They're right, I have learned how to quickly change the JPG and multimedia extensions back to opening with normal Windows programs in desktop mode, learned how to create shortcuts to useful, common things on the desktop in desktop mode, how to uninstall apps, and generally learned other nifty ways to stay off of that terrible not-metro-anymore interface. So they're right but it does sort of imply that we still hate their terrible design.
Or, perhaps, you could not waste your money and get stable, working, long-term Thinkpads with flip screens running Windows 7 Pro (downgrade rights) and dual batteries for cheaper than a pro tablet and it comes with a DVD drive and full keyboard. Or are you one of the IT departments that buys pretty, shiny, trendy gear to impress the boss instead of actually get work done?
This is why I keep a killswitch type plan in place for web design work. If someone doesn't pay, it says in the contract, I will take down the content I made. It makes perfect sense, is reasonable, and gets bills paid. If they have some sort of notification that they'll change all FTP passwords etc the second your work is done, don't touch the project in the first place. You can also though host a couple individual libraries or graphics offsite and they won't notice. Just pull it or replace it with "this client has not paid their bills - image removed."
Lol here in Wisconsin we've had like 10 in 5 years. In fact, our servers were offline despite out UPS at my work at least 6 times total in the last 2 years and this area has about 200,000 people or so. Maybe I should move to New Jersey where the power is more secure, lol.
I think they chose it because it was double and there's not much more to read into it than that. What irks me is they made it looks twice a realistic with less noticeable flicker and people are saying it's distracting? WTF? Maybe they should jack it up to 72FPS and I'll send them a welcome to 1990 card because that's what a lot of CRTs ran at back then. Seriously! More frames = more realism. Thus the 120FPS HD signal. There is no getting used to something that looks more like reality. That's quite literally the opposite of the thing your eyes and brain would notice. Let's make all these "intelligent" reviewers watch a 12FPS movie and see if they still think lower is better. In fact forget that, 1 FPS. That's the king of all movie quality! Ugh, some people just need to get a damn clue.
"an article at Slate concedes that it's a bit awkward and takes a while to get used to"
What fucking alternate dimension are these dumbassess from?! Higher FPS = lower notice by the eyes. Virtually all computers are at 60FPS. New TVs are 120 and surprise, they look better. Clearing and old frame faster and adding more total convinces the eyes that it's seeing real life motion, not some skippy playback. When my games suddenly drop to 24 FPS, I want to throw my monitor out the damn window. Who the fuck would say 24 FPS is better than 48?! That's like people who tell me they like AOL mail better than Gmail. They're wrong! For fuck's sake, someone tell their author to get a clue.
Gas generators also have their gasoline turn acidic or whatever after sitting too long and most people don't know that you have to run them once in a while for that reason. So that's a bad idea.
"wired so that they deliver power when the grid fails"
Or they could run them all the time seeing as how they're sitting there doing nothing. Power plants would need to be more dynamic and able to scale up a down quite a bit based on sunlight but other than that, why buy something en masse that partially solves global warming and then not use it?
Classic framing/griefing. Obviously they should add "and they probably know all 4 of those people" to the evidence list. I guess they overlooked that little tidbit. Otherwise good luck tracking down proxies and Tor exit nodes cuz that info is as worthless as it gets when it comes to finding this person.
I did things slightly different. Btw you didn't think this was a bitcoin story....BUT IT IS! lol. My bitcoin rig ran at 550W and I had these calculations down plus an actual meter and they were all spot on. But let's say it's my gaming computer instead. That's around 240W peak of actual device pull. Let's say it's used for 6 hours a day at max load. Let's say I was going to get a piece of crap 76% efficient one but I went with an 80+ bronze which happens to be 83%. That's 40.8 watts added in waste heat to the efficient one and 57.6W in waste heat from the inefficient one for a difference of 16.8W so times 6 hours and 365 days, that's 36KWh added per year. US electricity varies from around 0.08-0.21 cents per KWh but mine's 12.6 so let's use that. That's $4.64. Now consider that I get more useable life out of one made from better parts with less heat floating around. It does pay for itself over time but not much more. A diablotek PHD350 is in the mid 70% range and $22. A seasonic 350W bronze PSU is around $45. Add in room cooling costs and you might make a buck. I'd do it just for fan noise, air temperature, reliability, etc.
