Considering most of what we're interested in is little plastic things with blinkie lights that you have to go to the store to buy, I'm not sure why that matters.
It will still look like a brick tied to your face but it will be from Apple so it will be cool.
But to some, because it's from Apple, it's automatically un-cool despite the merits of the device. Several people will live their lives in total ignorance of the massive hypocriscy they've unwittingly wandered into.
Bantu1 writes to mention an attention grab by anti-virus company Sophos who is now offering a Klingon language version of their popular anti-virus software.
First time I've seen an anti-virus company release a birth control product!
People that use the equipment every day should show a level of professionalism that suggests they at least care enough about their jobs to learn the proper name for the equipment.
Not everybody uses their computer 'professionally'.
Additionally, elitism does not help us geeks and nerds. If we get all snorty over calling the case the 'hard-drive' when the real important detail is "my computer won't turn on", then we're not really accomplishing much more than a failure to reproduce.
There's a good lot of you that need to really think about whether or not you want to be 'judging' people.
Sprint can only charge for for data that they provide. If you're using WiFi on your own router, you won't get charged for that. They may mean that not all wi-fi is free.
I had a peek at that and I get what you mean. I am still having difficulty with trying to elevate this past pettiness. You know what I mean?
Let me be clear, though, it's not that I think you're wrong, I'm just not getting it. Maybe I'm thick, or even chauvinist. I haven't ruled that out.;) It just strikes me that getting angry over Dell's move is even worse than 'Della'. If the people who like the product wanted to speak up originally, they certainly wouldn't now for fear of being called stupid.
It's ok to sell an ornament based on it's aesthetic appeal, but if I were to try to sell you a car with the sole selling point being that the tyres had white side-walls, you'd think I was taking you for an idiot.
Sure, but I wouldn't bust out the 'stereotype' argument over it.
Sure, women want a range of colours (so do men) but they are not going to make their whole purchasing choice based on aesthetics that's just insulting them.
Right, but I don't understand taking offense to that. I mean, seriously, wasn't it just two weeks ago we were having a conversation about computers generally being 'good enough' in general?
Okay, I'll just say it: I don't get it. From where I sit, it's an unappealing product, move on. If you think it's calling you stupid, then by being offended by it, aren't you calling the people that don't mind it stupid, or at least less 'intelligent' than you? Maybe I'm just being dumb on this topic, but man I'm getting tired of people thinking it's their right to take offense to frivilous things.
By marketing at stereotypes, you reinforce them. By treating women like they aren't tech savvy, you're making them feel uncomfortable about being tech savvy.
That's worse than making a product that appeals to a woman that's not tech saavy?
If it bothers you then use a mail client to download your mail from Google. As someone that has been using my gmail account all week I didn't even notice a problem, the whole thing seems overblown.
I've had a lot more lost Google downtime caused by power outages or ISP service interruptions than I've had with Google being down. So, yeah, I agree with you, very overblown. Doesn't matter how dependent we are on the cloud, we still cannot take the internet for granted.
I used it extensively when I was in school. Every machine on campus was at least running Win2k or OSX with USB support. Huge (4+ MB) Photoshop files or sets of CAD work just wouldn't fit on floppies and zip discs were notoriously unreliable (when you could find a machine that even had a drive).
What about CD/R(W)s? Just curious. In 2000 I worked in an office and flash drives really hadn't caught on because we had tons of CD-Rs. Heck, I had little GameCube-game sized CD-RWs that held 150 megs I often used for network drivers etc. Was the flash drive just more convenient? We avoided them because of the small size, never really gave them a chance. I'm curious if that was a dumb oversight.
Slashdot Mirror
Check his name, it links to pocketgamer.co.uk.
B.F.D.
Considering most of what we're interested in is little plastic things with blinkie lights that you have to go to the store to buy, I'm not sure why that matters.
And monkeys could fly out of my butt
Are you unlikely to shout 'Armageddon'?
It will still look like a brick tied to your face but it will be from Apple so it will be cool.
But to some, because it's from Apple, it's automatically un-cool despite the merits of the device. Several people will live their lives in total ignorance of the massive hypocriscy they've unwittingly wandered into.
I have a Linux box and a Windows box, each with dual monitors (not particularly big ones)
Man. What's that like at Red Alert?
Why possible purpose does it serve to be reading that while shooting up a police department?
It serves the same purpose as incidental music.
You're confusing full motion video with real-time 3D.
Bantu1 writes to mention an attention grab by anti-virus company Sophos who is now offering a Klingon language version of their popular anti-virus software.
First time I've seen an anti-virus company release a birth control product!
