It is not true because you don't have a human reader watching everything the 108 zillion Gmail users worldwide type all day long. You have a Skynet-like superdupermachine automagically reading it and saving information about you, that will aid in your destruction when it launches its attack against mankind. And it is a smear campaign because what Gmail does, MS does as well, only not as efficiently.
Technical users hoping for Apple to miss an exploitable bug or two and, thanks to Copyright Office, in US being able to legally jailbreak iPhone, but not iPad.
Superior, right.
It's not "default mode". It's only intended mode.
I say, Internet's pretty unsafe for non-technical people, and we're just giving them more freedom than they can be responsible for with unfettered access. We should implement a country-wide whitelist, and technical people can always fully unlock it with an out of country VPS.
What is good to know? The comment about the adjustable habitable zones, or the "friendly reminder" about the companies we are allowed to like? I'd go for the latter, seems more relevant and useful in practical life...
Here in Brazil, Toshiba once launched a marketing campaign with the slogan: "Our Japanese are better than everyone else's." One variation of that publicity showed the Little Grasshopper asking Master Po: "Master, why are Toshiba's Japanese better than ours?" And Master Po replied, "Simple, you idiot: Because we are Chinese, not Japanese!"
What about nanotechnology (just to mention an example off the top of my head)? Does that fit into the BBC's definition of "Invention?" What about stem cell research?
The C programming language and all its variations. The Unix operating systems and all its derivatives. Those have been around for a very long time and are still very much relevant.
I have a PC running Win 8 Pro (upgraded from its original Vista after 4 years, via download from MS website, for the price of BR-R$ 69 which is roughly equivalent to US-$ 35). As soon as I had Win 8 running, I downloaded and installed classic Shell. Since then I have been using what amounts to Windows 7 with a somewhat uglier look and a few under-the-hood improvements. As for the Metro interface or whatever it is called these days, I have messed very little with it; my rather poorly informed assessment at this time is that, on a computer that has no multitouch input device, it would be a waste of my valuable time.
All things considered, I am glad I did the upgrade, and since I was unable to find any upgrades to Win7 only for that price, it was the best possible deal for me, short of getting a pirated copy of Win7 which I did not even consider an option.
But then again, YMMV.
And no, I did not want to upgrade to Linux. Before anyone suggests that.
You should have published this as AC. I'll bet there must be some Chinese Govt shill checking out your profile right now, to find a way to catch your relatives.
Wake me up when a Tumbler goes for sale. If one of those babies becomes available, I'll have to start hatching up an evil plan to gather the cash, and morality be damned!
The person who coined the "God particle" meme was an insensitive journal publisher. On the other hand, the nickname was kind of supported by a Nobel-winning insensitive physicist named Leon Lederman, apparently...
Facebook is known to not delete anything. In Europe people have been requesting all the info Facebook has about them - and also found many comments they thought they deleted to still be present.
What Facebook calls "delete" merely means "hide".
Their concept of "delete" was borrowed from Sony. Remember the rootkit scandal back in 2005?
Right. And now the Metric system itself is from the US? Who writes this stuff.
Do you really expect that most American will accept the metric system if it is somewhat unamerican? I don't mind it been presented as an american invention if it can help bring the US in the 20th century.
Also, I suspect this is exactly the idea behind this article. So shut up about it, and let this US metric system get root.
OK, so once the US has successfully entered the 20th Century, what will be done to make them go the final mile (er..., the final 1.609 Km) and catch up with the 21st Century?
As I read this, I had a mental image of a NASA lander on Mars, pointing all its sensors one way, while a bunch of little green men stood behind it, making fun of the machine's inability to look backwards.
Sounds EVIL enough for a Dr. EVIL reference. If the new mouse has 2 lasers, it must also have 2 sharks, which will fight over who gets to eat the mouse. In the end, they will kill each other and the mouse will prevail. I for one welcome our new... OK OK, I'm going to take my medication and jump into bed.
I thought it was "There's no accounting for taste."
I thought it was: "My accountant has no taste.":)
(Sorry, lame joke there, gonna cost me some karma I guess)
Exactly under what jurisdiction are they getting married? And if they ever want to divorce, are they gonna have to go up into space again to do it? Is a pre-nuptial agreement written here on Earth void in the great void of outer space?
(OK, somebody please take my keyboard away ASAP)
I do not know if this point has been covered in TFA (which I did not R, in case anyone cares to ask) or in other posts here (did not go all the way into troll and flamebait territory but I did read a lot of posts and found nothing on it): Exactly how important a part of the air travelers' universe is made up of people who: a) Travel with a laptop in tow, and b) Feel the need to whip it out at every waiting lounge? Speaking for myself, I have never bought a laptop for personal use, although I have one belonging to the company I work for which I carry around on work-related trips. I have never bothered to open it up in an airport because I don't want to go down as the idiot who inadvertently smuggled a virus into the company intranet because he couldn't wait a couple of hours to check his e-mail. The bottom line is, does anyone know what percentage of air travelers would really give a damn whether this or that airport has wi-fi, on account of actually having a laptop to connect to it? And no, I do not consider this so-called survey a reliable source because it was done by people who were interested in a specific outcome.
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Des that mean that 2013 will be the year of sugar cane on the desktop?
It is not true because you don't have a human reader watching everything the 108 zillion Gmail users worldwide type all day long. You have a Skynet-like superdupermachine automagically reading it and saving information about you, that will aid in your destruction when it launches its attack against mankind. And it is a smear campaign because what Gmail does, MS does as well, only not as efficiently.
