I would also ask you to consider the following quote:
'when people begin to use religion to justify hatred and killing, and thus abandon the compassionate ethic of all great world religions, they have embarked on a course that represents a defeat for faith'.
As such, can you truly claim that wars committed to in the name of religion actually follow the tenets of the religion they claim to represent? At the end of the day, if a Christian and a Muslim declare war on each other, aren't they abandoning their faith in the name of conflict?
It asks you before you install the app so it doesn't bug you every five minutes after you install it when it tries to do things you're already aware it's going to do.
I don't think the choice is necessarily between "adjusting my behaviour to the device" and "my device is perfect already". That seems like a false dichotomy.
A valid third option that I get with my HTC Hero is "adjusting my device to my behaviour".
1) The main Opera browser doesn't operate the same way 2) You're already trusting everyone except Opera on your list when you browse HTTP anyway, and 3) Opera warns you that HTTPS transmissions may be insecure the first time you attempt it.
Maybe it's because this is Slashdot, and everyone with half a brain knows that the malware writers target Windows almost exclusively. Whether this is because it's insecure or because of popularity, or otherwise, is up to the reader.
None of the rest of us need that to be repeated over and over again to satisfy the sense of self-worth you get just because you don't use it.
- Data roaming enable/disable setting Menu -> Settings -> Wireless Controls -> Mobile Network Settings
- Separate disable controls for 3G and WiFi Creatable as a button on any of your seven homepages.
- Network usage statistics This is actually handled by my phone provider.
- Pinch zoom on every app that matters (ok, the Milestone is also supposed to have that and this Nexus One update as well) (Your brackets indicate that you've already conceded this point)
- Smooth interface (Nexus One seems ok too) (And this one)
I'd actually read through your comment history and seen you pull the "Apple Hater" card more than once. I wanted to see if it was possible that you could have a reasonable discussion about something to do with Apple.
Never mind.
But it's exactly the users with way more technical needs that are most able to jailbreak
Great, but why not have both the technical and the layman users have the same capabilities from their phone? Jailbreaking is always going to be worse than having your manufacturer actually support what you want to do.
And you are so caught up in exactly one way to do something
If you honestly think that the iPhone way is more free than the Android way I think I'll give up on you.
Oh, and don't talk about jailbreaking as if having to constantly work against your phone carrier and manufacturer is a fun alternative to having your apps fully supported.
I don't think you understood what I actually meant, but that's fine. Despite your protestations, I gave you exactly that which you asked for - iPhone doesn't do Skype over 3G, and it can't run in the background. I'll still respond to your points because it seems like you're so enraptured in what you're allowed to do, that you can't see what it's possible to do.
You run skype. You switch over to look at some data, and back again.
Or Skype runs in the background and I can do anything else I like. When I receive a call, it arrives like a normal phone call, the only difference being it's labelled with Skype. Any other time, you wouldn't even know it was there until you ask for the front end, which pops up straight away.
Or you can call into a skype bridge using the phone service you are paying for, and do anything else.
So, like any other phone. Fancy.
Or, you can use a skype client that includes a browser.
Or, again, Skype runs in the background and I can do anything else I like. Why should I pick out a tool that does only one of the many things that I might want to do while waiting for a Skype call? Skype is supposed to act like a landline, but the iPhone client can't provide that for you. You're stuck holding the app open, interrupting your usage, until you don't want to receive a call any more. Why would you want that instead?
Of course, you're free to inform me that the Skype app doesn't act like that, that you can use the phone as normal while the Skype process runs in the background and you can use other apps in the meantime without it closing Skype down, but I don't think you can.
Just to add my voice to the Anonymous Cowards telling you to read a dictionary - go read a dictionary:)
In case you can't find one: that is a perfectly legitimate use of 'legion', probably originating from "I am Legion, because we are many" in the Bible. I'm sure some budding etymologist can put my reply to shame.
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I still lay all that suffering right at the feet of religion.
How many religions can you name that don't have "don't kill each other" as a central philosophy? How can any of them conflict on that basis?
I suspect you are 99 times more pedantic than the article writer :)
If we limit suffering to only those cases where humans have lost their lives at the hands of their fellows, religion wins, hands down.
See if you can bring up some statistics around that precise quote. I would wager you'd be surprised. A good read of the below is always a start:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/04/war_audit_pdf/pdf/war_audit.pdf
I would also ask you to consider the following quote:
'when people begin to use religion to justify hatred and killing, and thus abandon the compassionate ethic of all great world religions, they have embarked on a course that represents a defeat for faith'.
As such, can you truly claim that wars committed to in the name of religion actually follow the tenets of the religion they claim to represent? At the end of the day, if a Christian and a Muslim declare war on each other, aren't they abandoning their faith in the name of conflict?
Always been an Athlon/Radeon user since I had a shocking experience with a GeForce Ti4200.
