"You cannot have kids think that 12th grade is done."
If a high school education isn't enough to be considered having met the base level for training required for "the real world", the free public education children are guaranteed needs to include post-secondary education.
Because poor people, who are often minorities, are more likely to be uninsured. Shoplifting laws also target the poor and minorities. Whether these laws are "fair" or not is a matter of opinion.
So we should enforce these laws differently depending on the color of the perpetrator's skin? Now who's being racist?
Comcast employees admit they cut the wires, but they claim that they thought the wires were abandoned.
Wires on utility poles are labeled as to who the owner is. If the wires were not marked as belonging to Comcast the contractors legally cannot touch them, regardless of if they appear in use or not, unless they are authorized to by the owner.
This is part of the reason there is lots of red tape involved in getting utility poles replaced.
No, not the "666", mark-of-the-beast guys. Yes, those too. But I'm talking about a more local conspiracy (frankly, I haven't met anyone outside of Europe that considers this real, shows that not all loonies that can come up with insane bullshit are located in the US), that those bars can act as some sort of "antenna" and absorb "frequencies" from various sources, which then affect the product, and of course in a negative way.
If you'd RTFS, you'd see they aren't printing barcodes, they're printing the Arabic numeral code for the item to enter by hand at the checkout. A barcode would not be practical on an avocado, due to their bumpy, dark skin. It would be hard to get straight lines of good enough contrast.
And a recall which should've cost about $25 per device ends up costing several hundred or several thousand dollars per device.
Nah, they'll just pull the same maneuver all companies do.
- Deny there is a widespread problem until lawyers get involved.
- Drag out legal proceedings for several years.
- Come out with a settlement once the plaintiff class gets tired of fighting.
- Make providing proof of purchase a requisite to claim the settlement
(Remember, it's been several years since those devices were sold by this time. How many people have have gotten fed up with the product and replaced it already so they can get work done, and still have the defective hardware, the original box, or can still put their hands on the purchase invoice if they didn't get it online?)
Even if we get past all this the settlement will be far less than the actual damages.
I had an early Sony DVD player that was poorly designed for internal cooling. The high heat caused the optical pickup to wear out. Got it fixed myself the first time at an authorized repair shop (device was out of warranty, so it was a three-digit repair bill). Went out again a year later because the thermal design issue is still there. I bought I cheap Chinese player to replace it. Issue eventually went to court on class action years later. Got notified of the settlement. The offer was "up to $30" towards repair/replacement product. My replacement DVD player has been $27 at Wal-Mart and I didn't have the box from the Sony to furnish proof of ownership in the class. So I lost out. Still that was only $30 settlement on a repair that had cost me over $160 to have done before. Sony made out like bandits on their mistake.
Yeah because the storage on android phones has gone up 1000 fold in the last 4 years.
The article's focus on iPhones is flawed to begin with. As I said before, they aren't iOS exclusive apps. Unless there is something specific about the iOS versions of the apps that is making them grow in size faster than the Android versions, they should just be doing a study of smartphone apps collectively. It's likely just to make the article clickbait.
And, as I mentioned before -- one big difference is the Android user it likely going to have the ability to upgrade their phone's storage on their own. No, Android on-phone storage has not jumped like that either (btw, 1000% is not "1000 fold"). But what happens to the iPhone user who bought a phone, could fit things on it okay when they got it, but doesn't play along with the stupid "upgrade your smartphone every 1-2 years" treadmill all the manufacturers want? The apps they had before start bloating up and one day they find themselves running out of space for everything. They don't have the option of installing an SD card and having media files stored on it to free up in-phone storage for fat apps.
I didn't know Samsung et al. sold an Android with more than 256GB of onboard storage, which is the largest iPhone you can buy. In fact, I just looked, and the Galaxy S8 ONLY comes in a 64GB model, at least in the USA.
The iPhone comes in 32GB, 128GB, or 256GB.
