the link in the article goes to a page saying they are oversubscribed.
AFAIK its back to ebay / entertainment exchange
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Above 72 fahrenheit (22 centigrade) I find sleeping quite difficult.
(If the air is dry, I can stand 23 degrees.)
DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me.
Please do not ask me any questions about
what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up.
If you get a bottle of wine, I will taste it, and if I like the taste,
I will drink a little, perhaps a glass.
I tend to like music that has a feeling of dance in it, but I
sometimes like other kinds too. However, I usually dislike the
various genres that are popular in the US, such as rock, country, rap,
reggae, techno, and composed American "folk". Please tell me what
unusual music and dance forms are present; I can tell you if I am
interested. If there is a chance to see folk dancing, I would
probably enjoy that.
If there is something else interesting and unique, please tell me
about it. Maybe I will be interested.
and my personal favourite
Please do not ever mail me a file larger than 100k without asking me
first. I almost certainly do not want to receive it in that form.
surely win 7 and (sob) Nokia are the losers here? Win 7 is not even managing to hold its miniscule share - as a % hasn't 'other' plummeted much more than everyone else.
God I used to love my old nokias. I don't see how one handset manufacturer can turn round a slide like this when they are already so so far behind
thin client running xp which is dog slow and with the network locked down so I cant access fb, or my own laptop, running better versions of software I need (visual studio on my mac vs notepad on the thin client) + my own wireless so I can fb as much as i like. I really resent not being able to look at facebook at work. Work and home boundaries blur so much - if I work at home in the evenings, why can't I look at fb at work. Anyway, our network guy keeps going ballistic at me but if I use the thin client I simply can't do my job.
Only things I can'd do are print (can't remember last time I need to print something) or access shared drives (ditto)
every time i use my laptop for a demo at work, I say a prayer of thanks for private browsing though.
Surely it is more of a risk giving access back to people who have left. I fire someone who set up a Page, remove their privellages, they are resentful, get reinstated by facebook, they post harmfull stuff, and remove my admin rights, i complain to fb, repeat...isnt that the alternative, and isnt it more likely?
I think the character in this was linked to the character in doom, didn't they have the same name or anything?
Anyone else remember eating dog food if your health was <8% and running along the walls with spacebar held down to open the secret passages? THere were 10 levels, 1-9 where 9 was when you took down old adolf, 10 was a bonus level which you got to from level 1, just after you got the schmeisser there was a room on the right with a secret room and in the secret room was a door to level 10 iirc. God I loved that game
I've seen a fair few adverts on bus stops etc for nokia phones recently, almost all of them seem to be going on about the camera, saying that it is the best camera you can get in a phone. Now, maybe it is or maybe it isn't but it seems to me that they are being forced to boast about marginals. Really, to what % of the population is the quality of a camera the deciding factor in what camera they buy? " Never mind the app store, never mind the screen or the call quality or the baterry life or the compatability with other things, look at the camera."
what is the intended lifespan of this phone? I mean, it might be worth a lot but the rate functionality is evolving, it'll be obsolete in six months. I can just see you trying to brag about this down the corgi and swan and going "look it's made of gold" and getting really annyoed when some pleb goes "yeah, but has it got facebook integration" (or whatever) Surely to spend an obscene amount on a phone you want it to be ostentatious and cutting edge but it just wont be cutting edge soon and then you'll end up hating yourself for how empty you feel when you think about how your phone has betrayed you.
I suppose the rich won't care about that, they'll just get a new one
Re who would use a public pc etc, I bet if you took a sample of library users >50% would trust the PCs in their library to be secure. So that is a fairly large user base.
then you'll have school children / students who might think that logging onto facebook is not the same as using a pc for something private, regadless of the fact they use the same password for everything
Then you have people who have no internet at home who want to check their email.
so my answer is, unfortunately, quite a lot.
I don't think it unreasonable to differentiate between doing online banking in a dodgy cyber cafe / unsecured wireless and doing it somewhere where you are constantly being educated and encouraged to get online by the government.
What would YOU do if you had no PC at home, would you just dissapear offline and never check your email again?
Fantastic reading, I had head about Lyons but not the scope of the thing. I wish Britain had something like this, but if we had $19m I spose we ought to spend it on research given that looking back at past glories has probably stunted our innovation a bit too much
Anyway, thanks for an absolutely lovely article. Brilliant
I am not disputing that os has boomed this year, but so too have sales of windows 7. it seems to me computer usage as a whole is booming rather than one particular segment. Of course win 7 is still only on the desktop, which I know is not as trendy as slates / phones but which still is relied upon for m (b)illions of man hours a day
This weekend I'm going to take my kids for a walk on the moors, have some friends round for drinks, browse the net and bang my delicious wife. Enjoy prison fuckface. Hopefully you'll deter some other humanity sapping bastard who completely screws over what the www is supposed to be about.
When the iPhone came out there was nothing like it before, so of course it sold better. The market is well established so it will be much harder for a new smartphone. Comparing this against the droid and nexus 1 the figures are broadly in line.
Anyway, 1st day figures are largely irrelevant, it is where the market is in a year from now that counts, not a day.
PS to the first commentator, IE 9 is actually pretty good IMO.