"Windows mobile is dead." Well, I hope not. A year or so ago, I ditched my old Android phone for a Nokia with Windows8, and I much prefer Windows to Android. Many reasons, but one of them is exactly apps that you're told you shouldn't remove from Android, lest it go belly-up. I've had no such problem on my Windows phone.
You get the opposite problem - very few worthwhile apps, or native experiences.
So what's the objection to everyone using BT headsets? People hate wires today.
In no particular order:
Hitting pause on NetFlix, then hitting play again, and having no sound for the first two seconds, thus missing half a line of dialog
Relatively poor sound quality
Having a radio transmitter basically in my ear
Having another device to charge every day, and possibly more than once per day
That first one by itself is a showstopper for me. The rest just add more reasons to question the sanity of Apple's upper management. Not that I needed more reasons to question their sanity given that they're still trying to make the d**n things thinner even after they were forced to reengineer parts of the iPhone 6 Plus to fix bending problems....
I've used about 10 BT headsets over the years. The best ones for latency of response are my LG HBS 730's (not the newer ones) and those were really good (100 milliseconds, no sound delay) However, I don't wear BT headphones because they strain my neck, fall off, or (in the case of those cheap Amazon eel-looking ones - simply didn't hold in my ear too well.
They're really convenient, but there's a reason I don't use them anymore (other than they wore out). I use Apple Earpods (don't buy those on Amazon either - too many knockoffs and AZ doesn't care if you get scammed) - they're essentially sweatproof, they stay in nicely, don't tangle, and are relatively cheap for decent sound quality ($30).
OK... I know what I'm having nightmares about tonight.
Just the use of the word "face-arm" was creepy and should have been a hint, but I went ahead and watched it dance for a few minutes to let it really sink in.
(Joking aside, that looks like a crazy fun project to work on!)
That video was disturbing - in a few ways - for me.
It's seriously like Alien and Terminator all rolled up into one:)
I can only imagine these being combined with weaponry and used against enemy-combatants/protestors/inconvenients more effectively than a SWAT team in about 5-10 years.
No corporation has ever given anything except at gunpoint.
Think about all the open source that is released by good-willed corporations. Even IP is given away Tesla's "All our patent are belong to you". [1] There are corporations who believe in the commons. Even Apple, who legislates on design patents contributes to open source.
That said, the gist of what you said is true, and the only fix is to demolish the "corporations are people" legal construct (mostly because it's bullshit - corporations live forever and have no morals by default - it's simply legally convenient).
Yes they do. This level of tracking requires location services, something which you can disable and doing so only affects a minority of applications for which the service can be enabled at specific cases.
It's not anywhere near as bad as you make it out to be.
Turning on and off location services globally just so specific apps can give you directions? So much for all that fun geo-fencing, or even persistent map applications. Google Now location based cards are disrupted completely.
As it stands, on Android, Facebook might even be able to use wifi AP point details address to guess your location. That information, IIRC, is not visible from iOS.
In 2016, 8 years after he was no longer president, the "It's Bush's fault" is getting a little worn-thin, particularly when she was part of the government that sent us to war.
I really wish that Amazon would do away with the other sellers. Put them off on another domain where they can be searched separately for those people who still want to use them. It's very disingenuous to show all the stuff that comes on the slow boat from China from some random manufacturer mixed in with the stuff that's sold directly from Amazon and usually delivered within 3.
Doesn't matter - the earpods I saw on Amazon were "prime one-day" deliverable - doubt that's coming from some slow-boat. It's being held in-state for delivery to me (through Amazon's fulfillment centers). It's so close to actually being retailed by Amazon that it's ridiculous they get to just say they're "other vendors". IN fact, those are being resold by being on Amazon's site.
Are they actually sold by Amazon or are you simply seeing listing on the Amazon Marketplace? Most of the time when I see stuff like that on Amazon, the items are listed and sold by a marketplace seller - not Amazon directly.
Almost anyone can setup an Amazon Marketplace account and list almost anything they want for sale (much like eBay's Buy It Now option). Marketplace sellers can put up new listings at almost any time.
