No, he lied to the Grand Jury, and they further convicted him of perjury, and of obstruction of justice. This is not "I panicked" kind of lying. This is the kind of lying that ends anybody up in jail.
The president has pardoned himself, or Dick Cheney, or Karl Rove, because if Libby had had to face his roommate Tiny, he might have actually said what he knows, and we'd be looking at least for another vice president.
So why should the iPhone be? Seriously, dude. There's a 32-bit version of XP/Vista that EVERYBODY uses. 64-bit may be the coming thing, but it is very inhospitable to many long-time Windows apps. The updates are coming out in dribs and drabs.
T-Mobile's network does not extend as far as the AT&T leviathan. As I understand it, the 3G chips are very power-draining.
It would be good if all phones could be interchangeable with all networks by just putting in a different SIM card, or if all networks had to operate like the Internet: free access for everybody of whatever service who is near a wireless tower of whatever company. Free passthrough.
But it would take an act of Congress to do that, not an act by one phone manufacturer.
That can only mean that your store wasn't crowded. Two years ago, it took me about an hour to get my RAZR. Which I would gladly throw away if I could.
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Really, this is the kind of article I love with Roughly Drafted. It's outright advocacy, but not of the sort that can be ignored as simple enthusiasm. There has been an extraordinary bunch of criticism of a product that has not appeared, usually with people exclaiming, "But how can you be so positive? It hasn't appeared yet!" Well, that's true for both sides, of course. And, the basic point is that every objection you can make with the iPhone can also be said, in spades, for Windows Mobile and the Zune, and yet no boycotts were proposed for that, were they?
I certainly agree with you that there may be some deficits, particularly in early versions. I'm not spending my money on the 29th, at least. But I'm also glad to see the end game of this creativity: other smartphone makers will be forced to step up their games.
From the extensive needs you have of specific functions, it's probably true that you won't be well served by an iPhone. I think, frankly, Apple has its eye on a broader public than enterprise. MS keeps its eye on you and your needs. But there are, right now, a billion people who use cells; the market is very large. Maybe Apple will develop cheaper phones, iPods really, and more business-oriented software, I don't know. But I absolutely love the way they shake up a market. Whatever kind of phone you want -- and are you sure you don't want a small notebook? -- you're more likely to get it after the iPhone hits.
I'm not for digital voting unless or until it is combined with OpenID, public key privacy, and a very high level of trust. This is not going to happen any time soon.
will we be able to take IT heads out to the woodshed and forget about them?
will we be able to access ALL wireless nets just like the wired Internet?
will we force all the wireless companies to share?
will "all you can eat" wireless telephony join the "all you can eat" Internet?
I think, for the record, the iPhone is a damned nice piece of engineering. It's all these stupid networks that suck, really hard.
The DMCA is made from the same poison that corruption is: the undue influence that money has on Congress. By and large, these are not geniuses, like Lessig. They're looking for reelection, and the content providers give generously to reelection bids -- and, they write the legislation.
I've been sentenced to Windows use at work for 10 years. I now have a Boot Camp partition on my Mac mini so I can run some Windows stuff. What the heck is the Windows convention?
A good example: Windows users complained about the no-button mouse for years. So, to court those users, OS X now supports two-button mice, though it's had contextual menus for years.
So I'm using bookmarks on IE. I want them alphabetized. I look and look. I can't figure out how to do it. I hear on a radio show! that if you open the bookmarks menu, right-click and select the right sort, it will be alphabetized. Hey, it works. Why is that buried so deep in the system? What the heck IS the Windows way?
Ah, if only Judge Jackson's monopoly ruling had remained. There would have been Windows, Inc., Microsoft Apps, Inc., and Microsoft Hardware, Inc. And the behemoth would have gained marketshare, instead of seeing it shrink over the coming years.
Imagine, if Microsoft Apps could make Office for Linux, Office for Sun, etc., as well as Windows and Mac. Or If the Windows APIs were as fully disclosed to Apple and Adobe and all other developers as well as Microsoft Apps. And Microsoft Hardware would go single-mindedly for the best OS per application, and their choice of music file wasn't dominated by the ambitions of the Mother ship.
It would have kept Microsoft alive well into the 21st century, instead of declining with increasing rapidity in the next 10 years.
