I see to remember reading that they only store your credentials or oath token if you enable Sparks services like smart notifications. I just ooked on their site to confirm that but I couldn't find anything in the 90s I spent looking.
As annoying as clippy is nostalgically remembered, the level of annoyance of 90's clippy is nothing compared to the forced-to-watch helpful crap that the majority of websites and apps force on us today. -Overlays on half the websites that tell you to "Enter your email address to receive updates and special coupons " -Websites asking "Do you accept the use of cookies?" -Terribly designed mobile webites that contain a fraction of the functionality of the desktop website version -Terribly designed mobile apps that contain just a fraction of the functionality of the desktop website version -Websites that refuse to load the desktop version on your mobile device even when you specifically request it. -Links to websites that when clicked ask "View in App because because it's a better experience?" -Applications that pop up a reminder 15 times a day to let you know that there is a new update.
I would glady accept clippy popping up every couple of hours asking "Hey, it looks like you are writing a letter?", or 90's web frames, or even the 90's tag if it meant getting rid of the dozens of contemporary 2019 "Clippy's" I run into every day.
Same as the told cable-TV. You need to subscribe to multiple providers(packages) to get the few of shows you really want to watch, and the remainder is like the old cable cliche of "500 channels and nothing good is on." How many mediocre shows that take place in some dystopian future do we need?
Smart money will bet that in a year or two, these providers will begin to divide their offerings into basic & premium content.
Really, when every single climate change study or the-sky-is-falling prediction contains nothing but ambiguous indefinite verbs, how can anyone take these future predictions seriously?
That's model is too simple. Weather & climate is more like a web than a linear chain because when one thing changes it affects many other variables.
Ice loss does mean warmer water, but as the temperature increases so does the evaporation rate. More evaporation means more water vapor in the air which means more cloud cover, which increases the albedo, and if that increases enough it could even cause the water temperature to drop and even start to freeze again.
Mainly because of the racist & sexist actress that plays the leading role character, but also because I'm so sick and tired of Hollywood pushing feminist and feminist ideology into every bloody movie being made now and/or proudly proclaiming right now is the first time in cinematic history where women have had strong leading roles when those have existed for decades. In order to push their poor oppressed women narrative they conveniently forget about Laura Croft (Angelina Jolie version), Sarah Conner, Ripley, Princess Leia, Million Dollar Baby, Thelma & Louise, Silkwood, Blair Witch, Basic Instinct, Charlie's Angles, Quick and the Dead, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, x1000. Don't forget Wizard of Oz.
Youtube pushes these face-science clickbait videos on to viewers.
Watch videos of real science or space exploration like Saturn V launches, Space Shuttle launches, videos of the Cassini, Voyager, Curiosity missions, Hubble or any astronomical topic and the "suggested video" panel is filled with flat earth, hollow earth, donut earth, Apollo was faked, face on mars cover-up, Elvis was the first reptilian alien videos with tens of millions of views.
Seriously, it's 2019 and the internet is making people more stupid or at least more ignorant today than people were a century ago. People are losing their ability use common-sense, objective reasoning, and critical thinking.
I'm not disagreeing with what you said, but the funny thing is I can "speak" and understand temperature fluently in Fahrenheit or Celsius from -40F/C to about 100C/212F, but outside of those boundaries I only can understand and get a grasp of how hot or cold something is only when the temperature is given in Fahrenheit. 380C-500C means nothing to me other than it's a number that is similar to the temperature on Venus or about twice as hot as the highest number on the dial of a kitchen stove, whereas when I see 700F-930F I have a somewhat inherent or instinctive awareness of how hot that temperature actually is.
That clip was awesome! It's like an over the top, one man army 80's action flick but with more modern camera angles & slow-fast-mo clips. I never gave Bollywood movies much thought because everyone I watched for a bit was about some guy I dressed in gold singing to some girl, but I think I'll have to check them out after seeing this. I kid you not!
The real problem is that security fixes are not well communicated, and that sometimes abused as a way to get users to take user-hostile changes.
Exactly! Most updates have replaced detailed release notes with ambiguous comments as such. "Fixed various bugs" "Fixes some other minor issues" "Other improvements and bug fixes" "Major improvements under the hood" "Improved security measures" "Improved wifi setup"
Words like "improved, improvement,various, some" are ambiguous and/or subjective. Was a feature removed or added? Was functionality changed? When companies say improved, does that mean improved for me or for the company? Every bug-tracking software lets you create a list of the fixed bugs-export it, review it, edit it, then publish it! Usually when companies aren't explaining something it makes me wonder what are they hiding.
WTF is with all this rapid-release crap? So many products have too many releases now. Don't push an update out just for typos other minor UI designs. Return to semi-annual major updates for everything except for critical security patches and major functionality issues.
