Translation of the above: Please don't tell me scary things, tell me everything is alright with lots of puppies and kittens who never ever die. Tell me a world of unicorns and rainbows so I can believe everything is alright and as it should be and I can excuse myself for not lifting a finger to improve the world.
Allow me to rest my hand in the sand and then complain like a bitch when I am run over by a lorry. Because someone else should have been saving the world while I looked the other way.
Zimmerman was patrolling a GATED community in which Martin himself also lived as far as I know. I don't like the idea of gated communities but if you live in one, you basically agree with neighborhood watches.
Zimmerman HAD the right to play cop given to him by everyone who choose to live in that GATED community, including Martin.
And Martin only lived there because he was a thug wannabe and had been kicked out by his parents.
It is clear where you loyalties lie, you believe Martin should be able to do whatever he want, up to and including crime and nobody has a right to say "not in my neighborhood". Zimmerman was patrolling for a reason, crime had gone up. Oddly enough just after Martin moved in, Martin who on his phone had evidence of several crimes.
And Symbian was developed NOT because the phone makers wanted their own OS but because they had seen what happened to PC makers when they became OEM's and didn't want to become MS slaves.
Nokia lead the move that was "anything but MS", now it has been silenced. You can Samsung now attempting to break itself free from Android by continuing development of MeeGo.
Windows Dev: Or.... or... I will continue to buy into your mono-culture by not learning any portable languages or tool chains and only develop for your product to the greater glory of your holiness.
MS: I might have stepped in something, lick clean my shoe and try to hide your excitement.
Windows Dev: Yes glorious master.
MS knows EXACTLY how to treat its 3rd party developers. Like shit and the 3rd party developers will lap it up hoping that one day they will be bought out. Or *shiver* partnered. Which is code for getting it so hard up the ass your tonsils hurt.
Why wait until your boss retires... why not assist him on his way to his final reward. What do you think crawl spaces are for anyway?
And what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Got an ambitious underling? There is always more room under the office.
The only downside is getting the fingers to un-stiffen enough to sign your references. You would think that the blood and putrid remains on the resume might cause questions, but real businessmen understand. Everyone has a few skeletons in their closet.
The whole idea about "illegal" filesharing is that if I set up a torrent and you download, I am guilty of infringement because I made it available.
Therefor, if you setup a torrent will material, you CANNOT then claim that those who download it of you, are downloading it illegally from YOU. It is a simple thing called common sense, you can't claim mutually exclusive things to be true.
Either a torrent creator is responsible for making a download available or he isn't.
And smart people then phantomfive HAVE already ruled on this, it is NOT legal to setup up a honeypot for filesharing. If a content owner makes content available for download, by definition the download is legal. Any other explanation fo the law would allow me to claim you stole this post by downloading it and even READING it!!! You pirate! Now pay me the full worth of my post!
Lets see, if all you readers payed me in full and I had a dollar, I would still be 4 dollars short for a cup of coffee.
Eheh... so you only wear it in the privacy of your own home? You are like a transvestite who only dresses up in his bedroom. Time to get out of the closet! Shout out loud: I am dork, hear me ROAR! Be nerdy and proud!
Sing with me "We shall, we shall not boot Windows"
What brand was his pocket protector... and did it have the required number of pencils for his job?
On a more serious note, if you even wonder about wearing a holster for anything but a gun, you are a nerd, you will look like a nerd even in the best suit dressed by the hippest person in the world. You are Duane Dibbley, don't fight it. Let the nerd flow through you.
There are some people meant to look in whatever they put on and there are some who don't. If you EVER thought about a mechanical pencil any more then, "I need to write down something, this will do" then you are in the last group. Accept it, now put on those white socks and your sandals, hike up your belt to above your navel and snort boy, SNORT!
I am to old and to set in my ways to change anymore. The content industry treated me like a leaper and thief for to long for me to now start dancing to their tune again. The old practices of charging high prices for 2 episodes on a single VHS tapes, charging 1 dollar for a single song only accepting credit cards, the endless unskippable ads and warnings on BOUGHT content, lame copy protection that only bothers paying customers have just completely turned me of paying for content. I get better, faster service for free then when I payed for it for over 20 years. Fine, I take the hint. I keep my money and spend it on other stuff.
People like me are lazy, it took a LOT for me to start blocking ads for instance, it was just to much hazzle in the beginning. But now installing ad-blocker is part of my routine after installing a new browser. And I won't change that routine anytime soon. Push me over the edge and I won't climb back up, I will stay there and nurture my grievances long after you claimed they are gone.