If you think that active X is a wonderful thing, there's quite a few Russian, uh, programmers I'm sure you'd like to be in touch with. Allowing websites to run executables on your computer is what made IE the ball o' crap it is.
If they're firing up Virtual PC to see a webpage, they obviously need to buy a newer Mac. Hardware virtualization on an Intel Core Duo: it's a wonderful thing.
It also means Investor's Business Daily is going with non-standard, probably IE, code.
In the last couple of years, in which the great, red-eyed God Winblows has finally noticed things called Macs and especially iPods, I have heard a lot about how Mac people are fanboys living in a dreamworld for sissies. But this article makes it clear that Windows creates fanboys too. Only the Windows world is Hobbesian, where everything is a brutish competition, where nature is red in tooth and claw, where all alternatives are enemies to be crushed. Talk about a dream world. Only it's a nightmare.
One Windows fanboy doesn't like Safari because the scroll wheel on his mouse doesn't move in the way it does in Windows. Oh, the horror. And the window can't be expanded from any corner! Ay, the impious Apple! In much the same way, I read about the unimaginable pain of Windows users trying the Mac without a right-click! (Um, option-click, or get any two-button USB mouse.)
It's a free download. It had some real problems at the beginning. You now have at least three web engines you can use on Windows. Don't like it? Uninstall it. No charge.
I don't know the ultimate reason Apple wanted to make Safari for Windows, but I'd bet not many people would have thought 5 years ago that so many copies of Windows would have Quicktime on it by now, or iTunes, or now, Webkit.
I don't think Jobs thought he'd eliminate Firefox, either. What for? OS X coexists quite well with a number of browsers. I've got Safari, Firefox, Camino, Flock, Opera and OmniWeb on my computer. I use the first three, most of the time. Oh, and I have Internet Explorer 5.2.3, too, which is where Microsoft stopped development after Apple announced Safari. Crashes a whole lot now. I don't use it anymore, and it looks really shitty.
When Safari for Windows goes 1.0, I bet a lot of the objections people have to it will be gone. I have no idea how many people on Windows will use it as default, probably not many. But it might be worth keeping around, when IE is screwing up on some site and you want a standards-compliant browser.
What has happened to the United States in the most dramatic, rapid way possible is this: we don't make anything anymore. The low-income countries do. All those Alexander Hamiltons overseas are stripping us of the capacity to manufacture. Well, I mean, we're giving it to them. It's a process of changing from a dynamic, reality-based world view -- the US that built the West, that built the Panama Canal, the skyscrapers, the car culture, all of this, is dying. Why? Because of the financialization of our economy. It's hard to remember, but there was a time when credit cards were shameful. Then their interest was held down. Then their minimum payments kept up so, in theory, the consumer would be out of debt in two years if they stopped charging and paid the minimum. Now it must be thirty years at least. The governor of California sold off a pile of debt to Wall Street, meaning he doubled it, so that he would have to raise taxes.
Engineers follow development, and we have just about stopped. The problem is this: a financial, interest-based transaction adds nothing, just the ability to buy things at the price of indebting oneself. Putting up a hydrogen car factory is in the middle of a long transformation. It involves heavy investment in research, political preparation for the massive investments in new fueling stations, the development of actual cars that run pollution-free and are affordable: at all stages, that involves new jobs which in turn summon forth new services and so on. In the end, we have a hydrogen economy, a geopolitical system that no longer depends on the middle east for oil, no pollution in our cities, and so on and on.
Or you can put a trip to the Caribbean on your credit card, and Wall Street can do the equivalent, and the government can get up to its ass in debt so it can no longer invest in long-term projects, and we can all go quietly to hell.
In WW II, our economy went on a war footing -- because it had to. Our manufacturing base was by far the strongest in the world. From an Army Air Corps of a few hundred planes, to a massive production capacity that got up to about 80,000 planes a year -- all of this was possible because of our manufacturing base and the brilliance of our engineers. We built a crummy tank, the Sherman, but we could build thousands of them at the Ford Plant. Now, under similar circumstances, what would happen? We have just enough army for a blitzkrieg and a hapless occupation during which we consider more and more behaving like the Nazis we defeated.
