The cheaper Samsung feature phones are edging up toward 700-800 bucks, so I'm wondering what people buying them think they're getting.
Google/Android has always been an advertising platform. The tradeoff _used_ to be inexpensive phones, but that's starting to fade.
Premium Android phones can copy the iPhone all they want, but as long as they're Android phones, you're carrying around a spy device in your pocket at all times, one with a poorly regulated app store.
I disagree. Every piece of hardware I own, TV, soundbar, laptop, game console, etc., has a proper, downloadable PDF manual with lots of good info in it. Most are well written and designed.
If, say, LG anticipates selling 20,000 of a certain model of TV, the costs of physically printing and shipping all those manuals is significant. They don't have their own printing plant so when I say cost, I mean the cost of printing and shipping the manuals to LG HQ.
Plus the argument that 99% of people immediately throw that away, which is true, has to factor in.
Overall it's just a waste of time, energy, money and little chunks of our planet for something that even us old guys in 2018 get online if we need it.
If you're buying a piece of hardware and it doesn't have a proper manual available online, you're buying garbage.
How does an app update expose source code? I can't even think of a mechanism that could make that happen, unless your developers are purposely inept. More likely scenario is that someone inside shared the code with his buddies and it leaked out. Either way, still some serious problems with configuration control there.
I'm shocked. Shocked! That a $100 a year email client didn't fly in 2018! How can this be? I'll be rethinking my investment in Friendster now, for sure!
They're still 10's of millions of dollars in the hole, just to get to even, much less profitable.
They say that the problem was people that 'abused' the system, meaning people that took them up on the original offer as stated. Even at three movies a month, they're still buying tickets at full price and selling them for less. So yeah, I think they'd need about 90% of their subscribers to pay them each month and choose not to see any movies. Good luck with that.
This wikipedia page has a pretty accurate/traditional listing of neighborhoods (for now.) Hopefully whoever maintains it won't start adding BS made up neighborhoods:
The neighborhood namings are helpful when navigating the city. We have three major street grids here, two of which are askew and converge along Market street. We also have two separate grids of numbered streets, one going by Avenue and one going by Street. If you didn't know any better and put the wrong one in to get to, say, '9th', you could end up near beach instead of near Twitter HQ.
We have a lot of very long streets here, too, relative to the size of the city. Saying you live or work on California Street is useless as it crosses a dozen or more neighborhoods. But if you talk to a local and say you live in Pacific Heights (I wish), that's a much more specific place.
Perhaps our city council in San Francisco here can pass an ordinance that bans restaurants larger than 1000 square feet in Mid-Market. That's the real problem. That French place in the Twitter building closed a year ago and it's a ghost town still. Dirty Water will sit empty for years. Big expensive restaurants don't work there and won't work there. Meanwhile the dinky fast food places coming back to the Uber building usually have a pretty healthy crowd at lunch.
I work right in the 'meat' of Mid-Market and a third problem is that most of the restaurants that have opened in the area are 'concept' restaurants that a semi-famous local chef sinks a couple million bucks into, which results in the average lunch costing 25 bucks. Cavernous restaurants like that have shuttered at a pretty quick pace over the past couple years because they don't know how to cater to the techie lunch crowd. Meanwhile, Little Griddle, Ananda Fura (sp? I don't eat veggies), Sam's, The Market on Market and even the Subways in the area thrive. The food trucks at Soma Straet Food are often crowded as long as it's not rainy, and people have to walk a ways to get there.
Hopefully these big, prominent failures will start to give restauranteurs a clue about how to appeal to us nerds. When you're competing with free or subsidized food, you have to be different, fast, and reasonably priced (by San Francisco standards.) Nobody cares about your wine list (Dirty Water) or microbrew (that French place whose name escapes me.) Both those places were good for an occasional fancy lunch, but I'm not spending $25 on food every day, nor is anyone that works in the area.
