Why has there been so much Apple crap here on Slashdot lately? I
Steve Jobs just died. In order to become a saint he must go through a process of beautification. Basically Apple zealots have to stand around and discuss how he invented EVERYTHING from air to slice bread and how it is only through the miracle of his genius that we all basically are allowed to live. Anything positive he had anything to do with must be exaggerated. Anything negative must be minimized or excused.
Meanwhile a true gentleman and pioneer of modern computing like Ritchie dies and no one outside of nerddom even know who he is. Welcome to a world dominated by idiots and fame based on monkey sociology. Yes even nerds can be idiots.
Why should a small business invest time, hardware, and most importantly personnel on something that's not their core competency? Power, water, internet should be basic utilities you hook up to and use. Email is a commodity service. You don't need to hire and train someone to run it if you can just write a small check and never worry about it again.
If you're without water or power for 30 minutes it won't cost your business. Some businesses are very adversely affected by even such a short outage. It is always your core business to continue trading.
Don't limit you options based on the geographical factor. If the male/female ratio and the party scene are not important, then the location shouldn't be either.
I'd go much further than saying don't limit your options. I'd say that unless you're prepared to do just about whatever it takes, don't try for something so competitive. There are people who'd sell their grandmothers to do that kind of work. At least moving usually doesn't violate any ethical boundaries.
Also have a backup plan. You should reach for the stars (pun intended) but have a much more sensible mundane fallback option that is less competitive. Not everyone gets to be a rockstar, even if they play an instrument well.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Since you're anonymous and we don't know who your employer is, you're just being pretentious.
Nothing to do with being pretentious. We've been asked to clarify that any post we make online is our own personal opinion. Nothing wrong with doing what your employer asks.
Now did you have a point to make or were you just trolling?
So basically it's Google voice commands with a bunch of extra syntax to try to fake human comprehension. There was a curious 10 second pause before every answer and some questions it just wouldn't produce a response to. This feels very beta I have to say.
Google voice meets Eliza demoted to personal assistance for her incompetence;-)
"Is it going to rain tomorrow?" "Text my wife that I'll be there in 5 minutes." "Remind me at 6PM tomorrow to call the doctor." "How do I get home?"
"Siri has already told you to stop fucking skanks you pick up on the highway. It's going to rain shit for you tomorrow as I just texted your wife and included why you'll be there in 5 minutes. The doctor's appointment will show you have the clap. I have no idea how to get home because there is no satellite signal. Have you been fucking skanks under bridges again?"
That's fine for larger organizations, but for medium/small organizations that's hardly a fair argument. I happen to live in an area where there are maybe 5 people that could competently run a mail server of any size, 2 of which I trust and one of them is me. There just isn't enough talent out here for everyone to host their own email. So either they go with out email, or they externally host.
Gimme a break. It's not rocket science and it could be taught to an intelligent high school student. Clearly what you need is education in your local area, instead businesses entrusting themselves to the whims of a large corporation who's trying to offer the lowest cost service it can..
We like to use this description about services we don't like, but exactly the same is true of Slashdot - we are the commodity of Slashdot, we are the product -- or any Google service.
Difference is I don't lose millions of dollars if Slashdot goes down, or I can't do a Google search for a couple of days.
Google has already done voice for a long time and did Iris in 8 hours shortly after Isis came out and you're running this article? You really are an internet whore!:)
Me: Siri, filter Internet slashvertising Siri: I'm sorry, but I can't do that. Me: Siri, remove Internet whoring archives Siri: Did you mean find Internet whores? Me: No Siri, you piece of shit! I don't wan to see articles full of bullshit Siri: Did you mean you want to order manure from the Internet? Me: Fuck you, Siri! Siri: I'm sorry I don't know how to fuck you, Me: Of course you fucking don't you piece of shit Siri: Okay ordering manure from manure.com. How many tons Me: Arrrghhhh! Siri: Okay ordering 8 tons of manure from manure.com. Order placed.
You really think outsourcing something as basic as being able to compose an email or a word processing document or spreadsheet is a good idea? The stupidity boggles the mind. Yeah, let's increase the number of ways you're always at the mercy of your service providers and see what that does for your "core business".
Lesson is don't be lazy. Unless it's a specialised service that requires something special or you really can live with outages, host it your damn self.
Or even better...spend the money on a vasectomy. It isn't fair to have a child who will be severely disadvantaged in this world by a naive, scared, lazy parent. You shouldn't have kids.
Also clean your gutters.
