What the hell? You keep replying to me in a manner as if you are countering my point, when you are saying the exact same thing I am saying. Are you NOT comprehending what I am posting? Diac asked why they didn't save some of it's fuel to have it leave mercury. My post was saying, even if they could do that, there's nothing to be gained by having it leave mercury...it's better to have it spend it's time and fuel remaining at mercury as long as it can, gathering as much data as it can.
Before you reply to me again, please read the entire chain of posts, back to Diac's original post.
Yes, I know this was the bitter end. That was kind of my point. The person I replied to asked why they didn't just have it break orbit and "blast it away from mercury". I was saying, even if they could have done so (which I'm not sure they ever could have), how would that have been better than what they actually did (ie: leave it there to the bitter end)
I assume it would take a lot of fuel for it to break orbit, but even so...what is to be gained by doing so vs just leaving it there as long as possible to collect whatever data it can until the bitter end?
Yes, that was the same thing I thought when I read it. I went to look it up because I thought maybe I had remembered incorrectly. According to wikipedia, Mercury has a max tempurature of 700K, while Venus has a mean of 737 K
You've posted several reasons why it might be acceptable to choose jquery. However, I think there's an even more compelling reason for why you probably SHOULD use jquery (unless you can come up with a really compelling reason otherwise). I posted about it nearly a year ago: http://mobile.slashdot.org/com...
Here is the most relevant part from my previous post:
You know what I like to actually optimize? Getting things working correctly. Think jquery is a waste? Well, lets look at that fading example above. Pretty darn simple, isn't it? Surely nothing tricky there. So lets see. jQuery seems to work fine. How about that more monstrous vanilla.js version they posted. ok, it's working fine in firefox. How about chromium. Oh interesting. Look at that. It fades out almost all the way, but never totally disappears and gets hidden. Why is that? The code LOOKS to be correct (though perhaps that < 0 should be <= 0...nope, that wasn't it). Ok lets do some debugging of the opacity value on each iteration:
1 0.9 0.8 0.7000000000000001 (uh oh, I see where this is going) 0.6000000000000001 0.5000000000000001 0.40000000000000013 0.30000000000000016 0.20000000000000015 0.10000000000000014 0.10000000000000014 0.10000000000000014
oh, hey. look at that. chromium never lets the value get below 0, so that function keeps getting called forever, but never actually finishes and hides it. OK, so that's one stike against it.
Here's another thought...what happens if the element with id 'thing' doesn't actually exist? Oops, he forgot to check for null, so anything after his.style in the first line of code line will never get executed because the javascript will abort with an error at that line. OK, 2 strikes.
OK, now what about when it is time to reshow the block we just hid. Hmmmm...now was that #thing object set to block or inline display? Oops, he forgot to save the state. We can set it to blank to go back to the default, but what if it was already overridden before we got to the value? Ooops. Strike 3.
Yes, his example could be adjusted to fix all of these issues, but that's the point. The code looks horrendous and it has at least 3 bugs in that simple example so you are going to have to make it even more complex. Meanwhile my jquery example simply worked and I'm already on to the next thing.
No, I don't think he is, but I think maybe you don't understand the relation between boiling point and easily achievable temperature. You put water in a pot and apply heat. That heat then makes its way to the water, heating the water. Once the water reaches it's boiling point, it vaporizes, leaving the pot. Once it's outside of the pot, it's EXTREMELY difficult for you to add more heat to it. Thus if your boiling point is X, it's pretty much impossible to get the water to a temperature greater than X under typical circumstances.
Thus, in him asking "Can you get to 208 degrees F at the internal pressure at which the space station is maintained", the implied question is "does the space station have an atmospheric pressure that results in a water boiling point of 208 degrees F or greater?"
But how funny that the "solution" this CEO proposes to avoid negotiation is "I'll make an offer and you'll take it" instead of, say, "you'll make an offer and I'll take it".
I'd guess that most potential employees would not be happy if it were the latter, but if you have a strong preference for that, I'm sure you are still welcome to state your salary demand in the cover letter.
I have cruise control, thanks. Somebody who can't pay attention to the street signs shouldn't be driving.
Anyone who thinks cruise control is the solution to prevent speeding in non-highway situations (where the speed limit is 35-45mph, and there are traffic lights every half mile) shouldn't be driving.
Neither Assange nor his accuser deny that they had sex. They just disagree over how consensually they had sex.
What, exactly, do they hope to prove from a DNA test?
