If only I could buy one of these cars directly from the manufacture. Sadly many states are banning that and forcing you to go through a middleman dealership which adds cost.
Went with the Nexus 6 right from the Google Play store.
Sure you can root and remove them as I did on my Note 2. You can get cool custom ROMS even, but my Note 2 was still pretty powerful but ROM makers moved on and it was getting less and less support.
At the same time, that polish means we increasingly cast off the quirky, unique, or memorable experiences that the older MMOs did provide (even if they did so mostly by accident).
There's a reason that WOW is the only what I'm going to call "AAA" MMO. No MMO since has come close to its subscriber numbers. WOW peaked at 12 million subscribers and the closest competition can't even peak at a tenth of that. (So by "AAA" I mean active player counts in the millions rather than in the hundreds of thousands.)
WoW is still top mainly because with ever new MMORPG launch, players expect it to be as smooth and refined as WoW. This will NEVER happen. WoW has had 10 years to fine tune everything from character control to server stability. When new games launch and people can't login at all within the first 1-2 weeks they tend to give up and move on calling the game a POS.
Oh and one other MAJOR factor that keeps WoW so strong, the game's ability to allow custom addons. That and Blizzards openness with allowing websites to use game images and even go as far as connect to the battle.net API to pull so much character, guild and item data and display it on your own web sites without having to pay Blizzard.
In my opinion, one of the best games out there now is Final Fantasy XIV: ARR. Game is smooth, lots of options, amazing graphics. I just wish more of my other online buddies would play.
Ingress is different. With Ingress, you're playing with real people in real space.
This made me giggle. When I played there would so many people cheating in various ways it made me pretty sad and angry. One guy bragged about having 8+ accounts that he played all from his house spoofing. If one got banned he didn't care because he has others and would just power level another one up within a day.
I quit because of two reasons, Players cheating (on both sides) and Niantic being very disorganized with how it would pick and choose which rules to enforce.
That's primarily to less-in the damage from malware and virii from sending out mail and forcing people to go though the ISP's mail server. Most mail host will also open smtp on a second port to get around this.
I never heard of anybody ever being "cut off" for doing this.
Yet..
If the big 2some Comcast and Verizon get their way with net neutrality then you can be sure this will be on their list of pipes to control. I'm already shocked they haven't tried blocking all internet ports and selling various ones in packages. Oh you want FTP? then you need to upgrade your Internet package to the next tier. You want VoIP port 5060? I'm sorry you can't have that. It directly competes with our own telephone service.
They wanted to charge my parents to run to a pole half way up their driveway, about 500ft. Cable that was there at one time but got ripped down by a passing truck and never restored. I got on the phone with them and they agreed to run the cable at no cost.
You should tell them to run the damn cable and get minimum of 1 new customer, don't run it and have 0 chance of ever getting new customers.
On a side note, Charter net speeds, pings and overall quality for my have been near perfect. I easily pull 7.5MB (the 60mbit) that they offer me any time day and night. My gaming pings are some of the lowest I have ever had from 8ms to 23ms for various games.
I see it the other way around... If the domain is part of some financial institution or doing any type of selling and so on and IS listed as private then that's a red flag and means stay away.
This will just lead to even more false information and cheap post office box rentals to cover tracks.
There are also those that feel like they may lose their game unless they have a physical copy. Personally I feel like companies that offer digital copies of anything should be required to always have a copy of what you paid for available for as long as you are alive. They should also never have the right to take it away. It's not like Blizzard has a right to come into my home and take back the Warcraft 2 install CDs I have after all.
First thing that went though my mind was, "What about people selling things on Ebay or Esty like sites?" Those websites take a cut of each sale. Could this not consider them employees as well?
Not sure if you're talking about the freezing of the keyboard app or OTA updates so here are 2 replies:
Keyboard part
You can root your phone then freeze the Samsung keyboard app using Titanium Backup.
