What's the problem with a display like this? If I wanted one of these, I'd just use it the way I use my current displays. Windows are windows... I just make them the size that I want. Why should I care what size/shape the monitor that I'm using is? I use different monitor setups at my different offices, sometimes one, sometimes two, some are widescreen, and some are closer to "fullscreen", and I don't see the difference.
There's lots of cheap-o email out there. You get what you pay for. You only want to pay $10/year for email per person. Good for you. Find somewhere other than Google. I pay a few hundred bucks per year per person for email. I have really, really, great email service. Why do you think you're entitled to use Google's services at a price you dictate? That's bizarre.
A person who isn't willing to pay $400/year for 50 email addresses and all of the associated services is somebody that Google and any other rational, for-profit company would not want for a customer. In essence, they're firing customers like yourself. It's a smart move, and it's business 101.
I'm sure that advertises follows people across devices, already. Most people I know are either logged into Google or Apple at home, at work, and on all of their gadgets. Of course, they're already being tracked.
Now what might work would be a requirement for all data exports to be completely non-proprietary non-binary well formed XML. You might not get their DB table design but at least you'll get each row.
Just putting in in XML doesn't accomplish anything. Besides, what kind of apps don't allow for exports of some kind? I hear people complaining about "lock in" all of the time, in terms of data, but I don't have a single business application that doesn't allow a data export of some kind. The format that it can be exported to really doesn't matter, since you'll always have to do significant work to get data moved from one application/platform to another.
Yes we have a right to choose which product we want to use, but we are not offered the ability to use anything without handing over some fundamental right in the long run.
The custumers should be also safeguarded against information companies going bust with their data.
We already have an extensive legal system in place that covers contracts. We don't need more laws to cover the same thing.
For example, any company should allow for any customer to migrate all her data to another service, without the information loosing its original structure.
That's just silly. "Loosing" its "original structure"? What does that even mean?
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states and the territories will create an accounting nightmare.
Wrong. Accounting and bookkeeping is done on computers. Tax payments are automatically calculated and paid, in most cases. This kind of functionality comes with every commercial accounting/bookeeping/ecommerce package available today.
Why would you care how long a drive takes to rip a CD/DVD? Do you sit and watch and wait for each one to be ripped? Are you using some strange OS that only lets you do one thing at a time? I did the same thing a few years ago. I just had a big stack next to my primary computers, and just swapped them out while I was working on them. How long each one took wasn't relevant.
- people don't want what they have come to expect from Microsoft on their phones... rebooting, slowness, crashiness and vulnerability. If Microsoft EVER wanted to participate in the phone/tablet market, they first need to address the problems people have with their current OS and Office products. The missing ingredient? USER CONFIDENCE.
You're on crack. 99% of all people on the planet use MS on a daily basis. I run my business on their stuff. There's no user confidence issue.
Agreed. It also buys you a lot of laptop, too. One can pick up a fully functional laptop with Windows 7 and an Intel Core 2 Duo in it for $250 right now.
How is this news? I would wager that humans have been acting like this for many thousands of years. The only people who should find this surprising are people who grew up somewhere away from all human contact,.
Streaming services are usually pretty good for recent movies,
What streaming services, exactly, and "pretty good for recent movies"? I've tried Netflix, and their service is abysmal. I'm serious, because I still rent a lot of DVD's from Netflix, because I can't find a decent streaming service.
I doubt blame has anything to do with it. It cost them too much money/time to use OO. They're switching. It doesn't matter to them why OO costs more to use, just that it does.
The only way I can see to get around this would be for everyone to protest together or for all merchants to implement credit card surcharges.
Visa and Mastercard made sure that this was illegal in the US a long, long time ago. I wonder if Visa/MC buys their Congresspeople with cash, charge, or debit?
That's my point. Out of sight, out of mind. 2-3% of every purchase goes to a handful of very, very, very, very large companies, and almost nobody seems to care.
This is called "going around your ass to get to your elbow". Cash works fine.
Besides, what's with everybody wanting to continue to make payment processors of all kinds, obscenely wealthy? Doesn't anybody think, that every time they use their plastic, that you're giving Visa/MC 2-3% of your purchase? I feel like the massive expansion of cards and payment processors (paypal, amazon, google, etc.) is an Idiocracy type of thing. It's freaking me out that people are so fucking stupid.
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On the other hand, I don't think most people read enough to be bothered by it, which is sad in many different levels.
Funny, I think the same about people who use "e-readers" instead of actual books. Sad on many different levels.
What's the problem with a display like this? If I wanted one of these, I'd just use it the way I use my current displays. Windows are windows... I just make them the size that I want. Why should I care what size/shape the monitor that I'm using is? I use different monitor setups at my different offices, sometimes one, sometimes two, some are widescreen, and some are closer to "fullscreen", and I don't see the difference.
