What I was expecting was the usual from Samsung: another explosive product. Well, I guess that Samsung is not a company on fire, after all. After this, people are probably not burning with anticipation any more.
We didn't ditch cable to end up with the same nonsense in streaming. I don't want access to eight Discovery channels. I might be interested in, say Animal Planet. On the other hand, you know where you can stick OWN.
NO BUNDLING, PEOPLE! I want to pay for what I want to watch. I do NOT want to pay for what I despise, which I am not going to watch anyway. Ergo, Google, you know where you can stick your YouTube TV.
They just don't go to the movies. That does not imply they don't go outside. There are many ways of going outside without going to the movies. Plus, arguably, if you are afraid to get burnt by the sun, going to the movies is an excellent way of preventing that.
They have their place all right, but I hate it when the main text in books is printed out in sans-serif fonts. I instinctively feel that I am being treated condescendingly when reading such books.
If you are OK with people being able to read all your emails then, by all means, use it. The truth is that this is another email client app among the scores of email client apps available under Android - it doesn't really have any distinguishing features that make it more (or less) compelling than any other such apps.
One of the side effects of security is that things become more clumsy and inconvenient. When something becomes more convenient, chances are it also becomes less secure. Pick your poison.
And, as usual, nothing much will happen. The vast majority just pay lip service to security, but don't really put their money where their mouth is. Why? Because it is not worth their while. It is far easier, and better for their bottom line, to talk big about security, than actually taking the necessary security steps. Because when the inevitable security "disaster" occurs, nothing much happens. And that is the case because it is not in the interest of any of the major players for anything much to happen. Which is why this really is a nonevent, and why ASUS will carry on selling their stuff pretty much as though nothing had happened, without having to compensate anyone for the damage inflicted by - in this case - ASUS's lackadaisical approach to security - in a few weeks time, somebody else will be in the hot seat anyway.
Until security issues have serious repercussions (not Mickey Mouse ones) on those responsible, nothing will change.
Indeed. Forcing Google to fork over $1.7B is like forcing me to fork over a couple of hundred dollars - it would annoy me, but it wouldn't compel me to change whatever ways that resulted in that fine, especially if they contribute to my income.
Why is it the case that objects in videos that show off graphics capabilities always look shiny, brand-new, crisp, all the time? Even when they are supposed to be old and dusty, they manage to look very shiny, brand-new and crisp.
I am not dissing it; I am just trying to understand its relevance - not being a gamer, I guess that it won't be very relevant to me. Nevertheless, I would be interested to learn in what other areas this is likely to have an impact.
When you are very light - ants and bees can transport objects many times their own weight, not because they are very strong, but because they are very small and light. Volume (and therefore mass) grows with the third power of one-dimensional increments.
That sounds optimistic - I think that we have yet to reach the point at which we can tell with certainty that that will at all be feasible. Forget when.
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What I was expecting was the usual from Samsung: another explosive product. Well, I guess that Samsung is not a company on fire, after all. After this, people are probably not burning with anticipation any more.
As usual, several years late. Without a monopoly to leverage, chances are this will fizzle - par for the course for MS.
Tesla's death is a bit like Linux in the desktop, or the Second Coming: they are events to supposed to happen "any time now" every year.
5 is a limited number. So is 100 million. How many, Microsoft?
We didn't ditch cable to end up with the same nonsense in streaming. I don't want access to eight Discovery channels. I might be interested in, say Animal Planet. On the other hand, you know where you can stick OWN.
NO BUNDLING, PEOPLE! I want to pay for what I want to watch. I do NOT want to pay for what I despise, which I am not going to watch anyway. Ergo, Google, you know where you can stick your YouTube TV.
They just don't go to the movies. That does not imply they don't go outside. There are many ways of going outside without going to the movies. Plus, arguably, if you are afraid to get burnt by the sun, going to the movies is an excellent way of preventing that.
They have their place all right, but I hate it when the main text in books is printed out in sans-serif fonts. I instinctively feel that I am being treated condescendingly when reading such books.
You already know, Microsoft, where you can stick your snap.
If you are OK with people being able to read all your emails then, by all means, use it. The truth is that this is another email client app among the scores of email client apps available under Android - it doesn't really have any distinguishing features that make it more (or less) compelling than any other such apps.
After all, nothing EVER went wrong when MS tried this kind of thing before.
One of the side effects of security is that things become more clumsy and inconvenient. When something becomes more convenient, chances are it also becomes less secure. Pick your poison.
For they will have taken back control.
If it forces you to have Apple hardware/software then include me out.
And, as usual, nothing much will happen. The vast majority just pay lip service to security, but don't really put their money where their mouth is. Why? Because it is not worth their while. It is far easier, and better for their bottom line, to talk big about security, than actually taking the necessary security steps. Because when the inevitable security "disaster" occurs, nothing much happens. And that is the case because it is not in the interest of any of the major players for anything much to happen. Which is why this really is a nonevent, and why ASUS will carry on selling their stuff pretty much as though nothing had happened, without having to compensate anyone for the damage inflicted by - in this case - ASUS's lackadaisical approach to security - in a few weeks time, somebody else will be in the hot seat anyway.
Until security issues have serious repercussions (not Mickey Mouse ones) on those responsible, nothing will change.
I will therefore give them a big middle finger while I forego watching any of their stinking ads.
The name change won't prevent from carrying on giving them the middle finger.
Take fewer baths? The Brits do not have a reputation for being the best at personal hygiene - don't give them any ideas.
That's what countries without such a generous rain supply have done.
Indeed. Forcing Google to fork over $1.7B is like forcing me to fork over a couple of hundred dollars - it would annoy me, but it wouldn't compel me to change whatever ways that resulted in that fine, especially if they contribute to my income.
Why is it the case that objects in videos that show off graphics capabilities always look shiny, brand-new, crisp, all the time? Even when they are supposed to be old and dusty, they manage to look very shiny, brand-new and crisp.
I am not dissing it; I am just trying to understand its relevance - not being a gamer, I guess that it won't be very relevant to me. Nevertheless, I would be interested to learn in what other areas this is likely to have an impact.
He remains what he has always been: a KGB thug.
When you are very light - ants and bees can transport objects many times their own weight, not because they are very strong, but because they are very small and light. Volume (and therefore mass) grows with the third power of one-dimensional increments.
Google, the company with the attention span of a two year-old.
That sounds optimistic - I think that we have yet to reach the point at which we can tell with certainty that that will at all be feasible. Forget when.