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Comment Re:LOL! Where's Your God Now Apple Fanbois? (Score 1) 304

I think it's even simpler than this. Since the app was rejected google has made massive improvements to the web interface allowing iPhone users many of the features of google voice*. For now I'm going to have to live without a few features (conference calling? audio of voicemail?) but I still get to enjoy:
  • Unlimited SMS
  • Free domestic calling
  • Voicemail Transcripts
  • Account management
  • **Probably more

I can't remember the last time I had to make a conference call, so for me much of this is a non-issue. Everyone at least digitally signed their willingness to allow Apple to dick around with the scope and style of the additional applications made available, yet in threads like this it seems to be non-iPhone owners that are really throwing a stink. Why do you guys care so much what is or isn't in my phone.

*If I remember correctly prior to rejection it wouldn't let me use anything and google just said that it wouldn't work with the browser
**OK, I only just got my gvoice invite so I'm still not quite familiar with all of the functionality, but I'm sure there's cool stuff google threw in that I have missed.

Comment Re:So the story is.. (Score 2, Funny) 172

Hey, the first link actually uses that exact text...

A better reading could be "people that exploit vulnerabilities of browsers prefer to not use those vulnerable browsers". Not sure how much technically inclined they are (not sure if there are a black market of plug-and-exploit-for-dummies kits), but they are aware of how much damage can be done to whoever (including them) using those vulnerable browsers.

Wow! Deja vu anyone? Let's delve deeper.

A better reading could be "people that exploit vulnerabilities of browsers prefer to not use those vulnerable browsers". Not sure how much technically inclined they are (not sure if there are a black market of plug-and-exploit-for-dummies kits), but they are aware of how much damage can be done to whoever (including them) using those vulnerable browsers.

...

Wait something's not right. Hey the first link actually uses the quoted text. Someone better mod parent down, sheesh.

A better reading could be "people that exploit vulnerabilities of browsers prefer to not use those vulnerable browsers". Not sure how much technically inclined they are (not sure if there are a black market of plug-and-exploit-for-dummies kits), but they are aware of how much damage can be done to whoever (including them) using those vulnerable browsers.

Wait a minute... What's happening here?...

*downscroll*

Nooooooooooo!

Comment Tell me about it. (Score 1) 13

I've been tracking this thing's movements for years, moving from one shitty hotel to another just to maintain a safe distance from it. All those long years spent away from everything that I love. My wife... My kids... A semblance of a job or social life... I've spent the past decade in a stupor of booze-induced half sedation just to function--all the time knowing that it's every twitch, every hiccup could mean the end for half the population of a major city in mere hours. We think that we're so safe and secure, taking enough soma every night to put us to sleep until the next morning.

We blissfully sing the praises and ask the blessings of our giant robotic overlords so that we may continue to feel like we maintain some small amount of dignity like we still own this god-forsaken half-inhabitable rock. Oh, friends, it's just a matter of time. Sure, I may be some drunk crackpot scurrying from one corner of the globe to another in piss-stained underoos waving around my pitiful sign of "The end is nigh"... but what if I'm not. Yes, we could take solace in our belief that the monster before you is completely under our control, chewing away at the filthy mountains that hide our richly deserved natural resources... but what if it realizes what we've done to it, and it gets angry? You think that this thing looks bad now? You can be damned sure that I'm not going to be anywhere near it when it transforms.

Comment Re:Biblical? (Score 1) 347

yeah apparently Japanese scientists have a different definition of visible than I do. I always had that stupid "if I can see it then it is visible, if I can't see it then it isn't visible".

"Visible" meaning within the visible portion of the EM spectrum.

Comment Re:Nothing new, but encouraging (Score 1) 554

Ummm....how did the Hulk service others, exactly?

Hulk has gone through a number of various phases throughout his history. The Hulk you're probably thinking of is the mindless, violent brute. Hulk has fought numerous villains, and at some points has been able to retain much or all of the intelligence and control of Bruce Banner while Hulked out.

Comment Re:And who needs it most? (Score 1) 364

Never going to happen. They're not going to deliberately give Windows users the opportunity to experiment with Linux. Users like you and I are more likely just to dual boot or run a VM if we want both. I think the net effect in the general public would be the opposite of what you are proposing.

Comment Re:I can live with it (Score 1) 640

You are correct in stating that you are not a comic book nerd. If you were a comic book nerd you would not speak in such absolutes about the term "graphic novel." You would understand the contention surrounding the term within fans and even the authors that write them.

The Watchmen is a great example of this fallacy. The Watchmen was published originally as a 12 issue comic book series. It was then published as a trade paperback (TPB is a common industry term for publishing the individual issues of a story-arch in a single volume). You seem to be suggesting that comic book and "graphic novel" are mutually exclusive categories. The Watchmen seems to fit your description of a graphic novel when in trade form, but this is an issue of the binding alone.

From Wikipedia:

Writer Alan Moore believes, "It's a marketing term ... that I never had any sympathy with. The term 'comic' does just as well for me. ... The problem is that 'graphic novel' just came to mean 'expensive comic book' and so what you'd get is people like DC Comics or Marvel comics -- because 'graphic novels' were getting some attention, they'd stick six issues of whatever worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel...."

Author Daniel Raeburn wrote "I snicker at the neologism first for its insecure pretension -- the literary equivalent of calling a garbage man a 'sanitation engineer' -- and second because a 'graphic novel' is in fact the very thing it is ashamed to admit: a comic book, rather than a comic pamphlet or comic magazine."

Writer Neil Gaiman, responding to a claim that he does not write comic books but graphic novels, said the commenter "meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening." Comedian and comic book fan Robin Williams joked, "'Is that a comic book? No! It's a graphic novel! Is that porn? No! It's adult entertainment!'"

Comment Re:I can live with it (Score 1) 640

(Comic book nerds: calling low-brow comic books by a fancy name does not make them high-brow. It makes you look like an idiot who seems to know that reading comic books is juvenile but wants to pretend otherwise.)

Very few nerds call them graphic novels. Nerds have never been afraid of the term "comic book." It is the newer, more mainstream audience that has to hide behind the pretentious "graphic novel" smokescreen.

Also, you should actually read some of the classics like Watchmen before you presuppose that reading comics is only juvenile or low-brow entertainment.

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