He never intended to turn himself in. The game plan from day one was simply to attention whore a bit and get his name in the news, which is literally the *only* thing Assange cares about.
Actually, no it doesn't. It makes them about the same amount of money that they used to before the pound tanked after the Brexit vote (and even then, only the same amount if we assume that they'd have gotten just as many sales with the new higher pricetag, which they likely won't do.)
Bullshit. In no way does 0.81528 (today's close) "pretty much match" old pricing. Just 6-12 months ago, the norm was somewhere in the region of 0.7 pounds to the dollar, and from early 2009 to just a year or so ago, the norm was more like 0.6 to 0.65 or thereabouts. 0.8+ pounds to the dollar is in no way normal, and Apple is not increasing prices here, but rather adjusting them to match the post-Brexit norm.
Citation, since you'll pretend it's not true otherwise. (Mind you, you'll probably still pretend it's not true.) http://www.xe.com/currencychar...
Likewise. My three-year old smartphone supports bluetooth mice and keyboards, USB mice and keyboards (including wireless ones), and multiple wired / wireless display standards (Google Cast, MHL, Miracast) right out of the box, and even includes the USB OTG adapter. There is absolutely *nothing* new here.
Yep, and on some level it's basically always human error. Driver's fault? Human error. Car's fault? Human designed it, human error. Road's fault? Ditto. Another vehicle caused it? No, its human driver did. And so on, and so on ad infinitum.
You don't think they'll actually *delete* your account, now, do you? If so, you're incredibly naive. What they'll actually do is lock your account down so you can't use it, but retain everything they know about you. That's what's in their interests. Actually deleting your data, though... Well that's in your interests, and they don't care a lick about that.
It won't stop it, and we all know that. However, we also know that we live in a world wherein the big corporations believe themselves to be the only ones with rights, and the little guy's few remaining rights are trodden on, eroded and eventually taken away completely. (See, for example, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Copyright Term Extension Act, Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., erosion of laws against product tying, and many other such anti-consumer, pro-big business decisions in recent years.)
Or at least it would be great if it were true. Unfortunately, it comes with Windows 10 preinstalled, and that's a primo piece of bloatware right there.
Verizon will also be at fault if the next incidence is one of their customers, and the incident happens after this firmware update should have been issued. Believe me when I say that if I am in any way personally affected, I will be suing Verizon as well as Samsung and the idiot owner.
Shame Project Fi is so badly overpriced in the first place and limited to almost no choice of hardware. I pay $40/line for unlimited voice, texts and data with T-Mobile, with the only catch being that streaming video is throttled to bandwidth sufficient for a 480p feed. With Project Fi, that'd get me a paltry 2GB of data per line before I was paying more than I am now for T-Mobile.
I just checked my usage, and on my phone I'm using 2.9GB/month currently, while my tablet is using 9.7GB/month. (And that's for cellular data only, Wi-Fi not included.) Can't check my other two lines right this second, but even if we pretend that they're not using any data at all, I'd already be paying an extra $50/month for Project Fi over my current plan, which allows me to choose my own device (I bought mine retail from Asia using Expansys), and which is fast and reliable almost everywhere I go (literally the only place it has been spotty for me was Austin, Texas, but my friends on other carriers were all complaining about their coverage there too.)
You couldn't persuade me to switch to Project Fi if you tried.
The brick and mortar example works perfectly with just the tiniest addition: The guy manning the table isn't wearing a Best Buy shirt and badge, but a third-party shirt and badge. That's actually a little more separation than Amazon provides, if anything. A closer example would be that you can see a guy somewhere in the background wearing the third-party shirt and badge, but he never actually comes to the table to help you and just lets Best Buy staff handle things instead.
Would you seriously argue that Best Buy wasn't liable? Because that's what you're doing with Amazon, and it's nothing more than hand-waving distractions from the truth. Amazon is the retailer; in a normal (no fault) transaction the customer never in any way communicates with the third-party, so they cannot be considered the retailer.
And by fixed, you mean "turned into a work of fiction". My computers, tablets and phones last just as long as (if not longer than) Apple hardware. Try again, but remaining truthful this time.
I mean... you do realize that other major manufacturers who don't hide behind proprietary connectors and walled gardens are quite capable of making products with equal quality to those of Apple, but at a cost that's typically 30-50% lower, right? The reason Apple has a bigger problem with el-cheapo knockoffs than do its rivals is quite simple: They used proprietary connectors to lock out legitimate competition (if, say, HP wanted to start selling chargers for Apple phones, they'd have to pay whatever Apple demanded to license use of the proprietary connectors), leaving only those companies who will happily ignore the legalities to offer third-party alternatives. And now it transpires that those companies who are willing to ignore the licensing fees are also willing to cut corners on the hardware design? Fetch my fainting couch forthwith, for I must now collapse with surprise.
Amazon takes your payment details. Amazon charges you. Amazon takes its cut of the profits. In many cases, even for third-party sellers, Amazon actually ships the item from stock in its own warehouse. Amazon is the seller; the third party is its partner. Both are equally culpable. It chose to allow the third-party on its platform without any verification of the products' safety / legality, after all.
