I'd be surprised if I read a story of any of these million dollar corporations holding a vote amongst shareholders whether and to whom they should donate a political contribution.
What the... no. They're the corporations.
You have no idea what a corporation actually is, do you?
he government has no right, and indeed no Constitutional authority, to tell me that I cannot spend the corporate assets of a company I own in any way I see fit.
No, you really don't. And yet you feel you can wax authoritative about the powers of the government vis a vis a corporation.
Hint: The assets of a corporation are the corporation's. If you incorporate, and that corporation has assets, they are *NOT YOURS* to use as you see fit. The corporation is a separate legal entity, and those assets belong to that entity. If you want to use that money for your own use, you have to pay yourself a salary or a dividend on shares, at which point you receive income or a capital gain, and you can then spend that money freely. But at that point, *you* are spending the money, *not* the corporation.
I'd be surprised if I read a story of any of these million dollar corporations holding a vote amongst shareholders whether and to whom they should donate a political contribution.
Actually, if you read the article, you'd discover the *exact opposite* is the case. ie, because of loopholes in the tax code, *shareholders* can't even find out where corporations are donating their money. So much for the corporation being a voice for a group of individuals...
Err... that's like asking why I would say the sky is blue. I'm shocked you even have to ask.
For most corporations, and many individuals, emulation == piracy. Period. There's no way Apple is gonna lift the moratorium on emulators in the App Store, and I'd be very happy to put money on it.
You said that your phone could "do things" the iPhone and iPad "can't". You then cited... physical aesthetics, a better browser (subjective, I have no problems with the browser on my 4g Touch), and marginally better multitasking.
So, I once again I ask the question: what can your HTC Desire do that an iPhone or iPad can't? I'm genuinely curious, here, as eventually I'll likely get a tablet, and when I make that choice, I'd prefer it be an informed one.
I'll take option C... wait for Apple to do the right thing.
Not gonna happy, sorry dude. Their ban on interpreted code, save for very narrow applications, isn't going away any time soon, doubly so for things like emulators, which are already in a gray area as far as the public is concerned (legally they're perfectly fine, but PR-wise, not so much).
Well, it's either get it out there in the shadow market, or not at all. At least in the former case, you can enjoy it, as can those who fall in the intersection between jailbreaks and potential users of your product. *shrug*
Or I suppose you could just move to a different platform.:)
Really, are they so threatened by a 30-year-old operating system that they have to kill it?
Okay, so which is it? Do you want them consistently enforcing their appstore rules or not? Because there are very clear rules about interpreted code running on the thing, probably to avoid malware hitting the platform (can someone say Adobe Reader PDF JavaScript vulnerabilities?). So either they enforce that rules across the board, or they go back to selective enforcement and everyone can return to whining about how inconsistent their review process is. Your choice.
Meh, jailbreak and throw it up on Cydia. You're already building an incredibly niche product, and odds are, the people who would be interested in it have already jailbroken their device. *shrug*
Just think! That's 1.5 billion going to television networks and local cable stations that would've otherwise just sat idle! Suddenly thousands of people will have jobs as actors playing concerned parents, or concerned homosexuals, or concerned churchgoers. Not to mention the voiceover performers and special effects guys. I mean, can you imagine how many synthesized ominous thunderstorms 1.5 billion could buy? A lot! That's how many.
Frankly, I think the US needs to move to a lobby-based economy. Have elections every single year! Get more talking heads on TV to really polarize that debate and get those funds flowing! It's the patriotic thing to do!
Sounds like commie talk to me, you pinko traitorous bastard. Don't you understand that unions are the source of all economic ills? Not to mention the cause of childhood obesity, teen pregnancy, and genital warts? That, were we to banish the blight that is organized labour, we could, as a society, finally build a utopian paradise?
Well, a society of individuals each working for their own benefit... if we worked together, we'd be dangerously close to something resembling a union, and that's communist talk, you pinko traitorous bastard.
condescension and dismisiveness from people who do not have the benefit of his life experience or knowledge of his people's history.
