Between working from home, dropping cable for YouTube TV and all the other bandwidth sucking applications we use, our family of four would go over the 1 TB Comcast cap monthly. Luckily, for $50/month you can have no cap. That's a rip, but luckier still, if you call, you can get it knocked down to $25/month. Am I happy that my monthly bill is $130 for gig internet? No, but I sure love me one gig internet.
- Recruiters throw useless jobs your way or completely throw your application out if you aren't on it.
- other people use it to stalk you
I've had recruiters through useless jobs at me through email and phone calls, doesn't make the phone network or email services a terrible idea. I've also had good jobs positioned at me through all of these mediums. And LinkedIn has helped me pursue opportunities by networking, even in cases where there was no job posting anywhere.
- Everyone on there just "vouches" for each other like some sort of bizarre prisoners dilemma.
That's somewhat true. Although for sure if you're looking at XYZ skill and one guy has 300 endorsements, there's usually something to it. I have some really absurd recommendations, but within my core competencies, I have a LOT of endorsements, and if you look at just the top 2-3 you will quickly see what I am.
- They've been hacked god knows how many times.
I still shop at Target and many other fine places that have been hacked. I mean, I get it... but if you compute safely, you compute safely. LinkedIn has no credit card details on me (free user), I use a password that's unique to LinkedIn, plus two-factor authentication, and everything I post I consider public information. The ONE exception, I think is some of those secret fields where you can let recruiters know you're looking for work without broadcasting it to everyone (and they claim to try to keep it from your own company's recruiters/HR staff). If that got out, I think I'd survive all the same.
- owned by Microsoft who will data mine the shit out of you and then follow you across the rest of their platforms.
Facebook mines. Microsoft mines. Google mines. Your local supermarket trades you lower prices if you let them mine. Honestly, I coach 10U girls travel softball and there are coaches traveling to tournaments they aren't participating in (at the 9-10 year old level) to "mine", or as we call it, scouting. If you aren't paying, you're probably part of the product. So what. If you are paying, you're still likely part of the product. It's life. So the local supermarket knows that if cookies from the bakery are buy 1 get 1 free I'll probably buy it, and at no other time. Ok. I could opt out of their rewards program, and one day soon they'll hook their cameras into machine learning and figure it out anyway.
Photos can serve legitimate (and illegitimate) purposes. Legitimate, I use them all the time when meeting with vendors, manufacturers, potential customers, etc so when they walk into a conference room with three other people, I know who is who and can address them by name. Same thing when I'm meeting someone at a Starbucks or Hotel for the first time.
I can imagine recruiters using them legitimately as well. While they can use them to discriminate illegally, imagine comparing two similarly qualified profiles. One is a professional woman, dressed in a business suit, sitting in a wheelchair. Another is a young, white male, wearing a ripped to shreds t-shirt, a full set of tattooed sleeves, a few too many earrings in the wrong places, etc. Who might that recruiter reach out to.
I've met thousands of people professionally, and made several hundred LinkedIn Connections as a result. It's also helpful when a co-worker asks "do you know so-and-so at XYZ Company". Often times pulling up his or her profile, with a valid photo is a good way to trigger my memory about how often we've talked and what we've talked about.
Youâ(TM)re completely missing my point. I donâ(TM)t dispute that your phone sends nothing. Itâ(TM)s irrelevant. You are, of course, being tracked. Amazon can bill you because youâ(TM)re using the barcode to authenticate yourself as an Amazon user. From there, of course he cameras in the store are being used to track your purchases, but for sure your browsing mannerisms too. Thereâ(TM)s more tracking there then in any âregularâ(TM) store. Personally, Iâ(TM)m ok with that, same reason I swipe my discount card at the supermarket. But letâ(TM)s not insinuate you arenâ(TM)t being tracked.
Why would it need to track you from your phone? You walk in having authenticated as a specific Amazon user and then they track what you take, what you look at, etc. No need for your phone to transmit, youâ(TM)ve already told them who you are and they can transmit the data yourself.
