Sounds a lot like the Psion I carried for years when I was a working consultant -- actually a series 3 and then a series 5. liquid crystal display, SSDs for storage and a very usable but tiny keyboard. A pity they never got traction this side of the pond. And ran on AA batteries for weeks -- a very practical pocket computer, something I miss when using my smartphone. With wireless connectivity (still many years in the future) it would have been perfect. Nokia and Microsoft made sure it died... but they still make industrial stuff.
Ads don't generate sufficient revenue and the race to bottom on app pricing means selling them for 99c doesn't generate enough turnover to support them.
Since the operating system is written by a company that colludes with the United States, who is actively engaged in cyberwarfare, it stands to reason that a foreign adversary would have the most interest in securing it.
Either way, Windows users are pawns. If you don't trust anybody with your computing, may I suggest learning how to program and using only open source software? That's what I did.
I'll bet you haven't reviewed the source code of all the open source software you are using.
Also, have you confirmed your hardware hasn't been compromised?
Right. No car == no movement, because there's no such thing as walking or taking the bus.
Buses are great if you live in a city. If you live outside a city (at least in the US), where you actually need access to a bus, they often don't exist.
MS can't possibly know all the ransomware out there, however, I think MS does a terrible job at fixing anything. I had a friend who bought a MS product but in working with it he found a bug. He calls MS support. They research it but they say with his level of support, they can't go any further without premium support. So he pays for premium support. Premium support confirms that it is a bug. He asks when a fix is possible. They say they are not going to fix it. He asks why the heck did his premium support money do? For the privilege of telling him that it was a bug apparently.
You and your friend clearly do not understand how Enterprise support works. It's not there to make code changes (even bug fixes) for individual users. It exists to make changes that improve the system for the largest number of users.
Not true. They're much harder to win in the US, yes. But they aren't impossible. If you outright lie, or severely misrepresent something, you can be held liable for it. And lets be blunt, Last Week Tonight is about the laziest "journalism" out there. He's covered some topics that were important to me where the 8th amendment applied and never mentioned it.
It's not journalism, it's a comedy show that mentions current events. If you want journalism, you should find a reliable news outlet.
Tesla is making cool cars that are good for the environment along with all kinds of other cool things. And now somebody wants to screw it all up by bringing in unions and making labor costs skyrocket. Trump needs to understand this is a two-way street - the reason companies send jobs overseas is because of sky-high labor costs in the USA. The only way that will ever change in the long run is to keep labor costs reasonable - which means reining in the unions.
Same thing with health care - they can mess around with the insurance schemes and subsidies all they want, but in the end the only thing that is going to help is to address the root cause of the problem, which is out of control medical costs at the provider level.
The reason companies send jobs overseas is because paying a living wage eats into their massive profits. The CEOs don't want to scrape by on $50 million a year when they can live it up on $75 million a year. If that means some kid in India has to suffer, then that's the cost of doing business.
As for health care, you know, the rest of the civilized world addressed it decades ago with a government run single payer system.
Not only that, but this specific probe's landing was an experiment in preparation for a future mission in 2020. The main thrust (no pun intended) of the mission was to position the mothership which will be gathering most of the data.
It's disappointing the probe failed, but the information gathered and the root cause analysis of the experiment should provide good data for the next mission.
"Bar in UK closes after patrons go to an establishment where they can use the cellphones like the adults that they are."
I carry a phone so that people can get ahold of me if necessary. If they can't reach me at your place, I'll go somewhere that they can.
That's good because you would never be invited to my place. I hate to break it to you, but you really aren't so important that anybody needs to contact you instantly.
When I had Frontier for Internet they were unable to deliver more than 9Mbps up and it always failed when it rained. No reason at all for a cap when you cant deliver service to your customers.
Same here in CT. My service has cut out for 60 seconds or so, 10 times this morning already. They don't need to worry about caps when they just keep cutting off my connection mutliple times each day.
I hate that the content is getting split between all these providers. I do see my solution as a couple on months on one then cancel and switch to the next one. Just need to subscribe to each one once a year to accesses the latest season of whatever.
Of course they can come up with solutions to mess over frequent switchers.
Don't worry. In 5 years time these fragmented providers will merge into one or two mega companies and start charging cable company prices again.
Amazoncast and Netfinity anyone?
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What's a commercial? Since we got streaming Netflix seven years ago, I hardly see them any more (aside from the brief viewing of OTA TV).
In Netflix it's called "Product Placement". They will be delighted you haven't noticed.
Sounds a lot like the Psion I carried for years when I was a working consultant -- actually a series 3 and then a series 5. liquid crystal display, SSDs for storage and a very usable but tiny keyboard. A pity they never got traction this side of the pond. And ran on AA batteries for weeks -- a very practical pocket computer, something I miss when using my smartphone. With wireless connectivity (still many years in the future) it would have been perfect. Nokia and Microsoft made sure it died... but they still make industrial stuff.
It's making a comeback. Kind of.
https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
That's why you want to stick to the poker tables.
Display ads, don't steal user data.
Ads don't generate sufficient revenue and the race to bottom on app pricing means selling them for 99c doesn't generate enough turnover to support them.
Mondo 2000 was the magazine that Wired was a bad sold-out imitation of.
I preferred Omni, which published some of Gibson's classic pieces such as "Burning Chrome."
