Your analogy just shows that you don't understand the problem. A TV switched on is very obvious. And it's not a privacy issue. The problem described by the OP is not obvious, and is a privacy problem.
You turn on backup sync and are surprised when it backs up your files? Seems rather obvious to me
I just want to know why when they improve the speed of something by 75-500% it's considered research but when I do it it's considered a waste of time? Companies just don't appreciate efficiency.
There's already fake rhino horn powder like that, the people who pay the big money test the product to ensure they're actually buying rhino horn. By being indistinguishable they flood the top end market with fakes and the price drops because no one can tell when they're getting a fake and when they're getting the real thing.
Price matters and while they'll never be as cheap, they can be a hell of a lot cheaper than $1k for 2TB. I could put a downpayment on a house for the $25k it would cost to meet my storage needs at home.
I have about 400 in two binders, unfortunately they got tucked away in storage for a year the mice had a field day and the mold did the rest. Complete write off. The 850 or so in proper cases fared much better, takes up 2 BESTA shelves but definitely worth it.
I need more BESTAs but they don't sell the narrow ones anymore.:(
That's true, I've only played 73 of the 148. 55 of them are sequels that I haven't started because I haven't finished the previous game. (I tend to buy collections so it's cheaper)
I have completed every achievement in 266 xbox platform games, played 1147 of them enough to get at least 1 achievement (37% completion of the 1147 overall), Steam has ~2,538 recorded hours, and that doesn't include anything before 2007 or my PS1/2/3/Wii/Xbox Original/Genesis or Blizzard games collection.
I have 148 Steam games, only 11 of which are installed due to lack of space. I regularly have to run with less than 500MB left on my 1TB budget laptop harddrive. I figure we download about 200-300GB of data every month that is deleted once consumed/needed for something higher priority.
Finally we have a reasonably sized SSD... now it's just got to come down in price 80-90%
Reasonably sized? It's 5 times the size of all data on my system.
Wow... I delete the equivalent of your system every month due to lack of space. Currently our household has 8TB of HDDs (not including the 4TB of dvd storage) every one of them is near capacity and we're not backing up nearly as much as we should. We could easily fill 30-40TB if we had everything we wanted installed/properly backed up.
I just dragged a text file (ANSI windows standard) to my browser and it rendered fine. Never had a problem doing so on any prior version, back to 3.0 either.
ANSI windows standard is mimetype text/plain not text/*
You misunderstand me. text/plain can be rendered, I understand that. However, it can only be rendered if it has the mimetype of text/plain. "unknown" mimetypes are not treated as text/plain, they are treated as text/* which is NOT rendered.
...more useless bloat that I'm going to have to disable when practical things like being able to view text files in the browser is STILL broken after years of waiting.
I'm rather not. This makes me wonder what proprietary crap they are inserting that is making a 'default driver' incompatible? Is Samsung inserting something inappropriate or is Microsoft? I have a hard time believing Samsung writes better drivers than the people who do this day in and day out for decades.
Logical thought and reason are all I need. I'm sure some psychologist has done a similar study I just can't be arsed to find it for a jackass like yourself.
Err... what would be less harmful than inconveniencing a mouse for six minutes?
Let me hold you up by an appendage for 6 minutes and see how well you fare.
The point is that you can do the experiment without having mice involved at all. Subject someone to something they find funny or enjoy to make them happy, test how long they will do an unpleasant/menial task after the fact. Repeat the test with making them angry/upset/depressed/whatever and compare... just as valid as the mouse test but without electro-stimulation or hanging them upsidedown.
Sounds like you've got personalization turned off. If Google doesn't know what country is relevant, how is it supposed to surface the right country for you? If you've been using VPN servers in different countries, that might also screw things up.
It tries to interpret it based on IP address all the time (as is evidence by various VPN stories)
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Your analogy just shows that you don't understand the problem. A TV switched on is very obvious. And it's not a privacy issue.
The problem described by the OP is not obvious, and is a privacy problem.
You turn on backup sync and are surprised when it backs up your files? Seems rather obvious to me
Unemployment is a sort of nirvana.
I just want to know why when they improve the speed of something by 75-500% it's considered research but when I do it it's considered a waste of time? Companies just don't appreciate efficiency.
There's already fake rhino horn powder like that, the people who pay the big money test the product to ensure they're actually buying rhino horn. By being indistinguishable they flood the top end market with fakes and the price drops because no one can tell when they're getting a fake and when they're getting the real thing.
