You must understand that Google ***IS DEFINITELY*** intending to track people's purchases using this tracking. They do what is known in the industry as "data analysis" where you compare two or more data sets that overlap to fill in missing pieces of information.
Goto Flurry.com read what they do and understand this is a Google site they do data analytics. Read the ToS of Angry Birds they pay and send user data to Flurry.com, in turn Flurry.com shows ADs tailored to you, I'm not sure if Flurry or rovio.com show the ads but you signed into this just by purchasing Angry Birds or a myriad of other on-line software. I do read the ToS's and privacy statements.
Reading the ToS's and privacy statements is a good way to find what needs to be blocked. in rovio.com 's case it's all spelled out for you. At least the last time I read it, All mentioned I have blocked ages ago.
Play.Google.com has an application called Android ID it's a small developers program that will give you the ID Flurry.com request to Opt out from. It's not a number you can find in the about .
Nowhere in the article does it say it can track what you buy, there's no way an app can track purchases you made outside of your phone unless it's somehow linked to your bank/credit card account... this is just to track where you were. Basically, Google is stalking you, nothing new there.
Your at 0 people don't want what you noticed seen. The articles quote digiday.com who say "Google declined multiple requests for comment." and builds an article around it as they have free rein.
Remember there are companies that wish Google harm so expand upon the truth through the media, There's one more anti-Google misleading article just behind this one, that I'm sure will make the front page soon.
This articles title was scary stuff about Google a company I've put my trust into for many years. My searches are kept and I've known and expected that for years.
This paragraph tempers feelings felt from the subject: "Google’s ability to make this connection is predicated on users opting in to location services on their smartphones and thus, in some cases, being subject to constant location monitoring."
Which I'm very familiar with.
I have Googles own Motorola Xoom, it's rooted/jail broken, but you still need to add the Google applications. I may change the OS's (update/downgrade); every time I do I'm asked if they can keep track of me and I always refuse, nothing changes (something not working as punishment). I do feel my not opting in is indeed respected as I'm asked to opt-in many more times while changing the setting to certain options.
I for one do look for trans fat content and avoid it as much as possible; so more aware how prevalent it is and approve such a move even as they mention it's on it's way out (I haven't seen it).
I live in the USA so it's not going to happen, but to reduce Corn syrup/sugar would go a long way to show they cared about ones health. I also live in an area with a high Mexican population; so shop at their authentic Mexican stores, as their products contain sugar not Corn syrup/sugar. Corn syrup - Corn sugar I'm even confused of the difference only that both are a product of Corn and not healthy (digested lower in ones system than sugar)
Somewhere behind all this is some whack-job parent's bitching.
Could very well be, but handled badly.
Could very well be the whack-job ability to even have such a rule mentioned shows what power, wealth or job title is capable of.
Could very well be they are after little Johnny and going to nail him in the lunch line. (I know of an elementary school that would go to this extreme, so not an idle thought.)
No touching Freeze Tag with base balls. You combine "US's favorite sport", dodge ball and tag all into one game.
Rubber bands hard to find, spitting hart to feel, base balls would find there way to soft spots.
Just a stupid (ridiculous) rule, not mentioned touch foot ball? Two hand above the waist makes boobs fair game. Freaking closet pervert made that rule. Last line of the article nailed it: ""I am not going to tell my daughter she can’t touch her friends at school. I am going to teach her boundaries.""
As a side note: every time someone mentions buying something they Mention newegg.com very rarely Amazon.com I don't see why Amazon.com is always talked about and little about Newegg.com. Other than Amazon pays for the press.
Chatting while playing games for many years, if someone says damn this sucks I need a new video card (a common complaint), almost always someone mentions a deal on Newegg.com, never has Amazon been mentioned. I don't know why, it's just the way it works.
I'm a Washington state resident, I ordered something through Amazon many years ago; at the check out I was told there's a chance that a tax may be required on this item in the future, and if not they'd just keep the spare change (in a round about way). Then placed a tax to the item price.
