Are you kidding me? I want to throw mine across the room whenever I try to type text into it. Why the fuck are you using it as a terminal when perfectly usable computers with keyboards are available?
A basic understanding of mathematical proof and logic does more for critical thinking skills than the entire student career of humanities courses.
What the humanities actually teaches is empathy. But very few of its practitioners actually make the distinction between understanding someone's point of view and knowing whether that view is demonstrably right or wrong.
The resources of this planet are the birthright of every human being. The only reason you own anything is because other people consent to it.
The first starships will consume a significant fraction of the economically accessible resources of the entire *solar system*. This is the most absurd context imaginable for you to apply your libertarian delusions.
I don't think you understand that Android isn't licensed, that Google's actual customers are advertisers, and that Android exists mainly to prevent Apple from establishing a monopoly between advertisers and our eyeballs.
And don't hate on the manufacturers too much, either. They want to sell phones, and they would gladly sell open phones if there was a viable market for it. But the carriers call the shots, and hardly anyone wants an unlocked phone that is still locked-in to the proprietary protocols of one carrier.
> why would the Chinese government care so much about Liu XiaoBao
They don't. They care that a dissident was given the Peace Prize. It doesn't actually matter which Chinese dissident was selected, they'd still be just as pissed.
> The actual geniuses themselves don't matter, since they would be replaced by another if they weren't around
It is funny how ideological capitalists are all over that sentiment when it applies to labor, but conspicuously ignore it when it comes to executive compensation, or patents, or selling commodities under a brand name.
If I wanted an iPhone, I would have gotten one. Oh, wait, I did, because I write software for them.
But I use an Android phone as my personal device because it does more. And considering how popular Android devices have become, even among those who are not tech-savvy, means that the platform is going to be around for a long time.
And when that isn't enough, there are these helpful guidelines for rejection:
Does it do something similar to an Apple application but better? Will it invite attention from whiny outraged political groups, such as the American Family Association or RIAA? Will it divert revenue that might have otherwise had gone to Apple or AT&T or other carriers? Does it contradict an established Apple ideology, publicly stated or inferred?
Cryptome was cool before Wikileaks made it mainstream. And John Young is the original gangsta, so you know he got backups. Bitches don't know about all the backups he has.
Ah, arrogance, always the first accusation leveled against scientific incredulity by the crackpot or woo-addled moron.
Don't worry, I'm sure if you wish hard enough you conjure an FTL reactionless drive that contradicts both Newton and Einstein. And we'll see who's laughing then!
I've read a Brief History of Time, watched the COSMOS series, and thought for hours on end about the vastness of space and the insane complexity of interstellar travel, so I know enough to at least be part of the conversation.
Yes, but have you watched the History Channel's The Universe series, and the BBC documentaries by Brian Cox? We need to make sure your education has enough loud explosions and dippy old hipsters to participate in this conversation.
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Who the fuck do you think you are, telling companies how to run their business? You'll get a contract and an oligopoly and you'll like it!
Done.
Give Homeworld the modern graphics it deserves.
Are you kidding me? I want to throw mine across the room whenever I try to type text into it. Why the fuck are you using it as a terminal when perfectly usable computers with keyboards are available?
I know, I was trolling. It is fucking pathetic I was modded up for it.
He fronted the money, he assumed the risk. The engineers are merely the tools to execute his vision.
Hmm... something is missing.
Sorry, I'm not usually this kind of dick, but bragging about how "hard" an ivy league school is is inviting it.
A basic understanding of mathematical proof and logic does more for critical thinking skills than the entire student career of humanities courses.
What the humanities actually teaches is empathy. But very few of its practitioners actually make the distinction between understanding someone's point of view and knowing whether that view is demonstrably right or wrong.
The resources of this planet are the birthright of every human being. The only reason you own anything is because other people consent to it.
The first starships will consume a significant fraction of the economically accessible resources of the entire *solar system*. This is the most absurd context imaginable for you to apply your libertarian delusions.
Cut funding to NASA, allow private space companies to use the R&D, blueprints and the like and watch us achieve heights that NASA never dreamed of.
"Us"? For some reason I doubt you are participating in space development in any capacity.
Yes, if only we had a moronically simplistic test with a two-dimensional axis that was rigged to tell everybody that they're actually Libertarian...
If it's notable enough that someone would search for it on Wikipedia, it's notable enough to have an entry in Wikipedia
No, it isn't. Wikipedia is not for documenting every piece of stupid trivia that exists.
Just because someone says it isn't a netbook doesn't make it true.
I don't think you understand that Android isn't licensed, that Google's actual customers are advertisers, and that Android exists mainly to prevent Apple from establishing a monopoly between advertisers and our eyeballs.
And don't hate on the manufacturers too much, either. They want to sell phones, and they would gladly sell open phones if there was a viable market for it. But the carriers call the shots, and hardly anyone wants an unlocked phone that is still locked-in to the proprietary protocols of one carrier.
bloated and underwhelming
Is he talking about iTunes?
Not really, because far better men than him have made that argument, and it was no less laughable.
This one produced a win for privacy rights and the rights of children.
But hey, you can't get your knee jerkin' with that kind of rhetoric.
> why would the Chinese government care so much about Liu XiaoBao
They don't. They care that a dissident was given the Peace Prize. It doesn't actually matter which Chinese dissident was selected, they'd still be just as pissed.
> The actual geniuses themselves don't matter, since they would be replaced by another if they weren't around
It is funny how ideological capitalists are all over that sentiment when it applies to labor, but conspicuously ignore it when it comes to executive compensation, or patents, or selling commodities under a brand name.
Only thing meaningless here is the statement I'm quoting.
If I wanted an iPhone, I would have gotten one. Oh, wait, I did, because I write software for them.
But I use an Android phone as my personal device because it does more. And considering how popular Android devices have become, even among those who are not tech-savvy, means that the platform is going to be around for a long time.
And when that isn't enough, there are these helpful guidelines for rejection:
Does it do something similar to an Apple application but better?
Will it invite attention from whiny outraged political groups, such as the American Family Association or RIAA?
Will it divert revenue that might have otherwise had gone to Apple or AT&T or other carriers?
Does it contradict an established Apple ideology, publicly stated or inferred?
Cryptome was cool before Wikileaks made it mainstream. And John Young is the original gangsta, so you know he got backups. Bitches don't know about all the backups he has.
Ah, arrogance, always the first accusation leveled against scientific incredulity by the crackpot or woo-addled moron.
Don't worry, I'm sure if you wish hard enough you conjure an FTL reactionless drive that contradicts both Newton and Einstein. And we'll see who's laughing then!
Yes, but have you watched the History Channel's The Universe series, and the BBC documentaries by Brian Cox? We need to make sure your education has enough loud explosions and dippy old hipsters to participate in this conversation.