Apple: 1) Pressure users into iOS upgrades until the phone eventually becomes unusable. 2) Release a product where you cannot install extra storage or (easily) replace the battery. 3) Eliminate headphone jack. 4) Create walled garden where it's extremely difficult to copy anything you want on and off the device. 5) Require management via iTunes, which, on Windows, is a fetid pile of stinking dingoes' kidneys..
Android: All the fragmented spying versions, as you mention. Currently, I still give the edge to Samsung-Android, but it's annoying.
We'll still rent movies by using the 'On Demand' feature from our Cable TV provider (Telus Optik TV).
Last Christmas the kids wanted to watch "Home Alone" for the first time. Wasn't on Netflix so we just pushed the button on the remote and rented it for five bucks. A minute later and we were watching Kevin McCallister's antics on the flatscreen.
The thing is, you have to accept that in some cases you are never going to have definitive "proof." There is not going to be HD video surfacing with surround-sound audio of Moore taking the clothes off a 14-year-old girl.
What you have is the weight of evidence and you have to make your evaluation on that.
At least five unrelated women have accused Moore - Women who have never met each other, all tell almost identical stories.
In the case of Corfman, her mother and her friends back up the story. Corfman is a Republican who voted for Trump. Court records show Moore and Corfman were at the courthouse that day. People who worked with Moore at the DA's office say it was common knowledge that Moore dated teenage girls. One girl has a high school yearbook that Moore signed.
On and on.
That is a lot of weight of evidence against Moore saying "it didn't happen."
Similar story with Trump - Unrelated women telling similar stories. And what further harms Trump is he lies constantly, so any credibility in his saying "It didn't happen!" is lost.
In the end it comes down to a simple question (with a difficult answer): Who do you believe?
I have watched the news religiously. It is mostly covering Republican pedophilia and barely ever mentions a Democrat for more than a quick bit then moves on.
It's because the Democrats like Franken admit wrongdoing, apologize and take steps to make good. So the news story goes away. In Franken's case, his accuser accepted his apology. So there's no story any more.
Republicans like Trump and Moore just shout FAKE NEWS NEVER HAPPENED LIARS SLUTS THE LOT OF THEM!!! so the story continues and continues...
and both leave the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack intact
I really hope Samsung holds onto the headphone jack long past the S9. One might consider it a small detail, but my non-fanboy Apple and Pixel users remain frustrated as heck about the removal of this feature from those platforms (fanboys of course defend the decision).
I have two friends this month who moved from Apple to Samsung strictly because of the absence of the jack.
It has been speculated that perhaps the charger connector can't handle any more power and they wanted people who bought the original Surface to be able to use their chargers.
The "speculators" would be wrong.
The power connector on the original Surface "1" and 2 is different from the connector on the Surfaces that followed.
Too bad they're not a software company. If they were, they could probably have someone code up a new system to automate this.
It's a classic problem referenced for centuries as "The cobbler's children have no shoes."
If you're a software company your developers are seen as a resource to develop code that you sell for revenue, not code up internal systems. You also don't want to pay another software company to solve your problem because you might either a) compete with them or b) think you should do it internally (even though you can't or won't).
It's not unique to software. I once worked for a mechanic shop that had a handful of company cars that were in terrible shape. Same deal. The boss never wanted his mechanics to work on the company fleet, but he sure as heck wasn't going to pay a competing mechanical shop to work on them either.
For the same reasons that Canada does it. Protecting their citizens. Try to immigrate to Canada being over 50 and no college diploma because your career path didn't require one.
But Canada does do it. Our immigration program is a points-based system. If you are in a class of worker that is required in Canada, then you can apply as a landed immigrant.
What I don't understand about America's immigration policy is this: If America needs a particular class of person (carpenter / developer / nurse / whatever) why doesn't America just let them immigrate to the USA? Apply for a green card, get a green card, arrive, then be on a path to citizen as an "American."
Why all this "H1B" business and "Green Card Lotteries" and all the other nonsense?
Thus not the same route. A special route for buses alone. Yes, if you don't follow the same route the bus can beat the car. If they go the same route, then the bus cannot beat the car.
The original thesis made no mention of the route:
Busses are so bad that you can fight the traffic and still come out ahead.
Plainly not true in many cities with dedicated bus lanes. You can 'fight traffic' all you want at a snail's pace while the bus merrily zooms by right next to you in the bus / carpool lane.
Obviously with bus and a car sitting in the same gridlock the car is faster
They come here and steal our tax dollars and steal our jobs.
So you're native-American?
I'm curious - Are you Cherokee? Shawnee? What tribe?
Oh, you're *not* Native American? So your ancestors had the audacity to come to the USA for a better life, stealing tax dollars and jobs along the way?
