FB was nice 10 years ago, we re-fond old friends, exchanged words and pictures, but now my FB feed is ads and useless articles, less and less real people posts things. I scroll my feed the morning for 1 minute and that's it. It looks like it's dying and FB has limited growth (1.5 billion people on it). With families and friends we have groups in Messenger and are using it way more than FB, but the application became a behemot and now, with ads, so at one time we wil have to change this. Techies easily can switch to a new app, but with older members of family it will be hard to switch:-/
You must be European... in USA the past 15 years were the years of phone locked to death with features removed. Of course the $2 WiFi/BT chip also support FM, but it was disabled so people had to pay data to stream music.
My Galaxy S2 had an FM chip and a free FM application built in, made by Samsung itself. My Moto G2 has FM too, my Zenfone2 too. What's the big deal? It's because people who buy $1000 phone will be happy to pay for data and stream music, while people who buy (unlocked) mid range phone, like me, sometimes does not have data plan so the FM is free to use, it's marketing?
I do the same thing as you, but with PetroMobility, 25$ for 120 days, so 75$/year, it's 10 per minutes/SMS. I rarely use more than 15$ for a 120 days period.
Don't worry, it's the same thing in Canada, a US$100 item on.com will be CA$200 on.ca, it's often cheaper to buy in the US, pay shipping+brokerage+taxes than buy in Canada. Amazon.ca really sucks for price, and they have maybe 10% of what there is in the.com.
Never, I am on the net since 1991, and I will never pay to read an article or view a video or whatever, I clicked 2 or 3 times on an ad to help site like/., that's it, my brain ignores ads on website. If a website nags you or ask for FB registration or whatever, I put it in my personnal blocklist so google search will not display them
Maybe for people in the US, but in Canada where our Amazon has about nothing at double the US price, it is still better to order from China. With Fentanyl problem we have a 3 months delay now, but from AliExpress I select items with ePacket shipping, it is seen as "Xpresspost" here and it takes 1 or 2 week max before I get the item in hand, sometimes for a small $2 amount.
No, it's not like PPV, it's because, especially in Canada, there is millions of immigrants now, from around the world, who sometimes would like to see the channels they had at their previous home, Being the French who wants to see TF1/France2/France3/whatever to Italians who wants RAI to Belgians who want RTBF to Germans who wants ARD/ZDF to Russian to Arabs to Greek to whatever etc etc etc ad infinitum.
And NFC !!! I saw the Moto G5S Plus, really nice phone for the price, 5.5" 1080p, 5GHz wifi, SD card, quick charge, NFC, etc. Then I realized that the North American version does not have the NFC while elsewhere in the world it has it. It's like a $2 component? Why remove it? I'm using Android Pay everywhere! For me NFC is as important as audio jack.
Facebook as a whole profile of you, all your friends, connections, websites you visit, what you purchased, etc, their cookie track everything you do. Once you will want to open a FB account, they will show you all your friends and you will get very targeted ads. But you are being tracked, don't worry:)
Same for me, the problem is when the mailman scan and tag your parcel as "Delivered in the community box" but put the key in another mailbox, so you never get your parcel, and have to fill a complaint with the shipping company who answer "tracking say it was delivered"...
Absolutely. I only buy "middle tier" phone, unlocked. If I had to buy a phone right now it would be the Moto G5S Plus, saw it for $279 and can be on sale at 229. It has a 5.5" screen, 1080p, 5GHz wifi, SD card, NFC, quick charge, dual camera, fingerprint scanner, etc. The whole shebang, everything you need.
As more and more stores accept chip, I pay with my chip + PIN, and often, the cashier asks me to sign a receipt too, why? Also I can pay with Android Pay and the cashier still ask for a signature, it's annoying... But I can go at Target and they don't ask anything if less than $40, go figure.
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FB was nice 10 years ago, we re-fond old friends, exchanged words and pictures, but now my FB feed is ads and useless articles, less and less real people posts things. I scroll my feed the morning for 1 minute and that's it. It looks like it's dying and FB has limited growth (1.5 billion people on it). :-/
With families and friends we have groups in Messenger and are using it way more than FB, but the application became a behemot and now, with ads, so at one time we wil have to change this. Techies easily can switch to a new app, but with older members of family it will be hard to switch
Your microwave-oven has a hard drive? Pretty cool!
