That's why I stuck with Windows 2000, because I expected to see this kind of thing show up in an update to XP. I'm surprised that Microsoft waited until Vista before turning on the full malware-in-the-kernel option.
Combine this with the loss of customer data in "The LinkUp" and the recent announced termination of Yahoo's "Plays-for-Sure" (or is that "Plays-for-Now"?) servers, and it should make everyone think twice about depending on licenses supported by suicide switches and strong DRM.
PS: don't forget to "MIX-BURN-RIP" your iTunes tracks when you buy 'em.
* If the company was smart they'd have set up a role account on LinkedIn, under a fictitious name.
* That would almost certainly be against the LinkedIn terms of service, of course. But then I suspect the whole arrangement was against the LinkedIn TOS to start with, and the smart thing for LinkedIn to do would be to cancel the account (while preserving the information offline for legal purposes, of course).
Actually, painting with a less-than-perfect brush sounds pretty creative to me.
It sounds like a standard high school art class exercise to me.
You learn a lot about using poor and expedient tools as well as good ones at any school, even when you're at one that can afford the best. That doesn't mean you deliberately pick the wrong tool for the job when you're making a living at it.
Macs are rarely comparable even at the beginning of a product cycle, except perhaps at the very high end. My Mac mini was $200 more than a similarly equipped Wintendo, and the margin Apple got on my hot-off-MWSF Macbook Pro doesn't bear thinking about... and both those were bought right at the beginning of the cycle. And yet I've bought several Macs over the years, so I guess I must be getting something for the "Mac Tax" after all.
Well, you know, it might make more sense to not stick two digitizing pads (because that's what the tablet and touchpad are, basically) right next to each other, and either have one pad with software control, or put some bloody space between them. But I guess ACs don't read between the lines. Even in an obviously sarcastic post.
If she was rejecting any non-Mac product without having experience with Windows, possibly.
But I doubt that any computer user in the world has too little experience with Windows. If you've used Windows and you still don't like it, that's a rational choice (obviously one you disagree with, but de gustibus non erat disputandum), not prejudice.
Left-handed users everywhere are cheering the W700, with its digitizer thoughtfully placed on the right so they won't inadvertently jog it when using the trackpad. "It might make more sense to turn the entire area in front of the keyboard into a trackpad/digitizer with software control," said Sandy Sinister of the Southpaw Liberation Army, "but instead they struck a blow for the cause! We're buying ten for our new HQ at Undisclosed Location."
Do you know what a star shell is? A fireworks show involves firing ballistic projectiles full of explosives into the air. They design the show so that if any shell fails to explode (or, worse, explodes late) it lands in a safe zone, not on people, vehicles, or buildings.
If there's nowhere to fly an RPV without risking it landing on something breakable, then you probably ought to reconsider the whole fireworks show.
If you're already going to be driving there whether you're using GSV or not, why waste your time using something so inefficient?
Friend, I already brought THAT one up myself. You use this to look for candidates. Whether you're looking for houses to rob, houses to buy, or houses to send home improvement scams to, the advantages of Google Street View are the same. If GSV is useful for one of these things (and boosters of it have repeatedly brought up how they use it to look at real estate) then it's useful for all of them.
You realize that your argument started out being that GSV would make it easy to case endless scores of houses instantly, and since then you've come to a point where you're trying to argue that it might be able to keep up with driving, right?
No, I'm arguing that you're taking the best case for driving (eg, you're already there, on the street) and comparing it to the worst case for GSV (first generation, not using the API, with a flash interface deliberately slowed down with cute transitions).
But if that's what you want to believe I'm saying I'm not going to argue with you any longer, your mind is most definitely made up.
By "jump through some loopholes" you mean things like "flash OEM firmware"?
And what makes you think that Android won't have the same restrictions when it's deployed? Sure, it's open source, sorta (the latest build isn't available, for example), but that only means that it's easier to get the "OEM" firmware. That doesn't mean that the firmware won't be tivoized.
If it's quicker for you to drive down the street than to use street view, you're doing something wrong, or you're driving dangerously fast for residential streets.
When the Green Card Lottery spam went out a lot of people didn't see it as a problem, because con-artists and other undesirables hadn't used Usenet and later email before. It took a couple of years for it to catch on, but now the majority of the mail on the net is spam. It's way too early to see any effect of Street View.
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I trust Google/hotmail with my email
You know you can use IMAP to sync your GMAIL to your local system and back it up on a DVD?
I'd recommend giving that some real consideration. Seriously.
if I ever do depend on one of these in which case I will be paying for it, that I demand a SLA (service level agreement).
Not much good if the company goes casters-up.
That's why I stuck with Windows 2000, because I expected to see this kind of thing show up in an update to XP. I'm surprised that Microsoft waited until Vista before turning on the full malware-in-the-kernel option.
Combine this with the loss of customer data in "The LinkUp" and the recent announced termination of Yahoo's "Plays-for-Sure" (or is that "Plays-for-Now"?) servers, and it should make everyone think twice about depending on licenses supported by suicide switches and strong DRM.
