Except It costs hundreds of times as much, is relatively delicate and requires a power source.
Luckily, it's a trivial expense compared to tuition and other associated costs, is no more delicate than the electronics that are already being carried around, and they probably aren't holding class in a non-electrified jungle so it couldn't be recharged. If such a thing like a tablet with OneNote would actually help a person's workflow (and it might not work for everybody), it's probably worth it to get one and use it.
People complaining loudly about how Apple's next version of iOS or OS X is going to suck is not exactly a new thing. I've been a Mac user since 2003, and I have been watching this theater since... 2003.
It's like a shy cat in an apartment. You won't see that cat again, and an exhaustive search of most of the rooms in the apartment comes up empty, but something keeps eating the cat food. Thus, we have concluded there's a cat in the apartment... but nobody has actually ever seen the cat.
Well, at this point, the cat food is being eaten, there is cat hair everywhere, the litter box is getting filled, and if somebody meows they will hear another meow come back in return from inside the wall. People can argue that it's not a cat, but whatever it is, it acts like a shy cat nobody has ever seen and any other explanations are a lot stranger than a cat that nobody has ever seen. Same thing for dark matter, either there is matter that only interacts via gravity, or there is something else out there that acts exactly like matter that only interacts via gravity.
If you read Nonie Darwish's book ( she is the daughter of a well respected high ranking Gaza intelligence officer who was eventually assassinated by the Israelis ) she says the Saudi stuff IS the dominant force in islam today globally and it continues to get stronger, even in America, when she walks into a mosque, what is being privately taught between Muslims is holy war against infidels. She says all the usual excuses about "jihad means inner struggle" is just PR meant for westerners.
Doesn't sound much different that what I hear from "Christians" about muslims and the middle east when I go back to the South to visit family.
I think he's using the past tense as in the DISTANT past, like 250 years ago on western sailing warships and the like, or back in the days of slavery.
"Distant past" would be 140 years ago in 1881 for flogging with a cat of nine tails and 77 years ago in 1936 for caning in the British navy. Even then it was just suspended and not actually taken off the books until the 1960's.
I am getting increasingly concerned that the old duopoly is Apple and Microsoft has no interest in evolving its Desktop machines, Windows replacing their OS with a tablet interface, and Apple is replacing it with a cylinder...and the choice of expensive external hard drives.
Sorry, but like it or not, that is pretty much evolving. Maybe not in a way you like and could be into a dead end, but doubtful in Apple's case anyway. When I supported devs, artists, and other people who used professional machines fifteen years ago, I was already refusing to put extra hard drives in them because the main problem was not having enough space on the local machine, but getting them to actually put their work on the file servers which were backed up every night. I imagine things have only gone more that way. Even with people with Macs that I support at my current job, the norm is already for external hard drives, especially with the Time Machine storage drive. File servers are already becoming common in the home setting, and for people that want a Mac pro rather than an iMac or Mini, swapping out USB hard drives is already easier than replacing internal disks, and if they're buying a pro machine and need it, they're probably also already looking at thunderbolt drives.
All I saw from the "Manning videos" was "man, war still sucks, don't have any illusions of a video game war". The video was shocking, but not evidence of any scandal.
It was a while back, but I thought the scandal wasn't so much in what happened, but in covering it up after the fact.
You do understand, don't you, that except for the L4 and L5 points all of the Lagrange points are very unstable?
You do understand don't you that once we are talking about moving sun shades to Lagrange points around other planets and terraforming, that we are speaking of energy budgets that would dwarf maintenance on keeping any such item in that Lagrange point for a substantial period of time. Sort of like taking the great American cross country family road trip to Disney World and then complaining that the cost of parking might be too much.
With the people I see covered in tattoos, it's pretty obvious that they aren't making a lot of money in their careers, and probably don't get much above minimum wage. You don't see lower-income people traveling the world, but for some reason you do see a subset of them spending all their money on tattoos. If you have plenty of money, spending some on frivolous stuff is fine, but if you're barely hanging on, and you have kids, it's extremely irresponsible.
Depends on where you live and who you know. I live in Seattle. Even some of the cops have forearms sleeve tattoos let alone lots of computer developers working for Adobe or Microsoft. I make decent money but decided to start traveling the world specifically because my friends that I knew had minimum wage jobs were doing so. Sure, they do things differently. They get the good travel deals, camp or fine friends of friends to stay with, and constantly budget their money on food and such. They also spend a lot more time over in Europe or Asia than I can. It's one of the reasons they work that minimum wage job, because when they want to go spend a month in Goa, or tour with their band on a six week trip through Europe. They can quit anytime they want and get another job once they get back. Getting tattoos, traveling the world, having and raising kids, or buying a house are mostly deciding what you want to do, forming a plan, and doing it rather than any other set of criteria such as income.
