Comment Re:And when it fails this test too (Score 1) 284
...because you don't fuck with love, love is a sociopath.
This is pretty much consistent with every relationship I've ever been in.
...because you don't fuck with love, love is a sociopath.
This is pretty much consistent with every relationship I've ever been in.
Yes, this is still the case. You can buy prepaid phones and replenishment cards with cash at a convenience store and then activate or add minutes online without having to provide proof of identity. Paranoid types will do this at an open wi-fi access point to avoid leaving an IP trail. I know TracFone operates this way, but the other carriers may have a similar policy.
> That's the whole point - to make the novel more dynamic and involved than a pile of printed pages.
I feel like this takes a lot out of the experience. My relationship with the novel is already a dynamic one because my understanding and appreciation of the work changes over time. Reading Orwell's 1984 as a junior high school student was an entirely different experience compared to reading it near middle age. Appreciating those differences was a big part of what made re-reading the book worthwhile.
Well written novels are already involving because they engage your curiosity and imagination. I can't see how an endless amount of commentary, illustration, or supplementary material can do anything other than distract from the core of the work.
> $10/year isn't bad, but that's $200 to be able to review/reread the book over the next 20 years is.
Exactly...and what happens if the business model doesn't work out and the platform goes offline ten years from now? At that point you would be out $100 in subscription charges with nothing more to show for it than your memory of experiencing the content.
I'd rather just buy the hardback and be able to enjoy it whenever and however I choose to...something that I've done for all of Stephenson's books following Snow Crash.
Give a hacker physical access to any device and they will eventually find a way to crack it....In fact wouldn't it be easier to plug the phone in via USB and hack it that way, perhaps by mounting it as a hard drive and messing with the contents?
True, but at least my android phone defaults to charge only mode when plugged in via USB (default action is user-configurable). I need to unlock it after plugging it in to mount it as a drive.
Facebook only shows and knows as much as you tell it. If you fill out nothing but your name and age, that's all that will show.
True, but if actually use their service then you're building up a friend list, allowing someone with the appropriate level of access to do things like profile you based on the characteristics of the people you choose to associate with.
The same could probably be said for things like remotely stored address books on web mail accounts, but the bigger players in that space don't have the same track record of turning private data into public data the way Facebook has.
If people were willing to spend $600 on a PS3 that sits in their living room, I don't see why they can't spend a few hundred for a PC. Heck, if you subtract the $100 "special adapter" from the price of the PC, you can get one real cheap.
Meaning yet another power-hungry disposable consumer good to sit in common space now and in the landfill later. Thanks, but no thanks. Besides, if they already spent for a PS3, they can already stream video over wi-fi using PS3 Media Server.
Whats up with this whole "Library" thing? What is wrong with "My Documents"
"My Documents" still exists if you want it. The key advantage of the Library is allowing the user to define additional locations (local or remote) where content of a certain type exists. The OS indexes the contents of all directories defined in this way and presents the user with a combined view of all defined content in within a section of the library.
Let's say you like to keep your local video content on a different hard drive than the one your OS is installed on. You also have a removable drive that you use to carry very large video files between locations with. In addition, there's a share on your network that has video content that you need to access from time to time. You can add those locations to your video library and then have a unified view of all related content. It lets you initially focus on WHAT you want, not WHERE it may be hiding
Yeah, it is a little different, but it is a pretty big improvement over the if you deal with multiple directories or just wish to keep your content someplace different than your OS. I always ignored the MyWhatever folders in XP because I keep my local content on an external drive, but I find myself using the library all the time now.
“I still want to stab a certain someone with a trocar. I’m not a monster. I’m not someone who’s going to attack anybody.”
Holy self contradiction batman!
I'm not seeing the contradiction. This is an adult who has control enough over her impulses to be able to *want* to do something without having the intent to actually go through with it. There's a world of difference between desire and action. Wants are transitory, but they impact no one. Is the husband who daydreams about cheating on his wife, but who never acts on that impulse the same as the philanderer who goes through with it?
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.