Classic shell doesn't just restore the old style menus, in the process it also gets rid of all the dynamic built-in advertising and links to bundled junk like candy crush, xbox live, headline news, the windows store, etc. -- cheaply and quickly gets rid of a ton of clutter in a corporate environment.
I'm sure that's the main reason that Microsoft will never restore the old style start menu on their own.
I still want my damn Eagle-5 official Pops model, damn it.
Don't hold your breath -- Mel Brooks had an agreement with George Lucas not to sell any Spaceballs action figures and other tie-in toys, in order to secure Lucas' blessing to make fun of Star Wars. (Didn't hurt that he also hired Industrial Light & Magic to do the special effects)
No -- while it would have been satisfying, I wouldn't have want to be on the receiving end of the inevitable fall-out shitstorm that would ensue, nor would I enjoy getting called in the middle of the night to re-activate it. Large corporate customers aren't known for having a sense of humor. Got a hold of their corporate office by phone and explained their screw-up.
(To be fair, this was 15 years ago or so, and there were a ton of spammers trying to harvest ebay credentials at the time. I guess it's a good sign that ebay was actively trying stop scammers and deceptive websites, but it's rather sloppy that they didn't recognize/whitelist their own sites)
/It was satisfying to get them to acknowledge their own incompetence though. //Did point out to them that this also meant that they'd just filed a false report with the FBI
...a standard car charging point isn't powerful enough to charge a semi in a reasonable time?
Instead of immediately accusing them of witchcraft, perhaps... they just figured out a way to bundle multiple 'standard' standard car-chargers in parallel, and use those to charge separate battery packs inside a semi, greatly reducing the total recharge time?
Back in the day I worked for an ISP, we received a nasty-gram from Ebay demanding we take down a fraudulent website - they claimed to have already notified the FBI that one of our customers was attempting to harvest ebay login credentials through a site we were hosting.
...Except the site they were complaining about was actually owned and operated by ebay itself, and was mentioned/linked throughout their own FAQs.
With these larger companies, the left hand typically has no idea what the right hand is doing.
(Ever tried to reach a live person at a web company the size of ebay? It's near impossible)
Speaking of Klingons, my #1 gripe with ST:D is that the Klingons now look like the 'engineers' from Alien/Prometheus. The only reason I can think of for doing this would be to "leech" off the popularity of those movies.
More realistically: there's only so many ways of gluing bits of latex to an actor's face that won't bear a cursory resemblance to an alien species seen in another franchise.
Facebook typically lists *active* accounts in their stats, which are accounts that have logged in in the past 30 days or so.
They already discount your multiple accounts that never log in or post
The total number of accounts in their system is undoubtedly much higher.
They've had some pretty crappy quality control: We've had a couple of Surface 3 Pro's, each with the same stupidly annoying bug new out of the box: Use the Surface keyboard cover touchpad to move the cursor *at all*, and windows immediately locked itself (goes to the lock screen, requiring a ctrl-alt-delete to get back in).
Move the cursor again, and it locks again, rendering it completely unusable
Even after updating everything there was to update, the problem persisted. Same keyboard covers worked OK on other devices. Ended up having to reinstall windows & all drivers to get it to stop doing that.
...There's a reason that PC keyboards are essentially the same today as they were 40 years ago -- THEY WORK, and they work well.
Speech to text, waving your hands around in the air and other innovations are cute, but all have massive downsides: can't be used in a noisy office, you can't keep waving your hands around in the air for hours on end.
Keyboards can be used in any environment, and are much less ambiguous than voice control. The same goes for mice -- trackballs, touchscreens, eye tracking, etc. have all been around for many years, all work reliably, yet none of them have any significant market share compared to the mouse.
I'm sure you can find some alternatives input methods in niche use cases (and for certain devices like mobile phones), but I'd still fully expect my 2040 computer to still be bundled with a boring old keyboard and mouse.
They really don't -- all they are about is the perception of being secure ('you won't need antivirus on an apple'), but when you get right down to it they have been dragging their feet fixing known vulnerabilities in MacOS for years, and their software always scores poorly during pwn2own-style events.
And heck, for all you know our simulated universe was powered on just one planck time ago, and all of history and 'prior observations' including your memories are merely programmed in to make you think otherwise.
I strongly suspect that the "not for kids under 13" is mainly to head off legal issues due to the US rules that kids under 13 need explicit parental permission to enroll in services that affect their privacy.
That's also the reason why facebook and many other internet companies' terms and conditions all require you to be at least 13 to sign up as well, they simply don't want to have to deal with the hassle of verifying/validating and keeping records that an actual adult explicitly authorized their kid signing up. If a kid ignores the EULA signs up anyway, then they 'lied' during the signup and facebook can't be held responsible for letting them in.
Bodega's CEO sees it as a way to beat Amazon by offering immediate access to popular products
Best Buy offers you immediate access to popular products too, but that just makes them Amazon's de-facto showroom instead.