Oh and TV shows are STILL over priced, DVD's still have unskippable warnings and adds and songs are STILL a dollar a song AND it is still a nightmare to pay with iDeal (dutch cross bank payment system) on most services.
Oh and since breaking bad aired on a dutch public channel, may taxes payed for it whether I want to watch it or not, so why shouldn't I be able to download (it airs without commercial breaks) it? Downloading is legal in Holland anyway.
As a EU citizen you are probably aware not a single food from the US comes from the US... there is NO food exported by the US to anywhere else that did not come from somewhere else to begin with. Real American foods such as American Cheese, American Beer, Grits and.... well that is about it, are not export. American bakery products are amongst them. And for good reason.
Twinkies are famous for being one of two things to outlast the nuclear holocaust. And you got to pity the cockroaches if that is the only food left. The maker claims their long life is a myth but I tested this by keeping them on a hot PC for over 2 years and the taste at the end had not changed. Can't say if they spoiled, just that the taste has not changed.
So what is the taste. Imagine a cake.... now imagine cake without butter. Ah, like Chiffon cake you might say... NO. In order to have a long shelf life, the hostess company does not put butter in its cakes. This might confuse those of you who think ordinary cake with butter has a long shelf life if properly wrapped but you know, Americans. They have however NOT simply made a Chiffon cake (also does not contain butter) but added something else. Don't know what but it is chemical You could lick an oil refinery and not encounter such a chemical taste. Why you might want to lick a oil refinery? Possibly because you just ate a Twinky.
The cake is truly horrible in every regard, taste (chemical), texture(dry), color(frightingly yellow pale). Inside the Twinky the ugliest caterpillar ever made a cocoon and died just as its entire body had degraded into a white mass. There are various candy interiors you better not think about to closely, this is they their queen. I think it actually serves as a coating for you taste pupils to guard you against the true horror of the cake.
So why do American love it so much?
THEY DON'T!
When I went to the US a few years ago, I went on the hunt for them because I heard so much about them and had to taste them. Most Americans I asked had no idea what I was talking about. I finally found them at Redneck central Walmart. Everything you ever heard about the USA and don't really believe is happening right now at Walmart. I now understand the compulsive need American feels to own a dozen machine guns.
To recap:
If you EVER hear about a regional delicacy that hasn't made it past its region. Take a GODDAMN HINT. Chocolate, Beer (except American), Wine, Cheese, Appels etc etc ARE NOT regional delicacies because they taste damned good and everyone loves them. Rotten fish, maggot cheese, American cheese are ONLY available in select locations because everyone will sooner declare war then import them. This includes ANYTHING from the hostess company.
They went bankrupt for a reason. Americans are fond of them because their mothers (who hated them) gave them a cake from a big box to shut them up and of such things the memories of childhood are made. But nobody in the US actually eats them. You shouldn't either, I did so you don't have to.
Basically Obama just killed the patent system. The US is no longer the power it once was and it is just legitimized India's moves to take essential medicines out of the patent system. And while American voters can be easily swayed, the rest of the world has just seen that it is okay to ignore US laws when it doesn't suit you and they WILL follow.
Obama seems determined to go down in history as the worst US president ever. This WILL end up biting the US in the ass. Samsung doesn't care about a billion dollar fine but the US NEEDS the patent system and for it to be respected. You can't win a trade war if you just made your only remaining product worthless.
The phone has global support but if you do NOT buy it now, you won't buy it later. The phone will ONLY be available if it is fully funded and you can't buy it afterwards.
There are 19 days left, if you don't signup before that deadline you lost your chance. NOBODY else will try AND NOBODY else will come even close to giving you what you want. Get over your sense of entitlement that EVERYTHING need to be just the way you want it. This is the real world and your mommy ain't around to cut the crusts of your bread.
If this project does not exist, the message is clear, the linux world is to divided for anyone to cater for because no matter what you do, they always want more and not just give an existing project a chance right now.
It is not even that much a risk, if the project isn't funded, you get all your money back.
Oh and lifehacker or something like that did a user survey and the five blade does end as the most popular. People can joke all they want but they want a safe easy shave in the morning.
And how many cores do the new consoles have? Both 8. But hey, Sony and MS are both stupid...
Because to a PC gamer something is VERY obviously different. The specs all the console fanboys are drooling over is for hardware YET to be released. Right now, gaming PC's already surpass those specs. PC specs will continue to evolve, the console specs will be fixed for another half a decade at least if not longer.