According to wikipedia:
The allegations are of "non-consensual behaviour within consensual sexual encounters."[120] One of the allegations is that, during consensual intercourse, Assange ejaculated inside of one of the women against her wishes.[121] Assange denies the allegations.[122]
So I think that would explain why they want the sample. He says he didn't, she says he did. If they find a match, then that answers the question. Or it least it could rule out his guilt. It can't prove his guilt for the same reason why the pull-out method of contraception doesn't work.
The only reason we prefer the ugly yellow hue from indandescents is because we are used to i. It isn't "warm", its sucky. Same with thing happened when gas lighting was first replaced by incandescents: people pined for the soft orange glow of gas lights but within a few years people realized how bad that hue was.
Yep, your mind prefers what you already know and like. Another example...120 hz TV's with the motion smoothing feature. You would think a smoother motion video would be preferred by your mind...after all, it's used to seeing reality most of the time, which has an infinite frame rate (or whatever the biological limits are...close enough to infinite). Yet, a good number of people (myself included) prefer the choppiness of 24Hz or 30Hz video. I don't see anything technically wrong with the higher frame rate playback (it's not blurry, distorted, or anything like that) , but I just don't like the look of it. It just looks too fake.
Yep, same here. We converted our whole house to daylight bulbs. Initially it felt a little weird...when you entered the room, it just seemed strange. After weeks you get accustomed to it, and then it actually starts looking a lot better then the crappy yellow lights.
The weird part about the whole process, though (at least for me), is that you don't just get accustomed to the color of the light...you get accustomed to the color of the light in that particular space. We'd convert one room, and after we adjusted we thought it looked so much better, but then we'd convert the next room and it looked strange at first. Then we'd get adjusted to it, and then the next room we did seemed strange again. Your brain gets used to a certain space looking a certain way and just doesn't like it to change, even for the better.
I own that one, and it's really not all that difficult or time consuming. And that's just a home quality tool. I'd have to imagine a professional chef in a restaurant would have to have an even better tool at his/her disposal.
because EO's have to follow the law and president's can't write them at will.
Really? So the executive order that unilaterally modified the ACA to defer corporate compliance with insurance mandates was "follow[ing] the law"? The executive orders that deal with amnesty for illegal aliens are "follow[ing] the law" with regard to legal immigration? The claim that he's going to use Executive Orders to get what he wants done until the congress sends him legislation doing what he likes is "follow[ing] the law"?
legislative branch creates the laws, executive branch enforces the laws, but as always there is discretion involved in enforcing the law. It happens every day. Have you ever been (or known anyone who was) pulled over for speeding but then let off with just a warning, or given a ticket for a less severe infraction instead? That's discretion in enforcement.
But still, it might be ok if the covered courses are useful, and not just "community organizer" type courses. That is to say, something that will train for a marketable skill.
PLEASE tell me you meant that sarcastically, and that you don't actually think "community organizer" can't get you very far in life. Because if you did mean it seriously, in this context it's just hilarious.
No benefits so far, only cons, at least on Nexus 5. 1. The new UI sucks ass
My wife has it on her nexus 4, and I have to agree with you here. The look is just terrible. And WTF is with the new icons on the navigation bar? OK, the old icons might not have been 100% intuitive, but an arrow that turns around and goes back is at least someone obvious to most people. A button shaped like a house is at least fairly obvious. Both of those, once you click it a few times and see what it does, anyone should be able to associate the picture with the action. The overlapping rectangles would be less intuitive to anyone who has never used a desktop OS before, but at least it makes sense to some people. But the new icon...WTF do circle, square, and triangle mean? The only one with the slightest bit of intuitiveness is triangle...it's actually an arrow pointing left, which means "back", but the way it's drawn makes it extremely difficult to associate it with an arrow.
3. The gallery application is also now ruined, as it forces the user to accept G+ account, or he can not access his pictures anymore. Way to go Google, taking pictures as hostages really makes the G+ positively accepted.
Didn't realize that, since we already use G+, but I was sort of shocked when I couldn't find the gallery app the other day and had to use Photos
4. When battery gets below 15%, the system starts nagging via notifications, making noises, and bugging the user, even if the device still has hours and hours of standby time left. Why not complain once and let the user connect charger when he prefers?
Not sure what all you mean, but when I had my nexus 4 with kit kat, it did something similar. It would give you a popup with noise and vibration when you hit 15% and then another 4 or 5 alerts at various percentages. Though I don't recall if it did that when the screen was off, so maybe that's the difference you are noticing.
