Yes. The harder a substance is, the more easily it shatters when shocked. I'm not even talking about any foreign object touching the glass directly. Just dropping your phone and the shock being transferred through the case to the glass.
A "gel" type case is usually fine for stopping the shock from cracking the glass, but my phone happened to not be in its case recently. The back/home/task switch buttons were going crazy and so I'd taken it out of the case to see if that had anything to do with the problem. It didn't.. oh well. Should have got it replaced under warranty immediately, but now that it's cracked it will need to be replaced under insurance.
The only times I've dropped my phone have been Parkour related incidents. Though the first one was just moving my speakers, and it somehow managed to work its way loose from the groove it was placed in at the top. The second was my own fault, as I'd taken it out of its case and so it was slidier than usual and fell straight out of my pocket..
Indoors I always have my phone on a desk or table somewhere. I don't drop them in blenders/grills/toilets or anything like that.
Gorrilla glass is very hard, but as is the way with these things, it is also quite brittle.
It's true that I was careless to an extent in both situations (though I was exercising care the first time, just apparently not enough.. and it cracked after only falling 30cm), but that doesn't change the fact that I could do with a more durable phone. I don't just sit around on the computer all day, I quite often go outside and enjoy doing Parkour. Now usually my phone is in my bag when I do that, but if I happen to randomly want to vault a fence while out in "normal" mode, that's when things sometimes slip out of my pocket.
I've cracked the screen on my last 2 phones because of the stupid "gorilla glass". A flexible phone would be much more impervious to damage from being chucked around (accidentally or otherwise). I don't see how it's "weak minded" of me to want a more durable phone, while retaining the benefits of a smart phone.
I was annoyed at the DRM thing until I realised they meant Steam. Steam may be DRM, but it's different from the majority of DRM in that it actually provides you with many benefits, rather than downsides. Services like Steam and Spotify are the correct way to do DRM.
I'm thinking maybe account management and such, but I'm sure alternatives are available. Even if they weren't, Linux machines can be used in place of Windows clients in an Active Directory environment.
There are organisations that do enterprise support for Linux anyway.. Red Hat and the like.
My new car is going to have Toyota's Touch system built in. Apparently even the cheapest new Toyotas get these as standard now.
Annoyingly Android isn't supported yet, but the only thing I really need is a 3.5 mm audio input, which my car definitely will have.. as well as a 9 speaker stereo system and sub:)
I've never even heard of her before, but to me it sounds like it's not really meant to accomplish anything other than shocking people into paying her lots of money to do interviews. The part where she "explains" why she didn't include any "world art" in her book is so much bullshit. She's got a fair set of blinders on herself.
I'm generally me, except when I get the urge to make, "like" or share harsh jokes about fat people. There are a couple of people that I may offend. About half my friends are religious though, and I openly post things making fun of religion at times. Weird.
An edit button would drive trolling levels off the scale here.. though it would be nice to correct those moments where you click submit and notice an incredibly stupid typo. I use preview when I remember, but sometimes things just slip by..
Yep, good discipline helps of course. Maybe try drinking more too. Apparently a lot of people can't distinguish well the difference between signals for hunger and thirst.
I think you underestimate the severity of Fukushima.. the Japanese government has been shown to be downplaying the amounts of radiation there, and there's plenty being swept across the Pacific as we speak.
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Yup and I actually had one for my last phone, but I took it out to test something :p
Yes. The harder a substance is, the more easily it shatters when shocked. I'm not even talking about any foreign object touching the glass directly. Just dropping your phone and the shock being transferred through the case to the glass.
A "gel" type case is usually fine for stopping the shock from cracking the glass, but my phone happened to not be in its case recently. The back/home/task switch buttons were going crazy and so I'd taken it out of the case to see if that had anything to do with the problem. It didn't.. oh well. Should have got it replaced under warranty immediately, but now that it's cracked it will need to be replaced under insurance.
The only times I've dropped my phone have been Parkour related incidents. Though the first one was just moving my speakers, and it somehow managed to work its way loose from the groove it was placed in at the top. The second was my own fault, as I'd taken it out of its case and so it was slidier than usual and fell straight out of my pocket..
