No, I wouldn't have guessed. My argument rests on an empirical proposition, whereas his is a simple ad hominem. I would have expected a real counter-argument like "but developer X says supporting QVGA screens for their Android product Y is a PITA" instead of a flawed attempt at satire.
No, it's the other way around: when someone perpetuates stale myths for the sake of selling a device from corporation A instead of B, I can safely assume that the person doing the promotion is a fanboy.
Look, here's a person pretending the presence of a keyboard on some phones is somehow a problem for developers. It's not, no more than, say, some computers using a trackpad instead of a mouse will cause problems for Windows developers. OMG, phones without camera won't support my camera app! A nightmare! It's bullshit.
Actual Android developers don't seem to share your concerns. As I've said before, only Apple fanboys seem to care abouy Android's supposed fragmentation. And lo and behold: your comment is an advert for Apple!
How is it that this "point" keeps popping up every single time Apple censors something? Sears doesn't restrict anyone else from selling products to you; Apple does. There's only one app store. Buying from Apple is implicit support for censorship.
I think people should be made aware of the fact that the Apple "experience" isn't nearly as trouble-free as the fanboys pretend it is; that it's more expensive initially (the most expensive phone on the market), and even more expensive in the long run (you can't take your content and your apps and leave for a cheaper/better option when you need or want to upgrade in a few years; and that Apple demands draconian control of what you're allowed to do with a device you paid an exorbitant amount of money for.
It's just a more fashionable gadget for more "fashion-conscious" i.e. marketing-unconscious people.
Simplifies? I've seen far too many people asking for help when iTunes just nuked their mp3 collection. Apple's vaunted simplicity is a myth.
Tests like this are done for marketing purposes. The professionalism of the tester will make sure the test is rigged to give Microsoft the result they want. Get the facts.
Sure, if by "freedom" you mean the freedom of a few mobsters to defraud the public of their property, creating an oligarchy of incredibly rich people in just a couple of years. Russia is still an authoritarian shithole.
Yes, but even their closed source Linux drivers have passable quality these days. Robust and with great performance. Video is still a bit shit, though, with some tearing. The Windows drivers are great.
No, most people don't want to use iTunes. iPod owners, and people whose kids are iPod owners. Others just use Windows Media Player, as it comes pre-installed, and is far superior.
No, it really isn't. Biological evolution has never had any need for a Turing machine. The Turing machine, however, came into being only hundreds of thousands of years after the human brain invented symbols. Symbols are sometimes a great way to understand things, but most people understand that a symbol isn't identical to its object. To a Turing machine, however, such a difference doesn't exist, as it has only symbols and no object at all.
And neither does it to you, evidently, boldly proclaiming that the object you're trying to model must be identical to the model, unless there be things you don't understand -- which you then boldly dismiss as religious mumbo-jumbo. Which is to say that you don't only confuse the map with the territory, but you test your model against a different and supposedly wrong model (religious mumbo-jumbo) instead of checking it against its object. So yes, indeed, your brain might be a Turing machine. But that's nothing to be proud of.
Wrong. There's a difference on saying "might possibly not" and saying "I'm calling bullshit on this one". One is the words of a fanboi and the other is the words of a fanboi pretending he didn't say what he just said.
Oh, and as for "unknown publisher": any Danish publisher would be "unknown" to people who don't read Danish, and it will be "unknown" to them no matter how much they hear about them. Your attempt at weakening their credibility is just... weak.
Rich people moving their capital to countries with lower taxes and wages, enabling them to take greater profits, has everything to do with free markets. It's how they ended up in Ireland to begin with.
Four words describe globally the bank/real estate problem: "private profit, public risk". It's not a free market when you can pass on risk of your investments to the public.
Sounds like the only possible "free market" is in a classless Marxist utopia, then. Since in any society dependent on investments from rich capitalists, the latter will manage to make deals like in Ireland: No, either you pay, or I take my investment somewhere else. Which is, of course, the kind of market people usually refer to when talking about free markets.
My two points are: * KDE isn't complicated in general use. * The user chose the option to delve into the system and fiddle with things. That's the PEBCAK part. Not incompetence as much as misguided geekiness. It's your own fault if you spend hours tweaking instead of simply using a tool the way it's designed.
PEBCAK. KDE is useful in its default settings. As a rank n00b, you probably should try to get to know it before fiddling with settings you don't understand.
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No, I wouldn't have guessed. My argument rests on an empirical proposition, whereas his is a simple ad hominem. I would have expected a real counter-argument like "but developer X says supporting QVGA screens for their Android product Y is a PITA" instead of a flawed attempt at satire.
