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You think the NRA is funded by gun industry big wigs?
Yes, actually, it is. Who do you think keeps feeding you the "right to bear arms" line? If they can then get the common person to then fund their propaganda machine, then, wow, that's a double win. People who pay to brainwash themselves!
I'd have modded you up if you weren't already at +5. This echoes my own feelings on the subject quite eloquently, although I have owned a smartphone, and browsed on it. IMO, the ONLY reason to browse on a smartphone is that you don't have a desktop available - it's a terrible experience all around; I'm glad that developers are trying to get all the functionality they can into mobile browsers, but when you throw a current mobile browser against a web site that's designed for a desktop PC, which have the ability to make changes to the page on the "mouseover" event, usually a lot more processing power, and a far wider range of available plug-ins for browsers....it's seems likely to utterly fail, not because it's not a good for mobile, but because it's not a good for desktop.
I can see some purpose to HAVING a mobile interface...but mobile is SUCH a different environment from desktop that it deserves to have a totally separate UI. A mobile UI might also be worth copying for, say, an Android-on-a-TV type device that use Wiimote style pointer for input...but is definitely NOT worth copying for the desktop space, where a mouse and keyboard are the expected interface devices.
Jesus H. Christ. Here is a very clear-cut case, having practically nothing to do with either entitlements or war, in which a strong majority of Democrats voted against expanding the power of the state, and a strong majority of Republicans voted for it. Just out of curiosity, is there anything that could convince you that there's a meaningful difference between the parties?
My Sig speaks for itself.
Orac. I never liked Zen.
If you're dumb enough to do that, to install games from a suspicious site, that want to make calls and send SMS, then no anti-virus will save you. And it isn't the OS fault if you choose to ignore all safety precautions and disable all protections.
That's a very tech-centric response. To the average Android user, what you just said is in one ear and out the other. In the long run, it IS the responsibility of the handset provider to protect the purchaser from this kind of thing, especially if they don't want frustrated customers who will look elsewhere for their next handset.
You can find pirated copies of every piece of music, video, and publication you want despite the draconian DRM that is so prevalent in the industry.
Not really. Almost none of the books that I am looking for can found in eFormat. Unless you are looking for best sellers or classics, you are probably SOL. Maybe this will improve with time, but right now only a tiny subset of previously printed media are in eFormat, and only a slightly bigger subset of currently printed media. I'd love to be able to get rid of my physical book library, but it's not happening any time soon.
He is forty-eight years old, and he was part of GeekNet.
He is forty-eight years old, and he was part of Slashdot.
Only in videos will we have our own names since only in videos are we no longer part of the effort. In videos we become heroes.
And the crowds yell, "Robert Rozeboom."
Money is only wasted if you throw it in a pile and burn it. If it gets spent on something, regardless of how silly, then it stays in circulation; somebody will be using it to buy groceries, pay the mortgage, take his kids to the doctor, etc. A bunch of people will be employed on this project, and a bunch of companies will be selling goods and services. This is exactly the kind of stuff we want rich people to be doing with their money.
Absurd. Money is not some mineral. It's a concept used to quantify the value of work and products. And what we have here is a waste of both. Man hours and resources are being squandered.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack Up"