Yeah, I think that the advertisers (and Google seems to be particularly bad at this) really need to crack down on certain obviously-misleading ads. I've seen a creeping increase in the "Green Download Button" ads, which really serve no other purpose than to mislead people on download pages into downloading and installing the *wrong* product (generally malware).
I got that, but the whole thing is predicate upon apple breaking their "thinner and simpler outward design is more elegant (and better)" concept, which I can't see them doing.
Unless the new phone has a lense that's more susceptible to damage, I'm not sure how useful this is. Almost every incident of damaged iPhones I've seen is a cracked front screen (digitizer/LCD), not a broken camera lense.
Actually, that's a good question. I also wonder about the reimbursement for the car. Around here, you need to be insured "for business use." The insurance is still your own, though. I'm not sure that most pizza kids can afford the extra cost of "business use" insurance, so they're probably SOL in a lot of cases.
All because people are too lazy or too fat to turn around in their seat and look behind them or check their side mirrors.
Or they drive a vehicle where the mirror coverage sucks. I could see this being useful in vehicles with large blind spots (RV's, trucks with canopy, etc). Even with my mid-sized car, a few years ago I backed into a post that was just at bumper level. I couldn't see that in any mirror or window, but a camera probably would have shown it and saved me the cost of getting my bumper fixed.
How do you figure? I haven't heard of many owners who *don't* like the product, and it seems they're expending sales and the product catalogue (steel edition, etc).
It's sounding a lot like this acquisition really has a lot less to do with Facebook itself, than just to do with Facebook's money. FB is in a business that can only be monetized so much. It's also a nook where many predecessors have suddenly gone from most-popular-site-eva to a discarded remnant. Geocities, Myspace, etc were also very popular in their day but inevitably doomed.
If Microsoft could start a successful game console, perhaps FB can move into the VR market. I see disastrous things if they try to mix their core business with Occulous, and frankly the privacy implications scare me enough that I'll be keeping my distance for now, but I've still got a small grain of hope that they're really just looking to buy into emerging markets to pad the inevitable decline of their primary LOB.
If you're going to stick these in the air, why not join them with something like solar energy as well? I believe there are some decently efficient lightweight modern solar panels, so you could have a combined fan/solar source. Since it's floating, it should be above most sources of shadow etc.
she can't give the school permission to invade her privacy
Especially when there are school officials and a cop hanging over her shoulder and threatening her. Not only was it not approved by parents, but it was coerced under threat.
Buying volumes of DVD media *IS* clunky in many ways. A lot of techie people prefer to rip to their media server, etc for convenience, however the whole DRM issue comes up in that case.
What would be less clunky? The ability to buy media, dump it into a 'home media server' which automatically loads it into large-capacity storage permanently, and catalogues it for convenience viewing on any of your home devices (possibly with streaming to your remote devices). No more dedicating space to shelves and shelves of disks which you rarely watch, and having to search said shelves for media when you want to watch "Planet of the Apes" on a nostalgic day some several years after you bought it.
What is bogus is buying a copy on SOMEBODY ELSE'S server, for which they can revoke access at a whim. What's worse is that the so-called "Digital Copies" can be on any one of several different services (Fox Digital, Flixster/Ultraviolet, iTunes, Google Play/Video, PlaysEverywhere, etc) which all have varying levels of apps and device compatibility and don't have a central system to view your overall library.
you are encouraging other people to go onto Facebook to read your content, people who may not be able to take the precautions you do to limit what they get from you.
Actually, it's more a case of other people not using other tools, and forcing me to use FB.
For someone who seems so anti-Facebook he should really stop having an active Facebook account that he constantly updates though
I have no problem with using Facebook for things where I want to share things with many people with no expectation of privacy, Shared events, products I'm interested in, public life announcements, FB is fine.
What I *don't* do is use the app on my phone (contact-stealing), allow their site-cookies, or buy other products that are NOT related to my intended use of FB.
