That is correct. Some people are too busy being tech geeks to be anime geeks. And some people are too busy being emo to be either. I'm somewhere in between (and I didn't get the reference).
I make a decision which website to browse, and on TV someone decides what content I never get to see too. It's actually even more comparable than I had at first thought. And on a browser you get to choose if you want to use an ad/script blocker.
And don't get me started on how creepy it is to voluntarily let some other group of people control what content you see. Yep, just thinking of all those millions of people watching pre-programmed TV channels is so creepy:|
I agreed with you in the first paragraph, but if they're paying you to work why do you think you should be able to screw them out of a couple of hours just because you're leaving? The truth is that an employer is renting your time, there's no excuse for goofing off early and getting paid for it, unless they say you can.
Frosty piss!? Since the formats are roughly equal, then it is down to who does the dirtiest deals and knocks out their opponent with copious amounts of cash..
That was the first use that came to my head because my brother is doing a college course on design, and they've all been provided with tablets. It's fairly obvious that at the moment it's still something for niche markets (though perhaps rather a lot of individual niche markets) and the type of person who just has to have everything. My uncle bought a Samsung Q1 before discovering it was pretty useless, I pointed out the HTC Athena to him and I think that's proven more useful for him, I know I'd much prefer a large Windows Mobile device over a tiny PC that only lasts about 3-4 hours. The handwriting recognition on the phone works over all of the screen too, on the tablet you're only provided with a small area at the bottom of the screen to write on..
Why not use an etch-a-sketch? Slightly trollish but paper is a bit easier to work with than a digital device when you're just chucking down ideas and moving notes all over the place. When decent digital paper is on the market then things could change a bit though.
If you can write faster than you type then it could be okay. I have handwriting recognition on my WM% phone - it works okay but I prefer to slide out the keyboard than get out that fiddly little stylus, which I'd probably lose if I used it very often.. I can definitely type faster than I write by hand anyway;) My hands actually have a mind of their own, completing words for me, occasionally with the wrong word...
I've never read Time before, but after reading that article I had to email the author. He obviously has no idea about technology - claiming that the iPhone is the first ever personal computer in your pocket? For goodness sake. I know that Windows Mobile and other phone OSes are usually 'cut down' versions of Windows/Linux, or entirely unrelated OSes, but we have had the portable computer for a long time now. Nothing in the list of things he provided qualified as an 'invention', merely product design and marketing achievements. This guy needs to be fired, or perhaps Time is just expected to be a load of balls?
Or don't write it down anywhere at all, obviously..
Some sites like deviantArt have all your browsing activity displayed by default anyway. There is the option to turn it off. And I fail to see the problem with knowing who has checked your own profile, especially if they are doing it repeatedly.
Okay, so I was exaggerating slightly, but in real terms, for the average consumer, a tablet isn't a very useful device for anything but tasks with very limited inputs like web browsing, reading, listening to music/watching movies, or freehand input like drawing. So while it would be fine as a personal media player/toy, it's not really a laptop replacement without a usable keyboard (which you can of course plug in with USB, but I think it could be better to have a nice sliding keyboard like you get on smartphones..). It's fine for a lot of business uses, but in the personal computing space I think the main draw should be as a media player, and if they build in decent 3G hardware then it could be used for internet on the go too.
lol.. 'ability' to be unlocked? So other phone operators/networks 'lock' their phones but purposely leave the 'ability' to be unlocked? GPS is a fair point, I want to get a TyTN II and sample this GPS malarkey..
Shame that they've been pretty useless for everyone but graphic artists so far eh? The summary is a little overoptimistic about Apple's ability to sell something - lack of picture messaging is hardly a problem when you have email, and nobody uses picture email anyway. The only real missing tech on the iPhone was a lack of 3G (and of course a sliding keyboard:P I find that a lot better than taking up space on-screen). Anyway, it's all well and good making cool gadgets, but unless they actually have a purpose then they won't really sell. Unless someone needs a tablet then they're not just going to go 'oh I should really get that new iSlate/iTab/iCandy'! If it's marketed as a portable video player however, then its use will be more clear cut and it could do well I spose..