I agree, it's sorta ugly but time will tell. It's really just kind of a plain chrome-like building, when viewed from afar. And you can see it from afar from every corner of the city. It's well south of most of the other highrises in the city so it's more viewable from places where you can't see, say, the TransAmerica Pyramid (central/western parts of town.) As more buildings get built in that area it should blend in more with the flow of the city, instead of jutting out of it like a hangnail like it does now.
I like the idea of the 'art cap' but having live-image based content up there just looks weird. It looks like a jumbotron. They should get some reputable digital artists to make something more compelling up there. In my ever so humble opinion, The Bay Lights is a much more compelling and aesthetically pleasing piece of public art on a grand scale.
Zero Day was pretty interesting. I didn't know everything about stuxnet, I came to find. Other recent-ish documentaries that are worth seeking out:
Score: A Film Music Documentary Red Army (the hockey movie) An Honest Liar Pina 3D (but only if you can somehow see it in 3D) Side by Side (digital vs film debate) Senna (make sure you see the documentary before the one with Thor in it) It Might Get Loud Note By Note (probably my most foveritest docu ever) Man on Wire (2008 documentary, not the recent dramatization) Shut Up and Sing And, of course, the King of Kong
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Blatant, flat-out lie. You don't know what you're talking about. Or actually you do, because you're clearly an Androidite spreading FUD with purpose.
You can opt-in to send anonymized app data to Apple and developers but in no way does Apple require you to sell your soul to use an iPhone.
The cheaper Samsung feature phones are edging up toward 700-800 bucks, so I'm wondering what people buying them think they're getting.
Google/Android has always been an advertising platform. The tradeoff _used_ to be inexpensive phones, but that's starting to fade.
Premium Android phones can copy the iPhone all they want, but as long as they're Android phones, you're carrying around a spy device in your pocket at all times, one with a poorly regulated app store.
I disagree. Every piece of hardware I own, TV, soundbar, laptop, game console, etc., has a proper, downloadable PDF manual with lots of good info in it. Most are well written and designed.
If, say, LG anticipates selling 20,000 of a certain model of TV, the costs of physically printing and shipping all those manuals is significant. They don't have their own printing plant so when I say cost, I mean the cost of printing and shipping the manuals to LG HQ.
Plus the argument that 99% of people immediately throw that away, which is true, has to factor in.
Overall it's just a waste of time, energy, money and little chunks of our planet for something that even us old guys in 2018 get online if we need it.
If you're buying a piece of hardware and it doesn't have a proper manual available online, you're buying garbage.
I hope this goes to court so someone can legally enforce a psych eval on Musk. Dude's clearly nuts.
I dunno. When I facetime with people wearing my bluetooth headphones, the audio is synced just fine on both ends.
I'm not sure many people are on the train doing multi-track mastering on their iPhones...
God forbid someone within 10 feet of me finds out I listed to Lady Gaga on the train.
Please cite credible research that Bluetooth causes tumors.
Plus, I feel like the excuses they gave for not supporting Linux clearly show they have no Linux expertise on staff.
Litmus test to tell whether or not Linux is a viable desktop OS:
Me, on phone: "Hey wife, can you log into my laptop and email me a file?" ... :/
Wife: Mmmm
After two decades of having that conversation every 2-3 years I finally just got a Mac.
Maybe Dropbox itself wants to do something sinister with your data ...
That is not a technical opinion, that is an undisputed, unqualified, provable fact.
How does an app update expose source code? I can't even think of a mechanism that could make that happen, unless your developers are purposely inept. More likely scenario is that someone inside shared the code with his buddies and it leaked out. Either way, still some serious problems with configuration control there.
I'm shocked. Shocked! That a $100 a year email client didn't fly in 2018! How can this be? I'll be rethinking my investment in Friendster now, for sure!
They're still 10's of millions of dollars in the hole, just to get to even, much less profitable.
They say that the problem was people that 'abused' the system, meaning people that took them up on the original offer as stated. Even at three movies a month, they're still buying tickets at full price and selling them for less. So yeah, I think they'd need about 90% of their subscribers to pay them each month and choose not to see any movies. Good luck with that.
