Yea, that would work. So would a little local server (scary).
I still think I'd prefer an HTML5 Media Library API. Every piece of native code you ask users to install is yet another vector for trojans and viruses. If Amazon has to write one so will Barnes and Noble, Beatport and any other site that wants to let you download music, videos, books, etc directly into your OS's folders for those things.
And you're also missing the point. The point is it's a false sense of security. Steal the phone, pull the prints off the phone, unlock the phone, start stealing accounts/data. The user thinks his phone is secure but it's not. False security is worse than no security because it makes the user falsely think he's secure and so he's likely to act less cautiously. Where as if he doesn't secure his phone at least he knows he didn't secure it.
I'd love to be wrong but what would make me get a steam box over regular consoles? The regular consoles have exclusives I want to play. The steam box seems unlikely to have any exclusives.
I work on browsers. Including browsers that run on iOS. They fail on iOS because they run out of memory. Sure there are other bugs but 99% of all pages that fail fail because they run out of memory.
Need another example? In a desktop browser create 50 tabs and go to different sites in each tab. Note each tab keeps it state. In a mobile browser open 50 tabs, notice each tab keeps almost no state (after enough other tabs have been opened) and ends up re-downloading the page. So for example visit slashdot in a tab, make some other tabs, come back in a couple of hours, check the slashdot tab, it won't have the same contents because it re-downloads the page having saved only a screenshot and the URL.
This is by design because, iOS (and other tablets) don't have the same memory restrictions (or rather non-restrictions) as desktop OSes. If it just worked keeping all the state they wouldn't have re-designed it to chuck the state. Who wants to lose the comment they were typing in one tab as they go check a reference in another tab? No one that's who
That's the issue I'd like to see fixed. There's a whole range of apps not running in tablets because of this. It's an OS level issue and it's far more important than 64bit vs 32bit since my 32bit OS can still do tons of stuff a 64bit iOS machine with 4x the memory can't do.
Make a VM on some desktop machine. Set it to 256meg of ram and a 32gig HD. Install Windows or Linux. Run Chrome or Firefox. Watch how it can view pretty much any site on the net.
Now take your 64gig iPhone/iPad. Try browsing some heavy pages on the net. Watch it crash. Even though it has 4x the ram, 2x the storage as the VM it can display heavy pages. Similarly most photo apps will die on iOS if given large images but photo apps on the VM will run fine. Connect a debugger and see that the iOS apps running out of memory.
Whatever it is that lets desktop OSes run memory heavy apps and prevents iOS from running memory heavy apps, that's the thing I want to see fixed.
I'm sure there's some reason like battery life or whatever but more than 64bits I want virtual memory.
Go to a heavy webpage like scrolldit.com on your tablet/phone, scroll down a few pages, watch the browser crash. Go get a P4 with 256meg of ram, view the same page on a desktop browser (VM will do). Runs just fine. Why? Virtual memory.
I ran NT4 and 3DSMax on a machine in 1995. They claim my iPhone/Android/iPad/Tablet has more power but it can't run 3DSMax nor could it compile a large app. Why? No Virtual memory.
Note: I know scrolldit is not and important site but there are plenty of sites that will kill your mobile browser usually because it runs out of memory.
As pointed out by others the problem with biometric passwords is once it's compromised you're S.O.L. If someone manages to record your brainwave pattern how do you go about getting a new one? If someone gets a copy of your fingerprints how do you get new fingerprints? Etc....
If you write all code yourself you might not have this problem. If you ever copy and paste from somewhere else you might. I have run into that problem. It took many hours to find.
If I was Nestle I'd want searches for "KitKat" to go to sites about the candy bar not sites about phones. It will probably be 4-5 years before a search for "KitKat" will lead to a page about or selling the candy bar after this
Take the game job. Follow his dream. My experience in games is pretty great. I've heard horror stories but I've not personally experienced them that much. Blizzard is supposed to be great place to work so if he can get into Blizzard he should definitely go for it. I've even worked what I would consider massively under paid by I'm still happy for the experience.
I programmed games for ~25 years. The last 5 I did something else (worked at a big IT company). I hated the last 5 years. Hated is a little strong. I had some great experiences but I never really felt into what I was doing like I did when working on games.
All that will start happening is companies will offer libraries that run on the server so they can deliver ad content/scripts from the same domain and business will be same as it ever was.
