Do large governments have "features". All they do is suck the money into a black hole where you never see a penny of the money you forcefully "invested" in it.
I don't understand all this systemd bashing. I've been working with it for a few months on CentOS 7, and all I can say is that it is easy to work with and until now, it has proven to be very stable. Never had a crash related to systemd.
Or just create a big hype and discontinue the thing when they will have sold 5000 boxes as they did with the NES Classic? Damn you Nintendo. I never buy anything else from you.
What surprises me is that they need a study to tell this. Just look around, everyone who owns a damn cell phone is using it at some point while driving. At every red light, you can see at least 1/2 driver looking at their phone. Best way to catch them: cops in buses to spot them. And best way to deter them: higher ticket price.
You obviously do not work for a government organization. All I can tell you is that the simple fact of changing a field name in a database or in an UI requires almost a year of meetings, emails and phone calls with tons of people. The term you use in your post, "should", is right. It should be this way. But it is not. The more complicated it is, the more obfuscated it can be kept. And that's how they want it to be.
Yet I still agree with you that every small feature gets a price tag. But isn't it already the way it works? It's been like that for years. Take the ASA 5505 for example. Depending on the license level you bought, they put a limit on the number of open connections, the encryption types you can use, whether or not you can establish P2P VPN or accept incoming VPN users... These are all software limitations. I agree that they bought Meraki for their business model though, to have a "better" offer (... profit!)
Software cannot run out of thin air. This is not what "Cloud" means. It's simply different hardware, or other people's hardware. In the end, you still need computing power and specialized hardware to do serious business stuff. Virtualization needs an underlying physical layer.
I just looked on Google Images for each version of mspaint since Windows 3.1, and apart from the UI being adapted to each OS, the features have almost remained the same. I understand that it is for "painting", but basic photo editing capabilities would have been a fine addition.
Back in the days of Win3.1, digital photography barely existed. Now that digital photography is (almost) the only remaining thing and that everyone is using it daily, I think it would be normal for MS to provide some way to basically edit digital pictures. And it's not as if they could not package a fine solution for a few bucks and include it in the basic OS. MSPaint would be the right place to do it.
3. Microsoft Paint now lets people create models in 3D. If it's anything like Paint was for graphics then most likely I'd use something more robust instead of Paint to make 3d stuff. Assuming I have 3D stuff to make in the first place.
Before going 3D, if it could at least have the most basic filters for 2D images, like CONTRAST, LUMINOSITY and some easy stuff like auto color adjustment, ans some exotic sepia, rainbow and greyscale color transform, it would already be a good start. The fact is that the features of MSPaint have not changed since what, Windows 3.1?
How in hell can one assume this is totally normal??? It's not because it's the third time we learn of CIA-spying stuff that the info is less... disturbing to say the least.
You imagine how the info gathered can be used? Let's say Airbus has tons of Samsung TVs, and the US sleeps with Boeing and Lockheed Martin. All this should rise the people against these spying practices. I don't know why the medias only give this news a single paragraph in their "IT News" section... This says a lot about freedom of press. Usually, journalists are utterly against spying on people. But right now they just STFU.
Disturbing. That's the word I have in mind. We are not losing the battle. We are losing the war.
So you think destroying the life of a grocery store worker is worth less than that of a Wall St banker?
Sorry, but the hassle of getting out of this is probably 10x worse for the low wage crowd. They often can't afford paying for an attorney, so they have a hard time even getting a proper defense.
Getting only 73,500$ for all this trouble caused here is like putting a band-aid on an open fracture.
I guess the Wi-Fi will only be available when the engine is running, or the car is turned on. It will cost you so much in gas to keep your wifi running that you'd better stick with your ISP.
OK yes sorry guys, I meant that this is the third connector, so yes, the second time they change the thing. 30-pin to Lightning, and lightning to USB-C (if it goes as announced).
Android phones have been very consistent almost from the beginning with the micro-USB connector. While not the most versatile choice, it is the best for compatibility with everything but Apple stuff. Android has mostly been standards-oriented (except for the Chromecast, they should have sticked to the DLNA specs)
Absolutely not. There are 1000s of reason to vote for a candidate or another. Answering questions about something you've read is just like a form of captcha that requires a minimal intellectual effort that can discourage the most lazy trolls.
OTOH, political literacy can be VERY subjective and emotional. Literacy for one can look like propaganda for the other.
* Although if Apple shifts to USB-C and softens its stance on the what can be physically connected to their products then it might be a win-win situation.
Apple's shift to USB-C is a way to make you think it's going to open the market. In fact, they just have to put their frickin chip on the wire to exclude any non-Apple-approved hardware, which is most probably the way they will go. Their partnerships with other companies is a big revenue stream for them. You think they suddenly became a charity? #not
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They also made pretty good software for fighting against child porn
Do large governments have "features". All they do is suck the money into a black hole where you never see a penny of the money you forcefully "invested" in it.
But well, it's not as if privacy was not a thing of the past... Resistance is futile.
This infomercial is a frickin joke. 999$ USD for an entry level Core i5 laptop with Windows on it is an insult to our intelligence.
What? No subspace Internet yet? When the hell are we?
Yeah well, a few like nearly a year, and running a 24/7 infrastructure on it, it has been reliable as a swiss clock.
