You are missing the point. There's nothing my phone knows that I don't, so I don't need to see that file.
I also assume that it is communicating with the communications company I pay for communications. That was implicit in hiring them. And they're even less trustworthy than the government.
I refuse to panic about information that I implicitly contracted an untrustworthy entity to collect from me.
A tinfoil hat would interfere with the number of bars I get, anyway.
Maybe they're being proactive about the ones they get the most complaints about, hence the biggest ones. Since all software has bugs, you can always find something, so if you go by complaint count, you're going to be sorting by user base, so all you're really doing is finding a roundabout way to list software companies by size. And you get to slag on them and call it a service to your customers. And it's probably 100% legal and righteous.
Until the competitors start to pay Microsoft to stop doing it.
Several of those at least sound like they could be Sci-fi, or at least scientific:
_Agent Zigzag_, an algebraic thriller _Cloud Atlas_, about near-planet astrogation _Case Histories_, about psychology or sociology _Dissolution_, when chemistry attacks _Half of a Yellow Sun_, set on a planet in orbit about a very peculiar star _Life of Pi_, c'mon, it's got freaking PI in it! _Love in the Time of Cholera_, when biology attacks _Northern Lights_, the search for meaning in natural ionic discharge _The Reluctant Fundamentalist_, electromagnetismpunk _Toast_, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Maillard reaction
They only care about salary and their pension, not their customers.
That's how every company is. The good ones know how to make salary and pension commensurate with creating the marketable impression that the company cares about customers, while never admitting that the employees don't.
I haven't re-upped on a phone contract in about 12 years.
They all suck, and they're all driving their customers away actively.
If it weren't for the 2-year terms of the contracts, there'd be a lot more carrier-hopping going on.
BTW, 12 years ago I started this odyssey by leaving AT&T and haven't had any reason to want to go back since. The only repeat is T-mobile, to get the Google Phone, and I'm done with them again in a few months now that every carrier has serious Android handsets. But AT&T can suck it, and T-mobile will probably never see me again, either, since AT&T just bought them.
In fact, turning off GPS and location services is a good way to save a lot of battery, a little memory, and some latency when using certain apps. At the point I need location, I can enable it (and it usually prompts for it).
I keep digging, but TFA has no links at all, and searches for the program's name don't turn much up, either (though the presenter looks super-nerdy cute in her pics and you'd think she'd be into the skiffy...)
Oh, and the summary neglects to point out that the Beeb has already promised to do an episode on Genre Fiction, so the crowd's already breaking up.
If that is the case, then you have no worries, because you're developing for a hypothetical market beyond the person ordering the product from you.
And you need to make sure they understand that, so they will pay you and not complain when the thing you develop doesn't please them, and so they are cognizant that they don't own it.
it usually helps not to let the customer write the requirements. that's why you interview the customer to define use cases, and then let him review and approve the requirements you develop from those.
In the real world, the Requirements Document is what you point to when the consultant hired by the business stakeholder to do that contradicts what the Requirements Document says about the 9/10ths of the project you've already finished.
Yes, I get the concept of working without a net. But when business gets involved, there is always the nonzero probability that that lawyers and liability suits come out. Lack of documentation is how you lose those cases.
Unless the mortar is a 5-meter slingshot (yes, someone's done the math assuming earth gravity, and those birds are about 1.5 meters in diameter), it's not.
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You are missing the point. There's nothing my phone knows that I don't, so I don't need to see that file.
I also assume that it is communicating with the communications company I pay for communications. That was implicit in hiring them. And they're even less trustworthy than the government.
I refuse to panic about information that I implicitly contracted an untrustworthy entity to collect from me.
A tinfoil hat would interfere with the number of bars I get, anyway.
Maybe they're being proactive about the ones they get the most complaints about, hence the biggest ones. Since all software has bugs, you can always find something, so if you go by complaint count, you're going to be sorting by user base, so all you're really doing is finding a roundabout way to list software companies by size. And you get to slag on them and call it a service to your customers. And it's probably 100% legal and righteous.
Until the competitors start to pay Microsoft to stop doing it.
I'm pretty sure they have reams of proof that your statement is false, and you have none that it's true.
