Very important hardware companies are onboard, and last time I read about it they were making sure it was feasible to implement in hardware, even discarding some potential compression gains because the corresponding algorithms were too hard to implement in hardware
I agree with your post but I'll add that I'm not surprised since usability and bling win more customers than technical advances, at least among the non geeks (which are a huge majority).
I didn't know G+ didn't allow nudity (btw, I don't remember the last time I used it).
Anyway, more power to Twitter which seems to be the only major social network/thing that allows nudity
Though I work with computers I don't use them to read books. I have an epaper reader for that. What's your experience for reading for long times on LCDs?
I was under the impression that it wasn't very good for your eyes. I even read some people developed eyesight problems because of that
I've posted a comment similar to yours several times here. I would buy such a version of Windows. If I could UI Windows 7's UI all the better.
Alas, it seems they're not interested in that, and only give a nicer (not good enough) version of Windows to companies that pay for Windows Server.
Yep. I think the only media that's usually DRM free is music. Most people switched to streaming rather than buying though.
Anyway, I refuse to buy DRM media, not only because my money would be supporting DRM but because I wouldn't know how long I'd be able to keep using that media. It's hard, but at least some of the books I want are being sold as drmless epub files.
For one the fact that this time is standardized and integrated on the web browser code and thus doesn't depend on any plugin.
Will WebAssembly have a better track record than Java or Flash? Only time will tell but it does have some advantadges
I have no mod points but I totally agree with your view: The most distinguishing feature of Firefox was its library of extensions. Some of the most complex ones didn't make the cut when migrating to the new extension API. Some can't even be replicated with the new API.
The rest of the improvements are very nice but IMO don't make up for the lost extensions.
Of course, I don't agree with the troll mod.
What this shows is that user pressure works (sometimes at least). A relatively minor problem (IMO) turned huge and then was all over the media. It even got Apple, a company with a known attitude of "We know what's best for you" to add an option to disable the controversial feature.
The sad part (IMO) is that this hasn't happened for some basic freedoms and features that one would've taken for granted of computers only a few years ago like being able to install software not approved by nanny Apple, or having administrator rights over a device you supposedly own.
In an era in which software and hardware companies are adding more and more anti user features this proves that we can force them to change
Well, I don't know on your version on Amazon but on the.es website decided to remove all text (i.e description and price) from the product showcase on the main page. Only photos remain and when I have a row of similar products (e.g. graphic cards) it was much more useful to have the make/model and price. Now if I want that information I have to actually click in every product's picture and go to its details page. Annotying and a time waster
Yup, touch friendly UIs are diminishing information density in screens everywhere and it's making the new designs suck bad for usage on desktop computers. I understand that the lowest common denominator works everywhere and that developing 2 UIs is expensive but the current situation is crappy
Yes, I you don't have any alternatives to use a software/service you eventually get used to the new UI but that doesn't mean the new is better than the old one.
It's one of the disadvantages of using non-standard/closed source services/apps: You're totally beholden to the whims of the owner.
In something like web browsers, mail clients, etc if one fucks up badly I can just use another
It's nice that your current phone doesn't need a battery replacement after a couple of years but I'd rather have the option because I don't know if mine will.
Also, the battery being replaceable even by a repair shop it's not a given. Given the direction the industry is taking of making phones harder and harder to take apart I'll not be surprised if there're some in which it's impossible to replace without breaking the thing apart.
Of course I'm not gonna but a horrible phone just because the battery is easy replaceable at some point I might have to cave in. It's just a preference like having a headphone jack or expandable memory
Call nitpicker or something, but it would be nice if there was a Samsung S9 whatever that was similar to the regular Sx but had a replaceable battery.
Maybe they think it would hurt the Galaxy S brand or confuse some people.
Capt obvious here: Lengthening the battery life is good but does nothing to help the problem of batteries holding less charge over time. In the end a battery replacement is still necessary if you want to use the same phone for more than 2 years.
I personally keep my phones until they break so having user replaceable batteries is something I value a lot.
Cool story. Also, in your case there weren't probably many people who apart from being a good programmer knew the problem domain.
I'd like to work on projects that allowed me that kind of precise work
I don't think Google is willing to share their copyrighted works detecting algorithms with Pornhub (or anyone else). It gives them a competitive advantage
So the risk is that the government doesn't like what people want? I think I can see the problem here and it isn't Toutiao.
On another order of things... Yes, the algorithms are getting very good at giving us what we want but the risk is to live in a bubble that leaves out opinions we don't like and important things that are unlike we read before.
Also, I've realised that constant usage of social media has left me unable to cope with even short moments of doing nothing. My brain craves novelty non stop.
Well, you can often find $5 batteries for phones buy they're usually very crappy chines batteries. They usually last a few weeks then severely degrade or stop working altogether. 15-20$ ir more like it for decent batteries. Samsung asks for about 30€ where I live so it's not a bad price for an official battery.
And yet Microsoft is trying to force a touch optimized UI on everyone. That goes for some parts of the Windows 10 UI and also for the "modern" apps that we're supposed to use now for everything.
IMO there's only one good solution: Design different UIs for touch and mouse usage anything else forces suboptimal interfaces on some users
It was more than 10 years ago. There were some cdrom drives (LG I think) that interpreted some ATAPI command which was only used on cd recorders as a "upgrade firmware" command (or something like that). Some version of the kernel happened to send that command to every ATAPI device and so it corrupted said drives firmware.
I was hit by the bug when booting a live cd on my brother's pc but it was recoverable and so I managed to write a correct firmware and got the drive working again.
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Very important hardware companies are onboard, and last time I read about it they were making sure it was feasible to implement in hardware, even discarding some potential compression gains because the corresponding algorithms were too hard to implement in hardware
I agree with your post but I'll add that I'm not surprised since usability and bling win more customers than technical advances, at least among the non geeks (which are a huge majority).
