Why not merge the underlying hardware architecture i.e. make them both based on the A series CPUs? Then one can choose whether to use iOS or OS X on either device
Precisely! Giving Windows 8 an UI similar to Windows Phone 8 was pretty inane. When I got my first Windows 8 laptop, the experience was so bad that I wiped it out for PC-BSD. (Of course, it's another thing that PC-BSD has stagnated ever since becoming TrueOS)
Windows 10 had the right idea of giving the user the option to choose b/w a Windows 7 like 'Desktop mode' vs a Windows 8 like 'Tablet mode'. While there are several things about Windows 10 that I don't like, the UI ain't one of them.
We saw what it did to Windows 10. It's.... not gud.
Actually, the Windows 10 UI was fine, what was wrong in Windows 10 was the migration away from being a software centric company to a company that tries to make the user base its beta testers, forced upgrades, as well as breaking a good amount of compatibility b/w Windows 7 and 10 applications. Oh, and moving to the Windows Store as a primary way of getting new software: the better software is still software that one has to either get a DVD for, or download from a website. Notice that Office does not get distributed via the Windows store.
On Apple, they have actually made OS X too similar to iOS. One thing I wish they did - use the A series CPUs for the Macs as well, instead of basing the iOS devices on those but Macs on the x64.
No, Canada is in North America, or if one wants to refer to the superset continent, Canda is in the Americas. Not America, which is an alternate way of saying 'the US'.
Not just that, the immigrant engineers are leaving for Canada after the Trump administration decides that they want to adapt the same points based/merit based immigration system. If that's such a horrible concept, why are they leaving for a country that has exactly that?
Also, in the above blurb on Canada, it also states that people have to know either English or French. That's very different from the immigration problem in the US, where people who speak only Spanish come in, w/ no intention of ever learning English
You have to have a visa to be a tourist in the US? That's news to the 15+ million Canadians that drive into the US each year.
Canada is the worst example one can use when talking of immigration, since Canada has a pretty special status in the US as a comparable neighbor. Use countries like Belgium or Honduras or Turkey as a better example
Uh, rest of the world do have rights... in the rest of the world! Right now, you have Leftist activists campaigning to give voting rights to non citizens, which no country in the world allows! Yet in CA, illegal immigrants (I refuse to use the euphemism 'undocumented' since they brazenly broke the laws while coming here) have more rights and protections than both citizens and legal immigrants.
GP can go tour countries like Pakistan or Yemen and admire how wonderful they are, that it's an outrage that anybody would think of preventing their people from coming here
Currently, for China none, although they are massing troops on their borders w/ India and Bhutan preparing for a land grab there. As for Iran, while they're not directly at war w/ anyone, they have troops and Hizbullah puppets fighting alongside Baathist troops in Syria, while in Yemen, they're backing the Houthi rebels in fighting the Saudis. Although in this case, I don't believe that there is a side to pick in the Yemen civil war, since one has AQAP in the side opposite the Houthis. I just wish for a 'Two cats of Kilkinney' war b/w Iran and the Arabs to go on forever, so that neither of them has any terrorists left alive to infiltrate the rest of the world
Absolutely, b'cos a party that just undid term limits for its president, effectively making its current leader president for life, is more democratic than the US, which doesn't allow the president more than 8 years. Even if Congresspeople can serve 80 years if possible
America is not the only destination in the world. Sure we grind our teeth and visit for business but it is not a compelling place to visit for other reasons these days. The world at one time was begining to look like a global village, it seems to be breaking up again as differences rather than commonalities become highlighted. The times they are a changing indeed.
Sure, divert your vacation destination to places like Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan... B'cos there is no harm in people from those countries landing up anywhere, as they've proved in Europe and even here in America
Ah, the USA. Land of the bound and home of the scared.
Of course, there is no reason to fear planes flying into buildings or followers of a certain cult randomly killing people b'cos 'allah/Mohammed told them so' every year since 2001
Google said no to China? They happily bent over when China asked them for their intellectual property in order to operate there. Once Apple can get most to all its manufacturing to the WI Foxcon plant, it can stop bending over to China
Forget about downloading any apps then, or even using any of the preloaded apps that have since gotten upgrades. I recently did a reset of my HTC phone, decided to use it not w/ my gmail account but instead, a Hotmail account, and I was unable to use Google Play to download some apps that I needed. Incidentally, on another device, I had no issues using an AOL account to register the device, w/o including any Google account.
As far as the Apple gadget goes, if you have, in iTunes, a backup of a previous device, you can copy that into your iGadget w/o logging into your Apple account
Apple's idea here is that you would upload it to iCloud, and download it from there on to your computer. Only problem - if you have only the free iCloud quota of 5GB but more than 5GB of pics & videos, then you might want to upload it first to either Google Drive or OneDrive, and then download it to the computer.
What kind of fucking nerd would need to copy a file from phone to computer?
