Can I just use this opportunity so say that Angry Birds is overrated crap? It requires no skills, success or failure is random, and the difficulty level is schizophrenic: some levels are mind-bogginly easy, some require precision that makes NASA soil their pants. And some guy who made it has the arrogance to criticize other games? Hah.
Where are mod points when you need them. I want to mod you up so badly, while burrying that AC down there who's too lazy to read paragraphs longer than two lines, and who hasn't heard of capitalization or punctuation while hypocritically dismissing your writing.
On the CPU front, I'm buying AMD as well because Intel caved and gave Hollywood studios their DRM. I'd post the link to the earlier/. post, but/.'s textbox is broken in Chromium on Linux.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but the automobile had some pretty dramatic advantages over the horse-pulled buggy - such as not having cholera-spreading foul-smelling horse shit all over the roads. With energy, the advantage is not that dramatic - it's the same energy, just from a different source, with no obvious differences to the consumer.
That said, we do aircraft security poorly. Current methods are crude, invasive, and let through as much as they stop. What's the right answer? I don't know. We clearly need some form of aircraft security, but the way we do it now is reactive, incomplete, and embarrassing for everyone involved. Not to mention a huge waste of time, and causing little girls to cry.
We could ask Israel. I've flown out of Tel Aviv (admittedly, a few years ago, so my memory is fuzzy) and it was a hell of a lot more pleasant than the stories I'm seeing out of the US. And both El Al and Ben Gurion Airport are considered some of the most (if not the most) secure in the world. (Info from Wikipedia, but cited over there.)
Most Americans - or to generalize, most people - are stupid, and have no idea what the Internet actually is, how it works, or what a malicious cyber attack is.
In the Apple case I don't get to do such a thing, because it's always locked down, no matter who I buy from.
Please stop confusing carrier lock and jailbreak. Here in Canada Apple started selling unlocked iPhones a little bit before iPhone 4 launched. They're carrier unlocked, you can use them with whatever network, but you still need to jailbreak them if you want root access. Heck, even the Nexus One was sold in a similar way: carrier unlocked, but you didn't have root on it out of the box.
Google is filled with really smart people. The Internet, not so much. After the basics have been covered (and they have), the features Google will introduce will be too smart/complicated/advanced for your average Internet user, while silliness like searching for some pizza and seeing what toppings a person you haven't seen in real life in years had on their pizza last night will become inexplicably popular.
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Can I just use this opportunity so say that Angry Birds is overrated crap? It requires no skills, success or failure is random, and the difficulty level is schizophrenic: some levels are mind-bogginly easy, some require precision that makes NASA soil their pants. And some guy who made it has the arrogance to criticize other games? Hah.
Grounded? It's on a goddamn airplane.
Replying to undo bad mod.
At which point the zoologist started running away from the angry bear.
Please be IPoAC, please...
That's cool and everything, but can we get the *current* Android version for our Nexus Ones please?
I forgot the memory breakthrough I was working on...
How do you even know that?
Where are mod points when you need them. I want to mod you up so badly, while burrying that AC down there who's too lazy to read paragraphs longer than two lines, and who hasn't heard of capitalization or punctuation while hypocritically dismissing your writing.
On the CPU front, I'm buying AMD as well because Intel caved and gave Hollywood studios their DRM. I'd post the link to the earlier /. post, but /.'s textbox is broken in Chromium on Linux.
I think your problem is a defective phone, not Android...
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but the automobile had some pretty dramatic advantages over the horse-pulled buggy - such as not having cholera-spreading foul-smelling horse shit all over the roads. With energy, the advantage is not that dramatic - it's the same energy, just from a different source, with no obvious differences to the consumer.
Who else read that as "T-Rex"? Because raptors in Congress would be awesome - but Randall Munroe would piss himself.
FAPU? Why yes, my college years were spent at FapU...
Who makes money from tracking users? Google. Microsoft is in effect attacking Google's revenue source.
As a Quebecois (not born, but raised), I want to slap you while laughing ;)
That is not a disclaimer, you just wanted to brag ;)
That said, we do aircraft security poorly. Current methods are crude, invasive, and let through as much as they stop. What's the right answer? I don't know. We clearly need some form of aircraft security, but the way we do it now is reactive, incomplete, and embarrassing for everyone involved. Not to mention a huge waste of time, and causing little girls to cry.
We could ask Israel. I've flown out of Tel Aviv (admittedly, a few years ago, so my memory is fuzzy) and it was a hell of a lot more pleasant than the stories I'm seeing out of the US. And both El Al and Ben Gurion Airport are considered some of the most (if not the most) secure in the world. (Info from Wikipedia, but cited over there.)
Someone mod this up please!
I'm still angry at BSG for ending with "You know all of those cool questions we left unanswered? Yeah, those. Yeah, God did it."
What next? They'll discover a hidden parallel port and what? It's supposed to stop world hunger?
Damn right, it'll feed people cereal in parallel.
Most Americans - or to generalize, most people - are stupid, and have no idea what the Internet actually is, how it works, or what a malicious cyber attack is.
In the Apple case I don't get to do such a thing, because it's always locked down, no matter who I buy from.
Please stop confusing carrier lock and jailbreak. Here in Canada Apple started selling unlocked iPhones a little bit before iPhone 4 launched. They're carrier unlocked, you can use them with whatever network, but you still need to jailbreak them if you want root access. Heck, even the Nexus One was sold in a similar way: carrier unlocked, but you didn't have root on it out of the box.
Google is filled with really smart people. The Internet, not so much. After the basics have been covered (and they have), the features Google will introduce will be too smart/complicated/advanced for your average Internet user, while silliness like searching for some pizza and seeing what toppings a person you haven't seen in real life in years had on their pizza last night will become inexplicably popular.
The Pope has been using too much technology ;)