Please do that. A lot of users uninstalling Shazam in the days following this news coming out WILL actually send them a message - it's far more direct and measurable. Rest assured, they'll know you uninstalled it, they'll have made sure of that!
The only thing I can complain about is that the 2 and 3 haven't had anything worthy of upgrading my 1.
Isn't that a good thing? It strikes me as strange that today many consumers just want something "better" every year, even without really knowing what it is they want.
How about you accept incremental upgrades every year, wait until you think it's worth it, and you get a significant upgrade after 3 or 4 years - and most importantly, you're not risking being an early adopter every time, as much of the tech is 2/3 years tested.
To play devil's advocate - some emergency situations might actually be easier escaped if there are fewer people slowing down to take video or make a phone call.
Thing is, someone with courage will just act and do it with no regard for themselves. That's precisely what it means.
I've no problem with you making a calculated decision, but calling that other guy stupid and not courageous displays insecurity about your own courage. Just accept that guy is braver than you and give him credit for it.
There are varying degrees of "lossy" - though I agree, "visually lossless" doesn't give a very scientific description of where this lies on the scale. But there is a scale.
Removable batteries come with the trade-off of a bulkier device and/or reduced battery capacity. The G5 is slightly larger then the S7 (149.4 x 73.9 x 7.7mm vs 142.4 x 69.9 x 7.9mm) , slightly heavier (159g vs 152g) and has a battery that holds a slightly lower charge (2800mAh vs 3000mAh). Personally I prefer a sleeker device with a higher battery capacity to removable batteries. Fortunately unlike the IOS ecosystem, Android is a open platform and there is a plethora of devices out there to satisfy most anyones needs and budgets
Ok, 2mm thicker (though smaller in the other dimensions) I can almost buy, but 7g heavier - are you seriously saying this is important?
And do you really care about the battery capacity in mAh? It's how long it lasts that matters - until there are relevant battery tests, you don't know if that 200mAh actually translates to something useful.
Even those that travel for work would probably be better off buying a separate portable screen and keyboard to set up in the hotel room.
Probably better off in meetings too. Though imagine the embarrassment when you've spent 3 or 4 minutes hooking it all* together and you realise you've forgotten the mouse.
* NUC machine, power brick, screen, hdmi cable, screen power brick, keyboard
We could put it on all downhills in a certain grade range. Steal power from the brakes.
More and more cars are reusing braking energy by storing it in batteries. So you're still stealing energy that could be better used by the car itself.
Also local roads with traffic that burn gas inefficiently should be ok too. They don't run the engine efficiently so stealing some excess power should be ok.
Isn't that even worse? If the car is running inefficiently, it has to generate more gross energy in order to impart the same net energy in the piezo-roadway - more waste.
People seem to forget that when these guys were test pilots, they were dying left right and centre. Then they became astronauts (i.e. in the public eye) and were suddenly indispensable.
It's spam when a commercial entity gives you a quick means of shilling their product without stopping to think "do my friends really give a shit?" It's doubly spam if your friends email is ever provided to Amazon in this process without their consent.
I would argue that it's spam only in the case where Amazon send direct messages to people without their consent. If they make it easier for you to do it, but their own servers don't actually get involved, I can't see the problem - then it's the purchaser who's sending the message, regardless who composed it.
I guess with the email option, it must be Amazon's servers that send the message - in which case I fully agree that constitutes spam.
My first instinct was to praise the department for the "measured" response of not hauling the kid into the station in handcuffs, interrogating him for hours without his parents, and then (when they realize the deep trouble they're in) leaking a story that the kid/family is secretly evil in some way.
Indeed, many seem to be taking the over-the-top route these days - or at least they're being reported more often as doing so.
Maybe/hopefully, there are still a large majority of unreported well-handled cases.
In an ideal (sensible) world, doing this would make the iPhone fail, due to lacking a very important and standard feature in order to achieve something that has no real effect on the user (unnecessary thinness).
But in the real world, the iPhone 7 will sell with or without at 3.5mm jack, and worse than that - others will then do the same, reducing (or at least heavily segmenting) consumer options.
But I'm sure if somebody did research it (which incidentally I think would be really interesting), the first reaction would again be "how obvious, I knew that already!"
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Please do that. A lot of users uninstalling Shazam in the days following this news coming out WILL actually send them a message - it's far more direct and measurable. Rest assured, they'll know you uninstalled it, they'll have made sure of that!
The only thing I can complain about is that the 2 and 3 haven't had anything worthy of upgrading my 1.
Isn't that a good thing? It strikes me as strange that today many consumers just want something "better" every year, even without really knowing what it is they want.
How about you accept incremental upgrades every year, wait until you think it's worth it, and you get a significant upgrade after 3 or 4 years - and most importantly, you're not risking being an early adopter every time, as much of the tech is 2/3 years tested.
This way a lot of people will just accept the ease of quickly getting a Samsung replacement, and not wander off and buy another brand.
To play devil's advocate - some emergency situations might actually be easier escaped if there are fewer people slowing down to take video or make a phone call.
That in 20 years you can sell to a collector for about a grand.
It costs almost a grand today!!
