The problem with Android is the fragmentation [...] there are too many handsets, too many software versions in the wild, different touch screen types, different touch screen sizes. It's hard to optimise[sic] an application for it as you don't know how big the screen is and at times you may not have multitouch capability as the screen might be resistive.
Oh. Kind of like PCs, before that market completely failed?
Putting Linux on the PS3 served one single purpose: Revealing to everyone the kind of crap we game developers have to put up with when making games for the damn thing.
No, it's the equivalent of taking out a loan so you can build a workshop and (hopefully) use the profit from stuff you produce there to pay off both debts.
No, it's taking out a loan to bail out the business that's already failed.
Since this is kinda obvious - the extra spending is supposed to encourage investment into production facilities that are useful even after the initial spending is done
That might not have been laughable if the government hadn't been pushing the U.S. economy away from industry and towards service for over a decade. There are no production facilities being built with the money. The loans are attempting bail out bad loans - taking a Visa card in order to make the minimum payment to your maxed out MasterCard.
I'm guessing that you're using a purposefully flawed analogue in an attempt to make a strawman argument against people you dislike for ideological reasons.
Ad hominem attack. Does not contribute to your argument.
don't expect anyone who actually wields any power over anything to listen to such rubbish.
Yours included. If you think the politicians that have been running all these large campaigns have your best interested at heart (on either side of the aisle, or in-between), then you're subscribing as much to an ideology as you claim the GP is. Government only works when the people hold it accountable, which most politicians don't believe will happen as long as there's at least 3 months to the next election. Sadly, they seem to be right most of the time. Maybe I'll be proven wrong this November, but history (excepting that guy from MA) seems to show that this is unlikely.
So it's a bad idea for them to chip away at the walls of their moon base, once the moon base is glued together.
But doesn't it follow that, no matter what material they use, they won't exactly want to be putting new holes into their space house?
Wait, wait, wait. Did I miss something? Since when was defending Windows the hip and trendy thing to do on Slashdot? I thought Microsoft was the root of all evil, was utterly incapable of anything approaching competence, and that the sooner Linux replaced it as the consummate desktop solution across the world, the better?
Only the adults. The children they carry off into the wilderness. We find the piles of drained, shriveled corpses every so often. It's how we know where to employ the napalm.
Turns out that when guns are outlawed, outlaws don't need them either.
You mean it turns out that when you live on a sufficiently small island such that the government can effectively disarm the entire population, outlaws turn to other, more easily accessible implements. Not including the IRA, of course, which had access to firearms anyways.
Your country is 2.5% the size of mine, and doesn't share 1,950 miles of its border with a major avenue for drug smuggling that is also just this side of a third-world country in most places.
Sounds like being an American in any European country, except for the raping and the food. Unless you're in England, then you can include the food, too.
And either require the user to remember - you guessed it - yet another password, or they keep the decrypt key on the hard drive where anyone can can find it.
"But at least the user only has to remember one password, instead of many."
That is an improvement, but god willing they'll also be making good backups and won't suffer catastrophic data loss, else they've lost all their passwords.
I know it's taboo to write passwords on post-its. At an office I'd agree that post-its and the undersides of staplers are the worst places ever to keep passwords. But why is it so bad at home? If someone breaks into your home, wouldn't you try to change as many passwords as you can remember just to be safe anyways?
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Well I know that's what Facebook tells us...
If 80% of Americans don't care, then why should I?
Got a pound of flesh? Like it being ripped out?
My doctor says I could stand to lose about 100lbs, actually, so this seems like a win-win to me.
...lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The problem with Android is the fragmentation [...] there are too many handsets, too many software versions in the wild, different touch screen types, different touch screen sizes. It's hard to optimise[sic] an application for it as you don't know how big the screen is and at times you may not have multitouch capability as the screen might be resistive.
Oh. Kind of like PCs, before that market completely failed?
Oh.
Putting Linux on the PS3 served one single purpose: Revealing to everyone the kind of crap we game developers have to put up with when making games for the damn thing.
