I switched from the streaming service to the old-school DVD service because the DVD service has a MUCH larger selection of movies than the streaming service does.
So maybe they should fix their basic service before they start looking for new revenue sources.
I wouldn't say they failed to anticipate the market. The problem was Apple changed the playing field.
Pre-iPhone smart phones were about typing. Blackberry was king with there keyboard and pointer it made it a superior smart phone for the market however this keyboard sacrificed screen space. Apple giving a multitouch screen and no keyboard showed that they could allow useful communication with more screen space. This trade off from Apple could had bombed but it didn't making blackberry innovations seem out of date.
Damn, I would have loved to have had you on my opposing debate teams in high school, since you don't even know how to defend your point of view.
When Apple "changed the playing field" they changed the market, which BB failed to anticipate. By the time BB did react to the market change. it was too late.
So, yes, BB absolutely "failed to anticipate the market".
Although I appreciate the citations, citing limitations of a version that is 5 years old is kind of like complaining about an unpatched issue in Windows XP.
Dolphin stopped forwarding URLs five versions ago. And that "play history" file doesn't even exist on my version.
In other words, I will continue to use Dolphin. It's limitations are minor compared to Chrome/Google tracking and Firefox/Mozilla change-the-best-browser-out-there-into-Chromeshit.
I run Mageia 5 on my work laptop, with Win7 in a VirtualBox VM. The biggest issue with running Linux at work is connecting to overhead projectors during meetings. XRANDR takes care of that rather nicely.
Make breaking the law a crime. Yeah, totally crazy, right? Except, that's how laws that don't apply to government employees work. We need to criminalize "breaking" the 4th amendment along with the rest of them. It'll only take one or two government criminals going to jail before the rest catch on.
Sadly, it really is that simple and congress could do that tomorrow.
Good luck getting Congress to pass a law that puts themselves in jail.
The only way this will get fixed is by another revolution, followed by a rewrite of the Constitution, followed by a replacement of every government bureaucrat.
...of parents blaming anyone and anything except themselves for their bad parenting skills.
A 16-month-old should not be left unattended (in public) long enough to be able to run into (or get hit by) anything, let alone a moving robot. In the safety of your own home, sure, kids that age run wherever their legs will take them. But not in crowded public places.
You do realize 56% of Americans think she should have been charged?
You do realize that polls are tools that the media uses to influence the people? Only idiots believe what the polls say. But then, those idiots are the exact people that the polls are trying to influence.
So, only 56% of the people who were polled think she should have been charged.
I suppose Snowdon has a good social life in Russia, and perhaps, even with a pardon, he would choose to remain there. Russians are very very hospital people and caring too. Russia has universal medicare too:)
So do they have to live in a hospital to get that universal medicare? Or just be hospitable?
I do use np++ a lot for note taking, but I don't like to have to disable the function autocomplete feature every time I want to take general notes.
Why do you disable that option?
I have the "Function and word completion" option enabled, and I couldn't imagine typing without it. Heck, I even typed most of my college papers in NP++, and then pasted them into MS Word. It is so handy to have long words "pop up" and then press Tab or Enter to select them.
Their marketing team probably says "daily users" but reality probably says "registered users." Like a deleted AC post already said, the first I hear about this feature is when they pull the plug. Such lousy marketing is one reason so many "daily users" are becoming merely "registered users."
Only kids and the IT illiterate lust after day 1 updates and meaningless version bumps.
Professional IT workers will test an update for two weeks prior to releasing into a production environment. Not every patch released by Microsoft gets approved for installation. Fortunately, most corporate environments are still Windows 7.
Not my employer, and we have over 4,000 users worldwide. No testing of MS updates, and many users have either Win8 or Win10. Maybe that's why our IT management has such high turnover. Now that they got rid of the idiots, I'm hoping things get better in a hurry.
Most bike accidents happen to inexperienced riders and/or idiots. The rest were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neither of those points will ever stop me from riding.
Same goes for most things. Once you remove the idiots from the stats, the risk profiles becomes much, much lower.
I ride a motorbike, and the stats for motorbikes are terrible. But once you realise that motorbikes are magnets for idiots, the stats become a lot more acceptable.
