Actually, the privatization of the military has already started. The military already doesn't cook their own meals: Haliburton does that. And let's not even bring up Blackwater...

Tosh.0 reviewed the Ipad. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRR2A3bJwEM

Enjoy!

I still don't understand that argument.
The post office is amazing!

I can take a physical piece of paper, put it in a mailbox and someone will pick it up and send it to my desired location in a matter of a day to a few days. All for a few measly cents. How is that inefficient?

That's partially true.
I also lived and worked in Manhattan during 9/11.

There was a cellphone tower on top of one of the two towers which killed cellphones for the lower region of the island, but cellphones were working just fine as low as 35th st. I called my parents back home from my apartment on 91st street and spoke with a co-worker who was already at work and watching the events unfold from the corner of 35th and 7th.

You are definitely correct about cellphones not working down in the financial district however.

I personally donate software I write because I've built a career off of open source and can't think of a better way to "give back" to the community then to give away what I write.

Yep, instead we're just banning it from public places, taking away the rights of bar and club owners, and creating a stigma that all people who smoke are "dirty".

Great fucking methods...

- One Of The Oppressed

Can your wife defend herself with defensive arts like Karate, or with pepper spray or a taser?

Why must she protect herself with lethal means?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against gun ownership per se, but your argument falls a little short.

I'm not trolling here, I'm genuinely curious...

What makes using multiple processes in an app better than threading?
I've used both in programming and a nutshell breakdown that I understand and that I've experienced is thus:

* Threading is quick and can "share" memory and resources but requires the programmer to synchronize access to shared resources through mutexes and such
* Processes have no such synchronization problem and *can* share memory but it's much more difficult to do so, instead making use of inter-process communication via pipes and unix sockets, which in my experience is much more time consuming and difficult than sharing memory via threads but still easier than sharing memory between processes.

Again, this is a nutshell and oversimplified comparison, but from where I stand, I've always thought threading was easier and quicker to use and works just as well, if not better, than multi-process apps. Of course there are times when it's more appropriate to use processes rather than threads.

Again, what's your take on the matter?

Actually, I think that would be allowable. If you make a statement and use an obvious hyperbole it's not considered misleading. Using your example, a typical 5-seater car would never be able to outrun a speed rocket and that fact is obvious, laughable even, so no one would take it to mean "it really can do this!".

That's similar to showing a 5-year-old lifting a WWF wrestler over his head and twirling him around after eating a bowl of wheaties while saying "Wheaties makes you strong!". It's obvious hyperbole.

On the other hand, the apple commercial really can be viewed as "it really works this fast!" by people not in the know, and therefore and be construed as misleading.

All the things you mentioned could be done with a simple touch screen interface that we have now. All you need is an intuitive interface.
In fact, adding gestures and gloves and what-not would be a hindrance mainly because all the guests would have to figure out what gestures did what. On the other hand, everybody knows how to point and click, even if it's just with their fingers.

I can definitely agree with this.
I too am an open source author. When I first wrote and released software to the community, I had slashdot visions of people coming together to help me out in any way they can; maybe some patches, maybe some documentation, whatever.

I was rather surprised when my download numbers kept going up, but the emails offering support never really came.

On the support side of things, sure, I'll help out individuals that email me with questions, but I'm not going to bend over backwards to help, not because I don't want to, but because I simply don't have the time. Rent is expensive.

Reality has a well known liberal bias.