You know, even if one buys into the premise, one does have to wonder about the efficacy of saying things like "If you want pornography, buy a Google phone" or some such. Seriously. How does saying FU to the flash community, forget Adobe, in anyway going to endear people to your position? This is beyond, the Field of Dreams "build it and they will come" failed approach so many try. This is religious dogma. As Matt Damon spouts in the movie Dogma, "Do this or I'll spank you." Yeah, right. For a company that focuses on the customer usability where others don't, it is just totally bizarre to use scorched earth marketing. "Use our product and you'll experience Heaven, don't and we will send you to Hell."

Sorry Jobs. Your attitude smacks of Microsoft and IBM and you are being classified accordingly.

I use Firefox because it has a plug in "Flashblock". This plug in blocks all Flash from running except if I push an "allow" button or add the site to enable flash always. Having all Flash blocked has not detracted from my web browsing experience one iota. For those few sites written in Flash, I just allow the flash or don't go there.

Maybe you can find the same thing for Safari? Further, if Flash is causing such a problem

Looks like there exists a similar thing for Safari:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/14/clicktoflash-for-safari-avoids-flash-browser-bloat/

I just Googled "Safari Flash" and the above link was at the top?

Remember the Enron debacle? Aurther Anderson didn't make the "too big too fail" cut, but the banks did.

If a financial institution gets found guilty of even on felony then they can no longer do business with the feds.

Citibank, a few years ago, paid a 600 million dollar fine for breaking the law and "admitted no wrong doing" because

if they had admitted any wrong doing and been convicted of a felony, goodbye Citibank.

No institution should be so big it can break the law with impunity. The "company" paying a fine is not the same as the officers being thrown in jail for malfeasance.

They should change the way the law currently stands and strip all personhood from corporations. That's the only way you are going to truly solve this problem. If you can't sue the company, then you have to sue the individuals responsible, which is the way it should be. Why should the thousands of employees of a failed company like Aurther Anderson pay for the crimes of the few?

Strip corporations of the same legal rights as a US citizen. Corporations should not have personhood.

I'm guessing I know which camp you are in when it comes to being either for or against fuzzy logic.
Fuzzy logic uses a set of if/then rules to provide hardware and software designs that are cheaper and more reliable than systems trying to approximate Nyquist equations, for example. You can also create a feedback loop to fine tune the rules.

Fuzzy logic control systems have been shown to be interchangable with classic control systems which use all the math you are referring too.

I applaud your passion but even Einstein recognized that mathematics when it comes to physics should always be recognized as a model and an approximation.

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein

Your post smacks of a religious fervor that mathematics is certain when it refers to reality.
Your attitude is all too common in Western academia and hence Japan has had much better success in adopting and applying fuzzy logic than we have.

I think a better argument is to state that mathematical models are just that, models, and while you can blindly apply formulas (much as a computer), you'll miss out on the gaps, e.g assumptions, made along the way to make the model work.

The gap between Newtonian physics and quantam mechanics being the classic example.

Feynman had a similar attitude as yours with respect to the fact that Newtonian physics do not reflect reality at the quantam level, but quantam mechanics works for both the macro and quantam level and hence tried to teach quantam as an introductary physics.

Your argument is similar. Has the US adopted Feynman's philosophy of skipping Newtonian physics and starting with quantam?

I have a lot of Blu Ray and for sure can tell you that at least half of all "1080p" content is nothing more than the movie studioes upscaling standard DVD, SD, printing it to Blu Ray and selling it for $30 as HD. A total rip off.

Especially with Blu Ray TV box sets. The HD broadcast is way better than the quality on disk.

So there is no surprise they are doing the same thing with 3D.

My Sony PS3 upscales better than the scammed Blu Ray disks. A lot of Blu Ray is pixelated and blurry.

You'd think that if Hollywood were going to scam consumers they would use a better upscale converter than they are.
Heck, use a PS3. Blu Ray is a joke except when the content really is 1080p.

