You're stupid, and don't understand statistics or human nature. One ticket in 20 years, assuming that correlates with at-fault accidents, is an extremely safe record.
I wish I could afford an automatic transmission. Sure, there's something to be said for a proper gearshift, but after a decade of stop-and-go driving in the city, I'm ready to not use a clutch anymore.
Aircraft Carriers are (tactically-speaking) the stupidest way to waste sailors and money. They're an excellent way to project air power, but against any reasonably-equipped enemy force, they're nothing more than target practice for artillery. Most sane estimates expect the carriers to be the first casualty of any serious engagement.
The mac "culture" is much more willing to purchase a $20 app that fills a tidy hole in their system. This is both an emergent behavior and a forced behavior. Forced because the ecosystem for macs is a fraction of that for windows, the number of cracking or hacking groups targeting pay-for apps is much lower. Emergent because, the already high barrier to entry (iTax) is locking out a large amount of those who are inclined to buy a $300 PC and fill it with warez. Both of these factors also work to suppress the creation of an equivalent to the spyware-infested freeware app "scene" present on Windows.
And here you've just built an imaginary world where the most obvious solution is, in fact, violence. There's no difference between you and Pratchett in that regard.
why does anyone have the right to install whatever they want on the device?
I invite you to study the concept of ownership. If I pay $600 for a piece of hardware, I have every right to do whatever I want with it. It's the whole point of buying hardware, honestly. If I wanted a restricted environment with no control, I'd rent my phone. That said, AT&T should have the right to block my use of the network if they don't like what I'm doing on it, but at no point should Apple even slightly get involved. This 'walled garden' concept is harmful to consumers and developers alike.
Some small businesses undoubtedly use Vista enterprise. Others can be convinced to lay out the extra cash for an important security feature that's supported by their OS vendor, instead of buying from a separate company. He's hardly doing a bad job if he shows his clients all the relevant options.
In case of female GP, please substitute where relevant.
Laser printers, meboy! Sure the toner costs $100 for a replacement cartridge, but you can print 5,000 pages with one of 'em. And as a plus, it's got a laser in it! Quiet, fast, cheap...all made possible with the humble laser. Inkjet printers rightfully should be dumped into a hole in the ground.
I like that you need somebody else's opinion to know whether something is enjoyable or not. I'd like you to check out my new websites: isslashdotshittytoday.com and arehatersshittytoday.com. I'm working on an iskdawsonshittytoday.com, but I keep getting divide by zero errors in the rss.
Now, when I look for music at my local store, I'll have a higher chance of accidentally finding a non-RIAA CD to take home. C'mon Sony, you go next. Make my store a better filter, it's annoying searching RIAA Radar for everything I want to buy.
Can we just abstract that a little? Anybody who leaks classified information, or makes it available (in the RIAA sense), should be beaten and publicly mocked. This would, of course, include most politicians. I don't see a negative to this anywhere. I used to work with classified info, and I get spitting mad every time I see the news reporting some "unnamed source" telling them about something classified that was just discussed in a secret intelligence briefing. Labeling them traitor wouldn't be unreasonable; letting them go on being a senator is absolutely unreasonable.
Being smarter is a big factor in programming well. Being obviously smarter than those around you is, well, a major cause of huge ego syndrome.
Don't you get a swollen head when you walk amongst dullards? Every time I see somebody pushing at the 'pull' on a door, I feel my disdain for others rising. When I stand behind a dunce in line, and hear him ask how many eggs in a dozen, I grow more sure of my position among the intellectual greats. When a waiter is unable to figure sums on his pad to give me a total, that I might reimburse him fairly for his service, I scoff at the fools that populate this world. In fact, in every day, in every way, the imbeciles I walk around cause my ego to grow nigh unto titanic proportions, certain I must be nearly akin to God Himself in my intellectual powers.
And I can only program in Basic. Imagine those towers of mind that must be a C programmer!
Geeks would scream bloody murder. My parents wouldn't even notice. The EU would slap MS with another "giant" fine. The US *might*, possibly, bring suit against them. Said suit would last 8 years and resolve with a series of fines and injunctions against certain vaguely-defined anti-competitive behaviors. Meanwhile MS would still retain control over 3/4 of the OS and office apps market.
