So not like Firefox 2 then, which has upgraded itself no less than 16 times on my PC here ?
Firefox pushes out beta stuff too, then try to cover it with automatic patches. But they're OSS, so that makes it okay...
I'm not suggesting by any means that it's necessary to carry ALL thos devices around ALL the time... in fact as three of them are cellphones anyway, I can't think of a situation when I'd NEED all three of them at the same time.
However, the point of my post (comprehension not being your strong point either obviously), is that the iPhone is a piss-poor replacement for ANY of them, and by compromising on quality you end up with shitty results.
I usually know IN ADVANCE when I'm going somewhere special and might feel the need to take a nice photograph, ergo the camera would only be necessary on those days. Whereas you, with your trusty iPhone, can take a shot anytime granted, but it'll be grainy quality crap and you'll regret afterwards having not taken the nice camera instead.
If i want to put an MP3 on my phone, I'll do it... I don't have to go to the web-store first, or get Steve Jobs permission to listen to my own bloody music. And the iPhone has GPS does it ? Newsflash, so do a lot of other phones too. The iPhone has been playing catch-up since it left the drawing board - and up till now it hasn't caught up.
And you've had to wait for almost a year just to get 3G... well you got it now, but only at the expense of calls dropping left right and center, and a patch that seeming didn't work after all. Can't you see the whole world is laughing at you, or are you too dazzled by the sun reflecting off the "shiny" to see past your own nose ?
Any time I read a post from an Apple fanboi, invariably I find the words "in most cases to the extent necessary", or similar apologetic terms, rather than just standing up and admitting you wasted $300 on something shiny that performs worst than just about anything else on the market (and usually costs a lot cheaper too).
And now I'd better put on my asbestos underwear, I can imagine the fanbois tooling up with flaming torches and pitchforks as I write.
... And all the functionality of a dead brick.
If you wanted to JUST look at text, no images, no javascript, no flash, why the hell don't you use a telnet terminal and be done with it.
Yes, a discussion site allows you to discuss things...
A social networking site also allows you to discuss things, but then you can pretend that everyone involved in the conversation is your "friend", and then compare your "popularity as a member of the human race" by how many "friends" have exchanged 12 bytes of information with you in the last month.
I find it creepy how goddamn shallow these sites^H^H^H^H^Hpeople are, when someone replying "lol" to one of your posts qualifies them as "your friend".
I can't think of ANY reason to publish the name of ANYBODY "accused" of anything, for the simple reason that they are STILL innocent at that point.
When the eventual verdict is delivered as guilty, then and ONLY THEN, can it be published that "Mr A N Other found guilty of charge" - NOT BEFORE.
Many innocent people's reputations have been destroyed due to this system, and it's simply not right. neither is publish the name and then (maybe) publish a redaction at a later point in time... the damage has already been done by then.
It's the same as the judge instructing the jury to "forget the last witnesses statement" etc... we cannot be programmed like machines to forget, and once tarred with a certain brush, it is not easy to remove that image from the mind of the general public.
Actually playing Suduko, you employ what some would call "cheats", but the rest of us call logical rules.
So all the PC does is speed up the solving process as they can perform thousands of logical checks in a fraction of a second, as opposed to us wetware, who tend to go cross-eyed around 3am.
As soon as an investigation is instgated, any "evidence" submitted by the RIAA to the courts should immediately be recognized as non-admissible...
Look at i this way... would you trust the word of a homeless tramp, a drug dealer, a hippie, Jay OR Silent Bob ?
There are standards of conduct that the RIAA and it's investigators have broken time and time again... and yet their "evidence" is STILL admissible in court ? WTF ?
but you'll need a subscription to read more than the abstract.
So in other words I'll have to give my email address to YET another anonymous entity in the hope that they'll just send me information relative to the topic I was originally interested in, and NOT sell my email address along with a million others to the closest available spammer who wants to make my "appendage" more appealing to the female populous... What are the odds ?
You know, I am SO TIRED of having to sign up for everything with my email address... why not at least giev me the benefit of the doubt as an actual HUMAN BEING, and at least give me a preview (not the full blowjob, just a little ahhh , ahhh in the words of Chris Rock), BEFORE having to sign my sould away to the devil (and his 1000 spamming cousins).
How about we do the internet a favour, and have a centralised list of GENUINE people who don't wish to be spammed, just to receive info on the topic they are REALLY interested in ? Even subscription based, it's got to be better than the current bullshit ?
Just like USA, UK, France, Israel, China, India, Pakistan et al then...
Nobody "SAYS" they will launch a nuclear warhead, they're all to deter the other bunch of crazy bastards from doing it.
So why is is okay for say Israel to have them pointed at Iran, and yet Iran cannot have any "deterrant" ?
And don't say that Iran are crazy religious nuts, because Israel would launch one in 5 seconds if they could get away with it (and probably would too).
Unfortunately there is no "-1 painful truth hurts" moderation.
Because it's SHINY and NEW !!!
