Posts by Doctor Syntax 40432 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
Nokia as a business is an independent company. MS's ownership of the phone business didn't last long. so that Nokia as a phone brand is now owned by a Finnish/Chinese company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global so it's not really bizarre at all
"I buy iPhones because they work. No fuss, no hassle. I don’t want a replaceable battery..."
If your iPhone had a non-replaceable worn-out battery I think you'd find it was not working adequately and giving you a lot of fuss and hassle. Unless, of course, you replace it at sufficiently frequent intervals in which case maybe it should be classed as a fashion accessory instead of a phone and allowed to escape the legislation altogether.
"I don’t want a replaceable battery or other software stores."
Having a replaceable battery and other software stores doesn't mean you have to take advantage of them. Your choice but don't deny others theirs.
When searching for a new phone or laptop include easily replaceable battery in your search terms. Given the average selling site it won't make too much difference to the hits so step two is to weed out the rest and choose one that really does have an easily replaceable battery. I'm pretty sure the search terms will get analysed and, if everyone does it, some marketing departments might catch on and the sales figures would speak for themselves. Every laptop and every phone I've bough has had replaceable batteries. If you want the shiniest examples you might not agree with my choice but then I might not agree with yours.
It's not just a matter of the ancient no-name drill not being made any more. I have several battery-operated gadgets, vacuum cleaner and garden tools from 3 different EU makes, all currently available, all with very similar form factors but not quite interchangeable so not only do I have multiple batteries, I also have 3 chargers cluttering the place up. This is an area where standardisation should have been imposed years ago.
Einstein's dictum: everything should be as simple as possible but no simpler.
The problem arises when your nice simple interface suddenly fails you when you want it to do something outside its simple features. The "just reads your mail and sends photos to your relatives" might then not be up to it when you're suddenly trying to organise a family wedding, a house move and a holiday all at the same time. At that point you realise that multiple folders with nesting, proper threading of messages and maybe a search function would actually be easier to use than the nice simple interface.
Obvious solution - roll your own.
Remind advertisers of the way they used to do things. They didn't profile readers, they profiled pages and doing that was a no-brainer: you wanted to advertise, say gardening products, you bought space on the gardening pages.
Remind them as well that the user "targetting" they're spending money on is very often wasted from the advertiser's PoV by repeatedly showing ads to people who already bought that type of product weeks or months ago.
Remind them that Google sells advertising. Nothing else, advertising. It doesn't sell their goods or services except possibly as a by-product. It just sells advertising and it sells it to them, not their customers.
Hmmm. It says he "consented" to an interview in Arizona. It doesn't say where he was based only that he's from the Chechen Republic. Did he suddenly find himself in Arizona having intended to be somewhere else? You'd expect him to want to avoid the US or anywhere within extradition treaty range.
"Try that argument with a copper if you are ever pulled over for lobbing your apple core out of the window."
Years ago Lisburn had brought in legislation about that. The CTO was driving along one day and someone in the car in front did just that. A prosecution was brought unsuccessfully. IIRC the defence was that nobody had been convicted of such an offence. IOW somebody could be convicted but not until someone else had been convicted.
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