There are absolutely no tiles in my Windows 10 start menu.
You ARE aware there's a text menu to the left of the tiles, and you can right-click the tiles and Unpin them and they go away, leaving you with just an old-style all-text-with-little-icons Start Menu, right?
There are some things about 10's start menu that I don't like, but 'huge colorful tiles instead of a list of programs' is absolutely invalid.
The gag is that you have to keep continuously moving upwards because a line of corruption that looks like the Pac-Man 256 level glitch keeps slowly moving up the screen.
Well, you could always put a combination lock on your door and carry cash in a money clip - then you can leave your wallet and keys at home, at least!
Actually, I have a phone case that has a spot for a couple credit cards. That's been fairly handy; it's for a smallish phone, so I just consider 'phone + case' to be wallet, with my ID and debit card in it.
'Unreadable' doesn't necessarily mean 'written at a level that is too difficult to read'.
It can mean 'This is such utter crap that I just can't read it.'
I can think of a book or two I stopped reading because the main characters were so unlikeable, but I don't recall not finishing one because of sheer badness.
Ectaco Jetbook Color 2. It's $500, has a 9.7" screen, and is color e-ink, which despite being kind of muddy is probably better for technical stuff than black and white.
I haven't used one, but I ran across it when looking for a reader. I didn't get it because I don't want a screen that big - I mostly read novels on mine.
I use a Boyue T62+ which is a 6" screen lit reader with physical buttons running Android 4.2. Battery life isn't as good as my 'dumb' readers, but up till this Kindle the combination of 'lit screen' and 'buttons' was very hard to find.
The reason I didn't get a Kindle when my Cybook Opus broke was the lack of page-turn buttons. I've used a touchscreen Kindle. It drove me nuts.
Tap for next page. No? Tap. TAP. taptaptap. Okay th- no that was TWO pages. AUGH.
I wound up getting a Boyue T61. It's got an e-ink screen with a light, page-turn buttons, and it can handle all the common ebook formats - ePub, MobiPocket, PDF, cbz/cbr, and so on.
It doesn't have the Play Store but the Amazon Appstore and the Goodereader store install, so you can even use it to read Kindle and Nook books.
Running non-reader Android apps is iffy; they usually run but an e-ink screen just isn't suitable. (Trying to watch a video is hilariously bad.)
The only downside is battery life compared to a simple e-reader. I get about a week out of it. But I wasn't able to find a plain reader that has both a light and buttons.
Australia doesn't have license-equivalent ID cards? In the US you can go to whichever office issues driver's licenses in your state and get a non-driver ID card. The ID requirements for getting it are the same as a license, you just don't take a test.
It'll turn off the free streaming, and turn off rate reduction, and your video use will be counted in your data allotment and not restricted.
The advantage of the Binge On stuff for unlimited data customers is that it doesn't count against your hotspot data use even if you're streaming to a laptop, and you get one free movie rental a month from some service I've never used so I have no idea if it's any good.
Getting pissed off without bothering to find out if something's true is a bit silly.
It's very efficient. Not only does it support enormous levels with tremendous draw distance, and not only does it handle enormous enemy counts, it does all this while supporting four player on one PC splitscreen.
And it does all this on what was modest hardware at the time.
Serious Sam's poly counts per enemy were never the highest, but when you throw entire mobs of them on the screen without slowdown, it gets impressive.
I recall a user-made level that was just one big field with the player, a minigun, ammo spawns, and one thousand enemies. In one wave. And the engine handled it.
My car insurance already includes the important part of what AAA offers: Roadside assistance.
Otherwise... they have a travel agent. I haven't used one of those since airline ticket bookings went on line. They offer passport photos, which I can get just about anywhere. They have 'emergency check cashing' but I haven't carried a checkbook in a decade. There are insurance benefits, but I've already got insurance. There are route planning services,but Google Maps has that covered.
So unless you're going to buy enough stuff from their discount partners to make back the cost of the membership, it ain't worth it.
The Lexus hoverboard uses superconducting electromagnets and a skate park with magnets in the surface; it requires both charging and refills of liquid nitrogen.
The Hendo hoverboard works on a magnetic interference effect. It requires a conductive but nonmagnetic surface - copper or aluminum, say - and just needs recharging, but it's rather loud.
The Hendo is bulkier than the Lexus, but copper or aluminum have GOT to be a lot cheaper than building a magnetic park.
Stream unlimited video FREE on your favorite streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Sling, ESPN, Showtime, Starz and more without ever using your high-speed data.
Plus, almost all other video streaming is optimized for mobile so you watch 3 times more video with your data plan.
So what's the headline here? 'Telco provides exactly the service they claim to provide'?
If they were downgrading video when Binge On was turned OFF, then THAT would be news.
