I think hearing repeats has more to do with algorithms than it does to do with amount of content available. I was on Spotify on 2 different trial periods spaced over a year apart, and both times I ended up cancelling because it just played too many repeats, even though I know it had more content available. Choosing 90s or some other huge category seemed to only have some list of 100 songs, even though it was supposed to be a dynamic list. It would also pick things that specifically weren't from that decade.
I'm in Canada on Wind mobile. Those rates only apply to in the city, but I only leave the city about once a year anyway, and it's usually to another city where the rates still apply. The only place I don't get unlimited usage is out on the highway between cities or at the cottage, but I don't tend to make that many calls out there anyway. I'm also grandfathered into an old plan, their current plan is $40+tax if you want 5GB of data.
I'm kind of with you. I'm not sure what the reason is for not including an SD card slot. 64 GB is probably big enough that I wouldn't need one, but it would also be tempting to spend $20 and get another 64 GB of storage. I'm sure that if the phone had something like 512GB of storage that I wouldn't feel the need for it, and any complaints would be unfounded, but it's almost the principle of the matter. Why wouldn't you take minimal steps to have expandable storage on a phone.
I also got an unlocked phone about a year ago, but mine only cost me $200. I'm also receiving OS updates still. I never said I was renting my phone. I own my phone outright, pay $35 a month (taxes included) for unlimited calling, texting, and 5GB of data with no overage charges (connection is slowed one you go over the cap). I personally can't believe that people spend $700 on the latest Samsung or Apple phones. Even a $400 phone is too rich for me. It's just not worth it at all. I spend $200 on my phone, buy it outright, and if something happens like the phone breaking, or OS updates not coming out for whatever reason, or a new feature that somebody hadn't thought of last year, then I upgrade to a new $200 phone.
Maybe I'm being naive here, but I see little reason why we don't have SSD class storage in our phones at this point. Can someone please explain it to me? Does it require too much power? It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to have a phone with a 120 GB SSD in it. Maybe the phone would be a bit thicker, but I think it's a feature a lot of people would like to have. I really hope Samsung can find a way to put this SSD in their next phone.
Do we really need 6 GB of RAM on a phone? Until Android gets something like Continuum on Windows phone, where you can dock the phone and use it like a desktop, there seems little reason to have that much RAM. I guess they've just run out of things to upgrade to justify the high price. Personally, I won't spend much more than $200 on a phone at this point. Things are changing too fast on the software side, and updates to operating systems are often not available. You basically have to get a new phone every year or two to be guaranteed having the latest OS, and spending $400+ on a new phone every year or two is a little rich for my tastes.
Dell seems to be going down this path. You used to be able to customize many aspects of Dell computers. Now if you go to Dell's website, and look at Inspiron desktops, you get 0 options for actually configuring the machine. You can choose from 1 of 4 preconfigured systems. The only options are for including MS Office and other various software and warranty services. You can't even get something as simple as lower end desktop with an SSD instead of an HDD. To get a desktop with an SSD, you have to go to the high end XPS machines, and even there it's included as a second drive. With the price of SSDs, it's amazing they aren't offering them as an option on every PC/laptop. There is very little reason at this point to go with a spinning platter drive at this point for your main storage. Even with a laptop, you'd be better off using an SSD and carrying around an external HDD if you really needed the extra space.
I really wish that Amazon would do away with the other sellers. Put them off on another domain where they can be searched separately for those people who still want to use them. It's very disingenuous to show all the stuff that comes on the slow boat from China from some random manufacturer mixed in with the stuff that's sold directly from Amazon and usually delivered within 3.
Why don't they partner with game shops (and walmart and other retailers) to put a computer in their store where you can load games onto a hard drive. Bring in a USB hard drive, enter your xbox live ID or scan a barcode that corresponds to your account. An encrypted copy of the game is put on the hard disk. You bring the hard disk home, and the game is copied onto the console and decrypted by the fact that it's connected to your account. You could probably even set up a system where-by digital games could be shared/sold between different accounts by deactivating the game on one person's account, and activating it on another person's account. That way you could just bring a hard disk full of games over to your friend's house, instead of having to cart around a bunch of discs.
Yeah, assuming you don't have to worry about money is a big advantage in university. You can eat the right foods to help your body function properly. You don't have to work so you can devote more time to your studies.If you have extra money you can even pay for tutoring and other kinds of extra help to make sure your marks are good. You can live closer to campus so you have less travel time, which means that you can sleep or study more. Having a computer with a decent internet connection can also help things. You can buy extra materials like other books to further your understanding of the subject. Even something like having a good dependable calculator or pens that work properly can all add up to making things easier.
