It was shit. I didn't really realise quite how shit it was until I upgraded to an iPhone. Never looked back since.
It's not a phone for the general population. The N900 was a phone for hackers, developers, etc.: people who needed a pocket computer with phone functionality. Sort of the "anti-iPhone" in its philosophy. You were clearly not in the (tiny) target demographic, and whoever sold you yours was not your friend, didn't know you very well, or didn't as the right questions. (I just described a salesman, didn't I?)
Don't worry, he just read on Slashdot that the N900 was cool so he bought it. And then he read a review of the iPhone of Reddit and bought it too.
if you're young and listen to recent music, then owning is not that expensive
if you're older than dirt like myself and want to listen to lots of music from the last 40 years or longer than renting is a lot cheaper. add to this the fact that there is so much music to listen to that there is no sense in buying even single songs you might listen to a few times and then go on to something else
Oh, CRY me a TORRENT!
(Also, Led Zep is only available on Spotify, Beatles and AC/DC only on iTunes, how do I choose? No definitely, the cheapest option was to backup all my CDs -- and that's a massive lot of them. Vinyls are a bit more annoying to back up but then again... see above)
The you buy from the next service, when they shut down, repeat.
That's because you don't understand about the storage the OP is talking about. FLAC, extracted from the CD, without DRM. Your service goes bust / stops streaming that band, who cares, you still have your music!
It was a pretty obvious reference to the American Founding Fathers (the UK founding fathers would make no sense in this context) and the US Constitution/Bill of Rights. The fact that it's in the UK means that the American Founding Fathers and Constitution is irrelevant to this story.
I'm pretty sure a significant part of the US population think that their constitutional rights also apply outside of the US...
Wow is all I can say. I had no idea so many people are so incompetent.
You've obviously never worked in IT support. Some woman where I worked was complaining *her PC* was too slow, until my colleague changed the speed of the mouse cursor. Then everything was fast and perfect. She even bought him coffee.
Wow is all I can say. I had no idea so many people are so incompetent.
You've obviously never worked in IT support. Some woman where I worked was complaining was too slow, until my colleague changed the speed of the mouse cursor. Then everything was fast and perfect. She even bought him coffee.
False analogy... rape is an act of violence against a person, and causes harm against that person, while the mere act of knowing something about someone else which they may not have wanted anyone else to know is not, and does not really infringe on their rights in any way. What a person *does* with that information might hurt somebody, but the mere fact that they know it does not, and privacy only covers what people simply know about, not necessarily what they do with the information.
The fact that there IS freely-available information about me is annoying. It dates back to my teenage years and I'd like them gone. Luckily I've been cited and Google-crawled enough that these have slowly disappeared (death of Geocities for instance) or moved to page 2 of Google results (best place to hide a body by the way, nobody ever goes there).
Coding is a hobby and I prefer to keep it that way. I'm a hospital pharmacist and there is no way I could sit in front of a computer 40 hours per week.
The pharmacy billing software company I work for hires people like you to be product owners.
Good idea. Why not the Moon after the UN did such a great job divvying up Palestine and managing any subsequent conflicts over the land/resources there.
OK, so the UN made one big mistake (fuelled by Great Britain's incompetence) in their history, but the organisation as a whole works pretty well. Just wish they could take over regulation of the Internet! They might get the moon bit sorted out first though.
It's not like the Moon has native wildlife that we might disrupt. It's an airless lifeless rock right now. Why would we want to bother trying to preserve it in that state?
Airless lifeless rocks have feeling too, you know. You insensitive clod!
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How about McDrive? That sounds catchy, don't you think?
It was shit. I didn't really realise quite how shit it was until I upgraded to an iPhone. Never looked back since.
It's not a phone for the general population. The N900 was a phone for hackers, developers, etc.: people who needed a pocket computer with phone functionality. Sort of the "anti-iPhone" in its philosophy. You were clearly not in the (tiny) target demographic, and whoever sold you yours was not your friend, didn't know you very well, or didn't as the right questions. (I just described a salesman, didn't I?)
