Comment Re:Well I'm shopping there now. (Score 1) 147
no, cisco makes ios, numbskull.
no, Blackberry makes ios (or at least the kernel).
no, cisco makes ios, numbskull.
no, Blackberry makes ios (or at least the kernel).
Yeah...and the free shipping thing. I've never seen free shipping cost so much.
More specifically, bad free shipping. I always assumed Prime delivery was great, and that it was just the free non-Prime delivery that was awful for the specific purpose of getting people to upgrade to Prime. But I've used the trial and basically it was the same awful shipping with fancy black tape on the boxes.
I don't consider that my money is hard-earned (I'm in consulting) and yet I'll never spend any of it on Amazon Prime.
Most of the post-WWII prosperity and middle-class growth in the US was thanks to the labor movement.
True, and we're all grateful for it. But just like pony express, steam powered cars or muskets, unions are an important thing of the past that is no longer relevant in the present. Move on, dude.
They provide a counter to the power of corporations to abuse their workers.
This is no longer true. In pretty much any modern union, the good stuff has been grandfathered/orphaned and new members pony up dues and support union strikes with little or no gain for themselves.
The only good union is the union you've been a member of since 20 years ago. Anything else is essentially a cast system with no upward mobility.
you kept with the green robot and now you see the consequences of duopoly.
Who is that "you"? And what should those guilty people have done instead? Specifically buy a product with a tiny market share for the purpose of supporting a collectively diverse phone ecosystem? And how would they have coordinated their buying decisions to make sure not to create any kind of duopoly?
See, you're just blaming a large vague group of people while really all we're seeing is market forces. Numbers show that as the mobile market grows, a vast majority of people prefer higher quality and more cost-effective devices, while a somewhat steady group of loyal brand lovers prefer a unified if a bit stiffled ecosystem that comes with a higher price tag and less advanced devices. There's nothing of significance in between because there's no offering that is more valuable or attractive than the main two.
There could have been a viable third option (Windows phone), and anyone who has owned one will tell you that the metro tiles and the overall experience was great on mobile devices. But once again Microsoft squandered that opportunity by failing to provide an attractive and convenient platform for developers. You can't really blame customers for that.
Actually, we do that because we've been doing it since a time [...]
So what? I started my career working on HP3000 and IBM COPICS. That didn't stop me from adopting new computer thingies as they appeared, and HTML emails is one of them.
HTML offers a richer experience: hyperlinks, pictures, etc. Rejecting that because it's not "how we used to do it" sounds a lot like either a failure to adapt or an Amish perspective on life.
Anyways we're not talking about a flavor of the week kind of thing, HTML has been around for 30 years; it's old enough that most email servers support sending both text and html.
Those are not stars.
Sorry I didn't mean to trigger aspies with that comment.
Are you really unable to articulate your thoughts without resorting to using bold and italics? Perhaps when you grow up you'll learn how to control your words and emotions better.
Where did I say or even imply that? Maybe before telling people to grow up you could consider improving your reading skills.
I generally get between 200-300 emails a day at work, more than 75% of which require my attention.
That's like an email to process every 2-3 minutes.... What do you do? Sell penis enlargement pills?
Then I realized you probaly meant that it could not tell if you had read an email locally, which is quite sad, if true.
Happens to me too at work. That and the always exciting (1) problem: randomly the badge next to the inbox label seems to think there's 1 unread email even if I delete the whole inbox. Those are things one would assume are caught by very very basic QA.
The standards for html and css are there, and Outlook has no intention of meeting them.
It's even worse than most people would assume. Outlook is probably the last place on earth where HTML tables are still the only way to have some kind of control over the layout. You can have a team of designers creating a single web page that works well in all browsers on all major o/s, but they're still going to need a different, retarded design for Outlook.
I don't understand how anyone at Microsoft can sleep at night knowing that they sell this piece of shit. HTML is a solved problem, there's at least 4 or 5 engines they could use if they don't want to port the one they have for edge, there's just no excuses for this laziness and nonchalance.
i used YAHOOpops for the longest time... what that was is a background service that effectively sat on a lan ipaddr and localhost ipaddr, pre-configured to login to your favorite yahoo webmail acct through http port 80 simulated web browsing requests, and then abstracted your webmail as a pop3/smtp host service. it worked awesome until recaptcha would interrupt your session and that means you had to open a browser to re-negotiate your yahoo login to continue your host simulated mail service.
This has to be the most horrible setup possible, short of using Lotus Notes
But the only thing I've ever stuck with is Inbox Zero, which I've been at least since before 2004 (when my GMail archive began). It's so incredibly worth it and doesn't require any special tools or client, only dedication.
Just out of curiosity, have you tried not caring about email instead? Just have a casual look once or twice a day, and delete everything unread once a week. It's like getting out of jail.
I also do not like HTML in my mail, nor do I like linked pictures and graphics.
Are you one of those people who reply to HTML with plain text, and who use *stars* and _underscore_ to emphasize things since bold and italic are unavailable in plain text?
When I get one of those email I always feel like one-upping the sender by replying with direct uuencoding.
Thunderbird, and I have the inbox zero strategy. It helps me getting ahead of the game and not lag behind at work because then I can figure out what's important to work on and stay clear of working on futile things.
I use a streamlined version of inbox zero. Every Monday I do a CTRL-A + DELETE on the entire inbox. It's scary the first couple times but after that it's quite zen. I also aggressively auto-blacklist fluff, HR announcements, status updates and anything where I'm in CC. It doesn't take long to realize how futile email is.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
