11% had already abstained from using... cell phone[s]... in certain occasions Hell, if data retention has the power to do this, maybe being around other people won't be so annoying....
Seriously, of those examples listed, the only valid one that rational people should factor in for their presidential choice is privacy; and yet, when you limit it to Tech-Savvy-ness, you are vastly undermining the meaning of privacy.
Regarding tech-savvy-ness, I would have listed off the usuals: NASA, NOAA, and federal grants for both private and public research towards both current and future societal problems and dangers.
Then, in a fit of wisdom, a few posters, all of whom will be modded down as flamebait, will say "There's room for both and price/performance does matter, at least for now." FLAMEBAIT! Mod down this mutual funding* troll!
*Search for "mutual funding money" AND "Samuel L. Jackson" - quite possibly the best dub to "clean up" some "dirty language"
The "tightly bundled" argument is basically complaining because a piece of shared code is being used exactly in the way shared code is supposed to be. I fail to see why it is a valid complaint.
I think it holds water if you view it as a problem with the integration of Explorer with the Windows kernel, as opposed to it being a dependancy for so many programs out there.
Coming from my Gentoo background, I find it frustrating that so many programs have Firefox listed as a dependancy (and refuse to compile without it) when I prefer to use either Epiphany or Opera. But this issue is mitigated WRT Windows+Explorer because Firefox is not integrated with the Linux kernel.
It doesn't work better for everyone. I need Photoshop (Sorry, I am not too bright to use GIMP), I need a couple of my RTS games that I play casually and I need my Windows Rhapsody client. I use wine for Photoshop, Caesar3 and I use Vmware + Windows 2000 for Rhapsody. I also need Windows to watch streaming Netflix and I'll be creating an XP image in the near future just for Netflix (Netflix supports only WinXP and higher).... Of those exaples that you've listed, the only one that fits with "Business desktop" is Photoshop.
Personally, I would've gone with more traditional staples, such as Excel support, but then again, I'm (probably) in a completely different professional field than you. But I fail to see how Caesar 3, Rhapsody, and Netflix are related to business desktops, at all.
So Wien is changing their computers all over to Windows... again. How long is this expected to take? And when in 2009 (presuming that for once some sort of software will be completed & delivered on-time) is their program supposed to be compatible with the Gecko engine? I'd be surprised if the reverting to Windows part would be completed more than a couple months before the program is compatible.
Cool.. must have overlooked that sim starter kit.. so would this work with the Nokia that you were talking about ?
As I said, for my amount of usage prepaid is perfect.. but T-mobile will also let you convert a prepaid to a monthly.. so I guess that might be a way to get the model you want.
If the phone is unlocked (which they are if you buy them unbranded[i.e. not a Cingular/AT&T or T-Mobile or any other provider's branded phone]) and support either/both the 850/1900MHz bands, then they have to work with a T-Mobile SIM card. Which means that basically any recent Nokia on NokiaUSA's website, since the company quit engineering new CDMA phones in 2006. If you shop on any of their European sites, you have to be more careful.
Screw real time stock quotes, I want real time feeds to video cameras in the 50th floor offices of investment bankers when the US economy completely tanks.
Bill: $50 says he jumps.
Johnny: You're on !
Except those people are spending at least $1,500 per terminal per month on Bloomberg, which provides a hell of a lot more financial information than Google ever will.
The Quick brown fox is the sentence to show all the available characters in the english language. Oh really....? ZZ-Top would be impressed. In fact, of the 5 different characters (4 if you are only counting letters), you're batting at.600 (.750). While phenominal for baseball, it still runs up short of 1.000
Jani would also be disaappointed, as would Yugoslavia
If you went prepaid with T-Mobile, you could get their base model Nokia 2610 for $29.99.. don't think it comes with many (if any) minutes, but basicly you'd be buying it for the sim. (dont' know why you can't just buy sim packages like in Europe) That would be silly, to buy the phone for the SIM card. You should be able to get the SIM card for pre-paid phones without buying the pre-paid phones. Hell, if they're not already doing it in the US, they would make a killing off of kiosks/vending machines in airports and bus stations that sell just the SIM cards for pre-paid plans. And I don't see why they shouldn't be doing it- T-Mobile sells just the SIM cards on their website for $7.
