"either ignorant of how well-designed phones like the P900 are, or are just too poor to afford them."
Nothin' like a little techno-snobbery... Sure I could afford one with a bunch of extra "features", but all I want is a phone. A goddamm phone. Not a gameboy, not an mp3 player, not in anyway connected to the net. But thats me, those are my needs. Other people have different ones. Just because I don't need those features, does that mean I'm "ignorant" or "poor"?
History has shown the latecomer usually the winner. But yet somehow the xbox has not done this... Even if the xbox 2 is released first, it still smells like the dreamcast. Everyone will say, "oh, thats cool", while they line up for wristbands to take a peek at the ps 3. And now that it seems like MS has taken all the plusses out of xbox 2 (backwards compatability, hard disk, easy portability from and to pc...) That makes it all the more likely that Sony might still come out on top. I say might because who knows what might happen in this fickle market in the next 10 months...
Actually, my recent experiances with longhorn do the same thing. 4053 and 4074 both would not boot the xp part. Wasn't recognized on install nor if I added it manually after install.
or boot to a dos prompt and do "fdisk/mbr". I had nothing but problems with "fixboot" and "fixmbr". Of course I was recovering after longhorn jacked me...
Plus $50 for the chip, and the patience to install it, and being able to live with never playing Live again. Of course I'm probably biased since my pc monitor is bigger than my tv, and has a much better sound system...
But Linux and other open source works do exactly that, they've been designed from the ground up to work on whatever hardware there is... And who knows, maybe if in 1982 IBM had said "Fuck dos, we're gonna get crazy with this shit", we might have our flying cars...
And I hate Haji-Blow Techs who solve every problem with a "rollback" that fucks things up worse than the user ever could on their own. Like they were sitting around whatever they use in India for watercoolers one day and thought "gee, I sure do miss blaster, lets whip out system restore"... Rollbacks, and restores are just like Windows OS Upgrades. You should never ever do it. Ever. If it's bad eneough to kill a drive, you really think a restore will fix it completely? Of course I do envy the guilty pleasure of running a user through "sfc/scannow", and on older machines, "lets click on repair IE"... I know it does absolutely jack, but it sure looks like I did somethin'...
Almost. Educate on how to install/update/run adaware, avg, and how to enable Internet Connection Firewall (install Outpost Firewall or something for those 98/ME users). And most importantly, educate on not clicking "yes" on every little thing, and READING THE EULA! Keyword is EDUCATE! People do not learn anything if the family "computer guy" just does everything for them.
For that kind of price tag, we need to get a little more practical in our selection.... I'm thinking of world leader, three words, starts with a G, ends with a eorge W. Bush...
They have no control over how they got it, can't do anything about it, and don't notice that it's been gestating until they start sneezing bright flashy ads.
Not quite. These programs, contray to popular belief, do not install themselves. Sure they come bundled with "quality ad-supported software", but it's stated quite clearly that these other programs are going to be installed, at which point you can exit the original install. And the last time I checked, unless you physically change IE's defaults quite explicitly, you have to click "yes" to become "infected". I'm not saying spyware is a good thing, but we need to focus on the real causes of this and other common pc problems. User education. Of course we can only hope for a 60 minutes special on "underground advertising" before any of these people take an interest...
If you let just anyone in and put up decals, where does the blame lie? "We'd like you to display our logo." "Um, no." "Ok, we'll just put them in that window over there." "Um, ok."
That's almost too good... pad it up with a few hundred words, do something fancy to it in word, and sell it to M$ as a "business case"... Welcome to the world of "consulting"...
Actually, no it won't. as long as "search the web" is the first thing 75% of people see when they open their browser. I've actually taken calls from people who complained thet when they input "livejournal" in the search, the first result isn't what they wanted. They then go on to get indignant when I suggest they type it in the address bar...
Because "fdisk/mbr" isn't something Haji and his Dell support pals can do. But they can "return the system to factory defaults" which undoes all other updates... Hey look, blaster's back!
Um, yeah... "I got fired for distributing an internal company memo, an act which is very likely forbidden by company policy and the NDA I no doubt signed"... "Give me some Money!"...
Didn't see that coming... 'Cause the "alpha" of Longhorn dosen't look a thing like XP updated a bit... SE maybe... or taking a cue from squarenix, "XP-2" (same old shit, looks slightly better). Now if they'd mail out service pack cd's for ME, then I'd be excited...
Thats DSL for you. It wasn't a miswire, it was the dreaded "DSL Deprovisioning" subscription... This has been known to happen to *dial up* customers, who use qwest, because someone who had that phone number *years* ago, just cancelled their dsl... which deprovisions that phone # for *any* type of service billed through qwest on that line. Go qwest, Go DSL...
To be fair, not all MSN tech support is outsorced to India (yet), and with DSL, it will always be a line provisioning problem, if you want to actually get a DSL problem fixed, call your TelCo and tell them to "flip the switch" (they hate that) all MSN gave you was an email address and some useless software. Good job on the move to cable, I have never had a single issue with Comcast myself, but YMMV.
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Nothin' like a little techno-snobbery... Sure I could afford one with a bunch of extra "features", but all I want is a phone. A goddamm phone. Not a gameboy, not an mp3 player, not in anyway connected to the net. But thats me, those are my needs. Other people have different ones. Just because I don't need those features, does that mean I'm "ignorant" or "poor"?
