever being the wiser.
The drug screening is invariably biased against the use of cannibis... slanted heavily towards weeding out those that use weed. It is ironic that there wouldn't even be a United States of America if it wasn't for cannibis. The Founders are rolling in their graves... at least I hope they are. Meanwhile, it is the heavier drugs, like cocaine, that are tremendously detrimental to both the user and to society.
Apple's online services have never integrated terribly well,
I never liked Apple's online services, but the integration was seemless with their OS... kind of why I didn't like it... but I'm calling you out on being a troll or massively uninformed becuase this is completely false.
and they have a bad habit of renaming things.
Again, complete garbage. Apple had more than a few services. They renamed ONE of them I believe... and so what? as for the rest of your post, it makes no sense whatsoever.
How hard is it to suck content out of an application? There are many utilities that do this. You don't need to run the app to get at it, don't need a "page flipping" tool. Unless the information is enchrypted, this is trivial to do, once data is moved to another platform, which is also trivial to do. Not to be disagreeable, but I seriously doubt they had piracy in mind when they decided on the interface.
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Google Boob and Google Boob Pro apps are also available, both still in Beta, of course.
Which scares you more, Stuxnet and Flame, which at the very least appear to have been fairly specifically targeted, or Iran with nuclear weapons?
The scariness of Stuxnet and Flame is easily mitigated by running BSD or Linux, or more specifically, by not running Microsoft Windows on any machine with access to data intended to be secure. What scares the crap out of me is there are nuclear weapons out there somewhere with control systems that do run on top of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows is far more devastating to economy and infrastructure than any virus or malware, directed or otherwise. It is known. I know I'd sleep better if Microsoft abandoned this foolish notion of the need to support legacy software in perpetuity, and at least attempted to do what Apple has successfully done at least three times in the last 20 years. Microsoft should abandon the Digital Equipment Corporation's NT kernel, and move towards using their own rather impressive creation, backwards compatibility with legacy software used by a backward minority be damned!
Iran does not have any yet and so far, no proof has been provided that they actually are planning to produce them.
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You are massively uninformed. There is plenty of evidence of Iran's past intent, plenty of evidence in the last decade that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program. Due to the effectiveness of Olympic Games, their ability to enrich weapons grade uranium has been considerably reduced. But the fact that Iran was so vocal for so long about not having a nuclear weapons program when they absolutely did, and the efforts they went through to deceive U.N. oversight, doesn't make me feel any more secure that today we have no evidence of the future intent of Iran to restart their nuclear weapons program.
Marketing wasn't the only problem. The Zune was the best PMP on the market beating the iPod Classic. The problem was that Apple moved the goal posts and the iPod Touch wasn't a PMP.
Apple also leveraged the increasingly popular iTunes ecosystem, which is probably more important than the devices themselves. Microsoft didn't have that, though the Zune likely benefited from it.
When William Tecumseh Sherman said "War is Hell," he wasn't talking about a place, but an emotional state, and yet Hell is properly capitalized in all instances of this phrase.
confirmed:
War is Hell.
Letter to the City Council of Atlanta (12 September 1864)
source
Sherman wasn't talking about the address of Hell, he was talking about an emotional state, as is verified by his previous statements about war. "Hell" and "Heaven" are proper nouns, even when not recognized as such by those that insist on making up their own rules of the English language. They are both properly captialized, and incorrectly uncapitalized.
Heaven and Hell are place names, heaven and hell are descriptions of situations or emotional states. "I'm in Heaven" implies I'm dead, "I'm in heaven" implies I'm on the recieving end of a blow job.
I have trouble understanding this. So if you are in a french restaurant in Queens, taste some flambé, and are emotionally moved by this... might you anounce with enthusiasm "I am in paris" or "this tastes like paris?" No. You always capitalize Paris even if it is describing an emotional state, because the emotional state is actually using a place name to describe the brainstate. The distinction you and others are making is suspect, because only Heaven and Hell have these odd rules applied to them. When William Tecumseh Sherman said "War is Hell," he wasn't talking about a place, but an emotional state, and yet Hell is properly capitalized in all instances of this phrase.
Then again, Apple does stay on bleeding edge technology.
Bleeding edge? Pfftbt. Apple has just taken stuff that already exists, made it smaller, made the features the predecessor advertised actually work with a shiny UI that people can immediately understand and use, addressed real concerns like battery life, and created the template for all their competitors to attempt to imitate.
Thanks for posting, I am in full agreement. All Apple has done was make a few products that don't suck and leverage their marketing and massive sales of these pathetically non-sucky products to make Apple the most recognized brand in the world and the world's richest company. Any company could do this and some company was bound to, and moreso, some company had to do this. Why people are so fascinated by these mundane and trivial accomplishments is also beyond the scope of my own comprehension.
Just because something is imaginary or metaphorical doesn't mean it's name is not a proper noun. There are valid cases where the words "heaven" and "hell" should not have a capital H.
Your comment is a little confusing. Place names are always proper nouns and thus always capitalized, even ficticious places such as Xanadu, Romulus, and Narnia, and even real places like New York, Paris and Rome. In the context of this article, Heaven and Hell are the names of places, even if they are spiritual in nature, even if this "place" is a psychological state of mind (such as feeling so bad you are "in Hell," or so pleased with the taste of pie that you are "in Heaven"), and thus should be capitalized. In most cases Heaven and Hell should be capitalized, and in most cases they are, incorrectly, not.
Religion, no. Hell, yes. If humans believe in both Heaven and Hell there will be no net effect on the crime rates. Ha! Suck it fundamentalist deists! You're on the no statistical significance side of the evolution fight this time!
