I mean, or don't, its not like you "should" by Samsung vs a MotoG a whatever else. But its not like they don't make a phone that meets your stated requirements.
Agreed. I run windows 10 on most of my pcs at home and at work. (not all. I do have linux and my laptop is OSX) but most of my systems are 10.
It can be tamed to be reasonable pretty easily. But it's inexcusable that they've gone so far out of the way to make those settings in-accessible. Group policy editor + service manager + powershell?!! When you used to be able to change the cortana setting that controlled whether it searched the web right in the cortana settings gear in cortana?
Well to be fair, it sounds like he's looking for something smaller than a 'small laptop', but the reality is you are correct. that market has pretty much died out.
Last I checked there's still some hybrid-tablet stuff with detachable keyboards in the even smaller space, but they're finicky at best.
His best bet is to get a ~13" laptop from dell or something and call it a day.
I know of a woman who did that. Her oven burned out. (didn't catch fire or anything, just killed itself.)
More on point, if for example you could remotely turn ovens and burners on, you definitely will start fires *somewhere*... Lots of people leave flammable stuff on or near the stove / oven when its not in use; especially in really small kitchens... where it often doubles as 'counter space'. Or people will leave dirty / greasy pans in the oven, or pizza boxes.... just do a web search for pictures of messy kitchens, then imagine turning the stove on in each of them...
With enough home automation and internet connected nonsense and some hacking we should be able to devise ways to start fires. Overload an electric car charging system, or remotely operate a stove or oven or furnace, or other system. Lots of these devices are designed to fail safely, but with internet connectivity and computer controls and not being designed to cope with malicious deliberate hacking attempts I'm sure there's stuff out there that you could reprogram to fail badly.
And just think of the gas lighting you could do with this home automation stuff. You could have people thinking the home was completely haunted with a hacked system, or have them think they are crazy, or drive them crazy... with subtle malicious activity that isn't too overtly obvious.
"Nothing to do with immigrants. Trump just doesn't want his family members cloud accounts searchable when they cross the border."... is what I would say if I wanted to somehow associate it with Trump.
In all liklihood this has nothing to do with Trump and has probably been percolating up through the system for a while now and has nothing to do with any president past or present.
But would you like a relationship with amazon's sexbot that only puts out after you've recently spent enough on amazon purchases, and nags you all the time that you haven't spent enough on it, and how it wants you to buy all sorts of worthless crap you don't need. And then when you finally do have sex with it, it compares you to other amazon sexbot users and suggests various sponsored products that could improve your performance...and then just before your finished it reminds you to order more tuna, and that your mom called...
Ok... I suppose this might already sound familiar to some people... but even so... how would this be an improvement?
The rights to what exactly? The word salad that makes up his name?
There are easily thousands of people with my first and last name wandering around. I certainly can't own it exclusively, nor should I be able to it.
Even if Apple & Steve Jobs had trademarked his name, it would still be restricted to an industry etc. So even if they owned steve jobs brand in conjunction with computers in the united states, I could still register that trademark to sell fruit and herbal teas. Or I could still register it to sell electronics in Mexico.
Don't think of it as a weak 3-years-late ps4 alternative. Think of it as a really souped up 3DS that also supports playing on the big screen TV, couch multiplayer, and party games.
"with poor performance"
Performance only matters in the games on the system. Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart Deluxe... etc etc all play smooth as butter. Nobody actually playing games is complaining about performance.
"and a weak lineup of games"
Agree to disagree. It's had one the best launch lineups of a Nintendo console, with some excellent exclusives. And that rabbids came in particular came out of nowhere and is getting rave reviews.
" It is true that portable gaming has little appeal to me"
OK, but would you also piss on the DS / 3DS / Gameboy... some of the best selling game platforms ever made. If they are not for you, ok, but you have to admit they've each been massive unqualified successes.
The switch is likewise headed in that direction.
"you could buy [PS4] for $199 on Amazon this last black Friday, or an Xbone S for $189... Switch...costs $300 for the bare system."
Yup. That's one way of putting it. You could also say it outsold the discounted PS4 black friday; despite not even going on sale.That is not a sign of a system that is struggling.
