I know one person with a Windows Phone. He likes it. I agree, it's not a bad phone. The gawdawful interface put onto the PCs actually makes sense on a phone and is very usable. And combined with a very nice Nokia made phone it's a nice product. The commonly listed drawback" is having few apps but that's not really much of a problem given how most apps are crap anyway. The only real drawback in my view is the knowledge that it will never take off and you're stuck with a dead-end product.
Other than the UI the major difference in phones is who you sell your privacy too, Microsoft, Apple, or Google. And given that Windows Phone has what I think is the better UI it should be more popular than it is. And I am saying this as a card carrying member of the Microsoft Haters Club.
People seem to forget just how awful the good old days actually were. There's a nostalgia filter that clouds the view looking backwards. People remember when they were kids and life was great, but that's because they were often protected and shielded from what was really going on and had few responsibilities. Especially looking back to the 40s to 60s they looked pretty good if you were white and middle class, but they pretty sucky if you a minority or poor.
Let's say, all your art was in a studio then the studio burned down so that you lost it all, isn't that the same thing?
Just treat the art as ephemeral. The majority of art is not permanent and no way to make it permanent, and modern art is full of intentionally ephemeral creations (performance art for instance). If the artist was any good then it'll go down in artist mythology/lore like the first draft of Mona Lisa frowning.
But maybe there's a lesson here. If you put all your vital irreplaceable art on Google or any other provider, then tell them that it's irreplaceable art!! Even putting art in a proper gallery usually involves some sort of agreement on insurance. Of course one could say "I'm an artist, I'm not expected to understand the real world!"
Putting it up on Google and them complaining when it disappears is like drawing with chalk on the sidewalk and then complaining when it doesn't last through the rainy season - in other words you have to use the right tools. The reason we can see some classic art today is because they used proper materials that lasted a long time.
G. H. W. Bush, not appalling enough to prevent assassination attempts. Sarah Palin, too appalling and the election fizzles. Biden, just appalling enough to do the job right.
The potatoe thing was dumb in other ways. It was a valid spelling and shows up in many dictionaries, and Quayle was relying on the school's cue card instead of his own personal spelling. Then people went nuts over it. You never see that alternate spellling anymore after 1992, the Quayle effect killed it off. After that point he wasn't criticized much on his other failings or policy stances and instead became stereotyped the potatoe guy. Bush flubbed his lines too and get labeled dumb for it. People are so used to trained debate club monkeys as politicians that it stands out when a politician gets tongue tied or mispeaks.
This is true. I'm big on the environment, and I got that attitude from my conservative family. Though my mother would never admit that these days. The problem is that everything today is now highly politicized so that you're never allowed to agree in principal with someone not of the same political party. We just have a screwed up political system where every issue is divided into two political sets, and anyone who's pro-gun and pro-environment at the same is seen as an anomaly. So if you're for having a great environment but your party keeps telling you that regulations are evil then over time you telling yourself that you're not environmentalist because only hippies and potheads are environmentalists. Just like some people are all for women's rights and feel they should make the same money on the job as their male coworkers, but they will deny vehemently any similarities with feminism.
Ie, Mike Pence made his silly remarks about smoking. Reading the whole thing in context though, he's still saying that smoking is bad and that you're a fool if you keep smoking despite the overwhelming evidence that it's unhealthy, it's just that he doesn't want the government telling you to not smoke. So he gets ridiculed for being pro-smoking when that's not at all what he's saying. Of course he phrases it such that it only further entrenches his supporters and dectractors while undecided voters remain undecided.
And his faults are immense. Goes around accusing everyone else of having a lack of morals and character and he turns out the be the sleaziest sleazeball that ever sleazed onto land.
Problem is that sometimes people need to hear things that they don't want to hear. Such as, the economy sucks and there is no magic formulat to fix it, and deporting immigrants and building a wall won't fix it either. Or, the reason you've got sucky republican candidates is because you keep voting based upon who's against abortion and gays. Or, that the good old days were pretty sucky too and they only seem good because you were a kid at the time. Or, that America isn't vastly superior to every other country on earth.
