Not sure where to go with this. I truly doubt I'll want the Republican candidate, but I don't particularly want Hilliary for President either. That doesn't leave much other choice. You heard me Libertarians/Greens/RonPaulFans
...and are willing to accept a thicker phone to get them?
Me. Right here.
I'd like to get an iPhone, but only 250 standby hours is lame. Considering that everyone buys a case for their phone anyway, in some cases a battery case, they might as well just make it thicker to start with and give it a larger battery.
The only Android handset I've really been interested in is the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, the battery life being a major reason.
Kids need to learn the consequences of embarrassing powerful people. That is one of the golden rules of modern society; thou shalt not embarrass thy superiors.... You respect your betters, or you get tossed in a cage.
Let's remember that "superiors" and "betters" aren't really the same thing. An idea not recognized by many corporate types.
But this comes with great concerns over privacy, and problems have been reported where the device was logging data when the user was riding a bus instead of driving his own car.
So is there some additional device in the car the phone app pairs with? Otherwise, how does the app know when you're driving your own car or simply a passenger in someone else's. This whole thing doesn't sound like it was thought out very well.
AT&T didn't sell the info (the title of the article is false.) It was some people that were employed by their call centers that were engaged in the crime. You don't punish a company for hiring somebody who turns out to be a criminal.
Yeah you do.
I, as the end consumer, have no control over who AT&T outsources too. By hiring this outsourcer and giving them access my account, AT&T is giving their stamp of approval for this company to act on their behalf and be, for all intents and purposes, AT&T as far as the end customer is concerned. They are backing up the reputation of this company and quality of their work with their own brand identity.
It's like if a buy a car and the automaker has issues from a part failing. It's ultimately the maker's (GM's) fault. Not the producer (some company in China) of the individual component.
3. The different products are actually virtually equivalent except for the adapter, so it doesn't make sense to have two different lines. But if that was true, why wouldn't they just come out and say that?
Give up? NOTHING. They don't even need an adapter. I bought the 360 one for my PC and it's plug-n-play. They are literally the same product (actually I've heard some murmurings the components in the "Windows" one are inferior to the console one). The 360 one is normally cheaper, too (though not at this exact time I notice) because as a "console controller" it gets put on sale more.
You want to give feedback on something you aren't running?
So they shouldn't add the Start Menu back -- because all those people who continued to buy Windows 7 aren't using Windows 8, so they have no room to give feedback on the Windows 8 interface.
Do you see how stupid your reasoning looks now?
If Microsoft listens to feedback from people as to what they want in a product, more people would use the product. At least that's my line of thinking.
There are a couple things I'd like in the final version, but I don't have a copy of the technical preview installed. Anyplace I can vote on the same list from Microsoft's own website?
Nintendo are bastards because... they abandoned the coin-op industry entirely, leaving everyone with aging games and no new ones being developed. Back in the day it caused quite a bit of controversy. Some operators had hundreds of Nintendo VS System games, which no one wanted to play when they could play the SAME games at home for FREE. Nintendo fucked everyone.
Did these operators have some sort of contract with Nintendo where they were guaranteed new titles for a set period of years? Were they told the titles would be exclusives for the VS system, which Nintendo later released for the home systems? I doubt it on both. Sounds like a bunch of whiny arcade owners upset a company exercised its freedom to not do business in a given segment anymore for new opportunities they weren't a party to. They were a middle-man to game players and Nintendo started selling to them direct. The operators just bought a bunch of hardware and unfortunately bid on the wrong pony. Could have happened with any vendor/platform.
TL/DR: Operators getting caught in changing times; who moved my cheese?
All of the ISPs seem to be "out-doing" each other in terms of offering faster and faster service, but why can't they compete on reasonable rates for "slower" speeds? My 5Mbit service from Comcast is currently costing me $50/month, about what it was 10 years ago. Seems that if they can push a 2 Gigs for a few hundred dollars, I could get at least get 50Mbit for what I'm paying now.
If the author wants more reasonable rates for slower speeds, why is he asking for more speed for what he's paying for, instead of a reduction in rates for his 5 mbps to reflect the disproportionately higher speeds Comcast is offering now?
Also is the author in Atlanta? Comcast in one part of the country isn't really the same Comcast in another. They may have the same name and all be traded on the NYSE under the same symbol, but in a practical sense they are apples and oranges. They are administered and run on a local level and pricing is set to reflect local market conditions. They are really different providers between regions. Just with an extra layer of middle management and the CxO's on top getting their salaries.
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Not sure where to go with this. I truly doubt I'll want the Republican candidate, but I don't particularly want Hilliary for President either. That doesn't leave much other choice. You heard me Libertarians/Greens/RonPaulFans
...and are willing to accept a thicker phone to get them?
Me. Right here.
I'd like to get an iPhone, but only 250 standby hours is lame.
Considering that everyone buys a case for their phone anyway, in some cases a battery case, they might as well just make it thicker to start with and give it a larger battery.
