Slashdot needs to keep the Apple hate up. Because well... these people who hate Apple has a competitors product and they like it. And they feel that Apple’s success will somehow diminish their own products value. The iPhone X is the most expensive mainline phone out there. But other products are not that far away in price that are similar. So other people are spending a bit more money on something that we are not using and they seem to like it too, seems to outrage us. Over the past 10 years with the iPhone. The problems reported are rather minor the biggest news was on how poorly Apple responded to the minor problems. Your holding it wrong. Don’t sit on it. Courage. But overall the actual problem was minor. Even in iOS 11 which was rushed out to meet its 10 year anniversary had minor problems compared to what we have seen in Windows in the past. No major hacks or bricking or rampid spyware hitting the product.
To the end user, you should never tell them that your product is safe, because it will only go an bite you back. Because if they feel their phone is safe and immune to attacks/hacks and malware. Then chances are their behavior will be reckless, and will find some way to get their device infected. (Apple or Android)
I think google was really talking to Enterprise Deployments. Where big companies with sensitive data may have a policy that said iOS is OK while Android is not, siting security concerns. If Google can convince these people who do Risk management that Android isn't any worse then iOS is. That will open the door to further enterprise deployment.
The Commodore 64 may had been the best selling computer of all time. However the IBM PC x86 architecture had won the war. Not because it was better then the competitors, but because it had business approval for usage. Meaning people who wanted to do work from home, got these things (or work gave them one). Where after their work is done, their kids would play on it, causing games to be made for it, kids typing school work on them... So the Apple, Commodore 64, Atari, Amiga and the others while having a place in our heart, and did some things much better then the PC (Especially in graphics and sound), they undoubtedly went out of favor because it all comes down to needing to do the serious stuff.
In terms of Mobile devices we are roughly back in the mid 1980's With Apple holding on to their device, and an other company making an OS for many other devices. And the PalmOS, WebOS, Windows Phone OS... That were once popular and had some following just kinda died out. Now like the IBM PC and Compatibles and the Apple Macintosh. There is now a fight for the business mark. History can repeat itself and go to Android, or people reminded with the Pain of Microsoft and wishing they had Macs. May stay on iOS.
Being that most of our debt is paying for the military to find new ways of killing people, in hopes that other countries will see this and not attack us or our interests so we don't have to use them, and other countries are driving themselves into poverty trying to do the same thing, because they are afraid of Us.
If we were to put more thought and a little less fear into our economy we could easily have a surplus that we could put toward science, welfare, space exploration, education...
But the problem is everyone on this planet is afraid of everyone else. So we are stocking up arms in case the other scary guy does something. I am not meaning to belittle the dangers of foreign entities. As it can usually take any action that strikes a nerve to start up a full war, and every country wants to be the winner not the looser.
Unfortunately real life doesn't always match with science fiction. While we can probably do this, technically economically it is just more expensive to fill the "gas tank" with robots on an aging equipment. Then it is to build an other one and launch it into space. Science fiction like making traveling into orbit or the moon or a planet in our solar system seems like a Sunday drive, or at taking an airplane across the ocean. However the amount of energy involved (leaving earths influence) is massive, dangerous and very complex. If you are going to put in such expense you might as well go for the whole upgrade. Having robots fill it up in space, is like you needing to travel from the United States to Europe just to get some cheese and go back to the US just so you can make your dinner that night taste just right (And to have your kids pick it off as it looks funny). If you are going to do such a trip, you will doing more then just getting cheese, you will make an event out of it, go on vacation/holiday while you may come back with cheese, you will have much more out of it.
Well there are a few reasons. 1. Still in terms of PC's Microsoft is #1. So such bugs will negatively affect them. How many of these bugs and crashes we blamed on windows sucking so badly when it was a poorly made driver or an odd 3rd party hardware added in. (where same problems can happen with other systems such as Linux, and we happily blame the hardware vendor for not being open enough) 2. They can get lead time to make a patch or work around. For large software systems, that affect millions/billions of users. Patches need to be done carefully. So there is a lot of regression testing, and making sure the patch doesn't break any official ways of doing thing in Windows. (Crazy hacks that bi-pass the system may always break, and if your program isn't that popular it may break) 3. They can get a marketing information strategy set. Able to point to the root cause (say Intel) and market a stratify of redirecting the blame to them, while looking like a hero for fixing the solution. 4. Microsoft works closely with these hardware guys. They are more apt to work on finding a fix working with them, then a rogue 0 day exploit posted by some black hat hacker. Where they have to fix the problem in the mist of chaos and people getting hurt from the hack. Vs. having an organized plan to solve the issue and put out a good fix.
