I bought a U11 in fall of 2017, right around that time they released the Oreo update. Great, new OS version!
They have updated my phone's security updates ONCE since then. I'm currently on June 1, 2018 security updates. Thanks for caring about our security HTC, such a "great" company.
They have stated Pie is coming in "Q2", which I have a hard time believing. Even if they do update my phone to Pie, will they give us frequent security updates? Probably not, so they should just quit making phones.
"Today, Google has shown with its Chrome OS that most of us can pretty much do anything we need to do on a computer with just a web browser." Uh no, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
"If you want a "real" PC, your choices are going to be Linux or macOS." I think the author drank way too much Google and Microsoft Kool-Aid before writing this article. Or incurred some form of head trauma. Say the company you work at suddenly loses their internet connection when using these "web" services, no one can do any work. Sounds like a great plan Steven.
Apple would never screw you over, no waaaaaaay. They are the paragon of playing nice, no back stabbing, stealing other companies IP, etc. Greeeeeeeeeeeeeat company!
Apple: "Thanks Mark, we'll give you 0.000000000001 cents everytime reads one of your articles on our news feed! You are welcome dear content creating friend!"
I'm personally looking forward to: Surviving Squalor-mart Collectors Edition
It comes with Skeeter the meth head doll who cooks meth in the sporting goods section, a coupon for $5 off whatever you want in a real world Squalor-mart, a Squalor-mart trucker hat and you can play as Skeeter in the game. SOLD!
*Except when Sony doesn't want it to be. Speaking of Sony and Nintendo, hopefully they jump on the accessibility bandwagon now that Microsoft has set the bar with their Adaptive Controller.
Saw on Facebook that a friends son is using one now. Great that he can more easily play games with family and friends.:) https://www.xbox.com/en-CA/xbo...
I do.:) The first Metroid Prime was fantastic. Haven't played the 2nd one yet. Third one was a bit disappointing. Hoping Retro can get back MP 1's form. One of my fav games of all time.
It seems to me you have not played this game. The "Cyborg" arm woman is only in the story mode (I'm guessing as I haven't played any of the single player story mode).
There is definitely none of that in multiplayer which I have played a lot of, which to me and most others is the primary reason for playing a BF game. Also, the arm is clearly a very rudimentary implementation, so I don't think it qualifies as making her a Cyborg. lol
To not use Bixby, like I don't use any other virtual "assistants". Anyone who buys an Alexa, Google, etc. device and puts in their home needs to have their head examined. Please spy on me big tech company! Suck up all my personal data, that of course you say you aren't doing...
I told our work Alexa it was creepy, maybe that why Amazon has been delaying my game shipements the past year or so. Doh! So sorry Alexa McCreeperton.
hitting his bong every day now that his boyhood dream of pot being legalized dream has come true. Maybe he will embarrass us on the world stage again soon. Dare to dream.
Perhaps we'll see him in Doritos and Mountain Dew or McDonald's commercials soon.
I wasn't wearing protective equipment a few years back when I got tripped up inline skating, ended up landing on my right patella (kneecap) and broke it into 3 pieces. Prior to this incident I hadn't fallen in over 20 years of skating and was over-confident and stupidly not wearing protective padding. Painful lesson learned...
Needless to say I wear full protective gear after two surgeries, months of physio for my extremely tight and shrunken quads, etc. Mandating a helmet for these type of activities where you are moving on concrete should be a no-brainer. I see dumb people with very small children in my area with no helmets, wobbling on bikes and scooters, makes me cringe.
We still use paper ballots in our elections here in Canada and I'm fine with that. For the most part they work very well, except when they don't have enough ballots. We encountered that in our city elections last year in Calgary, which caused an uproar. Hopefully that doesn't make them decided to go electronic.
Thankfully the Calgary Flames/Gary Bettman/NHL annointed candidate of choice lost, seemed like he was ready to cut them a nice big juicy new arena cheque had he won.
What a great name for an application, good job marketing team. I don't think they could've come up with anything more cringeworthy if they tried. Maybe the kyddez will like the name though. *Returns to yelling at kydz to stay off my lawn.
Yes, nerds and geeks do complain about "support" because we know that having insecure devices/operating systems is what leads to you getting pwned. Your friends say they have no problems, but how do they know if their devices have malware on them? Oh that's right, they don't.
I would never do anything like banking on my phone as it just isn't worth the risk. Some malware could silently be logging your info, login credentials, etc then one day oops, your bank account is empty. Yup, sure was worth using that insecure phone from 5 years ago. That being said Android-based phone companies should support phones longer than 2 years, or 6 months in HTC's case. At least Google upped their supported releases to 3 years last year.
