It's like a bunch of bullys all in the same playground. Have fun guys.
I don't care, I won't buy any of it, lol
Kindle has too many things that suck about it.
iPad won't do flash.
I'm fine with a plain ol' cheap cell phone anyway.
And I've been finding a lot more charm in brick and mortar stores. Amazon really annoyed me with the Wikileaks thing, I haven't been to the page since anyway.
And Apple's apps - no thanks Jobs, if I buy something I must insist on using it the way *I* (the purchaser) intend. Apple's 'approved' apps don't provide that, so not interested.
In order to turn the Internet into the Microsoft Internet, they needed to woo developers to only write for Internet Explorer. Put sweet and addictive features in like a drug. So Microsoft invested $150 Million (according to DOJ v Microsoft documents) in developing MS IE (a product they never sold a single copy of!). Why invest so much in a product that brings in no revenue? To preserve the, and create a new monopoly.
IE, IIS and FrontPage were all designed to "microsoftize" the Web. Other platforms need not apply.
Yes, and today - at least in the IT circles I know of.. Firefox is easily the most popular browser. I still have more issues with IE than Firefox for certain. Not that I have many with either, but Firefox doesn't 'hang' like IE will at times and it's just more compatible overall.
I don't know how often various pages won't work due to the version of IE being too old, etc. M$ loves to pop out new versions, but I can't say it's a good idea all the time.
They would be better off to make larger, more measured steps.
If not for gaming, I'd use Linux exclusively - just due to the cost of Windows OS's.
However, given how often we hear that the Wikileaks documents weren't any kind of whistleblowing or hadn't revealed anything major, I'm curious how people can still claim that, given this latest leak.
It's because it has the solid potential of really exposing politics like they are. It has nothing to do with it not blowing the whistle at all.
Stupid lawsuit... seems to me with that consideration the inability of the son to get into Ivy League school might just be more of a genetic thing than anything... :O
"Mr. President won't/can't even produce a legitimate birth certificate to stop the "he's not a citizen rhetoric" - and they talk about transparency. What a laugh."
Ugh, I'm all for a good conspiracy theory, but I hate that one. It's been dealt with so thoroughly that I can't even believe people are still talking about it.
Again, I don't mean to criticize too harshly; I'm into well thought out conspiracy theories. But that one is a total non-starter to me....
We are talking about transparency here. All other issues aside.. it's very un-transparent.
Isn't that much obvious from the rhetoric is started up? What was the big deal about that anyway? The big deal was the LACK of transparency, nothing else.
It was evident day one, anyone who expected anything else was fooling them self.
I like the name calling too :) We need a 'jingle word' for name calling trolls.
Sorry, but I don't take techdirt as a reliable, fact based source. Sorry.
Which is fine - I have a similar opinion of big corporate news sources. They have stock to worry about, they will give a pass to some people they may consider 'esteemed' - it's evident in the spin.
Like - watch the dragging of Charlie Sheen or Madoff through the mud and then compare to others that come up in the news. Usually they are all too happy to drag people through the mud, but on occasion you'll see the 'apologist' style applied to 'certain people'.
There are too many reasons a big corporate news source has to play games with the facts - especially if it's profitable somehow.
Plus, whenever we have a big disaster, it's time for them to put on a show with snazzy graphics, cool logos and themes too!
I like how Fox always comes up with what I consider a 'jingle phrase' on each disaster and such.
Like ba-boom, "Tsunami in Japan, day 2" or "Crisis in the Middle East" Do they trademark that too?
Or whatever, sorry the only 'official news' source I entertain at all now is my local paper.
Seriously, have you ever been in a newsroom? Have you ever known a working journalist? Have you ever talked to a newspaper editor? Because it's pretty clear that you never have. You have a very bizarre fantasy about how journalism works.
Clarify and say "how perceived official corporate news sources work".
News is whatever people think is news and however they want to deliver it. I agree that plagiarism has no place in either, but the big corporations want to tout some "holier than though, we own it" concept, all the while - ripping the news off like ANY second rate blog.
Doesn't matter what goes on in a news room, the only thing that matters is what product is delivered to the public, otherwise news has no use.
"The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content."
Even if it's News Corp Murdoch? You big happy left winger running a supposedly right wing news network, you.
Sorry, this guy is 'NWO' order all the way. He would like nothing better than a corporate/state controlled world. Say what you like, but there are people with that agenda. That much is certain.
One of my biggest complaints about the way some old school journalism folks view "the news business," is that they still have trouble recognizing they're in the community business.
See.. on this.. I could care less. Like the RIAA/MPAA they can just continue their 'old model' until they fade into obscurity.
Nothing really sucks worse than this 'perception' of some type of 'official capacity' of the press or whatever. When news becomes 'official' then we have a 'free flow of information' - kinda like China. Only here, it's corporate run, along with the government.
*Anything* that helps take the big corporation element out of news and puts it back in the hands of the people, is a great thing indeed.
And yeah Surfer - it's been over a year since I've sat and watched network news for more than 10 minutes - literally.
All this Japan news - *I* was informing co-workers of events they had no clue of because I was getting most of my info from the web and not 'official news sources' on the web.
While it would be nice to have all requests handled immediately, the quantity of records to be searched and reviewed and the limited number of persons currently available to do so may very well be stretching the system at this time to its limits.
But they took the time and effort to push for the conversion of medical records to electronic - why not government records?
lol, this administration? The same one that is sicking the DoJ on Wikileaks?
Get real.
The only 'transparency' this administration wants is in regards to the citizens/others, not itself.
Mr. President won't/can't even produce a legitimate birth certificate to stop the "he's not a citizen rhetoric" - and they talk about transparency. What a laugh.
