Too bad Ubuntu still appears to have a superior update system: I don't feel like going to Mint's "good until you have to hack your upgrade". I had enough of that with the earlier Ubuntus.
That's news to me - every single upgrade of mine on LMDE 'just worked'; no futzing around needed.
In fact, without subsidies the smartphone market would be tiny compared to the size it is now as the vast majority of the general public would not be willing to pay for a phone if they saw the full cost of the device upfront and had to pay it in one big chunk.
They're really essential for the health of the smartphone industry as much as I'm not a fan of them.
You americans crack me up, you really do:) I expect that the actual evidence of healthier cellphone markets existing in places with unlocked phones is not enough to convince you? The fact that places where the consumer isn't locked into a network actually benefit the consumer have better service and lower costs?
Okay, how about this - you really think that all service providers foot the upfront costs of the phone? Hell, no! They do what every business does when the business wants to sell on credit - they find a bank that grants a personal loan to the consumer who wants to buy on credit. The business then receives their money upfront from the bank while the bank then receives the monthly dues from the consumer, who thinks that he's paying the business.
Of course the consumer doesn't see any of this - the business hands the consumer forms to fill in; those forms are the application for a personal loan for the amount that is being purchased. The filled in forms then go to the bank, which approves the loan and releases the money to the business, who then releases the item to the consumer. Payments made each month go to the bank, even if via the business.
A variation is when the business offers these loans themselves ("BUY ON STORE CREDIT"), and then turn around and sell these loans (for cash) to a bank. You've seen something similar in the housing market which eventually resulted in bank bailouts.
Trust me, even with the lack of subsidies, the consumers are still going to get the phones they wanted anyway, albeit at a smaller monthly payment than the "subsidy" would cost. Instead of buying a $500 phone over 24 months and paying a total of $1500, they'll be buying a $500 phone over 24 months and paying less than $700.
Can't you morons just display the scrollbar in the normal default style the OS is giving you? That's what I hate about Firefox, it looks like an ugly Windows program on every OS.
It's not like other browsers don't do this either: Chrome's scrollbars are fugly and non-native in GTK+, Chrome's titlebar is non-native, IE's tab and titlebar combination is unique amongst applications, Opera's button spacing is non-native, etc.
What's all this about? I'm running both Chrome and Firefox right now on Debian+WindowMaker and the scrollbars are exactly alike (alike to the rest of the system as well). How do I enable the "non-native-looking" scrollbars?
The upper right area of Gnome Shellâ(TM)s top panel contained four separate items with their corresponding menus used for configuring sound, internet connections, power and user settings. This was bloated, fragmented and space consuming especially in the case of using extensions that need space on the right.
A new status menu that unifies all the above individual settings in one was imperative and we got it on 3.10!
...directly above a screenshot showing the top panel in question - which is 80% empty space.
Seems you can justify anything in UI design if you include the magic words "bloated, fragmented and space consuming" in your rationale.
I can't find any of that in any of the linked articles
Coincidentally you'll never get any action from a vagina either. Some of us have a girlfriend or are married and watch movies with our significant others, some of which they choose. Feel free to pop your head up out of the basement and ask your mom if you need to verify this practice.
Untrue. I've had a live-in partner for some time now and get vagina all the time. Haven't had to sit through a chick flick to get it though.
Since this cannot possibly work, a better idea would be to simply put rechargeable batteries that get charged from a removable crank - 10 minutes of cranking for 10 minutes of run-time.
> They arrested somebody who couldn't break American law because he was never in America and wasn't a citizen.
According to the Wikipedia page you quote, he was arrested for smuggling arms to FARC for use by rebels in Columbia against US troops.
Assuming he did supply arms to the enemy of an ally, that still doesn't break US law, nor does it make him a war criminal. The arms supplier of your enemy isn't a war criminal, and someone who does something out of your jurisdiction is, like it or not, free from your prosecutors.
TLDR; US forces has no legal standing to arrest, convict or detain their enemies arms suppliers.
If it's lack of bloat you want, then I have just the thing. I wrote up a little Tcl/Tk script (less than a screenful long) that simply displays all the songs it finds on my PC using locatedb and has a small search box that lets you narrow the search down. Takes less than a second to start, finds all my music without me having to add it to some special folder or import it, and uses almost no resources cause it plays the music with mpg123.