Yes Amazon is located in Washington state, and yes they tax in Washington but they weren't required to at the time, and it wasn't retroactive when they were.
I haven't shopped Amazon since, NewEgg.com all the way, put many computers together with their help. Amazon.com I read reviews on an items to get two site opinions then order Newegg.com.
It seems there might be a typo in the article. 320 gigaflops/second is not that much, and can be gotten on a GPU for maybe $100 now. According to this page (http://n8hpc.org.uk/about/facilities), 320 gigaflops/second is the peak performance of each 2-cpu, 16-core sandy bridge node in the cluster, while the entire cluster has a peak performance of 110 teraflops/second.
but you think they'd try. The keybinds don't work, "Well play with the WASD set-up" you say, but some of us play with a left handed mouse.
The graphics are great in some cases (you won't hear many people say that) but causes problems. You get out of the water and a sheet of water flows off of you (part of the realism) and it stops you in your tracks, All low settings GTX-570. You never know when lag will hit (other than the water) but it sure gets one killed.
B is a key to open a Map, it opens the console, and you have to press ~ to close it. It's like BF3 all over again, you couldn't reassign the Q key for one. BF3 the chat was in your face, the middle of the screen was where people typed back and forth, some helpful most calling others names (normal chats), The BF4 map is now in your face; it takes up the entire screen which you can change the opacity but you can't view the map no matter how transparent and the action of the game at the same time. (I do that with BF3 the mini map is alway open taking up the bottom left corner of my monitor, I only play hardcore so the map is the only way you can see people.
BF3 moved the chat to the side, and allowed one to reassign the Q key, the very things that upset people is how BF4 works now.
I'd change the keybinds and it would hang on me, I'd let it be and sometimes I could continue, other times I had to turn off the power supply, the secret is not to change the jet keys. The game profile (a text file) is around 100K, mine was 35,000K and had 678961 lines that had the word jet in them.
Copy an pasting BF3's helicopter and jet config lines to the BF4 profile is how I configured my game.
You don't know when you die oddly enough, going along just fine only to find you were killed, it's not obvious by any means, I don't know if one gets used to that or not, many times I thought I was still in the game.
I could go on, multiplayer is a real mess right now. as mentioned it looks like everything they did wrong with BF3 and patched out, is how BF4 was released.
Bought BC2 on Steam and was really looking forward to BF3 after all the videos during E3. Then EA made some shit up about Steam/Valve not cooperating with them and the beautiful Origin emerged. What a pile of shit. That invasive, irritating, and completely unnecessary bloated trash was the last straw for me.
I play BF3 and really enjoyed it. Origin isn't a problem; I open my browser, log into a server, Origin loads, and after the BF3 icon shows it's loading I shut Origin down. BF3 didn't need Origin to play just load. With BF4 Origin won't let you close it, and I don't care for that at all.
So basically your little story is to detail how biased, shallow and judgmental you are. Oh, stupid too.
Whew, not a problem. Thought this might be another grammar lesson; something to the effect that one sentence needed to end in a preposition as the fourth word proceeding it had an e before i.
To add to this thread I see http://thepiratebay.sx/ front page is supporting this project as well.
Guess it's all a matter of the equipment used and various other parameters; better known as wait for a second opinion.
The emergent gravity (Induced gravity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gravity) captured my attention, and I came across this reference The bottom line being: "The effect can be viewed as sampling noise due to the limited degrees of freedom of such a theory, consistent with covariant bounds on entropy." http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4153
Yep it's official I'm getting old. When I was growing up there were just two laws of thermodynamics: 1) you can't get something for nothing 2) Nor can you break even
Then they slipped in the 0 (Zero) law now called Zeroth apparently because they couldn't go lower than 0 without looking foolish and added a third law; for a total of 4.
The Amiga had a program (game?) called "The Surgeon" it got old fast loading graphics from a 3.5 disk. You had different surgeries to perform; I'd cut the guy open he'd scream and die. Just too much fun.
