I never took the pillar of salt thing to be a punishment for looking, but rather merely the consequence of looking. It would be as if the angels said, "Whatever you do, don't touch the hot stove with your hand or your hand will be burned." Lot's wife wasn't being punished. That's just what happens when you look directly into the wrath of God.
Inconsistent with the fact that "God" can do anything and has all power. What you imply is that the actions of "God" have unintended consequences to "God" himself, hence showing a weakness, which is IMPOSSIBLE(C)TM
The best is probably not to read the Bible, or at least to read as a fiction and nothing else. Ah, and eradicate sects which Christianity is the biggest of all.
In all fairness, there are some good messages in the Bible, amongst the terrible ones. But what men have done in the name of it (and still do) is at best completely barbaric and heinous.
Better let that aside. We don't need a book to teach us to be nice to each other. We need responsible parents.
To be fair, calls to all 50 US states covers the same area as calls to all of Europe.
I'm talking about a plan in with which you can call all of Europe, Australia, all of northern America and most of southern America, Asia and Africa. That's still more than the 50 US states combined probably by a factor of 10.
And charging the person calling a cell is ridiculous; you may not know it's a cell.
All cell phones start with a 6 or 7 in France. It's dead simple to know you're calling a cell phone. In any case there are always the "special numbers" that are charged some ridiculous price. You've got to know what/who you're calling anyways.
The person answering the cell phone, the owner, is always aware of what costs are involved with answering the phone, and is the one who decided to take on those extra costs for the benefit of having a cell phone.
I think this system is much more fair to everyone, but it seems to have set the US/Canada on a bad start from a marketing point of view.
Contract cell phones over here do suck pretty hard though, and prepaids aren't usually as nice, and I have to give the EU credit for what they did with the microUSB charger.
There is no such thing as a Micro USB charger. Yes, most phones (but not all - think iPhone) have a "Micro USB" plug. But no, you still can't charge your Motorola with a Samsung charger nor the other way around even if the plugs can fit in each other's phones. There is a "discovery" protocol btw the charger and the phone, and each will charge only its own kind.
Funny, in France I'm paying 16€/month for unlimited calls to over 200 countries, unlimited SMS and unlimited data with tethering thrown in. The only downside is a cap at 3GB after which they will throttle your traffic. Remember this is a "personal plan" so "unlimited SMS" means no more than 1000 to less than 250 different recipients per month. About the same for phone calls which is about 100x more than my maximum I think.
Something is badly rotten on the other side of the pond. I still wonder what. The only thing I can think of is that back in the days the consumer calling a cell was the one being charged with the full price of the communication. In the US, the dude answering his cell is still charged. This made owning a cell phone much cheaper over here and the cell phone market penetration was much much better on our land.
Not true. It's absolutely fine to store your data on someone else's server as long as it's encrypted, you have the key and they don't.
But that's a property of your data, not a property of your server. Any server will suit given that prerequisite, even anything labelled "the cloud" or "iCloud".
OF COURSE they have a key. Any cloud-based data you can access through a web browser requires as much - whether it's with Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, Google...
What makes you think you can access your iCloud data through your browser? You need an iCloud approved device to do so, and Chrome is not one of them.
You have obviously never had an interesting argument with anyone.
What happened to YMMV? I can find you Android phones a lots worse than iPhones, as much as I can find Android phones a little better. But all in all, there are no Phones that I know of that are "much better" at reception than the iPhones.
Also, in different parts of the US, or in different parts of the world, the results might be very different.
Also, as "a tech support manager with AT&T" you are surely aware that your network is one of the worst in the entire world. I guess that gives you a unique perspective to judge bad phones after all.
- You don't have to develop it 5 times (iOS, Linux, Windows, OSX, Android and more if you want broader reach) - You don't have to bother with installation processes on miscellaneous OS versions. - Upgrades are instantaneous, meaning ALL your clients have the same version at one time reducing to almost nothing the need to maintain backward compatibility with your API.
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If you keep on being let down by details like those, how do you want to embrace progress? I mean, really?
It might be easier just to make everyone wear transparent clothing and live in glass houses.
Why bother with the clothing at all? The global warming is at our doorstep and will remove the need for this useless artifact.
Perfectly smooth on my 64bit Linux and Firefox as well as SeaMonkey. Something's awry on your system I think.
How can you tell your FF is 32 bit? Are they all?
I never took the pillar of salt thing to be a punishment for looking, but rather merely the consequence of looking. It would be as if the angels said, "Whatever you do, don't touch the hot stove with your hand or your hand will be burned." Lot's wife wasn't being punished. That's just what happens when you look directly into the wrath of God.
Inconsistent with the fact that "God" can do anything and has all power. What you imply is that the actions of "God" have unintended consequences to "God" himself, hence showing a weakness, which is IMPOSSIBLE(C)TM
The best is probably not to read the Bible, or at least to read as a fiction and nothing else. Ah, and eradicate sects which Christianity is the biggest of all.