That's shitty AI for you as well as marketing. Search engines everywhere are pulling this "you searched for ABC but we will show you results for DEF because we think that's what you really want" nowadays, thus generally searches have become less useful and more annoying because of it.
Even Google does this now. I'll specifically search for ABC, but it shows results for BCD with a small link saying something like "You really didn't want to search for ABC, did you?"
And Google Labs. Once they shut that site down I sort of knew, or at least sort of suspected, that Google had turned into a company where the bottom line became always more important than having happy end users. By that time hundreds of millions of people were using Google Search and Gmail daily so there is little reason for them to maintain an application or site that had a fraction of that traffic.
The load of crap is people like you that blame men because women throw themselves at them. I doubt these women groupies at Google were unwilling participants.
Every man, or boy aged 16+, of status, money, or fame such as rock stars, hiphop stars, famous actors, sports stars, or just the local handsome hunk can go anywhere and can have their daily choice, if they so desire, from dozens or hundreds of willing women that throw themselves at these me. You can find endless examples of 80+ year old rich guys with a wife in her 20's. Do you really think she married him for love? No-she is happy to spread their legs for his $millions or $billions, just as these google women were hoping to become.
Don't blame men for having sex because when they have 50 women every day jumping up and down in front of them and screaming "pick me for tonight, pick me for tonight, pick me for tonight."
One very important detail the study leaves out is the reason why fake news stories are shared.
Perhaps the fake news was shared because they know it's fake and are warning their friends about how ridiculous and incorrect the story is and to watch out for similar BS.
Perhaps the sharer actually really did believe it and wanted to 'educate' others (as sharing fake news implies).
Perhaps a fake news story was shared because the person found the fake news so outrageous as to be humorous and they simply shared it with their friends to give them a laugh. Kind of like the old supermarket tabloids that showed ridiculous stuff like a pic of Bill Clinton shaking hands with an alien on the front page with the heading 'Aliens endorse Clinton for president'. You see that, you pick it up, and you show it to your friend/gf/wife and you both get a chuckle out of it.
Alternatively, why is the fake news not shard? Was it believed as true and not shared because they've seen it on six other social media sites earlier. Maybe it wasn't shared because they are afraid that others may think they believe if they share it or are afraid of offending someone. Or did the person never see it because it was blocked by ad-blockers?
The conclusion of the study should not be old people share more fake news than younger people, but rather a very small percentage of people share fake news.
Apple should be very concerned about who is making negative statements about Apple products today.
In the past it was mostly hate-anything-Apple-trolls, but today many of the 'Apple has lost it's way',"Apple is crap', ' Apple is way overpriced' complaints are now coming from past Apple customers who do not see any valid reason to spend $2000+ to upgrade their old 2010 iMac or 2012 Macbook Pro to an inferior product that has no function keys, a mouse that has a charging port on the bottom, fewer ports, and keyboards that feel like you are typing on jello. For that much money you expect something that stands out from the rest, but their repeat customers just don't see Apple as having those products or the perception of having those stand-out products anymore.
Look at their greed: they release looooong overdue Macbook Air and macMinis with mediocre upgraded specs and less ports in late 2018, then jack up those prices by $300. Pure blatant greed.
I have an iPhone 7 and never really missed the headphone jack. I've been using portable music devices for decades and those ports always seem to eventually develop shorts or had poor insulation or shielding problems which made a big annoying startling static POP in the headphones when you plugged them in or just wiggled the cable a little. It's time for that port to go. I don't get any static noises that with the lightning port.
Also, if I'm spending $500 on a something, well another $9.99 for a dongle isn't going to be a deal breaker.
What was/is scummy about Apple is that they never threw in the dongle with the phone to begin with, which might cost Apple $1 at best. That always stuck of pure greed.
Although not totally useless considering how much UI space today is wasted by empty white-space, dark themes are just a fad that is driven by the 30-and-under crowd rediscovering something that has existed at least since the Windows 3.1 days of the early 90's: THEMES and SKINS.
I haven't used Chrome for a while, but I do remember Chrome frequently and annoyingly suggesting to improve your browsing experience by "creating a google account", "signing up for gmail","create your documents with google docs",etc. Maybe that's the advertising PP is referring to.
Slashdot Mirror
"Global warming alarmists automatically believe-without hesitation and without question-every article on climate, study suggests."
I see to remember reading that they only store your credentials or oath token if you enable Sparks services like smart notifications. I just ooked on their site to confirm that but I couldn't find anything in the 90s I spent looking.
As annoying as clippy is nostalgically remembered, the level of annoyance of 90's clippy is nothing compared to the forced-to-watch helpful crap that the majority of websites and apps force on us today.