Also it is true as I'm looking at an un-rooted Samsung tablet and you CAN NOT disable/freeze the Samsung keyboard. I also just walked to to my co-workers desk who has the Galaxy S6 (un-rooted) and it's exactly the same. You CAN NOT disable the Samsung keyboard on un-rooted devices.
OTA updates to rooted devices.
If you ONLY root then you should be able to still get OTA updates. The second you install a custom recovery, which a lot of rooting methods do, then you can no longer receive OTA updates.
These are pre-install bloatware that can NOT be disabled or uninstalled. They are also hidden on the app store to prevent non-samsung owners from installing them. They DO update via the normal Google Play store. * Samsung Security Policy Update * Samsung Video * Video Editor * Photo Editor * Samsung Hub * Samsung keyboard Note 3/10.1 (Not the same as the 'Samsung keyboard' app but might work together)
As long as you freeze the included keyboard as well, yes.
Which you can't do, at least not on my Samsung tablet. You can not uncheck the "Samsung keyboard" under Language and input in settings nor can you turn off (or disable/freeze) the Samsung keyboard app. Both options are grayed out.
You would have to root your phone to get around this at which point you will no longer get OTA update and patches.
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If only I could buy one of these cars directly from the manufacture. Sadly many states are banning that and forcing you to go through a middleman dealership which adds cost.
You expose a backdoor that the current in-power government was going to use to win the election.
Wanna bet Geoblocking will be illegal soon? I'm betting the media companies already have lobbyist with suitcases full of cash on planes to Australia.
Went with the Nexus 6 right from the Google Play store.
Sure you can root and remove them as I did on my Note 2. You can get cool custom ROMS even, but my Note 2 was still pretty powerful but ROM makers moved on and it was getting less and less support.
Should watch this video from Slavoj iek about political correctness. Man makes some pretty amazing points.
https://youtu.be/5dNbWGaaxWM
Can't watch the video, but I'll just say this:
At the same time, that polish means we increasingly cast off the quirky, unique, or memorable experiences that the older MMOs did provide (even if they did so mostly by accident).
There's a reason that WOW is the only what I'm going to call "AAA" MMO. No MMO since has come close to its subscriber numbers. WOW peaked at 12 million subscribers and the closest competition can't even peak at a tenth of that. (So by "AAA" I mean active player counts in the millions rather than in the hundreds of thousands.)
WoW is still top mainly because with ever new MMORPG launch, players expect it to be as smooth and refined as WoW. This will NEVER happen. WoW has had 10 years to fine tune everything from character control to server stability. When new games launch and people can't login at all within the first 1-2 weeks they tend to give up and move on calling the game a POS.
Oh and one other MAJOR factor that keeps WoW so strong, the game's ability to allow custom addons. That and Blizzards openness with allowing websites to use game images and even go as far as connect to the battle.net API to pull so much character, guild and item data and display it on your own web sites without having to pay Blizzard.
In my opinion, one of the best games out there now is Final Fantasy XIV: ARR. Game is smooth, lots of options, amazing graphics. I just wish more of my other online buddies would play.
Ingress is different. With Ingress, you're playing with real people in real space.
This made me giggle. When I played there would so many people cheating in various ways it made me pretty sad and angry. One guy bragged about having 8+ accounts that he played all from his house spoofing. If one got banned he didn't care because he has others and would just power level another one up within a day.
I quit because of two reasons, Players cheating (on both sides) and Niantic being very disorganized with how it would pick and choose which rules to enforce.
That's primarily to less-in the damage from malware and virii from sending out mail and forcing people to go though the ISP's mail server. Most mail host will also open smtp on a second port to get around this.
I guess it's a good thing there are only ten of thousands and not hundreds of thousands or millions... Shouldn't take long to replace them all.
I never heard of anybody ever being "cut off" for doing this.
Yet..
If the big 2some Comcast and Verizon get their way with net neutrality then you can be sure this will be on their list of pipes to control. I'm already shocked they haven't tried blocking all internet ports and selling various ones in packages. Oh you want FTP? then you need to upgrade your Internet package to the next tier. You want VoIP port 5060? I'm sorry you can't have that. It directly competes with our own telephone service.