DMCA protected and lists for US $39.95 is code for it's $9.00 at the Apple Store and as cheap as $5.80 for a two pack of third party on Amazon. Also, they have phones other than the iPhone X for a bit less money. And an entire universe of phones running Android if you really are not a fan of their stuff.
Wait until you need to keep track of which headphones Apple allows to work with this phone. Remember ipod docks? Remember that each new iPhone/pod refused to work unless you bought a brand new dock - each with it's own licensing fee to Apple? How soon before the headphones have to be Apple licensed to work, or are in a reduced quality mode etc? One more generation of devices or sooner?
So far, I believe the list is... all Bluetooth headphones. And any wired headphone with a dongle. Oh, and any wired headphones plugged into a Bluetooth transceiver, also available for about ten bucks on Amazon. Feel free to bookmark this compatibility list.
I mean... I get it.. Apple took away the headphone port, and now want to take away the dongle. But you have to know in your heart that they thought about it, researched it, and came to the conclusion that the number of people who will no longer buy an iPhone over this issue is small enough to not care about.
Unfortunately, I stopped paying any attention to you when you took the opportunity to turn an Apple vs Android flame war into an anti-semitic statement.
Cool. So show us where we can purchase those ROMs legitimately.
Thanks.
Amazon has the Nintendo NES and SNES classic editions back in stock. That covers some of the ROMs. Beyond that, as annoying as it may be, they don't have to sell you anything, but still get to keep copyright control. So you can host ROMs or download ROMs, but risk legal trouble if you get caught. But you know all this already.
Why would anyone give a damn what resolution over "DVD quality" they are watching on a tiny 5 inch screen?
Why is a 5" screen your requirement? We are talking about cellular devices here, not 5" screens.
Just as an example the Samsung Galaxy S8 can output HDMI at 720p, and just so you are aware there are HDMI capable displays far larger than 5 inches.
There are cellular devices on the market right now that can output full 1920 x 1080 to an HDMI display too.
So you are asking why one would want to watch 1920 x 1080 videos on a 60"+ sized screen that are better than the allowed 426 x 240... and I don't know how to answer that in a way you might understand.
So, if you output from your phone over an HDMI cable, you're likely plugging into a projector, a TV, etc. Isn't it very likely that you're in a fixed location, where WiFi access is probably available? I'm not saying there's never a need to do 1080P off an LTE network, but it's an edge case not something every single person needs 100% of the time. And all the major carriers, for a small uptick in your monthly cost will let you do just that if you have that need. In the mean time, a whole bunch more of us who don't really care and are often on WiFi save ten bucks here and there.
You shouldn't be watching videos while you are driving there champ.
Cars have 3-4 extra seats (SUVs and Minivans even more still) besides the driver's seat where you absolutely can watch video. Bonus: If someone else is the driver the car will even be moving!
My problem is that it doesn't work anywhere. Their coverage is garbage compared to Verizon. I really despise Verizon, but I'm going to have to switch to them if I want to even get texts where I'm living now.
I think you probably meant it doesn't work everywhere. But seriously, it's gotten much, much better. I'm on MetroPCS (same network), paying $90 for three lines, unlimited. I don't care about 480P video streaming since I rarely sit down and watch video on my phone, and when I do, it's typically in an office or at home where I have WiFi so it's not throttled down. In the last two years I've had phones on both AT&T and Verizon, and this is absolutely "good enough" coverage. With their recent network overhaul, it's much, much better indoors, which used to be their Achilles heel.
I use 5-10 GB per month, so their "we may throttle you after XX GB" doesn't apply.
Take the communications enjoyed by New York investment computers for the larger trading houses that do high frequency trading.
Think there aren't fast lanes there?
Net Neutrality is about the Internet. You're talking about a private, leased line from a trading company direct to an exchange. Which has nothing to do with tiered Internet services, paid lanes, slow lanes, Internet providers, etc.
