I don't particularly mind that a Chinese company has my data, instead of a Korean or American. They all share and/or sell it to various actors/agencies etc, plus certain agencies have direct access to it so that is my starting assumption and just look at the device. And in that respect after paying top dollar for the flagship Samsung, going to a Xiaomi is a revelation, with excellent build quality, years of updates at a fraction of the price. My current Mi Mix 2 is a bit more expensive than other top Xiaomi but it is much nicer (for me) than the more expensive Galaxies, Pixels etc. And Xiaomi has more devices usually at amazing price/performance. My $10 VR headset is the best built (with nice touch button) of the inexpensive cardboard compatibles, my $20 mi band 2 has most features of much more expensive smart wristbands and it is not garbage like the rest at this price range... There is even an interesting robotic vacuum I am looking at.
Exactly this caught my attention too. And if 30% of drivers are losing money, even if they are really bad on personal finances on average, wouldn't, say, half of them eventually realize it and the first time we'd be hearing about it would not be from a study? Don't get me wrong, I've talked to a few drivers and I'd say most are not that happy with Uber, but the complaint is that they have to work more to make a proper income after their expenses - which means at least they are not on the red as in that case working more would not help...
I have a technical app on the app store (telescope polar alignment), with a free version missing some extra tools and a paid version. I make sure I keep it light in case someone needs to download it from a remote location and, even though both are built from the same project, I make sure the extra stuff is not included in the free package, so that it is 10MB instead of 20MB... But just throwing the entire 3GB game as a demo, that sure is lazy! An since they are that lazy, the were predictably lazy with the way they implemented the limitation so people got around it. Congrats.
It was a Lumia 535, it came with Windows Phone 8.1 (not 7, my bad), it was most certainly upgraded to Windows 10 (and shelved soon after). It was much better off with Windows 8.1 as I said - not due to it being a better OS (it probably wasn't), but because with the update a few of the most useful apps disappeared or replaced with inferior ones.
I bought a Windows Phone 7 for my wife around 2015 since we found a great deal on it. And it was actually quite good, she thought the OS was better than Android, especially the much snappier feel of the UI & apps compared to Android phones with similar CPU/price. Well, OK, I guess that is not hard, as Android is not that good an OS (and that would be putting it mildly if you had tried something like the Nokia N9). BUT, then came the Windows Phone 10 update, which was almost mandatory (some things which I forget required it), which suddenly took away many things, including the great Nokia-derived maps, replacing them with some utterly unusable crap. And then they abandoned the platform completely so there are no apps made for it, and I wouldn't count on updates for long! So, perhaps if they were at close-out prices, with some caveats they would be at least interesting... But not at full price.
I have a couple of niche apps (one is for telescope polar alignment and astrophotography tools, the other, "Xasteria", is for an astronomical weather forecast) and I am trying my best to keep them working with as old phones as possible and make new features available to them. So far I am managing to keep them working for 2012's iOS 6, since that is the minimum you can do with a version of the dev tools that is still accepted to the app store, and they only miss a little visual candy (and a faster-rendering webview which is not crucial for these apps) compared to running them a device with a newer iOS - as I do target iOS 10 devices with newer features. And, while my iOS 6 and iOS 7 users are not that many, they absolutely love it and I do get some messages about how excited they are to get new features on an "ancient" iPhone 3GS! With the latest Xcode there is no way to support such old devices, so when I am forced to use it I will cut out these users who find a good use for their old devices (when you go in remote dark places perhaps with high humidity, having an old device instead of a new one is an advantage).
No, it does not include Klingon - there was a proposal, but Klingon was rejected (people use the private area to encode them). In fact, it would be better if it was accepted, because that way it would mean that Unicode is at least fair in its all-inclusiveness, as apart from the various poo emojis, they have also accepted weird constructed alphabets (e.g. Deseret, Shavian) and even two of JRR Tolkien's fictional languages are scheduled to be added! So it they accept any crap (even literally - remember poo emoji), but will balk at some like Klingon seemingly randomly.
