Not sure if by "external card" you mean "can add an SD card" or "can change the SD card while the phone remains running" but I would point you towards this.
It's almost like there's an Amazon related event going on today that is giving the company a bit of profile in the wider media. But I haven't heard about anything like that, have you?
You need to split the contexts. Bezos isn't *financially* imprisoned by his own creation. Does that mean he wouldn't pull all stops to hold onto it, continue running it, and fight off attempts at others controlling it?
You fail to realise that many people actually really enjoy what they do. Work keeps people busy. You see that often with retirees falling into depression. My neighbour was a postal worker for his life and retired with a nice pension, great success right? He's out of the "prison".... two weeks later he applied for a job driving an icecream truck because he loved going around the neighbourhood and talking to people. His idea of prison was not having any work to do.
how does he afford these [google.com]? Hud housing? I make $80k/yr and I'm stuck in an apartment until my kid graduates from college.
You're either intentionally or unintentionally misreading the GP's post. The GP never said Bezos was poor, just that he doesn't have $150bn to play with unless he gives up his life's work, and that is wealth is tied to the company which he built.
People with that kind of money use it to make other people do what they're told. And if you don't fall in line they buy off a group of thugs to make sure you do, or else.
No. People with any kind of power use it to make other people do what they are told. I use that power at work. Some 15 year old in a decrepet neighbourhood who happens to own a gun uses that power too. Being rich doesn't make people malevolent. Being told by someone to fall in line or else doesn't make them a bad person either. You're ignoring a metric fuckton of context.
Just so we're clear, how are we being absued in this context? Because a bunch of features were added to software provided for free? The fact that my Surface Pro broke and MS had a replacement sent to me within 2 days? Or maybe its because despite all the complaints their OS actually works for most people and their Office suite has features that are unmatched by competitors?
Is there one of those microagressions I'm missing which I should get upset about?
Depends on the source of the content. Netflix machine translate for content that doesn't have official translations. For Netflix's own content they are actually incredibly good with languages.
Instead of paying for 700 channels you don't watch people will subscribe to 4-5 different streaming services that interest them.
For now maybe. However look at the trend. The market is fragmenting at increasing rate, the content is reducing, and the prices are rising. People jumped on the streaming bandwagon because they got sick of having their wallets emptied by the cable guy, however trends are not looking good. We're beginning to question if it is worth keeping Netflix now. If Amazon Prime TV gets better that will make the decision even easier.
Who is at fault is entirely irrelevant to the end user. They only care about what their $10/m get. Increasingly it's a very shitty movie library with traditional cable level programming and in house shows tossed in.
Netflix wanted to end the cable companies, instead it became one.
So then tell me, by what logic does him taking risks lead to him revolutionizing auto production.
It si revolutionary to take risks in the auto industry. If you were expecting a positive result with every risk then that is you incorrectly reading into what other people have said.
To this point, his risk taking has been a big problem.
Yeah I know. It made him a billionaire who successfully started multiple companies that have completed upsended their respective industries. He should have just bought a factory, employed 100 union fitters and cranked out ICE cars. That would be MUCH better./sarcasm.
Not every risk needs to be perfectly successful for the process of risk taking to revolutionise something.
You know who hasn't made any advancement over well establish production capability....Musk
The man has gone from 0 cars to current production at a faster rate than any other car company in history producing a car that every other car company said couldn't be made and won't be practical. He decimated the cost of satellite launch.
But yeah your critisicism are totally valid random internet man.
The auto industry has steadily improved assembly practices and optimized over many years.
Exactly what I said. Nothing revolutionary, completely safe, never try anything new,... getting their breakfast eaten in a emerging car trend by a company they have repeatedly dismissed and for all their production woes is worth just as much as they are. If the last 5 years are anything to go by, Ford, GM, etc will be lucky to exist in 30 years.... Oh wait, they are lucky they exist anyway thanks to government bailing them out. Man that optimsiation worked well for them.
