The new Windows x86 tablets? Locked down. Chromebooks? Locked down as fuck, you can only run a teeny tiny handful of Linux distros that have kissed Google's ass and only if you do a page of CLI as well as wipe out the ChromeOS install.
Sure you can get unlocked desktops but guess what? Desktop sales have been dropping like flies for years, just look at how few players we still have in this space compared to 2005. The future is tablets and convertables and those are all gonna be as locked down as cellphones, sorry you didn't get the memo.
Nvidia graphics? Seen that one a lot at the shop, for some reason the Nvidia driver doesn't initialize the memory on resume and shits itself. i bet if you gave us the logs we could find what the problem is, its usually a VERY simple fix but you have to know which third party driver is shitting itself.
FWIW you might want to look into one of the AMD APU lappys, been selling those at the shop and none of them seem to have any issues with suspend nor hibernate, its one of the reasons I won't let go of my 2011 netbook (the others being size and battery life, makes it great for service calls) because the AMD APUs just don't give me the troubles the Nvidia ones do.
Once I finish moving I'll probably put on Win 10 on the netbook (promised another sites users I'd run those "STFU Win 10" anti-spy programs and then do a network analysis) and we'll see if it still holds true but on Win 7 at least? AMD APUs make for pretty solid laptops that suspend and hibernate pretty easy.
So corps taking your work, locking it up, and making serious $$$ off it is considered a "win" to you? Then I guess a mugging is just charity with a floorshow aye?
Oh please! He answers questions worse than fricking Obama, hell he tapdanced his big ass off on the very first fricking question!
And if anybody wants to see what his pedantic politicking has gotten us? Just look at the state of tech in 2015, the era of open hardware and X86 allowing anybody to install anything is coming to an end, replaced by locked down corporate owned boxes that users pay for the privilege of giving the corps their data to do with as they will. I would argue because of all the politicking and splitting hairs (is it free or is it open? Does firmware count? Gosh that was worth wasting fucking time over wasn't it?) and vindictive childish bullshit like GPL V3 and its "boo I hate teh TiVo boo!" bullshit you gave the enemy the win on a silver fricking platter.
So I would say to him "Congrats RMS, Apple, Google and MSFT really should send you a fruit basket, they couldn't have taken over all of computing without your BS dividing the community, congrats. You are the equivalent of the guy in MMOs that shoots at his own team because he hasn't gotten attention in the last 5 seconds and distracts his team long enough to let the other side win. Be sure to argue over whether the WiFi chip in the RPi counts as a circuit in 2020 when that is the only thing left to run Linux on as everything else has a locked down secureboot, wouldn't want you to ever change."
It is trivial to tell the difference, thus proving your theory incorrect. if you have to use previous drivers Windows will say "unable to find drivers" and will leave the device a question mark in device manager. At that point you simply manually install the previous driver and voila!
So yes Virginia you can use Win2K drivers on Windows 8.1, probably Windows 10, so we are talking 23 YEARS of driver support (since 8.1 will be supported until 2023) which no Linux comes even close with their driver support which despite all the BS about how "Linux supports more hardware" is in reality quite poor.
His best bet is the Windows tablets, I have been seeing them in the $80 and below for quite awhile. So it doesn't have HDMI...and? Its fricking $80 for a netbook that runs Windows, you want features like HDMI? Those cost more money bud.
It seems like he wants full laptops for $50,well girls want ponies, people in hell want icewater and I want a million bux...its nice to want things, it does NOT mean you are gonna get 'em and the cheapest units I have seen that are ready to go OOTB with screen, Wifi, and keyboard is those $80 Windows tablets. I have got to play with a couple of 'em and for school work? I don't see why they would have any issues, the quad Atom is more than fast enough for web surfing and running something like Libre office and the keyboards while nothing fancy work decently. Its light, cheap, easy to use...what more can you ask for at that price point?
And you should really find a brain, as the USAF has already said the warthog is dead and if the choice is the F35, a plane that flames out, can't loiter, can't carry shit for ordinance or the AC130? I think I know which one would do the job better. If you think the F35 is a suitable replacement? I have some magic beans you might be interested in!
