To default just means to not meet the terms of the loan. i.e. not pay them back. You are very able to default on student loans in the normal sense. It's just that the penalties for defaulting are different for student loans.
Um, not quite. The last update nodo was a problem on a couple samsung models but worked fine on everything else. The current update Mango as of today available to 99% of Windows Phones worldwide, both old and new. It's easy to laugh at growing pains of a new platform, but when the Android platform is still a fragmented mess of version numbers after years you don't have much room to talk.
I really think the neatest thing about androin is the way it gets modded
99% of people out there don't care at all
I bet it wont be pretty.
You'd lose that bet. There was an jailbreak tool that exploited a vulnerability to jailbreak WP7 phones. Microsoft closed the vulnerability but worked with the team in an official capacity to release an approve jailbreak tool. http://www.chevronwp7.com/post/6629433362/announcing-chevronwp7-labs
I wonder if the company that first made yellow notepads is looking at these suits and thinking "Damn! Why didn't we think of patenting that?" It's just so surreal to me that any number of companies can make yellow notepads, but make a digital version and you're knee deep in a web of patents.
Quite so. Moreover, it seems that the iPhone 4S along with iOS 5 was Apple's answer to the advancements made in mobile phones over the last year. It boggles my mind how Apple can release one phone a year when the development pace in this sector is so brisk.
I used to listen to stars of the lid while doing homework. I have trouble listening to music with words because I sing along in my head, and I have a trouble listening to classical music because I play along in my head (I'm a violinist). Ambient stuff like Stars of the Lid is great though. I find it doesn't actually put me to sleep, but gets my brain in a thinking rhythm.
Do you apply kindergarten playground law to all of your moral dilemmas? Shoving people when they're mean to you, crying when you don't get your way? In adult land, we try to hold ourselves to a higher standard than 6 year olds.
People (as in general users) were still not aware that there *was* any alternative
Why is that Microsoft's problem? Maybe Mozilla or Google or Opera should run some more ads. It's not Microsoft's job to educate the public about the competing browsers, especially if they're not doing anything to inhibit their performance or ability to be installed. If you want, you can remove practically all traces of IE from Windows.
The alternatives were doing well in terms of growth , but not in overall terms
I don't know how you can say that when both Chrome and Firefox are sitting around 25% global market share, and IE has steadily been losing market share for at least 4 years. How can you seriously tell me no one knows about alternative browsers when people have been leaving IE in droves for years now?
1) It's not a beta. It's a developer preview that may be considered closer to an alpha release.
2) Turning off the metro start menu is a registry edit away. Who knows if that will be changed to a user-accessible check box in the next year+ Windows 8 will be in development
3) Microsoft has collected data that shows people are using the start menu less and less. I mean, in essence, what is the start menu? It has shortcuts to all your programs, a search feature, some folder shortcuts, and the power button. It turns out people are just pinning their programs to the task bar, and end up never even accessing the start menu. The rest of the time it seems people go into the start menu to use the search feature to search their installed apps rather than browse a list. Consequently there re other ways to access search in Windows 8 other than the start menu.
It seems to me that the start menu in Windows 8 is no longer just supposed to be a launcher for applications. You may like it to be that that, and it seems you more or less have the option to keep it that way, or at least there are 1000 app launchers out there for you to choose. But what they seem to be doing is consolidating search, apps, widgets, (which are currently spread across start menu, desktop, taskbar, and system tray). This seems like a useful evolution to me.
it is TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome, this was the problem with IE in Europe
No, the problem the EU had with IE was much different. First, at this point in time IE was already uninstallable from Windows. Second, browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera were readily available and kicking IE in the ass in terms of growth. So how was it the case that there was no alternative and you were forced to use IE?
UI-wise, it is. I'm not talking about other things that users don't see much.
No you were. You seem to have moved your position from "identical except the new one has a face-lift" to they have a similar interface but are different on the inside. It seems what you say and what you think you're saying are different. You also claimed repeatedly that users don't care about anything aside from the UI, which is also not true.
