I purchase from venues like Amazon because I live in a town of ~10,000 with a Wal*Mart Supercenter, Walgreens and two grocery stores, not to avoid taxes. There is nothing else within 30 miles of me.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with these companies? They use Free/Open source software and/or hardware to build things, then don't offer the controlling or interactive software to those of us using the same damn OS on our desktops that's used in the thingyMaBob. Get the fuck out of Visual Basic, C# or what ever toy development environment you're using for cross platform, and use a real cross platform library. Qt will do all three platforms, and AFAIK, all it takes is a recompile to get it one of the others. And I'm sure there are other true cross platform libraries out there as well.
What cross platform development library are they using that is so frigging awesome, you have to leave out the Linux's? Fuck, if nothing else, use Java.
'The robotic Cygnus spacecraft was captured by space station astronauts using the outpost's robotic arm at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) as the two spacecraft sailed over the Indian Ocean.
So this thing was flying along side the space station and the astronauts snatched it up and stuck it on the docking port. All lewd innuendoes aside, the Cygnus spacecraft didn't do anything other than match orbits.
Not that I think matching orbits like that is a trivial ting, but it a hell of a lot easier to do than actually docking. Commercial satellite companies put objects in precision orbits all the time.
I can do that to my phone as well, but I wont claim to be playing GTA on my phone.
Why not? Because when you do, you are. You just need the adverbs "natively" and "remotely" to help comprehension.
<Nitpicky Joe> Actually, no you're not. You're playing GTA with your phone, not on your phone. That's like saying you're playing GTAV on your XBox controller. In this case, your phone is the controller and display only. All processing (the with vs on portion of this argument) is still done by the computer, thus you are playing GTA on your computer with your phone. </Nitpicky Joe>
Don't act like an idiot. Plastic parts like the above mentioned headlight squirter, interior light covers, switches, buttons and what not are not critical performance parts. You can bet your ass, though, that $110 plastic piece cost less than $10 from manufacturer to customer. There's no way in hell it cost the $85 AC up there suggested. Replacement parts are just another way for the auto manufacturers and dealers to screw us over.
It would save even more if 99% of what could be interchangeable parts on every car, weren't completely redesigned for each model. That little plastic squirter can be the same on every car that uses a plastic squirter on the headlights.
Can you imagine how it would be if each model had entirely redesigned spark plugs or wind shield wipers?
Perhaps change to not requiring a job to live. In today’s society, you must have income to survive. If I own enough land to sustain myself, I must still generate an income to pay property taxes or my property will be confiscated by the government.
I think if they haven't billed me for a call I made in 1987 yet, they can just suck it up. The accurate billing excuse can hold only for 6 months or so. A year at most. Anything else should be required by law to be deleted.
... Apple and Microsoft could benefit from having their own social network, and Facebook is a threat to both.
A MS and/or Apple social network will be nothing less than a niche market full of MS and Apple fanboys socializing about how great their favourite brand is.
Facebook is a threat to neither, unless there's a FacebookOS and/or office suite out there somewhere I don't know about. Facebook probably has the talent to give Google a run for it's money in the search department, but can do nothing to MS and very little to Apple unless they buy Blackberry or something and compete against the iOS devices. Thinking about it, that may not be such a bad investment for them. There are plenty of Facebook sheeple out there that would give their first born for a Facebook branded device. They'd probably be a small ping on Apples radar, but unless they purchase a company with a mobile OS, or create their own, they'd do nothing to Google in that market.
Your comment is either astonishingly ignorant or really bad trolling:
I'll go with ignorant, but not astonishingly ignorant. The GP stated "It's a cute device, but not really ready for public consumption. Its restricted (or incomplete?) support means you can only use what Google lets you rather than any video on the source device", and that's what I was respoinding to. Apple has the ability to kill apps you paid for, just because they disapprove of them. If they don't like an app, it doesn't get in the store, and, unless you've broken your device (which is of questionable legality), you're limited to Apple approved apps. Similar, although with fewer restrictions, with the Kindle. Amazon can delete books you've bought, or even edit the content of books without your consent. I'm not sure with Win8, but from what I've read, they want or have the same restrictions as iOS, mostly on portable devices, but I'm sure not far behind on desktops.