App bloat issues aren't a problem for people buying premium storage options on their phones, they're an issue for people having to get the lower models. The iPhone only hit a 32 GB minimum with the most recent model (iPhone 7). So please spare us implying the iPhone wasn't still 16 GB a year ago.
The Galaxy S8 is only available in a 64 GB version you say? So then, when we look at the two (who are the main competition with each other) and compare their "starting at" price point models, we have Samsung giving the consumer twice the storage space. Oh, and you can still add a microSD card later of up to 256 GB on top of that.
SD card performance is is going to vary with phone model and what speed SD card people are buying. In a world where "price is king" I imagine a lot of those people are not paying attention to if they got a good card or just one that happened to be on sale.
Let's see the same comparison with Android phones.
I suspect the issue isn't that iPhone apps are growing at a faster rate than the iPhone's storage options. These top apps are going to be cross-platform ones, not iOS-exclusives. What's more likely happening is app file sizes are trending in line with smartphone storage as a whole. The iPhone is the one not keeping up with everyone else in storage sizes, which is a problem when there's no way for the consumer to upgrade the storage themselves.
So why spend the money and make myself miserable with my old furniture just so the neighbors have a fancy facade to look at?
I wonder how often that idea comes up. I've seen amazing buildings on the outside and been totally nonplussed with the interiors. I've been in some buildings that were fugly as hell on the outside, but awesome on the inside.
Ignoring that there really are people who care too much what their neighbors think of them, Isn't the idea normally to increase the value of the house through the exterior renovations? The furniture is going to give you more comfort, but it wont make your home worth more when you sell it.
While I imagine you've long since resolved the discussion with your spouse, a compromise could have been interior renovations on the house instead of new furniture. Something you both would enjoy as the inhabitants of the home, but not portable in nature. A whirlpool bath, finishing out a basement and making a rec room, home theater room (sound system and furniture installed in a permanent manner), thinks like that.
(Example of a bad alternative: Google Hangouts. Some of my correspondents don't have skype and set up a business conference on that. Turns out Netscape removed the feature it depended on (as a glaring security tarpit) back in March, and Google has yet to come up with an alternative so I had to install a variant that could still run it...
You're gonna have to explain that a little better. Netscape hasn't existed as an independent company for years, and is nothing more than a brand name used by parent AOL now. They stopped supporting their browser officially in 2008. So I'm curious how they could have an impact on any web service they don't own as recently as three months ago.
Are you really someone who uses the same password across the board???? yikes! It's modern times. Get 1Pass and be done with it.
I was referring to six different apps that all access the same iCloud account, therefore they are all using the same credentials to access said single account right now.
I wonder if you see the irony in your suggestion is to use a password manager -- taking all your individual, unique passwords and making them all accessible with one master account while telling me using the "same password" across the board is a bad idea. And it's a paid service too! Yessir, lemme pay for the venerability of having all my credentials in one place, so there's only one target that needs to be compromised.
I got an email a few weeks back from Apple, too. Emphasis mine.
Dear (SeaFox),
Beginning on June 15, app-specific passwords will be required to access your iCloud data using thirdparty apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or other mail, contacts, and calendar services not provided by Apple.
If you are already signed in to a thirdparty app using your primary Apple ID password, you will be signed out automatically when this change takes effect. You will need to generate an app-specific password and sign in again.
To generate an app-specific password, turn on two-factor authentication for your Apple ID and then follow the instructions below:
Sign in to your Apple ID account page (https://appleid.apple.com)
Go to App-Specific Passwords under Security
Click Generate Password
For more information, read Using App-Specific Passwords. If you need additional help, visit Apple Support.
Apple Support
So now I have to set up a separate email password for my main computer (which is Windows 8.1, using Thunderbird), my email client on my Android phone, the address book app on my phone (which syncs to iCloud), the Calendar app (which also syncs to iCloud) -- maybe another one because I have a Thunderbird install on my tablet (Win 8.1), oh, and my Thunderbird install on my actual Apple laptop.
That's six fucking passwords I have to generate for what I could do with just one before, just because I don't want to sync my contacts and calendaring data through a provider that will definitely be data-mining my info.
