Even real people can never give me sane suggestions, because directly or not, they feel their needs are the same or more important than mine. If the intent is to either sell me a product or satisfy their own ego, adding technology won't make things better for me.
Consoles are defined by their games, not hardware. Whether the VCS crashes and burns or not depends on what Atari shows.
So far, Atari has opened a crowdfunding campaign with nothing to show but a version of Tempest 4000, apparently being played on the VCS. Interestingly, the Tempest 4000 developers have stated that they have no knowledge if the VCS even has a dev kit at all.
Frankly, as much as I loved my PS3, my PS4 has been collecting dust. I find it unlikely I'll buy either a PS5 or VCS.
Disabling Pocket completely is more complicated than just dragging the icon off the navigation bar. Some of the more advanced Firefox features actually require you to change 3-5 config settings -- simultaneously -- to actually disable them.
People are getting pissy because it's getting harder NOT to use things. One of many reasons I use PaleMoon as my primary browser, and Firefox only as a backup.
What would be even more reasonable is that after 17 fucking years, the DRM would expire.
I wish the world would sit back and think about how much stuff will "stop working" in a few short years, and then realize the problem will only continue to get worse.
I'd like to see them prove that I did business with them. They'd have to tell me the complete list of companies from which they bought their data, and they may be reluctant to go through that trouble.
Look at it this way. If you violate the licensing terms of a commercial product, that 3rd party vendor will be all over your ass with lawsuits. It's hard, but you comply because that's business.
The simple reason why a lot of companies are lax with GPL/FOSS compliance is because it's easier to get away with it. Either that, or they're flying a bit too much from the seat of their pants (typical Silicon Valley mindset).
The problem only emerged when doing multiple emergency stops in a row. How often do you do that?
During stress tests, which all manufacturers should do. Ever see those huge scaffold assemblies manufacturers strap to the axles of cars to simulate 50,000 miles of bumpy roads over a few days?
That doesn't mean manufacturers will care about all problems discovered, but they do know about them.
The point of my post was that I was optimizing for time. Did you miss that?
Of course not. It's all nice and well that you're writing your own tools and using them yourself exclusively. However, pretty much the whole thread has to do with tools that are redistributed and will be used by other people. Most UNIX tools tend to be like that, especially in a business environment where turnover is a fact of life and someone else may very well have to deal with a tool you thought would only be used by yourself. That's when "saving time" becomes a problem. Whipping things out quickly and wasting OTHER people's time with slow execution is only a valid design choice in limited circumstances.
This should be obvious, of course, but even after decades of OS development and new hardware we're still loaded to the tilt with scripts, updaters, and boot times that can take minutes to hours. Some iOS updates run in stages and can literally take days. Multiply that by thousands or even millions of people, and that can be a lot of wasted time.
Assuming you're the only one who will use the tool, or you're solving a problem that is not time critical.
Remember the mantra that Linux is free if you don't value your time. That means when your tool isn't designed properly, it can waste huge amounts of OTHER peoples' time. Collectively, that can add up to many thousands of man years.
It's not reasonable to assume anything unless manufacturers can provide detailed information on how the devices work. For example, the regular meme that Apple doesn't collect your personal data because they make all their money on hardware, therefore they don't need to collect personal data. Such assumptions are dangerous.
Innocent until proven guilty is a reasonable thing when it comes to criminal accusations, but I'm far less forgiving when it comes to business, especially when businesses encrypt everything and refuse to disclose their protocols.
OK, so these deices ARE listening to everything at all times.
I get really upset when people insist that the devices are NOT listening at all times, because it's blatantly obvious that they are. At the very least, people should be insisting that the devices do not continuously stream data back to the manufacturer (though it's difficult to tell whether even that's true or not).
I remember when broadband modems first came out and were touting "always online" functionality. It scared the hell out of me, because I knew stuff like Echo/Home would be coming eventually. Give it time, and all these devices will be streaming all the time, not just listening for commands.
My experience in college is that academic computer science is completely different than real-world computer science. I learned only math and algorithms in college. Everything else I had to learn on my own in my spare time.
Granted, my college days were in the early 2000's, and I didn't exactly go to the best school, but all we did back then was algorithms in C. Exclusively. We were also forced to do our work with Emacs and submit our homework to a VAX system using nothing more than a mainframe cheat sheet. If something went wrong, we were stuck. It was confusing and useless to participate unless you already knew what the hell you were doing.
I learned a HELL of a lot more about real programming after I left college and started to work with other, more experienced people. Then it became more obvious what they were trying to teach us in college, but failing miserably.
While we're on the topic of subscription stupidity, could somebody clarify why we need the bell feature in addition to the subscription feature? I'm already notified about new videos in my subscription feed, I don't need the bell to send me messages when new videos are posted.
