On the one hand, I have drawers full of old phones and chargers...so I reckon standards are good. On the other, my kids (and to a lesser extent I) enjoyed the extended functionality that iPhone sockets brought to (cheap, non-Apple) peripherals like bedside alarms, autonomous amp/speakers in the bathroom or by the pool, replacement car stereos...access to contacts, charging, music and all without Apple or Android "car OS" bullshit. And no, bluetooth alternatives for non-Apple devices do not count...only recently have they become remotely equivalent in reliability of connection, integration and ease of use. The cheapo Chinese iThings mostly "Just Worked"...(OK, albeit with hilariously poor and inconsistent interfaces) Well, up to iPhone 4s anyway.
All that came to a grinding halt with later iPhones / iOS. Since my kids and cats routinely lose, loan, or just simply destroy chargers and cables, I have a bunch of hard-wired armoured micro-USB cables all around the house, the garden, the cars etc. Fine for me and the wife with Android 'phones; for kids and visitors a small "tip" that converted the mini-USB to Lightening was attached with a steel flying wire near the end, (fishing line header, if you're interested...) Neat little thing, bought for cheap. Worked fine. Until an "update" rendered them useless...
Fuck you Apple.
Oh, and don't get me started on how later iOS updates rendered the user interface LESS usable.
Fuck you again, boys, and BTW fuck iTunes while we're at it.
Used to be that folks had the courtesy to do that, even though of course we understand that you want to drive traffic to your blog.
Re: other comments on shotgunning the things, (sounds like fun, but might do more harm than good if they fall in the wrong place), what they actually want is to disable the active control of the buggers:
"The Air Force Global Strike Command is requesting three (3) systems to counter unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also commonly known as personal drones. There are three main areas in counter UAS (cUAS): detect, identify and defeat. This system should address the defeat portion. This portion needs to disrupt the control link between a commercial UAS and the pilot causing the UAS to fall into its preprogrammed "lost link" protocol. The system should provide the additional ability to disrupt the UAS's ability to receive and use satellite navigation signals (GPS and GLONASS) for navigation purposes."
Urm, maybe the latter might cause some hilarity if you're using it around an (air)port...
Also, loved this part:
"The system must have the below attributes:
Low complexity: no software, no firmware"
So they want this hard-wired from transistors, or better-still valves? HAM radio boys everywhere, fire up your breadboards!
Not a valid comparison, methinks. You (hopefully) decided to model nude of your own free will, also presumably with full knowledge that people would then paint pictures of you in the buff. All power to you - I'm guessing you're both confident in yourself and perhaps reasonably good looking. Many nude models also get paid... Anyway, paid or not, you know full well that the resulting works were likely to be displayed in public.
This case is an entirely different matter - as part of their private relationship, the lady allowed herself to be photographed in her birthday suit. Having split with her former partner, and in this era of "revenge porn" et al., she seems to have desired not to risk having her privates plastered all over the web.
And this is why I still come to Slashdot..you're already at 5 so I'll post instead. A star for your nerd badge, sir! I still carry an iPhone 4 for the size, but recent OS "upgrades" make it very slow...
In addition to rolling your own imap, as has already been suggested, you can/should also do this. If you are a Windows and Outlook user, (and if not, Google and torrents are your friend) burn a wet weekend learning the mysteries of those two plus acrobat pro. Get a clean install on a fast PC with plenty of memory and an ssd. Import all your old crap into outlook (look it up) Install acrobat pro including outlook plugin... Trivially use this to create searchable PDFs including attachments.
It's not cultural, it's all about effective enforcement of traffic laws. I've driven, and been driven, all around the world. Shocking driving in the Middle East, most of Africa, India and lots of Asia? Sure. But that's because you can get a driving licence for cheap, and even if you get stopped by the cops it'll be a simple matter of a small cash bribe and you're on your way. Couple that with death-trap old cars and rubbish roads and for sure there are plenty of bad accidents. But...Singapore? Asian culture meets draconian policing - guess what? pretty safe driving. Left to their own devices, people EVERYWHERE drive badly...
