The truth is that the model which has fueled the incredible popularity and affordability of the PC will continue to drive innovation and choice in the burgeoning area of personal devices such as cell phones, digital players and mobile PCs. As such, the PC is becoming more important and popular as a key enabler for these new digital scenarios
It seems to me like you and Mr. Gates agree. He's not stating that PCs will kill PDAs and phones (remember, this is Bill, not Steve), but that PCs will drive PDAs and phones. Look at a lot of the higher-end phones that come out these days: WMP, IE, etc. Microsoft Activesync, for crying out loud, points that MS has simply moved into PDAs.
Windows is everywhere and will continue to be because They adapt, despite what others might say. Innovative? No, not really. Slapping the same product into a PDA isn't innovative. It's not Wall Street material, as a previous poster observed. But it will keep them going, and quite strongly.
You have to have something on which to run the internet.
Can we really compare Google and M$/Apple? They started in very different fields with very different goals. Of course their business model is different; they're in different businesses!
Of course, M$ is trying to move more into what has become Google's domain, but that's nothing new, nor should it be discouraged. Competition is always beneficial. We just shouldn't be surprised when different companies that have different goals also have different business models.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but since it's absolute, what can you do about it? I'd like to think that a "cultural revolution" is possible in China as well as other places in the world, but with the level of technology and military superiority the government has been gaining over the population, it is unlikely that such a revolution can take place in the modern day.
Three hundred years ago, the peasants could grab their pitchforks and overthrow the government, but citizens today don't have access to the might necessary to fight such a battle when the army can roll in with tanks and helicopters. It doesn't matter that the citizens outnumber the government when the gap of power has grown to be so large.
That's not true. One of our student workers at the university computer services help desk works at Wal-Mart. Of course, his job with us is a second job, and he ends up falling asleep at work because he can't sleep if he's going to make end's meet, and he uses Linux because he can't afford a new(er) computer with Windows... but still! That sort of slander is uncalled for!
It's very true. I've found it interesting the reactions I get from people regarding transportation in the last few years. When I started at my university, I sold my car and got a scooter, which everyone found quite amusing. It was patronized, at best. Then it was stolen out of my parking lot--go figure--so I walked everywhere. No worries, I like to walk, but then everyone pitied me. A 20 minute walk somewhere and everyone offered me a ride back because it was "such a long way." Now I have a bicycle... and everyone respects me. I think it has to do with the rising gas prices, because the common response is, "That's really cool, and you don't have to pay for gas." I'm "helping the environment now..." because I apparently wasn't doing that when I walked.
The issue is one of time. Americans associate time with money so much that anything which takes a bit more time is viewed as either horrible or impossible. People around me can't understand how I get by without a car. In my city, hardly anyone even uses the (relatively little) public transportation we have! It's too much of an inconvenience.
I think an above poster had it right: Americans are sick, but from the inside out. Still, I'm hesitant to say "Americans." The word "humans" seems a bit more applicable.
That's because most of us are arrogant. I can take any college kid and put them in our user support help desk and they'll know everything they need to know in a few months. 2 weeks isn't enough, but I can turn a layman into a "computer pro" (according to the standards of our customers) in 1-4 months easily.
And when we get to talking about salary, you can bet they all think they're underpaid, but they also think that everyone else is overpaid. The sentiment has nothing to do with tech support; pretty much everyone out there thinks that they are underpaid and everyone higher than them is overpaid. Within a year or two of getting a higher paid job, they'd start thinking the same; I only make $50,000 a year to do nothing, and jeeze, look at that guy! He's so overpaid!" It all has to do with expectations; a friend of mine is going from $7.00 an hour for 20 hours a week to $35,000 a year and his cost of living is probably around $600 a month. As soon as he got the offer, the thought was, "Man, only 35 grand a year..."
We're "underpaid" in the help desk, but we make more than just about any starting job for a college student in our town. The mentality of underpaid vs overpaid isn't tech support specific, but one held by humanity in general.
Results on an article I wrote recently for my blog: This text had been classified as INAUTHENTIC with a 28.1% chance of being authentic text
Maybe that just means my writing is well done?
I've had several professors that prefer we email our work to them for a variety of reasons, and I wouldn't be surprised if one of those was to check the originality and validity of our essays. I don't think it's a far step before they start using something like this to see if our writing is original... but just like lie detector tests and other means of verifying the "truth," it's not accurate and shouldn't be used with the assumption that it is.
