Travel. Lugging a laptop is a pain in the arse. But having a pad that can browse maps, schedules, etc. is just all I need or want when traveling. And no I do not want to phone home when I'm traveling. I'm traveling, it can wait until I get back and I don't give a rat's ass until I get back.
5. Check out LiveCode, they just freed it at least for hobbyist use. I believe it runs on MacOS, Winders, Linux, iOS, and Android...at least it produces apps for the last two as well as the first three.
Put quickly, it is Hypercard except updated for modern uses including producing mobile apps.
Aliens come here by skipping dimensions. They get up, have their coffee, jump into Mr. Dimension, and bingo, they're here to annoy us Earthlings with anal probes. The only interesting part is that no one knows what they get out it except a few yucks: Hey Zaphod, you'll never guess what I found.
You are way off. This was clearly a trial run for the World Trade Center attack. If the Kennedy Assassination hadn't happened, we'd have had Mafia hitmen doing the deed on 9/11.
Obama tried closing Gitmo, Congress and the Courts prevented that. Iraq was already being wound down by Bush, Obama gets no credit for doing that.
I very much doubt Bush would have passed the Affordable Care Act. Obama handed the Democrats in Congress free reign to craft the Act as they saw fit which pretty much guaranteed the Republicans would oppose it. The Democrats were also in the pocket of the insurance companies which guaranteed they wouldn't have their knees broken as what should have happened for cherry picking whom to insure.
Politics is complicated, stop trying to make it appear black and white.
MS doesn't want to become Apple. They want to beat Apple because MS always defines itself by "destroying" the competition. So they figure if they out-Apple Apple, then they'll beat Apple. This the company Gates built and their warts are his warts.
And what is it you think that will help with? Are you going to stand outside Congress and shoot them as they come out? Are you going to stand outside the Treasury and plug the public servants? Please tell us how the ammunition is going to protect anything except your ego.
It appears to have been started in 2006, and has been renewed every three months ever since. This is the meta-data they are collecting, not voice or data call messages. Apparently, they use it to develop network maps that is supposed to help them track terrorist networks into, out of, and within the U.S.
The iPod succeeded because Apple built a store front where you could easily buy music and install music for it. You didn't have to read a bunch of geeky stuff, you didn't have to download stolen music, you just clicked a few buttons. The specs on the device itself only matter to...uh...you and two friends.
I am just back from the Ukraine at a logic and philosophy workshop. Macbooks and iPads were everywhere. I think I did see a PC notebook once or twice. Apple used to have problems cracking the Euro market, it would seem no longer.
Windows always struck me as rinky-dink, sort of something a Bill Gates would be satisfied with but always made me click too often and hide stuff obscure places. There's no rhyme or reason to that interface which is part of the reason they thought TIKFAM would be a good idea.
That's silly. Linux hasn't been successful (non-server, that is) because it has no installed base of applications that companies and people rely upon. I don't like it, I wish one could run any app on any OS, but that would require GUI standardization that people wouldn't accept because they'd have to change the way they did things.
After having spent a fair amount of time with Linux, it just isn't ready for that segment of the pop. between point and drool and full raging geek. You either crawl into bed with it or use it as a web-email system.
It is things like the Daily Wail that brings out the genius of the Electric Monk (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams). An Electric Monk believes things for you. It sounds like we need it to also worry for you so you can get on with the business of life knowing that base is covered.
Tell Congress to stop taking chances with air-traffic control. They are the ones that cut funding for air-traffic control because they wanted to make a "statement". Apparently the statement was "Hi there, we're clueless about the proper function of government, be sure to vote for us next time."
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Travel. Lugging a laptop is a pain in the arse. But having a pad that can browse maps, schedules, etc. is just all I need or want when traveling. And no I do not want to phone home when I'm traveling. I'm traveling, it can wait until I get back and I don't give a rat's ass until I get back.
5. Check out LiveCode, they just freed it at least for hobbyist use. I believe it runs on MacOS, Winders, Linux, iOS, and Android...at least it produces apps for the last two as well as the first three.
