I agree with all of that. They say "a vote for a third party is wasted," I say a vote for a candidate who wants to put you in jail is far worse than wasted -- but R & D both illogically want pot to remain illegal.
Both parties are for insanely long copyright terms. Both parties were for war in Iraq (with a few dissenters, like then Senator Obama). Both parties are for the things I'm against, and against the things I'm for, so I usually do in fact vote either Green or Libertarian, both of which are for legalization and against senseless wars.
But as long as the corporate-owned media keeps convincing everyone that a vote for a loser is wasted, the Rs and Ds will remain the only two parties that can effect real change.
You apparently don't know what CSS is or what it's used for.
Yes, I do know. It's to make it so that you don't have to change 200 web pages to change the look of your site, just change a single CSS file. But that's not how it's usually used. It's usually used in an attempt to make a page render the same on all screens, and that's just not possible.
CSS, as it's usually used, does in fact break phone displays, since webmasters are using absolute positioning. And yes, you don't need CSS to make this mistake, but CSS makes that mistake easier.
As to using MS-DOS, my phone's OS is probably even more primitive than that. I'm running kubuntu 10 and Win 7 on the PC and notebook.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for chairties; my church just spent a ton of money fixing up Harvard Park Elementary, a public school in the poorest neighborhood in Springfield (they're also doing work in Kenya). That's not the only charity I give to, either, but I refuse to deduct them from my taxes. Again, charity shoulcn't be a tax dodge. And it's too easy to claim charity that you didn't really contribute to.
But as the example above, private charity isn't enough. Even though most of its clients get food stamps, the local soup kitchen (run by Catholic Charities) is always running short of food. Imagine how many of the people who depend on the St. John's Breadline would go VERY hungry were it not for food stamps?
Corporations are often charitable contributors, there was a mention on the local news the other night about ADM donating a whole bunch of food. If you didn't like their contribution, you have no recourse whatever; you can't escape ADM, their products are in almost everything you eat and drink. I'd rather my tax money go rather than ADM's money, I can vote against politicians, I can't vote against ADM's CEO and board of directors.
Yes, and I usually don't vote for the two majors. However, everyone else does. The corporate media has convinced everyone that a vote for a "third party" is wasted.
The other parties will matter when they start winning elections, but I'm not holding my breath.
Not comprehension; "top of the line" is meaningless. Again, "I can call, take pictures, take movies, send texts, send emails (with the phone's photos and mvies attached), surf the web, I can even watch YouTube videos on it."
So how is "top of the line" meaningful in any way?
Bush bailed them out, then Obama bailed them out again. How is a voter supposed to stop it when only two parties exist and they're both wholly owned by the corporatti?
Right, because very site that uses Flash will now instantly switch to HTML 5.
That was insightfully sarcastic. Why do you need a separate app to view a damned web page? If webmasters had a clue, they'd write straight HTML and can the CSS. My phone isn't an iPhone or Android, but it will play YouTube videos just fine. However, most text only websites won't render properly -- the text goes off the screen rather than wrapping like it should.
The problem is people making web pages who don't know shit about HTML, and use one of the HTML editors. If you want to make a web site, learn HTML. If you want your site to dosplay on a phone, don't use CSS. Actually, I'd say don't use CSS at all -- granny with her fifteen year old tewlve inch 640x480 monitor will have as much trouble as an iPhone user.
That's because everyone already has one that's good enough, for the first time in computing history. Hell, my main box I built out of five year old junk parts, and it does everything I need it to (including playing videos).
Phones will eventually go into decline as well as soon as the upgrade treadmill stops, like it finally did with PCs and laptops. Of course, it won't go into as steep a decline, because phones break and get lost, unlike desktops.
gonna be all virtualization on dense servers and thin clients
No it won't. It won't be long before your phone has as much computing power as your desktop does now. A smartphone is already more powerful than the most powerful computer in existance in 1972 (the Cray).
You are not allowed to run improper fuel in your car. It is in fact illegal to do so everywhere I'm aware of that has any sort of sane laws for various types of both environmental and personal protection.
