Mobile platforms are an extremely active battleground right now, though.
The mind boggles that we're in a situation where arguments like this are put forward. No offence to you specifically Groxx, but... I feel like Apple has exiled us all to crazy land.
What, you mean because for the first time ever we actually have not one, but two decent, modern operating systems for consumer-marketed phones? Both of which make applications (a HUGE source of revenue for Apple) simple to develop and simple to buy? Palm's WebOS never really took off strongly, and Blackberries are... blackberries. Good in some ways, bad in others, and full of zero competition in their market.
Some aspects of it look copied to me - the class's 10 fields are in identical order. Some parameters to the function look lifted straight from code generated by disassembling bytecode (flag flag1 set set1). However, these may be explainable by some other means.
"And you still have to take off your shoes... correct? Eight years to built the A-bomb. Nine years to put a man on the moon. Yet... after 9 years, we are still walking barefoot through airports. Something that would not be permitted in a health care setting... or a restaurant."
I'm not sure I'm catching your point, but I was thinking of comments such as these:
walnuttrees in Boston Globe comments (Sept. 3, 2010 ): Still kneeling, his face less than a foot from my crotch he advised me he would pass the back of his hands over my crotch, under my testicles, and in the fold between my legs. I felt him cup my testicles and run his fingers from my rear orifice down the back of my balls.
ryan182 in FlyerTalk (Sept. 3, 2010 ): Flying out of SFO yesterday I saw someone getting the pat down, it was shocking the guy was all up in the dudes junk. so despite what they said its happening in other airports.
Anonymous1989 in Boston Globe comments (Sept. 4, 2010 ): He stood behind me and placed his arms around my neck, surprising me with how strong and firm his grip was -- it felt like someone choking me from behind.
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Kneeling, his face less than a foot from my crotch he advised me he would pass the back of his hands over my crotch, under my testicles, and in the fold between my legs. I felt him cup my testicles and run his fingers from my an-s down the back of my balls. By now I was turning red. I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?
MarkVII in TSA Blog: Enhanced Pat-downs (Sept. 15, 2010 ): This keeps getting worse. I had hoped that "grab and squeeze" was a case of checkpoint workers going too far. Since you can't give details on the process for security reasons, this tells me that "grab and squeeze" is actually part of the protocol. Add the seeming lack of accountability to the mix, and I don't like what I foresee at all.... If these same folks can now grab me by the b at the checkpoint, I've got even less reason to fly that I had before. There's got to be a better way...
My point was that "The consistency is impressive" is questionable, given that the list is polluted with random rants that don't even describe an occurrence. It's a poorly curated list that I find untrustworthy as a result.
...and amazingly enough, I noticed that your chosen 'highlights' include such rants! Deary me, pay attention.
By the way, I crave downvotes from humourless Apple devotees.