We have hundreds of iPhones returned by former employees that are unusable because of this. Apple refuses to unlock them even though they belong to the company. I'm surprised they are allowed to get away with this in a corporate environment but I guess the RDF is still strong enough because they keep buying them.
For the money, I get a *much* better quality "dumb" screen than I'd get if I went the "Smart TV" way
That's inaccurate. Smart TV's are actually cheaper BECAUSE they are "SMART". The cost of the TV is subsidized by the advertising revenue the OEM's expect to collect once you connect it to the internet. I simply never set up internet on the TV.
Nvidia and Sony have licensed Prime Video and thus are white listed by Amazon. Some industrious individuals have managed to extract the APK from these devices and patched them to work on regular Android TV until the next update rolls out. The fact remains the Amazon Prime Android app actively checks for Android TV and will not run if it is detected.
suppose.tv is the Swiss pocket knife of streaming choices. Any time I get frustrated with my current service I hop over to see if I can get my must have's anywhere else. And just when I think I've got a solution I see they don't support my chosen client (Nvidia Shield TV). It's nice to see at a glance instead of rooting around the fine print of each site.
Except all of the ISP's have been buying up content companies left and right preparing for war. Combine that with the likelihood that Apple will require Apple hardware to access its service and you've cut your target market in half. I mean Amazon Prime works on Android but not Android TV because Amazon is mad at Alphabet. So Alphabet blocks the Echo Show from playing YouTube videos (painful workarounds notwithstanding). And Amazon has been providing your utopian service for a year now. It isn't any easier than having and app for each service on an Android TV , Fire, or Roku device.
What you and most others do not understand is they couldn't do what you said with their existing contracts. To illustrate with a real life scenario. For years since Marvel came out with the Iron Man Avengers movies people have been complaining that Spider-Man or the X-Men are never part of the MCU. Marvel wanted to add them but years prior they had licensed those movie rights to Sony and Fox respectively. So while Marvel/Disney could do Spider-Man TV shows one after another they couldn't even mention him in the MCU without Sony's permission. Fortunately Sony is really bad at making super hero movies so after numerous flops at the box office Sony ultimately agreed to collaborate and allow Spider-Man in the MCU. ComCast's contracts with content providers are extremely specific in regards to the medium they are allowed to use to disseminate said content. They may only have the rights to show it in a specific region because another company already own the rights in other regions. Disney is actually one of the reasons cable bills are so high to begin with. Disney owns ESPN. There are so many ESPN channel it makes the head spin. Cable companies want to offer a budget tier package for families that doesn't include sports. Disney says if you want any of the Disney channels in your package you must include all of the ESPN channels in the same package. A family package without Disney channels might as well be a bachelor package. The budget package is now $70 instead of $40 because of all the added sports channels. I suspect Apple will run into the same quagmire everyone else is they will just sprinkle it with stardust and blame you for holding it wrong when you complain that XYZ is missing.
I am quite familiar. The gerrymandering going on is off the charts. The thing is it's the Republicans doing the gerrymandering. This district is just a cutout to keep the GOP in power in the surrounding districts.
Aren't these the same people who voted in said politicians? I live on the edge of Sheila Jackson Lee's district. Despite all the dumb things that come out of her mouth they flock back to her every election. It's not even a thought that someone might defeat her. There were a couple of respectable candidates this last election and I don't think they got over 10% of the vote. How long before an AI realizes people will like it better if it gives them free stuff?
As with all things, follow the money. Ancel Keys was the physiologist who HYPOTHESIZED that saturated fat caused cardiovascular disease. John Yudkin was a physiologist who was convinced processed sugar and carbohydrates was the culprit. In the 70's coconut oil was becoming increasingly popular with consumers. This alarmed US soybean farmers who's livelihood was tied to vegetable oils. They took Keys' hypothesis and through the soybean lobby presented it to the state and federal representatives. They also enlisted the aid of the American Heart Association (Not a government entity) in getting out the word that coconut oil will kill you! There are now peer reviewed scientific studies which show cholesterol does not cause cardiovascular disease. In fact it is cholesterol's job to fight inflammation which these studies proved does cause cardiovascular disease. Excess consumption of carbohydrates is linked to higher than normal inflammation. Keys' based his hypothesis on research that looked at people eating a hamburger and fries and vilified the greasy burger when the bun and fries were the real culprit. Disclaimer, this is extremely oversimplified so the TL;DR crew might actually read it.