1. No I did read the line. Get a better phone. The screen clearly isn't bright enough given your complaint. 2. Horseshit. I was in the UK last week navigating with Maps, if anything you are worse offenders than most countries with your referring to streets by numbers. Google Maps was literally designed to respond exactly as signs are posted. It won't tell you to turn right onto the B1234 if the upcoming sign doesn't say B1234 on it. That is pretty much universal. Travel to Australia where they don't number streets and you don't get instructions with numbers, quite unlike the UK where they put numbers on everything, or Germany where the numbers are even colourcoded to indicate the type of street. 3. Grasping at straws? Maybe you just don't know how to use your phone. 4. You broke something. The phone not only remembers your immediate history but it contexualises it. Let me check. Yep I'm in Germany right now and all the suggestions when I open the search bar are places I normally visit in Germany. Last week it was the names of hotels and pubs around the UK. Hmm. Maybe I have Google Maps Pro or some other cool version you don't get. 5. Maybe you live in a blackhole. Where I live I normally navigate via post code too. Not a problem with instant results. On Sunday I went to a beach, postcode unknown, name of the beach unknown so I just typed "beach in {suburb of netherlands}" and it popped right up. Actually given what you're saying, do you have internet? I mean the only reason why something wouldn't pop up straight away with an answer (especially for post code conversion) is if your internet is offline. 6. It's crashing on your device, so it's good advice. Do I reset my PC when my apps start randomly crashing for no reason? Most definitely. I'm not sure what you're talking about hours or reconfiguring. That process just runs in the background and most configuration is preserved. Moreso on the phone where a factory reset really means little more than you needing to log into the apps again, assuming you havne't got them linked to your google account in which case typing in that password is about the only thing you'll need to do.... Unless it is that you have no cloud link for your backup or as above, no internet. Factory resetting my phone including getting all my settings back is a process that takes about an hour and runs entirely unattended. 7. So you're against setting something up. I never get ads. I just change settings rather than whinging about it online.
8. Actually I honestly think you don't know how to use your phone.
I don't understand. Are you complaining that every accessory isn't compatible with every device, or are you complaining that you don't know the difference between the branding of a model line and a specific model of a device? Your complaint will fall on dead ears and applies to every company in the technology world. Apple with their connectors and cables constantly changing, accessories suddenly depreciated, Google with it's Nest components not being compatible with the primary thermostat (better still they put up an entire webpage dedicated to instructing people how to find out which Nest they actually own, at least the Surface devices have the model number written on them).
You've seen professionals get bitten? Cool story. There are idiots in every profession. Including those that never read news or reviews, or those that buy a product without actually looking up what the model number means. Muy own father knew the Surface RT wasn't compatible with normal software, and this is a guy who calls me up from the other side of the world because his removable drive changes letters. Zero sympathy for your so called professionals.
Surface is a brand that covers a whole line of product models. It is not a model, just like iPhone is not a model or Nest isn't a mode, or Galaxy isn't a model. Microsoft is not a brand, it is a vendor. You would do well to understand the terms to avoid confusion in the future.
The judge has declared himself a mind reader with no corroborating evidence to support his ruling that the defendant does indeed know the passwords.
To be fair that's a technicality. The idea that someone is carrying around a functional cell phone owned by them for which they don't know the password is stupid. However more to the point: This case shouldn't be decided on technicalities in the first place. It shouldn't ever have gotten to the point of remembering or forgetting a password.
This so caught me out in the USA. I literally had a dollar on me, got like a chocolate bar walked up to the counter and then couldn't buy the damn thing because I only had a dollar and the damn thing had a dollar on the price tag but somehow that offer and payment was unable to be reconciled.
The love to hide behind the fiction that many contracts are somehow enforceable
FTFY. You can't sign away your rights.... Well in most places in the world you can't sign away your rights. I'm not sure what batshit insane supreme court sitting decided you can force arbitration on people.
To those 950 grid connected homes that have been without power for nearly a fucking year it is an issue. The fact that it takes close to a year to restore power to your population is likewise.
You posted below that you lived without power for a year in a shitty little village. Making a decision to live without power is not the same as having your formerly grid connected life cut-off. Life builds around expectations. If you change the expectations it's suddenly a big problem.
How utterly pathetic is that? It is 2018, people, wake up!
It may surprise you to know that at one point a phone conversation was connected by an operator using two wires and they could and frequently did listen in on calls. The world didn't implode.
It's 2018. People should risk assess their conversations. If you're going to come up with a plot to assassinate the president don't: a) discuss it at the bus station in front of the police station. b) email it c) mail it d) phone call it e) skype it
The end user can decide the importance of their conversation. Personally I'm thankful they don't encrypt. I'm secretly hoping that some NSA drone who's not quite as resistant as I am listens to me conversing with my mother and then dies of boredom.