Good analogy, but can you cite a law that makes it illegal? There was a guy here in Illinois that got in trouble for making his own biodiesel, but his crime wasn't using an "unauthorized fuel", it was for failure to pay the fuel tax.
Way back in the day I owned a little two-stroke Harley (manufactured in Italy). I discovered that a capful of model airplane fuel (ether) mixed with the gasoline made that sucker outrun bikes with twice the engine size. That was illegal? Personally, I don't think it should be. If my car explodes, that's my problem. And what about the cars that add a nitro boost? Are they illegal?
I'm willing to bet that you've never been in a shitty neighborhood. I'm only a few blocks from the worst part of town (and it's said Springfield is the 3rd most dangerous city in the US) and when I called 9-11 in April when my house was burglarized, the cop was there in less than five minutes. Hell, drive through the worst part of Springfield and you won't go four blocks without seeing a cop car.
On the west side you can go hours without seeing a cop.
The economists on the left are as "religion based" and clueless as the ones on the right. I took exactly one econmics class in college, and dropped it the first day, because the theories put forth by these dimwits were so unreal. I'd drop a physics class if the instructor tried to say that gravity was a repulsive force.
I'd just gotten out of the Air Force, and had spent a year in Thailand, at the time a third world country (I was there in 1974, the class was 1976. I understand Thailand has industrialized and is no longer impoverished).
In Thailand, the median wage was about a thousand dollars a year. Sounds pretty poor, right? But I could rent a bungalow for thirty bucks a month. I bought a tailor-made dress shirt for five bucks. I could take four lady friends to a nice restaraunt and it cost less than a dollar for all of us. I could take a taxi almost anywhere for a buck, a bus anywhere for a nickle. A year's salary I was making as a three striper was enough I could have retired easily there.
The bozos teaching that class couldn't understand that. To them, a dollar is a dollar. It's not. These guys had the idiotic idea that since a third worlder could live on a thousand bucks a year, so should we! (maybe they were right wingers after all, who knows?) I told of Thailand and its prices, but they wouldn't budge from their retarded stance. I walked out of the class, with half the other students following me.
I'm twice as rich as someone earning the exact wage as me living in Chicago, a mere 200 miles away, because the prices there are twice as high (or more).
And clearly, this Hercules is not the current occupant of the White House.
Too bad FDR's dead. We need someone like that today.
What does a citizen have to do to get this kind of personalized attention from the government? Most of the time they just ignore you unless it's time for them to steal money from your wallet.
Just park in the wrong neighborhood. Or be black; I was talking with a black woman at work once, who was complaining that every time she went in a store they followed her around like they thought she was going to steal something -- and this was an educated, professional woman. I told her "I wish I had that problem, I can't find a salesperson when I'm shopping." They're probably off watching to make sure the black people aren't stealing (while the white kids are robbing them blind).
If you are innocent and get tracked it's likely to be some kind of F-up that has occurred. But going to Mexico these days isn't the best of ideas considering the drug trade going on
All I could think of when reading the story was "what a foolish waste of tax money", even worse since that money is wasted going after an activity that shouldn't even be illegal, with laws that cause far more harm to society than the drugs those laws prohibit.
I have never heard of a cop letting a civilian ride in the passenger seat for any reason.
You have now. About ten years ago I was travelling to St Louis and had a tire blow out right by the Litchfield exit of I55. I tried to change it, but the tire tool was broken, so I wallked into town to buy a new tool. On the way back an Illinois State Trooper stopped and gave me a ride to my car (I sat in the front passenger seat) and his car sat there behind mine with his lights flashing until I got the tire changed.
Not all cops are assholes. Hell, there may even be such a thing as an honest politician.
I remember my old Polaroid fondly, but I remember my slide rule fondly, too. However, digital is superior to both; I no longer have any need for prints, and my phone is both a camera and calculator.
Do kids still have to memorize multiplication tables?
