Tams80

It's a very biased article though.

You can’t just deny immigration in every country in the world and have the worlds oppressed and poor floating in international waters.

Well, you can and even much worse. Depending on how bad the migrant crisis get, we might well see that much worse. Those boats that the coastguard don't get to in time... yeah.

You meant to say 'delightful smorgasbord' of a language.

Don't worry; I'll forgive your insolence this time.

Managers have got to make it look like they are doing something, eh.

All these years and different flavours, and there's still something 'not right' with all Linux UIs.

Font rendering is one issue, but there's something else that I can't quite put my finger on.

We're talking about the UK here.

Ain't no sunshine.

Exactly. It's a quadruple whammy:

1. Most residences not being suitable for significant generation.

2. The return on investment is decades long (yes, so is double glazing, but that is useful for far more households), not that most households can afford it at all.

3. The total generation capacity is piddle, especially for government investment.

4. The materials that go into making PV panels are horrible to extract.

I'm not saying PV panels are useless, but they are not much of anything. Not something my lecturers at uni liked hearing/reading, but lo and behold pretty much nothing substantial has changed since. They're too busy blowing Sustainable Development smoke up their own arses though.

The issue there is that there are a few very vocal renewable energy proponents who just don't get that at all.

Merely mention 'hydrogen' and they go into a tirade.

Though really, the biggest issue is apathy.

While they are aggressive, it is optional and you are trying to avoid their revenue source. So there's reason to be so picky.

I just fast-forward or the the sponsorship segments out if they are too annoying.

Sometimes it's just better to settle for good enough, or in this case pretty damn good.

But no, some of you want the most convenient way. Only this time, that's painted a massive target on the back of what you want.

Which just paints an even bigger target on it.

When it was on its own website and hosted on its own servers, with mostly word of mouth (online) spreading it, Nintendo were probably not too happy, but accepting that it was legal.

But when Valve, who are sort of competing with Nintendo, host it and promote, that's another matter. Especially when many people do play games using it that they have not legally obtained.

Or, you know, it's just all symbolism.

The point is that what you swear is important to you and something you wouldn't want to let down.

I'm not sure why you are so upset about this.

Working for me and BoardGameGeek does not have a paywall.

You're either rewarded by the CCP in some way, or a useful idiot for them.

Having seen the absolute dire code some programmers put out (some being very well paid for it too); I'm very glad there are far fewer doctors like that and those that turn that way lose their accreditation and get shamed out of the field.

1. The cat is out of the bag now. 2. It's not like it's hard to find humans online who would not only tell you to do similar, but also very happily say much worse.

Education is the key here. Bringing up people to be resilient, rational, and critical.

Well, if you got, say, a compound fracture, you were at least losing the limb. And in that process just hope the 'surgeon'/butcher was quick and not too drunk, and that luck was on your side in terms of bacteria.

I think that is a very dangerous hole those academicians have dug themselves into. And not even healthy for themselves as they're surely always on the look out for the bogeyman?

I agree, natural aptitude absolutely is a thing. I'm somewhat smart, but maths does not come readily to me no matter what I try. And don't even get me started on music - which I have brute-forced myself into being barely able to play.

Eh? I just stick to a few sites that have more recipes than I could likely ever cook, and despite being adventurous, I won't ever cook all of them.

BBC Food BBC Good Food Cookpad The odd The Guardian recipe (which are full of fluff)

I'm sure others can point you to other sites that just have recipes.

Well, he did just recently cook and eat leather, the mad man.

Congratulations on informing us Buzzfeed writer.

It may look better, but it's only available on iOS.

These DAPs aren't about 'sufficing' though.

That old smartphone is not going to have as good of a DAC and certainly no physical media buttons.

You could just... I don't know... not leave the Walkman app and turn off the wi-fi.

Why would you install as many apps as a smartphone?

Hell, for many people why would they even have wi-fi on?

It's for playing audio mate, not playing games.

Sure, loading a large FLAC library onto a microSD will initially take longer, but the thing only needs to be done once, and many audio enthusiastsnwill already have microSD cards with it on.

Malware from where?

If you're legally buying music, not there. All the apps for mauic playback, streaming, etc. come from the Google Play Store, and there are very few that someone who buys one of these would need anyway.

I'd venture many of these will spend most of their existence with wi-fi turned off, as it's a battery hog.

I don't want to be connected to the Internet all the time, yet still listen to music? Is that not a good enough reason?

And contrary to what many seem to think, cellular data is not always available and data caps are still a thing.

If I sound pissed off, that's because I am. I've seen an ever increasing number of comments like yours that just dismiss things because they don't see the value to them. They then phrase their dismissal as an innocent question (which, honestly, comes across as very condescending).

Mate, it runs Android. Of course you can stream music as you can just download the apps to do so. That's the whole point of it running Android and not some other OS (because Android is a bloated hog, but it has apps).

I find it bizarre that you are into technology yet can't infer that.

It's a DAP. I mean, sure, you could be doing smart device things on it, but really it only runs Android to get easy access to streaming services and media apps.

So it doesn't really matter, as the vast majority of owners aren't going to be doing anything that will get it compromised. Many might never connect it to the Internet again after setup.