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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Precisely - it's the user experience that puts Apple out ahead not cutting edge technology. In fact their technology is and always has been (when did Mac-0S get real multi-tasking?) rather conservative.
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
What matters though is what the person signing the editors pay check thinks about myspace! Thats the danger with print journalism. If you see a Fox news story that Obama easts babies you can pretty much guess the impartiality of the source.
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Technologies in their spring? A BSD kernel, a gui from Next and a object orientated version of C from before C++ ! Technology-wise Apple basically takes a steam train, wraps a Bang+Olufson case around it and makes it emit the scent of roses
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
That's what we need to make airline travel safer. The two pilots both fly with loaded handguns pointed at the head of the other pilot in case they turn out to be a crazy commie/terrorist/(delete as appropriate).
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Except that in the US (unless you are at the airline's home base) the checkin+gate staff are probably on contract from some staffing agency or rented from the airport. The 'Delta connection' flight you are on is sub-contracted out to a 2 ma
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Taken to extreme it would be like the Secret Service checking the president for a swiss army knife before letting him into the big red button room.
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Typical - there's no contact info in the God's .sig Suppose I want to serve him a writ?
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
So who does check the ID? If it's not the super trained government appointed guardians of our safety - the clerk at the departure gate ? Surely there should also be a TSA agent standing behind each pilot throughout the flight if they can't
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Then the recipient would have to first agree that storing the ino about this 'message being confidential' on a 3rd party website was accpetable - you would have to have click through EULAs on each email and make them different depending on
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Then how does he get on the fligth deck? If his ID isn't sufficient to avoid screening - but it is sufficient to allow him to sit in the front seats ?
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
So now the interests of the ISP are aligned with torrent downloaders - that should make things interesting. When your ISP is doing the torrent anonymizing for you and caching the download on their servers.
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lkijuhygtfd
16y ago
Although you could patent a step in the manufacturing process or an improvement in the formula. That was the classic Edison stratergy for movie film, there were too many people with a claim to having invented film - so he patented the sproc