And which of those has MSR made any significant contributions to?
I'm not sure. But you mention that you'd use Windows 7 over 95 because it's faster and doesn't crash as much. How much work and research goes into making it "faster" and "not crash as much." I'm not sure, I'm not an OS developer, but I'd imagine at this stage ever incremental improvement costs thousands in hours of research and dollars. You seem to think that research should result in leaps and bounds in technology and it's only worthwhile if it generates revolutionary and groundbreaking ideas. An innovation doesn't have to be large for it to be worthwhile. Incremental improvements over the last 15 years have lead to an OS that I feel is leagues better than what we had before, despite the interface being the same.
the point is that Tesla hasn't made any groundbreaking changes in cars
No, that wasn't the point at all. The comparison I made was to show that an an OS from 1995 is different from one in 2010 despite having the same user interface, just as cars from 1900 are different from cars in 2011 despite the same. The only reason I chose the Model S specifically was to play off the Model T name. I didn't mean to invoke some obvious unknown hatred you have for Tesla and/or electric cars.
The two are pretty much identical except the new one has a face-lift.
You seem to be arguing that Windows 7 = Windows 95 + new skin. Unless you need to work on your understanding of the word "identical", you seem to be completely neglecting over 15 years of memory management, security, networking, stability, I/O, graphics, usability, file system, and performance improvements.
Is the Tesla Model S substantially different from a Toyota Camry?
Yes absolutely! All those things you mentioned are only a small part of the overall functioning machine, the user interface, which I'm sure you know. I don't understand why you keep pointing to this archetypical grandmother who is the judgement of all technology; just because she can only see the steering wheel and pedals doesn't mean that we, who realize there is more to a machine than its user interface, cannot discern one from the other.
But since you trust in the wisdom of grandmother, I would suggest that she does care about the under-the-hood improvements of the Tesla. If you somehow fit a Camry into a Model S chasis, she would indeed be able to tell the difference, and prefer the true Model S despite cosmetic similarities. The Model S would be quieter, have a smoother ride, better fuel efficiency, better multimedia capabilities, better handling, better reliability, etc.
Likewise, I'm sure most people including your fabled grandmother would prefer true Windows 7 to Windows 95 with a skin. And if you think otherwise, then why aren't you using that setup now?
Zune software is the media player that should be bundled in Windows, but probably isn't because of antitrust concerns. They get in trouble for bundling just crappy WMP.
I believe you're thinking of Prime Sense, who produces the structured light ranging sensor for the kinect. That's not the impressive part of the kinect though: structured light ranging techniques have been around for a while. By itself it's quite ordinary. The impressive part is the hardware package (ranging, motor controls, gyroscope, microphone array) couple with fantastic software for skeleton, facial, and speech recognition, and the fact that the whole package costs $150.
What are you talking about? The two are pretty much identical except the new one has a face-lift. There's a "start" button at the lower left (except on W7 it's just an icon) that brings up a menu you can launch programs from. This is on a task bar along the bottom, that shows all the programs you're running (except on W7 they just show icons instead of actual words).
You're pretty much saying that the Tesla Model S is the same thing as the Ford Model T because they both have 4 wheels and a steering wheel. Yes Windows 95 and Windows 7 are functionally similar, but that doesn't make them the same thing.
Apps are sparse. But as far as I see it, it's not an issue. I have a phone for apps. I have an MP3 player for music. Until there is a phone with massive storage and battery life, that's the way it will remain.
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You can't go into default in the normal sense.
To default just means to not meet the terms of the loan. i.e. not pay them back. You are very able to default on student loans in the normal sense. It's just that the penalties for defaulting are different for student loans.
The last major android version released for smartphones was in December 2010.... not exactly lightspeed.
Even the WP7 updates have been tortured events.
