Emojis are where we are headed. Instead of a keyboard, you just have a touchpad with the common emojis. Of course that would be limiting, so they will add a bunch of shift keys or some such brain death.
They aren't alone in that regard - I can think of several others. Offshore all of the technical stuff to India, leaving a hollow shell of a company here in the U.S. What is left? Not much really - just a bunch of VPs, their staff, and whatever sales people are required.
I still have an S5. And I replaced the battery not that long ago.
There are no real features that excite me about newer phones, and given the lack of replaceable batteries in newer models, it could be a while before I get another.
Our county in Virginia uses optical scanners. The ballot itself is a large sheet of paper where you use a pen to fill in circles next to your choices. Once that is done, you take your ballot over to the scanner machine, and you as the voter insert the sheet into the scanner.
At the end of the day they can get the vote totals out of the machine and report them up to whomever is supposed to get it. If there is a need, the individual paper ballots can be retrieved from the machine and recounted manually.
It is fascinating to go back and read about early computers - many of the things we take for granted today are things that at one time people had to sweat over and figure out. Things like interrupts and stacks.
I used Multics many years ago. My recollection is that it is over-designed and quite complicated. Originally designed to run on expensive hardware. Unix was designed to run on what at the time was less expensive hardware (PDP 7 and then PDP 11).
They can make the picture as nice as they like, but the programs that are on TV these days are so unwatchable that I don't even try. The movies coming out of Hollywood are even worse.
What I do watch is science/nature programs and news programs that feature talking heads. The 1K TV that I currently have is more than good enough for that.
The only reason I can think of that they want to have a presence there is proximity to MIT. Whether MIT students or grads would actually want to work for Facebook is another matter - personally I would be kind of embarrassed to admit that I had anything to do with Facebook, and they have already had their IPO, so I don't see a lot of upside.
If you think NK is such a nice place, then you should go. If you change your mind once you get there, well too bad for you.
But whatever you do, don't try and steal a banner from the hotel.
You misunderstand. The demand is from Wall Street investors who want to force more people to watch commercials. It has nothing to do with what the people on the other end actually want - remember that if you aren't paying for something then you are the product.
With just text it is easier to ignore.
Snopes posts the evidence for their conclusions. The only reason you don't like it is because you don't like the conclusions, and that makes it "biased", I guess.
Please take your meds and rejoin the rest of society.
People like to have a fancy infotainment system (with tons of embedded software). The like to have a TFT instrument cluster instead of the old mechanical/analog ones that older cars used to have.
And it isn't just that. There are tons of other tech options - each of which requires lots of software, and I haven't even gotten to the engine/transmission yet.
Deliver to your home with a drone would be even better.
The closest "grocery" store is WalMart. I have only been inside once after a snowstorm. Otherwise we go elsewhere. But if you want low-quality produce and frozen convenience foods, then WalMart is the place to go.
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You thought cable was too expensive?? It is cheaper to keep her.
Emojis are where we are headed. Instead of a keyboard, you just have a touchpad with the common emojis. Of course that would be limiting, so they will add a bunch of shift keys or some such brain death.
They aren't alone in that regard - I can think of several others. Offshore all of the technical stuff to India, leaving a hollow shell of a company here in the U.S. What is left? Not much really - just a bunch of VPs, their staff, and whatever sales people are required.
if..then..maybe..maybe not..probably..surely..
As time goes on, I have come to despise Zuckerborg and his stupid "product" more and more.
Tools will scour the web to find the contact email addresses, and spam the crap out of them with pitches for various "security" products.
I still have an S5. And I replaced the battery not that long ago. There are no real features that excite me about newer phones, and given the lack of replaceable batteries in newer models, it could be a while before I get another.
Our county in Virginia uses optical scanners. The ballot itself is a large sheet of paper where you use a pen to fill in circles next to your choices. Once that is done, you take your ballot over to the scanner machine, and you as the voter insert the sheet into the scanner. At the end of the day they can get the vote totals out of the machine and report them up to whomever is supposed to get it. If there is a need, the individual paper ballots can be retrieved from the machine and recounted manually.
It is fascinating to go back and read about early computers - many of the things we take for granted today are things that at one time people had to sweat over and figure out. Things like interrupts and stacks. I used Multics many years ago. My recollection is that it is over-designed and quite complicated. Originally designed to run on expensive hardware. Unix was designed to run on what at the time was less expensive hardware (PDP 7 and then PDP 11).
I have some I could send him however.
Then they can ID you and sell the customer information to insurance companies.
Nobody will ever need more than 640K.
They can make the picture as nice as they like, but the programs that are on TV these days are so unwatchable that I don't even try. The movies coming out of Hollywood are even worse. What I do watch is science/nature programs and news programs that feature talking heads. The 1K TV that I currently have is more than good enough for that.
Write-only memory was invented decades ago, so being able to play back would make the thing more useful.
The only reason I can think of that they want to have a presence there is proximity to MIT. Whether MIT students or grads would actually want to work for Facebook is another matter - personally I would be kind of embarrassed to admit that I had anything to do with Facebook, and they have already had their IPO, so I don't see a lot of upside.
If you think NK is such a nice place, then you should go. If you change your mind once you get there, well too bad for you. But whatever you do, don't try and steal a banner from the hotel.
You misunderstand. The demand is from Wall Street investors who want to force more people to watch commercials. It has nothing to do with what the people on the other end actually want - remember that if you aren't paying for something then you are the product. With just text it is easier to ignore.
Snopes posts the evidence for their conclusions. The only reason you don't like it is because you don't like the conclusions, and that makes it "biased", I guess. Please take your meds and rejoin the rest of society.
If we let the RW people vet the stories, then we would have more "pizzagate" type of stories.
People like to have a fancy infotainment system (with tons of embedded software). The like to have a TFT instrument cluster instead of the old mechanical/analog ones that older cars used to have. And it isn't just that. There are tons of other tech options - each of which requires lots of software, and I haven't even gotten to the engine/transmission yet.
Years ago we got some generic "light beer" in a yellow can like this.
Well I don't have a FB account, so it doesn't matter to me.
High quality produce is something else you can get there that you can't get at some of the lower priced competition.
Deliver to your home with a drone would be even better. The closest "grocery" store is WalMart. I have only been inside once after a snowstorm. Otherwise we go elsewhere. But if you want low-quality produce and frozen convenience foods, then WalMart is the place to go.
Yes.