I wouldn't say comical. Both have their pro's and conn's and are often the ideal technology of its time. Often when looking back we put on nostalgia blinders, We don't remember Windows 95 crashing when you literally look at the system wrong. Or saved your documents every few minutes, just because you wouldn't trust the system to go on to the next one. We do remember the cool games we had on it. and new features such as spell check and font selection.
I don't have one. Too expensive and I would be giving up too much for something I probably wouldn't wear 99.99% of the time.
But the point is some people buy these Premium phones thinking they will look like they are Mr. Successful. While no one really cares, with maybe with the exception of a teenager who cant buy anything at all. Granted we have our inner childhood ambitions of just getting any toy you want and the jealously you have towards the kid who actually had the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier, even if you wern't big into playing with GI Joe that was just the ultimate toy you could get as a kid. So we buy these devices Apple, Samsung... with the feeling of getting this respect that never happens. Because the Premium phone isn't the Aircraft Carrier, but just Jeep that everyone had, still a nice toy, but just not impressive.
For a learning system, there is usually a factor to measure success. If the game ignore the points, and just the number of dots it ate, and how fast they did this, as its own internal scoring mechanism, and to only having to eat a ghost as a lower penalty then dying. So it will learn a separate scoring mechanism for it to be optimized which isn't related to the actual one.
For me I use to play "pacifist" doom. Where I wouldn't kill any of the monsters, but just run away from them and see how fast I can get to the next level. Only killing the final boss, because that is needed for the game.
Everyone is trying to be the Rolex of Phones. However such devices depreciate in value, so they cannot be priced as such. So while the $1000 phone is on the pricey side, it isn't really something you can go to a stereotypical snobby party and impress your peers with. That Premium Luxury phone is so common that you will fail to impress the blue collar worker, who may have the same model (but may had to sacrifice a bit more to get it) And within 3-4 year. The price would depreciate so much that they cannot be given away.
Unlike a Rolex Watch which if I got one 50 years ago, it would still be worth a lot of money, probably more then you bought it for, and would still be useful and valuable.
These phone makers are trying to be the big name in premium, while not making a premium product. Mostly because technology depreciates so quickly, and are still priced at a level people can afford if they really want them.
Sure these devices are something that is always on you, and probably should look good as well be functional. But these companies put a lot of effort into trying to be something they will not become.
We flip back and forth from Networked applications to Device running application. Early computers, had no networking so a single person used a computer for it needs. When they were done the next person will use the system (or at least have their stack of cards to be processed) Then system got powerful enough, and was able to send and receive inputs from multiple sources. (Mainframe/Dumb Terminal) The user had a terminal, with a mysterious computer somewhere else doing the real work. Then we went to microcomputers, where for about the same price as a dumb terminal, you can get a full scale PC. So we moved back to having your own software running on the computer yourself. When the Internet speeds became affordable and over 1mbs. Web Applications started taking over and our PC's spent less time running all sorts of programs, but just rendering the browser results. and the servers will handle all the heavy work. Then we got smart phones (wireless speeds were slower and expensive) so Apps were made for these devices, as their Processors more then made up for any networking slowness. Now if 5G does everything it promises and is affordable. Only Luddites will use Apps, because we can stream the results in real time, and we just send back our user interface for the server farm of big computers to figure out and give you a nearly instantaneous image stream back. We are actually going back to a new age Dumb Terminal, with our smart phone.
Samsung, LG, GE, Siemens... These companies are huge and sell products covering nearly everything, it is nearly impossible even for a brand ambassador to not have a competing product in your possession.
Granted if this guy is getting paid enough for Samsung to sue him 1.6million dollars. I would guess he should know the full product line a bit better, and may have someone in Samsung helping him with his purchasing decisions.
It appears you have never worked anywhere. There is always that one guy who you have no idea why they were hired, and why they are still there. And is a net loss to your work.
If this were the case, I think it may be more focused to keep its citizens focused more on work and being productive.
The trade war would hurt China more then the US does. But in times of strife, China can lock out descent and try to keep its citizens busy to prevent them causing as much trouble.
It is cheaper to educate kids to browse safely then program in such safeguards into your product. Also the Tech Industry moves much faster then the Education System. Most elementary school teachers in terms of technology teaching are often already behind their kids skill levels.