But I have plenty of friends who have somehow damaged their phones well before their 2-year contract had matured, and ended up buying a pre-paid phone just to get a new phone for $30 or $50, instead of the $250 that Cingular wanted to charge them
If the FCC strikes down cancelation fees then the price of phones will suddenly increase several hundred bucks. This isn't necessarily a good thing for the market since almost everyone I know tends to go for the free phone or the 50 dollar phone when getting a new plan - no one is willing to spend several hundred dollars. At least, not in a lump sum up front. Explain how "Pay as you Go" phones are only $50 then. All it means is that people would have more basic phones (i.e. not everyone would have a camera phone.) That, and people would continue to use their phones for more than two years.* I, myself, have been using the same phone for the past 3 years, despite living in the US, and the vibrate function has been broken for nearly 2 of those 3 years.
*One could also argue that by continuing to use the same phone for more than 2 years, consumers would be throwing less toxic materials into landfills and such, thus providing a (relatively) positive externality. **Another logical argument is that bundling a phone in with the phone plan and paying for that phone via the 2-year contract is economically inefficient because consumers would have more utility from putting that $5 or $10/mo aside and buying a phone that's not offered by the service provider. E.g. I want a Nokia phone which has a bar form factor(not a slider, not a rotating slider, &c.) However, neither T-Mobile nor Cingular offer any of the phones I want. Sure, I could sign up for a 2-year contract and then sell the phone on ebay, but then the warranty is void (immediate loss of value that initial consumer pays but evaporates), which results in an effect analagous to a dead weight loss.
Damn it, I've finished school and I'm still thinking like I were in my senior economics courses....
This trend is a lot more prevalent in the original Civilization. Get a warrior or phalanx, fortify him in a hill or mountain early in the game. By the time your opponents invent battleships and such, they (your enemy) doesn't stand a chance.
Waiting 3 hours to burn a terrabyes to Backup your Backup drive doesn't seem to crazy. Especially when you consider that the read speed for that drive you're backing up is slower than 100MB/s, most likely....
In my opinion, not only does Dell "meet" industry standards, but generally they go above and beyond. At least, that has been my experience.
I'm a sysadmin, and have worked with Dell and their systems for the last 10 years. The thing though, is that you're using corporate support. Fortunately for me, my family's always bought our Dells through my dad's purchasing account with the company he works for (we paid for the computers, just used his ID when placing the order.)
I think this probably apples to consumer-level support.
Either way, it's giving me doubts as to whether or not I'll get a replacement PSU for my desktop- the thing gets damn noisy sometimes (as in, the fan sometimes sounds off-balanced and grinding against a side of the unit or something....)
How drastically would their DNA differ from that of current Norweigians, Swedes, and Danes? I dare not mention the Finns, lest some the Scandinavians go viking-shit on me.
But seriously, though; has the modern gene pool been dramatically changed due to southern neighbors migrating north?
Sorry, but the US is not currently a poor economy [...]
Nice flame, but what does it have to do with my comment? Shouldn't that have been at the top level?
I suspect, BTW, that you're reading "poor" as "in poverty", while other people are reading it as "not as good". English is like that. Sorry for replying to your comment. You're right, I ment for it to be a top-level comment, not nested after yours. I could've sworn I hitt he "Reply" on the left side of the screen, not "Reply to This"
Offtopic, but those McDonald's salads are very good. A grilled chicken salad with balsamic vinegarette dressing isn't even 300 calories, but very filling and quite tasty. I still find it ironic that the man who started McD's salad ended up dieing from a heart attack....
