TONS of other garbage, and guess what, there aren't any other options from the major US carriers. You either get a phone loaded with unremovable garbage or you get an international version which works considerably better but has no warranty service.
The unlocked international versions usually have a far more basic image on them, and I have much preferred them over the crufty and nonconfigurable versions pushed by the local US carriers. The downside is that it is considerably harder to get warranty service.
Locked AT&T phones do the same thing - we had an LG from AT&T where Facebook can't be removed, just disabled (and I think it may re-enable on reboot but need to doublecheck that).
I'm not the biggest fan of Amazon, but why should they leave money lying on the table? If they can negotiate concessions, they are perfectly within their rights and duties to do so. The cities obviously thought there was a net benefit somewhere or they would never have negotiated.
Windows 10 doesn't give them much revenue. Office 365 and Azure is where it's at for them, the Windows install base at this point is a massive inconvenience to getting people on subscriptions.
Oh no, it's far more insidious than just spam. They want to know what you're up to and how much money you have to spend on it. They want to monitor all your communications to other businesses and your personal institutions. This is valuable info, and yes they can spam you with it, but they also want to sell it.
Good time to read it too, as it's just about the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, and it's passed out of living human memory with the death of the last veteran. It's on my list to read as well.
Also just a podcast, but Hardcore History's "Blueprint for Armageddon" since we're coming up on the century mark of Armistice Day. I read Tuchman's "The Guns of August" in August 2014 so it just seemed fitting to get through the whole 12+ hour series for 2018.
I'm rereading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels after having first read them 10 or 15 years ago. They are every bit as excellent as I remember, and even more of their glory is revealed now through the lens of age. You may have seen the "Master and Commander" movie, but it's a pretty pale ghost of the characters and plots of the novels.
For the same reason the ubiquitous Facebook and Google login integrations exist, the only purpose of this is to track what apps you're using and when, and do we really trust they won't also know what you're doing in them? If they have the authentication, they have everything.
I don't even think Bulldozer was that lackluster, mine have been great other than the massive amount of heat it puts out. It's still doing pretty much anything I ask of it.
People just panhandle in general. Our local community page every so often has someone with a sob story wanting free services or furniture or a car or just straight money. This is really a non-story - if you want to give things away then do so, otherwise not.
I am very interested in what might happen with a combination of lack of net neutrality and One Touch Make Ready rules imposed. If the last mile was considerably easier, and there was a financial or competitive incentive for new services, what might we see? It's not that hard to set up an ISP (e.g. http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.c...) but the last-mile problem kills any reason to do so. We could have lots of little ISPs like back in the 90s when dialup was the thing, but only serving an apartment building, or a few blocks, or many ISPs to choose from in a given area if the last mile was deregulated like with power. Fruit for discussion anyway.
Yes, and it gets more interesting:
There were four ships in this class - Proteus, Cyclops, Jupiter, and Nereus. Jupiter was converted into the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley, and was scuttled eventually . The other three disappeared without a trace at various times. The prevailing theory, as far as I've heard, is that the coal eventually corroded support structures and they were lost in storms at sea. Langley was heavily damaged by the Japanese in February 1942 and scuttled near the Philippines.
The original console was a clunky, difficult machine that required you to press buttons on controllers covered by templates that you got with the game. It was annoying. The games were pretty awesome but the platform just never really worked.
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They want the +50% margin iPhones get.
Kodi on Raspberry PI is $50, without any data harvesting shenanigans except maybe from third-party applications.
On mine it was AT&T's version with resident evil^H^H^H^H Facebook, I had the international version of the phone and it was not present.
TONS of other garbage, and guess what, there aren't any other options from the major US carriers. You either get a phone loaded with unremovable garbage or you get an international version which works considerably better but has no warranty service.
The unlocked international versions usually have a far more basic image on them, and I have much preferred them over the crufty and nonconfigurable versions pushed by the local US carriers. The downside is that it is considerably harder to get warranty service.
Locked AT&T phones do the same thing - we had an LG from AT&T where Facebook can't be removed, just disabled (and I think it may re-enable on reboot but need to doublecheck that).
I'm not the biggest fan of Amazon, but why should they leave money lying on the table? If they can negotiate concessions, they are perfectly within their rights and duties to do so. The cities obviously thought there was a net benefit somewhere or they would never have negotiated.
Windows 10 doesn't give them much revenue. Office 365 and Azure is where it's at for them, the Windows install base at this point is a massive inconvenience to getting people on subscriptions.
Oh no, it's far more insidious than just spam. They want to know what you're up to and how much money you have to spend on it. They want to monitor all your communications to other businesses and your personal institutions. This is valuable info, and yes they can spam you with it, but they also want to sell it.
Interesting, I should get it. Still use FreeDOS a lot actually on old things like my Warcraft II CD and games from the 80s (Starflight!)
The serial is good too, with the pirate captain and his killer rocket parrot.
Good time to read it too, as it's just about the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, and it's passed out of living human memory with the death of the last veteran. It's on my list to read as well.
Also just a podcast, but Hardcore History's "Blueprint for Armageddon" since we're coming up on the century mark of Armistice Day. I read Tuchman's "The Guns of August" in August 2014 so it just seemed fitting to get through the whole 12+ hour series for 2018.
I'm rereading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels after having first read them 10 or 15 years ago. They are every bit as excellent as I remember, and even more of their glory is revealed now through the lens of age. You may have seen the "Master and Commander" movie, but it's a pretty pale ghost of the characters and plots of the novels.
For the same reason the ubiquitous Facebook and Google login integrations exist, the only purpose of this is to track what apps you're using and when, and do we really trust they won't also know what you're doing in them? If they have the authentication, they have everything.
https://xkcd.com/927/
I don't even think Bulldozer was that lackluster, mine have been great other than the massive amount of heat it puts out. It's still doing pretty much anything I ask of it.
People just panhandle in general. Our local community page every so often has someone with a sob story wanting free services or furniture or a car or just straight money. This is really a non-story - if you want to give things away then do so, otherwise not.
I am very interested in what might happen with a combination of lack of net neutrality and One Touch Make Ready rules imposed. If the last mile was considerably easier, and there was a financial or competitive incentive for new services, what might we see? It's not that hard to set up an ISP (e.g. http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.c...) but the last-mile problem kills any reason to do so. We could have lots of little ISPs like back in the 90s when dialup was the thing, but only serving an apartment building, or a few blocks, or many ISPs to choose from in a given area if the last mile was deregulated like with power. Fruit for discussion anyway.
If they ban Kodi they'd better start banning Raspberry Pis, Mythboxes, HDHomerun tuners, and VCRs.
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Yes, and it gets more interesting: There were four ships in this class - Proteus, Cyclops, Jupiter, and Nereus. Jupiter was converted into the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley, and was scuttled eventually . The other three disappeared without a trace at various times. The prevailing theory, as far as I've heard, is that the coal eventually corroded support structures and they were lost in storms at sea. Langley was heavily damaged by the Japanese in February 1942 and scuttled near the Philippines.
I miss my old LaserJets. They were like an ox: slow, hot, and reliable over long distances.
Not that this is a big loss, since there are other support forums, but seems odd that Office 2013 is getting the boot after only 5 years.
The original console was a clunky, difficult machine that required you to press buttons on controllers covered by templates that you got with the game. It was annoying. The games were pretty awesome but the platform just never really worked.