If it was 4.02 instead of 5, I would have upgraded all of our computers at home already. As it is, I have no way of knowing if all our plugins work. I have tried looking on the homepages of some of the plugins, and they have not been updated recently, so I have no idea. The only reason I still run the slower firefox is for the great plugins available. Sooo... I'll wait a month or so. I will probably upgrade just in time for firefox 6. It is NOT just enterprise, this hurts home users too.
Who has them? MS has pushed not shipping them for so many years. Too bad they don't do the right thing, and make install ISO's available with latest patches for XP / Vista / 7
Whether they are getting large amounts of radiation is up for debate, but whether they should be allowed to wear a radiation badge is not. As human beings they absolutely have the right to know what they are getting. The unknown promotes fear.
Remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and told developers they did not need to code native apps, because the iOS would ship with an awesome web browser? Didn't go too well, and they were forced to release native app support. Then Rubenstien left Apple to help build WebOS at Palm, that also did not support native apps. They may die someday, but it will not be any time soon.
Did the terrorist win? They almost bankrupted our country. We now have to worry about our 95 yo parents or young daughters getting gate raped, with procedures having little statistical correlation to actually blowing a plane up. Our country now has an enormous infrastructure installed to spy on its own citizens. I think they won.
Building in flood zones should not be allowed. Period. All it would take is not issuing government flood insurance for these areas, as no for profit company would take the risk. No bank would loan on anything not insured. In the end when we get floods, and we always will sooner or later, the damage would not be that expensive.
Because the suck. People bought them for two reasons, portability and cheapness. You can buy a small thin laptop with 11" screen that is as portable as a smaller but thicker netbook that is actually usable. Cost wise you can buy a real computer for not a whole lot more than a netbook. Dealing with tiny screens (screen size is directly correlated to productivity up to something like 28"), touchpads and keyboards so small normal human hands can't use them... all but the geekiest geek is going to be left severely disappointed. Netbooks are the latest pet rock.
Is there a way to buy this, and use on a cheap prepaid cell network without paying the data plan? I'm good with data only working in wifi mode. I'm just too cheap to pay today's data rates, don't feel the benefit warrants that kind of cash (for me at least), but would love to have the iPod and Apps. Basically replace my iPod touch and dumb phone combination with one device.
Never heard them, so went to their website hoping to preview some fun music. After a couple minutes gave up and went to youtube. Not bad, but why would a band make it so hard to listen to and buy their music?
I have noticed this too. On several occasions tried to find good new music on the radio with little luck.
Of course good music is still being made. Radio stations tend to target people with cash, and although teens buy the most music, they do not buy the most cars, houses, stuff that their advertisers are selling. So they play music that was hot when the generation they are targeting were teens.
I think there is something else at play as well (no pun intended) regarding the people that push songs to radio stations and stations that supposedly play new music, but I'll leave that conspiracy theory alone.
Wherever there are people there is a need for local news. People need / want to know what is going in in the community, with local schools, and local businesses.
All the newspapers in our area (fly over country) have paywalls for online content. They can do it as there is not local news bloggers in most small towns. They have shrunk, but still surviving just fine.
My town has zero bloggers (for local news anyway) and zero newspapers. I once built a site and tried to get a handful of local peeps to add content regularly, but working for free nobody kept it up, and I did not want to mess with selling ads and having employees for a hobby.
We used the sortable list extensively, normally sorted by rating. I wanted the sortable list with a small thumbnail of the cover art (is that what it is called for movies?). This new version is almost unusable.
This is exactly why Apple created their stores. I do not believe they will work for MS like they do for Apple (way different companies), but do they sell the phones at their stores?
One of the "cutters", so we view tv through an old computer repurposed to stream the 'net (and antenna for local sports). How are they supposed to watch me?
How long before we just have a rail to hang your car from for long distance travel in the US? Streets in the burbs and rural areas, walk / bike / subway etc. in densely populated areas, put your car on the rail to go to the next town. It would not eliminate the need for roads everywhere, but would reduce the need for big interstates everywhere. If fast enough could also reduce the need for air travel. Would of course require purpose built cars with necessary hardware, light weight, computer in dash to select and pay for destination, etc.... Crazy?
I'm typing this on my 5 year old 1920x1200 laptop. Not only is going down to "full HD" not going to happen, I'm appalled that 5 years later there is not a better option to spend my money on. And ya, would prefer matte.
If you live in the US just go to government servers and download high quality 3d terrain models in several different formats. Used them frequently in engineering. We did have to resort to flying our own photogrammetry when tolerances were tight, but that was rare.
