To be fair though, I don't think most of the anger comes from missing the minor.1 incremental updates. It is the major ones like 2.3 to 4.0 that have people really bothered. Sure I wish everybody who had 2.0 or.1,.2, and.3 But in reality I'd be happy if my 2.0/1/2/3 phone just got 4.0.
Yeah if you need to learn anything about how well manufacturers can program look the OSs of most feature phones pre-Android, iOS, etc. They were horrific. Samsung and rest, stay the fuck away from messing with the OS.
With Sony going all in and buying out the Ericsson side of the company do you think that will continue in new models in the future? I'm pretty sure Sony weren't the ones pushing the consistent openness that that Sony-Ericsson phones have had historically.
Ok... but do they do TMo's 3G or 4G? A (very) few do, but I think for the vast majority of the phones he is right on. At least Tmo gives a slight (but unreasonably IMHO) discount when you bring your own hardware. Better than can be said for the rest of them.
Agreed, but the existence of these plug-ins, their ubiquity, and the prior monetary "support" provided by their creators has certainly slowed the growth and widespread interest in developing an open standard. Remember up until recently Adobe and MS were not big HTML5 supporters, despite being some of the key companies tasked with creating the standard. Its not a stretch to think they crippled it as much as they could to support their own products.
I would argue that the reason support (as is the option to use, not requirement to use) for DRM hasn't been a priority for HTML5 or other standards is because of the crutch these plug-ins provide. Why bother implementing it through a complicated process and implementation when 95%+ of browser have a plug-in that can do it already, and damn the users who have to deal with the bugs, poor performance, and lack of wide OS support. And frankly if Silverlight or Flash disappeared tomorrow I don't think even the MPAA is dumb enough to totally ditch the massive growth of online rentals/services, especially since sites like TPB are not going anywhere. But it is a fair point, and I'm the first to admit that I'm just making an educated by purely opinionated guess.
The Fire and the older Nook Color both have unlocked bootloaders. Checkout the XDA dev forum for links to CM7 and early ICS builds for the Fire. Sadly BN locked the Tablet bootloader which has caused quite a few geekslike myself to return them for Fires, despite the hardware advantage of the Nook.
This was the first thing that crossed my mind as well. webOS on my Kindle Fire would be amazing. I have a dual-boot Touchpad bought during the firesale whenever I don't need an Android specific app like Netflix I switch to webOS. webOS is better laid out and at times actually almost fun to use. Of course Android and iOS have the apps, so dualboot is great. Now if only it could triple boot with iOS (which for games and interface I prefer over Android), a guy can hope!
As a small biz owner I wholeheartedly agree. The system is owned by the big guys and competition is viewed not as an asset to the market, but as a cancer to their profits. The government they bought just acts accordingly and enriches them. Every time I hear a so called free market blowhard hate on the disadvantaged I wanna throw up. These are the (poor) people who make capitalism work, they put food on my table. But how the fuck can they do that if they are totally destitute? The system is broken, and the blind would rather follow the lamb to slaughter than risk coming off as independent thinkers. Last time I listened to the political discourse thinking was something ascribed only to a hated "elite" instead of being a virtue sought by all.
Thank you sir. It isn't a shithole yet, especially compared to many nations, but that is only because some of us still take pride in being "intellectual elites" AKA non-dumb fucks.
that a person can be smart enough to commit a crime like this, but stupid enough to come to the very country where he can be held liable. Just goes to show that humans can have, and by the same token lack in many different types of intelligence.
I'm totally supportive of hands off approach to consumption of any drug a person wants to take, but meth labs are a public danger. The fact that they explode at an alarming rate putting their neighbors at serious harm is the line where the tweaker's rights cross over into affecting the right (to live) of others. Now don't me wrong make it legal and license it and ensure safety. Until that happens I sure as heck don't want one next door.
who is not that impressed by Kinect? Its a great concept, but between the noticeable lag and issues it has with movement recognition I find most of my Kinect games don't see much playtime when my friends come over and try it for the first time. Kudos to MS for trying something fresh and new, but I just don't think it makes games more fun, or control "better" and instead tends to make me wish for a controller or keyboard. Perhaps its just that programmers haven't figured out how to get good results, but after a year on the shelf I think it might just be not quite up to the task of being a primary interface peripheral.
