Actually, it does. From New Oxford American Dictionary:
informal used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true : I have received literally thousands of letters.
Oh look, another quickly-posted reply that attempts to paint MS in a positive light. What are the odds.
EABOD, astroturfer.
I'm on the fence.
On the one hand, it seems like you are making a slippery slope argument. "If they do this today, then tomorrow it will be worse." Things don't always work out that way, although they certainly do with a fair amount of frequency.
On the other hand, corporations do have the lion's share of power in reflecting and shaping social norms. This makes me uncomfortable as well.
Regardless, I think Apple did the right thing in this specific case. Groups like this one have incredibly harmful affects, indirectly (and sometimes directly) leading to suicide, depression, and various other social problems.
Why not just get an iPad with a BlueTooth keyboard, then?
I am not jaded, you worthless peon. I've just seen it all before and it makes me completely SICK.
This is turning into a Big Deal, isn't it?
So, Mobile Safari proper uses Nitro and has seen some good performance improvements. For reasons unknown, these changes didn't make it into apps that use UIWebView.
You don't have to be Nostradamus to see what debate that "reasons unknown" part is going to cause.
1) Apple is evil and trying to cripple web performance so that people buy apps
2) It's a bug and/or simply didn't make into iOS 4.3 because it wasn't prioritized.
I think you have that backwards. The banks own the government.
You know, there are two licensing-related problems Google is facing now with Android: the Oracle lawsuit, and now this. Both seem to have at least partially arisen because Google didn't float stuff past people who have interests in the technologies they chose to use. It makes me wonder if there was some development going on behind closed doors back when Schmidt was on Apple's board, but it was kept hush-hush to keep from letting Apple know what they were up to.
Reality: Recent history seems to show that there are two things no President has the power to affect: the Pentagon and Wall Street. Presidents can only begin new actions. They cannot end or meaningfully decrease existing ones where boots are on the ground.
We'll see what happens with Libya. If it turns into a Serbian-style air campaign, then we will be in and out relatively quickly. But if the Marines or Army get involved, we will be there indefinitely.
Astroturfing, HOOOOO!
You're right. The net benefit of energy usage will be completely negated by you using an incandescent bulb to keep your pipes from freezing.
Fuck the free market. It doesn't work for shit, and deserves no more religious or moral dedication than any other system of economics. Banning CFLs is a net positive. Banning weed is a net negative. Those two things can both be true at the same time without the need to make idiotic claims of government running amok.
Spotlight.
Spotlight and fuhgeddaboutit.
Basically I don't worry about it any longer. Spotlight let's me search the entire file system, and subsets of it like emails, and OS X is pretty good about automatically generating metadata. Good enough for most circumstances, anyway.
And since you can search the contents of files, this makes looking for that PDF Joe Blow sent you last week dead easy.
Honestly, I have ~/Documents and a few subfolders, and that's about it. Between Spitlight and Quicksilver I don't have to worry about directory hierarchies any more.
Very informative. Do you have a source?
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