Unlocking those phones is illegal in places, and also they take off applications because they dont friggin want the users using them, not because they don't have the servers in place - for example Skype doesn't need servers at the ISP, and they also remove other VoIP applications. You have to get new firmware for the phones to be able to put on the applications. Quit your whining and accept that nothing has changed apart from phones are a big cool. Yes it's not as good as other smartphones apart from the interface, I've had a HTC TyTN for over a year and know that it is much better than the iPhone (apart from the voicemail capabilities, which I never use anyway..). The only real difference with the iPhone compared to other phones right now is that you can't buy it without a contract, and I'm sure that's the case with some other phones too (O2 XDA maybe?)
Try using their computers and you may see the difference. Since their hardware is generally higher quality and a known quantity, then their computers are more likely to be stable. And the OS is like an old friend to me, having grown up with it. Windows is like something that just has to be there whether I want to use it or not.
wtf are you talking about? They've been restricting handsets for long before the iPhone was a lump of cheese hoping to become Steve Jobs' wet dream.. mostly by taking off applications that the original phone manufacturers had put on there and locking the handsets to one carrier etc
Not exactly a Windows alternative.. more akin to that little external display thing that you can do with Vista. This would be really cool for times when you just want to check a map or the cinema schedule or whatever and dont have any other method of accessing the web close at hand - though once the standard resolution for phone displays a bit better then this kind of thing will be unecessary.
Yep yep - there's actually a video of it running though which shows that you can have multiple apps running (though the only 2 there are firefox and Skype atm!). I'm not sure if you can write to it (presumably you can make your own ROM images though), but if there was a version of it with the adblocking extension of FF then it could be awesome for quick browsing.. and with all the stuff you can do in a browser these days, it's actually very versatile. It will be sad if they keep building on this until it gets bloated again tho, heh.
Dude. You may be the first person on the internet in the last 2 years that I have seen using the word 'lose' in the correct context and spelled correctly - congratulations!
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Decoding the signals from nerves does sound very interesting though, I wonder what parity settings they use?
That is correct. Some people are too busy being tech geeks to be anime geeks. And some people are too busy being emo to be either. I'm somewhere in between (and I didn't get the reference).
It does sound like all employees get the same options, it's just that the masseuse started a long time ago, before the stock skyrocketed..
It's even worse for those joining the Direct Information Group division, they're the digglers.
I make a decision which website to browse, and on TV someone decides what content I never get to see too. It's actually even more comparable than I had at first thought. And on a browser you get to choose if you want to use an ad/script blocker.
Agreed. A year or 2's wages are pathetic compensation for living in a world controlled by Microsoft -.-
I agreed with you in the first paragraph, but if they're paying you to work why do you think you should be able to screw them out of a couple of hours just because you're leaving? The truth is that an employer is renting your time, there's no excuse for goofing off early and getting paid for it, unless they say you can.
I'm not so sure that intelligence tends to be a factor that comes into consideration when breeding ;)
Frosty piss!? Since the formats are roughly equal, then it is down to who does the dirtiest deals and knocks out their opponent with copious amounts of cash..
That was the first use that came to my head because my brother is doing a college course on design, and they've all been provided with tablets. It's fairly obvious that at the moment it's still something for niche markets (though perhaps rather a lot of individual niche markets) and the type of person who just has to have everything. My uncle bought a Samsung Q1 before discovering it was pretty useless, I pointed out the HTC Athena to him and I think that's proven more useful for him, I know I'd much prefer a large Windows Mobile device over a tiny PC that only lasts about 3-4 hours. The handwriting recognition on the phone works over all of the screen too, on the tablet you're only provided with a small area at the bottom of the screen to write on..
Why not use an etch-a-sketch? Slightly trollish but paper is a bit easier to work with than a digital device when you're just chucking down ideas and moving notes all over the place. When decent digital paper is on the market then things could change a bit though.
If you can write faster than you type then it could be okay. I have handwriting recognition on my WM% phone - it works okay but I prefer to slide out the keyboard than get out that fiddly little stylus, which I'd probably lose if I used it very often.. I can definitely type faster than I write by hand anyway ;) My hands actually have a mind of their own, completing words for me, occasionally with the wrong word...
