Modern windows seems to already possess this capability (it can be done via scheduled tasks, and seems to be employed on our Lenovo laptops where I work, but not others) - obnoxious to have your laptop randomly turn on in a bag and run its battery down, or cook itself to death... but I blame the hardware manufacturers for not including the ability to turn this nuisance off completely.
Same... though I would suspect LinkedIn being a Microsoft property makes it a more likely avenue of encroachment for this kind of business in the long-run. Already enough of a nuisance to have to deal with third parties to provide access for critical business tools... let's just put all the eggs in one basket.
I'd be all for a sort of '-2' that suppresses the sort of trash we're talking about from anybody who doesn't explicitly desire to see it. Would go a long way towards making our comments sections not look like a dumpster fire to random passers-by. To avoid being completely offtopic, I will note that I unfortunately grew up in a PC household:( I look back and think of all the fun I might have had if we'd had Amiga/Atari/Mac, but who knows for sure.
Perhaps demand will recover when the VR software/hardware makes it to the far side of the uncanny valley? Or does somebody have a better term to encompass all of the latent issues with existing VR systems? I feel like it's one of the few consumer-oriented concepts that might actually require beefy, customizable hardware for people who aren't natively tinkerers/hobbyists/hardcore gamers. Any other systems/concepts out there that might be a decent driver of sales in the future?
If they had been designed from the start with support for (and actually included, and had a slot to store) an active stylus, and the industry had managed to standardize an interface for such, I might actually own one of these things... still struggling to understand the appeal of a machine that is, for seemingly any given generation, less usable (and an order of magnitude more expensive) than an 8-year-old touch screen laptop with a broken keyboard. Seems like a reasonable stylus interface would've likely made this topic a relative non-issue, also.
Hearkening back to the days of PDAs with a Compact Flash slot on them literally whatever you can support through software, perhaps we should make a move for standardizing camera modules on SDIO? Would be nice to be able to remove/replace the camera at will, as well as to have a full-sized SD slot. The space premium wouldn't be that much worse than any internal camera module i've seen, at least in terms of total volume of the part that must be embedded in the phone... significantly flatter, longer and wider, seems like it would be less of a compromise internally. Unfortunately, there are practical issues... seems nobody wants expansion slots anymore. From the consumer's perspective, it's one more thing to break/lose, and from the manuf perspective, it's likely to be seen as an obstacle to getting people to upgrade their phones every couple years.
I can take that convenience a step further... Got an amazon firephone on deep discount when they were discontinued... phone is decent enough, but on the stock firmware, there's a button on the side mapped to the camera software. It is active regardless of if the phone is locked, PINed, whatever... (convenient, huh? After some very long pocket videos and a flat battery, I was finally arsed to throw CM on it.)
Irrelevant to this story, I recently had Amazon try to wipe me out with a ~$3000 price on an item that had been subscribed for > 1 year... guessing someone flubbed a price change or something. Dunno what's up with this:L
So long as it's opt-in, or "opt-out" in the sense of having to untick a highly visible box when it's being set up. (this seems to be the route taken, fortunately)
I'm still failing to see how this solves anything that couldn't be done with existing standards, e.g. multiple requests packed in a single connection via HTTP/2.0, and, well, decent website design. Trying to prop up lousy website architecture (note that this includes underlying services) seems like a bad idea to me; I'm not saying that this is the intent, but I feel like it might be relevant. Also not trying to rip on it "because Google", and I might also be a bit out of touch as a very, very low-volume mobile user; if it truly does resolve a difficult problem, I see no reason not to consider its use.
Around here, it seems that -gate is like a flag for indicating that one does not need to care very much about some controversy unrelated to their daily lives... for those too lazy to search for it (as I had to; something-gate is literally meaningless without context or "you had to be there!"), it was the controversy involving people gaming the Youtube Kids content selection algorithms to get off-color and outright offensive content selected.
It seems to, but it doesn't seem to be formally considered an offense. Lots of complaints out there about demonetization and whatnot... i'm not a content creator, so I don't have especially great insight there.
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Also, don't take this comment as a suggestion that the feature is useless... it is very handy, when employed correctly...
Modern windows seems to already possess this capability (it can be done via scheduled tasks, and seems to be employed on our Lenovo laptops where I work, but not others) - obnoxious to have your laptop randomly turn on in a bag and run its battery down, or cook itself to death... but I blame the hardware manufacturers for not including the ability to turn this nuisance off completely.
