Maybe you need to get yourself a class in economics and understand that Computing devices in the USA are dirt dirt cheap because of the slave labor, they are built with.
Just because you cant afford a $399.00 ipad/androidpad/low end laptop, does not make it a rip off.
In fact it's an incredibly cheap price for what you get. Try saving up all your money from your paper route for 2 years to buy a TRS-80 Model I so you could have a computer that was B&W only and had less power than a $9.00 watch.
I have been down the Linux, Gnome,KDE tablet road several times. and they dont have Handwriting recognition or on screen keyboard as a part of the window manager. It will suck unless they built those into the WM.
All the Linux UI's need to have tablet specific code in them. Make them rotate orientation smoothly without wierd artifacts or location issues,etc...
Linux Tablets have a future if the UI devs stop with the eye candy crap and focus on adding in Tablet specific features that 90% of the UI users(I.E. non tablet users) will never use.
If you are not an expert in something, don't think you are going to learn it easily and do it at home. "At home" means you get paid 1/10th the pay for 5X the work. if you are ok with working from 7am to 7pm every day and getting basically $1.00-$2.00 an hour, then go for it.
honestly you need to be a seasoned expert that is highly skilled and knowledgeable in a field to make any real money at home. My wife is a CPA with 22 years of experience and does taxes at home for small businesses.
You can look up medical transcription, but you have to be a stellar typist that has a very high accuracy and speed to make it. But you can make a good wage (for home based, entry level wage for a go to work based)
your best bet, find a regular job. Your kids will be fine with daycare, and honestly it's healthy for you to get away from them for periods of time.
" you seriously need to just use Chrome and stop trolling Firefox devs."
it's bullshit like this that makes me stop submitting bug reports. Honestly if you guys stopped acting like holier than thou assholes people would actually help.
Nobody covers the problem that a person up top solved, that Firefox has a bug that remembers EVERY download even if you clear them in the window. So in order to fix that bug I need to uninstall Firefox, clean the registry, and install the latest version. A legitimate fix. When I ask why firefox locks up on downloads on the Firefox forums I get assholes like you.
The problem is that CEO's are so stupid they refuse to use the videoconference gear like a normal human. They demand the things auto answer which is a GIANT hole. Plus they refuse to do the smart thing and put in a Border controller. Instead they buy an external IP for the VC gear and put them raw on the internet, Again retarded as hell. But this IS common for executives. They refuse to pay $6500.00 for the device they need and was told would increase security. Instead they demand it's done as cheap as possible.
and this is what happens. Polycom, tandberg, and sony VC equipment on the internet with no firewall and set to auto answer. discover the IP address of a VC system and call it using a Standard H323 software client and you are now listening to the room and looking out the cameras. Hell you can pan and zoom the camera if you want.
The problem is the Executives. They refuse to spend the money to install a secure VC system and they refuse to learn the gear.
"And more important than all of that, use a totally clean browser with geolocation and any other privacy-destroying features disabled,"
Again why? a good "haxor" would be running a script that is changing the data at random or delivering known false data. It's better to hide in a sea of noise than it is to stand out by delivering NOTHING at all.
Pay for a proxy, but use a prepaid visa that is not registered in your name (hard to od but not impossible) then NEVER connect to that proxy from the same starbucks, mcdonalds, etc...
Yes this means you have to use hacker tactics for not getting caught. That is the price for living in a oppressive country.
The easy way. go to a junkyard and buy the registration and Vin plate from a car to be crushed or the frame/body of one.. Yes you can do this.
Attach the vin plate to your car, register the car with the old title you had signed over to you.
It's listed as a "salvage title" but who cares. It's how I got my sand rail on the road legally without all the stupid safety engineering testing that Michigan has for experimental vehicle registration. IT was registered as a VW bug.
"But what happens when I want to go to school with my Galaxy Tab, and I'm told that I can't get my "digital textbooks" because they're not supported on my device?"
The rest of your students don their white robes point at you and emit a screetching sound that penetrates your soul. as you run down the hallway you hear chants from the other students of...."join us, be one of us...join us...."
"Not to mention the frequent resale of textbooks and that they don't require any energy to work."
Someone Failed physics. Textbooks do in fact require energy to work, If yours open and flip pages without any energy then a lot of people would like to see this book in their labs.
Then take the MIT courses for free. they give you the textbook as well as all the lectures in video form. And I am certian that the MIT professors teach a lot better than a podunk college professor like you find at Notre Dame, UofM, or Brown.
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says the boy that has zero clue.
Maybe you need to get yourself a class in economics and understand that Computing devices in the USA are dirt dirt cheap because of the slave labor, they are built with.
Just because you cant afford a $399.00 ipad/androidpad/low end laptop, does not make it a rip off.
In fact it's an incredibly cheap price for what you get. Try saving up all your money from your paper route for 2 years to buy a TRS-80 Model I so you could have a computer that was B&W only and had less power than a $9.00 watch.
I have been down the Linux, Gnome,KDE tablet road several times. and they dont have Handwriting recognition or on screen keyboard as a part of the window manager. It will suck unless they built those into the WM.
All the Linux UI's need to have tablet specific code in them. Make them rotate orientation smoothly without wierd artifacts or location issues,etc...
Linux Tablets have a future if the UI devs stop with the eye candy crap and focus on adding in Tablet specific features that 90% of the UI users(I.E. non tablet users) will never use.
If you are not an expert in something, don't think you are going to learn it easily and do it at home. "At home" means you get paid 1/10th the pay for 5X the work. if you are ok with working from 7am to 7pm every day and getting basically $1.00-$2.00 an hour, then go for it.
honestly you need to be a seasoned expert that is highly skilled and knowledgeable in a field to make any real money at home. My wife is a CPA with 22 years of experience and does taxes at home for small businesses.
