Try to convert 100km/h to mph while the cop is just behind you, and the driving instructor next you, and you have to make the decision in a few seconds, meaning calculation from one system to another, and taking care of the passing by cars, and the good looking chicken crossing the street, and the singing birds, and...and....
And now lately i've came across the RARE sites that demand you to disable adblock plus and or noscript?
I haven't seen that, but any site which makes that suggestion will simply get a back button and then ignored.
Really? You've never been to hulu.com? I get at least a couple of them every show I watch through them. I just wait it out, though. The clock just ticks the seconds down until the black-screened warning goes away and programming resumes.
BTW, the entire premise that you have to constantly, obsessively, upgrade hardware is foolish. Just thought you should know.
Thanks for saying that.
It bugs me to no end that we mindlessly dump perfectly good electronics into our landfills all for the sake of having the latest and greatest, rather than improved functionality (which, most of these hardware upgrades don't provide).
But they don't actively make fun of you for using their products. With Google it's seamless their browser self updates, they also don't try to charge you anywhere near the cost of a new computer to update the software product. It's free.
I woulds invite you to try to install, never mind upgrade, Chrome or Chromium on an older device without having to jump through some pretty serious OS and/org glib upgrades. While it's free, yes, it's hardly seamless. It can't be done.
To be fair, MS isn't the only company that cuts support of older products. They all do it.
Just one example: Try to use most of Google's products, whether GMail, G+, Maps, whatever with a four year old browser. You'll see a nice little message pop up telling you that what you're trying to do won't work, because you're using an unsupported browser.
I recently found this out when I bought a BenQ UMPC (remember those?) with a decent enough browser (can do most any JS I can throw at it). It's just older than what they want you to use.
The comments from people who automatically assume that just because its Disney it's going t somehow be aimed at toddlers hasn't been paying attention the last twenty years or so. Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction? Released under branches of Disney.
On the other hand, you can count on Disney to milk it for all it's worth, and then some.
I occasionally watch "Once Upon a Time" (Disney owned/produced), which started out well enough. Then they started adding in other Disney characters from different timelines, and it just got... ridiculous.
Shortly after the Disney purchase, an episode featured a rather prominent Start Wars ringtone from one of the characters' cell phones. Yeah. That fit right in.
When I was a kid growing up in Northern Minnesota, we would see the lights often enough. Then there was a period from the mid-to-late 80s up until the mid-2000s I suppose that there were none to be seen.
Within the last couple years, though, they're back with increasing frequency. I've been able to catch them at least twice each year for the last two years from Northern Wisconsin. And two years ago (I think), I had a friend that lives in Ohio that was able to clearly see them.
... and install a fresh Windows 7 Pro on it. In the 18 months that I've had the machine, I've never once used it.
The last netbook I bought, I decided that I'd keep a Win partition around with Win7 on it, for the maybe one time a year I need to use a single program not available to me in Linux (in truth, there are alternatives, but a couple of the agencies I work with insist on this one piece of software) in addition to my usual Linux everyday workhorse distribution.
Last week was the first time I booted it into Windows since I set it up with Linux. It was painful. A few hundred megs of anti-virus updates needed to be downloaded, which took forever. Surprisingly, Win7 only had 15 security updates for the entire year and a half-or-so that I'd not used it. They were big, though.
To be fair though, I've downloaded at least as much, if not more, than that for Linux updates over that time period.
"This" is shorthand for "I agree very much with this statement". The implication is the statement you agree with is so strongly and obviously true that you don't need to say more than "this".
Not defending the previous poster, but "This" is totally overused. Overused enough that it makes the person using it illiterate.
Yes, I'm counting the metro area. Which is covered by several well-networked public transit systems. Coverage is doable, if the priorities are there. Houston's priorities aren't in public transit. That was my point.
However, don't forget that in a city as sprawling as Houston, connecting suburbs is a nightmare. We're spread out over roughly 600 square miles. That's a LOT of land to cover for any kind of public transportation. Cars are a daily part of life in a city like this. No car almost equals no job nor social life around here.
And yet Chicago, roughly 10,000 square miles, manages to do so nicely (contrary to what locals bitch about).
My FB usage has gone down a lot over the last year. I just can't see it going back up. I suppose the concept of "Home" is nice (even though it's just to harvest your data), but, well... I'd never use it.
So now all of my notes are stored in Google Drive, but that isn't doing me any good because Keep wont read them.
If Keep eventually shuts down, sure the data might survive, but will anything be able to use it?
Does search in GDrive not work for you? If it's searchable (and already stored in GDrive), your data is still usable.
For me, search within GDrive is the main reason to use it (well, and archival). It's faster than my desktop search.
I could program the same functionality within 24h it looks like a super useless service.
Said the AC.
I don't have any real reason to start using Keep since I use a combination of a desktop program, a chrome extension and sync it all to Gdrive (and it all works nicely for me), but yes, please do write something up in 24 hours that can do what it does.
