You left out antenna for the FM radio. Oops, the iPhone never had an FM radio, something even cheap flip phones have had pretty much forever. Apple is no longer a leader in innovation, which is why their market share continues to drop. Looks like Tim Cook cooked their goose.
All you get when you select for Mensa membership is selecting for the 0.04â... of geniuses who are so stupid that they are willing to pay some asshole $60 a year to be in a cub that the vast majority of geniuses are smart enough to realize provides zero benefits. Do you really want the genes of stupid geniuses?
Heredity diseases don't get selected put unless they kill you before you breed. That's why we still have heredity diseases on all animals, including humans.
We have not halted natural selection in humans. Any such claim is totally stupid. Natural selection just means that traits that are detrimental to passing on genes in an environment get selected out. We change the human environment so that certain conditions are no longer fatal before reproduction, those genes no longer selected out. That's the flip side of natural selection. If one day social pressure was such that all gingers were killed at birth, those genes would be selected out as well. Look how relatively quickly the mutation for blue eyes spread even though it's recessive and has higher rates of myopia. Nearsighted people make lousy warriors before the days of glasses, so they would be less likely to be chosen for warfare. That means more likely to spend their time away from the battlefield, more opportunities to breed while the fighters are killing each other.
People never believed that, or they would never have spent the capital to build faster trains. That's just revisionist history put out by idiots - the same idiots who would have us believe that people thought that the earth was flat until Columbus. Or that people feared taking a bath because it would kill their body lice, and "only the sick didn't have lice."
Similar quality phone? Kind of hard. Who else is making shit that bends in your pocket or is too thin to hold properly or can't use earphones that need to be charged? They can't make game-changing stuff any more so now the name of the game is to change stuff just to milk the ever-smaller percentage of fans.
I use wired. They double as the FM radio antenna. Why pay for the dubious privilege of streaming music when there's a couple dozen radio stations locally?
Let's not forget that Apple is no longer driven by the idea of making better products. Nobody is screaming that they want better water resistance - most would probably want them to take a step backwards and offer larger, replaceable batteries. That, of course, would mean more people keeping their phones longer. Seriously, did anyone that that a nonreplaceable battery was an advantage to anyone except Apple? If it's so great, why not do it with their laptops. This should properly be framed as a restraint of trade issue.
I had no problems with triple monitor support years ago under Linux. Moral of the story - bleeding edge will cut you - and it's not needed for most users. We're into the second decade of "good enough" computing. Incremental improvements are all we ask for - which is why Windows 10 isn't wanted - it's simply not able to grab mind share from those who are satisfied with their good enough systems without the concerns that make even Vista look better wrt intrusive crap.
If he really understood the relationship between people and money, he would be pushing the idea that advertisers PAY PEOPLE to look at their ads, using a portion of the funds they already pay the ad distribution networks.
At least each party is then getting something in return. Tgrow in an opt-out, so you don't see ads, and everyone would be happy.
It would not be the end of trade + just the UK having the same tariff barriers imposed on their products as the rest of the world. Many products will then become cheaper to produce inside the EU without those tariffs, so expect a transfer of jobs and production from the UK to the EU. You asked for it, you got it, now deal with it and let it be a lesson to others to look before you keep, and do your own thinking instead of accepting politicians lies uncritically. You really did get the government you deserve.
If you're depending on an app to do your data validation you're doing it wrong (and yes, my stupid bank's app is one such app).
That's what happens when you farm development out to 3rd world countries working off of specifications drawn up by psychotics who think that they can get it right all by themselves and throw it over the wall and everything will be fine.
For most people it makes no difference whether it's apps or a browser. To them, the internet doesn't extend beyond Facebook, YouTube, Twitter anyway.
The "open web" only exists in your mind and a few sites that are user supported and don't take advertising - and it they have any sort of "social m" plugin, whether for likes, comments, sharing, or logging in, you're still being tracked, same as Slashdot enables Facebook. Google, etc to track you.
open, in the sense of transparency, is dead. You cannot even select whether you want these trackers served to you unless you use a 3rd party app that scrapes the site and doesn't download them in the first place. We need more apps like Simply Slashdot, that only grab the textual content you're interested in.
We had that happen here. The transit Corp wanted to make more money, so they convinced the city to let them charge for reserved parking - "to allow people to be sure that they could park." So the spots stayed empty and more people parked further away, increasing parking problems all over.
Your"find me a parking spot" app will be doomed as soon as it becomes popular. You'll be racing against everyone else looking for a parking space in the same area. Same as when Waze diverts people to a less congested area and it now becomes congested. Also, RFID tags won't tell you if there's a car in the spot - for that you would have to tag all cars.
