The fact that the iPhones and Android phones took over the corporate market from BlackBerry in a very short period of time shows that employees can force change on their employers.
The PS 1 came out at the end of 1994. The original playstation cost $300. At that point in time you would spend more just buying a soundblaster and CD-ROM than you would on a PlayStation. Add in the cost of a 3D video card, and you are looking at a high price to play video games. A computer capable of playing games at the playstation level would easily cost over $2000.
How well does the switch work if the screen is smashed? I'm starting to wonder if I should go shopping to find somebody who smashed the screen and wants to unload the device for cheap. Assuming you could still us it docked, it might be a decent idea. Maybe refurbishers could find a way to make case and repack the broken Switch units into something affordable.
Maybe they should have an option. Play at 1080p at full speed when battery life isn't an issue, such as commuting to work, or have the device run the game at 720p with an underclocked processor for when you may be away from an outlet for a longer period of time.
What alternative operating systems? They can't produce a MacOS machine, although I'm sure they would if Apple allowed it. I guess there Linux. As good as it is, it's still not ready for your average user. I've been using Linux on and off since 1999, and still every time I install it on a machine there is a huge number of usability problems that just puts me off and reminds me why I don't use it as my default operating system. There is ChromeOS, which many vendors are producing machines for. I guess that's a kind of Linux. I hear they will even be able to run Linux Applications in the near future. If that pans out, I could see it taking off. They already support Android Apps. Add in Linux applications and that's a huge software library that will fit many user's needs.
Haven't they learned anything from cases such as Boaty-McBoatface, Taylor Swifts Biggest Fan,or sending her to a school for the deaf, or sending Pitbull to Alaska
Leaving the choice up to the Internet, or even just Netflix subscribers isn't going to result in the best storylines, or even the storylines that necessarily reflect what actual people want to see.
Somebody asked me about bookmarks the other day and I realized I don't even use bookmarks. I either just type the name of the site I want to visit, or follow a link from my RSS reader. Sometimes I just do a search in Google. At the end of the day, typing a search term into Google is usually faster than navigating a hundred bookmarks. The browsers remember URLs and with autocomplete for the URLs you visit a lot. A bookmarks feature would have to be much more feature rich to have any real use. Something like keeping a copy of the page and then being able to search the bookmarks by content would be nice. A backup copy of the site would also be nice in the situation where the site gets taken down or changed from what I originally bookmarked.
I'm really wondering who sees the content. Don't you usually just see stuff from your friends? Who are befriending the people that are posting the illegal content? I've never seen anything like the content in question on facebook. But I don't usually befriend random people I don't know. If somebody started sharing that kind of content, I would promptly block them.
The iPhone SE has dimensions of 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm
You can use the Phone Finder at GSM Arena to find a phone that matches your criteria. There really aren't many current phones that are the same size or smaller than the iPhone SE. Don't look at screensize though. Look at actual phone dimensions, because bezels have become a lot smaller in recent years. Something like the Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact is probably going to be about as small as you can get.
Perhaps you are just counting the EU as European, because Iceland is 100% green, with 70% hydroelectric and 30% geothermal. Norway is about 95% hydroelectric. Only about 2% from fossil fuels, and they are a net-exporter.
Because most users wouldn't be able to configure it properly to work. It probably is Samba underneath, but has an interface and configures all the default settings to make it easier for people to user. I set up a Ubuntu box last weekend and was reminded just how non-user-friendly things can be on Linux. Using the UI, it found my windows machine, but even after typing in my user name and password, it didn't show any of the shared folders. I remember other issues where you could mount the folder, but then you'd have to mess around with setting permissions on the shared folder. You would think it would just set everything to read/write and let the server take care of the permissions, but apparently that makes too much sense.
If you lock your phone, then nothing would happen because they don't have access to any of the data.Even with password based systems, if they get access to your phone, and your phone is unlocked, then they can read your email. If they can read your email, they can do a password reset on all you online accounts that have that feature.
Even password systems are vulnerable to this. If I get your phone, I have access to your email. If I have access to your email, I can reset your password. Your email basically a master key to all your online accounts.
