Inbox works with your Gmail address (along with whatever other addresses you've added on using imap or pop). It is basically a different way of consuming the same content (ie the email that ends up in your standard Gmail Inbox) and tries to automatically sort the email into categories such as Misc., Forums, Purchases, Bills etc while not assigning a different label to them. Inbox adds the ability to snooze emails (so you get a notification to do something about them at a later time) along with the ability to create sticky emails which show up in a separate folder (for a lack of a better term) that is easily accessible. I haven't had a chance to play with it properly as I only finally got the invite a couple hours ago but I kinda like the premise and if the categorizing algorithms are any good, it might actually be fairly useful (obviously that's my take on it, other people have their own preferences/needs).
If there is a governing body that tries to downplay the chance of injury, tries to encourage participation while recovering from injury, or tries to discourage rules and equipment changes that would limit prevent injuries, they should be subject to scrutiny up to and including being sued, just as the restaurant, lift, and cinema owners in your examples would be.
Which is exactly what this guy is doing, suing the powers that be to improve the situation and hence reduce the chance of a permanent injury resulting from repetitive minor, easy-to-shrug-off injuries. He's not seeking monetary damages (as far as I can tell) yet you are objecting to what he's trying to accomplish. What I can't figure out is the reason behind the objection, care to elaborate?
A person goes to a restaurant, orders a meal, gets food poisoning...in your fantasy world are they allowed to sue the aforementioned restaurant? There was no requirement for them to go to the said restaurant, they could have stayed in and cooked, they could've gone to a different restaurant or they could've ordered take-away.
A family decides to take a vacation in a not-very-touristy holiday resort, once there, they decide to go on the chair lifts which, unbeknownst to them, are poorly maintained and cause injury to one of the kids...in your fantasy world, are they allowed to sue the holiday resort? They were not required to take a holiday, they could've stayed at home, they could've gone to a different holiday resort or they could've left the kids with their grand parents.
A couple decide to go to the cinemas to watch a movie, someone yells fire resulting in a stampede due to there being only one exit...in your version of reality, are the patrons allowed to sue the cinema because the cinema in question had failed to meet the health and safety regulations? They was no requirement for these people to go watch a movie at the cinema as they could've waited a couple months till the movie came out on DVD/BluRay/Streaming etc, they could've gone to a different cinema or they could've gone to the theater and enjoyed a live enactment of a Shakespeare play.
And what additional benefits do these American workers reap? They work (at least) 4 extra hours each week so their standard of living should be better, if it's not and all the extra work means more profits for their employer, then trying to portray that as a good thing is just plain dumb (unless you are one of the employers in which case you can laugh your head off at the dumb notion of said workers and their superiority complex over working more for the same of lower wages).
Just out of curiosity what ROM are you running on your DHD? Screen rotate doesn't work with most of the ROMs I've tried, apparently it's something to do with SenseUI
Not true at all...back in the day when xbox 360 and ps3 had just been released, the base xbox 360 model (called the arcade version) was 125 pounds with a free game and had a 4gb memory card and no wifi or internal hdd. The PS3 on the other hand was around 300 pounds and included (as far as i remember) wifi and a 60gb hdd out of the box. I bought the xbox 360 arcade along with a game for 125 quid, a little later bought a used 60gb hdd off of CEX for around 20 quid and almost a year later bought a wifi dongle for around 45 quid from gamestop (primarily because the router was not in my room any more). The fact that I could buy a cheap base model initially and 'upgrade' it when and how I wanted, played a major role in my decision to go with xbox 360 instead of the ps3.
the OP is not talking about Windows 8/Windows 8.1 though, they're talking about the MS Store that was supposed to be MS' version of the OSX app store that Apple launched. I think MS failed in that attempt, I don't know what the reason behind this failure is but every time I've searched for an app in the MS app store, the only apps I can find are Metro/ModernUI which are completely useless as far as my use case is concerned.
