Twitter is spam central unless you only follow your close friends.
It's not just Twitter.
All social media outlets are heavily infested with marketers trying to spin their products or trash their competitors. As soon as a service becomes popular, they're all over it like flies on rotting garbage.
There was a brief few years when you could read Slashdot with the expectation that people expressing an opinion about a product actually held that opinion. Now it's more likely to come from a script or checklist.
perhaps you havent seen the shift microsoft has made since WinMo6.
Have you actually used a W7 phone?
Like most new MS UI designs (ribbon anyone?), it's superficially pretty in a banal kind of way, but doesn't actually improve anything. It's change for the sake of appearing different.
The home screen's fine for a few apps, but gets in the way if you add more, and again, the more you use the OS, the more inconsistencies you run into. There's almost no "Wow" moments, and many times when you don't get what you expect - Bing appearing when you wanted to search inside a document, for example.
I'd hesitate to say it was genuinely bad, but uninteresting, definitely. Using it made me even happier about choosing a Galaxy S (Android) for my own phone.
If you break into the network of the Westpac bank,
You're clearly not familiar with Australian banks.
If you broke into the network of the Westpac bank, they'd be more likely to steal from you than the other way around. They've had a lot more practice, and have far lower scruples than the average cracker.
It seems to me if Moore's had continued we should be talking about the 1 Tbit ram chip by now. I think there is a definite wall with ram memory
That's a consequence of our current OS monopoly.
There has been no significant innovation in operating systems in the past decade. System hardware demands are driven by thresholds of user needs. Text had the lowest demands, so 8 bit computers with a few kilobytes of RAM satisfied that. Graphical displays and chip-based sound drove us through 16 bit and tens of megabytes, while high quality sound, photo-realistic imagery and 3D games demanded gigabytes, and gigahertz X 64 bit CPUS.
Unless operating systems change to enable innovative new software, to in turn change how we use computers, our needs thresholds will be met by current tech, and there will be no demand for stronger hardware. Just look to netbooks, if you need a concrete example.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not just Twitter.
All social media outlets are heavily infested with marketers trying to spin their products or trash their competitors. As soon as a service becomes popular, they're all over it like flies on rotting garbage.
There was a brief few years when you could read Slashdot with the expectation that people expressing an opinion about a product actually held that opinion. Now it's more likely to come from a script or checklist.
This is important.
It's also why MICROSOFT should be excluded from government contracts.
Are you kidding?
When they turned Mad Max into Road Warrior, they dubbed in American accents because Australians were too hard to understand!
They've been in use in Australia for most of this decade.
Fortunately, the universe contains enough complexity that simple answers are rarely enough for complete explanations.
Only if it is inherited, otherwise it's more likely to be developmental.
You could get a definitive answer by surveying a group of exclusively homosexual men to determine if their fathers were also exclusively homosexual...
I wonder how much Microsoft is paying Oracle.
Have you actually used a W7 phone?
Like most new MS UI designs (ribbon anyone?), it's superficially pretty in a banal kind of way, but doesn't actually improve anything. It's change for the sake of appearing different.
The home screen's fine for a few apps, but gets in the way if you add more, and again, the more you use the OS, the more inconsistencies you run into. There's almost no "Wow" moments, and many times when you don't get what you expect - Bing appearing when you wanted to search inside a document, for example.
I'd hesitate to say it was genuinely bad, but uninteresting, definitely. Using it made me even happier about choosing a Galaxy S (Android) for my own phone.
Remember, correlation != causation.
Bukimi no Tani Gensh, aka The Uncanny Valley
Windows update?
Well, 'spin computer' definitely sounds like a Microsoft product.
Um, try Googling "Microsoft Sidekick Fiasco".
Meh.
My calendar goes up to 11/11/11...
...And in Shunga Japan, squid parents tell their children that fishermen's wives taste just like fish.
More likely to be your ISP/link to the .au repo. A friend on Telstra ADSL often has similar problems.
Try using the Optus or Internode mirrors. Both have been reliable for me.
You're clearly not familiar with Australian banks.
If you broke into the network of the Westpac bank, they'd be more likely to steal from you than the other way around. They've had a lot more practice, and have far lower scruples than the average cracker.
I use my oven for that. (Those crispy critters are tasty...)
That's a consequence of our current OS monopoly.
There has been no significant innovation in operating systems in the past decade. System hardware demands are driven by thresholds of user needs. Text had the lowest demands, so 8 bit computers with a few kilobytes of RAM satisfied that. Graphical displays and chip-based sound drove us through 16 bit and tens of megabytes, while high quality sound, photo-realistic imagery and 3D games demanded gigabytes, and gigahertz X 64 bit CPUS.
Unless operating systems change to enable innovative new software, to in turn change how we use computers, our needs thresholds will be met by current tech, and there will be no demand for stronger hardware. Just look to netbooks, if you need a concrete example.
Up, up and away!
Oh wait.
I thought you said TEA!
You let them run your country...
Aka the Acid 25 test...
Why would you pay to use the products of an entity that is blackmailing you?
What version were you using, and was it with Word or ODF documents?