Also so the crew taking care of them could see them and make sure that they arrive still living. But don't let common sense reign in a scenario involving a crew piloting a stolen alien starship in poor condition.
Ah, well I'll tell you something that disheartened me a little. The local radio personalities were talking about Bruce's journey as if it were some sort of publicity stunt, blissfully unaware that if it were it's at least 30 years in the making. That bugs me. I really would prefer that it help the public accept an entrie group of people that are pressured to keep a secret all their lives. We recently had a murder of a transendered person here that was probably motivated by lack of acceptance.
We're not in disagreement that cell phone use is a dangerous distraction. The people you see drifting to the left, they're not using their GPS. Also, the problem with that sort of observation is that you're not seeing who isn't distracted. It's a bit like trying to determine how many visitors to a website have Javascript disabled... by using Javascript to detect it. "Oh look, 100% of people visiting my site have JS enabled!"
I do think I've run out of things to say on this topic. Maybe it's time to say agree-to-disagree? Either way, I hope you're having a good weekend.
How is that actually supposed to work, though? Does the Apple Watch make people walk so much they gain weight? Does it make somebody see their doctor more regularly?
I'm asking because I don't remember WebMD ever getting raked over the coals on Slashdot.
Am I a careful driver? Well, lets see... over more than 3 decades of driving, including at least a decade as my job, I've never had an accident, so I'd say that yes, others could take a few safety tips.
We're not so different.
And I haven't seen a single non-commercial vehicle with a phone mount. People just don't buy them.
You should visit LA some time. The mounts are all over. You may be confused because they're not always in the window. Most of my coworkers, for example, have their mounts down by the cig charger.
Ask the cops who give out the tickets. If, for example, you're using bluetooth but you pick up the phone to dial a number, you're dead.
If by 'dead' you mean "ticketed" then, yep, you're right. That's why the eyes-free mode in the iPhone is used a lot. In LA the ticket is very cheap but the court fees push it up over $300. That has taught everybody I know to behave with their phones. Everybody uses their phone as a GPS in LA.
Most were pre-WAP, all before USB charging. The last one I had before the Palm Treo was the first I had with a camera. The brands included Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson and only one was a 'free with contract' phone.
What does "just works" even mean? Do you want it to be able to reliably make phone calls without having to worry about software failing? Get a non-smart phone.
Ha! I had a number of "non-smart-phones" back in the late 90's and early 00's. After a while they'd develop some sort of problem that destroyed their usefulness. Sometimes it was general software crappery, occasionally it was something like the battery door had come loose and it'd jostle in my pocket and shut it down. On too many occasions I looked at the display, everything seemed okay, but it turned out the phone was frozen and needed the battery removed to be rebooted. I could not rely on these phones to act as an alarm clock, that's how bad they were. I eventually got a Palm Treo. It was less reliable than those, but at least it made up for it by having access to email and web browsing... sort of.
When my contract was up with the Treo the iPhone was on its second revision. I didn't expect much but I switched over to it. It wasn't long before it became my primary alarm clock. I can honestly say that I have never had an alarm on any of my iPhones fail to go off*. I've never missed a call because the phone decided not to tell me. (That happened a LOT with my "not-smart-phones".) In the last 7 years I think I've only done a hard-reset twice. If I had to do it again I'd have to look it up.
What I'm saying is I didn't have a reliable phone until I got a smart phone. Frankly if I had to switch to Android at some point, I'd go in quite confident I'd end up with a similar tale to tell.
Now was it all sunshine and roses? No. Wifi is finnicky on Apple devices. It's a common complaint and I can tell you I've personally experienced it. Also, between iOS 7 and 8, the quality of the operating system has gone down. I don't know what's going on over at Apple, but either the switch to 64-bit was a much bigger problem than they let on or they're just not giving a shit. Yes, my phone always rings and my alarm always goes off, but it's only recently that I've actually seen glitchiness on these phones. Apple's promising that iOS9 is the 'reliable' version. I hope for their sake that they manage it.
But I'm sorry, I found your comment funny. Maybe I'm not representative of a large group of people, but dumb-phones generally are crap.
* I do, however, be extra careful when daylight savings time comes and goes because Apple has screwed that up multiple times. I don't know why it takes three tries to write alarm code that can survive an hour disappearing or reappearing.
Heh. Yeah, *I* intentionally misinterpret stuff, that's me doing that in this discussion. Right. Anyway, in case you're curious, where I was going with that is that there are no statistics on GPS-use causing accidents because they fall into the statistical noise of accidents caused by passenger distractions and messing with the radio. It hasn't happened enough to get an actual number on it. Your approach of seeing a few stories on the news and multiplying it by a million turned out to be inaccurate. This is either because you're seriously misinformed or you're such a careful driver that you have useful safety tips to share. (Frankly I was hoping it was the latter.)
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Also so the crew taking care of them could see them and make sure that they arrive still living. But don't let common sense reign in a scenario involving a crew piloting a stolen alien starship in poor condition.
Alrighty then.
If you love someone don't worry about their gender.
Not even close. ;) Bear in mind that you're coming at it from a severe disadvantage.
You did indeed hit s nerve. My funny bone! Your abuse of the word irony, for example.
Ah, well I'll tell you something that disheartened me a little. The local radio personalities were talking about Bruce's journey as if it were some sort of publicity stunt, blissfully unaware that if it were it's at least 30 years in the making. That bugs me. I really would prefer that it help the public accept an entrie group of people that are pressured to keep a secret all their lives. We recently had a murder of a transendered person here that was probably motivated by lack of acceptance.
... non-removable?
