John McCain Picks Mother of Five and Member of 'Feminists for Life' as VP Candidate (3)
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He is elderly; she is young. He has a poor record on abortion; she is pro-life. He is a man; she is a woman. And by picking 44-year old mother and pro-life feminist Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, John McCain has made a politically strategic choice aimed at softening conservatives and evangelicals. Mrs. Palin, a long-time member of “Feminists for Life,” is the mother of five children ages 7, 13, ...
Opinion: How Apple can gain significant OS market share (55)
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Never before has Apple had such a fine opportunity to grab considerable market share from Microsoft. But in order to do that, it must first be willing to change its tactics.Read More...
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Geoffrey Wiseman said:
Wow, I disagree on many of these points. First and foremost, I think Apple needs to retain the hardware. I agree they have an opportunity to gain market share, but at what cost? Personally, I think the simplicity of working with a small number of testable engineered models has been a big part of Apple's success.I think Apple's in a good position to make ground, but I don't think that's the right way to make it happen.
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Rick Dillon said:
This is a good idea, but if Apple were to license OS X to other vendors for sale with compatible hardware, Apple would need to explain how they plan to mitigate the ways in which that would cannibalize their own ability to sell hardware.
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Bill said:
Wow, I made the exact same points around WWDC '08. Whether Apple wants to do this or not, of course, is the real question.
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Eugene said:
Flaming baloney.
A Comparison of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin's Speeches on Feminist Political Objectives and Victories to the Men and Women of America (2)
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Arguably, the three women in American history who have been closest to serving as President of the United States are Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, and now Sarah Palin. All three are self-described feminists. (Note: Mrs. Palin is a long-time member of “Feminists for Life.”) For all practical purposes, Mrs. Ferraro ceased to be a significant player in the national political scene after her unsuccessful 1984 Vice Presidential bid. But this week, the other two women ...
Belkin JoyPod iPhone Gaming Controller with App Store Support? | Touch Arcade (7)
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Last week we published an article about upcoming iPhone gaming controllers. Specifically, we recapped the iControlPad project, but also published a diagram (see right) of what appeared to be another gaming controller for the iPhone that was in development. The original image had been submitted anonymously and simply claimed that testing would begin in October. Some commenters from the original discussion were concerned that these controller pads would be relegated to jailbroken iPhones only due ...
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Parveen said:
This is dumber than dumb. The controller/gamepad has not changed much in 20 years. Let's let it die. It's holding game design back.
Just back from ESUG (3)
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What a blast to meet and discuss with so many people whose works I'm fan of! The five days conference put together over 170 participants, with a high concentration of languages designers and implementors. A few notes of interest: Newspeak, a new programming language designed by Gilad Bracha, is extremely promising. I haven’t seen such an important development in the field object-oriented languages (beside F-Script!) since Self in the early nineties. Trust me, you really ...
Sat, Aug. 30 Electoral Vote Predictor Obama 278 McCain 247 Ties 13 (3)
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The Reaction to Sarah Palin John McCain's surprise pick of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) to be his running mate has already achieved one of its goals: it wiped Barack Obama's acceptance speech, which many people of both parties saw as a great speech, from the news completely. Palin is the only story today. Here are a few photos of her. The first one is from her run at the Miss Alaska contest, where she was ...
iPods in uniform (8)
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Filed under: iPod Family, Software, Odds and endsWhen U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan need to communicate in Iraqi Arabic, Kurdish (spoken in north Iraq), or Dari and Pushto (Afghani languages), they can reach for an iPod. Vcom3D, working with troops from the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, designed a software product called VCommunicator Mobile that uses the iPod to display a phonetic translation, "speak" a phrase through an attached speaker, display the phrase ...
#390. The 13 things you don't want to hear on a mission trip. (2)
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August is almost over and with its exit, we must bid farewell to Mission Trip Month, which has been delightful. I thought as a tribute, it would be fun to create a list of some simple things you don't want to hear on a mission trip:1. "Quick, quick, quick, which snakes are the poisonous ones?"2. "I know, I know, but I've always wanted to see what it was like to drive on the other side ...
