That's a bit different; if the owner or boss wants you to look at an email on *their system* it's authorized. I have had to do this & while I told them I wasn't comfortable doing it, I did it anyway. What I haven't done is do that without authorization - as others have said, it's not right.
Yeah, I have an ancient account too; I mostly use it with Thunderbird and it's fine. I use it for stuff I don't quite trust, so you'd think it would be full of spam, but it's really not bad, and I haven't noticed many (if any) false positives.
Did you read the article? Sorry... But in it they talk about how non-literate populations can learn to use these devices & even teach themselves how to read. The plan is to try distributing some & then come back in a year to see the effect. I think it's an interesting experiment, and combined with the fact that kids with the OLPC 1 are using it to teach their parents to read, it's worth trying. Spreading education is a good thing.
You'll note though, that his example was not to search for a lolcat video but to actually do something useful - you're driving, you find out that something changes, and you change your next appointment to 2:30. How is that a bad thing? It's not, and the fact that Apple has it & I don't still doesn't make it a bad thing. "All the other OSs" have voice stuff that is not nearly as good as this, and saying that the basic stuff that they can do is better than a system which can do more is disingenuous. I still use a flip-phone, but I'm not about to argue that everyone should have one because then they won't be able to browse the web while driving.
That is 180 degrees from the iPad's model of being solely for consumption. I would love to see a device come to market based on that vision. Even the android tablets seem to be aping apple's hub of consumption model.
I think you'll find that there are a lot more consumers than creators out there, and that a lot of creating doesn't lend itself to a small touch sceen (or even two of them). I like drawing on the ipad, but video or audio editing is just easier on a full computer. I do know a writer for a major newspaper who types his articles on his ipad, though. I suspect he's the exception.
This is exactly right. I'm still using a 30Gb Zune in my kitchen; it's a nice little player, syncs wirelessly and has a radio which I use a lot. But I only got it because it was cheap on woot - it wasn't really better than an ipod on balance when new. The HD really lacked compared to an ipod touch, there was no reason to get that unless again you got it at a fire sale price.
Just about every 4th grader I know has an ipod touch - the problems still apply even though it's not a phone. Grade schoolers LOVE apps & all that other nonsense. My kids don't have the itunes password, and I have enabled restrictions so they have to ask me to install whatever they saw on their friends' device & now have to have too. The article talks about Smurfberries - my kids like that game, but they don't even bother asking anymore if they can get the in app stuff, they know the answer is no. (I did buy them each something like a wand in the Harry Potter app.) I'm not willing to pay for an iphone data plan for myself, let alone my kids, but an ipod touch is the best thing ever. Books, movies, apps, internet access, free unlimited texting via google voice, skype, all in one easy to use package. Just keep the itunes password to yourself, set the restrictions, and get a cool skin on there for protection & you're all set.
It's traditional to use the form "President Obama" for the first mention in an article, and "Mr. Obama" (or Bush, or Clinton) after that. I think it's to emphasize that it's not a title like King or Queen.
I use my library all the time. They have a decent web interface where I can order what I want to be put on hold for me, and they email me when it's in. When I stop by I usually see a couple of other good books as well. They also have ebooks available through Overdrive; they just added Kindle/mobi books, but I haven't checked any of them out so I don't know if the checkout process is any different. I don't think that the Overdrive process would send you to Amazon, but I may be wrong on that.
This is the crux of the matter - once you have a car, the cheapest option is almost always to use it. Only if parking is impossible/very expensive at your destination does the equation shift.
My only QNX experience was hacking around with my old 3Com Ergo Audrey - for the time, that was a cool little machine. Once you had root, you could do quite a lot with it. Maybe once the Playbook ends up on Woot for $79 I'll get another chance to play with it....
It's true, this looks like more of an alternative to an old Palm. Having said that, I like my old Palm & I'd like one of these too! I doubt I'll drop $70 plus whatever a battery costs on one, though.
