I'm sure that they are talking about Google-branded phones, not just Android devices. But they're still wrong, because Nexus phones had lower MSRP than iPhones. Whoever wrote this article clearly knows exactly dick about smartphone history. Good for them, but someone else should have written this slashvertisement (autocorrect: slaveowner)
This is not Google's first lower priced smartphone. Before there was Pixel, there was Nexus. The Nexus 4 debuted at $299/349. Its timely competition, the iPhone 5, cost literally $300 more.
YouTube order is like Google order, in that it is weighted by what they think you want to see through a combination of age and apparent relevance, and of course ad placement.
What's super duper sad about Twitter is that they can't manage chronological order even when they're trying. Google actually can, they just generally don't want to. Posts on G+ would appear chronologically, for example. Maybe that's the real reason plus is going away, users expect posts to appear in chronological order, and that's not what Google wants.
So as the USA pays minimal wage that is below an actual living wage, the rest of the world should put on a tariffs on goods from the USA. is that what your telling us?
Yep. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander. I'm not proud of American wages or employment.
Wait, so the fact that phones 6+ years old now (you said "prior to the iPhone 5s") should still be supported? Can you name one single phone, Android or otherwise, that gets updates that far out?
You can install most current apps (especially google apps) on JellyBean, from 2013. Play Services was still supported on ICS (from 2011) until December of last year. Looks like decoupling all that stuff into Play Services was a savvy move for Google. And their support for older hardware is going to be even better going forward, since they've adopted a HAL.
Those devices also didn't get iOS 12, thus they never had group Facetime and hence weren't affected by the bug. Your point is irrelevant.
Genuine LOL. Those devices couldn't have a mere app upgrade because they couldn't get the OS upgrade that Apple made a deliberate decision not to bring to them in order to drive sales of newer models, and my point is supposed to somehow be irrelevant? The situation is actually worse than I imagined. How Applethetic.
Square is cheaper than other CC processors, and collects no more information. AFAIK they are cheaper and less sleazy than Paypal. So what's to hate about Square?
And no offline copies of the VM environment? I think of those as especially precious. DO I want to rebuild those from scratch? Nope.
They probably didn't build them to begin with, odds are they did it all with someone else's containers and they had no clue what was actually running on those systems.
What is the proposed solution? Ban imports from China? Is THAT "ethical"? Drive prices up so high on products that poorer people here can't afford to buy anything? Is THAT "ethical"?
I think the answer is to place tariffs on goods from other nations based on how workers are treated in those countries. If it's legal and/or permitted to pay them slave wages, we should put sufficient tariffs on the products that it's not economically beneficial to pay them slave wages. If they get something in between that and an actual living wage, then the tariff should be somewhere in between, too.
It's not a perfect solution because that alone will actually encourage some employers to pay slave wages, but it's not really feasible to place those tariffs on a per-corporation basis, and the goal is to put pressure on the governments.
But wouldn't it make more sense to give the smart criminals extra jail time?
No, you give them job training and placement, possibly in fraud prevention. If you give them extra jail time, they're going to have extra time to teach the dumber criminals things that they never would have thought of on their own.
If a student says you put glue on their chair and you get away with it that is one thing but the system is completely broken if you get away with putting glue on the principal's chair.
The system is completely broken if putting glue on the principal's chair carries a heavier punishment than putting it on a fellow student's. Crap like that is why schools have a culture of bullying.
The problem that comes with this practice is that you are already "checked in" to your flight on a multi leg flight. If you are a no show they will probably wait a certain amount of time in case you are lost, If you are still a no show they have to check if you had checked baggage and if so remove it from the flight.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
The airlines do none of this stuff. If you're not there, they give your seat to someone else. If no one is waiting for it, they just leave. If your stuff winds up getting shipped to someplace you're not going, then they'll charge you to get it back to where you actually are, they don't check to see if you're not on the plane.
While to some extent I agree with your sentiments, the real issue is this guy and his wife went through the steps to document the crime and get the FBI involved early on.
Sure, but would the FBI usually be willing to be involved in something like this?
Of course if people wouldn't be gullible and hand over their money to anyone who calls them, this wouldn't be an issue.
Then I was notified about an update to the app which required so many permissions my head almost exploded.
Browsers need all those permissions in order to do all the things they normally do these days, so that's true of almost any browser. On the other hand, you can often turn a lot of those perms off after install and as long as you don't use those features, the browser still works fine. If a browser crashes (or bitches) on run when you take away things like the ability to see your contacts, uninstall or disable it immediately.
We've had what, 50-60 years now where companies have done whatever they wanted with packaging and we can see the results.
