Add these guys to your "people I will not re-elect" watch-list...
Jim DeMint of South Carolina Orrin Hatch of Utah John Ensign of Nevada John Thune of South Dakota Tom Coburn of Oklahoma John Cornyn of Texas Jeff Sessions of Alabama
...Republicans have fought hard to have control of the message
If you truly believe that this is just a "republican" agenda, then you have been suckered into believing the other sides message.
BOTH parties are trying to do this, they aren't stupid. Once any party has some sort of power, they're not going to give it up. Don't be fooled by party "marketing" tactics.
There is a bunch of blog post from people that we can't really be sure own an iPhone complaining about the issue which gets picked up by other blogs because they know anything about Apple gets hits and of course we have that Consumer Reports article saying that the iPhone is the worst thing since MS Bob, but yet still rank it #1 in smartphones proof...
Glad to see that you've turned into the type of person you hate.
Sure it matters. It matters in your scenario as well.
My post wasn't intended to be "flame-bait". What I was trying to determine if Haffner actually had an iPhone or if he was just trolling. I have an iPhone 4. I recently upgraded from a 3G model. My experience has been quite different. Where as my old phone would succumb to "dead-spots" through out my office, the new iPhone does not. It works and it works a hell of a lot better than before.
I'm not saying people are having problems, I'm sure there are. But in my case, I'm not. You can take that with a grain of salt, but whatever. Whenever I read about all these people having all these "major" problems, I'm kind of suspicious.
Also, had government done a better job of regulating the oil industry in the first place, BP's shoddy practices might not have gone unchecked and this disaster might never have happened.
Glad you brought this up. I think this has been the main problem in government for the past 20-30 years. We actually have a gazillion saftey rules for various industries, but the weakest link has always been enforcing and making sure these rules are followed. Our government needs to start bitch slapping this guys who are supposed to be checking up on these industries and make sure they also are punished if disasters like this happen. I nice 5-20 year federal jail sentence for major disaster under their watch might make them think twice before taking that nice trip to the Bahamas or snorting that line off a hooker.
We need something to start regulating these regulators.
Apple telling these developers you can only use our ad service is just blatant abuse at this point.
Are you a shill? Seriously, Apple IS NOT telling developers use our service or else.
Apple IS trying to control the flow of their customers personal data. They are preventing analytics... as a user I appreciate this. Apparently you don't give a rats ass about your browsing, data using, phone call history, geo location and whatever the f*ck else these guys (Google) are collecting.
Here's the rules
3.3.9 You and Your Applications may not collect, use, or disclose to any third party, user or device data without prior user consent, and then only under the following conditions:
- The collection, use or disclosure is necessary in order to provide a service or function that is directly relevant to the use of the Application. For example, without Apple’s prior written consent, You may not use third party analytics software in Your Application to collect and send device data to a third party for aggregation, processing, or analysis.
- The collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of serving advertising to Your Application; is provided to an independent advertising service provider whose primary business is serving mobile ads (for example, an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent); and the disclosure is limited to UDID, user location data, and other data specifically designated by Apple as available for advertising purposes.
Sounds to me like Apple is taking back control of how developers and third parties access and use sensitive user data on their iOS platform, that's it. Looks like you can still use an INDEPENDENT advertising company.
and Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs.
Apple recently added an official API to access the H.264 decoding features of certain NVIDIA GPUs used in recent Macs. I'm sure Adobe was just rushing to get this out because of the zero-day.
Apathy is a huge problem as well, but let's not forget that the government (both democrats and republicans) have done quite a few things to ensure that their two parties are going to get elected.
Guess who controls the debates? Debates are a complete joke, it's basically a scripted reality show now. If you're an independent running for office, you have a snowball's chance to get in front of these guys to talk about issues.
And let's not forget about big media! It used to be that you could only control 30% of any market if you were a media outlet. I think it was Bush junior that did away with that pesky rule. This is one thing that actually scares the hell out of me. No single company should have that much control over what a population can see, hear and read.
So yeah, apathy is a huge problem, but when your choices are this ass hat party or that ass hat party, then I'm sure people are just throwing their arms in the air. I'm sure they would love to vote for change, but when your options are so limited, what's the point? I mentioned this on another post not to long ago, but what's really needed is a source (internet) where people can start checking out other options...
The deluge of information available on the Web has made the country ungovernable...
Corporate greed and the ease for them to "purchase" government officials, the total lack of oversight in spending and operation, ignoring the will of the people and doing whatever the f*ck the governments wants, the constant blaming the "other" party for any problems, trying to fix things and sway the people with marketing instead of any actual actions, the corruption (Sure BP is at fault for the oil spill, but wasn't our government supposed to make sure they were in compliance? Oh that's right, it's just cheaper to buy them off with hookers and cash. Gotta keep the share holders happy.), becoming so large that it's just utterly inefficient to run has made the country ungovernable...
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Add these guys to your "people I will not re-elect" watch-list...
Jim DeMint of South Carolina
Orrin Hatch of Utah
John Ensign of Nevada
John Thune of South Dakota
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
John Cornyn of Texas
Jeff Sessions of Alabama
If you truly believe that this is just a "republican" agenda, then you have been suckered into believing the other sides message.
