Because these applications came with the phone. These apps were a part of the reason I bought the phone, they were central to the phone's marketing. You don't pay extra to use notepad on Windows for example. If they did charge or try to monetize you, most sane people would go use a different program.
They give it away free so that they can monetize from me, that does not mean I am required to allow them to monetize off of me. I have every moral and ethical right to turn off my location, use adblock, block scripts, not include full information, etc. If my information is that invaluable for them then they can subsidize my subscription.
Turn off location. It's easy enough to use without it. You just have to manually scroll to the location you want on the map (which often isn't where you currently are anyway).
On Yelp, I think the majority give stupid reviews, either too glowing or too negative. These are wannabe critics desparate to just talk anywhere online to feel self important. There is nothing useful in Yelp, ever. From bad reviewers to bad company practices, just avoid it. If you want to know if a restaurant is good, then go eat there once.
As far as being a bad locksmith, the business owner claims the review was about a different business and attached to his by mistake, and Yelp didn't care since they were trying to get him to pay to get better reviews. This is a common complaint against Yelp. The locksmith did not just have one review, but having one 1-star review will hurt a business as many people are mistakenly using Yelp to get accurate information about businesses, and it often shows up first in google searches. If you "opt out" of Yelp you get bad reviews that you can only fix by paying Yelp.
The court is wrong here I think, Yelp is NOT a neutral review aggregator.
You get 5 stars or 1 stars far too often on yelp. Too many wannabe critics out there think it's either about being witty in your putdowns or glowing in your praise.
And sometimes people just give stupid reviews for no reason. If you need a locksmith in a hurry then it means something has gone wrong and you're going to be in a pissy mood and angry at the entire world, and chances are you take it all out on the guy that's driving out in the rain to help you.
The cameras in street lamps or traffic lights now are extremely low resolution, just good enough to keep track of traffic. In many cases there were put up before there was a way to get the information back out again at anything but low bit rates. I'm in a business that deals with street light controllers and they're not for spying and would be amazingly expensive to do so as high speed networking isn't there. Sure you can be like Verizon and use cellular to get the data back but they're not giving you the sim cards for free.
Someone could of course add real spy cameras but that's separate and distinct from IoT.
Yes, it's crapware. ATI has the same thing. You think you're just getting an updated driver but you're getting a large chunk of software that wants to be your entire gaming front end, including social media and advertising. How's it know which games you own? It scans your drive... So now, if you don't want an online account so you can be tracked, then tough luck, be like one of those luddites who games without Nvidia looking over your shoulder.
IT is the modern equivalent of the assembly line worker 75 years ago. Education requirements are relatively low and there are millions of other people with the same skills you have.
Technical education in India is very spotty and in many cases is just awful. Yes, you see a lot of really good Indian workers in the US but these are generally the best of the best and not the average phone tech support people. It's also one reason India focuses incredibly heavy on IT because these are the sorts of rote jobs that can be done over the internet or phone with moderate educations.
UCSF, not surprisingly, is in an extremely expensive area that has difficulty finding affordable housing for essential services (police, fire, teachers, etc). So no wonder the bean counters are worrying about paying for local workers in cases where being local is not necessary or the skills required are fungible. I don't think quality here is an issue, given the large number of IT workers that campus has.
On the other hand, they seemed to be very top heavy with IT staff. UCSF has 1686 academic staff (plus other staff). They've got 565 people in their IT department. That's 1 IT person for every 3 profs? Granted, outsourcing is not a good idea at all but they definitely could have used with a good paring down.
Or if you're in the US, hope you don't get cancer because most people can't afford medical insurance plans that would cover all the necessary costs. Of course, not every social program is required to copy from Canada. Our Medicare/Medicaid in the US is not bad, if only it could be expanded to cover more than old people. You will always be able to get better care if you're rich though, but that's not the goal of social medical programs.
What if you don't have Bluetooth headphones? The audio jack worked perfectly and was not broken or dysfunctional. It worked across most models of phone and other devices trivially. There is no new advantage to the consumer to the new Apple method.
So if they removed all USB adapters from a mac book, would you say that's ok because everyone can just buy thunderbolt adapters instead or store the data in the cloud?
Change for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing. Newer is not the same as better. We have fans of gadgets who worship anything new whether or not they are good for the consumer, and that's the market that Apple aims for. You don't need to be a luddite to recognize the drawbacks here.
