that really, really sucks!!1 even in a crappy 3rd world country like india, almost everyone has unlimited quota (with speed throttling after 25-50gb) or hard limits of usually 25-30gb for a ~2mbps connection. 3g accounts are very expensive and all of them are pay per mb.
all this is a highly sped up form of evolution. its called artificial selection, which is much faster than natural selection. however, artificial selection is considered to be a part of natural selection, since man is a part of nature. also, maybe my ideas are all wrong, i am no expert.
I never really understood why people preferred MSN over ICQ.
when i had a computer with xp on it, msn messenger would ALWAYS start up in the background. so instead of running another bloated piece of shit (yahoo) i simply used msn. and msn started up even if i unchecked it from msconfig. i don't know how, but it did.
it is free. you can go on and make special meanings for any word but standard usage is not altered unless most people recognize your meaning. as of now if you tell some random guy that some product is free, he will understand it to be free of charge not open source.
I could make an official app of Ash-Fox and distribute it outside of the app store for jail broken iphones.
yeah, and you could also make your app for hacked iphones running android (has been done). but that is not what we are talking about. we are talking about normal users.
If you're an engineer, make stuff for others for free. If you're good enough, people will make donations. If not, then what's the point of being an engineer?
If you give it away for free, then people are free to make replicas or whatever, that can be passed around with no problems.
no, you are crazy. why should a kid get preferential treatment just because he's MY kid?? every man should earn his own bread through his own hard work. this is just pure evolution at play. people like you hinder the advancement of the human race.
Would you still feel the same if you were in a terrible accident and lost your legs? Or if you were dead... think you'll still be feeding your family?
if i were doing a job that required manual labor, i would not expect anyone to give me money for free. its my own luck, innit? i would rather die than live off someone else's welfare.
it makes me sad to think that most people think like you nowadays. do you know how we got all our medicinal progress and antibiotic manufacturing expertise? research. long, expensive research. 'those poor engineers and scientists' worked their ass off while other losers and lawyers reaped the benefits of their work. i suggest you read up on how a new medicine is founded, or how a new type of rocket propulsion is invented, or how silicon lithography is perfected. scientists and engineers work for hundreds of thousands of hours, losing most of their social life and neglecting everything else. 90% of them fail to make something truly revolutionary. the other 10% make something that benefits humanity (not just a specific class of humans). hell lets not talk about space at all. wonder what will happen when idiots like you and all those poverty stricken bastards in india and china continue to multiply like they are? yes, there will be scarcity of food. how do you think we have managed so far? by throwing away billions in agricultural processes that don't work. the ones that do work keep today's billions alive. the only way to continue this feat is to throw money, lots of money at the problem. sure that will keep the lazy poor, but i don't think that is a matter to complain about.
true. twenty years ago, the us regularly sent people into space and was in the process of building a huge space center. people were even sent to repair a defective telescope. it took 3 hours to get from new york to london. nasa was perhaps the most celebrated government agency. they regularly did things never done before by anyone, and they had the best people on earth working for them. fast forward to today. the only reusable manned vehicle available to mankind has only two flights left. there is no viable way for the us to send there men (or women) in space on its own. they have to buy tickets on a russian craft. water was discovered on the moon by a nasa device attached to an indian unmanned rocket. it takes 7 hours to get from new york to london (plus all the paranoid/demeaning security checks). nasa's funding has been reduced to the point that they can't start work on any ambitious project because they don't know if they will get a continuous stream of funding. young brilliant people from india/china/korea don't aspire to work for nasa anymore. their country's space agency is given the same treatment given to nasa twenty years ago. what has gone wrong? why is the us losing its edge in space research? why has it lost its high-tech manufacturing prowess to china/korea? why is it burning up trillions of dollars on two futile, useless wars?
Apple almost never interferes with sales policies at resellers, as long as you don't try to pull a fast one with regards to usage of the logo or other images.
i distinctly remember an article on/. in which apple refused to sell its stuff to a specific retailer just because the retailer was selling istuff at lower than prescribed prices. so either you are a gay apple fanboi who spews bullshit out of habit or you are just plain stupid.
