Re: 56k?
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So, reading even the marketing fluff, Watson Workplace is nothing more than a 'built from the ground up' collaboration work space, with some Watson words sprinkled in. No wonder IBM says that SameTime is a good alternative.
In my mind, this shows the mindless bandwagon-y trend of calling everything AI, even if something's just analytics and trends... Good riddance.
ShutUp10 - maybe i'm reading between lines, and being ESL, here's an example where i get confused:
Take the first entry in the list of things that can be switched on and off to do 'stuff'.
setting: Sharing of Handwriting data disabled
button is showing red: so this is not yet switched on?
the Recommended column says 'yes'
What's the logic pretzel that i need to visualize? Is it:
it's switched off right now; but I should switch this setting on, based on the recommended column's suggestion, so that it's disabling the sharing of handwriting?
R.
So it's a semantic issue about what's being made in this factory, while nature around it still gets polluted. I see another Superfund site for the near future :-)
People don't understand how important water is, especially in a country as big as the US. Private and community wells are always under threat of seepage, whether it is from ground fills, fracking or oil spills...
If this water is used for cooling, when it's spat out by the factory, that increases the water temperature around the factory, and will kill life in and around that water.
But yeah, let's argue about what's the purpose of the factory itself :-)
Yeah, i like the Hub. Not as integrated as on the BB10 (i sure miss the various little things BB10 did for me - like proivde one-click-connecting to phone meetings, how integrated everything was for traveling, stuff like that.
Worried about the patch support for the -03 Keyone model (the Verizon one) - but nothing i can do about that.
A couple of weeks ago I watched an ancestry-type show. Documents written in England in the 1600s apparently used the mm/dd/yyyy format back then. But now almost all European countries are using dd/mm/yyyy in their day to day communications. So I guess that's where the US format came from... And got stuck, after "the rest of the world' adopted dd/mm/yyyy as the regular date format
(sure, pedants will find exceptions, already highlighted in previous posts. But in general, i'm saying).
Interesting. Probably off topic. Still interesting.
>If only it wasn't so incredibly expensive
Look into getting a KeyOne - it's still a good phone even though a newer one came out.
It's been working fine for me, having moved from a Passport, and wife from a Classic (or Q10, now i can't remember...)
Main reason for me dropping the Passport was that apps would no longer run in the older-Android-VM that the Passport was using. Not because it was a crap phone :-(
I would love to have one, but i just got one year into my KeyOne.
Is it me or are these product iterations getting shorter and shorter? Built-in obsolescence becoming an issue?
Looks nice and shiny, though. And while the BB apps on Android are still not what BB10 used to be (how integrated everything was in BB10!), it has improved a bunch over the last year.
You know, i kinda disagree. I live by this rule: The Best Camera is NOT the One You Have With You.
When i walk around, on hikes, through town, other places, i'm certainly not always carrying my DSLR with me. But i see stuff where i would say 'damn, that's the money shot',. And try to get as best a shot with the camera i have on me - mostly my phone. But that makes that whole experience even better: you see something worthy of capturing, you have less than optimal gear with you, so then if the result is better than you expected, even better!
I live nearby a municipal airport where sometimes military planes do flybys. I use my 500mm zoomlens and not my phone for that. Phone would be useless; but then when going for static shots of those planes on the ground - that zoom lens is completely useless. I'm happy I have my phone with me, and that my phone takes pretty good quality photos (or is it the guy behind the camera...)
So to focus (geddit?) on picture quality in a smartphone review - totally warranted.
Guess i'm too late to preempt the commentards saying 'but it doesn't have an engine, so how could it damage the glider?' It would just 'slide off' or 'bump it out of the way'.
Idiots.
Put blinkenlights on them, dayglo orange mandatory colors. And. Don't. Fly. Near. An. Airport.
Follow. The. Frikkin. Rules.
i hated the fact it was constantly phoning home, and using a lot of bandwidth. Not sure if it's still the case, but it was downloading the background images it's showing while it's not casting. that could only be changed using the Android app, and not by the integrated webpages, when accessing the Chromecast by webpage.
So then i blocked the outgoing traffic of the chromecast - and then it 'glitched' or 'hiccuped' every 20 seconds. Now i know why.
Never again.
Uhm, the Android VM on the passport for instance is only 4.3, or perhaps 4.4 - a number of apps are refusing to start or even install because of this older version. so while the phone itself may still be working, i was being painted in a corner on what i could easily use.
I switched with heavy heart to the KeyOne / Android. At least i still have a keyboard :-(
But i will miss BB10/BBOS.
Switched to a KeyOne from a Passport last week. While i like the feel of the phone, Android still is just so not ready for business. Almost everything that was integrated in BB10 now needs an app. Resize photos before sending? need an app for that. Bedside Mode? need multiple settings plus an app for that. Stuff like that. Trying to make edits in a text or message? Need to enable some sort of weird virtual joypad that allows you to move the cursor through the text. Just use that scroll-paddy keyboard already!
Infuriating.
But, at least i still have my physical keyboard.
I know i won't switch over to a Motion. I need those keys.
So, yay - another Blackberry released. Here's to hoping more of the BB10 functionality gets built into the Blackberry apps.
I'll be switching over from a Passport to a KeyOne shortly; having just switched over another family member's Q10 to KeyOne.
All that went well - easy, no hiccups.
However, then getting the KeyOne to behave as much as possible to be a BB10 machine. Impossible. All these Android idiosyncrasies preventing a proper BB experience. Nothing is as integrated as using BB10 to communicate.
I do like that keyboard though. And the battery life.
I would have liked sticking with my Passport, but that only supports sideloading of apps that should still work on Android 4.3 - anything above that wont even work. So slowly but surely, the Passport is pushed into obsolescence.