Pretty much half the customers who ask me for an iPhone 4 can BARELY squeeze the words out. "Do you have any of thouse four-gees in?" "Do you have a four-phone?" "iApple" "A-Phone". They ask if we have iPhones, when they can manage it, I ask "Yes, did you want a 3GS or a 4?", I'd get the response "Thirty-Two Gees please".
I sincerely hope the people in my city are among the dumbest in the world, or I'm left with no other option but to kill myself tomorrow >.> -- That's about more than their inability to pronounce "iPhone", Mackay people are all AMAZINGLY stupid in numerous other ways.
Ah. All I do is post polarizing inflamatory crap (usually because I legitimately AM one of the extremists that lends legitimacy to the middle ground) about stuff I have very little expertise in and I always get modded +5 Insightful! Not to say I troll, per se, I just don't pretend to be mindful and consciencious of others' belifs and sensibilities. I'm just your average internet egomaniac!:D
Okay, I know subscribers see articles from the future, with red headings, and they can disable ads. I get both of these and I'm not a subscriber. I'm not complaining, just wondering why.
When the initial trailers showed Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club, most people assumed this would not be part of the X-Men film universe, but part of the relatively new Marvel Film Universe (that is to say, it would co-exist with the current Iron Man, Avengers, Captain America, Hulk and Thor). Emma Frost had already appeared younger and later, and nothing like Emma Frost at all, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so it was a reasonable assumption that these wouldn't be in the same universe. I was hoping these three would be followed up with three that didn't have atrocious writing. The X-Men movies, god only knows how they've been so successful, they contradict themselves and the source material at every chance they get. I'm not saing the source material was perfect, a lot of writers worked on that over the years, and obviously nobody can remember EVERYTHING any other writer has EVER written into the plot, but with just a handful (relatively) of writers working on the movies, you'd think they could at least maintain internal consistency.
Unfortunately, Australia IS a Christian nation. We're a Commonwealth Nation which means the Queen, the head of the Church of England is our head of state. Before each sitting of parliament, they recite The Lord's Prayer. As an atheist, I feel my views aren't fairly represented by a clearly religious organisation.
Well, the city I'm in is causing my misanthropy to act up, again, but I'm currently of the opinion all people are scum. Pretty much everyone I know is a terrible person who should be in jail, for one reason or another.
I'm much happier thinking some rapist, pedophile, or insider trader (oh wait, they're too rich for jail...) was worked to death for my materialism than I was thinking some hard working average guy in China worked a year of 18 hour shifts.
Exactly. We lock all kinds of things up behind conventional six-pin locks. They've been pickable for far longer than I care to consider, but we still trust that our valuables are safe.
All cool. The moderators never know where I'm actually coming from, so I have more positive karma than I know what to do with (seriously, it's good for WHAT, exactly?)
The thing about REPUBLICANS is they're all EVIL. Microsoft is EVIL too. And that Darl Mcbride is a barrel of blathering laughs. Only IDIOTS persist in using Windows.
Hardly the same as developing, but when I'm painting my Warmachine and Hordes miniatures, I like to have a mentally unengaging TV show like Drawn Together in the background on my TV screen, and my laptop screen usually has pictures of the look I'm aiming for. I'm a novice painter, so I can't quite visualise how things should look in the end, yet.
And even so, all of this is only for US residents. OBVIOUSLY America is the most important place in the world, nobody else matters at all. Sony could probably afford to lose the Australian market, so they're not bothering to help us out at all. Mysteriously enough, just after the PSN went down, my Gmail account was compromised for the first time EVER, in the seceral years I've had it. I don't use the same password, but the canned security questions and personal info are all the same. I don't know what I had in my email, I've had to change every password for everything I use because most websites send your password back to you as PLAIN TEXT when you register or change it. I've had online stores send me my credit card number before, my WHOLE credit card number. I've had to cancel my credit and debit cards, so I'm living on the contents of my wallet until the new ones get mailed to me - exposing me to ANOTHER security risk, of the old fashioned sort. I don't think anyone truly realises the gravity of the situation, and Sony not actually offering me anything in the way of compensation or preventative measures is reprehensible. Hell, Americans should be insulted that Sony thinks a couple of free games will appease them. Sad thing is, Sony is right. Dangle something shiny and the small-minded masses are suddenly distracted.
