As a long time Nokia buyer I'm sad to see, that its time to look for greener pastures. I currently own a Symbian smartphone... It sucks next to all the shiny androids and iphones and is barely better than my first smartphone, the windows mobile ipaq PDA(not buying windows again no matter how much the windows phone 7 has evolved). However, I have hard time imagining my parents ever learning to use a different device/system on their old school call only phones...
Almost right, but don't ever buy a laptop without touching it. Specs may be nice but if the hinges are floppy new, the lid or the whole thing bends like a twig when lifted by one corner and plastic feels thin and cheap then your money is better spent elsewhere. Your machine will soon die of simple physical fatigue. And avoid HP Pavilion type huge laptops. From what I hear from people who bought theirs last year, their cooling STILL sucks and they are still prone to heat death the moment warranty runs out after a year from purchase.
If a site is blocking me based on a browser plug-in I use, they really must not want my time and potentially even money. Users benefit to sites in more ways than clicks. Slashdot understands that, and lets people with high karma to disable ads. They understand that these people bring value beyond their clicks and ad impressions.
Not all laptops have tiny screens. Take an example of a lap-jack. A lot of offices provide them for their laptop workers. With every lap-jack there is a regular keyboard littering the table that you generally cant bring along. Placing your laptop at eye level and keeping the keyboard on your desk is ergonomically sanest thing to do. Your neck will thank you for it. And a laptop like this would allow you to do it anywhere, where there is something rectangular(books, packaging box, whatever) to put under the laptop available.
Reason, why I have a laptop and why I like the separable keyboard is portability. There aren't that many wireless keyboards made for portability. There are some, certainly, but they are hardly common and they would still be an extra item in my laptop bag that already contains my wacom tablet, a mouse and all the assorted cabling. An extra wireless keyboard I would need to power by some external means at least occasionally too so I would be hauling a battery charger and spare batteries or the charger for the keyboard. Having the keyboard/touchpad popping out on demand would be seamless and endlessly awesome.
Having a women's group and men's group is fine, but they are deluding themselves thinking that they can do without a mixed group... Girls wanting a place for girl talk happens a lot in all sorts of environments. Many social forums have female only and male only sub-forums. But splitting the bazaar down in the middle with a wall... Nobody is going to be content with that. In fact the whole idea is rather backwards and primitive. And checking ones gender on the internet is a bit tricky, so expect covert mixing. No wall is as attractive to climb over as the one with the opposite gender on the other side...
This is a stupid system, resulting in waste of everybody's time and giving crooks free reign. Only older people carry passports. Everybody caring either a drivers license or ID card around is not that onerous. The state can issue wallet sized ID-s you know. It would be fine if the merchant would be putting only himself on the line with this lax security... They aren't. They are causing trouble for the unsuspecting people who's ID they let the crooks abuse without proper verification.
Your system is fucked up. A number is all it takes to claim a credit card!? Seriously? Around here, they need to retain copies of your passport or other form of ID for any loan..
No, not fixed. But those that want and can buy will and the income is maximized because those people are actually the only ones that represent the potential income. The remaining pirates wouldn't have bought it anyway.
If the cheater bucket is defined by came performance, then climbing out of it will mean that you would have to play at everyday gamer skill level immediately excluding any chance of grieving. Ultimately, the match setup code should be able to match people with comparable results and that's that...
Actually, you probably have met she-geeks in the meatspace but you have not noticed them. We don't wear labels on our foreheads and as a male you probably assumed that even mentioning anything technical would make our brains melt so you stick to chick talk and we assume that you are a typical tech-ailen male that would look at you blankly if you asked what OS was on his cell phone so we don't ask and politely excuse ourselves to get some hacking done. I get to have a conversation with every mechanic I hire to work on my car about this. No, I don't need the chick talk. Yes I know what is for and so on. Fortunately, its just once per person as a rule and you can stick with one mechanic for a while.
However, I do agree on the point you make. I'd rather remove my ovaries with a kitchen knife than manage other people.
No matter how hard they squeeze the console, there will still be hacks and cheaters. It's a race Sony cant win, not like this. Its not a technical problem, its a human problem. And human problems have human solutions. Piracy is curtailed by better availability and providing value with a purchase a pirate cant get. And cheaters... What do kids do if there is a cheater on the play ground? They stop playing with him. So why not put all people over certain abnormal skill level in a bucket labeled "Unreal" and let them cheat each other?
