Indeed! My Samsung phone got major OS updates six months+ after the fact and now after three years get no updates at all, even though it's a perfectly fine and fast phone.
Meanwhile my wife's five year old iPhone 5s is running the latest iOS beta and yes; fast too (once she put in a new battery).
I' looking at the Pixel 3 next, hoping at least the updates will be timely.
Some Apple *users* claimed they couldn't get viruses. Zealots exists for any platform. Apple have always been quite honest with their marketing. Here is an advisory from Apple from the wayback machine:
Last Modified: July 30, 2008
Article: HT2550
Old Article: 4454
Summary
This article describes the antivirus utilities that are available for the Mac OS. Products Affected
Consumer Software, Intego VirusBarrier X4, Virex, Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one program to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult. Here are some of the available antivirus utilities:
Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh (formerly SAM) Publisher: Symantec License: commercial
Virex Publisher: McAfee License: commercial
Important: Information about products not manufactured by Apple is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute Apple’s recommendation or endorsement. Please contact the vendor for additional information.
Not only that but a lot of the smaller prime items have gone up in price. Quite often I find now items that are no longer the cheapest or even same price on Amazon as the local "megamart" and usually I don't *have* to have those next-day, I can wait till next week when I'm going anyway.
I feel this is way overblown. Mozilla implemented TRR and were testing its performance for a few days on the nightly build, which is what nightly is for.
If they enable it on stable branch per default, always defaulting to Clouflare then you can brandish your pitchfork and rightly so. Until then they were just testing a new feature briefly on nightly, without any indication of how it'll be configured when reaching stable.
My decades of experience have taught me that the type of degree is irrelevant when writing maintainable code. It's about experience.
Almost all the new people in their first job, regardless of background, are obsessed with how clever they are and writing compact ingenious stuff that's impossible to maintain. Writing maintainable code comes with experience and being hammered in peer reviews (by me) so as to be brought into the mindset.
There are ofcourse older primadonnas too who write unmaintainable stuff, not all companies offer a culture to teach otherwise.
While in hindsight many of us agree that maybe they should've put more resources into suit design earlier I would not suggest their PR people should start really designing suits, maybe apart from a bit of fashion style. You could argue they should fire PR people and use the money on suits but PR is important for several reasons.
All in all I don't think the design story from PR dept in any way took resources from or delayed the work done on suits by the real R&D dept.
Well, due to Facebook I'm now much better in touch with family and friends in five countries across two continents. It has been very nice for this.
Notifications disabled and I use mobile website instead of apps so I can only read personal messages when I get to a computer.
Of course as far as Facebook knows I graduated from the Unseen University with speciality in General Wizardry and Extreme Napping. Unfortunately it refuses to add Ankh Mopork as home town as it couldn't locate it on the map. It has asked my to create an organization page for my university, which I refused.
Mine has glass back and probably wouldn't deal well with a pavement drop. But then I haven't dropped it since I got it three years ago. There's still a chance; I plan to get a new phone this October.
For me it's all about phone size. I'm quite safe with smaller phones (5-6" screens, current is 5.1) but I tend to fumble more with phablets and thus avoid them.
Good point. I have a Samsung S6 that no longer gets OS updats and when it did the major upgrades were always 6-9 month late.
Thinking either an iPhone next gen or Pixel 3 next time. My wife's iPhone 5s runs really well with iOS 12 beta so in terms of long term support that's a huge plus. However the Pixel 3 will still be supported for minimum 3 years and I'm thinking it'll be cheaper and the rumored 5.3" screen is about the max size I'll accept.
Not only that but he's brutally honest about mistakes and takes responsibility. How often do we see that in any industry?! He's an engineer and communicates openly and honestly like so many engineers I've worked with, as opposed to the career management people/CEOs that was typically full of hot air.
I have Crohns and had five Colonoscopies over the years, just to keep an eye on things. I asked my doctor if we should try pill cam, as we got them here now. He answered that they preferred only to use them if there was a very good reason to, not for routine spelunking. Reason was that a guy had gotten it stuck and needed surgery for removal.
Intel tried with the i860 which was launched with great fanfare and became a huge failure. Later they tried again with the Itanium which actually reused some of the i860 marketing material and also failed, though it did manage to indirectly kill some competing architectures, like HP PA RISC and Digital Alpha.
Part of the reason for Intel failing with Itanium was AMD64 which was easy to deploy and in fact turned out to perform very well. It might be an ugly instructionset but it seems to have trivial impact. Perhaps it is a different story on very low power systems (ARM).
