So being pissed off that the government wasted tax dollars bailing out banks makes someone crazy?
The Tea Party doesn't have a monopoly on being pissed off about that particular event. Most Tea Party claims ring hollow because they had 8 years of Bush to say something when all of these same types of things were happening, but conveniently waited until a Democrat took office before making any real noise.
Oh piss off with your persecution complex. Apple gets plenty of both deserved and undeserved flak and admiration. On any given day, there are likely 3 or more Apple stories on the front page of CNN, and rarely is there *anything* about anyone else in the tech industry.
The problem with the ICS upgrades for these phones is that there are no ICS-compatible binary drivers available for the radios on them, and no hardware vendors (to my knowledge) release the source code for their radio drivers. So until an official ICS build is released by the manufacturer that the drivers can be extracted from, it'll be impossible to get ICS running on them. So it's not just a matter of "Do your ICS upgrade yourself".
I haven't personally done any kernel development, so I may be oversimplifying this, but I've never understood why nobody is able to write a translation layer that sits between newer kernels and older drivers. It seems to me that it would be easy enough to just use the 2.3.x drivers as long as they provide the required functionality for the 4.0.x kernels -- or, if there's unsupported stuff in the older drivers, at least provide degraded functionality that matched what older Android versions were capable of.
Yeah that's right. Tell me, what has had value for thousands of years. I guess that preferring a metal that has had value for thousands of years and will have value as far as we can tell for thousands more, over a piece of paper that politicians can print pretty much at will, makes hima loon.
If I ever need to buy something from an ancient Mesopotamian, I'll make sure to bring gold. Likewise, if I need to make a purchase from some primitive island tribe, I'll probably bring some seashells. If I'm dealing in the modern world, paper money is what we've decided is a reasonable way to pay for stuff.
If the modern world collapses and paper money becomes worthless, I don't think gold is going to be much of a sought-after resource. My bet would be on guns, ammunition, and fuel. Until things stabilized. Then people might be willing to exchange some of that stuff that's actually useful for gold again.
I didn't buy Apple. I don't want to be limited to their sandbox. I might have bought Apple if it weren't for their draconian control measures over the hardware and software. (Though there are now enough other reasons to avoid them that it's unlikely they'll be on my consideration list any time in the foreseeable future.)
Do I still have to just shut up and accept it? I think they're bad for the industry. I think they're taking software development to a place that I don't want it to go. I think that the idea of being forced to pay a yearly subscription to a hardware manufacturer and going through some arbitrary review process shouldn't be the *only* sanctioned way of running code on a device.
And just like iOS, it's impossible to do an Android app without using Java. Sure, just like iOS, there are abstraction toolkits, support for C/C++, etc. But you can't do an Android app without Java.
Apparently someone has never heard of native code.
The thing about bonch's (likely the parent AC) trolling/shilling is that they're so damn obvious -- they all fit the same pattern. Early (usually first, within the first minute or two that the article shows up) post, longish posts that would have been impossible to compose in less than a few minutes, immediately modded to +5 by all the high-UID sockpuppets, frequently with offtopic crap about Google (especially when it's a positive article about Google -- he always derails the conversation to bash them in some way).
There really aren't that many shills on the site -- it's mainly fanbois. I thought bonch was just a sad fanboi for quite a while as well, but the posting pattern of all of his sockpuppets matches his main account so well that there's just no way it can be coincidence.
I think I've seen Iron Man three times, Transformers a couple of times, and avoided crap like The Green Lantern.
Wait, wait, wait. I've got to second SmallFurryCreature's sentiments here. In what universe does Transformers not get dumped into the "crap" bin with The Green Lantern? It's Michael Bay, for crying out loud. It spends the first half of the movie about Transformers focusing on the developing love story between two high school kids! The only Transformer to be seen in the first 40 minutes (minus the opening teaser scene) of the story spends the entire time in the form of a car... that can just do some weird stuff. After that, the rest is a bunch of twitchy camera crap action sequences where you can't tell what is going on, except some robots do some shit and stuff blows up.
well more importantly, a guy wacking off to a child porn image is a guy who is someone who is sexually aroused by children. you are comfortable with such a person being free in your community?
What about a guy who whacks off to rape porn? Rape is illegal too, yet rape porn is perfectly legal -- are you going to argue that we should feel unsafe around this guy, too, because he gets off on something like that?
Note that I'm not arguing that it is or should be ok to make child porn -- children can't consent, whereas the actresses in the rape porn can. I'm specifically questioning your willingness to lock people up for having urges (even if they've never acted on them) that you find disagreeable.
The images are a record of a criminal act. So in the same way a snuff film would be illegal, having a depiction of an illegal act is just propagating the illegal act. Same for statutory rape.... if you're the kind of person who wants to keep pictures which commemorate and perpetuate an illegal act
Ahh, so when a security camera captures a crime (you know, like they're designed to do), the captured images should be destroyed because it's a criminal act? And the person who runs the cameras should be somehow criminally responsible for them being generated?
So far you've mostly just insisted that everyone else justify why it is illegal.
