Exactly. I don't think we need to go back to the days of DOS where every program developer had to include their own sound, music, gamepad/joystick, modem, and network drivers in every single piece of software they made. People who complain about modern operating systems really don't know how bad things were back in the day. I haven't had my computer crash on me in over a year. It used to crash weekly, if no daily, on Windows XP/98/95/3.1 machines. I don't recall DOS ever crashing, but that had a whole lot of other problems because it was so simple.
Spyfone, a company that sells surveillance software to parents....
Looks like it's not just corporations using it. Most kids could probably figure out that the software is installed, and I would hope that most parents would tell them that this is installed to stop them from doing stuff they would be caught with, but I'm sure there's children (and spouses) who have this kind of think installed on their phone without their knowledge and consent.
Flagship is really just the one that they are pushing the most. It doesn't have to be expensive. Personally I think this is the best way for unknown names like Xiaomi to get westerners to take notice of their products. If they can offer a high end phone for half the price of the competition, then they are going to get the attention of a lot of people. They can still sell higher end phones to the people who want to buy them, but the majority of their marketing should go towards a phone that a large number of people can afford. This is similar to car manufactures pushing lower end vehicles because they know that's what the majority of people buy. No point in spending billions of dollars marketing a product that only a small portion of the population can afford.
It could be profitable, if they somehow got bulk deals on tickets. Movie theatres have tons of unsold tickets. Empty seats everywhere. It's kind of amazing that they continue to ask the same price for every movie regardless of how long it's been in the theatre or how high the demand is for the movie. I would gladly go to more movies if they discounted the price when they weren't as popular. As it stands right now, it doesn't make financial sense for me to spend so much on a movie (over $20 for a ticket and snacks) unless the movie is spectacular.
Look at the Finnish guy who thinks his country is big and sparse. New Mexico has about the same area of Finland, but has 2 million people as opposed to 5.5 million people. The population of South Finland where Helsinki is located is about 2 million in an area of about 1/10 the size of the country.
I'm not saying that the population or density is the reason for the bad prices, it's still no excuse, especially since the US experiences bad internet speeds even in cities, but your example of Finland doesn't exactly offer the best counter example.
To be fair, you don't have to buy the official keyboard. You could always get a regular portable bluetooth keyboard for $20-$30. They also sell third party Surface keyboard replicas for under $50 if you really want a trackpad.
By then where would the schools be poor area of they city? People in poor areas will be left without a school or only a very bad school, because none of the rich people will send their kid to a poor neighbourhood, and none of the good teachers will want to teach in the poor neighborhoods full of underperforming students.
First, how are corporate cafeterias not local businesses? They employ local people.
Secondly, I think most people just go there because the food is free (in some cases) or because it's convenient. If you work for a big company with a large campus, it's often the case that going to the corporate cafeteria only takes a few minutes, while going off campus to a local restaurant might take 10, or 15, or even more minutes just to get there.
Thirdly, the reason they set up cafeterias in the first place is to allow people to converse about work over lunch. That can sometimes be hard to do when there's people from competing businesses sitting at the table next to you. Not only that, but you have to find a place that everybody wants to go to. With cafeteria style eating arrangements, each person can eat whatever they want from the menu, or even bring their own lunch from home and everybody just gathers at an available table.
Speaking of bringing your own lunch from home, I think this will be the end result if they somehow outlaw corporate cafeterias. People don't want to go off campus everyday and spend money on lunch. They will just bring their own lunch from home. I've never had a corporate cafeteria, so given the choice between bringing my own lunch and buying lunch every day, bringing my own lunch is the clear winner, as it's cheaper and more convenient.
Make a spreadsheet that has tables functionality. Excel is the only spreadsheet that has this feature, and it is extremely useful. Excel only runs on Windows.
Yes, but the manufacturers and the suppliers are in cahoots with each other. Small retailers don't have any option. Sell the item at below the manufacturer decided price and they risk getting cut off by the supplier.
I just google "purple tree" and I'm thinking of how awesome it would be if all the trees were purple. I think that many science fiction writers (movies and books) often don't seem to have as much variation in terms of what could really be out there. It kind of bothers me when everyone looks like humans and every planet looks like earth. Some of them definitely get it better than others, but I think even in the ones that tend to have lots of variety don't really stretch it too far from what we find on earth.