I know I can look at silver halide photos one hundred years old with basically no degradation.
I have a photo of my granfather on a horse (with an engine truck and a mule-drawn wagon in the background) taken in 1917 and it's pretty good quality, but I have a photo of my grandmother, great grandmother and great aunts taken in 1920 that has degraded badly. I have a baby picture of her (1903) that's horribly degraded. It depends on how the photo was stored.
I can't see a digital photo that's been backed up numerous times degrading at all.
On my (non-smart) phone it's click (take the picture) click (send) click (add recipient) click (choose recipient) click (ok) click (send). That's over text or email.
Or click (take the picture) click (save the picture) click (go to "photos") click (send) click (select bluetooth) click (select device) click (send).
Like you say, that's not hard, but it isn't nearly as instantaneous as the old Polaroid "aim, press a button, picture comes out, smear goo on picture and let it dry."
Of course, Motorola has shitty interface designers. Too bad their interface designs aren't as good as their excellent radio engineering or I could set it to bluetooth the photo as soon as I took it, without any clicks.
Nope, I learn from experience. When I take pictures the first thing I do when I get home is bluetooth the photos to the computer, then copy them to the other computer (Microsoft bluetooth and Motorola bluetooth don't get along very well, works fine with Kbluetooth) because I've lost phones and their contents in the past. Really important photos I could burn to CD or DVD and store at someone else's house.
If my house burns down all my analog photos go up in smoke, but the ones in the phone will still be there.
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I agree with all of that. They say "a vote for a third party is wasted," I say a vote for a candidate who wants to put you in jail is far worse than wasted -- but R & D both illogically want pot to remain illegal.
Both parties are for insanely long copyright terms. Both parties were for war in Iraq (with a few dissenters, like then Senator Obama). Both parties are for the things I'm against, and against the things I'm for, so I usually do in fact vote either Green or Libertarian, both of which are for legalization and against senseless wars.
But as long as the corporate-owned media keeps convincing everyone that a vote for a loser is wasted, the Rs and Ds will remain the only two parties that can effect real change.
You apparently don't know what CSS is or what it's used for.
Yes, I do know. It's to make it so that you don't have to change 200 web pages to change the look of your site, just change a single CSS file. But that's not how it's usually used. It's usually used in an attempt to make a page render the same on all screens, and that's just not possible.
CSS, as it's usually used, does in fact break phone displays, since webmasters are using absolute positioning. And yes, you don't need CSS to make this mistake, but CSS makes that mistake easier.
As to using MS-DOS, my phone's OS is probably even more primitive than that. I'm running kubuntu 10 and Win 7 on the PC and notebook.
Who's going to pay for a soup kitchen in somewhere like Allen, South Dakota?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for chairties; my church just spent a ton of money fixing up Harvard Park Elementary, a public school in the poorest neighborhood in Springfield (they're also doing work in Kenya). That's not the only charity I give to, either, but I refuse to deduct them from my taxes. Again, charity shoulcn't be a tax dodge. And it's too easy to claim charity that you didn't really contribute to.
But as the example above, private charity isn't enough. Even though most of its clients get food stamps, the local soup kitchen (run by Catholic Charities) is always running short of food. Imagine how many of the people who depend on the St. John's Breadline would go VERY hungry were it not for food stamps?
Corporations are often charitable contributors, there was a mention on the local news the other night about ADM donating a whole bunch of food. If you didn't like their contribution, you have no recourse whatever; you can't escape ADM, their products are in almost everything you eat and drink. I'd rather my tax money go rather than ADM's money, I can vote against politicians, I can't vote against ADM's CEO and board of directors.
No, it isn't, but it worked about as well as CSS. Meaning, for a while and then not at all.
Yes, and I usually don't vote for the two majors. However, everyone else does. The corporate media has convinced everyone that a vote for a "third party" is wasted.
The other parties will matter when they start winning elections, but I'm not holding my breath.
Not comprehension; "top of the line" is meaningless. Again, "I can call, take pictures, take movies, send texts, send emails (with the phone's photos and mvies attached), surf the web, I can even watch YouTube videos on it."
