Folding screens is just the latest pseudo-feature manufacturers are trying to hype into the market because they've run out of actual features they're willing to build.
Drafts of HTLM5 included a ping attribute on the a element for doing exactly this. Anyone with a brain could see it would be an order of magnitude more exploitable and abusable than cookies. At some point it was removed from HTML5 officially, but the W3C has gotten into a habit of modularizing things.
Adobe could have cut the prices of all their graphics software in half during the 90's and probably more than doubled their sales while drastically reducing piracy.
The CC subscription scheme is a consumer-hostile money grab designed to combat piracy and further trap users in a walled garden. Semi-regular users simply stick to the pre-CC versions.
Since the release of third edition in 2001, D&D and its derivatives have increasingly dominated the market. Tabletop roleplaying is now such a monoculture that much better games only garner interest in a small fraction of players.
D&D may be emblematic of RPGs, but is far from representative.
Have you read the WordPress code? I have, it's a steaming pile of spaghetti sauced with all the bad practices. For 15 years it's been the poster child for writing PHP badly.
Millennials are often labelled "tech-savvy", which they aren't: they don't know how it works any more than the gen-Xers who were called the same just because we could set a VCR clock.
They're tech immersed, and their ignorance of how the tech companies exploit them means they're drowning in it, and no more than any previous generation know how to swim. They're dragging their elders down in it because they have no ability to warn against social media, home assistants, or smart TVs.
Way back in the 90s when these kinds of PDAs were available, I debated getting a Psion, but ultimately got an HP 200LX because it ran DOS. Smartphones are the logical successor to PDAs, but until the hardware keyboard returns to phones, I'm not interested in having one: sacrificing screen real estate to emulate a primary input method isn't worth it.
Android, as well as the rest of the mobile space, is not meant to serve the user: it's meant to serve handset manufacturers, carriers, and app developers, and content providers, everyone except the user.
I'll get another mobile device when it actually feels like mine, not something that seeks to abuse and exploit me at every opportunity.
None. Foldable and rollable phones are just the latest non-feature to get the market hyped on because the mobile space has run out of new actual features to add. Smartphones have been fundamentally identical for years, so the manufacturers are conjuring distinctiveness from nothing.
Advertising is black magic and always has been. The internet has shown ad peddlers that they don't actually know all that much about advertising, but now they can measure every aspect of their ignorance, hubris, and ineffectiveness... and it freaks them out.
Except they're not agile and their testing procedures are severely lacking, likely getting progressively worse since NT4/Win95. There are more layers and complexity in their software than they can currently handle.
The Upwork tracker has always done this, as did the oDesk client before the merger with Elance.
Everything about oDesk was far less buggy than the platform in place now, which is clearly developed offshore, along with seemingly everything else they can outsource.
The choice put before freelancers has always been: use the tracker or give up guaranteed payment. What's changed is Upwork's strategy, focusing on new client uptake and short-term projects. The top fee rate used to be 10%, but after the merger Upwork changed this to 20% for the first $10,000 of hourly work. Their automated job matching is feeble and basic... I'm not interested in 90% of the recommendations I get. Similarly, almost all of the interview invitations I get, which are sent by clients themselves, have little or nothing to do with my skillset.
The newest alarming thing is Upwork's account verification policy. For obtuse reasons, they will suspend your account until you verify your identity over video chat (with outsourced staff). It happened to me, and I've seen at least three Reddit posts about it.
Upwork has overall become a shitshow from the freelancer's perspective. But not because of the tracker app.
He knows no one wants a Windows Phone, but his statements didn't exclude the possibility of 4G/5G Surface products.
Now if MS could only come to grips with the fact that they have no idea how to connect with consumers and that consumers don't actually like Windows, it's just the only OS they're familiar with.
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Folding screens is just the latest pseudo-feature manufacturers are trying to hype into the market because they've run out of actual features they're willing to build.
Drafts of HTLM5 included a ping attribute on the a element for doing exactly this. Anyone with a brain could see it would be an order of magnitude more exploitable and abusable than cookies. At some point it was removed from HTML5 officially, but the W3C has gotten into a habit of modularizing things.
Adobe could have cut the prices of all their graphics software in half during the 90's and probably more than doubled their sales while drastically reducing piracy.
The CC subscription scheme is a consumer-hostile money grab designed to combat piracy and further trap users in a walled garden. Semi-regular users simply stick to the pre-CC versions.