Um, not quite. The last update nodo was a problem on a couple samsung models but worked fine on everything else. The current update Mango as of today available to 99% of Windows Phones worldwide, both old and new. It's easy to laugh at growing pains of a new platform, but when the Android platform is still a fragmented mess of version numbers after years you don't have much room to talk.
I really think the neatest thing about androin is the way it gets modded
99% of people out there don't care at all
I bet it wont be pretty.
You'd lose that bet. There was an jailbreak tool that exploited a vulnerability to jailbreak WP7 phones. Microsoft closed the vulnerability but worked with the team in an official capacity to release an approve jailbreak tool. http://www.chevronwp7.com/post/6629433362/announcing-chevronwp7-labs
Rolax sounds like like a combination rolaid/laxative.
I wonder if the company that first made yellow notepads is looking at these suits and thinking "Damn! Why didn't we think of patenting that?" It's just so surreal to me that any number of companies can make yellow notepads, but make a digital version and you're knee deep in a web of patents.
This looks to be an updated version from 8/17/2011
http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/RNGS/2011/AUG/PATENT_CI.jpg
Quite so. Moreover, it seems that the iPhone 4S along with iOS 5 was Apple's answer to the advancements made in mobile phones over the last year. It boggles my mind how Apple can release one phone a year when the development pace in this sector is so brisk.
I used to listen to stars of the lid while doing homework. I have trouble listening to music with words because I sing along in my head, and I have a trouble listening to classical music because I play along in my head (I'm a violinist). Ambient stuff like Stars of the Lid is great though. I find it doesn't actually put me to sleep, but gets my brain in a thinking rhythm.
Kindergarteners can discern different shapes. One is longer than the other. This is the easiest thing in the world.
Politicians are not adults.
What ever happened to finders keepers?
Do you apply kindergarten playground law to all of your moral dilemmas? Shoving people when they're mean to you, crying when you don't get your way? In adult land, we try to hold ourselves to a higher standard than 6 year olds.
What does having python, ruby or gcc by default have to do with being open?
People (as in general users) were still not aware that there *was* any alternative
Why is that Microsoft's problem? Maybe Mozilla or Google or Opera should run some more ads. It's not Microsoft's job to educate the public about the competing browsers, especially if they're not doing anything to inhibit their performance or ability to be installed. If you want, you can remove practically all traces of IE from Windows.
The alternatives were doing well in terms of growth , but not in overall terms
I don't know how you can say that when both Chrome and Firefox are sitting around 25% global market share, and IE has steadily been losing market share for at least 4 years. How can you seriously tell me no one knows about alternative browsers when people have been leaving IE in droves for years now?
Metro isn't touch only. The Zune software was pretty much the first metro-style app and it works brilliantly with keyboard/mouse.
1) It's not a beta. It's a developer preview that may be considered closer to an alpha release.
2) Turning off the metro start menu is a registry edit away. Who knows if that will be changed to a user-accessible check box in the next year+ Windows 8 will be in development
3) Microsoft has collected data that shows people are using the start menu less and less. I mean, in essence, what is the start menu? It has shortcuts to all your programs, a search feature, some folder shortcuts, and the power button. It turns out people are just pinning their programs to the task bar, and end up never even accessing the start menu. The rest of the time it seems people go into the start menu to use the search feature to search their installed apps rather than browse a list. Consequently there re other ways to access search in Windows 8 other than the start menu.
It seems to me that the start menu in Windows 8 is no longer just supposed to be a launcher for applications. You may like it to be that that, and it seems you more or less have the option to keep it that way, or at least there are 1000 app launchers out there for you to choose. But what they seem to be doing is consolidating search, apps, widgets, (which are currently spread across start menu, desktop, taskbar, and system tray). This seems like a useful evolution to me.
it is TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome, this was the problem with IE in Europe
No, the problem the EU had with IE was much different. First, at this point in time IE was already uninstallable from Windows. Second, browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera were readily available and kicking IE in the ass in terms of growth. So how was it the case that there was no alternative and you were forced to use IE?