Oh, I get it. If subscriptions aren't chronological anymore, the bell is effectively a replacement for chronological notifications. I knew they innovated for good reason, and not just to give content creators another way to beg for subs/likes/bells hoping to game the algorithm again.
As long as there's backwards compatibility, I don't think it's a big deal how often they release new hardware.
Too bad the idea of maintaining an ecosystem, rather than pushing a specific hardware platform, was only fashionable for a while. Now that all the major consoles are online, hopefully the manufacturers will come to their senses.
Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload.
Funny... almost every other device I've used ever has either given me a low battery warning or failed to turn on at all, citing insufficient power. Crashes due to low battery power rarely happen.
I wonder why Apple has such a hard time simply detecting power draw and informing users that the battery needs to be replaced, just like every other company in the universe. If everyone but them can do it, it must be a really hard problem to solve.
Apple had the guts to tell people they were holding it wrong, and then initially charge people $30 for a plastic bumper to fix the problem that didn't actually exist. Later they did offer to give away the bumpers for free, but only if you could demonstrate that you were having a problem with your device. That was when Jobs was alive, which was quite a while ago. Since then they've only continued to go downhill while their customers kept buying like crazy and their profits still skyrocketed.
These days, Apple is refusing to service their own top-of-the-line computers -- at any price -- while people like Linus and Rossman blare about it on YouTube. The company doesn't give a shit. I'm not sure anyone does anymore.
Now if only we can get the entire rest of the USA to follow suit. Binding arbitration is one of the worst fashion trends ever to infect corporate culture.
Bonus points if we can get the SCOTUS to admit they screwed up.
It would've been cheaper for Apple to acknowledge and fix the issue.
I'm pretty sure Apple (and others) have done plenty of risk analysis. From what I've seen, class action lawsuits (which are civil cases and subject to negotiation) usually do end up being the cheaper option.
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Even real people can never give me sane suggestions, because directly or not, they feel their needs are the same or more important than mine. If the intent is to either sell me a product or satisfy their own ego, adding technology won't make things better for me.
So, yeah... AI can get stuffed.
Consoles are defined by their games, not hardware. Whether the VCS crashes and burns or not depends on what Atari shows.
So far, Atari has opened a crowdfunding campaign with nothing to show but a version of Tempest 4000, apparently being played on the VCS. Interestingly, the Tempest 4000 developers have stated that they have no knowledge if the VCS even has a dev kit at all.
Frankly, as much as I loved my PS3, my PS4 has been collecting dust. I find it unlikely I'll buy either a PS5 or VCS.
Disabling Pocket completely is more complicated than just dragging the icon off the navigation bar. Some of the more advanced Firefox features actually require you to change 3-5 config settings -- simultaneously -- to actually disable them.
People are getting pissy because it's getting harder NOT to use things. One of many reasons I use PaleMoon as my primary browser, and Firefox only as a backup.
Translation: MS Office is massive, overpriced overkill for the vast majority of people.
What would be even more reasonable is that after 17 fucking years, the DRM would expire.
I wish the world would sit back and think about how much stuff will "stop working" in a few short years, and then realize the problem will only continue to get worse.
So if you don't answer (and therefore the scammer doesn't get any money from you) the scammer makes a loss on the call, they don't "Win".
What about answering machines?
I'd like to see them prove that I did business with them. They'd have to tell me the complete list of companies from which they bought their data, and they may be reluctant to go through that trouble.
Look at it this way. If you violate the licensing terms of a commercial product, that 3rd party vendor will be all over your ass with lawsuits. It's hard, but you comply because that's business.
The simple reason why a lot of companies are lax with GPL/FOSS compliance is because it's easier to get away with it. Either that, or they're flying a bit too much from the seat of their pants (typical Silicon Valley mindset).
The problem only emerged when doing multiple emergency stops in a row. How often do you do that?
During stress tests, which all manufacturers should do. Ever see those huge scaffold assemblies manufacturers strap to the axles of cars to simulate 50,000 miles of bumpy roads over a few days?
That doesn't mean manufacturers will care about all problems discovered, but they do know about them.
The point of my post was that I was optimizing for time. Did you miss that?
Of course not. It's all nice and well that you're writing your own tools and using them yourself exclusively. However, pretty much the whole thread has to do with tools that are redistributed and will be used by other people. Most UNIX tools tend to be like that, especially in a business environment where turnover is a fact of life and someone else may very well have to deal with a tool you thought would only be used by yourself. That's when "saving time" becomes a problem. Whipping things out quickly and wasting OTHER people's time with slow execution is only a valid design choice in limited circumstances.
