And conversely, a locally-installed, open-source application can be patched on-site or by a collaboration between many users while cloud users are at the mercy of their provider.
Not that there's anything that really fits this definition for secure VOIP, but just sayin'.
I don't want to troll here, but I ask quite honestly, do you even know what Goldman Sachs is?
They are a vast and influential investment bank with a worldwide presence. They were one of the top few campaign contributors to both Obama and McCain, and their former execs occupy high positions in the US Treasury department.
They have considerably less need to "get their name out in the mainstream media" than those scrappy little startups called McDonalds and Coca-Cola.
If.corn or.c0m or any lookalike TLDs were to actually get approved (and yeah, my inner cynic says ICANN wouldn't refuse that $185,000 reg fee even from a mysterious company in the Cayman Islands), at least it would be a pretty simple thing for e-mail apps or browsers to flag or blacklist them.
I had to chuckle every time I read a FOSS zealot's dismissal of the iPhone as "bling," defending OpenMoko as a superior alternative.
As an ideal, yes, an open phone OS is superior. But for actually using a phone, for actually running mobile applications, for actually keeping a calendar and a directory of contacts and syncing it and calling people when you need to and actually talking and getting things done, there is no comparison. OM isn't even in the same league as the iPhone OS.
What it comes down to, of course, is design. Even if OM had ever actually released a stable, consumer-ready package, the Apple product would, quite simply, still have had the vast advantage of a team of skilled HCI researchers and designers behind it. The iPhone is a pleasure to use because of the great amount of work that went into defining its interaction vocabulary and user experience as well as the solid software engineering and exhaustive testing.
This is something that will never be replaced by developers making icons in GIMP. Nor will it be replaced by artists making icons in Photoshop. It's design, not graphics, not animation, that sets great products apart from mediocre ones.
MythTV is great in theory, but in practice I wouldn't deal with it unless you really need a DVR. For streaming video, get XBMC or get in line for the Boxee beta; they offer vastly superior interfaces.
If I park in someone's reserved space, then the property owner should be within his rights to call the towing company to get my car out of there. But then it should just be between the property owner and me; they send me a bill for the towing and that's it -- They shouldn't be able to call the secretary of state and have them revoke my driver's license so that I'm no longer a threat to reserved parking spaces.
Once again, there's a "disconnect" (har har) over what an internet connection means in 2009.
It's not cable TV. It's not your spa membership. This isn't 1997, where one's internet connection was a curiosity and a pastime; it's since assumed the role one's principal informational conduit with the outside world. You pay your bills with it, you file government documents and applications with it, you communicate with employers, employees, friends, and loved ones with it.
The burden of proof to take someone's internet access away, to force them to live in a non-connected world that no longer even exists, should be monumentally high. That it can be revoked simply on allegation of casual infringement on a copyright should be a lot more disturbing to people than it seems to be.
Honestly, I think the evolution of suspend states has more than made up for it. Granted, you're still drawing a bit of power while in sleep, but modern Macs use next to nothing in that state and wake near-instantaneously.
Coupled with an OS that can run for weeks without a reboot, I've no complaints.
While the TAM was incredibly forward-looking and foreshadowed Apple's coming priority of cutting-edge industrial design, I think its status as a "commemorative" model was very much a product of the Gil Amelio era at Apple. Somehow that sort of status for a product doesn't seem to fit in with Apple's present-day, minimalist offering strategy.
People throw the word "green economy" around without really thinking about it, but you just gave the most succinctly excellent example of it I've ever read. What a great move.
Well, his cabinet doesn't exactly give me warm fuzzies. But I am neither optimist or pessimist, only pragmatist. The Obama administration, like any before it, has a lot of people shouting lots of contradictory things at it and within it, monied interests expecting favors and grassroots movements struggling for recognition, and a whole mess of problems to which maybe no one actually yet has the right answer.
Time will tell if the new executive can sort all these out better than the last one did. Although the odds do look better this time.
One thing that I'm certain would be a part of future "wishes and plans" to censor (if not already part of the proposed filter) would be Nazi paraphernalia. Of course, it starts with the indefensible neo-Nazi sites and hate groups, but gradually, this sort of thing can begin to erode the historical record.
Could this ultimately help Germany develop historical blind spots?
Apple was basically telling developers "you can make iPhone-optimized websites! They're just like apps, honest!"
Palm is telling developers "our SDK is based around web conventions that any web developer would already be familiar with."
Probably the biggest difference here is that with WebOS, you're actually installing an app to run locally. Pre-SDK iPhone was nothing more than websites that could disappear once you ducked into the subway.
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You might want to take a personal day to coincide with Take Your Daughter To Work Day. I hear it can get kind of hectic there.
And conversely, a locally-installed, open-source application can be patched on-site or by a collaboration between many users while cloud users are at the mercy of their provider.
Not that there's anything that really fits this definition for secure VOIP, but just sayin'.
I don't want to troll here, but I ask quite honestly, do you even know what Goldman Sachs is?
They are a vast and influential investment bank with a worldwide presence. They were one of the top few campaign contributors to both Obama and McCain, and their former execs occupy high positions in the US Treasury department.
