Hmm, lets see. I bought a Nexus 6 three years ago for $189. It received updates until just recently. I just bought an Essential phone for $280. It'll get updates for at least a couple of years.
A couple of years ago I picked up a 'refurbished' Samsung Gear Live for $79 on ebay. Bestbuy had taken them in as returns and their elite geek squad refurbishers flashed it with the wrong rom. It worked but wouldn't update android wear. So those were sold and most came back again and they dumped them on ebay wholesalers. All it needed was to be hooked up to the pc with adb and flashed with the right rom.
Having gotten a perfectly well working watch for 1/5 the original list price, I put it to work.
It replaced my fitbit with android fit, told me the time, weather, charge state of itself and my phone, all my notifications came up on it, if I was in the car and the phone rang I could answer it, and with 'ok google' I could trigger my phone to do a lot without picking it up. Lastly, wink ran on it so I could open/close/lock my front door and garage door.
Fast forward to this year. Verizon abandoned their $400 wear24 smart watch after just a few months and they've been on ebay for $75-80 for months. Running android wear 2.0, with internal LTE and GPS, more ram than most smart watches and included wireless charging dock it was a steal. Took me 20 minutes to get it doing everything my old smart watch did. I can also run google maps with navigation on it and it vibrates and announces the turn by turn with a mini map on my wrist.
I can also activate it on verizon for 5-10 bucks and use it as a standalone phone, although the little speaker on it sucks for phone calls. It has NFC but verizon only allows it to work with verizon pay. Morons.
It won't get any more updates but my gear live was stuck on android wear 1.3 and still does everything fine. In 2 years I'll replace the Wear24 with someone elses deeply discounted mistake where the issue doesn't really impact me.
The presumption that everyone who installs it has years of linux technical experience coupled with never being able to get a straight answer about something on a support site.
Seriously, I've been a systems programmer since the 1970's and worked with at&t's 3b and vaxen with ultrix. Yet whenever I've installed a modern linux variant like mint or ubuntu, there's always a device that doesn't work right. Try asking how to get that to work on the relevant support sites and you're snobbishly asked to read 300 twelve page threads to learn for yourself. All that was needed was a different driver or edits to a file to make it work. The "If you don't know everything or can't figure it out on your own, f-you" is quite common and persistent.
Also, nobody who knows linux can explain anything to anyone else that doesn't have similar skills. I routinely go through a 'guide' to do something and find missing stuff. "Oh yeah, everyone knows that you have to do x, y and z. Its implied!"
I can get mature, reasoned responses for windows and max os questions. Guides for those tend to include ALL of the steps.
I'd have adopted linux for several machines in the home where the app demands are straightforward. However I found the opposite direction of chrome os to be perfectly satisfying.
No dead pixels aren't normal, they're a sign of poor quality screens.
And peeps are already fixing the screwy left controller. The right controller has a proper antenna, the left one has a PCB printed antenna with a metal box next to it. Solder a wire on and the problem is solved.
Poor design, lack of testing and claiming that crap screens are normal. Sure, I'll run out and buy one right away...
You get out of town, you get to expense a bunch of meals, you get to hump women from other companies which is way less problematic than humping people at your own workplace, you can get really drunk and not have to face anyone you know who saw it...really the benefits are tremendous.
Yes. If I throw someone under a bus, its the bus that killed them. I only share responsibility. If I shoot someone, its the bullet that killed them. The gun is an accessory. I'm just sharing responsibility. If I come across someone in white water rapids and elect to not let them into my boat, and they're killed by rocks, its the rocks that killed them, the water an accessory. I bear no responsibility as I didn't do anything that wouldn't have happened had I not been there.
We need look no further than the US sending back Jewish refugees in world war II, where most were killed. While the Nazi's were to blame for their death, our actions made us just as complicit if not moreso. Had we taken them, they wouldn't have been killed. When a result is a practical surety and ones actions can negate or fulfill that result, the one taking the action bears responsibility.
