They're early tech adopters, and this was certainly tech and not a steampunk, wind-up sort of watch.
It was and remains a niche market, indicative of that delightful 1-3% with the money and need for matching accessories.
It is not practical, it is not useful to most, and it appeals not to US and Canadians but to foreign nationals as a sign of ostensible geek chic.
The product is rife for damage (see eBay if you have any questions) and for most, isn't practical, especially given 1) battery life 2) costs 3) impinging on motion in all but social and "office" environments, and 4) lack of real and useful features.
These aren't typical consumers, you're right. And the practical slashdot reader stays far from such trivialities.
You confuse corporate content, mostly bought and paid for, with untethered journalism. Most commercial media sway to the side that pays for them, just like the US Congress and Executive Branches.
There are those journalists, not lackeys of advertisers, that do real work dealing with real facts, and not that alt-facts poo. Glenn Greenwald comes to mind, although I wonder if some of his reporting is backlash spite for Snowden.
Clinton helped a perfect storm of idiots occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Av. We will not forget.
I've used T-mobile's $10/mo international plan across the EU, and it works like a charm. Yes, the per-minute rate is 20c, which is fairly reasonable where connections are too erratic to support VoIP. Tether your laptop, and away you go!
Everyone thinks they're immune, even when they use crypto. Then people leave the certs laying around in someone's browser cache, and it's all plain text again.
No one is immune, not me, not you. Rename your dbs to.mp4. Do weird things, low-hanging-fruit things. People stoked up on coffee just swear and move on. Their parsers fail, and their attention span gets wiped.
Don't believe me? Go to CCC and see how many people are wired.
It makes me wonder how much Tumblr porn came from Best Buy uploaders.
Perhaps none.
Maybe they're all great people.
But they vacuum machines for reward money, or at least a few of them have, says the article. Most of them are probably great. But a few of them have sullied the reputation of the Geek Squad, perhaps beyond repair.
The big problem: a lot of good people at Geek Squad get besmirched for the actions of some greedy fellow employees. It would seem that management likely knew about this. What protections do they provide their customers? They should spell it out and enforce it. Data is money, assets, and pretty private stuff.
In this case, "likely" is an inexact approach. Either he/she is or is not. I've had engineers that worked for me that were truly not in the current reality, or they might have been trained on Mars, but certainly no school I can think of. They were absolutely sure of themselves to the point of being able to consider another viewpoint; strident; rigid in the extreme.
And I've seen the gaslighters do their evil, as well, beating down good people psychologically until they'd done their narcissist's dead.
I'm sad about the demise of CyanogenMod. I wish there was a way to spoof the satellites with a keyfob, so that GPS wasn't so inane. Kinda like local GPS sats. Think of the amusing out-of-band results when you're located 400mi inside the earth.
There is so much fun around. Yeah, there's also the mundane and the boring stuff, too. People have bills to pay, and sometimes being a meaningless dweeb is how the lights stay on.
But there's never been more real fun. If you don't like code projects for Big Corp, you can get into the mad crazy fun of Arduino, Pi, FPGAs, robotics. SoCs, SDRs, and a myriad other interesting projects.
I've been around since doing 6502s and Z80s in assembler. It's necessary to peel off the layers of cruft and mold that get into one's system when you sit still too long. Coding for secure, optimized code has been increasingly crazy, but if you know your platforms, go for it.
I watch kids doing fascinating things. Truly sophisticated toys that twenty years ago were impossible at any price. My only fear: letting people get controlled by the advertisers and the government, each of whom are power hungry and relentless. Otherwise, if you're bored, break out of your box.
And everyone in the room is heard, each noise, appliance, looking for digital filtration, notation, and archiving while the folly of Big Data pours over such stuff, conflates, infers, and makes decisions based upon it, then rats the info to anyone who would pay.
Then there are those that won't pay, just merely barge in with (or without) a warrant or writ of assistance to mangle the data for The State's purpose.
Firefox 50.1 has taken its trickle of rendering and tab cleanup to be measured in furlongs per fortnight. It has become horrifically slow, not the reverse using common add-ins.
Worse, some pages simply die or are rendered incorrectly if at all.
While I used Firefox loyally, especially for its debug qualities, I might actually be forced to change because it is stunningly slow even on fast hardware. It's like I leaped back to 1998.
The roster of suck-ups at the meeting is somehwat harrowing. The photos of the expressions on their faces are priceless.
And to those that didn't make it there-- your integrity is intact. No slime, no foul, no tainted deals that will drain your legal dept dry in four years.
Who was missing at the table? People. Labor. The schmucks that do the actual work, like you and I. Larry Ellison? Gates? Zuck? Kravitz? Nope, not there either.
There is the 0.5%, the next 0.5% (some present at the meeting, especially those with outer space plans), and the 99% (us) were, um, kinda missing.
I, too, believe it's Fair Use, and he has a right to counterclaim. But this takes money, and the desire for a long fight, going through Discovery, showing damages, and all the other processes of tort law.
