Cynni and Tanny present their findings in PowerPoint
That one has possibiliies though. In the opening scene, Cynni and Tanni start working on Powerpoint. Then they get bored and start working on each other. Just as Cynni is eating Tanni out, a pizza delivery guy turns up. A really well-hung pizza delivery guy, who proceeds to ream out Cynni while Tanny calls over her friend Crystal who sucks off the pizzza delivery guy. In the meantime, Tanny notices a plumber whos been fixing something under under the sink...
Why would there be a resurgence in sales? What most people have now is good enough, there's no need to upgrade any more. That doesn't mean it's dying, merely that the upgrade cycle has been broken.
A few years ago it was trendy to depict the death of the PC, which never happened, it was just a mature market and there was no need to upgrade any more. Now it's cellphones' turn.
He's probably a doctor. They always claim that something is "incurable". In all of the universe forever. When really, they just haven't heard of the cure / read the research paper yet.
In that case I'm eagerly awaiting the research paper that contains the cure for stupidity.
"We couldn't connect to the update service. We'll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn't work, make sure you're connected to the Internet"
"Hi. This is a message from Microsoft. I'm sure at this point you're expecting something that will allow you to diagnose the problem, but we've dumbed it down to the point where it's beyond useless and has gone to insulting. But then, you're a Windows 10 user so you're probably used to being insulted by us anyway. Love, Satya."
Day 1: We're pleased to announce the gazillion-dollar factory we're building.
Day 100: We're investigating the possibilities.
Day 200: We're still planning to go ahead, just on a smaller scale.
Day 300: We're looking at the long-term strategic position and may be deferring for a few years.
Day 400: We're reevaluating our plans, but still want to go ahead.
Day 500: We have a strong commitment to this factory, but perhaps on a smaller scale.
Day 600: We've carried out another study and think we can still proceed with a smaller factory.
Day 700: We're still considering the issue.
Day 800: We think we can make it happen, but perhaps as a facility to do final assembly on stuff we import from Taiwan or PRC.
Day 900: We're looking at having an assembly facility there.
Day 1000: OK, the Americans have finally forgotten about it, time to quietly bury it.
Foxconn played along because they were being strongarmed, not because they really wanted to build a gazillion-dollar factory there. So blaming the new governor is rather disingenous, it would have fizzled no matter who was in power.
Just out of curiosity, what makes the US so vulnerable to this? I live outside the US and have never had an unsolicited call on my landline. My neighbours occasionally get scam Indian tech-support calls, but no robocalls either. Why is it such a big thing in the US specifically?
The article I'm referring to suggested that as an explanation, but ruled it out based on data they'd gathered. There really are people who do nothing but edit Wikipedia (or post to similar online sites) every waking minute.
I think this is time for someone to post a link to the article about how the most popular contributors to sites like Wikipedia are insane people. It's based on an analysis of the amount of work and time available, where they average one edit every few minutes, 24 hours a day, for years at a time.
New metadata for music, TV shows and movies, will not be added to Windows Media Player.
Will anyone even notice? I mean, apart from 80-year-olds who don't know that anything exists outside of MSIE, WMP, and Notepad, who actually uses WMP for anything?
I think longitude is equally important in terms of musical taste. For example if you're located in lat.5-30 east, 58-72 north, you're statistically highly likely to prefer black metal, and occasionally burn down churches.
Same here. I do pretty much everything with keyboard shortcuts, never have to take my hands off the keyboard. This isn't some magic thing, it's just a standard way to use a computer for some.
It's not Whataboutism, it's just Wot? The headline "US Pressed Chinese Firms To Show One Example of When They Resisted Request For Data From Chinese Government, But They Have Never Done So" tells me I'm supposed to be outraged about something, but it's phrased in such an obtuse manner that I have no idea what it is. Something about China, by the looks of it, and being asked to prove a negative.
Same here. Android phones get updates? The only way I've seen to update an Android phone is to throw it away and buy a new one.
There's also a marked difference between "is an update available" and "is it possible to update it". Some phones, and I'm thinking specifically of Samsung's J series, are so desperately crippled that if you install anything more than a weather app on them there's no room to perform updates. So even if you could, in theory, update them, you can't actually do so in practice.
Because if they already knew in advance, it wouldn't be science. Holy Jeebus, this is science 001 (not even 101), propose a theory, devise an experiment to test it, (hopefully) get results, come to a conclusion. The opposite of this is nonscience, "we know that MMR vaccine causes autism, no need to test it, finished".
Spent over a month researching popular wifi adapters. Not even once dit I find an adapter using any model of chipset from Marvell. So the claim that this chipset model is very popular is bull.
Spent over a month researching the cars parked on the street outside my house. Not even once did I find a car made by Toyota. So the claim that Toyota makes cars is bull.
The top post in this thread illustrates how bad this has become. It's currently modded down to -1, but its actually a joke about birdwatching. I'll repeat that again, it's a joke, about birdwatching. However, since it's at the expense of SJWs, they've modded it down to the lowest rating it can get, presumably because even joking about SJW-ism is a grevious offence worthy of death to the person who made it.
Typical feminazis, the question was"what helps you to relieve stress", someone who was obviously into birdwatching for relaxation wrote boobies, and some rabid feminazi turned a reference to a harmless pastime into a sexual assault accusation.
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Cynni and Tanny present their findings in PowerPoint
That one has possibiliies though. In the opening scene, Cynni and Tanni start working on Powerpoint. Then they get bored and start working on each other. Just as Cynni is eating Tanni out, a pizza delivery guy turns up. A really well-hung pizza delivery guy, who proceeds to ream out Cynni while Tanny calls over her friend Crystal who sucks off the pizzza delivery guy. In the meantime, Tanny notices a plumber whos been fixing something under under the sink...