If Amazon receives enough complaints for a particular marketplace seller (selling counterfeit goods for example) they have been known to disable the seller's account and pull all of their items from sale. The problem is, new sellers often pop up faster than they can be removed.
I have a hard time seeing how fraudulently labeled "Amazon Marketplace" is different from say, Walmart putting same items on their retail shelves. In both cases, the retailer (Amazon/Walmart) is collecting the cash before the vendor/seller is actually getting the payment for the product.
Essentially, Amazon gets to poison the well for stuff they can't directly compete with, and compete unfairly with their own vendors (see Rain Design).
In both cases, it's unclear what Rain Design or Apple could do to prevent the highway robbery.
This effectively means it's settled. Comcast et al could still request an en banc hearing from the full Court of Appeals, but that's unlikely to succeed. They could appeal to the US Supreme Court, but with the current 4-4 split on the court, the best they could hope for is that the USSC would split and leave the Appeals Court ruling standing as is, at the same time they'd risk a 5-3 decision affirming net neutrality depending on how Kennedy swings.
Of course, this could still be overturned if Trump wins and gets to override the pick for the next Justice, nevermind that a GOP congress plus Trump would be free to pass whatever anti-net neutrality legislation they want, or to replace the pro-neutrality majority of the FCC commissioners with a Republican one.
It's really pretty staggering, considering that Democrats were supposed to be the "party of RIAA" back in the Clinton days (see Hollings, Senator from Disney). Sure, Lamar Alexander (R-Asshole) has been pretty good at picking up all of Hollings business once Hollings left Congress, but it's pretty interesting that the anti-free-internet banner has been picked up so thoroughly by the Republicans.
Try buying a pair of Apple Earpods - something like 90-100% of the items listed when I searched for "Apple Earpods" are knockoff brands that fall apart or have horrible dynamic range (even compared to the mediocre performance earpods). I'm surprised Apple hasn't (or can't) come down on Amazon like a ton of bricks for enabling such fraudulent listings/sales.
I sure as hell don't buy Apple stuff on Amazon anymore; I wonder if some of the other stuff I bought was really branded or a knock off.
I guess it shows you who the real product development company is. Microsoft's DNA is built out of Gates buying and reselling a CP/M clone to IBM, forcing IBM to sign a contract that ceded the OS to Microsoft and leveraging Dr. DOS and Lotus 123 out of the market through underhanded tactics. Not to mention they essentially copied the Windows/Mouse interface from Apple (who got rights to that from Xerox PARC by license).
Has Apple ruthlessly screwed over competitors partners or customers like that?
You assume there's even a single photo of me on either website.
You should not assume there isn't. Like, do you have any friends that might "tag" you? How about friends of friends? I'd be willing to bet against you if you think there are no photos of you online (unless you happen to be purely a/. construct - in which case, you win).
You deleted your publicly available profile that you willingly posted? Why do people post public information on the Internet and then take it down? Why did you put it up there in the first place?
Uh, maybe to signal it's no longer public? Sometimes this is important. What you've said, and what you're saying now... are two different things (sometimes showing an ability to change/learn).
I ultimately cannot see them doing much useful with it..
Who says that Microsoft wants to do anything with all that data . . . ? Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is passing all this data on to some folks who CAN do something with all this data . ..
s/CAN do/ARE doing/ And I'll agree with you. It's not like this "resource" isn't already being harvested.
I always wanted to choke MS's marketing group with their version names. There are, in my opinion, two acceptable methods of naming a product that continues to get new version:
1) Version numbers. You can have just one number or number.number whatever you like. You decide how to increment them. What matters is that you are consistent, and that the number is easy to find.
2) Version year. When you release a product it is named via whatever year it is released. Doesn't matter how much changed, it gets the release year in its name.
Either one works well for quickly mentally comparing how out of date something is, as well as being able to impress that on users. But it needs to stay consistent or it gets all confusing. You can't go numbers to years and back or things get all fucked up.
The XP and Vista crap is just totally stupid. Fuck off with that. How do I compare "Vista" to "XP"? They are both meaningless terms. It's as bad as Eclipse. No guys, I do NOT know the order of the Jovian moons, please just publish the version number and/or year clearly.
