Why not, I dunno, sell government approved vape pens in the commissary? From what I've read, most of the incidents with vaping are from people trying to "soup up" their vape machines. This amounts to banning Honda Civics on base because a few ill informed morons cause them to ignite by modifying them in ways they don't really understand.
No, it's more like banning Ford Pinto's on a facility full of powerful conventional ordinance and nuclear weapons.
Actually, it's banning all wheeled conveyances with combustion engines because someone kept insisting on driving the Pinto. If they'd just ban the 'Pinto' equivalent but let people drive, er, use other reliable models without the inherent design flaws, no problem! Oh, and make modding them a bustable (brigable?) offense, since that shit makes even a trustworthy brand unreliable.
This has been my go-to fix for the whole Windows Explorer incompetency for about a decade now. Free for personal or corporate use, a donation gets you access to the 64-bit version and past versions of the software, but the free 32-bit current version is not function-crippled in any way. Portable version even works on computers where you don't have installation rights, and having bookmarks capabilities for corporate network folders is the best thing ever.;-)
Sure, I understand that you can copyright a story. But fucking Vulcan ears?
What I don't get is how people know these particular pointed ear props are Vulcan and not Elven. Maybe Nintendo should be talking to them for impersonating Link...
So... in other words... 3D was a solution to a problem that no one seemed to have had.
That's it in a nutshell....no one really wanted it in the first place. It was a 'solution' in search of a problem.
So...exactly like curved screens then?
Wonder when those will officially die off. At least for 3D TV's you could purchase one that had 3D (plus a bunch of actually useful features) and just not use the 3D...
These online companies love this because they get more impulse buys. If you have to pull out the credit card to buy then it gives the dumb consumers chance to rethink their order. If someone complains they will refund for one order, or one customer, etc, but they will not change their minds on the technology that makes them tons of money taking advantage of customers.
(Amazon even tries to mislead people into signing up for Prime where the one-touch buy works best, by saying "click here for free shipping!" Had to clean this up from my mother after noticing she was into a Prime first month free trial with automatic charging of the credit card at the end of the month, and she had no idea what Prime even was and only purchases one or two things a year from them. This seems very deliberate and not just a misunderstanding as you can see the lack of safeguards or explanations of what you're signing up for.)
^^^ This.
I also had to do this for my mother, after she had ordered something a bit closer to Christmas than she wanted to, and of course she clicked on the enticingly blinky "Free 2 day shipping!!!" button, with the eensy teensy fine print on the bottom about something-something Prime. Who doesn't want to be Prime? Sure! It's free, after all, the button says it is! Of course she knows what she's doing, she's ordered from Amazon at least two or three time in the last couple of years...she's an old hand at this Amazon thing!
*facepalm* Okay Mom, I know it's totally not your fault, but lets start by getting this Prime fee reversed on your credit card...
The sad part is, I don't think she'll be ordering anything from Amazon again, even though I walked her through what buttons to push to avoid enrolling in 'Prime'. Use of shady tactics destroys customer trust, and what makes me extra angry is that stupid shit like this just reinforces her low-grade technophobia, which we were doing so well in overcoming the last little while. I was so proud to hear that she had ordered stuff online on her own! Then I got the call. >:-(
Unless you know someone named Alex (or even Alexa) and speak rapidly or slur your words...and really, who doesn't slur juuust enough to get the wrongeset word sometimes? Reading my friends' dictated texts is a hilarious enterprise on occasion...
In addition to the physical advantages, Gorilla Glass is also clearer than normal glass, which allows for more vibrant head-up displays, connected surfaces, and entire dashboards that function as touchscreens.
Dammit, I can't keep up with cleaning the fingerprints off of a 100 cm2 surface, what am I gonna do with a couple of square meters...?
... and that's for portable, but not mobile computing. Essentially when you want to have a computer on a table where you have electricity, but you still want to be able to carry it around.
Essentially you want something like that in a rather rugged case, so it'll withstand some abuse. It doesn't matter how light or thick it is, as it won't be "carried around" with someone, but specifically carried from place A to B, probably as part of some larger setup.
For example this could take part in stage productions controlling the lights, or a video mixer.
^ This.
