Google Play Store is just another Android app. The only reason that some Android phones don't have it is because the manufacturers choose not to put it on them, but Play Store is able to run on any phone running Android. Is there any technical reason why you can't install Google Play Store on Sailfish OS?
I don't see why this is news. It's not like something like this has never happened before. Those things are dangerous. Accidents are bound to happen somewhere, somehow, sooner or later.
Tell me... what's 6 x 6?
Now don't tell me you don't have that memorized and worked it out in your head.
Up until the equivalent of your fifth grade, I never bothered to memorize the multiplication table. Any time faced with a multiplication problem, I worked it out using first principles. Sometimes I use analytical shortcuts to derive the answer, but never from rote memorization. For example in the case of 6 x 6, this was how I used to work it out:
1) First, realize that [a number] x 6 is [a number] x (5 + 1) = [a number] x 5 + [a number]
2) Also realize that [a number] x 5 is [a number] x (10/2) = [a number / 2] x 10
3) Now visualize 6 apples lined up in a row. Now visualize a line running through the middle of that row of apples. How many apples are on each side? 3, of course
4) Now take the number 3 and put 0 at the end of it. Now you have 30, which is 6 x 5.
5) Now take 30 + 6 and you have 36, which is the answer to 6 x 6.
Now isn't that more fun than memorizing the multiplication table?
There are three Android devices in my house. My Samsung Galaxy S2, my wife's Sony Xperia and a Galaxy Tab 2. Everyone of those had the Android Device Manager function installed automatically. I could immediately use the Locate Phone function without having to perform any manual installation/update. Only the Wipe Device function requires manual configuration on the phone.
The Apple charger does not have a standard USB power port. It is not wired correctly like a standard USB charger. If I plug in my Android phone to an Apple charger, it thinks that the charger is a USB host device, not an AC charger.
First world countries mostly have temperate climates, so you don't get much sun. On the other hand, here in the third world we get a lot of sun most days of the year. So our bodies make enough vitamin D on their own.
It amazes me how Americans put up with being screwed left, right and centre by corporations like these banks. It seems that even banks here in the third world banks, although not perfect, are nevertheless not as draconian as the U.S. banks I'm reading about here.
I'm pretty sure there are Linux alternatives to all those tools if you look hard enough. KDE System Guard, for example. Even without additional tools, simply running Linux programs from a console often produces a wealth of debug information that can help with troubleshooting, something that is not available on Windows.
I'm not really acquainted with Star Wars mythology, but the wikipedia page on General Grievous states that he was once a dude who was fatally wounded and was reconstructed using cybernetic limbs. Kind of like Robocop, I guess. That means he had an organic brain, with neurons.
If you take a tablet or smartphone today and try to say a web browser is not a part of the OS, you would get the same funny look as if you said the scheduler is not a part of a Unix system.
A web browser is not a part of the OS. There, I've said it, and it's true. On my Android phone, I can just delete the Browser.apk file and the web browser is gone, and nothing else on the phone will be affected.
PC at work has Windows installed, so I don't really have a choice. At home, I installed Windows using reg key I stole from work - unused reg key, that is. Yes, I'm a software pirate and proud of it. I'll stop installing Windows when it no longer becomes possible for me to pirate it. I will never buy it because I don't think it's worth the price, especially when I can install Linux for free.
Wine is a compatibility layer. That's it. It is neither a virtual machine nor an emulator. An analogy is if you add an extension to Openoffice to make it able to edit, say a Word 2013 document. That doesn't make the Openoffice extension a Word 2013 emulator. Likewise, Wine allows you to run Windows executables in Linux, or in other words, you can run Windows programs in Linux using Wine, but Wine itself doesn't emulate an operating system.
So you admit that to drink or not to drink is a matter of choice. Thus your reasoning in your sentence, "If we didn't feel the effects, then we wouldn't drink it" is false.
You have the wrong idea on what a marine engineer does. A marine engineer is involved in engineering of boats, ships, oil rigs and similar sea-going vessels. What you want is a water engineer.
The anecdote said the guy was the owner. That doesn't necessarily mean he has an executive position. Maybe he owns the company but hires other people to be the CEO and fill all the other management positions. He holds no position in the company but sometimes he just likes to waltz in and help around where he can. It's his company, so what's wrong with him being able to do whatever he likes with it?
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My everyday use for airplane mode is "I want to sleep and use the phone alarm to wake me in the morning but I don't want the rads to fry my brain".
Google Play Store is just another Android app. The only reason that some Android phones don't have it is because the manufacturers choose not to put it on them, but Play Store is able to run on any phone running Android. Is there any technical reason why you can't install Google Play Store on Sailfish OS?
I don't see why this is news. It's not like something like this has never happened before. Those things are dangerous. Accidents are bound to happen somewhere, somehow, sooner or later.
Tell me... what's 6 x 6? Now don't tell me you don't have that memorized and worked it out in your head.
