It seems like I've had to read about Google Glass for about 2 years now. Really boring, no interest in it, but inescapable. Google, please release it so all the early adopter tossers can drop £1500 or whatever and strut around like the fucking hipster idiots that they are, then, as a released, naff product the tech press will take a little less of an interest in it and we can all move on with our lives.
Because the pointless paperwork will do nothing to make a couple stick together/protect the "unwanted" child; it just ensures work/money for suits all the way down from doctors to politicians.
Morally, it's like giving blood. If someone you gave blood to committed a crime, would you be responsible? Of course not.
In the UK, people have the right to contact their (sperm donor) parent. Why? It's just going to upset the child:
*knock knock* Guy: "Uh..hello?" Child: "I'm your son!" Guy: "Is this a joke? My son's at school. Go away or I'm calling the police" Child: "No, you donated sperm 15 years ago. Look, here's the document" Guy: "I don't care about all that - I was a student, I needed the money. You don't mean anything to me...It's unlikely but possible I could have 20,000 "children". Only, of course, I don't. Now go away."
Bitcoins aren't really money; they're more like those tokens you buy in theme parks where you can spend them once you've converted them, but only on a the rides in that park, and you can't convert them back. Bitcoin is always going to be a secondary currency, and big companies are going to be wary of it because there's nothing to prevent a government banning it (specifically, banning companies from converting it back into real money), meaning you'll be stuck in the theme park with a lot of useless tokens, and they'll have wasted a lot of money supporting it. It'll always be one high-profile assassination away from being banned.
> they may not be legally able to require OEMs to buy into Android in order to have the privilege of buying into > Google apps.
Google can decide who to sell their apps to. If they decide to only sell, say, Maps for use in Android, then that's that, as far as I can tell. Google is the piper.
if they practice. Perhaps this'll not sound awful it people play it without practicing. I guess if you load it with MP3s of somebody good, that'll do the trick. Still, you can at least plug it into a computer, run linux on it, so it'll provide some fun before you shove it under the bed with your expensive digital cameras and electronic book readers.
What's wrong with, say, a Slashdot approach; log in once, store the details in a cookie and have Chrome store your passwords, synced across machines. It's pretty low cost in terms of config. Does it need a better solution?
>I do not say this as a critique of China or which ever country is producing low cost >products, but rather as a critique of Western culture and "acquire more crap at all >costs" mentality. China is just filling our demand.
Unintentionally it IS a critique of China; that level of pollution wouldn't be allowed in the US/elsewhere. And for some reason (hint: follow the money), it's legal to import stuff into those regions from countries without sensible environmental laws. The solution is obvious; just don't allow the import of products from "dirty" countries. I mean, that's part of the reason the stuff is cheap in the first place. As well as the almost slave-labour conditions, lack of worker protection etc. If a minimum wage/green protection tax was added to the cost of these products then home-grown ones would look more attractive, even if you just looked the shelf-price. In the not so distant future, when your children are asking why everything (jobs, food, the cost of stuff) is so terrible, you'll be able to say "ha! yeah, you say that now, but for about 20 years back when I was younger you could buy absolute rubbish, from cheap plastic toys which lasted 20 minutes, to expensive laptops/tablets/tvs which lasted about 2 years before falling apart of becoming obsolete, for a few dollars less than they'd have costed had they been built properly".
Why isn't it a requirement of any new system that you don't get (fully) paid until it's up and running and hackers given the chance to test it out, and if it's discovered that they're getting in through obvious weaknesses (old code, sql injection, unencrypted passwords being stored/transmitted etc etc) they don't get paid, and instead someone else gets to clean up (both the code, and financially). Until there's a point in making systems secure, it's not going to happen. At the moment, it seems to be treated like 'clean code' or 'good commenting style' etc - unimportant.
> federal agents insisted on interrogating the user for hours. So long for our > constitutional freedoms."
Didn't he have the choice of just getting up and leaving? Was he under arrest? If he's not been arrested, how's he lost a freedom. And if he has, challenge it in court. Sounds like he's missed a trick here.
> You want near perfect rendering on all screen sizes, all devices, and all browsers. Dude. Seriously.