How many physical ads in the paper were you "forced" to glance over?
Funny thing is, the ads are why I pick up the local print papers. That's the easiest way to find out what is going on locally, what movies and bands are playing, and what special events I might not want to miss. Doing that all online would probably involve going to twenty different websites and going to the paper's website is unreliable for the same purpose as the banner ads don't rotate in any order.
"Apps" blah blah blah blah. I've got a couple of Windows Phones, and I really don't care about "apps". I use it to get stuff done, and it's much easier to get stuff done than people who have to go through their laundry list of "apps" on the other two devices. Windows Phones will become more popular once the "app" fad is over, and people (growups who aren't geeks), as a whole, decide that they're tired of dicking around with their phones all the time.
Wow. You're a real account. I was really expecting that post to be from some AC troll.
Let me tell you something, in 5 years, those "kids" will be adults and still using apps, and those adults that don't use apps will be that much closer to dying off. Smart phones have been around for at least a decade now, and so far, people just want more functionality, more apps, and more dicking around with their phones. However, let's clear something up that I think you have a hard time understanding. They are no longer phones. They are small computers that fit into people's pockets which happen to have a phone feature. People are using them like computers, and the key to personal computing has always been the killer app. People may not need all the apps, but there's probably a couple that each person wants. To cover the needs of all those people, you need a large library of apps. The app "fad" will die out after all the people alive today begin to die out and something better has come along. Going to less functionability will never be the something better.
You do realize that the Gates kids are only getting 2mil each from inheritance. That isn't even a rounding error compared to the amount of money Bill still has. All of his money is going into a charity.
I'll believe that when it happens. I'd also be that their car, college, and funding for their first business venture doesn't come out of that 2 million. More than likely, there is a trust someplace for them, and they are listed with such a low but concrete amount to show that they are in the will and weren't forgotten or otherwise to cut down on any contesting of his will.
I'll even throw you a freebie that it was a military demonstration that opened up trade with Japan for the US, so what?
We may not have leased land or started colonies, but we did engage in unequal treaties forced on other nations such as Japan with military power that treated them like economic colonies. Japan was one of the different ones that although seeing the writing on the wall agreed to such treaties began almost immediately with both diplomatic tours in an effort to build up political power and allies to get better treaties and a course of modernization to make sure they had a military power to resist the nations forcing these treaties on them and other nations such as China.
I get annoyed at this app store comparison crud. It ONLY has 10,000 apps...
Lets see, I have:
*snip*
And that's all I need. I think once you get past a certain number of apps, does it really matter any more?
Certainly does, because I don't need much of any of what you need. I need different reference books than you do. I like different games. I have a different bank. I have completely different hobbies that require completely different apps. I need none of the music apps you speak of as I'm a photographer. I need model release apps. Vending apps. etc. Other people have still other hobbies, interests and needs. You list twenty some apps that you want that I have no need for. At that rate, there is only 500 sets of interests and I bet there are more than that in real life. Hell, I like to download apps on the cities I visit for maps and sightseeing info. There are probably more than a thousand of those needed to get people like me in the habit of looking for things like a guide to Leipzig, Germany and keep coming back. 10k apps really is a pitiful selection when trying to appeal to the entire population of the US, let alone the world.
The problem is, what could they have pushed in 7 that would have made it a success in the office market? Even in 2004 it would have sunk.
XP is, has and offers everything the office environment wants. Does printers out of the box, does networking out of the box, does WiFi out of the box, does USB out of the box... What does 7 offer more than XP? Aside of graphic gimmicks the average CFO brushes aside before you're done saying "graphics gimmicks"?
More than 3.5 gigs of memory. All our hardware for years has at at least 4, but we can only use 3.5. Some of our apps can really use that extra memory and even our standard office workers could make use of it as their normal workflow often require being logged into multiple systems and documents at the same time.
Saudi's publicly executed the nephew of a Saudi ambassador.
I think we are dealing with the exception that proves the rule when we have to go back to 1977 and pull up a case dealing with a Saudi Princess who essentially committed suicide by legal system to find a case of a significant male being executed for adultery, He was just thrown under a bus as all she had to do was keep quiet and marry the man she refused to marry (as much as said to be the real crime by the Saudi family) and they would have lived and things swept under the rug.
