On a couple of counts: 1. For typing, I can use the built-in "keyboard" easily enough. When I know I'll have to type a lot, like at a meeting, I'll bring my BT keyboard. 2. For creating documents, there are a number of Word-sort-of-compatible apps: Pages; Office2; QuickOffice; QuickWord; Documents To Go; etc. Yeah, it's not 100% Office compatibility, but if I need to shoot off a quick doc with some formatting, a table or two, I can do it. I'd use it on the airplane, or riding along as a passenger on a road trip to put together a rough draft that I'd finish in the office, using Word on the desktop. I realize that the platform and apps are limited, and there's a time and place to do different kinds of work. It's a matter of setting expectations.
If a ready-made X fit your needs, Ok, you'd have a point. However, in what I'm doing, lately, lots of times I either can't find what I need, or it's such a PITA to find it, that I'd love to have a 3D printer - if it produced parts I could actually use. Not all of us stay on the beaten path.
I hesitate to say, "You lack imagination." It's too confrontational for my tastes. However, if I had a quality 3D printer, capable of turning out durable pieces, I'd have almost no end of things I'd create: parts for robotics; automated pan-tilt assemblies; custom gears; custom servo horns; project cases for gadgets I've built; toys for my granddaughter; etc. As it is, I cut and drill pieces from stock plastic, and it's a pain in comparison to custom forming things from a CAD drawing.
I started out with an on-line account, but switched to hardcopy because a) I can hang on to them, indefinitely, and refer back to a particular article or circuit diagram, whereas with electronic-only, I lose access to them after my subscription runs out; and b) I can read them in the bathroom and not feel grossed out about hygiene.
Slight hole in your analogy, there. I can drive a car without a license - I drove a motorcycle without a license for about six months, long ago - just not legally. Licensing doesn't really do much to prevent criminals from doing what they want.
If this report is true, MS is fucking pathetic. I'm not particularly "anti-MS": I just don't care. I think in terms of, "Whatever gets the job done." But, upon hearing reports that their competitors are doing something with a "smart watch," MS now has to slut themselves to create a "me-too" product...? Have they no self-respect? They're like an old whore chasing down Johns from corner to corner, hoping someone will throw a buck their way, while everyone else looks away in embarrassment.
WTF...? You do notown a cat. At best, they live with you. You, the human, are being used. You provide food and shelter. If they like you, they'll grace you with their presence. If not, they're outtaheah. "Own..." Such noobness.
Like what? Seriously, short of code compilation and serial communications - for connecting to embedded devices, which I might, in fact, be able to do with my iPad - what can't I do on my tablet? Word? Got it. Excel? Got it. Drawing tools? Got it. Browser and email? Got it. Network analysis? Dunno - haven't really checked if Wireshark has been ported.
Roger that. At my last job, at a large multi-national working on medical diagnostics, I worked for a couple of years for a woman with whom I got along well enough. Then, she moved to a different group and a raging asshole took over - the kind that would literally look over your shoulder and tell you what to type, or holler at you in team meetings, or lie about what was in the actual scope of the upcoming release so he'd get us to do additional things that would make him look good, but cause us to work extra hours. Late one night, working on another impossible deadline, I got a blurry spot in my right eye but thought it was dirty contacts. Long story short, after seeing various eye doctors, I learned I'd burst a vessel in my retina (BRVO) and the blood was clouding my vision. This happens more often in older folks, but relatively rarely in younger people: I was like an infant compared to the majority of the folks in the waiting room. The treatment for it is direct injections into the eye, every six weeks or so. Yeah, lots of fun. I saved up enough to allow me to quit and coast for a while - it's been 8 months, so far - and at my last retinal specialist visit, the eye was good enough I didn't need an injection. Gee, I didn't have this problem before working for that raging asshole, and it's healed after I stopped working for him. S'pose there's direct correlation, there?
I agree: the crackers out there will crack, regardless. Further, the petitioner never mentioned to what degree he wanted to stop piracy. What level of piracy is acceptable? 0%? Not possible. At the other extreme, if no one is paying, then, yeah, something's fucked up. I'd guess a decent product might actually see around 5% to 10% piracy, but what are you gonna do? The harder you make it for people to rip you off, the more likely it is you'll piss off your honest customers. How does that help them? They're not the ones you want to hurt.
As I see it, I develop because I like to, and if people want to pay me for what I produce, I'm happy. If they want it so badly that they're willing to steal it, I'm happy with that, too. As long as people are using my stuff.
Jesus, dude - I'm fuckin' wasted, and even I can come up with Babelfish. For example, do you know that her "translations" are 100% semantically and idiomatically correct? Probably not. C'mon, mate. Try harder.
You don't even need to do that - unless you're into that kind of thing. Some drives - micro SD - are so small you can fit them between your fingers and cops wouldn't see them.
