However I lost the original domain (due to an issue out of my control) and the legacy version won't allow you to change your primary domain to a new one. You have to create a new alias, set that to the primary and then reconfigure all users to send their email through an external SMTP server (which is actually Google's own SMTP server) so you can avoid Outlook telling everyone your old (non-working) address.
Frankly it's a mess.
In addition also have issues in that some people aren't receiving my emails - but Google won't even consider looking at the problem unless I upgrade, hence why I was looking at the pricing!
It would be nice if they looked at their G Suite pricing for people who simply want a couple of email addresses hanging from their own domain. Right now, if you have your own domain, Google assumes you're a business and charges accordingly.
Here in the UK 3.30 GBP/user/month comes to near 198 GBP (~$270) per year for 5 family members which is extremely expensive! Even more so when you realise that, because it's family, all you really want is the same functionality that normal Gmail users get.
Every single thing you don't like about Windows 8 backup has been fixed in the Windows 10 version. In addition, all the things you like about Time Capsule are available too. Like I said, it's actually pretty good.
If I remember correctly it uses the original filename and then appends a date stamp. So if you have three versions then it'll have three files of the same name but with different trailing date stamps.
So I'm going to go visit my mom in a few weeks, and one of those chores will be to backup her windows computer again, and I wish it were as easy as backing up my Mac at work.
Windows isn't as easy as just plugging in a time capsule, but if you're on Windows 10 then File History is pretty simple.
Just point it at your external drive, define how frequently it should back up and away you go. The only time it gets a bit more complicated is if you want to define locations outside of your libraries - but the interface is dead simple.
Unlike the one in Windows 7, it won't fill the hard drive and then stop working until you remember to delete a snapshot from a year ago. For want of a better phrase, it actually does "just work" - took them long enough!
Sounds like Facebook is expecting everyone else to do their job of filtering bad actors from the advertisement stream.
Which wouldn't be quite so bad if they actually let you.
I'm constantly bombarded with adverts for Raspberry Pi based retro controls which have no issue with clearly advertising the fact that they come fully loaded with thousands of games from various platforms (Nintendo, Sony and Sega included). Yet when I click on the "report" option the best I can do is tell them that I don't want to see it - there is no "this is blatantly illegal" option.
Similarly, after all the furor over fake news, you would have thought there was a way to report fake news for review and taking down. It turns out there isn't. Again, the best you can do is tell them that you don't want to see it.
Facebook claims that users can report problematic content and advertising, but they can't in a way that makes it extremely clear what the problem is.
I'm wondering if they are taking into account the overall general increase in the total number of vehicles on the road. If someone leaves a major highway to try a back road, isn't that a hint that the major highway is full of traffic?
Not necessarily. Here in the UK there are two major motorways which Waze will happily route you off one onto a reasonably quiet residential road to join up with the other.
The alternative would just be to stick on the first motorway and switch to the second motorway. However that journey takes two minutes longer to do (even on a quiet day/time) so it is not considered the fastest route and therefore not offered - despite actually being safer to drive and more considerate of the locals.
From the linked article it states that that they received a gift of a laptop from the University of Leeds, followed by a further 5 computers (not clear who from, but not unreasonable to assume it's from one of Microsoft's partners) and then a further laptop for Akoto's personal use by NIIT, a computer training school headquartered in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
Actually, re-reading it again, it looks like the 5 desktops and 1 laptop for personal use was donated by NIIT. I assumed the word "further" was to differentiate between donors but that might not be the case.
That's nice, but donating one laptop seems...stingy? Very "thoughts and prayers"? A reasonable laptop is like $300, less for corporations, especially for a $90 billion dollar company.
I don't disagree that one laptop would be stingy, however that doesn't actually appear to be the case.
From the linked article it states that that they received a gift of a laptop from the University of Leeds, followed by a further 5 computers (not clear who from, but not unreasonable to assume it's from one of Microsoft's partners) and then a further laptop for Akoto's personal use by NIIT, a computer training school headquartered in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
The article that I read this morning was predicting a slow decline with a linear drop-off over many years. I think this completely misses the value of Facebook: it is not useful because of anything it does, it's useful because other people use it. Every person who quits makes it slightly less useful for 20 or so other people (and less valuable for a few hundred advertisers).
It's known as Metcalfe's law and named after the co-creator of Ethernet. The value of a network (V) is equal to the number of nodes (n) squared - or V = n^2
When n decreases by a small amount, V decreases by a greater amount.
