It's NOT available for the general public's use though
Thanks, you said what I was thinking better than I was able to. I don't care who funds it, very few people are going to call something "public" if the general public cannot access it.
You enjoy having to proofread? Personally I like autocorrect, it fixes 95% of my tupos in progress. Finding its false-positives takes half the time of finding all my misses
well when your moped driver is doing something idiotic like pulling into a transfer truck's blind spot (happened right across the road from my house) or darting into 40mph traffic on a scooter that tops at 35, sometimes they really DIDNT see him...
I don't thikn it's quite like a Kmap, the list of choices is more like a truth table without the truths (in the movie's case put a 1 next to the pill he took)...you COULD make a kmap out of that but since there's only one "true" answer the equation is pretty simple
1) Word of mouth from an eccentric (in most peoples' eyes) techie/geek
or
2) writeups on CNN/Foxnews/network TV
Whats more, you're going to come across as a grade-A ass for refusing to service computers because of IE usage. They'll find someone else, trust me. Better idea would be to keep charging money and keep mentioning that Moz/Opera would save them money.
If there were numerous obstacles to running site-provided code locally, then the end-user uptake would be very low, and if it was low, sites wouldn't be built that required it, and if sites didn't require it, people wouldn't have it installed in the first place -- creating a "good" catch-22 situation where browser exploits just wouldn't exist.
People would simply use a browser which made it easier to see all the widgets. Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Granted if ALL browsers made it equally difficult, you'd be spot on, I think...
benching a mac OS is irrelevant to a large part of the readership for various reasons (ie, it doesnt matter if its better, because that platform isn't an upgrade option)
Between Windows and Linux the majority of readers' taste in OS is covered
No, really. How the fuck do you expect every last employee to know whether or not you've already been given the pitch before? You do realize they probably get their asses reamed for letting someone walk buy without giving the spiel?
Get over yourself. If you really only had to say "no thanks" to each of them you were flat out lying to the manager saying he had pushy employees.
Support policies and magazine subscrips? I've shopped at best buy for years, and never had either of thsoe pushed on me....perhaps hte stuff im buying isnt expensive enough?
Have you ever worked in a service industry? I worked tech support for a while at an ISP and i can assure you the 80-20 rule applies: 80% of my time was taken up by 20% of the customers, most of which are recurring. On several occasions we "fired" a customer, basically telling them we could no longer provide support due to the massive amount of logged time they consistently required, or for giving us accounting troubles, etc etc.
Best buy is perfectly within their rights to eliminate problem customers and/or scammers. I'm not exactly sure how or why you consider this a bad idea.
That matters not in the least bit. My point is I may have a need that a freeware app will suit just fine, however I already paid 30 bucks extra with my Mac for $apple_program which does what i need plus tons more. Personally I'd rahter have my thirty bucks and use the freeware app
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I wonder how badly they'll rape businesses for the same class of service? ( thought triggered by another poster's mention of 210$ for business DSL)
An extradition treaty..with Nigeria? Somehow I think not.
It's NOT available for the general public's use though
Thanks, you said what I was thinking better than I was able to. I don't care who funds it, very few people are going to call something "public" if the general public cannot access it.
I'd guess MOST of those people can't swing gear and subscription fees that are that steep either...
"Public" implies that usage isn't restricted to people who work there
You assume they have good judgement as to which causes will end up benefitting them the most.
However, I do expect that no one is following me around with a camcorder,
If someone cared to, (barring some instances of commercial usage) there's not a damn thing you could do about it except ask them to go away.
Only if the geek doesn't play games.
You enjoy having to proofread? Personally I like autocorrect, it fixes 95% of my tupos in progress. Finding its false-positives takes half the time of finding all my misses
well when your moped driver is doing something idiotic like pulling into a transfer truck's blind spot (happened right across the road from my house) or darting into 40mph traffic on a scooter that tops at 35, sometimes they really DIDNT see him...
you can ROT-13 the whole mess...
;)
Twice, for extra security
Funeral costs (because if you get pasted by ANYthing on the road in one of those, you're toast) are going to outweigh your gas savings.
I'm not sure if you can take those on highways either
I don't thikn it's quite like a Kmap, the list of choices is more like a truth table without the truths (in the movie's case put a 1 next to the pill he took)...you COULD make a kmap out of that but since there's only one "true" answer the equation is pretty simple
What about if the government of nigeria doesn't give two dry rat turds about dealing with their scammer population?
I rather doubt the US would extradite to Nigeria over anything
Which ya think will change more minds?
1) Word of mouth from an eccentric (in most peoples' eyes) techie/geek
or
2) writeups on CNN/Foxnews/network TV
Whats more, you're going to come across as a grade-A ass for refusing to service computers because of IE usage. They'll find someone else, trust me. Better idea would be to keep charging money and keep mentioning that Moz/Opera would save them money.
If there were numerous obstacles to running site-provided code locally, then the end-user uptake would be very low, and if it was low, sites wouldn't be built that required it, and if sites didn't require it, people wouldn't have it installed in the first place -- creating a "good" catch-22 situation where browser exploits just wouldn't exist.
People would simply use a browser which made it easier to see all the widgets. Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Granted if ALL browsers made it equally difficult, you'd be spot on, I think...
You probably won't like to hear this, but:
benching a mac OS is irrelevant to a large part of the readership for various reasons (ie, it doesnt matter if its better, because that platform isn't an upgrade option)
Between Windows and Linux the majority of readers' taste in OS is covered
Yeah it's so unfair to actually use 64bit binaries in linux whereas the blurb plainly states they werent available for several windows apps.
An intersting consideration.
However, I can't imagine why else they would create such a morass of systems and implementations (Gotta be a support nightmare among other things)
Congratulations for being a jackass.
No, really. How the fuck do you expect every last employee to know whether or not you've already been given the pitch before? You do realize they probably get their asses reamed for letting someone walk buy without giving the spiel?
Get over yourself. If you really only had to say "no thanks" to each of them you were flat out lying to the manager saying he had pushy employees.
Support policies and magazine subscrips? I've shopped at best buy for years, and never had either of thsoe pushed on me....perhaps hte stuff im buying isnt expensive enough?
Have you ever worked in a service industry? I worked tech support for a while at an ISP and i can assure you the 80-20 rule applies: 80% of my time was taken up by 20% of the customers, most of which are recurring. On several occasions we "fired" a customer, basically telling them we could no longer provide support due to the massive amount of logged time they consistently required, or for giving us accounting troubles, etc etc.
Best buy is perfectly within their rights to eliminate problem customers and/or scammers. I'm not exactly sure how or why you consider this a bad idea.
That matters not in the least bit. My point is I may have a need that a freeware app will suit just fine, however I already paid 30 bucks extra with my Mac for $apple_program which does what i need plus tons more. Personally I'd rahter have my thirty bucks and use the freeware app
Why isn't MS held to the same standards?
I hope you're being facetious. People don't DIE when windows crashes, thats why.