Actually, you most likely are not exempt. Most HOA's are a deed restriction on the property and it is explicitly worded in such a way that it carries over to all subsequent owners automatically by virtue of you accepting title to the property. It works in the same manner as being a part of your city or township. When you close on the house, you don't sign anything which states you agree you are subject to the ordinances of your city or township, but that doesn't mean you are exempt from those ordinances. Those city/township ordinances are enforced by a deed restriction on the property which automatically carries over to all future owners.
So either 1) you are in one of the rare HOA's which wasn't properly established, or 2) your HOA was formed AFTER your home was originally purcahsed, and no owner since then has voluntarily agreed to join and subject all future owners to it, or 3) you are just lucky that your HOA is run by people clueless enough to not realize you aren't actually exempt.
If enough people were to infiltrate the HOA, could the HOA vote to disband itself? That might be a fun hobby...
Depends on your specific HOA covenants. They will dictate what course of action is necessary to do so. The most common I'm familiar with:
1) The builder actually maintains final authority over the HOA, so it couldn't possibly be disbanded unless the builder agreed (ie: not gonna happen)
2) If there is no builder with final authority (mostly that's older HOAs) then the board can decide to put disbandment up for a vote, in which case a certain percentage (either of all homeowners, or of actual voters) would have to vote in favor of disbandment for it to occur.
It's theoretically possible that the HOA could have final say and not even need the owners to vote, but I've never heard of one actually structured that way.
... authentication is that even if all of the security measures associated with storing and authenticating your fingerprint were utterly unbreachable, your fingerprints can still be taken without your consent, while if you do not want someone accessing data that is guarded by a a secure password, however, then barring vulnerabilities in the security facilities associated with it (which would apply equally to fingerprint security as well anyways), then that information can only be obtained by you voluntarily surrendering it.
In college, I stopped watching television. Afterwards, it just struck me as stupid and self righteous, but maybe that was a reflection of society as a whole.
No, it's not a reflection of society as a whole. You were right the first time....it was stupid and self righteous. But that's just what happens why you are young and stupid and get caught up in that whole "I'm too smart for anything on television, so I won't even own a TV" meme.
2) I can cease production all I want and not have the patent voided, as long as I do not switch production to a different drug designed to do the same thing.
So, you were saying?
You really can't see the loophole in that? The new drug isn't designed to do the same thing. It would do something slightly different. Sure, you could try to reword that, but that's the difficulty with creating laws...you either get too broad and have unintended consequences, or you get too specific and someone finds a way around it on a technicality you didn't anticipate.
Just to recap here, you have basically: 1.) said Apple stuff sucks in the middle of a thread almost designed to be a flame war invitation; 2.) refused to explain why you think Apple sucks with any specificity; and 3.) given a follow-up response akin to "I don't have to tell you why I don't like New Zealanders. Just Google 'New Zealand' and read until your heart is content.'"
You, sir/madam either 1.) win the Internet brilliant troll of the year award; or
Not at all. I never said apple sucks. Don't grab onto my usage of the word "flaws"...I wasn't the one who picked that word. The OP I replied to picked the word and implied one causation and I was just replying he had the causality backward. Then some AC (you? OP? someone else?) got all defensive about it, as if there's not a single logical reason in the world why someone would dislike apple products. I don't see why I'm supposed to provide some sort of dissertation as to why I have the opinion of Apple that I do. I certainly don't see you applying that same standard to the OP to which I was originally applying.
I don't see why you folks are getting your panties in a bunch just because someone doesn't hold Apple as their Lord and Savior.
2.) should ask yourself why you bothered posting not just one comment but also two responses as of this writing where you could have just explained your problems with Apple in less text than it took to explain why it was beneath you to explain why you wouldn't explain what your problem with Apple was why you wouldn't NOMAD DOES NOT COMPUTE.
LOL.....you think making a post about specific problems with Apple would be SHORTER? Yeah, I'm sure that wouldn't start a flurry of replies telling me why I'm wrong. Odd...it appears you are new here on slashdot, yet somehow you have a lower UID number than me.
But you are right in that this thread is getting a bit long. So, despite the fact I generally try to give other posters the courtesy of reading (and, when necessary, replying to) their posts when they took the time to reply to me, I won't extend that same courtesy to you.
