So you know. I use Google exclusively for my searches and I use Android for my phones and tablets. It might appear I'm just a big fat Google fanboy. I'm not. I know Google for what it is and I trust it only to that extent.
It disturbs me that Google would seek to interfere with other businesses. Privacy is a concern for many people and while I don't live in privacy paranoia land, I want to keep the border open so I can visit from time to time.
Well, the way the article says it, it rather gives in to the notion that the mutation isn't accidental and was both rather recent and abrupt.
I have already read some theories into the idea that humans are genetically modified apes. That the mysteries of how the ancient Babylonian culture and languages seemed to appear from nothing into a fully complex form has left many very confused about how it all came about. That we are all the product of a "Stargate" style alien race who needed slave laborers doesn't seem as outlandish to me as "the earth was created in seven days." More interestingly, though, it actually connects in some ways to the god myth... you know, like "created in his own image" and all that?
I wonder. If it was proven, beyond any reasonable doubt that we were created by genetic manipulation by a superior race, (created, not simply evolved) it would in a way prove the theists right. What I wonder is whether or not these theists would consider these superior beings to be gods or just advanced intelligence?
They should just capitulate on this and bring in the people from the Mate project and let users have a complete choice. Go ahead and update Mate to the GNOME3 libraries and let there be two desktop environments within GNOME. Users will choose the mode that is more appropriate for their use.
Also, stop using GTK+ or fork it to be called something else. For god's sake, the problems I have with newer GiMP and older GNOME just piss me off.
Oh you get no argument from me about Nuclear. I'm all for it. We have much better control over nuclear power management than we did so long ago. The problem is that most of the operating plants are from the 60s. They all need to be replaced... badly.
Oh I don't know... I seem to recall stories here about hobbyists trying to send themselves into space and stuff like that. Serious money being spent and all that you know?
Then that makes your argument completely non sequitur and irrelevant. To be more clear, I said "religion bad" and you countered with "anti-religion bad/worse."
Religion harms humanity. I can think of no single instance where that statement doesn't apply. Before the 1960's, Christian theism was pretty much all hellfire and damnation. People got into peace and suddenly, god became a loving god. Before that, holidays were largely just church services and they pulled in and adjusted for some really nice human holidays like Christmas (as we know it) and Easter (as we know it). Religion seeks to clothe itself in higher things and ideals, but none of them originate from the religion itself -- it is merely an adaptation or an adoption of something which already exists. This is done to the point that religious people seriously believe things like "how can you be a good person without god?!" This in turn, harms the religious person's over-all view of man by making them believe all men are evil unless they are practicing [their] religion. This, in turn, makes them easier to kill without conscience.
"Commies" or "Nazis" is not the opposite of religious theism. Just be clear on what you're trying to say because it really sounds like it. The absense of religion helps. Even in religious countries, the less they actually practice the better.
Seriously. Even Windows-only people should know this. If they aren't placing protective devices in front of their Windows boxes to control access and limit the damage of attacks, they just aren't in touch with reality.
The funny thing is that most of these security appliances are running... what?
Religion. Religious practice. Religious law. Theocracy.
If you practice it, you are being told what to think and what to believe. And if religious power is also the power of government, you've ALWAYS got a real problem on your hands *even* in cases where you are a practicing member of the established ruling religion.
On top of that, religion seeks to be the presumed origin of morality and that without religion, there would be no morality. This is demonstrably false, but as with nearly everything else associated with religion, they have no problems with spreading lies about their faith.
People don't need religion. They need to respect each other and to defend each others rights because to defend the rights of others is to defend your own. Religion plays no role in this except to encourage people to judge one another which is not quite what I would consider to be respectful in most cases.
Let's imagine for a moment that the crime (this is not a criminal case, but a civil one, but since you are talking about rape...) is theft by burglary or theft by robbery. It's say victim A has never been a victim before, but always kept his doors locked and his money and valuables concealed from view. Let's say victim B has also never been a victim before, but level locked his doors and was pretty flagrant about his valuables.
Neither victim "deserves" to be robbed or burglarized. No one is asserting that. But when one person takes more care than another to prevent a crime from happening to them, it weighs in on the whole case in terms of credibility.
