Actually, I've never met someone face to face that's had a Droid and not loved it... That's just my $0.02...
Hi, nice to meet you. The music player sucks to the point of unusability, I still have to carry my iPod Touch with me in order to listen to properly tagged MP3 files or audio books. Android doesn't know what the TPOS frame is for, iX does. Android can't play m4b files, iX can. Android 2.0 and at least the first release of 2.1 has a problem with MP3s skipping when the coverage changes top 3G and back.
I almost love it, but as a media player it's currently horribly flawed. The combination with an iPod Touch is still better than an iPhone but I'd rather have the phone work properly as a media player rather than the current half assed attempt.
I would disagree with this. I would say that for many years--and even today--the ideal of the American way is an ideal of being self-sufficient, accountability for your own actions, etc. It's more of an ideal in some parts of the country than others (See eg Alaska;). Having said that, it's an ideal. I don't think ANY Americans would tell someone if they can't pay for healthcare they need that they should rot. Not even the anti-government right wingers. ESPECIALLY not the anti-government right wingers perhaps, as conservative christians tend to give to charity in large numbers. As an example, check out the wikipedia page on private (and public) philanthropy:
The US has an incredibly high rate of private philanthropy compared to the Britain, Canada, France, Germany, etc. This is in no way in conflict with the ideal of being self-sufficient.
We (the UK) already gave at the tax office. Including government aid the UK gives two and a half times as much per person as the USA does.
With the number of people who will want to play in a LAN, you know the majority of the traffic isn't going to be routed through B.N servers where they'll have to pay for the bandwidth.
Indeed, Blizzard have already stated that traffic between clients on the same LAN will stay on the LAN so ping times etc are a non-issue, Battle.Net connectivity will be required for authentication but your game traffic will remain on the LAN if there are no remote players.
Maybe if GOOGLE gave the option of returning the phone and waving the ETF would sit better with everyone.
Try reading the contract, that's exactly what they do. You have 14 days to return the handset if you cancel the contract, only if you fail to return it are you charged by Google and the amount you get charged is the difference between the subsidised price and the unsubsidised price. Basically as T-Mobile will not be paying Google for the handset because you broke the contract, you have to pay instead.
Just how much data do you think apps need? How do you cope with the 32GB storage on the iPhone if you need "dozens" of 16GB or 32GB cards? I have a 16GB SanDisk card in mine that cost me £16.99, the release of the 32GB card is imminent but I really don't need one.
The hardware is designed to work with 3g networks on specific wireless bands, and I don't think every carrier runs the same stuff. Your networks are most definitely more standardized and free than ours are, but it's still a problem.
Although there are multiple bands in use all European phone models work on all of them. Our network operators are still a bunch of second rate robbing gits but the phones are all completely portable and you can use your SIM in any phone.
Oh good. So if Machine A fails to apply a patch for whatever reason and machine B comes along 5 minutes later with exactly the same SID but gets on fine.... you'll never know about machine A?
No. If Machine A fails to apply a patch for whatever reason and machine B comes along 5 minutes later with exactly the same WSUS ID but gets on fine you'll never know about machine A. WSUS ID and SID are not the same thing. Failure to properly sysprep your image (or at least manually delete the key) is what causes the issues people are describing, nothing to do with the SID whatsoever.
The parent is correct. Local play will be entirely possible and all the people whining about ping times and upstream bandwidth simply don't understand how it will work.
What that list actually means is that the license permits viral infection by the GPL
BZZZZZT! Wrong, thanks for playing. You, and only you, decide what license to apply to your code, it is impossible for somebody else's license to "infect" your code in any way. The concept of a viral license is ridiculous, under existing copyright law it's impossible.
You managed to get this completely and utterly backwards. In Germany they have a saying, "Nie Weider", meaning "Never again". It's written in several languages on a monument at Dachau concentration camp and almost ingrained in the national consciousness. In Germany denying the holocaust happened is even illegal so to say they deny the past is ridiculous. Germany has not forgotten and they don't want to for fear it could happen again.
