Why do people insist on using laptops for doing anything other than browsing the net while watching TV? And they can do that on a tablet now.
I have a work laptop, for when I am on call. All it has to do is VPN and run a Remote Desktop Connection to my office PC. I could use it to browse the net while on the sofa. There are no more uses for a laptop. Their power/price is poor in comparison to almost any decent PC. You either pay too much money or you get lousy performance.
Another problem with laptops is the tiny/cramped keyboard, a $5 keyboard has to be more comfortable than any laptop keyboard - certainly no worse. A good quality keyboard is even better.
There is no way any laptop pointing device is going to be easier, faster or more accurate than a mouse. Bizarrely, Microsoft make (or badge) really good ones but there is plenty choice.
As I look at my screen, I am trying to decide what size of screen to replace it with. 24" sounds nice. If I want to look at a 15" screen, I will get a tablet. It would be no use for gaming, coding or writing.
In Europe, we have been getting better rates than you for years. I believe my teenage son sent over 3,000 text messages last month. Beats me how he manages to get good grades and play sports. I think his plan includes 500 talk minutes and "unlimited" internet - he has never gone over anyway. Costs £30/month because he wanted an extra clever phone. I think the cheap plans get down to between £10 and £15.
I have never heard of anyone paying to receive them. It's like post. The sender pays. The only real ripoff we have is roaming abroad costs and the phone companies are supposedly being compelled to lower them. I don't think you want that to happen in your country. That is government restricting business practices. We like it though.
This was not to laugh at you, but to show you what can be done as a start. We need to get it even lower here. Lobby your representatives or something.
Well, they've already banned them here in the UK, starting with the 150W, 100W and now 60W are gone too. I think you can still buy 40W until next year, but I haven't seen them in the shops any more.
What part of the UK are you in? They still seem to be around here (West Midlands) although in falling numbers.
I think it is the same as the USA. They are only requiring higher efficiency and, rather than do a bit of R&D, manufacturers are deciding to stop selling them.
Are CFLs any good for growing things? There are people around here who must have showed up on a police helicopter IR camera. I bet they would have preferred low heat illumination!
No, consumers are not stupid. They are acting intelligently in utilizing technology that is well proven, works 100% is known safe and reliable.
I am sure there is a law of nature somewhere that individuals are smart, but the larger the number of them, the less smart they are.
Everyone has their own areas where they are smart. They are not always so smart when they are away from their specialisations.
This is why we need consumer protection laws. This is why lawmakers need to listen to experts in the fields of whatever they are making laws about.
If we have no consumer protection laws, snake oil salesmen will have a field day. That is why we have government, to bring the best minds to bear. The problem is, it is often the snake oil sellers who go into politics!
I would like some way of using Word to edit stuff stored in Google Docs. All this seems to be is a way of using Word to upload stuff.
Anti MS comments aside, Word is a better Word Processor than Google Docs. Docs is very good but it is not what World+Dog is familiar with - yet...
If someone can point me to how I can use Word to open stuff on Docs, edit it and save it back there that will do the trick. Then we will just need to make an Open Source plugin for stuff like Open Office and Office Libre and it will quickly find its way onto everything else. Microsoft can pick up its bat and go home...
To a large extent, I wanted to show him what I liked - yes, comfort zone as you describe. In the same way that we all learn that there are different languages for class, playground, home, grandma and so on, I wanted him to learn discretion. He has done so.
The DNS thing is now entirely open for him to change. When I supplied the computer in the past, he did not have admin access. He bought this one with money he earned, saved from Christmas etc. I helped him set it up in the first place and set up the DNS then when I networked it. He now has the administrator password. If he figures out changing the DNS, he will have done it himself. Like his phone, I told him that the stuff on it is now his responsibility. Whatever he has on there, I respect his privacy until something comes to my notice. I won't go looking.
Or if the first one in Google's listing is actually a picture of the login screen where you want to go. This happened to FaceBook recently and huge numbers of starfish told everyone that FB was broken because they couldn't type anything on the login screen...
I occasionally help a couple of voluntary groups and try to get them to use it when they are sending notices out to members.
The problem is, every time I show someone how to do it, someone else takes over the secretary job and I have to start over. Otherwise at meetings someone complains that everyone else now has their email address.
