I second that. T-Mobile is the only major carrier in US to allow buying a phone elsewhere. It's coverage does not match that of Verizon but I was fine everywhere in NE save some wild mountain ranges.It also offers best bang for the buck compared to AT&T and Verizon.
They need to develop a hypersonic TSA machine that comes with it. The new machine will irradiate large batches of passengers with non-lethal doses of alpha, beta and gamma rays simultaneously, and would be able to strip search everyone flying to London in just one hour.
I am sure there is more than one Gates on this planet, and some of them go by the name Bill. So when Bill starts making toilets such clarification is very helpful. So much, in fact, that without it the article would be almost meaningless.
There is a document somewhere on Groklaw quoting a contract between Microsoft and Novell, which shows that MS Office is "somewhat" compatible with ODF, and that MS intentionally makes sure that it stays that way.
Not only is the compatibility is almost guaranteed to be broken, but I also need to open each and every document in MS Office to verify that the charts are not dropped, and fonts did not float away, etc. This is an expensive extra work for me, and also not an easy task given that Microsoft never released an Office for Linux.
So the solution is to avoid MS product line entirely, which is not only possible but quite easy to do given new web technologies and a rising need to read documents on (MS-unsupported) systems like Andorid and iOS.
Google Documents (Drive) happily accepts.doc and.ppt and converts them to a Google Doc format, but not ODF. So to create a presentation in Libre Office I need to "Save as Office 2003 ppt", followed by import into Google Docs, for the obvious reason that no computer in a typical conference room can open an ODF presenation.
12 years is not too late. I have been wondering why the fuck does everyone run Windows when Unix is so much better since 1995. Unfortunately this is a single case, so rare that it is newsworthy. Microsoft has been busy promising untold numbers of free licenses to schools just to keep them from switching. Let's just say Microsoft has been busy for the last 12 years:)
... and provide much needed habitat for all that malware created over the past 10 years. And then you add antivirus that runs in the background and consumes 70% of resources of your "2GHz-and-change" and "half-gig of RAM.", and they still need to be wiped semiannually from stuff the antivirus missed.
Win XP is best run from a virtual machine these days, and I am sure those boxes are powerful enough to do it. Or you can abandon XP entirely and teach children a system that belongs to THEM, and not some corporation.
...criticism of the TSA comes primarily from 'Internet sites, where reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are bought to publish what is told to them...
And then you have buddy@ and significan_other@, and then it's your birthday and both buddy@ and significan_other@ send you a FREE postcard, and suddenly all your accounts are flooded with spam.... I guess you have all your emails redirected to/dev/null by now.
of the two you'd be best off attacking NZ - we don't have anything resembling defenses. We rely soley on the fact that no one can be arsed coming so far to conquer a big sheep farm.
Well, from TFA we know that they have at least one helicopter.
Paid speech isn't advertising? Well it definitely has a conflict of interest.. I heard about a court order in the past, that if a radio station is paid to play some song with the purpose of promotion it should state that "the following is a paid advertisement".
Being paid under the table while pretending to produce "objective" tech writer opinions is nothing short of deception. Luckily it was not hard to to figure it out even before the disclosure.
A steak every month or two gets them feeling "right".... it is not the lifestyle we evolved under.
This is exactly what we evolved under and our modern high meat diets bring all sorts of health issues with them. Your ancestors did not eat chicken daily, and having steak every month or two sounds very typical of how we evolved.
- Do you have time and physical closeness to maintain their computers from now on?
Most people source a neighborhood geek to do it. Most "local geeks" are not familiar with Linux, and will reinstall it back to Windows at the first opportunity.
- The slightest problems and non-problems with their new setup will be blamed on you.
Where as when they have problems with Windows they will write it off as their own incompetence. Be prepared to be REALLY close to your "victims" at all times to solve their problems promptly. I had one guy who was extremely pissed because he could not connect to Wifi, because he could not locate the Wifi icon on the screen.
Unless you understand the above two conditions you will be creating more enemies rather than friends of Linux. So far I successfully converted my parents, my grandfather and a friend who's Windows install was held hostage by a hard-to-remove Trojan, but she will go back to Windows at first opportunity.