I was with you until you went off on searching XP vs. Vista - what's your gripe on searching including "Microsoft Windows" as your context?
Numbers are meaningless - e.g. FF 47 - why the F should I care? That's why project names / named versions are meaningful. They are easier to remember and more meaningful. I think they should be combined (e.g. 10.5 Leopard is a great google search term).
Scenario: I have multiple accounts for an iOS app that I use which I store on 1Password app. Right now I just switch to 1P, copy pwd for relevant account, then switch back and paste. (yes, for websites, I use the 1P safari extension).
Will this password be exposed to all my other devices (many of which are mostly used by my wife/kids)? Can I expect I'll have to a) stop copy/pasting passwords or b) disable Universal Clipboard?
Ok, Religion != Belief. Many card-carrying Baptists are possibly functionally atheists but can't "quit the club" because it's steeped in society in the US South. I wonder how many of the preachers/bishops/random-title of a given church actually follow their scriptures and tenets.
I actually am glad - my wife posted family photos a while back (years ago, we don't make that mistake anymore), and maybe now that FB is threatening this, we'll get those old ones removed (at least from public access), too.
Mark, keep this up! I simply can't wait until FB starts deleting other sections of your account for not installing other apps. First FB Messenger, now FB Moments, what's next? FB Graph?
This is only the beginning...of the anti-social network
You think this is the beginning of the antisocial network? Zuckerberg, the highly socially skilled coder, thinks you're a dumbfuck: http://www.businessinsider.com...
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They'll take that data and use it to improve^Wmake more profit oriented future products to better get you off /with science/
FTFY
When they know what gets you off, you will be paying them more for it.
"Windows mobile is dead." Well, I hope not. A year or so ago, I ditched my old Android phone for a Nokia with Windows8, and I much prefer Windows to Android. Many reasons, but one of them is exactly apps that you're told you shouldn't remove from Android, lest it go belly-up. I've had no such problem on my Windows phone.
You get the opposite problem - very few worthwhile apps, or native experiences.
I always thought FB would out-disrupt Google, but it looks like FB's naked ploy to balkanize the Indian internet went over like a lead ballon.
Google FTW: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
Now Zuck has to look like a follower... again.
In no particular order:
That first one by itself is a showstopper for me. The rest just add more reasons to question the sanity of Apple's upper management. Not that I needed more reasons to question their sanity given that they're still trying to make the d**n things thinner even after they were forced to reengineer parts of the iPhone 6 Plus to fix bending problems....
I've used about 10 BT headsets over the years. The best ones for latency of response are my LG HBS 730's (not the newer ones) and those were really good (100 milliseconds, no sound delay) However, I don't wear BT headphones because they strain my neck, fall off, or (in the case of those cheap Amazon eel-looking ones - simply didn't hold in my ear too well.
They're really convenient, but there's a reason I don't use them anymore (other than they wore out). I use Apple Earpods (don't buy those on Amazon either - too many knockoffs and AZ doesn't care if you get scammed) - they're essentially sweatproof, they stay in nicely, don't tangle, and are relatively cheap for decent sound quality ($30).
I'm pretty sure that the "chump market" is way bigger than the 15% market share that Apple currently has.
True, they only have the chump with money market.
That's a large and growing market.
OK... I know what I'm having nightmares about tonight.
Just the use of the word "face-arm" was creepy and should have been a hint, but I went ahead and watched it dance for a few minutes to let it really sink in.
(Joking aside, that looks like a crazy fun project to work on!)
That video was disturbing - in a few ways - for me.
It's seriously like Alien and Terminator all rolled up into one :)
I can only imagine these being combined with weaponry and used against enemy-combatants/protestors/inconvenients more effectively than a SWAT team in about 5-10 years.
Not until they are facing losing said IP.
No corporation has ever given anything except at gunpoint.
Think about all the open source that is released by good-willed corporations. Even IP is given away Tesla's "All our patent are belong to you". [1]
There are corporations who believe in the commons. Even Apple, who legislates on design patents contributes to open source.
That said, the gist of what you said is true, and the only fix is to demolish the "corporations are people" legal construct (mostly because it's bullshit - corporations live forever and have no morals by default - it's simply legally convenient).