This is what is considered neo-liberal economics (really, in American terms, free trade conservative economics): turning ourselves into the kind of empty giant that Spain was on the eve of the Armada.
Other countries look at history, and realize they should do what we used to.
Actually, if there's one fatal flaw in Windows, it's an excess of backwards -- and longitudinal -- compatibility. It leaves it with kludges all over the place, and inevitable security holes.
Now, we're not using underpowered G3s, which is when this was announced, previously. Then there was the dispute over QT 3D vs. OpenGL. Open GL was supposed to get us more customers. Didn't happen. MS controls the flow through DirectX and the ubiquitousness of the Intel chip. Now it's just software that's the exclusion. I took the EA announcements as solid, to show up in July. They don't do that for nothing, though of course, if they get little interest, they may stop. The id demo was at the same time more interesting and less specific.
It was interesting this far: Apple does, indeed, want a share of gaming because, well, gamers might then consider the Mac. (They can already use a Mac with Bootcamp as a pretty good windows machine.) There MAY be enough market share, and hardware compatibility, to make the difference now. There WILL be some big sellers now available in Mac versions, and that might even continue.
My ears are bleeding. If you say, "but the ads look great," you're a fanboy. If you call a product that hasn't shipped yet an utter failure, that's sobriety? No it's not.
Can't anybody wait to see what we're talking about here?
Just why is it that a great phone experience requires third-party developers. Is a phone REALLY a computer? Can you make apps crash on it?
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No, he lied to the Grand Jury, and they further convicted him of perjury, and of obstruction of justice. This is not "I panicked" kind of lying. This is the kind of lying that ends anybody up in jail.
The president has pardoned himself, or Dick Cheney, or Karl Rove, because if Libby had had to face his roommate Tiny, he might have actually said what he knows, and we'd be looking at least for another vice president.
On Saturday. At my Apple store. Lots to sample, lots of geniuses floating around to answer questions, and four cashes, very little waiting. No lines.
There were lines because people liked sitting on line so they could be interviewed and have fun with the community. There's no shortage.
So why should the iPhone be? Seriously, dude. There's a 32-bit version of XP/Vista that EVERYBODY uses. 64-bit may be the coming thing, but it is very inhospitable to many long-time Windows apps. The updates are coming out in dribs and drabs.
Why not a Linux version? Rock on, dude!
Anybody ever heard of "anecdotal evidence"?
T-Mobile's network does not extend as far as the AT&T leviathan. As I understand it, the 3G chips are very power-draining.
It would be good if all phones could be interchangeable with all networks by just putting in a different SIM card, or if all networks had to operate like the Internet: free access for everybody of whatever service who is near a wireless tower of whatever company. Free passthrough.
But it would take an act of Congress to do that, not an act by one phone manufacturer.
That can only mean that your store wasn't crowded. Two years ago, it took me about an hour to get my RAZR. Which I would gladly throw away if I could.
Really, this is the kind of article I love with Roughly Drafted. It's outright advocacy, but not of the sort that can be ignored as simple enthusiasm. There has been an extraordinary bunch of criticism of a product that has not appeared, usually with people exclaiming, "But how can you be so positive? It hasn't appeared yet!" Well, that's true for both sides, of course. And, the basic point is that every objection you can make with the iPhone can also be said, in spades, for Windows Mobile and the Zune, and yet no boycotts were proposed for that, were they?
I certainly agree with you that there may be some deficits, particularly in early versions. I'm not spending my money on the 29th, at least. But I'm also glad to see the end game of this creativity: other smartphone makers will be forced to step up their games.
From the extensive needs you have of specific functions, it's probably true that you won't be well served by an iPhone. I think, frankly, Apple has its eye on a broader public than enterprise. MS keeps its eye on you and your needs. But there are, right now, a billion people who use cells; the market is very large. Maybe Apple will develop cheaper phones, iPods really, and more business-oriented software, I don't know. But I absolutely love the way they shake up a market. Whatever kind of phone you want -- and are you sure you don't want a small notebook? -- you're more likely to get it after the iPhone hits.