Chrome on Android? That's edge case, yeah? 2014? It's 2014. Test your app on Android. The problem I'm talking about will occur on any device, any screen size, any version of Android.
> Mobile web development is HARD and EXPENSIVE and I seriously question the wisdom of even expending > the resources on it when everybody and their mother wants a mobile app anyways.
No. People do *not* want to have to install some shitty sucky app to visit your newspaper/shop/etc. It has to work on the webpage. I'm not even going to try and close that shitty dialog to work around how poor your* website coding is; I'm certainly not going to expend the effort to examine how poor your app design/coding/testing skills are.
*Not yours specifically; i'm sure you test your stuff on the stock browser of the most popular mobile platform in the world.
Why do so many mobile sites popup a dialog which is mostly off the right of the screen, and where, when you zoom in to try and find where they've hidden the non-standard, non-intuitive 'close' icon, it moves further offscreen? How am I supposed to remove the popup (which is covering a lot of the content, and making the screen dark to 'highlight' its importance)? 2014 - it's hard to deal with small screens? How? How is it hard? How did you get a job writing websites when they're so fucking sucky?
But more unpleasant than I'd expect a civilized society to behave. There's a reason people have generally looked up to the US. This sort of thing is not exactly America's proudest achievement, and history will not look kindly upon the quantity and manner of execution.
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> The way things are implemented by Cyanogenmod's Privacy Guard,
Of course, most Cyanogenmod installations currently exist on rooted phones...
Yes, but if he doesn't drop his principles, he won't be making any music.
> It's a niche project, but looks like getting a good techie phone is niche these days.
Define "techie phone". What's wrong with, say, a Nexus 5/Galaxy S3/4, for instance? What functionality do you believe is missing?
And if you don't like Google, put Cyanogenmod (or any other AOSP based project) and forgo the Google Apps.
It seems like I've had to read about Google Glass for about 2 years now. Really boring, no interest in it, but inescapable. Google, please release it so all the early adopter tossers can drop £1500 or whatever and strut around like the fucking hipster idiots that they are, then, as a released, naff product the tech press will take a little less of an interest in it and we can all move on with our lives.
Because the pointless paperwork will do nothing to make a couple stick together/protect the "unwanted" child; it just ensures work/money for suits all the way down from doctors to politicians.
Morally, it's like giving blood. If someone you gave blood to committed a crime, would you be responsible? Of course not.
In the UK, people have the right to contact their (sperm donor) parent. Why? It's just going to upset the child:
*knock knock*
Guy: "Uh..hello?"
Child: "I'm your son!"
Guy: "Is this a joke? My son's at school. Go away or I'm calling the police"
Child: "No, you donated sperm 15 years ago. Look, here's the document"
Guy: "I don't care about all that - I was a student, I needed the money. You don't mean anything to me...It's unlikely but possible I could have 20,000 "children". Only, of course, I don't. Now go away."
Bitcoins aren't really money; they're more like those tokens you buy in theme parks where you can spend them once you've converted them, but only on a the rides in that park, and you can't convert them back. Bitcoin is always going to be a secondary currency, and big companies are going to be wary of it because there's nothing to prevent a government banning it (specifically, banning companies from converting it back into real money), meaning you'll be stuck in the theme park with a lot of useless tokens, and they'll have wasted a lot of money supporting it. It'll always be one high-profile assassination away from being banned.
The amount of money Apple users spend has no bearing on whether this or that device is high end, does it?
The maths is simple. Which part are you having difficulty with?
http://m.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review...
> they may not be legally able to require OEMs to buy into Android in order to have the privilege of buying into
> Google apps.
Google can decide who to sell their apps to. If they decide to only sell, say, Maps for use in Android, then that's that, as far as I can tell. Google is the piper.
> apple sells high-end devices, and it's users spend for money on add-ons such, peripherals, and cases.
Apple sells expensive devices, but there's nothing high end about the 5S; it's in the same class as the Nexus 5, only for twice as much money.
> as if it hasn't already
Was it doing it already, or not?
if they practice. Perhaps this'll not sound awful it people play it without practicing. I guess if you load it with MP3s of somebody good, that'll do the trick.