If only that nonsense about mixed marriages had ended in the 50s. In fact, it wasn't until 2001 that Alabama became the last state to drop its laws against mixed marriages. My own mother, a northerner all her life, was less than happy that I married a Native American girl, and that was in 1984. Of course, now my mother likes my wife more than she likes me, so I don't know what to tell you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States
At my last corp job, I brought in my own laptop and Sprint wireless modem. My work machine was for nothing but work, and they had no idea how much time I spent surfing/.. If I'd had something to whistle-blow, I'd have just copied it to a flash drive from my work machine, and sent it from my personal laptop.
I speak from experience. Think back to those sessions where you busted your balls for who knows how long, not even stopping for a drink or potty break. You did it because it was interesting stuff, a unique challenge, right? Now, contrast that with your day to day work. Either find the discipline to deal with the boredom, or find a way to make your tasks less boring.
I might agree with you if the purpose of modern institutions of higher learning was to educate people, rather than churn out degrees. In my experience at two different colleges - Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (UPB) - the goal wasn't to learn stuff: it was to pass the class. Teachers at RIT were cold, indifferent, and didn't really give a shit whether we "got it" or not. All the better if you failed a class because you'd have to pay for it again. UPB was a little better, since the class sizes were small and you got to know your teachers, but it's not like we'd spend an extra day on a subject that stumped a lot of the kids. Colleges, today, are like puppy mills.
No guns drawn on us, but my wife and I, who really like Happy Jack's in Fort Erie, have lost a bit of desire to go there for lunch because of the assholes manning the US side of the border. On special occasions, we'll push our luck and go, and the Canadians are always cool about it. The Americans are almost always total power-tripping buttheads.
If true, in that this pol is left-leaning, wouldn't it make more sense that he'd totally support anonymous speech? Liberals from the line of Locke, et al, would frown on repressing freedom of speech.
I had a nice 24" Dell - no complaints, especially since the company provided it - but I bought a 24" Apple LED Cinema Display for personal use. It's a few years old so it doesn't have the latest ports, but I'm on this just about all day and love it. When I ran a day-to-day business for computer support, I often recommended Acer monitors: they were nice, and not all that expensive, but it's been a few years since I've worked with them.
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On a couple of counts: 1. For typing, I can use the built-in "keyboard" easily enough. When I know I'll have to type a lot, like at a meeting, I'll bring my BT keyboard. 2. For creating documents, there are a number of Word-sort-of-compatible apps: Pages; Office2; QuickOffice; QuickWord; Documents To Go; etc. Yeah, it's not 100% Office compatibility, but if I need to shoot off a quick doc with some formatting, a table or two, I can do it. I'd use it on the airplane, or riding along as a passenger on a road trip to put together a rough draft that I'd finish in the office, using Word on the desktop. I realize that the platform and apps are limited, and there's a time and place to do different kinds of work. It's a matter of setting expectations.
If a ready-made X fit your needs, Ok, you'd have a point. However, in what I'm doing, lately, lots of times I either can't find what I need, or it's such a PITA to find it, that I'd love to have a 3D printer - if it produced parts I could actually use. Not all of us stay on the beaten path.
I hesitate to say, "You lack imagination." It's too confrontational for my tastes. However, if I had a quality 3D printer, capable of turning out durable pieces, I'd have almost no end of things I'd create: parts for robotics; automated pan-tilt assemblies; custom gears; custom servo horns; project cases for gadgets I've built; toys for my granddaughter; etc. As it is, I cut and drill pieces from stock plastic, and it's a pain in comparison to custom forming things from a CAD drawing.
"Good with guns"? Out of all the cops chasing them, they hit 2.
"don't want to risk more of their men." Isn't that their job?
I started out with an on-line account, but switched to hardcopy because a) I can hang on to them, indefinitely, and refer back to a particular article or circuit diagram, whereas with electronic-only, I lose access to them after my subscription runs out; and b) I can read them in the bathroom and not feel grossed out about hygiene.
Slight hole in your analogy, there. I can drive a car without a license - I drove a motorcycle without a license for about six months, long ago - just not legally. Licensing doesn't really do much to prevent criminals from doing what they want.
If this report is true, MS is fucking pathetic. I'm not particularly "anti-MS": I just don't care. I think in terms of, "Whatever gets the job done." But, upon hearing reports that their competitors are doing something with a "smart watch," MS now has to slut themselves to create a "me-too" product...? Have they no self-respect? They're like an old whore chasing down Johns from corner to corner, hoping someone will throw a buck their way, while everyone else looks away in embarrassment.
WTF...? You do not own a cat. At best, they live with you. You, the human, are being used. You provide food and shelter. If they like you, they'll grace you with their presence. If not, they're outtaheah. "Own..." Such noobness.
"Destroyed"? Seriously? As in no new development for iOS? No app market? There are limits to hyperbole, you know.
