Comment Re:No Farks Given on NSA feelings (Score 2) 272
Give her a break. She's Canadian.
Give her a break. She's Canadian.
In Soviet Russia, Tech Utopia say "Nicholas Carr is 'creepy.'"
It plays right into the narrative. The torrent user is a dangerous criminal.
The first rule of Mr. Robot is: You do not talk about Mr. Robot.
Everyone can be a billionaire!
The relevant section of the App Store Review Guidelines:
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#copycats
Also interesting:
5.2.5 Apple Products: Don’t create an app that appears confusingly similar to an existing Apple product
Now his app can be removed for the app store for being confusingly similar to the official app which came later!
Do you know why that is the case? (I don't know. Just curious.) Yahoo finance used to have some interesting features and seemed ahead of its time for a free service. Was the messenger adoption in your industry a draft effect from this?
They are horrible. Most of them would be fine to output a static site that could then be deployed public-facing.
But will it fold into a briefcase?
Plus, nearly every picture you see of her shows her sporting a black turtleneck! She's hardworking and a visionary.
The last statement in the summary is completely uncalled for.
Ned Wright is known to have a pretty sharp wit. Besides, Myhrvold used his notoriety to grandstand with the press before his work was peer-reviewed, basically calling Wright a moron. I would get a little testy too.
If Myhrvold wants to play the YOU-ARE-NOT-CREDIBLE-BECAUSE-YOUR-ORGANIZATION-MAKES-BAD-SOFTWARE game, he need only mention Mars Climate Orbiter. Oops! See how that works?
Not to mention Spaceport Command and Control System (SCCS) Doh!
I think we're witnessing a new class of rich assholes who think they're superman or something.
Not Superman. Maybe he's trying for Tony Stark. The closer (though obscure) parallel that came to mind was the wealthy industrialist Tim Hamner from the novel Lucifer's Hammer.
This is one of the few stories where I expect a lot of people to throw all long-established
I clicked this submission just to see what the App-App-Appers guy will say. Maybe he's not awake yet.
He's also made other outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark.
Increased concentrations of CO2 has lead to an increase in duplicate stories and comments on slashdot.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
