I usually run 1-10 gigs per month on my unlimited plan but they finally got around to charging me that extra $20/month on my last cycle. Since they increased my bill, I'm not going to put up with the crappy service I get at my house. In the evening, I barely get 3G speeds (tho I have an LTE connection and usually get 60-80ms pings). I used to just connect to my cable service when I'm at home but, if they're going to charge me more, I'm going to demand more. No more offloading to WiFi. And the only way I can tell what kind of speed I'm getting is to move data. As a result of testing, I've moved 41 gigs in the last week. My speed goes from about 0.3-0.5Mbps in the evening hours to 10-15Mbps around 2am. They swear they're not throttling me and that demand is just high during those hours. Right. I live in a pretty rural area so it's not a population density issue. And Charter has uncapped 60Mbps cable internet here so nobody's stuck with cellular as their only internet option.
The crazy thing is I can go a few miles away and get 50Mbps in the Home Depot parking lot any time day or night.
So screw Verizon. They want that extra $20? Fine. They're going to earn it. I'll keep moving a ton of data through my phone while opening tickets about shitty service at home. I bet Star Citizen needs a 20+ gig update. I'll start that before I go to bed.
The ship doesn't use port power, though, a preventable evil.
I doubt many destination ports have the infrastructure to provide sufficient, reliable power to multiple cruise ships. Heck, many of them don't even have docks big enough for the ships and passengers have to go ashore on tenders. Why bother with the logistics and complication of having a system to switch over to shore power if you can only use it on turnover day at your American port?
Said nobody ever. This is why I didn't buy many ebooks until I could strip the DRM. First thing I do is strip the DRM and save a copy to an external drive. Then I put that copy on any device I want to use without having to ask permission. Usually my phone. And it doesn't matter if the company that published the content goes under and stops validating my purchases.
I use medical adhesive tape because it's opaque and doesn't leave much residue. And a 1/2" wide roll was the first thing I found last time I looked for tape. It's not about back doors and government spying for me. It's about malware. I don't put tape on my phone, tho. Most of the time, one camera's pointed at the ceiling and the other is pointed at the table.
If you want something less tacky, you can get slider covers. Search for "webcam cover".
Of course AT&T can add whatever crap they want to an Android phone but maybe they want to remove Googles free stuff and replace it with their own fee-based stuff. Why let people use Google Maps for free when they can block it and offer their own navigation for $2.99/month? Free storage on Google Drive? Nope. But you can activate 5 gigs of storage on the AT&T cloud for just $0.99/month.
Most people wouldn't have a clue if the Play Store was replaced with some crappy knockoff. They don't understand how things work. They think whatever they're presented with is all-inclusive of what is possible and available.
Needs to be color and higher PPI. If I'm going to carry a device dedicated to a single purpose, it needs to blow my multi-purpose devices out of the water. My 10.5" tablet has an OLED display at 287 ppi. Color content looks amazing. It's like I'm holding a [slightly small] printed magazine. The text is sharp and crisp, the photos rich and vibrant. For plain text, I use white text on a black background which looks great on an OLED display. Because of the way OLED works, this greatly reduces the amount of emitted light compared to a backlit LCD display. I do most of my text reading on my phone at 518 ppi, also an OLED display. It's almost as big as a small dedicated reader but it's not an extra device I have to carry around just for the purpose of reading. I always have my phone with me.
I've had eink readers but they've always been a couple steps behind what I wanted. Small, low-contrast, low-resolution screens. They're much better now but they're no longer the only game in town for handheld reading.
Of course. Because once you snap your fingers and improved security is added to the next version of the product, it will magically propagate backwards through time to the millions of devices that are currently in use.
Blu-ray was cracked about 6 months after it hit the streets and much of the delay was caused by the fact that the guy who cracked it didn't have a blu-ray player or disc.
Be still my heart. What kind of pathetic offering is that on a flagship phone? Yeah, Android 6 adds the ability to use external storage as internal but it's very kludgy. It's better than it used to be but I'd rather have 128 gigs (or, at the very least, 64 gigs) of internal storage and not mess with that.
Lawsuits over what? It's right there in the privacy policy. Are you telling me you didn't read every EULA and privacy disclosure for every device you own?