Feel free to email me for it - my website hoster is having trouble with their billing system and so, sadly, I can't provide a download.
Listen, just because your 147 IQ failed to help you catch a clue doesn't mean you need to equate skeptics with fundamentalism. Your entire argument, if it could be called that, is based upon "proving" that "science" (according to your definition) is just the same as faith, and that people who are skeptical of the claim "IT WARSE A MURRICAL, I TELL YA, A REAL MURRICAL!" are fundamentalists.
How about you use that 147 IQ of yours to explain why, if you think that there is anything supernatural about NDE, there have been hundreds (maybe thousands) of studies that found nothing supernatural? Go on, we're waiting to hear it.
Very very very useful when writing error handlers for functions way on down the stack. Much more crufty than C++ exceptions, but a helluva lot more helpful when debugging signal-based coded.
Of course they can't; they'll be forced to accept it for tax, right?
(Hint: if you're forced to convert it into real currency to pay tax on all the transactions you performed with bitcoin, then there's no point in having it as you'll soon run out of real money)
Not quite so simple: Modern engines top out at closer to 25%. In addition, the losses, with EVs, are in the transmission and storage (battery), which frequently (so I've read) make EV less efficient than petrol vehicles.
Actually, if you read the posters history in this story (redmid17), you'll see that he pretty much defends this practice in every one of the posts he's spamming to this story. It's safe to say that he is an asshole who routinely uses his phone in theatres, and is now trying to convince everyone that it's no big deal because it doesn't bother him.
I'll bet dollars to donuts that he's done this in the past
Whatever you are, it's the minority. You're an outlier. I've no idea why you even replied with that comment about being opposite to the norm - how does it make you feel?
well the people complaining about them aren't into the tech or what the booths are about anyways
Bullshit. I complain about them. You can't really be more into tech than I am -- it's my career. I, for one, am disgusted by the sexism prevalent in my field. And I can only imagine how much worse it'd be if I was female.
Perhaps your mating strategy of grovelling before the collective body of women on the planet in a public and humiliating manner works for you - I certainly don't know how, but lets say it does... the ugly fact is that dominant and powerful men are the most desirable to the majority of women. Grovelers like yourself are attractive to only a very small minority. A few facts you perhaps aren't aware of:
1. You aren't disgusted - you're trying to impress women, and since you don't have any power or influence, you're try to be the kind of guy they say they want (who they won't stay with anyway - when they get the kind of guy they say they want they realise they don't find that kind attractive at all.)
You practically are already female; you just don't have the balls to snip your balls.
(And no, I don't want to hear your story about some women who happens to be an outlier - the majority (two sigmas within median) of men and women fit the profiles I typed above. Besides, who cares what the outliers want in a partner as long as they get it?)
So your answer to accusations of misogyny is to dismiss women as irrational, stupid or unimportant. I think you just defeated your own argument.
If the accusations are irrational, stupid or unimportant, the accusers should rightfully be dismissed as irrational, stupid or unimportant.
I find myself in a world where every accusation of sexism must automatically be escalated to in-depth investigation, regardless of the primacie facie evidence (or lack thereof)...
The reason for the blindness of engineering grads is because of the low quality of people they see graduating from humanities. The engineering grads don't realise that engineering is simply a very small subset of humanities (engineering is applied science, which is applied math, which is applied philosophy).
Any engineering course worth its weight DOES NOT say this is the way the world is; it DOES teach a healthy skepticism.
I keep seeing this idea presented everywhere in this thread; I choose this one to reply to.
To be perfectly honest, engineers don't have more skepticism than any other college graduate. In fact, the extremist suicide bombers all tend to be engineers. however, if you force engineers to take humanities course, your're just wasting your time and theirs - they approach it with the firm belief that there is nothing to be learned from it, and hence learn nothing from it. The humanities in general, philosophy in particular, are the ultimate "what you get is correlated to how much you are prepared to think" courses.
Engineers are the most religious of all the grads.
Thank you Georgia for your brave heart and your humanist approach. As a male I feel ashamed that such a male exists among us.
I'm ashamed that you're the same species as me, nevermind the same gender. Fo the record, the rest of us male would like you to stop being ashamed; henceforth you can call yourself female - that's a win for both us and you by my account.
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remote communication at a time where being remote, either physically or emotionally, is considered by most to be child abuse.
