Comment Re:Loud and clear (Score 4, Insightful) 569
Any chance they'll get this one branded a traitor by the end of next week?
Come now. Haven't you been paying attention to the US for the last 12 years?
They're going to label him a terrorist.
Any chance they'll get this one branded a traitor by the end of next week?
Come now. Haven't you been paying attention to the US for the last 12 years?
They're going to label him a terrorist.
International airfare is just expensive, and its pricing is complicated -- because there are high fuel costs for the airline dependent on costs in both source, destination place, and there is little competition.
It's actually more complicated than that, there are international treaties involved in international airfare. The basic point, however, is that the 500USD ticket down there was much easier to buy when I was living in the states than the 500USD ticket back to the states was to buy while I was living down there.
Smartphones do everything useful that glass does but you can put them away in your pocket. Winner.
I disagree. I, for one, am incredibly excited to see Glass come to market. There's a need in my life that Glass can fill that my smartphone can't.
I ride a motorcycle, while I'm on the road, I can't pull up google maps, or check to see what that alert sound was (assuming I even hear it). Now, there are a variety of clamps that you can use to mount your smartphone to the handlebars, but those don't work for me for a few reasons, first: I live in New Mexico, in direct sunlight I can't see shit on my screen, and the glare off of it would be...problematic. Second, the roads I frequently use don't really allow for taking your hands off the handles...which incidentally means that those same roads would do their damndest to shake the phone out of the clamp. And finally, I ride what amounts to a 5/4 scale dirt bike, the notion of rigidly mounting my expensive and delicate piece of electronics to something that bounces and vibrates quite that much doesn't please me.
Now, the flip side of this is that I'm a Paramedic, while I'm at work, the camera would make wearing the Glass basically completely verboten. I'd probably be happier with the product if it wasn't there, but then I'd be just as happy if my phone didn't have a camera either, and I know lots of people who consider the camera in their phone to be a killer feature, I, being an adult, have learned that not every product is designed specifically for me, and if I want a product for the features I like, I often have to take the features I don't along with them.
As for someone else who complained about the ads popping up, either in the initial release or down the line, First, see what I said above about being an adult, some people like that shit, don't ask me why. But, more importantly, the chances of there not being a custom ROM that explicitly addresses such concerns is effectively nil.
"First world problem" is a stupid expression.
I actually disagree.
Speaking as a native of the first world who has lived in the third world, I find that phrase to be quite apropos occasionally to mock the sense of entitlement that some people have, that's just a bad use of it.
When you've got children starving to death, and someone is going on about the fact that they have to start brewing their own coffee because they need the money they used to spend on starbucks to fill the gas tank on their $45,000 V8 SUV as though it were the end of the world, that's an appropriate time.
I had a teenage friend who only killed himself after taking prozac.
I always used to find that whole "may cause suicidal thoughts or actions" side-effect of anti-depressants quite odd. At one point, however, I wound up dating a psychiatrist and she explained it to me thus:
Major depression has two effects which bear on this, first, obviously, it causes suicidal ideations, but second, it saps your energy. Suicide is a lot of work (at least for someone who is majorly depressed), which keeps most people with SI from actually carrying through on it. Once you start taking anti-depressants, however, they clear up the lack of energy first, and then there's about a 2 week window before they start making in-roads against the SI, which makes it a dangerous period. Add in to that the fact that depending on the specific neuro-chem involved, it's possible that some drugs may not ever take care of the SI, but will still give the pt energy back...
I dunno, I thought it was interesting.
What is the measurement unit for "amount of work", though?
That would be a joule.
Sorry, I'm not awake yet, the long hanging fruit was too tempting.
This is obviously targeted at Iranian audience.
I keep waiting for the day when Iran will claim to have invented a next-generation satellite dish that does not require line of sight to a satellite, works underground, and remarkably only receives state-approved channels. Upon inspection we will find it is a large plastic Tupperware bowl screwed onto a cable box, which in turn is hooked up to the local cable network.
See, that actually sounds much more like something North Korea would do, except for the whole "cable boxes won't work without power" thing....ahh hell, that wouldn't stop them.
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