Please point out research on this and include the research on the peer review. Please show any objections to this as well and show their research as well.
Why does everything need to have a negative trade off? Sure it is great for stories but in real life things are not fair or balanced. They are usually trade off of some sort, they are not usually a measurable 50/50 split. Often they are 80 good and 20 bad. In many was it is less of a trade off but an opportunity cost.
For the most part I have been listening to Public Radio, and my local Public Radio station had just recently did a 2 Million dollar fund drive in 2 days. I think it is because our habits are moving from listening to music, which is widely available on the internet. To listening to news, while widely available on the internet too, but more difficult to get local news, and obtain it passively by listening to it, while driving, or doing other activities.
I also find news from NPR and the BBC to be more reputable and focused on news and facts then on commentary.
Just normal Incompetence is punishable, then we would all be in jail. Every day we are to push to areas where we havn't been before, and when doing something new or out of your comfort zone mistakes are made. A Company CEO takes a lot of risks, and is constantly out of their zone. So their job demands them to be incompetent. If competent, then the company will stagnate and fall behind. Mistakes are always made, now you cross the line when you use these mistakes to short sell the company your job is to help grow.
But it comes down to people arguing over the Problem vs the Solution. No the Left isn't pure, they go too far too. But when the right is actively disbelieving in the problem and promoting other to not believe in it too. Isn't conservatism, it regressionism.
The article seem to be mostly on how much nicer it looks. But it is 2018 the roll of the PC is very different then it was in 1998 or even in 2008. Back 10 years ago. The PC was the persons primary computing device for all things work and fun. We needed an attractive desktop environment as it would be one of our main views into the system. However even in 2008 most of our computing is via Web Sites. Back in 1998 when we used mostly application and installed mountains of applications on our PC's The UI and how well to use the Operating System was extremely important.
Mobile Technology has taken the place of much of our personal computing. The average person can go days or weeks without having to use a traditional PC. The PC has moved from its job as a Personal Computer to a Workstation where we use it for actual work (and High end games). For this type of work, we need the OS to take a step back from saying Hey look at me how cool of an OS I am, to a place to showcase the application(s) needed to be ran. Features need to be focused on bringing the application running to the attention of the user when they need it, and keep many applications well organized so we don't get bogged down by clutter.
True, However there are enough people pigheaded enough to vote in people who will be willing to actively ignore the issue. vs electing ones willing to take steps to help mitigate the effects with balanced policies.
There is a difference between a politician going climate change is a Hoax. Lets go burn more fuel. vs one saying Climate change is real, however stopping from burning fuel at this point is irresponsible, but lets take steps to change this.
The idea of governance and public servants has been replaced with politics. We elect too many people based on beliefs on areas that the position has little if any control of, and there are so many political rivals ready to pounce on any bad judgement calls, even if it one they themselves would had made, but they didn't have to make it at the time so they blame you for that mistake.
As tax paying voters we see a good portion of our paychecks being cut into taxes. This money if we were allowed to keep would probably raise our standard of living up a notch (In the short term at least). Fixing a light that is underground or trying to explain why it costs 100x as much to install the equipment then it would for a hacker to build the same thing with off the shelf electronics, is difficult. Then combine if you try that there will be someone ready to stab you in the back. Because your campaign slogan was to use less money, and here you are asking for more.
But all this is politics not governance. As a responsible public servant you are trying to work for the best interests of your constituents, and perform you jobs as well as you can. This means evaluating the long term (Past your current election cycle) benefits of such actions. Slowing the trains down as a short term solution while you evaluate improved signaling systems, Seeing evaluating to see if the Gold standard system that has a high cost and offers more features then you will ever use, vs a middle tear system that will really do what is needed at less cost (even if you are the greatest city in the world) however rejecting the cheap system, as you will be spending money and not getting what you really need.
