Yeah, fundamentalist Christians prefer dropping bombs on buildings from planes,lethal injections, and firebombing medical clinics, etc. It's only a small difference in style, not in substance or intent.
Send the troll a link to what is apparently a special build of the application, that addresses all his complaints. Although in reality, the link just goes to a Rick Astley video clip. He may not stop trolling, but he will suffer from a serious case of earworm for at least a few hours.
If this really works like a telescope, then wouldn't that mean the display would have a very low viewable angle? After all, a telescope is just a telephoto lens. And telephoto lenses have a narrow field-of-view.
So, you'd probably have to look directly at the display from a perpendicular angle. Move a little to the side, and you're going to lose the image altogether, or have it severely degraded. LCDs are already bad enough in this respect.
Arrington & Co. appear to be completely naive about the realities of running a business or building technology products. If they even manage to create a prototype, how are they going to deal with support, with legal compliance and defense against outside legal threats, just to name a few issues? Are they really going to get engineers and designers good enough on a volunteer basis?
The weirdest part about this is the volunteer aspect. Does anybody think they are going to find enough quality volunteers to devote a significant portion of their lives to this? It's not like volunteering for humanitarian causes, or your pet political issue. You'd be volunteering to help someone make a gadget. If they get their beloved gadget, they probably aren't going to have time to use it, if they then have to spend all their time working for free to support the damn thing. Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient just to work a few hours more, and buy a more expensive device made by a serious company that has the ability to deliver and support the device?
Somebody has to make a profit to be able to continue investing in the platform and keep the business running. And if somebody is making a profit, they they are basically exploiting the volunteer labor.
Poorly thought-out plans like this that involve such massive amounts of volunteer labor really piss me off. It amounts to laziness wasting a lot of people's time. "Hey everybody, come do this work for free, because I couldn't be bothered with the effort of making a viable business plan."
However, there are probably good reasons for these practices. HP, like any company, has product numbers attached to licenses. So when you buy a license from HP, you are buying a product.
So, pray tell, what could be a possible good reason for this excessive packaging? Why can't they designate different products with different packaging requirements? There's no way there's a good reason behind this. HP may have a reason, but it certainly can't be good.
No. The Greenpeace propaganda referred to only takes into account public statements from companies (such as on their website) about how committed to the environment the company is. It doesn't take into account any actual environmental impact that the company actually has.
In short, it's a farce. A company that has lots of press releases saying how they respect the environment, but has wasteful practices, scores better than a company that has less wasteful practices, but doesn't brag about it in press releases.
And people, get over it! There is absolutely zero hard evidence that the Republicans have stolen any elections. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof,
Yes, I realize this is way off-topic, but incorrect info needs to be challenged....
Except that the information is perfectly correct. Telstra is offering the iPhone, and 3 is not. You can see on their own official websites. Why on earth would you think that if Telstra are selling the iPhone, then 3 must also be? Just because 3 rents some infrastructure from Telstra? Doesn't make them the same company.
why banks had to pass on savings to consumers and why ebay couldn't impose their paypal policy.
But eBay did impose their PayPal policy. It's still compulsory to have PayPal as a preferred payment option for Australians. They got exactly what they wanted, but also get to pretend that they didn't.
Look at old computer terminals - all green screens.
And they were totally crap. What makes you think they were good, just because they were old? There's a reason we don't use that color scheme anymore. Because we don't have to, and it was horrible for eyestrain.
The topic in this subthread is the current political landscape between the Israelis and Palestinians. What did you think it was about?
Anyway, seeing as you seem intent on avoiding the issues, I'll ask again - what does the "original" intent of establishing either an Israeli or Palestinian state have to do with what is happening today?
Masking some of this complexity is a task for the Android OS developers...which is why it is inherently more complex than an OS for a finite set of devices...but it is worth it...at least to the consumer...by fostering an environment that motivates hardware innovation by a range of competing vendors.
Why is it "worth it"? A similar situation for Windows and Linux hasn't resulted in much consumer satisfaction. The "hardware innovation" has left us with a maze of befuddlement and bugs, not a better user experience.
Which strangely, does not affect the fact that they work pretty well and rarely cost anything.
Yeah, but they're damn frustrating, because they are so often damn near perfect, but the lack of a few trivial features puts them just short of the "killer app". And I can't think for the life of me, why they don't just add those trivial features. Google Maps and Google Earth are prime examples of this (and I pay for Google Earth, unlike other Google products). They have all kinds of cool features which I don't really need, but lack the ones I really want. Yet the "needful" features are far more trivial to implement than the "cool" ones.
Reminds me a lot of Apple, but slightly inverted. Somehow Apple's missing features are easier to live with, even if they are more "significant" than Google's missing features.
The sale was already made. The manufacturer has nothing more to gain.
Nonsense. Consumer-level printers get replaced very frequently. They had future sales to gain (or lose).
Likewise, they have gained poor word-of-mouth, or lost positive word-of-mouth referrals. And it's pretty widely acknowledged in business that word-of-mouth is the most powerful means of advertising, and a real driver of sales.
What's important about that point? Circumstances change, and people change their minds. And it's not as if the people living in the area today are all the same people, or the people living in the area all had the same opinion on the topic, anyway. Basically, your "important point" is totally irrelevant to the topic.
Wow, you certainly are nuts. I think the other poster is right - you need to sit alone in the corner for a while, and not go near society or politics. Maybe come back later when the crazy has worn off.
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Yeah, fundamentalist Christians prefer dropping bombs on buildings from planes,lethal injections, and firebombing medical clinics, etc. It's only a small difference in style, not in substance or intent.
Send the troll a link to what is apparently a special build of the application, that addresses all his complaints. Although in reality, the link just goes to a Rick Astley video clip. He may not stop trolling, but he will suffer from a serious case of earworm for at least a few hours.