Remember, during the hype up of EVERY console launch, people have drooled at trailers and demo's (running often on PC's) and then the games finally launch and it turns out that when you are powering a real game, you can't dedicate all your resources to rendering an amazing demo scene.
I am reminded of commentary by the FEAR developers about how they had to choose for each room how many lights vs AI they wanted. They couldn't have a large number of both. If they wanted to create a big fight in a room with dynamic lights, they couldn't. On a PC, modders often add this, countless projects make games like Fallout and Skyrim harder and more fun by upping the number of enemies (rather then just adding hit points) figuring that gamers who want this have PC's that handle it. On a console you won't see it.
About the only upgrade you can do on a console is to replace the slow as hell HD with an SSD. But PC gamers are already on raid setups. I am only reminded things like loading screens exist when I turn on a console.
My current PC outpaces consoles not yet released. Over the coming years it will rapidly leave console hardware behind until a cheapass dell can run rings out the consoles of this generation.
About the only upside I can see is that now that consoles FINALLY get at least some decent memory (my PC hard 32gb simply because it doesn't cost anything anymore) developers will FINALLY be shifting to 64 bit code and you no longer need to patch PC games to be large address aware.
This generation MIGHT however be rather short IF 4K tv takes off. No way the current hardware can handle that at acceptable frame raters/detail levels. Since 4k tv's are going to launch for less then 1000 before the next generation consoles, it might be intresting to see what is going to happen.
Meanwhile, the modding scene will continue to exclusively cater for the PC crowd and turn average games into brilliant ones for free. And games like "The Last of Us" will sell purely on story because as a shooter it sucks DONKEY BALLS. Do you know what will TRULY revolutionize gaming and making porting trivial?
Allow keyboard/mouse as a standard option on console games. Mind you, Naughty Dog might actually have to create an AI (wait in the first outdoor area with the patrolling soldiers and they will all stop with their back to you, and not respond while you kill them a few meters from each other. But hey, console gamers probably find that a challenge.
I've been using either a Samsung Stratosphere (S1) or a Samsung Stratosphere 2 (S2) from September 2012 to the present.
The v2 wasn't yet available in September 2012...
So there are several options:
Bennet is such a total tosser he doesn't know what version of a product he bought.
Bennet buys and hates a phone, then buys and hates its sequel.
He bought S1 seconds before the S2 came out, meaning he both ignored market rumors AND customer reviews (S1 did not review well, basically it only got some attention because it had a keyboard, otherwise, look elsewhere). Meaning he is an idiot which he could have known wasn't very good and then bought the sequel seconds later.
Bennet then complains market forces don't fix some things... indeed they do NOT. They do NOT fix stupid customers buying crap they hate with good money.
If I piss in your face and you hand me 50 bucks, then next day give me 50 bucks to piss in your face again... market forces tell me to piss in your face.
Does he even know what market forces are? Does he even grasp the concept of voting with your money?
Frankly his long list of complaints has to many "user is an idiot" elements so, having googled a few reviews, I am left to conclude the phone isn't perfect but the majority of his issues are imagined or over dramatized.
Similarly, every time I say that my Circumventor mailing list keeps getting blocked as "spam" by Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or AOL (despite being 100% verified-opt-in, natch), someone tells me that if the free market is blocking my emails as unwanted, it must be because the users don't want them. That the free market might make a mistake (in this case, because users don't have full information about what is getting blocked as spam), doesn't occur to them. I think the belief in the infallibility of the free market, is one of the most widespread fallacies of our era — people who would never make the mistake of confusing correlation with causation, have no problem thinking that if a product or service gets blocked by a third-party intermediary, it must be because the end user didn't want it.
AH... it alls becomes so clear now... this guy is a spammer and can't grasp that the market does INDEED work. I do NOT want his spam, I want Google to filter my email and if I didn't want that, I wouldn't use gmail.
The market works, it just sucks when it doesn't work FOR you but against you. But that doesn't mean the market doesn't work, it just means the market doesn't like you. He doesn't want the market to fix things for everyone, he wants the market to fix things for HIM alone so HE can spam freely.
Well fuck him AND his crappy phone he bought a year after it had been reviewed as a crappy phone.
Just to explain for the 1st class citizens who work with real languages on real project with proper budgets and deadlines, the web world is mostly: we want it yesterday, for less, done by the company cat who ran away.
