His friend might have seen it, too. Around here, people like thinking up funny names for their SSIDs. It wouldn't mean the FBI really made the hotspot.
BART (short for Bay Area Rapid Transit) is the mass transit system for San Francisco and surrounding cities -- think of it as like the Subway in New York, or the Underground in London, or the Mass Transit improvement you build in Civ to restore the one one city health penalty you lost when you made that coal plant.
A group of people decided to protest the BART security shooting a drunk guy who was trying to attack them with a knife. BART, which runs repeater cell stations so that people who ride it can use their cell phones, initially responded by disabling that cell network to prevent protestors from coordinating their efforts to block the trains from running by climbing on the tracks, but later gave in and kept it enabled.
They did not run trains on the stations where protestors blocked the tracks, as that would have killed the protestors, but the protestors and some commentators here are angry they still ran the other trains, I think. I'm not clear on this part, to be honest.
Yes. And if he at least goes through screening, the TSA can make sure he isn't carrying any weapons he could use to do that with before they hand him his pistol back on the other side!
Or he could just use said pistol... let's just hope nobody thinks of that.;)
The whole point is that non-geek people do not think like we do and for the matter HTC is HTC to the layman, whether it's a Desire or a Smart.
This honestly hasn't been my experience at all. I'm not a layperson myself, but the ones I know call all android phones "Droids", regardless of the manufacturer or carrier.
I think you made the right choice for your household, though. If you call the iphone "the real thing" in another post, then clearly there are assumptions being made, and the easiest and best thing to do for household harmony is meeting them.
How has Microsoft "changed their mobile strategy every five minutes" ? They rebuilt their platform. That's 1 (one) change.
One change if you count the last one change, but I think Picass0 was talking about their Windows Mobile strategy as well. Microsoft called the same product as it gained new versions...
Pocket PC 2000
Pocket PC 2002
Windows Mobile 2003, 2003SE
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile 6.1
Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile 6.1
Those at times had prefixes like "Phone", "Smartphone", "Classic", "Professional", "Standard" and so on tacked on to the end, with a strange mismash of compatibility.
Even after announcing WM7 they kept the game up with WM6.5x, but I think they are going in the right direction now. I really can't blame anyone who has already given up, though.
I suppose I like it *more* than where Gnome is going, but I was/am pretty happy with my modified setup using Gnome 2.
Cripes, though.:/ Every time I read up on Gnome ignoring another set of interoperability standards I feel like giving KDE a try again... I love Linux, but it really depresses me how even the simplest things can't be agreed on.
And by "far" less you mean a 4 dollar difference on average. But hey, let's ignore the millions of sales for PC games like Half-Life 2, Starcraft II, etc at $50 a piece.
Wait, so if the Linux users paid $2 on average and the Windows users paid $4 less on average, the Humble Bundle paid Windows users to download their games?
I realized you just meant 4 less out of the total after rereading, but that was less entertaining.
No"BODY" is listening, but computers are analyzing every call and transcribing it to text?
Hmm, I would guess there would need to be at least some spot-checks that the transcription is working properly.
You do, when you click the check-mark or the red X after listening to it. However, that is a good point -- here Google says nobody will listen to your voicemail, but they still let you listen to it. So much for don't be evil! (This is sarcasm.)
As for other people getting ahold of the transcriptions... not to be too facetious, but given how bad the quality currently is, nobody should worry about that yet.;)
and the MacBook is the first computer I've ever used where power management actually, really works.
My current job is a mac shop, so we all use macs. Overall, I'm liking it more than the last time I used Windows -- and I don't mean that as an insult to Windows, I'm just used to things working the way I think they should.:)
I wouldn't have said Power Management works better, though. The way my mac always wants to suspend when I shut the lid, and how I can't configure it to do otherwise, even via obscure console commands (these are more common for special settings on a Mac than you'd think) -- anyway, it really annoys me.
I was able to find a special program to inhibit sleeping, though. The most annoying thing for me now is no "focus follows mouse".:( The closest I could get was "focus follows mouse with autoraise".
Apple isn't the only entity with rights, you know.
That said, I kind of agree they don't need to invite Gizmodo to their party. If I was a Gizmodo editor, I certainly wouldn't want to own any Apple-made products; it was kind of sad reading how the police broke down their editor's door and made off with Macbooks, Apple monitors, ipods and so on.
Stop blaming the actual victims and start blaming the people who make and distribute unauthorized copies. Everything you complain about makes you a secondary victim and you are too busy blaming the primary victims to actually go after those that are the cause of all this.
So, um. We should let the company metaphorically screw us over and not take our business elsewhere because *someone else* is making the company have a bad day?
Heeee. How about no? Go out of business already. Or better yet, let's put some real work into punishing those that "victimize" others. No amount of vaguely-worded stratospheric claims of piracy is going to make it okay to punish people who never wronged them, nor committed any crime.
