Salary jobs are well above minimum wage. Minimum wage is exactly how it sounds, the minimum an employer is allowed to pay you. Overtime laws vary with each state, but the federal minimum is to pay 1.5 the hourly rate for hours above 40.
Minimum wage sucks, but that isn't entirely true. First off, working 80 hours nets you 100 hours of pay via overtime. In some states (such as California) you'd be getting double-time.
But $7.25 an hour at 100 hours is $725 a week. 4.3 weeks in a month = $3,117.50.
You're insisting that $3,117.50 a month will barely pay for a shoddy apartment in most states? I think you're exaggerating a bit.
Blindly voting one party (regardless of party) will never fix the issue. If the media was devoid of partisan spin and we could individual elected officials accountable for their actions, then perhaps we'd have solutions.
"According to a 2011 paper by poverty expert Robert Rector, of the 43.6 million Americans deemed to be below the poverty level by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2009, the majority had adequate shelter, food, clothing and medical care. In addition, the paper stated that those assessed to be below the poverty line in 2011 have a much higher quality of living than those who were identified by the census 40 years ago as being in poverty."
These days we count poverty as economic disparity, which is not the historical definition of poverty. Today, if you have access to medical care, housing and food, we state that you are living in poverty. That is not to say there aren't those living in legitimate poverty.
Malnourishment is down, and yet we insist poverty is near all-time highs.
Can't you get all the Amazon apps on a normal Android device?
Where as the Kindle Fire doesn't have access to all Android apps and music/video from Google Play, Nook, etc. As far as I know, Nook is the only major e-book app that allows side-loading my own e-book collection, which I enjoy.
This is already a really fast phone with ICS, and the Samsung touches are actually pretty nice, but I want to remove the ChatOn service (I'm getting spam messages) and I want Jelly Bean. I'm assuming Cynaogen will give me that option before Samsung/Sprint goes.
Ad hominem attacks by an AC always put me in my place.
I asked a legitimate question. What valuable feature in Windows 8 offsets the fact that this is a usability regression and it takes more time to perform the same tasks? And it isn't just a regression for a single user.
At the same time, assembling such a collection is quite a bit of work. Assuming you're a multimillionaire, what is your time worth? And how much time would it take to assemble this collection otherwise?
There are those who still insist Apples are inherently better for graphics, which really isn't true anymore.
I loved the concept of Android, but used an iPhone for the past 3 years. Android has really come a long way in that time. It should be noted that most iOS 5 features existed in Android first. The notion that Android isn't as cool, slick or intuitive as iOS was once true, but no longer is.
I made the switch to a Galaxy S III and it actually exceeded my expectations. The OS is very intuitive, slick and looks really good. The surprising thing is I think the typography is better, which is an area where Apple normally excels. Roboto is just a great looking scalable font.
I find great features every day that I didn't even know about. For example, I set an alarm on my phone to take a nap. It slowly woke me up with soft music like a zen alarm clock.
I have a shit-ton of games installed on my PC (the main reason I keep Windows around and don't just use Linux full time) as well as an ass-load of apps. The Start Menu is organized in folders and I can quickly get to what I want to launch. The classic XP exploding Start Menu was actually better than the Vista/7 Start Menu for browsing. The new menu is supposed to encourage you to search, but the search is slow. With Metro I just have a huge mess of tiles.
The best way to launch apps is with Alt-F2 in Linux or Win+R in Windows and then just type what I want, but most casual users aren't familiar that functionality even exists.
Windows 8 literally wastes my time by making me jump through hoops. My time is valuable. My software is supposed to enable me to work, not get in my way.
When I press the Windows button in Windows 8, I immediately get dragged back kicking and screaming to the Metro interface. Pasting URLs into the run dialog brings up the Metro IE browser. The new explorer also makes me jump through extra hoops to accomplish the same tasks.
The concept of having an app store and unified app updates in one place is nice, but those apps are primarily mobile games at the moment. It doesn't provide me any benefit on my desktop.