Regardless of where you stand on the above, if you or I apply for a job that requires a government security clearance - go ahead and tell them you won't show your birth certificate. Hell - say that when you try to get a State ID or driver's license. Obviously, if Obama has a driver's license, he knows where his birth certificate is.
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I have a feeling he might not.
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Yeah, they could claim that anyone reading news on another site is a 'stolen newspaper sale'. Makes sense...
To a moron smoking formaldehyde maybe.
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I don't care, I won't buy any of it, lol
Kindle has too many things that suck about it.
iPad won't do flash.
I'm fine with a plain ol' cheap cell phone anyway.
And I've been finding a lot more charm in brick and mortar stores. Amazon really annoyed me with the Wikileaks thing, I haven't been to the page since anyway.
And Apple's apps - no thanks Jobs, if I buy something I must insist on using it the way *I* (the purchaser) intend. Apple's 'approved' apps don't provide that, so not interested.
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IE, IIS and FrontPage were all designed to "microsoftize" the Web. Other platforms need not apply.
Yes, and today - at least in the IT circles I know of.. Firefox is easily the most popular browser. I still have more issues with IE than Firefox for certain. Not that I have many with either, but Firefox doesn't 'hang' like IE will at times and it's just more compatible overall.
I don't know how often various pages won't work due to the version of IE being too old, etc. M$ loves to pop out new versions, but I can't say it's a good idea all the time.
They would be better off to make larger, more measured steps.
If not for gaming, I'd use Linux exclusively - just due to the cost of Windows OS's.
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The last one..
"Method and apparatus for capturing and rendering annotations for non-modifiable electronic content"
Adobe PDF's have had that capability for years. That's nothing even close to new.
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It's because it has the solid potential of really exposing politics like they are. It has nothing to do with it not blowing the whistle at all.
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Ugh, I'm all for a good conspiracy theory, but I hate that one. It's been dealt with so thoroughly that I can't even believe people are still talking about it.
Again, I don't mean to criticize too harshly; I'm into well thought out conspiracy theories. But that one is a total non-starter to me....
We are talking about transparency here. All other issues aside.. it's very un-transparent.
Isn't that much obvious from the rhetoric is started up? What was the big deal about that anyway? The big deal was the LACK of transparency, nothing else.
It was evident day one, anyone who expected anything else was fooling them self.
I like the name calling too :) We need a 'jingle word' for name calling trolls.
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Which is fine - I have a similar opinion of big corporate news sources. They have stock to worry about, they will give a pass to some people they may consider 'esteemed' - it's evident in the spin.
Like - watch the dragging of Charlie Sheen or Madoff through the mud and then compare to others that come up in the news. Usually they are all too happy to drag people through the mud, but on occasion you'll see the 'apologist' style applied to 'certain people'.
There are too many reasons a big corporate news source has to play games with the facts - especially if it's profitable somehow.
Plus, whenever we have a big disaster, it's time for them to put on a show with snazzy graphics, cool logos and themes too!
I like how Fox always comes up with what I consider a 'jingle phrase' on each disaster and such.
Like ba-boom, "Tsunami in Japan, day 2" or "Crisis in the Middle East" Do they trademark that too?
Or whatever, sorry the only 'official news' source I entertain at all now is my local paper.
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Seriously, have you ever been in a newsroom? Have you ever known a working journalist? Have you ever talked to a newspaper editor? Because it's pretty clear that you never have. You have a very bizarre fantasy about how journalism works.
Clarify and say "how perceived official corporate news sources work".
News is whatever people think is news and however they want to deliver it. I agree that plagiarism has no place in either, but the big corporations want to tout some "holier than though, we own it" concept, all the while - ripping the news off like ANY second rate blog.
Doesn't matter what goes on in a news room, the only thing that matters is what product is delivered to the public, otherwise news has no use.
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Even if it's News Corp Murdoch? You big happy left winger running a supposedly right wing news network, you.
Sorry, this guy is 'NWO' order all the way. He would like nothing better than a corporate/state controlled world. Say what you like, but there are people with that agenda. That much is certain.
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See.. on this.. I could care less. Like the RIAA/MPAA they can just continue their 'old model' until they fade into obscurity.
Nothing really sucks worse than this 'perception' of some type of 'official capacity' of the press or whatever. When news becomes 'official' then we have a 'free flow of information' - kinda like China. Only here, it's corporate run, along with the government.
*Anything* that helps take the big corporation element out of news and puts it back in the hands of the people, is a great thing indeed.
And yeah Surfer - it's been over a year since I've sat and watched network news for more than 10 minutes - literally.
All this Japan news - *I* was informing co-workers of events they had no clue of because I was getting most of my info from the web and not 'official news sources' on the web.
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But they took the time and effort to push for the conversion of medical records to electronic - why not government records?
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Transparency....
lol, this administration? The same one that is sicking the DoJ on Wikileaks?
Get real.
The only 'transparency' this administration wants is in regards to the citizens/others, not itself.
Mr. President won't/can't even produce a legitimate birth certificate to stop the "he's not a citizen rhetoric" - and they talk about transparency. What a laugh.
Regardless of where you stand on the above, if you or I apply for a job that requires a government security clearance - go ahead and tell them you won't show your birth certificate. Hell - say that when you try to get a State ID or driver's license. Obviously, if Obama has a driver's license, he knows where his birth certificate is.
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Nope - *Government* by violating our 4th amendment rights are the ones breaking the law - both by definition and in concept.
Did government have a warrant to search anyone? No.
The 4th Amendment CLEARLY states it is in fact REQUIRED for them to - ******PERIOD****** - THAT IS THE LAW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Note the part that clearly states: "Shall not be violated" - yet, it is.
But many buy the right wing 'it's for your own good' spin.
No, without our rights - this country isn't worth protecting now is it? 'America' is more of a concept than anything.
So again - who's breaking the law?
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