Electricity is metered. Water is metered. Hell, even my trash is metered. What makes you think bandwidth will be any different? People need to be prepared to pay, per MB or GB, if they want quality service.
Some of us still have water and trash unmetered. Electricity still way more than what the US pays for it.
For the record, I live in Canada. I haven't heard any of our ISPs ask for the disapearance of net neutrality either (but maybe I wasn't paying attention, who knows...)
whenever I fly I always get told that I can't have wifi on on my laptop, nor can I use a mobile phone, and I think they even frown upon using gameboys on take-off.
Gameboys don't emit any kind of wave dangerous for the plane. They just want you to be able to pay attention to the security routine.
It's not only tech support it's also "questions", it's written "got questions ?" on the consoles after all. When I got my N64 in 1996, I called and asked what the expension bay on top was for. The answer I got was that they did not know yet but if they needed a way to expand the N64, they'd have one.
That's the most straightforward answer I ever had from a company:)
The GP thought that the guy who wrote the story had a bit of contempt for his customers? I hope that attitude is not typical for Apple Support (but judging by my experience with the "Geniuses" I would say it is).
I only called twice at AppleCare. It was for a school that paid for it but forgot about it, I found it in their papers (the best kind of customers, I guess). The first time, the lady was very helpful (but only after I provided the serial and all the infos to prove it really was from a paying customer). But anyway, she took the time to be sure everything was okay and it's one of the best support call I ever had.
The second time I called, it was about a bug in iMovie that would screw up the sync of the movie and sound in the middle of our movie for no reason. The guy gave an answer but was acting like if he was very busy and I was bothering him. What's funny is that at the end he gave me an URL for the knowledge base on their website that was so long that just reading the answer that was there would have been faster.
They still are near the top for support however because most companies completely suck in this area. The only two companies that I know of that are way better for support are Codeweavers and Nintendo.
Codeweavers are extremely helpful (and they can speak to you in normal english, not corporate-speak). And Nintendo have a "got a question ?" sticker on their consoles with a 800 nunmber (there was one on my SNES and N64 at least) and they really answer questions, even from kids (I know, I called there when I was a kid).
There was a story at some point on Slashdot saying that most people are totally carefree with their computers and even do stuff they know is stupid because they know IT will always fix their mess.
If people stopped doing that IT people would have more time to take care of the overall system.
The nunchuck part is your analog stick and Z button / R buttons. The A and B buttons are the A and B buttons on the remote (the B is on the back) and the C arrows are the D-PAD just above the A button. You can't press them at the same time you pressed the A/B buttons but you couldn't do it on the original.
The only thing missing is the left part of the N64 controller but it wasn't used in most games.
You can escape already now, as long as you are willing to make some sacrifices like having to explain to family members why the you haven't played the fantastic game that they emailed to you as an.exe file.
Most games don't fit e-mail attachment size restrictions since a long time. Beside, do you trust your family not to send you "bonzi buddy" like games ?
Indeed. Now they need to apply time penalties for stupid patents. Each time you troll them they wait longer before they examine your next patent and it grows exponentially.
No one would submit tons of patent applications at once and hope something (or everything pass).
Basically you click a few spots on a random image, and next time you login, you have to pick those same spots again. Forget remembering your password.
Forget security too. There is a limited number of points in a picture that are easy to spot and remember (windows, people heads, signs, whatever) so it's very easy to brute force.
If enough people did this, then it would hopefully make these adverts no longer cost efficient; assuming, of course, that they have some way of tracking the click to purchase ratio.
I assume that people blocking ads aren't very likely to purchase from them in the first place. So if people who already are blocking ads now download and throw away, there will no change in the number of clicks, just more bandwith wasted.
Most of the times I wouldn't know even if I loggued into the machine since I never fought with that printer myself or modem or whatever they are trying to get to work. What I do is always try to give the newbie a pointer. If they are trying to get a printer to work for instance, I point out linuxprinting.org or which section of TFM they should read. Or even what they should Google for (newbies don't always know how is named what they are looking for).
Those are already too much. People should not have to buy their own domain name again and again (com, net, org, biz, info...). Sure, it's too late to delete some of them but if we had to redo it all over again, I'd suggest just one international domain name :.int (which would stand for Internet or International) and all country codes.
Each country would be responsible having their own 2 letter code so if the US wants.gov.us,.edu.us, or whatever, they police it themselves.
However, MS could sell those tools at a competitive price separately. The tools could essentially exist with the OS and lie dormant until the consumer pays to "unlock" them. That "could" happen.