Not every location that sells sim cards is going to have the ability to use ESIMS. With a regular SIM you can go down to the corner shop and pick up a SIM card. Put it in the phone, and Bob's your uncle. Now you have to find a place that will have the capability of dealing with the ESIM. This was probably done to make it required that you go to the large carrier shops rather than support smaller data providers that often have much better rates.
That Windows Logo is from the 95/98 era, and that Apple car looks like the original iMac from 98, so that comic is probably 15 to 20 years old. Amazing how well the comic holds up after all those years, and also amazing that people still buy in to the Apple philosophy.
This has been going on even before online shopping existed. Walmart and other retailers charge manufacturers for premium shelf space. The products at the end of the aisle where you are more likely to see them are only there because the manufacturers pay for it. The stuff you see in the weekly flyer is also paid for by the manufacturer. The retailers have a lot of power. The way they present products to the conumsers has a huge impact on how well they sell.
Netflix and Amazon Prime don't really take that much bandwidth anyway. You should really be worried more about people who use the full allotment of bandwidth for 10 minutes straight than about those who are using 5% of their allotment for 8 hours a day. On the weekend I downloaded Ubuntu to the wrong machine so instead of copying it over, I just downloaded it again on the other machine, because my internet connection speed is 150 Mbps and it takes only 2 minutes to download. I think downloaded a different Linux distro while trying to research which one was actually better to use for my use case. Netflix, even at the highest 4k quality is only going to use 25 Mbps, so it's really not even that big of a deal. HD content only requires 5 Mbps, so it's not like most video services actually put a serious strain on the network.
I think that Google and Netflix have a lot more to lose than the ISPs. Realistically, in the US at least, many users only have a choice of 1 or 2 providers. They are also often bundled with other services. If Google denied service to Cox, then people's option would be to either move to DSL, and probably get an increase in their Cable TV bill, or just switch over to using another search engine like Bing. Google and other internet service providers can't really fight back until the ISP monopoly is dealt with. This is why Google is trying to expand on Google Fibre. Because until there are other options for internet providers, the end users and Google themselves are at the whim of the consumer ISPs.
with net neutrality, content publishers and distributors get to peer directly with an isp and flood their network with whatever data the content provider wants
They are only sending content that the end user has requested. The content publishers are paying their ISP for every bit that they send out and receive (via a leased line of a specified bandwidth) and the end user is paying for every bit that they send out and receive from their ISP. They want to be able to double charge though. They want to charge the end user to receive the data, but also want to charge the content publisher for letting the customer receive the data.
While I don't think that YouTube download sites are in anyway a threat to the music industry, there are some differences. VHS tapes degraded over time, and the record quality wasn't even comparable to the original broadcast. I don't really see why anybody would even use a YouTube downloader. So much easier to just find an actual CD rip or some other existing audio file. YouTube audio tops out at 192 kbps, so, while it's adequate, it's hardly the best place to be getting your music.
My views on Chomebooks have changed recently. My oldest kid starts middle school this Septermber, and the school recommends that every student gets a Chromebook. They have a deal where you can get a Chromebook and a comprehensive warranty for a good deal, so we got one. I'm a software developer, and I'm pretty impressed with how well it runs. 4GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage plus room for an SD card makes it a reasonably capable machine for most computing tasks.Add to this the news that you'll be able to run full Linux applications on the Chromebook, and I can see this being a very enticing offer for many people. I'm strongly considering getting one when my tablet finally bites the dust. I don' have a laptop, because I still prefer an actual desktop for development and other heavy computing tasks. I think I could meet all my computing needs with just a desktop and a chromebook. I'd never give up a desktop with a real keyboard and large screen, but getting stuff done on the small screen of a laptop, even if it's 17 inches feels like there is never enough space. So I might as well use my desktop for anything that's programming or requires a large screen and then just use a Chromebook with a 11 or 13 inch screen for the basic web browsing and media consumption.
I'm not sure why we haven't seen a phone with no ports.Obviously you still need a speaker and a microphone. But once you have removed the headphone jack, you might as well remove the USB/Lightningport and just use wireless charging. Most people don't use it for data transfer anyway, and you can just do that over WiFi if you need to. To me it makes way more sense to remove the power port than it does to remove the headphone jack, especially if you have wireless charging. There's way more people who us the headphone jack than those who use the USB/Lightning jack for actual computer connectivity.
