I mean seriously EditorDavid, do you think beta is an acronym?
Um, the Mint team called it BETA (in CAPS) on their site, as they usually do, so you could maybe lay off of EditorDavid this time. I've run Mint betas before without problems, but I'm glad they make it clear when a release on their main page is indeed a beta.
Yes, this bugs me too, as it just seems like a cumbersome way to quantify things. I would have said "ten," or "at least ten", or maybe even something like "They're tally of drones lost to eagles has hit double digits."
Hilary Clinton is pretty obviously the target if a multi-billion dollar character assassination program.... I don't think Jesus Christ could survive the onslaught she has.
1. He was from NAZARETH, not AMERICA! Birth certificate!?!?
2. He was not a Christian, so can you REALLY be sure he shares OUR ideals?
3. Clearly a hippie - long hair, unshaven, sandals, didn't hold down a regular job, etc. -- NOT presidential.
4. He was privileged, not a common working man, so he clearly doesn't understand us and will not do what it takes to bring back high-paying jobs.
5. Inexperienced - never held elected office, never ran a company.
6. Some of those Romans hated him an awful lot, and some of them were my friends, or at least neighbors.
7. Too many mentions of wine, and handouts. Handouts instead of making people work. Pretty suspicious. Communist alert!
8. Questionable inner circle - Known liars and turncoats, prostitutes, etc.
9. What are his family values? Not married (gay? swinger?), no children (that he would claim publicly, anyway).
10. What happened to all of the letters he wrote? Why have they mysteriously disappeared over time? What is he hiding, and how much did he lie about it? And where is he now, I thought he was coming back?
But you really should check facts. Obama's main mentors were Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright. He was a community organizer going into politics modeling his career after Saul Alinsky. He was elected to the Senate after smearing a person raising his family, including an autistic child, alone after his ex-wife dumped them and ran back to Hollywood (Jerri Ryan). He was useless as a Senator except to act as the standard Democratic yes-man. He repeats all the same talking points as Hillary and is on the same plan. The plan is "Fuck the USA and bring in the communism".
You being ignorant does not make Obama good, it makes you ignorant.
Communism? Seriously? Care to throw in a Satan or Hitler reference while you're at it to further demonize those you perceive to be your enemies? I think you are the ignorant one. And someone raising an autistic child does not automatically exempt them from politics, or facts. Obama's 2004 Senate campaign was actually much cleaner than most, and you are either a sadly misinformed right-wing, FOX News fanboy zealot, or you are Jack Ryan (who quit the race, by the way). I can not believe that ANYONE representing either major party takes a "fuck the USA" stance. Bad judgement and misplaced priorities are not the same as malice or treason, though I'm sure you don't understand that concept.
Has there been any presidential candidate in decades who wasnt a scoundrel?
Yes. Working backwards: Obama (in 2008, at least), McCain, Kerry, W (douche who went AWOL and didn't have much of a vocabulary, but not a scoundrel), Gore, Dole, Reagan, Dukakis, Mondale (maybe), Carter. That's most of the major party candidates going back almost 40 years, and I don't think any of them qualify as scoundrels or bad people, no matter how little I agreed with some of them. You can make a case a lot more easily for both Clintons, Trump, Bush 41, and Romney (which I say despite kind of liking one of them and accepting another), but that means most major candidates are not scoundrels.
Whether or not this story or one like it is a real bombshell in the next week doesn't matter. It won't have any impact on the election because most Trump supporters just don't care much for "facts." Evidence: they support a slimy salesman/gameshow host no matter what idiotic or patently false thing comes out of his mouth. They don't believe in fact checking, as a rule. I can't blame them if they don't like Hillary, but jeez, this guy is on a new level, and not a good one.
The one with the curved edge to edge display could be called the iPhone 8 Edge
They could increase the screen to phone size ratio by making the home button shorter
How about the iPhone S 8 Edge v2 Turbo Pure Edition with Siri2? That has a nice ring to it.
And I don't know how crabapple haven't increased the screen to body ratio on devices that are so universally lauded for their designs. Their phones are still way bigger than they need to be, and ports aren't the problem. You only need to go so thin, but wasted space around the screen should be minimized.
Really, you don't think if apple does this that wired port will be gone?
And I say that as a relative Apple fanboy, by Slashdot standards anyway
Spot on. They've already tried to do away with headphone jacks against the wishes of most, because they make phones "bulky," so why would they keep a charging port once the add wireless charging?
Full disclosure: I have never owned an iphone, and will not in the foreseeable future, though I do understand some of the appeal.
And my next car will be a used Kia because why spend $50k to replace a Lexus if you crash it when you can drive a $4k econobox instead?
