has been indistinguishable from Bush and the Republican congress
People keep saying that, but it's not true. While they are more similar than many of us would like, they have enough differences that it's worth voting one way or another.
In 2000, they kept telling us that Gore and Bush were, really, practically the same candidate. Does anyone honestly believe that if Gore had won, we'd be in the position we are now?
They aren't indistinguishable; you have to squint pretty hard to tell them apart, but there are definitely differences.
Also watch for the White Knights out to defend everyone and everything related to law enforcement, because they're all good guys and none of them could ever be corrupted.
If you really want to play the "FRAND for me, but not for thee" game you will not like the results when the patents Apple holds in various standards bodies suddenly become ineligible for some companies...
I'm willing to take that gamble. If Apple really wants to try to shut everyone down for infringing patents, Apple itself will be shut down by all of the countersuits. Apple may be a big fish in a big pond, but it's a *big* pond and a lot of the other fish aren't exactly minnows.
And then what? You think you're going to seize their assets and begin the great worker revolution or something? Heard of offshoring? Watching how much faster it happens as soon as a government turns against industry.
So... do nothing, for fear of retaliation? Hope it all works out in the end? That seems like a great plan.
A democracy is two wolves and a sheep getting together to decide what's for lunch.
I've always found this quote to be really stupid.
By that analogy's same logic, a democracy could also be 1000 sheep and a wolf voting on what's for dinner. Doesn't sound so bad now, does it? Unless you're the wolf, obviously. In that case, if you're the wolf, the best thing you can do is convince the 1000 sheep to not vote because their votes don't matter, or to pit them against each other over bullshit issues. Or both, maybe.
Maybe after all the money they've managed to gobble up then it would be a good idea for climate 'scientists' to actually formulate a theory approaching something even close to that?
No kidding. Did you hear about all of the huge bonuses that AGW scientists got last year, while we're in a global recession, no less? I hear that some of them were able to upgrade their Corollas to *Camrys,* and a few at the top even have Priuses now.
Some of them are so rich they don't even need to patch their tweed jackets with leather; they just buy new ones. Nothing but a bunch of fat cats, I tell you.
Well let's see, in one of those scenarios, at T=0, V=(some speed greater than 0, probably between 25 and 45mph), and in the other, at T=0, V=0.
It's actually pretty easy to imagine a scenario where if you're doing the speed limit the *entire* time, you'll hit every green, but if you get stopped and have to accelerate after a red light, you won't have time to make the next green. In fact, such a scenario exists in the city I live in, on its biggest north-south arterial.
Those classes don't exist. (Underwater basket weaving maybe.) I really get tired of this stupid idea that somehow large parts of our school curriculum is "unneeded." That may be true if your only goal in life is to be one-dimensional and generally ignorant, or if your highest aspiration is to be an insert tab A in slot B assembly line worker, but most of the time people who put forth this idea seem to think that they're "special" and should be on some fast track to a more important function.
If you can't find a way to make classes relevant to your life, that's your failing, not the class. Learning is always good. Learning a broad set of subjects is even better. Having more than a passing familiarity with an area of study will make you a more rounded, more thoughtful, more critical thinker.
The number of classes that I took through my entire schooling that I now use on a day to day basis could have probably been covered in a year or two. Vast swaths of History, Science, English/Literature, Math, Physical Education, Music, and every other subject I covered in school really has very little impact on my daily life. I'd never give them up though; if I had the option to go back and redo only what I wanted, I'd try to cover *more* subjects, not fewer. Kids are really stupid when it comes to evaluating things that they'll need in 10, 20, or 50 years.
And the most popular laptop manufacturer on college campuses? Apple.
Guess what Apple's marketshare is amongst laptop manufacturers. Then, as a thought experiment, guess what the iPhone's marketshare is going to approach in a few years.
If the devs cannot put out installation instructions that are not deliberately obtuse and which prevent even an experienced user from bricking the phone cyanogen mod is not much different.
It's tough to write instructions for people who deliberately try to not understand them in an effort to prove that the instructions are too difficult. In my experience, the answer to "can this be rooted/flashed?" are either "no" or "yes, and here's how to do it." It's really not that hard -- though I will grant that it's generally far more difficult than the 1-click root exploit for iOS.
Well you got a +5 for being completely full of shit; Apple mods must be out this morning.
