If you are serious then there are plenty of resources.
B & N has a pretty good comparison on it's own page of the devices as well as a comparison of the Kindle Fire.
Cnet has a good review of the Nook Tablet and you can pick up a refurbished Nook Color for around ~$149
For enterprise class software and systems licensing makes sense but telling an end user they do not own a product they paid for will get you horse whipped, tarred and feathered. The average end user doesn't understand the concept but if you tried to license a car to them and then showed up one day and tried to take the car away because they modified it in some way that violated the license they would bust you up. If more average users understood (and cared) about what that EULA meant we'd see some occupy EULA protests.
Well if everybody just signed up for FON we'd be pretty close. We'd still be using the carriers but we'd have WiFi access anywhere a FON subscriber is nearby.
According to DirecTV that's entirely up to you. Since the HD DVR they currently have can only decode two channels at a time (still waiting for the new five tuner HR34 to drop) opposed to the four I was accustomed to with U-Verse I opted to get a second DVR. Since they are networked I can watch all recordings from any receiver in the house just like I did with U-Verse. I also like the fact the HD receivers are all DLNA clients as well. The interface isn't very polished but it works well enough.
Actually one of the features that got me to switch from U-Verse to DirecTV (besides it was cheaper) was the fact that the SD and HD channels are the same channel. If your TV is HD capable the HD channel decodes and if not the SD content decodes. What a CRAZY idea huh?
And we will force...allow OEM's to license the technology for an exhorbi...attractively priced fee. I know nobody here listens to the radio anymore but I do and would love to see HD radio take off. But if a simple handheld radio is $49.99 because of the licensing fees associated with the HD technology how on earth do they expect it to ever go mainstream? That is what most companies are looking for now. A permanent revenue stream where you invent once and license everywhere. I support capitalism and believe it helps mankind strive to improve but when the only motive is greed and not being the best this is what you get.
I was gonna say EA and Blizzard but games almost covers it.
I would also throw in the lack of a consistent UI. Choice is a great thing but as with all great things there is a point of diminishing returns. Just like too much beneficial medication can cause irreparable harm to the patient so too can too much choice leave a person reeling from indecision. I have used Windows since the 3.1 days and while Microsoft revels in changing things just enough to make it necessary to retrain the office staff they also leave the basics untouched. I learned my keyboard shortcuts in the early 90's and they are pretty much unchanged today. I still have to use a cheat sheet to use VI and then I still get confused about what mode I am in but I can maneuver Windows without a mouse almost effortlessly. I have also been installing Linux since 1994 (I am hoping to have that Gentoo compile on my 386SX with 4MB RAM finished any day now). and have watched over the years as each distro and each window manager tried to one-up windows. That's great for the geek pissing contest but not so much for user space. If you want to get people to switch you have to make it feel like they haven't really switched. Sorry but that's the only way it's gonna happen. Now is a great time to get in the door too because the interface is changing with touch interfaces.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Why try figuring out who the hackers are when you can befriend them and let them expose themselves to you (yes you read that right). That way the next time there is a crackdown it can be more surgical.
I've heard people, educated people, who think it's like a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet.
THIS
Although I know plenty of educated people who are idiots. At least outside of their expertise.
Cognitive processing (AKA common sense) eludes some of the brightest minds.
You lower a product price to impulse buy territory but then lock the buyer into a two year contract. I know dozens of people who will brick their phone on purpose in hopes they'll get upgraded. Especially those that get the handset insurance.
I don't see how living by those guidebook notions will "prove" anything with regard to God's existence.
I said an omnipotent God would not need his creation to prove he exists and anyone who already believes is admonished to behave like he believes. Perhaps I should have said to prove he believes instead of prove God exists. As AC above you pointed out I am flawed and make mistakes.
Don't worry about it. Happens to me all the time. I'm told it is due to me deadpan delivery. Perhaps I should carry around a rimshot noise so every time I make a joke I can append a Ba - Dum - Da.
Even Jesus is quoted as telling his followers not to fight with non-believers. There are numerous scriptures that basically tell believers to abstain from defending God because God is more than capable of defending himself if He so chooses. Whenever I hear about a Christian trying to prove the Bible or God's existence I know immediately they are simply using the Bible as a weapon to force their ideals on others instead of a guidebook on how they should live. When that fails they quickly fall back to secular (non-religious) means to meet their goal. If he was really interested in proving God's existence he would try to act more like Him.
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If you are serious then there are plenty of resources.
B & N has a pretty good comparison on it's own page of the devices as well as a comparison of the Kindle Fire.
Cnet has a good review of the Nook Tablet and you can pick up a refurbished Nook Color for around ~$149
For enterprise class software and systems licensing makes sense but telling an end user they do not own a product they paid for will get you horse whipped, tarred and feathered. The average end user doesn't understand the concept but if you tried to license a car to them and then showed up one day and tried to take the car away because they modified it in some way that violated the license they would bust you up. If more average users understood (and cared) about what that EULA meant we'd see some occupy EULA protests.