Price matters and while they'll never be as cheap, they can be a hell of a lot cheaper than $1k for 2TB. I could put a downpayment on a house for the $25k it would cost to meet my storage needs at home.
I have about 400 in two binders, unfortunately they got tucked away in storage for a year the mice had a field day and the mold did the rest. Complete write off. The 850 or so in proper cases fared much better, takes up 2 BESTA shelves but definitely worth it.
I need more BESTAs but they don't sell the narrow ones anymore. :(
Hoarders don't "delete". I could just keep buying drives and storing crap but I only keep what's important and ditch the rest.
That's true, I've only played 73 of the 148. 55 of them are sequels that I haven't started because I haven't finished the previous game. (I tend to buy collections so it's cheaper)
I have completed every achievement in 266 xbox platform games, played 1147 of them enough to get at least 1 achievement (37% completion of the 1147 overall), Steam has ~2,538 recorded hours, and that doesn't include anything before 2007 or my PS1/2/3/Wii/Xbox Original/Genesis or Blizzard games collection.
Insomnia opens up an amazing amount of time.
I have 148 Steam games, only 11 of which are installed due to lack of space. I regularly have to run with less than 500MB left on my 1TB budget laptop harddrive. I figure we download about 200-300GB of data every month that is deleted once consumed/needed for something higher priority.
Finally we have a reasonably sized SSD... now it's just got to come down in price 80-90%
Reasonably sized? It's 5 times the size of all data on my system.
Wow... I delete the equivalent of your system every month due to lack of space. Currently our household has 8TB of HDDs (not including the 4TB of dvd storage) every one of them is near capacity and we're not backing up nearly as much as we should. We could easily fill 30-40TB if we had everything we wanted installed/properly backed up.
Finally we have a reasonably sized SSD... now it's just got to come down in price 80-90%
Yes, it's a different problem that highlights the original complaint by showing what happens when you open an unknown mimetype.
My worst was pretty tame in comparison. Over promised on some specs I couldn't deliver on in the end. Cost the client about $4k - oops.
Nope, it's Firefox. Plaintext files often don't have a mime type so present as unknown.
Here's the nearly 15 year old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
I just dragged a text file (ANSI windows standard) to my browser and it rendered fine. Never had a problem doing so on any prior version, back to 3.0 either.
ANSI windows standard is mimetype text/plain not text/*
The problem is also exampled by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
You misunderstand me. text/plain can be rendered, I understand that. However, it can only be rendered if it has the mimetype of text/plain. "unknown" mimetypes are not treated as text/plain, they are treated as text/* which is NOT rendered.
Nope, it's Firefox. Plaintext files often don't have a mime type so present as unknown.
Here's the nearly 15 year old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
...more useless bloat that I'm going to have to disable when practical things like being able to view text files in the browser is STILL broken after years of waiting.
Drones with weapons aren't autonomous.
It's only a matter of time.
It's partly that Windows slows down, especially with Windows 8, but it's more that people adapt to the speed of a system and it only seems slower.
I'm rather not. This makes me wonder what proprietary crap they are inserting that is making a 'default driver' incompatible? Is Samsung inserting something inappropriate or is Microsoft? I have a hard time believing Samsung writes better drivers than the people who do this day in and day out for decades.
Logical thought and reason are all I need. I'm sure some psychologist has done a similar study I just can't be arsed to find it for a jackass like yourself.
Err... what would be less harmful than inconveniencing a mouse for six minutes?
Let me hold you up by an appendage for 6 minutes and see how well you fare.
The point is that you can do the experiment without having mice involved at all. Subject someone to something they find funny or enjoy to make them happy, test how long they will do an unpleasant/menial task after the fact. Repeat the test with making them angry/upset/depressed/whatever and compare... just as valid as the mouse test but without electro-stimulation or hanging them upsidedown.
I know this kind of thing needs to be done. Still I find it repulsive from an emotional point of view.
Does it? Does it really?
I get research needing to test on animals but a test like this is not necessary. You can prove the same results using less harmful methods.
Sounds like you've got personalization turned off. If Google doesn't know what country is relevant, how is it supposed to surface the right country for you? If you've been using VPN servers in different countries, that might also screw things up.
It tries to interpret it based on IP address all the time (as is evidence by various VPN stories)