It is news. The news is that this only affects Android.
There's crapware for iOS, too. Fart apps and crappy games that show you ads and are able to cull your personal details?
It's even worse than PCs due to fragmentation--the article mentions that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro (what a name) has four different app stores.
Fragmentation -- while being a talking point for Apple fanbois (iOS has no fragmentation! A 3GS can run everything an iPhone 4 can run, right?), the context you've used it in here indicates that you don't know what 'fragmentation' is.
When Linux fans cheer about some perceived victory through Android, they're really cheering the fact that carriers throw Android onto their cheap, flimsy phones and load it with a bunch of branded crap. That's not the victory we wanted.
No, they're cheering because they have a handheld general purpose CPU that they have full control over and runs a useful Linux distro. At least, the ones who *care* to do.
Also, your sig is still idiotic. Irrational Google hate. Must suck to see them as the biggest threat to your precious Apple.
However, Google isn't Apple's biggest threat -- Apple is. Because of the way they operate, it's them vs. the entire rest of the computing world, and there's just no fucking way they're going to keep up with dozens of hardware manufacturers and the *entire internet* working on improving Android. Besides, how much more can smartphones (and tablets, for that matter) really do? They're going to be commodity devices *very* soon, and that's going to really eat into that lucrative revenue stream that Apple is enjoying so much right now. Most people aren't going to be willing to keep paying for the logo, and they'll be back to their old almost-pushing-10% marketshare.
Can you plug HDMI and USB into the IPad[2]? No Can you plug HDMI into the iPad[2] with an available dongle? Yes. Was the previous quoted question a half-truth? Yes.
So you can plug a standard connector into an extortionately priced proprietary dongle? Awesome!
And you still didn't answer anything about lack of USB support.
If we brougth back the labor industry that we have outsourced, then prices for computers, cell phones, etc. will sky rocket... I don't want to pay $500 for a Kindle just to support a guy who didn't go to college, who will earn low-middle income wage for the rest of his life and depend on unions to get benefits... no siree
I'd happily spend $500 for a Kindle if in the process it meant supporting not only our own economy, but the entire middle class -- and with it, our Western standard of living -- itself.
I'm sorry, but that is just a fuckheaded thing to say. No, people are seeing some very corrupt and broken unions today, and want it fixed, but people like you can't raise yourselves out of the muck of extremist bullshit rhetoric. It's all false dichotomies and dilemmas with you people.
You should have replied to the GGP if this is your attitude. You know, the one that basically blamed all of our economic problems on unions.
Or is your own partisanship showing through your "appeal for objectivity"?
It is well known that U.S. born black people going through college in the US get breaks not afforded to everyone else. We have even seen egregious examples of passes that should have been fails and even examples of plagiarism that has gone unaddressed and unpunished when done by black people.
And we have egregious examples of passes that should have been fails and even examples of plagiarism that have gone unaddressed and unpunished when done by white people, too.
Do you have data to suggest that *more* black people -- particularly ones that only got in because of affirmative action -- get a free pass than any other race? Because if not, you're just spouting bullshit and probably a victim of confirmation bias.
That's funny. I've worked with some extremely talented white professionals, but also met some that I considered sub-par. Same with Indian professionals. And Asian professionals.
I think that's hardly an indictment of the effectiveness of affirmative action.
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has been indistinguishable from Bush and the Republican congress
People keep saying that, but it's not true. While they are more similar than many of us would like, they have enough differences that it's worth voting one way or another.
In 2000, they kept telling us that Gore and Bush were, really, practically the same candidate. Does anyone honestly believe that if Gore had won, we'd be in the position we are now?
They aren't indistinguishable; you have to squint pretty hard to tell them apart, but there are definitely differences.
--Jeremy
Also watch for the White Knights out to defend everyone and everything related to law enforcement, because they're all good guys and none of them could ever be corrupted.
--Jeremy
Give me a break, Oh Open Superior Life Forms.
At least we aren't the ones that think 99% of the rest of the world is stupid enough to mistake a Galaxy Tab for an iPad.
--Jeremy
If you really want to play the "FRAND for me, but not for thee" game you will not like the results when the patents Apple holds in various standards bodies suddenly become ineligible for some companies...
