Leaving alone the privacy concerns with always on, internet connected, internet flash updateable devices with microphones in your home, does anybody see a downside with setting a non-owner voice trained voice recognition device down next you you television that is constantly airing, "Alexa, buy me expensive hardware!" commercials illustrating how easy it is to buy stuff using just your voice? What about if I drive around we a PA system instructing Alexa and Google Home to buy stuff? Remember all the prank suggestions for shouting at google glass to display goatse? What could possibly go wrong?
You know, in the 60's we had sci-fi about computers that were just these huge video screens that you talk to... guess what I do every day now with Google Home and the ChromeCast attached to my large 4K TV? Yes, we can't move people off planet _yet_ . But, barring more people like Trump getting elected, there is a good chance it will become feasible by the end of the century. Whether or not it will be ECONOMICALLY feasible still remains to be seen -- I still don't have my flying car!
The old adage still holds true: don't put anything on the internet that you wouldn't want to see in the newspaper the next morning! Are some paranoid companies still managing their own server farms?
The "I have an open WiFi router, therefore anybody in my neighborhood could have downloaded that content" defense really does stand up in court? I'm still not clear why downloading is actionable as copyright infringement, it's only uploading that constitutes distribution of copyrighted material without a license. Anybody downloading could just say they thought the person distributing the content for free had a license to do so!
You can already get much better wireless audio by going over WiFi, at the cost of greater power consumption, of course. The other day, I was contemplating installing a Google Chromecast Audio in my car. It could in theory run off the WiFi Hotspot in my phone.
My knee-jerk reaction as an American is to argue with you, but I honestly can't find anything wrong with what you said. Most importantly, the doomsayers predicting a Trump presidency is "The End" are certainly wrong; the situation is nowhere near as bad as liberals fear nor as good as conservatives imagine. Keep repeaiting to yourself: "The power of the presidency is limited by a system of checks and balance --- thank God!"
It's so CUTE when you keep trying to pretend that you're still relevant! In fact, The Donald's delusional tweets were a gift to Twitter, they kept people still talking about you when you should already have gone the way of MySpace and AOL.
Sports is the only content it makes sense for everyone to watch at exactly the same time (live, duh!). Any prerecorded show, you're better off timeshifting it to when it's convenient for you to watch. And, there are a lot of people ready, willing, and able to pay big bucks to watch their favorite sports (not me, I don't really care who wins, which makes it significantly less enjoyable.) So Sport is really the only product cable has left to sell.
They don't delaminate the glass, they replace the whole touchscreen. That just requires desoldering and resoldering the huge flex circuit connection. I suppose they need to unglue the old touchscreen and glue the new one in too.
Too companies are leading the state of the art in OLED screen technology: LG and Samsung. Both Korean, and both way too big for even Apple to buy. Who do you think makes most of the parts for Apple in the first place? I'm pretty sure it's Samsung. Apple has a very strange relationship with one of it's main suppliers where they sue each other for patent and trademark "look and feel" infringement all the time.
If the curvature "surrounds" you, you're sitting way too close to the screen! The only advantage of curved TV screens is it makes the glare from a single light a narrow strip instead of a huge blob on the screen. But you pay for it by distorting the image whenever the viewer isn't directly in front of the screen, so on the whole definitely not worth the added cost.
Yeah, I already have a phone that triggers multitouch from the hand holding the phone, so that touching with my finger doesn't work. That's the other reason I keep it in a case, because without the case the screen is too close to the edges. The S7 edge would just mean I could never hold my phone without it thinking I was touching the screen on the sides.
"retina" just means high enough resolution that you can't see the individual pixels. Problem is, you need to specify at what viewing distance that is. I suppose if you keep your phone 4 inches from your eyes, you can appreciate the higher resolution. Don't laugh -- my daughter does keep her phone within a few inches of her face!
No, the full glass case was designed to make the device both more slippery to hold on to and more likely to break when you drop it. I gave up and just always keep my S7 in a rubber case. The S7 is waterproof, but when wet behaves much the same as a wet bar of soap!
The Galaxy S7 selling point was so that you could read the edge of the screen while it was in a folder-type case. Or, you know, you could just use a case that doesn't cover the fucking screen! I think Samsung just made a curved screen to show off their flexible OLED screens, it's clearly a solution in search of a problem to solve. The real application for a curved screen is a watch that has a display that wraps all the way around your wrist, so that you can download a different bracelet pattern every day to match your dress. (Yeah, us nerds ain't gonna buy that.)
I want a phone screen with 4000x8000 pixel resolution, but only because one could then insert it in a google cardboard-like VR device and not be able to see the individual pixels. Other than that, I agree higher resolution doesn't buy you much.
The American congress exempted themselves from the Freedom of Information Act. I suspect the British parliament has done the same. The people making the laws have an unfair advantage here; they don't have to put up with bull that everyone else does, they just pass a law saying it doesn't apply to them. They have their own government healthcare system, their own government bank, their own private parking lot at the airport, etc. That's one of the reasons they can't relate to their constituents: they're living in a completely different reality.
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What the hell are you talking about?!? And what the heck is a "LEA"?
...and Microsoft IS the company they trust?!?