No, it's the other way around: when someone perpetuates stale myths for the sake of selling a device from corporation A instead of B, I can safely assume that the person doing the promotion is a fanboy.
Look, here's a person pretending the presence of a keyboard on some phones is somehow a problem for developers. It's not, no more than, say, some computers using a trackpad instead of a mouse will cause problems for Windows developers. OMG, phones without camera won't support my camera app! A nightmare! It's bullshit.
Actual Android developers don't seem to share your concerns. As I've said before, only Apple fanboys seem to care abouy Android's supposed fragmentation. And lo and behold: your comment is an advert for Apple!
How is it that this "point" keeps popping up every single time Apple censors something? Sears doesn't restrict anyone else from selling products to you; Apple does. There's only one app store. Buying from Apple is implicit support for censorship.
I think people should be made aware of the fact that the Apple "experience" isn't nearly as trouble-free as the fanboys pretend it is; that it's more expensive initially (the most expensive phone on the market), and even more expensive in the long run (you can't take your content and your apps and leave for a cheaper/better option when you need or want to upgrade in a few years; and that Apple demands draconian control of what you're allowed to do with a device you paid an exorbitant amount of money for.
It's just a more fashionable gadget for more "fashion-conscious" i.e. marketing-unconscious people.
Simplifies? I've seen far too many people asking for help when iTunes just nuked their mp3 collection. Apple's vaunted simplicity is a myth.
Only Apple and their fans complain about Android's supposed fragmentation.
Tests like this are done for marketing purposes. The professionalism of the tester will make sure the test is rigged to give Microsoft the result they want. Get the facts.
Sure, if by "freedom" you mean the freedom of a few mobsters to defraud the public of their property, creating an oligarchy of incredibly rich people in just a couple of years. Russia is still an authoritarian shithole.
Yes, but even their closed source Linux drivers have passable quality these days. Robust and with great performance. Video is still a bit shit, though, with some tearing. The Windows drivers are great.
No, most people don't want to use iTunes. iPod owners, and people whose kids are iPod owners. Others just use Windows Media Player, as it comes pre-installed, and is far superior.
You mean consexual sense, of course.
Not quite. I tried installing Google Talk via the Chrome store today, and it complained that it only supports ChromeOS.
Looks like CmdrTaco has gone full retard today. The OMG KDE IS DIEING story, and this?
No, it's not like that at all. What an idiotic comparison.
Right. They're simply saying: I'm not saying I'm threateing you, but I am.
Wrong, you're an idiot.
No, it really isn't. Biological evolution has never had any need for a Turing machine. The Turing machine, however, came into being only hundreds of thousands of years after the human brain invented symbols. Symbols are sometimes a great way to understand things, but most people understand that a symbol isn't identical to its object. To a Turing machine, however, such a difference doesn't exist, as it has only symbols and no object at all.
And neither does it to you, evidently, boldly proclaiming that the object you're trying to model must be identical to the model, unless there be things you don't understand -- which you then boldly dismiss as religious mumbo-jumbo. Which is to say that you don't only confuse the map with the territory, but you test your model against a different and supposedly wrong model (religious mumbo-jumbo) instead of checking it against its object. So yes, indeed, your brain might be a Turing machine. But that's nothing to be proud of.
No, the brain is not an approximation of the Turing Machine.
Wrong. There's a difference on saying "might possibly not" and saying "I'm calling bullshit on this one". One is the words of a fanboi and the other is the words of a fanboi pretending he didn't say what he just said.
Oh, and as for "unknown publisher": any Danish publisher would be "unknown" to people who don't read Danish, and it will be "unknown" to them no matter how much they hear about them. Your attempt at weakening their credibility is just ... weak.
I'm calling fanboi on this one. ^^^
Dumbest. Post. Ever.
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Rich people moving their capital to countries with lower taxes and wages, enabling them to take greater profits, has everything to do with free markets. It's how they ended up in Ireland to begin with.
Four words describe globally the bank/real estate problem: "private profit, public risk". It's not a free market when you can pass on risk of your investments to the public.
Sounds like the only possible "free market" is in a classless Marxist utopia, then. Since in any society dependent on investments from rich capitalists, the latter will manage to make deals like in Ireland: No, either you pay, or I take my investment somewhere else. Which is, of course, the kind of market people usually refer to when talking about free markets.
My two points are:
* KDE isn't complicated in general use.
* The user chose the option to delve into the system and fiddle with things. That's the PEBCAK part. Not incompetence as much as misguided geekiness. It's your own fault if you spend hours tweaking instead of simply using a tool the way it's designed.
PEBCAK. KDE is useful in its default settings. As a rank n00b, you probably should try to get to know it before fiddling with settings you don't understand.