I had a similar yet oh-so-different experience in elementary school; I was less innocent to begin with, having found out the school was keeping test scores on a shared network drive with no password while I was trying to do something I vaguely recall had to do with getting a bomberman clone running.
I told a teacher and happily went on my way; a few days later, the principal, a very friendly and well liked guy, called me to his office and nicely asked me not to browse the network shares on the school computers; it wasn't until years and years later that I found out what had almost happened to me.
Years and years later, I found out from my parents that the school IT adminstrator had wanted to press criminal charges against me, expel me, and all that, and had convinced the board to go along with it. The school principle refused to do it and threatened to resign.
Now, after college and after years of hearing all these horror stories from friends and reading about them online, I appreciate what an amazing principal my school had, and how lucky I was.
I know. You'd be surprised how many people would love an internet browser that does nothing but display a web page as fast as possible.
Better way of phrasing that starts with 'You'd be surprised how few people..."
Let's face it -- Aurora, Midori, and other browsers that do that have been around for years. People don't use them because they want more their browser to do more.
Thank you. I couldn't agree more, the whole way through -- don't buy it, don't pirate it, don't support it. Sure, they'll blame piracy anyway, but it's the only way to strange this sort of thing.
I find it hilarious to see all the kindle owners ragging on the ipad for being overpriced and...
Ah, but if you already own a Kindle (it came out before the iPad, donchaknow), it's much cheaper than buying an iPad.
Cost, battery life, *and* free wireless data. (I believe you'll find the iPad has a better browser, but hey.;) Not that related, but you CAN "root" a Kindle, and put Linux programs on it. That doesn't magically give it the power or display of the ipad, but hey, at least you'd have a physical keyboard, right?
Most of my cities are Buddhist, but my Aztec neighbor is Hindu. Is it more important to me right now to maximize the happiness/production of my cities by choosing Buddhist, or to make Montezuma happier with me by being Hindu?
That depends; would the happiness booth from being Buddhist make up for the war weariness, and would the production boost make up for having to build a military to strong enough to stop Monty? Not that being the same religion will STOP him, per-se, but maybe it'll push the conflict off a bit while he goes after his other neighbors.
Of course, compared to Alexander, Montezuma's a dove.
If it was retelling the story of the native Americans, wouldn't the humans have been planting colonies on Pandora?
That would have actually made *sense*, too. I don't mind a story about humanity destroying earth's ecology, but it has to make sense -- if we can reach other planets and transport metal across the stars, we can transport people, too... but instead, all the humans in Avatar did was plant mines.
For that matter, if you can go between solar systems in 5 years, you can hit an on-planet target with a kinetic strike instead of moving within range of native arrows. Sci-fi without the sci... and with gaping plot holes.
Primary takeaway: James Cameron is an awful storyteller.
And these are the reasons Windows still has marketshare. The last 2 are not covered by Windows but because its already got the marketshare then the apps are easy to find. Not trying to troll but that is why it does "just work", even with bugs and holes aplenty.
I don't want to troll, either, but this really isn't the case; I tried to reinstall Windows on one of my machines for dual-boot (fresh setup on a new drive) using a generic, non-customized XP disk, and it is amazing how much work it was -- hunting drivers down, having to download extra drivers to a USB key so I could get online, and so on.
You could say Microsoft does a lot of work with its partners to ship customized Windows distros, but out of the box, Windows is pretty bad; we all just either don't have to deal with it or take it for granted.
Notice they didn't bother comparing any of them to either Windows 7 or Mac OS X. They wouldn't want open source to look bad, would they? LOL.
I know, right? Moblin's boot time can't hold a candle to Windows 7's, but the real powerhouse is Vista -- a boot time score higher than Moblin, Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora's all *combined*... and then *squared*.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to dominate a game of golf.
*cough* I think someone may have already found a different way to jailbrea-- I mean run unsigned code.
Games written in BASIC that Apple wouldn't make money on, though... hmmm. How would Gorillas the iPhone Game make money if people are playing Gorillas on BASIC?
So, assuming the OP is right, they're basically open-sourcing a telephone where the only thing you can change is where the numbers are placed and what the handset looks like. Maybe I'm missing the point, but how does this benefit anyone?
Well, that's not a bad analogy at all... to answer your question by continuing it a bit, imagine "what the handset looks like" is "covered in spikes" and "where the numbers are placed" is "at random" on their default handset.
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I actually RTFA to see if he said that.
<spoilers>Not in so many words...</spoilers>
His friend might have seen it, too. Around here, people like thinking up funny names for their SSIDs. It wouldn't mean the FBI really made the hotspot.
Well, a quick summary...
