Oh, so becasue Android phones get infected too than that means we can all just pretend iPhones can't be. Brilliant! Thanks Anonymous Coward now I can go back about my business and stop all this ceaseless worrying!
one of the Beetles died that way, jumping off a pier at low tide in a area with unusually low, low tides.
If you are referring to the band The Beatles, then no current or former member of the Beatles has ever died jumping off a pier into low tide. Stuart Stutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage (not resulting from diving off a pier), George Harrison died of cancer, John Lennon was shot to death, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Pete Best are all still alive.
I have Windows 7 running on two five year old machines at work with 512 MB of RAM. Turn off Aero and all the other GUI bells and whistles and Windows 7 will run (not elegantly, but will run) on 768 MB of RAM or slightly less. Would I want to do it for long? No. But these days 2 GB of RAM can be had for under $50 so if that is the only thing stopping you from running Win 7 bite the bullet and buy the extra memory.
I use Windows 7 and also use IE and MS Office just fine. H&R Block's website states their tax software works with XP, Vista, and Windows 7.(And IE version 6.0 or higher.) So what were you ranting about again? you are funny.
Wow, just wow. I respectfully disagree with your opinions, which is what they are.
Notice how I didn't resort to name calling just becasue we didn't agree on something? Probably not, if you noticed things like that you probably would not act in such a manner. Perhaps if I were you I would "assume you were simple" but I am willing to give you the benefit of a doubt. Even though you are rude.
An addiction is an addiction is an addiction. You pleasure center in your brain doesn't care if it is heroin, porn, gambling, etc. it just wants to get it's fix. Banning activities of any kind becasue a small percentage of the population has a problem with it is ALWAYS a bad idea - doesn't matter what it is you are banning. Regulation and taxation to raise revenue to offer people with help for addiction is the proper way to address things like gambling and drugs.
"Averages" are a funny thing. See if I make $1 a year and you make $255,999 a year together we "average" $128,000. Notice how that "average" doesn't really accurately represent either of our respective incomes?
I am paying $35 USD for 50 Mbps fiber all the way to my house. And I live in a very small city population wise (under 400,000) in the Midwest US. So basically you are paying about $50 USD per month for what I am getting for $35. I used to pay about $50 for 30 Mbps connection, but switched providers when the fiber service was offered by a competitor.
Read the fine print. Sure, anyone can be pre-approved for up to $X no matter what X is. Just becasue they print a big number X on your letter doesn't mean that is what your actual limit would have been.
Or pulling the battery. I don't know of any applications that do not require power to the phone.
Oh wait, you may have an iPhone, sorry. (On my G2 it would take about 2 seconds to disable any tracking going on.) Apple users may be screwed here unless they have their own Faraday Cage. Or you always carry around some tinfoil...
I go to a theater near me that has a bar in it and is 21 and up only. That right there will cut out about 95% of chatter. They also have an aggressive "if you are being an asshole and annoying people around you, you will be thrown out" policy which I love. Nothing worse than dropping $50 on a couple tickets and snacks and not being able to enjoy it.
And where do you think the cash in ATMs come from? Hint:the bank. Banks still handle plenty of physical money, just not the amounts they used to. They may not have hundreds of thousands in cash on hand, but will certainly have more than a supermarket. How many customers at a supermarket pay cash?
They don't have "a building". That is like saying "Burn Amazon to the ground". They exist as an online merchant and it is hard to burn down those virtual brick and mortar stores - I suppose they do have three warehouses that could burn though. And to mister boycotter - Newegg simply sells thousands of other merchant's goods on their website. By boycotting them you have no idea who else, or how many small businesses you may be hurting. (Ignoring the fact that boycotts rarely have any effect.)
The fact that Coca Cola patented a shape also does not make it any less of a stupid idea. Hey how about I take out patents on circles and rectangles? Just think of the money I could make!
Yeah becasue only engineers at Apple could ever come up with the truly unique idea a laptop should be thinner on one end than the other. And then patent a shape. Now that is "thinking different" all right.