Oh well, I obviously can't force you to try it out :)
Evil Genius really isn't buggy at all, and definitely worth the money on GOG.
Also, never found a bug in Titan Quest, purchased or pirated...
But they do force you to buy MS products - which is the problem. (Ever try to purchase a computer without Windows?)
Yes. It's ridiculously easy.
I never said they did, you illiterate fucking prick. (See, insulting people makes my point more valid!)
And the computer you get will be fast and secure
You state that like it's guaranteed, but it's not. The existence of jailbroken phones proves you dead wrong.
It asks you before you install the app so it doesn't bug you every five minutes after you install it when it tries to do things you're already aware it's going to do.
I don't think the choice is necessarily between "adjusting my behaviour to the device" and "my device is perfect already". That seems like a false dichotomy.
A valid third option that I get with my HTC Hero is "adjusting my device to my behaviour".
Whoosh. :)
Because:
1) The main Opera browser doesn't operate the same way
2) You're already trusting everyone except Opera on your list when you browse HTTP anyway, and
3) Opera warns you that HTTPS transmissions may be insecure the first time you attempt it.
Well, then they aren't new enough :P
Also you'd want some actual linespacing there.
Why the fuck am I back to HTML Formatted without me knowing?
Doesn't the second space [alt-255] in the first line completely screw the alignment? Surely you'd want: * Windows: [alt-255] [alt-30] [enter] [alt 30] [alt 255] [alt 30] * Mac: [option-space] + [option-J] + [enter] + [option-J] + [option-space] + [option-J] * Linux : [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Enter] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2]
Maybe it's because this is Slashdot, and everyone with half a brain knows that the malware writers target Windows almost exclusively. Whether this is because it's insecure or because of popularity, or otherwise, is up to the reader. None of the rest of us need that to be repeated over and over again to satisfy the sense of self-worth you get just because you don't use it.
On the HTC Hero:
- Data roaming enable/disable setting
Menu -> Settings -> Wireless Controls -> Mobile Network Settings
- Separate disable controls for 3G and WiFi
Creatable as a button on any of your seven homepages.
- Network usage statistics
This is actually handled by my phone provider.
- Pinch zoom on every app that matters (ok, the Milestone is also supposed to have that and this Nexus One update as well)
(Your brackets indicate that you've already conceded this point)
- Smooth interface (Nexus One seems ok too)
(And this one)
Anything else?
I'd actually read through your comment history and seen you pull the "Apple Hater" card more than once. I wanted to see if it was possible that you could have a reasonable discussion about something to do with Apple. Never mind.
But it's exactly the users with way more technical needs that are most able to jailbreak
Great, but why not have both the technical and the layman users have the same capabilities from their phone? Jailbreaking is always going to be worse than having your manufacturer actually support what you want to do.
And you are so caught up in exactly one way to do something
If you honestly think that the iPhone way is more free than the Android way I think I'll give up on you.
Oh, and don't talk about jailbreaking as if having to constantly work against your phone carrier and manufacturer is a fun alternative to having your apps fully supported.
You run skype. You switch over to look at some data, and back again.
Or Skype runs in the background and I can do anything else I like. When I receive a call, it arrives like a normal phone call, the only difference being it's labelled with Skype. Any other time, you wouldn't even know it was there until you ask for the front end, which pops up straight away.
Or you can call into a skype bridge using the phone service you are paying for, and do anything else.
So, like any other phone. Fancy.
Or, you can use a skype client that includes a browser.
Or, again, Skype runs in the background and I can do anything else I like. Why should I pick out a tool that does only one of the many things that I might want to do while waiting for a Skype call? Skype is supposed to act like a landline, but the iPhone client can't provide that for you. You're stuck holding the app open, interrupting your usage, until you don't want to receive a call any more. Why would you want that instead? Of course, you're free to inform me that the Skype app doesn't act like that, that you can use the phone as normal while the Skype process runs in the background and you can use other apps in the meantime without it closing Skype down, but I don't think you can.
Come up with a task you think the iPhone cannot perform and Android can.
Skype over 3G, running in the background so it doesn't interfere with the main operation of the phone. You're welcome.
Just to add my voice to the Anonymous Cowards telling you to read a dictionary - go read a dictionary :)
In case you can't find one: that is a perfectly legitimate use of 'legion', probably originating from "I am Legion, because we are many" in the Bible. I'm sure some budding etymologist can put my reply to shame.
And you just wanted another excuse to be an insufferable toady.
If I wanted to be a toady, I wouldn't do it here.
You're not worth it.
Then do us both a favour and don't reply :)
Thank you, Microsoft, for popping by and allowing us to pay every time we play a game. It's so nice of you to help us be nostalgic this way.
Then:
I wouldn't buy anything from Microsoft with a ten foot pole, even if they were on fire.
In essence, then, you just wanted another excuse to bitch at Microsoft. Was it worth it?