What I feel is the core of the problem is we as citizens do not have access to the information to help us make appropriate decisions. And I don't have a good solution. Commercial media: They are all about profit. So their goal is to get your attention long enough to get to the ads. They are willing to give misleading headlines to get you interested and fill up time with commentators so you are yelling at the TV, Website, News Paper, Radio... But you are still viewing it. Going down to the deep dig on the issue will be boring, and viewers will drop off.
Government media: They are about survival. The phrase don't bite the hand that feeds you comes into mind. Our government (of whatever country you are reading this from) isn't always the good guy. Bad decisions are made with bad intentions. And for an organization who's lively hood is based on these people means they may be willing to look the other way or put a spin be a propaganda arm of the ruling party.
Social media: Really lack of any depth at all. Long winded posts (Much like mine here) shortly fall down to the side to witty memes that say hey look at this, other people feel the same way that I do on such a topic. And Cat videos because we all love watching cats play.
Public Media: In many ways this has the problems of all three. While I have found they are more likely to go into a bit more depth, because the people who pay for it ask for more details. and they don't need to show as many ads (err umm. Underwriters?). They are at the mercy of the quarterly fund drive, so they need to keep people who would pay them interested enough, and often that means pandering to the interests of the local community, not hitting too hard against the grants and underwriters (often politicians, governments and big companies and special interest groups) and keeping the format close to that of commercial so people just don't turn that dial and not be engaged.
Not as bad as you expect. We had Auto-pilot on airplanes for generations, while we are just starting to have such functionality in automobiles. In the sky there isn't as much things you can crash into and we are not dealing with infrastructure based on hundreds/thousands of years of backwards comparability.
Is it Appealing? No, but it is inevitable. Our time on this planet is limited. Artificially extending our lives is really just our own egos getting in the way. Lets say this is the future were we can restore such minds. Do we really want to take the minds of people a hundred years ago, who are old and stuck in their ways, have outdated morality and limited world view.
Please don't translate this as ageism, as the wisdom of older people is valuable. However you taking the years of wisdom learned from a world that doesn't exist.
So we are to capture and freeze the state of mind right before death. Often from a slow painful process. We keep this state constant for extended period of time.
Firefox is getting a score of 491 out of 555 points While Google Chrome gets a score 528 out of 555 points
Granted it isn't the only thing. But when I get a browser update, that suppose to be a big update, I would like to see it supporting the standards a bit better then its main competitor.
Out of your pocket. While I am of the opinion that the U.S. Spends too much on the military, and there is a lot of waste in the military that can probably be cleaned up with some efficiencies, and the fact that they pull the you need to pay us more money or else you will be sorry scheme irresponsible.
But this is just more money that will be wasted from our tax money and not go towards strengthening our military, paying our troops better salary. Or keeping us more secure.
Growth Rates are relevant when comparing similar sized companies. Also this metric is useful to see if competitors are catching up.
But like all metrics, you can't rely on one golden metric to tell you what is going on. You need to look at as many as possible and understand their reasoning.
Metrics are tools to help manage what you choose to investigate,not the final outcome.
In general this technology, is just the command line interface all over again, with some rudimentary natural language parsing, with a default fail over of googling the question.
The problem with All the Digital Assistants is that it doesn't really get context. So it comes up with silly answers to questions, because the context of the question isn't place in concern.
The next thing I will be told is is if I drill a hole in my backyard I will reach a point where I can pump up relatively clean water? Like some kind of well?
Being that the landmass in the Southern Hemisphere is 32% and assuming that you are not in Antarctica (An other 9%). Making 23% of the available land area... Also being that most of the Southern landmass is north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Chances are while you are in late summer, now going to fall. Temperature wise, there isn't that big of a difference. Compared to use in the North Hemisphere where Northern US, Canada, Europe, Northern China, which are away from the Tropics, means we are getting a larger verity thus definable seasons. Vs Hot and Less Hot weather.
It is really a two fold problem. You need to protect your cities for the short term (a few hundred years) while working to slowdown to stop the real problem asap.
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Slashdot needs to keep the Apple hate up.
Because well... these people who hate Apple has a competitors product and they like it. And they feel that Apple’s success will somehow diminish their own products value.
