Someone else mentioned bouncing on the enter key to get through dialog nag boxes... (like the one that says "are you sure you want to do this" when you hit "delete" instead of "home" on C:\)
Or the more subtler issue of click-dragging the wrong gui resource file out of where it's supposed to be, which you don't find until the next reboot.
The simple fact is, CLI or GUI, if you're not careful, you can and will break things, often badly.
Back before the dark times, when I was a bright-eyed PFY, my boss directed me to learn Vi (and not vim). At that point, I was still a nooblet and had never used either (I was still using pico), but I was aware of the holy war, so half-joking, I asked "Why not EMACS?" He actually had a good answer.
"Log into a *NIX box, and you'll have vi. You might not have EMACS, and you sure as hell won't have pico."
Your point is valid, but to be fair, this is a CS professor saying this. At the point that you're studying CS in college, I don't think it's unreasonable that you're expected to hit a command line.
but this social consensus crap isn't how real science is done.
Sure it is! They just skip all that hard "rigor" stuff and go right into the "peer review"! Everyone on/. knows that the peer review is the most important part of science.
Yeah, needs more correction than that, since "1.5 times slower" makes no damn sense. Even if all asm.js did was halt, it's still only 1x slower... Does it go through your hard drive and undo work done by native code, or something?
What niche brands might those be? I'm looking for a new phone to replace failing hardware (the touchscreen on my Evo 4G has started acting wonky with the on-screen keyboard)
I'll keep that in mind, but it'll have to wait until the prices come down or the next model year comes out. I'm cynical enough of the whole thing now that I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars for a digital sketchbook again, and have less than no interest in any other use for a Windows tablet.
I don't know if it was the crap hardware (it was Samsung, after all) or the crap software (it was a Samsung OEM Android, after all), but my experience with the Galaxy Note tablet was less than stellar, and they used, IIRC, a Wacom digitizer. For some reason, though, new out of the box, it suffered from horrible input lag.
Okay, I'll be fair. It was "bad" input lag which was graduated to "horrible" in the face of the $500 price tag. Ended up returning it, getting a Transformer, and going back to waiting for a cheap-ish digitizer-equipped tablet for sketching.
Could that be the cause of them being anti-housebroken, too? Sincere question. My mother's pugs will go for walks and play outside for hours and hours without event. Then, within 30 seconds of being inside the house, will drop a deuce in the middle of the living room (usually or near the exact same spot). I always assumed they were just being dicks.
So while I agree that both should be unacceptable, the reality is that one is much more unacceptable as a direct result of [arbitrarily long time frame] in which women have been treated as either property or second class citizens.
In other words, women just can't be expected to know any better, because their forebears were (ostensibly) treated unfairly, while men should be able to act like adults and take accountability.
Because the guy getting ready to ignore the "don't rob people at gunpoint" law is going to see the light when he comes up against the "no guns allowed" corporate policy?
It never made it past testing in CM, but it's available for most Android versions, in some form, since 2.3.6.
Gingerbread had pDroid. Then there's pdroid2.0 and openpdroid, which are separate projects to do much the same thing, and openpdroid works for up to 4.2.2 now, AFAIK.
They're a little tricky to get going, You need to be using a deodexed rom (which pretty much means a non-stock custom) and you need to patch whichever $pdroid into it. Once that's done, it's just a matter of running the pdroid manager app and you're set.
NB: Not affiliated with any of the.*pdroid.* projects, just a (paranoid|spiteful) bastard who refuses to use android without them anymore.
I was referring to the implication that they were still licensing the patent. I get now that it basically meant retroactively.
As for why it's bogus, I thought we all new the story. They snaked the patents out from under the development group. Probably legal, still a scumbag move.
Is AT&Ts internet access regulated as a utility, too? If not, I could see that coming back to bite them (and see myself basking in the glow of warm schadenfreude).
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Just one example up there.
Someone else mentioned bouncing on the enter key to get through dialog nag boxes... (like the one that says "are you sure you want to do this" when you hit "delete" instead of "home" on C:\)
Or the more subtler issue of click-dragging the wrong gui resource file out of where it's supposed to be, which you don't find until the next reboot.
The simple fact is, CLI or GUI, if you're not careful, you can and will break things, often badly.
Back before the dark times, when I was a bright-eyed PFY, my boss directed me to learn Vi (and not vim). At that point, I was still a nooblet and had never used either (I was still using pico), but I was aware of the holy war, so half-joking, I asked "Why not EMACS?" He actually had a good answer.
