I can see it now, Joe The Burglar is busy ransacking your home cinema, hears a noise. John The Accomplice says, "What was that?" "I don't know, look it up on your Blackberry!" So John does. "Was it the Nokia sound? No... The Samsung sound... no. The Motorola sound? Yes! Alright, we know you're in here, you're dead you bastard, don't think we don't know you called the filth!"
I used to work in an office, now I telecommute for a small company (10 employees). I'm in Seattle, they're in Phoenix. They flew me down to Phoenix for a week to get started up, shipped two PCs, wireless router, 2 20" LCDs, high end Polycom VOIP phone back with me. Allowance for office furniture. They cover our home net bill, part of our cell bill, and every quarter, or so, they fly everyone from around the country to some location to spend time together. Can't argue with that.:)
Err, common misconception. You can get eyestrain from doing so, sure, but this will not degenerate your eyes. Much as "sitting too close to the TV" is also a myth. I spend upwards of a dozen hours a day in front of an LCD, and other times doing wedding photography, and I've had 20/12 vision for 15+ years.
List a few models? Most of Nokia's N series can do things the iPhone can, and more. Yeah, it doesn't meet the "for years" criteria, but I never said that.
The ongoing infatuation with hating everything Apple is, you're right, just getting old.
But you know what, so is the whole "zOMG! Apple redefined everything! They're visionaries! The iPhone! It's amazing! There's no other phone like it!"
And don't even start me on this minor detail: that most of the defenders of Google Book Search have been all about "how you can't get the fulltext - you can search it, but not read an entire book" as their defence to the wholesale copyright games Google played with this.
You think if Apple and Google decided to make this available as a feature with GBS that the publishers wouldn't be screaming blue murder (and, in my opinion, rightly so)?
What's dishonest about it? Offered were multiple options as being equally valid. I pointed one of said options out and disagreed with it and now you're bitching that that somehow makes me dishonest?
Your leap in logic astounds, or amuses, me.
But for your edification, let's break it down into distinct phrases:
"They don't want to be in court" - sounds like something I quoted
"and they're being bled dry" - some may say, some may not, that they should be. I stand neither here nor there on the matter, at least in my post, ergo, irrelevant
"regardless of their guilt or innocence" - If they're innocent, they shouldn't be being bled dry. If they're guilty, you know, you gotta expect some repercussion for your actions. Again, I stand neither here nor there on the matter of whether the damages sought are appropriate, at least in my post. Don't expect the sympathy to drip.
"so yes, I'd say "victim" is about right" - the guilty are victims because they don't want to be in court and it's costing them? Wow. What kind of warped mentality brings you to this?
However, if I'm being a dishonest asshole, please, enlighten, because I'm really not seeing anything other than someone being called on what he wrote.
They don't want to be in court... regardless of their guilt... so yes, I'd say "victim" is about right.
Don't bitch about my ellipses, they don't change your quote.
Boo fucking hoo. Cry me a river. "I'm guilty, but I don't want to be in court, I'm a victim." Bleh. Remind me to try that one when I'm in court for something. "I don't want to be here. I'm the victim, making me be here."
Besides, isn't Nehalem slated to have an integrated DDR3 controller?
I hope not. My hard wood floors hate it enough when I play, let alone if it was a part of the motherboard. I hate to think how long my nice new computer would last that way.
That may have been an incorrect memory on my part - I recall that the first relationship was definitely divorced, but the second may have been de facto.
Man and woman divorce, man paying child support for his two children. All well and good.
Woman meets other man. They marry, she gets pregnant.
She reports this to the Child Support Agency. "Can't work, pregnant, ability to generate income diminished."
The CSA responds by upping the first man's child support. Apparently it is his financial obligation to support the decision of his ex-wife to voluntarily lower her income, and his responsibility to support her decision to have a family with another man.
Even more fun is when the child is born, and CSA again raises his child support, because "the costs of raising a three child family are greater". Uhh, what?
You SHOULD be modded down, because you have very little ideal of what it is you're talking about:
That whole registration passes your IMEI back to Apple and AT&T, so you can (amongst other things) have your handset disabled if stolen/lost.
It proves its an iPhone to the webservice.
Bzzt. Another wrong answer. IMEI is a unique mobile equipment identifier. Now, while these numbers are handed out in blocks to manufacturers, much like MAC addresses, the database is certainly not something easily (or perhaps even at all) accessible to the public. If you think Apple, or any other site is identifying your iPhone via IMEI, not UserAgent, you're utterly, laughably wrong.
So you should get modded down, for sheer Apple-defending smug self righteousness.
I gotta go with the first comment on the linked article:
In reference to the first example, does information excluded by journalists for ethical reasons and then found by bloggers suggest that ethics should change? I hope not.
I find very little credulity in the "You can't hide the truth from us" self-righteousness espoused by many of the bloggers involved in this. They merely saw what they could gain from the situation, not what was ethically or morally right.
Cringeworthy. But sadly, amongst many niceties, what I've come to expect from the "blogosphere" (cringeworthy name, in itself). Self-righteous vitriol and hyperbole seem far too common. "We're the new journalists, your ways are outdated." Bleh. In the rush to try to be the next big thing, seems "stopping and thinking" is an impediment to "first to publish/be pinged/trackbacked/make the Top 100 on Technorati/get on as many blogrolls as possible".
The failures of democracy aren't democracy itself, but rather of the fact that our implementation of democracy is poor
What's the difference between this and communism then? Given a world system that needs no external product, and given a perfect implementation (no corruption, etc), communism would work just fine, too.