Poor analogy, as bumpers and many other car parts can be easily replaced (by guys who learned their skills in high schools) for a fraction of the cost of replacing the entire vehicle. And $20k to $30k cars outsell $50k by a wide margin without being shitty "econoboxes" (same for $15k-$25k used cars, which is where the value/quality sweet spot is). A piece of glass in place of a piece of aluminum or stainless steel does not turn a phone into the equivalent of a $50k Lexus, compared to a phone with a plastic or other back.
Glass backs, despite looking nice, subjectively, make no sense in terms of durability or heat dissipation - they're just stupid.
This is great. I can't wait til the obligatory settlement is approved and we get coupons or slightly reduced rates on additional services. They will settle, and whatever they pay out will not amount to much for the average consumer. Just like with Ticketmaster, where they got off with only having to give out some tickets to events of their choosing, many of which would have gone unsold anyway, and many consumers who were wronged got absolutely nothing. Unfortunately the only way to truly make things right and punish shitty companies is to file your own suit, spend a ton of money on it, and take them to trial.
Yes, yes, yes. We are learning more and more all the time, so it is reasonable to surmise there is much that we still don't know, and potential technologies that would appear to be ludicrous today. We can't make FTL travel work today, even in the most basic theoretical sense, but I can't get on board with the idea that it can't possibly ever happen.
And don't get me started on the Drake equation, which is utterly unprovable and reliant on blind assumptions. I hate how some people treat it as gospel while it is more like junk math than science. Interesting, yes, but ultimately just a thought experiment that should neither dissuade us from dreaming nor blind us from what we can observe. Any current estimates resulting from use of the Drake equation should be taken with a grain of salt, as they are complete bullshit.
It's very probable. But since we also know that the Periodic Table of Elements is universal, as well as the fundamental forces, we also know things like warp drive are just not feasible...
So they are over there, and we are here. End of story.
Not end of story. In fact, we have no idea how the story ends, or even how long it is. The human notion of accepted physics has been constantly evolving and is still changing every year. For example, two hundred years ago we had virtually no understanding of electromagnetism, or that our theories of electricity and magnetism would be unified. I find it incredibly arrogant and shortsighted to believe that FTL travel via warp drive must be impossible simply because our current understanding of the universe (which we know to be incomplete) can't make it work.
We believe antimatter exists yet we are terrible at working with it. Hell, we still don't know anything about dark energy or dark matter, though we think they probably exist. We spend billions of dollars searching for predicted subatomic particles and find things we hadn't even imagined, and we are just beginning to get into quantum spookiness. It was not so many generations ago that terrestrial human flight sounded preposterous, so I'm a long way from accepting the conjecture that warp drive is not possible. It could be that we are multiple currently-unimaginable breakthroughs away from starting to understand how.
Yes, more Windows Phones, please! They've got, hands down, the best phone OS out there. Not a lot of Windows 10 Phones out there, but there should be more.
Hands down? I don't think you understand that phrase.
I wouldn't mind being a failure for a $219 million dollar retirement.
This is a ringing success, by Trump's definition. She made out so she was highly successful at the job, her company be damned. Of course they were already screwed and she did nothing to reverse the screwing, so who cares about the employees, shareholders, customers, etc. Them losing money means it was dumb on their part, following Trump logic, I'll tell ya, believe me!
My cover letter when I apply to be Yahoo's CEO will be simply this (and no stealing!):
I will MAKE YAHOO! GREAT AGAIN, believe me. She screwed up some things, she screwed up with the email server, screwed up really huge, and if you ask me, I won't say say she's working for someone else, but maybe she is, she could be, who knows, and now I'm the outsider you want because I have limited experience with these things, and have never been a CEO or an IT insider, I'm an outsider, and my plan is to make Yahoo! profitable again and end the bad times, by you know, bringing us back to the good, with more profit, not losses, losses are bad, and we don't want those, trust me!
What's a "Lexus" ? Around here we call them "Tesla Tollways"
An overpriced but equally boring Toyota. If you buy an ES instead of a loaded Camry or Avalon, you are just getting gouged. And I see more giant SUVs and various German cars abusing restricted lanes more than anything else.
It's okay, it was just trying to get the passenger to Primanti Bros. as quickly as possible. And I can attest to the fact that Pittsburgh, especially Oakland, has a few confusing streets that can fool those of us who are not familiar with the area. I'll forgive Uber for this one (but not for cheating drivers and being so anti-tip).
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I mean seriously EditorDavid, do you think beta is an acronym?
Um, the Mint team called it BETA (in CAPS) on their site, as they usually do, so you could maybe lay off of EditorDavid this time. I've run Mint betas before without problems, but I'm glad they make it clear when a release on their main page is indeed a beta.
Yes, this bugs me too, as it just seems like a cumbersome way to quantify things. I would have said "ten," or "at least ten", or maybe even something like "They're tally of drones lost to eagles has hit double digits."
Oh, you seem so sure... but things have really been falling apart in the polls, which are biased left to begin with.
