They are trying to make a huge differentiation between consumer Skype and "Skype for Business" (aka Lync). The people using consumer Skype as a business tool simply will not move away from it to SfB, because everyone hates SfB and consumer Skype works really well. The only option is to make the consumer Skype so unpalatable to use in a business environment that you "have to" move to SfB.
They always claim "it would be nice" to be able to upgrade an existing device than to have to buy a new one, but in practice no one does that. It's been that way in the PC world for years. Maybe you upgrade the RAM or hard drive, but that's usually it. You go through the cost of the upgrade, and in the end you still have the same dinged and dirty old thing you had before. People much prefer the experience of going out and buying a shiny new thing.
The idea of a drive-in is much better than the reality. There aren't any around because when they were around people went once, realized they are crap, and didn't go anymore. You really want to watch a movie through your dirty windshield while listening to it on crappy window speakers? You get a better experience at home.
Except you're wrong. You act like everything is as usual and this is just another turn of the wheel, when that is far from the case. We now have Citizens United and a government run by Republicans in every branch, completely eliminating checks and balances. Gerrymandering, corruption, and a complete disregard for country before party are running rampant, and nothing is there to stop them. The Republicans have taken "winning" as a free license to do whatever they want without listening to their constituents because they know they have nothing to fear. Most of them cannot lose an election if they tried, due to gerrymandering. If it's going to be close they just pass another voter suppression law aimed at typically Democratic populations.
Every great civilization has fallen, most of them because of apathetic people like you who sat around acting cynical before they realized it was too late. Time to wake up buddy.
Corruption is the biggest thing our founders were worried about as a threat to our form of government. For years it has been getting worse and worse. We've finally reached the point of critical mass and are now in a snowball or thermal runaway type of situation where we cannot recover.
This was obviously a mistake from the beginning, and everyone knew it. Mozilla has been acting like a fat and happy company rolling in cash instead of a company in a competitive marketplace. Firefox is slow and crashy and I'm almost at the end of my rope with it, and it's very frustrating for them to be constantly distracting themselves with stupid projects.
Firefox OS? Rust? Some IoT thing? Come on Mozilla. You actually thought you could make a dent in mobile OSes when even Microsoft couldn't? Do you really think you *need* to invent a new programming language just to write a better browser? Do you really think you have any relevance/at//all/ in the z-wave motion sensor in my house?
Wake up or die.
The standard of living is different. Today it is much higher than it was in the olden days. People live in bigger houses, have more vehicles, and have much more technology than they did back then. They also spend more money on stupid things, like $4 cups of coffee, designer clothes and handbags, and every single service wants a monthly subscription for $20 or more.
If people lived exactly like they did in the 50's, they could probably do it pretty well with a single income.
It's incredible that in 2016 people still think (and even do scientific research!) on the idea that exercise helps you lose weight. EXERCISE DOES NOT HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT in any significant amount. Weight loss is at least 85% what and how much you eat. Exercise can help somewhat, but it has very little bearing.
Exercise is extremely important for overall health, but weight loss is not one of the benefits.
The problem here is the content creators (*IAA asshats) who have no business sense. I can not get a good justification for the complexity of their distribution channels (country codes in dvd drives, IP restrictions, all of if). Why? Why?
It's a pretty simple and mundane explanation. Coordinating media (advertising, etc...) across the entire world is a big job, and probably pretty impossible to get everyone on the same page on exactly the same day for some kind of launch. Also, the stars of most movies need to make appearances for promotions, and they can only be in one place at a time. Rolling out different regions at different times allows you to manage that better.
You can check by going into Location services and seeing what it's set to. Only options I see are "Never" and "While using", so it can't be tracking you all the time.
You can easily going into the Location Services and change it to "While Using", and actually in the most recent version at least, there isn't an option for "Always", so this must only be an Android thing.
No, do not donate old junk (anything older than 2-3 years or so) to these places. They don't want your old junk any more than you do, and it actually costs them money to dispose if it properly, so you're actually hurting them.
With the VW revelations you can bet that they are looking more closely at every other car manufacturer as well. Best for them to get out in front of it before someone else reveals it.
It's not a failure of government regulations. It's a failure of government to *fund* the agencies who are in charge of enforcing the regulations. People who like to claim that the government is incompetent are also the ones that cause it to be that way by not giving agencies enough resources to do their jobs.
There's no excuse in 2016 to sit there and think to yourself, "Gee, I don't know what this thing is, let me post on some random message board asking other people about it", when there's a Google search box in literally every piece of technology in existence.
No. NSL or FISA is just for information. FBI was trying to compel Apple to do some work/make actual system changes that would allow them to get into the phone. That's why they went back to the All Writs Act, which allows law enforcement to compel an action. Making someone do something is not even close to the same thing as just requesting information.