Indoors I always have my phone on a desk or table somewhere. I don't drop them in blenders/grills/toilets or anything like that.
Gorrilla glass is very hard, but as is the way with these things, it is also quite brittle.
It's true that I was careless to an extent in both situations (though I was exercising care the first time, just apparently not enough.. and it cracked after only falling 30cm), but that doesn't change the fact that I could do with a more durable phone. I don't just sit around on the computer all day, I quite often go outside and enjoy doing Parkour. Now usually my phone is in my bag when I do that, but if I happen to randomly want to vault a fence while out in "normal" mode, that's when things sometimes slip out of my pocket.
I've cracked the screen on my last 2 phones because of the stupid "gorilla glass". A flexible phone would be much more impervious to damage from being chucked around (accidentally or otherwise). I don't see how it's "weak minded" of me to want a more durable phone, while retaining the benefits of a smart phone.
I was annoyed at the DRM thing until I realised they meant Steam. Steam may be DRM, but it's different from the majority of DRM in that it actually provides you with many benefits, rather than downsides. Services like Steam and Spotify are the correct way to do DRM.
If you have actually implemented a hashtable to document the locations of your belongings
I have, it's called my memory. Of course if the data isn't refreshed every so often, it can become corrupt.
I'm thinking maybe account management and such, but I'm sure alternatives are available. Even if they weren't, Linux machines can be used in place of Windows clients in an Active Directory environment.
There are organisations that do enterprise support for Linux anyway.. Red Hat and the like.
Enterprise customers use volume licensing, which allows you to run older versions of Windows if you want. So there is stuff you can do about it.
And Linux is actually a viable alternative to Windows for a lot of typical office workers. It really depends what software they need.
I bought my Mini 9 a few years ago with Ubuntu pre-installed.
My new car is going to have Toyota's Touch system built in. Apparently even the cheapest new Toyotas get these as standard now.
Annoyingly Android isn't supported yet, but the only thing I really need is a 3.5 mm audio input, which my car definitely will have.. as well as a 9 speaker stereo system and sub :)
I've never even heard of her before, but to me it sounds like it's not really meant to accomplish anything other than shocking people into paying her lots of money to do interviews. The part where she "explains" why she didn't include any "world art" in her book is so much bullshit. She's got a fair set of blinders on herself.
The scene from Kung Fu Panda where Grand Master Oogway ascends is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen, and is quite moving too.
If she hasn't found good art in this generation, she's simply not looking hard enough.
What browser were you using? I install Chrome before I go searching for things like anti-virus :p
It would have cost them less, because they'd have been a lot less likely to even come across a trojan compatible with their system.
"I can't get it to install"..? You mean people don't know how to click "run" or "ok" or whatever UAC says?
I would have thought the only fondness they'd have for black hats would be as penetration/hardness testers
This sentence is ripe for puns.
Black hats are supposed to be called "crackers"
And this just makes it more bizarre. When you go black, you're actually going white? Hmm..
I'm generally me, except when I get the urge to make, "like" or share harsh jokes about fat people. There are a couple of people that I may offend. About half my friends are religious though, and I openly post things making fun of religion at times. Weird.
Hmm.. okay, well that probably is vivid imagery to someone who spends all day hacking at C code. I may have to concede on this one.
Yeah, but I still beat the other 3.
they have made vivid and vast improvements to the Linux kernel
Citation please. Preferably without bizarre marketing shill terms like "vivid improvements".
That's the thing though. There really are people that dumb and/or brainwashed, with appropriately ludicrous opinions.
Your default -1 rating shows your posting to be pretty douchy/trolling in general, so I guess I shouldn't take what you say seriously anyway..
An edit button would drive trolling levels off the scale here.. though it would be nice to correct those moments where you click submit and notice an incredibly stupid typo. I use preview when I remember, but sometimes things just slip by..
Not sure if trolling.. or dumbest poster on Slashdot today.
Yep, good discipline helps of course. Maybe try drinking more too. Apparently a lot of people can't distinguish well the difference between signals for hunger and thirst.
I think you underestimate the severity of Fukushima.. the Japanese government has been shown to be downplaying the amounts of radiation there, and there's plenty being swept across the Pacific as we speak.