I've never read Time before, but after reading that article I had to email the author. He obviously has no idea about technology - claiming that the iPhone is the first ever personal computer in your pocket? For goodness sake. I know that Windows Mobile and other phone OSes are usually 'cut down' versions of Windows/Linux, or entirely unrelated OSes, but we have had the portable computer for a long time now. Nothing in the list of things he provided qualified as an 'invention', merely product design and marketing achievements. This guy needs to be fired, or perhaps Time is just expected to be a load of balls?
Or don't write it down anywhere at all, obviously..
Some sites like deviantArt have all your browsing activity displayed by default anyway. There is the option to turn it off. And I fail to see the problem with knowing who has checked your own profile, especially if they are doing it repeatedly.
Okay, so I was exaggerating slightly, but in real terms, for the average consumer, a tablet isn't a very useful device for anything but tasks with very limited inputs like web browsing, reading, listening to music/watching movies, or freehand input like drawing. So while it would be fine as a personal media player/toy, it's not really a laptop replacement without a usable keyboard (which you can of course plug in with USB, but I think it could be better to have a nice sliding keyboard like you get on smartphones..). It's fine for a lot of business uses, but in the personal computing space I think the main draw should be as a media player, and if they build in decent 3G hardware then it could be used for internet on the go too.
lol.. 'ability' to be unlocked? So other phone operators/networks 'lock' their phones but purposely leave the 'ability' to be unlocked? GPS is a fair point, I want to get a TyTN II and sample this GPS malarkey..
Shame that they've been pretty useless for everyone but graphic artists so far eh? The summary is a little overoptimistic about Apple's ability to sell something - lack of picture messaging is hardly a problem when you have email, and nobody uses picture email anyway. The only real missing tech on the iPhone was a lack of 3G (and of course a sliding keyboard :P I find that a lot better than taking up space on-screen). Anyway, it's all well and good making cool gadgets, but unless they actually have a purpose then they won't really sell. Unless someone needs a tablet then they're not just going to go 'oh I should really get that new iSlate/iTab/iCandy'! If it's marketed as a portable video player however, then its use will be more clear cut and it could do well I spose..
Unlocking those phones is illegal in places, and also they take off applications because they dont friggin want the users using them, not because they don't have the servers in place - for example Skype doesn't need servers at the ISP, and they also remove other VoIP applications. You have to get new firmware for the phones to be able to put on the applications. Quit your whining and accept that nothing has changed apart from phones are a big cool. Yes it's not as good as other smartphones apart from the interface, I've had a HTC TyTN for over a year and know that it is much better than the iPhone (apart from the voicemail capabilities, which I never use anyway..). The only real difference with the iPhone compared to other phones right now is that you can't buy it without a contract, and I'm sure that's the case with some other phones too (O2 XDA maybe?)
Try using their computers and you may see the difference. Since their hardware is generally higher quality and a known quantity, then their computers are more likely to be stable. And the OS is like an old friend to me, having grown up with it. Windows is like something that just has to be there whether I want to use it or not.
wtf are you talking about? They've been restricting handsets for long before the iPhone was a lump of cheese hoping to become Steve Jobs' wet dream.. mostly by taking off applications that the original phone manufacturers had put on there and locking the handsets to one carrier etc
Not exactly a Windows alternative.. more akin to that little external display thing that you can do with Vista. This would be really cool for times when you just want to check a map or the cinema schedule or whatever and dont have any other method of accessing the web close at hand - though once the standard resolution for phone displays a bit better then this kind of thing will be unecessary.
Yep yep - there's actually a video of it running though which shows that you can have multiple apps running (though the only 2 there are firefox and Skype atm!). I'm not sure if you can write to it (presumably you can make your own ROM images though), but if there was a version of it with the adblocking extension of FF then it could be awesome for quick browsing.. and with all the stuff you can do in a browser these days, it's actually very versatile. It will be sad if they keep building on this until it gets bloated again tho, heh.
You've just proven the OP's point. Well done..
Dude. You may be the first person on the internet in the last 2 years that I have seen using the word 'lose' in the correct context and spelled correctly - congratulations!