Per my link above, Anonymous Coward, the stats are where the vehicles are assembled. So in the case of a Ford F150, the chassis might be assembled in Mexico then shipped to the USA. Or the Engine might be assembled in Canada.
Obviously the parts come from somewhere else, but the value is based on vehicle assembly.
What's amusing about all the "America, f*ck yeah!" folks complaining about Tesla being all "SJW" is the fact that of all the car companies, Tesla car are the 'most American-made' of any of the USA-based car companies.
So anyone who is a patriot who says "Buy American!" should skip over their F150 pickup (64% American made) and buy a Tesla (100% American-made).
My variation of my question on this is why don't stars play a city longer?
If there is so much demand for Adele when she arrives in Toronto, why does't she play for ten nights?
Seems much more likely people will get tickets.
You see this a little bit with comedians - When a top act announces they're coming to town they announce one show. Then two weeks later "a second show has been added!" Then a month after that a second night... then a second show that second night.
Just create enough inventory in a market that the wind comes out of the scalpers' sails.
We've got five Windows 10 machines in our family, used by me, my wife and my two kids. I just let Windows Defender do its thing and I haven't seen a virus in years.
The path to lower birthrates is well-understood. Reducing poverty, empowering women, and delivering education (particularly to girls) - Alongside sex education and birth control - All reduce birthrates. India is working hard on that, but it's a long road.
You even see it in the USA, where the birthrate in Massachusetts is lower than the birth rate in Mississippi - For exactly those reasons.
It's interesting that Tesla cars are currently the most "American-made" of any of the American car manufacturers, and these tax credits helped drive Tesla's success. Guess Trump's "Buy American" mantra only applies to subsidies to coal miners.
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I have to agree. I'm writing this on a Surface Pro running Windows 10. It's a great OS running on a sweet machine.
Yep - It's frustrating.
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Apple: 1) Pressure users into iOS upgrades until the phone eventually becomes unusable. 2) Release a product where you cannot install extra storage or (easily) replace the battery. 3) Eliminate headphone jack. 4) Create walled garden where it's extremely difficult to copy anything you want on and off the device. 5) Require management via iTunes, which, on Windows, is a fetid pile of stinking dingoes' kidneys.
Android: All the fragmented spying versions, as you mention. Currently, I still give the edge to Samsung-Android, but it's annoying.
We'll still rent movies by using the 'On Demand' feature from our Cable TV provider (Telus Optik TV).
Last Christmas the kids wanted to watch "Home Alone" for the first time. Wasn't on Netflix so we just pushed the button on the remote and rented it for five bucks. A minute later and we were watching Kevin McCallister's antics on the flatscreen.
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
The thing is, you have to accept that in some cases you are never going to have definitive "proof." There is not going to be HD video surfacing with surround-sound audio of Moore taking the clothes off a 14-year-old girl.
What you have is the weight of evidence and you have to make your evaluation on that.
At least five unrelated women have accused Moore - Women who have never met each other, all tell almost identical stories.
In the case of Corfman, her mother and her friends back up the story. Corfman is a Republican who voted for Trump. Court records show Moore and Corfman were at the courthouse that day. People who worked with Moore at the DA's office say it was common knowledge that Moore dated teenage girls. One girl has a high school yearbook that Moore signed.
On and on.
That is a lot of weight of evidence against Moore saying "it didn't happen."
Similar story with Trump - Unrelated women telling similar stories. And what further harms Trump is he lies constantly, so any credibility in his saying "It didn't happen!" is lost.
In the end it comes down to a simple question (with a difficult answer): Who do you believe?
I have watched the news religiously. It is mostly covering Republican pedophilia and barely ever mentions a Democrat for more than a quick bit then moves on.
It's because the Democrats like Franken admit wrongdoing, apologize and take steps to make good. So the news story goes away. In Franken's case, his accuser accepted his apology. So there's no story any more.
Republicans like Trump and Moore just shout FAKE NEWS NEVER HAPPENED LIARS SLUTS THE LOT OF THEM!!! so the story continues and continues...
and both leave the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack intact
I really hope Samsung holds onto the headphone jack long past the S9. One might consider it a small detail, but my non-fanboy Apple and Pixel users remain frustrated as heck about the removal of this feature from those platforms (fanboys of course defend the decision).
I have two friends this month who moved from Apple to Samsung strictly because of the absence of the jack.
It has been speculated that perhaps the charger connector can't handle any more power and they wanted people who bought the original Surface to be able to use their chargers.
The "speculators" would be wrong.
The power connector on the original Surface "1" and 2 is different from the connector on the Surfaces that followed.
Too bad they're not a software company. If they were, they could probably have someone code up a new system to automate this.
It's a classic problem referenced for centuries as "The cobbler's children have no shoes." If you're a software company your developers are seen as a resource to develop code that you sell for revenue, not code up internal systems. You also don't want to pay another software company to solve your problem because you might either a) compete with them or b) think you should do it internally (even though you can't or won't).