We're not in disagreement that cell phone use is a dangerous distraction. The people you see drifting to the left, they're not using their GPS. Also, the problem with that sort of observation is that you're not seeing who isn't distracted. It's a bit like trying to determine how many visitors to a website have Javascript disabled... by using Javascript to detect it. "Oh look, 100% of people visiting my site have JS enabled!"
I do think I've run out of things to say on this topic. Maybe it's time to say agree-to-disagree? Either way, I hope you're having a good weekend.
A. Finding out your loved one is safe is valuable.
B. Your comment is outside of the context.
The dipshit that modded my post down should have clicked the link. Since braincells are at a premium here I'll spell it out:
AC at +4 said:
2,500 people died and a poor country is devastated and all that makes the news is one dead American. Disgusting.
And what do you see when you click my link?
7.8 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Hundreds Dead
Same site, only a day earlier.
'Moron' not only describes the AC, but the people who modded his post up and mine down.
2,500 people died and a poor country is devastated and all that makes the news is one dead American. Disgusting.
Moron.
That's too bad. Why is this on slashdot?
A better question is: Why are you on Slashdot?
How is that actually supposed to work, though? Does the Apple Watch make people walk so much they gain weight? Does it make somebody see their doctor more regularly?
I'm asking because I don't remember WebMD ever getting raked over the coals on Slashdot.
Hmmm, no irony (actual or the generally admissible definition of it) here. I think you replied to the wrong post.
Am I a careful driver? Well, lets see ... over more than 3 decades of driving, including at least a decade as my job, I've never had an accident, so I'd say that yes, others could take a few safety tips.
We're not so different.
And I haven't seen a single non-commercial vehicle with a phone mount. People just don't buy them.
You should visit LA some time. The mounts are all over. You may be confused because they're not always in the window. Most of my coworkers, for example, have their mounts down by the cig charger.
Ask the cops who give out the tickets. If, for example, you're using bluetooth but you pick up the phone to dial a number, you're dead.
If by 'dead' you mean "ticketed" then, yep, you're right. That's why the eyes-free mode in the iPhone is used a lot. In LA the ticket is very cheap but the court fees push it up over $300. That has taught everybody I know to behave with their phones. Everybody uses their phone as a GPS in LA.
...will be health issues and obsession with health.
Why exactly is this bad? Weren't we making fun of the fatties just last week?
You've picked a strange topic to be butthurt about.
Nope. True story, Sorry. Perhaps you didn't rely on your phones as much as you think you have.
Most were pre-WAP, all before USB charging. The last one I had before the Palm Treo was the first I had with a camera. The brands included Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson and only one was a 'free with contract' phone.
Sorry, I don't buy the 'unlucky' guess.
What episode of Lost in Space was that?
What does "just works" even mean? Do you want it to be able to reliably make phone calls without having to worry about software failing? Get a non-smart phone.
Ha! I had a number of "non-smart-phones" back in the late 90's and early 00's. After a while they'd develop some sort of problem that destroyed their usefulness. Sometimes it was general software crappery, occasionally it was something like the battery door had come loose and it'd jostle in my pocket and shut it down. On too many occasions I looked at the display, everything seemed okay, but it turned out the phone was frozen and needed the battery removed to be rebooted. I could not rely on these phones to act as an alarm clock, that's how bad they were. I eventually got a Palm Treo. It was less reliable than those, but at least it made up for it by having access to email and web browsing... sort of.
When my contract was up with the Treo the iPhone was on its second revision. I didn't expect much but I switched over to it. It wasn't long before it became my primary alarm clock. I can honestly say that I have never had an alarm on any of my iPhones fail to go off*. I've never missed a call because the phone decided not to tell me. (That happened a LOT with my "not-smart-phones".) In the last 7 years I think I've only done a hard-reset twice. If I had to do it again I'd have to look it up.
What I'm saying is I didn't have a reliable phone until I got a smart phone. Frankly if I had to switch to Android at some point, I'd go in quite confident I'd end up with a similar tale to tell.
Now was it all sunshine and roses? No. Wifi is finnicky on Apple devices. It's a common complaint and I can tell you I've personally experienced it. Also, between iOS 7 and 8, the quality of the operating system has gone down. I don't know what's going on over at Apple, but either the switch to 64-bit was a much bigger problem than they let on or they're just not giving a shit. Yes, my phone always rings and my alarm always goes off, but it's only recently that I've actually seen glitchiness on these phones. Apple's promising that iOS9 is the 'reliable' version. I hope for their sake that they manage it.
But I'm sorry, I found your comment funny. Maybe I'm not representative of a large group of people, but dumb-phones generally are crap.
* I do, however, be extra careful when daylight savings time comes and goes because Apple has screwed that up multiple times. I don't know why it takes three tries to write alarm code that can survive an hour disappearing or reappearing.
Why else do you think it has more global market share than Apple could ever dream about?
Because there's a gazillion piece-of-shit phones that identify themselves as 'Android' and that's the only qualification you need to count them.
Heh. You supported my point but phrased it as a rebuttal. Nice.
You should read the comments from the people who have been there.
Heh. Yeah, *I* intentionally misinterpret stuff, that's me doing that in this discussion. Right. Anyway, in case you're curious, where I was going with that is that there are no statistics on GPS-use causing accidents because they fall into the statistical noise of accidents caused by passenger distractions and messing with the radio. It hasn't happened enough to get an actual number on it. Your approach of seeing a few stories on the news and multiplying it by a million turned out to be inaccurate. This is either because you're seriously misinformed or you're such a careful driver that you have useful safety tips to share. (Frankly I was hoping it was the latter.)
Okay, I'm done, have a nice weekend. :)