Thatâ(TM)s not greedy lawyers stopping you from watching Star Trek on Netflix. Thatâ(TM)s CBS, who made a distribution deal. Because... money! They decided letting Netflix have it internationally but keeping it to themselves in Canada and the US was a good balance of making lots of money and giving them a brand to increase All Access subs with. I donâ(TM)t care for it either so I havenâ(TM)t subscribed to All Access.
No real sysadmin is going to use a $20 a year account just to (maybe) rely on onedrive. You're either rolling your own exchange server or renting email from google or office 365.
It's 1 domain, $20/year, 5 users. It's not for sysadmins at a small company. It's for a family. Or a small time single consultant. Or a tiny non-profit.
Other than multiplayer games, which I can't imagine was a HUGE market at the time, isn't the fact that the DS plays GBA games somewhat significant? Hard to feel abandoned if your old system still worked, and your old games worked even if you upgraded to the newer device?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think either Google or Amazon is providing their digital assistant to be installed on any device.
Google Assistant can be accessed on any device via their Allo app. I think my original comment already mentioned the numerous third party apps providing Alexa to an Android or iOS device. Cortana can be downloaded. Samsung provides S-Voice on their devices. My point was, and still is, you can replace the voice recognition assistant that came with your phone.
Yes, you're crazy, because they do have access to digital assistants of their choice (not necessarily any, but certainly many). Samsung phones come with S-Voice AND Ok Google. Microsoft makes Cortana available for download. I don't think the Amazon Alexa app has voice response (it's meant to configure other Alexa devices) but there are numerous third party apps that tap into Alexa voice.Heck, my smart home app (Lowes Iris) used to have it's own voice control, although they discontinued it, mostly because it stunk.
You're confusing "any assistant I want should be pre-installed" with "I can't have any assistant I want, because it came with X instead."
Video work for one. Compiling a modern Linux desktop environment another. Yes, there are legitimate reasons to do both.
I'm sure they looked at the market for laptop 4K video editing at the highest end where 16 GB of RAM isn't enough, but inexplicably, a mobile oriented video card was, and then added in the potential market from Linux source code compilers and moved on fairly quickly from there with disinterest. Incidentally, I know of a company that's still buying brand new Mac Pro's for their editing. Because $15K workstations weren't doing the job as well. I switched from a Mac to a PC recently, but man, for video guys, it's just got to be about the software, right?
Considered revenue from Surface was over a billionin the second quarter of 2016, I suspect it's a fairly high number of sales. Some of the commenters suggested it went from 1 to 2. That would be a pretty expensive Surface, at a retail price of about a billion bucks.
How much can they be paying broadcasters who...broadcast their content for free? The cable co is giving them more eyeballs to sell to their advertisers, the broadcasters need their access as much as the cable cos need their content. I doubt they're jacking up their fees...would be interesting to see some real data.
Quite a bit. The theory being if U-Verse offered CBS, NBC, FOX and ABC, but Comcast offered CBS, NBC and ABC, most people would switch to U-Verse. So therefore, there's a value to the retransmission. Especially since some people can't receive it OTA easily, and most people don't want to deal with antenna, and most people don't want a two input solution.
It's the same thing that limits the number of potential customers to Vue, DirecTV NOW, Sling, etc. Lack of locals in many markets. Lack of interest in antennas and input switching.
It will change, rapidly, but for now, that's the lay of the land.
It's incredibly simple to have a customer owned cable modem. Maybe your provider changed from DOCSIS 2.0 to 3.0 and it's time to get a new modem, but generally speaking, I'm staring at a cable modem right now that I own and don't pay a monthly charge for. Most cable company's even publish a list of supported models, yours included.
In fairness to the original complainer, it's much, much more unlikely to use your own gear with FIOS. Especially if your FIOS includes a non-Internet service.
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Between working from home, dropping cable for YouTube TV and all the other bandwidth sucking applications we use, our family of four would go over the 1 TB Comcast cap monthly. Luckily, for $50/month you can have no cap. That's a rip, but luckier still, if you call, you can get it knocked down to $25/month. Am I happy that my monthly bill is $130 for gig internet? No, but I sure love me one gig internet.
