Comment They're... (Score 1) 192
...not aliens. They're humans from the future.
...not aliens. They're humans from the future.
Feit is an oft overlooked consideration. Known more for their LED products than camera offerings. Footage stored encrypted in camera, no subscription, no web portal.
That's a tip I will definitely take seriously. Thanks.
...some initial excitement, and couple of smaller activity spikes later in the day, Apple's stock is going sideways in after hours trading. The ennui of Apple posting massive numbers yet again, regardless of a small downturn in overall quarterly revenue and record services revenue, is just too much for most to get excited about, I guess. Including me. Apple stock is a definite hold.
...that Anker let this happen at all, but I'm generally happy with Anker products, of which I own several. This response seems responsible and reasonable, if what they say is true. I have actually been casually shopping for a multi-camera system, and I will give this one another look.
I rarely go to convention centers or stadiums for concerts, so it's not a issue for me. Where I live, or even when I travel, events I go to are in places that have a ticket office. No act is worth seeing if the the only option for tickets is to use TicketBastard.
...in my experience, is almost always complete marketing bullshit. Those go straight to the recycle bin.
...go to the venue ticket office, sometimes weeks or months before the show, and avoid TicketBastard and their absolutely cockamamie markups and "convenience fee" for printing your own damn ticket.
It is, in my opinion, which admittedly isn't worth a hill of beans to it, one of the worst businesses in America.
...switch to contract-free prepaid.
In my experience, as a long-time prepaid customer, T-Mobile is by far the best deal if you spend a lot of time in Canada or Mexico, with no added data charges and unlimited data, no matter which carrier you connect to.
A few years ago I spend some time on Pelee island in the middle of lake Erie. I could variously use data from US and Canadian carriers, depending on where I was on the island. It cost me no more than the ~$60 a month I currently pay, and no WiFi was needed. Dump the contracts.
The only exception I have found to this is in northern Michigan where AT&T is the only carrier. In that case I had to wait until I got close enough to the Canadian border so that I could use a Canadian carrier and avoid any roaming charges and data limits from AT&T.
Print is dead
Printing in the US alone is $70B a year industry. There is a lot of money to made in print publishing, and many companies are very profitable.
You should do a little research before opining about something you apparently know very little about.
...look it up, because I'm not a chess aficionado, but it's MAXIM not "Maxine Dlugy". Maxine is a woman's name.
Most English speaking Americans only speak a single language, and therefore have no clue about the use of genders in other languages, and it really shows when asinine mistakes like this are made. It took me all of 15 seconds to look up the guy's credentials. Vice paid somebody to not bother.
...that Logitech software has always been, at least for as long as I can remember, wanting for quality and timely updates. It's one reason I quit buying its products. I have a (admittedly older, but still "supported" by Logitech) wireless mouse, but I have to use third-party software to be able to use its full functionality. I have been left high and dry by Logitech's update feet of clay for long enough to know that it's an unreliable company.
The last keyboard I bought from Logitech shipped with a broken key. I had to order a replacement from, yet again, a third party. Never again.
...when they notice that you can click reader-mode and refresh to read for free?
That seems to work on most, but not all, sites. Often, particularly when reader mode isn't available, I have to disable JavaScript, but even that occasionally fails to display all the content. I have noticed, however, that using the app NoJS on the iPhone seems to work very well most of the time.
...former Sprint customer that switched to T-Mobile many years ago after experiencing lies, misinformation and terrible service from the former. Example: I once paid Sprint to upgrade my service plan so my phone would work in Asia after being assured that it would. It never did. However, the straw that broke the camel's back was when it outright refused to unlock my carrier-locked phone. I said FU to that and dumped it like the bag of trash it was.
After switching to T-Mobile (and getting an unlocked phone) I happily discovered that my service would work just about anywhere in North America (except Northern Michigan which is only serviced by AT&T) at no extra charge. Amusingly, when in Canada, or close to the border, I often had the chance use either T-Mobile or a Canadian carrier, and because T-Mobile offers truly unlimited data, I never paid a dime extra for all that great international data service. Then, after T-Mobile purchased Sprint, I got a call from T-Mobile one day wanting to discuss my plan. I shuddered, thinking "oh here we go with a rate increase." But no, they wanted to LOWER my monthly fee by $45/month because I was such a long-time (prepaid — I detest contracts) customer. If ever a company went over the top to keep my business, it's T-Moble.
It's not perfect: I get one bar of data connectivity in the metal box that is my office, but it still works well enough to stream video. So, I don't complain. Also, since the takeover of Sprint, my data connectivity has generally improved everywhere. I recently drove from the S.F. Bay Area to Eugene, OR, and I had excellent connectivity for 99% of the trip (there was a very brief period around Mt. Shasta where service quit for a couple of miles). This is a significant improvement over what it used to be.
...experience with the Apple community forums has never been good. Seemingly 99% of the time people answer who either don't understand the question, or don't actually have a relevant answer (or any answer for that matter) if they do. I always search elsewhere for answers before I waste time wading through those practically useless forums. Annoyingly, that bloody forum is often the first one up in my search results, and without fail, clicking on the link leads me to an outdated, obsolete, or outright wrong answer.
There are much better places to seek answers than Apple's awful community bullshit forums.
Yeah, there just no way Apple has thought of this. I mean they have really a small staff of low quality people, and nowhere near the revenue to do it right.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
