I don't know whether that was deliberate, but I doff my souvenir devil horns "Riga Is Fun As Hell!" baseball cap and bow down before you, sir. Or Ma'am. Fido. Whatever.
To be fair, Samsung are guilty of some of the same sort of BS--the Galaxy S3 and later phones are MTP-only, as are the Tab 10.2s (do any of the big players even make a tablet with a standard USB port?), thus a big part of the reason for the existence and popularity of apps like AirDroid (which I've used and think is pretty damn spanky). I am pretty sure the decision to *replace* a tried-and-true protocol that *everything* in the damned world supports with an "ooh, NEW SHINY SHINY MUST HAVE IT EVEN THOUGH WE'LL SHUT OUT HEAPS OF DEVICES AND USERS" must have come from the twin brother of a particularly annoying product manager (let's call him "Mr Youbuntu") with whom it is my dubious pleasure to work.
Just upgraded from OpenSUSE 12.1 to 12.3, in which MTP support finally seems to be working right.
Since k3b has worked perfectly for me nearly every time I've used it in the last 7 years or so... I'd say those devs are kicking back and admiring a job well done..
I don't understand why Transmission is so popular. Must be because the Gnome users don't know about KTorrent.
Speaking of GTK apps... Would you believe Mozilla Sunbird 0.9 still runs on a modern KDE4 desktop?
(I have a need for a standalone calendar app that reads and writes remote ICS files, and it seems silly to run Thunderbird on that machine when I receive nothing other than system mails on it.)
You seem to have missed the reference to "Mutual Assured Destruction". The concept was popularised in a film as, "The only way to win is not to play the game", IIRC.
IOW, the parent was saying we should keep enough nukes around to maintain the balance of terror--you and your neighbour don't need to keep 50 cannon each, when 2 or 3 will suffice to level the other's house.
This helps keep the big powers from going after each other directly. Alas, as we learnt during the Cold War, it does nothing to stop proxy wars between the principals' sidekicks or wars among third parties; and as we're finally figuring out now, it doesn't deter attacks by non-state actors.
I don't really know about the speed--they seem roughly the same to me--but the part about her being peeved is true.
I generally avoid Apple products for other reasons, but the phone itself seems okay. One thing I must give Apple credit for regarding the software, though... WTF was with you, Google, that you should overlook something that every other OS on the planet has had since 1985, namely UNDO? Seriously, Windows Three Fucking One had undo functionality. What were you thinking?
Contrary to what she would like to have you think, my daughter did not spring fully-formed from my forehead, and was generated in the traditional and time-honoured manner.
Last time I was in China, the closest I came to getting poisoned was having the bad luck to let myself get talked into dining at what proved to be the very worst truckstop restaurant I have ever experienced, in any country I've ever visited (including Alabama).
The college students in the local coffee shop* thought I was amusing because -I- was the one being oh so careful not to say anything too political while they were all openly criticising their own leaders and complaining about how the Party's not listening to the people anymore.
*The reviewer is mistaken about the coffee, which is excellent. I also recommend the ginger tea.
...most if not all US beef is banned within the EU...
It is? I can buy US ribeyes in my neighbourhood grocery in here Stockholm, and Swedish food regulation is (supposedly) pretty tight--for instance, they won't let KFC operate here.
I have a Samsung flip phone I bought in 2004 or '05 (this one). Let a friend borrow it for a couple of weeks after he his was destroyed* while visiting here last month. Still has good reception and voice quality, and lasts about 3 days between charges.
(*And therein lies a tale. I'll include it in my memoirs.)
He also got hooked on the (Java) photo fishing game, and tried to buy the phone from me so he could keep playing it.
One very nice advantage to the form factor (if you're male, or not, but wear guys' jeans) is being able to tuck it into your watch pocket, since most men's trousers still come with one.
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It's not that hard, people.
It's bloody Kafka-esque, that's what it is.
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I don't know whether that was deliberate, but I doff my souvenir devil horns "Riga Is Fun As Hell!" baseball cap and bow down before you, sir. Or Ma'am. Fido. Whatever.
Looks like we're all done here.
