Outlook e-mail in the Office365 "cloud" is horrid and featureless. Click to Flag a message? It dutifully flags it with NO OPTIONS for setting a reminder popup or anything. Useless! I'm sticking with real Outlook running on my computer under my control.
I'm glad all these nitrogen-cooled 53 terahertz PCs are becoming little more than dumb terminals for whatever crap a web programmer sees fit to jam down our browser's throat.
With full day's use it goes down to 70%...with your particular combination of apps, usage patterns, proximity to cell sites throughout the day, reliance on WiFi, etc.
They claim it has HD voice, but I wonder if it's usable on any of the major carriers.
How is the radio in it? Does it drop calls frequently?
Is the touch screen responsive? Does it false? Does it take a particular gesture to get it to work properly?
Basically, they're worried to death over a red tint on the display, but you never see discussion of whether it performs its basic function as, you know, a phone.
The coolest part was the multi-voice sound synthesizer. You could generate touch tones, Star Trek noises, whatever you could program in BASIC. Good times.
I have seen some cases where, say a restaurant was listed at a location that is actually an empty field. So Mr. Google Maps User gets directions and wastes time and gas driving to an empty field. My guess is that such listings are submitted by the competitor of the restaurant or maybe a disgruntled former employee or customer.
I have also seen my submissions to update bogus locations or bad info go unpublished, so for all we know some of the Google Maps community editors are Bad Guys themselves who seek to keep certain listings with bad info for the benefit of their buddies or businesses who pay them to keep things that way.
tl;dr Crowdsourcing works only as long as the crowd is trustworthy.
I just saw an AOL e-mail address on a message to a Yahoogroup (yes, those still exist, unlike the dinosaurs) and had to re-read the @aol.com domain multiple times to believe my eyes. Yahoo has been so lost for so long that I can't understand what value there is inside that empty husk besides the salvage value of all their hardware and real estate holdings.
Many have mentioned that these days it is better to book directly through the airline or hotel web site especially if you are a member of their loyalty or rewards programs.
BUT! It seems that just when enough time has passed to allow you to accumulate sufficient points to spend on yourself, they either change or discontinue the program and render your points useless.
The reboot of Hawaii Five-0 depends on Steve McGarrett and Co. looking up a TON of info on suspects on their fancy touchscreen computer. Knowing how each jurisdiction is essentially its own Tower of Babel I doubt that something like that actually is doable these days, but the possibilities are in place as demonstrated by this article.
This makes no sense, though. If they are positioning Hangouts as a business-class offering then why gut SMS when that is a feature that is useful to business users? I really like Google Voice and the SMS part of that still works (crossing fingers!) so it's not like they're abandoning carrier interoperability for SMS, so why not just keep it part of Hangouts to provide a unified suite to Hangouts users?
Moreover, the name Hangouts does not strike me as button-down business-y in the first place, but I guess all the good names are taken.
Google's offerings are just such a jumbled mess that I'm not inclined to spend time decoding that maze.
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Outlook e-mail in the Office365 "cloud" is horrid and featureless. Click to Flag a message? It dutifully flags it with NO OPTIONS for setting a reminder popup or anything. Useless! I'm sticking with real Outlook running on my computer under my control.
I'm glad all these nitrogen-cooled 53 terahertz PCs are becoming little more than dumb terminals for whatever crap a web programmer sees fit to jam down our browser's throat.
With full day's use it goes down to 70% ...with your particular combination of apps, usage patterns, proximity to cell sites throughout the day, reliance on WiFi, etc.
Talk about a small sample size!
They claim it has HD voice, but I wonder if it's usable on any of the major carriers.
How is the radio in it? Does it drop calls frequently?
Is the touch screen responsive? Does it false? Does it take a particular gesture to get it to work properly?
Basically, they're worried to death over a red tint on the display, but you never see discussion of whether it performs its basic function as, you know, a phone.
I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.
His family incests on the very best!
You mean for once it's not the gay boys causing trouble in the military??
So just flash another ROM into the phone and do what you want with it. How hard is that?
Used book store.
Don't forget the 3 error messages it could output:
Sorry
What??
How??? (divide by zero error)
The coolest part was the multi-voice sound synthesizer. You could generate touch tones, Star Trek noises, whatever you could program in BASIC. Good times.
Rowsdowerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!
Down-voted for not concluding with,
"I'm a doctor, not a computer programmer!!"
Is it still a zero-day exploit if it's the next day??
I mean, the linked article on ThreatPost is dated April 13 which was 2 days ago so doesn't that make this at least a 2-day exploit by now?
I have seen some cases where, say a restaurant was listed at a location that is actually an empty field. So Mr. Google Maps User gets directions and wastes time and gas driving to an empty field. My guess is that such listings are submitted by the competitor of the restaurant or maybe a disgruntled former employee or customer.
I have also seen my submissions to update bogus locations or bad info go unpublished, so for all we know some of the Google Maps community editors are Bad Guys themselves who seek to keep certain listings with bad info for the benefit of their buddies or businesses who pay them to keep things that way.
tl;dr Crowdsourcing works only as long as the crowd is trustworthy.
Always OverLoaded???
I just saw an AOL e-mail address on a message to a Yahoogroup (yes, those still exist, unlike the dinosaurs) and had to re-read the @aol.com domain multiple times to believe my eyes. Yahoo has been so lost for so long that I can't understand what value there is inside that empty husk besides the salvage value of all their hardware and real estate holdings.
And AOL?? SRSLY?!?!
Many have mentioned that these days it is better to book directly through the airline or hotel web site especially if you are a member of their loyalty or rewards programs.
BUT! It seems that just when enough time has passed to allow you to accumulate sufficient points to spend on yourself, they either change or discontinue the program and render your points useless.
Well, a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money!
ALL runways will be runway 360 now.
Hey! Orange balls! I'll have a box of those. Give me a box of those naked lady tees, and gimme two of those, gimme six of those...
The reboot of Hawaii Five-0 depends on Steve McGarrett and Co. looking up a TON of info on suspects on their fancy touchscreen computer. Knowing how each jurisdiction is essentially its own Tower of Babel I doubt that something like that actually is doable these days, but the possibilities are in place as demonstrated by this article.
It could've been Pat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Even when the sex of the antecedent is known, we should encourage people to de-humanize all of us by using "they". Besides, sex is messy. EWWW!!
What if a male employee/contributor were into being dominated by women? Would that be OK?
This makes no sense, though. If they are positioning Hangouts as a business-class offering then why gut SMS when that is a feature that is useful to business users? I really like Google Voice and the SMS part of that still works (crossing fingers!) so it's not like they're abandoning carrier interoperability for SMS, so why not just keep it part of Hangouts to provide a unified suite to Hangouts users?
Moreover, the name Hangouts does not strike me as button-down business-y in the first place, but I guess all the good names are taken.
Google's offerings are just such a jumbled mess that I'm not inclined to spend time decoding that maze.
I think the problem carriers worry about is unapproved software that effects their networks.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!