Because an Android which has had custom crap installed in it because the vendor felt the need to eithr brand it, divert me to their store, or achieve vendor lock-in, I'm not interested in.
A non-standard Android has zero interest for me, because I already have an Android device which the manufacturer has abandoned.
So vanilla Android (which is the point of the Nexus devices), or I'm simply going back to Apple. I guess I could look at a Windows tablet, but WTF would I do that for?
No, all you did is miss my point about how I'm uninterested in building my device from a kit.
I don't want to buy it, root it download a new OS for it.... because I simply don't have any interest in it.
Will this magical thing perform its own updates and provide a mechanism to keep it up to date?
Sorry, the only "ignorance" I see here is you consistently suggesting I do exactly what I've already said I'm not interested in doing.
Fucking open source people always think people are willing to jump through hoops to install this shit.
What part of I don't want to fucking install a different OS on a device I've bought is beyond your comprehension here?
By the time we're talking about rooting it, putting on a boot loader, and installing another OS... we're well and truly into the "I don't want to play this stupid fucking game". And yet you keep saying it.
I want a piece of consumer electronics, not some fucking make work hobby project.
So why don't you get it through your head that my idea of fun is not having to manually be involved in maintaining my tablet at this level? Because it's a waste of my damned time.
But I'll look at the bright side - in another universe crap like this wouldn't make it to slashdot's front page.
Bah, in another universe Slashdot is always the "OMG Ponies" theme, and carries nothing but stories on Kim Kardashian.
My guess is Hawking took a goofy question from the audience and used it to tie in some theory stuff, because clearly someone asked him if he said "Finally a question about something important".
If Stephen Hawking can't make such a joke, who the hell can?
.and are apparently unaware of third-party Android distributions for common devices
I'm not unaware of them. I'm completely fucking uninterested. There is a huge difference.
I don't want some device I have to build in a kit every couple of months. I'm beyond the point where I want to endlessly fiddle with technology. It's a waste of my time, and not something I do for fun.
I want something supported out of the box by the manufacturer, with as long of a shelf life as possible, and I don't want to enrich some corporation who feels they should give me a separate store or otherwise annoy me with non-standard stuff.
I have no interest in tracking my own CyanogemMod version, building it from a kit, hand bombing my install.
I like vanilla Android out of the box. I've seen the junk Samsung and others put on, and I have no interest in it.
But what I don't want is a device which is going to make more work for me.
Maybe the nerdy kids or the people with no lives feel some fulfillment out of endlessly fucking with their devices. But I sure as hell don't.
But I'll go back to Apple if the price points become similar. Only I'll go with a lower end device and treat it like it will only have a short lifespan. Especially if it means I know I'll have a device which isn't a pain in the ass to use.
For me technology is tools, not something to derive endless pleasure from tweaking it.
So, as usual, the open source solution of "yarg, just download this stuff, build this stuff, twiddle with this stuff" is advice that nobody else is interested in. I just want something which "just works".. my original iPad did up to a point, and my Nexus 7 has so far.
I had an iPad (first gen) until they "retired it" by upgrading it until it was useless, and then updating it no more.
Then I had a vanilla Android Nexus 7 tablet, which I still use -- because it was a good price point to get with 32GB of storage.
But if when this Android is due to be replaced I have to spend as much for a Nexus 9 as I would an iPad.. or if I have to buy a non-vanilla Android... I might just go back to an iPad.
I do not want something which isn't capable of running the latest Android or which has custom crap on it. Because I don't want to be stuck with something the vendor will abandon or otherwise make annoying to use.
And suddenly a Nexus 9 is MUCH more expensive that a Nexus 7 was. Which is unsurprising, but might drive away customers who wanted a basic, Google branded Android.
there are many high-quality Android tablet alternatives in every form factor imaginable, the Nexus 7 isn't needed so much
I'll tell you why that's patently untrue.
A Nexus 7 was essentially guaranteed to get the Google branded Android, with no customizations and other crap by the manufacturer.
I don't care what Samsung or any other vendor has created in terms of their own stuff, their own store, and crap which is going to be unsupported or prevent me from getting updates.
With Google dropping a Nexus 7, everything is now likely to be a version of Android in which someone has decided to add their own crap -- primarily with the intent of collecting ad revenue or their own store.
I want none of this crap. I want a vanilla Android. Not the shit Samsung or any other vendor has foisted on it.
A Nexus device means you will have proper support from Google. Not be stuck with whatever shit the marketing department somewhere else came up with.
