I LOVED my Palm Pre Plus. It took YEARS for Google and Apple to catch up to the card system WebOS used. It felt great in your hand and had a unique shape that you didnt hate. I used it proudly for a long time. Its a damn shame it all fizzled out. (yes i know WebOS lives on)
Sure its possible, but is it FEASIBLE considering the alternatives we have. The first question is,' why would you want android?' User familiarity? They change the OS every year..Jelly bean looks and acts nothing like Marshmallow. SO scratch that. Apps? Im not even going to touch that. The vast majority of apps are utter spyware that students shouldnt be using anyways.. There just is no upside to using android in this way when you look at the entirety of the toolsets we have available. Its a poor choice without spending a fuck ton of development time and money. We have been down this road with Linux a hundred times on slashdot. At least that choice makes sense, Android does not in any way make the same sense as using linux.
"If I could find an android desktop os that would work on intel chips, I would switch our school district over in a heartbeat."
Just WOW. Please tell me you arent actually in charge of anything. Android is UTTER SHIT compared to what is available on x86/intel. Its not even CLOSE to comparable. Its like having a banquet in front of you and saying 'nah, ill go with the Jack in the Box'. Please explain how you would MANAGE a network full of android devices in any way similar to a real desktop and network OS.
IT will be in the form of fees. Every display screen sold in CA comes with a fee paid at the register to pay for recycling the screen. I paid a $3 recycling fee on an amazon fire tablet i purchased for $35, the fee was more than the sales tax.....Im sure drones will be just added on to that sort of thing. Its how they avoid it being a tax (which has strict rules in place compared to fees), when thats exactly what it is.
So they were smart enough to handle power outage scenarios, but not loss of central control...... This is the problem with google, they reduse to admit that things go offline and need offline solutions. They have an army of sub-30 year old engineers who havent ever used anything but windows and dont design for offline use cases. Its clear from Chromebook, to Android, to Nest. Google says 'be online or fuck you'
We skating an edge case here, but if you dont have ID on you, and you refuse to give your name and often your DOB, in some states that is a crime. I dont always carry ID on me, so this is a real possibility that i will have to state my name. But generally, yes you are right, just say 'i want my lawyer' and nothing else.
This is a feature, not a bug. SOMEONE has to stand out at the extreme edge. I take the position that all IP should be abolished because the opposing force is so powerful, its the only logical counter to it. Someone somewhere has to stand up to greed and profit, no matter how Quixotic it may appear to be or the width of the spectrum shrinks and the extremes get much closer to each other.
Here is the problem. I design computer software that when done is what i call a 'wrench'. If i forge an actual wrench out of metal, and drop it on the ground, any human can then come along and use it. If you build software that is designed to only reap profit then yes that is WRONG AND SHAMEFUL. Software should be a tool in the hand, not a leash around the neck. Profit is fine, its the extremes of profit and the walled gardens that cause Stallman (and others) to stand so far on the other side of the spectrum. Stallman says no profit because there are legions of people just like you who refuse to condemn commercial software's alchemist methods.
I am a person who exists whether the government does or not. The US government could dissolve tomorrow, and we would still be here. Who would be right then?
It doesnt matter who is using encryption for what, its a complete red herring. The burning question is "Do The People have the right to hold a secret from the government?". The inherent right to have private ideas in fixed form is what is at stake. If I encrypt my diary, does the government have the absolute right to read it? This position of the government agasint encryption is already producing a massive chilling effect.
I installed Win 10 on my Surface 3. After the 'upgrade', every time i pressed the power button, it locked the screen requiring a password to unlock, NO MATTER WHAT I SET POWER SETTINGS TO.. Kind of kills its usefulness as a tablet with that function broken. Windows 10 made my device LESS useful, but please dont let me interfere with your trolling......
"Copyright isn't a black and white issue and unless you make your way on copyrighted works then your opinion matters little."
BULL FUCKING SHIT. Copyright is a SOCIAL BARGAIN. Copyright is a bargain between the public and the artist. Every single citizen has skin in this game. For the last 100 years the artists (and their proxies) have been steadily altering the bargain in their favor. We The People grant copyright, its not an inherent right. WE could stop granting it tomorrow if we so choose (would require an amendment, but it could be done). Art would still be made even without copyright. We are in an Information Age, the old ideas of copyright make no sense when everything is trivially copy-able. Copyright holds us back more than it pushes us forwards now.