What the people want to hear is that everything's great or everything can easily be made great by one single person if we just trust him and do what he says.
It doesn't cost that much. Seriously. Just don't live in San Francisco (which is NOT silicon valley).
As for software, it's never been the biggest thing in Silicon Valley until the last decade. It's called "silicon" not "software", and was a big engineering hub before the wannabe programmers moved in with their social media.
The reason the valley is nice is that if you lose your job then there's another one nearby. Employers at the moment do not like you to work from home or telecommute. Even for software the majority of them want you in the office at least once day a week. So that means if you're in Appalachia in an affordable home and lose your job that you may have to move somewhere else. Even if you're not in Silicon Valley you do well being in a hub where there are a lot of companies doing software or engineering.
The party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower is not the same political party as the party of Helms, Gingrich, and Reagan. The party that freed the slaves versus Nixon's "southern strategy" party that wooed the segregationists.
But you can have reality checks. That is realizing that there's no likelihood at all for the politicians being able to carry out their ludicrous promises. Donald Trump has promised to do so many things on his first day in office that it's absurdly impractical to do it all in only 24 hours. Presumably those listening realize that it's just standard hyperbole and not meant to be taken literally. However there's a range where it becomes more difficult to separate the practical promise from the exaggeration, and the supporters will believe it as literal truth unless they stop to do a reality check. Ie, would Mexico really gladly pay for a wall on the border and build it themselves? Reality check says...
There are probably 10 sides and more to every story. Sometimes there are so many sides that you have a smooth continuum. Limiting story to two sides only is part of the "lie" politicians like to tell.
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Oh come on, that was the best value coup pun I've seen in years.
I know one person with a Windows Phone. He likes it. I agree, it's not a bad phone. The gawdawful interface put onto the PCs actually makes sense on a phone and is very usable. And combined with a very nice Nokia made phone it's a nice product. The commonly listed drawback" is having few apps but that's not really much of a problem given how most apps are crap anyway. The only real drawback in my view is the knowledge that it will never take off and you're stuck with a dead-end product.
Other than the UI the major difference in phones is who you sell your privacy too, Microsoft, Apple, or Google. And given that Windows Phone has what I think is the better UI it should be more popular than it is. And I am saying this as a card carrying member of the Microsoft Haters Club.
Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
People seem to forget just how awful the good old days actually were. There's a nostalgia filter that clouds the view looking backwards. People remember when they were kids and life was great, but that's because they were often protected and shielded from what was really going on and had few responsibilities. Especially looking back to the 40s to 60s they looked pretty good if you were white and middle class, but they pretty sucky if you a minority or poor.
Pavlov's more famous than Lennon!
Sort of like living on in the clacks?
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
You missed the part where he said "I don't want to sue but I will if I have to!"
And now he must suffer for his art...
Let's say, all your art was in a studio then the studio burned down so that you lost it all, isn't that the same thing?
Just treat the art as ephemeral. The majority of art is not permanent and no way to make it permanent, and modern art is full of intentionally ephemeral creations (performance art for instance). If the artist was any good then it'll go down in artist mythology/lore like the first draft of Mona Lisa frowning.
But maybe there's a lesson here. If you put all your vital irreplaceable art on Google or any other provider, then tell them that it's irreplaceable art!! Even putting art in a proper gallery usually involves some sort of agreement on insurance. Of course one could say "I'm an artist, I'm not expected to understand the real world!"
Putting it up on Google and them complaining when it disappears is like drawing with chalk on the sidewalk and then complaining when it doesn't last through the rainy season - in other words you have to use the right tools. The reason we can see some classic art today is because they used proper materials that lasted a long time.
G. H. W. Bush, not appalling enough to prevent assassination attempts. Sarah Palin, too appalling and the election fizzles. Biden, just appalling enough to do the job right.
