Yeah, I doubt that Microsoft is going to end this "Free" update campaign with at least one more attempt to push Windows 10 to everyone's computers like it was a security patch.
You might have trouble hounding her if she decides to hide in some 500 acre walled estate property in Marin County. With that 55 million dollar severance check, she can afford it.
What will USB-C headphone jacks do? Allow the phone manufacturers to sell $29 add-on USB-C to headphone jack adapters, naturally. That's good for their profit margins, but not good for consumers.
The third-party accessory suppliers like Belkin will like it as well, since they'll be selling these USB-C to headphone adapters as well at a slightly lower price. I'd imagine that the $9 Chinese knockoff products will soon follow, with all of the quality and reliability problems we've come to expect with third-party knockoff adapter products.
I'd agree that the average worker now is better off now than someone from 100 years ago. That said, I can't always say the same ting about the average worker compared to someone just 30 years ago.
Back in the 80's, you could still get a manufacturing job with a high school diploma that paid about $15 an hour that had decent health benefits and a retirement plan. Sure, it was hard work, but you could raise a family on it.
That same worker today will probably end up working as a Starbucks Barista or Walmart cashier working for $8 an hour with no retirement plan and a health plan that they probably can't afford. These same people end up needing food stamps to feed their family.
See, that's the thing with T-Mobile. When you're near a major highway, the reception usually fine even in rural areas. You get away from the highway and get into the boondocks, though... no coverage.
This is off-topic, but if you're really paying $56 a month for a 2 GB plan you're paying way the hell too much. You can get a Straight Talk 5 GB 4G LTE "unlimited" plan for just $45 a month in the US, with your choice of carrier SIM cards.
Seriously, is that the best name they could come up with it?
I would have went with the "Generic Glowing Space Sword" battle, which gets the point across while giving the middle finger to Disney and their copyrights.
They could have also done a Spaceballs themed Swartz battle, assuming that whoever owns that copyright also isn't an asshole.
Well, it doesn't help that we've been reading Slashdot articles about "breakthrough" advances in solar and battery technology that never went anywhere about three times a month for the past five years. It makes you jaded after a while.
What cable provider do you have? All of the cable providers in my area scramble their signal, so you NEED a cable box to watch anything. That ClearQAM signal converter in your TV is useless on most modern cable systems.
I find it hard to complain about this. Netflix is still charging less for an entire month of streaming service than what Comcast charges for a single DVR cable box rental.
The auto detection works great on most monitors, but some of them fail to return the correct resolution and refresh rate information to XOrg and then it falls back to an insanely low screen resolution like 800x600.
Yeah, I know that's not really XOrg's fault, but there should be an easier way to configure screen settings without hand editing the config files. In these cases, the GUI control panels tend to be useless and not let you choose the native screen resolution.
I wish I was that lucky. Every time I run into an issue with things like video drivers or sound drivers, the first thing they have me doing is opening up a command line and editing.conf files in vi.
You wanna scare away someone non technical from Linux for life? Show them something like xorg.conf file, and tell them that they have to edit that shit to get the screen resolution correct on their laptop.
Honestly, these things happen to me so often that I have trouble believing people who say that their Linux installs are always trouble free.
Studio apartments in San Francisco are going for what... $4,000 a month now? I think that I'd be willing to put up with a little snow to avoid writing a rent check that big.
It seems like HP got a new social media PR department to go with this new logo. I saw this story several times on Facebook, Engadget, and Reddit as well.
But, seriously, it's just a weird logo on a laptop that's too thin to be practical. Big deal. I don't want to carry around damn dongle to use an Ethernet or HDMI port!
I'm having trouble caring either way. CentOS is basically RHEL without the logos, and it's been free for years now.
Hell... at this point, I think that CentOS is even more popular than Red Hat with the various cloud hosting providers because they don't have to pay any licensing fees.
Bitcoin really hasn't increased in value over the past few years. The price spiked at over $1,000 a coin in late 2013, and then plummeted. Right now, it's still around $400 a coin, even though it's a hell of a lot harder now to "mine" one than it was 3 years ago.
Nobody never announced the official "Year of Linux on the smartphone", but it just kind of happened as Android phone adoption became more popular and overtook iOS and Blackberry device market share around 2012.
Now Google is the established player in the mobile space along with Apple, and everyone else is an also ran. Like you, I'm not sure why someone else would enter this space when the market was already matured.
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Probably, but since she doesn't use Siri...
There are several voices to choose from now. Odds are that nobody showed her how to change it.
Yeah, I doubt that Microsoft is going to end this "Free" update campaign with at least one more attempt to push Windows 10 to everyone's computers like it was a security patch.
You might have trouble hounding her if she decides to hide in some 500 acre walled estate property in Marin County. With that 55 million dollar severance check, she can afford it.
What will USB-C headphone jacks do? Allow the phone manufacturers to sell $29 add-on USB-C to headphone jack adapters, naturally. That's good for their profit margins, but not good for consumers.