20 character random password generated by KeePass. I have a fairly long 20+ character master password for my password file. Generate a new password for every site in case of a breach. Use 2-Factor authentication wherever possible, especially your email address is this is basically a master key to all your other accounts due to the password reset feature.
I have an AMD box with an integrated GPU and Minecraft runs just fine. I'll admit, it runs pretty slow on some of the laptops I've seen with their sorry excuse for graphics processors, but on any basic desktop chip it will run just fine.
I think the problems are more to do with bad coding than anything to do with the language it is written in. On a slow computer you can see the tunnels that are miles away from you get drawn before the ground right in front of you. Why do they even bother drawing the tunnels you'll never end up seeing anyway?
With the one-way trip across the Atlantic, there was always the chance that you'd find fertile land on the other side. With Mars, we know there is nothing but a desolate wasteland. Still, there are probably still people who'd be willing to go on a one way trip to Mars, but I feel like a lot of people would end up regretting it once they got there. You get to sit in a tin can for 6 months while you wait to get there. You land, radio back, confirm that it's a desolate wasteland with no liquid water and no signs of life, and wait a few months until the supplies run out and you starve/asphyxiate.
If this is true, I predict we'll have dead bodies on Mars in 9 years and 6 months. I don't for a second doubt we could get people there in a decade, but getting them back is a whole different story. As is keeping them supplied with needed items if they plan to stay there. the ISS currently gets a resupply mission about once every 3 months. The longest it's ever gone has been 128 days without a resupply. To do the return flight, you basically have to wait three months for the planets to line up properly. So the people will have to be up there (in orbit or on the surface) for a significant period of time.
Also, there's no bail out plan. Once you are half way there, if something goes wrong, too bad. You basically have to carry out the mission. With a moon mission you can always skip the landing and return right away like they did with Apollo 13. But with Mars, you have to wait for the planets to be in the right spot so you that you can actually take a short path home. If the planets are in the wrong position, the trip could take a whole lot longer.
Swift is a good idea of how to do things wrong. But what about C#. It's made my Microsoft, who everybody loves to hate, yet C# and the.Net framework is probably one of the best development environments out there. They have a pretty good record of not breaking too many things with new releases. They also do pretty well adding new features that programmers want. I prefer it much more to other languages that aren't controlled by corporations such as PHP, Python, or C++..
You can always just plug a Roku or PC into one of the available HDMI ports. Use the Smart TV features until the manufacturer stops supporting the features you need, and then plug in a Roku or PC to fill the gaps. My TV has an ethernet port, which there's very little chance of that not being supported in the foreseeable future. Same goes for things like DLNA and wireless display technology. These things are pretty much standard at this point.
Also, the OEMs have made things a lot more tempting to upgrade, but not because lack of support. It's because every 3 years there's a new TV with way more value at a much better price. 3 years ago I paid $900 for a 1080p 55 inch TV. I could now get the a 4K tv of the same size for not much more. By the time my TV is 5 years old, I'll be able to get a reasonable upgrade for $500. It's not like the 1990s, where anything nice would cost thousands of dollars and still wouldn't have any new features than the TV you bought 10 years ago save for maybe a couple extra inches on it.
I basically had the exact opposite experience. I got a smart TV because that's basically all they were selling in the size I wanted with other specifications such as 3+ HDMI ports. I thought for sure I'd end up buying a Roku in less than a year because of all the comments similar to yours that people post.
3 years later I still don't have a need for another device to be hooked up to my TV. It connects to Plex using DLNA, no specific app needed. Although there is a Plex app, I've never felt the need to download it. The Netflix and Youtube apps work well enough for my usage. The ability to stream videos directly from my tablet or phone is a big plus. It still gets updates every couple of months, so they are doing some stuff to keep it up to date. I haven't found any deficiencies with my Smart TV. It's an LG tv if anybody is wondering.
18 months? That's pretty good for and Android device. I had an LG Android phone, and it never got a single update from the day I bought it. I managed to install the T-Mobile update (I was on a different carrier, in Canada) to bump it from 2.2 to 2.3. This was a phone that was released only 6 months before Android.
To contrast, my Surfrace 2 with Windows RT that I bought over 2 years ago still gets regular updates to this day. A platform that Microsoft has effectively killed and yet they are still releasing updates for it.