LinkedIn is a terrible idea because:
- Recruiters throw useless jobs your way or completely throw your application out if you aren't on it. - other people use it to stalk you
I've had recruiters through useless jobs at me through email and phone calls, doesn't make the phone network or email services a terrible idea. I've also had good jobs positioned at me through all of these mediums. And LinkedIn has helped me pursue opportunities by networking, even in cases where there was no job posting anywhere.
- Everyone on there just "vouches" for each other like some sort of bizarre prisoners dilemma.
That's somewhat true. Although for sure if you're looking at XYZ skill and one guy has 300 endorsements, there's usually something to it. I have some really absurd recommendations, but within my core competencies, I have a LOT of endorsements, and if you look at just the top 2-3 you will quickly see what I am.
- They've been hacked god knows how many times.
I still shop at Target and many other fine places that have been hacked. I mean, I get it... but if you compute safely, you compute safely. LinkedIn has no credit card details on me (free user), I use a password that's unique to LinkedIn, plus two-factor authentication, and everything I post I consider public information. The ONE exception, I think is some of those secret fields where you can let recruiters know you're looking for work without broadcasting it to everyone (and they claim to try to keep it from your own company's recruiters/HR staff). If that got out, I think I'd survive all the same.
- owned by Microsoft who will data mine the shit out of you and then follow you across the rest of their platforms.
Facebook mines. Microsoft mines. Google mines. Your local supermarket trades you lower prices if you let them mine. Honestly, I coach 10U girls travel softball and there are coaches traveling to tournaments they aren't participating in (at the 9-10 year old level) to "mine", or as we call it, scouting. If you aren't paying, you're probably part of the product. So what. If you are paying, you're still likely part of the product. It's life. So the local supermarket knows that if cookies from the bakery are buy 1 get 1 free I'll probably buy it, and at no other time. Ok. I could opt out of their rewards program, and one day soon they'll hook their cameras into machine learning and figure it out anyway.
Photos can serve legitimate (and illegitimate) purposes. Legitimate, I use them all the time when meeting with vendors, manufacturers, potential customers, etc so when they walk into a conference room with three other people, I know who is who and can address them by name. Same thing when I'm meeting someone at a Starbucks or Hotel for the first time.
I can imagine recruiters using them legitimately as well. While they can use them to discriminate illegally, imagine comparing two similarly qualified profiles. One is a professional woman, dressed in a business suit, sitting in a wheelchair. Another is a young, white male, wearing a ripped to shreds t-shirt, a full set of tattooed sleeves, a few too many earrings in the wrong places, etc. Who might that recruiter reach out to.
I've met thousands of people professionally, and made several hundred LinkedIn Connections as a result. It's also helpful when a co-worker asks "do you know so-and-so at XYZ Company". Often times pulling up his or her profile, with a valid photo is a good way to trigger my memory about how often we've talked and what we've talked about.
Youâ(TM)re completely missing my point. I donâ(TM)t dispute that your phone sends nothing. Itâ(TM)s irrelevant. You are, of course, being tracked. Amazon can bill you because youâ(TM)re using the barcode to authenticate yourself as an Amazon user. From there, of course he cameras in the store are being used to track your purchases, but for sure your browsing mannerisms too. Thereâ(TM)s more tracking there then in any âregularâ(TM) store. Personally, Iâ(TM)m ok with that, same reason I swipe my discount card at the supermarket. But letâ(TM)s not insinuate you arenâ(TM)t being tracked.
Why would it need to track you from your phone? You walk in having authenticated as a specific Amazon user and then they track what you take, what you look at, etc. No need for your phone to transmit, youâ(TM)ve already told them who you are and they can transmit the data yourself.
