I still buy Logitech mice, some of them are really good. I have had their MMO mouse (G600?) for years and it still functions as new.
I remember the 518's I have had. They had a fatal flaw: They would develop "crunchy click" after prolonged use. I have had it happen to both right and left buttons, the click develops a crunching sound that is highly annoying... ultimately the button stops working.
So, yeah, I don't miss the 518, but I did use mine enough that the logo and surrounding plastic all turned white from the paint being rubbed off over time...
I agree with you. It seems like the next step after this is to ban ALDI stores because their efficiencies and cost cutting measures make regular grocery stores more expensive....
There have been times in my life where dollar stores were very beneficial to me and allowed me to stretch my budget further than I would have normally.
They fill a need and I really don't understand why government needs to be in the business of picking winners.
Also, off on a tangent, the idea of municipal liquor stores really makes me angry!
I guess the thing that most people miss is all of the value add that comes with an Office 365 subscription.
Not to be a shill or anything but with a base $12.50/user/month you get the Business Premium tier which lets you run the business edition (not GP aware) of all the office apps including Access, gets you the online version of the same apps, gets you a hosted Exchange server, hosted Skype/Lync server, 1TB of OneDrive storage a hosted SharePoint site and a ton of other stuff.
Then keep in mind that all of that software is kept up-to-date for you, the data is backed up for you (though you should still do your own backups using something like Veeam's free O365 backup utility) and you don't have to operate any of the server infrastructure or maintain a crap-ton of licenses.... it really is sort of a no-brainer to go with O365.
Sorry. I know that isn't a popular stance but we have run the numbers and it made sense for us and apparently we are not alone.
It doesn't matter though. The money can be got in and out easily and it's REAL money. The guy stole 5 million real dollars whether or not you personally happen to like that kind of value.
And we can make him give it back and work on rehabilitation.
He should be sentenced to do the hashing math of mining new bitcoins by hand until he has mined enough to repay his debt;P
I have had my OP3 for a little over 3 years and it still feels like a new phone to me. The battery life has not decreased significantly and it is still snappy.
The only (not valid) reason that I can come up with for replacing it is that I am a little bored with it and want something new.
But then I think about it for a minute and realize that the new phone will be fun for a few weeks and then it will be the exact same slab that I have currently. So what's the point?
Also, good luck getting a tow truck in any kind of weather emergency (like a polar vortex).
I wasted a week waiting for a tow from my insurance-provided roadside assistance program.
I finally had to secure service on my own and it wasn't easy to find a place that didn't just drop my call or tell me to call back later.
I am thinking that towing is a business that runs near or at capacity normally (you probably don't want extra trucks sitting idle) and any kind of weather that causes an increase in volume breaks the system...
An obligatory towing system would have to be a Tesla operated endeavor with extra capacity built in.
Except this would only be the things that you would be saying. There is a big gap between thinking something and forming the words and speaking them...
Even if it was just your thoughts, who's to say that the first thing that comes to mind is truth?
The hero's journey is more about the reluctance to see the gift within. The fact that things "just work out" for them is actually part of the journey that helps prove their potential to themselves despite their own internal struggles and feelings of inadequacy (which most of us norms can identify with).
I personally think that you are bringing a lot of baggage to the table when judging the new movies.
I was born in 1976 and, while I didn't see the original in the theater (I did see Empire and Return in the theater), these movies were a staple for me throughout my childhood and I love them. I am as invested in the franchise as any SW fan.
That said, I think that Force Awakens and Last Jedi movies were phenomenal.
I wish those had been the movies I had grown up with. Rey's "hero's journey" is so much better than Luke's was. Let's face it, Luke just came off as a whiny entitled baby. I never liked Luke or his story except for, briefly, in Return, when he faces Jabba. I feel like that was the Luke that we saw in Last Jedi.
I think you just need to take these movies at face value and don't let a bunch of external inputs or nostalgia taint your view.
I have found on my OP that adding apps to the "don't optimize" list in Android and/or "locking" the app in the run list solves any issues arising from battery optimizations.