I personally will never buy another Android device until they actually fix the problem with updates. The only way to fix it would be for the updates to come straight from Google and all carrier/manufacturer customizations be in the form or apps, which have nothing to do with the proper operation of the phone. They would also have to figure out a way to get drivers to work with upgraded versions, since I hear that is a big problem with getting manufacturers to release updates.
I think the problem is that it seems from reading the article that "30 percent of the value of goods sold in the store should be made in India". That means even if 30% of the items they stock are made in India, there's a chance that they might not meet the quota if nobody buys those products. If only 30% of the products in the store had to be made in India, it would be trivially easy to get around it by offering for sale a single high priced item that was equivalent to 30%, even if nobody bought it. You can't control what people buy. Even if you have 90% of your products from India, you can't be sure that people will actually buy them. Unless the iPhone, iPad, or Macbook was made in India, there's very little chance that offering other products made in India at the Apple Store would result in 30% sales being from the Indian produced products.
And it will probably be staffed by robots, which means that there won't be many extra jobs for the local people. There will be a few jobs during construction, and then the factory will be mostly automated.
You see, when her parents died, she inherited the kingdom, encapsulated herself in her room, and figured out how to get her powers to act differently depending on the type of situation she encountered. The MakeIce() function call no longer just caused death and destruction, it could also be fun or helpful depending on the object being enacted upon.
I did some testing on my Raspberry Pi running on a pair of 18650 Li-Ion batteries inside a generic USB charger and I got about 5.5 hours while the Raspberry Pi was mostly idle. With the Raspberry Pi running Quake 3 Demo loop, I was able to keep it running for about 4.5 hours. I don't think the Raspberry Pi supports really low power modes, or the operating system never puts it in low power like most phones do, because on a similar amount of battery power most phones would probably at least stay alive for an entire day when they are idle. Especially because I wasn't running a screen or any radios while using the Raspberry Pi.
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I think hearing repeats has more to do with algorithms than it does to do with amount of content available. I was on Spotify on 2 different trial periods spaced over a year apart, and both times I ended up cancelling because it just played too many repeats, even though I know it had more content available. Choosing 90s or some other huge category seemed to only have some list of 100 songs, even though it was supposed to be a dynamic list. It would also pick things that specifically weren't from that decade.
I'm in Canada on Wind mobile. Those rates only apply to in the city, but I only leave the city about once a year anyway, and it's usually to another city where the rates still apply. The only place I don't get unlimited usage is out on the highway between cities or at the cottage, but I don't tend to make that many calls out there anyway. I'm also grandfathered into an old plan, their current plan is $40+tax if you want 5GB of data.
Can't be Glenn. After the trash bin incident, it has been proven that Glenn is immortal.
I'm kind of with you. I'm not sure what the reason is for not including an SD card slot. 64 GB is probably big enough that I wouldn't need one, but it would also be tempting to spend $20 and get another 64 GB of storage. I'm sure that if the phone had something like 512GB of storage that I wouldn't feel the need for it, and any complaints would be unfounded, but it's almost the principle of the matter. Why wouldn't you take minimal steps to have expandable storage on a phone.
I also got an unlocked phone about a year ago, but mine only cost me $200. I'm also receiving OS updates still. I never said I was renting my phone. I own my phone outright, pay $35 a month (taxes included) for unlimited calling, texting, and 5GB of data with no overage charges (connection is slowed one you go over the cap). I personally can't believe that people spend $700 on the latest Samsung or Apple phones. Even a $400 phone is too rich for me. It's just not worth it at all. I spend $200 on my phone, buy it outright, and if something happens like the phone breaking, or OS updates not coming out for whatever reason, or a new feature that somebody hadn't thought of last year, then I upgrade to a new $200 phone.
Maybe I'm being naive here, but I see little reason why we don't have SSD class storage in our phones at this point. Can someone please explain it to me? Does it require too much power? It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to have a phone with a 120 GB SSD in it. Maybe the phone would be a bit thicker, but I think it's a feature a lot of people would like to have. I really hope Samsung can find a way to put this SSD in their next phone.
Do we really need 6 GB of RAM on a phone? Until Android gets something like Continuum on Windows phone, where you can dock the phone and use it like a desktop, there seems little reason to have that much RAM. I guess they've just run out of things to upgrade to justify the high price. Personally, I won't spend much more than $200 on a phone at this point. Things are changing too fast on the software side, and updates to operating systems are often not available. You basically have to get a new phone every year or two to be guaranteed having the latest OS, and spending $400+ on a new phone every year or two is a little rich for my tastes.