It's a cute device, but not really ready for public consumption. Its restricted (or incomplete?) support means you can only use what Google lets you rather than any video on the source device.
I'm sure they'll improve the compatibility, but until then it's just a device that streams Google approved content.
This makes it just as ready for public consumption as any 'i', Win8 or kindle device out there.
Are you trying to deliberately mislead the reader that you require a sample size of 100% in order to come to an accurate conclusion?
Besides the fact that the only known accurate conclusion is one based on a sample size of 100%, my requirement, if it existed, of that would in no way be misleading anyone. Leaving that aside, you cannot assume that the two groups are anywhere near evenly distributed and expect accurate results.
Besides, if there isn't an even distribution between these two groups, and there is a correlation between people being willing to make exceptions and the possibility that they carry a DS fetus, doesn't that just further support his argument?
No. His argument was that 10% of people whose fetuses were diagnosed with DS are hypocrites because they had an abortion even though they think abortions should be illegal. Again, leaving aside his flawed data, having an exception to a rule I don't think makes you a hypocrite. Neither does changing your mind due to current circumstances. Having no exceptions but still breaking that rule, or changing your mind back after current circumstances have passed is what makes you a hypocrite.
In America, about 90% of diagnosed DS fetuses are aborted. That is an interesting percentage, since polls indicate that more that 20% of Americans think...
It's more interesting that you are comparing 90% of diagnosed DS fetuses being aborted with 20% of the American population, and calming that half of the 20% are hypocrites because they think that abortion should be illegal. Are you deliberately misleading the reader, or do you really believe the number of diagnosed DS fetuses is equal to the entire population of America?
But I agree, governments should go after the guys that are making $$ from it (*cough* google, bing),...
So should we go after The Yellow Pages, and hold them accountable for shop lifters? Local white pages have everyones name and address as well. They're responsible for all home invasions.
You know what I do if what I'm searching for doesn't autopop up while I'm typing? I finish typing. I don't give up and say "fuck it, I guess what I want isn't out there" until I type it in and get no results.
I really hope the youth of today aren't so spoiled that they give up searching if what they're searching for isn't in the autocomplete buffer.
... do I have fair-use rights to use your house for educational purposes?
If you're the architect that designed my house you do have the right to include the plans in your portfolio, even if I purchased the copyright to those plans. If you're the builder, you can include pictures of various build stages in yours. Ditto for the plumber, electrician, carpenter, framer, cabinet maker and anyone else who helped construct the house.
Most GMO seeds are engineered to not produce seeds. So the only contamination you would need to worry about is from any GMO crops that are growing in your fields and not the accidental harvesting of their seeds for the future year.
This, my friends, is our American Education System in full swing...
Take our power grid OFF THE FUCKING INTERNET! Our power grid, air traffic control system and rail control system should all be on their own SIPERNET-grade secure network. There is no way in hell you can justify any part of these systems being accessible from the friggin internet. If Joe Blow the power grid manager wants an iApp to monitor what's going on, tell him to shove his iPhone up his iDiotic ass and call someone to find out.
This will end up with smaller cities and rural areas subsidizing the lower rates of the large cities that can attract Google Fiber. It will be decades before my little town of ~10,000 will get anything near GB internet. Until then, we'll be paying outrageous rates to keep the corporate profits up.
I admire what Google's trying to do here, but it's going to hurt those of us in the smaller towns for quite some time.
It's not quite that bad, but I do often drop the cord while trying to plug it in, sometimes not pay attention and have it upside down or, again not paying attention, try to plug it in the micro HDMI port right next to the micro USB port. Read my reply below for my follies with the dock.
This is technology that was developed in the late 1800's early 1900's, and is little more on the phone than a coiled wire. There is no reason for this not to be incorporated in every smart phone and tablet on the market.
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Yeah, I realized that just as I clicked the post button...
I purchase from venues like Amazon because I live in a town of ~10,000 with a Wal*Mart Supercenter, Walgreens and two grocery stores, not to avoid taxes. There is nothing else within 30 miles of me.