Since the operating system is written by a company that colludes with the United States, who is actively engaged in cyberwarfare, it stands to reason that a foreign adversary would have the most interest in securing it.
Either way, Windows users are pawns. If you don't trust anybody with your computing, may I suggest learning how to program and using only open source software? That's what I did.
I'll bet you haven't reviewed the source code of all the open source software you are using.
Also, have you confirmed your hardware hasn't been compromised?
Right. No car == no movement, because there's no such thing as walking or taking the bus.
Buses are great if you live in a city. If you live outside a city (at least in the US), where you actually need access to a bus, they often don't exist.
MS can't possibly know all the ransomware out there, however, I think MS does a terrible job at fixing anything. I had a friend who bought a MS product but in working with it he found a bug. He calls MS support. They research it but they say with his level of support, they can't go any further without premium support. So he pays for premium support. Premium support confirms that it is a bug. He asks when a fix is possible. They say they are not going to fix it. He asks why the heck did his premium support money do? For the privilege of telling him that it was a bug apparently.
You and your friend clearly do not understand how Enterprise support works. It's not there to make code changes (even bug fixes) for individual users. It exists to make changes that improve the system for the largest number of users.
Not true. They're much harder to win in the US, yes. But they aren't impossible. If you outright lie, or severely misrepresent something, you can be held liable for it. And lets be blunt, Last Week Tonight is about the laziest "journalism" out there. He's covered some topics that were important to me where the 8th amendment applied and never mentioned it.
It's not journalism, it's a comedy show that mentions current events. If you want journalism, you should find a reliable news outlet.
The lack of a back button is the reason I'll never buy an iPhone. Just one button is a waste of space.
They eventually gave in and added "back button" as an arrow at the top left of the screen. Still not as usable, though.
...when paired with an AI-based algorithm
Sounds to me like it's the AI-based algorithm that's doing the detecting here. Not the watch.
But Flash was supposed to be the one who would kill the iPad!
Turns out, the iPad managed to kill itself without Flash.
Tesla is making cool cars that are good for the environment along with all kinds of other cool things. And now somebody wants to screw it all up by bringing in unions and making labor costs skyrocket. Trump needs to understand this is a two-way street - the reason companies send jobs overseas is because of sky-high labor costs in the USA. The only way that will ever change in the long run is to keep labor costs reasonable - which means reining in the unions. Same thing with health care - they can mess around with the insurance schemes and subsidies all they want, but in the end the only thing that is going to help is to address the root cause of the problem, which is out of control medical costs at the provider level.
The reason companies send jobs overseas is because paying a living wage eats into their massive profits. The CEOs don't want to scrape by on $50 million a year when they can live it up on $75 million a year. If that means some kid in India has to suffer, then that's the cost of doing business. As for health care, you know, the rest of the civilized world addressed it decades ago with a government run single payer system.
Because of the highly successful Mars Rover missions, many people have forgotten (or don't know) that about 60% of all missions to Mars have failed.
Not only that, but this specific probe's landing was an experiment in preparation for a future mission in 2020. The main thrust (no pun intended) of the mission was to position the mothership which will be gathering most of the data. It's disappointing the probe failed, but the information gathered and the root cause analysis of the experiment should provide good data for the next mission.
Good luck making any appreciable money on any other mobile platform.
Good luck making any appreciable money on the iOS mobile platform.
If Jobs were Samsung CEO, he would have personally thrown somebody out a fricking window over this.
Apple certainly has experience with it. Their exploding laptop batteries date from around 2004 and were still exploding in 2013.
So having the ability to receive a call/text == loudly yapping... Gotcha.
So having the ability to receive a call/text == necessity to enjoy a night in the pub
"Bar in UK closes after patrons go to an establishment where they can use the cellphones like the adults that they are."
I carry a phone so that people can get ahold of me if necessary. If they can't reach me at your place, I'll go somewhere that they can.
That's good because you would never be invited to my place. I hate to break it to you, but you really aren't so important that anybody needs to contact you instantly.
When I had Frontier for Internet they were unable to deliver more than 9Mbps up and it always failed when it rained. No reason at all for a cap when you cant deliver service to your customers.
Same here in CT. My service has cut out for 60 seconds or so, 10 times this morning already. They don't need to worry about caps when they just keep cutting off my connection mutliple times each day.
Apple has always done this with everything they do. They don't treat backwards-compatibility as ultra important like Microsoft does.
That's because they still write their major apps in Objective-C.
Just wait until their self-driving car starts making decisions on your behalf.
I hate that the content is getting split between all these providers. I do see my solution as a couple on months on one then cancel and switch to the next one. Just need to subscribe to each one once a year to accesses the latest season of whatever.
Of course they can come up with solutions to mess over frequent switchers.
Don't worry. In 5 years time these fragmented providers will merge into one or two mega companies and start charging cable company prices again. Amazoncast and Netfinity anyone?
We have "whisky" in Scotland. Slainte!
I don't recall those programs being called apps. Applications maybe, more commonly programs ... but not apps.
"Apps" is shorthand for "applications". Has always been.
I used WIn 3.1 when it was first released. We never called them "apps" then.
Last time I was in New Jersey I hit multiple checkpoints all patrolled by the EZ-Pass troops.