You can consider it whatever you want; doesn't change the fact that bash is not Linux. By that logic any piece of standard software would be a "lick of Linux".
Rooting an Android phone is the equivilent of jailbreaking an iOS phone.
Sure, but you don't actually need to root an Android phone to run (most) software of your choosing. Not only that, but there have always been Android devices available that require no rooting whatsoever if that's an important feature to the user.
The two situations aren't even close to being analogous.
And yet, if you buy a Ford or Chevy, you would also find it very difficult to upgrade it with Toyota and Honda parts, but nobody complains that Ford has you locked in.
And that is the reason that it's so fucking expensive to get replacement parts for cars -- almost zero standardization and complete vendor lock-in. A replacement plastic door handle will cost you $80. Need a new window that has no aftermarket availability? Be ready to spend hundreds.
Who says that we're ok with this arrangement with the car or microwave manufacturers? Why are you defending Apple in their race to vendor lock-in? Just because someone else is getting away with it doesn't mean we should welcome it with open arms. It was bad when Microsoft was trying it in the 90s and it's bad with Apple trying it 20 years later.
The conservative way: it failed because we spent too much money on it. We need to throw the whole thing out and never attempt it again because it will never work and it's making us all slaves to the federal government and killing jobs.
Still slinging the ad homs, eh? Your implicit point is that geekoid is not smart enough to know that it's actually ad hominem, but instead you come off as even more of a douche because ad hom is perfectly well understood slang.
Yes, I am aware of the hypocrisy of my calling you a douche. But sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, and sometimes you have to meet people at their level for them to understand you. (Oops! Did it again.)
Hate to break it to you, but if you're manually scrolling through hundreds of programs in the Win 7 start menu to hunt for the one you want, that makes you very much *not* a power user.
Lying through their teeth? To what end? To just piss people off? That makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
I have everything I frequently use pinned to the taskbar, and everything else I navigate to using the start button and then typing what I want. I could very easily do without the full start menu.
I think it's kind of dumb to remove it completely, but I find it very plausible that people who know how to use their computers rarely navigate through it. It's just not necessary anymore.
If I'm paying for years and get run over by a bus, all the money is wasted. So why should I have had to pay all that time if my money gets pissed down the widening black hole just so my pack-a-day neighbor can get "free" healthcare?
For the same reason that if you pay property taxes and school levies for years, yet have no children, all that money is 'wasted.' If you need further explaining about how you receive indirect benefits even if you never claim a cent of a tax, well, you'll probably never understand it because your view of the 'world' must be so small that includes yourself, possibly your family, and that's it.
People, with insurance go to their doctor's for a hang-nail.
Citation please. This is bullshit and you know it. Nobody likes going to the doctor. And even if GP visits double, they're really fucking cheap compared to ER visits.
If you were already paying into the system then you were already picking up the tab. I do not understand why so many people don't get this.
You were already paying for emergency room visits by drug addicts who OD'd and then then skip the hospital bill.
You were already paying for emergency room visits for gangsters with gunshot wounds who then skip the hospital bill.
You were already paying for emergency room visits for welfare moms who can't afford to take their kids for the $70 GP visit, and instead opt for the $1000 ER visit because the ER can't turn them down.
You were already paying for emergency room visits for 6 figure ER amputations for diabetics who couldn't afford the $70 trips to a GP's office to help them get their condition under control.
You were already paying for the most expensive, inefficient care, because that's all anyone without insurance had access to!
Apparently you haven't been paying attention. Health care has gone up in cost every year, well over the cost of inflation. The only difference is that this year your insurer has a convenient scapegoat.
No, you don't. If you're in a low enough income bracket, you don't have to pay the penalty, and in fact get a subsidy to purchase insurance.
These aren't mysterious hidden details, unless you spend all of your time watching Fox News. They've been right up front about this the whole time. It amazes me how much general ignorance there is about the Affordable Care Act. There are legitimate gripes about the bill, but usually the people griping about it are just spewing complete bullshit like Grishnakh and sycodon here.
