True, but most of the legwork for protocol development has been done. Also, I was thinking some sort of wireless network, rather than fibre. It would be slow, but I would hope it would be a little harder to just shut down.
So, something I've been thinking a bit about lately as I watch the last vestige of freedom get choke-slammed by our government. One they finally do take away our Internet (in form of access and concept), what's to prevent us from then just building a new one requiring more technical acumen to get to, putting them back at square one. It's a minor setback for us, but really, where is the horror?
Probably Overrated, to be honest. I'm having a hard time understanding how it's okay to derive "United States of America" into "American" but not "North America" into "American". At any rate, it seems as though no one cares other than us, so perhaps I'm being too pedantic.
And me without my mod points. How you ever got Karma will be a mystery to me.
North America,
South America,
America (speaking of the majority of the Western Hemisphere)
American would be appropriate for all of these, no? People like you paint really bleak pictures for the rest of the citizens of the United States of America, whatever you wish to call them. Your argument is condescending and insulting. It's like deriding someone for saying "he/she" instead of "they", which is technically, in a lot of circles, considered incorrect.
That's not due to genuine misinterpretation of the statement however, or the genuine belief that anyone else could misconstrue what you're saying as fact. It's mostly just a person being an deliberately obtuse asshat because he or she has no retort beyond "nuh-uh!".
That sound nice, and I'd like to think the same thing of myself, but then I might remind you of the Man I Killed, by the ultimate DIYers, NOFX:
When they tightly strap me in, give me lethal injection,
Just a few moments to live, no remorse for what I did,
Was for the betterment of man, I gave the utmost sacrifice,
Before more damage could be done I took his life.
There was a split second of silence when the dart punctured the skin,
Beady eyes rolled back in head, the body dropped from the poison,
They could incapacitate me, but could not erase my sneer,
I heard a thousand people screaming, while three billion others cheered,
He was gone, and I would soon be...
Executed by the state, all appeals would be in vain,
I was not criminally insane, in fact I was found to be,
An otherwise caring and respectable member of society,
A minor threat except for that one man I killed.
As the sedatives take effect, I just smile and close my eyes,
There's a priest kneeling next to me, he asks me if I realize,
I was going straight to hell, and he thought that I should know,
That the man I killed's replacement planned this whole scenario,
And what I did had no significance at all.
Corporations are monstrosities. They've all the privilege of being human, except they keep moving no matter how many times you cut ther head off.
I agree entirely. Less bitching and maybe a less sensationalist title is in order. "The DSi and Lefties Left Out"? Please.... Next thing you know, he'll be bitching about scissors being made for right handers like it's something new.
I was annoyed by the article. It seemed like pointless whining for the most part. I actually had to go hunting independently for a review of the game just so that I could find out what the problem was. It's because the way you hold the DS might partially obscure one of the screens when you're playing this game. Hardly worth of the level of bitching happening here.
Don't waste your time with the emo bitching in the Blog. I feel dirty giving its lack of material a page hit. From reading a review I found at http://gofanboy.com/nds-reviews/407-art-style-base-10-review, it seems as though you hold the DS 90 degrees counterclockwise to the standard orientation. The numbers scroll from the left to the right, with the right being the touchscreen on which you hit the numbers. You hit the numbers that add to 10 on the screen to make them go away, before the screen fills, similar to any number of flash games online. The orientation of the screen might make it admittedly hard for a lefty to play, but the thing is: The numbers are rotated. They don't always come down in the proper orientation. With this in mind, I say that as a simple workaround, you play the game with whatever-the-fuck orientation you feel like, and your numbers will be no worse than they were before. I've never actually played the game, so I'm just basing this all on the review, but this seems like "I need a left handed coffee mug" whining to me.
Admittedly true, but I would have phrased it differently: Not every phone that can is getting an OFFICIAL upgrade. I suppose there are phones that genuinely can't support the latest versions of the OS, but that's the nature of hardware in general. A 486 would be hard pressed to support Windows 7 or Ubuntu 10 with Desktop Effects enabled.
In anticipation of how you might respond to that: Does your big box manufacturer support your OS when you upgrade to the latest linux kernel? If not, why do you have to only use the OS provided by the manufacturer of you phone then?
