I like seeing MicroSoft having the problem Linux has on the desktop. No support because too few users but can't get more users because not enough support. One thing though, MS has enough money they can spend a few billion brute forcing their way into the market if they have the will. It worked with the X-Box.
But really what's the point? There is already the Droids and iPhones and they have tons of apps for anything you can think you might want to do with a phone, no matter how silly. Why would I want a phone that has limited apps and is different than what all my friends have? Why would I bother? There are tons of great Android phones from many different manufacturers and then there are the iPhones if I want to live in the Apple world. Both have advantages but I see no point to a WinPhone.
I know I see a lot of people in cafe's and diners using them. I went by Barnes&Nobles just last week and 3 people were sitting there surfing on iPads. I have no real use for something that large but I do have a Galaxy Player 5" tablet that I love. I use the thing everywhere mostly to read on but also occasionaly to watch a show or something and then I surf on it quite a bit also. I think a 5" device is perfect for me, big enough to see but small enough to fit in a pocket.
I've mostly avoided windows and don't really feel I've missed anything. Applications are just applications and the OS matters little as far as that goes. My wife is an Excel wizard. She used it exclusively on windows at work until a few years ago when I bought a Mac for her (I ran Amiga from 1988 to 1998 and mostly linux since then) and installed MSO including Excel on it for her. She really didn't notice much difference and after a few days of using it she was fully acclimated to it. Really I think most people think Internet Explorer IS the operating system.
Actually I've found MSE to be the least intrusive and most resource sparing of all the windows anti-virus. AVG works well but they nag living hell out of you to upgrade and so do most of the others. Of course I haven't tried any of the paid versions. MSE is free and easy and I figure they built windows so should know how to protect it....I'm sure there are API's that none of the other anti-malware authors know of that Microsoft engineers use.
I wouldn't doubt it. I use an acer aspire one running Peppermint Linux off a thumb drive to access my bank. It sits in a drawer until I need it then I pull it out, do my banking and shut it off and back to the drawer. It does nothing else. I got it for $25 dollars and it works great for this function. My Mac Mini workstation and even my Linux laptop are never used for banking as I do too many other things on them and figure it's best to leave that job to a dedicated and secure device. It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
I know you are just an AC but try to keep up. The summary states "Users may request checks for the amount of credit that has been applied to their accounts." The article directs you to a website where you can request a check by the settlement attorneys. You do know that these attorneys charge the losing party for all costs associated with this don't you? If you've ever dealt with an attorney you would. They charge for every single call, sheet of paper, ink pen, staple, stamp and what have you. I bet you'd be amazed at what a refund check of 30 cents would cost. My reading comprehension is fine, work on yours.
Really. Just throw the check away. You'd be out 30 cents and there out a bunch of dollars involved in processing and mailing it to you. How simple does it get really? Now magnify by all the tens of thousands of checks they have to send out and you see where they start to really hurt.
Ah, you missed the point really. I didn't say choose to be attracted but rather to choose how you react to that attraction. I knew one guy who lived a heterosexual lifestyle, raised children and when they were grown left his wife to be with a male lover. I do note that the guy was the husband in that relationship also. I know his son pretty well and he's generally not very close to his father, they speak but that's about it. That's one case, another man I know was in a homosexual relationship while a young adult, college years and shortly after college when he suddenly fell in love with a woman and married her. He now has 4 grown children and really seems happy as he is now. As I said before, human sexuality is complex. I don't know that I buy the genetic argument, at least not fully. All the studies I've seen are inconclusive at best, too many people who show the "trait" are straight and too many who don't show the trait are homosexuals. There is, in my view, a lot more to it than genetics.
I think that normal is what most people do. That is always the baseline. I really believe sex is a built in drive meant to cause procreation and I fail to see where homosexuality brings procreation about. In modern society though sex is used as recreation thanks to cheap and easy birth control. A drive meant to bond couples and bring about children basically. Leaving out any moral or religious argument which here on slashdot is anathema anyway, from a strictly darwinistic standpoint I see no "survival of the species" reason for homosexuality and if it were genetic I find it hard to understand why it would not have long ago been bred out of the human race. As I say it's not a really important issue with me but I've always kind of wondered how such a pointless trait would be a useful feature from a darwinistic standpoint. Heterosexual=Children and passing on one's genetic material and Homosexuality=No Children and no passing of one's genetic material.