The only Android handset I've really been interested in is the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, the battery life being a major reason.
No, seriously. Stop with the damn advertisements.
Kids need to learn the consequences of embarrassing powerful people. That is one of the golden rules of modern society; thou shalt not embarrass thy superiors. ... You respect your betters, or you get tossed in a cage.
Let's remember that "superiors" and "betters" aren't really the same thing. An idea not recognized by many corporate types.
I bet .isapedophile would do even better.
Intel just received a flood of orders from China. Thousands of people have each ordered one Xeon processor each.
We now return you to our program...
Look what he's done now! ;-)
But this comes with great concerns over privacy, and problems have been reported where the device was logging data when the user was riding a bus instead of driving his own car.
So is there some additional device in the car the phone app pairs with? Otherwise, how does the app know when you're driving your own car or simply a passenger in someone else's. This whole thing doesn't sound like it was thought out very well.
1. Only $25M for that egregious violation??
AT&T didn't sell the info (the title of the article is false.) It was some people that were employed by their call centers that were engaged in the crime. You don't punish a company for hiring somebody who turns out to be a criminal.
Yeah you do.
I, as the end consumer, have no control over who AT&T outsources too.
By hiring this outsourcer and giving them access my account, AT&T is giving their stamp of approval for this company to act on their behalf and be, for all intents and purposes, AT&T as far as the end customer is concerned. They are backing up the reputation of this company and quality of their work with their own brand identity.
It's like if a buy a car and the automaker has issues from a part failing. It's ultimately the maker's (GM's) fault. Not the producer (some company in China) of the individual component.
If they can get it wrong so many times, maybe you should be thinking of migrating to something that's not Windows.
Nothing new to see here people. Just a repeat of an earlier discussion.
That may be the recommended. But there are some roadways 30-40 miles between place where I can stop.
It takes more than two hours for you to drive 30-40 miles?
When was it that Hondas began to get "butchered"?
I ask a a current Honda driver who's going to have to get a new car soon.
Keep up the good work superman.
Communication system, storm shelter, and dressing room all in one!
Argh. Which wont link right. -____-'
Amazon linking error there. I meant to link to the wired 360 controller for the first one.
3. The different products are actually virtually equivalent except for the adapter, so it doesn't make sense to have two different lines. But if that was true, why wouldn't they just come out and say that?
They already do worse. Quick -- what's the difference between this XBox360 controller, compared to this XBox360 controller here?
Give up? NOTHING. They don't even need an adapter. I bought the 360 one for my PC and it's plug-n-play. They are literally the same product (actually I've heard some murmurings the components in the "Windows" one are inferior to the console one). The 360 one is normally cheaper, too (though not at this exact time I notice) because as a "console controller" it gets put on sale more.
Why is the Vukan-based driver have a spec named for the Klingon homeworld?
You want to give feedback on something you aren't running?
So they shouldn't add the Start Menu back -- because all those people who continued to buy Windows 7 aren't using Windows 8, so they have no room to give feedback on the Windows 8 interface.
Do you see how stupid your reasoning looks now?
If Microsoft listens to feedback from people as to what they want in a product, more people would use the product. At least that's my line of thinking.
There are a couple things I'd like in the final version, but I don't have a copy of the technical preview installed. Anyplace I can vote on the same list from Microsoft's own website?
What happens when the "replacement" part has a software component required?
They say you shouldn't be allowed to repair your own car because you might not do it right.
I feel like the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is going to come into play at some point here.
Nintendo are bastards because ... they abandoned the coin-op industry entirely, leaving everyone with aging games and no new ones being developed. Back in the day it caused quite a bit of controversy. Some operators had hundreds of Nintendo VS System games, which no one wanted to play when they could play the SAME games at home for FREE. Nintendo fucked everyone.
Did these operators have some sort of contract with Nintendo where they were guaranteed new titles for a set period of years? Were they told the titles would be exclusives for the VS system, which Nintendo later released for the home systems? I doubt it on both. Sounds like a bunch of whiny arcade owners upset a company exercised its freedom to not do business in a given segment anymore for new opportunities they weren't a party to. They were a middle-man to game players and Nintendo started selling to them direct. The operators just bought a bunch of hardware and unfortunately bid on the wrong pony. Could have happened with any vendor/platform.
TL/DR: Operators getting caught in changing times; who moved my cheese?
If the author wants more reasonable rates for slower speeds, why is he asking for more speed for what he's paying for, instead of a reduction in rates for his 5 mbps to reflect the disproportionately higher speeds Comcast is offering now?
Also is the author in Atlanta? Comcast in one part of the country isn't really the same Comcast in another. They may have the same name and all be traded on the NYSE under the same symbol, but in a practical sense they are apples and oranges. They are administered and run on a local level and pricing is set to reflect local market conditions. They are really different providers between regions. Just with an extra layer of middle management and the CxO's on top getting their salaries.