You must be new. Microsoft aren't big on the whole "choice" thing. Even in XP when you could ditch the Luna interface in favour of the "Classic" one, it didn't actually change anything. It made the colours more business-like, sure, but it was still XP's interface. If they make ribbons the default behaviour, and give you an option, nothing will actually behave like it does today. There'll be all manner of unexpected things happening, mostly in the form of menus not where they used to be, not containing the things they used to contain, and formerly easily accessible features not being where you expect them.
Not to say I'm opposed to new UIs or old ones, just that any time the option is available in a Microsoft OS or program, they inevitably ruin it for everyone.
Compare and contrast with Sony's phone division: They're actively aiding people in unlocking the bootloaders of their Android handsets; thus allowing people to install customised versions of Android, or if anyone bothers porting them, entirely different OSs.
I want Sony to compensate me for not being able to play multiplayer for the past several months. I haven't updated my PS3 since they removed OtherOS and decided they'd change the EULA to say they had the right to install and execute programs on my PS3 without my knowledge or consent. I'm also unable to get updates and DLC for the games I've legally purchased because of this. I doubt I'll ever get just recompense.
When we talk about our weight, we're really concerned with the mass. It's a misnomer that we use the word "weight" for it at all. Not many people care how much force the earth is pulling them down with. When it comes to maximum capacities though, as long as the vehicle or catwalk or so forth isn't moving from Earth to the Moon any time soon, using a measure of mass to define maximum weight is good enough.
Law is a never ending battle. If Groklaw expanded it's mission it would never end. PJ would have to be like the Phantom, passing the ring and title down, generation to generation. Every time we hear about a patent lawsuit ending, we've heard of a good two dozen start up at the same time. Groklaw will be a valuable resource, and should be archived, but let her rest, or she'll be writing until they nail her pine box shut.
I conducted an interesting experiment a few years ago with lemonparty. 100% of the people I told NOT to click the link did. Only 10% of those I suggested the link to actually went there. Some of those I told not to click it, I actually forewarned them of the content, and STILL they clicked it.
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Pretty much half the customers who ask me for an iPhone 4 can BARELY squeeze the words out. "Do you have any of thouse four-gees in?" "Do you have a four-phone?" "iApple" "A-Phone". They ask if we have iPhones, when they can manage it, I ask "Yes, did you want a 3GS or a 4?", I'd get the response "Thirty-Two Gees please".
I sincerely hope the people in my city are among the dumbest in the world, or I'm left with no other option but to kill myself tomorrow >.> -- That's about more than their inability to pronounce "iPhone", Mackay people are all AMAZINGLY stupid in numerous other ways.
Ah. All I do is post polarizing inflamatory crap (usually because I legitimately AM one of the extremists that lends legitimacy to the middle ground) about stuff I have very little expertise in and I always get modded +5 Insightful! Not to say I troll, per se, I just don't pretend to be mindful and consciencious of others' belifs and sensibilities. I'm just your average internet egomaniac! :D
Okay, I know subscribers see articles from the future, with red headings, and they can disable ads. I get both of these and I'm not a subscriber. I'm not complaining, just wondering why.
When the initial trailers showed Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club, most people assumed this would not be part of the X-Men film universe, but part of the relatively new Marvel Film Universe (that is to say, it would co-exist with the current Iron Man, Avengers, Captain America, Hulk and Thor). Emma Frost had already appeared younger and later, and nothing like Emma Frost at all, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so it was a reasonable assumption that these wouldn't be in the same universe. I was hoping these three would be followed up with three that didn't have atrocious writing. The X-Men movies, god only knows how they've been so successful, they contradict themselves and the source material at every chance they get. I'm not saing the source material was perfect, a lot of writers worked on that over the years, and obviously nobody can remember EVERYTHING any other writer has EVER written into the plot, but with just a handful (relatively) of writers working on the movies, you'd think they could at least maintain internal consistency.
Unfortunately, Australia IS a Christian nation. We're a Commonwealth Nation which means the Queen, the head of the Church of England is our head of state. Before each sitting of parliament, they recite The Lord's Prayer. As an atheist, I feel my views aren't fairly represented by a clearly religious organisation.
Well, the city I'm in is causing my misanthropy to act up, again, but I'm currently of the opinion all people are scum. Pretty much everyone I know is a terrible person who should be in jail, for one reason or another.
I'm much happier thinking some rapist, pedophile, or insider trader (oh wait, they're too rich for jail...) was worked to death for my materialism than I was thinking some hard working average guy in China worked a year of 18 hour shifts.
"He says he has a car in China..."
