Bet you love those E*TRADE commercials. Or the one where the guy's car is a giant baby. Or the Allstate commercial with the talking baby who complains about a talking mime.
If all of them are going to become mainstream, LGBTQ is going to need a whole lot more letters. I think it'd be best if we picked a handful of definitions and allowed for ranges within them. Vegetarianism has done this - sure, there's various names like octo-lacto-vegetarian for different degrees of it, but most of the time getting that specific only matters in the context of certain situations. I have no problem with recognizing different genders, but the more you try to granularize it, the more trouble you're going to run into defining them until every person on Earth uses a slightly different definition.
Vegetarian - doesn't consume animal products. Vegan - doesn't consume or use animal products. Hypocrite - claims to be a vegetarian but eats dairy, or fish, etc. Moron - claims to be vegan but has a leather satchel.
"Vegetarians" who eat dairy or fish are absolutely not vegetarians and would never have called themselves vegetarians a few decades ago. But LA and New York hipster shits decided it was in vogue, then idiots who weren't vegetarians wanted to claim to be one, so they did, and now the word has been ruined.
Stop whining and just live the life you were given.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
What fucking horseshit. Reasonable people do reasonable things and expect others to do the same, unreasonable people do unreasonable things and expect others to do the same. Making the world change in an unreasonable way does not beget progress.
So you rooted your phone and installed a bootloader that refuses the telco-sponsored updates? If not, you can be bricked OTA at any time. Some updates have inadvertently done it, so to pretend they couldn't do it deliberately is a bit silly.
My phone was "rooted" out of the box. It doesn't "refuse" the OTA updates, it doesn't do shit. I have the ability to accept or decline such updates. Not that my telco would ever push one to me or even fucking know how as my phone was not purchased through them.
Keep on being AK Marc though - always contrarian because you're an asshole, always wrong because you're a dumbass.
Sorry, "They" already can do this. Your US carrier already sells a monthly "protection" package that enables this remote wipe capability for you, so the remote wipe capablity is already loaded onto your phone.
So this legislation "should" [as I haven't read through it, and it does not seem to be publicly available yet] remote the monthly fee the carriers charge.
And just to show I'm an apple-fanboy, the fact that the carriers charge $10 or more per month to enable this for non-Apple smartphones, but don't block and can't charge for it for iPhones/iPads [and Apple doesn't charge extra for it] is another sign of customer demand for iPhones [vs sales of other phones].
Except my carrier does NOT have the ability to remotely wipe my phone.
Nope. The telecoms will have master keys since grannyw ill forget her code and the government will have backdoors to fuck your shit. Your error was in thinking that we'd get a reasonable implementation that focused on security.
"They" can already brick your phone over the air. How do you think the phone communicates with outside world?
Uh, however I want it to? My phone isn't a brick without a cellular connection to the PSTN.
My phone has WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, HDMI, local storage, a microSD card, a camera, a microphone, etc. It's an extremely useful device without phone service, and it's an extremely useful device without WAN access as it will still have LAN access.
The fan on my computer keeps going up with 30% CPU usage on my hexcore system when playing youtube or running anything javascript intense on Chrome.
The other 2 browsers do not have this issue. Chrome might win on some artificial benchmarks but GPU acceleration and real usage sap too much CPU and I hate hearing my fan keep blowing when I listen to a simple song. FYI I have an ATI 7850 with about:flags set to use GPU and acceleration when available with CSS, smooth scroll, and other settings. IE and FF turn this on by default and still.
I am typing this on IE 10 for this reason. SIGH
I was with you up until you said IE 10. Everyone knows the Jumper of Chairs rolls IE 11.
The analogy to Internet explorer ties breaks down when you consider that Google allows the system to be used without they're apps.
Google doesn't allow their apps to be used without Android. You can't legally get Google's apps on AOSP anymore. You're forced to pay for Android and forced to enter into branding and whatever other bullshit agreements they tie you down with before you even have the option of buying the Google apps to include on your device. The apps are separate from Android, and this is trivially demonstrable. To require the purchase of the OS and agreement to all the encumbering contractual stipulations before one can buy the separate apps is anticompetitive once you show that the OS and apps are separate and represent separate markets. Google is desperately trying to maintain control over Android in the face of Amazon and Samsung (who are more than willing and capable of forking AOSP and going their own way, and both of whom have their own app stores).
Google is using their apps as leverage to keep Samsung on Android and to keep Amazon's Kindle OS shitty and gimped (no Google apps, no Play Store). It's the same reason why Amazon lets Kindles and iPhones access Amazon Prime Instant Video, but not Android.