Fight against our corporate overlords!
[1] https://www.teslamotors.com/bl...
(and he has no other option)
Yes they do. This level of tracking requires location services, something which you can disable and doing so only affects a minority of applications for which the service can be enabled at specific cases.
It's not anywhere near as bad as you make it out to be.
Turning on and off location services globally just so specific apps can give you directions? So much for all that fun geo-fencing, or even persistent map applications. Google Now location based cards are disrupted completely.
As it stands, on Android, Facebook might even be able to use wifi AP point details address to guess your location. That information, IIRC, is not visible from iOS.
Cold brewed coffee is not only economical & convenient, it's also got less acidity than hot brewed.
I like mine from TJs - 1 bottle lasts about 1-2 weeks for a small-time drinker like me.
In 2016, 8 years after he was no longer president, the "It's Bush's fault" is getting a little worn-thin, particularly when she was part of the government that sent us to war.
Oh, and Clinton's speech supporting her vote in favor:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Who knows, maybe Clinton's "indictment" could lead to war crimes charges for the Bush cabal? There is no statute of limitations on war crimes, IIRC.
I really wish that Amazon would do away with the other sellers. Put them off on another domain where they can be searched separately for those people who still want to use them. It's very disingenuous to show all the stuff that comes on the slow boat from China from some random manufacturer mixed in with the stuff that's sold directly from Amazon and usually delivered within 3.
Doesn't matter - the earpods I saw on Amazon were "prime one-day" deliverable - doubt that's coming from some slow-boat. It's being held in-state for delivery to me (through Amazon's fulfillment centers). It's so close to actually being retailed by Amazon that it's ridiculous they get to just say they're "other vendors". IN fact, those are being resold by being on Amazon's site.
Are they actually sold by Amazon or are you simply seeing listing on the Amazon Marketplace? Most of the time when I see stuff like that on Amazon, the items are listed and sold by a marketplace seller - not Amazon directly.
Almost anyone can setup an Amazon Marketplace account and list almost anything they want for sale (much like eBay's Buy It Now option). Marketplace sellers can put up new listings at almost any time.
If Amazon receives enough complaints for a particular marketplace seller (selling counterfeit goods for example) they have been known to disable the seller's account and pull all of their items from sale. The problem is, new sellers often pop up faster than they can be removed.
I have a hard time seeing how fraudulently labeled "Amazon Marketplace" is different from say, Walmart putting same items on their retail shelves. In both cases, the retailer (Amazon/Walmart) is collecting the cash before the vendor/seller is actually getting the payment for the product.
Essentially, Amazon gets to poison the well for stuff they can't directly compete with, and compete unfairly with their own vendors (see Rain Design).
In both cases, it's unclear what Rain Design or Apple could do to prevent the highway robbery.
This effectively means it's settled. Comcast et al could still request an en banc hearing from the full Court of Appeals, but that's unlikely to succeed. They could appeal to the US Supreme Court, but with the current 4-4 split on the court, the best they could hope for is that the USSC would split and leave the Appeals Court ruling standing as is, at the same time they'd risk a 5-3 decision affirming net neutrality depending on how Kennedy swings.
Of course, this could still be overturned if Trump wins and gets to override the pick for the next Justice, nevermind that a GOP congress plus Trump would be free to pass whatever anti-net neutrality legislation they want, or to replace the pro-neutrality majority of the FCC commissioners with a Republican one.
It's really pretty staggering, considering that Democrats were supposed to be the "party of RIAA" back in the Clinton days (see Hollings, Senator from Disney). Sure, Lamar Alexander (R-Asshole) has been pretty good at picking up all of Hollings business once Hollings left Congress, but it's pretty interesting that the anti-free-internet banner has been picked up so thoroughly by the Republicans.
Try buying a pair of Apple Earpods - something like 90-100% of the items listed when I searched for "Apple Earpods" are knockoff brands that fall apart or have horrible dynamic range (even compared to the mediocre performance earpods). I'm surprised Apple hasn't (or can't) come down on Amazon like a ton of bricks for enabling such fraudulent listings/sales.
