I'd imagine it would be fairly easy to exempt emergency services access. One would also think it would be relatively straightforward for Samsung to simply push a firmware update which disables anything except emergency calls, data backup / transfer and a nice big full-screen alert that says "Your phone is not safe. Please power it off now and contact your local Samsung dealer to arrange return or replacement."
Instead of showing a device self-healing, it shows a device which -- after some coaxing from the tester's fingertips -- moves close enough to maintain a tenuous (but still easily broken) electrical contact, but which is still very obviously damaged even with the naked eye, and which is attached to fabric which there was not even any attempt to repair.
Without a huge amount more development, this won't result in one single iota less waste because it won't actually *fix* anything, despite the hype to the contrary. It'll perform just fractionally better than just having regular fabric with a circuit attached, given the tiny limitation on maximum tear size.
Charging more and providing less has always been Apple's strategy. Apple's computers have always offered fewer standard connections in favor of proprietary ones or none at all, and they've always been priced at least 30-50% higher than their PC equivalents. Why on earth would you suddenly expect them to do otherwise now?
...would like to disagree with Schiller in the strongest possible terms:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1...
"A company that built up its entire product line on the adulation and money of professional photographers is now turning its back on them and blowing up the best bridge between the tools of their trade: camera and laptop. Without an SD card slot in the computer, weâ(TM)re left having to tote an adapter everywhere ($50 when bought from Apple), or buying a USB-C cable for our cameras ($30), or relying on entirely unreliable wireless transfer apps. Maybe thatâ(TM)s fine on the MacBook, but itâ(TM)s not okay on the MacBook Pro."
Indeed. Frankly, Windows 10 will not be my platform for anything. I have already made my decision; I will continue to use my Win7 systems until I can no longer keep them secure, and then I will switch to either Linux (if it is finally a viable platform for me by that point, which it isn't yet) or to Mac.
Except that ESPN is the main suck on the wallets of people who aren't watching it. Half the country couldn't care less about the sports they show, but ESPN has been very aggressive in ensuring that they're tied into bundles which don't let you avoid them without avoiding pretty much everything. If you're an ESPN viewer, you'll probably pay more overall a la carte because your bill isn't being subsidized by me.
But if I take the literally two or three stations I actually want (AMC, BBC America and *perhaps* NBC Sports (although I only watch it for F1 racing, which has declined in quality so badly in the last decade that I might actually skip it), I'll almost certainly be saving money over what I have to pay to get those same channels now. And even if I don't, I'll be comfortable in the knowledge that more of my money will be going to those channels, and hopefully being used to create more of their content.
And then there's the channels *nobody* actually wants to watch, but which sit and waste bandwidth that could've been used for more HD channels without needing to jack up the BS "HD content delivery fees" from the likes of Comcast. Jewelry TV, QVC, the religious channels etc. will have to pay *me* to be in my household, and that's the way it should be.
Again, if not it's worthless. I'm tired of paying for stations and content that I would never in a million years want to watch. If one penny of my money goes to Bravo, for instance, there is no amount of value you could add elsewhere which would persuade me to help pay for their "reality"-TV drivel.
Except that accidents per vehicle mile traveled is an extremely misleading statistic, because for MuskWagons it only includes almost brand-new, high-end vehicles owned exclusively by rich people who can afford to have them religiously maintained and who probably either have better driving skills due to a higher education level, or who have somebody driving on their behalf who was likely selected for their above-average driving skills. Whereas by contrast, for the other vehicles assessed you're including low-end mass-market vehicles driven by the great unwashed, barely maintained if at all, and quite possible multiple decades old.
A fair comparison would be to equate MuskWagons with brand-new standard cards in the same price bracket, and manufactured within the same range as Teslas have been. And I'd wager if you do so, the MuskWagon's supposed advantage would be largely -- perhaps even entirely -- negated. Which is precisely why Musk makes such a completely nonsensical comparison in the first place: It fits his desired narrative, even if it's totally misleading.
And that's just the citations I could find from a 30-second Google search that didn't even glance beyond the second page of search results. Many (perhaps even most) of those phones were not being charged at the time of the incident.
If it was simply turned off as part of the upgrade process, it would have been turned back on again silently, without the user having to take action. The fact we're told we have to reenable it shows quite clearly that Yahoo disabled it to prevent folks jumping ship, and has only begrudgingly turned it back on to try and squash the bad publicity that its move generated. It's clearly hoping that most users who would otherwise have used the feature won't realize it has been turned back on.
