Yeah, I'm surprised that Apple doesn't just buy an existing smaller car company with that money. It would probably make more sense than trying to convert the existing Apple Stores into auto dealerships that need much bigger retail footprint.
I'm guessing that you haven't used a newer iPhone. If you did, you would know that it it has a lot of photo modes like panorama pictures, time lapse pictures, "Live" pictures with video, and slow motion videos that take up a bunch more storage space than a standard photo.
For many people, their cell phone is their primary digital camera. With a 12 MP camera sensor that can also record 4K video, you're going to burn through 12 GB (The OS uses 4) of storage quickly.
Even if Apple wanted to make a 16 GB "cheapskate" model, they should really make 32 GB the standard for their flagship phones.
It doesn't give much credence to the "use a tough password that's hard to crack" creedo, though.
What's the point of using a crazy 20 character password multicase password with special characters if the person storing the password isn't going to encrypt it properly? It's just going to cracked anyway.
If you can't trust the dumbasses running the sites you visit not do to something REALLY dumb like store it in cleartext, you might as well just use "password" or "qwerty12" as your password and be done with it.
It's amusing that 25 years later, you would be crazy to set up a POS system with just a WiFi network connection.
Even if you're not worried about wireless reliability, security, and interference issues (and you should be!), it will still never process credit card transactions as fast as a Gigabit wired connection.
It's funny that you mention that issue, as Windows 10 doesn't restore from sleep mode on my laptop after I upgraded it from Windows 7. Apparently it has been an issue for a lot of users.
Depending on where they live, they might be able to get government subsidized broadband from the local Internet providers. It's not fast (usually less than 5Mb/sec), but it only costs about $10 a month if you provide proof to the cable company or telco that you're broke.
Hey now, that feature is very important... for Apple's profit margins! It insures that their 16 GB phone buyers will run out of storage faster, so they'll spend more money on iCloud storage and make sure to pony up the extra $100 for the 64 GB model next time.
Sadly, I'm only being semi-sarcastic here. Releasing a brand new high end phone with only 16 GB of storage and no expansion slot in 2015 is just evil.
I doubt it. IBM always had a bad habit of overcharging for things. Even if OS/2 was more polished and way more advanced * than it's competition, Microsoft would have STILL beat it on pricing.
* Yeah, I know that OS/2 probably was more technically advanced than anything Microsoft had until Windows NT 4 or so.
If you're sure that you want a 7" Android tablet in the $200 range, the 2013 version of the Nexus 7 is probably your best bet.
You would think that something better would have come out by now, but there really isn't anything in that size and price range that is noticeably better.
If you wait until the end of the month, Google is expected to release some new Nexus models. Perhaps they will finally have a 7" tablet upgrade in the mix.
Yeah... to about 2 cities a year. At the rate their glacial rollout is progressing, I'd be lucky to see Google Fiber in my suburban neighborhood before I die of old age.
Yeah, I hope that these guys were smart enough not to publish their Koran dating results under their real names. Otherwise, they're going to end up on some ISIS hit list for blasphemy or something equally stupid.
In coastal Connecticut, $100K a year isn't enough to buy a decent house if you're trying to raise a family at the same time.
I'd bet that the New Yorkers and Californians in the forum would agree with this statement.
$200K might be enough to get a nice home around here, but $100K a year here is like making $40K a year in a rural area. The taxes and real estate prices are a killer.
Yeah, I'm not sure why I want to pay $200 for an 802.11ac router with just one wired network port (which is basically twice the going price for most competing routers on Newegg) just for another opportunity to share even more Internet usage data with Google.
It seems like thing should be cheaper than a normal router instead of more if it's advertiser subsidized. Yeah... it might not directly inject the ads itself, but you know that it's going to aid with ad targeting.
I would be pleasantly surprised if they had all of the Google Fiber cities that they compete in fully upgraded to Gigabit by 2018, let alone the entire network.
Yes, I've had the misfortune of having to configure the MMS services on my Straight Talk T-Mobile SIM card. What really sucked is that they STILL didn't work after I had them configured, because their MMS server was down that weekend. After publicly arguing with them on Twitter for a few days, it "magically" started working on it's own.