Microsoft never made a handheld in the first place because it's not social enough
Which is funny because Nintendo has always found a way to make their handhelds social, be it through a link cable or more recently allowing the joycons to be shared with two players.
The flip side is that games where latency doesn't matter often don't have a lot of flashy graphics in the first place, so there's no reason to stream them, as most computers can handle playing them locally just fine.
Just because there is loss of quality on headphones due to wireless signal doesn't mean they can't be high quality. A lot of the point of having good headphones is having a good reproduction based on the signal they get. If they have good frequency response and good dynamic range then they can still be worth a lot of money. Sure, they'll never sound as good as a pair of similar quality wired headphones, but they offer other advantages. The only question is whether or not they'll include the option of going wired like just about every other pair of wireless over ear headphones out there. If they don't, it's definitely not even worth considering buying these.
Dealing with US sales tax is a huge burden for online retailers. The same logic that's used to allow states to collect tax from online sales also applies to county and city sales taxes as well. Determining how much tax to apply to an item is actually a very huge task, especially for smaller merchants. Not only is figuring out the correct amount of tax to collect difficult, but keeping records of taxes collected and remitting them to the proper location would also prove to be a major issue.
We've been able to time shift since the advent of VHS tapes. But people will still want to watch shows live, or as soon as they are released because there is a big social aspect to the entire thing. Talking with your friends the next day or in real time as the show is being aired is still very much a part of the TV watching experience. YouTube Live and Twitch show that watching something as it occurs is still an important part of the entertainment ecosystem. Sure we don't have a fixed number of channels like we used to with traditional TV, but I don't think a lot has changed. If anything, there is even more pressure for people to watch stuff live as the endings are so quickly spoiled on the internet.
That's a problem though. I get 500 channels piped into my house. There really should be more variety. Yet we end up with the fireplace channel, the sunset channel, and the swiss chalet rotisserie chicken channel. I can't even watch major cycling races in Canada even though I have 15 different sport channels. Instead they opt to have the same game playing on all of them.
That was the year they came out with a bunch of reality TV shows and discovered that they could still get people to watch, without paying any high priced writers or actors. Giving somebody a million dollar prize or a recording contract is peanuts compared to the million dollars an episode that star actors demand.
That's the problem. Facebook doesn't really verify their ads for content. They'll only check after the fact if somebody complains. You can easily put up an ad saying "Vote for Candidate X" and get around any kind of campaign finance laws because nobody is keeping track of the ad content or doing their due diligence into who is paying for the ad. The Russians or anybody else could be pumping a whole lot of money into online advertising and swaying the vote, all while hiding where the advertising revenue was coming from.
I'm one of those people with Surface 2 RT. To be honest, the support has been a lot better than I've seen with any Android device I've ever owned. 4.5 years after I bought it, and I'm still getting my regular monthly software patches. Microsoft may have made some mistakes with the Windows RT line (mostly only allowing signed code), but support is one of the areas where they were strong, even long after the platform was declared dead.
I still use my Surface 2 to this day, and find it hard to justify getting something new, because it still works quite well as a tablet/media consumption device, which was my primary purpose for it.
People have been running Intel processors at 5GHz for years. They may have needed aftermarket cooling solutions, but it's been something that's possible for quite a while. I guess the question is how high people will be able to overclock this 5GHz CPU. If it costs more than the current 8700k and doesn't actually provide any level of overclocking, then I don't really see it as big news.
Also worth noting that Apple somehow manages this while only offering 3 different options. Samsung has slightly higher market share but released 25 different phone models in 2017.
Apple is so close, they will probably be first to $1 Trillion. But they may be caught soon enough if they don't start innovating. Mid range phones are getting better and better, and it's becoming very hard to justify spending $1000 on a new phone. My phone cost $300 and there really isn't anything it doesn't do. It also doesn't have any performance problems that I can see. The camera is great, although not as good as an iPhone. However, with the extra $700 left over I have a lot of money to spend on an actual camera. Same goes for Apple's other products such as the MacBook and iPad. There's a lot of competition with their laptops and tablets and about the only thing that keeps people coming back is their respective OS, but people will only pay so much for the OS.
What's amazing to me is that they are even using Facebook in the first place to target younger workers. Most young people don't even use Facebook that much anymore. Facebook in general seems like a terrible place to try to find job applicants, especially in the tech field.
