It costs money to treat water for drinking. so recycling water where its possible, especially if your water in metered, will save you money. i cannot get my head around the attitude that "its okay to waste"
"You know some of us live where there is an extreme abundance of water. I pay a flat rate for water." - that's still no reason to waste it. the water has to be treated somewhere in order for you to drink it.
"I could literally turn my sinks on and leave them on all the time and not pay any more money." - you are total waster, explain why you think thats an idea to be proud of to people who have little or no access clean water
well, you are wasting a hell of lot of water creating with those situations, you'll just have to be more sensible about where you do things. Is that an idea to far for you? You are the type of waster the world doesn't need
"the reason is most likely because water is so cheap " that's the problem the world over in developed nations. Total wasters. Its an argument also used by the people who do not want to upgrade from fossil fuels - its cheaper to have the status quo (at the moment, they don't care about the long term)
It has AES 256 bit encryption and FIPS 140-02 security certification for data protection (i.e. not just email) for governmental use, how does that stack up against SSL email?
"So I'm sure both of the guys doing that are really shitting their pants now, lolzers." i bet they've been shitting themselves since they've been running windows. only now just a little more than normal
I've had everything from a 6710 (week battery life) to 8700 when i left. I had virtually no problems either. I think a lot of the problems were down to the link to Exchange, we had a lot of PAs sharing their bosses calendar and most work great all the time but I had one PA whose device i had to relink the calendar once and sometimes twice a week. Blackberrys got the blame for everything, we had one group whose emails were taking over 20 hours to reach the device and everyone wanted a replacement handset to fix the issue, it turned out to be an under-configured Exchange server, once they put more memory in it, it was fine. unfortunately the exchange was maintained by the client and we couldn't get access to it and they didn;t want to take the blame for the issue
Lockups were just the "Battery out for at least 10 seconds". Wiping a device wasn't a large issue but there were quite a few Java Exception Errors so the "wipe it and start again" was applied when the user wanted something done to make them feel happy and important. Having a blackberry was just like having a BMW, "i've got a blackberry (or BMW) so therefore i'm important by association", a bit like the Apple users now "I've got an iPhone so I'm now officially a cool person by association"
possibly because BB was always designed as a business device where all the others are fashion items for playing music and taking selfies. they just made the mistake of going into the consumer market
the pre-QNX blackberrys were a bit flakey because of the Java dependency. I spent 4 years supporting them and the number of device wipes and restores of data was a large part of my job apart from every time a new device was released the number of excuses i heard for them needing the new version.
"Not only are there no users, but from what I've heard, developing apps on it isn't easy."
such generalisations. you should say there are not as many users as there used to be. and from what you've heard why aren't developing apps on it easy?
"wouldn't charge from a standard USB, it kept complaining it needed a special cable." - possibly correct. my girl friend's samsung S3 charges a lot faster on my blackberry supplied cable than it does on her samsung supplied one. At least it uses a standard plug socket so we can both use the same cable.
The playbook was mainly for Blackberry phone users so it was a bit limited if you got it as a stand alone tablet rather than a Galaxy Tab
I'll happily stick with BB because i'm not a app junkie, i just need secure email, good contact handling, good calendar and okay browsing. i prefer my computer for proper work. At least the Passport had better battery life and a real keyboard and a decent size screen, just hope i've got the pocket sizes for it.
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It costs money to treat water for drinking. so recycling water where its possible, especially if your water in metered, will save you money. i cannot get my head around the attitude that "its okay to waste"
"You know some of us live where there is an extreme abundance of water. I pay a flat rate for water." - that's still no reason to waste it. the water has to be treated somewhere in order for you to drink it.