One of my kids has the older Kindle, and I'm going to get the other one the new $79 model. The only thing I have found that you need the keyboard for is making folder names for grouping books; not a big deal. The lighter weight makes up for it, in my opinion. I have a Nook touch myself; the page turn buttons on the Kindle are better, and that makes a surprising difference when you're reading. Touching the screen to turn the page is more distracting, & the buttons on the Nook are just a little too firm to be totally natural. I think this new Kindle may be the best option out there for a pure book reader.
In other words, enough to power the little led in the paver for a little while. Not anywhere near enough to ever power the main lights in a mall, as the article suggests. It's a novelty, but not really green in any meaningful sense - amount of energy expended to create these things will never be recouped in useful light generated. Now, it's not a bad thing to have cool light up pavers, but these inhabitat articles never get beyond the breathless press release stage and actually look at what they're consuming vs what they're saving.
I have some stats (from a much smaller site), but they also have Chrome still behind Firefox: 1. Internet Explorer 65.01% 2. Firefox 15.55% 3. Chrome 9.64% 4. Safari 6.69% 5. Android Browser 0.93% 6. Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.93% 7. Opera 0.78% This was from the last month.
On the flip side, you don't have to pay extra to call a cell phone number in the US, unlike in Europe. I think that's why texting took off sooner in Europe; if you wanted to get in touch, you'd have to pay a lot more to call someone than to text them. In the US you could just pick up the phone & call them, usually for free if it was a landline. You'll notice long distance providers quote calls to the EU differently for landlines & mobiles; the US is all the same rate.
I agree - if SME has what you want, it's really simple to get running and keep going. I've used it for years for personal stuff, and it's solid.
Otherwise, I use Ubuntu server these days, just because it's got the most momentum so if there's a problem, someone knows how to fix it, and there are tons of tutorials available.
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That's a bit different; if the owner or boss wants you to look at an email on *their system* it's authorized. I have had to do this & while I told them I wasn't comfortable doing it, I did it anyway. What I haven't done is do that without authorization - as others have said, it's not right.
I've actually mailed things sealed this way; the wax doesn't really survive the mechanized sorting process very well.
Our consumer site is pretty similar; IE 61%, Firefox 15%, Chrome 10%, Safari 9%.
That works best in Idaho & Montana...
I submitted this story a while back but it never took off - the video of the robot assembling itself from spray foam is pretty cool:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/robot-builds-itself-with-foam-111020.html
I think that really over the course of a couple of years people went from a $0.50 cup of coffee to a $3.95 coffee flavored milkshake...
Google "london congestion charge"; it's not the whole city, just the center.
At least everyone can say they didn't *listen* to the article...
Yeah, I have an ancient account too; I mostly use it with Thunderbird and it's fine. I use it for stuff I don't quite trust, so you'd think it would be full of spam, but it's really not bad, and I haven't noticed many (if any) false positives.
Did you read the article? Sorry... But in it they talk about how non-literate populations can learn to use these devices & even teach themselves how to read. The plan is to try distributing some & then come back in a year to see the effect. I think it's an interesting experiment, and combined with the fact that kids with the OLPC 1 are using it to teach their parents to read, it's worth trying. Spreading education is a good thing.
You'll note though, that his example was not to search for a lolcat video but to actually do something useful - you're driving, you find out that something changes, and you change your next appointment to 2:30. How is that a bad thing? It's not, and the fact that Apple has it & I don't still doesn't make it a bad thing. "All the other OSs" have voice stuff that is not nearly as good as this, and saying that the basic stuff that they can do is better than a system which can do more is disingenuous. I still use a flip-phone, but I'm not about to argue that everyone should have one because then they won't be able to browse the web while driving.
That is 180 degrees from the iPad's model of being solely for consumption. I would love to see a device come to market based on that vision. Even the android tablets seem to be aping apple's hub of consumption model.
I think you'll find that there are a lot more consumers than creators out there, and that a lot of creating doesn't lend itself to a small touch sceen (or even two of them). I like drawing on the ipad, but video or audio editing is just easier on a full computer. I do know a writer for a major newspaper who types his articles on his ipad, though. I suspect he's the exception.
