I read the summary, and am aware of the country is Germany from it -- thank you.
But, that does little for those of us looking at the titles on our RSS readers. In a normal news source, if the country is not mentioned then readers will assume the location is the home country of the publication, and Slashdot is a U.S. site. I'd argue in the case of an internationally read website it would be more logical to always list the country of origin.
Slashdot is a website read around the world. When posting an article of this type about a "national election", it would make a shitload of sense to add, in the title, the name of the country the election is for.
You're confused why a news blurb looking at nothing but Microsoft's online store is not mentioning Amazon at all? There's something slow here, and I'm not talking about the news day like an earlier commenter.
Further, what is your suggestion for Joe and Jane User for their backup solution? Here are the requirements: 1) Little to no computer knowledge needed. 2) Replicated off-site. 3) 5-10$/month 4) Hands-off backup.
A solution that meets your average user's needs is not possible without "the cloud"
Have you considered this can't be delivered as priced? There's a reason Code42 is dropping personal backups and making people take pricier business plans if they want to stay. Support costs for individual accounts of people with "little to no computer knowledge" might be part of that. Those costs would be lower if a business IT employee is handling that, on an account with a higher-priced plan.
Personally I have never been into ANYTHING that can connect to a cell phone in this manor for a lot of reasons.. But the very fact that the maker of your product can now KILL IT via remote software?
Is it really remote software? Maybe the firmware simply has a built in expiration date so you have to keep it up to date to keep the product flying.
I dunno. I think $5/mo for all Disney is pretty reasonable. Now, $10 or more... nope.
That's part of the issue with the splintering of video services (or paid website subscriptions). There seems to be this notion of how much the rate should be that's based on some imaginary shared "minimum price", and not grounded in an analysis of the individual service and its content amount. Like here, Disney would say "we're going to price it at $x/mo because of Netflix's rate, completely ignoring the size of their content library vs. Netflix, or the more limited audience for their content, being Disney.
Most video files I throw at it play natively without transcoding, unlike my iPad and Android phone (Nexus 6P).
If you're having to transcode files to play them on a cell phone, it sounds like you're using the wrong apps. You are aware there is version of mpv for Android, right?
As a long time Firefox user, I'm scared about the upcoming Firefox 57 release. According to that Mozilla blog post, as of Firefox 57 "Firefox will only run WebExtensions." So that could mean a lot of existing extensions will no longer work.
Fun Fact: on OSX, there is no true full screen mode in Firefox. The full screen mode still leaves a couple interface elements visible, it's not just the page view. There are a couple extensions that can accomplish full screen mode -- but they wont work on Firefox 57+, and judging by the bug, Mozilla doesn't care.
People have bad experience on the iPhone because of poor battery life because of a poorly supported codec so people buy less iPhones. So Apple says only these codecs, providers comply because they have to, users get a good experience, everybody happy?
Yeah, that's it. The iPhone's battery life if poor because of a lack of accelerated video playback... not because the phone is too thin to have a decent-sized battery...
Imagine the tragedy of a world where a seller is liable for making the products they sell actually useful out of the box rather than forcing customers to go down a "support" rabbit hole before they give up.
The seller is a middle-man. Generally they are neither the manufacturer, nor trained in how to support the products they sell. They also do not necessarily have the expertise to evaluate every product before deciding to sell it to see if it is going to be "easy enough" for the customer to make them happy. The ones that do will have to recoup that cost in some way, normally through a after-sale paid support service or higher initial prices.
People need to stop being babies and make up their minds what they want:
- High-Quality Products
- Great Service
- Cheap Prices
"already created" 2 million jobs? apple, inc. themselves only has 116,000 employeesworldwide. that must include the total u.s. employees of every company or retailer that sells apple products or some other bullshit made-up news like that.. including walmart's million+.
no fucking way apple, inc. has 'created' 2 million jobs in this country.
Apple's taking credit for all the people involved in iOS development. So those developers and even support people simply answering user emails, getting their paycheck from a completely different company, are jobs Apple created, according to them.
- So you're saying that the green bar no longer means website is ok?
- Yes. Now it has to be a green padlock and a name of the organization, and you have to check it with magnifying glass because it's very easy to mistake l with I. see Mom, there's difference between AlliorBank and AIIiorBank. Do you see it? Do you?
I think a lot of these phishing problems are caused by people blinding following email links from "their bank" and not learning how to directly browse to a website (instead trusting Google to give them the valid link by searching for their bank's name). There's a pretty easy solution to this: Make a bookmark of the correct site and only use this bookmark to access the bank's site. Will that stop a DNS-based attack? No. But it will be effective against what a large percentage of what causes people to enter their credentials on the wrong site.
It sucks because the mailman can just put it in my mailbox (live in a condo, mailbox is detached), but everyone else has to deliver to the door.
Sure beats FedEx refusing to leave stuff unless I'm home to sign for it when they come -- in the middle of the day, when, like their drivers, I am also at work. Even better, there is no FedEx distribution center in my city like there is for UPS. So a "local pickup" requires a 45 minute drive.
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I read the summary, and am aware of the country is Germany from it -- thank you.
But, that does little for those of us looking at the titles on our RSS readers. In a normal news source, if the country is not mentioned then readers will assume the location is the home country of the publication, and Slashdot is a U.S. site. I'd argue in the case of an internationally read website it would be more logical to always list the country of origin.
Slashdot is a website read around the world. When posting an article of this type about a "national election", it would make a shitload of sense to add, in the title, the name of the country the election is for.
If you have seen one firework, you have seen them all
You could say the same thing about eclipses. Why bother watching if it's just video of it on a screen?
Brilliant Europeans let the Americans take the risk and just watched it online or on the news.
