You do realize that before there was Pocket PC anything, there was Palm OS, and that Microsoft tried to call it Palm PC until they were told they couldn't. Correct?
The 'evolution' didn't start inside the cell phone. It only moved there over time.
And in fact, it all kind of started with Apple's Newton. Which, uh, Steve Jobs shitcanned.
If that oil barron(sp) hadn't bought out Commodore and purposely run it into the ground to bankrupt it Commodore would have shaped the entire computer industry!
So you're saying the whole computer industry would now be companies producing machines made of glued together proprietary custom chips, which was the architecture of the Amiga. We should thank said 'oil baron' then.
I'm sorry, how is bringing up that none of these countries have a free press "Troll"?
You're trolling a bunch of college-age types with Che t-shirts. They can't tolerate someone with an opinion like yours. They'd shout you off the lectern if you tried to give a speech on their campus. It's that simple. Same as it ever was.
The result of all the great things FDR accomplished is we got term limits so nobody as great will be able to do so much good for mankind.
Term limits, to keep someone like Fidel Castro from being able to be president for life. Or FDR. Thank goodness not everybody puts FDR up on a pedestal like you do. The only thing that saved his legacy was WWII. He would have continued to ruin the US Economy otherwise.
I'm not interested in mid 1960's linguistics, and don't feel the need to prop up the alternative career of someone whose expertise in the field became obsolete, so he switched to being a star of the Alternative Press.
Dull. Chomsky is a rhetorician. He's good at it, mind you.
You have it all wrong. First of all, go read about IRAN CONTRA, that will tell you that they did indeed, along with the brits, engineer that coup from A to Z. It's not a zany conspiracy theory, it's a well documented fact.
Read stuff you can't buy in the "People's Red Star Bookstore" sometime. I know that a ton of screeching has been done about Allende and the Shah. The alternative histories have been a mainstay for almost a generation now.
No, Journalism is whatever your professor says it is, after you've flunked Calculus, the English Department won't admit you, and you've transferred to J-School.
He made some breakthroughs in Linguistics, but it's a very competitive field. So he moved on to a new career as an 'opinion pundit' and has done pretty well with it.
I think if the New York Times gave Chomsky a regular column his luster would have worn off by now. (obviously they won't because there's a conspiracy to keep him from being heard, yes we knew that)
If you missed it, that's just too bad. Because it's just electrons, and you'll never, ever, be able to buy your used copy at a thrift store for 69 cents. It'll go away as soon as the original purchaser tires of it.
I can't think of a more creamy wet dream for the publishers.
something that I've done for all of Stephenson's books following Snow Crash.
I've got 'The Big U' in it's original edition. Not in hardback, mind you.
Stephenson just wishes for an all-electronic publishing world because he wants the ability to retract old stuff. Sort of his longing to be George Lucas taking hold, I suppose.
The French Revolution (which was what prompted the SI system- they also restarted the calendar over at year one, that also was an arbitrary and ultimately irrelevant move) was a failure. Ideologues have no business setting arbitrary standards. Forms of measure evolve over time to meet human needs. They're not up to 'the revolutionary committee' to decide, no matter how gushy and joyful it makes intellectuals to think so.
I sometimes feel bad for the guys in charge, it's apparently impossible to please people.
I almost never do.
What entitles them to 'be in charge?' Usually nothing more than some sort of hijinks in the background. Why do they have a leading role in the first place? If it's because a meritocracy has brought them to that point, they have no need to worry about 'pleasing people,' their peers will respect them for what they are.
If they're opportunists who are pushing around power they don't deserve to have, or zealots on a mission to control others, fuck them. Nothing else matters about them. Get the hell out of our way.
It must be a pretty complicated word you're looking up if it's definition is spread throughout 10 volumes and printed on rolling paper in a 5 point font.
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I am not sure. Are they acting in a revolting fashion, or just playing cowboy?
You do realize that before there was Pocket PC anything, there was Palm OS, and that Microsoft tried to call it Palm PC until they were told they couldn't. Correct?
The 'evolution' didn't start inside the cell phone. It only moved there over time.
And in fact, it all kind of started with Apple's Newton. Which, uh, Steve Jobs shitcanned.
What if I don't want to lug the bulk of one around unless I plan on taking photographs?
I have this vision of a chair throwing Steve Jobs. He's on stage yelling 'Marketing, Marketing, Marketing, Marketing, Marketing....'
It's worth noting that the corporate media hates Assange and has reason to fear wikileaks, almost as much as the powerful elite.