You can buy lots of macaroni without cheese, you can find more macaroni without cheese than you can find packaged with cheese. Mac and cheese is not a monopoly so the same rules don't apply to it that would apply to a monopoly.
Of course this may be moot given that Microsoft is going down the drain fast, but when Vista was current Microsoft still was a monopoly.
Old age is ok, not "fine." I can live with it (I haven't hit retirement so the jury is still out). But all the aches and pains in the morning are annoying. Grrrr. Last decade's edition was a much better release, I should have stuck with it.
Not a lot of places take barter in the US. Though cash works at almost every store I've walked into when the price isn't up into the thousands. I have used a cashier's check to purchase an automobile before, and nothing on the check identified me, although to buy an auto you still have to provide ID.
IT may be a trade, but programming and engineering is not. That's product design and support. I think quite a lot of programming definitely needs the degree. If yu're just doing yet another dumb web page for a dumb startup then sure, "web programming in 21 days" may be good enough. But if you're building and programming a medical device, space satellite, automobile safety systems, etc, then you do not want to treat the team as being composed of fungible and interchangeable personnel. Working with a lot of EE people doing programming, it is very frustrating to see people with 30 years of programming experience who are utterly clueless about basic concepts like algorithms, computability, graph theory, etc, and then they go and try to reinvent things that were done in the 70s.
I used to think that way. But I've met some really bright people from DeVry, people I assumed had university electrical engineering degrees based on their competence. I was down on DeVry for a long time because it really is geared towards simplicity and basic tech skills, and they have a seriously hard sell approach to convince parents that their kids are essentially guaranteed "a job" after graduating.
Quote a lot of very good jobs have nothing at all like certificates of competence. If you discount corrupt certificates (classes for sale by creator of certain products) then it's even more rare.
The university degree tells you one thing basically: the candidate is adaptable and can learn. The certificate tells you only one thing: the candidate can probably do this year's job.
ITT schools were good for the latter - you need a technician fast to do grunt work.
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Because these applications came with the phone. These apps were a part of the reason I bought the phone, they were central to the phone's marketing. You don't pay extra to use notepad on Windows for example. If they did charge or try to monetize you, most sane people would go use a different program.
They give it away free so that they can monetize from me, that does not mean I am required to allow them to monetize off of me. I have every moral and ethical right to turn off my location, use adblock, block scripts, not include full information, etc. If my information is that invaluable for them then they can subsidize my subscription.
Paid a lot to get that phone, and pay a lot each month to use it. I don't consider that freeloading.
Turn off location. It's easy enough to use without it. You just have to manually scroll to the location you want on the map (which often isn't where you currently are anyway).
On Yelp, I think the majority give stupid reviews, either too glowing or too negative. These are wannabe critics desparate to just talk anywhere online to feel self important. There is nothing useful in Yelp, ever. From bad reviewers to bad company practices, just avoid it. If you want to know if a restaurant is good, then go eat there once.
As far as being a bad locksmith, the business owner claims the review was about a different business and attached to his by mistake, and Yelp didn't care since they were trying to get him to pay to get better reviews. This is a common complaint against Yelp. The locksmith did not just have one review, but having one 1-star review will hurt a business as many people are mistakenly using Yelp to get accurate information about businesses, and it often shows up first in google searches. If you "opt out" of Yelp you get bad reviews that you can only fix by paying Yelp.
The court is wrong here I think, Yelp is NOT a neutral review aggregator.
You get 5 stars or 1 stars far too often on yelp. Too many wannabe critics out there think it's either about being witty in your putdowns or glowing in your praise.
And sometimes people just give stupid reviews for no reason. If you need a locksmith in a hurry then it means something has gone wrong and you're going to be in a pissy mood and angry at the entire world, and chances are you take it all out on the guy that's driving out in the rain to help you.
The cameras in street lamps or traffic lights now are extremely low resolution, just good enough to keep track of traffic. In many cases there were put up before there was a way to get the information back out again at anything but low bit rates. I'm in a business that deals with street light controllers and they're not for spying and would be amazingly expensive to do so as high speed networking isn't there. Sure you can be like Verizon and use cellular to get the data back but they're not giving you the sim cards for free.
Someone could of course add real spy cameras but that's separate and distinct from IoT.
