If you aren't making backups, your data is more vulnerable to a toilet than it is to Google. Google's ads are GPS-sensitive... if you decide to give the browser access to your location information. It's actually pretty well done, and hey, it's open-source. If you don't like it, compile a copy yourself without that stuff. Or get someone else to... there are lots of android hackers out there.
I'm happy for Oscar, but even happier for the implications it has for humans who have lost limbs. Especially since we're investing more time and troops into Afghanistan and Iraq now.
RE #2: If it functions better than having no function, or if it provides sight to someone who was blind from birth, would that qualify as bionic in your eyes? "Better" is too subjective for a word definition. Leave it as #1, and everything is pretty much fine.
That's an application issue. If Pandora can play music in the background on the iPhone, then the browser can render. It's just a (bad) decision on Apple's part to not render when it doesn't have focus. iOS4 is just as multi-tasking capable as Android.
Porn isn't commercial now? Seems like it's a pretty well-funded industry to my amateur eye... I agree that having a.xxx TLD will be nice, but I can't really see that.com is being abused in any way.
It can't do multitasking in the background? Better tell that to Pandora. I despise Apple products and prefer my Nexus One greatly, but even I don't lie about what Apple can do.
Isn't that what management does best? Takes credit for success, and passes blame for failure? It's the only way to get into the Fortune 100 C*O offices that I'm aware of.
Most people don't complain about the residential area speed limits. Those are reasonable, and people mostly follow them. The speed limits that are objectionable are the main thoroughfares without residences that are still absurdly low limits.
What a fantastical, magical fairy world you live in. Can I come and stay for a while?
The road near my house is perfectly capable of withstanding traffic at 50mph. It's set at 25mph, but reasonably so because it's a residential area. So I obey that speed limit. But the main thoroughfare that's nearby that is only 35, everyone drives down it at 45. Because the road can handle that, it's only near the end of the month when the cops are trying to hit their quotas that people slow down.
What in the hell are you talking about? And yes, I do have an evaporative cooler for my house, and it works great here in Colorado. Humid air reduces static electricity. It's fine for electronics. Or do they not have computers in Florida any more?
I'll slow down as soon as the speed limits are set by engineers and not politicians and people with a monetary stake in the revenue from tickets resulting from said limits.
Science is not for making life more interesting. It's for making civilized life possible, and all the benefits that go along with it such as extended lifespans, emergency treatments and responses, weather prediction, and so on. Most of which are used to save and prolong life, not for just making things "more interesting". And it's certainly more useful to a much larger section of the population than a few yahoo's getting their kicks and risking other people's lives in the process.
The vast majority of all consumers are idiots to one degree or another in various disciplines. Many of them in most disciplines. You do realize that inane shit like American Idol gets insane viewership and interaction from the audience? And that people still buy shit from Wal-Mart even though over the long run it costs more to do so? Delivering what people want is just good business sense. The only way to fix what people want is through education, and we see how well people in the USA take to that...
What if you want to play the new games, but don't want to spend a grand on a new computer capable of running them, and then buying the games themselves on top of that?
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...if you remove the remote force install function, how exactly will they accomplish that?
They're doing the same thing here in Colorado, where I believe that they're based.
If you aren't making backups, your data is more vulnerable to a toilet than it is to Google. Google's ads are GPS-sensitive... if you decide to give the browser access to your location information. It's actually pretty well done, and hey, it's open-source. If you don't like it, compile a copy yourself without that stuff. Or get someone else to... there are lots of android hackers out there.
I'm happy for Oscar, but even happier for the implications it has for humans who have lost limbs. Especially since we're investing more time and troops into Afghanistan and Iraq now.
RE #2: If it functions better than having no function, or if it provides sight to someone who was blind from birth, would that qualify as bionic in your eyes? "Better" is too subjective for a word definition. Leave it as #1, and everything is pretty much fine.
That's an application issue. If Pandora can play music in the background on the iPhone, then the browser can render. It's just a (bad) decision on Apple's part to not render when it doesn't have focus. iOS4 is just as multi-tasking capable as Android.
Porn isn't commercial now? Seems like it's a pretty well-funded industry to my amateur eye... I agree that having a .xxx TLD will be nice, but I can't really see that .com is being abused in any way.
I'm disturbed by how easily you remember anime porn sites, yet still bookmarking it...
It can't do multitasking in the background? Better tell that to Pandora. I despise Apple products and prefer my Nexus One greatly, but even I don't lie about what Apple can do.
Only if the PS3 also does. I'm guessing since it benefits a corporation and not the citizens, it's going to be fine.
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If your software isn't 64bit as well, you won't. But if you run 64bit apps instead of 32bit apps, you will most likely see a performance boost.
I'm assuming you meant you went to some flavor of Windows on 64bit?
Yeah, well... when we're arriving at wires being tens of atoms wide, I'm tending to believe we're at the limits of physics rather than process.
Best counter: Blank look on your face, slack jaw, and as soon as he finishes just say "Huh." and turn around and go back to whatever you were doing ;)
Isn't that what management does best? Takes credit for success, and passes blame for failure? It's the only way to get into the Fortune 100 C*O offices that I'm aware of.
Most people don't complain about the residential area speed limits. Those are reasonable, and people mostly follow them. The speed limits that are objectionable are the main thoroughfares without residences that are still absurdly low limits.
There are always other roads. The Interstate is never the only path.
What a fantastical, magical fairy world you live in. Can I come and stay for a while?
The road near my house is perfectly capable of withstanding traffic at 50mph. It's set at 25mph, but reasonably so because it's a residential area. So I obey that speed limit. But the main thoroughfare that's nearby that is only 35, everyone drives down it at 45. Because the road can handle that, it's only near the end of the month when the cops are trying to hit their quotas that people slow down.
What in the hell are you talking about? And yes, I do have an evaporative cooler for my house, and it works great here in Colorado. Humid air reduces static electricity. It's fine for electronics. Or do they not have computers in Florida any more?
I'll slow down as soon as the speed limits are set by engineers and not politicians and people with a monetary stake in the revenue from tickets resulting from said limits.
No, they aren't. That's the entire fucking point, that the public roads become clogged and dangerous because so many people are on them.
Are you stupid? Or do you just play an idiot on slashdot?
Science is not for making life more interesting. It's for making civilized life possible, and all the benefits that go along with it such as extended lifespans, emergency treatments and responses, weather prediction, and so on. Most of which are used to save and prolong life, not for just making things "more interesting". And it's certainly more useful to a much larger section of the population than a few yahoo's getting their kicks and risking other people's lives in the process.
Their right to abort their own bodies ends when them doing so risks the lives of others as well.
The vast majority of all consumers are idiots to one degree or another in various disciplines. Many of them in most disciplines. You do realize that inane shit like American Idol gets insane viewership and interaction from the audience? And that people still buy shit from Wal-Mart even though over the long run it costs more to do so? Delivering what people want is just good business sense. The only way to fix what people want is through education, and we see how well people in the USA take to that...
What if you want to play the new games, but don't want to spend a grand on a new computer capable of running them, and then buying the games themselves on top of that?