Given the *extremely limited* storage space constraints of a typical vending machine, that will be guaranteed to mean "Current inventory: two types of luke-warm soda of a flavor you can't stand, a cellphone charger that's not compatible with your phone, and a special deal on sombrero's. Oh, and don't mind the homeless people using the side of our unattended machine as a public bathroom".
Other thoughts:
It seems very unlikely that the particular machine that you're close to will carry what you're looking for, even when limiting themselves to 'popular products'. After all, it is an incredibly inefficient way to manage your inventory. Example: you want a cellphone charger. in a typical store, they'd have half a dozen sitting on a shelf. Depending on the size of the store, that serves customers anywhere from within the next few blocks, to half a city. With these vending machines, they'd needs hundreds of them to cover a similar size chunk of town that the current single store does. And even then, the odds that the machine you are standing next to won't have it are huge because at best they carried one or two, and it's not like they'll be restocking these multiple times a day... (And if they ARE continuously driving in circles restocking these all day, everyday, then expect that the price for any item is going to be a multitude of normal, it's WAY more expensive to drive around all day than to just pay a minimum wage worker in a traditional store to unpack a few pallets worth of products)
Meanwhile, they want to compete with Amazon, who carries 480 million different products on their website, and which on top of that already offers 1 hour delivery service in limited markets -- Good luck with that, not holding my breath...
That's because the EU requires a 2 year warranty on all electronics.
On the flip side, you may have noticed that the retail price of an iPhone is higher in the EU than it is in the US as well.
Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count.
And for comparison: In the UK they charged GBP 19.95 (~$25), while in the Netherlands it was aired as regular programming on the Fox Sports cable channel.
They pretty much just charged what the (local) markets would be willing to bear.
One big problem is such empty crates require a fifty times more storage space space at the warehouse than cardboard boxes, which arrive in big flat packs and are folded on-demand.
More room to store, much more bulk to transport around the warehouse itself, and significantly higher up-front cost all make it unlikely to happen.
Because the galaxy S and galaxy Note release dates have always been staggered, so there:s always a premium Samsung phone available that's less than 6 months old.
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Classic shell doesn't just restore the old style menus, in the process it also gets rid of all the dynamic built-in advertising and links to bundled junk like candy crush, xbox live, headline news, the windows store, etc. -- cheaply and quickly gets rid of a ton of clutter in a corporate environment.
I'm sure that's the main reason that Microsoft will never restore the old style start menu on their own.
I still want my damn Eagle-5 official Pops model, damn it.
Don't hold your breath -- Mel Brooks had an agreement with George Lucas not to sell any Spaceballs action figures and other tie-in toys, in order to secure Lucas' blessing to make fun of Star Wars. (Didn't hurt that he also hired Industrial Light & Magic to do the special effects)
"Merchandising, where the real profit is made!"
No -- while it would have been satisfying, I wouldn't have want to be on the receiving end of the inevitable fall-out shitstorm that would ensue, nor would I enjoy getting called in the middle of the night to re-activate it. Large corporate customers aren't known for having a sense of humor. Got a hold of their corporate office by phone and explained their screw-up.
/It was satisfying to get them to acknowledge their own incompetence though.
//Did point out to them that this also meant that they'd just filed a false report with the FBI
(To be fair, this was 15 years ago or so, and there were a ton of spammers trying to harvest ebay credentials at the time. I guess it's a good sign that ebay was actively trying stop scammers and deceptive websites, but it's rather sloppy that they didn't recognize/whitelist their own sites)
...a standard car charging point isn't powerful enough to charge a semi in a reasonable time?
Instead of immediately accusing them of witchcraft, perhaps... they just figured out a way to bundle multiple 'standard' standard car-chargers in parallel, and use those to charge separate battery packs inside a semi, greatly reducing the total recharge time?
Back in the day I worked for an ISP, we received a nasty-gram from Ebay demanding we take down a fraudulent website - they claimed to have already notified the FBI that one of our customers was attempting to harvest ebay login credentials through a site we were hosting.
...Except the site they were complaining about was actually owned and operated by ebay itself, and was mentioned/linked throughout their own FAQs.
With these larger companies, the left hand typically has no idea what the right hand is doing.
(Ever tried to reach a live person at a web company the size of ebay? It's near impossible)
Their actual customers get to see a fresh influx of new players, keeping the ecosystem healthy for a at least a few more years?
Requirement to authenticate through battlenet, even for single player or lan games, presumably?
What if you supported Blizzard by paying for both "Wings of Liberty" and "Heart of the Swarm"? You get nothing?
You got several years of enjoyment and earlier access?
Speaking of Klingons, my #1 gripe with ST:D is that the Klingons now look like the 'engineers' from Alien/Prometheus. The only reason I can think of for doing this would be to "leech" off the popularity of those movies.
More realistically: there's only so many ways of gluing bits of latex to an actor's face that won't bear a cursory resemblance to an alien species seen in another franchise.
Facebook typically lists *active* accounts in their stats, which are accounts that have logged in in the past 30 days or so.
They already discount your multiple accounts that never log in or post
The total number of accounts in their system is undoubtedly much higher.
