Posts by Armando 123

I blame the government. Afterall, they run the schools and prevent eugenics ..

Re: Brosnan totally looked the part...

I've always liked Brosnan as an actor, and thought that he'd have made a great Bond: he could be serious and humorous and could definitely convey the detatched cool needed for Bond. When they tried to sign him in the mid-80s but contracts forbade it. However, he became Bond after the Cold War, so the movies lost their way a bit. He was good, but the movies themselves weren't up to snuff.

I still liked them and watched them, of course, but ...

Re: They still make these ?

I have kids who love music but whom I would not trust with a phone (mostly due to costs of data plans). So ...

Re: Bad Apple cultists

Yeah, never mind TCO, service after the sale, an OS that some prefer, lighter hardware that is (at worst) as reliable, ... for hardware that is often comparable on feature-to-feature comparisons for hardware from others.

If that's stupidity, ...

Re: Wish they

They have them: dump trucks.

Seriously, when my father worked for a diesel engine company in the 80s, their engines were guaranteed to go 500,000 miles before a rebuild. Now, with all the regulations/emissions/etc, that may not be the case.

Re: New odds?

"So...Manchester may not be the wettest, most grim place in the galaxy? "

I always thought it was New Orleans. And that was in the 90s way pre-Katrina.

Re: Max Zorin

I voted for him, too, in spite of Kevin Pollack ruining Walken in a serious role for me.

"Frankenstein neveh scahed me."

Re: Hypocrite

Just what I was thinking. Didn't Googarola try this tack at one time, only to find out old and FRAND patents don't make this lucrative?

Then again, if Foofle(*) innovated something besides slurping user data for Med Men, they might feel differently.

(*) - a type, but what the heck, let it stand.

Re: Welcome to Worker's Paradise

Having once travelled in East Germany, I agree with your assessment. I never thought I'd see a nation of lazy, dirty Germans ...

Re: By inference

Unfortunately, the US government has been chipping away at property rights for nearly a century, and we've gotten to this point. Pathetic.

"My Boffin Lollipop" ...

... and if you wanted a real, reliable operating sytem, you went to, um, hm, nevermind.

Re: Worrying...

"Ther' hain't nuthin' as uncommon as common sense." - Kin Hubbard, "Abe Martin Sez", 1909

Re: What a way to go!

I have nothing against vegetarians. Why, some of my best meals are made from vegetarians.

Re: My sky daddy can beat up yours

Because people are stupid, politicians depend on stupidity, and politicians make the laws and fund the schools.

Re: So like the new iPhone

"The MacBook Air (released January 2008) is Apple's take on the Sony Vaio TT (released September 2008)?

How does that work?"

It involves a Delorean.

Re: National Sales Tax

"paying their own fair share for the benefits they receive"

So as a bachelor for 38 years, I never went to public school nor had children in public school, never got any "social services" benefites, and fully expect that I'll have to bail out Socail Security without getting a dime out of it before I'm eligible.

Remind me again what is meant by "paying their own fair share"?

Re: Prior art!

A father's coworker wrote this for the manufacturing company where they worked ... in 1984.

Re: It's a shame

"Apple have never taken the "rip it up and start again" route"

Wow, really? Like when they went from 680x0 to RISC? RISC to x86? MacOS to OS X? iPod Classic to iPod Touch? Adopting USB over ... ADB, IIRC.

Apple has, in fact, been much more willing to do this than many of the hardware and software competitors. That's part of the price of choosing Apple, just as lagging behind is the price of choosi8ng others.

Re: Isnt this a sign

"What does android lack as a tablet platform?"

Consistency? I heard an interview with the guy who owns the company that is bringing back Baldur's Gate. He gushed about the user experience on the iPad. When the interviewer mentioned Android, the guy wasn't so excited. He said that the variety of screen sizes, chips, video, OS versions, etc, made testing and development slower and more painful (and therefore more expensive). With the iPad, you know every officially supported combination that's out there, you can get that information from one source, and this makes things quicker and simpler (and therefore cheaper) to develop and test.

Uh ...

"Unless they add an anal vibrator!"

AT&T already invented that with their texting rates.

I have heard that, because of the diversity of Android hardware specs, testing software for it becomes a much more involved, longer, and (therefore) more expensive development/testing cycle than for iOS.