Don't go through your specific reasons of dissatisfaction just for me, do it for all the other readers, i'm sure they're interested.
Well, to those people I'll say this: Welcome to Slashdot. The topic has been posted about to death a billion times before. See that search box next to the logo at the top left of the page? Click there, type the word "Apple" and hit enter. Then read until your heart is content. You're welcome.
It's hard to make a founded claim when there was little useful information in your post.
So, when you don't have anything to go on, instead of asking for more information you just make something up?
You've now covered off the time frame but none of the flaws you claim.
Nor will I. I have no interest in going through my specific reasons of dissatisfaction with you. I need neither your validation, nor for you to show me the error of my ways.
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What the hell? You keep replying to me in a manner as if you are countering my point, when you are saying the exact same thing I am saying. Are you NOT comprehending what I am posting? Diac asked why they didn't save some of it's fuel to have it leave mercury. My post was saying, even if they could do that, there's nothing to be gained by having it leave mercury...it's better to have it spend it's time and fuel remaining at mercury as long as it can, gathering as much data as it can.
Before you reply to me again, please read the entire chain of posts, back to Diac's original post.
Yes, I know this was the bitter end. That was kind of my point. The person I replied to asked why they didn't just have it break orbit and "blast it away from mercury". I was saying, even if they could have done so (which I'm not sure they ever could have), how would that have been better than what they actually did (ie: leave it there to the bitter end)
I assume it would take a lot of fuel for it to break orbit, but even so...what is to be gained by doing so vs just leaving it there as long as possible to collect whatever data it can until the bitter end?
Yes, that was the same thing I thought when I read it. I went to look it up because I thought maybe I had remembered incorrectly. According to wikipedia, Mercury has a max tempurature of 700K, while Venus has a mean of 737 K
You've posted several reasons why it might be acceptable to choose jquery. However, I think there's an even more compelling reason for why you probably SHOULD use jquery (unless you can come up with a really compelling reason otherwise). I posted about it nearly a year ago: http://mobile.slashdot.org/com...
Here is the most relevant part from my previous post:
You're confusing boiling point with temperature.
No, I don't think he is, but I think maybe you don't understand the relation between boiling point and easily achievable temperature. You put water in a pot and apply heat. That heat then makes its way to the water, heating the water. Once the water reaches it's boiling point, it vaporizes, leaving the pot. Once it's outside of the pot, it's EXTREMELY difficult for you to add more heat to it. Thus if your boiling point is X, it's pretty much impossible to get the water to a temperature greater than X under typical circumstances.
Thus, in him asking "Can you get to 208 degrees F at the internal pressure at which the space station is maintained", the implied question is "does the space station have an atmospheric pressure that results in a water boiling point of 208 degrees F or greater?"
But how funny that the "solution" this CEO proposes to avoid negotiation is "I'll make an offer and you'll take it" instead of, say, "you'll make an offer and I'll take it".
I'd guess that most potential employees would not be happy if it were the latter, but if you have a strong preference for that, I'm sure you are still welcome to state your salary demand in the cover letter.
I have cruise control, thanks. Somebody who can't pay attention to the street signs shouldn't be driving.
Anyone who thinks cruise control is the solution to prevent speeding in non-highway situations (where the speed limit is 35-45mph, and there are traffic lights every half mile) shouldn't be driving.
Neither Assange nor his accuser deny that they had sex. They just disagree over how consensually they had sex.
What, exactly, do they hope to prove from a DNA test?
According to wikipedia:
The allegations are of "non-consensual behaviour within consensual sexual encounters."[120] One of the allegations is that, during consensual intercourse, Assange ejaculated inside of one of the women against her wishes.[121] Assange denies the allegations.[122]
So I think that would explain why they want the sample. He says he didn't, she says he did. If they find a match, then that answers the question. Or it least it could rule out his guilt. It can't prove his guilt for the same reason why the pull-out method of contraception doesn't work.
The only reason we prefer the ugly yellow hue from indandescents is because we are used to i. It isn't "warm", its sucky. Same with thing happened when gas lighting was first replaced by incandescents: people pined for the soft orange glow of gas lights but within a few years people realized how bad that hue was.
Yep, your mind prefers what you already know and like. Another example...120 hz TV's with the motion smoothing feature. You would think a smoother motion video would be preferred by your mind...after all, it's used to seeing reality most of the time, which has an infinite frame rate (or whatever the biological limits are...close enough to infinite). Yet, a good number of people (myself included) prefer the choppiness of 24Hz or 30Hz video. I don't see anything technically wrong with the higher frame rate playback (it's not blurry, distorted, or anything like that) , but I just don't like the look of it. It just looks too fake.