I could definitely see a use for on-site commissioning, where having access to the company software/licenses without necessarily having to have access to a network connection is *very* useful. The ability to update CAD drawings more rapidly in-situ, as well as use the extra screen real-estate for hunting code gremlins could be a big time saver in the long run. Professionals won't care that this beast needs to be constantly plugged in while in use: the fact that they can simply fold it up and move over to the next compressor or plant or whatever is the useful part.
Yes, all of these things can be done with a single screen laptop, but as anyone who works with CAD or PLC software knows, the extra screens are golden when you're trying to increase productivity and/or troubleshoot a glitch.
...to be fair, there are waaay too many words in English that function as either noun or verb depending on context, but that's why sentence structure is so damn important!
So if the resistance reacts that strongly to changes in shape, is there some physical configuration that will cause it to become superconductive? Or is the change in resistance only while the deformation is occurring, and snaps back to original once the putty assumes steady state in its new shape?
"Verizon will not be taking part in this update because of the added risk this could pose to Galaxy Note 7 users that do not have another device to switch to. We will not push a software upgrade that will eliminate the ability for the Note 7 to work as a mobile device in the heart of the holiday travel season. We do not want to make it impossible to contact family, first responders or medical professionals in an emergency situation."
So lemme get this straight, you won't push an update designed to prevent an emergency situation because then people couldn't use the device to contact someone in an emergency?...sure glad I have this here cell phone to call 911 and tell them that my cell phone caught fire! Oh wait...
Make no mistake, this is purely about profits. Ppeople call, text and stream now more than at any other time of the year, making for juicy data and minute overage fees, all of which could be curtailed if the phone suddenly stops working and people are too busy to replace it. Also, right now people are jamming the stores to get the latest shiny in time for Christmas, so who wants to spend time providing service for lame swap-outs with little to no profit margin? And finally: we simply don't feel like dealing with the flood of calls this will generate from pissed off customers who don't read anything but E! Entertainment posts on FB, and can't understand why they should have to swap their phone out when 'it hasn't caught fire yet!'
On the up-side the theatre has a wider colour gamut and a light level that allows your eyes to appreciate that range. It also offers an immersive experience that is practically impossible at home.
The downside is the popcorn, chatting, coughing and phone users.
I actually saw something on this about a year or so ago, where a movie gave a DVD or Digital Download of the movie you were seeing as part of the ticket, and sold the tickets at a slight premium over normal. From what I recall, it worked very well, and ended up making the movie theater much better profits than Theater and expected DVD/Digital sales of similar movies.
The whole point is that it was quickly shot down because it still wasn't "enough" money. They want Piracy. They need it to justify screwing their existing customers.
Accidental touches galore! When are they going just embed the phone into your hand? Or better yet, direct brain stimulation?
Exactly! WTH are we who don't have 2mm thick fingers supposed to do to be able to even hold on to this thing without accidentally emailing all our porn links to grandma, use fecking telekinesis? I have enough problems with the current model (S7)! (sorry grandma...)
I think it's time for the THICK revolution to start. Tell the manufacturers that we don't want these damned wafer-thin phones, much less anything thinner. Just one manufacturer should provide a 'thick' version of their flagship phone, and advertise it as such! I would buy it (so long as it's waterproof, and has a goddamned headphone jack), and being thicker, it should be able to compete very well battery-wise without going up in flames...
FitBit products die wether you charge them or not.
They produce very poor quality devices.
Hmm. That's not been my experience.
I got the original series Pebble the Christmas before last, and it worked [Great, Awesome, Love It! -> Works OK, with some occasional screen artifacts -> Starting to get glitchy, almost unusable screen and stopped taking software updates -> Pretty much dead, can't even read the screen when it decides to wake up at all] over the course of the next ten months. Last Christmas I got a FitBit Blaze which is still going strong. It's not nearly as flexible as the Pebble was in terms of customization and adding options, but it does what it said it would do and the heart rate monitor is very reliable. The battery doesn't last quite as long as the Pebble did, but I still get a solid 5 days between charges after a year of use, so I can't complain.