"I could literally turn my sinks on and leave them on all the time and not pay any more money." - you are total waster, explain why you think thats an idea to be proud of to people who have little or no access clean water
well, you are wasting a hell of lot of water creating with those situations, you'll just have to be more sensible about where you do things. Is that an idea to far for you? You are the type of waster the world doesn't need
"the reason is most likely because water is so cheap " that's the problem the world over in developed nations. Total wasters. Its an argument also used by the people who do not want to upgrade from fossil fuels - its cheaper to have the status quo (at the moment, they don't care about the long term)
i didn't realise there were heatsinks on LEDs. i've got a load of LEDS around the house and none of them seem to get hot
the best way is to use grey water from the showers and hand basins to flush toilets, it should be a crime to use drinking water to flush a toilet
they will also monitor it being shot at by kids and adult kids as it flies passed
It has AES 256 bit encryption and FIPS 140-02 security certification for data protection (i.e. not just email) for governmental use, how does that stack up against SSL email?
"So I'm sure both of the guys doing that are really shitting their pants now, lolzers." i bet they've been shitting themselves since they've been running windows. only now just a little more than normal
can you explain your meaning of "shallow" to us all?
Look up the meaning of "shallow" - it does not mean "non-existent
" pretty much debunks the idea that "with many eyes all bugs are shallow". "
Not true. the phrase doesn't not use "bugs are non-existent", perhaps looking up the meaning of "shallow" at www.dictionary.com might help
i would guess he means secure messaging that includes emails, bbm, etc
I've had everything from a 6710 (week battery life) to 8700 when i left. I had virtually no problems either. I think a lot of the problems were down to the link to Exchange, we had a lot of PAs sharing their bosses calendar and most work great all the time but I had one PA whose device i had to relink the calendar once and sometimes twice a week. Blackberrys got the blame for everything, we had one group whose emails were taking over 20 hours to reach the device and everyone wanted a replacement handset to fix the issue, it turned out to be an under-configured Exchange server, once they put more memory in it, it was fine. unfortunately the exchange was maintained by the client and we couldn't get access to it and they didn;t want to take the blame for the issue
Lockups were just the "Battery out for at least 10 seconds". Wiping a device wasn't a large issue but there were quite a few Java Exception Errors so the "wipe it and start again" was applied when the user wanted something done to make them feel happy and important. Having a blackberry was just like having a BMW, "i've got a blackberry (or BMW) so therefore i'm important by association", a bit like the Apple users now "I've got an iPhone so I'm now officially a cool person by association"
(Score:4, Informative) - i certainly wasn't aiming for that
wood... there's plenty of horrible tasting grain in wood
"PS. fuck you slashdot for cutting off all the links.... site is getting more useless everyday..."
probably done deliberately to piss of the ACs
possibly because BB was always designed as a business device where all the others are fashion items for playing music and taking selfies. they just made the mistake of going into the consumer market
the pre-QNX blackberrys were a bit flakey because of the Java dependency. I spent 4 years supporting them and the number of device wipes and restores of data was a large part of my job apart from every time a new device was released the number of excuses i heard for them needing the new version.
it saves putting a sock down there
5) must be a regional phone provider problem, never had it here in the UK on any blackberry. don;t see how its a "blackberry" problem
"Not only are there no users, but from what I've heard, developing apps on it isn't easy."
such generalisations. you should say there are not as many users as there used to be. and from what you've heard why aren't developing apps on it easy?
"wouldn't charge from a standard USB, it kept complaining it needed a special cable." - possibly correct. my girl friend's samsung S3 charges a lot faster on my blackberry supplied cable than it does on her samsung supplied one. At least it uses a standard plug socket so we can both use the same cable.
The playbook was mainly for Blackberry phone users so it was a bit limited if you got it as a stand alone tablet rather than a Galaxy Tab
I'll happily stick with BB because i'm not a app junkie, i just need secure email, good contact handling, good calendar and okay browsing. i prefer my computer for proper work. At least the Passport had better battery life and a real keyboard and a decent size screen, just hope i've got the pocket sizes for it.
can you point to any evidence of this or did you just pull it out of your trolling ass?