We just had 10 years of someone worse. Harper made Tony Abbott look good on the environment. That's like making George W Bush look like a member of Mensa.
I was making a satirical comment on the state of how we let big companies track our movements online. Obviously it wouldn't take 1GB of 22GB and it wouldn't just be Facebook (I'm looking at you "Don't be evil" Google).
Actually Tesla should start getting the local businesses to start subsidizing the superchargers. The businesses would get advertising at the supercharger, limited to one or two businesses, and then could offer a promotion to the driver if they are currently getting a charge. It would drive traffic to the businesses throughout the day and help pay for the superchargers (or maybe the electricity for them at least).
It was game over once the SIM was installed and the power turned on. Connecting to the legacy network that has no notion of privacy means that no matter how privacy-focused your phone is it doesn't matter at all.
Yes, in order for it to do any good many people would have to do this. I don't know how to achieve this. It's just something that I do when I take my business elsewhere because a company can't change if they don't know why I'm moving. It's also handy when dealing with the new business if they make me unhappy because I can remind them that they only have my business as I switched to them. They normally shape up pretty quick.
I stopped buying from Adidas because they continued supporting FIFA. I wrote them but they never replied so I sent a tweet to their account about it but didn't get a reply there too. So I won't be buying their shoes again. When dealing with larger companies maybe writing a letter and sending a tweet to try and build a viral campaign might be required. But I wouldn't start spamming everyone about it. Just one tweet to say what I did and why.
When the two different sizes came out they used to have identical capabilities with the only difference being the screen size. Now they are giving the larger phones extra capabilities and the SE gets even fewer features. If you can't use the largest screen then you have to give up on features that you may want. Or if you feel like you need a feature you end up buying the bigger phone. Yes, Apple is free to configure and price their phones how the want but I'm also free not to like it.
Since when what people want matters? We aren't hearing tons of people screaming out for thinner phones (or laptops). Many people would rather keep the same thickness or even increase it slightly and have the extra space given to batteries.
Yes but this TV will show you ads with your pirated content. The ads are separate from what is being shown so it doesn't matter if you are watching a DVD, cable, streaming content, or something you downloaded.
Don't just stop buying from them. They've noticed a drop in sales and are doing these stupid things in response. Send them an email explaining why you won't buy their products until they change their ways. They probably won't even respond let alone change their ways. But at the very least how can you expect them to change if you don't inform them. Maybe if enough people did this then they would change. Perhaps they aren't getting hit by the Chinese manufacturers but it's just many people not buying their TVs and not letting Samsung know why.
So I log onto a server, start a all-night process, log off, and shut down my desktop it should mean that my process should also be killed? Or do I have to keep my desktop on all night and hope that the connection doesn't drop just to keep the process running?
Or sometimes I can log on to a system to start a long process which will send me a notification when it's done. Why should I stay logged in taking up resources just so that the process can stay running? It's better for the system for the process to be running in the background and me to be logged off. If I do things properly I set up my job to run at a lower priority but the OS is going to have a good scheduler to ensure that active users are given priority.
How about doing some real detective work and finding the real reason why people are doing the shootings? Putting up cameras will just making finding the people responsible easier after the fact. Sure the article says the shootings may be gang related but I find it may be hard to believe that the gangs are just going out to the highway and taking random pot shots. One would hope that after 28 shootings the police would be a lot more proactive but alas that seems to be too much to ask today.
I was at a government department that rebuilt a small utility from C to Java because all applications had to be Java as they were a Java shop. They had the original developer do the conversion and even he built the replacement wrong. It had to handle multiple customers and the replacement was built only able to handle with one customer hard coded in it. So not only was it documented, the code was available (I know since I had access to it), and the person with the domain knowledge was building it. When asked about the error the developer said he didn't know the application needed to handle multiple customers. Sadly he was the best developer in the shop.
Microsoft is a large corporation. They could have made an investment in a new direction using these people..
But layoffs are the quick and easy way to help out the share price in the short term. Investing in a new direction with these, or new, people is a longer term strategy that doesn't help the share price near term. In fact it probably hurts it. Of course it is probably better for the company and society in the long term but unfortunately most corporate leaders (and politicians) are only interested in the short term results.
The problem Apple has is it's fixed release schedule which is tied to hardware releases. Every summer it announces a new version of iOS and Mac OS X along with new iPhones. The iPhones are fairly easily handled on a yearly schedule. However the software is a race to the finish every year which gives QA little time to do their work. The issue is that they are trying to cram in every new feature into the yearly release in addition to support for the new hardware features.
I think it would be better if Apple put out a point release with the hardware support when they bring out their new iPhones and then when the new features are ready release the new version of the operating systems. Or at least release the OSs later on, say in November in time for the Christmas rush. It would take some of the pressure because the release date of the iPhone is a hard date. There is no pushing that day further back because a new feature on iOS isn't ready. By making the new OS features separate those changes can be properly QA'd and the OS release could be delayed a few days or a week if needed. Only the point release containing the new hardware support would be critically needed on the day the phones launched.
The problem is that most people want to adopt want to adopt an infant while the majority of the children looking for a home are older. So the people go abroad looking for an infant in order to get their "perfect" child while the older children here get shuffled around from foster home to foster home.
And not everyone has a Windows box for the account to be a login to those other services. I haven't used a Windows where they try to link those services to the local account but I still have a hotmail account as a burner.
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I think it would have been cheaper for them to build it without the loop.
I'll wait until it gets to plaid.
We just had 10 years of someone worse. Harper made Tony Abbott look good on the environment. That's like making George W Bush look like a member of Mensa.
Bah, you need to be running NT 3.5! After that they moved the video drivers into the kernel and you got a lot more blue screens of death.
