Leave the talk about logic to those with an actual education.
Since I figure this Karmashock fellow probably won't stand down, allow me to express in his or her stead regret for his or her malappropriation of my subject area. Douches come in all flavours, apparently.
I use two hands anyway so why not make a true two handed device?
Personally, my objections have more to do with pocket space. How are you supposed to fit that thing in your pocket? Then, again, it might not be aimed toward the type of customer who carries her phone in her pocket.
Yup, this sounds a bit like Y2K in retrospective. Was money wasted on it because it turned out to be a non-event, or was it a non-event because so much was spent on it?
Money was wasted on it because many parties insisted on waiting until the very last minute to do anything about it.
Wouldn't that make it that much harder to track down the source in the event of an outbreak? If, say, a janitor or janitrix at Acme Carwash and Research Centre is among the first people to succumb to the disease, that would be a fairly obvious clue. If he or she is inoculated, however, and merely acts as a spore carrier and infects a random stranger on the bus, the source will be that much harder to track.
(...) leaving a pitiful remnant of shell-shocked survivors to envy the dead and wonder why their gods had forsaken them amidst the ruins of their culture (...)
If this doesn't count as exterminating a civilisation, I'm not sure what would.
Not intended as a jibe at the contributor of this article, of course, but rather a jibe at the world at large. When camera phones became common enough to get thrown away, I remember doing the exact same thing with dumpster-dived mobile phones. (I was a teenager at the time, with a customary deficiency of both moral scruples and better things to do.) Surely, anyone who has ever salvaged or otherwise second-handed any form of storage device already knows that people are notoriously bad at wiping. Now and again this resurfaces in the public eye in the form of a news article or similar. Despite this, it continues to be a problem. Why? Why aren't people learning? Why does this news topic refuse to age?
Is it, though? The formative years are critical for developing the relevant traits, and you can hardly expect children to figure this out on their own, even though perhaps you—and, for that matter, I—just happened to unlock the programmer storyline during the great Brownian motion that constitutes the formative years of most children. We really ought to make programming a mainstream subject, preferably from as young an age as possible.
Women have their talents but this isn't one of them.
That's odd. Last time I checked, the gender ratio in the fields of visual art—yes, even the ones working in three dimensions—was skewed womenward. Doesn't this contradict your admittedly sketchy statement?
There couldn't possibly exist a rational train of thought parsing "I've only once met a person with these two traits you happen to claim to share" as "I deny your existence".
Frankly I don't know why FOSS users would bitch about this since they are basically copying your "odd/even" or "LTS/regular" release concepts.
I'm sorry, what? My systems use rolling-release. Putting two equals signs between FOSS and Ubuntu is as silly as putting two equals signs between PC and Windows.
Or better yet: nVidia could actually make their driver open source. That way, we'll have all the bells and whistles, and when a security flaw gets known the community can patch it without nVidia's involvement.
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It's not Windows hatred per se, although that certainly is a healthy attitude. It's just that everytime a Microsoft-related article pops up, a brand new user starts blindly praising whatever Microsoft's been doing this time around. It's getting old, Microsoft.
We don't actually distribute them willy nilly either, but we are allowed to buy them if we are good boys and girls.
And how do you define "good boys and girls"? Do you have to attend a mandatory course on gun safety and stress management? Do you have to pass a test to prove yourself capable of using a gun under considerable stress without incident? No, you only have to be an adult, without a record, and patient enough to wait, what, two weeks or something? This still counts as willy-nilly.
If one had to prove oneself not to be a total boob around guns before being allowed to have one, I would soften a bit on the matter. But the current regulations are ridiculous.
On the top of the e-mail list I have the refresh button, the More menu, the cogwheel menu, and two arrow buttons. No ads in sight. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't complain too loudly, eh?
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Several cultures traditionally see a rabbit.
AI can also produce a picture of a generic rabbit, or cat as the case may be.
I can see a market for this. Imagine a corporate firewall with the on-the-fly ability to filter out funny cat pictures and video.
Somehow I imagine remembering doing stuff in a body different to your own will render most practical skills unusable when transferred.
Right now the rich aren't any smarter than the rest of us, what if they were!?
If they aren't, how come they're rich?
How do you fit it into your front pocket?
I suspect you don't. The size is about right for a handbag or a coat pocket, though. Not all people actually use their trouser pockets for anything.