The concept behind this feature isn't new, as it's already present in Chrome
I think this should actually be the generic template for any news about Chromefox:
Mozilla announces plant to add $X to Firefox. The concept behind this feature isn't new, as it's already present in Chrome.
for any given value of X.
Honeywell doesn't think so.
Why would there be a resurgence in sales? What most people have now is good enough, there's no need to upgrade any more. That doesn't mean it's dying, merely that the upgrade cycle has been broken.
Does that mean desktop PCs are coming back?
A few years ago it was trendy to depict the death of the PC, which never happened, it was just a mature market and there was no need to upgrade any more. Now it's cellphones' turn.
He's probably a doctor. They always claim that something is "incurable". In all of the universe forever. When really, they just haven't heard of the cure / read the research paper yet.
In that case I'm eagerly awaiting the research paper that contains the cure for stupidity.
"We couldn't connect to the update service. We'll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn't work, make sure you're connected to the Internet"
"Hi. This is a message from Microsoft. I'm sure at this point you're expecting something that will allow you to diagnose the problem, but we've dumbed it down to the point where it's beyond useless and has gone to insulting. But then, you're a Windows 10 user so you're probably used to being insulted by us anyway. Love, Satya."
It's also a deal that was never going to happen:
Day 1: We're pleased to announce the gazillion-dollar factory we're building.
Day 100: We're investigating the possibilities.
Day 200: We're still planning to go ahead, just on a smaller scale.
Day 300: We're looking at the long-term strategic position and may be deferring for a few years.
Day 400: We're reevaluating our plans, but still want to go ahead.
Day 500: We have a strong commitment to this factory, but perhaps on a smaller scale.
Day 600: We've carried out another study and think we can still proceed with a smaller factory.
Day 700: We're still considering the issue.
Day 800: We think we can make it happen, but perhaps as a facility to do final assembly on stuff we import from Taiwan or PRC.
Day 900: We're looking at having an assembly facility there.
Day 1000: OK, the Americans have finally forgotten about it, time to quietly bury it.
Foxconn played along because they were being strongarmed, not because they really wanted to build a gazillion-dollar factory there. So blaming the new governor is rather disingenous, it would have fizzled no matter who was in power.
Just out of curiosity, what makes the US so vulnerable to this? I live outside the US and have never had an unsolicited call on my landline. My neighbours occasionally get scam Indian tech-support calls, but no robocalls either. Why is it such a big thing in the US specifically?
The article I'm referring to suggested that as an explanation, but ruled it out based on data they'd gathered. There really are people who do nothing but edit Wikipedia (or post to similar online sites) every waking minute.
I think this is time for someone to post a link to the article about how the most popular contributors to sites like Wikipedia are insane people. It's based on an analysis of the amount of work and time available, where they average one edit every few minutes, 24 hours a day, for years at a time.
New metadata for music, TV shows and movies, will not be added to Windows Media Player.
Will anyone even notice? I mean, apart from 80-year-olds who don't know that anything exists outside of MSIE, WMP, and Notepad, who actually uses WMP for anything?
I think longitude is equally important in terms of musical taste. For example if you're located in lat.5-30 east, 58-72 north, you're statistically highly likely to prefer black metal, and occasionally burn down churches.
Same here. I do pretty much everything with keyboard shortcuts, never have to take my hands off the keyboard. This isn't some magic thing, it's just a standard way to use a computer for some.
It's not Whataboutism, it's just Wot? The headline "US Pressed Chinese Firms To Show One Example of When They Resisted Request For Data From Chinese Government, But They Have Never Done So" tells me I'm supposed to be outraged about something, but it's phrased in such an obtuse manner that I have no idea what it is. Something about China, by the looks of it, and being asked to prove a negative.
Running the conversation nicely into the gutter, I think a holeless phone is about as useful as a holeless GF.
Does Google just sign up for every multi-company initiative as a matter of course?
Yup.
Seriously, yes they do. They want to either be driving everything or, failing that, at least in a position to influence it to go the way they want it.
Same here. Android phones get updates? The only way I've seen to update an Android phone is to throw it away and buy a new one.
There's also a marked difference between "is an update available" and "is it possible to update it". Some phones, and I'm thinking specifically of Samsung's J series, are so desperately crippled that if you install anything more than a weather app on them there's no room to perform updates. So even if you could, in theory, update them, you can't actually do so in practice.
Because if they already knew in advance, it wouldn't be science. Holy Jeebus, this is science 001 (not even 101), propose a theory, devise an experiment to test it, (hopefully) get results, come to a conclusion. The opposite of this is nonscience, "we know that MMR vaccine causes autism, no need to test it, finished".
Spent over a month researching popular wifi adapters. Not even once dit I find an adapter using any model of chipset from Marvell. So the claim that this chipset model is very popular is bull.
Spent over a month researching the cars parked on the street outside my house. Not even once did I find a car made by Toyota. So the claim that Toyota makes cars is bull.
The top post in this thread illustrates how bad this has become. It's currently modded down to -1, but its actually a joke about birdwatching. I'll repeat that again, it's a joke, about birdwatching. However, since it's at the expense of SJWs, they've modded it down to the lowest rating it can get, presumably because even joking about SJW-ism is a grevious offence worthy of death to the person who made it.
The company says the program was used by an average of 100,000 daily users.
So the entire remaining Firefox user base was using it? That's a pretty impressive participation rate.
Naah, the next step up from the LHC is the BFHC.
Typical feminazis, the question was"what helps you to relieve stress", someone who was obviously into birdwatching for relaxation wrote boobies, and some rabid feminazi turned a reference to a harmless pastime into a sexual assault accusation.
Shit, this is the US, everyone knows the end result will be this.