I don't throw around apologetic words when I have nothing for which I need to apologize. I also don't adhere to stereotypes; I don't say "eh" and I dislike Big Business hockey (though Olympic hockey is appealing), but maple syrup is f*n awesome.
It's fine if you want to refute my nationality, but you'd best have some fact to back your claim. FWIW I grew up near Ottawa on the Quebec side of the river, and currently live in Cambridge. I've experienced first-hand Quebec-nationalist separatism during my adolescence and college years, and am looking forward to visiting our Maritime provinces next summer with my daughter.
Canada is a melting-pot of nationalities, so making a claim about how "we" talk is, frankly, just racist.
Rural, with limited ISP availability already, likely means that many potential customers don't have computers, and certainly aren't used to dealing with things like virus problems, being inundated with advertisements, and slow computers with bloatware. Think of all the computer problems your close relatives have approached you with in the last 5 years. Now expand that figure to represent your potential customer base.
As a one-man ISP, are you prepared to deal with the volume of support requests? In a small community, there's a level of expectation that goes beyond the grey area of "no, that's a problem on your computer, not with your internet service" that larger ISPs manage to pull off. Are you prepared to draw lines (and throw a rift between you and your country bumpkin customers) or to invest the time demanded by not drawing them?
"Should we hold onto because it's been around forever?"
- Pay phones: The complaint is that they're too expensive to maintain, given that everyone uses cellphones.
- Package-based cable TV: The complaint is that you get programming you don't care about, or are unable to pay for just the shows you want to watch.
- Broadcast radio: Too much goddamn advertising, given the shitty "top 40s" playlists and often personality-less/PC personalities between commercial breaks.
It's unfortunate that apps' knowledge of you is granted with a nebulous single-screen laundry list and OK button, similar to the click-through EULAs of what seems to be a bygone era.
Yesterday's legal violation is today's privacy violation.
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Google. At least they can put out cool, desirable shit at a rate that can keep up with my ADHD/OCD while they become overlords.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Bloody peasant.
What do they pay if you pile-driver a midget?
I'm sure there will appear an app which auto-orders delivery pizza in the event your dinner burns to a crisp....
Is there an easy way?
....because "good" and "evil" are only "slightly different"... :-\
...redhead.
No, kowtowing as a media conglomerate apologists is.
Actually, yes, it is an RPG.
Don't confuse "ignorance about alternatives" with "desire to purchase".
Many users only "see" Windows. They don't know about Linux, and consider Mac OS as "those things that aren't Windows that other people have".
It's the only way.
China #1? Cyborgs prevalent? Cyberpunk fiction has known this for years.
A123 is the new Acme...
Oh, it was intentional all right. And don't call me Shirley.
He *wei* over his head...
I don't throw around apologetic words when I have nothing for which I need to apologize. I also don't adhere to stereotypes; I don't say "eh" and I dislike Big Business hockey (though Olympic hockey is appealing), but maple syrup is f*n awesome.
It's fine if you want to refute my nationality, but you'd best have some fact to back your claim. FWIW I grew up near Ottawa on the Quebec side of the river, and currently live in Cambridge. I've experienced first-hand Quebec-nationalist separatism during my adolescence and college years, and am looking forward to visiting our Maritime provinces next summer with my daughter.
Canada is a melting-pot of nationalities, so making a claim about how "we" talk is, frankly, just racist.
No. Get your own reason, goddamnit*.
*I am Canadian, and I approve of this message.
That's a lot of Polaroids!
Rural, with limited ISP availability already, likely means that many potential customers don't have computers, and certainly aren't used to dealing with things like virus problems, being inundated with advertisements, and slow computers with bloatware. Think of all the computer problems your close relatives have approached you with in the last 5 years. Now expand that figure to represent your potential customer base. As a one-man ISP, are you prepared to deal with the volume of support requests? In a small community, there's a level of expectation that goes beyond the grey area of "no, that's a problem on your computer, not with your internet service" that larger ISPs manage to pull off. Are you prepared to draw lines (and throw a rift between you and your country bumpkin customers) or to invest the time demanded by not drawing them?
"Should we hold onto because it's been around forever?" - Pay phones: The complaint is that they're too expensive to maintain, given that everyone uses cellphones. - Package-based cable TV: The complaint is that you get programming you don't care about, or are unable to pay for just the shows you want to watch. - Broadcast radio: Too much goddamn advertising, given the shitty "top 40s" playlists and often personality-less/PC personalities between commercial breaks.
Good to see they're not tapping out yet.
It's unfortunate that apps' knowledge of you is granted with a nebulous single-screen laundry list and OK button, similar to the click-through EULAs of what seems to be a bygone era.
Yesterday's legal violation is today's privacy violation.
1. Steal 600 barrels of maple syrup.
2. Abscond with 36,287.4 kg of walnuts. (Yes, kg. I'm Canadian, you insensitive clod!)
3. ???
4. Profit!
My first impulse after reading the title.