Now transferring these same relative conditions to rape victims, you can begin to see why some victims might have their behavior weighed in with the evidence. And this isn't only the case in criminal cases, but also in the case of insurace. Did you know you can save money on your car insurance by having additional security and safety features on your car? There's a reason for that. It's about factoring risk in with the equation.
Where you want to claim "victim blaming" I suggest it has more with creating an objective picture.
Also, I have to object to your comparing workplace harassment with criminal rape. It's a misplaced and extreme comparison. It certainly illustrates how extreme you are willing to be when attempting to make an argument.
Oh no. The Plaintiff is making claims. The defendant needs to be able to defend themselves against accusations. If there were rights to lean in favor of one party over the other, I would hope it would favor the defense.
It is obvious in cases such as sexual harassment, the first defense is "s/he no reasonable cause to be offended over language or to feel harassed given the type of language she uses on a frequent basis." I recall one particular female who used to work where I work now... she was pretty rowdy with her language and behavior. But from time to time when it was convenient, she would begin to make noises about harassment. In her case, she had no reasonable cause to be offended given her behavior. I was glad to see her go. She really upset a lot of people.
You are making the classic assumption that because she is a 'she' that she is a victim and is completely honest about her claims.... you know, like a particular single mother with a single child collecting child support from three men in three states.
That will simply never happen. There will always be a passioned individual here or there who will create something useful or interesting.
You fail to appreciate what it means to be human. People often paint, and sing and build and create simply for the fun of it. Being creative and expressive is part of human nature. Youtube is FILLED with examples of this behavior. They don't do it in hopes of getting rich. And they aren't all any good. But some stars appear now and again don't they?
The real crime against humanity here is that people are seeking to profit from someone ELSE's passion most of the time. The real inventors are just employees most of the time and got paid exactly once for their work. The people making the money are company owners.... and the lawyers.
That's the problem with patents. It presumes that the ideas are "stolen" and not independently developed.
Why should they spend money on R&D? So they can create the product they want to sell. Other people should do the same. As far as I'm concerned, as long as it can be shown that a technology which has been patented has also been independently developed by another party, then claims of infringement should be lost. After all, if the reasoning stems from money invested in R&D, what about the R&D done by the competition? What if they actually did their own research and development? And what if they did a better job than the plaintiff?
I'm sorry, but blood, sweat, tears and resources argument doesn't move me. Lots of and lots of people work their asses off daily and only get paid for it once. If someone does all the R&D, patents and markets their thing first and they make a profit, then they achieved their goal and established a reputation. There should be NOTHING that guarantees their business model except continued hard work and effort. This notion of doing it once and getting paid forever is just broken. Worse is the notion of getting someone else to do it once and then getting paid forever. But now we're talking about patent trolls and the entertainment industry.
I can show where the opposite can be just as bad if not worse.
I work for a company where the engineers lead the company instead of sales/marketing. Long ago and for a long time, I have always felt that no one can steer a company better than the people who make it work. The company I work for has proven that notion to be untrue.... at least in this instance.
Where I work, we are beholden to the interests of customers and the requirements of government regulators. Problem is, the engineering side does not agree with the customers or the regulators. There are other issues at play as well, but that's the jist of it. My company is in the shitter right now largely because customers have lost ALL confidence and regulators don't think the company is taking them seriously.
Thanks be to you, engineering leadership. As a US American, I have always believed the customer's interests come first because that's where the money comes from and we're in business to... what? That's right! Make money! We can't pride and dignity to the bank... turns out there is no conversion rate for that.
That rather underscores my point. They don't see the [dis]connection between what they want to believe and with science.
I work at a heavy tech company with lots of engineers and math and science people available. You would think "hey, now here's a company where you wouldn't find anti-science people." But no. I've got "we're not monkeys" and "6000 year old earth"ers in our midst.
I don't get how people can literally shift their thinking about without connecting various dots along the way.
It's not that they are "anti-science." It's that they don't value things they don't understand and more importantly, aren't as interesting as other things.
