Charging by the byte, kilo, mega or gigabyte is a draconic and totally outmoded business paradigm. Unfortunately telcos will never break that paradigm because they are far too stuck in their ways to believe anything else besides that business model. No matter what anyone says, it does not cost the telco to transmit more data.
Just what we need. Another dopey mechanism to interfere with the user experience. I'm already saddled with a dipshit policy pushed down from the corporate Exchange server that forces a password and timed lockups. The policy setting idiots will take something like this and further hobble my phone. Maybe even prevent me from say, handing my phone to a somebody even temporarily. "Here, take my phone. It's Bob. He wants to say 'hi'". The unauthorized biosignature detector fires off and disables my phone until I can contact the security Na.. er, supremacists.
I'm hoping people will wake up from the Matrix soon and realize that so many smart phone features are useless or making us useless. Here we've got marvelous tiny computers in our pockets that are capable of so much... and what do we use them for? Mind wasting via Angry Birds. Facebook, instead of socializing properly. Fart videos on YouTube. And Twitter? Please.
It shouldn't sell, period. Jobs did nothing that deserves a book or movie. Only the Apple fanatics think he walks on water. He was no messiah, just a charismatic suit that ran a business. Frankly Wilford Brimley is more relevant. We should all be eating oatmeal when he passes.
Microsoft is better at making operating systems (yes, Millennium, Vista, and 8 not totally fitting that argument) and should give up their browser dreams to focus on what they know best. Er, just not quite in a Metro way. We're still running a mix of IE6 / IE7 at work, and yes, I know that sounds retarded but can't move to IE9 because there are a few expenSive APlications that are not fully compatible. I'm on the IE9 Acceptance Team there and there are enough fugs and daily UFOs that I'm willing to drop back to IE7.
I'm wary of Razer ever since their Naga mouse was released. You need to load their Synapse software for "cloud" access and programming in order to use the special features of the mouse... which requires an internet connection and account activation. Activation? For a mouse? Sure, otherwise, it functions as a plain old featureless mouse. At first they required constant internet access to use the mouse's additional button features, but finally released an update to Synapse that allowed offline use after public pressure. This is a hardware mouse, not a software product or OS that needs activation. That's customer-unfriendly to me. They've also never come clean as to why internet is required, as the Synapse license states it will also collect and send data back to Razer. No thanks Razer, you're on Santa's naughty list.
Screw the ITIF. You can advertise on the internet without tracking users and milking them for information and statistics. How can they claim it will hurt the economic foundation of something that isn't a business in the first place (the internet)? They're missing the forest though. Revenue comes from clicks, not from tracking users. I don't know of anybody who clicks on web site ads anyway- I use the goog if I want to find information on something, buy something, whatever. I'm not going to click on a web site ad. That's like trusting the adverts in the back pages of a tabloid magazine to "increase your sexual potency", let you "lose weight overnight" or "how to tell which Nigerian emails aren't fake".
We use hosts files with shop floor manufacturing software that requires it. It does not function without host entries. You are not the judge of how a hosts file is to be used, and any mindset like yours should not be in IT. You have short sight and low experience in the real world it seems. Any any ass who threatens to "replace" somebody for using a feature that is far from outmoded, or thinks someones methods are "retarded" without benefit of understanding or even offering an alternative is a STFU-and-leave opportunity.
Many reasons to list, but the most salient are: Apple will price it too high. Fanboys will buy it- but ultimately Apple will grasp and miss any kind of foothold as they lose out to the tidal wave in incoming inexpensive Android tablets. It will still be locked into the iTunes store. That exclusivity isn't worth the price of the DRM, sorry. Android tablets will continue increasing in features while the iPad plods behind. Apple doesn't move as fast as technology. Maybe I should have called it an iPlod.
I'm looking at a Taiwanese 7-inch tablet now that does everything I need for $65. This is just like the IBM PC clones that kicked down a huge section of the pricing wall and made entering the market more enticing to new buyers. Apple's days are numbered.
I totally agree because I'm embroiled in the middle of the same situation. There are still some old skool people in my workplace who haven't progressed technologically over time (and still mourn for the Windows 98 days. Yeech.)... these are the people that cannot accept the fact that the computer on their desk is NOT theirs, that the company owns all of the data that they create. They think that nobody in the company should have access to their PC. And they don't see the harm in loading up their own software. C'mon, get real.