This is why fuckwits such as yourself shouldn't be allowed to control who has children. Your comments are nothing short vicious abuse, based on a single submission by a poster. By your logic your own troll means that you should not breed. Clearly you are too aggressive, judgemental and self important. So clean your own fucking gutters before telling others to..Me, I don't pretend I should decide who gets to breed. And this cheap shot piece of MANURE post gets modded as insightful . For shame slashdot!
- Default calendar without search? (Google is a search company!)
Install another one.
I've installed 4. Each of them provides pieces of functionality that should be in any good calendar, but not found in the others.
- Default opt in for sharing every detail about your life with Google
Erm no. The default is to opt out on all Google phones. If it was changed to opt in then you can blame your handset manufacturer / carrier for that one. Not an Android issue.
You're talking nonsense. The minute you want to use calendar or contacts it prompts you to create a Google account and the defaults on several handsets I've seen are to share with Google.
- Need to root phone to get full functionality and remove garbage protected apps
Android doesn't ship with crapware, they are carrier / manufacturer added. Not an Android issue.
Android provides the mechanisms and locks down the phone such that most people don't know how to remove the crapware.
- Separate/data and/system partitions, plenty of crapware on the phone I got which I then removed, but no easy way to repartition.
I actually see this as a plus. Pretty much every other phone / mp3 player / other little thing I've ever updated manages to nuke everything including settings in the process. Also/system only holds the system so there's no need to repartition it. EVER. My phone shipped with less than 10mb free on/system and it hasn't changed in over 2 years of use.
Of course you see this as a plus.
In my world I'm running out of space on/data and have 32MB in/system I'd like to make use of.
- Incompatibility between versions of Android
What incompatibilities? I have over 230 apps on my phone. Not a single problem going from Froyo to Gingerbread or upgrading through a few different versions of Gingerbread. I heard of compatibility problems between Donut and Eclair but then what major OS revision doesn't break something, other than an OS that only provides you a hand full of APIs?
I have plenty of pet peeves but few are directed at Android, and most are like yours directed towards manufacturer stupidities and carrier crapware.
Go and take a look at Market and you'll find many applications that have been broken on certain phones. One app - a profile manager - had to remove options due to new security restrictions.
I've been using my first Android phone for a little over 2 weeks. I think on the whole the capabilities are brilliant but there are some real frustrations. It's still a lot less frustrating to deal with than Windows, and this phone was cheap.
My frustrations with Android - Forced update of "protected" apps on the/system partition - Default calendar without search? (Google is a search company!) - Default opt in for sharing every detail about your life with Google - Need to root phone to get full functionality and remove garbage protected apps - Separate/data and/system partitions, plenty of crapware on the phone I got which I then removed, but no easy way to repartition. - Only some apps can have some portion moved off internal memory. Many phones have very limited internal memory. There are kludges to get around this if you root the phone (such as link2sd, or apps2sd and Titanium backup moving apps to SD card even if not marked to do so, but some apps don't play well with these solutions and you still end up limited) - Incompatibility between versions of Android
The upside: - Google voice is impressive - Heaps of apps, some very good. Lots of apps to quickly look things up - from guitar tab to identifying a song that's playing. Great travel and web apps. Apps that use your phone's GPS into a fully featured instrument, not to mention games. - Familiar Unix commands, even a terminal on the phone
It's excellent that your daughter is doing well. I think the right kind of TV would be beneficial for her, not detrimental. No TV under 2 is a stupid rule. If all you watch is drivel, of course it won't help, but there's plenty of educational programming at a level children can understand that certainly won't harm and may do good. Even the bad advertising can turned into a lesson into how media manipulates. In my experience it is usually luddites who are so incredibly anti-television that they think no television is a good thing.
My wife plays and draws and bakes cookies with my kids too
Your wife plays cookies? I mean drawing them and baking them I can understand (although I can think of more interesting things to draw). But playing them? SCNR:-)
On the scale of time, development of planet (into something habitable) is an extremely long process compared to the observer's lifetime. We get very little more than a miniscule timeslice of what things were for a a very brief moment. Couple that with the fact that we not even getting a current, realtime view of said planet I wonder how useful any of the data is going to be.
There are ways around such things, such as observing multiple planets at different stages of evolution and putting together the pieces. That is for example how we learn about the formation and evolution of star clusters, or the way stars evolve. You can't observe 1 star go through it's entire evolution, but there are lots of stars and you can piece it together. This is how much of astronomical science is typically done. We don't get it right first time every time either. That does not mean it is not worthwhile.
Cut military budge per year in HALF. Take the money and dump it into a starship program. We'll be on Alpha Centauri in five years.
