Forget a RAM error, I have seen a bit on a file on the disk flip.
After years of successful operation a Perl script quite working. On investigation a G was transformed to a W a difference of one bit. The file mod date was years old.
Nice try. If I'm walking in a field and I know that if I'm struck by lightning it will affect millions of people in the area, I better make damn sure I have my portable lightning deflector (work with me here) handy or I am being monumentally irresponsible.
...system provides various services...For example...
Various services? What am I doing sitting at work like a sucker? I should filling out a patent application for...oh, I don't know...teleportation! Everybody wants teleportation, right?
The system provides various services to transport an object from point A to point B. For example, it could do it instantaneously and invisibly.
Since everybody wants teleportation I just sit back and collect those licensing checks. Am I forgetting anything?
The iPhone is far from the only smart phone out there so they sure don't have a monopoly. Don't like Apple or the iPhone? Then buy something else. You have lots of choices. One is bound to make you happy enough to quit whining.
...only we wish that we could hook up a keyboard or mouse...
I don't think you're getting it. If you want a mouse AND a keyboard, get a laptop. The iPad isn't a laptop. It really is not meant to do everything a laptop can do. That doesn't make it bad, lame, or crippled. It's just not a laptop.
There is exactly one use for mobile video conferencing... phone sex.
There's a reason Apple's iPhone 4 video shows a dad video calling home to see his children. Perhaps if tore yourself away from net porn and discovered real women, a lightbulb might flick on.
You're right. We should expect the government to test every product made for children for sale in this country...for all known toxins...before they go on sale. Of course if it did then you'd complain about the Obama nanny state stealing your money with excessive income tax.
He was able to win because #1, he became a media darling.
Oh please. The right always trots this tired horse out when a Democrat is elected President. Yes, the liberal media always makes left candidates media darlings and villifies right candidates, that's why the President before Obama served for eight years! Give it a rest, already.
George Washington and John Adams had different views on this one than Thomas Jefferson. So no, it's not clear how "top-heavy" the US government was supposed to be, because no one ever really agreed on it.
Thank you! Anybody who tells you that the founding fathers were of a like mind on anything shouldn't be listened to because they don't know what they're talking about.
Thank you, Captain Pedantic, because I had been unaware that slavery was prohibited by the constitution until you brought it up (for I have been living on Mars, in a cave...).
I had wondered whether I should use "slavery" or "segregation" in my post. I decided to use "slavery" because I knew smart people would be able to infer segregation and other unpleasantness from slavery, not to mention the whole Civil War vs. War Between the States nonsense. Seems to be working as a great filter that way.
But providing a link to a separate web site for users to get the source code doesn't exactly meet either of these.
Huh? How does a link to the source code in the app not satisfy 3b? It's an offer, it's free, it's machine-readable, and it's customarily used for s/w distribution.
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Forget a RAM error, I have seen a bit on a file on the disk flip.
After years of successful operation a Perl script quite working. On investigation a G was transformed to a W a difference of one bit. The file mod date was years old.
Ditto, except it was something like a w to a 7.
Nice try. If I'm walking in a field and I know that if I'm struck by lightning it will affect millions of people in the area, I better make damn sure I have my portable lightning deflector (work with me here) handy or I am being monumentally irresponsible.
If you're a deep water drilling company and you don't have all your ducks in a row after that, you're an idiot.
Are actually assuming that there is a shortage of idiots?
...system provides various services...For example...
Various services? What am I doing sitting at work like a sucker? I should filling out a patent application for...oh, I don't know...teleportation! Everybody wants teleportation, right?
The system provides various services to transport an object from point A to point B. For example, it could do it instantaneously and invisibly.
Since everybody wants teleportation I just sit back and collect those licensing checks. Am I forgetting anything?
You are aware that there are stores where you can buy non-Apple phones, yes?
The iPhone is far from the only smart phone out there so they sure don't have a monopoly. Don't like Apple or the iPhone? Then buy something else. You have lots of choices. One is bound to make you happy enough to quit whining.
They drive another block and get a different phone.
...only we wish that we could hook up a keyboard or mouse...
I don't think you're getting it. If you want a mouse AND a keyboard, get a laptop. The iPad isn't a laptop. It really is not meant to do everything a laptop can do. That doesn't make it bad, lame, or crippled. It's just not a laptop.
1. There is nothing sexy about a crippled CPU with no connectivity.
Internet connectivity not enough for you? Are you holding out for wormhole connectivity?
There is exactly one use for mobile video conferencing... phone sex.
There's a reason Apple's iPhone 4 video shows a dad video calling home to see his children. Perhaps if tore yourself away from net porn and discovered real women, a lightbulb might flick on.
Your netbook has a camera in it because Apple put one in their laptops a long time ago.
You're right. We should expect the government to test every product made for children for sale in this country...for all known toxins...before they go on sale. Of course if it did then you'd complain about the Obama nanny state stealing your money with excessive income tax.
What color is the sky in your world?
He was able to win because #1, he became a media darling.
Oh please. The right always trots this tired horse out when a Democrat is elected President. Yes, the liberal media always makes left candidates media darlings and villifies right candidates, that's why the President before Obama served for eight years! Give it a rest, already.
George Washington and John Adams had different views on this one than Thomas Jefferson. So no, it's not clear how "top-heavy" the US government was supposed to be, because no one ever really agreed on it.
Thank you! Anybody who tells you that the founding fathers were of a like mind on anything shouldn't be listened to because they don't know what they're talking about.
Thank you, Captain Pedantic, because I had been unaware that slavery was prohibited by the constitution until you brought it up (for I have been living on Mars, in a cave...).
I had wondered whether I should use "slavery" or "segregation" in my post. I decided to use "slavery" because I knew smart people would be able to infer segregation and other unpleasantness from slavery, not to mention the whole Civil War vs. War Between the States nonsense. Seems to be working as a great filter that way.
Clintons?? WTF? Bill and Hillary constitute one generation.
Returning to states rights is not going to bring back slavery or the like...
-1 Naive
Do you ever get tired of dodging the question?
So you'd be okay if the south brought back slavery?
Yeah, Germany is plunging into anarchy as I type this!
How about you get off your fat ass and get involved in the government if it's so bad.
Because doing that is hard. Just ask Al Franken. Sitting on one's fat ass and complaining is easy. Just ask Rush Limbaugh.
Everybody knows it. It's been scientifically, irrefutably proven...
[citation needed]
I see you've met my parents.
But providing a link to a separate web site for users to get the source code doesn't exactly meet either of these.
Huh? How does a link to the source code in the app not satisfy 3b? It's an offer, it's free, it's machine-readable, and it's customarily used for s/w distribution.
Apple denied it was theirs? Really? When?