BART (short for Bay Area Rapid Transit) is the mass transit system for San Francisco and surrounding cities -- think of it as like the Subway in New York, or the Underground in London, or the Mass Transit improvement you build in Civ to restore the one one city health penalty you lost when you made that coal plant.
A group of people decided to protest the BART security shooting a drunk guy who was trying to attack them with a knife. BART, which runs repeater cell stations so that people who ride it can use their cell phones, initially responded by disabling that cell network to prevent protestors from coordinating their efforts to block the trains from running by climbing on the tracks, but later gave in and kept it enabled.
They did not run trains on the stations where protestors blocked the tracks, as that would have killed the protestors, but the protestors and some commentators here are angry they still ran the other trains, I think. I'm not clear on this part, to be honest.
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It's actually spelled "American". You're welcome.
(You also need to replace a couple of those commas with semicolons -- and no need for thanks; I'm happy to help.)
Yes. And if he at least goes through screening, the TSA can make sure he isn't carrying any weapons he could use to do that with before they hand him his pistol back on the other side!
;)
Or he could just use said pistol... let's just hope nobody thinks of that.
Give it a few months and nobody will remember who he is; a "1-hit wonder" of video games.
I hope so. :( Minecraft's sucked down so much of my time already... if he keeps making games like that I'll be in real trouble.
The whole point is that non-geek people do not think like we do and for the matter HTC is HTC to the layman, whether it's a Desire or a Smart.
This honestly hasn't been my experience at all. I'm not a layperson myself, but the ones I know call all android phones "Droids", regardless of the manufacturer or carrier.
I think you made the right choice for your household, though. If you call the iphone "the real thing" in another post, then clearly there are assumptions being made, and the easiest and best thing to do for household harmony is meeting them.
How has Microsoft "changed their mobile strategy every five minutes" ? They rebuilt their platform. That's 1 (one) change.
One change if you count the last one change, but I think Picass0 was talking about their Windows Mobile strategy as well. Microsoft called the same product as it gained new versions...
Pocket PC 2000
Pocket PC 2002
Windows Mobile 2003, 2003SE
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile 6.1
Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile 6.1
Those at times had prefixes like "Phone", "Smartphone", "Classic", "Professional", "Standard" and so on tacked on to the end, with a strange mismash of compatibility.
Even after announcing WM7 they kept the game up with WM6.5x, but I think they are going in the right direction now. I really can't blame anyone who has already given up, though.
I downgraded from Maverick to the LTS when I had trouble with a Natty upgrade -- it's actually pretty nice.
I liked it on my netbook.
:/ Every time I read up on Gnome ignoring another set of interoperability standards I feel like giving KDE a try again... I love Linux, but it really depresses me how even the simplest things can't be agreed on.
I suppose I like it *more* than where Gnome is going, but I was/am pretty happy with my modified setup using Gnome 2.
Cripes, though.
And by "far" less you mean a 4 dollar difference on average. But hey, let's ignore the millions of sales for PC games like Half-Life 2, Starcraft II, etc at $50 a piece.
Wait, so if the Linux users paid $2 on average and the Windows users paid $4 less on average, the Humble Bundle paid Windows users to download their games?
I realized you just meant 4 less out of the total after rereading, but that was less entertaining.
No"BODY" is listening, but computers are analyzing every call and transcribing it to text?
Hmm, I would guess there would need to be at least some spot-checks that the transcription is working properly.
You do, when you click the check-mark or the red X after listening to it. However, that is a good point -- here Google says nobody will listen to your voicemail, but they still let you listen to it. So much for don't be evil! (This is sarcasm.)
;)
As for other people getting ahold of the transcriptions... not to be too facetious, but given how bad the quality currently is, nobody should worry about that yet.
and the MacBook is the first computer I've ever used where power management actually, really works.
My current job is a mac shop, so we all use macs. Overall, I'm liking it more than the last time I used Windows -- and I don't mean that as an insult to Windows, I'm just used to things working the way I think they should. :)
:( The closest I could get was "focus follows mouse with autoraise".
I wouldn't have said Power Management works better, though. The way my mac always wants to suspend when I shut the lid, and how I can't configure it to do otherwise, even via obscure console commands (these are more common for special settings on a Mac than you'd think) -- anyway, it really annoys me.
I was able to find a special program to inhibit sleeping, though. The most annoying thing for me now is no "focus follows mouse".
Apple isn't the only entity with rights, you know.
That said, I kind of agree they don't need to invite Gizmodo to their party. If I was a Gizmodo editor, I certainly wouldn't want to own any Apple-made products; it was kind of sad reading how the police broke down their editor's door and made off with Macbooks, Apple monitors, ipods and so on.
Stop blaming the actual victims and start blaming the people who make and distribute unauthorized copies. Everything you complain about makes you a secondary victim and you are too busy blaming the primary victims to actually go after those that are the cause of all this.
