I actually didn't even think about that. I just automatically assumed that she in fact is a history geek. I have no idea what that says about me.
It says you are a fan of at least one Kevin Costner movie..... "Who would claim to be that?" Here endeth the lesson... heh
A former employer of mine used to (well, probably still does) say something was a "mute point". It grated on my nerves every time he said that.
What? You didn't take the opportunity to point out that "mute" means STFU?
50 MPH zone transitioning into a short 35 MPH zone on a straight and level consistently wide road, is for no reason other than to allow the creation of a speed trap so that the town where that 35 MPH zone resides can stick it to people.
I see you've driven our famous Highway 301 in North and Central Florida. Most of those little towns actually fund the Police force with speeding tickets.
Barnes and Noble's / Amazon's reader apps already do this ebook syncing. Firefox does bookmark syncing. Google account syncs your phonebook/email.
you are right, of course, there is nothing new with yesterdays announcements. Except.... You just listed three separate syncing services with different configurations and Fumblings to get it all to work. Apples announcement yesterday is, essentially, sync it all for free (or an extra $25.00 a year, for the songs you didn't buy from iTunes) and the configuration required is a single username and password entered on each device to sync them all.... (there is a LOTR joke in there somewhere). That's what has made Apple so popular - the idea that all this geeky stuff can be easy to set up and relatively hassle free to maintain. No question they will gain market share with this - if nothing else the talking points are huge, and that sells devices.
so YOUR the asshole that makes my car insurance rates go up!
so you're the asshole ruining english.
So I guess the eternal
Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software? -- Matt Welsh
Considering that "lemmings jumping off a cliff" is a myth, your comment is insightful.
A high court in an important-to-technology-business country just ruled that magic is science. That's pretty newsworthy.
Well, it's not magic until one of the cockamamy predictions is correct. Until then it's just like predicting the weather, but with even less accuracy.
Wrong - it's 'magic' when someone treats it like it has substance, not when the dice finally roll a seven.
oh, yes, isn't it so "ironic" that they're attacking business who are complicit in the government's attempt to circumvent the first amendment by pressuring businesses to "voluntarily" do the censorship for them.
Next, you'll be complaining it's kinda ironic that they're attaching the freedom of the government to ride roughshod over the consitition.
My god, the freedom! Where will it ever end!
I'm not the OP but commenting on the irony of a thing is not the same as complaining about it. Reading all that extra motivation and content into a remark is what creates a false controversy. "Straw man" is the logic fallacy involved.
No, but most TV stations surround themselves with a plague (my collective term for a group) of lawyers.
Really? I kinda like Doves....
I would have used: a Culture of Lawyers (same as bacteria), a battery of lawyers (barracuda), a Smack of Lawyers (jelly fish), or maybe a Surfiet of Lawyers (skunks)...
my apologies to all those animals.
because international proxies apparently don't exist?
because TOR doesn't exist?
because satellite internet doesn't exist?
from a technical perspective, both the export restrictions and the amelioration made by google are idiotic.
in all fairness, they could already use those techniques to download the software.
They are relatively good but absolutely terrible. -- Alan Kay, commenting on Apollos
