Not even the best parents can have all the time in the world, no matter how much they try to. Parents have jobs and lives, not to mention that even the most loving parents do need a little time to themselves once in a while to keep from going crazy.
That may be true nowadays, but I'm gonna be a little un-PC here. Women used to readily accept their roles as the main bringer-uppers of children, and looker-afters of the home (them being generally more skilled than men at these tasks). Both parents do not need a paying job! Perhaps if they started to see that that was a pretty damn good solution, and that the suffragettes went a little too far in their campaigning, we might see kids have mroe quality time with A parent, helping to instill some graces back into them? Just a thought.
Then again, looking at the graces of the average mother in the US nowadays....:-)
One fundamental thing I can think of in the way of this: offline messaging. You can with Yahoo, you can't with MSN. What's gonna happen? I seriously hope they go the way of allowing it in both clients; e-mail just isn't a good replacement.
I have a whole lot of problems with them and since it was my tax dollars and not the EU's that paid for the Internet in the first place (from the R&D to the initial deployments) I'll be damned if my Government turns it over to the World
No, you'd rather have them hand it over to private corporations.
Why is PostgreSQL not as well-known/popular as mySQL? Whenever you hear of an OSS database, it's almost always mySQL, mySQL, mySQL. Especially on Slashdot. Hoenstly, I don't get it, it's not very good now, it's been even worse in the past; why is it so popular if it's that much worse than PostgreSQL? DB lock-in, momentum? Seriously???
Plus the mailman automatically empties the collection can for used disks.
You Americans and your quaint per-household mail/postboxes.:-) We in the UK don't have this, and usually have to walk a rather longer distance to find our nearest postbox. Even then, we might have trouble getting a decent sized parcel in there.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure why we don't have a system like that of the US. Perhaps because it costs more for the postman to deliver AND collect at the same time?
Personally, I think Windows' builtin ZIP support sucks cock. I still like to think of a ZIP file as a file, not a folder. To actually extract the ZIP's files, you have to go thru a stupid wizard thingy. As well, only zip is supported, not better compressed formats.
I still always install WinRAR w/ shell integration immediately after any Windows install.
Maybe for upgrades (I personally do upgrade my desktop) - but what about hardware failure? Hard drive or motherboard failure (already more likely in a laptop) means you have to buy a whole new laptop, not so for a desktop. Laptops are already more expensive, and throwing out all that equipment can't be good for the environment either (I bet they won't get recycled).
But desktops can deliver a few things that mobiles can't
Just to add to your list with a few things that put me off laptops: - Decent quality keyboard. Personally I hate the layout and feel of a laptop keyboard. - Decent quality/proper mouse. - Decent quality monitor.
Yeah, I know that the first two can be attached to a laptop but I doubt a company would bother with that if they're going to use laptops for everything. The monitor is a biggie. Unless screen tech improved radically, a laptop monitor is never going to be as good as a desktop one, both in quality and size; especially size. Try fitting a 21" monitor into a laptop, and keeping it as portable.
As pretty much all relevant ISPs (that is, the ones that are still in business) have discovered, truly unlimited high-speed internet is not a good, sustainable business plan at the moment.
I've looked around all over the place and can't seem to find a picture of an example of a badly scratched Nano screen. Come on, are us non-iPod owners meant to just imagine this phenomenon? I want pictures!!!!!
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Not even the best parents can have all the time in the world, no matter how much they try to. Parents have jobs and lives, not to mention that even the most loving parents do need a little time to themselves once in a while to keep from going crazy.
:-)
That may be true nowadays, but I'm gonna be a little un-PC here. Women used to readily accept their roles as the main bringer-uppers of children, and looker-afters of the home (them being generally more skilled than men at these tasks). Both parents do not need a paying job! Perhaps if they started to see that that was a pretty damn good solution, and that the suffragettes went a little too far in their campaigning, we might see kids have mroe quality time with A parent, helping to instill some graces back into them? Just a thought.
Then again, looking at the graces of the average mother in the US nowadays....
