He isn't a troll, he's sarcastic. Most Christians aren't into "bombing abortion clinics, beating up gays, starting holy wars, etc" just like most atheists aren't into attacking religious feelings. Yet for some reason, this sane point is currently modded up then down to 0 again, and the guy who in actual fact states that most Christians are "bombing abortion clinics, beating up gays, starting holy wars, etc" is +2.
So yeah, there are a few idiot atheists out there. Luckily, they're confined to moderating Slashdot and only leave their basements to pay the pizza delivery boy.
There's a fair amount of evidence that acupuncture works, at least for pain relief. It might of course simply be placebo (which is proven to work), but dismissing something out of hand due to lack of knowledge is idiocy.
Have you actually used it on a touchscreen? Of course not. It looks like a touch UI, but it does not at all work like one. For instance, you get to the menu not by pushing an icon or through a gesture, but by sliding the pointer up into the top left corner, as if you were using Exposé with a mouse. Yeah, I thought it was a touch UI at first myself, but it's just a strange hybrid.
I still don't get the reason for the hate, though, except that whiners whine more loudly. It's not a bad UI at all, and with a few tweaks it's pretty damn good.
Oh, and as for Gnome being dead, this is nothing like Gnome 2.0. Gnome 2.0 was bad, and the complaints were the same: idiot UI duh-signers had taken over the project and crippled it. At least this time, the foundation is slightly better.
Sorry, but your "no, Apple's single core 8 GB thing is actually three dollars and fifty two cents cheaper than Samsung's dual core 16 GB" does in fact prove that you're a shill and a liar when you claim Apple's profits are due to scale in manufacturing, not due to their much higher prices.
Actually, trying to disprove the proven correct statement that you're a shill and a liar with anecdotal evidence to disparage Apple's competitors simply adds to the evidence that you are, in fact, a shill and a liar. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Great for you. Even if my data was slightly wrong for your particular country, you still proved my point: the vastly superior Galaxy S2 isn't more expensive to buy than the old, slightly crippled iPhone4 of yesteryear, and you're a fraud and a shill. (.co.uk: Apple £429 vs Samsung £386, similar for.se and.no)
Actually, there was an ellipsis in there, but Slashdot cleverly removed it. Apparently, Slashdot demands you use three full stops (...) instead of unicode U+2026. And I don't see why you complain, as your argument is still utter bullshit.
You wrote: "It is a phone, you shouldn't be typing novels on it Buy a tablet if you want to type a lot". Yet I said nothing about typing a lot on smartphones, no one did (except you), so your counter-argument kinda sucks. Let me reiterate: you're an idiot.
Sure, there are worse things to write novels on than a tablet. The etch-a-sketch, for instance. Stone slates. Water. But there is such a wide choice of better, more suitable technologies for the task: pen or pencil on paper; laptop and desktop computers; typewriters. I'll concede that even a decent mobile phone is better suited for writing novels than a tablet, for simple reasons of ergonomics. Editing would be hell, though.
However, the trust says an American company named LibLime has hijacked the system and wants to use it for its own private client base.
The company has also been granted provisional rights to the name Koha by the Ministry of Economic Development.
"We did something really good and we gave it away to the world and it's been a glorious thing globally for 12 years," the trust's head of libraries, Joann Ransom, told Radio New Zealand.
"And now this American corporate wants to take it."
Bullshit. Android's malware issue is there only due to Google doing a lousy job removing harmful apps from the market. Would Microsoft do an equally shitty job if they had a bigger market share? No one knows, but it seems unlikely as their terms are far stricter. Their app store just reached 40,000 apps, though. That's pretty good for a platform with supposedly no users, of which many seem fairly happy with their phones.
Right. Since only fanbois can't see the truth in turning 'rooting possible' into 'rooting required', 'real competition' into 'vastly superior product with unrealistic specs at a lower price point', etc. Sorry, but I somehow don't believe you when you claim you want a 'real competitor' and then list '10+hour on and running at full blast on both cores runtime' as one of the requirements. It's not like Apple can come close to that.
