This might be a good plan for me except that I like to play games on my PC.
I'm not going to buy a console for that (too many money invested in PC games and hardware) so I guess my only choice would be to use Windows 10 for games and Linux for everything else. I've read there have been nice advancements in GPU sharing so maybe Win 10 will be run inside a VM in Linux
We've been going backwards in terms to device and OS agnosticy since the first apps for smartphones were developed. Before that information and applications were steadily migrating to being available on web browsers and that let be user be less dependent on the underlying OS.
After smartphone apps were introduced some services went to be only available through said apps, others give advantages to app users (e.g. Just Eat in,at least my country, gives special discounts only if you order through their app). This gives more power to Google and Apple and the app makers and makes life harder for users.
Yup. I can't count the number of in ear headphones I've gone through in the last 10 years. And I don't buy the absolutely cheapest stuff you can buy. Sadly, going up somewhat in price doesn't always seem to mean more durability.
Recently I discovered there're in fact in ear headphones with detachable cables (not just DJ style as you mentioned) and I'm gonna try that route and see how it works.
I don't know what will happen in this case, but in Spain a few years ago a law was approved that required content aggregators to pay a fee to news sites for linking their stories. It also said that the content creators couldn't opt out and refuse being paid. It was very obviously designed for Google News and the like to pay for linking. Google just shrugged and said "we can't accept those conditions" and closed Google News in Spain. The news site owners even had the gall to complain after that. The idiots thought Google needed them more than viceversa and didn't expect Google to just shut down the service.
Virtual +1 cause I already commented.
I absolutely abhor Microsoft because of what they did with Windows 10. It made me not buy an Xbox console just because they make them. And they have the gall to claim they're now better since they embrace open source and so and so (you should really read the Nadella PR when they acquired Github) . In the end they're just like the old Microsoft or even worse.
That's the user view. The social network view is if you can make the user spend more time on the site/app modify it.
I may be getting old but I think some time ago social networks' interests lined better with users'. Same with Windows: It used to be just an OS. Now it has a start menu filled with apps and advertismets in the freaking OS.
..and because probably Netflix paid a gazillion dollars to get that button on the remote.
Mine has the Netflix button and also one for Amazon video and where I live there's no question to what service is more popular.
It's also true that many people will find those buttons handy though.
Well, hardware companies are onboard on the alliance for open media and so they've made sure in the development of AV1 that the codec is hardware decoding friendly.
You mean the difference between reasonably-compressed BluRay and way-too-highly-compressed web streams, right?
Just had to be the pedantic man to point out that BluRay is not uncompressed for any of the common definitions of the word. It just uses a reasonable bitrate for its resolution
Yeah, and it would also been trivial to keep the classic start menu on Windows 8 but in both cases the change obviously didn't happen for technical reasons but for commercial ones: Microsoft just thought it better to force people to use the new way.
Also, Libreoffice has done just that: Added a new ribbon-like menu system but also kept the classic menu system. And the thing is pretty configurable. Just as it should be
Google may keep this promise but are we really assuming there's no one else capable of creating a sufficiently good AI that can be used by the military?
Even if Google has all the best AI scientists eventually someone else will be good enough.
Well my comment about running out of space was sarcastic (really) but my actual point was that I feel they shouldn't add every PC thing someone thinks about
It seems the few last Unicode updates have been centered about adding politically correct emoji. I understand why that may be appealing to some people but for the insensitive bastard that I am feels like superficial shit.
Also, some time ago here in Spain some people organized themselves to petition the Unicode consortium for a paella emoji. Is it really so important to have an emoji of your favourite dish?
The thing about emojis is that, being images, are particularly suitable for politics games and pressures (see the recently added redhead emojis) so between that and the fact that you can represent anything with an image it looks like Unicode will be more and more cluttered with tons of redundant and stupid emojis (are they gonna ad an image for every possible dish?). Eventually they'll run out of code points and they'll have to develop a new standard with a gazillioni bits for code points
Open sourcing things/donating them to the community is their way of saying "this doesn't make money for me".
They did it with OpenOffice, Glassfish and others I fail to remember now. Of course they can do whatever they want with the software they own but it's so sad to see so many nice things being abandoned. I wish Sun had never gone under
Several recent video standards (I don't recall if it's HDMI, DisplayPort or both) already use compression to be able to support big resolutions so that might help a little. I don't think that would be enough in this case though
I guess people don't demand ruggedized phones because they're bulky. I think your solution is fine: The phone itself is pretty thin but you can always add a strong case if you want it to be tougher.
Anyway, if something isn't made you can't buy it so that may also explain why people don't buy phones with replaceable batteries or with feature X.
Yep, it looks ridiculous and it makes them look desperate: "We're gonna copy anything the iPhone does regardless of its utility".
Anyway, Samsung hasn't made a phone with a notch although LG has.
Yep, who thought using Javascript to develop editors and such was a good idea? It eats your CPU alive.
I'd rather have software well designed and programmed in classic compiled languages
Slightly off topic: IMO smartphones have also reached this point and the only thing that's preventing me from keeping the same phone for a long time is planned obsolescence (for example non-replaceable batteries) and hardware that fails pretty soon (2-3 years for every smartphone I've owned. And I haven't gone for the cheapest crap, all of them have been between 300 and 500 €)
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This might be a good plan for me except that I like to play games on my PC.
