Just curious, what do you think of your battery life?
I tried the Priv when I broke my previous (Android) phone, and while I liked the form factor, operation speed and features, the extremely crappy battery life out of the box killed the deal for me. Maybe there are a host of secret config settings or battery-saving apps I could have installed to make it usable, or maybe I had a faulty battery or some such, but I'm afraid I wasn't patient enough (or didn't quite love it enough) to find out.
Make a decent phone, decent price, slide out physical keyboard, long battery life and goddam headphone jack and there you go, Try to imitate the iphone and they will fail.
Apart from the price *and the battery life*, you're describing the Priv exactly.
There, FTFY.
I busted my phone a couple of months back (low-slung car and closing doors, don't ask), so I figured I'd take a venture on the Priv, since I like pretty much everything about BB except the paucity of apps when compared to the Android ecosystem.
I had it for approximately 24 hours, then brought it back (and thanked goodness my provider had a 'love it' guarantee on new phones!). The battery life was...less than optimal. I unplugged it in the morning the day after I received it (approximately 7:30 AM) and by 10:00 the battery was at 40%. That's AM, not PM. Yes, I was pretty much using it constantly over those 2.5 hours, trying out some features, but mostly just reading DYAC and other casual web browsing: no video streaming or other typically battery-intensive tasks. Sorry, if I wanted to have to charge my phone twice or three times a day, I'll go back to 2002.
That being said, I had absolutely no complaints with the OS or any other features: the keyboard was easy to use, keyboard shortcuts were great, etc. The phone was maybe a bit off-balance with the keyboard extended, but with practice it wouldn't have been an issue. It seemed responsive and snappy, easy to configure and find things. There were a lot of things that I liked quite a lot about the phone...but I just couldn't handle the battery life. My new S7 may be full of Samsung bloatware, but at least she lasts 2 to 3 days between charges, even if I decide to spend a couple of hours reading DYAC...
You can encode surround sound into two channel audio, but the result is not nearly as good as true separation of channels - which is why real him theater equipment uses digital audio inputs if it can instead of decoding surround from two-channel audio.
I'm sorry, what I am hearing here is "it's got to be better because Apple". The 'input' is already digital, we're talking outputs here. Requiring more batteries in more things because...profit?
FTA:
It's not enforcement of DRM on audio playback. It's enforcement of the MFi Program for certifying hardware that uses the Lightning port.
Ah, there's the profit!
Besides the dubious benefits of in-ear 'surround', what exactly is the plus side of these 'improvements'? And don't say degradation of analog signals in cables because for the length of cable we're talking about, I doubt even the finest oscilloscope could detect a difference in the waveform end to end unless you deliberately ran it over some unshielded 120V power cables...and if you're doing that regularly with your headphones while using them, may I suggest that you leave the backpack 120V generator at home, or stop sleeping on municipal power lines? Besides which, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the DAC/battery wart at the phone end of these fancy new headphone cables, rather than messing up the super sleek design lines of the part of the 'phones that everyone gets to see and drool over...leaving the bulk of the signal path as analog as my two ears.
Where on earth would a subwoofer go on a pair of headphones?
Well, the main purpose of headphones is portability, and since the subwoofer is there to give that deep thumping sound you can feel in the seat of your pants...
Hahaha, brings a whole new meaning to the term 'rear inputs'!
you have no right to identify me via face recognition.
then you should take it up with your friend taking illegal photos with you (without a release). but likely you were in a public place where you have no expectation of privacy. you even said it yourself, you do not have a fb account, but your friends are (illegally, remember you never signed a release) publishing photos of you. location of the published photo, whether it is an art gallery in japan titled 'poses of snotnose' or on facebook, does not make it illegal. the person taking a photo is the one to blame.
imagine if your mother went to japan and saw the photo and wrote your name underneath that photo. that's now public information. are you still going to blame the art gallery?
Now imagine that some stranger that works at the art gallery (in a dark suit and sunglasses, 'cause it's creepier) sees your name sharpied under your photo, then goes through every other photograph that they have access to, including all those drunk frat party photos from the 90s that your asshole friend posted in the gallery for 'lulz' and sharpied your name under all of the ones that have you in them. And they have access to a lot of photos. Like...all of the photos, pretty much.
How's that? Skin creeping a bit yet? Why is this considered okay, even for people who have no relationship with this software? If my friends want to 'tag' me in their photos, great, no problem (or, if I have a problem with it, I'll ask them to remove the tag). However they should have to tag me every single damned time, not just once and then FB finishes the job.
Okay, I can see FB, maybe, because people post articles on there and maybe you trust your friends more than the networks to curate your news for you...but Instagram? Isn't that just a photo sharing service? Are the people you follow posting photos of news events, or is this just for 'local' news (like OMG HUGE BURGERZZ HERE! CHECK IT OUT!!!)?
