So Apple's "instructions on how to circumvent their DRM" is to either repurchase it in new DRM-free dorm or to pay them a fee to mirror your library in the cloud? Riiiight.
Also, this DRM-Free Music thing they trumpet around hasn't reached all their music stores in every country, just some of them.
Please give some in-depth information about the relative market share of System76 compared to HP or Dell's consumer hardware. I'm also curious about whether System76 is price competitive with them, and whether they sell through retail channels like Best Buy?
I support Linux as much as the next FOSS enthusiast, but seriously, unless a big boy like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer or ASUS goes on a big marketing push, there will NEVER be a Year of the Linux Desktop. Never. Not that it's particularly needed, desktops seem to be relegated to the back burner compared to touch interfaces these days.
Oh I'm not really a believer in evo-psych at all I just thought this discovery bolstered one of it's theories. I agree with what you said about social constructs. But I'm pretty sure the evo-psych people have a point about attraction being influenced by hormones, etc.
It meshes with the theory that women choose older men as partners because they are in a better position to care for offspring, but will try to have affairs with younger, sexier men. A man's sperm is separate from his ability to care for a child I suppose.
Cue hundreds of slashdot commenters with some vein of "She's been cheating on me with the gardener I just KNOW it!"
Well there is research that shows that women are attracted to different men when they're ovulating than they are when they're not. Link here
They didn't sell out to Samsung. Samsung rather, has reached out to them repeatedly, in order that it's phones run CM well. They even hired the lead dev last I heard. Why don't you ask your phone manufacturer to provide free devices and hire devs the way Samsung does?
A good rule of thumb is that if the polynesian beauty you're wooing is taller than average, and acting sluttier than normal (then again, tourists wouldn't know would they?), then it's most definitely a man under that getup... Fun Fact: In Samoa and Tonga, most prostitutes are not female.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I hope they don't call them that to their faces! A scorned polynesian transvestite can put an average man in the hospital. Just because you like wearing dresses doesn't mean you get out of playing rugby and boxing when in school...
Because Tokelau consists of a group of atolls. Volcanic islands have the fertile soil and large area necessary for growing lots of crops for consumption. On the smaller atoll-comprised countries, they barely have room to house people and grow food for subsistence, let alone using coconuts for fuel. On certain isolated volcanic islands, projects are underway to use "biodiesel" which is a blend of imported diesel and coconut oil link here.
The primary assets of atolls is their generally very attractive lagoons that they can use to lure tourist dollars into their economy, but sadly these guys lack an airport. They rely on Samoa and New Zealand to get food and other things like remittances.
I was told in those heady days when I first flash CM7 onto my Nook that doing that would eff shit up. Would you be able to give me links on how I could go about that? Also, does removing these things impact app compatibility from the Play Store?
I was not aware of that. Oops. I was sure the Ace was one of the carrier subsidized crappers. Well good for Apple for being consistent. Anyway, it doesn't affect my opinions about their "design patents", I still think they are ridiculous. I have based my posts on this thread on a subjective tendency to distrust Apple and facts that I have at hand.
Nowhere have *I* stated they are a patent troll. Though I *have* mocked design patents, because I think they are even more ridiculous than software patents (if that was ever possible). I notice that they haven't sued over the Galaxy Ace in the US, which is what we were talking about, and is directly related to the TFA. Way to move the goalposts troll. Maybe the Galaxy Ace was considered a premium phone in the Netherlands, or whatever country it was.
Way to miss the point again. Something tells me you are not arguing in good faith. The Galaxy Ace had the same design as the Galaxy S, in fact it's design was even CLOSER to these so called "design patents" that Apple has. Yes they said nothing, because it was a low priced, low power device. But when a more premium priced device with good specs and performance show up, suddenly it's "ZOMG, our innovation!". If they don't protect their design patents consistently, not even along the lineup of the same company's products, then yes, it can be inferred that they're greedy bastards, and their litigation is just aimed at attacking a high selling competitor.
The point is that Apple only gets trigger-happy when the product is considered "as good as an iDevice" or better. They are trying to protect their premium image by trying to ban the better Android products while letting the shit ones through.
I wrote a long screed about "teh Apple is evulz!". Then I took a breath, deleted it, and decided to say only this: If you are a user that prefers to compile and install your own software in a manner not explicitly approved by Apple (like a developer's licence), you should just keep your options open. At this point in the game, the OS X is more likely to change to resemble iOS than the other way around. Might not happen, but options are always good.
No, usability data is like voting. If you don't vote, don't expect the people you like to gain office. Similarly, if you don't want to participate in the data gathering, don't expect usability changes to evolve in directions you want them to go.
Parent needs to be modded up. Marketshare/mindshare reliably attracts developer talent. Without the majority of non-technical people wanting to use linux, there is less incentive for people to want to develop applications for the platform. This is why multi-platform (meaning good Windows and OS X ports, not just the OSS *nixes) desktop applications exceed in quality and design the rest of the apps stuck on minority platforms.
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Google has already submitted their app to the app store, it's pending Apple's approval. Now who's being petty?
Hmmm... Seems reminiscent of a certain "Mac Vs. PC" ad campaign a certain company ran a few years back...
I've only been using Android since Gingerbread, and I thought the "swipeaway" notifications were new in that version... Oh well...
You do know the guy who designed the Android notifications was hired from the WebOS team right? Matias Duarte I think his name was.
