Stoners who tend to insist on following the letter of the law are an impediment and source of irritation to the general driving public who regard the speed limits to be advisories, applicable to others perhaps, but not to them in their well maintained cars and excellent driving skills.
Seems like the guy that's having road rage about getting to work 5 minutes later is the one with the problem.
According to my cop customers they would rather have 10 potheads rather than one drunk on the road for one simple reason...stoners tend to drive too slow and speed is what kills
That just about as relevant as saying you'd rather be shot with a bow and arrow than a hand gun.
So if given the choice? I'd rather be a little late to an appointment because some pothead was driving slow than see some drunk weaving all over the road at 90 MPH + heading my way.
Why the heck are you thinking it's one or the other? The point at which we define "too high to drive" and "too drunk to drive" are completely separate things.
I can get behind your argument but that they subtly added a new lock screen without asking is a new level of dickery. Imagine if GIMP decideded to fuck with your login background to get you to pay money.
I agree, but I don't begrudge their right to try and monetize their app. Nor do I begrudge a user's right to stop using the app. What bothers me is the majority of people here claiming outrage. Nothing is free. When you use a free of payment product, expect to be monetized in other ways. In other, probably annoying ways. Deal with it. Expect it. It's the same reason I can't stand the "With Google YOU are the product!" people. No shit really? Gee, I thought Google spent billions of dollars on data centers and engineers because they are nice guys?
If I had to guess the way the people that made ES are looking at this is: who fucking cares? A bunch of people that aren't paying for our app aren't going to use it anymore. We can either monetize this app by doing terrible shit like showing apps* over the lock screen, or we can go home. If we can't monetize it we're better off losing all of our users and not developing it anymore.
* That's what this is. It's not replacing the lock screen. You can't do that. What you can do is if you have an insecure (swipe only e.g.) "key guard", an app (with permission that you granted when you installed it) can show itself over top of the key guard.
I'm not one of the devs. I'm broken up that people (including you?) go apeshit when someone tries to monetize their work. When your mom finally kicks you out of her basement you'll understand.
Why do you go apeshit when a developer tries to monetize their work? God forbid. Do you get compensated for your work? Or do you work for free and live out of a good size cardboard box?
I guess you liked it enough and used it for free for at least some amount of time then? I doubt the devs are broken up that they'll continue to receive no compensation from you for using their app. What a loss.
I uninstalled ES last week, and it had nothing to do with ads. It was blocking another app, a dlna client, from being able to select a video player other than ES's built in player.
Yeah, it can't do that. No app can do that. The only way it could do that is if you selected "always open using this app" previously. If you did, you can clear that up by going to that app in settings and choosing "clear defaults".
I have the paid version and I've never seen an ad let alone on my lock screen. It is still bundled with a bunch of tools no one wants like "SD card analyst" and "Music player" which I don't appreciate.
Yeah those developers. I can see them with your $2.99 right now drinking champagne surrounded with high-price call girls on a yacht floating off of Turks and Caicos. Ah well, you just can't change things. The rich get richer.
You fucks bitch about us being entitled but what makes you think you're entitled to be paid? For something free? Something you voluntarily selected the app to be, mind you. But we're the assholes? Goddammit! Go die in a fire.
So yeah, he says how dare someone expect to be paid for a "free" app. That shows a profound misunderstanding of the world IMHO.
When you grow up and get a job some day, I wonder if you'll work for free?
When someone releases an app with ads, it's not free. It's ad-supported. That's how the devs get paid. Seriously, what kind of a reality distortion field do you live in where you think that software developers spend thousands of hours developing apps for free? Just to make you happy? Yeah, I said thousands of hours. This app is at least one dev's full time job. Have you ever spent thousands of hours on anything at this point in your life?
You've grown up in a world where you download pirated music and movies and get your software keys from hacker forums. When you get older and perhaps want things like a car or a wife or a kid or a house you'll have a better understanding of what's going on here.
Until then, stay out of things you can't comprehend.
How many apps do you use that don't phone home? Oh, you don't know. In fact, you don't even know this one you just happen to have read another post that made that claim.
Yes, you're right I'm highly paid by the ES Explorer team to push their software on Slashdot. It's not a great job but man it's bought this yacht and home in Malibu so I can't complain too much.
Were you paying for it prior to this "jerk" move? No? Oh I get it. This your latest excuse to not compensate the software developers that produce the tools you use. I understand now, thanks.
The Pro version contains the same crap that caused me to uninstall the free version, such as some snake-oil "Performance Optimizer" tool that you can't disable.
No it doesn't. I'm looking at right now on my phone and there's no such tool / add on. There's no ES service running after I close the app.
Ah reality, it really gets in the way of your excuses for being cheap doesn't it?
They manufactured a problem and now sell a solution, classy.
Translation: I'm cheap, and I don't want to support the developer by looking at ads OR by paying for the app. I'm going to go find some other developer to mooch from.
I'm not into posting videos on the Web, so while I'm pretty sure there's more out there than YouTube, Vimeo and Vine, I can't really name any without searching.
Fascinating addition to the thread. Keep up the good work.
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I suggest simply looking for signs of reckless driving and ticketing anyone engaging in reckless driving without regard for the underlying cause.
Great idea. Like the guy that's recklessly sitting in a left turn lane and recklessly fails to see oncoming traffic.
Doing 20 in a 60 is more dangerous then doing 80 in a 60
Because lots of people do 20MPH on freeways. Thanks for the insightful comment.
Stoners who tend to insist on following the letter of the law are an impediment and source of irritation to the general driving public who regard the speed limits to be advisories, applicable to others perhaps, but not to them in their well maintained cars and excellent driving skills.