I didn't know G+ didn't allow nudity (btw, I don't remember the last time I used it).
Anyway, more power to Twitter which seems to be the only major social network/thing that allows nudity
Though I work with computers I don't use them to read books. I have an epaper reader for that. What's your experience for reading for long times on LCDs?
I was under the impression that it wasn't very good for your eyes. I even read some people developed eyesight problems because of that
I've posted a comment similar to yours several times here. I would buy such a version of Windows. If I could UI Windows 7's UI all the better.
Alas, it seems they're not interested in that, and only give a nicer (not good enough) version of Windows to companies that pay for Windows Server.
Nice white or black scenario you painted here. Many of us have software that only works on Windows so we're tied to it whether we like it or not.
Yep. I think the only media that's usually DRM free is music. Most people switched to streaming rather than buying though.
Anyway, I refuse to buy DRM media, not only because my money would be supporting DRM but because I wouldn't know how long I'd be able to keep using that media. It's hard, but at least some of the books I want are being sold as drmless epub files.
For one the fact that this time is standardized and integrated on the web browser code and thus doesn't depend on any plugin.
Will WebAssembly have a better track record than Java or Flash? Only time will tell but it does have some advantadges
I have no mod points but I totally agree with your view: The most distinguishing feature of Firefox was its library of extensions. Some of the most complex ones didn't make the cut when migrating to the new extension API. Some can't even be replicated with the new API.
The rest of the improvements are very nice but IMO don't make up for the lost extensions.
Of course, I don't agree with the troll mod.
What this shows is that user pressure works (sometimes at least). A relatively minor problem (IMO) turned huge and then was all over the media. It even got Apple, a company with a known attitude of "We know what's best for you" to add an option to disable the controversial feature.
The sad part (IMO) is that this hasn't happened for some basic freedoms and features that one would've taken for granted of computers only a few years ago like being able to install software not approved by nanny Apple, or having administrator rights over a device you supposedly own.
In an era in which software and hardware companies are adding more and more anti user features this proves that we can force them to change
Well, I don't know on your version on Amazon but on the .es website decided to remove all text (i.e description and price) from the product showcase on the main page. Only photos remain and when I have a row of similar products (e.g. graphic cards) it was much more useful to have the make/model and price. Now if I want that information I have to actually click in every product's picture and go to its details page. Annotying and a time waster
Yup, touch friendly UIs are diminishing information density in screens everywhere and it's making the new designs suck bad for usage on desktop computers. I understand that the lowest common denominator works everywhere and that developing 2 UIs is expensive but the current situation is crappy
Yes, I you don't have any alternatives to use a software/service you eventually get used to the new UI but that doesn't mean the new is better than the old one.
It's one of the disadvantages of using non-standard/closed source services/apps: You're totally beholden to the whims of the owner.
In something like web browsers, mail clients, etc if one fucks up badly I can just use another
It's nice that your current phone doesn't need a battery replacement after a couple of years but I'd rather have the option because I don't know if mine will.
Also, the battery being replaceable even by a repair shop it's not a given. Given the direction the industry is taking of making phones harder and harder to take apart I'll not be surprised if there're some in which it's impossible to replace without breaking the thing apart.
Of course I'm not gonna but a horrible phone just because the battery is easy replaceable at some point I might have to cave in. It's just a preference like having a headphone jack or expandable memory
Call nitpicker or something, but it would be nice if there was a Samsung S9 whatever that was similar to the regular Sx but had a replaceable battery.
Maybe they think it would hurt the Galaxy S brand or confuse some people.
Capt obvious here: Lengthening the battery life is good but does nothing to help the problem of batteries holding less charge over time. In the end a battery replacement is still necessary if you want to use the same phone for more than 2 years.
I personally keep my phones until they break so having user replaceable batteries is something I value a lot.
Cool story. Also, in your case there weren't probably many people who apart from being a good programmer knew the problem domain.
I'd like to work on projects that allowed me that kind of precise work
I don't think Google is willing to share their copyrighted works detecting algorithms with Pornhub (or anyone else). It gives them a competitive advantage
So the risk is that the government doesn't like what people want? I think I can see the problem here and it isn't Toutiao.
On another order of things... Yes, the algorithms are getting very good at giving us what we want but the risk is to live in a bubble that leaves out opinions we don't like and important things that are unlike we read before.
Also, I've realised that constant usage of social media has left me unable to cope with even short moments of doing nothing. My brain craves novelty non stop.
Well, you can often find $5 batteries for phones buy they're usually very crappy chines batteries. They usually last a few weeks then severely degrade or stop working altogether. 15-20$ ir more like it for decent batteries. Samsung asks for about 30€ where I live so it's not a bad price for an official battery.
The next step will be to make transparent cars
I was recently in Vienna and the cashiers at my supermarket (Hofer) were incredibly fast too. Their pay must be linked to their speed somehow
And yet Microsoft is trying to force a touch optimized UI on everyone. That goes for some parts of the Windows 10 UI and also for the "modern" apps that we're supposed to use now for everything.
IMO there's only one good solution: Design different UIs for touch and mouse usage anything else forces suboptimal interfaces on some users
Correction: It wasn't actually a kernel bug, it was a bug of the cdrom's firmware
It was more than 10 years ago. There were some cdrom drives (LG I think) that interpreted some ATAPI command which was only used on cd recorders as a "upgrade firmware" command (or something like that). Some version of the kernel happened to send that command to every ATAPI device and so it corrupted said drives firmware.
I was hit by the bug when booting a live cd on my brother's pc but it was recoverable and so I managed to write a correct firmware and got the drive working again.