When I was a child, I was diagnosed with having a really high IQ. As a result people have been telling me I'm a "genius" for most my life and always pushing me to "achieve my full potential" and crap like that.
It's nonsense. Maybe I'm smart, maybe I'm not. I think trying to measure that is crazy and impracticable. I'd rather be judged by what I do, not what some test says about me.
And frankly I don't really want to be judged at all. I think I'm doing OK with my life, and that's really all that matters. All this unnecessary categorising of people... it's all kind of pointless.
The whole point, the CORE of google's search is the search algorithm being able to weed out irrelevant search results. This does that. All those rule34 results were virtually never relevant.
My first reaction to this was "Oh my GOD its not like we're CHILDREN" and "Oh my GOD more censorship" but frankly on second thought... yeah, I kinda like this. I mean if I want to see naked women I can easily type that into the search field. I just did a couple of image searches that used to be CLUTTERED with Rule 34, and now I can actually find relevant stuff. That's actually a VAST improvement. Better than Safe Search=on used to be, in fact.
I tried to switch to Mutt back... in the 90s I think? People were ranting and raving about it. Frankly I found it much harder to use than Pine. People pointed out that I can configure Mutt to act exactly like Pine, to which I said that you know, Pine already does that.
So my question would be "Why SHOULD I switch to Mutt?" Alpine does everything I need.
I fear that your attitude will be the prevailing one. In the future I foresee myself being the outcast because I/don't/ share everything about my entire life on Facebook/Twitter/Whatever, because I don't let my cellphone announce where I am at all times.
I'm not worried about the government tracking me. Hell, if they want to, they will. There's not a lot I can do about it. It's everything ELSE tracking me. It's vast databases containing vast amounts of information about all of us. It's large corporations who use you and I as products.
Look, I hate getting those things in the mail addressed to "Resident". But I hate even more the ones addressed to me directly, from people I've never heard about. And how do those happen? Because someone somewhere took YOUR privacy and sold it.
You say "you are no one". Untrue. You are data. Data people can use. Data people can make money off. If you're ok being treated as a product, that's your business. I am not.
As a (LEGAL) immigrant to the US, I was shocked when I learned how elections work here. It's... it's seriously hard to believe.
I live in Minnesota. Around 44% of the votes for president in Minnesota DO NOT COUNT. Even though 44% of the voters voted for Mitt Romney, their votes all count for Obama. That's just crazy. I've been on both sides of this - some years my vote counts, some it doesn't. It makes absolutely no sense and I have no idea how or why people put up with it.
*sigh* that's very sad for me. I love having Nexus phones, but 16gb is just not enough. I'd kind of hate non-expandable storage anyway, but I'd be willing to accept it if it was 32gb or (better yet) 64gb. But 16? Can't do it.
I am also not the OP, but I've run out of space on my 16gb Galaxy Nexus, and no SD card on the Nexus 4 might mean no more Nexus phones for me. I tend to keep my phones till they die (had a Nexus One before this guy) but the lack of expandable space has limited the lifetime by quite a bit.
I have 5gb dedicated to music cache, and I got a whole bunch of Audubon Field Guide apps when they were on sale for $0.99. I can only have one or two of them installed at a time. It's ridiculous.
I have a Galaxy Nexus, and the absolute worst thing about it is the lack of an external storage slot. Since I have an unlocked GSM model I was limited to 16gb. And yeah, that got filled up REALLY fast. If the Nexus 4 doesn't have external storage (or at least a model with a LOT of internal storage), that might be a deal-breaker for me and the Nexus line of phones, which would be very sad.
Is there still time to stop this movie from being made and/or released?... Heck, I'll pay full ticket AND blu-ray price to see it never happen. Who's with me? If we give them enough money maybe they'll go away without ruining stuff.
I go to B&N every now and then, and it's always pretty damn crowded when I'm there. I don't think there are less people in there than there were 10 years ago.
I bought a Nyko IR remote for my PS3 - you plug a dongle into the PS3 and use the Neko-provided remote. Except that I had my Harmony remote earn the IR codes from the Nyko. I've have full control over the PS3 with my Harmony remote for years - long before Logitech released a bluetooth module.
Looks like you can't get new ones directly from Amazon, but they're under $10 if you want to look anyway. Plus there's probably an equivalent.
It is absolutely trivial to transform a Kindle Fire into a regular Android tablet. My mom did it. I got a refurb one specifically for that purpose. It is currently running Jelly Bean pretty smoothly.
Wow. CDE is one of those things that... yeah, it was better than the nothing or the OpenWindows we had before it... kinda... but has there been anything done with it that's in any way an improvement to anything going on today? Or in the past decade?
Same with MOTIF. It used to be the only game in town, but we have stuff like gtk and qt now. Are these things even relevant anymore?
I haven't had to renew my contract in many many years, which is good because they don't offer the deal I got any more. I pay $80 a month for unlimited EVERYthing. And it's actually unlimited and doesn't get throttled after a soft-limit.
I'm grandfathered in with t-mobile's actual unlimited everything plan. They keep trying to get me to switch to their new plans which are limited, but I don't plan on doing that.
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When I was a child, I was diagnosed with having a really high IQ. As a result people have been telling me I'm a "genius" for most my life and always pushing me to "achieve my full potential" and crap like that.
It's nonsense. Maybe I'm smart, maybe I'm not. I think trying to measure that is crazy and impracticable. I'd rather be judged by what I do, not what some test says about me.
And frankly I don't really want to be judged at all. I think I'm doing OK with my life, and that's really all that matters. All this unnecessary categorising of people... it's all kind of pointless.
