While it is true that the vast majority can do everything they need on a laptop or tablet, this ignores the importance of desktop PCs at keeping desktop PC makers in businesses so they can continue making desktop PCs that fewer and fewer people use.
Anyone who watches TV knows that a computer is a large mysterious machine that occupies a large room. It communicates via many blinking lights which is how the genius computer operators understand what the machine is directing them to do. Mere mortals are separated from computers by a large glass windows. The computer operators wear white lab coats. There is no readily apparent mechanism by which the humans communicate to the machine; but it doesn't seem to need their useless opinions.
The computer's mystery is exceeded only by its power.
For many people, "work" means using Office-type applications and web based applications.
Questions to be disgust:
* If a reasonably powered laptop, plugged into a doc at the office, with big screen, separate keyboard, mouse, etc, is suitable for some employees, then wouldn't that same laptop be suitable for work at a remote location, but with somewhat diminished convenience?
* if an office worker's primary application is a web based application, then wouldn't a $199 chromebook be suitable? (Note: these continue to be available despite the disappearance of Toys-R-Us.)
* If a marketing executive needs assistance to log in, to print, to launch a word processor, to send email, etc, then wouldn't they be about as well served by portable convenient paper and crayons?
> But the rest of us will use our laptops for our work, and our phones for taking pictures.
Squeak for yourself.
The rest of us will use our laptops for looking at inappropriate pictures on the subway, and our phones for texting while driving, walking an operating dangerous machinery.
Mobile devices have those secure OSes which only execute authorized machine code and don't give bad guys full control over your property. There have been attempts to do this with PCs, but so far they remain attractive and exploitable targets for malware of all kinds.
If only there was some kind of something-something method by which one scientist could reproduce another scientist's results. Theories could be formed. More experiments tried and reproduced. Etc. Such a thing could be a force that would propel technological advancement forward at an incredible rate.
If someone can invent some kind of scientific method, they should patent it!
It goes against the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights to even suggest that someone be deprived of their android phone for the length of time necessary to perform an armed robbery.
It's better for a thousand innocent people to be prosecuted than for police to do actual police work. Extra bonus points of the police can beat them up, off camera, on the way to jail.
> Seriously I think it's legitimate and you privacy asshats can go f*** yourselves...
I think the FIB was not especially interested in this robber. They were more interested in setting the precedent of making such a large grab of location data. One more step towards a police state. Little by little the water boils.
Nobody will need to ask "your papers please!". They'll already know who you are, they'll just need to tell you to strip for the search at each road checkpoint.
Once you've pirated most of what you want when you're young, as you get older there will be less and less new material that may appeal to you that you wouldn't buy even if piracy were not an option. Or maybe it's not getting older, but that they can't seem to turn out anything today that is worth buying. Yet it is possible to find a lot of older things on Amazon that are worth buying, and then you own a permanent mp3 file copy.
I will also point out that, without pirating, I can legitimately own movies and music without needing a network connection, a recurring revenue model, or anybody's permission.
Amazon Music will sell me REAL, GENUINE mp3 files that I can download and put onto all of my devices and my home server. I can then listen anywhere, any time, without a network connection. Whether it's phone, PC or Pixelbook.
I can buy a DVD and rip it at glacially slow speed into a very decent file that looks fine on a 60 " TV. (not 4K) Put it on the server and every RoKu in the house can play it.
What you say does apply to some movies. Many movies I am happy to watch, while available, on Netflix, HBO, Prime, Hulu, or YouTube TV. And then I don't need to watch them again for years.
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While it is true that the vast majority can do everything they need on a laptop or tablet, this ignores the importance of desktop PCs at keeping desktop PC makers in businesses so they can continue making desktop PCs that fewer and fewer people use.
Desktop and even Laptop PCs are not commonly used for texting and driving.
That's what I read on slashdot while driving to work.
Anyone who watches TV knows that a computer is a large mysterious machine that occupies a large room. It communicates via many blinking lights which is how the genius computer operators understand what the machine is directing them to do. Mere mortals are separated from computers by a large glass windows. The computer operators wear white lab coats. There is no readily apparent mechanism by which the humans communicate to the machine; but it doesn't seem to need their useless opinions.
The computer's mystery is exceeded only by its power.
Questions to be disgust:
> But the rest of us will use our laptops for our work, and our phones for taking pictures.
Squeak for yourself.
The rest of us will use our laptops for looking at inappropriate pictures on the subway, and our phones for texting while driving, walking an operating dangerous machinery.
Mobile devices have those secure OSes which only execute authorized machine code and don't give bad guys full control over your property. There have been attempts to do this with PCs, but so far they remain attractive and exploitable targets for malware of all kinds.
Even more surprising is that Yahoo is still even around.
If only there was some kind of something-something method by which one scientist could reproduce another scientist's results. Theories could be formed. More experiments tried and reproduced. Etc. Such a thing could be a force that would propel technological advancement forward at an incredible rate.
If someone can invent some kind of scientific method, they should patent it!
Why ask for your papers at random when they could just grope everybody?
It goes against the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights to even suggest that someone be deprived of their android phone for the length of time necessary to perform an armed robbery.
> Third party doctrine, do you speak it? Next time, you should be asking "why does Google store this data?"
A better question for Google's next shareholder meeting: why isn't google selling this data each time the police state wants to have a peek?
Follow the law. Wherever it may lead. To a police state. A dictatorship. Total control over the population.
> The goon was armed. Telling people he would kill them for a little money.
What if he had no arms, but told the victims that he did? (But he would be unable to wave his arms while explaining.)
It's better for a thousand innocent people to be prosecuted than for police to do actual police work. Extra bonus points of the police can beat them up, off camera, on the way to jail.
> Seriously I think it's legitimate and you privacy asshats can go f*** yourselves...
I think the FIB was not especially interested in this robber. They were more interested in setting the precedent of making such a large grab of location data. One more step towards a police state. Little by little the water boils.
Nobody will need to ask "your papers please!". They'll already know who you are, they'll just need to tell you to strip for the search at each road checkpoint.
They have plans to upgrade to Lotus Symphony right after they complete their upgrade to Windows XP.
I don't have a problem with the government spreading the contract among multiple vendor companies.
As long as none of them are Oracle.
They will be discovered. Corrective action will be taken.
No handouts from the government. The government now realizes that we have no use for science. Nor for art.
Once you've pirated most of what you want when you're young, as you get older there will be less and less new material that may appeal to you that you wouldn't buy even if piracy were not an option. Or maybe it's not getting older, but that they can't seem to turn out anything today that is worth buying. Yet it is possible to find a lot of older things on Amazon that are worth buying, and then you own a permanent mp3 file copy.
I will also point out that, without pirating, I can legitimately own movies and music without needing a network connection, a recurring revenue model, or anybody's permission.
Amazon Music will sell me REAL, GENUINE mp3 files that I can download and put onto all of my devices and my home server. I can then listen anywhere, any time, without a network connection. Whether it's phone, PC or Pixelbook.
I can buy a DVD and rip it at glacially slow speed into a very decent file that looks fine on a 60 " TV. (not 4K) Put it on the server and every RoKu in the house can play it.
What you say does apply to some movies. Many movies I am happy to watch, while available, on Netflix, HBO, Prime, Hulu, or YouTube TV. And then I don't need to watch them again for years.
I DO want to own movies and music. I'll listen as many times as I want.
Linux is a many spendored thing.
Linux lifts us up where we belong.
All you need is Linux.
Residents Fume?
They should be glad it's not worse. I can imagine much worse names than East Cut which Google could give to a neighborhood.
Also, what about warrants from local or federal law enforcement?
I would never try smoked oysters.