If this really works like a telescope, then wouldn't that mean the display would have a very low viewable angle? After all, a telescope is just a telephoto lens. And telephoto lenses have a narrow field-of-view.
So, you'd probably have to look directly at the display from a perpendicular angle. Move a little to the side, and you're going to lose the image altogether, or have it severely degraded. LCDs are already bad enough in this respect.
how great would it be to be able to run your legacy apps in a well-hidden (previous) Windows virtual machine?
Not great at all?
I heard that Vista causes cancer, kicks puppies, and is responsible for global warming.
So, it's not actually as bad as they say it is?
Why? Fascism isn't exclusive to Germany in WWII. Why would you think such a retarded thing?
But a funny thing happened on the way to the air force base--- it had suddenly become operation JUST CAUSE.
Are you sure there wasn't an apostrophe there? E.g: "Operation Just 'Cause".
Arrington & Co. appear to be completely naive about the realities of running a business or building technology products. If they even manage to create a prototype, how are they going to deal with support, with legal compliance and defense against outside legal threats, just to name a few issues? Are they really going to get engineers and designers good enough on a volunteer basis?
The weirdest part about this is the volunteer aspect. Does anybody think they are going to find enough quality volunteers to devote a significant portion of their lives to this? It's not like volunteering for humanitarian causes, or your pet political issue. You'd be volunteering to help someone make a gadget. If they get their beloved gadget, they probably aren't going to have time to use it, if they then have to spend all their time working for free to support the damn thing. Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient just to work a few hours more, and buy a more expensive device made by a serious company that has the ability to deliver and support the device?
Somebody has to make a profit to be able to continue investing in the platform and keep the business running. And if somebody is making a profit, they they are basically exploiting the volunteer labor.
Poorly thought-out plans like this that involve such massive amounts of volunteer labor really piss me off. It amounts to laziness wasting a lot of people's time. "Hey everybody, come do this work for free, because I couldn't be bothered with the effort of making a viable business plan."
However, there are probably good reasons for these practices. HP, like any company, has product numbers attached to licenses. So when you buy a license from HP, you are buying a product.
So, pray tell, what could be a possible good reason for this excessive packaging? Why can't they designate different products with different packaging requirements? There's no way there's a good reason behind this. HP may have a reason, but it certainly can't be good.
No. The Greenpeace propaganda referred to only takes into account public statements from companies (such as on their website) about how committed to the environment the company is. It doesn't take into account any actual environmental impact that the company actually has.
In short, it's a farce. A company that has lots of press releases saying how they respect the environment, but has wasteful practices, scores better than a company that has less wasteful practices, but doesn't brag about it in press releases.
What makes you doubt the reliability of the site? Why focus so much on the messenger, rather than the content?
And people, get over it! There is absolutely zero hard evidence that the Republicans have stolen any elections. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof,
What's extraordinary about that claim?
How does him being savaged in prison bring his wife back, or help the kids?
Yes, I realize this is way off-topic, but incorrect info needs to be challenged....
Except that the information is perfectly correct. Telstra is offering the iPhone, and 3 is not. You can see on their own official websites. Why on earth would you think that if Telstra are selling the iPhone, then 3 must also be? Just because 3 rents some infrastructure from Telstra? Doesn't make them the same company.
why banks had to pass on savings to consumers and why ebay couldn't impose their paypal policy.
But eBay did impose their PayPal policy. It's still compulsory to have PayPal as a preferred payment option for Australians. They got exactly what they wanted, but also get to pretend that they didn't.
Except that it doesn't actually count as a precedent.
Look at old computer terminals - all green screens.
And they were totally crap. What makes you think they were good, just because they were old? There's a reason we don't use that color scheme anymore. Because we don't have to, and it was horrible for eyestrain.
The topic in this subthread is the current political landscape between the Israelis and Palestinians. What did you think it was about?
Anyway, seeing as you seem intent on avoiding the issues, I'll ask again - what does the "original" intent of establishing either an Israeli or Palestinian state have to do with what is happening today?
Why is it "worth it"? A similar situation for Windows and Linux hasn't resulted in much consumer satisfaction. The "hardware innovation" has left us with a maze of befuddlement and bugs, not a better user experience.
Yeah, but they're damn frustrating, because they are so often damn near perfect, but the lack of a few trivial features puts them just short of the "killer app". And I can't think for the life of me, why they don't just add those trivial features. Google Maps and Google Earth are prime examples of this (and I pay for Google Earth, unlike other Google products). They have all kinds of cool features which I don't really need, but lack the ones I really want. Yet the "needful" features are far more trivial to implement than the "cool" ones.
Reminds me a lot of Apple, but slightly inverted. Somehow Apple's missing features are easier to live with, even if they are more "significant" than Google's missing features.
Nonsense. Consumer-level printers get replaced very frequently. They had future sales to gain (or lose).
Likewise, they have gained poor word-of-mouth, or lost positive word-of-mouth referrals. And it's pretty widely acknowledged in business that word-of-mouth is the most powerful means of advertising, and a real driver of sales.
Say what? I think you may have picked up a fraudulent definition of liberalism from somewhere. That's not at all what liberalism is about.
Why should we care? Why does a journal have to have a "neutral point of view"? Did anybody here say that Salon has a neutral point of view?
What I want to know is how stupid you have to be to believe that it's even possible for a neutral point of view to exist in journalism.
What's important about that point? Circumstances change, and people change their minds. And it's not as if the people living in the area today are all the same people, or the people living in the area all had the same opinion on the topic, anyway. Basically, your "important point" is totally irrelevant to the topic.
Wow, you certainly are nuts. I think the other poster is right - you need to sit alone in the corner for a while, and not go near society or politics. Maybe come back later when the crazy has worn off.