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The fact that the iPhones and Android phones took over the corporate market from BlackBerry in a very short period of time shows that employees can force change on their employers.
The PS 1 came out at the end of 1994. The original playstation cost $300. At that point in time you would spend more just buying a soundblaster and CD-ROM than you would on a PlayStation. Add in the cost of a 3D video card, and you are looking at a high price to play video games. A computer capable of playing games at the playstation level would easily cost over $2000.
How well does the switch work if the screen is smashed? I'm starting to wonder if I should go shopping to find somebody who smashed the screen and wants to unload the device for cheap. Assuming you could still us it docked, it might be a decent idea. Maybe refurbishers could find a way to make case and repack the broken Switch units into something affordable.
Maybe they should have an option. Play at 1080p at full speed when battery life isn't an issue, such as commuting to work, or have the device run the game at 720p with an underclocked processor for when you may be away from an outlet for a longer period of time.
What alternative operating systems? They can't produce a MacOS machine, although I'm sure they would if Apple allowed it. I guess there Linux. As good as it is, it's still not ready for your average user. I've been using Linux on and off since 1999, and still every time I install it on a machine there is a huge number of usability problems that just puts me off and reminds me why I don't use it as my default operating system. There is ChromeOS, which many vendors are producing machines for. I guess that's a kind of Linux. I hear they will even be able to run Linux Applications in the near future. If that pans out, I could see it taking off. They already support Android Apps. Add in Linux applications and that's a huge software library that will fit many user's needs.
Haven't they learned anything from cases such as Boaty-McBoatface, Taylor Swifts Biggest Fan,or sending her to a school for the deaf, or sending Pitbull to Alaska
Leaving the choice up to the Internet, or even just Netflix subscribers isn't going to result in the best storylines, or even the storylines that necessarily reflect what actual people want to see.
Somebody asked me about bookmarks the other day and I realized I don't even use bookmarks. I either just type the name of the site I want to visit, or follow a link from my RSS reader. Sometimes I just do a search in Google. At the end of the day, typing a search term into Google is usually faster than navigating a hundred bookmarks. The browsers remember URLs and with autocomplete for the URLs you visit a lot. A bookmarks feature would have to be much more feature rich to have any real use. Something like keeping a copy of the page and then being able to search the bookmarks by content would be nice. A backup copy of the site would also be nice in the situation where the site gets taken down or changed from what I originally bookmarked.
I'm really wondering who sees the content. Don't you usually just see stuff from your friends? Who are befriending the people that are posting the illegal content? I've never seen anything like the content in question on facebook. But I don't usually befriend random people I don't know. If somebody started sharing that kind of content, I would promptly block them.
I actaully prefer the developer tools on FireFox.
The iPhone SE has dimensions of 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm
You can use the Phone Finder at GSM Arena to find a phone that matches your criteria. There really aren't many current phones that are the same size or smaller than the iPhone SE. Don't look at screensize though. Look at actual phone dimensions, because bezels have become a lot smaller in recent years. Something like the Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact is probably going to be about as small as you can get.
Perhaps you are just counting the EU as European, because Iceland is 100% green, with 70% hydroelectric and 30% geothermal. Norway is about 95% hydroelectric. Only about 2% from fossil fuels, and they are a net-exporter.
Because most users wouldn't be able to configure it properly to work. It probably is Samba underneath, but has an interface and configures all the default settings to make it easier for people to user. I set up a Ubuntu box last weekend and was reminded just how non-user-friendly things can be on Linux. Using the UI, it found my windows machine, but even after typing in my user name and password, it didn't show any of the shared folders. I remember other issues where you could mount the folder, but then you'd have to mess around with setting permissions on the shared folder. You would think it would just set everything to read/write and let the server take care of the permissions, but apparently that makes too much sense.
If you lock your phone, then nothing would happen because they don't have access to any of the data.Even with password based systems, if they get access to your phone, and your phone is unlocked, then they can read your email. If they can read your email, they can do a password reset on all you online accounts that have that feature.
Even password systems are vulnerable to this. If I get your phone, I have access to your email. If I have access to your email, I can reset your password. Your email basically a master key to all your online accounts.
