Why not buy one of those easy-to-find extra battery USB-charger things and carry that with you instead?
This is a much better solution than having to give all the contacts another number to try you at if your phone's dead. If you're going to carry an extra device, might has well make it 99% battery/device ratio.
Also -- should have been a better shopper when picking your phone. I recommend the phone finder at GSMArena to narrow down requirements (including talk/standby time for the battery).
Duh, it's because the first hand-held cell phone didn't exist until 1973. The iPhone believes it has gone back in time, and is trying to prevent damage to the space-time continuum from a sudden intrusion of 21st century tech into the past.
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Never saw a dollar nor an email.:(
Maybe they were smart enough to realize emailing you to tell you they saw that line would identify them for action for failure to pay.
I serve up ads on my website and adblock has never been a problem. The images come from my domain and I write ads inline with the copy and make them relevant to the posted topics. Not only does adblock not stop them, they're far more effective being embedded and relevant to the content.
See, that's the problem here -- you're working for your money. That's not how corporations do it.
Plenty of sites have gone down that route and wondered where their users have gone. Previously active forums/comments in local newspapers sites have turned into tumble-weed factories.
Meh, newspapers really don't want comments to start with. Too much spam/crackpots commenting on a site they know will get mainstream traffic. My own hometown's newspaper shut down anonymous commenting because they were getting comments on crime stories from people who knew a little too much and the police started bothering them wanting IP information or some other way to track down those users.
We need inexpensive reliable testers for usb cables. Basically a box where you plug the cables in and it does the various electrical tests.
Isn't the whole point of standard that the consumer should know that two devices are equitable in abilities? The problem here is the owner of the USB 3.0 spec is not releasing their legal hounds on companies manufacturing "USB 3.0" cables that don't truly support the standard.
One has to wonder why webmasters are so ashamed of their content that they want to make it so difficult for people to read it.
If it's a news site, probably to hide that the cheap freelance "editors" they hired to replace their classically educated journalists have such a poor grasp of the English language. Race to the bottom, and all that...
OT: When did that change in title happen, anyway? Why is everyone an "editor" now, instead of a "reporter"?
Predictive keyboard? Sounds like autocorrect to me. And I hate those things. They make too many assumptions. I mean, how does it know I wasn't going to write about my "gigantic throbbing coconspirator"?
When I try and type "plates" into my Nokia dumbphone, the T9 predictive text input assumes I want to say "slaves" first. Which can lead to some interesting sentences when talking about shopping.
Hope you don't mean the Windows's Hosts file. Wasn't it already found that Windows can ignore the Hosts file if it wants to for certain addresses? That's just a case of the fox guarding the hen house.
They're collecting all this "dead time" behavior (as well as the rest) to help them figure out how to best have the driverless uber cars 10 years down the road.
If you're an Uber driver and planning to be one 10 years from now you need to reexamine your life.
PS: Windows 10, for now, allows you to block automatic updates. But it's hidden as "Network & Internet" > "Set as metered connection".
I don't know what the point of that would be. Once you're on Windows 10 the cat's out of the bag as far as telemetry and control, and turning automatic updates off means you don't get any of the updates that fix the myriad of issues people experience with the new operating system. Once you have Windows 10, you want updates to come.
Why does MS feel its so important for us to upgrade? I don't understand why MS feels they have to force Win 10 on us when many are perfectly happy with the Win we have.
Because Microsoft wants to spy on you for financial gain. People running 7 and 8.1 can avoid the updates that add the spying to them, but since it's baked into Win10 you can't avoid it so easily then, so the obvious course for Microsoft is to trick people into upgrading to 10.
Given the overwhelming majority of people are on Windows -- I kinda wonder if Microsoft is really the only one doing the collection of data off of it.
4-bit PNG would be a better choice for black and white pages as it will retain detail on text and can handle the greyscale photos okay. But it would need to be something else for spreads with color.
Lets discuss how to get engineers to quit designing shit that gets used by the police state in a constitutionally illegal manner.
Yes, lets stop working on any advances in carbon nanotubes, especially. Because someone might use that technology to build a gun that can use high powered rounds but isn't a material that can be picked up by airline security scans.
It's nice that the FCC is trying to bring about change, but device rental fees are a MASSIVE revenue stream for cable companies. IF they allow this, expect cable rates to go up $10/month. Or more.
On the flip side, it will be very easy for providers to blame service issues on the third-party equipment. A field tech can go out, check service signal levels, confirm the authentication on the box is working fine, and if no issues found charge the customer a nice $50-$100 service call charge for a "customer equipment issue".
lol, that's you first mistake -- thinking there's an actual "off" mode. On DVRs at least, there literally is not an Off state with the box plugged in. On some models the difference between On and Standby is only 1W because the the only difference is in on state the box is outputting a video signal and in the other it's not.
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Why not buy one of those easy-to-find extra battery USB-charger things and carry that with you instead?
This is a much better solution than having to give all the contacts another number to try you at if your phone's dead.
If you're going to carry an extra device, might has well make it 99% battery/device ratio.
Also -- should have been a better shopper when picking your phone. I recommend the phone finder at GSMArena to narrow down requirements (including talk/standby time for the battery).
Duh, it's because the first hand-held cell phone didn't exist until 1973. The iPhone believes it has gone back in time, and is trying to prevent damage to the space-time continuum from a sudden intrusion of 21st century tech into the past.