Yep, same here. We converted our whole house to daylight bulbs. Initially it felt a little weird...when you entered the room, it just seemed strange. After weeks you get accustomed to it, and then it actually starts looking a lot better then the crappy yellow lights.
The weird part about the whole process, though (at least for me), is that you don't just get accustomed to the color of the light...you get accustomed to the color of the light in that particular space. We'd convert one room, and after we adjusted we thought it looked so much better, but then we'd convert the next room and it looked strange at first. Then we'd get adjusted to it, and then the next room we did seemed strange again. Your brain gets used to a certain space looking a certain way and just doesn't like it to change, even for the better.
That's why you don't make them "by hand"...you use the right tool for the right job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I own that one, and it's really not all that difficult or time consuming. And that's just a home quality tool. I'd have to imagine a professional chef in a restaurant would have to have an even better tool at his/her disposal.
So do I get my $50,000 back for my 2 year education? Thought not.
If you paid $50k for 2 years of community college, then I suspect you failed the math course, so no....you don't get it free.
because EO's have to follow the law and president's can't write them at will.
Really? So the executive order that unilaterally modified the ACA to defer corporate compliance with insurance mandates was "follow[ing] the law"? The executive orders that deal with amnesty for illegal aliens are "follow[ing] the law" with regard to legal immigration? The claim that he's going to use Executive Orders to get what he wants done until the congress sends him legislation doing what he likes is "follow[ing] the law"?
legislative branch creates the laws, executive branch enforces the laws, but as always there is discretion involved in enforcing the law. It happens every day. Have you ever been (or known anyone who was) pulled over for speeding but then let off with just a warning, or given a ticket for a less severe infraction instead? That's discretion in enforcement.
But still, it might be ok if the covered courses are useful, and not just "community organizer" type courses. That is to say, something that will train for a marketable skill.
PLEASE tell me you meant that sarcastically, and that you don't actually think "community organizer" can't get you very far in life. Because if you did mean it seriously, in this context it's just hilarious.
No benefits so far, only cons, at least on Nexus 5.
1. The new UI sucks ass
My wife has it on her nexus 4, and I have to agree with you here. The look is just terrible. And WTF is with the new icons on the navigation bar? OK, the old icons might not have been 100% intuitive, but an arrow that turns around and goes back is at least someone obvious to most people. A button shaped like a house is at least fairly obvious. Both of those, once you click it a few times and see what it does, anyone should be able to associate the picture with the action. The overlapping rectangles would be less intuitive to anyone who has never used a desktop OS before, but at least it makes sense to some people. But the new icon...WTF do circle, square, and triangle mean? The only one with the slightest bit of intuitiveness is triangle...it's actually an arrow pointing left, which means "back", but the way it's drawn makes it extremely difficult to associate it with an arrow.
3. The gallery application is also now ruined, as it forces the user to accept G+ account, or he can not access his pictures anymore. Way to go Google, taking pictures as hostages really makes the G+ positively accepted.
Didn't realize that, since we already use G+, but I was sort of shocked when I couldn't find the gallery app the other day and had to use Photos
4. When battery gets below 15%, the system starts nagging via notifications, making noises, and bugging the user, even if the device still has hours and hours of standby time left. Why not complain once and let the user connect charger when he prefers?
Not sure what all you mean, but when I had my nexus 4 with kit kat, it did something similar. It would give you a popup with noise and vibration when you hit 15% and then another 4 or 5 alerts at various percentages. Though I don't recall if it did that when the screen was off, so maybe that's the difference you are noticing.
Actually, you most likely are not exempt. Most HOA's are a deed restriction on the property and it is explicitly worded in such a way that it carries over to all subsequent owners automatically by virtue of you accepting title to the property. It works in the same manner as being a part of your city or township. When you close on the house, you don't sign anything which states you agree you are subject to the ordinances of your city or township, but that doesn't mean you are exempt from those ordinances. Those city/township ordinances are enforced by a deed restriction on the property which automatically carries over to all future owners.
So either
1) you are in one of the rare HOA's which wasn't properly established, or
2) your HOA was formed AFTER your home was originally purcahsed, and no owner since then has voluntarily agreed to join and subject all future owners to it, or
3) you are just lucky that your HOA is run by people clueless enough to not realize you aren't actually exempt.