We opposition have always been here, just like the anti-Iraq war people, and I'm talking the non-hippie "war is evil types"- the pragmatists who think war is the last option but aren't silly enough to believe it shouldn't be on the table. We were there, most people disagreed based on arguably flimsy evidence or rational . What irks me though is when people revise history to suggest that we simply couldn't have made any other choice at the time. I'm not saying you are like this, I really have no clue. But for many of us Iraq in particular was obvious bullshit from the first rumblings, through the laughably unconvincing Colon Powell speech.Human memory isn't perfect and perception shapes interpretation, but its been only about 10 years, and pretending that there was never any doubt or debate is part of the reason we seem to make the same mistakes again and again. Learning, examining, and refining our opinions based on reality, not our ego is a the only long term means of success when we examine any of or individual or societal mistakes.Constructing an entire fantasy world just to make ourselves look good might feel warm and fuzzy in the short term, but future problems don't care why you were right or wrong last time. Instead they demonstrate you learned and improved on the thought processes that failed you. If people want to feel infallible get a dog, don't treat the rest of us like we are dumber than one. Admitting a mistake, especially one made based on flawed data and overly trusting and uncritical thought on a topic isn't a sin or a sign of weakness. It is quite the opposite in fact. Pretending we can do no wrong is best way one can almost guarantee another failure in the future. It used to be we waited until people died until we revised history to sanitize our errors, now it seems many of us throw reason out the window for hollow victory of never being wrong with increasing rapidness.
I'm sure you do a good job as a contractor, and I'm sure on an individual basis many people fully invest themselves into the jobs, but at the same time studies have been conducted that show contractors cost even more for the same or lesser output. If government fails anywhere it is in the honest unbiased selection of which contractors to hire. But hey as a politico its a lot easier to claim you support small government by decreasing official headcount and shouting about it in ads, all while paying back your friendly corporate sponsors by giving them contracts which cost taxpayer more than ever for even less. If people think government agencies don't know how to talk, they should consider how much harder it will be with dozens of contractors who have different goals and often competition for each others contracts. No better way to make government look ineffective than by knowingly driving inefficiencies up and then turning around and claiming to fight against a broken-system that was carefully constructed to fail. Looks good as bulletpoint on a corporate (I mean people) funded campaign mailer or TV ad, and sounds like patriotic support of the freemarket-as if that concept is anything but a fantasy which makes Communism sound practical and efficient. Funny enough despite the deliberate manipulation by politicians who's reputations on shifting more power to undemocratic corporate behemoths, I still find myself impressed with how well the system has managed to still be debatably competitive with the private sector. I can assure you if CEOs and top management spent as much time undermining their companies success as half our elected representatives do it wouldn't even be a contest.
I think your under the mistaken assumption that Paypal cares about what consumers think of them. They may not be a bank, but their clearly take thei customer services cues for the best of them. Of course they take it a step further by avoiding most of those money-hindering consumer protection laws since they have managed to con themselves out of the label bank. I bet the big banks wished they had thought of such a flippant dismissal of laws that specifically target the kinds of businesses that form the entirety of Paypal. You also likely haven't seen the side of Paypal that essentially steals funds, randomly demands bizarre paperwork, or without providing any evidence accuses an account of some violation which is nearly impossible to contest. The thought of them actively pursuing theft from a member account is hilarious to those of us who have had to deal with their "tactics". Paypal lives because they and eBay feed off of each other, and massive memberbase, and only the fairly weak Amazon and Google seem have even a spit of traction for reasons that perplex me.
You mean we should just ignore the multitude of shitty lazy parents and instead blame the people who bothered to get educated just to work low paying thankless jobs and have to put up with said shitty parents when Junior doesn't get the grade they think he deserves? I'm not a teacher, and I can't think of any that I know personally, but I don't think teachers have changed much in the last 50 years, its students and by extension the parents who are increasingly overworked or just lazy, disinterested in their kids, and wholly unwilling to hold up their end of the bargain by reading to their kids, limiting TV/gaming time, and monitoring their academic progress. I remember lots of crappy teachers in my medium sized city schools, but compared with the kind of "parenting" I see today in public almost daily, the teachers seem quite competent by and large. You have to be licensed to be a teach in most locals, too bad its impossible to do the same with parents who act like parenting is some horrible burden imposed on them, and the little monsters they raised from birth, and live with 15 hours a day must be due to somebody else. Check out the stats comparing the success of kids who parents give two craps about their kids with the parents who treat their kids like baggage.
Sadly the same shit seems to happen everywhere. People are so hyper-focused on national politics they seem to forget the even greater power wielded over them by these often uncontested small time publicity whores. Go to any major city's council meeting when there isn't a hot button issue and the place is like a ghost town.
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The point wasn't that HTML5 is god, it was that plug-ins are by definition are exclusionary. Or is that not painfully obvious?
To be fair though, I don't think most of the anger comes from missing the minor .1 incremental updates. It is the major ones like 2.3 to 4.0 that have people really bothered. Sure I wish everybody who had 2.0 or .1,.2, and .3 But in reality I'd be happy if my 2.0/1/2/3 phone just got 4.0.