Technical users hoping for Apple to miss an exploitable bug or two and, thanks to Copyright Office, in US being able to legally jailbreak iPhone, but not iPad.
Superior, right.
It's not "default mode". It's only intended mode.
I say, Internet's pretty unsafe for non-technical people, and we're just giving them more freedom than they can be responsible for with unfettered access. We should implement a country-wide whitelist, and technical people can always fully unlock it with an out of country VPS.
Now, wouldn't that be an inroad for censorship?
Nowadays they call them "employees" because the word "serf" has been banned by the PC crowd.
What is good to know? The comment about the adjustable habitable zones, or the "friendly reminder" about the companies we are allowed to like? I'd go for the latter, seems more relevant and useful in practical life...
From TFS: "Footage from state TV showed the jet in flight, but not its take-off or landing." It was pushed off a cliff and fell into the sea!
Here in Brazil, Toshiba once launched a marketing campaign with the slogan: "Our Japanese are better than everyone else's." One variation of that publicity showed the Little Grasshopper asking Master Po: "Master, why are Toshiba's Japanese better than ours?" And Master Po replied, "Simple, you idiot: Because we are Chinese, not Japanese!"
It's the same logic that allowed the MAFIAA to file a lawsuit claiming trillions of dollars' worth of damages!
What about nanotechnology (just to mention an example off the top of my head)? Does that fit into the BBC's definition of "Invention?" What about stem cell research?
So, according to you, trying to force a person to do something against their will under some kind of threat is just a game, right???
Actually, when the USSR used this trick against the US (or so you say) it backfired on them, remember?
As funny as your metaphor was, please learn some more about what Iran is really like before you type that kind of BS.
The C programming language and all its variations. The Unix operating systems and all its derivatives. Those have been around for a very long time and are still very much relevant.
Search is not broken if you stick to just one of the 2 interfaces (the desktop with Classic Shell in my case).
I have a PC running Win 8 Pro (upgraded from its original Vista after 4 years, via download from MS website, for the price of BR-R$ 69 which is roughly equivalent to US-$ 35). As soon as I had Win 8 running, I downloaded and installed classic Shell. Since then I have been using what amounts to Windows 7 with a somewhat uglier look and a few under-the-hood improvements. As for the Metro interface or whatever it is called these days, I have messed very little with it; my rather poorly informed assessment at this time is that, on a computer that has no multitouch input device, it would be a waste of my valuable time. All things considered, I am glad I did the upgrade, and since I was unable to find any upgrades to Win7 only for that price, it was the best possible deal for me, short of getting a pirated copy of Win7 which I did not even consider an option. But then again, YMMV. And no, I did not want to upgrade to Linux. Before anyone suggests that.
You should have published this as AC. I'll bet there must be some Chinese Govt shill checking out your profile right now, to find a way to catch your relatives.
It is "frist psot." Learn to spell correctly!
Wake me up when a Tumbler goes for sale. If one of those babies becomes available, I'll have to start hatching up an evil plan to gather the cash, and morality be damned!
The person who coined the "God particle" meme was an insensitive journal publisher. On the other hand, the nickname was kind of supported by a Nobel-winning insensitive physicist named Leon Lederman, apparently...
Facebook is known to not delete anything. In Europe people have been requesting all the info Facebook has about them - and also found many comments they thought they deleted to still be present.
What Facebook calls "delete" merely means "hide".
Their concept of "delete" was borrowed from Sony. Remember the rootkit scandal back in 2005?
Right. And now the Metric system itself is from the US? Who writes this stuff.
Do you really expect that most American will accept the metric system if it is somewhat unamerican? I don't mind it been presented as an american invention if it can help bring the US in the 20th century.
Also, I suspect this is exactly the idea behind this article. So shut up about it, and let this US metric system get root.
OK, so once the US has successfully entered the 20th Century, what will be done to make them go the final mile (er..., the final 1.609 Km) and catch up with the 21st Century?
As I read this, I had a mental image of a NASA lander on Mars, pointing all its sensors one way, while a bunch of little green men stood behind it, making fun of the machine's inability to look backwards.
Sounds EVIL enough for a Dr. EVIL reference. If the new mouse has 2 lasers, it must also have 2 sharks, which will fight over who gets to eat the mouse. In the end, they will kill each other and the mouse will prevail. I for one welcome our new... OK OK, I'm going to take my medication and jump into bed.
I thought it was "There's no accounting for taste."
I thought it was: "My accountant has no taste." :)
(Sorry, lame joke there, gonna cost me some karma I guess)
Exactly under what jurisdiction are they getting married? And if they ever want to divorce, are they gonna have to go up into space again to do it? Is a pre-nuptial agreement written here on Earth void in the great void of outer space?
(OK, somebody please take my keyboard away ASAP)
I do not know if this point has been covered in TFA (which I did not R, in case anyone cares to ask) or in other posts here (did not go all the way into troll and flamebait territory but I did read a lot of posts and found nothing on it): Exactly how important a part of the air travelers' universe is made up of people who: a) Travel with a laptop in tow, and b) Feel the need to whip it out at every waiting lounge? Speaking for myself, I have never bought a laptop for personal use, although I have one belonging to the company I work for which I carry around on work-related trips. I have never bothered to open it up in an airport because I don't want to go down as the idiot who inadvertently smuggled a virus into the company intranet because he couldn't wait a couple of hours to check his e-mail. The bottom line is, does anyone know what percentage of air travelers would really give a damn whether this or that airport has wi-fi, on account of actually having a laptop to connect to it? And no, I do not consider this so-called survey a reliable source because it was done by people who were interested in a specific outcome.