Tech Dirt is not a news outlet. Tech Dirt is a self-proclaimed rumor mill.
Right, so nothing they say can possibly be true, despite references to different studies from University of Pennsylvania, Pew Research and University of Delaware?
This is exactly the issue that causes Fake news. You choose to believe something based on who says it, rather than the actual content being said.
"Set doors to armed"? You do realise that the pressure gradient on a plane is reversed from what you get in a sinking car? If you could open the latch, the door would fly open by itself, and if you tried to stop it, you'd be going with it.
I can only assume you've never seen a plane door. Hint: they don't open outwards like a car door.
You mean Jon Stewart the comedian? Because I don't know of any Jon Stewart the journalist...
The funny part is that the Daily show often contained more news than the actual news
And at least the Daily Show is sometimes funny. Right wing fake news is always angry. I wonder why that is?
It's the school system that created all this snowflake syndrome we have now. You think that shit starts in college? I have news for you.
Don't you find it ironic that people who've suddenly adopted the use of the word "snowflake" are themselves the very thing they are accusing others of being?
Honestly I prefer european chocolate as it's not as overwhelmingly sweet. and anyone that actually likes chocolate likes a good dark chocolate that is already not as sweet.
Most popular chocolate brands wouldn't even qualify as chocolate. It is really is more like chocolate flavoured sugar.
This is the best stuff I've found: http://www.williescacao.com/pu...
It has 40% less sugar than Hersheys out of the box, and tastes a million miles better.
Having been brought up on Cadbury, I can no longer eat it. Once you get used to real chocolate, the supermarket stuff is just shit.
People on slashdot would have a hard time multiplying a number by 0.4
Indeed they would not. However they do sometimes stumble about when to multiply a number by 0.4.
Well technically you can multiply by 0.4 then subtract from the original number, this is how I do these sorts of sums in my head (multiply everything in factors of 10, 0.1, 0.01 etc then add/subtract as necessary)
Build phones with a replaceable battery, with actual keys to type in a phone number or to flip up/down in the phone book, with slots for SD cards and plugs for micro USB.
I know it sounds crazy, but I have that odd feeling that there just MIGHT be a market for something like this.
Really? Because outside of nerd forums I see no real demand for any of this. And even in here most people don't care for it.
USB charging is good, so you can use anyone else's charger, and a head phone jack is good, because most people don't own stupid BT headphones. But outside that the rest is negligible.
If Nokia starts designing handsets again, this time with Android, I'll be in principle interested.
Why do you care? Handsets these days are all just rectangle glass touch screens. And since the software is all third party there is nothing to design.
Handsets are commodity items my next one will probably be a cheaper Chinese version that does 99% of the name brand for 2/3rds the price.
No. They're based in Finland. Hopefully he will follow through and eliminate nafta, cafta, and any talk of the TPP in order to level the playing field for American companies, though.
By level the playing field are you using the Military definition of leveling?
Because reducing your trading market from 7 billion to only 300 million will do exactly that.
Honestly, how stupid is Twitter's management? Here is one person who has helped Twitter actually eclipse the MSM, despite the fact that nobody want to buy them, and this is how they wanna treat him? Go right ahead, and he can dry up the Twitter swamp.
Did it ever occur to you that Twitter management are using the age old marketing stunt of controversy purely to generate more interest?
They won't limit Trump at all, and if they did it would purely a superficial threat be to generate even more controversy, and more free press.
Twitter management would like to thank you for contributing to the cause
Ah, yes. Let's ban, ban, ban on our way to obscurity.
Regulation is what separates us from the jungle animals. I always find it funny when Americans think total freedom will lead them anywhere other than back to the jungle.
Banning names and symbols doesn't make their impact or ideas go away - if anything it keeps them more in memory.
Sometimes it does. There are plenty of historical figures whose name no-one remembers because their enemies extinguished their memory from record.