Maybe. I look at it a different way. I see now what you meant in your other comment about it being the Wild West, but it's more that it's a double edged sword. Case in point: Verizon didn't feel I should be able to wifi-tether my phone without paying a nominal charge. An upgrade to a rooted version of 2.2 (which was not nearly as hard as you might believe, and as far as I can tell, does not void my warranty as I can flash back) and a free app available from Google themselves, and that ability is right back in my phone.
The way I feel describes it more is that Google wanted to hit as many vendors as possible, but they wanted to preserve their ideal "open phone" concept, so they compromised. Enough lip service to the vendors and superficially making it seem as though they could lock the phones down, yet for anyone who cares enough to look (the majority of which would be the power users in the first place), it becomes as open as you wish it to be.
Who has a throwaway phone they have to replace every few months? The Motorola Droid came out almost a year ago, and it's as usable as it was then. Hell, it even supports 2.2 of the OS. Who fucks up anyone's phone? Mine doesn't get an update I don't tell it to. Apple was just as hamstrung by the Vendors as the Vendors were by Apple. For one, look at the terrible press the Iphone/ATT got over the oversaturation of the networks in places like NY.
Oh, by the way, I pay about 70 USD/month for my phone, have an unlimited data plan, and I'm on Verizon, which as I understand, is one of the more expensive carriers right now.
Terrible news everyone. Android enables the ability to extend usability and functionality beyond what the native platform supports! It's not a one size fits all shoehorn! What a failure! God, I need to sell my stock quick!!1
You know. I've never bought a car thinking it had any features in it other than the ones I knew it had. How about instead of treating consumers like they're the awkward creepy man-child that greets customers at Wal-Mart, we just expect people to have enough interest in the product to do their research and read the fucking box and reviews to find out what the device is even capable of? I mean, are there any reasons other than because the expectation of personal responsibility is dead?
That's revolting. Why would anyone deal with that, on principle? What happens if you leave the house to someone in a will? Surely the person who receives the house isn't contractually obligated to sell the house back to the realtor?
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I'm more pissed off about the pets that I would have been if one of the humans died. The hillbillies chose to live that way. The animals didn't.
True, but most of the legwork for protocol development has been done. Also, I was thinking some sort of wireless network, rather than fibre. It would be slow, but I would hope it would be a little harder to just shut down.
So, something I've been thinking a bit about lately as I watch the last vestige of freedom get choke-slammed by our government. One they finally do take away our Internet (in form of access and concept), what's to prevent us from then just building a new one requiring more technical acumen to get to, putting them back at square one. It's a minor setback for us, but really, where is the horror?
This could not get modded high enough.
1. Toss away all your mod points on perpetuating tired memes.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Nice. If that got turned into a firefox plugin to realtime decrypt the links...
Probably Overrated, to be honest. I'm having a hard time understanding how it's okay to derive "United States of America" into "American" but not "North America" into "American". At any rate, it seems as though no one cares other than us, so perhaps I'm being too pedantic.
And me without my mod points. How you ever got Karma will be a mystery to me.
North America,
South America,
America (speaking of the majority of the Western Hemisphere)
American would be appropriate for all of these, no? People like you paint really bleak pictures for the rest of the citizens of the United States of America, whatever you wish to call them. Your argument is condescending and insulting. It's like deriding someone for saying "he/she" instead of "they", which is technically, in a lot of circles, considered incorrect.
That's not due to genuine misinterpretation of the statement however, or the genuine belief that anyone else could misconstrue what you're saying as fact. It's mostly just a person being an deliberately obtuse asshat because he or she has no retort beyond "nuh-uh!".
That sound nice, and I'd like to think the same thing of myself, but then I might remind you of the Man I Killed, by the ultimate DIYers, NOFX:
When they tightly strap me in, give me lethal injection,
Just a few moments to live, no remorse for what I did,
Was for the betterment of man, I gave the utmost sacrifice,
Before more damage could be done I took his life.
There was a split second of silence when the dart punctured the skin,
Beady eyes rolled back in head, the body dropped from the poison,
They could incapacitate me, but could not erase my sneer,
I heard a thousand people screaming, while three billion others cheered,
He was gone, and I would soon be...
Executed by the state, all appeals would be in vain,
I was not criminally insane, in fact I was found to be,
An otherwise caring and respectable member of society,
A minor threat except for that one man I killed.
As the sedatives take effect, I just smile and close my eyes,
There's a priest kneeling next to me, he asks me if I realize,
I was going straight to hell, and he thought that I should know,
That the man I killed's replacement planned this whole scenario,
And what I did had no significance at all.