The PS4 overall is selling better, and that's fine. I don't deny that. The PS4 being a success doesn't mean everything else somehow failed. The switch is currently on track to be a massive success in its own right.
What reality distortion field are you laboring under? The PS4 is definitely the best selling console this 'generation' but the switch hasn't even been out a whole year, while the PS4 is over 4 years old now.
It doesn't even make sense to compare total units directly in a situation like this. Under more reasonable metrics the the PS4 is still comfortably out front, and the Xbox has been a success in its own right... but the Switch is crushing the Xbone.
I admit I was a bit skeptical of it when it was announced and at launch, especially after the WiiU was lackluster in a lot of ways.
But no, the switch is a great console. I like the drop in base and playing on the big screen, where we can play some multiplayer mariokart, and I like the pop it out and play solo capability too. The kids take it everywhere. In a lot of ways its the perfect console that could well be a successor for both the Wii and 3DS in one.
This is true, but also a bit naive. The ISP has a lot of responsibilty for the laws that get written -- to the point that they are often writing the laws the politicians sign.
Fire the politicians absolutely, but lets not pretend that the ISP is an innocent bystander.
Although in the case of piracy, its more the movie industry than the ISP that is writing the laws... but in some cases the movie industry and the ISP are related companies so perhaps its a distinction without much difference.
The upshot here is, yes, by all means, in this case, shoot the messenger in the face to send them a message. They have more real power to actually fix this than most of us do.
You keep baselessly opining that that "Nobody cares how much thinner the new iphone X is" when thicker phones keep tanking in the marketplace.
One of the top selling phones worldwide, the Moto X is 0.44mm thick, only 0.02mm thinner than the original iphone. Hardly tanking. But that's not really the point either.
While I said the original iphone was fine, I am not suggesting that everyone wants a 0.44mm slab; even the original iphone wasn't a 0.44mm slab. The design made it feel like less.
I am suggesting that, the progression of thin has long since reached the point of no real additional benefit -- by the time we'd reached the iphone 4 at 0.37 there really wasn't much point to going thinner.
And I'm not suggesting the new iphone X be 0.44mm thick. I am arguing that had it been 0.35 with more battery etc it would have sold just as well. Nobody really cares about those 5/100ths of an inch.
Do you know what would take actual courage? Not trying to perpetually one up themselves and samsung each generation to be thinnest at any cost.
The pixel 2 is thinner than the S8+ and as thin as the iphone. IF the market just wanted the thinnest phone, the pixel 2 would be usurping the S8's position at the top of the android hierachy, but its not. Its still in distant 2nd because consumers care far more about brand than thickness.
Apple could make a 0.35" thick phone and it would still sell brilliantly because it's still an Apple.
The point I was making is that the French (and German) insurance companies pay less than the list price quoted to the American consumer.
I'm not suggesting what you argued isn't true. I'm just arguing that whatever price the French are paying for their pills its usually much less than the list price an uninsured American has to pay.
Its not a laudable thing, and lowering the population is not a bad idea. But it needs to be done very gradually to avoid some very difficult transition periods.
Japan is facing some of those difficult transitions as a result of its population trends.
" It is possible that someone may mistype a username or a password."
Ok. So if they enter a username that is not in the system, it should still say "username not valid". Sure, yes, its possible you mistyped your username with another valid user name... and the system can't know... but in a lot of cases the system assuredly does know the username does NOT exist. So in those cases it should say so.
In the case you describe, it should just say, 'This is not not usernames password; ensure both username and password are correct."
"In the end, no pertinent additional information is conveyed by adding additional checks and serving up a different message when the user doesn't exist."
Of course there is. In the case username doesn't exist, and it tells me so, then I KNOW I've got the wrong username and I don't have to worry about whether my password was wrong.
No. It's really not. The insurance companies have separately negotiated substantial discounts of their own.
So if a treatment is $1,000 list, then a guy with insurance might pay $100, and the insurance company might pay $200. For a total of $300.
Meanwhile, if its covered by medicaid, medicaid pays the full $1000, because they aren't allowed to negotiate, and the government can 'afford it'.
