Except that, of course, Amazon - and many other sites - have algorithms that adjust the price shown to the end user based on many variables, such as browser, OS platform and location, as well as whatever data they've mined from the cookies they can read, and anything they can pull together from other sources *COUGH*FaceBook*COUGH*
For countries that participate in the visa-waiver programme, such as the UK, just an I-94 is required to be filled in before landing.
At least, that was the case the last time I travelled there. If this new nonsense gets enacted, then that will have been the last time...
Of course, this will serve no useful purpose - anyone trying to get in with malicious intent will have prepared an innocuous set of social media content, but anyone sensible who eschews FB and their ilk will get pulled out of line for some special questioning...
Phones are more locked down, but that is nothing new. If you want to make an Open Source app and distribute it through the Apple or Google app stores, no one is stopping you...
Apple phones are, unless jail-broken, completely locked down, likewise Windows phones from version 7 onwards. Android phones can install apps from several different app stores, or from anywhere else if you change a simple setting.
If you want to make an Open Source app and distribute it through the Apple or Google app stores, no one is stopping you...
Unless, of course, the app store owner doesn't like your app for some reason (how's that torrent client on your iPhone?)
1. No use of Chinese (or perhaps East Asian) fabs for any of your silicon.
2. No involvement of any companies with any Chinese (opEA) ownership in the manufacturing processes.
3. No involvement of any Chinese (opEA) nationals in any of the hardware or software design processes.
In fact, how about "only security-cleared US nationals and wholly-US owned corporations wholly based in the US be permitted to be involved in telecoms kit, from raw material production to installation and configuration."
That might work, and would require major investment in the US, and loads of new jobs, too.
However,campaign contributions might be a little light for a while...
It's well-known that governments dislike the concept of a currency that they don't control, and that various secretive TLA agencies possess big bags of dirty tricks, so...
With a quick stroke of the "think of the children" brush, they can marginalise Bitcoin and, by extension, all other crypto-currencies, and be seen to be doing so for the highest, "moral" reasons.
The last "innovative" product Apple produced was iTunes.
MP3 players existed long before the iPod, but iTunes allowed trivial point/click to buy and download, and at the same time locked you in to their ecosystem.
The iPhone was just an extension of the iPod by way of the Touch. Smart-phones (with rounded corners) had existed for some years beforehand, and were certainly more functional that the iPhone version 1 - cut/paste and MMS, anybody?
Likewise the iPad - again, nothing innovative, as other similar products existed before the Apple offering.
The MacBook Air only "innovated" by removing functionality from a standard laptop, such as optical drives, ethernet ports, multiple USBs and, of course, user-upgradability and removable batteries.
What else? Firewire wasn't theirs, likewise Thunderbolt. AirPods? Maybe, if they worked properly...
I disagree - I find the Pebble to be pleasingly retro, to the point that my default watch-face is a Casio LCD lookalike. However, this is a matter of personal taste, so YMMV...
To my mind, the only fault with the Pebble is that it has no means for inverting the button functions and display so that it may be worn and used comfortably on the right wrist - a feature that is lacking from every "smart" watch I've ever looked at.
However, to their begrudged credit, this is something FitBit *do* have... but it's the only positive feature in their entire range of products.
Well, I think the summary says it best - Qualcom make the "least awful smartwatch SoC you can use in an Android Wear device."
In other words, the Qualcom SoC is the best of a bad bunch and, unless the competition up their game, why should Qualcom spend money making a better one?
The "Android Smartwatch" market isn't dead because Qualcom hasn't released a new suitable SoC - rather, Qualcom hasn't made a new SoC because the smartwatch market is dead.
The smartwatch was always going to be a niche offering, and primarily of interest to a geek market (iFans not withstanding). Adding health monitoring was a good step to expand the niche, but even then these are not devices that lend themselves to an upgrade cycle like phones (once again, iFans not withstanding).
For example, I own an original (Kickstarter) Pebble, and the core functions of caller ID, SMS/email notification and controlling music playback are great, but I don't care about health monitoring, so I haven't felt a compelling need to buy a another smartwatch to do the same things in a larger and less comfortable form factor.
So, the volumes and demand are not there for Qualcom to be able to return a profit on the investment in R&D resources and production costs for an updated SoC.
Oh, and while I'm here, I'd just like to add "FUCK FITBIT" for screwing Pebble owners over...
1. The Qualcom chip is based on an ARM core. ARM don't make chips, they license their IP, etc to manufacturers. For example, the ARM-based CPU in the Raspberry Pi is made by Broadcom.
2. Try running your Pi on a battery the size that will fit in a watch, and see how long it lasts.
...all the over-priced food and drink you end up buying while waiting for your EV to charge?
It's all very well to extol the virtues of an EV, as long as your single-journey length is less than the max range of your car, or that your dwell time between trips is sufficient to top it up for the next one (and there's a suitable location to charge it).
Otherwise, your journey is punctuated by enforced breaks of indeterminate duration while you wait for the car to charge...
Slashdot Mirror
My favourite e-book site has a copy, and I've posted it here.
Also some bad news - I'm not going to post the address of the site I pulled it from, as I still want to be able to use it...
Windows 10 is not designed to provide an inferior experience
So, this was just a happy accident?
Except that, of course, Amazon - and many other sites - have algorithms that adjust the price shown to the end user based on many variables, such as browser, OS platform and location, as well as whatever data they've mined from the cookies they can read, and anything they can pull together from other sources *COUGH*FaceBook*COUGH*
I've been a fan of Woz's ever since I bought my first Apple ][, but, really? Only now are you realising that FB makes its money from your data?
For a super-bright guy, he seems a bit slow on the up-take...
