Fine, I'm not debating the fact that the military provide a vital service defending the country... But then doctors, firemen, paramedics also do a valuable job... what about teachers, scientists, etc. ?
Should we give every widow or widower of a "professional" a pension for life and a waiver on all debts and responsibilities ? And more to the point, who the fuck is going to pay for it ?
Every time Verizon "write off" a termination fee like this, it simply means a bunch of other cunts get to pay for it. They might avoid bad PR, but for sure the rest of us will still pick up the tab.
any sex-related website re-register there and remove itself from other domains such as.com or.org
And how long does it take to do a rewrite rule in apache to redirect any request for domain.com/somepage to domain.xxx/somepage ?
The only concern is the damn domain squatters... ICANN should give a 6 month grace period to the people holding the.com domain so they cannot be squatted on the.xxx domain. If after 6 months, they haven't registered, then the domain can be opened for anyone to grab.
Of course, they won't, because ICANN has always been about the money... otherwise the whole domain squatting thing would never exist in the first place.
She lost her husband, who was a marine, and probably served his country in some respect during one of their pointless overseas "conquests" (if you can call soldiers dying and spending trillions of dollars for 10 years without achieving fuck all a "conquest"). Yes, very sad.
But just because her husband died does not magically make her debts and responsibilities go away.
How can you blame the service provider for sending a demand letter at a possibly "stressful" time for her ? What should they do during the billing cycle ? Hold every damn bill until they've verified no immediate relative has recently died ?
Nope, Quintillion is a quantity, whereas Petaflops, Exaflops etc are rates of calculations per second. Please don't mix your units in your haste to appear smart.
10,000 Tetris Clones in the Apple Store don't count as "useful".
However, having Putty on my mobile and being able to administer work servers while sitting in a coffee shop IS useful. And I was able to do it AND browse the Internet AT THE SAME TIME. And without having to void the warranty of my mobile device. And still 5 years earlier than Apples' iOffering.
They're doing it precisely because Jobs does it and the Mac fanbois lap it up. Shit, they're on version 4 now, and only just getting back real multitasking that's been a feature of other phones for over 5 years.
However, where Mac fanbois will say "oooh, shiny, new", and hand over another wodge of cash, the MS fanbois will actually complain that a core functionality is missing, and this new MS offering will go the way of the dodo very quickly.
It's bad enough that HP printers INSIST on printing a test page seemingly every time you cycle the power, or remove and reinsert a cartridge after shaking it to see how much ink is left.
It's bad enough that they insist on bundling over 100 fucking meg of software when all you really want is the bloody printer driver.
It's bad enough (environmentally) that it's probably more economical to buy a new printer that comes with "free" starter cartridges than to buy replacement cartridges for your existing printer... at least here in Philippines prices about 1500 pesos ($33 USD) for a printer, and 1700 pesos ($37 USD) for a b/w and color cartridge.
Now they're being allowed to spam your printer with internet ads (full colour of course) ?
MAD is possibly the most naive policy imaginable, as it's based on the core assumption that no one would be stupid enough to launch first because they know they'd also be destroyed.
Unfortunately, as Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea have demonstrated, they ARE stupid enough, and really don't care if they die for Allah or Kim or whoever.
You know, the one that had the great UI, touchscreen interface, 200k+ apps, etc
"Great UI" is NOT a feature, it's a matter of opinion. To be honest, it reminds me of the activity center computers that toddlers play with. "Press what you want to play with next. And don't worry about task switching or any confusing stuff like that... cos there isn't any".
"Touchscreen Interface"... the first I can remember was a Motorola A780 dating back to 1993... so no, Steve did not invent the touchscreen either. He may have stolen the patent from a real phone manufacturer and then decided he didn't want to pay the licence fees, but that's another story.
"200k+ apps" is NOT a feature of the phone, and as 199k of them are tetris clones, I hardly see that is relevant. Just because you can only download your software (within the terms of the warranty) from one place simply makes it seem like you have more choices. The only choice you have is to download from Steve, or NOT to download from Steve.
More than any other phone, it leads customer satisfaction ratings, for the 2nd or 3rd year in a row now.
On every pro-Apple based website, surprise, surprise.
And let's not forget how the iPhone has changed the mobile landscape and taken back a lot of power from the carriers
WHAT ??? AT&T and Apple had an EXCLUSIVE deal for iPhones sold in the US. They gave one carrier ALL the power to the exclusion of the user's choice to use any other carrier. What power did they take back ? None, simply the contract expired.
In summary, how much fucking kool-aid have you drunk today ?
It's a piece of shit anyway that mostly gets used for crappy ads and annoying interfaces
For a very small value of "mostly".
How many users does Facebook have ? Or YouTube ? Or [InsertVariationOn]Tube ?
Or how about almost all online games sites and casino sites (except the ones that use Java, but Steve has probably decided you can't play with that either).