Great - so now more women than men are responsible for child abuse. Just great.
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Too bad Ubuntu still appears to have a superior update system: I don't feel like going to Mint's "good until you have to hack your upgrade". I had enough of that with the earlier Ubuntus.
That's news to me - every single upgrade of mine on LMDE 'just worked'; no futzing around needed.
In fact, without subsidies the smartphone market would be tiny compared to the size it is now as the vast majority of the general public would not be willing to pay for a phone if they saw the full cost of the device upfront and had to pay it in one big chunk.
They're really essential for the health of the smartphone industry as much as I'm not a fan of them.
You americans crack me up, you really do :) I expect that the actual evidence of healthier cellphone markets existing in places with unlocked phones is not enough to convince you? The fact that places where the consumer isn't locked into a network actually benefit the consumer have better service and lower costs?
Okay, how about this - you really think that all service providers foot the upfront costs of the phone? Hell, no! They do what every business does when the business wants to sell on credit - they find a bank that grants a personal loan to the consumer who wants to buy on credit. The business then receives their money upfront from the bank while the bank then receives the monthly dues from the consumer, who thinks that he's paying the business.
Of course the consumer doesn't see any of this - the business hands the consumer forms to fill in; those forms are the application for a personal loan for the amount that is being purchased. The filled in forms then go to the bank, which approves the loan and releases the money to the business, who then releases the item to the consumer. Payments made each month go to the bank, even if via the business.
A variation is when the business offers these loans themselves ("BUY ON STORE CREDIT"), and then turn around and sell these loans (for cash) to a bank. You've seen something similar in the housing market which eventually resulted in bank bailouts.
Trust me, even with the lack of subsidies, the consumers are still going to get the phones they wanted anyway, albeit at a smaller monthly payment than the "subsidy" would cost. Instead of buying a $500 phone over 24 months and paying a total of $1500, they'll be buying a $500 phone over 24 months and paying less than $700.
Can't you morons just display the scrollbar in the normal default style the OS is giving you? That's what I hate about Firefox, it looks like an ugly Windows program on every OS.
It's not like other browsers don't do this either: Chrome's scrollbars are fugly and non-native in GTK+, Chrome's titlebar is non-native, IE's tab and titlebar combination is unique amongst applications, Opera's button spacing is non-native, etc.
What's all this about? I'm running both Chrome and Firefox right now on Debian+WindowMaker and the scrollbars are exactly alike (alike to the rest of the system as well). How do I enable the "non-native-looking" scrollbars?
My favourite bit of the linked article...
Seems you can justify anything in UI design if you include the magic words "bloated, fragmented and space consuming" in your rationale.
I can't find any of that in any of the linked articles
Remember the scene with the "blue" belt?
No, but then again I don't have a vagina either.
Coincidentally you'll never get any action from a vagina either. Some of us have a girlfriend or are married and watch movies with our significant others, some of which they choose. Feel free to pop your head up out of the basement and ask your mom if you need to verify this practice.
Untrue. I've had a live-in partner for some time now and get vagina all the time. Haven't had to sit through a chick flick to get it though.
Since this cannot possibly work, a better idea would be to simply put rechargeable batteries that get charged from a removable crank - 10 minutes of cranking for 10 minutes of run-time.
> They arrested somebody who couldn't break American law because he was never in America and wasn't a citizen.
According to the Wikipedia page you quote, he was arrested for smuggling arms to FARC for use by rebels in Columbia against US troops.
Assuming he did supply arms to the enemy of an ally, that still doesn't break US law, nor does it make him a war criminal. The arms supplier of your enemy isn't a war criminal, and someone who does something out of your jurisdiction is, like it or not, free from your prosecutors.
TLDR; US forces has no legal standing to arrest, convict or detain their enemies arms suppliers.
If it's lack of bloat you want, then I have just the thing. I wrote up a little Tcl/Tk script (less than a screenful long) that simply displays all the songs it finds on my PC using locatedb and has a small search box that lets you narrow the search down. Takes less than a second to start, finds all my music without me having to add it to some special folder or import it, and uses almost no resources cause it plays the music with mpg123.
Feel free to email me for it - my website hoster is having trouble with their billing system and so, sadly, I can't provide a download.
It's the IQ that the OP claimed to have.
