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Comment Re:Okay (Score 2) 74

...and you haven't edited the article to add the information you sought because...why?

Probably the same reason most of us don't bother, because some yahoo has the article set to page them the second that someone edits it. They then jump up and down and revert it while throwing a hissy fit in the talk section.

Comment Re:The same as ever: Android (Score 4, Interesting) 484

Most of the stuff you highlight can be handled by a feature phone, though, except reading books. I use my 6-year-old Android, doesn't seem to crash or need to reboot unless the battery is on empty (and shocking the battery still works pretty well after 6 years - will go 12+ hours between charges). You don't need anything fancy - what you want is something stable.

I'm really struggling with what to get next - the screen on my phone has been cracked for a couple of years now, so I should probably replace it one of these days. But now it's all these damn giant phones that don't fit in my pockets, don't have replaceable batteries - what ever happened to cell phones getting smaller?

When someone sends me a text or an email, there's no "he said - she said" disputes over what was said. Try doing that with your home phone.

If you have that problem often enough to care, you need better friends, not a better phone!

Comment Stabilize what you have (Score 0) 484

If you need to restart your wife's iPhone several times a week that is not right - you may want to get a replacement iPhone.

The only thing I've had to restart my wife's iPhone 6 for have been software updates - and I skipped a few minor point releases.

I'm an iOS developer, thus harder on the device - and even I only restart once a month or so.

I can't help but thinking you are restarting the phone to avoid doing something that's actually the responsibility of an app. Have you tried looking at all apps that location services and cellular data are authorized for? What about the battery and cellular data usage areas to see if some app is just too frisky with data/GPS?

Comment Re:News? (Score 1) 114

If an individual life has negative value, then the total number of lives worth saving is 0, and there's no reason to care whether a particular act causes an increase in suffering or not.

It's a marginal cost. Reducing the number of people can reach a regime where there is a positive value to people once again.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 5, Insightful) 86

I admire Mr. Wheeler for the ability to separate his job from himself

Don't be so quick. The notion that this merger was "good for the industry" is nonsense. It was good for Comcast and TWC, but certainly bad for all of their competitors (Cox, Verizon, AT&T, etc.). Wheeler may already have a job offer from one them. He may have done the right thing for the wrong reason. We'll see what happens when his door revolves.

Comment Re:One filter = no tier (Score 1) 174

How do you KNOW that? How do you know its important until you answer it?

It's called CallerID.

False.

Since you didn't say why, True wins.

Lol. Seeing as they are inextricably tied to itunes and ios,

loolololol since it's not tied to iTunes in any way, invalid.

Android wear at least works with android not-tied-to-google

Without Google Now it's a paperweight.

The apple watch? Not so much.

I could use only third party apps and no Apple services. And since there are more of them, the Apple watch is vastly less reliant on Apple than Android Wear is on Google. Sorry, but that's just the plain truth - there are around 3000+ Apple Watch apps, and growing rapidly...

Comment Re:Kludgy Mess Requires Kludgier Foundation (Score 2) 45

Inflation was cooked up to explain most of that after the fact, though, so it's unsurprising that it does. The fundamental problem with inflation is that too much is tunable. Penrose's cyclic cosmology explains all the same stuff, and at least has the decency to make some bizarre (and very likely false) predictions outside of the early universe.

Theories of the very early universe that require new fields that there's a way to detect today are interesting. Certainly there are ideas to explain dark energy as an extension of inflation that fit that bill. But theories that propose a bunch of cool new physics that all conveniently vanished early on are a bit sketchy, at least until we can somehow make an equivalent of WMAP for the neutrino background radiation, and observe the very early universe directly. I hope I live to see that!

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