-Overlays on half the websites that tell you to "Enter your email address to receive updates and special coupons "
-Websites asking "Do you accept the use of cookies?"
-Terribly designed mobile webites that contain a fraction of the functionality of the desktop website version
-Terribly designed mobile apps that contain just a fraction of the functionality of the desktop website version
-Websites that refuse to load the desktop version on your mobile device even when you specifically request it.
-Links to websites that when clicked ask "View in App because because it's a better experience?"
-Applications that pop up a reminder 15 times a day to let you know that there is a new update.
I would glady accept clippy popping up every couple of hours asking "Hey, it looks like you are writing a letter?", or 90's web frames, or even the 90's tag if it meant getting rid of the dozens of contemporary 2019 "Clippy's" I run into every day.
Same as the told cable-TV.
You need to subscribe to multiple providers(packages) to get the few of shows you really want to watch, and the remainder is like the old cable cliche of "500 channels and nothing good is on." How many mediocre shows that take place in some dystopian future do we need?
Smart money will bet that in a year or two, these providers will begin to divide their offerings into basic & premium content.
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possibly
perhaps
conceivably
Really, when every single climate change study or the-sky-is-falling prediction contains nothing but ambiguous indefinite verbs, how can anyone take these future predictions seriously?
The website says "Apollo 18" so it must be true.
That's model is too simple. Weather & climate is more like a web than a linear chain because when one thing changes it affects many other variables.
Ice loss does mean warmer water, but as the temperature increases so does the evaporation rate. More evaporation means more water vapor in the air which means more cloud cover, which increases the albedo, and if that increases enough it could even cause the water temperature to drop and even start to freeze again.
Mainly because of the racist & sexist actress that plays the leading role character, but also because I'm so sick and tired of Hollywood pushing feminist and feminist ideology into every bloody movie being made now and/or proudly proclaiming right now is the first time in cinematic history where women have had strong leading roles when those have existed for decades. In order to push their poor oppressed women narrative they conveniently forget about Laura Croft (Angelina Jolie version), Sarah Conner, Ripley, Princess Leia, Million Dollar Baby, Thelma & Louise, Silkwood, Blair Witch, Basic Instinct, Charlie's Angles, Quick and the Dead, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, x1000. Don't forget Wizard of Oz.
I fear what you fear, the complete dumbed-down IOSification of OSX and it's applications.
Youtube pushes these face-science clickbait videos on to viewers.
Watch videos of real science or space exploration like Saturn V launches, Space Shuttle launches, videos of the Cassini, Voyager, Curiosity missions, Hubble or any astronomical topic and the "suggested video" panel is filled with flat earth, hollow earth, donut earth, Apollo was faked, face on mars cover-up, Elvis was the first reptilian alien videos with tens of millions of views.
Seriously, it's 2019 and the internet is making people more stupid or at least more ignorant today than people were a century ago. People are losing their ability use common-sense, objective reasoning, and critical thinking.
I'm not disagreeing with what you said, but the funny thing is I can "speak" and understand temperature fluently in Fahrenheit or Celsius from -40F/C to about 100C/212F, but outside of those boundaries I only can understand and get a grasp of how hot or cold something is only when the temperature is given in Fahrenheit. 380C-500C means nothing to me other than it's a number that is similar to the temperature on Venus or about twice as hot as the highest number on the dial of a kitchen stove, whereas when I see 700F-930F I have a somewhat inherent or instinctive awareness of how hot that temperature actually is.
Have you ever smelled or breathed in the smoke that burning plastics give off? That's enough reason not to burn them.
And each year Apple markets how much better the current years paint is because it's 0.01mm thinner than last years paint.
Hello Apple. This is Windows 3.1 calling from 1994. We want our dark theme back and kindly ask you to stop pretending that you invented something new.
That clip was awesome! It's like an over the top, one man army 80's action flick but with more modern camera angles & slow-fast-mo clips. I never gave Bollywood movies much thought because everyone I watched for a bit was about some guy I dressed in gold singing to some girl, but I think I'll have to check them out after seeing this. I kid you not!
The real problem is that security fixes are not well communicated, and that sometimes abused as a way to get users to take user-hostile changes.
Exactly! Most updates have replaced detailed release notes with ambiguous comments as such.
"Fixed various bugs"
"Fixes some other minor issues"
"Other improvements and bug fixes"
"Major improvements under the hood"
"Improved security measures"
"Improved wifi setup"
Words like "improved, improvement,various, some" are ambiguous and/or subjective. Was a feature removed or added? Was functionality changed? When companies say improved, does that mean improved for me or for the company? Every bug-tracking software lets you create a list of the fixed bugs-export it, review it, edit it, then publish it! Usually when companies aren't explaining something it makes me wonder what are they hiding.
