Why? I want to listen to "playlists" than an algorithm made, absolutely. Pandora's algorithms suck, unfortunately, but in theory they could be awesome. I've never understood the concept of manual playlist creation, nor why every music player has that ability. I can't imagine spending so much time sitting around picking out random tracks to put on a playlist. I just want to press a button and have music I like playing. That's it.
Holy shit, I was about to call bullshit on your 15-year claim, but it really has been around for 16 years now! I don't think I heard of it until 5 years ago or so, and I'd like to think I'm generally fairly up on the whole tech world. Clearly not in this case, I am totally amazed.
For me, Google Music is where it's at. Being able to upload my own stuff is pretty huge. Plus being free (for my own stuff) is rather nice.
Pandora is full of these terrible "compilation" albums instead of the original releases. It's impossible to use it as a serious classical music listener. They don't provide adequate information about composers, performers, orchestras, etc. They treat something on the "Baby Mozart" CD the same as a serious recording. It's ridiculous. A very similar situation for original soundtracks, which I also enjoy. Very unhappy with Pandora overall. It's probably great for people who just want their top-40 hits of whichever decade within the last few decades, but for the rest of us, it's awful.
When you have access to your competitor's source code. Microsoft should belly-up and release their's, then it will be a truly equal playing field. Oh, and they would have to port Edge to (Android) Linux where these tiny power consumption differences might actually matter.
Did they buy another company to do this? There's no way Chevrolet could have achieved this level of competence so quickly. Will be interesting to see the crash reports when they come out. What kind of proprietary software will this thing be running? I know they have Apple garbage in some of their models. Just hope it's not connected to Apple Maps!
I've never understood why they even have an option to upload profile photos. If you're going to list your property on AirBnB, you shouldn't have the right to deny a request. That should be a legal contract that you are committed to, and if you need to break it, have to pay a cancellation fee of some kind. Really, hosts shouldn't even be able to see the guest's name before it is confirmed. It's just too easy to discriminate for people who want to. At least this is a small move in the right direction.
Microsoft? Haha, could the contractors not figure out how to press "F1"? Microsoft may make shitty software, but it is still point-and-click. A monkey could generally figure it out.
This is absolutely true, and that is why we need to enact employee protection measures to ensure that employees can refuse to train their replacements without losing any severance package to which they are entitled. At-will employment needs to come to an end. If the company doesn't renew your contract? Fine. But otherwise they're stuck paying you even if they do want to hire replacements. These conditions are unheard of in more civilised parts of the world.
A politician decried something they know nothing about for political gain? I can't believe it!
Let me tell you, outsourcing these IT services is a hell of a lot better solution than raising tuition on students, which is what most schools have been doing like crazy. Now if we can just get them to stop wasting money on expensive, proprietary software licenses, we'll be in much better shape.
Is there anything preventing these phones from being wiped, installing a stock G4 image without ads and/or another custom ROM? Does it have some obnoxious locked bootloader or something?
16GB RAM?!? On a phone? There is no way that is correct. It's hard to find a phone with even 4GB yet. What are you talking about? 16GB of flash storage would be incredibly low, if that's what you're referring to.
Android doesn't have *any* ads whatsoever. You must have installed some application that is showing you advertising. If you do so without using proper ad-blocking software, that's on you.
I do consider myself a "power user," but have never thought much about wide-screen vs 4:3. What's the deal with that? I really like being able to have two applications (typically a browser and editor) side-by-side.
The nubs on the glass as mentioned by the AC below might really help, but I'm also sceptical that I would actually be able to type as well on such a screen. I assume I'd get used to it, just as I have with a phone, I just honestly don't know until I've tried it for a while.
Clean Links (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clean-links/) is a great help for that, but it's not perfect. So many email links aren't in a form that you can manually clean, they just reference their tracking IDs, which have to be redirected server-side.