So, you're a liar and wants another liar to be modded up for posting 'the truth'. Your mother must be so proud of you.
OK, how about this, a verifiable and proven correct statement: economics is hogwash, and Bjørn Lomborg is as much a scientist as a dead squirrel is. You choose to believe him for pure ideological reasons, as that's what economists are dealing in: ideology.
The economy was perfectly capable of destroying itself with the help of economists like Bjørn Lomborg. Perhaps you should take his predictions for what they are: nonsense.
Idiot. If you don't want location tracking in an Android phone, you simply turn it off. Does that help? NO. Instead of you being able to use the various location based services that the Android platform is all about, you're left off with the phone company tracking your moves through radio triangulation -- which you can turn off only by turning off the phone (any mobile phone, no matter how dumb), and which the carrier will share only with your government. Oh, and perhaps advertisers, too, if they are so inclined. But not with you.
If you don't want location services, you don't want Android, and if you don't want your location to be tracked you simply don't want a mobile phone.
Habitually claiming whatever Apple is rumoured to do as 'revolutionary' or 'disruptive' in a story about actual technological advances is in fact off topic and spam.
The difference being that Android is Google's project and KHTML is KDE's, with Apple splitting up and making a competing fork with little chance of putting their changes back in the parent tree and Google not doing that. Not really all that funny.
Depends. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and if the patents in this case are needed to stay interoperable with the Windows environment, and the fees demanded border to extortion (i.e. the product is no longer competitive with Microsoft's product), then I suspect the DOJ might find that interesting.
Christ. Here's the Git repo and download instructions. Google did ask CyanogenMod to stop distributing its Google apps (Market, etc.), but not Android itself. You can download those apps separately, and I'm sure Google could restrict those devices from using Market if they tried. Perhaps your mother should have taught you not to lie.
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That's your interpretation, and most seem to not follow it. Funny, that.
He isn't a troll, he's sarcastic. Most Christians aren't into "bombing abortion clinics, beating up gays, starting holy wars, etc" just like most atheists aren't into attacking religious feelings. Yet for some reason, this sane point is currently modded up then down to 0 again, and the guy who in actual fact states that most Christians are "bombing abortion clinics, beating up gays, starting holy wars, etc" is +2.
So yeah, there are a few idiot atheists out there. Luckily, they're confined to moderating Slashdot and only leave their basements to pay the pizza delivery boy.
There's a fair amount of evidence that acupuncture works, at least for pain relief. It might of course simply be placebo (which is proven to work), but dismissing something out of hand due to lack of knowledge is idiocy.
Have you actually used it on a touchscreen? Of course not. It looks like a touch UI, but it does not at all work like one. For instance, you get to the menu not by pushing an icon or through a gesture, but by sliding the pointer up into the top left corner, as if you were using Exposé with a mouse. Yeah, I thought it was a touch UI at first myself, but it's just a strange hybrid.
I still don't get the reason for the hate, though, except that whiners whine more loudly. It's not a bad UI at all, and with a few tweaks it's pretty damn good.
Oh, and as for Gnome being dead, this is nothing like Gnome 2.0. Gnome 2.0 was bad, and the complaints were the same: idiot UI duh-signers had taken over the project and crippled it. At least this time, the foundation is slightly better.
Sorry, but your "no, Apple's single core 8 GB thing is actually three dollars and fifty two cents cheaper than Samsung's dual core 16 GB" does in fact prove that you're a shill and a liar when you claim Apple's profits are due to scale in manufacturing, not due to their much higher prices.
Actually, trying to disprove the proven correct statement that you're a shill and a liar with anecdotal evidence to disparage Apple's competitors simply adds to the evidence that you are, in fact, a shill and a liar. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Great for you. Even if my data was slightly wrong for your particular country, you still proved my point: the vastly superior Galaxy S2 isn't more expensive to buy than the old, slightly crippled iPhone4 of yesteryear, and you're a fraud and a shill. (.co.uk: Apple £429 vs Samsung £386, similar for .se and .no)
Even the iPhone4 8 GB costs more than a Samsung Galaxy S2 16 GB, so you're obviously full of shit.