You'd think slashdotters would be smarter than this. Calories are a measure of heat. Gasoline has lots of calories. Magnesium has lots of calories. Neither will make you fat. Calories as a loose proxy for weight gain is vastly over simplified. The simple examples of gasoline and magnesium should make it clear that not all things you consume can be effectively turned into fat by your body
> maybe cause you're not sure you'll feel your phone go off
Is not a good excuse to annoy everyone around you.
And as for this specific sound, if you wanted to make sure you knew it was "your" phone wouldn't it be good to change it so you're not pulling your phone out every time you hear that damn common sound?
When I hear that sound I think (a) asshole should set her damn phone to silent instead of annoying everyone around her (b) uncreative as she's too lazy to pick something more original (c) probably wants to show off her iGadjetness as a fashion statement which makes her seem even more shallow
Yes, I'm aware these thoughts may reflect poorly on myself as well
I know this idea won't work but... What about a encrypted virtual machine? Just like a hard drive can be encrypted I wonder if it would be possible to run an encrypted virtual machine on a real machine such that the real machine can not observe what the virtual machine is doing.
Agreed, and so what if your email is encrypted? The moment you send it someone else you have no guarantee they are keeping it encrypted on their end.
I can imagine there's some minor piece of mind to have my email encrypted which would make it slightly harder for people to grab my database of email and read it. At the same time I don't want client side email. I want server side email so I can search and access it from any of my devices. And, I want it to have all the features of gmail including speed of access, amazing spam detection, and every other little feature they support.
I suspect spam detection is a hard problem too. Google benefits from crowdsourcing there. With un-encrypted email they can see a million people getting the same message and once a few percent mark it as spam they can guess it's spam for everyone. Not sure who to solve that problem if all the email is encrypted.
I'm calling BS. Which day are we talking about? A day at the equator? A day at the North Pole in summer? The length of sunlight varies all over the planet so it seems bs to claim that one specific daylight / night duration is special
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Agreed, Which is why I suggested there should be an HTML API for it. Then there will be no need for a plugin.
Yea, that would work. So would a little local server (scary).
I still think I'd prefer an HTML5 Media Library API. Every piece of native code you ask users to install is yet another vector for trojans and viruses. If Amazon has to write one so will Barnes and Noble, Beatport and any other site that wants to let you download music, videos, books, etc directly into your OS's folders for those things.
I use the AmazonMP3Downloader plugin so when I purchase music from Amazon it gets added to my music library immediately.
AFAIK PPAPI (and NaCl) can't implement that because they need to save the music to places outside the sandbox.
Maybe Google can help define a "download to music library" HTML5 API?
And you're also missing the point. The point is it's a false sense of security. Steal the phone, pull the prints off the phone, unlock the phone, start stealing accounts/data. The user thinks his phone is secure but it's not. False security is worse than no security because it makes the user falsely think he's secure and so he's likely to act less cautiously. Where as if he doesn't secure his phone at least he knows he didn't secure it.
I only buy things I need to play the games I want to play. If the game plays on my PC no need to buy another console to play it.
Hmmm, and yet most of the world seems to have no problem with micro USB cables.
I see them. The zoom in / zoom out of of the home screen often stutters for me.
I'd love to be wrong but what would make me get a steam box over regular consoles? The regular consoles have exclusives I want to play. The steam box seems unlikely to have any exclusives.
I work on browsers. Including browsers that run on iOS. They fail on iOS because they run out of memory. Sure there are other bugs but 99% of all pages that fail fail because they run out of memory.
Need another example? In a desktop browser create 50 tabs and go to different sites in each tab. Note each tab keeps it state. In a mobile browser open 50 tabs, notice each tab keeps almost no state (after enough other tabs have been opened) and ends up re-downloading the page. So for example visit slashdot in a tab, make some other tabs, come back in a couple of hours, check the slashdot tab, it won't have the same contents because it re-downloads the page having saved only a screenshot and the URL.
This is by design because, iOS (and other tablets) don't have the same memory restrictions (or rather non-restrictions) as desktop OSes. If it just worked keeping all the state they wouldn't have re-designed it to chuck the state. Who wants to lose the comment they were typing in one tab as they go check a reference in another tab? No one that's who
That's the issue I'd like to see fixed. There's a whole range of apps not running in tablets because of this. It's an OS level issue and it's far more important than 64bit vs 32bit since my 32bit OS can still do tons of stuff a 64bit iOS machine with 4x the memory can't do.
Something is clearly wrong then. Try this
Make a VM on some desktop machine. Set it to 256meg of ram and a 32gig HD. Install Windows or Linux. Run Chrome or Firefox. Watch how it can view pretty much any site on the net.