How about a "roll back drivers" or "system restore" when updates go wrong, something Windows has had since Win2K? The zealots can get pissy and downmod all they want but there is a reason that "the hairyfeet challenge" has lasted for 8 years with nobody passing, its because updates break shit in Linux and when it does you had better 1.- Know EXACTLY the make/model/rev of the affected hardware, 2.- Have a SECOND device to hunt for fixes, as the first one can easily be broken beyond use, and 3.- Have the skills to take a bunch of arcane bash commands and tweak it for the hardware in question as the "fixes" are often NOT written for YOUR hardware, they are written for a previous version and Linux is so God damned picky that if you have hardware Foo, rev bar version X and the fix is for hardware Foo, rev bar version X1 it will not work and the end user HAS to fix it himself!
I can take a copy of Win2K, go from RTM to EOL and the drivers that worked at the start will work at the finish and the same is true of every subsequent release, Hell just for shits and giggles I went from Vista to Win 7 to Win 8 to Win 8.1 once, guess what? ALL of the drivers worked! The fans can scream all they want but Linux in 2015 reminds me of Windows in 1998, where if something fails? You are SOL unless you are a geek with some serious troubleshooting skills, if you don't have those? Well give it up Chuck, you are just boned.
Here is how you solve THAT problem, which just FYI the "Get Win10" was placed for a time in the "critical" which caused a big stink, here ya go....Autopatcher which you can carry on a stick or deploy from a network share.
Sorry about your mum, I buried my dad in May. I wish I can tell you it gets better but ya know what? It really doesn't.
Not according to their unlock page where it says "The device must be active for at least six months of paid service." Considering Go_Phone is $50 a month and my service is $21-$27? 6 months of Go Phone service would cost MORE than if I had just bought the Blu.
So I'm glad you were able to find somebody at your local shop willing to unlock it but AT&Ts own TOS says you gotta pay them for 6 months before switching.
You are incorrect, the "ignore user preferences" is talking about blocking the calling home via HOSTS or Windows Firewall rules, but all of the above updates are OPTIONAL updates, don't install anything in the optional update column? You won't have to worry about getting "Win 10'd" on Win 7.
You obviously never used GFWL then, if you were REALLY lucky they'd have a...gasp! 5% discount! And that usually required you buying a bundle including games you didn't want.
There is a reason why GFWL died, and why services like UPlay and Origin are only kept alive with exclusives from the owners of the service, its because they are soooo greedy that they can't stand the thought of decent sales, even to expand their userbase. If Xbox II goes download only you can be assured that games will cost as much if not more than physical discs and those prices WILL stay as high as possible for as long as possible, these corps are just too damned greedy for their own good.
I thought it was made pretty clear they are not omnipotent, their technology is just so far ahead of anything the federation has as to appear god-like, the old "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Clarke rule made manifest.
For a perfect example of this there is the episode where he is made human and when asked to help with a planetary collision says "simply change the mass of the asteroid" and looks genuinely shocked that they can't do this, for this would something trivial for them to do. It would be like dropping a doctor from our time onto a world where people are dying left and right from things as simple as getting a scratch and having it get infected, the first thing they would wonder is why nobody is giving them antibiotics.
And don't forget the Q had serious issues as well, not only did they have a civil war but it was caused by a member of the Q saying they had gotten so advanced that life was no longer worth living, thanks to their tech they lived forever and could go anywhere and do anything so that by that time they had literally done and said everything so the entire race had ceased to grow, they were stagnant. Which would make the actions of the Q on the show a desperate attempt to stave off eternal boredom and apathy. Doesn't sound very omnipotent to me.
That is what the producers WANTED, or else they wouldn't have gotten rid of Jeffery Hunter for Shatner, who even back then was known as a "who ordered the large HAM?" actor.
As for the politics? I always thought ST was pretty blatantly communist myself, complete with everyone talking about how "nobody wants for anything" yet those at the top got the rare non replicated things which they then showed off, see Kirk's room filled with rare antique weapons or Picard's collection of rare books. There was also plenty of talk among the lower ranks about "credits" being used in a similar vein to money and of course once things got even slightly scarce they went back to hustling and backroom dealing for what they wanted, see Voyager and rations or Nog teaching Jake how to deal to get Sisko a rare baseball card.
You DO know that linking to your other posts (which links to your other posts and so on) like you are some sort of "authority" to be cited makes you look like a total nutter, yes?