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Exactly. I don't think we need to go back to the days of DOS where every program developer had to include their own sound, music, gamepad/joystick, modem, and network drivers in every single piece of software they made. People who complain about modern operating systems really don't know how bad things were back in the day. I haven't had my computer crash on me in over a year. It used to crash weekly, if no daily, on Windows XP/98/95/3.1 machines. I don't recall DOS ever crashing, but that had a whole lot of other problems because it was so simple.
Looks like it's not just corporations using it. Most kids could probably figure out that the software is installed, and I would hope that most parents would tell them that this is installed to stop them from doing stuff they would be caught with, but I'm sure there's children (and spouses) who have this kind of think installed on their phone without their knowledge and consent.
Flagship is really just the one that they are pushing the most. It doesn't have to be expensive. Personally I think this is the best way for unknown names like Xiaomi to get westerners to take notice of their products. If they can offer a high end phone for half the price of the competition, then they are going to get the attention of a lot of people. They can still sell higher end phones to the people who want to buy them, but the majority of their marketing should go towards a phone that a large number of people can afford. This is similar to car manufactures pushing lower end vehicles because they know that's what the majority of people buy. No point in spending billions of dollars marketing a product that only a small portion of the population can afford.
It could be profitable, if they somehow got bulk deals on tickets. Movie theatres have tons of unsold tickets. Empty seats everywhere. It's kind of amazing that they continue to ask the same price for every movie regardless of how long it's been in the theatre or how high the demand is for the movie. I would gladly go to more movies if they discounted the price when they weren't as popular. As it stands right now, it doesn't make financial sense for me to spend so much on a movie (over $20 for a ticket and snacks) unless the movie is spectacular.
Look at the Finnish guy who thinks his country is big and sparse. New Mexico has about the same area of Finland, but has 2 million people as opposed to 5.5 million people. The population of South Finland where Helsinki is located is about 2 million in an area of about 1/10 the size of the country.
I'm not saying that the population or density is the reason for the bad prices, it's still no excuse, especially since the US experiences bad internet speeds even in cities, but your example of Finland doesn't exactly offer the best counter example.
To be fair, you don't have to buy the official keyboard. You could always get a regular portable bluetooth keyboard for $20-$30. They also sell third party Surface keyboard replicas for under $50 if you really want a trackpad.
By then where would the schools be poor area of they city? People in poor areas will be left without a school or only a very bad school, because none of the rich people will send their kid to a poor neighbourhood, and none of the good teachers will want to teach in the poor neighborhoods full of underperforming students.
First, how are corporate cafeterias not local businesses? They employ local people.
Secondly, I think most people just go there because the food is free (in some cases) or because it's convenient. If you work for a big company with a large campus, it's often the case that going to the corporate cafeteria only takes a few minutes, while going off campus to a local restaurant might take 10, or 15, or even more minutes just to get there.
Thirdly, the reason they set up cafeterias in the first place is to allow people to converse about work over lunch. That can sometimes be hard to do when there's people from competing businesses sitting at the table next to you. Not only that, but you have to find a place that everybody wants to go to. With cafeteria style eating arrangements, each person can eat whatever they want from the menu, or even bring their own lunch from home and everybody just gathers at an available table.
Speaking of bringing your own lunch from home, I think this will be the end result if they somehow outlaw corporate cafeterias. People don't want to go off campus everyday and spend money on lunch. They will just bring their own lunch from home. I've never had a corporate cafeteria, so given the choice between bringing my own lunch and buying lunch every day, bringing my own lunch is the clear winner, as it's cheaper and more convenient.
Make a spreadsheet that has tables functionality. Excel is the only spreadsheet that has this feature, and it is extremely useful. Excel only runs on Windows.
Yes, but the manufacturers and the suppliers are in cahoots with each other. Small retailers don't have any option. Sell the item at below the manufacturer decided price and they risk getting cut off by the supplier.
I just google "purple tree" and I'm thinking of how awesome it would be if all the trees were purple. I think that many science fiction writers (movies and books) often don't seem to have as much variation in terms of what could really be out there. It kind of bothers me when everyone looks like humans and every planet looks like earth. Some of them definitely get it better than others, but I think even in the ones that tend to have lots of variety don't really stretch it too far from what we find on earth.