Stuff underground gets wet already, just in case you didn't know about "rain" and such.
That sounds like common sense until you actually see how infrastructure is designed. Most stuff underground most definitely does not get wet. Most of this stuff has many services that exist in order to keep it dry while underground.
A sump pump works great during a storm, not so much for draining an ocean. Also infrastructure typically doesn't cope well at all with flood waters, so even heavy rain is a problem.
They had actionable court evidence INSTANTLY in the watergate investigation.
Yep. Took 4 years though.
You have nothing you can take to court after two years.
Nope. You believe there's nothing you can take to court after two years. Very few people know what anyone has. That's how it works when you don't run a leaky ship. What we have seen however is that everyone who has seen anything that this has has so far instantly pleaded guilty.
Do you want me to go through the watergate investigation in embarressing detail to show all the ways in which that was an absolutely horrible example?
No. I think we've had enough nonsensical blathering from you for one day.
As a desktop environment for an artsy type? No. Sorry - not recommended.
Well yes but you missed my point. As a desktop environment for any type? No Sorry not recommended. As a desktop environment for office work? No Sorry not recommended. As a base system to build games on? No sorry not recommended.
These were all the conclusions you would have come to 10 years ago. Instead there has been active development that makes all of the above possible.
The compromises necessary to make desktop Linux luser-friendly are not worth it, IMHO.
Like what? Userfriendliness is just an interface. In the meantime the things that artsy type of people need is exactly the kind of things that many other people need. Colour management? Tick. Memory management? Tick. Interface? No one cares... the modern graphics suite will bring its own. Solid filesystems that won't lose your data? Tick.
To be honest I'm not actually sure I see what it is that you need to compromise on to make it work.... the only real thing I see missing right now are users that make the porting worthwhile.
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Not sure if by "external card" you mean "can add an SD card" or "can change the SD card while the phone remains running" but I would point you towards this.
Why not just point towards the Galaxy S9?
You're on Slashdot among friends. It's okay. You can say the word "motherboard". :-)
It's almost like there's an Amazon related event going on today that is giving the company a bit of profile in the wider media. But I haven't heard about anything like that, have you?
You need to split the contexts. Bezos isn't *financially* imprisoned by his own creation. Does that mean he wouldn't pull all stops to hold onto it, continue running it, and fight off attempts at others controlling it?
You fail to realise that many people actually really enjoy what they do. Work keeps people busy. You see that often with retirees falling into depression. My neighbour was a postal worker for his life and retired with a nice pension, great success right? He's out of the "prison". ... two weeks later he applied for a job driving an icecream truck because he loved going around the neighbourhood and talking to people. His idea of prison was not having any work to do.
how does he afford these [google.com]? Hud housing? I make $80k/yr and I'm stuck in an apartment until my kid graduates from college.
You're either intentionally or unintentionally misreading the GP's post. The GP never said Bezos was poor, just that he doesn't have $150bn to play with unless he gives up his life's work, and that is wealth is tied to the company which he built.
People with that kind of money use it to make other people do what they're told. And if you don't fall in line they buy off a group of thugs to make sure you do, or else.
No. People with any kind of power use it to make other people do what they are told. I use that power at work. Some 15 year old in a decrepet neighbourhood who happens to own a gun uses that power too. Being rich doesn't make people malevolent. Being told by someone to fall in line or else doesn't make them a bad person either. You're ignoring a metric fuckton of context.
Just so we're clear, how are we being absued in this context? Because a bunch of features were added to software provided for free? The fact that my Surface Pro broke and MS had a replacement sent to me within 2 days? Or maybe its because despite all the complaints their OS actually works for most people and their Office suite has features that are unmatched by competitors?
Is there one of those microagressions I'm missing which I should get upset about?
You jest but have you seen most people's upload bandwidth combined with the quality of their webcams?
Depends on the source of the content. Netflix machine translate for content that doesn't have official translations. For Netflix's own content they are actually incredibly good with languages.
Instead of paying for 700 channels you don't watch people will subscribe to 4-5 different streaming services that interest them.
For now maybe. However look at the trend. The market is fragmenting at increasing rate, the content is reducing, and the prices are rising. People jumped on the streaming bandwagon because they got sick of having their wallets emptied by the cable guy, however trends are not looking good. We're beginning to question if it is worth keeping Netflix now. If Amazon Prime TV gets better that will make the decision even easier.