Certainly. Slashdotters have a nasty habit of hearing a word or concept, half understanding it, then misusing it constantly. It is perfectly possible to say something is a slippery slope and be completely correct, X leads to Y leads to Z is perfectly valid. The fallacy lies in making the assumption that X leads to Z without demonstrating X->Y->Z.
Likewise inductive reasoning (X is true therefore Y is true) is not always invalid.
Exchange 2007 doesn't suck. Everyone spent so much time moaning and pointing at Exchange saying how it sucks that MS had time to fix it before anyone actually produced a decent alternative.
I'm not familiar with all of them, but I'll hazard a guess that most or all of the monarchs in those countries either have absolutely no executive power or haven't exercised it in a very, very long time. Where that's the case they are effectively republics in all but name.
Not even close. The monarch is our last line of defence against an abusive government, things would have to be extreme for her to use her powers to slap down parliament and not see the monarchy abolished but should the need arise she's supposed to our champion against oppression.
We screwed up royally going to direct elected Senators. The senators are supposed to really dig into the details and just go with what they think
This is one thing we haven't screwed up yet, although they keep talking about making the House of Lords elected nobody has actually done anything about it and hopefully never will. The Lords needed (and still needs) reform but not like that.
Your quote "Government should never do what the people want"... as a hard declarative statement leaves me rather cold. This statement indicates to me two things: 1) you are in favor of pure fascism, because the "people are as dumb as dogshit",
No, fascism would be authoritarian and corporatist. It's perfectly possible for a government to totally ignore the people and execute a liberal political agenda.
and 2) obviously you are one of these people by default (unless at this time you are a high level "elected representative" who is obviously just so much smarter that they just "know better").
I expect my elected representatives to be more informed than me and the rest of "the people". if they aren't then they don't belong in government. As an unrelated but illustrative example, a barrister of my acquaintance told me about one of her lecturers who asked at the start of their course who was in favour of capital punishment. About half were in favour and the question was repeated at the end of the course after becoming fully informed on the issues and virtually none were in favour. "The people" are at the start of the course, they are generally uninformed and fail to see the problems with what they think. Do I want the government with all the information to hand listening to a horde of uninformed Daily Mail readers? No, no more than they should listen to me. Our current government is shit and needs kicking out as soon as possible, however the only way they could possibly be worse is listening to the uninformed hordes.
Government should never do what the people want, individuals may be smart but "the people" are dumb as dogshit. The government's job is to do wehat they believe is right no matter what "the people" think. If they screw up they get voted out, if they're right they get another spin of the wheel.
Citation please. Common sense tells me you are probably misrepresenting this. Most likely the battery housings are the same and the electrolyte and plates have been replaced, making it a "remanufactured" original battery at best.
Thomas Edison invented the alkaline battery. My Baker still has some original alkaline batteries. These have lead plates and use acid; we wash them out and refill them regularly and I'll use them indefinitely. But even Edison realized the future of the automobile was elsewhere. Legend has it that back in 1896, at a dinner party, he passed a note to his friend Henry Ford. Essentially it said, "The electric car is dead."
Here's another hint: A normal human being does not have the capacity to point a gun at another and pull the trigger unless his or her life is in mortal danger.
The military will tell you that a normal person doesn't have that capacity even if their life is in mortal danger.
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Actually, I've never met someone face to face that's had a Droid and not loved it... That's just my $0.02...
Hi, nice to meet you. The music player sucks to the point of unusability, I still have to carry my iPod Touch with me in order to listen to properly tagged MP3 files or audio books. Android doesn't know what the TPOS frame is for, iX does. Android can't play m4b files, iX can. Android 2.0 and at least the first release of 2.1 has a problem with MP3s skipping when the coverage changes top 3G and back.
