...but then you might need a smartphone and data plan with which to check the products in stock in your local electronics store against your distro's HCL.
Implying that you don't know what you're out to buy in the first place?
Honestly, I've never had that problem. But then, I tend to buy a lot of my peripherals online. I've already done the research to figure out if something's going to work with my particular setup or not. I can't imagine it would really be any different if I were running some version of Windows (or a Mac).
There is a reason why few people use Bing, Yahoo!, Live, Ask, etc...
I can't speak for Yahoo, Live, Ask, etc., but from what I've noticed from most home users (you know, the ones who buy their computers at Best Buy and use them as is), they all use Bing. It has nothing to do with what people prefer. It's what's set as the default and most people use it.
I wonder if anyone over at Canonical is now thinking this:
"Okay, so we're now designing a touch-screen version. Considering how many right-handed people are out there, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to move the window controls to the left-hand side of the screen."
I suppose they could use some sort of terminal/vnc/citrix/whatever-type setup to a server, but really, thinking the way this guy does is just wasting a lot of hardware that's still quite usable, IMO. Whether they're "provisioning" from a PC/Mac to a desktop or to an iPad is just that: provisioning.
What type of business you're in that you've used desktops until now, but believe you'll no longer need them at all once you have tablets in the employees' hands.
Almost no one watches real athletes like mountain climbers, weight lifters, soldiers qualifications courses, or deep sea divers. No one watches real gamers like hard core strategic wargamers. Just big steroid addicts playing kids ball games, and twitchy shooters.
I don't know how old you are, or what kind of shape you believe to be in, but I would counter your argument with "Try to play any of these kids ball games". It actually does take skill. I am, of course, referring to AmFootball, Baseball, Basketball, etc. and my personal favorite - soccer. Played well, any of these are physically demanding and require a fair amount of mental skill as well.
The fact that we tend to take these sports as entertainment is something altogether different.
But yes, I think some pro athletes - the same ones we follow in tabloids just as we do any other celebrity - are overpaid. I also think the overpaid ones are no longer in their respective sports for their love of said sport, rather they stay in it for the money/fame.
Because, apart from the Washington lobbyists/PR agencies this is not mentioned anywhere in the link provided.
The headline is misleading. Doesn't look like the internet has anything to do with it.
The plot, led by British solicitor Peter Cathcart, involves the use of Washington political lobbyists, PR agencies writing fake blogs and Twitter accounts, and a newspaper advertising campaign in the US.
Want to piss off everyone? Remind them how free they aren't.
Maybe you should remind us all (I'm American, BTW) how free the US is and Europe isn't. Because what you may believe to be free, Europeans might think of as oppressive. And they'll have their own "freedoms" that we don't.
But I would imagine that the stereotype comes more from exposure to many tourists.
BTW, take a stroll through NYC, Chicago, SF, LA or any other major US city and behold the stupid, ignorant tourist. They're not just American, although you'll see plenty of them too.
Are you saying you pay them first and then they fill up your propane tank? What if it doesn't all fit in the tank - do they give you a refund?
I have a 128 gallon tank (small, but it's a seasonal place, so that's really all that's needed). So far, all I use it for is the propane stove and water heater. I have a propane furnace, but to date I have only used electric space heaters when needed, which isn't really all that often. And frankly, that furnace hasn't been used in well over a decade, so I wouldn't use it without getting it checked/cleaned first. I inherited the place after my parents' death, so last summer was the first time the place was actually used in a decade. Needless to say, it's a fixer-upper's dream.
But yes, they come and fill up the propane tank, then I pay them. I don't get a bill. I pay them right then and there.
As an aside, the propane tank is never filled more than 85%. Don't know if that's a law around here, but that's how they do it.
As another aside, it amazes me that I can get faster DSL in the middle of the woods than I can at my place in Chicago, which is right across the street from an AT&T co.
I belong to a coop for my electricity, and yes, we do pre-pay, in a way. We pay 31 bucks a month for a set amount of kilowatt hours, and if we go over, we get charged more.
The big difference between electricity and cellphone data charges though, is that if I see I'm going substantially over my limit - very easy to do in the summer - then I can self-regulate, by not using power hogs like air conditioners. Or I can split my load to partial electricity and partial propane (which is ALWAYS prepaid in these parts). That's very hard to do with data consumption. I mean, say you visit a specific news site every day. Not unreasonable. But how do you know what's going to be on the page from one day to the next?
Not entirely true. That's why we have jailbroken iPhones.
All this complaining is from a developer's point of view. Users aren't really complaining about app rejection.
And if users really are complaining about app rejection (or a lack of apps for sale) and continue to buy iPhones, well, all I can say is - tough for them. There *ARE* other options out there. And good ones, too.
I've had the same yahoo account for, what, 15 years? I stopped using it for anything meaningful a long time ago. The reason? My address is a common last name with a first initial. Some stupid woman thought to register it without even checking to see if it was available.
She's interested in: hot black men and real estate. In Oakland, CA. I'm none of those things, so it's no skin off my nose. But it still provides me with some entertainment every now and again.
All carriers require an ID to obtain a prepaid. The system will not allow the person to put anything in
Last year I bought a cheap 15 dollar Tracfone and activated it without a stitch of ID in rural Wisconsin. Plunked down the money and walked out of the Radio Shack with a working, anonymous phone. Don't need any ID to renew minutes either. Each time I walk into a RS and buy a minutes card it extends the validity of the number for 90 more days.
We neuter words when we use them casually in a way they are not intended.
Yes we do.
But then, many people tout the ipad as "truly magical and revolutionary" too. Oh, and "What the device does is extraordinary. It is the best browsing experience you've ever had.... It's unbelievably great... way better than a laptop."
