Sure, after you pull all of the radioactive & toxic coal waste that you created today. Nuclear waste in a container is far better than coal waste that we shoot into the air.
Forcing people to buy them is what makes this different. I don't care if I can afford it or not, if I already bought a Linux or Windows laptop, I'm not buying ANOTHER laptop because my state-funded school decided I should.
Bells and whistles are great if you need bells and whistles.
Why did you pay for XP then? What's wrong with DOS?
But if you don't need them then why would you spend the money?
I didn't say I was spending extra money on them. I just don't reformat NEW computers that come with Win7 just so I can put XP on it when XP does not run as well as Win 7.
If we had a current generation of Sully Sullenberger pilots, I'd agree with you.
However, he made the correct point that most pilots are not given the training they need to perform as he did. I'd take a computer over a human that overrides the airplane & causes it to crash. See Flight 3407
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Microsoft has simply NOT produced anything better.
While I agree that most of the marketing and Aero-fluff is useless, there are a few very big improvements I have to point out with Windows 7:
-Security is MUCH better than XP. I'm not calling it *nix level or anything, but it is much better. I've seen a huge decrease in spyware infections on Win 7.
-Bitlocker is secure, fast and accessible for most users. Again, Truecrypt may be better, but this is a good thing for the OS to have native.
-The systems management functions (i.e. power settings controlled by GPO, proper grouping of the event logs, etc) are far superior in Windows 7. I would much rather manage 1000 Win 7 desktops than 250 XP.
Are you being sarcastic or just plain dumb? AT&T increases their prices from $20 unlimited to $30 with a 2GB cap.
No, it sounds like you're the "just plan dumb" one. AT&T was at $30 unlimited and now people must pay $25 for 2GB and $10 for each additional, if they are a new customer or change their plan. Since 98% of their data customers use less than 2GB, most have the chance to choose a plan that is $5 less than their current one. Where the hell where you getting your numbers from?
This is a very legitimate point. I don't know how they're going to avoid letting down all of the people that made their OWN version of Shepard, from his/her look & sex, to all the myriad of decisions made throughout the game. They're basically going to pick one story out of thousands that have been created by the players and say "This is the right one". I love the game, and thought I'd love to see it as a movie, but this is just going to piss a lot of people off.
You make a false dichotomy. i.e. Having a phones that is customizable means it isn't stable and won't work.
No, my point is that I don't want to spend a lot of time customizing the interface, I want a phone that already has that done for me "good enough". My point about stability has to do with apps, I don't want apps to be able to do whatever they want to the device, I want apps that are controlled so I don't have to troubleshoot my phone device when I have a buggy app.
It's funny how iPhone fans say the phone is perfect
I didn't say that, I just feel the list of positives vs negatives, for me, is better on the iPhone.
So you will take Apples version of Win Mobile. What the FUCK does that have to do with Android or WebOS.
My point was to counter the point that WebOS and Android had multitasking before iPhone, hence they were better. WinMoble had that before those two existed. No need to get all bent out of shape about it. Seriously, anger management.
The very article you link to points out the limit is $50 if you let them know within 2 days of YOU knowing that you lost the card. That isn't a hard thing to do. Also, it also points out that all of the 25 largest banks have zero liability. If you can't be bothered to get a bank that has no liability OR pick up a phone after you know your card is being misused, then you get to pay $500 of stupid tax.
If you use it as a debit card--snip--you are fully on-the-hook when it comes to losses - if they steal $2000 from your account, you have lost $2000 - there is no disputing charges or limited liability like with a credit card.
I worked at a financial institution, this is completely incorrect. Your liability is limited by law to $50, and most small banks and credit unions just limit it to -0-. Just make sure you have email alerts on so you know your card is being abused & call your bank & police if so.
its going to be hard for the average techie to get excited about some of the new "features" of the iphone, such as pseudo-multitasking, when the competitors such as Android and WebOS have had almost all of these features since day one.
I'm very excited about "pseudo-multitasking" since it only gives the software developers what they need to do MOST of what is needed for multitasking. I love having the ability to customize my PC in a million different ways, run whatever software I want, etc. However, on my phone, I want it to work & be stable. I don't mind Apple being draconian on my phone.
As an aside, before my iPhone I had several Windows Mobile phones that also did multitasking before WebOS and Android or iPhone even existed. From what I've seen, I'll take Apple's version.
If police came knocking on my door and said I'm under investigation for downloading child porn
Again, that isn't what occurred. This would be like you walking into the police station saying "Hey, an automated script on my computer downloaded child porn, when I meant to download anime. Going to go delete it now."
Besides, German police didn't want all of their data. They wanted one hard drive
You clearly have no understanding how RAID, SANs, or databases work. One hard drive will have nothing readable on it.
What Google did to the data is exactly the same thing you have done if you've ever recorded video or audio in a public place. You have data (sound and images) of people in public. If these people had unsecured wireless, they were sending their data into the street for the world to hear.
and distributing it (which is what Google is doing)
Show me where they're distributing it. From everything I've heard, Google is the one that said "Oops, we got this stuff by mistake & are going to delete it as soon as we let everyone know". Go read the man pages for Kismet, sounds like that's what they were using & didn't turn off the data collection option.