It's cheaper for my employer to drop my insurance *now* and pay *zero* tax, but they haven't because they use it as an incentive to keep me around. Your argument is a completely moot point.
Anybody who thinks that politics can be summed up with a one-dimensional graph probably has beliefs that basically boil down to the equivalent of "I hope my team wins the championship!"
I never own a touch-pad so I do not know how the thing functions or what's so special about it
It's pretty slick. I picked one up during the fire sale to root and use as a cheap Android tablet, but WebOS is really quite nice. In my experience with tablet OSes, I'd have to say it beats iOS and pre-ICS Android hands-down. ICS is a little more of a toss-up, but I still found WebOS to be a more intuitive environment to navigate.
A pity that it'll never really get any use. If it actually gained traction and someone released a distro that would work on one of my phones, I'd definitely give it a trial run.
If you're using a handheld device for general purpose computations that need 12 GPU cores, I'm sorry, but you're doing it wrong. The typical use cases are all handled by specialized hardware decoders, largely eliminating the need for those types of general purpose computations, and if you're just trying to squeeze some extra work out of your hardware, the GPU you'll get on a handheld is pathetic compared to even a $50 GPU in a desktop PC.
What makes you feel that you're entitled to live in Alaska? Are you a native? Why should we pawn future generations' climate for cheap oil so that you can live more comfortably in one of the harshest climates on Earth?
You're free to drive drunk if you want. If you get into any accident whatsoever, there is a mandatory death sentence (maybe I'd be willing to further compromise to life without parole), and all of your personal assets are transferred to the victim(s).
If you want to take the gamble, go for it. Currently, you force that gamble on other people every time you put your idiot drunk ass behind the wheel.
This should in no way imply that I'm on the cops' side on this one though. Screw implied consent, screw checkpoints, and screw all of the other abuses of the citizenry that happens in the name of protecting us from drunk drivers. That said, above all else, screw people like you for making it necessary because you think you're special and are able to drive while impaired.
Its the fastest correction system ever, takes money from those too stupid to keep it and gives it to those who would use it better... all entirely voluntarily!
By this justification, you would have no problem with any scam; snake oil salesmen are merely separating money from those too stupid to keep it. It was voluntary -- they didn't *have* to buy it. Right?
Obviously that's not the case. As a society, we've decided that there are a number of scams that produce no real value are unacceptable for people to perpetrate. It seems that we've decided that manipulating thousands or millions of dollars out of the bank accounts of a few is bad, but manipulating a few pennies out of thousands or millions of people's bank accounts is A-OK.
You mean like Google? In the 90s they were the "small startup" you describe, and they faced-off against the mighty monopoly that is Microsoft.
How the fuck was Google ever in direct competition with Microsoft before Bing and Android? Microsoft barely had any presence in the web search engine sphere, and Google had basically no presence elsewhere. Even if you count browsers, Microsoft had pretty much ceded that market to anyone who wanted it by not updating IE6 for about 8 years, because nobody making browsers was a threat to their core business anymore.
You'll also notice that Google didn't start directly encroaching on Microsoft's territory until they themselves were already a multi-billion-dollar behemoth.
The views expressed by "Accelerated Christian Education Inc" in no way reflect the views of all Christians.
Yet enough of them believe this garbage (at least in certain areas of the country) that they manage to get it into their classrooms.
I will point out that evolution is a really really bad theory for explaining the transition from nothingness to human life
Not surprising, seeing as how evolution doesn't address the origins of life in any way. That makes about as much sense as saying that the theory of gravity is a really really bad theory for explaining the transition from nothingness to human life.
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Nice bit of FUD there.
--Jeremy
You can consider it whatever you want; doesn't change the fact that bash is not Linux. By that logic any piece of standard software would be a "lick of Linux".
--Jeremy
Rooting an Android phone is the equivilent of jailbreaking an iOS phone.
Sure, but you don't actually need to root an Android phone to run (most) software of your choosing. Not only that, but there have always been Android devices available that require no rooting whatsoever if that's an important feature to the user.
The two situations aren't even close to being analogous.