I don't agree. I think it's plain that people can be born to have sexual desires for the same sex just as some people are born blind or without arms or legs. A person born with this condition would of course be less likely to act out their desires in a restrictive culture. In a more liberal environment they could obviously be more free to indulge their desires.
But all behavior is choice isn't it? I might feel drawn to have sex with a 12 year old girl but to do so would be my choice. In fact most child predators literally can not stop what they feel, only how they react to it. Now before you start to foam at the mouth I do not equate homosexuality between two consenting adults to pedophilia. I only use it as an example of another type of deviant sexual behavior. Human sexuality is a strange and complex thing. Some people like to be tied up, some to be pissed on, some play games where they dress up, it's a weird world. I'm pretty ambivalent about it all but I think everyone of course chooses what they do based on their desires. I don't condemn people for their choices, at least as long as they don't hurt another, but I don't see any reason to accept abnormal behavior as normal either. I live and let live but I really don't understand homosexuality and see no reason to try to. It's not part of my world. The only thing that bothers me is this constant drive by some people to declare it normal and accepted behavior. It's not any more normal than people that like to be whipped or shit on. As long as I am not involved it's really irrelevant though. I neither accept or reject it.
Great for giving an understanding of ballistics, gometry and strategy. It does involve explosions but it's not graphically violent like Unreal or those kind of shoot'em ups.
I have to wonder about parents who haven't figured out their child is gay. I guess maybe some don't want to believe it so choose to be blind. My daughter dated, well...went out with a guy that I pretty much figured was harmless, at least to her, off the mark. I told her he was sweet and she just looked at me and I knew she knew and they were just friends. His parents however went bonkers when upon going off to college he came out of the closet in a big, big way. I still don't get how they missed it.
If you really want to make them pay, force them to send you a check for that 30 cents. The cost of processing it will far outpace the measly 30 cent check.
Maybe not, but then it's really no one's business how large a drink I order, ice or no. This kind of silly shit is why people become anarchists. After a while you get fed up with people who can't mind their own fucking business.
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I like seeing MicroSoft having the problem Linux has on the desktop. No support because too few users but can't get more users because not enough support. One thing though, MS has enough money they can spend a few billion brute forcing their way into the market if they have the will. It worked with the X-Box.
But really what's the point? There is already the Droids and iPhones and they have tons of apps for anything you can think you might want to do with a phone, no matter how silly. Why would I want a phone that has limited apps and is different than what all my friends have? Why would I bother? There are tons of great Android phones from many different manufacturers and then there are the iPhones if I want to live in the Apple world. Both have advantages but I see no point to a WinPhone.
I'd be interested to know if the original X-Box ever made any money.
Ballmer? That you?
I know I see a lot of people in cafe's and diners using them. I went by Barnes&Nobles just last week and 3 people were sitting there surfing on iPads. I have no real use for something that large but I do have a Galaxy Player 5" tablet that I love. I use the thing everywhere mostly to read on but also occasionaly to watch a show or something and then I surf on it quite a bit also. I think a 5" device is perfect for me, big enough to see but small enough to fit in a pocket.
Better to talk about the weather than the debate. Or sports, computers, music, TV, or....hell anything is better than talking about the debate.
I've mostly avoided windows and don't really feel I've missed anything. Applications are just applications and the OS matters little as far as that goes. My wife is an Excel wizard. She used it exclusively on windows at work until a few years ago when I bought a Mac for her (I ran Amiga from 1988 to 1998 and mostly linux since then) and installed MSO including Excel on it for her. She really didn't notice much difference and after a few days of using it she was fully acclimated to it. Really I think most people think Internet Explorer IS the operating system.
Actually I've found MSE to be the least intrusive and most resource sparing of all the windows anti-virus. AVG works well but they nag living hell out of you to upgrade and so do most of the others. Of course I haven't tried any of the paid versions. MSE is free and easy and I figure they built windows so should know how to protect it....I'm sure there are API's that none of the other anti-malware authors know of that Microsoft engineers use.
Shhhhhh! You'll ruin the ending!
I wouldn't doubt it. I use an acer aspire one running Peppermint Linux off a thumb drive to access my bank. It sits in a drawer until I need it then I pull it out, do my banking and shut it off and back to the drawer. It does nothing else. I got it for $25 dollars and it works great for this function. My Mac Mini workstation and even my Linux laptop are never used for banking as I do too many other things on them and figure it's best to leave that job to a dedicated and secure device. It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
I would never consider using an Android phone for any banking access. Never.
