I remember that early iPhone ads seemed to show this very feature, but I've never seen it on a real-life iPhone in my life. Not that I'm exactly surrounded by them, but I'm sure I would have noticed it on the few that I do see.
Maybe at least your telecom provider sending you the voice-mail by email? That would be a start.
It's a feature designed to save bandwidth for the site itself, not to make the experience more pleasurable for the end-user. If video players routinely downloaded the whole video at high quality, even when paused, then bandwidth costs would go up quite significantly.
Further, how does a player choose the high-quality stream over the low-quality stream other than by using the download speed? I don't see how you can make the playing of online videos, and automatic selection of quality, as easy as players do today in any other way.
Now, to me, if Apple really were so concerned with removing complex functionality, I would have thought that they wouldn't have built an expression parser and calculator into Spotlight. It's almost as if the whole premise that Apple is 'dumbing down' their interfaces is total bunk. Which of course, it is.
For instance, from Finder I can search and replace to rename files in bulk. Can't do that in Windows Explorer. And not just simple search and replace either, but renumbering files, and appending, and all manner of other things.
Similarly, in their "Dumbed Down OS", there's a command line, and standard installs of perl, python and ruby (and probably others). Why the hate? I just don't understand it. Maybe it's an iOS thing.
but a 'back' button is on a per app basis and only if the developer feels like it
As opposed to the 'back' button on Android, which might take you back to the previous screen, or back in your history if you happen to have a web browser open (meaning if you click a link from an email, and then click 'back', you don't end up back in the email), or quite possibly to a screen from a completely different app.
And Apple has never 'kept right click out of its interfaces'. Right-click has been there for decades, it just so happens that - like in every other OS - there wasn't supposed to be any functionality that could only be reached through a right click.
It depends on RAM. iOS will pretty aggressively throw away tabs, and reload them when you switch back, if you're low on RAM.
There are other possible implementations of this obviously, and Apple seem to have gone for the simplest. It can be pretty annoying, but Safari on the desktop will often reload pages when you use the back button, which is even worse.
OSX is not within a "walled garden", but I suppose there's no need to let facts like that get in the way of a good story.
OSX beats windows. Apple hardware lacks upgradeability. I can't see how either position can be argued against, unless you've really got a thing about minesweeper.
As for the UK's laws, it's frankly preposterous and hopefully it fails because it is basically unenforceable.
So's drug prohibition. I mean, you can't even keep drugs out of prisons, and you pay people to walk around them the whole time. Hasn't stopped them spending billions on it though. If they make crypto illegal, then possessing crypto software becomes an offence, and they'll bang you up if they find it. Simple. Won't stop people using it, but that doesn't mean it won't pass into law.
Systemd from my limited understanding seems to want to put a lot of things under it
Yes. Since your understanding is limited, I suggest you go away and learn about what it's trying to achieve, and why it's better than startup scripts. You'll be glad you did. Because, at the very least, if you still dislike it you'll be able to construct a coherent argument around why.
"I've been looking for a concise, complete HOWTO on how to take an existing daemon program running in the old init-script environment and make minimal changes to have it run in the systemd environment."
You do realise, of course, that such a document cannot be written. Each of those init scripts did its own weird and wonderful things, and was very often significantly different between distributions. Most of the complex ones actually contain a fair chunk of the stuff that systemd now centralises in a standard way - whereas of course, the different scripts all did the various things that one might want to do to a daemon differently.
Those scripts are a disaster. I literally find it impossible to understand why someone would defend them. I remember discovering that Linux was basically a kernel, bash, and a million horrible little scripts to make all the little bits and bobs work together. In sysvinit, the shell interpreter is an integral part of the startup process - the thing is a programming language, and those scripts amounted to rewriting parts of what's now systemd in different ways, over and over again for different daemons.
That was a bad situation. Systemd is better. Launchd is better still, but one can't have everything.
Only load out books you don't actually care if you get back.