I'll twist the bromide inside out:
"Just because they're out to get you doesn't mean you didn't do something wrong."
Yeah. That kept innuendo about people like Dubya off Slashdot for years.
If that oil barron(sp) hadn't bought out Commodore and purposely run it into the ground to bankrupt it Commodore would have shaped the entire computer industry!
So you're saying the whole computer industry would now be companies producing machines made of glued together proprietary custom chips, which was the architecture of the Amiga. We should thank said 'oil baron' then.
I'm sorry, how is bringing up that none of these countries have a free press "Troll"?
You're trolling a bunch of college-age types with Che t-shirts. They can't tolerate someone with an opinion like yours. They'd shout you off the lectern if you tried to give a speech on their campus. It's that simple. Same as it ever was.
The result of all the great things FDR accomplished is we got term limits so nobody as great will be able to do so much good for mankind.
Term limits, to keep someone like Fidel Castro from being able to be president for life. Or FDR. Thank goodness not everybody puts FDR up on a pedestal like you do. The only thing that saved his legacy was WWII. He would have continued to ruin the US Economy otherwise.
Go to youtube, search for 'Noam Chomsky'.
I'm not interested in mid 1960's linguistics, and don't feel the need to prop up the alternative career of someone whose expertise in the field became obsolete, so he switched to being a star of the Alternative Press.
Dull. Chomsky is a rhetorician. He's good at it, mind you.
You have it all wrong. First of all, go read about IRAN CONTRA, that will tell you that they did indeed, along with the brits, engineer that coup from A to Z. It's not a zany conspiracy theory, it's a well documented fact.
Read stuff you can't buy in the "People's Red Star Bookstore" sometime. I know that a ton of screeching has been done about Allende and the Shah. The alternative histories have been a mainstay for almost a generation now.
Do a little research on the US CIA backed military overthrow of democratically elected Allende in Chile (1973).
Please do more than a little research. Don't just read the usual Trotskyite pamphlets, in other words.
Not just the company's servers. Also the cooling system. Immediately.
It's called 'Architect Once, Code Everywhere.'
Apple likes it, eventually they hope they can convince everyone to just code to them.
Try some Big Games in Flash.
Or doesn't your machine support Flash?
No, Journalism is whatever your professor says it is, after you've flunked Calculus, the English Department won't admit you, and you've transferred to J-School.
It doesn't seem to have damaged Chomsky's career.
He made some breakthroughs in Linguistics, but it's a very competitive field. So he moved on to a new career as an 'opinion pundit' and has done pretty well with it.
I think if the New York Times gave Chomsky a regular column his luster would have worn off by now. (obviously they won't because there's a conspiracy to keep him from being heard, yes we knew that)
in case you missed it....
If you missed it, that's just too bad. Because it's just electrons, and you'll never, ever, be able to buy your used copy at a thrift store for 69 cents. It'll go away as soon as the original purchaser tires of it.
I can't think of a more creamy wet dream for the publishers.
something that I've done for all of Stephenson's books following Snow Crash.
I've got 'The Big U' in it's original edition. Not in hardback, mind you.
Stephenson just wishes for an all-electronic publishing world because he wants the ability to retract old stuff. Sort of his longing to be George Lucas taking hold, I suppose.
'Young' is a label that can be affixed on all young people.
'Geezer' on the other hand is a small subclass of older people.
Also, I wonder if Pete Townshend still hopes he'd died before he grew old?
The French Revolution (which was what prompted the SI system- they also restarted the calendar over at year one, that also was an arbitrary and ultimately irrelevant move) was a failure. Ideologues have no business setting arbitrary standards. Forms of measure evolve over time to meet human needs. They're not up to 'the revolutionary committee' to decide, no matter how gushy and joyful it makes intellectuals to think so.
I'm happy to pay taxes to an organisation that won't go out of business by telling the truth.
Don't be redundant. The organizations you support by paying taxes will never go out of business.
I sometimes feel bad for the guys in charge, it's apparently impossible to please people.
I almost never do.
What entitles them to 'be in charge?' Usually nothing more than some sort of hijinks in the background. Why do they have a leading role in the first place? If it's because a meritocracy has brought them to that point, they have no need to worry about 'pleasing people,' their peers will respect them for what they are.
If they're opportunists who are pushing around power they don't deserve to have, or zealots on a mission to control others, fuck them. Nothing else matters about them. Get the hell out of our way.
It must be a pretty complicated word you're looking up if it's definition is spread throughout 10 volumes and printed on rolling paper in a 5 point font.
Steve Jobs was a coke dealer.