Leaving alone the privacy concerns with always on, internet connected, internet flash updateable devices with microphones in your home, does anybody see a downside with setting a non-owner voice trained voice recognition device down next you you television that is constantly airing, "Alexa, buy me expensive hardware!" commercials illustrating how easy it is to buy stuff using just your voice? What about if I drive around we a PA system instructing Alexa and Google Home to buy stuff? Remember all the prank suggestions for shouting at google glass to display goatse? What could possibly go wrong?
You know, in the 60's we had sci-fi about computers that were just these huge video screens that you talk to... guess what I do every day now with Google Home and the ChromeCast attached to my large 4K TV? Yes, we can't move people off planet _yet_ . But, barring more people like Trump getting elected, there is a good chance it will become feasible by the end of the century. Whether or not it will be ECONOMICALLY feasible still remains to be seen -- I still don't have my flying car!
The old adage still holds true: don't put anything on the internet that you wouldn't want to see in the newspaper the next morning! Are some paranoid companies still managing their own server farms?
Force those that sued him to watch the movie. 17,000 times!
The "I have an open WiFi router, therefore anybody in my neighborhood could have downloaded that content" defense really does stand up in court? I'm still not clear why downloading is actionable as copyright infringement, it's only uploading that constitutes distribution of copyrighted material without a license. Anybody downloading could just say they thought the person distributing the content for free had a license to do so!
You can already get much better wireless audio by going over WiFi, at the cost of greater power consumption, of course. The other day, I was contemplating installing a Google Chromecast Audio in my car. It could in theory run off the WiFi Hotspot in my phone.
My knee-jerk reaction as an American is to argue with you, but I honestly can't find anything wrong with what you said. Most importantly, the doomsayers predicting a Trump presidency is "The End" are certainly wrong; the situation is nowhere near as bad as liberals fear nor as good as conservatives imagine. Keep repeaiting to yourself: "The power of the presidency is limited by a system of checks and balance --- thank God!"
I have Muslim friends and I've never heard any hate speech from them. Too bad I can't say the same about many Republicans.
It's so CUTE when you keep trying to pretend that you're still relevant! In fact, The Donald's delusional tweets were a gift to Twitter, they kept people still talking about you when you should already have gone the way of MySpace and AOL.
Either give me the ability to BLOCK the messages, or give me the ability to RESPOND to the messages and tell the sender what an asshole he is!
The actual line from Pink Floyd's "Nobody Home" is: "Got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from"
Sports is the only content it makes sense for everyone to watch at exactly the same time (live, duh!). Any prerecorded show, you're better off timeshifting it to when it's convenient for you to watch. And, there are a lot of people ready, willing, and able to pay big bucks to watch their favorite sports (not me, I don't really care who wins, which makes it significantly less enjoyable.) So Sport is really the only product cable has left to sell.
They don't delaminate the glass, they replace the whole touchscreen. That just requires desoldering and resoldering the huge flex circuit connection. I suppose they need to unglue the old touchscreen and glue the new one in too.
Exactly what is wrong with our country: the lines at the Apple store are longer than the lines at the polling places.
Too companies are leading the state of the art in OLED screen technology: LG and Samsung. Both Korean, and both way too big for even Apple to buy. Who do you think makes most of the parts for Apple in the first place? I'm pretty sure it's Samsung. Apple has a very strange relationship with one of it's main suppliers where they sue each other for patent and trademark "look and feel" infringement all the time.
If the curvature "surrounds" you, you're sitting way too close to the screen! The only advantage of curved TV screens is it makes the glare from a single light a narrow strip instead of a huge blob on the screen. But you pay for it by distorting the image whenever the viewer isn't directly in front of the screen, so on the whole definitely not worth the added cost.
Yeah, I already have a phone that triggers multitouch from the hand holding the phone, so that touching with my finger doesn't work. That's the other reason I keep it in a case, because without the case the screen is too close to the edges. The S7 edge would just mean I could never hold my phone without it thinking I was touching the screen on the sides.
"retina" just means high enough resolution that you can't see the individual pixels. Problem is, you need to specify at what viewing distance that is. I suppose if you keep your phone 4 inches from your eyes, you can appreciate the higher resolution. Don't laugh -- my daughter does keep her phone within a few inches of her face!
No, the full glass case was designed to make the device both more slippery to hold on to and more likely to break when you drop it. I gave up and just always keep my S7 in a rubber case. The S7 is waterproof, but when wet behaves much the same as a wet bar of soap!
The Galaxy S7 selling point was so that you could read the edge of the screen while it was in a folder-type case. Or, you know, you could just use a case that doesn't cover the fucking screen! I think Samsung just made a curved screen to show off their flexible OLED screens, it's clearly a solution in search of a problem to solve. The real application for a curved screen is a watch that has a display that wraps all the way around your wrist, so that you can download a different bracelet pattern every day to match your dress. (Yeah, us nerds ain't gonna buy that.)
I want a phone screen with 4000x8000 pixel resolution, but only because one could then insert it in a google cardboard-like VR device and not be able to see the individual pixels. Other than that, I agree higher resolution doesn't buy you much.
The American congress exempted themselves from the Freedom of Information Act. I suspect the British parliament has done the same. The people making the laws have an unfair advantage here; they don't have to put up with bull that everyone else does, they just pass a law saying it doesn't apply to them. They have their own government healthcare system, their own government bank, their own private parking lot at the airport, etc. That's one of the reasons they can't relate to their constituents: they're living in a completely different reality.
Cops always have access to the best porn!