There are lots of failed PC manufactures, but then you have the #1 manufacturer HP which has dominated for which has been top five since at least 1996.
The last two nokia phones I've had have terrible software problems but I could not fault the hardware.
Same actually. I got a C5-00 because I still want a phone with a good old-fashioned form factor, but still have GPS, internet etc.
Problem is, that after about two months of use I am unable to send text messages, because "the memory is full". Despite having a near-empty 1GB card attached, and trying my hardest to get it to store messages here. But even deleting all the saved messages only fixes this for a day, until you've got nothing left to delete.
It also seems quite sluggish. I'd rather have a simpler looking interface than a slow interface.
This will be my last ever Nokia phone (they've been all i've had in my 12 years of mobile phone ownership.) They just don't seem to think.
They're a university. They have to spend vast amounts of money upgrading computers every year. If they don't, they won't get as much money in next year's budget. Plus the university gets money from the taxpayer, you have to spend it on something.
The metro page is ugly. It has all those irregularly shaped rectangles, with a bunch of shitty unneeded programs we don't want, and some of these rectangles containing animated crap.
I want my still desktop. With a nice background picture. A few icons for the programs I use on the desktop, a small clock down the bottom right. That's what I need. I don't need "zany".
People have been getting autoimmune conditions for long before antibiotics were even conceived of by humans.
And use of antibiotics favour evolution with fairly obvious results - it selects for resistance to the antibiotic. In fact, we usually know how bacteria do this; They use many different methods, including modifying their own proteins, pumping out the antibiotic, 'digesting' the antibiotic.
I'm sure their are pathogens that trigger autoimmune disease, but antibiotics don't have anything to do with that. Neither does cooking milk proteins - it denatures the proteins, and this is means it is much more likely to do nothing.
"Toxic"? Jesus, you love your hippie buzzwords. Insecticide is meant to be toxic - to insects. Has anyone died from this fantasy corn of yours? Or is it the new cause de jour of autism?
"Unnatural", "processed" - you know these are bullshit terms right?
Organic food is unhealthier. Plenty of natural things are poison. And plenty of unprocessed things would be impossible to digest.
Heating milk doesn't "cause auto-immune disease". I've drunk plenty of heated dairy products - no auto-immune disease. It doesn't even increase the risk! I hate that evil arseholes like you always pick on auto-immune disease to blame your pet hate for causing. But I know you do it because we don't know much about the triggers of AI conditions.
Europe is not a country. It is a continent with many countries. Please at least use countries rather than the usual "In Europe..." crap.
Make take on it is that lax gun laws do cause increased incidences of such killings - and I'm glad in NZ we don't have such permissive laws and widespread gun ownership.
But the fact is, that the US has the Second Amendment. It's part of the freedoms of the country when the US was formed. It is too engrained into US society that it couldn't be removed. It's just the way it is. The price of this freedom will be shootings like this - but banning gun ownership for all Americans cannot be the solution.
The UN is a corrupt organisation. It will only cripple the internet, make it illegal to offend anyone, and try to implement a world-wide selection of laws.
And lots of Christian, Jewish, and other religious leaders do not kill their people either, so when Atheists condemn all religions on the actions of a few, it is completely disingenuous double set of rules, one for evaluating Atheism and one evaluating Religions.
The difference is that Christians and Muslims kill because of their religion - they feel God is telling them to do it. Atheists don't kill because they don't believe in God. Atheists still have all the foibles that religious folk have, we get greedy, jealous, power hungry and angry - but we don't do it because the "god of atheism" tells us too.
I wouldn't condemn Christianity because some Christian robs a bank to make money because he's greedy and selfish. I condemn Christianity when it says we should torture people, or blow people up (in the case of Muslims), because it is what the religion wants.
In Slashdot, all too frequently, we witness sniping of the US from smarmy "European" people who say that "human rights abuses do not happen in Europe." Of course these cowards never seem to tell us where exactly in Europe they are from.
But this is just more shit from European countries, and why as a NZer I want the internet to be kept out of the hands of the UN. And why letting the EU be able to write laws in for every European country is a bad idea.
The more power you give an organisation, the more that organisation will abuse its power.
Thank you for your sarcastic comment on behalf of everyone else. We're all such complete cocks that we get offended when someone explains something we're proud of working out for ourselves, because it takes away one of the few tiny achievements we will manage in our sad pathetic lives.
(That above paragraph was sarcastic... the following paragraph is not.)
You're a dickhead AC. (That's a person who behaves in a selfishly annoying way for his own pleasure, not actually someone with a penis for a head. And I was not calling you the glans penis either [that's the medical term for the head of the penis].)
Tuvaluans are generally quite very nice Islanders. But in fairness, we pretty much take everyone from the Pacific and are happy to pay all their hospital bills.
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There are lots of failed PC manufactures, but then you have the #1 manufacturer HP which has dominated for which has been top five since at least 1996.
That makes me sad :-(
The last two nokia phones I've had have terrible software problems but I could not fault the hardware.
Same actually. I got a C5-00 because I still want a phone with a good old-fashioned form factor, but still have GPS, internet etc.
Problem is, that after about two months of use I am unable to send text messages, because "the memory is full". Despite having a near-empty 1GB card attached, and trying my hardest to get it to store messages here. But even deleting all the saved messages only fixes this for a day, until you've got nothing left to delete.
It also seems quite sluggish. I'd rather have a simpler looking interface than a slow interface.
