When am I supposed to leave it at home according to you?
We weren't talking about leaving it at home- just the opposite.
We were specifically discussing people that can't put the phone down at home, carrying it around with them from room to room while they presumably do other things, but who are still constantly fiddling with their phone at the same time. Pretty much the exact opposite of what you asked above.
When I go out I take my phone with me (always), but when I'm at home it just sits on a counter, I don't carry it around with me at home.
Exactly. Do you carry your phone around when you're at home? Is it always by your side? If so, you are the problem...not the phone.
^^^^This this this.
That's always been kind of a secret litmus test for me- does a person carry their phone on them everywhere all the time, even at home? Is it always always always in reach?
If so, that tells me something about them, and it's almost never a positive thing.
"He discovered that when the browser reports itself as being a Linux browser, Apple's website will block the access by throwing a 'Bad Gateway' error."
That sounds more like Apple pretending there's an error, since a 'Bad Gateway' isn't normally something that a browser could cause (unless you have a really, really shit site).
Something similar happens on Hotmail when you go there with some browsers, the page will refuse to display and chokes up an error. Tell me how browser "A" requesting a page is materially different than browser "B" requesting a page? Unless they're going off of a User Agent string, there shouldn't really be any way the site would even know what's on the other end.
If a tree grows in a funny shape and an artist shapes a tree into a funny shape I don't think they're the same, because one is an act of expression and the other is just a random quirk of nature.
And yet people who take pictures of mountain ranges and images of trees formed a certain way are producing art, at least according to some people. Ansel Adams took natural scenes, photographed them (not changing anything) and his works are widely regarded as art.
Perhaps "art" just means "something that can be experienced by an observer", regardless of what is actually being experienced.
It's a thick fuzzy line and subject to interpretation. One person's paint splatter is another person's art, and vice versa. For example, Jackson Pollock, AKA "Jack the Dripper".
That doesn't mean it's good art (whatever "good" is), it just means that anyone can point to anything and declare that it's "art". And they'll be right, in some sense.
Let's hope that this new service comes with micro-transactions and in-game purchases, because that's what people really want- more ways to drain your wallet.
Nothing nefarious here, just good ol' Microsoft secretly fucking over you and your PC behind your back.
I will say this is different; usually they do it right to your face.
So glad I switched to Mint, not that I ever would have allowed Edge* to run. The ONLY thing Edge might be good for is downloading another browser, beyond that it's pure rubbish.
Some people just have way too much spare time on their hands. Recycle Aluminium. It's basically electricity in solid form, considering the crazy energy involved in refining Bauxite.
^^^^^This.
I read about this, and while I don't recall the exact numbers, the energy expended to get a pound of (new) aluminum compared to energy expended recycling aluminum was an insane difference, like 10,000 times or something. Maybe more, I might be off by an order of magnitude. But yeah, recycling aluminum is practically free compared to producing it in the first place.
And not only that, but Jazz music is the worst, so if you play jazz you're destroying the moral fabric of America!
---------- -------- From Ladies Home Journal, December, 1921 by John R. McMahon
Arguments as to Jazz being a Nation-wide Scourge EXPERTS tell in this article the nation-wide aspects of our jazz scourge. They say legal prohibition of all dancing may come.
Unspeakable Jazz Must Go! It is worse than Saloon and Scarlet Vice, Testify Professional Dance Experts – Only a Few Cities are Curbing Evil.
A reform movement has been started by cities and volunteer groups. A committee of women is helping to regulate in Chicago.
It looks as if the common people are in reaction against “common" behavior. Decency is regaining popularity among those who work for a living.
It takes thousands of times more energy to transport a CD from manufacturer to distribution center to consumer on the UPS/Amazon truck... or even more to store to consumer.
Hey hey, let's not get all "facty" here. We have standards on Slashdot and expect you not to exceed them.
That's probably why it always felt so gosh darn warm and cozy in there.
But seriously, I question the accuracy of the article....you'd have to be using some sort of processed uranium to get the level of radioactivity claimed, you won't get that from common ore specimens.
How about a normal interface that isn't filled with gobs of unused crap?
It seems like the harder they try to square the circle between lots of features and a clean, simple interface, both lose out and get worse. The feature bloat never stops and the interface becomes more finicky, crowded, and less intuitive.
I'd still want an ad blocker. It's optional anyways. Don't like the performance? Don't install the extension.
Yup.
Frankly, until companies can prevent malicious ads from being broadcast over their networks, I'll use an ad blocker. Which means for that reason alone I'll be running an ad blocker forever.
But it's not just the potential for malicious adware to wreck your PC that I hate. Ads take up a lot of page space, they increase load times, they increase bandwidth usage, and they're a fucking distraction.
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No, I've heard this joke a million times but couldn't resist.
"By and large I see social media as a relatively uninteresting, shallow, and not very well done."
So, exactly like most face to face interaction!
I suppose my definition could apply to me as well, at least according to my first wife.
When am I supposed to leave it at home according to you?
We weren't talking about leaving it at home- just the opposite.
We were specifically discussing people that can't put the phone down at home, carrying it around with them from room to room while they presumably do other things, but who are still constantly fiddling with their phone at the same time. Pretty much the exact opposite of what you asked above.
When I go out I take my phone with me (always), but when I'm at home it just sits on a counter, I don't carry it around with me at home.
Breaking News: Guy goes without his phone for a while, doesn't actually die; film at 11.
Oh wait, he already uploaded it to Twitter, Youtube and Instagram, never mind.
Exactly. Do you carry your phone around when you're at home? Is it always by your side? If so, you are the problem...not the phone.
^^^^This this this.
That's always been kind of a secret litmus test for me- does a person carry their phone on them everywhere all the time, even at home? Is it always always always in reach?
