I would be more inclined to ditch my Windows Mobile for Android if MS/Open Office type apps were free, or even if there were full Google Docs support... the open development environment and physical keyboard option kick iPhone's ass for my purposes.
you should *always* wipe the seat with some TP first... Those who check to make sure they're not sitting on someone's piss never have to worry about this.
On a train, bus or at an airport, you may find some random person playing Starcraft (like I did on a Greyhound the other day). The ability to drop a cable and make it multiplayer regardless of the circumstances is awesome. I really don't want to have to set up tethering and Internet connection sharing just to play SC with the guy sitting next to me...
In original StarCraft w/ BW, you can still pick to use the non-expansion battle.net. They will probably do the same with SC2, so if you want to play with friends using a different expansion level, simply have everyone pick the same one.
No LAN sucks for many reasons but not this particular one.
Well, a good number of people who have to work for a living already get ripped from their home computers for 8 hours a day, into an environment where wasting time on the Internet is frowned upon. Maybe not the people in the US who've posted to this article so far, myself included:).
Even in places like my old job, where the entire chain of command up to director allowed employees to play WoW during downtime (Tier I call center), you still had to stop whenever work happened, which seems enough to prevent "Internet addiction" from setting in...
So, people in a position to get Internet addiction in the first place are more likely to be either unemployed/rich, unemployed/too poor to afford even a summer camp, or unemployed/kid whos parents like to throw money at any problem. With these people in mind, $15,000 seems to be a good price to set it at...
For many situations like this I would tend to agree, however if everyone who disagrees with his policies moves out, he will never be voted out, since those adversely affected by them don't really have the option to move out. Their options are pretty much take it, riot, or mass suicide.
If that were to happen, copyright 'criminals' combined with petty drug 'criminals' would outnumber actual criminals in jails. When non-violent criminals overwhelm the prison system, and it becomes more likely that your roommate is Clyde from accounting rather than someone who murdered six people with their bare hands, jail is a lot less threatening and thus less of a deterrent from crime.
So, never gonna happen, since the entire justice system would collapse if people were to stop fearing jail.
from any other virus? Last I checked, any effective virus has a mechanism to spread/replicate by itself, whether to other IPs on the same subnet or via AIM or USB drives or what have you.
In April and may I scanned my network of ~8500 completely user-controlled machines and found a grand total of 4 confirmed infected. The IRC bots spread via AIM links were more prevalent.
Some areas have had "rails for trails" turn old railway lines into bike/walking paths... they have bridges over roadways and can function as a sortof bike-highway. Building something of this nature from scratch (or even alongside existing railways / highways) would be helpful.
As someone who walked/used PT to get to school weekdays for 12 years, bowling Saturdays, church Sundays...
it's manageable if you choose to live close to all of those things.
In my parents' time, they rode their own bikes to those places, and it was safe, before all those dangerous cars took over the roads.
The logistics of separating out the IE browser from the rest of the OS must have been more daunting than anticipated.
I do wish the "ballot screen" idea would be used in places outside the EU, as well...
They'll care if their call center suddenly balloons to queues 30 deep of them. And if they are (as you say) 15 year olds, they most likely have no obligations in the morning to prevent them from calling in all night...
But as said elsewhere, this wasn't a censorship issue anyway, so the point is, well, moot.
Latitude is very useful for arranging meetups. Instead of "lets meet at the corner of X and Y", I can wander stores in the general vicinity of X and Y, and know to move closer to the established location as their dot(s) gets closer to the meeting spot. Since you can easily turn off it off with both the app and (in some cases) the physical gps device itself, you still have privacy when you want it.
There's other reasons to not want you to send in your hard drive as well. If they have to take yours out while working on it, they risk losing it / placing it back into the wrong computer.
People who don't speak English are quite capable of comparing the characters of your name from your ID with the characters you wrote on your netbook for your name and address (I think the GP meant to say English AND the local language). You can help them along by using the same font.
What ridiculous mythical everpresent promise are we going to look forward to now?
My vote is for New York City's Second Avenue Subway. Since the first plan was approved in 1929, it was redesigned in the 40s, 70s and 90s, with multiple ceremonial groundbreakings. The result of the billions (in today's money) poured into it were only some short, disconnected sections of tunnel with no track that were costing millions to maintain with no funding to actually make them usable. The completion date for the first phase of current construction has been pushed to 2016 from 2014.
