I miss it because, without it, there is no alternative for Android to compete against. All Android has to do is not be IOS from Apple. Android steams ahead of that happily but Microsoft's offering might have given some options to those of us who remember Apples' legal shenanigans of past years. No tech giant is completely innocent of hiring lawyers but Apple did it to such an extent that it ruled itself out of doing business with anyone who can remember back more than 5 years.
I hoped that some of the offerings would do well. I might have bought one of those if they had been on sale around here. I had a Windows phone once. It was stable(ish) and could do a lot of what I wanted. Then MS seemed to decide to drop the market completely. Was this wariness of Apple lawyers?
the net neutrality repeal could harm multiplayer online games that require robust Internet connections
What possible worry is that to the bunch of corporate lackeys, fools and the hyper entitled?
They really only care if something that will affect their corporate owners profits. If people have bandwidth, they will use it. It might be playing games on a robust connection. If that doesn't work, they will be assuming that the masses do something else. Perhaps they will set up internet based The Price is Right or Jeopardy? They don't really want people playing games that use any amount of intelligence. That tends to reinforce the fact that so many of them are considerably smarter than that bunch of art grads.
This sounds to be in line with previous court judgements. Yes your coffee is hot. Put a sign on it.
Perhaps they should put "Crush danger" on sacks of it. If a big enough bag is dropped on someone from a sufficient height it may injure. After all, how many such bagfulls of this need to be drunk in order to significantly increase the chance of cancer?
Which kills the most people prematurely per year in the USA - coffee cancer, obesity, air pollution or motor vehicle accidents? Which causes the most across the rest of the planet? Lets deal with all of the dangers buts lets set some priorities, Deal with the ones that cause the most damage first.
For comparison of importance, which has caused the most questionable election results - illegal immigrants, fraudulent voters, jerrymandering or termites?. We can probably deal with the termites later.
One of these days this virus is going to hit the wrong person and the authors are all going to wind up dead.
They did. One of the groups hit by the attack last spring was the FSB. They used to employ Vladimir Putin when they went by the name KGB. I can't think of a worse target.
Or perhaps they are now "under new management" after the old management all stopped having functioning nervous systems!
Unless this is a new version of WannaCry, they probably aren't running XP. It ran fine on Win7 but did not get onto any of our (less common) XP systems.
If we had avoided "up"grading to shinier operating systems, would we have entirely missed out on the fun last may?
I have my suspicions as to the real origins of such "recommendations" and I am not thinking of the Swedish police or civil service,
Such ideas could ultimately have come from some criminal organisation that is legal in its home country of "not Sweden". That organisation is well known for theft of copyright itself. It only steals from the people who actually create music so feels that doesn't count.
Try a different news channel. I saw an obvious migrant a couple of weeks ago. If there are others, they are inconspicuous (good) or certainly less conspicuous than the descendants of people who came here 60-80 years ago.
If someone tells you that there is an immigrant problem in Northern/Western Europe, they have either not been here, have some very dodgy politics,are seriously misinformed, are an ars**ole or some combination of those features.
In European cities, you will generally be much closer to a public transport stop than to where you parked or a car park
FTFY
Once, there were parking spaces along the side of roads, there still are but they are either full up or no longer valid. When in town, it could be 5 minutes walk to the multi-storey car park. It will be 1 or 2 minutes to a bus stop. If you live in a hugely subsidised city like London the Tube station will be a block away. The car park could be miles away.
Call it a serial comma if you like. My Oxford qualified, English teacher pointed out that it is bad grammar to put a comma after the penultimate item in a list before the "and".
The English language may have changed since them so perhaps bad grammar is not what it was. I tend to see it as an error that has crept in that users have spent a lot of time trying to justify. Please justify it under another name. "Serial comma" might do but not one that pretends that it was invented on this side of the pond!
If a government does not like cryptocurrencies, it is against individual freedom and pro central government control.
