Having used both Android and iPhone OS I can say that the user experience with Android is superior with regards to navigation. The home button on iOS has far too many functions right now - one click for home, double click for multitask switching, three times for something else, hold for Siri, etc. It tries to be too much at once, which totally complicates things (the irony!)
I fully expected in a future release there will be a dedicated back button and maybe more, similar to Android - Apple's current implementation of a "back" function at the top left of the screen feels like a total kludge - not something Apple-like at all.
If they have the right to fill up my voicemail with message I don't want, I should have the same right to continually call them, tying up their phone line. Sounds fair, right?
My old plasma TV put out a fair amount of heat - nothing scorching, but there was definitively a convection of warm air coming out of it. The LCD that replaced it when the plasma got smashed? Barely anything.
Good advice, but I fear it won't work these days, given the people getting voted into politics these days (not talking only about the US).
Wages will continue to be suppressed, until there's basically a revolution (the protests of the 2008 financial crisis was really nothing more than two kittens having a hissy fit, and looking absolutely adorable while doing it).
I'm just surprised it wasn't like "Hey, I've checked your schedule and you've got a couple free hours tonight, based on your movie preferences you'll like Beauty and the Beast! It's showing at a theater that's 1.5 miles away from you! Your tickets have been ordered and are ready for pickup."
There should be a law that this stuff should be made clear to the potential customer, so that they can compare brands based on these factors.
Exactly; if I end up forfeiting the right to repair stuff I paid for and that I own, then that should be clearly stated with a huge label covering the product before sale.
If those companies don't want to have customers being able to repair their equipments/electronics, these should be the conditions (I read this on another site):
- 5 year minimum hardware warranty
- 3 years phone support on software (included or embedded)
- Security updates for as long as the hardware is expected to last*, and if not provided, company must provide a new 'current product' replacement free of charge (with full warranty)
(*)"expected to last" means that if the product would normally continue to function, but been designed to fail/have its life shortened prematurely, then a replacement is also warranted. Example given was limiting the battery charge cycle to 3000 cycles when the battery could do 7000 cycles, limiting the useful life of the product (because the battery couldn't be swapped out because the device is a sealed unit).
But I am confused about why people care if the account is open. If they are no longer using the account, and it contains no personal information, then it is just a spam sink, wasting space on Yahoo's disk farm, but otherwise doing nothing and harming no one.
This particular user in the story doesn't care, but others will (where they do want the account to die, so it cannot be abused/accessed through future inevitable breaches). Knowing that someone else has successfully done so is valuable to know, more valuable then Yahoo's stock!
Podcats are too annoying, I have to listen to them at the speed of whomever is talking.
So speed it up. There's plenty of podcast app that do a good job of speeding up the playback, even cutting down on the silence within the podcast. For most podcasts I don't even notice the speedup in people's voices/speech (the app I use usually does a variable speedup to about 1.4x speed.)
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Ah yes, "discovery". And inconsistent at that.
Having used both Android and iPhone OS I can say that the user experience with Android is superior with regards to navigation. The home button on iOS has far too many functions right now - one click for home, double click for multitask switching, three times for something else, hold for Siri, etc. It tries to be too much at once, which totally complicates things (the irony!)
I fully expected in a future release there will be a dedicated back button and maybe more, similar to Android - Apple's current implementation of a "back" function at the top left of the screen feels like a total kludge - not something Apple-like at all.
or some machine learning thing of some sort. (Totally borrowed from this comment because it's soooooo spot on!).
If they have the right to fill up my voicemail with message I don't want, I should have the same right to continually call them, tying up their phone line. Sounds fair, right?
My old plasma TV put out a fair amount of heat - nothing scorching, but there was definitively a convection of warm air coming out of it. The LCD that replaced it when the plasma got smashed? Barely anything.
They passed the Snooper's Charter. They could very well pass this too.
Good advice, but I fear it won't work these days, given the people getting voted into politics these days (not talking only about the US).
Wages will continue to be suppressed, until there's basically a revolution (the protests of the 2008 financial crisis was really nothing more than two kittens having a hissy fit, and looking absolutely adorable while doing it).
.... about getting stagnation of wages under control within their lifetime.
At least one aspect is likely safe from AI automation - bitching about AI automation on Slashdot.
Nah, there will be automated bots, just like Twitter has, they'll just be smarter about their trolling/bitching.
"Do no evil"
2. ALWAYS show a status bar that ALWAYS shows what URL I'll go to if I click a link. NEVER allow ANYTHING to change this behavior.
Also, don't allow changing what is shown in that status bar, like custom text instead of that link.
I'm just surprised it wasn't like "Hey, I've checked your schedule and you've got a couple free hours tonight, based on your movie preferences you'll like Beauty and the Beast! It's showing at a theater that's 1.5 miles away from you! Your tickets have been ordered and are ready for pickup."
There, FTFY.
Show me in either statutory or case law that says you do.
You have all rights that aren't explicitly removed from you by law.
BAM!!!
Show me in law where it states I don't have the right to repair my own stuff.
There should be a law that this stuff should be made clear to the potential customer, so that they can compare brands based on these factors.
Exactly; if I end up forfeiting the right to repair stuff I paid for and that I own, then that should be clearly stated with a huge label covering the product before sale.
the right to repair, BTW.
You already have the right to not buy a product if you don't like the terms offered.
So by buying a product, you forfeit that right? Because that's basically what these companies are lobbying for.
Funny, but I don't see the text anywhere saying I'm forfeiting that when I paid for the product that I own.
If those companies don't want to have customers being able to repair their equipments/electronics, these should be the conditions (I read this on another site):
- 5 year minimum hardware warranty
- 3 years phone support on software (included or embedded)
- Security updates for as long as the hardware is expected to last*, and if not provided, company must provide a new 'current product' replacement free of charge (with full warranty)
(*)"expected to last" means that if the product would normally continue to function, but been designed to fail/have its life shortened prematurely, then a replacement is also warranted. Example given was limiting the battery charge cycle to 3000 cycles when the battery could do 7000 cycles, limiting the useful life of the product (because the battery couldn't be swapped out because the device is a sealed unit).
Start our own equipment company, with full parts availability and no lock-in. They'll be selling like hotcakes!
Yes, it's the parent company of U-Boat
Isn't that the Skype icon I see in the dock?
But I am confused about why people care if the account is open. If they are no longer using the account, and it contains no personal information, then it is just a spam sink, wasting space on Yahoo's disk farm, but otherwise doing nothing and harming no one.
This particular user in the story doesn't care, but others will (where they do want the account to die, so it cannot be abused/accessed through future inevitable breaches). Knowing that someone else has successfully done so is valuable to know, more valuable then Yahoo's stock!
So the poor snowflakes over at the MaPhiAA are tired of "calling out" Canada for not bending over to ensure its profits.
Well, BOO-FUCKING-HOO!
Podcats are too annoying, I have to listen to them at the speed of whomever is talking.
So speed it up. There's plenty of podcast app that do a good job of speeding up the playback, even cutting down on the silence within the podcast. For most podcasts I don't even notice the speedup in people's voices/speech (the app I use usually does a variable speedup to about 1.4x speed.)
'nuff said.