I guess I'm a younger trek fan myself (started with TNG,) as I was never into the original series. I kind of forced myself to watch it while I was sick once (every episode) and didn't really think it was anything special.
I was in high school when Star Trek first aired and watched it every week.
I was just the opposite watching the first Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). I was very disappointed that they didn't keep to the original series, and refused to watch any other TNG.
At the time people stopped by every Friday for cards, many would come early to watch TNG again I'd ignore it, "wow, the Enterprise was destroyed!", I just thought big deal and back to my computer (game).
Much later a friend of mine never missed an episode of TNG; about season 5 or 6 we were at his place when it came on, I was stuck. Don't remember the eposide but it was pretty good, so much so I started watching it. Afterwards no matter what TNG episode came on it was new to me, and an enjoyable hour; reruns everyday was just great.
"wow, the Enterprise was destroyed" is now one of my favs. "Cause and Effect" where the another ship was caught in a time loop, which results in it's coming out of nowhere destroying the Enterprise -where the number three was important.
The original Star Trek I've even watched without sound as it had been viewed so much, which resulted in the game of who can recognize the episode first; now seems very dated.
But I still don't watch any of other spin offs, just so far you can take it and TNG was that point for me.
Probably the video got so many dislikes because it's useless. There's no explanation whatsoever, and before you're tuned in your attention to the video, it's over.
Wasn't meant to of been viewed by the public it was part of a post, but I didn't care who saw it.
There was a description that I kept upto date but then I had to follow the website it was posted on.
So many people hit the website only to find you had to join to view it, that that one post was viewable without joining, so I went with that format. Once again one must join to view the post so I haven't bothered updating it.
Also it was a glitch in either the beta MineCraft or MineCraft and some MOD, you could only do it with that version.
People felt taken, as it didn't explain anything -never took the time to read the description. The dislike bar was called a light saber for the longest time till it even lost that resemblance.
Just amazed me so many people viewed that video while this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05Z75-qR9U saw less than 9K views and it had all the key words to be a hit: Black ops COD7 Glitch Crisis map - PC just the word glitch should of surpassed 400K and you can tell I actually put some time into that one - it really was the first real glitch found with CoD7 - (I call first Glitch on Black Ops)
Yes MineCraft has a following, and the google analytics told a lot about the people (people actually log into youtube to view videos). There are three age spikes, Teens, late 30's, and 50 years + old almost all male. In real life those spikes mean so much if you think about them in relation to games.
I have a tablet I've mentioned many times, the Motorola Xoom it's also has a 10.1-inch display as does the Nokia Lumia 2520. I feel that's the perfect size any larger and it wouldn't be a tablet, any smaller is akin to using ones cell phone.
10.1-inch display puts me to sleep with netflix, youtube or a movie while it's in it's cradle. The Kindle Fire 7 inch display is just too small for me.
Yep Nokia did the right thing at 10.1, WXGA (1280 x 800) for the Motorola Xoom, but the keyboard thingjust messes it up. I use Hackers keyboard (software) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard or a bluetooth keyboard for mine They don't connect to each other but I carry them both around protected by an old laptop case, a real sharp combo. My Keyboard is as small as one can be while still having full sized keys, it's seriously sweet (Dell MN-Y-RAQ-DEL2 - Goodwill $5.00).
The Motorola Xoom hooks up to my HDTV (at 1920 x 1080 ) as I imagine does the Nokia Lumia 2520; a remote keyboard is very handy using office / text editor at a distance and for so many other reasons.
For years I've use and have sent many (lots of) people to https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp for an anual credit report. In the US your allowed 1 free credit report a year. Three companies are sent request, so one is able to get 3 reports a year or one more extensive one.
Experian is one of the three companies your request (and information) is sent to. I would imagine any info I've sent them is now public domain.
Of course I've read the ToS of annualcreditreport https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/helpprivacy it was all good, and still reads that way, till the very end: Last Updated November 15, 2006 I would think there would of been some changes by now.
Not sure if due to "Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service", but there's a banner now that says: Note: The AnnualCreditReport.com website will be temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance from approximately 8:30pm ET on October 22, 2013 to 8:00am ET on October 23, 2013.
