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I very rarely vote a 1 except for cases of obvious abuse, because I think everyone is entitled to his opinion, and voting 1 is not going to change it.
OTOH, I will vote 5 when I think someone has made a good post - it reduces forum clutter. The alternative would be to post a message that says "Good post" - with maybe a  - and we all know what happens to people who do that a lot. 
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I'd agree with you on that. But I get annoyed when I see a post is voted '1' for no obvious reasons (which literally means to me: someone just came, dropped his crap and off he went). This kinda upsets the person who received this vote, because there's no feedback on "why" someone disagreed or disliked his post.
Hans Dietrich wrote: I very rarely vote a 1 except for cases of obvious abuse, because I think everyone is entitled to his opinion, and voting 1 is not going to change it.
Exactly. But, the univoter thinks that someone cannot express his opinion which the univoter may not agree with, without the univoter dropping his crap on the said post!
It is like a disease on this website and must be eradicated completely.
Except for may be "Report this post" and an "Good post" buttons. But I'm still afraid that those morons will start misusing the "Report" feature as well. 
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I dont really see the point in voting and never have, its just a pissing contest...But what amazes me the most is that it bothers people...
Paul
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"But what amazes me the most is that it bothers people..."
You're so correct...I care less if someone 1 votes me for any reason, but then again that's just me.
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I'm boycotting voting forever. I think it's a failed experiment, I've said so for years and it's actually harmful to the flow of discussion but it seems people take a fatalistic view about it and Chris has yet to weigh in on the subject so it's assumed he's not getting rid of it.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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Why do you really care what 1 person thinks?
I just '1' voted you because you offended all of us morons in the world...but over all I usually think you're a 5!
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Really ? You need approval to develop for the iPhone ? Does that mean you can't deploy to an iPhone without Apple's help ? How do you test code, is there an emulator ?
I was planning an iPhone app, in fact, I was planning to buy the phone while in the US.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you. If you're still stuck, ask me for more information.
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The Apple IPhone developer site.[^]
1. You need to register[^] for an apple developer program (99$ and 299$ for 2 different subscription types. The costlier one gets you more support, i think).
2. Download the SDK. It works with XCode and has a good simulator. Also supports on device debugging.
3. After registration, get what they call a 'provisioning profile' for your IPhone device. This tells the device that it is allowed to load developer certified apps.
4. Get a developer certificate and sign you applications with it.
5. A couple more easy steps.
6. Now you can put your own apps onto your phone.
Don't you just love it when hardware manufacturers want to control everything you can do on a piece of h/w that you spend lots of money to buy and just want to play around with?
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-Ornette Coleman
"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently."
-Anon.
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Christian Graus wrote: I was planning to buy the phone while in the US.
Will you get the phone loss insurance too?
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Well, he seems to do a lot of whining about small things. If he thinks iPhone is bad, just as well he never tried Symbian development
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We had a couple weeks of not having to go to the basement for tornado warnings. That ended tonight. I was watching the incoming storms but there was no tornado watch. Hubby and I were working on eBay stuff and I looked outside and it was wild. I refreshed NOAA.gov and yep, tornado warning. One hit the ground a few miles from us and the sirens do not sound off. Man, am I upset.
We got everything to the basement; this time we felt rushed since there actually was one close to us. We had about 10 minutes left into the warning when my cellphone rang. As I'm screaming "who calls during a tornado?" I figured it was the mother in law to call and tell me there was a tornado. I basically answered the phone, "We're in a tornado, we are in the basement. We'll call you back." and hung up. Turns out grandma called mom who in turn called us.
I haven't seen any damage in our yard but it's too wet to really check. I had a feeling we would have storms since today the heat index was almost 100 degrees and and dew point was about 74. It felt like Puerto Rico.
Hope everyone else is safe.
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Wow, well at least you have a basement.
I grew up never having seen one until I was around 12 or 13, I had heard about them but no one around here builds houses with anything more than a crawlspace usually.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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I never saw a house without one until I went to Australia! Old farmhouses here still have dirt basements. I guess it has to do with the water table of where you live.
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I am still yet to see one.
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leckey wrote: Old farmhouses here still have dirt basements
I thought a dirt basement was called a root cellar? 
If you don't have the data, you're just another a**hole with an opinion.
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A basement in Florida is a "in-ground" pool (a "cement pond" for you country folk)!
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Stay safe. My step-daughter lives in Osawatamie,Ks. I always have to call her to see if everything is ok, then out of the blue she'll call. It's really wierd, too, cause she acts like it's no big deal. Me, I've never lived in Tornado country and it doesn't sound fun.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
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Many of my family including myself have been in tornadoes. It's scary and cleaning up is dangerous and is no fun. It's just this year we've had warnings on almost a weekly basis. Even if we moved then we'd have to worry about hurricanes, earthquakes or mudslides. Oh, and large spiders. Ewww.
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leckey wrote: Oh, and large spiders. Ewww.
Heh heh, if you don't like spiders you would *not* want to live around here. No tornados or even hurricanes really but we do have the occasional earthquake and lots and lots and lots of spiders of all shapes and sizes up to pretty big "wolf" spiders, they're more spindly than a tarantula but can get as big. We also have black widows further south of here but I've never seen one myself.
It's the small hyper jumping ones that bother me. Quite often I'm sitting outside chilling and along comes one of these things ripping across the patio table looking for who knows what, sees me move and freezes if I move my hand towards it, it starts moving side to side and doing false charges at me until it decides I'm not going to back off, then it suddenly springs away and dissapears.
They all act so differently from each other it's like they have personalities, some types are really lethargic and slow, others are super fast and hyper. Some seem almost curious about what we're doing.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: if you don't like spiders you would *not* want to live around here.
I hate spiders and here in Amman there aren't that many except for the particular area I live in because its still underdeveloped. Almost daily I have to deal with about a dozen or so of different sizes, shapes and colors.
Whereabouts do you live in Canada to have that many spiders?
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"You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer
"I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon
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Vancouver Island way out on the west coast in the pacific ocean. We have a temperate rainforest climate here with jungle like forests and plenty of bugs and slugs.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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All we have here are blizzards and mosquitoes.
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leckey wrote: Even if we moved then we'd have to worry about hurricanes, earthquakes or mudslides.
I was about to say, "come on out to Phoenix" until you added
leckey wrote: Oh, and large spiders. Ewww.
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leckey wrote: One hit the ground a few miles from us and the sirens do not sound off.
At work we were watching one form overhead, and one on the ground five miles south for at least 45 minutes before the alarm went off. Since we didn't have a different alarm, they raised the fire alarm which evacuated everyone out of every building to watch the tornado...
Hope you get some rest from the tornadoes soon!
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