Can the word cuckold be applied to a woman who knows her husband is carrying on affairs with other women but does nothing about it? Or is that strictly a term for a man in that situation?
It doesn't mattter what Google began as or what Google was a decade ago.
Any corporate entity with the amount of power that Google has will draw on-board people of a certain mindset. Companies that touch base with the admen become creepy. Read Pohl & Kornbluth's "The Space Merchants" which was written in 1952.
The important question is whether the 'system level' toggle that is set by the app is available to any other app running on the system. If it's a hidden function that Google intends to work only with their Google Photos app, then it should be toggled off on an uninstall. If it's 'open' then perhaps it's okay that it isn't toggled off on uninstall, because it might be a function some other app has toggled on.
So, is it a system level toggle that Google provides control over on an open API function?
Castor beans? It takes many hours to die from the poison of the amanita phalloides. The symptoms don't show up for about a day, then the horrible slow painful death starts happening. When graves from the middle ages are exhumed they can tell if it was a death from amanita (death cap) mushroom poisoning by the facial expression on the corpse. Castor beans produce a needlessly swift death. You wouldn't have to slip more than one or two tainted horns with a 'more will be coming' warning to quickly eradicate the superstition.
DeBeers expends a lot of resources making their 'natural' diamonds traceable to their source. This assures the buyer that the diamond they are getting they are getting, though chemically and physically indistinguishable from a lab-produced diamond, is 'authentic.'
If the poachers were traceable by the same methods, we could simply track them down and kill them slowly with claw hammers.
Apple would never, ever, want to lock everyone in to their services. They seek to sell to the richest 20% of the people. Look at their product line: they never make anything at a price even close to the average for that classification of device type.
Their whole marketing scheme involves letting people feel elite for buying their products. That's how cult deals work.
So all this cheap hardware gets deployed, then swapped out a whole bunch of times. The waste stream is much, much bigger because you're routinely scrapping out cheaply thrown together motherboards, etc.
Software engineers say 'give us much more money to make software that is ten times as complex so you can throw it on cheap hardware to run.'
Are we surprised?
The trick is, robust hardware is robust hardware. It's done, you test it, then you build quality metrics into the process of building it and you're done. Complicated software to accommodate less robust hardware is bigger, more complex, and thus more prone to software bugs. You fix it by making it even more complex.
But the software guys will be there to get paid to write even more of it. Yay.
I'd imagine Facebook puts more resources into keeping the tracking and Ad-serving hardware 100% operational. The rest of the infrastructure is just the chicken feed sprinkle.
Are they still using musty old units that were spun up out of nothing during the French Revolution? That metre that was supposedly a perfect multiple of the earth's radius? (oops!) What happened to the 10 month calendar?
I have several French coins from the era, when they thought they had done a big enough thing to start renumbering the calendar years. Coins for a little while were numbered 'The year 2' and 'the year 3' and so on.
Those dumb Revolutionary Committees. All we have left from their little ego trip (the French reset and did their revolution again a few times since then) are their arbitrary units of measure that aren't scaled to anything particular in the human experience.
There's even a new fifth-place contender. The new Google Play console/tv deal. They are selling them at WalMart now, with a Google branded proprietary game controller right next to the main unit in the display. It will let you play all your Play Store games (Flappy bird on the big screen!!!) on your TeeVee set.
When is Apple going to publish current iWatch sales figures? The new product is cratering, a dismal failure. Word is getting out, the thing is a dud.
Apple is still selling phones, but most of us* aren't willing to spend that much on a phone. I use a Nokia that I bought at Radio shack for $69 and a $35/month Virgin Mobile no-contract service. People are gonna figure it out. Even Apple customers, eventually.
(*the rest of the world, i.e. the rest of the market for phone devices that doesn't already have an Applephone.)
The history is still happening. Look for a Windows 10 hypefest like nothing you've seen before. Out of it will come the Nokia Win 10 phones. Unlike you, I have actually used a recent Nokia (a few minutes ago) and I know where it's headed. Android is fragmenting and quite possibly will self-destruct. Microsoft is going to help that along, to be certain.