You're the one making claims that it *should* be legal. By default, the null position is that everything is legal. The responsibility is yours to justify why specific things should be illegal. If that justification has already been made, then it should be pretty easy for you to at least regurgitate it, right?
Yeah, but it's perfectly acceptable to defend an accused murderer when you didn't personally witness it. I notice you didn't call out TokenGlocke's comment.
I think Zimmerman's probably a murder, but we'll never know. And because of these idiotic stand-your-ground laws, he'll probably go free even though he was clearly a douchebag (with a criminal record) Barney Fife wannabe out looking to pick a fight.
Yes, some companies care about conditions of the workforce.
If they gave a fuck about the conditions of the workforce, they'd do their manufacturing in the US. Or some other 1st world country with laws that protect their workers.
what makes prefering same sex pairings more 'normal' than someone who prefers children?
Consenting adults. Do you have trouble with this concept? Let me help you: it involves people being of legal age of majority and being able to, you know, consent legally to doing whatever they want with their genitals.
Let me repeat: LEGAL CONSENT. Do you need it spelled out any more clearly?
Meanwhile, students are at the mercy of Google when it comes to feature changes, compatibility, and even getting to keep their email account (which at least here Google can terminate on its own if they want).
As opposed to if it were hosted by the university itself, where students have complete say when whatever mail server software the IT department decides to use is upgraded and has feature changes. Or compatibility issues. Or keeping their email account (which the university can terminate on its own if they want.)
If you're going to argue against something, at *least* make sure that the same arguments you make can't be made against the thing you're arguing *for.* (though, to your credit, you didn't actually argue for anything; there was just an implication that Google's services were bad and that other services do not have these issues. +1 weasel argument.) See also: healthcare reform debate.
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Do you self-identify as a whiny liberal?
That's rich, considering your participation in this thread.
--Jeremy
So being pissed off that the government wasted tax dollars bailing out banks makes someone crazy?
The Tea Party doesn't have a monopoly on being pissed off about that particular event. Most Tea Party claims ring hollow because they had 8 years of Bush to say something when all of these same types of things were happening, but conveniently waited until a Democrat took office before making any real noise.
--Jeremy
You probably believe in the fallacy that people who are 'liberal' are the only intelligent ones.
Well, yeah. But it's a tradeoff, because we're also lazy government mooches.
Cuts both ways, eh? I'll bet you haven't spent a lot of time calling people out for that latter piece of BS.
--Jeremy
"You must pass it in order to find out what is in it"... How STUPID is that?
At least as stupid as misquoting Pelosi out of context.
--Jeremy
Can't ... see ... past ... overwhelming ... irony.
--Jeremy
Yeah, the TEA Party is completely vilified. But of course, any critiques you hear about OWS supporters are completely warranted and just.
Personally, I think it's idiotic that the two sides can't see that they basically want the same thing.
--Jeremy
The exact same argument could be made for electricity, could it not?
--Jeremy
I wonder if this AC has a job that generates any kind of value to society? I'm guessing "no."
--Jeremy
Oh piss off with your persecution complex. Apple gets plenty of both deserved and undeserved flak and admiration. On any given day, there are likely 3 or more Apple stories on the front page of CNN, and rarely is there *anything* about anyone else in the tech industry.
--Jeremy
But....In the US I have my overpriced under performing phone that still works while walking down a street NOT blanketed in cameras.
Something nags at me me about this statement. Can't quite put my finger on it, but ...it's almost as if those two issues are ... completely unrelated!
--Jeremy
The problem with the ICS upgrades for these phones is that there are no ICS-compatible binary drivers available for the radios on them, and no hardware vendors (to my knowledge) release the source code for their radio drivers. So until an official ICS build is released by the manufacturer that the drivers can be extracted from, it'll be impossible to get ICS running on them. So it's not just a matter of "Do your ICS upgrade yourself".
I haven't personally done any kernel development, so I may be oversimplifying this, but I've never understood why nobody is able to write a translation layer that sits between newer kernels and older drivers. It seems to me that it would be easy enough to just use the 2.3.x drivers as long as they provide the required functionality for the 4.0.x kernels -- or, if there's unsupported stuff in the older drivers, at least provide degraded functionality that matched what older Android versions were capable of.
--Jeremy
Yeah that's right. Tell me, what has had value for thousands of years. I guess that preferring a metal that has had value for thousands of years and will have value as far as we can tell for thousands more, over a piece of paper that politicians can print pretty much at will, makes hima loon.
If I ever need to buy something from an ancient Mesopotamian, I'll make sure to bring gold. Likewise, if I need to make a purchase from some primitive island tribe, I'll probably bring some seashells. If I'm dealing in the modern world, paper money is what we've decided is a reasonable way to pay for stuff.
If the modern world collapses and paper money becomes worthless, I don't think gold is going to be much of a sought-after resource. My bet would be on guns, ammunition, and fuel. Until things stabilized. Then people might be willing to exchange some of that stuff that's actually useful for gold again.
--Jeremy
so I don't see how this is a matter of competition.
Ahh, so you're just ignorant then.