Also, games aren't the only thing keeping people away from Linux, the couple of PC games that I occasionally play can be run under WINE but what I can't get to run reliably is Photoshop and while Gimp is an alternative, I just can't get comfortable using it and I've tried several times. This is only one example that is relevant to me, other people have their own problems/peeves which keep them tied to Windows.
would be fun to see you run your mouth like that once you enter the real world and are trying to juggle work, social obligations, gaming and maybe a pet project or two...
I don't know, Civilizations 5 (and it's expansion Civilizations 5: Gods and Kings, haven't got around to buying the 2nd expansion yet) is lots of fun and is not dumbed down in any way...
Dragon Age: Origins was excellent and did not feel dumbed down and while Dragon Age II was not the best game in the franchise, it definitely was not dumbed down.
Forza Motor Sports 4 and Forza Motor Sports 5 are both pretty good.
Tekken Tag Tournament 6 is also pretty good.
(I would have included Mass Effect in the list but while the game mechanics and overall experience improved from the first game to the third, the games were progressively dumbed down and the franchise had one of the worst endings ever, probably even worse than Dexter's (the TV show) series finale).
Amen to that. I can't figure the logic behind sacrificing the convenience of just looking at one's wrist to tell the time instead of faffing about for one's (smart or dumb or feature) mobile phone.
Germany's economic model is called Christian Capitalism these days btw and arguing against the positive effect it has had on the German economy will be difficult for anyone.
Everyone knows that Samsung never innovates, they just steal Apple's ideas and innovations. Since Apple haven't yet innovated this, one can only assume that Samsung have stolen this from Future Apple...
Woah there, fundamentalist much? Instead of having a sane discussion, your first response is to call whoever disagrees with you an idiot? Now if only we could figure out why people don't listen to you and get this urge to tell you to do one instead...
Here's a bit of a history lesson for you:
Social democracy originated in 19th century Germany from the influence of both the internationalist revolutionary socialism and doctrine of communism advanced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; and the reformist socialism of Ferdinand Lassalle. The Marxists and Lassallians were in rivalry over political influence in the movement until 1868–1869 when Marxism became the official basis of Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany. In the Hague Congress of 1872, Marx modified his stance on revolution by declaring that there were countries with democratic institutions where reformist measures could be advanced, saying that "workers may achieve their aims by peaceful means, But this is not true of all countries." Marx stressed his support for the Paris Commune due to its representative democracy based on universal suffrage.
Fabians and Marxists influenced by Eduard Bernstein advocate an evolutionary approach to the advancement of socialism. Bernstein opposed classical and orthodox Marxism's assumption of the necessity of socialist revolution and class conflict, claiming that socialism could be achieved via representative democracy and cooperation between people regardless of class. Social democracy in the early 20th century began to transition away from association with Marxism towards liberal socialism, particularly through the influence of figures like Carlo Rosselli who sought to disassociate socialism from the legacy of Marxism. By the post-World War II period, most social democrats in Europe had abandoned their ideological connection to Marxism and shifted their emphasis toward social policy reform in place of transition from capitalism to socialism.
One of the primary reasons for this shift was how Lenin's Soviet revolution against the entrenched bourgeoisie (mostly feudal land owners) had played out and the negative connotations it had stained socialism with. With Lenin's Soviet Red Terror, estimates for the total number of people killed range from 50,000 (0.02% of the Russian Empire population in 1917) to 140,000(0.07%) to over a million (obviously depending on the bias of the historian). The people killed in the Red Terror were not just bourgeoisie though, several people from the proletariat who opposed the movement or wanted to be left alone, were killed as well.
Another major factor which played a major role in disassociating socialism from the legacy of Marxism was the aftermath of the Soviet revolution, more specifically the quick decline of Soviet Russia from communism to totalitarianism under Joseph Stalin's leadership and the atrocities perpetrated under that regime. One could possibly argue that things might have turned out differently had Trotsky succeeded Lenin instead of Stalin but that's just conjecture.