In a way, these types exhibit unreal amounts of arrogance. They know that without the sciences, their comfortable lives could not be what it is today. (Though in their prayers, they thank god for things other people did... even for things they did themselves.) They know the things they don't understand have a profound impact on their current lives. It's just that they don't want to change what they are doing now and they don't want it to hurt their bottom line.
If there was a god, their asses would be salt by now.
Isn't this just another "It isn't a bug, it's a feature!"?
The litigation is going on because everything is in doubt and they are using the legal system to clarify every little detail. The patent system is being abused and the courts should be used for justice, not cleaning up the problems with the patent system.
I used to zone out for hours on games. I would enter that world and not come out until some sort of physical discomfort would result... needing to pee, eat or something. But lately? I just don't get those quality hours to myself any longer. Life is filled with "things to do" and crap like that. Worse, sometimes I look back at myself thinking "look at all the time I wasted." I don't want to think that way really. There is some value in it... somewhere... somehow. I guess my problem was that I can't really do it in moderation. So the games I play are games I can put down at a moment's notice. The pain of having to stop when I'm in the middle of an involving situation is just too much sometimes.
But I'm only one type of gamer. There are lots of others... others I can't understand. Like the cheaters. I seriously don't get that. Many of us are addicted to the accomplishments and achievements; The goal setting; The execution of a strategy; the prefection of trial and error. Then there are the troll cheaters whose only purpose is to make other people angry with their faux-god-like cheats making themselve believe that knowledge is the weapon. (Yes, in the real world, knowledge IS the weapon, but in games, it's about actually being better or at least the best you can be.) All the cheaters do is take away from others.
And then there are the kiddies who do a thing which annoys other players... camping and hoarding. Reminds me of a certain set of children... they had to have been between 10 and 14 years old. I was playing Halo2 online. It was one of those one-on-one levels where if you got the rocket launcher, you could pretty much run the game. And that's when the kiddies started arriving. It became a race to get the rocket launcher. Took the fun out of it. Finally, I just let him have it. I got the shotgun and somehow managed to hit him in the chest and point blank range 5, 6, 7 times in a row. He just quit the game. Another player... same damned thing. I countered with shotgun... another quitter. And a third. It's not quite "cheating" but it is playing in a way that sucks the fun out of it. Why do people have to do that?
But I just had to be the vigilante, fighting the injustices with counters and proving that their flawless strategies weren't quite so flawless. Reminds me of the Street Fighter 2 game days... where one person would play a favorite character and thought he could be anyone with it. What'd I do? I asked them "pick the character I will use to beat you..." And I did. Because in the end, it was their singular technique that made them weak. I simply worked out a counter to whatever strategy they wanted to apply.
Gaming is not about winning for me. It's about overcoming limitations and things that hold me back or making the most of any given scenario. Cheating is changing the scenario and a false win. It doesn't matter to me if I win each time just as long as I do better than my last try in one way or another. And I can make games last a lot longer that way.
I'm sure a ton of people will disagree with my approach(es). They are different gamers. Even a few will probably even try to justify cheats somehow calling it a service to others or some such thing. It's crap. It's trolling and seeks to get one's jollies by causing someone to rage. I pity those people. They have no idea of the harm they are causing to their character... their personal character... that is who they are as people. There are simply too many of those people... the people who bought up the Nexus 4 phones only for the purpose of dumping them on eBay for twice the price. They don't enjoy the gaming... they are just gaming the system... taking without giving anything back. "Flippers." I have no use for those dirt bags. A net loss on society as their gains don't even come close to the harm they cause like artificially raising values and creating scarcity where it shouldn't exist.
I guess I'm just about done rambling... it's time for bed. I'm tired.
Wow! That one has escaped me all this time. I have confirmed the bug is there, big as day. I can safely say I have never had something quite like that on my android devices until this one.
That said? It's a Google Nexus 7. It *will* get fixed and updated and soon. Carrier supported phones and tablets? Not so much.
The only time I have had "issues" with my android devices is when I had the Amazon App store loaded on my phone(s). I am pretty selective about the software I install on my phones/tablets as I know what role apps can play in the stability of the environment. All was great at the beginning but a few updates down the road and the next thing I knew problems were happening. Apps force-closing and reboots. I went about removing different things then putting them back when no difference occurred. Finally, I got to the innocent Amazon App store and things got notably better... and worse.