When you're able to prevent injury or ameliorate it at low cost and low risk to yourself, you're a hero. When you refuse or make the problem worse, you're a dunce.
And I'm sure that bringing light on these folks, having them sell or discard all of their belongings, bringing them to an airport under surveillance and then sending them back to that same surveillance...only with nothing and nowhere to go...certainly looks like we made things worse for them by the action.
You can vote based on what someone has done previously, and that isn't that complicated to figure out.
Trump lied, stole and cheated people to the extent where he has been sued more than anyone else, probably in the history of the world, after which US banks and many others refused to lend him money or support his "projects", which often crashed and burned, costing investors tons of money. Yet he always walked away with his pockets full. His patterns are well established from 50+ years of observation. Based on those, he'll lie, cheat and steal whatever isn't nailed down. And...ta da...
Clinton's hubs presided over the greatest economic expansion in most of our lives. She tried to bring everyone health care back in the 90's. She served very well as first lady, secretary of state and in the senate. Based on her historic patterns, we'd have gotten fair, reasonable and competent leadership. We'd have enjoyed far better relations with other countries. We'd have not tried to implement an illegal travel ban. We wouldn't be undoing the financial regulations that protect us from wall street psychos trying to smash the world economy into the ground, again. We wouldn't have put people like Tillerson on the cabinet.
Did ya know that Tillerson is working to revive the $500B arctic oil deal with Russia and Exxon, and that Russia "sold" 19% of their state run oil company through a series of shell companies that can't be traced, and that the "golden showers" dossier put together last summer said that Putin had promised 19% of the company to Trump if he became president and revoked the sanctions so that deal could go through? And the Russian who gave the tip to the spy that made the dossier showed up murdered in the back seat of his car about the same time the deal went through, around a week ago?
Trump already doubled his net worth on that deal and I'm sure he'll be on the Russian gravy train for many, many decades. Until Putin kills him, that is.
As someone who has used the streaming version of sunday ticket, the problems with under provisioning network and server capacity are always an issue.
Directv says the problem is on my end. With my 240Mb/s internet connection and AC5300 router. I can stream multiple 4k netflix streams while my kid games online without a hiccup. Yup, must be on my end.
Of course, you can't cancel sunday ticket and canceling directv often carries an early termination fee. This will be pretty different for directv from a customer service perspective. You can't give BS excuses and keep the customer.
Wait until several of the cell providers roll over and die because they don't also own a cable/satellite company, the one you're using now drops the free bandwidth and then doubles prices because there's less competition.
Other than it not being true as a legit birth certificate was produced, riddle me this Batman...lets say he was born in Kenya, is a muslim, and wants to take all of our guns.
He had 8 years in office. What exactly did he do that makes any of that relevant?
(...waiting for the blurry obfuscated implausible answer, like "he destroyed the economy" when he produced the a huge economic recovery or "he cozied up with Isis" when in fact he bombed the crap out of them, or "he was too soft on our enemies" when he came into office with the vast majority of voters saying they wanted to get out of the two wars we were already in and not start another...)
Amazon is having a serious problem with newly launched sellers who take the money and either ship nothing or ship something insignificant. It can often take a month for things to get worked out and by then the 'seller' is already gone with the money.
And aside from fake product reviews I've seen sellers with fake seller reviews. Here is my story.
I see a "new" pc from a seller with lots of great reviews for a decent but not absurdly low price. When I get the machine, the disk drive and some other stuff are loose inside the case so I open it up and put everything back where its supposed to be, but note in the process that the disk was made in 2012. Checking the smart data, its also been on and running most of those 4 years and is starting to get the "I'm going to die soon" whine. I also see that the windows license is a gray market job and the dvd drive was made in 2010.
I contact the seller, who lets me know he's just one guy working out of his garage. He insists that the PC contained 100% brand new parts when he shipped it, and that while I'm welcome to return it at my own expense if it has any old parts in it when he receives it he's going to charge me a restocking fee to replace them. I contact Amazon who completely "ole"s it and says that since the seller offered to let me return it, that's my only recourse. So much for the A-Z guarantee.