I have a couple of apps (smart wifi toggler and calls blacklist pro) that need to run all the time. Doing the above solved the issue of those apps getting killed.
I have actually considered going back to a cable bill for one reason: ease of use; Cable "just works"
Just the whole rigamarole of loading the DTVN app on the Roku Ultra, wait for the last loaded channel to buffer then go back to the menu and select the thing you want to watch then wait for that to buffer, then learn that the show didn't record right and/or won't play back correctly, then exiting out of the DTVN app and loading the stand-alone channel app in order to watch the show with unfastforwardable commercials.... it's a pain sometimes.
But yeah, cable is a LOT more expensive than DSL+Hulu+Netflix+HBO GO+DTVN and the hassle isn't THAT much greater.... but still..... it can be annoying sometimes. Annoying enough for me to consider going back....
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I still buy Logitech mice, some of them are really good. I have had their MMO mouse (G600?) for years and it still functions as new.
I remember the 518's I have had. They had a fatal flaw: They would develop "crunchy click" after prolonged use. I have had it happen to both right and left buttons, the click develops a crunching sound that is highly annoying... ultimately the button stops working.
So, yeah, I don't miss the 518, but I did use mine enough that the logo and surrounding plastic all turned white from the paint being rubbed off over time...
when, just like the zombie craze, all of this super-hero stuff has played out.
We need more space opera and less supernatural ghosty stuff...
Uh... so maybe don't post your crap on social media?
If you put things on servers you don't control, expect it to be seen by others...
I agree with you. It seems like the next step after this is to ban ALDI stores because their efficiencies and cost cutting measures make regular grocery stores more expensive....
There have been times in my life where dollar stores were very beneficial to me and allowed me to stretch my budget further than I would have normally.
They fill a need and I really don't understand why government needs to be in the business of picking winners.
Also, off on a tangent, the idea of municipal liquor stores really makes me angry!
Uh... we have to reserve that precious tax money for police, stadiums and tax incentives to corporations my friend!
Can't go using that tax money for things that actually help people..... that's nonsense!
I guess the thing that most people miss is all of the value add that comes with an Office 365 subscription.
Not to be a shill or anything but with a base $12.50/user/month you get the Business Premium tier which lets you run the business edition (not GP aware) of all the office apps including Access, gets you the online version of the same apps, gets you a hosted Exchange server, hosted Skype/Lync server, 1TB of OneDrive storage a hosted SharePoint site and a ton of other stuff.
Then keep in mind that all of that software is kept up-to-date for you, the data is backed up for you (though you should still do your own backups using something like Veeam's free O365 backup utility) and you don't have to operate any of the server infrastructure or maintain a crap-ton of licenses.... it really is sort of a no-brainer to go with O365.
Sorry. I know that isn't a popular stance but we have run the numbers and it made sense for us and apparently we are not alone.
Way to get inside the head of a user.....
Careful though, someday you may not come back....
I have found this to be true as well.
I can imagine the "eureka" moment when they are like "Nobody will ever think to look here! AND it syncs across all my devices! Brilliant!"
It doesn't matter though. The money can be got in and out easily and it's REAL money. The guy stole 5 million real dollars whether or not you personally happen to like that kind of value.
And we can make him give it back and work on rehabilitation.
He should be sentenced to do the hashing math of mining new bitcoins by hand until he has mined enough to repay his debt ;P
I have had my OP3 for a little over 3 years and it still feels like a new phone to me. The battery life has not decreased significantly and it is still snappy.
The only (not valid) reason that I can come up with for replacing it is that I am a little bored with it and want something new.
But then I think about it for a minute and realize that the new phone will be fun for a few weeks and then it will be the exact same slab that I have currently. So what's the point?
Also, good luck getting a tow truck in any kind of weather emergency (like a polar vortex).
I wasted a week waiting for a tow from my insurance-provided roadside assistance program.
I finally had to secure service on my own and it wasn't easy to find a place that didn't just drop my call or tell me to call back later.