I'm quite sure you're unaware of all that it can do, particularly on the android side of things.
I am pretty sure their customers have real world addresses too, and letters could be sent there. They could also ask for an email account.
If my ISP ever sends an email to their provided email account I will never know. I have never and will never log into it.
Of course, most people do have other email addresses, too. My point was the CYA aspect of it for the ISP. That you never check the ISP-provided email address isn't the point. Next time you complain of not being notified of something, they'll come back with "We notified you."
It's been a long time since I considered an ISP having a user's bests interests at heart.
I've always thought that using an ISP-provided email address is a form of vendor lock-in. Want to change ISPs? Then you will lose the email address you've had for so many years.
Maybe. I also think it's a CYA thing on the part of he ISP. They're probably required by law to be able to notify customers of changes, etc., and the only way they can do that is if they make sure the customer has an email address.
That said, I remember back in 2000 when I had ATT as an ISP, they used Yahoo as their mail provider.
I need something that is cross machine compatible, linking my read/unread to a single machine isn't fun
I know Netvibes have mobile versions specific to iPad, iPhone and android. They're just mobile websites, though. Even so, you're essentially looking at your same data on all devices.
Personally, I like the idea of not having to install a separate app on other devices.
I'm right in that average, maybe a little over (pushing 30gb). I work from home. I am on 1.5mbps down line of sight wireless and 512 or 384 (forget which) up. We watch youtube videos on the 3xx setting (380? 324? 340? I forget). Occasionally stream music. We average somewhere between.8 and 1.2gb per day. We download almost no videos, I don't even play online games anymore...
My bandwidth and usage is almost exactly like yours, except I average a couple hours of Hulu every day, maybe skipping a day a week. I can get the average as low as.6g a day if I lower the rate to 240. I don't think I've ever gone above 1g per day, unless I've downloaded either large files or system updates.
One other thing to be aware of that doesn't seem to get mentioned very often is uploads. Depending on what you're doing, you can rack up a few hundred megs in a day just on uploads.
I seriously doubt my mother has ever used a gig of data in any month.
Have you actually measured her usage? I can blow through 100M in a hour, simply visiting websites and checking email with Thunderbird. Add Pidgin or whatever chat (never mind Skype) and it goes way up.
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Try to convert 100km/h to mph while the cop is just behind you, and the driving instructor next you, and you have to make the decision in a few seconds, meaning calculation from one system to another, and taking care of the passing by cars, and the good looking chicken crossing the street, and the singing birds, and...and....
"OK Google. Convert 100km/h to mph."
In a connected world, anyway.
Who cares why? It's a game of roulette.
The reason our economy is fucked, distilled in one sentence.
I haven't seen that, but any site which makes that suggestion will simply get a back button and then ignored.
Really? You've never been to hulu.com? I get at least a couple of them every show I watch through them. I just wait it out, though. The clock just ticks the seconds down until the black-screened warning goes away and programming resumes.
BTW, the entire premise that you have to constantly, obsessively, upgrade hardware is foolish. Just thought you should know.
Thanks for saying that.
It bugs me to no end that we mindlessly dump perfectly good electronics into our landfills all for the sake of having the latest and greatest, rather than improved functionality (which, most of these hardware upgrades don't provide).
But they don't actively make fun of you for using their products. With Google it's seamless their browser self updates, they also don't try to charge you anywhere near the cost of a new computer to update the software product. It's free.
I woulds invite you to try to install, never mind upgrade, Chrome or Chromium on an older device without having to jump through some pretty serious OS and/org glib upgrades. While it's free, yes, it's hardly seamless. It can't be done.
Just one example: Try to use most of Google's products, whether GMail, G+, Maps, whatever with a four year old browser. You'll see a nice little message pop up telling you that what you're trying to do won't work, because you're using an unsupported browser.
I recently found this out when I bought a BenQ UMPC (remember those?) with a decent enough browser (can do most any JS I can throw at it). It's just older than what they want you to use.
hmmm, 50 grand? a website and some files? what the hell did you do for 50 grand? you people are nuts.
Probably wrote half an email program using three full-time developers.
I kid, I kid.
(not really)
The comments from people who automatically assume that just because its Disney it's going t somehow be aimed at toddlers hasn't been paying attention the last twenty years or so. Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction? Released under branches of Disney.
On the other hand, you can count on Disney to milk it for all it's worth, and then some.
I occasionally watch "Once Upon a Time" (Disney owned/produced), which started out well enough. Then they started adding in other Disney characters from different timelines, and it just got... ridiculous.
Shortly after the Disney purchase, an episode featured a rather prominent Start Wars ringtone from one of the characters' cell phones. Yeah. That fit right in.
Within the last couple years, though, they're back with increasing frequency. I've been able to catch them at least twice each year for the last two years from Northern Wisconsin. And two years ago (I think), I had a friend that lives in Ohio that was able to clearly see them.
... and install a fresh Windows 7 Pro on it. In the 18 months that I've had the machine, I've never once used it.