So now the question becomes when I want to replace my Nexus 7 if I buy a Nexus 9, or I buy a low end iPad.
Because I have no interest whatsoever in a non-standard Android.
No Bruce Lee here, just a man who has handled himself in various situations both CONUS and overseas. If your life is that sad, why don't you do something with it.
Look, if you want to flap your gums and wave around your penis, do it elsewhere.
Maybe on a chat room with your buddies while you're playing Xbox.
And differentiating between the humor and the actual fool who says "yo dawg, if that was me I'd be all gangster and shit and and be up in his grill and... aw. mom, I'll take out the garbage later"... well, not my job.
So basically you'd be streaming your criminal activity on YouTube all the time? Because that would be stupid.
Or you'd bust our your super ninja skills and enable the streaming as the police were knocking on your door with a carefully placed deadman switch? Why not just go all Bruce Lee on them and beat them up and take their guns?
Because, honestly, when I hear Slashdot people saying all of the tough shit they'd be doing in that situation I just really have to laugh -- seriously, stop fronting... nobody believes you're a thug or a criminal mastermind. It's lame.
A bunch of pasty nerds talking tough on the internet who would really just pee their pants and cry like little girls.
You seem to be under the illusion that people in general act on a moral, principled basis in all (or even most) aspects of life.
You are sadly mistaken and delusional if you think that.
You haven't spent nearly enough time around people if you are expecting moral condemnation from most movie goers.
People are, not nearly as deep down as we'd like to think, complete fucking barbarians. And don't ever forget it.
Most people don't commit crimes for fear of punishment, not because they morally object. On balance, the human race is far more amoral than people like to believe.
And anything which relies on the inherent goodness of humans is probably useless. Because humans aren't inherently good.
Some of of can tell the difference between fiction and reality. They get away with lots of things in movies that are not acceptable in real life.
And you can rest assured, the shit they get away with in movies they wouldn't in real life... have happened in real life. Many many many times. In many many different places.
Police have been muscling up suspects as long as there have been police.
That "fiction" you're talking about is straight out of real life. If anything, the "fiction" is probably tamer than some of the shit which has been done in real life.
If you think this is the first time cops have threatened a suspect (or possibly even done so), you are hopelessly naive.
Our problem is those of us who have set our preferences to now show images or video links still get this.
Which means the editors are by-passing our selected preferences to hawk their own crap.
We don't care if you post videos. But having them forcibly show up in our news feed against the settings we've selected?
That's just plain annoying.
In no other story this week do I see images or embedded video. And yet when timothy posts something, there it is.
So how about you guys stop making your own posts extra special and obey the rules of the user settings instead of just bypassing them and deciding to show it to us anyway?
The pudding is a metaphor, of man's eternal longing for an answer to the questions... "what the fuck is that? You're not really going to eat it are you?"
It just sits there, looking all gooey and non-Newtonian. It's just so wrong.
That explains the first paragraph, not the second.. which I must confess sounds like gobbledigook, and more or less says "the radio only exists because the cat (which we established isn't there) makes it possible, but don't ask us how".
Then it's just a big WTF... but, that's true of everything everyone ever says about Quantum anything.
I distrust anything which even most physicists can't actually say they understand.
Like pudding. Nobody has yet explained pudding to me. Quantum stuff is the pudding of the universe, it's just there.;-)
Really big things nobody really understands are surprisingly similar to really little things nobody understand -- with both groups exhibiting some really confusing long-distance connections we don't really understand.
Beyond that.. I confess I don't have a clue, and you're on your own for a car analogy.
Except the GP is correct... because the head is your brain, your memory, your identity, and the thing which will control the body.
A head transplant would imply Bob would get a new head and change his body... except we don't have the ability to transfer the parts of Bob contained in the brain to a new head.
In this case, the head is the single most important part to still being, in some definition of the word, the same person.
It really is a body transplant, since the owner of the original head is still who will be legally left after this.
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Wow ... human monkey brain stupid ... I looked at it again and again and my brain apparently fixed it each time.
Thanks, because I simply wasn't seeing it. :-P
Is it stock Android? Or has it been tweaked?
Because an Android which has had custom crap installed in it because the vendor felt the need to eithr brand it, divert me to their store, or achieve vendor lock-in, I'm not interested in.
A non-standard Android has zero interest for me, because I already have an Android device which the manufacturer has abandoned.
So vanilla Android (which is the point of the Nexus devices), or I'm simply going back to Apple. I guess I could look at a Windows tablet, but WTF would I do that for?
No, all you did is miss my point about how I'm uninterested in building my device from a kit.