As the current US mis-leadership is against that freedom, why is every redneck and Wall Street parasite not out to remove it?
It is pretty obvious why China does not like Bitcoin. How come the US, UK, South Korea and Japan (to name a few) are in bed with them in this attempt to stop the spread of the next stage of the growth of the free market?
Doesn't California have a state law that bans employment discrimination based on political leanings.
Not relevant. Does it have a law against employment discrimination based on really stupid and bigoted behaviour and writings? That is less certain.
You can believe that women should stay at home, cook and gestate if you like but criticising your employer for not forcing that behaviour is different. That not only indicates that you are an a****ole but a really stupid one too. That may not be compatible with a workplace where people need to be intelligent.
Very few print jobs are totally recquired nowadays. This is true for work and home.
I don't need a printed memo. If it is important, the first thing I will do is scsan it for future reference, I don't need a printed letter from my bank so they send me emails or SMS, If I am going to send someone a letter, I will write it if it is personal or email it if at all possible for anything official.
Any company that does not deal with email, does not want my business. Any employer that insists on paper instead of electronic and is not CIA or MI5 type is a good one to move on from as they are embracing obsolescence.
I have the occasional difficulty persuading my Mother in Law that she does not need to print every email but that is probably an age thing.
It didn't cause serious company problems but the funnietst management mistake I have seen was...
Manager buys demo copy of some "amazing" speech recognition package with a view to selling to cusomers.
Manager: Set it all up. Me : I can install it but you will need to set up your voice on it. Manager: No! You set it up and do that tecchie stuff.
Observation, manager has a strong southern English accent. I have a slight Scottish one.
When he started to use the system expecting me, it made out less than 75% of what he said. I ended up assisting with that successful sale. The manager then spent the time needed talking to the system and it worked for him as I predicted.
Apparently, the customer thought it was quite funny too.
Did I miss something? This was a Podcast Aggregator or even a "Podcast app". It was not for podcasting.
The word is analagous to "broadcasting". A podcast app is more comparable to a Tivo or even a VCR. Neither of those would often be acused of broadcasting.
A few years ago, I was polled to ask if I had ever tried podcasting. I haven't but I do listen to a good number of podcasts. The result of the poll was that podcastts are silly because nobody listens to them as roughly 0% of people do any podcasting. If that sort of error happens here, how can we clear up the error?
It's certainly a legal requirement in Europe for a company to keep a record of all its financial activities for that long. I find it unlikely that the USA doesn't.
Thos financial activities include everything you have bought off them.
Let's not be offensive now! Police states are where civilians call the police "sir" because they carry guns and are keen to shoot you if you have the wrong ancestry.
In "free" America people drive a huge range of cars from f150 to fiats and even your mini coopers. It is very nice to own f150 believe me.
The reason trucks like that are uncommon here is not just tax, or even narrower roads. Good taste comes into it too.
The arms race between governments and forgers creating counterfeit currency has been waging for as long as paper money has existed.
It goes back a lo further than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for example shows one thing that was used to combat "criminals" who would shave off bits of coin,
A number of crooks and criminal organisations want Bitcoin to "go away".
That sounds like the strongest possible reccomendation for the increased use of cryptocurrencies. The CIA, GS and the rest of the Wall Street Gang are thr prime causes of most problems in the world. If they had less control and influence, there would be fewer famines, war s etc.
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I miss it because, without it, there is no alternative for Android to compete against. All Android has to do is not be IOS from Apple. Android steams ahead of that happily but Microsoft's offering might have given some options to those of us who remember Apples' legal shenanigans of past years. No tech giant is completely innocent of hiring lawyers but Apple did it to such an extent that it ruled itself out of doing business with anyone who can remember back more than 5 years.
I hoped that some of the offerings would do well. I might have bought one of those if they had been on sale around here. I had a Windows phone once. It was stable(ish) and could do a lot of what I wanted. Then MS seemed to decide to drop the market completely. Was this wariness of Apple lawyers?
the net neutrality repeal could harm multiplayer online games that require robust Internet connections
What possible worry is that to the bunch of corporate lackeys, fools and the hyper entitled?