Corporations are monstrosities. They've all the privilege of being human, except they keep moving no matter how many times you cut ther head off.
She herself? One.
Absolutely. I've been running without my Windows Firewall on for several weeks now and so far it hasn't
Yes. Yes I did.
Shhh. Don't let the shareholders hear!
I agree entirely. Less bitching and maybe a less sensationalist title is in order. "The DSi and Lefties Left Out"? Please....
Next thing you know, he'll be bitching about scissors being made for right handers like it's something new.
I was annoyed by the article. It seemed like pointless whining for the most part. I actually had to go hunting independently for a review of the game just so that I could find out what the problem was. It's because the way you hold the DS might partially obscure one of the screens when you're playing this game. Hardly worth of the level of bitching happening here.
Don't waste your time with the emo bitching in the Blog. I feel dirty giving its lack of material a page hit. From reading a review I found at http://gofanboy.com/nds-reviews/407-art-style-base-10-review, it seems as though you hold the DS 90 degrees counterclockwise to the standard orientation. The numbers scroll from the left to the right, with the right being the touchscreen on which you hit the numbers. You hit the numbers that add to 10 on the screen to make them go away, before the screen fills, similar to any number of flash games online. The orientation of the screen might make it admittedly hard for a lefty to play, but the thing is: The numbers are rotated. They don't always come down in the proper orientation. With this in mind, I say that as a simple workaround, you play the game with whatever-the-fuck orientation you feel like, and your numbers will be no worse than they were before. I've never actually played the game, so I'm just basing this all on the review, but this seems like "I need a left handed coffee mug" whining to me.
Fair enough, now lets just stop hiring the marketers to do engineering and we'll be golden.
Admittedly true, but I would have phrased it differently: Not every phone that can is getting an OFFICIAL upgrade. I suppose there are phones that genuinely can't support the latest versions of the OS, but that's the nature of hardware in general. A 486 would be hard pressed to support Windows 7 or Ubuntu 10 with Desktop Effects enabled.
In anticipation of how you might respond to that: Does your big box manufacturer support your OS when you upgrade to the latest linux kernel? If not, why do you have to only use the OS provided by the manufacturer of you phone then?
Maybe. I look at it a different way. I see now what you meant in your other comment about it being the Wild West, but it's more that it's a double edged sword. Case in point: Verizon didn't feel I should be able to wifi-tether my phone without paying a nominal charge. An upgrade to a rooted version of 2.2 (which was not nearly as hard as you might believe, and as far as I can tell, does not void my warranty as I can flash back) and a free app available from Google themselves, and that ability is right back in my phone.
The way I feel describes it more is that Google wanted to hit as many vendors as possible, but they wanted to preserve their ideal "open phone" concept, so they compromised. Enough lip service to the vendors and superficially making it seem as though they could lock the phones down, yet for anyone who cares enough to look (the majority of which would be the power users in the first place), it becomes as open as you wish it to be.
Who has a throwaway phone they have to replace every few months? The Motorola Droid came out almost a year ago, and it's as usable as it was then. Hell, it even supports 2.2 of the OS. Who fucks up anyone's phone? Mine doesn't get an update I don't tell it to. Apple was just as hamstrung by the Vendors as the Vendors were by Apple. For one, look at the terrible press the Iphone/ATT got over the oversaturation of the networks in places like NY.
Oh, by the way, I pay about 70 USD/month for my phone, have an unlimited data plan, and I'm on Verizon, which as I understand, is one of the more expensive carriers right now.
Terrible news everyone. Android enables the ability to extend usability and functionality beyond what the native platform supports! It's not a one size fits all shoehorn! What a failure! God, I need to sell my stock quick!!1
You know. I've never bought a car thinking it had any features in it other than the ones I knew it had. How about instead of treating consumers like they're the awkward creepy man-child that greets customers at Wal-Mart, we just expect people to have enough interest in the product to do their research and read the fucking box and reviews to find out what the device is even capable of? I mean, are there any reasons other than because the expectation of personal responsibility is dead?
Jesus, or you could just nudge your dog/cat until they step on your keyboard, and then the animal is responsible for the contract, not yourself.
Or he meant Pirate Bay...
That's revolting. Why would anyone deal with that, on principle? What happens if you leave the house to someone in a will? Surely the person who receives the house isn't contractually obligated to sell the house back to the realtor?