Comment Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t (Score 1) 316
Except for Rand Paul.
"The market" cannot work because of laws that have been pushed by politicians who have been basically bought by lobbyists. Lobbying is just another word for bribery. This used to be illegal and I'm not sure how or why it became legal in the first place.
It's called the 1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Well, they ARE using it for a private network....of sorts.
Do we share genetics with life on Mars, showing that life can travel between planets on asteroids?
While I don't put any stock in panspermia, I find it interesting that when the theory is presented, it only seems to travel to Earth, and never from it. It seems to me that it would be more likely that panspermia FROM Earth to Mars would be the more likely scenario if such a thing was possible, and then life on Mars would have existed for a short while in an inhospitable environment.
Now we keep getting a tantalizing clues, but canâ(TM)t seem to summon the will to do a sample return mission. How many sample return missions could the ISS fund? How much more scientific benefit would come from it?
Serious question. What would be the scientific benefit coming from discovering that there might have been life on Mars at some point?
Which of your categories is your post?
If I had mod points? -1, Redundant.
what incompatibilities were you finding with your iphone 4. it's true that the hardware has developed rapidly. but that's hardly the fault of the OS. it sounds to me like you upgraded to an iphone 6 because you wanted it.
I upgraded one of my computers to Yosemite from Mavericks, which broke compatibility for Numbers spreadsheets. Yosemite uses iCloud Drive, which wasn't supported by the previous version of Numbers. So that meant that I could no longer share iWork docs between my iPhone & my iMac or MacBook Pro, since iCloud Drive requires iOS 8, which doesn't support the iPhone 4. Of course, I wasn't aware that would happen, otherwise I might not have taken the plunge. There were a few other reasons I upgraded as well, but iTunes family sharing is the only other one I can think of at the moment.
I also agree that we don't need to be making a new OS every 12 months.
<sarcasm>Then how else is Apple supposed to make perfectly good hardware obsolete?</sarcasm>
If not for iOS 8, I'd still have my iPhone 4 instead of my new iPhone 6 Plus. While I'm pleased with the upgrade, I'm not necessarily pleased with having to upgrade. I know it was my choice, but you get too many incompatibilities if stick with the older stuff, so you end up being forced to upgrade if you want all of your hardware to work together.
iTunes stopped syncing with devices years ago. It just
That's very odd. I have a 1st gen iPod Touch (over 7 years old now), and it syncs beautifully. How old are the devices you're trying to sync?
He makes the claim that their software quality has taken a nosedive, that they're introducing tons of bugs and functional regressions, but he doesn't give a single example of any of that. He just makes the unsubstantiated claim.
I can give you two examples from just the past day that I've had to deal with. Apple has constantly made iTunes less functional with each new release. If you want to create a new playlist, you first have to switch over to playlists from "My Music" and then view by song if you want to see your list of songs. They are listed by album by default, so you need to make 2 additional steps to find songs you'd like to add. Not a huge deal, but still less functional than it used to be. The second, and more annoying change is to mail. I used to be able to click on an e-mail message and then click on the header to sort by sender, and the message would still be highlighted, and all messages from the sender would be sorted by date. Now if I do that, my mail gets sorted by sender, BUT the mail I highlighted is no longer selected, and I have to scroll down to find it. I have thousands of messages in my inbox, so this is a major pain in the neck. I can't imagine why they would remove this functionality, but it's just another instance of Apple's software getting worse instead of better.
There's no excuse for making gamers spend time with their families on Christmas, damn it.
Unless of course, your family wants to watch something on Netflix on Christmas day, but can't because using Netflix on your PS3 inexplicably requires you to be signed into PSN.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