PS: don't forget to "MIX-BURN-RIP" your iTunes tracks when you buy 'em.
So that's who's been steawing my wetucces! I have to apowogize to those wascally chipmunks. -- Ewmer.
Sounds like neither of them were smart.
* If the company was smart they'd have set up a role account on LinkedIn, under a fictitious name.
* That would almost certainly be against the LinkedIn terms of service, of course. But then I suspect the whole arrangement was against the LinkedIn TOS to start with, and the smart thing for LinkedIn to do would be to cancel the account (while preserving the information offline for legal purposes, of course).
Actually, painting with a less-than-perfect brush sounds pretty creative to me.
It sounds like a standard high school art class exercise to me.
You learn a lot about using poor and expedient tools as well as good ones at any school, even when you're at one that can afford the best. That doesn't mean you deliberately pick the wrong tool for the job when you're making a living at it.
Macs are rarely comparable even at the beginning of a product cycle, except perhaps at the very high end. My Mac mini was $200 more than a similarly equipped Wintendo, and the margin Apple got on my hot-off-MWSF Macbook Pro doesn't bear thinking about... and both those were bought right at the beginning of the cycle. And yet I've bought several Macs over the years, so I guess I must be getting something for the "Mac Tax" after all.
Well, you know, it might make more sense to not stick two digitizing pads (because that's what the tablet and touchpad are, basically) right next to each other, and either have one pad with software control, or put some bloody space between them. But I guess ACs don't read between the lines. Even in an obviously sarcastic post.
"Which computer is more powerful... the one with the best specs, or the one you want to use?"
Apple has rarely been competitive on a performance-for-dollar basis. That's not their business model. They make computers that people want to use.
If she was rejecting any non-Mac product without having experience with Windows, possibly.
But I doubt that any computer user in the world has too little experience with Windows. If you've used Windows and you still don't like it, that's a rational choice (obviously one you disagree with, but de gustibus non erat disputandum), not prejudice.
Left-handed users everywhere are cheering the W700, with its digitizer thoughtfully placed on the right so they won't inadvertently jog it when using the trackpad. "It might make more sense to turn the entire area in front of the keyboard into a trackpad/digitizer with software control," said Sandy Sinister of the Southpaw Liberation Army, "but instead they struck a blow for the cause! We're buying ten for our new HQ at Undisclosed Location."
Probably silicon and aluminum oxides.
Aren't jamming devices likely to be anti-radar-missile magnets?
LinkedIn isn't a system owned by his "soon to be former" employer.
Point. Though there are remotely piloted rotorcraft.
Do you know what a star shell is? A fireworks show involves firing ballistic projectiles full of explosives into the air. They design the show so that if any shell fails to explode (or, worse, explodes late) it lands in a safe zone, not on people, vehicles, or buildings.
If there's nowhere to fly an RPV without risking it landing on something breakable, then you probably ought to reconsider the whole fireworks show.
If you're already going to be driving there whether you're using GSV or not, why waste your time using something so inefficient?
Friend, I already brought THAT one up myself. You use this to look for candidates. Whether you're looking for houses to rob, houses to buy, or houses to send home improvement scams to, the advantages of Google Street View are the same. If GSV is useful for one of these things (and boosters of it have repeatedly brought up how they use it to look at real estate) then it's useful for all of them.
You realize that your argument started out being that GSV would make it easy to case endless scores of houses instantly, and since then you've come to a point where you're trying to argue that it might be able to keep up with driving, right?
No, I'm arguing that you're taking the best case for driving (eg, you're already there, on the street) and comparing it to the worst case for GSV (first generation, not using the API, with a flash interface deliberately slowed down with cute transitions).
But if that's what you want to believe I'm saying I'm not going to argue with you any longer, your mind is most definitely made up.
If you're looking at the houses instead of the road, yes, I think 15 MPH is too fast for residential streets.
I'm also impressed that you can drive to a neighborhood in zero seconds and zero minutes.
And of course nobody is working on better interfaces to Google Street View.
You're clearly smarter than the entire country of China.
If it took a year to simulate the fireworks, it would have been cheaper to put the camera in a remotely piloted vehicle.
I think Google now see it that as long as they _do_ more good than evil they are not /being/ evil.
That kind of arithmetic of the soul is so Middle Kingdom. I guess they've shifted their dogma from karma to ka.
By "jump through some loopholes" you mean things like "flash OEM firmware"?
And what makes you think that Android won't have the same restrictions when it's deployed? Sure, it's open source, sorta (the latest build isn't available, for example), but that only means that it's easier to get the "OEM" firmware. That doesn't mean that the firmware won't be tivoized.
If you want to develop apps for your own phone using Java you can already do that on many many phones already available.
If it's quicker for you to drive down the street than to use street view, you're doing something wrong, or you're driving dangerously fast for residential streets.
When the Green Card Lottery spam went out a lot of people didn't see it as a problem, because con-artists and other undesirables hadn't used Usenet and later email before. It took a couple of years for it to catch on, but now the majority of the mail on the net is spam. It's way too early to see any effect of Street View.