You can both have reasons to use FB and reasons to avoid/dislike it that aren't necessarily at odds.
Valve on the same line as facebook? Being bought by a company that actually makes (3d, non-farmville) games would seem a good thing to me. Valve also sells 3rd-party games on their site, so I could have seen them licensing out the tech.
Maybe restrict the types of books they're allowed from inside? Instructional/education books, textbooks, and classic literature (stuff with educational value) would be OK, but the latest paperback of X could be earned.
This sounds remarkably fair coming from the tax-man. I've heard horror stories of certain investments that got taxed at a high value but then tanked and had little value for sale. I would have expected something terribly complicated and convoluted in regards to BC, but this actually seems to make sense.
I'd imagine that guys respond similarly to attractive males in ads. It's not just that sex sells to the opposite gender, but more so that "this product will make *YOU* sexy." That type of mentality applies to both genders
No, but they can provide that same information to government (and do). They could also feed profiling mechanisms that profile you in ways that screw up your insurance, credit score, and other information etc They keep information on oft poorly-secured systems which can be broken into by criminals (or government) with malicious intent, and won't let you know when it happens...
Or to just commandeer the next "flappy bird" or whatever from the author. Of course, for stuff like that most people would ignore new permissions even if the phone displayed them in a floating red hologram hovering right in front of the users' eyes.
Then you upgrade the OS and now it supports NFC. the carriers update Android devices so infrequently the threat exposure is more theoretical than practical.
Indeed. Beyond that, many such upgrades are inherently hardware-based, rather than software. Even if you upgrade your old Galaxy 2 to an OS version that has NFC, the hardware lacks the capability and thus the permissions mean nothing.
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Yeah, I think that the advertisers (and Google seems to be particularly bad at this) really need to crack down on certain obviously-misleading ads. I've seen a creeping increase in the "Green Download Button" ads, which really serve no other purpose than to mislead people on download pages into downloading and installing the *wrong* product (generally malware).
Sorry, you want room 6a "fossil and book nerds"
You're in room 7b, "angsty nerds who still live at home with mom but mock other people's success"
I got that, but the whole thing is predicate upon apple breaking their "thinner and simpler outward design is more elegant (and better)" concept, which I can't see them doing.
Unless the new phone has a lense that's more susceptible to damage, I'm not sure how useful this is. Almost every incident of damaged iPhones I've seen is a cracked front screen (digitizer/LCD), not a broken camera lense.
Actually, that's a good question. I also wonder about the reimbursement for the car. Around here, you need to be insured "for business use." The insurance is still your own, though. I'm not sure that most pizza kids can afford the extra cost of "business use" insurance, so they're probably SOL in a lot of cases.
All because people are too lazy or too fat to turn around in their seat and look behind them or check their side mirrors.
Or they drive a vehicle where the mirror coverage sucks. I could see this being useful in vehicles with large blind spots (RV's, trucks with canopy, etc). Even with my mid-sized car, a few years ago I backed into a post that was just at bumper level. I couldn't see that in any mirror or window, but a camera probably would have shown it and saved me the cost of getting my bumper fixed.
A product that is a failure, not a success
How do you figure? I haven't heard of many owners who *don't* like the product, and it seems they're expending sales and the product catalogue (steel edition, etc).
From Terminator 2..
"I will not kill anyone."
[blows out the kneecaps of a guard]
"He'll live"
It's sounding a lot like this acquisition really has a lot less to do with Facebook itself, than just to do with Facebook's money. FB is in a business that can only be monetized so much. It's also a nook where many predecessors have suddenly gone from most-popular-site-eva to a discarded remnant. Geocities, Myspace, etc were also very popular in their day but inevitably doomed.
If Microsoft could start a successful game console, perhaps FB can move into the VR market. I see disastrous things if they try to mix their core business with Occulous, and frankly the privacy implications scare me enough that I'll be keeping my distance for now, but I've still got a small grain of hope that they're really just looking to buy into emerging markets to pad the inevitable decline of their primary LOB.