Since the release of third edition in 2001, D&D and its derivatives have increasingly dominated the market. Tabletop roleplaying is now such a monoculture that much better games only garner interest in a small fraction of players.
D&D may be emblematic of RPGs, but is far from representative.
Have you read the WordPress code? I have, it's a steaming pile of spaghetti sauced with all the bad practices. For 15 years it's been the poster child for writing PHP badly.
It's not every business exactly. The ad industry loves facebook, and they've added as much integration as they can think of to their client services.
He could change the business model to something other than selling user data. Privacy is a much bigger issue that includes encryption.
Once a douchebucket, always a douchebucket.
Millennials are often labelled "tech-savvy", which they aren't: they don't know how it works any more than the gen-Xers who were called the same just because we could set a VCR clock.
They're tech immersed, and their ignorance of how the tech companies exploit them means they're drowning in it, and no more than any previous generation know how to swim. They're dragging their elders down in it because they have no ability to warn against social media, home assistants, or smart TVs.
Way back in the 90s when these kinds of PDAs were available, I debated getting a Psion, but ultimately got an HP 200LX because it ran DOS. Smartphones are the logical successor to PDAs, but until the hardware keyboard returns to phones, I'm not interested in having one: sacrificing screen real estate to emulate a primary input method isn't worth it.
Not until these OSes are designed to serve the user more than their vendors.
Android, as well as the rest of the mobile space, is not meant to serve the user: it's meant to serve handset manufacturers, carriers, and app developers, and content providers, everyone except the user.
I'll get another mobile device when it actually feels like mine, not something that seeks to abuse and exploit me at every opportunity.
We absolutely did outsource manufacturing.
And in 15 years, China will be outsourcing all those things to Africa.
No one wants foldable screens except those who stand to benefit from a higher rate of replacing them.
Since WP's initial release in 2004, PHP has improved a lot, WordPress has not. WP is the textbook for writing terrible PHP.
Now WP thinks they can shame hosting providers into upgrading PHP, while their own product is insecure by design? Good luck with that.
None. Foldable and rollable phones are just the latest non-feature to get the market hyped on because the mobile space has run out of new actual features to add. Smartphones have been fundamentally identical for years, so the manufacturers are conjuring distinctiveness from nothing.
Advertising is black magic and always has been. The internet has shown ad peddlers that they don't actually know all that much about advertising, but now they can measure every aspect of their ignorance, hubris, and ineffectiveness... and it freaks them out.
Except they're not agile and their testing procedures are severely lacking, likely getting progressively worse since NT4/Win95. There are more layers and complexity in their software than they can currently handle.
That can't properly handle the unfortunate, antiquated reality of daylight savings time is written by idiots. The same goes for leap time.
Women's clothing has smaller, fewer, or no pockets to create incentive for the purchase of accessories, particularly purses.
The Upwork tracker has always done this, as did the oDesk client before the merger with Elance.
Everything about oDesk was far less buggy than the platform in place now, which is clearly developed offshore, along with seemingly everything else they can outsource.
The choice put before freelancers has always been: use the tracker or give up guaranteed payment. What's changed is Upwork's strategy, focusing on new client uptake and short-term projects. The top fee rate used to be 10%, but after the merger Upwork changed this to 20% for the first $10,000 of hourly work. Their automated job matching is feeble and basic... I'm not interested in 90% of the recommendations I get. Similarly, almost all of the interview invitations I get, which are sent by clients themselves, have little or nothing to do with my skillset.
The newest alarming thing is Upwork's account verification policy. For obtuse reasons, they will suspend your account until you verify your identity over video chat (with outsourced staff). It happened to me, and I've seen at least three Reddit posts about it.
Upwork has overall become a shitshow from the freelancer's perspective. But not because of the tracker app.
Apple will be lavished with praise for inventing a Nintendo 3DS with no physical buttons.
Does removing the yellow dots that identify which printer a document came out of count?
Better be coming too, or every OEM will go down with this ship.
He knows no one wants a Windows Phone, but his statements didn't exclude the possibility of 4G/5G Surface products.
Now if MS could only come to grips with the fact that they have no idea how to connect with consumers and that consumers don't actually like Windows, it's just the only OS they're familiar with.
...promising not to hijack the comment system to inject astroturf comments that suit their regulatory captors' agenda?