Not so much any more. It's mostly inertia. At least at the magazine where I used to work. Back before I started working there, they'd transitioned to Macs in art and pre-press because that's where the good software was. A few years into my employment, the big software players in the market started offering dual licensing. I could buy 20, 30, 40 seats and put them on whatever platform I wanted. The software was the same either way with the exception of where menus showed up. When it came time to upgrade the computers in those departments, I thought about pushing for PCs because we could get more bang for the buck. Then I remembered I was hired because of my Mac experience so I kept my mouth shut. Tho we did later transition part of the workflow to PC when we did a software and workflow change.
I think the biggest advantage I can still see is the quality of the hardware and displays. If you get a PC laptop with a cheap-ass display, you'll never be able to trust the color. Same with a desktop. But you can get a good monitor for a PC if you a few extra dollars out of your wallet.
It has to do with people who are cognitively damaged/incompetent and are unable to comprehend that "this shouldn't be".
People have been wandering and getting lost long before GPS navigation was a consumer product. Ever since we've had an interstate system, people have been getting on the southbound ramp instead of northbound and winding up in Florida 2 days after they started the hour trip to visit the grandkids. Before that, they'd just wander into the wilderness and get eaten by a bear.
If somebody enters a destination in their GPS and it says the estimated travel time is 3 hours and they know it's a 5 mile trip, it's not the GPS' fault if they shrug and start driving.
I get OS support failures in my phones. They usually stop getting manufacturer and carrier support about a year after they're released. Even my flagship Android devices that are under 2 years old are running 5.0.x. It's only very recently that some manufacturers have finally started to provide security updates for "obsolete" devices so at least some of my devices are safe from years-old exploits. But they'll still be Left Behind in a few more years when apps require 6.x or higher.
Do you want small, efficient devices that can't be serviced or big, inefficient devices that are modular?
The more customizeable or serviceable you make a device, the bigger it's going to be because the individual components need interfaces and power regulation and whatnot.
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I usually run 1-10 gigs per month on my unlimited plan but they finally got around to charging me that extra $20/month on my last cycle. Since they increased my bill, I'm not going to put up with the crappy service I get at my house. In the evening, I barely get 3G speeds (tho I have an LTE connection and usually get 60-80ms pings). I used to just connect to my cable service when I'm at home but, if they're going to charge me more, I'm going to demand more. No more offloading to WiFi. And the only way I can tell what kind of speed I'm getting is to move data. As a result of testing, I've moved 41 gigs in the last week. My speed goes from about 0.3-0.5Mbps in the evening hours to 10-15Mbps around 2am. They swear they're not throttling me and that demand is just high during those hours. Right. I live in a pretty rural area so it's not a population density issue. And Charter has uncapped 60Mbps cable internet here so nobody's stuck with cellular as their only internet option.
The crazy thing is I can go a few miles away and get 50Mbps in the Home Depot parking lot any time day or night.
So screw Verizon. They want that extra $20? Fine. They're going to earn it. I'll keep moving a ton of data through my phone while opening tickets about shitty service at home. I bet Star Citizen needs a 20+ gig update. I'll start that before I go to bed.
When's the last time you used the tuner in your TV?
The ship doesn't use port power, though, a preventable evil.
I doubt many destination ports have the infrastructure to provide sufficient, reliable power to multiple cruise ships. Heck, many of them don't even have docks big enough for the ships and passengers have to go ashore on tenders. Why bother with the logistics and complication of having a system to switch over to shore power if you can only use it on turnover day at your American port?
Said nobody ever. This is why I didn't buy many ebooks until I could strip the DRM. First thing I do is strip the DRM and save a copy to an external drive. Then I put that copy on any device I want to use without having to ask permission. Usually my phone. And it doesn't matter if the company that published the content goes under and stops validating my purchases.
I miss Windows 2000.
What? You click on the story title (the white letters on the left side of the green stripe above the summary) then click the "Post" button.
Smell my finger! Now pull it. Wouldn't matter anyway. My phone demands a password every XX hours no matter what.
I use medical adhesive tape because it's opaque and doesn't leave much residue. And a 1/2" wide roll was the first thing I found last time I looked for tape. It's not about back doors and government spying for me. It's about malware. I don't put tape on my phone, tho. Most of the time, one camera's pointed at the ceiling and the other is pointed at the table.
If you want something less tacky, you can get slider covers. Search for "webcam cover".
