This is a good example of why average people, who maybe only have a rudimentary background in science, no longer trust it or what scientists are claiming.
The scientists almost never say that though. They qualify their results, mentioning the potential error in the data, sample size, sample representation, etc. The media then take that and restate it as it it is a 100% certain claim applicable to all people in every case.
Where one chooses to live isn't really based on luck but choice.
Yes, OTA channels can be limiting or they can be everything one needs. It would depend on one's needs. HBO offers a streaming service for $15 a month. We subscribe to it for two months a year to watch Game of Thrones and other programs. The children can watch PBS to their heart's content. The public library offers a metric ton of programming for them to borrow. Sports are enjoyed at the stadium.
Not internet speed, but transmission speed is about 19Mb/s per channel received. So, for a city with forty or channels of television, that's about 800Mb/s of incoming bits to the house.
Since we're discussing a thread where only one channel is received. KUOW broadcasts their four feeds and a $5 antenna receives them. I require no contract, no monthly subscription, no sales calls, no annoyances of any kind.
It all depends on what services one wants. I add to that HBO Now for two months a year to watch Game of Thrones for $15 (first month free). I get all the television I want to watch for $16 a year or so if you amortize the cost of the antenna.
If your upstream network is slow enough to require months to back up your data, you might look into a service that allows you to mail them physical media.
Backing up data costs time and money. Why back up data that's easily recreated? The operating system and installed software can easily be recreated. User data and settings are not. Those are higher-value targets for backing up. Different people draw the line in a different place.
Why is that a problem? I don't want to have a different eco system appear every other year because it offers a small feature that the current one does not. Switching platforms is expensive. I want to do it when the benefit is great, not small. The problem is that the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems are tightly controlled, not that they are established markets. The platform should be an open one where anyone can interact.
Windows 10 Mobile is better than any Android device I've ever seen, by far.
You are comparing an OS with a piece of hardware. That's a strange comparison.
More to the point, the reason so few people have purchased Windows phones is the phones lack the software people want to run. Android, and iOS, do not.
Where I live there's a public radio station that plays a wide catalogue of new and old rock/alternative, a public radio station that plays a narrow, rotating catalog of current dance/pop from around the world and a public radio station that plays a very wide catalog of classical music. What matters is where the money comes from. If listeners chip in then they get a station that has human DJs that select tracks based on their tastes rather than marketeers monies.
If you travel to the US from Europe, the US requests your police, financial, and surveillance records from your home country. In that case, they don't need your social media accounts, because that contains everything from your political affiliations to the terms of endearment you use with your Swedish mistress.
Their data rate is expensive when abroad. $2.05 per megabyte. That's $2,048 per gigabyte. Compare that with Project Fi at $10 per gigabyte. So in some ways paying an extra $10 per day (plus normal US data rates) is a huge deal for them, but still not better than Project Fi.
Let us say I want to travel to Europe for two weeks. That's $140 just for them to not charge me insane rates. On top of that I pay their usual $8 per gigabyte. Let's say I just want to use navigation and download a couple of PDFs. Say 2GB total. Their price: $156 for that trip! With something like Google Fi I will pay an extra $20 for that trip.
Can you find a Windows Phone app that has contexts, deferred items, and weekly review features? I couldn't.
The no true Scotsman fallacy doesn't really make sense here. I'm not generalizing from that one specific example. avandesande asked for an example app that was not available on Windows Phone. I gave an example. I didn't say that there are no apps for Windows Phone, only that one particular style of todo list app with a specific workflow is not available.
I'm pretty sure you could have gotten a better deal than you negotiated then. If they agreed to those terms, you can be sure they would have sold you the car for 3% less if they didn't have to pay that transaction fee. I would not call that out-thinking them. They most certainly didn't sell you a car at a loss.
So you paid the dealer 3% more for a car (surely they didn't eat the transaction fees but passed them along to you in the negotiation) so you could "save" 1% in cash back. Wow.
