I hope that they will make RED available in more then 5 countries. (Australia, Korea, Mexico,New Zealand,The United States) Or it is a little wast of money.
Google have a lot of products that is only available in a few countries. And it always supprices them that these products are not that popular.
A U1 MicroSD card is faster. I just got a Switch and look at recomendations on what SD card to use. And I stumpeled over a test. Where internal memory was fastes, then the SD card, and then the cartridges. It was loading time of 1 secund between them. But SD card was faster. Also it support up to 2TB MicroSD cards not just 256GB.
Bluetooth headphones is not there yet. It is a nightmare to figure out what sound quality you get in bluetooth headphones/speakers today. To send/resive audio via bluetooth you only need to support SBS audio. That is has bad quality compared to bitrate.. Some support MP3/AAC/LDAC/Apt-X/Apt-X HD/What ever. The problem is that both sender and reciver have to support the same format for it to work. You can't just get some headphones that support Apt-X if your phone do not support it. And most of the time it is almost imposibel to see what the phone/headphones/speaker is supporting. So it's but and hope for the best. Or spent a lot of time seatching the web to see if anyone have an anwser.
And after all that. Then there is also how good is the DAC in the speaker/headphones. Most phones today have a good DAC. But headphones can support all the best audio codecs. And have a crap DAC. So it sounds bad anyway. And putting a good DAC in the speaker/headphones also bumps the price. And then you have an extra thing to recharge.
Sure in the future when they have better standards for sounds. And you are sure you get something good. No matter what you buy. But we are not there yet. So why remove the 3.5 Jack stik. It works. And it has yet get a usefull replacement.
Dropping the floppy for CD-Drive and laver for USB stik. Sure. The CD was an improvment over the floppy. And the USB stik had been improved a lot when it replaced optick drives in computers. It would have faild if they did it when we only had the USB 1 standard. But it got better and storgage bigger and chaper. So you could do the switch.
It's not a big number. But when you are thinking about that it's only sold in "Australia, Canada, Germany, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, United States" then its not that bad.
If Google really wanted it to be a big seller then they would sell it world wide as pretty mutch any other phones.
I'm runnign a RAID 6 at home. 5 disk from one batch and 1 from a nother (Thats how I got them) I have set up my NAS to E-Mail me with any warnings. So when one disk failed. (One of the 5 from same batch) I order a new disk, and shutdown my NAS when I got home. And the next day I got my new disk. So I replaced it. And startet the NAS up and it used a LONG time to do the recovery.
So. 1) Alway set up your NAS/Server to send your warnings.
2) Just because the disks are from the same batch do not mean that they will fail at the same time. (The other 4 from that batch is still running)
And the reason I shutdown my NAS even when I could lose one more disk. Was it was my Home NAS. I could live without it for a day. And just in case more disk was about to fail. I could still lose one doing recovery without losing date. So just me being extra carefull.
Windows biggest advantage is that it can rung Windows programs. If all programs was made cross platform. Then a lot of people would not stay on Windows. If all games could run on linux. Then most gamers would run Linux. And if all office programs (MS Office, Adobe, What ever special program the company uses). Then company's would start switching away from Windows.
ChromeOS would be a good choice for some. But also many other Linux distros would be out there.
25$ I need at least me and a friend watching it to make up the price. 50$ We need to be 4 persons.
And I live in Europe. So there would be some extra VAT and whatever. So if I'm lucky then we have to be between 3 and 6 people to make up for the price. And then one of us have to invest in a good screen and sound system..... If I already had the set up at home. Then I might have a movie night with some friends from time to time. But at that price they wont loss many customers in the theatres here in Denmark.
But I can see if you live somewhere with bad movie theatres, or a long way the the nearest good one. Then it's a good alternative. But then again. It's not a loss to the theatres. Because the changes was you would not had gone there anyway.
One thing I really like about Hangouts is that it has a Desktop client/Chrome Extension. Whatever you call it. I can chat on my computer without taking my phone out of my pocket.
A Quick look and it what I could see then there only a phone client. And you can only have it active on one device at the time. So no Tablet and Phone active at the same time. (I know that it runs on phone number. But you could just verify the new login with manual entering a code on the tablet/Desktop. Og even make it optional to link to your Google Account.)
I can see VR for education purpose. Like see wonders of the world or look a engines/buildings/etc. without having one in the classroom. It can not replace the real thing. But it will give people a better understanding when seeing it in 3D, and you can look around the object instead of just a flat picture in a text book.
AR. I can see some heads up display helpers. But to many and it will be to much of a distraction. So AR has to be very cheap for people want to buy them for so little use they will give.
But using the VR googles as personal display when traveling on a plane/bus/train/etc. will proppely be the most common use of the googles.
