Is there a real need for an SD slot when you have 64GB of storage available?
Yes - it is about exchangeable/removable storage. Fill a card with stuff somewhere else and put it in your phone. Fill a card with stuff on your phone and take it out - perhaps you don't want your home photos at work or your client's photos at your other client (or your porn...).
Some people have been known to leave mum's basement.
As for you iPhone suckers - you can keep your damn fool metal cases. We like removeable backs and don't give a toss if they are plastic - no one sees them cos the phone is never out of its case - and the phone might get hit by a baseball bat/yacht boom/dropped down the fire escape/shut in the lift/train/car door - yes its true some people actually move about physically in their lives! Really! Its true! And we want to come home and change the battery before going out again. The only advantage of a metal back is that the phone signal can't penetrate it (???)
PCs and mini-computers were fundementally different,
Unix users seem to disagree. Leaving aside that we spell it "fundamentally", I seem to be able to run the same software on my PC with *BSD, that I ran on my PDP11 with BSD with no significant problems. Hell, I can even read the same tapes written with tar. (I admit I have no drivers for DECtape on my PC, and my LA36 died some years ago but I am truely greatful for both "problems".)
Try Tiger Woods Golf on your Wii - a round will take 30 mins to an hour, and the avatar screen participants are less obnoxious than on your average golf course.
If you want to network, there are probably networking events in your local library - or you could talk to people in the car-wash queue.
I have a T23 that I use when travelling - but it has an SSD in it now. Its great because the HD is easily accessible to I can switch between Win7, WinXP (for my embroidery machine) and Ubuntu (for getting work done).
I also have a T21 which I use as a dumb terminal for configuring servers - cos it has an RS232 port. Currently runing Xubuntu, but was running FreeBSD till I decided I wanted to try Xubuntu on something.
I also have a T61 (Also Xubuntu) which is used by visitors of all ages. None has needed any significant traiining AFAICR.
Oldest of all is a 760E - it still works, but lacks USB or any kind of networking, and a new OS means loads of floppies - so it may work, but it is not much actual use. One day I will put the HD in something else to install NetBSD, and then I could use PCMCIA network and USB cards.
Unfortunately, IFAICR, the updates did not appear to add features or remove bugs - they visibly added more and more DRM. Signed by Synmbian made it was insanely difficult to get apps installed from the start.
I still have, and use, Symbian 60 phones - the upgrade process means that I cannot actually move to a newer version. There have been no updates for years - and unfortunately - I cannot install any apps (or even re-install the old ones) because the signatures have expired and no one maintains them.
In the UK, we have had "cats-eyes" since at least WW2. These are rubber blobs embedded in the road holding two glass beads that reflect your headlights back, showing the line down the centre of the road. On bigger roads, they are also used to mark the edge of the road, and on motorways, there are coloured ones (red/greeen) to show whether or not it is sensible to cross the line.
They seem to last about 20 years, and do the job brilliantly.
I have also seen "glow in the dark paint" before, but can't remember where (as in: which country), I think it was abandonned because it was not very good.
There are all kinds of casual interactions that one can imagine where one will just use the screen entirely and not bother to use the keyboard and mouse...
And for that, the ideal solution is to use your tablet as the interface and Allcast to project it onto the TV (You do use Samsung products, don't you? - if not, there's always the Chromecast.) However, command line on a touch screen? No good. Most families are not like mine with four generations of Unix users.
You and your kids probably have not been using your computer for over 10 years, and therefore do not need to access a large number of programs they use perhaps once in a year, prehaps not remembering the exact spelling of the absurd name the proggie has. Hierarchical menus allow you to look in a specific category, and have mouseover guidance. Metro/Unity gives you a load of coloured blobs with no clear idea of what they are for.
As someone who often uses a program I have not used for over a year, with over 50 useful programs on my hierarchical menu, I prefer xfce. I know barely literate people who also prefer xfce to any version of Windows. I have only seen Win8 once, and was unable to help the owner of the laptop it was on in do anything at all.
You are obviously too young to understand that some people use computers to perform useful tasks like searching for porn. Learning a whole new way of doing things that is considerably worse than the old way, is badly designed, looks ugly, lacks essential features, and infested with bugs, is not condusive to productivity, and does not amuse me, although it may be an interesting diversion for some.
"Negotiations" were completed on the basis of a thick brown envelope handed to a party now living in a warm climate. Documentation relating to "performance criteria" were handed to the police sone years ago, but have since been "accidentally" shredded. News at 10.
If you were an actual IT person, you would know the pain of finding/installing Windows Drivers far exceeds that for doing it in Linux (Its easy to find Linux NVidia drivers - they just dont work very well).
As another UK tax payer, I fully support the Honorable gentleman above, In fact, as a victim of MS software, i would prefer it to go on "fact finding missions" "consultancy" from "Miss I Cane" (or Ms Whiplash) and duck houses than to MS.
I have a "How to Press the Left Mouse Button" CBT video that I got when we upgraded from PS/2 mice to USB ones - you have have for a modest^H^H^H^H^H^H payment if you want.
It takes them so long in the morning to decide whether to use an LXDE session or Gnome, or KDE, that by the timne they have made upo their minds, its time to go home (or a new desktop has ben released).
Should have stuck with the original sh(), and not had a choice of csh, bash, etc, thats what I say.
