No one wants to literally "throw their daughter on the streets"
Sure they do. Christians do this all the time; just go to reddit.com/r/personalfinance; there's countless postings there from kids who are 16-18 who got thrown out of their homes by their parents because they came out as gay, and they post on there asking for help on what to do. (Yes it's illegal to kick out a minor, but they do it anyway.) Christians are happy to let their children be homeless if they're gay. They'd probably stone them to death if it weren't illegal.
Well they could just *not license the patents* and tell MS to go fuck themselves. All they have to do is leave out support for exFAT filesystems. ext4 is much better anyway. Then offer some option, for an extra fee or something (maybe an app from the app store) which provides exFAT capability for people who want it.
I don't give a shit about exFAT support, I just want the slot. The slot doesn't require patent licenses.
Sounds like some non-discrimination laws in NYC need to be either passed or enforced.
Good luck with that. There's probably laws on the books, but who's going to enforce them? The NYPD is too busy irradiating people with X-ray vans to bother looking into racial discrimination complaints against the cabs.
Uber drivers, however, are known to pick up black people, and there've been a lot of black people talking about this publicly because they've had such a hard time with cabs. Probably, what's happening is the middle class and up black people are getting passed by cabs because the cabbies think they're going to want to go to someplace rough; on Uber, this doesn't happen because the passenger puts in his destination on the app when hailing a ride, so the Uber driver can see immediately where the person wants to go. Why would they not want to drive someone from lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side, even if they happen to be black?
Yet people think Uber will do the same and are not considered total idiots:)
No, they aren't. Uber has a rating system; did you forget about that? People can rate their drivers, leave comments/reviews, etc. You can't do that with cabs. That's one of the big features Uber brings to the table (the other is the ability to hail a ride from your phone, and watch on a map screen as the car comes to you, and the other big one is paying on your phone). It's just like Amazon that way: with peer reviews, you get much better quality because you don't want disgruntled people leaving bad reviews.
You've got to be the only woman like this. Most women refuse to date a guy who lives with his parents. After all, it makes it pretty hard to shack up at his place on the weekends...
Sorry, no. If the local government passes a law forbidding motor homes from parking overnight in a parking lot (even though it's "private property"), then it's illegal, and cops can cite people for it. This isn't just the Bay Area; any city can pass such a law if it wants. Private property doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want there.
Yeah, I remember that from a while ago. However, tampering with rack-mount network switches is a bit different from tampering with a cellphone. There just isn't any extra room in there for adding anything. And how could the NSA make a "compromised chip" anyway? I don't think the NSA owns any $5 billion fabs; that would be very hard to hide. Back to the switches: wasn't that just a software mod they did?
These Moto phones look interesting; I'll have to keep them in mind next time I'm in the market for a phone.
With a dual-sim in the US, is it possible to use multiple networks, such as Sprint & T-Mobile? I really haven't heard much about dual-sim phones before.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I remember that, they put some malware into the BIOS which modified some Windows files, so re-installing Windows wouldn't get rid of whatever it was they were injecting into it, because the BIOS would just see the Windows file wasn't the modified version, and go modify it for you.
This isn't a problem if you don't install Windows in the first place.
Heck, it probably isn't even a problem if you "upgrade" to Windows 10, as the BIOS malware would have been hard-coded for an earlier version.
No it is that they want to produce sturdier devices with a high quality feel. When you start adding removable parts and compartments it compromises that, you also have more points of failure. They could turn a tidy profit selling their customers extra batteries but it makes the device more flimsy and prone to breakage.
That's total bullshit. The Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5 are very sturdy devices; the S5 is even waterproof.
No they have realized that the market for people who want user-replaceable batteries and sd cards is a *lot* smaller and less profitable than that of the people who want high quality devices and have a high turnover of those devices.
More bullshit. The Galaxy S6 did just as you say, and the sales have been miserable. The S4 and S5 are commanding huge prices on the used market.
And then I'd be less happy because it would have taken space that could have battery and/or put the cost up.
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An empty SDcard slot costs a lot less than 64GB of flash memory.
If you want a phone that sacrifices these things, then go buy one. It's not like there's a shortage of phones which have made this sacrifice. We're bemoaning the fact that phones *with* these features are disappearing. One of the main points of the whole Android ecosystem is that there's a bunch of different phone makers and an absolutely huge variety of phone models to choose from; there's no reason people with both sets of priorities can't be satisfied. Instead, the dumb phonemakers are all envious of Apple and are trying to copy them, poorly.
If you live in the suburbs and you refuse to have a telephone or communication service of any kind, and you need a cab to the airport, how exactly do you plan to call for one? Smoke signals?