It's better to raise this issue and show that Samsung did the totally wrong thing, starting at their bad QA, bad engineering, bad process control for field testing, and an even worse procedure once the problem was found.
Corporations don't like to eat humble pie, eat crow, or whatever metaphor you'd like to use for admitting they screwed up. This is a PR disaster, IMHO.
The propagandist at work, attempts to shed decades of not-invented-here, reminiscent of the Reality Distortion Fields of Steve Jobs, and hopes, no prays that the Gartner audience will swallow it whole.
Such tortious, mind-numbing blather is uncharacteristic of an organization that desires to be judged by its actions, not its lapdog propaganda.
There's NOTHING wrong with editing. Slickness is in the eye of the beholder, sometimes taking away the raw nuanced value of journalism. Other times, it takes a disjointed bunch of stuff and molds it into something discernible.
While there's some truth to what you say, I have yet to see a medium where there can be a considerable amount of dust-- read that lack of trust-- in sources, coverage, attribution, and significance.
Part of the problem of media is that the public's ability to discern what's controlled media vs what's real and live and truly happening is weak at best, viz the current situation. "Follow The Money" isn't quite the best method to judge the content, although it's a good way to understand bias.
Yet there are really good journalists out there, and differing covering entities that sometimes do a really good job, only to be knee-capped by proximity to truly evil, spoon-fed lackeys of moneyed sponsors. It's not the fine print I'm really worried about, rather the capacity to present facts in a way where the chain-of-authorities for those facts can be referenced in a way that allows context. Context is key to trust.
It's freaking video. One is over the air or cable, the other one is in packets. Not a big deal. What's important is the information, and how the information was put together (sources, bias, etc.).
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They're early tech adopters, and this was certainly tech and not a steampunk, wind-up sort of watch.
It was and remains a niche market, indicative of that delightful 1-3% with the money and need for matching accessories.
It is not practical, it is not useful to most, and it appeals not to US and Canadians but to foreign nationals as a sign of ostensible geek chic.
The product is rife for damage (see eBay if you have any questions) and for most, isn't practical, especially given 1) battery life 2) costs 3) impinging on motion in all but social and "office" environments, and 4) lack of real and useful features.
These aren't typical consumers, you're right. And the practical slashdot reader stays far from such trivialities.
You confuse corporate content, mostly bought and paid for, with untethered journalism. Most commercial media sway to the side that pays for them, just like the US Congress and Executive Branches.
There are those journalists, not lackeys of advertisers, that do real work dealing with real facts, and not that alt-facts poo. Glenn Greenwald comes to mind, although I wonder if some of his reporting is backlash spite for Snowden.
Clinton helped a perfect storm of idiots occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Av. We will not forget.
Lots of items are unknown. Licensing, api differences, so much more. I'd like to shoot bullets and see how tough it is.
An unbloated, slimmed down version of Window has been on lists for decades. Think: plausible container shells, ROM-able instances, VDI.
It remains to be seen what the downside(s) are, but yeah, skinny Window might actually be, dare I say it, competitive?
I've used T-mobile's $10/mo international plan across the EU, and it works like a charm. Yes, the per-minute rate is 20c, which is fairly reasonable where connections are too erratic to support VoIP. Tether your laptop, and away you go!
Everyone thinks they're immune, even when they use crypto. Then people leave the certs laying around in someone's browser cache, and it's all plain text again.
No one is immune, not me, not you. Rename your dbs to .mp4. Do weird things, low-hanging-fruit things. People stoked up on coffee just swear and move on. Their parsers fail, and their attention span gets wiped.
Don't believe me? Go to CCC and see how many people are wired.
It makes me wonder how much Tumblr porn came from Best Buy uploaders.
Perhaps none.
Maybe they're all great people.
But they vacuum machines for reward money, or at least a few of them have, says the article. Most of them are probably great. But a few of them have sullied the reputation of the Geek Squad, perhaps beyond repair.
The big problem: a lot of good people at Geek Squad get besmirched for the actions of some greedy fellow employees. It would seem that management likely knew about this. What protections do they provide their customers? They should spell it out and enforce it. Data is money, assets, and pretty private stuff.
In this case, "likely" is an inexact approach. Either he/she is or is not. I've had engineers that worked for me that were truly not in the current reality, or they might have been trained on Mars, but certainly no school I can think of. They were absolutely sure of themselves to the point of being able to consider another viewpoint; strident; rigid in the extreme.
And I've seen the gaslighters do their evil, as well, beating down good people psychologically until they'd done their narcissist's dead.
But be sure.
You mean like the FIFTEEN trackers on this site?????
Just hack into google analytics if you want to have a rip-roaring blast at your next party.
I'm sad about the demise of CyanogenMod. I wish there was a way to spoof the satellites with a keyfob, so that GPS wasn't so inane. Kinda like local GPS sats. Think of the amusing out-of-band results when you're located 400mi inside the earth.
Yeah. This.
