You analysis is incorrect as the nest does indeed operate "offline". The cloud aspect is used to record temperatures/energy usage and to allow for remote control. The issue was a bug that resulted in the batteries being drained and not sufficiently recharged, resulting in the thermostat powering down when the battery gets too low.
"Conventional" smart thermostats have a similar issue except for the fact that they are incapable of recharging the batters so when the batteries die you have to change them. Being that is expected behavior for convention thermostats, it is not a bug (but it is a pain).
Actually, "Baby Boomer" is also a name for a generation that came long before "Generation-X" that was was pushed by the generation that came before them (the baby boomers)! Older Generations complaining about younger generations (and vice-versa) has been around at least as long as there have been people on the planet!
Yeah - it does get cold up here in Michigan. Also, not all homes here are "vacation cabins", mine certainly isn't!
The Nest thermostat has lithium batteries that are, indeed, charged from the 24VAC wire from the HVAC system and is, ironically, the primary reason I bought one as the "smart" thermostat I had before uses 4 AA alkaline batteries that you have to change a couple times a year:/
I wondered why my Nest shut down, when I happened to be walking past it, due to low battery. I unplugged it from the wall, plugged a USB cable in the USB port to charge it and it restarted. then I plugged it back in and it's fine now. I wondered why that happened, now I know.
Nowadays, private industry also tends towards an extreme focus on process. There are inherent problems attempting to manage large organizations and private industry isn't any better at it than government is. I know this form a lot of experience (and friends' experience) in large, dysfunctional corporations (private industry) such as VW, Ford, GM, utilities (DTE & Consumers Energy), healthcare (Blue Cross, HAP, hospitals), etc...
Apparently Mongolia must be a nation of Paleontologists. Paleontology is taught too all Mongolian children at a very young age as it is deeply embedded in Mongolia's Culture!
T-Mobile most likely does not provide a separate "low bandwidth, rate limited connection" for video. They probably detect requests going to and streams coming from specific sites, over the "regular" connection, and sending requests to those sites to drop down to lower bandwidth and keeping track of how much data those particular streams use so they can subtract said amount when billing.
There are also probably marketing concerns and/or funding coming from the video streaming "partners" involved, which is a completely valid business tactic.
But Google did some usage testing and found the menu button was rarely used, so they got rid of it.
Actually, Google did not remove the menu itself, they moved it from a button to an on-screen element that all applications are supposed to provide unless there is nothing to put in the menu
I'd like to know who they did their usage testing with as I used the menu button all the time and was one of Andriod's biggest advantages over iOS. They most likely used iPhone users:/
Sure it would be great if every single feature was immediately visually discoverable. But how do you do that when you have so little screen space? Do you sacrifice content for UI? Let's see their great alternative.
The alternative is Andriod, especially the first versions before Google started chasing Apple's mystical iOS interfaces
Nevermind many, show me a single person with normal vision that CANNOT read Apple fonts
I personally know of many people that have problems reading Applr fonts, there is also the example the *was* provided that you quoted:
"A woman told one of us that she had to use Apple’s assistive tool to make Apple’s undersize fonts large and contrasty enough to be readable."
Why would anyone take this article seriously when it leads with provably false claims?
As pointed out above, there are no provable false claims in TFA, though there are many in your post!
other gestures in the iPhone...Deleting a row in a table, swipe left...Accessing the notification centre by swiping down from the top...
And how is one to know about these mystical gestures that are not documented anywhere, especially if you do no have an apple fanboi such as yourself to ask (and who may or may not know themselves how much functionality are in various applications). How much functionality do you not use because you have no idea it's there?
Gestures are a good idea, but there should be some way to find out what they are and what they do. Even better if every app had a consistent way of bringing up a menu or help or some way of finding out how to use it. I have used all kinds of computers, everything from Mainframes to PCs running DOS to Windows, Unix, Linux and even Macs and have never before had any problems figuring out how to do anything. That changes when iPhones came out with their incomprehensible UI. iOS is the only OS where you can't figure out how to do stuff without googling and even then you most likely will not be able to find out how apps actually work!
I don't know of any iOS core features that use more than one finger aside from pinch to zoom... Nothing comes to mind for double tap either. five finger swipe... Multi-finger gestures..
How do you know if there are features that use more than 1 finger or not. Sure there are the one you know about, but what about the ones you don't know about?
This is debatable. Back is not consistent in Android. You press back to get out of a menu and then press it again by accident? Whoops there goes your app.
Actually, back *is* consistent in Android as it always go back, including between apps.
Maybe the authors have some concepts for how to implement universal undo in a better way?
Have a menu, preferably on a button like the older version of Android, with undo in it.
Medical equipment vendors definitely need to address this.
However, that being said, anyone that hacks medical devices should be taken out and shot. This would be a good cause for reviving capital punishment in those jurisdictions that have retired it.
That's because the vendors are concerned the updates could break the device. Which is a valid concern as there have been many OS updates that have broke stuff over the years. Pretty much ever OS has had this issue at one time or another, not just Windows.
It's a pre-processor that translates C++ to C, that then has to then be compiled by a C Compiler.
Back in the day, I used the Glockenspiel implement of CFront that then used the Microsoft C Compiler (this was before Microsoft had a C++ compiler) to compile the resulting C code to.obj files to be linked by Microsoft's LINKer.
The most effective security tool is a sledgehammer. If one is sufficiently applied vigorously to any computer, the result will be a completely secure system that is totally impervious to all hacks!
This is to ensure that you have to sign up to be slave labor in order to stay. Be careful what you wish for as it could very well have unintended consequences.
