I can completely understand the logic behind this decision on Samsung's part: my new Lenovo laptop was swiftly rendered unable to connect to the internet because of incompatible driver issues after a cumulative update. My current workaround is to retire the Windows8 system and run linux from a usb.
I take my very basic HUWAEI dumb phone with me on any journey just for the battery life and ease of sending text messages. The menu options include very useful notes, calendar, and alarm. It has also web access and camera but I have little use for them.
Someone (I always suspected a neighbour was involved, but without any proof I kept my suspicions to myself) once used my identity to get a 'platinum' credit card issued in my name, and spent a few hundred pounds on some item or other. I knew nothing about it until a bill arrived, which was alarming as I did not use credit cards at all back then. The card company was amazingly helpful, and cancelled the entire amount, with very little effort on my part. A while later, not long after I'd lost my job, a new platinum card arrived at my address. The card had a fairly hefty spending limit, and I just happened to be in need of some ready credit, so I dove right in as the saying goes. That was four years ago and I've been using the card ever since, though I am in good standing because I never miss the repayments.
.. when the price of oil (the biggest expense for them) dropped like a rock end of last year, did the airlines lower ticket prices or remove fuel surcharges? Nope.
I admire your post immensely. The only thing that might have improved it would be a link to a Google maps satellite view of your pristine, untrampled lawn.
Maybe they did it to justify the West dumping all the broken electronics onto a barge and sailing it to India where it becomes somebody else's problem.
This was my first thought. Sounds like a scheme to export an ever-increasing scrap battery problem to the under-developed world, while circumventing the over-developed world's stricter regulations about safe disposal.
India has an average of between 2000 and 3000 hours of sunshine a year, depending on the region, making a far stronger case for solar power and other innovative lighting solutions, such as the recycled plastic bottle solar pipe light mentioned by thunderclap.
As a "non-government" organisation, is Amnesty International crossing a line into "anti-government" behaviour? How might this impact Amnesty's credibility when engaging with government on human rights issues?"
There are too few benefits compared to the hassles created by DST, especially as it varies between countries. UK changed clocks last weekend and I got in a terrible pickle trying to figure out when to call people in Canada.
I'd like to see it phased out with all current DST zones in agreement.
In mid-2012, my son and his friends explained their loss of interest in Facebook (which I noted came shortly after a few high-profile court cases against youth for making posts or organising events that the authorities found objectionable)
they felt they were being crowded out by older users;
the adverts were too relentless especially when compared to the "privacy cost";
they had begun to use smartphones and didn't need to rely on web app messaging.
Oh, and yes, I don't use this OS (or any other smartphone for that matter) for precisely this reason, I can't properly contain and manage the installed software on a very privacy sensitive device.
I do have two other reasons for not using a smartphone: the ridiculous cost, and the way 'mobile everything' seems to dominate new app development despite smartphone users being a minority in terms of global penetration.
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I can completely understand the logic behind this decision on Samsung's part: my new Lenovo laptop was swiftly rendered unable to connect to the internet because of incompatible driver issues after a cumulative update. My current workaround is to retire the Windows8 system and run linux from a usb.
..and, hey I would have appreciated this even more, thanks and acknowledgement..
Just leaving this here since it appears to have been overloked
In the UK at least,"Brillo" is a brand of soap-infused wire wool pot scrubbers.
Just sayin'
I take my very basic HUWAEI dumb phone with me on any journey just for the battery life and ease of sending text messages. The menu options include very useful notes, calendar, and alarm. It has also web access and camera but I have little use for them.
Actually, has there been any contest where the goal is to write the most useful program that can be stored in a tweet?
Yes, sort of
Someone (I always suspected a neighbour was involved, but without any proof I kept my suspicions to myself) once used my identity to get a 'platinum' credit card issued in my name, and spent a few hundred pounds on some item or other. I knew nothing about it until a bill arrived, which was alarming as I did not use credit cards at all back then. The card company was amazingly helpful, and cancelled the entire amount, with very little effort on my part. A while later, not long after I'd lost my job, a new platinum card arrived at my address. The card had a fairly hefty spending limit, and I just happened to be in need of some ready credit, so I dove right in as the saying goes. That was four years ago and I've been using the card ever since, though I am in good standing because I never miss the repayments.
.. when the price of oil (the biggest expense for them) dropped like a rock end of last year, did the airlines lower ticket prices or remove fuel surcharges? Nope.
I admire your post immensely. The only thing that might have improved it would be a link to a Google maps satellite view of your pristine, untrampled lawn.
Maybe they did it to justify the West dumping all the broken electronics onto a barge and sailing it to India where it becomes somebody else's problem.
This was my first thought. Sounds like a scheme to export an ever-increasing scrap battery problem to the under-developed world, while circumventing the over-developed world's stricter regulations about safe disposal.
India has an average of between 2000 and 3000 hours of sunshine a year, depending on the region, making a far stronger case for solar power and other innovative lighting solutions, such as the recycled plastic bottle solar pipe light mentioned by thunderclap.
"In the letter, Sony [...] called on the government to help make the internet safer." http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomgar...
How does the government doing anything to "the internet" help secure private data on a private corporate network?
Makes one wonder why you can't get a guy from India with an MBA to run a company at a 1/3 of the pay.
As a "non-government" organisation, is Amnesty International crossing a line into "anti-government" behaviour? How might this impact Amnesty's credibility when engaging with government on human rights issues?"
Awwcmon's Razor?
There are too few benefits compared to the hassles created by DST, especially as it varies between countries. UK changed clocks last weekend and I got in a terrible pickle trying to figure out when to call people in Canada. I'd like to see it phased out with all current DST zones in agreement.
I'm already sick of people dying, and I want to know now why this won't work, please
I remember an article about Magic Johnson curing his HIV infection by an expensive (~$60k I think) bone marrow transplant..
Magic Johnson denies those claims about expensive treatments etc . btw
Doesn't the open-source movement go back to the 1970s?
In the '80s, I recall myself and others being more focused on initiatives for Open Systems Interoperability and Connectivity.
The cheap solution was the rest of the market beyond Apple and IBM..
Yes, and everyone seems to have forgotten Compaq etc
So it crashed in no-man's land as far moon sides go?
Well said, and thanks so much for the Quantum Foam explanation, that really helped me, as a non-scientist, get my head around some of this.
In mid-2012, my son and his friends explained their loss of interest in Facebook (which I noted came shortly after a few high-profile court cases against youth for making posts or organising events that the authorities found objectionable)
Beside he had already given them; why would not they have tried all other passwords they had received ?
My first thought. Is it somehow illegal for them to do that?
airlines handing out ten cents worth of foam ear plugs for free instead is just too much to hope for.
Oh, and yes, I don't use this OS (or any other smartphone for that matter) for precisely this reason, I can't properly contain and manage the installed software on a very privacy sensitive device.
I do have two other reasons for not using a smartphone: the ridiculous cost, and the way 'mobile everything' seems to dominate new app development despite smartphone users being a minority in terms of global penetration.
and for the preparedness drill see "DHS Practices Mowing Down Civilian "Zombies" During Anti-Terror Training Exercise" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKSJQI3tco