Amazon was operating during a period of stupidly low standards for businesses. A more sane approach would have been to build up the business more slowly. They didn't need to take that approach because the market was flooded with investment capital, to the point where many firms would get money without any idea as to how to turn their idea profitable.
In MS' case, they've got few places they can spend the money they make from their primary businesses. It's either invest in something like search or concede that further growth isn't possible and just start issuing most of the money back in the form of dividends.
Same here, the main things I do on my computer I can now do with either virtualization or a quick reboot. The last few things I was doing with Windows are either things which I don't need to do on a daily basis or which can be run in Wine. And if that fails, I can always boot up a surplused copy of Windows and virtualize it.
I'm not so sure about that, as MS heats up its timetable for new releases, you're likely to see an increased number of people needing to choose between buying a new computer, leaving it as is with the security holes or moving on to Linux. Considering how ridiculously easy some of the Linux Distros have gotten and how much better the driver support is, it's not that hard to get people using it.
I switched my mother over to Linux because Vista wasn't acting very stable on her hardware, much quicker and fewer complaints about performance.
Few jobs, if any, are going to pay well enough to support oneself only being paid for one hour a week. Even professional musicians typically need to work longer hours than that.
Off the top of my head, the only things I can think of involve organized crime and corporate deals, but I repeat myself.
That's sort of the thing, there are sites like flexjobs out there that help people find part time telecommuting jobs for some spare pocket money. It wouldn't surprise me if there aren't a significantly larger number of employees that are paid to work a few hours a week than full time.
Bullshit. Only if you work at a company where promotions exist and everybody else isn't doing it and if there's any competition at all for employees. In practice it's not something that anybody reasonable counts on.
It gets worse when it comes to a down economy, because you work yourself to the bone doing everybody else's work, chances are that when you do ultimately fall ill or otherwise can't keep it up, that they'll just replace you with somebody else.
LOL, you do realize that the Nook color is basically just an Android tablet, right? And that one can root it and get rid of pretty much all the B&N stuff. In fact they make it easy to do.
As for PDFs, they work just fine on ebooks, assuming that they've been properly created. You're not going to find scanned documents in PDF form typically that deal well with changes of resolution or that will reflow the text to deal with it.
Well, FB only got millions based upon MySpace's success. They wouldn't have had such traction if MySpace didn't exist. I don't think they stand a chance.
One of the reasons we don't use floppies anymore is that they're inconsistent. It could be that the disks have gone bad, or sections of them have, or it could just be an alignment issue. Unfortunately the easiest way to fix that would be to use the original drive that wrote the disks in the first place.
I've got the X-Wing disks that I borrowed from a friend in an attempt to dump them to HDD. And I think 3 out of 5 of them have unreadable files on them.
Indeed. The main alternative to this is TFTP and SSH, and that isn't secured either as you have to load and boot the image before SSH gets into the picture.. Which is understandable, but at this point in history, you really shouldn't be doing these things over a network without some security in place. Even a supposedly secured network can be infiltrated if it's valuable enough.
And this is definitely not going to be worth using over the internet unless one has a means of ensuring a secured connection between the two points.
I guess we could argue about why it still doesn't work with read only calendars or the inability to change the URI for a calendar without having to add a new calendar. Or how about the lack of periodic scheduling.
I think it's a good start, but it's barely usable in its current form, unless of course you do all your scheduling on it, for those that like to have a copy on their cell phone, the program is a real headache.
I don't mind that it can't, but purely because I primarily use it to view an online schedule. In cases where I need to set up repetition, I do add the entry online. But, for a calendar, that's awfully elementary functionality to be missing.
They're looking for a way of replacing a stack of documents with electronic copies. The iPad is way more powerful than is needed and probably would increase the likelihood of people wasting time playing angry birds. Nook Color would fill that need without too much trouble at about half the price of the iPad. And I'm sure there are other options that are less expensive, yet serve the purpose, as well.
No, but Nook Color can do all the things that reasonably are necessary for work. At about half the cost of an iPad. And I'm sure that when the color version of Kindle is released that it too will be cheaper than an iPad.
Personally, I don't really care one way or the other as I don't own stock in any of the companies and don't pay the taxes that the pay for these devices, but it does strike me as a waste of tax payer dollars when a cheaper option is available.
You don't need a CA, you can do it yourself. Which is fine for situations like this where it's being used internally. Otherwise, it's not really that different than in the US where most people never get to see the original bills that are being debated, just the electronic copy.
That's better solved by making the cable's orientation more obvious. You're not going to see the internals of the port when you're trying to plug it in, but you can see and or feel the look of the cable without too much trouble..
Sad perhaps, but it was inevitable when companies started outsourcing work from the US and EU where they could easily keep tabs on production to China where it became less convenient to do so. Also, lower costs aren't what one normally considers a sign screaming high quality production capabilities.
Perhaps you have a defective device, or were abusing the product. Of the items that I have which use MicroUSB, none of them have displayed even the slightest bit of flakiness to them. But then again neither have my MiniUSB devices and they've been abused significantly more than my MicroUSB devices.
I don't believe that Apple doesn't have a valid patent on it. Waring has had magnetic breakaway cables for years and has been using them for powering deep friers.
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Amazon was operating during a period of stupidly low standards for businesses. A more sane approach would have been to build up the business more slowly. They didn't need to take that approach because the market was flooded with investment capital, to the point where many firms would get money without any idea as to how to turn their idea profitable.