I did not assert any such thing. I asserted that there are sometime anomalies in statistics. Of course the price of something has to do with demand - but it is by no means the sole factor. Hell I remember the first pack of cigarettes I bought in the mid 1980s was $1.25 a pack. I knew a lot of smokers who would say "If the price of a pack ever hits $2 I will quit". Guess what - the price has gone up to about $6 where I live, and some of those same folks are still smoking today. Simple economics tend to get a little skewed when you add things like addiction into the mix. When I personally decided to stop buying cigarettes the price had absolutely zero to do with my decision.
Or you know, it could just be a strange statistical anomaly. Unless you can point a source that proves that is what the increase is from, that is merely speculation. Weird things happen when working with statistics sometimes.
Yes, any private business would have that right. Haven't you ever seen the "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone at any time for any reason" signs up in businesses before? A private business is just like a private residence in that regard - a private business is not a public place and has different rules.
Posting videos on a privately owned video site is not the same thing as going out into the public and stating your opinion. The latter is free speech, but forcing a private company to post videos they do not want to host is not free speech for the company involved. The content doesn't matter one bit - it is Youtube's private site and if you want to use their service you agree to their terms. It isn't like they sent out a squad of bootjack thugs to round this girl up in a public place...
Well to be fair calling someone a whore or asshole isn't illegal but "hate speech" is. Death threats are very illegal if they are deemed to be serious however.
I support about 60 PCs at work and Silverlight is a required application. I haven't had a single Silverlight problem yet that couldn't be fixed by a re-install. Maybe the problem is running in a VM? Although I have a few VMware boxes running Windows and they don't have problems with Silverlight either.
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Oh, so becasue Android phones get infected too than that means we can all just pretend iPhones can't be. Brilliant! Thanks Anonymous Coward now I can go back about my business and stop all this ceaseless worrying!
one of the Beetles died that way, jumping off a pier at low tide in a area with unusually low, low tides.
If you are referring to the band The Beatles, then no current or former member of the Beatles has ever died jumping off a pier into low tide. Stuart Stutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage (not resulting from diving off a pier), George Harrison died of cancer, John Lennon was shot to death, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Pete Best are all still alive.
Hypochondria certainly can be a bitch. The mind is a powerful thing.
I have Windows 7 running on two five year old machines at work with 512 MB of RAM. Turn off Aero and all the other GUI bells and whistles and Windows 7 will run (not elegantly, but will run) on 768 MB of RAM or slightly less. Would I want to do it for long? No. But these days 2 GB of RAM can be had for under $50 so if that is the only thing stopping you from running Win 7 bite the bullet and buy the extra memory.
I use Windows 7 and also use IE and MS Office just fine. H&R Block's website states their tax software works with XP, Vista, and Windows 7.(And IE version 6.0 or higher.) So what were you ranting about again? you are funny.
Wow, just wow. I respectfully disagree with your opinions, which is what they are.
Notice how I didn't resort to name calling just becasue we didn't agree on something? Probably not, if you noticed things like that you probably would not act in such a manner. Perhaps if I were you I would "assume you were simple" but I am willing to give you the benefit of a doubt. Even though you are rude.
An addiction is an addiction is an addiction. You pleasure center in your brain doesn't care if it is heroin, porn, gambling, etc. it just wants to get it's fix. Banning activities of any kind becasue a small percentage of the population has a problem with it is ALWAYS a bad idea - doesn't matter what it is you are banning. Regulation and taxation to raise revenue to offer people with help for addiction is the proper way to address things like gambling and drugs.
"Averages" are a funny thing. See if I make $1 a year and you make $255,999 a year together we "average" $128,000. Notice how that "average" doesn't really accurately represent either of our respective incomes?
I am paying $35 USD for 50 Mbps fiber all the way to my house. And I live in a very small city population wise (under 400,000) in the Midwest US. So basically you are paying about $50 USD per month for what I am getting for $35. I used to pay about $50 for 30 Mbps connection, but switched providers when the fiber service was offered by a competitor.