I took out the rest, since if the first part is true, there's no need to get all dickish about the second part. Lending books to other people, without worrying too much if you get them back, is likely to be a net gain in your life. Be generous, and like you say, don't lend out that first edition of The Hobbit.
We don’t have direct measurement of it. We just have a phenomenon
Well, since gravity and mass are pretty much the same thing, and we've observed the effect of the gravity, I'd say that we have observed the mass. Further, since we don't believe that mass can exist without matter, then we've observed the matter too. We don't know what it us, sure, but it's certainly something.
An iPad runs 3D graphics at a pretty respectable resolution with nice frame rates, and I don't see any reason whatsoever that there should be anything especially demanding when running VR - or at least, anything significantly more demanding that a regular 3D game. You'll get maybe five hours of battery out of an iPad, for instance, and I don't see why a VR headset couldn't be about the same.
Add in a time-synchronised mesh network for ultra-reliable and low power communication between the devices, and it seems like it should work a treat.
VR is still a stupid way to play games though though. Honestly - run around outside wearing absurd headsets and occasionally falling over? Uh-huh. Sounds like a completely awful idea to me.
Electrical signals travel at a finite rate, which limits chip size if you're going to have high clock rates. At 3GHz, you're limited to about 50mm a side, but if you can build 3D, this could be a ridiculous number of transistors. Trouble is, you need to get the heat out too.
You could possibly do something like that with light, but I don't think it works with electrical fields - and in any case the current clock frequency at the top end of electrical devices is about 3GHz - and you'd need frequencies an order of magnitude above the clock speed I would have thought. Light is about three hundred GHz, so you'd be on your way there if you wanted to distinguish different signals by frequency.
I think. I'm kind of making this up as I go along.
It's a bit late then isn't it? How about prevention of some form or another? So, no, more guns won't help. Man walks into a crowded room, starts shooting. No-one can safely shoot back. Result: dead people.
The places with the highest rates of gun violence all have bans on guns.
What total nonsense. The country with the highest rate of gun deaths in the world is - according to wikipedia - Honduras. Up until 2007, carrying guns, concealed or otherwise, was completely legal in this country. Today it is still legal to purchase and own firearms. So, no ban.
Some others on the list have bans, but it's clear that there is no correlation between ownership rates, legal status, and death rates. So, banning guns doesn't stop people getting killed, and widespread gun ownership doesn't either. You can point to counterexamples in both cases. America has the highest rate of gun ownership, and while it doesn't lead the world in gun-related deaths (it's only at number thirteen, mainly behind fairly lawless countries I'd argue, but that's a tough call), it's certainly up there.
America does however lead the world in mass shootings - and that list doesn't even include school massacres (How is that even a thing? It's a serious question). Mass shootings are something different to regular gun violence. We're not talking about armed robberies, or criminals shooting each other down in the street. We are talking about crazy people. I don't think there's any reason to believe that America is home to more crazy people than anywhere else - I've been there plenty of times and Americans as a rule are polite, hospitable, pleasant and reasonable. It's a nice place.
So why do crazy people in America have such easy access to deadly weapons?
You mean thanks to lack of updates from device manufacturers and carriers.
Technically true, but irrelevant if you actually own a device that isn't being updated. Which is most people that own Android devices.
It's simply a fact that iOS devices are kept up to date much more than Android devices. Whether or not this is Google's fault, or even within their control, is not important. This is part of the fragmented nature of Android, and is quite simply true.
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I remember that early iPhone ads seemed to show this very feature, but I've never seen it on a real-life iPhone in my life. Not that I'm exactly surrounded by them, but I'm sure I would have noticed it on the few that I do see.
Maybe at least your telecom provider sending you the voice-mail by email? That would be a start.
It's a feature designed to save bandwidth for the site itself, not to make the experience more pleasurable for the end-user. If video players routinely downloaded the whole video at high quality, even when paused, then bandwidth costs would go up quite significantly.