It's no different to brick and mortar in this respect: If you went down to your local Best Buy to find a table set up on the property with a guy selling counterfeit chargers, and the guy actually had Best Buy's permission to be there, was paying them a cut of the profits, was using their payment processing and often times even having Best Buy's staff process and bag the order... Well, it'd be pretty obvious that Best Buy was legally culpable, now, wouldn't it?
If you buy the right smartwatch, it functions as a normal watch too. My Huawei Watch's screen is on with mid-level brightness 24/7/365, so I can always see the time. But it also saves me getting my phone out of my pocket dozens of times a day for little things like answering or making a call, reading or sending a text, quick Google searches like "how many tablespoons in a cup", etc. Its function isn't to replace the smartphone for everything, merely the things that take just a few seconds (but together, add up to a whole lot of inconvenience on a daily basis.) Unfortunately, too many reviewers completely missed that, and so did Apple who screwed the pooch by trying to make the watch do far too much, almost none of it well. Once Apple got the headlines turned against smartwatches, everyone else was doomed. I doubt we'll see many more big-name ones from now on, just cheap no-name or licensed crap.
Personally, after upgrading from a first-gen Moto 360 which could just barely make it through a single business day without charging to my current Huawei Watch which easily manages a full 36-48 hours without even trying, I'm not slightly disappointed to see Motorola exit the market. They squandered what should have been a huge lead in the round smartwatch market by using outdated components that destroyed battery life. Early adopters don't like to be screwed over, and we do have memories.
Show me where I said he wasn't allowed to share his outdated opinions: I didn't. I actually said the exact opposite: He's fine to keep sharing his opinions, just as I'm fine to continue judging him as an out-of-touch, racist, misogynist relic.
The very fact you think it absurd is hilarious. You'd have a meltdown if someone spoke of *you* in that manner -- in fact, you're having one right now just for someone daring to disagree with you.
Trump has repeatedly suggested ethnicities other than white are inferior, and not just for illegal immigrants. Hell, he said a man who is not just a citizen but a pillar of the community could not fairly judge a case against him because of his skin color. He's repeatedly suggested supporters attack people with different skin colors, and praised them for doing so after they conducted those attacks.
But continue to pretend that this is about illegals, and keep throwing around your cutesy little buzzwords like "SJW" without having the first clue what you're talking about.
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He never intended to turn himself in. The game plan from day one was simply to attention whore a bit and get his name in the news, which is literally the *only* thing Assange cares about.
Actually, no it doesn't. It makes them about the same amount of money that they used to before the pound tanked after the Brexit vote (and even then, only the same amount if we assume that they'd have gotten just as many sales with the new higher pricetag, which they likely won't do.)
Bullshit. In no way does 0.81528 (today's close) "pretty much match" old pricing. Just 6-12 months ago, the norm was somewhere in the region of 0.7 pounds to the dollar, and from early 2009 to just a year or so ago, the norm was more like 0.6 to 0.65 or thereabouts. 0.8+ pounds to the dollar is in no way normal, and Apple is not increasing prices here, but rather adjusting them to match the post-Brexit norm.
Citation, since you'll pretend it's not true otherwise. (Mind you, you'll probably still pretend it's not true.) http://www.xe.com/currencychar...
And at least some Android phones have also supported USB wired / wireless or bluetooth mice / keyboards right out of the box for years, too.
Likewise. My three-year old smartphone supports bluetooth mice and keyboards, USB mice and keyboards (including wireless ones), and multiple wired / wireless display standards (Google Cast, MHL, Miracast) right out of the box, and even includes the USB OTG adapter. There is absolutely *nothing* new here.
Yep, and on some level it's basically always human error. Driver's fault? Human error. Car's fault? Human designed it, human error. Road's fault? Ditto. Another vehicle caused it? No, its human driver did. And so on, and so on ad infinitum.
You don't think they'll actually *delete* your account, now, do you? If so, you're incredibly naive. What they'll actually do is lock your account down so you can't use it, but retain everything they know about you. That's what's in their interests. Actually deleting your data, though... Well that's in your interests, and they don't care a lick about that.
It won't stop it, and we all know that. However, we also know that we live in a world wherein the big corporations believe themselves to be the only ones with rights, and the little guy's few remaining rights are trodden on, eroded and eventually taken away completely. (See, for example, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Copyright Term Extension Act, Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., erosion of laws against product tying, and many other such anti-consumer, pro-big business decisions in recent years.)
In other words, bend over and take it, citizen.
Or at least it would be great if it were true. Unfortunately, it comes with Windows 10 preinstalled, and that's a primo piece of bloatware right there.
Since when did we let prior art get in the way of junk patents?
And as we all know, contracts are always inviolable. Not.
Verizon will also be at fault if the next incidence is one of their customers, and the incident happens after this firmware update should have been issued. Believe me when I say that if I am in any way personally affected, I will be suing Verizon as well as Samsung and the idiot owner.
Hell, $25 is too much for a single-time rental. Make it $25 and I get a permanent, high-quality copy of the movie and we have a deal.
Yeaaaaah, you might want to read where the article says that problem was already fixed.
