From TFA: "Its [defection of] customers largely came from the Nextel side, where it lost 1.3 million customers. But Sprint's own prepaid and wholesale businesses also suffered losses. Only Sprint's core service remained in the red, adding a net 194,000 customers in the period. "
If you engage in a bunch of communist nonsense to devalue the work of doctors, people will stop becoming doctors for the money.
Fixed that for you. As a side effect, medical schools will have to decide between re-purposing themselves to underwater basket weaving or, just maybe, not costing a quarter of a mil.
This applies to anything. The cost of overhead doesn't pay itself.
I'm a miserable, cynical bastard at the best of times, but this ridiculous idea that money is the only reason anyone does anything is just sad.
All things aren't created equal. People who advocate that capitalism must apply to the care and ease of human suffering should be subject to having their organs harvested.
Does Privacy Guard work like PDroid/OpenPDroid, in that it will/can spoof tracking data so that badly behaved apps don't FC?
If so, good on them for the reversal. CM has left a bad taste in my mouth since they sided with scummy devs over user privacy back when they said they would "never" add it, back in the CM7 days.
I would almost agree, that any language is as good as any other. With a few exceptions, like "whitespace" which isn't meant to be a practical language anyway.
PHP doesn't fit your exceptions, and is objectively bad.
Very sensible choice. Why can't Android do the same?
It can, and has been able to do so for awhile. Modifications for it to do so were refused by the CyanogenMod devs, on the grounds of "Not wanting to piss off google and/or devs." I presume they're not in the main system rather than a 3rd party mod for the same reason.
I've been using Android devices for a few years, and whether or not I can get PDroid on them is one of my suitability criteria now. If iOS really has that function baked-in, then it's an example of something Apple did right that Google whiffed.
No, what you posted was typical, bog-standard anti-intellectual dribble. The failing of GPs degree wasn't in his reading skills, but in how not to overestimate the clueless.
Careful, advertisers like Google have paid Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads. Sure it's google ads today, but Google owns the vast majority of online ad networks and commands practically all the online ad markets, and if they're paying off the ad blockers to whitelist...
Then those ad blockers get forked into non-crippled versions.
I will admit that I was gobsmacked when I got that window after updating ABP to the first version with that garbage, though.
There is no point to that. All ICANN does is provide a "phone book" service. And it gives the individual countries governments their own TLD first to assign as they please.
That's been wrong for almost fifteen years. They're also in charge of global IP allocation. Good luck doing much on the internet without one of those.
As a whole, no. Considering it in the realm of possibility that no one, anywhere, will choose the "dark side" is idealistic to the point of dangerously naive.
Even dreaming that no one *in power* will do so, and thus take advantage of that situation, goes beyond naivete and into suicidal stupidity.
In a civilised country the populace shouldn't feel that they need to carry a weapon when walking the streets to be safe.
I always find it to be a peculiar blend of amusing and depressingly facepalm-worthy when people talk about "civilization" to mean "sticking our heads in the sand and pretending human nature is the opposite of what it is."
Only to the poor, beleaguers little snowflakes who value lockstep adherence to their own set of dictated behavioral standards, rather than actually contributing anything.
If Emily Post up there has such a problem with things, let her make her bones and earn the clout to get people to follow her lead.
But no, it's easier to cop-out with the "no respect because she's a woman" victim card so that she can skip over all that unnecessary "hard work" stuff.
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From TFA: "Its [defection of] customers largely came from the Nextel side, where it lost 1.3 million customers. But Sprint's own prepaid and wholesale businesses also suffered losses. Only Sprint's core service remained in the red, adding a net 194,000 customers in the period. "
Wait, what? Doesn't "in the red" mean "negative?"
If you engage in a bunch of communist nonsense to devalue the work of doctors, people will stop becoming doctors for the money.
Fixed that for you. As a side effect, medical schools will have to decide between re-purposing themselves to underwater basket weaving or, just maybe, not costing a quarter of a mil.
This applies to anything. The cost of overhead doesn't pay itself.
I'm a miserable, cynical bastard at the best of times, but this ridiculous idea that money is the only reason anyone does anything is just sad.
All things aren't created equal. People who advocate that capitalism must apply to the care and ease of human suffering should be subject to having their organs harvested.
And by "enough", you mean, of course, the required percentage of their respective legislative bodies. Beyond that, no one else really matters.