You can look up medical transcription, but you have to be a stellar typist that has a very high accuracy and speed to make it. But you can make a good wage (for home based, entry level wage for a go to work based)
your best bet, find a regular job. Your kids will be fine with daycare, and honestly it's healthy for you to get away from them for periods of time.
Javascript benchmarks.
Chrome is 3X faster than Firefox in javascript, what seems to be 70% of the freaking internet nowdays.
" you seriously need to just use Chrome and stop trolling Firefox devs."
it's bullshit like this that makes me stop submitting bug reports. Honestly if you guys stopped acting like holier than thou assholes people would actually help.
Nobody covers the problem that a person up top solved, that Firefox has a bug that remembers EVERY download even if you clear them in the window. So in order to fix that bug I need to uninstall Firefox, clean the registry, and install the latest version. A legitimate fix. When I ask why firefox locks up on downloads on the Firefox forums I get assholes like you.
Then why does it suck horribly compared to Chrome?
Honestly, Chrome is 3X faster than Firefox. Plus I dont get chrome locking up right after I click on a download like Firefox does for 12-20 seconds.
The problem is that CEO's are so stupid they refuse to use the videoconference gear like a normal human. They demand the things auto answer which is a GIANT hole. Plus they refuse to do the smart thing and put in a Border controller. Instead they buy an external IP for the VC gear and put them raw on the internet, Again retarded as hell. But this IS common for executives. They refuse to pay $6500.00 for the device they need and was told would increase security. Instead they demand it's done as cheap as possible.
and this is what happens. Polycom, tandberg, and sony VC equipment on the internet with no firewall and set to auto answer. discover the IP address of a VC system and call it using a Standard H323 software client and you are now listening to the room and looking out the cameras. Hell you can pan and zoom the camera if you want.
The problem is the Executives. They refuse to spend the money to install a secure VC system and they refuse to learn the gear.
No thanks. I prefer to change the mac address randomly EVERY time the dhcp lease is up. Trivial to do on any powerful OS.
"And more important than all of that, use a totally clean browser with geolocation and any other privacy-destroying features disabled,"
Again why? a good "haxor" would be running a script that is changing the data at random or delivering known false data. It's better to hide in a sea of noise than it is to stand out by delivering NOTHING at all.
Why?
Your laptop running a Live linux distro and USB drive. Untraceable, or do you think that Mac addresses can not be changed.
It is perfectly safe to use the same laptop for good and evil.
Pay for a proxy, but use a prepaid visa that is not registered in your name (hard to od but not impossible) then NEVER connect to that proxy from the same starbucks, mcdonalds, etc...
Yes this means you have to use hacker tactics for not getting caught. That is the price for living in a oppressive country.
Odd, I have had several insured. you must be completely wrong.
Because you can easily register and insure a salvage title. Buddy did it to his Prius. insurance company was happy to insure it.
And can be thrown off with a directional antenna.
They are not accurate but highly approximate and if I put the "center" of my signal 4 rooms away it will not show my location.
That is the hard way.
The easy way. go to a junkyard and buy the registration and Vin plate from a car to be crushed or the frame/body of one.. Yes you can do this.
Attach the vin plate to your car, register the car with the old title you had signed over to you.
It's listed as a "salvage title" but who cares. It's how I got my sand rail on the road legally without all the stupid safety engineering testing that Michigan has for experimental vehicle registration. IT was registered as a VW bug.
"Amazon Kindle can do it, why can't apple?"
Amazon kindle can show full color animation on a 9" screen?
Because the Kindle Fire is an epic fail in size for any textbooks. Great for paperbacks, crap for textbooks.
Really?
http://www.system76.com/
http://www.ohava.com/
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
http://www.blackstonesystems.net/
Yup it's dire... Nobody at all is selling desktops or laptops with linux preinstalled.
Did you even look?
Read up on water-boarding and torture, as this is what the judge means by "force".
This judge just said it's ok to torture anyone if the court wants it.
I have done it 20 times with my ipad2. Even on concrete. Hell there are videos on youtube of one falling from the edge of space.
not my fault you are not smart enough to put it in a case to protect it.
Rendered horse hooves glue does not do this. Blame your nearest animal rights person.
That is because the nook is a eink device with a $99 price point. I can flip pages around on the ipad as fast as a paper book.
When they get the refresh rate on epaper devices and stop cheaping out on the processors, you will see them flip as fast as paper.
"But what happens when I want to go to school with my Galaxy Tab, and I'm told that I can't get my "digital textbooks" because they're not supported on my device?"
The rest of your students don their white robes point at you and emit a screetching sound that penetrates your soul. as you run down the hallway you hear chants from the other students of ...."join us, be one of us...join us...."
That is pretty much what happens.
Yeah because we all know that Textbooks are free.
Oh wait, $790.00 in text books last semester alone for my wife. That's an Ipad and 5 textbooks in ibook form.
Or did you fail in a epic way and not read that ibook textbooks are price capped at $16.00
"Not to mention the frequent resale of textbooks and that they don't require any energy to work."
Someone Failed physics. Textbooks do in fact require energy to work, If yours open and flip pages without any energy then a lot of people would like to see this book in their labs.
Then take the MIT courses for free. they give you the textbook as well as all the lectures in video form. And I am certian that the MIT professors teach a lot better than a podunk college professor like you find at Notre Dame, UofM, or Brown.
And it costs you $100-$150 to even sell a book. you have to buy a ISBN number. So every book title you sell is $100 cash out of your pocket.