MS would only be considered a monopoly if they crushed everyone else out of the market by bundling them for free and then started charging whatever price they wanted after the coast is clear. This is basically what they like to do.
It should be illegal either way. If they sell an anti-whatever, they get a conflict of interest : Should we put this fix in the antivirus or in the OS...
I get this page when I click the link:
http://www.fbi.gov/?2006/03/29/google-page-creator -review/ [fbi.gov]
Is this supposed to be funny, has/. been hacked, or am I infected? I'm on a University of Idaho computer...
That sounds pretty cool, I will go and download it right now, hmmm with all the extensions I am running my firefox is becoming bloatware:op time to remove a few I think.
What I like about it is that its function don't appear when you aren't on Slashdot so it doesn't add to your clutter.
Personally, I think the -government- should be required to produce a generic "C" program or web page that calculates your taxes according to the tax code and if it is wrong, you only pay interest- no penalties. Tax collection is a government function- it's insane that we have these huge industries built around calculating your taxes.
I don't know if this is possible but what would really kick ass would be governement to invent on open format to put taxes rules in it. This way, devs would just have to write a program that implement understanding this kind of file and they wouldn't be liable for misunderstanding taxes laws.
Government should also provide dummy data so devellopers and users alike could test if a given software outputs the right results.
Is your first language french ? Mine is and "learn them" exists in french. In fact, I'm so tired right now I didn't even notice when I first read your post.
No. Not really. I realize you spent about 5 seconds coming up with your comment, but there is a body of evidence linking hyperactivity and video games. It is fascinating how a certain group of people will laugh at head in the sand global warming deniers. They will laugh at new earth IDers. They will point to all the evidence and (rightly so) declare that they are denying obvious facts.
Has it occured to you that videogames appeal to ADDers because there is always an immediate reward in videogames and that it makes it easier for them to focus on that than other tasks.
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For the record, I live in Canada. I haven't heard any of our ISPs ask for the disapearance of net neutrality either (but maybe I wasn't paying attention, who knows...)
That's the most straightforward answer I ever had from a company :)
The second time I called, it was about a bug in iMovie that would screw up the sync of the movie and sound in the middle of our movie for no reason. The guy gave an answer but was acting like if he was very busy and I was bothering him. What's funny is that at the end he gave me an URL for the knowledge base on their website that was so long that just reading the answer that was there would have been faster.
They still are near the top for support however because most companies completely suck in this area. The only two companies that I know of that are way better for support are Codeweavers and Nintendo.
Codeweavers are extremely helpful (and they can speak to you in normal english, not corporate-speak). And Nintendo have a "got a question ?" sticker on their consoles with a 800 nunmber (there was one on my SNES and N64 at least) and they really answer questions, even from kids (I know, I called there when I was a kid).
If people stopped doing that IT people would have more time to take care of the overall system.
http://www.gamerevolution.com/oldsite/articles/rev olution/revolution_controller1b.jpg
The nunchuck part is your analog stick and Z button / R buttons. The A and B buttons are the A and B buttons on the remote (the B is on the back) and the C arrows are the D-PAD just above the A button. You can't press them at the same time you pressed the A/B buttons but you couldn't do it on the original.
The only thing missing is the left part of the N64 controller but it wasn't used in most games.
Because it was a dupe ;)
No one would submit tons of patent applications at once and hope something (or everything pass).
And it doesn't disadvantage the small guy.
Most of the times I wouldn't know even if I loggued into the machine since I never fought with that printer myself or modem or whatever they are trying to get to work. What I do is always try to give the newbie a pointer. If they are trying to get a printer to work for instance, I point out linuxprinting.org or which section of TFM they should read. Or even what they should Google for (newbies don't always know how is named what they are looking for).
There is a step 5 :
Then, they pretend they were with you all along.
Each country would be responsible having their own 2 letter code so if the US wants .gov.us, .edu.us, or whatever, they police it themselves.
Government should also provide dummy data so devellopers and users alike could test if a given software outputs the right results.
It is simple ! I'm going to do it as soon as I finish switching everybody to Linux !
Is your first language french ? Mine is and "learn them" exists in french. In fact, I'm so tired right now I didn't even notice when I first read your post.
And Easy Kubuntu : http://olwin.free.fr/
It does the same job as Automatix. It's safer. But it offers less options (no Opera for instance). But for codecs and the like, it's perfect.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122797
Anybody still wanting to use Automatix after reading this thread is helpless.
Wow, scary !
And they only have 5.6 million results for cheese while Google returns 125 million results. Isn't it outrageous ?!</sarcasm>
Correlation != Causation