what's the harm in being stuck in a situation that could be too much to handle?
For my wife who went off to college at age 16, the harm was massive bleeding ulcers in her stomach, brought on by stress, which resulted in a nice hospital stay.
Not too long ago, 14 was a marrying age, and I don't recall anyone of that time period thinking that this was odd or 'too much for them to handle'.
Many of those 14 years old ended up dead before their 20th birthday due to complications from having children too early. Two of my wife's relatives (1st generation Italian-Americans in arranged marriages) are examples. In their wedding photos, they did not look like adults. They looked like middle-schoolers dressed up to look like adults.
like "Let my system be rooted trivially rather than implement security that might be 'annoying', and call that 'having imagination.'"
Ubuntu's ultra insecure SUDO implementation which allows any process launch under the default users account to gain root privileges with impunity says you're wrong.
If that were true the same type of problems would exist with desktop *nix too, because the "I just want the fuckin' thing to work" attitude pervades the user base and drives the development of every major desktop platform.
You cannot run a normal file without specifically setting the executable bit. It is a "security feature".
On a desktop system, it's a annoyance. So much that modern DE's like KDE has numerous methods to get around it. It might be considered a "security feature" by people with no imagination.
Leaving aside your ridiculous invocation of a ten year old worm for IIS, you do realize since the release of IIS6 in 2003, IIS6 and IIS7 have had FAR FEWER vulnerabilities discovered than any version of Apache, right?
The rest of your rant is evidence you don't seem to have a very good grasp of how Windows works.
2.8trillion total? it doesn't look too impressive.
It's impressive if you look at it as a percentage of GDP at the time. Reagan and H.W. Bush more than doubled our debt as a percentage of GDP in 12 years. Together, they made W. Bush look like a deficit hawk. The debt as a percentage of GDP went down under Carter and Clinton.
That 200,000 dollar projection is most like based on nothing changing (e.g. irresponsible spending patterns of the past Republican administrations continuing and tax revenue not incresing) in the next ten years.
If someone like Palin becomes president, I would start to worry about future debt.
Of course all HTC phones come with a bootloader that only allows ROMS signed by the carrier too, but that doesn't stop people from xda-developers from cracking them within weeks of the phones' release.
I would bet that someone ends up cracking the milestone bootloader soon.
All phones are like that. You have to have a hacked bootloader (or have your phone "rooted") to flash custom ROMS. I believe your particular phone has been "rooted" and custom ROMS will be or already are available for it. Here is a forum where you might be able to find some info.
I had major problems with WinMo 6.0, but 6.1 and 6.5 have been very stable for me. As for Android, you may have seen them in Action but have you actually used one? My wife has a Motorola Cliq and it's been extremely unstable - requiring her to take the battery out multiple times per day. According to user forums, her issues are not unique. Maybe it's not an Android problem and the fault of Motorola.
If were to rate all of the smartphone OSs I've used by stabilty I would rate them as follows:
1) Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 (HTC Herald/HTC Rhodium) 2) Blackberry OS (Pearl).. .. .. .. .. 3) Google Android, "Cupcake" (Motorola Cliq) 4) Windows Mobile 6.0 (HTC Herald - same phone as above)
Those people are just waiting to be screwed, as MS always does to its partners whenever it suits it.
Who are "those people"? The people at xda-devs and alike? That site started in 2003. They've been waiting a long time to get screwed. Do you have any insight on when the screwing might happen?
Let's try this again. What came out first, the HTC Hero or the HTC HD2?
Which came out first is irrelevant. The UI on HTC's Android phones is called HTC Sense, and it is not part of the Android OS.It's written by HTC and is based on TouchFlO, the UI that has existed on HTC's Windows mobile phones for years now. The Hero and HD2 have the same version of HTC Sense and it just happened that HTC released the hero before the HD2. Here, educate yourself.
Maybe you should think again, since you don't understand anything
You haven't pointed out anything I don't understand. I know full well that xda-devs is about HTC devices. Until HTC released it's first Android device it was 100% about Windows Mobile. I never said the sites I linked to were 100% dedicated to Windows Mobile, nor do I care if they are.