So nice for Microsoft to think of themselves first, to the exclusion of anyone else.
You, me, and virtually everyone else think of themselves first. Many then CHOOSE to act on behalf of others. As for excluding everyone else...WTF are you talking about? Skype is available as a DEB, RPM, or SNAP install for Linux. Does it suck that Microsoft has chosen to implement non-standards based features that break compatibility with standards based browsers? Yes, yes it does. But Microsoft has been doing that for decades so it should come as no surprise. And Google is doing it as well.
I didn't mention it but you are correct. Fracking had been around for years but was so expensive it didn't make economic sense. A low cost fracking process was developed and opened up a large swath of the US that had been unavailable before. I was supporting a natural gas trade floor when fracking took off. They downsized the trade floor and moved it back to corporate. I support a gas exploration unit now.
It has nothing to do with being cowardly and everything to do with economics. Since ~2006 the price of natural gas has been so low that it is actually cheaper to run an inefficient natural gas plant than a nuclear plant. Nuclear can't even touch a newer efficient plant. At one point it cost $0.03 kWh for natural gas produced electricity and $0.06 kWh for nuclear. It's the same reason coal mines are shutting down left and right. It has less to do with environmentalists and more to do with operating costs. I work for an energy company with a fleet of nuclear. Because of the operating costs all will eventually be decommissioned.
Easy answer...It is HARD. OCR has been around for years but even today it is hit or miss except for the most sophisticated systems. I'm curious how well it translates on a mobile device. I've used OCR on PDF and Word documents that were just images and even when the text was perfectly legible it had a hard time getting the letters right and the formatting was always all over the place.
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We have hundreds of iPhones returned by former employees that are unusable because of this. Apple refuses to unlock them even though they belong to the company. I'm surprised they are allowed to get away with this in a corporate environment but I guess the RDF is still strong enough because they keep buying them.
In Soviet Russia, social media something something...
Disconnect PC from any network or other connectivity protocol.
This was an actual requirement for security certification for the NT 3.51 OS
Whenever I converse with Canadians I make it a point to work in calling them Americans just to hear them indignantly tell me they aren't Americans.
For the money, I get a *much* better quality "dumb" screen than I'd get if I went the "Smart TV" way
That's inaccurate. Smart TV's are actually cheaper BECAUSE they are "SMART". The cost of the TV is subsidized by the advertising revenue the OEM's expect to collect once you connect it to the internet. I simply never set up internet on the TV.
April 1st is Monday. I think /. 8 bit server is suffering from the Y2K bug.
An imperfect creator cannot create a perfect creation. Any AI created by humans will have imperfections equivalent to human imperfections.
Nvidia and Sony have licensed Prime Video and thus are white listed by Amazon. Some industrious individuals have managed to extract the APK from these devices and patched them to work on regular Android TV until the next update rolls out. The fact remains the Amazon Prime Android app actively checks for Android TV and will not run if it is detected.
suppose.tv is the Swiss pocket knife of streaming choices. Any time I get frustrated with my current service I hop over to see if I can get my must have's anywhere else. And just when I think I've got a solution I see they don't support my chosen client (Nvidia Shield TV). It's nice to see at a glance instead of rooting around the fine print of each site.
Except all of the ISP's have been buying up content companies left and right preparing for war. Combine that with the likelihood that Apple will require Apple hardware to access its service and you've cut your target market in half. I mean Amazon Prime works on Android but not Android TV because Amazon is mad at Alphabet. So Alphabet blocks the Echo Show from playing YouTube videos (painful workarounds notwithstanding). And Amazon has been providing your utopian service for a year now. It isn't any easier than having and app for each service on an Android TV , Fire, or Roku device.