So Apple's "instructions on how to circumvent their DRM" is to either repurchase it in new DRM-free dorm or to pay them a fee to mirror your library in the cloud? Riiiight. Also, this DRM-Free Music thing they trumpet around hasn't reached all their music stores in every country, just some of them.
Please give some in-depth information about the relative market share of System76 compared to HP or Dell's consumer hardware. I'm also curious about whether System76 is price competitive with them, and whether they sell through retail channels like Best Buy? I support Linux as much as the next FOSS enthusiast, but seriously, unless a big boy like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer or ASUS goes on a big marketing push, there will NEVER be a Year of the Linux Desktop. Never. Not that it's particularly needed, desktops seem to be relegated to the back burner compared to touch interfaces these days.
The GP didn't say anything about genders. Anyone who has been around women know that they like to get freaky.
GP said:
So I have no doubt that modern humans have interbred with Denisovan babes.
And said:
We are some seriously horny, depraved bastards.
Those words have gender, and using them in the context suggests the GP thought it was mainly men getting freaky.
Signed,
Someone who's been around lots of women.
Actually the study determined that the most common type of mating was Denisovan males with human females.
Oh I'm not really a believer in evo-psych at all I just thought this discovery bolstered one of it's theories. I agree with what you said about social constructs. But I'm pretty sure the evo-psych people have a point about attraction being influenced by hormones, etc.
It meshes with the theory that women choose older men as partners because they are in a better position to care for offspring, but will try to have affairs with younger, sexier men. A man's sperm is separate from his ability to care for a child I suppose.
Cue hundreds of slashdot commenters with some vein of "She's been cheating on me with the gardener I just KNOW it!"
Well there is research that shows that women are attracted to different men when they're ovulating than they are when they're not. Link here
They didn't sell out to Samsung. Samsung rather, has reached out to them repeatedly, in order that it's phones run CM well. They even hired the lead dev last I heard. Why don't you ask your phone manufacturer to provide free devices and hire devs the way Samsung does?
Caster Semenya doesn't ring any bells?
A good rule of thumb is that if the polynesian beauty you're wooing is taller than average, and acting sluttier than normal (then again, tourists wouldn't know would they?), then it's most definitely a man under that getup... Fun Fact: In Samoa and Tonga, most prostitutes are not female.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I hope they don't call them that to their faces! A scorned polynesian transvestite can put an average man in the hospital. Just because you like wearing dresses doesn't mean you get out of playing rugby and boxing when in school...
Because Tokelau consists of a group of atolls. Volcanic islands have the fertile soil and large area necessary for growing lots of crops for consumption. On the smaller atoll-comprised countries, they barely have room to house people and grow food for subsistence, let alone using coconuts for fuel. On certain isolated volcanic islands, projects are underway to use "biodiesel" which is a blend of imported diesel and coconut oil link here. The primary assets of atolls is their generally very attractive lagoons that they can use to lure tourist dollars into their economy, but sadly these guys lack an airport. They rely on Samoa and New Zealand to get food and other things like remittances.
It seems to be a historical thing, things coming from China with a western name ;)
Thanks! Excellent link.
I was told in those heady days when I first flash CM7 onto my Nook that doing that would eff shit up. Would you be able to give me links on how I could go about that? Also, does removing these things impact app compatibility from the Play Store?
I was not aware of that. Oops. I was sure the Ace was one of the carrier subsidized crappers. Well good for Apple for being consistent. Anyway, it doesn't affect my opinions about their "design patents", I still think they are ridiculous. I have based my posts on this thread on a subjective tendency to distrust Apple and facts that I have at hand.
Nowhere have *I* stated they are a patent troll. Though I *have* mocked design patents, because I think they are even more ridiculous than software patents (if that was ever possible). I notice that they haven't sued over the Galaxy Ace in the US, which is what we were talking about, and is directly related to the TFA. Way to move the goalposts troll. Maybe the Galaxy Ace was considered a premium phone in the Netherlands, or whatever country it was.
Way to miss the point again. Something tells me you are not arguing in good faith. The Galaxy Ace had the same design as the Galaxy S, in fact it's design was even CLOSER to these so called "design patents" that Apple has. Yes they said nothing, because it was a low priced, low power device. But when a more premium priced device with good specs and performance show up, suddenly it's "ZOMG, our innovation!". If they don't protect their design patents consistently, not even along the lineup of the same company's products, then yes, it can be inferred that they're greedy bastards, and their litigation is just aimed at attacking a high selling competitor.
The point is that Apple only gets trigger-happy when the product is considered "as good as an iDevice" or better. They are trying to protect their premium image by trying to ban the better Android products while letting the shit ones through.
I wrote a long screed about "teh Apple is evulz!". Then I took a breath, deleted it, and decided to say only this: If you are a user that prefers to compile and install your own software in a manner not explicitly approved by Apple (like a developer's licence), you should just keep your options open. At this point in the game, the OS X is more likely to change to resemble iOS than the other way around. Might not happen, but options are always good.
No, usability data is like voting. If you don't vote, don't expect the people you like to gain office. Similarly, if you don't want to participate in the data gathering, don't expect usability changes to evolve in directions you want them to go.
Parent needs to be modded up. Marketshare/mindshare reliably attracts developer talent. Without the majority of non-technical people wanting to use linux, there is less incentive for people to want to develop applications for the platform. This is why multi-platform (meaning good Windows and OS X ports, not just the OSS *nixes) desktop applications exceed in quality and design the rest of the apps stuck on minority platforms.