In going back to look at the seller reviews I see thousands, generally 15-20 per day. How does one guy selling mostly used computers out of his garage acquire and ship that many every day? About 5-6 pages of seller reviews in, I realize that almost all of them are titled "5 stars" and have one word in the review text, almost always "good" or "great", never any capitalization or punctuation. What are the odds that someone selling thousands of used computers every year never have a problem or complaint?
So I wrote a bad one star seller review with just the basic facts. Amazon accepted it and it got deleted about 2 weeks later, presumably when I wouldn't still look to see if it was there.
The message to me was clear. Amazon wants to make money and anything that disrupts that is quickly dispatched. They weren't interested in fixing my problem, the seller reviews were obviously faked through some means, and as long as the balance was positive they're okay with stuff like this happening.
I'd recommend only buying from amazon as the seller and fulfillment and not to count on the product reviews. I've already had plenty of companies show me how they end run around giving people free product in exchange for a review so it looks like I was a verified purchaser.
They do that to me all the time but on a grander scale. At least a couple of times a year I receive a case box of something I ordered one of. I just got a case lot of shampoo when I ordered one bottle.
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Hmm, lets see. I bought a Nexus 6 three years ago for $189. It received updates until just recently. I just bought an Essential phone for $280. It'll get updates for at least a couple of years.
How much are those iphones again?
Its a nice idea until you see the prices. $500 for the larger device and well over $300 for the pda.
I was thinking for $99 and $129 for the pda and the 'mini laptop' would have been sensible price points.
When you're starting to get into flagship phone price range for a gimped device that's 300% overpriced for what it is...
And they are handy.
A couple of years ago I picked up a 'refurbished' Samsung Gear Live for $79 on ebay. Bestbuy had taken them in as returns and their elite geek squad refurbishers flashed it with the wrong rom. It worked but wouldn't update android wear. So those were sold and most came back again and they dumped them on ebay wholesalers. All it needed was to be hooked up to the pc with adb and flashed with the right rom.
Having gotten a perfectly well working watch for 1/5 the original list price, I put it to work.
It replaced my fitbit with android fit, told me the time, weather, charge state of itself and my phone, all my notifications came up on it, if I was in the car and the phone rang I could answer it, and with 'ok google' I could trigger my phone to do a lot without picking it up. Lastly, wink ran on it so I could open/close/lock my front door and garage door.
Fast forward to this year. Verizon abandoned their $400 wear24 smart watch after just a few months and they've been on ebay for $75-80 for months. Running android wear 2.0, with internal LTE and GPS, more ram than most smart watches and included wireless charging dock it was a steal. Took me 20 minutes to get it doing everything my old smart watch did. I can also run google maps with navigation on it and it vibrates and announces the turn by turn with a mini map on my wrist.
I can also activate it on verizon for 5-10 bucks and use it as a standalone phone, although the little speaker on it sucks for phone calls. It has NFC but verizon only allows it to work with verizon pay. Morons.
It won't get any more updates but my gear live was stuck on android wear 1.3 and still does everything fine. In 2 years I'll replace the Wear24 with someone elses deeply discounted mistake where the issue doesn't really impact me.
The presumption that everyone who installs it has years of linux technical experience coupled with never being able to get a straight answer about something on a support site.
Seriously, I've been a systems programmer since the 1970's and worked with at&t's 3b and vaxen with ultrix. Yet whenever I've installed a modern linux variant like mint or ubuntu, there's always a device that doesn't work right. Try asking how to get that to work on the relevant support sites and you're snobbishly asked to read 300 twelve page threads to learn for yourself. All that was needed was a different driver or edits to a file to make it work. The "If you don't know everything or can't figure it out on your own, f-you" is quite common and persistent.
