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[Witherweaver]

I'm sure he's finding the discussion on the lack of utility of his answers useful. 

[Kirian]

Hey so I'm having some troubles--the "Other" category on my iPhone is taking up like 2.6 GB of space. Does anyone know how to get rid of some of the stuff in this category?

Yes, throw away the phone and get something that isn't Apple.

-_- okay but seriously, how?

Despite agreeing with Witherweaver in general here, I'd suggest searching the Apple store, possibly on a computer rather than on the phone itself, for some sort of app that will allow you to examine files.  I have one on Android, I'm certain someone must have created one for iOS.

[AndrewisFTTW]

I'm sure he's finding the discussion on the lack of utility of his answers useful.

Why are you going out of your way to make posts like this?

[Witherweaver]

I'm sure he's finding the discussion on the lack of utility of his answers useful.

Why are you going out of your way to make posts like this?

Out of my way?  Making sarcastic posts on f.ds is right up there on my daily to-do list. 

[AndrewisFTTW]

Ok here's my point:

Sometimes the amount of sarcasm I see here just makes me roll my eyes. But sometimes the sarcasm is at the expense of someone else's problem or mistake and that's something I don't stand for. I'm all for jokes and whatever but mail-mi made it clear he had a problem and he wasn't interested in sarcastic responses. Yet out of all the responses he's gotten, Kirian's is the only one that has been helpful. The others were designed to make him feel dumb for purchasing an Iphone in the first place. Not funny.

[Witherweaver]

So here's my point:

A nonserious response does not preclude the existence of a serious response.  Your complaining about people not answering his problem did nothing in the way of providing him a useful answer.  If you were so concerned, you could have researched the issue and found an answer.

People generally come to this forum to joke around with each other. 

And clearly no one was insulting Mail-Mi for having an IPhone in any serious way.  No post was designed to make him feel dumb.  Mine was just an "Apple sucks!" joking response, and Awaclus' post was on the premise that misinterpreting an ambiguous but obvious statement in the nonobvious way as if it was seriously what the person meant is funny.

[KingZog3]

So here's my point:

A nonserious response does not preclude the existence of a serious response.  Your complaining about people not answering his problem did nothing in the way of providing him a useful answer.  If you were so concerned, you could have researched the issue and found an answer.

People generally come to this forum to joke around with each other. 

And clearly no one was insulting Mail-Mi for having an IPhone in any serious way.  No post was designed to make him feel dumb.  Mine was just an "Apple sucks!" joking response, and Awaclus' post was on the premise that misinterpreting an ambiguous but obvious statement in the nonobvious way as if it was seriously what the person meant is funny.

All you had to do was at the end of your post say "But no, I don't know what's wrong with your phone. It's apple and I Apple products make me vomit"

It's sort of sarcastic-y in nature but actually also informs him that you don't know the answer.

[KingZog3]

Hey so I'm having some troubles--the "Other" category on my iPhone is taking up like 2.6 GB of space. Does anyone know how to get rid of some of the stuff in this category?

I'm not sure, but I know that software updates actually take up memory on your phone. So downloading updates actually reduces memory. I'm pretty sure Apple works like that.

[AndrewisFTTW]

So here's my point:

A nonserious response does not preclude the existence of a serious response.  Your complaining about people not answering his problem did nothing in the way of providing him a useful answer.  If you were so concerned, you could have researched the issue and found an answer.

People generally come to this forum to joke around with each other. 

And clearly no one was insulting Mail-Mi for having an IPhone in any serious way.  No post was designed to make him feel dumb.  Mine was just an "Apple sucks!" joking response, and Awaclus' post was on the premise that misinterpreting an ambiguous but obvious statement in the nonobvious way as if it was seriously what the person meant is funny.

Well first of all I don't know shit about Iphones so I'm not about to talk about something I know nothing about. Second of all, I was hoping me complaining about you not providing a useful answer might've motivated you to provide a useful answer. But instead all I got were a couple sarcastic comments about how I'm not doing anything useful. Great.

Just because you didn't intend for something to be offensive doesn't mean it wasn't. Think about where mail-mi is coming from. He has this problem, he gets a couple smartass responses, he asks again for a serious answer and he gets a couple more smartass responses. If I were him I would totally frustrated and annoyed. Did you ever stop to think about that?

All you had to do was at the end of your post say "But no, I don't know what's wrong with your phone. It's apple and I Apple products make me vomit"

It's sort of sarcastic-y in nature but actually also informs him that you don't know the answer.

Yes!

