Did they name their company with an "i" post iPod or pre "ipod" though?
Who cares? Lots of successful products were little "i", big whatever prior to iPods, including something that is a _lot_ like the current iPod touch (software excluded): the iPaq. e-FOO and i-FOO were quite common around the beginning of the Internet (to mark elecrtonic-FOO or Internet-FOO), then it was just a cool letter to prepend words with like "X".
It's an odd distinction. Where do you place Arkan on a "line" between Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic? Was he a state actor or a non-state actor? Those are just words. The deeds these three men have done were funded and supported by people in power, otherwise they wouldn't have achieved this much violence.
They're not just words. State officials everywhere have mutual agreements that state officials should be treated with respect, even when totally evil. Since they're state officials, they can enforce it. That's why Osama got a bullet while Saddam got a trial in Iraq. It's why the best movie villains are diplomats or heads of state; they're part of a club of world leaders that protect each other, at least superficially.
Why is the war in Libya illegal? I understand why the war in Iraq is illegal, but when did the UN stop sanctioning action in Libya? [No sarcasm, I'm genuinely interested.]
The UN does not make War legal in America. The Congress does. Obama didn't even consult Congress before sending in troops. On the other hand, Iraq is 100% totally legal (even with the UN, since the war was actually started in the 1990's, and Saddam never stopped firing on our troops).
Probably started out eating water-surface insects, then learned to dive after swimmers/larva. Which it had mostly to itself in many cases, and surfacing brings it into range of
...its evolutionary forebears (waterwalking spiders) who probably ate their diving kin.
I have had to go to the police once in a while for neighbor troubles and the like and gotten no traction. They always seem to side with the "jerk off, a-hole" neighbor.
Wait, I'm confused. The cops are siding with you? If your neighbors are doing something illegal, sure, call the cops. If your neighbors are having a party, didn't invite you, and some of their friends park legally on the street in front of your house, don't waste police time.
So, shouldn't we be asking serious questions about why Homeland Security and ICE are running a one-sided, misleading corporate propaganda video, created and owned by a private company, without mentioning the rather pertinent information of who made it?
Not if you value your weekly dose of Chuck:Super-Nerd, Consumer.
I live in a world where people walk right by rape and violent muggings, don't report or stand witness for murders, etc, because it's "not their problem" and they don't want to "get involved" because of time commitment or retaliation or personal danger.
Everyone thinks it's a building for Apple employees, but it's really a walled garden to put everyone else in. Mark my words, it will be built inside-out.
A lot of us have been saying this since he introduced the first iPad, we saw that it had iPhoneOS instead of MacOSX, and he said this was the direction he wanted computers to move in. Apple Fans denied it "Oh noes! Steve won't put iOS on the iMac/MacMini/lower end computer". Now he says it more plainly, and they're still in delusionville.
"the ugliness of Linux is that the GUI is a bolted-on afterthought for an OS whose developers and users disdain anyone who doesn't use a unix command line as their primary user interface."
Hey, I have nothing but respect for people that use a DOS/cmd command line as their primary user interface. It shows they're working with the best tool available on their current system.
The post-PATRIOT Act government-controlled-computing trope is quickly approaching Godwin-level hysteria.
Specific operating systems and browsers were listed as munitions and prevented from export prior to the PATRIOT act due to levels of encryption. It happened once abroad. It can happen domestically in the right environment.
You realize you're responding to a work of speculative fiction, right?
There has been a running theme of Jobs saying things that seem more and more like he wants to kill generic computing except for a select few, and Apple fans keep ignoring what he's saying.
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Did they name their company with an "i" post iPod or pre "ipod" though?
Who cares? Lots of successful products were little "i", big whatever prior to iPods, including something that is a _lot_ like the current iPod touch (software excluded): the iPaq. e-FOO and i-FOO were quite common around the beginning of the Internet (to mark elecrtonic-FOO or Internet-FOO), then it was just a cool letter to prepend words with like "X".
Bush started Yemen? Congress started Libya?
It's an odd distinction. Where do you place Arkan on a "line" between Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic? Was he a state actor or a non-state actor? Those are just words. The deeds these three men have done were funded and supported by people in power, otherwise they wouldn't have achieved this much violence.
