They're definitely making this an Apple-like product. They match pace with "You're holding it wrong" with their own "You're letting it stand still in the wrong place"
Pressed media far outlasts cheap write-once or rewritable discs. Early CD-Rs had a serious longevity problem. That's mostly solved. You can easily get 20 years out of a burned disc with moderately careful storage.
A pressed disc in a good storage environment will easily last 50+ years.
The mid-range flash cells have been stagnant on price for a while. The 250GB Samsung 850 EVO spent most of 2015 and 2016 at $90. Now it's $100. Sure there are a lot of cheaper options, but at this rate of change, I don't have much hope for 1TB coming down in price any time soon.
I'm on a similar schedule - though I went for ~$100 each for 3TB drives since I have (presumably) higher storage needs and only 4 SATA ports available for RAID. The low end hasn't dropped fast enough (and I need more storage) and you get more bits for your buck at the higher price if you need it.
You'll be lucky if even 3TB drives hit the $50 mark in the next 3 years. In fact, the 3TB drives I bought almost 2 years ago are still over $80.
This might be more of a browser UI problem. Locking the regular pinch zoom is required to make responsive designs work, due to how the viewport is set up. However, the browser doesn't replace that with a standard viewport zoom. The desktop browsers actually have a proper zoom for this type of thing, where adjusting the zoom gives you responsive feedback from the web site (zoom in far enough on desktop, you get the mobile view of the site in large print).
This same type of zoom needs to be implemented on mobile browsers for usability.
Weird...how have I never seen this (I swear I leave up Slashdot tabs in the background for hours at a time)? I don't know of any automated cleanup tools, but check the add-ons, manually inspect the profile folder and user.js.
I love RC Cola, but honestly forget it exists and end up buying Pepsi when I want a regular cola. It also usually gets the bottom shelf in the grocery store. Most people younger than me have probably never tried it.
I was more talking about brands you find in a physical store and groceries - so it's a poor example for that, but still common. Product shelf placement and package design is all advertising. Special sale pricing too.
like watching them cause they are entertaining in how they try to convince people
Ah, yes...that wonderful trope of showing someone utterly failing to do something simple, usually in black and white footage.
Please, let them keep thinking that way and spreading misinformation. Until literally every program on TV is crap (instead of 97%) and until there are no longer any real journalism sources at all, advertising pays for a lot of nice things - even if the advertising returns very little to the company paying for it.
This is why "well-known" brands get to price gouge. People assume there's nothing cheaper (or better for the same price) and just follow the same habits. Competition is good, overall. And competition requires some amount of advertising.
Look at how many people using iPhones on AT&T. AT&T is the default choice for those over a certain age, but it's by far the most expensive mainstream carrier.
You do realize that the common usage of the word has changed, right (like much of the English language)? Words like broadband depend on that being the case. In fact, Wikipedia doesn't even mention baud.
Unless you're using that term in a very narrow field of signal processing, that ship has sailed.
Look up the etymology of words like awful, gay, and guy for further examples.
Thanks for the reminder - I had a customer with an old Epson scanner on Windows 10 the same day you posted this. Vendor program would freeze any time you try to scan - Vuescan has a decently familiar UI to anyone that uses built-in scanner software.
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You have a very interesting take on "interference must be accepted"
They're definitely making this an Apple-like product. They match pace with "You're holding it wrong" with their own "You're letting it stand still in the wrong place"
Pressed media far outlasts cheap write-once or rewritable discs. Early CD-Rs had a serious longevity problem. That's mostly solved. You can easily get 20 years out of a burned disc with moderately careful storage.
A pressed disc in a good storage environment will easily last 50+ years.
I predict this will make much more money than the current system could
If true, then people will go back to the now cheaper physical media.
When you apply for a credit card, they usually ask for your current salary to help determine credit limits. Guess where that gets reported.
Well it's a highly specialized title, so they must be an H1B since no US employees are capable of filling it.