Really, stop being a wanker yourself, pull your head out Job's ass, and see what "most" people are actually DOING on the internet.
Just because you only want to read your email in Starbucks with your latest iGoldPlatedTurd does not make it any better than anything else available (5 years ago). Sensible people like to CHOOSE what they can do with their mobile device, not to be TOLD.
The measure of the product isn't if some wanker on Slashdot agrees with it, it's how many people buy it
Hmm, so by your measure of a product, people also buy lot's of McDonalds, so it MUST be haute cuisine right ? Volume sold means nothing more than there's a lot of idiots who want to follow the latest trend... sheeple, nothing more, nothing less.
You're not contributing anything besides being snarky.
And your contribution added what exactly, apart from ad hominem attacks and a bunch of expletives ?
Then why is there no link to said website in the fine summary?
Probably for the same reason there is no link to it in your post either ?
Just typing something ending in.com or.net doesn't magically make it a hyperlink... the URL tag is your (and kdawson's) friend.
As you are obviously having trouble finding your address bar and typing 12 characters in it, here it is for your convenience... http://newsweek.com/... now you do know where your left mouse button is ???
Many, many people *have* died due to our offensive military operations in that part of the world.
Yes, well that's what happens in wars... people fucking die.
Not always the right people, but hell, when the guys with the AK47s are hiding in convoys of old women on donkeys, what exactly should they do ? Line them up and segregate the old women and terrorists into two orderly lines ?
Collateral damage is always unfortunate, but somehow implying that the US does it "deliberately" is nonsense. But, it's a part of war, always has been, get over yourself. I'm pretty sure a couple of residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were injured while you were dropping your A-bombs, but that never bothered you.
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Or you could simply add a bunch of random people of Facebook and see how many accept your friend request.
Yes, but WHY ?
Fine, I'm not debating the fact that the military provide a vital service defending the country ... But then doctors, firemen, paramedics also do a valuable job ... what about teachers, scientists, etc. ?
Should we give every widow or widower of a "professional" a pension for life and a waiver on all debts and responsibilities ? And more to the point, who the fuck is going to pay for it ?
Every time Verizon "write off" a termination fee like this, it simply means a bunch of other cunts get to pay for it. They might avoid bad PR, but for sure the rest of us will still pick up the tab.
any sex-related website re-register there and remove itself from other domains such as .com or .org
And how long does it take to do a rewrite rule in apache to redirect any request for domain.com/somepage to domain.xxx/somepage ?
The only concern is the damn domain squatters ... ICANN should give a 6 month grace period to the people holding the .com domain so they cannot be squatted on the .xxx domain. If after 6 months, they haven't registered, then the domain can be opened for anyone to grab.
Of course, they won't, because ICANN has always been about the money ... otherwise the whole domain squatting thing would never exist in the first place.
She lost her husband, who was a marine, and probably served his country in some respect during one of their pointless overseas "conquests" (if you can call soldiers dying and spending trillions of dollars for 10 years without achieving fuck all a "conquest"). Yes, very sad.
But just because her husband died does not magically make her debts and responsibilities go away.
How can you blame the service provider for sending a demand letter at a possibly "stressful" time for her ? What should they do during the billing cycle ? Hold every damn bill until they've verified no immediate relative has recently died ?
Yes, because the primary concern when discussing potential fuel sources the the next millenium is deciding where to put the fucking apostrophe.
Have you got nothing better to do with your time ?
Well it seems to work for just about every other phone made in the last 15 years.
MAD = Mutually Assured Disconnection.
Nope, Quintillion is a quantity, whereas Petaflops, Exaflops etc are rates of calculations per second. Please don't mix your units in your haste to appear smart.
Unfortunately, any application locked down that hard wouldn't even be able to ask you for permission.
is well on its way to becoming a larger presence on the web
In the same way that pissing in the ocean may make it slightly more salty.
Fenced Pasture for all the iSheeple. Perfect, just perfect.
10,000 Tetris Clones in the Apple Store don't count as "useful".
However, having Putty on my mobile and being able to administer work servers while sitting in a coffee shop IS useful. And I was able to do it AND browse the Internet AT THE SAME TIME. And without having to void the warranty of my mobile device. And still 5 years earlier than Apples' iOffering.
iTroll must try harder.
If multitasking is a crashy, battery-draining piece of shit, then perhaps you have been looking at the wrong platform ?
No need to tar all platforms with the iCrash brush though.
Within my family over the past 5 years, we've had the following Nokia phones, ALL of which multitask fine without leaking RAM or draining batteries.
9500 Communicator
E90 Communicator
N97
N900 Maemo
Perhaps you need to set your bar a little higher than iBling and start using a phone that does what you want, not what Steve wants ?
They're doing it precisely because Jobs does it and the Mac fanbois lap it up. Shit, they're on version 4 now, and only just getting back real multitasking that's been a feature of other phones for over 5 years.