Tim Cook's expertise is in the supply chain. As a result, if they're going to issue an update to the SE, then it'll be one that provides a modest boost whilst reducing the number of different components they have to build or buy. This allows them to reduce their component inventory, take advantage of further bulk discounts and continue to maintain healthy margins.
On that basis, if there is a SE 2 (and remember, Apple has a history of forgetting they have sucessful products - see Mac Mini and iPad Mini), then then it'll probably be the same design with the A10, option of 64 or 128MB capacity, 12MP f1.8 main camera, 5MP f2.2 front facing camera and the second generation of Touch ID.
Prisoners are found guilty, he's had all the charges against him dropped. A subtle, but rather important, difference.
In fact, the only thing he's guilty of now is skipping bail and, right now, we're spending £10k a day for a bunch of policemen/women to hang around on the street waiting for him to leave the embassy.
If you don't think he should be let go then we could, at least, drop the costs of policing and just arrest him the moment he's spotted in public. It's not like we don't have CCTV cameras on almost every corner of almost every street.
It's costing us, the UK tax payer, about £10k per day for the policing. Quite frankly, it's a colossal waste of money at a time where the amount of public spending available cannot be pissed up the wall on something like this.
Part of that daily money would be better spent purchasing him a one way ticket to Ecuador, escorting him to Heathrow, onto the aeroplane and then waving him goodbye.
And then we can go back to spending that kind of money on far far more important things.
As part of the new iOS 11.3 update, iPhone users will get a recommendation if a battery needs to be serviced
The silly thing is that if they'd actually done this the day they implemented the throttling (thereby being upfront and honest about it) then there probably wouldn't have been any uproar.
Yet again, it's Apple's reluctance to share anything but the bare minimum with their customers (who then go on to make assumptions about their motives) which has bitten them on the backside.
Alternatively I suspect that households will continue to purchase a self-driving car - simply because sharing a car which doesn't go directly where you want it to smacks too much of public transport.
However the majority of families will only need one car to cover all the activities that they'd previously require two for - simply because a self-driving car can drive itself between two locations without the need for a human to be in control.
Class action lawsuit settled. Lawyers to get $30 million. Phone customers to get a coupon for $5 off a new iPhone.
... and the next exec who comes up with the exact same bright idea gets advised by Legal that doing this would cost the company upwards of $30m... and decides against taking it any further.
I always send my CV in PDF form. As well as almost always displaying correctly on a variety of systems, it prevents information leakage. Last thing you want is for the prospective employer to hit ctrl-Z a few times and see what edits you made.
No version of Microsoft Word has ever stored your edit history in such a way that you can load up a document and start mashing ctrl-z to see earlier edits.
If you accidentally turn on "track changes" then ctrl-z still wouldn't work - but you would be sharing a marked up list of your previous edits. When used correctly, that's a very useful piece of functionality.
On the other hand, next year they could release the same designs as they have this year, but with small incremental improvements to some of the components. They could release a new version of the operating system too.
Oh! Maybe they could prefix these with a letter to show that they are slightly different. How about a "S"? So we'd have the iPhone 8S, iPhone 8S+ and the iPhone XS.
Blogs and websites that live and breath phones would complain about the minimal differences between the 8 and 8S and the X and XS - however the majority of people who don't feel compelled to upgrade their phone every year will find the jump from the 7 (or earlier) a nice upgrade.
This is called the Microsoft instant we are the standard outlook. Microsoft comes late to the game, and their fans complain that Apple isn't compatible with Microsoft's late entry, and it's those damn hipsters at Apple's fault.
Some Apple fans might, but not me.
My point was more that Apple already provide Bonjour services for Windows (and have done for several years).
As such, there was no reason why, in the past 5 years, they couldn't have built and bundled in an AirDrop service for Windows too.
I'm quite annoyed that Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all developing independent protocols for this though. I want an open protocol that works with all of my devices, not a mess of protocols where I can use one between my laptop and Android phone, one between my laptop and iPad, none between my iPad and Android phone, a different one between Windows devices, and so on.
Agreed, however if Microsoft do this right and provide support in iOS and Android then they'll have a solution which works for 100% of the mobile market and 83% of the desktop market.
This isn't so so great if you're the 17% on something else - but better than AirDrop today which only works on 13% of desktops and 18% of phones.
