Its possible that the new licensing fees includes a larger library for streaming though. Because lets be honest, the current library Netflix has for streaming videos is horrendous.
You don't NEED money, you don't NEED your hands or feet. But people don't want to be without these things, and will generally take any steps required in order to acquire, protect, or retain them.
"Philosophically"? you mean.. not based on the natural order of things? Every single person/living being in your lineage back to the first single-celled reproduction has lived to have offspring. Not a single one of your ancestors had no children. You don't NEED to have children if your life revolves around things that aren't the true purpose of life, it just means you have failed life and your genetic code is deleted from the gene pool as inferior. It then makes room for people that did succeed at Life. Sure, philosophy is neat and all.. but sometimes an issue is just so simple that philosophy has a hard time grasping it.
... But I would bet that every bit of market reashearch they've done on it says it's a hands-down bad idea. If it will be somebody's primary computer, it needs to be more flexible than iOS. I could see it competing with chomebooks, though.
He makes a point though. People understand they need to lock their doors, they need to change their oil and wear heir seatbelts. Don't drive off cliffs, or over nails. Simple things like that. Car analogies are overused but that's because people understand cars even if they don't know how to fix them.
It's very sad that since the dawn of man we've been able to see the night sky in all it's glory on a clear and moonless night, but in the last 120 years or so it's been reduced to just a faint glimmer of what had been. Someday, I hope that we can have one night a year with no light pollution so that we could see the full glory of what's really all around us and can be seen with a naked eye.
The terms and conditions should look scary also. Like: all activity is monitored and logged along with unique identifying information about your computer, to be handed over to the authorities in the event of suspicion of illegal activity or legal inquiry. In big bold letters at the top.
It's probably been said many times, but the only way to do this is to have it locked down as much as a restrictive employer. You don't want somebody confiscating your entire network and personal data as evidence because some pedophile in your neighborhood took advantage of your open network. If you do this then be restrictive: use whitelists, block everything but web, and keep logs of all traffic and MAC addresses. When some law enforcement agency comes knocking you'll want proof it wasn't you, but it probably won't stop them from holding onto all your computers and hardware as evidence for months. Then, you'll probably want a second secure network for your own use. People can still sniff open wifi data, so you won't want to be doing your online shopping on it. You'll also be wanting to harden every networked device in your house, too.
All this said, it's really not worth all the effort, no matter your "sharing is caring" ideals. If you're that nice, you're going to get taken advantage of.
Is basic math really that hard? I mean seriously... even if you don't know the conversion tables by heart, they're not exactly difficult. Stop pouting about doing a little in-brain calculation. If you have any hint of natural geek in you, the standard of measurement used makes no difference to your understanding of the concepts.
I think MS would have to strong-arm their way back into the market, but with them working hand-in-hand with Apple for exchange capabilities in the iPhone I don't think they'll take that approach. Possibly by offering phones dirt cheap in quantity to businesses, in exchange for contracts that will commit them to infrastructure that may not be non WP7+ friendly. I would like to think that IT management has wised up in the large corp. environments to not be tricked into lock-ins like that anymore, but I would probably just be dumb to think that.
Not exactly. Apple was once preferring people make "web apps" for their content rather than actual apps. I think if adobe truely made flash work well, apple wouldn't be able to keep it off their devices over customer demand. But given the fact it causes so many headaches on the desktop, people don't care much.
Don't say that on Slashdot!! You'll be attacked by the sea of hungry antifanboys that have been waiting all thread for this to be posted so they can derail it into an Apple-bashing festival. Then one guy who hasn't been to a computer store in 10 years will mention something mocking one button mice, and the cycle starts over.
I don't think most people mind ads in general, but there's a class of "Offender" ads that basically rely on flash to annoy the user. (Since when has relying on annoying somebody become a socially acceptable advertising tool?) Ads that pop up as you accidentally mouse over things, covering the document you are in the middle of reading, any animated ad that I didn't click a Play button to initiate, ads that attempt to look like a functional part of the site you're on. These aren't going to make people want to purchase your product, and probably actually do a better job of tarnishing your brand image.
We all like that our sites can stay in business by tasteful advertising, but a very large portion (and I'm tempted to say the majority) of flash ads are done in a distasteful way. If they weren't then they'd probably not need flash to begin with.