Now they're trying to buy hardware manufacturers, release their own tablets and phones, they already make a commission on app sales, etc. You build up a brand and steal territory from your competition first then start charging more and more over time for various things once you've taken enough of a market share from that. You have to do it this way with a lot of corporate money backing it because actual, traditional start ups are basically impossible in the mobile device world.
I'm the owner of a computer repair company and head IT manager at another part time. I go after my competition relentlessly because that's what companies do. I know I'm better than them so I try to make them go away but underpricing them, advertising in the same media they do, and highlighting their "shining" reviews from their customers. Anyone found to be making tons of money splitting Office licenses and installing fake Photoshop copies gets a visit from the BSA and sued out of existence. If they dropped something in my lap the caliber of screwing up a major feature of their product, woooo, it's my birthday because they just made my job easier. To compare, "I don't care, we're already big enough" was Geek Squad 5 years ago. Now how are they doing?
Google didn't get to where they are by saying "Meh, good enough" just because they own the majority of the market. Like when they were 90% of all internet searches, they still took Ask and Bing and Yahoo seriously to keep them down. Now, outselling iOS devices 3:1, they can't just say "well, good enough. Let everyone buy a couple more iPhones." I'd be more like "KILL APPLE! KICK THEM WHEN THEY'RE DOWN!" so that they can never recover.
While that is true, Apple's contact with Google was up in like 9 months or something and the lease was created before Google even made Android, or at least close to it. Now that they're outselling iOS devices, I'd say put up a counter that says "countdown to screwed" and watch Apple scramble and fail to fix their own app in time. I think whoever is running Apple is a bit too cheap. If you say "well, we could pay 5x more to lease Garmin's actually good database....screw it, TomTom's is cheaper! Let's buy it!" when you have like $25 billion in liquid cash, that seems stupid to me.
They outsell Apple 3:1 with Android phones. I don't think visibility is a problem. For people who don't know that Google owns Android, they've at least heard of Google. Regardless though, making Apple's products look bad is key. Like for Windows 8, someone wrote a gadget for a start menu and with it installed, it makes Microsoft look better and some users are none of the wiser. So that'd be like Apple writing a Windows 8 start menu app for them if Apple had 75% of the PC market, lol.
1. Come to America
2. Don't learn English
3. Do something stupid
4. Can't understand police so...
5. Tased
Seems pretty cause and effect to me. If I went to go live in France, I'd probably want to learn French so that when a pack of French police are barking something at me, I know what they're telling me to do so I don't get tased. Lesson learned? Probably not, seeing as how all evidence points to her being here in the US solely to illegally export things for a profit.
Seriously, what were they thinking? Everyone had a solid, universal reason to not buy an iPhone 5 and Google, maker of Android, ruined it. Is a couple thousand dollars in app money really worth failing to crush Apple even worse? Well, regardless, Apple has less than a year left on their lease their maps database and interface. I don't know if a 3rd party app like this counts or not but regardless, this is beyond stupid. I bet their contract didn't say they had to design an entirely new app for them. I certainly would have left them hanging. That or made a total troll map app where the third direction is always "Lol @ Apple, we're only getting you this far. Try Apple maps for the rest of the directions. Try not to drive off a cliff into the ocean."
Nope, North Koreanium. That is, after all, where unicorns were discovered (despite the fact that this material and story have nothing to do with unicorns)
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They're right, I have learned how to quickly change the JPG and multimedia extensions back to opening with normal Windows programs in desktop mode, learned how to create shortcuts to useful, common things on the desktop in desktop mode, how to uninstall apps, and generally learned other nifty ways to stay off of that terrible not-metro-anymore interface. So they're right but it does sort of imply that we still hate their terrible design.