I'm not for digital voting unless or until it is combined with OpenID, public key privacy, and a very high level of trust. This is not going to happen any time soon.
will we be able to take IT heads out to the woodshed and forget about them? will we be able to access ALL wireless nets just like the wired Internet? will we force all the wireless companies to share? will "all you can eat" wireless telephony join the "all you can eat" Internet? I think, for the record, the iPhone is a damned nice piece of engineering. It's all these stupid networks that suck, really hard.
it's the same thing.
The DMCA is made from the same poison that corruption is: the undue influence that money has on Congress. By and large, these are not geniuses, like Lessig. They're looking for reelection, and the content providers give generously to reelection bids -- and, they write the legislation.
The Holy Grail of business? You can get your e-mail from that. Is that nice enough for business?
Pop or IMAP, or that Yahoo push business. Not RIM. Can sync with Exchange server.
Did Apple shut it down, or did MPEG-LA?
I've been sentenced to Windows use at work for 10 years. I now have a Boot Camp partition on my Mac mini so I can run some Windows stuff. What the heck is the Windows convention?
A good example: Windows users complained about the no-button mouse for years. So, to court those users, OS X now supports two-button mice, though it's had contextual menus for years.
So I'm using bookmarks on IE. I want them alphabetized. I look and look. I can't figure out how to do it. I hear on a radio show! that if you open the bookmarks menu, right-click and select the right sort, it will be alphabetized. Hey, it works. Why is that buried so deep in the system? What the heck IS the Windows way?
Ah, if only Judge Jackson's monopoly ruling had remained. There would have been Windows, Inc., Microsoft Apps, Inc., and Microsoft Hardware, Inc. And the behemoth would have gained marketshare, instead of seeing it shrink over the coming years.
Imagine, if Microsoft Apps could make Office for Linux, Office for Sun, etc., as well as Windows and Mac. Or If the Windows APIs were as fully disclosed to Apple and Adobe and all other developers as well as Microsoft Apps. And Microsoft Hardware would go single-mindedly for the best OS per application, and their choice of music file wasn't dominated by the ambitions of the Mother ship.
It would have kept Microsoft alive well into the 21st century, instead of declining with increasing rapidity in the next 10 years.
Ah, the contented Windows cultist.
If you think that active X is a wonderful thing, there's quite a few Russian, uh, programmers I'm sure you'd like to be in touch with. Allowing websites to run executables on your computer is what made IE the ball o' crap it is.
To sync the iPhone, you will need -- iTunes. It will sync with Outlook and Outlook Express.
.Mac account might be useful.
I don't know about bookmarks, but I would imagine having a
Good. It spreads the codecs around, in whatever form. How much does Quicktime cost? Oh, right. Nothing.
If QTA is using mp4 codecs and h.264, they're paying MPEG-LA their royalties, right?
If they're firing up Virtual PC to see a webpage, they obviously need to buy a newer Mac. Hardware virtualization on an Intel Core Duo: it's a wonderful thing.
It also means Investor's Business Daily is going with non-standard, probably IE, code.
In the last couple of years, in which the great, red-eyed God Winblows has finally noticed things called Macs and especially iPods, I have heard a lot about how Mac people are fanboys living in a dreamworld for sissies. But this article makes it clear that Windows creates fanboys too. Only the Windows world is Hobbesian, where everything is a brutish competition, where nature is red in tooth and claw, where all alternatives are enemies to be crushed. Talk about a dream world. Only it's a nightmare.
One Windows fanboy doesn't like Safari because the scroll wheel on his mouse doesn't move in the way it does in Windows. Oh, the horror. And the window can't be expanded from any corner! Ay, the impious Apple! In much the same way, I read about the unimaginable pain of Windows users trying the Mac without a right-click! (Um, option-click, or get any two-button USB mouse.)
It's a free download. It had some real problems at the beginning. You now have at least three web engines you can use on Windows. Don't like it? Uninstall it. No charge.
I don't know the ultimate reason Apple wanted to make Safari for Windows, but I'd bet not many people would have thought 5 years ago that so many copies of Windows would have Quicktime on it by now, or iTunes, or now, Webkit.
I don't think Jobs thought he'd eliminate Firefox, either. What for? OS X coexists quite well with a number of browsers. I've got Safari, Firefox, Camino, Flock, Opera and OmniWeb on my computer. I use the first three, most of the time. Oh, and I have Internet Explorer 5.2.3, too, which is where Microsoft stopped development after Apple announced Safari. Crashes a whole lot now. I don't use it anymore, and it looks really shitty.
