Android comes in so many different varieties. I need a slideout keyboard - no problem, lots of choices. iPhone? Forget about it - one size is supposed to fit all. Need a stylus? Nope. Need a bigger screen? Nope. Smaller screen? Nope. Multiple physical keys? Nope. Add a Micro SD card? Nope. NFC? Nope. FM radio chip? Nope.
No choice = smaller sales.
A simple once-per-year post reminding us that ALL of our private data has been sucked out of insecure online databases and is being sold on the Russian (or Indonesian or Egyptian or Chinese or Pennsylvanian) black-market should suffice.
this just seems like a wasted cost by Oracle to maintain a large parallel fork. Oracle could simply pay Red Hat to maintain the changes that Oracle's customers require. Instead, they are having to develop their own in-house Red Hat Linux development team. That's certainly got to be a more expensive and less efficient route than paying Red Hat to do the work for them.
My understanding is that the UK holds companies to a much stricter standard with respect to consumer warranties. I've heard this is one reason that some products are priced a bit higher in the UK than in the US.
Hydro has been investigated to death. It will never provide more than a fraction of the nation's power needs and has significant environmental problems of its own.
You are thinking of a dam - wrong direction - more like a coastal barrier. And in fact, hydro is cheaper than OTEC by a few cents per kilowatt-hour, although your idea of offsetting the cost with fresh water, seafood, and space traffic launch site benefits would be very intriguing.
however it would demand giving up petty political bickering, religious conflict, national self interest, but most of all prying the white knuckled, crypt keeper death grip of the bankers and mega-corporations from our governments and and financial resources
With the correct system, religious conflict has little or no impact. But you are right about prying the pennies from the death grip of the Bilderberg Club.
that would completely protect coastal flood zones, provide nearly unlimited green energy with almost no carbon or heat footprint, and would almost completely insulate the country from the effects of large terrorist or economic attacks. It would also provide almost unlimited clean, fresh water supplies. The surplus energy from the project would be of such a large quantity, that the US economy would be transformed by becoming a worldwide power grid contributor almost overnight.
Think Hoover dam here.
But folks won't go for it. Solves too many problems.
Yeah, but you don't pay the car dealer before the repair guy even pops the hood. Usually the $49 or whatever is charged when you pick up the car in my experience.
repair service taking too long, leaving them without a working computer or phone for a week or more, making them make an appointment several days ahead of time to see a repair tech at the Apple store. Is this peculiar to LA that people have this problem? This is one reason I've stayed as far as possible from Apple products (other than the walled garden, overpricing, patent abuse, etc).
Yeah, but the chart I linked to from randomuselessinfo also included a third line (faintly drawn) that showed average price from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (US City Average line) - and it matched his own personal costs almost point for point for the 33-year period.
I'm wondering if three years really did make that much difference. I've had their products in the past, and had not run into any trouble. But I talked to the support "tech" and the supervisor, and they told me it was policy. It may also be that your problem occurred immediately - I think they have staggered levels of support, depending on how long out from purchase.
allows for "fair dealing provisions for the purpose of research and study" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing#Australia). I would imagine that a liberal interpretation of Tim's Laptop use could fall within that exception. Although, I'm sure Toshiba's corporate lawyers would argue that he's not doing research - he's providing a commercial service for paid computer repairmen.
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wait till the Lumia 1120 gets released in 2017 - THAT will be the game-changer.
Maybe because you want the company, and the android ecosystem as a whole, to thrive?
LOOKS LIKE IT'S A THRIVIN'!
Android comes in so many different varieties. I need a slideout keyboard - no problem, lots of choices. iPhone? Forget about it - one size is supposed to fit all. Need a stylus? Nope. Need a bigger screen? Nope. Smaller screen? Nope. Multiple physical keys? Nope. Add a Micro SD card? Nope. NFC? Nope. FM radio chip? Nope. No choice = smaller sales.
Should have landed me in jail a couple of times, at least.
The judges don't want to corrupt the rest of the inmate population.
...Twitter unfollows you.
A simple once-per-year post reminding us that ALL of our private data has been sucked out of insecure online databases and is being sold on the Russian (or Indonesian or Egyptian or Chinese or Pennsylvanian) black-market should suffice.
Making a good profit is not a good reason to run a business inefficiently.
Red Hat's blobs have been discussed at great length on Slashdot.
this just seems like a wasted cost by Oracle to maintain a large parallel fork. Oracle could simply pay Red Hat to maintain the changes that Oracle's customers require. Instead, they are having to develop their own in-house Red Hat Linux development team. That's certainly got to be a more expensive and less efficient route than paying Red Hat to do the work for them.
Wrong - we (accountants) do have emotions. Why would you not consider cold, ruthless greed an emotion?
Exactly!
...you're talking out your ass?
Good one!
I for one welcome our nearly infinite sea-faring microbial overlords.
My understanding is that the UK holds companies to a much stricter standard with respect to consumer warranties. I've heard this is one reason that some products are priced a bit higher in the UK than in the US.
Hydro has been investigated to death. It will never provide more than a fraction of the nation's power needs and has significant environmental problems of its own.
You are thinking of a dam - wrong direction - more like a coastal barrier. And in fact, hydro is cheaper than OTEC by a few cents per kilowatt-hour, although your idea of offsetting the cost with fresh water, seafood, and space traffic launch site benefits would be very intriguing.
however it would demand giving up petty political bickering, religious conflict, national self interest, but most of all prying the white knuckled, crypt keeper death grip of the bankers and mega-corporations from our governments and and financial resources
With the correct system, religious conflict has little or no impact. But you are right about prying the pennies from the death grip of the Bilderberg Club.
that would completely protect coastal flood zones, provide nearly unlimited green energy with almost no carbon or heat footprint, and would almost completely insulate the country from the effects of large terrorist or economic attacks. It would also provide almost unlimited clean, fresh water supplies. The surplus energy from the project would be of such a large quantity, that the US economy would be transformed by becoming a worldwide power grid contributor almost overnight.
Think Hoover dam here.
But folks won't go for it. Solves too many problems.
Diet coke is for fags. So is coke. Stop drinking it fatass.
WTF does Diet Coke have to do with English cigarettes? Are you mental?
Yeah, I should have done that. Would have at least saved me the irritation.
Yeah, but you don't pay the car dealer before the repair guy even pops the hood. Usually the $49 or whatever is charged when you pick up the car in my experience.
repair service taking too long, leaving them without a working computer or phone for a week or more, making them make an appointment several days ahead of time to see a repair tech at the Apple store. Is this peculiar to LA that people have this problem? This is one reason I've stayed as far as possible from Apple products (other than the walled garden, overpricing, patent abuse, etc).
you'll have plenty of cold places for the polar bears.
Yeah, but the chart I linked to from randomuselessinfo also included a third line (faintly drawn) that showed average price from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (US City Average line) - and it matched his own personal costs almost point for point for the 33-year period.
I'm wondering if three years really did make that much difference. I've had their products in the past, and had not run into any trouble. But I talked to the support "tech" and the supervisor, and they told me it was policy. It may also be that your problem occurred immediately - I think they have staggered levels of support, depending on how long out from purchase.
allows for "fair dealing provisions for the purpose of research and study" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing#Australia). I would imagine that a liberal interpretation of Tim's Laptop use could fall within that exception. Although, I'm sure Toshiba's corporate lawyers would argue that he's not doing research - he's providing a commercial service for paid computer repairmen.