Does Privacy Guard work like PDroid/OpenPDroid, in that it will/can spoof tracking data so that badly behaved apps don't FC?
If so, good on them for the reversal. CM has left a bad taste in my mouth since they sided with scummy devs over user privacy back when they said they would "never" add it, back in the CM7 days.
Kind of like this guy.
Sorry, I just had to...
I would almost agree, that any language is as good as any other. With a few exceptions, like "whitespace" which isn't meant to be a practical language anyway.
PHP doesn't fit your exceptions, and is objectively bad.
If Nuance was as good for Siri as it was on Android, an offshored data entry clerk who doesn't speak English is probably a better choice.
It added a special sort of pain when G took out the voice-dial confirmation prompt in Gingerbread (I think, maybe it was Froyo?).
Still won't buy an iPhone, but this is one case where I can't hold Apple's NIH attitude against them.
The wrist brace is under your bed. HTH. ;)
I'm with kiwimate on this one.
Refusing to do business with someone is hardly the same as pulling out a gun and shooting them in the face.
So neither of you can recognize the difference between "act of violence" and "act of war" then. Good to know, I guess.
Very sensible choice. Why can't Android do the same?
It can, and has been able to do so for awhile. Modifications for it to do so were refused by the CyanogenMod devs, on the grounds of "Not wanting to piss off google and/or devs." I presume they're not in the main system rather than a 3rd party mod for the same reason.
I've been using Android devices for a few years, and whether or not I can get PDroid on them is one of my suitability criteria now. If iOS really has that function baked-in, then it's an example of something Apple did right that Google whiffed.
You were really on to something until
It also comes from a long standing respected open source project, GNOME,(read comparable quality as commericial software,)
You got carried away and went too far beyond credulity with that one!
No, what you posted was typical, bog-standard anti-intellectual dribble. The failing of GPs degree wasn't in his reading skills, but in how not to overestimate the clueless.
I'm sure you thought you had a salient point, but I think you forgot to include it in your post.
DNS is the "phone book", yes.
They're also in charge of allocating the "phone numbers" in the first place. What good is a phone number, if you cannot get a phone, Mr Anderson?
A questionable assertion, at best, but what the hell do good or bad teachers have to do with anything?
Careful, advertisers like Google have paid Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads. Sure it's google ads today, but Google owns the vast majority of online ad networks and commands practically all the online ad markets, and if they're paying off the ad blockers to whitelist...
Then those ad blockers get forked into non-crippled versions.
I will admit that I was gobsmacked when I got that window after updating ABP to the first version with that garbage, though.
Because I'm not under the influence of the solipsistic delusion that I'm a macrocosm of all humanity, for starters.
it can happen
True.
and is increasingly likely to happen in a larger number of trials
False. 0.5^1000 == 0.5^1000 no matter how many trials there are.
There is no point to that. All ICANN does is provide a "phone book" service. And it gives the individual countries governments their own TLD first to assign as they please.
That's been wrong for almost fifteen years. They're also in charge of global IP allocation. Good luck doing much on the internet without one of those.
Individually, yes, we do.
As a whole, no. Considering it in the realm of possibility that no one, anywhere, will choose the "dark side" is idealistic to the point of dangerously naive.
Even dreaming that no one *in power* will do so, and thus take advantage of that situation, goes beyond naivete and into suicidal stupidity.
In a civilised country the populace shouldn't feel that they need to carry a weapon when walking the streets to be safe.
I always find it to be a peculiar blend of amusing and depressingly facepalm-worthy when people talk about "civilization" to mean "sticking our heads in the sand and pretending human nature is the opposite of what it is."
Only if you use the word "standards" in the same way that Microsoft does.
It's nothing to do with being a woman
TFA isn't, but the deluge of posts like the one I was replying to almost certainly is.
Only to the poor, beleaguers little snowflakes who value lockstep adherence to their own set of dictated behavioral standards, rather than actually contributing anything.
If Emily Post up there has such a problem with things, let her make her bones and earn the clout to get people to follow her lead.
But no, it's easier to cop-out with the "no respect because she's a woman" victim card so that she can skip over all that unnecessary "hard work" stuff.
That's their own fault. If they'd done it in a choreographed musical number like they were supposed to, we might have picked up on it.
Nah, probably not.