More importantly what the FUCK is wrong with people like you who should be embracing technology, being steadfastly against any change?
I think we were here already, at least a million times before. Should we repeat? I guess we should: adopting new for the sake of new is not rational, unless new also means better. The port in question is much flimsier than 3.5 mm audio jack. It doesn't allow for the phone to be charged while listening to music. It forces you to use a dongle. So it's not a better technology, it's just different.
Don't they own Beats by Dre now? Hope you like booming bass and looking like a twat.
Depends. If he's Australian, he'd look like a cunt. If he's American, he'd look like a douche. If he's a Brit, then yes, he'd look like a twat. Or a knob.:)
Nobody in my family has a phone with a non-replaceable battery, and that's not going to change in the near future. And I will do my best that it doesn't change in the long run, either.
And yet some people think we can wipe out, with surgical precision, just the Zika-carrying mosquito species...
Uh, yes, we "think" so because there are genetically modified male mosquitoes, that are infertile. By releasing massive amounts of such mosquitoes we indeed can wipe out a certain mosquito specie, if we want to.
I still have the original Nexus 7. It survived a bad fall - the case detached at the screen, but with careful pushing I managed to place it back. This tablet is fantastic and still does all I need.
I would be so very grateful to the ReactOS community if I could run Office (2007 is fine), Zotero and some version of SolidWorks on it. I don't even dare to install ReactOS to try, as the disappointment would be crushing. Basically, I hope to not be forced to install Windows 10.
Because Clinton is going to need every vote she can get, and actually doing what the liberals in the Democratic party want is horrific to her.
So her campaign has to make Stein horrible so that fewer liberal Democrats "leave the fold" in protest.
Bingo.
But it really bothers me, on many levels, that this essentially idiotic smear has caught on so widely:( Jill Stein is a medical doctor, she knows about the benefit of vaccines better than any one of the DNC spindoctors. Of course she is in favor of vaccination and research!
I have no complaints, my computers work flawlessly. I look over at the Windows 10 folks, and feel a bit of pity and a bit of indirect embarrassment. But only for a second or two - then I get back to my work. Because that's what my PCs are for.
For what it's worth, I notice that it relieves muscle pain. In fact, when I'm slightly buzzed, I can bike much faster uphill, than usual, which I believe is caused by not feeling my muscles' discomfort during physical exertion.
I use Bing because I find it to be as good as Google or better for searches (especially image/video searches) and maps.
This is demonstrably false. As soon as you look for something even remotely rare where Google finds only 5-10 matches, Bing finds 0. I've done this experiment innumerable times.
My first steps on the internet were divided between pages with hyperlinks, i.e. the internet as it is - more or less - nowadays, and gopher pages. Interestingly, I always failed to get the point of gopher, where "classical" hyperlinked pages made immediate sense to me. Same thing as with TCP/IP vs Token Ring: I instantaneously "got" TCP/IP, and only much later understood the point of Token Ring. So then - gopher: good riddance ? I guess so, yes. Along with set-top boxes, netscape, Flash, and VB script.
Your post is so full of stupid, I am at a loss where to to start unraveling it. There are gems of all kinds, there but I would point out the fundamental problem, apart your stupidity: you say you don't understand something, therefore good riddance. That's your entire argument - the fact that you are incapable to grasp a concept is reason enough to celebrate that concept's demise. That's a fundamentally bankrupt worldview.
Telegram, which is open source, has a web-based interface, as well as a desktop client. As well as a phone client, of course. It looks a lot like Whatsapp, except it doesn't belong to Facebook and as I said, it's open-source.
To play Doom, I had to download 6 ZIP files over a 2400 baud modem for a week, unpack everything, and learn how to hack the Config.sys file on my 4 MB DOS machine to free up just the right amount of the right type of memory.
Haaahaha, yeah, I remember doing exactly that. Frankly, dicking around with config.sys (and autoexec.bat) and therefore dealing with 16-bit mode x86 memory model, did not help me one iota in my subsequent computer career.
Oddly enough, one of my coworker's pet peeve is that Windows 7 reboots the computer for updates in the middle of a presentation and, according to him, there was no warning.
Aside the privacy-invading features of Windows 10, what positively peeves me off and is actually the main reason I will never use Windows 10, is that it reboots immediately as an update is installed/about to be installed, without any possibility for the user to control this event. Sorry, but I actually do some productive work with my computer, I cannot risk a reboot in the middle of my work. Hence I have a host of Windows 7 laptops and desktops stashed away.
I hope you do have my CP/M. I was the first one to support 80 track drives and offered some options like opposing sides of the floppy and double stepping to read 40 track media in an 80 track drive. S.A.I.L. CP/M. I can't believe I still remember any of that!:-)
Do you remember that the Horizon floppies (and drives) are hard-sectored? That has certainly caused me some headaches back when I started my hobby, as hard sectored floppies are like hen's teeth.
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One of the nicest features of the Galaxy S line of smartphones was user-replaceable batteries. I hope they go back to that model.
OK, so we agree.
More importantly what the FUCK is wrong with people like you who should be embracing technology, being steadfastly against any change?
I think we were here already, at least a million times before. Should we repeat? I guess we should: adopting new for the sake of new is not rational, unless new also means better.
The port in question is much flimsier than 3.5 mm audio jack. It doesn't allow for the phone to be charged while listening to music. It forces you to use a dongle.
So it's not a better technology, it's just different.
Don't they own Beats by Dre now? Hope you like booming bass and looking like a twat.
Depends. If he's Australian, he'd look like a cunt. If he's American, he'd look like a douche. If he's a Brit, then yes, he'd look like a twat. Or a knob. :)
I ninja'd your reply with my own reply by a full 4 minutes!