What new feature in Windows 8 offsets wasting my time? Being able to store my account on Skydrive? I already use Google Drive for document storage in the cloud. Native USB 3.0 support is great in theory, but I don't have any USB 3.0 devices yet.
Remember when IE completely owned the browser market and Netscape died? Somehow they completely lost that market. Windows won't lose all their market share overnight, but all the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for have started integrating Apple more and more over the years. If Microsoft keeps making missteps, and alienating the enterprise market with Metro on the desktop, then that share can continue to drop.
OEMs sold XP downgrades when Vista came out to avoid Vista. Microsoft counted those as Vista licenses and called Vista a success, but deep down I think everyone knows better. I'm not sure people will be rushing out to buy Windows 8, and enterprise shops likely won't buy Windows 8 licenses.
Sitting right next to me at work is perhaps the biggest Microsoft fanboi I've ever met, and he just swapped out his Windows desktop for a Macbook Pro.
1. Windows 8 was well tested by the masses. And I consistently saw the same complaints from most news shops and users. 2. Microsoft is still releasing Windows 8 on time rather than listening to any of the criticism levied during testing. 3. They have slashed the price really low. I do think they heard the criticism and know that consumers don't want Windows 8, but maybe if it is really cheap, people will buy it anyway.
Here's the problem. Why should I pay money to make my OS worse? Microsoft should listen to the criticism from testing and improve their product and then sell it for full price.
First off, if I want to add an HD receiver in my house from DirecTV, I'm sure I'll have to spend $99.
Secondly, hasn't Foxconn let the cat out of the bag that Apple is working on TV units with Apple TV functionality baked in? There won't be a need for an extra box anymore.
HP at this point has no identity. They tried selling off their PC division while publicly saying there was no future for the PC market, which was fucking idiotic. Way to devalue what you're trying to sell off. They abandoned their WebOS investment way too early and never captured developer interest even for a moment. They still make good servers and laptops, but they don't own those markets.
Either HP makes a bold move to salvage the mess up to this point, or they die out.
* Detailed alerting rules. I don't want every email waking me up in the middle of the night, but I can configure a rule for an audible alert with specific emails when I'm on call. * Detailed filtering rules. * Search that's worth a damn. * Being able to delete all emails that fit those search results.
That's part of what spurred the thought process. I think HP and Google could work together to integrate some WebOS UI concepts into Android to improve it.
HP is convinced they need to embrace the 'post-PC' world. They could actually salvage part of their 2 billion investment of Palm and Web OS. BB has a terrible platform right now and is dying, but they have a great brand name, and some great apps. Their mobile email client is absolutely the best.
If HP was smart, they'd reach out to Google to help develop Android phones and tablets with some Web OS influence (some great UI concepts actually) and a BB email client. Honestly, wouldn't that be a legit Apple killer than enterprise shops would embrace en-masse?
Shortly after Afghanistan was liberated from the Taliban, they not only allowed female voters for the first time ever, but they elected female officials. I don't live in Afghanistan, but I'd be hesitant to suggest violent oppression of women is the predominant view, even if it was practiced by the Taliban previously. Sometimes a violent minority rules the masses, but does not reflect the views of the people.
I assume the education slant would appeal to nerds. Nerds should be pro-education and should be concerned about literally violent anti-education movements.
.NET never was that huge for desktop apps for most users, but it is HUGE in the enterprise world. HTML5 is the path for Metro tile apps, but Microsoft isn't abandoning all their enterprise customers with internal apps..NET isn't going away. Mono in theory could allow these customers to shift to Linux, but I'm not sure anyone has really tried that.
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Salary jobs are well above minimum wage. Minimum wage is exactly how it sounds, the minimum an employer is allowed to pay you. Overtime laws vary with each state, but the federal minimum is to pay 1.5 the hourly rate for hours above 40.
http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/overtimepay.htm
Minimum wage sucks, but that isn't entirely true. First off, working 80 hours nets you 100 hours of pay via overtime. In some states (such as California) you'd be getting double-time.
