I am not sure why we still have pennies. They are annoying and useless, and costing the tax payers money just keeping it in circulation. Keeping pennies make about as much sense as bringing back the half cent. tbh, I think John Oliver subbed it up pretty well https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
a lot of times demand does not necessarily determine the better product, as lot of it depends on marketing. Example being that a lot of people thought Betamax was far superior to VHS, but in the end, VHS won. Numerous people believe that OS X or some linux distro is a better OS than windows, but demand is much higher for Windows as sales show.
It's kind of a shame to see it die off following Firefox OS (though I guess it will still live on in their car version?). Everyone that has owned a BB10 device seemed to just love the OS. Not sure if this is because they only used blackberry or because they actually think it's better by comparison. This kind of goes the same with WP. Still, I am glad they are moving to Android, I personally would love to have a phone with a physical keyboard again.
"As an open-source platform, Android is built upon the collaboration of the open-source community,” a Google spokesperson told VentureBeat.
Is that why they are making 'closed source' versions of apps that was a part of the open source Android? Like Camera, Dialer, Keyboard, Contacts, Calendar, etc. It seems, if Google could, they would make Android closed source... I just take it that they don't want to pay licensing costs to Oracle anymore.
Why? Why do people believe that if they install a different OS then they will be magically protected from all the malware on the net? This is like people saying how buying a mac will make them free of any malware forever, which has been proven wrong multiple times. I have even read articles about Linux seeing an increase of malware.
This is a browser extension vulnerability, not an OS vulnerability, two different things. On top of that, you're telling people to install a completely new OS which they would have to learn and then find alternative to their software they use, which in a lot of cases can't perform the way they want versus their windows/OSX counterpart. Plus you push a novice into a different OS, they have a high chance of installing a rogue application because they don't know any different.
Telling someone to just install a different OS so they won't get malware is like telling someone to just never connect to the internet. It's possible, people can do it, but chances of it working out fluidly and with no issues is very unlikely (especially for a common user) and it doesn't really protect them from getting infected or hacked.
What the hell is up your butt? The fact that we are on the U.S. customary measurement while the rest of the world is on the metric system meaning there's still a substantial amount of measure conversion which costs businesses. There's only three countries that haven't fully embraced the metric system; USA, Liberia, and Myanmar. In a globalized economy, why the hell would you not want to embrace a global standard? That just adds more cost, effort, and time, unless you have some shallow sense of pride over having things measured in pounds instead of grams.
I would say a "terrorist" button, but all those buttons would be used on specific religions and opposing political candidates, instead of actual terrorist media
I've used Winamp since about 1998 or so, and while i've tried others (recently tried Groove), I always go back to Winamp since it just works and can easily manage my music library that I have collected for 18 or so years.
But I am really interested to see how it will change if it does. I mean, a lot of the passion of Winamp development died out in 2004 when Justin Frankel, the creator left. I am not saying that the team after him hasn't done a good job maintaining it and adding upgrades, but it seems like there was no large steps forward. In fact their version 5.7 beta what was going to include a music locker seemed like a good step forward but it was dropped when AOL announced the sale of Nullsoft.
One one hand I am excited to see how it will be changed, but on the other hand I hope it's not too drastic. I do know one thing that was holding back the development was the backward compatibility for plug-ins, which Winamp3 was supposed to end. Plus I can see a lot of old time users whining about losing their favorite dancing baby visual plugin or whatever.
Regardless, DJ Egg has been playing with a new alpha, so it is in development, hopefully something will happen with Winamp.
As for Shoutcast, I can't remember the last time I used it, besides temporarily setting up streams. since Digitally Imported went web/app based, and BlueMars shut down, I haven't been big on discovering new radios...
It works, but it's not as good as the ml_ipod plug-in, which offers better features and functionality. Sadly, if you want to use it, then you're stuck on Winamp 5.63 (not like it's that big of an issue)
It's not just about nostalgia (though I do like to see some of the old stuff they have, especially the old sites they archived). But it is about history and about the history of the web and technology.
Your concept of thinking is in line with burning all of the history books, because, I mean that was all in the past, who cares about the history... right?
p.s. AOL disks were essential back in the day. If it wasn't for AOL and their shoveling of floppies and CDs I would had to have lived my teenage years w/o all the free floppy disks and coasters:(
FossaMail? Basically a fork of thunderbird. But given the fact that it's the same developer as Palemoon, it should be a suitable replacement that's easy to migrate to.