If you're this negative about a young kid's achievements, I dread the thought of how you deal with their failures.
Thing is, someone with courage will just act and do it with no regard for themselves. That's precisely what it means.
I've no problem with you making a calculated decision, but calling that other guy stupid and not courageous displays insecurity about your own courage. Just accept that guy is braver than you and give him credit for it.
It's included, it's not free! The box itself probably costs about as much as that adapter to produce!
What about when those earphones are plugged into something else?
Don't assume everything is black or white.
There are varying degrees of "lossy" - though I agree, "visually lossless" doesn't give a very scientific description of where this lies on the scale. But there is a scale.
Removable batteries come with the trade-off of a bulkier device and/or reduced battery capacity. The G5 is slightly larger then the S7 (149.4 x 73.9 x 7.7mm vs 142.4 x 69.9 x 7.9mm) , slightly heavier (159g vs 152g) and has a battery that holds a slightly lower charge (2800mAh vs 3000mAh). Personally I prefer a sleeker device with a higher battery capacity to removable batteries. Fortunately unlike the IOS ecosystem, Android is a open platform and there is a plethora of devices out there to satisfy most anyones needs and budgets
Ok, 2mm thicker (though smaller in the other dimensions) I can almost buy, but 7g heavier - are you seriously saying this is important?
And do you really care about the battery capacity in mAh? It's how long it lasts that matters - until there are relevant battery tests, you don't know if that 200mAh actually translates to something useful.
Never take the receiver out of the USB port, and there's nothing to set up. NUC, power brick, monitor, HDMI cable, power cable, wireless keyboard.
Ah, wireless keyboard! That's what I was missing, now it all makes sense.
They could log keystrokes without buying SwiftKey.
Maybe they just want to add a great keyboard to their windows phones, without allowing 3rd party keyboard support.
Put in a second hard drive - most take them. Make sure they can stay cool, and they'll do the job.
How does this speed up big software builds (the point the parent was making) - especially if you already have an SSD?
A computer is a computer and todays laptops beat the crap out of the machines we were using a decade ago - and this will always be true.
So true. But today's desktops beat the crap out of today's laptops.
Whatever is top-of-the-line today will be thought of as crap down the road. And yet it does the job. "Good enough" computing is here to stay.
For many use cases. But you keep ignoring the use cases others have pointed out which will always benefit from having state of the art hardware.
How long a technology is in existence isn't necessarily the same as how long it's been in widespread use.
Even those that travel for work would probably be better off buying a separate portable screen and keyboard to set up in the hotel room.
Probably better off in meetings too. Though imagine the embarrassment when you've spent 3 or 4 minutes hooking it all* together and you realise you've forgotten the mouse.
* NUC machine, power brick, screen, hdmi cable, screen power brick, keyboard
We could put it on all downhills in a certain grade range. Steal power from the brakes.
More and more cars are reusing braking energy by storing it in batteries. So you're still stealing energy that could be better used by the car itself.
Also local roads with traffic that burn gas inefficiently should be ok too. They don't run the engine efficiently so stealing some excess power should be ok.
Isn't that even worse? If the car is running inefficiently, it has to generate more gross energy in order to impart the same net energy in the piezo-roadway - more waste.
People seem to forget that when these guys were test pilots, they were dying left right and centre. Then they became astronauts (i.e. in the public eye) and were suddenly indispensable.
It's spam when a commercial entity gives you a quick means of shilling their product without stopping to think "do my friends really give a shit?" It's doubly spam if your friends email is ever provided to Amazon in this process without their consent.
I would argue that it's spam only in the case where Amazon send direct messages to people without their consent. If they make it easier for you to do it, but their own servers don't actually get involved, I can't see the problem - then it's the purchaser who's sending the message, regardless who composed it.
I guess with the email option, it must be Amazon's servers that send the message - in which case I fully agree that constitutes spam.
My first instinct was to praise the department for the "measured" response of not hauling the kid into the station in handcuffs, interrogating him for hours without his parents, and then (when they realize the deep trouble they're in) leaking a story that the kid/family is secretly evil in some way.
Indeed, many seem to be taking the over-the-top route these days - or at least they're being reported more often as doing so.
Maybe/hopefully, there are still a large majority of unreported well-handled cases.
Imagine if, by ASTRONOMICAL coincidence, New Horizons could do a fly by in a few decades... the conspiracy theorists would go nuts.
Come to think of it, maybe I'd join them.
This is what worries me:
In an ideal (sensible) world, doing this would make the iPhone fail, due to lacking a very important and standard feature in order to achieve something that has no real effect on the user (unnecessary thinness).
But in the real world, the iPhone 7 will sell with or without at 3.5mm jack, and worse than that - others will then do the same, reducing (or at least heavily segmenting) consumer options.
It already happened with micro SD slots.
I am sad to see that even here, there needs to be a discussion on Paris. I came here to avoid that news.
You're free to read one of the many other stories on Slashdot. Nothing's forcing you to choose this one.
You said it yourself - "may or may not". I'm just arguing that we shouldn't immediately just jump on "may not".
I don't know.
But I'm sure if somebody did research it (which incidentally I think would be really interesting), the first reaction would again be "how obvious, I knew that already!"