Do they need to? Airbags, crash testing, frame strengthening, and many, many other safety technologies have been around so long (at least since the 1970's), they're kind of a given.
Airbags, crash testing, frame strengthening, and the like DO NOTHING to prevent accidents. They simply make it more likely for people to survive a collision.
The sad thing is we could have a post-scarcity society right now, but our ideology gets in the way. Maybe it would not be "The Culture" level, but it would still be pretty neat.
Excel, no. What keeps me from wiping windows and going full on Linux is a second-rate Wiki that uses binary blobs in place of HTML.
That's just sad.
What's sad is that people just fire off disparaging remarks without constructive advice. So, feel free to suggest a suitable alternative.
Among my requirements:
WYSIWYG editting.
Highlight and click formatting (bold, italics, color)
nesting numbering that stays nested (ie, If I highlight a block and un-indent by one level, it doesn't change all the numbering within the block to the same level).
Continuous automatic saving. I don't want to go through a File>Save process.
Tables
Easy way to paste date and time
Drawing tools
OCR
Hey Slashdot! What happened to my bullets? They don't show up on the preview.
Are you sayng Henery Phillips created the Phillips screw, but couldn't figure out how to use it?.
No. Thompson invented it, but couldn't get anyone to manufacture it. He sold the patents to his buddy Phillips, who made improvements to the design which made it easier to manufacture. Then he set up a company to actually manufacture them.
if you don't count the Vikings, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Polynesians, etc
Which, oddly enough, they never do.
Much of history boils down to "the world was invented by white Europeans because we wrote the history books".
People tend to downplay just how much stuff we actually knew even 2000 years ago and act like it wasn't there.
Like I said: terrific PR connections. Same guys that convinced the world that Edison invented the light bulb, that the Wright brothers invented the airplane, and that Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Well, considering that Earth is just a big pile of meteorites surrounding a Racnoss nursery ship, I'd hardly call it news that that's how phosphorus got here. It's also how copper, zinc, and samarium got here.
At this point, about the only thing worth switching for would be a daylight readable screen.
Oh, and being waterproof. I would likely switch my current smartphone for a waterproof, daylight readable smartphone if the price wasn't too far out of line.
Why?
What would motivate you to keep a device so long beyond the point at which a replacement would add much more functionality?
Wrong question. The question is "What would motivate me to replace a device that has all the functionality I require?...especially considering the cost of purchasing the replacement."
At this point, about the only thing worth switching for would be a daylight readable screen.
If Microsoft ports Office to Android they slit their own throats.
I disagree. Tablets are becoming the new laptop for home and casual use, and as Bring Your Own Device becomes more popular, there will be a huge need for Android and iOS based solutions for manipulating office documents. Either Microsoft will provide it, or the gap will be filled by the likes of LibreOffice or its ilk. Since that would give open source a foothold towards establishing LibreOffice as an alternative to MSOffice on the corporate PCs, I think Microsoft would be slitting their own throat if they failed to port Office to Android.
Not to mention that OneNote (for which there is no open source clone) could be a killer app on a tablet.
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Do they need to? Airbags, crash testing, frame strengthening, and many, many other safety technologies have been around so long (at least since the 1970's), they're kind of a given.
Airbags, crash testing, frame strengthening, and the like DO NOTHING to prevent accidents. They simply make it more likely for people to survive a collision.
Simple. I'm an average user. If average users don't know something, then logically, I don't either.
I've mostly become a vegan (with some fish).
Me too!... apart from hamburger, pork, chicken, steak, bacon, eggs, veal, etc. (It counts as vegan if the animals you eat are herbivores, right?)
Aptera are insects that do not have wings. Butterflies are Lepidoptera
Exactly! How are you supposed to tie a canoe to the roof of that thing, for example?
It may have some fans, but the majority of the people on the web do not even know what Google Reader is.
Agreed. I'd never heard of it until this Slashdot article.