Now take your 64gig iPhone/iPad. Try browsing some heavy pages on the net. Watch it crash. Even though it has 4x the ram, 2x the storage as the VM it can display heavy pages. Similarly most photo apps will die on iOS if given large images but photo apps on the VM will run fine. Connect a debugger and see that the iOS apps running out of memory.
Whatever it is that lets desktop OSes run memory heavy apps and prevents iOS from running memory heavy apps, that's the thing I want to see fixed.
Then why do the apps run out of memory on a 64meg iPhone? If they've got virtual memory something is wrong.
Except that my notebooks are all SSD now. Can't the phones use the similar tech?
I'm sure there's some reason like battery life or whatever but more than 64bits I want virtual memory.
Go to a heavy webpage like scrolldit.com on your tablet/phone, scroll down a few pages, watch the browser crash. Go get a P4 with 256meg of ram, view the same page on a desktop browser (VM will do). Runs just fine. Why? Virtual memory.
I ran NT4 and 3DSMax on a machine in 1995. They claim my iPhone/Android/iPad/Tablet has more power but it can't run 3DSMax nor could it compile a large app. Why? No Virtual memory.
Note: I know scrolldit is not and important site but there are plenty of sites that will kill your mobile browser usually because it runs out of memory.
As pointed out by others the problem with biometric passwords is once it's compromised you're S.O.L. If someone manages to record your brainwave pattern how do you go about getting a new one? If someone gets a copy of your fingerprints how do you get new fingerprints? Etc....
If you write all code yourself you might not have this problem. If you ever copy and paste from somewhere else you might. I have run into that problem. It took many hours to find.
If I was Nestle I'd want searches for "KitKat" to go to sites about the candy bar not sites about phones. It will probably be 4-5 years before a search for "KitKat" will lead to a page about or selling the candy bar after this
Take the game job. Follow his dream. My experience in games is pretty great. I've heard horror stories but I've not personally experienced them that much. Blizzard is supposed to be great place to work so if he can get into Blizzard he should definitely go for it. I've even worked what I would consider massively under paid by I'm still happy for the experience.
I programmed games for ~25 years. The last 5 I did something else (worked at a big IT company). I hated the last 5 years. Hated is a little strong. I had some great experiences but I never really felt into what I was doing like I did when working on games.
All that will start happening is companies will offer libraries that run on the server so they can deliver ad content/scripts from the same domain and business will be same as it ever was.
This is going to solve almost nothing.
You'd think slashdotters would be smarter than this. Calories are a measure of heat. Gasoline has lots of calories. Magnesium has lots of calories. Neither will make you fat. Calories as a loose proxy for weight gain is vastly over simplified. The simple examples of gasoline and magnesium should make it clear that not all things you consume can be effectively turned into fat by your body
> maybe cause you're not sure you'll feel your phone go off
Is not a good excuse to annoy everyone around you.
And as for this specific sound, if you wanted to make sure you knew it was "your" phone wouldn't it be good to change it so you're not pulling your phone out every time you hear that damn common sound?
"Know and love"
When I hear that sound I think (a) asshole should set her damn phone to silent instead of annoying everyone around her (b) uncreative as she's too lazy to pick something more original (c) probably wants to show off her iGadjetness as a fashion statement which makes her seem even more shallow
Yes, I'm aware these thoughts may reflect poorly on myself as well
I know this idea won't work but ... What about a encrypted virtual machine? Just like a hard drive can be encrypted I wonder if it would be possible to run an encrypted virtual machine on a real machine such that the real machine can not observe what the virtual machine is doing.
Agreed, and so what if your email is encrypted? The moment you send it someone else you have no guarantee they are keeping it encrypted on their end.
I can imagine there's some minor piece of mind to have my email encrypted which would make it slightly harder for people to grab my database of email and read it. At the same time I don't want client side email. I want server side email so I can search and access it from any of my devices. And, I want it to have all the features of gmail including speed of access, amazing spam detection, and every other little feature they support.
I suspect spam detection is a hard problem too. Google benefits from crowdsourcing there. With un-encrypted email they can see a million people getting the same message and once a few percent mark it as spam they can guess it's spam for everyone. Not sure who to solve that problem if all the email is encrypted.
I'm calling BS. Which day are we talking about? A day at the equator? A day at the North Pole in summer? The length of sunlight varies all over the planet so it seems bs to claim that one specific daylight / night duration is special
How is this not different from banning people from saying that if you break the window of a building you can get in an steal things?