I thought the same thing, everyone can understand:
ADD A TO B GIVING C
MULTIPLY C BY D GIVING E
etc
You must be European... in USA the past 15 years were the years of phone locked to death with features removed. Of course the $2 WiFi/BT chip also support FM, but it was disabled so people had to pay data to stream music.
My Galaxy S2 had an FM chip and a free FM application built in, made by Samsung itself. My Moto G2 has FM too, my Zenfone2 too. What's the big deal? It's because people who buy $1000 phone will be happy to pay for data and stream music, while people who buy (unlocked) mid range phone, like me, sometimes does not have data plan so the FM is free to use, it's marketing?
I do the same thing as you, but with PetroMobility, 25$ for 120 days, so 75$/year, it's 10 per minutes/SMS. I rarely use more than 15$ for a 120 days period.
We don't want car that do 0-60 in 2 seconds, we want a normal sedan with 500 miles autonomy
> We take our role very seriously
What role? what is their purpose? What do they create? Are they useful?
Don't worry, it's the same thing in Canada, a US$100 item on .com will be CA$200 on .ca, it's often cheaper to buy in the US, pay shipping+brokerage+taxes than buy in Canada. Amazon.ca really sucks for price, and they have maybe 10% of what there is in the .com.
Never, I am on the net since 1991, and I will never pay to read an article or view a video or whatever, I clicked 2 or 3 times on an ad to help site like /., that's it, my brain ignores ads on website. If a website nags you or ask for FB registration or whatever, I put it in my personnal blocklist so google search will not display them
and drilling a hole in the 720K 3.5" to format then in 1440K
True, even the Chevrolet Cruze which is an american car, the SW is not sold in north america :-(
Maybe for people in the US, but in Canada where our Amazon has about nothing at double the US price, it is still better to order from China.
With Fentanyl problem we have a 3 months delay now, but from AliExpress I select items with ePacket shipping, it is seen as "Xpresspost" here and it takes 1 or 2 week max before I get the item in hand, sometimes for a small $2 amount.
They can't, experts smoke pot and cannot be hired by gov :)
They are dead in Canada, finished, no more Sears.
yup, impressive, some things never change :)
No, it's not like PPV, it's because, especially in Canada, there is millions of immigrants now, from around the world, who sometimes would like to see the channels they had at their previous home, Being the French who wants to see TF1/France2/France3/whatever to Italians who wants RAI to Belgians who want RTBF to Germans who wants ARD/ZDF to Russian to Arabs to Greek to whatever etc etc etc ad infinitum.
There is no way to see them legally.
And NFC !!!
I saw the Moto G5S Plus, really nice phone for the price, 5.5" 1080p, 5GHz wifi, SD card, quick charge, NFC, etc.
Then I realized that the North American version does not have the NFC while elsewhere in the world it has it.
It's like a $2 component? Why remove it? I'm using Android Pay everywhere! For me NFC is as important as audio jack.
I'm surprised the Tesla S is using 80% nickel in its battery, it's not NiMH however but LiNi
Facebook as a whole profile of you, all your friends, connections, websites you visit, what you purchased, etc, their cookie track everything you do. :)
Once you will want to open a FB account, they will show you all your friends and you will get very targeted ads.
But you are being tracked, don't worry
Same for me, the problem is when the mailman scan and tag your parcel as "Delivered in the community box" but put the key in another mailbox, so you never get your parcel, and have to fill a complaint with the shipping company who answer "tracking say it was delivered"...
Absolutely. I only buy "middle tier" phone, unlocked. If I had to buy a phone right now it would be the Moto G5S Plus, saw it for $279 and can be on sale at 229.
It has a 5.5" screen, 1080p, 5GHz wifi, SD card, NFC, quick charge, dual camera, fingerprint scanner, etc. The whole shebang, everything you need.
As more and more stores accept chip, I pay with my chip + PIN, and often, the cashier asks me to sign a receipt too, why? Also I can pay with Android Pay and the cashier still ask for a signature, it's annoying...
But I can go at Target and they don't ask anything if less than $40, go figure.
Nothing has changed... a game was out for C64 or Amiga, a few days later you had the cracked version on some BBS then circle friends...
What did you say?