Android is finding it tough to even spread to tablets.
What? Did you just write that in all seriousness? Samsung is selling a shit-ton of Android tablets of various form-factors, and there are a large number sold by B&N, Asus and Amazon. Sure, Apple sells more tablets than any other single manufacturer, but Android tablet sales outpaced iPads by 3 to 2 in 2011! Source: Associated Press
Freedom is not good for the 1%. They have gone by different names in the past of course. It is a cycle. The 1% grows through abuse after abuse, and gradual poolings of influence and resources.
Eventually they will push it too far and either 1) vastly lower their own standards of living by taking out society with it, at which time they tend to migrate somewhere else (like a virus) or 2) society rears up and kills the fuckers.
Either way, we all end up bloody, a lot of drama, and then come the speeches about how we are going to create a new society in which the past will not repeat itself.
Animal Farm is not a book. It is simple observation of repeating patterns.
The reason why you get new douchebags to be in power after every revolution, is because cheating, lying and manipulating gives you a tremendous advantage when swimming in the murky waters of chaos and change (and society in general). Inevitably, the people in power will be a new or the old crop of psychopaths.
By "buying" I also mean downloading, for by doing so you are endorsing it, giving it further mindshare.
Yeah, well... see, that line of thinking sounds less and less convincing every subsequent time I read it. At this point, I just categorize it as ineffective high-horse moralizing.
Oh, I know it looks good - it looks great - but sadly, it's not true. Whether we download copyrighted content or not, it makes not a lick of difference.
If I post anything on Facebook - text, pictures, whatever - I can flag it as public, or I can limit access to some arbitrary group. If I want to share photos with someone who's not on Facebook, I will just mark them "public" (in practice, I tend to post my photos elsewhere; but that's beside the point). I can't imagine Google+ doesn't allow this as well
And indeed Google+ does allow to share photos publicly, and you *don't* need a Google+ account to view them, or to read any Public post. Don't believe me? Open an anonymous/incognito window in Chrome and visit the Public photos of Public post.
Fuckin-A right. Just like how all of a sudden everyone had fucking ADHD in the 90's, now everyone has Autism. In ten years it'll be some other bullshit excuse for why their kids are antisocial little fuckwits and there will be a doctor standing right there, ready to smile and nod and write a bunch of prescriptions and set up a bunch of testing that will bill insurance companies for thousands of dollars for another great big circle jerk...
Meanwhile having an autistic kid is the new "in" thing so now all the suburban housewives are rushing their kids off to the doctor and can't ever fucking shut up about it, and if that's not enough here's a goddamn magazine and a pamphlet and a group and a mailing list and a ribbon and a wristband and a bumper sticker...
Give me a break.
Well now that you have your little hillbilly rant modded up, tell me: do you really think kids enjoy not having social skills? Do you think they choose to be locked-in, not being able to effectively express their emotions or parse that of other people? Do you think this is a choice?
And do you think parents really enjoy having to spend many more hours a week than parents of NT kids, teaching their autistic kids to talk and to be at least a little comfortable in social situations, and then in addition to this pay lots of money to speech therapists and other special need therapists. Read one of Temple Grandin's books to see what her parents had to go through toe get her to be a thriving member of the human community. It's a herculean effort, and you should count your lucky stars that you don't have to do any of it, just spout your deeply ignorant platitudes and insults.
I know your type: always in love with their ignorance, and so proud of it. There is not one chance in a trillion that you could feel the least sympathy with the lesser fortunate than you.
TPB is infested with torrents that contain malware.
I've been a Pirate Bay user for at least 5 years now, and must say, your statement is BS: tpb has an excellent community that actively comments on the torrents. tpb is probably the strictest torrent site out there. Only http://1337x.org/ comes close in terms of the quality of the torrents that _remain_ on the site.
Up until now I thought it was just an urban legend. "Like any company would smear itself with mud by doing something so vile and contemptible." And now it turns out, this actually happened!? o_O
As a Finn, I hope this is one of those macabre policies of corporations running rampant and unchecked, confined to the USA. At least in Finland (and I think most of the EU) this shit just wouldn't stand legal ground.
On the other hand, I recall reading a news story about a wealthy European businessman disparaging private charity and insisting that government was the appropriate instrument for helping the poor.
And he's abso-fucking-lutely right. Most EU countries (probably all) have universal healthcare, and apart from egregious exceptions like the UK, higher education is free or very close to free.
Compare that to the USA, where *millions* of children don't have healthcare coverage. All that charity doesn't amount to a hill of beans if you have children living without healthcare. You're just a fucking 3rd world country.
When I was a boy of 11 or 12 years of age, I asked about how publicly traded companies and shares work. I was told that you own piece of a company through the shares, and so you receive a share of the profits, as well.