The PC isn't dead; the market is simply saturated with computers that are finally "good enough"....
While I would agree that computers are finally "good enough" and older computers have less of an need to be upgraded as two year computer replacement in the business because three year and now is around five if not longer depending on the work it does, that environments such as business are now simply "saturated". In the last ten years that I have been working at my job, it finally reached the point where it became a way of thinking that every person and every station at work needs a computer. Before it was just office workers, and now, as things shifted over to being computer controlled and paperless workflows, everybody gets a computer. Even in the household, single computer families have instead gone to everybody gets their own computer families as a standard. Not only does everybody now have a computer but those computers are good enough to still do what needed to be done and thus get replaced less often.
Ender's Game is a good book if read at a young age where the reader can identify with the main character as a child of great potential who is being mistreated as some sort of wish fulfillment. Usually for boys, as girls read something like Twilight which has a similarly non-descript lead that the reader can interject themselves in as with little effort. As an adult, its a fairly simple, predictable, and fast read of no real great merit.
The National Socialist Party is about as accurate a name as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Well, it was once Hitler killed Rohm and did away with all the Socialist ideas in the Nazi party except for the name. The Baath Party had the same issue as being the left over arabic arm of the Nazi party still had "socialist" in the name so Syria and Iraq had to keep doing this semantics dance about what what "Arab socialism" means.
I agree entirely, but the concept of marriage got hijacked by the state hundreds of years ago (to varying degrees, culminating in what we have today)—the "redefinition" happened long before we were born.
I would disagree. Marriage is a civil concept that got hijacked by religion hundreds of years ago (for Western civ), turned over to the church mainly for ease of recording since they were more ever present than governmental offices and a major social center of the community. This is made harder in that hundreds and thousands of years ago, there was less of a distinction between state and religion. Even in more recent "atheist regimes" there was still marriage. Marriage is a concept and practice that went between religions, cultures, and people, for which each religion jut appended its own rules.
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Except It costs hundreds of times as much, is relatively delicate and requires a power source.
Luckily, it's a trivial expense compared to tuition and other associated costs, is no more delicate than the electronics that are already being carried around, and they probably aren't holding class in a non-electrified jungle so it couldn't be recharged. If such a thing like a tablet with OneNote would actually help a person's workflow (and it might not work for everybody), it's probably worth it to get one and use it.
People complaining loudly about how Apple's next version of iOS or OS X is going to suck is not exactly a new thing. I've been a Mac user since 2003, and I have been watching this theater since... 2003.
Hell, I've been hearing it since Mac OS 7.5.
It's like a shy cat in an apartment. You won't see that cat again, and an exhaustive search of most of the rooms in the apartment comes up empty, but something keeps eating the cat food. Thus, we have concluded there's a cat in the apartment... but nobody has actually ever seen the cat.
Well, at this point, the cat food is being eaten, there is cat hair everywhere, the litter box is getting filled, and if somebody meows they will hear another meow come back in return from inside the wall. People can argue that it's not a cat, but whatever it is, it acts like a shy cat nobody has ever seen and any other explanations are a lot stranger than a cat that nobody has ever seen. Same thing for dark matter, either there is matter that only interacts via gravity, or there is something else out there that acts exactly like matter that only interacts via gravity.
If you read Nonie Darwish's book ( she is the daughter of a well respected high ranking Gaza intelligence officer who was eventually assassinated by the Israelis ) she says the Saudi stuff IS the dominant force in islam today globally and it continues to get stronger, even in America, when she walks into a mosque, what is being privately taught between Muslims is holy war against infidels. She says all the usual excuses about "jihad means inner struggle" is just PR meant for westerners.
Doesn't sound much different that what I hear from "Christians" about muslims and the middle east when I go back to the South to visit family.
I think he's using the past tense as in the DISTANT past, like 250 years ago on western sailing warships and the like, or back in the days of slavery.
"Distant past" would be 140 years ago in 1881 for flogging with a cat of nine tails and 77 years ago in 1936 for caning in the British navy. Even then it was just suspended and not actually taken off the books until the 1960's.
The US navy had gotten rid of flogging in 1850.
I am getting increasingly concerned that the old duopoly is Apple and Microsoft has no interest in evolving its Desktop machines, Windows replacing their OS with a tablet interface, and Apple is replacing it with a cylinder...and the choice of expensive external hard drives.
