while Windows tends to work, when it doesn't, you're screwed.
IME, this is correct. I cant actually get any work done on a Windows machine, and most of my extended family uswes Macs or Ubuntu. If they buy a new PC, they tend to try to use Windows that comes on it while it is in waranty. However, if they get trouble, either a reformat and reinstall fixes it, or they go back to using their old machine until the waranty has expired, and then put Ubuntu on it.
A few people MUST HAVE windows. They have a hard life.
You are not alone. I have an account, but I dont know why. I have always thought that tweets, by definition, are the twittering of the pointless, and have never even checked for myself to see if my prejudice is correct.
Never underestimate the ignorance of the general public. This distiction may be understood by readers here, but I doubt the staff of Carphone Warehouse will get it, and the customers certainly wont. Using the same name for different products is probaly the final nail in the coffin of what is already a dead duck.
By the time that GNOME 3 is mature and more stable, it will have a large userbase again.And Gnome 4 will replace it with new, improved bugs and an incomprehensible UI
This is a common misconception. It is true for hybrids, but for all electric cars, the charging process is a big problem too - huge currents are needed to charge an electric car, and the facilities to provide these huge currents at random locations represent a massive investment. When you move house with your electric car, do you choose a house with a charging point compatible with your new car, or expect to spend $10k on upgrading the house wiring? (and you rent)
Battery life is the big killer. Who would buy a second hand electric car? They are only good for land-fill. They are massively less "green" than mechanically injected diesel vehicles which have a life of a million miles or more with a bit of low cost (potentially DIY) maintenance. The future is algae produced diesel, and not gas produced electricity.
It makes more sense to pump diesel to everyone's homes and have them burn it in in a CHP system than to distribute gas or electricity/
Hint: I am European - when I say "gas" I mean a gaseous substance, and not a petroleum based liquid.
IP law is really quite strait forward - an IP looks like 123.45.67.8 and does not identify any particular person. Think of it as the phone number corresponding to a domain name. DNS is the phone book. Several addresses may share a phone number, or several phone numbers may all terminate at the same address. People can share phones or addresses, or have more than one of both.
Your friends and family should be capable of grasping that.
Stop whingeing - things have come a long way since GPO Telephones became BT, and put an end to the policy of not using technology less than 30 years old in case it was "new fangled" (or actually worked). I would far prefer to have cheaper calls and data than yet another new technology.
You might want to avoid the new Thinkpads though. they only offer x768 now (I looked at the website yesterday). If they don't fix this PDQ, I guarantee Lenovo will be dead within the year. (Owner of 4 Thinkpad T series)
I bought a 3 year old laptop off Ebay last month to replace my 7 year old one for this reason. I cant see why anyone would buy the current models, as the screens are significantly worse than 3 years ago. I assume there are people who actually want to drive their companies out of the market (Lenovo, I am looking at you!) NNNNx768 is so 1970's - today people expect their phone to do better! Why would anyone buy today's laptops?
For the reason that everyone knows that 4:3 is the right answer, and has done since ancient Greece, and probably before that, so one measurement tells you the rest.
Unfortunately, Hollywood got in on the act, and now you cant get a decent screen anywhere. I want a Samsung Galaxy S 4:3!
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IME, this is correct. I cant actually get any work done on a Windows machine, and most of my extended family uswes Macs or Ubuntu. If they buy a new PC, they tend to try to use Windows that comes on it while it is in waranty. However, if they get trouble, either a reformat and reinstall fixes it, or they go back to using their old machine until the waranty has expired, and then put Ubuntu on it.
A few people MUST HAVE windows. They have a hard life.
FTFY
Mod parent up. Some of us are not illiterate pre-teens or whatever sub-culture this meme belongs to.
Depends if you want volume or quality, like everywhere else!
You are not alone. I have an account, but I dont know why. I have always thought that tweets, by definition, are the twittering of the pointless, and have never even checked for myself to see if my prejudice is correct.
Never underestimate the ignorance of the general public. This distiction may be understood by readers here, but I doubt the staff of Carphone Warehouse will get it, and the customers certainly wont. Using the same name for different products is probaly the final nail in the coffin of what is already a dead duck.
I think you just answered your own question
FTFY
But choice == fragmentation! Panic now, before its too late!
Gold plated sh*t is still sh*t, news at ten.
(CDs are not an example of good quality audio)
That is why there is Cyanogen mod.
on Windows RT devices - it seems [pretty clear that not many people will buy WinRT. It will be in the same league as WinPhone //mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/17/0024240/it-costs-450-in-marketing-to-make-someone-buy-a-49-nokia-lumia
This is a common misconception. It is true for hybrids, but for all electric cars, the charging process is a big problem too - huge currents are needed to charge an electric car, and the facilities to provide these huge currents at random locations represent a massive investment. When you move house with your electric car, do you choose a house with a charging point compatible with your new car, or expect to spend $10k on upgrading the house wiring? (and you rent)
It makes more sense to pump diesel to everyone's homes and have them burn it in in a CHP system than to distribute gas or electricity/
Hint: I am European - when I say "gas" I mean a gaseous substance, and not a petroleum based liquid.
It matters to the lawyers, and the lawyers are the ones that matter.
Your friends and family should be capable of grasping that.
Whoosh is available as a no-cost option.
Agreed! I would rather live a year on Tabasco Source.
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DHS employees are not selected on the basis of sense of humour.
You might want to avoid the new Thinkpads though. they only offer x768 now (I looked at the website yesterday). If they don't fix this PDQ, I guarantee Lenovo will be dead within the year. (Owner of 4 Thinkpad T series)
I bought a 3 year old laptop off Ebay last month to replace my 7 year old one for this reason. I cant see why anyone would buy the current models, as the screens are significantly worse than 3 years ago. I assume there are people who actually want to drive their companies out of the market (Lenovo, I am looking at you!) NNNNx768 is so 1970's - today people expect their phone to do better! Why would anyone buy today's laptops?
Oh, Wait ...
For the reason that everyone knows that 4:3 is the right answer, and has done since ancient Greece, and probably before that, so one measurement tells you the rest.
Unfortunately, Hollywood got in on the act, and now you cant get a decent screen anywhere. I want a Samsung Galaxy S 4:3!
OK, wise guy, where can I get a Yoruba keyboard?