Sorry, but the US is not currently a poor economy. It hasn't been since *at least* the Great Depression. Sure, the unemployment rate is higher than it was a few years ago and the economy is not growing at the rate that it did in the 90's.
BUT THE US DOES NOT HAVE A POOR ECONOMY!!!
If you want to take a look at some poor economies, look at most of Africa. Look at most of the countries in Latin & South America. Look at basically any country that the Peace Corps is sending volunteers to. Those are poor economies.
What the US is experiencing right now is a corrective swing which is a result of natural economic cycles, and is being exacerbated by actions taken years ago, like ultra-low interest rates and tax cuts, which acted like an extra dosage of caffeine or adrenaline. Inevitable result: whatever receives this shot is going to grow tired and crash. Instead of it being you while studying for finals, it's the US economy. But, nonetheless, the US economy is NOT POOR, and nor will it be until its unemployment rate is into the double digits, banks foreclose on a massive scale, &c.
" We're not talking about groups like Scientologists here," so you are selectively choosing religions to 'prove' you point? That is, if you consider Scientology a religion. I'm in agreeance with Germany that it's not a religion. As a consequence, I refuse to recognize it as a religion.
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Seriously, of those examples listed, the only valid one that rational people should factor in for their presidential choice is privacy; and yet, when you limit it to Tech-Savvy-ness, you are vastly undermining the meaning of privacy.
Regarding tech-savvy-ness, I would have listed off the usuals: NASA, NOAA, and federal grants for both private and public research towards both current and future societal problems and dangers.
*Search for "mutual funding money" AND "Samuel L. Jackson" - quite possibly the best dub to "clean up" some "dirty language"
The "tightly bundled" argument is basically complaining because a piece of shared code is being used exactly in the way shared code is supposed to be. I fail to see why it is a valid complaint.
I think it holds water if you view it as a problem with the integration of Explorer with the Windows kernel, as opposed to it being a dependancy for so many programs out there.Coming from my Gentoo background, I find it frustrating that so many programs have Firefox listed as a dependancy (and refuse to compile without it) when I prefer to use either Epiphany or Opera. But this issue is mitigated WRT Windows+Explorer because Firefox is not integrated with the Linux kernel.
It doesn't work better for everyone. I need Photoshop (Sorry, I am not too bright to use GIMP), I need a couple of my RTS games that I play casually and I need my Windows Rhapsody client. I use wine for Photoshop, Caesar3 and I use Vmware + Windows 2000 for Rhapsody. I also need Windows to watch streaming Netflix and I'll be creating an XP image in the near future just for Netflix (Netflix supports only WinXP and higher).
Personally, I would've gone with more traditional staples, such as Excel support, but then again, I'm (probably) in a completely different professional field than you. But I fail to see how Caesar 3, Rhapsody, and Netflix are related to business desktops, at all.
So Wien is changing their computers all over to Windows... again. How long is this expected to take? And when in 2009 (presuming that for once some sort of software will be completed & delivered on-time) is their program supposed to be compatible with the Gecko engine? I'd be surprised if the reverting to Windows part would be completed more than a couple months before the program is compatible.
If the phone is unlocked (which they are if you buy them unbranded[i.e. not a Cingular/AT&T or T-Mobile or any other provider's branded phone]) and support either/both the 850/1900MHz bands, then they have to work with a T-Mobile SIM card. Which means that basically any recent Nokia on NokiaUSA's website, since the company quit engineering new CDMA phones in 2006. If you shop on any of their European sites, you have to be more careful.As I said, for my amount of usage prepaid is perfect.. but T-mobile will also let you convert a prepaid to a monthly.. so I guess that might be a way to get the model you want.
Except those people are spending at least $1,500 per terminal per month on Bloomberg, which provides a hell of a lot more financial information than Google ever will.