Yea, but a motorbike is going so much faster than a bicycle. On a bicycle, I can ride onto the grass or even into a driveway if I see something dangerous. That's just not an option on a motorbike.
Just last week a guy on a motorbike was killed while merging onto the highway. He collided with a car while merging, then he went down, and two cars behind them crashed to avoid running him over. Now that you mention it, I have to wonder how much control he had over his bike to have been hit while merging.
Give me a trackpoint and I will buy it. Touchpads suck, period. I don't care who makes them I have never seen a touchpad that was anywhere near as good as the trackpoints I have had on my laptops over the years.
As long as it doesn't have a trackpoint. Trackpoints suck, period. I don't care who makes them I have never seen a trackpoint that was anywhere near as good as the touchpads I have had on my laptops over the years.
Another slashdotter argued that I was being paranoia over the idea that Windows 10 grants Microsoft carte blanche access your computer without needing your permission or knowledge.
That other slashdotter was an idiot. The world is full of idiots, so try not to let it bother you when one of them crosses your path.
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They never said they stop sneaking it into your systems, they just said it stops to be free tomorrow ...
Yes they did, since they cannot sneak something onto your computer that you have to then pay for.
I switched from the streaming service to the old-school DVD service because the DVD service has a MUCH larger selection of movies than the streaming service does.
So maybe they should fix their basic service before they start looking for new revenue sources.
I wouldn't say they failed to anticipate the market. The problem was Apple changed the playing field. Pre-iPhone smart phones were about typing. Blackberry was king with there keyboard and pointer it made it a superior smart phone for the market however this keyboard sacrificed screen space. Apple giving a multitouch screen and no keyboard showed that they could allow useful communication with more screen space. This trade off from Apple could had bombed but it didn't making blackberry innovations seem out of date.
Damn, I would have loved to have had you on my opposing debate teams in high school, since you don't even know how to defend your point of view.
When Apple "changed the playing field" they changed the market, which BB failed to anticipate. By the time BB did react to the market change. it was too late.
So, yes, BB absolutely "failed to anticipate the market".
From 27 Apr., 2016: "Don't use Dolphin browser in incognito mode" https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4gnb2b/dont_use_dolphin_browser_in_incognito_mode/ From 25 Oct., 2011: "WARNING: Dolphin's collection of your browsing history": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
Although I appreciate the citations, citing limitations of a version that is 5 years old is kind of like complaining about an unpatched issue in Windows XP.
Dolphin stopped forwarding URLs five versions ago. And that "play history" file doesn't even exist on my version.
In other words, I will continue to use Dolphin. It's limitations are minor compared to Chrome/Google tracking and Firefox/Mozilla change-the-best-browser-out-there-into-Chromeshit.
Too bad. I only recently discovered Opera on Android, and have been using it ever since because it has an in-built ad-blocker.
Try using Dolphin. It has a built-in popup blocker, and supports DDG as its default search engine.
+1 for Mageia 5.
I run Mageia 5 on my work laptop, with Win7 in a VirtualBox VM. The biggest issue with running Linux at work is connecting to overhead projectors during meetings. XRANDR takes care of that rather nicely.
Make breaking the law a crime. Yeah, totally crazy, right? Except, that's how laws that don't apply to government employees work. We need to criminalize "breaking" the 4th amendment along with the rest of them. It'll only take one or two government criminals going to jail before the rest catch on.
Sadly, it really is that simple and congress could do that tomorrow.
Good luck getting Congress to pass a law that puts themselves in jail.
The only way this will get fixed is by another revolution, followed by a rewrite of the Constitution, followed by a replacement of every government bureaucrat.
...of parents blaming anyone and anything except themselves for their bad parenting skills.
A 16-month-old should not be left unattended (in public) long enough to be able to run into (or get hit by) anything, let alone a moving robot. In the safety of your own home, sure, kids that age run wherever their legs will take them. But not in crowded public places.
Doesn't work for me, either.
/usr/lib64/libgnome-keyring.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
~/Downloads $ sudo urpmi skypeforlinux-64-alpha.rpm
A requested package cannot be installed:
skypeforlinux-1.1.0.21-1.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied libgnome-keyring)
Yet the dependency exists:
~ $ locate libgnome-keyring
You do realize 56% of Americans think she should have been charged?