The iPhone X is the most expensive mainline phone out there. But other products are not that far away in price that are similar. So other people are spending a bit more money on something that we are not using and they seem to like it too, seems to outrage us.
Over the past 10 years with the iPhone. The problems reported are rather minor the biggest news was on how poorly Apple responded to the minor problems.
Your holding it wrong.
Don’t sit on it.
Courage.
But overall the actual problem was minor. Even in iOS 11 which was rushed out to meet its 10 year anniversary had minor problems compared to what we have seen in Windows in the past. No major hacks or bricking or rampid spyware hitting the product.
To the end user, you should never tell them that your product is safe, because it will only go an bite you back. Because if they feel their phone is safe and immune to attacks/hacks and malware. Then chances are their behavior will be reckless, and will find some way to get their device infected. (Apple or Android)
I think google was really talking to Enterprise Deployments. Where big companies with sensitive data may have a policy that said iOS is OK while Android is not, siting security concerns. If Google can convince these people who do Risk management that Android isn't any worse then iOS is. That will open the door to further enterprise deployment.
The Commodore 64 may had been the best selling computer of all time. However the IBM PC x86 architecture had won the war. Not because it was better then the competitors, but because it had business approval for usage. Meaning people who wanted to do work from home, got these things (or work gave them one). Where after their work is done, their kids would play on it, causing games to be made for it, kids typing school work on them... So the Apple, Commodore 64, Atari, Amiga and the others while having a place in our heart, and did some things much better then the PC (Especially in graphics and sound), they undoubtedly went out of favor because it all comes down to needing to do the serious stuff.
In terms of Mobile devices we are roughly back in the mid 1980's With Apple holding on to their device, and an other company making an OS for many other devices. And the PalmOS, WebOS, Windows Phone OS... That were once popular and had some following just kinda died out. Now like the IBM PC and Compatibles and the Apple Macintosh. There is now a fight for the business mark. History can repeat itself and go to Android, or people reminded with the Pain of Microsoft and wishing they had Macs. May stay on iOS.
Being that most of our debt is paying for the military to find new ways of killing people, in hopes that other countries will see this and not attack us or our interests so we don't have to use them, and other countries are driving themselves into poverty trying to do the same thing, because they are afraid of Us.
If we were to put more thought and a little less fear into our economy we could easily have a surplus that we could put toward science, welfare, space exploration, education...
But the problem is everyone on this planet is afraid of everyone else. So we are stocking up arms in case the other scary guy does something. I am not meaning to belittle the dangers of foreign entities. As it can usually take any action that strikes a nerve to start up a full war, and every country wants to be the winner not the looser.
Unfortunately real life doesn't always match with science fiction.
While we can probably do this, technically economically it is just more expensive to fill the "gas tank" with robots on an aging equipment. Then it is to build an other one and launch it into space.
Science fiction like making traveling into orbit or the moon or a planet in our solar system seems like a Sunday drive, or at taking an airplane across the ocean. However the amount of energy involved (leaving earths influence) is massive, dangerous and very complex. If you are going to put in such expense you might as well go for the whole upgrade. Having robots fill it up in space, is like you needing to travel from the United States to Europe just to get some cheese and go back to the US just so you can make your dinner that night taste just right (And to have your kids pick it off as it looks funny). If you are going to do such a trip, you will doing more then just getting cheese, you will make an event out of it, go on vacation/holiday while you may come back with cheese, you will have much more out of it.
Well there are a few reasons.
1. Still in terms of PC's Microsoft is #1. So such bugs will negatively affect them. How many of these bugs and crashes we blamed on windows sucking so badly when it was a poorly made driver or an odd 3rd party hardware added in. (where same problems can happen with other systems such as Linux, and we happily blame the hardware vendor for not being open enough)
2. They can get lead time to make a patch or work around. For large software systems, that affect millions/billions of users. Patches need to be done carefully. So there is a lot of regression testing, and making sure the patch doesn't break any official ways of doing thing in Windows. (Crazy hacks that bi-pass the system may always break, and if your program isn't that popular it may break)
3. They can get a marketing information strategy set. Able to point to the root cause (say Intel) and market a stratify of redirecting the blame to them, while looking like a hero for fixing the solution.
