Oh to my point. If I have to root my device to be able to do simple tasks as above and then the manufacturers do everything to prevent me from doing so, it's a damn useless device to me.
I decided to try to do work on a trip recently with just an iPad. Suffice to say, I will never do it again.
Try to transfer files from an SD card on an IPad? Ahahah Good luck, frustrated me to no end. FileExplorer ftp server saved me here.
File handling in IOS is absolutely absurd.
My productivity went down dramatically on an iPad as many applications that claim to be similar to their desktop counterparts are not even close. Most of them are completely useless. Doing simple things like organizing things in windows to see my notes is very time consuming.
Eventually I got so tired of it that I connected to my vpn to remotely connect to my desktop. Lack of a mouse made things annoying, but I became more productive again. I'm in Japan with fast internet so it works fine.
National ID wouldn't solve this problem, it would make things worse. Letting government handle ID has always been a disaster the perpetrates identity theft to a whole new level.
Meanwhile, I have no problem generating my own keys and handing them out to my employees to identify me and vice versa. If I have a problem like feeling compromised, I simply change my key. Letting government handle that portion would result in massive red tape and difficulties in changing your ID when compromised.
I don't even care anymore. I never did contracts on my phones and always did prepaid. If I have a problem, I stop paying and get a new SIM card the next day with a new phone number.
If marketers want to rely on phone numbers as accurate information, they're in for a shock.
Thanks to phone companies making callerid completely useless and something we had/have to pay for (are we still being charged for this crap service????), who cares?
The walled garden approach has become a huge hindrance, especially when the mafia controls it. Every time I see a new Android or Apple device, the more I don't want it when I see how more locked down the device is after every release. Developing apps for these devices is no longer fun.
It's not just cash, checks as well. I'm getting more clients and vendors that prefer to deal with credit cards than with checks or bank transfers.
Why? Because it's convenient for them. They don't even care if they have to pay that 1%-3% fee and I'm talking about bills of over $100,000. To them, it's less accounting work and done deal. It's becoming so prevalent it's no surprise these card companies are booming. I still prefer receiving a check or bank transfer, but I've been asked so many times to be able to do credit card payments or receive credit card payments that I've ended up doing it.
There's a major push in the industry to build such designs. Lack of fault tolerance approaches like building accumulators or other error mitigation systems ends up eating a lot of floor space which to a lot of people buying machines don't like. However, most people don't understand that these mitigation techniques is what allows for increased production speed and allows for human error. From the looks of it, Tesla doesn't have enough floor space, so it doesn't surprise me they're trying to build a system with lack of fault tolerances.
You can see these type of machines at the convention shows. Sheeters and web processes now using open-loop systems with no accumulation. Bottling lines trying to give you incredible high speed without accumulation and very minimal fault tolerances. And guess what? All of these machines are actually causing a lot of headaches unless you have some incredibly bright people working for you to keep things running right. Which to me, this is just counter to what automation is supposed to bring when you have to have a guy sitting there fine tuning everything all the time. Sure, they cut down on floor space dramatically (And maybe lowers the overall cost of the machine? I don't think so), but at what price?
And then you get into vision control systems. I can tell you right now, there is no excellent vision control systems. They all suck and I highly doubt Tesla has built anything ground breaking unless they got into some serious AI development to make that leap ahead (Because it would bring a revolution in the manufacturing industry, even if Tesla tried to hide it, they wouldn't be able too). But from the sounds of the article, that hasn't happened. I've tried with vision systems, without error mitigation, you will fault out and stop an entire line. This is where proper procedures and secondary systems come into play. Sure, it's a lot of conveying systems and whatever, but this is what's required to design a properly engineered system.
More than likely a proof of concept to show some forum mods how stupid they look. It was only a matter of time someone tried to pull this off on AUR. I don't know why they don't expand on AUR to have more trusted maintainers, as there are quite a bit of programs there that have known maintainers of projects. It gets used quite often on Arch due to missing packages.
