Along with going around apologizing for other people's actions of decades or centuries ago, a.k.a. self-aggrandizement by convicting dead people in absentia of questionable crimes, with latent implications of lack of self-worth.
This is not a keyboard: It is a program displaying a picture that looks like a keyboard, on a computer that masquerades as being a telephone, all controlled by people and companies you don't know and wouldn't trust if you did.
Leading to the question, Why would anyone knowingly purchase a computer they cannot control? When will folks wake up and stop drinking this so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" Kool-Aid?
The Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany), March 1938, wasn't even twenty years after 11 November 1918 (the Armistice to the "War to End All Wars").
Why would you use a computer you cannot control? Those gadgets are neither "smart" nor "telephones" they are computers that someone else controls. In other words, Telescreens (c.f., "1984") and anyone who pays money to subsidize such insanity is an enabler of an abusive relationship.
...are neither. It's not the telephone stuff you're complaining about. It's the fact that you bought a computer you cannot control. No-one with a clue about software ought to fall for being hoodwinked into this alleged "smartphone" craze which is part Big Brother, part Advertisers' Wet Dream. Listen to Richard Stallman: thirty years ago he might have sounded like a crackpot, if it weren't for how his predictions keep coming true: your freedoms are being taken one by one, and everybody just thinks how wonderful it is. Perhaps some folks will wake up.
In a world where everyone is practically required to carry a telescreen which tracks them at all times, which spouts approved government "Amber Alerts" and panicky National Security Alarms -- devices which you can be imprisoned for "jailbreaking" -- will Microsoft become the lesser of the evils?
Mod+J on this keyboard is left arrow whereas every programmer since ASCII started (1963) knows Ctrl+J is linefeed (cursor down), and Ctrl+H is backspace (cursor left). Certainly at least since the ADM-3A (1975) and the vi editor, (left,down,up,right) have been (H,J,K,L) yet this keyboard's modifiers give you those on (J,K,I,L) instead? Huh?
I have an information for you, that while some spend time architecting, others designerize. You'll have to acclimatizate yourself to how folks vocalizate now. Here, drink a water. (Sigh)
How will these systems react to a deer or elk standing in the woods next to the highway? Or blowing debris in a windstorm? Or a dust storm? A blowout on that 18-wheeler just up ahead? A trailer with a loose mattress?...false sense of security, anyone?
You and Joe Biden ought to check your calendars; it's been the 21st century for well over a decade now.
Also, real libraries have old and out-of-print books, rare books, maps, art collections, local publications and artifacts, and plenty of things that are highly unlikely ever to be digitized, or which history -- and historians! -- demand be kept for the public good. In this information age, we need librarians more than ever. Get rid of libraries and you scrap civilization itself.
Isn't it true that a bus stop may be used by any conveyance, public or private? If you are loading or unloading passengers, you may use one, you just can't wait there. So what is the problem?
It's "a software" again. I'd like to give the author an information, perhaps while we eat a spaghetti, that in English we have "mass nouns" and thus you cannot have one hardware or one clothing or one software.
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Along with going around apologizing for other people's actions of decades or centuries ago, a.k.a. self-aggrandizement by convicting dead people in absentia of questionable crimes, with latent implications of lack of self-worth.
When a publisher drops a title, that means it is no longer in publication. Original headline is complete confusion.
This is not a keyboard: It is a program displaying a picture that looks like a keyboard, on a computer that masquerades as being a telephone, all controlled by people and companies you don't know and wouldn't trust if you did.
Leading to the question, Why would anyone knowingly purchase a computer they cannot control? When will folks wake up and stop drinking this so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" Kool-Aid?
Google seems to excel at Embrace, Extend, Evaporate.
The Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany), March 1938, wasn't even twenty years after 11 November 1918 (the Armistice to the "War to End All Wars").
Step 1: Don't use a so-called "smart" so-called "phone." Step 2: There is no step 2.
Why would you use a computer you cannot control? Those gadgets are neither "smart" nor "telephones" they are computers that someone else controls. In other words, Telescreens (c.f., "1984") and anyone who pays money to subsidize such insanity is an enabler of an abusive relationship.
As a 20-year veteran of Perl programming, I am authorized to say: Twitter looks like line noise.
...are neither. It's not the telephone stuff you're complaining about. It's the fact that you bought a computer you cannot control. No-one with a clue about software ought to fall for being hoodwinked into this alleged "smartphone" craze which is part Big Brother, part Advertisers' Wet Dream. Listen to Richard Stallman: thirty years ago he might have sounded like a crackpot, if it weren't for how his predictions keep coming true: your freedoms are being taken one by one, and everybody just thinks how wonderful it is. Perhaps some folks will wake up.
Yes, away from Windows, and away from Apple.
Be thankful it wasn't (cringe) "softwares" at least.
In a world where everyone is practically required to carry a telescreen which tracks them at all times, which spouts approved government "Amber Alerts" and panicky National Security Alarms -- devices which you can be imprisoned for "jailbreaking" -- will Microsoft become the lesser of the evils?
Except the Navajo Nation within Arizona, which goes observes Daylight Time, except the Hopi Nation within the Navajo Reservation which doesn't.
In http://xkcd.com/1492/
Columbus sailed the ocean gold
If you're not giving at least 110%, you could be giving more, right?
Mod+J on this keyboard is left arrow whereas every programmer since ASCII started (1963) knows Ctrl+J is linefeed (cursor down), and Ctrl+H is backspace (cursor left). Certainly at least since the ADM-3A (1975) and the vi editor, (left,down,up,right) have been (H,J,K,L) yet this keyboard's modifiers give you those on (J,K,I,L) instead? Huh?
That man in the White House has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
sudo make me a sandwich
I have an information for you, that while some spend time architecting, others designerize. You'll have to acclimatizate yourself to how folks vocalizate now. Here, drink a water. (Sigh)
How will these systems react to a deer or elk standing in the woods next to the highway? Or blowing debris in a windstorm? Or a dust storm? A blowout on that 18-wheeler just up ahead? A trailer with a loose mattress? ...false sense of security, anyone?
It is a single council, speaking as a single entity. One council says; two councils say.
You and Joe Biden ought to check your calendars; it's been the 21st century for well over a decade now.
Also, real libraries have old and out-of-print books, rare books, maps, art collections, local publications and artifacts, and plenty of things that are highly unlikely ever to be digitized, or which history -- and historians! -- demand be kept for the public good. In this information age, we need librarians more than ever. Get rid of libraries and you scrap civilization itself.
Isn't it true that a bus stop may be used by any conveyance, public or private? If you are loading or unloading passengers, you may use one, you just can't wait there. So what is the problem?
It's "a software" again. I'd like to give the author an information, perhaps while we eat a spaghetti, that in English we have "mass nouns" and thus you cannot have one hardware or one clothing or one software.