And the next step from there is "it would work much better if RFID tags were embedded in people."
Though they already can track you by the chip in your pet... your passport... the tag hidden in your Nikes that was personalized at the checkout counter when you bought them...
You can be completely out of ink or toner and still scan just fine. Also, being out of cyan doesn't prevent you from printing in black and white the K in CMYK stands for black. If you're using all 3 colors to simulate black you screwed up when buying the printer. Give it to someone you don't like and let them eat the high cost of ink or toner for b/w printing.
The largest unixish distribution in the world runs Android atop Linux. There is no gnu userland. It also beats out every Linux distro on laptops thanks to Chromebooks. Welcome to the year - oops, the decade - of the gnu-free Linux.
Gcc was forked because Stalman fucked up development of gcc to the point that people said "F(or|uc)k it". Stalman eventually had to abandon his version and replace it with the fork, renaming it gcc
How would you react if Oracle took libreoffice and rebranded it as OpenOffice? Same situation.
Also the same situation with gnu Hurd, except that he can't abandon his failure and substitute Linux. Too many people would laugh at it. Stalman stopped being relevant at the turn of the century, if not before.
Stalman doesn't like freedom when it isn't"his" brand of freedom. Like other little Hitlers, he thinks that people should jump through hoops to meet his ideals, even though they have been shown to take away freedom in the past - exhibit 1 being the increasing restrictions in each new license he proposes. The BSD license is much freer, but Stalman doesn't like it because it grants too many freedoms to anyone who uses it.
One size doesn't fit all, unless you're a pathological narcissist who thinks you're always right. I'll be glad when he's gone - his stupid insistence on prefixing other people's work with GNU is a lie when the biggest GNU project - gcc - was really a renamed egcs when the original gcc fell apart. And of course the Linux that ships with Android is gnu-free.
He might be happy living the life of a homeless tramp for years at a time, but society would fall apart if everyone tried to live by couch surfing and lab squatting.
Multiculturalism doesn't always fail. Look across your northern border, where English and French cultures built a country that is still admitting other cultures (such as 35,000 Syrian refugees in half a year while Texas is taking the feds to court over being allocated 6 because all their guns still don't make them feel safe).
What are you going to do now that there are more Latino babies being born than white kids? If you insist that multiculturalism has no place, better get ready for the US to become a country where the Latino culture is the only culture
I avoided the forced upgrade to 10 by turning off all updates. The wireless adapter is set to airplane mode. So it is now more secure than any fully patched system with net access. There was a time when people were actually able to use a computer without the internet. And lately I only look at the government weather website and Slashdot on my phone. Everything else is "nothing of value was lost." Amazing how much better liffe is without the rest of the web (and I use the Simply Slashdot app so I don't even see the ads).
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It's always been a verb - to 86 something is to consign it to the round file. It's not just Americans who use it, btw.
You left out antenna for the FM radio. Oops, the iPhone never had an FM radio, something even cheap flip phones have had pretty much forever. Apple is no longer a leader in innovation, which is why their market share continues to drop. Looks like Tim Cook cooked their goose.
All you get when you select for Mensa membership is selecting for the 0.04â... of geniuses who are so stupid that they are willing to pay some asshole $60 a year to be in a cub that the vast majority of geniuses are smart enough to realize provides zero benefits. Do you really want the genes of stupid geniuses?
Heredity diseases don't get selected put unless they kill you before you breed. That's why we still have heredity diseases on all animals, including humans.
We have not halted natural selection in humans. Any such claim is totally stupid. Natural selection just means that traits that are detrimental to passing on genes in an environment get selected out. We change the human environment so that certain conditions are no longer fatal before reproduction, those genes no longer selected out. That's the flip side of natural selection. If one day social pressure was such that all gingers were killed at birth, those genes would be selected out as well. Look how relatively quickly the mutation for blue eyes spread even though it's recessive and has higher rates of myopia. Nearsighted people make lousy warriors before the days of glasses, so they would be less likely to be chosen for warfare. That means more likely to spend their time away from the battlefield, more opportunities to breed while the fighters are killing each other.
People never believed that, or they would never have spent the capital to build faster trains. That's just revisionist history put out by idiots - the same idiots who would have us believe that people thought that the earth was flat until Columbus. Or that people feared taking a bath because it would kill their body lice, and "only the sick didn't have lice."
Static linking for the win. Updates don't break existing programs, and it's not like we need to save drive space by using shared libraries.