I don't want to buy it, root it download a new OS for it .... because I simply don't have any interest in it.
Will this magical thing perform its own updates and provide a mechanism to keep it up to date?
Sorry, the only "ignorance" I see here is you consistently suggesting I do exactly what I've already said I'm not interested in doing.
Fucking open source people always think people are willing to jump through hoops to install this shit.
What part of I don't want to fucking install a different OS on a device I've bought is beyond your comprehension here?
By the time we're talking about rooting it, putting on a boot loader, and installing another OS ... we're well and truly into the "I don't want to play this stupid fucking game". And yet you keep saying it.
I want a piece of consumer electronics, not some fucking make work hobby project.
So why don't you get it through your head that my idea of fun is not having to manually be involved in maintaining my tablet at this level? Because it's a waste of my damned time.
Bah, in another universe Slashdot is always the "OMG Ponies" theme, and carries nothing but stories on Kim Kardashian.
My guess is Hawking took a goofy question from the audience and used it to tie in some theory stuff, because clearly someone asked him if he said "Finally a question about something important".
If Stephen Hawking can't make such a joke, who the hell can?
As quoted, "they found a trove of strange artifacts" seems perfectly good to me.
I'm simply not seeing where it's not valid English.
So, tell me oh wise one, what's wrong with it? It's no different than "they found a pile of stuff" in terms of syntax.
I'm not unaware of them. I'm completely fucking uninterested. There is a huge difference.
I don't want some device I have to build in a kit every couple of months. I'm beyond the point where I want to endlessly fiddle with technology. It's a waste of my time, and not something I do for fun.
I want something supported out of the box by the manufacturer, with as long of a shelf life as possible, and I don't want to enrich some corporation who feels they should give me a separate store or otherwise annoy me with non-standard stuff.
I have no interest in tracking my own CyanogemMod version, building it from a kit, hand bombing my install.
I like vanilla Android out of the box. I've seen the junk Samsung and others put on, and I have no interest in it.
But what I don't want is a device which is going to make more work for me.
Maybe the nerdy kids or the people with no lives feel some fulfillment out of endlessly fucking with their devices. But I sure as hell don't.
But I'll go back to Apple if the price points become similar. Only I'll go with a lower end device and treat it like it will only have a short lifespan. Especially if it means I know I'll have a device which isn't a pain in the ass to use.
For me technology is tools, not something to derive endless pleasure from tweaking it.
So, as usual, the open source solution of "yarg, just download this stuff, build this stuff, twiddle with this stuff" is advice that nobody else is interested in. I just want something which "just works" .. my original iPad did up to a point, and my Nexus 7 has so far.
I had an iPad (first gen) until they "retired it" by upgrading it until it was useless, and then updating it no more.
Then I had a vanilla Android Nexus 7 tablet, which I still use -- because it was a good price point to get with 32GB of storage.
But if when this Android is due to be replaced I have to spend as much for a Nexus 9 as I would an iPad .. or if I have to buy a non-vanilla Android ... I might just go back to an iPad.
I do not want something which isn't capable of running the latest Android or which has custom crap on it. Because I don't want to be stuck with something the vendor will abandon or otherwise make annoying to use.
And suddenly a Nexus 9 is MUCH more expensive that a Nexus 7 was. Which is unsurprising, but might drive away customers who wanted a basic, Google branded Android.
I'll tell you why that's patently untrue.
A Nexus 7 was essentially guaranteed to get the Google branded Android, with no customizations and other crap by the manufacturer.
I don't care what Samsung or any other vendor has created in terms of their own stuff, their own store, and crap which is going to be unsupported or prevent me from getting updates.
With Google dropping a Nexus 7, everything is now likely to be a version of Android in which someone has decided to add their own crap -- primarily with the intent of collecting ad revenue or their own store.
I want none of this crap. I want a vanilla Android. Not the shit Samsung or any other vendor has foisted on it.
A Nexus device means you will have proper support from Google. Not be stuck with whatever shit the marketing department somewhere else came up with.
So now the question becomes when I want to replace my Nexus 7 if I buy a Nexus 9, or I buy a low end iPad.
Because I have no interest whatsoever in a non-standard Android.
I always thought he Nexus 7 was a good combination of specs, size, and being supported by Google.
I don't want a 9" Nexus.
One does wonder if they're not killing a popular product because they just want to focus on a more expensive version.
OK, I'm going to call bullshit here.
Is a perfectly well constructed bit of English.
So what the hell are you bitching about? If you think that's needing an English primer, maybe it's you who needs one?
