I think Sprint is worse. Because whenever I would play an MP3 from the memory card in the phone, we got charged for data. I think their music player connects to the internet for some reason. My phone had a habit of launching the music player without my knowledge sometimes, perhaps due to a button placed on the outside of the phone. One day it played the same song all day and we were charged for several hours of internet use. This is regardless of the internet connection being explicitly turned off in the settings. If I tried to use the web browser, it would say the internet connection was off and ask if I wanted to turn it on. If I played an mp3, it would say nothing and just start charging for data.
I still use it. I think Microsoft Office is better, but OpenOffice works. And the compatibility problems don't affect me much because I'm not ever using Microsoft Office here. But I do have a personal problem with software that claims to be beta forever. That leaves too much room to blame deficiencies on beta status. It's not like they had to start over. When will it no longer say it's beta?
Some idiot modded me "overrated" but, you know, you could browse a website on a netbook or a 1000-core supercomputer with a monitor and keyboard attached, and either way you'll spend most of your time waiting for things to download. Everything you've already loaded will render before the next element loads. The only difference you'll notice is how fast it takes your browser to load in the first place, and that has nothing to do with graphics acceleration.
I think if it were truly a test of "real world" use, they would find that all of the browsers have the same performance level and none of this matters.
Exactly... any admin worth their position could extract similar information from their corporate network. This was an inside job like any other inside job. It's only news because it is Google.
If this has been an admin of Facebook or MySpace it would have had similar impact. It should be no surprise that any information you give to a company is available to their admins to use or abuse.
I think the point is, everybody keeps acting like Google is different from other corporations and somehow you're safe with them. This is an example of how Google is no safer than Facebook.
It reminds me of some old movie I saw. I don't remember the name, but there was an elevator. And in the elevator the people had to dance to make the elevator go.
I agree. My TI-89 Titanium's lithium battery cover broke. Not only have I not dropped this calculator but I haven't ever replaced the lithium battery. The lithium battery cover apparently serves no purpose so I could just take it out and use only the main battery cover. I think they just put it in there so it could break.
My aunt created a Facebook account maybe a week ago. It wasn't till then that I tagged her and she realized what photos of her were on there. She instructed me to delete two of them in which she didn't like her hair. I was like, those have been there for years...
So, if they had acquired the signature for Red Hat's online repository, Fedora wouldn't be vulnerable? If the user clicks yes to accept a Fedora key, that's less risky than clicking to accept a key on Windows?
Natural Selection removes the slower and less attentive pedestrians out of the gene pool.
How does Natural Selection handle the slower, less attentive people who are traveling inside metal shells that trample faster, more attentive people at high speed?
MySpace had low user satisfaction but high popularity. That's how Facebook took over. Now Facebook is MySpace and they have low user satisfaction but high popularity. They just don't know how vulnerable they will be when the next Facebook pops up.
They also should consider real megabits per second and not just what you get for the first 8mb burst before they throttle you to hell. And they should consider whether you get this speed for whatever you download or if it only applies to http.
Well my game-fanatic nephew and I just did that. He noticed one of the blocks with a line following it and concluded that must be the object controlled by whoever is playing the game. We didn't get much further than that. I'll reserve judgement until the DSi version comes out.
Only if he's claiming to be bulletproof. A lot of Non-Windows/Non-IE product makers seem to want you to think they're more "bulletproof" than the Microsoft version.
My problem with this is, what is "hella" big now won't be hella big later. For instance, maybe in 1999, 128 megs of ram was hella ram. But now it takes more than that for me to post this message with Firefox. So it's probably not a good idea to specify a particular number as really big when really big is relative and we may someday find it peculiar that such a small number was given a name that means "really big".
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I think Sprint is worse. Because whenever I would play an MP3 from the memory card in the phone, we got charged for data. I think their music player connects to the internet for some reason. My phone had a habit of launching the music player without my knowledge sometimes, perhaps due to a button placed on the outside of the phone. One day it played the same song all day and we were charged for several hours of internet use. This is regardless of the internet connection being explicitly turned off in the settings. If I tried to use the web browser, it would say the internet connection was off and ask if I wanted to turn it on. If I played an mp3, it would say nothing and just start charging for data.