We who use PHP are the bastard children of a lesser god.
If you are extremely unlucky you will end up in a magento/drupal/etc sweatshop punching out nearly identical websites on budgets that real programmers call their hourly rate.
If you want to escape that you are going to need a couple of things. First of is the realization that until a project is finished, it has no value. An unfinished house at least has land that has value and bricks that can be sold. A broken down car can be sold as scrap but unfinished code? Worthless. So the first "skill" one requires is to be able to FINISH a project before the money runs out and that skill requires some real talent.
Pure coders tend to get stuck on details, optimizing the hell out of some sub routine while the program does not exist. Shall I illustrate this by doing something really bold and original and compare this to a car? Bet you never saw that coming.
A coder is someone who with a budget of 10k spend that on a sweet engine that he has lovingly tuned for 10 years and that will startup anyday now once he got some new parts and then it can go into his car, once he saved up another 10k to buy a car. A developer is a car mechanic who fixes your car for a decent fee.
Facebook is the prime example. Many a coder mocks them for using PHP and for having to spend a fortune on developing HipHop to make PHP run faster when they could have just used a real language from the start... except IF they had handed the project to a coder that coder would STILL be working on a super fast routine for the timeline, that would be in form the start and will blow the competition away in 2050.
In the real world, projects have deadlines and budgets and if you break them, the project breaks. Once the project is up and running, you can get in the coders and optimize the hell out of everything payed for by the profit being generated by the script kiddie developer who wrote lousy code but got it to work.
There are various websites were people can hosts their projects. Count the ones that NEVER release a single version... betcha they are done by coders who spend years working on a single function but couldn't manage to actually get a working product out the door?
That is one thing I look for in candidates myself, I don't care WHAT you build or how well you build it but did you EVER get ANYTHING out the door? Can you get it into your head that when you are asked to do something before a date, that it don't matter how nice it will be if that date can be postponed endlessly but that I want something that works by that date even if looking at it will drive people insane?
Mind you, I think the word talent and skill are totally useless to describe the difference. Perhaps the difference is that of a dreamer or a realist. And you need realists to get the money to pay for the dreamers who you need to keep increasing the money you are earning to pay for them both.
When the Sydney Opera house was build the Architect was needed to come up with this innovative design but it took a builder to come up with a way to realize it. BOTH together build it. Alone the builder would never have come up with the design and without the builder the architect would only have had drawings to hang on his wall.
You need the code monkey AND the guy who can see the big picture. And ideally they should be managed by a manager who understands the difference between deadlines that are real and made up ones.
Now find me a way to find good managers. THAT is the one everyone is looking for.
How about stocking all the sizes? Or maybe go crazy and even ad some sizes based on the new body types that exist in society. You know, tall or far or even tall AND fat people.
And maybe I am insane but how about stocking clothes for the season we are IN? I am male, I buy clothes when I need new ones... well... several months after I need new ones and the concept of shopping a season ahead is both alien and repulsive to me.
Or how about actually putting clothes for men in at least 1% of clothing stores? We are nearly 50% of the population.
Nah lets go high tech and try to guess what a shopper wants instead of selling him what he wants.
If you REALLY want to filter YOUR computers internet connection there is a very simple and totally effective approach.
A white list.
Blocking content you don't like on the internet is a never ending task but you CAN produce a SHORT list of approved sites for you or those who can't yet escape your clutches to visit. Because I have found that those kids who grew up in censored households were the ones to go most off the rails when they finally moved out. No greater slut then the preachers daughter.
I am reminded of stories of kids being banned from watching Star Trek because it had a black woman on it. These kinds of people are the ones who want filters and how the fuck are you going to filter everything that upsets them. Only white list disney.com? Doesn't disney have gay days in its park? BAN!
There ARE no safe sites that please EVERYONE. Hell even something as simple as searching for a picture of a new monitor stand from newstar with safesearch ON on googles image search... do NOT do this if you are worried about what might appear on your screen. http://www.newstar.nl/home/ products is what I was after, their search catalog sucks so I hoped to use image search to find a triple monitor stand. That is not what I found.
So what site can you allow? You can't censor the net effectively, you could only create a white listed version and then the list would be a handful of sites. weather.com and kittenwars... oh you are a dog lover.
But I did say there is a real effective filter didn't I?
There is. UNPLUG your computer. If you can't handle the internet, maybe you shouldn't be on it. And now if you excuse me, I will await a knock on the door for my google search of today.
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So zimmerman was now larger then travyon? What lie next. He was younger as well?