I bought a HTC U11 last Nov, got it right after they released the Oreo update. Cool I thought, HTC seems to be on the ball with software updates. Unfortunately that was the last software update my phone has received. Still rocking the Dec 2017 security updates, thanks HTC!!! The phone itself is pretty good, such a waste that they aren't supporting it all, other than updating some of their apps.
As they don't seem to care about customer security, not a big surprise the U12+ is selling poorly. They dug their own grave, time to lie in it HTC. Should've sold your entire phone div to Google, although maybe they didn't want it all. Hmmm.
No hyperbole, it is people crossing the border illegally. I have no problem with people legally immigrating to Canada, the neighborhood I live in is 40% immigrants. But when both US and Canadian governments allow it to happen it is an affront to the people who are legally immigrating, IMHO.
"Roughly 75 per cent of the 25,000 asylum seekers who crossed into Quebec last year did so illegally and the government is anticipating a surge in migrants arriving again this year."
"Officials said Monday it is expecting about 400 people to cross the border through forests and wooded areas every day this summer — up from 250 each day last year."
Which country is letting large numbers of immigrants illegally cross the border into Quebec and Manitoba the past few years? President Trump doesn't seem to concerned about stopping that from happening. Our current government is also part of the problem.
As for the "pharmaceutical practices" I don't know about IP issues, but I know the cost of drugs here isn't nearly as ridiculous as things are becoming in the U.S. Sorry we aren't letting drug companies rip off people as badly as they do in your country, Mr. President.
I picked up an HTC U11 in fall (my Nexus 6P died out of the blue) which luckily coincided with their releasing Oreo for it. So far it has been a pretty good phone.
Not sure if they are lying about updates in this case as my security patch level is stuck at Dec, 2017.:( Hmmm...
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I bought a U11 in fall of 2017, right around that time they released the Oreo update. Great, new OS version!
They have updated my phone's security updates ONCE since then. I'm currently on June 1, 2018 security updates. Thanks for caring about our security HTC, such a "great" company.
They have stated Pie is coming in "Q2", which I have a hard time believing. Even if they do update my phone to Pie, will they give us frequent security updates? Probably not, so they should just quit making phones.
"Today, Google has shown with its Chrome OS that most of us can pretty much do anything we need to do on a computer with just a web browser." Uh no, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
"If you want a "real" PC, your choices are going to be Linux or macOS." I think the author drank way too much Google and Microsoft Kool-Aid before writing this article. Or incurred some form of head trauma. Say the company you work at suddenly loses their internet connection when using these "web" services, no one can do any work. Sounds like a great plan Steven.
Apple would never screw you over, no waaaaaaay. They are the paragon of playing nice, no back stabbing, stealing other companies IP, etc. Greeeeeeeeeeeeeat company!
Apple: "Thanks Mark, we'll give you 0.000000000001 cents everytime reads one of your articles on our news feed! You are welcome dear content creating friend!"
I'm personally looking forward to: Surviving Squalor-mart Collectors Edition
It comes with Skeeter the meth head doll who cooks meth in the sporting goods section, a coupon for $5 off whatever you want in a real world Squalor-mart, a Squalor-mart trucker hat and you can play as Skeeter in the game. SOLD!
ISPs, so they can throttle it and extort money from Google or customers in order to work as intended.
Personally I have 0 interest in such a product. No thanks Google.
*Except when Sony doesn't want it to be. Speaking of Sony and Nintendo, hopefully they jump on the accessibility bandwagon now that Microsoft has set the bar with their Adaptive Controller.
:)
Saw on Facebook that a friends son is using one now. Great that he can more easily play games with family and friends.
https://www.xbox.com/en-CA/xbo...
I do. :) The first Metroid Prime was fantastic. Haven't played the 2nd one yet. Third one was a bit disappointing. Hoping Retro can get back MP 1's form. One of my fav games of all time.
It seems to me you have not played this game. The "Cyborg" arm woman is only in the story mode (I'm guessing as I haven't played any of the single player story mode).
There is definitely none of that in multiplayer which I have played a lot of, which to me and most others is the primary reason for playing a BF game. Also, the arm is clearly a very rudimentary implementation, so I don't think it qualifies as making her a Cyborg. lol
Ya bunch of hosers! Take off, eh!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bomb-threat-hoax-canada-cities-1.4945170
They don't make Gears anymore as they sold the IP to Microsoft in 2014. :) Glad they did otherwise the series would most likely still be dead.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/20...