For gaming. I can see some use. (And I personally would get one for this). But again I thing it will go the way of Kinetic and Wii remote. It's a fun new gadget. But people don't want to move around that much. They just want to sit and relax with there game.
We do not have Apple Pay og Android Pay. But we have MobilPay and Swipp that is tranfert money to other for free. Or use in stores (Stores has to pay a small fee. but less the to the CC company. But free for private persons)
MobilPay chage your debitcard and put the money in bank account (No fee for the Dankort Debit card) and Swipp is Bank account to Bank account.
And beside that people can use there bank app to transfer money. Bank to bank transfer in Denmark is free.
That said. The easy of just transferring in app is easy. And we can also request money. That the person you request from just have to accept to transfer.
Google announced in September 2013 that it would phase out NPAPI support in Chrome during 2014. NPAPI support is disabled by default since April 2015 (version 42) for Windows and OS X, but can be turned on in the settings. Google plans to drop Chrome NPAPI support from all platforms in September 2015.
I wont call 2 years warning aggressive. I would call it more then a fair warning. And if web-apps or plug-in's are not up to modern standards by now. Then extending to time they have to fix it wont help. Because the only things that's not updated by now wont be as long as they do not have to. Now they are being forced to do it. And it comes as a chock for some that they only got 2 years warning.
In a few years all those old phones are upgraded and sold, and the owner wants them clean.
Android 4.4 The newest version that they did not test. Is from October 2013. And I know that OME's takes some time to switch to new versions of Android. But lets say that the last was switch one year later. So October 2014. That makes the phone 8 month old by now. And it was not a High End device.
So in a few years. Then it's a really old device. So how would buy it?
I can understand people want to sell there old phone. But a old Smartphone is OLD!!! And you can get new low/mid range devices pretty cheap
It was a company issued phone. So I see no problem in it. If it was her own device then I would not install it. But a company device. Then she can just turn it off when she is off the clock. And then get her own phone.
And people will never fly. Or people will never go out in space. Or people will never go to the moon.
Just because we can't do it now then it dos not mean that it's impossible and we wont do it in the future. And the more knowledge we get about space the closer we are to prove you wrong.
So knowledge is good. Even if it wont help us colonies the space in our life time. Then it can help future generations.
1) My muscle memory knows where on the keyboard W,A,S,D are.
2) If you noticed then there are a physical marker on the F key and the J key on your keyboard. So that you can locate them and then knows where the rest of the keys are without looking at them.
So if you use a keyboard daily then you do not need to look at it to find and hit the right keys.
But yes if you start moving around in the room then you need some better controller then mouse and keyboard. But most times people will play games sitting down. And then just turn there heads.
So it's some code that need root access to mess with your phone. So you properly just need to root your phone. And install an app that you have downloaded from some suspected webpage. So is it a Trojan or just a feature from a rouge app/programmer?
Do not root your phone if you do not have any idea what you are doing and installing apps from every that you find.
The first thing I saw when I open the article was "Like us on Facebook" An article about whats tracking us. But wont you just lets us track you as well before you read it.:-)
You do not understand. You can't just upgrade to Kit Kat, or Lolipop is the manufactures did not make an update. And they often do not. Don't blame the carrier for that.
Sure the carrier locked phones sometimes gets the update later. But lets take the Samsung S3 (mini). My sister has the mini and it's unlocked, and carrier free but she cant upgrade it to kitkat or lolipop. Because Samsung has not made an update. That has nothing to do with the carrier, but the manufactures
And yet there is no update. If it was only the carriers fault then there would be upgrades for the phone that was not carrier locked. that is why I say that the manufactures are also to blame. And most of the time only them.
If the manufactures made upgrades and released then to all the phones that were unlocked at carriers that would allow a upgrade. Then the carriers that would not allow upgrades would get angry customers. And a chance to loss them if they had a choice to pick someone that would allow upgrades/updates.
It's not just carriers. It's also manufacturers. I Europe it's common to buy phones off contract but they are not upgraded either.
So the manufactures are also to blame. And I offend think that it's the manufactures fault. And not the carrier. For why else would they not make the updates for the rest of the world?
iMessage and other IM out there is that it has nothing to do with you cell operator. So you can use it via WiFi when you are travelling and don't want to use expensive roaming data. And IM send pictures in higher resolution then MMS. And the groupe message funktion that iMessager has do not work over SMS/MMS
Devices that can be rooted is not that hard to do yourself. So if you can't root manual. Then your not ready for the security risk that comes with root access.
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I hope that they will make RED available in more then 5 countries. (Australia, Korea, Mexico,New Zealand,The United States) Or it is a little wast of money.
Google have a lot of products that is only available in a few countries. And it always supprices them that these products are not that popular.
A U1 MicroSD card is faster.