You are right, the A-10 was conceived primarily as a ground-attack platform, so flies lower and slower. However, the guys thunk about that and made it so that the engine exhaust is shielded by the airframe, and even when you do get hit, you can still fly home.
Indeed. Although they could follow the Zeitgeist and offer a "rebuild" function in a few years time. The hipsters would love that, imagine "I just 'upgraded' my watch for only $500, darling!' Would only cost a few bucks in parts and labour for TAG, so probably profitable.
I hope this happens - part of the "brand promise" of Swiss watches is the fact that they can be repaired and hence last virtually indefinitely.
Nastily couched in modern ExecSpeak...one team "spends much of their time" whilst the other "pays a tax"... Pointy-haired bosses everywhere must be pulling on their weasels in delight at such utter crap. So yes, let Mozilla go (under), Thunderbird team, and try and get things back to when you actually had a decent mail client. Better still, find a way for Windows/Mac/Nix users to swap encrypted emails easily and maybe you'll even make some market share. Partner with one of the "secure" email providers?
Well good; I'm guessing that a lot of organisations (outside of Federal) that use this "free" service are ones too cheap to go private. Just as long as they don't think that they'll get the same breadth and depth of experience as you would with some other options - you don't attack a bank the way you attack a power station so better to go to the specialists for your situation. Still, if it leads to the DHS overall getting more of a clue then I'm all for it. But somehow I doubt it...
Now, getting a "tested clear" certificate from the NSA on the other hand would be cool...if you could believe that during the audit they'd not raped your data and installed another 50 backdoors.
You can get lucky with generic, but I've had too many hard to track down issues over the years that were ultimately caused by buggy main memory chips. Whatever you buy, torture test them first - many tools available. Do the same with the disk - SSD is the way to go, but again do your research since some disk have poor firmware, and/or don't support all file system functions.
In the days before it was realised that birds migrate, it was thought that barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis, developed from this crustacean, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe,[2] hence the English names "goose barnacle", "barnacle goose" and the scientific name Lepas anserifera (Latin anser = "goose"). The confusion was prompted by the similarities in colour and shape. Because they were often found on driftwood, it was assumed that the barnacles were attached to branches before they fell in the water. The Welsh monk, Giraldus Cambrensis, made this claim in his Topographia Hiberniae.[3] Since barnacle geese were thought to be "neither flesh, nor born of flesh", they were allowed to be eaten on days when eating meat was forbidden by Christianity,[2] though it was not universally accepted. The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II examined barnacles and noted no evidence of any bird-like embryo in them, and the secretary of Leo of Rozmital wrote a very skeptical account of his reaction to being served the goose at a fast-day dinner in 1456.
Hence Uber's ranking system. I dislike the company in many ways, but you can ding a poor driver in Uber. Good luck doing that with a "normal" cab anywhere...
Please could someone explain what "upgraded to lower cost" mean? As for "upgraded for the launch"...what? Could it not lauch prior to the upgrade? The linked article makes no referenece to either.
Well, I would maintain that by their actions they have pretty much excluded themselves from any reasonable definition of "national" or "citizen". Indeed, this is the nub of the problem; different peoples from different regions - both within and outside what we now call Europe - have integrated more or less well over the centuries. Frequently their differences, at first feared, enriched our cultures. But there were always a few who did not bring postives, and instead violently fought their new homes... The fault was often on both sides - both the majority was stronger, did not give a damn, and so the new arrivals either eventually conformed or entered the road accident statistics, died while "resisting arrest" or were packed off to the army or prison where they could vent their anger well away from "civilisation".
These days, a few bitter whackjobs, often with a record of violent behaviour then criminal activity before "discovering god", get to organise using the infrastructure the same "civilisation" they profess to wish to destroy has provided. They're just mentally ill...nothing to do with Islam or anything else.
And certainly not worthy of the title of "national"...
Except they are trying to implement, emulate whatever the entire damn ecosystem, sounds like, rather than just port an app, or provide a limited technical environment in which it will run...sort of... Sounds like just the spot of mega-project that will fail hard.