I'm not going to buy a console for that (too many money invested in PC games and hardware) so I guess my only choice would be to use Windows 10 for games and Linux for everything else. I've read there have been nice advancements in GPU sharing so maybe Win 10 will be run inside a VM in Linux
We've been going backwards in terms to device and OS agnosticy since the first apps for smartphones were developed. Before that information and applications were steadily migrating to being available on web browsers and that let be user be less dependent on the underlying OS. ,at least my country, gives special discounts only if you order through their app). This gives more power to Google and Apple and the app makers and makes life harder for users.
After smartphone apps were introduced some services went to be only available through said apps, others give advantages to app users (e.g. Just Eat in
Yup. I can't count the number of in ear headphones I've gone through in the last 10 years. And I don't buy the absolutely cheapest stuff you can buy. Sadly, going up somewhat in price doesn't always seem to mean more durability.
Recently I discovered there're in fact in ear headphones with detachable cables (not just DJ style as you mentioned) and I'm gonna try that route and see how it works.
I don't know what will happen in this case, but in Spain a few years ago a law was approved that required content aggregators to pay a fee to news sites for linking their stories. It also said that the content creators couldn't opt out and refuse being paid. It was very obviously designed for Google News and the like to pay for linking. Google just shrugged and said "we can't accept those conditions" and closed Google News in Spain. The news site owners even had the gall to complain after that. The idiots thought Google needed them more than viceversa and didn't expect Google to just shut down the service.
Virtual +1 cause I already commented.
I absolutely abhor Microsoft because of what they did with Windows 10. It made me not buy an Xbox console just because they make them. And they have the gall to claim they're now better since they embrace open source and so and so (you should really read the Nadella PR when they acquired Github) . In the end they're just like the old Microsoft or even worse.
That's the user view. The social network view is if you can make the user spend more time on the site/app modify it.
I may be getting old but I think some time ago social networks' interests lined better with users'. Same with Windows: It used to be just an OS. Now it has a start menu filled with apps and advertismets in the freaking OS.
..and because probably Netflix paid a gazillion dollars to get that button on the remote.
Mine has the Netflix button and also one for Amazon video and where I live there's no question to what service is more popular.
It's also true that many people will find those buttons handy though.
Well, hardware companies are onboard on the alliance for open media and so they've made sure in the development of AV1 that the codec is hardware decoding friendly.
You mean the difference between reasonably-compressed BluRay and way-too-highly-compressed web streams, right?
Just had to be the pedantic man to point out that BluRay is not uncompressed for any of the common definitions of the word. It just uses a reasonable bitrate for its resolution
Yeah, and it would also been trivial to keep the classic start menu on Windows 8 but in both cases the change obviously didn't happen for technical reasons but for commercial ones: Microsoft just thought it better to force people to use the new way.
Also, Libreoffice has done just that: Added a new ribbon-like menu system but also kept the classic menu system. And the thing is pretty configurable. Just as it should be
Google may keep this promise but are we really assuming there's no one else capable of creating a sufficiently good AI that can be used by the military?
Even if Google has all the best AI scientists eventually someone else will be good enough.
Well my comment about running out of space was sarcastic (really) but my actual point was that I feel they shouldn't add every PC thing someone thinks about
It seems the few last Unicode updates have been centered about adding politically correct emoji. I understand why that may be appealing to some people but for the insensitive bastard that I am feels like superficial shit.
Also, some time ago here in Spain some people organized themselves to petition the Unicode consortium for a paella emoji. Is it really so important to have an emoji of your favourite dish?
The thing about emojis is that, being images, are particularly suitable for politics games and pressures (see the recently added redhead emojis) so between that and the fact that you can represent anything with an image it looks like Unicode will be more and more cluttered with tons of redundant and stupid emojis (are they gonna ad an image for every possible dish?). Eventually they'll run out of code points and they'll have to develop a new standard with a gazillioni bits for code points
Open sourcing things/donating them to the community is their way of saying "this doesn't make money for me".
They did it with OpenOffice, Glassfish and others I fail to remember now. Of course they can do whatever they want with the software they own but it's so sad to see so many nice things being abandoned. I wish Sun had never gone under
Oracle seems a really "nice" place to work.
Seriously, I'm sorry you had to find out this way
It seems they're too busy earning money with their cloud services to do Windows right anymore
Several recent video standards (I don't recall if it's HDMI, DisplayPort or both) already use compression to be able to support big resolutions so that might help a little. I don't think that would be enough in this case though
Facebook nudes? What's that? I thought Facebook didn't allow nudes. Twitter on the other hand...
Yep, totally agree. Intel CPU's model numbers are logical, Nvidia GPUs too, why can't Qualcomm do something like that?
I guess people don't demand ruggedized phones because they're bulky. I think your solution is fine: The phone itself is pretty thin but you can always add a strong case if you want it to be tougher.
Anyway, if something isn't made you can't buy it so that may also explain why people don't buy phones with replaceable batteries or with feature X.
Yep, it looks ridiculous and it makes them look desperate: "We're gonna copy anything the iPhone does regardless of its utility".
Anyway, Samsung hasn't made a phone with a notch although LG has.
Yep, who thought using Javascript to develop editors and such was a good idea? It eats your CPU alive.
I'd rather have software well designed and programmed in classic compiled languages
Slightly off topic: IMO smartphones have also reached this point and the only thing that's preventing me from keeping the same phone for a long time is planned obsolescence (for example non-replaceable batteries) and hardware that fails pretty soon (2-3 years for every smartphone I've owned. And I haven't gone for the cheapest crap, all of them have been between 300 and 500 €)
Really? Does Apple ask users what they want or they just assume and build an ever thinner laptop?