Your stupidity is amazing!
Allow me to rest my hand in the sand and then complain like a bitch when I am run over by a lorry. Because someone else should have been saving the world while I looked the other way.
Zimmerman was patrolling a GATED community in which Martin himself also lived as far as I know. I don't like the idea of gated communities but if you live in one, you basically agree with neighborhood watches.
Zimmerman HAD the right to play cop given to him by everyone who choose to live in that GATED community, including Martin.
And Martin only lived there because he was a thug wannabe and had been kicked out by his parents.
It is clear where you loyalties lie, you believe Martin should be able to do whatever he want, up to and including crime and nobody has a right to say "not in my neighborhood". Zimmerman was patrolling for a reason, crime had gone up. Oddly enough just after Martin moved in, Martin who on his phone had evidence of several crimes.
And Symbian was developed NOT because the phone makers wanted their own OS but because they had seen what happened to PC makers when they became OEM's and didn't want to become MS slaves.
Nokia lead the move that was "anything but MS", now it has been silenced. You can Samsung now attempting to break itself free from Android by continuing development of MeeGo.
Windows Dev: Gives us the RTM MS or else!
MS: Or else?
Windows Dev: Or.... or... I will continue to buy into your mono-culture by not learning any portable languages or tool chains and only develop for your product to the greater glory of your holiness.
MS: I might have stepped in something, lick clean my shoe and try to hide your excitement.
Windows Dev: Yes glorious master.
MS knows EXACTLY how to treat its 3rd party developers. Like shit and the 3rd party developers will lap it up hoping that one day they will be bought out. Or *shiver* partnered. Which is code for getting it so hard up the ass your tonsils hurt.
I wouldn't take up sky-diving with that attitude.
Sometimes you just got to things right the first time.
Why wait until your boss retires... why not assist him on his way to his final reward. What do you think crawl spaces are for anyway?
And what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Got an ambitious underling? There is always more room under the office.
The only downside is getting the fingers to un-stiffen enough to sign your references. You would think that the blood and putrid remains on the resume might cause questions, but real businessmen understand. Everyone has a few skeletons in their closet.
The whole idea about "illegal" filesharing is that if I set up a torrent and you download, I am guilty of infringement because I made it available.
Therefor, if you setup a torrent will material, you CANNOT then claim that those who download it of you, are downloading it illegally from YOU. It is a simple thing called common sense, you can't claim mutually exclusive things to be true.
Either a torrent creator is responsible for making a download available or he isn't.
And smart people then phantomfive HAVE already ruled on this, it is NOT legal to setup up a honeypot for filesharing. If a content owner makes content available for download, by definition the download is legal. Any other explanation fo the law would allow me to claim you stole this post by downloading it and even READING it!!! You pirate! Now pay me the full worth of my post!
Lets see, if all you readers payed me in full and I had a dollar, I would still be 4 dollars short for a cup of coffee.
Linux has the lion share of the phone market via Android. It also has a very large share of the server market. So why you link it to the deskop?
Eheh... so you only wear it in the privacy of your own home? You are like a transvestite who only dresses up in his bedroom. Time to get out of the closet! Shout out loud: I am dork, hear me ROAR! Be nerdy and proud!
Sing with me "We shall, we shall not boot Windows"
What brand was his pocket protector... and did it have the required number of pencils for his job?
On a more serious note, if you even wonder about wearing a holster for anything but a gun, you are a nerd, you will look like a nerd even in the best suit dressed by the hippest person in the world. You are Duane Dibbley, don't fight it. Let the nerd flow through you.
There are some people meant to look in whatever they put on and there are some who don't. If you EVER thought about a mechanical pencil any more then, "I need to write down something, this will do" then you are in the last group. Accept it, now put on those white socks and your sandals, hike up your belt to above your navel and snort boy, SNORT!
I am to old and to set in my ways to change anymore. The content industry treated me like a leaper and thief for to long for me to now start dancing to their tune again. The old practices of charging high prices for 2 episodes on a single VHS tapes, charging 1 dollar for a single song only accepting credit cards, the endless unskippable ads and warnings on BOUGHT content, lame copy protection that only bothers paying customers have just completely turned me of paying for content. I get better, faster service for free then when I payed for it for over 20 years. Fine, I take the hint. I keep my money and spend it on other stuff.