(Don't know, don't use either service, although have seen more FB pages than Instagram pages...)
With enough panels* normal daylight is sufficient. You can build the thing as big as you need, even big enough to drop supplies.
*aka "sails"
Panels big enough to provide enough power to support the tech required to do a decent search would require even more power to combat the effect of even a light breeze. I wouldn't think that's a reducing equation, but admittedly I haven't crunched the numbers. Unless you were envisioning a multi-pass, blimp-like search, where the devices are dropped off upwind, then collected downwind of the target areas, only to be cycled back upwind and start over again? That...could be feasible. Hmm...
Seriously, you've invented a very specific kind of fake person for your argument.
Which part? The ones who claim mental diseases aren't real, or the ones who call the city and report stores for not being wheelchair accessible?
I have personally witnessed both behaviors from the same person, and more than once (i.e., different people on different occasions). I don't think the hypocrisy of their world view even registers with them...maybe it's not terribly 'often', but it is ironic (and somewhat amusing) when it happens.
Quick exercise for you: Next time someone starts spouting off about how people shouldn't be diagnosed for (and apparently more importantly, get sick time off to deal with) depression or related illnesses, try asking them how they feel about wheelchair ramps, and whether *every* business should be required to install them. Or if not every business, then which ones have to and which don't? Then grab the popcorn and watch the high-wire act begin.
As another parent of an autistic kid, my reply to you, AC, is FUCK YOU!
(and yes, I'm fully aware I'm posting as an AC as well, thanks for stating the bloody obvious!)
Unfortunately, there persists this stubborn subset of morons in society that continue to believe that mental diseases are imaginary, so people with autism or clinical depression must be "faking it", that they just have to "toughen up" or some shit like that.
Ironically enough, it's often these self same people who have a morally-outraged meltdown whenever they see a mom-n-pop store entrance that has a bit of a step up, or an elevator without braille on the floor selector buttons. Apparently it's absolutely vital for everyone to accommodate certain types of ability impairment, but accommodating other types is somehow 'babying' them.
I was so excited to be able to drop Lotus Bloats forever (and start the healing process) after I left my last job...right up until I ran into SAP for the very first time in my new position.
Welcome back non-intuitive user interfaces, without even the pretense of internal consistency within itself much less anything outside it's own microcosm. Hello again cryptic and (again) inconsistent icon sets. So glad to see you again, labyrinthine layers of well-buried (but critical to actual use of the system, if you're trying to actually dig any data out of it) options and navigation paths. Oh, and the help? Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Reads like it's designed by accountants for accountants, but actually used for maintenance and work order tracking, so used more by tradesmen than finance-oriented people (at least our portion is)...oh, and if you can manage to figure out what cryptic-damn-buried transaction code you need to use, chances are you don't have permission to actually use it.
I've used PIA off and on for years, but a few months ago I let my sub lapse because even US -> US was being blocked by Netflix. Has this improved?
Actually...I haven't used it for Netflix for years now. I just don't find anything in the American catalog interesting enough to jump through the hoops, so sorry, not sure if it's 'fixed' yet!
Purchasing digital content from Amazon US however...:)
Get a credit card for this purpose. Buy all the apps you need, then discontinue the card. Problem solved, no more purchases possible with the invalid card registered to the app.
I never registered a card with my android phone - no personal need for pay-apps. It nags, I press the 'later' button. Works fine, and kids can do no worse than dialling a foreign number. Which they don't know how to do - all they know is the contact list and phone numbers are as obscure as IP addresses . ..
It's called a Visa (or MC) gift card, and it's the only CC I'll use for app stores...
So long as you log in to the credit card provider site and set up a 'mailing address' first so the card passes the automated validity check, it should be fine. I've never had a problem with one of these sites rejecting one yet just because it's a gift card...
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BTW, RIM no longer exists, the name was changed to Blackberry.
Indeed it was.
Just curious, what do you think of your battery life?
I tried the Priv when I broke my previous (Android) phone, and while I liked the form factor, operation speed and features, the extremely crappy battery life out of the box killed the deal for me. Maybe there are a host of secret config settings or battery-saving apps I could have installed to make it usable, or maybe I had a faulty battery or some such, but I'm afraid I wasn't patient enough (or didn't quite love it enough) to find out.
Make a decent phone, decent price, slide out physical keyboard, long battery life and goddam headphone jack and there you go, Try to imitate the iphone and they will fail.
Apart from the price *and the battery life*, you're describing the Priv exactly.
There, FTFY.
I busted my phone a couple of months back (low-slung car and closing doors, don't ask), so I figured I'd take a venture on the Priv, since I like pretty much everything about BB except the paucity of apps when compared to the Android ecosystem.