Yes, it's crapware. ATI has the same thing. You think you're just getting an updated driver but you're getting a large chunk of software that wants to be your entire gaming front end, including social media and advertising. How's it know which games you own? It scans your drive... So now, if you don't want an online account so you can be tracked, then tough luck, be like one of those luddites who games without Nvidia looking over your shoulder.
When will Slashdot stop being an apologist for creaky old Intel designs?
Yes, what's wrong with Sparc?
IT is the modern equivalent of the assembly line worker 75 years ago. Education requirements are relatively low and there are millions of other people with the same skills you have.
Technical education in India is very spotty and in many cases is just awful. Yes, you see a lot of really good Indian workers in the US but these are generally the best of the best and not the average phone tech support people. It's also one reason India focuses incredibly heavy on IT because these are the sorts of rote jobs that can be done over the internet or phone with moderate educations.
UCSF, not surprisingly, is in an extremely expensive area that has difficulty finding affordable housing for essential services (police, fire, teachers, etc). So no wonder the bean counters are worrying about paying for local workers in cases where being local is not necessary or the skills required are fungible. I don't think quality here is an issue, given the large number of IT workers that campus has.
On the other hand, they seemed to be very top heavy with IT staff. UCSF has 1686 academic staff (plus other staff). They've got 565 people in their IT department. That's 1 IT person for every 3 profs? Granted, outsourcing is not a good idea at all but they definitely could have used with a good paring down.
Or if you're in the US, hope you don't get cancer because most people can't afford medical insurance plans that would cover all the necessary costs.
Of course, not every social program is required to copy from Canada. Our Medicare/Medicaid in the US is not bad, if only it could be expanded to cover more than old people. You will always be able to get better care if you're rich though, but that's not the goal of social medical programs.
What if you don't have Bluetooth headphones? The audio jack worked perfectly and was not broken or dysfunctional. It worked across most models of phone and other devices trivially. There is no new advantage to the consumer to the new Apple method.
So if they removed all USB adapters from a mac book, would you say that's ok because everyone can just buy thunderbolt adapters instead or store the data in the cloud?
I'm surprised it wasn't already water resistant. Quite a lot of phones are.
Change for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing. Newer is not the same as better. We have fans of gadgets who worship anything new whether or not they are good for the consumer, and that's the market that Apple aims for. You don't need to be a luddite to recognize the drawbacks here.
You can buy lots of macaroni without cheese, you can find more macaroni without cheese than you can find packaged with cheese. Mac and cheese is not a monopoly so the same rules don't apply to it that would apply to a monopoly.
Of course this may be moot given that Microsoft is going down the drain fast, but when Vista was current Microsoft still was a monopoly.
Old age is ok, not "fine." I can live with it (I haven't hit retirement so the jury is still out). But all the aches and pains in the morning are annoying. Grrrr. Last decade's edition was a much better release, I should have stuck with it.
Not a lot of places take barter in the US. Though cash works at almost every store I've walked into when the price isn't up into the thousands. I have used a cashier's check to purchase an automobile before, and nothing on the check identified me, although to buy an auto you still have to provide ID.
IT may be a trade, but programming and engineering is not. That's product design and support. I think quite a lot of programming definitely needs the degree. If yu're just doing yet another dumb web page for a dumb startup then sure, "web programming in 21 days" may be good enough. But if you're building and programming a medical device, space satellite, automobile safety systems, etc, then you do not want to treat the team as being composed of fungible and interchangeable personnel. Working with a lot of EE people doing programming, it is very frustrating to see people with 30 years of programming experience who are utterly clueless about basic concepts like algorithms, computability, graph theory, etc, and then they go and try to reinvent things that were done in the 70s.
Then we go back to the days when only elites have good education?
I used to think that way. But I've met some really bright people from DeVry, people I assumed had university electrical engineering degrees based on their competence. I was down on DeVry for a long time because it really is geared towards simplicity and basic tech skills, and they have a seriously hard sell approach to convince parents that their kids are essentially guaranteed "a job" after graduating.
Quote a lot of very good jobs have nothing at all like certificates of competence. If you discount corrupt certificates (classes for sale by creator of certain products) then it's even more rare.
The university degree tells you one thing basically: the candidate is adaptable and can learn.
The certificate tells you only one thing: the candidate can probably do this year's job.
ITT schools were good for the latter - you need a technician fast to do grunt work.