Comment Re:So (Score 1) 373
As the saying goes, wish in one hand and shit in the other, then see which one fills up first. I wish you good luck with your strategy.
As the saying goes, wish in one hand and shit in the other, then see which one fills up first. I wish you good luck with your strategy.
I don't even care anymore if beta barely works, I will muddle through it. It's worth it to me to see the pain inflected on the Beta Assholes. That is how annoying they, not Beta, have become.
I'm really trying to give a shit about Beta, but I can't seem to do it. This sort of reaction happened the last time they redesigned, too. Everyone got over it.
He's getting booed because he's taking all the fun out of the game for the viewers. It's not the freaking Olympics. It's a tv show, meant to entertain. He's not being entertaining.
The network, I'm sure, is ok with people being angry as long as they're getting angry by watching.
Basically what happened was Microsoft tried to take the same keyboard/mouse interface of Windows and shove it in a portable handheld form factor. Apple realized that the UIs must be different because interactions are different between a precise keyboard/mouse and an imprecise touchscreen - things that are easy with a mouse can be quite hard with a touchscreen (drags, for example), and vice versa.
And then, failing to really understand the lesson, they took their new mobile interface and tried to cram it into a PC. Apple tried to do the same thing with Launchpad, which also failed. Consumers want to use their mobile devices differently than their PC devices.
The real lesson is this: if you want someone to perform a task in a completely different way than they've already learned, there needs to be a big reward behind it.
OK before you even start kicking the cloud.
Talk about the idea of storing your information in a propitiatory format using a subscription based software that you do not own.
"Oh your millions of documents are all in our closed source format now? It would be a shame of our subscription service quadrupled in price... Then again the stand alone versions are even more expensive... That's OK however, you will only have to pay us monthly... for forever."
Once you get by that stupid part, then you can go on to the stupid part about cloud based services... Also note that 99.99% of all those services are hosted in the USA where the NSA and every other government agency will be helping themselves to all your private data for whatever purposes they deem fit,
SO yeah, very quickly 3 good reasons never to use, and that is before you even look at the actual price, software features, etc...
You never "own" software unless you are the one who created it. You just own a right to use it according to whatever agreement you made with the creator. The quasi-legal wiretapping issues exist regardless of the location of the data. The physical location of the bits and documents is largely irrelevant. Proprietary formats could be an issue, but isn't in any practical sense.
"The only real method available is CNC machining, an expensive and difficult process that requires laying pieces by hand."
CNC means Computer Numerical Controlled, which isn't remotely similar to laying out sheets of resin-bonded carbon fiber by hand. Or are they forming blocks of fiber made out of a lot of bonded sheets, and then CNC-milling them into shapes? That seems like a pointless waste. Very confusing sentence, there.
Flash is still in use at 80% of the sites I visit.
Apple's management are jack-asses. Let the consumer harass them instead of whining to the websites that their iShiny's don't work.
Have you been under a rock for the past couple years? Flash is dead, and Apple killed it. It went from being used on damn near every site around to less than 15% today. It cannot be used on an iOS or Android device. Adobe has abandoned it. You should be thanking Apple for leading the charge to kill that turd instead of cursing them as jackasses.
Android already supports WebM (http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html). I'm thinking this is more of a "should we care about the people with iPhones?"
My answer would be "no." That'll add more pressure on Apple to not be jackasses w/ their mobile OS.
Remember Flash? Me neither. Fighting H.264 is tilting at windmills. The vast majority of people couldn't care less about free (to them) video formats as long as stuff works and looks good.
First, there's no question that this is an example of a horrible design, and a security flaw that should be fixed.
But the article is way over-the-top. It talks about "credit card numbers", pretty much implying that they are in clear text (TFA, not the actual report). Credit card numbers are not stored in clear text, nor would the clear text credentials give you access to the credit card numbers.
Also, this is really an article about bypassing the lock code, and nothing else. Physical access to a computer (phone) can eventually get you more sensitive stuff than a cup of coffee.
I don't think credit card numbers are used by the app, anyway. All it has is my Starbucks card linked to it, which in turn is linked to my credit card. But that's on their web site, not the phone app. Not saying they're doing any better of a job storing my credit card information in their back-end databases, but I'm reasonably sure it's not stored on my phone.
My misinterpretation, sorry about that. I apologize.
When food is so readily available we can afford to set aside a small amount of it for trim and decoration, it's just not that tough out there.
Think how many present countries and/or past civilizations would stand mouth agape at our excesses.
Good times.
Dude, it's just raspberry jello. I kind of get your point, but Jesus H, Debbie Downer, better remember your position next time you eat any little thing you didn't absolutely need.
Surely this means that all world hunger and nutrition issues across the globe have been solved, now that corporations are pouring millions into 3D cocktail garnish R&D, right?
Yes, it's frivolous, but it's interesting. Unless everything you do every day drives towards those goals, you're a hypocrite.
Root DNS is not involved here at all unless its a TLD.
The roots don't cache? I always assumed they did. Learn something new every day.
There is a man, lets call him Keith. Keith thinks that repair men and contractors are overpriced, and decides he can do it himself. He does this, and it works...for now.
Keith does good work. Sometimes he even has it inspected and passes. Mostly, it's not that hard.
I have a friend who's an electrician and from the stories he tells many/most places he visits have something wrong with them. Even calls he gets to go out and install something new and there's no reported issues seem to have at least 1 thing he can point to that doesn't meet "code". If Tesla's design doesn't account for this then personally I'd count that as a flaw, but go ahead, keep thinking it's not Tesla's problem to fix...
Tesla could just modify their charger so that if the wiring isn't done right, your garage won't burn down due to your electrician's negligence. Which is what they've done. So...?
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