I don't get your point. Apple may be less evil then old Microsoft. But that doesn't mean Apple isn't evil. Besides "Boycotting" Apple because Apple isn't giving you the services you wan't or need, isn't boycotting them. Boycotting is putting yourself in a disadvantage to bring up a point.
I don't like squash, so I don't buy it. I am not boycotting squash, I just don't like it. Now I like bacon, but say there is something that I feel strongly against in the Bacon Industry I would stop eating bacon, until they fixed it. Then I would happily begin eating it again.
You don't like Apple products, so you never bought them. if Apple changes its business practices you still will not buy from them... You are not boycotting, you just not a customer.
Androids key feature over Apple iOS isn't anything technical but the fact you can get outside of the box applications for it. The types of things that Apple will just not allow, because they are afraid of legal action, or just isolating the big names. Because you may have a hard time trying to get Nintendo to make games for your phone, if you happen to offer a ROM emulator as well. Or giving us a programming language interpreter however this could potentially cause security problems. Now risks come with reward. Apple gets rid of a lot of risk, but sometime we want the reward.
Isn't that why Barsteward compared it to "Microsoft of old" Apple has always been big into proprietary Apple only (for the last 40 years). This is why Apple even though it is the world biggest company, doesn't have much corporate/business presence, for the large part because of Apple proprietary nature Apples standards and protocols rarely make it to the general use.
Compare to Microsoft 20 years ago. The browser war was full on, with the attempt to take control of the internet. and the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish approach. Microsoft wasn't making incompatible tools, that only worked with Microsoft. They made tools that worked with the standards, then they added Microsoft only features to them, in hope where their feature will over power the original use. For the browser war of the late 1990's Microsoft won, luckily they had failed their final objectives. What Microsoft really wanted with the browser war was. 1. Become the dominate browser [Embrace] (they got this) 2. Have web developers make sure IE was compatible first (they got this) 3. Add IE only features [Extend] such as Active X (they got this) 4. Have Active X become the primary way to access a website (This was limited to business apps) 5. Drop HTML and HTTP [Extinguish] and fully make Active X technology the dominate way of using the internet (this failed)
What happened with this plan? Well primarily Microsoft didn't account for security and for the individual when asked a question they will answer "Yes" Thus turning Active X the primary deployment method of Malware. Causing some major security problems in 2002-2004 which people actually decided to either switch to Firefox (Which at the time was the small, light, and fast browser) that supported internet standards better then IE did, or actually got Sick of PC's and moved to Mac's which used the Safari browser (Webkit based). This but a dent in Active X development, and more focus on DHTML. That and Microsoft got so delayed in making the next version of Windows and IE. That XP and IE 6 became outdated.
Apple isn't a saint, but you more or less know what you are going to expect with Apple. Microsoft of old was much more sneaky and underhanded.
I think the taste difference is primarily the amount of Cane Sugar vs Corn Syrup. However other factors is the degree of carbonation. Plastic bottles (and cans) hold a very high degree of carbonation. While for glass bottles with metal caps, there is a degree of a slow leak espectially when the pressure is very high, then it stabilizes to a lower carbonation level. A lower level of carbonation makes the drink taste more sweet. If you are drinking it out of the bottle, we get other factors which may factor in the taste. Plastic bottles will buckle and bend, so you can get bigger gulps while glass bottles limit how much you can sip from the vacuum it creates, thus giving you a smaller portion. There is also the fact that glass isn't a good insulator of heat that plastic is (there was millions of dollars in R&D put into making plastic soda bottles sweat like glass before people started buying them) so your drink is a bit colder (numbing taste buds)
How does this compare with other browsers? Normally most webpages just give the browsers so much junk Pictures that are too large which only get scaled down. JavaScript Libraries that are many megs big, and often use only a fraction of the features. Also many pages are just long, just because it isn't in your field of view the data needs to be stored, and with DHTML and JS, it needs to be all the data, including junk that may never be used.
Is it fear or anger? The older people fear the youth, with their "progressive" ideas and understanding of the new technology that makes them a threat to their way of life. The youth are angry at the older people because they are ignoring obvious problems and bringing older problems that had been managed and making them worse.
I am sick of all these monthly fees. And turning Goods (like software) into services. Let me pay $2000 for Creative Suite, and I can have the software on my system for as long as I wan't vs charging me $70+ per month. Sure the monthly fee is cheaper if I wanted to keep up to date. However I may not need all the features they are currently offering, and the new features I don't need anyways. For that $2000 I could use the software for 8 years before upgrading (Making it worth $20 a month for me).