They will love you for it and come back for more.... erm... I think not. Sony went off my possible purchases list forever when they removed the OtherOS feature. Just makes you wander how far up their buts do the heads of Sony business people really have to be to pull this kind of reputation damaging stunts and actually believe that it will improve their bottom line.
Even big fish like ASUS did this wrong with eeePC-s in their efforts to control the installs. My sister has EeePC 1000H. It came with a custom crippled apt-based distribution that was totally insane. Try as I may there was no way of supporting her on it. Nothing worked. So I installed Ubuntu netbook remix and she's happy with it.
Res-etting hardware is not a traceless crime. Any kid doing it will get caught very very fast , since the router will stop working without its ADSL/pppoe settings for most cases and in others, reset to defaults for unknown reasons is immediately obvious + the parents passwords stop working. And then the kid is in for quick lesson in what the world thinks of tampering with other peoples hardware through one serious loss of privileges.
Not if the restriction is on the connection, not on the machine. It would be relatively simple to build in a child safe interface into common home routers that the parents can manage adding white-listing to the "kids" network.
I personally agree on not hiding the facts of life from kids, but I am going to make it perfectly clear what is acceptable and what isn't. I also respect some parents wishes to regulate the their kids internet usage more carefully. Making that as easy as possible might prevent stupid parents from extorting law makers to drawing up stupid and pointless regulation for the sake of protecting the children that end up spoiling the internet for everyone.
Loss of life and damage is sad of course but... It's really depressing how short peoples memories are even in this day and age. Building on flood areas of rivers and marsh lands ever so happily. Of course its going to flood there. If not in this year then sometime in the next 50-100 years for sure. If people choose to live in such places they should be prepared to rebuild their houses now and then and have a plan of action in case of a flood.
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As a long time Nokia buyer I'm sad to see, that its time to look for greener pastures. I currently own a Symbian smartphone... It sucks next to all the shiny androids and iphones and is barely better than my first smartphone, the windows mobile ipaq PDA(not buying windows again no matter how much the windows phone 7 has evolved). However, I have hard time imagining my parents ever learning to use a different device/system on their old school call only phones...
Almost right, but don't ever buy a laptop without touching it. Specs may be nice but if the hinges are floppy new, the lid or the whole thing bends like a twig when lifted by one corner and plastic feels thin and cheap then your money is better spent elsewhere. Your machine will soon die of simple physical fatigue. And avoid HP Pavilion type huge laptops. From what I hear from people who bought theirs last year, their cooling STILL sucks and they are still prone to heat death the moment warranty runs out after a year from purchase.
If a site is blocking me based on a browser plug-in I use, they really must not want my time and potentially even money. Users benefit to sites in more ways than clicks. Slashdot understands that, and lets people with high karma to disable ads. They understand that these people bring value beyond their clicks and ad impressions.
Not all laptops have tiny screens. Take an example of a lap-jack. A lot of offices provide them for their laptop workers. With every lap-jack there is a regular keyboard littering the table that you generally cant bring along. Placing your laptop at eye level and keeping the keyboard on your desk is ergonomically sanest thing to do. Your neck will thank you for it. And a laptop like this would allow you to do it anywhere, where there is something rectangular(books, packaging box, whatever) to put under the laptop available.
Reason, why I have a laptop and why I like the separable keyboard is portability. There aren't that many wireless keyboards made for portability. There are some, certainly, but they are hardly common and they would still be an extra item in my laptop bag that already contains my wacom tablet, a mouse and all the assorted cabling. An extra wireless keyboard I would need to power by some external means at least occasionally too so I would be hauling a battery charger and spare batteries or the charger for the keyboard. Having the keyboard/touchpad popping out on demand would be seamless and endlessly awesome.
The totally separable keyboard concept alone was really cool. If there was a laptop out there using that, Id buy.
Having a women's group and men's group is fine, but they are deluding themselves thinking that they can do without a mixed group... Girls wanting a place for girl talk happens a lot in all sorts of environments. Many social forums have female only and male only sub-forums. But splitting the bazaar down in the middle with a wall... Nobody is going to be content with that. In fact the whole idea is rather backwards and primitive. And checking ones gender on the internet is a bit tricky, so expect covert mixing. No wall is as attractive to climb over as the one with the opposite gender on the other side...