So, Timmy, is privacy worth being protected or not? How is this 'protecting privacy'? Just because you can obtain these logs, why are you doing it?
I'm not Tim, but I'll wager an answer.
Apple offers a service where it can route calls from your phone to your other Apple devices as part of iCloud syncing. They store you call history as part of your iCloud data as call history is useful to have synced on all your devices and computers able to make and take calls. If you turn off iCloud, they don't store this data, as there's no point to do so.
I would argue that they could do a better job though, by having more granular controls over this feature and allow other parts of iCloud to be turned on with call routing and call-history syncing turned off.
If Microsoft was crushingly strict about privacy and data protection then: 1) The default would be no telemetry done. 2) The user could choose to opt-in to telemetry if they wanted. 3) If the user wanted to opt-in telemetry they could choose to give blanket permission to send anything or could instead give permission to send only with approval for each payload after being able to inspect the data. 4) Offer an interface for a user to delete all data Microsoft has collected about that user anytime they want, in perpetuity.
As far as I am aware, they don't do any of those four. You have a pretty weak definition of "crushingly strict" where Microsoft collects information about all users with no opt-out, let alone do the real privacy-conscious thing of offering only opt-in. Maybe they do protect users' information with crushingly strict rules, but when they have such disregard for the four points above, which are really important if they want to convince their users they actually care about their users' privacy, then it's really hard to have faith that do care deep down inside once they have all that data.
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If you claim that a system that is in use in most of the world is not working, you should show what's not working about it.
This is a good example of why average people, who maybe only have a rudimentary background in science, no longer trust it or what scientists are claiming.
The scientists almost never say that though. They qualify their results, mentioning the potential error in the data, sample size, sample representation, etc. The media then take that and restate it as it it is a 100% certain claim applicable to all people in every case.
That's interesting. My slightly less than terabyte backed up overnight. I didn't check the upload speed but it certainly didn't feel throttled.
Where one chooses to live isn't really based on luck but choice.
Yes, OTA channels can be limiting or they can be everything one needs. It would depend on one's needs. HBO offers a streaming service for $15 a month. We subscribe to it for two months a year to watch Game of Thrones and other programs. The children can watch PBS to their heart's content. The public library offers a metric ton of programming for them to borrow. Sports are enjoyed at the stadium.
Not internet speed, but transmission speed is about 19Mb/s per channel received. So, for a city with forty or channels of television, that's about 800Mb/s of incoming bits to the house.
All TVs come with an ATSC tuner. Otherwise, they are not TVs and the FCC regulations frown upon them being advertised as such.
KUOW.
Since we're discussing a thread where only one channel is received. KUOW broadcasts their four feeds and a $5 antenna receives them. I require no contract, no monthly subscription, no sales calls, no annoyances of any kind.
It all depends on what services one wants. I add to that HBO Now for two months a year to watch Game of Thrones for $15 (first month free). I get all the television I want to watch for $16 a year or so if you amortize the cost of the antenna.
If your upstream network is slow enough to require months to back up your data, you might look into a service that allows you to mail them physical media.
Backing up data costs time and money. Why back up data that's easily recreated? The operating system and installed software can easily be recreated. User data and settings are not. Those are higher-value targets for backing up. Different people draw the line in a different place.
Why is that a problem? I don't want to have a different eco system appear every other year because it offers a small feature that the current one does not. Switching platforms is expensive. I want to do it when the benefit is great, not small. The problem is that the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems are tightly controlled, not that they are established markets. The platform should be an open one where anyone can interact.
Windows 10 Mobile is better than any Android device I've ever seen, by far.
You are comparing an OS with a piece of hardware. That's a strange comparison.
More to the point, the reason so few people have purchased Windows phones is the phones lack the software people want to run. Android, and iOS, do not.