To sum up the hollow page "Non-free DRM'd games are bad because they deny freedom in some unspecified way. I don't understand it, so I'll just rant a little bit." I have a lot of respect for Stallman's general goals, but this one he missed the bus on. Having good games available for Linux opens more doors for prospective Linux enthusiasts. Good FREE games aren't going to happen, so stop that daydream. While I dislike DRM, Steam's compromise presents a way to increase the usability of Linux. If it helps to make Linux acceptance take off, perhaps people will take notice and good applications will start being brewed for Linux.
As the title says. Microsoft would have to deal with the RIM corporate polices and conditions that are already in place for customers. Microsoft would have difficulty gutting the parts that don't make them money and filling them with new ones. Also with applying shittier restrictions. A blank(er) slate, however, would be much easier to start from.
I know you're in dire need of customers and all, but commercial skip won't get me back. Sorry. Seriously. I already pay a fairly high bill for satellite service. Why do I have to pay for ads?
My house is all WiFi connected, but my desktops have extra NICs with gig connections to my server for backups that don't take forever. Wireless is the AOL of connection media- so easy, your grandmother can use it. But it's not good for serious transfers.
No ads at all. Seriously Hulu, if you're going to be dickheads about having people prove their cable/satellite service, then I demand you drop the ads in your feeds. The way I see it, I've already paid my dues, so to speak. In the form of my Satellite service. You're already one step from the edge if irrelevance with feeble content, so if I were you, I wouldn't piss in my own Cheerios. (yeah, I know. But I hate cornflakes.)
Of course. 'Right' will be added in Car gen. 2, you silly fanboi. Of course, Car gen 1 hardware is not compatible with newer firmware so, pbbbbbbt jog-on! Buy yourself a new car.
Apple will never go in my car. There is not one tiny milligram of benevolence in anything Apple does. It's not about the consumer, it's about their pocketbook. Steve Jobs was no prophet. He doesn't deserve a book, nor a movie, compared to hundreds of other people on or who have left this earth who have actually done something to benefit mankind. Apple is all about 'control' and Apple will never control my car.
The dumbing-down of Windows 8 "Metro" (God, I had that monkier) interface is a huge step backwards. This hinderface (intentional) is a move to further isolate users from their computer and operating system. Yes, you can get back to a semi-explorer-ish desktop on Windows 8, but it's not the real deal. Microsoft is doing this because they want to turn Windows-based devices into appliances that they have further control over. Control over what you can load, what you can do--- unless you are willing to pay for it. Apple calls their attempt the iTunes Store. We don't need more handcuffs limiting what we can do on the devices that WE own. Every other version of Windows is a dogpile, and Windows 8 is one of those. W8 before you Windows 8.
You are blind if you don't expect this from Sony. The company that spat out the proprietary mini disc and the memory stick instead of embracing superior technology. The company that neutered hardware virtualization in BIOS of Vaio laptops. They also tried to euthanize Aibo through CaD orders. Bollocks.
First off, if you like your new job, ask your new employer what you can do with their equipment. You won't get Admin from me either- that's policy. But if a user (you) asks me for software for playing movies, eBooks, other multimedia bullshit, and is willing to work with me and the policies he/she has to operate under, and understands there are policies *I* have to operate under, I'll do what I can to accommodate your needs. You catch more flies with honey, as the saying goes. All you gotta do is just ask and not assume that IT are all BOFHs.
If you don't like your new job, want to play "wannabe" guru, then go ahead an screw with the laptop, and your paycheck. I'll make sure that when I find things you've fricked with, that you go on the A-list for audit scans. A for Accelerated. I'll also make sure your laptop is fully compliant with policies, and take the extra precautions you mentioned re: locking down settings. And it will all be documented. I'm not being an a-hole, but if you don't give a shirt about company policies and want to 'take matters in your own hands', then I don't trust you, and will do what I have to do to ensure my job isn't compromised by your crazy-train inept attitude.
I'm not drumk but I love incandescent bulbs too. I've tried many CFLs and none of them give warm light, none of them give full brightness immediately at power-on, none of them are mercury free, none of them handle cold temps well. We waste electricity in so many other ways, targeting incandescent lighting is a trivial battle. Anything that's "instant on" or uses a transformer ("wall wart") is a vampire sucking off energy and wasting it. Cell phone chargers or any kind of charger, cordless house phones, computers, video game consoles, TVs, VCRs, DVD/BR players, stereos, laptop chargers, monitors, printers, microwaves... these are only a sample of the vampires in your house.
You're looking at me funny, as if I'm... off..... topic... yeah.
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Charging by the byte, kilo, mega or gigabyte is a draconic and totally outmoded business paradigm. Unfortunately telcos will never break that paradigm because they are far too stuck in their ways to believe anything else besides that business model. No matter what anyone says, it does not cost the telco to transmit more data.
