Re: I'm curious
You missed the useful bit. It's not the 200 dollars. It's that there's not a *lot* of point in setting up multi-CDN if your authoritatives are tied to one of the providers that you're trying to mitigate against
130 posts • joined 19 Jan 2009
So tired of the "premium" products getting fewer and fewer features. Likes phones ditching the earphone port after having ditched removable battery and more. On the plus side the Samsung galaxy A line is cheaper than the S line while being perfectly sufficient and featuring the beloved 3.5mm socket.
>NT's better designed,
You meant the NT that could freeze for a second when you inserted a CD? Good one. Or do you mean its more recent W10 offspring that can still be crashed by Excel? Shite the whole lot. And I'm no fan boy. The competing offerings are far from perfect.
Not so sure. People love their fb sadly, which is why states have a hard time recovering taxes: the main means of leverage they could use (ban fb it in the country till it complies) is out if reach. So my hunch is that users are hooked enough thst a good proportion would be ready to pay.
Then they'd be customers of course, which fb doesn't want. The customer is king. Supposedly.
Here the data is the call's contents. The conversation. That's what (they claim) they don't have. Not the call itself.
Other data about the call, on top of contents, is date time duration etc.
Data about the call itself:
Date
Time
Duration
Byte-stream contents
Towers
Nb bytes
Etc
Data about the concersation:
Name of caller
Name of recipient
Languages spoken
Speed of speech
Nb of pauses
Transcript
Translation
Etc
Now they didn't get the second set of data but they sure get the first one. But one.
Anyways. Potahto potayto. One thing is for sure. The so called metadata is at least as useful to them (and unwelcome to us) as the conversation itself. So saying "it's just metadata" is pure deception. It's very much data. And private data too.
>its specifically data that describes another piece of data.
Except it's not in this case.
Metadata is: The duration is expressed in seconds.
Not: The call lasted for 57 seconds.
Metadata is: The IP addresses are in the IP V4 format.
Not: The visited website was 121.131.141.151.
Metadata is: The time is using a 24-hour clock.
Not: The call was made at 20:53.
Liars!
You can install MS office from the play store nowadays. So chromebooks do what the vast majority of people use their PC for: browse the net, watch movies, basic office work. The issue sems to be that most people buy a chromebook because it's the cheapest possible PC. And therefore the hardware is usually crap.
Gimmicks like video pause on eye movement is not one of them.
Waterproofness is (thanks sony).
Screen usable in daylight (no useless 4K thank you very much)
Theft/loss prevention that works.
For car use, GPS navigation that works and dashcam feature would be great too,
A bluetooth standard that is standard (can't ne used in a VW system)
Better camera image stabilisation and low light performance.
Dual Xenon flash.
I love apple's "save the entire phone" backup.
Built-in DLNA for streaming
The self healing rubber of the Nokias
And the usual like better battery life ( I like the b&w screen on low battery) and of course keep removable battery and SD slot
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