Now there was nothing to stop Apple (or even Google) doing the same - however they've had 5 years since AirDrop came out to do something... but chose not to.
Neither of them are technically "dead" since Apple will sell you a new one that's years old and due for refreshes, but they're not stunning sellers that Apple finds worthy of putting more than the minimal amount of engineering effort into.
If Apple really wanted to dedicate minimal amount of engineering they could have given the processor and memory a bump and swapped out the 5400RPM HDD for a SSD. It would have been a decent (if uninspiring) upgrade.
Alas, for a product they consider "important", they couldn't even be arsed doing that.
My favourite is Citymapper which reports the 13 minute walk from my office to a nearby bar as taking up "49 cal, 3% of daily intake or 0.1 cheeseburgers or 0.3 pints of beer"
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Yeah, me too.
However I lost the original domain (due to an issue out of my control) and the legacy version won't allow you to change your primary domain to a new one. You have to create a new alias, set that to the primary and then reconfigure all users to send their email through an external SMTP server (which is actually Google's own SMTP server) so you can avoid Outlook telling everyone your old (non-working) address.
Frankly it's a mess.
In addition also have issues in that some people aren't receiving my emails - but Google won't even consider looking at the problem unless I upgrade, hence why I was looking at the pricing!
It would be nice if they looked at their G Suite pricing for people who simply want a couple of email addresses hanging from their own domain. Right now, if you have your own domain, Google assumes you're a business and charges accordingly.
Here in the UK 3.30 GBP/user/month comes to near 198 GBP (~$270) per year for 5 family members which is extremely expensive! Even more so when you realise that, because it's family, all you really want is the same functionality that normal Gmail users get.
Every single thing you don't like about Windows 8 backup has been fixed in the Windows 10 version. In addition, all the things you like about Time Capsule are available too. Like I said, it's actually pretty good.
If I remember correctly it uses the original filename and then appends a date stamp. So if you have three versions then it'll have three files of the same name but with different trailing date stamps.
Windows isn't as easy as just plugging in a time capsule, but if you're on Windows 10 then File History is pretty simple.
Just point it at your external drive, define how frequently it should back up and away you go. The only time it gets a bit more complicated is if you want to define locations outside of your libraries - but the interface is dead simple.
Unlike the one in Windows 7, it won't fill the hard drive and then stop working until you remember to delete a snapshot from a year ago. For want of a better phrase, it actually does "just work" - took them long enough!
Which wouldn't be quite so bad if they actually let you.
I'm constantly bombarded with adverts for Raspberry Pi based retro controls which have no issue with clearly advertising the fact that they come fully loaded with thousands of games from various platforms (Nintendo, Sony and Sega included). Yet when I click on the "report" option the best I can do is tell them that I don't want to see it - there is no "this is blatantly illegal" option.
Similarly, after all the furor over fake news, you would have thought there was a way to report fake news for review and taking down. It turns out there isn't. Again, the best you can do is tell them that you don't want to see it.
Facebook claims that users can report problematic content and advertising, but they can't in a way that makes it extremely clear what the problem is.
Not necessarily. Here in the UK there are two major motorways which Waze will happily route you off one onto a reasonably quiet residential road to join up with the other.
The alternative would just be to stick on the first motorway and switch to the second motorway. However that journey takes two minutes longer to do (even on a quiet day/time) so it is not considered the fastest route and therefore not offered - despite actually being safer to drive and more considerate of the locals.
Actually, re-reading it again, it looks like the 5 desktops and 1 laptop for personal use was donated by NIIT. I assumed the word "further" was to differentiate between donors but that might not be the case.
Either way, better than one.
I don't disagree that one laptop would be stingy, however that doesn't actually appear to be the case.
From the linked article it states that that they received a gift of a laptop from the University of Leeds, followed by a further 5 computers (not clear who from, but not unreasonable to assume it's from one of Microsoft's partners) and then a further laptop for Akoto's personal use by NIIT, a computer training school headquartered in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
By my count, that's 2 laptops and 5 desktops.
It's known as Metcalfe's law and named after the co-creator of Ethernet. The value of a network (V) is equal to the number of nodes (n) squared - or V = n^2
When n decreases by a small amount, V decreases by a greater amount.
Tim Cook's expertise is in the supply chain. As a result, if they're going to issue an update to the SE, then it'll be one that provides a modest boost whilst reducing the number of different components they have to build or buy. This allows them to reduce their component inventory, take advantage of further bulk discounts and continue to maintain healthy margins.
