Yeah, if only phone manufacturers would standardize their docks. Yes, most of them (not apple) have microUSB...some also have a dock connector such as the nexus line with the pogo pins. It would be nice if instead of the car stereo, their was a dock connected to the amp/speakers for my smartphone/tablet to plug into. Have an app that gives us acccess to the AM/FM tuner that is built into the dock. They could even make it turn into GPS/Stereo mode when inserted, like my Gnex does when plugged in with the pogo pins.
Have it disable features that the stupid people will insist on using while driving (facebook, video). Most smartphones already have voice control built in.
Then in a few years when the dock changes, all they would have to do is create an adapter. They could even charge $100 to get said adapter.
But instead we have this integrated Ford Sync/Onstar/whatever the other OEMs use which if you're like me you bought your car the year before it came out.
My current vehicle, I have the stereo with 6 CD changer...I have not used the CD changer in probably the last three years and use the line-in connected to the smart phone.
Keep it low to $25 a year and that will make people upgrade? That worked real well for all the Anti-Virus companies. Do you think the average person will ever upgrade their computer? They didn't even upgrade their Anti Virus software when it needed it. Thankfully, the free alternatives came out or grandma would be running Norton 2000 on her computer still.
Most people only upgrade their computers when they break. That is a 5 year cycle at best. Yes, we have the hipsters with their tablets...but most people use their Windows XP machine riddled with malware.
How is steam better than this? Download the installer, run installer, play game. Steam I have to worry about connecting to the internet. Yes there is offline mode, but with GOG.com if I kept the installer (which I do), I can reinstall whenever I want without wasting bandwith and waiting for the reinstall. I have steam games as well, but I would rather have all my games through GOG.com
I would rather pause the video until the whole video is buffered than have a choppy video with a crappy resolution. However, some sites in their infinite wisdom will only buffer the first five seconds or not let you buffer at all. If they give me an option to download the video for later viewing that would be the ideal solution. Embed your crappy ads and I wouldn't care, because I will be able to watch the video I wanted in the first place in all it's glory.
Ugh, I forgot about those. Wait until you get the powerpoint slide with embeded video. You have to sit through ten minutes of video, then hit next on the powerpoint slide a few times, and then another ten minute video pops up, more slides, and more video, etc. My last security briefing took about 90 minutes, which would have taken no more than 10 minutes of pure powerpoint slides, or two minutes of wonderful text.
I think all of this is do to the majority of people do not want to read anymore.
12. Sites that have a flash based video that will not let you advance to a point in the video that you haven't watched already. You try to advance say five minutes in and the video starts over instead.
Wait you don't want this interface and then you criticize people for not wanting to learn how to do fifty keyboard shortcuts (And yes I know most of them). However, you can do the same searches with Windows 7 as 8.
Why is this a supposed feature that 7 lacks? I click the start menu or hit the windows key (for shortcut afficionados) and type whatever I want in the search box. I want Device Manager, by the time I type the V my item is listed near the top.
The only reason they released it was because they needed a valid phone/tablet OS. They are late to tablet/phone party behind Android/iOS so they needed to try to force developers to develop apps for it. The only way to get developers to develop apps for this is to force this monstrosity on the desktop crowd. If everyone in the Windows environment is forced to use the new UI, then MS get some marketshare for their app store.
Boot into the desktop, normal start button, with the metro start menu but allow people to turn off the metro start menu and use Windows 7 Start Menu. Intergate the charms into the normal control panel. Apps can be loaded in a window, they could even keep the window the same size across all computers. Ability to dock the metro apps to the right and left of the screen like every other window.
Not sure if you can turn off the lock screen, but if not that should be an option as well.
In addition you could turn you store into a pizza and a movie business. With Individual booths with a home theater built in. Atleast have a large projection screen with a bunch of tables to view new releases on and order and enjoy a meal while watching a movie.
This is the only solution if you wanna stay in the movie rental business. Pizza, a movie, drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), and even movie theater popcorn delivered to the house. You may wanna even include some of your healthier options, salads, wraps, etc. Have a mailer to return the movie to the store, and make sure you can order all from the web.
The would run into a lot of trouble with the Mafia with the digitization of movies. Audio they could do as no copy protection, but movies have copy protection and you can not circumvent copy protection without the Mafia being in your business.
You should have sold the business back when redbox and netflix burst on the scene, It's a little late now to do anything with your business, except maybe have it as a second business.
Coffee shop with TV's at the table.
Restaurant with TV's at the table.
I doubt you would even make enough ends meet to have those rare flicks not on netflix.
I would say switch to xbox/ps3 games with rare films, but probably with the new systems coming out they will forgo media and have those download only games.
