This is especially relevant as I live in an area where cities are very concerned about looking nice, which means for some reason they don't like building very many ugly cell towers. Sure, I guess the city looks great, but it makes for awful cell reception!
I keep mine for the exact same reason. If I ever need to make an important call (business related, or for bills, tech support, etc) where just calling back isn't an option, I trust my landline to not disconnect me or lose signal.
Take a look at True#. Granted, it would be nice to have all this functionality as part of the same engine we use to search the web, but at least someone's doing it.
You're definitely right there, sugarbomb. I used to work at a school district a while back, and although the computer labs were mostly OS X, the older computers from the labs were often pushed out to classrooms for teachers to use.
I can't tell you how awful it was to be reduced to using IE (I don't even remember what the last version of OS 9 was) to download drivers or updates if Netscape has been deleted from the system. Though using Netscape 4 to get things of some of today's image/css/flash heavy websites wasn't a cakewalk either.
In many cases, the computer is only used to check webmail and browse the Internet, and a modern-browser would go a long way to extending the life of these machines.
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This is especially relevant as I live in an area where cities are very concerned about looking nice, which means for some reason they don't like building very many ugly cell towers. Sure, I guess the city looks great, but it makes for awful cell reception!
I keep mine for the exact same reason. If I ever need to make an important call (business related, or for bills, tech support, etc) where just calling back isn't an option, I trust my landline to not disconnect me or lose signal.
Take a look at True#. Granted, it would be nice to have all this functionality as part of the same engine we use to search the web, but at least someone's doing it.
Yes, one is blind and dogmatic, the other is supported by evidence.
I noticed that you avoided posting any.
Why the fear of x.2?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
You're definitely right there, sugarbomb. I used to work at a school district a while back, and although the computer labs were mostly OS X, the older computers from the labs were often pushed out to classrooms for teachers to use. I can't tell you how awful it was to be reduced to using IE (I don't even remember what the last version of OS 9 was) to download drivers or updates if Netscape has been deleted from the system. Though using Netscape 4 to get things of some of today's image/css/flash heavy websites wasn't a cakewalk either. In many cases, the computer is only used to check webmail and browse the Internet, and a modern-browser would go a long way to extending the life of these machines.