But $7.25 an hour at 100 hours is $725 a week. 4.3 weeks in a month = $3,117.50.
You're insisting that $3,117.50 a month will barely pay for a shoddy apartment in most states? I think you're exaggerating a bit.
Blindly voting one party (regardless of party) will never fix the issue. If the media was devoid of partisan spin and we could individual elected officials accountable for their actions, then perhaps we'd have solutions.
"According to a 2011 paper by poverty expert Robert Rector, of the 43.6 million Americans deemed to be below the poverty level by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2009, the majority had adequate shelter, food, clothing and medical care. In addition, the paper stated that those assessed to be below the poverty line in 2011 have a much higher quality of living than those who were identified by the census 40 years ago as being in poverty."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
These days we count poverty as economic disparity, which is not the historical definition of poverty. Today, if you have access to medical care, housing and food, we state that you are living in poverty. That is not to say there aren't those living in legitimate poverty.
Malnourishment is down, and yet we insist poverty is near all-time highs.
Can't you get all the Amazon apps on a normal Android device?
Where as the Kindle Fire doesn't have access to all Android apps and music/video from Google Play, Nook, etc. As far as I know, Nook is the only major e-book app that allows side-loading my own e-book collection, which I enjoy.
He did a previous demonstration of some footage at the 48fps rate at a convention, and it did in fact result in backlash.
http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/04/the-hobbit-the-soap-opera-effect-and-the-48fps-and-faster-future-of-movies/
This is already a really fast phone with ICS, and the Samsung touches are actually pretty nice, but I want to remove the ChatOn service (I'm getting spam messages) and I want Jelly Bean. I'm assuming Cynaogen will give me that option before Samsung/Sprint goes.
Droid is a great font. I think Roboto (which they introduced in ICS) is even better.
Directly comparing iOS and Android features is off-topic in a thread about iOS and Android?
There is no -1 disagree.
Ad hominem attacks by an AC always put me in my place.
I asked a legitimate question. What valuable feature in Windows 8 offsets the fact that this is a usability regression and it takes more time to perform the same tasks? And it isn't just a regression for a single user.
At the same time, assembling such a collection is quite a bit of work. Assuming you're a multimillionaire, what is your time worth? And how much time would it take to assemble this collection otherwise?
There are those who still insist Apples are inherently better for graphics, which really isn't true anymore.
I loved the concept of Android, but used an iPhone for the past 3 years. Android has really come a long way in that time. It should be noted that most iOS 5 features existed in Android first. The notion that Android isn't as cool, slick or intuitive as iOS was once true, but no longer is.
I made the switch to a Galaxy S III and it actually exceeded my expectations. The OS is very intuitive, slick and looks really good. The surprising thing is I think the typography is better, which is an area where Apple normally excels. Roboto is just a great looking scalable font.
I find great features every day that I didn't even know about. For example, I set an alarm on my phone to take a nap. It slowly woke me up with soft music like a zen alarm clock.
It really was just compatibility testing. They didn't have an open bug tracker to submit bugs to. Microsoft doesn't really want customer feedback.
I have a shit-ton of games installed on my PC (the main reason I keep Windows around and don't just use Linux full time) as well as an ass-load of apps. The Start Menu is organized in folders and I can quickly get to what I want to launch. The classic XP exploding Start Menu was actually better than the Vista/7 Start Menu for browsing. The new menu is supposed to encourage you to search, but the search is slow. With Metro I just have a huge mess of tiles.
The best way to launch apps is with Alt-F2 in Linux or Win+R in Windows and then just type what I want, but most casual users aren't familiar that functionality even exists.
Windows 8 literally wastes my time by making me jump through hoops. My time is valuable. My software is supposed to enable me to work, not get in my way.
When I press the Windows button in Windows 8, I immediately get dragged back kicking and screaming to the Metro interface.
Pasting URLs into the run dialog brings up the Metro IE browser.
