When you bought the car with satellite radio it should have been made clear from the beginning that it included an n day trial subscription. As far as I know autopilot isnâ(TM)t sold as a monthly subscription. Your analogy would work if you bought the car and the sticker said lifetime subscription to satellite radio, but it still expired after n days.

Not apologizing for them, (because I think itâ(TM)s awful) but just to answer your question, the way those tags work are that theyâ(TM)re just a dumb RFID / NFC / BLE chip, broadcasting a unique serial number, they dont actually do any location tracking themselves. Any time a device running the tracking app sees one of these tags, that device sends its own location to the server. So it does legitimately rely on people letting themselves be tracked at all times. In heavily populated areas it kind of works okay, because eventually some sap running the app will happen to walk by your lost thing, but if nobody around it is dumb enough to run the app all the time then it doesnâ(TM)t do anything. And of course this iOS change makes it even less likely that people will keep allowing the app to keep tracking them (especially since the free tag they got as swag at whatever conferrence is long lost by now)

Thatâ(TM)s probably because you have undo-send turned on, and youâ(TM)re trying to leave the page while the undo timer is still ticking. Iâ(TM)ve never had it ask that just leaving the page normally

Don't know. It was for a business so the friend in question didn't even bother going back to the store to ask for the money back, he just ate it. He at least agreed not to go back there next time, so I guess he learned a lesson.

Iâ(TM)ve got one too. Friend walked into Staples and bought a Surface Pro. (Early one, either first or second gen). Despite the fact that it comes with Windows 10 pro, they sold him a hundred-and-something dollar boxed Home-to-pro upgrade, and even had the nerve to charge $80 to âoeinstallâ it, even though the shrink wrapped box was still sealed and it still obviously had the preload image installed.

So, it's Geocaching but without the tupperware full of swag at the end? Sounds dull.

Leave it to Disney to find a way to charge MORE for staying in a hotel with no windows.

The worst part is that it actually has exactly what you're looking for built-in to the code, they just restrict it to only managed iPads in an educational institution. https://help.apple.com/deploym...
It's also a massive headache to get set up and requires each student to have an apple ID so for privacy reasons we can't actually use it. But get creative enough and tell apple you home school your kids you might be able to get somewhere :P

Your parents, for raising you to be such a moron.

Give a kid a Windows PC and they learn how to use Windows. Give a kid a ChromeBook and they learn how to use the Internet. At least the Windows kid will have learned something they can use later in life.

You're both wrong. Give a kid a Windows PC and they learn how to use Windows to launch an application, and use that application.

Give a kid a Chromebook and they learn how to use ChromeOS to launch an application, and use that application.

Give a kid an iPad and they learn how to use iOS to launch an application, and use that application.

Either way the OS is such a minimal part of the lesson, it's the application itself that provides the meaningful skill. It makes very little difference to the learning whether that application is written in VB.Net and presented directly from the OS, or written in JavaScript and presented through a web browser.

See: Microsoft Word vs Word Online, Photoshop vs Pixlr, etc. Sure in some cases native applications are more powerful, but like it was mentioned above, the overwhelming majority (especially at lower grades) don't need that kind of power.

Also, regardless of the device, that "they learn how to use the internet" is one of the absolute most important things they do. Sure it might not go on a resume, but being able to find and verify information on the internet is one of the most important life skills out there.

The intern they hired to mount the sensor on the pole skipped the part about "This end up"

Thereâ(TM)s a company called neverware that releases a free-for-personal-use distro of chromium OS customized to install/run on x86 called CloudReady. Iâ(TM)m not affiliated in any way, just evaluated it for use at work. Seemed to work decently, we ony decided against it because lf the cost of using it commercially.

I'll give you that, the iOS home screen is my worst pet peeve. I ended up putting my dozen or so apps into folders by subject so I can find stuff pretty much instantly but nobody else using my phone would stand a chance.

but I'll still take it over the android way, my inlaws get a new Samsung note every other year and every time it's a totally new learning curve trying to find where all the settings got moved to this time.

I know you can install your own launcher on android and get mostly the same experience, (used to use Nova Launcher and highly reckoned it) but like I said all the settings pages, where the buttons are and what they do etc, there's no good reason to mess with that and yet everyone but ios always seems to. (Even Mac OS is guilty of it so I'm not totally defending apple either)

That's a good way to set up a protection racket. "That's a nice movie you've got there. Shame if someone were to distribute it for free..." ( which for the record the riaa/mpaa deserve at least that, but it could be damaging to smaller, honest publishers if there are any left)

The correct solution is to treat services like that as common carriers. If there is bad stuff happening on the service, use existing legal processes to subpoena logs or whatever and go after the actual "bad" guys.

10 years without a UI update is EXACTLY what I would want in an OS. The whole point of an OS is to allow me to run software and stay the hell out of my way. Changing a usable UI just for the sake of changing it is just a learning curve nobody needs.