Yeah if you need to learn anything about how well manufacturers can program look the OSs of most feature phones pre-Android, iOS, etc. They were horrific. Samsung and rest, stay the fuck away from messing with the OS.
Bravo sir, you pretty much nailed my feelings on almost every phone I've even owned.
With Sony going all in and buying out the Ericsson side of the company do you think that will continue in new models in the future? I'm pretty sure Sony weren't the ones pushing the consistent openness that that Sony-Ericsson phones have had historically.
Ok... but do they do TMo's 3G or 4G? A (very) few do, but I think for the vast majority of the phones he is right on. At least Tmo gives a slight (but unreasonably IMHO) discount when you bring your own hardware. Better than can be said for the rest of them.
Why do I bother responding to an AC? But the GP was pretty much right on, and you said absolutely nothing of value to contradict him. Congrats.
Agreed, but the existence of these plug-ins, their ubiquity, and the prior monetary "support" provided by their creators has certainly slowed the growth and widespread interest in developing an open standard. Remember up until recently Adobe and MS were not big HTML5 supporters, despite being some of the key companies tasked with creating the standard. Its not a stretch to think they crippled it as much as they could to support their own products.
I would argue that the reason support (as is the option to use, not requirement to use) for DRM hasn't been a priority for HTML5 or other standards is because of the crutch these plug-ins provide. Why bother implementing it through a complicated process and implementation when 95%+ of browser have a plug-in that can do it already, and damn the users who have to deal with the bugs, poor performance, and lack of wide OS support. And frankly if Silverlight or Flash disappeared tomorrow I don't think even the MPAA is dumb enough to totally ditch the massive growth of online rentals/services, especially since sites like TPB are not going anywhere. But it is a fair point, and I'm the first to admit that I'm just making an educated by purely opinionated guess.
The Fire and the older Nook Color both have unlocked bootloaders. Checkout the XDA dev forum for links to CM7 and early ICS builds for the Fire. Sadly BN locked the Tablet bootloader which has caused quite a few geekslike myself to return them for Fires, despite the hardware advantage of the Nook.
This was the first thing that crossed my mind as well. webOS on my Kindle Fire would be amazing. I have a dual-boot Touchpad bought during the firesale whenever I don't need an Android specific app like Netflix I switch to webOS. webOS is better laid out and at times actually almost fun to use. Of course Android and iOS have the apps, so dualboot is great. Now if only it could triple boot with iOS (which for games and interface I prefer over Android), a guy can hope!
and Silverlight will go the way of mobile Flash. Plug-ins simply must die for the web to thrive in the future.
As a small biz owner I wholeheartedly agree. The system is owned by the big guys and competition is viewed not as an asset to the market, but as a cancer to their profits. The government they bought just acts accordingly and enriches them. Every time I hear a so called free market blowhard hate on the disadvantaged I wanna throw up. These are the (poor) people who make capitalism work, they put food on my table. But how the fuck can they do that if they are totally destitute? The system is broken, and the blind would rather follow the lamb to slaughter than risk coming off as independent thinkers. Last time I listened to the political discourse thinking was something ascribed only to a hated "elite" instead of being a virtue sought by all.
Thank you sir. It isn't a shithole yet, especially compared to many nations, but that is only because some of us still take pride in being "intellectual elites" AKA non-dumb fucks.
that a person can be smart enough to commit a crime like this, but stupid enough to come to the very country where he can be held liable. Just goes to show that humans can have, and by the same token lack in many different types of intelligence.
Maybe I'm confused, but what do self-driving cars have to do with any of this?
Were you born an asshole or did you hone the skill through practice?
I'm totally supportive of hands off approach to consumption of any drug a person wants to take, but meth labs are a public danger. The fact that they explode at an alarming rate putting their neighbors at serious harm is the line where the tweaker's rights cross over into affecting the right (to live) of others. Now don't me wrong make it legal and license it and ensure safety. Until that happens I sure as heck don't want one next door.
who is not that impressed by Kinect? Its a great concept, but between the noticeable lag and issues it has with movement recognition I find most of my Kinect games don't see much playtime when my friends come over and try it for the first time. Kudos to MS for trying something fresh and new, but I just don't think it makes games more fun, or control "better" and instead tends to make me wish for a controller or keyboard. Perhaps its just that programmers haven't figured out how to get good results, but after a year on the shelf I think it might just be not quite up to the task of being a primary interface peripheral.