There is pride of ownership, not pride monthly service.
I have tried these VPN Services. Their biggest problem is they really don't make you much safer, just more inconvenient. Sure my IP Address/Geolocation is messed up (so half of my google searches are in German). But other then having targeted adds often for your local small businesses. If you follow safe browsing methods, having your IP Address and your location normally isn't a problem. IPv4 addresses are not that reliable way of tracking things, down. They can be spoofed, and also may be under many layers of NAT, plus for you normal home account you have an DHCP connection so your IP Address changes (in theory). However normally the real damage is the the browser says in its headers. HEY LOOK AT ME! THIS IS MY BROWSER, HERE ARE SOME IDENTIFIERS AND COOKIES being that most sites like to use sessions the session information is a better tracker then what a VPN can do.
We have migrants seeking asylum to America and Europe who are being turned away, threatened, Locked up... General Race relations still sucks, and governments find coded laws to keep the disadvantage down.
Parallelism has been on the drawing board for over a generation in prep of the end of Moore's Law, Within the past decade parallel cores have became popular. My Laptop Today with a good video card with nearly 2000 Cuda cores, give more parallel computing power then a MassPar mainframe With (1024 CPUs) I used back in my college days, learning parallel processing.
The economic system is not related to to how totalitarian the government is. A Capitalist system can be just as Totalitarian as a Communist one is. Also a Communist government could also be a nice place to live and work.
Now Communism has a problem where any person who doesn't play by the plan can hurt the system. While Capitalism expected no plan, so anyone who does better then nothing, is a net benefit. This creates a tenancy for communism to be more brutal in people following rules. But Capitalism is often more insidious where the people who have money have the power, however they use their power behind the scenes, and are not the face of power.
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I wouldn't say comical. Both have their pro's and conn's and are often the ideal technology of its time.
Often when looking back we put on nostalgia blinders, We don't remember Windows 95 crashing when you literally look at the system wrong. Or saved your documents every few minutes, just because you wouldn't trust the system to go on to the next one. We do remember the cool games we had on it. and new features such as spell check and font selection.
I don't have one. Too expensive and I would be giving up too much for something I probably wouldn't wear 99.99% of the time.
But the point is some people buy these Premium phones thinking they will look like they are Mr. Successful. While no one really cares, with maybe with the exception of a teenager who cant buy anything at all. Granted we have our inner childhood ambitions of just getting any toy you want and the jealously you have towards the kid who actually had the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier, even if you wern't big into playing with GI Joe that was just the ultimate toy you could get as a kid.
So we buy these devices Apple, Samsung... with the feeling of getting this respect that never happens. Because the Premium phone isn't the Aircraft Carrier, but just Jeep that everyone had, still a nice toy, but just not impressive.
For a learning system, there is usually a factor to measure success. If the game ignore the points, and just the number of dots it ate, and how fast they did this, as its own internal scoring mechanism, and to only having to eat a ghost as a lower penalty then dying. So it will learn a separate scoring mechanism for it to be optimized which isn't related to the actual one.
For me I use to play "pacifist" doom. Where I wouldn't kill any of the monsters, but just run away from them and see how fast I can get to the next level. Only killing the final boss, because that is needed for the game.
Everyone is trying to be the Rolex of Phones. However such devices depreciate in value, so they cannot be priced as such. So while the $1000 phone is on the pricey side, it isn't really something you can go to a stereotypical snobby party and impress your peers with. That Premium Luxury phone is so common that you will fail to impress the blue collar worker, who may have the same model (but may had to sacrifice a bit more to get it) And within 3-4 year. The price would depreciate so much that they cannot be given away.
Unlike a Rolex Watch which if I got one 50 years ago, it would still be worth a lot of money, probably more then you bought it for, and would still be useful and valuable.
These phone makers are trying to be the big name in premium, while not making a premium product. Mostly because technology depreciates so quickly, and are still priced at a level people can afford if they really want them.
Sure these devices are something that is always on you, and probably should look good as well be functional. But these companies put a lot of effort into trying to be something they will not become.
We flip back and forth from Networked applications to Device running application.
