A Toyota isn't intended to be as general-purpose as a PC (and it still might be possible to fit one with a subaru engine). A Toyota is a vehicle, which is manufactured BY Toyota. A PC may be manufactured by pretty-much-f***ing-anyone, and shouldn't be restricted to a given operating system.
That's actually a good example of it. Many of the non-technical people might not know about that, but *lots* of technical people (like myself) do, and lots of those non-technical people ask others (like myself) what to look for in laptops. I used to recommend Lenovo or Asus, now I'll just recommend Asus.
A lot of people *CHOOSE* Teksavvy because they're known to support privacy, and offer better customer service than competitors (up to a point, they're still subject to the same shitty service from the line providers). When I was in eastern Canada I chose them for those reasons as well.
Maybe it costs to take the trolls to court, but what price-tag do you put on your reputation?
News at 11... companies promote their own products. If other companies DON'T want Google to aggregate data, they can block Google. But they DO want Google traffic, they just want to be #1 in the traffic as well.
They're still in the list, but I don't see anything that says they have a right to be #1.
The big guys, no. But they do actually catch the little guys, usually the stupid ones. Single guy coming back from a solo trip to certain south-east-Asian countries... but still surprised when they ask to see his phone and camera photos? Deeeerp.
What gets me is that they're declaring bankruptcy in Canada as a separate entity (meaning the parent corp isn't liable) whilst the parent corp in the USA is simultaneously declaring a loss for tax purposes as losses from that same bankruptcy. So really, both Canadians *AND* Americans are getting f***'ed here.
It doesn't have to be a full exclusive, that's where the "limited" comes in. Just make it a release-exclusive, which will reel in the fanboys/fangirls, but allow a more broad release a few months etc down the road.
Smartphones/tablet may be a good fit for Nintendo. People don't buy Nintendo for their console tech (though the wiimote was neat in the beginning), they buy because they make fun games and have a good history of releasing fun games in their key series (Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Donkey Kong Country), as well sometimes coming up with new fun stuff.
They're more of a games company than a console company, but they're also control freaks. Hopefully this is a sign of positive change.
So really, this should be OK if the impact lines up with the penalty. So you want to charge the rich dick who speeds in his fancy BMW more because $100 is probably how much he spends on his morning latte, that's fine. But if the guy who's barely scraping together rent at minimum wage gets nicked for doing 10 over on his way to work (late), will he also get a lesser penalty? That would only seem equitable, after all
I wonder how the partner in a relationship would feel about this. On one hand, your man now hasequipment back. On the other, he's using somebody else's tool on you...
HP also does this (or at least it did last time I tried to upgrade a NIC on an HP laptop). It wouldn't accept an Intel Wifi NIC from a non-HP machine, though it did accept a faster NIC from another HP.
A lot of the real-world tough stuff can apply to video games (but often doesn't because as you say, it's computationally hard to do realtime). However, some stuff like physics modelling did start to take off when it finally got adopted in games. Similarly, a lot of fluid dynamics/simulations are being looked at to improve game realism (which is useful for stuff from water flow to realistic body movement such as fat, breasts, or buttocks).
Didn't nVidia recently contribute a bug fix for compiz that has been around for ages, but that the Compiz team didn't address?
If NV is doing things a standard/accepted way and it's having issues, it could be that both nouveau and Xorg simply work with the non-standard way. It's quite possible that the Nouveau driver is just using some kludge that doesn't hit this bug.
Well, it depends on where your "local" is. A 4c change in the Arctic is probably not going to end well, and there are many places where a notable change would propagate into global or large-region weather pattern changes.
What's the the actual bus speed for Thunderbolt? What I'd like to see is dock etc for laptops that support video cards. How about a dock with a upgradable video chip built-in, while the laptop's internal card is something more power-friendly (similar to how the hybrid Intel+Nvidia/AMD modes work already).
Better yet, have a dock or device that takes a standard slim PCIe video card, so you can put whatever card you want. Once you dock the laptop (or even one of those hybrid netbook/tablets), you're outputting to a nice fast GPU and the connected monitors etc. That gives you a machine that good on the go and can be used for gaming or media at home.
I don't think this is a "tried to" at all, just look at the permissions a lot of stuff asks for.
Facebook, a bunch of EA games, Angry Birds, etc all ask for insane permissions ranging from your full contact list, to seeing who you are on a call with to accessing the microphone. It's a spook's wet-dream.
I've avoided "upgrading" my Nexus 7 due to stories similar to your own. Is there an option to set updates to "F off and die" rather than "constantly annoy me with notifications on availability" ?
There's worthless if stolen as a phone, but still quite useful for parts. Similar to vehicles, it's not uncommon for more "professional" thiefs to disassemble an item shortly after theft and sell the stripped parts. An LCD+digitizer is still worth money, as are various other components, and like the tires/engine/etc from a stolen vehicle it's a lot easier to unload the pieces than the full item (as a relative of mine who was the victim of a vehicle theft recently discovered).
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A Toyota isn't intended to be as general-purpose as a PC (and it still might be possible to fit one with a subaru engine). A Toyota is a vehicle, which is manufactured BY Toyota. A PC may be manufactured by pretty-much-f***ing-anyone, and shouldn't be restricted to a given operating system.