Suppose I bought one of those plastic-extruding CNC machines, and then I used it to make an exact duplicate of a 1967 Shelby GT (It might take a while, get a cup of coffee while we wait). Then suppose I give you the mustang, and you drive careening through the front of a music store in an orgy of broken glass and shattered vinyl. Once the car is pulled free of the rubble, the cops discover that a CD has fallen into the car, and arrest you for petty larceny. You get bailed out, and then drive down Rt 66 listening to The Best of Queen at full volume. All seems well until a month later, when an RIAA goon hands you a summons: You're being sued for infinity dollars because you were driving with the top down and somebody could have heard your music, clearly an unlawful distribution.
I have been educated. I suppose I can safely assume that it's only the walled-garden aspect to the iPhone that prevents every otherwise-background app from using that particular framework.
Also, to answer your pedantry with more of the same: The antenna doesn't consume power, but the processor to interpret the data received by the antenna does, so nyeah.
The antenna used to listen for incoming calls or texts takes just a tiny bit of current. Running an active TCP session for an IM client constantly would light up much more of the iPhone's hardware, and drain the battery that much faster.
Personally, I'd pay $100 more for an iPhone if somebody made it twice as thick and used all the extra space for a bigger fucking battery. If I even use the thing, the battery lasts about half of a day.
Dunno if you're aware of this, but you can make iTunes not copy music into its special folder. Hit Ctrl+, and go to the Advanced tab. Uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to library". Then when you drag stuff into iTunes it just adds a reference to it in the library, but leaves your original files alone.
As for wanting an iPod you can just drag music on and off of? Well, you bought the wrong device for that, sparky. iThings are for people that don't want to mess around with folders and files. If you're just in love with the glossy white cover, but want Windows-style awkwardness, there's Rockbox for you.
Blatant moronic racism aside, you're a complete and total idiot. The Air Force promotes based only on two factors: the ability to get above 40% on a nearly open-book history test and time served. A wooden manikin can be promoted to sergeant in five years.
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The correct spelling is O'falafel.
You're stupid, and don't understand statistics or human nature. One ticket in 20 years, assuming that correlates with at-fault accidents, is an extremely safe record.
Pfft. 14 inches? I'm using lynx on a 5" green-screen. It was good enough for my grand-dad, it's good enough for me.
I wish I could afford an automatic transmission. Sure, there's something to be said for a proper gearshift, but after a decade of stop-and-go driving in the city, I'm ready to not use a clutch anymore.
Aircraft Carriers are (tactically-speaking) the stupidest way to waste sailors and money. They're an excellent way to project air power, but against any reasonably-equipped enemy force, they're nothing more than target practice for artillery. Most sane estimates expect the carriers to be the first casualty of any serious engagement.
The mac "culture" is much more willing to purchase a $20 app that fills a tidy hole in their system. This is both an emergent behavior and a forced behavior. Forced because the ecosystem for macs is a fraction of that for windows, the number of cracking or hacking groups targeting pay-for apps is much lower. Emergent because, the already high barrier to entry (iTax) is locking out a large amount of those who are inclined to buy a $300 PC and fill it with warez. Both of these factors also work to suppress the creation of an equivalent to the spyware-infested freeware app "scene" present on Windows.
I've had no end of problems with the Asus-provided linux drivers for my Eee. It's almost like the company was payed to make windows look better.
And here you've just built an imaginary world where the most obvious solution is, in fact, violence. There's no difference between you and Pratchett in that regard.
why does anyone have the right to install whatever they want on the device?
I invite you to study the concept of ownership. If I pay $600 for a piece of hardware, I have every right to do whatever I want with it. It's the whole point of buying hardware, honestly. If I wanted a restricted environment with no control, I'd rent my phone.
That said, AT&T should have the right to block my use of the network if they don't like what I'm doing on it, but at no point should Apple even slightly get involved. This 'walled garden' concept is harmful to consumers and developers alike.
And Yochanan is the way a mishugena mis-pronounces .
Some small businesses undoubtedly use Vista enterprise. Others can be convinced to lay out the extra cash for an important security feature that's supported by their OS vendor, instead of buying from a separate company. He's hardly doing a bad job if he shows his clients all the relevant options.
In case of female GP, please substitute where relevant.
Laser printers, meboy! Sure the toner costs $100 for a replacement cartridge, but you can print 5,000 pages with one of 'em. And as a plus, it's got a laser in it! Quiet, fast, cheap...all made possible with the humble laser. Inkjet printers rightfully should be dumped into a hole in the ground.
