I was going to mock you, until I remembered the reason I have 11 characters in World of Warcraft is mutual support in gathering, crafting, and World of Pokemon. Not because all 11 characters are equally fun, interesting, or enjoyable to play in the main content of the game. "Trade alts", they're called in the parlance. (The presence of a standard name for the phenomenon says everything that needs to be said about its prevalence.)
So, yeah. It's a pretty common effect. OTOH, I only pay the basic subscription for the account, and WoW doesn't have any Pay-to-win type of purchases, so it's a bit different than the subject of TFA. (Paradoxically, I'd probably quit if WoW became free-to-play, but limited until you paid. Don't know why, since objectively it probably wouldn't be much different that straight-up pay-to-play.)
They certainly will. They'll return the "IP code" (Did you just make that phrase up? How cute) of their own advertising servers, which they absolutely do know.
You've got a rather amazing combination of appalling ignorance and pedestrian snarkiness going there.
You don't talk about a "fleet" of reactors unless you mean a nuclear-powered Navy. And, as far as I can tell, the US Navy doesn't have to ask "Mother May I" to the NRC.
So the well-established phrase "self-censorship" (and the valid concept it expresses) either (A) doesn't actually exist, or (B) is used by experts in the fields of self-expression rights and chilling effects because they're dumber than you, Anonymous Coward.
Atwood concludes, 'The tablet and phone app ecosystem is slowly, painstakingly reinventing everything I hated about the computer software industry before the web blew it all up.'"
In other words, when the herd broke out of the corral. But now we're getting the livestock rounded up and fenced back in where they belong. We'll even let them think they're choosing which fenced pasture they're going into, but by God, once they're in, they're staying in. Free Markets demand well-constrained consumer herds! Barbed wire was the ultimate victory over the Wild West!
To which I say, "Moo! It's nice in the Android Paddock."
We used levers. Levers to cam geartrains in and out of drive. Levers to throttle the steam engine up. Levers to move coal into the burner. (A shovel is a lever.)
One 3 oz bottle of TNT homeopathically potentized to 30C dilution has the explosive power of 100,000,000 yottatons of TNT. (Without containing a single molecule of TNT, of course, so it'll slip RIGHT THROUGH explosives detection!)
For a matter of scale, that's the explosive power of 10,000 solar masses of TNT. Y'all shut up about your puny "megatons".
No, I'm not completely making it up. OTOH, someone who actually believes in homeopathy would probably vague object "it doesn't work that way" (without being able to meaningfully explain how it actually works). So how wrong could my half-assery be?
Actually, I looked at the current buglist for my system under CM10 or CM11.
The main showstopper is no HDMI... I actually use the HDMI out. Along with that is no WebTop mode. (Don't know if that's a fundamental issue, or just fallout from not having the HDMI driver in AOSP or Motorola released source.)
Shit. CM10 or other AOSP ROM may not be an option after all.
I like my Droid 4 just fine, but it's running 4.1, and Verizon has pretty much promised they're not updating it ever again... So I guess I'll break down and switch over to CyanogenMod.
Because of Motorola's locked (probably forever more, thanks Verizon) bootloader, you have to do the ridiculous rigamarole of SafeStrap bootload intervention before romming.
Well, we can hope. Certainly, there's nothing in the provided material that clearly indicates a problem, and the preliminary marketing spin sounds vegan-friendly. But depending on how big your suitcases are, "ethical baggage" can be anything from "made from war chemicals imported from third-world warlords" to "secretly made from the immature gall bladders of unborn baby narwhals". Or just the general "made by an evil multinational".
Logically, they're anything they want to be as long as it maximizes profitability.
Oh, right, you're thinking of ISPs as service providers. That's a common misconception.
They're for-profit businesses. Given a choice between common-carrier (utility) status and information-provider status, which one makes more money? Because that's what they have always lobbied for, and will continue to do so.
Your first mistake is thinking that the 'net exists for the good of the individual or the community. It exists for the primary and overarching good of the providing corporations. Never forget that, because tactics and decisions based on any assumption than absolute reality are doomed... because they're fighting on a battlefield which doesn't exist.
