"Subscriber" is a bit of a misnomer. Your subscriber credit only depletes if you check the "opt out of ads" setting*. I paid once a long time ago and deselected that setting, so I've been marked as a "subscriber" ever since without having to make additional payments.
(* I don't know if that setting even exists anymore. All I know is I just used an ad-blocker instead.)
Sure if Apple goes broke i lose access to my media, but the chances of that happening are probably smaller than WW3 starting and us all being nuked back into the stone age.
Apple going bankrupt almost happened in 1996 (18 years ago). WW3 almost happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 (52 years ago). This puts an upper bound on the probability of WW3 at 1/52 = ~1.9% and on Apple going bnakrupt at 1/18 = ~5.5%. Therefore, Apple going bankrupt is more likely than WW3.
Unfortunately, the law is still scrambling to catch up with technology.
What "technology?" The issue here is that some asshole filed for a trademark for putting a common symbol (which has existed for thousands of years) on clothing (which has also existed for thousands of years), and some moron at the USPTO granted it.
The fact that many of those infringing on this ridiculous trademark sell using an online store is completely incidental.
If you're gonna post compromised binaries of TrueCrypt, you generally wouldn't stick them on a page with "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure" in large, bright red text.
I also had a Thinkpad tablet (an x60) and thought the hinge was about as robust as it could be, given the circumstances of trying to send a video signal through several rotating bearings with different degrees of freedom.
Although I used it as a normal laptop more than 50% of the time, I also thought it the tablet aspect was valuable for taking notes (especially for engineering classes where I needed to draw diagrams). I would love to have a similarly convertible tablet today, except thinner and lighter (like a Surface, but with the ability to use in laptop mode in my lap, and without the locked bootloader evilness).
At least if you pay up front, you've theoretically reduced the long term expense. The downside to that theory is: will today's 3D printer be the technology you want in 2018? If you think these machines will improve a lot in other ways in the next four years, adding extra costs today won't save you much if you're just going to replace it anyway.
Assuming you can't re-use the motors in whatever improved design you have in 2018, anyway...
Really? Aren't you barking up the wrong tree? This isn't a hobbyist machine - its' a bottom barrel consumer device.
Those are exactly the ones most important to be Free.
Yes, in your Richard Stahlman utopia, we would be able to upgrade these pieces of crap until Unix integer overflow...
It's not about upgrading, its about the fact that even people buying cheap devices deserve to not have their device spy on them or otherwise not do what they want. It's also about the fact that parents are probably more likely to buy cheap tablets like these instead of iPads for their kids, and the kids would be more likely to learn about computers using an open system instead of a locked-down "consumer device."
Eh, if I'm going to spend that much for a monitor I'd rather wait till one of these goes on sale and spend a little more (I've heard that it was $600 around Easter, and I'm hoping it or something comparable might be $500 on Black Friday).
So you're OK with ruining the lives of innocent people by locking them up forever?
If the person is innocent then the death penalty is not justified, but then neither is imprisonment! If you are "opposed to the death penalty" rather than "opposed to unjust convictions" then you are more monstrous than those who you seek to oppose!
Per the Constitution, the acceptable error rate is 0% false positives and any amount of false negatives.
However, the issue here is that the error rate applies to the conviction, not the punishment. People who oppose the death penalty on the grounds that it kills innocent people are making the implicit claim that it's somehow not just as bad for those innocent people to rot in prison forever, which is a horrifically barbaric ideology in and of itself.
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"Subscriber" is a bit of a misnomer. Your subscriber credit only depletes if you check the "opt out of ads" setting*. I paid once a long time ago and deselected that setting, so I've been marked as a "subscriber" ever since without having to make additional payments.
(* I don't know if that setting even exists anymore. All I know is I just used an ad-blocker instead.)
Eh, on T-Mobile I'm already using "voice" [over IP] over LTE so a change to Sprint wouldn't affect me at all.
We don't know, because it's secret. AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM!
Maybe somebody should make a "portable Netflix Wine" that you can just untar to /opt and run.
With all the sarcasm, don't you all realize you're creating the perfect dataset for them to train their algorithms on?
You say this as if it were a good thing, but it isn't.
Apple going bankrupt almost happened in 1996 (18 years ago). WW3 almost happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 (52 years ago). This puts an upper bound on the probability of WW3 at 1/52 = ~1.9% and on Apple going bnakrupt at 1/18 = ~5.5%. Therefore, Apple going bankrupt is more likely than WW3.
(Cue the statistics pedants!)
Not true. You could get a Chromebox or any number of little computers running normal Linux (including on that Chromebox instead of ChromeOS).
The only black programmers where I work actually are from Africa.
What "technology?" The issue here is that some asshole filed for a trademark for putting a common symbol (which has existed for thousands of years) on clothing (which has also existed for thousands of years), and some moron at the USPTO granted it.
The fact that many of those infringing on this ridiculous trademark sell using an online store is completely incidental.
That's as stupid as blaming the police for the crime rate because if the police didn't write up the reports the crimes wouldn't be counted.
If that were possible, then malware could do the same thing (because we all know the random seed isn't going to be stored securely by average users).
That's what they want you to think!
(I'm not sure if I'm joking or not...)
It's spelled "chintzy."
I also had a Thinkpad tablet (an x60) and thought the hinge was about as robust as it could be, given the circumstances of trying to send a video signal through several rotating bearings with different degrees of freedom.
Although I used it as a normal laptop more than 50% of the time, I also thought it the tablet aspect was valuable for taking notes (especially for engineering classes where I needed to draw diagrams). I would love to have a similarly convertible tablet today, except thinner and lighter (like a Surface, but with the ability to use in laptop mode in my lap, and without the locked bootloader evilness).
I congratulate you on your brilliantly subtle troll.
You misunderstand: they'll all end up with those "features" (mandated as part of "safety standards" or similar BS).
Perhaps we should stop referring to employees as "talent" when they don't have any.
Assuming you can't re-use the motors in whatever improved design you have in 2018, anyway...
We have that; it's called XMPP.
The real problem is that centralized proprietary shit like Twitter and Facebook have marketing departments and open standards do not.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that iPads were open. I was only trying to contrast them as expensive.
I have a couple of bamboo shirts. They're pretty much similar to a cotton/rayon blend (and they were no more expensive than such).
Those are exactly the ones most important to be Free.
It's not about upgrading, its about the fact that even people buying cheap devices deserve to not have their device spy on them or otherwise not do what they want. It's also about the fact that parents are probably more likely to buy cheap tablets like these instead of iPads for their kids, and the kids would be more likely to learn about computers using an open system instead of a locked-down "consumer device."
Eh, if I'm going to spend that much for a monitor I'd rather wait till one of these goes on sale and spend a little more (I've heard that it was $600 around Easter, and I'm hoping it or something comparable might be $500 on Black Friday).
So you're OK with ruining the lives of innocent people by locking them up forever?
If the person is innocent then the death penalty is not justified, but then neither is imprisonment! If you are "opposed to the death penalty" rather than "opposed to unjust convictions" then you are more monstrous than those who you seek to oppose!
Per the Constitution, the acceptable error rate is 0% false positives and any amount of false negatives.
However, the issue here is that the error rate applies to the conviction, not the punishment. People who oppose the death penalty on the grounds that it kills innocent people are making the implicit claim that it's somehow not just as bad for those innocent people to rot in prison forever, which is a horrifically barbaric ideology in and of itself.