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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 09:22 PM) You have to listen to something other then your own opinion, to which you're not equipped. It's a good thing you bothered making a point I could "listen too", then. Oh, wait, you didn't bother, because you know you have none that you can defend in any kind of rational way. So attack the man, not his statements or opinions. Which is fine, as matter of fact, it's exactly what I expected. As I already said, explain everything whilst explaining nothing, and demand we all accept that as fact.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 07:43 PM) Humanity has free will for a reason. I guess I better not even say anything other then that. I.E., more nonsense. Explain everything whilst explaining nothing at all.

QUOTE (TomSeaverFan @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 12:32 PM) I do sense a double standard sometimes on TV. I think a lot of people offend religious people, especially the Catholics, and would never go anywhere near there on sexuality issues or other issues. You want anti-wussification? You got it. It's en vogue to offend Catholics and Scientoligists...but stay away from offending Jews and/or Muslims right now...because that'd be a career killing sin. What I'm about to say may offend the religious. So consider yourself forewarned before you continue reading and get...offended, despite the fact that everything you claim to believe in...teaches forgiveness and understanding. IMO, offend them all...constantly, and outwardly, openly and honestly. Don't hold back. Question everything, including the existence of God. Any God and all God's for that matter. If "he" exists, "he'd" want you too...it's why "he" "gave us" free will. If "he" didn't want us to question "his" existence, "he" wouldn't have done that, which uses their own absurd reasoning against them. IMO, this is because nobody can take religion as it was meant to be taken, in small, non-literal, lesson teaching doses. It was nothing more than a teaching/control mechanism. But people ALWAYS end up taking it to the extreme with nothing but nonsense and half truths, where they lean on the word "faith" so they never have to bother proving anything. They best part of this is, if you know anyone like this, I guarantee they take their religion al-la-carte, because it's convenient. And worse, the loudest of them are ALWAYS liars, cheaters, scammers and adulterers. All. f***ing. Ways. Yet, if and when you argue with them about the existence of God, their entire argument will revolve around *you* having to prove otherwise. Happened to me recently, and I had to point out that it's never the job of someone to prove non-existence...it is, however, the job of someone to prove *existence*, which is, of course, where their lazy assed faith argument will enter the equation. At that point, they don't actually feel the need to prove anything, despite the fact that they "just know they're right". This is *always* the bane of their argument. Because they have no actual arguments. They base everything on faith, but want you to base everything on imperial scientific proof. How convenient. In a nutshell, this is how they want it: If/when something good happens to you, praise be to God. Ignoring the fact that if you sat on your ass and put fourth no effort, it never would have happened. But, despite that, when something good occurs, be sure to credit "him" for it. But if/when something bad happens to you, it's because God has a plan. Oh, well...that's sound logic. And to that, I say, if that's the case...that petulant child can go f*** "himself". Because the fact that "he" has innocent 6 month old children suffering in 3rd world countries, or even in first world countries of incurable diseases...that tells me that "he" doesn't give a flying f*** about us. Therefore, "he" shouldn't care that I don't give a flying f*** about "him", either. Oh, and I enjoyed going back to exploit my excessive use of ""'s. ...and may God forgive me for my moment of doubt. But the longer I see the world the way it is, the more impossible it becomes to believe in anything other than the real.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 04:27 PM) My Note 2 is my work phone and it is perfect for that. I'm not sure if I would be as big a fan if it was my personal phone. As I have it right now I just keep it in my bag and on my desk. I have a smaller phone for my pocket. This is definitely something that wouldn't bother me. I'd rather have a Note 2 than the crap blackberry my company gives me now.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 02:47 PM) I think there's a paradigm shift going on where these things are no longer phones. They're personal assistants which are capable of making phone calls. Let's face it. A great deal of people, perhaps a majority, are using these devices less for actual phone calls and more for other reasons. So yes, in the old way of thinking of things...this is a large phone but it's a nice size for a device that makes your life easier...oh and if you really want to, you can use it to make a phone call. I think having choice is always the best idea, so I don't mind some phones being that large, I simply won't buy them so long as alternatives exist in a smaller form factor. Advances have already made the larger screened devices seem smaller, but I've used a note 2, and its just too big to comfortably carry for me, so is the note 1 for that matter. The S3, while still large, is a nicer size, also getting to about as big as I'd want it. I don't wear loose clothing, and these absurdly large devices don't mesh with that. I think this shift is temporary, just as the super tiny dumb-phones were a temporary shift. There is a happy medium, and I'm not sure anyone's found it quite yet. I find modern apple phones a bit too small, but modern androids like the note series too large. And most people use them as nothing more then texting devices of we're being perfectly honest about it. If they do anything other than that, it's maps...and I know people who aren't even using it for that. And of anything annoys me, it's their refusal to use things at the fingertips.