Seems like the guy that's having road rage about getting to work 5 minutes later is the one with the problem.
Anyone who's smoked pot won't need a reference or a citation.
According to my cop customers they would rather have 10 potheads rather than one drunk on the road for one simple reason...stoners tend to drive too slow and speed is what kills
That just about as relevant as saying you'd rather be shot with a bow and arrow than a hand gun.
So if given the choice? I'd rather be a little late to an appointment because some pothead was driving slow than see some drunk weaving all over the road at 90 MPH + heading my way.
Why the heck are you thinking it's one or the other? The point at which we define "too high to drive" and "too drunk to drive" are completely separate things.
Keep mooching and expecting your shit for free you spoiled millennial brathole. Reality is just around the corner.
I can get behind your argument but that they subtly added a new lock screen without asking is a new level of dickery. Imagine if GIMP decideded to fuck with your login background to get you to pay money.
I agree, but I don't begrudge their right to try and monetize their app. Nor do I begrudge a user's right to stop using the app. What bothers me is the majority of people here claiming outrage. Nothing is free. When you use a free of payment product, expect to be monetized in other ways. In other, probably annoying ways. Deal with it. Expect it. It's the same reason I can't stand the "With Google YOU are the product!" people. No shit really? Gee, I thought Google spent billions of dollars on data centers and engineers because they are nice guys?
If I had to guess the way the people that made ES are looking at this is: who fucking cares? A bunch of people that aren't paying for our app aren't going to use it anymore. We can either monetize this app by doing terrible shit like showing apps* over the lock screen, or we can go home. If we can't monetize it we're better off losing all of our users and not developing it anymore.
* That's what this is. It's not replacing the lock screen. You can't do that. What you can do is if you have an insecure (swipe only e.g.) "key guard", an app (with permission that you granted when you installed it) can show itself over top of the key guard.
I'm not one of the devs. I'm broken up that people (including you?) go apeshit when someone tries to monetize their work. When your mom finally kicks you out of her basement you'll understand.
Why do you go apeshit when a developer tries to monetize their work? God forbid. Do you get compensated for your work? Or do you work for free and live out of a good size cardboard box?
I just switch to some other file manager. Done
I guess you liked it enough and used it for free for at least some amount of time then? I doubt the devs are broken up that they'll continue to receive no compensation from you for using their app. What a loss.
I uninstalled ES last week, and it had nothing to do with ads. It was blocking another app, a dlna client, from being able to select a video player other than ES's built in player.
Yeah, it can't do that. No app can do that. The only way it could do that is if you selected "always open using this app" previously. If you did, you can clear that up by going to that app in settings and choosing "clear defaults".
I have the paid version and I've never seen an ad let alone on my lock screen. It is still bundled with a bunch of tools no one wants like "SD card analyst" and "Music player" which I don't appreciate.
Yeah those developers. I can see them with your $2.99 right now drinking champagne surrounded with high-price call girls on a yacht floating off of Turks and Caicos. Ah well, you just can't change things. The rich get richer.
Did you read the OP?
You fucks bitch about us being entitled but what makes you think you're entitled to be paid? For something free? Something you voluntarily selected the app to be, mind you. But we're the assholes? Goddammit! Go die in a fire.
So yeah, he says how dare someone expect to be paid for a "free" app. That shows a profound misunderstanding of the world IMHO.
When you grow up and get a job some day, I wonder if you'll work for free?
When someone releases an app with ads, it's not free. It's ad-supported. That's how the devs get paid. Seriously, what kind of a reality distortion field do you live in where you think that software developers spend thousands of hours developing apps for free? Just to make you happy? Yeah, I said thousands of hours. This app is at least one dev's full time job. Have you ever spent thousands of hours on anything at this point in your life?
You've grown up in a world where you download pirated music and movies and get your software keys from hacker forums. When you get older and perhaps want things like a car or a wife or a kid or a house you'll have a better understanding of what's going on here.
Until then, stay out of things you can't comprehend.
How many apps do you use that don't phone home? Oh, you don't know. In fact, you don't even know this one you just happen to have read another post that made that claim.
Yes, you're right I'm highly paid by the ES Explorer team to push their software on Slashdot. It's not a great job but man it's bought this yacht and home in Malibu so I can't complain too much.
Were you paying for it prior to this "jerk" move? No? Oh I get it. This your latest excuse to not compensate the software developers that produce the tools you use. I understand now, thanks.
The Pro version contains the same crap that caused me to uninstall the free version, such as some snake-oil "Performance Optimizer" tool that you can't disable.
No it doesn't. I'm looking at right now on my phone and there's no such tool / add on. There's no ES service running after I close the app.
Ah reality, it really gets in the way of your excuses for being cheap doesn't it?
They manufactured a problem and now sell a solution, classy.
Translation: I'm cheap, and I don't want to support the developer by looking at ads OR by paying for the app. I'm going to go find some other developer to mooch from.
Wrong thread my friend.
The set piece bits in the trailer look good, but aren't representative of the main gameplay.
Wow so you already played CoD:IW? Interesting since it releases ~6 months from now.
I'm not into posting videos on the Web, so while I'm pretty sure there's more out there than YouTube, Vimeo and Vine, I can't really name any without searching.
Fascinating addition to the thread. Keep up the good work.
Can I watch Prime Video on my Android device yet? Oh ...
The motivation is obviously greed
Um, what? Asking / requiring people to contribute and share is now considered greed?
Maybe it's that X-Plore's UI is a hot mess?