Where I live there's a public radio station that plays a wide catalogue of new and old rock/alternative, a public radio station that plays a narrow, rotating catalog of current dance/pop from around the world and a public radio station that plays a very wide catalog of classical music. What matters is where the money comes from. If listeners chip in then they get a station that has human DJs that select tracks based on their tastes rather than marketeers monies.
Thanks.
If you travel to the US from Europe, the US requests your police, financial, and surveillance records from your home country. In that case, they don't need your social media accounts, because that contains everything from your political affiliations to the terms of endearment you use with your Swedish mistress.
Do you have a citation for this?
Their data rate is expensive when abroad. $2.05 per megabyte. That's $2,048 per gigabyte. Compare that with Project Fi at $10 per gigabyte. So in some ways paying an extra $10 per day (plus normal US data rates) is a huge deal for them, but still not better than Project Fi.
Let us say I want to travel to Europe for two weeks. That's $140 just for them to not charge me insane rates. On top of that I pay their usual $8 per gigabyte. Let's say I just want to use navigation and download a couple of PDFs. Say 2GB total. Their price: $156 for that trip! With something like Google Fi I will pay an extra $20 for that trip.
It's overpriced.
Those features aren't "nice to have" features. They're part of the core philosophy of how that task manager works.
Can you find a Windows Phone app that has contexts, deferred items, and weekly review features? I couldn't.
The no true Scotsman fallacy doesn't really make sense here. I'm not generalizing from that one specific example. avandesande asked for an example app that was not available on Windows Phone. I gave an example. I didn't say that there are no apps for Windows Phone, only that one particular style of todo list app with a specific workflow is not available.
Like what? I am curious to see what you can come up with. Also I like the interface but despise windows 8... the interface is fine for a phone.
OmniFocus is not available for Windows Phone. I am also not aware of any app for the Windows Phone that has feature-parity with it.
I'm pretty sure you could have gotten a better deal than you negotiated then. If they agreed to those terms, you can be sure they would have sold you the car for 3% less if they didn't have to pay that transaction fee. I would not call that out-thinking them. They most certainly didn't sell you a car at a loss.
So you paid the dealer 3% more for a car (surely they didn't eat the transaction fees but passed them along to you in the negotiation) so you could "save" 1% in cash back. Wow.
It is one thing if there is a user-centered purpose for it...
I find it useful to see my call history on devices other than my phone. Those other devices that can also make and take calls.
So, Timmy, is privacy worth being protected or not? How is this 'protecting privacy'? Just because you can obtain these logs, why are you doing it?
I'm not Tim, but I'll wager an answer.
Apple offers a service where it can route calls from your phone to your other Apple devices as part of iCloud syncing. They store you call history as part of your iCloud data as call history is useful to have synced on all your devices and computers able to make and take calls. If you turn off iCloud, they don't store this data, as there's no point to do so.
I would argue that they could do a better job though, by having more granular controls over this feature and allow other parts of iCloud to be turned on with call routing and call-history syncing turned off.
If Microsoft was crushingly strict about privacy and data protection then:
1) The default would be no telemetry done.
2) The user could choose to opt-in to telemetry if they wanted.
3) If the user wanted to opt-in telemetry they could choose to give blanket permission to send anything or could instead give permission to send only with approval for each payload after being able to inspect the data.
4) Offer an interface for a user to delete all data Microsoft has collected about that user anytime they want, in perpetuity.
As far as I am aware, they don't do any of those four. You have a pretty weak definition of "crushingly strict" where Microsoft collects information about all users with no opt-out, let alone do the real privacy-conscious thing of offering only opt-in. Maybe they do protect users' information with crushingly strict rules, but when they have such disregard for the four points above, which are really important if they want to convince their users they actually care about their users' privacy, then it's really hard to have faith that do care deep down inside once they have all that data.
Unless they're buying out TiVo, they're already second to market...
You're right, Apple being second to market has always left them as a loser in that market. iPod: "Less space than a nomad. Lame."