Actually in Europe you can already find used copy of office, windows, whatever in those electronic expos that every month go from town to town. This has been running since I was a child. And you don't have to beg for a Windows refund: most seller (Acer, Asus...) have an automatic procedure, es: - http://notebook.asus.it/rma2012/index.asp
There is little to no sign of the renewable fuels you hear being pitched by politicians on both sides of the pond.
They are called bikes: we don't use big things that could use signs any more.
But you see bikes road every where, cars have to give way to bikes on round about, we spend money to build bridges on dangerous road intersections for bikes.
I 'got two bikes and I'm buyn' the third, 'spent some money on insulating and termic solar for my house.
I do really enjoy my town more, and I take care to eat food that does not come from far away. Haven't been traveling that much for futile things like going to that pub in that town, snowboarding in that (far) cool spot.
Fuel is running out ok? Not tomorrow: tomorrow it's just when it will become very expensive. To change your abits you won't have to wait that we eventually run out of fuel, price raise will do.
1. Here is Italy if you were wondering, we do have a lot of taxes on fuel right now as we had a clown and the whole circus for prime minister for a while...
You just don't blog on your site "Set the allarm @6:00am" for Big Day One when there are not enough items and the sites (resellers) are not able to hold the traffic. That was just a BAD idea.
Many managed to be on line just at the *right* time to be unable to buy and DOS the whole thing...or maybe it was a PR stunt, but they eventually pissed off many potential buyers who are now seeing pre-preorder request for no one knows when we can sell or how many are available. There it goes the impulse buyers low-cost give-it-a-try...
"remove all Web History" will just remover _your_ chance to read your own web hystory. OFC google will keep it and will continue to update it in order to "improve the service" or whatever they call it today.
You should disable JS for google, clean your cookies, refuse cookies, use a proxy. Or just get in the mood to use an other search engine.
WTF should I care? Isn't this site supposed to be about geek-tech news? Provide me a story of some of those radio controlled quad-chopper powered by chicken nuggets instead of this sad little earth-quake in the cafeteria of a young kid school.
Damn they didn't even take the effort to write an app to deal with these food harassment.
That is according to ACER Refunds in Italy, dunno if that's the same in the rest of Europe.
As it is a PDF (1 page) I'll give you some pointers: - Seven Home: 25e - Seven Starter: 20e - Seven Home Basic: 35e - Seven Home Premium: 40e - Seven Prof 70e - Seven Ultimate 90e
It's around 40 euro for Win ~professional, you do have to send it back to ACER by your own but at least it's an automatic procedure: they just give you the money back with no questions.
Actually Italy has no nuclear power, has they shut down any reactor (the tree of them if I'm not wrong) after Chernobyl. But the government was on its way to reintroduce it, so this week-end they'll have a referendum on the matter. The government is so scared about it (the referendum) that tried two 'tricks' to avoid it, but it seems like Italians are gonna vote and they are all against atom.
Sorry but right now the winner is the old laptop: bigger screen with color, movies, even a keyboard. Some of the new ones are very cheap, light and with some ~10 hours of autonomy, totally silent.
They are not good in direct sunlight, but you can use them to surf the web, you tube, and write your things on social networks and anything else. A device with a black and white 6 inch screen that refuse to read an ordinary PDF or html file for ~400$ is just a joke: paper books are going to be better as long as ebooks don't come with color, movies, web navigation.
Just give me a light laptop with an hybrid screen please, so I can read / work outside.
They just won't: they don't even bother to know how the internet thing works, they probably would throw some millions of public money to a "thrusted friend" of the governament just to show that they invest on the net in behalf of the Italian population.
Obviously such a ting would never work, so they can blame the internet thing forever (the only media they don't control) and ask to remove whatever they don't like from time to time without any criteria.
Actually he's Putin best buddy (when Berlusconi was elected last time he just disappear for a couple of days to celebrate with Putin in Sardegna as private jets took of the TV starlets to they amusement: Putin is well known for having donate to B. a gorgeus bid bed).
