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Comment Re:Why RCS? (Score 1) 77

by zixxt (#60743084) Attached to: Google is Rolling Out End-To-End Encryption for RCS in Android Messages Beta

I disagree. SMS is not free, and it is controlled by megacorporations (phone carriers).
SMS doesn't work (or at least, not well) on a non-cellular, Internet-connected devices such as PCs and tablets.

Say what? SMS is free! It's been free for most of the world for the past 10-15 years. When I did not have have cell phone service I used to SMS/MMS my friends everyday all just by using E-Mail. And I still use email to SMS/MMS back and forth whilst on my Desktop when I'm too lazy to hunt down my phone.

Comment Re:Pennsylvanians never learn (Score 0) 89

by zixxt (#59143746) Attached to: Google Contractors In Pittsburgh Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union

I grew up outside of Pittsburgh when the steel industry collapsed. There were many factors for this, but a large part was the absurdly large salaries that the steel workers were making made the price of US steel completely uncompetitive. It was a case of the unions being too strong, and demanding too much money. All things in life need a balance..

Tell that to the CEO's and board members making too much money and being too strong first before you rant against the workers.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: what laptop to buy for my first employee ? 2

Submitted by vikingpower
vikingpower writes: Until now, yours truly has been running as a one-man freelancer show. However, since January 1 the first employee is here, and of course I'm mighty proud of a stellarly clever young person working for me. She works remote (I'm in one European capital, she in another), and I need to buy her a laptop. That's a bit of a puzzle: as she's straight out of university and a non-techie, she basically only knows one OS: Windows, although she could get comfortable with Mac OS. However, as a long-time (server-side) programmer, I feel Apple hardware is seriously over-priced. Also, my brilliant firstemployee will mostly do research, and hardly needs anything more than a browser, Office or Office-like software (yes, I'm looking at you, Libre Office, and I love you!), and bibliography software. Should I get her a Chromebook ? A mid-level laptop with ye standarde OEM Windows installation ? Any thoughts ?

Comment Smaller screen size please. (Score 2) 41

by zixxt (#55608327) Attached to: Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report

What is up with huge screen sizes anymore? Before you had the galaxy S with a good size screen and left the bigger screens for the Note and Mega series. Now even the Galaxy S line is a monster to hold in hand, I guess my last Galaxy will be the S7 since its still had a sane and manageable display size.

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