I believe the root cause is more the loss of ambition of the general population. The climbing average age in the U.S. means that older and, generally, less ambitious people are at the voting booths. Their overall selfishness in old age and their cliches of "not in my backyard!" and "not with my tax dollars!" has lead to a completely different social environment for the youth of America than they had. During the cold war money was dumped into education, and the payoff was a very prosperous and advancing America. These days you'd be lucky to end up in a school district where your teacher isn't personally having to buy all the classroom supplies. You end up with teachers that are stretched too thin, broke, unhappy, non-engaging, and generally unmotivated anymore to what they enjoyed before. This results in kids brushing off that subject as unimportant, whereas an engaging teacher could possibly unlock a savant. We've likely already lost some brilliant and innovative American minds to our lack of funding for education, likely now working some crappy cubicle job being reminded by 4 different bosses about TPS Reports, rather than working in theoretical physics and propulsion. Our society needs to stop hacking at the roots to "save" the tree.
But how much was your ticket? Doubling the speed should probably triple the fuel consumption. Would the same number of passengers be on that flight if tickets were 3x the cost?
When my wife and I first stated dating, the first week, she mentioned she was buying a laptop and I had just bought an entry level MacBook. I ran down all the pros and cons of the different platforms with her and as the old tech salesman I had been in the past I figured a mac would suit her well. She proceeded to go to the computer store and walk out with an HP. For 2 years she had me fixing every damn issue (lcd, dc-in, battery, malware) with that thing until I just told her that I'm upgrading my laptop to a MacBook Pro and she could have my MacBook. Almost 2 years later again she's still clinging to that MacBook which is probably overdue for an upgrade. Needless to say, I never get questioned on my opinions of tech stuff anymore, just my apparent preference for the more expensive items.
my best advice for that guy is to not try to get away from liability, just stop being wrong.
The use of the trackpads in the macs is ridiculously simple. I also disable tap to click because it's a terrible feature that only computer novices use and its error rate even on a precision trackpad is intolerable. 3 minutes of research or trial and error and you can have it doing almost anything you want, the way to want it. And just in case you've not noticed, the last couple years of macs have no-button trackpads. One click in the settings will enable the lower right to function as your right click rather than going through the 1 minute self-training of a 2 finger click. I know, change is difficult.
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The introduction of the gene requires mating in regards to Neanderthals, whereas it's a little difficult to mate with a virus.
Its possible that the new licensing fees includes a larger library for streaming though. Because lets be honest, the current library Netflix has for streaming videos is horrendous.
I really, really, Really want to believe.
You don't NEED money, you don't NEED your hands or feet. But people don't want to be without these things, and will generally take any steps required in order to acquire, protect, or retain them.
"Philosophically"? you mean.. not based on the natural order of things? Every single person/living being in your lineage back to the first single-celled reproduction has lived to have offspring. Not a single one of your ancestors had no children. You don't NEED to have children if your life revolves around things that aren't the true purpose of life, it just means you have failed life and your genetic code is deleted from the gene pool as inferior. It then makes room for people that did succeed at Life. Sure, philosophy is neat and all.. but sometimes an issue is just so simple that philosophy has a hard time grasping it.
... But I would bet that every bit of market reashearch they've done on it says it's a hands-down bad idea. If it will be somebody's primary computer, it needs to be more flexible than iOS. I could see it competing with chomebooks, though.
He makes a point though. People understand they need to lock their doors, they need to change their oil and wear heir seatbelts. Don't drive off cliffs, or over nails. Simple things like that. Car analogies are overused but that's because people understand cars even if they don't know how to fix them.
It's very sad that since the dawn of man we've been able to see the night sky in all it's glory on a clear and moonless night, but in the last 120 years or so it's been reduced to just a faint glimmer of what had been. Someday, I hope that we can have one night a year with no light pollution so that we could see the full glory of what's really all around us and can be seen with a naked eye.
The terms and conditions should look scary also. Like: all activity is monitored and logged along with unique identifying information about your computer, to be handed over to the authorities in the event of suspicion of illegal activity or legal inquiry. In big bold letters at the top.
All this said, it's really not worth all the effort, no matter your "sharing is caring" ideals. If you're that nice, you're going to get taken advantage of.
$30/month for a channel and they'd be happy to offer it to you.
To be fair, it's actually a direct quote from the article.
If only there was already a way to get cable channels onto my tv...
Is basic math really that hard? I mean seriously... even if you don't know the conversion tables by heart, they're not exactly difficult. Stop pouting about doing a little in-brain calculation. If you have any hint of natural geek in you, the standard of measurement used makes no difference to your understanding of the concepts.