I was making a satirical comment on the state of how we let big companies track our movements online. Obviously it wouldn't take 1GB of 22GB and it wouldn't just be Facebook (I'm looking at you "Don't be evil" Google).
Actually Tesla should start getting the local businesses to start subsidizing the superchargers. The businesses would get advertising at the supercharger, limited to one or two businesses, and then could offer a promotion to the driver if they are currently getting a charge. It would drive traffic to the businesses throughout the day and help pay for the superchargers (or maybe the electricity for them at least).
And another 1GB from Facebook tracking.
It was game over once the SIM was installed and the power turned on. Connecting to the legacy network that has no notion of privacy means that no matter how privacy-focused your phone is it doesn't matter at all.
Yes, in order for it to do any good many people would have to do this. I don't know how to achieve this. It's just something that I do when I take my business elsewhere because a company can't change if they don't know why I'm moving. It's also handy when dealing with the new business if they make me unhappy because I can remind them that they only have my business as I switched to them. They normally shape up pretty quick.
I stopped buying from Adidas because they continued supporting FIFA. I wrote them but they never replied so I sent a tweet to their account about it but didn't get a reply there too. So I won't be buying their shoes again. When dealing with larger companies maybe writing a letter and sending a tweet to try and build a viral campaign might be required. But I wouldn't start spamming everyone about it. Just one tweet to say what I did and why.
When the two different sizes came out they used to have identical capabilities with the only difference being the screen size. Now they are giving the larger phones extra capabilities and the SE gets even fewer features. If you can't use the largest screen then you have to give up on features that you may want. Or if you feel like you need a feature you end up buying the bigger phone. Yes, Apple is free to configure and price their phones how the want but I'm also free not to like it.
Since when what people want matters? We aren't hearing tons of people screaming out for thinner phones (or laptops). Many people would rather keep the same thickness or even increase it slightly and have the extra space given to batteries.
Where did I say start an ad campaign? I just said to write a letter. I didn't say anything about trying to get other people to write letters.
Until they decide they need more money then your future ad-free TV becomes a TV showing ads and you spent an extra $300 for nothing.
Yes but this TV will show you ads with your pirated content. The ads are separate from what is being shown so it doesn't matter if you are watching a DVD, cable, streaming content, or something you downloaded.
Don't just stop buying from them. They've noticed a drop in sales and are doing these stupid things in response. Send them an email explaining why you won't buy their products until they change their ways. They probably won't even respond let alone change their ways. But at the very least how can you expect them to change if you don't inform them. Maybe if enough people did this then they would change. Perhaps they aren't getting hit by the Chinese manufacturers but it's just many people not buying their TVs and not letting Samsung know why.
Will they team up with IBM (or have they sold that part of the business to Lenovo yet?) for the blades?
So I log onto a server, start a all-night process, log off, and shut down my desktop it should mean that my process should also be killed? Or do I have to keep my desktop on all night and hope that the connection doesn't drop just to keep the process running?
Or sometimes I can log on to a system to start a long process which will send me a notification when it's done. Why should I stay logged in taking up resources just so that the process can stay running? It's better for the system for the process to be running in the background and me to be logged off. If I do things properly I set up my job to run at a lower priority but the OS is going to have a good scheduler to ensure that active users are given priority.
I love them. When I want something but don't care when I get it then I just set an alert with camelcamelcamel with a price near the historic low.
How about doing some real detective work and finding the real reason why people are doing the shootings? Putting up cameras will just making finding the people responsible easier after the fact. Sure the article says the shootings may be gang related but I find it may be hard to believe that the gangs are just going out to the highway and taking random pot shots. One would hope that after 28 shootings the police would be a lot more proactive but alas that seems to be too much to ask today.
I was at a government department that rebuilt a small utility from C to Java because all applications had to be Java as they were a Java shop. They had the original developer do the conversion and even he built the replacement wrong. It had to handle multiple customers and the replacement was built only able to handle with one customer hard coded in it. So not only was it documented, the code was available (I know since I had access to it), and the person with the domain knowledge was building it. When asked about the error the developer said he didn't know the application needed to handle multiple customers. Sadly he was the best developer in the shop.
Microsoft is a large corporation. They could have made an investment in a new direction using these people..
But layoffs are the quick and easy way to help out the share price in the short term. Investing in a new direction with these, or new, people is a longer term strategy that doesn't help the share price near term. In fact it probably hurts it. Of course it is probably better for the company and society in the long term but unfortunately most corporate leaders (and politicians) are only interested in the short term results.
The problem Apple has is it's fixed release schedule which is tied to hardware releases. Every summer it announces a new version of iOS and Mac OS X along with new iPhones. The iPhones are fairly easily handled on a yearly schedule. However the software is a race to the finish every year which gives QA little time to do their work. The issue is that they are trying to cram in every new feature into the yearly release in addition to support for the new hardware features.
I think it would be better if Apple put out a point release with the hardware support when they bring out their new iPhones and then when the new features are ready release the new version of the operating systems. Or at least release the OSs later on, say in November in time for the Christmas rush. It would take some of the pressure because the release date of the iPhone is a hard date. There is no pushing that day further back because a new feature on iOS isn't ready. By making the new OS features separate those changes can be properly QA'd and the OS release could be delayed a few days or a week if needed. Only the point release containing the new hardware support would be critically needed on the day the phones launched.
Why would it be such a problem? Streetcars and railways have dealt with these problems for over a century.
The problem is that most people want to adopt want to adopt an infant while the majority of the children looking for a home are older. So the people go abroad looking for an infant in order to get their "perfect" child while the older children here get shuffled around from foster home to foster home.
And not everyone has a Windows box for the account to be a login to those other services. I haven't used a Windows where they try to link those services to the local account but I still have a hotmail account as a burner.