You buy car. The car says it has brakes. The car only has brakes that work, though, when you are going less than 20mph.
Bummer for you, I guess. You should have known better. You should take responsibility for your own choice to buy that car! Why didn't you get under there and check the brakes thoroughly first? What, you want to sue? Everything they said was completely true, the car has brakes...
Admittedly, this is a silly and exaggerated example, but I personally have no doubt that a lot of advertising does this.
The problem isn't necessarily that people are stupid now. The problem is that things are more complex. It's not like most of my purchases are... well, animals or food.
And even food is hard, now, since we do such complex things to it and with it... heh.
My favorite thing to do is read all the lengthy reviews. Someone who goes in depth into the product can give valuable feedback. Also, when someone says they've had it for a few months or something (rather than "I just got it 5 minutes ago and it's SO FUN and hasn't broken! Exceptional quality!") and are reviewing it after using it regularly... that sort of thing. In other words, reviewing actual usage rather than reviewing how well it was shipped or packaged or how it "feels" when they first opened it and used it once.
What about ripping videos and storing those? Or games? Lots of audio (seriously, 16gb isn't *that* much, especially if you do higher than 192kbit ripping), lots of pictures which keep getting bigger, lots of video which keeps getting better quality...
Isn't a clean reboot primarily a software thing? If you have to turn the power on and off, you're resetting it, not rebooting it.
And anyways, even if power on/off doesn't "reset the RAM" (clear it, whatever word you want to use), presumably you'd be able to tell the controller to do that. I can't "reset" my hard drive state by turning the power off, but I can format it (either just replacing the filesystem info or by actually rewriting it)
I'm one of those wacky "intellectually challenged" Bible people you may have heard about;)
But I can actually agree with you here... because reason and intent is something that is awfully hard to prove without, uh, well, something that has reason and intent. As I understand it, unless you go for theistic evolution, evolution is entirely a natural process and evolution does not occur with some future reason or intent in "mind." It can't. It has no mind, reason, or intent.
So to say that something evolved to prevent something? I could see trying to argue that it was, at least, a side-effect, perhaps even a primary effect, but to give a purely natural process an intent of *prevention*...
Mine shuts down (it POSTs when I turn it on). But then, I don't do it from the charms bar. However... it does boot fast; faster than XP, faster than Windows 7 (which was also faster than XP).
Lots of things come naturally. Like war. Humans seem to like to kill each other. Is war "easy?" No. Some job professions seem to come "naturally" to people, too. How about farming? Definitely not easy.
If things that come "naturally" were easy, then life would be easy (after all, most people do what is "natural" to them; not too many people consciously and intentionally seek out things they feel are unnatural to do). And life is not "easy." For most.
which likely flourished there the last time the land in that area was exposed to sunlight before the Little Ice Age.
So, this makes it sound like it was a climate change - an ice age - that caused this area to get totally covered in ice, right? But isn't one of the major concerns about the proposed AGW/CC that said ice is melting (presumption: it shouldn't)?
I realize maybe we could argue about the rate of change, but didn't the previous ice ages... kinda... supposedly happen rather quickly, too?
Truth be told, my views are significantly different than the above, ha. But I'm curious how this works out, since I believe the overlap of those who accept this history of the earth with those who accept AGW is likely pretty large.
Lots of things are food additives that are... dubious in their health nature, shall we say. Have you read anything about high fructose corn syrup and problems associated with that? How about trans-fats, which recently underwent lots of legislation and whatnot?
Something being legal or added to food is hardly an argument for it being health neutral. I'm not necessarily arguing that MSG is bad, either; I'm saying that your argument for it being fine is... faulty.:)
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You see those devices from Hammerfell? They've got curved phones. Curved. Phones.
You buy car. The car says it has brakes. The car only has brakes that work, though, when you are going less than 20mph.
Bummer for you, I guess. You should have known better. You should take responsibility for your own choice to buy that car! Why didn't you get under there and check the brakes thoroughly first? What, you want to sue? Everything they said was completely true, the car has brakes...
Admittedly, this is a silly and exaggerated example, but I personally have no doubt that a lot of advertising does this.
The problem isn't necessarily that people are stupid now. The problem is that things are more complex. It's not like most of my purchases are ... well, animals or food.
