Google gives me 3 results :
1. One is your slashdot post
2. One about memes with a quote written on an obese lady saying "lowering minimum wage will increase the number of jobs". No explanation/description.
3. One heritage.org, saying somewhat orthogonally "Increased Minimum Wage Does Not Reduce Poverty"
First try answering this question which has proven hard enough for you.
And that's the thing. Plastic is cheap
And superior for making phone bodies. I am waiting for 24 carat gold screw drivers for such idiots - steel is cheap, it's why the vast majority of cheap crap is made from steel. Nice stuff is made from gold.
metal, which isn't as easy to work with
Building a good device out of plastic is quite hard - you need to
Decide whether metal is more "isn't easy", or plastic is more "quite hard". I know doing real work is difficult - whether plastic or metal but it makes no sense to call both more difficult than each other to publicly declare your idiocy, since it is already well established from your first paragraph.
I see humans walking around with shattered glass in their phones' front and backs everyday. And those with plastic as good as new for months, good condition for years.
When you poke/squish the plastic, it moves and deforms. When you do the same to glass it stays rigid (like a solid).
Poke extremely hard and squish cruelly, for modern plastics. Like you do to the big iPhone to hilarious results, except the hilarity in metal is forever.
People like something that feels well built and solid even if the plastic being able to deform has other advantages.
Plastic doesn't just have "other" advantages, modern plastics have every advantage. Nothing better than "idiots feel smug about their cluelessness" can be said about this, I guess.
Aside from SSL in transport it is not encrypted. Gmail really needs encryption. Aside from Obama, there is no president of the US. US really needs a president.
Of wait, one president is enough. And one encryption is enough, especially for those who are fine with some third parties reading their mail. Oops, you're wrong again.
the solid feel of a phone with glass on both sides.
You used glass and solid in the same sentence. Apart from the legends about glass being liquid, I haven't met any one else yet who calls glass "solid" in its figurative sense either.
So the "idiots feel smug about their cluelessness" as spake a mindless person upthread seems right.
I checked again, and I don't find gmail really violating any of your golden principles laid out in this post - http://slashdot.org/comments.p....
Google reads mail - check.
Others cannot read mail - check.
Forgot password support - check
Gmail does even more - it has 2 factor authentication too.
In fact I agree with your statement
It is not necessary that no third parties can decrypt your data or messages in order to have encryption be useful
Encryption is useful against whoever has access to data bits and should be unable to read the data underlying those bits. Whether they be third, fourth or nth party when n tends to infinity. There are no such people in the case of gmail.
People in less colder climes sweat without trying.
Agreed with the initial 2.5 paragraphs of your post. But
if you want to strengthen a muscle, you have to exercise it, and in general the more intense the exercise, the greater the gains
Exercising a muscle strengthens it can be accepted. But I don't see any increasing function between muscle strength and health. And it is another leap, though a shorter one, between better health and living longer.
Very weak people are unlikely to be healthy - but after a certain threshold increasingly more muscle strength definitely doesn't lead to better and better health. This threshold isn't even hunk level strength. Note also that health is typically defined in a negative - absence of physical and mental disease. Not only does this correlation NEED a scientific study, there weren't any good ones that I could find last when I looked a few years ago.
And people very healthy while living drop dead suddenly, or after a very short "non-health". And non-healthy people live on 20 pills a day for 40 years. Both these effects run into families. This is another correlation that isn't as much as it is generally assumed.
But plastics used nowadays are clearly superior to metal for a phone body. Less denting, less slippery, more flexible at the stress levels typically endured by phones so protects phone innards better.
So metal necessarily is less well made than plastics typically used for phones.
OK so you define criteria and then have unspeakable problems with solutions meeting all of those and more.
Things you don't understand are that simple, you should redo your pre-school learning.
1. Using exquisite use of branching in git, it might be possible.
2. In your example, there was nothing "done since" the wrong paint so it is irrelevant.
Gmail satisfies all practical criteria you laid down for security in this post - http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
There is another type of criteria - the illiterate's criteria of "encryption" as a buzzword without any practical value. Using SSL, gmail satisfies that too.
Start using version control, and at least undoing becomes trivial.
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. -- R.S. Barton
