If you can't find an Android phone that suits your usage I think you're being deliberately obtuse about it. The array of choices is staggering, too much probably.
Yes, no reason at all...
Except the constant removal of your favourite shows. Or things never turn up in your country because, you know, agreements and stuff. Or not being able to watch where you want because of bandwidth issues.
Piracy is still the number 1 user friendly service, you get all the stuff as soon as it's out and no-one can take it away on a whim or because a new deal wasn't cut.
"... the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative represents the most significant effort so far to take a new approach to the kinds of problems with which philanthropy has long struggled....."
Such as trying to take public credit for as much as possible whilst simultaneously in reality actually giving up nothing.
Us normal people have a name for philanthropy, taxes. Would be nice if we all got to choose what our "donations" were spent on.
This gets modded +5 informative despite lacking crucial information. Fallout 4 is one game and it's an Nvidia gameworks game. Read about gameworks if you want to hear about shady practices in tech.
Our government has no clue about energy policy. They are a bunch of utter morons tied to lobbyists' interests. They have already agreed a new nuclear with the Chinese that guarantees a 100% rise in energy costs over current prices and have sold (with the help of the BBC) this to the general public as an energy security initiative.
My countrymen are fools and the government is made up very much of their ilk.
In a typical day I will see websites with HTML5 pop-overs, pages not showing content, and (my personal favourite) a banner saying "we can see you're blocking our ads. If you want to see our content disable adblocking", to which I direct my middle finger at the content provider and close the tab.
Yes, because the NSA is really ever going to be about protecting citizens. How can people still believe that any "security" agency ever has the interests of the majority of citizens at heart is beyond me.
They are there to protect the wealthy and powerful, not you. They will never ever be there for you.
Reminds me of those old adverts for Radium, how it'll brighten your teeth etc etc.
Maybe one day people will look back at all those Kickstarter videos for 3D printers they way we look at those.
"The fact that it has dunes made of frozen hydrocarbon that acts like sand, blown by the wind on Earth is yet another piece of data that has scientists interested in studying Titan further."
Hate to be a grammar Nazi but that is a terrible use of a comma. You've effectively made that sentence mean that the hydrocarbons act like sand and that they are blown by the winds on Earth.
"BMW owners barely care." That may be the case in the US, I don't know. But in the UK at least they are going to start caring. Road tax here is based on emissions of your vehicle as is the tax you pay on the benefit you receive from having a company car.
When they start retesting these vehicles and the tax/"benefit in kind" start going through the roof people are going to want to switch to a different brand. That happening to a lot of cars simultaneously means they will plummet in resale value.
I would assume similar tax systems are in place throughout the EU.
It isn't worth this much. We are in full blown bubble mode now. Activision just paid over $10 per supposed active user for a company that has had one success. This is Zynga all over again.
I mostly agree except the good for business part. It's actually terrible for business as it's highly deflationary. You sink huge amounts of money into assets that will depreciate and never provide any return. It gets money flowing through the economy to a degree but there are far more effective money pits, i.e. healthcare, education etc.
"was widely derided by the tech industry for its technical difficulty and by users for invasion of privacy"
I guarantee only one of those things mattered to decision makers.
Not to mention coal is only cheap because it doesn't have to account for externalities like destroying the environment and climate change.
If solar (and other renewables) received a credit from the fossil fuel industry for the the positive impact they have on the environment with the power they generate the case would become even more compelling.
Wow, what a load of absolute crap! I've been a vegan for nearly a decade and I spend less than anyone I know, including all of my vegetarian friends, on food. Why talk about something you clearly know nothing about?
And you get modded +5 insightful basically because it's an anti-vegan comment to go with the group think.
You obviously don't work in a job that is contact with HMRC. Just because you've had good luck doesn't mean it's the norm. We have clients that have had to sit and wait months for refunds. Also, the centre the adjudicates on whether a refund is accepted is a black box that front line people inside HMRC can't directly be in contact with and can't get word out from.
TL:DR It's a shambles
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Love the quote, but twitter seems to prove they'll say many times more things if they're limited in what can be said in one outburst!
If you can't find an Android phone that suits your usage I think you're being deliberately obtuse about it. The array of choices is staggering, too much probably.
I agree, though our broadband seems to be generally better than USA's, I despise Openreach and would like to see someone come in and eat their lunch.