I think MS would have to strong-arm their way back into the market, but with them working hand-in-hand with Apple for exchange capabilities in the iPhone I don't think they'll take that approach. Possibly by offering phones dirt cheap in quantity to businesses, in exchange for contracts that will commit them to infrastructure that may not be non WP7+ friendly. I would like to think that IT management has wised up in the large corp. environments to not be tricked into lock-ins like that anymore, but I would probably just be dumb to think that.
Not exactly. Apple was once preferring people make "web apps" for their content rather than actual apps. I think if adobe truely made flash work well, apple wouldn't be able to keep it off their devices over customer demand. But given the fact it causes so many headaches on the desktop, people don't care much.
Don't say that on Slashdot!! You'll be attacked by the sea of hungry antifanboys that have been waiting all thread for this to be posted so they can derail it into an Apple-bashing festival. Then one guy who hasn't been to a computer store in 10 years will mention something mocking one button mice, and the cycle starts over.
I don't think most people mind ads in general, but there's a class of "Offender" ads that basically rely on flash to annoy the user. (Since when has relying on annoying somebody become a socially acceptable advertising tool?) Ads that pop up as you accidentally mouse over things, covering the document you are in the middle of reading, any animated ad that I didn't click a Play button to initiate, ads that attempt to look like a functional part of the site you're on. These aren't going to make people want to purchase your product, and probably actually do a better job of tarnishing your brand image. We all like that our sites can stay in business by tasteful advertising, but a very large portion (and I'm tempted to say the majority) of flash ads are done in a distasteful way. If they weren't then they'd probably not need flash to begin with.
I believe the root cause is more the loss of ambition of the general population. The climbing average age in the U.S. means that older and, generally, less ambitious people are at the voting booths. Their overall selfishness in old age and their cliches of "not in my backyard!" and "not with my tax dollars!" has lead to a completely different social environment for the youth of America than they had. During the cold war money was dumped into education, and the payoff was a very prosperous and advancing America. These days you'd be lucky to end up in a school district where your teacher isn't personally having to buy all the classroom supplies. You end up with teachers that are stretched too thin, broke, unhappy, non-engaging, and generally unmotivated anymore to what they enjoyed before. This results in kids brushing off that subject as unimportant, whereas an engaging teacher could possibly unlock a savant. We've likely already lost some brilliant and innovative American minds to our lack of funding for education, likely now working some crappy cubicle job being reminded by 4 different bosses about TPS Reports, rather than working in theoretical physics and propulsion. Our society needs to stop hacking at the roots to "save" the tree.
But how much was your ticket? Doubling the speed should probably triple the fuel consumption. Would the same number of passengers be on that flight if tickets were 3x the cost?
What if she takes both macs in the divorce?!!
"Fanboi" spelling detected, post invalidated. Please allow self to mature then resubmit with less cowardice, AC.
With the exception of some flash games, nothing accessible via browser or email client is going to require much in the way of processor power.
Don't forget the Internet security suite she will need.
Seriously though, this guy should figure out why she doesn't like the Mac or can't get used to it, it will solve most of the threads on here.
When my wife and I first stated dating, the first week, she mentioned she was buying a laptop and I had just bought an entry level MacBook. I ran down all the pros and cons of the different platforms with her and as the old tech salesman I had been in the past I figured a mac would suit her well. She proceeded to go to the computer store and walk out with an HP. For 2 years she had me fixing every damn issue (lcd, dc-in, battery, malware) with that thing until I just told her that I'm upgrading my laptop to a MacBook Pro and she could have my MacBook. Almost 2 years later again she's still clinging to that MacBook which is probably overdue for an upgrade. Needless to say, I never get questioned on my opinions of tech stuff anymore, just my apparent preference for the more expensive items.
my best advice for that guy is to not try to get away from liability, just stop being wrong.
The use of the trackpads in the macs is ridiculously simple. I also disable tap to click because it's a terrible feature that only computer novices use and its error rate even on a precision trackpad is intolerable. 3 minutes of research or trial and error and you can have it doing almost anything you want, the way to want it. And just in case you've not noticed, the last couple years of macs have no-button trackpads. One click in the settings will enable the lower right to function as your right click rather than going through the 1 minute self-training of a 2 finger click. I know, change is difficult.
It appears to be just a hand-written Microsoft Activation Key.