Take a look at other countries too. like Canada and the UK, France, etc. What their health care systems pay the same pharma companies for the same drugs is straight up less. Full stop.
And then they added foils and "mythic rares". It's no longer viable to buy a booster box and have good odds of getting a particular card. Not that you need foils to play... they just prey on 'collecters'.
Sure every booster has a so-called 'rare'... but no guarantee on anything actually rare.
I'd just keep working until you are 'ready to retire' and THEN raise the subject that you'd like to retire.
Given your attitude of wanting to help the company transition; I'd go into it with the mindset that once you are 'ready to retire' that you still plan to be available for 3-6 months beyond that to transition out, help train a replacement, perhaps part time.
Many people in your type of situation transition to a part time / consulting role for several months or even years after 'retiring'. And, if they replace you in 14 days and don't want you around... that's fine, you were 'ready to retire' anyway.
Its good enough to use for targeted ads. Its good enough to use to guess who is in photos to suggest tags if you are into that.
Its not good enough to be secure. And on some level, it can't be. For logging in it should be used to pre-populate your user name... that's it. It shouldn't login based on that alone, it shouldn't give you full admin access to everything on your PC... that's idiotic.
firefox, chrome etc should have different rules when accessing devices on 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x etc.
Especially if localhost is on the same subnet. Or a tracert to the device never crosses a public internet address. With equivalent rules for IPV6.
For me at least the VAST majority of the time I'm accessing these devices I'm on the same private subnet. There's a couple scenarios at work where things are separated, and I might be accessing 10.1.1.x from 10.5.5.x etc,
It can still flag it as an insecure connection, because it is, but it shouldn't make a big fuss about it or try and warn me the sky is falling and block me. Because its not touching the internet.
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So buy a Galaxy Rugby or something.
I mean, or don't, its not like you "should" by Samsung vs a MotoG a whatever else. But its not like they don't make a phone that meets your stated requirements.
Agreed. I run windows 10 on most of my pcs at home and at work. (not all. I do have linux and my laptop is OSX) but most of my systems are 10.
It can be tamed to be reasonable pretty easily. But it's inexcusable that they've gone so far out of the way to make those settings in-accessible. Group policy editor + service manager + powershell?!! When you used to be able to change the cortana setting that controlled whether it searched the web right in the cortana settings gear in cortana?
That's some pretty arrogant bullshit.
Well to be fair, it sounds like he's looking for something smaller than a 'small laptop', but the reality is you are correct. that market has pretty much died out.
Last I checked there's still some hybrid-tablet stuff with detachable keyboards in the even smaller space, but they're finicky at best.
His best bet is to get a ~13" laptop from dell or something and call it a day.
I know of a woman who did that. Her oven burned out. (didn't catch fire or anything, just killed itself.)
More on point, if for example you could remotely turn ovens and burners on, you definitely will start fires *somewhere*... Lots of people leave flammable stuff on or near the stove / oven when its not in use; especially in really small kitchens... where it often doubles as 'counter space'. Or people will leave dirty / greasy pans in the oven, or pizza boxes.... just do a web search for pictures of messy kitchens, then imagine turning the stove on in each of them...
With enough home automation and internet connected nonsense and some hacking we should be able to devise ways to start fires. Overload an electric car charging system, or remotely operate a stove or oven or furnace, or other system. Lots of these devices are designed to fail safely, but with internet connectivity and computer controls and not being designed to cope with malicious deliberate hacking attempts I'm sure there's stuff out there that you could reprogram to fail badly.
And just think of the gas lighting you could do with this home automation stuff. You could have people thinking the home was completely haunted with a hacked system, or have them think they are crazy, or drive them crazy... with subtle malicious activity that isn't too overtly obvious.
"Nothing to do with immigrants. Trump just doesn't want his family members cloud accounts searchable when they cross the border." ... is what I would say if I wanted to somehow associate it with Trump.
In all liklihood this has nothing to do with Trump and has probably been percolating up through the system for a while now and has nothing to do with any president past or present.
If it can read memory it shouldn't be able to read, it can potentially read things like credentials and private keys.
There are potentially some pretty severe issues with that even for 'typical desktop users'.