No, I believe you mean condescension and dismissiveness from people who value verifiable data and observation over anecdote.
Show me a solid polar bear census and I will concede the point. But this Inuit man's personal beliefs and gut feelings are no more a basis for public policy than yours or mine.
Frankly, your post absolutely reeks of "noble savage" bullshit. His people are not privvy to some mystical knowledge, some secret world that those darn scientists just don't seem to understand. They're just people. People who could play a very important role in, say, evaluating the impact of human activity on the north, given they live there. But step one is to adopt a rigorous, verifiable methodology for gathering that data. "What that dude said" is, I'm afraid, insufficient.
My assumption was that either the warmth or maybe even the caffeine was responsible.
It's the caffeine.
See, all modern bronchodilators work as B2-antagonists, which is a chemical pathway normally triggered by adrenaline (after all, during a flight-or-fight response, open lungs and well-oxygenated blood are a rather good thing). And caffeine stimulates adrenaline production. So, indirectly, caffeine triggers bronchial dilation.
Not to mention methane emissions from the melted permafrost, a gas which happens to be... a greenhouse gas that's far more powerful (though also more transient) than CO2.
Across the Canadian Arctic territories (NWT, Nunavet), polar bear numbers are increasing not decreasing.
Or they're just being driven southward, thus increasing rates of sightings, thanks to... melting ice.
Polar bears will survive quite nicely in an ocean environment as they are highly adaptable and they are more at home in the water than on ice.
So, what, they'll turn into fuzzy dolphins?
The Inuit will adapt to the climate changes and circumstances will improve for them.
No, circumstances will change. It's completel speculation to assume things will improve. For example, northern communities could get cut off due to permafrost melt. But hey, no big deal, they're, like, attuned with the earth or some other primitivist bullshit.
In all seriousness, take care on the roads. I've got a 4x4 and sometimes you cyclists are difficult to see, even with your silly hats and high visibility pants.
Thus demonstrating why helmets might not statistically result in lower injury rates. A helmet does fuck-all if you're run down by an asshole in a 4x4 who's too busy compensating for personal inadequacies to pay proper attention to the road.
No one has demonstrated without a doubt that it means the end of civilization.
No one is even claiming that, jackass. But nice strawman.
What it *will* lead to is great hardship. One need only look at the decades-long drought in Africa, or the flooding in Pakistan, to see what may be coming for many people.
You are free to use the Android NDK, develop your entire app in some other language, and write only the front-end in Java. But let's not let the facts get in the way of a good mad or anything.
Wow, what part of *desktop Linux skills* don't you understand? Last I checked, your average desktop Linux app didn't have a Java frontend.
Besides which... mad? What?
But hey, let's not let reading comprehension get in the way of a good flaming or anything.
I think the article is forgotting that there are already many widespread OS that are taking up that market. I and obviously other geeks love Android because it could mean more open devices for us...
That's quite the assumption, there.
Android is no more open than the carriers/device manufacturers decide it should be. And there's ample evidence that will be "locked down nice and tight".
'course, you could always jailbr... err, I mean "root" these things... assuming you can find an exploit or some other way to flash a new ROM onto the device. But that has fuck all to do with Android's ostensible "openness".
Well given diesel has higher energy density, they damn well better get better mileage compared to a typical gasoline-powered vehicle.
Sure, some people don't like diesels due to the noise they make.
You also neglected to point out:
a) ULSD wasn't available in the US until relatively recently, which meant:
i) It was difficult to hit emissions standards in a diesel engine
ii) Manufacturers couldn't simply bring over European models, as they need to be modified to work with high-sulphur diesel.
b) Diesel engines exhibit poor performance in cold climates, which makes them a poor choice for northern states and Canada.
The first point, in particular, meant that turbodiesels have only started to appear in the US in the last 4-5 years.
