$10 a month for online access is robbing you? Really? Maybe it is because I remember the days of having to pay for the phone call along with monthly charges to connect to something resembling the internet but $10 a month seems pretty damn cheap for what you get.
From my glance over it the issue isn't Apple not wanting to cross license patents, it seems to be more about a few certain patents Nokia wants and the price Nokia wants to pay for them.
Yes and no. A while back I was at the pub and noted the fact on twitter. In less than ten minutes I was joined by two friends. Only one of them uses twitter. In this case it was that one texted the other before heading over, but in past cases it has been people already hanging out somewhere else (and the vice versa, with me switching pubs to join friends after reading where someone is at on twitter).
Except that twitter doesn't make phones beep for anyone I know. My phone only notifies me if someone specifically mentions me, and I check it from the web at least as often as I do from my phone.
I've always adopted the best tools for the job, and ignored blatant fads such as twitter
What? Sometimes twitter is the best tool for the job. I was born in the mid-80's, and have found twitter to be a great tool for meeting friends at the pub. It is more effective than a facebook update or mass text.
I had a friend who went there. When asked what they do up there besides school the response was "Usually drink. Or go to Walmart. Or drink and go to Walmart."
I think you are missing the point of the phrase. At my place of work we recently had an employee collapse and be rushed to the hospital, after returning he stated "man, it is amazing how religious you can become when you have no control over your fate". He was not religious, but found himself praying almost constantly while he was in the hospital. The no atheist in the foxhole refers not to bravery or willingness to fight for something you believe it, but rather the reaction people have when their fate is taken out of their own hands in awful, grim situations. It's not about wanting heaven, it's about hoping to live.
I actually know a few mortician (one prefers the term undertaker, another prefers to be called a funeral director). None of the ones I know use dark humor. I don't know why you would think these things are related, the context a mortician deals with bodies is way different than that of a crime scene investigator or an EMT.
I guess than that trying to shut up the "creation scientists" is the wrong way to go
It is. Can you imagine if some people tried to band together to make sure an article by a "creation scientist" didn't get published in a respectable journal? Seriously, think about that. If you don't trust that they are complete crack pots than why try to figure out who is going over the article to make sure they are on your side and don't publish the article.
And they used to have fairs in London when the river Thames froze over. The last one was in 1814. Climate changes, and weather changes. This is not new, just look at the record of extinct plants and animals, and records of crops growing in areas they can no longer grow (hell the north pole used to descend into the northern United States). I don't think anyone questions that the world is changing, that will happen with or without humans living on this planet.
I don't think this is true. I am a twenty something, and I remember that 10 years ago most people I went to school with didn't have the internet. 14 years ago a vast majority of my class only used the internet from school, and school and the library were their only option. If you look at my school today I don't think there is a single household without internet, and a vast majority have high speed connections. Where I work I know of 3 people in the warehouse who didn't have an internet connection until this year and only got one for their kids but now are using it all the time themselves. The penetration rate is WAY higher than it was 10 years ago.
Web browser. Android may have caught up, I haven't used it yet. The new Nokia coming out will have caught up. RIM is still in the dark ages, but are/have hiring people to fix that.
If this is not true, then why are so many fart apps on iphone, and some of them so popular?
Don't have any young relatives, do you? I have a nephew in 7th grade. Him and all his friends have iPod Touches. What do you think they are more likely to buy, the $15 mobile office suite or the $1 fart app?
Or I can use a trackball, so I never have to worry about bumping into anything, or lifting my hand, and I can spin the ball quickly to move fast, and slowly to move slow. I am beginning to wonder if you have used a trackball other than the old cue-ball sized mechanically tracked ones.
I use both a trackball and an ergonomic keyboard. The keyboard has cut down wrist pain to non-existent, and trackballs are amazing when you have a small amount of desk-space (now I am so incredibly annoyed when I have to pick up a mouse that I can't figure out why people still use them). Microsoft trackballs go regularly for $250+ (because they don't make them anymore), there would not be that demand if there weren't cases that trackballs are great for.
Publicity and exposure. Making into the top apps is basically free advertising to everyone with an iPhone AND everyone that reads tech sites (and maybe mainstream news in the next few days). Do it as a webpage and it will probably only make a buzz on tech sites and the crawl of 24 hour news channels.
According to the articles I've read they are doing this right. They mentioned being able to have the book across several devices (Mac, PC, iPhone), being able to read a book a day in a Barnes & Noble store (free), and while they haven't said anything about other applications running on it (but it is Android with a USB port so I'm sure it will happen if they want it to or not) but at the same time have hinted that it may be in the future.
Shit, not only do I still type thefacebook out of habit sometimes, but I remember meeting people and becoming friends because we were one of the twenty people on facebook on campus.
The problem is that in most cases these people are essential. They know something, just not in the field they are working in. I know a person who worked in one of those school administrative offices, they were paid more than any teacher in the district - but they brought over 2 million dollars into the district. Knowing how to write and win grants is very valuable. Likewise with hospitals, knowing how to make a treatment covered by medicare, and having knowledge of the multitude of forms out there (both government and insurance) is very valuable. Maybe it shouldn't be, but there also shouldn't be the Darfur situation and abject poverty in the US, but there is.
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$10 a month for online access is robbing you? Really? Maybe it is because I remember the days of having to pay for the phone call along with monthly charges to connect to something resembling the internet but $10 a month seems pretty damn cheap for what you get.
Seriously? I mean, really? You know Rupert Murdoch owns papers and news channels in Europe too, right?
Can't you use just boot the image in Virtualbox?
