But it basically has the same UI as Win7 with the exception of the start menu becoming the start screen.
Right. And the start screen is an unusable piece of shit on anything that isn't a touch screen device. Which is why the idiot at Microsoft who decided to force Win8 users to put up with it should be sent to a class where they have the concept of "different UIs work better for different input devices" drilled into them until they can't ever forget it again.
That isn't "obvious" at all, unless you have some insider information. Sometimes, even if you take all precautions that seem necessary, shit happens. The fact that something went wrong is not in itself evidence of carelessness.
You're completely missing the point. The point is that while an MBA doesn't automatically enable people to be good at business, it doesn't prevent it either.
If they don't get internet, how exactly do they use Netflix to get DVDs?
Besides, you would have to be pretty in the middle of fucking nowhere to get neither UPS/Fedex nor internet. I grew up just outside of a small town where I did live 50 miles away from the nearest drop box, and UPS delivered stuff to us all the time.
The publishers, by far. Steam is the biggest digital distribution outlet, but it still isn't so big (compared to retail) that publishers won't simply refuse to sell there.
For my part, I contend it would have to be really good to beat Twilight Princess (which is the true best Zelda ever, not those imposter games). Of course, it does look like it'll be incredible, so that might well be the case.
The fact that most Americans don't laugh is a sign of how deeply indoctrinated much of the population, especially the political and technical class, has become.
I don't laugh because I see no hope for improvement (improvement requires a motivated people, which we don't have), and it depresses me deeply.
The point isn't how much downtime they've had, the point is that they're adding another point of failure which doesn't need to be there. That's just silly.
Having suffered with a BB for my work phone for some time, I think that "awful" isn't really accurate. That's far too mild a term for the painful experience that browser offers.
I've been in companies where my immediate bosses were OK, and the management above them not too bad either; one place where my immediate boss was cool, but as you got up the chain they got exponentially more horrible (incompetent, stupid, etc.)...
Wow, it sounds like where I work. I think my immediate boss is great, and even his boss is good... but the upper management is a group of people who are either a) incompetent, b) evil, or c) both.
they now are so angry with me over how i told them that linux is great, and windows will result in their bank account details being stolen (a virus destroyed the bootloader, which is why i was called in), that they are no longer speaking to me.
I would hardly call them a friend, in that case. If I completely fucked up something on a friend's computer, they might be really angry... but they would hardly stop speaking to me.
Right. As I said, it depends on the parameters of the job. Granted, it also depends on whoever is in charge being smart enough to understand the trade-offs between cost and skill, which they aren't always.
That entirely depends on the parameters of the job. From the perspective of the person employing the man, the cheapest one may in fact be the most valuable.
Because if the difference between "paying rent this month" and "not paying rent this month" is a mere $60, you would be better advised saving most or all of that $60 in the event that your income takes a temporary hit. Not to mention that unless you leech wi-fi from your neighbors, it isn't free either.
Actually, for a *lot* of people, $60/month is the difference between paying rent and not.
That's not really relevant, since if someone is in a rough financial situation like that, they have no business being in the market for a luxury item like a smartphone.
It's software his customers use, so it's not his decision. If he refuses to support it, his customers will indeed vote with their wallets, but it won't be Microsoft that loses in that bargain.
Using a second account to come to the aid of your first doesn't make you any less stupid.
I don't even quite know how to respond to this. It's pretty obvious, if you look at our respective comment histories, that delinear and I are not the same person (or if we are, we're one person who is unusually committed to being active on a sockpuppet account... Occam's razor suggests that this probably isn't true). Not to mention that you're truly committed to your insults. I guess I can't criticize you for not being willing to stick to your methods, poor though they are.
When someone actually responds to what I write, I tend to respond in kind. When someone says something completely unrelated, belligerent and fantastically stupid, I call them out on it.
It's ironic, because you're the one who said something unrelated and belligerent (hint: using an exaggerated example to make a point doesn't make a person childish, whatever your opinions of lolcats are). You had an actual response to what you wrote. delinear is claiming that there's nothing truly useful one can do with Siri, while driving, that one couldn't do with competing products. Either provide reasons why that's not true, or shut the fuck up. Insulting someone, rather than addressing their arguments, is the lowest form of debate and should never be sunk to.
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But it basically has the same UI as Win7 with the exception of the start menu becoming the start screen.
Right. And the start screen is an unusable piece of shit on anything that isn't a touch screen device. Which is why the idiot at Microsoft who decided to force Win8 users to put up with it should be sent to a class where they have the concept of "different UIs work better for different input devices" drilled into them until they can't ever forget it again.
