But that's only if you've used the latest Windows Phone OS, anything from the 7 or before era was terrible. To be honest the current one isn't BAD, but it's going to be impossible to sell anyone on it as long as it has the "windows" moniker.
Even if you remove those "personal merits" there is no reason to bar the reading of Ender's Game to 14 year olds.
Also I know it's the internet so you have to be edgy and cool but what was the point in bringing up the quality of the book? Who cares if it's a mid-level quality book or if it's pure harmless crap?
They are ok with literal genocide committed by a child soldier, but the moment the kid has to take a shower (and fight a bully), NOW it's pornographic?
I don't want to live on this pl- no. I don't want THESE people to live on my planet anymore.
TOO FAR. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD TODAY?
Please someone give this teacher a prize for reading Ender's Game to children, it was my favorite book and it brought (to my life) a way of thinking critically about my actions that I've never had cross my mind until reading it.
The question is, how to remove apps that serve ads, and the answer was given; then the answer was mocked for being something for a "tech-head" had to figure out. I can give a case example of how pushing the "upgrade now" button is bad:
There is an app on the Android marketplace, called ExtDate. It puts a little graphical calendar on your screen, it's easy to read and it has a ton of visual options and styles you can mess around with, free app - it's just all around neat.
Then the update came (which I thankfully didn't apply, for some reason I read the "what's new" and noticed the slew of terrible reviews for this cool app), and with it brought a new feature: push ads. The program was working for months without ads, and then suddenly on the next update it goes from a harmless widget that tells you the day to an app that now just serves ads (with no indication they are coming from the CALENDAR APP) every hour or so.
In trying to find the app on the market place I found they have PULLED the non-paid version after getting nothing but dozens of 1 star reviews. This has gotten long winded but the moral of the story is: how does "upgrade now" solve any questions raised in this thread?
I've always wondered what will happen with the "processing power of the net" happens to be discovered by an AI that we have taught to learn. I hope those laws of Robotics will help us (at least until the robots become smart enough to understand the importance of "bending the rules").
As pointed out earlier in the comments there seems to be a cycle happening here. At first we wanted to get all this data off our machines and onto a mainframe, then the mainframes went down. We saw the importance of local backups and copies so we kept everything local. Now with networking picking up we need to offload the processing and data once again, this time calling the mainframes "the cloud".
I think the big problem comes when trying to move from one system to another, what data do you keep locally? Do you have this process automated? Where do you keep the backups, can you trust one cloud network to backup the other one? How many dogs can we put in this dog to make sure your dogs stay doggy? I'm glad I don't have to answer these questions!
If the article is to be read then we shouldn't have to worry about it, as cloud crashes are possible! Skynet will be brought down by some dropped packets and line jitter in the end.
This is also why, after being briefly enamored of e-books, I've gone back to buying the real thing. I still sometimes reread books I bought 20+ years ago. Will the Kindle ones I've bought still work in 20 years? I doubt it.
This sounds like a case for the removal of DRM. Come back in 200 years and we'll see how well the digital copy holds up versus the paper copy. (Don't wait 2,000 years, as the Overwatch will have destroyed all technology deemed unsuitable for humans during the Occupation, so the paper copy might outlast the Cleansing if you're lucky.)
I think he's trying to say that it would be akin to the telephone company saying there is no change in how your phone gets the bits from the internet. If you're using your thumbs and managing to pull 5GB down it's exactly the same looking data if you used your laptop to tether to your phone.
You're allowed to use the internet, but only if you get the bits a very specific way.
I don't want to say I stopped using Xbox live when the new update hit (the first NXE update when they ditched the blades the first time) but when I saw how they were cramming my console full of ads AND charging me monthly for a service that has less functionality than Steam........ I just couldn't do it anymore.
The point is some things are just fun to do, and just because alcohol is a poison and can have some pretty terrible effects it doesn't mean they MUST be destructive. I don't understand the appeal of cigarettes personally, but they wouldn't be around for this long if there wasn't SOME kind of 'upside' to them.
If you are of sane and rational thought I can not see how you cannot see 'the point' in either binge drinking to the point of destruction or nothing at all. What happened to the shades of grey?
That's the point I'm bringing up though - if you rely on the hard drive as your only backup source then you probably don't have a great "backup plan" as it is and probably when your machine needs a backup you're going to do what you've always done: call your son and complain until he tells you to just bring it to the Geek Squad.
Ugh I know this makes it look like I'm defending Microsoft and/or Windows but just because one company does it doesn't mean another can't do it under another name, does it?
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But that's only if you've used the latest Windows Phone OS, anything from the 7 or before era was terrible. To be honest the current one isn't BAD, but it's going to be impossible to sell anyone on it as long as it has the "windows" moniker.
I'm sorry if I take pride in the things I enjoy.
Even if you remove those "personal merits" there is no reason to bar the reading of Ender's Game to 14 year olds.
Also I know it's the internet so you have to be edgy and cool but what was the point in bringing up the quality of the book? Who cares if it's a mid-level quality book or if it's pure harmless crap?
They are ok with literal genocide committed by a child soldier, but the moment the kid has to take a shower (and fight a bully), NOW it's pornographic?
I don't want to live on this pl- no. I don't want THESE people to live on my planet anymore.