See you on the 8th ;)
No, you probably won't. I vote early, like any sane person. Much less chance for the GOP to suppress my vote if I cast it before election day.
Hilary Clinton is pretty obviously the target if a multi-billion dollar character assassination program. ... I don't think Jesus Christ could survive the onslaught she has.
1. He was from NAZARETH, not AMERICA! Birth certificate!?!?
2. He was not a Christian, so can you REALLY be sure he shares OUR ideals?
3. Clearly a hippie - long hair, unshaven, sandals, didn't hold down a regular job, etc. -- NOT presidential.
4. He was privileged, not a common working man, so he clearly doesn't understand us and will not do what it takes to bring back high-paying jobs.
5. Inexperienced - never held elected office, never ran a company.
6. Some of those Romans hated him an awful lot, and some of them were my friends, or at least neighbors.
7. Too many mentions of wine, and handouts. Handouts instead of making people work. Pretty suspicious. Communist alert!
8. Questionable inner circle - Known liars and turncoats, prostitutes, etc.
9. What are his family values? Not married (gay? swinger?), no children (that he would claim publicly, anyway).
10. What happened to all of the letters he wrote? Why have they mysteriously disappeared over time? What is he hiding, and how much did he lie about it? And where is he now, I thought he was coming back?
Damn, you got me. I normally don't bother skewering anonymous trolls. Oh well, I still win.
But you really should check facts. Obama's main mentors were Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright. He was a community organizer going into politics modeling his career after Saul Alinsky. He was elected to the Senate after smearing a person raising his family, including an autistic child, alone after his ex-wife dumped them and ran back to Hollywood (Jerri Ryan). He was useless as a Senator except to act as the standard Democratic yes-man. He repeats all the same talking points as Hillary and is on the same plan. The plan is "Fuck the USA and bring in the communism".
You being ignorant does not make Obama good, it makes you ignorant.
Communism? Seriously? Care to throw in a Satan or Hitler reference while you're at it to further demonize those you perceive to be your enemies? I think you are the ignorant one. And someone raising an autistic child does not automatically exempt them from politics, or facts. Obama's 2004 Senate campaign was actually much cleaner than most, and you are either a sadly misinformed right-wing, FOX News fanboy zealot, or you are Jack Ryan (who quit the race, by the way). I can not believe that ANYONE representing either major party takes a "fuck the USA" stance. Bad judgement and misplaced priorities are not the same as malice or treason, though I'm sure you don't understand that concept.
Has there been any presidential candidate in decades who wasnt a scoundrel?
Yes. Working backwards: Obama (in 2008, at least), McCain, Kerry, W (douche who went AWOL and didn't have much of a vocabulary, but not a scoundrel), Gore, Dole, Reagan, Dukakis, Mondale (maybe), Carter. That's most of the major party candidates going back almost 40 years, and I don't think any of them qualify as scoundrels or bad people, no matter how little I agreed with some of them. You can make a case a lot more easily for both Clintons, Trump, Bush 41, and Romney (which I say despite kind of liking one of them and accepting another), but that means most major candidates are not scoundrels.
Whether or not this story or one like it is a real bombshell in the next week doesn't matter. It won't have any impact on the election because most Trump supporters just don't care much for "facts." Evidence: they support a slimy salesman/gameshow host no matter what idiotic or patently false thing comes out of his mouth. They don't believe in fact checking, as a rule. I can't blame them if they don't like Hillary, but jeez, this guy is on a new level, and not a good one.
The one with the curved edge to edge display could be called the iPhone 8 Edge They could increase the screen to phone size ratio by making the home button shorter
I've even got a mock-up for them: here
How about the iPhone S 8 Edge v2 Turbo Pure Edition with Siri2? That has a nice ring to it.
And I don't know how crabapple haven't increased the screen to body ratio on devices that are so universally lauded for their designs. Their phones are still way bigger than they need to be, and ports aren't the problem. You only need to go so thin, but wasted space around the screen should be minimized.
They'll all have a glass back? So now they can charge you $300 per side to replace the glass when you drop it? Sounds pretty awesome to me!
Hey, why not increase the chances of a short drop breaking something from near 50% to near 100% if you can? Progress!
Really, you don't think if apple does this that wired port will be gone?
And I say that as a relative Apple fanboy, by Slashdot standards anyway
Spot on. They've already tried to do away with headphone jacks against the wishes of most, because they make phones "bulky," so why would they keep a charging port once the add wireless charging?
Full disclosure: I have never owned an iphone, and will not in the foreseeable future, though I do understand some of the appeal.
For when you want an 8 inch fall to break the front AND back of your phone.
For when you want an iphone to be as iphoney as possible. Maybe when Gorilla Glass 38 comes out it will deliver as promised?
And my next car will be a used Kia because why spend $50k to replace a Lexus if you crash it when you can drive a $4k econobox instead?