Any police officer that encourages parents to spy on their kids they way is encouraging them to continue not educating their kids making them easy meat for any scumbag they meet on the internet after figuring how to bypass the spyware.
I am older than many here. I have 2 kids 16 and 21. They grew up with computers around the house. My daughter took a poster of her email address to a Show & Tell. They were ahead of their friends with this and now just consider all this stuff part of life.
All the time, I told them what to do & not to do - exactly the same as I told them about strangers, roads etc. I had various people ask me if I knew what I was doing them letting a 15 year old girl have unsupervised access to a computer. I did not have teachers ask me because they had heard her telling her friends the stuff I had told her. She is now at university (not doing IT) and never ran away with anyone she met online and as far as I know is well adjusted and sensible.
If her little brother has a porn collection on his PC, he has kept sensibly quiet about it. If he accesses unsuitable websites, he has got round the fairly basic OpenDNS filtering I run on our home network. He is aware of that because I told them both about it years ago. Either it will keep them off, or it will give them some mental exercise in getting round it.
if you add;"It is a crime to give or accept identifiable Union campaign donations"
No, Just as I can personally post identifiable donations to a political campaign and the politician can accept them if they want, I should have the right to personally give identifiable money to a trade union.
It would be reasonable to stop corporations from doing so. This might happen, for example, when 'they' figure out that candidateX will be more "business friendly" (amenable to pressure) than candidateY. This is them interfering in union politics and is little different from them interfering in electoral politics.
Slashdot Mirror
It looks like Nokia is ruling itself out of a number of markets including, geeks, fanbois, those without cash to burn and those who know about phones.
Which other groups have I missed?
Why do people insist on using laptops for doing anything other than browsing the net while watching TV? And they can do that on a tablet now.
I have a work laptop, for when I am on call. All it has to do is VPN and run a Remote Desktop Connection to my office PC. I could use it to browse the net while on the sofa. There are no more uses for a laptop. Their power/price is poor in comparison to almost any decent PC. You either pay too much money or you get lousy performance.
Another problem with laptops is the tiny/cramped keyboard, a $5 keyboard has to be more comfortable than any laptop keyboard - certainly no worse. A good quality keyboard is even better.
There is no way any laptop pointing device is going to be easier, faster or more accurate than a mouse. Bizarrely, Microsoft make (or badge) really good ones but there is plenty choice.
As I look at my screen, I am trying to decide what size of screen to replace it with. 24" sounds nice. If I want to look at a 15" screen, I will get a tablet. It would be no use for gaming, coding or writing.
Comas have a purpose.
They use them in hospitals to keep the patient out of the way until the body has got a bit better.
When you see someone criticising spelling, grammar or whatever, they must introduce some of their own. I am sure there is an internet law about it.
In this case however - no, "Salpetre" is the correct spelling see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate or google for yourself.
If Flight Mode really is true, then that should be enough. But is it really???
yet...
So never but fruit phones. I never have. This can be another reason not to,
Salpetre, Sulphur and Glycerine.
;)
Just because you may be from the USA should not excuse you for 3 spelling mistakes in a row.
Now get on the programe!
In Europe, we have been getting better rates than you for years. I believe my teenage son sent over 3,000 text messages last month. Beats me how he manages to get good grades and play sports. I think his plan includes 500 talk minutes and "unlimited" internet - he has never gone over anyway. Costs £30/month because he wanted an extra clever phone. I think the cheap plans get down to between £10 and £15.
I have never heard of anyone paying to receive them. It's like post. The sender pays. The only real ripoff we have is roaming abroad costs and the phone companies are supposedly being compelled to lower them. I don't think you want that to happen in your country. That is government restricting business practices. We like it though.
This was not to laugh at you, but to show you what can be done as a start. We need to get it even lower here. Lobby your representatives or something.
Only if Miss Piggy allows him.
What we need is some fashion guru to bring out a line in underwear with something in it that inadvertently blocks radiation.
I think I saw something about such recently.
Because it looks better than what you have?
Sometimes, I wish they were more in those pockets. Office 2007/2010 changes are the biggest waste of time I have ever seen on a computer.
Well, they've already banned them here in the UK, starting with the 150W, 100W and now 60W are gone too. I think you can still buy 40W until next year, but I haven't seen them in the shops any more.
