I'm not denying my sentence could be confusing. Slashdot leaves no method for me to edit post so I'm telling the rest of you to suck it and get over it. If you and your lot spent half as much energy talking about the merits of what was said instead of how it was said and the content of the article itself this might sound more like a technology website and less like a high school English class. Why don't you go diagram a sentence somewhere, don't forget the hand lotion.
Considering I can't unplug it from iPeed and plug it into anything else than iCrud you are wrong about it being a standard connector.
I on the other hand can take the phono plugs from a Nintendo device and plug them into an old Curtis Mathis and they freaking work without a single RCA device in the mix.
What are you talking about cubicle? I have a foundation that's about as diverse as it gets. It's not like NASA uses any one generation of hardware or communication standards exclusively, and it's not like I'm not out there working in other environments also. The average Apple fanboy would shit themselves if someone asked them about bridging data from a 1553 bus over to muxed RS422, not to mention encapsualting it in IP. You could respond "why would I want to?" but the answer is obvious, the Apple doc connector isn't approved for use on the ISS but my pathetically limited world of interfaces does include cables that are.
No, I refuse to play the game. Some peoples skills lie in places other than spelling and grammar, the rest of you just deal with it. Were this a message board dedicated to college English professors I would do just as you request, otherwise read what Kotoku said early on and deal with it. The rest of you are just masturbating all over your keyboards while going gestapo on my grammar.
You might want to check your own character Mr. "We've seen it all before" instead of trying to exhibit some unfounded superiority over me due to something as simple as a grammar misunderstanding.
What are you talking about? Hipster douchebags and other recipients of "want fries with that?" degrees are among one of Apple's primary marketing targets!
That last one was a mobile phone auto correct, but my original post was also from my phone. Still had the correction to Nazi read Maxie I think I would have left it.
Go get a bottle of hand lotion and enjoy your grammar correction with the rest over in that darkened room. You may be right but it doesn't mean you're not being a grammar nazi.
Perhaps you should re-read. 100% implies no one jumped to the defense of what I said, and it happened, well before you posted. Perhaps in the future I'll take my grammar lessons from Mojo Jojo.
My replacement text:
Don't buy anything that requires a non-standard data cable because standards are what we need. Micro USB is a widely accepted standard, the Apple Dock connector is a standard, but it only and Apple standard and not the open common standard that we need. Micro USB is good for nearly everything, the Apple standard is only good for Apple stuff and not even then as it requires you to carry another non-standard wire in your already heavy back pack which runs the chance of spine injury, therefor Micro USB and in a pinch Mini USB are the only standards we should accept on portable devices.
My daughter loves watching her Power Puff Girl DVDs over and over and over again. I'm so glad I can take grammar lessons from Mojo Jojo.
If Sony weren't such jerks the past could have been so much better.
Beta was superior to VHS.
The MiniDisk was awesome, it could have replaced CDs were it more affordable and compatible.
If they weren't trying to push MemoryStick so hard, even to this day, they have several devices that would be cool to own, if they supported SD.
They actually had a pretty cool media hosting server that would work the PSP, I fail to remember the name though, since it was proprietary and failed as a result. (UPNP and DLNA would have been nice guys!)
Sony is the champion of ignoring what their customers want and handing them what Sony wants. If they didn't make such quality stuff - mostly - they would have failed a long time ago.
Apple is the champion of dumbing it down so much any idiot can use it then selling a massive number to the idiots. I actually admire Apples model outside of the iron fist that comes along with it.
It still doesn't excuse the iPhone or iPad, and "officially" they're not user replaceable. I also don't consider the need for a pentalobe screwdriver truly user replaceable even if I can get around it.