Yes, no reason at all... Except the constant removal of your favourite shows. Or things never turn up in your country because, you know, agreements and stuff. Or not being able to watch where you want because of bandwidth issues. Piracy is still the number 1 user friendly service, you get all the stuff as soon as it's out and no-one can take it away on a whim or because a new deal wasn't cut.
"... the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative represents the most significant effort so far to take a new approach to the kinds of problems with which philanthropy has long struggled. ...."
Such as trying to take public credit for as much as possible whilst simultaneously in reality actually giving up nothing.
Us normal people have a name for philanthropy, taxes. Would be nice if we all got to choose what our "donations" were spent on.
Nice world view you got there. Of course anything altruistic is selfish if you redefine altruism to be selfish.
"fuck you Microsoft, and fuck you Windows".
I'm sure they'd never do a thing like that...
This gets modded +5 informative despite lacking crucial information. Fallout 4 is one game and it's an Nvidia gameworks game. Read about gameworks if you want to hear about shady practices in tech.
Our government has no clue about energy policy. They are a bunch of utter morons tied to lobbyists' interests. They have already agreed a new nuclear with the Chinese that guarantees a 100% rise in energy costs over current prices and have sold (with the help of the BBC) this to the general public as an energy security initiative. My countrymen are fools and the government is made up very much of their ilk.
What do you mean "if".
In a typical day I will see websites with HTML5 pop-overs, pages not showing content, and (my personal favourite) a banner saying "we can see you're blocking our ads. If you want to see our content disable adblocking", to which I direct my middle finger at the content provider and close the tab.
Would have given mod points for this.
Yes, because the NSA is really ever going to be about protecting citizens. How can people still believe that any "security" agency ever has the interests of the majority of citizens at heart is beyond me. They are there to protect the wealthy and powerful, not you. They will never ever be there for you.
Reminds me of those old adverts for Radium, how it'll brighten your teeth etc etc. Maybe one day people will look back at all those Kickstarter videos for 3D printers they way we look at those.
Well at least it is since they installed the nets outside the windows.
Wish I had mod points for this: "wrapped in language you could drive a truck full of slaves through to their coal fired baby seal killing factory."
"The fact that it has dunes made of frozen hydrocarbon that acts like sand, blown by the wind on Earth is yet another piece of data that has scientists interested in studying Titan further." Hate to be a grammar Nazi but that is a terrible use of a comma. You've effectively made that sentence mean that the hydrocarbons act like sand and that they are blown by the winds on Earth.
"BMW owners barely care." That may be the case in the US, I don't know. But in the UK at least they are going to start caring. Road tax here is based on emissions of your vehicle as is the tax you pay on the benefit you receive from having a company car. When they start retesting these vehicles and the tax/"benefit in kind" start going through the roof people are going to want to switch to a different brand. That happening to a lot of cars simultaneously means they will plummet in resale value. I would assume similar tax systems are in place throughout the EU.
It isn't worth this much. We are in full blown bubble mode now. Activision just paid over $10 per supposed active user for a company that has had one success. This is Zynga all over again.
I mostly agree except the good for business part. It's actually terrible for business as it's highly deflationary. You sink huge amounts of money into assets that will depreciate and never provide any return. It gets money flowing through the economy to a degree but there are far more effective money pits, i.e. healthcare, education etc.
"was widely derided by the tech industry for its technical difficulty and by users for invasion of privacy" I guarantee only one of those things mattered to decision makers.
Not to mention coal is only cheap because it doesn't have to account for externalities like destroying the environment and climate change. If solar (and other renewables) received a credit from the fossil fuel industry for the the positive impact they have on the environment with the power they generate the case would become even more compelling.
Wow, what a load of absolute crap! I've been a vegan for nearly a decade and I spend less than anyone I know, including all of my vegetarian friends, on food. Why talk about something you clearly know nothing about? And you get modded +5 insightful basically because it's an anti-vegan comment to go with the group think.
You obviously don't work in a job that is contact with HMRC. Just because you've had good luck doesn't mean it's the norm. We have clients that have had to sit and wait months for refunds. Also, the centre the adjudicates on whether a refund is accepted is a black box that front line people inside HMRC can't directly be in contact with and can't get word out from. TL:DR It's a shambles
Made up specs posted days ago and rehashed without even attributing the original made up source. News?