Ok. Sure. If it was actually yours.
But would you like a relationship with amazon's sexbot that only puts out after you've recently spent enough on amazon purchases, and nags you all the time that you haven't spent enough on it, and how it wants you to buy all sorts of worthless crap you don't need. And then when you finally do have sex with it, it compares you to other amazon sexbot users and suggests various sponsored products that could improve your performance...and then just before your finished it reminds you to order more tuna, and that your mom called...
Ok... I suppose this might already sound familiar to some people... but even so... how would this be an improvement?
Maybe it does the dishes? :p
Just ask anyone from Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, or Brockway.
The rights to what exactly? The word salad that makes up his name?
There are easily thousands of people with my first and last name wandering around. I certainly can't own it exclusively, nor should I be able to it.
Even if Apple & Steve Jobs had trademarked his name, it would still be restricted to an industry etc. So even if they owned steve jobs brand in conjunction with computers in the united states, I could still register that trademark to sell fruit and herbal teas. Or I could still register it to sell electronics in Mexico.
"not a hardcore gaming system"
Don't think of it as a weak 3-years-late ps4 alternative. Think of it as a really souped up 3DS that also supports playing on the big screen TV, couch multiplayer, and party games.
"with poor performance"
Performance only matters in the games on the system. Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart Deluxe... etc etc all play smooth as butter. Nobody actually playing games is complaining about performance.
"and a weak lineup of games"
Agree to disagree. It's had one the best launch lineups of a Nintendo console, with some excellent exclusives. And that rabbids came in particular came out of nowhere and is getting rave reviews.
" It is true that portable gaming has little appeal to me"
OK, but would you also piss on the DS / 3DS / Gameboy ... some of the best selling game platforms ever made. If they are not for you, ok, but you have to admit they've each been massive unqualified successes.
The switch is likewise headed in that direction.
"you could buy [PS4] for $199 on Amazon this last black Friday, or an Xbone S for $189... Switch ...costs $300 for the bare system."
Yup. That's one way of putting it. You could also say it outsold the discounted PS4 black friday; despite not even going on sale.That is not a sign of a system that is struggling.
The PS4 overall is selling better, and that's fine. I don't deny that. The PS4 being a success doesn't mean everything else somehow failed. The switch is currently on track to be a massive success in its own right.
What reality distortion field are you laboring under? The PS4 is definitely the best selling console this 'generation' but the switch hasn't even been out a whole year, while the PS4 is over 4 years old now.
It doesn't even make sense to compare total units directly in a situation like this. Under more reasonable metrics the the PS4 is still comfortably out front, and the Xbox has been a success in its own right... but the Switch is crushing the Xbone.
I admit I was a bit skeptical of it when it was announced and at launch, especially after the WiiU was lackluster in a lot of ways.
But no, the switch is a great console. I like the drop in base and playing on the big screen, where we can play some multiplayer mariokart, and I like the pop it out and play solo capability too. The kids take it everywhere. In a lot of ways its the perfect console that could well be a successor for both the Wii and 3DS in one.
This is true, but also a bit naive. The ISP has a lot of responsibilty for the laws that get written -- to the point that they are often writing the laws the politicians sign.
Fire the politicians absolutely, but lets not pretend that the ISP is an innocent bystander.
Although in the case of piracy, its more the movie industry than the ISP that is writing the laws ... but in some cases the movie industry and the ISP are related companies so perhaps its a distinction without much difference.
The upshot here is, yes, by all means, in this case, shoot the messenger in the face to send them a message. They have more real power to actually fix this than most of us do.
Uh... because a fictional 'light sabre' is any less disconnected from old cavalry swords??
The modern fencing sabre bears little resemblance to the cavalry sabre, having a thin, 88 cm (35 in) long straight blade.
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You keep baselessly opining that that "Nobody cares how much thinner the new iphone X is" when thicker phones keep tanking in the marketplace.
One of the top selling phones worldwide, the Moto X is 0.44mm thick, only 0.02mm thinner than the original iphone. Hardly tanking. But that's not really the point either.