I sure as hell don't buy Apple stuff on Amazon anymore; I wonder if some of the other stuff I bought was really branded or a knock off.
Steve Wozniak was praising Samsung for its innovation ... with a Samsung camera that takes a picture whenever you say "smile".
20th century innovation: The solid state transistor. The integrated circuit. Laser. Space travel. The internet.
21st century innovation: A "camera that takes a picture whenever you say smile". Selfies. Facebook. The "selfie-stick".
Good thing we have 4-score+ years left in this century...
Hear, hear.
I guess it shows you who the real product development company is. Microsoft's DNA is built out of Gates buying and reselling a CP/M clone to IBM, forcing IBM to sign a contract that ceded the OS to Microsoft and leveraging Dr. DOS and Lotus 123 out of the market through underhanded tactics. Not to mention they essentially copied the Windows/Mouse interface from Apple (who got rights to that from Xerox PARC by license).
Has Apple ruthlessly screwed over competitors partners or customers like that?
You assume there's even a single photo of me on either website.
You should not assume there isn't. Like, do you have any friends that might "tag" you? How about friends of friends? I'd be willing to bet against you if you think there are no photos of you online (unless you happen to be purely a /. construct - in which case, you win).
You deleted your publicly available profile that you willingly posted? Why do people post public information on the Internet and then take it down? Why did you put it up there in the first place?
Uh, maybe to signal it's no longer public? Sometimes this is important. What you've said, and what you're saying now... are two different things (sometimes showing an ability to change/learn).
I ultimately cannot see them doing much useful with it..
Who says that Microsoft wants to do anything with all that data . . . ? Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is passing all this data on to some folks who CAN do something with all this data . . .
s/CAN do/ARE doing/
And I'll agree with you. It's not like this "resource" isn't already being harvested.
I always wanted to choke MS's marketing group with their version names. There are, in my opinion, two acceptable methods of naming a product that continues to get new version:
1) Version numbers. You can have just one number or number.number whatever you like. You decide how to increment them. What matters is that you are consistent, and that the number is easy to find.
2) Version year. When you release a product it is named via whatever year it is released. Doesn't matter how much changed, it gets the release year in its name.
Either one works well for quickly mentally comparing how out of date something is, as well as being able to impress that on users. But it needs to stay consistent or it gets all confusing. You can't go numbers to years and back or things get all fucked up.
The XP and Vista crap is just totally stupid. Fuck off with that. How do I compare "Vista" to "XP"? They are both meaningless terms. It's as bad as Eclipse. No guys, I do NOT know the order of the Jovian moons, please just publish the version number and/or year clearly.
I was with you until you went off on searching XP vs. Vista - what's your gripe on searching including "Microsoft Windows" as your context?
Numbers are meaningless - e.g. FF 47 - why the F should I care? That's why project names / named versions are meaningful. They are easier to remember and more meaningful. I think they should be combined (e.g. 10.5 Leopard is a great google search term).
Scenario:
I have multiple accounts for an iOS app that I use which I store on 1Password app.
Right now I just switch to 1P, copy pwd for relevant account, then switch back and paste.
(yes, for websites, I use the 1P safari extension).
Will this password be exposed to all my other devices (many of which are mostly used by my wife/kids)? Can I expect I'll have to a) stop copy/pasting passwords or b) disable Universal Clipboard?
Belief != religion.
Next.
Ok, Religion != Belief.
Many card-carrying Baptists are possibly functionally atheists but can't "quit the club" because it's steeped in society in the US South.
I wonder how many of the preachers/bishops/random-title of a given church actually follow their scriptures and tenets.
I actually am glad - my wife posted family photos a while back (years ago, we don't make that mistake anymore), and maybe now that FB is threatening this, we'll get those old ones removed (at least from public access), too.
Mark, keep this up! I simply can't wait until FB starts deleting other sections of your account for not installing other apps. First FB Messenger, now FB Moments, what's next? FB Graph?
This is only the beginning...of the anti-social network
You think this is the beginning of the antisocial network? Zuckerberg, the highly socially skilled coder, thinks you're a dumbfuck: http://www.businessinsider.com...