PC applications is the least of what is being developed today. It's all about phone apps and web crap, both of which can be developed equally well on Linux and macOS.
Well, Samsung copied the phone design, the UI and even the box it shipped in. They also debated it in internal emails. Now, in a court of law you can't just stand up with a phone in each hand and say "look how alike they are, your Honor, what do you think?", instead you have to argue in great detail for each individual bit, such as corner shape/radius, button shape or feel, individual icons, etc. etc.. and then finally bring it to a conclusion. Thus, out of context we end up with the silly rounded corner debacle while the real case covered a lot more ground.
Apple and Essential brought their notches to the market within six months of each other. Since a phone usually is in development for a year or more I think it'd be fair to assume they came up with this obvious feature independently of each other. In any case, like with most things, it really doesn't matter who was first, it's here.
Personally I see it as a minor thing, I don't care whether my next phone have one. I'm more interested to know for how long the manufacturer provides SW updates and on this point Oneplus apparently have a dismal history.
I don't know; their routers are very good quality, fast and very stable and easy to setup. Not only is the wifi chipset good (Broadcom) but even things like the AC/DC transformer is built with quality components that seem to go beyond regulations (granted that may just add at most a few dollars to the BOM).
I use an Asus router because I enjoy tinkering with settings but many don't.
I feel having lots of choice in the market is a good thing, even if some are things I don't buy for myself.
Well they were both announced in 2017 and a new phone put on the market usually have been in the works for at lest a year so maybe it's fair to say they both came up with the idea independently. It' not a huge innovation either, rather a natural next step.
I don't really care whether my next phone have it or not. It's a minor design curiosity and I'm flexible. What annoy me are the curved edges on the Samsungs, I like a bit of bezel around my screen.
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Indeed! My Samsung phone got major OS updates six months+ after the fact and now after three years get no updates at all, even though it's a perfectly fine and fast phone.
Meanwhile my wife's five year old iPhone 5s is running the latest iOS beta and yes; fast too (once she put in a new battery).
I' looking at the Pixel 3 next, hoping at least the updates will be timely.
Some Apple *users* claimed they couldn't get viruses. Zealots exists for any platform. Apple have always been quite honest with their marketing. Here is an advisory from Apple from the wayback machine:
Last Modified: July 30, 2008
Article: HT2550
Old Article: 4454
Summary
This article describes the antivirus utilities that are available for the Mac OS.
Products Affected
Consumer Software, Intego VirusBarrier X4, Virex, Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one program to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult. Here are some of the available antivirus utilities:
Intego VirusBarrier X4
Publisher: Intego
License: commercial
Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh (formerly SAM)
Publisher: Symantec
License: commercial
Virex
Publisher: McAfee
License: commercial
Important: Information about products not manufactured by Apple is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute Apple’s recommendation or endorsement. Please contact the vendor for additional information.
Not only that but a lot of the smaller prime items have gone up in price. Quite often I find now items that are no longer the cheapest or even same price on Amazon as the local "megamart" and usually I don't *have* to have those next-day, I can wait till next week when I'm going anyway.
I feel this is way overblown. Mozilla implemented TRR and were testing its performance for a few days on the nightly build, which is what nightly is for.
If they enable it on stable branch per default, always defaulting to Clouflare then you can brandish your pitchfork and rightly so. Until then they were just testing a new feature briefly on nightly, without any indication of how it'll be configured when reaching stable.
My decades of experience have taught me that the type of degree is irrelevant when writing maintainable code. It's about experience.
Almost all the new people in their first job, regardless of background, are obsessed with how clever they are and writing compact ingenious stuff that's impossible to maintain. Writing maintainable code comes with experience and being hammered in peer reviews (by me) so as to be brought into the mindset.
There are ofcourse older primadonnas too who write unmaintainable stuff, not all companies offer a culture to teach otherwise.
While in hindsight many of us agree that maybe they should've put more resources into suit design earlier I would not suggest their PR people should start really designing suits, maybe apart from a bit of fashion style. You could argue they should fire PR people and use the money on suits but PR is important for several reasons.
All in all I don't think the design story from PR dept in any way took resources from or delayed the work done on suits by the real R&D dept.
Well, due to Facebook I'm now much better in touch with family and friends in five countries across two continents. It has been very nice for this.