You might be under the impression that things in Communist Russia were perfect but that notion could not be further from the truth. Fact of the matter is that the Russian version of communism and its decline into totalitarianism did more harm to socialism than any American propaganda against socialism could ever have done and it was (rightly felt) by several European leaders that the only way they could work towards equality and socialism was through gradual reform instead of sudden violent uprisings. The results speak for themselves, where Soviet Russia is now again an aristocratic state with rampant corruption (granted that this state of affairs is a direct result of the policies pursued by America and her allies, conditions in Russia prior to the dissolution of the USSR weren't all that pretty), the populations of countries with social democracies (most of which have Nordic Capitalism as their economic model) are the most satisfied on the planet according to pretty much every study and every report that's come out in the past ~5 years.
While I completely agree that the American capitalism model is fundamentally flawed and without a complete overhaul can not be fixed, what is wrong with the Nordic capitalism model? Although the Nordic model is identified as capitalism, It's essentially a hybrid economic model which interweaves several elements of socialism and capitalism in a way that the end result is better than both base models (which is a personal opinion and you will probably disagree with it).
Oh joy, you're already at -1 and I am pretty certain my comment will not fare much better. So much for not using the moderation system to penalize comments one does not agree with -.-'...
We are talking about the MAC App Store, Android Playstore is not a competitor to that. You could possibly compare the Mac App Store to Windows Store or (maybe) even the repos for different Linux distros.
I think you saw App Store and assumed iOS App Store.
I don't disagree with what you said about the Playstore and iOS App Store but that is not the topic of discussion here, just sayin.
So when comcast/verizon/at&t/warner charge their respective customers for an unlimited broadband connection, it means that said customers only get the content from content-providers that play by the rules set forth by comcast/verizon/at&t/warner?
Also, services such as netflix, youtube, soundcloud, hulu, xbox video, skype, viber etc are amongst the primary reason of why people ditched their 56kbps modems and moved to broadband. If the service providers (such as netflix) are paying the ISPs, shouldn't customers of that service provider get their service for free?
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Inbox works with your Gmail address (along with whatever other addresses you've added on using imap or pop). It is basically a different way of consuming the same content (ie the email that ends up in your standard Gmail Inbox) and tries to automatically sort the email into categories such as Misc., Forums, Purchases, Bills etc while not assigning a different label to them. Inbox adds the ability to snooze emails (so you get a notification to do something about them at a later time) along with the ability to create sticky emails which show up in a separate folder (for a lack of a better term) that is easily accessible. I haven't had a chance to play with it properly as I only finally got the invite a couple hours ago but I kinda like the premise and if the categorizing algorithms are any good, it might actually be fairly useful (obviously that's my take on it, other people have their own preferences/needs).
The British Empire built the Pyramids? [slow clapping for the A.C]
If there is a governing body that tries to downplay the chance of injury, tries to encourage participation while recovering from injury, or tries to discourage rules and equipment changes that would limit prevent injuries, they should be subject to scrutiny up to and including being sued, just as the restaurant, lift, and cinema owners in your examples would be.
Which is exactly what this guy is doing, suing the powers that be to improve the situation and hence reduce the chance of a permanent injury resulting from repetitive minor, easy-to-shrug-off injuries. He's not seeking monetary damages (as far as I can tell) yet you are objecting to what he's trying to accomplish. What I can't figure out is the reason behind the objection, care to elaborate?
A person goes to a restaurant, orders a meal, gets food poisoning...in your fantasy world are they allowed to sue the aforementioned restaurant? There was no requirement for them to go to the said restaurant, they could have stayed in and cooked, they could've gone to a different restaurant or they could've ordered take-away.
A family decides to take a vacation in a not-very-touristy holiday resort, once there, they decide to go on the chair lifts which, unbeknownst to them, are poorly maintained and cause injury to one of the kids...in your fantasy world, are they allowed to sue the holiday resort? They were not required to take a holiday, they could've stayed at home, they could've gone to a different holiday resort or they could've left the kids with their grand parents.
A couple decide to go to the cinemas to watch a movie, someone yells fire resulting in a stampede due to there being only one exit...in your version of reality, are the patrons allowed to sue the cinema because the cinema in question had failed to meet the health and safety regulations? They was no requirement for these people to go watch a movie at the cinema as they could've waited a couple months till the movie came out on DVD/BluRay/Streaming etc, they could've gone to a different cinema or they could've gone to the theater and enjoyed a live enactment of a Shakespeare play.