UI-wise, it is. I'm not talking about other things that users don't see much.
No you were. You seem to have moved your position from "identical except the new one has a face-lift" to they have a similar interface but are different on the inside. It seems what you say and what you think you're saying are different. You also claimed repeatedly that users don't care about anything aside from the UI, which is also not true.
And which of those has MSR made any significant contributions to?
I'm not sure. But you mention that you'd use Windows 7 over 95 because it's faster and doesn't crash as much. How much work and research goes into making it "faster" and "not crash as much." I'm not sure, I'm not an OS developer, but I'd imagine at this stage ever incremental improvement costs thousands in hours of research and dollars. You seem to think that research should result in leaps and bounds in technology and it's only worthwhile if it generates revolutionary and groundbreaking ideas. An innovation doesn't have to be large for it to be worthwhile. Incremental improvements over the last 15 years have lead to an OS that I feel is leagues better than what we had before, despite the interface being the same.
the point is that Tesla hasn't made any groundbreaking changes in cars
No, that wasn't the point at all. The comparison I made was to show that an an OS from 1995 is different from one in 2010 despite having the same user interface, just as cars from 1900 are different from cars in 2011 despite the same. The only reason I chose the Model S specifically was to play off the Model T name. I didn't mean to invoke some obvious unknown hatred you have for Tesla and/or electric cars.
The two are pretty much identical except the new one has a face-lift.
You seem to be arguing that Windows 7 = Windows 95 + new skin. Unless you need to work on your understanding of the word "identical", you seem to be completely neglecting over 15 years of memory management, security, networking, stability, I/O, graphics, usability, file system, and performance improvements.
Is the Tesla Model S substantially different from a Toyota Camry?
Yes absolutely! All those things you mentioned are only a small part of the overall functioning machine, the user interface, which I'm sure you know. I don't understand why you keep pointing to this archetypical grandmother who is the judgement of all technology; just because she can only see the steering wheel and pedals doesn't mean that we, who realize there is more to a machine than its user interface, cannot discern one from the other.
But since you trust in the wisdom of grandmother, I would suggest that she does care about the under-the-hood improvements of the Tesla. If you somehow fit a Camry into a Model S chasis, she would indeed be able to tell the difference, and prefer the true Model S despite cosmetic similarities. The Model S would be quieter, have a smoother ride, better fuel efficiency, better multimedia capabilities, better handling, better reliability, etc.
Likewise, I'm sure most people including your fabled grandmother would prefer true Windows 7 to Windows 95 with a skin. And if you think otherwise, then why aren't you using that setup now?
Zune software is the media player that should be bundled in Windows, but probably isn't because of antitrust concerns. They get in trouble for bundling just crappy WMP.
I believe you're thinking of Prime Sense, who produces the structured light ranging sensor for the kinect. That's not the impressive part of the kinect though: structured light ranging techniques have been around for a while. By itself it's quite ordinary. The impressive part is the hardware package (ranging, motor controls, gyroscope, microphone array) couple with fantastic software for skeleton, facial, and speech recognition, and the fact that the whole package costs $150.
What are you talking about? The two are pretty much identical except the new one has a face-lift. There's a "start" button at the lower left (except on W7 it's just an icon) that brings up a menu you can launch programs from. This is on a task bar along the bottom, that shows all the programs you're running (except on W7 they just show icons instead of actual words).
You're pretty much saying that the Tesla Model S is the same thing as the Ford Model T because they both have 4 wheels and a steering wheel. Yes Windows 95 and Windows 7 are functionally similar, but that doesn't make them the same thing.
Um, there's no DRM on tracks purchased from the Zune Store.
Apps are sparse. But as far as I see it, it's not an issue. I have a phone for apps. I have an MP3 player for music. Until there is a phone with massive storage and battery life, that's the way it will remain.
No DRM on Zune tracks. If you're using Zune Pass it's a different matter.