Words are used casually in ways they really aren't intended all the time. The trick is in seeing past them.
Give the software away and sell (crazy) expensive support plans... Free Software (as in beer) is the ideal opening for CISCO to broaden it's base into the small business.
They don't need to purchase Novell to do that. It's pretty much what all enterprise-ready Linux vendors do now.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought her swearing was a form of mockery of the oil industry workers in general. And quite rehearsed.
If she were just freestyle swearing, I could completely sympathize, but because (again, to me) it was mockery reaching an almost childish level, it just came across as theatrical profanity.
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Implying that you don't know what you're out to buy in the first place?
Honestly, I've never had that problem. But then, I tend to buy a lot of my peripherals online. I've already done the research to figure out if something's going to work with my particular setup or not. I can't imagine it would really be any different if I were running some version of Windows (or a Mac).
There are a fair number of us that have never needed Youtube, but would love to see an alternative for things like Hulu.
I can't speak for Yahoo, Live, Ask, etc., but from what I've noticed from most home users (you know, the ones who buy their computers at Best Buy and use them as is), they all use Bing. It has nothing to do with what people prefer. It's what's set as the default and most people use it.
and decided, no.
They exist.
You can change that. You know that, right?
I suppose they could use some sort of terminal/vnc/citrix/whatever-type setup to a server, but really, thinking the way this guy does is just wasting a lot of hardware that's still quite usable, IMO. Whether they're "provisioning" from a PC/Mac to a desktop or to an iPad is just that: provisioning.
What type of business you're in that you've used desktops until now, but believe you'll no longer need them at all once you have tablets in the employees' hands.
I don't know how old you are, or what kind of shape you believe to be in, but I would counter your argument with "Try to play any of these kids ball games". It actually does take skill. I am, of course, referring to AmFootball, Baseball, Basketball, etc. and my personal favorite - soccer. Played well, any of these are physically demanding and require a fair amount of mental skill as well.
The fact that we tend to take these sports as entertainment is something altogether different.
But yes, I think some pro athletes - the same ones we follow in tabloids just as we do any other celebrity - are overpaid. I also think the overpaid ones are no longer in their respective sports for their love of said sport, rather they stay in it for the money/fame.
Yeah, I'm generalizing.
The headline is misleading. Doesn't look like the internet has anything to do with it.
Maybe you should remind us all (I'm American, BTW) how free the US is and Europe isn't. Because what you may believe to be free, Europeans might think of as oppressive. And they'll have their own "freedoms" that we don't.
The world just isn't that black and white.
BTW, take a stroll through NYC, Chicago, SF, LA or any other major US city and behold the stupid, ignorant tourist. They're not just American, although you'll see plenty of them too.
Geek and engineer are not synonymous.
Sure it is.
You think they won't cart away the tank if I don't pay them when they fill it? You'd be mistaken. That's before I use any of it.
I have a 128 gallon tank (small, but it's a seasonal place, so that's really all that's needed). So far, all I use it for is the propane stove and water heater. I have a propane furnace, but to date I have only used electric space heaters when needed, which isn't really all that often. And frankly, that furnace hasn't been used in well over a decade, so I wouldn't use it without getting it checked/cleaned first. I inherited the place after my parents' death, so last summer was the first time the place was actually used in a decade. Needless to say, it's a fixer-upper's dream.
But yes, they come and fill up the propane tank, then I pay them. I don't get a bill. I pay them right then and there.
As an aside, the propane tank is never filled more than 85%. Don't know if that's a law around here, but that's how they do it.
As another aside, it amazes me that I can get faster DSL in the middle of the woods than I can at my place in Chicago, which is right across the street from an AT&T co.
The big difference between electricity and cellphone data charges though, is that if I see I'm going substantially over my limit - very easy to do in the summer - then I can self-regulate, by not using power hogs like air conditioners. Or I can split my load to partial electricity and partial propane (which is ALWAYS prepaid in these parts). That's very hard to do with data consumption. I mean, say you visit a specific news site every day. Not unreasonable. But how do you know what's going to be on the page from one day to the next?
Not entirely true. That's why we have jailbroken iPhones.
All this complaining is from a developer's point of view. Users aren't really complaining about app rejection.
And if users really are complaining about app rejection (or a lack of apps for sale) and continue to buy iPhones, well, all I can say is - tough for them. There *ARE* other options out there. And good ones, too.
She's interested in: hot black men and real estate. In Oakland, CA. I'm none of those things, so it's no skin off my nose. But it still provides me with some entertainment every now and again.
If, by big players, you mean players such as Hulu and Netflix, no dice. Not going to happen. They've said so.
In a few weeks, probably not before.
You're using email for something other than what it's intended, if you get that much email each month.
Seriously.
Last year I bought a cheap 15 dollar Tracfone and activated it without a stitch of ID in rural Wisconsin. Plunked down the money and walked out of the Radio Shack with a working, anonymous phone. Don't need any ID to renew minutes either. Each time I walk into a RS and buy a minutes card it extends the validity of the number for 90 more days.
Yes we do.
But then, many people tout the ipad as "truly magical and revolutionary" too. Oh, and "What the device does is extraordinary. It is the best browsing experience you've ever had. ... It's unbelievably great ... way better than a laptop."
Words are used casually in ways they really aren't intended all the time. The trick is in seeing past them.
They don't need to purchase Novell to do that. It's pretty much what all enterprise-ready Linux vendors do now.
If she were just freestyle swearing, I could completely sympathize, but because (again, to me) it was mockery reaching an almost childish level, it just came across as theatrical profanity.