On that basis, if there is a SE 2 (and remember, Apple has a history of forgetting they have sucessful products - see Mac Mini and iPad Mini), then then it'll probably be the same design with the A10, option of 64 or 128MB capacity, 12MP f1.8 main camera, 5MP f2.2 front facing camera and the second generation of Touch ID.
You're right and god knows. I'm pretty sure that we don't spend anywhere near £10k a day on other people who skip bail.
I'm amazed that no-one has said "come on, is this really a good use of our money?"
Prisoners are found guilty, he's had all the charges against him dropped. A subtle, but rather important, difference.
In fact, the only thing he's guilty of now is skipping bail and, right now, we're spending £10k a day for a bunch of policemen/women to hang around on the street waiting for him to leave the embassy.
If you don't think he should be let go then we could, at least, drop the costs of policing and just arrest him the moment he's spotted in public. It's not like we don't have CCTV cameras on almost every corner of almost every street.
It's costing us, the UK tax payer, about £10k per day for the policing. Quite frankly, it's a colossal waste of money at a time where the amount of public spending available cannot be pissed up the wall on something like this.
Part of that daily money would be better spent purchasing him a one way ticket to Ecuador, escorting him to Heathrow, onto the aeroplane and then waving him goodbye.
And then we can go back to spending that kind of money on far far more important things.
The 8 hours is the time I got to sleep for, not the time the BIOS takes to update.
My Dell XPS 13 nagged me last night to update the BIOS and I declined on the basis I wanted to go to bed and not wait around to see it finish.
(I'm not brave enough to kick off a BIOS update and then leave the laptop alone for 8 hours)
Appears I dodged a bullet there.
The silly thing is that if they'd actually done this the day they implemented the throttling (thereby being upfront and honest about it) then there probably wouldn't have been any uproar.
Yet again, it's Apple's reluctance to share anything but the bare minimum with their customers (who then go on to make assumptions about their motives) which has bitten them on the backside.
Alternatively I suspect that households will continue to purchase a self-driving car - simply because sharing a car which doesn't go directly where you want it to smacks too much of public transport.
However the majority of families will only need one car to cover all the activities that they'd previously require two for - simply because a self-driving car can drive itself between two locations without the need for a human to be in control.
... and the next exec who comes up with the exact same bright idea gets advised by Legal that doing this would cost the company upwards of $30m ... and decides against taking it any further.
No version of Microsoft Word has ever stored your edit history in such a way that you can load up a document and start mashing ctrl-z to see earlier edits.
If you accidentally turn on "track changes" then ctrl-z still wouldn't work - but you would be sharing a marked up list of your previous edits. When used correctly, that's a very useful piece of functionality.
On the other hand, next year they could release the same designs as they have this year, but with small incremental improvements to some of the components. They could release a new version of the operating system too.
Oh! Maybe they could prefix these with a letter to show that they are slightly different. How about a "S"? So we'd have the iPhone 8S, iPhone 8S+ and the iPhone XS.
Blogs and websites that live and breath phones would complain about the minimal differences between the 8 and 8S and the X and XS - however the majority of people who don't feel compelled to upgrade their phone every year will find the jump from the 7 (or earlier) a nice upgrade.
I know, I know, crazy talk.
Some Apple fans might, but not me.
My point was more that Apple already provide Bonjour services for Windows (and have done for several years).
As such, there was no reason why, in the past 5 years, they couldn't have built and bundled in an AirDrop service for Windows too.
Agreed, however if Microsoft do this right and provide support in iOS and Android then they'll have a solution which works for 100% of the mobile market and 83% of the desktop market.
This isn't so so great if you're the 17% on something else - but better than AirDrop today which only works on 13% of desktops and 18% of phones.
Now there was nothing to stop Apple (or even Google) doing the same - however they've had 5 years since AirDrop came out to do something ... but chose not to.
If Apple really wanted to dedicate minimal amount of engineering they could have given the processor and memory a bump and swapped out the 5400RPM HDD for a SSD. It would have been a decent (if uninspiring) upgrade.
Alas, for a product they consider "important", they couldn't even be arsed doing that.
My favourite is Citymapper which reports the 13 minute walk from my office to a nearby bar as taking up "49 cal, 3% of daily intake or 0.1 cheeseburgers or 0.3 pints of beer"