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You analysis is incorrect as the nest does indeed operate "offline". The cloud aspect is used to record temperatures/energy usage and to allow for remote control. The issue was a bug that resulted in the batteries being drained and not sufficiently recharged, resulting in the thermostat powering down when the battery gets too low.
"Conventional" smart thermostats have a similar issue except for the fact that they are incapable of recharging the batters so when the batteries die you have to change them. Being that is expected behavior for convention thermostats, it is not a bug (but it is a pain).
Actually, "Baby Boomer" is also a name for a generation that came long before "Generation-X" that was was pushed by the generation that came before them (the baby boomers)! Older Generations complaining about younger generations (and vice-versa) has been around at least as long as there have been people on the planet!
So, what's your point?
Vacation homes cost more than $250. So not everyone with a nest has one...
Yeah - it does get cold up here in Michigan. Also, not all homes here are "vacation cabins", mine certainly isn't! The Nest thermostat has lithium batteries that are, indeed, charged from the 24VAC wire from the HVAC system and is, ironically, the primary reason I bought one as the "smart" thermostat I had before uses 4 AA alkaline batteries that you have to change a couple times a year :/
I wondered why my Nest shut down, when I happened to be walking past it, due to low battery. I unplugged it from the wall, plugged a USB cable in the USB port to charge it and it restarted. then I plugged it back in and it's fine now. I wondered why that happened, now I know.
It IS summer in Australia....
Scheme is a failed attempt by parenthesis to take over the world...
Nowadays, private industry also tends towards an extreme focus on process. There are inherent problems attempting to manage large organizations and private industry isn't any better at it than government is. I know this form a lot of experience (and friends' experience) in large, dysfunctional corporations (private industry) such as VW, Ford, GM, utilities (DTE & Consumers Energy), healthcare (Blue Cross, HAP, hospitals), etc...
Because Harrison Ford told him it belongs in a Museum!
Apparently Mongolia must be a nation of Paleontologists. Paleontology is taught too all Mongolian children at a very young age as it is deeply embedded in Mongolia's Culture!
There should be a way to have the firewall ignore these port scans, especially if they are already blocked!
T-Mobile most likely does not provide a separate "low bandwidth, rate limited connection" for video. They probably detect requests going to and streams coming from specific sites, over the "regular" connection, and sending requests to those sites to drop down to lower bandwidth and keeping track of how much data those particular streams use so they can subtract said amount when billing. There are also probably marketing concerns and/or funding coming from the video streaming "partners" involved, which is a completely valid business tactic.
They are politicians, so incompetent is a given...
He most likely works for Fox News.
Unfortunately, another candidate has arisen who is more arrogant and insufferable. I didn't think it could happen.
Yeah, who would've thought we'd have another Clinton in the ring.
There is another candidate that Trumps both Clinton and and Cruz on arrogance and insufferability!
If I am happy and die with 50 then that is fine.
Get back to us when you are 49 and let us know if you still think this...
Actually, Google did not remove the menu itself, they moved it from a button to an on-screen element that all applications are supposed to provide unless there is nothing to put in the menu
I'd like to know who they did their usage testing with as I used the menu button all the time and was one of Andriod's biggest advantages over iOS. They most likely used iPhone users :/
The alternative is Andriod, especially the first versions before Google started chasing Apple's mystical iOS interfaces
I personally know of many people that have problems reading Applr fonts, there is also the example the *was* provided that you quoted:
"A woman told one of us that she had to use Apple’s assistive tool to make Apple’s undersize fonts large and contrasty enough to be readable."
As pointed out above, there are no provable false claims in TFA, though there are many in your post!
And how is one to know about these mystical gestures that are not documented anywhere, especially if you do no have an apple fanboi such as yourself to ask (and who may or may not know themselves how much functionality are in various applications). How much functionality do you not use because you have no idea it's there?
Gestures are a good idea, but there should be some way to find out what they are and what they do. Even better if every app had a consistent way of bringing up a menu or help or some way of finding out how to use it. I have used all kinds of computers, everything from Mainframes to PCs running DOS to Windows, Unix, Linux and even Macs and have never before had any problems figuring out how to do anything. That changes when iPhones came out with their incomprehensible UI. iOS is the only OS where you can't figure out how to do stuff without googling and even then you most likely will not be able to find out how apps actually work!
How do you know if there are features that use more than 1 finger or not. Sure there are the one you know about, but what about the ones you don't know about?
Actually, back *is* consistent in Android as it always go back, including between apps.
Medical equipment vendors definitely need to address this.
However, that being said, anyone that hacks medical devices should be taken out and shot. This would be a good cause for reviving capital punishment in those jurisdictions that have retired it.
That's because the vendors are concerned the updates could break the device. Which is a valid concern as there have been many OS updates that have broke stuff over the years. Pretty much ever OS has had this issue at one time or another, not just Windows.
Actually, H1B serves exactly this purpose, which is why so many tech firms are clamoring to expand it.
In order to do that, they would have to get jobs first...
It's a pre-processor that translates C++ to C, that then has to then be compiled by a C Compiler. Back in the day, I used the Glockenspiel implement of CFront that then used the Microsoft C Compiler (this was before Microsoft had a C++ compiler) to compile the resulting C code to .obj files to be linked by Microsoft's LINKer.
The most effective security tool is a sledgehammer. If one is sufficiently applied vigorously to any computer, the result will be a completely secure system that is totally impervious to all hacks!
This is to ensure that you have to sign up to be slave labor in order to stay. Be careful what you wish for as it could very well have unintended consequences.