Only companies? Hardly.

We have cliques of wiki editors who have agendas, we have non corporate organizations with agendas, we have internet groups of like minded people who make sure their viewpoints are the only accepted truth, etc. Wikipedia is slanted with the common viewpoints, not the historically or factually correct in many articles.
The wikipedia rules are ignored when the editors disagree and enforced when a counterpoint they want to limit, its the standard attack method.

My favorite was the common belief that in the Vietnam war there was no Canadian military. It was contested with a Canadian Military government webpage that listed medals earned in Vietnam during the war. It was still removed and banned. The historian had so many of his viewpoints over turned, he ended up only writing articles in his personal page.

The "group think" is so strongly promoted on wikipedia, that its basically re-writing our history so the popularly viewpoints are the accepted viewpoints.

Credibility has always been an issue with rampant viewpoint moderation.

Pandora doesn't have the selection I want, and I'm not an apple user so I wont use iTunes.
I have other places to buy mp3 cds and my music discovery of choice is Spotify.

Amusing my car has a pandora app, but I use bluetooth to stream spotify music and metadata.

So again, how is Pandora and iTunes the standard?

Agreed, lived here for almost 20 years, and I've had ISDN/IDSL and DSL on Qwest or Frontier (sucks) living in major suburbs of Seattle. I'm on comcast now and I dont want to ever go back. Plus the digital cable is better than Frontier anyday.

There is already some people using tech to break into cars in California.
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/high-tech-car-thieves-break-into-vehicles-without-leaving-a-trace
http://jalopnik.com/whats-the-secret-device-thieves-in-california-are-usin-471782175

Always wanted to make an application called cloud burst, that lets you move all cloud providers, move your resources with a touch of a button.

Amazon throws tons of money in the shorter term to own cloud computing in the long term. Openstack is still green and needs support. If they embraced AWS/Rackspace they might get more support and become a perfect fit those times when AWS isn't the best option. Want to run a lab? A 1500 dollar blade is works just fine. Want to run a few heavy duty load balancers, hit the cloud provider. Want 1 app to manage it? AWS has a bunch of 3rd party desktop managers for billing, reporting and maintenance. Openstack could come in and clean up.

Problem I've always had with openstack was its complex design, extra network and view of hardware resources is just fugly. I used puppet/kvm with a few scripts and it was much easier for me to maintain. I deployed almost a thousand VM's from a puppetserver with cobbler on multiple location with hundreds of blades.
I spent most the time in Excel working with devs on hardware requires on cpu/memory/disk usage and node count and network design. This is what I need automated.

I was looking at Openstack to replace the excel spreadsheet that keeps all my configurations. Make it simple. I wanted a vmware like interface on top of well known linux technologies with an configuration import button. But that never happened. No way am I manually typing in configurations, and I dont want another network for openstack management.

So now, I'm using AWS. Still using puppet, but ec2tools work mostly for me. Still dont have a good configuration management tool, EC2 desktop is lacking basics. Could Openstack fill the need? Maybe, but it needs to think of its users needs not its devs fun programing projects.

Yup, 2560x1440 for 350-450 on ebay, brand new, drop shipped from Korea, Got mine in 27 hours by fedex for 70 bux.
No dead pixel options also.

Cant wait for 4K.

Actually, those women who sell pharmaceuticals to doctors or telecom services to engineers kinda disprove your theory that its not an industry wide issue.
Public relation groups and special interest groups are full of ex-cheerleaders and attractive men and women.

Not saying its right, just saying its not just E3 and Boat/Car shows.

When I dream of a juicy hamburger its sure the hell ain't cultured meat.

Reminds me of all the self righteous blog posts by industry insiders about how average person just don't understand the elegance, and the future direction of the GUI.

The said the vocal outspoken are just loud cry babies that don't know anything, don't contribute, and just waste everyone's times.

As if removing the start button and window themes and ridding the world of "archaic" features like a program list and mouse will enlighten the common man to GUI nirvana.

Yeah, didn't happen did it.

/sigh

I always push for the ISO 8601 time formats. I like seeing YYYY-MM-DD on my time stamps. Wish this was the industry standard for logging, file systems, etc.

What I hate how the US has Saturday/Sunday split on the weekend. Who really thinks, Oh its Sunday start of the week!
Monday is really the start of the week, right after the WEEK END, and that's how I like my calendars displayed. Monday thru Sunday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Plea bargains make people plead guilty all the time. I remember when Wennatchee sex ring scandal happened. The whole population wanted justice, hang the child rapists! The state went for life sentences for all 40+ people accused.
Many of the people pleaded guilty when they faced life in prison. Only after years of litigation did it come out the entire thing was a hoax. No child was raped.

The stresses this young man faced shouldn't be the norm. Obama was suppose to be the voice the people, the people who work in his administration should echo his values.

I can only hope that a 3rd party takes off someday, we really need to vote the bastards out, not vote pretend in a 2 party system.

I cant wait to stream used games...

Oh.

Exactly, thus limitations and restrictions on things that a group of people don't want. Make it artificially hard to obtain.

Same goes with the left side on gun control, the right side with abortion, both sides on medical marijuana.

I'm sure 100 years from now, free speech will be allowed as long as your in a room by yourself. Restrictions and all.

I wonder, is the vine format smaller than gif? Lots of small gifs all around, so no reason they couldnt be placed if devices can view them.
Only problem I can think of, I want to be able to see them on my android phone and laptop and no viewer yet?

Not sure what all the hate is, its like people dont like new tech around here.