Do you really think television is designed to entertain you? Ha. It's there to make you feel as inadequate as possible until the advertisements play to sell you products that will fix your inherent inadequacy.
In Canada, this is getting out of hand. Used to be one commercial break in a 30 minute show. Now there's three. Wait, that wasn't enough. You know the credits at the end of the show? They've been squished to less than 1/4 of the screen, making reading anything illegible. The other 3/4+? Ads.
Wait, not even that was enough. In the past six months ads have been appearing during the goddamn show! These are overlaid on top of the show and can take the bottom third of the screen and stay there for 5-20 seconds! You'd better hope there's no subtitles or anything, because it's all covered up.
And they wonder why people are cancelling cable, signing up for netflix and downloading shows? It's not rocket science...
We had a smart board installed through a technology grant of some sort, and it cost $6000. Smart boards are way overpriced for what they are.
For our specific one, I also found out that updates are not free, i.e. you want a newer version of the smart board software you buy it. The automatic updater helpfully doesn't tell you this though, and it invalidates your install key. And as far as I can tell, there's no way to disable the damn updater.
The reasons I stay on Windows 7 are (1) it works for my needs, including security, and (2) I don't want Microsoft data harvesting my family.
I thought this was fairly well known now, but Microsoft backported the telemetry to Windows 7/8/8.1. If you're blindly installing updates without checking to see what they are, you've already installed it.
And I don't think cards bigger than 512GB exist yet, so no you can't actually have that at least not today.
Yes, but it is nice to actually *know*. Versus other phone manufacturers who don't publish that information, leaving you to wonder if a 128,64,32GB card will even *work* in the phone.
I had an iPhone a way long time ago - a 3G. After a year and a half, the battery wouldn't last longer than 4-5 hours. I ditched it then and only bought phones that had a removeable battery and microSD slot. With my Galaxy S3, I had already replaced the battery and used that phone over three years. I use the phone a lot for work (primarily email and scheduling) and don't have hardly any apps installed.
I've always wondered if humid environments are harder on batteries? I've even had to replace the battery in my Harmony remote after 3 or so years. Right now it's 70%+ relative humidity outside. I have relatives that live in much drier climates that don't have issues with batteries like I do. I also have coworkers that have problems with the iPhone battery capacity dimishing, so it's not just me.
I even had a spare battery for my S3. I always amused me how iPhone users always had to huddle around power outlets in public places because their phone is dying. I just put a fresh battery in my S3, although I haven't had to do this with my G4, it has a much bigger battery.
Yes, it's why I bought the LG G4 when my Galaxy S3 died. I won't buy a phone without a removable battery and microSD slot, it's planned obsolescence. FWIW, the G4 also supports a 2TB expansion slot.
I don't replace my phone every 1.5 years, having a removable battery is a very important feature to me.
MS's ribbon UI, which is getting so much hate, is because programmers are biased.
I support 120+ users at work (in a non-technical workplace) and I hear complaints about it all the time.
Just recently (a few weeks ago), one person was trying to do something, and after fifteen minutes of looking through all the ribbons she gave up and asked me. It took another five minutes to figure out it wasn't available in the ribbon and was under some other obscure dialog that you had to pop up using the ribbon. This person knew what she wanted to do, and she told me if there was an actual menu she could have found it, not what Word "thinks" you need to use most.
I just visited sourceforge (and had to add an exception to it to see it) and you may want to make the announcement more prominent on sf.net instead of it being a small sidenote on the left column.
Perhaps a note under the search box would be more visible.
There is a way to shut down the engine in an emergency but the driver didn't know how. It was later revealed that pressing and holding the button for 3-4 seconds would have shut the engine down. However, when your car is speeding out of control, that's a really long time, and given the panic at the time even if he did know how to do an emergency shutdown he probably didn't remember and/or didn't realize he didn't hold the button down long enough.
When in a panic situation four seconds seems like an eternity.
I guess people don't set the parking brake on automatics. I have four vehicles, three are manual transmission. I always use the parking brake, even on the car with the automatic transmission.
That habit proved to be helpful because once I forgot to put the auto transmission in park. (A couple decades of driving manuals will do that.) My car wouldn't start the next morning and after a few minutes I figured out I left it in reverse. It's an old car, so no safety switch on the ignition. It did have one for the starter though, as the starter wouldn't turn until I put the car in neutral or park.