And even food is hard, now, since we do such complex things to it and with it... heh.
Couldn't one just register a second Facebook account and use that for the check-ins? I don't really care if Facebook knows where "Bob Smith" has gone.
Congratulations; leading causes of death no longer cause death for you, I guess. Watch out for the runners-up. ;)
My favorite thing to do is read all the lengthy reviews. Someone who goes in depth into the product can give valuable feedback. Also, when someone says they've had it for a few months or something (rather than "I just got it 5 minutes ago and it's SO FUN and hasn't broken! Exceptional quality!") and are reviewing it after using it regularly ... that sort of thing. In other words, reviewing actual usage rather than reviewing how well it was shipped or packaged or how it "feels" when they first opened it and used it once.
What about ripping videos and storing those? Or games? Lots of audio (seriously, 16gb isn't *that* much, especially if you do higher than 192kbit ripping), lots of pictures which keep getting bigger, lots of video which keeps getting better quality...
Isn't a clean reboot primarily a software thing? If you have to turn the power on and off, you're resetting it, not rebooting it.
And anyways, even if power on/off doesn't "reset the RAM" (clear it, whatever word you want to use), presumably you'd be able to tell the controller to do that. I can't "reset" my hard drive state by turning the power off, but I can format it (either just replacing the filesystem info or by actually rewriting it)
You're yelling so loudly, you seemed to have missed a few letrs.
I'm one of those wacky "intellectually challenged" Bible people you may have heard about ;)
But I can actually agree with you here... because reason and intent is something that is awfully hard to prove without, uh, well, something that has reason and intent. As I understand it, unless you go for theistic evolution, evolution is entirely a natural process and evolution does not occur with some future reason or intent in "mind." It can't. It has no mind, reason, or intent.
So to say that something evolved to prevent something? I could see trying to argue that it was, at least, a side-effect, perhaps even a primary effect, but to give a purely natural process an intent of *prevention* ...
Well, you know, that New Technology Technology is what powers Automated Teller Machine Machines.
8 is far better than Vista.
Mine shuts down (it POSTs when I turn it on). But then, I don't do it from the charms bar. However... it does boot fast; faster than XP, faster than Windows 7 (which was also faster than XP).
A bill like that would never pass the Senate. ;)
Oh come on now. If your answer for why the IRS does something doesn't include something evil, it's clearly not the right answer. ;)
It's not even referring to California. It's under $4/gal in CA. At least, where I am (near "Silicon Valley"/SF bay area).
When I was growing up, the teams were life-sized humans on grass.
Which, actually, is why we're on your lawn. ;)
this is what I had in mind. :)
That would be pure weevil. Weevil incarnate.
[citation needed] ?
Caller ID keeps beer cold?! ;)
Natural is definitely not always easy.
Lots of things come naturally. Like war. Humans seem to like to kill each other. Is war "easy?" No. Some job professions seem to come "naturally" to people, too. How about farming? Definitely not easy.
If things that come "naturally" were easy, then life would be easy (after all, most people do what is "natural" to them; not too many people consciously and intentionally seek out things they feel are unnatural to do). And life is not "easy." For most.
which likely flourished there the last time the land in that area was exposed to sunlight before the Little Ice Age.
So, this makes it sound like it was a climate change - an ice age - that caused this area to get totally covered in ice, right? But isn't one of the major concerns about the proposed AGW/CC that said ice is melting (presumption: it shouldn't)?
I realize maybe we could argue about the rate of change, but didn't the previous ice ages ... kinda ... supposedly happen rather quickly, too?
Truth be told, my views are significantly different than the above, ha. But I'm curious how this works out, since I believe the overlap of those who accept this history of the earth with those who accept AGW is likely pretty large.
you're thinking of the iPad pool shark game, iCue.
Property rights are a fundamental human right. It doesn't matter where you are located; you have the right to your own property.
Err... who decides if it is your property or my property? Is that somehow included in this "fundamental right" ?
Lots of things are food additives that are ... dubious in their health nature, shall we say. Have you read anything about high fructose corn syrup and problems associated with that? How about trans-fats, which recently underwent lots of legislation and whatnot?
Something being legal or added to food is hardly an argument for it being health neutral. I'm not necessarily arguing that MSG is bad, either; I'm saying that your argument for it being fine is ... faulty. :)