So we still use the Pound, Gallon and Mile? People in the UK (I think, I just hear it now and then) use "Stones" for weight. I don't know what a fucking "Stone" is.
But beyond that, we're mostly metric. Machines we use are usually metric sized bolts and nuts. Our small measurements are metric, drugs are mostly metric ("Give me 20 cc's of amblofrastamine, stat!", TV Doctor), our drinks are 1 Liter and 2 Liter (with some Ounces thrown in there for odd sizes).
The change has been happening for a while. But I don't know how many Kg I weigh, I know how many lbs. But I know were my metric socket set will remove my car battery cables. Unless you are working on some older equipment, it is metric.
Uh... how about someone just download your credit card and, uh... "copy" it to twitter. That's not stealing... uh... right? I don't know why I'm responding, we've seen people making the same rhetorical argument that makes no sense.
Read and remember: Stealing is not someone losing something. Stealing is taking something that a) is not your's or b) you are not permitted to have by the owner. Stealing is a verb, it is a form of the act of "TAKING" not the act of "LOSING". Why do people never understand that? Case in point: Bob "stole" my idea for the project.
Nor does it necessitate of physical object, because you yourself said that your numbers represent physical money. But the numbers are NOT the physical money. If someone robs the bank of the physical money, do you lose money? No, because the bank, not you is robbed. If someone robs your account of your "numbers", does the bank lose the physical money, no, because you, not the bank, has been robbed.
Now, you can argue the semantics all you want. But my point remains. Is it stealing if someone simply copies your credit card information to Twitter? If someone does it, what will you tell the police?
A) Someone stole my credit card information and put it on Twitter! B) Someone unethically copied my digital data. They didn't steal it, but I want you to prosecute them for... unethical copying!
Uh...really? Because I think that would result in a lower balance in my account. Now, I could be wrong about this (I feel like i have to point out my sarcasm here), but those numbers in my bank account represent physical money that I can withdraw at any time. I'm not saying that everybody should be free to copy games and movies all they want, but that it doesn't liken to the proper definition of theft when I copy the items in question. I don't know why I'm responding to this...we've seen this argument here a zillion times.
Hey, MI-6 recently released the fact that semen was used as a secret invisible ink. I just wanna see the CIA show them up. How about breast milk booby trap bombs? Cause I know "booby trap" is somehow related. The truth is out there!
So you're telling me if someone physically steals my phone or computer, and is able to break the passwords, they can see private info about me? NFW!
I assure you all that if someone were to do that, I'd have a lot more to worry about than my PC or phone giving up my travel habits.
Or your wife knows where you went. Or the person you sell the phone to on email finds out where you live, where you work, where you vacation, and when the best time to break into your house is. Or police. Nothing to hide? Sure, if you are a US citizen, no so lucky if you use an iPhone in China or Iran, and they use it to find all the protester gathering locations.
We stream Netflix for crying out loud. That quality is worse than DVD, sometimes worse than VHS. But we want a lot of content cheap, and that's streaming and that's DVD (which I'm surprised still hangs on).
I'm probably in the minority for people who actually hit the HD button on Youtube videos. Most movies are throw aways, and even if they are good, we know Netflix will always have them in stock or streaming. Why the hell would we purchase them to sit on a shelf? A buddy of mine is an Indie film maker. I buy his DVD's, even though they are on Netflix. But I buy them for a completely different reason. I buy them because I have signed copies by the cast, he's my friend, and I'll actually pull them out to show to friends who come over.
In Hollywood, quality goes up, content goes down. People like quality of picture, but they want cheap content too, even if it's watching Jackass. Cheap to free (as in "I already own the DVD, why do I need HD?") beats HD.
I'll tell you where BluRay does well, rentals. When I am looking for a special release or RedBox or video store, I always pick BluRay first, because it's only $0.50 more usually. Would I spend $30+ for the retail BluRay? Hell no, I'll wait for it to come out on Netflix streaming. If I want super cool quality like when Tron Legacy came out, I'll go to IMAX for the professional experience. And I have a 65" 3D TV at home that is either playing Netflix or Antenna HD.
Except that it's an opinion. I've used a couple eHow articles for things I have no clue about. On the other hand, their articles are crap and don't even load properly on my phone. I really like Experts Exchange, but if you are like me and don't carry around your pass, no phone access. So I completely understand being ticked off.
