I'm not upset, you clown. I canceled the order after finding out it had ads. It cost me nothing. It cost Amazon a sale.
Sure you were. You were upset with yourself that you failed to read the product description. It had nothing to do with them offering the product with ads. You blamed them for your silly mistake to protect your ego. Had you bought the full-price ad-free version initially, would you still have canceled your order had you discovered that they offered an ad-subsidized version? I doubt it.
If you give them an inch, they will take a mile.
Any evidence? They've been well-behaved for five years and counting. So far, there's no sign that they'll force ads on you. No sign that they'll force you to buy their ad-subsidized products either.
Pure paranoia. They've been doing this for 5 years now without incident. What makes you think they'll force ads on full-price products, or not offer the ad-free full-price product at all? What could they possibly have to gain?
Ah, I see. You're upset because you didn't bother to read the description of the product you were buying and felt foolish. You blame Amazon, even though the product was very clearly labeled as being subsidized by ads, because you don't want to accept that you made a mistake.
You could have opted-out of the ads, once you realized YOUR mistake, though you'd need to pay difference to cancel the subscription. The ads would have been disabled before the product even arrived at your door!
Yeah, I get that you hate ads. What I don't understand is your hate for completely optional ads. No one is forcing them on you here. Get over it.
the odds are overwhelming that everything in the place is overpriced.
Yeah, you could play guessing games. I guess that could be fun. What a normal person would do, however, is compare prices for identical products across several stores in the area to see if the stores which offer discount cards have generally higher prices than their competitors.
(Also, "the odds are overwhelimg"? How would you even go about computing such a thing? You're obviously using that phrase rhetorically, so I'm not nit-picking. I just wanted to point out that you're starting from a pretty cynical/paranoid mentality.)
I've found that, in general, crazy conspiracy theories like this tend to fall apart the instant you try to prove their validity.
But I try, despite all evidence, to remain optimistic.
I'm not so sure about that. It looks to me like you're trying your best to stay paranoid despite the lack of evidence.
Amazon has offered their customers discount ebook readers and tablets subsidized by ads for years. You can even unsubscribe from the ad supported service, though a small fee is assessed if you received a discount on the initial purchase of the device. (You can add ads to your lockscreen by subscribing to their ad service, and unsubscribe to get rid of them for free.)
Since they started offering these discounts 5-years ago, none of the privacy hawks have complained about Amazon's policies. As far as advertisers go, they're about as responsible you can get. They don't share personal information with third-parties, like you claim. (The exceptions being obvious like shipping companies and third-pary sellers who need things like your name and address to ship your products.)
You can opt to stay in fantasy land, and not believe their privacy policy. Though you'll need to find some actual evidence that they're lying. So far, none of the privacy hawks have managed to find a reason to complain!
I should probably point out that this offer is completely optional. You're free to pay the regular price for the phone if you don't want the one with ads.
People who don't care can get a 25%-50% discount on their phone. Does it upset you that people you don't know are exchanging an ad-free experience for a discount on a low-end mobile phone?
It is weird, but I have little reason to doubt his claim. Do some digging around and you'll find quite a few studies dealing with what has been termed the 'racial empathy gap'.
It's implied that the person shouting "Hey Siri, Call an Ambulance" is doing so with the intention of initiating that action on another person's phone, possibly a group.
Some people seem to have this wacky idea that 'Hey, Siri" and "Okay, Google" respond only to their voice. That's not even a little bit true. This means that anyone can initiate an action on your phone without your consent. That should make you a little nervous.
You just can't appreciate the quality design. Some of us are willing to pay for the superior experience that comes from using Apple energy. Honestly, once you try it, you can't go back to using anything else. Even the so-called high-end electrons from other companies feel cheep and unpolished. Yeah, the specs may seem better on paper, but the brilliantly crafted combination of current and voltage you get from Apple just can't be matched. It's all about the experience.
I would leant Kanji - its been tested as a UI for over 4,000 years
Yeah, but the goal was to keep the bulk of the population illiterate.
Things have only recently improved. "In the 1990 Population Census, the literacy rate of the population aged 60 and over was 50.4% for males and 10.7% for females" (From: The World Bank Gender Gaps in China: Facts and Figures October 2006) To give you some idea about how far they've come in recent years. It's not a writing system known for it's ease-of-use.