The third-party accessory suppliers like Belkin will like it as well, since they'll be selling these USB-C to headphone adapters as well at a slightly lower price. I'd imagine that the $9 Chinese knockoff products will soon follow, with all of the quality and reliability problems we've come to expect with third-party knockoff adapter products.
Yeah, Verizon screwed up my last two Android phones with software updates as well. They have a bad habit of polluting their phones with bloatware.
If I got another Android phone, I'd make sure to get an unlocked Nexus phone as well and just put the carrier SIM card in it.
Wasn't the last DEC Alpha server built around 1998? If you still have one of those running in a production setting, I feel sad for you.
Try out that new Doom Beta on a four old GPU. Trust me, you'll want to upgrade.
I'd agree that the average worker now is better off now than someone from 100 years ago. That said, I can't always say the same ting about the average worker compared to someone just 30 years ago.
Back in the 80's, you could still get a manufacturing job with a high school diploma that paid about $15 an hour that had decent health benefits and a retirement plan. Sure, it was hard work, but you could raise a family on it.
That same worker today will probably end up working as a Starbucks Barista or Walmart cashier working for $8 an hour with no retirement plan and a health plan that they probably can't afford. These same people end up needing food stamps to feed their family.
See, that's the thing with T-Mobile. When you're near a major highway, the reception usually fine even in rural areas. You get away from the highway and get into the boondocks, though... no coverage.
This is off-topic, but if you're really paying $56 a month for a 2 GB plan you're paying way the hell too much. You can get a Straight Talk 5 GB 4G LTE "unlimited" plan for just $45 a month in the US, with your choice of carrier SIM cards.
I used to have T-Mobile, and I found that my data coverage basically disappeared when I was more than 5 miles away from a major highway.
It seemed to be faster than AT&T when I was in an urban area, though.
Seriously, is that the best name they could come up with it?
I would have went with the "Generic Glowing Space Sword" battle, which gets the point across while giving the middle finger to Disney and their copyrights.
They could have also done a Spaceballs themed Swartz battle, assuming that whoever owns that copyright also isn't an asshole.
Well, it doesn't help that we've been reading Slashdot articles about "breakthrough" advances in solar and battery technology that never went anywhere about three times a month for the past five years. It makes you jaded after a while.
What cable provider do you have? All of the cable providers in my area scramble their signal, so you NEED a cable box to watch anything. That ClearQAM signal converter in your TV is useless on most modern cable systems.
I find it hard to complain about this. Netflix is still charging less for an entire month of streaming service than what Comcast charges for a single DVR cable box rental.
The auto detection works great on most monitors, but some of them fail to return the correct resolution and refresh rate information to XOrg and then it falls back to an insanely low screen resolution like 800x600.
Yeah, I know that's not really XOrg's fault, but there should be an easier way to configure screen settings without hand editing the config files. In these cases, the GUI control panels tend to be useless and not let you choose the native screen resolution.
I wish I was that lucky. Every time I run into an issue with things like video drivers or sound drivers, the first thing they have me doing is opening up a command line and editing .conf files in vi.
You wanna scare away someone non technical from Linux for life? Show them something like xorg.conf file, and tell them that they have to edit that shit to get the screen resolution correct on their laptop.
Honestly, these things happen to me so often that I have trouble believing people who say that their Linux installs are always trouble free.
Sadly, I have bosses like this. If it's not an "app", it's not consider to be "cool" software and the project probably won't get approved.
Studio apartments in San Francisco are going for what... $4,000 a month now? I think that I'd be willing to put up with a little snow to avoid writing a rent check that big.
It seems like HP got a new social media PR department to go with this new logo. I saw this story several times on Facebook, Engadget, and Reddit as well.
But, seriously, it's just a weird logo on a laptop that's too thin to be practical. Big deal. I don't want to carry around damn dongle to use an Ethernet or HDMI port!
I'm having trouble caring either way. CentOS is basically RHEL without the logos, and it's been free for years now.
Hell... at this point, I think that CentOS is even more popular than Red Hat with the various cloud hosting providers because they don't have to pay any licensing fees.
Bitcoin really hasn't increased in value over the past few years. The price spiked at over $1,000 a coin in late 2013, and then plummeted. Right now, it's still around $400 a coin, even though it's a hell of a lot harder now to "mine" one than it was 3 years ago.
Those are called "smartphones" now. Most of the higher-end models have 5+ inch screens.
I'm not sure why you would want to, but maybe you can install Ubuntu on one of those?
Nobody never announced the official "Year of Linux on the smartphone", but it just kind of happened as Android phone adoption became more popular and overtook iOS and Blackberry device market share around 2012.
Now Google is the established player in the mobile space along with Apple, and everyone else is an also ran. Like you, I'm not sure why someone else would enter this space when the market was already matured.