Also, nobody who knows linux can explain anything to anyone else that doesn't have similar skills. I routinely go through a 'guide' to do something and find missing stuff. "Oh yeah, everyone knows that you have to do x, y and z. Its implied!"
I can get mature, reasoned responses for windows and max os questions. Guides for those tend to include ALL of the steps.
I'd have adopted linux for several machines in the home where the app demands are straightforward. However I found the opposite direction of chrome os to be perfectly satisfying.
Ok.
Apple doesn't fix known exploit for 3 years: /got bored and didn't read the other 3 million search hits.
http://www.cultofmac.com/13261...
If they were deeply committed, well, they wouldn't be able to fix code while in a straight jacket and heavy meds.
If they were really deeply committed, they'd write code without security holes in it.
Isn't it sort of a fact that the security holes haven't even been fully sorted out yet?
So you're saying we have known knowns, unknown knowns, and known unknowns?
Not in a million years.
"You're holding it wrong".
No dead pixels aren't normal, they're a sign of poor quality screens.
And peeps are already fixing the screwy left controller. The right controller has a proper antenna, the left one has a PCB printed antenna with a metal box next to it. Solder a wire on and the problem is solved.
Poor design, lack of testing and claiming that crap screens are normal. Sure, I'll run out and buy one right away...
The boat can hold millions.
At least they're restoring the visa's they cancelled.
Me neither, Nor can I find anyone else using it or anything that defines it, despite working with international companies for decades.
You get out of town, you get to expense a bunch of meals, you get to hump women from other companies which is way less problematic than humping people at your own workplace, you can get really drunk and not have to face anyone you know who saw it...really the benefits are tremendous.
Yes. If I throw someone under a bus, its the bus that killed them. I only share responsibility. If I shoot someone, its the bullet that killed them. The gun is an accessory. I'm just sharing responsibility. If I come across someone in white water rapids and elect to not let them into my boat, and they're killed by rocks, its the rocks that killed them, the water an accessory. I bear no responsibility as I didn't do anything that wouldn't have happened had I not been there.
We need look no further than the US sending back Jewish refugees in world war II, where most were killed. While the Nazi's were to blame for their death, our actions made us just as complicit if not moreso. Had we taken them, they wouldn't have been killed. When a result is a practical surety and ones actions can negate or fulfill that result, the one taking the action bears responsibility.
When you're able to prevent injury or ameliorate it at low cost and low risk to yourself, you're a hero. When you refuse or make the problem worse, you're a dunce.
And I'm sure that bringing light on these folks, having them sell or discard all of their belongings, bringing them to an airport under surveillance and then sending them back to that same surveillance...only with nothing and nowhere to go...certainly looks like we made things worse for them by the action.
The refugees sent back to Syria and other countries will face almost certain death, and Trump is indisputably responsible for that.
Brought to you by the people who think a fertilized egg is a person, while a living child is a throw away.
You can vote based on what someone has done previously, and that isn't that complicated to figure out.
Trump lied, stole and cheated people to the extent where he has been sued more than anyone else, probably in the history of the world, after which US banks and many others refused to lend him money or support his "projects", which often crashed and burned, costing investors tons of money. Yet he always walked away with his pockets full. His patterns are well established from 50+ years of observation. Based on those, he'll lie, cheat and steal whatever isn't nailed down. And...ta da...
Clinton's hubs presided over the greatest economic expansion in most of our lives. She tried to bring everyone health care back in the 90's. She served very well as first lady, secretary of state and in the senate. Based on her historic patterns, we'd have gotten fair, reasonable and competent leadership. We'd have enjoyed far better relations with other countries. We'd have not tried to implement an illegal travel ban. We wouldn't be undoing the financial regulations that protect us from wall street psychos trying to smash the world economy into the ground, again. We wouldn't have put people like Tillerson on the cabinet.