If the user already enjoys immunity due to nepotism, what do you think the boss will do to you if he finds out you are specifically targeting his favorite employee? You can't win here, not matter what you do.
Sounds like you have stuck yourself in the "consumer" category. Marketing departments worldwide would be proud. If you realize that you can also be a producer, you'll find there's a lot more to do, and they are a lot more satisfying.
The liberals push nanny-state paranoia about our children to protect our children.
The conservatives push nanny-state paranoia about our children to grab power, start wars, award no-bid contracts to their friends/former employers, torpedo universal health care to help their buddies in the insurance business,... (OK, for that last one they actually use nanny-state paranoia about our elderly...)
Usually the "lowly" task of patching is sloughed off onto the sysadmins, while the developers in their hubris think there's nothing wrong with anything they wrote. OS/app patches are easily obtained and applied because many people use them. In house apps take a lot more resources to analyze and patch, and add the previously-mentioned hubris and you have a situation where resources will never be spent patching the in-house apps, because it's not their problem anyway.
I'll add my voice to the chorus. TiVo is not a patent troll, and the article submission borders on slander. The very definition and reason for getting a patent is to give you rights to an idea and allow you to sue others who use that idea without permission. That is exactly what TiVo is doing.
If they had no product and just a portfolio of patents, and only sued people for license fees, then yes, they would be a troll. But that is not the case and not at all what is going on here.
Texting while driving means you're not paying attention. Period. That you think that you are paying attention even further shows how badly you've misjudged yourself. You cannot do both things at once, no matter how many times you've watched "Fast and Furious" or how often you think that the rules of physics don't apply to you. This is not a video game. You are driving a deadly weapon that just happens to be a vehicle. People's lives are at stake, not just yours.
All IE is doing is performing a search for whatever you typed in, if it can't find the domain. If your search engine is set to Bing, it will search there. My search engine is set to Google, so it searches there.
Nothing to see here, other than FUD perpetrated by the./ community.
There's simply a lot more land to cover in the US, and that is covered by fewer companies than in Europe and elsewhere. Covering more land requires more towers and more expense.
mrsteveman is talking about music that is dynamically compressed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression), not "mp3" compressed. They both sound equally crappy on your stereo because dynamic compression is done by the music companies to make the CD version of a song sound more like the radio version. Since the radio doesn't have the same dynamic range as a CD, they squish the music into the radio range, making your CD-quaility sound like radio quality.
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They are trying to make a huge differentiation between consumer Skype and "Skype for Business" (aka Lync). The people using consumer Skype as a business tool simply will not move away from it to SfB, because everyone hates SfB and consumer Skype works really well. The only option is to make the consumer Skype so unpalatable to use in a business environment that you "have to" move to SfB.
They always claim "it would be nice" to be able to upgrade an existing device than to have to buy a new one, but in practice no one does that. It's been that way in the PC world for years. Maybe you upgrade the RAM or hard drive, but that's usually it. You go through the cost of the upgrade, and in the end you still have the same dinged and dirty old thing you had before. People much prefer the experience of going out and buying a shiny new thing.
The idea of a drive-in is much better than the reality. There aren't any around because when they were around people went once, realized they are crap, and didn't go anymore. You really want to watch a movie through your dirty windshield while listening to it on crappy window speakers? You get a better experience at home.
Except you're wrong. You act like everything is as usual and this is just another turn of the wheel, when that is far from the case. We now have Citizens United and a government run by Republicans in every branch, completely eliminating checks and balances. Gerrymandering, corruption, and a complete disregard for country before party are running rampant, and nothing is there to stop them. The Republicans have taken "winning" as a free license to do whatever they want without listening to their constituents because they know they have nothing to fear. Most of them cannot lose an election if they tried, due to gerrymandering. If it's going to be close they just pass another voter suppression law aimed at typically Democratic populations. Every great civilization has fallen, most of them because of apathetic people like you who sat around acting cynical before they realized it was too late. Time to wake up buddy.
Corruption is the biggest thing our founders were worried about as a threat to our form of government. For years it has been getting worse and worse. We've finally reached the point of critical mass and are now in a snowball or thermal runaway type of situation where we cannot recover.
This was obviously a mistake from the beginning, and everyone knew it. Mozilla has been acting like a fat and happy company rolling in cash instead of a company in a competitive marketplace. Firefox is slow and crashy and I'm almost at the end of my rope with it, and it's very frustrating for them to be constantly distracting themselves with stupid projects. Firefox OS? Rust? Some IoT thing? Come on Mozilla. You actually thought you could make a dent in mobile OSes when even Microsoft couldn't? Do you really think you *need* to invent a new programming language just to write a better browser? Do you really think you have any relevance /at/ /all/ in the z-wave motion sensor in my house?
Wake up or die.