If so, that tells me something about them, and it's almost never a positive thing.
Old people tend to ignor it as they don't usually fully appreciate what it is.
Or maybe we see it for exactly what it is, which explains our lack of interest.
By and large I see social media as a relatively uninteresting, shallow, and not very well done. Honestly, I just don't see the point. (??)
However, if that's your thing, I say bravo to you and carry on. Whatever floats your boat.
"It's an unnerving sensation, being alone with your thoughts in the year 2019," writes New York Times technology columnist Kevin RooseM
No, it's not...unless you don't have a brain that can amuse or entertain itself.
Where will they bury the survivors?
I don't think that burying survivors is legal.
"He discovered that when the browser reports itself as being a Linux browser, Apple's website will block the access by throwing a 'Bad Gateway' error."
That sounds more like Apple pretending there's an error, since a 'Bad Gateway' isn't normally something that a browser could cause (unless you have a really, really shit site).
Something similar happens on Hotmail when you go there with some browsers, the page will refuse to display and chokes up an error. Tell me how browser "A" requesting a page is materially different than browser "B" requesting a page? Unless they're going off of a User Agent string, there shouldn't really be any way the site would even know what's on the other end.
If a tree grows in a funny shape and an artist shapes a tree into a funny shape I don't think they're the same, because one is an act of expression and the other is just a random quirk of nature.
And yet people who take pictures of mountain ranges and images of trees formed a certain way are producing art, at least according to some people. Ansel Adams took natural scenes, photographed them (not changing anything) and his works are widely regarded as art.
Perhaps "art" just means "something that can be experienced by an observer", regardless of what is actually being experienced.
It's a thick fuzzy line and subject to interpretation. One person's paint splatter is another person's art, and vice versa. For example, Jackson Pollock, AKA "Jack the Dripper".
Anything can be "art".
That doesn't mean it's good art (whatever "good" is), it just means that anyone can point to anything and declare that it's "art". And they'll be right, in some sense.
What I can tell you about that is this: it sounds like you're really into it.
Let's hope that this new service comes with micro-transactions and in-game purchases, because that's what people really want- more ways to drain your wallet.
Yeah, sorry but no way I'm gonna spend almost $2000 on a phone.
If you want to drop that much on a phone, be my guest, but at that price the whole idea is a total no-go for me.
...and compiled it yourself?
Yes, and I wrote the compiler and fabricated the integrated circuits myself.
Nothing nefarious here, just good ol' Microsoft secretly fucking over you and your PC behind your back.
I will say this is different; usually they do it right to your face.
So glad I switched to Mint, not that I ever would have allowed Edge* to run. The ONLY thing Edge might be good for is downloading another browser, beyond that it's pure rubbish.
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*Edge, AKA "The Little Browser That Couldn't"
Some people just have way too much spare time on their hands.
Recycle Aluminium. It's basically electricity in solid form, considering the crazy energy involved in refining Bauxite.
^^^^^This.
I read about this, and while I don't recall the exact numbers, the energy expended to get a pound of (new) aluminum compared to energy expended recycling aluminum was an insane difference, like 10,000 times or something. Maybe more, I might be off by an order of magnitude. But yeah, recycling aluminum is practically free compared to producing it in the first place.
And not only that, but Jazz music is the worst, so if you play jazz you're destroying the moral fabric of America!
---------- --------
From Ladies Home Journal, December, 1921
by John R. McMahon
Arguments as to Jazz being a Nation-wide Scourge
EXPERTS tell in this article the nation-wide aspects of our jazz scourge. They say legal prohibition of all dancing may come.
Unspeakable Jazz Must Go! It is worse than Saloon and Scarlet Vice, Testify Professional Dance Experts – Only a Few Cities are Curbing Evil.
A reform movement has been started by cities and volunteer groups. A committee of women is helping to regulate in Chicago.
It looks as if the common people are in reaction against “common" behavior. Decency is regaining popularity among those who work for a living.
It takes thousands of times more energy to transport a CD from manufacturer to distribution center to consumer on the UPS/Amazon truck... or even more to store to consumer.
Hey hey, let's not get all "facty" here. We have standards on Slashdot and expect you not to exceed them.
That's probably why it always felt so gosh darn warm and cozy in there.
But seriously, I question the accuracy of the article....you'd have to be using some sort of processed uranium to get the level of radioactivity claimed, you won't get that from common ore specimens.
How about a normal interface that isn't filled with gobs of unused crap?
It seems like the harder they try to square the circle between lots of features and a clean, simple interface, both lose out and get worse. The feature bloat never stops and the interface becomes more finicky, crowded, and less intuitive.
TL;DR
Now you're just getting tiresome.
Bullshit - ALL of the most public anti-tax proponents are liberal Hollywood elite.
I stopped reading after the bit about those evil old "liberal Hollywood elite", your language has outed you.
Yes, it's all those "liberal Hollywood elites" to blame for everything, whatever you say. Cool story bro.
I'd still want an ad blocker. It's optional anyways. Don't like the performance? Don't install the extension.
Yup.
Frankly, until companies can prevent malicious ads from being broadcast over their networks, I'll use an ad blocker. Which means for that reason alone I'll be running an ad blocker forever.
But it's not just the potential for malicious adware to wreck your PC that I hate. Ads take up a lot of page space, they increase load times, they increase bandwidth usage, and they're a fucking distraction.
Choosing to not drive does not make you less free.
Yeah it actually does, and in a real-world way, not in some nebulous philosophical sense.
Basically what you're saying is equivalent to "refusing medical care doesn't make you less healthy."
Just tell that blockage in your artery to go away (you can always choose to come back to life later).