While I said the original iphone was fine, I am not suggesting that everyone wants a 0.44mm slab; even the original iphone wasn't a 0.44mm slab. The design made it feel like less.
I am suggesting that, the progression of thin has long since reached the point of no real additional benefit -- by the time we'd reached the iphone 4 at 0.37 there really wasn't much point to going thinner.
And I'm not suggesting the new iphone X be 0.44mm thick. I am arguing that had it been 0.35 with more battery etc it would have sold just as well. Nobody really cares about those 5/100ths of an inch.
Do you know what would take actual courage?
Not trying to perpetually one up themselves and samsung each generation to be thinnest at any cost.
The pixel 2 is thinner than the S8+ and as thin as the iphone. IF the market just wanted the thinnest phone, the pixel 2 would be usurping the S8's position at the top of the android hierachy, but its not. Its still in distant 2nd because consumers care far more about brand than thickness.
Apple could make a 0.35" thick phone and it would still sell brilliantly because it's still an Apple.
The point I was making is that the French (and German) insurance companies pay less than the list price quoted to the American consumer.
I'm not suggesting what you argued isn't true. I'm just arguing that whatever price the French are paying for their pills its usually much less than the list price an uninsured American has to pay.
If I've misunderstood you, perhaps it's because you can't write?
Its not a laudable thing, and lowering the population is not a bad idea. But it needs to be done very gradually to avoid some very difficult transition periods.
Japan is facing some of those difficult transitions as a result of its population trends.
" It is possible that someone may mistype a username or a password."
Ok. So if they enter a username that is not in the system, it should still say "username not valid". Sure, yes, its possible you mistyped your username with another valid user name... and the system can't know... but in a lot of cases the system assuredly does know the username does NOT exist. So in those cases it should say so.
In the case you describe, it should just say, 'This is not not usernames password; ensure both username and password are correct."
"In the end, no pertinent additional information is conveyed by adding additional checks and serving up a different message when the user doesn't exist."
Of course there is. In the case username doesn't exist, and it tells me so, then I KNOW I've got the wrong username and I don't have to worry about whether my password was wrong.
No. It's really not. The insurance companies have separately negotiated substantial discounts of their own.
So if a treatment is $1,000 list, then a guy with insurance might pay $100, and the insurance company might pay $200. For a total of $300.
Meanwhile, if its covered by medicaid, medicaid pays the full $1000, because they aren't allowed to negotiate, and the government can 'afford it'.
Take a look at other countries too. like Canada and the UK, France, etc. What their health care systems pay the same pharma companies for the same drugs is straight up less. Full stop.
And then they added foils and "mythic rares". It's no longer viable to buy a booster box and have good odds of getting a particular card. Not that you need foils to play ... they just prey on 'collecters'.
Sure every booster has a so-called 'rare'... but no guarantee on anything actually rare.
I'd just keep working until you are 'ready to retire' and THEN raise the subject that you'd like to retire.
Given your attitude of wanting to help the company transition; I'd go into it with the mindset that once you are 'ready to retire' that you still plan to be available for 3-6 months beyond that to transition out, help train a replacement, perhaps part time.
Many people in your type of situation transition to a part time / consulting role for several months or even years after 'retiring'. And, if they replace you in 14 days and don't want you around... that's fine, you were 'ready to retire' anyway.
Its good enough to use for targeted ads. Its good enough to use to guess who is in photos to suggest tags if you are into that.
Its not good enough to be secure. And on some level, it can't be. For logging in it should be used to pre-populate your user name... that's it. It shouldn't login based on that alone, it shouldn't give you full admin access to everything on your PC... that's idiotic.
And the solution is really simple:
firefox, chrome etc should have different rules when accessing devices on 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x etc.
Especially if localhost is on the same subnet. Or a tracert to the device never crosses a public internet address. With equivalent rules for IPV6.
For me at least the VAST majority of the time I'm accessing these devices I'm on the same private subnet. There's a couple scenarios at work where things are separated, and I might be accessing 10.1.1.x from 10.5.5.x etc,
It can still flag it as an insecure connection, because it is, but it shouldn't make a big fuss about it or try and warn me the sky is falling and block me. Because its not touching the internet.