So how is "top of the line" meaningful in any way?
Bush bailed them out, then Obama bailed them out again. How is a voter supposed to stop it when only two parties exist and they're both wholly owned by the corporatti?
There are NO times I need DRM. And know what? DRM on VCRs just didn't work; I always copied tapes I rented, as well as Pay Per View.
Right, because very site that uses Flash will now instantly switch to HTML 5.
That was insightfully sarcastic. Why do you need a separate app to view a damned web page? If webmasters had a clue, they'd write straight HTML and can the CSS. My phone isn't an iPhone or Android, but it will play YouTube videos just fine. However, most text only websites won't render properly -- the text goes off the screen rather than wrapping like it should.
The problem is people making web pages who don't know shit about HTML, and use one of the HTML editors. If you want to make a web site, learn HTML. If you want your site to dosplay on a phone, don't use CSS. Actually, I'd say don't use CSS at all -- granny with her fifteen year old tewlve inch 640x480 monitor will have as much trouble as an iPhone user.
Desktop and laptop sales are already in decline
That's because everyone already has one that's good enough, for the first time in computing history. Hell, my main box I built out of five year old junk parts, and it does everything I need it to (including playing videos).
Phones will eventually go into decline as well as soon as the upgrade treadmill stops, like it finally did with PCs and laptops. Of course, it won't go into as steep a decline, because phones break and get lost, unlike desktops.
gonna be all virtualization on dense servers and thin clients
No it won't. It won't be long before your phone has as much computing power as your desktop does now. A smartphone is already more powerful than the most powerful computer in existance in 1972 (the Cray).
You can't tell a troll when you see one? Especially from an AC sitting at -1 that nobody would have seen had you not responded?
Here's a hint: if it has the "N-word" it's almost certainly a troll and likely a variation of the GNAA trolls.
PLEASE DON'T FEED THE TROLLS! Especially don't make their -1 invisible comments visible by commenting while logged in.
Good riddance to Flash
I wish it were true, but Flash is alive and well on the desktop. When Flash dies completely, THEN I'll cheer.
You are not allowed to run improper fuel in your car. It is in fact illegal to do so everywhere I'm aware of that has any sort of sane laws for various types of both environmental and personal protection.
Good analogy, but can you cite a law that makes it illegal? There was a guy here in Illinois that got in trouble for making his own biodiesel, but his crime wasn't using an "unauthorized fuel", it was for failure to pay the fuel tax.
Way back in the day I owned a little two-stroke Harley (manufactured in Italy). I discovered that a capful of model airplane fuel (ether) mixed with the gasoline made that sucker outrun bikes with twice the engine size. That was illegal? Personally, I don't think it should be. If my car explodes, that's my problem. And what about the cars that add a nitro boost? Are they illegal?
Citation, please.
If the guy was running drugs I seriously doubt he'd contact Wired about a GPS on his car. Drug runners don't much like notoriety.
Just be "weird".
There's a book that will show you how to do that (just finished reading it at lunch).
I'm willing to bet that you've never been in a shitty neighborhood. I'm only a few blocks from the worst part of town (and it's said Springfield is the 3rd most dangerous city in the US) and when I called 9-11 in April when my house was burglarized, the cop was there in less than five minutes. Hell, drive through the worst part of Springfield and you won't go four blocks without seeing a cop car.
On the west side you can go hours without seeing a cop.
LOL.
Everybody is hated by no one (but he only has one friend).
The economists on the left are as "religion based" and clueless as the ones on the right. I took exactly one econmics class in college, and dropped it the first day, because the theories put forth by these dimwits were so unreal. I'd drop a physics class if the instructor tried to say that gravity was a repulsive force.
I'd just gotten out of the Air Force, and had spent a year in Thailand, at the time a third world country (I was there in 1974, the class was 1976. I understand Thailand has industrialized and is no longer impoverished).