We knew about the Nazis because some of us lived it. Their children knew because it had a big impact, and their grandchildren knew about through history lessons. But sooner or later, in a generation or two, the Nazis will mean as much as Visigoths or Vandals, a mere historical footnote that will be parodied rather than feared.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure SJW's will still be free to call every Trump support a racist, sexist, homphobe. And Black Lives Matter supporters will still be able to post whatever vile shit they please about those evil white people. But the second someone dares post "#alllivesmatter" or uses the term "illegal immigrants" it's HATE SPEECH!!!!!!!!
This smacks of the "exclusivity of our times" — a common misconception, that the very peak of history is somehow unprecedented.
An uncensored global communications platform that allows instant messaging to billions of people in real time is unprecedented, whether you choose to believe that or not.
Newspapers have real news while smartphones have fake ones, which are much funnier.
Every news agency has an online presence. So with the phone you get a phone and newspaper (and a GPS, and a camera, and email, and a banking system, and a gaming machine, almost unlimited content etc etc), whereas with the newspaper you only get the newspaper. And they cost about the same. And you think it's the phone that is priced too high?
I see all the millennials walking down the street, staring at their phones and not where they are walking. I never see anyone walking and reading a newspaper or book while on the street.
Did it ever occur to you that they are reading the newspaper or book on their device?
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I found that Google disagrees with your statement.
No it doesn't. If you check videos instead of pictures, you'll see how it works.
Tech Dirt is not a news outlet. Tech Dirt is a self-proclaimed rumor mill.
Right, so nothing they say can possibly be true, despite references to different studies from University of Pennsylvania, Pew Research and University of Delaware?
This is exactly the issue that causes Fake news. You choose to believe something based on who says it, rather than the actual content being said.
"Set doors to armed"? You do realise that the pressure gradient on a plane is reversed from what you get in a sinking car? If you could open the latch, the door would fly open by itself, and if you tried to stop it, you'd be going with it.
I can only assume you've never seen a plane door. Hint: they don't open outwards like a car door.
If you stop stealing cars, you have no risk of being killed by being locked inside a car.
These storiesseem to pop up every so often which debunk your theory.
You mean Jon Stewart the comedian? Because I don't know of any Jon Stewart the journalist...
The funny part is that the Daily show often contained more news than the actual news
And at least the Daily Show is sometimes funny. Right wing fake news is always angry. I wonder why that is?
It's the school system that created all this snowflake syndrome we have now. You think that shit starts in college? I have news for you.
Don't you find it ironic that people who've suddenly adopted the use of the word "snowflake" are themselves the very thing they are accusing others of being?
or just multiply by 0.6
You have to execute a calculation to work out that 40% is the same is the number times 0.6. ie 40% is 0.4, 1 - 0.4 = 0.6. So it's same same.
Honestly I prefer european chocolate as it's not as overwhelmingly sweet. and anyone that actually likes chocolate likes a good dark chocolate that is already not as sweet.
Most popular chocolate brands wouldn't even qualify as chocolate. It is really is more like chocolate flavoured sugar.
This is the best stuff I've found: http://www.williescacao.com/pu...
It has 40% less sugar than Hersheys out of the box, and tastes a million miles better.
Having been brought up on Cadbury, I can no longer eat it. Once you get used to real chocolate, the supermarket stuff is just shit.
People on slashdot would have a hard time multiplying a number by 0.4
Indeed they would not. However they do sometimes stumble about when to multiply a number by 0.4.
Well technically you can multiply by 0.4 then subtract from the original number, this is how I do these sorts of sums in my head (multiply everything in factors of 10, 0.1, 0.01 etc then add/subtract as necessary)
Build phones with a replaceable battery, with actual keys to type in a phone number or to flip up/down in the phone book, with slots for SD cards and plugs for micro USB.
I know it sounds crazy, but I have that odd feeling that there just MIGHT be a market for something like this.
Really? Because outside of nerd forums I see no real demand for any of this. And even in here most people don't care for it.