BOTH parties are trying to do this, they aren't stupid. Once any party has some sort of power, they're not going to give it up. Don't be fooled by party "marketing" tactics.
There is a bunch of blog post from people that we can't really be sure own an iPhone complaining about the issue which gets picked up by other blogs because they know anything about Apple gets hits and of course we have that Consumer Reports article saying that the iPhone is the worst thing since MS Bob, but yet still rank it #1 in smartphones proof...
Glad to see that you've turned into the type of person you hate.
Sure it matters. It matters in your scenario as well.
My post wasn't intended to be "flame-bait". What I was trying to determine if Haffner actually had an iPhone or if he was just trolling. I have an iPhone 4. I recently upgraded from a 3G model. My experience has been quite different. Where as my old phone would succumb to "dead-spots" through out my office, the new iPhone does not. It works and it works a hell of a lot better than before.
I'm not saying people are having problems, I'm sure there are. But in my case, I'm not. You can take that with a grain of salt, but whatever. Whenever I read about all these people having all these "major" problems, I'm kind of suspicious.
Do you own an iPhone?
Do you own an iPhone or is this just Apple-hate?
haha... I know, I was waiting for someone to catch that.
if data contains alien_signal then
alert("Found Alien!!! Prepare for destruction!!!)
end if
Cool, I can say it will cost you "2 Bits" and people won't stare at me like I'm some sort of old geezer.
Bingo!
That's the one I was looking for and I couldn't remember it. Your googling skills far out-weigh my own. Kudos to you.
Sorry I actually read the article, the patent date is January 2009.
I knew the iPad, etc, had it, but I've seen this years ago. Hence my disbelief.
I've seen this on Flash years ago as well as a Shockwave (Director)... the only thing they bring to the table is "on a touch display".
Um, that's pretty much the only reason for ANYONE to start a war.
Yeah, exactly. It would just be easier to install a kill switch on all Window's computers.
A bunch of old guys want to be able to turn off the internet?? Because of war?
Um... do they know something we don't?
It was only 5.5 in Canada, that's like a 2.1 here in the U.S.
So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.
Glad you brought this up. I think this has been the main problem in government for the past 20-30 years. We actually have a gazillion saftey rules for various industries, but the weakest link has always been enforcing and making sure these rules are followed. Our government needs to start bitch slapping this guys who are supposed to be checking up on these industries and make sure they also are punished if disasters like this happen. I nice 5-20 year federal jail sentence for major disaster under their watch might make them think twice before taking that nice trip to the Bahamas or snorting that line off a hooker.
We need something to start regulating these regulators.
We're going to need a bigger hard drive.
Are you a shill? Seriously, Apple IS NOT telling developers use our service or else.
Apple IS trying to control the flow of their customers personal data. They are preventing analytics... as a user I appreciate this. Apparently you don't give a rats ass about your browsing, data using, phone call history, geo location and whatever the f*ck else these guys (Google) are collecting.
Here's the rules
Sounds to me like Apple is taking back control of how developers and third parties access and use sensitive user data on their iOS platform, that's it. Looks like you can still use an INDEPENDENT advertising company.
Apple recently added an official API to access the H.264 decoding features of certain NVIDIA GPUs used in recent Macs. I'm sure Adobe was just rushing to get this out because of the zero-day.
Adobe will accelerate Flash video using new Apple API
Abby Normals?
You are absolutely correct.
Apathy is a huge problem as well, but let's not forget that the government (both democrats and republicans) have done quite a few things to ensure that their two parties are going to get elected.
Guess who controls the debates? Debates are a complete joke, it's basically a scripted reality show now. If you're an independent running for office, you have a snowball's chance to get in front of these guys to talk about issues.
And let's not forget about big media! It used to be that you could only control 30% of any market if you were a media outlet. I think it was Bush junior that did away with that pesky rule. This is one thing that actually scares the hell out of me. No single company should have that much control over what a population can see, hear and read.
So yeah, apathy is a huge problem, but when your choices are this ass hat party or that ass hat party, then I'm sure people are just throwing their arms in the air. I'm sure they would love to vote for change, but when your options are so limited, what's the point? I mentioned this on another post not to long ago, but what's really needed is a source (internet) where people can start checking out other options...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1645728&cid=32141112&art_pos=24
Not a great start, but it list out some other party alternatives. If you know of more, please list them.
Corporate greed and the ease for them to "purchase" government officials, the total lack of oversight in spending and operation, ignoring the will of the people and doing whatever the f*ck the governments wants, the constant blaming the "other" party for any problems, trying to fix things and sway the people with marketing instead of any actual actions, the corruption (Sure BP is at fault for the oil spill, but wasn't our government supposed to make sure they were in compliance? Oh that's right, it's just cheaper to buy them off with hookers and cash. Gotta keep the share holders happy.), becoming so large that it's just utterly inefficient to run has made the country ungovernable...
There, fixed that for you.
Hi. Have you heard of this thing called "Google". It's pretty amazing really.
http://html5test.com/
When you can't beat em, change the rules.