Most Xiaomi users I know (and I happen to know quite a lot since they are getting popular in Europe) really like MIUI and it is one of the reasons they choose the these phones. In fact, a cousin was telling me yesterday me how disappointed she was by the changes in the OS when she updated from her older Xiaomi to a newer one. Which one did you get I asked her... The Mi A1 she tells me... I had to explain that with the only Xiaomi Android One phone she has some advantages over MIUI users - e.g. the first one to get new releases, snooping only by Google instead of Google+Xiaomi etc, things that some people value greatly, but, from my experience they are not the majority so I'd bet most Twitter voters would not have been MIUI or even Android One users - never mind having tried both. Personally, I choose phones mostly for the hardware, as long as the Android flavour is not annoying (I don't mind MIUI), and my current Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 is the first phone that I really like, since quite a while now (I'd probably say since my Nokia N9 with Maemo/Meego back in 2011) - I am staying away from Samsung after some disappointments... That said, the open poll was a stupid move, the deletion was an even stupider one.
Whoever wrote that summary is not a geek, otherwise they would know VLC versions are named after Terry Pratchet's Discworld characters. Version 3.0 is named after Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.
I thought it said introduced by "Jeff Winger", so it seemed sort of OK for an episode of "Community". You know how it goes, Greendale starts accepting bitcoin, but it gets bankrupt because bitcoin is worthless 2 weeks after the students make the payments when the transactions (or most of them) actually get through, but then something involving either time travel, or multiverse paradoxes, or claymation happens and the day is saved...
According to twitter posts, it seems that it did not. 2 out of 3 is not bad;) Also, they had to have something not go perfect in order to learn from the test flight:)
Here is a nice time lapse video of the "super moon" eclipse of 2015 in case you are interested: https://youtu.be/2HHz7CVMPx4 . It was not a "blue moon" but that term does not refer to a physical difference, just that there are two full moons in the month.
Thanks for the videos. I got more curious and read a bit of the dispute thread. It is crazy. Apparently there is this guy called Jace Hall who is "Head of TG" and he uses (well, used to for months at least) the most retarded arguments to defend that cheating player. My favorite one was where he is explaining that a model that only simulates the gameplay cannot be comprehensive and he proposes an example comprehensive method: read at your own peril!. Because he claimed in another post that he is talking about comprehensive stuff like Space X would do it, someone tells him Space X would fire him if he worked for them and our guy Jace responds by bragging: "Based on this statement, it is likely that you have have not been to Space X. If you ever get privately invited, you should go. They do some interesting stuff there.". Anyway, I got my 30 minutes of comedy for today...
No idea why anyone is upset. Sure, if you start putting dozens of disco balls in orbit there might be an issue, but this one you can't even see! When they say "bright" they mean that once every quite a few days it might pass above you in just the right orientation and angle from the sun so that one of its mirrors hit you directly during the night with sunlight at a maximum brightness of... magnitude 4.2... If you don't know what that means, it is about as bright as the stars in the middle of the little dipper "handle", the ones you can't see from the city. So cities are out, rural areas can see it, but still it is nowhere as bright as other satellites, ISS etc. In any case best data for when/how bright: heavens above.
Another "funny" story, my company got asked by a Japanese manufacturer wether we can deliver a pinyin entry method for a device to be released in Taiwan. I replied that we could, but, surely, they'd want bopomofo/zhuyin instead, since that is what people use in Taiwan. They went ahead and ordered a pinyin instead. Somewhere late in the process, they told us that they sent a sample to their Taiwan office and it was asked for it to be switched to bopomofo/zhuyin because they don't use pinyin in Taiwan...
I read the title and was worried there for a second. I mean, sure, I see on some webpages ads of stuff that I just browsed or bought on Amazon, so I am used to some creepiness, but a Slashdot post about me buying a Foscam camera for my country house?
The article specifically talks about a device with a cellular connection. If you think wifi uses a lot of power, you are going to have a very nasty surprise with cellular radio on!;)
I'd be interested to know if he schedules a sale every year and usually cancels;) I mean that's what I would do if I wanted to make my insider trading legal, always have a scheduled sale just in case...
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I don't particularly mind that a Chinese company has my data, instead of a Korean or American. They all share and/or sell it to various actors/agencies etc, plus certain agencies have direct access to it so that is my starting assumption and just look at the device.
And in that respect after paying top dollar for the flagship Samsung, going to a Xiaomi is a revelation, with excellent build quality, years of updates at a fraction of the price. My current Mi Mix 2 is a bit more expensive than other top Xiaomi but it is much nicer (for me) than the more expensive Galaxies, Pixels etc.
