if needed (happened twice) to enter a password, I usually go to some webpage, copy and paste each character. I assume that the keylogger is not smart enough to clipboards. There are workarounds for that too.
I once ran a bill of 6.50$ at McDonalds. I had a 10$ note and some change, so gave the cashier 11.50$ and asked her to give me 5$ bill in return. She was bamboozled, and refused to entertain my request.
She just took 10$, and gave me 4.50$, and repriminded me not to try to fool her again since she had a computer to assist.
Go, figure!
To this day, I have no idea why people actually want to use Flash. Flash was one of my primary reasons why I moved to firefox. If I disable Activex, IE gives that annoying mesagebox everything a page has a flash object.
There are several reasons, IMO, that simputer failed, or things like it will continue to fail.
1. lack of awareness: Something like 99% of the country hasn't heard of what a simputer is, and some 70% of the country doesn't know what a computer is either or what it is used for. You introduce a cell phone to a man who doesn't know what a landline is, or what a phone is, for that matter and you will realize.
2. Lack of government support: Never heard of any state govt using state owned media to propegate the use of computer.
3. Industry backing (lack thereof). No industry, to my knowledge ever backed simputer.
4. Electricity. However small, simputer will still need power to work. The place where I was born and raised has power 3 hours in the morning and 4 in the evening during which people are busy trying to make as much use of power as they can, like to heat water, watch TV/listen to radio.
Not that simputer is dead. The product might be, but I get a feeling that the idea will continue to remain alive.
I am wondering when was the last time I bought stuff at BB or CC. It appears, it was during last november when people line up at 3:00 AM, I think it's some thanksgiving or something though I dn't remember who I was thanking. And, the deal I got that time wasnt the best anyways.
As much as I have hated, I wonder if we can really do without retailers. Is it possible, even in the internet times, to do away with retailers altogether? For (somewhat) geeks like me, it may be possible, but what about folks who are just stepping into digital age, like my neighbor who bought a 5 year old apple (against my advice)? Can he possibly do without BB or CC?
Yeah, I bought (and subsequently sold the next day) a dimension system. Consumer price was 600, Small Business price was 499, and for large business available only as an optiplex for 1400. I thought the whole thing was funny.
The reason why I sold it next day was their crappy customer support. I called twice, each time waiting 1/2 hour to talk to a human being in New Delhi who subsequently said it was not his job and transferred to other department.
No need to say, it was my last purchase at Dell.
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I've had enough of Larry King on TV, can't take him on internet :)
Any idea if planetary soc is comming up with one such solar sail? May be russians will compensate this failure with a free launch.
Ditto
if needed (happened twice) to enter a password, I usually go to some webpage, copy and paste each character. I assume that the keylogger is not smart enough to clipboards. There are workarounds for that too.
I agree with you. A very small percentage of young Americans can actually make sense of a good essay.
Who's Caltech, by the way?
I once ran a bill of 6.50$ at McDonalds. I had a 10$ note and some change, so gave the cashier 11.50$ and asked her to give me 5$ bill in return. She was bamboozled, and refused to entertain my request.
She just took 10$, and gave me 4.50$, and repriminded me not to try to fool her again since she had a computer to assist. Go, figure!
To this day, I have no idea why people actually want to use Flash. Flash was one of my primary reasons why I moved to firefox. If I disable Activex, IE gives that annoying mesagebox everything a page has a flash object.
There are several reasons, IMO, that simputer failed, or things like it will continue to fail. 1. lack of awareness: Something like 99% of the country hasn't heard of what a simputer is, and some 70% of the country doesn't know what a computer is either or what it is used for. You introduce a cell phone to a man who doesn't know what a landline is, or what a phone is, for that matter and you will realize. 2. Lack of government support: Never heard of any state govt using state owned media to propegate the use of computer. 3. Industry backing (lack thereof). No industry, to my knowledge ever backed simputer. 4. Electricity. However small, simputer will still need power to work. The place where I was born and raised has power 3 hours in the morning and 4 in the evening during which people are busy trying to make as much use of power as they can, like to heat water, watch TV/listen to radio. Not that simputer is dead. The product might be, but I get a feeling that the idea will continue to remain alive.
I am wondering when was the last time I bought stuff at BB or CC. It appears, it was during last november when people line up at 3:00 AM, I think it's some thanksgiving or something though I dn't remember who I was thanking. And, the deal I got that time wasnt the best anyways.
As much as I have hated, I wonder if we can really do without retailers. Is it possible, even in the internet times, to do away with retailers altogether? For (somewhat) geeks like me, it may be possible, but what about folks who are just stepping into digital age, like my neighbor who bought a 5 year old apple (against my advice)? Can he possibly do without BB or CC?
Folks, I am up against the competing kid. I am open for negotiations on final prize. someone wants to buy me for 29.95k$?
Have used it for 7 years now. Still feel very comfortable using it.
Yeah, I bought (and subsequently sold the next day) a dimension system. Consumer price was 600, Small Business price was 499, and for large business available only as an optiplex for 1400. I thought the whole thing was funny. The reason why I sold it next day was their crappy customer support. I called twice, each time waiting 1/2 hour to talk to a human being in New Delhi who subsequently said it was not his job and transferred to other department. No need to say, it was my last purchase at Dell.