Similar quality phone? Kind of hard. Who else is making shit that bends in your pocket or is too thin to hold properly or can't use earphones that need to be charged? They can't make game-changing stuff any more so now the name of the game is to change stuff just to milk the ever-smaller percentage of fans.
And while we're at it, why not throw in a digital TV tuner? TV and radio stations don't track you.
I use wired. They double as the FM radio antenna. Why pay for the dubious privilege of streaming music when there's a couple dozen radio stations locally?
Let's not forget that Apple is no longer driven by the idea of making better products. Nobody is screaming that they want better water resistance - most would probably want them to take a step backwards and offer larger, replaceable batteries. That, of course, would mean more people keeping their phones longer. Seriously, did anyone that that a nonreplaceable battery was an advantage to anyone except Apple? If it's so great, why not do it with their laptops. This should properly be framed as a restraint of trade issue.
I had no problems with triple monitor support years ago under Linux. Moral of the story - bleeding edge will cut you - and it's not needed for most users. We're into the second decade of "good enough" computing. Incremental improvements are all we ask for - which is why Windows 10 isn't wanted - it's simply not able to grab mind share from those who are satisfied with their good enough systems without the concerns that make even Vista look better wrt intrusive crap.
At least each party is then getting something in return. Tgrow in an opt-out, so you don't see ads, and everyone would be happy.
It would not be the end of trade + just the UK having the same tariff barriers imposed on their products as the rest of the world. Many products will then become cheaper to produce inside the EU without those tariffs, so expect a transfer of jobs and production from the UK to the EU. You asked for it, you got it, now deal with it and let it be a lesson to others to look before you keep, and do your own thinking instead of accepting politicians lies uncritically. You really did get the government you deserve.
That's what happens when you farm development out to 3rd world countries working off of specifications drawn up by psychotics who think that they can get it right all by themselves and throw it over the wall and everything will be fine.
The "open web" only exists in your mind and a few sites that are user supported and don't take advertising - and it they have any sort of "social m" plugin, whether for likes, comments, sharing, or logging in, you're still being tracked, same as Slashdot enables Facebook. Google, etc to track you.
open, in the sense of transparency, is dead. You cannot even select whether you want these trackers served to you unless you use a 3rd party app that scrapes the site and doesn't download them in the first place. We need more apps like Simply Slashdot, that only grab the textual content you're interested in.
We had that happen here. The transit Corp wanted to make more money, so they convinced the city to let them charge for reserved parking - "to allow people to be sure that they could park." So the spots stayed empty and more people parked further away, increasing parking problems all over.
Your"find me a parking spot" app will be doomed as soon as it becomes popular. You'll be racing against everyone else looking for a parking space in the same area. Same as when Waze diverts people to a less congested area and it now becomes congested. Also, RFID tags won't tell you if there's a car in the spot - for that you would have to tag all cars.
Though they already can track you by the chip in your pet ... your passport ... the tag hidden in your Nikes that was personalized at the checkout counter when you bought them ...
You can be completely out of ink or toner and still scan just fine. Also, being out of cyan doesn't prevent you from printing in black and white the K in CMYK stands for black. If you're using all 3 colors to simulate black you screwed up when buying the printer. Give it to someone you don't like and let them eat the high cost of ink or toner for b/w printing.
The largest unixish distribution in the world runs Android atop Linux. There is no gnu userland. It also beats out every Linux distro on laptops thanks to Chromebooks. Welcome to the year - oops, the decade - of the gnu-free Linux.
How would you react if Oracle took libreoffice and rebranded it as OpenOffice? Same situation.
Also the same situation with gnu Hurd, except that he can't abandon his failure and substitute Linux. Too many people would laugh at it. Stalman stopped being relevant at the turn of the century, if not before.
One size doesn't fit all, unless you're a pathological narcissist who thinks you're always right. I'll be glad when he's gone - his stupid insistence on prefixing other people's work with GNU is a lie when the biggest GNU project - gcc - was really a renamed egcs when the original gcc fell apart. And of course the Linux that ships with Android is gnu-free.
He might be happy living the life of a homeless tramp for years at a time, but society would fall apart if everyone tried to live by couch surfing and lab squatting.
What are you going to do now that there are more Latino babies being born than white kids? If you insist that multiculturalism has no place, better get ready for the US to become a country where the Latino culture is the only culture
I avoided the forced upgrade to 10 by turning off all updates. The wireless adapter is set to airplane mode. So it is now more secure than any fully patched system with net access. There was a time when people were actually able to use a computer without the internet. And lately I only look at the government weather website and Slashdot on my phone. Everything else is "nothing of value was lost." Amazing how much better liffe is without the rest of the web (and I use the Simply Slashdot app so I don't even see the ads).