I think companies should not be allowed to sell their house brands under a different name than the company name. For example, "AmazonBasics" is fine. You clearly understand it's an Amazon brand.
An alternative would be a clear and governments-standardized branding/label/warning to make it clear that it's made by Amazon, Canadian Tire, Costco, Home Depot, etc.
I won't bother listing the prices because from what I've heard not everyone will see the same prices anyway.
Yes, some kits come with different accessories, but look at the pot and pan. Apart from colour, they're all exactly the same. The first one, "AmazonBasics", is clearly Amazon's brand, nothing deceptive there. But when you look at most of the other brands, you start questioning wether they're real companies or not.
Virtual +1 informative. I'm glad there's still one new iPhone that still uses an IPS panel instead of a looks-like-crap-in-a-few-years OLED panel. A lot of people use their phone for more than two or three years, you know.
But it doesn't matter since those new phones dropped Touch ID and the headphone jack.
Nintendo's version of Xtreme Beach Volleyball, with only the female Nintendo characters such as Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Rosalina, Zelda, Samus... eh... yeah, they don't have enough.
It's easier to point to Apple's one iPhone model that uses an OLED display that is also widely known by most people than it is to point to a single model of one of the multiple dozens of Android phones that only a small percentage of people heard about, remember about and saw in person.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Nintendo is planning to release a new version of its Switch gaming console next year (Warning: source may be paywalled).
It's the WSJ. ALWAYS assume it's paywalled. In fact, never link to those fucking assholes again.
When asked about Nintendo's future focus on a company-wide level, Fils-Aime said: "It's about Mario, Zelda, Pokemon -- all these wonderful intellectual properties. How we leverage these across a variety of entertainment platforms is how we're looking to grow the company."
Some people - and I expect this view to be particularly common amongst the overly-logical coder types and slashdotters - is that the company is paying for a job to be done. If the job is done is a week or an hour, it makes no difference to the customer (in this case, a company).
It does make a huge difference. If it takes you an hour to do the job, you should be paid for an hour of work and not a whole week. That's the main problem. Assuming a 40 hours week, that means the guy was stealing 39 hours per week of salary from his employer, every week.
Oh yeah, sure. Let's learn 10 new languages, 20 frameworks and 30 productivity-enhancing techniques every year and become an expert in every single one of them.
Experience tells you that 99% of the crap being released are only fads and to stop wasting time trying to be "pro-active". If you're lucky you'll pick the right one before the others, otherwise you just wait and see before wasting your time and memory on useless crap.
I wrote a script about Four score and seven years ago that posts on SLaShd0t in my place so I don't have to dissipate my time with you nobel prize imbecile hAx0Rz.
Nobody suspected a The Thing until today, proving grounds that my scripture is absolutely prefect.
With a base of active users that's 25 million strong, it's launching the Fire TV Stick 4K, delivering Ultra HD and HDR streaming through an HDMI dongle that costs a modest $50.
Cool, sounds interesting!
The stealthy device isn't as affordable as Roku's $40 Premiere, but it's also billed as the first media stick to support Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision and HDR10+. You won't have to settle for lower-quality output just to save some cash or avoid using your TV's built-in apps.
It's great for those who want these features.
The device also ships with Amazon's newer Alexa Voice Remote...
If you want the web to be faster, be against ads, tracking and be against idiots who include dozens of megabyte-heavy javascript libraries to add things that are possible with plain javascript and CSS3.
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I think companies should not be allowed to sell their house brands under a different name than the company name. For example, "AmazonBasics" is fine. You clearly understand it's an Amazon brand.
An alternative would be a clear and governments-standardized branding/label/warning to make it clear that it's made by Amazon, Canadian Tire, Costco, Home Depot, etc.
I won't bother listing the prices because from what I've heard not everyone will see the same prices anyway.
Yes, some kits come with different accessories, but look at the pot and pan. Apart from colour, they're all exactly the same. The first one, "AmazonBasics", is clearly Amazon's brand, nothing deceptive there. But when you look at most of the other brands, you start questioning wether they're real companies or not.
AmazonBasics Outdoor Camping Cookware Set
MalloMe Camping Cookware Mess Kit
Gold Armour 17Pcs Camping Cookware Mess Kit
Terra Hiker Camping Cookware
gear4U Camping Cookware
HONEST OUTFITTERS Portable camping cookware mess kit
Bisgear 12 Pcs Camping Cookware
EcoCamp OUTDOOR GEAR Mess Kit (14 Pcs)
Born to Venture Camping Cookware Mess Kit
They should call it NeoNotTameAtAll, then.
I guess it's a smurf planet.
I would certainly buy a non-portable Switch at half the price.
Virtual +1 informative. I'm glad there's still one new iPhone that still uses an IPS panel instead of a looks-like-crap-in-a-few-years OLED panel. A lot of people use their phone for more than two or three years, you know.
But it doesn't matter since those new phones dropped Touch ID and the headphone jack.
Version 1.0 "Switch"
Version 2.0 "Double pole switch"
Nintendo's version of Xtreme Beach Volleyball, with only the female Nintendo characters such as Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Rosalina, Zelda, Samus... eh... yeah, they don't have enough.
It's easier to point to Apple's one iPhone model that uses an OLED display that is also widely known by most people than it is to point to a single model of one of the multiple dozens of Android phones that only a small percentage of people heard about, remember about and saw in person.
It's the WSJ. ALWAYS assume it's paywalled. In fact, never link to those fucking assholes again.
That's a good point and valid logic.
The hell you can't.
Indeed, the Sony and Microsoft controllers really suck.
What about Metroid, you insensitive clod?
"MS sucks."
Posted from Safari on Mac OS X*.
* yes, Mac OS X and not macOS. Still running an old version here.
"Microsoft now has the best device lineup in the industry"
Too bad those devices come with the worst operating system in the industry.
It does make a huge difference. If it takes you an hour to do the job, you should be paid for an hour of work and not a whole week. That's the main problem. Assuming a 40 hours week, that means the guy was stealing 39 hours per week of salary from his employer, every week.
Oh yeah, sure. Let's learn 10 new languages, 20 frameworks and 30 productivity-enhancing techniques every year and become an expert in every single one of them.
Experience tells you that 99% of the crap being released are only fads and to stop wasting time trying to be "pro-active". If you're lucky you'll pick the right one before the others, otherwise you just wait and see before wasting your time and memory on useless crap.
You could always post on web forums once your scripts are done doing your job...
"not light-emitting diode by executives"
You're not making any sense, man.
I wrote a script about Four score and seven years ago that posts on SLaShd0t in my place so I don't have to dissipate my time with you nobel prize imbecile hAx0Rz.
Nobody suspected a The Thing until today, proving grounds that my scripture is absolutely prefect.
Punter: Oh a little of this, a little of that...just think of it as a tool to help me simply my life.
Alexa: Understood. Adding a spell checker software to your order.
Cool, sounds interesting!
It's great for those who want these features.
I stopped reading after that.
Fail.
If you want the web to be faster, be against ads, tracking and be against idiots who include dozens of megabyte-heavy javascript libraries to add things that are possible with plain javascript and CSS3.
ImageOptim was able to reduce the PNG from 43415 bytes down to 40172 bytes, a 7.5% savings.