Almost immediately after the reveal the emails starting flying asking what people thought of the new console design and specification. The almost universal answer was, "I like the new controller, but the CPU looks a bit underpowered".
Funny, when they revealed it, I was underwhelmed by the controller. I thought: this looks so pointless, it's like a tablet that you can't carry around.
The proper treatments for phimosis are steroid creams or prepuceplasty. If doctors had anything other than greed in their minds, circumcision would be left as a desperate last resort, not the duck tape of penile problems.
You're circumcised by your own admission as well, so you don't have any idea how it could be better either.
On the contrary! I know "before and after", if you catch my drift. I can tell you firsthand that circumcision severely decreases sexual pleasure. The "solution" turned out to be infinitely worse than the problem, which could have been fixed by more conservative means...
That fact so many people get circumcisions and have zero complications is just further evidence that it is a safe and useful procedure.
After you get circumcised, you have an incomplete penis with reduced sensitivity. Therefore, the complication rate is 100%, only the severity varies. Speaking of which, circumcision-related deaths are estimated at over a hundred per year in the USA alone, all swept under the rug.
If there was something out there that made sex better, doctors & businesses both would be scrambling to capitalize off of it.
On the contrary. Circumcisions are easy money for doctors. Not only the procedure itself, the tissue is sold to laboratories. The healthy thing to do is not performing circumcisions, but that is no easy money for anyone. Oh, here's a fun fact: the USA and Israel are about 5% of the world's population, yet they are about 50% of the world market for Viagra. Guess why.
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place.
Indeed, it still seems to be that Bill Gates' modus operandi is to create problems to sell solutions. His foundation promotes male genital mutilation (aka circumcision) as a solution to AIDS, even though real life numbers show it does not work at all. And a side effect of circumcision is that it severely reduces sexual sensation, which makes men even less inclined to use the actual solution, condoms (not to mention it increases the likelihood of erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, dyspareunia, and alexithymia).
So his solution now is to make a high-tech super-thin condom. Which would not be necessary if his so-called charity didn't get men mutilated in the first place!
No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:
1 - They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that. 2 - Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that. 3 - Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too. 4 - Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too. 5 - Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2.) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus, but there are fundamental differences: viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
Not in that sense. I meant that parts of the world seem unrealized, as there should be some levels in the swamp and the crater, but they're just small empty areas instead. And the game ends too suddenly, the final level isn't very climatic and the cutscene doesn't give closure to the plot.
MeeGo was an unknown with almost no apps and almost no community
But it had many carriers happy to support it. Unlike Windows Phone.
remember that Windows Embedded ran the first real smart phones
No, that'd be the Nokia 9000 Communicator, which ran GEOS.
there was a full stable of applications already available
That was true of Windows Mobile, which Microsoft abandoned in favor of the fully incompatible Windows Phone.
I just looked at the project's home page and it hasn't been updated since 2011
You don't say, Captain Obvious? Elop killed the damn thing! But, being open-source, MeeGo left an heir: Mer, the basis of Sailfish, which runs on the Jolla - made by a crew of former Nokia engineers.
and Tizen's major selling point seems to be that it supports HTML5.
Its major selling point, to manufacturers and carriers, is that it's not under the control of a single company. I guess they learned that from the MeeGo disaster: do not rely on something that can be obtained from only one company, since they may hire an imbecile or a saboteur to run themselves into the fucking ground!
When Elop came on board, Symbian was still the #1 smartphone OS, with a 44% market share. There were challengers appearing, but with proper support, it would have remained a viable contender until they had MeeGo ready, and this one would fare much better than Windows Phone ever will.
All I read from those tables is that Nokia still sells a fuckton of featurephones, and WP sales are still tiny. Playing "what if" is complicated, but I still think they had a much better shot at success with MeeGo.
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Almost immediately after the reveal the emails starting flying asking what people thought of the new console design and specification. The almost universal answer was, "I like the new controller, but the CPU looks a bit underpowered".
Funny, when they revealed it, I was underwhelmed by the controller. I thought: this looks so pointless, it's like a tablet that you can't carry around.
The proper treatments for phimosis are steroid creams or prepuceplasty. If doctors had anything other than greed in their minds, circumcision would be left as a desperate last resort, not the duck tape of penile problems.
You're circumcised by your own admission as well, so you don't have any idea how it could be better either.
On the contrary! I know "before and after", if you catch my drift. I can tell you firsthand that circumcision severely decreases sexual pleasure. The "solution" turned out to be infinitely worse than the problem, which could have been fixed by more conservative means...