To be honest, I think you're burying the lead, here. The real question is, why the hell is Facebook sending the id of users who click on ads back to the advertiser? If the goal is to track unique clicks, you could just as easily hash the id before sending it on, thus disconnecting that id from the fb account itself.
Google is a big company full of a lot of really smart people.
And every single one of them was working on this problem? Really?
How is it that none of them analyzed the process or the results during the 'testing phase' to determine they might just get this type of data?
Because they screwed up?
Their intentions may not have been 'evil' but negligence is no excuse.
Of course it's an excuse. Negligence happens. Are you saying Google must be perfect, and if not, they're not allowed to ever do anything?
Besides which, if anyone was negligent, it was people running unsecured WAPs and then sending passwords in cleartext. But no, we must blame Google for capturing unencrypted wireless traffic... hell, if you ask me, we should be thanking Google for bringing to light a real problem with home wireless installations.
Not acting to prevent this type of data being gathered in the first place is 'evil' enough.
Wait, so now "evil" is simply defined as "fucking up sufficiently to piss you off"? Interesting.
Exactly. they meant no harm by this: they just wanted to know where you ARE
Correct.
so the local ads server to your connection in the future would be more relevant.
Yes. That's the only reason. I'm sure no one finds location-aware applications useful for any other reason. I mean, why would I want to be able to look up businesses in my area? Or geotag photos? Or god knows what else? Yup, the only reason Google would be doing this is to target you with ads, and no one wants it but Google. Yup, makes sense to me!
Meanwhile, Google is absolutely forcing software developers to send SSID information to Google without your permission, so that they can figure out where you are without your knowing it. Devices *definitely* don't ask you first before sending that information on. It's just forced on everyone without them ever knowing. And it's all Google's fault!
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I'd be surprised if I read a story of any of these million dollar corporations holding a vote amongst shareholders whether and to whom they should donate a political contribution.
What the... no. They're the corporations.
You have no idea what a corporation actually is, do you?
he government has no right, and indeed no Constitutional authority, to tell me that I cannot spend the corporate assets of a company I own in any way I see fit.
No, you really don't. And yet you feel you can wax authoritative about the powers of the government vis a vis a corporation.
Hint: The assets of a corporation are the corporation's. If you incorporate, and that corporation has assets, they are *NOT YOURS* to use as you see fit. The corporation is a separate legal entity, and those assets belong to that entity. If you want to use that money for your own use, you have to pay yourself a salary or a dividend on shares, at which point you receive income or a capital gain, and you can then spend that money freely. But at that point, *you* are spending the money, *not* the corporation.
I'd be surprised if I read a story of any of these million dollar corporations holding a vote amongst shareholders whether and to whom they should donate a political contribution.
Actually, if you read the article, you'd discover the *exact opposite* is the case. ie, because of loopholes in the tax code, *shareholders* can't even find out where corporations are donating their money. So much for the corporation being a voice for a group of individuals...
Err... that's like asking why I would say the sky is blue. I'm shocked you even have to ask.
For most corporations, and many individuals, emulation == piracy. Period. There's no way Apple is gonna lift the moratorium on emulators in the App Store, and I'd be very happy to put money on it.
You said that your phone could "do things" the iPhone and iPad "can't". You then cited... physical aesthetics, a better browser (subjective, I have no problems with the browser on my 4g Touch), and marginally better multitasking.
So, I once again I ask the question: what can your HTC Desire do that an iPhone or iPad can't? I'm genuinely curious, here, as eventually I'll likely get a tablet, and when I make that choice, I'd prefer it be an informed one.
I'll take option C... wait for Apple to do the right thing.
Not gonna happy, sorry dude. Their ban on interpreted code, save for very narrow applications, isn't going away any time soon, doubly so for things like emulators, which are already in a gray area as far as the public is concerned (legally they're perfectly fine, but PR-wise, not so much).