It's funny how little media attention it got as well. A company mass collecting data on a massive scale, probably with Facebook involved, and more than likely has a complete profile on you, leaked massive data, nothing happens. Well, nothing happened to them, meanwhile a lot of identity theft going on thanks to them.
The problem is, Apple isn't offering anything breath taking with their new phone models. A super high quality camera? Maybe something cool like some stereoscopic 3D photography? How about that camera that can take out of focus shots and still be sharp with an adjustment afterwards (Remember that shoot now focus later camera? What the hell happened?)??
My city is too dumb to pay them not to leave. The building prices have sky rocketed making it unaffordable for many business owners (Nobody wants to work for the landlord), so when it comes time to renew the lease, they all opt to leave.
The whole incentive cities give to get businesses to move in gets abused to hell. It needs to stop. My city had been doing it for years while current businesses in the city got completely screwed over, get absolutely no tax breaks or anything. It's completely unfair for everyone that's currently in the city while new businesses were receiving 5 year tax breaks and their buildings half payed for by the tax payers of the city.
It completely had a negative affect on the city where all the old businesses just go up and left for better places.
Nothing will be different other than more local manufacturing.Modern automation is bringing in a lot of local manufacturing already. I don't see this as a problem. Even Chinese companies can't compete against local companies doing stupid injection molds of iPhone cases. Costs will drop overall over time.
I find all this anti-automation talk politically motivated as it's a win for local industry. The Chinese buying up commercial and industrial property making it impossibly expensive to do business and not having a care in the world if it's vacant for decades as proof of this.
It was stagnating years before. Then California passed some rules to fast track solar installs which basically bailed out some big companies, bypassing inspections and allowing non-electricians to install solar installations.
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Oh to my point. If I have to root my device to be able to do simple tasks as above and then the manufacturers do everything to prevent me from doing so, it's a damn useless device to me.
I decided to try to do work on a trip recently with just an iPad. Suffice to say, I will never do it again.
Try to transfer files from an SD card on an IPad? Ahahah Good luck, frustrated me to no end. FileExplorer ftp server saved me here.
File handling in IOS is absolutely absurd.
My productivity went down dramatically on an iPad as many applications that claim to be similar to their desktop counterparts are not even close. Most of them are completely useless. Doing simple things like organizing things in windows to see my notes is very time consuming.
Eventually I got so tired of it that I connected to my vpn to remotely connect to my desktop. Lack of a mouse made things annoying, but I became more productive again. I'm in Japan with fast internet so it works fine.
Hurrr durrr ok. I do work on Linux and so does my entire facility. Even my laptop is Linux.
National ID wouldn't solve this problem, it would make things worse. Letting government handle ID has always been a disaster the perpetrates identity theft to a whole new level.
Meanwhile, I have no problem generating my own keys and handing them out to my employees to identify me and vice versa. If I have a problem like feeling compromised, I simply change my key. Letting government handle that portion would result in massive red tape and difficulties in changing your ID when compromised.
I don't even care anymore. I never did contracts on my phones and always did prepaid. If I have a problem, I stop paying and get a new SIM card the next day with a new phone number.
If marketers want to rely on phone numbers as accurate information, they're in for a shock.
Thanks to phone companies making callerid completely useless and something we had/have to pay for (are we still being charged for this crap service????), who cares?
The walled garden approach has become a huge hindrance, especially when the mafia controls it. Every time I see a new Android or Apple device, the more I don't want it when I see how more locked down the device is after every release. Developing apps for these devices is no longer fun.
Many companies do, including mine. It's not unusual.
It's not just cash, checks as well. I'm getting more clients and vendors that prefer to deal with credit cards than with checks or bank transfers.
Why? Because it's convenient for them. They don't even care if they have to pay that 1%-3% fee and I'm talking about bills of over $100,000. To them, it's less accounting work and done deal. It's becoming so prevalent it's no surprise these card companies are booming. I still prefer receiving a check or bank transfer, but I've been asked so many times to be able to do credit card payments or receive credit card payments that I've ended up doing it.