But the key many people forget is that Google has to be careful to only block obvious spam sites or face the wrath of hundreds of governments wanting them to be content filter for them as well. Google falls back on "It's the algorythm." That's a difficult position. They have to get better results by tiny algorythm ranking modifications that don't completely fsck their other search results. I've listened to podcasts with Matt Cutts on them (TWiT.tv), and it's a very thin line they have to walk.
Because the moment they are seen as targeting anyone legitimate, they will be sued for on anti-trust issues.
... the Iranian military is upset with Google for possibly affecting their protester jamming systems which run Chrome OS. They have called it a "Zionist plot against Islam."
You don't have to take it aggressively...The question is genuine...What part offended you?
The part where I am an IT administrator who knows better than to play doctor, and the part where the poster is an (I assume) doctor who doesn't know better than to play IT. I know what I'm doing after years of training and experience. Yeah, I could read the manual and run an XRay machine, but how incredibly stupid and irresponsible would it be for me to do that.
I don't care if it's a doctor, lawyer, or plumber... but if they think just cause they play with OSS at home that they are a l337 hax0r who will post to/. for sympathy against "The Man" is SORELY mistaken.
We do things for a reason, especially when it comes to security. When you are dealing with military or hospital systems, someone could die if IT screws up. And we sure as hell don't need cock sure users pulling the IT equivilant of "Don't worry, I play a Dr. on TV," on our networks.
Am I aggressive? Yes, because this potentially puts patients at risk. I'm just as aggressive if I were to post on a doctor forum, "Hey, I brought in my home sewing kit to do stitches. I watch House and I'm pretty good when I practice on dolls at home. Why does the floor director refuse to let me help out?"
More than that, who says you are a qualified systems admin? You say "I am head of a clinical division at an academic hospital (not Radiology, but similarly tech oriented)." And I take it that you installed BSD and OpenLDAP. My question is... so what? Who is to say what you really know? You are operating in a hospital. You have medical records. The IT staff there MUST make sure ALL systems there comply with HIPPA and industry security standards.
Hey, the IT guy watches Grey's Anatomy. Can he perform medical tests in your hospital? No? So what makes you think you are comparable to IT? They respect your job, how about you respect their's.
I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell I would let you on such a network without root. Not an account, but root. And if I were a patient, I would be screaming bloody hell if I found out non-IT staff got to run their own servers on the hospital network. The fact that they let you run at all is mind boggling to me. Probably because they can't fire a department head or you have tenure or something similar.
But you are on the most sensitive type of network and balking at the most basic request. "Should I give IT a login account on a server that is not owned or managed by them?""
Should they allow you host a server on a network that is not owned or managed by you? Honestly, if you did this all without first passing it by my IT department, I'd do my best to have you fired. Don't wanna give access to your precious box... geez, you really think THAT is the big deal in all this. Unbelievable, foolish, and arrogant to say the least!
"Angered at Righthaven’s behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company’s heretofore confidential agreement [...]"
Not that I'm complaining, but... what did Righthaven do to anger the judge? Were their lawyers being dicks? Was the contract itself what angered the judge? Truly, I'd like to know.
Righthaven responded to the Judge's request for documents by faxing Goatse to him.
Yes, but they - Firefox, mind you - only added it for Windows 7/Vista.
Any other OS doesn't get any hardware rendering, and never will, as Firefox uses DirectX to do it.
And IE will support any other OS at all? They haven't supported a Mac version since IE5, not long after Safari, which doesn't work on many corporate sites. I don't know who I'd slap first for that, Gates or Jobs, for making all my Mac users walk to a different department to do something as simple as clock in for work.
At the very end of the interview he let's slip, "Come on, this is a national security issue..."
So, there you have it! It's a national security issue in the middle east that RIM is handing over access to their "secure" network. Unfair? Unfair? I hope the interviewer caught that slip and nails your ass with a follow up on whether or not RIM has any backbone, or is it Google (thus Android) who rather walk out of China than hand its corporate control over to a government. Yes, RIM is in Canada and Google is in US. What's that matter when we're talking about China and India wanting to break into technology both countries rely on. The President of the United States relies on a BlackBerry for our discussions of our highest security. I hope the NSA tossed out all the RIM crypto and replaced it when they built that phone.
If you look at the rules he proposes you'll see that half of them are about restricting access and creating profit venues for the publishers.