DMCA protected and lists for US $39.95 is code for it's $9.00 at the Apple Store and as cheap as $5.80 for a two pack of third party on Amazon. Also, they have phones other than the iPhone X for a bit less money. And an entire universe of phones running Android if you really are not a fan of their stuff.
Wait until you need to keep track of which headphones Apple allows to work with this phone. Remember ipod docks? Remember that each new iPhone/pod refused to work unless you bought a brand new dock - each with it's own licensing fee to Apple? How soon before the headphones have to be Apple licensed to work, or are in a reduced quality mode etc? One more generation of devices or sooner?
So far, I believe the list is... all Bluetooth headphones. And any wired headphone with a dongle. Oh, and any wired headphones plugged into a Bluetooth transceiver, also available for about ten bucks on Amazon. Feel free to bookmark this compatibility list.
I mean... I get it.. Apple took away the headphone port, and now want to take away the dongle. But you have to know in your heart that they thought about it, researched it, and came to the conclusion that the number of people who will no longer buy an iPhone over this issue is small enough to not care about.
As for 16x9, they're too narrow. I'd say 16x12 is optimal for both portrait and landscape.
I prefer 4:3 to 16:12 ;)
apple jewed itself for $5 BOM
Unfortunately, I stopped paying any attention to you when you took the opportunity to turn an Apple vs Android flame war into an anti-semitic statement.
Cool. So show us where we can purchase those ROMs legitimately.
Thanks.
Amazon has the Nintendo NES and SNES classic editions back in stock. That covers some of the ROMs. Beyond that, as annoying as it may be, they don't have to sell you anything, but still get to keep copyright control. So you can host ROMs or download ROMs, but risk legal trouble if you get caught. But you know all this already.
Why would anyone give a damn what resolution over "DVD quality" they are watching on a tiny 5 inch screen?
Why is a 5" screen your requirement? We are talking about cellular devices here, not 5" screens.
Just as an example the Samsung Galaxy S8 can output HDMI at 720p, and just so you are aware there are HDMI capable displays far larger than 5 inches. There are cellular devices on the market right now that can output full 1920 x 1080 to an HDMI display too.
So you are asking why one would want to watch 1920 x 1080 videos on a 60"+ sized screen that are better than the allowed 426 x 240... and I don't know how to answer that in a way you might understand.
So, if you output from your phone over an HDMI cable, you're likely plugging into a projector, a TV, etc. Isn't it very likely that you're in a fixed location, where WiFi access is probably available? I'm not saying there's never a need to do 1080P off an LTE network, but it's an edge case not something every single person needs 100% of the time. And all the major carriers, for a small uptick in your monthly cost will let you do just that if you have that need. In the mean time, a whole bunch more of us who don't really care and are often on WiFi save ten bucks here and there.
You shouldn't be watching videos while you are driving there champ.
Cars have 3-4 extra seats (SUVs and Minivans even more still) besides the driver's seat where you absolutely can watch video. Bonus: If someone else is the driver the car will even be moving!
My problem is that it doesn't work anywhere. Their coverage is garbage compared to Verizon. I really despise Verizon, but I'm going to have to switch to them if I want to even get texts where I'm living now.
I think you probably meant it doesn't work everywhere. But seriously, it's gotten much, much better. I'm on MetroPCS (same network), paying $90 for three lines, unlimited. I don't care about 480P video streaming since I rarely sit down and watch video on my phone, and when I do, it's typically in an office or at home where I have WiFi so it's not throttled down. In the last two years I've had phones on both AT&T and Verizon, and this is absolutely "good enough" coverage. With their recent network overhaul, it's much, much better indoors, which used to be their Achilles heel.
I use 5-10 GB per month, so their "we may throttle you after XX GB" doesn't apply.
Take the communications enjoyed by New York investment computers for the larger trading houses that do high frequency trading.
Think there aren't fast lanes there?
Net Neutrality is about the Internet. You're talking about a private, leased line from a trading company direct to an exchange. Which has nothing to do with tiered Internet services, paid lanes, slow lanes, Internet providers, etc.
