I remember those days when my phone would go two weeks without charging, I just don't remember it fondly. Even though its standby time was was good, its talk time wasn't. If I did have to talk on it it just meant instead of having ten more days left to charge it I had maybe one or two. In other words I really only had that sort of standby time if I wasn't actually using my phone. I also had to buy a separate charger to keep at work because by the time it finally did reach that last bar, it always liked to die in the middle of a work day when I need the phone the most. I ended up developing the habit of charging the phone every night anyway, just like I do now with my smart phone. Oh... and I regularly have 4+ hour conversations on my current smartphone, that *never* happened back when I had the two-week phone. I never talked longer than two hours on one charge. It's not like I was ever able to, for example, go on a business trip and not need to bring a charger along.
I also remember how big and bulky that phone was and how it occupied all that pocket space even though I wasn't getting calls very often. Yes, the less bulky phone I have now doesn't have the standby time, but at least the other things its doing with its extra data radios is keeping me in the loop with a good deal more information than was possible on what you call a flip-phone.
Buy a battery case or a battery back with a USB port. The worst case scenario is you have something that can charge other stuff in your house, something that came in handy for me during a recent power outage.
I've been saying for years software companies should be taking the lead of the UIs we see in the movies.
They often look better designed and convey more information than some of real GUIs I see.
There's a reason for that. The job of an artist designing ANYTHING for a movie/TV Show/video game is to make sure the audience understands what they're seeing in a very short amount of time. For example: You can make a filming location in California look like Miami just by getting the streets wet, implying that it rained recently. Little things like that. That's why computer UIs use 72p fonts, the sound of lightning happens at the same time its visible, and there is sound in space.
So, yes, even if Hollywood does make us chuckle from time to time, there is something to be said for "communicating clearly", and there's always something for software design to learn from that approach.
I didn't suggest that profit margins was the sole point of discussion. This whole story is a launching point for arguments for and against living wages. One of the biggies is that raises destroy businesses. All we've seen is the short-term effects of some of the employees upset about the change. That'll even itself out soon enough. In the meantime all we've gotten is a transparent shoveling of agenda.
The 'trouble' this article talks about is some drama amongst the workers, part of that fueled by the public spectacle of what happened. A critical ingredient of what's missing from this story are the answers to questions like: "Did the increase in pay cause profit margins at the company to drop?" and "... by how much?"
All this article really says is extreme actions have consequences.
The rational reason not to, at least in the case of the man in Kentucky, is that it was illegal to do so. This whole story does little more than to illustrate why shooting at them is a poor solution to the problem, and you're not helping.
Hollow. But I doubt you are that dumb. Seriously, you've been beaten over the head with it. If you need me at this point... well it's your shame, not mine.
Google gives me free search, free e-mail, free calendar, free maps, etc. etc. in return for tracking what I do and selling that information to marketers....
I'm ok with this deal, it was made willingly.
You're paying with long-term data for short-term service. Google will one day shut down GMail yet they will still have all of your data to do with as they please. I doubt you considered that when you committed to it and now you cannot undo it.
I will, however, retract at least part of my statement if you tell me that you didn't start using Google services until after the Snowden revelations.
Sort of. I'm actually not a fan of Steam, and their fans are ignorantly spreading the word that DRM is okay for permenant purchases. Despite all that, those fans know something you don't. In light of that level of moronism, your original statement was dumb in a painful sort of way.
Work is about the only place I'd want to have these, anyway. No more privacy issues and that's exactly the place where pop-up information is handy. All I ask is they make these things big and ugly to discourage wearing them out in the public.
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I remember those days when my phone would go two weeks without charging, I just don't remember it fondly. Even though its standby time was was good, its talk time wasn't. If I did have to talk on it it just meant instead of having ten more days left to charge it I had maybe one or two. In other words I really only had that sort of standby time if I wasn't actually using my phone. I also had to buy a separate charger to keep at work because by the time it finally did reach that last bar, it always liked to die in the middle of a work day when I need the phone the most. I ended up developing the habit of charging the phone every night anyway, just like I do now with my smart phone. Oh... and I regularly have 4+ hour conversations on my current smartphone, that *never* happened back when I had the two-week phone. I never talked longer than two hours on one charge. It's not like I was ever able to, for example, go on a business trip and not need to bring a charger along.