Class War, Part 2: Perfection Revealed (1)
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The second presenter was a long-haired woman named Julie wearing an inordinate amount of bracelets. "I'm here to speak to you today," she intoned in a high, airy voice, "of the Harmonic Synchronicity System. I prefer not to use the term 'classification' because it implies a hierarchical order that embodies privilege and prejudice. A classification system is exclusive, whereas my system is inclusive; it is bound by logic, whereas mine is guided by intuition; it ...
Diane is (What are you doing right now?) (1)
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I finally broke down and got a facebook.And then a month or so later I finally started using it.And in it's own sort of way, it's kinda fun.I especially enjoy searching for long lost friends and relatives.I just wish I could find more long lost friends and relatives ...It's so hard to stay in contact with people, you know? We get busy with our lives and the next thing you know ... it's been years. ...
Class War, Part 1: Here Come the Robots (1)
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Saturday was the big day: Class War III, the classification system contest. The contestants took turns giving a brief presentation/explanation of their system. The first one was some bushy-haired, bearded, bespectacled guy named Mark with a laptop."My system is called ClassBot 2.0, based on the prototype ClassBot 1.0 that I presented last year," Mark said. "It is essentially an artificial intelligence program that not only classifies objects according to preprogrammed criteria, but also learns as ...
Are You Concerned About Bandwidth Caps? [Ask The Readers] (23)
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Internet service provider Comcast announces it will instate a 250GB per month bandwidth limit for its subscribers starting October 1st. Ultimately the 250GB cap is higher than most users rack up—as Comcast's press release points out, it's equivalent to downloading nearly 125 standard-def movies in a month. Comcast's limit is also much higher than monthly caps other ISPs are testing, like Cox's 5 to 75GB, Time Warner's 5 to 40GB, and Frontier's 5GB. Since the ...
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Stanley said:
I wish I had a 250GB cap, my 3GB cap sux!
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dknowles said:
@ksw but your options for switching in most cases aren't that great. for instance: my only other option is to not have internet access at all. there's no phone line in my apartment. and comcast monopolizes every market they're in. if i _did_ have a phone line, it would be owned by AT&T, and that's really not any better than comcast. just slower and more subject to warrantless wiretaps. wri/sts.
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Bill said:
Yes.
Apple and AT&T Discussing Official Tethering Option for iPhone? (5)
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Gizmodo reports on an alleged email Steve Jobs sent to one of their readers. The email was in response to a complaint that AT&T is not offering a tethering option for the iPhone, even though it is offered on other smartphones as a $30/month add-on. ...
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Bill said:
'Twould be cool.
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Rick Dillon said:
Talk about pathetic...$30 a month to use the internet connection on the cell phone with a laptop?
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Pauley said:
Doubt I'd pay extra for it, but it'd be nice to have that option.
The Ajax Experience Framework Summit (5)
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We talked a few months ago about something new we're doing at the Ajax Experience this year: the "Framework Summit." Basically, we're providing space for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo to hold their own half-day events on-site, and these events are free and open to the general public. Since we announced the summit, the frameworks have created their agendas for their events for their events: Dojo Developer Day: - Welcome, Introductions (Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann) - ...
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Bill said:
splee! I heart Django and jQuery. wish I could go...
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Dom Derrien said:
I wish I can attend and this community in action, meet face-to-face people I've seen posting electronic articles;)
Breakthrough: Reprogramming Adult Cells (1)
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In a jaw-dropping medical breakthrough, scientists have found a way to re-program adult cells, turning them into cells that have a completely different function. This does not involve stem cells, but regular cells. Excerpts from Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells’ Function - washingtonpost.com: Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that could lead to cures for a variety of illnesses and sidestep the ...
Details of iPhone 2.0.2 Firmware 3G Connectivity Improvements? (5)
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RoughlyDrafted reports on details of the iPhone 2.0.2 firmware 3G connectivity improvements. According to a "source close to AT&T," the connectivity issues have been caused by iPhones demanding that cell towers devote more power than necessary to th...
Glenn Beck: Media blown away by Obama (1)
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