As long is it the anonymous data, I do not have any problem with it. They could even include my name and age, as long as they keep all my financial/identity sensitive crap out of it
There are a lot of things that could be done to save the USPS. Unfortunately, it is business as usual with the Congress/Senate and USPS. The silly advertising for a government service, especially sponsoring Dragster/NASCAR/Sports Stadiums. The retirement plan, although nice, needs to get with all other business and have the retirement utilize employee 401K. Make Spam-mailers pay more for shipping, even citizens paying for shipping. Does a letter really only need to cost $.42 nowadays. Find out how much it costs now and charge accordingly, granted they would lose a some business, but that is where increasing spammers and catalog rates would come in. Mail deliverys and pickups, especially residential, only Mon-Wed-Fri and have the Actual office open on Tue & Thu only. Defintely should get rid of Saturday deliveries.
Yeah, I know when I see my older relatives. A $15 dollar pizza delivery, hands the driver a twenty. Do you have change? driver hands the person five singles. Here's your tip, and hands him one dollar.
I feel for the guy, and the next time that relative wants to order pizzza in my presence, I usually will pay and tip the driver the proper fifty cent tip (j/k).
Agree with everything, but your protesters. I am sorry, but those protesters were interfeering with business and the health of the city. The tear gas kids in school, cry me a river, they were blocking the sidewalk from people either going to work or trying to better themselves. The NYC protesters, they were also getting in the way of people trying to work. Not to mention trashing the public parks and making the police force take resources away from solving actual crime.
I know I am in the minorty on this, but they are working at a Papa John's. Unless they are a manager it is not a career, and even the manager of a Papa John's is a debatable career path. Frankly, fast food restaurants back in the day were mostly for the teenage and college age kids, and as part time work for someone with another job or a retiree. For some reason,nowadays, people think if you mow lawns or deliver the paper you should get middle class wages. Should paper delivery used to be for the just for the pre-work age. I remember delivering papers when I was 14, now some guy drives around delivering papers.
I know there are few jobs out there, and people have take these low paying jobs to make ends meet
These are the same people that want to bring our military home, and how many less jobs will there be when we bring the military home and cut the amount of military.
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Yeah, if only phone manufacturers would standardize their docks. Yes, most of them (not apple) have microUSB...some also have a dock connector such as the nexus line with the pogo pins. It would be nice if instead of the car stereo, their was a dock connected to the amp/speakers for my smartphone/tablet to plug into. Have an app that gives us acccess to the AM/FM tuner that is built into the dock. They could even make it turn into GPS/Stereo mode when inserted, like my Gnex does when plugged in with the pogo pins. Have it disable features that the stupid people will insist on using while driving (facebook, video). Most smartphones already have voice control built in. Then in a few years when the dock changes, all they would have to do is create an adapter. They could even charge $100 to get said adapter. But instead we have this integrated Ford Sync/Onstar/whatever the other OEMs use which if you're like me you bought your car the year before it came out. My current vehicle, I have the stereo with 6 CD changer...I have not used the CD changer in probably the last three years and use the line-in connected to the smart phone.
Keep it low to $25 a year and that will make people upgrade? That worked real well for all the Anti-Virus companies. Do you think the average person will ever upgrade their computer? They didn't even upgrade their Anti Virus software when it needed it. Thankfully, the free alternatives came out or grandma would be running Norton 2000 on her computer still. Most people only upgrade their computers when they break. That is a 5 year cycle at best. Yes, we have the hipsters with their tablets...but most people use their Windows XP machine riddled with malware.
I think that is a jab at non-nexus android devices and the carrier locked in bloat that they contain to keep you from upgrading the OS.
Strange, I'd rather pay more for the convenience of GOG. I have the installer and do not have to ever worry about having an internet connection again.
How is steam better than this? Download the installer, run installer, play game. Steam I have to worry about connecting to the internet. Yes there is offline mode, but with GOG.com if I kept the installer (which I do), I can reinstall whenever I want without wasting bandwith and waiting for the reinstall. I have steam games as well, but I would rather have all my games through GOG.com
Not to mention having to swap disks out to install the game. BG1 & 2 each had at least five discs each.
I would rather pause the video until the whole video is buffered than have a choppy video with a crappy resolution. However, some sites in their infinite wisdom will only buffer the first five seconds or not let you buffer at all. If they give me an option to download the video for later viewing that would be the ideal solution. Embed your crappy ads and I wouldn't care, because I will be able to watch the video I wanted in the first place in all it's glory.
Ugh, I forgot about those. Wait until you get the powerpoint slide with embeded video. You have to sit through ten minutes of video, then hit next on the powerpoint slide a few times, and then another ten minute video pops up, more slides, and more video, etc. My last security briefing took about 90 minutes, which would have taken no more than 10 minutes of pure powerpoint slides, or two minutes of wonderful text. I think all of this is do to the majority of people do not want to read anymore.