And MSFT didn't have shit to do with the Yahoo/Moz deal, that was CEO...#3? May have been #4, in either case they announced the second the MSFT deal ended the Yahoo Search was coming back and AFAIK they have not changed those plans. Oh and neither MSFT nor Yahoo has had diddly squat to do with the clusterfuck that is the Moz UI changes, any time spent on their forums would tell you they devs think that shit is hip and they really have no fucks to give as to what you the user think!
It is THIS that is killing Moz, the constant UI changes, ignoring the users, and the final nail in the coffin I predict will be them tossing the extension framework which honestly was the only thing keeping what few users were left on Moz products and nobody chose that shit but the elitist ego monster devs at Moz. Not a conspiracy, not any kind of "master plan", its the same disease that made all these companies pour billions into fugly as fuck flat shaded UI messes...hipster developers.
To me the perfect example of "the prime directive be fucked" is Janeway, she lets an entire civilization die one episode and a few episodes later? She is helping the fricking Borg in a war they started!
The PD has always seemed to me to be a "I don't want to give a fuck" get out of jail free card, if they don't want to give a shit? Just pull the PD card, if they do? Its easy enough to either twist it to suit the purpose or just outright ignore it as every captain did several times in each series. Frankly the only one that had a consistent attitude about the PD was Kirk, he did his best to pretty much ignore it unless he had no other choice.
So spend the extra $30 and get the Win HD instead of the JR, which also gets you a bigger screen, more storage, and a GB of RAM. Problem solved. that is the nice thing about BLU phones, they have phones at every price point from $35 to $300, so you can get as much or as little as you like. I'm quite happy with the $100 android myself, no carrier app crap, quad core with a GB of RAM and 8GB of storage and it asked when I put in my MicroSO if I wanted to save my apps to SD, hassle free.
The one you linked to is AT&T ONLY, AT&T starts buttfucking you? Grab your cheeks and spread. With the Blu you can use any carrier you want, I went from a carrier that was using AT&T towers to one using T-Mobile, no problemo. Which to me is a BIG selling feature of these phones as by shopping around you can find no contract service pretty damned cheap these days, I'm on a "pay for what you use" service now and pay between $21-$27 a month which is the cheapest I have ever seen a smartphone plan go for, if I used a GoPhone like what you linked to? My bill would double, no thx.
If you want a cheap Windows phone? BLU makes several models and you can get the quad WinPhone with a GB of RAM for just $91 and those displays are quite nice.
I personally prefer Android myself so i picked up the BLU Studio Mini LTE with the same display and I have to say I'm VERY happy. Good screen, not a single crap app installed, KitKat was ready to download on first boot,good battery life, MicroSD slot for keeping my media, I really have zero complaints with this phone.
So I'd say the rise of the "cheap" smartphones is easy to explain...many of us don't give a shit about using phone brands as status symbols and the new so called "cheapies" do everything we want our phones to do so why would I spend 3-5 times the cost to have a big name label?
They could fix it quite easily actually, all they would have to do is buy (or build something similar to) filehippo app manager and ask the user when they install a third party program that uses their own if they would like to use their app manager instead.
Well you second link doesn't "prove" squat, and this is coming from an atheist, because as your link points out Jesus and Joseph were names as common as Jim and John are today so finding a tomb where a son named Jesus had a father named Joesph? Really proves nothing other than those names were quite common.
Hey I agree the A-10 can't be beat but the problem is the USAF has said its dead meat and there is really nothing you or I can do about it. Not to mention the line has been closed for years, spare parts are becoming an issue, and we didn't make nearly enough of 'em in the first place.
If it were me? I'd try to build a modern version of the Spad, maybe using one of the many trainer aircraft made worldwide, but if the choice is the AC-130 or the F-35? I'm sorry but the AC-130 wins. At least it'll get there without breaking, be ready to go when you call it, and will be able to hang around as long as you need it...can you say the same for the F-35?
I got to see an AC-130 up close at LRAFB once and...dayyymm, that sucker is just bristling with firepower, like the flying fortresses of old. If we aren't gonna build more A-10s then I say the replacement is obvious as 1.- The AC-130 is a hell of a lot cheaper than an F-35 techno-turkey, 2.- The AC-130 is a hell of a lot tougher, 3.- the AC-130 can loiter a lot longer, and finally 4.- the AC-130 can carry a lot more firepower.