Remember that Twitter is a company and owns the platform. They should be able to control what is posted on their app/service as the owner. To suggest a "Freedom to Hear" is that you are suggesting laws that prevent Twitter from deciding who can or cannot post on their platform.
You clearly have not thought this through. To legally guarantee a venue for Free Speech, you now also make all groups equal. You can no longer block/shut down ISIS accounts because they too deserve their own place to disseminate their ideological views, Berkeley must allow conservative ass-wipes to give speeches, and the KKK can harass minority people by handing out fliers to them.
Maybe what's more troubling is how we have allowed so much of our communication and public spaces to be commandeered by private companies. People having to depend on closed platforms, servers, and for-profit business plans for everyday life too much, where distributed, independent methods like email and RSS could be used in the past.
This is the big issue. It's not that Trump wants to destroy the planet, like some snowflakes keep yacking about. It's the funneling of a hundred of billion dollars into third world countries where it won't mean a damn.
You make it sound like the two options are mutually exclusive. I expect Trump doesn't want to send money to Third World countries and doesn't care about the environment when it conflicts with big business interests.
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"You cannot have kids think that 12th grade is done."
If a high school education isn't enough to be considered having met the base level for training required for "the real world", the free public education children are guaranteed needs to include post-secondary education.
West also says Tidal went back on a promise of additional money for exclusive music videos, which Tidal reportedly says Kanye never produced.
I don't understand how this can be disputed for more than 10 minutes.
"You never paid me for those videos I made just for you!"
"Uh, you never made those videos...:
"Yeah, I did."
"ORLY? Play one for us right now."
How do they target poor and minority?
Because poor people, who are often minorities, are more likely to be uninsured. Shoplifting laws also target the poor and minorities. Whether these laws are "fair" or not is a matter of opinion.
So we should enforce these laws differently depending on the color of the perpetrator's skin?
Now who's being racist?
/me goes to the store to get popcorn
Back in the days of Mac OS8, he proclaimed that the MacOS was virus-proof. [citation needed]
Big mistake.
By the end of the week at least a dozen or so viriii were released into the wild[citation needed] and Jobs had to eat humble pie.
Comcast employees admit they cut the wires, but they claim that they thought the wires were abandoned.
Wires on utility poles are labeled as to who the owner is. If the wires were not marked as belonging to Comcast the contractors legally cannot touch them, regardless of if they appear in use or not, unless they are authorized to by the owner.
This is part of the reason there is lots of red tape involved in getting utility poles replaced.
No, not the "666", mark-of-the-beast guys. Yes, those too. But I'm talking about a more local conspiracy (frankly, I haven't met anyone outside of Europe that considers this real, shows that not all loonies that can come up with insane bullshit are located in the US), that those bars can act as some sort of "antenna" and absorb "frequencies" from various sources, which then affect the product, and of course in a negative way.
If you'd RTFS, you'd see they aren't printing barcodes, they're printing the Arabic numeral code for the item to enter by hand at the checkout. A barcode would not be practical on an avocado, due to their bumpy, dark skin. It would be hard to get straight lines of good enough contrast.
But I enjoyed your rant. Off-topic as it was.
And a recall which should've cost about $25 per device ends up costing several hundred or several thousand dollars per device.
Nah, they'll just pull the same maneuver all companies do.
- Deny there is a widespread problem until lawyers get involved.
- Drag out legal proceedings for several years.
- Come out with a settlement once the plaintiff class gets tired of fighting.
- Make providing proof of purchase a requisite to claim the settlement
(Remember, it's been several years since those devices were sold by this time. How many people have have gotten fed up with the product and replaced it already so they can get work done, and still have the defective hardware, the original box, or can still put their hands on the purchase invoice if they didn't get it online?)
Even if we get past all this the settlement will be far less than the actual damages.