I almost love it, but as a media player it's currently horribly flawed. The combination with an iPod Touch is still better than an iPhone but I'd rather have the phone work properly as a media player rather than the current half assed attempt.
I would disagree with this. I would say that for many years--and even today--the ideal of the American way is an ideal of being self-sufficient, accountability for your own actions, etc. It's more of an ideal in some parts of the country than others (See eg Alaska ;). Having said that, it's an ideal. I don't think ANY Americans would tell someone if they can't pay for healthcare they need that they should rot. Not even the anti-government right wingers. ESPECIALLY not the anti-government right wingers perhaps, as conservative christians tend to give to charity in large numbers. As an example, check out the wikipedia page on private (and public) philanthropy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_charitable_countries
The US has an incredibly high rate of private philanthropy compared to the Britain, Canada, France, Germany, etc. This is in no way in conflict with the ideal of being self-sufficient.
We (the UK) already gave at the tax office. Including government aid the UK gives two and a half times as much per person as the USA does.
With the number of people who will want to play in a LAN, you know the majority of the traffic isn't going to be routed through B.N servers where they'll have to pay for the bandwidth.
Indeed, Blizzard have already stated that traffic between clients on the same LAN will stay on the LAN so ping times etc are a non-issue, Battle.Net connectivity will be required for authentication but your game traffic will remain on the LAN if there are no remote players.
Just use PPDs and you shouldn't have to worry about bit-ness.
Just the hefty cost of the postscript modules, a somewhat larger problem than installing your drivers correctly.
Maybe if GOOGLE gave the option of returning the phone and waving the ETF would sit better with everyone.
Try reading the contract, that's exactly what they do. You have 14 days to return the handset if you cancel the contract, only if you fail to return it are you charged by Google and the amount you get charged is the difference between the subsidised price and the unsubsidised price. Basically as T-Mobile will not be paying Google for the handset because you broke the contract, you have to pay instead.
Android apps can put their data on the SD card, even a full blown SatNav app is only a few megabytes when you discoutn the data.
Just how much data do you think apps need? How do you cope with the 32GB storage on the iPhone if you need "dozens" of 16GB or 32GB cards? I have a 16GB SanDisk card in mine that cost me £16.99, the release of the 32GB card is imminent but I really don't need one.
The hardware is designed to work with 3g networks on specific wireless bands, and I don't think every carrier runs the same stuff. Your networks are most definitely more standardized and free than ours are, but it's still a problem.
Although there are multiple bands in use all European phone models work on all of them. Our network operators are still a bunch of second rate robbing gits but the phones are all completely portable and you can use your SIM in any phone.
Oh good. So if Machine A fails to apply a patch for whatever reason and machine B comes along 5 minutes later with exactly the same SID but gets on fine.... you'll never know about machine A?
No. If Machine A fails to apply a patch for whatever reason and machine B comes along 5 minutes later with exactly the same WSUS ID but gets on fine you'll never know about machine A. WSUS ID and SID are not the same thing. Failure to properly sysprep your image (or at least manually delete the key) is what causes the issues people are describing, nothing to do with the SID whatsoever.
In America we have Fox (far right wing), CNN (right wing), and NBC (centrist). ... and CBS (centre right) and ...
This is how the rest of the world sees it. You don't HAVE left wing politics, merely different shades of right wing.
Because, sometimes, you wanna go where everyone knows your shape.
The parent is correct. Local play will be entirely possible and all the people whining about ping times and upstream bandwidth simply don't understand how it will work.
I'm not entirely sure what's funny here ..?
The OP was talking about going to the cinema while on call, i.e. with cell phone/pager on.
That's a real slap in the face of legitimate customers who have intentionally and legally rejected the installation of WGA on their computers.
Yeah, both of them.
What that list actually means is that the license permits viral infection by the GPL
BZZZZZT! Wrong, thanks for playing. You, and only you, decide what license to apply to your code, it is impossible for somebody else's license to "infect" your code in any way. The concept of a viral license is ridiculous, under existing copyright law it's impossible.