They really only care if something that will affect their corporate owners profits. If people have bandwidth, they will use it. It might be playing games on a robust connection. If that doesn't work, they will be assuming that the masses do something else. Perhaps they will set up internet based The Price is Right or Jeopardy? They don't really want people playing games that use any amount of intelligence. That tends to reinforce the fact that so many of them are considerably smarter than that bunch of art grads.
Why have large corporations, central banks and other rich people united behind their opposition to cryptocurrencies?
It's almost as if they are protecting us peasants from making, or even having, a tiny amount of money outside their control!
This sounds to be in line with previous court judgements. Yes your coffee is hot. Put a sign on it.
Perhaps they should put "Crush danger" on sacks of it. If a big enough bag is dropped on someone from a sufficient height it may injure. After all, how many such bagfulls of this need to be drunk in order to significantly increase the chance of cancer?
Which kills the most people prematurely per year in the USA - coffee cancer, obesity, air pollution or motor vehicle accidents? Which causes the most across the rest of the planet? Lets deal with all of the dangers buts lets set some priorities, Deal with the ones that cause the most damage first.
For comparison of importance, which has caused the most questionable election results - illegal immigrants, fraudulent voters, jerrymandering or termites?. We can probably deal with the termites later.
One of these days this virus is going to hit the wrong person and the authors are all going to wind up dead.
They did. One of the groups hit by the attack last spring was the FSB. They used to employ Vladimir Putin when they went by the name KGB. I can't think of a worse target.
Or perhaps they are now "under new management" after the old management all stopped having functioning nervous systems!
And what OS are they running?
Unless this is a new version of WannaCry, they probably aren't running XP. It ran fine on Win7 but did not get onto any of our (less common) XP systems.
If we had avoided "up"grading to shinier operating systems, would we have entirely missed out on the fun last may?
More like 4.0 but you get the point. Something about this smells, like it was intentional.
And intentional towards only a very small % of phone users. At least GSM is not the "red haired stepchild" of the telcos.
If you want to see who/where did it, you only need to check about 5 countries - or do you want to blame Russia?
I have my suspicions as to the real origins of such "recommendations" and I am not thinking of the Swedish police or civil service,
Such ideas could ultimately have come from some criminal organisation that is legal in its home country of "not Sweden". That organisation is well known for theft of copyright itself. It only steals from the people who actually create music so feels that doesn't count.
Migrants. Over there they have migrants.
Try a different news channel. I saw an obvious migrant a couple of weeks ago. If there are others, they are inconspicuous (good) or certainly less conspicuous than the descendants of people who came here 60-80 years ago.
If someone tells you that there is an immigrant problem in Northern/Western Europe, they have either not been here, have some very dodgy politics,are seriously misinformed, are an ars**ole or some combination of those features.
In European cities, you will generally be much closer to a public transport stop than to where you parked or a car park
FTFY
Once, there were parking spaces along the side of roads, there still are but they are either full up or no longer valid. When in town, it could be 5 minutes walk to the multi-storey car park. It will be 1 or 2 minutes to a bus stop. If you live in a hugely subsidised city like London the Tube station will be a block away. The car park could be miles away.
Call it a serial comma if you like. My Oxford qualified, English teacher pointed out that it is bad grammar to put a comma after the penultimate item in a list before the "and".
The English language may have changed since them so perhaps bad grammar is not what it was. I tend to see it as an error that has crept in that users have spent a lot of time trying to justify. Please justify it under another name. "Serial comma" might do but not one that pretends that it was invented on this side of the pond!
...then a Raspberry Pi is a computer as well
When was that ever in question? In fact, a Raspberry Pi may even be more of a computer than any tablet - Apple or otherwise.