If you refuse to use modern technology, it's your own fault that you get left behind.
So why is it that black people can't get a ride in a taxi in NYC, but with Uber they're singing its praises because now they can get a ride instead of having to take the bus?
Of course the whole concept of a driver is now just a short-term thing. As soon as self driving cars show up, these ride share services will truly be a commodity.
No, they won't. The taxi companies and their shills, fans, and backers will make sure to get laws passed banning any automated cars for hire, because they don't want drivers to lose their jobs.
Similarly, we need to ban lots of other robotic things. Robotic lawn mowers, should be banned because they'll put teenagers and landscapers out of a job. Robotic car welders should be banned because that's put human welders out of a job. Robotic cat litter boxes should be banned because people should be hiring professional cat litter changers to clean their cat boxes, to make sure these people have jobs. We should also ban dishwashers (including the ones you use at home) because that's putting someone out of a job: you should be hiring a maid to do that work for you.
Each race looks pretty damned different, and many of these differences are entirely cosmetic.
No they aren't. From what I've read, certain facial features involving the nose and sinuses evolved that way because of climate. Colder climates made certain nasal structures more advantageous for retaining heat, while hotter climates made different structures more advantageous for disposing of heat and increasing respiration.
Oh please. We ARE inferior physically to many animals, especially large cats. We simply don't have their capabilities as far as strength, speed, weaponry, etc.
The things that humans ARE good at, compared to other animals roughly around our size, are:
1) manipulation. We have opposable thumbs and hands; we can pick things up and do things to them. Only other apes come close to this ability.
2) carrying stuff. We can strap stuff onto donkeys, but they can't do that themselves. But we can pick rather heavy things up with our arms and walk around. Very few animals can, all by themselves, carry large objects around. Elephants are the only other animal I can think of with this ability, aside (again) from other apes. Even other apes aren't very good at this because they usually have much stronger upper bodies and lower bodies that aren't as strong and not very good at walking around, rather than swinging through trees.
3) running long distances. Relative to our size, I believe we're unsurpassed in this ability. Most predators can easily outrun us in sprints (a 10-lb housecat can outrun most humans), but they can't keep up that pace. Humans can run for miles.
In just about everything else, we suck. We simply are not fine-tuned predators like big cats are. We don't have their incredible musculature, or their reflexes, or their flexibility. Did you know that a standard housecat can fit its entire body through any hole that it can get its skull through? It has no rigid shoulders, unlike us, so it can squeeze through very narrow openings. There was an X-Files episode about a guy who could do crazy stuff like that, but for cats, that's real life.
But if doesn't matter that we suck at falling off of rooftops without severe injuries, or killing other large animals with a single swipe (a grizzly bear can easily kill you with one swipe), or chasing gazelle at 70mph. We have brains, and we have hands with opposable thumbs, and we have nice legs that can carry us very long distances; this makes up for all the deficiencies, and then some. With these, we've been able to make technology, which no other animal has.
North Korea is a wonderful country. It just needs to adopt a more democratic form of government, stop executing people, reduce the size of its military drastically, stop acting belligerent, start feeding its people, stop pushing its leaders as living gods on earth, stop anti-western and anti-SK propaganda, stop pursuing nuclear weapons, and create a free-market economy. That's all just a small, minor change from how it is now.
WTF are you talking about? Android isn't open in the least. Things like CyanogenMod are iffy, because so many parts of a typical Android install are closed-source, including many device drivers needed for the devices. And that's once you figure out how to "root" the phone, which they intentionally make difficult.
Everyone thinks it's a great idea because everyone thinks you should just store all that data in "the cloud". Then you can pay extra money to access it at 4G data rates.
Android phones seem to be largely going the way of Apple devices, in a dumb attempt to copy them, with the dumb idea that they're going to get Apple users to convert to Android. They haven't figured out that Apple users like Apple devices and aren't going to switch, and Android users **don't** want Apple devices, or else they would have bought them instead.
On top of that, these phones are made by Google. Google doesn't *want* you to store stuff on your device, besides apps and caches and such. They want you to store all your data in "the cloud", where they can index it, and also where the carriers can charge you lots of money to access it when you exceed your monthly data allowance.
Just look at the very popular Samsung Galaxy S series: up to the S5, they had removable batteries and an SDcard slot. Now with the S6, those features are gone (as well as the waterproof case), in favor of a curved screen. And S6 sales have been lackluster; gee, wonder why?
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No one wants to literally "throw their daughter on the streets"
Sure they do. Christians do this all the time; just go to reddit.com/r/personalfinance; there's countless postings there from kids who are 16-18 who got thrown out of their homes by their parents because they came out as gay, and they post on there asking for help on what to do. (Yes it's illegal to kick out a minor, but they do it anyway.) Christians are happy to let their children be homeless if they're gay. They'd probably stone them to death if it weren't illegal.