Not just that, but it will very frequently give you a bunch of different choices all of which change a dozen-word phrase, instead of the single word you're trying to correct. It's absolutely and totally unuseable, and a moronic design that's the result of trying to be far too clever.
If you believe that, there's a bridge I'd like to sell you. Amazon is in the business of selling products. The more positive a review is, the more products it will sell. More than anyone, Amazon has a conflict of interest in choosing which products get reviews, and who writes those reviews.
Amazon has not in any way, shape or form "banned incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products". Amazon has banned such reviews being conducted by third-parties, because it wants a larger slice of the pie for itself.
Incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products are not just allowed, but remain actively encouraged by Amazon -- it just requires the vendor to use its Vine program, giving it more control over who gets chosen, and likely some program-related fees from the vendor too.
Of course you're assuming he's using the German version, but the British one is also possible.;-) Handy as a noun in British slang has a *very* different meaning to handy as a noun in German slang. (The former means a handjob; the latter a cellphone.) But perhaps that's what the AC who started this discussion is into...
Yes, because we should all make it as hard as possible to get security updates just in case Apple decides to use the update mechanism intended to keep us secure as a method of inflating their adoption numbers.
No, Microsoft *says* that it is only counting those installs. Whose impartial word do we have of the truth behind these numbers? None, because the numbers are straight from Microsoft, a company which has been repeatedly caught cheating and lying for decades.
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I'd imagine it would be fairly easy to exempt emergency services access. One would also think it would be relatively straightforward for Samsung to simply push a firmware update which disables anything except emergency calls, data backup / transfer and a nice big full-screen alert that says "Your phone is not safe. Please power it off now and contact your local Samsung dealer to arrange return or replacement."
It concerns you that Samsung can do something which every other phone manufacturer can also do? Why's that, exactly?
Instead of showing a device self-healing, it shows a device which -- after some coaxing from the tester's fingertips -- moves close enough to maintain a tenuous (but still easily broken) electrical contact, but which is still very obviously damaged even with the naked eye, and which is attached to fabric which there was not even any attempt to repair.
Without a huge amount more development, this won't result in one single iota less waste because it won't actually *fix* anything, despite the hype to the contrary. It'll perform just fractionally better than just having regular fabric with a circuit attached, given the tiny limitation on maximum tear size.
Funny how it's only the Republicans I've seen telling people how they have to vote: http://gawker.com/5950189/the-...
It's assholes like Siegel who will be requiring employees vote Republican or be fired, not Democrats.
Charging more and providing less has always been Apple's strategy. Apple's computers have always offered fewer standard connections in favor of proprietary ones or none at all, and they've always been priced at least 30-50% higher than their PC equivalents. Why on earth would you suddenly expect them to do otherwise now?
...would like to disagree with Schiller in the strongest possible terms: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1... "A company that built up its entire product line on the adulation and money of professional photographers is now turning its back on them and blowing up the best bridge between the tools of their trade: camera and laptop. Without an SD card slot in the computer, weâ(TM)re left having to tote an adapter everywhere ($50 when bought from Apple), or buying a USB-C cable for our cameras ($30), or relying on entirely unreliable wireless transfer apps. Maybe thatâ(TM)s fine on the MacBook, but itâ(TM)s not okay on the MacBook Pro."
Indeed, because if there's one thing that Apple doesn't want its customers doing, it's escaping beyond that garden wall.
Indeed. Frankly, Windows 10 will not be my platform for anything. I have already made my decision; I will continue to use my Win7 systems until I can no longer keep them secure, and then I will switch to either Linux (if it is finally a viable platform for me by that point, which it isn't yet) or to Mac.