People like me are lazy, it took a LOT for me to start blocking ads for instance, it was just to much hazzle in the beginning. But now installing ad-blocker is part of my routine after installing a new browser. And I won't change that routine anytime soon. Push me over the edge and I won't climb back up, I will stay there and nurture my grievances long after you claimed they are gone.
Oh and TV shows are STILL over priced, DVD's still have unskippable warnings and adds and songs are STILL a dollar a song AND it is still a nightmare to pay with iDeal (dutch cross bank payment system) on most services.
Oh and since breaking bad aired on a dutch public channel, may taxes payed for it whether I want to watch it or not, so why shouldn't I be able to download (it airs without commercial breaks) it? Downloading is legal in Holland anyway.
As a EU citizen you are probably aware not a single food from the US comes from the US... there is NO food exported by the US to anywhere else that did not come from somewhere else to begin with. Real American foods such as American Cheese, American Beer, Grits and .... well that is about it, are not export. American bakery products are amongst them. And for good reason.
Twinkies are famous for being one of two things to outlast the nuclear holocaust. And you got to pity the cockroaches if that is the only food left. The maker claims their long life is a myth but I tested this by keeping them on a hot PC for over 2 years and the taste at the end had not changed. Can't say if they spoiled, just that the taste has not changed.
So what is the taste. Imagine a cake.... now imagine cake without butter. Ah, like Chiffon cake you might say... NO. In order to have a long shelf life, the hostess company does not put butter in its cakes. This might confuse those of you who think ordinary cake with butter has a long shelf life if properly wrapped but you know, Americans. They have however NOT simply made a Chiffon cake (also does not contain butter) but added something else. Don't know what but it is chemical You could lick an oil refinery and not encounter such a chemical taste. Why you might want to lick a oil refinery? Possibly because you just ate a Twinky.
The cake is truly horrible in every regard, taste (chemical), texture(dry), color(frightingly yellow pale). Inside the Twinky the ugliest caterpillar ever made a cocoon and died just as its entire body had degraded into a white mass. There are various candy interiors you better not think about to closely, this is they their queen. I think it actually serves as a coating for you taste pupils to guard you against the true horror of the cake.
So why do American love it so much?
THEY DON'T!
When I went to the US a few years ago, I went on the hunt for them because I heard so much about them and had to taste them. Most Americans I asked had no idea what I was talking about. I finally found them at Redneck central Walmart. Everything you ever heard about the USA and don't really believe is happening right now at Walmart. I now understand the compulsive need American feels to own a dozen machine guns.
To recap:
If you EVER hear about a regional delicacy that hasn't made it past its region. Take a GODDAMN HINT. Chocolate, Beer (except American), Wine, Cheese, Appels etc etc ARE NOT regional delicacies because they taste damned good and everyone loves them. Rotten fish, maggot cheese, American cheese are ONLY available in select locations because everyone will sooner declare war then import them. This includes ANYTHING from the hostess company.
They went bankrupt for a reason. Americans are fond of them because their mothers (who hated them) gave them a cake from a big box to shut them up and of such things the memories of childhood are made. But nobody in the US actually eats them. You shouldn't either, I did so you don't have to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM This already happened.
Basically Obama just killed the patent system. The US is no longer the power it once was and it is just legitimized India's moves to take essential medicines out of the patent system. And while American voters can be easily swayed, the rest of the world has just seen that it is okay to ignore US laws when it doesn't suit you and they WILL follow.
Obama seems determined to go down in history as the worst US president ever. This WILL end up biting the US in the ass. Samsung doesn't care about a billion dollar fine but the US NEEDS the patent system and for it to be respected. You can't win a trade war if you just made your only remaining product worthless.
The phone has global support but if you do NOT buy it now, you won't buy it later. The phone will ONLY be available if it is fully funded and you can't buy it afterwards.
There are 19 days left, if you don't signup before that deadline you lost your chance. NOBODY else will try AND NOBODY else will come even close to giving you what you want. Get over your sense of entitlement that EVERYTHING need to be just the way you want it. This is the real world and your mommy ain't around to cut the crusts of your bread.
If this project does not exist, the message is clear, the linux world is to divided for anyone to cater for because no matter what you do, they always want more and not just give an existing project a chance right now.
It is not even that much a risk, if the project isn't funded, you get all your money back.
SIX blades! The best REAL men can get.
Oh and lifehacker or something like that did a user survey and the five blade does end as the most popular. People can joke all they want but they want a safe easy shave in the morning.
And how many cores do the new consoles have? Both 8. But hey, Sony and MS are both stupid...
Well there goes my argument.