Meh. I won’t be worried about that until verse 7 happens...
Eh, Katla is just erupting a little later than its little brother, Eyjafjallajökull.
You misspelled "slashdot" in your URL, there. :P
Someone mod parent up, a score of 4 does not do it justice.
So how would you make that both plural and possessive if there's one hat shared between several owners? "The kings of Spain's hat"?
No, it's the equivalent of taking out a loan so you can build a workshop and (hopefully) use the profit from stuff you produce there to pay off both debts.
No, it's taking out a loan to bail out the business that's already failed.
Since this is kinda obvious - the extra spending is supposed to encourage investment into production facilities that are useful even after the initial spending is done
That might not have been laughable if the government hadn't been pushing the U.S. economy away from industry and towards service for over a decade. There are no production facilities being built with the money. The loans are attempting bail out bad loans - taking a Visa card in order to make the minimum payment to your maxed out MasterCard.
I'm guessing that you're using a purposefully flawed analogue in an attempt to make a strawman argument against people you dislike for ideological reasons.
Ad hominem attack. Does not contribute to your argument.
don't expect anyone who actually wields any power over anything to listen to such rubbish.
Yours included. If you think the politicians that have been running all these large campaigns have your best interested at heart (on either side of the aisle, or in-between), then you're subscribing as much to an ideology as you claim the GP is. Government only works when the people hold it accountable, which most politicians don't believe will happen as long as there's at least 3 months to the next election. Sadly, they seem to be right most of the time. Maybe I'll be proven wrong this November, but history (excepting that guy from MA) seems to show that this is unlikely.
So it's a bad idea for them to chip away at the walls of their moon base, once the moon base is glued together. But doesn't it follow that, no matter what material they use, they won't exactly want to be putting new holes into their space house?
Wait, wait, wait. Did I miss something? Since when was defending Windows the hip and trendy thing to do on Slashdot? I thought Microsoft was the root of all evil, was utterly incapable of anything approaching competence, and that the sooner Linux replaced it as the consummate desktop solution across the world, the better?
That's too bad, because it's so much easier to remain cynical when every seafood restaurant presents you with an oxymoron.
Only the adults. The children they carry off into the wilderness. We find the piles of drained, shriveled corpses every so often. It's how we know where to employ the napalm.
As a Minnesotan, I approve of this device.
Oh? So what are they using in the year 2242 as a stop-gap measure until quantum computing gets to the desktop?
Where do you work that Slashdot is allowed but recordingindustryvspeople isn't?
Probably Apple. Maybe Amazon.
Turns out that when guns are outlawed, outlaws don't need them either.
You mean it turns out that when you live on a sufficiently small island such that the government can effectively disarm the entire population, outlaws turn to other, more easily accessible implements. Not including the IRA, of course, which had access to firearms anyways.
Your country is 2.5% the size of mine, and doesn't share 1,950 miles of its border with a major avenue for drug smuggling that is also just this side of a third-world country in most places.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2v6rXs5J9M
Bounce a graviton particle beam
off the main deflector dish
that's the way we do things lad
we're making shit up as we wish.
The Klingons and the Romulans
pose no threat to us
'cause if we find we're in bind
we just make some shit up.
Sounds like being an American in any European country, except for the raping and the food. Unless you're in England, then you can include the food, too.
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And either require the user to remember - you guessed it - yet another password, or they keep the decrypt key on the hard drive where anyone can can find it.
"But at least the user only has to remember one password, instead of many."
That is an improvement, but god willing they'll also be making good backups and won't suffer catastrophic data loss, else they've lost all their passwords.
I know it's taboo to write passwords on post-its. At an office I'd agree that post-its and the undersides of staplers are the worst places ever to keep passwords. But why is it so bad at home? If someone breaks into your home, wouldn't you try to change as many passwords as you can remember just to be safe anyways?
Don't forget Hillary Clinton.
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I for one welcome our megacorporate overlords.
I'll bet this'll sell great in Iran and China.
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I for one welcome our new megacorporate overlords.
I just need to get a job at Blizzard.