I had an early Sony DVD player that was poorly designed for internal cooling. The high heat caused the optical pickup to wear out. Got it fixed myself the first time at an authorized repair shop (device was out of warranty, so it was a three-digit repair bill). Went out again a year later because the thermal design issue is still there. I bought I cheap Chinese player to replace it. Issue eventually went to court on class action years later. Got notified of the settlement. The offer was "up to $30" towards repair/replacement product. My replacement DVD player has been $27 at Wal-Mart and I didn't have the box from the Sony to furnish proof of ownership in the class. So I lost out. Still that was only $30 settlement on a repair that had cost me over $160 to have done before. Sony made out like bandits on their mistake.
I just repaired my daughters, ...
So you fixed them yourself instead of paying a doctor. Good on 'ya.
Hey, he's the original manufacturer...
Yeah because the storage on android phones has gone up 1000 fold in the last 4 years.
The article's focus on iPhones is flawed to begin with. As I said before, they aren't iOS exclusive apps. Unless there is something specific about the iOS versions of the apps that is making them grow in size faster than the Android versions, they should just be doing a study of smartphone apps collectively. It's likely just to make the article clickbait.
And, as I mentioned before -- one big difference is the Android user it likely going to have the ability to upgrade their phone's storage on their own. No, Android on-phone storage has not jumped like that either (btw, 1000% is not "1000 fold"). But what happens to the iPhone user who bought a phone, could fit things on it okay when they got it, but doesn't play along with the stupid "upgrade your smartphone every 1-2 years" treadmill all the manufacturers want? The apps they had before start bloating up and one day they find themselves running out of space for everything. They don't have the option of installing an SD card and having media files stored on it to free up in-phone storage for fat apps.
I didn't know Samsung et al. sold an Android with more than 256GB of onboard storage, which is the largest iPhone you can buy. In fact, I just looked, and the Galaxy S8 ONLY comes in a 64GB model, at least in the USA.
The iPhone comes in 32GB, 128GB, or 256GB.
App bloat issues aren't a problem for people buying premium storage options on their phones, they're an issue for people having to get the lower models. The iPhone only hit a 32 GB minimum with the most recent model (iPhone 7). So please spare us implying the iPhone wasn't still 16 GB a year ago.
The Galaxy S8 is only available in a 64 GB version you say? So then, when we look at the two (who are the main competition with each other) and compare their "starting at" price point models, we have Samsung giving the consumer twice the storage space. Oh, and you can still add a microSD card later of up to 256 GB on top of that.
SD card performance is is going to vary with phone model and what speed SD card people are buying. In a world where "price is king" I imagine a lot of those people are not paying attention to if they got a good card or just one that happened to be on sale.
Let's see the same comparison with Android phones.
I suspect the issue isn't that iPhone apps are growing at a faster rate than the iPhone's storage options. These top apps are going to be cross-platform ones, not iOS-exclusives. What's more likely happening is app file sizes are trending in line with smartphone storage as a whole. The iPhone is the one not keeping up with everyone else in storage sizes, which is a problem when there's no way for the consumer to upgrade the storage themselves.
So why spend the money and make myself miserable with my old furniture just so the neighbors have a fancy facade to look at?
I wonder how often that idea comes up. I've seen amazing buildings on the outside and been totally nonplussed with the interiors. I've been in some buildings that were fugly as hell on the outside, but awesome on the inside.
Ignoring that there really are people who care too much what their neighbors think of them, Isn't the idea normally to increase the value of the house through the exterior renovations? The furniture is going to give you more comfort, but it wont make your home worth more when you sell it.
While I imagine you've long since resolved the discussion with your spouse, a compromise could have been interior renovations on the house instead of new furniture. Something you both would enjoy as the inhabitants of the home, but not portable in nature. A whirlpool bath, finishing out a basement and making a rec room, home theater room (sound system and furniture installed in a permanent manner), thinks like that.
(Example of a bad alternative: Google Hangouts. Some of my correspondents don't have skype and set up a business conference on that. Turns out Netscape removed the feature it depended on (as a glaring security tarpit) back in March, and Google has yet to come up with an alternative so I had to install a variant that could still run it...
