It's extra space on the LG V20, and used as such.

otherwise - functionally... visually... it's a hole top-dead-centre of the screen with a camera or two in it. It's a kludge being spun around by marketeers.

Can't speak for the third fellow, but yes. It is great.

The greatest benefit would probably be to separate out their advertisement and marketing arms.

It'll be $80 for 8+ services, + $0.50 every quarter to show growing profits, for declining services.

Netflix, having shown how to make a viable competitor to casual downloading, has give up that game and seems to want to sit with the old media folks. The VPN/geoblocking restrictions was the biggest move, but now also we see the limited introduction of geoblocking on their "own" programming (i.e., CBS deal for ST), and the nerfed access to higher quality levels for devices without hardware DRM - or, most egregiously in the case of 4K, even when all technical DRM instruments are in place it won't stream 4K without the particular device also being certified by Netflix. It's getting harder to watch something without it being better quality being sourced by other means.

Throw on top of that the effective removal of the recommendation system, the demotion of anything not Netflix created, and constant wobbling about of the UI (at least on devices). The ability to raise content to the surface, put you in easy touch with something you'll want to watch next - that value-added sort of service was not something easily replicated by your own ripped DVD collection, or "pirate" sources. Now it's half-gutted, and getting worse. There is little compelling reason anymore to use Netflix as an interface to access something, where available elsewhere.

Netflix, at $8 (or a fraction of that when shared), demonstrated how media could be distributed in such a manner as to make piracy essentially irrelevant. Just needed to keep adding that content.

Now, looking at $14 or whatever for Netflix's top tier, need to scroll through a half-dozen full-screen auto-playing standup comedy specials which have no relation to viewing history before finding something you'd be looking for.. the value proposition is lost. Just wondering when the ads will start.

The cheaper mobile choices, such as Fido/Kodoo, were bought out by the big guys, i.e. Rogers/Telus in this example, and are not much better. We had a bit of a chance with Wind, which did offer unlimited data (throttled after 5gb/mo.) within some cities but now that's shaw so who knows.

Out east, for ISP's, Eastlink appearantly hasn't had any issues for my relatives, and Aliant (now owned by Bell) was pretty good. Aliant was regularly giving speed upgrades and recently made all the fiber plans symmetrical, I'm on symmetrical gigabit in Nfld now and get ~700/700 off-island. Aliant, however, has been going downhill since they rebranded under the Bell banner, and perhaps uncoincidentally the prices have started to rise. Aliant has no data caps/unlimited usage.

I've, at various times, been a customer of Bell, Shaw, Telus, and Rogers in various parts of the country, there are no places any of them are 'good', they are all ridiculously terrible across the board. Rogers with the DNS poisoning. Shaw with below-rated performance. Bell, at the height of their deep packet inspection, throttling all sorts of traffic.

Telecoms in this country should be technological leaders, the great distances of Canada should be a driver of innovation (such as it was when we were deploying microwave links for land-lines), but instead we have this crowd of jerks.

Fluxbox supports it, I use it all the time; for example, I'll launch a windowed program from a terminal, then tab that terminal to the running window. Can switch to see the line output then, i.e., if something is amiss; or keep a SSH terminal open to a server tabbed to a browser on that servers web interface. Just a matter of CTRL-dragging one onto the other.

moo!

Ah, sure, good luck. from a command line, you can run route -n, then route del default gw 192.168.1.1 or whatever the gateway for 0.0.0.0 is, and you're internet free. It's also possible to shutdown whatever you might have for a network control (such as networkmanager) and your dhcp client (dhcpcd or similar), and setup connections manually as you like - ifconfig for most of it and wpa_supplicant for the wireless side, toss your nameserver into /etc/resolve.conf and route for getting out of your subnet as applies.

I have a reserve block of IP's on my network which aren't assigned, I use them with my laptop (doesn't generally automatically connect to anything and I manually setup connections like above) when I need to fix something or sniff packets, etc.

No sir, I'm not sure which operating systems do need to connect to the internet on boot... but most certainly not most linux flavours, where it is also trivial to blank the default gateway from a terminal and have full local access --- no internet.

Those spec's aren't too bad, I've just replaced an aging X300 with a T420s, as the softer parts have been giving out (screen bezel, speaker covers, etc.). The X300 uses an ultra-low-voltage processor at 1.2ghz, pretty anemic, had 4 GB RAM in it. I used/use Gentoo. With not much more than setting some USE flags, able to strip it of all the freedesktop stuff (consolekit, policykit, dbus, systemd, pulseaudio, etc.); have Fluxbox for the windows manager, wpa_gui + cbatticon in the tray and that is really quite lean yet fully capable of running what I wants (browser, terminals, etc).

Compile times have grown, but so long as one avoids anything with webkit and libreoffice/openoffice source builds, updates were manageable.

While I wouldn't directly recommend this route due to the probable compiling times of a typical install, it may be worthwhile if you're patient or willing to compile elsewhere (/setup some help via distcc). At a minimum though, whatever linux you might choose, would suggest compiling a custom kernel for it. There is a bit of room to eek out performance and battery life by removing the unnecessary (and perhaps being a bit caviler with the security features)..best of luck!!

Yep, all convention ships have onboard magnetic compasses. Chart plotters still have charts without GPS, large ships still have radars and echo-sounders without GPS, and large ships in confined locations will have local pilots aboard, and possibly escort tugs attached. Ships themselves are marked with lights and signals. If GPS drops out, locationing will be more difficult sure. It will not be a pan-global epidemic of ship collisions and allisions.

Amazon does indeed have such limitations; i.e., Amazon.ca allows for a lifetime 50 claims of non-delivery with a maximum value of $2,500.

Definitely, compared to large HDR screen, 11.3 surround, dirt cheap popcorn and a comfy couch. I'll watch 'er at home, yeppers.

At least around here, most of the utilities can be paid by bringing the bill into the bank. Nothwithstanding, those payments are electronically settled by the bank, so I'm not sure it's any different than posting a payment through a banks web portal.

Also, they can be made into wallets. Not particularly durable compared to something like beaver tail, but there is a market.