Back in the 90s when I had a ton of channels for $25 it wasn't a big deal. Now that same package is $100 or more. Considering a lot of channels duplicate content as it is, people are just tired of paying through the nose for it.
Add to that youtube/chromecast/etc and OTA in most major centres... well, there's just no reason to pay that much for TV.
I had a TRS80 as well, learned some BASIC. Found out it was pretty easy to write BASIC, but it was also easy to use more memory than the device had. Had that for about 5 years until we got our 386SX based PC, where I started out using Pascal.
In high school they had Pascal and hypercard, from what I remember. Post-secondary introduced me to C/C++ and assembler. I still remember hooking int13h with assembler on my PC and accidentally roasting the partition tables and other bits rendering my machine (and some recent not backed up schoolwork) useless. It was then I learned use a spare PC for experimenting...;-)
Unfortunately I'm really rusty, last time I did any sort of coding was when I had to fix Highpoint's Rocketraid driver after a kernel ABI change (maybe 10 years ago?), and Highpoint didn't seem interested in fixing it at all.
I'm keen to know which government body would do such a stupid thing.
All of them? I'm in Canada and our municipality has the same bylaw: hanging clothes outside is an eyesore and you aren't allowed to have a clothesline.
That and it's usually somewhat humid outside where I live, it's about 80% right now.
The cumulative effects of this can really add up too - if everyone delayed by 20 seconds at each stop light, in heavy volume, you could take another 30 minutes to get where you are going. Of course, it is dependent on how far you drive to work/etc every day.
For those of you who may be confused, the Surface Pro 3 is a PC.
Agreed, I have one as well. Some months ago I got tired of the thought of Microsoft spying on me so I shrunk the Windows partition and installed linux, haven't even booted Windows since then. Still have to tweak it a bit to get it to work the way I want, but it works.
I have pointed (and installed) Mint for many people. It is very easy to use.
One person, however, had to install Ubuntu on their own - the Mint kernel was missing a driver needed for a new laptop that the Ubuntu kernel supported, and he had no idea how to compile a kernel and didn't particularly want to learn.
So I'd say Mint first, Ubuntu second, but if you're installing on old hardware it really shouldn't make much difference. The only issue I can see for day-to-day use for the average person is printer and scanner support.
I've had my LG G4 since in came out locally (June 2015?) and haven't had any problems with it at all. For a supposedly legendary problem, I'm hearing about it for the first time right now...
We've came to the same observation. We still want some collaboration between members and currently have a few large open spaces with a lot of desks, and we've found out from feedback from everyone involved that if there are sectioned off areas with 4-6 desks each the distractions are much lower (we've tested this at a different site.)
Not necessarily the case. I have taken apart multiple desktop and enterprise/server grade drives to remove platters.
Every enterprise/server grade drive I've taken apart has slightly different construction inside - circuit boards are a different design, and the magnet/head assembly is MUCH beefier in the enterprise/server drives. It is, however, disheartening seeing over the last decade or so how cheap the manufacturers have become in construction of these drives.
My G4 phone has been great. I'm now at 21 months of use (and I use my phone a lot for work, I drain the battery completely before the end of the day) and it's now just starting to show signs of battery degradation. I remember hardly using it at all the one weekend (2 days) and it only dropped to about 82% or so.
I guess when the battery finally gives out on my G4 I'll have to consider one of those big arse batteries.
I had two Samsung phones prior (S1 and S3) and both phones showed signs of battery fatigue at the 13-14 month mark. By the 24 month mark the OEM batteries on my Samsungs were useless.
There are apps for that but where I am (Canada) the software support in the OS to use the radio is missing. At least that's what the NextRadio app is telling me...
Install NextRadio Free and open it. I just tried it on my phone (Rogers in Canada) and the NextRadio app told me the FM chip was disabled. Or, more specifically, bits needed to use it in software weren't present.
Where I work (~120 employees) I've noticed more Android phones than iPhones, probably 65/35 with Android winning out. We do have people move from one platform to the other, but I've noticed more people going from iOS to Android than the other way around.
Last few people I asked why they switched. When they went to Android it was cost. The few people switching to iOS from Android said they were given a free iPhone (as in: no contract renewal, they were literally given the phone from family/friends. They said they wouldn't have changed to iPhone otherwise.)
That's still 40 or so iPhones here. Four to five years ago we had more iPhones than Android phones.
most people have forgotten the distinction between a search bar and an address bar
Yep. Just last week I saw someone searching for their bank through Google rather than typing it in the address bar. I explained why it's bad to do that in layman-friendly terms and all I got was a blank stare.
It doesn't help that some browsers are combining the search and address bar; these really should be kept separate.
Ditto, I switched perhaps six months ago. I will say sometimes DDG will give you daft results and you'll have to resort to Google, but out of that six months, I only recall having to use Google three times.
" and it might bill the holdouts for the full retail cost of the phone." Which Samsung I'm pretty sure already technically paid them off for.
How can you be so sure? I am thinking based on such actions that Samsung will not reimburse Verizon at all until the phones are retrieved from their customers.
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I've been reading about problems with the current update, maybe they should fix it first?
Back in the 90s when I had a ton of channels for $25 it wasn't a big deal. Now that same package is $100 or more. Considering a lot of channels duplicate content as it is, people are just tired of paying through the nose for it.