To not use Bixby, like I don't use any other virtual "assistants". Anyone who buys an Alexa, Google, etc. device and puts in their home needs to have their head examined. Please spy on me big tech company! Suck up all my personal data, that of course you say you aren't doing...
I told our work Alexa it was creepy, maybe that why Amazon has been delaying my game shipements the past year or so. Doh! So sorry Alexa McCreeperton.
It is just natural selection kicking in.
Timmy: "But my phone said to drive off the cliff, so I did of course."
Doctor: "Unfortunately you survived, Timmy."
Who wouldn't want Bixby in their TV, Samsung is full of "great" ideas.
hitting his bong every day now that his boyhood dream of pot being legalized dream has come true. Maybe he will embarrass us on the world stage again soon. Dare to dream.
Perhaps we'll see him in Doritos and Mountain Dew or McDonald's commercials soon.
I wasn't wearing protective equipment a few years back when I got tripped up inline skating, ended up landing on my right patella (kneecap) and broke it into 3 pieces. Prior to this incident I hadn't fallen in over 20 years of skating and was over-confident and stupidly not wearing protective padding. Painful lesson learned...
Needless to say I wear full protective gear after two surgeries, months of physio for my extremely tight and shrunken quads, etc. Mandating a helmet for these type of activities where you are moving on concrete should be a no-brainer. I see dumb people with very small children in my area with no helmets, wobbling on bikes and scooters, makes me cringe.
We still use paper ballots in our elections here in Canada and I'm fine with that. For the most part they work very well, except when they don't have enough ballots. We encountered that in our city elections last year in Calgary, which caused an uproar. Hopefully that doesn't make them decided to go electronic.
Thankfully the Calgary Flames/Gary Bettman/NHL annointed candidate of choice lost, seemed like he was ready to cut them a nice big juicy new arena cheque had he won.
What a great name for an application, good job marketing team. I don't think they could've come up with anything more cringeworthy if they tried. Maybe the kyddez will like the name though. *Returns to yelling at kydz to stay off my lawn.
LMFTFY: Who knew that handing out free money would get (gasp) EXPENSIVE, eh!?!?!? ;)
Yes, nerds and geeks do complain about "support" because we know that having insecure devices/operating systems is what leads to you getting pwned. Your friends say they have no problems, but how do they know if their devices have malware on them? Oh that's right, they don't.
I would never do anything like banking on my phone as it just isn't worth the risk. Some malware could silently be logging your info, login credentials, etc then one day oops, your bank account is empty. Yup, sure was worth using that insecure phone from 5 years ago. That being said Android-based phone companies should support phones longer than 2 years, or 6 months in HTC's case. At least Google upped their supported releases to 3 years last year.
I bought a HTC U11 last Nov, got it right after they released the Oreo update. Cool I thought, HTC seems to be on the ball with software updates. Unfortunately that was the last software update my phone has received. Still rocking the Dec 2017 security updates, thanks HTC!!! The phone itself is pretty good, such a waste that they aren't supporting it all, other than updating some of their apps.
As they don't seem to care about customer security, not a big surprise the U12+ is selling poorly. They dug their own grave, time to lie in it HTC. Should've sold your entire phone div to Google, although maybe they didn't want it all. Hmmm.
I've always wanted a creepy, intrusive always on microphone in my hotel room. Thanks Amazon!!! Note to self, never stay at a Marriott hotel.
No hyperbole, it is people crossing the border illegally. I have no problem with people legally immigrating to Canada, the neighborhood I live in is 40% immigrants. But when both US and Canadian governments allow it to happen it is an affront to the people who are legally immigrating, IMHO.
"Roughly 75 per cent of the 25,000 asylum seekers who crossed into Quebec last year did so illegally and the government is anticipating a surge in migrants arriving again this year."
https://globalnews.ca/news/415...
"Officials said Monday it is expecting about 400 people to cross the border through forests and wooded areas every day this summer — up from 250 each day last year."
https://globalnews.ca/news/414...
Which country is letting large numbers of immigrants illegally cross the border into Quebec and Manitoba the past few years? President Trump doesn't seem to concerned about stopping that from happening. Our current government is also part of the problem.
As for the "pharmaceutical practices" I don't know about IP issues, but I know the cost of drugs here isn't nearly as ridiculous as things are becoming in the U.S. Sorry we aren't letting drug companies rip off people as badly as they do in your country, Mr. President.
Two large double doubles and a box of Timbits, eh.
I picked up an HTC U11 in fall (my Nexus 6P died out of the blue) which luckily coincided with their releasing Oreo for it. So far it has been a pretty good phone.
:( Hmmm...
Not sure if they are lying about updates in this case as my security patch level is stuck at Dec, 2017.