Turns out, this phone does have a replaceable battery!
Well done, LG! Now take my money. Shut up and take my money.
Nobody in my family has a phone with a non-replaceable battery, and that's not going to change in the near future. And I will do my best that it doesn't change in the long run, either.
It's a deal-breaker.
And yet some people think we can wipe out, with surgical precision, just the Zika-carrying mosquito species ...
Uh, yes, we "think" so because there are genetically modified male mosquitoes, that are infertile. By releasing massive amounts of such mosquitoes we indeed can wipe out a certain mosquito specie, if we want to.
I still have the original Nexus 7. It survived a bad fall - the case detached at the screen, but with careful pushing I managed to place it back. This tablet is fantastic and still does all I need.
I would be so very grateful to the ReactOS community if I could run Office (2007 is fine), Zotero and some version of SolidWorks on it. I don't even dare to install ReactOS to try, as the disappointment would be crushing. Basically, I hope to not be forced to install Windows 10.
Because Clinton is going to need every vote she can get, and actually doing what the liberals in the Democratic party want is horrific to her.
So her campaign has to make Stein horrible so that fewer liberal Democrats "leave the fold" in protest.
Bingo.
But it really bothers me, on many levels, that this essentially idiotic smear has caught on so widely :( Jill Stein is a medical doctor, she knows about the benefit of vaccines better than any one of the DNC spindoctors. Of course she is in favor of vaccination and research!
it boils down to a woman who openly questions the science of everything from GMO's to simple vaccination,
Wrong.
The smear campaign by the Hillarites was extremely effective - even intelligent (and ostensibly well-informed) people like you got deceived.
I have no complaints, my computers work flawlessly.
I look over at the Windows 10 folks, and feel a bit of pity and a bit of indirect embarrassment. But only for a second or two - then I get back to my work. Because that's what my PCs are for.
"In fact, when I'm slightly buzzed, I can bike much faster uphill, than usual..."
No, it's because you think that 'they' are following you.
Nah, this only happens late at night, when I know they aren't.
For what it's worth, I notice that it relieves muscle pain. In fact, when I'm slightly buzzed, I can bike much faster uphill, than usual, which I believe is caused by not feeling my muscles' discomfort during physical exertion.
I use Bing because I find it to be as good as Google or better for searches (especially image/video searches) and maps.
This is demonstrably false. As soon as you look for something even remotely rare where Google finds only 5-10 matches, Bing finds 0. I've done this experiment innumerable times.
Some examples:
Search for "tig welding" "cantilever" "bronze"
Google: 491000 results
Bing: 3150 results
Search for "botox" "cannabis" "dingbat"
Google: 1150 results
Bing: 58 results (none of which very relevant)
search for "ion scavenger" "fluorescein"
Google: 192 results
Bing: 23 results
Search for "osmosis" "peristalsis" "cowboy bebop"
Google: 34 results
Bing: 1 result!
Finally... search for "forked code" "bonded" "lap"
Google: 4 results
Bing: fuckall
Just point your browser (Chromium works on FreeBSD) to web.telegram.org
Problem solved.
My first steps on the internet were divided between pages with hyperlinks, i.e. the internet as it is - more or less - nowadays, and gopher pages. Interestingly, I always failed to get the point of gopher, where "classical" hyperlinked pages made immediate sense to me. Same thing as with TCP/IP vs Token Ring: I instantaneously "got" TCP/IP, and only much later understood the point of Token Ring. So then - gopher: good riddance ? I guess so, yes. Along with set-top boxes, netscape, Flash, and VB script.
Your post is so full of stupid, I am at a loss where to to start unraveling it. There are gems of all kinds, there but I would point out the fundamental problem, apart your stupidity: you say you don't understand something, therefore good riddance. That's your entire argument - the fact that you are incapable to grasp a concept is reason enough to celebrate that concept's demise. That's a fundamentally bankrupt worldview.
Telegram, which is open source, has a web-based interface, as well as a desktop client. As well as a phone client, of course. It looks a lot like Whatsapp, except it doesn't belong to Facebook and as I said, it's open-source.
To play Doom, I had to download 6 ZIP files over a 2400 baud modem for a week, unpack everything, and learn how to hack the Config.sys file on my 4 MB DOS machine to free up just the right amount of the right type of memory.
Haaahaha, yeah, I remember doing exactly that. Frankly, dicking around with config.sys (and autoexec.bat) and therefore dealing with 16-bit mode x86 memory model, did not help me one iota in my subsequent computer career.
Oddly enough, one of my coworker's pet peeve is that Windows 7 reboots the computer for updates in the middle of a presentation and, according to him, there was no warning.
Sounds like horseshit.
Aside the privacy-invading features of Windows 10, what positively peeves me off and is actually the main reason I will never use Windows 10, is that it reboots immediately as an update is installed/about to be installed, without any possibility for the user to control this event. Sorry, but I actually do some productive work with my computer, I cannot risk a reboot in the middle of my work.
Hence I have a host of Windows 7 laptops and desktops stashed away.
OK, now I can confirm after some time has passed: the website does absolutely not work!
I hope you do have my CP/M. I was the first one to support 80 track drives and offered some options like opposing sides of the floppy and double stepping to read 40 track media in an 80 track drive. S.A.I.L. CP/M. I can't believe I still remember any of that! :-)
Do you remember that the Horizon floppies (and drives) are hard-sectored? That has certainly caused me some headaches back when I started my hobby, as hard sectored floppies are like hen's teeth.
I am in the EU also, and the site does NOT work like a charm. Only the main (home) page loads, but nothing else works.