--Jeremy
And yet, if you buy a Ford or Chevy, you would also find it very difficult to upgrade it with Toyota and Honda parts, but nobody complains that Ford has you locked in.
And that is the reason that it's so fucking expensive to get replacement parts for cars -- almost zero standardization and complete vendor lock-in. A replacement plastic door handle will cost you $80. Need a new window that has no aftermarket availability? Be ready to spend hundreds.
Who says that we're ok with this arrangement with the car or microwave manufacturers? Why are you defending Apple in their race to vendor lock-in? Just because someone else is getting away with it doesn't mean we should welcome it with open arms. It was bad when Microsoft was trying it in the 90s and it's bad with Apple trying it 20 years later.
--Jeremy
Ooh, I'll do one:
The conservative way: it failed because we spent too much money on it. We need to throw the whole thing out and never attempt it again because it will never work and it's making us all slaves to the federal government and killing jobs.
--Jeremy
Still slinging the ad homs, eh? Your implicit point is that geekoid is not smart enough to know that it's actually ad hominem, but instead you come off as even more of a douche because ad hom is perfectly well understood slang.
Yes, I am aware of the hypocrisy of my calling you a douche. But sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, and sometimes you have to meet people at their level for them to understand you. (Oops! Did it again.)
--Jeremy
Hate to break it to you, but if you're manually scrolling through hundreds of programs in the Win 7 start menu to hunt for the one you want, that makes you very much *not* a power user.
--Jeremy
Lying through their teeth? To what end? To just piss people off? That makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
I have everything I frequently use pinned to the taskbar, and everything else I navigate to using the start button and then typing what I want. I could very easily do without the full start menu.
I think it's kind of dumb to remove it completely, but I find it very plausible that people who know how to use their computers rarely navigate through it. It's just not necessary anymore.
--Jeremy
If I'm paying for years and get run over by a bus, all the money is wasted. So why should I have had to pay all that time if my money gets pissed down the widening black hole just so my pack-a-day neighbor can get "free" healthcare?
For the same reason that if you pay property taxes and school levies for years, yet have no children, all that money is 'wasted.' If you need further explaining about how you receive indirect benefits even if you never claim a cent of a tax, well, you'll probably never understand it because your view of the 'world' must be so small that includes yourself, possibly your family, and that's it.
--Jeremy
What you are is not better than guy checking some poor slaves teeth right off the boat.
Shit like this makes it really difficult to take any of what you say seriously. Knock it off; be above this kind of bullshit.
--Jeremy
People, with insurance go to their doctor's for a hang-nail.
Citation please. This is bullshit and you know it. Nobody likes going to the doctor. And even if GP visits double, they're really fucking cheap compared to ER visits.
--Jeremy
If you were already paying into the system then you were already picking up the tab. I do not understand why so many people don't get this.
You were already paying for emergency room visits by drug addicts who OD'd and then then skip the hospital bill.
You were already paying for emergency room visits for gangsters with gunshot wounds who then skip the hospital bill.
You were already paying for emergency room visits for welfare moms who can't afford to take their kids for the $70 GP visit, and instead opt for the $1000 ER visit because the ER can't turn them down.
You were already paying for emergency room visits for 6 figure ER amputations for diabetics who couldn't afford the $70 trips to a GP's office to help them get their condition under control.
You were already paying for the most expensive, inefficient care, because that's all anyone without insurance had access to!
--Jeremy
Now, they will probably triple because I'll have to pay for coverage for things I don't use such as OBGYN.
Oh yeah? Well mine will probably quintuple because I'm even more of a sky-is-falling alarmist than yourself.
--Jeremy
Apparently you haven't been paying attention. Health care has gone up in cost every year, well over the cost of inflation. The only difference is that this year your insurer has a convenient scapegoat.
--Jeremy
No, you don't. If you're in a low enough income bracket, you don't have to pay the penalty, and in fact get a subsidy to purchase insurance.
These aren't mysterious hidden details, unless you spend all of your time watching Fox News. They've been right up front about this the whole time. It amazes me how much general ignorance there is about the Affordable Care Act. There are legitimate gripes about the bill, but usually the people griping about it are just spewing complete bullshit like Grishnakh and sycodon here.