In MS' case, they've got few places they can spend the money they make from their primary businesses. It's either invest in something like search or concede that further growth isn't possible and just start issuing most of the money back in the form of dividends.
Same here, the main things I do on my computer I can now do with either virtualization or a quick reboot. The last few things I was doing with Windows are either things which I don't need to do on a daily basis or which can be run in Wine. And if that fails, I can always boot up a surplused copy of Windows and virtualize it.
I'm not so sure about that, as MS heats up its timetable for new releases, you're likely to see an increased number of people needing to choose between buying a new computer, leaving it as is with the security holes or moving on to Linux. Considering how ridiculously easy some of the Linux Distros have gotten and how much better the driver support is, it's not that hard to get people using it.
I switched my mother over to Linux because Vista wasn't acting very stable on her hardware, much quicker and fewer complaints about performance.
Clearly at least one too few, they still haven't managed to chase off all them pesky developers.
Few jobs, if any, are going to pay well enough to support oneself only being paid for one hour a week. Even professional musicians typically need to work longer hours than that.
Off the top of my head, the only things I can think of involve organized crime and corporate deals, but I repeat myself.
That's sort of the thing, there are sites like flexjobs out there that help people find part time telecommuting jobs for some spare pocket money. It wouldn't surprise me if there aren't a significantly larger number of employees that are paid to work a few hours a week than full time.
Bullshit. Only if you work at a company where promotions exist and everybody else isn't doing it and if there's any competition at all for employees. In practice it's not something that anybody reasonable counts on.
It gets worse when it comes to a down economy, because you work yourself to the bone doing everybody else's work, chances are that when you do ultimately fall ill or otherwise can't keep it up, that they'll just replace you with somebody else.
No, but most employers tend to fire employees that are clocked in and not working.
Hacking the Gibson?
LOL, you do realize that the Nook color is basically just an Android tablet, right? And that one can root it and get rid of pretty much all the B&N stuff. In fact they make it easy to do.
As for PDFs, they work just fine on ebooks, assuming that they've been properly created. You're not going to find scanned documents in PDF form typically that deal well with changes of resolution or that will reflow the text to deal with it.
Well, FB only got millions based upon MySpace's success. They wouldn't have had such traction if MySpace didn't exist. I don't think they stand a chance.
Wait, what, you mean FB is extremely popular now?
Well, if you'd stop posting Goatse links, perhaps people would want to spend more time around you...
One of the reasons we don't use floppies anymore is that they're inconsistent. It could be that the disks have gone bad, or sections of them have, or it could just be an alignment issue. Unfortunately the easiest way to fix that would be to use the original drive that wrote the disks in the first place.
I've got the X-Wing disks that I borrowed from a friend in an attempt to dump them to HDD. And I think 3 out of 5 of them have unreadable files on them.
Indeed. The main alternative to this is TFTP and SSH, and that isn't secured either as you have to load and boot the image before SSH gets into the picture.. Which is understandable, but at this point in history, you really shouldn't be doing these things over a network without some security in place. Even a supposedly secured network can be infiltrated if it's valuable enough.
And this is definitely not going to be worth using over the internet unless one has a means of ensuring a secured connection between the two points.
I guess we could argue about why it still doesn't work with read only calendars or the inability to change the URI for a calendar without having to add a new calendar. Or how about the lack of periodic scheduling.
I think it's a good start, but it's barely usable in its current form, unless of course you do all your scheduling on it, for those that like to have a copy on their cell phone, the program is a real headache.
I don't mind that it can't, but purely because I primarily use it to view an online schedule. In cases where I need to set up repetition, I do add the entry online. But, for a calendar, that's awfully elementary functionality to be missing.
Yes, they're $500 and you can get a Thinkpad for $500 or two Nooks if that's you're thing.
They're looking for a way of replacing a stack of documents with electronic copies. The iPad is way more powerful than is needed and probably would increase the likelihood of people wasting time playing angry birds. Nook Color would fill that need without too much trouble at about half the price of the iPad. And I'm sure there are other options that are less expensive, yet serve the purpose, as well.
No, but Nook Color can do all the things that reasonably are necessary for work. At about half the cost of an iPad. And I'm sure that when the color version of Kindle is released that it too will be cheaper than an iPad.
Personally, I don't really care one way or the other as I don't own stock in any of the companies and don't pay the taxes that the pay for these devices, but it does strike me as a waste of tax payer dollars when a cheaper option is available.
You don't need a CA, you can do it yourself. Which is fine for situations like this where it's being used internally. Otherwise, it's not really that different than in the US where most people never get to see the original bills that are being debated, just the electronic copy.
That's better solved by making the cable's orientation more obvious. You're not going to see the internals of the port when you're trying to plug it in, but you can see and or feel the look of the cable without too much trouble..
Sad perhaps, but it was inevitable when companies started outsourcing work from the US and EU where they could easily keep tabs on production to China where it became less convenient to do so. Also, lower costs aren't what one normally considers a sign screaming high quality production capabilities.
Perhaps you have a defective device, or were abusing the product. Of the items that I have which use MicroUSB, none of them have displayed even the slightest bit of flakiness to them. But then again neither have my MiniUSB devices and they've been abused significantly more than my MicroUSB devices.
I don't believe that Apple doesn't have a valid patent on it. Waring has had magnetic breakaway cables for years and has been using them for powering deep friers.
Just prepend an "i" and you should be good to go. People like overpaying for things that start with "i".