See what I'm on about?
Not all puddings are puddings, but we still call them puddings.
The existential nightmare which is the pudding is completely inescapable, and intrinsic to the human condition.
It's fucking puddings all the way down.
Bastards!!
LOL, aww, that's sweet.
Honestly, it's not a cry for help or expression of despair.
People can be, and frequently are, good people. But in the aggregate, I don't ascribe "goodness" to humans -- especially when nobody is looking.
As a species we're capable of a lot of good. But we're also capable of a lot of other stuff.
Look, if you want to flap your gums and wave around your penis, do it elsewhere.
Maybe on a chat room with your buddies while you're playing Xbox.
Mostly you sound like a total wanker.
So is the bravado of internet nerds.
And differentiating between the humor and the actual fool who says "yo dawg, if that was me I'd be all gangster and shit and and be up in his grill and ... aw. mom, I'll take out the garbage later" ... well, not my job.
So basically you'd be streaming your criminal activity on YouTube all the time? Because that would be stupid.
Or you'd bust our your super ninja skills and enable the streaming as the police were knocking on your door with a carefully placed deadman switch? Why not just go all Bruce Lee on them and beat them up and take their guns?
Because, honestly, when I hear Slashdot people saying all of the tough shit they'd be doing in that situation I just really have to laugh -- seriously, stop fronting ... nobody believes you're a thug or a criminal mastermind. It's lame.
A bunch of pasty nerds talking tough on the internet who would really just pee their pants and cry like little girls.
And, yes, I'm not claiming to be any different.
You seem to be under the illusion that people in general act on a moral, principled basis in all (or even most) aspects of life.
You are sadly mistaken and delusional if you think that.
You haven't spent nearly enough time around people if you are expecting moral condemnation from most movie goers.
People are, not nearly as deep down as we'd like to think, complete fucking barbarians. And don't ever forget it.
Most people don't commit crimes for fear of punishment, not because they morally object. On balance, the human race is far more amoral than people like to believe.
And anything which relies on the inherent goodness of humans is probably useless. Because humans aren't inherently good.
And you can rest assured, the shit they get away with in movies they wouldn't in real life ... have happened in real life. Many many many times. In many many different places.
Police have been muscling up suspects as long as there have been police.
That "fiction" you're talking about is straight out of real life. If anything, the "fiction" is probably tamer than some of the shit which has been done in real life.
If you think this is the first time cops have threatened a suspect (or possibly even done so), you are hopelessly naive.
Our problem is those of us who have set our preferences to now show images or video links still get this.
Which means the editors are by-passing our selected preferences to hawk their own crap.
We don't care if you post videos. But having them forcibly show up in our news feed against the settings we've selected?
That's just plain annoying.
In no other story this week do I see images or embedded video. And yet when timothy posts something, there it is.
So how about you guys stop making your own posts extra special and obey the rules of the user settings instead of just bypassing them and deciding to show it to us anyway?
I assure you, cats were created by the devil, MUCH earlier and 1892.
The pudding is a metaphor, of man's eternal longing for an answer to the questions ... "what the fuck is that? You're not really going to eat it are you?"
It just sits there, looking all gooey and non-Newtonian. It's just so wrong.
*shudder*
That explains the first paragraph, not the second .. which I must confess sounds like gobbledigook, and more or less says "the radio only exists because the cat (which we established isn't there) makes it possible, but don't ask us how".
Then it's just a big WTF ... but, that's true of everything everyone ever says about Quantum anything.
I distrust anything which even most physicists can't actually say they understand.
Like pudding. Nobody has yet explained pudding to me. Quantum stuff is the pudding of the universe, it's just there. ;-)
Really big things nobody really understands are surprisingly similar to really little things nobody understand -- with both groups exhibiting some really confusing long-distance connections we don't really understand.
Beyond that .. I confess I don't have a clue, and you're on your own for a car analogy.
Except the GP is correct ... because the head is your brain, your memory, your identity, and the thing which will control the body.
A head transplant would imply Bob would get a new head and change his body ... except we don't have the ability to transfer the parts of Bob contained in the brain to a new head.
In this case, the head is the single most important part to still being, in some definition of the word, the same person.
It really is a body transplant, since the owner of the original head is still who will be legally left after this.
You're attributing far more skill and competence than they deserve.
If they couldn't keep them out, no way in hell they could come up with a working deception in a short amount of time.
Kicking them out in "less than 24 hours"? Wow, way to go there guys.
Or at least have that mean "in the event of head trauma do not treat".
We'll call it a special case of Darwin award.