You should actuallty talk to someone in the industry before spreading FUD. The materials dumped from 50-60 years ago were much more dangerous and hard to break down than the waste produced today (Asbestos, Lead, etc).
Asbestos was never a common constituent of disposable packaging. Lead was, and it took legal action to get it out. All you've done here is proven that the industry won't wipe its own ass unless required to do so by law backed up by stiff penalties.
All the news stories about plastic taking hundreds or thousands of years to degrade is utter nonesense. In modern waste management, waste is composted and reaches extremely high temperatures where plastics readily break down.
If only that were germane to the current discussion, you might have a point, but we're talking about unmanaged waste and as such you do not.
The main problem with plastics is not people in Hawaii or California drinking out of plastic straws. It's third world countries that don't give a damn about the environment, don't recycle, and spew their waste everywhere.
The main problem with plastic trash on Hawaiian beaches is people in Hawaii mishandling plastic trash. And plastic from America often gets shipped to third world countries that don't give a damn about the environment, because most of the waste disposal companies don't give a damn about the environment either — provably, or they wouldn't ship it to those places.
All we have to do is make it illegal, and then everyone will stop doing it!
You go after the suppliers because there are less of them, not because they are the whole problem. You tackle problems in ways that will let you feasibly solve them, not the way in which you'd like to.
Social networks are characterized by social graphs.
That's how you categorize or analyze them, but not how you recognize them. A social graph is a representation of a social network, not a prerequirement. A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
I can tell you that they regularly uncheck my "disable advertisements" box. Not that that does anything, but it reminds me how scummy the last few owners are and have been.
Yeah, I love that box. On my desktop I've got ads well and truly blocked, but on mobile that checked box appears right under two big fat ads presented to me directly by Slashdot. Disable? I do not think that word means what they think it means. New boss, same as the old boss.
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I'm sure that they are talking about Google-branded phones, not just Android devices. But they're still wrong, because Nexus phones had lower MSRP than iPhones. Whoever wrote this article clearly knows exactly dick about smartphone history. Good for them, but someone else should have written this slashvertisement (autocorrect: slaveowner)
This is not Google's first lower priced smartphone. Before there was Pixel, there was Nexus. The Nexus 4 debuted at $299/349. Its timely competition, the iPhone 5, cost literally $300 more.
Article == hot garbage
YouTube order is like Google order, in that it is weighted by what they think you want to see through a combination of age and apparent relevance, and of course ad placement.
What's super duper sad about Twitter is that they can't manage chronological order even when they're trying. Google actually can, they just generally don't want to. Posts on G+ would appear chronologically, for example. Maybe that's the real reason plus is going away, users expect posts to appear in chronological order, and that's not what Google wants.
Their willingness to boot people for wrongthink?
Every CC processor will do that. Literally.
So as the USA pays minimal wage that is below an actual living wage, the rest of the world should put on a tariffs on goods from the USA.
is that what your telling us?
Yep. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander. I'm not proud of American wages or employment.
Unless you're trying to get from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco during rush hour!
You can get that flight for $100 on a good day through Southwest.
If your flight is on the ground in downtown San Francisco, you are not having a good day.
Wait, so the fact that phones 6+ years old now (you said "prior to the iPhone 5s") should still be supported? Can you name one single phone, Android or otherwise, that gets updates that far out?
You can install most current apps (especially google apps) on JellyBean, from 2013. Play Services was still supported on ICS (from 2011) until December of last year . Looks like decoupling all that stuff into Play Services was a savvy move for Google. And their support for older hardware is going to be even better going forward, since they've adopted a HAL.
Those devices also didn't get iOS 12, thus they never had group Facetime and hence weren't affected by the bug. Your point is irrelevant.
Genuine LOL. Those devices couldn't have a mere app upgrade because they couldn't get the OS upgrade that Apple made a deliberate decision not to bring to them in order to drive sales of newer models, and my point is supposed to somehow be irrelevant? The situation is actually worse than I imagined. How Applethetic.
Square is cheaper than other CC processors, and collects no more information. AFAIK they are cheaper and less sleazy than Paypal. So what's to hate about Square?
Judging by the number of crash bugs in their software, the only developer who might need more help is Bethesda
And no offline copies of the VM environment? I think of those as especially precious. DO I want to rebuild those from scratch? Nope.
They probably didn't build them to begin with, odds are they did it all with someone else's containers and they had no clue what was actually running on those systems.
Yeah, right. "Glitch..."
Well, it is a glitch. Only Zuckerberg is supposed to have access to that functionality.