Well, it's either get it out there in the shadow market, or not at all. At least in the former case, you can enjoy it, as can those who fall in the intersection between jailbreaks and potential users of your product. *shrug*
Or I suppose you could just move to a different platform. :)
Dear god shut up. I'm willing to bet the only way Frotz got through is because the reviewers don't understand what z-code is...
Really, are they so threatened by a 30-year-old operating system that they have to kill it?
Okay, so which is it? Do you want them consistently enforcing their appstore rules or not? Because there are very clear rules about interpreted code running on the thing, probably to avoid malware hitting the platform (can someone say Adobe Reader PDF JavaScript vulnerabilities?). So either they enforce that rules across the board, or they go back to selective enforcement and everyone can return to whining about how inconsistent their review process is. Your choice.
Meh, jailbreak and throw it up on Cydia. You're already building an incredibly niche product, and odds are, the people who would be interested in it have already jailbroken their device. *shrug*
Just think! That's 1.5 billion going to television networks and local cable stations that would've otherwise just sat idle! Suddenly thousands of people will have jobs as actors playing concerned parents, or concerned homosexuals, or concerned churchgoers. Not to mention the voiceover performers and special effects guys. I mean, can you imagine how many synthesized ominous thunderstorms 1.5 billion could buy? A lot! That's how many.
Frankly, I think the US needs to move to a lobby-based economy. Have elections every single year! Get more talking heads on TV to really polarize that debate and get those funds flowing! It's the patriotic thing to do!
Both are annoyed at what the HTC Desire does what they can't.
Just OOC... like what?
Sounds like commie talk to me, you pinko traitorous bastard. Don't you understand that unions are the source of all economic ills? Not to mention the cause of childhood obesity, teen pregnancy, and genital warts? That, were we to banish the blight that is organized labour, we could, as a society, finally build a utopian paradise?
Well, a society of individuals each working for their own benefit... if we worked together, we'd be dangerously close to something resembling a union, and that's communist talk, you pinko traitorous bastard.
condescension and dismisiveness from people who do not have the benefit of his life experience or knowledge of his people's history.
No, I believe you mean condescension and dismissiveness from people who value verifiable data and observation over anecdote.
Show me a solid polar bear census and I will concede the point. But this Inuit man's personal beliefs and gut feelings are no more a basis for public policy than yours or mine.
Frankly, your post absolutely reeks of "noble savage" bullshit. His people are not privvy to some mystical knowledge, some secret world that those darn scientists just don't seem to understand. They're just people. People who could play a very important role in, say, evaluating the impact of human activity on the north, given they live there. But step one is to adopt a rigorous, verifiable methodology for gathering that data. "What that dude said" is, I'm afraid, insufficient.
My assumption was that either the warmth or maybe even the caffeine was responsible.
It's the caffeine.
See, all modern bronchodilators work as B2-antagonists, which is a chemical pathway normally triggered by adrenaline (after all, during a flight-or-fight response, open lungs and well-oxygenated blood are a rather good thing). And caffeine stimulates adrenaline production. So, indirectly, caffeine triggers bronchial dilation.
Not to mention methane emissions from the melted permafrost, a gas which happens to be... a greenhouse gas that's far more powerful (though also more transient) than CO2.
Across the Canadian Arctic territories (NWT, Nunavet), polar bear numbers are increasing not decreasing.
Or they're just being driven southward, thus increasing rates of sightings, thanks to... melting ice.
Polar bears will survive quite nicely in an ocean environment as they are highly adaptable and they are more at home in the water than on ice.
So, what, they'll turn into fuzzy dolphins?
The Inuit will adapt to the climate changes and circumstances will improve for them.
No, circumstances will change. It's completel speculation to assume things will improve. For example, northern communities could get cut off due to permafrost melt. But hey, no big deal, they're, like, attuned with the earth or some other primitivist bullshit.
