More than this, as a business do you want to take the chance sending someone a piece of furniture that's been infested with bedbugs by a customer who's returned it? Or deal with having to check for malware on every smartphone that's returned? etc.
Gaming is dead to me. Greed and idodiocy abound and nothing to inspire. I'd rather just replay Bioshock, Elder Scrolls, Starcraft, Diablo, or a million other games I love. X1 is a giant dust collector in our home and PS4 never got purchased... coming from someone who has 1200+ Xbox 360 games alone.
A while back, Toyota claimed I needed a new exhaust pipe for my Echo - $2,900 for the part alone. Quote from a reputable 3rd party repair shop: $400 including labour. It was just a bent pipe after all.
Final cost? Free. I took it into a repair shop and he just welded over the holes, used old wire hangers. It took him so little time he didn't bother charging me.
It's an over priced, modified Airsoft gun that has as much flame throwing capacity as a weed burner. You can buy actual flamethrowers with 60' range but they aren't regulated - it's just because this one got attention.
Palemoon maybe superior... but without a large number of developers behind it that's largely meaningless.
If few devs are making the great addons that users want and the devs that are there are focused on keeping up with security/standards implementation then it will remain feature poor
Mozilla is imploding under incompetent leadership. Decision after decision is stripping away everything that made Firefox great. Sure it has better privacy by default than Chrome but it also has its fair share of privacy nightmares. As an example, most people don't know they're signed up for "experiments" by default and these experiments are *exempt* from Mozilla's privacy policy. There is little to no oversight over what is collected or how it is used.
Palemoon might be good but it doesn't have the developer base needed.
With the death of XUL in Firefox I switched to Chrome. It sucks, it can't even play video/animated gifs reliably, but it's the least awful of the mediocrity we have available.
Honestly, I don't even need the voice aspect of it.
I need things like my clocks to update after a power outage/not having to reset my alarms. My coffee maker to be linked to that alarm + an offset. Power controls to turn off lighting from the bedroom and auto-disconnect circuits with phantom loads. Adjusting the blinds for optimal passive solar.
Things that save me time and having to remember to do them. Those are the most important, then the other aspect is just having dumb screens/speakers. I don't want to have to lug my gaming rig down to the living room for game night or duplicate my purchase on console. Or the ability to send a Skype call from one room to the next (ideally have it follow me around). Mobile phones are great but when I'm home, it's charging and I don't want to be taking it everywhere with me. I have more freedom in my car than I do at home in that sense.
Heck, just not having a bunch of tablets/laptops/etc scattered about would be great. A single system, out of sight, for all to use at the same time on whatever dumb screen they wish is my ideal.
Honestly, the area of the market they need to develop is the integrated home PC.
A modular system, wired into the home that enables 3rd parties to develop home technologies. I don't need every device in my home to be connected to the internet - I need them to connect to my home system and be managed locally. My PC should be my home's cloud and every "smart device" should just be a control board & dumb display that get fed data from applications/services running on the PC.
The employer would have to specify on Facebook what age group to target. If they specified anything that excluded anyone of working age then that was intentional discrimination.
This is an example of the screen they would see (ignore big red arrow):
Jokes aside, this is revealing. It indicates that the price of a ticket is keeping the majority of people away from the theatre for all but the truly "must see" movies.
Whether it is state or federal is immaterial to the argument I was making.
As to the removal of "with", it was actually that I copied from 'false..' to..'fraud' and decided after that I should include the manslaughter charge for clarity, despite having already mentioned it. The omission of 'with' was completely unintentional.
Then why is it they've yet to be able to recommend a channel I want to watch?
They throw gaming crap at me because I watch videos with tips on how to get specific achievements. They throw music videos at me because my wife showed me a couple videos but I have zero interest in music (and none of the genres are even close to what we've watched), etc.
They seem to ignore most of the channels I have shown interest in, which are generally smaller & not mainstream interests. The bulk of the videos I watch are how to or science - not once have they recommended something like that to me.