Because to a PC gamer something is VERY obviously different. The specs all the console fanboys are drooling over is for hardware YET to be released. Right now, gaming PC's already surpass those specs. PC specs will continue to evolve, the console specs will be fixed for another half a decade at least if not longer.
Remember, during the hype up of EVERY console launch, people have drooled at trailers and demo's (running often on PC's) and then the games finally launch and it turns out that when you are powering a real game, you can't dedicate all your resources to rendering an amazing demo scene.
I am reminded of commentary by the FEAR developers about how they had to choose for each room how many lights vs AI they wanted. They couldn't have a large number of both. If they wanted to create a big fight in a room with dynamic lights, they couldn't. On a PC, modders often add this, countless projects make games like Fallout and Skyrim harder and more fun by upping the number of enemies (rather then just adding hit points) figuring that gamers who want this have PC's that handle it. On a console you won't see it.
About the only upgrade you can do on a console is to replace the slow as hell HD with an SSD. But PC gamers are already on raid setups. I am only reminded things like loading screens exist when I turn on a console.
My current PC outpaces consoles not yet released. Over the coming years it will rapidly leave console hardware behind until a cheapass dell can run rings out the consoles of this generation.
About the only upside I can see is that now that consoles FINALLY get at least some decent memory (my PC hard 32gb simply because it doesn't cost anything anymore) developers will FINALLY be shifting to 64 bit code and you no longer need to patch PC games to be large address aware.
This generation MIGHT however be rather short IF 4K tv takes off. No way the current hardware can handle that at acceptable frame raters/detail levels. Since 4k tv's are going to launch for less then 1000 before the next generation consoles, it might be intresting to see what is going to happen.
Meanwhile, the modding scene will continue to exclusively cater for the PC crowd and turn average games into brilliant ones for free. And games like "The Last of Us" will sell purely on story because as a shooter it sucks DONKEY BALLS. Do you know what will TRULY revolutionize gaming and making porting trivial?
Allow keyboard/mouse as a standard option on console games. Mind you, Naughty Dog might actually have to create an AI (wait in the first outdoor area with the patrolling soldiers and they will all stop with their back to you, and not respond while you kill them a few meters from each other. But hey, console gamers probably find that a challenge.
I've been using either a Samsung Stratosphere (S1) or a Samsung Stratosphere 2 (S2) from September 2012 to the present.
The v2 wasn't yet available in September 2012...
So there are several options:
Bennet then complains market forces don't fix some things... indeed they do NOT. They do NOT fix stupid customers buying crap they hate with good money.
If I piss in your face and you hand me 50 bucks, then next day give me 50 bucks to piss in your face again... market forces tell me to piss in your face.
Does he even know what market forces are? Does he even grasp the concept of voting with your money?
Frankly his long list of complaints has to many "user is an idiot" elements so, having googled a few reviews, I am left to conclude the phone isn't perfect but the majority of his issues are imagined or over dramatized.
Similarly, every time I say that my Circumventor mailing list keeps getting blocked as "spam" by Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or AOL (despite being 100% verified-opt-in, natch), someone tells me that if the free market is blocking my emails as unwanted, it must be because the users don't want them. That the free market might make a mistake (in this case, because users don't have full information about what is getting blocked as spam), doesn't occur to them. I think the belief in the infallibility of the free market, is one of the most widespread fallacies of our era — people who would never make the mistake of confusing correlation with causation, have no problem thinking that if a product or service gets blocked by a third-party intermediary, it must be because the end user didn't want it.
AH... it alls becomes so clear now... this guy is a spammer and can't grasp that the market does INDEED work. I do NOT want his spam, I want Google to filter my email and if I didn't want that, I wouldn't use gmail.
The market works, it just sucks when it doesn't work FOR you but against you. But that doesn't mean the market doesn't work, it just means the market doesn't like you. He doesn't want the market to fix things for everyone, he wants the market to fix things for HIM alone so HE can spam freely.
Well fuck him AND his crappy phone he bought a year after it had been reviewed as a crappy phone.
Buyer beware.
Just to explain for the 1st class citizens who work with real languages on real project with proper budgets and deadlines, the web world is mostly: we want it yesterday, for less, done by the company cat who ran away.
We who use PHP are the bastard children of a lesser god.
If you are extremely unlucky you will end up in a magento/drupal/etc sweatshop punching out nearly identical websites on budgets that real programmers call their hourly rate.