There is so much fun around. Yeah, there's also the mundane and the boring stuff, too. People have bills to pay, and sometimes being a meaningless dweeb is how the lights stay on.
But there's never been more real fun. If you don't like code projects for Big Corp, you can get into the mad crazy fun of Arduino, Pi, FPGAs, robotics. SoCs, SDRs, and a myriad other interesting projects.
I've been around since doing 6502s and Z80s in assembler. It's necessary to peel off the layers of cruft and mold that get into one's system when you sit still too long. Coding for secure, optimized code has been increasingly crazy, but if you know your platforms, go for it.
I watch kids doing fascinating things. Truly sophisticated toys that twenty years ago were impossible at any price. My only fear: letting people get controlled by the advertisers and the government, each of whom are power hungry and relentless. Otherwise, if you're bored, break out of your box.
And everyone in the room is heard, each noise, appliance, looking for digital filtration, notation, and archiving while the folly of Big Data pours over such stuff, conflates, infers, and makes decisions based upon it, then rats the info to anyone who would pay.
Then there are those that won't pay, just merely barge in with (or without) a warrant or writ of assistance to mangle the data for The State's purpose.
Unicorn my ass. Rat Fink Stool Pigeon.
Firefox 50.1 has taken its trickle of rendering and tab cleanup to be measured in furlongs per fortnight. It has become horrifically slow, not the reverse using common add-ins.
Worse, some pages simply die or are rendered incorrectly if at all.
While I used Firefox loyally, especially for its debug qualities, I might actually be forced to change because it is stunningly slow even on fast hardware. It's like I leaped back to 1998.
The roster of suck-ups at the meeting is somehwat harrowing. The photos of the expressions on their faces are priceless.
And to those that didn't make it there-- your integrity is intact. No slime, no foul, no tainted deals that will drain your legal dept dry in four years.
Who was missing at the table? People. Labor. The schmucks that do the actual work, like you and I. Larry Ellison? Gates? Zuck? Kravitz? Nope, not there either.
There is the 0.5%, the next 0.5% (some present at the meeting, especially those with outer space plans), and the 99% (us) were, um, kinda missing.
Product Manager: We're not making any revenue on this.
MBA: We can sell more ad revenue....
Product Manager: How?
MBA: Force them to re-up whilst showing them an ad. Free ad view whether they like it or not.
Product Manager: Brilliant!
Users: Well, that was nice while it lasted. On to the next free VPN.
Wiretapping means listening to the wire, or in this case, the signal of the audio conversation. That wasn't done.
Instead, the metadata details were sold, meaning things like what time a call was made, where the tower locations were, the duration, and so forth.
Not wiretapping, but still ratting out customers.
Good to know. Glad it was easy as that.
I, too, believe it's Fair Use, and he has a right to counterclaim. But this takes money, and the desire for a long fight, going through Discovery, showing damages, and all the other processes of tort law.
It's better to raise this issue and show that Samsung did the totally wrong thing, starting at their bad QA, bad engineering, bad process control for field testing, and an even worse procedure once the problem was found.
Corporations don't like to eat humble pie, eat crow, or whatever metaphor you'd like to use for admitting they screwed up. This is a PR disaster, IMHO.
The propagandist at work, attempts to shed decades of not-invented-here, reminiscent of the Reality Distortion Fields of Steve Jobs, and hopes, no prays that the Gartner audience will swallow it whole.
Such tortious, mind-numbing blather is uncharacteristic of an organization that desires to be judged by its actions, not its lapdog propaganda.
The secret hope: The Stock Price Soars!!!
There's NOTHING wrong with editing. Slickness is in the eye of the beholder, sometimes taking away the raw nuanced value of journalism. Other times, it takes a disjointed bunch of stuff and molds it into something discernible.
And from this, we can conclude exactly what?
While there's some truth to what you say, I have yet to see a medium where there can be a considerable amount of dust-- read that lack of trust-- in sources, coverage, attribution, and significance.
Part of the problem of media is that the public's ability to discern what's controlled media vs what's real and live and truly happening is weak at best, viz the current situation. "Follow The Money" isn't quite the best method to judge the content, although it's a good way to understand bias.
Yet there are really good journalists out there, and differing covering entities that sometimes do a really good job, only to be knee-capped by proximity to truly evil, spoon-fed lackeys of moneyed sponsors. It's not the fine print I'm really worried about, rather the capacity to present facts in a way where the chain-of-authorities for those facts can be referenced in a way that allows context. Context is key to trust.
It's freaking video. One is over the air or cable, the other one is in packets. Not a big deal. What's important is the information, and how the information was put together (sources, bias, etc.).
The First Gulf War was "livestreamed" on TV. Nothing new to see here.....
Imagine the cognitive dissonance during the next election. Or let's see, eight heteros, five homos, two unsure, what do we throw onto the billboard?
I envision a person walking with their soon to be ex while the billboard says: bought that pistol yet? Funeral arrangements? Mexico vacation?