Except that ESPN is the main suck on the wallets of people who aren't watching it. Half the country couldn't care less about the sports they show, but ESPN has been very aggressive in ensuring that they're tied into bundles which don't let you avoid them without avoiding pretty much everything. If you're an ESPN viewer, you'll probably pay more overall a la carte because your bill isn't being subsidized by me. But if I take the literally two or three stations I actually want (AMC, BBC America and *perhaps* NBC Sports (although I only watch it for F1 racing, which has declined in quality so badly in the last decade that I might actually skip it), I'll almost certainly be saving money over what I have to pay to get those same channels now. And even if I don't, I'll be comfortable in the knowledge that more of my money will be going to those channels, and hopefully being used to create more of their content. And then there's the channels *nobody* actually wants to watch, but which sit and waste bandwidth that could've been used for more HD channels without needing to jack up the BS "HD content delivery fees" from the likes of Comcast. Jewelry TV, QVC, the religious channels etc. will have to pay *me* to be in my household, and that's the way it should be.
Again, if not it's worthless. I'm tired of paying for stations and content that I would never in a million years want to watch. If one penny of my money goes to Bravo, for instance, there is no amount of value you could add elsewhere which would persuade me to help pay for their "reality"-TV drivel.
This. And frankly, if he's doing that poor of a job configuring his machines, he should probably be looking for another career.
Except that accidents per vehicle mile traveled is an extremely misleading statistic, because for MuskWagons it only includes almost brand-new, high-end vehicles owned exclusively by rich people who can afford to have them religiously maintained and who probably either have better driving skills due to a higher education level, or who have somebody driving on their behalf who was likely selected for their above-average driving skills. Whereas by contrast, for the other vehicles assessed you're including low-end mass-market vehicles driven by the great unwashed, barely maintained if at all, and quite possible multiple decades old. A fair comparison would be to equate MuskWagons with brand-new standard cards in the same price bracket, and manufactured within the same range as Teslas have been. And I'd wager if you do so, the MuskWagon's supposed advantage would be largely -- perhaps even entirely -- negated. Which is precisely why Musk makes such a completely nonsensical comparison in the first place: It fits his desired narrative, even if it's totally misleading.
...but apparently we're now using it to describe companies which have been in business for three-plus decades and are simply changing ownership.
Dramatically understating the scope of the problem does not make for "safety":
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/te...
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...
And that's just the citations I could find from a 30-second Google search that didn't even glance beyond the second page of search results. Many (perhaps even most) of those phones were not being charged at the time of the incident.
If it was simply turned off as part of the upgrade process, it would have been turned back on again silently, without the user having to take action. The fact we're told we have to reenable it shows quite clearly that Yahoo disabled it to prevent folks jumping ship, and has only begrudgingly turned it back on to try and squash the bad publicity that its move generated. It's clearly hoping that most users who would otherwise have used the feature won't realize it has been turned back on.
Where are some mod points when I need them? Mod parent up insightful: This is a complete non-story.
Not just that, but it will very frequently give you a bunch of different choices all of which change a dozen-word phrase, instead of the single word you're trying to correct. It's absolutely and totally unuseable, and a moronic design that's the result of trying to be far too clever.
How much more does it cost than the home plans, out of curiosity? At like-for-like speeds and data caps, obviously.
...in submitting posts as an AC. We all recognize your style, roll our eyes at the bigoted and desperate moron, then we move along.
If you believe that, there's a bridge I'd like to sell you. Amazon is in the business of selling products. The more positive a review is, the more products it will sell. More than anyone, Amazon has a conflict of interest in choosing which products get reviews, and who writes those reviews.
Amazon has not in any way, shape or form "banned incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products". Amazon has banned such reviews being conducted by third-parties, because it wants a larger slice of the pie for itself.
Incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products are not just allowed, but remain actively encouraged by Amazon -- it just requires the vendor to use its Vine program, giving it more control over who gets chosen, and likely some program-related fees from the vendor too.
Of course you're assuming he's using the German version, but the British one is also possible. ;-) Handy as a noun in British slang has a *very* different meaning to handy as a noun in German slang. (The former means a handjob; the latter a cellphone.) But perhaps that's what the AC who started this discussion is into...
Yes, because we should all make it as hard as possible to get security updates just in case Apple decides to use the update mechanism intended to keep us secure as a method of inflating their adoption numbers.
Nice revisionist history. China had Most Favored Nation status well before Clinton was even president.
http://articles.latimes.com/19...
And Bush Jr. followed in Daddy's footsteps by making China's MFN status permanent:
https://georgewbush-whitehouse...
No, Microsoft *says* that it is only counting those installs. Whose impartial word do we have of the truth behind these numbers? None, because the numbers are straight from Microsoft, a company which has been repeatedly caught cheating and lying for decades.