OTOH my husband has a Pebble Time Round that he purchased only 3 or 4 months ago, and so far he seems happy with it. I think both platforms have a lot to offer, so I am sad that the flexibility of the Pebble platform will now (likely) be lost.
i bought my first one in march of this year. it was dead by september. i complained to support and they gave me a new one. my friend who suggested i get a fitbit got hers in february, and it was dead by october. wayyyyyyyyyy too much money for the cheap piece of plastic junk that you get.
Because companies can only go so long before their machines have to be upgraded
Yeah and that's 2020 for Windows 7 and 2023 for Windows 8. By then it's likely that Windows as a platform will be completely irrelevant and passe.
This. My company is still on Windows 7, and have no plans to migrate any time soon (as in, over 24 months out). Actual security (well, known holes that are patched or monitored at least), control over upgrade application and compatibility with other enterprise software beats the Win10 roll-the-dice upgrade process and constant telemetry model.
Sounds like someone in the Windows marketing bubble is getting reamed over unrealistic projected 2016 adoption rates for their malware-disguised-as-an-OS.
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A doctor basically said once that vaping was to smoking like jumping out of a 5th story window was to jumping out of a 10th story window!
That's so cool you know a celebrity! Say 'hi' to Dr. Nick for me, could you?
Why not, I dunno, sell government approved vape pens in the commissary? From what I've read, most of the incidents with vaping are from people trying to "soup up" their vape machines. This amounts to banning Honda Civics on base because a few ill informed morons cause them to ignite by modifying them in ways they don't really understand.
No, it's more like banning Ford Pinto's on a facility full of powerful conventional ordinance and nuclear weapons.
Actually, it's banning all wheeled conveyances with combustion engines because someone kept insisting on driving the Pinto. If they'd just ban the 'Pinto' equivalent but let people drive, er, use other reliable models without the inherent design flaws, no problem! Oh, and make modding them a bustable (brigable?) offense, since that shit makes even a trustworthy brand unreliable.
If you buy anything vape related, you are a fool.
FTFY
And if you buy anything coffee related you are a bigger fool.
Oh wait, did I trample on a harmless activity that you enjoy that some asswhack nutbags take unfounded offense to? Golly gee, sorry about that!
You could always install Midnight Commander.
https://midnight-commander.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
Or FreeCommander. They even have a portable version on the Portable Apps site.
This has been my go-to fix for the whole Windows Explorer incompetency for about a decade now. Free for personal or corporate use, a donation gets you access to the 64-bit version and past versions of the software, but the free 32-bit current version is not function-crippled in any way. Portable version even works on computers where you don't have installation rights, and having bookmarks capabilities for corporate network folders is the best thing ever. ;-)
Enjoy!
Sure, I understand that you can copyright a story. But fucking Vulcan ears?
What I don't get is how people know these particular pointed ear props are Vulcan and not Elven. Maybe Nintendo should be talking to them for impersonating Link...
So... in other words... 3D was a solution to a problem that no one seemed to have had.
That's it in a nutshell....no one really wanted it in the first place. It was a 'solution' in search of a problem.
So...exactly like curved screens then?
Wonder when those will officially die off. At least for 3D TV's you could purchase one that had 3D (plus a bunch of actually useful features) and just not use the 3D...
Oh, looks like that's already on it's way out too.
She hears "...reports say Syria..." on CNN and then starts listening, I get a whole paragraph of attempted actions.
TV: "Reports say Syrian extremists threaten to bomb the White House"
Siri: "Composing email...sent!"
These online companies love this because they get more impulse buys. If you have to pull out the credit card to buy then it gives the dumb consumers chance to rethink their order. If someone complains they will refund for one order, or one customer, etc, but they will not change their minds on the technology that makes them tons of money taking advantage of customers.
(Amazon even tries to mislead people into signing up for Prime where the one-touch buy works best, by saying "click here for free shipping!" Had to clean this up from my mother after noticing she was into a Prime first month free trial with automatic charging of the credit card at the end of the month, and she had no idea what Prime even was and only purchases one or two things a year from them. This seems very deliberate and not just a misunderstanding as you can see the lack of safeguards or explanations of what you're signing up for.)
^^^ This.