WTF is with all this rapid-release crap? So many products have too many releases now. Don't push an update out just for typos other minor UI designs. Return to semi-annual major updates for everything except for critical security patches and major functionality issues.
That's shitty AI for you as well as marketing.
Search engines everywhere are pulling this "you searched for ABC but we will show you results for DEF because we think that's what you really want" nowadays, thus generally searches have become less useful and more annoying because of it.
Even Google does this now. I'll specifically search for ABC, but it shows results for BCD with a small link saying something like "You really didn't want to search for ABC, did you?"
The raised too many methane-dispensing brontosaurs for excavation work.
Damn baby-neanderthal boomer Flintstones ruined it for everyone.
And Google Labs.
Once they shut that site down I sort of knew, or at least sort of suspected, that Google had turned into a company where the bottom line became always more important than having happy end users. By that time hundreds of millions of people were using Google Search and Gmail daily so there is little reason for them to maintain an application or site that had a fraction of that traffic.
The load of crap is people like you that blame men because women throw themselves at them. I doubt these women groupies at Google were unwilling participants.
Every man, or boy aged 16+, of status, money, or fame such as rock stars, hiphop stars, famous actors, sports stars, or just the local handsome hunk can go anywhere and can have their daily choice, if they so desire, from dozens or hundreds of willing women that throw themselves at these me. You can find endless examples of 80+ year old rich guys with a wife in her 20's. Do you really think she married him for love? No-she is happy to spread their legs for his $millions or $billions, just as these google women were hoping to become.
Don't blame men for having sex because when they have 50 women every day jumping up and down in front of them and screaming "pick me for tonight, pick me for tonight, pick me for tonight."
One very important detail the study leaves out is the reason why fake news stories are shared.
Perhaps the fake news was shared because they know it's fake and are warning their friends about how ridiculous and incorrect the story is and to watch out for similar BS.
Perhaps the sharer actually really did believe it and wanted to 'educate' others (as sharing fake news implies).
Perhaps a fake news story was shared because the person found the fake news so outrageous as to be humorous and they simply shared it with their friends to give them a laugh. Kind of like the old supermarket tabloids that showed ridiculous stuff like a pic of Bill Clinton shaking hands with an alien on the front page with the heading 'Aliens endorse Clinton for president'. You see that, you pick it up, and you show it to your friend/gf/wife and you both get a chuckle out of it.
Alternatively, why is the fake news not shard? Was it believed as true and not shared because they've seen it on six other social media sites earlier. Maybe it wasn't shared because they are afraid that others may think they believe if they share it or are afraid of offending someone. Or did the person never see it because it was blocked by ad-blockers?
The conclusion of the study should not be old people share more fake news than younger people, but rather a very small percentage of people share fake news.
Apple should be very concerned about who is making negative statements about Apple products today.
In the past it was mostly hate-anything-Apple-trolls, but today many of the 'Apple has lost it's way',"Apple is crap', ' Apple is way overpriced' complaints are now coming from past Apple customers who do not see any valid reason to spend $2000+ to upgrade their old 2010 iMac or 2012 Macbook Pro to an inferior product that has no function keys, a mouse that has a charging port on the bottom, fewer ports, and keyboards that feel like you are typing on jello. For that much money you expect something that stands out from the rest, but their repeat customers just don't see Apple as having those products or the perception of having those stand-out products anymore.
Look at their greed: they release looooong overdue Macbook Air and macMinis with mediocre upgraded specs and less ports in late 2018, then jack up those prices by $300. Pure blatant greed.
I have an iPhone 7 and never really missed the headphone jack. I've been using portable music devices for decades and those ports always seem to eventually develop shorts or had poor insulation or shielding problems which made a big annoying startling static POP in the headphones when you plugged them in or just wiggled the cable a little. It's time for that port to go. I don't get any static noises that with the lightning port.
Also, if I'm spending $500 on a something, well another $9.99 for a dongle isn't going to be a deal breaker.
What was/is scummy about Apple is that they never threw in the dongle with the phone to begin with, which might cost Apple $1 at best. That always stuck of pure greed.
Although not totally useless considering how much UI space today is wasted by empty white-space, dark themes are just a fad that is driven by the 30-and-under crowd rediscovering something that has existed at least since the Windows 3.1 days of the early 90's: THEMES and SKINS.
I haven't used Chrome for a while, but I do remember Chrome frequently and annoyingly suggesting to improve your browsing experience by "creating a google account", "signing up for gmail","create your documents with google docs",etc.
Maybe that's the advertising PP is referring to.