I still play my 5th gen iPod, bought Xmas 2005, for 2 hours per day (minimum) 5 days per week. Still the original battery, still holds a charge for 6 hours of playback.
This alone convinced me that user-replaceable was not a must.
I recently watched a video of the shuttle liftoff with a speedometer included. The shuttle had a lousy 0 - 60 mph time, but she really hauls the mail from 60 to 17,000 mph!!!! Those little bastards might smirk until you pass them at the next traffic light at 10,000 mph.
AT&T user here. I was more pissed off about these limits until I started using an app that shows me my data usage during the month and I had a surprising result: I only use 200 MB a month!! I thought I was someone who would be near the 2GB cap I have, but I am quite wrong.
During my afternoon commute (~2 hours) on Amrtrak I use my phone to Facebook (including a lot of picture uploading), Twitter, web browsing, e-mail, light gaming and app downloads & usage. All of this is on 3G (or "4G" if I am to believe AT&T's marketing speak that HSPA+ is 4G). Weekends out around town is the same profile, though evenings and such at home I am on Wi-Fi. So to be using only 200MB was a shock to me.
All I am saying is that we should all look at our usage before we are outraged. Yes: it is RIDICULOUS that they market "unlimited" data when throttling is, by any reasonable definition, limiting. But how many of you are really at or near the caps? I would really like to know!! I wonder how many of you are like me, thinking you use more data than you do.
True love is unrealistic. That doesn't mean it's a bad goal.
With respect: you, sir, have not then met the proper woman! I'm 33 and have been with that "unrealistic" true love woman since I was 18.
It isn't a "bad goal," it's THE goal.
"But sure as hell, they still want to touch my penis."
You talk like that's a bad thing!! To think a man would decline a hand-job before a flight - what has this country come to!!
Napster still existed in the first place??
I'm a huge nerd and seriously had no idea they were still around (in the legal form or otherwise). I can't be the only one so I'm feeling like whatever Rhapsody paid was too much!
I work for the government and thus know how horrible our IT is in general, but I find the typical reason is one word: FUNDING. yes, GAO can make fantastic recommendations that absolutely should be implemented. It's not that government staff is populated by buffoons or people who could care less about modern processes/equipment, security, privacy, etc etc etc. What typically happens is that recommendations, mandates, or best practices are given to the agency in question, but $0 are committed by the purse holders to make the changes required. So.... who is ultimately responsible for the implementation?
I mostly agree with your commentary on XP/Office 2003 (as it is my corporate environment!).
In terms of smartphones, I think upgrades should be done quickly as that space is evolving rapidly. Example: I'm saddled with a 2009-era Blackberry with BB OS 4. Talk about a mobile productivity killer!! The OS is locked down so no apps can be installed. The BB web browser is horrid, as we all know, and the worst productivity killer? No ability for theaded messages in the inbox! When you have more than 15 messages, it takes longer to sort through and make sure you haven't missed any replies/updates in the chain than it does to formulate your response. It's so cumbersome, it is better to just wait until you are back at the PC to try and do e-mail.
Amen! At the office, I am forced to use 4 year old hardware, with an 8 year old Office suite, running on a 10 year old OS that is also used to connect to a 35 year old mainframe... and sadly, I am sure I am not alone in this circumstance!!
Since I am in the know on this aspect of it, I can state with certainty that the printing cost is about $0.02 per statement while the postage is about $0.18 per statement. So by far postage out weighs the printing cost.
I'm a little hesitant to read "Scribus coming along nicely." I use it for a newsletter project I design for a charity (so I do not have to shell out for InDesign, naturally) and I find the GUI performance to be god awful! Waiting for the screen to redraw while scrolling as well as weird hiccups when selecting text blocks makes for a... challenging... experience. I'm running the latest version on XP, so perhaps YMMV on Linux.
The concept, like in passport production with RFID, is to eliminate more of the small-time operations and/or make it "more" difficult for the well funded operations. Obviously, those that are well funded (foreign governments) are very difficult to deter by any means.
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I still play my 5th gen iPod, bought Xmas 2005, for 2 hours per day (minimum) 5 days per week. Still the original battery, still holds a charge for 6 hours of playback. This alone convinced me that user-replaceable was not a must.
I can think of no better example of a first world problem than this!!
I recently watched a video of the shuttle liftoff with a speedometer included. The shuttle had a lousy 0 - 60 mph time, but she really hauls the mail from 60 to 17,000 mph!!!! Those little bastards might smirk until you pass them at the next traffic light at 10,000 mph.