However, where Mac fanbois will say "oooh, shiny, new", and hand over another wodge of cash, the MS fanbois will actually complain that a core functionality is missing, and this new MS offering will go the way of the dodo very quickly.
It's bad enough that HP printers INSIST on printing a test page seemingly every time you cycle the power, or remove and reinsert a cartridge after shaking it to see how much ink is left.
It's bad enough that they insist on bundling over 100 fucking meg of software when all you really want is the bloody printer driver.
It's bad enough (environmentally) that it's probably more economical to buy a new printer that comes with "free" starter cartridges than to buy replacement cartridges for your existing printer ... at least here in Philippines prices about 1500 pesos ($33 USD) for a printer, and 1700 pesos ($37 USD) for a b/w and color cartridge.
Now they're being allowed to spam your printer with internet ads (full colour of course) ?
Fuck HP, tired of their bullshit.
Because they have oil on them, and are therefore the automatic property of the USA.
Demonstrated that they are stupid ... I guess we can add you to the list too ?
MAD is possibly the most naive policy imaginable, as it's based on the core assumption that no one would be stupid enough to launch first because they know they'd also be destroyed.
Unfortunately, as Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea have demonstrated, they ARE stupid enough, and really don't care if they die for Allah or Kim or whoever.
Very scary times indeed.
I swear this is an **IA plot to double the "losses due to piracy".
Think about it, with 3D you are actually torrenting not one, but two, copyrighted movies every time.
Correclation != Correlation.
FTFY
At least you understand about data redundancy. Seems you make two copies of everything (see below).
Another disciple for the School of Jobs.
You know, the one that had the great UI, touchscreen interface, 200k+ apps, etc
"Great UI" is NOT a feature, it's a matter of opinion. To be honest, it reminds me of the activity center computers that toddlers play with. "Press what you want to play with next. And don't worry about task switching or any confusing stuff like that ... cos there isn't any".
"Touchscreen Interface" ... the first I can remember was a Motorola A780 dating back to 1993 ... so no, Steve did not invent the touchscreen either. He may have stolen the patent from a real phone manufacturer and then decided he didn't want to pay the licence fees, but that's another story.
"200k+ apps" is NOT a feature of the phone, and as 199k of them are tetris clones, I hardly see that is relevant. Just because you can only download your software (within the terms of the warranty) from one place simply makes it seem like you have more choices. The only choice you have is to download from Steve, or NOT to download from Steve.
More than any other phone, it leads customer satisfaction ratings, for the 2nd or 3rd year in a row now.
On every pro-Apple based website, surprise, surprise.
And let's not forget how the iPhone has changed the mobile landscape and taken back a lot of power from the carriers
WHAT ??? AT&T and Apple had an EXCLUSIVE deal for iPhones sold in the US. They gave one carrier ALL the power to the exclusion of the user's choice to use any other carrier. What power did they take back ? None, simply the contract expired.
In summary, how much fucking kool-aid have you drunk today ?
It's a piece of shit anyway that mostly gets used for crappy ads and annoying interfaces
For a very small value of "mostly".
How many users does Facebook have ? Or YouTube ? Or [InsertVariationOn]Tube ?
Or how about almost all online games sites and casino sites (except the ones that use Java, but Steve has probably decided you can't play with that either).
Really, stop being a wanker yourself, pull your head out Job's ass, and see what "most" people are actually DOING on the internet.
Just because you only want to read your email in Starbucks with your latest iGoldPlatedTurd does not make it any better than anything else available (5 years ago). Sensible people like to CHOOSE what they can do with their mobile device, not to be TOLD.
The measure of the product isn't if some wanker on Slashdot agrees with it, it's how many people buy it
Hmm, so by your measure of a product, people also buy lot's of McDonalds, so it MUST be haute cuisine right ? Volume sold means nothing more than there's a lot of idiots who want to follow the latest trend ... sheeple, nothing more, nothing less.
You're not contributing anything besides being snarky.
And your contribution added what exactly, apart from ad hominem attacks and a bunch of expletives ?
Then why is there no link to said website in the fine summary?
Probably for the same reason there is no link to it in your post either ?
Just typing something ending in .com or .net doesn't magically make it a hyperlink ... the URL tag is your (and kdawson's) friend.
As you are obviously having trouble finding your address bar and typing 12 characters in it, here it is for your convenience ... http://newsweek.com/ ... now you do know where your left mouse button is ???
Many, many people *have* died due to our offensive military operations in that part of the world.
Yes, well that's what happens in wars ... people fucking die.
Not always the right people, but hell, when the guys with the AK47s are hiding in convoys of old women on donkeys, what exactly should they do ? Line them up and segregate the old women and terrorists into two orderly lines ?
Collateral damage is always unfortunate, but somehow implying that the US does it "deliberately" is nonsense. But, it's a part of war, always has been, get over yourself. I'm pretty sure a couple of residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were injured while you were dropping your A-bombs, but that never bothered you.