I made a post for a website on how to get a mob spawner in MineCraft; part of the post included a 4 second video showing the process. Lots of pictures but one video.
I'd forgotten all about it until the e-mail started and did it come, a 4 second video nobody likes now has 420K views. I've much better videos, of glitches, all sorts of stuff but none anywhere close to the reception (views) of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxY-9DC2rQ
Was cool the hate line was red and long, called a saber for the longest time. Ads are not allowed or seen, practicing what I preach.
Minecraft has a heck of a following of all ages, as it's very simple to learn yet you can get very complex with; it as Google is showing.
Please! If people won't take a clue and use a HOSTS file they deserve all the ads they get.
The system the author uses is a cookie type, so the must keep their cookies, someone posted that there are Firefox programs to keep certain cookies after I posted this before. I just scanned the article but seems like http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
Just use a HOSTS file mines 144292 lines, I don't get many ads.
And know that you can't opt-out of on-line or mobile ads - Google tossed me a loop searching for a PDF, I put in TRAX it searches for TRACKS; - I say that then say you need to opt out of Flurry.com at the router level.
I've also found an easy way to "block" Web Beacons; in your browser set it to download "GIF" files, I download them to C:\temp. I then goto NewEgg.com search around a bit then check C:\temp and there are a couple 1K gif files (web beacons). but doesn't affect any normal gif files say avatars.
Slashdot Mirror
love this one:
"In 1906, J.J. Thompson had received the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are particles;
in 1937 he saw his son awarded the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are waves.
Both father and son were correct, and both awards were fully merited."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Paget_Thomson
You must understand that Google ***IS DEFINITELY*** intending to track people's purchases using this tracking. They do what is known in the industry as "data analysis" where you compare two or more data sets that overlap to fill in missing pieces of information.
Goto Flurry.com read what they do and understand this is a Google site they do data analytics. Read the ToS of Angry Birds they pay and
send user data to Flurry.com, in turn Flurry.com shows ADs tailored to you, I'm not sure if Flurry or rovio.com show the ads but you signed into
this just by purchasing Angry Birds or a myriad of other on-line software. I do read the ToS's and privacy statements.
Reading the ToS's and privacy statements is a good way to find what needs to be blocked. in rovio.com 's case it's all spelled out for you.
At least the last time I read it, All mentioned I have blocked ages ago.
Play.Google.com has an application called Android ID it's a small developers program that will give you the ID Flurry.com request to Opt out from.
It's not a number you can find in the about .
Nowhere in the article does it say it can track what you buy, there's no way an app can track purchases you made outside of your phone unless it's somehow linked to your bank/credit card account... this is just to track where you were. Basically, Google is stalking you, nothing new there.
Your at 0 people don't want what you noticed seen. The articles quote digiday.com who say "Google declined multiple requests for comment."
and builds an article around it as they have free rein.
Remember there are companies that wish Google harm so expand upon the truth through the media,
There's one more anti-Google misleading article just behind this one, that I'm sure will make the front page soon.
This articles title was scary stuff about Google a company I've put my trust into for many years.
My searches are kept and I've known and expected that for years.
This paragraph tempers feelings felt from the subject:
"Google’s ability to make this connection is predicated on users opting in to location services on their smartphones and thus, in some cases,
being subject to constant location monitoring."
Which I'm very familiar with.
I have Googles own Motorola Xoom, it's rooted/jail broken, but you still need to add the Google applications.
I may change the OS's (update/downgrade); every time I do I'm asked if they can keep track of me and I always refuse,
nothing changes (something not working as punishment). I do feel my not opting in is indeed respected as
I'm asked to opt-in many more times while changing the setting to certain options.
I for one do look for trans fat content and avoid it as much as possible; so more aware how prevalent it is
and approve such a move even as they mention it's on it's way out (I haven't seen it).
I live in the USA so it's not going to happen, but to reduce Corn syrup/sugar would go a long way to show they cared about ones health.
