Comment From an engineers perspective: (Score 4, Insightful) 296
Option A) Apple products.
Option B) The freedom to do what you want with the stuff you buy.
Pick one and stop complaining.
Comment Re:two ways to solve the tax "scam" (Score 2, Interesting) 1505
I am in favour of completely eliminating ALL taxes on corporations so long as they are NOT considered a "person" under the law. So long as they are, then they should be subject to taxation, just as any other person is.
Comment You forgot one: (Score 1) 1306
6a. "Here are a bunch of straw men, watch me knock them down!" - Arthur Grumbine
Comment The iPod is overrated. Consider a "touchbook". (Score 1) 426
IMHO, the iPod Touch is a terribly overrated device. It's too small, slow and buggy to be useful for anything more than light use as a web browsing device.
If you like the Movit, you might also consider the AI Touchbook.
Comment Re:Getting closer... (Score 1) 209
Basically, an Ipod touch that has about 4-5x the screen size would be exactly what I (and by extension everyone else) want.
Hell no. I own an iPod Touch 16GB and if this thing were shipped with the iPod's closed, buggy and brain-dead operating system, I'd avoid it like the plague. The only feature I would want to share with the iPod is the multi-touch support.
Comment Do you work for the Canadian government? (Score 1) 52
What a co-incidence, the Canadian government is apparently asking very similar questions.
Comment Re:"Sells software"? Microsoft Partner! (Score 2, Funny) 281
1998 called, it wants its anti-open-source arguments back.
Comment Re:Some background on the parent comment (Score 1) 410
by any chance do you drive a Ford or Volkswagen? Do you live in the US (a country that did not join the fight against Hitler until it was attacked by Japan many years into the war). Do you own land in the USA? Land that was essentially stolen from the natives who inhabited it before your ancestors arrived? Have you PERSONALLY paid reparations to the native americans who have suffered for hundreds of years as a result of your ancestors actions?
There is plenty of historical shit to go around if you really want to start flinging. I personally find it hypocritical of people on slashdot to hold IBM up to a standard that they themselves are not willing to live up to.
Submission + - Japan launches an aircraft carrier (defensetech.org)
PHAEDRU5 writes: "'The Japanese Navy — officially the Maritime Self-Defense Force — has launched an "aircraft carrier." At least the Hyuga, launched at Yokohama on August 23, looks like an aircraft carrier — she has a flush flight deck and a large, starboard-side island structure...The Hyuga, the largest warship constructed in Japan since World War II, is considered by some observers to be the first step toward the development of a large aircraft carrier.'
Japan's back in the power-projection business."
Japan's back in the power-projection business."
Submission + - The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma C (democracynow.org)
axb2298 writes: Democracy Now (http://www.democracynow.org) is reporting A Salt Lake City lawyer searching for the truth behind his brother's death has uncovered a wealth of new information that could implicate the FBI in the Oklahoma City bombings. The documents he dug up suggest the FBI knew about the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in advance but did little to prevent it.
Submission + - Man Bleeds Green Like Vulcan (11alive.com)
VE3OGG writes: "While Star Wars might be overtaking Harvard, an individual at Vancouver, British Columbia's St. Paul's Hospital was re-enacting Star Trek, by bleeding green like a Vulcan. The condition, know as sulfhemoglobin "[is] so rare that we don't have a perfect understanding how it happens, but some drug donates a sulphur group that binds to the hemoglobin molecule and prevents it from binding to oxygen," Flexman explains. "And that gives it the green colour." Of course, this isn't quite Vulcan anatomy 101, as it was a copper bonding agent in the Vulcan's blood that caused it's greenish hue."