That's actually a good example of it. Many of the non-technical people might not know about that, but *lots* of technical people (like myself) do, and lots of those non-technical people ask others (like myself) what to look for in laptops. I used to recommend Lenovo or Asus, now I'll just recommend Asus.
A lot of people *CHOOSE* Teksavvy because they're known to support privacy, and offer better customer service than competitors (up to a point, they're still subject to the same shitty service from the line providers). When I was in eastern Canada I chose them for those reasons as well.
Maybe it costs to take the trolls to court, but what price-tag do you put on your reputation?
Not a strawman at all.
News at 11... companies promote their own products. If other companies DON'T want Google to aggregate data, they can block Google. But they DO want Google traffic, they just want to be #1 in the traffic as well.
They're still in the list, but I don't see anything that says they have a right to be #1.
The big guys, no. But they do actually catch the little guys, usually the stupid ones.
Single guy coming back from a solo trip to certain south-east-Asian countries... but still surprised when they ask to see his phone and camera photos? Deeeerp.
What gets me is that they're declaring bankruptcy in Canada as a separate entity (meaning the parent corp isn't liable) whilst the parent corp in the USA is simultaneously declaring a loss for tax purposes as losses from that same bankruptcy. So really, both Canadians *AND* Americans are getting f***'ed here.
It doesn't have to be a full exclusive, that's where the "limited" comes in.
Just make it a release-exclusive, which will reel in the fanboys/fangirls, but allow a more broad release a few months etc down the road.
"Valve has no commercial interest in making Half-Life 3"
Unless they use it to drive something else. Sometimes like... say... a Valve console, with a limited exclusive of HL3 at launch...
On the other hand, we DON'T want another "duke nukum forever" ....
Smartphones/tablet may be a good fit for Nintendo. People don't buy Nintendo for their console tech (though the wiimote was neat in the beginning), they buy because they make fun games and have a good history of releasing fun games in their key series (Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Donkey Kong Country), as well sometimes coming up with new fun stuff.
They're more of a games company than a console company, but they're also control freaks. Hopefully this is a sign of positive change.
Barring extreme senility, disease, or other physical condition, some people are never not "still dangerous."
So really, this should be OK if the impact lines up with the penalty. So you want to charge the rich dick who speeds in his fancy BMW more because $100 is probably how much he spends on his morning latte, that's fine. But if the guy who's barely scraping together rent at minimum wage gets nicked for doing 10 over on his way to work (late), will he also get a lesser penalty? That would only seem equitable, after all
I wonder how the partner in a relationship would feel about this. On one hand, your man now hasequipment back. On the other, he's using somebody else's tool on you...
"This transplant is great, the thing hardly feels used, but I don't understand why I get a hardon whenever I walk by a furry convention!?"
If spyware is active on the running OS, then encryption is pretty much useless... just sayin'/
HP also does this (or at least it did last time I tried to upgrade a NIC on an HP laptop). It wouldn't accept an Intel Wifi NIC from a non-HP machine, though it did accept a faster NIC from another HP.
A lot of the real-world tough stuff can apply to video games (but often doesn't because as you say, it's computationally hard to do realtime). However, some stuff like physics modelling did start to take off when it finally got adopted in games. Similarly, a lot of fluid dynamics/simulations are being looked at to improve game realism (which is useful for stuff from water flow to realistic body movement such as fat, breasts, or buttocks).
Didn't nVidia recently contribute a bug fix for compiz that has been around for ages, but that the Compiz team didn't address?
If NV is doing things a standard/accepted way and it's having issues, it could be that both nouveau and Xorg simply work with the non-standard way. It's quite possible that the Nouveau driver is just using some kludge that doesn't hit this bug.
Well, it depends on where your "local" is. A 4c change in the Arctic is probably not going to end well, and there are many places where a notable change would propagate into global or large-region weather pattern changes.
"How did these get through submission moderation?"
I'm fairly sure the "is for parent company article" filter passed those onward.
Or sufficiently strong/advanced that they don't have any great worries about doing so.
If they can mess with the output levels of stars then they might qualify...
What's the the actual bus speed for Thunderbolt? What I'd like to see is dock etc for laptops that support video cards. How about a dock with a upgradable video chip built-in, while the laptop's internal card is something more power-friendly (similar to how the hybrid Intel+Nvidia/AMD modes work already).
Better yet, have a dock or device that takes a standard slim PCIe video card, so you can put whatever card you want. Once you dock the laptop (or even one of those hybrid netbook/tablets), you're outputting to a nice fast GPU and the connected monitors etc. That gives you a machine that good on the go and can be used for gaming or media at home.
I don't think this is a "tried to" at all, just look at the permissions a lot of stuff asks for.
Facebook, a bunch of EA games, Angry Birds, etc all ask for insane permissions ranging from your full contact list, to seeing who you are on a call with to accessing the microphone. It's a spook's wet-dream.
I've avoided "upgrading" my Nexus 7 due to stories similar to your own.
Is there an option to set updates to "F off and die" rather than "constantly annoy me with notifications on availability" ?
There's worthless if stolen as a phone, but still quite useful for parts. Similar to vehicles, it's not uncommon for more "professional" thiefs to disassemble an item shortly after theft and sell the stripped parts. An LCD+digitizer is still worth money, as are various other components, and like the tires/engine/etc from a stolen vehicle it's a lot easier to unload the pieces than the full item (as a relative of mine who was the victim of a vehicle theft recently discovered).