I've got a 1905FP from Dell (the sale for the 20.5 widescreen started a week after I bought mine >.) and was having problems with it flickering during graphic intense applications (World of Warcraft in this case). Called Dell, explained the problem, and they had a new LCD monitor at my door the next day. Their customer service is top notch, and if you purchased the 2005FPW less than a year ago then you're covered. Give them a call and see if they'll replace it. My bet is that they will.
I had the same thing happen with a Compaq laptop at Best Buy here in the states, except it was half a month past the refund/replace deadline. They swapped it out while I stood at the counter, no problem.
Good customer care isn't something Apple has a patent on. Every time I've had an issue with my laptop, which is rare, I know I can take it to Best Buy and they'll either fix it for free to give me a new one with no argument. Whenever I've had to call Dell, I had the new item/part sitting at my door a day later. The main difference between these companies and Apple is that I paid half what I would have paid for an Apple: they provide good customer care because they recognize that service keeps customers, not because we throw tons of money at them.
Except the anti-spyware bundled with Symantec and McAfee is largely worthless. I don't know how many computers I've had to fix that had one of those programs installed where part of the solution was uninstalling Norton/McAfee and putting on Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and AVG. Generally, when I run Ad-Aware, Spybot doesn't catch anything else... but sometimes it does, and the Immunization feature is nice.
Exactly. I decided to get a 360 when my girlfriend suddenly became interested in playing games multiplayer. When I called around, though, I couldn't find one. Anywhere. The best response I could get was that they might have one eventually, but they weren't sure when, and even then, they couldn't hold one for me.
Long story short, I changed my mind. Being the impulse-buyer I am, I would have gone out and gotten a 360 that afternoon. As it is, I changed my mind and will just wait for the Revolution. I missed the bandwagon and didn't pre-order a 360, but I will certainly do so for a $250-300 less Nintendo.
There's a lot of work, testing, and development that has to go into this before it can be used on humans. We don't know yet if the "repairs" are permanent or if the hamster's sight will deterioriate within weeks/months. We also don't know the side effects this would have on a human. Bottom line: this is a first step. An impressive one, no doubt, but it's important to remember that this isn't a tried and true cure, found and ready for manufacturing and distribution. In that sense, this really is only a first half-step; they're not even ready to begin using it for neurosurgery yet.
Not only that, but the Ultimate Boot Disc supports most network cards out there without a problem, at least the ones I've used it on (about a dozen or so different NICs without a hitch). Why can't Windows do it?
Oh, maybe because their disc is already so bloated with useless crap that they can't load the useful stuff on there...
What's the difference between what this kid did and what the US government is currently trying to do with search engine results? Besides the fact that the kid requested email addresses, not just results that can't be tied to any particular person.
I don't think the government should be able to get those results, but what's with the/. crowd justifying this kid? Because he's one of the "little people," it's ok for the city to hand him a stack of email addresses rather than just shredding them? If that's the case, why not just create a white pages for email and let the spammers have at, like telemarketing companies do with our phones (I have to leave my ringer off these days).
OK, yeah, I got the point. It's a beta and betas will have bugs. But this isn't IE 1.0 Beta. This is freaking IE 7, and while it's a beta, you'd figure they'd have gotten at least some of these things straightened out in the past 6 versions. I'm not so much frustrated that a beta has bugs, but that even into version 7 they're still having huge problems and potential exploits.
I never met a single person over here who even heard of "intelligent design" (a USA manufactured nonsense) and seriously nobody believes in creationism, even really old people.
I met a woman recently that preaches at a church in the UK, and my guess is that there are quite a few other churches in that country as well. I won't be visiting and able to verify this with my own eyes until this summer, but I would wager that there are quite a few people who do, in fact, believe in creationism. Just because you aren't friends with them doesn't mean they don't exist. Just the same, simply because you disagree with something doesn't make it false, and just because you haven't found an answer doesn't mean there isn't one.
lol, it was a joke. Lighten up.
I read the article and respect his work greatly, as well as the genius of the chemist who helped him.
For the layman, by "chemicals" I meant the drugs one can easily concoct from easily procured substances. Way to be obtuse, though. +1 flamer.
I can think of all kinds of chemicals (ingredients cheaply purchased at your local supermarket) that can make one see all kinds of different coloured bubbles...