But second choice would be Mu'ammar Gheddafi, dictator of Libia, where he goes quite often embarrassing Italy (this year he sent the national acrobatic air patrol to Libia to celebrate the anniversary of the dictator: the "air force" refused to take off).
Democracy works as long as you can chose who to vote for, and you have means to chose between differents candidates based on facts of your interests.
In the latest years in Italy citizens have lost the right to choose who to elect, as the very same politics choose who can be elected, and small parties are automatically left out of parliament. If you are not part of the system you just don't get any space in TV (80% of electors base they votes on TV programs), or as soon as you do anything to gain attention you are turned in monster by a media system (look fo Minzolin of TG1) where politics chose the journalists and/or own the newspapers or TV.
Population is very old so is not used to internet (BTW: remember they used to study French at school instead of english) , government puts taxes on the Internet and digital media [1], money for the net infrastructure have been always redirect to other projects (this year was the deficit of Sicily who is one of the biggest elector of the actual government) since always, but Italy is the first country of Europe for digital TV: they give money to anyone for buying a new TV and old people almost can get new ones for free.
Right now as seven TV news shows exist (3 mediaset + 3 RAI + La7) tree are owned by Berlusconi (Mediaset), of 3 public channels 2 are controlled by the governament (TG1 wich is the prime time and most watched one, and TG2. While Tg3 is left to the opposition but RAI3 is supposed to be the "local / regional" TV so most of the news space is not about nation interests, and it's not even able to transmit the news show on prime time as Tg1 and Tg2 take both half an hour aorund prime time. So they decided to make the national interests TG shorter (as in 5 minutes). )
Then you have La7 wich is owned by Telecom: the telephony monopoly which could not exist without the government. Then there's SKY (Murdoch) which is pay-per-view, it get two times the taxes of the other channels, can't get as much advertisement of the others channels.
Berlusconi usually doesn't ever bother to partecipate to any political debate where anyone from an other party or journalist could pone questions to him. Lately Berlusconi goes around claiming that his is "The party of Love" and anyone who tries to speak against him (and there are many! ) is just "manufacturing Hate" and is against Italy: because as you said, Italians did vote for him so he shouldn't be bother with trials and other annoyances.
You get more hours with Windows in order to compensate the use of the anti virus, the chance to loose your files from time to time, the time you spend to install all the upgrades, time to read the licenses...
OMG it's not a 'platform' for denvelopers who want to write better software and make some profit for themselfs, it's an Apple asset made to make money for Apple, selling little specific apps that they won't put coders on. Apple can decide what can be installed and what not, and takes a profit on each app sold: if you write an app for one of those i-thing and it's good for Apple business you may get something back, as long as Apple is good with it, then if the tide changes at Cupertino you are screwed, and you knew it.
As it's been proved to loose votes only for the Democrats, I wouldn't call it a bug but a hidden feature. Not that it would be any better if turned the other side, point is the system looks directable and election are always on a close margin.
(BTW: I'm not trolling, I leave in an other country and I'm just watching...)
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So I will have the chance to _not_ buy a MS product each year! :D
More fun for me
Actually in Europe you can already find used copy of office, windows, whatever in those electronic expos that every month go from town to town. This has been running since I was a child.
And you don't have to beg for a Windows refund: most seller (Acer, Asus...) have an automatic procedure, es:
- http://notebook.asus.it/rma2012/index.asp
Use your old laptop.
Just put some domopack on the keyboard. When not in use just fold it and put it out of the way.
There is little to no sign of the renewable fuels you hear being pitched by politicians on both sides of the pond.
They are called bikes: we don't use big things that could use signs any more.
But you see bikes road every where, cars have to give way to bikes on round about, we spend money to build bridges on dangerous road intersections for bikes.
Hey guys, it's 8.49$ for a gallon here[1].
I 'got two bikes and I'm buyn' the third, 'spent some money on insulating and termic solar for my house.