Further, how does a player choose the high-quality stream over the low-quality stream other than by using the download speed? I don't see how you can make the playing of online videos, and automatic selection of quality, as easy as players do today in any other way.
cos(sqrt(8^2+4^2)) = -0.8867611255
Fantastic. QS went away for me a while ago.
Now, to me, if Apple really were so concerned with removing complex functionality, I would have thought that they wouldn't have built an expression parser and calculator into Spotlight. It's almost as if the whole premise that Apple is 'dumbing down' their interfaces is total bunk. Which of course, it is.
For instance, from Finder I can search and replace to rename files in bulk. Can't do that in Windows Explorer. And not just simple search and replace either, but renumbering files, and appending, and all manner of other things.
Similarly, in their "Dumbed Down OS", there's a command line, and standard installs of perl, python and ruby (and probably others). Why the hate? I just don't understand it. Maybe it's an iOS thing.
but a 'back' button is on a per app basis and only if the developer feels like it
As opposed to the 'back' button on Android, which might take you back to the previous screen, or back in your history if you happen to have a web browser open (meaning if you click a link from an email, and then click 'back', you don't end up back in the email), or quite possibly to a screen from a completely different app.
And Apple has never 'kept right click out of its interfaces'. Right-click has been there for decades, it just so happens that - like in every other OS - there wasn't supposed to be any functionality that could only be reached through a right click.
It depends on RAM. iOS will pretty aggressively throw away tabs, and reload them when you switch back, if you're low on RAM. There are other possible implementations of this obviously, and Apple seem to have gone for the simplest. It can be pretty annoying, but Safari on the desktop will often reload pages when you use the back button, which is even worse.
OSX is not within a "walled garden", but I suppose there's no need to let facts like that get in the way of a good story.
OSX beats windows. Apple hardware lacks upgradeability. I can't see how either position can be argued against, unless you've really got a thing about minesweeper.
Oh. Wait.
As for the UK's laws, it's frankly preposterous and hopefully it fails because it is basically unenforceable.
So's drug prohibition. I mean, you can't even keep drugs out of prisons, and you pay people to walk around them the whole time. Hasn't stopped them spending billions on it though. If they make crypto illegal, then possessing crypto software becomes an offence, and they'll bang you up if they find it. Simple. Won't stop people using it, but that doesn't mean it won't pass into law.
Well, they do now actually, but never let the truth get in the way of a good story I always say.
Systemd from my limited understanding seems to want to put a lot of things under it
Yes. Since your understanding is limited, I suggest you go away and learn about what it's trying to achieve, and why it's better than startup scripts. You'll be glad you did. Because, at the very least, if you still dislike it you'll be able to construct a coherent argument around why.
"I've been looking for a concise, complete HOWTO on how to take an existing daemon program running in the old init-script environment and make minimal changes to have it run in the systemd environment."
You do realise, of course, that such a document cannot be written. Each of those init scripts did its own weird and wonderful things, and was very often significantly different between distributions. Most of the complex ones actually contain a fair chunk of the stuff that systemd now centralises in a standard way - whereas of course, the different scripts all did the various things that one might want to do to a daemon differently.
Those scripts are a disaster. I literally find it impossible to understand why someone would defend them. I remember discovering that Linux was basically a kernel, bash, and a million horrible little scripts to make all the little bits and bobs work together. In sysvinit, the shell interpreter is an integral part of the startup process - the thing is a programming language, and those scripts amounted to rewriting parts of what's now systemd in different ways, over and over again for different daemons.
That was a bad situation. Systemd is better. Launchd is better still, but one can't have everything.
Only load out books you don't actually care if you get back.
I took out the rest, since if the first part is true, there's no need to get all dickish about the second part. Lending books to other people, without worrying too much if you get them back, is likely to be a net gain in your life. Be generous, and like you say, don't lend out that first edition of The Hobbit.