You can buy an OS X install easily; in fact it's a lot easier to get a fully working OS X disc than a Windows one.[citation needed] Windows has 15 million ways to lock you out and like 20 different "levels" of OS.[citation needed] OS X has the latest version. And it's just there on the disc. There aren't 50 million approval hoops to jump through.
In America, you can't get a lot of phones without contract. Or, you can (just like the iPhone) but they can only be used under one provider. This is the state of the cellular phone industry in America, not Apple.
The whole App Store thing is completely fair. You can choose not to buy an iPhone if you don't like the App Store concept and vote with your money, but it is made clear that the App Store is the one way to legally get applications so if you are too stupid to do research before getting the phone, too bad. I could buy a flip and start screeching loudly, too, because it doesn't have Flash and a limited distribution channel but I didn't have to buy the fucking phone.
What the article describes is an electronics store (aka a trashy, seedy money grubbing shit hole as is usually the case with electronics stores) lying to the customer, outright. This is completely different than anything in your post as your post covers complaints about a product not tailored to fit your needs whereas the electronics store was committing fraud and ripping off its customers.
this is why people hate apple fags. they spew out random gay bullshit about other vendors/companies/software and refuse to see any of their deity's own assholishness.
The only way you can level the field with someone being an asshat is to (politely) be an asshat as well.
why polite?? i hate being polite. if you are rude people take you much more seriously. instead of saying "hey! but the shop opposite the street are selling it at half the price! your policy is dishonest...blah...blah." you should say, "asshole!! pull your head out of it and see that others are selling it cheaper. you are lying, cheating bastards!"
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that really, really sucks!!1
even in a crappy 3rd world country like india, almost everyone has unlimited quota (with speed throttling after 25-50gb) or hard limits of usually 25-30gb for a ~2mbps connection. 3g accounts are very expensive and all of them are pay per mb.
and even more disgusting are the pdfs which have a graphical scan of a document. wtf?
all this is a highly sped up form of evolution. its called artificial selection, which is much faster than natural selection. however, artificial selection is considered to be a part of natural selection, since man is a part of nature. also, maybe my ideas are all wrong, i am no expert.
I never really understood why people preferred MSN over ICQ.
when i had a computer with xp on it, msn messenger would ALWAYS start up in the background. so instead of running another bloated piece of shit (yahoo) i simply used msn. and msn started up even if i unchecked it from msconfig. i don't know how, but it did.
what's this story got to do with bing?? (except fail of course)
hell, even evolution won't do anything in a time period as small as 6000 years.
why do you guys get a captcha when you post?? i never get one of those.
Its not free
it is free. you can go on and make special meanings for any word but standard usage is not altered unless most people recognize your meaning. as of now if you tell some random guy that some product is free, he will understand it to be free of charge not open source.
I could make an official app of Ash-Fox and distribute it outside of the app store for jail broken iphones.
yeah, and you could also make your app for hacked iphones running android (has been done). but that is not what we are talking about. we are talking about normal users.
If you're an engineer, make stuff for others for free. If you're good enough, people will make donations. If not, then what's the point of being an engineer? If you give it away for free, then people are free to make replicas or whatever, that can be passed around with no problems.
I can't see how you can say that Nokia is "thriving" in the smartphone market
you said it yourself. us market is not equal to the smartphone market.
but look! he's gone now! HE GAVE UP!
no, you are crazy. why should a kid get preferential treatment just because he's MY kid?? every man should earn his own bread through his own hard work. this is just pure evolution at play. people like you hinder the advancement of the human race.
Would you still feel the same if you were in a terrible accident and lost your legs? Or if you were dead... think you'll still be feeding your family?
if i were doing a job that required manual labor, i would not expect anyone to give me money for free. its my own luck, innit? i would rather die than live off someone else's welfare.
And places like India, and parts of China, where the population is denser than anywhere, we do not see people eating their young.
of course people are not eating their young. that would be inefficient because you would need to eat a lot of food just to make a baby.