They censor the present to deny the past
You managed to get this completely and utterly backwards. In Germany they have a saying, "Nie Weider", meaning "Never again". It's written in several languages on a monument at Dachau concentration camp and almost ingrained in the national consciousness. In Germany denying the holocaust happened is even illegal so to say they deny the past is ridiculous. Germany has not forgotten and they don't want to for fear it could happen again.
Can somebody please translate this?
Certainly. Slashdotters have a nasty habit of hearing a word or concept, half understanding it, then misusing it constantly. It is perfectly possible to say something is a slippery slope and be completely correct, X leads to Y leads to Z is perfectly valid. The fallacy lies in making the assumption that X leads to Z without demonstrating X->Y->Z.
Likewise inductive reasoning (X is true therefore Y is true) is not always invalid.
Exchange 2007 doesn't suck. Everyone spent so much time moaning and pointing at Exchange saying how it sucks that MS had time to fix it before anyone actually produced a decent alternative.
I'm not familiar with all of them, but I'll hazard a guess that most or all of the monarchs in those countries either have absolutely no executive power or haven't exercised it in a very, very long time. Where that's the case they are effectively republics in all but name.
Not even close. The monarch is our last line of defence against an abusive government, things would have to be extreme for her to use her powers to slap down parliament and not see the monarchy abolished but should the need arise she's supposed to our champion against oppression.
It may not be increasing dramatically, but it's definitely a big problem
It's really not, the media merely portays it as one.
We screwed up royally going to direct elected Senators. The senators are supposed to really dig into the details and just go with what they think
This is one thing we haven't screwed up yet, although they keep talking about making the House of Lords elected nobody has actually done anything about it and hopefully never will. The Lords needed (and still needs) reform but not like that.
Your quote "Government should never do what the people want"... as a hard declarative statement leaves me rather cold. This statement indicates to me two things: 1) you are in favor of pure fascism, because the "people are as dumb as dogshit",
No, fascism would be authoritarian and corporatist. It's perfectly possible for a government to totally ignore the people and execute a liberal political agenda.
and 2) obviously you are one of these people by default (unless at this time you are a high level "elected representative" who is obviously just so much smarter that they just "know better").
I expect my elected representatives to be more informed than me and the rest of "the people". if they aren't then they don't belong in government. As an unrelated but illustrative example, a barrister of my acquaintance told me about one of her lecturers who asked at the start of their course who was in favour of capital punishment. About half were in favour and the question was repeated at the end of the course after becoming fully informed on the issues and virtually none were in favour. "The people" are at the start of the course, they are generally uninformed and fail to see the problems with what they think. Do I want the government with all the information to hand listening to a horde of uninformed Daily Mail readers? No, no more than they should listen to me. Our current government is shit and needs kicking out as soon as possible, however the only way they could possibly be worse is listening to the uninformed hordes.
Government should never do what the people want, individuals may be smart but "the people" are dumb as dogshit. The government's job is to do wehat they believe is right no matter what "the people" think. If they screw up they get voted out, if they're right they get another spin of the wheel.
Citation please. Common sense tells me you are probably misrepresenting this. Most likely the battery housings are the same and the electrolyte and plates have been replaced, making it a "remanufactured" original battery at best.
Thomas Edison invented the alkaline battery. My Baker still has some original alkaline batteries. These have lead plates and use acid; we wash them out and refill them regularly and I'll use them indefinitely. But even Edison realized the future of the automobile was elsewhere. Legend has it that back in 1896, at a dinner party, he passed a note to his friend Henry Ford. Essentially it said, "The electric car is dead."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/jay_leno_garage/4215940.html?nav=RSS20
Here's another hint: A normal human being does not have the capacity to point a gun at another and pull the trigger unless his or her life is in mortal danger.
The military will tell you that a normal person doesn't have that capacity even if their life is in mortal danger.