CNN's website does that a lot.
12. Sites that have a flash based video that will not let you advance to a point in the video that you haven't watched already. You try to advance say five minutes in and the video starts over instead.
Yeah so do I. Now when will the new Starcraft and Diablo be on there?
Are you refering to the movie Apollo 18.
Wait you don't want this interface and then you criticize people for not wanting to learn how to do fifty keyboard shortcuts (And yes I know most of them). However, you can do the same searches with Windows 7 as 8. Why is this a supposed feature that 7 lacks? I click the start menu or hit the windows key (for shortcut afficionados) and type whatever I want in the search box. I want Device Manager, by the time I type the V my item is listed near the top.
The only reason they released it was because they needed a valid phone/tablet OS. They are late to tablet/phone party behind Android/iOS so they needed to try to force developers to develop apps for it. The only way to get developers to develop apps for this is to force this monstrosity on the desktop crowd. If everyone in the Windows environment is forced to use the new UI, then MS get some marketshare for their app store.
Boot into the desktop, normal start button, with the metro start menu but allow people to turn off the metro start menu and use Windows 7 Start Menu. Intergate the charms into the normal control panel. Apps can be loaded in a window, they could even keep the window the same size across all computers. Ability to dock the metro apps to the right and left of the screen like every other window. Not sure if you can turn off the lock screen, but if not that should be an option as well.
In addition you could turn you store into a pizza and a movie business. With Individual booths with a home theater built in. Atleast have a large projection screen with a bunch of tables to view new releases on and order and enjoy a meal while watching a movie.
This is the only solution if you wanna stay in the movie rental business. Pizza, a movie, drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), and even movie theater popcorn delivered to the house. You may wanna even include some of your healthier options, salads, wraps, etc. Have a mailer to return the movie to the store, and make sure you can order all from the web.
The would run into a lot of trouble with the Mafia with the digitization of movies. Audio they could do as no copy protection, but movies have copy protection and you can not circumvent copy protection without the Mafia being in your business.
You should have sold the business back when redbox and netflix burst on the scene, It's a little late now to do anything with your business, except maybe have it as a second business. Coffee shop with TV's at the table. Restaurant with TV's at the table. I doubt you would even make enough ends meet to have those rare flicks not on netflix. I would say switch to xbox /ps3 games with rare films, but probably with the new systems coming out they will forgo media and have those download only games.
As long is it the anonymous data, I do not have any problem with it. They could even include my name and age, as long as they keep all my financial/identity sensitive crap out of it
There are a lot of things that could be done to save the USPS. Unfortunately, it is business as usual with the Congress/Senate and USPS. The silly advertising for a government service, especially sponsoring Dragster/NASCAR/Sports Stadiums. The retirement plan, although nice, needs to get with all other business and have the retirement utilize employee 401K. Make Spam-mailers pay more for shipping, even citizens paying for shipping. Does a letter really only need to cost $.42 nowadays. Find out how much it costs now and charge accordingly, granted they would lose a some business, but that is where increasing spammers and catalog rates would come in. Mail deliverys and pickups, especially residential, only Mon-Wed-Fri and have the Actual office open on Tue & Thu only. Defintely should get rid of Saturday deliveries.
move to hawaii and I am sure they will have you covered.
Yeah, I know when I see my older relatives. A $15 dollar pizza delivery, hands the driver a twenty. Do you have change? driver hands the person five singles. Here's your tip, and hands him one dollar. I feel for the guy, and the next time that relative wants to order pizzza in my presence, I usually will pay and tip the driver the proper fifty cent tip (j/k).
Agree with everything, but your protesters. I am sorry, but those protesters were interfeering with business and the health of the city. The tear gas kids in school, cry me a river, they were blocking the sidewalk from people either going to work or trying to better themselves. The NYC protesters, they were also getting in the way of people trying to work. Not to mention trashing the public parks and making the police force take resources away from solving actual crime.
I know I am in the minorty on this, but they are working at a Papa John's. Unless they are a manager it is not a career, and even the manager of a Papa John's is a debatable career path. Frankly, fast food restaurants back in the day were mostly for the teenage and college age kids, and as part time work for someone with another job or a retiree. For some reason,nowadays, people think if you mow lawns or deliver the paper you should get middle class wages. Should paper delivery used to be for the just for the pre-work age. I remember delivering papers when I was 14, now some guy drives around delivering papers. I know there are few jobs out there, and people have take these low paying jobs to make ends meet These are the same people that want to bring our military home, and how many less jobs will there be when we bring the military home and cut the amount of military.