Then why aren't you buying your own modem for less than $50 and saving yourself the money every month? I mean, I get it, I think Comcast is for the birds too but honestly bitching about something you can buy yourself and they'll absolutely allow you to take on all the risk for is not something to choose to complain about.
Wasn't Gmail the first to introduce the conversational layout? I remember the first time I saw it I was blown away over how simple the idea was yet how much impact it made on UX.
Not quite, Microsoft Outlook had conversational layout in 2003. There are probably other programs that had it even earlier than that, but Outlook was probably one of the most mainstream.
The improvement that Google made was that the conversation included the emails you sent, not just the ones you received. Sadly, it took another 7 years before Microsoft got around to updating Outlook to include that feature.
Target doesn't want to ditch the magstripe. They do incredible amounts of data mining based off of data on the magstripe.
See: How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did.
Chip-and-Pin doesn't provide magstripe data to Target. Target can't build its demographic data. That's going to hurt sales.
Not that being Apple has done that much good for their computing platform. They are still the same marginal also-ran that they have been since before Linux ever started.
Last year, the Mac took 45% of all profits in the PC market and earnt an average 19% operating margin on its Mac sales.
In comparison, it was 4% for Dell and less than that for HP, Lenovo, and Acer.
Pretty good for a "marginal also-ran" if you ask me.
But that's hard to do with Microsoft dictating the software upgrade timetable.
Looking at the lifecycle fact sheet, Microsoft are currently giving 9 years notice on when 8.1 will end extended support.
How many years do they want? If they cannot manage with nine years notice, realistically how will a few extra years help?
Secondly, what makes them think that if they installed Linux that they wouldn't need to do any further upgrades?
It's Window 8 only, right?
To be fair to Microsoft, this is not a new strategy for them. Windows 7 SP1 can only go up to DirectX 11.1 and Windows Visa SP2 can only go up to DirectX 10.1.
Unless I've read the history of this chart incorrectly, then I would assume that both DirectX 12 and 12.1 would be compatible with Windows 8, but that you'll need to upgrade to Windows 8.1 if you want to get DirectX 12.2
Case in point, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college, and I don't think anybody would say he made a mistake.
True, but for every Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, there are probably hundreds of others who drop out of college and never make anything of it.
Just because a small few did well out of it, doesn't automatically mean that everyone will.
It seems to me that this could be interpreted to allow the following scenario: A police informant runs out of gas in front of your house. You let him in to use your phone so he can get a ride. The police then mysteriously show up wanting in. You tell them no but from behind you the informant yells "come right in."
That's not what's going on in this case though.
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Using your case as an example, you kindly let the informant in. Later, police come to your door. The officer asks "may we search your place?" You say "no". Doesn't matter what the informant says. Your "no" still rules, as long as you are still there. That's still going to be the case.
US v. Matlock, 1974 allowed the search as long as someone who could consent did consent. "Government must show, inter alia, not only that it reasonably appeared to the officers that the person had authority to consent, but also that the person had actual authority to permit the search..."
Georgia v. Randolph, 2006, changed it so that if any occupant objected, then the search could not take place.
Today's ruling, Fernandez v. California clarified and limited the exception from Georgia v. Randolph. If the person who objected to the search isn't there, and the person there is able to and does consent to a search, the search is valid.
Don't think of this as an Android phone, it will never be marketed that way.
Think of it as a new operating system than just so happens to be easy enough to have Android apps ported to it.
If the changes to support maps, in-app billing and the Nokia store are as simple as Nokia makes out to be - then it's a bit of a no brainer for developers to do. Especially since it's far less effort than building a new app for a whole new platform (like, say, Tizen).
Finally, yes, Nokia could have just shoved out a pure Android phone with decent hardware - but, against the mighty Samsung's advertising budget and the fact that all the other OEMs are unable to turn a profile - how exactly do people think that Nokia will make enough money?
Not to mention that Nokia would be beholden to Google and where Google wants to take Android, which may not be in their best interests. It's a gutsy move, but if they didn't do something radically different then there is an extremely good chance that they'd just be another Android OEM making a loss.
Even the highly praised Moto X had a price cut in January - an immediate indication that it's not selling as well as hoped.
Lots of people have packages with tonnes of text messages making them, essentially, free or very low cost - however SMS doesn't do anything beyond 1:1 communication in plain old text. So picture sharing and group chats are out.
MMS can do that, but it's often excluded from SMS packages - so after a few messages it can start to get rather expensive. Even more so when you are sending these things to different countries.
iMessage can do that too and it's nicely integrated into iOS. If your friends aren't using iOS though then it all falls down.
So, combining these all together gets you the following wish list:
WhatsApp (and the like) fill this gap.
In the future, I expect to see an update to WhatsApp on Android that allows it to take over as the main SMS application. That way it can work in the same way as iMessage on iOS - if you send a message and the recipient is on WhatsApp then it goes via them. If not, then it gets sent as a plain old text message.
So, clicking on that 'learn more' link at the top of the page puts Trend Micro into an uproar that "yourbrowser.net" is:
Details: Verified fraud page or threat source
Suspected fraud page or threat source
Associated with spam or possibly compromised
Rating in progress. Trend Micro Web Reputation is currently set to block pages that have not been checked for safety.
Irony, or on purpose?
Oh, yeah, the mobile site.
I recommend it gets the same treatment as the Beta. Shitcan them both.
I've been reading Slashdot on my mobile using AvantSlash for many many years. It's sole reason for living is so that I don't have to try and use the official mobile site.
Maybe it's worth a look?
$7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media
and have only started to realize some improvement on related sites. With ad revenue declining and not expected to pick up (read: everyone who uses Slashdot uses adblocking softwarwe), it appears that the Slashdot stewardship experiment by Dice Holdings has been a financial failure.
Since the site has been redesigned in a user-hostile fashion with a very generic styling, this reader surmises Dice Holdings is looking to transform or transfer the brand into a generic Web 3.0 technology property. The name may be more valuable than the user community (since we drive no revenue nor particularly use Dice.com's services).
You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