Nothing new in the last 5 years or so. Have you been in a cave since the mid 2000s?
Yeah, that consumer lock-in design is what I'm worried about. Thanks for the reply though!
Well they could just *not license the patents* and tell MS to go fuck themselves. All they have to do is leave out support for exFAT filesystems. ext4 is much better anyway. Then offer some option, for an extra fee or something (maybe an app from the app store) which provides exFAT capability for people who want it.
I don't give a shit about exFAT support, I just want the slot. The slot doesn't require patent licenses.
Sounds like some non-discrimination laws in NYC need to be either passed or enforced.
Good luck with that. There's probably laws on the books, but who's going to enforce them? The NYPD is too busy irradiating people with X-ray vans to bother looking into racial discrimination complaints against the cabs.
Uber drivers, however, are known to pick up black people, and there've been a lot of black people talking about this publicly because they've had such a hard time with cabs. Probably, what's happening is the middle class and up black people are getting passed by cabs because the cabbies think they're going to want to go to someplace rough; on Uber, this doesn't happen because the passenger puts in his destination on the app when hailing a ride, so the Uber driver can see immediately where the person wants to go. Why would they not want to drive someone from lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side, even if they happen to be black?
Yet people think Uber will do the same and are not considered total idiots :)
No, they aren't. Uber has a rating system; did you forget about that? People can rate their drivers, leave comments/reviews, etc. You can't do that with cabs. That's one of the big features Uber brings to the table (the other is the ability to hail a ride from your phone, and watch on a map screen as the car comes to you, and the other big one is paying on your phone). It's just like Amazon that way: with peer reviews, you get much better quality because you don't want disgruntled people leaving bad reviews.
You've got to be the only woman like this. Most women refuse to date a guy who lives with his parents. After all, it makes it pretty hard to shack up at his place on the weekends...
Sorry, no. If the local government passes a law forbidding motor homes from parking overnight in a parking lot (even though it's "private property"), then it's illegal, and cops can cite people for it. This isn't just the Bay Area; any city can pass such a law if it wants. Private property doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want there.
Yeah, I remember that from a while ago. However, tampering with rack-mount network switches is a bit different from tampering with a cellphone. There just isn't any extra room in there for adding anything. And how could the NSA make a "compromised chip" anyway? I don't think the NSA owns any $5 billion fabs; that would be very hard to hide. Back to the switches: wasn't that just a software mod they did?
These Moto phones look interesting; I'll have to keep them in mind next time I'm in the market for a phone.
With a dual-sim in the US, is it possible to use multiple networks, such as Sprint & T-Mobile? I really haven't heard much about dual-sim phones before.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I remember that, they put some malware into the BIOS which modified some Windows files, so re-installing Windows wouldn't get rid of whatever it was they were injecting into it, because the BIOS would just see the Windows file wasn't the modified version, and go modify it for you.
This isn't a problem if you don't install Windows in the first place.
Heck, it probably isn't even a problem if you "upgrade" to Windows 10, as the BIOS malware would have been hard-coded for an earlier version.
No it is that they want to produce sturdier devices with a high quality feel. When you start adding removable parts and compartments it compromises that, you also have more points of failure. They could turn a tidy profit selling their customers extra batteries but it makes the device more flimsy and prone to breakage.
That's total bullshit. The Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5 are very sturdy devices; the S5 is even waterproof.
No they have realized that the market for people who want user-replaceable batteries and sd cards is a *lot* smaller and less profitable than that of the people who want high quality devices and have a high turnover of those devices.
More bullshit. The Galaxy S6 did just as you say, and the sales have been miserable. The S4 and S5 are commanding huge prices on the used market.
And then I'd be less happy because it would have taken space that could have battery and/or put the cost up.
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An empty SDcard slot costs a lot less than 64GB of flash memory.
If you want a phone that sacrifices these things, then go buy one. It's not like there's a shortage of phones which have made this sacrifice. We're bemoaning the fact that phones *with* these features are disappearing. One of the main points of the whole Android ecosystem is that there's a bunch of different phone makers and an absolutely huge variety of phone models to choose from; there's no reason people with both sets of priorities can't be satisfied. Instead, the dumb phonemakers are all envious of Apple and are trying to copy them, poorly.
You're a total idiot if you think the cab company is going to do anything with your complaint besides ignore it.
So what?
If you live in the suburbs and you refuse to have a telephone or communication service of any kind, and you need a cab to the airport, how exactly do you plan to call for one? Smoke signals?
