The bus driver is not going to protect you; he at best will report the crime to the overworked police, who may show up to collect your body. At worst the driver will ignore the crime - he is in the area every day, and he needs no trouble with locals.
It's all about Central Planning. Nothing more, nothing less. All side issues and concerns are secondary to that. That's just the way it is, and how it's been for a long time, with the sort of people advocating the kind of 'progress' you and I fight against in threads like this.
They know better than you or I. They have a plan. We're the fools, and we need to be pushed out of the way.
Sweden, Norway, and Finland are examples of insular countries without a large third-world immigrant underclass. That's now changing, and we will see how that changes those countries.
I just try to work the word 'twit' into the conversation in place of 'tweet' whenever possible. You need to do so as if you didn't notice any difference.
Now, they have a couple of new markets where they have a big(ish) share, so they are being obnoxious and people put up with it.
I think, thought, that as their market segment grows, it will grow beyond the 'please rape me Steve' fanclub, and into a wider spectrum of the population. The true-believers will turn on Apple when it's time.
Cults don't scale well to entire populations. How is the Apple Customer supposed to feel elite and superior if everyone else is an Apple Customer, too?
Then don't download the software. I write apps for a living; either I charge you money up front or I put ads in the application, and I give you the option of which you want.
I'll download the software, then I'll give it a one star rating, then I'll delete it. And I won't be alone.
Enjoy your ad revenue. Maybe you can buy a coffee with it.
That's one down.(.05% of market) Now, get them to cancel flash on i386 Linux,(another.5%) then on MacOS,(another 8%) then Windows,(not happening) and we'll be all set. You're already 'set' it seems.
That aside, why is it that a corporation like bp can wipe out an entire ecosystem and destroy a species that so many depend on for making a living?
It almost sounds to me like you're defending the people who've overfished the blue-fin to near the point of extinction. Poor, poor fishermen. They were only doing what comes natural to them, and it's horrible that BP may have given the final little nudge. Their way of live (driving the blue-fin to near extinction) is at risk.
You and I can both be furious that marketing pratts spend hours sitting around coming up with clever words and phrases to trademark and use to sell a product. But it's going to keep happening, especially in a company as dominated by it's marketing department as Apple.
We need to just move on. That crap isn't meant for us, and the kind of damn fools for which it matters are irrelevant.
That's a mighty friendly URL you gave us, to that article on Google's server telling us more about a Chrome extension to adblock. I am away from my desk but would like to jot it down in case I can't remember it later. Would you please read it out over the phone?
in fact I think we'll see a future where security tightens to the point where hardware will be locked to only run a certain OS - where will Linux be then ?
Linux will be running on hardware locked to only run Linux.
When you zoom, the text often extends beyond the right margin. That's a serious problem with the web browser on the iP*** devices. When I read blogs with SeaMonkey on a real computer, the text usually automatically wraps to fill the screen (especially if I select 'print format' to block the ads and other crap,) unless some tard has posted a screen-widener somewhere in the thread. But with Safari, or Opera Mini, they 'respect' the formatting like I'm reading a PDF, and not dynamically laid out HTML.
And I can't find a single third-party browser for the iPod Touch that disrespects the style markup enough to get rid of this problem. There isn't a Lynx port, though I guess I could ssh into a NetBSD box and use Lynx there. Except the ssh terminals all pull up a touchscreen keyboard overlay. Navigating Lynx would sorta suck because of that.
The thing I am looking forward to most in the OS update I have heard of so far is a real keyboard over Bluetooth.
For goodness sakes. And YOU accuse me of projecting....
It's really a shame that so many people took that one Freshman Psychology course and came out with a lot of big words to wield around like a four year old holding a 3 foot long 2x4.
My $30 accessory cable (I assume you mean the iPod sync cable supplied by Apple) lasted less than 3 months before the sheath insulation started bunching up and breaking near the strain relief. I went to the local WalMart and was dismayed to see that a replacement cable was.... $30. Then I went to eBay and saw that the cheapo cables shipped out of Hong Kong were less than $2 each, with free shipping. So I ordered five of them, assuming they were consumables that would last a month or two each. The first cheapo cable hasn't started to show wear yet.
I've seen pictures of it, too. In fact, I watched the WWDC keynote this afternoon. But I did it on my iPod Touch. So I sat there, pondering to myself.... "Now, I am supposed to be seeing the image on the right as better than the image on the left. The image on the left is the old iPhone display. But, I'M LOOKING AT BOTH IMAGES using the old iPhone display......"
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The bus driver is not going to protect you; he at best will report the crime to the overworked police, who may show up to collect your body. At worst the driver will ignore the crime - he is in the area every day, and he needs no trouble with locals.
And the bus driver will take 60 days off if even spat upon by a passenger.
It's all about Central Planning. Nothing more, nothing less. All side issues and concerns are secondary to that. That's just the way it is, and how it's been for a long time, with the sort of people advocating the kind of 'progress' you and I fight against in threads like this.
They know better than you or I. They have a plan. We're the fools, and we need to be pushed out of the way.
fuel efficiency in dense, slow traffic. You can easily see 100 mpg bars on the meter,
With just a little more tweaking of the 'mpg meter' code, you could probably get it to display 500 mpg bars some of the time.