I know that Thunderbird has a plug-in that supports exporting emails messages into.eml files were you can have the filename show date and subject and such. But it's not that easy to use.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
I have personally been archiving with two programs, Outlook and eM client.
Outlook because it provides a.PST file where you have a database that's easy to search through (in outlook) plus I can archive calendar, contacts, and tasks.
eM Client, which is free to use for two email accounts (at a time, you can always delete and add another). It's like the Thunderbird plugin (exports to.eml) above but much more intuitive and works really well.
I still have my first cell phone, and it runs just fine. I was bored one day, decided to unlock it and give it a whirl. It's really depressing how the call quality is far superior than my android. That, and the fact that it has snake that's actually fun to play on a phone.
Well... okay... I was talking just about the price of of Windows 7 Ultimate, not the differences of Windows 7 & 10. There really isn't a right answer to the 7 vs 10, since opinion on any operating system is mostly subjective.
Well, Windows 10 isn't free for all, the upgrade is free if you have Windows 7 or 8. but if you have neither then you can't upgrade.
From what I remember, the Win7 ultimate upgrade was about the price you quoted, but the full version was over $300. Actually a quick search shows a 2009 article quoting the full version of windows 7 ultimate at about $319.00.
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
Now I am not saying Windows 7 isn't still in demand now that Windows 10 is out. The fact that Windows 7 machines are still being sold gives reason to why there was no reduction in the license cost after 6 years.
I noticed that Windows 7 Ultimate (basically Windows 7 Enterprise edition for consumers) is selling for $300 over at eBay now. Should tell you something.
That tells you nothing, Windows 7 Ultimate has always been over $300
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I am not sure why we still have pennies. They are annoying and useless, and costing the tax payers money just keeping it in circulation. Keeping pennies make about as much sense as bringing back the half cent. tbh, I think John Oliver subbed it up pretty well https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
On the other hand... Copper prices is shrinking... http://www.thestreet.com/story...
i'm having that issue just trying to upgrade my windows 10 to the november update... going from 8.1 to 10 was fine -_-
or x.xxx?
a lot of times demand does not necessarily determine the better product, as lot of it depends on marketing. Example being that a lot of people thought Betamax was far superior to VHS, but in the end, VHS won. Numerous people believe that OS X or some linux distro is a better OS than windows, but demand is much higher for Windows as sales show.
It's kind of a shame to see it die off following Firefox OS (though I guess it will still live on in their car version?). Everyone that has owned a BB10 device seemed to just love the OS. Not sure if this is because they only used blackberry or because they actually think it's better by comparison. This kind of goes the same with WP. Still, I am glad they are moving to Android, I personally would love to have a phone with a physical keyboard again.
"As an open-source platform, Android is built upon the collaboration of the open-source community,” a Google spokesperson told VentureBeat.
Is that why they are making 'closed source' versions of apps that was a part of the open source Android? Like Camera, Dialer, Keyboard, Contacts, Calendar, etc. It seems, if Google could, they would make Android closed source... I just take it that they don't want to pay licensing costs to Oracle anymore.
Why? Why do people believe that if they install a different OS then they will be magically protected from all the malware on the net? This is like people saying how buying a mac will make them free of any malware forever, which has been proven wrong multiple times. I have even read articles about Linux seeing an increase of malware.
This is a browser extension vulnerability, not an OS vulnerability, two different things. On top of that, you're telling people to install a completely new OS which they would have to learn and then find alternative to their software they use, which in a lot of cases can't perform the way they want versus their windows/OSX counterpart. Plus you push a novice into a different OS, they have a high chance of installing a rogue application because they don't know any different.
Telling someone to just install a different OS so they won't get malware is like telling someone to just never connect to the internet. It's possible, people can do it, but chances of it working out fluidly and with no issues is very unlikely (especially for a common user) and it doesn't really protect them from getting infected or hacked.
What the hell are metric fascists? Plus i'm looking at macroeconomics sir.