Can't wait for transparisteel... (In all seriousness, why aren't phones using Aluminium oxynitride instead of Sapphire glass or Gorilla Glass?)
Mod parent funny...that made me snicker
And what additional benefits do these American workers reap? They work (at least) 4 extra hours each week so their standard of living should be better, if it's not and all the extra work means more profits for their employer, then trying to portray that as a good thing is just plain dumb (unless you are one of the employers in which case you can laugh your head off at the dumb notion of said workers and their superiority complex over working more for the same of lower wages).
Just out of curiosity what ROM are you running on your DHD? Screen rotate doesn't work with most of the ROMs I've tried, apparently it's something to do with SenseUI
Not true at all...back in the day when xbox 360 and ps3 had just been released, the base xbox 360 model (called the arcade version) was 125 pounds with a free game and had a 4gb memory card and no wifi or internal hdd. The PS3 on the other hand was around 300 pounds and included (as far as i remember) wifi and a 60gb hdd out of the box. I bought the xbox 360 arcade along with a game for 125 quid, a little later bought a used 60gb hdd off of CEX for around 20 quid and almost a year later bought a wifi dongle for around 45 quid from gamestop (primarily because the router was not in my room any more). The fact that I could buy a cheap base model initially and 'upgrade' it when and how I wanted, played a major role in my decision to go with xbox 360 instead of the ps3.
the OP is not talking about Windows 8/Windows 8.1 though, they're talking about the MS Store that was supposed to be MS' version of the OSX app store that Apple launched. I think MS failed in that attempt, I don't know what the reason behind this failure is but every time I've searched for an app in the MS app store, the only apps I can find are Metro/ModernUI which are completely useless as far as my use case is concerned.
Also, games aren't the only thing keeping people away from Linux, the couple of PC games that I occasionally play can be run under WINE but what I can't get to run reliably is Photoshop and while Gimp is an alternative, I just can't get comfortable using it and I've tried several times. This is only one example that is relevant to me, other people have their own problems/peeves which keep them tied to Windows.
would be fun to see you run your mouth like that once you enter the real world and are trying to juggle work, social obligations, gaming and maybe a pet project or two...
How in blazes does this not matter?
Dolphins
Meanwhile in other news:
Ferguson No-Fly Zone Revealed As Anti-Media Tactic
I don't know, Civilizations 5 (and it's expansion Civilizations 5: Gods and Kings, haven't got around to buying the 2nd expansion yet) is lots of fun and is not dumbed down in any way...
Dragon Age: Origins was excellent and did not feel dumbed down and while Dragon Age II was not the best game in the franchise, it definitely was not dumbed down.
Forza Motor Sports 4 and Forza Motor Sports 5 are both pretty good.
Tekken Tag Tournament 6 is also pretty good.
(I would have included Mass Effect in the list but while the game mechanics and overall experience improved from the first game to the third, the games were progressively dumbed down and the franchise had one of the worst endings ever, probably even worse than Dexter's (the TV show) series finale).
And the wonky weather patterns that we're witnessing? I guess the weather's in on the conspiracy too...
Could you please name a few missing features? I don't have a kde 3 system available at the moment and kde 4 feels pretty complete and stable to me
Amen to that. I can't figure the logic behind sacrificing the convenience of just looking at one's wrist to tell the time instead of faffing about for one's (smart or dumb or feature) mobile phone.
Germany's economic model is called Christian Capitalism these days btw and arguing against the positive effect it has had on the German economy will be difficult for anyone.
Bringing facts to a tin-foil hat party? How anti-social...
Everyone knows that Samsung never innovates, they just steal Apple's ideas and innovations. Since Apple haven't yet innovated this, one can only assume that Samsung have stolen this from Future Apple...
Woah there, fundamentalist much? Instead of having a sane discussion, your first response is to call whoever disagrees with you an idiot? Now if only we could figure out why people don't listen to you and get this urge to tell you to do one instead...
