It SHOULD treat it as a USB memory device, it may not, though. Whenever I plug either of my tablets or my phone in either Win7 laptop it looks for drivers. It even looks for drivers when I plug in a thumb drive!
No I have to moderate a different thread because I just undid mods... damn.
DRM for sound is completely impossible. CD with DRM? Plug the CD player's headphone jack to your computer's sound inputs and sample. Hell, I get albums weekly; every Sunday night KSHE plays six full albums. I just capture the stream on its way to the speakers.
The only way to keep DRM "protected" music from playing on an iPhone is to get rid of wi-fi, bluetooth, the headphone jack, and the USB port. If I can put data on it at all, I can strip the DRM from those data before loading it on a phone.
Ads are a service if you see a product advertised that fills a need you have that you thought didn't exist. Serve me an ad for an Android tablet that will play OTA TV (the needed technology is all inside the tablet, all it would need was programming) I'd buy one in a minute. They would be happy band so would I.
But I don't think that tablet exists; I've looked for it.
Actually, facebook is fixing the things that almost everyone installs ad blockers to get away from -- page load speeds on high speed internet that make it load slower than a 1997 web page from a 33.6 modem and flashy, distracting bullshit. Facebook doesn't need an ad blocker, but by God every single one of the damned newspapers do.
The newspapers and everyone else should do this. I see it as a GOOD thing.
I've been laughing at, and shaking my head at, those commercials since they first aired. "We have the fastest wi-fiI!" Well, that's true, but since wi-fi is slower than DSL even with only a single user connected, EVERYONE has the fastest wi-fi.
You know that, I know that, but Joe Average doesn't. That's the nature of advertising in the US at least; sell to the uninformed. Plenty of fools in the world, no need to target anyone with an average or above IQ or amount of technical knowledge.
It may have been installed on that many computers, but I wonder how many were like me, tried it, said "My GOD but this OS sucks" and went back to W7, or how many PCs with W10 pre-installed now are running Linux or BSD?
Odd, where do you live? Plenty of baseball and basketball OTA here in Springfield, IL, a pretty small city. If I want to watch a baseball game that's canle-only, well, that's what bars are for. Lots cheaper than cable.
The phrase "traditional cable or satellite" amuses me, as I was six before Sputnik (long before satellite TV) and thirty before I ever had cable. Growing up in a large metropolis (St. Louis) we only had three channels, now I have twelve in a FAR smaller market.
NOBODY should be on cable any more unless they live somewhere where there's just no signal. For everyone else, cable is obsolete.
In the early eighties, cable was a good deal. All your local stations without snow, ghosts, or static, and a dozen good, ad-free extra channels.
Now? TV has gone digital, which banished ghosts, snow, and static. Meanwhile, on cable they even have ads during the actual programming, and the stations like Discovery and History have gone completely to hell. Discovery used to be science, now it's "trick my truck". History used to be about history, now it's "ice road truckers" or some such nonsense.
But 500 channels! Yeah? How many can you watch at once? Why would I have any interest in the four or five channels devoted completely to golf when I hate that game? Or the dozen channels with nothing but women's programs? Why do I need CNN and four more like it when I have Google News for free?
Cable is obsolete.
Charge fifty cents per month for channel I actually watch and you MIGHT get me as a customer... but I don't watch much TV, anyway.
This country (and apparently everyone else's) has a terrible aliteracy problem. There's hardly any illiteracy, but the last I read, only something like 3% of Americans read a book last year.
I for one do NOT want to see a talking head. A video that actually uses the video to demonstrate something is fine, but I can read five times as fast as you can talk and get a hell of a lot more out of it.
Being safe from annoyance has little connection to being safe from death and serious injury. The worst thing that can happen on a computer (outside the medical and industrial fields) is you have to buy a new one. You're far more likely to drop and break your tablet than have it ruined by a hacker. Hell, a computer won't even give you a paper cut.
As to "safe" computers, almost everyone (including me until recently) thinks you can't install a program on any tablet of phone without "jailbreaking" it. The fact is, that's only true of Apple products.
I discovered this after buying a tablet and discovering Winamp was no longer in Google Play. Searching for the "why" it turns out that Winamp was sold to another company and will be back up. I also learned what the/. troll "APK" was named for; its an installation file for Android, similar in structure to a Linux tarball. Installing Winamp on the tablet consisted of downloading the APK to my computer and clicking in it with my file manager. Easier to install than a Windows program.
Funny, that song is taken from A Nice Morning Drive, a SF story by some guy named Richard Foster. The original story was a protest against the newer safety features in early 1970s cars, like seat belts and padded dashes. Obviously, Mr. Foster was as young as you guys who eschew safety.
Had Windows 10 on this laptop all of 45 minutes before going back to 7. 10 was fugly and it made this old laptop really slow.
I write in Open Office and then copy and paste it into Word to send to the magazines. I HATE Word. I have kubuntu dual-boot on this box, but KDE fucked up the interface so I'm shopping for a new Linux distro.
The bigger, laptop is also running 7. Have an old Kyocera edge phone that I don't have to be worried about getting caught in a downpour, since it's waterproof. Tablet's a Samsung Galaxy 3 I bought in a pawn shop last month. Firefox keeps crashing on it.