"Pre approved with a *$100,00 limit."
*up to
Read the fine print. Sure, anyone can be pre-approved for up to $X no matter what X is. Just becasue they print a big number X on your letter doesn't mean that is what your actual limit would have been.
Or pulling the battery. I don't know of any applications that do not require power to the phone.
Oh wait, you may have an iPhone, sorry. (On my G2 it would take about 2 seconds to disable any tracking going on.) Apple users may be screwed here unless they have their own Faraday Cage. Or you always carry around some tinfoil...
I go to a theater near me that has a bar in it and is 21 and up only. That right there will cut out about 95% of chatter. They also have an aggressive "if you are being an asshole and annoying people around you, you will be thrown out" policy which I love. Nothing worse than dropping $50 on a couple tickets and snacks and not being able to enjoy it.
NoteTab Pro - Because unlike MS Word, he can use bright yellow text against a dark blue background
You can change the background color and text color in Word - this is a total non-issue you brought up.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/change-background-colors-images-or-text-in-a-document-HP005233746.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/change-the-color-of-text-HA010338280.aspx?CTT=1
And where do you think the cash in ATMs come from? Hint:the bank. Banks still handle plenty of physical money, just not the amounts they used to. They may not have hundreds of thousands in cash on hand, but will certainly have more than a supermarket. How many customers at a supermarket pay cash?
Burn their building to the ground.
They don't have "a building". That is like saying "Burn Amazon to the ground". They exist as an online merchant and it is hard to burn down those virtual brick and mortar stores - I suppose they do have three warehouses that could burn though. And to mister boycotter - Newegg simply sells thousands of other merchant's goods on their website. By boycotting them you have no idea who else, or how many small businesses you may be hurting. (Ignoring the fact that boycotts rarely have any effect.)
The fact that Coca Cola patented a shape also does not make it any less of a stupid idea. Hey how about I take out patents on circles and rectangles? Just think of the money I could make!
Yeah becasue only engineers at Apple could ever come up with the truly unique idea a laptop should be thinner on one end than the other. And then patent a shape. Now that is "thinking different" all right.
I did not assert any such thing. I asserted that there are sometime anomalies in statistics. Of course the price of something has to do with demand - but it is by no means the sole factor. Hell I remember the first pack of cigarettes I bought in the mid 1980s was $1.25 a pack. I knew a lot of smokers who would say "If the price of a pack ever hits $2 I will quit". Guess what - the price has gone up to about $6 where I live, and some of those same folks are still smoking today. Simple economics tend to get a little skewed when you add things like addiction into the mix. When I personally decided to stop buying cigarettes the price had absolutely zero to do with my decision.
Or you know, it could just be a strange statistical anomaly. Unless you can point a source that proves that is what the increase is from, that is merely speculation. Weird things happen when working with statistics sometimes.
Yes, any private business would have that right. Haven't you ever seen the "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone at any time for any reason" signs up in businesses before? A private business is just like a private residence in that regard - a private business is not a public place and has different rules.
People only see the prices for goods and services, and rarely think about the real costs.
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." - Philip K Dick
Posting videos on a privately owned video site is not the same thing as going out into the public and stating your opinion. The latter is free speech, but forcing a private company to post videos they do not want to host is not free speech for the company involved. The content doesn't matter one bit - it is Youtube's private site and if you want to use their service you agree to their terms. It isn't like they sent out a squad of bootjack thugs to round this girl up in a public place...
Well to be fair calling someone a whore or asshole isn't illegal but "hate speech" is. Death threats are very illegal if they are deemed to be serious however.
I support about 60 PCs at work and Silverlight is a required application. I haven't had a single Silverlight problem yet that couldn't be fixed by a re-install. Maybe the problem is running in a VM? Although I have a few VMware boxes running Windows and they don't have problems with Silverlight either.