Thanks for reminding me that apparently you love windows mobile. That's about the most embarrassing piece of software I've ever heard anyone being associated with.
Your hatred of Microsoft is amusing. While morons like you mentally masturbate over the supposed demise of companies for no logical reason, people like me use products that work for us. I actually like the Android OS. It's a bit unstable on my wife's Cliq, but I'm sure those bugs will be worked out by Google and they'll catch up to other mobile platforms. My next phone decision will be between Windows Mobile (or "Windows Phone" or whatever they'll be calling it by then) and Android.
I don't have a study to link you to, but just thought it was fairly common knowledge. Being a follower of college football and particularly, Fresno State I've read interviews with Fresno State coach Pat Hill where he explained that when evaluating recruits he would look at the mother's frame size to evaluate the recruits potential for putting on weight. Being a lower teir school, Fresno State is forced to settle for the recruits that bigger schools like USC, UCLA and Berkeley don't pursue, so Fresno is forced to recruit "potential" and develop it.
Maybe Pat Hill is just practicing voodoo and I am mistaken?
actually, nobody even cares about microsoft phones.
Really? Don't tell the 2.1 million users are xda-developers.com or the users at other large community sites like PPCGeeks, ROMeOS, Modaco, PocketPCFAQ, pdastreet, intomobile, hpc, PocketPCAddict, PocketPCBlast, brighthand, etc....
The best they have done is trying to make a phone look exactly like an android phone which shows how crappy winmo is.
LOL!
The UI (Manila/TouchFlo/Sense) on the HD2 that you linked to has been running on Windows Mobile phones by HTC for years now - LONG before Android even existed. HTC actually made their Android phones to look like their Windows Mobile phones.
I guess I should have realized in your terms, 1965 came before the 1960's.
You win. My point was completely invalidated by not being specific enough.
Funny enough, George Bush extended the Voting Rights Act by another 25 years in 2006.
No. Congress extended it and Bush signed it into law. While we're on the subject, the only members of congress that has the gaul to oppose it's renewal were Republicans...from the south of course.
Ronald Regan was the one who made Martin Luther King Day a holiday.
He also exploited racial fears of southern democrats to get elected. He also vetoed sanctions on apartheid South Africa, which, thankfully congress overrode. I don't think Ronnie was at his heart a racist, but like many Republican politicians since the 1960's (oops I did it again!) he didn't hesitate to exploit people's racial fears to gain votes.
What legislation are you referring to that shows the racism of the republican party?
Since "racist" legislation (however you want to define that) from the post civil rights era would be politically impossible to pass, you set up a criteria (and probably the only criteria) in which Republican can not lose. Nice try.
Not that this is a conversation that can be discussed logically since you discount history after some arbitrary date and consider any southern democrat that is a racist to really be a republican.
My original point was that racism is a conservative trait, not a Democrat or Republican trait. It you are the one that is stuck on the Democrat/Republican thing.
And let me just throw this out there: Historically, Germans have supported and participated in mass genocide.
So you rename racist democracts republicans to keep your image that republicans are the racist party?
No, the racist Democrats renamed themselves Republicans.
And the GP specifically said "before the 1960's" so I would say I have countered his point
By before the 1960's I meant before the civil rights legislation and southern strategy. Given my audience I should have been more specific. I always make the mistake of assuming conservatives will have a cursory knowledge of our nations history when I talk to them.
There is no such thing in reality. If you start overeating at an early enough age you will develope a larger frame to suit your fat body.
Not true. Genes have much to do with frame size, though being "big boned" doesn't translate into big differences in weight, so you are right that it is not an excuse for being overweight.
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Certainly, but those mortality rates are much higher (5x) for mothers under the age of 15.
what's the harm in being stuck in a situation that could be too much to handle?
For my wife who went off to college at age 16, the harm was massive bleeding ulcers in her stomach, brought on by stress, which resulted in a nice hospital stay.
Not too long ago, 14 was a marrying age, and I don't recall anyone of that time period thinking that this was odd or 'too much for them to handle'.