Unfortunately we're living in an age where the word "economic crisis" is the norm and we're seeing old iconic scientific installations closed for lack of funding. I was at an astronomy club meeting last night and have it on good authority that here in Australia the Parkes Radio Telescope is likely to be shut down in the immediate future. Unfathomable. You might as well be suggesting that we fund this by every geek winning the lotto.
My wife plays and draws and bakes cookies and everything else you would expect a young child do.
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Excellent, but I thought this was about children, not child brides.
If you think it's healthy for children not to have an adult willing to engage in play with them, then I pity you. Of course I suspect that's not the case and that it's just a poor attempt at a troll.
Billions and billions of kids have developed fine without any TV at all, it's not necessarily nonsense. There are always outliers and special circumstances that are contrary to "normal", but that is not to say that spending "much of the day" with a TV is helpful to most kids under two years old. There is a big difference between a kid who is over 2 years old discovering Thomas The Tank Engine compared to someone who has not even turned one spending much of the day watching TV.
I did not say that TV was a requirement for a child to develop, so why the straw man?
All children should have limited time in front of the TV, because they should be out doing things with family and friends. But there is no way to severely restrict or eliminate TV, nor to suggest that it isn't a good avenue for learning.
I'd bet my paycheck that your daughter is picking up language faster not because of television, but because of interaction with your family, including your son.
It's easy to say you'd take that bet when there is no way of actually proving one way or another.
And no, I didn't miss the part about children under 2. BOTH my children have been watching TV since their eyes could focus. But they have been doing plenty of other things too, so they don't miss out. At no stage did I say that TV should be their entire world, at any age.
our society is now filled with people that cannot concentrate on anything important for too long, seldom dwell on any actually important topic, and have very little desire to muse on anything. we all want fast paced, lots of colors, quick shallow messages that can be digested without any heavy mental thought given.
Funny, I thought we'd made some pretty ground breaking scientific discoveries, and tech had helped us all push the boundaries of both art and science. But I guess that's too glass half full for you?
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Why has there been so much Apple crap here on Slashdot lately? I
Steve Jobs just died. In order to become a saint he must go through a process of beautification. Basically Apple zealots have to stand around and discuss how he invented EVERYTHING from air to slice bread and how it is only through the miracle of his genius that we all basically are allowed to live. Anything positive he had anything to do with must be exaggerated. Anything negative must be minimized or excused.
Meanwhile a true gentleman and pioneer of modern computing like Ritchie dies and no one outside of nerddom even know who he is. Welcome to a world dominated by idiots and fame based on monkey sociology. Yes even nerds can be idiots.
Why should a small business invest time, hardware, and most importantly personnel on something that's not their core competency? Power, water, internet should be basic utilities you hook up to and use. Email is a commodity service. You don't need to hire and train someone to run it if you can just write a small check and never worry about it again.
If you're without water or power for 30 minutes it won't cost your business. Some businesses are very adversely affected by even such a short outage. It is always your core business to continue trading.
Don't limit you options based on the geographical factor. If the male/female ratio and the party scene are not important, then the location shouldn't be either.
I'd go much further than saying don't limit your options. I'd say that unless you're prepared to do just about whatever it takes, don't try for something so competitive. There are people who'd sell their grandmothers to do that kind of work. At least moving usually doesn't violate any ethical boundaries.
Also have a backup plan. You should reach for the stars (pun intended) but have a much more sensible mundane fallback option that is less competitive. Not everyone gets to be a rockstar, even if they play an instrument well.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Since you're anonymous and we don't know who your employer is, you're just being pretentious.
Nothing to do with being pretentious. We've been asked to clarify that any post we make online is our own personal opinion. Nothing wrong with doing what your employer asks.
Now did you have a point to make or were you just trolling?
So basically it's Google voice commands with a bunch of extra syntax to try to fake human comprehension. There was a curious 10 second pause before every answer and some questions it just wouldn't produce a response to. This feels very beta I have to say.
Google voice meets Eliza demoted to personal assistance for her incompetence ;-)
Dude, seriously, "she"?
You know imbeciles lose their mind when confronted with pseudo-AI. Stories about Eliza abound.
"Is it going to rain tomorrow?" "Text my wife that I'll be there in 5 minutes." "Remind me at 6PM tomorrow to call the doctor." "How do I get home?"
"Siri has already told you to stop fucking skanks you pick up on the highway. It's going to rain shit for you tomorrow as I just texted your wife and included why you'll be there in 5 minutes. The doctor's appointment will show you have the clap. I have no idea how to get home because there is no satellite signal. Have you been fucking skanks under bridges again?"
