I've heard the Dylan version before, but it's one of those songs where the cover's more remembered, like the Beatles' Twist and Shout instead of the Isley Brothers.
I don't think we should abuse Microsoft Support. Their jobs are punishing enough already trying to come up with excuses for people for all the bugs in the products.
$10/mo. for a set top box? Are the cable/satellite companies even this bad?
T-Mobile's pricing is a mimicking that of the cable companies. You would generally spend $3-5/mo for a no-frills basic basic DTA. $7-10/mo would get you a full-fledged converter with VOD access, a searchable on-screen guide, maybe the ability to turn itself off and on when your favorite program comes on, the ability to interface with an in-home DVR system (but it would not be able to record itself). And above that would be the $12-15/mo DVR. Maybe a couple dollars more for the higher capacity, networking one that can talk to the $7-10 converter.
Laws aren't worth the paper they're written on unless they are enforced in a method that actually has a punishing effect on the violator. Too many corporate regulations have fines so low the companies will happily ignore them and then write off the fines as a "cost of doing business".
Sony basically could replace the entire page with a "Deal with it" sunglasses gif, and it would send the same message.
Sony could also change the home screen to remove the advertising, could they not? I mean, like any mobile phone maker they have their own special "customized experience" on their Android smartphones, are they not able to make the same changed on the Android TV UI?
I don't use Mint on my own machine, but I have my mom using Mint on her computer as she is (perhaps overly) worried about viruses and malware and we did not have a Windows license for when I built her last PC anyway. She's on 17.3 still right now, but I maintain a second machine of my own with the current release of Mint to evaluate for when it comes time to update her machine. The main reason I have not is there is no real "upgrade" path on Mint from back then. You still had to reinstall from scratch to move to the next major version. That's a hassle there is no reason to undertake when the system is working fine for her now and still under long-term support.
One thing I've noticed is that starting with Mint 18 -- Bluetooth audio actually works. Like I tried it on 17.3 and it didn't really function. It lost the headset, didn't output audio, etc. But with 18 it really functioned properly. And following the blog posts since then, I'm been seeing the progress the developers are making in performance enhancements in Mint in my own usage of the new releases. Their work is certainly appreciated, even if I don't crow about is all the time on the forums.
I don't know about the teaching profession, but education in general is an important part of insuring our nation's future, but teachers aren't paid well. They should be.
When you axe the devices that are popular and actually fairly unique (the Compact models), don't be suprised at falling sales when people go to other, more popular, brands that have carrier promotions/perks for the same-ol phablet.
Apple has supported a native fullscreen mode in Mac OS since 10.7, better known as Lion. It's a fundamental feature, and helps keep windows well-sorted on laptops in particular. It works pretty well in every major Mac application -- except Adobe's.
Mozilla chooses to ignore it, too. Here's the relevant Bugzilla entry, in case anyone wanted to vote, not that it's going to do any good. Their game plan seems to be "wait until everyone who cares about this bug changes OSes or browsers so they don't care anymore".
Actually the opposite for MySpace. Everything of value was lost. Since no one has used the site in years they just deleted all the content of their heyday.
You might think you don't use Foursquare, but chances are you do. Foursquare's technology powers the geofilters in Snapchat, tagged tweets on Twitter; it's in Uber, Apple Maps, Airbnb, WeChat, and Samsung phones, to name a few.
Where can I find the full list? Because I don't use any of those, either./smirk
Hackers often target IoT devices that don't have built-in security, leading to problems like default passwords and vulnerabilities that can't be fixed. [...] Lawmakers are looking to fix that with the bill, which would require a bare minimum of security standards for any IoT devices that the federal government uses.
This will become nothing more than special "government edition" and "consumer edition" product lines of the exact same item, just with different firmware. Remember the $600 hammer? Now there will be an actual justifiable difference between the product bought on government contract and the same item at a fraction of the price at Wal-Mart.
I just assumed it was not UK only, otherwise what is the point?
There is no point. I think the reason this story exists is as form of astroturfing publicity for the new service. It's like how, years ago, every time there was a new high-end smartphone there would coincidentally be a story asking "Is LG/Samsung/HTC's new blah the iPhone Killer?". Just a way to drum up interest in the new offering.
I wonder if it needs energy to do this, an amount of energy greater then the energy produced by burning it in the first place? If so, why not just use that energy instead? Cut out the middle man.
Because that doesn't make coal jobs relevant again.
As long as the service is UK-only (which, if I remember this story from when I first heard it days ago, it is), I don't see why Netflix has to even think about this service in any serious light. The only people who can get it are folks who already have access to the content and are only a small part of Netflix's customer footprint.