If you're going to stick these in the air, why not join them with something like solar energy as well? I believe there are some decently efficient lightweight modern solar panels, so you could have a combined fan/solar source. Since it's floating, it should be above most sources of shadow etc.
You are apparently not an American, as evidenced by your lack of understanding of our founding fathers and their writing of the constitution.
This statement assumes that most Americans understand these things...
After all, if he is right in the middle of it, so must everyone else
I think it's more a case of "if guns are harder to get, illegal gun sales will be more profitable"
she can't give the school permission to invade her privacy
Especially when there are school officials and a cop hanging over her shoulder and threatening her. Not only was it not approved by parents, but it was coerced under threat.
Hmmm. If anything, that sound like a good reason for school officials *NOT* to be taking or viewing the students phone contents.
Buying volumes of DVD media *IS* clunky in many ways. A lot of techie people prefer to rip to their media server, etc for convenience, however the whole DRM issue comes up in that case.
What would be less clunky? The ability to buy media, dump it into a 'home media server' which automatically loads it into large-capacity storage permanently, and catalogues it for convenience viewing on any of your home devices (possibly with streaming to your remote devices). No more dedicating space to shelves and shelves of disks which you rarely watch, and having to search said shelves for media when you want to watch "Planet of the Apes" on a nostalgic day some several years after you bought it.
What is bogus is buying a copy on SOMEBODY ELSE'S server, for which they can revoke access at a whim. What's worse is that the so-called "Digital Copies" can be on any one of several different services (Fox Digital, Flixster/Ultraviolet, iTunes, Google Play/Video, PlaysEverywhere, etc) which all have varying levels of apps and device compatibility and don't have a central system to view your overall library.
you are encouraging other people to go onto Facebook to read your content, people who may not be able to take the precautions you do to limit what they get from you.
Actually, it's more a case of other people not using other tools, and forcing me to use FB.
For someone who seems so anti-Facebook he should really stop having an active Facebook account that he constantly updates though
I have no problem with using Facebook for things where I want to share things with many people with no expectation of privacy, Shared events, products I'm interested in, public life announcements, FB is fine.
What I *don't* do is use the app on my phone (contact-stealing), allow their site-cookies, or buy other products that are NOT related to my intended use of FB.
You can both have reasons to use FB and reasons to avoid/dislike it that aren't necessarily at odds.
Valve on the same line as facebook? Being bought by a company that actually makes (3d, non-farmville) games would seem a good thing to me. Valve also sells 3rd-party games on their site, so I could have seen them licensing out the tech.
Maybe restrict the types of books they're allowed from inside? Instructional/education books, textbooks, and classic literature (stuff with educational value) would be OK, but the latest paperback of X could be earned.
This sounds remarkably fair coming from the tax-man. I've heard horror stories of certain investments that got taxed at a high value but then tanked and had little value for sale. I would have expected something terribly complicated and convoluted in regards to BC, but this actually seems to make sense.
Or vehicle, residence, business location, etc.
I'd imagine that guys respond similarly to attractive males in ads. It's not just that sex sells to the opposite gender, but more so that "this product will make *YOU* sexy." That type of mentality applies to both genders
No, but they can provide that same information to government (and do).
They could also feed profiling mechanisms that profile you in ways that screw up your insurance, credit score, and other information etc
They keep information on oft poorly-secured systems which can be broken into by criminals (or government) with malicious intent, and won't let you know when it happens...
Or to just commandeer the next "flappy bird" or whatever from the author. Of course, for stuff like that most people would ignore new permissions even if the phone displayed them in a floating red hologram hovering right in front of the users' eyes.
Then you upgrade the OS and now it supports NFC. the carriers update Android devices so infrequently the threat exposure is more theoretical than practical.
Indeed. Beyond that, many such upgrades are inherently hardware-based, rather than software. Even if you upgrade your old Galaxy 2 to an OS version that has NFC, the hardware lacks the capability and thus the permissions mean nothing.