Netflix already has commercials, sort of. Many of Netflix's shows have been doing product placements of things like Apple products for years now, and they have advertising for certain shows built into the home page of their web site and applications. Surely you must have noticed that Netflix always promotes their own shows before they show other content now.
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu on a PC that's old enough (2001-2009) to have come with a pre installed version of Windows XP. You're probably going to have a bad time because of the slow CPU and not enough memory.
Sure, you can turn the ads off, but you really shouldn't HAVE to. If you paid for your copy of Windows, the display of advertising should be disabled by default. Make that shit Opt In, not Opt Out.
Now, if it's one of those "free" upgrade installs to Windows 10, I guess that I'm OK with that. Anyone with half a brain should know by now that nothing that Microsoft makes is truly free.
I can always count on getting a bunch of "the time on my device is wrong!" support calls around this time of year because some moron didn't configure the correct time zone when the system was configured. You can't just configure GMT+2 (for example) and call it a day, guys... each country has it's own stupid DST rules with different start and stop dates.
It's also a pain to manually change my clocks at home as well. It's 2017... wasn't this problem supposed to be solved by now?!? The IoT "revolution" should have insured that any device made in the last five years that uses electricity should already be connected to a network time server.
Yeah... Instagram was doing cheesy picture filters long before Snapchat existed. I think that the only real "innovation" that Snapchat has offered was messages that self-destructed. Everything else was ripped off from several different IM products, including Facebook's products like Whatsapp and Messenger.
Except now we have to add correcthorsebatterystaple to the banned password list because of all of the smartasses who started using that as their password because they thought it was cool. Way to miss the point, guys.
Well, you can always go to AWS and get that X1 32xlarge instance. At just $18 an hour running Windows, I heard that it makes a great Minecraft or Wordpress server.
It would be nice of the Chinese could land in the same location(s) as the US did just to prove that we were there first.
You know, for those people who don't believe that we put a mirror up there and we have been bouncing laser beams off of it to accurately measure the distance of the moon from us.
Based off of what we saw in the Ryzen benchmarks, the new Zen CPU architecture is really good at handling multi-threaded workloads. That doesn't help Joe Sixpack much when he's surfing the web or playing Call Of Duty, but it will help with highly threaded server applications like Java application servers and databases.
Maybe AMD should have done the server CPU's first and then did the desktop models. There is probably more profit margin in the Enterprise market anyway.
Where is the added profit in using an industry standard 2.5mm headphone jack? Apple wants you to buy their more expensive and proprietary Lightning port earbuds or wireless Airpods instead.
Rumor has it that the next iPhone will be USB-C, but I wouldn't be suprised if they added some proprietary protocols that require Apple/Beats branded headphones or earbuds for that as well.
Back in 2009, I had 4 TV's hooked up in my house. Now I only have 3, and just two of them have cable boxes attached to them.
The big reason for this was the increase in fees that the cable and telco companies charge for "HD" cable boxes. The old SD cable boxes only costed about $3 a month each, but the HD ones cost about $9 a month. If you want an HD DVR, that's more like $12 a month. The price inflation on the rental prices for this equipment is insane. You don't really have a choice about getting them, either, as almost every channel over the cable line is encrypted now. If you have a telco TV service like FIOS, there really IS no way to connect your TV directly to the cable line.
When you see those $180 cable bills showing up, you start thinking about how many TV's you REALLY need. Besides, I can just hook a projector up to my laptop if I want to watch something on Netflix.
Yeah, what's the deal with all of the posts that are titled with a question lately? That's starting to get annoying, especially since the answer for everyone has been some variation of "No" "Hell No" or (in this case) "Why in the hell are you even bothering to ask?"
You gotta root for Sprint and T-Mobile. Their networks still kind of suck in rural areas, but at least the competitive pricing of their plans are helping to stop the $10 per GB "data raping" of at&t and Verizon customers.
For all of those "Chrome is draining your battery faster than Edge would" notification messages in the Windows notification center when you use Chrome with Windows 10.
That tactic just seems slimy to me. It seems that Microsoft is once again trying to exploit their near monopoly of desktop PC OS's to regain browser market share.
Apple tends to let others release new "innovations" first, and then released improved versions of those innovations that are more stable and easier to use.
People seem to forget that Apple didn't invent the smartphone, or even the first smartphone with a touch screen. Microsoft had "Windows Mobile" products years before Apple, but they were unstable and difficult to use. They basically were a mess because they tried to cram a Windows XP style UI onto a 3.5" screen.
Same deal with the tablet. There were plenty of touch screen tablets before the iPad came out, but most of them had a crummy UI and lousy battery life. Apple fixed most of those issues.
Yeah, I've been to my fair share of technical classes where the self practice projects were broken to the point where they couldn't be completed.
Some proper QA testing would probably catch that, but most companies seem to be cheaping out on proper QA now. Sure, why not try a "public beta" first to work out the bugs.
There are flavors of Linux that are end user friendly, like Android or ChromeOS.
Distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat aren't even close, however. Even now, the UI's seem to be designed to only handle about 90% of common configuration options, with the remaining 10% still requiring users to log onto the command line with sudo/root access or edit obscure configuration files to resolve problems like driver issues.
Sorry guys, but most end users even more afraid of the command line now than they were 10 years ago. If you require users to do this to solve a problem, you've failed at your job as a UI designer.
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Netflix already has commercials, sort of. Many of Netflix's shows have been doing product placements of things like Apple products for years now, and they have advertising for certain shows built into the home page of their web site and applications. Surely you must have noticed that Netflix always promotes their own shows before they show other content now.
Really? I thought that almost every cell phone plan in existence that costs more than $15 a month has unlimited messaging now.
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu on a PC that's old enough (2001-2009) to have come with a pre installed version of Windows XP. You're probably going to have a bad time because of the slow CPU and not enough memory.