The last netbook I bought, I decided that I'd keep a Win partition around with Win7 on it, for the maybe one time a year I need to use a single program not available to me in Linux (in truth, there are alternatives, but a couple of the agencies I work with insist on this one piece of software) in addition to my usual Linux everyday workhorse distribution.
Last week was the first time I booted it into Windows since I set it up with Linux. It was painful. A few hundred megs of anti-virus updates needed to be downloaded, which took forever. Surprisingly, Win7 only had 15 security updates for the entire year and a half-or-so that I'd not used it. They were big, though.
To be fair though, I've downloaded at least as much, if not more, than that for Linux updates over that time period.
"This" is shorthand for "I agree very much with this statement". The implication is the statement you agree with is so strongly and obviously true that you don't need to say more than "this".
Not defending the previous poster, but "This" is totally overused. Overused enough that it makes the person using it illiterate.
So, to follow up, can a person take public transit to go from Wisconsin to Gary, Indiana?
Yes, you can. You would need to use two different train transit systems, but they're well timed and run many routes each day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Metropolitan_Area
Yes, I'm counting the metro area. Which is covered by several well-networked public transit systems. Coverage is doable, if the priorities are there. Houston's priorities aren't in public transit. That was my point.
However, don't forget that in a city as sprawling as Houston, connecting suburbs is a nightmare. We're spread out over roughly 600 square miles. That's a LOT of land to cover for any kind of public transportation. Cars are a daily part of life in a city like this. No car almost equals no job nor social life around here.
And yet Chicago, roughly 10,000 square miles, manages to do so nicely (contrary to what locals bitch about).
My FB usage has gone down a lot over the last year. I just can't see it going back up. I suppose the concept of "Home" is nice (even though it's just to harvest your data), but, well... I'd never use it.
Is this a repost from 1997?
I get the feeling it's a bored troll just trying to get a rise out of someone.
The question will never get a straightforward answer, especially here on slashdot - and because there's no one true answer.
So now all of my notes are stored in Google Drive, but that isn't doing me any good because Keep wont read them. If Keep eventually shuts down, sure the data might survive, but will anything be able to use it?
Does search in GDrive not work for you? If it's searchable (and already stored in GDrive), your data is still usable.
For me, search within GDrive is the main reason to use it (well, and archival). It's faster than my desktop search.
I could program the same functionality within 24h it looks like a super useless service.
Said the AC.
I don't have any real reason to start using Keep since I use a combination of a desktop program, a chrome extension and sync it all to Gdrive (and it all works nicely for me), but yes, please do write something up in 24 hours that can do what it does.
I'm quite sure you're unaware of all that it can do, particularly on the android side of things.
I am pretty sure their customers have real world addresses too, and letters could be sent there. They could also ask for an email account.
If my ISP ever sends an email to their provided email account I will never know. I have never and will never log into it.
Of course, most people do have other email addresses, too. My point was the CYA aspect of it for the ISP. That you never check the ISP-provided email address isn't the point. Next time you complain of not being notified of something, they'll come back with "We notified you."
It's been a long time since I considered an ISP having a user's bests interests at heart.
I've always thought that using an ISP-provided email address is a form of vendor lock-in. Want to change ISPs? Then you will lose the email address you've had for so many years.
Maybe. I also think it's a CYA thing on the part of he ISP. They're probably required by law to be able to notify customers of changes, etc., and the only way they can do that is if they make sure the customer has an email address.
That said, I remember back in 2000 when I had ATT as an ISP, they used Yahoo as their mail provider.
... most people doesn't use RSS, it's obscure geeky thing
Yes, that's why pretty much every major news outlet around the globe has RSS feeds. Solely for geeks.
I need something that is cross machine compatible, linking my read/unread to a single machine isn't fun
I know Netvibes have mobile versions specific to iPad, iPhone and android. They're just mobile websites, though. Even so, you're essentially looking at your same data on all devices.
Personally, I like the idea of not having to install a separate app on other devices.
I'm right in that average, maybe a little over (pushing 30gb). I work from home. I am on 1.5mbps down line of sight wireless and 512 or 384 (forget which) up. We watch youtube videos on the 3xx setting (380? 324? 340? I forget). Occasionally stream music. We average somewhere between .8 and 1.2gb per day. We download almost no videos, I don't even play online games anymore...
My bandwidth and usage is almost exactly like yours, except I average a couple hours of Hulu every day, maybe skipping a day a week. I can get the average as low as .6g a day if I lower the rate to 240. I don't think I've ever gone above 1g per day, unless I've downloaded either large files or system updates.
One other thing to be aware of that doesn't seem to get mentioned very often is uploads. Depending on what you're doing, you can rack up a few hundred megs in a day just on uploads.
I seriously doubt my mother has ever used a gig of data in any month.
Have you actually measured her usage? I can blow through 100M in a hour, simply visiting websites and checking email with Thunderbird. Add Pidgin or whatever chat (never mind Skype) and it goes way up.