That's fine for larger organizations, but for medium/small organizations that's hardly a fair argument. I happen to live in an area where there are maybe 5 people that could competently run a mail server of any size, 2 of which I trust and one of them is me. There just isn't enough talent out here for everyone to host their own email. So either they go with out email, or they externally host.
Gimme a break. It's not rocket science and it could be taught to an intelligent high school student. Clearly what you need is education in your local area, instead businesses entrusting themselves to the whims of a large corporation who's trying to offer the lowest cost service it can..
We like to use this description about services we don't like, but exactly the same is true of Slashdot - we are the commodity of Slashdot, we are the product -- or any Google service.
Difference is I don't lose millions of dollars if Slashdot goes down, or I can't do a Google search for a couple of days.
Google has already done voice for a long time and did Iris in 8 hours shortly after Isis came out and you're running this article? You really are an internet whore! :)
Me: Siri, filter Internet slashvertising
Siri: I'm sorry, but I can't do that.
Me: Siri, remove Internet whoring archives
Siri: Did you mean find Internet whores?
Me: No Siri, you piece of shit! I don't wan to see articles full of bullshit
Siri: Did you mean you want to order manure from the Internet?
Me: Fuck you, Siri!
Siri: I'm sorry I don't know how to fuck you,
Me: Of course you fucking don't you piece of shit
Siri: Okay ordering manure from manure.com. How many tons
Me: Arrrghhhh!
Siri: Okay ordering 8 tons of manure from manure.com. Order placed.
...where the customer is the commodity.
You really think outsourcing something as basic as being able to compose an email or a word processing document or spreadsheet is a good idea? The stupidity boggles the mind. Yeah, let's increase the number of ways you're always at the mercy of your service providers and see what that does for your "core business".
Lesson is don't be lazy. Unless it's a specialised service that requires something special or you really can live with outages, host it your damn self.
Or even better...spend the money on a vasectomy. It isn't fair to have a child who will be severely disadvantaged in this world by a naive, scared, lazy parent. You shouldn't have kids.
Also clean your gutters.
This is why fuckwits such as yourself shouldn't be allowed to control who has children. Your comments are nothing short vicious abuse, based on a single submission by a poster. By your logic your own troll means that you should not breed. Clearly you are too aggressive, judgemental and self important. So clean your own fucking gutters before telling others to..Me, I don't pretend I should decide who gets to breed. And this cheap shot piece of MANURE post gets modded as insightful . For shame slashdot!
Typical RTFM attitude.
- Default calendar without search? (Google is a search company!)
Install another one.
I've installed 4. Each of them provides pieces of functionality that should be in any good calendar, but not found in the others.
- Default opt in for sharing every detail about your life with Google
Erm no. The default is to opt out on all Google phones. If it was changed to opt in then you can blame your handset manufacturer / carrier for that one. Not an Android issue.
You're talking nonsense. The minute you want to use calendar or contacts it prompts you to create a Google account and the defaults on several handsets I've seen are to share with Google.
- Need to root phone to get full functionality and remove garbage protected apps
Android doesn't ship with crapware, they are carrier / manufacturer added. Not an Android issue.
Android provides the mechanisms and locks down the phone such that most people don't know how to remove the crapware.
- Separate /data and /system partitions, plenty of crapware on the phone I got which I then removed, but no easy way to repartition.
I actually see this as a plus. Pretty much every other phone / mp3 player / other little thing I've ever updated manages to nuke everything including settings in the process. Also /system only holds the system so there's no need to repartition it. EVER. My phone shipped with less than 10mb free on /system and it hasn't changed in over 2 years of use.
Of course you see this as a plus.
In my world I'm running out of space on /data and have 32MB in /system I'd like to make use of.
- Incompatibility between versions of Android
What incompatibilities? I have over 230 apps on my phone. Not a single problem going from Froyo to Gingerbread or upgrading through a few different versions of Gingerbread. I heard of compatibility problems between Donut and Eclair but then what major OS revision doesn't break something, other than an OS that only provides you a hand full of APIs?
I have plenty of pet peeves but few are directed at Android, and most are like yours directed towards manufacturer stupidities and carrier crapware.
Go and take a look at Market and you'll find many applications that have been broken on certain phones. One app - a profile manager - had to remove options due to new security restrictions.
"I used to be legit. I was too legit. I was too legit to quit. but now I'm not legit. I'm unlegit. And for that reason, I must quit." ~ Rod Kimble
Are you absolutely sure that's not Dr. Suess?