Who is at fault is entirely irrelevant to the end user. They only care about what their $10/m get. Increasingly it's a very shitty movie library with traditional cable level programming and in house shows tossed in.
Netflix wanted to end the cable companies, instead it became one.
So then tell me, by what logic does him taking risks lead to him revolutionizing auto production.
It si revolutionary to take risks in the auto industry. If you were expecting a positive result with every risk then that is you incorrectly reading into what other people have said.
To this point, his risk taking has been a big problem.
Yeah I know. It made him a billionaire who successfully started multiple companies that have completed upsended their respective industries. He should have just bought a factory, employed 100 union fitters and cranked out ICE cars. That would be MUCH better. /sarcasm.
Not every risk needs to be perfectly successful for the process of risk taking to revolutionise something.
You know who hasn't made any advancement over well establish production capability....Musk
The man has gone from 0 cars to current production at a faster rate than any other car company in history producing a car that every other car company said couldn't be made and won't be practical. He decimated the cost of satellite launch.
But yeah your critisicism are totally valid random internet man.
The auto industry has steadily improved assembly practices and optimized over many years.
Exactly what I said. Nothing revolutionary, completely safe, never try anything new, ... getting their breakfast eaten in a emerging car trend by a company they have repeatedly dismissed and for all their production woes is worth just as much as they are. If the last 5 years are anything to go by, Ford, GM, etc will be lucky to exist in 30 years. ... Oh wait, they are lucky they exist anyway thanks to government bailing them out. Man that optimsiation worked well for them.
1. No I did read the line. Get a better phone. The screen clearly isn't bright enough given your complaint. ... Unless it is that you have no cloud link for your backup or as above, no internet. Factory resetting my phone including getting all my settings back is a process that takes about an hour and runs entirely unattended.
2. Horseshit. I was in the UK last week navigating with Maps, if anything you are worse offenders than most countries with your referring to streets by numbers. Google Maps was literally designed to respond exactly as signs are posted. It won't tell you to turn right onto the B1234 if the upcoming sign doesn't say B1234 on it. That is pretty much universal. Travel to Australia where they don't number streets and you don't get instructions with numbers, quite unlike the UK where they put numbers on everything, or Germany where the numbers are even colourcoded to indicate the type of street.
3. Grasping at straws? Maybe you just don't know how to use your phone.
4. You broke something. The phone not only remembers your immediate history but it contexualises it. Let me check. Yep I'm in Germany right now and all the suggestions when I open the search bar are places I normally visit in Germany. Last week it was the names of hotels and pubs around the UK. Hmm. Maybe I have Google Maps Pro or some other cool version you don't get.
5. Maybe you live in a blackhole. Where I live I normally navigate via post code too. Not a problem with instant results. On Sunday I went to a beach, postcode unknown, name of the beach unknown so I just typed "beach in {suburb of netherlands}" and it popped right up. Actually given what you're saying, do you have internet? I mean the only reason why something wouldn't pop up straight away with an answer (especially for post code conversion) is if your internet is offline.
6. It's crashing on your device, so it's good advice. Do I reset my PC when my apps start randomly crashing for no reason? Most definitely. I'm not sure what you're talking about hours or reconfiguring. That process just runs in the background and most configuration is preserved. Moreso on the phone where a factory reset really means little more than you needing to log into the apps again, assuming you havne't got them linked to your google account in which case typing in that password is about the only thing you'll need to do.
7. So you're against setting something up. I never get ads. I just change settings rather than whinging about it online.
8. Actually I honestly think you don't know how to use your phone.
I don't understand. Are you complaining that every accessory isn't compatible with every device, or are you complaining that you don't know the difference between the branding of a model line and a specific model of a device? Your complaint will fall on dead ears and applies to every company in the technology world. Apple with their connectors and cables constantly changing, accessories suddenly depreciated, Google with it's Nest components not being compatible with the primary thermostat (better still they put up an entire webpage dedicated to instructing people how to find out which Nest they actually own, at least the Surface devices have the model number written on them).
You've seen professionals get bitten? Cool story. There are idiots in every profession. Including those that never read news or reviews, or those that buy a product without actually looking up what the model number means. Muy own father knew the Surface RT wasn't compatible with normal software, and this is a guy who calls me up from the other side of the world because his removable drive changes letters. Zero sympathy for your so called professionals.