4. Microsoft works closely with these hardware guys. They are more apt to work on finding a fix working with them, then a rogue 0 day exploit posted by some black hat hacker. Where they have to fix the problem in the mist of chaos and people getting hurt from the hack. Vs. having an organized plan to solve the issue and put out a good fix.
Please point out research on this and include the research on the peer review. Please show any objections to this as well and show their research as well.
Why does everything need to have a negative trade off?
Sure it is great for stories but in real life things are not fair or balanced.
They are usually trade off of some sort, they are not usually a measurable 50/50 split. Often they are 80 good and 20 bad. In many was it is less of a trade off but an opportunity cost.
For the most part I have been listening to Public Radio, and my local Public Radio station had just recently did a 2 Million dollar fund drive in 2 days. I think it is because our habits are moving from listening to music, which is widely available on the internet. To listening to news, while widely available on the internet too, but more difficult to get local news, and obtain it passively by listening to it, while driving, or doing other activities.
I also find news from NPR and the BBC to be more reputable and focused on news and facts then on commentary.
Just normal Incompetence is punishable, then we would all be in jail. Every day we are to push to areas where we havn't been before, and when doing something new or out of your comfort zone mistakes are made.
A Company CEO takes a lot of risks, and is constantly out of their zone. So their job demands them to be incompetent. If competent, then the company will stagnate and fall behind.
Mistakes are always made, now you cross the line when you use these mistakes to short sell the company your job is to help grow.
But it comes down to people arguing over the Problem vs the Solution. No the Left isn't pure, they go too far too. But when the right is actively disbelieving in the problem and promoting other to not believe in it too. Isn't conservatism, it regressionism.
The article seem to be mostly on how much nicer it looks. But it is 2018 the roll of the PC is very different then it was in 1998 or even in 2008.
Back 10 years ago. The PC was the persons primary computing device for all things work and fun. We needed an attractive desktop environment as it would be one of our main views into the system. However even in 2008 most of our computing is via Web Sites. Back in 1998 when we used mostly application and installed mountains of applications on our PC's The UI and how well to use the Operating System was extremely important.
Mobile Technology has taken the place of much of our personal computing. The average person can go days or weeks without having to use a traditional PC. The PC has moved from its job as a Personal Computer to a Workstation where we use it for actual work (and High end games). For this type of work, we need the OS to take a step back from saying Hey look at me how cool of an OS I am, to a place to showcase the application(s) needed to be ran. Features need to be focused on bringing the application running to the attention of the user when they need it, and keep many applications well organized so we don't get bogged down by clutter.
True,
However there are enough people pigheaded enough to vote in people who will be willing to actively ignore the issue. vs electing ones willing to take steps to help mitigate the effects with balanced policies.
There is a difference between a politician going climate change is a Hoax. Lets go burn more fuel. vs one saying Climate change is real, however stopping from burning fuel at this point is irresponsible, but lets take steps to change this.
The idea of governance and public servants has been replaced with politics.
We elect too many people based on beliefs on areas that the position has little if any control of, and there are so many political rivals ready to pounce on any bad judgement calls, even if it one they themselves would had made, but they didn't have to make it at the time so they blame you for that mistake.
As tax paying voters we see a good portion of our paychecks being cut into taxes. This money if we were allowed to keep would probably raise our standard of living up a notch (In the short term at least). Fixing a light that is underground or trying to explain why it costs 100x as much to install the equipment then it would for a hacker to build the same thing with off the shelf electronics, is difficult. Then combine if you try that there will be someone ready to stab you in the back. Because your campaign slogan was to use less money, and here you are asking for more.
But all this is politics not governance. As a responsible public servant you are trying to work for the best interests of your constituents, and perform you jobs as well as you can. This means evaluating the long term (Past your current election cycle) benefits of such actions. Slowing the trains down as a short term solution while you evaluate improved signaling systems, Seeing evaluating to see if the Gold standard system that has a high cost and offers more features then you will ever use, vs a middle tear system that will really do what is needed at less cost (even if you are the greatest city in the world) however rejecting the cheap system, as you will be spending money and not getting what you really need.
What I feel is the core of the problem is we as citizens do not have access to the information to help us make appropriate decisions. And I don't have a good solution.