I would've thought the first major software with Klingon support would've been a Linux distro.
"The kill button takes up most of the screen!"
Ever heard of skyfire?
Yes, but I haven't heard anybody say it's good yet. 10fps on Youtube? Pftbtb.
Of course, I'd be happy to be corrected when it finally is ready for prime-time.
People that use the equipment every day should show a level of professionalism that suggests they at least care enough about their jobs to learn the proper name for the equipment.
Not everybody uses their computer 'professionally'.
Additionally, elitism does not help us geeks and nerds. If we get all snorty over calling the case the 'hard-drive' when the real important detail is "my computer won't turn on", then we're not really accomplishing much more than a failure to reproduce.
There's a good lot of you that need to really think about whether or not you want to be 'judging' people.
Some of iPhone's competition supports Flash in the browser. Look it up.
Flash Lite != Flash. Look it up.
Sprint can only charge for for data that they provide. If you're using WiFi on your own router, you won't get charged for that. They may mean that not all wi-fi is free.
Why did they run an OCR on a body scan? :D
Many providers charge for data over wi-fi just like it is over 3g.
How's that supposed to work? My phone remembers how much data it has transferred over wifi and tattles on me to AT&T?
just because you can (Score:2, Insightful)
doesn't mean you should.
...unless it's on Android, then it's okay.
Given how much mobile phone providers like to slug their customers for traffic...
Wi-fi.
what possible advantage is there to using such a device as a server?
Less functionality is preferable?
I had a peek at that and I get what you mean. I am still having difficulty with trying to elevate this past pettiness. You know what I mean?
Let me be clear, though, it's not that I think you're wrong, I'm just not getting it. Maybe I'm thick, or even chauvinist. I haven't ruled that out. ;) It just strikes me that getting angry over Dell's move is even worse than 'Della'. If the people who like the product wanted to speak up originally, they certainly wouldn't now for fear of being called stupid.
It's ok to sell an ornament based on it's aesthetic appeal, but if I were to try to sell you a car with the sole selling point being that the tyres had white side-walls, you'd think I was taking you for an idiot.
Sure, but I wouldn't bust out the 'stereotype' argument over it.
Sure, women want a range of colours (so do men) but they are not going to make their whole purchasing choice based on aesthetics that's just insulting them.
Right, but I don't understand taking offense to that. I mean, seriously, wasn't it just two weeks ago we were having a conversation about computers generally being 'good enough' in general?
Okay, I'll just say it: I don't get it. From where I sit, it's an unappealing product, move on. If you think it's calling you stupid, then by being offended by it, aren't you calling the people that don't mind it stupid, or at least less 'intelligent' than you? Maybe I'm just being dumb on this topic, but man I'm getting tired of people thinking it's their right to take offense to frivilous things.
It's not the jeans that make you look fat, it's the fat that makes you look fat. (my apologies to whichever comedian I heard tell this joke)
It was Al Bundy. He had taken Jerry Springer, the 'Masculine Feminist' hostage, and made demands like that one in the name of No Ma'am.
He also said: "You need us Jar Opening, Spider Squishing, Oil Changing scum more than we need you."
It was great up until he was arrested!
By marketing at stereotypes, you reinforce them. By treating women like they aren't tech savvy, you're making them feel uncomfortable about being tech savvy.
That's worse than making a product that appeals to a woman that's not tech saavy?
... Google how many servers it uses, does that mean it's self-aware?
How would you describe how frequent an occurance of corrupt'age is?
If it bothers you then use a mail client to download your mail from Google. As someone that has been using my gmail account all week I didn't even notice a problem, the whole thing seems overblown.
I've had a lot more lost Google downtime caused by power outages or ISP service interruptions than I've had with Google being down. So, yeah, I agree with you, very overblown. Doesn't matter how dependent we are on the cloud, we still cannot take the internet for granted.
I used it extensively when I was in school. Every machine on campus was at least running Win2k or OSX with USB support. Huge (4+ MB) Photoshop files or sets of CAD work just wouldn't fit on floppies and zip discs were notoriously unreliable (when you could find a machine that even had a drive).
What about CD/R(W)s? Just curious. In 2000 I worked in an office and flash drives really hadn't caught on because we had tons of CD-Rs. Heck, I had little GameCube-game sized CD-RWs that held 150 megs I often used for network drivers etc. Was the flash drive just more convenient? We avoided them because of the small size, never really gave them a chance. I'm curious if that was a dumb oversight.
Anybody here ever tried using TrueCrypt on a Flash drive for ferrying sensitive data between two places? Is it fairly reliable?