In Linuxland, every release is a first alpha version. You're not given support and are expected to be a developer and fix everything yourself.
P.S. I still love you linux.
Because the companies (malware produces in this case) would scream and kick fowl.
Keep fighting with them. You will win.
They wanted to charge my parents to run to a pole half way up their driveway, about 500ft. Cable that was there at one time but got ripped down by a passing truck and never restored. I got on the phone with them and they agreed to run the cable at no cost.
You should tell them to run the damn cable and get minimum of 1 new customer, don't run it and have 0 chance of ever getting new customers.
On a side note, Charter net speeds, pings and overall quality for my have been near perfect. I easily pull 7.5MB (the 60mbit) that they offer me any time day and night. My gaming pings are some of the lowest I have ever had from 8ms to 23ms for various games.
I see it the other way around... If the domain is part of some financial institution or doing any type of selling and so on and IS listed as private then that's a red flag and means stay away.
This will just lead to even more false information and cheap post office box rentals to cover tracks.
Maybe your joke or comment went over my head but I think you have it backwards.
Domains part of commercial activities or financial transactions can not be shown as private. Us little peons still can have them as private.
Collector's limited edition maybe?
There are also those that feel like they may lose their game unless they have a physical copy. Personally I feel like companies that offer digital copies of anything should be required to always have a copy of what you paid for available for as long as you are alive. They should also never have the right to take it away. It's not like Blizzard has a right to come into my home and take back the Warcraft 2 install CDs I have after all.
Appears fine to me...
Those are not ASOP Android problems, they are Samsung's modified Android problems with Samsung's software.
Make your own site and pull the data via rss
You have to jump though some pretty shitty loops at my local library to prove you're a city tax payer. If you're not then you can't use the computers.
And worse, getting rid of the rounded corner on the upper left of stories on the main page.
Man this jut drove me over the edge.. I'm going scream and kick like a 2 year old till I get my 2003 version of /. back.
Who's with me?
First thing that went though my mind was, "What about people selling things on Ebay or Esty like sites?" Those websites take a cut of each sale. Could this not consider them employees as well?
Not sure if you're talking about the freezing of the keyboard app or OTA updates so here are 2 replies:
Keyboard part
You can root your phone then freeze the Samsung keyboard app using Titanium Backup.
Also it is true as I'm looking at an un-rooted Samsung tablet and you CAN NOT disable/freeze the Samsung keyboard. I also just walked to to my co-workers desk who has the Galaxy S6 (un-rooted) and it's exactly the same. You CAN NOT disable the Samsung keyboard on un-rooted devices.
OTA updates to rooted devices.
If you ONLY root then you should be able to still get OTA updates. The second you install a custom recovery, which a lot of rooting methods do, then you can no longer receive OTA updates.
You do realize Samsung has their own store, and isn't interested in your access to Google's, right?
You do realize that many of the pre-installed bloatware Samsung made apps are updated via the google play store right? Let me list just a few..
These are pre-install bloatware that can be disabled but not uninstalled. They also show up while searching the app store.
Samsung Link
Samsung Push Service
Samsung Print Service Plugin
These are pre-install bloatware that can NOT be disabled or uninstalled. They are also hidden on the app store to prevent non-samsung owners from installing them. They DO update via the normal Google Play store.
* Samsung Security Policy Update
* Samsung Video
* Video Editor
* Photo Editor
* Samsung Hub
* Samsung keyboard Note 3/10.1 (Not the same as the 'Samsung keyboard' app but might work together)
As long as you freeze the included keyboard as well, yes.
Which you can't do, at least not on my Samsung tablet. You can not uncheck the "Samsung keyboard" under Language and input in settings nor can you turn off (or disable/freeze) the Samsung keyboard app. Both options are grayed out.
You would have to root your phone to get around this at which point you will no longer get OTA update and patches.