I also had to do this for my mother, after she had ordered something a bit closer to Christmas than she wanted to, and of course she clicked on the enticingly blinky "Free 2 day shipping!!!" button, with the eensy teensy fine print on the bottom about something-something Prime. Who doesn't want to be Prime? Sure! It's free, after all, the button says it is! Of course she knows what she's doing, she's ordered from Amazon at least two or three time in the last couple of years...she's an old hand at this Amazon thing!
*facepalm* Okay Mom, I know it's totally not your fault, but lets start by getting this Prime fee reversed on your credit card...
The sad part is, I don't think she'll be ordering anything from Amazon again, even though I walked her through what buttons to push to avoid enrolling in 'Prime'. Use of shady tactics destroys customer trust, and what makes me extra angry is that stupid shit like this just reinforces her low-grade technophobia, which we were doing so well in overcoming the last little while. I was so proud to hear that she had ordered stuff online on her own! Then I got the call. >:-(
Unless you know someone named Alex (or even Alexa) and speak rapidly or slur your words...and really, who doesn't slur juuust enough to get the wrongeset word sometimes? Reading my friends' dictated texts is a hilarious enterprise on occasion...
"Alex-and-Jeff-want-to-buy-a-car. A-black-2016-Escalade."
2 weeks later
"Oh no, what have you done!"
FTS
In addition to the physical advantages, Gorilla Glass is also clearer than normal glass, which allows for more vibrant head-up displays, connected surfaces, and entire dashboards that function as touchscreens.
Dammit, I can't keep up with cleaning the fingerprints off of a 100 cm2 surface, what am I gonna do with a couple of square meters...?
Get a wrap, or paint protection film.
(disclaimer: I do own a bit of 3M stock, but it's because they make a lot of useful and popular stuff like the above)
Umm...I came here looking to crack a joke about needing a screen protector for your car, and find this.
It is truly a strange world we live in...and now I find myself thinking about putting these things on my pretty new Murano... :S
... and that's for portable, but not mobile computing. Essentially when you want to have a computer on a table where you have electricity, but you still want to be able to carry it around.
Essentially you want something like that in a rather rugged case, so it'll withstand some abuse. It doesn't matter how light or thick it is, as it won't be "carried around" with someone, but specifically carried from place A to B, probably as part of some larger setup.
For example this could take part in stage productions controlling the lights, or a video mixer.
^ This.
I could definitely see a use for on-site commissioning, where having access to the company software/licenses without necessarily having to have access to a network connection is *very* useful. The ability to update CAD drawings more rapidly in-situ, as well as use the extra screen real-estate for hunting code gremlins could be a big time saver in the long run. Professionals won't care that this beast needs to be constantly plugged in while in use: the fact that they can simply fold it up and move over to the next compressor or plant or whatever is the useful part.
Yes, all of these things can be done with a single screen laptop, but as anyone who works with CAD or PLC software knows, the extra screens are golden when you're trying to increase productivity and/or troubleshoot a glitch.
...to be fair, there are waaay too many words in English that function as either noun or verb depending on context, but that's why sentence structure is so damn important!
I update my toilet, immediately after flushing the cache. It prevents buffer-overflow attacks!
Breaks the ring network though...
There's got to be a joke in here somewhere about tightening grips and slipping through fingers...huh.
Well, I'm sure it'll come to me eventually.
So if the resistance reacts that strongly to changes in shape, is there some physical configuration that will cause it to become superconductive? Or is the change in resistance only while the deformation is occurring, and snaps back to original once the putty assumes steady state in its new shape?
"Verizon will not be taking part in this update because of the added risk this could pose to Galaxy Note 7 users that do not have another device to switch to. We will not push a software upgrade that will eliminate the ability for the Note 7 to work as a mobile device in the heart of the holiday travel season. We do not want to make it impossible to contact family, first responders or medical professionals in an emergency situation."
So lemme get this straight, you won't push an update designed to prevent an emergency situation because then people couldn't use the device to contact someone in an emergency? ...sure glad I have this here cell phone to call 911 and tell them that my cell phone caught fire! Oh wait...