Still, you can at least plug it into a computer, run linux on it, so it'll provide some fun before you shove it under the bed with your expensive digital cameras and electronic book readers.
What's wrong with, say, a Slashdot approach; log in once, store the details in a cookie and have Chrome store your passwords, synced across machines. It's pretty low cost in terms of config. Does it need a better solution?
>I do not say this as a critique of China or which ever country is producing low cost
>products, but rather as a critique of Western culture and "acquire more crap at all
>costs" mentality. China is just filling our demand.
Unintentionally it IS a critique of China; that level of pollution wouldn't be allowed in the US/elsewhere. And for some reason (hint: follow the money), it's legal to import stuff into those regions from countries without sensible environmental laws. The solution is obvious; just don't allow the import of products from "dirty" countries. I mean, that's part of the reason the stuff is cheap in the first place. As well as the almost slave-labour conditions, lack of worker protection etc. If a minimum wage/green protection tax was added to the cost of these products then home-grown ones would look more attractive, even if you just looked the shelf-price. In the not so distant future, when your children are asking why everything (jobs, food, the cost of stuff) is so terrible, you'll be able to say "ha! yeah, you say that now, but for about 20 years back when I was younger you could buy absolute rubbish, from cheap plastic toys which lasted 20 minutes, to expensive laptops/tablets/tvs which lasted about 2 years before falling apart of becoming obsolete, for a few dollars less than they'd have costed had they been built properly".
Why isn't it a requirement of any new system that you don't get (fully) paid until it's up and running and hackers given the chance to test it out, and if it's discovered that they're getting in through obvious weaknesses (old code, sql injection, unencrypted passwords being stored/transmitted etc etc) they don't get paid, and instead someone else gets to clean up (both the code, and financially). Until there's a point in making systems secure, it's not going to happen. At the moment, it seems to be treated like 'clean code' or 'good commenting style' etc - unimportant.
> federal agents insisted on interrogating the user for hours. So long for our
> constitutional freedoms."
Didn't he have the choice of just getting up and leaving? Was he under arrest? If he's not been arrested, how's he lost a freedom. And if he has, challenge it in court. Sounds like he's missed a trick here.
Just use a fake `real name`. These companies have no way of knowing what your real name is. In real life, your real name is whatever you decide it is.
You have to admit, the two names are rather similar. One might reasonably assume they're run by the same people.
> You want near perfect rendering on all screen sizes, all devices, and all browsers. Dude. Seriously.
Chrome on Android? That's edge case, yeah? 2014? It's 2014. Test your app on Android. The problem I'm talking about will occur on any device, any screen size, any version of Android.
> Mobile web development is HARD and EXPENSIVE and I seriously question the wisdom of even expending
> the resources on it when everybody and their mother wants a mobile app anyways.
No. People do *not* want to have to install some shitty sucky app to visit your newspaper/shop/etc. It has to work on the webpage. I'm not even going to try and close that shitty dialog to work around how poor your* website coding is; I'm certainly not going to expend the effort to examine how poor your app design/coding/testing skills are.
*Not yours specifically; i'm sure you test your stuff on the stock browser of the most popular mobile platform in the world.
I dunno - it seems a lot of adults are operating pretty close to their base instincts all the time these days. The gap is closing!
Why do so many mobile sites popup a dialog which is mostly off the right of the screen, and where, when you zoom in to try and find where they've hidden the non-standard, non-intuitive 'close' icon, it moves further offscreen? How am I supposed to remove the popup (which is covering a lot of the content, and making the screen dark to 'highlight' its importance)? 2014 - it's hard to deal with small screens? How? How is it hard? How did you get a job writing websites when they're so fucking sucky?
But more unpleasant than I'd expect a civilized society to behave. There's a reason people have generally looked up to the US. This sort of thing is not exactly America's proudest achievement, and history will not look kindly upon the quantity and manner of execution.
> the current maximum is 10 years
Two years.
Or boot from a usb key which contains a micro sd card and don't touch the laptop's harddrives whenever you're using it.