Except sunlight isn't expected to run out in a timeframe that humanity can fathom.
The surface area of the Earth is finite. Our appetite for energy is not. The amount of surface available for energy production is much smaller when you subtract oceans and places to grow our food.
First, I'm sorry you don't trust some guy you've never met before over the Internet.
i don't know anyone who has a bevy of friends they can program
I don't program my friends, I invite them.
to come over to their house and to all agree on a movie at the exact moment you want to see it
My friends and I have movie day 4x a year and watch 4-5 movies each time. That's more than a movie a month, which is pretty good for a bunch of married guys IMHO. This same group went to watch Iron Man 2 Friday night (only in theaters, and we didn't want to be spoiled on the plot later), and it was FAR more of a pain in the ass to coordinate what time slot to pick and what movie theater to go to than it has ever been to choose a house to go to and start at whatever time we feel like hitting play on the DVD player.
furthermore, all the babies and cellphones do not rise above the oohs and aahs in the dark around you that heighten your experience
The only time I've heard "oohs and aahs" is when watching an IMAX documentary. However, while watching the previously mentioned movie, I did have a baby crying so loud that I couldn't hear one of the lead characters speaking. The last time I went to a live show with my wife (I am Legend), a group of teenagers in front of us ruined our ability to see the screen by the light of their phones during a part that had a lot of darkness, and later three of them started laughing loudly at a txt they got while my wife and I were almost to tears over watching one of the people die on screen. However, the wonderful social experience you love pulled us right out of the sorrow that the filmmaker desired and instead gave me a healthy dose of pissed off.
if you honestly believe otherwise, you don't even know yourself
I know myself far better than some anonymous Slashdot reader knows me.
box office returns say so.
Box office returns are based on the fact that you can ONLY see movies for a certain amount of time by buying them at the box office. I do watch movies from there when I really care about the movie's plot, and not having it spoiled by some asshat at the water cooler the next week. My point is that if they allowed DVDs to be released at the same time, the box office would starve.
i am asserting that your complaint is false and contrived. -snip- and EVEN IF your complaint is truthful and factual, you are a fragment of the population, a small shrill overly fragile minority that is so bothered by a cellphone.
As I look at my friends, my rough math puts those that agree with me on this to about 9.5 out of 10. Can you show me some evidence that we're all the minority?
so your opinion is without merit
No, my opinion is my own, and I vote with my money. If you're certain that the box office experience is superior, please join me in asking the studios to push towards simultaneous release. If you're right, their box office returns shouldn't suffer a bit.
this is how you make money in movies, and always WILL make money in movies: the cinema house
Only because the release of the movie in the cinema house is before the release on download/disc. I know many people that can fit more than enough close friends for a sociological experience in their home theater, myself included. The great part is that I don't have to listen to some idiot chomping popcorn while his son sends another text message with the light of his phone killing everyone's view of the screen.
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I suppose Slashdot's run-on sentence filter is broken...
Your sarcasm detector is broken.
Sure, after you pull all of the radioactive & toxic coal waste that you created today. Nuclear waste in a container is far better than coal waste that we shoot into the air.
Forcing people to buy them is what makes this different. I don't care if I can afford it or not, if I already bought a Linux or Windows laptop, I'm not buying ANOTHER laptop because my state-funded school decided I should.
Why did you pay for XP then? What's wrong with DOS?
I didn't say I was spending extra money on them. I just don't reformat NEW computers that come with Win7 just so I can put XP on it when XP does not run as well as Win 7.
If we had a current generation of Sully Sullenberger pilots, I'd agree with you.
However, he made the correct point that most pilots are not given the training they need to perform as he did. I'd take a computer over a human that overrides the airplane & causes it to crash. See Flight 3407
While I agree that most of the marketing and Aero-fluff is useless, there are a few very big improvements I have to point out with Windows 7: -Security is MUCH better than XP. I'm not calling it *nix level or anything, but it is much better. I've seen a huge decrease in spyware infections on Win 7. -Bitlocker is secure, fast and accessible for most users. Again, Truecrypt may be better, but this is a good thing for the OS to have native. -The systems management functions (i.e. power settings controlled by GPO, proper grouping of the event logs, etc) are far superior in Windows 7. I would much rather manage 1000 Win 7 desktops than 250 XP.
No, it sounds like you're the "just plan dumb" one. AT&T was at $30 unlimited and now people must pay $25 for 2GB and $10 for each additional, if they are a new customer or change their plan. Since 98% of their data customers use less than 2GB, most have the chance to choose a plan that is $5 less than their current one. Where the hell where you getting your numbers from?
That's not a sinkhole, that's a Emergence Hole. Someone better toss a grenade in there ASAP before the Locusts Horde starts streaming out!