Maybe I call you grandpa for refusing to move on from init.d that dates back to the 70s.
Just like the recent Amazon crash, I would bet the root cause is human.
I don't understand all this systemd bashing. I've been working with it for a few months on CentOS 7, and all I can say is that it is easy to work with and until now, it has proven to be very stable. Never had a crash related to systemd.
Or just create a big hype and discontinue the thing when they will have sold 5000 boxes as they did with the NES Classic? Damn you Nintendo. I never buy anything else from you.
What surprises me is that they need a study to tell this. Just look around, everyone who owns a damn cell phone is using it at some point while driving. At every red light, you can see at least 1/2 driver looking at their phone. Best way to catch them: cops in buses to spot them. And best way to deter them: higher ticket price.
You obviously do not work for a government organization. All I can tell you is that the simple fact of changing a field name in a database or in an UI requires almost a year of meetings, emails and phone calls with tons of people. The term you use in your post, "should", is right. It should be this way. But it is not. The more complicated it is, the more obfuscated it can be kept. And that's how they want it to be.
Obviously, they were talking about Farhenheit, not Celcius. 100F = 37,7778C. Which is still pretty hot. For me the northeastern Canadian.
Yet I still agree with you that every small feature gets a price tag. But isn't it already the way it works? It's been like that for years. Take the ASA 5505 for example. Depending on the license level you bought, they put a limit on the number of open connections, the encryption types you can use, whether or not you can establish P2P VPN or accept incoming VPN users... These are all software limitations. I agree that they bought Meraki for their business model though, to have a "better" offer (... profit!)
The hardware business is going stale
Software cannot run out of thin air. This is not what "Cloud" means. It's simply different hardware, or other people's hardware. In the end, you still need computing power and specialized hardware to do serious business stuff. Virtualization needs an underlying physical layer.
I just looked on Google Images for each version of mspaint since Windows 3.1, and apart from the UI being adapted to each OS, the features have almost remained the same. I understand that it is for "painting", but basic photo editing capabilities would have been a fine addition.
Back in the days of Win3.1, digital photography barely existed. Now that digital photography is (almost) the only remaining thing and that everyone is using it daily, I think it would be normal for MS to provide some way to basically edit digital pictures. And it's not as if they could not package a fine solution for a few bucks and include it in the basic OS. MSPaint would be the right place to do it.
3. Microsoft Paint now lets people create models in 3D.
If it's anything like Paint was for graphics then most likely I'd use something more robust instead of Paint to make 3d stuff. Assuming I have 3D stuff to make in the first place.
Before going 3D, if it could at least have the most basic filters for 2D images, like CONTRAST, LUMINOSITY and some easy stuff like auto color adjustment, ans some exotic sepia, rainbow and greyscale color transform, it would already be a good start. The fact is that the features of MSPaint have not changed since what, Windows 3.1?
How in hell can one assume this is totally normal??? It's not because it's the third time we learn of CIA-spying stuff that the info is less... disturbing to say the least.
You imagine how the info gathered can be used? Let's say Airbus has tons of Samsung TVs, and the US sleeps with Boeing and Lockheed Martin. All this should rise the people against these spying practices. I don't know why the medias only give this news a single paragraph in their "IT News" section... This says a lot about freedom of press. Usually, journalists are utterly against spying on people. But right now they just STFU.
Disturbing. That's the word I have in mind. We are not losing the battle. We are losing the war.
So you think destroying the life of a grocery store worker is worth less than that of a Wall St banker?
Sorry, but the hassle of getting out of this is probably 10x worse for the low wage crowd. They often can't afford paying for an attorney, so they have a hard time even getting a proper defense.
Getting only 73,500$ for all this trouble caused here is like putting a band-aid on an open fracture.
Totally agree. Re-editing posts could totally mess discussion threads. If you can't review before posting, then woosh.
If the phone is locked, it won't even accept the SIM in the first place. The phone will refuse to boot or give any relevant service at all.
I guess the Wi-Fi will only be available when the engine is running, or the car is turned on. It will cost you so much in gas to keep your wifi running that you'd better stick with your ISP.
OK yes sorry guys, I meant that this is the third connector, so yes, the second time they change the thing. 30-pin to Lightning, and lightning to USB-C (if it goes as announced).
Android phones have been very consistent almost from the beginning with the micro-USB connector. While not the most versatile choice, it is the best for compatibility with everything but Apple stuff. Android has mostly been standards-oriented (except for the Chromecast, they should have sticked to the DLNA specs)
Absolutely not. There are 1000s of reason to vote for a candidate or another. Answering questions about something you've read is just like a form of captcha that requires a minimal intellectual effort that can discourage the most lazy trolls.
OTOH, political literacy can be VERY subjective and emotional. Literacy for one can look like propaganda for the other.
When do we get this on Slashdot? No more trolls, no more frost piss, no more "Didnt RTFA".
Or at least, they'll have a harder time getting through the keyhole.
* Although if Apple shifts to USB-C and softens its stance on the what can be physically connected to their products then it might be a win-win situation.
Apple's shift to USB-C is a way to make you think it's going to open the market. In fact, they just have to put their frickin chip on the wire to exclude any non-Apple-approved hardware, which is most probably the way they will go. Their partnerships with other companies is a big revenue stream for them. You think they suddenly became a charity? #not