It depends on your country of residence.
Residents of countries - like the UK - that participate in the visa-waiver programme don't need a visa.
Everyone else does.
For countries that participate in the visa-waiver programme, such as the UK, just an I-94 is required to be filled in before landing.
At least, that was the case the last time I travelled there. If this new nonsense gets enacted, then that will have been the last time...
Of course, this will serve no useful purpose - anyone trying to get in with malicious intent will have prepared an innocuous set of social media content, but anyone sensible who eschews FB and their ilk will get pulled out of line for some special questioning...
And just hope your firewall doesn't also have a back-door...
Phones are more locked down, but that is nothing new. If you want to make an Open Source app and distribute it through the Apple or Google app stores, no one is stopping you...
Apple phones are, unless jail-broken, completely locked down, likewise Windows phones from version 7 onwards. Android phones can install apps from several different app stores, or from anywhere else if you change a simple setting.
If you want to make an Open Source app and distribute it through the Apple or Google app stores, no one is stopping you...
Unless, of course, the app store owner doesn't like your app for some reason (how's that torrent client on your iPhone?)
So, you need:
1. No use of Chinese (or perhaps East Asian) fabs for any of your silicon.
2. No involvement of any companies with any Chinese (opEA) ownership in the manufacturing processes.
3. No involvement of any Chinese (opEA) nationals in any of the hardware or software design processes.
In fact, how about "only security-cleared US nationals and wholly-US owned corporations wholly based in the US be permitted to be involved in telecoms kit, from raw material production to installation and configuration."
That might work, and would require major investment in the US, and loads of new jobs, too.
However,campaign contributions might be a little light for a while...
It's well-known that governments dislike the concept of a currency that they don't control, and that various secretive TLA agencies possess big bags of dirty tricks, so...
With a quick stroke of the "think of the children" brush, they can marginalise Bitcoin and, by extension, all other crypto-currencies, and be seen to be doing so for the highest, "moral" reasons.
...very like What3Words then, which is already used by the postal services of seven countries ...
Oblig. XKCD reference
Chia ow has it's ow iteret?
The last "innovative" product Apple produced was iTunes.
MP3 players existed long before the iPod, but iTunes allowed trivial point/click to buy and download, and at the same time locked you in to their ecosystem.
The iPhone was just an extension of the iPod by way of the Touch. Smart-phones (with rounded corners) had existed for some years beforehand, and were certainly more functional that the iPhone version 1 - cut/paste and MMS, anybody?
Likewise the iPad - again, nothing innovative, as other similar products existed before the Apple offering.
The MacBook Air only "innovated" by removing functionality from a standard laptop, such as optical drives, ethernet ports, multiple USBs and, of course, user-upgradability and removable batteries.
What else? Firewire wasn't theirs, likewise Thunderbolt. AirPods? Maybe, if they worked properly...
"ugliest"
I disagree - I find the Pebble to be pleasingly retro, to the point that my default watch-face is a Casio LCD lookalike. However, this is a matter of personal taste, so YMMV...
To my mind, the only fault with the Pebble is that it has no means for inverting the button functions and display so that it may be worn and used comfortably on the right wrist - a feature that is lacking from every "smart" watch I've ever looked at.
However, to their begrudged credit, this is something FitBit *do* have... but it's the only positive feature in their entire range of products.
Well, I think the summary says it best - Qualcom make the "least awful smartwatch SoC you can use in an Android Wear device."
In other words, the Qualcom SoC is the best of a bad bunch and, unless the competition up their game, why should Qualcom spend money making a better one?
The "Android Smartwatch" market isn't dead because Qualcom hasn't released a new suitable SoC - rather, Qualcom hasn't made a new SoC because the smartwatch market is dead.
The smartwatch was always going to be a niche offering, and primarily of interest to a geek market (iFans not withstanding). Adding health monitoring was a good step to expand the niche, but even then these are not devices that lend themselves to an upgrade cycle like phones (once again, iFans not withstanding).
For example, I own an original (Kickstarter) Pebble, and the core functions of caller ID, SMS/email notification and controlling music playback are great, but I don't care about health monitoring, so I haven't felt a compelling need to buy a another smartwatch to do the same things in a larger and less comfortable form factor.
So, the volumes and demand are not there for Qualcom to be able to return a profit on the investment in R&D resources and production costs for an updated SoC.
Oh, and while I'm here, I'd just like to add "FUCK FITBIT" for screwing Pebble owners over...
Two reasons:
1. The Qualcom chip is based on an ARM core. ARM don't make chips, they license their IP, etc to manufacturers. For example, the ARM-based CPU in the Raspberry Pi is made by Broadcom.
2. Try running your Pi on a battery the size that will fit in a watch, and see how long it lasts.
...so I'm not sure how good they'd be in a porno.
Well, no evidence of any kind should be considered admissible without a documented chain of custody.
What the jury should consider is whether the evidence may have been "tampered" with before entering custody, or during custody.
So, you can't use a tablet?
How about using an Android emulator?
"...high-frequency airwaves that travel along power lines."
Did I miss the meeting where it became de rigueur to just make "science" up as you go along?
...but it won't fit into a pocket.
...so are they going to back-port it to my 4-yo Samsung, so I can finally get an upgrade from Android 4.2?
...all the over-priced food and drink you end up buying while waiting for your EV to charge?
It's all very well to extol the virtues of an EV, as long as your single-journey length is less than the max range of your car, or that your dwell time between trips is sufficient to top it up for the next one (and there's a suitable location to charge it).
Otherwise, your journey is punctuated by enforced breaks of indeterminate duration while you wait for the car to charge...
$3.5million is *not* a massive fine, that's less than the annual bonus to the CEO...