Ted Nelson's view is a web where you have to pay for each page you visit. We have seen too much of this lately
Let's go down the checklist to see how well the WWW complies or has a mechanism TO comply (as in, without forcing someone at knife point... or... Cranky Old Man Cane in Your Chest point):
Every Xanadu server is uniquely and securely identified. - Not Done Every Xanadu server can be operated independently or in a network. - Local, Intranet, Internet, Done Every user is uniquely and securely identified. - SSL, Done Every user can search, retrieve, create and store documents. - Google, Done Every document can consist of any number of parts each of which may be of any data type. - HTML5 Every document can contain links of any type including virtual copies ("transclusions") to any other document in the system accessible to its owner. - Done Links are visible and can be followed from all endpoints. Pingback, Done (unless he means forcing reverse linking... HAHA, screw THAT!) Permission to link to a document is explicitly granted by the act of publication. - Done, we just can't convince the RIAA/MPAA of that... Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document. - Done (it says "can" contain "a royalty mechanism", so yes, there is not restrictions on the WWW that force a document to explicitly NOT contain a royalty mechanism) Every document is uniquely and securely identified. - URI, Done Every document can have secure access controls. - SSL, Done Every document can be rapidly searched, stored and retrieved without user knowledge of where it is physically stored. Google (ever really know the drive letter of website pages you search for?), Done Every document is automatically moved to physical storage appropriate to its frequency of access from any given location. Amazon EC2, Google, Facebook, Load balancing, blah blah blah, Done Every document is automatically stored redundantly to maintain availability even in case of a disaster. Raid1,5, Done (unless he means forced mirroring, again SCREW THAT) Every Xanadu service provider can charge their users at any rate they choose for the storage, retrieval and publishing of documents. - Rackspace, Done Every transaction is secure and auditable only by the parties to that transaction. Part Done, SSL isn't the norm. But switch to SSL only, and Done. The Xanadu client-server communication protocol is an openly published standard. Third-party software development and integration is encouraged. - Done
Beyond that, there's a few good points left. SSL should be standard as proven by FireSheep/Facebook debacle. Um... More people need to mirror... oh gee, I guess there aren't really any points left, unless you wanna force backlinking. And, with all do respect, he can shove that up his Xanadu! We have enough ads and spam without being force to replicate links back to link farms.
Amazon AND Apple give away free mp3's to keep people coming into their only stores daily. Amazon did the logical thing and applied this to apps. And let me tell you, most of them are CRAP not worth paying for. Every once in a while, a gem like the WolframAlpha app pops up, but not that often. But, it keeps me going back, every single day, cause there's a chance... just a chance... the IGDA is full of shit, cause there are several alternative app stores I've tried, and they offer me no reason to not use the Google one. In fact, I have little reason to go to the Google one unless I hear about something or need something specific. But I go to Amazon, will keep going to Amazon. The rest of their store is nice and slick and simple, like all of their apps. But the free give aways in apps and mp3 is the ONLY thing like it, unless Jobs has a brain fart and publishes an iTunes store with free daily mp3 on Android. HAH! That'll be the day!
Today's app? Wordsmith. It's a Scrabble clone.
It's $2.49, and the 78 ratings show 2 out of 5 stars. Now, let me see... any of you gonna fork over $2.49 for a game with 2 out of 5 stars with 78 reviews, 42 of which are 1 star? No, you're only going to get the game if a friend recommends it. And Amazon did them a FAVOR by getting the game out into the hands of a bunch of people who never would have bought it who might recommend it to friends who didn't catch the 1-day deal.
I'll give the haters the Apple answer. If you don't like how we run our walled garden, GTFO.
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So we still use the Pound, Gallon and Mile? People in the UK (I think, I just hear it now and then) use "Stones" for weight. I don't know what a fucking "Stone" is.
But beyond that, we're mostly metric. Machines we use are usually metric sized bolts and nuts. Our small measurements are metric, drugs are mostly metric ("Give me 20 cc's of amblofrastamine, stat!", TV Doctor), our drinks are 1 Liter and 2 Liter (with some Ounces thrown in there for odd sizes).
The change has been happening for a while. But I don't know how many Kg I weigh, I know how many lbs. But I know were my metric socket set will remove my car battery cables. Unless you are working on some older equipment, it is metric.
We're getting there...