The potatoe thing was dumb in other ways. It was a valid spelling and shows up in many dictionaries, and Quayle was relying on the school's cue card instead of his own personal spelling. Then people went nuts over it. You never see that alternate spellling anymore after 1992, the Quayle effect killed it off. After that point he wasn't criticized much on his other failings or policy stances and instead became stereotyped the potatoe guy. Bush flubbed his lines too and get labeled dumb for it. People are so used to trained debate club monkeys as politicians that it stands out when a politician gets tongue tied or mispeaks.
This is true. I'm big on the environment, and I got that attitude from my conservative family. Though my mother would never admit that these days. The problem is that everything today is now highly politicized so that you're never allowed to agree in principal with someone not of the same political party. We just have a screwed up political system where every issue is divided into two political sets, and anyone who's pro-gun and pro-environment at the same is seen as an anomaly. So if you're for having a great environment but your party keeps telling you that regulations are evil then over time you telling yourself that you're not environmentalist because only hippies and potheads are environmentalists. Just like some people are all for women's rights and feel they should make the same money on the job as their male coworkers, but they will deny vehemently any similarities with feminism.
Ie, Mike Pence made his silly remarks about smoking. Reading the whole thing in context though, he's still saying that smoking is bad and that you're a fool if you keep smoking despite the overwhelming evidence that it's unhealthy, it's just that he doesn't want the government telling you to not smoke. So he gets ridiculed for being pro-smoking when that's not at all what he's saying. Of course he phrases it such that it only further entrenches his supporters and dectractors while undecided voters remain undecided.
And his faults are immense. Goes around accusing everyone else of having a lack of morals and character and he turns out the be the sleaziest sleazeball that ever sleazed onto land.
But despite that Trump is still jealous of his hair.
Problem is that sometimes people need to hear things that they don't want to hear. Such as, the economy sucks and there is no magic formulat to fix it, and deporting immigrants and building a wall won't fix it either. Or, the reason you've got sucky republican candidates is because you keep voting based upon who's against abortion and gays. Or, that the good old days were pretty sucky too and they only seem good because you were a kid at the time. Or, that America isn't vastly superior to every other country on earth.
What the people want to hear is that everything's great or everything can easily be made great by one single person if we just trust him and do what he says.
He's got what the voters crave!
Or at least require him to work on weekends.
It should have read "Native Americana Gov. Mike Pence".
The commute from there is much better than the commute from San Francisco though, and fewer hipsters as neighbors.
Shop around. Get roommates and that $3000/mo gets more affordable. Commute from further away instead of living in the priciest places.
It doesn't cost that much. Seriously. Just don't live in San Francisco (which is NOT silicon valley).
As for software, it's never been the biggest thing in Silicon Valley until the last decade. It's called "silicon" not "software", and was a big engineering hub before the wannabe programmers moved in with their social media.
The reason the valley is nice is that if you lose your job then there's another one nearby. Employers at the moment do not like you to work from home or telecommute. Even for software the majority of them want you in the office at least once day a week. So that means if you're in Appalachia in an affordable home and lose your job that you may have to move somewhere else. Even if you're not in Silicon Valley you do well being in a hub where there are a lot of companies doing software or engineering.
He's missing a merchandising opportunity if he's not selling Jimmy James Jammies.
Seriously, if you're a great programmer then you've got to have at least some degree of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. C and OCD go hand in hand.
The party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower is not the same political party as the party of Helms, Gingrich, and Reagan. The party that freed the slaves versus Nixon's "southern strategy" party that wooed the segregationists.
But you can have reality checks. That is realizing that there's no likelihood at all for the politicians being able to carry out their ludicrous promises. Donald Trump has promised to do so many things on his first day in office that it's absurdly impractical to do it all in only 24 hours. Presumably those listening realize that it's just standard hyperbole and not meant to be taken literally. However there's a range where it becomes more difficult to separate the practical promise from the exaggeration, and the supporters will believe it as literal truth unless they stop to do a reality check. Ie, would Mexico really gladly pay for a wall on the border and build it themselves? Reality check says...
There are probably 10 sides and more to every story. Sometimes there are so many sides that you have a smooth continuum. Limiting story to two sides only is part of the "lie" politicians like to tell.