I was born in East-Germany, where people did a pacific revolution to free themselves from a dictatorship.
Small vocabulary lesson: although in theory the word pacific and peaceful mean the same thing, in reality English speakers would not use the word pacific in that way. Because if you say pacific, people think you're talking about the big ocean. So you'd wanna say peaceful revolution or bloodless revolution. Hope this helped
The poster is talking about a couple of GB, so surely an SD card encrypted if needed and kept in his wallet or car is all that is required.
This is better than any of the harebrained schemes proposed so far.
However if we're gonna go down the encryption route, why not just encrypt the file and upload it to multiple web hosts? SD cards in car and wallet are still subject to loss/theft/degradation, plus if the police ever get a hold of it you may become inconvenienced (because the authorities are convinced that encryption means you're a criminal with something to hide).
there's already an app for that.
You can't find it in Apple or Google stores, though. That would kind of defeat the purpose.
Lucas isn't writing the screenplay anymore. You're all safe.
"Anakin, make love to me like you did by the lake on planet Wumpumpsefukit!" (or whatever the hell the actual line from Episode 2 was)
With lines like that, no wonder a world-class actress like Natalie Portman ended up looking like a wooden talentless hack. But actually the only talentless hack here was Lucas.
Well ok that's a bit harsh. Lucas has talent but not when it comes to writing dialogue that doesn't completely suck ass.
Developers are more in demand than mere programmers.
Notice how Ballmer never says,
Programmers
programmers programmers
programmers, programmers, programmers, programmers, programmers, programmers, PROGRAMMERS!
Javascript, motherfucker! Do you run it?
except in this case it's not so plausible.
On the other hand NSA denying it created Stuxnet isn't all that plausible either.
By expanding space behind the Enterprise and contracting the space in front of it?
What, the waterproof lightweight ones that take up less room in my wallet (which I'm already carrying) than a bunch of other items (including cards that lack payment functionality)?
In return I just need to carry a ã500 device, keep it charged, keep it dry, avoid physical impact and not break it?
Dumb argument. People who use Apple Pay were already carrying their iphones around. Nobody is expecting someone who had no desire to own an iphone to suddenly start carrying one just to use Apple Pay. And yes, having one less card to carry around is a bonus.
4) It eliminates magnetic swiping.
Nah, don't do that here.
5) It eliminates signing.
Nah, don't do that here.
6) It eliminates showing driver's licenses.
Nah, don't do that here.
7) It eliminates entering zip codes.
Nah, don't do that here.
Yeah, some people have to do all of those.
Your problem seems to be that you are utterly unable to comprehend another person's point of view. You don't have to deal with x, therefore x must be a non-issue.
So wait? I have to unlock the phone? And that's somehow quicker or easier than entering a PIN? Ok.
Yes, it's both quicker and easier than entering a PIN for most people. Compare 5 or more strokes on a keypad vs. placing your thumb on the Home button. And it's less error-prone (you may be a world-class keyboard cruncher with 100% accuracy, but many people are not and sometimes they hit the wrong key while entering a PIN and have to start over again)
Scientology, Amway, and Herbalife are still going strong and earning big $$$ for their founders. Government doesn't seem to care one way or the other. Why shouldn't the guy who dreamed up Mars One get a piece of the action?
"Apple could be working on a more powerful tablet, something that could compete with Microsoft's Surface Pro line.
Perhaps because Microsoft sells tens of millions of tablets every quarter while nobody even knows Apple's tablets exist. Oh wait...
on their cell. See if they still wanna go through with this.
See: http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...
This method is great because ships are already making bubbles in their wake. We just make it whiter with smaller bubbles. Basically raising the ocean albedo.
In the "What can possibly go wrong?" department, this method is far better than any of the other geoengineering proposals. And it's cheap.
Simply retrofitting existing large ships to produce smaller bubbles could reduce global temperature by 0.5C. If we want more cooling, we could float dedicated solar-powered bot ships that do nothing but cruise the equitorial seas making wake.
Do you actually make a living selling those 99 cent apps on App Store? As in, you don't have another day job?
That's pretty hard. Very rare.
Saying the app store and its execution weren't a great revolution shows that you are totally ignorant of how software was made and sold only a few years ago. Small developers for software really didn't exist. Nobody pays for shareware, and making a living as a small dev was basically impossible. The app store basically recreated the hobby developer market, period, and brought it to a level of mainstream that was never attained by normal PCs.
That's not true at all. Small devs sold on their own website (and they still do). I bought all kinds of Windows software from small devs. A few examples of stuff I bought (there are many others but not all of them are still around):
flashpanoramas.com
sourceguardian.com
supertintin.com
easypano.com/virtual-tour-software.html
They have trial versions they distribute on download sites like CNET download.com. If you like it you buy the full version. This model works. Yes there's piracy but if your program (let's not call it an app) is good and useful you'll get many paid buyers.
He probably does want a desktop but his boss heard that desktops are old and dying (Netcraft confirmed it), and mobile is the new revolution. Laptops are kinda mobile, right?
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