Here's a bit of a history lesson for you:
Social democracy originated in 19th century Germany from the influence of both the internationalist revolutionary socialism and doctrine of communism advanced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; and the reformist socialism of Ferdinand Lassalle. The Marxists and Lassallians were in rivalry over political influence in the movement until 1868–1869 when Marxism became the official basis of Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany. In the Hague Congress of 1872, Marx modified his stance on revolution by declaring that there were countries with democratic institutions where reformist measures could be advanced, saying that "workers may achieve their aims by peaceful means, But this is not true of all countries." Marx stressed his support for the Paris Commune due to its representative democracy based on universal suffrage.
Fabians and Marxists influenced by Eduard Bernstein advocate an evolutionary approach to the advancement of socialism. Bernstein opposed classical and orthodox Marxism's assumption of the necessity of socialist revolution and class conflict, claiming that socialism could be achieved via representative democracy and cooperation between people regardless of class. Social democracy in the early 20th century began to transition away from association with Marxism towards liberal socialism, particularly through the influence of figures like Carlo Rosselli who sought to disassociate socialism from the legacy of Marxism. By the post-World War II period, most social democrats in Europe had abandoned their ideological connection to Marxism and shifted their emphasis toward social policy reform in place of transition from capitalism to socialism.
One of the primary reasons for this shift was how Lenin's Soviet revolution against the entrenched bourgeoisie (mostly feudal land owners) had played out and the negative connotations it had stained socialism with. With Lenin's Soviet Red Terror, estimates for the total number of people killed range from 50,000 (0.02% of the Russian Empire population in 1917) to 140,000(0.07%) to over a million (obviously depending on the bias of the historian). The people killed in the Red Terror were not just bourgeoisie though, several people from the proletariat who opposed the movement or wanted to be left alone, were killed as well.
Another major factor which played a major role in disassociating socialism from the legacy of Marxism was the aftermath of the Soviet revolution, more specifically the quick decline of Soviet Russia from communism to totalitarianism under Joseph Stalin's leadership and the atrocities perpetrated under that regime. One could possibly argue that things might have turned out differently had Trotsky succeeded Lenin instead of Stalin but that's just conjecture.
You might be under the impression that things in Communist Russia were perfect but that notion could not be further from the truth. Fact of the matter is that the Russian version of communism and its decline into totalitarianism did more harm to socialism than any American propaganda against socialism could ever have done and it was (rightly felt) by several European leaders that the only way they could work towards equality and socialism was through gradual reform instead of sudden violent uprisings. The results speak for themselves, where Soviet Russia is now again an aristocratic state with rampant corruption (granted that this state of affairs is a direct result of the policies pursued by America and her allies, conditions in Russia prior to the dissolution of the USSR weren't all that pretty), the populations of countries with social democracies (most of which have Nordic Capitalism as their economic model) are the most satisfied on the planet according to pretty much every study and every report that's come out in the past ~5 years.
While I completely agree that the American capitalism model is fundamentally flawed and without a complete overhaul can not be fixed, what is wrong with the Nordic capitalism model? Although the Nordic model is identified as capitalism, It's essentially a hybrid economic model which interweaves several elements of socialism and capitalism in a way that the end result is better than both base models (which is a personal opinion and you will probably disagree with it).
Oh joy, you're already at -1 and I am pretty certain my comment will not fare much better. So much for not using the moderation system to penalize comments one does not agree with -.-'...
We are talking about the MAC App Store, Android Playstore is not a competitor to that. You could possibly compare the Mac App Store to Windows Store or (maybe) even the repos for different Linux distros.
I think you saw App Store and assumed iOS App Store.
I don't disagree with what you said about the Playstore and iOS App Store but that is not the topic of discussion here, just sayin.
So when comcast/verizon/at&t/warner charge their respective customers for an unlimited broadband connection, it means that said customers only get the content from content-providers that play by the rules set forth by comcast/verizon/at&t/warner?
Also, services such as netflix, youtube, soundcloud, hulu, xbox video, skype, viber etc are amongst the primary reason of why people ditched their 56kbps modems and moved to broadband. If the service providers (such as netflix) are paying the ISPs, shouldn't customers of that service provider get their service for free?