no it's not. a very small portion of the industry in social graph driven, and a very small portion of that portion is making any kind of revenue (shareholders are faring a little better though, and have a vested interest in keeping that bubble alive).
back in the real world, real users willing to pay real money for something that provides a real service is still the norm.
I don't remember billg having any kind of aura though. Actually, i don't really see a difference between him and Ballmer, apart from chair throwing. When he was running it, MS was even worse at consumer stuff, at getting into new things (remember how long it took them to tackle the internet in any sort of way ?)...
sometimes people die, sometimes people are physically hurt, sometimes people are mentally hurt, sometimes people are financially hurt.... and sometimes a website gets scribbled on. I do think there's some king of gradation of wrongdoing, and this is not very high.. it ranks like a leak of the latest iPhone... barely... We should focus on the important stuff.
i think what parent is saying is that the pilot put the plane's nose UP, actually creating the fatal stall. If left to fly level, the plane may have recovered.
I'm not having loyalty yet, but I certainly avoid anything by Motorola, LG and Nokia: I've had phones for all free, and all had issues with hardware and software compounded by horrendous service. Sine my HTC HD2 is the first phone in 10 yrs I'm happy with, I'm really trying to stick with them. Hopefully they unlock the Sensation soon, otherwise I'll give Samsung's Galaxy S 2 a try.
After seeing what CM7 was able to do for my HD2 and an x10, i'm not buying locked phones ever. My HD2 is ripe for an upgrade, and I've been fairly happy with it (which I can't say of my previous Motorola and Nokia, both were riddled with design issues and software bugs). I'd like to reward HTC by sticking with them, but not at the cost of a locked bootloader, especially since it seems Sense is not that good.
So, any announcement on unlocking the Sensation Bootloader ?
much better to have a baby or kid barf on a ipad than on a keyboard. and believe me, if there's a ipad or iphone in the house, it's gonna be "theirs" fairly quickly.
small flaws like I still haven't found how to edit URLs in my android phone's browser's address bar. I have to touch the URL, then long touch to get a menu, then select "copy" (no "edit" choice), then exit, and THEN i can get a cursor to edit the URL (though sometimes it doesn't work). I've tried tapping, double tapping, sliding....
this really depends on screen size. I've got a 26", so it's much slower to go back to the extreme upper left than to right click and move to go back, forward, close, duplicate...
also, Opera does not need an addon to do that, which helps. I find firefox's addons very cumbersome
It always flabbergasted me that devs are in charge of interfaces. I once worked on a casual gaming web site, and convinvcing them that the overarching principle was "my mom should be able to use it", and that this subsumed knowing what's happening, how to get back one step, actually knowing where I am, underlining clickable things or putting them in buttons.... was a big fight.
Opera has a useful adress bar, combined with custom search engines: "wk stargate" takes me to wikipedia's english entrey on starget, "a blackdeathkiller" takes me to my realm's blackdeathkiller wow armory page "g santorum" takes me to the very interesting google search on santorum
plus there's an option to hide it already, and F2 pops up an "enter URL" page.
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Actually, MS is Windows - Office - Outlook - Sharepoint. I'm not even sure if Sharepoint is for revenue yet, or just lock-in.
http://www.tannerhelland.com/2962/where-does-microsoft-make-its-money-2010/
no it's not. a very small portion of the industry in social graph driven, and a very small portion of that portion is making any kind of revenue (shareholders are faring a little better though, and have a vested interest in keeping that bubble alive).
back in the real world, real users willing to pay real money for something that provides a real service is still the norm.
I don't remember billg having any kind of aura though. Actually, i don't really see a difference between him and Ballmer, apart from chair throwing. When he was running it, MS was even worse at consumer stuff, at getting into new things (remember how long it took them to tackle the internet in any sort of way ?)...
sometimes people die, sometimes people are physically hurt, sometimes people are mentally hurt, sometimes people are financially hurt.... and sometimes a website gets scribbled on. I do think there's some king of gradation of wrongdoing, and this is not very high.. it ranks like a leak of the latest iPhone... barely... We should focus on the important stuff.
yes, and the radio waves bounce of the floor and strike you at the back of the head, which is way you have to turn off gsm and wifi radios.
my guess would be each flight manual is 5 to 10 pads (I've found one @700 pages). might be a tad lighter, and a tad easier to search.
don't let that interrupt your rant, though.
http://i-visit.co.nz/2010/01/13/apple-buys-quattro-wireless-advertising-agency-for-300-million/
they're working on it
i think what parent is saying is that the pilot put the plane's nose UP, actually creating the fatal stall. If left to fly level, the plane may have recovered.
i would guess not. air closer to the ground is denser, supplying more lift ? hence "the flight envelope at high altitude is narrow" ?
mmm. not "for all free", but "from all three". sorry, tired.
I'm not having loyalty yet, but I certainly avoid anything by Motorola, LG and Nokia: I've had phones for all free, and all had issues with hardware and software compounded by horrendous service. Sine my HTC HD2 is the first phone in 10 yrs I'm happy with, I'm really trying to stick with them. Hopefully they unlock the Sensation soon, otherwise I'll give Samsung's Galaxy S 2 a try.
After seeing what CM7 was able to do for my HD2 and an x10, i'm not buying locked phones ever. My HD2 is ripe for an upgrade, and I've been fairly happy with it (which I can't say of my previous Motorola and Nokia, both were riddled with design issues and software bugs). I'd like to reward HTC by sticking with them, but not at the cost of a locked bootloader, especially since it seems Sense is not that good.
So, any announcement on unlocking the Sensation Bootloader ?
as opposed to spending money preserving the memory and legacy of a madman, which is SO right.
probably because physical media is worth about 2 bucks.
i usually have to pay to be "patted", i'll be glad to get one for free !
using ladyboy is easy. we went ladyboy anal... ogies !
methinks it should be the OS vendors' job to define and enforce guidelines. They are already doing it, just not that well.
you have issues.
much better to have a baby or kid barf on a ipad than on a keyboard. and believe me, if there's a ipad or iphone in the house, it's gonna be "theirs" fairly quickly.
small flaws like I still haven't found how to edit URLs in my android phone's browser's address bar. I have to touch the URL, then long touch to get a menu, then select "copy" (no "edit" choice), then exit, and THEN i can get a cursor to edit the URL (though sometimes it doesn't work). I've tried tapping, double tapping, sliding....
incredibly, for things to move forward you Need *someone* to push, which is what the authors are doing.
well... indeed. Interfaces should be self-evident. If we have to break out the manual to use them, we might as well go back to CLI.
this really depends on screen size. I've got a 26", so it's much slower to go back to the extreme upper left than to right click and move to go back, forward, close, duplicate...
also, Opera does not need an addon to do that, which helps. I find firefox's addons very cumbersome
It always flabbergasted me that devs are in charge of interfaces. I once worked on a casual gaming web site, and convinvcing them that the overarching principle was "my mom should be able to use it", and that this subsumed knowing what's happening, how to get back one step, actually knowing where I am, underlining clickable things or putting them in buttons.... was a big fight.
you should RTFA, they make some very good points and a very cogent argument.
Opera has a useful adress bar, combined with custom search engines:
"wk stargate" takes me to wikipedia's english entrey on starget,
"a blackdeathkiller" takes me to my realm's blackdeathkiller wow armory page
"g santorum" takes me to the very interesting google search on santorum
plus there's an option to hide it already, and F2 pops up an "enter URL" page.
I don't see what the fuss is about.