[mail-mi]

hey guys it's fine. i knew what coming to this thread would do, i was prepared 

[Kirian]

hey guys it's fine. i knew what coming to this thread would do, i was prepared 

Edge cased!

/drink

[silverspawn]

hey guys it's fine. i knew what coming to this thread would do, i was prepared 

it's not about you though. whether you are offended by the responses here or not isn't really relevant for the point andrew is making, because it depends on your personality, which has nothing to do with the matter at hand. it's about whether or not it's okay to response to a post "I have this problem XX" with a dumb joke.

[eHalcyon]

So here's my point:

A nonserious response does not preclude the existence of a serious response.  Your complaining about people not answering his problem did nothing in the way of providing him a useful answer.  If you were so concerned, you could have researched the issue and found an answer.

People generally come to this forum to joke around with each other. 

And clearly no one was insulting Mail-Mi for having an IPhone in any serious way.  No post was designed to make him feel dumb.  Mine was just an "Apple sucks!" joking response, and Awaclus' post was on the premise that misinterpreting an ambiguous but obvious statement in the nonobvious way as if it was seriously what the person meant is funny.

All you had to do was at the end of your post say "But no, I don't know what's wrong with your phone. It's apple and I Apple products make me vomit"

It's sort of sarcastic-y in nature but actually also informs him that you don't know the answer.

If someone offers a joke instead of a solution, I don't assume that he knows the answer but is just taunting me for some reason.  The lack of a serious answer already implies that he doesn't know.

[nkirbit]

Hey so I'm having some troubles--the "Other" category on my iPhone is taking up like 2.6 GB of space. Does anyone know how to get rid of some of the stuff in this category?

Have you hooked your phone up to Itunes and looked there?  It's much easier to get a breakdown of what's on your phone in itunes than it is on your phone.

[mail-mi]

Hey so I'm having some troubles--the "Other" category on my iPhone is taking up like 2.6 GB of space. Does anyone know how to get rid of some of the stuff in this category?

Have you hooked your phone up to Itunes and looked there?  It's much easier to get a breakdown of what's on your phone in itunes than it is on your phone.

It's on iTunes that I have this large other category.

[Witherweaver]

Hey so I'm having some troubles--the "Other" category on my iPhone is taking up like 2.6 GB of space. Does anyone know how to get rid of some of the stuff in this category?

Have you hooked your phone up to Itunes and looked there?  It's much easier to get a breakdown of what's on your phone in itunes than it is on your phone.

It's on iTunes that I have this large other category.

Could be relevant:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19589410

[Awaclus]

It's avant-garde metal cover time again! There's an original intro composed by me, but it really is Sis puella magica!.



I guess this could've gone in the Song of the day topic just as well, but I'll post it here, since I'm not a huge fan of posting two consecutive posts in a topic.

[silverspawn]

The lack of a serious answer already implies that he doesn't know.

that's the only argument I really buy into

[Witherweaver]

The lack of a serious answer already implies that he doesn't know.

that's the only argument I really buy into

Man, I just wanted to make a funny "Apple sucks!" post

[Thisisnotasmile]

The others were designed to make him feel dumb for purchasing an Iphone in the first place.

And quite rightly so.

[eHalcyon]

The lack of a serious answer already implies that he doesn't know.

that's the only argument I really buy into

Man, I just wanted to make a funny "Apple sucks!" post

I'm on your side!  I've got nothing against the jokes.

[KingZog3]

The lack of a serious answer already implies that he doesn't know.

that's the only argument I really buy into

Man, I just wanted to make a funny "Apple sucks!" post

I'm on your side!  I've got nothing against the jokes.

I'm on a third side which says you can make the jokes and Iphones suck, but also be helpful when the person asks for some help.

[AndrewisFTTW]

The lack of a serious answer already implies that he doesn't know.

that's the only argument I really buy into

Man, I just wanted to make a funny "Apple sucks!" post

I'm on your side!  I've got nothing against the jokes.

I'm on a third side which says you can make the jokes and Iphones suck, but also be helpful when the person asks for some help.

I'm on this side as well.

[silverspawn]

... i now hatched 6 male eevee's in a row. if the next 2 are also male, I'm going to be really mad...

that's like 1/2^6 chance. 

[silverspawn]

argh!! there has to be some kind of thing that the gender is determined by the pokemon holding an everstone or..

e: oh it's only 12,5% female. that explains it. urrgg

that's still f(x) = 1-(7/8)^8; f( 8 ) = 65,6% chance though

so for 5 i get... barely 50%...