Commercial media: They are all about profit. So their goal is to get your attention long enough to get to the ads. They are willing to give misleading headlines to get you interested and fill up time with commentators so you are yelling at the TV, Website, News Paper, Radio... But you are still viewing it. Going down to the deep dig on the issue will be boring, and viewers will drop off.
Government media: They are about survival. The phrase don't bite the hand that feeds you comes into mind. Our government (of whatever country you are reading this from) isn't always the good guy. Bad decisions are made with bad intentions. And for an organization who's lively hood is based on these people means they may be willing to look the other way or put a spin be a propaganda arm of the ruling party.
Social media: Really lack of any depth at all. Long winded posts (Much like mine here) shortly fall down to the side to witty memes that say hey look at this, other people feel the same way that I do on such a topic. And Cat videos because we all love watching cats play.
Public Media: In many ways this has the problems of all three. While I have found they are more likely to go into a bit more depth, because the people who pay for it ask for more details. and they don't need to show as many ads (err umm. Underwriters?). They are at the mercy of the quarterly fund drive, so they need to keep people who would pay them interested enough, and often that means pandering to the interests of the local community, not hitting too hard against the grants and underwriters (often politicians, governments and big companies and special interest groups) and keeping the format close to that of commercial so people just don't turn that dial and not be engaged.
Not as bad as you expect. We had Auto-pilot on airplanes for generations, while we are just starting to have such functionality in automobiles.
In the sky there isn't as much things you can crash into and we are not dealing with infrastructure based on hundreds/thousands of years of backwards comparability.
Or we are completely doomed! And the government is hiding this from us so we don't go running the the streets looting and rioting.
Please not this is a sarcastic statement, do not take it as fact. (and ignore the man with the black suite behind me)
Is it Appealing? No, but it is inevitable. Our time on this planet is limited. Artificially extending our lives is really just our own egos getting in the way.
Lets say this is the future were we can restore such minds. Do we really want to take the minds of people a hundred years ago, who are old and stuck in their ways, have outdated morality and limited world view.
Please don't translate this as ageism, as the wisdom of older people is valuable. However you taking the years of wisdom learned from a world that doesn't exist.
So we are to capture and freeze the state of mind right before death. Often from a slow painful process. We keep this state constant for extended period of time.
This doesn't sound appealing.
Firefox is getting a score of 491 out of 555 points
While Google Chrome gets a score 528 out of 555 points
Granted it isn't the only thing. But when I get a browser update, that suppose to be a big update, I would like to see it supporting the standards a bit better then its main competitor.
Out of your pocket.
While I am of the opinion that the U.S. Spends too much on the military, and there is a lot of waste in the military that can probably be cleaned up with some efficiencies, and the fact that they pull the you need to pay us more money or else you will be sorry scheme irresponsible.
But this is just more money that will be wasted from our tax money and not go towards strengthening our military, paying our troops better salary. Or keeping us more secure.
Growth Rates are relevant when comparing similar sized companies. Also this metric is useful to see if competitors are catching up.
But like all metrics, you can't rely on one golden metric to tell you what is going on. You need to look at as many as possible and understand their reasoning.
Metrics are tools to help manage what you choose to investigate,not the final outcome.
In general this technology, is just the command line interface all over again, with some rudimentary natural language parsing, with a default fail over of googling the question.
The problem with All the Digital Assistants is that it doesn't really get context. So it comes up with silly answers to questions, because the context of the question isn't place in concern.
The next thing I will be told is is if I drill a hole in my backyard I will reach a point where I can pump up relatively clean water? Like some kind of well?
Such action should be illegal. And these criminals who did this should be punished for it.
Being that the landmass in the Southern Hemisphere is 32% and assuming that you are not in Antarctica (An other 9%). Making 23% of the available land area... Also being that most of the Southern landmass is north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Chances are while you are in late summer, now going to fall. Temperature wise, there isn't that big of a difference. Compared to use in the North Hemisphere where Northern US, Canada, Europe, Northern China, which are away from the Tropics, means we are getting a larger verity thus definable seasons. Vs Hot and Less Hot weather.
It is really a two fold problem.
You need to protect your cities for the short term (a few hundred years) while working to slowdown to stop the real problem asap.