As for TFA....sigh, how long will it take before the DoD admits the F-35 is a giant techno turkey and pulls the plug? If the fighter jocks have to have their stupid stealth give 'em the F-15 Silent Eagle, which can run rings around the F-35. To me the saddest part is reports are the Chinese knock off is actually better than the original (which ain't saying much) thanks to not having to have the retarded vertical take off crap for the marines.
What we need to do is give the marines an updated version of the Bronco or Dragonfly, which should be small enough they should be able to launch 'em off of just about anything, give 'em a baby flat-top to carry the things and kill the VTOL crap along with the F-35 once and for all.
They have a lot of functioning democratic process in 1984 then? Because that is what we are talking about here.
The people of Alaska didn't WANT it named for a guy that did jack and squat for their state, tried to have it changed, hit red tape,asked for help from the POTUS in cutting through said tape, and finally the name got changed.
And the sad part? So many here will cheer when HTML V5 video is worse in every metric than Flash by a country mile!
Uses more resources? Yep, both CPU cycles and memory, just compare Flash/VP8 to HTML V5 H.264 of the same quality and you'll find its a pig. they try to hide how big a hog it is by offloading to the GPU but guess what? GPU cycles don't grow on tress and all that extra power sucking will equal much quicker battery drain.
Has less features? Yep again, when it comes to animation and gaming HTML V5 isn't anywhere as good as Flash, despite it being in development for...what? The better part of a decade?
And finally the rotting elephant in the room...DRM. Adobe not only has always allowed any format to be put in a flash container but they also have had zero problems with people redistributing Flash or even producing a FOSS option in Gnash. Compare this to HTML V5 which thanks to APPL and MSFT is tied to H.264, a format owned by one of the nastiest patent trolls on the planet. Anybody think they are gonna let FOSS OSes add support without cutting them a check?
I'm all for replacing flash but it should be with something BETTER, what we are getting with HTML V5 is practically a wish list written by APPL and MSFT to help their position. think APPL wants HTML V5 to be great for animation and gaming and possibly compete with their appstore? Think MSFT wants a video format that doesn't have a patent tollbooth for any possible competition?
So if you want to replace Flash? Then replace it with something BETTER, with more features, more open formats, less resource usage. What we are doing is replacing one bad idea for another and that isn't progress to me.
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The new Windows x86 tablets? Locked down. Chromebooks? Locked down as fuck, you can only run a teeny tiny handful of Linux distros that have kissed Google's ass and only if you do a page of CLI as well as wipe out the ChromeOS install.
Sure you can get unlocked desktops but guess what? Desktop sales have been dropping like flies for years, just look at how few players we still have in this space compared to 2005. The future is tablets and convertables and those are all gonna be as locked down as cellphones, sorry you didn't get the memo.
That is because to be a fag you have to have sex with someone else and for Linux users this is not an issue.../rimshot/
Nvidia graphics? Seen that one a lot at the shop, for some reason the Nvidia driver doesn't initialize the memory on resume and shits itself. i bet if you gave us the logs we could find what the problem is, its usually a VERY simple fix but you have to know which third party driver is shitting itself.
FWIW you might want to look into one of the AMD APU lappys, been selling those at the shop and none of them seem to have any issues with suspend nor hibernate, its one of the reasons I won't let go of my 2011 netbook (the others being size and battery life, makes it great for service calls) because the AMD APUs just don't give me the troubles the Nvidia ones do.
Once I finish moving I'll probably put on Win 10 on the netbook (promised another sites users I'd run those "STFU Win 10" anti-spy programs and then do a network analysis) and we'll see if it still holds true but on Win 7 at least? AMD APUs make for pretty solid laptops that suspend and hibernate pretty easy.
So corps taking your work, locking it up, and making serious $$$ off it is considered a "win" to you? Then I guess a mugging is just charity with a floorshow aye?
Oh please! He answers questions worse than fricking Obama, hell he tapdanced his big ass off on the very first fricking question!
And if anybody wants to see what his pedantic politicking has gotten us? Just look at the state of tech in 2015, the era of open hardware and X86 allowing anybody to install anything is coming to an end, replaced by locked down corporate owned boxes that users pay for the privilege of giving the corps their data to do with as they will. I would argue because of all the politicking and splitting hairs (is it free or is it open? Does firmware count? Gosh that was worth wasting fucking time over wasn't it?) and vindictive childish bullshit like GPL V3 and its "boo I hate teh TiVo boo!" bullshit you gave the enemy the win on a silver fricking platter.