In the EU, the same operators operate in all the countries. It just they set up this scam in the olden days, when life was different. Nowadays, most sane people get a new SIM as they cross the boarder, and do their best not to make calls with the one from the previous country, leading to a massive reduction in potential revenue for the carriers.
The companies are run by a bunch of doped sloths who do not want to get their act together, even if it would benefit the shareholders as much as the customers, because they would have to get off their fat butts and manage some work.
The EU government spend all their time travelling between European countries (on our tab) and are well aware that they, personally, are the victims of this crap behaviour, and are in a position to defend consumers - cos they are the consumers most exposed.
Hint: politicians tend to act in their own best interests. Sometimes our interests just happen to coincide.
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That is what you get when you fed drones on a diet of doughnuts!
Yes - it is about exchangeable/removable storage. Fill a card with stuff somewhere else and put it in your phone. Fill a card with stuff on your phone and take it out - perhaps you don't want your home photos at work or your client's photos at your other client (or your porn ...).
Some people have been known to leave mum's basement.
As for you iPhone suckers - you can keep your damn fool metal cases. We like removeable backs and don't give a toss if they are plastic - no one sees them cos the phone is never out of its case - and the phone might get hit by a baseball bat/yacht boom/dropped down the fire escape/shut in the lift/train/car door - yes its true some people actually move about physically in their lives! Really! Its true! And we want to come home and change the battery before going out again. The only advantage of a metal back is that the phone signal can't penetrate it (???)
Unix users seem to disagree. Leaving aside that we spell it "fundamentally", I seem to be able to run the same software on my PC with *BSD, that I ran on my PDP11 with BSD with no significant problems. Hell, I can even read the same tapes written with tar. (I admit I have no drivers for DECtape on my PC, and my LA36 died some years ago but I am truely greatful for both "problems".)
Not if you pay for your electric bills. Or have no need for floating point in your (web)servers. Or if you consider security part of performance.
If you want to network, there are probably networking events in your local library - or you could talk to people in the car-wash queue.
I also have a T21 which I use as a dumb terminal for configuring servers - cos it has an RS232 port. Currently runing Xubuntu, but was running FreeBSD till I decided I wanted to try Xubuntu on something.
I also have a T61 (Also Xubuntu) which is used by visitors of all ages. None has needed any significant traiining AFAICR.
Oldest of all is a 760E - it still works, but lacks USB or any kind of networking, and a new OS means loads of floppies - so it may work, but it is not much actual use. One day I will put the HD in something else to install NetBSD, and then I could use PCMCIA network and USB cards.
And replaced with what, exactly? ftp?
FTFY
Gentlemen - I bring you the Samsung Stylus!
I still have, and use, Symbian 60 phones - the upgrade process means that I cannot actually move to a newer version. There have been no updates for years - and unfortunately - I cannot install any apps (or even re-install the old ones) because the signatures have expired and no one maintains them.
Disclaimer: I am a happy Cyanogenmod user.
This is Europe. It can't be below 40F because we use centigrade/Celcius.
They seem to last about 20 years, and do the job brilliantly.
I have also seen "glow in the dark paint" before, but can't remember where (as in: which country), I think it was abandonned because it was not very good.
But nowhere near as credible.
And for that, the ideal solution is to use your tablet as the interface and Allcast to project it onto the TV (You do use Samsung products, don't you? - if not, there's always the Chromecast.) However, command line on a touch screen? No good. Most families are not like mine with four generations of Unix users.
You get to see all your apps through a mixture of burger juice and ketchup!
As someone who often uses a program I have not used for over a year, with over 50 useful programs on my hierarchical menu, I prefer xfce. I know barely literate people who also prefer xfce to any version of Windows. I have only seen Win8 once, and was unable to help the owner of the laptop it was on in do anything at all.
Lawn: off!
"fully supported" does not mean what you think it does. Hint: "Like a millstone round the neck" does not count.
Disclaimer: I own an HP scanner and used to own several HP printers.
"Negotiations" were completed on the basis of a thick brown envelope handed to a party now living in a warm climate. Documentation relating to "performance criteria" were handed to the police sone years ago, but have since been "accidentally" shredded. News at 10.
If you were an actual IT person, you would know the pain of finding/installing Windows Drivers far exceeds that for doing it in Linux (Its easy to find Linux NVidia drivers - they just dont work very well).
As another UK tax payer, I fully support the Honorable gentleman above, In fact, as a victim of MS software, i would prefer it to go on "fact finding missions" "consultancy" from "Miss I Cane" (or Ms Whiplash) and duck houses than to MS.
I have a "How to Press the Left Mouse Button" CBT video that I got when we upgraded from PS/2 mice to USB ones - you have have for a modest^H^H^H^H^H^H payment if you want.
Should have stuck with the original sh(), and not had a choice of csh, bash, etc, thats what I say.
Gert off me lawn
Except that its exactly the same carriers in all the EU countries! They are charging themselves for these charges. Its complete bullshit.
The companies are run by a bunch of doped sloths who do not want to get their act together, even if it would benefit the shareholders as much as the customers, because they would have to get off their fat butts and manage some work.
The EU government spend all their time travelling between European countries (on our tab) and are well aware that they, personally, are the victims of this crap behaviour, and are in a position to defend consumers - cos they are the consumers most exposed.
Hint: politicians tend to act in their own best interests. Sometimes our interests just happen to coincide.