Seriously, it used to be the case that cars were considered penile extensions. In this millenia, anything Apple spits out has surely superceded the humble motor vehicle.
Yes, because if the radio part of the iPhone is fucked, they won't be using their 3G to connect to the Intarweb and post complaints on message boards.
Apple is the only company in the world that released a $400 iPhone (the original one), that had the same features as a comparable $150 phone from any other manufacturer... and the fanboyzs lapped it up, even though it sucked.
Now we have iPhone with 3G (well let's call it 2.25G, assuming that one call in four doesn't work)... and the fanboyz still come out with "I Love this but...". When will you realise you are gaining the same reputation as the moonies and other cults... no matter what your "god" does, you'll still love him ?
What a terrible analogy to choose (unless you were trying to disprove your own words).
You would NOT buy a car without test driving it first. Neither would you buy a house, or even a shirt, without trying it first.
But for software you are asking people to purchase something shrink-wrapped as a done deal, and then complaining about their motives.
Every company will naturally say "ours' is best"... that's called advertising... but the reality doesn't always live up to the expectations.
When you are being asked to make a capital investment of 3,000 dollars for some software, you'd better be DAMN sure it's what you want.
Ever wondered why so many companies give a free trial, anywhere from a month to a year, before asking you to buy the thing ? It's called an "evaluation period".
Any company who doesn't trust their potential customers enough to allow them to "test drive" their product before purchase is not getting a cent from me.
Slashdot Mirror
A massive success in proving just how many stupid people there are in the world.
So not like Firefox 2 then, which has upgraded itself no less than 16 times on my PC here ? Firefox pushes out beta stuff too, then try to cover it with automatic patches. But they're OSS, so that makes it okay ...
I'm not suggesting by any means that it's necessary to carry ALL thos devices around ALL the time ... in fact as three of them are cellphones anyway, I can't think of a situation when I'd NEED all three of them at the same time.
However, the point of my post (comprehension not being your strong point either obviously), is that the iPhone is a piss-poor replacement for ANY of them, and by compromising on quality you end up with shitty results.
I usually know IN ADVANCE when I'm going somewhere special and might feel the need to take a nice photograph, ergo the camera would only be necessary on those days. Whereas you, with your trusty iPhone, can take a shot anytime granted, but it'll be grainy quality crap and you'll regret afterwards having not taken the nice camera instead.
If i want to put an MP3 on my phone, I'll do it ... I don't have to go to the web-store first, or get Steve Jobs permission to listen to my own bloody music. And the iPhone has GPS does it ? Newsflash, so do a lot of other phones too. The iPhone has been playing catch-up since it left the drawing board - and up till now it hasn't caught up.
And you've had to wait for almost a year just to get 3G ... well you got it now, but only at the expense of calls dropping left right and center, and a patch that seeming didn't work after all. Can't you see the whole world is laughing at you, or are you too dazzled by the sun reflecting off the "shiny" to see past your own nose ?
Any time I read a post from an Apple fanboi, invariably I find the words "in most cases to the extent necessary", or similar apologetic terms, rather than just standing up and admitting you wasted $300 on something shiny that performs worst than just about anything else on the market (and usually costs a lot cheaper too).
And now I'd better put on my asbestos underwear, I can imagine the fanbois tooling up with flaming torches and pitchforks as I write.
Dump it all for an iPhone ... yeah right !!!
Just because you are willing to compromise on everything doesn't mean the rest of us should ...
Nokia N810 = 800 x 480 display
iPhone = 320 x 480 display (FAIL)
Canon Powershot SD1000 = 7.1 megapix
iPhone = 2 megapix (FAIL)
Cowan iAudio X5L = 30GB storage
iPhone = 4GB or 8GB (FAIL)
Lenovo Thinkpad = erm, it's a Laptop
iPhone = erm, it's NOT (FAIL)
Logitech MX1000 = erm, it's a Mouse
iPhone = erm, it's NOT (FAIL)
Nintendo DS = erm, it's a good little games console
iPhone = erm, it's NOT (FAIL)
To be honest, I can't think of a single, sensible reason to buy an iPhone. It is jack of all trades and master of none.
Yes, and after you've had to unlock that door for the 200th time in a day, you'll soon get sick of it.
The amount of people they want to include on their "t3rr0rz l1zt" it'll only be a matter of time before we have
Osama Bin CREATE INDEX;
and
Saddam OPTIMIZE TABLE;
Then everything will be hunk dory again.
To be fair, they did close the right before the , so at least it nests properly.
... And all the functionality of a dead brick. If you wanted to JUST look at text, no images, no javascript, no flash, why the hell don't you use a telnet terminal and be done with it.
Your mum does not count as "lots", get back in the basement !
Yes, a discussion site allows you to discuss things ...
A social networking site also allows you to discuss things, but then you can pretend that everyone involved in the conversation is your "friend", and then compare your "popularity as a member of the human race" by how many "friends" have exchanged 12 bytes of information with you in the last month.