I just read an article that stated IP 6 is only a year away.
I know you are just an AC but try to keep up. The summary states "Users may request checks for the amount of credit that has been applied to their accounts." The article directs you to a website where you can request a check by the settlement attorneys. You do know that these attorneys charge the losing party for all costs associated with this don't you? If you've ever dealt with an attorney you would. They charge for every single call, sheet of paper, ink pen, staple, stamp and what have you. I bet you'd be amazed at what a refund check of 30 cents would cost. My reading comprehension is fine, work on yours.
Really. Just throw the check away. You'd be out 30 cents and there out a bunch of dollars involved in processing and mailing it to you. How simple does it get really? Now magnify by all the tens of thousands of checks they have to send out and you see where they start to really hurt.
Ah, you missed the point really. I didn't say choose to be attracted but rather to choose how you react to that attraction. I knew one guy who lived a heterosexual lifestyle, raised children and when they were grown left his wife to be with a male lover. I do note that the guy was the husband in that relationship also. I know his son pretty well and he's generally not very close to his father, they speak but that's about it. That's one case, another man I know was in a homosexual relationship while a young adult, college years and shortly after college when he suddenly fell in love with a woman and married her. He now has 4 grown children and really seems happy as he is now. As I said before, human sexuality is complex. I don't know that I buy the genetic argument, at least not fully. All the studies I've seen are inconclusive at best, too many people who show the "trait" are straight and too many who don't show the trait are homosexuals. There is, in my view, a lot more to it than genetics.
I think that normal is what most people do. That is always the baseline. I really believe sex is a built in drive meant to cause procreation and I fail to see where homosexuality brings procreation about. In modern society though sex is used as recreation thanks to cheap and easy birth control. A drive meant to bond couples and bring about children basically. Leaving out any moral or religious argument which here on slashdot is anathema anyway, from a strictly darwinistic standpoint I see no "survival of the species" reason for homosexuality and if it were genetic I find it hard to understand why it would not have long ago been bred out of the human race. As I say it's not a really important issue with me but I've always kind of wondered how such a pointless trait would be a useful feature from a darwinistic standpoint. Heterosexual=Children and passing on one's genetic material and Homosexuality=No Children and no passing of one's genetic material.
I don't agree. I think it's plain that people can be born to have sexual desires for the same sex just as some people are born blind or without arms or legs. A person born with this condition would of course be less likely to act out their desires in a restrictive culture. In a more liberal environment they could obviously be more free to indulge their desires.
But all behavior is choice isn't it? I might feel drawn to have sex with a 12 year old girl but to do so would be my choice. In fact most child predators literally can not stop what they feel, only how they react to it. Now before you start to foam at the mouth I do not equate homosexuality between two consenting adults to pedophilia. I only use it as an example of another type of deviant sexual behavior. Human sexuality is a strange and complex thing. Some people like to be tied up, some to be pissed on, some play games where they dress up, it's a weird world. I'm pretty ambivalent about it all but I think everyone of course chooses what they do based on their desires. I don't condemn people for their choices, at least as long as they don't hurt another, but I don't see any reason to accept abnormal behavior as normal either. I live and let live but I really don't understand homosexuality and see no reason to try to. It's not part of my world. The only thing that bothers me is this constant drive by some people to declare it normal and accepted behavior. It's not any more normal than people that like to be whipped or shit on. As long as I am not involved it's really irrelevant though. I neither accept or reject it.
Great for giving an understanding of ballistics, gometry and strategy. It does involve explosions but it's not graphically violent like Unreal or those kind of shoot'em ups.
I have to wonder about parents who haven't figured out their child is gay. I guess maybe some don't want to believe it so choose to be blind. My daughter dated, well...went out with a guy that I pretty much figured was harmless, at least to her, off the mark. I told her he was sweet and she just looked at me and I knew she knew and they were just friends. His parents however went bonkers when upon going off to college he came out of the closet in a big, big way. I still don't get how they missed it.
I gotta admit that's amusing.
If you really want to make them pay, force them to send you a check for that 30 cents. The cost of processing it will far outpace the measly 30 cent check.
Maybe not, but then it's really no one's business how large a drink I order, ice or no. This kind of silly shit is why people become anarchists. After a while you get fed up with people who can't mind their own fucking business.
Maybe we should punish people for being healthy as well.
There are always exceptions. I was talking about the average cases.