And Xiaomi has more devices usually at amazing price/performance. My $10 VR headset is the best built (with nice touch button) of the inexpensive cardboard compatibles, my $20 mi band 2 has most features of much more expensive smart wristbands and it is not garbage like the rest at this price range... There is even an interesting robotic vacuum I am looking at.
Exactly this caught my attention too.
And if 30% of drivers are losing money, even if they are really bad on personal finances on average, wouldn't, say, half of them eventually realize it and the first time we'd be hearing about it would not be from a study?
Don't get me wrong, I've talked to a few drivers and I'd say most are not that happy with Uber, but the complaint is that they have to work more to make a proper income after their expenses - which means at least they are not on the red as in that case working more would not help...
I have a technical app on the app store (telescope polar alignment), with a free version missing some extra tools and a paid version. I make sure I keep it light in case someone needs to download it from a remote location and, even though both are built from the same project, I make sure the extra stuff is not included in the free package, so that it is 10MB instead of 20MB...
But just throwing the entire 3GB game as a demo, that sure is lazy! An since they are that lazy, the were predictably lazy with the way they implemented the limitation so people got around it. Congrats.
It was a Lumia 535, it came with Windows Phone 8.1 (not 7, my bad), it was most certainly upgraded to Windows 10 (and shelved soon after). It was much better off with Windows 8.1 as I said - not due to it being a better OS (it probably wasn't), but because with the update a few of the most useful apps disappeared or replaced with inferior ones.
I bought a Windows Phone 7 for my wife around 2015 since we found a great deal on it. And it was actually quite good, she thought the OS was better than Android, especially the much snappier feel of the UI & apps compared to Android phones with similar CPU/price. Well, OK, I guess that is not hard, as Android is not that good an OS (and that would be putting it mildly if you had tried something like the Nokia N9).
BUT, then came the Windows Phone 10 update, which was almost mandatory (some things which I forget required it), which suddenly took away many things, including the great Nokia-derived maps, replacing them with some utterly unusable crap. And then they abandoned the platform completely so there are no apps made for it, and I wouldn't count on updates for long!
So, perhaps if they were at close-out prices, with some caveats they would be at least interesting... But not at full price.
Meh, oil backing is overkill. Bitcoin is doing great backed just by thin air. ICO FTW!
(Yes, I am pissed for not thinking about it first. I'd at least make up for the cost of the extra guest at the London Embassy...)
I have a couple of niche apps (one is for telescope polar alignment and astrophotography tools, the other, "Xasteria", is for an astronomical weather forecast) and I am trying my best to keep them working with as old phones as possible and make new features available to them. So far I am managing to keep them working for 2012's iOS 6, since that is the minimum you can do with a version of the dev tools that is still accepted to the app store, and they only miss a little visual candy (and a faster-rendering webview which is not crucial for these apps) compared to running them a device with a newer iOS - as I do target iOS 10 devices with newer features. And, while my iOS 6 and iOS 7 users are not that many, they absolutely love it and I do get some messages about how excited they are to get new features on an "ancient" iPhone 3GS!
With the latest Xcode there is no way to support such old devices, so when I am forced to use it I will cut out these users who find a good use for their old devices (when you go in remote dark places perhaps with high humidity, having an old device instead of a new one is an advantage).
It even includes Emoji and Klingon. Ridiculous!
No, it does not include Klingon - there was a proposal, but Klingon was rejected (people use the private area to encode them). In fact, it would be better if it was accepted, because that way it would mean that Unicode is at least fair in its all-inclusiveness, as apart from the various poo emojis, they have also accepted weird constructed alphabets (e.g. Deseret, Shavian) and even two of JRR Tolkien's fictional languages are scheduled to be added!
So it they accept any crap (even literally - remember poo emoji), but will balk at some like Klingon seemingly randomly.
So, you ended up with JavaScript/html/css? I hope it was a great ride because the destination sure sucks! ;)
Most Xiaomi users I know (and I happen to know quite a lot since they are getting popular in Europe) really like MIUI and it is one of the reasons they choose the these phones. In fact, a cousin was telling me yesterday me how disappointed she was by the changes in the OS when she updated from her older Xiaomi to a newer one. Which one did you get I asked her... The Mi A1 she tells me...
