"Is it really all that hard for them to treat people like fucking people?"
Hard? No. Expensive (compared to treating them like diseased cattle), yes. And any MBA worth their degree will tell you that expenses *must* be minimized.
User serviceable parts add bulk to an item. If part of the item's functionality is due to its form factor having user serviceable parts can impair the overall functionality of the device.
If you want something small and sleek you don't want all sorts of bulges and ports and doors on the device just to support getting at a component 99.999% of the users will never want or need to access.
This is a bit extreme but compare D-cell batteries to a form fitted Li-po battery for use in a tablet. Sure the end user can easily replace the D-cell but now you've added a lot of size and weight and probably lost a fair bit battery life.
I know, it's crazy to think that a company should have any sort of control over their own product line that they produce and market. It's unthinkable that a company doesn't bow to every whim of everyone else all the time, especially if those whims are against the best interest of the company.
Before submitting for review: evil Apple will never approve our browser, but we'll show them. After submitting for review: ahh, ohh, they approved our browser, umm, well, they'll pull some shenanigans to stop us, because Apple is EVIL! Later: please pay attention to us! Look at us not being repressed by the system! Hello? Anybody?
I don't recall pine altering the content of the messages at all, either incoming or outgoing. How is it suppose to protect a 'normal person' from social engineering?
Child beauty pageants are a wholesome part of American life that allows mothers to vicariously relive an idealized childhood by exploiting their daughters by making their kid into child sized versions of themselves but with mature overtones that they wished they would have understood when they were that age. It's as American as apple pie.
But drawing pictures of a fictional character dressed up like that is EVIL! IMMORAL! COMMUNIST!
It's a good thing then that Zunes play AAC files. Video is another story but basically no site is (legally) selling big name studio content without some form of DRM.
I wonder how long it will be before a store only lists a product's UPC code so they only thing the are advertising is that they know that UPC and 3rd party sites can do all the "advertising" (but not sell anything).
It's like you're trying to say violence and killing aren't natural human functions.
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'Drag and Drop' files don't give you the pleasure of handcrafted filenames with all the metadata in them and that rich Corinthian leather feel.
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But if you support an idea you must support the idea taken to the (il)logical extreme! It's 0 (exclusive)or 1. Non-binary views are madness (and aren't as sensational and tend to confuse people).
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Back in the day components were bulky enough to allow for soldering iron tolerances.
Now components don't need to be able to survive flaky voltages from a poorly hand soldered connection with god knows what as solder and have room for someone to make that connection. Thanks to that we have devices in form factors like smart phones and not the suitcase sized luggable.
Yup. As an ugly lug of a male about the only people I can freely interact with without raising some alarm is other (obviously) adult males. If a child or female was in need of aid I'd have to do what they tell kids these days to do: find someone who won't get maced to find a woman with children to deal with the situation. Otherwise good intentions become fodder for being viewed as a pedo or rapist.
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"Is it really all that hard for them to treat people like fucking people?"
Hard? No. Expensive (compared to treating them like diseased cattle), yes. And any MBA worth their degree will tell you that expenses *must* be minimized.
"Zero user servicable parts inside"
User serviceable parts add bulk to an item. If part of the item's functionality is due to its form factor having user serviceable parts can impair the overall functionality of the device.
If you want something small and sleek you don't want all sorts of bulges and ports and doors on the device just to support getting at a component 99.999% of the users will never want or need to access.
This is a bit extreme but compare D-cell batteries to a form fitted Li-po battery for use in a tablet. Sure the end user can easily replace the D-cell but now you've added a lot of size and weight and probably lost a fair bit battery life.
Specs aren't what will make a device sell well with non-geeks (of which there are more of than geeks).
Apple has a monopoly on Apple devices.
I know, it's crazy to think that a company should have any sort of control over their own product line that they produce and market. It's unthinkable that a company doesn't bow to every whim of everyone else all the time, especially if those whims are against the best interest of the company.
/., the land where Apple can do nothing right.
Before submitting for review: evil Apple will never approve our browser, but we'll show them.
After submitting for review: ahh, ohh, they approved our browser, umm, well, they'll pull some shenanigans to stop us, because Apple is EVIL!
Later: please pay attention to us! Look at us not being repressed by the system! Hello? Anybody?
Ya, it sucks that mean ol' Apple has banned all those web apps...
Pine is uncharacteristically easy to use for a *nix application.
It's like if there's an absence of a governmental power the most powerful will become the government...
And the powerful didn't get to be powerful by being Mr. Niceguy.
I don't recall pine altering the content of the messages at all, either incoming or outgoing. How is it suppose to protect a 'normal person' from social engineering?
The figure of speech goes *WOOOOSH*.
"No but it is no longer shocking"
And being able to think about things rationally is bad when we can just rely on our knee jerk reactions.
Media depicts murder as a rather common event but I don't think that it has made murder acceptable.
Not just modern media. Since the dawn of time media.
And murder is about the tamest thing in old myths.
Child beauty pageants are a wholesome part of American life that allows mothers to vicariously relive an idealized childhood by exploiting their daughters by making their kid into child sized versions of themselves but with mature overtones that they wished they would have understood when they were that age. It's as American as apple pie.
But drawing pictures of a fictional character dressed up like that is EVIL! IMMORAL! COMMUNIST!
It's a good thing then that Zunes play AAC files. Video is another story but basically no site is (legally) selling big name studio content without some form of DRM.
I wonder how long it will be before a store only lists a product's UPC code so they only thing the are advertising is that they know that UPC and 3rd party sites can do all the "advertising" (but not sell anything).
Android has its own fart apps too, FYI.
"...I don't see the need to take more than I need..."
But the Pirate Code tells me to take whatever I can and to give nothing back!
Only a commie pinko socialist non-free market hippy doesn't abuse resources until someone makes him stop.
It's like you're trying to say violence and killing aren't natural human functions.
'Drag and Drop' files don't give you the pleasure of handcrafted filenames with all the metadata in them and that rich Corinthian leather feel.
But if you support an idea you must support the idea taken to the (il)logical extreme! It's 0 (exclusive)or 1. Non-binary views are madness (and aren't as sensational and tend to confuse people).
Back in the day components were bulky enough to allow for soldering iron tolerances.
Now components don't need to be able to survive flaky voltages from a poorly hand soldered connection with god knows what as solder and have room for someone to make that connection. Thanks to that we have devices in form factors like smart phones and not the suitcase sized luggable.
It is archaic definition bricked or "inconvenient to repair" bricked, as is the new usage.
Given that "literally" is the new figuratively it's hard to tell what people mean these days.
Yup. As an ugly lug of a male about the only people I can freely interact with without raising some alarm is other (obviously) adult males. If a child or female was in need of aid I'd have to do what they tell kids these days to do: find someone who won't get maced to find a woman with children to deal with the situation. Otherwise good intentions become fodder for being viewed as a pedo or rapist.
Doesn't the summary mention that Foxit is vulnerable to it as well?
"The exploit affects Foxit as well as Adobe Acrobat software."
So they've fixed the in-app purchase problem with jailbroken phones?