If you want to escape that you are going to need a couple of things. First of is the realization that until a project is finished, it has no value. An unfinished house at least has land that has value and bricks that can be sold. A broken down car can be sold as scrap but unfinished code? Worthless. So the first "skill" one requires is to be able to FINISH a project before the money runs out and that skill requires some real talent.
Pure coders tend to get stuck on details, optimizing the hell out of some sub routine while the program does not exist. Shall I illustrate this by doing something really bold and original and compare this to a car? Bet you never saw that coming.
A coder is someone who with a budget of 10k spend that on a sweet engine that he has lovingly tuned for 10 years and that will startup anyday now once he got some new parts and then it can go into his car, once he saved up another 10k to buy a car. A developer is a car mechanic who fixes your car for a decent fee.
Facebook is the prime example. Many a coder mocks them for using PHP and for having to spend a fortune on developing HipHop to make PHP run faster when they could have just used a real language from the start... except IF they had handed the project to a coder that coder would STILL be working on a super fast routine for the timeline, that would be in form the start and will blow the competition away in 2050.
In the real world, projects have deadlines and budgets and if you break them, the project breaks. Once the project is up and running, you can get in the coders and optimize the hell out of everything payed for by the profit being generated by the script kiddie developer who wrote lousy code but got it to work.
There are various websites were people can hosts their projects. Count the ones that NEVER release a single version... betcha they are done by coders who spend years working on a single function but couldn't manage to actually get a working product out the door?
That is one thing I look for in candidates myself, I don't care WHAT you build or how well you build it but did you EVER get ANYTHING out the door? Can you get it into your head that when you are asked to do something before a date, that it don't matter how nice it will be if that date can be postponed endlessly but that I want something that works by that date even if looking at it will drive people insane?
Mind you, I think the word talent and skill are totally useless to describe the difference. Perhaps the difference is that of a dreamer or a realist. And you need realists to get the money to pay for the dreamers who you need to keep increasing the money you are earning to pay for them both.
When the Sydney Opera house was build the Architect was needed to come up with this innovative design but it took a builder to come up with a way to realize it. BOTH together build it. Alone the builder would never have come up with the design and without the builder the architect would only have had drawings to hang on his wall.
You need the code monkey AND the guy who can see the big picture. And ideally they should be managed by a manager who understands the difference between deadlines that are real and made up ones.
Now find me a way to find good managers. THAT is the one everyone is looking for.
Apple went into the MP3 market at the top, into the Phone market at the top and into the tablet market at the top.
If you want to learn business, do NOT take MS as your only example unless you got an IBM willing to hand you a market for free.
We keep telling people to follow the money. Our lawmakers took our advice, they are following the money.
How about stocking all the sizes? Or maybe go crazy and even ad some sizes based on the new body types that exist in society. You know, tall or far or even tall AND fat people.
And maybe I am insane but how about stocking clothes for the season we are IN? I am male, I buy clothes when I need new ones... well... several months after I need new ones and the concept of shopping a season ahead is both alien and repulsive to me.
Or how about actually putting clothes for men in at least 1% of clothing stores? We are nearly 50% of the population.
Nah lets go high tech and try to guess what a shopper wants instead of selling him what he wants.
If you REALLY want to filter YOUR computers internet connection there is a very simple and totally effective approach.
A white list.
Blocking content you don't like on the internet is a never ending task but you CAN produce a SHORT list of approved sites for you or those who can't yet escape your clutches to visit. Because I have found that those kids who grew up in censored households were the ones to go most off the rails when they finally moved out. No greater slut then the preachers daughter.
I am reminded of stories of kids being banned from watching Star Trek because it had a black woman on it. These kinds of people are the ones who want filters and how the fuck are you going to filter everything that upsets them. Only white list disney.com? Doesn't disney have gay days in its park? BAN!
There ARE no safe sites that please EVERYONE. Hell even something as simple as searching for a picture of a new monitor stand from newstar with safesearch ON on googles image search... do NOT do this if you are worried about what might appear on your screen. http://www.newstar.nl/home/ products is what I was after, their search catalog sucks so I hoped to use image search to find a triple monitor stand. That is not what I found.
So what site can you allow? You can't censor the net effectively, you could only create a white listed version and then the list would be a handful of sites. weather.com and kittenwars... oh you are a dog lover.
But I did say there is a real effective filter didn't I?
There is. UNPLUG your computer. If you can't handle the internet, maybe you shouldn't be on it. And now if you excuse me, I will await a knock on the door for my google search of today.