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 10, 2013 -> 10:10 AM) Any movie that hollywoods the end of a classic book can't be underrated. It's hollywood, I've come to expect that, so I tend to overlook it.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 9, 2013 -> 07:55 PM) My roommate's girlfriend got a Galaxy Note 2 today and I got to hold it in the hand and compare it to my Nexus phones. Yes, it is bigger than my Nexus 4 (by an entire top bezel in fact), but It didn't feel too big for me to use at all. Also, the heaviness of the phone made it feel a lot more solid than other plastic phones like the S3. Too big. Too heavy. Used one in best buy, absurd for a phone, fine for a tablet. Obviously there is a market for these sizes, I'm simply not in it.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 8, 2013 -> 10:00 PM) This seems like would waste so much battery... And I will definitely try out Nitrous. As much as you'd think so, it doesn't waste battery. Part of iOS suspended all non active processes, so if you aren't on your home screen, it doesn't actually do anything. After a few days of testing, my battery life is comperable to a stock iPhone, as surprising as that sounds.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 8, 2013 -> 04:33 PM) Pros/Cons of jailbreaking? I don't know much about it other than people telling me it jeopardized my warranty. It doesn't do anything to your warranty, because you can always do a full restore via iTunes which removes the jailbreak and restores the phone back to it's factory default settings. It's a simple process, but it's more complicated than a base iOS install, I won't lie to you and say otherwise. This is the first time I've done it in a while now, but I'm a former jailbreaker from the original iPhone - iPhone 3GS days. I didn't stop this practice until I got tired of it during the iPhone 4-4s era...I've since returned. I'd say do it, and if you have any questions you can always ask me on here, or email me at [email protected], I can help you out. Before you begin, do an iCloud and a iTunes backup of your device. After you do that, remove any lock screen password you may have set, plug the phone in and run the jailbreak application. Lockscreen passwords can make the jailbreak process have issues, so disable it, you can reenable it after you are done. After a few reboots it will be done (5 minutes), and your phone will look exactly the same, only now you'll have an additional icon called Cydia which is the App Store for installing jailbreak applications. Other than that your phone will work and act the same, and you will still have access to apples App Store and everything else, just as you always did. I'll even make this easier on you and start you out with some tips... You want the following from the Cydia store, they are all free: Activator (Allows you to program button presses/combinations/swipes to do whatever you want them to do.) Bolt (Removes the battery symbol at the top right of your phone status bar, leaving the %, when plugged in, you will still see a little charge bolt.) biteSMS (Complete replacement for Apples SMS applications. Works with facetime, iMessage, texts, MMS, etc. Much more configurable, and adds a quick message popup, so you do not have to close your applications to reply to texts.) Browser Changer (Allows you to set any browser as your default browser, be it Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. Also allows you to change your default Maps app to Google Maps.) f.lux (Automatically changes the phones contrast at night so it's not hard on your eyes, automatically changes it back when light/morning again.) IconBounce (Eye candy, makes the icons on the dock bounce and dance around...looks cool.) IconRenamer (Allows you to rename apps to whatever you want.) NCSettings (Adds quick controls to your notification center dropdown, adding things such as the ability to quickly change brightness, turn on airplane mode, the camera flash for a flashlight, etc.) Unfold (Because it adds a cool unfolding effect to your lock screen, pure eye candy but cool nonetheless.) WinterBoard (Theming/skinning of your device, if you so choose.) These are paid apps, but I highly recommend them: Nitrous - 1$ (Opens access to other web browsers and applications that use the web, such as twitter and flipboard, to use the Nitro Java engine, which will make them as fast as Apples own Safari. Springtomize 2 - 2 or 3$ (Gives you complete control over many phone options, such as your carriers name at the top of you phone, icon sizes, how many icon rows, how many icons you can put into a single folder, add additional icons to the dock at the bottom, etc.)