Poor analogy, as bumpers and many other car parts can be easily replaced (by guys who learned their skills in high schools) for a fraction of the cost of replacing the entire vehicle. And $20k to $30k cars outsell $50k by a wide margin without being shitty "econoboxes" (same for $15k-$25k used cars, which is where the value/quality sweet spot is). A piece of glass in place of a piece of aluminum or stainless steel does not turn a phone into the equivalent of a $50k Lexus, compared to a phone with a plastic or other back.
Glass backs, despite looking nice, subjectively, make no sense in terms of durability or heat dissipation - they're just stupid.
WRONG.
THIS got a 2 for informative? Maybe discovery of Planet 9 is a harbinger of doom, for Slashdot at least.
This is great. I can't wait til the obligatory settlement is approved and we get coupons or slightly reduced rates on additional services. They will settle, and whatever they pay out will not amount to much for the average consumer. Just like with Ticketmaster, where they got off with only having to give out some tickets to events of their choosing, many of which would have gone unsold anyway, and many consumers who were wronged got absolutely nothing. Unfortunately the only way to truly make things right and punish shitty companies is to file your own suit, spend a ton of money on it, and take them to trial.
Yes, yes, yes. We are learning more and more all the time, so it is reasonable to surmise there is much that we still don't know, and potential technologies that would appear to be ludicrous today. We can't make FTL travel work today, even in the most basic theoretical sense, but I can't get on board with the idea that it can't possibly ever happen.
And don't get me started on the Drake equation, which is utterly unprovable and reliant on blind assumptions. I hate how some people treat it as gospel while it is more like junk math than science. Interesting, yes, but ultimately just a thought experiment that should neither dissuade us from dreaming nor blind us from what we can observe. Any current estimates resulting from use of the Drake equation should be taken with a grain of salt, as they are complete bullshit.
It's very probable. But since we also know that the Periodic Table of Elements is universal, as well as the fundamental forces, we also know things like warp drive are just not feasible...
So they are over there, and we are here. End of story.
Not end of story. In fact, we have no idea how the story ends, or even how long it is. The human notion of accepted physics has been constantly evolving and is still changing every year. For example, two hundred years ago we had virtually no understanding of electromagnetism, or that our theories of electricity and magnetism would be unified. I find it incredibly arrogant and shortsighted to believe that FTL travel via warp drive must be impossible simply because our current understanding of the universe (which we know to be incomplete) can't make it work.
We believe antimatter exists yet we are terrible at working with it. Hell, we still don't know anything about dark energy or dark matter, though we think they probably exist. We spend billions of dollars searching for predicted subatomic particles and find things we hadn't even imagined, and we are just beginning to get into quantum spookiness. It was not so many generations ago that terrestrial human flight sounded preposterous, so I'm a long way from accepting the conjecture that warp drive is not possible. It could be that we are multiple currently-unimaginable breakthroughs away from starting to understand how.
Yes, more Windows Phones, please! They've got, hands down, the best phone OS out there. Not a lot of Windows 10 Phones out there, but there should be more.
Hands down? I don't think you understand that phrase.
Anyone who would like to see Microsoft take another go at smartphones at the event?
No, no one wants that.
Anonymous rants about "liberal media" live on, yes! FAIL.
And yet Yahoo stock was unphased by this news. In fact, it is up today.
Already hit bottom? lol
I wouldn't mind being a failure for a $219 million dollar retirement.
This is a ringing success, by Trump's definition. She made out so she was highly successful at the job, her company be damned. Of course they were already screwed and she did nothing to reverse the screwing, so who cares about the employees, shareholders, customers, etc. Them losing money means it was dumb on their part, following Trump logic, I'll tell ya, believe me!
My cover letter when I apply to be Yahoo's CEO will be simply this (and no stealing!):
I will MAKE YAHOO! GREAT AGAIN, believe me. She screwed up some things, she screwed up with the email server, screwed up really huge, and if you ask me, I won't say say she's working for someone else, but maybe she is, she could be, who knows, and now I'm the outsider you want because I have limited experience with these things, and have never been a CEO or an IT insider, I'm an outsider, and my plan is to make Yahoo! profitable again and end the bad times, by you know, bringing us back to the good, with more profit, not losses, losses are bad, and we don't want those, trust me!
What's a "Lexus" ? Around here we call them "Tesla Tollways"
An overpriced but equally boring Toyota. If you buy an ES instead of a loaded Camry or Avalon, you are just getting gouged. And I see more giant SUVs and various German cars abusing restricted lanes more than anything else.
It's okay, it was just trying to get the passenger to Primanti Bros. as quickly as possible. And I can attest to the fact that Pittsburgh, especially Oakland, has a few confusing streets that can fool those of us who are not familiar with the area. I'll forgive Uber for this one (but not for cheating drivers and being so anti-tip).