Things were a hell of a lot less invasive under GWB, screeching about the Patriot Act and all. No government agent was taking nude photos of me or putting their hands down my pants.
Maybe you think it's rude because it impacts your economic well-being, but a smarter attitude would be to see the long-term picture where outlets like Gamestop and physical game resellers are going to go the way of video stores in the medium-term.
Hopefully this isn't a career, I'm sure it's probably not... but these are the throes of a dying business model.
I don't consider this reckless spending. the iPad is in use in many hospitals in the US by providers, not as a toy, but in real useful ways.
In our case, because there is a Citrix plugin for the iPad, providers can log into our informatics system on an iPad via wireless and do basically anything they can do from the PC they normally use. Place orders, view results, read documentation, more or less anything.
Because the iPhone uses the same plugin, they can use those in a pinch too, say from the golf course or what have you.
These devices may not seem to fill a niche in our homes that isn't already covered for most people, but they can provide a lot of flexibility and function in health care.
I had a similar conversation with someone who worked for and with the co-founder of another fortune 500 company around the time the company started. I think most of these guys end up being slave drivers and assholes because they see what can happen and how much it's worth, and it just strips away all inhibitions.
Search engines are supposed to be a transaction. "Here's what I want." "Here are your results"
It's annoying I think to most people in a way that is hard to describe. It's like speaking to a person who always tries to finish your sentences before you're done speaking.
Personally I hate the "no enter button" thing, because it retrieves results based on typos and altogether before I am finished forming the query I want to make. It runs contrary to the flow of 15+ years of search engine usage for me.
It's also annoying as hell to revise the query only to have that dropdown appear, obscuring part of the page.
Personally, especially at work, I don't want Google pulling up any random page from search results on my behalf.
Stop trying to think for us, and be what Google originally was - simple, lightweight, doing only what I need and nothing more.
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Things were a hell of a lot less invasive under GWB, screeching about the Patriot Act and all. No government agent was taking nude photos of me or putting their hands down my pants.
Don't worry, I'm sure this will change now that we've voted those Republicans out.
Exactly...
Solaris is dead as fried chicken
Lighten up, Francis
You obviously haven't seen the documentary that Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in on this topic.
What Enron was doing was actually lying in the legal sense. Not quite the same thing.
"Well, entity X is biased, but they're biased for GOOD, that doesn't really count."
They haven't stopped the incompetence - this is the same KIN phone, stripped of the data features.
So basically you have a phone that can use Zune pass to listen to music if there's Wifi around.
Smells like a warehouse full of unsold KINs that need to ship before they get the Pac Man/Atari 2600 treatment
"although sales figures have never been released it is believed there were only 90 pre-orders."
Ouch!
the KIN marketing team laughs at JOO(joo)
Familiar path for another "iPad killer"
Maybe you think it's rude because it impacts your economic well-being, but a smarter attitude would be to see the long-term picture where outlets like Gamestop and physical game resellers are going to go the way of video stores in the medium-term.
Hopefully this isn't a career, I'm sure it's probably not... but these are the throes of a dying business model.
I don't consider this reckless spending. the iPad is in use in many hospitals in the US by providers, not as a toy, but in real useful ways.
In our case, because there is a Citrix plugin for the iPad, providers can log into our informatics system on an iPad via wireless and do basically anything they can do from the PC they normally use. Place orders, view results, read documentation, more or less anything.
Because the iPhone uses the same plugin, they can use those in a pinch too, say from the golf course or what have you.
These devices may not seem to fill a niche in our homes that isn't already covered for most people, but they can provide a lot of flexibility and function in health care.
I had a similar conversation with someone who worked for and with the co-founder of another fortune 500 company around the time the company started. I think most of these guys end up being slave drivers and assholes because they see what can happen and how much it's worth, and it just strips away all inhibitions.
There should be a top ten list of rising stars among evil companies.
(But who would hold slots #2-10?)
Search engines are supposed to be a transaction. "Here's what I want." "Here are your results"
It's annoying I think to most people in a way that is hard to describe. It's like speaking to a person who always tries to finish your sentences before you're done speaking.
And I don't WANT to log in everywhere just to keep my personal changes persistent.
I only log in on PCs I trust and use regularly.
"Obscuring" meaning shoving results down, and wasting screen space on things I don't want to see yet.
Personally I hate the "no enter button" thing, because it retrieves results based on typos and altogether before I am finished forming the query I want to make. It runs contrary to the flow of 15+ years of search engine usage for me.
It's also annoying as hell to revise the query only to have that dropdown appear, obscuring part of the page.
Personally, especially at work, I don't want Google pulling up any random page from search results on my behalf.
Stop trying to think for us, and be what Google originally was - simple, lightweight, doing only what I need and nothing more.
Now he's throwing chars instead of chairs
I'll start a competing service where a gnome statue touts rack space where the deer and the antelope play
Interesting discussion. Perhaps more companies could make business out of their spare resources as Amazon does.
Also funny, in the comments section with GoGrid.com trolling with a $100 coupon code. Way to sweeten the pot...
What do they possibly have to gain? AOL is little more than an aged internet portal trading on legacy business from the not-too-bright.
(Which I guess is what Yahoo is...)
That's not true. Most people want to live off a government check AND smoke weed all day.
So we don't have to use Chrome.
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