Turns out, that when I removed the Amazon App store, none of my apps would work! At least not the apps which I had acquired through them. Then I was like "ah ha!" Amazon was doing something not just to my phone, but also to the apps on my phone. Factory reset and reinstall of my apps (not through Amazon) and things were better after that. My wife's got that phone now. Stable as stable can be... also, it runs a Team Whiskey ROM on it. (Did I mention I don't like to run stock carrier ROMs? It's not like you can trust them.)
My current phone is better still but I'm waiting for the next round of Nexus 4 phones. Funny. So many people couldn't get their phone and at the same time, eBay is flooded with that phone priced around $600 or more. Oh how I'd love to visit those jerks. These are the same people go go around flipping houses. I recall in the early days of the housing bubble burst. I was in Texas where the housing economy was largely not affected and the news was starving for some local tragedy stories. They finally found one... this guy was almost in tears... he was a house flipper and could flip his houses and was stuck with them. Dumbass. I hope he burns in hell.
Oh believe me. I have been up and down on the issue. I did get it compiled and running, but it lacked desktop integration which included when I wanted to enter in Japanese characters and themes. The colors for menus in the application were unreadable and ugly. If that was my only problem, it wouldn't be so bad, but anything the desktop environment offered was also broken including GVFS, language support and a few other things I can't think of right now.
No one has accomplished what I am trying to do without replacing the whole GNOME setup. There is one Linux distro which based itself off of Fedora 14 which can run GIMP 2.8.x. They did what I probably need to do with this CentOS. I am just hoping that some sort of update to RHEL pushes them to advance their GTK+ version... it comes to CentOS and suddenly the problem is patched... until the next time.
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So you know. I use Google exclusively for my searches and I use Android for my phones and tablets. It might appear I'm just a big fat Google fanboy. I'm not. I know Google for what it is and I trust it only to that extent.
It disturbs me that Google would seek to interfere with other businesses. Privacy is a concern for many people and while I don't live in privacy paranoia land, I want to keep the border open so I can visit from time to time.
Looks like they didn't pay off the RIGHT officials in the US...
Well, the way the article says it, it rather gives in to the notion that the mutation isn't accidental and was both rather recent and abrupt.
I have already read some theories into the idea that humans are genetically modified apes. That the mysteries of how the ancient Babylonian culture and languages seemed to appear from nothing into a fully complex form has left many very confused about how it all came about. That we are all the product of a "Stargate" style alien race who needed slave laborers doesn't seem as outlandish to me as "the earth was created in seven days." More interestingly, though, it actually connects in some ways to the god myth... you know, like "created in his own image" and all that?
I wonder. If it was proven, beyond any reasonable doubt that we were created by genetic manipulation by a superior race, (created, not simply evolved) it would in a way prove the theists right. What I wonder is whether or not these theists would consider these superior beings to be gods or just advanced intelligence?
I would say this is an accurate assessment. Their response should be to attempt to merge MATE in with the over-all GNOME project.
Damned ribbon... It's not a ribbon. It's a tabbed toolbar interface.
The industry has "matured." "New isn't better" any longer. Now we just want to use what we have, not "experience" it.
Not good enough.
The fallback mode wasn't configurable enough.
They should just capitulate on this and bring in the people from the Mate project and let users have a complete choice. Go ahead and update Mate to the GNOME3 libraries and let there be two desktop environments within GNOME. Users will choose the mode that is more appropriate for their use.
Also, stop using GTK+ or fork it to be called something else. For god's sake, the problems I have with newer GiMP and older GNOME just piss me off.
Oh you get no argument from me about Nuclear. I'm all for it. We have much better control over nuclear power management than we did so long ago. The problem is that most of the operating plants are from the 60s. They all need to be replaced... badly.
Nuclear is the only viable clean energy.
Oh I don't know... I seem to recall stories here about hobbyists trying to send themselves into space and stuff like that. Serious money being spent and all that you know?