If your oven doesn't have a clock on it, how do you program 'cook food for 28 minutes at 400 degrees to be done at 3:30 PM'?
I've been able to do that since the '80s. Do most stoves not have this function? It's great when you don't have a lot of time for lunch and want to come home for a hot meal already done.
I couldn't do that in my last apartment, but that stove didn't have a clock on it. The current electric does, and the gas oven I had earlier did it.
It's because chest-type freezers are kind of a pain in the butt to actually use.
They're great for storage long term, or bulk things, but I always wind up transferring things from my deep freeze to my regular freezer to actually use them.
Roast in the deep freeze? Fine, that's fairly large, easy to find. Individual serving size bowls of potato soup I'm saving to reheat? Wind up scattered all over and hidden.
I do have a French door fridge (freezer on the bottom) and the main attraction is that the fridge is easier to work with, since none of the shelves are below waist height. The freezer part has a sliding wire rack and some adjustable dividers.
Why would a gamer want to dedicate an SSD for swap?
I only have 16 gigs of RAM, and my swapfile has never grown past the minimum 800 megs it's set to. Unless you're mangling massive data sets you shouldn't need swap at all, and that isn't a gaming-PC workload.
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Other than games, I've bought a few apps.
Paid SSH clients with more functionality than free ones.
A DOSbox manager, for ease in running DOS games. (Screw the crappy mobile Dungeon Keeper, I've got the original!)
A remote desktop app that worked considerably better than VNC or RD.
Plex. Plex is well worth the five bucks to be able to access all my stuff on my media server from anywhere.
But most of my purchases are games or game-related, like emulators.
I don't have an issue with games killing my battery normally, but my phone has a much larger battery than most so I have plenty of 'extra'.
There's no unused menu real estate to the right of it.
Because I clicked on the right edge of the menu and dragged it to the left and collapsed the space.
The only thing the Win7 start menu had that the Win10 menu doesn't, that I miss - and I agree this is a pain in the ass - are nested submenus.
But 'wasted screen space' and 'mandatory tiles' just aren't true.
There are absolutely no tiles in my Windows 10 start menu.
You ARE aware there's a text menu to the left of the tiles, and you can right-click the tiles and Unpin them and they go away, leaving you with just an old-style all-text-with-little-icons Start Menu, right?
There are some things about 10's start menu that I don't like, but 'huge colorful tiles instead of a list of programs' is absolutely invalid.
Blackberry said they could've made the Priv thinner but didn't want to cut down on the battery.
It's a 3400 mAh battery, so it's bigger than what most phones have.
Of course, a slider wasn't really going to win the 'thinness race' no matter how small they made the battery.
The gag is that you have to keep continuously moving upwards because a line of corruption that looks like the Pac-Man 256 level glitch keeps slowly moving up the screen.
Well, you could always put a combination lock on your door and carry cash in a money clip - then you can leave your wallet and keys at home, at least!
Actually, I have a phone case that has a spot for a couple credit cards. That's been fairly handy; it's for a smallish phone, so I just consider 'phone + case' to be wallet, with my ID and debit card in it.
Timex still has cheap watches. The Marathon has an MSRP of about $23 and runs about $15 in a lot of places.
You can get cheapo Timexes for ten bucks on sale if you look around.
'Unreadable' doesn't necessarily mean 'written at a level that is too difficult to read'.
It can mean 'This is such utter crap that I just can't read it.'
I can think of a book or two I stopped reading because the main characters were so unlikeable, but I don't recall not finishing one because of sheer badness.
Ectaco Jetbook Color 2. It's $500, has a 9.7" screen, and is color e-ink, which despite being kind of muddy is probably better for technical stuff than black and white.
I haven't used one, but I ran across it when looking for a reader. I didn't get it because I don't want a screen that big - I mostly read novels on mine.
I use a Boyue T62+ which is a 6" screen lit reader with physical buttons running Android 4.2. Battery life isn't as good as my 'dumb' readers, but up till this Kindle the combination of 'lit screen' and 'buttons' was very hard to find.
That's because it's not out yet.
The reason I didn't get a Kindle when my Cybook Opus broke was the lack of page-turn buttons. I've used a touchscreen Kindle. It drove me nuts.
Tap for next page. No? Tap. TAP. taptaptap. Okay th- no that was TWO pages. AUGH.
I wound up getting a Boyue T61. It's got an e-ink screen with a light, page-turn buttons, and it can handle all the common ebook formats - ePub, MobiPocket, PDF, cbz/cbr, and so on.
It doesn't have the Play Store but the Amazon Appstore and the Goodereader store install, so you can even use it to read Kindle and Nook books.
Running non-reader Android apps is iffy; they usually run but an e-ink screen just isn't suitable. (Trying to watch a video is hilariously bad.)