They're not just words. State officials everywhere have mutual agreements that state officials should be treated with respect, even when totally evil. Since they're state officials, they can enforce it. That's why Osama got a bullet while Saddam got a trial in Iraq. It's why the best movie villains are diplomats or heads of state; they're part of a club of world leaders that protect each other, at least superficially.
Why is the war in Libya illegal? I understand why the war in Iraq is illegal, but when did the UN stop sanctioning action in Libya? [No sarcasm, I'm genuinely interested.]
The UN does not make War legal in America. The Congress does. Obama didn't even consult Congress before sending in troops. On the other hand, Iraq is 100% totally legal (even with the UN, since the war was actually started in the 1990's, and Saddam never stopped firing on our troops).
Michelle Bachmann is a passionate and good looking woman but she doesn't have anywhere near the same effect on people.
They both have the same effect on Rep. Anthony Weiner.
why can't we do that to stay underwater for extended periods?
Because our poop isn't silk. Don't try to weave it into cloth either. I threw a baby diaper at a weaver in Ultima7 and she never spoke to me again.
Probably started out eating water-surface insects, then learned to dive after swimmers/larva. Which it had mostly to itself in many cases, and surfacing brings it into range of
...its evolutionary forebears (waterwalking spiders) who probably ate their diving kin.
I have had to go to the police once in a while for neighbor troubles and the like and gotten no traction. They always seem to side with the "jerk off, a-hole" neighbor.
Wait, I'm confused. The cops are siding with you? If your neighbors are doing something illegal, sure, call the cops. If your neighbors are having a party, didn't invite you, and some of their friends park legally on the street in front of your house, don't waste police time.
YODA DIES IN EPISODE 5?! where is the spoiler alert!?
Forget the spoiler alert. Is this another "Han shot first" edit on the new DVDs? I thought he died in a different movie.
You may live in reality, but this is /. - the rest os us have successfully avoided reality for most of our lives!
That reminds me.
Mom! Replicate me a Sandwich, Earl of, hot.
'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?'
Seems like Google cares a great deal about where my data is. Maybe I should care too.
So, shouldn't we be asking serious questions about why Homeland Security and ICE are running a one-sided, misleading corporate propaganda video, created and owned by a private company, without mentioning the rather pertinent information of who made it?
Not if you value your weekly dose of Chuck:Super-Nerd, Consumer.
what exactly if Friedman expecting us to do about it? Start nuking 3rd world nations, or what?
Create an STD that leaves men sterile or maybe destroys immune systems.
If public hangings come back into style, I'm buying stock in picnic baskets.
I live in a world where people walk right by rape and violent muggings, don't report or stand witness for murders, etc, because it's "not their problem" and they don't want to "get involved" because of time commitment or retaliation or personal danger.
World of honorless cowards.
Rorschach, is that you?
Good. More fuel for us then.
Just yesterday, I used the law of gravity to make myself fall down. So there!
No you didn't. You used the law of gravity to predict that you would fall down. You utilized gravity to make it happen.
Everyone thinks it's a building for Apple employees, but it's really a walled garden to put everyone else in. Mark my words, it will be built inside-out.
Elaine: "Only implosion, no explosion?"
It has a real keyboard, mouse maybe, larger screen resolution, a place to plug stuff in...
A lot of us have been saying this since he introduced the first iPad, we saw that it had iPhoneOS instead of MacOSX, and he said this was the direction he wanted computers to move in. Apple Fans denied it "Oh noes! Steve won't put iOS on the iMac/MacMini/lower end computer". Now he says it more plainly, and they're still in delusionville.
"the ugliness of Linux is that the GUI is a bolted-on afterthought for an OS whose developers and users disdain anyone who doesn't use a unix command line as their primary user interface."
Hey, I have nothing but respect for people that use a DOS/cmd command line as their primary user interface. It shows they're working with the best tool available on their current system.
Imma let you finnish Apple, but OSX had the best MacDefender of all time!
Naw Dog, Apple is American. Nokia is Finnish.
The post-PATRIOT Act government-controlled-computing trope is quickly approaching Godwin-level hysteria.
Specific operating systems and browsers were listed as munitions and prevented from export prior to the PATRIOT act due to levels of encryption. It happened once abroad. It can happen domestically in the right environment.
You realize you're responding to a work of speculative fiction, right?
There has been a running theme of Jobs saying things that seem more and more like he wants to kill generic computing except for a select few, and Apple fans keep ignoring what he's saying.