What the hell is up your butt? The fact that we are on the U.S. customary measurement while the rest of the world is on the metric system meaning there's still a substantial amount of measure conversion which costs businesses. There's only three countries that haven't fully embraced the metric system; USA, Liberia, and Myanmar. In a globalized economy, why the hell would you not want to embrace a global standard? That just adds more cost, effort, and time, unless you have some shallow sense of pride over having things measured in pounds instead of grams.
Sigh... i'm still waiting for the U.S. to move to the metric system :|
I would say a "terrorist" button, but all those buttons would be used on specific religions and opposing political candidates, instead of actual terrorist media
I've used Winamp since about 1998 or so, and while i've tried others (recently tried Groove), I always go back to Winamp since it just works and can easily manage my music library that I have collected for 18 or so years.
But I am really interested to see how it will change if it does. I mean, a lot of the passion of Winamp development died out in 2004 when Justin Frankel, the creator left. I am not saying that the team after him hasn't done a good job maintaining it and adding upgrades, but it seems like there was no large steps forward. In fact their version 5.7 beta what was going to include a music locker seemed like a good step forward but it was dropped when AOL announced the sale of Nullsoft.
One one hand I am excited to see how it will be changed, but on the other hand I hope it's not too drastic. I do know one thing that was holding back the development was the backward compatibility for plug-ins, which Winamp3 was supposed to end. Plus I can see a lot of old time users whining about losing their favorite dancing baby visual plugin or whatever.
Regardless, DJ Egg has been playing with a new alpha, so it is in development, hopefully something will happen with Winamp.
As for Shoutcast, I can't remember the last time I used it, besides temporarily setting up streams. since Digitally Imported went web/app based, and BlueMars shut down, I haven't been big on discovering new radios...
It works, but it's not as good as the ml_ipod plug-in, which offers better features and functionality. Sadly, if you want to use it, then you're stuck on Winamp 5.63 (not like it's that big of an issue)
Maybe they already archived it? :)
It's not just about nostalgia (though I do like to see some of the old stuff they have, especially the old sites they archived). But it is about history and about the history of the web and technology. Your concept of thinking is in line with burning all of the history books, because, I mean that was all in the past, who cares about the history... right? p.s. AOL disks were essential back in the day. If it wasn't for AOL and their shoveling of floppies and CDs I would had to have lived my teenage years w/o all the free floppy disks and coasters :(
FossaMail? Basically a fork of thunderbird. But given the fact that it's the same developer as Palemoon, it should be a suitable replacement that's easy to migrate to.
I know that Thunderbird has a plug-in that supports exporting emails messages into .eml files were you can have the filename show date and subject and such. But it's not that easy to use.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
I have personally been archiving with two programs, Outlook and eM client.
Outlook because it provides a .PST file where you have a database that's easy to search through (in outlook) plus I can archive calendar, contacts, and tasks.
eM Client, which is free to use for two email accounts (at a time, you can always delete and add another). It's like the Thunderbird plugin (exports to .eml) above but much more intuitive and works really well.
Best description of modern AV I've seen...
No! That could cause a resurgence of comic sans!
it's got 2 out of 3 right
I still have my first cell phone, and it runs just fine. I was bored one day, decided to unlock it and give it a whirl. It's really depressing how the call quality is far superior than my android. That, and the fact that it has snake that's actually fun to play on a phone.
or metroids
Well... okay... I was talking just about the price of of Windows 7 Ultimate, not the differences of Windows 7 & 10. There really isn't a right answer to the 7 vs 10, since opinion on any operating system is mostly subjective.
Well, Windows 10 isn't free for all, the upgrade is free if you have Windows 7 or 8. but if you have neither then you can't upgrade. From what I remember, the Win7 ultimate upgrade was about the price you quoted, but the full version was over $300. Actually a quick search shows a 2009 article quoting the full version of windows 7 ultimate at about $319.00. http://www.computerworld.com/a... Now I am not saying Windows 7 isn't still in demand now that Windows 10 is out. The fact that Windows 7 machines are still being sold gives reason to why there was no reduction in the license cost after 6 years.
I noticed that Windows 7 Ultimate (basically Windows 7 Enterprise edition for consumers) is selling for $300 over at eBay now. Should tell you something.
That tells you nothing, Windows 7 Ultimate has always been over $300