This is a very legitimate point. I don't know how they're going to avoid letting down all of the people that made their OWN version of Shepard, from his/her look & sex, to all the myriad of decisions made throughout the game. They're basically going to pick one story out of thousands that have been created by the players and say "This is the right one". I love the game, and thought I'd love to see it as a movie, but this is just going to piss a lot of people off.
No, my point is that I don't want to spend a lot of time customizing the interface, I want a phone that already has that done for me "good enough". My point about stability has to do with apps, I don't want apps to be able to do whatever they want to the device, I want apps that are controlled so I don't have to troubleshoot my phone device when I have a buggy app.
I didn't say that, I just feel the list of positives vs negatives, for me, is better on the iPhone.
My point was to counter the point that WebOS and Android had multitasking before iPhone, hence they were better. WinMoble had that before those two existed. No need to get all bent out of shape about it. Seriously, anger management.
The very article you link to points out the limit is $50 if you let them know within 2 days of YOU knowing that you lost the card. That isn't a hard thing to do. Also, it also points out that all of the 25 largest banks have zero liability. If you can't be bothered to get a bank that has no liability OR pick up a phone after you know your card is being misused, then you get to pay $500 of stupid tax.
You think setting your profile to "private" will make sure that only your friends see your status? That's cute.
I worked at a financial institution, this is completely incorrect. Your liability is limited by law to $50, and most small banks and credit unions just limit it to -0-. Just make sure you have email alerts on so you know your card is being abused & call your bank & police if so.
http://usa.visa.com/personal/security/visa_security_program/zero_liability.html
http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-1350.html
I'm very excited about "pseudo-multitasking" since it only gives the software developers what they need to do MOST of what is needed for multitasking. I love having the ability to customize my PC in a million different ways, run whatever software I want, etc. However, on my phone, I want it to work & be stable. I don't mind Apple being draconian on my phone.
As an aside, before my iPhone I had several Windows Mobile phones that also did multitasking before WebOS and Android or iPhone even existed. From what I've seen, I'll take Apple's version.
Again, that isn't what occurred. This would be like you walking into the police station saying "Hey, an automated script on my computer downloaded child porn, when I meant to download anime. Going to go delete it now."
You clearly have no understanding how RAID, SANs, or databases work. One hard drive will have nothing readable on it.
What Google did to the data is exactly the same thing you have done if you've ever recorded video or audio in a public place. You have data (sound and images) of people in public. If these people had unsecured wireless, they were sending their data into the street for the world to hear.
Show me where they're distributing it. From everything I've heard, Google is the one that said "Oops, we got this stuff by mistake & are going to delete it as soon as we let everyone know". Go read the man pages for Kismet, sounds like that's what they were using & didn't turn off the data collection option.
Yet somehow, an overwhelming majority of seafood consumed in the USA comes from this region. More dead zones are a bad thing.
Uses it to kill the firstborn male child in every household.
The "rest of your life" part is overblown. There won't be much of that.
The surface area of the Earth is finite. Our appetite for energy is not. The amount of surface available for energy production is much smaller when you subtract oceans and places to grow our food.
Read about WAAS. Many consumer & professional GPS receivers use it to enhance the accuracy.
I don't program my friends, I invite them.
My friends and I have movie day 4x a year and watch 4-5 movies each time. That's more than a movie a month, which is pretty good for a bunch of married guys IMHO. This same group went to watch Iron Man 2 Friday night (only in theaters, and we didn't want to be spoiled on the plot later), and it was FAR more of a pain in the ass to coordinate what time slot to pick and what movie theater to go to than it has ever been to choose a house to go to and start at whatever time we feel like hitting play on the DVD player.
The only time I've heard "oohs and aahs" is when watching an IMAX documentary. However, while watching the previously mentioned movie, I did have a baby crying so loud that I couldn't hear one of the lead characters speaking. The last time I went to a live show with my wife (I am Legend), a group of teenagers in front of us ruined our ability to see the screen by the light of their phones during a part that had a lot of darkness, and later three of them started laughing loudly at a txt they got while my wife and I were almost to tears over watching one of the people die on screen. However, the wonderful social experience you love pulled us right out of the sorrow that the filmmaker desired and instead gave me a healthy dose of pissed off.
I know myself far better than some anonymous Slashdot reader knows me.
Box office returns are based on the fact that you can ONLY see movies for a certain amount of time by buying them at the box office. I do watch movies from there when I really care about the movie's plot, and not having it spoiled by some asshat at the water cooler the next week. My point is that if they allowed DVDs to be released at the same time, the box office would starve.
As I look at my friends, my rough math puts those that agree with me on this to about 9.5 out of 10. Can you show me some evidence that we're all the minority?
No, my opinion is my own, and I vote with my money. If you're certain that the box office experience is superior, please join me in asking the studios to push towards simultaneous release. If you're right, their box office returns shouldn't suffer a bit.
Only because the release of the movie in the cinema house is before the release on download/disc. I know many people that can fit more than enough close friends for a sociological experience in their home theater, myself included. The great part is that I don't have to listen to some idiot chomping popcorn while his son sends another text message with the light of his phone killing everyone's view of the screen.