The only downside is battery life compared to a simple e-reader. I get about a week out of it. But I wasn't able to find a plain reader that has both a light and buttons.
Right here. http://www.jetbook.net/
They're $500. Fujitsu also makes one, but it's about $1500.
Color e-ink is really, really complicated.
Not that I use it, but IFTTT should work on a Priv just fine, and probably on a Q10, Z30, or Passport if it's running 10.3.
Australia doesn't have license-equivalent ID cards? In the US you can go to whichever office issues driver's licenses in your state and get a non-driver ID card. The ID requirements for getting it are the same as a license, you just don't take a test.
So log into your account and opt out.
It'll turn off the free streaming, and turn off rate reduction, and your video use will be counted in your data allotment and not restricted.
The advantage of the Binge On stuff for unlimited data customers is that it doesn't count against your hotspot data use even if you're streaming to a laptop, and you get one free movie rental a month from some service I've never used so I have no idea if it's any good.
Getting pissed off without bothering to find out if something's true is a bit silly.
It's very efficient. Not only does it support enormous levels with tremendous draw distance, and not only does it handle enormous enemy counts, it does all this while supporting four player on one PC splitscreen.
And it does all this on what was modest hardware at the time.
Serious Sam's poly counts per enemy were never the highest, but when you throw entire mobs of them on the screen without slowdown, it gets impressive.
I recall a user-made level that was just one big field with the player, a minigun, ammo spawns, and one thousand enemies. In one wave. And the engine handled it.
My car insurance already includes the important part of what AAA offers: Roadside assistance.
Otherwise... they have a travel agent. I haven't used one of those since airline ticket bookings went on line. They offer passport photos, which I can get just about anywhere. They have 'emergency check cashing' but I haven't carried a checkbook in a decade. There are insurance benefits, but I've already got insurance. There are route planning services,but Google Maps has that covered.
So unless you're going to buy enough stuff from their discount partners to make back the cost of the membership, it ain't worth it.
The Lexus hoverboard uses superconducting electromagnets and a skate park with magnets in the surface; it requires both charging and refills of liquid nitrogen.
The Hendo hoverboard works on a magnetic interference effect. It requires a conductive but nonmagnetic surface - copper or aluminum, say - and just needs recharging, but it's rather loud.
The Hendo is bulkier than the Lexus, but copper or aluminum have GOT to be a lot cheaper than building a magnetic park.
It's a corporation; it's owned by shareholders. (It's not a subsidiary of someone else, which is probably what you meant.)
The current chairman is a longtime friend of the late Peter Morgan, apparently.
Morgans are all still hand-built, though they may have improved efficiency in their assembly; the waiting list is apparently down to six months.
I don't get the complaint.
Binge On specifically says that certain providers don't count against your data cap at all, and others will be processed to use less data.
Quoted from http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/... :
So what's the headline here? 'Telco provides exactly the service they claim to provide'?
If they were downgrading video when Binge On was turned OFF, then THAT would be news.
If your oven doesn't have a clock on it, how do you program 'cook food for 28 minutes at 400 degrees to be done at 3:30 PM'?
I've been able to do that since the '80s. Do most stoves not have this function? It's great when you don't have a lot of time for lunch and want to come home for a hot meal already done.
I couldn't do that in my last apartment, but that stove didn't have a clock on it. The current electric does, and the gas oven I had earlier did it.
It's because chest-type freezers are kind of a pain in the butt to actually use.
They're great for storage long term, or bulk things, but I always wind up transferring things from my deep freeze to my regular freezer to actually use them.
Roast in the deep freeze? Fine, that's fairly large, easy to find. Individual serving size bowls of potato soup I'm saving to reheat? Wind up scattered all over and hidden.
I do have a French door fridge (freezer on the bottom) and the main attraction is that the fridge is easier to work with, since none of the shelves are below waist height. The freezer part has a sliding wire rack and some adjustable dividers.
Cellular goes down a LOT MORE OFTEN than hardlines get cut.
'common burglars' don't do either. The break in, grab some stuff, and take off before anyone can respond to an alarm.
I have a Windows 10 tablet, and Edge is the primary browser I use on it.
It's the only browser that even comes close to having a touch-capable UI. Both Firefox and Chrome removed their touch UIs.
Touch UIs suck on a desktop but they're rather important when you're using a, you know, touch device.
If I'm using my tablet with a keyboard and mouse I usually use something else because Edge lacks adblock, but that's not a terribly common situation.
Of the non-Edge browsers I've tried, Opera comes closest to being usable on a 9" touchscreen, but it's still pretty rough.
Why would a gamer want to dedicate an SSD for swap?
I only have 16 gigs of RAM, and my swapfile has never grown past the minimum 800 megs it's set to. Unless you're mangling massive data sets you shouldn't need swap at all, and that isn't a gaming-PC workload.