Hardly - it's just one of the most desirable to de-restrict in existence.. there are plenty of other Networks that restrict their handsets as much as possible.
That's excellent, thanks for the link even if you were just trying to hijack me thread;)
I was thinking that building apps directly into the BIOS is just like having single purpose Word Processors back in the day, but the technology in the article does sound excellent, and for example talks about running an antivirus scanner in the BIOS to save on overhead even while you're using another OS for your applications, so it could actually be very handy. I think it makes use of virtualisation to help get around the whole driver thing, not very sure at this point though, as I dont know much about virtualisation, especially on the hardware side.
When you said console I took it to mean command line interface rather than a 'games console'. Mold your language for the slashdot demographic if you're going to post on slashdot man!
It is available to them, they just choose not to buy it. Very different.. that's like saying a tractor isn't available to those who would prefer to use gasoline rather than diesel (got to love the car analogies:) and dont bother pointing out a tractor that can run on normal petrol/gasoline, though hopefully there isn't one because it's preferable to have decent torque in a tractor..)
That charge isn't hidden - I don't have one but even I know that you can only get it on a contract, it's quite normal to do that here in the UK at least..
I also would have marked myself as an Apple fanboy until they got better known for their iPods than their computers! I'm still an Apple computer fanboy, but the iPod and the iPhone so far still seem like overpriced underspecced gadgets to me. The iPod is getting there though, have been slightly tempted by the Touch - a solid state player capable of holding almost all my music and with a funky gimmicky interface \o/ Having said gimmicky, I have a MacBook pro and must say I love the multitouch capabilities of the touchpad, for scrolling and right clicking - it's really annoying using a non Mac touchpad now!
I concur that stupid can be objective. Attaching electrodes and a power source to your balls would be pretty stupid. Even if your goal was to become infertile or something along those lines.
Who said he wasn't interested? He was making a very valid point and asked that the guy quit his whining. He didn't say that the guy had no right to give his opinion, just that he should realise that the whole world does not revolve around hi'self. I think his attack was fairly warranted and not hypocritical, and that yours was a troll. w00t pants!
Size, weight and battery life really don't seem to be big considerations.
Yep, only the business market is really interested in those (most of our sales staff want their dinky little lightweight laptops in case they develop some muscles while carrying them around or something)
No no no.. you're thinking of being a manager at Microsoft, not the ones who do the actual work - I'm sure they don't have so many hissy fanatical furniture flinging fuck-google fits.
Interesting. Our species has developed methods for allowing those even with problematic mutations to be able to survive. That would surely mean that our species is going to become more tolerant of mutation (assuming those people reproduce)..
Okay I'm not an iPhone fanboi, but what hidden charges are you talking about? And how is the iPhone not 'available to all' (in the same way that a Porsche is available to all if you want to actually spend your money on one)?
Agree with the other user, my Amiga had pre-emptive multitasking, probably not the memory protection though. I spent many a lonely night wishing that Amiga OS would become the prevalent mainstream OS
Got a source on that last one? I looked up his name but he just sounded like a scientist.. if Mario really was some kind of religious and historical satire then that is quite hilarious though..
More like "that's the beauty of it... when wintertime rolls around, the gorrillas simply freeze to death";) Tried to inject new parts rather than simply quote though >_> Ahem.
You're taking that a bit out of context, it's obvious that it's widespread, but just because something's in widespread use doesn't mean it's a good product..
Well, just in case the mice go off the deep end, we're developing mighty cats. And in the event that they get out of cotrol we have the mighty dogs. And we have gigantic stuffed dolls and sticks to distract the dogs long enough to get the whaling harpoons trained on them.
Nothing to do with egos, just tends to be (obviously not always the case, there are some guys that drive like pussies too..) that men enjoy the speed more.. duh..
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Hardly - it's just one of the most desirable to de-restrict in existence.. there are plenty of other Networks that restrict their handsets as much as possible.