The new explorer also makes me jump through extra hoops to accomplish the same tasks.
The concept of having an app store and unified app updates in one place is nice, but those apps are primarily mobile games at the moment. It doesn't provide me any benefit on my desktop.
What new feature in Windows 8 offsets wasting my time? Being able to store my account on Skydrive? I already use Google Drive for document storage in the cloud. Native USB 3.0 support is great in theory, but I don't have any USB 3.0 devices yet.
Microsoft is down to 85% OS market share.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10
Remember when IE completely owned the browser market and Netscape died? Somehow they completely lost that market. Windows won't lose all their market share overnight, but all the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for have started integrating Apple more and more over the years. If Microsoft keeps making missteps, and alienating the enterprise market with Metro on the desktop, then that share can continue to drop.
OEMs sold XP downgrades when Vista came out to avoid Vista. Microsoft counted those as Vista licenses and called Vista a success, but deep down I think everyone knows better. I'm not sure people will be rushing out to buy Windows 8, and enterprise shops likely won't buy Windows 8 licenses.
Sitting right next to me at work is perhaps the biggest Microsoft fanboi I've ever met, and he just swapped out his Windows desktop for a Macbook Pro.
1. Windows 8 was well tested by the masses. And I consistently saw the same complaints from most news shops and users.
2. Microsoft is still releasing Windows 8 on time rather than listening to any of the criticism levied during testing.
3. They have slashed the price really low. I do think they heard the criticism and know that consumers don't want Windows 8, but maybe if it is really cheap, people will buy it anyway.
Here's the problem. Why should I pay money to make my OS worse? Microsoft should listen to the criticism from testing and improve their product and then sell it for full price.
First off, if I want to add an HD receiver in my house from DirecTV, I'm sure I'll have to spend $99.
Secondly, hasn't Foxconn let the cat out of the bag that Apple is working on TV units with Apple TV functionality baked in? There won't be a need for an extra box anymore.
HP at this point has no identity. They tried selling off their PC division while publicly saying there was no future for the PC market, which was fucking idiotic. Way to devalue what you're trying to sell off. They abandoned their WebOS investment way too early and never captured developer interest even for a moment. They still make good servers and laptops, but they don't own those markets.
Either HP makes a bold move to salvage the mess up to this point, or they die out.
That's their IM platform which goes through RIM's servers. The email goes through your Exchange/whatever mail servers.
A few points that come to mind:
* Detailed alerting rules. I don't want every email waking me up in the middle of the night, but I can configure a rule for an audible alert with specific emails when I'm on call.
* Detailed filtering rules.
* Search that's worth a damn.
* Being able to delete all emails that fit those search results.
That's part of what spurred the thought process. I think HP and Google could work together to integrate some WebOS UI concepts into Android to improve it.
HP is convinced they need to embrace the 'post-PC' world. They could actually salvage part of their 2 billion investment of Palm and Web OS. BB has a terrible platform right now and is dying, but they have a great brand name, and some great apps. Their mobile email client is absolutely the best.
If HP was smart, they'd reach out to Google to help develop Android phones and tablets with some Web OS influence (some great UI concepts actually) and a BB email client. Honestly, wouldn't that be a legit Apple killer than enterprise shops would embrace en-masse?
Shortly after Afghanistan was liberated from the Taliban, they not only allowed female voters for the first time ever, but they elected female officials. I don't live in Afghanistan, but I'd be hesitant to suggest violent oppression of women is the predominant view, even if it was practiced by the Taliban previously. Sometimes a violent minority rules the masses, but does not reflect the views of the people.
I assume the education slant would appeal to nerds. Nerds should be pro-education and should be concerned about literally violent anti-education movements.
.NET never was that huge for desktop apps for most users, but it is HUGE in the enterprise world. HTML5 is the path for Metro tile apps, but Microsoft isn't abandoning all their enterprise customers with internal apps. .NET isn't going away. Mono in theory could allow these customers to shift to Linux, but I'm not sure anyone has really tried that.