'Control' as in 'The user cant turn it off, opt out, or present false data.'. Your 'need' should never supersede my right to tell you 'no, you cant have that info from me'. At what point did you assume you had an unfettered right to that data? did it ever occur to you that you should respect your users?
The problem is most of this stuff SHOULD be so low cost that it should be nearly free. Everyone should have a cheap $100 server at home that all your data flows to and you control. There is no reason for any of this basic stuff to cost so much privacy. It costs money because they want to control and shape it, not because of the technology involved. There is no reason Twitter should be burning so much cash for a TEXTING app. Its text, we solved that issue DECADES ago.
All of these monstrosities are the result of society's woeful technological ignorance, not actual costs to communicate. WE have established a future where ALL communications have the ability to have ads inserted into them. Its fucking creepy as hell.
"ot to mention the fact that Microsofts offering is arriving 3 years too late after digital assistants have already been established on both android and iphone platforms for at least five years now."
I just want to point out Alexa was years late too, but its a roaring success for Amazon.
And it has no apps. I use several authenticators, none of which are available on Windows Phone. MS Phone is a nice phone, but a shitty pocket computer.
I wish these companies would understand i dont want an assistant. I dont want the computer to reply with snappy comebacks. I dont want it to say please or thank you. I want a SLAVE that expressly follows my orders to the letter.
Show me a phone that cant have its battery replaced with tools, they are rare. My moto G4 has a replaceable battery, even if its not instantly removable. What exactly is your argument? In-the-field replaceable batteries arent coming back any time soon.
At the end of the day i plug my phone into a battery (one of a set of two specifically for my phone), not the wall. I keep a bank of USB batteries for my devices. That way i dont have to have a wire running next to my bed. The power comes to the phone/device, not the other way around, nor is the device left in some random corner. USB batteries are STUPID cheap now, think of them as wireless power accessories.
Removable in-the-field and replaceable in the shop are different things. The vast majority of phones can have their battery replaced in the shop, trivially. I agree that field removable is better, but that ship has sailed.
OK people need to relax on the removable battery thing. USB batteries are cheap and plentiful now. I agree having a removable is better, but its not the deal breaker it used to be.
There are computing applications that will consume all the single-thread performance you can possibly throw at it. If you gave me a Terahertz workstation, i could utilize it, today, now. There is a whole GALAXY of applications that are bound by single thread perf.
Thank you Captain Obvious. Cash isnt some rare thing.. Hell we have HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of machines across the world designed expressly to deliver you anonymized purchasing power.
In the end, Kirk controls the *U.S.S. Enterprise*, fully. He has ultimate root of the computer and can order it to destroy itself. Scotty has full authority to override all safety interlocks. We want that part of it too, and we arent getting it at all. Choice has been reduced to deferment. They simply dont take no for an answer anymore.
Exactly this. I had a guy straight up trade me a Voodoo 5 for my GeForce with hardware T&L in college. We met playing a Q3 match and found out we were on the same campus. I still feel i got the better end of the trade, the V5 was great at anti-aliasing, but he needed the hardware T&L feature.
>The failure of the WiiU was entirely in marketing.
Just no. Its expensive to make to the point they couldnt lower the price. The new slim Xbox One is selling for $250 right now with a brand new pack in game (BF1), Wii U is still $299 for 32 GB and a 2.5 year old pack in game. Also, you cant get Wii U first party from Amazon. Its like Nintendo went out of their way to fuck up the Wii U. It had nothing to do with marketing and everything to do with Nintendo thinking they know better than everyone else. The Wii U is a design failure, and a marketing one.
Regardless of how much you enjoy driving, its unsafe. Public roads are from transport for A to B. If you want to drive for sport, go to the track. The sooner we outlaw human driven cars the better off humanity will be. Gen-X'er reporting in.
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'Control' as in 'The user cant turn it off, opt out, or present false data.'. Your 'need' should never supersede my right to tell you 'no, you cant have that info from me'. At what point did you assume you had an unfettered right to that data? did it ever occur to you that you should respect your users?
The problem is most of this stuff SHOULD be so low cost that it should be nearly free. Everyone should have a cheap $100 server at home that all your data flows to and you control. There is no reason for any of this basic stuff to cost so much privacy. It costs money because they want to control and shape it, not because of the technology involved. There is no reason Twitter should be burning so much cash for a TEXTING app. Its text, we solved that issue DECADES ago.