They have considerably less need to "get their name out in the mainstream media" than those scrappy little startups called McDonalds and Coca-Cola.
If .corn or .c0m or any lookalike TLDs were to actually get approved (and yeah, my inner cynic says ICANN wouldn't refuse that $185,000 reg fee even from a mysterious company in the Cayman Islands), at least it would be a pretty simple thing for e-mail apps or browsers to flag or blacklist them.
I mean, it's basically the evil bit in TLD form.
I had to chuckle every time I read a FOSS zealot's dismissal of the iPhone as "bling," defending OpenMoko as a superior alternative.
As an ideal, yes, an open phone OS is superior. But for actually using a phone, for actually running mobile applications, for actually keeping a calendar and a directory of contacts and syncing it and calling people when you need to and actually talking and getting things done, there is no comparison. OM isn't even in the same league as the iPhone OS.
What it comes down to, of course, is design. Even if OM had ever actually released a stable, consumer-ready package, the Apple product would, quite simply, still have had the vast advantage of a team of skilled HCI researchers and designers behind it. The iPhone is a pleasure to use because of the great amount of work that went into defining its interaction vocabulary and user experience as well as the solid software engineering and exhaustive testing.
This is something that will never be replaced by developers making icons in GIMP. Nor will it be replaced by artists making icons in Photoshop. It's design, not graphics, not animation, that sets great products apart from mediocre ones.
Actually, this was informative to me -- I didn't realize any of my tag submissions had been approved before. Is "ruhroh" in the autocomplete now?
Due to a bug in the discussion system, posts only display the absolute value of the poster's UID.
Sorry, but I think this gag's 1x10^-25 seconds are up.
All with a UI on par with the Philips CD-i.
MythTV is great in theory, but in practice I wouldn't deal with it unless you really need a DVR. For streaming video, get XBMC or get in line for the Boxee beta; they offer vastly superior interfaces.
Analogy time:
If I park in someone's reserved space, then the property owner should be within his rights to call the towing company to get my car out of there. But then it should just be between the property owner and me; they send me a bill for the towing and that's it -- They shouldn't be able to call the secretary of state and have them revoke my driver's license so that I'm no longer a threat to reserved parking spaces.
Once again, there's a "disconnect" (har har) over what an internet connection means in 2009.
It's not cable TV. It's not your spa membership. This isn't 1997, where one's internet connection was a curiosity and a pastime; it's since assumed the role one's principal informational conduit with the outside world. You pay your bills with it, you file government documents and applications with it, you communicate with employers, employees, friends, and loved ones with it.
The burden of proof to take someone's internet access away, to force them to live in a non-connected world that no longer even exists, should be monumentally high. That it can be revoked simply on allegation of casual infringement on a copyright should be a lot more disturbing to people than it seems to be.
Don't worry, you'll be speaking Spanish or Mandarin by the time English Vista comes out.
This could get really ugly really quick.
Palm has essentially been wielding the nuclear stick of patent-MAD with its most recent response to Apple patent saber rattling.
Of course, perhaps a patent armageddon is just about due right now.
Honestly, I think the evolution of suspend states has more than made up for it. Granted, you're still drawing a bit of power while in sleep, but modern Macs use next to nothing in that state and wake near-instantaneously.
Coupled with an OS that can run for weeks without a reboot, I've no complaints.
While the TAM was incredibly forward-looking and foreshadowed Apple's coming priority of cutting-edge industrial design, I think its status as a "commemorative" model was very much a product of the Gil Amelio era at Apple. Somehow that sort of status for a product doesn't seem to fit in with Apple's present-day, minimalist offering strategy.
People throw the word "green economy" around without really thinking about it, but you just gave the most succinctly excellent example of it I've ever read. What a great move.
And I thought it was about sniping contact info from celebrities via BlueTooth.
Well, his cabinet doesn't exactly give me warm fuzzies. But I am neither optimist or pessimist, only pragmatist. The Obama administration, like any before it, has a lot of people shouting lots of contradictory things at it and within it, monied interests expecting favors and grassroots movements struggling for recognition, and a whole mess of problems to which maybe no one actually yet has the right answer.
Time will tell if the new executive can sort all these out better than the last one did. Although the odds do look better this time.
We can't have a perfect union. But we can still try to make it a more perfect one, right?
One thing that I'm certain would be a part of future "wishes and plans" to censor (if not already part of the proposed filter) would be Nazi paraphernalia. Of course, it starts with the indefensible neo-Nazi sites and hate groups, but gradually, this sort of thing can begin to erode the historical record.
Could this ultimately help Germany develop historical blind spots?
For some, doing the task manually is even faster!
There's a huge difference here.
Apple was basically telling developers "you can make iPhone-optimized websites! They're just like apps, honest!"
Palm is telling developers "our SDK is based around web conventions that any web developer would already be familiar with."
Probably the biggest difference here is that with WebOS, you're actually installing an app to run locally. Pre-SDK iPhone was nothing more than websites that could disappear once you ducked into the subway.
Have you meta-moderated lately?
Fortunately, some of your vital areas have been saved from too much scientific education?
How did you Added your own Sentenced, The actor asked for an aardvark. 16uy89; ?
Sent from my MacBook Wheel.