Just when Sprint appears to be going headlong into Moto-only insanely overpriced handsets (check out their web page, most handsets are Nextel --> another bad choice, oriented Moto handsets, big heavy, expensive, under featured, "rugged"), Moto is floundering. Sheer brilliance on Sprint's part. Maybe they both go out of business in 2008-9.
I hear the same argument from developing countries who wish to break all sorts of patents; on drugs, on biomedical research for example. The downside for them is that they often find themselves cut out of the distribution for the latest and greatest of these life saving tools, or, are often at the mercy of haphazard quality controls from second or third rate manufacturers.
The Red Revolution People's First October Socialist Workers Computing Platform. Which is either a Linux distro or pirated Windows anyway. Communists don't care about code you have to buy from the running dog lackeys of Capitalist Colonialist Aggression.
With a non integrated non integration tested bundle of software that's still closely coupled under the covers? I can just see the matrix of patches required by different combinations of components. It's going to be a nightmare.
The Bush administration made it quite clear that they were interested in the weaponization of space and not in space science. Space science, and for what it's worth, manned space flight is going to be phased out in favor of LEO programs that deploy weapons and weapons related systems.
For the student or low end user, they won't really care or notice much. I know no one in my family will. They already hate computers. For people who need someone a little more effective, it'll be Ubuntu or Linspire. Also I'm guessing that corporate users will get an additional year's reprieve.
Take Cary NC for example, Time Warner kicks back 15% of their revenue to the city as some kind of licensing fee or whatever dubious name they give it. It's a kick back. They are not going to give up a portion of their internet revenue without cutting back on the kickback to the city so the city for all it's noise and NPR friendly agitprop about 'WiFi for the People! For Free!" isn't interested in getting that off the ground. I'm sure every other city with a similar arrangement is the same. And that's w/o considering the substantial influence phone companies can exert on local governments about who gets which coverage and cell phone towers where and how those rights are licensed and kickedback.
You cannot exercise the same free speech rules when it comes to politically agendized Islam. That's called intolerance. Never mind that there's about 30 countries I am barred from entry to, simply by virtue of my religion - that's just 'ethnocultural diversity'. One would think that Holland with its 300 year history of no holds barred, freewheeling liberalism wouldn't cave to a tiny minority of people promising arson and death threats, but I guess this is the new Europe. Next up - burning the collected works of Jonathan Swift.
His columns for the whole past week were excerpts from his new book. And now he's getting air time from/. His basic thesis is - GEE who's a thought - people on the internet all flock to likeminded opinions to the exclusion of all rational discussion about anything that deviates from their gospel. Wow, never saw that coming.
BTW Farhad is the biggest Apple Fanboy in the world. Before this week 80% of his columns were about iPhones, iPods, Macs and Apple.
Spend 10% of the effort you spend looking for reasons to be outraged and simply ignore the installation. Odds are your prior browser is set to check whether it's the default browser or not and the next time you start it, it will ask you.
I'm getting a little disturbed by the whole "We hate it because the battery's not removable". Even here in the Tom's review they make the somewhat insane claim that the machine isn't portable because you can't swap batteries.
Well let me tell you, if you're going to load yourself down with extra batteries (and one supposes, a power supply), an optical drive then it's not that portable anymore either. Maybe you'd be happier with a T61 Thinkpad or a full blown MacBook? Swiss Army Knife isn't the intended purpose of the Mac Air, I'm sorry but it's not. And the twits at Tom's Hardware aren't going to trudge around with extra batteries for their HTC device either. Do you know why?
Because it's really a phone. Do you (yes I know there's a herd of unmedicated nitpickers out there waiting to correct me) really drag extra batteries around with your for your phone? I mean when you're NOT scaling El Capitan.....? Hey wait a minute that must mean the iPhone and the iPod are horrible products too because of the battery thing.