In all seriousness, take care on the roads. I've got a 4x4 and sometimes you cyclists are difficult to see, even with your silly hats and high visibility pants.
Thus demonstrating why helmets might not statistically result in lower injury rates. A helmet does fuck-all if you're run down by an asshole in a 4x4 who's too busy compensating for personal inadequacies to pay proper attention to the road.
No one has demonstrated without a doubt that it means the end of civilization.
No one is even claiming that, jackass. But nice strawman.
What it *will* lead to is great hardship. One need only look at the decades-long drought in Africa, or the flooding in Pakistan, to see what may be coming for many people.
You are free to use the Android NDK, develop your entire app in some other language, and write only the front-end in Java. But let's not let the facts get in the way of a good mad or anything.
Wow, what part of *desktop Linux skills* don't you understand? Last I checked, your average desktop Linux app didn't have a Java frontend.
Besides which... mad? What?
But hey, let's not let reading comprehension get in the way of a good flaming or anything.
I think the article is forgotting that there are already many widespread OS that are taking up that market. I and obviously other geeks love Android because it could mean more open devices for us...
That's quite the assumption, there.
Android is no more open than the carriers/device manufacturers decide it should be. And there's ample evidence that will be "locked down nice and tight".
'course, you could always jailbr... err, I mean "root" these things... assuming you can find an exploit or some other way to flash a new ROM onto the device. But that has fuck all to do with Android's ostensible "openness".
Huh? The selling point is that you can break away from a proprietary format. HTML5 is about openness, not freedom from plugins.
Plenty of diesel cars already do 60-70MPG
Well given diesel has higher energy density, they damn well better get better mileage compared to a typical gasoline-powered vehicle.
Sure, some people don't like diesels due to the noise they make.
You also neglected to point out:
a) ULSD wasn't available in the US until relatively recently, which meant:
i) It was difficult to hit emissions standards in a diesel engine
ii) Manufacturers couldn't simply bring over European models, as they need to be modified to work with high-sulphur diesel.
b) Diesel engines exhibit poor performance in cold climates, which makes them a poor choice for northern states and Canada.
The first point, in particular, meant that turbodiesels have only started to appear in the US in the last 4-5 years.
To be honest, I think you're burying the lead, here. The real question is, why the hell is Facebook sending the id of users who click on ads back to the advertiser? If the goal is to track unique clicks, you could just as easily hash the id before sending it on, thus disconnecting that id from the fb account itself.
Google is a big company full of a lot of really smart people.
And every single one of them was working on this problem? Really?
How is it that none of them analyzed the process or the results during the 'testing phase' to determine they might just get this type of data?
Because they screwed up?
Their intentions may not have been 'evil' but negligence is no excuse.
Of course it's an excuse. Negligence happens. Are you saying Google must be perfect, and if not, they're not allowed to ever do anything?
Besides which, if anyone was negligent, it was people running unsecured WAPs and then sending passwords in cleartext. But no, we must blame Google for capturing unencrypted wireless traffic... hell, if you ask me, we should be thanking Google for bringing to light a real problem with home wireless installations.
Not acting to prevent this type of data being gathered in the first place is 'evil' enough.
Wait, so now "evil" is simply defined as "fucking up sufficiently to piss you off"? Interesting.
Exactly. they meant no harm by this: they just wanted to know where you ARE
Correct.
so the local ads server to your connection in the future would be more relevant.
Yes. That's the only reason. I'm sure no one finds location-aware applications useful for any other reason. I mean, why would I want to be able to look up businesses in my area? Or geotag photos? Or god knows what else? Yup, the only reason Google would be doing this is to target you with ads, and no one wants it but Google. Yup, makes sense to me!
Meanwhile, Google is absolutely forcing software developers to send SSID information to Google without your permission, so that they can figure out where you are without your knowing it. Devices *definitely* don't ask you first before sending that information on. It's just forced on everyone without them ever knowing. And it's all Google's fault!
Right?