That fact so many people get circumcisions and have zero complications is just further evidence that it is a safe and useful procedure.
After you get circumcised, you have an incomplete penis with reduced sensitivity. Therefore, the complication rate is 100%, only the severity varies. Speaking of which, circumcision-related deaths are estimated at over a hundred per year in the USA alone, all swept under the rug.
If there was something out there that made sex better, doctors & businesses both would be scrambling to capitalize off of it.
On the contrary. Circumcisions are easy money for doctors. Not only the procedure itself, the tissue is sold to laboratories. The healthy thing to do is not performing circumcisions, but that is no easy money for anyone. Oh, here's a fun fact: the USA and Israel are about 5% of the world's population, yet they are about 50% of the world market for Viagra. Guess why.
"Harmless", my shiny metal ass...
It wasn't mutilation when I got circumcised.
It was. You are a mutilated man, and so am I, only I am not in denial about it.
It was a standard medical procedure needed for medical reasons which has several hygiene benefits too.
Lobotomy used to be a standard medical procedure too. And insulin shock therapy. And trepanning. And radiated water. And mercury ingestion.
[Citation required].
Have some: about how circumcision reduces pleasure, and does not help prevent HIV at all.
Douglas Adams said this back in '95:
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place.
Indeed, it still seems to be that Bill Gates' modus operandi is to create problems to sell solutions. His foundation promotes male genital mutilation (aka circumcision) as a solution to AIDS, even though real life numbers show it does not work at all. And a side effect of circumcision is that it severely reduces sexual sensation, which makes men even less inclined to use the actual solution, condoms (not to mention it increases the likelihood of erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, dyspareunia, and alexithymia).
So his solution now is to make a high-tech super-thin condom. Which would not be necessary if his so-called charity didn't get men mutilated in the first place!
It inevitably is, but the authors also give it away as a pdf.
What's the big deal? I mean, do you think Wernher von Braun's later work was bad just because his former boss wasn't the nicest guy in the world?
Wallah!
It's "voilà".
No, seriously. Copyright does more harm than good. Just get rid of the whole damn thing.
Obligatory reading.
Did they kill the retarded Start screen yet? No? Then it's not fixed.
That was an Unix system. More precisely, it was Silicon Graphics' IRIX with the fsn file viewer.
Obligatory blast(er worm) from the past...
Is Windows a virus?
No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:
1 - They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
2 - Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
3 - Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
4 - Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.
5 - Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2.) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus, but there are fundamental differences: viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus. It's a bug.
From whose ass did you pull out that definition?
You sound like a teenager trying too hard to appear mature.
If you want to use AmigaOS on your PC so bad, just use this. Or even get some specialized hardware.
Suomi.
Yeah, the lack of a microSD slot is a deal killer, but it's your fault for buying a tablet without checking the specs.
Like this... io-lah.
Not in that sense. I meant that parts of the world seem unrealized, as there should be some levels in the swamp and the crater, but they're just small empty areas instead. And the game ends too suddenly, the final level isn't very climatic and the cutscene doesn't give closure to the plot.
It was a good game... well, a good HALF of a game. It really didn't feel complete.
MeeGo was an unknown with almost no apps and almost no community
But it had many carriers happy to support it. Unlike Windows Phone.
remember that Windows Embedded ran the first real smart phones
No, that'd be the Nokia 9000 Communicator, which ran GEOS.
there was a full stable of applications already available
That was true of Windows Mobile, which Microsoft abandoned in favor of the fully incompatible Windows Phone.
I just looked at the project's home page and it hasn't been updated since 2011
You don't say, Captain Obvious? Elop killed the damn thing! But, being open-source, MeeGo left an heir: Mer, the basis of Sailfish, which runs on the Jolla - made by a crew of former Nokia engineers.
and Tizen's major selling point seems to be that it supports HTML5.
Its major selling point, to manufacturers and carriers, is that it's not under the control of a single company. I guess they learned that from the MeeGo disaster: do not rely on something that can be obtained from only one company, since they may hire an imbecile or a saboteur to run themselves into the fucking ground!
resurrect Symbian
Don't say another goddamn word.
When Elop came on board, Symbian was still the #1 smartphone OS, with a 44% market share. There were challengers appearing, but with proper support, it would have remained a viable contender until they had MeeGo ready, and this one would fare much better than Windows Phone ever will.
You mean successor, not predecessor.
Which started as a marketing ploy to sell flags.
All I read from those tables is that Nokia still sells a fuckton of featurephones, and WP sales are still tiny. Playing "what if" is complicated, but I still think they had a much better shot at success with MeeGo.