Really, which LCD displays do they supply to Apple? LG and Samsung are major suppliers, I can't remember the last time I saw an LCD in an Apple product wasn't LG/Sharp.
Perhaps if Sharp actually was a major supplier they wouldn't be in quite so close to bankruptcy.
I guess you meant to say "LG/Samsung" in that second sentence, not LG/Sharp.
From what I've heard, the new iPad Mini uses Sharp screens.
For those of you with nothing to hide, please try to picture the following scenario: Google opens an HR company, specializing in delivering EXACTLY the person you like for the job. By which criteria? ENDLESS! They can practically deliver a person who has no interest in porn, spends 30% of his online time reading/. and likes the color Blue! They have all this information owing to their damned tracking cookies and gmail reading.
It's funny. But I think I would find someone who has no interest in porn suspicious (unless they were married).
I've just seen too many movies where the mad bomber/murderer/antagonist is some wacko who "seems like a diligent, quiet person" to his co-workers, but is really obsessed with purity and cleanliness. And then the police go raid his house and find he's keeping the body parts of his victims in the fridge, or was stockpiling biological weapons or something.
This is completely wrong, unless they also broke into your Wallet account at the same time.
My first though is: how difficult do you think it would be to socially engineer a Google support employee for the Wallet login details if you called with the card?
Okay, I guess I'm just confused then. If I can only use my Google card to access a single account, what does the Google card gain me over just carrying the pre-existing card I have for that account (besides letting Google collect my purchasing history for ad tailoring).
I can log into the Internet and change the account it draws from? That's more hassle than just carrying two cards to start with.
it's pretty absurd a company that understands this future feels a need to move backwards
It's really not Google's fault, though. They have to move backwards because the world is not moving forwards.
...but, I can't help note the reason the world cannot move forwards is because it requires cooperation from everyone. In other words, a standard for NFC payments that is open and free for all to use.
It is only corporate greed and their desire to own the system in a way they get a cut of everything that prevents any one NFC system from becoming that standard. They all think if they make enough retailer partnerships and throw enough marketing money at their solution they will eventually "win".
I think the general plan is that you could unify different accounts onto this card and access them all just from the Google Wallet card. As well in the event of you losing the card, all it would take is the deactivation of this one card instead of multiple cancellations from multiple institutions.
True story: Last night I lost my debit card. I left it in an ATM after the transaction. I realized this less than a half-hour later after a little grocery shopping and called the bank to cancel it. It will be annoying not having debit card access to my checking account for a week or so while a new one is sent to me, but I still have my credit card.
With Google's card if someone had my card they'd have gained access to all my accounts at once.
The Government is arguing the data isn't really mine because it's hosted on someone else's servers. So then, what about when it's in a shared colocation environment, such as macminicolo? Now I truly do own the "cloud" and the data is still contained on my personal property. It's just being place-shifted.
Thanks for the warning, Apple. Now I know that I need to upgrade now, before you remove my favourite functionalities.
As much as I hate Apple, it's assholes like you that made iTunes the elephantine mess it is today. "THIS IS MY FAVOURITE NICHE FUNCTIONALITY YOU TOSSERS SO YOU BETTER KEEP IT IN OR ELSE.
Apple seems to consider setting your own bitrate for ripping CDs a niche feature, burying it in a custom menu choice the way they do. At this point I can still only choose from 128 or 256 kbps for threshold on transcoding to transfer to iPod if the files are over that bitrate. So I can either gobble space on the device with Apple Lossless files. Or have any 320 kbps files get degraded by double-compressing to get them down to 256.
As for the OP, sounds like the guy needs to get laid.
As much as I can agree that undue stress can make someone overly reactive to situations, advocating sex to calm someone down smells a bit too much like "bread and circuses" in a modern sense. What does mass media advocate for recreation and to help people "unwind and forget their problems" but alcohol and entertainment flush with violence and sexual content? Programming on TV dumbs down and avoids critical thinking or introspection on the human condition, exactly what our poster is ranting about.
Don't do anything about societies problems that bother you. Just waste your time in carnal pleasure.
Remember part of Windows 8 is getting people to buy all their software from Microsoft's store and getting them a cut of it. You're not buying any apps for your new Metro experience if you spend all your time in FOSS virtual machines.
And thank God. I'm glad I don't have to stand in front of my car turning a crank to get it running.
That's a poor metaphor. People who had to turn a crank to start their car didn't necessarily understand what was actually happening inside the engine from them turning it. All they knew was "turn this crank quickly until the car starts" and "don't stand close to it while turning" to avoid injury if it kicks back or gets yanked fast when the engine starts up. Just like a person starting a modern automobile doesn't understand about the relays that link the signal when they turn the key to the starter motor. Or where the signal from the "Start" button on their dash goes after they press it.