We don’t have direct measurement of it. We just have a phenomenon
Well, since gravity and mass are pretty much the same thing, and we've observed the effect of the gravity, I'd say that we have observed the mass. Further, since we don't believe that mass can exist without matter, then we've observed the matter too. We don't know what it us, sure, but it's certainly something.
But it doesn't make sense. Why are the system requirements so high? Does anyone really know?
An iPad runs 3D graphics at a pretty respectable resolution with nice frame rates, and I don't see any reason whatsoever that there should be anything especially demanding when running VR - or at least, anything significantly more demanding that a regular 3D game. You'll get maybe five hours of battery out of an iPad, for instance, and I don't see why a VR headset couldn't be about the same.
Add in a time-synchronised mesh network for ultra-reliable and low power communication between the devices, and it seems like it should work a treat.
VR is still a stupid way to play games though though. Honestly - run around outside wearing absurd headsets and occasionally falling over? Uh-huh. Sounds like a completely awful idea to me.
That's probably about 90% of their userbase though, which would make advertisers pay even less for sponsored tweets than they already do.
Electrical signals travel at a finite rate, which limits chip size if you're going to have high clock rates. At 3GHz, you're limited to about 50mm a side, but if you can build 3D, this could be a ridiculous number of transistors. Trouble is, you need to get the heat out too.
You could possibly do something like that with light, but I don't think it works with electrical fields - and in any case the current clock frequency at the top end of electrical devices is about 3GHz - and you'd need frequencies an order of magnitude above the clock speed I would have thought. Light is about three hundred GHz, so you'd be on your way there if you wanted to distinguish different signals by frequency.
I think. I'm kind of making this up as I go along.
It's a bit late then isn't it? How about prevention of some form or another? So, no, more guns won't help. Man walks into a crowded room, starts shooting. No-one can safely shoot back. Result: dead people.
Actually, it's both. Fewer and lesser guns. Not so many, and not so many of the big scary ones.
From the Onion: (*)
the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs
Mass killings are the issue, not gun-related homicides. Not that the US has anything to boast about in that department either.
* Yes I know The Onion is satire. It's also right. That's the whole point of satire.
The places with the highest rates of gun violence all have bans on guns.
What total nonsense. The country with the highest rate of gun deaths in the world is - according to wikipedia - Honduras. Up until 2007, carrying guns, concealed or otherwise, was completely legal in this country. Today it is still legal to purchase and own firearms. So, no ban.
Some others on the list have bans, but it's clear that there is no correlation between ownership rates, legal status, and death rates. So, banning guns doesn't stop people getting killed, and widespread gun ownership doesn't either. You can point to counterexamples in both cases. America has the highest rate of gun ownership, and while it doesn't lead the world in gun-related deaths (it's only at number thirteen, mainly behind fairly lawless countries I'd argue, but that's a tough call), it's certainly up there.
America does however lead the world in mass shootings - and that list doesn't even include school massacres (How is that even a thing? It's a serious question). Mass shootings are something different to regular gun violence. We're not talking about armed robberies, or criminals shooting each other down in the street. We are talking about crazy people. I don't think there's any reason to believe that America is home to more crazy people than anywhere else - I've been there plenty of times and Americans as a rule are polite, hospitable, pleasant and reasonable. It's a nice place.
So why do crazy people in America have such easy access to deadly weapons?
Wonderful. The solution to shootings, is to have more guns.
The context was there the whole time; it's not my fault you didn't care to read it
Typical slashdotter rudeness. Fine. Carry on.
You mean thanks to lack of updates from device manufacturers and carriers.
Technically true, but irrelevant if you actually own a device that isn't being updated. Which is most people that own Android devices.
It's simply a fact that iOS devices are kept up to date much more than Android devices. Whether or not this is Google's fault, or even within their control, is not important. This is part of the fragmented nature of Android, and is quite simply true.
If it's anything older than the Air 2, let me ask you this: How are you enjoying split-screen in iOS9?
It's an Air 1, and the split screen is fine, thanks for asking.