Actually I buy exclusively Pilot G-2 pens, I go out of my way to get the short ones when possible so they fit in my jeans pocket without breaking. They are technically refillable, but they do tend to crack after being carried for months while working so I do discard them when they finally run dry, more likely I lose them before then. I buy a new box every two years or so, they hold up incredibly well and I'm not that bad about losing them. Unless it's a receipt to sign where someone handed me a cheap one for temporary use or a specialty situation like my Thomas and Betts Nylon marking pen they're all I use.
My factory Evo battery stopped working well after 10 months of use, yes it was premature but I do tend to work in less than ideal environments and everything electronic that stays on my person tends to suffer for it. My EVo is nearly two years old and I've only had the screen replaced once.
I like quality. I spend extra for quality. Don't think I have fancy and expensive mixed up with quality, sometimes the best item is the cheapest but least flashy, sometimes the best is the most expensive, but normally the best quality item is a bit more than average but not on the stupid side of expensive. I cook in cast iron, my belts are real leather, and my watch is a Casio I've beat the hell out of for six years. Yes, I drive stick shifts exclusively.
I like things to last, but I don't hold on to them past the point of being stupid to hang onto them. One of the most reliable computers I ever owned with an AMD K6 233 on a board with an Intel chipset. Despite being rock solid and reliable for years I finally tossed it due to being beyond reasonable to continue using. This is why my still perfectly functioning Toshiba laptop with an Nvidia chip but is heavy and out of date is taking a back seat to my netbook. These items served their purpose well but it was time to go. I consider the fact they're still working perfectly upon retirement a good thing, not a side note.
I've been waiting for Cyanogen to come out with an ICS, but I appear to be waiting a long time. I've considered switching to another build, but meh, Gingerbread is working fine and I haven't had a day I've felt like tinkering with it in a while.
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Anonymous Coward, I recognize you. You're the one who keeps linking to Goatse, talking about Unholy Shits and Frosty Piss.
Compared you making cheese dip in cast iron is tame.
I'm not denying my sentence could be confusing. Slashdot leaves no method for me to edit post so I'm telling the rest of you to suck it and get over it. If you and your lot spent half as much energy talking about the merits of what was said instead of how it was said and the content of the article itself this might sound more like a technology website and less like a high school English class. Why don't you go diagram a sentence somewhere, don't forget the hand lotion.
Here you go.
Considering I can't unplug it from iPeed and plug it into anything else than iCrud you are wrong about it being a standard connector.
I on the other hand can take the phono plugs from a Nintendo device and plug them into an old Curtis Mathis and they freaking work without a single RCA device in the mix.
Fail. Try again.
Did you bring your own hand lotion to this party or did you have to borrow from the rest?
My skills are plentiful, the fact my skills are strongest in areas other than spelling and grammar do not diminish those other skills.
You obviously skipped reading the Mojo Joking post.
What are you talking about cubicle? I have a foundation that's about as diverse as it gets. It's not like NASA uses any one generation of hardware or communication standards exclusively, and it's not like I'm not out there working in other environments also. The average Apple fanboy would shit themselves if someone asked them about bridging data from a 1553 bus over to muxed RS422, not to mention encapsualting it in IP. You could respond "why would I want to?" but the answer is obvious, the Apple doc connector isn't approved for use on the ISS but my pathetically limited world of interfaces does include cables that are.
No, I refuse to play the game. Some peoples skills lie in places other than spelling and grammar, the rest of you just deal with it. Were this a message board dedicated to college English professors I would do just as you request, otherwise read what Kotoku said early on and deal with it. The rest of you are just masturbating all over your keyboards while going gestapo on my grammar.
You might want to check your own character Mr. "We've seen it all before" instead of trying to exhibit some unfounded superiority over me due to something as simple as a grammar misunderstanding.
What are you talking about? Hipster douchebags and other recipients of "want fries with that?" degrees are among one of Apple's primary marketing targets!
That last one was a mobile phone auto correct, but my original post was also from my phone. Still had the correction to Nazi read Maxie I think I would have left it.
I have a special place reserved in my mind for grammar Maxis and the fallacies implied in the practice of their hobby.