After a few more MMS outages like that, I switched to an AT&T compatible SIM card. That worked out of the package automatically. Go figure.
When someone has to pay $750 for their next iPhone up front, I doubt that they will still be willing to $80 for an "unlimited" plan with a 3 GB data cap when they can get the same plan from someone like Cricket Wireless or Straight Talk for $45 a month.
Yeah, there are an amazing number of assholes on Reddit. Some people won't just stop at downvoting your comments in a single forum if you've posted something that you disagree with, but they'll go through your post history and downvote EVERY comment and post you've made in the last month or so.
It's so bad that I have to use a different user name on other sites than on Reddit because some of those fuckers will track your username down on sites like Twitter and start badmouthing you there as well.
Yeah... it all he needs is remote desktop access to (primarily) a few Windows systems for patching things and snooping on your kid, just installing TeamViewer on them would be a lot easier than setting up a VPN. Once you have that, you could just put PuTTY on one of the remote Windows boxes to log into the Raspberry Pi project boxes if needed.
Of course, I guess that you could always do something fancier liking run VNC servers on different ports for each system and port forward those through the firewall for remote access, and use something like like NoIP to give them a fixed hostname to access. That's kind of old school at this point, though.
NVidia's Linux drivers are just as bad, or even more so if you had the misfortune of having having a laptop with Nvidia "Optimus" integrated graphics over the past few years.
Honestly, I probably wouldn't hire you because you have too MANY certifications. I'd peg you as a person who spends more time learning obscure networking facts to pass the certification exams than actually spending time fixing real networking problems.
Besides, you probably want a higher salary than my small company is willing to pay, anyway.
They also said that they would never bring back the Start Menu once Windows 8 was released, and that we would just learn to love the new Start Screen and full screen Modern UI applications.
I always wished that someone would make a smit like AIX control panel menu system for the Linux command line. If you couldn't remember the exact syntax of a command, it often came in handy for quickly getting the task done (without having to Google command examples) and then get an example of the syntax for next time.
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Yeah, I'm surprised that Apple doesn't just buy an existing smaller car company with that money. It would probably make more sense than trying to convert the existing Apple Stores into auto dealerships that need much bigger retail footprint.
I'm guessing that you haven't used a newer iPhone. If you did, you would know that it it has a lot of photo modes like panorama pictures, time lapse pictures, "Live" pictures with video, and slow motion videos that take up a bunch more storage space than a standard photo.
For many people, their cell phone is their primary digital camera. With a 12 MP camera sensor that can also record 4K video, you're going to burn through 12 GB (The OS uses 4) of storage quickly.
Even if Apple wanted to make a 16 GB "cheapskate" model, they should really make 32 GB the standard for their flagship phones.
It doesn't give much credence to the "use a tough password that's hard to crack" creedo, though.
What's the point of using a crazy 20 character password multicase password with special characters if the person storing the password isn't going to encrypt it properly? It's just going to cracked anyway.
If you can't trust the dumbasses running the sites you visit not do to something REALLY dumb like store it in cleartext, you might as well just use "password" or "qwerty12" as your password and be done with it.
It's amusing that 25 years later, you would be crazy to set up a POS system with just a WiFi network connection.
Even if you're not worried about wireless reliability, security, and interference issues (and you should be!), it will still never process credit card transactions as fast as a Gigabit wired connection.
It's funny that you mention that issue, as Windows 10 doesn't restore from sleep mode on my laptop after I upgraded it from Windows 7. Apparently it has been an issue for a lot of users.
Depending on where they live, they might be able to get government subsidized broadband from the local Internet providers. It's not fast (usually less than 5Mb/sec), but it only costs about $10 a month if you provide proof to the cable company or telco that you're broke.
Hey now, that feature is very important... for Apple's profit margins! It insures that their 16 GB phone buyers will run out of storage faster, so they'll spend more money on iCloud storage and make sure to pony up the extra $100 for the 64 GB model next time.
Sadly, I'm only being semi-sarcastic here. Releasing a brand new high end phone with only 16 GB of storage and no expansion slot in 2015 is just evil.
I doubt it. IBM always had a bad habit of overcharging for things. Even if OS/2 was more polished and way more advanced * than it's competition, Microsoft would have STILL beat it on pricing.