Make no mistake, this is purely about profits. Ppeople call, text and stream now more than at any other time of the year, making for juicy data and minute overage fees, all of which could be curtailed if the phone suddenly stops working and people are too busy to replace it. Also, right now people are jamming the stores to get the latest shiny in time for Christmas, so who wants to spend time providing service for lame swap-outs with little to no profit margin? And finally: we simply don't feel like dealing with the flood of calls this will generate from pissed off customers who don't read anything but E! Entertainment posts on FB, and can't understand why they should have to swap their phone out when 'it hasn't caught fire yet!'
Ohh Sorry Yik Yak, I thought it was talking about a knock off breath mint candy....
But seriously... I have no clue what the damn app is, even visiting the page... wtf is a 'herd' ?
Apparently the founders were fully aware that their only potential market would be actual sheeple...
Farting under the covers is rude,
So you make it a point to throw off all of your covers before farting?
Interesting...
On the up-side the theatre has a wider colour gamut and a light level that allows your eyes to appreciate that range. It also offers an immersive experience that is practically impossible at home.
The downside is the popcorn, chatting, coughing and phone users.
Popcorn in my hand is never a downside.
Popcorn on the floor, however...I see your point.
I actually saw something on this about a year or so ago, where a movie gave a DVD or Digital Download of the movie you were seeing as part of the ticket, and sold the tickets at a slight premium over normal. From what I recall, it worked very well, and ended up making the movie theater much better profits than Theater and expected DVD/Digital sales of similar movies.
The whole point is that it was quickly shot down because it still wasn't "enough" money. They want Piracy. They need it to justify screwing their existing customers.
Maybe it was shot down in America only?
https://store.cineplex.com/superticket
I still won't buy it because it's DRM'ed (with that stinking mess that is UltraViolet, no less), but I guess technically it's 'available'...
Accidental touches galore! When are they going just embed the phone into your hand? Or better yet, direct brain stimulation?
Exactly! WTH are we who don't have 2mm thick fingers supposed to do to be able to even hold on to this thing without accidentally emailing all our porn links to grandma, use fecking telekinesis? I have enough problems with the current model (S7)! (sorry grandma...)
I think it's time for the THICK revolution to start. Tell the manufacturers that we don't want these damned wafer-thin phones, much less anything thinner. Just one manufacturer should provide a 'thick' version of their flagship phone, and advertise it as such! I would buy it (so long as it's waterproof, and has a goddamned headphone jack), and being thicker, it should be able to compete very well battery-wise without going up in flames...
FitBit products die wether you charge them or not.
They produce very poor quality devices.
Hmm. That's not been my experience.
I got the original series Pebble the Christmas before last, and it worked [Great, Awesome, Love It! -> Works OK, with some occasional screen artifacts -> Starting to get glitchy, almost unusable screen and stopped taking software updates -> Pretty much dead, can't even read the screen when it decides to wake up at all] over the course of the next ten months. Last Christmas I got a FitBit Blaze which is still going strong. It's not nearly as flexible as the Pebble was in terms of customization and adding options, but it does what it said it would do and the heart rate monitor is very reliable. The battery doesn't last quite as long as the Pebble did, but I still get a solid 5 days between charges after a year of use, so I can't complain.
OTOH my husband has a Pebble Time Round that he purchased only 3 or 4 months ago, and so far he seems happy with it. I think both platforms have a lot to offer, so I am sad that the flexibility of the Pebble platform will now (likely) be lost.
i bought my first one in march of this year. it was dead by september. i complained to support and they gave me a new one. my friend who suggested i get a fitbit got hers in february, and it was dead by october. wayyyyyyyyyy too much money for the cheap piece of plastic junk that you get.
You know you have to charge them, right? ;-)
Because companies can only go so long before their machines have to be upgraded
Yeah and that's 2020 for Windows 7 and 2023 for Windows 8. By then it's likely that Windows as a platform will be completely irrelevant and passe.
This. My company is still on Windows 7, and have no plans to migrate any time soon (as in, over 24 months out). Actual security (well, known holes that are patched or monitored at least), control over upgrade application and compatibility with other enterprise software beats the Win10 roll-the-dice upgrade process and constant telemetry model.
Sounds like someone in the Windows marketing bubble is getting reamed over unrealistic projected 2016 adoption rates for their malware-disguised-as-an-OS.