I also live in an area with a high Mexican population; so shop at their authentic Mexican stores, as their products contain sugar not Corn syrup/sugar.
Corn syrup - Corn sugar I'm even confused of the difference only that both are a product of Corn and not healthy (digested lower in ones system than sugar)
The FDA did stop corn syrup being called corn sugar which is a start -
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/30/154009682/fda-rules-corn-syrup-cant-change-its-name-to-corn-sugar
There was a /. article awhile back I don't comment on about Mexicans being the fattest population,
I tend to disagree with the findings.
Somewhere behind all this is some whack-job parent's bitching.
Could very well be, but handled badly.
Could very well be the whack-job ability to even have such a rule mentioned shows what power, wealth or job title is capable of.
Could very well be they are after little Johnny and going to nail him in the lunch line.
(I know of an elementary school that would go to this extreme, so not an idle thought.)
How do you know who's "it"?
What about tag? My first thought.
No touching Freeze Tag with base balls. You combine "US's favorite sport", dodge ball and tag all into one game.
Rubber bands hard to find, spitting hart to feel, base balls would find there way to soft spots.
Just a stupid (ridiculous) rule, not mentioned touch foot ball? Two hand above the waist makes boobs fair game. Freaking closet pervert made that rule.
Last line of the article nailed it: ""I am not going to tell my daughter she can’t touch her friends at school. I am going to teach her boundaries.""
As a side note: every time someone mentions buying something they Mention newegg.com
very rarely Amazon.com I don't see why Amazon.com is always talked about and little about
Newegg.com. Other than Amazon pays for the press.
Chatting while playing games for many years, if someone says damn this sucks I need a new
video card (a common complaint), almost always someone mentions a deal on Newegg.com,
never has Amazon been mentioned. I don't know why, it's just the way it works.
I'm a Washington state resident, I ordered something through Amazon many years ago;
at the check out I was told there's a chance that a tax may be required on this item
in the future, and if not they'd just keep the spare change (in a round about way).
Then placed a tax to the item price.
Yes Amazon is located in Washington state, and yes they tax in Washington but
they weren't required to at the time, and it wasn't retroactive when they were.
I haven't shopped Amazon since, NewEgg.com all the way, put many computers together
with their help. Amazon.com I read reviews on an items to get two site opinions then
order Newegg.com.
Misery loves company
Just one other question needs to be answered, does it leave string of donut holes as exhaust.
It seems there might be a typo in the article. 320 gigaflops/second is not that much, and can be gotten on a GPU for maybe $100 now. According to this page (http://n8hpc.org.uk/about/facilities), 320 gigaflops/second is the peak performance of each 2-cpu, 16-core sandy bridge node in the cluster, while the entire cluster has a peak performance of 110 teraflops/second.
Ah now http://www.sciencedaily.com/ claims it's the equivalent of 30,000 desktop computers :}
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131030125538.htm
but you think they'd try. The keybinds don't work, "Well play with the WASD set-up" you say,
but some of us play with a left handed mouse.
The graphics are great in some cases (you won't hear many people say that) but causes problems.
You get out of the water and a sheet of water flows off of you (part of the realism) and it stops you in your tracks,
All low settings GTX-570. You never know when lag will hit (other than the water) but it sure gets one killed.
B is a key to open a Map, it opens the console, and you have to press ~ to close it. It's like BF3 all over again,
you couldn't reassign the Q key for one. BF3 the chat was in your face, the middle of the screen was where people
typed back and forth, some helpful most calling others names (normal chats), The BF4 map is now in your face;
it takes up the entire screen which you can change the opacity but you can't view the map no matter how transparent
and the action of the game at the same time. (I do that with BF3 the mini map is alway open taking up the bottom left
corner of my monitor, I only play hardcore so the map is the only way you can see people.
BF3 moved the chat to the side, and allowed one to reassign the Q key, the very things that upset people is how BF4 works now.
I'd change the keybinds and it would hang on me, I'd let it be and sometimes I could continue,
other times I had to turn off the power supply, the secret is not to change the jet keys.