So I would say to him "Congrats RMS, Apple, Google and MSFT really should send you a fruit basket, they couldn't have taken over all of computing without your BS dividing the community, congrats. You are the equivalent of the guy in MMOs that shoots at his own team because he hasn't gotten attention in the last 5 seconds and distracts his team long enough to let the other side win. Be sure to argue over whether the WiFi chip in the RPi counts as a circuit in 2020 when that is the only thing left to run Linux on as everything else has a locked down secureboot, wouldn't want you to ever change."
It is trivial to tell the difference, thus proving your theory incorrect. if you have to use previous drivers Windows will say "unable to find drivers" and will leave the device a question mark in device manager. At that point you simply manually install the previous driver and voila!
So yes Virginia you can use Win2K drivers on Windows 8.1, probably Windows 10, so we are talking 23 YEARS of driver support (since 8.1 will be supported until 2023) which no Linux comes even close with their driver support which despite all the BS about how "Linux supports more hardware" is in reality quite poor.
His best bet is the Windows tablets, I have been seeing them in the $80 and below for quite awhile. So it doesn't have HDMI...and? Its fricking $80 for a netbook that runs Windows, you want features like HDMI? Those cost more money bud.
It seems like he wants full laptops for $50,well girls want ponies, people in hell want icewater and I want a million bux...its nice to want things, it does NOT mean you are gonna get 'em and the cheapest units I have seen that are ready to go OOTB with screen, Wifi, and keyboard is those $80 Windows tablets. I have got to play with a couple of 'em and for school work? I don't see why they would have any issues, the quad Atom is more than fast enough for web surfing and running something like Libre office and the keyboards while nothing fancy work decently. Its light, cheap, easy to use...what more can you ask for at that price point?
And you should really find a brain, as the USAF has already said the warthog is dead and if the choice is the F35, a plane that flames out, can't loiter, can't carry shit for ordinance or the AC130? I think I know which one would do the job better. If you think the F35 is a suitable replacement? I have some magic beans you might be interested in!
How about a "roll back drivers" or "system restore" when updates go wrong, something Windows has had since Win2K? The zealots can get pissy and downmod all they want but there is a reason that "the hairyfeet challenge" has lasted for 8 years with nobody passing, its because updates break shit in Linux and when it does you had better 1.- Know EXACTLY the make/model/rev of the affected hardware, 2.- Have a SECOND device to hunt for fixes, as the first one can easily be broken beyond use, and 3.- Have the skills to take a bunch of arcane bash commands and tweak it for the hardware in question as the "fixes" are often NOT written for YOUR hardware, they are written for a previous version and Linux is so God damned picky that if you have hardware Foo, rev bar version X and the fix is for hardware Foo, rev bar version X1 it will not work and the end user HAS to fix it himself!
I can take a copy of Win2K, go from RTM to EOL and the drivers that worked at the start will work at the finish and the same is true of every subsequent release, Hell just for shits and giggles I went from Vista to Win 7 to Win 8 to Win 8.1 once, guess what? ALL of the drivers worked! The fans can scream all they want but Linux in 2015 reminds me of Windows in 1998, where if something fails? You are SOL unless you are a geek with some serious troubleshooting skills, if you don't have those? Well give it up Chuck, you are just boned.
Here is how you solve THAT problem, which just FYI the "Get Win10" was placed for a time in the "critical" which caused a big stink, here ya go....Autopatcher which you can carry on a stick or deploy from a network share.
Sorry about your mum, I buried my dad in May. I wish I can tell you it gets better but ya know what? It really doesn't.
Not according to their unlock page where it says "The device must be active for at least six months of paid service." Considering Go_Phone is $50 a month and my service is $21-$27? 6 months of Go Phone service would cost MORE than if I had just bought the Blu.
So I'm glad you were able to find somebody at your local shop willing to unlock it but AT&Ts own TOS says you gotta pay them for 6 months before switching.
You are incorrect, the "ignore user preferences" is talking about blocking the calling home via HOSTS or Windows Firewall rules, but all of the above updates are OPTIONAL updates, don't install anything in the optional update column? You won't have to worry about getting "Win 10'd" on Win 7.