I found no relation with Jehovah witnesses, so I'm curious to listen where you heard about this ?
He's a Jehovah Witness. He stuck his head in a box and it came to him.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with these companies? They use Free/Open source software and/or hardware to build things, then don't offer the controlling or interactive software to those of us using the same damn OS on our desktops that's used in the thingyMaBob. Get the fuck out of Visual Basic, C# or what ever toy development environment you're using for cross platform, and use a real cross platform library. Qt will do all three platforms, and AFAIK, all it takes is a recompile to get it one of the others. And I'm sure there are other true cross platform libraries out there as well.
What cross platform development library are they using that is so frigging awesome, you have to leave out the Linux's? Fuck, if nothing else, use Java.
'The robotic Cygnus spacecraft was captured by space station astronauts using the outpost's robotic arm at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) as the two spacecraft sailed over the Indian Ocean.
So this thing was flying along side the space station and the astronauts snatched it up and stuck it on the docking port. All lewd innuendoes aside, the Cygnus spacecraft didn't do anything other than match orbits. Not that I think matching orbits like that is a trivial ting, but it a hell of a lot easier to do than actually docking. Commercial satellite companies put objects in precision orbits all the time.
I can do that to my phone as well, but I wont claim to be playing GTA on my phone.
Why not? Because when you do, you are. You just need the adverbs "natively" and "remotely" to help comprehension.
<Nitpicky Joe> Actually, no you're not. You're playing GTA with your phone, not on your phone. That's like saying you're playing GTAV on your XBox controller. In this case, your phone is the controller and display only. All processing (the with vs on portion of this argument) is still done by the computer, thus you are playing GTA on your computer with your phone. </Nitpicky Joe>
Don't act like an idiot. Plastic parts like the above mentioned headlight squirter, interior light covers, switches, buttons and what not are not critical performance parts. You can bet your ass, though, that $110 plastic piece cost less than $10 from manufacturer to customer. There's no way in hell it cost the $85 AC up there suggested. Replacement parts are just another way for the auto manufacturers and dealers to screw us over.
It would save even more if 99% of what could be interchangeable parts on every car, weren't completely redesigned for each model. That little plastic squirter can be the same on every car that uses a plastic squirter on the headlights. Can you imagine how it would be if each model had entirely redesigned spark plugs or wind shield wipers?
Perhaps change to not requiring a job to live. In today’s society, you must have income to survive. If I own enough land to sustain myself, I must still generate an income to pay property taxes or my property will be confiscated by the government.
I think if they haven't billed me for a call I made in 1987 yet, they can just suck it up. The accurate billing excuse can hold only for 6 months or so. A year at most. Anything else should be required by law to be deleted.
Just how are we loosing to Russia by staying out of the fight? Syria isn't a U.S. possession that Russia is trying to take away.
You cannot loose a fight you aren't participating in.
... Apple and Microsoft could benefit from having their own social network, and Facebook is a threat to both.
A MS and/or Apple social network will be nothing less than a niche market full of MS and Apple fanboys socializing about how great their favourite brand is.
Facebook is a threat to neither, unless there's a FacebookOS and/or office suite out there somewhere I don't know about. Facebook probably has the talent to give Google a run for it's money in the search department, but can do nothing to MS and very little to Apple unless they buy Blackberry or something and compete against the iOS devices. Thinking about it, that may not be such a bad investment for them. There are plenty of Facebook sheeple out there that would give their first born for a Facebook branded device. They'd probably be a small ping on Apples radar, but unless they purchase a company with a mobile OS, or create their own, they'd do nothing to Google in that market.
Your comment is either astonishingly ignorant or really bad trolling:
I'll go with ignorant, but not astonishingly ignorant. The GP stated "It's a cute device, but not really ready for public consumption. Its restricted (or incomplete?) support means you can only use what Google lets you rather than any video on the source device", and that's what I was respoinding to. Apple has the ability to kill apps you paid for, just because they disapprove of them. If they don't like an app, it doesn't get in the store, and, unless you've broken your device (which is of questionable legality), you're limited to Apple approved apps. Similar, although with fewer restrictions, with the Kindle. Amazon can delete books you've bought, or even edit the content of books without your consent. I'm not sure with Win8, but from what I've read, they want or have the same restrictions as iOS, mostly on portable devices, but I'm sure not far behind on desktops.