If you get the full coverage insurance, all you have to do is bring back the bumper and the keys. I love full coverage insurance.
I like that you need somebody else's opinion to know whether something is enjoyable or not. I'd like you to check out my new websites: isslashdotshittytoday.com and arehatersshittytoday.com. I'm working on an iskdawsonshittytoday.com, but I keep getting divide by zero errors in the rss.
Now, when I look for music at my local store, I'll have a higher chance of accidentally finding a non-RIAA CD to take home. C'mon Sony, you go next. Make my store a better filter, it's annoying searching RIAA Radar for everything I want to buy.
Can we just abstract that a little? Anybody who leaks classified information, or makes it available (in the RIAA sense), should be beaten and publicly mocked. This would, of course, include most politicians. I don't see a negative to this anywhere. I used to work with classified info, and I get spitting mad every time I see the news reporting some "unnamed source" telling them about something classified that was just discussed in a secret intelligence briefing. Labeling them traitor wouldn't be unreasonable; letting them go on being a senator is absolutely unreasonable.
Being smarter is a big factor in programming well. Being obviously smarter than those around you is, well, a major cause of huge ego syndrome.
Don't you get a swollen head when you walk amongst dullards? Every time I see somebody pushing at the 'pull' on a door, I feel my disdain for others rising. When I stand behind a dunce in line, and hear him ask how many eggs in a dozen, I grow more sure of my position among the intellectual greats. When a waiter is unable to figure sums on his pad to give me a total, that I might reimburse him fairly for his service, I scoff at the fools that populate this world. In fact, in every day, in every way, the imbeciles I walk around cause my ego to grow nigh unto titanic proportions, certain I must be nearly akin to God Himself in my intellectual powers.
And I can only program in Basic. Imagine those towers of mind that must be a C programmer!
Geeks would scream bloody murder. My parents wouldn't even notice. The EU would slap MS with another "giant" fine. The US *might*, possibly, bring suit against them. Said suit would last 8 years and resolve with a series of fines and injunctions against certain vaguely-defined anti-competitive behaviors. Meanwhile MS would still retain control over 3/4 of the OS and office apps market.
Suppose I bought one of those plastic-extruding CNC machines, and then I used it to make an exact duplicate of a 1967 Shelby GT (It might take a while, get a cup of coffee while we wait). Then suppose I give you the mustang, and you drive careening through the front of a music store in an orgy of broken glass and shattered vinyl. Once the car is pulled free of the rubble, the cops discover that a CD has fallen into the car, and arrest you for petty larceny. You get bailed out, and then drive down Rt 66 listening to The Best of Queen at full volume. All seems well until a month later, when an RIAA goon hands you a summons: You're being sued for infinity dollars because you were driving with the top down and somebody could have heard your music, clearly an unlawful distribution.
That's what this is like.
I have been educated. I suppose I can safely assume that it's only the walled-garden aspect to the iPhone that prevents every otherwise-background app from using that particular framework.
Also, to answer your pedantry with more of the same: The antenna doesn't consume power, but the processor to interpret the data received by the antenna does, so nyeah.
The antenna used to listen for incoming calls or texts takes just a tiny bit of current. Running an active TCP session for an IM client constantly would light up much more of the iPhone's hardware, and drain the battery that much faster.
Personally, I'd pay $100 more for an iPhone if somebody made it twice as thick and used all the extra space for a bigger fucking battery. If I even use the thing, the battery lasts about half of a day.
Dunno if you're aware of this, but you can make iTunes not copy music into its special folder. Hit Ctrl+, and go to the Advanced tab. Uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to library". Then when you drag stuff into iTunes it just adds a reference to it in the library, but leaves your original files alone.
As for wanting an iPod you can just drag music on and off of? Well, you bought the wrong device for that, sparky. iThings are for people that don't want to mess around with folders and files. If you're just in love with the glossy white cover, but want Windows-style awkwardness, there's Rockbox for you.
You lie. That film had ONE main part. Any evidence of some kind of 'sequel' was planted by the machines to confuse your mind.
I can't decide. Is "Get your sarcasm meter adjusted, SalaSSin." better or worse than simply saying "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH"?
Blatant moronic racism aside, you're a complete and total idiot. The Air Force promotes based only on two factors: the ability to get above 40% on a nearly open-book history test and time served. A wooden manikin can be promoted to sergeant in five years.