Like what? Seriously, short of code compilation and serial communications - for connecting to embedded devices, which I might, in fact, be able to do with my iPad - what can't I do on my tablet? Word? Got it. Excel? Got it. Drawing tools? Got it. Browser and email? Got it. Network analysis? Dunno - haven't really checked if Wireshark has been ported.
Roger that. At my last job, at a large multi-national working on medical diagnostics, I worked for a couple of years for a woman with whom I got along well enough. Then, she moved to a different group and a raging asshole took over - the kind that would literally look over your shoulder and tell you what to type, or holler at you in team meetings, or lie about what was in the actual scope of the upcoming release so he'd get us to do additional things that would make him look good, but cause us to work extra hours. Late one night, working on another impossible deadline, I got a blurry spot in my right eye but thought it was dirty contacts. Long story short, after seeing various eye doctors, I learned I'd burst a vessel in my retina (BRVO) and the blood was clouding my vision. This happens more often in older folks, but relatively rarely in younger people: I was like an infant compared to the majority of the folks in the waiting room. The treatment for it is direct injections into the eye, every six weeks or so. Yeah, lots of fun. I saved up enough to allow me to quit and coast for a while - it's been 8 months, so far - and at my last retinal specialist visit, the eye was good enough I didn't need an injection. Gee, I didn't have this problem before working for that raging asshole, and it's healed after I stopped working for him. S'pose there's direct correlation, there?
I agree: the crackers out there will crack, regardless. Further, the petitioner never mentioned to what degree he wanted to stop piracy. What level of piracy is acceptable? 0%? Not possible. At the other extreme, if no one is paying, then, yeah, something's fucked up. I'd guess a decent product might actually see around 5% to 10% piracy, but what are you gonna do? The harder you make it for people to rip you off, the more likely it is you'll piss off your honest customers. How does that help them? They're not the ones you want to hurt.
As I see it, I develop because I like to, and if people want to pay me for what I produce, I'm happy. If they want it so badly that they're willing to steal it, I'm happy with that, too. As long as people are using my stuff.
Jesus, dude - I'm fuckin' wasted, and even I can come up with Babelfish. For example, do you know that her "translations" are 100% semantically and idiomatically correct? Probably not. C'mon, mate. Try harder.
You don't even need to do that - unless you're into that kind of thing. Some drives - micro SD - are so small you can fit them between your fingers and cops wouldn't see them.
If that were the case, the voting pattern would not have elicited so much consideration.
If only that nonsense about mixed marriages had ended in the 50s. In fact, it wasn't until 2001 that Alabama became the last state to drop its laws against mixed marriages. My own mother, a northerner all her life, was less than happy that I married a Native American girl, and that was in 1984. Of course, now my mother likes my wife more than she likes me, so I don't know what to tell you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States
At my last corp job, I brought in my own laptop and Sprint wireless modem. My work machine was for nothing but work, and they had no idea how much time I spent surfing /.. If I'd had something to whistle-blow, I'd have just copied it to a flash drive from my work machine, and sent it from my personal laptop.
But I play lacrosse, you insensitive clods!
I speak from experience. Think back to those sessions where you busted your balls for who knows how long, not even stopping for a drink or potty break. You did it because it was interesting stuff, a unique challenge, right? Now, contrast that with your day to day work. Either find the discipline to deal with the boredom, or find a way to make your tasks less boring.
I might agree with you if the purpose of modern institutions of higher learning was to educate people, rather than churn out degrees. In my experience at two different colleges - Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (UPB) - the goal wasn't to learn stuff: it was to pass the class. Teachers at RIT were cold, indifferent, and didn't really give a shit whether we "got it" or not. All the better if you failed a class because you'd have to pay for it again. UPB was a little better, since the class sizes were small and you got to know your teachers, but it's not like we'd spend an extra day on a subject that stumped a lot of the kids. Colleges, today, are like puppy mills.
Your blasé attitude toward this dystopian paradise is inspiring.
No guns drawn on us, but my wife and I, who really like Happy Jack's in Fort Erie, have lost a bit of desire to go there for lunch because of the assholes manning the US side of the border. On special occasions, we'll push our luck and go, and the Canadians are always cool about it. The Americans are almost always total power-tripping buttheads.
If true, in that this pol is left-leaning, wouldn't it make more sense that he'd totally support anonymous speech? Liberals from the line of Locke, et al, would frown on repressing freedom of speech.
I'm evil. And I've been evil for years...
I had a nice 24" Dell - no complaints, especially since the company provided it - but I bought a 24" Apple LED Cinema Display for personal use. It's a few years old so it doesn't have the latest ports, but I'm on this just about all day and love it. When I ran a day-to-day business for computer support, I often recommended Acer monitors: they were nice, and not all that expensive, but it's been a few years since I've worked with them.