You can get standalone DVRs that don't require the cloud at all. But then you know what? People misconfigure them and they get exposed all over the internet. Either with default credentials so everyone can spy on what the cameras see, or as typical with these devices, they get exploited and become a part of a massive botnet that DDoS's infrastructure.
I think a lot of the blame there goes to the writers of the firmware for those devices. The security issues and backdoors are many times baked in as part of testing and not removed before production, or left in to allow support people an easy backdoor to avoid the "well, you locked yourself out, you'll have to hard reset that and lose all your data" convo.
With those stand-alone devices, more of the legwork with setup is expected on the customer side, too. So we're back to "limited support, or limit autonomy", as you said.
The proper way to implement these devices is to allow them to only communicate on the LAN. No attempts to connect to the Internet, no receiving instructions from the Internet. To access them away from your home, you set up a VPN sever on your home router. Your phone, tablet, or laptop then connects to that VPN, making it appear as if it's connected to your home LAN, and thus giving you access to all these devices on your LAN.
Isn't part of the issue with these device that they are not self-contained products? Their capabilities are tied into remote servers (and services) that the customer does not control. People go to a central website and use apps that route through a corporate mothership mainly to get around the end user being on DHCP internet service and behind consumer networking equipment. Part of that is by design, can't charge a monthly fee for them if they are capable of working without internet access.
I know DDNS is pretty easy and many home routers even offer built-in VPN servers, but that's still a bunch of outside config that is beyond the technical abilities of most of the people these companies want to target.
Personally I haven't seriously drank pepsi products in over a decade and this decision will just make that easier to swallow, heh heh.
So you completely missed the "retro" soda trend where makers bottled limited editions of their old sodas using real sugar? You don't even have to do that. Just check your local grocer's "ethnic" foods section for the Mexican versions of your favorite soda. It wont be HFCS. My closet grocer doesn't even segregate them that way. Bottled Mexican Coke is in the same cooler as all the other 20oz-1 L bottles. Normally with the Boylan, Jones, and other more niche drinks.
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Peter, Paul, and Mary.
I've heard the Dylan version before, but it's one of those songs where the cover's more remembered, like the Beatles' Twist and Shout instead of the Isley Brothers.
Glad to see I'm not the only person who started hearing this when he read the headline.
I don't think we should abuse Microsoft Support. Their jobs are punishing enough already trying to come up with excuses for people for all the bugs in the products.
Better question: Would anyone really want to?
$10/mo. for a set top box? Are the cable/satellite companies even this bad?
T-Mobile's pricing is a mimicking that of the cable companies. You would generally spend $3-5/mo for a no-frills basic basic DTA. $7-10/mo would get you a full-fledged converter with VOD access, a searchable on-screen guide, maybe the ability to turn itself off and on when your favorite program comes on, the ability to interface with an in-home DVR system (but it would not be able to record itself). And above that would be the $12-15/mo DVR. Maybe a couple dollars more for the higher capacity, networking one that can talk to the $7-10 converter.
Laws aren't worth the paper they're written on unless they are enforced in a method that actually has a punishing effect on the violator.
Too many corporate regulations have fines so low the companies will happily ignore them and then write off the fines as a "cost of doing business".
Sony basically could replace the entire page with a "Deal with it" sunglasses gif, and it would send the same message.
Sony could also change the home screen to remove the advertising, could they not? I mean, like any mobile phone maker they have their own special "customized experience" on their Android smartphones, are they not able to make the same changed on the Android TV UI?
I don't use Mint on my own machine, but I have my mom using Mint on her computer as she is (perhaps overly) worried about viruses and malware and we did not have a Windows license for when I built her last PC anyway. She's on 17.3 still right now, but I maintain a second machine of my own with the current release of Mint to evaluate for when it comes time to update her machine. The main reason I have not is there is no real "upgrade" path on Mint from back then. You still had to reinstall from scratch to move to the next major version. That's a hassle there is no reason to undertake when the system is working fine for her now and still under long-term support.
One thing I've noticed is that starting with Mint 18 -- Bluetooth audio actually works. Like I tried it on 17.3 and it didn't really function. It lost the headset, didn't output audio, etc. But with 18 it really functioned properly. And following the blog posts since then, I'm been seeing the progress the developers are making in performance enhancements in Mint in my own usage of the new releases. Their work is certainly appreciated, even if I don't crow about is all the time on the forums.
I don't know about the teaching profession, but education in general is an important part of insuring our nation's future, but teachers aren't paid well. They should be.
When you axe the devices that are popular and actually fairly unique (the Compact models), don't be suprised at falling sales when people go to other, more popular, brands that have carrier promotions/perks for the same-ol phablet.