Well, in the view of the authors of the US Declaration of Independence, there are 3 "inalienable" human rights: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. I think we can equate "inalienable" with "fundamental".
As the Declaration of Independence has no bearing in law, those inalienable human rights are a damn fine philosophical aspiration and nothing else.
Good constitutional law does not claim to enumerate all rights, but does explicitly protect the ones believed at the time to be the most readily threatened by government power. Of course, that makes dumbasses in the "it's not listed in the Constitution" camp claim that the other unspecified rights aren't rights. (Many of the dumbasses I speak of are in places of power, so I suspect it's actually shoddy and dishonest attempt to justify infringements on fundamental unenumerated rights.)
If both manufacturers were to produce updates their own hardware, instead of kicking a device to the curb and then never releasing an update again until they receive a court order requiring them to, then this wouldn't be a problem.
And if ethereal unicorns would shit gold bricks in my back yard, I'd be able to buy a new car.
But out here in the real world, routers are commodity appliances with a support lifetime measured in months, and you certainly can't sanely expect vendors to kneecap their cashflows by walking away from guaranteed obsolescence and minimized (shortest possible duration) support.
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I was going to mock you, until I remembered the reason I have 11 characters in World of Warcraft is mutual support in gathering, crafting, and World of Pokemon. Not because all 11 characters are equally fun, interesting, or enjoyable to play in the main content of the game. "Trade alts", they're called in the parlance. (The presence of a standard name for the phenomenon says everything that needs to be said about its prevalence.)
So, yeah. It's a pretty common effect. OTOH, I only pay the basic subscription for the account, and WoW doesn't have any Pay-to-win type of purchases, so it's a bit different than the subject of TFA. (Paradoxically, I'd probably quit if WoW became free-to-play, but limited until you paid. Don't know why, since objectively it probably wouldn't be much different that straight-up pay-to-play.)
Interesting point. Mobile app vendors have re-invented shareware. Yaaaay.
I had hoped we, as an industry, had gotten past that embarrassing epoch in our history.
They certainly will. They'll return the "IP code" (Did you just make that phrase up? How cute) of their own advertising servers, which they absolutely do know.
You've got a rather amazing combination of appalling ignorance and pedestrian snarkiness going there.
Legendary Slashdot editing.
You don't talk about a "fleet" of reactors unless you mean a nuclear-powered Navy. And, as far as I can tell, the US Navy doesn't have to ask "Mother May I" to the NRC.
It's a "You're doing it wrong!".
So the well-established phrase "self-censorship" (and the valid concept it expresses) either (A) doesn't actually exist, or (B) is used by experts in the fields of self-expression rights and chilling effects because they're dumber than you, Anonymous Coward.
Riiiiight.
In other words, when the herd broke out of the corral. But now we're getting the livestock rounded up and fenced back in where they belong. We'll even let them think they're choosing which fenced pasture they're going into, but by God, once they're in, they're staying in. Free Markets demand well-constrained consumer herds! Barbed wire was the ultimate victory over the Wild West!
To which I say, "Moo! It's nice in the Android Paddock."
Won't be the first time a business' contingency plans were predicated on fantasy assumptions and wishful thinking.
Won't be the last time, either.
A cunning insight that I hope you remember when your checking account suddenly and inexplicably loses value, you dolt.
But think of the amphetamine-driven productivity!
Oh, yeah, I can hear you thinking "But coders write terrible code under the influence."
HAH! It's not like their output is any higher quality when they aren't riding the meth pony.
Workers never get to leave the company's premises.
FTFY.
I don't know whether they already include graveyards.
They have kitchents and lunchrooms, right? Problem solved.
Luxury.
We used levers. Levers to cam geartrains in and out of drive. Levers to throttle the steam engine up. Levers to move coal into the burner. (A shovel is a lever.)
All your fancy electric computers. Feh.
Or GPS navigation makes you a bad driver.
Or maybe automatic transmission makes you a bad driver.
(I've known a few driving "purists" who actually believe that latter, so that may actually be a pretty close car analogy for a change.)
Also, not trawling.
Trolling, trolling, trolling, keep them C&D's rolling....
We don't install trolling motors on our bass boats because we get lulz at the expense of the fishies, you know.
I'd assume (no pun intended) it meant "arse". The Commonwealth misspelling (just kidding) of "ass".
But I've never seen it sensored, so I can't be sure. Frankly, I wouldn't be arsed to bleep it out.
You're allowed 3 oz bottles.
One 3 oz bottle of TNT homeopathically potentized to 30C dilution has the explosive power of 100,000,000 yottatons of TNT. (Without containing a single molecule of TNT, of course, so it'll slip RIGHT THROUGH explosives detection!)
For a matter of scale, that's the explosive power of 10,000 solar masses of TNT. Y'all shut up about your puny "megatons".
No, I'm not completely making it up. OTOH, someone who actually believes in homeopathy would probably vague object "it doesn't work that way" (without being able to meaningfully explain how it actually works). So how wrong could my half-assery be?
Actually, I looked at the current buglist for my system under CM10 or CM11.
The main showstopper is no HDMI... I actually use the HDMI out. Along with that is no WebTop mode. (Don't know if that's a fundamental issue, or just fallout from not having the HDMI driver in AOSP or Motorola released source.)
Shit. CM10 or other AOSP ROM may not be an option after all.
I like my Droid 4 just fine, but it's running 4.1, and Verizon has pretty much promised they're not updating it ever again... So I guess I'll break down and switch over to CyanogenMod.
Because of Motorola's locked (probably forever more, thanks Verizon) bootloader, you have to do the ridiculous rigamarole of SafeStrap bootload intervention before romming.
They're experimenting with delivery drones, right?
I bet a delivery drone can easily put a package in your car, even if you're moving at freeway speed.
Technically, anything you eat to break your overnight fast is breakfast.
F'rinstance, warm beer, hot coffee, and room-temperature pizza. (Preferably made with bacon, but not strictly necessary.)
Fake eggs lack the ethical baggage,
Well, we can hope. Certainly, there's nothing in the provided material that clearly indicates a problem, and the preliminary marketing spin sounds vegan-friendly. But depending on how big your suitcases are, "ethical baggage" can be anything from "made from war chemicals imported from third-world warlords" to "secretly made from the immature gall bladders of unborn baby narwhals". Or just the general "made by an evil multinational".
And yes, logically they are common carriers.
Logically, they're anything they want to be as long as it maximizes profitability.
Oh, right, you're thinking of ISPs as service providers. That's a common misconception.
They're for-profit businesses. Given a choice between common-carrier (utility) status and information-provider status, which one makes more money? Because that's what they have always lobbied for, and will continue to do so.
Your first mistake is thinking that the 'net exists for the good of the individual or the community. It exists for the primary and overarching good of the providing corporations. Never forget that, because tactics and decisions based on any assumption than absolute reality are doomed... because they're fighting on a battlefield which doesn't exist.
Well, in the view of the authors of the US Declaration of Independence, there are 3 "inalienable" human rights: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. I think we can equate "inalienable" with "fundamental".
As the Declaration of Independence has no bearing in law, those inalienable human rights are a damn fine philosophical aspiration and nothing else.
Good constitutional law does not claim to enumerate all rights, but does explicitly protect the ones believed at the time to be the most readily threatened by government power. Of course, that makes dumbasses in the "it's not listed in the Constitution" camp claim that the other unspecified rights aren't rights. (Many of the dumbasses I speak of are in places of power, so I suspect it's actually shoddy and dishonest attempt to justify infringements on fundamental unenumerated rights.)
If both manufacturers were to produce updates their own hardware, instead of kicking a device to the curb and then never releasing an update again until they receive a court order requiring them to, then this wouldn't be a problem.
And if ethereal unicorns would shit gold bricks in my back yard, I'd be able to buy a new car.
But out here in the real world, routers are commodity appliances with a support lifetime measured in months, and you certainly can't sanely expect vendors to kneecap their cashflows by walking away from guaranteed obsolescence and minimized (shortest possible duration) support.
Profit uber alles, after all.