"if Sony take too long to release the PS3"
History has shown the latecomer usually the winner. But yet somehow the xbox has not done this... Even if the xbox 2 is released first, it still smells like the dreamcast. Everyone will say, "oh, thats cool", while they line up for wristbands to take a peek at the ps 3. And now that it seems like MS has taken all the plusses out of xbox 2 (backwards compatability, hard disk, easy portability from and to pc...) That makes it all the more likely that Sony might still come out on top. I say might because who knows what might happen in this fickle market in the next 10 months...
Actually, my recent experiances with longhorn do the same thing. 4053 and 4074 both would not boot the xp part. Wasn't recognized on install nor if I added it manually after install.
or boot to a dos prompt and do "fdisk /mbr". I had nothing but problems with "fixboot" and "fixmbr". Of course I was recovering after longhorn jacked me...
That was my point, Linux has always been about coding for the hardware. That and I'm bitter about the whole flying cars thing...
Plus $50 for the chip, and the patience to install it, and being able to live with never playing Live again. Of course I'm probably biased since my pc monitor is bigger than my tv, and has a much better sound system...
But Linux and other open source works do exactly that, they've been designed from the ground up to work on whatever hardware there is... And who knows, maybe if in 1982 IBM had said "Fuck dos, we're gonna get crazy with this shit", we might have our flying cars...
Especially since MS released the sys-req for Longhorn. Seems hardware makers are more and more designing around the software these days...
And I hate Haji-Blow Techs who solve every problem with a "rollback" that fucks things up worse than the user ever could on their own. Like they were sitting around whatever they use in India for watercoolers one day and thought "gee, I sure do miss blaster, lets whip out system restore"... Rollbacks, and restores are just like Windows OS Upgrades. You should never ever do it. Ever. If it's bad eneough to kill a drive, you really think a restore will fix it completely? Of course I do envy the guilty pleasure of running a user through "sfc /scannow", and on older machines, "lets click on repair IE"... I know it does absolutely jack, but it sure looks like I did somethin'...
Almost. Educate on how to install/update/run adaware, avg, and how to enable Internet Connection Firewall (install Outpost Firewall or something for those 98/ME users). And most importantly, educate on not clicking "yes" on every little thing, and READING THE EULA! Keyword is EDUCATE! People do not learn anything if the family "computer guy" just does everything for them.
For that kind of price tag, we need to get a little more practical in our selection.... I'm thinking of world leader, three words, starts with a G, ends with a eorge W. Bush...
Not quite. These programs, contray to popular belief, do not install themselves. Sure they come bundled with "quality ad-supported software", but it's stated quite clearly that these other programs are going to be installed, at which point you can exit the original install. And the last time I checked, unless you physically change IE's defaults quite explicitly, you have to click "yes" to become "infected". I'm not saying spyware is a good thing, but we need to focus on the real causes of this and other common pc problems. User education. Of course we can only hope for a 60 minutes special on "underground advertising" before any of these people take an interest...
And it would have to be a single slide. Just one picture of "Chewbacca", and it's all said and done...
If you let just anyone in and put up decals, where does the blame lie?
"We'd like you to display our logo."
"Um, no."
"Ok, we'll just put them in that window over there."
"Um, ok."
That's almost too good... pad it up with a few hundred words, do something fancy to it in word, and sell it to M$ as a "business case"... Welcome to the world of "consulting"...
Actually, no it won't. as long as "search the web" is the first thing 75% of people see when they open their browser. I've actually taken calls from people who complained thet when they input "livejournal" in the search, the first result isn't what they wanted. They then go on to get indignant when I suggest they type it in the address bar...
Because "fdisk /mbr" isn't something Haji and his Dell support pals can do. But they can "return the system to factory defaults" which undoes all other updates... Hey look, blaster's back!
Of course you definitely can't say the same thing about *nix desktops...
But that trick *never* works, bullwinkle...
Um, yeah... "I got fired for distributing an internal company memo, an act which is very likely forbidden by company policy and the NDA I no doubt signed"... "Give me some Money!"...
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comcast... $50 a month including basic cable (legally). Must be different for those "big cities"...
Didn't see that coming... 'Cause the "alpha" of Longhorn dosen't look a thing like XP updated a bit... SE maybe... or taking a cue from squarenix, "XP-2" (same old shit, looks slightly better). Now if they'd mail out service pack cd's for ME, then I'd be excited...
Thats DSL for you. It wasn't a miswire, it was the dreaded "DSL Deprovisioning" subscription... This has been known to happen to *dial up* customers, who use qwest, because someone who had that phone number *years* ago, just cancelled their dsl... which deprovisions that phone # for *any* type of service billed through qwest on that line. Go qwest, Go DSL...
To be fair, not all MSN tech support is outsorced to India (yet), and with DSL, it will always be a line provisioning problem, if you want to actually get a DSL problem fixed, call your TelCo and tell them to "flip the switch" (they hate that) all MSN gave you was an email address and some useless software. Good job on the move to cable, I have never had a single issue with Comcast myself, but YMMV.
To be fair, it's not MSN thats giving you the shaft on your DSL, it's the TelCo. DSL sucks no matter who the brand is.