"You might have a point if you're talking about unemployment, but what can Obama or any other president do about that? Companies will always prefer cheaper parts"
You tax this shit out of imports. You craft law that makes it unprofitable to do business overseas by imposing high tariffs. Lots and lots of things can be done to keep jobs on our shores and cheap chinese crap out.
"We are the IT department. We don't set or enforce policy for users."
You are supposed to be the network police. Management has gutted your autonomy and authority. Sounds like you are more of a Help Desk than an actual IT dept.
No one is saying Voice Control is useless. We take great exception ot the fact that as implemented, it almost always requires submitting your data to another party to analyze. What is myopic is that you think the functionality of voice control is worth the price of having everything you say recorded and stored. Give me OFFLINE voice control, and ill eat it up. Give me a NEST thermostat that ONLY talks to me, and ill buy it. etc.
As someone who works with semi-conductors every single day, they are nowhere near as reliable as MECHANICAL devices. Its bad enough guns have a mechanical failure rate, now you want to add an ENTIRELY new layer of failure on top of that? No one can make an electronic smart gun without adding an entirely new layer of possible failure on it. It makes no sense at all to do this when the 2nd says i dont have to have it. Mandated Smart Guns will never pass Constitutional muster without repealing the 2nd.
Ugh. EFI is not so much faster than BIOS that it really matters. Windows 7 on an SSD boots up as fast as can be reasonably expected. I keep a Windows 7 and a Windows 10 gaming rig for compatibility. Neither machine is especially faster or better in their role than the other. This is 'justify my upgrade' bullshit.
". But today I need Hyper-V for my certs and Linxu VM's for development."
On your workstation? You are arguing you need windows 10 for VMs on your workstation? Put that shit on a test server you heathen.
This post screams 'i like new and shiny things and have no appreciation for time and effort spent on already in-place hardware, methods and systems.'
I got mine from Micro Center for $5.40 (tax) retail. I ordered it on their webstore for in-store pickup, and picked it up on my way home from work. I assume that the channel will fill up soon enough and they will be ubiquitous and cost MSRP for everyone.
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I LOVED my Palm Pre Plus. It took YEARS for Google and Apple to catch up to the card system WebOS used. It felt great in your hand and had a unique shape that you didnt hate. I used it proudly for a long time. Its a damn shame it all fizzled out. (yes i know WebOS lives on)
Sure its possible, but is it FEASIBLE considering the alternatives we have. The first question is,' why would you want android?' User familiarity? They change the OS every year..Jelly bean looks and acts nothing like Marshmallow. SO scratch that. Apps? Im not even going to touch that. The vast majority of apps are utter spyware that students shouldnt be using anyways.. There just is no upside to using android in this way when you look at the entirety of the toolsets we have available. Its a poor choice without spending a fuck ton of development time and money. We have been down this road with Linux a hundred times on slashdot. At least that choice makes sense, Android does not in any way make the same sense as using linux.
You really have no clue as to how much labor costs do you?
If you do this, it will ring the cognitive dissonance bell HARD. Let them have their fantasy.
"If I could find an android desktop os that would work on intel chips, I would switch our school district over in a heartbeat."
Just WOW. Please tell me you arent actually in charge of anything. Android is UTTER SHIT compared to what is available on x86/intel. Its not even CLOSE to comparable. Its like having a banquet in front of you and saying 'nah, ill go with the Jack in the Box'. Please explain how you would MANAGE a network full of android devices in any way similar to a real desktop and network OS.
IT will be in the form of fees. Every display screen sold in CA comes with a fee paid at the register to pay for recycling the screen. I paid a $3 recycling fee on an amazon fire tablet i purchased for $35, the fee was more than the sales tax.....Im sure drones will be just added on to that sort of thing. Its how they avoid it being a tax (which has strict rules in place compared to fees), when thats exactly what it is.
Remember back in the day before the Star Wars prequels, when Darth Vader was unquestionably the baddest movie villain ever?
So they were smart enough to handle power outage scenarios, but not loss of central control...... This is the problem with google, they reduse to admit that things go offline and need offline solutions. They have an army of sub-30 year old engineers who havent ever used anything but windows and dont design for offline use cases. Its clear from Chromebook, to Android, to Nest. Google says 'be online or fuck you'
We skating an edge case here, but if you dont have ID on you, and you refuse to give your name and often your DOB, in some states that is a crime. I dont always carry ID on me, so this is a real possibility that i will have to state my name. But generally, yes you are right, just say 'i want my lawyer' and nothing else.
