Now picture, if you will, a land (we'll call it Illinois) where sales tax is 8-10% (Chicago being the higher end, rest of the state 8-9%). In this land, the ruler runs for election on a platform of increasing the state income tax by 33%. The results on Wikipedia show how he won, the counties around Chicago and St Louis only. It's a crazy land to live.
So, you pay up to 9.5% (per Washington DOR) in sales tax. Consider yourselves lucky. Politicians will continue to try to get more money for themselves.
I'm sorry, you must be confused. This is Slashdot. We only tolerate one of any sort of device for all uses. Therefore, if a web-browsing only netbook appears, that means that all computers henceforth will be just like this. Gone are the days of building your own PC, running an OS of your choosing. All computers will be running ChromeOS by the end of the year. So, let's pile on with a thousand and one use cases where this device isn't appropriate. Only then can we stop it and maintain the status quo in computers.
Let's see. Astronauts. I don't see astronauts flipping around in space using ChromeOS. If the ISS were run on ChromeOS, everybody on board would be dead in three seconds. Antarcticians. Last I checked, there wasn't very fast broadband available on Antarctica. ChromeOS cannot overtake the industry until they get FIOS to the penguins down south. My great-grandma in the ICU on a ventilator can't be checking her Facebooks with this thing. They don't even want me to wear a watch in the room with her! Clearly, ChromeOS just isn't ready for primetime. Until they resolve these and many other ridiculous things I can come up, nobody should touch it. Please, for the sake of my gram-gram, don't go near ChromeOS.
This sounds exactly how liberals defined Rush Limbaugh ten years ago. "I've never listened to him, but I know I hate him and everything I've heard about him says he is evil." So, Glenn is the new liberal boogeyman.
Look here sonny, let me tell ya something bout this here gubmint. They control everything you think, everything you do, everything you think you might do. Everything the gubmint does is to keep this control over the peoples. So, they lie, cheat, hide, and distort the real truth from ya. It's our job here on Slashdot to stick it to the man and make sure the peoples know how things really are. So, when some low-level ossifer in the militry tells some kid to delete a video off his cell phone, it's because the gubmint is hiding the truth from you! That video shows who the real terrists that day were, the gubmint themselfs. Believe it.
The gubmint is one hive organism, from the dude that puts a USDA sticker on your hamburger, to the Bildeburgers themselves, they are all the same. Trust me, I wouldn't lie to ya.
It's all about branding the channel, not the show. They want you to be watching NBC, ABC, or CBS, not The Office, CSI, etc. With this Internet, users might search for "Law and Order" and watch an episode or two, without paying homage to the rest of NBC's lineup. They put a lot of effort in scheduling, competing with other channels, etc, and you damn well better respect!
No UI will get through to these sort of people. Trust me. Anyone's that worked in phone tech support knows you can get someone to do something like, "left-click the second button from the left on the toolbar near the top of the application," and not, "click the open-file icon on the toolbar." First, they won't call it a toolbar, but something stupid like picture gallery. Then you can go on and on defining click, icon, an open-file picture, etc.
Many people do very much work strictly like click here, type my initials (it's not a username, it's my initials!), type my cat's name, type 1, hit enter, A, enter, 14, enter 7 enter (at a text-based terminal app, for instance). After going insane in a corporate tech support environment like this, I left IT and set for the medical field. It's the same damn thing.
Medical machines make beeping noises to alert you to some warning or error. People go up and do the same routine of mute, reset, reset, mute, reset, stop, start, reset, mute. Only then, if it's still beeping, will they perhaps read the error message, if they don't just come to me saying, "This machine won't work." I read it, and see a blood pressure related error, and tell them they need to put the damn BP cuff on the patient. These people will never understand anything. Trust me.
Or, perhaps, it was moderated like that because it contains nothing substantive. A generic, "you Glenn Beck lover" jab should be considered insightful? He starts off asking a question, a good start, but doesn't back it up with examples or something to further discussion. That comment is no more useful than "You are poo."
Let's hope they don't discontinue the current "everything" plans. I've been burning up the unlimited part of the data plan since I got my Hero last year. For a long time I was one of those, "a phone is just for a phone" folks. Now, I use it for reading news, web sites far more than my home desktop PC.
As it's not YOUR computer, it's not your worry, is it?
Yes, this is a grave concern to Slashdotters everywhere. We here believe there can be only one of anything in the universe. If we allow this technology to continue, there will only be tiny PCs in the world with a bunch of crap soldered in.
KDE vs Gnome? No, use twm. Vi vs Emacs? No, use cat. Tivo vs MythTV? No, don't watch TV. Ipod vs Zune? No, torrent it. Android vs Iphone? No, use just a plain phone, dammit! Xbox360 vs PS3? No, give me PC games.
Now, recite it 500 times, "There can be only one," and you will gain Enlightenment*.