Same... though I would suspect LinkedIn being a Microsoft property makes it a more likely avenue of encroachment for this kind of business in the long-run. Already enough of a nuisance to have to deal with third parties to provide access for critical business tools... let's just put all the eggs in one basket.
At least it's a longer and less obnoxious cycle than the bi-weekly coffee/chocolate good/bad flip-flopping...
... as well as old ones...
No Cortana? Check. We're good.
I'd be all for a sort of '-2' that suppresses the sort of trash we're talking about from anybody who doesn't explicitly desire to see it. Would go a long way towards making our comments sections not look like a dumpster fire to random passers-by. To avoid being completely offtopic, I will note that I unfortunately grew up in a PC household :( I look back and think of all the fun I might have had if we'd had Amiga/Atari/Mac, but who knows for sure.
Perhaps demand will recover when the VR software/hardware makes it to the far side of the uncanny valley? Or does somebody have a better term to encompass all of the latent issues with existing VR systems? I feel like it's one of the few consumer-oriented concepts that might actually require beefy, customizable hardware for people who aren't natively tinkerers/hobbyists/hardcore gamers. Any other systems/concepts out there that might be a decent driver of sales in the future?
try $3000+ if they administer oxygen or expend basically any supplies at all.
Depends on your standards of approximation, I guess... I mean, it's only off by 2... orders of magnitude.
If they had been designed from the start with support for (and actually included, and had a slot to store) an active stylus, and the industry had managed to standardize an interface for such, I might actually own one of these things... still struggling to understand the appeal of a machine that is, for seemingly any given generation, less usable (and an order of magnitude more expensive) than an 8-year-old touch screen laptop with a broken keyboard. Seems like a reasonable stylus interface would've likely made this topic a relative non-issue, also.
Dave Kleiman died in 2013, hence references to his estate in TFS... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Noting this less for the AC and more for anyone confused by AC.
Hearkening back to the days of PDAs with a Compact Flash slot on them literally whatever you can support through software, perhaps we should make a move for standardizing camera modules on SDIO? Would be nice to be able to remove/replace the camera at will, as well as to have a full-sized SD slot. The space premium wouldn't be that much worse than any internal camera module i've seen, at least in terms of total volume of the part that must be embedded in the phone... significantly flatter, longer and wider, seems like it would be less of a compromise internally. Unfortunately, there are practical issues... seems nobody wants expansion slots anymore. From the consumer's perspective, it's one more thing to break/lose, and from the manuf perspective, it's likely to be seen as an obstacle to getting people to upgrade their phones every couple years.
I can take that convenience a step further... Got an amazon firephone on deep discount when they were discontinued... phone is decent enough, but on the stock firmware, there's a button on the side mapped to the camera software. It is active regardless of if the phone is locked, PINed, whatever... (convenient, huh? After some very long pocket videos and a flat battery, I was finally arsed to throw CM on it.)
The A/C controls are now located in the trunk. For your own good, of course.
I kid, and am bad at making jokes, but perhaps someone can run with that subject line...
Was thinking more of Kirby, and not necessarily the vacuum cleaners...
For context, the item's nominal price was ~$30, hence my thinking that someone omitted some very important punctuation.
Irrelevant to this story, I recently had Amazon try to wipe me out with a ~$3000 price on an item that had been subscribed for > 1 year... guessing someone flubbed a price change or something. Dunno what's up with this :L
So long as it's opt-in, or "opt-out" in the sense of having to untick a highly visible box when it's being set up. (this seems to be the route taken, fortunately)
Indeed, I'm usually grabbing my pitchfork about now, but this seems not-unreasonable.
I'm still failing to see how this solves anything that couldn't be done with existing standards, e.g. multiple requests packed in a single connection via HTTP/2.0, and, well, decent website design. Trying to prop up lousy website architecture (note that this includes underlying services) seems like a bad idea to me; I'm not saying that this is the intent, but I feel like it might be relevant. Also not trying to rip on it "because Google", and I might also be a bit out of touch as a very, very low-volume mobile user; if it truly does resolve a difficult problem, I see no reason not to consider its use.
Simple HTML-based e-mail is obnoxious enough, why would people actually want this?
Around here, it seems that -gate is like a flag for indicating that one does not need to care very much about some controversy unrelated to their daily lives... for those too lazy to search for it (as I had to; something-gate is literally meaningless without context or "you had to be there!"), it was the controversy involving people gaming the Youtube Kids content selection algorithms to get off-color and outright offensive content selected.
It seems to, but it doesn't seem to be formally considered an offense. Lots of complaints out there about demonetization and whatnot... i'm not a content creator, so I don't have especially great insight there.