Thatâ(TM)s not greedy lawyers stopping you from watching Star Trek on Netflix. Thatâ(TM)s CBS, who made a distribution deal. Because... money! They decided letting Netflix have it internationally but keeping it to themselves in Canada and the US was a good balance of making lots of money and giving them a brand to increase All Access subs with. I donâ(TM)t care for it either so I havenâ(TM)t subscribed to All Access.
Developers ARE users. Haven't you seen Tron?
Ublock is great. I don't think it addresses calendar sharing, custom domain support, etc.
Seems like a solution using a problem.
No real sysadmin is going to use a $20 a year account just to (maybe) rely on onedrive. You're either rolling your own exchange server or renting email from google or office 365.
It's 1 domain, $20/year, 5 users. It's not for sysadmins at a small company. It's for a family. Or a small time single consultant. Or a tiny non-profit.
Other than multiplayer games, which I can't imagine was a HUGE market at the time, isn't the fact that the DS plays GBA games somewhat significant? Hard to feel abandoned if your old system still worked, and your old games worked even if you upgraded to the newer device?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think either Google or Amazon is providing their digital assistant to be installed on any device.
Google Assistant can be accessed on any device via their Allo app. I think my original comment already mentioned the numerous third party apps providing Alexa to an Android or iOS device. Cortana can be downloaded. Samsung provides S-Voice on their devices. My point was, and still is, you can replace the voice recognition assistant that came with your phone.
Yes, you're crazy, because they do have access to digital assistants of their choice (not necessarily any, but certainly many). Samsung phones come with S-Voice AND Ok Google. Microsoft makes Cortana available for download. I don't think the Amazon Alexa app has voice response (it's meant to configure other Alexa devices) but there are numerous third party apps that tap into Alexa voice.Heck, my smart home app (Lowes Iris) used to have it's own voice control, although they discontinued it, mostly because it stunk.
You're confusing "any assistant I want should be pre-installed" with "I can't have any assistant I want, because it came with X instead."
Video work for one. Compiling a modern Linux desktop environment another. Yes, there are legitimate reasons to do both.
I'm sure they looked at the market for laptop 4K video editing at the highest end where 16 GB of RAM isn't enough, but inexplicably, a mobile oriented video card was, and then added in the potential market from Linux source code compilers and moved on fairly quickly from there with disinterest. Incidentally, I know of a company that's still buying brand new Mac Pro's for their editing. Because $15K workstations weren't doing the job as well. I switched from a Mac to a PC recently, but man, for video guys, it's just got to be about the software, right?
Considered revenue from Surface was over a billionin the second quarter of 2016, I suspect it's a fairly high number of sales. Some of the commenters suggested it went from 1 to 2. That would be a pretty expensive Surface, at a retail price of about a billion bucks.
How much can they be paying broadcasters who...broadcast their content for free? The cable co is giving them more eyeballs to sell to their advertisers, the broadcasters need their access as much as the cable cos need their content. I doubt they're jacking up their fees...would be interesting to see some real data.
Quite a bit. The theory being if U-Verse offered CBS, NBC, FOX and ABC, but Comcast offered CBS, NBC and ABC, most people would switch to U-Verse. So therefore, there's a value to the retransmission. Especially since some people can't receive it OTA easily, and most people don't want to deal with antenna, and most people don't want a two input solution.
It's the same thing that limits the number of potential customers to Vue, DirecTV NOW, Sling, etc. Lack of locals in many markets. Lack of interest in antennas and input switching.
It will change, rapidly, but for now, that's the lay of the land.
It's incredibly simple to have a customer owned cable modem. Maybe your provider changed from DOCSIS 2.0 to 3.0 and it's time to get a new modem, but generally speaking, I'm staring at a cable modem right now that I own and don't pay a monthly charge for. Most cable company's even publish a list of supported models, yours included.
In fairness to the original complainer, it's much, much more unlikely to use your own gear with FIOS. Especially if your FIOS includes a non-Internet service.