My Fortune 50 tech company have transformed massively in the past decade. The average tenure of employees has dropped from 15 years to 3. Most of the employees are young. As a result we get a lot of new fairly good product research and development out of them. The downside is that we get too many overlapping tools and products. How many java based chat clients do you need? 7? 10? How many Netmeeting type tools do you need? 5? 6? How many different VoIP type plugins can you really use? 100? 200? With the enthusiasm comes a stark lack of management. I don't know if it's a good thing or not.
I count my family among them. My wife has learned a few simple tasks, one way and any deviation from that no matter how slight is a catastrophe. You know the mail window in Netscape/Seamonkey? You know how you can have multiple folders? Yeah well if the topline gets clicked to collapse the view my wife starts screaming that someone 'broke' her computer. In fact she's never even started the browser from an icon. All she knows how to do is open the mail client and start the browser from that. Every document is on the desktop because she won't put anything in a folder else it 'gets lost'. Hell, I just recently after years and years convinced her to use DIFFERENT documents in Word. Till then she had almost everything in one gigantic document that had everything in a long trail of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds pages and to find a particular 'document' she'd just scroll through until she found the right page.
So in the end, whether it's some kind of brain defect, or a passive aggressive martyr complex, some people are just untrainable and you're wasting your time trying.
Unless and until they can get a legal trust fixing scheme where all the publishers decide they have to abandon DVD at the same time, and the courts go along with it, then all they will wind up doing is killing Blu-Ray. I'm not paying $400 for a player. I don't know anyone who's not in the dick measuring business who will. Sorry Blu-Ray, go sell crack somewhere else.
Yes generally it is. Ever more bloat ever more animated dancing bears. When things run faster it's been my experience that it is result of a complete code overhaul or when major functions are jettisoned. If that's not the case here, then I applaud them.
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Just when Sprint appears to be going headlong into Moto-only insanely overpriced handsets (check out their web page, most handsets are Nextel --> another bad choice, oriented Moto handsets, big heavy, expensive, under featured, "rugged"), Moto is floundering. Sheer brilliance on Sprint's part. Maybe they both go out of business in 2008-9.
I hear the same argument from developing countries who wish to break all sorts of patents; on drugs, on biomedical research for example. The downside for them is that they often find themselves cut out of the distribution for the latest and greatest of these life saving tools, or, are often at the mercy of haphazard quality controls from second or third rate manufacturers.
I have a copy of that around here. That's Chinese - pretty good for DBCS support.
I used OS/2 until I could use Windows 2000. So no, I never fawned at Microsoft.
The Red Revolution People's First October Socialist Workers Computing Platform. Which is either a Linux distro or pirated Windows anyway. Communists don't care about code you have to buy from the running dog lackeys of Capitalist Colonialist Aggression.
With a non integrated non integration tested bundle of software that's still closely coupled under the covers? I can just see the matrix of patches required by different combinations of components. It's going to be a nightmare.
The Bush administration made it quite clear that they were interested in the weaponization of space and not in space science. Space science, and for what it's worth, manned space flight is going to be phased out in favor of LEO programs that deploy weapons and weapons related systems.
For the student or low end user, they won't really care or notice much. I know no one in my family will. They already hate computers. For people who need someone a little more effective, it'll be Ubuntu or Linspire. Also I'm guessing that corporate users will get an additional year's reprieve.
Take Cary NC for example, Time Warner kicks back 15% of their revenue to the city as some kind of licensing fee or whatever dubious name they give it. It's a kick back. They are not going to give up a portion of their internet revenue without cutting back on the kickback to the city so the city for all it's noise and NPR friendly agitprop about 'WiFi for the People! For Free!" isn't interested in getting that off the ground. I'm sure every other city with a similar arrangement is the same. And that's w/o considering the substantial influence phone companies can exert on local governments about who gets which coverage and cell phone towers where and how those rights are licensed and kickedback.
You cannot exercise the same free speech rules when it comes to politically agendized Islam. That's called intolerance. Never mind that there's about 30 countries I am barred from entry to, simply by virtue of my religion - that's just 'ethnocultural diversity'. One would think that Holland with its 300 year history of no holds barred, freewheeling liberalism wouldn't cave to a tiny minority of people promising arson and death threats, but I guess this is the new Europe. Next up - burning the collected works of Jonathan Swift.