I take that back. 2015 was the 120GB model at that price, but 250GB was still under $140 back in 2014.
The mid-range flash cells have been stagnant on price for a while. The 250GB Samsung 850 EVO spent most of 2015 and 2016 at $90. Now it's $100. Sure there are a lot of cheaper options, but at this rate of change, I don't have much hope for 1TB coming down in price any time soon.
Wear-leveling makes "deletion" permanent
That was always a bug and not a feature. If you want a backup, set up a backup.
I'm on a similar schedule - though I went for ~$100 each for 3TB drives since I have (presumably) higher storage needs and only 4 SATA ports available for RAID. The low end hasn't dropped fast enough (and I need more storage) and you get more bits for your buck at the higher price if you need it.
You'll be lucky if even 3TB drives hit the $50 mark in the next 3 years. In fact, the 3TB drives I bought almost 2 years ago are still over $80.
This might be more of a browser UI problem. Locking the regular pinch zoom is required to make responsive designs work, due to how the viewport is set up. However, the browser doesn't replace that with a standard viewport zoom. The desktop browsers actually have a proper zoom for this type of thing, where adjusting the zoom gives you responsive feedback from the web site (zoom in far enough on desktop, you get the mobile view of the site in large print).
This same type of zoom needs to be implemented on mobile browsers for usability.
That's less than two days of work on minimum wage
So if you're on minimum wage, it's about 10% of your income. That seems a little steep to say it's affordable by 95% of people.
Yes. There's a difference between having a "flagship" product and having a "luxury" product, and I think they're losing their sight of the difference.
Weird...how have I never seen this (I swear I leave up Slashdot tabs in the background for hours at a time)? I don't know of any automated cleanup tools, but check the add-ons, manually inspect the profile folder and user.js.
Just because they are scientists, that doesn't mean they are calling it science. If a scientist eats a cheeseburger, that's not science either.
Compare it to DEFCON, except it's civilian and non-actionable.
But it's a bigger score than most Presidents achieve. DJT will probably be bragging soon.
I love RC Cola, but honestly forget it exists and end up buying Pepsi when I want a regular cola. It also usually gets the bottom shelf in the grocery store.
Most people younger than me have probably never tried it.
I was more talking about brands you find in a physical store and groceries - so it's a poor example for that, but still common. Product shelf placement and package design is all advertising. Special sale pricing too.
like watching them cause they are entertaining in how they try to convince people
Ah, yes...that wonderful trope of showing someone utterly failing to do something simple, usually in black and white footage.
Enjoy this gem I just found: Infomercial Struggles Compilation
Every time I've tried without one I get redirected to some crap site.
Don't use ad-blocker in place of cleaning up the malware on your computer. I've never been redirected.
Please, let them keep thinking that way and spreading misinformation. Until literally every program on TV is crap (instead of 97%) and until there are no longer any real journalism sources at all, advertising pays for a lot of nice things - even if the advertising returns very little to the company paying for it.
This is why "well-known" brands get to price gouge. People assume there's nothing cheaper (or better for the same price) and just follow the same habits. Competition is good, overall. And competition requires some amount of advertising.
Look at how many people using iPhones on AT&T. AT&T is the default choice for those over a certain age, but it's by far the most expensive mainstream carrier.
looking at "most" to mean net sales or number of transactions
The 6% figure seems to be counting "receipts" which would lead me to believe "number of transactions."
You do realize that the common usage of the word has changed, right (like much of the English language)? Words like broadband depend on that being the case. In fact, Wikipedia doesn't even mention baud.
Unless you're using that term in a very narrow field of signal processing, that ship has sailed.
Look up the etymology of words like awful, gay, and guy for further examples.
Thanks for the reminder - I had a customer with an old Epson scanner on Windows 10 the same day you posted this. Vendor program would freeze any time you try to scan - Vuescan has a decently familiar UI to anyone that uses built-in scanner software.
Which the article barely acknowledged - without even a link to the source.