I am thinking that towing is a business that runs near or at capacity normally (you probably don't want extra trucks sitting idle) and any kind of weather that causes an increase in volume breaks the system...
An obligatory towing system would have to be a Tesla operated endeavor with extra capacity built in.
Except this would only be the things that you would be saying. There is a big gap between thinking something and forming the words and speaking them...
Even if it was just your thoughts, who's to say that the first thing that comes to mind is truth?
You are assuming that the silos can coordinate with each other efficiently.... Never the case in a mega corp....
Easier for the remote access team to set up their own domain than to try to navigate the waters necessary to open and maintain a sub-domain.
You are not wrong. But there does have to be a balance. Corporations have every reasonable right to police the content that flows over their wires.
In the few Fortune 50 Companies I have worked with, no Firefox. They stick with IE, for only God knows why.
Two words: Group Policy
Chrome also has GP support for their Enterprise version of Chrome.
Last I checked (which was a while ago) there was only 3rd party GP templates for Firefox.
Not sure how many corporate Firefox deployments there are but this could really give some IT support groups a headache.
On the bright side, users will learn quickly when Superfish style shenanigans are going on.
Overall, I like the idea. In practice, I am thinking this is going to cause more pain than pleasure....
Yeah, I have always ever used my domains for e-mail or DDNS for remote access and custom web services. I have never put up a web site on any of them.
Does that mean my domains are "unused"?
That, and I am sure that the EULA for most of the software forbids transfer of ownership.... ;)
The hero's journey is more about the reluctance to see the gift within. The fact that things "just work out" for them is actually part of the journey that helps prove their potential to themselves despite their own internal struggles and feelings of inadequacy (which most of us norms can identify with).
I personally think that you are bringing a lot of baggage to the table when judging the new movies.
I was born in 1976 and, while I didn't see the original in the theater (I did see Empire and Return in the theater), these movies were a staple for me throughout my childhood and I love them. I am as invested in the franchise as any SW fan.
That said, I think that Force Awakens and Last Jedi movies were phenomenal.
I wish those had been the movies I had grown up with. Rey's "hero's journey" is so much better than Luke's was. Let's face it, Luke just came off as a whiny entitled baby. I never liked Luke or his story except for, briefly, in Return, when he faces Jabba. I feel like that was the Luke that we saw in Last Jedi.
I think you just need to take these movies at face value and don't let a bunch of external inputs or nostalgia taint your view.
Let them do it. I'll vote with my wallet.
I am with you.
I subscribe to Netflix and Hulu and I will purchase the occasional season of something on Amazon.
I have no interest in subscribing to any other streaming services.
I have found on my OP that adding apps to the "don't optimize" list in Android and/or "locking" the app in the run list solves any issues arising from battery optimizations.
I have a couple of apps (smart wifi toggler and calls blacklist pro) that need to run all the time. Doing the above solved the issue of those apps getting killed.
I started receiving an increasingly large number of phone calls over the last year or so. To the point now where I get at least one a day.
I screwed around with Tasker on my Android phone to see if I could set up a whitelist and wasn't really able to get it to do what I needed.
I ended up buying the pro version of "Calls Blacklist PRO" which, despite the name, actually can function as a whitelist as well.
Since installing that app, I have had zero spam calls and all of my normal calls come through just fine. It's perfect.
I have actually considered going back to a cable bill for one reason: ease of use; Cable "just works"
Just the whole rigamarole of loading the DTVN app on the Roku Ultra, wait for the last loaded channel to buffer then go back to the menu and select the thing you want to watch then wait for that to buffer, then learn that the show didn't record right and/or won't play back correctly, then exiting out of the DTVN app and loading the stand-alone channel app in order to watch the show with unfastforwardable commercials.... it's a pain sometimes.
But yeah, cable is a LOT more expensive than DSL+Hulu+Netflix+HBO GO+DTVN and the hassle isn't THAT much greater.... but still..... it can be annoying sometimes. Annoying enough for me to consider going back....
6 faster isn't it...