The game profile (a text file) is around 100K, mine was 35,000K and had 678961 lines that had the word jet in them.
Copy an pasting BF3's helicopter and jet config lines to the BF4 profile is how I configured my game.
You don't know when you die oddly enough, going along just fine only to find you were killed, it's not
obvious by any means, I don't know if one gets used to that or not, many times I thought I was still in the game.
I could go on, multiplayer is a real mess right now. as mentioned it looks like everything they did wrong with BF3 and patched out,
is how BF4 was released.
Bought BC2 on Steam and was really looking forward to BF3 after all the videos during E3. Then EA made some shit up about Steam/Valve not cooperating with them and the beautiful Origin emerged. What a pile of shit. That invasive, irritating, and completely unnecessary bloated trash was the last straw for me.
I play BF3 and really enjoyed it. Origin isn't a problem; I open my browser, log into a server, Origin loads,
and after the BF3 icon shows it's loading I shut Origin down. BF3 didn't need Origin to play just load.
With BF4 Origin won't let you close it, and I don't care for that at all.
So basically your little story is to detail how biased, shallow and judgmental you are. Oh, stupid too.
Whew, not a problem. Thought this might be another grammar lesson; something to the effect that one sentence
needed to end in a preposition as the fourth word proceeding it had an e before i.
To add to this thread I see http://thepiratebay.sx/ front page is supporting this project as well.
Guess it's all a matter of the equipment used and various other parameters; better known as wait for a second opinion.
The emergent gravity (Induced gravity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gravity) captured my attention, and I came across this reference
The bottom line being:
"The effect can be viewed as sampling noise due to the limited degrees of freedom of such a theory, consistent with covariant bounds on entropy."
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4153
Wrong.
ie: Second law of thermodynamics
Yep it's official I'm getting old. When I was growing up there were just two laws of thermodynamics:
1) you can't get something for nothing
2) Nor can you break even
Then they slipped in the 0 (Zero) law now called Zeroth apparently because they couldn't
go lower than 0 without looking foolish and added a third law; for a total of 4.
The Amiga had a program (game?) called "The Surgeon" it got old fast loading graphics from a 3.5 disk.
You had different surgeries to perform; I'd cut the guy open he'd scream and die. Just too much fun.
Was a great parody of star trek and darn good video. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtHM77IRkus
I guess I'm a younger trek fan myself (started with TNG,) as I was never into the original series. I kind of forced myself to watch it while I was sick once (every episode) and didn't really think it was anything special.
I was in high school when Star Trek first aired and watched it every week.
I was just the opposite watching the first Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). I was very disappointed that they
didn't keep to the original series, and refused to watch any other TNG.
At the time people stopped by every Friday for cards, many would come early to watch TNG
again I'd ignore it, "wow, the Enterprise was destroyed!", I just thought big deal and back
to my computer (game).
Much later a friend of mine never missed an episode of TNG; about season 5 or 6 we were
at his place when it came on, I was stuck. Don't remember the eposide but it was pretty good,
so much so I started watching it. Afterwards no matter what TNG episode came on it was new to me,
and an enjoyable hour; reruns everyday was just great.
"wow, the Enterprise was destroyed" is now one of my favs. "Cause and Effect" where the
another ship was caught in a time loop, which results in it's coming out of nowhere destroying the
Enterprise -where the number three was important.
The original Star Trek I've even watched without sound as it had been viewed so much, which resulted
in the game of who can recognize the episode first; now seems very dated.
But I still don't watch any of other spin offs, just so far you can take it and TNG was that point for me.
Probably the video got so many dislikes because it's useless. There's no explanation whatsoever, and before you're tuned in your attention to the video, it's over.
Wasn't meant to of been viewed by the public it was part of a post, but I didn't care who saw it.
There was a description that I kept upto date but then I had to follow the website it was posted on.
So many people hit the website only to find you had to join to view it, that that one post was viewable without joining,
so I went with that format. Once again one must join to view the post so I haven't bothered updating it.