Dell seems to be going down this path. You used to be able to customize many aspects of Dell computers. Now if you go to Dell's website, and look at Inspiron desktops, you get 0 options for actually configuring the machine. You can choose from 1 of 4 preconfigured systems. The only options are for including MS Office and other various software and warranty services. You can't even get something as simple as lower end desktop with an SSD instead of an HDD. To get a desktop with an SSD, you have to go to the high end XPS machines, and even there it's included as a second drive. With the price of SSDs, it's amazing they aren't offering them as an option on every PC/laptop. There is very little reason at this point to go with a spinning platter drive at this point for your main storage. Even with a laptop, you'd be better off using an SSD and carrying around an external HDD if you really needed the extra space.
I really wish that Amazon would do away with the other sellers. Put them off on another domain where they can be searched separately for those people who still want to use them. It's very disingenuous to show all the stuff that comes on the slow boat from China from some random manufacturer mixed in with the stuff that's sold directly from Amazon and usually delivered within 3.
Why don't they partner with game shops (and walmart and other retailers) to put a computer in their store where you can load games onto a hard drive. Bring in a USB hard drive, enter your xbox live ID or scan a barcode that corresponds to your account. An encrypted copy of the game is put on the hard disk. You bring the hard disk home, and the game is copied onto the console and decrypted by the fact that it's connected to your account. You could probably even set up a system where-by digital games could be shared/sold between different accounts by deactivating the game on one person's account, and activating it on another person's account. That way you could just bring a hard disk full of games over to your friend's house, instead of having to cart around a bunch of discs.
The next console by Nintendo is currently codenamed "NX" and according to reports, it will be capable of 4K video. It will be released in fall 2017.
Yeah, assuming you don't have to worry about money is a big advantage in university. You can eat the right foods to help your body function properly. You don't have to work so you can devote more time to your studies.If you have extra money you can even pay for tutoring and other kinds of extra help to make sure your marks are good. You can live closer to campus so you have less travel time, which means that you can sleep or study more. Having a computer with a decent internet connection can also help things. You can buy extra materials like other books to further your understanding of the subject. Even something like having a good dependable calculator or pens that work properly can all add up to making things easier.
20 character random password generated by KeePass. I have a fairly long 20+ character master password for my password file. Generate a new password for every site in case of a breach. Use 2-Factor authentication wherever possible, especially your email address is this is basically a master key to all your other accounts due to the password reset feature.
I have an AMD box with an integrated GPU and Minecraft runs just fine. I'll admit, it runs pretty slow on some of the laptops I've seen with their sorry excuse for graphics processors, but on any basic desktop chip it will run just fine.
I think the problems are more to do with bad coding than anything to do with the language it is written in. On a slow computer you can see the tunnels that are miles away from you get drawn before the ground right in front of you. Why do they even bother drawing the tunnels you'll never end up seeing anyway?
With the one-way trip across the Atlantic, there was always the chance that you'd find fertile land on the other side. With Mars, we know there is nothing but a desolate wasteland. Still, there are probably still people who'd be willing to go on a one way trip to Mars, but I feel like a lot of people would end up regretting it once they got there. You get to sit in a tin can for 6 months while you wait to get there. You land, radio back, confirm that it's a desolate wasteland with no liquid water and no signs of life, and wait a few months until the supplies run out and you starve/asphyxiate.
If this is true, I predict we'll have dead bodies on Mars in 9 years and 6 months. I don't for a second doubt we could get people there in a decade, but getting them back is a whole different story. As is keeping them supplied with needed items if they plan to stay there. the ISS currently gets a resupply mission about once every 3 months. The longest it's ever gone has been 128 days without a resupply. To do the return flight, you basically have to wait three months for the planets to line up properly. So the people will have to be up there (in orbit or on the surface) for a significant period of time.
Also, there's no bail out plan. Once you are half way there, if something goes wrong, too bad. You basically have to carry out the mission. With a moon mission you can always skip the landing and return right away like they did with Apollo 13. But with Mars, you have to wait for the planets to be in the right spot so you that you can actually take a short path home. If the planets are in the wrong position, the trip could take a whole lot longer.