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The truth is that the model which has fueled the incredible popularity and affordability of the PC will continue to drive innovation and choice in the burgeoning area of personal devices such as cell phones, digital players and mobile PCs. As such, the PC is becoming more important and popular as a key enabler for these new digital scenarios
It seems to me like you and Mr. Gates agree. He's not stating that PCs will kill PDAs and phones (remember, this is Bill, not Steve), but that PCs will drive PDAs and phones. Look at a lot of the higher-end phones that come out these days: WMP, IE, etc. Microsoft Activesync, for crying out loud, points that MS has simply moved into PDAs.
Windows is everywhere and will continue to be because They adapt, despite what others might say. Innovative? No, not really. Slapping the same product into a PDA isn't innovative. It's not Wall Street material, as a previous poster observed. But it will keep them going, and quite strongly.
You have to have something on which to run the internet. Can we really compare Google and M$/Apple? They started in very different fields with very different goals. Of course their business model is different; they're in different businesses! Of course, M$ is trying to move more into what has become Google's domain, but that's nothing new, nor should it be discouraged. Competition is always beneficial. We just shouldn't be surprised when different companies that have different goals also have different business models.
I use TightVNC.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but since it's absolute, what can you do about it? I'd like to think that a "cultural revolution" is possible in China as well as other places in the world, but with the level of technology and military superiority the government has been gaining over the population, it is unlikely that such a revolution can take place in the modern day.
Three hundred years ago, the peasants could grab their pitchforks and overthrow the government, but citizens today don't have access to the might necessary to fight such a battle when the army can roll in with tanks and helicopters. It doesn't matter that the citizens outnumber the government when the gap of power has grown to be so large.
That's not true. One of our student workers at the university computer services help desk works at Wal-Mart. Of course, his job with us is a second job, and he ends up falling asleep at work because he can't sleep if he's going to make end's meet, and he uses Linux because he can't afford a new(er) computer with Windows... but still! That sort of slander is uncalled for!
Ditto =(
This has been standard in IE for a while now. To change the *default* home/search, you have to make some registry changes.
You can set a homepage through IE, but the default is kept in there and it will revert on occasion.
It's very true. I've found it interesting the reactions I get from people regarding transportation in the last few years. When I started at my university, I sold my car and got a scooter, which everyone found quite amusing. It was patronized, at best. Then it was stolen out of my parking lot--go figure--so I walked everywhere. No worries, I like to walk, but then everyone pitied me. A 20 minute walk somewhere and everyone offered me a ride back because it was "such a long way." Now I have a bicycle... and everyone respects me. I think it has to do with the rising gas prices, because the common response is, "That's really cool, and you don't have to pay for gas." I'm "helping the environment now..." because I apparently wasn't doing that when I walked.
The issue is one of time. Americans associate time with money so much that anything which takes a bit more time is viewed as either horrible or impossible. People around me can't understand how I get by without a car. In my city, hardly anyone even uses the (relatively little) public transportation we have! It's too much of an inconvenience.
I think an above poster had it right: Americans are sick, but from the inside out. Still, I'm hesitant to say "Americans." The word "humans" seems a bit more applicable.
What is this "outside the US" of which you speak? Signed, American Consumer
That's because most of us are arrogant. I can take any college kid and put them in our user support help desk and they'll know everything they need to know in a few months. 2 weeks isn't enough, but I can turn a layman into a "computer pro" (according to the standards of our customers) in 1-4 months easily. And when we get to talking about salary, you can bet they all think they're underpaid, but they also think that everyone else is overpaid. The sentiment has nothing to do with tech support; pretty much everyone out there thinks that they are underpaid and everyone higher than them is overpaid. Within a year or two of getting a higher paid job, they'd start thinking the same; I only make $50,000 a year to do nothing, and jeeze, look at that guy! He's so overpaid!" It all has to do with expectations; a friend of mine is going from $7.00 an hour for 20 hours a week to $35,000 a year and his cost of living is probably around $600 a month. As soon as he got the offer, the thought was, "Man, only 35 grand a year..." We're "underpaid" in the help desk, but we make more than just about any starting job for a college student in our town. The mentality of underpaid vs overpaid isn't tech support specific, but one held by humanity in general.
Results on an article I wrote recently for my blog:
This text had been classified as
INAUTHENTIC
with a 28.1% chance of being authentic text
Maybe that just means my writing is well done?
I've had several professors that prefer we email our work to them for a variety of reasons, and I wouldn't be surprised if one of those was to check the originality and validity of our essays. I don't think it's a far step before they start using something like this to see if our writing is original... but just like lie detector tests and other means of verifying the "truth," it's not accurate and shouldn't be used with the assumption that it is.
That won't stop someone from doing so, however.