Do you want to spend hours and hours diagnosing the problems for these types of people? If it's been 3 or more years, it's far easier to tell them to call Dell or whomever for a new one. People have gotten used to this cycle, so I say go with it. Of course, collect their "junk" for them.
But you will have to pay when Microsoft comes a knockin' because you have used some patents with your risky open source software. So, this moves has saved the state billions, potentially.
I really don't understand this attitude. Amazon (obviously!) wants to sell things and take their cut (make it a hair less than Google takes perhaps). Amazon knows about selling things to it's customers (suggestions and all). If one app is only selling 100 copies a month for $2.99, why not let them play with it a little? You could end up getting 1000 sold for $0.99. With digital distribution, the cost per unit has much less meaning, it would seem.
Or do you just not want to be labelled as one of those 99-cent developers? If that's the case, you certainly aren't required to post your app on Amazon. Keep the alternatives coming!
Maybe, just maybe, they want to do it to make money. Google only allows their market on phones that pay the Google license fees and such. There have been a number of cheap tablets popping up with Android and no market on them. Here's an opportunity for somebody to get their own marketplace on them, with Google-branded phones as well, plus a little ??, and you have profit!
With the Chrome-to-Phone stuff, some web site like AndroLib could do it. But for now, you have to scan the QR barcode with your phone to do the download. One other app manager I believe had a feature like that, AppBrain perhaps?
It's about time the kernel got into this 3-D hype. I need to install it on my glasses for this fancy shmancy 3D TV the Best Buy guy told me was wicked awesome!
Now we see why AT&T was making a Google-unbranded Android phone. They had the bright idea to not just make Bing (or was it Yahoo?) the default search engine, but then to lock any way to change it as well. Double-fun!
I think this TF2 implementation is just preparation/proof-of-concept for Steam being able to host games (MMOs, perhaps) that have all kinds of micro-transactions. Valve likely isn't expecting much revenue from your new tin-foil hat for your Heavy. But it is a stroke to publishers that they too can join the Steam family and sell their games with them.
Or, maybe people don't vote for him anymore because he hasn't been on any ballots since 2008.
Just sayin'. It will be interesting though if he can turn this attitude around in the next two years before his reelection. Or he'll just say he inherited the ill-will from Bush.
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Now picture, if you will, a land (we'll call it Illinois) where sales tax is 8-10% (Chicago being the higher end, rest of the state 8-9%). In this land, the ruler runs for election on a platform of increasing the state income tax by 33%. The results on Wikipedia show how he won, the counties around Chicago and St Louis only. It's a crazy land to live.
So, you pay up to 9.5% (per Washington DOR) in sales tax. Consider yourselves lucky. Politicians will continue to try to get more money for themselves.
I'm sorry, you must be confused. This is Slashdot. We only tolerate one of any sort of device for all uses. Therefore, if a web-browsing only netbook appears, that means that all computers henceforth will be just like this. Gone are the days of building your own PC, running an OS of your choosing. All computers will be running ChromeOS by the end of the year. So, let's pile on with a thousand and one use cases where this device isn't appropriate. Only then can we stop it and maintain the status quo in computers.
Let's see. Astronauts. I don't see astronauts flipping around in space using ChromeOS. If the ISS were run on ChromeOS, everybody on board would be dead in three seconds. Antarcticians. Last I checked, there wasn't very fast broadband available on Antarctica. ChromeOS cannot overtake the industry until they get FIOS to the penguins down south. My great-grandma in the ICU on a ventilator can't be checking her Facebooks with this thing. They don't even want me to wear a watch in the room with her! Clearly, ChromeOS just isn't ready for primetime. Until they resolve these and many other ridiculous things I can come up, nobody should touch it. Please, for the sake of my gram-gram, don't go near ChromeOS.
This sounds exactly how liberals defined Rush Limbaugh ten years ago. "I've never listened to him, but I know I hate him and everything I've heard about him says he is evil." So, Glenn is the new liberal boogeyman.
Look here sonny, let me tell ya something bout this here gubmint. They control everything you think, everything you do, everything you think you might do. Everything the gubmint does is to keep this control over the peoples. So, they lie, cheat, hide, and distort the real truth from ya. It's our job here on Slashdot to stick it to the man and make sure the peoples know how things really are. So, when some low-level ossifer in the militry tells some kid to delete a video off his cell phone, it's because the gubmint is hiding the truth from you! That video shows who the real terrists that day were, the gubmint themselfs. Believe it.
The gubmint is one hive organism, from the dude that puts a USDA sticker on your hamburger, to the Bildeburgers themselves, they are all the same. Trust me, I wouldn't lie to ya.
It's all about branding the channel, not the show. They want you to be watching NBC, ABC, or CBS, not The Office, CSI, etc. With this Internet, users might search for "Law and Order" and watch an episode or two, without paying homage to the rest of NBC's lineup. They put a lot of effort in scheduling, competing with other channels, etc, and you damn well better respect!