Also it was a glitch in either the beta MineCraft or MineCraft and some MOD, you could only do it with that version.
People felt taken, as it didn't explain anything -never took the time to read the description. The dislike bar was called
a light saber for the longest time till it even lost that resemblance.
Just amazed me so many people viewed that video while this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05Z75-qR9U
saw less than 9K views and it had all the key words to be a hit: Black ops COD7 Glitch Crisis map - PC just the word glitch should of surpassed
400K and you can tell I actually put some time into that one - it really was the first real glitch found with CoD7 - (I call first Glitch on Black Ops)
Yes MineCraft has a following, and the google analytics told a lot about the people (people actually log into youtube to view videos).
There are three age spikes, Teens, late 30's, and 50 years + old almost all male. In real life those spikes mean so much if you think about them in relation to games.
I have a tablet I've mentioned many times, the Motorola Xoom it's also has a 10.1-inch display
as does the Nokia Lumia 2520. I feel that's the perfect size any larger and it wouldn't be a tablet,
any smaller is akin to using ones cell phone.
10.1-inch display puts me to sleep with netflix, youtube or a movie while it's in it's cradle.
The Kindle Fire 7 inch display is just too small for me.
Yep Nokia did the right thing at 10.1, WXGA (1280 x 800) for the Motorola Xoom, but the keyboard thingjust messes it up.
I use Hackers keyboard (software) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard
or a bluetooth keyboard for mine They don't connect to each other but I carry them both around protected by an old laptop case, a real sharp combo.
My Keyboard is as small as one can be while still having full sized keys, it's seriously sweet (Dell MN-Y-RAQ-DEL2 - Goodwill $5.00).
The Motorola Xoom hooks up to my HDTV (at 1920 x 1080 ) as I imagine does the Nokia Lumia 2520; a remote keyboard is very handy
using office / text editor at a distance and for so many other reasons.
For years I've use and have sent many (lots of) people to https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp
for an anual credit report. In the US your allowed 1 free credit report a year. Three companies are sent
request, so one is able to get 3 reports a year or one more extensive one.
Experian is one of the three companies your request (and information) is sent to. I would imagine
any info I've sent them is now public domain.
Of course I've read the ToS of annualcreditreport https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/helpprivacy
it was all good, and still reads that way, till the very end: Last Updated November 15, 2006
I would think there would of been some changes by now.
Not sure if due to "Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service", but there's a banner now that says:
Note: The AnnualCreditReport.com website will be temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance from
approximately 8:30pm ET on October 22, 2013 to 8:00am ET on October 23, 2013.
Microsoft hasn't figured those out yet either.
or really anything...
I made a post for a website on how to get a mob spawner in MineCraft; part of the post included
a 4 second video showing the process. Lots of pictures but one video.
I'd forgotten all about it until the e-mail started and did it come, a 4 second video nobody likes
now has 420K views. I've much better videos, of glitches, all sorts of stuff but none anywhere close to
the reception (views) of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxY-9DC2rQ
Was cool the hate line was red and long, called a saber for the longest time. Ads are not allowed
or seen, practicing what I preach.
Minecraft has a heck of a following of all ages, as it's very simple to learn yet you can get very complex with; it as Google is showing.
Please! If people won't take a clue and use a HOSTS file they deserve all the ads they get.
The system the author uses is a cookie type, so the must keep their cookies, someone posted
that there are Firefox programs to keep certain cookies after I posted this before. I just scanned
the article but seems like http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
Just use a HOSTS file mines 144292 lines, I don't get many ads.
And know that you can't opt-out of on-line or mobile ads - Google tossed me a loop searching for a PDF,
I put in TRAX it searches for TRACKS; - I say that then say you need to opt out of Flurry.com at the router level.
I've also found an easy way to "block" Web Beacons; in your browser set it to download "GIF" files,
I download them to C:\temp. I then goto NewEgg.com search around a bit then check C:\temp and there
are a couple 1K gif files (web beacons). but doesn't affect any normal gif files say avatars.