Apple has supported a native fullscreen mode in Mac OS since 10.7, better known as Lion. It's a fundamental feature, and helps keep windows well-sorted on laptops in particular. It works pretty well in every major Mac application -- except Adobe's.
Mozilla chooses to ignore it, too. Here's the relevant Bugzilla entry, in case anyone wanted to vote, not that it's going to do any good. Their game plan seems to be "wait until everyone who cares about this bug changes OSes or browsers so they don't care anymore".
nothing of value was lost?
Actually the opposite for MySpace. Everything of value was lost. Since no one has used the site in years they just deleted all the content of their heyday.
You might think you don't use Foursquare, but chances are you do. Foursquare's technology powers the geofilters in Snapchat, tagged tweets on Twitter; it's in Uber, Apple Maps, Airbnb, WeChat, and Samsung phones, to name a few.
Where can I find the full list? Because I don't use any of those, either. /smirk
Hackers often target IoT devices that don't have built-in security, leading to problems like default passwords and vulnerabilities that can't be fixed. [...] Lawmakers are looking to fix that with the bill, which would require a bare minimum of security standards for any IoT devices that the federal government uses.
This will become nothing more than special "government edition" and "consumer edition" product lines of the exact same item, just with different firmware. Remember the $600 hammer? Now there will be an actual justifiable difference between the product bought on government contract and the same item at a fraction of the price at Wal-Mart.
I like the story immediately preceding this one is "Is Bad Customer Service More Profitable Than Good?"
Ajit Pai's Rosy Broadband Deployment Claim May Be Based On Gigantic Error
Hmmm, I think someone's already used that noun to refer to the current POTUS. Isn't there any originality in journalism now?
This seems to be be something the Consumer Product Safety Council should be doing instead.
I just assumed it was not UK only, otherwise what is the point?
There is no point. I think the reason this story exists is as form of astroturfing publicity for the new service. It's like how, years ago, every time there was a new high-end smartphone there would coincidentally be a story asking "Is LG/Samsung/HTC's new blah the iPhone Killer?". Just a way to drum up interest in the new offering.
I wonder if it needs energy to do this, an amount of energy greater then the energy produced by burning it in the first place? If so, why not just use that energy instead? Cut out the middle man.
Because that doesn't make coal jobs relevant again.
As long as the service is UK-only (which, if I remember this story from when I first heard it days ago, it is), I don't see why Netflix has to even think about this service in any serious light. The only people who can get it are folks who already have access to the content and are only a small part of Netflix's customer footprint.
You can get standalone DVRs that don't require the cloud at all. But then you know what? People misconfigure them and they get exposed all over the internet. Either with default credentials so everyone can spy on what the cameras see, or as typical with these devices, they get exploited and become a part of a massive botnet that DDoS's infrastructure.
I think a lot of the blame there goes to the writers of the firmware for those devices. The security issues and backdoors are many times baked in as part of testing and not removed before production, or left in to allow support people an easy backdoor to avoid the "well, you locked yourself out, you'll have to hard reset that and lose all your data" convo.
With those stand-alone devices, more of the legwork with setup is expected on the customer side, too. So we're back to "limited support, or limit autonomy", as you said.
The proper way to implement these devices is to allow them to only communicate on the LAN. No attempts to connect to the Internet, no receiving instructions from the Internet. To access them away from your home, you set up a VPN sever on your home router. Your phone, tablet, or laptop then connects to that VPN, making it appear as if it's connected to your home LAN, and thus giving you access to all these devices on your LAN.
Isn't part of the issue with these device that they are not self-contained products? Their capabilities are tied into remote servers (and services) that the customer does not control. People go to a central website and use apps that route through a corporate mothership mainly to get around the end user being on DHCP internet service and behind consumer networking equipment. Part of that is by design, can't charge a monthly fee for them if they are capable of working without internet access.
I know DDNS is pretty easy and many home routers even offer built-in VPN servers, but that's still a bunch of outside config that is beyond the technical abilities of most of the people these companies want to target.
If your server purchases only have a useful life of two years, you're doing it wrong.
Blinding obvious that's why they chose that cut.
Personally I haven't seriously drank pepsi products in over a decade and this decision will just make that easier to swallow, heh heh.
So you completely missed the "retro" soda trend where makers bottled limited editions of their old sodas using real sugar?
You don't even have to do that. Just check your local grocer's "ethnic" foods section for the Mexican versions of your favorite soda. It wont be HFCS. My closet grocer doesn't even segregate them that way. Bottled Mexican Coke is in the same cooler as all the other 20oz-1 L bottles. Normally with the Boylan, Jones, and other more niche drinks.