Add to that youtube/chromecast/etc and OTA in most major centres... well, there's just no reason to pay that much for TV.
I had a TRS80 as well, learned some BASIC. Found out it was pretty easy to write BASIC, but it was also easy to use more memory than the device had. Had that for about 5 years until we got our 386SX based PC, where I started out using Pascal.
In high school they had Pascal and hypercard, from what I remember. Post-secondary introduced me to C/C++ and assembler. I still remember hooking int13h with assembler on my PC and accidentally roasting the partition tables and other bits rendering my machine (and some recent not backed up schoolwork) useless. It was then I learned use a spare PC for experimenting... ;-)
Unfortunately I'm really rusty, last time I did any sort of coding was when I had to fix Highpoint's Rocketraid driver after a kernel ABI change (maybe 10 years ago?), and Highpoint didn't seem interested in fixing it at all.
All of them? I'm in Canada and our municipality has the same bylaw: hanging clothes outside is an eyesore and you aren't allowed to have a clothesline.
That and it's usually somewhat humid outside where I live, it's about 80% right now.
The cumulative effects of this can really add up too - if everyone delayed by 20 seconds at each stop light, in heavy volume, you could take another 30 minutes to get where you are going. Of course, it is dependent on how far you drive to work/etc every day.
Agreed, I have one as well. Some months ago I got tired of the thought of Microsoft spying on me so I shrunk the Windows partition and installed linux, haven't even booted Windows since then. Still have to tweak it a bit to get it to work the way I want, but it works.
Bing? Bong!
Alas, are you *sure* it's still not in the cloud? It probably is, somewhere.
I have pointed (and installed) Mint for many people. It is very easy to use.
One person, however, had to install Ubuntu on their own - the Mint kernel was missing a driver needed for a new laptop that the Ubuntu kernel supported, and he had no idea how to compile a kernel and didn't particularly want to learn.
So I'd say Mint first, Ubuntu second, but if you're installing on old hardware it really shouldn't make much difference. The only issue I can see for day-to-day use for the average person is printer and scanner support.
I don't know why people use the cloud to store sensitive documents. It just doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.
I've had my LG G4 since in came out locally (June 2015?) and haven't had any problems with it at all. For a supposedly legendary problem, I'm hearing about it for the first time right now...
Sure, but if Tesla proves that this method is successful, what makes you think the other manufacturers will not change as fast as possible?
We've came to the same observation. We still want some collaboration between members and currently have a few large open spaces with a lot of desks, and we've found out from feedback from everyone involved that if there are sectioned off areas with 4-6 desks each the distractions are much lower (we've tested this at a different site.)
Not necessarily the case. I have taken apart multiple desktop and enterprise/server grade drives to remove platters.
Every enterprise/server grade drive I've taken apart has slightly different construction inside - circuit boards are a different design, and the magnet/head assembly is MUCH beefier in the enterprise/server drives. It is, however, disheartening seeing over the last decade or so how cheap the manufacturers have become in construction of these drives.
My G4 phone has been great. I'm now at 21 months of use (and I use my phone a lot for work, I drain the battery completely before the end of the day) and it's now just starting to show signs of battery degradation. I remember hardly using it at all the one weekend (2 days) and it only dropped to about 82% or so.
I guess when the battery finally gives out on my G4 I'll have to consider one of those big arse batteries.
I had two Samsung phones prior (S1 and S3) and both phones showed signs of battery fatigue at the 13-14 month mark. By the 24 month mark the OEM batteries on my Samsungs were useless.
That just guaranteed I won't buy it. I'll have to find another replacement phone when the time comes.
There are apps for that but where I am (Canada) the software support in the OS to use the radio is missing. At least that's what the NextRadio app is telling me...
Install NextRadio Free and open it. I just tried it on my phone (Rogers in Canada) and the NextRadio app told me the FM chip was disabled. Or, more specifically, bits needed to use it in software weren't present.
Bastards.
Where I work (~120 employees) I've noticed more Android phones than iPhones, probably 65/35 with Android winning out. We do have people move from one platform to the other, but I've noticed more people going from iOS to Android than the other way around.
Last few people I asked why they switched. When they went to Android it was cost. The few people switching to iOS from Android said they were given a free iPhone (as in: no contract renewal, they were literally given the phone from family/friends. They said they wouldn't have changed to iPhone otherwise.)
That's still 40 or so iPhones here. Four to five years ago we had more iPhones than Android phones.
No kidding. I was just thinking of when people get told "I'll do it later" just to get them out of your face. ;-)
Yep. Just last week I saw someone searching for their bank through Google rather than typing it in the address bar. I explained why it's bad to do that in layman-friendly terms and all I got was a blank stare.
It doesn't help that some browsers are combining the search and address bar; these really should be kept separate.
Ditto, I switched perhaps six months ago. I will say sometimes DDG will give you daft results and you'll have to resort to Google, but out of that six months, I only recall having to use Google three times.
Great, does this mean that some nutter is going to shoot out the video cameras before ordering coffee? At least he won't have a lineup to wait in...
How can you be so sure? I am thinking based on such actions that Samsung will not reimburse Verizon at all until the phones are retrieved from their customers.
No kidding, they even make them with suction cups so you'll see it when you open the door. Why overcomplicate things?