I'm willing to take that gamble. If Apple really wants to try to shut everyone down for infringing patents, Apple itself will be shut down by all of the countersuits. Apple may be a big fish in a big pond, but it's a *big* pond and a lot of the other fish aren't exactly minnows.
--Jeremy
Your job isn't as a professional sports stadium builder, is it? You seem to excel at moving goalposts.
--Jeremy
Kids don't work any more these days?
Nope, not a single kid under 22 has a job, or access to any money whatsoever. Weird, huh?
--Jeremy
And then what? You think you're going to seize their assets and begin the great worker revolution or something? Heard of offshoring? Watching how much faster it happens as soon as a government turns against industry.
So ... do nothing, for fear of retaliation? Hope it all works out in the end? That seems like a great plan.
--Jeremy
A democracy is two wolves and a sheep getting together to decide what's for lunch.
I've always found this quote to be really stupid.
By that analogy's same logic, a democracy could also be 1000 sheep and a wolf voting on what's for dinner. Doesn't sound so bad now, does it? Unless you're the wolf, obviously. In that case, if you're the wolf, the best thing you can do is convince the 1000 sheep to not vote because their votes don't matter, or to pit them against each other over bullshit issues. Or both, maybe.
--Jeremy
It's easy to find numbers that agree with your point when you just pull half of them out of your ass.
--Jeremy
Maybe after all the money they've managed to gobble up then it would be a good idea for climate 'scientists' to actually formulate a theory approaching something even close to that?
No kidding. Did you hear about all of the huge bonuses that AGW scientists got last year, while we're in a global recession, no less? I hear that some of them were able to upgrade their Corollas to *Camrys,* and a few at the top even have Priuses now.
Some of them are so rich they don't even need to patch their tweed jackets with leather; they just buy new ones. Nothing but a bunch of fat cats, I tell you.
--Jeremy
The whole AGW industry, including the NSF, is so invested in Mann that to discredit him would end the gravy train for all of them.
I want you to step back, re-read that, and then picture all of the fat cats in the "AGW industry" and see if you don't feel incredibly stupid.
For the record, I knew there was no reason to put any stock in your post the second you confused "weather" with "climate".
--Jeremy
Well let's see, in one of those scenarios, at T=0, V=(some speed greater than 0, probably between 25 and 45mph), and in the other, at T=0, V=0.
It's actually pretty easy to imagine a scenario where if you're doing the speed limit the *entire* time, you'll hit every green, but if you get stopped and have to accelerate after a red light, you won't have time to make the next green. In fact, such a scenario exists in the city I live in, on its biggest north-south arterial.
So, no, it is you that's being dense.
--Jeremy
It must be nice to have a canned boogeyman to blame for everything. Saves a lot of critical thinking.
--Jeremy
probably for classes they won't even need
Those classes don't exist. (Underwater basket weaving maybe.) I really get tired of this stupid idea that somehow large parts of our school curriculum is "unneeded." That may be true if your only goal in life is to be one-dimensional and generally ignorant, or if your highest aspiration is to be an insert tab A in slot B assembly line worker, but most of the time people who put forth this idea seem to think that they're "special" and should be on some fast track to a more important function.
If you can't find a way to make classes relevant to your life, that's your failing, not the class. Learning is always good. Learning a broad set of subjects is even better. Having more than a passing familiarity with an area of study will make you a more rounded, more thoughtful, more critical thinker.
The number of classes that I took through my entire schooling that I now use on a day to day basis could have probably been covered in a year or two. Vast swaths of History, Science, English/Literature, Math, Physical Education, Music, and every other subject I covered in school really has very little impact on my daily life. I'd never give them up though; if I had the option to go back and redo only what I wanted, I'd try to cover *more* subjects, not fewer. Kids are really stupid when it comes to evaluating things that they'll need in 10, 20, or 50 years.
--Jeremy
And the most popular laptop manufacturer on college campuses? Apple.
Guess what Apple's marketshare is amongst laptop manufacturers. Then, as a thought experiment, guess what the iPhone's marketshare is going to approach in a few years.
--Jeremy
If the devs cannot put out installation instructions that are not deliberately obtuse and which prevent even an experienced user from bricking the phone cyanogen mod is not much different.