Is that the best selling point of android now? If so no wonder smart people are leaving googles world of shit.
The other way around - computer to phone - is common, and to do that for iOS, one has to have iTunes on the computer, be it PC or Mac. For Android, if the SD card is a secondary storage i.e. FAT32 formatted, the files can simply be copied, but for iOS, even if you have bought the songs or videos, you can't transfer it to, say, an iPod w/o having iTunes.
I do agree, however, that that's not a good reason to buy Android. I have an iPod where I did use iTunes to transfer music to the device (it can't be done just by syncing that device to my iCloud account the way it can on either iPhone or iPad). That thing lives in my car, whose navigation system does have an iPod mode (like AM, FM, XM) but can only read an Android or Windows Phone via Bluetooth
Really? How is it that the senate, despite a Republican majority, has been unable to
- Get a single vote on repealing & replacing Obamacare?
- See through all his government nominees, including ambassadors?
- Pass immigration reform that included the wall, an end to the visa lottery and chain migration?
And aside from that, how does a Republican congress send him an omnibus bill that is filled w/ Democrat dreams, such as funding for a tunnel in NY, Planned Parenthood, a ban on using any money for the wall models that the president included?
Trump needs to purge the GOP of all the saboteurs in his party who enabled this, such as McCain, Collins, Murkowski, Graham, Flake, before he can have his agenda moving.
By 'Republican', are you talking about the Congressional Republicans, or the base in flyover country? If it's the latter, then yeah, Trump did do impressively, even though Ted Cruz held his own in several red states. But if it's the former, Trump to this day has trouble w/ them when he tries to push his own brand of non-Republican policies, be it tariffs on steel/aluminum, easing up on Russia (before the Salisbury poisoning of the Skripals) that are at odds w/ traditional GOP policies. Heck, there is no way the GOP would have dared give him an omnibus bill that gives the Dems everything they want, but deny him things like funding for the wall. If Romney-McDaniels was serious about supporting him, she would have done what Steve Bannon tried, and organized a campaign to purge the senatorial candidates of RINOs. But the fact that nothing has been done against the likes of McCain, Graham, Sass, Murkowski, Flake or Collins demonstrates that the president, unlike his GOP predecessors, has little control over his party
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Shanghai Bill above mentioned Singapore, and if one knows Spanish, Chile is good as well
Why not merge the underlying hardware architecture i.e. make them both based on the A series CPUs? Then one can choose whether to use iOS or OS X on either device
Precisely! Giving Windows 8 an UI similar to Windows Phone 8 was pretty inane. When I got my first Windows 8 laptop, the experience was so bad that I wiped it out for PC-BSD. (Of course, it's another thing that PC-BSD has stagnated ever since becoming TrueOS)
Windows 10 had the right idea of giving the user the option to choose b/w a Windows 7 like 'Desktop mode' vs a Windows 8 like 'Tablet mode'. While there are several things about Windows 10 that I don't like, the UI ain't one of them.
We saw what it did to Windows 10. It's.... not gud.
Actually, the Windows 10 UI was fine, what was wrong in Windows 10 was the migration away from being a software centric company to a company that tries to make the user base its beta testers, forced upgrades, as well as breaking a good amount of compatibility b/w Windows 7 and 10 applications. Oh, and moving to the Windows Store as a primary way of getting new software: the better software is still software that one has to either get a DVD for, or download from a website. Notice that Office does not get distributed via the Windows store.
On Apple, they have actually made OS X too similar to iOS. One thing I wish they did - use the A series CPUs for the Macs as well, instead of basing the iOS devices on those but Macs on the x64.
You might want to join him, since Canada has anything but a president. A prime minister, a governor general and a queen, but no president!
Isn't Canada also in America?
No, Canada is in North America, or if one wants to refer to the superset continent, Canda is in the Americas. Not America, which is an alternate way of saying 'the US'.
Not just that, the immigrant engineers are leaving for Canada after the Trump administration decides that they want to adapt the same points based/merit based immigration system. If that's such a horrible concept, why are they leaving for a country that has exactly that?
Also, in the above blurb on Canada, it also states that people have to know either English or French. That's very different from the immigration problem in the US, where people who speak only Spanish come in, w/ no intention of ever learning English
You have to have a visa to be a tourist in the US? That's news to the 15+ million Canadians that drive into the US each year.
Canada is the worst example one can use when talking of immigration, since Canada has a pretty special status in the US as a comparable neighbor. Use countries like Belgium or Honduras or Turkey as a better example
Uh, rest of the world do have rights... in the rest of the world! Right now, you have Leftist activists campaigning to give voting rights to non citizens, which no country in the world allows! Yet in CA, illegal immigrants (I refuse to use the euphemism 'undocumented' since they brazenly broke the laws while coming here) have more rights and protections than both citizens and legal immigrants.