That's excellent, thanks for the link even if you were just trying to hijack me thread ;)
I was thinking that building apps directly into the BIOS is just like having single purpose Word Processors back in the day, but the technology in the article does sound excellent, and for example talks about running an antivirus scanner in the BIOS to save on overhead even while you're using another OS for your applications, so it could actually be very handy. I think it makes use of virtualisation to help get around the whole driver thing, not very sure at this point though, as I dont know much about virtualisation, especially on the hardware side.
When you said console I took it to mean command line interface rather than a 'games console'. Mold your language for the slashdot demographic if you're going to post on slashdot man!
It's like travelling back in time 40 years!
Shhh. Sometimes I can be cynical too, it depends how recently I've been burned :p
I always knew those apostrophe things were a waste of time.
It is available to them, they just choose not to buy it. Very different.. that's like saying a tractor isn't available to those who would prefer to use gasoline rather than diesel (got to love the car analogies :) and dont bother pointing out a tractor that can run on normal petrol/gasoline, though hopefully there isn't one because it's preferable to have decent torque in a tractor..)
That charge isn't hidden - I don't have one but even I know that you can only get it on a contract, it's quite normal to do that here in the UK at least..
I also would have marked myself as an Apple fanboy until they got better known for their iPods than their computers! I'm still an Apple computer fanboy, but the iPod and the iPhone so far still seem like overpriced underspecced gadgets to me. The iPod is getting there though, have been slightly tempted by the Touch - a solid state player capable of holding almost all my music and with a funky gimmicky interface \o/ Having said gimmicky, I have a MacBook pro and must say I love the multitouch capabilities of the touchpad, for scrolling and right clicking - it's really annoying using a non Mac touchpad now!
I concur that stupid can be objective. Attaching electrodes and a power source to your balls would be pretty stupid. Even if your goal was to become infertile or something along those lines.
Who said he wasn't interested? He was making a very valid point and asked that the guy quit his whining. He didn't say that the guy had no right to give his opinion, just that he should realise that the whole world does not revolve around hi'self. I think his attack was fairly warranted and not hypocritical, and that yours was a troll. w00t pants!
Yep, only the business market is really interested in those (most of our sales staff want their dinky little lightweight laptops in case they develop some muscles while carrying them around or something)
I'm assuming your battery died before you got to the point there
No no no.. you're thinking of being a manager at Microsoft, not the ones who do the actual work - I'm sure they don't have so many hissy fanatical furniture flinging fuck-google fits.
Interesting. Our species has developed methods for allowing those even with problematic mutations to be able to survive. That would surely mean that our species is going to become more tolerant of mutation (assuming those people reproduce)..
I'm a man, you insensitive clod!
Okay I'm not an iPhone fanboi, but what hidden charges are you talking about? And how is the iPhone not 'available to all' (in the same way that a Porsche is available to all if you want to actually spend your money on one)?
"disincentive against"
:P
Double negative ftw!
In Soviet Russia, incentive dis you! etc
No, I'm just overly trusting and ignorant. Being an idiot is quite different. But from what you're saying the GGPP must have just been joking.
Agree with the other user, my Amiga had pre-emptive multitasking, probably not the memory protection though. I spent many a lonely night wishing that Amiga OS would become the prevalent mainstream OS
*cough*
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Damnit, why did we use Duracell!! Those things just keep going and going and..
Your powers of deduction are teh pwnage young one.
Got a source on that last one? I looked up his name but he just sounded like a scientist.. if Mario really was some kind of religious and historical satire then that is quite hilarious though..
More like "that's the beauty of it... when wintertime rolls around, the gorrillas simply freeze to death" ;) Tried to inject new parts rather than simply quote though >_> Ahem.
You're taking that a bit out of context, it's obvious that it's widespread, but just because something's in widespread use doesn't mean it's a good product..
Well, just in case the mice go off the deep end, we're developing mighty cats. And in the event that they get out of cotrol we have the mighty dogs. And we have gigantic stuffed dolls and sticks to distract the dogs long enough to get the whaling harpoons trained on them.
Nothing to do with egos, just tends to be (obviously not always the case, there are some guys that drive like pussies too..) that men enjoy the speed more.. duh..