That's about as likely as a company naming itself Cyberdyne and developing semi-autonomous robots...Oh wait!
Well if everybody just signed up for FON we'd be pretty close. We'd still be using the carriers but we'd have WiFi access anywhere a FON subscriber is nearby.
According to DirecTV that's entirely up to you. Since the HD DVR they currently have can only decode two channels at a time (still waiting for the new five tuner HR34 to drop) opposed to the four I was accustomed to with U-Verse I opted to get a second DVR. Since they are networked I can watch all recordings from any receiver in the house just like I did with U-Verse. I also like the fact the HD receivers are all DLNA clients as well. The interface isn't very polished but it works well enough.
Actually one of the features that got me to switch from U-Verse to DirecTV (besides it was cheaper) was the fact that the SD and HD channels are the same channel. If your TV is HD capable the HD channel decodes and if not the SD content decodes. What a CRAZY idea huh?
And we will force...allow OEM's to license the technology for an exhorbi...attractively priced fee. I know nobody here listens to the radio anymore but I do and would love to see HD radio take off. But if a simple handheld radio is $49.99 because of the licensing fees associated with the HD technology how on earth do they expect it to ever go mainstream? That is what most companies are looking for now. A permanent revenue stream where you invent once and license everywhere. I support capitalism and believe it helps mankind strive to improve but when the only motive is greed and not being the best this is what you get.
I was gonna say EA and Blizzard but games almost covers it.
I would also throw in the lack of a consistent UI. Choice is a great thing but as with all great things there is a point of diminishing returns. Just like too much beneficial medication can cause irreparable harm to the patient so too can too much choice leave a person reeling from indecision. I have used Windows since the 3.1 days and while Microsoft revels in changing things just enough to make it necessary to retrain the office staff they also leave the basics untouched. I learned my keyboard shortcuts in the early 90's and they are pretty much unchanged today. I still have to use a cheat sheet to use VI and then I still get confused about what mode I am in but I can maneuver Windows without a mouse almost effortlessly. I have also been installing Linux since 1994 (I am hoping to have that Gentoo compile on my 386SX with 4MB RAM finished any day now). and have watched over the years as each distro and each window manager tried to one-up windows. That's great for the geek pissing contest but not so much for user space. If you want to get people to switch you have to make it feel like they haven't really switched. Sorry but that's the only way it's gonna happen. Now is a great time to get in the door too because the interface is changing with touch interfaces.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Why try figuring out who the hackers are when you can befriend them and let them expose themselves to you (yes you read that right). That way the next time there is a crackdown it can be more surgical.
China, land of innovation and engineering.
USA, land of draconian restrictions and propaganda.
USA, land of engineering AND draconian restrictions and propaganda AND a minimum wage higher than China.
China, land of cheap labor for manufacturing products based on designs engineered in US.
I've heard people, educated people, who think it's like a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet.
THIS
Although I know plenty of educated people who are idiots. At least outside of their expertise.
Cognitive processing (AKA common sense) eludes some of the brightest minds.
Actually it's the weird uncle doing the pirating but he makes copies for the entire family.
You did not use
in your post about MichaelKristopeit.
Yes, he is planning to run for a congressional seat in Illinois and after a few terms run for POTUS.
FYI - I know this is in Europe
You lower a product price to impulse buy territory but then lock the buyer into a two year contract. I know dozens of people who will brick their phone on purpose in hopes they'll get upgraded. Especially those that get the handset insurance.
How good does Handango work? I haven't paid much attention but they've been doing an "app store" longer than Apple.
Depends on which version of Office you are referring to.
Wouldn't it poetic irony if Agilent Technologies bought hp?
Wait...In two years Apple will come out with the iBone (yes I went there) claim it as revolutionary and sue this guy for all he's worth.
I don't see how living by those guidebook notions will "prove" anything with regard to God's existence.
I said an omnipotent God would not need his creation to prove he exists and anyone who already believes is admonished to behave like he believes. Perhaps I should have said to prove he believes instead of prove God exists. As AC above you pointed out I am flawed and make mistakes.
Don't worry about it. Happens to me all the time. I'm told it is due to me deadpan delivery. Perhaps I should carry around a rimshot noise so every time I make a joke I can append a Ba - Dum - Da.
Well, eating too much protein can constipate you.
FTFY
How long until this is used to create a script to jailbreak windows so we can install what we want on it?
Even Jesus is quoted as telling his followers not to fight with non-believers. There are numerous scriptures that basically tell believers to abstain from defending God because God is more than capable of defending himself if He so chooses. Whenever I hear about a Christian trying to prove the Bible or God's existence I know immediately they are simply using the Bible as a weapon to force their ideals on others instead of a guidebook on how they should live. When that fails they quickly fall back to secular (non-religious) means to meet their goal. If he was really interested in proving God's existence he would try to act more like Him.
Are they attacking /. today because every other link I click I am getting a 404 error.