Jani would also be disaappointed, as would Yugoslavia
But I have plenty of friends who have somehow damaged their phones well before their 2-year contract had matured, and ended up buying a pre-paid phone just to get a new phone for $30 or $50, instead of the $250 that Cingular wanted to charge them
Seriously, what could be a more practical lab than the kitchen?
*One could also argue that by continuing to use the same phone for more than 2 years, consumers would be throwing less toxic materials into landfills and such, thus providing a (relatively) positive externality.
**Another logical argument is that bundling a phone in with the phone plan and paying for that phone via the 2-year contract is economically inefficient because consumers would have more utility from putting that $5 or $10/mo aside and buying a phone that's not offered by the service provider. E.g. I want a Nokia phone which has a bar form factor(not a slider, not a rotating slider, &c.) However, neither T-Mobile nor Cingular offer any of the phones I want. Sure, I could sign up for a 2-year contract and then sell the phone on ebay, but then the warranty is void (immediate loss of value that initial consumer pays but evaporates), which results in an effect analagous to a dead weight loss.
Damn it, I've finished school and I'm still thinking like I were in my senior economics courses....
This trend is a lot more prevalent in the original Civilization. Get a warrior or phalanx, fortify him in a hill or mountain early in the game. By the time your opponents invent battleships and such, they (your enemy) doesn't stand a chance.
I'm a sysadmin, and have worked with Dell and their systems for the last 10 years. The thing though, is that you're using corporate support. Fortunately for me, my family's always bought our Dells through my dad's purchasing account with the company he works for (we paid for the computers, just used his ID when placing the order.)
I think this probably apples to consumer-level support.
Either way, it's giving me doubts as to whether or not I'll get a replacement PSU for my desktop- the thing gets damn noisy sometimes (as in, the fan sometimes sounds off-balanced and grinding against a side of the unit or something....)
Soo, it's turning out that Apple is becoming more like Microsoft? Or at least OSX is becoming more like Windows?
How drastically would their DNA differ from that of current Norweigians, Swedes, and Danes? I dare not mention the Finns, lest some the Scandinavians go viking-shit on me.
But seriously, though; has the modern gene pool been dramatically changed due to southern neighbors migrating north?
Nice flame, but what does it have to do with my comment? Shouldn't that have been at the top level?
I suspect, BTW, that you're reading "poor" as "in poverty", while other people are reading it as "not as good". English is like that. Sorry for replying to your comment. You're right, I ment for it to be a top-level comment, not nested after yours. I could've sworn I hitt he "Reply" on the left side of the screen, not "Reply to This"
soo, you're voting for Hillary, then?
Sorry, but the US is not currently a poor economy. It hasn't been since *at least* the Great Depression. Sure, the unemployment rate is higher than it was a few years ago and the economy is not growing at the rate that it did in the 90's.
BUT THE US DOES NOT HAVE A POOR ECONOMY!!!
If you want to take a look at some poor economies, look at most of Africa. Look at most of the countries in Latin & South America. Look at basically any country that the Peace Corps is sending volunteers to. Those are poor economies .
What the US is experiencing right now is a corrective swing which is a result of natural economic cycles, and is being exacerbated by actions taken years ago, like ultra-low interest rates and tax cuts, which acted like an extra dosage of caffeine or adrenaline. Inevitable result: whatever receives this shot is going to grow tired and crash. Instead of it being you while studying for finals, it's the US economy. But, nonetheless, the US economy is NOT POOR , and nor will it be until its unemployment rate is into the double digits, banks foreclose on a massive scale, &c.
I'm guessing they're in the 99%, especially if they keep posting those shitty videos.
Why'd you reboot? That seems like a pointless step.
How long will Phoenix hold up compared to the two rovers?
We're not talking about groups like Scientologists here,"
so you are selectively choosing religions to 'prove' you point? That is, if you consider Scientology a religion. I'm in agreeance with Germany that it's not a religion. As a consequence, I refuse to recognize it as a religion.