Then that makes your argument completely non sequitur and irrelevant. To be more clear, I said "religion bad" and you countered with "anti-religion bad/worse."
Religion harms humanity. I can think of no single instance where that statement doesn't apply. Before the 1960's, Christian theism was pretty much all hellfire and damnation. People got into peace and suddenly, god became a loving god. Before that, holidays were largely just church services and they pulled in and adjusted for some really nice human holidays like Christmas (as we know it) and Easter (as we know it). Religion seeks to clothe itself in higher things and ideals, but none of them originate from the religion itself -- it is merely an adaptation or an adoption of something which already exists. This is done to the point that religious people seriously believe things like "how can you be a good person without god?!" This in turn, harms the religious person's over-all view of man by making them believe all men are evil unless they are practicing [their] religion. This, in turn, makes them easier to kill without conscience.
"Commies" or "Nazis" is not the opposite of religious theism. Just be clear on what you're trying to say because it really sounds like it. The absense of religion helps. Even in religious countries, the less they actually practice the better.
Seriously. Even Windows-only people should know this. If they aren't placing protective devices in front of their Windows boxes to control access and limit the damage of attacks, they just aren't in touch with reality.
The funny thing is that most of these security appliances are running... what?
Religion. Religious practice. Religious law. Theocracy.
If you practice it, you are being told what to think and what to believe. And if religious power is also the power of government, you've ALWAYS got a real problem on your hands *even* in cases where you are a practicing member of the established ruling religion.
On top of that, religion seeks to be the presumed origin of morality and that without religion, there would be no morality. This is demonstrably false, but as with nearly everything else associated with religion, they have no problems with spreading lies about their faith.
People don't need religion. They need to respect each other and to defend each others rights because to defend the rights of others is to defend your own. Religion plays no role in this except to encourage people to judge one another which is not quite what I would consider to be respectful in most cases.
Let's imagine for a moment that the crime (this is not a criminal case, but a civil one, but since you are talking about rape...) is theft by burglary or theft by robbery. It's say victim A has never been a victim before, but always kept his doors locked and his money and valuables concealed from view. Let's say victim B has also never been a victim before, but level locked his doors and was pretty flagrant about his valuables.
Neither victim "deserves" to be robbed or burglarized. No one is asserting that. But when one person takes more care than another to prevent a crime from happening to them, it weighs in on the whole case in terms of credibility.
Now transferring these same relative conditions to rape victims, you can begin to see why some victims might have their behavior weighed in with the evidence. And this isn't only the case in criminal cases, but also in the case of insurace. Did you know you can save money on your car insurance by having additional security and safety features on your car? There's a reason for that. It's about factoring risk in with the equation.
Where you want to claim "victim blaming" I suggest it has more with creating an objective picture.
Also, I have to object to your comparing workplace harassment with criminal rape. It's a misplaced and extreme comparison. It certainly illustrates how extreme you are willing to be when attempting to make an argument.
Oh no. The Plaintiff is making claims. The defendant needs to be able to defend themselves against accusations. If there were rights to lean in favor of one party over the other, I would hope it would favor the defense.
It is obvious in cases such as sexual harassment, the first defense is "s/he no reasonable cause to be offended over language or to feel harassed given the type of language she uses on a frequent basis." I recall one particular female who used to work where I work now... she was pretty rowdy with her language and behavior. But from time to time when it was convenient, she would begin to make noises about harassment. In her case, she had no reasonable cause to be offended given her behavior. I was glad to see her go. She really upset a lot of people.
You are making the classic assumption that because she is a 'she' that she is a victim and is completely honest about her claims.... you know, like a particular single mother with a single child collecting child support from three men in three states.
That will simply never happen. There will always be a passioned individual here or there who will create something useful or interesting.
You fail to appreciate what it means to be human. People often paint, and sing and build and create simply for the fun of it. Being creative and expressive is part of human nature. Youtube is FILLED with examples of this behavior. They don't do it in hopes of getting rich. And they aren't all any good. But some stars appear now and again don't they?
The real crime against humanity here is that people are seeking to profit from someone ELSE's passion most of the time. The real inventors are just employees most of the time and got paid exactly once for their work. The people making the money are company owners.... and the lawyers.