It's tough to write instructions for people who deliberately try to not understand them in an effort to prove that the instructions are too difficult. In my experience, the answer to "can this be rooted/flashed?" are either "no" or "yes, and here's how to do it." It's really not that hard -- though I will grant that it's generally far more difficult than the 1-click root exploit for iOS.
--Jeremy
Well you got a +5 for being completely full of shit; Apple mods must be out this morning.
It is news. The news is that this only affects Android.
There's crapware for iOS, too. Fart apps and crappy games that show you ads and are able to cull your personal details?
It's even worse than PCs due to fragmentation--the article mentions that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro (what a name) has four different app stores.
Fragmentation -- while being a talking point for Apple fanbois (iOS has no fragmentation! A 3GS can run everything an iPhone 4 can run, right?), the context you've used it in here indicates that you don't know what 'fragmentation' is.
When Linux fans cheer about some perceived victory through Android, they're really cheering the fact that carriers throw Android onto their cheap, flimsy phones and load it with a bunch of branded crap. That's not the victory we wanted.
No, they're cheering because they have a handheld general purpose CPU that they have full control over and runs a useful Linux distro. At least, the ones who *care* to do.
Also, your sig is still idiotic. Irrational Google hate. Must suck to see them as the biggest threat to your precious Apple.
However, Google isn't Apple's biggest threat -- Apple is. Because of the way they operate, it's them vs. the entire rest of the computing world, and there's just no fucking way they're going to keep up with dozens of hardware manufacturers and the *entire internet* working on improving Android. Besides, how much more can smartphones (and tablets, for that matter) really do? They're going to be commodity devices *very* soon, and that's going to really eat into that lucrative revenue stream that Apple is enjoying so much right now. Most people aren't going to be willing to keep paying for the logo, and they'll be back to their old almost-pushing-10% marketshare.
--Jeremy
You're putting words in GP's mouth. He never claimed that Jesus talked about original sin.
This is utter bullshit. Jesus never talked about an original sin
However, churches sure do. And they use it to scare people into attending.
--Jeremy
Only one of the criteria you listed really matters.
You can't be bothered to pick up a tablet that's 2mm thicker and 0.1lb heavier? I think the "pretentious prick" label fits well.
--Jeremy
Can you plug HDMI and USB into the IPad[2]? No
Can you plug HDMI into the iPad[2] with an available dongle? Yes.
Was the previous quoted question a half-truth? Yes.
So you can plug a standard connector into an extortionately priced proprietary dongle? Awesome!
And you still didn't answer anything about lack of USB support.
--Jeremy
If we brougth back the labor industry that we have outsourced, then prices for computers, cell phones, etc. will sky rocket... I don't want to pay $500 for a Kindle just to support a guy who didn't go to college, who will earn low-middle income wage for the rest of his life and depend on unions to get benefits... no siree
I'd happily spend $500 for a Kindle if in the process it meant supporting not only our own economy, but the entire middle class -- and with it, our Western standard of living -- itself.
--Jeremy
I'm sorry, but that is just a fuckheaded thing to say. No, people are seeing some very corrupt and broken unions today, and want it fixed, but people like you can't raise yourselves out of the muck of extremist bullshit rhetoric. It's all false dichotomies and dilemmas with you people.
You should have replied to the GGP if this is your attitude. You know, the one that basically blamed all of our economic problems on unions.
Or is your own partisanship showing through your "appeal for objectivity"?
--Jeremy
The average American is worse off? Funny, I didn't see Iphones, PCs, drugs that actually work, etc. in the 1950s?
And cake -- don't forget that everyone gets to eat cake, too.
--Jeremy
It is well known that U.S. born black people going through college in the US get breaks not afforded to everyone else. We have even seen egregious examples of passes that should have been fails and even examples of plagiarism that has gone unaddressed and unpunished when done by black people.
And we have egregious examples of passes that should have been fails and even examples of plagiarism that have gone unaddressed and unpunished when done by white people, too.
Do you have data to suggest that *more* black people -- particularly ones that only got in because of affirmative action -- get a free pass than any other race? Because if not, you're just spouting bullshit and probably a victim of confirmation bias.
--Jeremy
That's funny. I've worked with some extremely talented white professionals, but also met some that I considered sub-par. Same with Indian professionals. And Asian professionals.
I think that's hardly an indictment of the effectiveness of affirmative action.
--Jeremy