We opposition have always been here, just like the anti-Iraq war people, and I'm talking the non-hippie "war is evil types"- the pragmatists who think war is the last option but aren't silly enough to believe it shouldn't be on the table. We were there, most people disagreed based on arguably flimsy evidence or rational . What irks me though is when people revise history to suggest that we simply couldn't have made any other choice at the time. I'm not saying you are like this, I really have no clue. But for many of us Iraq in particular was obvious bullshit from the first rumblings, through the laughably unconvincing Colon Powell speech.Human memory isn't perfect and perception shapes interpretation, but its been only about 10 years, and pretending that there was never any doubt or debate is part of the reason we seem to make the same mistakes again and again. Learning, examining, and refining our opinions based on reality, not our ego is a the only long term means of success when we examine any of or individual or societal mistakes.Constructing an entire fantasy world just to make ourselves look good might feel warm and fuzzy in the short term, but future problems don't care why you were right or wrong last time. Instead they demonstrate you learned and improved on the thought processes that failed you. If people want to feel infallible get a dog, don't treat the rest of us like we are dumber than one. Admitting a mistake, especially one made based on flawed data and overly trusting and uncritical thought on a topic isn't a sin or a sign of weakness. It is quite the opposite in fact. Pretending we can do no wrong is best way one can almost guarantee another failure in the future. It used to be we waited until people died until we revised history to sanitize our errors, now it seems many of us throw reason out the window for hollow victory of never being wrong with increasing rapidness.
I'm sure you do a good job as a contractor, and I'm sure on an individual basis many people fully invest themselves into the jobs, but at the same time studies have been conducted that show contractors cost even more for the same or lesser output. If government fails anywhere it is in the honest unbiased selection of which contractors to hire. But hey as a politico its a lot easier to claim you support small government by decreasing official headcount and shouting about it in ads, all while paying back your friendly corporate sponsors by giving them contracts which cost taxpayer more than ever for even less. If people think government agencies don't know how to talk, they should consider how much harder it will be with dozens of contractors who have different goals and often competition for each others contracts. No better way to make government look ineffective than by knowingly driving inefficiencies up and then turning around and claiming to fight against a broken-system that was carefully constructed to fail. Looks good as bulletpoint on a corporate (I mean people) funded campaign mailer or TV ad, and sounds like patriotic support of the freemarket-as if that concept is anything but a fantasy which makes Communism sound practical and efficient. Funny enough despite the deliberate manipulation by politicians who's reputations on shifting more power to undemocratic corporate behemoths, I still find myself impressed with how well the system has managed to still be debatably competitive with the private sector. I can assure you if CEOs and top management spent as much time undermining their companies success as half our elected representatives do it wouldn't even be a contest.
I think your under the mistaken assumption that Paypal cares about what consumers think of them. They may not be a bank, but their clearly take thei customer services cues for the best of them. Of course they take it a step further by avoiding most of those money-hindering consumer protection laws since they have managed to con themselves out of the label bank. I bet the big banks wished they had thought of such a flippant dismissal of laws that specifically target the kinds of businesses that form the entirety of Paypal. You also likely haven't seen the side of Paypal that essentially steals funds, randomly demands bizarre paperwork, or without providing any evidence accuses an account of some violation which is nearly impossible to contest. The thought of them actively pursuing theft from a member account is hilarious to those of us who have had to deal with their "tactics". Paypal lives because they and eBay feed off of each other, and massive memberbase, and only the fairly weak Amazon and Google seem have even a spit of traction for reasons that perplex me.
You mean we should just ignore the multitude of shitty lazy parents and instead blame the people who bothered to get educated just to work low paying thankless jobs and have to put up with said shitty parents when Junior doesn't get the grade they think he deserves? I'm not a teacher, and I can't think of any that I know personally, but I don't think teachers have changed much in the last 50 years, its students and by extension the parents who are increasingly overworked or just lazy, disinterested in their kids, and wholly unwilling to hold up their end of the bargain by reading to their kids, limiting TV/gaming time, and monitoring their academic progress. I remember lots of crappy teachers in my medium sized city schools, but compared with the kind of "parenting" I see today in public almost daily, the teachers seem quite competent by and large. You have to be licensed to be a teach in most locals, too bad its impossible to do the same with parents who act like parenting is some horrible burden imposed on them, and the little monsters they raised from birth, and live with 15 hours a day must be due to somebody else. Check out the stats comparing the success of kids who parents give two craps about their kids with the parents who treat their kids like baggage.
Sadly the same shit seems to happen everywhere. People are so hyper-focused on national politics they seem to forget the even greater power wielded over them by these often uncontested small time publicity whores. Go to any major city's council meeting when there isn't a hot button issue and the place is like a ghost town.
Your right about idiot wimp parents, but dressing down the lady in front of her kid is just as socially rude as her wingnut comment.