Not every location that sells sim cards is going to have the ability to use ESIMS. With a regular SIM you can go down to the corner shop and pick up a SIM card. Put it in the phone, and Bob's your uncle. Now you have to find a place that will have the capability of dealing with the ESIM. This was probably done to make it required that you go to the large carrier shops rather than support smaller data providers that often have much better rates.
That Windows Logo is from the 95/98 era, and that Apple car looks like the original iMac from 98, so that comic is probably 15 to 20 years old. Amazing how well the comic holds up after all those years, and also amazing that people still buy in to the Apple philosophy.
They even do this on my Surface 2 with WIndows RT which can't even run Chrome.
This has been going on even before online shopping existed. Walmart and other retailers charge manufacturers for premium shelf space. The products at the end of the aisle where you are more likely to see them are only there because the manufacturers pay for it. The stuff you see in the weekly flyer is also paid for by the manufacturer. The retailers have a lot of power. The way they present products to the conumsers has a huge impact on how well they sell.
Netflix and Amazon Prime don't really take that much bandwidth anyway. You should really be worried more about people who use the full allotment of bandwidth for 10 minutes straight than about those who are using 5% of their allotment for 8 hours a day. On the weekend I downloaded Ubuntu to the wrong machine so instead of copying it over, I just downloaded it again on the other machine, because my internet connection speed is 150 Mbps and it takes only 2 minutes to download. I think downloaded a different Linux distro while trying to research which one was actually better to use for my use case. Netflix, even at the highest 4k quality is only going to use 25 Mbps, so it's really not even that big of a deal. HD content only requires 5 Mbps, so it's not like most video services actually put a serious strain on the network.
I think that Google and Netflix have a lot more to lose than the ISPs. Realistically, in the US at least, many users only have a choice of 1 or 2 providers. They are also often bundled with other services. If Google denied service to Cox, then people's option would be to either move to DSL, and probably get an increase in their Cable TV bill, or just switch over to using another search engine like Bing. Google and other internet service providers can't really fight back until the ISP monopoly is dealt with. This is why Google is trying to expand on Google Fibre. Because until there are other options for internet providers, the end users and Google themselves are at the whim of the consumer ISPs.
They are only sending content that the end user has requested. The content publishers are paying their ISP for every bit that they send out and receive (via a leased line of a specified bandwidth) and the end user is paying for every bit that they send out and receive from their ISP. They want to be able to double charge though. They want to charge the end user to receive the data, but also want to charge the content publisher for letting the customer receive the data.
For the number of times I need a webcam, I'd rather just clip one on.
While I don't think that YouTube download sites are in anyway a threat to the music industry, there are some differences. VHS tapes degraded over time, and the record quality wasn't even comparable to the original broadcast. I don't really see why anybody would even use a YouTube downloader. So much easier to just find an actual CD rip or some other existing audio file. YouTube audio tops out at 192 kbps, so, while it's adequate, it's hardly the best place to be getting your music.
My views on Chomebooks have changed recently. My oldest kid starts middle school this Septermber, and the school recommends that every student gets a Chromebook. They have a deal where you can get a Chromebook and a comprehensive warranty for a good deal, so we got one. I'm a software developer, and I'm pretty impressed with how well it runs. 4GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage plus room for an SD card makes it a reasonably capable machine for most computing tasks.Add to this the news that you'll be able to run full Linux applications on the Chromebook, and I can see this being a very enticing offer for many people. I'm strongly considering getting one when my tablet finally bites the dust. I don' have a laptop, because I still prefer an actual desktop for development and other heavy computing tasks. I think I could meet all my computing needs with just a desktop and a chromebook. I'd never give up a desktop with a real keyboard and large screen, but getting stuff done on the small screen of a laptop, even if it's 17 inches feels like there is never enough space. So I might as well use my desktop for anything that's programming or requires a large screen and then just use a Chromebook with a 11 or 13 inch screen for the basic web browsing and media consumption.
I'm not sure why we haven't seen a phone with no ports.Obviously you still need a speaker and a microphone. But once you have removed the headphone jack, you might as well remove the USB/Lightningport and just use wireless charging. Most people don't use it for data transfer anyway, and you can just do that over WiFi if you need to. To me it makes way more sense to remove the power port than it does to remove the headphone jack, especially if you have wireless charging. There's way more people who us the headphone jack than those who use the USB/Lightning jack for actual computer connectivity.