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Comment: Re:Blegh (Score 1) 445

by SeaFox (#39071805) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce?

When I got married, I made a commitment, a promise, to always love her. Even if I feel tired of her. Even if she's changed... I intend to keep that promise, even if one of us changes. THAT is what mature people do.

Mature people stay in relationships with partners even if they don't love them anymore? Boy am I glad I don't consider myself mature yet.

Being able to work through difficulty and have your relationship grow in ways beyond what originally brought you together is one thing, but your promise sounds a little too close to "I'll keep being married to this person no matter what."

Why would you make a promise that has the potential to make your life and someone else's miserable? Trying "through good times and bad" is great. But if it's not working, it's not working, and you should still prepare yourself for that possibility. Lots of the couples that make up that 50% who end in divorce didn't just "throw in the towel" and were trying hard to make their marriages work. There is a line between perseverance and simply being too proud to admit it's not a storybook.

Comment: Re:Any Tablet that can offer features wins (Score 2) 281

by SeaFox (#39057891) Attached to: Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity

Too many people are "STATUS" oriented, so they pick iPad.

It is the APPS that make the system!

Doesn't the Apple App Store have a largest number of apps, though?

I know, it's a coincidence. Those people who picked Apple couldn't possibly have done it for any reason other than to look cool...

Comment: Re:The real questions should be different (Score 2, Insightful) 376

by SeaFox (#39042607) Attached to: Is Agriculture Sucking Fresh Water Dry?

The real question is, do we need to use that much water in agriculture?

Do we need to use that much fresh water in agriculture, I wonder. A lower-level filtration process yielding "grey water" for these uses would probably be fine and save energy over a full treatment-plant supply.

Comment: wah wah (Score 1) 353

by SeaFox (#39030985) Attached to: Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime

'Classical music lovers hate the fact that urban planners use classical music to disperse youth,' says Minneapolis City Council Member Gary Schiff.

Oh, God. Another group of fucking elitists. Instead of being happy more people are exposed to classical music they're going to complain. "No! Don't use our favorite thing on the masses! They aren't sophisticated enough to appreciate this music." They're just like the Apple fans upset the new iPhone doesn't look significantly different from the previous model so they can differentiate themselves.

Comment: Re:For us non-US folk... (Score 1) 272

by SeaFox (#38975863) Attached to: Google Pulls Support For CDMA Devices

If you had ever served on a standards committee, you would know that competing standards are not
a plot to screw the consumer, but are the result of an inability of people from different countries to
agree on things.

ATSC was developed by a consortium called Grand Alliance which is a group of, guess what, companies that have a vested interest in the standard. The reason they can't agree on anything is for competitive reasons.

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