Did ya know that Tillerson is working to revive the $500B arctic oil deal with Russia and Exxon, and that Russia "sold" 19% of their state run oil company through a series of shell companies that can't be traced, and that the "golden showers" dossier put together last summer said that Putin had promised 19% of the company to Trump if he became president and revoked the sanctions so that deal could go through? And the Russian who gave the tip to the spy that made the dossier showed up murdered in the back seat of his car about the same time the deal went through, around a week ago?
Trump already doubled his net worth on that deal and I'm sure he'll be on the Russian gravy train for many, many decades. Until Putin kills him, that is.
As someone who has used the streaming version of sunday ticket, the problems with under provisioning network and server capacity are always an issue.
Directv says the problem is on my end. With my 240Mb/s internet connection and AC5300 router. I can stream multiple 4k netflix streams while my kid games online without a hiccup. Yup, must be on my end.
Of course, you can't cancel sunday ticket and canceling directv often carries an early termination fee. This will be pretty different for directv from a customer service perspective. You can't give BS excuses and keep the customer.
Wait until several of the cell providers roll over and die because they don't also own a cable/satellite company, the one you're using now drops the free bandwidth and then doubles prices because there's less competition.
I think that proctologists should be renamed astronauts.
Other than it not being true as a legit birth certificate was produced, riddle me this Batman...lets say he was born in Kenya, is a muslim, and wants to take all of our guns.
He had 8 years in office. What exactly did he do that makes any of that relevant?
(...waiting for the blurry obfuscated implausible answer, like "he destroyed the economy" when he produced the a huge economic recovery or "he cozied up with Isis" when in fact he bombed the crap out of them, or "he was too soft on our enemies" when he came into office with the vast majority of voters saying they wanted to get out of the two wars we were already in and not start another...)
And I wanna go with them to Denny's at 2am and order eggs, sausage, bacon, hash browns and pour gravy over the entire thing.
I wanna party with these rats!
Amazon is having a serious problem with newly launched sellers who take the money and either ship nothing or ship something insignificant. It can often take a month for things to get worked out and by then the 'seller' is already gone with the money.
And aside from fake product reviews I've seen sellers with fake seller reviews. Here is my story.
I see a "new" pc from a seller with lots of great reviews for a decent but not absurdly low price. When I get the machine, the disk drive and some other stuff are loose inside the case so I open it up and put everything back where its supposed to be, but note in the process that the disk was made in 2012. Checking the smart data, its also been on and running most of those 4 years and is starting to get the "I'm going to die soon" whine. I also see that the windows license is a gray market job and the dvd drive was made in 2010.
I contact the seller, who lets me know he's just one guy working out of his garage. He insists that the PC contained 100% brand new parts when he shipped it, and that while I'm welcome to return it at my own expense if it has any old parts in it when he receives it he's going to charge me a restocking fee to replace them. I contact Amazon who completely "ole"s it and says that since the seller offered to let me return it, that's my only recourse. So much for the A-Z guarantee.
In going back to look at the seller reviews I see thousands, generally 15-20 per day. How does one guy selling mostly used computers out of his garage acquire and ship that many every day? About 5-6 pages of seller reviews in, I realize that almost all of them are titled "5 stars" and have one word in the review text, almost always "good" or "great", never any capitalization or punctuation. What are the odds that someone selling thousands of used computers every year never have a problem or complaint?
So I wrote a bad one star seller review with just the basic facts. Amazon accepted it and it got deleted about 2 weeks later, presumably when I wouldn't still look to see if it was there.
The message to me was clear. Amazon wants to make money and anything that disrupts that is quickly dispatched. They weren't interested in fixing my problem, the seller reviews were obviously faked through some means, and as long as the balance was positive they're okay with stuff like this happening.
I'd recommend only buying from amazon as the seller and fulfillment and not to count on the product reviews. I've already had plenty of companies show me how they end run around giving people free product in exchange for a review so it looks like I was a verified purchaser.
They do that to me all the time but on a grander scale. At least a couple of times a year I receive a case box of something I ordered one of. I just got a case lot of shampoo when I ordered one bottle.
I'd like a gruntled coder.