Actually, there was an ellipsis in there, but Slashdot cleverly removed it. Apparently, Slashdot demands you use three full stops (...) instead of unicode U+2026. And I don't see why you complain, as your argument is still utter bullshit.
You wrote: "It is a phone, you shouldn't be typing novels on it Buy a tablet if you want to type a lot". Yet I said nothing about typing a lot on smartphones, no one did (except you), so your counter-argument kinda sucks. Let me reiterate: you're an idiot.
Sure, there are worse things to write novels on than a tablet. The etch-a-sketch, for instance. Stone slates. Water. But there is such a wide choice of better, more suitable technologies for the task: pen or pencil on paper; laptop and desktop computers; typewriters. I'll concede that even a decent mobile phone is better suited for writing novels than a tablet, for simple reasons of ergonomics. Editing would be hell, though.
You seriously recommend a tablet for typing? Idiot.
No?
Oh? I have only seen one such story. Something about a store in China? Then there are these:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/android-malware-angry-birds/
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/malware-in-android-market-highlights-googles-vulnerability.ars
Then again, Windows Phone 7 doesn't allow sideloading of applications, IIRC. Which would make it more secure, at the cost of your liberty.
Bullshit. Android's malware issue is there only due to Google doing a lousy job removing harmful apps from the market. Would Microsoft do an equally shitty job if they had a bigger market share? No one knows, but it seems unlikely as their terms are far stricter. Their app store just reached 40,000 apps, though. That's pretty good for a platform with supposedly no users, of which many seem fairly happy with their phones.
That's hardly relevant to your point, dipshit.
Right. Since only fanbois can't see the truth in turning 'rooting possible' into 'rooting required', 'real competition' into 'vastly superior product with unrealistic specs at a lower price point', etc. Sorry, but I somehow don't believe you when you claim you want a 'real competitor' and then list '10+hour on and running at full blast on both cores runtime' as one of the requirements. It's not like Apple can come close to that.
So, you're a liar and wants another liar to be modded up for posting 'the truth'. Your mother must be so proud of you.
OK, how about this, a verifiable and proven correct statement: economics is hogwash, and Bjørn Lomborg is as much a scientist as a dead squirrel is. You choose to believe him for pure ideological reasons, as that's what economists are dealing in: ideology.
The economy was perfectly capable of destroying itself with the help of economists like Bjørn Lomborg. Perhaps you should take his predictions for what they are: nonsense.
A good thing Chris Landsea seems to have changed his mind on the topic since then.
Idiot. If you don't want location tracking in an Android phone, you simply turn it off. Does that help? NO. Instead of you being able to use the various location based services that the Android platform is all about, you're left off with the phone company tracking your moves through radio triangulation -- which you can turn off only by turning off the phone (any mobile phone, no matter how dumb), and which the carrier will share only with your government. Oh, and perhaps advertisers, too, if they are so inclined. But not with you.
If you don't want location services, you don't want Android, and if you don't want your location to be tracked you simply don't want a mobile phone.
You don't have to be religious to have an irrational hatred of everything Microsoft. Being an idiot is perfectly sufficient.
Habitually claiming whatever Apple is rumoured to do as 'revolutionary' or 'disruptive' in a story about actual technological advances is in fact off topic and spam.
Dalvik is Apache licensed.
The difference being that Android is Google's project and KHTML is KDE's, with Apple splitting up and making a competing fork with little chance of putting their changes back in the parent tree and Google not doing that. Not really all that funny.
Depends. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and if the patents in this case are needed to stay interoperable with the Windows environment, and the fees demanded border to extortion (i.e. the product is no longer competitive with Microsoft's product), then I suspect the DOJ might find that interesting.
Christ. Here's the Git repo and download instructions. Google did ask CyanogenMod to stop distributing its Google apps (Market, etc.), but not Android itself. You can download those apps separately, and I'm sure Google could restrict those devices from using Market if they tried. Perhaps your mother should have taught you not to lie.