I find it creepy how goddamn shallow these sites^H^H^H^H^Hpeople are, when someone replying "lol" to one of your posts qualifies them as "your friend".
I can't think of ANY reason to publish the name of ANYBODY "accused" of anything, for the simple reason that they are STILL innocent at that point.
When the eventual verdict is delivered as guilty, then and ONLY THEN, can it be published that "Mr A N Other found guilty of charge" - NOT BEFORE.
Many innocent people's reputations have been destroyed due to this system, and it's simply not right. neither is publish the name and then (maybe) publish a redaction at a later point in time ... the damage has already been done by then.
It's the same as the judge instructing the jury to "forget the last witnesses statement" etc ... we cannot be programmed like machines to forget, and once tarred with a certain brush, it is not easy to remove that image from the mind of the general public.
replicate the disk promiscuously
Only nerds too long in their basements would use this kind of terminology !
The rest of us would say "make a lot of copies".
Actually playing Suduko, you employ what some would call "cheats", but the rest of us call logical rules. So all the PC does is speed up the solving process as they can perform thousands of logical checks in a fraction of a second, as opposed to us wetware, who tend to go cross-eyed around 3am.
As soon as an investigation is instgated, any "evidence" submitted by the RIAA to the courts should immediately be recognized as non-admissible ...
Look at i this way ... would you trust the word of a homeless tramp, a drug dealer, a hippie, Jay OR Silent Bob ?
There are standards of conduct that the RIAA and it's investigators have broken time and time again ... and yet their "evidence" is STILL admissible in court ? WTF ?
but you'll need a subscription to read more than the abstract.
So in other words I'll have to give my email address to YET another anonymous entity in the hope that they'll just send me information relative to the topic I was originally interested in, and NOT sell my email address along with a million others to the closest available spammer who wants to make my "appendage" more appealing to the female populous ... What are the odds ?
You know, I am SO TIRED of having to sign up for everything with my email address ... why not at least giev me the benefit of the doubt as an actual HUMAN BEING, and at least give me a preview (not the full blowjob, just a little ahhh , ahhh in the words of Chris Rock), BEFORE having to sign my sould away to the devil (and his 1000 spamming cousins).
How about we do the internet a favour, and have a centralised list of GENUINE people who don't wish to be spammed, just to receive info on the topic they are REALLY interested in ? Even subscription based, it's got to be better than the current bullshit ?
And the USA is ???
Korea
Vietnam
Afghanistan
Iraq
Not being able to mind your own bloody business is no excuse to go to war ...
Just like USA, UK, France, Israel, China, India, Pakistan et al then ...
Nobody "SAYS" they will launch a nuclear warhead, they're all to deter the other bunch of crazy bastards from doing it.
So why is is okay for say Israel to have them pointed at Iran, and yet Iran cannot have any "deterrant" ?
And don't say that Iran are crazy religious nuts, because Israel would launch one in 5 seconds if they could get away with it (and probably would too).
Unfortunately there is no "-1 painful truth hurts" moderation.
Oxygen and HELIUM ?
All that's good for is filling balloons at the fairground.
Because it's SHINY and NEW !!! Seriously, it used to be the case that cars were considered penile extensions. In this millenia, anything Apple spits out has surely superceded the humble motor vehicle.
Yes, because if the radio part of the iPhone is fucked, they won't be using their 3G to connect to the Intarweb and post complaints on message boards. Apple is the only company in the world that released a $400 iPhone (the original one), that had the same features as a comparable $150 phone from any other manufacturer ... and the fanboyzs lapped it up, even though it sucked.
Now we have iPhone with 3G (well let's call it 2.25G, assuming that one call in four doesn't work) ... and the fanboyz still come out with "I Love this but ...". When will you realise you are gaining the same reputation as the moonies and other cults ... no matter what your "god" does, you'll still love him ?
What a terrible analogy to choose (unless you were trying to disprove your own words).
You would NOT buy a car without test driving it first. Neither would you buy a house, or even a shirt, without trying it first.
But for software you are asking people to purchase something shrink-wrapped as a done deal, and then complaining about their motives.
Every company will naturally say "ours' is best" ... that's called advertising ... but the reality doesn't always live up to the expectations.
When you are being asked to make a capital investment of 3,000 dollars for some software, you'd better be DAMN sure it's what you want.
Ever wondered why so many companies give a free trial, anywhere from a month to a year, before asking you to buy the thing ? It's called an "evaluation period".
Any company who doesn't trust their potential customers enough to allow them to "test drive" their product before purchase is not getting a cent from me.
Yes, with something shiny costing at least $10,000, preferably with a cup holder for the Starbucks Latte.
In other news, the RIAA today sent a cease and desist notice to Slashdot for linking an mp3.
So now they'll not just confiscate my laptop when I arrive in the US, they'll also pinch my paperclips and credit cards ?
And that's why the world is so fucked up ... because there are people like you who think it IS ACCEPTABLE to kill someone WITH UN permission.