I just want to make sure: was that a typo or did you really pack your Fleshlight? I mean, I can see you could be away from human contact for a while, but that's just overkill, isn't it? :)
I guess I'm just trying to determine what your issue is? Speed? Security? It's not 1999 anymore, wi-fi has both now, you know.
Thank you, thank you! I DESPISE the new layout and am glad to have a workaround for now...at least 'til they spread this to the other countries. Now to hack up some Grease for the Monkey to auto-add that to their sites.
Yeah, reads more like my "Top 10 reasons I dumped my iPhone and went Android". You have to jailbreak your phone to get what should be basic functionality, and once you do you have to play the waiting game between iOS releases and them being jailbroken. Let's hope you don't need updates to any of your apps or you'll get the dreaded "sorry, we built this newest version of the app with the newest version of the SDK, and while we didn't add any features that actually require it, Apple requires us to not allow this version to install on the version you use. Suck it, it's your own fault for buying this crappy phone."
Oh, and AT&T rocks compares to Verizon. The only people who don't think so have never used both. I never had a single reason to complain about my AT&T service when I was with them.
Oh, and AT&T rocks compares to Verizon. The only people who don't think so have never used both. I never had a single reason to complain about my AT&T service when I was with them.
Yeah, still gonna go with the people who know what they're talking about rather than some random, anonymous yahoo on the Internet. Your version makes perfect sense, and is one that I considered as I read the article. I'm sure, however, there is more to the findings and research than can be found in an article on io9. An article that even points out "we should be careful about saying these ancient humans definitely kept these foxes as pets" Perhaps you should head over to the site and explain your displeasure with their interpretations directly. I'm sure they'll consider them highly valuable and a perspective they never even considered....except that they did.
@JasonGW: I wouldn't be proud of what profitability has turned the Internet into. Most of the worst parts of the Internet these days are due to or product of corporations who, just a few years ago, couldn't get a handle on what this Internet thing was and now they want to make sure their claws are dug deep inside of it. Capitalism does not equal freedom, it is the antithesis of it.
@JasonGW: Socialism isn't slavery. Knowledge is freedom, such as knowing what socialism is, not what Faux News says it is. Funny you would condemn socialism while using a socialism-provided tool (the Internet) to do so.
@zmnatz: 'nuff said. I'm with you, when I want pepperoni pizza, I want my little cups o' grease. One local chain even offers the choice: regular and "char cup", which are the little ones that really know how to curl up and hold that greasy dew properly. :)
While I can see the point of the commentors who point out that this could be used for "evil", I guess I have to wonder how effective it would be. Thinking of a couple of scenarios:
There's someone you don't like, so you "flag" them with this app. Okay, they got one flagging. If they don't get anymore, you accomplished nothing. If they get multiple flaggings from a wide range of people...well, then, the problem might just not be the flaggers.
Or, you can continually flag someone you don't like, but then it becomes obvious you're just fulfilling an agenda.
I suppose you could pull your friends together to do a flashmob-style flag of an individual, sort of a road-rage form of a DDOS attack, but how common is THAT going to be?
All of this, of course, ignores the fact that this is just a tool, nothing more. Complaining about how it could be used is like trying to outlaw pointy knives because people might get stabbed with them...I'm looking at you, UK!
There's someone you don't like, so you "flag" them with this app. Okay, they got one flagging. If they don't get anymore, you accomplished nothing. If they get multiple flaggings from a wide range of people...well, then, the problem might just not be the flaggers.
Or, you can continually flag someone you don't like, but then it becomes obvious you're just fulfilling an agenda.
I suppose you could pull your friends together to do a flashmob-style flag of an individual, sort of a road-rage form of a DDOS attack, but how common is THAT going to be?
All of this, of course, ignores the fact that this is just a tool, nothing more. Complaining about how it could be used is like trying to outlaw pointy knives because people might get stabbed with them...I'm looking at you, UK!
@franklinshepard: Then you're not paying attention.
Very nice. James Burke's "Connections" and "The Day The Universe Changed" in a four minute interpretation. :)
@battra92: Show me an instance where there's a large corporation that isn't a cesspit of inefficiency, politicking and infighting and we can debate.
But, to address your question directly: NASA. Not considered a model of efficiency, to be sure, but considering their budget has never amounted to higher than 5% of the overall US Federal budget (it's usually around 1-2%, in 2007 it was 0.58%), they have or have had dozens of spacecraft and robots circling or on other planets. They've been to the Moon and back (SAFELY!) half a dozen times, and about 130 shuttle missions with only two accidents. Oh, and should I mention that almost ALL of the equipment launched has exceeded its expected lifespan by a factor of 3 or 4X at least?