You're gonna have to explain that a little better. Netscape hasn't existed as an independent company for years, and is nothing more than a brand name used by parent AOL now. They stopped supporting their browser officially in 2008. So I'm curious how they could have an impact on any web service they don't own as recently as three months ago.
Are you really someone who uses the same password across the board???? yikes! It's modern times. Get 1Pass and be done with it.
I was referring to six different apps that all access the same iCloud account, therefore they are all using the same credentials to access said single account right now.
I wonder if you see the irony in your suggestion is to use a password manager -- taking all your individual, unique passwords and making them all accessible with one master account while telling me using the "same password" across the board is a bad idea. And it's a paid service too! Yessir, lemme pay for the venerability of having all my credentials in one place, so there's only one target that needs to be compromised.
Bad news. You're going to be forced to make special passwords just for those apps on the Android phone that interface with iCloud.
I got an email a few weeks back from Apple, too. Emphasis mine.
Dear (SeaFox),
Beginning on June 15, app-specific passwords will be required to access your iCloud data using thirdparty apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or other mail, contacts, and calendar services not provided by Apple.
If you are already signed in to a thirdparty app using your primary Apple ID password, you will be signed out automatically when this change takes effect. You will need to generate an app-specific password and sign in again.
To generate an app-specific password, turn on two-factor authentication for your Apple ID and then follow the instructions below:
Sign in to your Apple ID account page (https://appleid.apple.com)
Go to App-Specific Passwords under Security
Click Generate Password
For more information, read Using App-Specific Passwords. If you need additional help, visit Apple Support.
Apple Support
So now I have to set up a separate email password for my main computer (which is Windows 8.1, using Thunderbird), my email client on my Android phone, the address book app on my phone (which syncs to iCloud), the Calendar app (which also syncs to iCloud) -- maybe another one because I have a Thunderbird install on my tablet (Win 8.1), oh, and my Thunderbird install on my actual Apple laptop.
That's six fucking passwords I have to generate for what I could do with just one before, just because I don't want to sync my contacts and calendaring data through a provider that will definitely be data-mining my info.
What's the next part of the business plan? As long as you house them and feed them you can make them work 21 hour days for you?
That wont work out. Uber generally expects employees to provide their own vehicles.
We have unemployed, homeless people right here that need housing...
We don't feel sorry for them because they were displaced by corporate greed or medical conditions, not global conflicts. /s
Because his bots cause scalping of things like concert tickets, making the price to see a popular act live go up and out of reach of some fans.
How will I save my copy of Shazaam!?
There is no such movie. You're the victim of a popular Internet conspiracy.
As far as the movie you're really thinking of, no need to worry. You can watch it for free on YouTube. Or, here's the YouTube version you actually have to pay to see, and is somehow 15 minutes longer.
Those aren't raindrops falling on your face...
Remember that Twitter is a company and owns the platform. They should be able to control what is posted on their app/service as the owner. To suggest a "Freedom to Hear" is that you are suggesting laws that prevent Twitter from deciding who can or cannot post on their platform.
You clearly have not thought this through. To legally guarantee a venue for Free Speech, you now also make all groups equal. You can no longer block/shut down ISIS accounts because they too deserve their own place to disseminate their ideological views, Berkeley must allow conservative ass-wipes to give speeches, and the KKK can harass minority people by handing out fliers to them.
Maybe what's more troubling is how we have allowed so much of our communication and public spaces to be commandeered by private companies. People having to depend on closed platforms, servers, and for-profit business plans for everyday life too much, where distributed, independent methods like email and RSS could be used in the past.
Love the units used for the specs on that site. Discussing a car like it's a PC component.
We can't just say "2.9 m length, 1.3 m width...". e__e
This is the big issue. It's not that Trump wants to destroy the planet, like some snowflakes keep yacking about. It's the funneling of a hundred of billion dollars into third world countries where it won't mean a damn.
You make it sound like the two options are mutually exclusive. I expect Trump doesn't want to send money to Third World countries and doesn't care about the environment when it conflicts with big business interests.