Just what we need. Another dopey mechanism to interfere with the user experience. I'm already saddled with a dipshit policy pushed down from the corporate Exchange server that forces a password and timed lockups. The policy setting idiots will take something like this and further hobble my phone. Maybe even prevent me from say, handing my phone to a somebody even temporarily. "Here, take my phone. It's Bob. He wants to say 'hi'". The unauthorized biosignature detector fires off and disables my phone until I can contact the security Na.. er, supremacists.
I'm hoping people will wake up from the Matrix soon and realize that so many smart phone features are useless or making us useless. Here we've got marvelous tiny computers in our pockets that are capable of so much... and what do we use them for? Mind wasting via Angry Birds. Facebook, instead of socializing properly. Fart videos on YouTube. And Twitter? Please.
It shouldn't sell, period. Jobs did nothing that deserves a book or movie. Only the Apple fanatics think he walks on water. He was no messiah, just a charismatic suit that ran a business. Frankly Wilford Brimley is more relevant. We should all be eating oatmeal when he passes.
Microsoft is better at making operating systems (yes, Millennium, Vista, and 8 not totally fitting that argument) and should give up their browser dreams to focus on what they know best. Er, just not quite in a Metro way. We're still running a mix of IE6 / IE7 at work, and yes, I know that sounds retarded but can't move to IE9 because there are a few expenSive APlications that are not fully compatible. I'm on the IE9 Acceptance Team there and there are enough fugs and daily UFOs that I'm willing to drop back to IE7.
I'm wary of Razer ever since their Naga mouse was released. You need to load their Synapse software for "cloud" access and programming in order to use the special features of the mouse... which requires an internet connection and account activation. Activation? For a mouse? Sure, otherwise, it functions as a plain old featureless mouse. At first they required constant internet access to use the mouse's additional button features, but finally released an update to Synapse that allowed offline use after public pressure. This is a hardware mouse, not a software product or OS that needs activation. That's customer-unfriendly to me. They've also never come clean as to why internet is required, as the Synapse license states it will also collect and send data back to Razer. No thanks Razer, you're on Santa's naughty list.
Isn't this what Microsoft announced they wanted in the first place? It's too convenient to call it a "bug".
Screw the ITIF. You can advertise on the internet without tracking users and milking them for information and statistics. How can they claim it will hurt the economic foundation of something that isn't a business in the first place (the internet)? They're missing the forest though. Revenue comes from clicks, not from tracking users. I don't know of anybody who clicks on web site ads anyway- I use the goog if I want to find information on something, buy something, whatever. I'm not going to click on a web site ad. That's like trusting the adverts in the back pages of a tabloid magazine to "increase your sexual potency", let you "lose weight overnight" or "how to tell which Nigerian emails aren't fake".
I was excited up to the point where I read "Oh, and all of your code is stored in the cloud."
Not likely, sorry.
If Blizzard would do this for Diablo 3, I would consider buying it. Until then.... Torchlight 2 !!!
I'll bet it failed because the slides weren't in Comic Sans.
We use hosts files with shop floor manufacturing software that requires it. It does not function without host entries. You are not the judge of how a hosts file is to be used, and any mindset like yours should not be in IT. You have short sight and low experience in the real world it seems. Any any ass who threatens to "replace" somebody for using a feature that is far from outmoded, or thinks someones methods are "retarded" without benefit of understanding or even offering an alternative is a STFU-and-leave opportunity.
Many reasons to list, but the most salient are: Apple will price it too high. Fanboys will buy it- but ultimately Apple will grasp and miss any kind of foothold as they lose out to the tidal wave in incoming inexpensive Android tablets. It will still be locked into the iTunes store. That exclusivity isn't worth the price of the DRM, sorry. Android tablets will continue increasing in features while the iPad plods behind. Apple doesn't move as fast as technology. Maybe I should have called it an iPlod.
I'm looking at a Taiwanese 7-inch tablet now that does everything I need for $65. This is just like the IBM PC clones that kicked down a huge section of the pricing wall and made entering the market more enticing to new buyers. Apple's days are numbered.
I totally agree because I'm embroiled in the middle of the same situation. There are still some old skool people in my workplace who haven't progressed technologically over time (and still mourn for the Windows 98 days. Yeech.) ... these are the people that cannot accept the fact that the computer on their desk is NOT theirs, that the company owns all of the data that they create. They think that nobody in the company should have access to their PC. And they don't see the harm in loading up their own software. C'mon, get real.