--Jeremy
I didn't buy Apple. I don't want to be limited to their sandbox. I might have bought Apple if it weren't for their draconian control measures over the hardware and software. (Though there are now enough other reasons to avoid them that it's unlikely they'll be on my consideration list any time in the foreseeable future.)
Do I still have to just shut up and accept it? I think they're bad for the industry. I think they're taking software development to a place that I don't want it to go. I think that the idea of being forced to pay a yearly subscription to a hardware manufacturer and going through some arbitrary review process shouldn't be the *only* sanctioned way of running code on a device.
--Jeremy
Delphi lives on. It switched its base syntax from Pascal to C++, and is called C# now.
--Jeremy
And just like iOS, it's impossible to do an Android app without using Java. Sure, just like iOS, there are abstraction toolkits, support for C/C++, etc. But you can't do an Android app without Java.
Apparently someone has never heard of native code.
--Jeremy
The thing about bonch's (likely the parent AC) trolling/shilling is that they're so damn obvious -- they all fit the same pattern. Early (usually first, within the first minute or two that the article shows up) post, longish posts that would have been impossible to compose in less than a few minutes, immediately modded to +5 by all the high-UID sockpuppets, frequently with offtopic crap about Google (especially when it's a positive article about Google -- he always derails the conversation to bash them in some way).
There really aren't that many shills on the site -- it's mainly fanbois. I thought bonch was just a sad fanboi for quite a while as well, but the posting pattern of all of his sockpuppets matches his main account so well that there's just no way it can be coincidence.
--Jeremy
I think I've seen Iron Man three times, Transformers a couple of times, and avoided crap like The Green Lantern.
Wait, wait, wait. I've got to second SmallFurryCreature's sentiments here. In what universe does Transformers not get dumped into the "crap" bin with The Green Lantern? It's Michael Bay, for crying out loud. It spends the first half of the movie about Transformers focusing on the developing love story between two high school kids! The only Transformer to be seen in the first 40 minutes (minus the opening teaser scene) of the story spends the entire time in the form of a car ... that can just do some weird stuff. After that, the rest is a bunch of twitchy camera crap action sequences where you can't tell what is going on, except some robots do some shit and stuff blows up.
--Jeremy
well more importantly, a guy wacking off to a child porn image is a guy who is someone who is sexually aroused by children. you are comfortable with such a person being free in your community?
What about a guy who whacks off to rape porn? Rape is illegal too, yet rape porn is perfectly legal -- are you going to argue that we should feel unsafe around this guy, too, because he gets off on something like that?
Note that I'm not arguing that it is or should be ok to make child porn -- children can't consent, whereas the actresses in the rape porn can. I'm specifically questioning your willingness to lock people up for having urges (even if they've never acted on them) that you find disagreeable.
--Jeremy
The images are a record of a criminal act. So in the same way a snuff film would be illegal, having a depiction of an illegal act is just propagating the illegal act. Same for statutory rape. ... if you're the kind of person who wants to keep pictures which commemorate and perpetuate an illegal act
Ahh, so when a security camera captures a crime (you know, like they're designed to do), the captured images should be destroyed because it's a criminal act? And the person who runs the cameras should be somehow criminally responsible for them being generated?
So far you've mostly just insisted that everyone else justify why it is illegal.
You're the one making claims that it *should* be legal. By default, the null position is that everything is legal. The responsibility is yours to justify why specific things should be illegal. If that justification has already been made, then it should be pretty easy for you to at least regurgitate it, right?
--Jeremy
Yeah, but it's perfectly acceptable to defend an accused murderer when you didn't personally witness it. I notice you didn't call out TokenGlocke's comment.
I think Zimmerman's probably a murder, but we'll never know. And because of these idiotic stand-your-ground laws, he'll probably go free even though he was clearly a douchebag (with a criminal record) Barney Fife wannabe out looking to pick a fight.
--Jeremy
Yes, some companies care about conditions of the workforce.
If they gave a fuck about the conditions of the workforce, they'd do their manufacturing in the US. Or some other 1st world country with laws that protect their workers.
--Jeremy
That's a very, very convincing Factcheck you presented there.
--Jeremy
what makes prefering same sex pairings more 'normal' than someone who prefers children?
Consenting adults. Do you have trouble with this concept? Let me help you: it involves people being of legal age of majority and being able to, you know, consent legally to doing whatever they want with their genitals.
Let me repeat: LEGAL CONSENT. Do you need it spelled out any more clearly?
--Jeremy
Meanwhile, students are at the mercy of Google when it comes to feature changes, compatibility, and even getting to keep their email account (which at least here Google can terminate on its own if they want).
As opposed to if it were hosted by the university itself, where students have complete say when whatever mail server software the IT department decides to use is upgraded and has feature changes. Or compatibility issues. Or keeping their email account (which the university can terminate on its own if they want.)
If you're going to argue against something, at *least* make sure that the same arguments you make can't be made against the thing you're arguing *for.* (though, to your credit, you didn't actually argue for anything; there was just an implication that Google's services were bad and that other services do not have these issues. +1 weasel argument.) See also: healthcare reform debate.
--Jeremy