This is exactly right. I'm still using a 30Gb Zune in my kitchen; it's a nice little player, syncs wirelessly and has a radio which I use a lot. But I only got it because it was cheap on woot - it wasn't really better than an ipod on balance when new. The HD really lacked compared to an ipod touch, there was no reason to get that unless again you got it at a fire sale price.
Just about every 4th grader I know has an ipod touch - the problems still apply even though it's not a phone. Grade schoolers LOVE apps & all that other nonsense. My kids don't have the itunes password, and I have enabled restrictions so they have to ask me to install whatever they saw on their friends' device & now have to have too.
The article talks about Smurfberries - my kids like that game, but they don't even bother asking anymore if they can get the in app stuff, they know the answer is no. (I did buy them each something like a wand in the Harry Potter app.)
I'm not willing to pay for an iphone data plan for myself, let alone my kids, but an ipod touch is the best thing ever. Books, movies, apps, internet access, free unlimited texting via google voice, skype, all in one easy to use package. Just keep the itunes password to yourself, set the restrictions, and get a cool skin on there for protection & you're all set.
It's traditional to use the form "President Obama" for the first mention in an article, and "Mr. Obama" (or Bush, or Clinton) after that. I think it's to emphasize that it's not a title like King or Queen.
I use my library all the time. They have a decent web interface where I can order what I want to be put on hold for me, and they email me when it's in. When I stop by I usually see a couple of other good books as well. They also have ebooks available through Overdrive; they just added Kindle/mobi books, but I haven't checked any of them out so I don't know if the checkout process is any different. I don't think that the Overdrive process would send you to Amazon, but I may be wrong on that.
This is the crux of the matter - once you have a car, the cheapest option is almost always to use it. Only if parking is impossible/very expensive at your destination does the equation shift.
My only QNX experience was hacking around with my old 3Com Ergo Audrey - for the time, that was a cool little machine. Once you had root, you could do quite a lot with it. Maybe once the Playbook ends up on Woot for $79 I'll get another chance to play with it....
It's true, this looks like more of an alternative to an old Palm. Having said that, I like my old Palm & I'd like one of these too! I doubt I'll drop $70 plus whatever a battery costs on one, though.
One of my kids has the older Kindle, and I'm going to get the other one the new $79 model. The only thing I have found that you need the keyboard for is making folder names for grouping books; not a big deal. The lighter weight makes up for it, in my opinion. I have a Nook touch myself; the page turn buttons on the Kindle are better, and that makes a surprising difference when you're reading. Touching the screen to turn the page is more distracting, & the buttons on the Nook are just a little too firm to be totally natural. I think this new Kindle may be the best option out there for a pure book reader.
In other words, enough to power the little led in the paver for a little while. Not anywhere near enough to ever power the main lights in a mall, as the article suggests. It's a novelty, but not really green in any meaningful sense - amount of energy expended to create these things will never be recouped in useful light generated. Now, it's not a bad thing to have cool light up pavers, but these inhabitat articles never get beyond the breathless press release stage and actually look at what they're consuming vs what they're saving.
I have some stats (from a much smaller site), but they also have Chrome still behind Firefox:
1. Internet Explorer 65.01%
2. Firefox 15.55%
3. Chrome 9.64%
4. Safari 6.69%
5. Android Browser 0.93%
6. Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.93%
7. Opera 0.78%
This was from the last month.
On the flip side, you don't have to pay extra to call a cell phone number in the US, unlike in Europe. I think that's why texting took off sooner in Europe; if you wanted to get in touch, you'd have to pay a lot more to call someone than to text them. In the US you could just pick up the phone & call them, usually for free if it was a landline. You'll notice long distance providers quote calls to the EU differently for landlines & mobiles; the US is all the same rate.
Really? I've never seen a cell plan in the US where that was the case. Landlines, sure, but then incoming minutes don't cost you.
I agree - if SME has what you want, it's really simple to get running and keep going. I've used it for years for personal stuff, and it's solid.
Otherwise, I use Ubuntu server these days, just because it's got the most momentum so if there's a problem, someone knows how to fix it, and there are tons of tutorials available.