USB charging is good, so you can use anyone else's charger, and a head phone jack is good, because most people don't own stupid BT headphones. But outside that the rest is negligible.
If Nokia starts designing handsets again, this time with Android, I'll be in principle interested.
Why do you care? Handsets these days are all just rectangle glass touch screens. And since the software is all third party there is nothing to design.
Handsets are commodity items my next one will probably be a cheaper Chinese version that does 99% of the name brand for 2/3rds the price.
Will he fix Nokia? More Trump news please!!!!
No. They're based in Finland. Hopefully he will follow through and eliminate nafta, cafta, and any talk of the TPP in order to level the playing field for American companies, though.
By level the playing field are you using the Military definition of leveling?
Because reducing your trading market from 7 billion to only 300 million will do exactly that.
I'm guessing this app will be popular in New Zealand right now
That only works if you are willing to kill all of the pretenders in the next generation(s) and rape their women until you snuff out the memory.
That is a shorter term option, there are also longer term options available which include regulations and censorship and time.
Give it another decade and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who remembers directly.
Exactly. So if you extrapolate that over multiple generations over long enough time, eventually even the most powerful symbols become meaningless.
If that's the case, that's playing with fire.
Playing with fire is how media companies make money. Or are you new around here?
Honestly, how stupid is Twitter's management? Here is one person who has helped Twitter actually eclipse the MSM, despite the fact that nobody want to buy them, and this is how they wanna treat him? Go right ahead, and he can dry up the Twitter swamp.
Did it ever occur to you that Twitter management are using the age old marketing stunt of controversy purely to generate more interest?
They won't limit Trump at all, and if they did it would purely a superficial threat be to generate even more controversy, and more free press.
Twitter management would like to thank you for contributing to the cause
Ah, yes. Let's ban, ban, ban on our way to obscurity.
Regulation is what separates us from the jungle animals. I always find it funny when Americans think total freedom will lead them anywhere other than back to the jungle.
Banning names and symbols doesn't make their impact or ideas go away - if anything it keeps them more in memory.
Sometimes it does. There are plenty of historical figures whose name no-one remembers because their enemies extinguished their memory from record.
We knew about the Nazis because some of us lived it. Their children knew because it had a big impact, and their grandchildren knew about through history lessons. But sooner or later, in a generation or two, the Nazis will mean as much as Visigoths or Vandals, a mere historical footnote that will be parodied rather than feared.
I wish I had mod points to push this up to +5.
Alot of folks just don't understand the frustration that the liberalists create by basically saying we can't say anything bad about anything.
That's the common myth that gets floated whenever censorship is raised. That isn't how it works.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure SJW's will still be free to call every Trump support a racist, sexist, homphobe. And Black Lives Matter supporters will still be able to post whatever vile shit they please about those evil white people. But the second someone dares post "#alllivesmatter" or uses the term "illegal immigrants" it's HATE SPEECH!!!!!!!!
Um no, but you keep believing the hype...
This smacks of the "exclusivity of our times" — a common misconception, that the very peak of history is somehow unprecedented.
An uncensored global communications platform that allows instant messaging to billions of people in real time is unprecedented, whether you choose to believe that or not.
Newspapers have real news while smartphones have fake ones, which are much funnier.
Every news agency has an online presence. So with the phone you get a phone and newspaper (and a GPS, and a camera, and email, and a banking system, and a gaming machine, almost unlimited content etc etc), whereas with the newspaper you only get the newspaper. And they cost about the same. And you think it's the phone that is priced too high?
* and much more
It's a great deal which is why $1000 phones are still popular.
I see all the millennials walking down the street, staring at their phones and not where they are walking. I never see anyone walking and reading a newspaper or book while on the street.
Did it ever occur to you that they are reading the newspaper or book on their device?
I just can't believe that people are paying these prices for phones. The Pixel XL is $870! Probably the iPhone 7 is similar. Seriously? For a phone?
$870 over two years is just over $1/day. Most people spend more than that on a coffee or newspaper. Which one offers more value?