--Jeremy
It's cheaper for my employer to drop my insurance *now* and pay *zero* tax, but they haven't because they use it as an incentive to keep me around. Your argument is a completely moot point.
--Jeremy
Anybody who thinks that politics can be summed up with a one-dimensional graph probably has beliefs that basically boil down to the equivalent of "I hope my team wins the championship!"
--Jeremy
I never own a touch-pad so I do not know how the thing functions or what's so special about it
It's pretty slick. I picked one up during the fire sale to root and use as a cheap Android tablet, but WebOS is really quite nice. In my experience with tablet OSes, I'd have to say it beats iOS and pre-ICS Android hands-down. ICS is a little more of a toss-up, but I still found WebOS to be a more intuitive environment to navigate.
A pity that it'll never really get any use. If it actually gained traction and someone released a distro that would work on one of my phones, I'd definitely give it a trial run.
--Jeremy
If you're using a handheld device for general purpose computations that need 12 GPU cores, I'm sorry, but you're doing it wrong. The typical use cases are all handled by specialized hardware decoders, largely eliminating the need for those types of general purpose computations, and if you're just trying to squeeze some extra work out of your hardware, the GPU you'll get on a handheld is pathetic compared to even a $50 GPU in a desktop PC.
--Jeremy
What makes you feel that you're entitled to live in Alaska? Are you a native? Why should we pawn future generations' climate for cheap oil so that you can live more comfortably in one of the harshest climates on Earth?
--Jeremy
Alright, I'm willing to compromise here.
You're free to drive drunk if you want. If you get into any accident whatsoever, there is a mandatory death sentence (maybe I'd be willing to further compromise to life without parole), and all of your personal assets are transferred to the victim(s).
If you want to take the gamble, go for it. Currently, you force that gamble on other people every time you put your idiot drunk ass behind the wheel.
This should in no way imply that I'm on the cops' side on this one though. Screw implied consent, screw checkpoints, and screw all of the other abuses of the citizenry that happens in the name of protecting us from drunk drivers. That said, above all else, screw people like you for making it necessary because you think you're special and are able to drive while impaired.
--Jeremy
Its the fastest correction system ever, takes money from those too stupid to keep it and gives it to those who would use it better... all entirely voluntarily!
By this justification, you would have no problem with any scam; snake oil salesmen are merely separating money from those too stupid to keep it. It was voluntary -- they didn't *have* to buy it. Right?
Obviously that's not the case. As a society, we've decided that there are a number of scams that produce no real value are unacceptable for people to perpetrate. It seems that we've decided that manipulating thousands or millions of dollars out of the bank accounts of a few is bad, but manipulating a few pennies out of thousands or millions of people's bank accounts is A-OK.
--Jeremy
You mean like Google?
In the 90s they were the "small startup" you describe, and they faced-off against the mighty monopoly that is Microsoft.
How the fuck was Google ever in direct competition with Microsoft before Bing and Android? Microsoft barely had any presence in the web search engine sphere, and Google had basically no presence elsewhere. Even if you count browsers, Microsoft had pretty much ceded that market to anyone who wanted it by not updating IE6 for about 8 years, because nobody making browsers was a threat to their core business anymore.
You'll also notice that Google didn't start directly encroaching on Microsoft's territory until they themselves were already a multi-billion-dollar behemoth.
--Jeremy
The views expressed by "Accelerated Christian Education Inc" in no way reflect the views of all Christians.
Yet enough of them believe this garbage (at least in certain areas of the country) that they manage to get it into their classrooms.
I will point out that evolution is a really really bad theory for explaining the transition from nothingness to human life
Not surprising, seeing as how evolution doesn't address the origins of life in any way. That makes about as much sense as saying that the theory of gravity is a really really bad theory for explaining the transition from nothingness to human life.
--Jeremy
Yea, all Im trying to do here is to get these christian-bashing 'scientists' to say silly things.
I'd assume that most of the people responding to you are not scientists. They just aren't ignorant condescending strawman bashers.
--Jeremy