I'm 20/13 vision in both eyes and can already spot pixellation in the iPhone 4S display, at arms length.
The Iphone 4s has retina display. For a retina display to work its' magic, you need to hold it at a typical viewing angle. In short, you're holding it wrong
Last year, something happened to our exchange install that caused the IIS entirely gone from the box. Microsoft's premiere support contract provides support and our exchange box was up within hours
Can't they do that? I mean,it will not prevent the US Government from attempting the traffic tapping silently, but at the very least, They will be free from having to obey the request US Government and giving them legal access to their customer data
Assuming you have the expertise and resources to vet every single commit made to the source tree. The fact that the code could be audited doesn't mean that it is, and therefore is no protection against a well-funded state-sponsored attack to insert subtle weaknesses in the code that could be exploited by a sophisticated methodology known only to the organization that created the patches.
This idea was recently covered by Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD dev) in his essay, "More Encryption Is Not the Solution"
Sure, but at least you have that option, you can outsource the expertise if you really want to. With proprietary software, you stuck with the binary as your only option, even when you have the resource to review the code
Assuming that you can trust all that NSA (SELinux) code that's in Linux. Fun fact: RHEL is preferred Linux operating system of surveillance state! Look it up.
well, you can always review the code if you want/need to.
HP's servers also came with cheap off-brand FC HBAs that wouldn't play nice on the customer's SAN. Good God, crappy FC hardware that can't interoperate with other vendor's equipment was solved by QLogic et al a fucking decade ago.
All of our Proliant and Integrity servers came with either Qlogic or Emulex HBAs. Of course, our last HP purchases was back in 2008
Get a Sony smartwatch or something similar, and a earphone-style bluetooth headset such as jabra clipper. This is what I do with my 8 inch Galaxy Note. I take it out of the bag only when I need to reply to an IM or SMS
Pedantic point: the Galaxy Nexus I got from Verizon did not come with an unlocked bootloader. It was trivial to unlock it, though. Perhaps you meant phones purchased directly from Google?
Things like that mostly happen only in US. My Galaxy Nexus did not come directly from google and it has unlockable bootloader
just think, we'll be on version 100 in five year. god damn, what is it with marketing departments and churning version numbers and where things are located. they need to die in a fire, slowly
nope, they will simply change the name to firefox GT, and restart the numbering scheme. Or invent a new one. Mozilla Firefox GT 7670s
There may be some element of data-buy as well. Just ask Apple how easy it isn't to build good maps fast.
well yeah, I've heard opinions that wazes userbase(data!) is the reason for it getting bought. but for that to stay relevant they need to keep the users and not kill the product - even migrating the users to a google product might prove to be quite a challenge.
of course if we are talking about why it was valued so high then the reason is just that, the users and the data generated by the users which they show to the users... the tech alone wouldn't have fetched a million dollars from any buyer..
They can replicate the data from waze to google maps, thus minimizing the update lag between the two
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I'm 20/13 vision in both eyes and can already spot pixellation in the iPhone 4S display, at arms length.
The Iphone 4s has retina display. For a retina display to work its' magic, you need to hold it at a typical viewing angle. In short, you're holding it wrong
And is this CEO a Confucianist?
maybe not... Perhaps he's... confused
Last year, something happened to our exchange install that caused the IIS entirely gone from the box. Microsoft's premiere support contract provides support and our exchange box was up within hours
Can't they do that? I mean,it will not prevent the US Government from attempting the traffic tapping silently, but at the very least, They will be free from having to obey the request US Government and giving them legal access to their customer data
At least in Ubuntu, custom UI layout is kept between version. I've been using mine since 2010-2011
Assuming you have the expertise and resources to vet every single commit made to the source tree. The fact that the code could be audited doesn't mean that it is, and therefore is no protection against a well-funded state-sponsored attack to insert subtle weaknesses in the code that could be exploited by a sophisticated methodology known only to the organization that created the patches.
This idea was recently covered by Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD dev) in his essay, "More Encryption Is Not the Solution"
Sure, but at least you have that option, you can outsource the expertise if you really want to. With proprietary software, you stuck with the binary as your only option, even when you have the resource to review the code
Assuming that you can trust all that NSA (SELinux) code that's in Linux. Fun fact: RHEL is preferred Linux operating system of surveillance state! Look it up.
well, you can always review the code if you want/need to.
Yes! Go frack yourself Obama! Oh we weren't talking about a regime that circumcised their citizen's right? Lock people without reasons or warrants?
He/she was probably referring to the restrictions being put inside those tablets, and probably some big brother-style tech embedded in them
Insurance is always a waste of money until it is.. well.. not
I like their Eneloop lines of rechargeable AAs. I own 2 mid-range Pentax DSLRs and they use AA instead of proprietary Li-ions
HP's servers also came with cheap off-brand FC HBAs that wouldn't play nice on the customer's SAN. Good God, crappy FC hardware that can't interoperate with other vendor's equipment was solved by QLogic et al a fucking decade ago.
All of our Proliant and Integrity servers came with either Qlogic or Emulex HBAs. Of course, our last HP purchases was back in 2008
Get a Sony smartwatch or something similar, and a earphone-style bluetooth headset such as jabra clipper. This is what I do with my 8 inch Galaxy Note. I take it out of the bag only when I need to reply to an IM or SMS
So I pay for the box (and the kinect camera), I pay for the game, and I even pay to get online, and yet they still shove ads to my face?
My understanding is that they design the SoCs, not arm chips. Or is it the same thing?
Pedantic point: the Galaxy Nexus I got from Verizon did not come with an unlocked bootloader. It was trivial to unlock it, though. Perhaps you meant phones purchased directly from Google?
Things like that mostly happen only in US. My Galaxy Nexus did not come directly from google and it has unlockable bootloader
Good for you. You must be very proud of yourself
just think, we'll be on version 100 in five year. god damn, what is it with marketing departments and churning version numbers and where things are located. they need to die in a fire, slowly
nope, they will simply change the name to firefox GT, and restart the numbering scheme. Or invent a new one. Mozilla Firefox GT 7670s
There may be some element of data-buy as well. Just ask Apple how easy it isn't to build good maps fast.
well yeah, I've heard opinions that wazes userbase(data!) is the reason for it getting bought. but for that to stay relevant they need to keep the users and not kill the product - even migrating the users to a google product might prove to be quite a challenge.
of course if we are talking about why it was valued so high then the reason is just that, the users and the data generated by the users which they show to the users... the tech alone wouldn't have fetched a million dollars from any buyer..
They can replicate the data from waze to google maps, thus minimizing the update lag between the two
half meaning.. one? it's just not apple that tries to sugarcoat their facts, their fanboys too :D
if you're going the unlocking and rooting route, a lot. So how many 2010 apple phones can run the latest OS? one? two?
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So, Google, now I want client-side email encryption in Gmail. What? You won't do that? Oh, I forgot, YOU want to snoop on my stuff too, right.
Google doesn't prevent you from using Thunderbird + enigmail. You have options, you know
...and XBOB!!
Or the fact that HTC did the same crazy naming scheme and released the One X then doubled down next generation with what else but the One.
Not to mention it may soon have a Nexus treatment from google. What will it be named? Nexus One One? Nexus One Two? Nexus One Mk.II?