Wow, I don't own any digital photo frames yet and wasn't aware we had hit "generations" of them now. I was wanting one that could display animated gifs if anything so I could do something like a Harry Potter-ish moving picture such as these. Either that or a e-paper one so it would run off batteries for weeks.
>> Alto...is...an...aggregator of the email accounts you already have."
Aha - a web-based email client.
I read it like this:
AOL (in pitiful voice): "Please, oh please give us your email credentials and let us datamine all your accounts. Nobody wants to use our email addresses anymore!"
I'm only making a point that COL pay increases are supposed to follow the trend in inflation, so that people can continue to meet their costs-of-living with their current jobs, and you reply with some stupid neo-con rant about how it's because the poor little business owners are being picked on by big-bad government. But you completely ignore that business owners had one of their own running the show for almost a decade, and didn't treat their employees any different despite their reprieve.
In this case "off" means "you're allowed to track me". Set it to "on" if you want to explicitly limit advertiser's activities.
This kinda reminds me of when you find yourself stuck on an ad-riddled site because you typoed a URL, and you try to close the tab and get one of those pop-up telling you to "click cancel to continue" leaving the page.
What kinds of business are you referring to? Are you talking about media companies specifically? What kinds of "mandatory courses", and "certifications" are necessary to be a cable company?
Ironically he replied to someone who's worked for cable companies, and if they really had to take mandatory courses or get any real certifications (on the management level) I can say with some authority that your cable TV service would be magnitudes better and more affordable. On the inside, it really is a big money grab.
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Really, which LCD displays do they supply to Apple? LG and Samsung are major suppliers, I can't remember the last time I saw an LCD in an Apple product wasn't LG/Sharp.
Perhaps if Sharp actually was a major supplier they wouldn't be in quite so close to bankruptcy.
I guess you meant to say "LG/Samsung" in that second sentence, not LG/Sharp.
From what I've heard, the new iPad Mini uses Sharp screens.
For those of you with nothing to hide, please try to picture the following scenario: /. and likes the color Blue! They have all this information owing to their damned tracking cookies and gmail reading.
Google opens an HR company, specializing in delivering EXACTLY the person you like for the job. By which criteria? ENDLESS! They can practically deliver a person who has no interest in porn, spends 30% of his online time reading
It's funny. But I think I would find someone who has no interest in porn suspicious (unless they were married).
I've just seen too many movies where the mad bomber/murderer/antagonist is some wacko who "seems like a diligent, quiet person" to his co-workers, but is really obsessed with purity and cleanliness. And then the police go raid his house and find he's keeping the body parts of his victims in the fridge, or was stockpiling biological weapons or something.
This is completely wrong, unless they also broke into your Wallet account at the same time.
My first though is: how difficult do you think it would be to socially engineer a Google support employee for the Wallet login details if you called with the card?
Okay, I guess I'm just confused then. If I can only use my Google card to access a single account, what does the Google card gain me over just carrying the pre-existing card I have for that account (besides letting Google collect my purchasing history for ad tailoring).
I can log into the Internet and change the account it draws from? That's more hassle than just carrying two cards to start with.
it's pretty absurd a company that understands this future feels a need to move backwards
It's really not Google's fault, though. They have to move backwards because the world is not moving forwards.
It is only corporate greed and their desire to own the system in a way they get a cut of everything that prevents any one NFC system from becoming that standard. They all think if they make enough retailer partnerships and throw enough marketing money at their solution they will eventually "win".
I think the general plan is that you could unify different accounts onto this card and access them all just from the Google Wallet card. As well in the event of you losing the card, all it would take is the deactivation of this one card instead of multiple cancellations from multiple institutions.
True story: Last night I lost my debit card. I left it in an ATM after the transaction. I realized this less than a half-hour later after a little grocery shopping and called the bank to cancel it. It will be annoying not having debit card access to my checking account for a week or so while a new one is sent to me, but I still have my credit card.
With Google's card if someone had my card they'd have gained access to all my accounts at once.
I never would have thought my first electric car would be powered by sand!
There have been other modes of transportation that have been powered by sand.
The Government is arguing the data isn't really mine because it's hosted on someone else's servers.
So then, what about when it's in a shared colocation environment, such as macminicolo? Now I truly do own the "cloud" and the data is still contained on my personal property. It's just being place-shifted.
Someone must be planning to get on Santa's good side with a reeaally big plate of cookies.
Be on the lookout for future heists of butter, sugar, flour, raisins, rolled oats in the next few weeks.