Or, perhaps, you could not waste your money and get stable, working, long-term Thinkpads with flip screens running Windows 7 Pro (downgrade rights) and dual batteries for cheaper than a pro tablet and it comes with a DVD drive and full keyboard. Or are you one of the IT departments that buys pretty, shiny, trendy gear to impress the boss instead of actually get work done?
This is why I keep a killswitch type plan in place for web design work. If someone doesn't pay, it says in the contract, I will take down the content I made. It makes perfect sense, is reasonable, and gets bills paid. If they have some sort of notification that they'll change all FTP passwords etc the second your work is done, don't touch the project in the first place. You can also though host a couple individual libraries or graphics offsite and they won't notice. Just pull it or replace it with "this client has not paid their bills - image removed."
Lol here in Wisconsin we've had like 10 in 5 years. In fact, our servers were offline despite out UPS at my work at least 6 times total in the last 2 years and this area has about 200,000 people or so. Maybe I should move to New Jersey where the power is more secure, lol.
I think they chose it because it was double and there's not much more to read into it than that. What irks me is they made it looks twice a realistic with less noticeable flicker and people are saying it's distracting? WTF? Maybe they should jack it up to 72FPS and I'll send them a welcome to 1990 card because that's what a lot of CRTs ran at back then. Seriously! More frames = more realism. Thus the 120FPS HD signal. There is no getting used to something that looks more like reality. That's quite literally the opposite of the thing your eyes and brain would notice. Let's make all these "intelligent" reviewers watch a 12FPS movie and see if they still think lower is better. In fact forget that, 1 FPS. That's the king of all movie quality! Ugh, some people just need to get a damn clue.
"an article at Slate concedes that it's a bit awkward and takes a while to get used to"
What fucking alternate dimension are these dumbassess from?! Higher FPS = lower notice by the eyes. Virtually all computers are at 60FPS. New TVs are 120 and surprise, they look better. Clearing and old frame faster and adding more total convinces the eyes that it's seeing real life motion, not some skippy playback. When my games suddenly drop to 24 FPS, I want to throw my monitor out the damn window. Who the fuck would say 24 FPS is better than 48?! That's like people who tell me they like AOL mail better than Gmail. They're wrong! For fuck's sake, someone tell their author to get a clue.
Gas generators also have their gasoline turn acidic or whatever after sitting too long and most people don't know that you have to run them once in a while for that reason. So that's a bad idea.
"wired so that they deliver power when the grid fails"
Or they could run them all the time seeing as how they're sitting there doing nothing. Power plants would need to be more dynamic and able to scale up a down quite a bit based on sunlight but other than that, why buy something en masse that partially solves global warming and then not use it?
Classic framing/griefing. Obviously they should add "and they probably know all 4 of those people" to the evidence list. I guess they overlooked that little tidbit. Otherwise good luck tracking down proxies and Tor exit nodes cuz that info is as worthless as it gets when it comes to finding this person.
I did things slightly different. Btw you didn't think this was a bitcoin story....BUT IT IS! lol. My bitcoin rig ran at 550W and I had these calculations down plus an actual meter and they were all spot on. But let's say it's my gaming computer instead. That's around 240W peak of actual device pull. Let's say it's used for 6 hours a day at max load. Let's say I was going to get a piece of crap 76% efficient one but I went with an 80+ bronze which happens to be 83%. That's 40.8 watts added in waste heat to the efficient one and 57.6W in waste heat from the inefficient one for a difference of 16.8W so times 6 hours and 365 days, that's 36KWh added per year. US electricity varies from around 0.08-0.21 cents per KWh but mine's 12.6 so let's use that. That's $4.64. Now consider that I get more useable life out of one made from better parts with less heat floating around. It does pay for itself over time but not much more. A diablotek PHD350 is in the mid 70% range and $22. A seasonic 350W bronze PSU is around $45. Add in room cooling costs and you might make a buck. I'd do it just for fan noise, air temperature, reliability, etc.