Most people getting into these gigs don't understand this and undershoot their worth, which these companies abuse to hell.
There's a major push in the industry to build such designs. Lack of fault tolerance approaches like building accumulators or other error mitigation systems ends up eating a lot of floor space which to a lot of people buying machines don't like. However, most people don't understand that these mitigation techniques is what allows for increased production speed and allows for human error. From the looks of it, Tesla doesn't have enough floor space, so it doesn't surprise me they're trying to build a system with lack of fault tolerances.
You can see these type of machines at the convention shows. Sheeters and web processes now using open-loop systems with no accumulation. Bottling lines trying to give you incredible high speed without accumulation and very minimal fault tolerances. And guess what? All of these machines are actually causing a lot of headaches unless you have some incredibly bright people working for you to keep things running right. Which to me, this is just counter to what automation is supposed to bring when you have to have a guy sitting there fine tuning everything all the time. Sure, they cut down on floor space dramatically (And maybe lowers the overall cost of the machine? I don't think so), but at what price?
And then you get into vision control systems. I can tell you right now, there is no excellent vision control systems. They all suck and I highly doubt Tesla has built anything ground breaking unless they got into some serious AI development to make that leap ahead (Because it would bring a revolution in the manufacturing industry, even if Tesla tried to hide it, they wouldn't be able too). But from the sounds of the article, that hasn't happened. I've tried with vision systems, without error mitigation, you will fault out and stop an entire line. This is where proper procedures and secondary systems come into play. Sure, it's a lot of conveying systems and whatever, but this is what's required to design a properly engineered system.
Adobe still thinks it has no competitors.
More than likely a proof of concept to show some forum mods how stupid they look. It was only a matter of time someone tried to pull this off on AUR. I don't know why they don't expand on AUR to have more trusted maintainers, as there are quite a bit of programs there that have known maintainers of projects. It gets used quite often on Arch due to missing packages.
Because many arch users actually check the install scripts in AUR and don't just install yaourt. *wink*
Yay, let's make YouTube even more bland than it already is!
Umm, my phone has only f-droid on it and no google play store. Works fine.
It's funny how little media attention it got as well. A company mass collecting data on a massive scale, probably with Facebook involved, and more than likely has a complete profile on you, leaked massive data, nothing happens. Well, nothing happened to them, meanwhile a lot of identity theft going on thanks to them.
The problem is, Apple isn't offering anything breath taking with their new phone models. A super high quality camera? Maybe something cool like some stereoscopic 3D photography? How about that camera that can take out of focus shots and still be sharp with an adjustment afterwards (Remember that shoot now focus later camera? What the hell happened?)??
My city is too dumb to pay them not to leave. The building prices have sky rocketed making it unaffordable for many business owners (Nobody wants to work for the landlord), so when it comes time to renew the lease, they all opt to leave.
The whole incentive cities give to get businesses to move in gets abused to hell. It needs to stop. My city had been doing it for years while current businesses in the city got completely screwed over, get absolutely no tax breaks or anything. It's completely unfair for everyone that's currently in the city while new businesses were receiving 5 year tax breaks and their buildings half payed for by the tax payers of the city.
It completely had a negative affect on the city where all the old businesses just go up and left for better places.
Sorry for the bold :(
I find all this anti-automation talk politically motivated as it's a win for local industry. The Chinese buying up commercial and industrial property making it impossibly expensive to do business and not having a care in the world if it's vacant for decades as proof of this.
Yes, because hiding such a serious vulnerability from the public and keeping systems seriously vulnerable for who knows how long was a better idea.
Running a Dell Linux Laptop here. I have no regrets using it. It has worked great for me.
It was stagnating years before. Then California passed some rules to fast track solar installs which basically bailed out some big companies, bypassing inspections and allowing non-electricians to install solar installations.
That's ok, there are a lot of morons willing to part with their money. Why do you think Tesla even exists?