I just got a Switch and look at recomendations on what SD card to use. And I stumpeled over a test. Where internal memory was fastes, then the SD card, and then the cartridges. It was loading time of 1 secund between them. But SD card was faster.
Also it support up to 2TB MicroSD cards not just 256GB.
Bluetooth headphones is not there yet.
It is a nightmare to figure out what sound quality you get in bluetooth headphones/speakers today.
To send/resive audio via bluetooth you only need to support SBS audio. That is has bad quality compared to bitrate..
Some support MP3/AAC/LDAC/Apt-X/Apt-X HD/What ever.
The problem is that both sender and reciver have to support the same format for it to work. You can't just get some headphones that support Apt-X if your phone do not support it.
And most of the time it is almost imposibel to see what the phone/headphones/speaker is supporting. So it's but and hope for the best. Or spent a lot of time seatching the web to see if anyone have an anwser.
And after all that. Then there is also how good is the DAC in the speaker/headphones.
Most phones today have a good DAC. But headphones can support all the best audio codecs. And have a crap DAC. So it sounds bad anyway.
And putting a good DAC in the speaker/headphones also bumps the price. And then you have an extra thing to recharge.
Sure in the future when they have better standards for sounds. And you are sure you get something good. No matter what you buy.
But we are not there yet.
So why remove the 3.5 Jack stik. It works. And it has yet get a usefull replacement.
Dropping the floppy for CD-Drive and laver for USB stik.
Sure. The CD was an improvment over the floppy. And the USB stik had been improved a lot when it replaced optick drives in computers.
It would have faild if they did it when we only had the USB 1 standard. But it got better and storgage bigger and chaper. So you could do the switch.
It's not a big number. But when you are thinking about that it's only sold in "Australia, Canada, Germany, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, United States" then its not that bad.
If Google really wanted it to be a big seller then they would sell it world wide as pretty mutch any other phones.
I'm runnign a RAID 6 at home.
5 disk from one batch and 1 from a nother (Thats how I got them)
I have set up my NAS to E-Mail me with any warnings.
So when one disk failed. (One of the 5 from same batch) I order a new disk, and shutdown my NAS when I got home. And the next day I got my new disk. So I replaced it. And startet the NAS up and it used a LONG time to do the recovery.
So.
1) Alway set up your NAS/Server to send your warnings.
2) Just because the disks are from the same batch do not mean that they will fail at the same time. (The other 4 from that batch is still running)
And the reason I shutdown my NAS even when I could lose one more disk. Was it was my Home NAS. I could live without it for a day. And just in case more disk was about to fail. I could still lose one doing recovery without losing date. So just me being extra carefull.
You usually get free drinks at the casino when you are gamling. :-)
Windows biggest advantage is that it can rung Windows programs.
If all programs was made cross platform. Then a lot of people would not stay on Windows.
If all games could run on linux. Then most gamers would run Linux.
And if all office programs (MS Office, Adobe, What ever special program the company uses). Then company's would start switching away from Windows.
ChromeOS would be a good choice for some. But also many other Linux distros would be out there.
25$ I need at least me and a friend watching it to make up the price.
50$ We need to be 4 persons.
And I live in Europe. So there would be some extra VAT and whatever. So if I'm lucky then we have to be between 3 and 6 people to make up for the price. .... If I already had the set up at home. Then I might have a movie night with some friends from time to time.
And then one of us have to invest in a good screen and sound system.
But at that price they wont loss many customers in the theatres here in Denmark.
But I can see if you live somewhere with bad movie theatres, or a long way the the nearest good one. Then it's a good alternative.
But then again. It's not a loss to the theatres. Because the changes was you would not had gone there anyway.
It's nice to be able to see if your bag is on the plane.
But sometimes stuff happens and it wont get on your plane.
But I can just imagine how some passenger will react when they start push back. And they can see that there bag is not on the plane.
Nice feature for the passenger. But hell for the crew.
One thing I really like about Hangouts is that it has a Desktop client/Chrome Extension. Whatever you call it. I can chat on my computer without taking my phone out of my pocket.
A Quick look and it what I could see then there only a phone client. And you can only have it active on one device at the time. So no Tablet and Phone active at the same time. (I know that it runs on phone number. But you could just verify the new login with manual entering a code on the tablet/Desktop. Og even make it optional to link to your Google Account.)
I can see VR for education purpose. Like see wonders of the world or look a engines/buildings/etc. without having one in the classroom.
It can not replace the real thing. But it will give people a better understanding when seeing it in 3D, and you can look around the object instead of just a flat picture in a text book.
AR. I can see some heads up display helpers. But to many and it will be to much of a distraction. So AR has to be very cheap for people want to buy them for so little use they will give.
But using the VR googles as personal display when traveling on a plane/bus/train/etc. will proppely be the most common use of the googles.
