Today, we either get the malware infested chaos of Android, or the closed garden of Apple. We used to have choices...
Before I picked up my current phone, I looked at a (slightly used) Nokia 808 Pureview. I wanted decent sized screen, a phone, messaging, and a great camera with flash, and with the ability to get info from/to my computer. A decent browser would be nice to use in place of some apps (in the case of the 808). That was pretty much it.
In the end, even the Carl Zeiss lens with a 41 megapixel camera could not get me to leave the current hardware.
I might not have the perfect phone for me, but it works, can be fixed, is up to date for security and can get info to/from my computer. Just because the phone has additional functionality, doesn't mean I have to use it.
We do not have a sprawling farms with hundreds of acres. Our farm is less than five acres. We have two homes, a barn, a shop and cross pastured land. We use the land to raise our own meat. We raise dairy and meat goats and cows, chickens, turkeys, hogs, sheep and lamb. We like to say that our animals were conceived here, born here, raised here, died here, and were processed here.
We know exactly what is in our meat. Mothers milk, hay, grass, alfalfa, corn, oats, peas, wheat, rye, barley and a few treats like salted peanuts and apples. They also get, do to the naturally low levels in our soil, a magnesium supplement. That is it.
We have friends who grow the hay and grains we get, some who raise veggies (we only raise a few items). The barter system goes a long way.
Why do we do it? I find myself looking at the paragraph above, "We know exactly what is in our meat." Do you? After we process an animal, they are kept in one of our six freezers. Have some for us and some we barter/sell from. When they are not used, they are unplugged.
...Also, running a small farm, our only "equipment" is a pickup, a four horse stock trailer, and a bobcat loader with two attachments. The cost of entry is not too bad.
I remember when I worked for CompuServe as a support person. Odd software, LOTS of information in the forums, weird modem settings, etc... The thing I liked best, a free unlimited use account. I mostly used CompuServe as an ISP and went all over the Internet on their dime. Saved tons of money. Had access to those special areas in CIM that were extra cost. Some of those were hundreds of dollars to get in and use. Don't miss it at all.
At least this happened with the new Merlin Series 5 redesign, scheduled for flight next year.
The current Series 4 engines have been pretty reliable so far...
I use it deliberately - when Siri searches something for me. That is the only time.
Apple is paid billions by Google to keep it the default search engine in the iOS system, yet when Siri searches for you it uses Bing.
We see reports here is exploits like this or RSC Android last week (Link), the reports more than 99% of all mobile malware targeting Android (Link) etc., and it makes me wonder... Why would anyone trust a vehicle running Android?
If your phone stops working you can get another one (less than 1% of mobile malware targets Apple iOS, Windows and Blackberry combined), if your car stops working or gets hacked, it can kill you. Just wait until the first time the brakes are not available until you pay the ransomware (Link) money.
Disclaimer: I am the user of an old dumb phone, it is not very smart...
We built a two story farm home several years ago and I 'tried' to plan ahead. Hard with tech, but I tried.
The center closet is a wiring closet. Switches, Access points, wiring points, etc. The top half if hardware, the bottom half is standard closet. All items are fanless and there are louvers on the door for air cooling. Heat has never been an issue.
I pre-wired the house with multiple RG-6 cables for our satellite tv (We live away from town) with multiple outlets in the rooms
I wired the house with CAT 6 cables
(I wish I could have done fiber back then)
Outlets in the room alternate circuit breakers. If a breaker trips, only half of the outlets lose power.
Built in several wire paths for surround sound setup. If the furniture is rearranged, the speakers can move and there are no cables running along the floor or walls
There are speaker lines run through the house, the 'main' stereo system can provide entertainment to several rooms
The walls have several wiring boxes on them, but it is SO WORTH IT.
We do have a small home 'windmill' for power generation. It is pre wired to the well pump for water in a power outage, the refrigerator and our four freezers (home grown beef, pork, goat, chicken, turkey, lamb plus halibut and salmon from fishing) and frozen veggies can be connected when needed. We have a "clean" burning wood stove for heat and cooking. Outside lighting around the house and paths around the barn are solar powered low voltage lighting runs
I know people who play vanilla Minecraft and love it. No games have the "social aspect of the servers", modifications or plugins you mention at launch. Give them time. Maybe it will be better, maybe not, but let them try first...
When the full version launches next year (in the article) we can talk about requirements and OS support then.
I totally agree.
My company (a Fortune 100 company) makes $2 via Android for every $98 off of iOS. We have more Android users, but they spend much less.
Ugg.... It was an attempt at humor using the "Big Bang Theory" episode where Howard gets the Mars rover stuck and Sheldon make a comment/joke about the auto club fixing it. He joked how you have to be standing next to the vehicle with the auto club card in hand.
Ugg.... It was an attempt at humor using the "Big Bang Theory" episode where Howard gets the Mars rover stuck and Sheldon make a comment/joke about the auto club fixing it. He joked how you have to be standing next to the vehicle with the auto club card in hand.
You can see it on episode eight of season two.
I was talking to my doctor on a regular visit and said I wanted to do a low carb/paleo type diet. We did some blood work for some before numbers. A year later I had lost 62 pounds. The only thing I changed was what I ate. I was active before, but could not get the weight off.
My blood pressure went down.
My overall cholesterol went down, good stayed the same, bad plummeted.
Triglycerides plummeted.
etc.
~~~~I have a very happy doctor now.~~~~~
The hardest part? Eliminating rice and most pasta.
The best part? Never being hungry. I could eat as much as I wanted.
I should add that I live on a farm. I can eat naturally raised beef, goat, pork, lamb, chicken (and eggs) and turkey (and eggs). I also like to fish. We work with neighbors and trade for veggies. Not buying processed foods has saved A LOT of money.
Say what you want about the study, but it worked for me and I'll never go back
Remember: With a normal company you are the customer buying their products. With Google ~you~ are the product they sell to advertisers. They gather and sell your information, you are the product.
So we reward the criminals for coming across the border? No. We make is harder for them to live here. Use our resources for our citizens and those who are here as legal residents. Illegals cost my state over a billion dollars in what we receive in revenue from them compared to what we spend on them. That is a billion dollars that is not used for our schools, police/fire, roads, inspections, certifications, wildlife preservation/regulation, etc., and even to govern... Those who are here legally deserve the assistance, those who are here illegally do not.
Make crime worse? Criminals (the illegal immigrants) come across the border and then suddenly start following the law? They broke laws to be here, so there is already an established contempt of the law. Yes, illegal alien criminals may ~continue~ to violate the laws and increase the crime rate. If we lower the number of illegal alien criminals in the country, we could lower the crime rate. Let them legally care for themelves in THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
If they want to live here, there are proper processes to follow for visitation, residency, or citizenship.
You ask me if violating the law is okay if the end result is cheaper prices. I'll humor you in that I'd believe that yes, it is okay if the circumstances warrant it. If the alternative is food that costs thrice what it does currently and the laborers that process that food can't even afford to buy it, then I'm all for violating the law.
And I am for following the law. If they law says that it is okay to hire people that are violating the law by being here, then that is a different story. Right now it is illegal for them to be here - regardless of the effect on our prices. Laws can be changed if needed, I don't think that one needs to be.
So if you get cheaper prices, violating the law is okay? What laws are okay to break? Immigration, shoplifting, burglary, insider trading, bribery? Do you get to decide which ones? Perhaps any, if it benefits you.
My wife and I own a (mostly livestock) farm. Everybody here (all legal) earns above minimum wage (currently $9.10) after one month. They earn up to $14.00 per hour. We give them a 30 day evaluation period and then they get a raise. Raises are based solely on performance. To workers that are worth it, they receive up to three raises in their first year. We sell our products locally and donate milk and meat to a local wild animal rescue group. We raise selected organic produce and organic chickens and turkeys (and sell their eggs), along with naturally raised beef, goat, lamb and pork. We also sell handmade goat milk cheeses, soaps and lotions.
...and the anti-illegal-immigration feeling on the right is far stronger than the GOP seems to realize.
As an independent voter, it is stronger than most politicians realize. My ancestors (verified family history) fought in the American Revolution and came across via Ellis Island as legal immigrants. Today, you run across the border and hope the border patrol doesn't catch you. Those people wanted to be in this country so much, the first thing they did was to violate its laws. That is crap.
All government benefits should be denied to all persons, until proof of citizenship/legal residency has been established. If you are not a citizen or legal resident alien, you are not entitled to a drivers license, food stamps, etc., and voting is limited to citizens only. In Oregon for example, there is a history of giving illegals food assistance, drivers licenses and granting them in-state resident college tuition rates. Denying those funds to Americans and legal aliens.
All companies that hire illegal aliens should be forced to pay a penalty to the gov't (half to border protection and half to the general fund) of twice the monies paid to the illegal. Pay the illegal $500, the fine is $1,000 for a total of $1,500 to use that person. That person is also transported back to their own country at the employers expense. Now the cost of the illegal alien is $1,500 + transportation for $500 of work.
If benefits stop and employers stop hiring them, most of them will leave the way they came here. On their own...
The first word in "illegal alien" is "ILLEGAL". By being here, they are violating the laws. Treat them that way and most of them will leave.
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What does this phone have to do with Microsoft?
It is a Nokia phone. It runs the Symbian operating system. It was released in Feb 2012.
Microsoft announced the purchase of Nokia in Sept 2013
Today, we either get the malware infested chaos of Android, or the closed garden of Apple. We used to have choices...
Before I picked up my current phone, I looked at a (slightly used) Nokia 808 Pureview. I wanted decent sized screen, a phone, messaging, and a great camera with flash, and with the ability to get info from/to my computer. A decent browser would be nice to use in place of some apps (in the case of the 808). That was pretty much it.
In the end, even the Carl Zeiss lens with a 41 megapixel camera could not get me to leave the current hardware.
I might not have the perfect phone for me, but it works, can be fixed, is up to date for security and can get info to/from my computer. Just because the phone has additional functionality, doesn't mean I have to use it.
I work in the tech industry. I live on a farm.
...Also, running a small farm, our only "equipment" is a pickup, a four horse stock trailer, and a bobcat loader with two attachments. The cost of entry is not too bad.
We do not have a sprawling farms with hundreds of acres. Our farm is less than five acres. We have two homes, a barn, a shop and cross pastured land. We use the land to raise our own meat. We raise dairy and meat goats and cows, chickens, turkeys, hogs, sheep and lamb. We like to say that our animals were conceived here, born here, raised here, died here, and were processed here.
We know exactly what is in our meat. Mothers milk, hay, grass, alfalfa, corn, oats, peas, wheat, rye, barley and a few treats like salted peanuts and apples. They also get, do to the naturally low levels in our soil, a magnesium supplement. That is it.
We have friends who grow the hay and grains we get, some who raise veggies (we only raise a few items). The barter system goes a long way.
Why do we do it? I find myself looking at the paragraph above, "We know exactly what is in our meat." Do you? After we process an animal, they are kept in one of our six freezers. Have some for us and some we barter/sell from. When they are not used, they are unplugged.
Try it, you may like it.
I remember when I worked for CompuServe as a support person. Odd software, LOTS of information in the forums, weird modem settings, etc... The thing I liked best, a free unlimited use account. I mostly used CompuServe as an ISP and went all over the Internet on their dime. Saved tons of money. Had access to those special areas in CIM that were extra cost. Some of those were hundreds of dollars to get in and use. Don't miss it at all.
At least this happened with the new Merlin Series 5 redesign, scheduled for flight next year.
The current Series 4 engines have been pretty reliable so far...
First we had the "Xbox".
Second came not the "Xbox 2", but the "Xbox 360"
Third, not first, came the "Xbox One"
Now we have the "Xbox One X"
So is this not the "ex Xbox 1", but an "ex Xbox One"?
Ouch, my head hurts now.
As one of over 400 sources, yes.
I use it deliberately - when Siri searches something for me. That is the only time.
Apple is paid billions by Google to keep it the default search engine in the iOS system, yet when Siri searches for you it uses Bing.
Now that I have almost reached the end of the comments, "Should I Stay or Should I Go"?
We see reports here is exploits like this or RSC Android last week (Link), the reports more than 99% of all mobile malware targeting Android (Link) etc., and it makes me wonder... Why would anyone trust a vehicle running Android?
If your phone stops working you can get another one (less than 1% of mobile malware targets Apple iOS, Windows and Blackberry combined), if your car stops working or gets hacked, it can kill you. Just wait until the first time the brakes are not available until you pay the ransomware (Link) money.
Disclaimer: I am the user of an old dumb phone, it is not very smart...
Um, wow.
We built a two story farm home several years ago and I 'tried' to plan ahead. Hard with tech, but I tried.
The center closet is a wiring closet. Switches, Access points, wiring points, etc. The top half if hardware, the bottom half is standard closet. All items are fanless and there are louvers on the door for air cooling. Heat has never been an issue.
I pre-wired the house with multiple RG-6 cables for our satellite tv (We live away from town) with multiple outlets in the rooms
I wired the house with CAT 6 cables
(I wish I could have done fiber back then)
Outlets in the room alternate circuit breakers. If a breaker trips, only half of the outlets lose power.
Built in several wire paths for surround sound setup. If the furniture is rearranged, the speakers can move and there are no cables running along the floor or walls
There are speaker lines run through the house, the 'main' stereo system can provide entertainment to several rooms
The walls have several wiring boxes on them, but it is SO WORTH IT.
We do have a small home 'windmill' for power generation. It is pre wired to the well pump for water in a power outage, the refrigerator and our four freezers (home grown beef, pork, goat, chicken, turkey, lamb plus halibut and salmon from fishing) and frozen veggies can be connected when needed. We have a "clean" burning wood stove for heat and cooking. Outside lighting around the house and paths around the barn are solar powered low voltage lighting runs
Good Luck
Um, a little negative aren't we?
I know people who play vanilla Minecraft and love it. No games have the "social aspect of the servers", modifications or plugins you mention at launch. Give them time. Maybe it will be better, maybe not, but let them try first...
When the full version launches next year (in the article) we can talk about requirements and OS support then.
I totally agree. My company (a Fortune 100 company) makes $2 via Android for every $98 off of iOS. We have more Android users, but they spend much less.
Ugg.... It was an attempt at humor using the "Big Bang Theory" episode where Howard gets the Mars rover stuck and Sheldon make a comment/joke about the auto club fixing it. He joked how you have to be standing next to the vehicle with the auto club card in hand.
You can see it on episode eight of season two.
Ugg.... It was an attempt at humor using the "Big Bang Theory" episode where Howard gets the Mars rover stuck and Sheldon make a comment/joke about the auto club fixing it. He joked how you have to be standing next to the vehicle with the auto club card in hand. You can see it on episode eight of season two.
The rocks are damaging the wheels?
Call the auto club and have them fix it.
Does Curiosity have a club card?
I heard that the top 16 largest container ships (burning bunker fuel) pollute as much as all of the cars on the road.
Link
Maybe we need to look there... Come on, how much difference will a few million cars make when compared to just one of those ships?
I was talking to my doctor on a regular visit and said I wanted to do a low carb/paleo type diet. We did some blood work for some before numbers. A year later I had lost 62 pounds. The only thing I changed was what I ate. I was active before, but could not get the weight off.
My blood pressure went down.
My overall cholesterol went down, good stayed the same, bad plummeted.
Triglycerides plummeted.
etc.
~~~~I have a very happy doctor now.~~~~~
The hardest part? Eliminating rice and most pasta.
The best part? Never being hungry. I could eat as much as I wanted.
I should add that I live on a farm. I can eat naturally raised beef, goat, pork, lamb, chicken (and eggs) and turkey (and eggs). I also like to fish. We work with neighbors and trade for veggies. Not buying processed foods has saved A LOT of money.
Say what you want about the study, but it worked for me and I'll never go back
Far Side = Calvin and Hobbes > XKCD > Cul De Sac > Everything else.
Honorable Mention: The first several years of "User Friendly"
Remember: With a normal company you are the customer buying their products. With Google ~you~ are the product they sell to advertisers. They gather and sell your information, you are the product.
So we reward the criminals for coming across the border? No. We make is harder for them to live here. Use our resources for our citizens and those who are here as legal residents. Illegals cost my state over a billion dollars in what we receive in revenue from them compared to what we spend on them. That is a billion dollars that is not used for our schools, police/fire, roads, inspections, certifications, wildlife preservation/regulation, etc., and even to govern... Those who are here legally deserve the assistance, those who are here illegally do not.
Make crime worse? Criminals (the illegal immigrants) come across the border and then suddenly start following the law? They broke laws to be here, so there is already an established contempt of the law. Yes, illegal alien criminals may ~continue~ to violate the laws and increase the crime rate. If we lower the number of illegal alien criminals in the country, we could lower the crime rate. Let them legally care for themelves in THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
If they want to live here, there are proper processes to follow for visitation, residency, or citizenship.
You ask me if violating the law is okay if the end result is cheaper prices. I'll humor you in that I'd believe that yes, it is okay if the circumstances warrant it. If the alternative is food that costs thrice what it does currently and the laborers that process that food can't even afford to buy it, then I'm all for violating the law.
And I am for following the law. If they law says that it is okay to hire people that are violating the law by being here, then that is a different story. Right now it is illegal for them to be here - regardless of the effect on our prices. Laws can be changed if needed, I don't think that one needs to be.
So if you get cheaper prices, violating the law is okay? What laws are okay to break? Immigration, shoplifting, burglary, insider trading, bribery? Do you get to decide which ones? Perhaps any, if it benefits you.
My wife and I own a (mostly livestock) farm. Everybody here (all legal) earns above minimum wage (currently $9.10) after one month. They earn up to $14.00 per hour. We give them a 30 day evaluation period and then they get a raise. Raises are based solely on performance. To workers that are worth it, they receive up to three raises in their first year. We sell our products locally and donate milk and meat to a local wild animal rescue group. We raise selected organic produce and organic chickens and turkeys (and sell their eggs), along with naturally raised beef, goat, lamb and pork. We also sell handmade goat milk cheeses, soaps and lotions.
...and the anti-illegal-immigration feeling on the right is far stronger than the GOP seems to realize.
As an independent voter, it is stronger than most politicians realize. My ancestors (verified family history) fought in the American Revolution and came across via Ellis Island as legal immigrants. Today, you run across the border and hope the border patrol doesn't catch you. Those people wanted to be in this country so much, the first thing they did was to violate its laws. That is crap.
All government benefits should be denied to all persons, until proof of citizenship/legal residency has been established. If you are not a citizen or legal resident alien, you are not entitled to a drivers license, food stamps, etc., and voting is limited to citizens only. In Oregon for example, there is a history of giving illegals food assistance, drivers licenses and granting them in-state resident college tuition rates. Denying those funds to Americans and legal aliens.
All companies that hire illegal aliens should be forced to pay a penalty to the gov't (half to border protection and half to the general fund) of twice the monies paid to the illegal. Pay the illegal $500, the fine is $1,000 for a total of $1,500 to use that person. That person is also transported back to their own country at the employers expense. Now the cost of the illegal alien is $1,500 + transportation for $500 of work.
If benefits stop and employers stop hiring them, most of them will leave the way they came here. On their own...
The first word in "illegal alien" is "ILLEGAL". By being here, they are violating the laws. Treat them that way and most of them will leave.