The standard of living is different. Today it is much higher than it was in the olden days. People live in bigger houses, have more vehicles, and have much more technology than they did back then. They also spend more money on stupid things, like $4 cups of coffee, designer clothes and handbags, and every single service wants a monthly subscription for $20 or more. If people lived exactly like they did in the 50's, they could probably do it pretty well with a single income.
It's incredible that in 2016 people still think (and even do scientific research!) on the idea that exercise helps you lose weight. EXERCISE DOES NOT HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT in any significant amount. Weight loss is at least 85% what and how much you eat. Exercise can help somewhat, but it has very little bearing. Exercise is extremely important for overall health, but weight loss is not one of the benefits.
The problem here is the content creators (*IAA asshats) who have no business sense. I can not get a good justification for the complexity of their distribution channels (country codes in dvd drives, IP restrictions, all of if). Why? Why?
It's a pretty simple and mundane explanation. Coordinating media (advertising, etc...) across the entire world is a big job, and probably pretty impossible to get everyone on the same page on exactly the same day for some kind of launch. Also, the stars of most movies need to make appearances for promotions, and they can only be in one place at a time. Rolling out different regions at different times allows you to manage that better.
You can check by going into Location services and seeing what it's set to. Only options I see are "Never" and "While using", so it can't be tracking you all the time.
You can easily going into the Location Services and change it to "While Using", and actually in the most recent version at least, there isn't an option for "Always", so this must only be an Android thing.
No, do not donate old junk (anything older than 2-3 years or so) to these places. They don't want your old junk any more than you do, and it actually costs them money to dispose if it properly, so you're actually hurting them.
With the VW revelations you can bet that they are looking more closely at every other car manufacturer as well. Best for them to get out in front of it before someone else reveals it.
It's not a failure of government regulations. It's a failure of government to *fund* the agencies who are in charge of enforcing the regulations. People who like to claim that the government is incompetent are also the ones that cause it to be that way by not giving agencies enough resources to do their jobs.
There's no excuse in 2016 to sit there and think to yourself, "Gee, I don't know what this thing is, let me post on some random message board asking other people about it", when there's a Google search box in literally every piece of technology in existence.
No. NSL or FISA is just for information. FBI was trying to compel Apple to do some work/make actual system changes that would allow them to get into the phone. That's why they went back to the All Writs Act, which allows law enforcement to compel an action. Making someone do something is not even close to the same thing as just requesting information.
If the user already enjoys immunity due to nepotism, what do you think the boss will do to you if he finds out you are specifically targeting his favorite employee? You can't win here, not matter what you do.
Sounds like you have stuck yourself in the "consumer" category. Marketing departments worldwide would be proud. If you realize that you can also be a producer, you'll find there's a lot more to do, and they are a lot more satisfying.
The liberals push nanny-state paranoia about our children to protect our children. The conservatives push nanny-state paranoia about our children to grab power, start wars, award no-bid contracts to their friends/former employers, torpedo universal health care to help their buddies in the insurance business, ... (OK, for that last one they actually use nanny-state paranoia about our elderly...)
Usually the "lowly" task of patching is sloughed off onto the sysadmins, while the developers in their hubris think there's nothing wrong with anything they wrote. OS/app patches are easily obtained and applied because many people use them. In house apps take a lot more resources to analyze and patch, and add the previously-mentioned hubris and you have a situation where resources will never be spent patching the in-house apps, because it's not their problem anyway.
I'll add my voice to the chorus. TiVo is not a patent troll, and the article submission borders on slander. The very definition and reason for getting a patent is to give you rights to an idea and allow you to sue others who use that idea without permission. That is exactly what TiVo is doing. If they had no product and just a portfolio of patents, and only sued people for license fees, then yes, they would be a troll. But that is not the case and not at all what is going on here.
Texting while driving means you're not paying attention. Period. That you think that you are paying attention even further shows how badly you've misjudged yourself. You cannot do both things at once, no matter how many times you've watched "Fast and Furious" or how often you think that the rules of physics don't apply to you. This is not a video game. You are driving a deadly weapon that just happens to be a vehicle. People's lives are at stake, not just yours.
All IE is doing is performing a search for whatever you typed in, if it can't find the domain. If your search engine is set to Bing, it will search there. My search engine is set to Google, so it searches there.
Nothing to see here, other than FUD perpetrated by the ./ community.
There's simply a lot more land to cover in the US, and that is covered by fewer companies than in Europe and elsewhere. Covering more land requires more towers and more expense.
mrsteveman is talking about music that is dynamically compressed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression), not "mp3" compressed. They both sound equally crappy on your stereo because dynamic compression is done by the music companies to make the CD version of a song sound more like the radio version. Since the radio doesn't have the same dynamic range as a CD, they squish the music into the radio range, making your CD-quaility sound like radio quality.