Somehow, this basic concept got completely wiped out by most hi-tech companies since then. So much so, in fact, that when Nokia or Apple does this payments, people are a bit puzzled.
For me, the 360 has been the most rock-solid console I have ever owned,
The Xbox360 was, at a certain point, the most failure-prone electronic device on the market, with a failure rate within a year of purchase, of over 51% and should be rightfully mentioned in the annals of poorly designed home electronics.
Anyone else sick of these re-runs? For the past month the anti-Iranian propaganda has really ratcheted up. We're seeing the same tactics they used to scare the public in to supporting an invasion of Iraq.
Hold your knee-jerk reaction horses. Calm the fuck down. And now, with a dose of articulation please try to argue why you think these claims are false. Keep in mind that the BBC is a well-respected news agency (one that actually has reporters on the ground and shit, you know, good-oldfashioned journalism), so it's not like we're just going to take your word for it, Mr. Beelzebud.
Your statement is bullshit by the simple fact that alcohol is much more addictive than meth - which is visible from the number of addicts. If you want to throw around bullshit like "But meth is 1000s of times worse." then how about "there are thousands of more alcohol addicts than meth addicts" - and this one is actually true.
Stop parroting what the powers that be want you to say and think - the only reason alcohol is a legal drug is because those who have an interest in people drinking diluted ethanol, are pushing this agenda.
Meth is nowhere as bad as alcohol. Alcohol is a real killer, wrecker of lives and families. Even tobacco is more addictive and more destructive than meth.
I never got quite used to the Vista/Win/ UI, when it comes to launching apps and selecting files/browsing filesystem. I *can* use Vista/Win7 (I have a netbook with Win7), but I do not enjoy it one bit.
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Mod parent up: "Awesomely insightful and informative: +100"
Ack! I made a mistake: Apple still bested the Android tablets by 3 to 2, last year.
My bad, sorry. But still, a whole lot of Android tablets sold.
Android is finding it tough to even spread to tablets.
What? Did you just write that in all seriousness? Samsung is selling a shit-ton of Android tablets of various form-factors, and there are a large number sold by B&N, Asus and Amazon. Sure, Apple sells more tablets than any other single manufacturer, but Android tablet sales outpaced iPads by 3 to 2 in 2011! Source: Associated Press
Freedom is not good for the 1%. They have gone by different names in the past of course. It is a cycle. The 1% grows through abuse after abuse, and gradual poolings of influence and resources.
Eventually they will push it too far and either 1) vastly lower their own standards of living by taking out society with it, at which time they tend to migrate somewhere else (like a virus) or 2) society rears up and kills the fuckers.
Either way, we all end up bloody, a lot of drama, and then come the speeches about how we are going to create a new society in which the past will not repeat itself.
Animal Farm is not a book. It is simple observation of repeating patterns.
The reason why you get new douchebags to be in power after every revolution, is because cheating, lying and manipulating gives you a tremendous advantage when swimming in the murky waters of chaos and change (and society in general). Inevitably, the people in power will be a new or the old crop of psychopaths.
How much more explicitly should he say that he doesn't give a rat's ass about the general interest? Should he say "I poop on all you little folks!"
I swear, Americans seem to just *love* these self-interested politicians.
Thanks. I understand now :/
The Flash you're seeing in an AVR is just for storing programs, while the work memory (SRAM) is separate. It's not a Von Neumann machine.
This whole project, while seemingly pointless, seems pretty damn interesting to me.
Question for Linux hackers: is there a reason why the Linux kernel would not be portable to an Atmel AVR microcontroller?
Mod parent "+1 I keel you!"
By "buying" I also mean downloading, for by doing so you are endorsing it, giving it further mindshare.
Yeah, well... see, that line of thinking sounds less and less convincing every subsequent time I read it. At this point, I just categorize it as ineffective high-horse moralizing.
Oh, I know it looks good - it looks great - but sadly, it's not true. Whether we download copyrighted content or not, it makes not a lick of difference.
If I post anything on Facebook - text, pictures, whatever - I can flag it as public, or I can limit access to some arbitrary group. If I want to share photos with someone who's not on Facebook, I will just mark them "public" (in practice, I tend to post my photos elsewhere; but that's beside the point). I can't imagine Google+ doesn't allow this as well
And indeed Google+ does allow to share photos publicly, and you *don't* need a Google+ account to view them, or to read any Public post. Don't believe me? Open an anonymous/incognito window in Chrome and visit the Public photos of Public post.
... just one big case would be enough to bring some sanity to our system.
And that's why, my friend, it won't happen in the USA.