WinRT is dead. You can buy reasonable mid-range Windows 8.1 tablets with x86 processors in them, for $100-400 now at places as approachable as WalMart.
I can't wait to install Windows 10 on my Asus Transformer tablet. I haven't even turned on my 10" Android Tablet (another Asus) in weeks.
I and many others will be installing Windows 10 on our Nokia phones in less than a month. I don't forsee the phone hardware that I bought ceasing to continue to be produced in the near future.
Yes, they sloughed off some of the croft. The old Nokia died completely independent of Microsoft, which is the only reason Microsoft could afford to buy it.
It isn't just that modern computers are 'completed.' They are essentially closed off. The old machines some of us grew up with powered up to a programming interface. A prompt at which you could start typing in a BASIC program for the most part.
Modern software systems have abstracted things completely away from this sort of interface, for better in the case of usability but for worse in terms of prodding a young new user to actually learn to program it. There are huge abstract toolchains that have to be installed and a budding programmer can only write code at the topmost layer of the abstraction. No kid is going to write an 'Android app' straight out of the box after reading a few chapters in the introductory manual that comes with an Android device.
This is the same mission that the Raspberry Pi was designed to fulfill. Even to the point of the Pi serving as the modern-day BBC Micro that it's designers has grown up with.
There's always room for more than one pedagogical computer intended for schoolkids, I guess.
So when are all the adult hackers gonna climb on this one and gripe about it, as many have with the Pi? (clue: it wasn't designed for you.)
The 9v battery would have to be changed very frequently.
Anyway '9v battery' analogies and references are now obsolete. Have you noticed how expensive those freaking things are now? All modern designs have switched to batteries made out of a few AA cells.
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Can the word cuckold be applied to a woman who knows her husband is carrying on affairs with other women but does nothing about it? Or is that strictly a term for a man in that situation?
It doesn't mattter what Google began as or what Google was a decade ago.
Any corporate entity with the amount of power that Google has will draw on-board people of a certain mindset. Companies that touch base with the admen become creepy. Read Pohl & Kornbluth's "The Space Merchants" which was written in 1952.
The important question is whether the 'system level' toggle that is set by the app is available to any other app running on the system. If it's a hidden function that Google intends to work only with their Google Photos app, then it should be toggled off on an uninstall. If it's 'open' then perhaps it's okay that it isn't toggled off on uninstall, because it might be a function some other app has toggled on.
So, is it a system level toggle that Google provides control over on an open API function?
But there are also hornets, and wasps, on reddit. Hornets and wasps seek out and kill honeybees.
Castor beans? It takes many hours to die from the poison of the amanita phalloides. The symptoms don't show up for about a day, then the horrible slow painful death starts happening. When graves from the middle ages are exhumed they can tell if it was a death from amanita (death cap) mushroom poisoning by the facial expression on the corpse. Castor beans produce a needlessly swift death. You wouldn't have to slip more than one or two tainted horns with a 'more will be coming' warning to quickly eradicate the superstition.
DeBeers expends a lot of resources making their 'natural' diamonds traceable to their source. This assures the buyer that the diamond they are getting they are getting, though chemically and physically indistinguishable from a lab-produced diamond, is 'authentic.'
If the poachers were traceable by the same methods, we could simply track them down and kill them slowly with claw hammers.
Also add in some powdered amanita phalloides. Just for flavor. Superstitious people striving for special animal rarities deserve a treat.
Furthermore they haven't even really hit their stride in quite a few less mature markets like China.
Indications are, Apple won't be selling many more 'luxury class' personal electronics to China at all.
Oh, and while looking up that link about China, I noticed that today, Apple lost $69B in value. Ouch!
Only if you insist on running your Linux on a FAT filesystem.
There used to be distros that were designed to do that.
In the classic essay 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' the people writing the Cathedral code were the GNU Emacs development team.
Just sayin'.
Apple would never, ever, want to lock everyone in to their services. They seek to sell to the richest 20% of the people. Look at their product line: they never make anything at a price even close to the average for that classification of device type.
Their whole marketing scheme involves letting people feel elite for buying their products. That's how cult deals work.