Regarding mobile,while I've found reading the actual articles is easier, I've noticed these issues on my nexus 7:
-sometimes the hot topic / most discussed is blank. -often tapping the article to show comments does nothing. Eventually after tapping all over the place the stars eventually align and the article loads. -there should be an interface option to load all comments. Accidently moving back to the main site loses your progress in the comments and it's frustrating having to go through and load comments every. single. time. -often the 'load more comments' button doesn't do anything -moderation was supremely broken last time I tried it on mobile. -scrolling is painfully slow. View desktop mode works fine.
For the main site: fire the UI person responsible for removing the 'read more' button at the bottom of the summaries and put that damn button back where it belongs. Also, quite often I see the title going under other objects on the page.
I was more thinking about the engineering of the car itself. When you quadruple the power it was designed for, I would wonder if the chassis will be able to take that without twisting or damaging itself in other ways. Even the drivetrain could potentially be affected by this, not just the chassis.
Haven't seen a blue screen so far, whereas Linux has constant crashes (blame KDE if you wish, but the fact is that programmes crash quite often).
I use both Windows and Linux, and I can't remember the last time I've witnessed an application crashing on either. It's most likely your hardware is faulty.
Finally after years, Canonical is reacting to the negative feedback and respecting users' privacy, so that Ubuntu 16.04 (the next Long Term Support release) won't send local searches over the web by default.
My brain actually froze when I reached the quoted sentence above. After years what now? I normally don't respond to editing but this was a pretty bad one.
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Finally, after years of negative feedback, Canonical will start respecting users' privacy by making sure that Ubuntu 16.04 (the next Long Term Support release) won't send local searches over the web by default.
That's probably not perfect either but it's a hell of a lot easier to read.
Time after time Apple has copied Samsung's designs (including the rounded rectangle that Apple got their panties into a twist over), but now that Samsung is copying the iPhone's worst features (no SD slot, no user-replaceable battery, etc.), even on the flagship Note line, they deserve to be spanked.;)
I read the other day that Samung's mobile division revenue has fallen over the last couple of quarters. I doubt that's a coincidence, maybe they'll go back to making more sane phones. When my phone was up for renewal, I switched to the LG G4, which still has a removeable battery and microSD slot... I doubt I'm the only one that made a switch.
Also, the stealing goes both ways. I mean, Apple surely didn't invent that notification swipe down menu that was missing from their phones. That was taken from Android.
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In Canada, this is getting out of hand. Used to be one commercial break in a 30 minute show. Now there's three. Wait, that wasn't enough. You know the credits at the end of the show? They've been squished to less than 1/4 of the screen, making reading anything illegible. The other 3/4+? Ads.
Wait, not even that was enough. In the past six months ads have been appearing during the goddamn show! These are overlaid on top of the show and can take the bottom third of the screen and stay there for 5-20 seconds! You'd better hope there's no subtitles or anything, because it's all covered up.
And they wonder why people are cancelling cable, signing up for netflix and downloading shows? It's not rocket science...
Butbutbut... it's addition on a computer!
We had a smart board installed through a technology grant of some sort, and it cost $6000. Smart boards are way overpriced for what they are.
For our specific one, I also found out that updates are not free, i.e. you want a newer version of the smart board software you buy it. The automatic updater helpfully doesn't tell you this though, and it invalidates your install key. And as far as I can tell, there's no way to disable the damn updater.
Well, if Microsoft presses the government to legalize marijuana, the problem will solve itself. Everyone will be too stoned to give a shit.
I thought this was fairly well known now, but Microsoft backported the telemetry to Windows 7/8/8.1. If you're blindly installing updates without checking to see what they are, you've already installed it.
Yes, but it is nice to actually *know*. Versus other phone manufacturers who don't publish that information, leaving you to wonder if a 128,64,32GB card will even *work* in the phone.
I had an iPhone a way long time ago - a 3G. After a year and a half, the battery wouldn't last longer than 4-5 hours. I ditched it then and only bought phones that had a removeable battery and microSD slot. With my Galaxy S3, I had already replaced the battery and used that phone over three years. I use the phone a lot for work (primarily email and scheduling) and don't have hardly any apps installed.