Notifications disabled and I use mobile website instead of apps so I can only read personal messages when I get to a computer.
Of course as far as Facebook knows I graduated from the Unseen University with speciality in General Wizardry and Extreme Napping. Unfortunately it refuses to add Ankh Mopork as home town as it couldn't locate it on the map. It has asked my to create an organization page for my university, which I refused.
Mine has glass back and probably wouldn't deal well with a pavement drop. But then I haven't dropped it since I got it three years ago. There's still a chance; I plan to get a new phone this October.
For me it's all about phone size. I'm quite safe with smaller phones (5-6" screens, current is 5.1) but I tend to fumble more with phablets and thus avoid them.
Anyway, anecdotes...
Good point. I have a Samsung S6 that no longer gets OS updats and when it did the major upgrades were always 6-9 month late.
Thinking either an iPhone next gen or Pixel 3 next time. My wife's iPhone 5s runs really well with iOS 12 beta so in terms of long term support that's a huge plus. However the Pixel 3 will still be supported for minimum 3 years and I'm thinking it'll be cheaper and the rumored 5.3" screen is about the max size I'll accept.
Not only that but he's brutally honest about mistakes and takes responsibility. How often do we see that in any industry?! He's an engineer and communicates openly and honestly like so many engineers I've worked with, as opposed to the career management people/CEOs that was typically full of hot air.
Yes, I too took a while getting used to the idea before creating an account!
"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
I have Crohns and had five Colonoscopies over the years, just to keep an eye on things. I asked my doctor if we should try pill cam, as we got them here now. He answered that they preferred only to use them if there was a very good reason to, not for routine spelunking. Reason was that a guy had gotten it stuck and needed surgery for removal.
"..an unbearable mental load" - a language is a tool, ffs, it has issues; so learn them and use it if you have to or become a florist.
Intel tried with the i860 which was launched with great fanfare and became a huge failure. Later they tried again with the Itanium which actually reused some of the i860 marketing material and also failed, though it did manage to indirectly kill some competing architectures, like HP PA RISC and Digital Alpha.
Part of the reason for Intel failing with Itanium was AMD64 which was easy to deploy and in fact turned out to perform very well. It might be an ugly instructionset but it seems to have trivial impact. Perhaps it is a different story on very low power systems (ARM).
I, for one, am looking forward to getting subscribed to our Cloud Overlords and stream Dwarf Fortress in h265.
PC applications is the least of what is being developed today. It's all about phone apps and web crap, both of which can be developed equally well on Linux and macOS.
Well, Samsung copied the phone design, the UI and even the box it shipped in. They also debated it in internal emails.
Now, in a court of law you can't just stand up with a phone in each hand and say "look how alike they are, your Honor, what do you think?", instead you have to argue in great detail for each individual bit, such as corner shape/radius, button shape or feel, individual icons, etc. etc.. and then finally bring it to a conclusion. Thus, out of context we end up with the silly rounded corner debacle while the real case covered a lot more ground.
It's all about the touchdown.
Apple and Essential brought their notches to the market within six months of each other. Since a phone usually is in development for a year or more I think it'd be fair to assume they came up with this obvious feature independently of each other. In any case, like with most things, it really doesn't matter who was first, it's here.
Personally I see it as a minor thing, I don't care whether my next phone have one. I'm more interested to know for how long the manufacturer provides SW updates and on this point Oneplus apparently have a dismal history.
Apple does this so that you will pay their inflated prices for commodity flash memory.
You can pick on Apple but the reality is that a lot of manufacturers do this, they're not charities.
I don't know; their routers are very good quality, fast and very stable and easy to setup. Not only is the wifi chipset good (Broadcom) but even things like the AC/DC transformer is built with quality components that seem to go beyond regulations (granted that may just add at most a few dollars to the BOM).
I use an Asus router because I enjoy tinkering with settings but many don't.
I feel having lots of choice in the market is a good thing, even if some are things I don't buy for myself.
I love meat and think you may be right. However, I don't mind if it doesn't taste exactly the same, as long as it tastes good.
Well they were both announced in 2017 and a new phone put on the market usually have been in the works for at lest a year so maybe it's fair to say they both came up with the idea independently. It' not a huge innovation either, rather a natural next step.
I don't really care whether my next phone have it or not. It's a minor design curiosity and I'm flexible. What annoy me are the curved edges on the Samsungs, I like a bit of bezel around my screen.
What have Slashdot become, the Reddit overflow?