You obviously never used GFWL then, if you were REALLY lucky they'd have a...gasp! 5% discount! And that usually required you buying a bundle including games you didn't want.
There is a reason why GFWL died, and why services like UPlay and Origin are only kept alive with exclusives from the owners of the service, its because they are soooo greedy that they can't stand the thought of decent sales, even to expand their userbase. If Xbox II goes download only you can be assured that games will cost as much if not more than physical discs and those prices WILL stay as high as possible for as long as possible, these corps are just too damned greedy for their own good.
I thought it was made pretty clear they are not omnipotent, their technology is just so far ahead of anything the federation has as to appear god-like, the old "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Clarke rule made manifest.
For a perfect example of this there is the episode where he is made human and when asked to help with a planetary collision says "simply change the mass of the asteroid" and looks genuinely shocked that they can't do this, for this would something trivial for them to do. It would be like dropping a doctor from our time onto a world where people are dying left and right from things as simple as getting a scratch and having it get infected, the first thing they would wonder is why nobody is giving them antibiotics.
And don't forget the Q had serious issues as well, not only did they have a civil war but it was caused by a member of the Q saying they had gotten so advanced that life was no longer worth living, thanks to their tech they lived forever and could go anywhere and do anything so that by that time they had literally done and said everything so the entire race had ceased to grow, they were stagnant. Which would make the actions of the Q on the show a desperate attempt to stave off eternal boredom and apathy. Doesn't sound very omnipotent to me.
That is what the producers WANTED, or else they wouldn't have gotten rid of Jeffery Hunter for Shatner, who even back then was known as a "who ordered the large HAM?" actor.
As for the politics? I always thought ST was pretty blatantly communist myself, complete with everyone talking about how "nobody wants for anything" yet those at the top got the rare non replicated things which they then showed off, see Kirk's room filled with rare antique weapons or Picard's collection of rare books. There was also plenty of talk among the lower ranks about "credits" being used in a similar vein to money and of course once things got even slightly scarce they went back to hustling and backroom dealing for what they wanted, see Voyager and rations or Nog teaching Jake how to deal to get Sisko a rare baseball card.
You DO know that linking to your other posts (which links to your other posts and so on) like you are some sort of "authority" to be cited makes you look like a total nutter, yes?
And MSFT didn't have shit to do with the Yahoo/Moz deal, that was CEO...#3? May have been #4, in either case they announced the second the MSFT deal ended the Yahoo Search was coming back and AFAIK they have not changed those plans. Oh and neither MSFT nor Yahoo has had diddly squat to do with the clusterfuck that is the Moz UI changes, any time spent on their forums would tell you they devs think that shit is hip and they really have no fucks to give as to what you the user think!
It is THIS that is killing Moz, the constant UI changes, ignoring the users, and the final nail in the coffin I predict will be them tossing the extension framework which honestly was the only thing keeping what few users were left on Moz products and nobody chose that shit but the elitist ego monster devs at Moz. Not a conspiracy, not any kind of "master plan", its the same disease that made all these companies pour billions into fugly as fuck flat shaded UI messes...hipster developers.
To me the perfect example of "the prime directive be fucked" is Janeway, she lets an entire civilization die one episode and a few episodes later? She is helping the fricking Borg in a war they started!
The PD has always seemed to me to be a "I don't want to give a fuck" get out of jail free card, if they don't want to give a shit? Just pull the PD card, if they do? Its easy enough to either twist it to suit the purpose or just outright ignore it as every captain did several times in each series. Frankly the only one that had a consistent attitude about the PD was Kirk, he did his best to pretty much ignore it unless he had no other choice.
So spend the extra $30 and get the Win HD instead of the JR, which also gets you a bigger screen, more storage, and a GB of RAM. Problem solved. that is the nice thing about BLU phones, they have phones at every price point from $35 to $300, so you can get as much or as little as you like. I'm quite happy with the $100 android myself, no carrier app crap, quad core with a GB of RAM and 8GB of storage and it asked when I put in my MicroSO if I wanted to save my apps to SD, hassle free.
The one you linked to is AT&T ONLY, AT&T starts buttfucking you? Grab your cheeks and spread. With the Blu you can use any carrier you want, I went from a carrier that was using AT&T towers to one using T-Mobile, no problemo. Which to me is a BIG selling feature of these phones as by shopping around you can find no contract service pretty damned cheap these days, I'm on a "pay for what you use" service now and pay between $21-$27 a month which is the cheapest I have ever seen a smartphone plan go for, if I used a GoPhone like what you linked to? My bill would double, no thx.