Several of those at least sound like they could be Sci-fi, or at least scientific:
_Agent Zigzag_, an algebraic thriller
_Cloud Atlas_, about near-planet astrogation
_Case Histories_, about psychology or sociology
_Dissolution_, when chemistry attacks
_Half of a Yellow Sun_, set on a planet in orbit about a very peculiar star
_Life of Pi_, c'mon, it's got freaking PI in it!
_Love in the Time of Cholera_, when biology attacks
_Northern Lights_, the search for meaning in natural ionic discharge
_The Reluctant Fundamentalist_, electromagnetismpunk
_Toast_, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Maillard reaction
You're telling me none of them are?
They only care about salary and their pension, not their customers.
That's how every company is. The good ones know how to make salary and pension commensurate with creating the marketable impression that the company cares about customers, while never admitting that the employees don't.
I haven't re-upped on a phone contract in about 12 years.
They all suck, and they're all driving their customers away actively.
If it weren't for the 2-year terms of the contracts, there'd be a lot more carrier-hopping going on.
BTW, 12 years ago I started this odyssey by leaving AT&T and haven't had any reason to want to go back since. The only repeat is T-mobile, to get the Google Phone, and I'm done with them again in a few months now that every carrier has serious Android handsets. But AT&T can suck it, and T-mobile will probably never see me again, either, since AT&T just bought them.
In fact, turning off GPS and location services is a good way to save a lot of battery, a little memory, and some latency when using certain apps. At the point I need location, I can enable it (and it usually prompts for it).
Psst!
Run for your lives!
The phone company knows what cell tower you're connecting to RIGHT NOW!
Imagine what someone could do if they knew WHERE YOU ARE!
Aieeeee!
Tell me you didn't vote for W twice and I'll believe you're serious.
That was the link I found. I don't see any data there.
That is, however, the pic that made my eyebrows pulse.
And, heh, I just clicked the magnify button, and in addition to the decolletage, I got a better look at the book she's reading: _Day of the Triffids_.
Irony is leaking into this universe from the cool one she was born in.
We already have Harlan Ellison, the Galactus of the re-inked ribbon set.
I keep digging, but TFA has no links at all, and searches for the program's name don't turn much up, either (though the presenter looks super-nerdy cute in her pics and you'd think she'd be into the skiffy...)
Oh, and the summary neglects to point out that the Beeb has already promised to do an episode on Genre Fiction, so the crowd's already breaking up.
You're a slashdotter. Girls can smell it on you already.
If that is the case, then you have no worries, because you're developing for a hypothetical market beyond the person ordering the product from you.
And you need to make sure they understand that, so they will pay you and not complain when the thing you develop doesn't please them, and so they are cognizant that they don't own it.
it usually helps not to let the customer write the requirements. that's why you interview the customer to define use cases, and then let him review and approve the requirements you develop from those.
In the real world, the Requirements Document is what you point to when the consultant hired by the business stakeholder to do that contradicts what the Requirements Document says about the 9/10ths of the project you've already finished.
Yes, I get the concept of working without a net. But when business gets involved, there is always the nonzero probability that that lawyers and liability suits come out. Lack of documentation is how you lose those cases.
In the real world, we call that a "Requirements Document". It's handy to have, just in case you can't finish and someone else has to.
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What creates less value?
The Internet as a whole?
Or the Internet arguing over yet another idiotic pronouncement by profoundly surreal protest-theater majors?
Unless the mortar is a 5-meter slingshot (yes, someone's done the math assuming earth gravity, and those birds are about 1.5 meters in diameter), it's not.
Too bad they're not iOS based, too. Now when the alien invasion starts, we won't be able to upload our virus to them.
Because to be useful as a tactical tool, it's going to need to be hyper-rugged, and I can stop treating my smartphone like a robin's egg.
Reporte them to your local commerce commission. Bundling is illegal, even for legal monopolies.
Haha yeah.
That's so dumb, saying W was from East Texas and typical of the stupidity there.
Everyone knows W is from West Texas, and is exceptionally stupid, even for them.
In a jury trial, if your lawyer can't explain it so a 6-year-old can understand it, then your lawyer is a chump.