In Thailand, the median wage was about a thousand dollars a year. Sounds pretty poor, right? But I could rent a bungalow for thirty bucks a month. I bought a tailor-made dress shirt for five bucks. I could take four lady friends to a nice restaraunt and it cost less than a dollar for all of us. I could take a taxi almost anywhere for a buck, a bus anywhere for a nickle. A year's salary I was making as a three striper was enough I could have retired easily there.
The bozos teaching that class couldn't understand that. To them, a dollar is a dollar. It's not. These guys had the idiotic idea that since a third worlder could live on a thousand bucks a year, so should we! (maybe they were right wingers after all, who knows?) I told of Thailand and its prices, but they wouldn't budge from their retarded stance. I walked out of the class, with half the other students following me.
I'm twice as rich as someone earning the exact wage as me living in Chicago, a mere 200 miles away, because the prices there are twice as high (or more).
And clearly, this Hercules is not the current occupant of the White House.
Too bad FDR's dead. We need someone like that today.
What does a citizen have to do to get this kind of personalized attention from the government? Most of the time they just ignore you unless it's time for them to steal money from your wallet.
Just park in the wrong neighborhood. Or be black; I was talking with a black woman at work once, who was complaining that every time she went in a store they followed her around like they thought she was going to steal something -- and this was an educated, professional woman. I told her "I wish I had that problem, I can't find a salesperson when I'm shopping." They're probably off watching to make sure the black people aren't stealing (while the white kids are robbing them blind).
If you are innocent and get tracked it's likely to be some kind of F-up that has occurred. But going to Mexico these days isn't the best of ideas considering the drug trade going on
All I could think of when reading the story was "what a foolish waste of tax money", even worse since that money is wasted going after an activity that shouldn't even be illegal, with laws that cause far more harm to society than the drugs those laws prohibit.
I have never heard of a cop letting a civilian ride in the passenger seat for any reason.
You have now. About ten years ago I was travelling to St Louis and had a tire blow out right by the Litchfield exit of I55. I tried to change it, but the tire tool was broken, so I wallked into town to buy a new tool. On the way back an Illinois State Trooper stopped and gave me a ride to my car (I sat in the front passenger seat) and his car sat there behind mine with his lights flashing until I got the tire changed.
Not all cops are assholes. Hell, there may even be such a thing as an honest politician.
I remember my old Polaroid fondly, but I remember my slide rule fondly, too. However, digital is superior to both; I no longer have any need for prints, and my phone is both a camera and calculator.
Do kids still have to memorize multiplication tables?
I know I can look at silver halide photos one hundred years old with basically no degradation.
I have a photo of my granfather on a horse (with an engine truck and a mule-drawn wagon in the background) taken in 1917 and it's pretty good quality, but I have a photo of my grandmother, great grandmother and great aunts taken in 1920 that has degraded badly. I have a baby picture of her (1903) that's horribly degraded. It depends on how the photo was stored.
I can't see a digital photo that's been backed up numerous times degrading at all.
On my (non-smart) phone it's click (take the picture) click (send) click (add recipient) click (choose recipient) click (ok) click (send). That's over text or email.
Or click (take the picture) click (save the picture) click (go to "photos") click (send) click (select bluetooth) click (select device) click (send).
Like you say, that's not hard, but it isn't nearly as instantaneous as the old Polaroid "aim, press a button, picture comes out, smear goo on picture and let it dry."
Of course, Motorola has shitty interface designers. Too bad their interface designs aren't as good as their excellent radio engineering or I could set it to bluetooth the photo as soon as I took it, without any clicks.
Most of your photos will die with your phone.
Nope, I learn from experience. When I take pictures the first thing I do when I get home is bluetooth the photos to the computer, then copy them to the other computer (Microsoft bluetooth and Motorola bluetooth don't get along very well, works fine with Kbluetooth) because I've lost phones and their contents in the past. Really important photos I could burn to CD or DVD and store at someone else's house.
If my house burns down all my analog photos go up in smoke, but the ones in the phone will still be there.