Next time I'll add tags so people know that I'm kidding. Jeez!!
Boy, tough crowd!! It was a J O K E people! The stereotype is "they all look the same" so.... oh. never mind. I guess I am a -1 Troll.
36 million is easy, Asians all look the same!
My first thought: English as a Second Language light bulbs?
I'm using the Onavo app and when I compare it to the *DATA# code they are equal.
AT&T user here. I was more pissed off about these limits until I started using an app that shows me my data usage during the month and I had a surprising result: I only use 200 MB a month!! I thought I was someone who would be near the 2GB cap I have, but I am quite wrong. During my afternoon commute (~2 hours) on Amrtrak I use my phone to Facebook (including a lot of picture uploading), Twitter, web browsing, e-mail, light gaming and app downloads & usage. All of this is on 3G (or "4G" if I am to believe AT&T's marketing speak that HSPA+ is 4G). Weekends out around town is the same profile, though evenings and such at home I am on Wi-Fi. So to be using only 200MB was a shock to me. All I am saying is that we should all look at our usage before we are outraged. Yes: it is RIDICULOUS that they market "unlimited" data when throttling is, by any reasonable definition, limiting. But how many of you are really at or near the caps? I would really like to know!! I wonder how many of you are like me, thinking you use more data than you do.
Cole Stryker has - HAS - to be a pen name, right?? Totally sounds made up.
True love is unrealistic. That doesn't mean it's a bad goal.
With respect: you, sir, have not then met the proper woman! I'm 33 and have been with that "unrealistic" true love woman since I was 18. It isn't a "bad goal," it's THE goal.
...M U R D E R???????????
"But sure as hell, they still want to touch my penis." You talk like that's a bad thing!! To think a man would decline a hand-job before a flight - what has this country come to!!
...Transparent Aluminum. Mystery solved! Scotty: beam me up.
Yes! As a consumer, I am glad to see AT&T pull out of T-Mobile. As an AT&T customer, I wish they would now pull out of me!! I'm getting sore...
They should have sold it in Zune Brown and then you could have been the kewl kid on the block with a new Brown Streak!
Napster still existed in the first place?? I'm a huge nerd and seriously had no idea they were still around (in the legal form or otherwise). I can't be the only one so I'm feeling like whatever Rhapsody paid was too much!
...they DID agree... to disagree. So, that's something, right??
I work for the government and thus know how horrible our IT is in general, but I find the typical reason is one word: FUNDING. yes, GAO can make fantastic recommendations that absolutely should be implemented. It's not that government staff is populated by buffoons or people who could care less about modern processes/equipment, security, privacy, etc etc etc. What typically happens is that recommendations, mandates, or best practices are given to the agency in question, but $0 are committed by the purse holders to make the changes required. So.... who is ultimately responsible for the implementation?
I mostly agree with your commentary on XP/Office 2003 (as it is my corporate environment!). In terms of smartphones, I think upgrades should be done quickly as that space is evolving rapidly. Example: I'm saddled with a 2009-era Blackberry with BB OS 4. Talk about a mobile productivity killer!! The OS is locked down so no apps can be installed. The BB web browser is horrid, as we all know, and the worst productivity killer? No ability for theaded messages in the inbox! When you have more than 15 messages, it takes longer to sort through and make sure you haven't missed any replies/updates in the chain than it does to formulate your response. It's so cumbersome, it is better to just wait until you are back at the PC to try and do e-mail.
Amen! At the office, I am forced to use 4 year old hardware, with an 8 year old Office suite, running on a 10 year old OS that is also used to connect to a 35 year old mainframe... and sadly, I am sure I am not alone in this circumstance!!
Since I am in the know on this aspect of it, I can state with certainty that the printing cost is about $0.02 per statement while the postage is about $0.18 per statement. So by far postage out weighs the printing cost.
I hope he made this statement with a gigantic MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner behind him.
I'm a little hesitant to read "Scribus coming along nicely." I use it for a newsletter project I design for a charity (so I do not have to shell out for InDesign, naturally) and I find the GUI performance to be god awful! Waiting for the screen to redraw while scrolling as well as weird hiccups when selecting text blocks makes for a ... challenging... experience. I'm running the latest version on XP, so perhaps YMMV on Linux.
The concept, like in passport production with RFID, is to eliminate more of the small-time operations and/or make it "more" difficult for the well funded operations. Obviously, those that are well funded (foreign governments) are very difficult to deter by any means.