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I'll probably be happy with a 100" tv at 1080p in a decade if I can still see. Hopefully by then they'll be really really cheap because everyone will be buying 16k tvs.
He was never an expert. He claimed to be one, and stupid people took him at his word. Some of them then began referring to him as a patent lawyer, assuming he must be one, and he never even tried to set the record straight at the height of the whole mess. He was a paid shill, and when I went checking his background, I found his official resume was seriously padded. Like in Celine Dion to Dolly Parton padded.
It must be ironic that he can't find any more gigs, and has to try to develop an Android "project" (you know, Florian, Android - the one that you said Android infringed on Oracle's Java patents???? Even though Android doesn't even run Java.)
So who would be sponsoring him developing something in Android? Probably nobody. He's trying to reinvent himself, and I smell the odor of desperation. This "project" probably doesn't even involve software at this point. Just a concept while he sets the stage to trawl for some $$$.
Dear Florian,
What can we do to make you go away?
Stop feeding him, same as any other troll.
Or better yet, get him to say something bad about APK's HOSTS file and pop some popcorn.
and for the rest of you flamers and trolls, this is a Q&A thread not a thread to personally attack another person. Take the insults elsewhere.
Since this is a Q and A thread, it IS about what WE decide it's about. He has done more than his share of harm, and some of us won't oblige by ignoring it.
We have questions - serious questions - for a known paid shill. It's entirely appropriate, on a tech news site, to ask a shill why he shilled for companies with an antagonistic view towards open software development.
[_] Thanksgiving is coming and we're gonna roast this turkey!
[_] We just discovered they mayan calendar was only off by a few years
[_] Birth control pills in the water supply.
[_] Hallowe'en is coming
[_] He wants to replace The MoGTroll.
[_] Slashdot wants to give their new profanity filter a real workout.
[_] He applied for a job with Dice, and slashdot's editors suggested that he do a Q and A "to help break the ice." (cue evil laughter).
[_] Click-bait - everyone loves to watch a train wreck in action.
[_] There's nothing as sweet as the smell of burning karma in the morning.
[_] More proof (as if we needed any) that hypocrisy knows no shame.
[_] Florian Mueller developing an Android App is actually a plot to get more people to switch to Microsoft's Windows Phone out of fear of contagion.
[_] Makes Ebola seem almost beneficent.
[_] CowboyNeil wasn't available.
Options: Pick all that apply, and/or suggest your own. Vote early, vote often.
Doesn't change the fact that you for years let people believe you were a patent lawyer when you were never a lawyer, and even encouraged such misperceptions.
Doesn't change the fact that you shilled for years, pushing all sorts of bogus "patent claims by microsoft that threaten linux" when they never existed.
Doesn't change the fact that you simply are not perceived as being even half-way honest by those who have been around the block a few times - with reason.
We've had this discussion before. You were caught misrepresenting yourself and your history too many times. And now you must be getting desperate, delusional, or both, because for some reason you believe that doing a Q and A on slashdot won't once more expose your BS to the light. Wow. You're google-bombing yourself. Again. Payback is a b*tch.
Without a doubt both sides are shading the truth in their favor. It's what people do - they are reluctant to admit the downside for their favorite vice.
I'm following my nose - and my nose says anything that smells that bad can't be good for you.
Transgender is a mental condition in the age of lazy psychologists, a consumer biased patient population, and abuse of for-profit medical solutions.
There is no such thing as a transgendered person; just people with gender identity disorder who are placated with drugs and operations. Then a large number of idiots who buy into all the crap and shame anybody who dares poitn out the truth.
Only partially right, and for all the wrong reasons. The is no longer anything called "gender identity disorder". The real "disorder" is societies failure to accept this as a treatable medical condition for some people, corrected with hormones and a sex change. The American Psychiatric Association has this to say about gender dysphoria.
DSM-5 aims to avoid stigma and ensure clinical care for individuals who see and feel themselves to be a different gender than their assigned gender. It replaces the diagnostic name “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria,” as well as makes other important clarifications in the criteria. It is important to note that gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.
... and that stress in large part comes from people who are either ignorant or actively haters. But that's becoming less of a problem as more of us speak out.
I've found that, for me, when I'm finally able to admit it's time to help them on, they really do need my help for that, because as much as they want to stay with me, they're also in a bad way. Cancer is not pretty when it spreads and leaves a once-proud friend a hurting shadow of themselves, just skin and bones and fur.
I've stayed with every one while the needle went in, and in every case I was losing a best friend, a family member, and (because they were/are all instrumental in helping me deal with ptsd on a daily basis), real life-savers. And writing this makes me cry again, because I know that there is no way that I deserved such good dogs, no matter how much I tell myself that they turned out good because of the way I treated them. They're special, and I'll always remember them.
"But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?"