There's also an old Dell workstation running XP that is no longer in use, and an early '90s Apple tower someone gave me. Also works but is not used.
That's because as easy as it is to install an Android program not in Google Play, most people don't believe you can do it without "jailbreaking".
APK isn't just the user name of a slashdot troll, it's an Android installation file similar to a Linux tarball and easier to install than a Windows program.
No they're not. Apples maybe, but not Androids. Installing a program in an android device is as simple as using a file manager (available in Google Play) and clicking an APK file. I discovered this recently when I bought a tablet and wanted Winamp, which had been pulled from the repository after someone else bought the company.
At any rate I was able to find the APK and it was actually an easier installation than installing a Windows program.
I was going to mod you "offtopic" for being completely wrong, but decided to correct you instead. You do NOT have to jailbreak an Android, and in fact if you're not careful when you plug it into a Windows machine with a USB cable you can brick it to the point of needing an OS reinstall. Windows won't be able to read the OS's partition, stupidly and arrogantly (as Windows always does) asks you if you want to reformat the drive. Click "yes" and your device is toast.
Don't like the idea of a water resistant phone? You're out of your tiny little mind! Most of the phones I've owned died from being dropped in a sink or my getting caught in a downpour.
My phone is water resistant, supposedly it will survive three hours under three feet of water. Just a couple of weeks ago a friend accidentally knocked my beer over, which spilled all over the phone (listing to music on it). I just took it insode, rinsed it off in the sink and it was fine.
Kyocera Edge, paid $120 for it several years ago. Before that I always carried a baggie in my wallet for downpours.
Aliterate was the word I meant. The post was obviously not written by an illiterate or he would not have been able to comment, but was obviously written by someone who doesn't read.
I hope English is your second language. If not, please go back and get your GED, your post was as aliterate as the ignorance I see in facebook.
"Who's job"=="Who is job". Correct word "whose". "In it's height"=="In it is height". Correct word "its". He's == He Is. Possessive "His" She's==She Is. Posessive "Hers" It's==It is. Possessive=="its"
Please stop spreading aliteracy. Read some books, kid.
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It SHOULD treat it as a USB memory device, it may not, though. Whenever I plug either of my tablets or my phone in either Win7 laptop it looks for drivers. It even looks for drivers when I plug in a thumb drive!
No I have to moderate a different thread because I just undid mods... damn.
DRM for sound is completely impossible. CD with DRM? Plug the CD player's headphone jack to your computer's sound inputs and sample. Hell, I get albums weekly; every Sunday night KSHE plays six full albums. I just capture the stream on its way to the speakers.
The only way to keep DRM "protected" music from playing on an iPhone is to get rid of wi-fi, bluetooth, the headphone jack, and the USB port. If I can put data on it at all, I can strip the DRM from those data before loading it on a phone.
DRM is a bad joke.
How am I supposed to look for a product I have no idea exists?
I didn't say all ads are useful. In fact few are.
Ads are a service if you see a product advertised that fills a need you have that you thought didn't exist. Serve me an ad for an Android tablet that will play OTA TV (the needed technology is all inside the tablet, all it would need was programming) I'd buy one in a minute. They would be happy band so would I.
But I don't think that tablet exists; I've looked for it.
Actually, facebook is fixing the things that almost everyone installs ad blockers to get away from -- page load speeds on high speed internet that make it load slower than a 1997 web page from a 33.6 modem and flashy, distracting bullshit. Facebook doesn't need an ad blocker, but by God every single one of the damned newspapers do.
The newspapers and everyone else should do this. I see it as a GOOD thing.
I've been laughing at, and shaking my head at, those commercials since they first aired. "We have the fastest wi-fiI!" Well, that's true, but since wi-fi is slower than DSL even with only a single user connected, EVERYONE has the fastest wi-fi.
You know that, I know that, but Joe Average doesn't. That's the nature of advertising in the US at least; sell to the uninformed. Plenty of fools in the world, no need to target anyone with an average or above IQ or amount of technical knowledge.
It may have been installed on that many computers, but I wonder how many were like me, tried it, said "My GOD but this OS sucks" and went back to W7, or how many PCs with W10 pre-installed now are running Linux or BSD?
Odd, where do you live? Plenty of baseball and basketball OTA here in Springfield, IL, a pretty small city. If I want to watch a baseball game that's canle-only, well, that's what bars are for. Lots cheaper than cable.
The phrase "traditional cable or satellite" amuses me, as I was six before Sputnik (long before satellite TV) and thirty before I ever had cable. Growing up in a large metropolis (St. Louis) we only had three channels, now I have twelve in a FAR smaller market.
NOBODY should be on cable any more unless they live somewhere where there's just no signal. For everyone else, cable is obsolete.
In the early eighties, cable was a good deal. All your local stations without snow, ghosts, or static, and a dozen good, ad-free extra channels.
Now? TV has gone digital, which banished ghosts, snow, and static. Meanwhile, on cable they even have ads during the actual programming, and the stations like Discovery and History have gone completely to hell. Discovery used to be science, now it's "trick my truck". History used to be about history, now it's "ice road truckers" or some such nonsense.