What is the proposed solution? Ban imports from China? Is THAT "ethical"? Drive prices up so high on products that poorer people here can't afford to buy anything? Is THAT "ethical"?
I think the answer is to place tariffs on goods from other nations based on how workers are treated in those countries. If it's legal and/or permitted to pay them slave wages, we should put sufficient tariffs on the products that it's not economically beneficial to pay them slave wages. If they get something in between that and an actual living wage, then the tariff should be somewhere in between, too.
It's not a perfect solution because that alone will actually encourage some employers to pay slave wages, but it's not really feasible to place those tariffs on a per-corporation basis, and the goal is to put pressure on the governments.
But wouldn't it make more sense to give the smart criminals extra jail time?
No, you give them job training and placement, possibly in fraud prevention. If you give them extra jail time, they're going to have extra time to teach the dumber criminals things that they never would have thought of on their own.
If a student says you put glue on their chair and you get away with it that is one thing but the system is completely broken if you get away with putting glue on the principal's chair.
The system is completely broken if putting glue on the principal's chair carries a heavier punishment than putting it on a fellow student's. Crap like that is why schools have a culture of bullying.
That was enough to trigger a Trumpanista with modpoints? Conservacucks genuinely are the true snowflakes. Oh so white, and oh so fragile
The problem that comes with this practice is that you are already "checked in" to your flight on a multi leg flight. If you are a no show they will probably wait a certain amount of time in case you are lost, If you are still a no show they have to check if you had checked baggage and if so remove it from the flight.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
The airlines do none of this stuff. If you're not there, they give your seat to someone else. If no one is waiting for it, they just leave. If your stuff winds up getting shipped to someplace you're not going, then they'll charge you to get it back to where you actually are, they don't check to see if you're not on the plane.
While to some extent I agree with your sentiments, the real issue is this guy and his wife went through the steps to document the crime and get the FBI involved early on.
Sure, but would the FBI usually be willing to be involved in something like this?
Of course if people wouldn't be gullible and hand over their money to anyone who calls them, this wouldn't be an issue.
Yeah! Piss on those victims!
Then I was notified about an update to the app which required so many permissions my head almost exploded.
Browsers need all those permissions in order to do all the things they normally do these days, so that's true of almost any browser. On the other hand, you can often turn a lot of those perms off after install and as long as you don't use those features, the browser still works fine. If a browser crashes (or bitches) on run when you take away things like the ability to see your contacts, uninstall or disable it immediately.
Brave for ANDdroid it's OK.
It's OK, but it won't e.g. block the advertisements that Slashdot puts on the home page even when you have the "Disable Advertisements" box checked.
We've had what, 50-60 years now where companies have done whatever they wanted with packaging and we can see the results.
You should actuallty talk to someone in the industry before spreading FUD. The materials dumped from 50-60 years ago were much more dangerous and hard to break down than the waste produced today (Asbestos, Lead, etc).
Asbestos was never a common constituent of disposable packaging. Lead was, and it took legal action to get it out. All you've done here is proven that the industry won't wipe its own ass unless required to do so by law backed up by stiff penalties.
All the news stories about plastic taking hundreds or thousands of years to degrade is utter nonesense. In modern waste management, waste is composted and reaches extremely high temperatures where plastics readily break down.
If only that were germane to the current discussion, you might have a point, but we're talking about unmanaged waste and as such you do not.
The main problem with plastics is not people in Hawaii or California drinking out of plastic straws. It's third world countries that don't give a damn about the environment, don't recycle, and spew their waste everywhere.
The main problem with plastic trash on Hawaiian beaches is people in Hawaii mishandling plastic trash. And plastic from America often gets shipped to third world countries that don't give a damn about the environment, because most of the waste disposal companies don't give a damn about the environment either — provably, or they wouldn't ship it to those places.
All we have to do is make it illegal, and then everyone will stop doing it!
You go after the suppliers because there are less of them, not because they are the whole problem. You tackle problems in ways that will let you feasibly solve them, not the way in which you'd like to.
Social networks are characterized by social graphs.
That's how you categorize or analyze them, but not how you recognize them. A social graph is a representation of a social network, not a prerequirement. A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
I can tell you that they regularly uncheck my "disable advertisements" box. Not that that does anything, but it reminds me how scummy the last few owners are and have been.
Yeah, I love that box. On my desktop I've got ads well and truly blocked, but on mobile that checked box appears right under two big fat ads presented to me directly by Slashdot. Disable? I do not think that word means what they think it means. New boss, same as the old boss.
Not all frauds are illegal. QED, scams can be legal.
All frauds for gain are illegal, and the point of a scam is gain. QED, blah blah blah