Fuckin-A right. Just like how all of a sudden everyone had fucking ADHD in the 90's, now everyone has Autism. In ten years it'll be some other bullshit excuse for why their kids are antisocial little fuckwits and there will be a doctor standing right there, ready to smile and nod and write a bunch of prescriptions and set up a bunch of testing that will bill insurance companies for thousands of dollars for another great big circle jerk...
Meanwhile having an autistic kid is the new "in" thing so now all the suburban housewives are rushing their kids off to the doctor and can't ever fucking shut up about it, and if that's not enough here's a goddamn magazine and a pamphlet and a group and a mailing list and a ribbon and a wristband and a bumper sticker...
Give me a break.
Well now that you have your little hillbilly rant modded up, tell me: do you really think kids enjoy not having social skills? Do you think they choose to be locked-in, not being able to effectively express their emotions or parse that of other people? Do you think this is a choice?
And do you think parents really enjoy having to spend many more hours a week than parents of NT kids, teaching their autistic kids to talk and to be at least a little comfortable in social situations, and then in addition to this pay lots of money to speech therapists and other special need therapists. Read one of Temple Grandin's books to see what her parents had to go through toe get her to be a thriving member of the human community. It's a herculean effort, and you should count your lucky stars that you don't have to do any of it, just spout your deeply ignorant platitudes and insults.
I know your type: always in love with their ignorance, and so proud of it. There is not one chance in a trillion that you could feel the least sympathy with the lesser fortunate than you.
TPB is infested with torrents that contain malware.
I've been a Pirate Bay user for at least 5 years now, and must say, your statement is BS: tpb has an excellent community that actively comments on the torrents. tpb is probably the strictest torrent site out there. Only http://1337x.org/ comes close in terms of the quality of the torrents that _remain_ on the site.
Up until now I thought it was just an urban legend. "Like any company would smear itself with mud by doing something so vile and contemptible." And now it turns out, this actually happened!? o_O
As a Finn, I hope this is one of those macabre policies of corporations running rampant and unchecked, confined to the USA. At least in Finland (and I think most of the EU) this shit just wouldn't stand legal ground.
Look guys, it's just too easy.
On the other hand, I recall reading a news story about a wealthy European businessman disparaging private charity and insisting that government was the appropriate instrument for helping the poor.
And he's abso-fucking-lutely right. Most EU countries (probably all) have universal healthcare, and apart from egregious exceptions like the UK, higher education is free or very close to free.
Compare that to the USA, where *millions* of children don't have healthcare coverage. All that charity doesn't amount to a hill of beans if you have children living without healthcare. You're just a fucking 3rd world country.
When I was a boy of 11 or 12 years of age, I asked about how publicly traded companies and shares work. I was told that you own piece of a company through the shares, and so you receive a share of the profits, as well.
Somehow, this basic concept got completely wiped out by most hi-tech companies since then. So much so, in fact, that when Nokia or Apple does this payments, people are a bit puzzled.
Is there a distro that uses kexec? Is Oracle the only one to have a distro that does (albeit through a commercial implementation)?
You are all doing it wrong. You throw the paparazzi out of the window.
Yeah, but the question remains: is that a felony? Or littering of public spaces?
For me, the 360 has been the most rock-solid console I have ever owned,
The Xbox360 was, at a certain point, the most failure-prone electronic device on the market, with a failure rate within a year of purchase, of over 51% and should be rightfully mentioned in the annals of poorly designed home electronics.
Anyone else sick of these re-runs? For the past month the anti-Iranian propaganda has really ratcheted up. We're seeing the same tactics they used to scare the public in to supporting an invasion of Iraq.
Hold your knee-jerk reaction horses.
Calm the fuck down.
And now, with a dose of articulation please try to argue why you think these claims are false. Keep in mind that the BBC is a well-respected news agency (one that actually has reporters on the ground and shit, you know, good-oldfashioned journalism), so it's not like we're just going to take your word for it, Mr. Beelzebud.
Your statement is bullshit by the simple fact that alcohol is much more addictive than meth - which is visible from the number of addicts. If you want to throw around bullshit like "But meth is 1000s of times worse." then how about "there are thousands of more alcohol addicts than meth addicts" - and this one is actually true.
Stop parroting what the powers that be want you to say and think - the only reason alcohol is a legal drug is because those who have an interest in people drinking diluted ethanol, are pushing this agenda.
Meth is nowhere as bad as alcohol. Alcohol is a real killer, wrecker of lives and families. Even tobacco is more addictive and more destructive than meth.
I never got quite used to the Vista/Win/ UI, when it comes to launching apps and selecting files/browsing filesystem. I *can* use Vista/Win7 (I have a netbook with Win7), but I do not enjoy it one bit.
celebrating the fact that we live in a universe were we can watch a MLP franchise without being unironic as fuck.
I am guessing you meant to write "without being ironic as fuck"
Brohoof?