Comment This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. (Score 1) 117
Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Macosx has its applets but on a desktop. The taskbar and start is there with applets running on a real desktop. Unplug keyboard and start stretches into full screen for tablets. DONE
I want aero back is my last complaint but that is soooo skeumorphism sigh. I think win 8 is anti skeumorphism taken to extremes.
What if they are like the IOS applets in MacOSX where the emphasis is on the desktop?
As long as things do not go all full screen closed door syndrome I do not see it as a problem
$5 seems a lot. I pay Amazon £7.28/month for DVD rentals. This gives me 3 disks at home at a time and unlimited rentals. I can usually return them at the weekend and midweek if I'm feeling lazy and watching a lot, or just once a week if I'm a bit more busy. Going with the second, that's 12 films a month for £7.28, or 60p (a bit under $1) per movie. TV shows typically come 2-4 episodes on a disk, so divide by 2 or 4 for episodes.
I'd happily pay £10-15 per month for a service that had the same range as a DVD rental service, provided DRM-free streams in a standard format, and had a reasonable download cap (maybe 30 hours per month for £10, 60 for £15, something on that order).
I don't want to pay for a movie, I want to pay for access to a large library of movies that I can watch however I want, on any device I want.
I want to give the pizza guy a $2 tip. Do I really want to get his email address, register online, have him register online, get his mobile phone number and all of that.
Well, in the UK, tipping the pizza guy is pretty rare - you're paying for the service already (and delivery drivers are covered by the same minimum wage laws so they get a salary that you can live on). Credit card terminals in restaurants typically provide a tip field so that you can add a tip on at the end.
How is your suggestion even in the same universe as "more convenient than cash"?
Most of the people I'd want to send cash to are people I know and are already in my phone's contact list. If you live in a culture that is fundamentally opposed to paying people a reasonable wage or stating up-front how much things cost, then the solution would be to have a QR code on the box with a note saying 'Did you get good service? Send a tip here' and the details required to receive the payment. Rather than having to find the $2, you'd just wave the card in front of your phone, select the amount, and hit send. The driver wouldn't need to carry cash.
The Jurassic period. O2 in atmosphere was 130% modern levels
And all of the species that were dominant during the Triassic period did really well throughout the Jurassic...
Many French People in rural France loathe the Parisiennes. When a car with a Paris Department number plate comes to my Village the locals suddenly become sullen and un-coopoerative towards the visitors. When the car leaves, life returns to normal. Even to a 'Les Rostbiff' like me they are far friendlier that they are to anyone from Paris.
The same is true in reverse too. I picked up quite a thick rural Normandy accent[1] when I speak French and discovered that everyone in Paris is a lot more polite to me if I speak French with an English accent...
[1] Cultural equivalents: For brits, think Devonshire farmer, for americans think deep south.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?