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Feb 8, 2013 -> 12:27 PM) Mine does too. In fact my daughter and I spent last weekend blowing into the cartridge and the console so they game would work and then playing Super Mario 3. Fixed.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 7, 2013 -> 08:28 AM) I don't believe god exists. Feel free to point to any study showing otherwise. This scene, from this underrated movie, puts this into words I simply love. Forward to 2:47

:cheers :cheers :cheers

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 7, 2013 -> 04:38 PM) Google Maps added the Grand Canyon to their Street Views. You can "hike" down every trail in the Grand Canyon with full 360 deg. views. Apparently they've also had a bunch of ski slopes on there already, too. I saw this, made me miss summer. :/

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 7, 2013 -> 05:09 PM) You'd be getting it a few months before they announce the PS4. Don't bother. This, these are decade old consoles. The PS4 and NextBOX are most likely coming out this year.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 06:20 PM) The State private citizens of Illinois is required by law are going to fund my pension. Oh wait.... they haven't contributed in 10 years. ...and that's exactly what will happen.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 05:11 PM) Freedom feels good don't it? Yes, it does. It's been years since I've been into this scene...and it was like re-discovering my love of technology in a way I had since lost. I'm already editing filesystem options by hand in order to tweak certain things programs otherwise couldn't do on their own. That said, a lot of this isn't for people who aren't technologically savvy...a lot of it is pretty easy, but you can get into some really complicated stuff like I already am...stuff I wouldn't recommend a regular person try because it'd force them to have to restore/redo everything if they messed it up. Still...it unleashes how powerful iOS really is.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 06:04 PM) Not too mention, the previous version of google maps for the iphone was horrendous. The update app is pretty great now. And this.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 05:19 PM) Hey Y2HH, where's Apple Maps? You spent so much time defending it a while back. I wasn't defending it as better than Google maps, as a matter of fact, I outright said Google maps is better. What I did do, and still will do, is defend it against people saying its outright terrible, because it isn't. There are some things it does very well and some things it can do better, and will given time to expand it's data set. It's not as good as Google maps, but it's not nearly as bad as people were, and apparently still are, trying to say it was, and I maintain that stance. Also, I went with Chrome because I love Chrome/sharing tabs between my devices (and now I can use the nitro engine with it), and more or less, I'm using Google Maps out of spite at the moment.

For good measure, I'll show you. I'm tired of Apple gimping their phones, and others for that matter, too. I'm tired of s***ty telcos overcharging people, and I'm tired of all the crap these manufacturers force on us, despite knowing it's s***tier than alternatives out there. Here is my lock screen: Here is my home screen: (My dock icons dance around, which is why the Chrome icon doesn't look like it's sitting still...it's not.) My iPhone5 can now do anything I want it too. And it's awesome.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 05:04 PM) Does this mean you already jailbroke your iPhone 5? It does.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) So...what is the optimum time to switch phones? ATM, I'm on an iPhone 4 and I'm planning to go Android unless Apple blows my mind. Of the phone makers, I probably trust Samsung the most but I'm willing to play the field. Unless it's a bigger screen you want, just jailbreak your iPhone, and it will be able to do everything any Android, or Windows Phone 8 can do. It's reached a point that I've given up on non-hacking, because whether it's iOS or Android, it needs to be jailbroken/rooted/hacked at this point in order to stay current, or free from s***ty built in software, or poor options, regardless of the platform you use. Early on in the smartphone era, I was huge into the hack scene...over the years I fell away from it out of annoyance. After using iOS under Apples strict and often stupid rules, or alternatives like Samsung S3's (my brother and his wife have them), running old software versions or over layed with some s***ty/slow skin, I've come to the conclusion that hacking is the only way to go. So I'm back. f*** Apple. f*** all the providers and manufacturers that f*** with Android, too. Oh, and f*** Microsoft for becoming an afterthought while I'm at it.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 04:00 PM) iExplorer is no longer free... They're charging $40 for what iFunbox already has for free. It's not free, but every feature you need works on the shareware license.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 03:45 PM) And yet, if you come out, admit right away that you did it, admit that it was a mistake and you don't know why you did what you did, there is still some room for growth and a chance that the relationship can withstand it, especially if there is enough deep, emotional caring between the two and there was just a falling out of some sort. If he holds it in and tells her after 5 or 10 years, how is she going to trust that he hasn't been keeping anything else from her during all that time? At that point, it gets easier for him to lie and withhold information from her that is relevant to her, and that will drive a stake into their relationship anyways. Telling her hurts NOTHING except the spirit short-term. If they were meant to be together (as cheesy as this sounds), then they will fight through it and they will end up back together. If not, then this proves to be a great learning experience for him. Telling them both was the best thing to do for all involved, even if it's incredibly painful. Make sure you queue up some lovely song at the end of this tale of complete fiction. Life isn't "The Notebook", or some other sappy tale of love meant to be. I'd rather not know if this happened to me, for the sake of keeping my family intact...because once that sacred trust is broken, sorry or not, it will never be the same again. The only way I'd want to know is if it was going on over and over again. I wouldn't want her to tell me in hopes we can "fix" that breach of trust...because it couldn't be fixed...ever. So telling me, or others, accomplishes nothing. The only thing it is, IMO, is a weak attempt to 'absolve' your sins, to make yourself feel better about it. It does nothing for anyone else.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 03:26 PM) I was going to suggest he say nothing until he mentioned he drilled her. I dunno, would you want to know if your wife drilled some other dude, even if it was just once? No, unless she was doing it over and over, didn't care, and wasn't sorry about her mistake. If she was legitimately sorry, and learned from it, I'd have to say there are things better left unlearned. Learning of this infidelity would accomplish nothing. It wouldn't make me feel better, and it wouldn't prevent her from doing/not doing it again. It would fix nothing, and hurt everyone.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) I want details on the S4 to see if I should wait or go S3 or something else in a couple weeks when I finally upgrade from my slow as balls Evo. At this point, I'd wait...there will be a whole slew of new phones coming out this spring...and if you don't like any of them, upon their release, you'll be able to get the phone your eyeing right now for like 1$...brand new. Because they'll want to get rid of them.