I have a degree in Computer Science. I know exactly what the problem was in each case, but the tech support did not even get close. To illustrate:
Problem #1: Sony Vaio ships a 2 year old Nvidia driver that crashes in in video games. When I call them they tell me to get support in the country where I bought the device (USA?). So I change one letter in a model number they agree to work with me but just go in circles to the "factory default" thing. It turns out that they refuse to to pay Nvidia for driver support, while Nvidia would not give it to me because they want Sony to pay up. Some hacker broke "Sony test" in the latest Nvidia driver and it works flawless now.
Problem #2: Tmobile published false advertising that they have "Wifi calls enabled". Turns out they are only enabled when the phone can connect by GSM to "validate" wifi connection. The thing is, when GSM works I have no need for wifi calling, and when GSM does not work, neither does Wifi. This is false advertising and has nothing to do with the stuff I installed. The support would have me reset my device, then they would send me a replacement device, but the problem would stay. It's easier to shoot self in the foot than to get the problem escalated to somebody with a clue.
Yes, I am a frustrating customer because I know orders of magnitude more than your support stuff, and I do give them hard time before I give up and look for a solution on my own.
Let's just say IT support is not helpful at all. Whenever I need support I bare with them for about 20 mins and then just give up. They follow their scripts, and when scripts don't help they say "reset your device to factory default". Paying for any kind of support is waste of money. I honestly don't care if they have a college degree but understanding the subject they are supporting would be helpful.
I never denied the need for advertising. It's a used car dealership dilemma: damned if you cheat, damned if you don't when the dealership across the street does. The advertising is a waste of resources and has to be banned (or regulated) across entire market segments simultaneously, or else what you say will happen.
on a fishing website, post and ad for a nice fishing pole.
How about post impartial specs, tests, images and prices so I can choose the best fishing pole? What an ad does is gives higher visibility to an overpriced middle of the pack, throws off judgement of some buyers and makes them pay a fat premium for a mediocre product, compensating manufacturer the price of advertising, and indirectly supporting the fishing pole website.
If all advertising dies tomorrow, the world will be a better place.
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I second that. T-Mobile is the only major carrier in US to allow buying a phone elsewhere. It's coverage does not match that of Verizon but I was fine everywhere in NE save some wild mountain ranges.It also offers best bang for the buck compared to AT&T and Verizon.
I believe this is the correct link: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
They need to develop a hypersonic TSA machine that comes with it. The new machine will irradiate large batches of passengers with non-lethal doses of alpha, beta and gamma rays simultaneously, and would be able to strip search everyone flying to London in just one hour.
I am sure there is more than one Gates on this planet, and some of them go by the name Bill. So when Bill starts making toilets such clarification is very helpful. So much, in fact, that without it the article would be almost meaningless.
I already see this in Apple's new job requirements: "No previous contact with any university professors."
Your skin absorbs far more stuff than you think. This is the impression I got over the years, but just to back it up i will throw a link at you.
Hush! They might hear you! Just because you don't live in a police state does not mean you cannot be extradited to one.
There is a document somewhere on Groklaw quoting a contract between Microsoft and Novell, which shows that MS Office is "somewhat" compatible with ODF, and that MS intentionally makes sure that it stays that way.
Not only is the compatibility is almost guaranteed to be broken, but I also need to open each and every document in MS Office to verify that the charts are not dropped, and fonts did not float away, etc. This is an expensive extra work for me, and also not an easy task given that Microsoft never released an Office for Linux.
So the solution is to avoid MS product line entirely, which is not only possible but quite easy to do given new web technologies and a rising need to read documents on (MS-unsupported) systems like Andorid and iOS.
I tried that, but Acrobat Reader did not open it in "presentation mode". Looks like I did not try hard enough, since this one opens just fine. Thanx.
Google Documents (Drive) happily accepts .doc and .ppt and converts them to a Google Doc format, but not ODF. So to create a presentation in Libre Office I need to "Save as Office 2003 ppt", followed by import into Google Docs, for the obvious reason that no computer in a typical conference room can open an ODF presenation.
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12 years is not too late. I have been wondering why the fuck does everyone run Windows when Unix is so much better since 1995. Unfortunately this is a single case, so rare that it is newsworthy. Microsoft has been busy promising untold numbers of free licenses to schools just to keep them from switching. Let's just say Microsoft has been busy for the last 12 years :)
That will run XP just fine
... and provide much needed habitat for all that malware created over the past 10 years. And then you add antivirus that runs in the background and consumes 70% of resources of your "2GHz-and-change" and "half-gig of RAM.", and they still need to be wiped semiannually from stuff the antivirus missed.