* Yeah, I know that OS/2 probably was more technically advanced than anything Microsoft had until Windows NT 4 or so.
If you're sure that you want a 7" Android tablet in the $200 range, the 2013 version of the Nexus 7 is probably your best bet.
You would think that something better would have come out by now, but there really isn't anything in that size and price range that is noticeably better.
If you wait until the end of the month, Google is expected to release some new Nexus models. Perhaps they will finally have a 7" tablet upgrade in the mix.
Yeah... to about 2 cities a year. At the rate their glacial rollout is progressing, I'd be lucky to see Google Fiber in my suburban neighborhood before I die of old age.
Yeah, I hope that these guys were smart enough not to publish their Koran dating results under their real names. Otherwise, they're going to end up on some ISIS hit list for blasphemy or something equally stupid.
In coastal Connecticut, $100K a year isn't enough to buy a decent house if you're trying to raise a family at the same time.
I'd bet that the New Yorkers and Californians in the forum would agree with this statement.
$200K might be enough to get a nice home around here, but $100K a year here is like making $40K a year in a rural area. The taxes and real estate prices are a killer.
Yeah, I'm not sure why I want to pay $200 for an 802.11ac router with just one wired network port (which is basically twice the going price for most competing routers on Newegg) just for another opportunity to share even more Internet usage data with Google.
It seems like thing should be cheaper than a normal router instead of more if it's advertiser subsidized. Yeah... it might not directly inject the ads itself, but you know that it's going to aid with ad targeting.
I would be pleasantly surprised if they had all of the Google Fiber cities that they compete in fully upgraded to Gigabit by 2018, let alone the entire network.
Or you could sell it to a group like Hacking Team and probably get a big paycheck for your efforts.
Yes, I've had the misfortune of having to configure the MMS services on my Straight Talk T-Mobile SIM card. What really sucked is that they STILL didn't work after I had them configured, because their MMS server was down that weekend. After publicly arguing with them on Twitter for a few days, it "magically" started working on it's own.
After a few more MMS outages like that, I switched to an AT&T compatible SIM card. That worked out of the package automatically. Go figure.
When someone has to pay $750 for their next iPhone up front, I doubt that they will still be willing to $80 for an "unlimited" plan with a 3 GB data cap when they can get the same plan from someone like Cricket Wireless or Straight Talk for $45 a month.
Yeah, there are an amazing number of assholes on Reddit. Some people won't just stop at downvoting your comments in a single forum if you've posted something that you disagree with, but they'll go through your post history and downvote EVERY comment and post you've made in the last month or so.
It's so bad that I have to use a different user name on other sites than on Reddit because some of those fuckers will track your username down on sites like Twitter and start badmouthing you there as well.
Yeah... it all he needs is remote desktop access to (primarily) a few Windows systems for patching things and snooping on your kid, just installing TeamViewer on them would be a lot easier than setting up a VPN. Once you have that, you could just put PuTTY on one of the remote Windows boxes to log into the Raspberry Pi project boxes if needed.
Of course, I guess that you could always do something fancier liking run VNC servers on different ports for each system and port forward those through the firewall for remote access, and use something like like NoIP to give them a fixed hostname to access. That's kind of old school at this point, though.
NVidia's Linux drivers are just as bad, or even more so if you had the misfortune of having having a laptop with Nvidia "Optimus" integrated graphics over the past few years.
Honestly, I probably wouldn't hire you because you have too MANY certifications. I'd peg you as a person who spends more time learning obscure networking facts to pass the certification exams than actually spending time fixing real networking problems.
Besides, you probably want a higher salary than my small company is willing to pay, anyway.
They also said that they would never bring back the Start Menu once Windows 8 was released, and that we would just learn to love the new Start Screen and full screen Modern UI applications.
That didn't exactly go according to plan, did it?
I always wished that someone would make a smit like AIX control panel menu system for the Linux command line. If you couldn't remember the exact syntax of a command, it often came in handy for quickly getting the task done (without having to Google command examples) and then get an example of the syntax for next time.
Seriously, that Internet Cafe video is horrid. Did most 90's TV news shows REALLY look that cheesy?