Up until the equivalent of your fifth grade, I never bothered to memorize the multiplication table. Any time faced with a multiplication problem, I worked it out using first principles. Sometimes I use analytical shortcuts to derive the answer, but never from rote memorization. For example in the case of 6 x 6, this was how I used to work it out:
1) First, realize that [a number] x 6 is [a number] x (5 + 1) = [a number] x 5 + [a number]
2) Also realize that [a number] x 5 is [a number] x (10/2) = [a number / 2] x 10
3) Now visualize 6 apples lined up in a row. Now visualize a line running through the middle of that row of apples. How many apples are on each side? 3, of course
4) Now take the number 3 and put 0 at the end of it. Now you have 30, which is 6 x 5.
5) Now take 30 + 6 and you have 36, which is the answer to 6 x 6.
Now isn't that more fun than memorizing the multiplication table?
There are three Android devices in my house. My Samsung Galaxy S2, my wife's Sony Xperia and a Galaxy Tab 2. Everyone of those had the Android Device Manager function installed automatically. I could immediately use the Locate Phone function without having to perform any manual installation/update. Only the Wipe Device function requires manual configuration on the phone.
HTC is currently the only brand I'm willing to buy because unlike Samsung, they have figured out that locked boot-loaders are bad for business.
Non-carrier branded Samsung phones don't have locked bootloaders.
In the UK, non-citizen residents are allowed to vote in local elections.
Wrong article, dude.
The Apple charger does not have a standard USB power port. It is not wired correctly like a standard USB charger. If I plug in my Android phone to an Apple charger, it thinks that the charger is a USB host device, not an AC charger.
First world countries mostly have temperate climates, so you don't get much sun. On the other hand, here in the third world we get a lot of sun most days of the year. So our bodies make enough vitamin D on their own.
What do you mean when you say you hardcoded the IP addresses? Do you even know what 'hardcoded' means?
It amazes me how Americans put up with being screwed left, right and centre by corporations like these banks. It seems that even banks here in the third world banks, although not perfect, are nevertheless not as draconian as the U.S. banks I'm reading about here.
Not entirely by paid employees. Waze allows users to edit maps using an online map editor.
I'm pretty sure there are Linux alternatives to all those tools if you look hard enough. KDE System Guard, for example. Even without additional tools, simply running Linux programs from a console often produces a wealth of debug information that can help with troubleshooting, something that is not available on Windows.
I'm not really acquainted with Star Wars mythology, but the wikipedia page on General Grievous states that he was once a dude who was fatally wounded and was reconstructed using cybernetic limbs. Kind of like Robocop, I guess. That means he had an organic brain, with neurons.
If you take a tablet or smartphone today and try to say a web browser is not a part of the OS, you would get the same funny look as if you said the scheduler is not a part of a Unix system.
A web browser is not a part of the OS. There, I've said it, and it's true. On my Android phone, I can just delete the Browser.apk file and the web browser is gone, and nothing else on the phone will be affected.
It's sort of like when people complain about "the gays" and how they won't just "mind their own business and keep it to themselves"
I'm one of those people who complain.
while everyone saying that is busy trying to invade their bedroom and their private/personal lives.
Why the hell would I want to invade their bedroom? No way in hell do I ever want to watch faggots buggering each other.
Terminator Salvation was set completely in the future.
On the subject of GoT, I think Slashdot should have a poll (or maybe they've already had one on GoT and I missed it?):
Why do you watch Game of Thrones?
(a) For the tits
(b) For the blood
(c) For the story
(d) For the CGI
(e) Game of Thrones? Wuzzat?
PC at work has Windows installed, so I don't really have a choice. At home, I installed Windows using reg key I stole from work - unused reg key, that is. Yes, I'm a software pirate and proud of it. I'll stop installing Windows when it no longer becomes possible for me to pirate it. I will never buy it because I don't think it's worth the price, especially when I can install Linux for free.
Wine is a compatibility layer. That's it. It is neither a virtual machine nor an emulator. An analogy is if you add an extension to Openoffice to make it able to edit, say a Word 2013 document. That doesn't make the Openoffice extension a Word 2013 emulator. Likewise, Wine allows you to run Windows executables in Linux, or in other words, you can run Windows programs in Linux using Wine, but Wine itself doesn't emulate an operating system.
So you admit that to drink or not to drink is a matter of choice. Thus your reasoning in your sentence, "If we didn't feel the effects, then we wouldn't drink it" is false.
In my 36 years of life, I have never drunk even one drop of alcohol. Don't blame God for your own lack of willpower.
You have the wrong idea on what a marine engineer does. A marine engineer is involved in engineering of boats, ships, oil rigs and similar sea-going vessels. What you want is a water engineer.
The anecdote said the guy was the owner. That doesn't necessarily mean he has an executive position. Maybe he owns the company but hires other people to be the CEO and fill all the other management positions. He holds no position in the company but sometimes he just likes to waltz in and help around where he can. It's his company, so what's wrong with him being able to do whatever he likes with it?