That's the problem with patents. It presumes that the ideas are "stolen" and not independently developed.
Why should they spend money on R&D? So they can create the product they want to sell. Other people should do the same. As far as I'm concerned, as long as it can be shown that a technology which has been patented has also been independently developed by another party, then claims of infringement should be lost. After all, if the reasoning stems from money invested in R&D, what about the R&D done by the competition? What if they actually did their own research and development? And what if they did a better job than the plaintiff?
I'm sorry, but blood, sweat, tears and resources argument doesn't move me. Lots of and lots of people work their asses off daily and only get paid for it once. If someone does all the R&D, patents and markets their thing first and they make a profit, then they achieved their goal and established a reputation. There should be NOTHING that guarantees their business model except continued hard work and effort. This notion of doing it once and getting paid forever is just broken. Worse is the notion of getting someone else to do it once and then getting paid forever. But now we're talking about patent trolls and the entertainment industry.
I can show where the opposite can be just as bad if not worse.
I work for a company where the engineers lead the company instead of sales/marketing. Long ago and for a long time, I have always felt that no one can steer a company better than the people who make it work. The company I work for has proven that notion to be untrue.... at least in this instance.
Where I work, we are beholden to the interests of customers and the requirements of government regulators. Problem is, the engineering side does not agree with the customers or the regulators. There are other issues at play as well, but that's the jist of it. My company is in the shitter right now largely because customers have lost ALL confidence and regulators don't think the company is taking them seriously.
Thanks be to you, engineering leadership. As a US American, I have always believed the customer's interests come first because that's where the money comes from and we're in business to ... what? That's right! Make money! We can't pride and dignity to the bank... turns out there is no conversion rate for that.
That rather underscores my point. They don't see the [dis]connection between what they want to believe and with science.
I work at a heavy tech company with lots of engineers and math and science people available. You would think "hey, now here's a company where you wouldn't find anti-science people." But no. I've got "we're not monkeys" and "6000 year old earth"ers in our midst.
I don't get how people can literally shift their thinking about without connecting various dots along the way.
It's not that they are "anti-science." It's that they don't value things they don't understand and more importantly, aren't as interesting as other things.
In a way, these types exhibit unreal amounts of arrogance. They know that without the sciences, their comfortable lives could not be what it is today. (Though in their prayers, they thank god for things other people did... even for things they did themselves.) They know the things they don't understand have a profound impact on their current lives. It's just that they don't want to change what they are doing now and they don't want it to hurt their bottom line.
If there was a god, their asses would be salt by now.
Isn't this just another "It isn't a bug, it's a feature!"?
The litigation is going on because everything is in doubt and they are using the legal system to clarify every little detail. The patent system is being abused and the courts should be used for justice, not cleaning up the problems with the patent system.
I used to zone out for hours on games. I would enter that world and not come out until some sort of physical discomfort would result... needing to pee, eat or something. But lately? I just don't get those quality hours to myself any longer. Life is filled with "things to do" and crap like that. Worse, sometimes I look back at myself thinking "look at all the time I wasted." I don't want to think that way really. There is some value in it... somewhere... somehow. I guess my problem was that I can't really do it in moderation. So the games I play are games I can put down at a moment's notice. The pain of having to stop when I'm in the middle of an involving situation is just too much sometimes.
But I'm only one type of gamer. There are lots of others... others I can't understand. Like the cheaters. I seriously don't get that. Many of us are addicted to the accomplishments and achievements; The goal setting; The execution of a strategy; the prefection of trial and error. Then there are the troll cheaters whose only purpose is to make other people angry with their faux-god-like cheats making themselve believe that knowledge is the weapon. (Yes, in the real world, knowledge IS the weapon, but in games, it's about actually being better or at least the best you can be.) All the cheaters do is take away from others.