No UI will get through to these sort of people. Trust me. Anyone's that worked in phone tech support knows you can get someone to do something like, "left-click the second button from the left on the toolbar near the top of the application," and not, "click the open-file icon on the toolbar." First, they won't call it a toolbar, but something stupid like picture gallery. Then you can go on and on defining click, icon, an open-file picture, etc.
Many people do very much work strictly like click here, type my initials (it's not a username, it's my initials!), type my cat's name, type 1, hit enter, A, enter, 14, enter 7 enter (at a text-based terminal app, for instance). After going insane in a corporate tech support environment like this, I left IT and set for the medical field. It's the same damn thing.
Medical machines make beeping noises to alert you to some warning or error. People go up and do the same routine of mute, reset, reset, mute, reset, stop, start, reset, mute. Only then, if it's still beeping, will they perhaps read the error message, if they don't just come to me saying, "This machine won't work." I read it, and see a blood pressure related error, and tell them they need to put the damn BP cuff on the patient. These people will never understand anything. Trust me.
Because the wall is full of plugs for all these hubs, duh!!
Or, perhaps, it was moderated like that because it contains nothing substantive. A generic, "you Glenn Beck lover" jab should be considered insightful? He starts off asking a question, a good start, but doesn't back it up with examples or something to further discussion. That comment is no more useful than "You are poo."
That's a bargain, considering with each link they lose billions and billions of dollars.
Let's hope they don't discontinue the current "everything" plans. I've been burning up the unlimited part of the data plan since I got my Hero last year. For a long time I was one of those, "a phone is just for a phone" folks. Now, I use it for reading news, web sites far more than my home desktop PC.
"I would not trust this long-term."
As it's not YOUR computer, it's not your worry, is it?
Yes, this is a grave concern to Slashdotters everywhere. We here believe there can be only one of anything in the universe. If we allow this technology to continue, there will only be tiny PCs in the world with a bunch of crap soldered in.
KDE vs Gnome? No, use twm. Vi vs Emacs? No, use cat. Tivo vs MythTV? No, don't watch TV. Ipod vs Zune? No, torrent it. Android vs Iphone? No, use just a plain phone, dammit! Xbox360 vs PS3? No, give me PC games.
Now, recite it 500 times, "There can be only one," and you will gain Enlightenment*.
*may require an apt-get as well.
Do you want to spend hours and hours diagnosing the problems for these types of people? If it's been 3 or more years, it's far easier to tell them to call Dell or whomever for a new one. People have gotten used to this cycle, so I say go with it. Of course, collect their "junk" for them.
But you will have to pay when Microsoft comes a knockin' because you have used some patents with your risky open source software. So, this moves has saved the state billions, potentially.
I really don't understand this attitude. Amazon (obviously!) wants to sell things and take their cut (make it a hair less than Google takes perhaps). Amazon knows about selling things to it's customers (suggestions and all). If one app is only selling 100 copies a month for $2.99, why not let them play with it a little? You could end up getting 1000 sold for $0.99. With digital distribution, the cost per unit has much less meaning, it would seem.
Or do you just not want to be labelled as one of those 99-cent developers? If that's the case, you certainly aren't required to post your app on Amazon. Keep the alternatives coming!
Maybe, just maybe, they want to do it to make money. Google only allows their market on phones that pay the Google license fees and such. There have been a number of cheap tablets popping up with Android and no market on them. Here's an opportunity for somebody to get their own marketplace on them, with Google-branded phones as well, plus a little ??, and you have profit!
With the Chrome-to-Phone stuff, some web site like AndroLib could do it. But for now, you have to scan the QR barcode with your phone to do the download. One other app manager I believe had a feature like that, AppBrain perhaps?
It's about time the kernel got into this 3-D hype. I need to install it on my glasses for this fancy shmancy 3D TV the Best Buy guy told me was wicked awesome!
Now we see why AT&T was making a Google-unbranded Android phone. They had the bright idea to not just make Bing (or was it Yahoo?) the default search engine, but then to lock any way to change it as well. Double-fun!
It's free, but every image contains your entire web history for Google to search. Muahahaha.
I think this TF2 implementation is just preparation/proof-of-concept for Steam being able to host games (MMOs, perhaps) that have all kinds of micro-transactions. Valve likely isn't expecting much revenue from your new tin-foil hat for your Heavy. But it is a stroke to publishers that they too can join the Steam family and sell their games with them.
You must be new 'round here. It's Roblimo (is he still a Slashdot editor?). Nothing new.
And Goo.gl is happy to shorten itself to no end.
Google saw my post and has announced almost 40 more countries added, Android Developer's Blog.
Ah, they may have changed it. I haven't done that accidentally in quite a while. I guess that's why.
Or, maybe people don't vote for him anymore because he hasn't been on any ballots since 2008.
Just sayin'. It will be interesting though if he can turn this attitude around in the next two years before his reelection. Or he'll just say he inherited the ill-will from Bush.