To be fair, Samsung are guilty of some of the same sort of BS--the Galaxy S3 and later phones are MTP-only, as are the Tab 10.2s (do any of the big players even make a tablet with a standard USB port?), thus a big part of the reason for the existence and popularity of apps like AirDroid (which I've used and think is pretty damn spanky). I am pretty sure the decision to *replace* a tried-and-true protocol that *everything* in the damned world supports with an "ooh, NEW SHINY SHINY MUST HAVE IT EVEN THOUGH WE'LL SHUT OUT HEAPS OF DEVICES AND USERS" must have come from the twin brother of a particularly annoying product manager (let's call him "Mr Youbuntu") with whom it is my dubious pleasure to work.
Just upgraded from OpenSUSE 12.1 to 12.3, in which MTP support finally seems to be working right.
Since k3b has worked perfectly for me nearly every time I've used it in the last 7 years or so... I'd say those devs are kicking back and admiring a job well done..
I don't understand why Transmission is so popular. Must be because the Gnome users don't know about KTorrent.
Speaking of GTK apps... Would you believe Mozilla Sunbird 0.9 still runs on a modern KDE4 desktop?
(I have a need for a standalone calendar app that reads and writes remote ICS files, and it seems silly to run Thunderbird on that machine when I receive nothing other than system mails on it.)
Excuse me... Did you just try to cop the Nuremburg Defence on behalf of the NSA?
The constitution is for US citizens.
But US law applies everywhere, got it.
You seem to have missed the reference to "Mutual Assured Destruction". The concept was popularised in a film as, "The only way to win is not to play the game", IIRC.
IOW, the parent was saying we should keep enough nukes around to maintain the balance of terror--you and your neighbour don't need to keep 50 cannon each, when 2 or 3 will suffice to level the other's house.
This helps keep the big powers from going after each other directly. Alas, as we learnt during the Cold War, it does nothing to stop proxy wars between the principals' sidekicks or wars among third parties; and as we're finally figuring out now, it doesn't deter attacks by non-state actors.
Warheads have a much shorter period.
Exactly.
A much shorter period than, say, 700 million years. Or even 14 thousand.
Which is why it makes sense to leave them where they are. Decommissioning is even more pricey.
There's a little thing called "shelf life". Nukes have one, too.
I try to tell myself it was all an illusion in the first place.
But it doesn't feel that way.
I don't really know about the speed--they seem roughly the same to me--but the part about her being peeved is true.
I generally avoid Apple products for other reasons, but the phone itself seems okay. One thing I must give Apple credit for regarding the software, though... WTF was with you, Google, that you should overlook something that every other OS on the planet has had since 1985, namely UNDO? Seriously, Windows Three Fucking One had undo functionality. What were you thinking?
Contrary to what she would like to have you think, my daughter did not spring fully-formed from my forehead, and was generated in the traditional and time-honoured manner.
I read it once, and concluded there was nothing there to understand.
Last time I was in China, the closest I came to getting poisoned was having the bad luck to let myself get talked into dining at what proved to be the very worst truckstop restaurant I have ever experienced, in any country I've ever visited (including Alabama).
The college students in the local coffee shop* thought I was amusing because -I- was the one being oh so careful not to say anything too political while they were all openly criticising their own leaders and complaining about how the Party's not listening to the people anymore.
*The reviewer is mistaken about the coffee, which is excellent. I also recommend the ginger tea.
From the mouths of babes, fools, and fifty-centers...
...most if not all US beef is banned within the EU...
It is? I can buy US ribeyes in my neighbourhood grocery in here Stockholm, and Swedish food regulation is (supposedly) pretty tight--for instance, they won't let KFC operate here.
Someone doesn't realize that embassies are foreign soil.
Someone doesn't realise that this is a common misconception.
I have a Samsung flip phone I bought in 2004 or '05 (this one). Let a friend borrow it for a couple of weeks after he his was destroyed* while visiting here last month. Still has good reception and voice quality, and lasts about 3 days between charges.
(*And therein lies a tale. I'll include it in my memoirs.)
He also got hooked on the (Java) photo fishing game, and tried to buy the phone from me so he could keep playing it.
One very nice advantage to the form factor (if you're male, or not, but wear guys' jeans) is being able to tuck it into your watch pocket, since most men's trousers still come with one.
My S3 runs rings around my girlfriend's iPhone5. She's mad as hell about it, too. ;)
What does kernel development have to do with UI design?
Because I'm a student of the period (I read Russian, BTW), and I am about 99% sure I already know more about it than either you or YouTube do.
And you can pause the movie while you pack the bong.
Whatever happened to "Do one thing well"?