Shame Project Fi is so badly overpriced in the first place and limited to almost no choice of hardware. I pay $40/line for unlimited voice, texts and data with T-Mobile, with the only catch being that streaming video is throttled to bandwidth sufficient for a 480p feed. With Project Fi, that'd get me a paltry 2GB of data per line before I was paying more than I am now for T-Mobile.
I just checked my usage, and on my phone I'm using 2.9GB/month currently, while my tablet is using 9.7GB/month. (And that's for cellular data only, Wi-Fi not included.) Can't check my other two lines right this second, but even if we pretend that they're not using any data at all, I'd already be paying an extra $50/month for Project Fi over my current plan, which allows me to choose my own device (I bought mine retail from Asia using Expansys), and which is fast and reliable almost everywhere I go (literally the only place it has been spotty for me was Austin, Texas, but my friends on other carriers were all complaining about their coverage there too.)
You couldn't persuade me to switch to Project Fi if you tried.
The brick and mortar example works perfectly with just the tiniest addition: The guy manning the table isn't wearing a Best Buy shirt and badge, but a third-party shirt and badge. That's actually a little more separation than Amazon provides, if anything. A closer example would be that you can see a guy somewhere in the background wearing the third-party shirt and badge, but he never actually comes to the table to help you and just lets Best Buy staff handle things instead.
Would you seriously argue that Best Buy wasn't liable? Because that's what you're doing with Amazon, and it's nothing more than hand-waving distractions from the truth. Amazon is the retailer; in a normal (no fault) transaction the customer never in any way communicates with the third-party, so they cannot be considered the retailer.
And by fixed, you mean "turned into a work of fiction". My computers, tablets and phones last just as long as (if not longer than) Apple hardware. Try again, but remaining truthful this time.
I mean... you do realize that other major manufacturers who don't hide behind proprietary connectors and walled gardens are quite capable of making products with equal quality to those of Apple, but at a cost that's typically 30-50% lower, right? The reason Apple has a bigger problem with el-cheapo knockoffs than do its rivals is quite simple: They used proprietary connectors to lock out legitimate competition (if, say, HP wanted to start selling chargers for Apple phones, they'd have to pay whatever Apple demanded to license use of the proprietary connectors), leaving only those companies who will happily ignore the legalities to offer third-party alternatives. And now it transpires that those companies who are willing to ignore the licensing fees are also willing to cut corners on the hardware design? Fetch my fainting couch forthwith, for I must now collapse with surprise.
Amazon takes your payment details. Amazon charges you. Amazon takes its cut of the profits. In many cases, even for third-party sellers, Amazon actually ships the item from stock in its own warehouse. Amazon is the seller; the third party is its partner. Both are equally culpable. It chose to allow the third-party on its platform without any verification of the products' safety / legality, after all.
It's no different to brick and mortar in this respect: If you went down to your local Best Buy to find a table set up on the property with a guy selling counterfeit chargers, and the guy actually had Best Buy's permission to be there, was paying them a cut of the profits, was using their payment processing and often times even having Best Buy's staff process and bag the order... Well, it'd be pretty obvious that Best Buy was legally culpable, now, wouldn't it?
I'm sure you're still railing against the horse and cart too, never mind these new-fangled automobillies, right?
If you buy the right smartwatch, it functions as a normal watch too. My Huawei Watch's screen is on with mid-level brightness 24/7/365, so I can always see the time. But it also saves me getting my phone out of my pocket dozens of times a day for little things like answering or making a call, reading or sending a text, quick Google searches like "how many tablespoons in a cup", etc. Its function isn't to replace the smartphone for everything, merely the things that take just a few seconds (but together, add up to a whole lot of inconvenience on a daily basis.) Unfortunately, too many reviewers completely missed that, and so did Apple who screwed the pooch by trying to make the watch do far too much, almost none of it well. Once Apple got the headlines turned against smartwatches, everyone else was doomed. I doubt we'll see many more big-name ones from now on, just cheap no-name or licensed crap.
Personally, after upgrading from a first-gen Moto 360 which could just barely make it through a single business day without charging to my current Huawei Watch which easily manages a full 36-48 hours without even trying, I'm not slightly disappointed to see Motorola exit the market. They squandered what should have been a huge lead in the round smartwatch market by using outdated components that destroyed battery life. Early adopters don't like to be screwed over, and we do have memories.
Show me where I said he wasn't allowed to share his outdated opinions: I didn't. I actually said the exact opposite: He's fine to keep sharing his opinions, just as I'm fine to continue judging him as an out-of-touch, racist, misogynist relic.
The very fact you think it absurd is hilarious. You'd have a meltdown if someone spoke of *you* in that manner -- in fact, you're having one right now just for someone daring to disagree with you.
Trump has repeatedly suggested ethnicities other than white are inferior, and not just for illegal immigrants. Hell, he said a man who is not just a citizen but a pillar of the community could not fairly judge a case against him because of his skin color. He's repeatedly suggested supporters attack people with different skin colors, and praised them for doing so after they conducted those attacks. But continue to pretend that this is about illegals, and keep throwing around your cutesy little buzzwords like "SJW" without having the first clue what you're talking about.