The most interesting thing about this is: "Touch-typists used the Moving Virtual Layout (MVL), which adapted to fit the user’s natural style, learning where the user intended to strike the keys through experience. On a mechanical keyboard, the user could dynamically adjust the position of their fingers onto the keys, helped by the shape of the keys and gaps in between. To overcome this problem on a touch keyboard, the halo keyboard used artificial learning to correct repeated mistakes or mistyping, learning the difference between common errors, like when a user hits the Alt key but intended to hit the spacebar instead."
I actually get really frustrated because 99% of all email links cannot be clicked because of embedded tracking information. It makes pretty much any email newsletter/update/etc. completely useless. I spend far too much time going to a website and finding something I want to look at, all because I refuse to click on a link that contains tracking information. I can't believe so many people, especially students, are dumb enough to do this. And yet, I can believe it. It's just sad.
Google and the Android developers better hurry up and get their act together... The 3.4 kernel on my Nexus 5 is woefully outdated—over 4 years old now! I know they were trying to get all of their patches merged upstream, I hope that happens soon.
At least for me, I don't expect to change anyone's mind with such posts. They are typically meant to educate people about what is going on, and trigger people who *already agree* to pay attention and even to get active. Not to mention urging people to contact their representatives to voice their opinion about important issues they may not know about.
Regarding the "damaging friendships" bit...as far as I'm concerned, that is a good thing. Why would I want to be friends with the kind of worthless people that would be opposed to my typical post? Seriously...friendships are based on mutual respect and admiration. People who say politics aren't appropriate on Facebook or other social media are just far too apathetic in my view.
Sorry, but if you care about privacy, using a proprietary OS is a non-starter. You simply MUST use an open-source operating system. The idea of security on Windows or IOS is absurd. These companies can insert whatever backdoors they wish at any time, and you have no way of knowing or doing anything about it. This isn't a matter of my-platform's-better-than-yours, it's simply the fact that proprietary software and security are not compatible.
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Why? I want to listen to "playlists" than an algorithm made, absolutely. Pandora's algorithms suck, unfortunately, but in theory they could be awesome. I've never understood the concept of manual playlist creation, nor why every music player has that ability. I can't imagine spending so much time sitting around picking out random tracks to put on a playlist. I just want to press a button and have music I like playing. That's it.
Holy shit, I was about to call bullshit on your 15-year claim, but it really has been around for 16 years now! I don't think I heard of it until 5 years ago or so, and I'd like to think I'm generally fairly up on the whole tech world. Clearly not in this case, I am totally amazed.
For me, Google Music is where it's at. Being able to upload my own stuff is pretty huge. Plus being free (for my own stuff) is rather nice.
Pandora is full of these terrible "compilation" albums instead of the original releases. It's impossible to use it as a serious classical music listener. They don't provide adequate information about composers, performers, orchestras, etc. They treat something on the "Baby Mozart" CD the same as a serious recording. It's ridiculous. A very similar situation for original soundtracks, which I also enjoy. Very unhappy with Pandora overall. It's probably great for people who just want their top-40 hits of whichever decade within the last few decades, but for the rest of us, it's awful.
When you have access to your competitor's source code. Microsoft should belly-up and release their's, then it will be a truly equal playing field. Oh, and they would have to port Edge to (Android) Linux where these tiny power consumption differences might actually matter.
Did they buy another company to do this? There's no way Chevrolet could have achieved this level of competence so quickly. Will be interesting to see the crash reports when they come out. What kind of proprietary software will this thing be running? I know they have Apple garbage in some of their models. Just hope it's not connected to Apple Maps!
I'm sick of all my Android devices running woefully outdated kernels. Get on it!
Windows users should be used to this by now. Proprietary software users gave up their right to privacy long ago.
I've never understood why they even have an option to upload profile photos. If you're going to list your property on AirBnB, you shouldn't have the right to deny a request. That should be a legal contract that you are committed to, and if you need to break it, have to pay a cancellation fee of some kind. Really, hosts shouldn't even be able to see the guest's name before it is confirmed. It's just too easy to discriminate for people who want to. At least this is a small move in the right direction.
Microsoft? Haha, could the contractors not figure out how to press "F1"? Microsoft may make shitty software, but it is still point-and-click. A monkey could generally figure it out.