You do realize that polls are tools that the media uses to influence the people? Only idiots believe what the polls say. But then, those idiots are the exact people that the polls are trying to influence.
So, only 56% of the people who were polled think she should have been charged.
...to make a worthless law even more worthless.
Thank goodness my call blocker can block this crap! I like mine so much that I bought one as a gift for my parents.
I suppose Snowdon has a good social life in Russia, and perhaps, even with a pardon, he would choose to remain there. Russians are very very hospital people and caring too. Russia has universal medicare too :)
So do they have to live in a hospital to get that universal medicare? Or just be hospitable?
Google Keep - works everywhere, it's free, has decent search, does everything I need.
Until it stops working because Google kills the project.
Pen and paper don't fail me in the middle of a deadline.
I keep reading variations of this theme in this discussion.
Am I the only one here who's able to plug in his phone every night?
I think many of them were posted in jest.
I also use my phone. I like an app called ColorNote because it lets me create both plain text and checklist entries.
I do use np++ a lot for note taking, but I don't like to have to disable the function autocomplete feature every time I want to take general notes.
Why do you disable that option?
I have the "Function and word completion" option enabled, and I couldn't imagine typing without it. Heck, I even typed most of my college papers in NP++, and then pasted them into MS Word. It is so handy to have long words "pop up" and then press Tab or Enter to select them.
1.09 billion daily users? Or registered users?
Their marketing team probably says "daily users" but reality probably says "registered users." Like a deleted AC post already said, the first I hear about this feature is when they pull the plug. Such lousy marketing is one reason so many "daily users" are becoming merely "registered users."
No. It will still upgrade to Windows 10 but then encrypt the hard disk until you pay for the upgrade.
Funny as hell!
Crap, I can't mod up once I've replied to a story.
I hate silly, pointless rules that exist just for the sake of having rules.
Only kids and the IT illiterate lust after day 1 updates and meaningless version bumps.
Professional IT workers will test an update for two weeks prior to releasing into a production environment. Not every patch released by Microsoft gets approved for installation. Fortunately, most corporate environments are still Windows 7.
Not my employer, and we have over 4,000 users worldwide. No testing of MS updates, and many users have either Win8 or Win10. Maybe that's why our IT management has such high turnover. Now that they got rid of the idiots, I'm hoping things get better in a hurry.
Most bike accidents happen to inexperienced riders and/or idiots. The rest were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neither of those points will ever stop me from riding.
Same goes for most things. Once you remove the idiots from the stats, the risk profiles becomes much, much lower. I ride a motorbike, and the stats for motorbikes are terrible. But once you realise that motorbikes are magnets for idiots, the stats become a lot more acceptable.
Yea, but a motorbike is going so much faster than a bicycle. On a bicycle, I can ride onto the grass or even into a driveway if I see something dangerous. That's just not an option on a motorbike.
Just last week a guy on a motorbike was killed while merging onto the highway. He collided with a car while merging, then he went down, and two cars behind them crashed to avoid running him over. Now that you mention it, I have to wonder how much control he had over his bike to have been hit while merging.
You would just pull those plyers out of your ass?
No, out of my pocket. My Swiss Army Knife has a great set of pliers. I never go anywhere without my trusty pocketknife.
Please stop generalizing.
Give me a trackpoint and I will buy it. Touchpads suck, period. I don't care who makes them I have never seen a touchpad that was anywhere near as good as the trackpoints I have had on my laptops over the years.
As long as it doesn't have a trackpoint. Trackpoints suck, period. I don't care who makes them I have never seen a trackpoint that was anywhere near as good as the touchpads I have had on my laptops over the years.
In other words, YMMV.
My guess is that MS will just roll out a quick update, with a revised EULA.
You MS fanboys are amazing. You even try to justify MS bricking hardware.
We paid for Win7, so leave my OS the hell alone.
Win7 is still supported, so upgrading it should be completely optional. Again, leave my paid-for and still-supported OS the hell alone.
Isn't it from like 3 days ago?!?
Like, maybe, dude! Far out! Old newz! Kewl!
Another slashdotter argued that I was being paranoia over the idea that Windows 10 grants Microsoft carte blanche access your computer without needing your permission or knowledge.
That other slashdotter was an idiot. The world is full of idiots, so try not to let it bother you when one of them crosses your path.