The word is "waistline". "Waste" is what comes out of one's ass, or the quality of text often used in Slashdot articles.
Wow. How about just saying, "You get what you pay for"?
Apple Fiber would be a fucking nightmare. Imagine: all of the Internet that Apple allowed you to see!
There's lots of cheap-o email out there. You get what you pay for. You only want to pay $10/year for email per person. Good for you. Find somewhere other than Google. I pay a few hundred bucks per year per person for email. I have really, really, great email service. Why do you think you're entitled to use Google's services at a price you dictate? That's bizarre.
A person who isn't willing to pay $400/year for 50 email addresses and all of the associated services is somebody that Google and any other rational, for-profit company would not want for a customer. In essence, they're firing customers like yourself. It's a smart move, and it's business 101.
I'm sure that advertises follows people across devices, already. Most people I know are either logged into Google or Apple at home, at work, and on all of their gadgets. Of course, they're already being tracked.
Now what might work would be a requirement for all data exports to be completely non-proprietary non-binary well formed XML. You might not get their DB table design but at least you'll get each row.
Just putting in in XML doesn't accomplish anything. Besides, what kind of apps don't allow for exports of some kind? I hear people complaining about "lock in" all of the time, in terms of data, but I don't have a single business application that doesn't allow a data export of some kind. The format that it can be exported to really doesn't matter, since you'll always have to do significant work to get data moved from one application/platform to another.
Yes we have a right to choose which product we want to use, but we are not offered the ability to use anything without handing over some fundamental right in the long run.
Like what, exactly?
The custumers should be also safeguarded against information companies going bust with their data.
We already have an extensive legal system in place that covers contracts. We don't need more laws to cover the same thing.
For example, any company should allow for any customer to migrate all her data to another service, without the information loosing its original structure.
That's just silly. "Loosing" its "original structure"? What does that even mean?
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states and the territories will create an accounting nightmare.
Wrong. Accounting and bookkeeping is done on computers. Tax payments are automatically calculated and paid, in most cases. This kind of functionality comes with every commercial accounting/bookeeping/ecommerce package available today.
Why would you care how long a drive takes to rip a CD/DVD? Do you sit and watch and wait for each one to be ripped? Are you using some strange OS that only lets you do one thing at a time? I did the same thing a few years ago. I just had a big stack next to my primary computers, and just swapped them out while I was working on them. How long each one took wasn't relevant.
- people don't want what they have come to expect from Microsoft on their phones... rebooting, slowness, crashiness and vulnerability. If Microsoft EVER wanted to participate in the phone/tablet market, they first need to address the problems people have with their current OS and Office products. The missing ingredient? USER CONFIDENCE.
You're on crack. 99% of all people on the planet use MS on a daily basis. I run my business on their stuff. There's no user confidence issue.
Agreed. It also buys you a lot of laptop, too. One can pick up a fully functional laptop with Windows 7 and an Intel Core 2 Duo in it for $250 right now.
How is this news? I would wager that humans have been acting like this for many thousands of years. The only people who should find this surprising are people who grew up somewhere away from all human contact,.
Streaming services are usually pretty good for recent movies,
What streaming services, exactly, and "pretty good for recent movies"? I've tried Netflix, and their service is abysmal. I'm serious, because I still rent a lot of DVD's from Netflix, because I can't find a decent streaming service.
Office has excellent interconnectivity. I don't think that any users really perceive MS Office as being a simple suite of unrelated programs.
I doubt blame has anything to do with it. It cost them too much money/time to use OO. They're switching. It doesn't matter to them why OO costs more to use, just that it does.
It's less than 1%, when considering bank fees, labor to handle it, etc.
I understand that. I'm a brick and mortar merchant. All that doesn't come anywhere close to 2-3% of sales.
Seriously, cash is a major pain in the ass for merchants and that cost gets passed on to consumers
You're completely wrong. As a merchant, cash is the cheapest way to get paid. Cash doesn't cost 2-3%. Nowhere close.
The only way I can see to get around this would be for everyone to protest together or for all merchants to implement credit card surcharges.
Visa and Mastercard made sure that this was illegal in the US a long, long time ago. I wonder if Visa/MC buys their Congresspeople with cash, charge, or debit?
That's my point. Out of sight, out of mind. 2-3% of every purchase goes to a handful of very, very, very, very large companies, and almost nobody seems to care.
This is called "going around your ass to get to your elbow". Cash works fine.
Besides, what's with everybody wanting to continue to make payment processors of all kinds, obscenely wealthy? Doesn't anybody think, that every time they use their plastic, that you're giving Visa/MC 2-3% of your purchase? I feel like the massive expansion of cards and payment processors (paypal, amazon, google, etc.) is an Idiocracy type of thing. It's freaking me out that people are so fucking stupid.