Early computers, had no networking so a single person used a computer for it needs. When they were done the next person will use the system (or at least have their stack of cards to be processed)
Then system got powerful enough, and was able to send and receive inputs from multiple sources. (Mainframe/Dumb Terminal) The user had a terminal, with a mysterious computer somewhere else doing the real work.
Then we went to microcomputers, where for about the same price as a dumb terminal, you can get a full scale PC. So we moved back to having your own software running on the computer yourself.
When the Internet speeds became affordable and over 1mbs. Web Applications started taking over and our PC's spent less time running all sorts of programs, but just rendering the browser results. and the servers will handle all the heavy work.
Then we got smart phones (wireless speeds were slower and expensive) so Apps were made for these devices, as their Processors more then made up for any networking slowness.
Now if 5G does everything it promises and is affordable. Only Luddites will use Apps, because we can stream the results in real time, and we just send back our user interface for the server farm of big computers to figure out and give you a nearly instantaneous image stream back. We are actually going back to a new age Dumb Terminal, with our smart phone.
Samsung, LG, GE, Siemens... These companies are huge and sell products covering nearly everything, it is nearly impossible even for a brand ambassador to not have a competing product in your possession.
Granted if this guy is getting paid enough for Samsung to sue him 1.6million dollars. I would guess he should know the full product line a bit better, and may have someone in Samsung helping him with his purchasing decisions.
It appears you have never worked anywhere.
There is always that one guy who you have no idea why they were hired, and why they are still there. And is a net loss to your work.
If this were the case, I think it may be more focused to keep its citizens focused more on work and being productive.
The trade war would hurt China more then the US does. But in times of strife, China can lock out descent and try to keep its citizens busy to prevent them causing as much trouble.
It is cheaper to educate kids to browse safely then program in such safeguards into your product.
Also the Tech Industry moves much faster then the Education System. Most elementary school teachers in terms of technology teaching are often already behind their kids skill levels.
I don't get your point.
Apple may be less evil then old Microsoft. But that doesn't mean Apple isn't evil.
Besides "Boycotting" Apple because Apple isn't giving you the services you wan't or need, isn't boycotting them. Boycotting is putting yourself in a disadvantage to bring up a point.
I don't like squash, so I don't buy it. I am not boycotting squash, I just don't like it.
Now I like bacon, but say there is something that I feel strongly against in the Bacon Industry I would stop eating bacon, until they fixed it. Then I would happily begin eating it again.
You don't like Apple products, so you never bought them. if Apple changes its business practices you still will not buy from them... You are not boycotting, you just not a customer.
Androids key feature over Apple iOS isn't anything technical but the fact you can get outside of the box applications for it. The types of things that Apple will just not allow, because they are afraid of legal action, or just isolating the big names. Because you may have a hard time trying to get Nintendo to make games for your phone, if you happen to offer a ROM emulator as well.
Or giving us a programming language interpreter however this could potentially cause security problems.
Now risks come with reward.
Apple gets rid of a lot of risk, but sometime we want the reward.
Isn't that why Barsteward compared it to "Microsoft of old"
Apple has always been big into proprietary Apple only (for the last 40 years). This is why Apple even though it is the world biggest company, doesn't have much corporate/business presence, for the large part because of Apple proprietary nature Apples standards and protocols rarely make it to the general use.
Compare to Microsoft 20 years ago. The browser war was full on, with the attempt to take control of the internet. and the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish approach. Microsoft wasn't making incompatible tools, that only worked with Microsoft. They made tools that worked with the standards, then they added Microsoft only features to them, in hope where their feature will over power the original use. For the browser war of the late 1990's Microsoft won, luckily they had failed their final objectives. What Microsoft really wanted with the browser war was.
1. Become the dominate browser [Embrace] (they got this)
2. Have web developers make sure IE was compatible first (they got this)
3. Add IE only features [Extend] such as Active X (they got this)
4. Have Active X become the primary way to access a website (This was limited to business apps)
5. Drop HTML and HTTP [Extinguish] and fully make Active X technology the dominate way of using the internet (this failed)
What happened with this plan? Well primarily Microsoft didn't account for security and for the individual when asked a question they will answer "Yes" Thus turning Active X the primary deployment method of Malware. Causing some major security problems in 2002-2004 which people actually decided to either switch to Firefox (Which at the time was the small, light, and fast browser) that supported internet standards better then IE did, or actually got Sick of PC's and moved to Mac's which used the Safari browser (Webkit based). This but a dent in Active X development, and more focus on DHTML. That and Microsoft got so delayed in making the next version of Windows and IE. That XP and IE 6 became outdated.