On AdBlock Plus add filters for "api.stacksocial.com" and "cdn.taboola.com" and that junk should be gone, too.
Whoosh?
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Never saw a dollar nor an email. :(
Maybe they were smart enough to realize emailing you to tell you they saw that line would identify them for action for failure to pay.
it seems to be broken!
How is selling ads "abusing" them?
I serve up ads on my website and adblock has never been a problem. The images come from my domain and I write ads inline with the copy and make them relevant to the posted topics. Not only does adblock not stop them, they're far more effective being embedded and relevant to the content.
See, that's the problem here -- you're working for your money. That's not how corporations do it.
Plenty of sites have gone down that route and wondered where their users have gone. Previously active forums/comments in local newspapers sites have turned into tumble-weed factories.
Meh, newspapers really don't want comments to start with. Too much spam/crackpots commenting on a site they know will get mainstream traffic.
My own hometown's newspaper shut down anonymous commenting because they were getting comments on crime stories from people who knew a little too much and the police started bothering them wanting IP information or some other way to track down those users.
Yes, but I was referring to design and engineering.
We need inexpensive reliable testers for usb cables. Basically a box where you plug the cables in and it does the various electrical tests.
Isn't the whole point of standard that the consumer should know that two devices are equitable in abilities?
The problem here is the owner of the USB 3.0 spec is not releasing their legal hounds on companies manufacturing "USB 3.0" cables that don't truly support the standard.
They just design things right from the beginning - don't buy cheap - don't drive Honda!
What is that, Some sort of joke? Hondas have a reputation of being more dependable (and more expensive) than their domestic counterparts.
One has to wonder why webmasters are so ashamed of their content that they want to make it so difficult for people to read it.
If it's a news site, probably to hide that the cheap freelance "editors" they hired to replace their classically educated journalists have such a poor grasp of the English language. Race to the bottom, and all that...
OT: When did that change in title happen, anyway? Why is everyone an "editor" now, instead of a "reporter"?
Software performs better after it's had time to mature and be optimized and bugs removed.
I thought they were talking about a Debian or Ubuntu release but the alphabetizing of version numbers is off.
Predictive keyboard? Sounds like autocorrect to me. And I hate those things. They make too many assumptions. I mean, how does it know I wasn't going to write about my "gigantic throbbing coconspirator"?
When I try and type "plates" into my Nokia dumbphone, the T9 predictive text input assumes I want to say "slaves" first. Which can lead to some interesting sentences when talking about shopping.
or these ones which I blocked in my hosts file...
Hope you don't mean the Windows's Hosts file. Wasn't it already found that Windows can ignore the Hosts file if it wants to for certain addresses?
That's just a case of the fox guarding the hen house.
They're collecting all this "dead time" behavior (as well as the rest) to help them figure out how to best have the driverless uber cars 10 years down the road.
If you're an Uber driver and planning to be one 10 years from now you need to reexamine your life.
PS: Windows 10, for now, allows you to block automatic updates. But it's hidden as "Network & Internet" > "Set as metered connection".
I don't know what the point of that would be. Once you're on Windows 10 the cat's out of the bag as far as telemetry and control, and turning automatic updates off means you don't get any of the updates that fix the myriad of issues people experience with the new operating system. Once you have Windows 10, you want updates to come.
Wouldn't it be nice if ISPs wrote a rebate check each month to reflect the percentage of their promised throughput that was actually available?
I'd like a pony, too.
#stupidstory #shouldstayinfirehose #thankstimmy
Why does MS feel its so important for us to upgrade?
I don't understand why MS feels they have to force Win 10 on us when many are perfectly happy with the Win we have.
Because Microsoft wants to spy on you for financial gain.
People running 7 and 8.1 can avoid the updates that add the spying to them, but since it's baked into Win10 you can't avoid it so easily then, so the obvious course for Microsoft is to trick people into upgrading to 10.
Given the overwhelming majority of people are on Windows -- I kinda wonder if Microsoft is really the only one doing the collection of data off of it.
4-bit PNG would be a better choice for black and white pages as it will retain detail on text and can handle the greyscale photos okay.
But it would need to be something else for spreads with color.
Lets discuss how to get engineers to quit designing shit that gets used by the police state in a constitutionally illegal manner.
Yes, lets stop working on any advances in carbon nanotubes, especially. Because someone might use that technology to build a gun that can use high powered rounds but isn't a material that can be picked up by airline security scans.
Wait, Duplo bricks multiply when they get wet? I did not know that.
You also shouldn't use them with food products after midnight.
It's nice that the FCC is trying to bring about change, but device rental fees are a MASSIVE revenue stream for cable companies. IF they allow this, expect cable rates to go up $10/month. Or more.
On the flip side, it will be very easy for providers to blame service issues on the third-party equipment. A field tech can go out, check service signal levels, confirm the authentication on the box is working fine, and if no issues found charge the customer a nice $50-$100 service call charge for a "customer equipment issue".
lol, that's you first mistake -- thinking there's an actual "off" mode.
On DVRs at least, there literally is not an Off state with the box plugged in. On some models the difference between On and Standby is only 1W because the the only difference is in on state the box is outputting a video signal and in the other it's not.