I've got a 1905FP from Dell (the sale for the 20.5 widescreen started a week after I bought mine >.) and was having problems with it flickering during graphic intense applications (World of Warcraft in this case). Called Dell, explained the problem, and they had a new LCD monitor at my door the next day. Their customer service is top notch, and if you purchased the 2005FPW less than a year ago then you're covered. Give them a call and see if they'll replace it. My bet is that they will.
I had the same thing happen with a Compaq laptop at Best Buy here in the states, except it was half a month past the refund/replace deadline. They swapped it out while I stood at the counter, no problem. Good customer care isn't something Apple has a patent on. Every time I've had an issue with my laptop, which is rare, I know I can take it to Best Buy and they'll either fix it for free to give me a new one with no argument. Whenever I've had to call Dell, I had the new item/part sitting at my door a day later. The main difference between these companies and Apple is that I paid half what I would have paid for an Apple: they provide good customer care because they recognize that service keeps customers, not because we throw tons of money at them.
Except the anti-spyware bundled with Symantec and McAfee is largely worthless. I don't know how many computers I've had to fix that had one of those programs installed where part of the solution was uninstalling Norton/McAfee and putting on Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and AVG. Generally, when I run Ad-Aware, Spybot doesn't catch anything else... but sometimes it does, and the Immunization feature is nice.
Exactly. I decided to get a 360 when my girlfriend suddenly became interested in playing games multiplayer. When I called around, though, I couldn't find one. Anywhere. The best response I could get was that they might have one eventually, but they weren't sure when, and even then, they couldn't hold one for me. Long story short, I changed my mind. Being the impulse-buyer I am, I would have gone out and gotten a 360 that afternoon. As it is, I changed my mind and will just wait for the Revolution. I missed the bandwagon and didn't pre-order a 360, but I will certainly do so for a $250-300 less Nintendo.
There's a lot of work, testing, and development that has to go into this before it can be used on humans. We don't know yet if the "repairs" are permanent or if the hamster's sight will deterioriate within weeks/months. We also don't know the side effects this would have on a human. Bottom line: this is a first step. An impressive one, no doubt, but it's important to remember that this isn't a tried and true cure, found and ready for manufacturing and distribution. In that sense, this really is only a first half-step; they're not even ready to begin using it for neurosurgery yet.
Not only that, but the Ultimate Boot Disc supports most network cards out there without a problem, at least the ones I've used it on (about a dozen or so different NICs without a hitch). Why can't Windows do it? Oh, maybe because their disc is already so bloated with useless crap that they can't load the useful stuff on there...
Yeah, I would have liked to see something more innovative, like gestures, be given an award... but that's just me.
What's the difference between what this kid did and what the US government is currently trying to do with search engine results? Besides the fact that the kid requested email addresses, not just results that can't be tied to any particular person.
/. crowd justifying this kid? Because he's one of the "little people," it's ok for the city to hand him a stack of email addresses rather than just shredding them? If that's the case, why not just create a white pages for email and let the spammers have at, like telemarketing companies do with our phones (I have to leave my ringer off these days).
I don't think the government should be able to get those results, but what's with the
OK, yeah, I got the point. It's a beta and betas will have bugs. But this isn't IE 1.0 Beta. This is freaking IE 7, and while it's a beta, you'd figure they'd have gotten at least some of these things straightened out in the past 6 versions. I'm not so much frustrated that a beta has bugs, but that even into version 7 they're still having huge problems and potential exploits.
I never met a single person over here who even heard of "intelligent design" (a USA manufactured nonsense) and seriously nobody believes in creationism, even really old people.
I met a woman recently that preaches at a church in the UK, and my guess is that there are quite a few other churches in that country as well. I won't be visiting and able to verify this with my own eyes until this summer, but I would wager that there are quite a few people who do, in fact, believe in creationism. Just because you aren't friends with them doesn't mean they don't exist. Just the same, simply because you disagree with something doesn't make it false, and just because you haven't found an answer doesn't mean there isn't one.
Also, the number seven should be spelled out, and the period should go inside the quotation marks around "too."
Write much?
Or... it was always a joke and you just read it wrong. QQ.
lol, it was a joke. Lighten up. I read the article and respect his work greatly, as well as the genius of the chemist who helped him. For the layman, by "chemicals" I meant the drugs one can easily concoct from easily procured substances. Way to be obtuse, though. +1 flamer.
I can think of all kinds of chemicals (ingredients cheaply purchased at your local supermarket) that can make one see all kinds of different coloured bubbles...