Many of those 14 years old ended up dead before their 20th birthday due to complications from having children too early. Two of my wife's relatives (1st generation Italian-Americans in arranged marriages) are examples. In their wedding photos, they did not look like adults. They looked like middle-schoolers dressed up to look like adults.
like "Let my system be rooted trivially rather than implement security that might be 'annoying', and call that 'having imagination.'"
Ubuntu's ultra insecure SUDO implementation which allows any process launch under the default users account to gain root privileges with impunity says you're wrong.
If that were true the same type of problems would exist with desktop *nix too, because the "I just want the fuckin' thing to work" attitude pervades the user base and drives the development of every major desktop platform.
Popularity doesn't make products insecure. It makes them potential targets.
You cannot run a normal file without specifically setting the executable bit. It is a "security feature".
On a desktop system, it's a annoyance. So much that modern DE's like KDE has numerous methods to get around it. It might be considered a "security feature" by people with no imagination.
Leaving aside your ridiculous invocation of a ten year old worm for IIS, you do realize since the release of IIS6 in 2003, IIS6 and IIS7 have had FAR FEWER vulnerabilities discovered than any version of Apache, right?
The rest of your rant is evidence you don't seem to have a very good grasp of how Windows works.
2.8trillion total? it doesn't look too impressive.
It's impressive if you look at it as a percentage of GDP at the time. Reagan and H.W. Bush more than doubled our debt as a percentage of GDP in 12 years. Together, they made W. Bush look like a deficit hawk. The debt as a percentage of GDP went down under Carter and Clinton.
That 200,000 dollar projection is most like based on nothing changing (e.g. irresponsible spending patterns of the past Republican administrations continuing and tax revenue not incresing) in the next ten years.
If someone like Palin becomes president, I would start to worry about future debt.
That's a bummer.
Of course all HTC phones come with a bootloader that only allows ROMS signed by the carrier too, but that doesn't stop people from xda-developers from cracking them within weeks of the phones' release.
I would bet that someone ends up cracking the milestone bootloader soon.
All phones are like that. You have to have a hacked bootloader (or have your phone "rooted") to flash custom ROMS. I believe your particular phone has been "rooted" and custom ROMS will be or already are available for it. Here is a forum where you might be able to find some info.
The kernel was unmaintainable from the day it escaped
What do you mean by unmaintainable? How can it be unmaintainable, yet still be in use to this day?
It still suffers from ALL the flaws it had at first
Got any details?
I am not knowledgeable enough to address #1 and #2, but I know for sure that #3, #4 and #5 all have nothing to do with the NT kernel.
Our director of HR sent our manager this picture[NSFW] via inter-office email once.
I had major problems with WinMo 6.0, but 6.1 and 6.5 have been very stable for me. As for Android, you may have seen them in Action but have you actually used one? My wife has a Motorola Cliq and it's been extremely unstable - requiring her to take the battery out multiple times per day. According to user forums, her issues are not unique. Maybe it's not an Android problem and the fault of Motorola.
If were to rate all of the smartphone OSs I've used by stabilty I would rate them as follows:
1) Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 (HTC Herald/HTC Rhodium) ..
..
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2) Blackberry OS (Pearl)
3) Google Android, "Cupcake" (Motorola Cliq)
4) Windows Mobile 6.0 (HTC Herald - same phone as above)
Google didn't make the Nexus One. HTC did.
Those people are just waiting to be screwed, as MS always does to its partners whenever it suits it.
Who are "those people"? The people at xda-devs and alike? That site started in 2003. They've been waiting a long time to get screwed. Do you have any insight on when the screwing might happen?
Let's try this again. What came out first, the HTC Hero or the HTC HD2?
Which came out first is irrelevant. The UI on HTC's Android phones is called HTC Sense, and it is not part of the Android OS .It's written by HTC and is based on TouchFlO, the UI that has existed on HTC's Windows mobile phones for years now. The Hero and HD2 have the same version of HTC Sense and it just happened that HTC released the hero before the HD2. Here, educate yourself.
