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Re: iPhone Is Closed. Good for Users

AG — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:24:20 -0000

I've never much cared for the one-size fits all concept. I suppose I'm part of the 4% that you mentioned. Perhaps if given the choice, you'd find that people really do like to have control over their devices. Methinks that Apple products will always be niche, due to these problematic design philosophies.
What is interesting tho, Apple has borrowed KHTML (rendering engine from Konqueror), and FreeBSD (framework for Darwin), but they insist upon closing their architecture and not allowing developers to be creative on their hardware platforms. Have you ever thought what Apple's desktop market share would be if they had not killed Power Computing?

Lastly, I'd put my Treo650 up against the iPhone any day ;)

Re: under dressed — or “you must learrrnn”

AG — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:30:56 -0000

J:
I too love hip-hop, but I don't believe there are enough positive images that could help inform our black youth about their culture. You mentioned KRS-1 and the 'edutainment' and H.E.A.L movement, I certainly agree that this had a profound affect on me too. However, I look at the industry as whole, and there aren't enough positive cats getting consistent airplay. If it weren't for Mos Def, Kweli and Common, there really wouldn't be much 'commercial' conscience hip-hop on the airwaves.
I'm not certain that your children have the same glorious, conscious, afro-centric hip-hop that _we_ got as youth in the 80's.

To your point, I believe, you're going to have to be the one to enlighten them.

Re: music from the gallery

AG — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:34:40 -0000

Nice snippet. I'm feelin the 'Boy Wonder' influences. We have similar tastes. I take back everything negative I said bout midwest/west coast DJ's.

Jus kidding ;)

Re: Please pray for Jon

AG — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:22:03 -0000

My strength goes out to you and your family. Get well soon.

Re: 8 years

AG — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:07:05 -0000

Das sweet music to the ear, live long and prosperous.
Yo, speaking of music I got some joints for a bro.. Get at me.

Re: It’s not you, it’s me: Back to WordPress

AG — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:27:49 -0000

I was wondering when you'd finally stop using inferior blogging tools ;) You spend more time trying to create useful add-ons than publishing content.
Seriously, the natural progression is typically: Blogger -> MT -> WP. Although, LiveJournal is crawled by bots, I still consider it a walled garden, so I don't really count it. I don't forsee taking the WP plunge, I'm quite pleased with MT, especially the latest upgrade that is MT 4.0.

Regarding the iCuffs err, I mean iPhone, please don't get me started. You already know where I stand, I won't rehash it. I discussed my viewpoint in detail here.

Re: Post from the Plane: Privacy and Security

AG — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:51:03 -0000

Interesting entry. I concur and shared thoughts similar here. Heh, FBOOK is not the only guilty party ;)
GOOG, Flickr and any other company which provides <abbr title="Software as a Service">SaaS</abbr> also will give you a virtual sandlot in which to play, in exchange for certain bonuses which usually end up on their ledger not your own. It's very easy for any of these companies to do so, b/c you told them that they could.. Hence, they are in their right (per their business model & some cases GPL v2) to data mine every aspect of your life. Scary is it not? Glad your vision is not blurred.

Re: A question that came up this weekend…

AG — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:24:24 -0000

Well, you can _actually_ get paid to write FOSS applications. Not a violation of the GPL (but you already knew that) :)

If I were a code slinger the following projects would be on my short list: amaroK, Slackware, Debian, CUPS

amaroK is an excellent juke box and podcatcher, use it exclusively (better than iTunes, yeah I said it.)

Slackware - My workstation distribution since day zero (well since 96')

Slackbuilds - Great repository of slackware package install scripts that work very well.

Debian - The distribution which spawned many other commercial Linux distros (specifically would work on package manager).

CUPS - It still needs a great deal of work.. Since Apple acquired I dunno what the future holds..

As an aside - contributing code is just one of the many ways to support a FOSS project. Documentation, monetary contributions, evangelising (read Netcasting, etc), submitting bugs.

Re: Why I don’t like living in New York

AG — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:40:39 -0000

I'll be so glad when you finally figure out where you want to be in life ;) Understand your problem is not unique, be encouraged that you still have time to discover. I don't believe NY is your issue. Nonetheless, my strength goes with you.

Re: Why I don’t like living in New York

AG — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:46:35 -0000

Ouch.. I'm sorry.. My reply was not meant to be mean-spirited, smug or arrogant. I wish you the best of luck; where ever you decide to go..

Re: Mobile Websites Suck

AG — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:30:35 -0000

Your LifeDrive web browser likely exhibits a user agent header that tells websites that it is a mobile device. Thus you will get the 'lite' version of the content.

Re: IE 7 beta 2 out

AG — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:57:44 -0000

I'm not at all interested in IE 7.0 aka known as Firefox 0.9 redux. As some others have already noted, these now ubiquitous features were long overdue. Methinks it took the upswell of the Mozilla Project to antagonize the Redmond wooly mammoth ;)

Re: The Puppy Linux Solution

AG — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:45:57 -0000

SeaMonkey _is_ Mozilla. Since Firefox is a registered trademark of Mozilla Corporation, it really isn't Free as in Free Speech. So,the Debian Project and other Linux Distros re-branded it. This prevents anyone from running afoul of the Mozilla trademark.