This is a feature, not a bug. SOMEONE has to stand out at the extreme edge. I take the position that all IP should be abolished because the opposing force is so powerful, its the only logical counter to it. Someone somewhere has to stand up to greed and profit, no matter how Quixotic it may appear to be or the width of the spectrum shrinks and the extremes get much closer to each other.
Here is the problem. I design computer software that when done is what i call a 'wrench'. If i forge an actual wrench out of metal, and drop it on the ground, any human can then come along and use it. If you build software that is designed to only reap profit then yes that is WRONG AND SHAMEFUL. Software should be a tool in the hand, not a leash around the neck. Profit is fine, its the extremes of profit and the walled gardens that cause Stallman (and others) to stand so far on the other side of the spectrum. Stallman says no profit because there are legions of people just like you who refuse to condemn commercial software's alchemist methods.
Which is EXACTLY why you keep your mouth shut and dont say ANYTHING other than your name, DOB etc until your lawyer shows up.
I am a person who exists whether the government does or not. The US government could dissolve tomorrow, and we would still be here. Who would be right then?
It doesnt matter who is using encryption for what, its a complete red herring. The burning question is "Do The People have the right to hold a secret from the government?". The inherent right to have private ideas in fixed form is what is at stake. If I encrypt my diary, does the government have the absolute right to read it? This position of the government agasint encryption is already producing a massive chilling effect.
Its also useful for logging into other google accounts that you want to keep separate. Its either use a different browser like Edge or go incognito.
I installed Win 10 on my Surface 3. After the 'upgrade', every time i pressed the power button, it locked the screen requiring a password to unlock, NO MATTER WHAT I SET POWER SETTINGS TO.. Kind of kills its usefulness as a tablet with that function broken. Windows 10 made my device LESS useful, but please dont let me interfere with your trolling......
"Copyright isn't a black and white issue and unless you make your way on copyrighted works then your opinion matters little."
BULL FUCKING SHIT. Copyright is a SOCIAL BARGAIN. Copyright is a bargain between the public and the artist. Every single citizen has skin in this game. For the last 100 years the artists (and their proxies) have been steadily altering the bargain in their favor. We The People grant copyright, its not an inherent right. WE could stop granting it tomorrow if we so choose (would require an amendment, but it could be done). Art would still be made even without copyright. We are in an Information Age, the old ideas of copyright make no sense when everything is trivially copy-able. Copyright holds us back more than it pushes us forwards now.
Shove this self-righteous crap up your ass.
"You might have a point if you're talking about unemployment, but what can Obama or any other president do about that? Companies will always prefer cheaper parts"
You tax this shit out of imports. You craft law that makes it unprofitable to do business overseas by imposing high tariffs. Lots and lots of things can be done to keep jobs on our shores and cheap chinese crap out.
"We are the IT department. We don't set or enforce policy for users."
You are supposed to be the network police. Management has gutted your autonomy and authority. Sounds like you are more of a Help Desk than an actual IT dept.
No one is saying Voice Control is useless. We take great exception ot the fact that as implemented, it almost always requires submitting your data to another party to analyze. What is myopic is that you think the functionality of voice control is worth the price of having everything you say recorded and stored. Give me OFFLINE voice control, and ill eat it up. Give me a NEST thermostat that ONLY talks to me, and ill buy it. etc.
As someone who works with semi-conductors every single day, they are nowhere near as reliable as MECHANICAL devices. Its bad enough guns have a mechanical failure rate, now you want to add an ENTIRELY new layer of failure on top of that? No one can make an electronic smart gun without adding an entirely new layer of possible failure on it. It makes no sense at all to do this when the 2nd says i dont have to have it. Mandated Smart Guns will never pass Constitutional muster without repealing the 2nd.
Ugh. EFI is not so much faster than BIOS that it really matters. Windows 7 on an SSD boots up as fast as can be reasonably expected. I keep a Windows 7 and a Windows 10 gaming rig for compatibility. Neither machine is especially faster or better in their role than the other. This is 'justify my upgrade' bullshit.
". But today I need Hyper-V for my certs and Linxu VM's for development."
On your workstation? You are arguing you need windows 10 for VMs on your workstation? Put that shit on a test server you heathen.
This post screams 'i like new and shiny things and have no appreciation for time and effort spent on already in-place hardware, methods and systems.'
I got mine from Micro Center for $5.40 (tax) retail. I ordered it on their webstore for in-store pickup, and picked it up on my way home from work. I assume that the channel will fill up soon enough and they will be ubiquitous and cost MSRP for everyone.