I have a Nolia E65. Can I have an iPlayer for my phone? What makes the iPhone more special than my E65 which can do more out of the box, is smaller and cheaper and isn't crippled?
Believe me, you really want the thing to be programmable. They have to try a few settings to find oujt which makes you feel good, and if/when your body changes they can adjust the pacemaker accordingly. Modern pacemakers are marvellous pieces of technology that can give you your life back as long as you program them well!
When the competitive landscape in the cellphone world changes and the carriers just become dumb pipes, Apple will be the first to drop stupid restrictions
If that were true Apple wouldn't do so much trouble to find providers with their iPhone in Europe, where providers basically are dumb pipes, and sell the phone without a SIM lock. The iPhone is the most overhyped, over-restricted piece of malware at the mobile phone market at the moment, and finally people are starting to realize that now Steve's reality distortion field is ageing.
MS wasn't convicted because they are a monopoly because they broke European law. I won't be surprised if Apple gets a piece of the EU's cake for what they try to do with the iPhone. The EU is already looking into their iPhone/iTunes/one provider scheme, which is forbidden in certain countries here. If not stopped in its tracks, the way the iPhone is sold at the moment will have a very detrimental effect on the quality of the mobile phone services here in Europe. What Apple basically is trying to do here is bring the retarded American way of providing mobile phone services to Europe. I don't like what they're doing with their iPhone one bit and I hope and pray Mme Kroes will stop them.
Why don't they just put the mobile version on their website so every European with a normal non-crippled phone can download it and be happy? I don't get it. Why do Americans always try to take on their own retarded mobile phone market where crippled phones are king first while thee is a bigger and most of all accessable market elsewhere?
When 3 billion basepairs are copied when a cell is divided, it seems logical to me that errors occur. So why isn't the fact that 'identical' twins are not truly identical a no-brainer to the experts? I know this remark sounds like a troll, but I'm genuinely surprised.
I work at a nanotechnology research center at a university. We get a lot of Chinese Ph.D. students who come here, do research for four years, acquire specific skills and knowledge that only they know (not because they didn't write it down, but just because they have been working on this problem for four years and have it 'in their fingers' so to speak), and then go back to China. We invested on average 300 keuros in them and get not much in return. that saves China a LOT of money.
Joe user just bought a laptop and doesn't know the difference between a window and the screen. That's the audience we're talking about here. They just want their computer to work.
That is a very Insightful and Informative post. You won't get modded up for it, this being/., but it's one of the most sensible posts I've read here in a long time.
Joe user says: "Every time I want to play an mp3 on my Ubuntu a weird popup comes up telling me about plugins?! And my wireless network card doesn't work. Give me my Windows back!"
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt : his voice, hardened by sarcasm, could not hide his resentment. See note at wit.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French sarcasme, or via late Latin from late Greek sarkasmos, from Greek sarkazein 'tear flesh,' in late Greek 'gnash the teeth, speak bitterly' (from sarx, sark- 'flesh' ).
I had the same thing with my parents. They wanted a laptop, and my father was scared of the Mac. He didn't want two different systems in the house. Now they have Vista and XP, and I got them Office 2007:) To be fair, my mother wanted a 15" laptop and a MBP (which I have) was far too expensive for them. So they bought a nice HP. And from what I've seen, Vista is not that bad. It's just amazing how slow it is. That will have cost MS quite a few problems, getting it to be that slow.
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I have a Nolia E65. Can I have an iPlayer for my phone? What makes the iPhone more special than my E65 which can do more out of the box, is smaller and cheaper and isn't crippled?
Can we please stop hearing about the iPhone?
Believe me, you really want the thing to be programmable. They have to try a few settings to find oujt which makes you feel good, and if/when your body changes they can adjust the pacemaker accordingly. Modern pacemakers are marvellous pieces of technology that can give you your life back as long as you program them well!
Even Jesus said something in that direction.
When the competitive landscape in the cellphone world changes and the carriers just become dumb pipes, Apple will be the first to drop stupid restrictions
If that were true Apple wouldn't do so much trouble to find providers with their iPhone in Europe, where providers basically are dumb pipes, and sell the phone without a SIM lock. The iPhone is the most overhyped, over-restricted piece of malware at the mobile phone market at the moment, and finally people are starting to realize that now Steve's reality distortion field is ageing.
MS wasn't convicted because they are a monopoly because they broke European law. I won't be surprised if Apple gets a piece of the EU's cake for what they try to do with the iPhone. The EU is already looking into their iPhone/iTunes/one provider scheme, which is forbidden in certain countries here. If not stopped in its tracks, the way the iPhone is sold at the moment will have a very detrimental effect on the quality of the mobile phone services here in Europe. What Apple basically is trying to do here is bring the retarded American way of providing mobile phone services to Europe. I don't like what they're doing with their iPhone one bit and I hope and pray Mme Kroes will stop them.
And while you are waiting in line to get your fingers printed I'm already halfway through the country by train.
Why don't they just put the mobile version on their website so every European with a normal non-crippled phone can download it and be happy? I don't get it. Why do Americans always try to take on their own retarded mobile phone market where crippled phones are king first while thee is a bigger and most of all accessable market elsewhere?
And when was that exactly?
But seriously, what else can I do to make them know I don't like their deal? I just want to have as little to do with MS as possible.
Yeah I guess MS will blow off the whole deal now! ;)
I will give up my Flickr account the moment MS takes over Yahoo. That'll teach them!
Not for long. The factory here in Enschede will be closed down soon (next month or so).
Yes. We have to thank the EU for that.
When 3 billion basepairs are copied when a cell is divided, it seems logical to me that errors occur. So why isn't the fact that 'identical' twins are not truly identical a no-brainer to the experts? I know this remark sounds like a troll, but I'm genuinely surprised.
I work at a nanotechnology research center at a university. We get a lot of Chinese Ph.D. students who come here, do research for four years, acquire specific skills and knowledge that only they know (not because they didn't write it down, but just because they have been working on this problem for four years and have it 'in their fingers' so to speak), and then go back to China. We invested on average 300 keuros in them and get not much in return. that saves China a LOT of money.
False.
Joe user just bought a laptop and doesn't know the difference between a window and the screen. That's the audience we're talking about here. They just want their computer to work.
You can't play games on it.
That is a very Insightful and Informative post. You won't get modded up for it, this being /., but it's one of the most sensible posts I've read here in a long time.
Joe user says: "Every time I want to play an mp3 on my Ubuntu a weird popup comes up telling me about plugins?! And my wireless network card doesn't work. Give me my Windows back!"
Dog meat.
And as long as we western people treat pigs the way we do we shouldn't tell other people how to treat their dogs.
And from what I gathered from the Vista EULA, if you don't agree with it you have to return *everything* (that is including the machine) for a refund.
I can't believe that is legal even in the US. This should be taken to court.
From OSX's `dictionary application:
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sarcasm |särkazm|
noun
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt : his voice, hardened by sarcasm, could not hide his resentment. See note at wit
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French sarcasme, or via late Latin from late Greek sarkasmos, from Greek sarkazein 'tear flesh,' in late Greek 'gnash the teeth, speak bitterly' (from sarx, sark- 'flesh' ).
I had the same thing with my parents. They wanted a laptop, and my father was scared of the Mac. He didn't want two different systems in the house. Now they have Vista and XP, and I got them Office 2007 :)
To be fair, my mother wanted a 15" laptop and a MBP (which I have) was far too expensive for them. So they bought a nice HP. And from what I've seen, Vista is not that bad. It's just amazing how slow it is. That will have cost MS quite a few problems, getting it to be that slow.