Maybe you should think again, since you don't understand anything
You haven't pointed out anything I don't understand. I know full well that xda-devs is about HTC devices. Until HTC released it's first Android device it was 100% about Windows Mobile. I never said the sites I linked to were 100% dedicated to Windows Mobile, nor do I care if they are.
Thanks for reminding me that apparently you love windows mobile. That's about the most embarrassing piece of software I've ever heard anyone being associated with.
Your hatred of Microsoft is amusing. While morons like you mentally masturbate over the supposed demise of companies for no logical reason, people like me use products that work for us. I actually like the Android OS. It's a bit unstable on my wife's Cliq, but I'm sure those bugs will be worked out by Google and they'll catch up to other mobile platforms. My next phone decision will be between Windows Mobile (or "Windows Phone" or whatever they'll be calling it by then) and Android.
I don't have a study to link you to, but just thought it was fairly common knowledge. Being a follower of college football and particularly, Fresno State I've read interviews with Fresno State coach Pat Hill where he explained that when evaluating recruits he would look at the mother's frame size to evaluate the recruits potential for putting on weight. Being a lower teir school, Fresno State is forced to settle for the recruits that bigger schools like USC, UCLA and Berkeley don't pursue, so Fresno is forced to recruit "potential" and develop it.
Maybe Pat Hill is just practicing voodoo and I am mistaken?
actually, nobody even cares about microsoft phones.
Really? Don't tell the 2.1 million users are xda-developers.com or the users at other large community sites like PPCGeeks, ROMeOS, Modaco,
PocketPCFAQ, pdastreet, intomobile, hpc, PocketPCAddict, PocketPCBlast, brighthand, etc....
The best they have done is trying to make a phone look exactly like an android phone which shows how crappy winmo is.
LOL!
The UI (Manila/TouchFlo/Sense) on the HD2 that you linked to has been running on Windows Mobile phones by HTC for years now - LONG before Android even existed. HTC actually made their Android phones to look like their Windows Mobile phones.
Thanks for the laugh.
I guess I should have realized in your terms, 1965 came before the 1960's.
You win. My point was completely invalidated by not being specific enough.
Funny enough, George Bush extended the Voting Rights Act by another 25 years in 2006.
No. Congress extended it and Bush signed it into law. While we're on the subject, the only members of congress that has the gaul to oppose it's renewal were Republicans...from the south of course.
Ronald Regan was the one who made Martin Luther King Day a holiday.
He also exploited racial fears of southern democrats to get elected. He also vetoed sanctions on apartheid South Africa, which, thankfully congress overrode. I don't think Ronnie was at his heart a racist, but like many Republican politicians since the 1960's (oops I did it again!) he didn't hesitate to exploit people's racial fears to gain votes.
What legislation are you referring to that shows the racism of the republican party?
Since "racist" legislation (however you want to define that) from the post civil rights era would be politically impossible to pass, you set up a criteria (and probably the only criteria) in which Republican can not lose. Nice try.
Not that this is a conversation that can be discussed logically since you discount history after some arbitrary date and consider any southern democrat that is a racist to really be a republican.
My original point was that racism is a conservative trait, not a Democrat or Republican trait. It you are the one that is stuck on the Democrat/Republican thing.
And let me just throw this out there: Historically, Germans have supported and participated in mass genocide.
So you rename racist democracts republicans to keep your image that republicans are the racist party?
No, the racist Democrats renamed themselves Republicans.
And the GP specifically said "before the 1960's" so I would say I have countered his point
By before the 1960's I meant before the civil rights legislation and southern strategy. Given my audience I should have been more specific. I always make the mistake of assuming conservatives will have a cursory knowledge of our nations history when I talk to them.
Thank you.
There is no such thing in reality. If you start overeating at an early enough age you will develope a larger frame to suit your fat body.
Not true. Genes have much to do with frame size, though being "big boned" doesn't translate into big differences in weight, so you are right that it is not an excuse for being overweight.
If by historically you mean before 1960's, yeah.
If you want to include the last 40 years, historically the racists have been conservative.