The whole point, the CORE of google's search is the search algorithm being able to weed out irrelevant search results. This does that. All those rule34 results were virtually never relevant.
My first reaction to this was "Oh my GOD its not like we're CHILDREN" and "Oh my GOD more censorship" but frankly on second thought... yeah, I kinda like this. I mean if I want to see naked women I can easily type that into the search field. I just did a couple of image searches that used to be CLUTTERED with Rule 34, and now I can actually find relevant stuff. That's actually a VAST improvement. Better than Safe Search=on used to be, in fact.
Not the parent-post, but I too use Alpine.
I tried to switch to Mutt back... in the 90s I think? People were ranting and raving about it. Frankly I found it much harder to use than Pine. People pointed out that I can configure Mutt to act exactly like Pine, to which I said that you know, Pine already does that.
So my question would be "Why SHOULD I switch to Mutt?" Alpine does everything I need.
I fear that your attitude will be the prevailing one. In the future I foresee myself being the outcast because I /don't/ share everything about my entire life on Facebook/Twitter/Whatever, because I don't let my cellphone announce where I am at all times.
I'm not worried about the government tracking me. Hell, if they want to, they will. There's not a lot I can do about it. It's everything ELSE tracking me. It's vast databases containing vast amounts of information about all of us. It's large corporations who use you and I as products.
Look, I hate getting those things in the mail addressed to "Resident". But I hate even more the ones addressed to me directly, from people I've never heard about. And how do those happen? Because someone somewhere took YOUR privacy and sold it.
You say "you are no one". Untrue. You are data. Data people can use. Data people can make money off. If you're ok being treated as a product, that's your business. I am not.
Having change freezes is standard practice. Most places I've worked have a short month-end freeze, and a couple of month year-end freeze.
However, critical security vulnerabilities are exempt from these freezes. Those still get done using whatever emergency protocols are in place.
I never got to try that. It died well before it's time... ):
Because I was dualbooting WebOS and Android on my touchpad a year ago.
Also, having never heard of this device before, I looked it up and... frankly... it seems pretty horrible.
Yes.
As a (LEGAL) immigrant to the US, I was shocked when I learned how elections work here. It's... it's seriously hard to believe.
I live in Minnesota. Around 44% of the votes for president in Minnesota DO NOT COUNT. Even though 44% of the voters voted for Mitt Romney, their votes all count for Obama. That's just crazy. I've been on both sides of this - some years my vote counts, some it doesn't. It makes absolutely no sense and I have no idea how or why people put up with it.
*sigh* that's very sad for me. I love having Nexus phones, but 16gb is just not enough. I'd kind of hate non-expandable storage anyway, but I'd be willing to accept it if it was 32gb or (better yet) 64gb. But 16? Can't do it.
Time to give that HTC One X another look...
I am also not the OP, but I've run out of space on my 16gb Galaxy Nexus, and no SD card on the Nexus 4 might mean no more Nexus phones for me. I tend to keep my phones till they die (had a Nexus One before this guy) but the lack of expandable space has limited the lifetime by quite a bit.
I have 5gb dedicated to music cache, and I got a whole bunch of Audubon Field Guide apps when they were on sale for $0.99. I can only have one or two of them installed at a time. It's ridiculous.
Any word on storage on the Nexus 4?
I have a Galaxy Nexus, and the absolute worst thing about it is the lack of an external storage slot. Since I have an unlocked GSM model I was limited to 16gb. And yeah, that got filled up REALLY fast. If the Nexus 4 doesn't have external storage (or at least a model with a LOT of internal storage), that might be a deal-breaker for me and the Nexus line of phones, which would be very sad.
Is there still time to stop this movie from being made and/or released?... Heck, I'll pay full ticket AND blu-ray price to see it never happen. Who's with me? If we give them enough money maybe they'll go away without ruining stuff.
I go to B&N every now and then, and it's always pretty damn crowded when I'm there. I don't think there are less people in there than there were 10 years ago.
I bought a Nyko IR remote for my PS3 - you plug a dongle into the PS3 and use the Neko-provided remote. Except that I had my Harmony remote earn the IR codes from the Nyko. I've have full control over the PS3 with my Harmony remote for years - long before Logitech released a bluetooth module.
Looks like you can't get new ones directly from Amazon, but they're under $10 if you want to look anyway. Plus there's probably an equivalent.
No you may not.
But you MAY know that my mom's phone is a Nexus One running CyanogenMod 7.2.
It is absolutely trivial to transform a Kindle Fire into a regular Android tablet. My mom did it. I got a refurb one specifically for that purpose. It is currently running Jelly Bean pretty smoothly.
Wow. CDE is one of those things that... yeah, it was better than the nothing or the OpenWindows we had before it... kinda... but has there been anything done with it that's in any way an improvement to anything going on today? Or in the past decade?
Same with MOTIF. It used to be the only game in town, but we have stuff like gtk and qt now. Are these things even relevant anymore?
You're implying that Apple are the cheaper products?...
Correct, but "upfront" is what most people see.
I haven't had to renew my contract in many many years, which is good because they don't offer the deal I got any more. I pay $80 a month for unlimited EVERYthing. And it's actually unlimited and doesn't get throttled after a soft-limit.
I'm grandfathered in with t-mobile's actual unlimited everything plan. They keep trying to get me to switch to their new plans which are limited, but I don't plan on doing that.
That's why I always buy Nexus phones. Unlocked. Costs more but I keep 'em going for a few years.
I prefer to make columns out of the skulls of my enemies.
Uhhh... good for you?...
I have Elixir2, never looked into most of what it can do though - I will check that out, thanks.