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I can see it now, Joe The Burglar is busy ransacking your home cinema, hears a noise. John The Accomplice says, "What was that?" "I don't know, look it up on your Blackberry!" So John does. "Was it the Nokia sound? No... The Samsung sound... no. The Motorola sound? Yes! Alright, we know you're in here, you're dead you bastard, don't think we don't know you called the filth!"
You forgot to end that sentence with "... you insensitive clod!"
While we're on the subject of jackasses, how about a citation for that?
I used to work in an office, now I telecommute for a small company (10 employees). I'm in Seattle, they're in Phoenix. They flew me down to Phoenix for a week to get started up, shipped two PCs, wireless router, 2 20" LCDs, high end Polycom VOIP phone back with me. Allowance for office furniture. They cover our home net bill, part of our cell bill, and every quarter, or so, they fly everyone from around the country to some location to spend time together. Can't argue with that. :)
Admittedly, the N90 sucked (my first N series). The N95 needs improvement, but it is a gorgeous phone, and cannot be beat, featurewise.
Err, common misconception. You can get eyestrain from doing so, sure, but this will not degenerate your eyes. Much as "sitting too close to the TV" is also a myth. I spend upwards of a dozen hours a day in front of an LCD, and other times doing wedding photography, and I've had 20/12 vision for 15+ years.
The ongoing infatuation with hating everything Apple is, you're right, just getting old.
But you know what, so is the whole "zOMG! Apple redefined everything! They're visionaries! The iPhone! It's amazing! There's no other phone like it!"
You think if Apple and Google decided to make this available as a feature with GBS that the publishers wouldn't be screaming blue murder (and, in my opinion, rightly so)?
Your leap in logic astounds, or amuses, me.
But for your edification, let's break it down into distinct phrases:
- "They don't want to be in court" - sounds like something I quoted
- "and they're being bled dry" - some may say, some may not, that they should be. I stand neither here nor there on the matter, at least in my post, ergo, irrelevant
- "regardless of their guilt or innocence" - If they're innocent, they shouldn't be being bled dry. If they're guilty, you know, you gotta expect some repercussion for your actions. Again, I stand neither here nor there on the matter of whether the damages sought are appropriate, at least in my post. Don't expect the sympathy to drip.
- "so yes, I'd say "victim" is about right" - the guilty are victims because they don't want to be in court and it's costing them? Wow. What kind of warped mentality brings you to this?
However, if I'm being a dishonest asshole, please, enlighten, because I'm really not seeing anything other than someone being called on what he wrote.Don't bitch about my ellipses, they don't change your quote.
Boo fucking hoo. Cry me a river. "I'm guilty, but I don't want to be in court, I'm a victim." Bleh. Remind me to try that one when I'm in court for something. "I don't want to be here. I'm the victim, making me be here."
I hope not. My hard wood floors hate it enough when I play, let alone if it was a part of the motherboard. I hate to think how long my nice new computer would last that way.
That may have been an incorrect memory on my part - I recall that the first relationship was definitely divorced, but the second may have been de facto.
Man and woman divorce, man paying child support for his two children. All well and good.
Woman meets other man. They marry, she gets pregnant.
She reports this to the Child Support Agency. "Can't work, pregnant, ability to generate income diminished."
The CSA responds by upping the first man's child support. Apparently it is his financial obligation to support the decision of his ex-wife to voluntarily lower her income, and his responsibility to support her decision to have a family with another man.
Even more fun is when the child is born, and CSA again raises his child support, because "the costs of raising a three child family are greater". Uhh, what?
Good point, I missed that error in logic. UA tracking still seems to me a better way to go than tracking an individual account holder.
That whole registration passes your IMEI back to Apple and AT&T, so you can (amongst other things) have your handset disabled if stolen/lost.
Bzzt. Another wrong answer. IMEI is a unique mobile equipment identifier. Now, while these numbers are handed out in blocks to manufacturers, much like MAC addresses, the database is certainly not something easily (or perhaps even at all) accessible to the public. If you think Apple, or any other site is identifying your iPhone via IMEI, not UserAgent, you're utterly, laughably wrong.
So you should get modded down, for sheer Apple-defending smug self righteousness.
So what's your first name, cause I'm all curious now? Kris? Brett? Steve? Dev, UI, PM?
Hrm, lack of substance in a twitter comment, shouldn't really be surprised.
I find very little credulity in the "You can't hide the truth from us" self-righteousness espoused by many of the bloggers involved in this. They merely saw what they could gain from the situation, not what was ethically or morally right.
Cringeworthy. But sadly, amongst many niceties, what I've come to expect from the "blogosphere" (cringeworthy name, in itself). Self-righteous vitriol and hyperbole seem far too common. "We're the new journalists, your ways are outdated." Bleh. In the rush to try to be the next big thing, seems "stopping and thinking" is an impediment to "first to publish/be pinged/trackbacked/make the Top 100 on Technorati/get on as many blogrolls as possible".
Ever measured a Slashdot page? For this page, currently, for little over 20kb of text, there's closing in on a megabyte of downloading.
Were you there during the Dimension Data days? Or even the Com Tech days? Even better, did you work for Com Tech?
What's the difference between this and communism then? Given a world system that needs no external product, and given a perfect implementation (no corruption, etc), communism would work just fine, too.
Democracy isn't magic, in this regards.
Except your eyes of course. You know, when it's there, in front of you?
One part of this sentence is incompatible with the other. Hint: All those CPUs, not idling, and energy saving, but instead hammering 100% 24/7.
"Too many people are using Live Search. MS is abusing their monopoly! Wah!"
"Only x per cent are using Live Search. They should be able to do more, what with their monopoly. They suck! Hah!"
Clowns.
It'd need to. God knows your personality traits won't help the cause.