Swift is a good idea of how to do things wrong. But what about C#. It's made my Microsoft, who everybody loves to hate, yet C# and the .Net framework is probably one of the best development environments out there. They have a pretty good record of not breaking too many things with new releases. They also do pretty well adding new features that programmers want. I prefer it much more to other languages that aren't controlled by corporations such as PHP, Python, or C++..
You can always just plug a Roku or PC into one of the available HDMI ports. Use the Smart TV features until the manufacturer stops supporting the features you need, and then plug in a Roku or PC to fill the gaps. My TV has an ethernet port, which there's very little chance of that not being supported in the foreseeable future. Same goes for things like DLNA and wireless display technology. These things are pretty much standard at this point.
Also, the OEMs have made things a lot more tempting to upgrade, but not because lack of support. It's because every 3 years there's a new TV with way more value at a much better price. 3 years ago I paid $900 for a 1080p 55 inch TV. I could now get the a 4K tv of the same size for not much more. By the time my TV is 5 years old, I'll be able to get a reasonable upgrade for $500. It's not like the 1990s, where anything nice would cost thousands of dollars and still wouldn't have any new features than the TV you bought 10 years ago save for maybe a couple extra inches on it.
I basically had the exact opposite experience. I got a smart TV because that's basically all they were selling in the size I wanted with other specifications such as 3+ HDMI ports. I thought for sure I'd end up buying a Roku in less than a year because of all the comments similar to yours that people post.
3 years later I still don't have a need for another device to be hooked up to my TV. It connects to Plex using DLNA, no specific app needed. Although there is a Plex app, I've never felt the need to download it. The Netflix and Youtube apps work well enough for my usage. The ability to stream videos directly from my tablet or phone is a big plus. It still gets updates every couple of months, so they are doing some stuff to keep it up to date. I haven't found any deficiencies with my Smart TV. It's an LG tv if anybody is wondering.
18 months? That's pretty good for and Android device. I had an LG Android phone, and it never got a single update from the day I bought it. I managed to install the T-Mobile update (I was on a different carrier, in Canada) to bump it from 2.2 to 2.3. This was a phone that was released only 6 months before Android.
To contrast, my Surfrace 2 with Windows RT that I bought over 2 years ago still gets regular updates to this day. A platform that Microsoft has effectively killed and yet they are still releasing updates for it.
I personally will never buy another Android device until they actually fix the problem with updates. The only way to fix it would be for the updates to come straight from Google and all carrier/manufacturer customizations be in the form or apps, which have nothing to do with the proper operation of the phone. They would also have to figure out a way to get drivers to work with upgraded versions, since I hear that is a big problem with getting manufacturers to release updates.
I think the problem is that it seems from reading the article that "30 percent of the value of goods sold in the store should be made in India". That means even if 30% of the items they stock are made in India, there's a chance that they might not meet the quota if nobody buys those products. If only 30% of the products in the store had to be made in India, it would be trivially easy to get around it by offering for sale a single high priced item that was equivalent to 30%, even if nobody bought it. You can't control what people buy. Even if you have 90% of your products from India, you can't be sure that people will actually buy them. Unless the iPhone, iPad, or Macbook was made in India, there's very little chance that offering other products made in India at the Apple Store would result in 30% sales being from the Indian produced products.
And it will probably be staffed by robots, which means that there won't be many extra jobs for the local people. There will be a few jobs during construction, and then the factory will be mostly automated.
You see, when her parents died, she inherited the kingdom, encapsulated herself in her room, and figured out how to get her powers to act differently depending on the type of situation she encountered. The MakeIce() function call no longer just caused death and destruction, it could also be fun or helpful depending on the object being enacted upon.
is a size of battery, like AA, AAA, etc, not the amount of power it has. They say they have 3000 mAh, but the cheaper ones tend to exaggerate on the rating from what I understand. They only run at 3.7 v so there is some inefficiency in converting it over to the 5v required by the Raspberry Pi.
I did some testing on my Raspberry Pi running on a pair of 18650 Li-Ion batteries inside a generic USB charger and I got about 5.5 hours while the Raspberry Pi was mostly idle. With the Raspberry Pi running Quake 3 Demo loop, I was able to keep it running for about 4.5 hours. I don't think the Raspberry Pi supports really low power modes, or the operating system never puts it in low power like most phones do, because on a similar amount of battery power most phones would probably at least stay alive for an entire day when they are idle. Especially because I wasn't running a screen or any radios while using the Raspberry Pi.