why the lucky stiff
when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
The Anathema Report (via TheAnathemaReport)
This is my sarcastic example of touchStart, gestureStart, and gestureEnd event handlers within Safari on iPhone. One finger turns it on, two fingers turn it off. Please note this is useless on anything but the iPhone, as you’ll just get a page with a black box … actually, it’s just plain useless alltogether really. This raises the question of why anyone would pay $99 to release something similar. Does it really need to be an actual application available within the App Store? Either way, just look at the source if you want a very basic idea of how to detect touches and gestures.
This isn’t about bandwidth usage. This is ISPs having the power to pick and choose which portions of the internet you use. If they want to prevent excessive bandwidth, fine. That’s their right. But they do NOT have a right to decide what portions of the internet you can and can’t use. Period.
I’m tired of small minded people like yourself who are incapable of grasping the larger picture. This has nothing to do with bittorent. This is about precedent. What happens when AT&T decides to block access to use Youtube because it eats into their U-verse subscriptions? What happens when your cable ISP blocks Hulu because it hurts their PPV sales? What happens when Microsoft gives Verizon a fat check so that DSL subscribers can only search on MSN and not Google? This is not a free market. Telco and wireless are not bastions of free market capitalism. These are public services that are pretty much closed off to new competition. AKA a natural monopoly.
ISPs make money off a PUBLIC infrastructure. They don’t own the internet, we do. That gives us, the public, a mandate to dictate conditions of this use via our democratic federal government. What’s sad is how much influence one tiny little special interest group can have on our politicians because half the public are ignorant, and the other half are brainwashed morons who support the interests which are opposing them because of a faith in some Adam Smith book they never even read. People like you who think giant corporations have some inalienable right to do whatever they want - even if they’re using the public network known as the internet. This isn’t lemonade stand. Get a clue.
A Vodka Movie (Part 3) by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric (via ericwareheim)