Uh... how about someone just download your credit card and, uh... "copy" it to twitter. That's not stealing... uh... right? I don't know why I'm responding, we've seen people making the same rhetorical argument that makes no sense.
Read and remember: Stealing is not someone losing something. Stealing is taking something that a) is not your's or b) you are not permitted to have by the owner. Stealing is a verb, it is a form of the act of "TAKING" not the act of "LOSING". Why do people never understand that? Case in point: Bob "stole" my idea for the project.
Nor does it necessitate of physical object, because you yourself said that your numbers represent physical money. But the numbers are NOT the physical money. If someone robs the bank of the physical money, do you lose money? No, because the bank, not you is robbed. If someone robs your account of your "numbers", does the bank lose the physical money, no, because you, not the bank, has been robbed.
Now, you can argue the semantics all you want. But my point remains. Is it stealing if someone simply copies your credit card information to Twitter? If someone does it, what will you tell the police?
A) Someone stole my credit card information and put it on Twitter!
B) Someone unethically copied my digital data. They didn't steal it, but I want you to prosecute them for... unethical copying!
Uh...really? Because I think that would result in a lower balance in my account. Now, I could be wrong about this (I feel like i have to point out my sarcasm here), but those numbers in my bank account represent physical money that I can withdraw at any time. I'm not saying that everybody should be free to copy games and movies all they want, but that it doesn't liken to the proper definition of theft when I copy the items in question. I don't know why I'm responding to this...we've seen this argument here a zillion times.
Yeah, this is a case of, "what the hell else do you want?" They blew it as wide open as possible.
Everyday I get a corporate client asking me why they can't just do all their work on the cloud. Here's the perfect reason why.
As I say, clouds come from enough people smoking the same stuff. I wonder what dropbox was smoking?
Hey, MI-6 recently released the fact that semen was used as a secret invisible ink. I just wanna see the CIA show them up. How about breast milk booby trap bombs? Cause I know "booby trap" is somehow related. The truth is out there!
It's akin to your boss walking around the office and passing out candy bars for effort. Treating adults like little children is ridiculous..
But, I like candy bars. You're saying we're not getting any? I'm gonna tell my mommy on you! You're a bad bad man!
... on stupidity. I was thinking more Animal Farm, not 1984. The pigs in Animal Farm show much the same arrogance as the leaders of Apple.
Apples 1984 commercial was the first thing I thought of as well. The irony is almost too much to bear.
So you're telling me if someone physically steals my phone or computer, and is able to break the passwords, they can see private info about me? NFW!
I assure you all that if someone were to do that, I'd have a lot more to worry about than my PC or phone giving up my travel habits.
Or your wife knows where you went. Or the person you sell the phone to on email finds out where you live, where you work, where you vacation, and when the best time to break into your house is. Or police. Nothing to hide? Sure, if you are a US citizen, no so lucky if you use an iPhone in China or Iran, and they use it to find all the protester gathering locations.
We stream Netflix for crying out loud. That quality is worse than DVD, sometimes worse than VHS. But we want a lot of content cheap, and that's streaming and that's DVD (which I'm surprised still hangs on).
I'm probably in the minority for people who actually hit the HD button on Youtube videos. Most movies are throw aways, and even if they are good, we know Netflix will always have them in stock or streaming. Why the hell would we purchase them to sit on a shelf? A buddy of mine is an Indie film maker. I buy his DVD's, even though they are on Netflix. But I buy them for a completely different reason. I buy them because I have signed copies by the cast, he's my friend, and I'll actually pull them out to show to friends who come over.
In Hollywood, quality goes up, content goes down. People like quality of picture, but they want cheap content too, even if it's watching Jackass. Cheap to free (as in "I already own the DVD, why do I need HD?") beats HD.
I'll tell you where BluRay does well, rentals. When I am looking for a special release or RedBox or video store, I always pick BluRay first, because it's only $0.50 more usually. Would I spend $30+ for the retail BluRay? Hell no, I'll wait for it to come out on Netflix streaming. If I want super cool quality like when Tron Legacy came out, I'll go to IMAX for the professional experience. And I have a 65" 3D TV at home that is either playing Netflix or Antenna HD.
Except that it's an opinion. I've used a couple eHow articles for things I have no clue about. On the other hand, their articles are crap and don't even load properly on my phone. I really like Experts Exchange, but if you are like me and don't carry around your pass, no phone access. So I completely understand being ticked off.