Listen, just because your 147 IQ failed to help you catch a clue doesn't mean you need to equate skeptics with fundamentalism. Your entire argument, if it could be called that, is based upon "proving" that "science" (according to your definition) is just the same as faith, and that people who are skeptical of the claim "IT WARSE A MURRICAL, I TELL YA, A REAL MURRICAL!" are fundamentalists.
How about you use that 147 IQ of yours to explain why, if you think that there is anything supernatural about NDE, there have been hundreds (maybe thousands) of studies that found nothing supernatural? Go on, we're waiting to hear it.
"C has no un-useful parts"
setjmp / longjmp ?!?
Very very very useful when writing error handlers for functions way on down the stack. Much more crufty than C++ exceptions, but a helluva lot more helpful when debugging signal-based coded.
No single government may control it [bitcoin]
Of course they can't; they'll be forced to accept it for tax, right?
(Hint: if you're forced to convert it into real currency to pay tax on all the transactions you performed with bitcoin, then there's no point in having it as you'll soon run out of real money)
Not quite so simple: Modern engines top out at closer to 25%. In addition, the losses, with EVs, are in the transmission and storage (battery), which frequently (so I've read) make EV less efficient than petrol vehicles.
Hmm... Not a very progressive grocery store if they don't accept bitcoins; after all, bitcoins are almost as good as cowrie shells, chickens, etc
Note to the humour impaired mods - of course I know that bitcoins aren't real money)
I'll bet dollars to donuts that he's done this in the past
Yeah, that's why I don't want to talk to them, either. I just wanna talk tech with the techs.
The techs aren't manning the booth. I'd rather talk to the booth babes.
Whatever you are, it's the minority. You're an outlier. I've no idea why you even replied with that comment about being opposite to the norm - how does it make you feel?
well the people complaining about them aren't into the tech or what the booths are about anyways
Bullshit. I complain about them. You can't really be more into tech than I am -- it's my career. I, for one, am disgusted by the sexism prevalent in my field. And I can only imagine how much worse it'd be if I was female.
Perhaps your mating strategy of grovelling before the collective body of women on the planet in a public and humiliating manner works for you - I certainly don't know how, but lets say it does ... the ugly fact is that dominant and powerful men are the most desirable to the majority of women. Grovelers like yourself are attractive to only a very small minority. A few facts you perhaps aren't aware of:
1. You aren't disgusted - you're trying to impress women, and since you don't have any power or influence, you're try to be the kind of guy they say they want (who they won't stay with anyway - when they get the kind of guy they say they want they realise they don't find that kind attractive at all.)
You practically are already female; you just don't have the balls to snip your balls.
(And no, I don't want to hear your story about some women who happens to be an outlier - the majority (two sigmas within median) of men and women fit the profiles I typed above. Besides, who cares what the outliers want in a partner as long as they get it?)
So your answer to accusations of misogyny is to dismiss women as irrational, stupid or unimportant. I think you just defeated your own argument.
If the accusations are irrational, stupid or unimportant, the accusers should rightfully be dismissed as irrational, stupid or unimportant.
I find myself in a world where every accusation of sexism must automatically be escalated to in-depth investigation, regardless of the primacie facie evidence (or lack thereof)...
Dear God, I would like to file a bug report...
The reason for the blindness of engineering grads is because of the low quality of people they see graduating from humanities. The engineering grads don't realise that engineering is simply a very small subset of humanities (engineering is applied science, which is applied math, which is applied philosophy).
Any engineering course worth its weight DOES NOT say this is the way the world is; it DOES teach a healthy skepticism.
I keep seeing this idea presented everywhere in this thread; I choose this one to reply to.
To be perfectly honest, engineers don't have more skepticism than any other college graduate. In fact, the extremist suicide bombers all tend to be engineers. however, if you force engineers to take humanities course, your're just wasting your time and theirs - they approach it with the firm belief that there is nothing to be learned from it, and hence learn nothing from it. The humanities in general, philosophy in particular, are the ultimate "what you get is correlated to how much you are prepared to think" courses.
Engineers are the most religious of all the grads.
Thank you Georgia for your brave heart and your humanist approach. As a male I feel ashamed that such a male exists among us.
I'm ashamed that you're the same species as me, nevermind the same gender. Fo the record, the rest of us male would like you to stop being ashamed; henceforth you can call yourself female - that's a win for both us and you by my account.
s/worth the extra expense/worth more than the extra expense/