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  1. Re: Google must give extensive oversight. on Some Android GPS Apps Are Just Showing Ads on Top of Google Maps (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    95% of all apps have something basic that the developer downloaded off the internet in order to get their app to pass.

  2. Re: Google must give extensive oversight. on Some Android GPS Apps Are Just Showing Ads on Top of Google Maps (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see how it helps people to have a million boilerplate privacy statements attached to a million apps.

  3. Re:Google must give extensive oversight. on Some Android GPS Apps Are Just Showing Ads on Top of Google Maps (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You talk like I said I couldn't make it through the screening process yet I said no such thing.

  4. I was answering the question.

  5. Re:Google must give extensive oversight. on Some Android GPS Apps Are Just Showing Ads on Top of Google Maps (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "It is a real truggle to get an iOS app approved for Apple's app store." This should read, "Apple makes unreasonable demands on developers.". Recently they forced me to have a valid URL with a privacy statement for crying out loud. Android users always get the best and newest version of my app because I just don't have time to put up with Apple's BS every time.

  6. Any funds used to affect the result of the election much be claimed according to campaign finance laws. Especially if they are obtained under the guise of a home equity credit line.

  7. Re: Bigger fish on WeWork's CEO Makes Millions as Landlord To WeWork (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So that's what American democracy has come to? Trump won so he doesn't have to be honest?

  8. Bigger fish on WeWork's CEO Makes Millions as Landlord To WeWork (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The president of the United States makes billions sending dignitaries with deep pockets to his own resorts and hotels; perhaps that is the bigger issue.

  9. What about people that don't want their kids to have cellphones at all? What about them?

  10. Re:Bad on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok well, I guess it's a lesson to watch what you're paying from month to month and reassess what you are really getting from it. Seems like it has become a constant shell game.

  11. Re:Bad on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I mean.. Slowly it is becoming more expensive with less content, it's easy to look at your account one day and realize that you are paying for basically nothing. There has to be a line. The content on Netflix isn't THAT good. A lot of stuff that is good that I saw years ago and a lot of other stuff that never really made it.

  12. Re:Bad on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care if it is a fallacy or not. I just feel we are on our way to being boiled frogs here and I don't want to be.

  13. Re: Binge/on-demand on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    While what you say is true, I know the cable box I got from my company is awful. I can't filter out channels in the guide that I don't get, the search is a terrible 'exact text on the title', it is slow as some pages take seconds to refresh. It hangs, sometimes ignoring the remote altogether until minutes later when it does all the buttons you pressed all at once. I have never looked at the on demand and I would never conceive the thought of doing so, since the portal I have to do it with is so inconceivably bad. Literally they could use a Kodi plugin and be miles ahead in technology.

  14. Well if it sounds like if people don't want that, they need to start paying for services like this (if they want them).

  15. Re:Students on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My lord that sounds complicated.

  16. Bad on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I joined Netlix because the price was more reasonable than cable.

    That price point seems to work for them because they are not only overtaking cable but they have money to create original content too.

    How long before Netflix becomes just as bad as cable?

  17. Oh I get it... I forgot people still don't have smart phones.

  18. Why can't everyone else install the app?

  19. I don't understand why Remind wants to use SMS so badly? Install an app and communicate through that. This isn't a problem.

  20. This completely goes against the ultra-secure impression I had of shared web hosting companies!

  21. You don't have to use it if you don't want to; just don't go to the design screen and edit the XML directly. Normally I'll create the screen that was and just confirm on the UI. As opposed to XCode, in which you really have no choice if you want to work with a storyboard or an xib.

  22. Yeah IntelliJ isn't bad. I used Eclipse for a long time and there were a lot of long time complaints that IntelliJ seemed to listen to.

  23. Re:This is where being an old curmudgeon is a bene on Streaming TV May Never Again Be as Simple, or as Affordable, as It is Now (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    But hold on, what does the subscription cost for Roku? You mean to tell me I'm going to have to worry about paying for Amazon Go + Netflix + Roku?

  24. It's a pretty good editor considering it works fairly flawlessly on all operating systems. The UI visualizers have gotten pretty good too, considering they also work on all operating systems.

  25. Re:This is where being an old curmudgeon is a bene on Streaming TV May Never Again Be as Simple, or as Affordable, as It is Now (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you watch first run HBO on Roku?