Given the amount of cash they're sitting on, would it not be easier to get the "thousands of programmers" the easy way? Just contact the dudes that wrote the top 100 (or 200, 300 whatever your budget) apps on android and iOS and given free free dev tools and support plus a slug of cash to port their apps.
Ironically, Google "killer" app (as far as I am concerned) for mobile devices - Waze - is already available on Windows phone....
ARCNET (note caps) is actually pretty good, and still used in applications that require deterministic network response, (like industrial control applications). It was far superior to Ethernet back in the day, but was "closed" so was slowly hammered into oblivion.
I have family in Paris; what has happened (and appears to be ongoing) is indeed an outrage. Just as what is going on in Syria (and Ukraine) is an outrage. There is a reason why desperate people risk their lives, and those of their children, and are drowning in their hundreds.
It's because what is happening in their "major cities" in many, many times worse than what's happening in Paris.
Sounds morally right, but in fact economies of scale and security considerations make it much more sensible to have one or two specialised facilities. Of course "sensible" debate about nuclear waste ended a long time ago...
Why is this modded troll? I use PCs with every interface possible, Linux, BSD, OSX, Windows, OS/2 (yup!) and have used Blackberry and iPhones since they were launched, now have iPhone, Android (nice dual-SIM Chinese generic) and a Nokia Windows phone (not bad, not great) So I guess pretty neutral here, and maybe slightly experienced..agree with OP that iPhone interface is going backwards...and as others more loquacious than I have noted, same seems to be true of various desktops and browsers.
Different =/= better. Either improve it or leave it alone, especially if you don't understand why it was done that way in the first place...
But then you'll get me going about that twat Poettering...
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As part of some dubious "research" project into how delicious giant squid tastes...
On the one hand, I have drawers full of old phones and chargers...so I reckon standards are good.
On the other, my kids (and to a lesser extent I) enjoyed the extended functionality that iPhone sockets brought to (cheap, non-Apple) peripherals like bedside alarms, autonomous amp/speakers in the bathroom or by the pool, replacement car stereos...access to contacts, charging, music and all without Apple or Android "car OS" bullshit. And no, bluetooth alternatives for non-Apple devices do not count...only recently have they become remotely equivalent in reliability of connection, integration and ease of use.
The cheapo Chinese iThings mostly "Just Worked"...(OK, albeit with hilariously poor and inconsistent interfaces)
Well, up to iPhone 4s anyway.
All that came to a grinding halt with later iPhones / iOS.
Since my kids and cats routinely lose, loan, or just simply destroy chargers and cables, I have a bunch of hard-wired armoured micro-USB cables all around the house, the garden, the cars etc.
Fine for me and the wife with Android 'phones; for kids and visitors a small "tip" that converted the mini-USB to Lightening was attached with a steel flying wire near the end, (fishing line header, if you're interested...)
Neat little thing, bought for cheap. Worked fine.
Until an "update" rendered them useless...
Fuck you Apple.
Oh, and don't get me started on how later iOS updates rendered the user interface LESS usable.
Fuck you again, boys, and BTW fuck iTunes while we're at it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to mow the lawn.
you are counting on Slashdot to do your graduate project for you?
No, the submitter is just asking for ideas. 99% of the work is the implementation, and the submitter is not asking for any help with that.
Betting that's coming as a follow-up article Real Soon Now :)
Which is here:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=op...
Used to be that folks had the courtesy to do that, even though of course we understand that you want to drive traffic to your blog.
Re: other comments on shotgunning the things, (sounds like fun, but might do more harm than good if they fall in the wrong place), what they actually want is to disable the active control of the buggers:
"The Air Force Global Strike Command is requesting three (3) systems to counter unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also commonly known as personal drones. There are three main areas in counter UAS (cUAS): detect, identify and defeat. This system should address the defeat portion. This portion needs to disrupt the control link between a commercial UAS and the pilot causing the UAS to fall into its preprogrammed "lost link" protocol. The system should provide the additional ability to disrupt the UAS's ability to receive and use satellite navigation signals (GPS and GLONASS) for navigation purposes."