If you want a cheap Windows phone? BLU makes several models and you can get the quad WinPhone with a GB of RAM for just $91 and those displays are quite nice.
I personally prefer Android myself so i picked up the BLU Studio Mini LTE with the same display and I have to say I'm VERY happy. Good screen, not a single crap app installed, KitKat was ready to download on first boot,good battery life, MicroSD slot for keeping my media, I really have zero complaints with this phone.
So I'd say the rise of the "cheap" smartphones is easy to explain...many of us don't give a shit about using phone brands as status symbols and the new so called "cheapies" do everything we want our phones to do so why would I spend 3-5 times the cost to have a big name label?
They could fix it quite easily actually, all they would have to do is buy (or build something similar to) filehippo app manager and ask the user when they install a third party program that uses their own if they would like to use their app manager instead.
Well you second link doesn't "prove" squat, and this is coming from an atheist, because as your link points out Jesus and Joseph were names as common as Jim and John are today so finding a tomb where a son named Jesus had a father named Joesph? Really proves nothing other than those names were quite common.
If it were me? I'd try to build a modern version of the Spad, maybe using one of the many trainer aircraft made worldwide, but if the choice is the AC-130 or the F-35? I'm sorry but the AC-130 wins. At least it'll get there without breaking, be ready to go when you call it, and will be able to hang around as long as you need it...can you say the same for the F-35?
I got to see an AC-130 up close at LRAFB once and...dayyymm, that sucker is just bristling with firepower, like the flying fortresses of old. If we aren't gonna build more A-10s then I say the replacement is obvious as 1.- The AC-130 is a hell of a lot cheaper than an F-35 techno-turkey, 2.- The AC-130 is a hell of a lot tougher, 3.- the AC-130 can loiter a lot longer, and finally 4.- the AC-130 can carry a lot more firepower.
As for TFA....sigh, how long will it take before the DoD admits the F-35 is a giant techno turkey and pulls the plug? If the fighter jocks have to have their stupid stealth give 'em the F-15 Silent Eagle, which can run rings around the F-35. To me the saddest part is reports are the Chinese knock off is actually better than the original (which ain't saying much) thanks to not having to have the retarded vertical take off crap for the marines. What we need to do is give the marines an updated version of the Bronco or Dragonfly, which should be small enough they should be able to launch 'em off of just about anything, give 'em a baby flat-top to carry the things and kill the VTOL crap along with the F-35 once and for all.
They have a lot of functioning democratic process in 1984 then? Because that is what we are talking about here.
The people of Alaska didn't WANT it named for a guy that did jack and squat for their state, tried to have it changed, hit red tape,asked for help from the POTUS in cutting through said tape, and finally the name got changed.
And the sad part? So many here will cheer when HTML V5 video is worse in every metric than Flash by a country mile!
Uses more resources? Yep, both CPU cycles and memory, just compare Flash/VP8 to HTML V5 H.264 of the same quality and you'll find its a pig. they try to hide how big a hog it is by offloading to the GPU but guess what? GPU cycles don't grow on tress and all that extra power sucking will equal much quicker battery drain.
Has less features? Yep again, when it comes to animation and gaming HTML V5 isn't anywhere as good as Flash, despite it being in development for...what? The better part of a decade?
And finally the rotting elephant in the room...DRM. Adobe not only has always allowed any format to be put in a flash container but they also have had zero problems with people redistributing Flash or even producing a FOSS option in Gnash. Compare this to HTML V5 which thanks to APPL and MSFT is tied to H.264, a format owned by one of the nastiest patent trolls on the planet. Anybody think they are gonna let FOSS OSes add support without cutting them a check?
I'm all for replacing flash but it should be with something BETTER, what we are getting with HTML V5 is practically a wish list written by APPL and MSFT to help their position. think APPL wants HTML V5 to be great for animation and gaming and possibly compete with their appstore? Think MSFT wants a video format that doesn't have a patent tollbooth for any possible competition?
So if you want to replace Flash? Then replace it with something BETTER, with more features, more open formats, less resource usage. What we are doing is replacing one bad idea for another and that isn't progress to me.