But 500 channels! Yeah? How many can you watch at once? Why would I have any interest in the four or five channels devoted completely to golf when I hate that game? Or the dozen channels with nothing but women's programs? Why do I need CNN and four more like it when I have Google News for free?
Cable is obsolete.
Charge fifty cents per month for channel I actually watch and you MIGHT get me as a customer... but I don't watch much TV, anyway.
listen to Kaku's explanation in the video.
This country (and apparently everyone else's) has a terrible aliteracy problem. There's hardly any illiteracy, but the last I read, only something like 3% of Americans read a book last year.
I for one do NOT want to see a talking head. A video that actually uses the video to demonstrate something is fine, but I can read five times as fast as you can talk and get a hell of a lot more out of it.
From last week's Illinois Times: a story about H-2B workers. If you read it, it will anger you. It isn't just tech workers who suffer.
I seldom connect to any public hotspot. And I never engage in commerce on My phone. But then, I have unlimited data so I really don't need a hotspot.
Being safe from annoyance has little connection to being safe from death and serious injury. The worst thing that can happen on a computer (outside the medical and industrial fields) is you have to buy a new one. You're far more likely to drop and break your tablet than have it ruined by a hacker. Hell, a computer won't even give you a paper cut.
As to "safe" computers, almost everyone (including me until recently) thinks you can't install a program on any tablet of phone without "jailbreaking" it. The fact is, that's only true of Apple products.
I discovered this after buying a tablet and discovering Winamp was no longer in Google Play. Searching for the "why" it turns out that Winamp was sold to another company and will be back up. I also learned what the /. troll "APK" was named for; its an installation file for Android, similar in structure to a Linux tarball. Installing Winamp on the tablet consisted of downloading the APK to my computer and clicking in it with my file manager. Easier to install than a Windows program.
Funny, that song is taken from A Nice Morning Drive, a SF story by some guy named Richard Foster. The original story was a protest against the newer safety features in early 1970s cars, like seat belts and padded dashes. Obviously, Mr. Foster was as young as you guys who eschew safety.
Had Windows 10 on this laptop all of 45 minutes before going back to 7. 10 was fugly and it made this old laptop really slow.
I write in Open Office and then copy and paste it into Word to send to the magazines. I HATE Word. I have kubuntu dual-boot on this box, but KDE fucked up the interface so I'm shopping for a new Linux distro.
The bigger, laptop is also running 7. Have an old Kyocera edge phone that I don't have to be worried about getting caught in a downpour, since it's waterproof. Tablet's a Samsung Galaxy 3 I bought in a pawn shop last month. Firefox keeps crashing on it.
There's also an old Dell workstation running XP that is no longer in use, and an early '90s Apple tower someone gave me. Also works but is not used.
That's because as easy as it is to install an Android program not in Google Play, most people don't believe you can do it without "jailbreaking".
APK isn't just the user name of a slashdot troll, it's an Android installation file similar to a Linux tarball and easier to install than a Windows program.
Your "Rouge Hacker" typo made me grin.
No they're not. Apples maybe, but not Androids. Installing a program in an android device is as simple as using a file manager (available in Google Play) and clicking an APK file. I discovered this recently when I bought a tablet and wanted Winamp, which had been pulled from the repository after someone else bought the company.
At any rate I was able to find the APK and it was actually an easier installation than installing a Windows program.
I was going to mod you "offtopic" for being completely wrong, but decided to correct you instead. You do NOT have to jailbreak an Android, and in fact if you're not careful when you plug it into a Windows machine with a USB cable you can brick it to the point of needing an OS reinstall. Windows won't be able to read the OS's partition, stupidly and arrogantly (as Windows always does) asks you if you want to reformat the drive. Click "yes" and your device is toast.
He's saying it because he has NO respect for the constitution, or freedom.
Don't like the idea of a water resistant phone? You're out of your tiny little mind! Most of the phones I've owned died from being dropped in a sink or my getting caught in a downpour.
My phone is water resistant, supposedly it will survive three hours under three feet of water. Just a couple of weeks ago a friend accidentally knocked my beer over, which spilled all over the phone (listing to music on it). I just took it insode, rinsed it off in the sink and it was fine.
Kyocera Edge, paid $120 for it several years ago. Before that I always carried a baggie in my wallet for downpours.
Look the word "aliterate" up. It's someone who knows how to read but doesn't.
Aliterate was the word I meant. The post was obviously not written by an illiterate or he would not have been able to comment, but was obviously written by someone who doesn't read.
No, when Microsoft talks about security they're not referring to your security, they're concerned about the security money in the bank buys.
I hope English is your second language. If not, please go back and get your GED, your post was as aliterate as the ignorance I see in facebook.
"Who's job"=="Who is job". Correct word "whose".
"In it's height"=="In it is height". Correct word "its".
He's == He Is. Possessive "His"
She's==She Is. Posessive "Hers"
It's==It is. Possessive=="its"
Please stop spreading aliteracy. Read some books, kid.