Apple isn't a saint, but you more or less know what you are going to expect with Apple. Microsoft of old was much more sneaky and underhanded.
I think the taste difference is primarily the amount of Cane Sugar vs Corn Syrup. However other factors is the degree of carbonation. Plastic bottles (and cans) hold a very high degree of carbonation. While for glass bottles with metal caps, there is a degree of a slow leak espectially when the pressure is very high, then it stabilizes to a lower carbonation level. A lower level of carbonation makes the drink taste more sweet.
If you are drinking it out of the bottle, we get other factors which may factor in the taste. Plastic bottles will buckle and bend, so you can get bigger gulps while glass bottles limit how much you can sip from the vacuum it creates, thus giving you a smaller portion. There is also the fact that glass isn't a good insulator of heat that plastic is (there was millions of dollars in R&D put into making plastic soda bottles sweat like glass before people started buying them) so your drink is a bit colder (numbing taste buds)
The difference is people listen to him.
He is no better or worse then someone else but he has a soapbox and people to heat them.
How does this compare with other browsers?
Normally most webpages just give the browsers so much junk Pictures that are too large which only get scaled down. JavaScript Libraries that are many megs big, and often use only a fraction of the features. Also many pages are just long, just because it isn't in your field of view the data needs to be stored, and with DHTML and JS, it needs to be all the data, including junk that may never be used.
Is it fear or anger?
The older people fear the youth, with their "progressive" ideas and understanding of the new technology that makes them a threat to their way of life.
The youth are angry at the older people because they are ignoring obvious problems and bringing older problems that had been managed and making them worse.
You must be new here.
I am sick of all these monthly fees. And turning Goods (like software) into services.
Let me pay $2000 for Creative Suite, and I can have the software on my system for as long as I wan't vs charging me $70+ per month.
Sure the monthly fee is cheaper if I wanted to keep up to date. However I may not need all the features they are currently offering, and the new features I don't need anyways. For that $2000 I could use the software for 8 years before upgrading (Making it worth $20 a month for me).
There is pride of ownership, not pride monthly service.
I have tried these VPN Services. Their biggest problem is they really don't make you much safer, just more inconvenient.
Sure my IP Address/Geolocation is messed up (so half of my google searches are in German). But other then having targeted adds often for your local small businesses. If you follow safe browsing methods, having your IP Address and your location normally isn't a problem. IPv4 addresses are not that reliable way of tracking things, down. They can be spoofed, and also may be under many layers of NAT, plus for you normal home account you have an DHCP connection so your IP Address changes (in theory).
However normally the real damage is the the browser says in its headers. HEY LOOK AT ME! THIS IS MY BROWSER, HERE ARE SOME IDENTIFIERS AND COOKIES being that most sites like to use sessions the session information is a better tracker then what a VPN can do.
Except for the fact you get this stupid "News Feed" that brings you every clickbaty article on boot up that you cannot disable.
It is if you you can plant trees where they are growing at the same rate you are burning them.
We have migrants seeking asylum to America and Europe who are being turned away, threatened, Locked up...
General Race relations still sucks, and governments find coded laws to keep the disadvantage down.
Parallelism has been on the drawing board for over a generation in prep of the end of Moore's Law, Within the past decade parallel cores have became popular. My Laptop Today with a good video card with nearly 2000 Cuda cores, give more parallel computing power then a MassPar mainframe With (1024 CPUs) I used back in my college days, learning parallel processing.
Except they won't be cards, they just would be IC embedded on the main board, or even within the same chip.
I doubt we will see the return of the popularity of 3 foot tower PC. Loaded to the brim with expansion ports,
The economic system is not related to to how totalitarian the government is.
A Capitalist system can be just as Totalitarian as a Communist one is. Also a Communist government could also be a nice place to live and work.
Now Communism has a problem where any person who doesn't play by the plan can hurt the system. While Capitalism expected no plan, so anyone who does better then nothing, is a net benefit. This creates a tenancy for communism to be more brutal in people following rules.
But Capitalism is often more insidious where the people who have money have the power, however they use their power behind the scenes, and are not the face of power.