I had it for approximately 24 hours, then brought it back (and thanked goodness my provider had a 'love it' guarantee on new phones!). The battery life was...less than optimal. I unplugged it in the morning the day after I received it (approximately 7:30 AM) and by 10:00 the battery was at 40%. That's AM, not PM. Yes, I was pretty much using it constantly over those 2.5 hours, trying out some features, but mostly just reading DYAC and other casual web browsing: no video streaming or other typically battery-intensive tasks. Sorry, if I wanted to have to charge my phone twice or three times a day, I'll go back to 2002.
That being said, I had absolutely no complaints with the OS or any other features: the keyboard was easy to use, keyboard shortcuts were great, etc. The phone was maybe a bit off-balance with the keyboard extended, but with practice it wouldn't have been an issue. It seemed responsive and snappy, easy to configure and find things. There were a lot of things that I liked quite a lot about the phone...but I just couldn't handle the battery life. My new S7 may be full of Samsung bloatware, but at least she lasts 2 to 3 days between charges, even if I decide to spend a couple of hours reading DYAC...
You can encode surround sound into two channel audio, but the result is not nearly as good as true separation of channels - which is why real him theater equipment uses digital audio inputs if it can instead of decoding surround from two-channel audio.
I'm sorry, what I am hearing here is "it's got to be better because Apple". The 'input' is already digital, we're talking outputs here. Requiring more batteries in more things because...profit?
FTA:
It's not enforcement of DRM on audio playback. It's enforcement of the MFi Program for certifying hardware that uses the Lightning port.
Ah, there's the profit!
Besides the dubious benefits of in-ear 'surround', what exactly is the plus side of these 'improvements'? And don't say degradation of analog signals in cables because for the length of cable we're talking about, I doubt even the finest oscilloscope could detect a difference in the waveform end to end unless you deliberately ran it over some unshielded 120V power cables...and if you're doing that regularly with your headphones while using them, may I suggest that you leave the backpack 120V generator at home, or stop sleeping on municipal power lines? Besides which, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the DAC/battery wart at the phone end of these fancy new headphone cables, rather than messing up the super sleek design lines of the part of the 'phones that everyone gets to see and drool over...leaving the bulk of the signal path as analog as my two ears.
Where on earth would a subwoofer go on a pair of headphones?
Well, the main purpose of headphones is portability, and since the subwoofer is there to give that deep thumping sound you can feel in the seat of your pants...
Hahaha, brings a whole new meaning to the term 'rear inputs'!
Well done!
We know EXACTLY what "hipster" and "SJW" mean, so why don't you just fuck right off?
Hey Your Majesty, watch the language! The peons are listening!
Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?
Uh, you have to stay up to date. They're now The Sticky Bandits. ...and Kevin is the new badass...
Ah, I see, thanks for the update!
Unlike potato chips, I find I have no problem stopping after just one Home Alone movie...
...idiot mugger uses real photo of himself on Facebook, gets recognized by one of his many victims, and arrested.
Dude, really? Did you go to the Wet Bandit school of bad-assery?
you have no right to identify me via face recognition.
then you should take it up with your friend taking illegal photos with you (without a release). but likely you were in a public place where you have no expectation of privacy. you even said it yourself, you do not have a fb account, but your friends are (illegally, remember you never signed a release) publishing photos of you. location of the published photo, whether it is an art gallery in japan titled 'poses of snotnose' or on facebook, does not make it illegal. the person taking a photo is the one to blame.
imagine if your mother went to japan and saw the photo and wrote your name underneath that photo. that's now public information. are you still going to blame the art gallery?
Now imagine that some stranger that works at the art gallery (in a dark suit and sunglasses, 'cause it's creepier) sees your name sharpied under your photo, then goes through every other photograph that they have access to, including all those drunk frat party photos from the 90s that your asshole friend posted in the gallery for 'lulz' and sharpied your name under all of the ones that have you in them. And they have access to a lot of photos. Like...all of the photos, pretty much.
How's that? Skin creeping a bit yet? Why is this considered okay, even for people who have no relationship with this software? If my friends want to 'tag' me in their photos, great, no problem (or, if I have a problem with it, I'll ask them to remove the tag). However they should have to tag me every single damned time, not just once and then FB finishes the job.
Okay, I can see FB, maybe, because people post articles on there and maybe you trust your friends more than the networks to curate your news for you...but Instagram? Isn't that just a photo sharing service? Are the people you follow posting photos of news events, or is this just for 'local' news (like OMG HUGE BURGERZZ HERE! CHECK IT OUT!!!)?
(Don't know, don't use either service, although have seen more FB pages than Instagram pages...)
Brilliant! I actually want to try this. Of course there is some delay from swallowing before you get to the pooping part.
Coat the camera with a fast-acting laxative...?
With enough panels* normal daylight is sufficient. You can build the thing as big as you need, even big enough to drop supplies.
