Outside of the app store, none of it is worth a damn to me. My carrier provides a better GPS app, my phone gmail account is separate from my real mail account, so gmail is useless, and if I want to look something up on google, I open a fucking web browser. I also droidwall the shit out of anything that I can't remove because Google "Internet Explorered" it into the main OS.
Lost functionality? I can't rate apps on the app store. The horror! Pretty weak definition of "crippled". I've been using android for years, but I've got to say, you Google fanboys are getting to be as bad as the Apple team.
The other school of thought is that the users should choose how they want to use the code.
That school of thought is misguided, at best. The set of "users" who are not also "developers" AND who would have the first clue what the code was, much less how they might "use" it, is miniscule.
Because you're misrepresenting religion. In the case of Christianity (specifically because it was mentioned by name in the sub-thread), it limited itself to only saying "This is how you should behave" for only approximately 29 years when all of its adherents were Jewish.
I could point out that you set up a bog-standard strawman, got every one of my actual motivations wrong, and that you basically proved my point, and try to make you see reason.
But it's been a long day, so I'm just going to have a cocktail, take the path of least resistance, and point out that you're a semi-literate idiot.
During the last few years, films and TV shows made in the USA have SPECIFICALLY informed viewers that ordinary mobile phones do NOT location track the user- an out and out lie
What the hell are you talking about? Special Agent McGee does this like, eight times every damn episode.
Here in the US, we have an ingrained cultural aversion to using "law" to make sure that people are treated as people, at the expense of the bottom line.
It's the human psychology factor. You know how they say "time flies when you're having fun?"
Slashdot's bitcoin articles, Packt reviews, and the whole "slashvertisement + astroturf" mentality makes spending an hour reading the resulting flamewars feel like a month and a half.
Except it's only funny if you're the kind of mouth-breathing mundane who thinks Dane Cook is hilarious. The gags are all the same low-hanging fruit trolls have been rolling out since Chips & Dips -- the one guy even lives in his mom's basement FFS.
Personally, I'm a big fan of self-deprecating humor. Stupid humor, not so much.
I have to disagree. It's *horrible* advice. The part about "being your real self", absolutely true. But mixing crazy with crazy, that's a recipe for horror.
Still, I wouldn't expect Dr. Girlfriend to be rooting an old Xbox and setting up XBMC rather than just putting it on the Wii. Still, that's kind of cool to see.
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Outside of the app store, none of it is worth a damn to me. My carrier provides a better GPS app, my phone gmail account is separate from my real mail account, so gmail is useless, and if I want to look something up on google, I open a fucking web browser. I also droidwall the shit out of anything that I can't remove because Google "Internet Explorered" it into the main OS.
Lost functionality? I can't rate apps on the app store. The horror! Pretty weak definition of "crippled". I've been using android for years, but I've got to say, you Google fanboys are getting to be as bad as the Apple team.
The other school of thought is that the users should choose how they want to use the code.
That school of thought is misguided, at best. The set of "users" who are not also "developers" AND who would have the first clue what the code was, much less how they might "use" it, is miniscule.
Because you're misrepresenting religion. In the case of Christianity (specifically because it was mentioned by name in the sub-thread), it limited itself to only saying "This is how you should behave" for only approximately 29 years when all of its adherents were Jewish.
And to think, some of us jump through all sorts of hoops to peel that shit out as part of our normal turn-up...
I could point out that you set up a bog-standard strawman, got every one of my actual motivations wrong, and that you basically proved my point, and try to make you see reason.
But it's been a long day, so I'm just going to have a cocktail, take the path of least resistance, and point out that you're a semi-literate idiot.
During the last few years, films and TV shows made in the USA have SPECIFICALLY informed viewers that ordinary mobile phones do NOT location track the user- an out and out lie
What the hell are you talking about? Special Agent McGee does this like, eight times every damn episode.
Have you ever had the flu? Body/joint aches and headaches are a common (and, IME, usually the most debilitating) symptom.
but at 103 you get cognitive impairment
That high? If I hit between 102.2 and 102.5, I've gotten into "waking dream"/hallucination territory.
Pretty much the only time I'll skip work (as opposed to simply working from the home office, if I'm sick but functional)
Here in the US, we have an ingrained cultural aversion to using "law" to make sure that people are treated as people, at the expense of the bottom line.
Interesting idea, nonetheless.
What about elderly? They've already reproduced, there's not evolutionary pressure to increase resistance.
Well, they do continue to consume resources, but I suppose that's more of an ecosystem-level effect than an evolutionary selection...
I'd rather have a link to the mentioned "ST:TNG Season 8 account".
It's the human psychology factor. You know how they say "time flies when you're having fun?"
Slashdot's bitcoin articles, Packt reviews, and the whole "slashvertisement + astroturf" mentality makes spending an hour reading the resulting flamewars feel like a month and a half.
Nope, it's a generalized extension of the "Two Generals Problem"
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However, it is pretty universal - anyone, anywhere who has access to the internet can get in on the game, local laws aside.
Your own words suggest you have a very loose definition of "universal."
Except it's only funny if you're the kind of mouth-breathing mundane who thinks Dane Cook is hilarious. The gags are all the same low-hanging fruit trolls have been rolling out since Chips & Dips -- the one guy even lives in his mom's basement FFS.
Personally, I'm a big fan of self-deprecating humor. Stupid humor, not so much.
I have to disagree. It's *horrible* advice. The part about "being your real self", absolutely true. But mixing crazy with crazy, that's a recipe for horror.
Too bad that never caught on with electronics...
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No worries. I was just in it for the cheap House reference anyway. ;)
Just more evidence that HR drones are actually minions of the evil pathogenic overlords.
The immune system isn't usually that self-destructive.
Lupus FTFY. (I know, I know. "It's never lupus!")
And still Congress that controls the money.
Does that actually apply to any non-telco service provider?
Yeah, because congress played no part in approving the ACA or anything...
Wow, color me corrected. :)
Still, I wouldn't expect Dr. Girlfriend to be rooting an old Xbox and setting up XBMC rather than just putting it on the Wii. Still, that's kind of cool to see.