Just be careful about divide-by-zero calculations....
Sweden, Norway, and Finland are examples of insular countries without a large third-world immigrant underclass. That's now changing, and we will see how that changes those countries.
I just try to work the word 'twit' into the conversation in place of 'tweet' whenever possible. You need to do so as if you didn't notice any difference.
If competitors didn't act "anti-competitive", they wouldn't be competitors.
Scare quotes aside, no.
Competition always occurs within a context, a framework, where the competition is legitimized by all players following a set of rules.
I hope you made sure you one-starred the app before deleting it.
Now, they have a couple of new markets where they have a big(ish) share, so they are being obnoxious and people put up with it.
I think, thought, that as their market segment grows, it will grow beyond the 'please rape me Steve' fanclub, and into a wider spectrum of the population. The true-believers will turn on Apple when it's time.
Cults don't scale well to entire populations. How is the Apple Customer supposed to feel elite and superior if everyone else is an Apple Customer, too?
Every single ad-laden app on an Apple-produced product got there because the owner/user downloaded it.
And every downloaded app on an Apple-produced product can be given a one star rating.
Eat it. You cooked it.
Then don't download the software. I write apps for a living; either I charge you money up front or I put ads in the application, and I give you the option of which you want.
I'll download the software, then I'll give it a one star rating, then I'll delete it. And I won't be alone.
Enjoy your ad revenue. Maybe you can buy a coffee with it.
No, you're confused. Apple and Adobe are both turds. They're just floating in different parts of the pool.
That's one down.(.05% of market) Now, get them to cancel flash on i386 Linux,(another .5%) then on MacOS,(another 8%) then Windows,(not happening) and we'll be all set. You're already 'set' it seems.
That aside, why is it that a corporation like bp can wipe out an entire ecosystem and destroy a species that so many depend on for making a living?
It almost sounds to me like you're defending the people who've overfished the blue-fin to near the point of extinction. Poor, poor fishermen. They were only doing what comes natural to them, and it's horrible that BP may have given the final little nudge. Their way of live (driving the blue-fin to near extinction) is at risk.
You and I can both be furious that marketing pratts spend hours sitting around coming up with clever words and phrases to trademark and use to sell a product. But it's going to keep happening, especially in a company as dominated by it's marketing department as Apple.
We need to just move on. That crap isn't meant for us, and the kind of damn fools for which it matters are irrelevant.
640K is enough for everybody.
That's a mighty friendly URL you gave us, to that article on Google's server telling us more about a Chrome extension to adblock. I am away from my desk but would like to jot it down in case I can't remember it later. Would you please read it out over the phone?
in fact I think we'll see a future where security tightens to the point where hardware will be locked to only run a certain OS - where will Linux be then ?
Linux will be running on hardware locked to only run Linux.
So while the true cost of windows is huge, almost incalculably so,
What an insane assertion. Did you spill too much hyperbole into your oatmeal this morning?
Is there some reason you completely changed the subject to a completely different product type in your last sentence?
I listened to the whole WWDC keynote yesterday. Jobs didn't mention ANYTHING new for the Mac. It appears to be a dying platform.
TurboPascal did not contain an actual turbocharger.
True, but I ran it on a machine that had a turbo button on it (10 Mhz.)
When you zoom, the text often extends beyond the right margin. That's a serious problem with the web browser on the iP*** devices. When I read blogs with SeaMonkey on a real computer, the text usually automatically wraps to fill the screen (especially if I select 'print format' to block the ads and other crap,) unless some tard has posted a screen-widener somewhere in the thread. But with Safari, or Opera Mini, they 'respect' the formatting like I'm reading a PDF, and not dynamically laid out HTML.
And I can't find a single third-party browser for the iPod Touch that disrespects the style markup enough to get rid of this problem. There isn't a Lynx port, though I guess I could ssh into a NetBSD box and use Lynx there. Except the ssh terminals all pull up a touchscreen keyboard overlay. Navigating Lynx would sorta suck because of that.
The thing I am looking forward to most in the OS update I have heard of so far is a real keyboard over Bluetooth.
For goodness sakes. And YOU accuse me of projecting....
It's really a shame that so many people took that one Freshman Psychology course and came out with a lot of big words to wield around like a four year old holding a 3 foot long 2x4.
My $30 accessory cable (I assume you mean the iPod sync cable supplied by Apple) lasted less than 3 months before the sheath insulation started bunching up and breaking near the strain relief. I went to the local WalMart and was dismayed to see that a replacement cable was.... $30. Then I went to eBay and saw that the cheapo cables shipped out of Hong Kong were less than $2 each, with free shipping. So I ordered five of them, assuming they were consumables that would last a month or two each. The first cheapo cable hasn't started to show wear yet.
I've seen pictures of it, too. In fact, I watched the WWDC keynote this afternoon. But I did it on my iPod Touch. So I sat there, pondering to myself.... "Now, I am supposed to be seeing the image on the right as better than the image on the left. The image on the left is the old iPhone display. But, I'M LOOKING AT BOTH IMAGES using the old iPhone display......"
It doesn't matter, one way or the other. What matters is the miracle of Altivec. Also, Intel chips are inferior. Oh, ermm......