Sorry, but like it or not, that is pretty much evolving. Maybe not in a way you like and could be into a dead end, but doubtful in Apple's case anyway. When I supported devs, artists, and other people who used professional machines fifteen years ago, I was already refusing to put extra hard drives in them because the main problem was not having enough space on the local machine, but getting them to actually put their work on the file servers which were backed up every night. I imagine things have only gone more that way. Even with people with Macs that I support at my current job, the norm is already for external hard drives, especially with the Time Machine storage drive. File servers are already becoming common in the home setting, and for people that want a Mac pro rather than an iMac or Mini, swapping out USB hard drives is already easier than replacing internal disks, and if they're buying a pro machine and need it, they're probably also already looking at thunderbolt drives.
All I saw from the "Manning videos" was "man, war still sucks, don't have any illusions of a video game war". The video was shocking, but not evidence of any scandal.
It was a while back, but I thought the scandal wasn't so much in what happened, but in covering it up after the fact.
You do understand, don't you, that except for the L4 and L5 points all of the Lagrange points are very unstable?
You do understand don't you that once we are talking about moving sun shades to Lagrange points around other planets and terraforming, that we are speaking of energy budgets that would dwarf maintenance on keeping any such item in that Lagrange point for a substantial period of time. Sort of like taking the great American cross country family road trip to Disney World and then complaining that the cost of parking might be too much.
Aren't Macs produced in China?
They are assembled in China. Most of the parts are manufactured in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
With the people I see covered in tattoos, it's pretty obvious that they aren't making a lot of money in their careers, and probably don't get much above minimum wage. You don't see lower-income people traveling the world, but for some reason you do see a subset of them spending all their money on tattoos. If you have plenty of money, spending some on frivolous stuff is fine, but if you're barely hanging on, and you have kids, it's extremely irresponsible.
Depends on where you live and who you know. I live in Seattle. Even some of the cops have forearms sleeve tattoos let alone lots of computer developers working for Adobe or Microsoft. I make decent money but decided to start traveling the world specifically because my friends that I knew had minimum wage jobs were doing so. Sure, they do things differently. They get the good travel deals, camp or fine friends of friends to stay with, and constantly budget their money on food and such. They also spend a lot more time over in Europe or Asia than I can. It's one of the reasons they work that minimum wage job, because when they want to go spend a month in Goa, or tour with their band on a six week trip through Europe. They can quit anytime they want and get another job once they get back. Getting tattoos, traveling the world, having and raising kids, or buying a house are mostly deciding what you want to do, forming a plan, and doing it rather than any other set of criteria such as income.
Your question implies that schools are being used a prisons that every minor is sentenced to.
I don't think you'll find any student, even out of the good ones, that would disagree with that is what they are.
How many physical ads in the paper were you "forced" to glance over?
Funny thing is, the ads are why I pick up the local print papers. That's the easiest way to find out what is going on locally, what movies and bands are playing, and what special events I might not want to miss. Doing that all online would probably involve going to twenty different websites and going to the paper's website is unreliable for the same purpose as the banner ads don't rotate in any order.
"Apps" blah blah blah blah. I've got a couple of Windows Phones, and I really don't care about "apps". I use it to get stuff done, and it's much easier to get stuff done than people who have to go through their laundry list of "apps" on the other two devices. Windows Phones will become more popular once the "app" fad is over, and people (growups who aren't geeks), as a whole, decide that they're tired of dicking around with their phones all the time.
Wow. You're a real account. I was really expecting that post to be from some AC troll.
Let me tell you something, in 5 years, those "kids" will be adults and still using apps, and those adults that don't use apps will be that much closer to dying off. Smart phones have been around for at least a decade now, and so far, people just want more functionality, more apps, and more dicking around with their phones. However, let's clear something up that I think you have a hard time understanding. They are no longer phones. They are small computers that fit into people's pockets which happen to have a phone feature. People are using them like computers, and the key to personal computing has always been the killer app. People may not need all the apps, but there's probably a couple that each person wants. To cover the needs of all those people, you need a large library of apps. The app "fad" will die out after all the people alive today begin to die out and something better has come along. Going to less functionability will never be the something better.
You do realize that the Gates kids are only getting 2mil each from inheritance. That isn't even a rounding error compared to the amount of money Bill still has. All of his money is going into a charity.
I'll believe that when it happens. I'd also be that their car, college, and funding for their first business venture doesn't come out of that 2 million. More than likely, there is a trust someplace for them, and they are listed with such a low but concrete amount to show that they are in the will and weren't forgotten or otherwise to cut down on any contesting of his will.
I'll even throw you a freebie that it was a military demonstration that opened up trade with Japan for the US, so what?