In all fairness, there are some good messages in the Bible, amongst the terrible ones. But what men have done in the name of it (and still do) is at best completely barbaric and heinous.
Better let that aside. We don't need a book to teach us to be nice to each other. We need responsible parents.
Afghanistan-style was much nicer before the US and Russia decided that it would be a nice playground for their little war.
Now on the other hand, it is different.
What is wrong with that grid on your FF? It runs smoothly on my 64 bit Linux on Firefox.
You know you can disable that on Chrome, right? It's not even complicated. Here is a guide for the administrators.
I'm sure you can also disable it on Firefox as well.
There's no need to put them in the bin at all, at least not for that reason.
Did they fix Flash freezing all the time, or is that Adobe's fault?
It's Adobe. It's like Acrobat Reader, it freezes everything sometimes. That's life.
I did post a photo on facebook yesterday while on the driver's seat on the freeway. Does it count as well?
Great link. Made my day ;-)
Whatever. Well make an animated picture frame then, so we don't need a shiny 30fps.
To be fair, calls to all 50 US states covers the same area as calls to all of Europe.
I'm talking about a plan in with which you can call all of Europe, Australia, all of northern America and most of southern America, Asia and Africa. That's still more than the 50 US states combined probably by a factor of 10.
And charging the person calling a cell is ridiculous; you may not know it's a cell.
All cell phones start with a 6 or 7 in France. It's dead simple to know you're calling a cell phone. In any case there are always the "special numbers" that are charged some ridiculous price. You've got to know what/who you're calling anyways.
The person answering the cell phone, the owner, is always aware of what costs are involved with answering the phone, and is the one who decided to take on those extra costs for the benefit of having a cell phone.
I think this system is much more fair to everyone, but it seems to have set the US/Canada on a bad start from a marketing point of view.
Contract cell phones over here do suck pretty hard though, and prepaids aren't usually as nice, and I have to give the EU credit for what they did with the microUSB charger.
There is no such thing as a Micro USB charger. Yes, most phones (but not all - think iPhone) have a "Micro USB" plug. But no, you still can't charge your Motorola with a Samsung charger nor the other way around even if the plugs can fit in each other's phones. There is a "discovery" protocol btw the charger and the phone, and each will charge only its own kind.
Funny, in France I'm paying 16€/month for unlimited calls to over 200 countries, unlimited SMS and unlimited data with tethering thrown in. The only downside is a cap at 3GB after which they will throttle your traffic. Remember this is a "personal plan" so "unlimited SMS" means no more than 1000 to less than 250 different recipients per month. About the same for phone calls which is about 100x more than my maximum I think.
Something is badly rotten on the other side of the pond. I still wonder what. The only thing I can think of is that back in the days the consumer calling a cell was the one being charged with the full price of the communication. In the US, the dude answering his cell is still charged. This made owning a cell phone much cheaper over here and the cell phone market penetration was much much better on our land.
Knowing how average Australians treat Aborigines, I'm not even sure you're joking. That's very sad.
Not true. It's absolutely fine to store your data on someone else's server as long as it's encrypted, you have the key and they don't.
But that's a property of your data, not a property of your server. Any server will suit given that prerequisite, even anything labelled "the cloud" or "iCloud".
It took my uncle living in Australia to tell me that the Aborigines were treated like dirt and were systematically wiped out by the British settlers.
Did he tell you that now that the British settlers are gone they still treat Aborigines like dirt?
OF COURSE they have a key. Any cloud-based data you can access through a web browser requires as much - whether it's with Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, Google...
What makes you think you can access your iCloud data through your browser? You need an iCloud approved device to do so, and Chrome is not one of them.
Well, bummer. One more reason not to move stuff over to iCloud (besides the use case issues).
Mind you, it's the same reason to not move your data anywhere.
You have obviously never used an iphone.
You have obviously never had an interesting argument with anyone.
What happened to YMMV? I can find you Android phones a lots worse than iPhones, as much as I can find Android phones a little better. But all in all, there are no Phones that I know of that are "much better" at reception than the iPhones.
Also, in different parts of the US, or in different parts of the world, the results might be very different.
Also, as "a tech support manager with AT&T" you are surely aware that your network is one of the worst in the entire world. I guess that gives you a unique perspective to judge bad phones after all.
Of course, six figures isn't very impressive in Silicon Valley.....
I'd say it all depends on the first digit now, doesn't it?
A few advantages:
- You don't have to develop it 5 times (iOS, Linux, Windows, OSX, Android and more if you want broader reach)
- You don't have to bother with installation processes on miscellaneous OS versions.
- Upgrades are instantaneous, meaning ALL your clients have the same version at one time reducing to almost nothing the need to maintain backward compatibility with your API.
Well what's 2 years out of 10?
20% ?
you're doing it wrong
Maybe I'm holding it wrong?
Agreed. Samba should be at the very bottom of the list. It is the best solution only when there's no other solution.