It would also result in an overall quality increase. Some people do like to post videos for testing purposes (to see how it encodes), so perhaps videos marked "private" can still be free.
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I would be more inclined to ditch my Windows Mobile for Android if MS/Open Office type apps were free, or even if there were full Google Docs support... the open development environment and physical keyboard option kick iPhone's ass for my purposes.
you should *always* wipe the seat with some TP first... Those who check to make sure they're not sitting on someone's piss never have to worry about this.
On a train, bus or at an airport, you may find some random person playing Starcraft (like I did on a Greyhound the other day). The ability to drop a cable and make it multiplayer regardless of the circumstances is awesome. I really don't want to have to set up tethering and Internet connection sharing just to play SC with the guy sitting next to me...
keep a mousepad in your laptop bag.
In original StarCraft w/ BW, you can still pick to use the non-expansion battle.net. They will probably do the same with SC2, so if you want to play with friends using a different expansion level, simply have everyone pick the same one. No LAN sucks for many reasons but not this particular one.
Well, a good number of people who have to work for a living already get ripped from their home computers for 8 hours a day, into an environment where wasting time on the Internet is frowned upon. Maybe not the people in the US who've posted to this article so far, myself included :).
Even in places like my old job, where the entire chain of command up to director allowed employees to play WoW during downtime (Tier I call center), you still had to stop whenever work happened, which seems enough to prevent "Internet addiction" from setting in...
So, people in a position to get Internet addiction in the first place are more likely to be either unemployed/rich, unemployed/too poor to afford even a summer camp, or unemployed/kid whos parents like to throw money at any problem. With these people in mind, $15,000 seems to be a good price to set it at...
For many situations like this I would tend to agree, however if everyone who disagrees with his policies moves out, he will never be voted out, since those adversely affected by them don't really have the option to move out. Their options are pretty much take it, riot, or mass suicide.
So, never gonna happen, since the entire justice system would collapse if people were to stop fearing jail.
from any other virus? Last I checked, any effective virus has a mechanism to spread/replicate by itself, whether to other IPs on the same subnet or via AIM or USB drives or what have you. In April and may I scanned my network of ~8500 completely user-controlled machines and found a grand total of 4 confirmed infected. The IRC bots spread via AIM links were more prevalent.
Some areas have had "rails for trails" turn old railway lines into bike/walking paths... they have bridges over roadways and can function as a sortof bike-highway. Building something of this nature from scratch (or even alongside existing railways / highways) would be helpful.
As someone who walked/used PT to get to school weekdays for 12 years, bowling Saturdays, church Sundays... it's manageable if you choose to live close to all of those things. In my parents' time, they rode their own bikes to those places, and it was safe, before all those dangerous cars took over the roads.
The logistics of separating out the IE browser from the rest of the OS must have been more daunting than anticipated. I do wish the "ballot screen" idea would be used in places outside the EU, as well...
They had to airbrush out signs of the penguins' mounting assault to avoid global panic.
They'll care if their call center suddenly balloons to queues 30 deep of them. And if they are (as you say) 15 year olds, they most likely have no obligations in the morning to prevent them from calling in all night... But as said elsewhere, this wasn't a censorship issue anyway, so the point is, well, moot.
Latitude is very useful for arranging meetups. Instead of "lets meet at the corner of X and Y", I can wander stores in the general vicinity of X and Y, and know to move closer to the established location as their dot(s) gets closer to the meeting spot. Since you can easily turn off it off with both the app and (in some cases) the physical gps device itself, you still have privacy when you want it.
the Task Bar.
There's other reasons to not want you to send in your hard drive as well. If they have to take yours out while working on it, they risk losing it / placing it back into the wrong computer.
People who don't speak English are quite capable of comparing the characters of your name from your ID with the characters you wrote on your netbook for your name and address (I think the GP meant to say English AND the local language). You can help them along by using the same font.
What ridiculous mythical everpresent promise are we going to look forward to now?
My vote is for New York City's Second Avenue Subway. Since the first plan was approved in 1929, it was redesigned in the 40s, 70s and 90s, with multiple ceremonial groundbreakings. The result of the billions (in today's money) poured into it were only some short, disconnected sections of tunnel with no track that were costing millions to maintain with no funding to actually make them usable. The completion date for the first phase of current construction has been pushed to 2016 from 2014.
It would also result in an overall quality increase. Some people do like to post videos for testing purposes (to see how it encodes), so perhaps videos marked "private" can still be free.