Japan has a word for kanji illiteracy (kanji yomenai). I remember reading something years ago about an "illiterate" government official (prime minister?) but can't seem to find anything online. Unsurprisingly, kanji use seems to be dropping in the digital age. There's even some speculation about "character amnesia" resulting from its waning use.
As a "UI" it's intentionally antagonistic. It's not something to preserve, it's something to purge.
That's hasn't been true for a while. Packaged web apps are essentially identical to other apps, negating your concerns entirely, but that's not what you have in mind. For those, standards like application cache and other offline features are quickly making differentiating between web apps and 'native' apps meaningless. It takes very little effort to make a web app function completely offline. (The benefits to the developer/distributors are obvious.) Download it once, and it's stored locally in perpetuity -- just like any other app.
Oddly enough, with Apple and Google happily removing apps from users devices without either warning or their consent, web apps might very well offer you more control.
For clarity: It's the right of the people to keep and bear arms that shall not be infringed. Presumably to protect themselves against the earlier mentioned well-regulated militia...
That's pretty funny, but he's not off the mark. Voice recognition software loves my voice. I've had great results even on crummy old software from the mid-90's. I've had success getting the things to recognize all sorts of unusual words, words that sound similar to common words, etc. That's great for me, but no one else I know has had the luck with voice recognition software that I've had. I have very little doubt that there are people on the opposite end of the spectrum as well, who can't get the software to recognize their voice well at all.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "they're saying it wrong" but it's pretty clear that their voice is why they have so much trouble with the software. Ultimately, it's the software's fault, as the technology is obviously not as advanced as we like to pretend.
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I'm not upset, you clown. I canceled the order after finding out it had ads. It cost me nothing. It cost Amazon a sale.
Sure you were. You were upset with yourself that you failed to read the product description. It had nothing to do with them offering the product with ads. You blamed them for your silly mistake to protect your ego. Had you bought the full-price ad-free version initially, would you still have canceled your order had you discovered that they offered an ad-subsidized version? I doubt it.
If you give them an inch, they will take a mile.
Any evidence? They've been well-behaved for five years and counting. So far, there's no sign that they'll force ads on you. No sign that they'll force you to buy their ad-subsidized products either.
You're paranoid.
It's optional today, it's not optional tomorrow.
Pure paranoia. They've been doing this for 5 years now without incident. What makes you think they'll force ads on full-price products, or not offer the ad-free full-price product at all? What could they possibly have to gain?
Ah, I see. You're upset because you didn't bother to read the description of the product you were buying and felt foolish. You blame Amazon, even though the product was very clearly labeled as being subsidized by ads, because you don't want to accept that you made a mistake.
You could have opted-out of the ads, once you realized YOUR mistake, though you'd need to pay difference to cancel the subscription. The ads would have been disabled before the product even arrived at your door!
Yeah, I get that you hate ads. What I don't understand is your hate for completely optional ads. No one is forcing them on you here. Get over it.
You can opt-out of the ads at any time.
the odds are overwhelming that everything in the place is overpriced.
Yeah, you could play guessing games. I guess that could be fun. What a normal person would do, however, is compare prices for identical products across several stores in the area to see if the stores which offer discount cards have generally higher prices than their competitors.
(Also, "the odds are overwhelimg"? How would you even go about computing such a thing? You're obviously using that phrase rhetorically, so I'm not nit-picking. I just wanted to point out that you're starting from a pretty cynical/paranoid mentality.)
I've found that, in general, crazy conspiracy theories like this tend to fall apart the instant you try to prove their validity.
But I try, despite all evidence, to remain optimistic.
I'm not so sure about that. It looks to me like you're trying your best to stay paranoid despite the lack of evidence.
That's paranoid.
Amazon has offered their customers discount ebook readers and tablets subsidized by ads for years. You can even unsubscribe from the ad supported service, though a small fee is assessed if you received a discount on the initial purchase of the device. (You can add ads to your lockscreen by subscribing to their ad service, and unsubscribe to get rid of them for free.)
Since they started offering these discounts 5-years ago, none of the privacy hawks have complained about Amazon's policies. As far as advertisers go, they're about as responsible you can get. They don't share personal information with third-parties, like you claim. (The exceptions being obvious like shipping companies and third-pary sellers who need things like your name and address to ship your products.)
You can opt to stay in fantasy land, and not believe their privacy policy. Though you'll need to find some actual evidence that they're lying. So far, none of the privacy hawks have managed to find a reason to complain!