All of this in a budget that is one-fifth the amount of money Americans spend on tobacco products each year. In comparison, after a decade and a half or so, the private space sector barely can get off the ground (pun intended). Considering they're not reinventing the wheel (they have all of that NASA experience, data and equipment specifications to borrow from, not to mention most have former NASA engineers on staff), you'd think we'd at least have some form of commercial space tourism by now that amounts to more than one or two very wealthy people every few years. At the most barest of minimums, I'd expect someone to have left the atmosphere of the planet at some point. Contrast with it took from 1963 to 1969 to go from "we'll put a man on the moon" to "we've put a man on the moon" in an era that was still fairly technologically primitive.
Of course, we could also discuss how Medicare and the VA health system (when properly funded) actually are much more efficient engines than any commercial health care provider, but I have a feeling you wouldn't be swayed by facts.
But, to address your question directly: NASA. Not considered a model of efficiency, to be sure, but considering their budget has never amounted to higher than 5% of the overall US Federal budget (it's usually around 1-2%, in 2007 it was 0.58%), they have or have had dozens of spacecraft and robots circling or on other planets. They've been to the Moon and back (SAFELY!) half a dozen times, and about 130 shuttle missions with only two accidents. Oh, and should I mention that almost ALL of the equipment launched has exceeded its expected lifespan by a factor of 3 or 4X at least?
All of this in a budget that is one-fifth the amount of money Americans spend on tobacco products each year. In comparison, after a decade and a half or so, the private space sector barely can get off the ground (pun intended). Considering they're not reinventing the wheel (they have all of that NASA experience, data and equipment specifications to borrow from, not to mention most have former NASA engineers on staff), you'd think we'd at least have some form of commercial space tourism by now that amounts to more than one or two very wealthy people every few years. At the most barest of minimums, I'd expect someone to have left the atmosphere of the planet at some point. Contrast with it took from 1963 to 1969 to go from "we'll put a man on the moon" to "we've put a man on the moon" in an era that was still fairly technologically primitive.
Of course, we could also discuss how Medicare and the VA health system (when properly funded) actually are much more efficient engines than any commercial health care provider, but I have a feeling you wouldn't be swayed by facts.
@battra92: Yes, because we know businesses are so much more efficient at running things.
@battra92: "you tried your best and you failed miserably, so the lesson is, never try"
@cr0ft: "or they can get expensive insurance" that will dump you off the plan if you get something chronic like cancer. My mother, who works for the insurance company no less, had this happen to her when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. They told her it must've been a preexisting condition. Since she's been with the company for 38 years, we can only assume that it was the breasts they were talking about.
Yes, the US health care system IS the worst in the industrialized world (and actually lags behind a couple of non-industrialized, too). If I lived a few miles North in Canada, I've done the math: I'd pay about 10% more in taxes total, but wouldn't have 15% of my income going to health care. Not to mention my quality of life would go up as well as my life expectancy. And, it's only going to get a lot worse. We all had high hopes for a modicum of change with the new health care reform bill, instead we got the pussy Dems cowering to the evil 'Pubs and giving away the farm when they could've passed anything they wanted.
But, what do you expect when you have a for-profit health care system? But, that's ok, we can just blame the poor for being too lazy to work. That's what the 'Pubs do and it seems to work for them.
Yes, the US health care system IS the worst in the industrialized world (and actually lags behind a couple of non-industrialized, too). If I lived a few miles North in Canada, I've done the math: I'd pay about 10% more in taxes total, but wouldn't have 15% of my income going to health care. Not to mention my quality of life would go up as well as my life expectancy. And, it's only going to get a lot worse. We all had high hopes for a modicum of change with the new health care reform bill, instead we got the pussy Dems cowering to the evil 'Pubs and giving away the farm when they could've passed anything they wanted.
But, what do you expect when you have a for-profit health care system? But, that's ok, we can just blame the poor for being too lazy to work. That's what the 'Pubs do and it seems to work for them.
@Post-Nuked: And, let's not forget: anyone who says businesses can run things more efficiently than the government has obviously never worked for a business. I've worked for both, they both are mired in pointless bureaucracy and inane politics.
@sheepguy42: Hmmm...I have to wonder if you can't just set your landlord up as a payee in your bank's online payment system? If your bank can't perform an electronic payment with a payee, they typically just send them a check. I never buy checks. If I have to send a friend a check, I set them up as a payee and send them one that way. Never had a problem with it.
I've had some level of success using this on my 3G running 3.1.3. You need to be jailbroken to do it, though. The performance improvements, however, have not been enough to think they'd make significant difference with 4.0. I'd noticed a serious drop in performance going from 2.x to 3.x firmware, not to mention many more app crashes. I firmly believe with each increment of the SDK/OS, it gets much slower and much less stable (and, no I've tried it without being jailbroken and still it's slow and crashy). Android, here I come!
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@TemporalSword: Let's be realistic: a) he had NOTHING in mind, period. b) the replacement was a money-sink boondoggle. We're better off without it for now.