Urm, maybe the latter might cause some hilarity if you're using it around an (air)port...
Also, loved this part:
"The system must have the below attributes:
Low complexity: no software, no firmware"
So they want this hard-wired from transistors, or better-still valves?
HAM radio boys everywhere, fire up your breadboards!
A happy and peaceful Christmas to all...
Not a valid comparison, methinks.
You (hopefully) decided to model nude of your own free will, also presumably with full knowledge that people would then paint pictures of you in the buff.
All power to you - I'm guessing you're both confident in yourself and perhaps reasonably good looking. Many nude models also get paid...
Anyway, paid or not, you know full well that the resulting works were likely to be displayed in public.
This case is an entirely different matter - as part of their private relationship, the lady allowed herself to be photographed in her birthday suit.
Having split with her former partner, and in this era of "revenge porn" et al., she seems to have desired not to risk having her privates plastered all over the web.
Seems reasonable to me.
And this is why I still come to Slashdot..you're already at 5 so I'll post instead.
A star for your nerd badge, sir!
I still carry an iPhone 4 for the size, but recent OS "upgrades" make it very slow...
In addition to rolling your own imap, as has already been suggested, you can/should also do this.
If you are a Windows and Outlook user, (and if not, Google and torrents are your friend) burn a wet weekend learning the mysteries of those two plus acrobat pro. Get a clean install on a fast PC with plenty of memory and an ssd.
Import all your old crap into outlook (look it up)
Install acrobat pro including outlook plugin... Trivially use this to create searchable PDFs including attachments.
It's not cultural, it's all about effective enforcement of traffic laws.
I've driven, and been driven, all around the world.
Shocking driving in the Middle East, most of Africa, India and lots of Asia?
Sure. But that's because you can get a driving licence for cheap, and even if you get stopped by the cops it'll be a simple matter of a small cash bribe and you're on your way. Couple that with death-trap old cars and rubbish roads and for sure there are plenty of bad accidents.
But...Singapore? Asian culture meets draconian policing - guess what? pretty safe driving.
Left to their own devices, people EVERYWHERE drive badly...
You are right, the A-10 was conceived primarily as a ground-attack platform, so flies lower and slower.
However, the guys thunk about that and made it so that the engine exhaust is shielded by the airframe, and even when you do get hit, you can still fly home.
Indeed. Although they could follow the Zeitgeist and offer a "rebuild" function in a few years time.
The hipsters would love that, imagine "I just 'upgraded' my watch for only $500, darling!'
Would only cost a few bucks in parts and labour for TAG, so probably profitable.
I hope this happens - part of the "brand promise" of Swiss watches is the fact that they can be repaired and hence last virtually indefinitely.
Nastily couched in modern ExecSpeak...one team "spends much of their time" whilst the other "pays a tax"...
Pointy-haired bosses everywhere must be pulling on their weasels in delight at such utter crap.
So yes, let Mozilla go (under), Thunderbird team, and try and get things back to when you actually had a decent mail client.
Better still, find a way for Windows/Mac/Nix users to swap encrypted emails easily and maybe you'll even make some market share.
Partner with one of the "secure" email providers?
Mod up.
Well good; I'm guessing that a lot of organisations (outside of Federal) that use this "free" service are ones too cheap to go private.
Just as long as they don't think that they'll get the same breadth and depth of experience as you would with some other options - you don't attack a bank the way you attack a power station so better to go to the specialists for your situation.
Still, if it leads to the DHS overall getting more of a clue then I'm all for it.
But somehow I doubt it...
Now, getting a "tested clear" certificate from the NSA on the other hand would be cool...if you could believe that during the audit they'd not raped your data and installed another 50 backdoors.
The cruel punishment is actually making them use Python....
You can get lucky with generic, but I've had too many hard to track down issues over the years that were ultimately caused by buggy main memory chips. Whatever you buy, torture test them first - many tools available. /or don't support all file system functions.