*aka "sails"
Panels big enough to provide enough power to support the tech required to do a decent search would require even more power to combat the effect of even a light breeze. I wouldn't think that's a reducing equation, but admittedly I haven't crunched the numbers. Unless you were envisioning a multi-pass, blimp-like search, where the devices are dropped off upwind, then collected downwind of the target areas, only to be cycled back upwind and start over again? That...could be feasible. Hmm...
No. Then they'd have to turn around 3 times before successfully landing on the runway, and they'd always be getting lost...
Or they'd have to take off and land three or four times on different runways before air traffic control can see their beacon...
Styrofoam will disintegrate instantly on impact, and melt in heat.
Doesn't Styrofoam explode with sharp impacts?
Only if it's dipped in liquid nitrogen first
It is like the right to bear guns: You will only have it as long as you exercise it.
Indeed. Trouble is, we're running out of bears around here... ;-)
...said no one ever.
Seriously, you've invented a very specific kind of fake person for your argument.
Which part? The ones who claim mental diseases aren't real, or the ones who call the city and report stores for not being wheelchair accessible?
I have personally witnessed both behaviors from the same person, and more than once (i.e., different people on different occasions). I don't think the hypocrisy of their world view even registers with them...maybe it's not terribly 'often', but it is ironic (and somewhat amusing) when it happens.
Quick exercise for you: Next time someone starts spouting off about how people shouldn't be diagnosed for (and apparently more importantly, get sick time off to deal with) depression or related illnesses, try asking them how they feel about wheelchair ramps, and whether *every* business should be required to install them. Or if not every business, then which ones have to and which don't? Then grab the popcorn and watch the high-wire act begin.
I'm not autistic and I don't want to watch all those ads either. Who does?
Advertising monkeys checking out the competition, maybe?
Other than that, I have no earthly idea...
As another parent of an autistic kid, my reply to you, AC, is FUCK YOU!
(and yes, I'm fully aware I'm posting as an AC as well, thanks for stating the bloody obvious!)
Unfortunately, there persists this stubborn subset of morons in society that continue to believe that mental diseases are imaginary, so people with autism or clinical depression must be "faking it", that they just have to "toughen up" or some shit like that.
Ironically enough, it's often these self same people who have a morally-outraged meltdown whenever they see a mom-n-pop store entrance that has a bit of a step up, or an elevator without braille on the floor selector buttons. Apparently it's absolutely vital for everyone to accommodate certain types of ability impairment, but accommodating other types is somehow 'babying' them.
SAP is like Oracle
^^^THIS.
I was so excited to be able to drop Lotus Bloats forever (and start the healing process) after I left my last job ...right up until I ran into SAP for the very first time in my new position.
Welcome back non-intuitive user interfaces, without even the pretense of internal consistency within itself much less anything outside it's own microcosm. Hello again cryptic and (again) inconsistent icon sets. So glad to see you again, labyrinthine layers of well-buried (but critical to actual use of the system, if you're trying to actually dig any data out of it) options and navigation paths. Oh, and the help? Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Reads like it's designed by accountants for accountants, but actually used for maintenance and work order tracking, so used more by tradesmen than finance-oriented people (at least our portion is)...oh, and if you can manage to figure out what cryptic-damn-buried transaction code you need to use, chances are you don't have permission to actually use it.
goddammit.
I've used PIA off and on for years, but a few months ago I let my sub lapse because even US -> US was being blocked by Netflix. Has this improved?
Actually...I haven't used it for Netflix for years now. I just don't find anything in the American catalog interesting enough to jump through the hoops, so sorry, not sure if it's 'fixed' yet!
Purchasing digital content from Amazon US however... :)
Good catch.
Haha, no worries. I was honestly wondering if they maybe did have a secret super-ultimate-ninja account, only available to the select few...
I went with https://www.privateinternetacc... for $40/mo unlimited. It also has UK endpoints.
Whoa, I didn't even know they had that high-end a service!
My $40/year account works just fine for me...
...to LASER EYES!!
Smartphone Shipments Flat For the First Time
So what...were they round before??
That must have been a shipping nightmare! ;-)
Get a credit card for this purpose. Buy all the apps you need, then discontinue the card. Problem solved, no more purchases possible with the invalid card registered to the app.
I never registered a card with my android phone - no personal need for pay-apps. It nags, I press the 'later' button. Works fine, and kids can do no worse than dialling a foreign number. Which they don't know how to do - all they know is the contact list and phone numbers are as obscure as IP addresses . . .
It's called a Visa (or MC) gift card, and it's the only CC I'll use for app stores...
So long as you log in to the credit card provider site and set up a 'mailing address' first so the card passes the automated validity check, it should be fine. I've never had a problem with one of these sites rejecting one yet just because it's a gift card...