This is absolutely true, and that is why we need to enact employee protection measures to ensure that employees can refuse to train their replacements without losing any severance package to which they are entitled. At-will employment needs to come to an end. If the company doesn't renew your contract? Fine. But otherwise they're stuck paying you even if they do want to hire replacements. These conditions are unheard of in more civilised parts of the world.
A politician decried something they know nothing about for political gain? I can't believe it!
Let me tell you, outsourcing these IT services is a hell of a lot better solution than raising tuition on students, which is what most schools have been doing like crazy. Now if we can just get them to stop wasting money on expensive, proprietary software licenses, we'll be in much better shape.
Is there anything preventing these phones from being wiped, installing a stock G4 image without ads and/or another custom ROM? Does it have some obnoxious locked bootloader or something?
16GB RAM?!? On a phone? There is no way that is correct. It's hard to find a phone with even 4GB yet. What are you talking about? 16GB of flash storage would be incredibly low, if that's what you're referring to.
Android doesn't have *any* ads whatsoever. You must have installed some application that is showing you advertising. If you do so without using proper ad-blocking software, that's on you.
I do consider myself a "power user," but have never thought much about wide-screen vs 4:3. What's the deal with that? I really like being able to have two applications (typically a browser and editor) side-by-side.
The nubs on the glass as mentioned by the AC below might really help, but I'm also sceptical that I would actually be able to type as well on such a screen. I assume I'd get used to it, just as I have with a phone, I just honestly don't know until I've tried it for a while.
Clean Links (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clean-links/) is a great help for that, but it's not perfect. So many email links aren't in a form that you can manually clean, they just reference their tracking IDs, which have to be redirected server-side.
Michigan lawmakers still think their state is relevant in the high-tech auto industry.
The most interesting thing about this is:
"Touch-typists used the Moving Virtual Layout (MVL), which adapted to fit the user’s natural style, learning where the user intended to strike the keys through experience. On a mechanical keyboard, the user could dynamically adjust the position of their fingers onto the keys, helped by the shape of the keys and gaps in between. To overcome this problem on a touch keyboard, the halo keyboard used artificial learning to correct repeated mistakes or mistyping, learning the difference between common errors, like when a user hits the Alt key but intended to hit the spacebar instead."
I actually get really frustrated because 99% of all email links cannot be clicked because of embedded tracking information. It makes pretty much any email newsletter/update/etc. completely useless. I spend far too much time going to a website and finding something I want to look at, all because I refuse to click on a link that contains tracking information. I can't believe so many people, especially students, are dumb enough to do this. And yet, I can believe it. It's just sad.
3.4 doesn't actually reach EOL until Sept. I'm sure knowing Google's and OEMs' track records, they'll get everyone upgraded by them. Good times.
Google and the Android developers better hurry up and get their act together... The 3.4 kernel on my Nexus 5 is woefully outdated—over 4 years old now! I know they were trying to get all of their patches merged upstream, I hope that happens soon.
Fuck you, freedom of speech! That's just a lame concept the colonists threw around for a while. We're better than that!
At least for me, I don't expect to change anyone's mind with such posts. They are typically meant to educate people about what is going on, and trigger people who *already agree* to pay attention and even to get active. Not to mention urging people to contact their representatives to voice their opinion about important issues they may not know about.
Regarding the "damaging friendships" bit...as far as I'm concerned, that is a good thing. Why would I want to be friends with the kind of worthless people that would be opposed to my typical post? Seriously...friendships are based on mutual respect and admiration. People who say politics aren't appropriate on Facebook or other social media are just far too apathetic in my view.
So this is basically just Ubuntu Core using docker containers instead of snaps?
Sorry, but if you care about privacy, using a proprietary OS is a non-starter. You simply MUST use an open-source operating system. The idea of security on Windows or IOS is absurd. These companies can insert whatever backdoors they wish at any time, and you have no way of knowing or doing anything about it. This isn't a matter of my-platform's-better-than-yours, it's simply the fact that proprietary software and security are not compatible.