They were also charged with involuntary manslaughter.
As I said, there's no denying they were in the wrong and guilty of a crime but there's a big difference between the punishment for manslaughter and the other charges.
List of charges: > involuntary manslaughter, false information and hoaxes, cyberstalking, threatening to kill another or damage property by fire, interstate threats, conspiracy and several counts of wire fraud - The Wichita Eagle
That is a counter argument. Given how policing is done elsewhere in the world, with far fewer deaths, one could also argue that their metric for a "positive result" is flawed. It certainly wasn't a positive result for the individuals who were swatted.
This could actually be a monumental case if the right legal team gets involved.
There is no denying their actions were wrong, however, there's a major question as to whether the police were criminally negligent by failing to properly assess the situation prior to storming the building. A reasonable person would expect they would verify claims before acting on them.
It's not "grass is greener" syndrome it's that loyalty is no longer rewarded. It's better to leave a job within 18-30 months of getting it for a job at another company with the possibility of returning 18-30 months later for a much larger promotion than if you had stayed with the company.
My wife made the mistake of accepting more money to stay instead of leaving for a full time position. They jerked her around on contracts for 2 years , denying benefits/bonuses/etc. while repeatedly changing her job description to include stuff well above her pay grade.
It may suck responding to them (a process that can likely be automated) but the feedback is important data points to analyze. The level of vitriol & number of complaints can help them figure out what problems need to be addressed.
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More than this, as a business do you want to take the chance sending someone a piece of furniture that's been infested with bedbugs by a customer who's returned it? Or deal with having to check for malware on every smartphone that's returned? etc.
Gaming is dead to me. Greed and idodiocy abound and nothing to inspire. I'd rather just replay Bioshock, Elder Scrolls, Starcraft, Diablo, or a million other games I love. X1 is a giant dust collector in our home and PS4 never got purchased... coming from someone who has 1200+ Xbox 360 games alone.
As long as they double pinky superduper promise!
Like they promised not to be evil...
A while back, Toyota claimed I needed a new exhaust pipe for my Echo - $2,900 for the part alone. Quote from a reputable 3rd party repair shop: $400 including labour. It was just a bent pipe after all.
Final cost? Free. I took it into a repair shop and he just welded over the holes, used old wire hangers. It took him so little time he didn't bother charging me.
It's an over priced, modified Airsoft gun that has as much flame throwing capacity as a weed burner. You can buy actual flamethrowers with 60' range but they aren't regulated - it's just because this one got attention.
Palemoon maybe superior... but without a large number of developers behind it that's largely meaningless.
If few devs are making the great addons that users want and the devs that are there are focused on keeping up with security/standards implementation then it will remain feature poor
Mozilla is imploding under incompetent leadership. Decision after decision is stripping away everything that made Firefox great. Sure it has better privacy by default than Chrome but it also has its fair share of privacy nightmares. As an example, most people don't know they're signed up for "experiments" by default and these experiments are *exempt* from Mozilla's privacy policy. There is little to no oversight over what is collected or how it is used.
Palemoon might be good but it doesn't have the developer base needed.
With the death of XUL in Firefox I switched to Chrome. It sucks, it can't even play video/animated gifs reliably, but it's the least awful of the mediocrity we have available.
Honestly, I don't even need the voice aspect of it.
I need things like my clocks to update after a power outage/not having to reset my alarms. My coffee maker to be linked to that alarm + an offset. Power controls to turn off lighting from the bedroom and auto-disconnect circuits with phantom loads. Adjusting the blinds for optimal passive solar.
Things that save me time and having to remember to do them. Those are the most important, then the other aspect is just having dumb screens/speakers. I don't want to have to lug my gaming rig down to the living room for game night or duplicate my purchase on console. Or the ability to send a Skype call from one room to the next (ideally have it follow me around). Mobile phones are great but when I'm home, it's charging and I don't want to be taking it everywhere with me. I have more freedom in my car than I do at home in that sense.