For gaming. I can see some use. (And I personally would get one for this). But again I thing it will go the way of Kinetic and Wii remote. It's a fun new gadget. But people don't want to move around that much. They just want to sit and relax with there game.
We do not have Apple Pay og Android Pay. But we have MobilPay and Swipp that is tranfert money to other for free. Or use in stores (Stores has to pay a small fee. but less the to the CC company. But free for private persons)
MobilPay chage your debitcard and put the money in bank account (No fee for the Dankort Debit card) and Swipp is Bank account to Bank account.
And beside that people can use there bank app to transfer money. Bank to bank transfer in Denmark is free.
That said. The easy of just transferring in app is easy. And we can also request money. That the person you request from just have to accept to transfer.
Google announced in September 2013 that it would phase out NPAPI support in Chrome during 2014.
NPAPI support is disabled by default since April 2015 (version 42) for Windows and OS X, but can be turned on in the settings.
Google plans to drop Chrome NPAPI support from all platforms in September 2015.
I wont call 2 years warning aggressive. I would call it more then a fair warning.
And if web-apps or plug-in's are not up to modern standards by now. Then extending to time they have to fix it wont help. Because the only things that's not updated by now wont be as long as they do not have to.
Now they are being forced to do it. And it comes as a chock for some that they only got 2 years warning.
In a few years all those old phones are upgraded and sold, and the owner wants them clean.
Android 4.4 The newest version that they did not test. Is from October 2013. And I know that OME's takes some time to switch to new versions of Android.
But lets say that the last was switch one year later. So October 2014. That makes the phone 8 month old by now. And it was not a High End device.
So in a few years. Then it's a really old device. So how would buy it?
I can understand people want to sell there old phone. But a old Smartphone is OLD!!! And you can get new low/mid range devices pretty cheap
I can't see where it says that in the article but I can see
"she was monitored on the weekends when she was not working."
It was a company issued phone. So I see no problem in it.
If it was her own device then I would not install it. But a company device. Then she can just turn it off when she is off the clock. And then get her own phone.
And people will never fly. Or people will never go out in space. Or people will never go to the moon.
Just because we can't do it now then it dos not mean that it's impossible and we wont do it in the future.
And the more knowledge we get about space the closer we are to prove you wrong.
So knowledge is good. Even if it wont help us colonies the space in our life time. Then it can help future generations.
1) My muscle memory knows where on the keyboard W,A,S,D are.
2) If you noticed then there are a physical marker on the F key and the J key on your keyboard. So that you can locate them and then knows where the rest of the keys are without looking at them.
So if you use a keyboard daily then you do not need to look at it to find and hit the right keys.
But yes if you start moving around in the room then you need some better controller then mouse and keyboard.
But most times people will play games sitting down. And then just turn there heads.
As the article state it needs Root to do it.
And it do not say how you gets it.
So it's some code that need root access to mess with your phone.
So you properly just need to root your phone. And install an app that you have downloaded from some suspected webpage.
So is it a Trojan or just a feature from a rouge app/programmer?
Do not root your phone if you do not have any idea what you are doing and installing apps from every that you find.
The first thing I saw when I open the article was "Like us on Facebook" :-)
An article about whats tracking us. But wont you just lets us track you as well before you read it.
You do not understand. You can't just upgrade to Kit Kat, or Lolipop is the manufactures did not make an update. And they often do not.
Don't blame the carrier for that.
Sure the carrier locked phones sometimes gets the update later. But lets take the Samsung S3 (mini).
My sister has the mini and it's unlocked, and carrier free but she cant upgrade it to kitkat or lolipop. Because Samsung has not made an update.
That has nothing to do with the carrier, but the manufactures
And yet there is no update.
If it was only the carriers fault then there would be upgrades for the phone that was not carrier locked.
that is why I say that the manufactures are also to blame. And most of the time only them.
If the manufactures made upgrades and released then to all the phones that were unlocked at carriers that would allow a upgrade. Then the carriers that would not allow upgrades would get angry customers. And a chance to loss them if they had a choice to pick someone that would allow upgrades/updates.
It's not just carriers. It's also manufacturers. I Europe it's common to buy phones off contract but they are not upgraded either.
So the manufactures are also to blame. And I offend think that it's the manufactures fault. And not the carrier. For why else would they not make the updates for the rest of the world?
No. then you are using SMS/MMS.
iMessage and other IM out there is that it has nothing to do with you cell operator.
So you can use it via WiFi when you are travelling and don't want to use expensive roaming data. And IM send pictures in higher resolution then MMS.
And the groupe message funktion that iMessager has do not work over SMS/MMS
Devices that can be rooted is not that hard to do yourself.
So if you can't root manual. Then your not ready for the security risk that comes with root access.