Comment Spain loves Android (Score 1) 161
Interesting that the map shows Spain to be so solidly in the Android camp.
I wonder if iOS is doing something funny there to skew the data, Apple has abandoned the market, or if it is local preference.
Interesting that the map shows Spain to be so solidly in the Android camp.
I wonder if iOS is doing something funny there to skew the data, Apple has abandoned the market, or if it is local preference.
> And we need growth because?
Because electrolytes, stupid.
does it ever occur to you that your role in life is to provide market research to some corporate holding company by describing the demographic you best fit into?
or do you take a more active role, by answering incorrectly to poison the statistics?
I mean come on, at least entertain us with a CowboyNeal option.
just because they may be alternative medicine crackpots does not mean that they are not experts in identifying exotic plant species. one might expect just the opposite actually.
train your brain to avoid the ad hominem.
As this is a more or less duplicate top-10 style list to the one posted yesterday, among many other "biggest foul ups" and "worst dressed" articles, the floor is open for meta-discussion.
I get that laughing at others' misfortune and fuckups makes sad people feel better about themselves and sells lots of glossy magazines, but you've got to admit it's all a bit depressing that we can't get past the psychology of school yard bullies and instead have at least one in five of these top 10 lists be about the greatest medical, quantum physics, and space exploration breakthroughs of the previous year and what's on the horizon for the next.
Celebrate good times, come on.
> No kidding. I had to look through dozens of "flashlight" apps
> to find one that didn't want my calendar, SMS, internet access,
> and GPS.
F-Droid is your friend.
As always, FOSS means you don't have to put up with the bullshit.
F-Droid build all apps they ship from source, including some sort
of grep filter on permissions to catch (and then remove) any code
which is not in the user's best interest, or at minimum flag and
explain the issue in detail to let you decide for yourself.
Otherwise-good apps with flagrant ad-ware or cripple-ware in it
simply gets patched.
Ok, ok, you're not going to look it up so here's the link,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE_Mizar
"Smolinski and his associate, Harold Blake, were killed in the
resulting fiery crash."
> Perhaps you should ask Google what "citation" means.
It's old Spanish which translates roughly to mean "painted horse".
As another poster pointed out, Android already is running the Linux kernel. If you want the GNU-ecosystem OS on top of the kernel all you have to do is install a chroot environment like "Lil' Debi" and you're done. (requires root)
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=info.guardianproject.lildebi&fdpage=13
Same goes for those very nice and very cheap long-life Chromebooks.
People give RMS lots of grief for calling "it" GNU/Linux, but he ain't no fool. Linux can be many things besides the kernel for the GNU OS, and see the Debian ports for the familiar GNU environment running on BSD, and yes, Hurd kernels instead of the Linux one.
This is a bit like asking physicists to come up with a reason that newtons apple falls that DOESNT involve gravity.
That could be considered apostrofal.
The ability to spot a scam is VERY easy, here is how:
You'd do better to learn from the master:
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
the laws of physics care not what Al Gore thinks or does.
it does not matter if it is Al Gore, JP Morgan & Co., or Colonel Fucking Sanders who points it out: internalising the market externalities around the burning of fossil fuels is the single greatest tool we have to do something about this before it is too late.
we know pretty much how many barrels oil, gas, and coal we sell (and so extract and burn) each year. We know quite well how many molecules of CO2 that will release. We know, pretty much, since the mid-1800s (starting with Fourier) what effect that CO2 will have on our atmosphere. We monitor it both in amount and radioisotope and it matches expectations pretty much spot on.
arguing over the minute details or the character of the messenger is both totally irrelevant and short sighted, not to mention intellectually dishonest.
A cap and trade marked based solution worked beautifully for SO2, there's absolutely no reason it wouldn't work for other pollutants as well, beyond intentional and sociopathic sabotage that is.
no, it really is largely irrelevant. here are the numbers up to and including last week:
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell
