Everyone I know "wants" a new phone, but they don't want to pay a grand.
I didn't even want a new phone, but I had an S6 and the non-replaceable battery had worn out after having the phone for like 3 years. It worked fine for me. It had an IR blaster. Yeah I'd filled the phone up and was having to scrimp on what I kept on it, but it just worked. I'd had a S3 before the S6.
So, black friday brought half price S9 so.... Now I have an S9 for "half" price. Much nicer phone, crazy fast, takes a SD card, battery could go 2 days with my normal use, easy. No IR blaster but I'm happy with the phone. Yet I only got it because my S6 would have had to been ripped apart to replace the battery for at LEAST $100 cost.
Oh well. I hope I keep this one until the S12 is out.
Thanks very much. We're on 7 right now for desktops. This sounds like the ticket for upgrade. Lots of licenses. Thousands. Maybe they'll help us. The crash and burn versions were 2008 and 2012.
You should get a LTSB iso from MS and give it a whirl on a test system or two or three.
Here's a quick link that seems to explain it fairly well, but they do regurgitate the MS line about LTSB being intended for "special" systems that normal people don't use: https://www.computerworld.com/...
I was referring to the LTSB version of windows 10. No baloney. No version updates, just security and stability. No games, no cortana, very easy to live with.
The problem is it's not easy to get and MS doesn't want people to have it. They do provide it with volume licensing or whatever, but they stress it is for very special systems that regular people aren't using.
The problem with that position by MS is this- it is a fully functional version of 10 without all the goofy updates that break things and it's JUST WINDOWS.
My impression of it is pretty much all that was good with windows 7 but updated to what's good about 10.
My guess is that LTSB was required of them by some of their large corporate customers but 10 LTSB is NOT what MS wants 10 to be. Namely a platform to make money.
Windows 10 updates are out of control. They claim they intend to schedule them at proper or convenient times but they don't. The computer will just up and reboot at the most inconvenient time.
They are NOT stable, they DO break, and files DO go missing. One computer I support did the 1803 update and all the files were gone. The profile was still there, the files were gone. I found them - they were IN THE TRASH.
WHY? WHY MICROSOFT? Why did you see fit to upgrade this PC and throw away the user's files? Are you sending a message? Is it personal?
You can say the solution is Linux. For many geeks and power users that is true.
You can't outsource a plumber. Or an auto mechanic. Maybe they can find someone a little bit cheaper, but you're not competing with people on the other side of the world.
when the last plumber dies we're all in deep shit.
They don't teach kids how to swing a hammer or read a tape measure any more. They have no practical manual labor skills whatsoever. Helpless.
No matter the size of computer or clustered racks of computers that make up an AI there will always be a way to turn it off. A main service disconnect. A breaker. A cable running to a building that can be cut. A fuse at a transformer up on a pole. A power plant that can be shut down.
Unless we GIVE the AI the ability to somehow guard it's own power connection there should always be at least one way to regain control from a runaway rogue AI.
TURN IT OFF.
Now, if this runaway AI gets a bank account and hires a security company to "go to XYZ coordinates and guard such and such substation with lots of guns" then we might be in trouble.
Most windows users think Sudo is a precursor for making meth. They've never seen a command line and think the recycle bin is just as good a place to store stuff as "My Documents."
The typical windows user doesn't know what a "Web Browser" actually is, they just think they get on "The Internet" by using "The Winderz" and think it's normal for their stack of toolbars to extend halfway down the screen.
The typical mac user doesn't know much more than that either but they feel smarter because they paid more to get on "The Internet."
There are several of these ready-made android based Kodi stream boxes out there. In fact, you can turn a Pi 3 into a kodi box in about 20 minutes. The key is finding the right plugins for kodi and those are changing all the time.
In fact, you can put Kodi and all the plugins on linux, windows, android, really any platform.
Kodi is just a multimedia juke box platform for the local machine and your LAN, the internet streaming stuff is all by plugin.
This lawsuit will widely publicize the stream box phenomenon and only serve to hurt the content creators more. And make the lawyers rich. THAT'S IT.
I can see the end of paying for internet twice. I find it absurd to pay for home internet and also pay for mobile internet. Why can't a person pay for internet once and just use it wherever they want?
Getting a "mobile hot spot" device would allow people to pay for internet once and use it at home as well as away. There are plenty of people doing this, particularly people in rural settings where other high speed access is non-existent.
The problem is that cellular providers offer "unlimited" data but it isn't truly unlimited. They begin throttling after a paltry amount in a month, something around 20 or 25 gigs.
Also the data service is of course expensive for what you get, the up-side being it is available everywhere.
What the FCC needs to focus on is improving the world of mobile data. Encouraging the lowering of prices, increasing of speed, eliminating data caps and throttling.
My crystal ball is telling me that SOME DAY, mobile data will be all there is, paying for home-only internet service will be like having a dialup modem - long forgotten.
How many people got in trouble by following a high fat AND high sugar diet, AKA the Western Diet, and then were told by their cardiologists that "you need to follow a low fat diet, low cholesterol and low salt" and then died of stroke and other problems because the human brain is MADE OF FAT AND CHOLESTEROL and our cells rely on salt?
Come on, this is a disaster. They were fattening people up like feed lot cattle for decades. A bowl of raisin bran cereal has the same glycemic index as a can of pepsi. (or coke, if that's your brand). But that box of raisin bran has a "heart healthy" logo doesn't it?
There needs to be lawsuits. How many of our grandparents and parents were killed by this lie?
People who go "low carb" or at least avoid blatant and hidden sugars but eat high fat foods see improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol ratios, weight, triglycerides and blood sugar levels.
And how, pray tell, can you accomplish this without adding a trusted certificate on each device when the majority of websites are now (or will be) https?
Get a router with sufficient ram, (32megs or more) put on DD-WRT, add a script to block ads. I did it and it works. The info is out there and easy to find.
Blackberry reported $2.38 billion in cash reserves for fiscal 2016. They might be hemorrhaging money, but they could have afforded the severance for 300 employees.
so it was just dickishness in general? A rogue dick being dickish?
It boggles my mind to think that somewhere there is a upper management or C-suite executive that hatched and implemented this scheme and went home that day thinking 'job well done'. I wonder if his wife and kids are proud of him.
Actually I think this type of behavior probably is done by groups of people (committees, boards, etc) where they can feel like it's OK - as long as nobody disagrees, everyone else is OK with it too, so it can't be THAT bad.
a room full of group think yes men (and women) could spin something like this idea to make it sound less evil than it is. Sure.
Or maybe they (BB) are hemorrhaging so much cash as they are pushed into the rubbish bin of electronics history that they were desperate to save this cash to keep the lights on. I don't know how bad off BB is but I know they are having a really bad time compared to their heyday.
"once they had accepted employment there, handed them resignation letters"
Isn't resignation something the employee hands to the employer, not the other way around? Am I missing something here, or is this just shoddy journalism?
It's sort of a "you're fired, here's your resignation letter."
It seems to be implied that there were termination benefits (Severance package) at both companies, Blackberry and also the 2nd company. By signing the resignation letters at the 2nd company they may have been bribed by some kind of severance package that is much less than what they would have got from BB.
If they refused to sign the letter they got nothing. Thus the agreement to sign a resignation letter they didn't write.
By transferring them to the second company it relieves BB from the obligations of the (assumed) much larger BB severance package.
Dirty underhanded shenanigans either way. Thus the lawsuit that I presume BB will lose.
I've had some seagate constellations fail. I've had some WDs fail. Never a WD black though... But those aren't supposed to be used in RAID even though I have used on in a RAID in a pinch.
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That "feature list" / "bug list" sounds like a predator's wet dream.
Because none of my computers run Windows 10. If you aren't running Linux in 2019, you aren't paying attention.
(or LTSB/LTSC)
Still furious. Literally shaking with anger right now. Might crap myself.
you should definitely crap yourself, only way to get back at Bill Gates.
Everyone I know "wants" a new phone, but they don't want to pay a grand.
I didn't even want a new phone, but I had an S6 and the non-replaceable battery had worn out after having the phone for like 3 years. It worked fine for me. It had an IR blaster. Yeah I'd filled the phone up and was having to scrimp on what I kept on it, but it just worked. I'd had a S3 before the S6.