Windows 8 is a super-set of Windows 7...
No it isn't. For one thing, Windows 7 had a nicely usable UI. Windows 8 doesn't have that.
No, obviously they didn't.
That isn't "obvious" at all, unless you have some insider information. Sometimes, even if you take all precautions that seem necessary, shit happens. The fact that something went wrong is not in itself evidence of carelessness.
You're completely missing the point. The point is that while an MBA doesn't automatically enable people to be good at business, it doesn't prevent it either.
How many people will really need their stuff delivered one day sooner that they will deliver via a more expensive carrier? Not that many, I'd wager.
If they don't get internet, how exactly do they use Netflix to get DVDs?
Besides, you would have to be pretty in the middle of fucking nowhere to get neither UPS/Fedex nor internet. I grew up just outside of a small town where I did live 50 miles away from the nearest drop box, and UPS delivered stuff to us all the time.
The publishers, by far. Steam is the biggest digital distribution outlet, but it still isn't so big (compared to retail) that publishers won't simply refuse to sell there.
For my part, I contend it would have to be really good to beat Twilight Princess (which is the true best Zelda ever, not those imposter games). Of course, it does look like it'll be incredible, so that might well be the case.
Does anyone know what Al Gore is up to? Is this the REAL cost of that fateful 2000 election? Does anyone think we'd be here if he had been President?
Yes, I do.
The fact that most Americans don't laugh is a sign of how deeply indoctrinated much of the population, especially the political and technical class, has become.
I don't laugh because I see no hope for improvement (improvement requires a motivated people, which we don't have), and it depresses me deeply.
The point isn't how much downtime they've had, the point is that they're adding another point of failure which doesn't need to be there. That's just silly.
Having suffered with a BB for my work phone for some time, I think that "awful" isn't really accurate. That's far too mild a term for the painful experience that browser offers.
Well played.
If being clunky and slow was something bad in BB user's eyes, they wouldn't be BB users.
*Flamebait, but also true
I've been in companies where my immediate bosses were OK, and the management above them not too bad either; one place where my immediate boss was cool, but as you got up the chain they got exponentially more horrible (incompetent, stupid, etc.)...
Wow, it sounds like where I work. I think my immediate boss is great, and even his boss is good... but the upper management is a group of people who are either a) incompetent, b) evil, or c) both.
they now are so angry with me over how i told them that linux is great, and windows will result in their bank account details being stolen (a virus destroyed the bootloader, which is why i was called in), that they are no longer speaking to me.
I would hardly call them a friend, in that case. If I completely fucked up something on a friend's computer, they might be really angry... but they would hardly stop speaking to me.
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What do you mean by that?
Right. As I said, it depends on the parameters of the job. Granted, it also depends on whoever is in charge being smart enough to understand the trade-offs between cost and skill, which they aren't always.
That entirely depends on the parameters of the job. From the perspective of the person employing the man, the cheapest one may in fact be the most valuable.
Because if the difference between "paying rent this month" and "not paying rent this month" is a mere $60, you would be better advised saving most or all of that $60 in the event that your income takes a temporary hit. Not to mention that unless you leech wi-fi from your neighbors, it isn't free either.
Actually, for a *lot* of people, $60/month is the difference between paying rent and not.
That's not really relevant, since if someone is in a rough financial situation like that, they have no business being in the market for a luxury item like a smartphone.
Fair enough. Sorry, didn't know.
It's software his customers use, so it's not his decision. If he refuses to support it, his customers will indeed vote with their wallets, but it won't be Microsoft that loses in that bargain.
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Using a second account to come to the aid of your first doesn't make you any less stupid.
I don't even quite know how to respond to this. It's pretty obvious, if you look at our respective comment histories, that delinear and I are not the same person (or if we are, we're one person who is unusually committed to being active on a sockpuppet account... Occam's razor suggests that this probably isn't true). Not to mention that you're truly committed to your insults. I guess I can't criticize you for not being willing to stick to your methods, poor though they are.
When someone actually responds to what I write, I tend to respond in kind. When someone says something completely unrelated, belligerent and fantastically stupid, I call them out on it.
It's ironic, because you're the one who said something unrelated and belligerent (hint: using an exaggerated example to make a point doesn't make a person childish, whatever your opinions of lolcats are). You had an actual response to what you wrote. delinear is claiming that there's nothing truly useful one can do with Siri, while driving, that one couldn't do with competing products. Either provide reasons why that's not true, or shut the fuck up. Insulting someone, rather than addressing their arguments, is the lowest form of debate and should never be sunk to.