Of course AT&T can add whatever crap they want to an Android phone but maybe they want to remove Googles free stuff and replace it with their own fee-based stuff. Why let people use Google Maps for free when they can block it and offer their own navigation for $2.99/month? Free storage on Google Drive? Nope. But you can activate 5 gigs of storage on the AT&T cloud for just $0.99/month.
Most people wouldn't have a clue if the Play Store was replaced with some crappy knockoff. They don't understand how things work. They think whatever they're presented with is all-inclusive of what is possible and available.
I don't need a "valid" reason to want privacy. The government needs a valid reason to eliminate my ability to maintain privacy.
Needs to be color and higher PPI. If I'm going to carry a device dedicated to a single purpose, it needs to blow my multi-purpose devices out of the water. My 10.5" tablet has an OLED display at 287 ppi. Color content looks amazing. It's like I'm holding a [slightly small] printed magazine. The text is sharp and crisp, the photos rich and vibrant. For plain text, I use white text on a black background which looks great on an OLED display. Because of the way OLED works, this greatly reduces the amount of emitted light compared to a backlit LCD display. I do most of my text reading on my phone at 518 ppi, also an OLED display. It's almost as big as a small dedicated reader but it's not an extra device I have to carry around just for the purpose of reading. I always have my phone with me.
I've had eink readers but they've always been a couple steps behind what I wanted. Small, low-contrast, low-resolution screens. They're much better now but they're no longer the only game in town for handheld reading.
Three.
Of course. Because once you snap your fingers and improved security is added to the next version of the product, it will magically propagate backwards through time to the millions of devices that are currently in use.
Once the tool/method is created, it exists. Even if the tool never leaves Apple, they could be compelled to use the tool in future cases. Tool.
Blu-ray was cracked about 6 months after it hit the streets and much of the delay was caused by the fact that the guy who cracked it didn't have a blu-ray player or disc.
Be still my heart. What kind of pathetic offering is that on a flagship phone? Yeah, Android 6 adds the ability to use external storage as internal but it's very kludgy. It's better than it used to be but I'd rather have 128 gigs (or, at the very least, 64 gigs) of internal storage and not mess with that.
Why are Android devices so far behind on storage?
She was dressed pretty meh for a costume designer.
20 minutes into the future...
Lawsuits over what? It's right there in the privacy policy. Are you telling me you didn't read every EULA and privacy disclosure for every device you own?
Not so much any more. It's mostly inertia. At least at the magazine where I used to work. Back before I started working there, they'd transitioned to Macs in art and pre-press because that's where the good software was. A few years into my employment, the big software players in the market started offering dual licensing. I could buy 20, 30, 40 seats and put them on whatever platform I wanted. The software was the same either way with the exception of where menus showed up. When it came time to upgrade the computers in those departments, I thought about pushing for PCs because we could get more bang for the buck. Then I remembered I was hired because of my Mac experience so I kept my mouth shut. Tho we did later transition part of the workflow to PC when we did a software and workflow change.
I think the biggest advantage I can still see is the quality of the hardware and displays. If you get a PC laptop with a cheap-ass display, you'll never be able to trust the color. Same with a desktop. But you can get a good monitor for a PC if you a few extra dollars out of your wallet.
To get to Vegas from there, you go right, right, left, right. Not exactly a navigational challenge.
It has to do with people who are cognitively damaged/incompetent and are unable to comprehend that "this shouldn't be".
People have been wandering and getting lost long before GPS navigation was a consumer product. Ever since we've had an interstate system, people have been getting on the southbound ramp instead of northbound and winding up in Florida 2 days after they started the hour trip to visit the grandkids. Before that, they'd just wander into the wilderness and get eaten by a bear.
If somebody enters a destination in their GPS and it says the estimated travel time is 3 hours and they know it's a 5 mile trip, it's not the GPS' fault if they shrug and start driving.
Probably a form of mental illness.
Seems like everyone who lands a rover on a foreign body in the solar system uses it to draw a dick in the dirt.
I get OS support failures in my phones. They usually stop getting manufacturer and carrier support about a year after they're released. Even my flagship Android devices that are under 2 years old are running 5.0.x. It's only very recently that some manufacturers have finally started to provide security updates for "obsolete" devices so at least some of my devices are safe from years-old exploits. But they'll still be Left Behind in a few more years when apps require 6.x or higher.
Do you want small, efficient devices that can't be serviced or big, inefficient devices that are modular?
The more customizeable or serviceable you make a device, the bigger it's going to be because the individual components need interfaces and power regulation and whatnot.