If you refuse to use modern technology, it's your own fault that you get left behind.
So why is it that black people can't get a ride in a taxi in NYC, but with Uber they're singing its praises because now they can get a ride instead of having to take the bus?
Of course the whole concept of a driver is now just a short-term thing. As soon as self driving cars show up, these ride share services will truly be a commodity.
No, they won't. The taxi companies and their shills, fans, and backers will make sure to get laws passed banning any automated cars for hire, because they don't want drivers to lose their jobs.
Similarly, we need to ban lots of other robotic things. Robotic lawn mowers, should be banned because they'll put teenagers and landscapers out of a job. Robotic car welders should be banned because that's put human welders out of a job. Robotic cat litter boxes should be banned because people should be hiring professional cat litter changers to clean their cat boxes, to make sure these people have jobs. We should also ban dishwashers (including the ones you use at home) because that's putting someone out of a job: you should be hiring a maid to do that work for you.
Each race looks pretty damned different, and many of these differences are entirely cosmetic.
No they aren't. From what I've read, certain facial features involving the nose and sinuses evolved that way because of climate. Colder climates made certain nasal structures more advantageous for retaining heat, while hotter climates made different structures more advantageous for disposing of heat and increasing respiration.
Oh please. We ARE inferior physically to many animals, especially large cats. We simply don't have their capabilities as far as strength, speed, weaponry, etc.
The things that humans ARE good at, compared to other animals roughly around our size, are:
1) manipulation. We have opposable thumbs and hands; we can pick things up and do things to them. Only other apes come close to this ability.
2) carrying stuff. We can strap stuff onto donkeys, but they can't do that themselves. But we can pick rather heavy things up with our arms and walk around. Very few animals can, all by themselves, carry large objects around. Elephants are the only other animal I can think of with this ability, aside (again) from other apes. Even other apes aren't very good at this because they usually have much stronger upper bodies and lower bodies that aren't as strong and not very good at walking around, rather than swinging through trees.
3) running long distances. Relative to our size, I believe we're unsurpassed in this ability. Most predators can easily outrun us in sprints (a 10-lb housecat can outrun most humans), but they can't keep up that pace. Humans can run for miles.
In just about everything else, we suck. We simply are not fine-tuned predators like big cats are. We don't have their incredible musculature, or their reflexes, or their flexibility. Did you know that a standard housecat can fit its entire body through any hole that it can get its skull through? It has no rigid shoulders, unlike us, so it can squeeze through very narrow openings. There was an X-Files episode about a guy who could do crazy stuff like that, but for cats, that's real life.
But if doesn't matter that we suck at falling off of rooftops without severe injuries, or killing other large animals with a single swipe (a grizzly bear can easily kill you with one swipe), or chasing gazelle at 70mph. We have brains, and we have hands with opposable thumbs, and we have nice legs that can carry us very long distances; this makes up for all the deficiencies, and then some. With these, we've been able to make technology, which no other animal has.
What about service for black people?
Taxis in NYC won't pick up black people. Uber drivers will.
North Korea is a wonderful country. It just needs to adopt a more democratic form of government, stop executing people, reduce the size of its military drastically, stop acting belligerent, start feeding its people, stop pushing its leaders as living gods on earth, stop anti-western and anti-SK propaganda, stop pursuing nuclear weapons, and create a free-market economy. That's all just a small, minor change from how it is now.
WTF are you talking about? Android isn't open in the least. Things like CyanogenMod are iffy, because so many parts of a typical Android install are closed-source, including many device drivers needed for the devices. And that's once you figure out how to "root" the phone, which they intentionally make difficult.
Everyone thinks it's a great idea because everyone thinks you should just store all that data in "the cloud". Then you can pay extra money to access it at 4G data rates.
Android phones seem to be largely going the way of Apple devices, in a dumb attempt to copy them, with the dumb idea that they're going to get Apple users to convert to Android. They haven't figured out that Apple users like Apple devices and aren't going to switch, and Android users **don't** want Apple devices, or else they would have bought them instead.
On top of that, these phones are made by Google. Google doesn't *want* you to store stuff on your device, besides apps and caches and such. They want you to store all your data in "the cloud", where they can index it, and also where the carriers can charge you lots of money to access it when you exceed your monthly data allowance.
Just look at the very popular Samsung Galaxy S series: up to the S5, they had removable batteries and an SDcard slot. Now with the S6, those features are gone (as well as the waterproof case), in favor of a curved screen. And S6 sales have been lackluster; gee, wonder why?
and anyway, doesn't it allow a micro-SD card?
No, they don't. These are just like Apple phones that way. That's the whole problem.