What you and most others do not understand is they couldn't do what you said with their existing contracts. To illustrate with a real life scenario. For years since Marvel came out with the Iron Man Avengers movies people have been complaining that Spider-Man or the X-Men are never part of the MCU. Marvel wanted to add them but years prior they had licensed those movie rights to Sony and Fox respectively. So while Marvel/Disney could do Spider-Man TV shows one after another they couldn't even mention him in the MCU without Sony's permission. Fortunately Sony is really bad at making super hero movies so after numerous flops at the box office Sony ultimately agreed to collaborate and allow Spider-Man in the MCU. ComCast's contracts with content providers are extremely specific in regards to the medium they are allowed to use to disseminate said content. They may only have the rights to show it in a specific region because another company already own the rights in other regions. Disney is actually one of the reasons cable bills are so high to begin with. Disney owns ESPN. There are so many ESPN channel it makes the head spin. Cable companies want to offer a budget tier package for families that doesn't include sports. Disney says if you want any of the Disney channels in your package you must include all of the ESPN channels in the same package. A family package without Disney channels might as well be a bachelor package. The budget package is now $70 instead of $40 because of all the added sports channels. I suspect Apple will run into the same quagmire everyone else is they will just sprinkle it with stardust and blame you for holding it wrong when you complain that XYZ is missing.
I am quite familiar. The gerrymandering going on is off the charts. The thing is it's the Republicans doing the gerrymandering. This district is just a cutout to keep the GOP in power in the surrounding districts.
Aren't these the same people who voted in said politicians? I live on the edge of Sheila Jackson Lee's district. Despite all the dumb things that come out of her mouth they flock back to her every election. It's not even a thought that someone might defeat her. There were a couple of respectable candidates this last election and I don't think they got over 10% of the vote. How long before an AI realizes people will like it better if it gives them free stuff?
As with all things, follow the money. Ancel Keys was the physiologist who HYPOTHESIZED that saturated fat caused cardiovascular disease. John Yudkin was a physiologist who was convinced processed sugar and carbohydrates was the culprit. In the 70's coconut oil was becoming increasingly popular with consumers. This alarmed US soybean farmers who's livelihood was tied to vegetable oils. They took Keys' hypothesis and through the soybean lobby presented it to the state and federal representatives. They also enlisted the aid of the American Heart Association (Not a government entity) in getting out the word that coconut oil will kill you! There are now peer reviewed scientific studies which show cholesterol does not cause cardiovascular disease. In fact it is cholesterol's job to fight inflammation which these studies proved does cause cardiovascular disease. Excess consumption of carbohydrates is linked to higher than normal inflammation. Keys' based his hypothesis on research that looked at people eating a hamburger and fries and vilified the greasy burger when the bun and fries were the real culprit. Disclaimer, this is extremely oversimplified so the TL;DR crew might actually read it.
Came for the comments about it uninstalling itself...Was not disappointed!
Will this fusion be more like a Gotenks or Gogeta fusion?
So facts are considered trolling now?
The Democrats have passed laws to allow illegal immigrants to vote.
So nice for Microsoft to think of themselves first, to the exclusion of anyone else.
You, me, and virtually everyone else think of themselves first. Many then CHOOSE to act on behalf of others. As for excluding everyone else...WTF are you talking about? Skype is available as a DEB, RPM, or SNAP install for Linux. Does it suck that Microsoft has chosen to implement non-standards based features that break compatibility with standards based browsers? Yes, yes it does. But Microsoft has been doing that for decades so it should come as no surprise. And Google is doing it as well.
I didn't mention it but you are correct. Fracking had been around for years but was so expensive it didn't make economic sense. A low cost fracking process was developed and opened up a large swath of the US that had been unavailable before. I was supporting a natural gas trade floor when fracking took off. They downsized the trade floor and moved it back to corporate. I support a gas exploration unit now.
It has nothing to do with being cowardly and everything to do with economics. Since ~2006 the price of natural gas has been so low that it is actually cheaper to run an inefficient natural gas plant than a nuclear plant. Nuclear can't even touch a newer efficient plant. At one point it cost $0.03 kWh for natural gas produced electricity and $0.06 kWh for nuclear. It's the same reason coal mines are shutting down left and right. It has less to do with environmentalists and more to do with operating costs. I work for an energy company with a fleet of nuclear. Because of the operating costs all will eventually be decommissioned.
I changed all my passwords to correcthorsebatterystaple
Now you're telling me I should change it to this?
Stephen King might have been a little prescient.
Easy answer...It is HARD. OCR has been around for years but even today it is hit or miss except for the most sophisticated systems.
I'm curious how well it translates on a mobile device. I've used OCR on PDF and Word documents that were just images and even when the text was perfectly legible it had a hard time getting the letters right and the formatting was always all over the place.