GP can go tour countries like Pakistan or Yemen and admire how wonderful they are, that it's an outrage that anybody would think of preventing their people from coming here
Currently, for China none, although they are massing troops on their borders w/ India and Bhutan preparing for a land grab there. As for Iran, while they're not directly at war w/ anyone, they have troops and Hizbullah puppets fighting alongside Baathist troops in Syria, while in Yemen, they're backing the Houthi rebels in fighting the Saudis. Although in this case, I don't believe that there is a side to pick in the Yemen civil war, since one has AQAP in the side opposite the Houthis. I just wish for a 'Two cats of Kilkinney' war b/w Iran and the Arabs to go on forever, so that neither of them has any terrorists left alive to infiltrate the rest of the world
Absolutely, b'cos a party that just undid term limits for its president, effectively making its current leader president for life, is more democratic than the US, which doesn't allow the president more than 8 years. Even if Congresspeople can serve 80 years if possible
I think he meant sites that allow one to log in using one's FB a/c, instead of using their email or creating a new local account there. Like Disqus
America is not the only destination in the world. Sure we grind our teeth and visit for business but it is not a compelling place to visit for other reasons these days. The world at one time was begining to look like a global village, it seems to be breaking up again as differences rather than commonalities become highlighted. The times they are a changing indeed.
Sure, divert your vacation destination to places like Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan... B'cos there is no harm in people from those countries landing up anywhere, as they've proved in Europe and even here in America
Ah, the USA. Land of the bound and home of the scared.
Of course, there is no reason to fear planes flying into buildings or followers of a certain cult randomly killing people b'cos 'allah/Mohammed told them so' every year since 2001
If only all Illegals decided to follow your lead...
Which was my point! It's no big deal copying from the iPhone to the computer, but to move stuff from computer to iPhone, you need iTunes!
I want to disable FaceBook's ability to suggest new 'friends' to me. Is that now there in their new settings?
Google said no to China? They happily bent over when China asked them for their intellectual property in order to operate there. Once Apple can get most to all its manufacturing to the WI Foxcon plant, it can stop bending over to China
Forget about downloading any apps then, or even using any of the preloaded apps that have since gotten upgrades. I recently did a reset of my HTC phone, decided to use it not w/ my gmail account but instead, a Hotmail account, and I was unable to use Google Play to download some apps that I needed. Incidentally, on another device, I had no issues using an AOL account to register the device, w/o including any Google account.
As far as the Apple gadget goes, if you have, in iTunes, a backup of a previous device, you can copy that into your iGadget w/o logging into your Apple account
Apple's idea here is that you would upload it to iCloud, and download it from there on to your computer. Only problem - if you have only the free iCloud quota of 5GB but more than 5GB of pics & videos, then you might want to upload it first to either Google Drive or OneDrive, and then download it to the computer.
What kind of fucking nerd would need to copy a file from phone to computer?
Is that the best selling point of android now? If so no wonder smart people are leaving googles world of shit.
The other way around - computer to phone - is common, and to do that for iOS, one has to have iTunes on the computer, be it PC or Mac. For Android, if the SD card is a secondary storage i.e. FAT32 formatted, the files can simply be copied, but for iOS, even if you have bought the songs or videos, you can't transfer it to, say, an iPod w/o having iTunes.
I do agree, however, that that's not a good reason to buy Android. I have an iPod where I did use iTunes to transfer music to the device (it can't be done just by syncing that device to my iCloud account the way it can on either iPhone or iPad). That thing lives in my car, whose navigation system does have an iPod mode (like AM, FM, XM) but can only read an Android or Windows Phone via Bluetooth
You misspelt 'ethically'
I had no problems changing the search engine in Safari to DuckDuckGo. I doubt that Google pays Apple a thing if I do that
And aside from that, how does a Republican congress send him an omnibus bill that is filled w/ Democrat dreams, such as funding for a tunnel in NY, Planned Parenthood, a ban on using any money for the wall models that the president included?
Trump needs to purge the GOP of all the saboteurs in his party who enabled this, such as McCain, Collins, Murkowski, Graham, Flake, before he can have his agenda moving.
By 'Republican', are you talking about the Congressional Republicans, or the base in flyover country? If it's the latter, then yeah, Trump did do impressively, even though Ted Cruz held his own in several red states. But if it's the former, Trump to this day has trouble w/ them when he tries to push his own brand of non-Republican policies, be it tariffs on steel/aluminum, easing up on Russia (before the Salisbury poisoning of the Skripals) that are at odds w/ traditional GOP policies. Heck, there is no way the GOP would have dared give him an omnibus bill that gives the Dems everything they want, but deny him things like funding for the wall. If Romney-McDaniels was serious about supporting him, she would have done what Steve Bannon tried, and organized a campaign to purge the senatorial candidates of RINOs. But the fact that nothing has been done against the likes of McCain, Graham, Sass, Murkowski, Flake or Collins demonstrates that the president, unlike his GOP predecessors, has little control over his party