What part of the UK are you in? They still seem to be around here (West Midlands) although in falling numbers.
I think it is the same as the USA. They are only requiring higher efficiency and, rather than do a bit of R&D, manufacturers are deciding to stop selling them.
Are CFLs any good for growing things? There are people around here who must have showed up on a police helicopter IR camera. I bet they would have preferred low heat illumination!
No, consumers are not stupid. They are acting intelligently in utilizing technology that is well proven, works 100% is known safe and reliable.
I am sure there is a law of nature somewhere that individuals are smart, but the larger the number of them, the less smart they are.
Everyone has their own areas where they are smart. They are not always so smart when they are away from their specialisations.
This is why we need consumer protection laws. This is why lawmakers need to listen to experts in the fields of whatever they are making laws about.
If we have no consumer protection laws, snake oil salesmen will have a field day. That is why we have government, to bring the best minds to bear. The problem is, it is often the snake oil sellers who go into politics!
I would like some way of using Word to edit stuff stored in Google Docs. All this seems to be is a way of using Word to upload stuff.
Anti MS comments aside, Word is a better Word Processor than Google Docs. Docs is very good but it is not what World+Dog is familiar with - yet...
If someone can point me to how I can use Word to open stuff on Docs, edit it and save it back there that will do the trick. Then we will just need to make an Open Source plugin for stuff like Open Office and Office Libre and it will quickly find its way onto everything else. Microsoft can pick up its bat and go home...
duel citizen.
Duelling is illegal - even for dual citizens.
To a large extent, I wanted to show him what I liked - yes, comfort zone as you describe. In the same way that we all learn that there are different languages for class, playground, home, grandma and so on, I wanted him to learn discretion. He has done so.
The DNS thing is now entirely open for him to change. When I supplied the computer in the past, he did not have admin access. He bought this one with money he earned, saved from Christmas etc. I helped him set it up in the first place and set up the DNS then when I networked it. He now has the administrator password. If he figures out changing the DNS, he will have done it himself. Like his phone, I told him that the stuff on it is now his responsibility. Whatever he has on there, I respect his privacy until something comes to my notice. I won't go looking.
Or if the first one in Google's listing is actually a picture of the login screen where you want to go. This happened to FaceBook recently and huge numbers of starfish told everyone that FB was broken because they couldn't type anything on the login screen...
Did you fail him?
I don't know why FB doesn't implement "burning carbon copy".
Blind Carbon Copy Actually - unless this is another example of how the USA has diverged from English. In that case, sorry.
If someone can't do BCC, there is a good possibility that they can't do distribution lists and are adding a whole boatload of addresses manually!
I occasionally help a couple of voluntary groups and try to get them to use it when they are sending notices out to members.
The problem is, every time I show someone how to do it, someone else takes over the secretary job and I have to start over. Otherwise at meetings someone complains that everyone else now has their email address.
Any police officer that encourages parents to spy on their kids they way is encouraging them to continue not educating their kids making them easy meat for any scumbag they meet on the internet after figuring how to bypass the spyware.
I am older than many here. I have 2 kids 16 and 21. They grew up with computers around the house. My daughter took a poster of her email address to a Show & Tell. They were ahead of their friends with this and now just consider all this stuff part of life.
All the time, I told them what to do & not to do - exactly the same as I told them about strangers, roads etc. I had various people ask me if I knew what I was doing them letting a 15 year old girl have unsupervised access to a computer. I did not have teachers ask me because they had heard her telling her friends the stuff I had told her. She is now at university (not doing IT) and never ran away with anyone she met online and as far as I know is well adjusted and sensible.
If her little brother has a porn collection on his PC, he has kept sensibly quiet about it. If he accesses unsuitable websites, he has got round the fairly basic OpenDNS filtering I run on our home network. He is aware of that because I told them both about it years ago. Either it will keep them off, or it will give them some mental exercise in getting round it.
if you add;"It is a crime to give or accept identifiable Union campaign donations"
No, Just as I can personally post identifiable donations to a political campaign and the politician can accept them if they want, I should have the right to personally give identifiable money to a trade union.
It would be reasonable to stop corporations from doing so. This might happen, for example, when 'they' figure out that candidateX will be more "business friendly" (amenable to pressure) than candidateY. This is them interfering in union politics and is little different from them interfering in electoral politics.