Imposing artificial restrictions upon one product or service in order to prop up another separate product or service is bullshit, even if it's a company you happen to give free analingus to.
Yes, because Apple never had a near-monopoly like Google has (Search, Android) or Microsoft (Windows).
That's the difference. And that Google give Android away for free is totally irrelevant.
Apple had a near monopoly in smartphones up until a few years ago, and their monopoly in paid apps still reigns. Google doesn't give Android away for free. AOSP is free. AOSP is not Android. Android costs lots of money and comes with a lot of strings attached. Now Google is saying the Google apps will cost money and also come with strings attached.
If Google is demonstrating that the Google apps are separate from the Android OS, then Google could easily be shown to be in violation of antitrust if they require OEMs to first buy into Android in order to have the privilege of buying into Google's apps.
Here's a solution: Hire teachers who know the subject and are willing to teach children. Pay them decently, and fire the teachers who can't teach.
Who's deciding who can't teach? If you do it by teacher popularity, the result will not really represent ability to teach. If you do it by grades, good luck with even worse grade inflation.
While you're at it, fire the students who screw over other kids because they can't behave like a human being for a few hours a day.
If a group of children are messing around, how do you know who is the main cause? If you fire them all, you end up with collateral damage.
Who's deciding? How about the administrators who are already tasked with evaluating teacher performance?
It's like you've never dealt with children. It's trivial to determine which kids are the troublemakers. You look at them. Class clowns, bullies, etc. aren't exactly subtle. It's also plainly obvious that Amanda likes Chris, but Chris likes Denise and that's why Amanda and Denise are fighting.
One does have to ask in purity of education as a discipline--why involve business? I know businesses can be a important stakeholders in education, but are we losing sight of education as a whole when we involve businesses to defining principles for educators--I mean businesses' sole purpose is financial, which isn't exactly the same purpose of education (or according to Silicon Valley... it is).
The public school system doesn't give a flying fuck about education. It cares only about enrolling a many kids as possible, making sure they attend every day, and then shitting them out the door ASAP by coaching them on the various required standardized tests. (Protip: They care about these things because they secure their funding.)
All the winners are things that let teachers shit out more auto-generated homework, quizzes/tests, lessons, and tutoring.
Here's a solution: Hire teachers who know the subject and are willing to teach children. Pay them decently, and fire the teachers who can't teach. Tell the unions to fuck right on off.
While you're at it, fire the students who screw over other kids because they can't behave like a human being for a few hours a day. Tell their parents to fuck right on off, too. "You're child was expelled for being a fucking nuisance. Correct the behavior or have fun homeschooling the little shit yourself." And hold all the stupid kids back, too. "Your child failed to learn anything and will not advance to the next grade."
It's fucking simple and it'll fucking work, so it'll never fucking happen.
1 lolnope for claiming that string theory is "higher math" - it's fucking wankery without rigor and without testing.
Lack of rigor just means there will be a lot of drama when the day of reckoning comes. It doesn't preclude something from being higher math. And "testing" is completely irrelevant to most higher math.
When your "higher math" claims to describe the Universe, yet is proven wrong whenever any actual observations are thrown at it, only for the theory to add more dimensions and more bullshit, then it's nothing but untestable horse shit on the level of the fucking time cube.
Tesla does not sell generic ready-made cars. It does not fit that model.
When I ordered my Tesla Model S I chose exactly what car I wanted. The paint color, the wheel color, interior trim, various options, etc. There are many choices to make when buying a model S. It's not just package 1, 2, 3 or 4. It's more like Do you want parking sensors? Do you want fog lights? Cold temperature options? Paint color? Wheel options? 60 or 85KWh battery? etc. Each car is custom built to order from the factory for the customer.
Joke post? Tesla has far fewer configuration options than your typical sedan.
You can build this yourself. For around 15 dolars in parts from radioshack. It's just a constant current circuit that limits current between.5 and 3 milliamps. The military has been using it for a while now.
I tried this but all I got was a Nextel phone and some 9 volt batteries. Maybe my Radioshack is broken?
many who suffer from dyscalculia excel at higher math, example string theory
lolnope lolnope lolnope 1 lolnope for using "dyscalculia" to describe idiots who can't understand basic math. 1 lolnope for claiming that many such dullards excel at "higher math". 1 lolnope for claiming that string theory is "higher math" - it's fucking wankery without rigor and without testing.
The Jade Rabbit is the best vibrator I've ever owned. Do yourself a favor and get one (or two!). They go great on the clit, in the pussy, in the ass, tickling the dick or nipples, and (my personal favorite) pressed up tight against your taint, just under the scrotum.