Apparently a theme also takes a few months to complete as well.
The flip side is that games where latency doesn't matter often don't have a lot of flashy graphics in the first place, so there's no reason to stream them, as most computers can handle playing them locally just fine.
Just because there is loss of quality on headphones due to wireless signal doesn't mean they can't be high quality. A lot of the point of having good headphones is having a good reproduction based on the signal they get. If they have good frequency response and good dynamic range then they can still be worth a lot of money. Sure, they'll never sound as good as a pair of similar quality wired headphones, but they offer other advantages. The only question is whether or not they'll include the option of going wired like just about every other pair of wireless over ear headphones out there. If they don't, it's definitely not even worth considering buying these.
Dealing with US sales tax is a huge burden for online retailers. The same logic that's used to allow states to collect tax from online sales also applies to county and city sales taxes as well. Determining how much tax to apply to an item is actually a very huge task, especially for smaller merchants. Not only is figuring out the correct amount of tax to collect difficult, but keeping records of taxes collected and remitting them to the proper location would also prove to be a major issue.
We've been able to time shift since the advent of VHS tapes. But people will still want to watch shows live, or as soon as they are released because there is a big social aspect to the entire thing. Talking with your friends the next day or in real time as the show is being aired is still very much a part of the TV watching experience. YouTube Live and Twitch show that watching something as it occurs is still an important part of the entertainment ecosystem. Sure we don't have a fixed number of channels like we used to with traditional TV, but I don't think a lot has changed. If anything, there is even more pressure for people to watch stuff live as the endings are so quickly spoiled on the internet.
That's a problem though. I get 500 channels piped into my house. There really should be more variety. Yet we end up with the fireplace channel, the sunset channel, and the swiss chalet rotisserie chicken channel. I can't even watch major cycling races in Canada even though I have 15 different sport channels. Instead they opt to have the same game playing on all of them.
That was the year they came out with a bunch of reality TV shows and discovered that they could still get people to watch, without paying any high priced writers or actors. Giving somebody a million dollar prize or a recording contract is peanuts compared to the million dollars an episode that star actors demand.
That's the problem. Facebook doesn't really verify their ads for content. They'll only check after the fact if somebody complains. You can easily put up an ad saying "Vote for Candidate X" and get around any kind of campaign finance laws because nobody is keeping track of the ad content or doing their due diligence into who is paying for the ad. The Russians or anybody else could be pumping a whole lot of money into online advertising and swaying the vote, all while hiding where the advertising revenue was coming from.
I'm one of those people with Surface 2 RT. To be honest, the support has been a lot better than I've seen with any Android device I've ever owned. 4.5 years after I bought it, and I'm still getting my regular monthly software patches. Microsoft may have made some mistakes with the Windows RT line (mostly only allowing signed code), but support is one of the areas where they were strong, even long after the platform was declared dead.
I still use my Surface 2 to this day, and find it hard to justify getting something new, because it still works quite well as a tablet/media consumption device, which was my primary purpose for it.
People have been running Intel processors at 5GHz for years. They may have needed aftermarket cooling solutions, but it's been something that's possible for quite a while. I guess the question is how high people will be able to overclock this 5GHz CPU. If it costs more than the current 8700k and doesn't actually provide any level of overclocking, then I don't really see it as big news.
Also worth noting that Apple somehow manages this while only offering 3 different options. Samsung has slightly higher market share but released 25 different phone models in 2017.
Apple is so close, they will probably be first to $1 Trillion. But they may be caught soon enough if they don't start innovating. Mid range phones are getting better and better, and it's becoming very hard to justify spending $1000 on a new phone. My phone cost $300 and there really isn't anything it doesn't do. It also doesn't have any performance problems that I can see. The camera is great, although not as good as an iPhone. However, with the extra $700 left over I have a lot of money to spend on an actual camera. Same goes for Apple's other products such as the MacBook and iPad. There's a lot of competition with their laptops and tablets and about the only thing that keeps people coming back is their respective OS, but people will only pay so much for the OS.
What's amazing to me is that they are even using Facebook in the first place to target younger workers. Most young people don't even use Facebook that much anymore. Facebook in general seems like a terrible place to try to find job applicants, especially in the tech field.