Despite the fact I think RMS is an asshole I admire him and am proud to have been compared to him.
Would someone please mod this guy up?
The grammar nazi's are chafing due to having his lack lack of language skill, it would help if his post stuck out better.
Go get a bottle of hand lotion and enjoy your grammar correction with the rest over in that darkened room. You may be right but it doesn't mean you're not being a grammar nazi.
Perhaps you should re-read. 100% implies no one jumped to the defense of what I said, and it happened, well before you posted. Perhaps in the future I'll take my grammar lessons from Mojo Jojo.
My replacement text:
My daughter loves watching her Power Puff Girl DVDs over and over and over again. I'm so glad I can take grammar lessons from Mojo Jojo.
I'm not the one correcting other peoples grammar.
Agreed 100%.
If Sony weren't such jerks the past could have been so much better.
Beta was superior to VHS.
The MiniDisk was awesome, it could have replaced CDs were it more affordable and compatible.
If they weren't trying to push MemoryStick so hard, even to this day, they have several devices that would be cool to own, if they supported SD.
They actually had a pretty cool media hosting server that would work the PSP, I fail to remember the name though, since it was proprietary and failed as a result. (UPNP and DLNA would have been nice guys!)
Sony is the champion of ignoring what their customers want and handing them what Sony wants. If they didn't make such quality stuff - mostly - they would have failed a long time ago.
Apple is the champion of dumbing it down so much any idiot can use it then selling a massive number to the idiots. I actually admire Apples model outside of the iron fist that comes along with it.
It still doesn't excuse the iPhone or iPad, and "officially" they're not user replaceable. I also don't consider the need for a pentalobe screwdriver truly user replaceable even if I can get around it.
My only really irresponsible move here was not supplying hand lotion to the grammar nazis after posting this.
Really, I should get thank-you notes from the grammar nazi's tonight.
The stroking material I gave them should be worth coming back to on a nightly basis for at least a month.
Actually I buy exclusively Pilot G-2 pens, I go out of my way to get the short ones when possible so they fit in my jeans pocket without breaking. They are technically refillable, but they do tend to crack after being carried for months while working so I do discard them when they finally run dry, more likely I lose them before then. I buy a new box every two years or so, they hold up incredibly well and I'm not that bad about losing them. Unless it's a receipt to sign where someone handed me a cheap one for temporary use or a specialty situation like my Thomas and Betts Nylon marking pen they're all I use.
My factory Evo battery stopped working well after 10 months of use, yes it was premature but I do tend to work in less than ideal environments and everything electronic that stays on my person tends to suffer for it. My EVo is nearly two years old and I've only had the screen replaced once.
I like quality. I spend extra for quality. Don't think I have fancy and expensive mixed up with quality, sometimes the best item is the cheapest but least flashy, sometimes the best is the most expensive, but normally the best quality item is a bit more than average but not on the stupid side of expensive. I cook in cast iron, my belts are real leather, and my watch is a Casio I've beat the hell out of for six years. Yes, I drive stick shifts exclusively.
I like things to last, but I don't hold on to them past the point of being stupid to hang onto them. One of the most reliable computers I ever owned with an AMD K6 233 on a board with an Intel chipset. Despite being rock solid and reliable for years I finally tossed it due to being beyond reasonable to continue using. This is why my still perfectly functioning Toshiba laptop with an Nvidia chip but is heavy and out of date is taking a back seat to my netbook. These items served their purpose well but it was time to go. I consider the fact they're still working perfectly upon retirement a good thing, not a side note.
I did use a comma.
Perhaps I should lower my skills to suite you and the rest?
I've been waiting for Cyanogen to come out with an ICS, but I appear to be waiting a long time. I've considered switching to another build, but meh, Gingerbread is working fine and I haven't had a day I've felt like tinkering with it in a while.
You may want to read up on how a comma is used, as well as read some of the replies before your own.