Thanks for properly capitalizing the names of places, even if personally and usually considered imaginary or metaphorical. I'll never understand the insistance of those that are hostile towards religion and belief to use incorrect grammar... as though it is a directed insult to the very idea itself, which is, of course, an absurd intention.
Strange that we have an American deserter turning up so close to Assange getting here. I wonder if there will be two people on that plane back to the US of A.
The deserter will likely be brought back to the US. I doubt the US gov. intends to bring Assange any where near the US. If they did, he would necessarily have certain rights they are not inclined to afford him.
(I am an American and a patriot and a Constitutionalist, and I am very embarrassed by my government in this matter... the free press is not to be harrassed by the government... it is the 1st Amendment in our Bill of Rights, and it's applicability is intended to be universal, granted by We the People...)
Sweden is not a lap dog of the United States.
Assange should show up in Sweden, get the case resolved, then go home. End of paranoid story.
I'm certain you are correct. What could possibly go wrong?
I expect Chinese people living in China will be surprised to learn that they are now Asian-American. It will be be very confusing for them. Please reconsider.
One of the few very American cultural jokes is to quote popular movies out of context. It is not unexpected that the humor can be lost in translation, so to speak.
All Chinamen talk funny therefore all Chinamen dumb?
What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
I don't know what that is.... but I think you forgot to post AC.
I'd like to see Ballmer get out of Redmond
Eventually, he does return to his home planet.
Thanks for posting. No slashdot summary comment browsing is complete these days without an unbiased and independent thinking commenter scrutinizing Apple with a well constructed bashing.
Semantically Apple named the PDA, rather than inventing it.
My comment was tongue in cheek, but by all means we must downplay the importance of anything that Apple does, at all costs, no matter what, and make sure no one ever gives even the slightest amount of credit where credit is due... even if Apple is ultimately responsible for the label we use for an entire class of digiital technology which has been universally adopted.
Just finished reading... very very nice. You wrote that in 2005? Come on, Speed!... time to get that published on dead tree. Having years of experience in printing and publishing (from the production stand point), allow me to personally recommend finding a good letterpress printer, and use quality binding in the hardbound version. Everyone appreciates a well made book in the classical style... please don't cheap-out on the printing (or the paper, typesetting, design and binding... go traditional as much as you can, all the way). Also... just a suggestion... I think you take too much time bashing the Newton... the Newton-zealots are pretty much extinct or have crawled back in the holes they came from, so you might want to dial that back a bit... its the history of hand held computer, PDA and the like, not the history of Apple fanatics. Also, it is worth a minor nod to Sculley for coining the term "PDA," and noting when it happpened, if only because the term was adopted so widely by, at the very least, consumers, and at best defining the entire device "type" (vs. "token"). You spend more time talking about companies trying to avoid using the term than you do explaining where it came from... and exactly how it came about (why not give Sculley a phone interview and get the real story behind where it came from? Regardless of your personal feelings about Apple, this is objectively important, and for the detail you've given everything else, worth at least a paragraph, not a mere sentence dismissing its importance.) Otherwise an AMAZING READ. Seriously... its time to get that published. I can't BELIEVE you've waited this long! WHO ARE YOU? You deserve the recognition for objectively documenting this important history (speaking as a student of the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, via VA Tech). Thank you for creating that! My apologies that I had to read an illegal unauthorized version of the work... but get it in print and I will buy it! and copies for friends! Good luck! And... did I mention hurry up?
Psion did not not "invent" the PDA any more than Apple "invented" the PDA in 1993 ..... 15 years after such products debuted.
Semantically, at least, Apple did actually invent the PDA:
Apple CEO John Sculley had coined the term in the keynote speech he made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 7.
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What asshole modded you down? This is a fascinating coincidence if nothing else... and it IS something else, living copyright infringement... and not just downloading a movie and watching it yourself because you're poor, but taking something and redistributing it for the benefit of people that are not you. Fucking Slashdot has seriously changed, man...
as an employer I would not differentiate between an employee who is addicted to cocaine or Mephedrone.
Then it is unfortunate that all testing employers do by the nature of how long these drugs are still detectable after use. You could use cannibis once in your life, and three weeks later test positive, get the boot. But you could be high on heroin or cocaine for decades, stop for two days to pass a test, then go right on using, no one ever being the wiser.
The drug screening is invariably biased against the use of cannibis... slanted heavily towards weeding out those that use weed. It is ironic that there wouldn't even be a United States of America if it wasn't for cannibis. The Founders are rolling in their graves... at least I hope they are. Meanwhile, it is the heavier drugs, like cocaine, that are tremendously detrimental to both the user and to society.
Had to do a double-take... I thought for a brief moment that Raspberry Pi made a deal with Intel... for a credit card sized über-idkw.
I gave you a choice... you could also be massively uninformed, and perhaps both!
Apple's online services have never integrated terribly well,
I never liked Apple's online services, but the integration was seemless with their OS... kind of why I didn't like it... but I'm calling you out on being a troll or massively uninformed becuase this is completely false.
and they have a bad habit of renaming things .
Again, complete garbage. Apple had more than a few services. They renamed ONE of them I believe... and so what? as for the rest of your post, it makes no sense whatsoever.
How hard is it to suck content out of an application? There are many utilities that do this. You don't need to run the app to get at it, don't need a "page flipping" tool. Unless the information is enchrypted, this is trivial to do, once data is moved to another platform, which is also trivial to do. Not to be disagreeable, but I seriously doubt they had piracy in mind when they decided on the interface.