When it becomes a real problem, we deal with it.
so you are saying that we should start thinking about advancing our space tech when people start dying en mass due to starvation?
it makes me sad to think that most people think like you nowadays.
do you know how we got all our medicinal progress and antibiotic manufacturing expertise? research. long, expensive research. 'those poor engineers and scientists' worked their ass off while other losers and lawyers reaped the benefits of their work.
i suggest you read up on how a new medicine is founded, or how a new type of rocket propulsion is invented, or how silicon lithography is perfected. scientists and engineers work for hundreds of thousands of hours, losing most of their social life and neglecting everything else. 90% of them fail to make something truly revolutionary. the other 10% make something that benefits humanity (not just a specific class of humans).
hell lets not talk about space at all. wonder what will happen when idiots like you and all those poverty stricken bastards in india and china continue to multiply like they are? yes, there will be scarcity of food. how do you think we have managed so far? by throwing away billions in agricultural processes that don't work. the ones that do work keep today's billions alive. the only way to continue this feat is to throw money, lots of money at the problem. sure that will keep the lazy poor, but i don't think that is a matter to complain about.
and your point is that when the us was sending people to the moon its sick people were not getting medicine? because i don't think that ever happened.
true. twenty years ago, the us regularly sent people into space and was in the process of building a huge space center. people were even sent to repair a defective telescope. it took 3 hours to get from new york to london. nasa was perhaps the most celebrated government agency. they regularly did things never done before by anyone, and they had the best people on earth working for them.
fast forward to today. the only reusable manned vehicle available to mankind has only two flights left. there is no viable way for the us to send there men (or women) in space on its own. they have to buy tickets on a russian craft. water was discovered on the moon by a nasa device attached to an indian unmanned rocket. it takes 7 hours to get from new york to london (plus all the paranoid/demeaning security checks). nasa's funding has been reduced to the point that they can't start work on any ambitious project because they don't know if they will get a continuous stream of funding. young brilliant people from india/china/korea don't aspire to work for nasa anymore. their country's space agency is given the same treatment given to nasa twenty years ago.
what has gone wrong? why is the us losing its edge in space research? why has it lost its high-tech manufacturing prowess to china/korea? why is it burning up trillions of dollars on two futile, useless wars?
Apple almost never interferes with sales policies at resellers, as long as you don't try to pull a fast one with regards to usage of the logo or other images.
i distinctly remember an article on /. in which apple refused to sell its stuff to a specific retailer just because the retailer was selling istuff at lower than prescribed prices. so either you are a gay apple fanboi who spews bullshit out of habit or you are just plain stupid.
You can buy an OS X install easily; in fact it's a lot easier to get a fully working OS X disc than a Windows one.[citation needed] Windows has 15 million ways to lock you out and like 20 different "levels" of OS.[citation needed] OS X has the latest version. And it's just there on the disc. There aren't 50 million approval hoops to jump through.
In America, you can't get a lot of phones without contract. Or, you can (just like the iPhone) but they can only be used under one provider. This is the state of the cellular phone industry in America, not Apple.
The whole App Store thing is completely fair. You can choose not to buy an iPhone if you don't like the App Store concept and vote with your money, but it is made clear that the App Store is the one way to legally get applications so if you are too stupid to do research before getting the phone, too bad. I could buy a flip and start screeching loudly, too, because it doesn't have Flash and a limited distribution channel but I didn't have to buy the fucking phone.
What the article describes is an electronics store (aka a trashy, seedy money grubbing shit hole as is usually the case with electronics stores) lying to the customer, outright. This is completely different than anything in your post as your post covers complaints about a product not tailored to fit your needs whereas the electronics store was committing fraud and ripping off its customers.
this is why people hate apple fags. they spew out random gay bullshit about other vendors/companies/software and refuse to see any of their deity's own assholishness.
The only way you can level the field with someone being an asshat is to (politely) be an asshat as well.
why polite?? i hate being polite. if you are rude people take you much more seriously. instead of saying "hey! but the shop opposite the street are selling it at half the price! your policy is dishonest...blah...blah." you should say, "asshole!! pull your head out of it and see that others are selling it cheaper. you are lying, cheating bastards!"
this is not funny. its more insightful than the gp.
Dear Steve Jobs,
You are an asshole.
Sincerely,
Fuck you.
but I think you are write hear.
man, are you using some kind of voice recognition or something?