Do the same with the disk - SSD is the way to go, but again do your research since some disk have poor firmware, and
Wikipedia to the rescue:
In the days before it was realised that birds migrate, it was thought that barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis, developed from this crustacean, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe,[2] hence the English names "goose barnacle", "barnacle goose" and the scientific name Lepas anserifera (Latin anser = "goose"). The confusion was prompted by the similarities in colour and shape. Because they were often found on driftwood, it was assumed that the barnacles were attached to branches before they fell in the water. The Welsh monk, Giraldus Cambrensis, made this claim in his Topographia Hiberniae.[3]
Since barnacle geese were thought to be "neither flesh, nor born of flesh", they were allowed to be eaten on days when eating meat was forbidden by Christianity,[2] though it was not universally accepted. The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II examined barnacles and noted no evidence of any bird-like embryo in them, and the secretary of Leo of Rozmital wrote a very skeptical account of his reaction to being served the goose at a fast-day dinner in 1456.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hence Uber's ranking system.
I dislike the company in many ways, but you can ding a poor driver in Uber.
Good luck doing that with a "normal" cab anywhere...
Please could someone explain what "upgraded to lower cost" mean?
As for "upgraded for the launch"...what? Could it not lauch prior to the upgrade?
The linked article makes no referenece to either.
Much better information here:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com...
And even here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, I would maintain that by their actions they have pretty much excluded themselves from any reasonable definition of "national" or "citizen".
Indeed, this is the nub of the problem; different peoples from different regions - both within and outside what we now call Europe - have integrated more or less well over the centuries. Frequently their differences, at first feared, enriched our cultures.
But there were always a few who did not bring postives, and instead violently fought their new homes...
The fault was often on both sides - both the majority was stronger, did not give a damn, and so the new arrivals either eventually conformed or entered the road accident statistics, died while "resisting arrest" or were packed off to the army or prison where they could vent their anger well away from "civilisation".
These days, a few bitter whackjobs, often with a record of violent behaviour then criminal activity before "discovering god", get to organise using the infrastructure the same "civilisation" they profess to wish to destroy has provided.
They're just mentally ill...nothing to do with Islam or anything else.
And certainly not worthy of the title of "national"...
Except they are trying to implement, emulate whatever the entire damn ecosystem, sounds like, rather than just port an app, or provide a limited technical environment in which it will run...sort of...
Sounds like just the spot of mega-project that will fail hard.
Given the amount of cash they're sitting on, would it not be easier to get the "thousands of programmers" the easy way?
Just contact the dudes that wrote the top 100 (or 200, 300 whatever your budget) apps on android and iOS and given free free dev tools and support plus a slug of cash to port their apps.
Ironically, Google "killer" app (as far as I am concerned) for mobile devices - Waze - is already available on Windows phone....
ARCNET (note caps) is actually pretty good, and still used in applications that require deterministic network response, (like industrial control applications).
It was far superior to Ethernet back in the day, but was "closed" so was slowly hammered into oblivion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I have family in Paris; what has happened (and appears to be ongoing) is indeed an outrage.
Just as what is going on in Syria (and Ukraine) is an outrage.
There is a reason why desperate people risk their lives, and those of their children, and are drowning in their hundreds.
It's because what is happening in their "major cities" in many, many times worse than what's happening in Paris.
The hardware of the systems is complete, with software being engineered presently
No need for the drug runners to worry for a while yet, then...ironing out the bugs will probably take a few years
Sounds morally right, but in fact economies of scale and security considerations make it much more sensible to have one or two specialised facilities.
Of course "sensible" debate about nuclear waste ended a long time ago...
Why is this modded troll? I use PCs with every interface possible, Linux, BSD, OSX, Windows, OS/2 (yup!) and have used Blackberry and iPhones since they were launched, now have iPhone, Android (nice dual-SIM Chinese generic) and a Nokia Windows phone (not bad, not great)
So I guess pretty neutral here, and maybe slightly experienced..agree with OP that iPhone interface is going backwards...and as others more loquacious than I have noted, same seems to be true of various desktops and browsers.
Different =/= better. Either improve it or leave it alone, especially if you don't understand why it was done that way in the first place...
But then you'll get me going about that twat Poettering...