So, black friday brought half price S9 so.... Now I have an S9 for "half" price. Much nicer phone, crazy fast, takes a SD card, battery could go 2 days with my normal use, easy. No IR blaster but I'm happy with the phone. Yet I only got it because my S6 would have had to been ripped apart to replace the battery for at LEAST $100 cost.
Oh well. I hope I keep this one until the S12 is out.
You know, the stuff most people directly use every day?
Thanks very much. We're on 7 right now for desktops. This sounds like the ticket for upgrade. Lots of licenses. Thousands. Maybe they'll help us. The crash and burn versions were 2008 and 2012.
You should get a LTSB iso from MS and give it a whirl on a test system or two or three.
Here's a quick link that seems to explain it fairly well, but they do regurgitate the MS line about LTSB being intended for "special" systems that normal people don't use: https://www.computerworld.com/...
I was referring to the LTSB version of windows 10. No baloney. No version updates, just security and stability. No games, no cortana, very easy to live with.
The problem is it's not easy to get and MS doesn't want people to have it. They do provide it with volume licensing or whatever, but they stress it is for very special systems that regular people aren't using.
The problem with that position by MS is this- it is a fully functional version of 10 without all the goofy updates that break things and it's JUST WINDOWS.
My impression of it is pretty much all that was good with windows 7 but updated to what's good about 10.
My guess is that LTSB was required of them by some of their large corporate customers but 10 LTSB is NOT what MS wants 10 to be. Namely a platform to make money.
It simply isn't.
Windows 10 updates are out of control. They claim they intend to schedule them at proper or convenient times but they don't. The computer will just up and reboot at the most inconvenient time.
They are NOT stable, they DO break, and files DO go missing. One computer I support did the 1803 update and all the files were gone. The profile was still there, the files were gone. I found them - they were IN THE TRASH.
WHY? WHY MICROSOFT? Why did you see fit to upgrade this PC and throw away the user's files? Are you sending a message? Is it personal?
You can say the solution is Linux. For many geeks and power users that is true.
I have another solution, 4 simple letters.
LTSB
You can't outsource a plumber. Or an auto mechanic. Maybe they can find someone a little bit cheaper, but you're not competing with people on the other side of the world.
when the last plumber dies we're all in deep shit.
They don't teach kids how to swing a hammer or read a tape measure any more. They have no practical manual labor skills whatsoever. Helpless.
"There is not a single well-to-do liberal."
FTFY.
There's a whole lot in the washington DC area. Most ride in limousines.
No matter the size of computer or clustered racks of computers that make up an AI there will always be a way to turn it off. A main service disconnect. A breaker. A cable running to a building that can be cut. A fuse at a transformer up on a pole. A power plant that can be shut down.
Unless we GIVE the AI the ability to somehow guard it's own power connection there should always be at least one way to regain control from a runaway rogue AI.
TURN IT OFF.
Now, if this runaway AI gets a bank account and hires a security company to "go to XYZ coordinates and guard such and such substation with lots of guns" then we might be in trouble.
AI only has what we give it.
Most windows users think Sudo is a precursor for making meth. They've never seen a command line and think the recycle bin is just as good a place to store stuff as "My Documents."
The typical windows user doesn't know what a "Web Browser" actually is, they just think they get on "The Internet" by using "The Winderz" and think it's normal for their stack of toolbars to extend halfway down the screen.
The typical mac user doesn't know much more than that either but they feel smarter because they paid more to get on "The Internet."
(Lexus is Toyota and Acura is Honda and Infiniti is Nissan)
Most all those users have all been taken away already, by Apple.
Sure, theirs is also a walled garden, but at least the experience is user-friendly and not user-hostile.
Apple is selling the experience as much as anything else.
It's a culture. Or, rather, just a cult.
There are several of these ready-made android based Kodi stream boxes out there. In fact, you can turn a Pi 3 into a kodi box in about 20 minutes. The key is finding the right plugins for kodi and those are changing all the time.
In fact, you can put Kodi and all the plugins on linux, windows, android, really any platform.
Kodi is just a multimedia juke box platform for the local machine and your LAN, the internet streaming stuff is all by plugin.
This lawsuit will widely publicize the stream box phenomenon and only serve to hurt the content creators more. And make the lawyers rich. THAT'S IT.