Win XP is best run from a virtual machine these days, and I am sure those boxes are powerful enough to do it. Or you can abandon XP entirely and teach children a system that belongs to THEM, and not some corporation.
...criticism of the TSA comes primarily from 'Internet sites, where reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are bought to publish what is told to them...
And then you have buddy@ and significan_other@, and then it's your birthday and both buddy@ and significan_other@ send you a FREE postcard, and suddenly all your accounts are flooded with spam.... I guess you have all your emails redirected to /dev/null by now.
It's a do-it-yourself service: we give you the source code and you find the backdoors yourself.
of the two you'd be best off attacking NZ - we don't have anything resembling defenses. We rely soley on the fact that no one can be arsed coming so far to conquer a big sheep farm.
Well, from TFA we know that they have at least one helicopter.
And this speech isn't advertising
Paid speech isn't advertising? Well it definitely has a conflict of interest.. I heard about a court order in the past, that if a radio station is paid to play some song with the purpose of promotion it should state that "the following is a paid advertisement".
Being paid under the table while pretending to produce "objective" tech writer opinions is nothing short of deception. Luckily it was not hard to to figure it out even before the disclosure.
A steak every month or two gets them feeling "right".... it is not the lifestyle we evolved under.
This is exactly what we evolved under and our modern high meat diets bring all sorts of health issues with them. Your ancestors did not eat chicken daily, and having steak every month or two sounds very typical of how we evolved.
Unless you understand the above two conditions you will be creating more enemies rather than friends of Linux. So far I successfully converted my parents, my grandfather and a friend who's Windows install was held hostage by a hard-to-remove Trojan, but she will go back to Windows at first opportunity.
I have a degree in Computer Science. I know exactly what the problem was in each case, but the tech support did not even get close. To illustrate:
Problem #1: Sony Vaio ships a 2 year old Nvidia driver that crashes in in video games. When I call them they tell me to get support in the country where I bought the device (USA?). So I change one letter in a model number they agree to work with me but just go in circles to the "factory default" thing. It turns out that they refuse to to pay Nvidia for driver support, while Nvidia would not give it to me because they want Sony to pay up. Some hacker broke "Sony test" in the latest Nvidia driver and it works flawless now.
Problem #2: Tmobile published false advertising that they have "Wifi calls enabled". Turns out they are only enabled when the phone can connect by GSM to "validate" wifi connection. The thing is, when GSM works I have no need for wifi calling, and when GSM does not work, neither does Wifi. This is false advertising and has nothing to do with the stuff I installed. The support would have me reset my device, then they would send me a replacement device, but the problem would stay. It's easier to shoot self in the foot than to get the problem escalated to somebody with a clue.
Yes, I am a frustrating customer because I know orders of magnitude more than your support stuff, and I do give them hard time before I give up and look for a solution on my own.
Let's just say IT support is not helpful at all. Whenever I need support I bare with them for about 20 mins and then just give up. They follow their scripts, and when scripts don't help they say "reset your device to factory default". Paying for any kind of support is waste of money. I honestly don't care if they have a college degree but understanding the subject they are supporting would be helpful.
And this is how your home would look some 200 years ago, when security was a bigger issue. This is a typical home in Costa Rica today. And this is how a web server looked 200 years ago, It could withstand an attack from an army of 5 year olds! Just because you outsourced home security to the local police dept does not make your analogy a good one.
Finally the Greenland will live up to its name!
I never denied the need for advertising. It's a used car dealership dilemma: damned if you cheat, damned if you don't when the dealership across the street does.
The advertising is a waste of resources and has to be banned (or regulated) across entire market segments simultaneously, or else what you say will happen.
on a fishing website, post and ad for a nice fishing pole.
How about post impartial specs, tests, images and prices so I can choose the best fishing pole? What an ad does is gives higher visibility to an overpriced middle of the pack, throws off judgement of some buyers and makes them pay a fat premium for a mediocre product, compensating manufacturer the price of advertising, and indirectly supporting the fishing pole website.
If all advertising dies tomorrow, the world will be a better place.