To sum up the hollow page "Non-free DRM'd games are bad because they deny freedom in some unspecified way. I don't understand it, so I'll just rant a little bit." I have a lot of respect for Stallman's general goals, but this one he missed the bus on. Having good games available for Linux opens more doors for prospective Linux enthusiasts. Good FREE games aren't going to happen, so stop that daydream. While I dislike DRM, Steam's compromise presents a way to increase the usability of Linux. If it helps to make Linux acceptance take off, perhaps people will take notice and good applications will start being brewed for Linux.
As the title says. Microsoft would have to deal with the RIM corporate polices and conditions that are already in place for customers. Microsoft would have difficulty gutting the parts that don't make them money and filling them with new ones. Also with applying shittier restrictions. A blank(er) slate, however, would be much easier to start from.
Note that it has eight crash landings remaining before you have to buy a new one.
I know you're in dire need of customers and all, but commercial skip won't get me back. Sorry.
Seriously. I already pay a fairly high bill for satellite service. Why do I have to pay for ads?
My house is all WiFi connected, but my desktops have extra NICs with gig connections to my server for backups that don't take forever. Wireless is the AOL of connection media- so easy, your grandmother can use it. But it's not good for serious transfers.
No ads at all. Seriously Hulu, if you're going to be dickheads about having people prove their cable/satellite service, then I demand you drop the ads in your feeds. The way I see it, I've already paid my dues, so to speak. In the form of my Satellite service. You're already one step from the edge if irrelevance with feeble content, so if I were you, I wouldn't piss in my own Cheerios. (yeah, I know. But I hate cornflakes.)
Of course. 'Right' will be added in Car gen. 2, you silly fanboi. Of course, Car gen 1 hardware is not compatible with newer firmware so, pbbbbbbt jog-on! Buy yourself a new car.
Apple will never go in my car. There is not one tiny milligram of benevolence in anything Apple does. It's not about the consumer, it's about their pocketbook. Steve Jobs was no prophet. He doesn't deserve a book, nor a movie, compared to hundreds of other people on or who have left this earth who have actually done something to benefit mankind. Apple is all about 'control' and Apple will never control my car.
The dumbing-down of Windows 8 "Metro" (God, I had that monkier) interface is a huge step backwards. This hinderface (intentional) is a move to further isolate users from their computer and operating system. Yes, you can get back to a semi-explorer-ish desktop on Windows 8, but it's not the real deal. Microsoft is doing this because they want to turn Windows-based devices into appliances that they have further control over. Control over what you can load, what you can do--- unless you are willing to pay for it. Apple calls their attempt the iTunes Store. We don't need more handcuffs limiting what we can do on the devices that WE own. Every other version of Windows is a dogpile, and Windows 8 is one of those. W8 before you Windows 8.
You are blind if you don't expect this from Sony. The company that spat out the proprietary mini disc and the memory stick instead of embracing superior technology. The company that neutered hardware virtualization in BIOS of Vaio laptops. They also tried to euthanize Aibo through CaD orders. Bollocks.
First off, if you like your new job, ask your new employer what you can do with their equipment. You won't get Admin from me either- that's policy. But if a user (you) asks me for software for playing movies, eBooks, other multimedia bullshit, and is willing to work with me and the policies he/she has to operate under, and understands there are policies *I* have to operate under, I'll do what I can to accommodate your needs. You catch more flies with honey, as the saying goes. All you gotta do is just ask and not assume that IT are all BOFHs.
If you don't like your new job, want to play "wannabe" guru, then go ahead an screw with the laptop, and your paycheck. I'll make sure that when I find things you've fricked with, that you go on the A-list for audit scans. A for Accelerated. I'll also make sure your laptop is fully compliant with policies, and take the extra precautions you mentioned re: locking down settings. And it will all be documented. I'm not being an a-hole, but if you don't give a shirt about company policies and want to 'take matters in your own hands', then I don't trust you, and will do what I have to do to ensure my job isn't compromised by your crazy-train inept attitude.
I'm not drumk but I love incandescent bulbs too. I've tried many CFLs and none of them give warm light, none of them give full brightness immediately at power-on, none of them are mercury free, none of them handle cold temps well. We waste electricity in so many other ways, targeting incandescent lighting is a trivial battle. Anything that's "instant on" or uses a transformer ("wall wart") is a vampire sucking off energy and wasting it. Cell phone chargers or any kind of charger, cordless house phones, computers, video game consoles, TVs, VCRs, DVD/BR players, stereos, laptop chargers, monitors, printers, microwaves... these are only a sample of the vampires in your house.
You're looking at me funny, as if I'm... off..... topic... yeah.
... you have to work behind the grill because you're not allowed to speak to customers.