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Comment: Re:Killed because it wasn't a revenue generator (Score 1) 118

by coastal984 (#43709471) Attached to: Has Google Shut Down SMS Search?
Actually no, all you needed was a dumb phone with text messaging. Some of us have no desire for a smartphone... I hate touch screens... I hate the size of the smartphones themselves... all I needed was my little dumbphone and a text messaging plan to, gasp, make phone calls, and send/receive text messages. Now, I lose a lot of functionality for finding basic address/phone number information with my phone because this service is gone. I have no problem with people who want/use smartphones. However, I for one, like many others, have no desire for their size/expense.

Comment: Re:Killed because it wasn't a revenue generator (Score 1) 118

by coastal984 (#43709265) Attached to: Has Google Shut Down SMS Search?
Exactly. I have been using my Samsung Alias 2 for 4 years now. I LOVE this phone. I don't WANT a smartphone, with it's larger size and attached data plan I won't use. I'd actually have gladly paid maybe $1.99/month to have SMS search from google, because I use it at least once a week. It was so simple - Send a text with "business/city/state" and it sends you a text back with the address and phone number. Very efficient, simple, and I don't need a "f*ing handheld computer" to do it.

Comment: Re:potentially worth... (Score 2, Informative) 361

by coastal984 (#42875059) Attached to: OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office
You are implying that MS Office & Open Office are equals. They simply are not. To use your analogy of lawyers, Open Office is like sending a firm sending junior attorney's into this poor neighborhood, and counting the "value" of their service at the senior partner's $500/hour rate, instead of the junior attorney's $100/hour rate. The value of Open Office is less than the value of MS Office, therefore, the argument grossly inflates the "value" of Open Office.

Comment: Re:If I was going to spend $150... (Score 1) 361

by coastal984 (#42875009) Attached to: OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office
But, if Office was valued at $150, and Open Office is valued at $150 ($139 for the home edition, +tax), regular office would win over MOST of the purchases. A doctor going into a poor neighborhood is providing the SAME service to those people as he/she would to the paying public. I dare say that Open Office does NOT provide the same functionality that regular Office does. Similar, but not identical. Using your analogy, changing it to a lawyer, this is like sending a 2nd year law grad into the poor neighborhood and counting his billing time at the senior partner's $500 an hour, instead of the junior attorney's $100 an hour.

Comment: If I was going to spend $150... (Score 0) 361

by coastal984 (#42873537) Attached to: OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office
I would buy the real Office... I wouldn't pay half that for Open Office. Most of the reason people DL Open Office is that it is free. I dare say they wouldn't have 1% of their download numbers if it was $150 a pop. Propaganda post. Not that I don't support the OO effort, but this is about as good an article as a Fox News report.

Comment: Re:Downgrade Rights (Score 2, Interesting) 570

by coastal984 (#42825733) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8
Not so easy. Microsoft eff'd consumers with Windows 8 by embedding the keys in the BIOS - they are not use-ably retrievable. My shop used to clone PC batches by building a clean install of 7, then cloning it to others, and activating Windows with the key on the box. Not possible anymore - they are trying to force us into getting a volume license agreement, stating that cloning is a "right granted to volume license customers". Total crap by M$.

Comment: I think something is missing here... (Score 2) 299

by coastal984 (#41972725) Attached to: Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine
Forgive me if I'm incorrect here... But Facebook isn't trying to charge him to post on his page with 1 million fans; Facebook is trying to charge him for "promoting" [read: advertising] his post more prominently in peoples timelines and around the site. I don't have a problem with this. You let Facebook's news feed dynamic work for free just like everyone else, your you pay up to reach others. Why is he pitching such a hissy fit over advertising not being free?

Comment: Re:No smiles in Ohio (Score 1) 265

by coastal984 (#41409499) Attached to: No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission
No smiles in Virginia either. Granted, my last license pic I looked stoned out of my mind (I was 17 and it was 8am - not my brightest hour of the morning) - but now I just look like I'm mad at the world, one of those people you see as the perpetrator in one of those hilarious workplace violence training videos...

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