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Apple: iChat vs. FaceTime (XMPP?)
In his recent keynote Steve Jobs announce FaceTime for OS X as something new. But didn’t we all wonder, why they didn’t just extend iChat to allow us to talk to somebody using FaceTime on the iPad or iPhone? I would rather prefer that.
Actually I would like to know, whether FaceTime and iChat are XMPP base or whether Apple prefers to invent proprietary protocols. Even “embrace and extend” would be better than that. Hmm, I don’t really mean “embrace, extend and extinguish”, but that’s what “embrace and extend” sadly redirects to on Wikipedia. I mean: does the world really need yet another messaging standard? There is SIP around, and it should actually get replaced by XMPP, but that’s not really going to happen for the next 15 years, I assume. Google and Facebook employ XMPP for Google Talk resp. the Facebook chatting facility, and I like that.
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“a thorn in the flesh”, painful, sharp thorns
Ezekiel 28:24 “… painful briers and sharp thorns …”
This got referred to in 2 Cor. 12:7.
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Rejoice with those who rejoice! Weep with those who weep!
“Weep with those who weep!” – I came across this sentence, and this immediately reminded me of somebody rather important to me, who cries a lot these days. I rather would, but …
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the coming App Store for Mac OS X: the next Apple jail?
First it sounds like the App Store will help the users to have a single point, where to find and update apps for OS X. But then: look what it means on iOS, i.e. the iPhone and the iPad: it means: apps will only find their way to your device through Apple’s “placet”, and finally through the App Store, and Apple will always earn money through 3rd parties’ contributions.
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Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin: Exhibition: Hitler and the Germans. Nation and Crime
Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin – Hitler and the Germans. Nation and Crime – Exhibition
Location: Deutsches Historisches Museum, “Ausstellungshalle von I. M. Pei”.
Opening hours: 7 days a week 10:00 through 18:00, on Friday through 21:00.
2010-10-15 .. 2011-02-06.I found the exhibition far too overcrowded. The captions made very bad use of 3 different fonts, occasionally making the text rather unreadable. I never saw any exhibition as badly made as this one.
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Date format(s) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Date format(s) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I really love ISO 8601 as date format.