Word/Excel files are still a must for many people.
Still, OS X isn't a competitor to Windows, because it doesn't run on commodity hardware. Lots of people would be willing to license OS X, but few are willing to consider the anaemic Mac hardware line.
I was asking you if living in a populated but unincorporated place was an American thing. It's rather rare north of the border. Americans seem in general very spread out.
In BC, most of us live in Vancouver or its suburbs. Most of the rest live in Victoria. The idea of people living 25 minutes from a major city like Seattle without basic infrastructure is a bit shocking to us.
Sure, there may be a few wild eyed hermits out there without broadband, but they're the same folk that don't have other basics like electricity or sanitation.
Even supporting IE at all means withholding features. That can make sense for supporting IE 7/8, which hold about 40% of the browser market.
IE6 only holds about 15% of the browser market, and requires extreme measures to support. If Google, a 150 billion dollar corporation, can't be bothered to support it in something as simple as a webmail client or video portal, why should the little guy struggle to support it in a complex web app?
I don't bother keeping up with the various brand changes Microsoft goes through.
You're missing two smartphone OSes on that list; Android and webOS.
The N97 could be a smartphone with a decent OS, but not with Symbian. Part of my definition of smartphone includes an OS with a viable development community.
We can debate over whether Symbian is dead now or just will be shortly, but do you really think it'll be around in 5 years?
Handango does support WinCE, which while fringe is still at least somewhat viable.
Symbian is dead. Very dead. It's still shambling along as a zombie on old phones, but there isn't anything new there.
There certainly is value in publishing/aggregation. More in software, as it's an ongoing process with ongoing development. With books it's minimal, as a book is "done" at some point.
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Word/Excel files are still a must for many people.
Still, OS X isn't a competitor to Windows, because it doesn't run on commodity hardware. Lots of people would be willing to license OS X, but few are willing to consider the anaemic Mac hardware line.
How, exactly, do you run Cydia (or any non-Apple approved software) on an iPhone without violating the DMCA?
I didn't know Blackberry had a standards compliant web browser. Does it pull contacts from Facebook too?
But I don't hang around sewage treatment systems, and I certainly wouldn't live on top of one.
No reasonable person would consider a place without it to be developed.
I was asking you if living in a populated but unincorporated place was an American thing. It's rather rare north of the border. Americans seem in general very spread out.
In BC, most of us live in Vancouver or its suburbs. Most of the rest live in Victoria. The idea of people living 25 minutes from a major city like Seattle without basic infrastructure is a bit shocking to us.
Everything in that state outside of Seattle is a septic tank in my not so humble opinion. It's a shocking contrast; Seattle is a very nice city.
Why would you ever choose to live outside a municipality? That's not much removed from Kaczynski's shack. Is it an American thing?
Or is it just her stage name? Mayhaps she really was named Yakspit Cox-Feces.
Like I said, he's just running his mouth and pulling numbers out of his ass.
He constantly runs his mouth without any real thought to what he's saying. It's just attention whoring.
No, I've never seen a septic system up close; I live in a developed nation.
I can't imagine a design that wouldn't result in a tank of festering shit.
But you're all out of Smokey Pete and his brains, so what now?
You *could* just shit directly on your yard, too.
Water doesn't get to or from your house by magic. Sewer systems are major undertakings.
Sure, there may be a few wild eyed hermits out there without broadband, but they're the same folk that don't have other basics like electricity or sanitation.
I think my point stands. As you point out, these people quite literally shit where they sleep.
Really, there are some things we can just assume people have these days. Indoor plumbing, electricity and broadband are among them.
Yeah, anyone who really is still stuck with dialup is a hopeless recluse. Have you heard of indoor plumbing? It's the bee's knees.
That doesn't excuse the lack of LAN play, but claiming to want to play Starcraft in the past is not a valid argument.
But webapps with lots of javascript have more to worry about than just looking a bit funky.
Even supporting IE at all means withholding features. That can make sense for supporting IE 7/8, which hold about 40% of the browser market.
IE6 only holds about 15% of the browser market, and requires extreme measures to support. If Google, a 150 billion dollar corporation, can't be bothered to support it in something as simple as a webmail client or video portal, why should the little guy struggle to support it in a complex web app?
Of course popular music (including Slayer) is crap.
Growling into a microphone and thrashing a guitar is neither intricate nor demanding. Any monkey can do it.
It's just a different genre of mindless grunting.
If those "dedicated volunteers" have to fire up generators to use their quaint little toys, the powerline networks aren't going to be running.
I don't bother keeping up with the various brand changes Microsoft goes through.
You're missing two smartphone OSes on that list; Android and webOS.
The N97 could be a smartphone with a decent OS, but not with Symbian. Part of my definition of smartphone includes an OS with a viable development community.
We can debate over whether Symbian is dead now or just will be shortly, but do you really think it'll be around in 5 years?
Handango does support WinCE, which while fringe is still at least somewhat viable.
Symbian is dead. Very dead. It's still shambling along as a zombie on old phones, but there isn't anything new there.
There certainly is value in publishing/aggregation. More in software, as it's an ongoing process with ongoing development. With books it's minimal, as a book is "done" at some point.