This should be obvious, of course, but even after decades of OS development and new hardware we're still loaded to the tilt with scripts, updaters, and boot times that can take minutes to hours. Some iOS updates run in stages and can literally take days. Multiply that by thousands or even millions of people, and that can be a lot of wasted time.
Assuming you're the only one who will use the tool, or you're solving a problem that is not time critical.
Remember the mantra that Linux is free if you don't value your time. That means when your tool isn't designed properly, it can waste huge amounts of OTHER peoples' time. Collectively, that can add up to many thousands of man years.
It's not reasonable to assume anything unless manufacturers can provide detailed information on how the devices work. For example, the regular meme that Apple doesn't collect your personal data because they make all their money on hardware, therefore they don't need to collect personal data. Such assumptions are dangerous.
Innocent until proven guilty is a reasonable thing when it comes to criminal accusations, but I'm far less forgiving when it comes to business, especially when businesses encrypt everything and refuse to disclose their protocols.
OK, so these deices ARE listening to everything at all times.
I get really upset when people insist that the devices are NOT listening at all times, because it's blatantly obvious that they are. At the very least, people should be insisting that the devices do not continuously stream data back to the manufacturer (though it's difficult to tell whether even that's true or not).
I remember when broadband modems first came out and were touting "always online" functionality. It scared the hell out of me, because I knew stuff like Echo/Home would be coming eventually. Give it time, and all these devices will be streaming all the time, not just listening for commands.
My experience in college is that academic computer science is completely different than real-world computer science. I learned only math and algorithms in college. Everything else I had to learn on my own in my spare time.
Granted, my college days were in the early 2000's, and I didn't exactly go to the best school, but all we did back then was algorithms in C. Exclusively. We were also forced to do our work with Emacs and submit our homework to a VAX system using nothing more than a mainframe cheat sheet. If something went wrong, we were stuck. It was confusing and useless to participate unless you already knew what the hell you were doing.
I learned a HELL of a lot more about real programming after I left college and started to work with other, more experienced people. Then it became more obvious what they were trying to teach us in college, but failing miserably.
While we're on the topic of subscription stupidity, could somebody clarify why we need the bell feature in addition to the subscription feature? I'm already notified about new videos in my subscription feed, I don't need the bell to send me messages when new videos are posted.
Oh, I get it. If subscriptions aren't chronological anymore, the bell is effectively a replacement for chronological notifications. I knew they innovated for good reason, and not just to give content creators another way to beg for subs/likes/bells hoping to game the algorithm again.
Then get a phone that has a removable battery and take the battery out when you want privacy
Dad, what's a battery? I've never seen one before.
As long as there's backwards compatibility, I don't think it's a big deal how often they release new hardware.
Too bad the idea of maintaining an ecosystem, rather than pushing a specific hardware platform, was only fashionable for a while. Now that all the major consoles are online, hopefully the manufacturers will come to their senses.
Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload.
Funny... almost every other device I've used ever has either given me a low battery warning or failed to turn on at all, citing insufficient power. Crashes due to low battery power rarely happen.
I wonder why Apple has such a hard time simply detecting power draw and informing users that the battery needs to be replaced, just like every other company in the universe. If everyone but them can do it, it must be a really hard problem to solve.
PR nightmare? Apple? Surely you jest.
Apple had the guts to tell people they were holding it wrong, and then initially charge people $30 for a plastic bumper to fix the problem that didn't actually exist. Later they did offer to give away the bumpers for free, but only if you could demonstrate that you were having a problem with your device. That was when Jobs was alive, which was quite a while ago. Since then they've only continued to go downhill while their customers kept buying like crazy and their profits still skyrocketed.
These days, Apple is refusing to service their own top-of-the-line computers -- at any price -- while people like Linus and Rossman blare about it on YouTube. The company doesn't give a shit. I'm not sure anyone does anymore.
The saddest thing about Google Home and Amazon Echo is that people actual pay for the privilege to be monitored.
Now if only we can get the entire rest of the USA to follow suit. Binding arbitration is one of the worst fashion trends ever to infect corporate culture.
Bonus points if we can get the SCOTUS to admit they screwed up.
By the way, does anyone think ginger goes well with broccoli?
No, but I like pineapple on my pizza... with or without ham.
It would've been cheaper for Apple to acknowledge and fix the issue.
I'm pretty sure Apple (and others) have done plenty of risk analysis. From what I've seen, class action lawsuits (which are civil cases and subject to negotiation) usually do end up being the cheaper option.
Don't tell them when the gas is turned on.
Of course, someone will probably still complain that's inhumane (or not enough of a show).
And when something truly drastic goes down, the people all cry in unison, "Why didn't THEY do more to protect us?!"