Don't worry, he just read on Slashdot that the N900 was cool so he bought it. And then he read a review of the iPhone of Reddit and bought it too.
if you're young and listen to recent music, then owning is not that expensive
if you're older than dirt like myself and want to listen to lots of music from the last 40 years or longer than renting is a lot cheaper. add to this the fact that there is so much music to listen to that there is no sense in buying even single songs you might listen to a few times and then go on to something else
Oh, CRY me a TORRENT!
(Also, Led Zep is only available on Spotify, Beatles and AC/DC only on iTunes, how do I choose? No definitely, the cheapest option was to backup all my CDs -- and that's a massive lot of them. Vinyls are a bit more annoying to back up but then again... see above)
The you buy from the next service, when they shut down, repeat.
That's because you don't understand about the storage the OP is talking about. FLAC, extracted from the CD, without DRM. Your service goes bust / stops streaming that band, who cares, you still have your music!
I'm not sure what is funniest. The comment itself, or the fact that it's modded insightful... :-D
It was a pretty obvious reference to the American Founding Fathers (the UK founding fathers would make no sense in this context) and the US Constitution/Bill of Rights. The fact that it's in the UK means that the American Founding Fathers and Constitution is irrelevant to this story.
I'm pretty sure a significant part of the US population think that their constitutional rights also apply outside of the US...
Smelly cocks are vomiting sticky goodies right into your asshole. What will you do?
Change the Game Master...
The only thing interesting about this affair is that RSA only got $10M.
That we know about...
Having a moonbase is so much cooler than the ISS that I could live with that. Otherwise I'm 100% with lazarus, don't let it die!
Wow is all I can say. I had no idea so many people are so incompetent.
You've obviously never worked in IT support. Some woman where I worked was complaining *her PC* was too slow, until my colleague changed the speed of the mouse cursor. Then everything was fast and perfect. She even bought him coffee.
Sorry, fixed.
Wow is all I can say. I had no idea so many people are so incompetent.
You've obviously never worked in IT support. Some woman where I worked was complaining was too slow, until my colleague changed the speed of the mouse cursor. Then everything was fast and perfect. She even bought him coffee.
Microsoft with Bing and Hotmail have been a competitor too...
False analogy... rape is an act of violence against a person, and causes harm against that person, while the mere act of knowing something about someone else which they may not have wanted anyone else to know is not, and does not really infringe on their rights in any way. What a person *does* with that information might hurt somebody, but the mere fact that they know it does not, and privacy only covers what people simply know about, not necessarily what they do with the information.
The fact that there IS freely-available information about me is annoying. It dates back to my teenage years and I'd like them gone. Luckily I've been cited and Google-crawled enough that these have slowly disappeared (death of Geocities for instance) or moved to page 2 of Google results (best place to hide a body by the way, nobody ever goes there).
Or just write your passwords down and put them in your sock drawer.
It's not safe there. You're forgetting rule 34. There's a whole load of sock fetishists in the world ;-)
How do you remember which bank it was in?
This seems like something I've heard of before, wasn't it called UseNet?
How soon can I start getting my movies / tv series through that delivery method? The 140 character limit is going to be an interesting challenge.
No need. If they're proper engineers, they read slashdot, comments included (especially if it's talking about their research).
It's only a flamewar until you agree that there are 2 types of programming languages:
- Those everyone bitches about
- And those nobody uses
Yeah, he got tired of Napalm...
Coding is a hobby and I prefer to keep it that way. I'm a hospital pharmacist and there is no way I could sit in front of a computer 40 hours per week.
The pharmacy billing software company I work for hires people like you to be product owners.
Guys, get a room!! ;-)
I've even read a Brit claiming they had the first European printing press, Mr. Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany must be over the moon!
Good idea. Why not the Moon after the UN did such a great job divvying up Palestine and managing any subsequent conflicts over the land/resources there.
OK, so the UN made one big mistake (fuelled by Great Britain's incompetence) in their history, but the organisation as a whole works pretty well. Just wish they could take over regulation of the Internet! They might get the moon bit sorted out first though.
We don't.
Yet.
Actually, you do. It just hasn't hit the headlines on Fox News yet.
It's not like the Moon has native wildlife that we might disrupt. It's an airless lifeless rock right now. Why would we want to bother trying to preserve it in that state?
Airless lifeless rocks have feeling too, you know. You insensitive clod!
FTFY
I agree, Core War all the way. We had one in my CS courses, one of the geekiest weekends ever!!!