Put quickly, it is Hypercard except updated for modern uses including producing mobile apps.
The difference is that you pronounce megatonne with a British accent, otherwise no one can understand you.
Aliens come here by skipping dimensions. They get up, have their coffee, jump into Mr. Dimension, and bingo, they're here to annoy us Earthlings with anal probes. The only interesting part is that no one knows what they get out it except a few yucks: Hey Zaphod, you'll never guess what I found.
You are way off. This was clearly a trial run for the World Trade Center attack. If the Kennedy Assassination hadn't happened, we'd have had Mafia hitmen doing the deed on 9/11.
Actually, the U.S. is more or less on par with manufacturing with respect to China. Please try to keep up.
Obama tried closing Gitmo, Congress and the Courts prevented that. Iraq was already being wound down by Bush, Obama gets no credit for doing that.
I very much doubt Bush would have passed the Affordable Care Act. Obama handed the Democrats in Congress free reign to craft the Act as they saw fit which pretty much guaranteed the Republicans would oppose it. The Democrats were also in the pocket of the insurance companies which guaranteed they wouldn't have their knees broken as what should have happened for cherry picking whom to insure.
Politics is complicated, stop trying to make it appear black and white.
Yes, but it will float on a magnetic cushion.
Name one new interesting piece of computing crap Apple's rivals have introduced recently?
Yep, an anatomically correct Sarah Palin doll...oh the shame!!
Gandhi.
I knew it, A Conspiracy!!! I'll bet the NSA is behind it.
I can SEE the light!!!
MS doesn't want to become Apple. They want to beat Apple because MS always defines itself by "destroying" the competition. So they figure if they out-Apple Apple, then they'll beat Apple. This the company Gates built and their warts are his warts.
And what is it you think that will help with? Are you going to stand outside Congress and shoot them as they come out? Are you going to stand outside the Treasury and plug the public servants? Please tell us how the ammunition is going to protect anything except your ego.
It appears to have been started in 2006, and has been renewed every three months ever since. This is the meta-data they are collecting, not voice or data call messages. Apparently, they use it to develop network maps that is supposed to help them track terrorist networks into, out of, and within the U.S.
The iPod succeeded because Apple built a store front where you could easily buy music and install music for it. You didn't have to read a bunch of geeky stuff, you didn't have to download stolen music, you just clicked a few buttons. The specs on the device itself only matter to...uh...you and two friends.
Yep, Ballmer is doing to MS as many of us would do to MS.
I am just back from the Ukraine at a logic and philosophy workshop. Macbooks and iPads were everywhere. I think I did see a PC notebook once or twice. Apple used to have problems cracking the Euro market, it would seem no longer.
Hold your PC out at arm's length and poke at the screen with your other hand. Now try it with a tablet. Notice a difference?
The problem is that you have sucked on the MS teat for so long you cannot think in any other way. Please go back and leave us alone.
Windows always struck me as rinky-dink, sort of something a Bill Gates would be satisfied with but always made me click too often and hide stuff obscure places. There's no rhyme or reason to that interface which is part of the reason they thought TIKFAM would be a good idea.
That's silly. Linux hasn't been successful (non-server, that is) because it has no installed base of applications that companies and people rely upon. I don't like it, I wish one could run any app on any OS, but that would require GUI standardization that people wouldn't accept because they'd have to change the way they did things.
After having spent a fair amount of time with Linux, it just isn't ready for that segment of the pop. between point and drool and full raging geek. You either crawl into bed with it or use it as a web-email system.
It is things like the Daily Wail that brings out the genius of the Electric Monk (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams). An Electric Monk believes things for you. It sounds like we need it to also worry for you so you can get on with the business of life knowing that base is covered.
Tell Congress to stop taking chances with air-traffic control. They are the ones that cut funding for air-traffic control because they wanted to make a "statement". Apparently the statement was "Hi there, we're clueless about the proper function of government, be sure to vote for us next time."