So, um. We should let the company metaphorically screw us over and not take our business elsewhere because *someone else* is making the company have a bad day?
Heeee. How about no? Go out of business already. Or better yet, let's put some real work into punishing those that "victimize" others. No amount of vaguely-worded stratospheric claims of piracy is going to make it okay to punish people who never wronged them, nor committed any crime.
I had a similar yet oh-so-different experience in elementary school; I was less innocent to begin with, having found out the school was keeping test scores on a shared network drive with no password while I was trying to do something I vaguely recall had to do with getting a bomberman clone running.
I told a teacher and happily went on my way; a few days later, the principal, a very friendly and well liked guy, called me to his office and nicely asked me not to browse the network shares on the school computers; it wasn't until years and years later that I found out what had almost happened to me.
Years and years later, I found out from my parents that the school IT adminstrator had wanted to press criminal charges against me, expel me, and all that, and had convinced the board to go along with it. The school principle refused to do it and threatened to resign.
Now, after college and after years of hearing all these horror stories from friends and reading about them online, I appreciate what an amazing principal my school had, and how lucky I was.
I know. You'd be surprised how many people would love an internet browser that does nothing but display a web page as fast as possible.
Better way of phrasing that starts with 'You'd be surprised how few people..."
Let's face it -- Aurora, Midori, and other browsers that do that have been around for years. People don't use them because they want more their browser to do more.
Thank you. I couldn't agree more, the whole way through -- don't buy it, don't pirate it, don't support it. Sure, they'll blame piracy anyway, but it's the only way to strange this sort of thing.
I find it hilarious to see all the kindle owners ragging on the ipad for being overpriced and ...
Ah, but if you already own a Kindle (it came out before the iPad, donchaknow), it's much cheaper than buying an iPad.
;) Not that related, but you CAN "root" a Kindle, and put Linux programs on it. That doesn't magically give it the power or display of the ipad, but hey, at least you'd have a physical keyboard, right?
Cost, battery life, *and* free wireless data. (I believe you'll find the iPad has a better browser, but hey.
Most of my cities are Buddhist, but my Aztec neighbor is Hindu. Is it more important to me right now to maximize the happiness/production of my cities by choosing Buddhist, or to make Montezuma happier with me by being Hindu?
That depends; would the happiness booth from being Buddhist make up for the war weariness, and would the production boost make up for having to build a military to strong enough to stop Monty? Not that being the same religion will STOP him, per-se, but maybe it'll push the conflict off a bit while he goes after his other neighbors.
Of course, compared to Alexander, Montezuma's a dove.
If it was retelling the story of the native Americans, wouldn't the humans have been planting colonies on Pandora?
That would have actually made *sense*, too. I don't mind a story about humanity destroying earth's ecology, but it has to make sense -- if we can reach other planets and transport metal across the stars, we can transport people, too... but instead, all the humans in Avatar did was plant mines.
For that matter, if you can go between solar systems in 5 years, you can hit an on-planet target with a kinetic strike instead of moving within range of native arrows. Sci-fi without the sci... and with gaping plot holes.
Primary takeaway: James Cameron is an awful storyteller.
And these are the reasons Windows still has marketshare. The last 2 are not covered by Windows but because its already got the marketshare then the apps are easy to find. Not trying to troll but that is why it does "just work", even with bugs and holes aplenty.
I don't want to troll, either, but this really isn't the case; I tried to reinstall Windows on one of my machines for dual-boot (fresh setup on a new drive) using a generic, non-customized XP disk, and it is amazing how much work it was -- hunting drivers down, having to download extra drivers to a USB key so I could get online, and so on.
You could say Microsoft does a lot of work with its partners to ship customized Windows distros, but out of the box, Windows is pretty bad; we all just either don't have to deal with it or take it for granted.
(Or don't deal with it at all.)
Notice they didn't bother comparing any of them to either Windows 7 or Mac OS X. They wouldn't want open source to look bad, would they? LOL.
I know, right? Moblin's boot time can't hold a candle to Windows 7's, but the real powerhouse is Vista -- a boot time score higher than Moblin, Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora's all *combined*... and then *squared*.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to dominate a game of golf.
*cough* I think someone may have already found a different way to jailbrea-- I mean run unsigned code.
Games written in BASIC that Apple wouldn't make money on, though... hmmm. How would Gorillas the iPhone Game make money if people are playing Gorillas on BASIC?
(Actually, that's a free App. Oh, well.)
So, assuming the OP is right, they're basically open-sourcing a telephone where the only thing you can change is where the numbers are placed and what the handset looks like. Maybe I'm missing the point, but how does this benefit anyone?
Well, that's not a bad analogy at all... to answer your question by continuing it a bit, imagine "what the handset looks like" is "covered in spikes" and "where the numbers are placed" is "at random" on their default handset.