Those 4th of July fireworks must be breathtaking on a TV screen.
Thank you Uber, you're so kind! e_e
It would have to be significantly cheaper...
What a coincidence. Exactly the customer base of people who would choose Domino's to begin with over another pizzeria.
One more day to be ignored by my government.
Oh, wait. That's just like any other day now.
That's not hard. NewEgg is often offering those magically craptastic OnNet routers for free with the purchase of a Motorola cable modem.
You're confused why a news blurb looking at nothing but Microsoft's online store is not mentioning Amazon at all?
There's something slow here, and I'm not talking about the news day like an earlier commenter.
Further, what is your suggestion for Joe and Jane User for their backup solution? Here are the requirements: 1) Little to no computer knowledge needed. 2) Replicated off-site. 3) 5-10$/month 4) Hands-off backup.
A solution that meets your average user's needs is not possible without "the cloud"
Have you considered this can't be delivered as priced? There's a reason Code42 is dropping personal backups and making people take pricier business plans if they want to stay. Support costs for individual accounts of people with "little to no computer knowledge" might be part of that. Those costs would be lower if a business IT employee is handling that, on an account with a higher-priced plan.
Personally I have never been into ANYTHING that can connect to a cell phone in this manor for a lot of reasons.. But the very fact that the maker of your product can now KILL IT via remote software?
Is it really remote software? Maybe the firmware simply has a built in expiration date so you have to keep it up to date to keep the product flying.
I dunno. I think $5/mo for all Disney is pretty reasonable.
Now, $10 or more... nope.
That's part of the issue with the splintering of video services (or paid website subscriptions). There seems to be this notion of how much the rate should be that's based on some imaginary shared "minimum price", and not grounded in an analysis of the individual service and its content amount. Like here, Disney would say "we're going to price it at $x/mo because of Netflix's rate, completely ignoring the size of their content library vs. Netflix, or the more limited audience for their content, being Disney.
Lots of people have long commutes to work....Who cares?
I think it's noteworthy she makes $81,000 a year and still can't afford a decent used car so she can just drive to work.
Most video files I throw at it play natively without transcoding, unlike my iPad and Android phone (Nexus 6P).
If you're having to transcode files to play them on a cell phone, it sounds like you're using the wrong apps. You are aware there is version of mpv for Android, right?
As a long time Firefox user, I'm scared about the upcoming Firefox 57 release. According to that Mozilla blog post, as of Firefox 57 "Firefox will only run WebExtensions." So that could mean a lot of existing extensions will no longer work.
Fun Fact: on OSX, there is no true full screen mode in Firefox. The full screen mode still leaves a couple interface elements visible, it's not just the page view. There are a couple extensions that can accomplish full screen mode -- but they wont work on Firefox 57+, and judging by the bug, Mozilla doesn't care.
This is Hulu 2.0.
Funny your mention them. Because I could have sworn Disney just got into a deal with Hulu.
People have bad experience on the iPhone because of poor battery life because of a poorly supported codec so people buy less iPhones. So Apple says only these codecs, providers comply because they have to, users get a good experience, everybody happy?
Yeah, that's it. The iPhone's battery life if poor because of a lack of accelerated video playback... not because the phone is too thin to have a decent-sized battery...
Imagine the tragedy of a world where a seller is liable for making the products they sell actually useful out of the box rather than forcing customers to go down a "support" rabbit hole before they give up.
The seller is a middle-man. Generally they are neither the manufacturer, nor trained in how to support the products they sell. They also do not necessarily have the expertise to evaluate every product before deciding to sell it to see if it is going to be "easy enough" for the customer to make them happy. The ones that do will have to recoup that cost in some way, normally through a after-sale paid support service or higher initial prices.
People need to stop being babies and make up their minds what they want:
- High-Quality Products
- Great Service
- Cheap Prices
They only get to pick two.
You mean, Google will block adds not owned, operated by or sold by Google.
I don't think they will add them. Being a blocker, I'm sure the content will be subtracted instead.
doesn't the U.S. have laws that make it illegal to comply with demands like that? If not, why not?
Because it would be bad for big business.
Looks like someone might have in the comments.
"already created" 2 million jobs? apple, inc. themselves only has 116,000 employees worldwide. that must include the total u.s. employees of every company or retailer that sells apple products or some other bullshit made-up news like that.. including walmart's million+.
no fucking way apple, inc. has 'created' 2 million jobs in this country.
Apple's taking credit for all the people involved in iOS development. So those developers and even support people simply answering user emails, getting their paycheck from a completely different company, are jobs Apple created, according to them.
- So you're saying that the green bar no longer means website is ok?
- Yes. Now it has to be a green padlock and a name of the organization, and you have to check it with magnifying glass because it's very easy to mistake l with I. see Mom, there's difference between AlliorBank and AIIiorBank. Do you see it? Do you?
I think a lot of these phishing problems are caused by people blinding following email links from "their bank" and not learning how to directly browse to a website (instead trusting Google to give them the valid link by searching for their bank's name). There's a pretty easy solution to this: Make a bookmark of the correct site and only use this bookmark to access the bank's site. Will that stop a DNS-based attack? No. But it will be effective against what a large percentage of what causes people to enter their credentials on the wrong site.
It sucks because the mailman can just put it in my mailbox (live in a condo, mailbox is detached), but everyone else has to deliver to the door.
Sure beats FedEx refusing to leave stuff unless I'm home to sign for it when they come -- in the middle of the day, when, like their drivers, I am also at work. Even better, there is no FedEx distribution center in my city like there is for UPS. So a "local pickup" requires a 45 minute drive.
There was a robot shark used in Jaws back in 1975.