This Friday at about 8:00 PM EST.
This wikipedia page has a pretty accurate/traditional listing of neighborhoods (for now.) Hopefully whoever maintains it won't start adding BS made up neighborhoods:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neighborhoods_in_San_Francisco
The neighborhood namings are helpful when navigating the city. We have three major street grids here, two of which are askew and converge along Market street. We also have two separate grids of numbered streets, one going by Avenue and one going by Street. If you didn't know any better and put the wrong one in to get to, say, '9th', you could end up near beach instead of near Twitter HQ.
We have a lot of very long streets here, too, relative to the size of the city. Saying you live or work on California Street is useless as it crosses a dozen or more neighborhoods. But if you talk to a local and say you live in Pacific Heights (I wish), that's a much more specific place.
Yes and no. There are official districts (Sunset, Richmond, etc.) but then they're broken down into what I think are more traditional names.
This is like if Google just suddenly started calling Hell's Kitchen something else. Or renamed SOHO for no reason.
Pita is so 2012. Everything comes on avocado toast now.
Perhaps our city council in San Francisco here can pass an ordinance that bans restaurants larger than 1000 square feet in Mid-Market. That's the real problem. That French place in the Twitter building closed a year ago and it's a ghost town still. Dirty Water will sit empty for years. Big expensive restaurants don't work there and won't work there. Meanwhile the dinky fast food places coming back to the Uber building usually have a pretty healthy crowd at lunch.
I work right in the 'meat' of Mid-Market and a third problem is that most of the restaurants that have opened in the area are 'concept' restaurants that a semi-famous local chef sinks a couple million bucks into, which results in the average lunch costing 25 bucks. Cavernous restaurants like that have shuttered at a pretty quick pace over the past couple years because they don't know how to cater to the techie lunch crowd. Meanwhile, Little Griddle, Ananda Fura (sp? I don't eat veggies), Sam's, The Market on Market and even the Subways in the area thrive. The food trucks at Soma Straet Food are often crowded as long as it's not rainy, and people have to walk a ways to get there.
Hopefully these big, prominent failures will start to give restauranteurs a clue about how to appeal to us nerds. When you're competing with free or subsidized food, you have to be different, fast, and reasonably priced (by San Francisco standards.) Nobody cares about your wine list (Dirty Water) or microbrew (that French place whose name escapes me.) Both those places were good for an occasional fancy lunch, but I'm not spending $25 on food every day, nor is anyone that works in the area.
Or how about "Mozilla, Sweeeeeeeet"
I agree, it's sorta ugly but time will tell. It's really just kind of a plain chrome-like building, when viewed from afar. And you can see it from afar from every corner of the city. It's well south of most of the other highrises in the city so it's more viewable from places where you can't see, say, the TransAmerica Pyramid (central/western parts of town.) As more buildings get built in that area it should blend in more with the flow of the city, instead of jutting out of it like a hangnail like it does now.
I like the idea of the 'art cap' but having live-image based content up there just looks weird. It looks like a jumbotron. They should get some reputable digital artists to make something more compelling up there. In my ever so humble opinion, The Bay Lights is a much more compelling and aesthetically pleasing piece of public art on a grand scale.
Another advertising platform, just what we need.
Also, Sebastien Codeville? Seriously? If that's a made up name, yikes. If that's a real name, he should have had the sense to change it by now.
Zero Day was pretty interesting. I didn't know everything about stuxnet, I came to find. Other recent-ish documentaries that are worth seeking out:
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Red Army (the hockey movie)
An Honest Liar
Pina 3D (but only if you can somehow see it in 3D)
Side by Side (digital vs film debate)
Senna (make sure you see the documentary before the one with Thor in it)
It Might Get Loud
Note By Note (probably my most foveritest docu ever)
Man on Wire (2008 documentary, not the recent dramatization)
Shut Up and Sing
And, of course, the King of Kong
Google turned evil so gradually I didn't even notice.