One fundamental thing I can think of in the way of this: offline messaging. You can with Yahoo, you can't with MSN. What's gonna happen? I seriously hope they go the way of allowing it in both clients; e-mail just isn't a good replacement.
You really don't remember the odd kinky photo? They'd stand out a mile out to me.
Eh? When was the last time you talked about women's beach volleyball?
core functionality would be free, probably ad-driven
Unfortunately, greedy Firefoxers with AdBlock would take care of that. (I am not one such person)
wtf is the EN?
It would be REALLY interesting, though, to see what happens to the SPAM industry if such segmentation were to happen.
And the ham industry, too. But what would be even more interesting is what happened with junk e-mail.
I have a whole lot of problems with them and since it was my tax dollars and not the EU's that paid for the Internet in the first place (from the R&D to the initial deployments) I'll be damned if my Government turns it over to the World
No, you'd rather have them hand it over to private corporations.
Why is PostgreSQL not as well-known/popular as mySQL? Whenever you hear of an OSS database, it's almost always mySQL, mySQL, mySQL. Especially on Slashdot. Hoenstly, I don't get it, it's not very good now, it's been even worse in the past; why is it so popular if it's that much worse than PostgreSQL? DB lock-in, momentum? Seriously???
And the energy expended to make/recycle them in the first place?
Plus the mailman automatically empties the collection can for used disks.
:-) We in the UK don't have this, and usually have to walk a rather longer distance to find our nearest postbox. Even then, we might have trouble getting a decent sized parcel in there.
You Americans and your quaint per-household mail/postboxes.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure why we don't have a system like that of the US. Perhaps because it costs more for the postman to deliver AND collect at the same time?
Sony should have the full weight of the DMCA applied against them.
:-)
Right. But who's gonna sue Sony?
Personally, I think Windows' builtin ZIP support sucks cock. I still like to think of a ZIP file as a file, not a folder. To actually extract the ZIP's files, you have to go thru a stupid wizard thingy. As well, only zip is supported, not better compressed formats.
I still always install WinRAR w/ shell integration immediately after any Windows install.
And that's why you apply a few simple security measures
Why aren't these applied by default?
...the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
If you roll up your sleeves you should still be OK, but be careful as they may get shot.
Lets say I want to increase the memory on a 5 yr old machine... opps I can't buy that anymore so I need a new motherboard/cpu/memory
Wrong. You can get all sorts of memory types, including old memory. Check out www.crucial.com.
Now the video card won't work so I need a new one of those too and of course the power supply needs swapped too.
Video card ought to work fine as long as it was made within the last 20 or so years, and why would you need a new power supply?
Maybe for upgrades (I personally do upgrade my desktop) - but what about hardware failure? Hard drive or motherboard failure (already more likely in a laptop) means you have to buy a whole new laptop, not so for a desktop. Laptops are already more expensive, and throwing out all that equipment can't be good for the environment either (I bet they won't get recycled).
But desktops can deliver a few things that mobiles can't
Just to add to your list with a few things that put me off laptops:
- Decent quality keyboard. Personally I hate the layout and feel of a laptop keyboard.
- Decent quality/proper mouse.
- Decent quality monitor.
Yeah, I know that the first two can be attached to a laptop but I doubt a company would bother with that if they're going to use laptops for everything. The monitor is a biggie. Unless screen tech improved radically, a laptop monitor is never going to be as good as a desktop one, both in quality and size; especially size. Try fitting a 21" monitor into a laptop, and keeping it as portable.
How about 'I live in the "east" and I have to go thru the Great Firewall of China! And that's still a great deal in my city!'
As pretty much all relevant ISPs (that is, the ones that are still in business) have discovered, truly unlimited high-speed internet is not a good, sustainable business plan at the moment.
Not sure about that.
Your tactic might be a bit screwed when the two companies merge.
I don't see no Latin message anywhere, when I zoom in the tree is just pixelated.
I've looked around all over the place and can't seem to find a picture of an example of a badly scratched Nano screen. Come on, are us non-iPod owners meant to just imagine this phenomenon? I want pictures!!!!!
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Is that when they start talking about computers and D&D?
And the name's annoying, because I always get him mixed up with this guy.