Nice, I'm with the Alliance as well but would've gone to the dark side if the Horde where named "The Independence" and the character name "Malcolm Reynolds" where allowed. But, such is not the case so I'm working for the Blue Sun corp.

LOL

Well met. By sunlight. By moonlight. Or any light.

Religion is to stupidity what 30,000 armor is to a warrior in Wow.

LOL

The religious people deserve to be 100% ignored in games, they deserve it.

Why?

Well most video games are either:

1.) 1st person shooter
2.) Role playing AD&D

I've been playing AD&D since 1977 when Chainmail was upgraded to Dungeons and Dragons.

Well, things were going just fine until the early 1980s when some wackos took their role playing too far in Wisconsin and someone died. The religious community immediately stigmatized the ENTIRE gaming community as devil-worshiping loonies based on this ONE anecdote. As a consequence, a couple of years later the Dieties and Demigods manual was revised to "Monster Manual" and all vestiges of religion were wiped from the game.

Let this be a warning to any are thinking of putting "religion" into video games.

Do so at your own peril because these same Yahoos! clamoring for this will turn against you and besmirch your game exactly the way they did AD&D.

So don't do it.

It's called Karma. Let them reap what they sowed.

Amen. LOL.

Religion? RELIGION? I don't need to show you any stinking religion!

One of the best delivered lines to this day in a movie.

On that note, one clarion call for the 1970s is the adage, "Reality is for people who can't handle drugs."

I propose we brush off this adage and upgrade it to the 2.0 version, "Reality is for people who can't handle video games."

Who needs religion? I got WoW!

" lots of years getting good at creating technical products and I don't want the same label as the intern who fixes windoze."

Why? Seriously, why?

Are we living in the 18th century with Kings and Dukes and such?

Every Doctor I have I call them by their first name, not Doctor.

Sometimes people want a license. As with Doctor or Dentist. Only people who have the license can professionally claim the title. Otherwise titles are just pandering. I know many a people who'd rather have pay than a title, the title was bestowed on them without pay as a form of placation.

Are you really that insecure?

Funny how my email inbox doesn't seem suffer from anyone understanding my role. I do not get windoze emails even though we share similar titles. In fact, in large corporations titles are really about pay grade. If your pay is the same as the windoze guy, then you have bigger issues than title. If your pay is commensurate with your work, who fricking cares what they call you?

Let's be bad guys!

Unfortunately is appears to be something fluffy on the order of Sanctuary. Only instead of the mutants being caged by humans, the humans are caged by the aliens. Ugh. They should let Sanctuary be the "feel good" show and turn this show into death, mayhem and destruction. I'm with you on that.

I watched the premerie and the flashbacks with a "airplane full" of people game me the Lost feeling. Each week they can draw in a new character that has yet to be introduced.

Anyone know if she and Joss retain any professional connection?

I guess I just kinda assumed that Joss was helping her out on this.

http://salescircular.com/

Different people, different models.

When I use advertising I want to see nothing but ads. That is what Sales Circular http://salescircular.com/ does. It is nothing but ads and competitor's prices are shown side-by-side.

Personally I think everyone buys things on sale, wants to buy things on sale. However, for someone like myself I consume ads using a different model.

My desired advertising consumption is analogous to the classified ads section of newspapers, or Craig's List.

Online marketing needs to cover their customer consumption bases when it comes to consumer advertising. People like myself who perhaps use AdBlock Plus still want things on sale, we just would prefer to browse ads all-at-once when we are looking for sales, as opposed to seeing ads intermixed with content.

At the end of the day, though, I'm still looking for things on sale and I still buy advertised product.

I don't see AdBlock Plus as a threat, just an expression how different types of consumers like myself use different tactics to find what is on sale. This is no different in the past where Catalogs, Classifieds, Yellow Pages, Magazines, etc all had different audiences they were reaching.