To be honest, I don't give a shit about your conservative talking points. I won't give a shit until after the crimes committed in the banking sector are prosecuted, and even then, I might not give a shit about such low level crimes.
Only a complete douchebag would care more about a few low level disorderly conduct crimes than bringing those who engineered the collapse of our economy to justice.
Yes, because broadband internet in places where companies don't want to provide it, why, that's exactly as complicated as healthcare!
Sarcasm aside, it actually does seem to be that way. There are even people on here who don't think municipalities should be able to create their own networks. They feel it should be private all the way, even in the face of evidence that the private providers don't want to do it.
What I think people don't want is to see prisoners be provided things like cable TVs with their tax money
Cable TV keeps prisoners docile and distracted. Distracted and docile prisoners are much easier to guard, and cause far less problems.
I would bet that providing them Cable TV actually saves the prison, and therefore the taxpayer, money over the long run (assuming it's not a private prison).
So I am standing in front of a room baffeling the people that have no idea what a pivot table is, and looking like an idiot trying to explain it to the people that know it better than me.
Sounds like they've just got the wrong person doing the training. If they know it better than you, why aren't they assisting with the training?
Such clauses are not worth the paper they're written on in California. Which is a good thing, as no company should be able to have any say whatsoever on what you do after you've left their employ.
If their website wasn't a POS, I could use their website on my blackberry
Probably not. The Blackberry browser was the worse piece of shit to ever come out of a tech maker's butt. It made some dumbphones browsers look good.
What Apple did very well was establish a way to charge the end-user directly.
And, you know, that whole central marketplace thing, where users could find apps, instead of having to hunt all over the internet and hand your information over to sites of questionable reliability. While the site takes a huge chunk out of the sale price from the developer.
Tight control of apps? You're kidding, right? Blackberries had apps long before Apple even thought of making the iphone.
And they weren't used much mainly because it was a huge pain in the ass for developers to do anything interesting, and there was no good distribution system for either developers or consumers.
I think the fact that apps were never huge on Blackberry shows that the things they did were not entirely correct.
Well, for gaming, consoles represent a very nice alternative to PC gaming. There's a much lower cost to entry in a console than getting a beefy PC, there's a lot less technical savvy needed in getting things to work, and there's a lot of fun stuff on consoles that people like to play. That last one is the most important one. People buy consoles because of what's available on them.
The biggest reason why I didn't pledge anything is because they said units wouldn't be out til next March. That's a long time. When they get closer to actually releasing, I'll look into it again.
Yes, but those big companies are usually able to weather the piracy rates much better. They generally have bigger fanbases, as people know what they're getting into. An indie dev has no such luxury.
Except you don't know that. For one, actually making the shit has costs associated with it. I know the pirate lobby likes to keep saying how "digital distribution doesn't cost anything!" but that's ignoring the fact that there are costs with creating it in the first place. Further, the game could have some online component, in which case the pirates are costing him in bandwidth.
Seriously, this attitude is pure horseshit. When shit is available for free, it isn't shocking that most people would rather get it for free than pay for it, regardless of how worth it the title is.
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To be honest, I don't give a shit about your conservative talking points. I won't give a shit until after the crimes committed in the banking sector are prosecuted, and even then, I might not give a shit about such low level crimes.
Only a complete douchebag would care more about a few low level disorderly conduct crimes than bringing those who engineered the collapse of our economy to justice.
Yes, because broadband internet in places where companies don't want to provide it, why, that's exactly as complicated as healthcare!
Sarcasm aside, it actually does seem to be that way. There are even people on here who don't think municipalities should be able to create their own networks. They feel it should be private all the way, even in the face of evidence that the private providers don't want to do it.
What I think people don't want is to see prisoners be provided things like cable TVs with their tax money
Cable TV keeps prisoners docile and distracted. Distracted and docile prisoners are much easier to guard, and cause far less problems.
I would bet that providing them Cable TV actually saves the prison, and therefore the taxpayer, money over the long run (assuming it's not a private prison).
They're not claiming that. They are claiming that it is the first tablet device that is popular, and giving clamshells some competition.
It might not be 100% new, but that doesn't mean that a lot of new tech went into the implementation compared to when it was originally thought up.
Either with swiveling screen that can be closed with the keyboard hidden or exposed
Several Windows TabletPCs were released in this form factor.
What would be the effects of having such a heat generating part right behind the display, though?
Popular means that it can have some effect on the market, though. Good doesn't mean that you'll have any traction.
I wonder what employers think when I send-out my resume and the little popup says, "Converting from Word97"? (shrug).
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So I am standing in front of a room baffeling the people that have no idea what a pivot table is, and looking like an idiot trying to explain it to the people that know it better than me.
Sounds like they've just got the wrong person doing the training. If they know it better than you, why aren't they assisting with the training?
Such clauses are not worth the paper they're written on in California. Which is a good thing, as no company should be able to have any say whatsoever on what you do after you've left their employ.
How much do you pay for Gmail? For Google Search?
I'm guessing the advertisers give Google a lot more money than you do.
The Tandy Model 100 gave it competition way before the iPad.
No. The Tandy Model 100 did exist before the iPad, but it was nowhere near as popular as the iPad.
Competition doesn't just mean that alternatives exist. They also have to be popular enough to matter.
No, not even close to being accurate.
Unless there's any kind of online component, in which case the dev has to pay for bandwidth costs for the pirate.
If their website wasn't a POS, I could use their website on my blackberry
Probably not. The Blackberry browser was the worse piece of shit to ever come out of a tech maker's butt. It made some dumbphones browsers look good.
What Apple did very well was establish a way to charge the end-user directly.
And, you know, that whole central marketplace thing, where users could find apps, instead of having to hunt all over the internet and hand your information over to sites of questionable reliability. While the site takes a huge chunk out of the sale price from the developer.
Tight control of apps? You're kidding, right? Blackberries had apps long before Apple even thought of making the iphone.
And they weren't used much mainly because it was a huge pain in the ass for developers to do anything interesting, and there was no good distribution system for either developers or consumers.
I think the fact that apps were never huge on Blackberry shows that the things they did were not entirely correct.
Exactly. I had a BB Curve for about a month, and got rid of it. Why? The browser was absolute shit. Even Opera Mini sucked ass on that thing.
As for keeping their app developers, I don't think they ever really had a lot of them.
Well, for gaming, consoles represent a very nice alternative to PC gaming. There's a much lower cost to entry in a console than getting a beefy PC, there's a lot less technical savvy needed in getting things to work, and there's a lot of fun stuff on consoles that people like to play. That last one is the most important one. People buy consoles because of what's available on them.
Play the game before you bitch about it. Clearly you've no idea what the game is like.
Promise of "every game free-to-play".
It's not every game free-to-play, its that every game has to have some kind of free component. Like a demo.
The biggest reason why I didn't pledge anything is because they said units wouldn't be out til next March. That's a long time. When they get closer to actually releasing, I'll look into it again.
Yes, but those big companies are usually able to weather the piracy rates much better. They generally have bigger fanbases, as people know what they're getting into. An indie dev has no such luxury.
I mean that seriously, you are not losing money
Except you don't know that. For one, actually making the shit has costs associated with it. I know the pirate lobby likes to keep saying how "digital distribution doesn't cost anything!" but that's ignoring the fact that there are costs with creating it in the first place. Further, the game could have some online component, in which case the pirates are costing him in bandwidth.
Seriously, this attitude is pure horseshit. When shit is available for free, it isn't shocking that most people would rather get it for free than pay for it, regardless of how worth it the title is.