They've had some pretty crappy quality control: We've had a couple of Surface 3 Pro's, each with the same stupidly annoying bug new out of the box: Use the Surface keyboard cover touchpad to move the cursor *at all*, and windows immediately locked itself (goes to the lock screen, requiring a ctrl-alt-delete to get back in).
Move the cursor again, and it locks again, rendering it completely unusable
Even after updating everything there was to update, the problem persisted. Same keyboard covers worked OK on other devices. Ended up having to reinstall windows & all drivers to get it to stop doing that.
...There's a reason that PC keyboards are essentially the same today as they were 40 years ago -- THEY WORK, and they work well.
Speech to text, waving your hands around in the air and other innovations are cute, but all have massive downsides: can't be used in a noisy office, you can't keep waving your hands around in the air for hours on end.
Keyboards can be used in any environment, and are much less ambiguous than voice control. The same goes for mice -- trackballs, touchscreens, eye tracking, etc. have all been around for many years, all work reliably, yet none of them have any significant market share compared to the mouse.
I'm sure you can find some alternatives input methods in niche use cases (and for certain devices like mobile phones), but I'd still fully expect my 2040 computer to still be bundled with a boring old keyboard and mouse.
Apple cares about security,
They really don't -- all they are about is the perception of being secure ('you won't need antivirus on an apple'), but when you get right down to it they have been dragging their feet fixing known vulnerabilities in MacOS for years, and their software always scores poorly during pwn2own-style events.
...Eternity is REALLY long.
And heck, for all you know our simulated universe was powered on just one planck time ago, and all of history and 'prior observations' including your memories are merely programmed in to make you think otherwise.
As always, there's a relevant xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/505/
I strongly suspect that the "not for kids under 13" is mainly to head off legal issues due to the US rules that kids under 13 need explicit parental permission to enroll in services that affect their privacy.
That's also the reason why facebook and many other internet companies' terms and conditions all require you to be at least 13 to sign up as well, they simply don't want to have to deal with the hassle of verifying/validating and keeping records that an actual adult explicitly authorized their kid signing up. If a kid ignores the EULA signs up anyway, then they 'lied' during the signup and facebook can't be held responsible for letting them in.
...If it doesn't recognize you, you can still get in simply by entering your PIN -- no one is getting locked out.
Bodega's CEO sees it as a way to beat Amazon by offering immediate access to popular products
Best Buy offers you immediate access to popular products too, but that just makes them Amazon's de-facto showroom instead.
Given the *extremely limited* storage space constraints of a typical vending machine, that will be guaranteed to mean "Current inventory: two types of luke-warm soda of a flavor you can't stand, a cellphone charger that's not compatible with your phone, and a special deal on sombrero's. Oh, and don't mind the homeless people using the side of our unattended machine as a public bathroom".
Other thoughts:
It seems very unlikely that the particular machine that you're close to will carry what you're looking for, even when limiting themselves to 'popular products'. After all, it is an incredibly inefficient way to manage your inventory. Example: you want a cellphone charger. in a typical store, they'd have half a dozen sitting on a shelf. Depending on the size of the store, that serves customers anywhere from within the next few blocks, to half a city. With these vending machines, they'd needs hundreds of them to cover a similar size chunk of town that the current single store does. And even then, the odds that the machine you are standing next to won't have it are huge because at best they carried one or two, and it's not like they'll be restocking these multiple times a day... (And if they ARE continuously driving in circles restocking these all day, everyday, then expect that the price for any item is going to be a multitude of normal, it's WAY more expensive to drive around all day than to just pay a minimum wage worker in a traditional store to unpack a few pallets worth of products)
Meanwhile, they want to compete with Amazon, who carries 480 million different products on their website, and which on top of that already offers 1 hour delivery service in limited markets -- Good luck with that, not holding my breath...
Isn't it illegal to drive on public roads wearing masks or other things that obscure the drivers field of view? (if not, it should be...)
That's because the EU requires a 2 year warranty on all electronics. On the flip side, you may have noticed that the retail price of an iPhone is higher in the EU than it is in the US as well.
The difference here is that you are not equifax's customer - you are their product.
Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count.
And for comparison: In the UK they charged GBP 19.95 (~$25), while in the Netherlands it was aired as regular programming on the Fox Sports cable channel.
They pretty much just charged what the (local) markets would be willing to bear.
One big problem is such empty crates require a fifty times more storage space space at the warehouse than cardboard boxes, which arrive in big flat packs and are folded on-demand.
More room to store, much more bulk to transport around the warehouse itself, and significantly higher up-front cost all make it unlikely to happen.
Didn't Intel try to trademark "486" and get blocked from doing so?
Hence 'Pentium' instead of 586.
2PB in and of itself isn't that impressive anymore, you can fit it in half a rack or less with current densities.
Intel's new 'ruler' SSD form factor lets you put 1PB in a single 1U rack space: https://www.theverge.com/circu...
Because the galaxy S and galaxy Note release dates have always been staggered, so there:s always a premium Samsung phone available that's less than 6 months old.