Ladyfriend is still too similar to girlfriend. It has this euphemistic feel to it, as if you might say it in a whisper with a wink and nudge.
Euphemism is appropriate if he's having a "relationship with the maturity and completeness of a marriage without actually being a marriage".
Ladyfriend?, sweetheart? Common law spouse? Love?
The sad thing is we could have a post-scarcity society right now, but our ideology gets in the way. Maybe it would not be "The Culture" level, but it would still be pretty neat.
Actually, we are on our way.
Excel, no. What keeps me from wiping windows and going full on Linux is a second-rate Wiki that uses binary blobs in place of HTML.
That's just sad.
What's sad is that people just fire off disparaging remarks without constructive advice. So, feel free to suggest a suitable alternative.
Among my requirements:
Hey Slashdot! What happened to my bullets? They don't show up on the preview.
Excel, no. What keeps me from wiping windows and going full on Linux is OneNote.
Are you sayng Henery Phillips created the Phillips screw, but couldn't figure out how to use it?.
No. Thompson invented it, but couldn't get anyone to manufacture it. He sold the patents to his buddy Phillips, who made improvements to the design which made it easier to manufacture. Then he set up a company to actually manufacture them.
They should just charge a $5 fee and mail it to you if you don't want it destroyed.
Most major airports have kiosks for explicitly this purpose.
Which ones? I've never seen one.
Here's proof that it works. I used it to cloak my First Post. Go ahead and check. You won't see it there.
Which, oddly enough, they never do.
Much of history boils down to "the world was invented by white Europeans because we wrote the history books".
People tend to downplay just how much stuff we actually knew even 2000 years ago and act like it wasn't there.
Like I said: terrific PR connections. Same guys that convinced the world that Edison invented the light bulb, that the Wright brothers invented the airplane, and that Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Hmm... I should get them to write my resume.
At least we're not Britain. I mean, seriously, what kind of permissions is 007 for a spy?
Plausible deniability?
Well, considering that Earth is just a big pile of meteorites surrounding a Racnoss nursery ship, I'd hardly call it news that that's how phosphorus got here. It's also how copper, zinc, and samarium got here.
1492...
Guy finds previously unknown land and peoples. No need to follow up.
Guy with terrific PR connections finds "previously unknown land", if you don't count the Vikings, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Polynesians, etc.
they prefer to be called Trekkies!
Trekkies is what non fans call fans. Fans call themselves Trekkers. You'd know this if you were a fan. Turn in your card.
At this point, about the only thing worth switching for would be a daylight readable screen.
Oh, and being waterproof. I would likely switch my current smartphone for a waterproof, daylight readable smartphone if the price wasn't too far out of line.
My secret wish is that Microsoft would replace the Windows GUI with Onenote, and redefine applications to be a "notebook" within OneNote.
Why? What would motivate you to keep a device so long beyond the point at which a replacement would add much more functionality?
Wrong question. The question is "What would motivate me to replace a device that has all the functionality I require?...especially considering the cost of purchasing the replacement."
At this point, about the only thing worth switching for would be a daylight readable screen.
They're not doing so well on the other fronts either. I think Ballmer needs to go - if Microsoft is to survive. ;)
So now we're supposed to cheer for Ballmer to stay?
If Microsoft ports Office to Android they slit their own throats.
I disagree. Tablets are becoming the new laptop for home and casual use, and as Bring Your Own Device becomes more popular, there will be a huge need for Android and iOS based solutions for manipulating office documents. Either Microsoft will provide it, or the gap will be filled by the likes of LibreOffice or its ilk. Since that would give open source a foothold towards establishing LibreOffice as an alternative to MSOffice on the corporate PCs, I think Microsoft would be slitting their own throat if they failed to port Office to Android.
Not to mention that OneNote (for which there is no open source clone) could be a killer app on a tablet.
"You can have a police state that is not enough of an irritant for the common folk to do so."
I don't think that matches what most people mean when they say "police state".
... and maybe that's why the majority isn't doing anything about it.