I do really enjoy my town more, and I take care to eat food that does not come from far away. Haven't been traveling that much for futile things like going to that pub in that town, snowboarding in that (far) cool spot.
Fuel is running out ok? Not tomorrow: tomorrow it's just when it will become very expensive. To change your abits you won't have to wait that we eventually run out of fuel, price raise will do.
1. Here is Italy if you were wondering, we do have a lot of taxes on fuel right now as we had a clown and the whole circus for prime minister for a while...
You just don't blog on your site "Set the allarm @6:00am" for Big Day One when there are not enough items and the sites (resellers) are not able to hold the traffic. That was just a BAD idea.
Many managed to be on line just at the *right* time to be unable to buy and DOS the whole thing. ..or maybe it was a PR stunt, but they eventually pissed off many potential buyers who are now seeing pre-preorder request for no one knows when we can sell or how many are available. There it goes the impulse buyers low-cost give-it-a-try...
"remove all Web History" will just remover _your_ chance to read your own web hystory.
OFC google will keep it and will continue to update it in order to "improve the service" or whatever they call it today.
You should disable JS for google, clean your cookies, refuse cookies, use a proxy. Or just get in the mood to use an other search engine.
Nice trick. Anyone knows if this scheme respects battery life?
Should be good, it's stille the 'droid kernel that runs the enviroment.
Why was there a big push for Unity if you're not going to use it in a small form factor? Why not just stick with a real desktop?
Tablets, maybe, not phones.
There's no point in pretending to run "linux distro" on a phone, the apps user interface won't do.
Maybe the desktop UI for apps *could* do on tablets, for shure not on phones.
WTF should I care?
Isn't this site supposed to be about geek-tech news?
Provide me a story of some of those radio controlled quad-chopper powered by chicken nuggets
instead of this sad little earth-quake in the cafeteria of a young kid school.
Damn they didn't even take the effort to write an app to deal with these food harassment.
I see some of you are speculating about what should be the value of the refund for a Windows licence:
- http://static.acer.com/up/Resource/Acer/Docs/IT/20110110/Windows_refund_process_flow_rev_Nov_11th_2009.pdf
That is according to ACER Refunds in Italy, dunno if that's the same in the rest of Europe.
As it is a PDF (1 page) I'll give you some pointers:
- Seven Home: 25e
- Seven Starter: 20e
- Seven Home Basic: 35e
- Seven Home Premium: 40e
- Seven Prof 70e
- Seven Ultimate 90e
We already had that in Europe, for example you can get a refund from ACER:
- http://www.acer.it/ac/it/IT/content/rimborso
It's around 40 euro for Win ~professional, you do have to send it back to ACER by your own but at least it's an automatic procedure: they just give you the money back with no questions.
Actually Italy has no nuclear power, has they shut down any reactor (the tree of them if I'm not wrong) after Chernobyl. But the government was on its way to reintroduce it, so this week-end they'll have a referendum on the matter. The government is so scared about it (the referendum) that tried two 'tricks' to avoid it, but it seems like Italians are gonna vote and they are all against atom.
Sorry but right now the winner is the old laptop: bigger screen with color, movies, even a keyboard.
Some of the new ones are very cheap, light and with some ~10 hours of autonomy, totally silent.
They are not good in direct sunlight, but you can use them to surf the web, you tube, and write your things on social networks and anything else. A device with a black and white 6 inch screen that refuse to read an ordinary PDF or html file for ~400$ is just a joke: paper books are going to be better as long as ebooks don't come with color, movies, web navigation.
Just give me a light laptop with an hybrid screen please, so I can read / work outside.
Let's make it $10 and a T.shirt for me please.
They just won't: they don't even bother to know how the internet thing works, they probably would throw some millions of public money to a "thrusted friend" of the governament just to show that they invest on the net in behalf of the Italian population.
Obviously such a ting would never work, so they can blame the internet thing forever (the only media they don't control) and ask to remove whatever they don't like from time to time without any criteria.