This is a stupid system, resulting in waste of everybody's time and giving crooks free reign. Only older people carry passports. Everybody caring either a drivers license or ID card around is not that onerous. The state can issue wallet sized ID-s you know. It would be fine if the merchant would be putting only himself on the line with this lax security... They aren't. They are causing trouble for the unsuspecting people who's ID they let the crooks abuse without proper verification.
And a person needs to validate the id against the person getting the loan. No blind loans. After text message loan boom, this became a law I belive.
Your system is fucked up. A number is all it takes to claim a credit card!? Seriously? Around here, they need to retain copies of your passport or other form of ID for any loan..
If pirates are getting better service than paying customers, what do you expect?
No, not fixed. But those that want and can buy will and the income is maximized because those people are actually the only ones that represent the potential income. The remaining pirates wouldn't have bought it anyway.
If the cheater bucket is defined by came performance, then climbing out of it will mean that you would have to play at everyday gamer skill level immediately excluding any chance of grieving. Ultimately, the match setup code should be able to match people with comparable results and that's that...
Actually, you probably have met she-geeks in the meatspace but you have not noticed them. We don't wear labels on our foreheads and as a male you probably assumed that even mentioning anything technical would make our brains melt so you stick to chick talk and we assume that you are a typical tech-ailen male that would look at you blankly if you asked what OS was on his cell phone so we don't ask and politely excuse ourselves to get some hacking done. I get to have a conversation with every mechanic I hire to work on my car about this. No, I don't need the chick talk. Yes I know what is for and so on. Fortunately, its just once per person as a rule and you can stick with one mechanic for a while. However, I do agree on the point you make. I'd rather remove my ovaries with a kitchen knife than manage other people.
No matter how hard they squeeze the console, there will still be hacks and cheaters. It's a race Sony cant win, not like this. Its not a technical problem, its a human problem. And human problems have human solutions. Piracy is curtailed by better availability and providing value with a purchase a pirate cant get. And cheaters... What do kids do if there is a cheater on the play ground? They stop playing with him. So why not put all people over certain abnormal skill level in a bucket labeled "Unreal" and let them cheat each other?
They will love you for it and come back for more.... erm... I think not. Sony went off my possible purchases list forever when they removed the OtherOS feature. Just makes you wander how far up their buts do the heads of Sony business people really have to be to pull this kind of reputation damaging stunts and actually believe that it will improve their bottom line.
Even big fish like ASUS did this wrong with eeePC-s in their efforts to control the installs. My sister has EeePC 1000H. It came with a custom crippled apt-based distribution that was totally insane. Try as I may there was no way of supporting her on it. Nothing worked. So I installed Ubuntu netbook remix and she's happy with it.
Res-etting hardware is not a traceless crime. Any kid doing it will get caught very very fast , since the router will stop working without its ADSL/pppoe settings for most cases and in others, reset to defaults for unknown reasons is immediately obvious + the parents passwords stop working. And then the kid is in for quick lesson in what the world thinks of tampering with other peoples hardware through one serious loss of privileges.
Not if the restriction is on the connection, not on the machine. It would be relatively simple to build in a child safe interface into common home routers that the parents can manage adding white-listing to the "kids" network.
I personally agree on not hiding the facts of life from kids, but I am going to make it perfectly clear what is acceptable and what isn't. I also respect some parents wishes to regulate the their kids internet usage more carefully. Making that as easy as possible might prevent stupid parents from extorting law makers to drawing up stupid and pointless regulation for the sake of protecting the children that end up spoiling the internet for everyone.
As long as you aren't ready to let your kid run free on the internet and see all there is to see, use white-lists. Anything else is doomed to fail.
Couldn't agree more.
Loss of life and damage is sad of course but... It's really depressing how short peoples memories are even in this day and age. Building on flood areas of rivers and marsh lands ever so happily. Of course its going to flood there. If not in this year then sometime in the next 50-100 years for sure. If people choose to live in such places they should be prepared to rebuild their houses now and then and have a plan of action in case of a flood.
KDE4 does that for me for free.
Suing a customer, no matter how ludicrous and slandering his claims are, is a retarded move. It will cost customers, both the good and the bad kind.