All of these monstrosities are the result of society's woeful technological ignorance, not actual costs to communicate. WE have established a future where ALL communications have the ability to have ads inserted into them. Its fucking creepy as hell.
Which is EXACTLY why they split into Alphabet, to avoid anti-trust.
"ot to mention the fact that Microsofts offering is arriving 3 years too late after digital assistants have already been established on both android and iphone platforms for at least five years now."
I just want to point out Alexa was years late too, but its a roaring success for Amazon.
And it has no apps. I use several authenticators, none of which are available on Windows Phone. MS Phone is a nice phone, but a shitty pocket computer.
I wish these companies would understand i dont want an assistant. I dont want the computer to reply with snappy comebacks. I dont want it to say please or thank you. I want a SLAVE that expressly follows my orders to the letter.
Yes, we are. It is so much closer than you would ever imagine.
Show me a phone that cant have its battery replaced with tools, they are rare. My moto G4 has a replaceable battery, even if its not instantly removable. What exactly is your argument? In-the-field replaceable batteries arent coming back any time soon.
At the end of the day i plug my phone into a battery (one of a set of two specifically for my phone), not the wall. I keep a bank of USB batteries for my devices. That way i dont have to have a wire running next to my bed. The power comes to the phone/device, not the other way around, nor is the device left in some random corner. USB batteries are STUPID cheap now, think of them as wireless power accessories.
Removable in-the-field and replaceable in the shop are different things. The vast majority of phones can have their battery replaced in the shop, trivially. I agree that field removable is better, but that ship has sailed.
OK people need to relax on the removable battery thing. USB batteries are cheap and plentiful now. I agree having a removable is better, but its not the deal breaker it used to be.
You do understand the Motorola Star-TAC was DIRECTLY influenced by Star Trek right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I know lots of people working on voice recognition that reference the 'Hello Computer' scene from Star Trek IV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
At this point just directly rip the raw bits off the disc into a .wav file. No conversion at all, its a 1:1 copy. We have the storage for it.
There are computing applications that will consume all the single-thread performance you can possibly throw at it. If you gave me a Terahertz workstation, i could utilize it, today, now. There is a whole GALAXY of applications that are bound by single thread perf.
Yes, because you left 'valuable' undefined. There will always be some value to 1 billion individual photos of lunch, depending on your goals.
Thank you Captain Obvious. Cash isnt some rare thing.. Hell we have HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of machines across the world designed expressly to deliver you anonymized purchasing power.
Tron called this 30 years ago.
Dr. Walter Gibbs: [laughs] "You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think."
Alan Bradley: "Some programs will be thinking soon."
Dr. Walter Gibbs: "Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop."
Also this gem that is branded onto my heart
"USER REQUESTS ARE WHAT COMPUTERS ARE FOR!"
Within 5 years every cell phone will automatically scan every environment you are in.
In the end, Kirk controls the *U.S.S. Enterprise*, fully. He has ultimate root of the computer and can order it to destroy itself. Scotty has full authority to override all safety interlocks. We want that part of it too, and we arent getting it at all. Choice has been reduced to deferment. They simply dont take no for an answer anymore.
Exactly this. I had a guy straight up trade me a Voodoo 5 for my GeForce with hardware T&L in college. We met playing a Q3 match and found out we were on the same campus. I still feel i got the better end of the trade, the V5 was great at anti-aliasing, but he needed the hardware T&L feature.
C. Start slitting throats.
Gia.
No its not, i use Windows Media Player every day. Unlike the modern player, WMP will play while minimized. Media CENTER was deprecated.
>The failure of the WiiU was entirely in marketing.
Just no. Its expensive to make to the point they couldnt lower the price. The new slim Xbox One is selling for $250 right now with a brand new pack in game (BF1), Wii U is still $299 for 32 GB and a 2.5 year old pack in game. Also, you cant get Wii U first party from Amazon. Its like Nintendo went out of their way to fuck up the Wii U. It had nothing to do with marketing and everything to do with Nintendo thinking they know better than everyone else. The Wii U is a design failure, and a marketing one.
Regardless of how much you enjoy driving, its unsafe. Public roads are from transport for A to B. If you want to drive for sport, go to the track. The sooner we outlaw human driven cars the better off humanity will be. Gen-X'er reporting in.
The app companies see the web as a competitor. To them it only exists to funnel users to their ecosystem.