Perhaps it's my upbringing, but I see life as war. Not a race, but a war.

Do onto others before they do unto you. That's the credo I feel this world operates on.

This goes doubly more for business. There are, and I've met, some good honest people out there doing great work with little reward, or even little desire of more reward. But for one of those, you have 10 who want nothing more than to kill every single competitor, steal their ideas, products, clients / customers, and then lie, cheat and steal their way through those customer's wallets.

Not nice, right? It is Darwinian. Kill the other business before they do it to you. Not the way it should be, but is the way it is.

I hate it. I detest it. And this is all learned by 3rd grade, I think. Even then I noticed "huh, the nasty kids and the cheats win and get ahead faster than the quiet, studious, nice ones."

"Strategize, Visualize, Conceptualize."

C-Speak takes what could fit on a 2 x 1.5" sticky note and expands it to fill entire books.

I imagine it'd look like frog-in-a-blender streaking by at something near mach 1 with fire at the tail end.

Ewww.

Apple is "known" for their great UIs and yet it's far more difficult to find things on a damn mac, iphone or ipad than it's ever been on a windows device.

Dunno 'bout you, but on my ios6 iphone 4, I go to home screen, press home again, and there's this magical Search page that will rifle through my phone. if I search for "doctor" it'll return all the calendar, email, address book entries for that "doctor." If I have media in the phone with the word "doctor" in it, it'll also come up.

How is it worse than a Windows device?

And a JATO pack.

On me, or the car? Either way, that's a win.

Still waiting for my flying car..

*all of it* has to change. Every single piece of our society. It's all FUBAR.

'kkay, done with the mike.

Oh, and another thing -- The next World War will really be fought inside the computer and the various networks. Yeah, drone bombs and bullets and real deaths -- but the real damage, I suspect, will be done by manipulating utilities and financial systems.

Wow, Sum of all Fears is starting to sound plausible. Didn't that one start with an attack on the stock exchanges? Bogus transactions, etc?

I was told in late '98 by a knowledgeable fellow that China had been trying to stick crowbars into USAF stuff for at least a decade -- meaning it was going on during Ray-gun, and likely Carter.

Now, I know lots of you also heard that, and variations on the same song. So why is it that mainstream media don't call it? It's been going on for a long, long time. Mainstream thinks China is an emerging threat. Bullshit. They were an emerging threat 30 years ago. Now they're a real threat.

The next World War will be computer-driven drones of all sorts, in air, space, water and land. I've been thinking that for 10+ years, but my confidence that it will happen is increasing exponentially. It's going to happen, folks.

Think of the ramifications of hardware backdoors in hardware made in usa, china -- anywhere, really.

I think it's time I put my zombie kit together.

Then their headhunter needs to communicate better.

I had a few phonecalls with Prolexic back in late '11. The talks didn't get too far. Sounds like a sweatshop with very high churn. Something, I don't know what, gave me the impression that it's a struggling concern.

What are the odds that this article was a slashvertisement?

What amazes me is that nobody is learning anything from these green technology failures.

Yeah USA's been down this road before. Didn't work then. Won't work now. For a while everyone was "by 2000 there will be no oil anywhere" and 20 years later (90's) people were driving land garbage scows and there was so much oil prices plummeted. Eco went away.

The current wave of Ecothink is similar to the last. Solar still won't work, not with photovoltaics in their current state. Corn is a joke. It's for eatin' and makin' hooch, not becoming fuel. It's upside-down, you spend more energy making than what you get out of it. Adding it to gasoline makes the cars unhappy and doesn't do a damn thing to improve MPG. Wishful thinking can't beat physics. People still fall for Eco and embrace it with religious fervor.

As for electric cars I'm all for it, just please no rows and rows and rows of ballast.. I mean batteries.. weighing down my car and needlessly using dangerous, expensive, hard-to-get materials.

As a user, there is no appreciable difference between the two, and you often don't even notice which path your messages are using

My mileage varied:

1. iMessages are easy to spot, they have blue bubbles instead of Green

2. iMessages usually arrive nearly-instantaneously, but many times they'll arrive minutes after they were sent, in some cases hours. Or the next day.

3. iMessages seem to dupe. A lot.

3. iMessages seem to dupe. A lot.

4. iMessages seem to choke when sent along with video or pictures if you're out in 3G-land.

It's called "bully."

Don't get what you want? Throw a tantrum or take by force.

Few people agree with what you say? Be mean to them, belittle them, In public if possible. Bully them until a) they kick your ass or kill you, b) you *do* win them over, or 3) they stop listening to you.

This particular phenomenon isn't quite new. TV and Religion work much the same way. One blogger or poster or anchor or pastor or priest will say one thing, then an avalanche of people incapable of original, independent thought nod in assent. In order to rile the crowd, they will attack the person and ideas of those who "oppose" them. "Gee, if senator Juan Pingalarga is here in church agreeing with the pastor's bashing of gays, it must be ok! I'll bash gays too!" Tell me this isn't how it works. Tell me this isn't how we get these sickening political comments threads on CNN, etc. Tell me that's not how we get these fantastically bellicose flame wars here about win vs. unix, apple vs. android / samsung etc.

Tell me this isn't why America's rapidly slipping into irrelevance -- the smart and quiet ones constantly out-mouthed by the dumb and loud.

This starts at home and school, and the only way to buck it is to teach the little ones right, not trusting their education largely to TV or the Internet.

This has been done before.

Prior Art.