Leave the talk about logic to those with an actual education.
Since I figure this Karmashock fellow probably won't stand down, allow me to express in his or her stead regret for his or her malappropriation of my subject area. Douches come in all flavours, apparently.
That makes Android java apps non native on their own platform.
Well, yes.
I use two hands anyway so why not make a true two handed device?
Personally, my objections have more to do with pocket space. How are you supposed to fit that thing in your pocket? Then, again, it might not be aimed toward the type of customer who carries her phone in her pocket.
Fuck me, I worked in that office for most of last year.
I'd really rather not, lest I catch something off you.
Yup, this sounds a bit like Y2K in retrospective. Was money wasted on it because it turned out to be a non-event, or was it a non-event because so much was spent on it?
Money was wasted on it because many parties insisted on waiting until the very last minute to do anything about it.
Wouldn't that make it that much harder to track down the source in the event of an outbreak? If, say, a janitor or janitrix at Acme Carwash and Research Centre is among the first people to succumb to the disease, that would be a fairly obvious clue. If he or she is inoculated, however, and merely acts as a spore carrier and infects a random stranger on the bus, the source will be that much harder to track.
Call for help? Just run, and try not to breathe. Or touch the air.
(...) leaving a pitiful remnant of shell-shocked survivors to envy the dead and wonder why their gods had forsaken them amidst the ruins of their culture (...)
If this doesn't count as exterminating a civilisation, I'm not sure what would.
Not intended as a jibe at the contributor of this article, of course, but rather a jibe at the world at large. When camera phones became common enough to get thrown away, I remember doing the exact same thing with dumpster-dived mobile phones. (I was a teenager at the time, with a customary deficiency of both moral scruples and better things to do.) Surely, anyone who has ever salvaged or otherwise second-handed any form of storage device already knows that people are notoriously bad at wiping. Now and again this resurfaces in the public eye in the form of a news article or similar. Despite this, it continues to be a problem. Why? Why aren't people learning? Why does this news topic refuse to age?
I. e., no.
Is it, though? The formative years are critical for developing the relevant traits, and you can hardly expect children to figure this out on their own, even though perhaps you—and, for that matter, I—just happened to unlock the programmer storyline during the great Brownian motion that constitutes the formative years of most children. We really ought to make programming a mainstream subject, preferably from as young an age as possible.
"Perform open heart surgery in front of a judge while vigorously arguing a case on behalf of the guy who is having his heart operated on."
A Phoenix Wright/Trauma Centre crossover would make for an awesome DS game, though.
Women have their talents but this isn't one of them.
That's odd. Last time I checked, the gender ratio in the fields of visual art—yes, even the ones working in three dimensions—was skewed womenward. Doesn't this contradict your admittedly sketchy statement?
There couldn't possibly exist a rational train of thought parsing "I've only once met a person with these two traits you happen to claim to share" as "I deny your existence".
No one's being pedantic. Being pedantic would mean pointing out how you just used the word "inferred" when you meant "implied".
Frankly I don't know why FOSS users would bitch about this since they are basically copying your "odd/even" or "LTS/regular" release concepts.
I'm sorry, what? My systems use rolling-release. Putting two equals signs between FOSS and Ubuntu is as silly as putting two equals signs between PC and Windows.
Or better yet: nVidia could actually make their driver open source. That way, we'll have all the bells and whistles, and when a security flaw gets known the community can patch it without nVidia's involvement.
It's not Windows hatred per se, although that certainly is a healthy attitude. It's just that everytime a Microsoft-related article pops up, a brand new user starts blindly praising whatever Microsoft's been doing this time around. It's getting old, Microsoft.
We don't actually distribute them willy nilly either, but we are allowed to buy them if we are good boys and girls.
And how do you define "good boys and girls"? Do you have to attend a mandatory course on gun safety and stress management? Do you have to pass a test to prove yourself capable of using a gun under considerable stress without incident? No, you only have to be an adult, without a record, and patient enough to wait, what, two weeks or something? This still counts as willy-nilly.
If one had to prove oneself not to be a total boob around guns before being allowed to have one, I would soften a bit on the matter. But the current regulations are ridiculous.
On the top of the e-mail list I have the refresh button, the More menu, the cogwheel menu, and two arrow buttons. No ads in sight. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't complain too loudly, eh?