And then there are the kiddies who do a thing which annoys other players... camping and hoarding. Reminds me of a certain set of children... they had to have been between 10 and 14 years old. I was playing Halo2 online. It was one of those one-on-one levels where if you got the rocket launcher, you could pretty much run the game. And that's when the kiddies started arriving. It became a race to get the rocket launcher. Took the fun out of it. Finally, I just let him have it. I got the shotgun and somehow managed to hit him in the chest and point blank range 5, 6, 7 times in a row. He just quit the game. Another player... same damned thing. I countered with shotgun... another quitter. And a third. It's not quite "cheating" but it is playing in a way that sucks the fun out of it. Why do people have to do that?
But I just had to be the vigilante, fighting the injustices with counters and proving that their flawless strategies weren't quite so flawless. Reminds me of the Street Fighter 2 game days... where one person would play a favorite character and thought he could be anyone with it. What'd I do? I asked them "pick the character I will use to beat you..." And I did. Because in the end, it was their singular technique that made them weak. I simply worked out a counter to whatever strategy they wanted to apply.
Gaming is not about winning for me. It's about overcoming limitations and things that hold me back or making the most of any given scenario. Cheating is changing the scenario and a false win. It doesn't matter to me if I win each time just as long as I do better than my last try in one way or another. And I can make games last a lot longer that way.
I'm sure a ton of people will disagree with my approach(es). They are different gamers. Even a few will probably even try to justify cheats somehow calling it a service to others or some such thing. It's crap. It's trolling and seeks to get one's jollies by causing someone to rage. I pity those people. They have no idea of the harm they are causing to their character... their personal character... that is who they are as people. There are simply too many of those people... the people who bought up the Nexus 4 phones only for the purpose of dumping them on eBay for twice the price. They don't enjoy the gaming... they are just gaming the system... taking without giving anything back. "Flippers." I have no use for those dirt bags. A net loss on society as their gains don't even come close to the harm they cause like artificially raising values and creating scarcity where it shouldn't exist.
I guess I'm just about done rambling... it's time for bed. I'm tired.
I miss gaming.
Wow! That one has escaped me all this time. I have confirmed the bug is there, big as day. I can safely say I have never had something quite like that on my android devices until this one.
That said? It's a Google Nexus 7. It *will* get fixed and updated and soon. Carrier supported phones and tablets? Not so much.
The only time I have had "issues" with my android devices is when I had the Amazon App store loaded on my phone(s). I am pretty selective about the software I install on my phones/tablets as I know what role apps can play in the stability of the environment. All was great at the beginning but a few updates down the road and the next thing I knew problems were happening. Apps force-closing and reboots. I went about removing different things then putting them back when no difference occurred. Finally, I got to the innocent Amazon App store and things got notably better... and worse.
Turns out, that when I removed the Amazon App store, none of my apps would work! At least not the apps which I had acquired through them. Then I was like "ah ha!" Amazon was doing something not just to my phone, but also to the apps on my phone. Factory reset and reinstall of my apps (not through Amazon) and things were better after that. My wife's got that phone now. Stable as stable can be... also, it runs a Team Whiskey ROM on it. (Did I mention I don't like to run stock carrier ROMs? It's not like you can trust them.)
My current phone is better still but I'm waiting for the next round of Nexus 4 phones. Funny. So many people couldn't get their phone and at the same time, eBay is flooded with that phone priced around $600 or more. Oh how I'd love to visit those jerks. These are the same people go go around flipping houses. I recall in the early days of the housing bubble burst. I was in Texas where the housing economy was largely not affected and the news was starving for some local tragedy stories. They finally found one... this guy was almost in tears... he was a house flipper and could flip his houses and was stuck with them. Dumbass. I hope he burns in hell.
Oh believe me. I have been up and down on the issue. I did get it compiled and running, but it lacked desktop integration which included when I wanted to enter in Japanese characters and themes. The colors for menus in the application were unreadable and ugly. If that was my only problem, it wouldn't be so bad, but anything the desktop environment offered was also broken including GVFS, language support and a few other things I can't think of right now.
No one has accomplished what I am trying to do without replacing the whole GNOME setup. There is one Linux distro which based itself off of Fedora 14 which can run GIMP 2.8.x. They did what I probably need to do with this CentOS. I am just hoping that some sort of update to RHEL pushes them to advance their GTK+ version... it comes to CentOS and suddenly the problem is patched... until the next time.