Internet is expensive for everyone. As a thought experiment, divide what you make by $11,880, the poverty line, and then multiply your internet bill is by that much. In other words, if you make the average US income of: 53,657, you end up with a poverty harshness factor of: 4.516582491582492. Now multiply your internet bill by that much, such as the average internet bill of $45. You end up with an poverty adjusted bill of $203.24. That is not insignificant. In reality it's much worse. My phone is my 3rd most expensive thing after housing for which there is no HUD help, and food, for which I can't get foodstamps. I am below the poverty line.
[I tried to submit an article stating that California's phone credit program isn't working, but it never made it, like almost all the others I posted.]
There is a morality issue here: a company is trying to sell a product with the purpose of limiting and removing a traditional method that people use it.
This also is the first step in closing the analogue loop, as a proof of concept, which may inhibit fair use, not just Apple fans, but for everyone.
Human beings do not need to use natural resources to make new heaphones just because a marketing person decides to do something different.
I know there are a lot of Apple fans out there. If you are not a fan boy, have the courage to skip this product.
They are trying to ascertain how much work still needs to be done. Read it again:
"Huge technological leaps forward in drones, artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems must be addressed before humanity is driven to extinction, say chiefs of Pentagon"
I agree with the government that people keep using products that kill many or most of the germs, the survivors will kill us, because they would have become immune to them.
People lose track of the fact that we are living things, living in an eco system. We are made of germs, and we have germ friends in our gut, and around our body. To listen to marketing spheal, you would think we are inorganic beings that should be separate from the rest of the world.
There's not compelling reason to upgrade--especially if they forgot how to make phones. Let's see, pen sticks in barrel, no Micro-SD, and now: burning phones.
I want a larger phone/tablet with a pen, but the F'n marketing people won't let us have one.
I don't understand. I just thought we did business in various countries around the world, and didn't pay taxes. People,people are supposed to pay all the taxes.
It's an interesting time in CISC processors. With fabs having to spend exponential amounts of money for incremental gains in performance and power savings, a smaller company like AMD may be able to make a chip that's 90% as fast, at a much lower price, which I hope it does because it's good for customers on both sides.
I still have an official Ubuntu install CD from when it meant anything to own it, before they turned to the dark side of the force, before they collected so much personal information, before they implemented the festering piece of crap known as Unity.
I have preferred GTK applications mainly because they seem more structured from a user's standpoint. My preferred desktop experience is with Cinnamon.
KDE seemed to have a lot of configuration, but many apps that were written for KDE, all look strikingly dissimilar from one another. It's not that they weren't "clean" because "clean" really means that we are removing useful functionality for the sake of over zealous artistic motivations or when people are too lazy to maintain the code under the buttons, but the applications lacked uniformity.
I am sure that a lot of people really worked hard on it. It helped move the Linux desktop forward--especially in the late 1990s.
There were questions as to whether or not it was really open, or perhaps Gnome wouldn't have been created.
I wonder of the implications of a KDE failure, when a good number of applications use its toolkit.
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Internet is expensive for everyone. As a thought experiment, divide what you make by $11,880, the poverty line, and then multiply your internet bill is by that much. In other words, if you make the average US income of: 53,657, you end up with a poverty harshness factor of: 4.516582491582492. Now multiply your internet bill by that much, such as the average internet bill of $45. You end up with an poverty adjusted bill of $203.24. That is not insignificant. In reality it's much worse. My phone is my 3rd most expensive thing after housing for which there is no HUD help, and food, for which I can't get foodstamps. I am below the poverty line.
[I tried to submit an article stating that California's phone credit program isn't working, but it never made it, like almost all the others I posted.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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There is a morality issue here: a company is trying to sell a product with the purpose of limiting and removing a traditional method that people use it.
This also is the first step in closing the analogue loop, as a proof of concept, which may inhibit fair use, not just Apple fans, but for everyone.
Human beings do not need to use natural resources to make new heaphones just because a marketing person decides to do something different.
I know there are a lot of Apple fans out there. If you are not a fan boy, have the courage to skip this product.
VP9 is free, as in beer. There's something to be said for that.
Or, do you want to keep sticking your head in nooses?
They are trying to ascertain how much work still needs to be done. Read it again:
"Huge technological leaps forward in drones, artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems must be addressed before humanity is driven to extinction, say chiefs of Pentagon"
How do you differentiate from American citizens here speaking of legitimate problems with our government--from foreign agents?
In the new world, everyone is a suspected terrorist, and governments become paranoid and attack their own people.
I agree with the government that people keep using products that kill many or most of the germs, the survivors will kill us, because they would have become immune to them.
People lose track of the fact that we are living things, living in an eco system. We are made of germs, and we have germ friends in our gut, and around our body. To listen to marketing spheal, you would think we are inorganic beings that should be separate from the rest of the world.
I disagree with some of the other stated reasons.
I don't know how our FTC could in good faith accept our money.
There's not compelling reason to upgrade--especially if they forgot how to make phones.
Let's see, pen sticks in barrel, no Micro-SD, and now: burning phones.
I want a larger phone/tablet with a pen, but the F'n marketing people won't let us have one.
I don't understand. I just thought we did business in various countries around the world, and didn't pay taxes. People,people are supposed to pay all the taxes.
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Good, the marketing people are happy. If you would kindly make useful notebook computers for the rest of us, that'd be swell.
Curved screens are made by marketing people for marketing people.
...And I applaud Intel for supporting VP9.
It's an interesting time in CISC processors. With fabs having to spend exponential amounts of money for incremental gains in performance and power savings, a smaller company like AMD may be able to make a chip that's 90% as fast, at a much lower price, which I hope it does because it's good for customers on both sides.
Oh, I forgot, many of our politicians are whores.
Silly, me.
I still have an official Ubuntu install CD from when it meant anything to own it, before they turned to the dark side of the force, before they collected so much personal information, before they implemented the festering piece of crap known as Unity.
Mint with Cinnamon is probably the arguably desktop Linux, currently.
https://www.linuxmint.com/down...
But I can on a Mac. There are so many other things not working on W10, that are not being reported on most sites.
Human beings like burning things.
You have 158,932 annoying video notifications of people who know scratching themselves, burping, and brushing their teeth.
I am not convinced it was not a setup. Under the circumstances, you cannot count on governments acting legally and justly.
Come on people, you don't have to validate the RIAA's meddling in our phones.
Most of the rest that came later were worse: sticking pens, no Micro SD, and now: soft screens.
And a realtime clock too.
Not me, you have to hook up the hose that connects the cow to the backpack.
I have preferred GTK applications mainly because they seem more structured from a user's standpoint. My preferred desktop experience is with Cinnamon.
KDE seemed to have a lot of configuration, but many apps that were written for KDE, all look strikingly dissimilar from one another. It's not that they weren't "clean" because "clean" really means that we are removing useful functionality for the sake of over zealous artistic motivations or when people are too lazy to maintain the code under the buttons, but the applications lacked uniformity.
I am sure that a lot of people really worked hard on it. It helped move the Linux desktop forward--especially in the late 1990s.
There were questions as to whether or not it was really open, or perhaps Gnome wouldn't have been created.
I wonder of the implications of a KDE failure, when a good number of applications use its toolkit.