Surface is a brand that covers a whole line of product models. It is not a model, just like iPhone is not a model or Nest isn't a mode, or Galaxy isn't a model. Microsoft is not a brand, it is a vendor. You would do well to understand the terms to avoid confusion in the future.
The judge has declared himself a mind reader with no corroborating evidence to support his ruling that the defendant does indeed know the passwords.
To be fair that's a technicality. The idea that someone is carrying around a functional cell phone owned by them for which they don't know the password is stupid. However more to the point: This case shouldn't be decided on technicalities in the first place. It shouldn't ever have gotten to the point of remembering or forgetting a password.
Why do these companies waste their time dealing with Europe?
Maybe they like our principles of common sense and not fucking over anything with a pulse and a wallet.
This so caught me out in the USA. I literally had a dollar on me, got like a chocolate bar walked up to the counter and then couldn't buy the damn thing because I only had a dollar and the damn thing had a dollar on the price tag but somehow that offer and payment was unable to be reconciled.
Recently in Oregon with recreational marijuana, they will sell you a gram for $5.00
You have got to be shitting me! Are you saying the only people in the USA with any sense are the pot dealers in Oregon?
The love to hide behind the fiction that many contracts are somehow enforceable
FTFY. You can't sign away your rights. ... Well in most places in the world you can't sign away your rights. I'm not sure what batshit insane supreme court sitting decided you can force arbitration on people.
this is actually pretty much a non-issue.
To those 950 grid connected homes that have been without power for nearly a fucking year it is an issue. The fact that it takes close to a year to restore power to your population is likewise.
You posted below that you lived without power for a year in a shitty little village. Making a decision to live without power is not the same as having your formerly grid connected life cut-off. Life builds around expectations. If you change the expectations it's suddenly a big problem.
It's a brand. Jessh why does everything need it's own specific name these days.
How utterly pathetic is that? It is 2018, people, wake up!
It may surprise you to know that at one point a phone conversation was connected by an operator using two wires and they could and frequently did listen in on calls. The world didn't implode.
It's 2018. People should risk assess their conversations. If you're going to come up with a plot to assassinate the president don't:
a) discuss it at the bus station in front of the police station.
b) email it
c) mail it
d) phone call it
e) skype it
The end user can decide the importance of their conversation. Personally I'm thankful they don't encrypt. I'm secretly hoping that some NSA drone who's not quite as resistant as I am listens to me conversing with my mother and then dies of boredom.
Stuff underground gets wet already, just in case you didn't know about "rain" and such.
That sounds like common sense until you actually see how infrastructure is designed. Most stuff underground most definitely does not get wet. Most of this stuff has many services that exist in order to keep it dry while underground.
A sump pump works great during a storm, not so much for draining an ocean. Also infrastructure typically doesn't cope well at all with flood waters, so even heavy rain is a problem.
They had actionable court evidence INSTANTLY in the watergate investigation.
Yep. Took 4 years though.
You have nothing you can take to court after two years.
Nope. You believe there's nothing you can take to court after two years. Very few people know what anyone has. That's how it works when you don't run a leaky ship. What we have seen however is that everyone who has seen anything that this has has so far instantly pleaded guilty.
Do you want me to go through the watergate investigation in embarressing detail to show all the ways in which that was an absolutely horrible example?
No. I think we've had enough nonsensical blathering from you for one day.
I'm sure that will do wonders for its performance.
As a desktop environment for an artsy type? No. Sorry - not recommended.
Well yes but you missed my point. As a desktop environment for any type? No Sorry not recommended. As a desktop environment for office work? No Sorry not recommended. As a base system to build games on? No sorry not recommended.
These were all the conclusions you would have come to 10 years ago. Instead there has been active development that makes all of the above possible.
The compromises necessary to make desktop Linux luser-friendly are not worth it, IMHO.
Like what? Userfriendliness is just an interface. In the meantime the things that artsy type of people need is exactly the kind of things that many other people need. Colour management? Tick. Memory management? Tick. Interface? No one cares... the modern graphics suite will bring its own. Solid filesystems that won't lose your data? Tick.
To be honest I'm not actually sure I see what it is that you need to compromise on to make it work .... the only real thing I see missing right now are users that make the porting worthwhile.