Do you mean a fee to be able to call someone up for tech support: "I've started getting a blue screen of death when I plug in my camera!" or do you mean a fee to continue to create patches that roll out as part of Windows update? I'd consider both to be support. If the former, fine, if the latter, I'm not sure how you would do that - A subscription service for people still running XP?
I hardly think keeping the XP updates on their update server(instead of just deleting a few entries on their end and saying 'not supported') is so terribly costly for them
So the new XP updates are just automagically coded, QA tested and deployment tested by gnomes, for free? Cool. I had no idea.
It seems to me you don't have any actual business experience if you think people are able to get by with Pentium 4 or even a modern machine running XP.
Bingo. For some reason, Slashdot has this stereotype that every office worker is a PHB and his secretary writing 'memos' for him, for whom Windows 98 running Office 97 is perfectly fine.
But either way, right now we're just marvelling at how close they are, compared to when the shows were made.
But the thing is, in most cases they're NOT 'close.' Communicators, replicators, tricorders, phasers, computers, warp drive, transporters - We have nothing that comes close to the majority of tech we see in ST. Sure, we have tablets and medical injectors, but that's about it.
I see. So if you're in a building you can tap it and chat with someone on a spaceship in orbit, using no other infrastructure, even if they're not geosychronously over you. Cool.
or any other of the misguided beliefs the right seems to cling to is, quite simply, ignorant
While I agree, it's important to note that the left can be equally stupid. Most of the "People are allergic to WiFi" and/or "Vaccines are dangerous" and/or "My naturopath can cure cancer" fools are on the left.
Over a year later I'm sitting on it and my hand feels a small 'bump' between the foam seat cushion and it's zippered cloth cover. I tell him, we unzip it and I reach in and pull out a mostly empty tube of a sexual lubricant that (from the name on the tube) was obviously marketed to gay men.
If you've had the couch for over a year, I'm quite sure all of the 'gay germs' have died off and have instead been replaced by your 'homophobe germs.'
Have you ever stayed in a hotel? News flash: 500 people had sex in your bed before you slept there.
My guess is that the 9-pin connector is just a better USB 3.0 port
I'll confess that I don't know a lot about USB, but it seems like the existing connector has video out, audio out and signals to control the device (skip / volume etc.). Does the USB 3.0 spec include all that as well?
I can tell you that most people on juries are pretty dumb and incapable of understanding the issues they are presented with.
Part of the issue is it's supposed to be a 'jury of your peers.' So if the trial concerns a complicated technology issue, then the jury should be highly skilled technologists - Those are the plaintiff and defendant's 'peers,' not some guy who sells ABS pipe at Home Depot.
I've always wondered - Why aren't cold places full of datacenters? Just pump the air in from outside. Yakutsk (well known to anyone who plays Risk) is a city that gets down to -50C in the winter, or something like that. In the summer it rarely gets above +20C. You'd figure there'd be a booming business building datacenters in these places.
personalized, invasive, interactive commercialization being thrust at your face any time you interact with an electronic device
I dunno about 'invasive' but frankly I wish ads *were* more personalized to me. I'm not going to buy a Ford Truck or talk to my doctor about Cialis. I'm not interested in tampons, Sunny D or a Verizon cell phone.... Tell me about something I might care about. Of course if Facebook is anything to go by, that's an impossibility - They can't get it right either.
How were the forum readers supposed to know a kid's train was coming to town for a weekend, if not for ads? Ads, targeted to me, with stuff I might care about, are an effective way to message me. I don't have time to do random web searches... An ad is a quick and effective way for me to know something I might care about.
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No, for a fee. Just like they do now.
Do you mean a fee to be able to call someone up for tech support: "I've started getting a blue screen of death when I plug in my camera!" or do you mean a fee to continue to create patches that roll out as part of Windows update? I'd consider both to be support. If the former, fine, if the latter, I'm not sure how you would do that - A subscription service for people still running XP?
I hardly think keeping the XP updates on their update server(instead of just deleting a few entries on their end and saying 'not supported') is so terribly costly for them
So the new XP updates are just automagically coded, QA tested and deployment tested by gnomes, for free? Cool. I had no idea.