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If it was 4.02 instead of 5, I would have upgraded all of our computers at home already. As it is, I have no way of knowing if all our plugins work. I have tried looking on the homepages of some of the plugins, and they have not been updated recently, so I have no idea. The only reason I still run the slower firefox is for the great plugins available. Sooo... I'll wait a month or so. I will probably upgrade just in time for firefox 6. It is NOT just enterprise, this hurts home users too.
Who has them? MS has pushed not shipping them for so many years. Too bad they don't do the right thing, and make install ISO's available with latest patches for XP / Vista / 7
Whether they are getting large amounts of radiation is up for debate, but whether they should be allowed to wear a radiation badge is not. As human beings they absolutely have the right to know what they are getting. The unknown promotes fear.
Remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and told developers they did not need to code native apps, because the iOS would ship with an awesome web browser? Didn't go too well, and they were forced to release native app support. Then Rubenstien left Apple to help build WebOS at Palm, that also did not support native apps. They may die someday, but it will not be any time soon.
Did the terrorist win? They almost bankrupted our country. We now have to worry about our 95 yo parents or young daughters getting gate raped, with procedures having little statistical correlation to actually blowing a plane up. Our country now has an enormous infrastructure installed to spy on its own citizens. I think they won.
Building in flood zones should not be allowed. Period. All it would take is not issuing government flood insurance for these areas, as no for profit company would take the risk. No bank would loan on anything not insured. In the end when we get floods, and we always will sooner or later, the damage would not be that expensive.
This so far has proven a very popular, but unprofitable market segment. Only a matter of time before Groupon is bust.
Because the suck. People bought them for two reasons, portability and cheapness. You can buy a small thin laptop with 11" screen that is as portable as a smaller but thicker netbook that is actually usable. Cost wise you can buy a real computer for not a whole lot more than a netbook. Dealing with tiny screens (screen size is directly correlated to productivity up to something like 28"), touchpads and keyboards so small normal human hands can't use them... all but the geekiest geek is going to be left severely disappointed. Netbooks are the latest pet rock.
Best Buy aint no Amazon... let the death countdown begin.
Is there a way to buy this, and use on a cheap prepaid cell network without paying the data plan? I'm good with data only working in wifi mode. I'm just too cheap to pay today's data rates, don't feel the benefit warrants that kind of cash (for me at least), but would love to have the iPod and Apps. Basically replace my iPod touch and dumb phone combination with one device.
Never heard them, so went to their website hoping to preview some fun music. After a couple minutes gave up and went to youtube. Not bad, but why would a band make it so hard to listen to and buy their music?
I have noticed this too. On several occasions tried to find good new music on the radio with little luck.
Of course good music is still being made. Radio stations tend to target people with cash, and although teens buy the most music, they do not buy the most cars, houses, stuff that their advertisers are selling. So they play music that was hot when the generation they are targeting were teens.
I think there is something else at play as well (no pun intended) regarding the people that push songs to radio stations and stations that supposedly play new music, but I'll leave that conspiracy theory alone.
Wherever there are people there is a need for local news. People need / want to know what is going in in the community, with local schools, and local businesses.
All the newspapers in our area (fly over country) have paywalls for online content. They can do it as there is not local news bloggers in most small towns. They have shrunk, but still surviving just fine.
My town has zero bloggers (for local news anyway) and zero newspapers. I once built a site and tried to get a handful of local peeps to add content regularly, but working for free nobody kept it up, and I did not want to mess with selling ads and having employees for a hobby.
We used the sortable list extensively, normally sorted by rating. I wanted the sortable list with a small thumbnail of the cover art (is that what it is called for movies?). This new version is almost unusable.
You joke, but hope also realize this is why so many girls smoke?
This is exactly why Apple created their stores. I do not believe they will work for MS like they do for Apple (way different companies), but do they sell the phones at their stores?
They make money. Any more questions?
Some have it.
microwave knocks ours out. Router 200-300 feet away, and microwave much closer to the computer endpoint.
One of the "cutters", so we view tv through an old computer repurposed to stream the 'net (and antenna for local sports). How are they supposed to watch me?
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How long before we just have a rail to hang your car from for long distance travel in the US? Streets in the burbs and rural areas, walk / bike / subway etc. in densely populated areas, put your car on the rail to go to the next town. It would not eliminate the need for roads everywhere, but would reduce the need for big interstates everywhere. If fast enough could also reduce the need for air travel. Would of course require purpose built cars with necessary hardware, light weight, computer in dash to select and pay for destination, etc. ... Crazy?
I'm typing this on my 5 year old 1920x1200 laptop. Not only is going down to "full HD" not going to happen, I'm appalled that 5 years later there is not a better option to spend my money on. And ya, would prefer matte.
Cuban summed it up nicely.
If you live in the US just go to government servers and download high quality 3d terrain models in several different formats. Used them frequently in engineering. We did have to resort to flying our own photogrammetry when tolerances were tight, but that was rare.