So all this cheap hardware gets deployed, then swapped out a whole bunch of times. The waste stream is much, much bigger because you're routinely scrapping out cheaply thrown together motherboards, etc.
It doesn't sound very green.
Software engineers say 'give us much more money to make software that is ten times as complex so you can throw it on cheap hardware to run.'
Are we surprised?
The trick is, robust hardware is robust hardware. It's done, you test it, then you build quality metrics into the process of building it and you're done. Complicated software to accommodate less robust hardware is bigger, more complex, and thus more prone to software bugs. You fix it by making it even more complex.
But the software guys will be there to get paid to write even more of it. Yay.
I'd imagine Facebook puts more resources into keeping the tracking and Ad-serving hardware 100% operational. The rest of the infrastructure is just the chicken feed sprinkle.
Are they still using musty old units that were spun up out of nothing during the French Revolution? That metre that was supposedly a perfect multiple of the earth's radius? (oops!) What happened to the 10 month calendar?
I have several French coins from the era, when they thought they had done a big enough thing to start renumbering the calendar years. Coins for a little while were numbered 'The year 2' and 'the year 3' and so on.
Those dumb Revolutionary Committees. All we have left from their little ego trip (the French reset and did their revolution again a few times since then) are their arbitrary units of measure that aren't scaled to anything particular in the human experience.
There's even a new fifth-place contender. The new Google Play console/tv deal. They are selling them at WalMart now, with a Google branded proprietary game controller right next to the main unit in the display. It will let you play all your Play Store games (Flappy bird on the big screen!!!) on your TeeVee set.
When is Apple going to publish current iWatch sales figures? The new product is cratering, a dismal failure. Word is getting out, the thing is a dud.
Apple is still selling phones, but most of us* aren't willing to spend that much on a phone. I use a Nokia that I bought at Radio shack for $69 and a $35/month Virgin Mobile no-contract service. People are gonna figure it out. Even Apple customers, eventually.
(*the rest of the world, i.e. the rest of the market for phone devices that doesn't already have an Applephone.)
The rest is history
The history is still happening. Look for a Windows 10 hypefest like nothing you've seen before. Out of it will come the Nokia Win 10 phones. Unlike you, I have actually used a recent Nokia (a few minutes ago) and I know where it's headed. Android is fragmenting and quite possibly will self-destruct. Microsoft is going to help that along, to be certain.
WinRT is dead. You can buy reasonable mid-range Windows 8.1 tablets with x86 processors in them, for $100-400 now at places as approachable as WalMart.
I can't wait to install Windows 10 on my Asus Transformer tablet. I haven't even turned on my 10" Android Tablet (another Asus) in weeks.
I and many others will be installing Windows 10 on our Nokia phones in less than a month. I don't forsee the phone hardware that I bought ceasing to continue to be produced in the near future.
Yes, they sloughed off some of the croft. The old Nokia died completely independent of Microsoft, which is the only reason Microsoft could afford to buy it.
It isn't just that modern computers are 'completed.' They are essentially closed off. The old machines some of us grew up with powered up to a programming interface. A prompt at which you could start typing in a BASIC program for the most part.
Modern software systems have abstracted things completely away from this sort of interface, for better in the case of usability but for worse in terms of prodding a young new user to actually learn to program it. There are huge abstract toolchains that have to be installed and a budding programmer can only write code at the topmost layer of the abstraction. No kid is going to write an 'Android app' straight out of the box after reading a few chapters in the introductory manual that comes with an Android device.
This is the same mission that the Raspberry Pi was designed to fulfill. Even to the point of the Pi serving as the modern-day BBC Micro that it's designers has grown up with.
There's always room for more than one pedagogical computer intended for schoolkids, I guess.
So when are all the adult hackers gonna climb on this one and gripe about it, as many have with the Pi? (clue: it wasn't designed for you.)
Snowden did many other nations a favor by showing them that they have been spied on and how.
The recursion inherent in you calling said people "white trash" does bring to mind some interesting possibilities.
The 9v battery would have to be changed very frequently.
Anyway '9v battery' analogies and references are now obsolete. Have you noticed how expensive those freaking things are now? All modern designs have switched to batteries made out of a few AA cells.