>brought to you by the originator of one of the most narcissitic platforms of the modern era, and hosted on that very platform, naturally.
Facebook is only as narcissistic as its user, it is as much about taking part in other peoples activities, by commenting/sharing as it is about personal propaganda.
>"Our" generation grew up with having to work to acquire knowledge. To spend time in the library. To sit down and read.
You are ignoring difference in quality of library, value of teachers and external stimuli in learning.
Also with everything sync to cloud, your new Windows Phone will be exactly same as old, including settings, sms, phonebook, photos, passwords. Bad for privacy, but awesome convenience.
Questions like: what, why, when, how? They are very common, but don't have definite answers.
The problem is, even with 100s of millions (or even billions), there are still an infinite number of questions that can be asked. Each of those questions can't be common.
Has anyone used touch screen as a whiteboard during skype call or teleconf, how good it is? Sometimes, a real whiteboard is not good enough with camera.
Not so much a touchscreen but I've used plenty of stylus/digitizer setups for this purpose over the years and they work as well as you'd expect. At one job, we used normal PCs with simple Wacom tablets for annotation of slides during love Adobe Connect sessions and the only complaint was from some users who hadn't yet become comfortable with looking at a monitor while drawing on a surface (sort of like learning to use a mouse or touch-type for the first time).
At my current job, we have Sympodium monitors at lecture podiums so you can draw directly on the screen. These are also not touch screens but make use of an active digitizer like the Surface products and traditional drawing tablets.
Likewise, I've got a Gen 1 Surface Pro which works just as well for the same sort of thing. Basically, as long as framerate doesn't need to be as high as video, it's fine. Usually the "slides" portion of those conferences (whether web-based or using VTC appliances) is set to use a lower framerate for bandwidth purposes while the "camera" portion will attempt to hit more video-like framerates. But otherwise, it's pretty useful and something of a standard in the educational live conferences I've worked on.
Sort of. I used to use a cheapo Wacom tablet with a painting app for online WebEx demos a few years ago; I'd flip from whatever thing I was demo'ing to a new desktop with a blank raster file open and draw explanatory diagrams. It was actually pretty decent. Having a pen integrated into the device, with some sort of transparent annotation overlay app would have been pretty exciting for me back then (not least because I wouldn't have to hand write text!).
I would think rarely would a normal on the wall whiteboard work well with a webcam on a teleconference, but then again I've never had a meeting room that worked for much of anything teleconference-related. Always something wasn't right, lighting, space, noise etc.
Perseverance is one of the key MS strength, they don't easily give up once they start, considering their history of getting things right by v3, it makes sense. There are exceptions, but still MS is a company mostly for long haul.
that can be easily explained by image recog algo finding all your photos barefoot, also NSA can use Facebook to catch the thief after he posts selfie with the stolen goods.
Insurance in my understanding is good for catastrophic events. If house burning down happen in 1 of 10000 homes in a lifetime, and all have taken insurance. For a small sum, you have ensured that you'll not be homeless, instead of each 10000 owners saving enough for a new house.
In case of large scale catastrophic events, insurance companies cover shit, though. It only works if you are the rare case and if you meet all the criteria marked in the fine prints that the insurance agent is careful never to explain.
Exactly this. I've worked with insurers and the first step to any claim is working out the cost of fighting the claim versus paying up. I wrote part of the system for managing estimates. You're only going to win easily if the claim value is cheaper than their lawyers fees.
Much better in Europe. Never had any issue with any of the claims to my insurance company, and price did not go up.
They even provide legal support for incidents outside home. I had a bike crash, and they took all the required paperwork and settled with the other part without me paying a dime.
If you're below middle class, large corporations (banks, insurance companies, media providers etc.) are most likely able to treat You as they please. While it's really hard to blame the less wealthy, given our history.
I think this is worldwide: If you're not able to protect yourself, no one will.