If enough people were to infiltrate the HOA, could the HOA vote to disband itself? That might be a fun hobby...
Depends on your specific HOA covenants. They will dictate what course of action is necessary to do so. The most common I'm familiar with:
1) The builder actually maintains final authority over the HOA, so it couldn't possibly be disbanded unless the builder agreed (ie: not gonna happen)
2) If there is no builder with final authority (mostly that's older HOAs) then the board can decide to put disbandment up for a vote, in which case a certain percentage (either of all homeowners, or of actual voters) would have to vote in favor of disbandment for it to occur.
It's theoretically possible that the HOA could have final say and not even need the owners to vote, but I've never heard of one actually structured that way.
... authentication is that even if all of the security measures associated with storing and authenticating your fingerprint were utterly unbreachable, your fingerprints can still be taken without your consent, while if you do not want someone accessing data that is guarded by a a secure password, however, then barring vulnerabilities in the security facilities associated with it (which would apply equally to fingerprint security as well anyways), then that information can only be obtained by you voluntarily surrendering it.
http://xkcd.com/538/
In college, I stopped watching television. Afterwards, it just struck me as stupid and self righteous, but maybe that was a reflection of society as a whole.
No, it's not a reflection of society as a whole. You were right the first time....it was stupid and self righteous. But that's just what happens why you are young and stupid and get caught up in that whole "I'm too smart for anything on television, so I won't even own a TV" meme.
2) I can cease production all I want and not have the patent voided, as long as I do not switch production to a different drug designed to do the same thing.
So, you were saying?
You really can't see the loophole in that? The new drug isn't designed to do the same thing. It would do something slightly different. Sure, you could try to reword that, but that's the difficulty with creating laws...you either get too broad and have unintended consequences, or you get too specific and someone finds a way around it on a technicality you didn't anticipate.
Wow.
Just to recap here, you have basically: 1.) said Apple stuff sucks in the middle of a thread almost designed to be a flame war invitation; 2.) refused to explain why you think Apple sucks with any specificity; and 3.) given a follow-up response akin to "I don't have to tell you why I don't like New Zealanders. Just Google 'New Zealand' and read until your heart is content.'"
You, sir/madam either 1.) win the Internet brilliant troll of the year award; or
Not at all. I never said apple sucks. Don't grab onto my usage of the word "flaws"...I wasn't the one who picked that word. The OP I replied to picked the word and implied one causation and I was just replying he had the causality backward. Then some AC (you? OP? someone else?) got all defensive about it, as if there's not a single logical reason in the world why someone would dislike apple products. I don't see why I'm supposed to provide some sort of dissertation as to why I have the opinion of Apple that I do. I certainly don't see you applying that same standard to the OP to which I was originally applying.
I don't see why you folks are getting your panties in a bunch just because someone doesn't hold Apple as their Lord and Savior.
2.) should ask yourself why you bothered posting not just one comment but also two responses as of this writing where you could have just explained your problems with Apple in less text than it took to explain why it was beneath you to explain why you wouldn't explain what your problem with Apple was why you wouldn't NOMAD DOES NOT COMPUTE.
LOL.....you think making a post about specific problems with Apple would be SHORTER? Yeah, I'm sure that wouldn't start a flurry of replies telling me why I'm wrong. Odd...it appears you are new here on slashdot, yet somehow you have a lower UID number than me.
But you are right in that this thread is getting a bit long. So, despite the fact I generally try to give other posters the courtesy of reading (and, when necessary, replying to) their posts when they took the time to reply to me, I won't extend that same courtesy to you.
Like I said...sick teenagers. I'm sure slashdot has plenty of them (and plenty of the adult variety, too)
Don't go through your specific reasons of dissatisfaction just for me, do it for all the other readers, i'm sure they're interested.
Well, to those people I'll say this: Welcome to Slashdot. The topic has been posted about to death a billion times before. See that search box next to the logo at the top left of the page? Click there, type the word "Apple" and hit enter. Then read until your heart is content. You're welcome.
It's hard to make a founded claim when there was little useful information in your post.
So, when you don't have anything to go on, instead of asking for more information you just make something up?
You've now covered off the time frame but none of the flaws you claim.
Nor will I. I have no interest in going through my specific reasons of dissatisfaction with you. I need neither your validation, nor for you to show me the error of my ways.