*looks at my Dell Streak* Yeah... I could really do with a few more inches of screen space...
Exactly. We lock all kinds of things up behind conventional six-pin locks. They've been pickable for far longer than I care to consider, but we still trust that our valuables are safe.
Yes, that does mean I'm being consistently modded up for being trolltastically inflammatory...
All cool. The moderators never know where I'm actually coming from, so I have more positive karma than I know what to do with (seriously, it's good for WHAT, exactly?)
The thing about REPUBLICANS is they're all EVIL. Microsoft is EVIL too. And that Darl Mcbride is a barrel of blathering laughs. Only IDIOTS persist in using Windows.
Hardly the same as developing, but when I'm painting my Warmachine and Hordes miniatures, I like to have a mentally unengaging TV show like Drawn Together in the background on my TV screen, and my laptop screen usually has pictures of the look I'm aiming for. I'm a novice painter, so I can't quite visualise how things should look in the end, yet.
This is the evidence we need! As internet dwellers we can claim it is ingrained in our culture to infringe on copyrights!
And even so, all of this is only for US residents. OBVIOUSLY America is the most important place in the world, nobody else matters at all. Sony could probably afford to lose the Australian market, so they're not bothering to help us out at all. Mysteriously enough, just after the PSN went down, my Gmail account was compromised for the first time EVER, in the seceral years I've had it. I don't use the same password, but the canned security questions and personal info are all the same. I don't know what I had in my email, I've had to change every password for everything I use because most websites send your password back to you as PLAIN TEXT when you register or change it. I've had online stores send me my credit card number before, my WHOLE credit card number. I've had to cancel my credit and debit cards, so I'm living on the contents of my wallet until the new ones get mailed to me - exposing me to ANOTHER security risk, of the old fashioned sort. I don't think anyone truly realises the gravity of the situation, and Sony not actually offering me anything in the way of compensation or preventative measures is reprehensible. Hell, Americans should be insulted that Sony thinks a couple of free games will appease them. Sad thing is, Sony is right. Dangle something shiny and the small-minded masses are suddenly distracted.
You must be new. Microsoft aren't big on the whole "choice" thing. Even in XP when you could ditch the Luna interface in favour of the "Classic" one, it didn't actually change anything. It made the colours more business-like, sure, but it was still XP's interface. If they make ribbons the default behaviour, and give you an option, nothing will actually behave like it does today. There'll be all manner of unexpected things happening, mostly in the form of menus not where they used to be, not containing the things they used to contain, and formerly easily accessible features not being where you expect them.
Not to say I'm opposed to new UIs or old ones, just that any time the option is available in a Microsoft OS or program, they inevitably ruin it for everyone.
Nope, there's no word for this special kind of stupid.
Compare and contrast with Sony's phone division: They're actively aiding people in unlocking the bootloaders of their Android handsets; thus allowing people to install customised versions of Android, or if anyone bothers porting them, entirely different OSs.
I want Sony to compensate me for not being able to play multiplayer for the past several months. I haven't updated my PS3 since they removed OtherOS and decided they'd change the EULA to say they had the right to install and execute programs on my PS3 without my knowledge or consent. I'm also unable to get updates and DLC for the games I've legally purchased because of this. I doubt I'll ever get just recompense.
When we talk about our weight, we're really concerned with the mass. It's a misnomer that we use the word "weight" for it at all. Not many people care how much force the earth is pulling them down with. When it comes to maximum capacities though, as long as the vehicle or catwalk or so forth isn't moving from Earth to the Moon any time soon, using a measure of mass to define maximum weight is good enough.
Samsung should sue Apple for the visual siilarity between the Apple TV and Samsung's DVRs and set top boxes.
*middle click* Hmm... *middle click, middle click, middle click* Oh, that's cool *middle click* What? *middle click, middle click*
Three hours later: *middle click, middle click, middle click*
Law is a never ending battle. If Groklaw expanded it's mission it would never end. PJ would have to be like the Phantom, passing the ring and title down, generation to generation. Every time we hear about a patent lawsuit ending, we've heard of a good two dozen start up at the same time. Groklaw will be a valuable resource, and should be archived, but let her rest, or she'll be writing until they nail her pine box shut.
I conducted an interesting experiment a few years ago with lemonparty. 100% of the people I told NOT to click the link did. Only 10% of those I suggested the link to actually went there. Some of those I told not to click it, I actually forewarned them of the content, and STILL they clicked it.