It's not unique to software. I once worked for a mechanic shop that had a handful of company cars that were in terrible shape. Same deal. The boss never wanted his mechanics to work on the company fleet, but he sure as heck wasn't going to pay a competing mechanical shop to work on them either.
For the same reasons that Canada does it. Protecting their citizens. Try to immigrate to Canada being over 50 and no college diploma because your career path didn't require one.
But Canada does do it. Our immigration program is a points-based system. If you are in a class of worker that is required in Canada, then you can apply as a landed immigrant.
Canadian here.
What I don't understand about America's immigration policy is this: If America needs a particular class of person (carpenter / developer / nurse / whatever) why doesn't America just let them immigrate to the USA? Apply for a green card, get a green card, arrive, then be on a path to citizen as an "American."
Why all this "H1B" business and "Green Card Lotteries" and all the other nonsense?
Or have we come to expect less of our voted officials?
Well, it is true that Putin's platform is starting to come together for America, but it's a bit of a stretch call him a 'voted official.'
Thus not the same route. A special route for buses alone. Yes, if you don't follow the same route the bus can beat the car. If they go the same route, then the bus cannot beat the car.
The original thesis made no mention of the route:
Busses are so bad that you can fight the traffic and still come out ahead.
Plainly not true in many cities with dedicated bus lanes. You can 'fight traffic' all you want at a snail's pace while the bus merrily zooms by right next to you in the bus / carpool lane.
Obviously with bus and a car sitting in the same gridlock the car is faster
They come here and steal our tax dollars and steal our jobs.
So you're native-American?
I'm curious - Are you Cherokee? Shawnee? What tribe?
Oh, you're *not* Native American? So your ancestors had the audacity to come to the USA for a better life, stealing tax dollars and jobs along the way?
Busses are so bad that you can fight the traffic and still come out ahead.
Are you talking about the experience on-board the bus? Or the elapsed time?
Because if the latter, there are several bus routes here in Vancouver, Canada that are faster than driving that same route.
Per my link above, Anonymous Coward, the stats are where the vehicles are assembled. So in the case of a Ford F150, the chassis might be assembled in Mexico then shipped to the USA. Or the Engine might be assembled in Canada.
Obviously the parts come from somewhere else, but the value is based on vehicle assembly.
Tesla is such an SJW company.
What's amusing about all the "America, f*ck yeah!" folks complaining about Tesla being all "SJW" is the fact that of all the car companies, Tesla car are the 'most American-made' of any of the USA-based car companies.
So anyone who is a patriot who says "Buy American!" should skip over their F150 pickup (64% American made) and buy a Tesla (100% American-made).
Source: http://time.com/4677817/americ...
No direct dial in Canada
We did have it by the early 90s in Vancouver. I remember direct-dial to Compuserve to access EasySabre to look up flights.
Used to amaze my travel agent (yeah, we had those back then) by having all the possible routings and flight numbers to hand when I called them.
lasting six minutes
Story checks out.
My variation of my question on this is why don't stars play a city longer?
If there is so much demand for Adele when she arrives in Toronto, why does't she play for ten nights?
Seems much more likely people will get tickets.
You see this a little bit with comedians - When a top act announces they're coming to town they announce one show. Then two weeks later "a second show has been added!" Then a month after that a second night... then a second show that second night.
Just create enough inventory in a market that the wind comes out of the scalpers' sails.
So, you agree with the Islamic Extremest Terrorists then?
When it comes to dogma, there's often not a lot of difference between Sharia-loving Islamists and Sharia-loving southern-American Christians.
Ever notice how they always get viruses
Spare me this tired meme from 20 years ago.
We've got five Windows 10 machines in our family, used by me, my wife and my two kids. I just let Windows Defender do its thing and I haven't seen a virus in years.
Ever think of lowering your population
The path to lower birthrates is well-understood. Reducing poverty, empowering women, and delivering education (particularly to girls) - Alongside sex education and birth control - All reduce birthrates. India is working hard on that, but it's a long road.
You even see it in the USA, where the birthrate in Massachusetts is lower than the birth rate in Mississippi - For exactly those reasons.
It is a good exploration of similar issues we fight today. Those issues never went away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's interesting that Tesla cars are currently the most "American-made" of any of the American car manufacturers, and these tax credits helped drive Tesla's success. Guess Trump's "Buy American" mantra only applies to subsidies to coal miners.
Err... why an audio book? If you cannot make your computer read any book to you, then you have to hand back your geek card.
Have you ever listened to a real audiobook, Anonymous Coward? They're presented by skilled actors who manage the accents and cadence of the book.
Listening to a computer-read audio book is like hearing a Cylon get directions from the Imperious Leader back in1978,