Lubuntu would be a better choice.
Sure, you can turn the ads off, but you really shouldn't HAVE to. If you paid for your copy of Windows, the display of advertising should be disabled by default. Make that shit Opt In, not Opt Out.
Now, if it's one of those "free" upgrade installs to Windows 10, I guess that I'm OK with that. Anyone with half a brain should know by now that nothing that Microsoft makes is truly free.
I can always count on getting a bunch of "the time on my device is wrong!" support calls around this time of year because some moron didn't configure the correct time zone when the system was configured. You can't just configure GMT+2 (for example) and call it a day, guys... each country has it's own stupid DST rules with different start and stop dates.
It's also a pain to manually change my clocks at home as well. It's 2017... wasn't this problem supposed to be solved by now?!? The IoT "revolution" should have insured that any device made in the last five years that uses electricity should already be connected to a network time server.
Yeah... Instagram was doing cheesy picture filters long before Snapchat existed. I think that the only real "innovation" that Snapchat has offered was messages that self-destructed. Everything else was ripped off from several different IM products, including Facebook's products like Whatsapp and Messenger.
Except now we have to add correcthorsebatterystaple to the banned password list because of all of the smartasses who started using that as their password because they thought it was cool. Way to miss the point, guys.
Well, you can always go to AWS and get that X1 32xlarge instance. At just $18 an hour running Windows, I heard that it makes a great Minecraft or Wordpress server.
It would be nice of the Chinese could land in the same location(s) as the US did just to prove that we were there first.
You know, for those people who don't believe that we put a mirror up there and we have been bouncing laser beams off of it to accurately measure the distance of the moon from us.
Ah, ReiserFS. Now THAT was a killer file system.
Whatever happened to that one?
I think that the poster meant lower power server chips for devices like NAS boxes and routers, but not mobile parts. I could be wrong, though.
Based off of what we saw in the Ryzen benchmarks, the new Zen CPU architecture is really good at handling multi-threaded workloads. That doesn't help Joe Sixpack much when he's surfing the web or playing Call Of Duty, but it will help with highly threaded server applications like Java application servers and databases.
Maybe AMD should have done the server CPU's first and then did the desktop models. There is probably more profit margin in the Enterprise market anyway.
Where is the added profit in using an industry standard 2.5mm headphone jack? Apple wants you to buy their more expensive and proprietary Lightning port earbuds or wireless Airpods instead.
Rumor has it that the next iPhone will be USB-C, but I wouldn't be suprised if they added some proprietary protocols that require Apple/Beats branded headphones or earbuds for that as well.
Back in 2009, I had 4 TV's hooked up in my house. Now I only have 3, and just two of them have cable boxes attached to them.
The big reason for this was the increase in fees that the cable and telco companies charge for "HD" cable boxes. The old SD cable boxes only costed about $3 a month each, but the HD ones cost about $9 a month. If you want an HD DVR, that's more like $12 a month. The price inflation on the rental prices for this equipment is insane. You don't really have a choice about getting them, either, as almost every channel over the cable line is encrypted now. If you have a telco TV service like FIOS, there really IS no way to connect your TV directly to the cable line.
When you see those $180 cable bills showing up, you start thinking about how many TV's you REALLY need. Besides, I can just hook a projector up to my laptop if I want to watch something on Netflix.
Our mobile app hosts most of it's images in S3. We're basically displaying blank screens to our customers right now.
Yeah, what's the deal with all of the posts that are titled with a question lately? That's starting to get annoying, especially since the answer for everyone has been some variation of "No" "Hell No" or (in this case) "Why in the hell are you even bothering to ask?"
You gotta root for Sprint and T-Mobile. Their networks still kind of suck in rural areas, but at least the competitive pricing of their plans are helping to stop the $10 per GB "data raping" of at&t and Verizon customers.
For all of those "Chrome is draining your battery faster than Edge would" notification messages in the Windows notification center when you use Chrome with Windows 10.
That tactic just seems slimy to me. It seems that Microsoft is once again trying to exploit their near monopoly of desktop PC OS's to regain browser market share.
Apple tends to let others release new "innovations" first, and then released improved versions of those innovations that are more stable and easier to use.
People seem to forget that Apple didn't invent the smartphone, or even the first smartphone with a touch screen. Microsoft had "Windows Mobile" products years before Apple, but they were unstable and difficult to use. They basically were a mess because they tried to cram a Windows XP style UI onto a 3.5" screen.
Same deal with the tablet. There were plenty of touch screen tablets before the iPad came out, but most of them had a crummy UI and lousy battery life. Apple fixed most of those issues.
Basically every new chemical substance is blamed for increasing cancer risk a few months after it's released out to the public.
Sometimes it's true, but it's usually a class action law firm looking for a big pay day. Sad, really.
Yeah, I've been to my fair share of technical classes where the self practice projects were broken to the point where they couldn't be completed.
Some proper QA testing would probably catch that, but most companies seem to be cheaping out on proper QA now. Sure, why not try a "public beta" first to work out the bugs.
There are flavors of Linux that are end user friendly, like Android or ChromeOS.
Distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat aren't even close, however. Even now, the UI's seem to be designed to only handle about 90% of common configuration options, with the remaining 10% still requiring users to log onto the command line with sudo/root access or edit obscure configuration files to resolve problems like driver issues.
Sorry guys, but most end users even more afraid of the command line now than they were 10 years ago. If you require users to do this to solve a problem, you've failed at your job as a UI designer.
The rule on presidential gifts says that if the gift is worth more than something like $300, it has to go into the National Archive.
Boy... I hope that they poke some air holes in the box that they store him in.
And I'm sure that the fifteen other people who bought that phone really appreciate that feature.
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