That's a subset of the real problem, that the company trying to make WebP look superior is the one who made the images to compare.
Is their use of the equipment worse than the United States' use of the equipment?
I still use it. I think Microsoft Office is better, but OpenOffice works. And the compatibility problems don't affect me much because I'm not ever using Microsoft Office here. But I do have a personal problem with software that claims to be beta forever. That leaves too much room to blame deficiencies on beta status. It's not like they had to start over. When will it no longer say it's beta?
The ultimate weapon of the twenty first century: a catapult that fires naked children at your enemies.
If you give those children MP3 players filled with pirated music this weapon might just be capable of destroying the world.
Now we know how people will get their music in the future.
Why not? It's not like you have to play it.
Some idiot modded me "overrated" but, you know, you could browse a website on a netbook or a 1000-core supercomputer with a monitor and keyboard attached, and either way you'll spend most of your time waiting for things to download. Everything you've already loaded will render before the next element loads. The only difference you'll notice is how fast it takes your browser to load in the first place, and that has nothing to do with graphics acceleration.
I think if it were truly a test of "real world" use, they would find that all of the browsers have the same performance level and none of this matters.
Exactly... any admin worth their position could extract similar information from their corporate network. This was an inside job like any other inside job. It's only news because it is Google.
If this has been an admin of Facebook or MySpace it would have had similar impact. It should be no surprise that any information you give to a company is available to their admins to use or abuse.
I think the point is, everybody keeps acting like Google is different from other corporations and somehow you're safe with them. This is an example of how Google is no safer than Facebook.
I bet YouTube is the only reason Google is even on the list.
That's what I thought too. I also think that's less scary than what they're actually doing.
It reminds me of some old movie I saw. I don't remember the name, but there was an elevator. And in the elevator the people had to dance to make the elevator go.
I must be the only person on the planet who prefers Life Force over R-Type. Life Force also gets my vote as the answer to the original question.
I agree. My TI-89 Titanium's lithium battery cover broke. Not only have I not dropped this calculator but I haven't ever replaced the lithium battery. The lithium battery cover apparently serves no purpose so I could just take it out and use only the main battery cover. I think they just put it in there so it could break.
And who pays for the federal marshals?
My aunt created a Facebook account maybe a week ago. It wasn't till then that I tagged her and she realized what photos of her were on there. She instructed me to delete two of them in which she didn't like her hair. I was like, those have been there for years...
So, if they had acquired the signature for Red Hat's online repository, Fedora wouldn't be vulnerable? If the user clicks yes to accept a Fedora key, that's less risky than clicking to accept a key on Windows?
If your comment had a "Like" button, I'd click it.
Natural Selection removes the slower and less attentive pedestrians out of the gene pool.
How does Natural Selection handle the slower, less attentive people who are traveling inside metal shells that trample faster, more attentive people at high speed?
MySpace had low user satisfaction but high popularity. That's how Facebook took over. Now Facebook is MySpace and they have low user satisfaction but high popularity. They just don't know how vulnerable they will be when the next Facebook pops up.
They also should consider real megabits per second and not just what you get for the first 8mb burst before they throttle you to hell. And they should consider whether you get this speed for whatever you download or if it only applies to http.
Well my game-fanatic nephew and I just did that. He noticed one of the blocks with a line following it and concluded that must be the object controlled by whoever is playing the game. We didn't get much further than that. I'll reserve judgement until the DSi version comes out.
And they were talking about it on Blogetery.com a week ago...
Only if he's claiming to be bulletproof. A lot of Non-Windows/Non-IE product makers seem to want you to think they're more "bulletproof" than the Microsoft version.
My problem with this is, what is "hella" big now won't be hella big later. For instance, maybe in 1999, 128 megs of ram was hella ram. But now it takes more than that for me to post this message with Firefox. So it's probably not a good idea to specify a particular number as really big when really big is relative and we may someday find it peculiar that such a small number was given a name that means "really big".