But the key many people forget is that Google has to be careful to only block obvious spam sites or face the wrath of hundreds of governments wanting them to be content filter for them as well. Google falls back on "It's the algorythm." That's a difficult position. They have to get better results by tiny algorythm ranking modifications that don't completely fsck their other search results. I've listened to podcasts with Matt Cutts on them (TWiT.tv), and it's a very thin line they have to walk.
Because the moment they are seen as targeting anyone legitimate, they will be sued for on anti-trust issues.
... the Iranian military is upset with Google for possibly affecting their protester jamming systems which run Chrome OS. They have called it a "Zionist plot against Islam."
You don't have to take it aggressively...The question is genuine...What part offended you?
The part where I am an IT administrator who knows better than to play doctor, and the part where the poster is an (I assume) doctor who doesn't know better than to play IT. I know what I'm doing after years of training and experience. Yeah, I could read the manual and run an XRay machine, but how incredibly stupid and irresponsible would it be for me to do that.
I don't care if it's a doctor, lawyer, or plumber... but if they think just cause they play with OSS at home that they are a l337 hax0r who will post to /. for sympathy against "The Man" is SORELY mistaken.
We do things for a reason, especially when it comes to security. When you are dealing with military or hospital systems, someone could die if IT screws up. And we sure as hell don't need cock sure users pulling the IT equivilant of "Don't worry, I play a Dr. on TV," on our networks.
Am I aggressive? Yes, because this potentially puts patients at risk. I'm just as aggressive if I were to post on a doctor forum, "Hey, I brought in my home sewing kit to do stitches. I watch House and I'm pretty good when I practice on dolls at home. Why does the floor director refuse to let me help out?"
More than that, who says you are a qualified systems admin? You say "I am head of a clinical division at an academic hospital (not Radiology, but similarly tech oriented)." And I take it that you installed BSD and OpenLDAP. My question is... so what? Who is to say what you really know? You are operating in a hospital. You have medical records. The IT staff there MUST make sure ALL systems there comply with HIPPA and industry security standards.
Hey, the IT guy watches Grey's Anatomy. Can he perform medical tests in your hospital? No? So what makes you think you are comparable to IT? They respect your job, how about you respect their's.
I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell I would let you on such a network without root. Not an account, but root. And if I were a patient, I would be screaming bloody hell if I found out non-IT staff got to run their own servers on the hospital network. The fact that they let you run at all is mind boggling to me. Probably because they can't fire a department head or you have tenure or something similar.
But you are on the most sensitive type of network and balking at the most basic request. "Should I give IT a login account on a server that is not owned or managed by them?""
Should they allow you host a server on a network that is not owned or managed by you? Honestly, if you did this all without first passing it by my IT department, I'd do my best to have you fired. Don't wanna give access to your precious box... geez, you really think THAT is the big deal in all this. Unbelievable, foolish, and arrogant to say the least!
No bluetooth or voice activated commands? How is this better than peeing on a tree?
"Angered at Righthaven’s behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company’s heretofore confidential agreement [...]"
Not that I'm complaining, but... what did Righthaven do to anger the judge? Were their lawyers being dicks? Was the contract itself what angered the judge? Truly, I'd like to know.
Righthaven responded to the Judge's request for documents by faxing Goatse to him.
You forgot the last two...
5. ...
6. PROFIT!
Sex and drugs... a student was caught swinging their legs from between the hind quarters as the cheerleading squad walked by.
...Goatse posters would just give Anonymous a bad name.
Yes, but they - Firefox, mind you - only added it for Windows 7/Vista.
Any other OS doesn't get any hardware rendering, and never will, as Firefox uses DirectX to do it.
And IE will support any other OS at all? They haven't supported a Mac version since IE5, not long after Safari, which doesn't work on many corporate sites. I don't know who I'd slap first for that, Gates or Jobs, for making all my Mac users walk to a different department to do something as simple as clock in for work.
Yeah, it's amusing that nuclear power reactors can use the same method as a 1800's steam engine.
Amusing more that HydroElectric Dams can use the same method as a 200 B.C.E. Water Wheel.
I completely disagree with you and Apple, but it is a valid point to raise.
At the very end of the interview he let's slip, "Come on, this is a national security issue..."