Heck, just not having a bunch of tablets/laptops/etc scattered about would be great. A single system, out of sight, for all to use at the same time on whatever dumb screen they wish is my ideal.
Honestly, the area of the market they need to develop is the integrated home PC.
A modular system, wired into the home that enables 3rd parties to develop home technologies. I don't need every device in my home to be connected to the internet - I need them to connect to my home system and be managed locally. My PC should be my home's cloud and every "smart device" should just be a control board & dumb display that get fed data from applications/services running on the PC.
Ditto. But then again, I won't uproot from Toronto which seems to have a ton of tech workers but few of the big corporations.
I do... probably why my list of apps consists of Notepad and Quickmemo+
The employer would have to specify on Facebook what age group to target. If they specified anything that excluded anyone of working age then that was intentional discrimination.
This is an example of the screen they would see (ignore big red arrow):
https://www.socialmediaexamine...
Jokes aside, this is revealing. It indicates that the price of a ticket is keeping the majority of people away from the theatre for all but the truly "must see" movies.
Whether it is state or federal is immaterial to the argument I was making.
As to the removal of "with", it was actually that I copied from 'false..' to ..'fraud' and decided after that I should include the manslaughter charge for clarity, despite having already mentioned it. The omission of 'with' was completely unintentional.
Then why is it they've yet to be able to recommend a channel I want to watch?
They throw gaming crap at me because I watch videos with tips on how to get specific achievements. They throw music videos at me because my wife showed me a couple videos but I have zero interest in music (and none of the genres are even close to what we've watched), etc.
They seem to ignore most of the channels I have shown interest in, which are generally smaller & not mainstream interests. The bulk of the videos I watch are how to or science - not once have they recommended something like that to me.
They were also charged with involuntary manslaughter.
As I said, there's no denying they were in the wrong and guilty of a crime but there's a big difference between the punishment for manslaughter and the other charges.
List of charges:
> involuntary manslaughter, false information and hoaxes, cyberstalking, threatening to kill another or damage property by fire, interstate threats, conspiracy and several counts of wire fraud - The Wichita Eagle
With a privacy policy governed by the laws of Cyprus - I'm not so sure they can really be trusted
Unfortunately, they're either breaking the law or lying.
The indicate they have a Canadian server location which means they're required to log your information for a minimum of 30 days.
$20 trillion is a lot of jobs created and with more people dying from the effects of climate change that could really boost wages /s
That is a counter argument. Given how policing is done elsewhere in the world, with far fewer deaths, one could also argue that their metric for a "positive result" is flawed. It certainly wasn't a positive result for the individuals who were swatted.
This could actually be a monumental case if the right legal team gets involved.
There is no denying their actions were wrong, however, there's a major question as to whether the police were criminally negligent by failing to properly assess the situation prior to storming the building. A reasonable person would expect they would verify claims before acting on them.
With the lack of quality offerings on the game end of things there's little need for a console. Microtransactions have gutted the industry.
My X1 is a glorified DVD player at this point and a lousy one at that.
It's not "grass is greener" syndrome it's that loyalty is no longer rewarded. It's better to leave a job within 18-30 months of getting it for a job at another company with the possibility of returning 18-30 months later for a much larger promotion than if you had stayed with the company.
My wife made the mistake of accepting more money to stay instead of leaving for a full time position. They jerked her around on contracts for 2 years , denying benefits/bonuses/etc. while repeatedly changing her job description to include stuff well above her pay grade.
There are 160 other donors in Australia alone. He was just the first.
He also didn't retire, he was retired as they were worried about his health (he'd continued to donate after the legal cut off age)
It may suck responding to them (a process that can likely be automated) but the feedback is important data points to analyze. The level of vitriol & number of complaints can help them figure out what problems need to be addressed.