Why should I fumble in my pocket, try to pull out my phone without pulling out my keys and some spare change I dropped in there, when I can just glance at my wrist to see the time?
Most people were NEVER inventive, regardless of their environment. For every Tom Edison, there were a thousand Herbert Lumpkins (just to pull a random name out my, um), lost in the bowels of history because, well, they didn't do anything special. Luckily for humanity there were, and presumably still are, enough Edisons to keep us moving forward.
In ancient times, I could communicate with my relatives in another state with a big clunky phone with a dial. Now, I can communicate from a tiny phone that I can carry with me. By voice, text, email, social media, etc. But it's still just communication.
Or as fast as the person trying to figure out whether to hit "credit" or "debit" on the machine, trying to remember her PIN, or wondering why his card was declined.
At least one person uses it. Everytime I log onto it, I see a new post from that person. Which is fortunate, since he seems to be the only person who does.
Yeah, the latest version of "Windows" should have been renamed to "Window". You can still Alt-Tab through your stuff, but it's a lot clunkier than clicking on part of a visible window, or the taskbar. Heck, I can't even easily see what time it is on Metro.
It wouldn't be hard to make a Vista computer run faster. Heck, I'm not sure you could make a Vista machine run slower!
To be fair, Windows 8 is faster than 7 too. And I suppose it's possible for some people, or ducks, to like Metro. But if you like to have multiple windows on your desktop, easily move between them, and not get those WTF moments when you bounce out of your program to the Metro screen, it sucks.
Did anyone use Win 2.X? IIRC, until Win 3, you could count the number of Windows users on one hand. Win 3.0 did suck, but it offered enough, compared to DOS, that people put up with it until 3.1, which clearly sucked less than 3.0, came out.
The phone books of the past gave a name, address, and phone #. FB will give name, address, phone, blood type, school, job, gross pay, and your vacation plans.
Doubtful. Not only was the Death Star a huge budgetary drain, but he blew away a whole planet of taxpayers, causing a further drain on the Galactic Economy.
The odds of someone who stole a phone lying is high. Of course, the odds of tech lying can be pretty high too, especially for Sprint phones or Apple Maps.
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Chalkboards? In my day, we chiseled our notes onto a granite slate.
Yes, but it's easy to glance at my watch without the other person noticing.
Why should I fumble in my pocket, try to pull out my phone without pulling out my keys and some spare change I dropped in there, when I can just glance at my wrist to see the time?
In prehistoric times, when I upgraded from my olde 8088 to a speedy new 286, several of my games became nearly unplayable.
I've heard that C++ gives you all the rope you need to string yourself up and bind and gag everyone in the neighborhood.
get real, OpenBSD and FreeBSD let you choose a browser; chromium for example is in the packages. HURD? pffft, who gives a shit
I'm sure it's a serious issue to the Hurd users. Both of them.
I'm at work during business hours, you insensitive clod!
Most people were NEVER inventive, regardless of their environment. For every Tom Edison, there were a thousand Herbert Lumpkins (just to pull a random name out my, um), lost in the bowels of history because, well, they didn't do anything special. Luckily for humanity there were, and presumably still are, enough Edisons to keep us moving forward.
In ancient times, I could communicate with my relatives in another state with a big clunky phone with a dial. Now, I can communicate from a tiny phone that I can carry with me. By voice, text, email, social media, etc. But it's still just communication.
Or as fast as the person trying to figure out whether to hit "credit" or "debit" on the machine, trying to remember her PIN, or wondering why his card was declined.
At least one person uses it. Everytime I log onto it, I see a new post from that person. Which is fortunate, since he seems to be the only person who does.
Which would be more impressive if there were more than 4 social networks with over 100 users on the planet.
Yeah, the latest version of "Windows" should have been renamed to "Window". You can still Alt-Tab through your stuff, but it's a lot clunkier than clicking on part of a visible window, or the taskbar. Heck, I can't even easily see what time it is on Metro.
It wouldn't be hard to make a Vista computer run faster. Heck, I'm not sure you could make a Vista machine run slower!
To be fair, Windows 8 is faster than 7 too. And I suppose it's possible for some people, or ducks, to like Metro. But if you like to have multiple windows on your desktop, easily move between them, and not get those WTF moments when you bounce out of your program to the Metro screen, it sucks.
Did anyone use Win 2.X? IIRC, until Win 3, you could count the number of Windows users on one hand. Win 3.0 did suck, but it offered enough, compared to DOS, that people put up with it until 3.1, which clearly sucked less than 3.0, came out.
And don't give your opinion of the latest movie, or of Windows 8, since that could invoke the B-word.
But, neither Mussolini nor the H-man were kings.
It's true: King Bhumibol Adulyade caused the flooding.
Well, when you gotta go, you REALLY gotta go!
The phone books of the past gave a name, address, and phone #. FB will give name, address, phone, blood type, school, job, gross pay, and your vacation plans.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
...he probably knew how to balance the budget.
Doubtful. Not only was the Death Star a huge budgetary drain, but he blew away a whole planet of taxpayers, causing a further drain on the Galactic Economy.
Did you even read my post? If anything, I'll switch to use a MORE powerful toy because of this law.
I'd say anyone who calls a weapon a "toy" is completely unfit to own one.
It's still better than calling it "my precious".
The odds of someone who stole a phone lying is high. Of course, the odds of tech lying can be pretty high too, especially for Sprint phones or Apple Maps.
And, if the police don't care, people aren't likely to care that vigilantism is illegal.
Well, considering that Iowa is our northern neighbor, there probably was.