This will be my last ever Nokia phone (they've been all i've had in my 12 years of mobile phone ownership.) They just don't seem to think.
Exactly. It's understandable if Facebook operates a business in Germany, but if it's a US website, surely they can tell the Germans to stick it.
I don't want Saudis or Egyptians deciding what a website not on their soil is able to do either.
They're a university. They have to spend vast amounts of money upgrading computers every year. If they don't, they won't get as much money in next year's budget. Plus the university gets money from the taxpayer, you have to spend it on something.
You don't see how displaying a list over a full screen is less efficient that displaying it as a... list?
The metro page is ugly. It has all those irregularly shaped rectangles, with a bunch of shitty unneeded programs we don't want, and some of these rectangles containing animated crap.
I want my still desktop. With a nice background picture. A few icons for the programs I use on the desktop, a small clock down the bottom right. That's what I need. I don't need "zany".
People have been getting autoimmune conditions for long before antibiotics were even conceived of by humans.
And use of antibiotics favour evolution with fairly obvious results - it selects for resistance to the antibiotic. In fact, we usually know how bacteria do this; They use many different methods, including modifying their own proteins, pumping out the antibiotic, 'digesting' the antibiotic.
I'm sure their are pathogens that trigger autoimmune disease, but antibiotics don't have anything to do with that. Neither does cooking milk proteins - it denatures the proteins, and this is means it is much more likely to do nothing.
Internet tough guy, eh?
Are you the real ethanol fueled though? Or a troll?
"Toxic"? Jesus, you love your hippie buzzwords. Insecticide is meant to be toxic - to insects. Has anyone died from this fantasy corn of yours? Or is it the new cause de jour of autism?
"Unnatural", "processed" - you know these are bullshit terms right?
Organic food is unhealthier. Plenty of natural things are poison. And plenty of unprocessed things would be impossible to digest.
Heating milk doesn't "cause auto-immune disease". I've drunk plenty of heated dairy products - no auto-immune disease. It doesn't even increase the risk! I hate that evil arseholes like you always pick on auto-immune disease to blame your pet hate for causing. But I know you do it because we don't know much about the triggers of AI conditions.
Here's a list of countries that signed:
http://www.itu.int/osg/wcit-12/highlights/signatories.html
The ones in dark green (signatories) you would not want to live in.
Europe is not a country. It is a continent with many countries. Please at least use countries rather than the usual "In Europe..." crap.
Make take on it is that lax gun laws do cause increased incidences of such killings - and I'm glad in NZ we don't have such permissive laws and widespread gun ownership.
But the fact is, that the US has the Second Amendment. It's part of the freedoms of the country when the US was formed. It is too engrained into US society that it couldn't be removed. It's just the way it is. The price of this freedom will be shootings like this - but banning gun ownership for all Americans cannot be the solution.
NZ refuses too.
You really think that would eliminate poverty?
Well listen. We don't want the UN controlling it!
The UN is a corrupt organisation. It will only cripple the internet, make it illegal to offend anyone, and try to implement a world-wide selection of laws.
Fuck off ITU.
Wow you're an uptight dickhead. Have you never heard of Muslim suicide bombers? It's what they do!
So we've not allowed to discuss it, or joke about it because it's offensive?
Let me guess - you're "European".
Europe will embrace you though.
It wasn't God. It was chance.
I'm not sure why people who don't understand basic statistics are on Slashdot.
And lots of Christian, Jewish, and other religious leaders do not kill their people either, so when Atheists condemn all religions on the actions of a few, it is completely disingenuous double set of rules, one for evaluating Atheism and one evaluating Religions.
The difference is that Christians and Muslims kill because of their religion - they feel God is telling them to do it. Atheists don't kill because they don't believe in God. Atheists still have all the foibles that religious folk have, we get greedy, jealous, power hungry and angry - but we don't do it because the "god of atheism" tells us too.
I wouldn't condemn Christianity because some Christian robs a bank to make money because he's greedy and selfish. I condemn Christianity when it says we should torture people, or blow people up (in the case of Muslims), because it is what the religion wants.
Atheists admit lack of knowledge.
As an atheist, if you showed me any evidence that God exists I'd start believing. But there is none.
Agnostics are cowards who are too scared to admit that God is a load of bullshit.
In Slashdot, all too frequently, we witness sniping of the US from smarmy "European" people who say that "human rights abuses do not happen in Europe." Of course these cowards never seem to tell us where exactly in Europe they are from.
But this is just more shit from European countries, and why as a NZer I want the internet to be kept out of the hands of the UN. And why letting the EU be able to write laws in for every European country is a bad idea.
The more power you give an organisation, the more that organisation will abuse its power.
Thank you for your sarcastic comment on behalf of everyone else. We're all such complete cocks that we get offended when someone explains something we're proud of working out for ourselves, because it takes away one of the few tiny achievements we will manage in our sad pathetic lives.
(That above paragraph was sarcastic... the following paragraph is not.)
You're a dickhead AC. (That's a person who behaves in a selfishly annoying way for his own pleasure, not actually someone with a penis for a head. And I was not calling you the glans penis either [that's the medical term for the head of the penis].)
Tuvaluans are generally quite very nice Islanders. But in fairness, we pretty much take everyone from the Pacific and are happy to pay all their hospital bills.
I know! And doesn't this article just re-inforce what we know?!
Unfortunately about 75% of ACs are egotistical jerks. Your chances aren't looking good.
(Apologies to the other 25% - I do appreciate and thank you for your comments.)