I've been using my first Android phone for a little over 2 weeks. I think on the whole the capabilities are brilliant but there are some real frustrations. It's still a lot less frustrating to deal with than Windows, and this phone was cheap.
My frustrations with Android /system partition /data and /system partitions, plenty of crapware on the phone I got which I then removed, but no easy way to repartition.
- Forced update of "protected" apps on the
- Default calendar without search? (Google is a search company!)
- Default opt in for sharing every detail about your life with Google
- Need to root phone to get full functionality and remove garbage protected apps
- Separate
- Only some apps can have some portion moved off internal memory. Many phones have very limited internal memory. There are kludges to get around this if you root the phone (such as link2sd, or apps2sd and Titanium backup moving apps to SD card even if not marked to do so, but some apps don't play well with these solutions and you still end up limited)
- Incompatibility between versions of Android
The upside:
- Google voice is impressive
- Heaps of apps, some very good. Lots of apps to quickly look things up - from guitar tab to identifying a song that's playing. Great travel and web apps. Apps that use your phone's GPS into a fully featured instrument, not to mention games.
- Familiar Unix commands, even a terminal on the phone
It's excellent that your daughter is doing well. I think the right kind of TV would be beneficial for her, not detrimental. No TV under 2 is a stupid rule. If all you watch is drivel, of course it won't help, but there's plenty of educational programming at a level children can understand that certainly won't harm and may do good. Even the bad advertising can turned into a lesson into how media manipulates. In my experience it is usually luddites who are so incredibly anti-television that they think no television is a good thing.
Your wife plays cookies? I mean drawing them and baking them I can understand (although I can think of more interesting things to draw). But playing them? :-)
SCNR
Sorry, don't get the joke?
Get a native English speaker (there must be some out there) to correct and explain what you originally wrote.
Get a life and stop trolling.
On the scale of time, development of planet (into something habitable) is an extremely long process compared to the observer's lifetime. We get very little more than a miniscule timeslice of what things were for a a very brief moment. Couple that with the fact that we not even getting a current, realtime view of said planet I wonder how useful any of the data is going to be.
There are ways around such things, such as observing multiple planets at different stages of evolution and putting together the pieces. That is for example how we learn about the formation and evolution of star clusters, or the way stars evolve. You can't observe 1 star go through it's entire evolution, but there are lots of stars and you can piece it together. This is how much of astronomical science is typically done. We don't get it right first time every time either. That does not mean it is not worthwhile.
Cut military budge per year in HALF. Take the money and dump it into a starship program. We'll be on Alpha Centauri in five years.
Unfortunately we're living in an age where the word "economic crisis" is the norm and we're seeing old iconic scientific installations closed for lack of funding. I was at an astronomy club meeting last night and have it on good authority that here in Australia the Parkes Radio Telescope is likely to be shut down in the immediate future. Unfathomable. You might as well be suggesting that we fund this by every geek winning the lotto.
This is definitely a society in decline.
My wife plays and draws and bakes cookies and everything else you would expect a young child do.
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Excellent, but I thought this was about children, not child brides.
If you think it's healthy for children not to have an adult willing to engage in play with them, then I pity you. Of course I suspect that's not the case and that it's just a poor attempt at a troll.
No way you should severly restrict is what I meant to say.
Billions and billions of kids have developed fine without any TV at all, it's not necessarily nonsense. There are always outliers and special circumstances that are contrary to "normal", but that is not to say that spending "much of the day" with a TV is helpful to most kids under two years old. There is a big difference between a kid who is over 2 years old discovering Thomas The Tank Engine compared to someone who has not even turned one spending much of the day watching TV.
I did not say that TV was a requirement for a child to develop, so why the straw man?
All children should have limited time in front of the TV, because they should be out doing things with family and friends. But there is no way to severely restrict or eliminate TV, nor to suggest that it isn't a good avenue for learning.
It's easy to say you'd take that bet when there is no way of actually proving one way or another.
And no, I didn't miss the part about children under 2. BOTH my children have been watching TV since their eyes could focus. But they have been doing plenty of other things too, so they don't miss out. At no stage did I say that TV should be their entire world, at any age.
our society is now filled with people that cannot concentrate on anything important for too long, seldom dwell on any actually important topic, and have very little desire to muse on anything. we all want fast paced, lots of colors, quick shallow messages that can be digested without any heavy mental thought given.
Funny, I thought we'd made some pretty ground breaking scientific discoveries, and tech had helped us all push the boundaries of both art and science. But I guess that's too glass half full for you?