So, there you have it! It's a national security issue in the middle east that RIM is handing over access to their "secure" network. Unfair? Unfair? I hope the interviewer caught that slip and nails your ass with a follow up on whether or not RIM has any backbone, or is it Google (thus Android) who rather walk out of China than hand its corporate control over to a government. Yes, RIM is in Canada and Google is in US. What's that matter when we're talking about China and India wanting to break into technology both countries rely on. The President of the United States relies on a BlackBerry for our discussions of our highest security. I hope the NSA tossed out all the RIM crypto and replaced it when they built that phone.
We should try an IBM service when its not being slashdotted... IBM, self proclaimed enterprise, cloud, IT leader... Is that a joke?
If you look at the rules he proposes you'll see that half of them are about restricting access and creating profit venues for the publishers.
Ted Nelson's view is a web where you have to pay for each page you visit. We have seen too much of this lately
Let's go down the checklist to see how well the WWW complies or has a mechanism TO comply (as in, without forcing someone at knife point... or... Cranky Old Man Cane in Your Chest point):
Every Xanadu server is uniquely and securely identified. - Not Done
Every Xanadu server can be operated independently or in a network. - Local, Intranet, Internet, Done
Every user is uniquely and securely identified. - SSL, Done
Every user can search, retrieve, create and store documents. - Google, Done
Every document can consist of any number of parts each of which may be of any data type. - HTML5
Every document can contain links of any type including virtual copies ("transclusions") to any other document in the system accessible to its owner. - Done
Links are visible and can be followed from all endpoints. Pingback, Done (unless he means forcing reverse linking... HAHA, screw THAT!)
Permission to link to a document is explicitly granted by the act of publication. - Done, we just can't convince the RIAA/MPAA of that...
Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document. - Done (it says "can" contain "a royalty mechanism", so yes, there is not restrictions on the WWW that force a document to explicitly NOT contain a royalty mechanism)
Every document is uniquely and securely identified. - URI, Done
Every document can have secure access controls. - SSL, Done
Every document can be rapidly searched, stored and retrieved without user knowledge of where it is physically stored. Google (ever really know the drive letter of website pages you search for?), Done
Every document is automatically moved to physical storage appropriate to its frequency of access from any given location. Amazon EC2, Google, Facebook, Load balancing, blah blah blah, Done
Every document is automatically stored redundantly to maintain availability even in case of a disaster. Raid1,5, Done (unless he means forced mirroring, again SCREW THAT)
Every Xanadu service provider can charge their users at any rate they choose for the storage, retrieval and publishing of documents. - Rackspace, Done
Every transaction is secure and auditable only by the parties to that transaction. Part Done, SSL isn't the norm. But switch to SSL only, and Done.
The Xanadu client-server communication protocol is an openly published standard. Third-party software development and integration is encouraged. - Done
Beyond that, there's a few good points left. SSL should be standard as proven by FireSheep/Facebook debacle. Um... More people need to mirror... oh gee, I guess there aren't really any points left, unless you wanna force backlinking. And, with all do respect, he can shove that up his Xanadu! We have enough ads and spam without being force to replicate links back to link farms.
Amazon AND Apple give away free mp3's to keep people coming into their only stores daily. Amazon did the logical thing and applied this to apps. And let me tell you, most of them are CRAP not worth paying for. Every once in a while, a gem like the WolframAlpha app pops up, but not that often. But, it keeps me going back, every single day, cause there's a chance... just a chance... the IGDA is full of shit, cause there are several alternative app stores I've tried, and they offer me no reason to not use the Google one. In fact, I have little reason to go to the Google one unless I hear about something or need something specific. But I go to Amazon, will keep going to Amazon. The rest of their store is nice and slick and simple, like all of their apps. But the free give aways in apps and mp3 is the ONLY thing like it, unless Jobs has a brain fart and publishes an iTunes store with free daily mp3 on Android. HAH! That'll be the day!
Today's app? Wordsmith. It's a Scrabble clone.
It's $2.49, and the 78 ratings show 2 out of 5 stars. Now, let me see... any of you gonna fork over $2.49 for a game with 2 out of 5 stars with 78 reviews, 42 of which are 1 star? No, you're only going to get the game if a friend recommends it. And Amazon did them a FAVOR by getting the game out into the hands of a bunch of people who never would have bought it who might recommend it to friends who didn't catch the 1-day deal.
I'll give the haters the Apple answer. If you don't like how we run our walled garden, GTFO.