Then you might be able to see how you can have over 100% profit.
You might want to start here: dictionary.com Profit has a definition, and it is separate from loss for good reason. You don't mix losses in from another company/division/location/account/fund/sub in order to manipulate reported profits of another. That's textbook fraud. Whether you're doing it as account, an investment firm, or reporter doesn't matter.
That's not how it fucking works, lol. You even specified "profits" which makes even less sense. Profit is a fixed value of realized net gain. You can't have more than 100% of it, and you can't have less than 0% of it. You can't conflate Company B's LOSS with another's PROFIT to determine the MARKET's PROFIT. There's a reason we separate out PROFIT and LOSS.
Here's an example since I'm sure you still don't get it (you'll probably REFUSE to get it since you linked to appleinsider.com ).
Company A: $6 Profit Company B: $4 Profit Company C: $0 Profit/Loss Company D: $5 Loss
Market X had a PROFIT of $10 AND a LOSS of $5 ACROSS Companies A, B, C, and D. You never talk about a MARKET's Profit or Loss as a whole, you talk about its REVENUE, or its Profits ACROSS those Companies which were Profitable, and losses across those which bleeding.
Company A got 60% of the Profit, Company B got 40%. Company D made up 100% of the Loss. Company C broke even.
You absolutely do not fucking count it as $5 Profit across the Market with Company A getting 120% of the Profit and Company B getting 80% (and Company C getting -100%). Profit is not a fucking vector. It is always positive. You cannot conflate Profit and Loss and flip the fucking sign.
So why do Apple shits like to report it this way? Because they're fucking morons who read a table and don't understand what the numbers mean, or they simply want to see Apple have a larger number so they purposefully concoct bullshit like this.
With 87% and 30%, assuming no other profitable players, you're really dealing with 74.36% and 25.64%.
Furthermore, your link says 56% and 53%, not 87% and 30%. With 56% and 53%, you're really dealing with 51.38% and 48.62%.
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Bet you love those E*TRADE commercials.
Or the one where the guy's car is a giant baby.
Or the Allstate commercial with the talking baby who complains about a talking mime.
If all of them are going to become mainstream, LGBTQ is going to need a whole lot more letters. I think it'd be best if we picked a handful of definitions and allowed for ranges within them. Vegetarianism has done this - sure, there's various names like octo-lacto-vegetarian for different degrees of it, but most of the time getting that specific only matters in the context of certain situations. I have no problem with recognizing different genders, but the more you try to granularize it, the more trouble you're going to run into defining them until every person on Earth uses a slightly different definition.
Vegetarian - doesn't consume animal products.
Vegan - doesn't consume or use animal products.
Hypocrite - claims to be a vegetarian but eats dairy, or fish, etc.
Moron - claims to be vegan but has a leather satchel.
"Vegetarians" who eat dairy or fish are absolutely not vegetarians and would never have called themselves vegetarians a few decades ago. But LA and New York hipster shits decided it was in vogue, then idiots who weren't vegetarians wanted to claim to be one, so they did, and now the word has been ruined.
Stop whining and just live the life you were given.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
What fucking horseshit.
Reasonable people do reasonable things and expect others to do the same, unreasonable people do unreasonable things and expect others to do the same.
Making the world change in an unreasonable way does not beget progress.
The researchers started small, tasking three compact robots, or bots
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope.
So you rooted your phone and installed a bootloader that refuses the telco-sponsored updates? If not, you can be bricked OTA at any time. Some updates have inadvertently done it, so to pretend they couldn't do it deliberately is a bit silly.
My phone was "rooted" out of the box. It doesn't "refuse" the OTA updates, it doesn't do shit. I have the ability to accept or decline such updates. Not that my telco would ever push one to me or even fucking know how as my phone was not purchased through them.
Keep on being AK Marc though - always contrarian because you're an asshole, always wrong because you're a dumbass.
Sorry, "They" already can do this. Your US carrier already sells a monthly "protection" package that enables this remote wipe capability for you, so the remote wipe capablity is already loaded onto your phone.
So this legislation "should" [as I haven't read through it, and it does not seem to be publicly available yet] remote the monthly fee the carriers charge.
And just to show I'm an apple-fanboy, the fact that the carriers charge $10 or more per month to enable this for non-Apple smartphones, but don't block and can't charge for it for iPhones/iPads [and Apple doesn't charge extra for it] is another sign of customer demand for iPhones [vs sales of other phones].