"Log into a *NIX box, and you'll have vi. You might not have EMACS, and you sure as hell won't have pico."
As it ever was, grasshopper.
Your point is valid, but to be fair, this is a CS professor saying this. At the point that you're studying CS in college, I don't think it's unreasonable that you're expected to hit a command line.
but this social consensus crap isn't how real science is done.
Sure it is! They just skip all that hard "rigor" stuff and go right into the "peer review"! Everyone on /. knows that the peer review is the most important part of science.
(FSVO "peer")
Yes, they did. Three or four years ago.
The response on /. then was pretty much "fuck the apology, where's the pardon?"
Since they're still around, obviously not.
Yeah, needs more correction than that, since "1.5 times slower" makes no damn sense. Even if all asm.js did was halt, it's still only 1x slower... Does it go through your hard drive and undo work done by native code, or something?
No, pointing out that this stupid blacklist catches the dbags at EE is NOT a good enough reason to let it slide.
It's not, it's really not. We need to stay strong!
What niche brands might those be? I'm looking for a new phone to replace failing hardware (the touchscreen on my Evo 4G has started acting wonky with the on-screen keyboard)
ve picked up some PHP to build myself a CMS for a personal website project
RUN!
Dear gods, run for your soul! Run like the devil himself is at your heels.
So either CM goes to shit, full of advertising and scumware, like pretty much every other commercial OS, or they don't, founder, and fade away.
Either way, it was nice while it lasted, I suppose.
That's nothing! I did that trick, too, and while I installed Lotus Notes, a deep, otherworldly voice started chanting in Latin!
I'll keep that in mind, but it'll have to wait until the prices come down or the next model year comes out. I'm cynical enough of the whole thing now that I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars for a digital sketchbook again, and have less than no interest in any other use for a Windows tablet.
I don't know if it was the crap hardware (it was Samsung, after all) or the crap software (it was a Samsung OEM Android, after all), but my experience with the Galaxy Note tablet was less than stellar, and they used, IIRC, a Wacom digitizer. For some reason, though, new out of the box, it suffered from horrible input lag.
Okay, I'll be fair. It was "bad" input lag which was graduated to "horrible" in the face of the $500 price tag.
Ended up returning it, getting a Transformer, and going back to waiting for a cheap-ish digitizer-equipped tablet for sketching.
Could that be the cause of them being anti-housebroken, too? Sincere question. My mother's pugs will go for walks and play outside for hours and hours without event. Then, within 30 seconds of being inside the house, will drop a deuce in the middle of the living room (usually or near the exact same spot). I always assumed they were just being dicks.
Give me evil over smart any day... My five year old giant mutant "Halloween" cat has figured out how doorknobs work. I am so screwed...
So while I agree that both should be unacceptable, the reality is that one is much more unacceptable as a direct result of [arbitrarily long time frame] in which women have been treated as either property or second class citizens.
In other words, women just can't be expected to know any better, because their forebears were (ostensibly) treated unfairly, while men should be able to act like adults and take accountability.
Yep, sounds like feminism, all right.
Because the guy getting ready to ignore the "don't rob people at gunpoint" law is going to see the light when he comes up against the "no guns allowed" corporate policy?
Except that that's not the case, which is what I said in the first place.
It never made it past testing in CM, but it's available for most Android versions, in some form, since 2.3.6.
Gingerbread had pDroid. Then there's pdroid2.0 and openpdroid, which are separate projects to do much the same thing, and openpdroid works for up to 4.2.2 now, AFAIK.
They're a little tricky to get going, You need to be using a deodexed rom (which pretty much means a non-stock custom) and you need to patch whichever $pdroid into it. Once that's done, it's just a matter of running the pdroid manager app and you're set.
NB: Not affiliated with any of the .*pdroid.* projects, just a (paranoid|spiteful) bastard who refuses to use android without them anymore.
I was referring to the implication that they were still licensing the patent. I get now that it basically meant retroactively.
As for why it's bogus, I thought we all new the story. They snaked the patents out from under the development group. Probably legal, still a scumbag move.
Not by legal definition.
If it's "decades old" how the hell is the bogus patent even still valid?
Is AT&Ts internet access regulated as a utility, too? If not, I could see that coming back to bite them (and see myself basking in the glow of warm schadenfreude).