The problem I've had with it is that each access point I've encountered usually requires a login and/or a fee to use. For example, Wifi in Starbucks requires a monthly fee from AT&T (or T-Mobile, can't remember). Across the street the library is free. The McDonalds next door charges $2.95 an hour, along with the Wendy's across the corner. The lobby in the hospital is free but requires a login that only the clerk at the front desk can provide. There is Wifi in the mall that is free.
I think that most people would prefer an all-or-nothing approach. Give me one Wifi experience or forget it. Having to keep track of a new login method every 200-500 feet is a hassle.
With the older iPods you could, including the first shuffle (around 2006). Then later the data folder was hidden, and later after that the filenames were scrambled (even though the content was the same and your favorite music software could read ID3 tags it made no difference).
The explanation given to these actions were that the record companies didn't want copying music from iPods to computers easy. This is why iTunes doesn't allow importing from iPods that aren't already linked to the existing library on the computer.
Dragging Internet Explorer to the recycle bin does nothing but inform you that removing the icon from the Desktop will not remove the program. At least on XP.
Every Wal-Mart I've been to in the last 2 years has a huge iPod/iPhone display in the very middle of their electronic section. Which demographic are we talking about?
Every company I've worked at says "We will get you any tool you need for the job" which translates to "We will get you any tool you need for the job as long as it is part of Microsoft Office".
"The 1918 flu was theorized to have started in Kansas around March 4th. By March 11th it was spread as far as New York City. In weeks, it had mutated into a more virulent strain that went on to kill more people than WWI had. It had killed an estimated 20 million people in 25 weeks, and that was without global air travel."
Specifically, it was Fort Riley, Kansas and it spread to Europe thanks to troops deployed for World War I, which is where it got nicknamed "Spanish flu". You mention global air travel but I submit that air travel doesn't involve sharing an entire ship full of passengers for a cross Atlantic trip that could take 8-9 days to several weeks.
"Lauren doesn't. She doesn't want a lot of those things. She just wants a computer with a 17" screen. Apple doesn't sell the machine she wants -- but because there's at least 3 or 4 PC brands at any Best Buy, she can walk in and get what she wants for a fraction of what Apple sells it for."
Apple did sell a computer with a 17" screen... in 2006. Microsoft didn't pick that screen measurement by accident for their ad, but in reality it doesn't make much sense to insist on a certain screen size for no good reason. How about I ask Dell for a machine with an AGP video card? Or HP to build me a machine with a Pentium 4?
Rotary phones, some older people won't give them up either.
Don't get me wrong, I had a Model M once upon a time. But then again I also had a 80-pound CRT monitor and a 45-pound steel XT case to go with it. Nowadays I don't find it necessary to cover half my desk with a gigantic click-clacking keyboard.
My high school physics teacher had us make rockets out of 2-liter soda bottles. We made our own fins and customizations and he placed them on a high-pressure water launcher and fired them off. We got points for height, multi-stages, parachute landings, etc.
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The problem I've had with it is that each access point I've encountered usually requires a login and/or a fee to use. For example, Wifi in Starbucks requires a monthly fee from AT&T (or T-Mobile, can't remember). Across the street the library is free. The McDonalds next door charges $2.95 an hour, along with the Wendy's across the corner. The lobby in the hospital is free but requires a login that only the clerk at the front desk can provide. There is Wifi in the mall that is free.
I think that most people would prefer an all-or-nothing approach. Give me one Wifi experience or forget it. Having to keep track of a new login method every 200-500 feet is a hassle.
Frostweave drops off of dead mobs by the bucketloads.
Except for dialog boxes being slightly transparent as to make it very apparent which window the dialog box belongs to.
With the older iPods you could, including the first shuffle (around 2006). Then later the data folder was hidden, and later after that the filenames were scrambled (even though the content was the same and your favorite music software could read ID3 tags it made no difference).
The explanation given to these actions were that the record companies didn't want copying music from iPods to computers easy. This is why iTunes doesn't allow importing from iPods that aren't already linked to the existing library on the computer.
Tailors should be able to repair their own cloth gear.
Blacksmiths should be able to repair their own mail/plate gear.
Leatherworkers should be able to repair their own leather gear.
We shouldn't have to plunk down 15g per death in Ulduar to some stranger to fix a crafted item WE CREATED.
Sigh.
Dragging Internet Explorer to the recycle bin does nothing but inform you that removing the icon from the Desktop will not remove the program. At least on XP.
Are the checkboxes on your Windows system disabled?
Have you used Safari for Windows lately?
Every Wal-Mart I've been to in the last 2 years has a huge iPod/iPhone display in the very middle of their electronic section. Which demographic are we talking about?
So you're saying the store should be bloated in size and the checkout lines slow?
Raising the technical bar weeds out the sincere from the rest.
At least that was the idea until the talking butt came along.
It does this in Safari 4 as well.
I was able to get rid of this by going to by Slashdot account preferences and selecting "Classic index" under Layout.
The only way to get the masses to switch is to force it upon them. Hence the continuing popularity of Windows XP.
(insert Janice laughter)
Nothing but about a thousand Amens to this post.
Every company I've worked at says "We will get you any tool you need for the job" which translates to "We will get you any tool you need for the job as long as it is part of Microsoft Office".
"The 1918 flu was theorized to have started in Kansas around March 4th. By March 11th it was spread as far as New York City. In weeks, it had mutated into a more virulent strain that went on to kill more people than WWI had. It had killed an estimated 20 million people in 25 weeks, and that was without global air travel."
Specifically, it was Fort Riley, Kansas and it spread to Europe thanks to troops deployed for World War I, which is where it got nicknamed "Spanish flu". You mention global air travel but I submit that air travel doesn't involve sharing an entire ship full of passengers for a cross Atlantic trip that could take 8-9 days to several weeks.
"Lauren doesn't. She doesn't want a lot of those things. She just wants a computer with a 17" screen. Apple doesn't sell the machine she wants -- but because there's at least 3 or 4 PC brands at any Best Buy, she can walk in and get what she wants for a fraction of what Apple sells it for."
Apple did sell a computer with a 17" screen... in 2006. Microsoft didn't pick that screen measurement by accident for their ad, but in reality it doesn't make much sense to insist on a certain screen size for no good reason. How about I ask Dell for a machine with an AGP video card? Or HP to build me a machine with a Pentium 4?
This was the conclusion I came to i 2006 when my last DIY PC from 2003 finally died.
Rotary phones, some older people won't give them up either.
Don't get me wrong, I had a Model M once upon a time. But then again I also had a 80-pound CRT monitor and a 45-pound steel XT case to go with it. Nowadays I don't find it necessary to cover half my desk with a gigantic click-clacking keyboard.
My high school physics teacher had us make rockets out of 2-liter soda bottles. We made our own fins and customizations and he placed them on a high-pressure water launcher and fired them off. We got points for height, multi-stages, parachute landings, etc.
Easy, dye the hydrogen red, see the venting red gas, solve leak problem.
Sorry, too much WoW.
For once the Apple device is cheaper, huh?
Been available here for Safari for a long time.
With Safari all I have to do to uninstall it is drag it to the Trash.
Can you do that to Internet Explorer on your Windows machine?