I also remember how big and bulky that phone was and how it occupied all that pocket space even though I wasn't getting calls very often. Yes, the less bulky phone I have now doesn't have the standby time, but at least the other things its doing with its extra data radios is keeping me in the loop with a good deal more information than was possible on what you call a flip-phone.
Buy a battery case or a battery back with a USB port. The worst case scenario is you have something that can charge other stuff in your house, something that came in handy for me during a recent power outage.
I've been saying for years software companies should be taking the lead of the UIs we see in the movies.
They often look better designed and convey more information than some of real GUIs I see.
There's a reason for that. The job of an artist designing ANYTHING for a movie/TV Show/video game is to make sure the audience understands what they're seeing in a very short amount of time. For example: You can make a filming location in California look like Miami just by getting the streets wet, implying that it rained recently. Little things like that. That's why computer UIs use 72p fonts, the sound of lightning happens at the same time its visible, and there is sound in space.
So, yes, even if Hollywood does make us chuckle from time to time, there is something to be said for "communicating clearly", and there's always something for software design to learn from that approach.
I wish I was so smart that a common misuse of an apostrophe could render a sentence unreadable.
I didn't suggest that profit margins was the sole point of discussion. This whole story is a launching point for arguments for and against living wages. One of the biggies is that raises destroy businesses. All we've seen is the short-term effects of some of the employees upset about the change. That'll even itself out soon enough. In the meantime all we've gotten is a transparent shoveling of agenda.
The 'trouble' this article talks about is some drama amongst the workers, part of that fueled by the public spectacle of what happened. A critical ingredient of what's missing from this story are the answers to questions like: "Did the increase in pay cause profit margins at the company to drop?" and "... by how much?"
All this article really says is extreme actions have consequences.
The rational reason not to, at least in the case of the man in Kentucky, is that it was illegal to do so. This whole story does little more than to illustrate why shooting at them is a poor solution to the problem, and you're not helping.
Yep, I can remember all the way back to 2013!
Hollow. But I doubt you are that dumb. Seriously, you've been beaten over the head with it. If you need me at this point... well it's your shame, not mine.
Google gives me free search, free e-mail, free calendar, free maps, etc. etc. in return for tracking what I do and selling that information to marketers....
I'm ok with this deal, it was made willingly.
You're paying with long-term data for short-term service. Google will one day shut down GMail yet they will still have all of your data to do with as they please. I doubt you considered that when you committed to it and now you cannot undo it.
I will, however, retract at least part of my statement if you tell me that you didn't start using Google services until after the Snowden revelations.
Heh. I remember a friend of mine over at a Linux-only shop would get mad because I'd send him links to videos often they'd cause his browser to crash.
If these people are as dumb as you say and, presumably, you're well above them, then I don't need to.
Sort of. I'm actually not a fan of Steam, and their fans are ignorantly spreading the word that DRM is okay for permenant purchases. Despite all that, those fans know something you don't. In light of that level of moronism, your original statement was dumb in a painful sort of way.
So it's extra embarrassing for you that they don't see your phantom irony.
Escape one monopolist by flocking to another? I guess the irony in that is lost on most Steam fans.
That's because the 'Steam fans' know more than you.
I don't see the problem with that.
posted from my Android phone.
Everyone knows automobiles were endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights to have everyone get out of the fucking way.
The creator also endowed automobiles with headlights, seatbelts, turn signals, stoplights, and on the seventh day, traffic laws.
Once email is working again I'll send them an e-card.
No, there isn't. Perhaps if the drone had a weapon of some sort self-defense might apply.
Note to mods: He meant Bush.
Kind of like your cell phone?
You're really stretching the definition of "kind of" there, bub.
Right, because nothing screams extreme sexual exhaustion like going to a nerd site to declare your loyalty to the 'clit mouse'.
The only intuitive interface is the nipple and it will be forever great.
... for those who don't scroll much.
Work is about the only place I'd want to have these, anyway. No more privacy issues and that's exactly the place where pop-up information is handy. All I ask is they make these things big and ugly to discourage wearing them out in the public.
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Yes, that's possible, and yes that's basically how it works.