Rule #2: Everyone must convert to the religion of peace.
His columns for the whole past week were excerpts from his new book. And now he's getting air time from /. His basic thesis is - GEE who's a thought - people on the internet all flock to likeminded opinions to the exclusion of all rational discussion about anything that deviates from their gospel. Wow, never saw that coming.
BTW Farhad is the biggest Apple Fanboy in the world. Before this week 80% of his columns were about iPhones, iPods, Macs and Apple.
Then don't use autoupdate. It's the 'auto' part that's getting in your way. I never autoupdate anything.
Spend 10% of the effort you spend looking for reasons to be outraged and simply ignore the installation. Odds are your prior browser is set to check whether it's the default browser or not and the next time you start it, it will ask you.
That would make it an entirely unacceptable unsuitable product for almost everyone in the world. I applaud your tenacity.
Then some products are not for you.
I'm getting a little disturbed by the whole "We hate it because the battery's not removable". Even here in the Tom's review they make the somewhat insane claim that the machine isn't portable because you can't swap batteries.
Well let me tell you, if you're going to load yourself down with extra batteries (and one supposes, a power supply), an optical drive then it's not that portable anymore either. Maybe you'd be happier with a T61 Thinkpad or a full blown MacBook? Swiss Army Knife isn't the intended purpose of the Mac Air, I'm sorry but it's not. And the twits at Tom's Hardware aren't going to trudge around with extra batteries for their HTC device either. Do you know why?
Because it's really a phone. Do you (yes I know there's a herd of unmedicated nitpickers out there waiting to correct me) really drag extra batteries around with your for your phone? I mean when you're NOT scaling El Capitan.....? Hey wait a minute that must mean the iPhone and the iPod are horrible products too because of the battery thing.
I've noticed that BR players and TV's have actually gone UP in price recently. That to me is real stupid.
My Fortune 50 tech company have transformed massively in the past decade. The average tenure of employees has dropped from 15 years to 3. Most of the employees are young. As a result we get a lot of new fairly good product research and development out of them. The downside is that we get too many overlapping tools and products. How many java based chat clients do you need? 7? 10? How many Netmeeting type tools do you need? 5? 6? How many different VoIP type plugins can you really use? 100? 200? With the enthusiasm comes a stark lack of management. I don't know if it's a good thing or not.
The graphic in the article shows a +3G phase and a -4, -5G phase. There aren't too many tourists who can take that.
50, and an attorney.
I count my family among them. My wife has learned a few simple tasks, one way and any deviation from that no matter how slight is a catastrophe. You know the mail window in Netscape/Seamonkey? You know how you can have multiple folders? Yeah well if the topline gets clicked to collapse the view my wife starts screaming that someone 'broke' her computer. In fact she's never even started the browser from an icon. All she knows how to do is open the mail client and start the browser from that. Every document is on the desktop because she won't put anything in a folder else it 'gets lost'. Hell, I just recently after years and years convinced her to use DIFFERENT documents in Word. Till then she had almost everything in one gigantic document that had everything in a long trail of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds pages and to find a particular 'document' she'd just scroll through until she found the right page.
So in the end, whether it's some kind of brain defect, or a passive aggressive martyr complex, some people are just untrainable and you're wasting your time trying.
Unless and until they can get a legal trust fixing scheme where all the publishers decide they have to abandon DVD at the same time, and the courts go along with it, then all they will wind up doing is killing Blu-Ray. I'm not paying $400 for a player. I don't know anyone who's not in the dick measuring business who will. Sorry Blu-Ray, go sell crack somewhere else.
Yes generally it is. Ever more bloat ever more animated dancing bears. When things run faster it's been my experience that it is result of a complete code overhaul or when major functions are jettisoned. If that's not the case here, then I applaud them.