When Safari for Windows goes 1.0, I bet a lot of the objections people have to it will be gone. I have no idea how many people on Windows will use it as default, probably not many. But it might be worth keeping around, when IE is screwing up on some site and you want a standards-compliant browser.
What has happened to the United States in the most dramatic, rapid way possible is this: we don't make anything anymore. The low-income countries do. All those Alexander Hamiltons overseas are stripping us of the capacity to manufacture. Well, I mean, we're giving it to them. It's a process of changing from a dynamic, reality-based world view -- the US that built the West, that built the Panama Canal, the skyscrapers, the car culture, all of this, is dying. Why? Because of the financialization of our economy. It's hard to remember, but there was a time when credit cards were shameful. Then their interest was held down. Then their minimum payments kept up so, in theory, the consumer would be out of debt in two years if they stopped charging and paid the minimum. Now it must be thirty years at least. The governor of California sold off a pile of debt to Wall Street, meaning he doubled it, so that he would have to raise taxes.
Engineers follow development, and we have just about stopped. The problem is this: a financial, interest-based transaction adds nothing, just the ability to buy things at the price of indebting oneself. Putting up a hydrogen car factory is in the middle of a long transformation. It involves heavy investment in research, political preparation for the massive investments in new fueling stations, the development of actual cars that run pollution-free and are affordable: at all stages, that involves new jobs which in turn summon forth new services and so on. In the end, we have a hydrogen economy, a geopolitical system that no longer depends on the middle east for oil, no pollution in our cities, and so on and on.
Or you can put a trip to the Caribbean on your credit card, and Wall Street can do the equivalent, and the government can get up to its ass in debt so it can no longer invest in long-term projects, and we can all go quietly to hell.
In WW II, our economy went on a war footing -- because it had to. Our manufacturing base was by far the strongest in the world. From an Army Air Corps of a few hundred planes, to a massive production capacity that got up to about 80,000 planes a year -- all of this was possible because of our manufacturing base and the brilliance of our engineers. We built a crummy tank, the Sherman, but we could build thousands of them at the Ford Plant. Now, under similar circumstances, what would happen? We have just enough army for a blitzkrieg and a hapless occupation during which we consider more and more behaving like the Nazis we defeated.
This is what is considered neo-liberal economics (really, in American terms, free trade conservative economics): turning ourselves into the kind of empty giant that Spain was on the eve of the Armada.
Other countries look at history, and realize they should do what we used to.
Actually, if there's one fatal flaw in Windows, it's an excess of backwards -- and longitudinal -- compatibility. It leaves it with kludges all over the place, and inevitable security holes.
Now, we're not using underpowered G3s, which is when this was announced, previously. Then there was the dispute over QT 3D vs. OpenGL. Open GL was supposed to get us more customers. Didn't happen. MS controls the flow through DirectX and the ubiquitousness of the Intel chip. Now it's just software that's the exclusion. I took the EA announcements as solid, to show up in July. They don't do that for nothing, though of course, if they get little interest, they may stop. The id demo was at the same time more interesting and less specific.
It was interesting this far: Apple does, indeed, want a share of gaming because, well, gamers might then consider the Mac. (They can already use a Mac with Bootcamp as a pretty good windows machine.) There MAY be enough market share, and hardware compatibility, to make the difference now. There WILL be some big sellers now available in Mac versions, and that might even continue.
I'd have no problem whatsoever if IE still made a browser for the Mac. Why would I?
It isn't about Mac or Windows. It's about consumers.
Well, for somebody whose favoritest movie is Robin Hood Men in Tights, that's a pretty good review, spammer.
"Stop playing games and do your homework! Billy, you have an iMovie to finish off for tomorrow morning!"
"Ah come on, Dad! One more World of Warcraft!"
My ears are bleeding. If you say, "but the ads look great," you're a fanboy. If you call a product that hasn't shipped yet an utter failure, that's sobriety? No it's not. Can't anybody wait to see what we're talking about here? Just why is it that a great phone experience requires third-party developers. Is a phone REALLY a computer? Can you make apps crash on it?