We may not have leased land or started colonies, but we did engage in unequal treaties forced on other nations such as Japan with military power that treated them like economic colonies. Japan was one of the different ones that although seeing the writing on the wall agreed to such treaties began almost immediately with both diplomatic tours in an effort to build up political power and allies to get better treaties and a course of modernization to make sure they had a military power to resist the nations forcing these treaties on them and other nations such as China.
If you formatted all the stuff you copied and pasted there, it would probably be more readable.
I get annoyed at this app store comparison crud. It ONLY has 10,000 apps...
*snip*
And that's all I need. I think once you get past a certain number of apps, does it really matter any more?
Certainly does, because I don't need much of any of what you need. I need different reference books than you do. I like different games. I have a different bank. I have completely different hobbies that require completely different apps. I need none of the music apps you speak of as I'm a photographer. I need model release apps. Vending apps. etc. Other people have still other hobbies, interests and needs. You list twenty some apps that you want that I have no need for. At that rate, there is only 500 sets of interests and I bet there are more than that in real life. Hell, I like to download apps on the cities I visit for maps and sightseeing info. There are probably more than a thousand of those needed to get people like me in the habit of looking for things like a guide to Leipzig, Germany and keep coming back. 10k apps really is a pitiful selection when trying to appeal to the entire population of the US, let alone the world.
The problem is, what could they have pushed in 7 that would have made it a success in the office market? Even in 2004 it would have sunk.
XP is, has and offers everything the office environment wants. Does printers out of the box, does networking out of the box, does WiFi out of the box, does USB out of the box... What does 7 offer more than XP? Aside of graphic gimmicks the average CFO brushes aside before you're done saying "graphics gimmicks"?
More than 3.5 gigs of memory. All our hardware for years has at at least 4, but we can only use 3.5. Some of our apps can really use that extra memory and even our standard office workers could make use of it as their normal workflow often require being logged into multiple systems and documents at the same time.
Saudi's publicly executed the nephew of a Saudi ambassador.
I think we are dealing with the exception that proves the rule when we have to go back to 1977 and pull up a case dealing with a Saudi Princess who essentially committed suicide by legal system to find a case of a significant male being executed for adultery, He was just thrown under a bus as all she had to do was keep quiet and marry the man she refused to marry (as much as said to be the real crime by the Saudi family) and they would have lived and things swept under the rug.
The PC isn't dead; the market is simply saturated with computers that are finally "good enough"....
While I would agree that computers are finally "good enough" and older computers have less of an need to be upgraded as two year computer replacement in the business because three year and now is around five if not longer depending on the work it does, that environments such as business are now simply "saturated". In the last ten years that I have been working at my job, it finally reached the point where it became a way of thinking that every person and every station at work needs a computer. Before it was just office workers, and now, as things shifted over to being computer controlled and paperless workflows, everybody gets a computer. Even in the household, single computer families have instead gone to everybody gets their own computer families as a standard. Not only does everybody now have a computer but those computers are good enough to still do what needed to be done and thus get replaced less often.
Let the endless, pointless debate begin... now!
Ender's Game is a good book if read at a young age where the reader can identify with the main character as a child of great potential who is being mistreated as some sort of wish fulfillment. Usually for boys, as girls read something like Twilight which has a similarly non-descript lead that the reader can interject themselves in as with little effort. As an adult, its a fairly simple, predictable, and fast read of no real great merit.
The National Socialist Party is about as accurate a name as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Well, it was once Hitler killed Rohm and did away with all the Socialist ideas in the Nazi party except for the name. The Baath Party had the same issue as being the left over arabic arm of the Nazi party still had "socialist" in the name so Syria and Iraq had to keep doing this semantics dance about what what "Arab socialism" means.
I have no idea if there is a term for multiple men and multiple women that is more specific than polygamy.
Polyamorous would probably work, but is not limited to a group that are all associated with each other in a single social contract.
No, in those countries they execute both the man and woman involved.
I bet they only kill the poor men who can be made an example of.
I agree entirely, but the concept of marriage got hijacked by the state hundreds of years ago (to varying degrees, culminating in what we have today)—the "redefinition" happened long before we were born.
I would disagree. Marriage is a civil concept that got hijacked by religion hundreds of years ago (for Western civ), turned over to the church mainly for ease of recording since they were more ever present than governmental offices and a major social center of the community. This is made harder in that hundreds and thousands of years ago, there was less of a distinction between state and religion. Even in more recent "atheist regimes" there was still marriage. Marriage is a concept and practice that went between religions, cultures, and people, for which each religion jut appended its own rules.