Actually he's Putin best buddy (when Berlusconi was elected last time he just disappear for a couple of days to celebrate with Putin in Sardegna as private jets took of the TV starlets to they amusement: Putin is well known for having donate to B. a gorgeus bid bed).
But second choice would be Mu'ammar Gheddafi, dictator of Libia, where he goes quite often embarrassing Italy (this year he sent the national acrobatic air patrol to Libia to celebrate the anniversary of the dictator: the "air force" refused to take off).
Italy politics are very found of privacy: as in no web cams, no data should be saved, no telephones conversatin shoud be intercepted.
Then you have most of the mesia system in the very hands of the government, so they don't like newcomers.
Democracy works as long as you can chose who to vote for, and you have means to chose between differents candidates based on facts of your interests.
In the latest years in Italy citizens have lost the right to choose who to elect, as the very same politics choose who can be elected, and small parties are automatically left out of parliament. If you are not part of the system you just don't get any space in TV (80% of electors base they votes on TV programs), or as soon as you do anything to gain attention you are turned in monster by a media system (look fo Minzolin of TG1) where politics chose the journalists and/or own the newspapers or TV.
Population is very old so is not used to internet (BTW: remember they used to study French at school instead of english) , government puts taxes on the Internet and digital media [1], money for the net infrastructure have been always redirect to other projects (this year was the deficit of Sicily who is one of the biggest elector of the actual government) since always, but Italy is the first country of Europe for digital TV: they give money to anyone for buying a new TV and old people almost can get new ones for free.
Right now as seven TV news shows exist (3 mediaset + 3 RAI + La7) tree are owned by Berlusconi (Mediaset), of 3 public channels 2 are controlled by the governament (TG1 wich is the prime time and most watched one, and TG2. While Tg3 is left to the opposition but RAI3 is supposed to be the "local / regional" TV so most of the news space is not about nation interests, and it's not even able to transmit the news show on prime time as Tg1 and Tg2 take both half an hour aorund prime time. So they decided to make the national interests TG shorter (as in 5 minutes). )
Then you have La7 wich is owned by Telecom: the telephony monopoly which could not exist without the government. Then there's SKY (Murdoch) which is pay-per-view, it get two times the taxes of the other channels, can't get as much advertisement of the others channels.
Berlusconi usually doesn't ever bother to partecipate to any political debate where anyone from an other party or journalist could pone questions to him. Lately Berlusconi goes around claiming that his is "The party of Love" and anyone who tries to speak against him (and there are many! ) is just "manufacturing Hate" and is against Italy: because as you said, Italians did vote for him so he shouldn't be bother with trials and other annoyances.
1 - http://punto-informatico.it/2787994/PI/Commenti/equo-compenso.aspx
You get more hours with Windows in order to compensate the use of the anti virus, the chance to loose your files from time to time, the time you spend to install all the upgrades, time to read the licenses...
Kinda fair to me.
BTW: you can add the victory in an italian court that has removed the DNS ban of the Pirate Bay, placing a prevedent on the matter.
More details on: http://punto-informatico.it/2417079/PI/Brevi/italia-sblocca-accesso-the-pirate-bay.aspx
if you are confident with italian language.
OMG it's not a 'platform' for denvelopers who want to write better software and make some profit for themselfs, it's an Apple asset made to make money for Apple, selling little specific apps that they won't put coders on. Apple can decide what can be installed and what not, and takes a profit on each app sold: if you write an app for one of those i-thing and it's good for Apple business you may get something back, as long as Apple is good with it, then if the tide changes at Cupertino you are screwed, and you knew it.
IMHO, it is a good gift to send the official paperbook to someone.
I just keep some around and some of smartest guys ask me to 'lend' them a copy.
As it's been proved to loose votes only for the Democrats, I wouldn't call it a bug but a hidden feature. Not that it would be any better if turned the other side, point is the system looks directable and election are always on a close margin.
(BTW: I'm not trolling, I leave in an other country and I'm just watching...)
you spend 95% of your time tinkering with it and the remaining 5% using it... if you're lucky.
That would make my day :)