Now they're trying to buy hardware manufacturers, release their own tablets and phones, they already make a commission on app sales, etc. You build up a brand and steal territory from your competition first then start charging more and more over time for various things once you've taken enough of a market share from that. You have to do it this way with a lot of corporate money backing it because actual, traditional start ups are basically impossible in the mobile device world.
I'm the owner of a computer repair company and head IT manager at another part time. I go after my competition relentlessly because that's what companies do. I know I'm better than them so I try to make them go away but underpricing them, advertising in the same media they do, and highlighting their "shining" reviews from their customers. Anyone found to be making tons of money splitting Office licenses and installing fake Photoshop copies gets a visit from the BSA and sued out of existence. If they dropped something in my lap the caliber of screwing up a major feature of their product, woooo, it's my birthday because they just made my job easier. To compare, "I don't care, we're already big enough" was Geek Squad 5 years ago. Now how are they doing?
Google didn't get to where they are by saying "Meh, good enough" just because they own the majority of the market. Like when they were 90% of all internet searches, they still took Ask and Bing and Yahoo seriously to keep them down. Now, outselling iOS devices 3:1, they can't just say "well, good enough. Let everyone buy a couple more iPhones." I'd be more like "KILL APPLE! KICK THEM WHEN THEY'RE DOWN!" so that they can never recover.
While that is true, Apple's contact with Google was up in like 9 months or something and the lease was created before Google even made Android, or at least close to it. Now that they're outselling iOS devices, I'd say put up a counter that says "countdown to screwed" and watch Apple scramble and fail to fix their own app in time. I think whoever is running Apple is a bit too cheap. If you say "well, we could pay 5x more to lease Garmin's actually good database....screw it, TomTom's is cheaper! Let's buy it!" when you have like $25 billion in liquid cash, that seems stupid to me.
They outsell Apple 3:1 with Android phones. I don't think visibility is a problem. For people who don't know that Google owns Android, they've at least heard of Google. Regardless though, making Apple's products look bad is key. Like for Windows 8, someone wrote a gadget for a start menu and with it installed, it makes Microsoft look better and some users are none of the wiser. So that'd be like Apple writing a Windows 8 start menu app for them if Apple had 75% of the PC market, lol.
Because once your competition is gone, you can spike up the price through the roof.
If Apple Maps is working correctly, you must be holding it wrong because it's not supposed to work like that
1. Come to America
2. Don't learn English
3. Do something stupid
4. Can't understand police so...
5. Tased
Seems pretty cause and effect to me. If I went to go live in France, I'd probably want to learn French so that when a pack of French police are barking something at me, I know what they're telling me to do so I don't get tased. Lesson learned? Probably not, seeing as how all evidence points to her being here in the US solely to illegally export things for a profit.
Except they would have universal translators then
That or the war between Apple fanboys and all other reasonable human beings is really escalating, lol.
You must only be using it to go between your house and the Apple PR department office then.
It labeled the US as Australia in most views. What planet are you using it on?
Seriously, what were they thinking? Everyone had a solid, universal reason to not buy an iPhone 5 and Google, maker of Android, ruined it. Is a couple thousand dollars in app money really worth failing to crush Apple even worse? Well, regardless, Apple has less than a year left on their lease their maps database and interface. I don't know if a 3rd party app like this counts or not but regardless, this is beyond stupid. I bet their contract didn't say they had to design an entirely new app for them. I certainly would have left them hanging. That or made a total troll map app where the third direction is always "Lol @ Apple, we're only getting you this far. Try Apple maps for the rest of the directions. Try not to drive off a cliff into the ocean."
Yeah, but I didn't think anyone would catch it. Unfortunately, this is slashdot, lol.
Unlike most other Japanese medicine/nutrition, this one actually would have magical properties and unusual properties. Tiger penis, not so much, lol.
Nope, North Koreanium. That is, after all, where unicorns were discovered (despite the fact that this material and story have nothing to do with unicorns)