We have 911 in the US and the one time I had to call it (the field behind our house was burning) the operator was pretty fumbly and borderline incompetent. Which is actually a little reassuring. Snap-action government might seem like a good thing but we all, uniformly, have to die sometime, and compromising how you get to live doesn't change that.
The firmware in your keyboard is open source? The firmware in the multiple processors in your hard drive is all open source? The firmware in all your wi-fi devices and interfaces is all open source?
The security updates in Android are more granular than on the Apple phones, but they do exist. My Android browser of choice gets updates all the time. With Apple you are in a coundown situation. An 'out of support' Apple phone doesn't get browser updates. A five year old Android phone can run the latest, most secure version of Opera or Mozilla from the app store.
My privacy on my smartphone is what I've made of it. I don't use gmail and I seldom ever use the Chrome browser. Opera is just so much better. 'Just buy Apple' is a way of just throwing all your trust in one big greedy entity which actually boasts of how much profit they milk out of you.
'Commanding Apple's level of profit' just means we all pay a bunch more. The basic functionality of a smartphone is well defined and doesn't require an Apple level of profitability to exist. Perhaps just jettison Apple and Google and move on.
Apple really just bought NextStep. They haven't proven competent at producing their own Operating System since the 1980s. All their attempts at preemptive multitasking failed.
WhatI have long wanted is a 'mute for 28 seconds' button on a remote control. It would become automatic to hit such button any time a commercial started. It would be second nature to hit it to 'refresh' at each commercial segment. And it would be low tech and easy to do. Why hasn't such a function existed for the last 25 years?
Do you speak for the Chinese? Is their distrust of the Japanese just 'racism'? They have a similar sort of experience with the Japanese as blacks in the US with the white establishment.
True, you might be the sort of millineal shithead who poo-poohs that as well.
After the atrocities Japan committed in China, Korea, and other other parts of Asia, nothing but an unconditional would have been acceptable to humanity.
Japan developed and experimented with chemical and biological weapons using thousands of Chinese civillians, and even US and Russian civilians as experimental subjects. They air bombed Chinese villages with plague bombs, then prevented any interference with the 'test subject' civillians. They performed a LOT of vivisection of live prisoners, freezing experiments, etc. There are BIG REASONS why the Chinese hate Japan.
The military is one of the sole legitimate functions of Federal government. Plus, the bulk of military spending goes toward the welfare of military personel. Also, almost all of the pioneering high tech that we all benefit from started out as military research d development spending.
Gravity has a way of making seemingly inert objects highly volatile. As a result of oxidation over time, the tower can become very hazardously reactive.
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I want my phone to be about 3/8" thick, and sport a large battery, a USB host connector and two external SD card slots.
It doesn't need to have an ethernet jack.
We have 911 in the US and the one time I had to call it (the field behind our house was burning) the operator was pretty fumbly and borderline incompetent. Which is actually a little reassuring. Snap-action government might seem like a good thing but we all, uniformly, have to die sometime, and compromising how you get to live doesn't change that.
The firmware in your keyboard is open source? The firmware in the multiple processors in your hard drive is all open source? The firmware in all your wi-fi devices and interfaces is all open source?
It's marketing hype to sell gadgets with a huge markup, sukkas. Apple doesn't care about your privacy any more than Microsoft or Oracle do.
The security updates in Android are more granular than on the Apple phones, but they do exist. My Android browser of choice gets updates all the time. With Apple you are in a coundown situation. An 'out of support' Apple phone doesn't get browser updates. A five year old Android phone can run the latest, most secure version of Opera or Mozilla from the app store.
My privacy on my smartphone is what I've made of it. I don't use gmail and I seldom ever use the Chrome browser. Opera is just so much better. 'Just buy Apple' is a way of just throwing all your trust in one big greedy entity which actually boasts of how much profit they milk out of you.
'Commanding Apple's level of profit' just means we all pay a bunch more. The basic functionality of a smartphone is well defined and doesn't require an Apple level of profitability to exist. Perhaps just jettison Apple and Google and move on.
Apple really just bought NextStep. They haven't proven competent at producing their own Operating System since the 1980s. All their attempts at preemptive multitasking failed.
So Apple can put whatever they like in Webkit. All browsers on iOS are just skins.
Because. That's why I don't like Safari. I don't like Chrome much, either. Sea Monkey where possible, Firefox anywhere else.
I don't need to give a reason, and anybody with a clue already knows why.
...failed at implementing.
WhatI have long wanted is a 'mute for 28 seconds' button on a remote control. It would become automatic to hit such button any time a commercial started. It would be second nature to hit it to 'refresh' at each commercial segment. And it would be low tech and easy to do. Why hasn't such a function existed for the last 25 years?
Yes, they are referred to that way by defense attorneys.
Do you speak for the Chinese? Is their distrust of the Japanese just 'racism'? They have a similar sort of experience with the Japanese as blacks in the US with the white establishment.
True, you might be the sort of millineal shithead who poo-poohs that as well.
Apparently, contempt.
It sounds like we have a branding problem and should probably pull together a quick focus group.
Please don't just make up numbers as you type.
I certainly agree. Loudly talking during the movie in the theatre is more 'social' and thus of greater value. Yeah, uh-huh.
After the atrocities Japan committed in China, Korea, and other other parts of Asia, nothing but an unconditional would have been acceptable to humanity.
Japan developed and experimented with chemical and biological weapons using thousands of Chinese civillians, and even US and Russian civilians as experimental subjects. They air bombed Chinese villages with plague bombs, then prevented any interference with the 'test subject' civillians. They performed a LOT of vivisection of live prisoners, freezing experiments, etc. There are BIG REASONS why the Chinese hate Japan.
From a nerd perspective that sounds excellent. Ideally a bunch of stupid jocks are crushed by falling tower debris.
The military is one of the sole legitimate functions of Federal government. Plus, the bulk of military spending goes toward the welfare of military personel. Also, almost all of the pioneering high tech that we all benefit from started out as military research d development spending.
And then Bubba hauls it over the state line to South Dakota where it's trivial to burn the insution off and recover the copper.
Gravity has a way of making seemingly inert objects highly volatile. As a result of oxidation over time, the tower can become very hazardously reactive.
Office buildings aren't left to rust until they fall down. No city will permit that.
Marxist collectivism concocts it's own utopian nightmare.