Except my carrier does NOT have the ability to remotely wipe my phone.
Nope. The telecoms will have master keys since grannyw ill forget her code and the government will have backdoors to fuck your shit.
Your error was in thinking that we'd get a reasonable implementation that focused on security.
"They" can already brick your phone over the air. How do you think the phone communicates with outside world?
Uh, however I want it to? My phone isn't a brick without a cellular connection to the PSTN.
My phone has WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, HDMI, local storage, a microSD card, a camera, a microphone, etc.
It's an extremely useful device without phone service, and it's an extremely useful device without WAN access as it will still have LAN access.
If I can brick my phone over the air, so can THEY, and I don't trust THEM.
The fan on my computer keeps going up with 30% CPU usage on my hexcore system when playing youtube or running anything javascript intense on Chrome.
The other 2 browsers do not have this issue. Chrome might win on some artificial benchmarks but GPU acceleration and real usage sap too much CPU and I hate hearing my fan keep blowing when I listen to a simple song. FYI I have an ATI 7850 with about:flags set to use GPU and acceleration when available with CSS, smooth scroll, and other settings. IE and FF turn this on by default and still.
I am typing this on IE 10 for this reason. SIGH
I was with you up until you said IE 10. Everyone knows the Jumper of Chairs rolls IE 11.
The analogy to Internet explorer ties breaks down when you consider that Google allows the system to be used without they're apps.
Google doesn't allow their apps to be used without Android.
You can't legally get Google's apps on AOSP anymore. You're forced to pay for Android and forced to enter into branding and whatever other bullshit agreements they tie you down with before you even have the option of buying the Google apps to include on your device. The apps are separate from Android, and this is trivially demonstrable. To require the purchase of the OS and agreement to all the encumbering contractual stipulations before one can buy the separate apps is anticompetitive once you show that the OS and apps are separate and represent separate markets. Google is desperately trying to maintain control over Android in the face of Amazon and Samsung (who are more than willing and capable of forking AOSP and going their own way, and both of whom have their own app stores).
Google is using their apps as leverage to keep Samsung on Android and to keep Amazon's Kindle OS shitty and gimped (no Google apps, no Play Store).
It's the same reason why Amazon lets Kindles and iPhones access Amazon Prime Instant Video, but not Android.
Imposing artificial restrictions upon one product or service in order to prop up another separate product or service is bullshit, even if it's a company you happen to give free analingus to.
Yes, because Apple never had a near-monopoly like Google has (Search, Android) or Microsoft (Windows).
That's the difference. And that Google give Android away for free is totally irrelevant.
Apple had a near monopoly in smartphones up until a few years ago, and their monopoly in paid apps still reigns.
Google doesn't give Android away for free. AOSP is free. AOSP is not Android. Android costs lots of money and comes with a lot of strings attached. Now Google is saying the Google apps will cost money and also come with strings attached.
If Google is demonstrating that the Google apps are separate from the Android OS, then Google could easily be shown to be in violation of antitrust if they require OEMs to first buy into Android in order to have the privilege of buying into Google's apps.
Here's a solution: Hire teachers who know the subject and are willing to teach children. Pay them decently, and fire the teachers who can't teach.
Who's deciding who can't teach? If you do it by teacher popularity, the result will not really represent ability to teach. If you do it by grades, good luck with even worse grade inflation.
While you're at it, fire the students who screw over other kids because they can't behave like a human being for a few hours a day.
If a group of children are messing around, how do you know who is the main cause? If you fire them all, you end up with collateral damage.
Who's deciding? How about the administrators who are already tasked with evaluating teacher performance?
It's like you've never dealt with children. It's trivial to determine which kids are the troublemakers. You look at them. Class clowns, bullies, etc. aren't exactly subtle. It's also plainly obvious that Amanda likes Chris, but Chris likes Denise and that's why Amanda and Denise are fighting.
One does have to ask in purity of education as a discipline--why involve business? I know businesses can be a important stakeholders in education, but are we losing sight of education as a whole when we involve businesses to defining principles for educators--I mean businesses' sole purpose is financial, which isn't exactly the same purpose of education (or according to Silicon Valley... it is).
The public school system doesn't give a flying fuck about education. It cares only about enrolling a many kids as possible, making sure they attend every day, and then shitting them out the door ASAP by coaching them on the various required standardized tests. (Protip: They care about these things because they secure their funding.)
All the winners are things that let teachers shit out more auto-generated homework, quizzes/tests, lessons, and tutoring.
Here's a solution: Hire teachers who know the subject and are willing to teach children. Pay them decently, and fire the teachers who can't teach. Tell the unions to fuck right on off.
