I call you on your highly selective research and analysis. Doritos are but one item in a mountainous tidal wave of unhealthy options that too many people are too weak to ignore.
Uh, you obviously don't have children. Stick some bright, colourful melodic thing in front of them and they will want it, no matter what the parents say. Back in caveman days they didn't have target markets and children oriented programming. Sure, parents should be stronger, more discipline etc etc BULL FUCKING SHIT. Stop showing this SHIT to my kids.
...keep the disc just in case it comes in handy for something later
I'm lucky enough to do corporate IT in a semi-rural setting. The lady who owns the property adjacent to our complex uses the hundreds of Windows and driver discs I provide her to scare birds away from her peach and pecan crops. She just hangs them from the branches with fishing line.
Dude, I'll take the pepsi challenge on your ten year old Blackberry vs. any current model tablet any day of the week.
...bar the presentation.
Assuming you mean data presentation, then presentation matters a lot and is what makes these mobile computing devices usable and popular (yes, it is mobile computing, no matter what you may claim).
The way I see it is that Apple controls every single aspect of the iPad for one reason; to maximise return on their R & D investment, as they are entitled to do. They do this a few ways, notably:
Take a cut of every application sold
Charge developers to be iOS developers
Minimise support burden by maintaining tight control over applications released
As an iPad user, I have no problems with these restrictions. The device is fast, convenient and there is a great selection of applications available. As I have noted countless times, anyone can pick one up and immediately become productive with email, Safari or any number of intuitive applications.
As a neck beard however, I do kinda resent these restrictions. If all future devices followed this model, invention and innovation would be severely hampered. Unfortunately I don't have time any more just to hack around with a device for fun. If I did, I'd probably grab one of the Android tablets.
I hope you can find one. Our local chain electronics/furniture/crap retailer got 50 HP pads in for clearance. Sold out within minutes in a town of 75,000 people. "Darn" said I.
It is time cosuming, costly, tiresome and dull sifting through code. But that does stop me. These are moments of my life slipping away, one by one, but that doesn't stap me. Shit breaks, I fix it, shit breaks again, and I am frustrated to the core of my being, but that doesn't stop me.
Reading source code sucks. It's not fun, but I do it anyway. Building from source is complicated and thankless, but I do it anyway. I don't do it for money, or greed. I don't hunt done exploits and vulnerabilities out of craven fear or a lust for power.
I do all these things because I understand that this is an incredible time, and there is a bloody force of nature sweeping through humanity right now like some vast tidal wave, and it's important to pay attention to the enigmatic muses driving all this momentum beneath the surface of this wave.
Fuck Oracle. This rant is unrelated to TFA, however it rings true for Oracle's leeching style; I will take pleasure in sledgehammering my rack of SunFire servers once I've procured replacements from another mfr. There is no way I will give those fuckers ONE CENT for what Sun rightly provided for free.
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I call you on your highly selective research and analysis. Doritos are but one item in a mountainous tidal wave of unhealthy options that too many people are too weak to ignore.
Uh, you obviously don't have children. Stick some bright, colourful melodic thing in front of them and they will want it, no matter what the parents say. Back in caveman days they didn't have target markets and children oriented programming. Sure, parents should be stronger, more discipline etc etc BULL FUCKING SHIT. Stop showing this SHIT to my kids.
Obviously you haven't tried. Sure there may be a tiny inconvenience, but compared to the alternative of an unhealthy diet, it's a given.
Oh, for FUCK's sake, will you give it a FUCKING rest with the anti-swearing BULLSHIT. Don't like it? Leave. And spare us the FUCKING WHINING.
...keep the disc just in case it comes in handy for something later
I'm lucky enough to do corporate IT in a semi-rural setting. The lady who owns the property adjacent to our complex uses the hundreds of Windows and driver discs I provide her to scare birds away from her peach and pecan crops. She just hangs them from the branches with fishing line.
Profanity? Fuck Off.
I do love a saucy webmistress ;)
Remind me to stay off your lawn.
Alas, it appear YOU are the one who does't know what computing is.
...bar the presentation.
Assuming you mean data presentation, then presentation matters a lot and is what makes these mobile computing devices usable and popular (yes, it is mobile computing, no matter what you may claim).
As an iPad user, I have no problems with these restrictions. The device is fast, convenient and there is a great selection of applications available. As I have noted countless times, anyone can pick one up and immediately become productive with email, Safari or any number of intuitive applications.
As a neck beard however, I do kinda resent these restrictions. If all future devices followed this model, invention and innovation would be severely hampered. Unfortunately I don't have time any more just to hack around with a device for fun. If I did, I'd probably grab one of the Android tablets.
I hope you can find one. Our local chain electronics/furniture/crap retailer got 50 HP pads in for clearance. Sold out within minutes in a town of 75,000 people. "Darn" said I.
Not everything has to be turned into a cash cow.
<Hollywood producer>Yes. Yes it does.</Hollywood producer>
Yeah, those galahs are a pain. I've got a bunch next door. Much worse than the feathered variety :)
It is time cosuming, costly, tiresome and dull sifting through code. But that does stop me. These are moments of my life slipping away, one by one, but that doesn't stap me. Shit breaks, I fix it, shit breaks again, and I am frustrated to the core of my being, but that doesn't stop me.
Reading source code sucks. It's not fun, but I do it anyway. Building from source is complicated and thankless, but I do it anyway. I don't do it for money, or greed. I don't hunt done exploits and vulnerabilities out of craven fear or a lust for power.
I do all these things because I understand that this is an incredible time, and there is a bloody force of nature sweeping through humanity right now like some vast tidal wave, and it's important to pay attention to the enigmatic muses driving all this momentum beneath the surface of this wave.
Umm, ...what he said.
Fuck Oracle. This rant is unrelated to TFA, however it rings true for Oracle's leeching style; I will take pleasure in sledgehammering my rack of SunFire servers once I've procured replacements from another mfr. There is no way I will give those fuckers ONE CENT for what Sun rightly provided for free.
As a real guitarist, I got absolutely nothing out of this game. In hindsight, I can see how it might have been fun for... maybe 2.5 minutes...
They're obviously having too much fun blowing shit up to worry about responding to your points.
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Here's lookin' at you, toilet.
They are both perfectly acceptable, unless you are a big sooky mc-sook sook.
Hopefully they don't get together and 9 nano seconds later bear a cute little skynet!
Fuck fuck off.
He was probably modded troll because he failed to cite a single source on five rather extreme claims.
Wow, my keyboard is pulsating...