I should probably point out that this offer is completely optional. You're free to pay the regular price for the phone if you don't want the one with ads.
People who don't care can get a 25%-50% discount on their phone. Does it upset you that people you don't know are exchanging an ad-free experience for a discount on a low-end mobile phone?
Honestly, what do you have to complain about?
What if they also want to run a decent text editor?
Do you watch Bosnian Bill? That dude is awesome!
He's a time thief. A drain on the economy. I can't even begin to estimate the number of hours of lost productivity he's caused.
Why did you decide to use prefixes to indicate the type of a variable ($@%)?
Isn't it obvious? It was to make the interpreter easier to write!
It is weird, but I have little reason to doubt his claim. Do some digging around and you'll find quite a few studies dealing with what has been termed the 'racial empathy gap'.
It's implied that the person shouting "Hey Siri, Call an Ambulance" is doing so with the intention of initiating that action on another person's phone, possibly a group.
Some people seem to have this wacky idea that 'Hey, Siri" and "Okay, Google" respond only to their voice. That's not even a little bit true. This means that anyone can initiate an action on your phone without your consent. That should make you a little nervous.
The problem is the question is in the form of "Can I/we do/have _____ yet/now?"
The answer is "no".
You just can't appreciate the quality design. Some of us are willing to pay for the superior experience that comes from using Apple energy. Honestly, once you try it, you can't go back to using anything else. Even the so-called high-end electrons from other companies feel cheep and unpolished. Yeah, the specs may seem better on paper, but the brilliantly crafted combination of current and voltage you get from Apple just can't be matched. It's all about the experience.
I would leant Kanji - its been tested as a UI for over 4,000 years
Yeah, but the goal was to keep the bulk of the population illiterate.
Things have only recently improved. "In the 1990 Population Census, the literacy rate of the population aged 60 and over was 50.4% for males and 10.7% for females" (From: The World Bank Gender Gaps in China: Facts and Figures October 2006) To give you some idea about how far they've come in recent years. It's not a writing system known for it's ease-of-use.
Japan has a word for kanji illiteracy (kanji yomenai). I remember reading something years ago about an "illiterate" government official (prime minister?) but can't seem to find anything online. Unsurprisingly, kanji use seems to be dropping in the digital age. There's even some speculation about "character amnesia" resulting from its waning use.
As a "UI" it's intentionally antagonistic. It's not something to preserve, it's something to purge.
It's okay. That was over 30 years ago. Let it go, man. Just let it go.
That's hasn't been true for a while. Packaged web apps are essentially identical to other apps, negating your concerns entirely, but that's not what you have in mind. For those, standards like application cache and other offline features are quickly making differentiating between web apps and 'native' apps meaningless. It takes very little effort to make a web app function completely offline. (The benefits to the developer/distributors are obvious.) Download it once, and it's stored locally in perpetuity -- just like any other app.
Oddly enough, with Apple and Google happily removing apps from users devices without either warning or their consent, web apps might very well offer you more control.
Downloading software from shady online sources is suddenly risky? Say it isn't so!
For clarity: It's the right of the people to keep and bear arms that shall not be infringed. Presumably to protect themselves against the earlier mentioned well-regulated militia...
I don't see how, given how frequently Guido breaks compatibility.
To add to arth1's EDLIN, I'll also add edit (which came later) and copy (ex. copy con myfile.bat) Old stuff, likely a bit before your time.
That's not a debate. No one sane would willingly admit to liking K&R style brackets.
played on a full-sized coffee table using only mechanical parts.
Sounds super neat.
aided by some large Arduinos and other homemade electronics (along with rainbow LED lights to create the pixels for the score).
Oh... well... so much for that.
That's pretty funny, but he's not off the mark. Voice recognition software loves my voice. I've had great results even on crummy old software from the mid-90's. I've had success getting the things to recognize all sorts of unusual words, words that sound similar to common words, etc. That's great for me, but no one else I know has had the luck with voice recognition software that I've had. I have very little doubt that there are people on the opposite end of the spectrum as well, who can't get the software to recognize their voice well at all.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "they're saying it wrong" but it's pretty clear that their voice is why they have so much trouble with the software. Ultimately, it's the software's fault, as the technology is obviously not as advanced as we like to pretend.
I don't see how your analogy is relevant here.