If a government does not like cryptocurrencies, it is against individual freedom and pro central government control.
As the current US mis-leadership is against that freedom, why is every redneck and Wall Street parasite not out to remove it?
It is pretty obvious why China does not like Bitcoin. How come the US, UK, South Korea and Japan (to name a few) are in bed with them in this attempt to stop the spread of the next stage of the growth of the free market?
You may need to pay through the app or browser like the rest of us.
people say thank you to inanimate objects than stopped being polite to animate ones.
Of course, I am British and some less developed places think we are polite to everyone and everything. It's a good habit...
Doesn't California have a state law that bans employment discrimination based on political leanings.
Not relevant. Does it have a law against employment discrimination based on really stupid and bigoted behaviour and writings? That is less certain.
You can believe that women should stay at home, cook and gestate if you like but criticising your employer for not forcing that behaviour is different. That not only indicates that you are an a****ole but a really stupid one too. That may not be compatible with a workplace where people need to be intelligent.
Very few print jobs are totally recquired nowadays. This is true for work and home.
I don't need a printed memo. If it is important, the first thing I will do is scsan it for future reference, I don't need a printed letter from my bank so they send me emails or SMS, If I am going to send someone a letter, I will write it if it is personal or email it if at all possible for anything official.
Any company that does not deal with email, does not want my business. Any employer that insists on paper instead of electronic and is not CIA or MI5 type is a good one to move on from as they are embracing obsolescence.
I have the occasional difficulty persuading my Mother in Law that she does not need to print every email but that is probably an age thing.
For the benefit of Americans reading: the nominal AC frequency almost everywhere is 50Hz, not 60Hz.
FTFY
Buying microshaft products easily the biggest mistakes in all IT departments I have seen.
And almost always a managerial decision. Especially if you look back far enough.
It didn't cause serious company problems but the funnietst management mistake I have seen was...
Manager buys demo copy of some "amazing" speech recognition package with a view to selling to cusomers.
Manager: Set it all up.
Me : I can install it but you will need to set up your voice on it.
Manager: No! You set it up and do that tecchie stuff.
Observation, manager has a strong southern English accent. I have a slight Scottish one.
When he started to use the system expecting me, it made out less than 75% of what he said. I ended up assisting with that successful sale. The manager then spent the time needed talking to the system and it worked for him as I predicted.
Apparently, the customer thought it was quite funny too.
Did I miss something? This was a Podcast Aggregator or even a "Podcast app". It was not for podcasting.
The word is analagous to "broadcasting". A podcast app is more comparable to a Tivo or even a VCR. Neither of those would often be acused of broadcasting.
A few years ago, I was polled to ask if I had ever tried podcasting. I haven't but I do listen to a good number of podcasts. The result of the poll was that podcastts are silly because nobody listens to them as roughly 0% of people do any podcasting. If that sort of error happens here, how can we clear up the error?
It's certainly a legal requirement in Europe for a company to keep a record of all its financial activities for that long. I find it unlikely that the USA doesn't.
Thos financial activities include everything you have bought off them.
But UK is a totalitarian police state.
Let's not be offensive now! Police states are where civilians call the police "sir" because they carry guns and are keen to shoot you if you have the wrong ancestry.
In "free" America people drive a huge range of cars from f150 to fiats and even your mini coopers. It is very nice to own f150 believe me.
The reason trucks like that are uncommon here is not just tax, or even narrower roads. Good taste comes into it too.
The arms race between governments and forgers creating counterfeit currency has been waging for as long as paper money has existed.
It goes back a lo further than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for example shows one thing that was used to combat "criminals" who would shave off bits of coin,
A number of crooks and criminal organisations want Bitcoin to "go away".
That sounds like the strongest possible reccomendation for the increased use of cryptocurrencies. The CIA, GS and the rest of the Wall Street Gang are thr prime causes of most problems in the world. If they had less control and influence, there would be fewer famines, war s etc.