I've always wondered if humid environments are harder on batteries? I've even had to replace the battery in my Harmony remote after 3 or so years. Right now it's 70%+ relative humidity outside. I have relatives that live in much drier climates that don't have issues with batteries like I do. I also have coworkers that have problems with the iPhone battery capacity dimishing, so it's not just me.
I even had a spare battery for my S3. I always amused me how iPhone users always had to huddle around power outlets in public places because their phone is dying. I just put a fresh battery in my S3, although I haven't had to do this with my G4, it has a much bigger battery.
Yes, it's why I bought the LG G4 when my Galaxy S3 died. I won't buy a phone without a removable battery and microSD slot, it's planned obsolescence. FWIW, the G4 also supports a 2TB expansion slot.
I don't replace my phone every 1.5 years, having a removable battery is a very important feature to me.
I support 120+ users at work (in a non-technical workplace) and I hear complaints about it all the time.
Just recently (a few weeks ago), one person was trying to do something, and after fifteen minutes of looking through all the ribbons she gave up and asked me. It took another five minutes to figure out it wasn't available in the ribbon and was under some other obscure dialog that you had to pop up using the ribbon. This person knew what she wanted to do, and she told me if there was an actual menu she could have found it, not what Word "thinks" you need to use most.
I just visited sourceforge (and had to add an exception to it to see it) and you may want to make the announcement more prominent on sf.net instead of it being a small sidenote on the left column.
Perhaps a note under the search box would be more visible.
There is a way to shut down the engine in an emergency but the driver didn't know how. It was later revealed that pressing and holding the button for 3-4 seconds would have shut the engine down. However, when your car is speeding out of control, that's a really long time, and given the panic at the time even if he did know how to do an emergency shutdown he probably didn't remember and/or didn't realize he didn't hold the button down long enough.
When in a panic situation four seconds seems like an eternity.
I guess people don't set the parking brake on automatics. I have four vehicles, three are manual transmission. I always use the parking brake, even on the car with the automatic transmission.
That habit proved to be helpful because once I forgot to put the auto transmission in park. (A couple decades of driving manuals will do that.) My car wouldn't start the next morning and after a few minutes I figured out I left it in reverse. It's an old car, so no safety switch on the ignition. It did have one for the starter though, as the starter wouldn't turn until I put the car in neutral or park.
Driving isn't a mindless activity. It requires attention all the time as it is.
Well, they could just rename themselves to "Wireless".
Doh!
Regarding mobile,while I've found reading the actual articles is easier, I've noticed these issues on my nexus 7:
-sometimes the hot topic / most discussed is blank.
-often tapping the article to show comments does nothing. Eventually after tapping all over the place the stars eventually align and the article loads.
-there should be an interface option to load all comments. Accidently moving back to the main site loses your progress in the comments and it's frustrating having to go through and load comments every. single. time.
-often the 'load more comments' button doesn't do anything
-moderation was supremely broken last time I tried it on mobile.
-scrolling is painfully slow. View desktop mode works fine.
For the main site: fire the UI person responsible for removing the 'read more' button at the bottom of the summaries and put that damn button back where it belongs. Also, quite often I see the title going under other objects on the page.
I was more thinking about the engineering of the car itself. When you quadruple the power it was designed for, I would wonder if the chassis will be able to take that without twisting or damaging itself in other ways. Even the drivetrain could potentially be affected by this, not just the chassis.
I use both Windows and Linux, and I can't remember the last time I've witnessed an application crashing on either. It's most likely your hardware is faulty.
More like "You've been reverted." Pretty ironic it's happening to Wikipedia itself.
Ah yes, but the using gas and wasting time can be put as:
"circles each billboard 10 times, stopping in front of it each time."
If other engines wind up having to implement other vendor's prefixes anyhow, why even bother with a standards body? This seems rather dubious...
My brain actually froze when I reached the quoted sentence above. After years what now? I normally don't respond to editing but this was a pretty bad one.
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That's probably not perfect either but it's a hell of a lot easier to read.
If you take gravity out of the equation, sure.
I read the other day that Samung's mobile division revenue has fallen over the last couple of quarters. I doubt that's a coincidence, maybe they'll go back to making more sane phones. When my phone was up for renewal, I switched to the LG G4, which still has a removeable battery and microSD slot... I doubt I'm the only one that made a switch.
Also, the stealing goes both ways. I mean, Apple surely didn't invent that notification swipe down menu that was missing from their phones. That was taken from Android.
After two I gave up and moved on...