It's a cute device, but not really ready for public consumption. Its restricted (or incomplete?) support means you can only use what Google lets you rather than any video on the source device.
I'm sure they'll improve the compatibility, but until then it's just a device that streams Google approved content.
This makes it just as ready for public consumption as any 'i', Win8 or kindle device out there.
Are you trying to deliberately mislead the reader that you require a sample size of 100% in order to come to an accurate conclusion?
Besides the fact that the only known accurate conclusion is one based on a sample size of 100%, my requirement, if it existed, of that would in no way be misleading anyone. Leaving that aside, you cannot assume that the two groups are anywhere near evenly distributed and expect accurate results.
Besides, if there isn't an even distribution between these two groups, and there is a correlation between people being willing to make exceptions and the possibility that they carry a DS fetus, doesn't that just further support his argument?
No. His argument was that 10% of people whose fetuses were diagnosed with DS are hypocrites because they had an abortion even though they think abortions should be illegal. Again, leaving aside his flawed data, having an exception to a rule I don't think makes you a hypocrite. Neither does changing your mind due to current circumstances. Having no exceptions but still breaking that rule, or changing your mind back after current circumstances have passed is what makes you a hypocrite.
In America, about 90% of diagnosed DS fetuses are aborted. That is an interesting percentage, since polls indicate that more that 20% of Americans think...
It's more interesting that you are comparing 90% of diagnosed DS fetuses being aborted with 20% of the American population, and calming that half of the 20% are hypocrites because they think that abortion should be illegal. Are you deliberately misleading the reader, or do you really believe the number of diagnosed DS fetuses is equal to the entire population of America?
Shoplifters don't go into stores to listen to music.
But I agree, governments should go after the guys that are making $$ from it (*cough* google, bing),...
So should we go after The Yellow Pages, and hold them accountable for shop lifters? Local white pages have everyones name and address as well. They're responsible for all home invasions.
You know what I do if what I'm searching for doesn't autopop up while I'm typing? I finish typing. I don't give up and say "fuck it, I guess what I want isn't out there" until I type it in and get no results.
I really hope the youth of today aren't so spoiled that they give up searching if what they're searching for isn't in the autocomplete buffer.
... do I have fair-use rights to use your house for educational purposes?
If you're the architect that designed my house you do have the right to include the plans in your portfolio, even if I purchased the copyright to those plans. If you're the builder, you can include pictures of various build stages in yours. Ditto for the plumber, electrician, carpenter, framer, cabinet maker and anyone else who helped construct the house.
Most GMO seeds are engineered to not produce seeds. So the only contamination you would need to worry about is from any GMO crops that are growing in your fields and not the accidental harvesting of their seeds for the future year.
This, my friends, is our American Education System in full swing...
Take our power grid OFF THE FUCKING INTERNET! Our power grid, air traffic control system and rail control system should all be on their own SIPERNET-grade secure network. There is no way in hell you can justify any part of these systems being accessible from the friggin internet. If Joe Blow the power grid manager wants an iApp to monitor what's going on, tell him to shove his iPhone up his iDiotic ass and call someone to find out.
This will end up with smaller cities and rural areas subsidizing the lower rates of the large cities that can attract Google Fiber. It will be decades before my little town of ~10,000 will get anything near GB internet. Until then, we'll be paying outrageous rates to keep the corporate profits up.
I admire what Google's trying to do here, but it's going to hurt those of us in the smaller towns for quite some time.
Who do you think started this whole PC/MAC thing to begin with? They're all PCs, but only some of them are MACs.
It's not quite that bad, but I do often drop the cord while trying to plug it in, sometimes not pay attention and have it upside down or, again not paying attention, try to plug it in the micro HDMI port right next to the micro USB port. Read my reply below for my follies with the dock.
This is technology that was developed in the late 1800's early 1900's, and is little more on the phone than a coiled wire. There is no reason for this not to be incorporated in every smart phone and tablet on the market.