TOO FAR.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD TODAY?
Please someone give this teacher a prize for reading Ender's Game to children, it was my favorite book and it brought (to my life) a way of thinking critically about my actions that I've never had cross my mind until reading it.
The question is, how to remove apps that serve ads, and the answer was given; then the answer was mocked for being something for a "tech-head" had to figure out. I can give a case example of how pushing the "upgrade now" button is bad:
There is an app on the Android marketplace, called ExtDate. It puts a little graphical calendar on your screen, it's easy to read and it has a ton of visual options and styles you can mess around with, free app - it's just all around neat.
Then the update came (which I thankfully didn't apply, for some reason I read the "what's new" and noticed the slew of terrible reviews for this cool app), and with it brought a new feature: push ads. The program was working for months without ads, and then suddenly on the next update it goes from a harmless widget that tells you the day to an app that now just serves ads (with no indication they are coming from the CALENDAR APP) every hour or so.
In trying to find the app on the market place I found they have PULLED the non-paid version after getting nothing but dozens of 1 star reviews. This has gotten long winded but the moral of the story is: how does "upgrade now" solve any questions raised in this thread?
I've always wondered what will happen with the "processing power of the net" happens to be discovered by an AI that we have taught to learn. I hope those laws of Robotics will help us (at least until the robots become smart enough to understand the importance of "bending the rules").
As pointed out earlier in the comments there seems to be a cycle happening here. At first we wanted to get all this data off our machines and onto a mainframe, then the mainframes went down. We saw the importance of local backups and copies so we kept everything local. Now with networking picking up we need to offload the processing and data once again, this time calling the mainframes "the cloud".
I think the big problem comes when trying to move from one system to another, what data do you keep locally? Do you have this process automated? Where do you keep the backups, can you trust one cloud network to backup the other one? How many dogs can we put in this dog to make sure your dogs stay doggy? I'm glad I don't have to answer these questions!
If the article is to be read then we shouldn't have to worry about it, as cloud crashes are possible! Skynet will be brought down by some dropped packets and line jitter in the end.
This is also why, after being briefly enamored of e-books, I've gone back to buying the real thing. I still sometimes reread books I bought 20+ years ago. Will the Kindle ones I've bought still work in 20 years? I doubt it.
This sounds like a case for the removal of DRM. Come back in 200 years and we'll see how well the digital copy holds up versus the paper copy. (Don't wait 2,000 years, as the Overwatch will have destroyed all technology deemed unsuitable for humans during the Occupation, so the paper copy might outlast the Cleansing if you're lucky.)
"There's no evidence that I'm wrong" sounds like an argument that the Flying Spaghetti Monster does or does not exist.
Crapdroids? Fanroids?
Well you're uhhh... ummm... an iPhonebot?
I'm sorry I'm terrible with these teenager-level wordplays.
Well what's your option on a non tech-head OS? Live with the ads?
Just because you can build a house with wood nails and a hammer doesn't mean hammer and nails are some kind of "mechanics only" tools.
He consented to the search. Not that it makes anything here any better but it wasn't as if they forced him to type in a password.
The filename is shijuuhatte-48-positions and if this is child porn then we are all going to hell.
So to not be thrown into jail for doing no wrong all I have to do is follow these easy 10 steps?
After a four hour search of his laptop the only things the police could come up with are images of fully clothed people.
I honestly don't know how you could even consider this "remotely questionable".
I think he's trying to say that it would be akin to the telephone company saying there is no change in how your phone gets the bits from the internet. If you're using your thumbs and managing to pull 5GB down it's exactly the same looking data if you used your laptop to tether to your phone.
You're allowed to use the internet, but only if you get the bits a very specific way.
I don't want to say I stopped using Xbox live when the new update hit (the first NXE update when they ditched the blades the first time) but when I saw how they were cramming my console full of ads AND charging me monthly for a service that has less functionality than Steam........ I just couldn't do it anymore.
It is faster though. Not much consolation but it finds programs/settings/files a lot faster than win7's search box via start menu does.
SO close to Godwin's law, not even half an hour after the post hit the page too. Damn.
We all cope with loss differently. I cope by using humor - I hope I have the wits about me to be funny to the end.
Also it was a joke, we are allowed to joke about really taboo subjects - it's what makes us human.
What's the point?
What's the point in rollercoasters?
What's the point in spinning in circles as a kid?
What's the point in masturbating?
The point is some things are just fun to do, and just because alcohol is a poison and can have some pretty terrible effects it doesn't mean they MUST be destructive. I don't understand the appeal of cigarettes personally, but they wouldn't be around for this long if there wasn't SOME kind of 'upside' to them.
If you are of sane and rational thought I can not see how you cannot see 'the point' in either binge drinking to the point of destruction or nothing at all. What happened to the shades of grey?
That's the point I'm bringing up though - if you rely on the hard drive as your only backup source then you probably don't have a great "backup plan" as it is and probably when your machine needs a backup you're going to do what you've always done: call your son and complain until he tells you to just bring it to the Geek Squad.
:(
It's like a stupid tax
Ugh I know this makes it look like I'm defending Microsoft and/or Windows but just because one company does it doesn't mean another can't do it under another name, does it?