While his recent waffling on Net Neutrality is still cause for concern, Tom Wheeler's recent statements in support of municipal broadband are worth cheering. In a statement posted to the FCC site, Wheeler said that: "If the people, acting through their elected local governments, want to pursue competitive community broadband, they shouldn't be stopped by state laws promoted by cable and telephone companies that don't want that competition."
That's about as strong a statement as one can expect from the head of a regulatory body. Plus, it's a pretty blunt challenge to both the industry he once lobbied on behalf of, and the government officials many believe are in their back pockets. In particular he cited the case of Chattanooga, TN which built out its own gigabit per-second fiber network out of frustration with the options offered by the incumbent Comcast. The trouble is, Tennessee's state government passed a law restricting municipal broadband projects...
Do you seriously want to have apps that seem to hang for 2-5 seconds every time a button is pushed just because it needs to save its state before it enters a new one? Most phone apps do not do anything where they need to have their state saved from one moment to the next. The only times you want to have an app continuously saving a file is if it's editing a local document of some kind. If you do happen to have an app that needs to keep persistent data from instance to instance, that's what the OnPause() or OnStop() methods are for. Then this data can be loaded back in when the app regains foreground by using the onResume() method, or regains visibility by using the onRestart() method.
Seriously, read up on the Activity Life Cycle so you can begin to understand what you're talking about.
My post was about what happens when the Phone App takes over. In my development experience, when the phone App takes over, the apps don't always get to perform the OnPause() or even the OnStop() methods before they go straight to OnDestroy(). Having the app actively listening for the phone call event (which occurs about 2 seconds before the phone system activates the phone Application) will give your app an extra bit of time to get the app state saved and properly stopped before the memory manager starts performing an aggressive cleanup to make room for the phone App (this is especially true on low end phones that don't have a substantial amount of application memory to work with).
It's all a matter of taste and what we can relate to. I've not been able to get into any of the Gold Age stories that I've found, and the Silver Age still tends to have too much camp. Being a child of the 80's and teen of the 90's I guess it makes sense that my tastes tend to travel along the trenches of the Bronze and Modern ages.
You fixed nothing and came off as either a pedantic or misinformed troll.
The person I replied to, mvdwege, happens to be the OP that asked the initial question and has very much stated that the partner in question is a woman in the statement I replied to. If you got yourself a
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by mvdwege (243851) Alter Relationship on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @06:16AM (#47201357) Homepage Journal
As it so happens, the partner in question is a woman. But thank you for your completely pointless misogynie.
Have you tried asking your partner what she'd recommend? You don't seem to have the experience with comics to realize it, but your question is extremely loaded. There are so many threads from the Golden Age that you could start reading about and reading through a particular thread and it may wind up having no relevance to what your lady likes. Is she into Dick Tracy? Classic Superman, WonderWoman or Batman? Submariner? Human Torch (not to be confused with Johnny Storm from Fantastic 4)? If you talk with your partner about what she likes from that era, she may be willing to open up to you more and start to take you under her wing.
On the other hand... if she looks at you with a highbrow "you're not worthy" sort of look and seems to be annoyed with you learning this world, she may want to keep this world to herself for her own private enjoyment.
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