While you're at it, fire the students who screw over other kids because they can't behave like a human being for a few hours a day. Tell their parents to fuck right on off, too. "You're child was expelled for being a fucking nuisance. Correct the behavior or have fun homeschooling the little shit yourself." And hold all the stupid kids back, too. "Your child failed to learn anything and will not advance to the next grade."
It's fucking simple and it'll fucking work, so it'll never fucking happen.
1 lolnope for claiming that string theory is "higher math" - it's fucking wankery without rigor and without testing.
Lack of rigor just means there will be a lot of drama when the day of reckoning comes. It doesn't preclude something from being higher math. And "testing" is completely irrelevant to most higher math.
When your "higher math" claims to describe the Universe, yet is proven wrong whenever any actual observations are thrown at it, only for the theory to add more dimensions and more bullshit, then it's nothing but untestable horse shit on the level of the fucking time cube.
Tesla does not sell generic ready-made cars. It does not fit that model.
When I ordered my Tesla Model S I chose exactly what car I wanted. The paint color, the wheel color, interior trim, various options, etc. There are many choices to make when buying a model S. It's not just package 1, 2, 3 or 4. It's more like Do you want parking sensors? Do you want fog lights? Cold temperature options? Paint color? Wheel options? 60 or 85KWh battery? etc. Each car is custom built to order from the factory for the customer.
Joke post? Tesla has far fewer configuration options than your typical sedan.
Pisgah? Pshaw!
news at seventy three. Whoops, time for my jolt.
My autistic child is a perfect unique snowflake indigo crystal child, you insensitive clod!
You can build this yourself. For around 15 dolars in parts from radioshack. It's just a constant current circuit that limits current between .5 and 3 milliamps. The military has been using it for a while now.
I tried this but all I got was a Nextel phone and some 9 volt batteries. Maybe my Radioshack is broken?
many who suffer from dyscalculia excel at higher math, example string theory
lolnope lolnope lolnope
1 lolnope for using "dyscalculia" to describe idiots who can't understand basic math.
1 lolnope for claiming that many such dullards excel at "higher math".
1 lolnope for claiming that string theory is "higher math" - it's fucking wankery without rigor and without testing.
Butter good.
Salt good.
Sugar good.
Meat good.
Flour good.
Sedentary bad.
The Jade Rabbit is the best vibrator I've ever owned. Do yourself a favor and get one (or two!).
They go great on the clit, in the pussy, in the ass, tickling the dick or nipples, and (my personal favorite) pressed up tight against your taint, just under the scrotum.
you should probably start here:
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/...
Then you might be able to see how you can have over 100% profit.
You might want to start here: dictionary.com
Profit has a definition, and it is separate from loss for good reason. You don't mix losses in from another company/division/location/account/fund/sub in order to manipulate reported profits of another. That's textbook fraud. Whether you're doing it as account, an investment firm, or reporter doesn't matter.
That's not how it fucking works, lol. You even specified "profits" which makes even less sense. Profit is a fixed value of realized net gain. You can't have more than 100% of it, and you can't have less than 0% of it. You can't conflate Company B's LOSS with another's PROFIT to determine the MARKET's PROFIT. There's a reason we separate out PROFIT and LOSS.
Here's an example since I'm sure you still don't get it (you'll probably REFUSE to get it since you linked to appleinsider.com ).
Company A: $6 Profit
Company B: $4 Profit
Company C: $0 Profit/Loss
Company D: $5 Loss
Market X had a PROFIT of $10 AND a LOSS of $5 ACROSS Companies A, B, C, and D.
You never talk about a MARKET's Profit or Loss as a whole, you talk about its REVENUE, or its Profits ACROSS those Companies which were Profitable, and losses across those which bleeding.
Company A got 60% of the Profit, Company B got 40%.
Company D made up 100% of the Loss.
Company C broke even.
You absolutely do not fucking count it as $5 Profit across the Market with Company A getting 120% of the Profit and Company B getting 80% (and Company C getting -100%).
Profit is not a fucking vector. It is always positive. You cannot conflate Profit and Loss and flip the fucking sign.
So why do Apple shits like to report it this way? Because they're fucking morons who read a table and don't understand what the numbers mean, or they simply want to see Apple have a larger number so they purposefully concoct bullshit like this.
With 87% and 30%, assuming no other profitable players, you're really dealing with 74.36% and 25.64%.
Furthermore, your link says 56% and 53%, not 87% and 30%. With 56% and 53%, you're really dealing with 51.38% and 48.62%.