Thanks for the warning, Apple. Now I know that I need to upgrade now, before you remove my favourite functionalities.
As much as I hate Apple, it's assholes like you that made iTunes the elephantine mess it is today. "THIS IS MY FAVOURITE NICHE FUNCTIONALITY YOU TOSSERS SO YOU BETTER KEEP IT IN OR ELSE.
Apple seems to consider setting your own bitrate for ripping CDs a niche feature, burying it in a custom menu choice the way they do. At this point I can still only choose from 128 or 256 kbps for threshold on transcoding to transfer to iPod if the files are over that bitrate. So I can either gobble space on the device with Apple Lossless files. Or have any 320 kbps files get degraded by double-compressing to get them down to 256.
No. He's just moved on from the 2001 notion of multimedia that you seem to be clinging to.
What are you referring to? Apple removed DRM from the music available on iTunes back in 2009.
He's probably referring to the video files on iTunes.
Speaking of dicks, did anyone else think the joystick/stem should have been a little shorter?
It seemed really phallic-looking in the player's hands.
Yes, because geeks are meat machines and have no use for social discourse or the humanities. Only delicious code.
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As for the OP, sounds like the guy needs to get laid.
As much as I can agree that undue stress can make someone overly reactive to situations, advocating sex to calm someone down smells a bit too much like "bread and circuses" in a modern sense. What does mass media advocate for recreation and to help people "unwind and forget their problems" but alcohol and entertainment flush with violence and sexual content? Programming on TV dumbs down and avoids critical thinking or introspection on the human condition, exactly what our poster is ranting about.
Don't do anything about societies problems that bother you. Just waste your time in carnal pleasure.
This question seems to have been discussed on Slashdot even before its existence . . .
Maybe nobody's listening to the responses given. ... ... ... ... I'll show myself out.
Well, to a point they do.
Remember part of Windows 8 is getting people to buy all their software from Microsoft's store and getting them a cut of it.
You're not buying any apps for your new Metro experience if you spend all your time in FOSS virtual machines.
As far as content, like porn. I think that horse is out of the barn. Porn availability is now completely normalized.
No, I don't think the availability of horse porn is considered normal yet.
And thank God. I'm glad I don't have to stand in front of my car turning a crank to get it running.
That's a poor metaphor. People who had to turn a crank to start their car didn't necessarily understand what was actually happening inside the engine from them turning it. All they knew was "turn this crank quickly until the car starts" and "don't stand close to it while turning" to avoid injury if it kicks back or gets yanked fast when the engine starts up. Just like a person starting a modern automobile doesn't understand about the relays that link the signal when they turn the key to the starter motor. Or where the signal from the "Start" button on their dash goes after they press it.
with satellites and telescopes able to see galaxies across the universe, and we get a shitty picture...
Wow, talk about asking for the joke.
Wow, I don't own any digital photo frames yet and wasn't aware we had hit "generations" of them now. I was wanting one that could display animated gifs if anything so I could do something like a Harry Potter-ish moving picture such as these. Either that or a e-paper one so it would run off batteries for weeks.
If this were kids in the playground I'd agree. This is talking about representatives of major companies though!
Some people never grow up.
What's surprising is how many find themselves in high ranking positions because of it.
>> Alto...is...an...aggregator of the email accounts you already have."
Aha - a web-based email client.
I read it like this:
AOL (in pitiful voice): "Please, oh please give us your email credentials and let us datamine all your accounts. Nobody wants to use our email addresses anymore!"
How amusing. I was thinking the same thing.
I'm only making a point that COL pay increases are supposed to follow the trend in inflation, so that people can continue to meet their costs-of-living with their current jobs, and you reply with some stupid neo-con rant about how it's because the poor little business owners are being picked on by big-bad government. But you completely ignore that business owners had one of their own running the show for almost a decade, and didn't treat their employees any different despite their reprieve.
In this case "off" means "you're allowed to track me". Set it to "on" if you want to explicitly limit advertiser's activities.
This kinda reminds me of when you find yourself stuck on an ad-riddled site because you typoed a URL, and you try to close the tab and get one of those pop-up telling you to "click cancel to continue" leaving the page.
They should totally use this as the name. It's actually more normal sounding than some of the names of late.
What kinds of business are you referring to? Are you talking about media companies specifically? What kinds of "mandatory courses", and "certifications" are necessary to be a cable company?
Ironically he replied to someone who's worked for cable companies, and if they really had to take mandatory courses or get any real certifications (on the management level) I can say with some authority that your cable TV service would be magnitudes better and more affordable. On the inside, it really is a big money grab.