I had to explain that with the only Xiaomi Android One phone she has some advantages over MIUI users - e.g. the first one to get new releases, snooping only by Google instead of Google+Xiaomi etc, things that some people value greatly, but, from my experience they are not the majority so I'd bet most Twitter voters would not have been MIUI or even Android One users - never mind having tried both.
Personally, I choose phones mostly for the hardware, as long as the Android flavour is not annoying (I don't mind MIUI), and my current Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 is the first phone that I really like, since quite a while now (I'd probably say since my Nokia N9 with Maemo/Meego back in 2011) - I am staying away from Samsung after some disappointments...
That said, the open poll was a stupid move, the deletion was an even stupider one.
Whoever wrote that summary is not a geek, otherwise they would know VLC versions are named after Terry Pratchet's Discworld characters. Version 3.0 is named after Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.
I thought it said introduced by "Jeff Winger", so it seemed sort of OK for an episode of "Community". You know how it goes, Greendale starts accepting bitcoin, but it gets bankrupt because bitcoin is worthless 2 weeks after the students make the payments when the transactions (or most of them) actually get through, but then something involving either time travel, or multiverse paradoxes, or claymation happens and the day is saved...
According to twitter posts, it seems that it did not. 2 out of 3 is not bad ;) Also, they had to have something not go perfect in order to learn from the test flight :)
Here is a nice time lapse video of the "super moon" eclipse of 2015 in case you are interested: https://youtu.be/2HHz7CVMPx4 . It was not a "blue moon" but that term does not refer to a physical difference, just that there are two full moons in the month.
"for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest" /sarcasm.
Wow, some pretty serious research here...
Thanks for the videos. I got more curious and read a bit of the dispute thread. It is crazy. Apparently there is this guy called Jace Hall who is "Head of TG" and he uses (well, used to for months at least) the most retarded arguments to defend that cheating player. My favorite one was where he is explaining that a model that only simulates the gameplay cannot be comprehensive and he proposes an example comprehensive method: read at your own peril!. Because he claimed in another post that he is talking about comprehensive stuff like Space X would do it, someone tells him Space X would fire him if he worked for them and our guy Jace responds by bragging: "Based on this statement, it is likely that you have have not been to Space X. If you ever get privately invited, you should go. They do some interesting stuff there.".
Anyway, I got my 30 minutes of comedy for today...
No idea why anyone is upset. Sure, if you start putting dozens of disco balls in orbit there might be an issue, but this one you can't even see! When they say "bright" they mean that once every quite a few days it might pass above you in just the right orientation and angle from the sun so that one of its mirrors hit you directly during the night with sunlight at a maximum brightness of... magnitude 4.2... If you don't know what that means, it is about as bright as the stars in the middle of the little dipper "handle", the ones you can't see from the city. So cities are out, rural areas can see it, but still it is nowhere as bright as other satellites, ISS etc.
In any case best data for when/how bright: heavens above.
Another "funny" story, my company got asked by a Japanese manufacturer wether we can deliver a pinyin entry method for a device to be released in Taiwan. I replied that we could, but, surely, they'd want bopomofo/zhuyin instead, since that is what people use in Taiwan. They went ahead and ordered a pinyin instead. Somewhere late in the process, they told us that they sent a sample to their Taiwan office and it was asked for it to be switched to bopomofo/zhuyin because they don't use pinyin in Taiwan...
I read the title and was worried there for a second. I mean, sure, I see on some webpages ads of stuff that I just browsed or bought on Amazon, so I am used to some creepiness, but a Slashdot post about me buying a Foscam camera for my country house?
One of my favorite XKCD strips is Knuth-related: https://xkcd.com/163/
Touché
And the same with slashdot posts probably...
See? Apple delivered the update without bricking* any AMD CPUs! That's how you do it!
*the term is used here very loosely.
The article specifically talks about a device with a cellular connection. If you think wifi uses a lot of power, you are going to have a very nasty surprise with cellular radio on! ;)
I'd be interested to know if he schedules a sale every year and usually cancels ;)
I mean that's what I would do if I wanted to make my insider trading legal, always have a scheduled sale just in case...