I worry about A.I
The Hoyts theatre chain has an appalling website.
I'm hanging out for an Android phone
Telling people they deserve the laws they get for not paying attention to politicians is just short hand for saying only politicians have rights.
Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....
The nonsense the media says
Markup and styling are inseparable in web technologies, so they ought interact appropriately
The pace of technical developement is ferocious, and the diffilculty in keeping up is especially troubling for computer Operating Systems.
Prescriptionists who insist 'man' is gender neutral as talking bollocks, not English
Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?
Bloody Ldap nonsense!
What sort of ignorant coward advises others not to go to Gallipoli because it scares them?
I just checked out Firefox 3.5's geolocation feature, expecting it to maybe get my city and it pinpointed my home address.
It's quite easy to compel standards compliance
A long time ago I took Economics 101 at university and dropped it as a load of bollocks.
Websites that rely on flash should be added to a black list so we can all go about blissfully ignorant of their existence
Pricks tugging on a knee jerk rope of patriotism annoy me again
Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?
Every computer language has flaws.
I chose Ruby over Python
I'm thinking people who bang the Law and Order drum do it to drown out the voice of dissent and liberty.
Would someone, please, pay a good designer to work on desktops for Linux.
Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.
I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.
How many movies do we see that end satisfyingly?
Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...
Aren't some of the connections between some scientific studies a bit obvious?
The very concept of patents on software is ridiculous, even more so the preposterous idea that prior art means anything.
Fantasies about reality and authority may comfort some, but have no place in civil governance
What difference is there between my ethical position and anothers' religious practice?
Corporate entitlement has gotten ludicrous
The mainstream media keeps whining that the world needs them to keep a check on power.
Companies that abuse openly available standards (even if proprietary) really get on my wick. For instance...
Remeber the Jetsons? A world where automation meant people only needed to work an hour or two a day to afford a comfortable life. Who ever thought economics could work that way?
The National Party of New Zealand wants to make NZ citizens bitches for wealthy people; peasants servile to their needs.
The single most important thing for civil society is the rule of law and repression of corruption.
I am not scared of the wider world attacking me, my government oppressing me is the more credible danger
What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?
Why did Fox's attempts to emulate Jon Stewart fail?
Last night, just before bed, I saw part of a TV program wherein a NZ performer was upset they could not use their name to promote themself in Europe because someone had trademarked it.
I sympathise, the idea of someone taking ownership of your name is offensive, but that isn't what's got me ranting.
The program was a documentary that then went on to describe (and incidentally tell lies) about I.P laws and generally complain of foreigners owning New Zealand identity by virtue of registering trademarks before it occurred to anyone in NZ to do so and capturing uniquely NZ symbols (primarily Maori names and art).
The topic broadened to include a general bemoaning of indistinct NZ culture and how if it weren't for Maori there'd be nothing but a sallow European colony. The poor guests on the show seemed to think themselves worthless and uninteresting because they couldn't be properly labeled and presented.
The notables passed in front of camera and complained about how hard it was for them. One in particular made a comment about having been asked to appear somewhere in traditional NZ dress and not knowing what to wear (I suggest a blank singlet) that differentiates NZ from Australia.
And all this talk of national identity just drove me mad - I'm not determined to be seen to be the same as my neighbour and I don't give a damn what people around me insist ought define them. People shouldn't be so willing to find a herd.
A nation is best defined by it's laws and the character of it's citizens, not what romantic pretence is represented by costume and make up. All these worthies who worry so much about defining their nation ought concern themselves with the laws that let corporations capture ideas and restrain expression more than what frock goes with 'NZ'.