And I'm for banning handheld cellphone use by drivers. But blocking ALL mobile devices?? that means I wouldn't be able to use my iPad (as passenger) to get directions.. Or call for directions (as passenger) or well so many other "useful" things that a passenger can do with mobile access..

Then of course there is the "what if it goes awry" scenario and prevents me from calling help in a crash.

Another zealot not thinking things though.

It's a good idea to learn from the mistakes of others who like adding confusing naming.

Except this is not a "photo ban", it's a "everyone ban". They want to just keep everyone at least 20 meters away from everything for safety. That includes photographers and non photographers alike. So it is nowhere near the same thing at all. As always it's about creating Shock factor in the headline.

Yeah that's right.. No bloody A, B, G, or N. the RAW real original 2MB cards. I actually got them for free as we asked the company that made them for some "samples" so we could do testing on them.. And they sent us 5 with 2 PCMCIA "ISA" cards :) But that was so 1998.

Basically IBM is looking at their "bottom line" in both instances..

For ODF, IBM has the potential to get more money as users become no longer tied to Microsoft Office. (Lotus and whatever other "document" products IBM has that may support ODF.. What they are I am not sure.. I don't use them).

For the Hercules issue, since IBM "HAS" the majority stake in the products in that arena, having an open competitor would decrease their income.

It's all about $$$.. Not about open source.

Very interesting observation.. I was trying to figure out what Netfix's catch was on supporting 5 day delivery, and this makes perfect sense.. Although, what percentage of their user base does that, surely it can't be that high to really affect their bottom line much at all. I'm sure many users keep movies for a LONG time and end up spending a months subscription on 1 or 2 movies.

So they integrated a "Readability" feature into the browser.. So what.. I've been using this for quite a while as a bookmarklet in Firefox..

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Works great and does (nearly) the same thing.. (It doesn't pull in multiple page articles.)

Actually, the PS2 has no more games being developed for it. I was actually in a Gamestop a month ago and there were only like 5 games in the pipeline before the EOL of new games to the PS2. And I can not justify buying a PS3 ESPECIALLY with the recent barrage of Firmware updates and EULA changes that take away the rights of the owner of the unit. I'll pass..

(BTW, I love the tag line)

Personally I called them the "IBM Piece of S-2" as me and a few fellow employees did a "Office Space" on them. Smashing them batting practice on the hard drives into the nearly indestructible monitors, as we were getting rid of them or giving them away to teachers at the school w/ a 300 baud modem?!?!?!?. Yeah.. this was in 1998 too.. Twas a school "Behind the times" in technology.

I just wished it would have shown the background in the search results too:)

Yes they are adding the functionality for backgrounding tasks etc.. I've heard and seen nothing on the "sharing" of between applications, only of adding in 3rd party handlers for mime-types. (ie.. opening an ODF in a 3rd party ODF application from the stock mail app). That does not require any rewrite of permissions.

And the way that the new backgrounding is being added is fairly seamless and doesn't require much of any change at all. And no "completely different programming paradigm" is required. Not sure who you are talking with, but they don't seem that well informed. All Apple did was pull in the "closures" that they introduced in Mac OS X 10.6 to build the "background tasks".. not really a "completely different" programming paradigm.

And I do believe that the whole "different frameworks" mess is just Apple and Adobe getting into a "pissing contest". Apple, Adobe, and Google are all acting like little kids in a playground up there and causing lots of collateral damage down here for the rest of us.

I don't remember that one either.. Possibly it was some "screwup" with hotmail (one of the screwups). But I do remember M$ Shutting down their "Play for sure" DRM servers so users could access all the music they had purchased through it.

Then why did you hire them.