If 43% of businesses are really happy with XP then they should continue to support it.
For free?
It seems to me you don't have any actual business experience if you think people are able to get by with Pentium 4 or even a modern machine running XP.
Bingo. For some reason, Slashdot has this stereotype that every office worker is a PHB and his secretary writing 'memos' for him, for whom Windows 98 running Office 97 is perfectly fine.
People who use Office daily, for whom 27Â per day is reasonable.
Sun take bite out of Phobos!
But either way, right now we're just marvelling at how close they are, compared to when the shows were made.
But the thing is, in most cases they're NOT 'close.' Communicators, replicators, tricorders, phasers, computers, warp drive, transporters - We have nothing that comes close to the majority of tech we see in ST. Sure, we have tablets and medical injectors, but that's about it.
And these actually exist in real life
I see. So if you're in a building you can tap it and chat with someone on a spaceship in orbit, using no other infrastructure, even if they're not geosychronously over you. Cool.
read the article
You must be new here.
or any other of the misguided beliefs the right seems to cling to is, quite simply, ignorant
While I agree, it's important to note that the left can be equally stupid. Most of the "People are allergic to WiFi" and/or "Vaccines are dangerous" and/or "My naturopath can cure cancer" fools are on the left.
Over a year later I'm sitting on it and my hand feels a small 'bump' between the foam seat cushion and it's zippered cloth cover. I tell him, we unzip it and I reach in and pull out a mostly empty tube of a sexual lubricant that (from the name on the tube) was obviously marketed to gay men.
If you've had the couch for over a year, I'm quite sure all of the 'gay germs' have died off and have instead been replaced by your 'homophobe germs.'
Have you ever stayed in a hotel? News flash: 500 people had sex in your bed before you slept there.
My guess is that the 9-pin connector is just a better USB 3.0 port
I'll confess that I don't know a lot about USB, but it seems like the existing connector has video out, audio out and signals to control the device (skip / volume etc.). Does the USB 3.0 spec include all that as well?
I can tell you that most people on juries are pretty dumb and incapable of understanding the issues they are presented with.
Part of the issue is it's supposed to be a 'jury of your peers.' So if the trial concerns a complicated technology issue, then the jury should be highly skilled technologists - Those are the plaintiff and defendant's 'peers,' not some guy who sells ABS pipe at Home Depot.
I've always wondered - Why aren't cold places full of datacenters? Just pump the air in from outside. Yakutsk (well known to anyone who plays Risk) is a city that gets down to -50C in the winter, or something like that. In the summer it rarely gets above +20C. You'd figure there'd be a booming business building datacenters in these places.
That. was. AWESOME.
personalized, invasive, interactive commercialization being thrust at your face any time you interact with an electronic device
I dunno about 'invasive' but frankly I wish ads *were* more personalized to me. I'm not going to buy a Ford Truck or talk to my doctor about Cialis. I'm not interested in tampons, Sunny D or a Verizon cell phone.... Tell me about something I might care about. Of course if Facebook is anything to go by, that's an impossibility - They can't get it right either.
seriously?
Whoosh!
were made of wood
If it weighs the same as a duck...
> I hope your balls fall off.
Awesome.
Horseshoe crabs are pretty cool, too....
So are nude girls.
A number of bones in the fins of these fishes exhibit homology to the bones in your arms and legs.
According to the US Senate, Jesus put them there.
The United States stands alone in being the only G8 country that lacks it.
That's because every other developed nation in the world is WRONG. A few underdeveloped ones, too. America knows best.
except that ads before you watch at Youtube video are not noise
Sure they are. Look out the window at the birds and clouds for FIVE seconds, then click "skip."
Would you pay for an ad-free YouTube subscription? If so, how much? If not, how should YouTube fund itself?
How were the forum readers supposed to know a kid's train was coming to town for a weekend, if not for ads? Ads, targeted to me, with stuff I might care about, are an effective way to message me. I don't have time to do random web searches... An ad is a quick and effective way for me to know something I might care about.
I dislike business models that are based on ads
What does your employer do? Do you work for the government?