Comment Re:you can track your laptops (Score 5, Insightful) 514
What happens when the perp wipes the hard drive? Barring some BIOS magic, your software just disappears. That's the first thing I do when I steal laptops.
What happens when the perp wipes the hard drive? Barring some BIOS magic, your software just disappears. That's the first thing I do when I steal laptops.
You claim to have tested video and audio quality but deleted your account "in minutes" within opening it? That was some test
Was all set to blast the article with examples of old people in IT...but realized my own IT career ended when I was 38yo.
And they continue to screw the Aussies on game prices with most games costing TWICE as much as their U.S. versions.
$300 is too much for an e-reader.
Bullshit. Amazon couldn't keep their Kindle v1 and Kindle v2 in stock and those were around $300. When the DX came out, they were SWAMPED with orders. Just because $300 is too expensive for you doesn't mean others can't afford it.
Special-purpose e-readers have to be a lot cheaper than comparable phones and tablets, or they're not going to sell.
Amazon would disagree with you.
Ultimately, the phone/tablet market will probably eat the e-reader market. Look what happened to standalone PDAs.
and yet Amazon still continues to sell Kindle...yet the market is dead, right? *rolls eyes*
What reasons could the state possibly have had to put a GPS tracker on an employee's personal vehicle? And track the vehicle outside of business hours? This stinks of big brother and privacy intrusions. What an employee does on their own personal time and in their own personal car should be their own personal business. I could be buying hookers and blow every weekend but if I show up on time during the week and do my job, the state should have no say in the matter.
How the hell did you get a +5 when you didn't even RTFA?
Every PC vendor has problems. True. Not every PC vendor knows about those problems, still ships the equipment to their customers, then BLAMES THEIR VERY OWN CUSTOMERS FOR THE PROBLEM.
Dell should be hung from the rafters for the crap they pulled.
Geez. He said top-posting would make sense. He didn't provide a reason. All I was asking for was a reason or two. For that, I get tagged troll? Unreal.
"I used to agree with this...but now that I have spent more time in a business setting, I can say that there are very real reasons why top posting and html email make sense."
Then fail to provide any reasons why top posting would make sense.
Very true. Case in point: CoD: Modern Warfare 2. PC gamers were up in arms about lack of dedicated server support, console port, etc. Talks of boycotts over missing features and the price ($60 v/s $50). What happened when the game was released? Biggest video game debut ever? PC gamers who signed boycotts and joined Steam boycott groups were seen playing the game.
For years, Microsoft has raked in money with Office. It's been THE leading revenue generator for ages with $4.4 billion in 3Q 2009. Office and related business products bring in more money than their Server/OS division. However, that number is trending down to the tune of almost 500 million from the same time last year.
Maybe it's just the recession. Maybe it was the Vista impact. However, the decline is noticeable.
Source: MS Annual Reports and Earnings Releases
Someone wants to make a buck off of OS X without paying the Apple tax and Apple is upset. Is anyone really surprised?
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.