From my glance over it the issue isn't Apple not wanting to cross license patents, it seems to be more about a few certain patents Nokia wants and the price Nokia wants to pay for them.
Posting to undo an overrated mod, meant to hit funny. Sorry about that
Yes and no. A while back I was at the pub and noted the fact on twitter. In less than ten minutes I was joined by two friends. Only one of them uses twitter. In this case it was that one texted the other before heading over, but in past cases it has been people already hanging out somewhere else (and the vice versa, with me switching pubs to join friends after reading where someone is at on twitter).
Except that twitter doesn't make phones beep for anyone I know. My phone only notifies me if someone specifically mentions me, and I check it from the web at least as often as I do from my phone.
I've always adopted the best tools for the job, and ignored blatant fads such as twitter
What? Sometimes twitter is the best tool for the job. I was born in the mid-80's, and have found twitter to be a great tool for meeting friends at the pub. It is more effective than a facebook update or mass text.
I had a friend who went there. When asked what they do up there besides school the response was "Usually drink. Or go to Walmart. Or drink and go to Walmart."
Taking that the next step, look at the ratios. It looks like T-Mobile has the worst, and AT&T the best.
I think you are missing the point of the phrase. At my place of work we recently had an employee collapse and be rushed to the hospital, after returning he stated "man, it is amazing how religious you can become when you have no control over your fate". He was not religious, but found himself praying almost constantly while he was in the hospital. The no atheist in the foxhole refers not to bravery or willingness to fight for something you believe it, but rather the reaction people have when their fate is taken out of their own hands in awful, grim situations. It's not about wanting heaven, it's about hoping to live.
I actually know a few mortician (one prefers the term undertaker, another prefers to be called a funeral director). None of the ones I know use dark humor. I don't know why you would think these things are related, the context a mortician deals with bodies is way different than that of a crime scene investigator or an EMT.
I guess than that trying to shut up the "creation scientists" is the wrong way to go
It is. Can you imagine if some people tried to band together to make sure an article by a "creation scientist" didn't get published in a respectable journal? Seriously, think about that. If you don't trust that they are complete crack pots than why try to figure out who is going over the article to make sure they are on your side and don't publish the article.
And they used to have fairs in London when the river Thames froze over. The last one was in 1814. Climate changes, and weather changes. This is not new, just look at the record of extinct plants and animals, and records of crops growing in areas they can no longer grow (hell the north pole used to descend into the northern United States). I don't think anyone questions that the world is changing, that will happen with or without humans living on this planet.
I don't think this is true. I am a twenty something, and I remember that 10 years ago most people I went to school with didn't have the internet. 14 years ago a vast majority of my class only used the internet from school, and school and the library were their only option. If you look at my school today I don't think there is a single household without internet, and a vast majority have high speed connections. Where I work I know of 3 people in the warehouse who didn't have an internet connection until this year and only got one for their kids but now are using it all the time themselves. The penetration rate is WAY higher than it was 10 years ago.
Web browser. Android may have caught up, I haven't used it yet. The new Nokia coming out will have caught up. RIM is still in the dark ages, but are/have hiring people to fix that.
If this is not true, then why are so many fart apps on iphone, and some of them so popular?
Don't have any young relatives, do you? I have a nephew in 7th grade. Him and all his friends have iPod Touches. What do you think they are more likely to buy, the $15 mobile office suite or the $1 fart app?
What do you call people from the U.S.?
Or I can use a trackball, so I never have to worry about bumping into anything, or lifting my hand, and I can spin the ball quickly to move fast, and slowly to move slow. I am beginning to wonder if you have used a trackball other than the old cue-ball sized mechanically tracked ones.
Maybe because some of us go "why don't I adjust the acceleration parameter", so we don't have to pick up the mouse ...?
I do quite a bit of CAD work, having high acceleration does not go well with precision CAD programs require.
Model Ts and Edsels go for more than their original cost. Doesn't mean you'd want to use one on a day-to-day basis.
I'm not talking about antiques here. The Microsoft Trackball Explorer was discontinued in 2006.
I use both a trackball and an ergonomic keyboard. The keyboard has cut down wrist pain to non-existent, and trackballs are amazing when you have a small amount of desk-space (now I am so incredibly annoyed when I have to pick up a mouse that I can't figure out why people still use them). Microsoft trackballs go regularly for $250+ (because they don't make them anymore), there would not be that demand if there weren't cases that trackballs are great for.
Publicity and exposure. Making into the top apps is basically free advertising to everyone with an iPhone AND everyone that reads tech sites (and maybe mainstream news in the next few days). Do it as a webpage and it will probably only make a buzz on tech sites and the crawl of 24 hour news channels.
According to the articles I've read they are doing this right. They mentioned being able to have the book across several devices (Mac, PC, iPhone), being able to read a book a day in a Barnes & Noble store (free), and while they haven't said anything about other applications running on it (but it is Android with a USB port so I'm sure it will happen if they want it to or not) but at the same time have hinted that it may be in the future.
Shit, not only do I still type thefacebook out of habit sometimes, but I remember meeting people and becoming friends because we were one of the twenty people on facebook on campus.
The problem is that in most cases these people are essential. They know something, just not in the field they are working in. I know a person who worked in one of those school administrative offices, they were paid more than any teacher in the district - but they brought over 2 million dollars into the district. Knowing how to write and win grants is very valuable. Likewise with hospitals, knowing how to make a treatment covered by medicare, and having knowledge of the multitude of forms out there (both government and insurance) is very valuable. Maybe it shouldn't be, but there also shouldn't be the Darfur situation and abject poverty in the US, but there is.