I can see the end of paying for internet twice. I find it absurd to pay for home internet and also pay for mobile internet. Why can't a person pay for internet once and just use it wherever they want?
Getting a "mobile hot spot" device would allow people to pay for internet once and use it at home as well as away. There are plenty of people doing this, particularly people in rural settings where other high speed access is non-existent.
The problem is that cellular providers offer "unlimited" data but it isn't truly unlimited. They begin throttling after a paltry amount in a month, something around 20 or 25 gigs.
Also the data service is of course expensive for what you get, the up-side being it is available everywhere.
What the FCC needs to focus on is improving the world of mobile data. Encouraging the lowering of prices, increasing of speed, eliminating data caps and throttling.
My crystal ball is telling me that SOME DAY, mobile data will be all there is, paying for home-only internet service will be like having a dialup modem - long forgotten.
How many people got in trouble by following a high fat AND high sugar diet, AKA the Western Diet, and then were told by their cardiologists that "you need to follow a low fat diet, low cholesterol and low salt" and then died of stroke and other problems because the human brain is MADE OF FAT AND CHOLESTEROL and our cells rely on salt?
Come on, this is a disaster. They were fattening people up like feed lot cattle for decades. A bowl of raisin bran cereal has the same glycemic index as a can of pepsi. (or coke, if that's your brand). But that box of raisin bran has a "heart healthy" logo doesn't it?
There needs to be lawsuits. How many of our grandparents and parents were killed by this lie?
People who go "low carb" or at least avoid blatant and hidden sugars but eat high fat foods see improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol ratios, weight, triglycerides and blood sugar levels.
.. because there would be little point in showing us how morally, spiritually, and technologically primitive we are.
calm down there, Neil D Tyson.
http://sciencevibe.com/2017/01...
very very first was a Sinclair ZX81.
Then there was a Commodore 64 in there somewhere, but then we got an Apple ][+. The first PC was a Tandy 1000. I had more fun on the apple.
And how, pray tell, can you accomplish this without adding a trusted certificate on each device when the majority of websites are now (or will be) https?
Get a router with sufficient ram, (32megs or more) put on DD-WRT, add a script to block ads. I did it and it works. The info is out there and easy to find.
Still worth investigating sufficient response that's more economical.
Maybe they could contract with that shotgun-toting old woman from Virginia.
Angry redneck squad - DEPLOY!
Blackberry reported $2.38 billion in cash reserves for fiscal 2016. They might be hemorrhaging money, but they could have afforded the severance for 300 employees.
so it was just dickishness in general? A rogue dick being dickish?
It boggles my mind to think that somewhere there is a upper management or C-suite executive that hatched and implemented this scheme and went home that day thinking 'job well done'. I wonder if his wife and kids are proud of him.
Actually I think this type of behavior probably is done by groups of people (committees, boards, etc) where they can feel like it's OK - as long as nobody disagrees, everyone else is OK with it too, so it can't be THAT bad.
a room full of group think yes men (and women) could spin something like this idea to make it sound less evil than it is. Sure.
Or maybe they (BB) are hemorrhaging so much cash as they are pushed into the rubbish bin of electronics history that they were desperate to save this cash to keep the lights on. I don't know how bad off BB is but I know they are having a really bad time compared to their heyday.
"once they had accepted employment there, handed them resignation letters"
Isn't resignation something the employee hands to the employer, not the other way around? Am I missing something here, or is this just shoddy journalism?
It's sort of a "you're fired, here's your resignation letter."
It seems to be implied that there were termination benefits (Severance package) at both companies, Blackberry and also the 2nd company. By signing the resignation letters at the 2nd company they may have been bribed by some kind of severance package that is much less than what they would have got from BB.
If they refused to sign the letter they got nothing. Thus the agreement to sign a resignation letter they didn't write.
By transferring them to the second company it relieves BB from the obligations of the (assumed) much larger BB severance package.
Dirty underhanded shenanigans either way. Thus the lawsuit that I presume BB will lose.
I've had some seagate constellations fail. I've had some WDs fail. Never a WD black though... But those aren't supposed to be used in RAID even though I have used on in a RAID in a pinch.
When I buy a mechanical HD I use WD black. Shrug.