Engadget's preview claims that any custom Moto X ordered from their Moto Maker site comes with an unlocked bootloader. I'm guessing carrier-sold phones would have a locked one.
Why exactly is that "right"? In what way is stopping users from using their devices in the way they desire a good thing? One of the best things about Android, especially Google's Nexus phones, is that rooting is just about always possible. For Nexus phones, it's downright trivial and supported by the OS and hardware. Sure, it might not be necessary for 99% of users. It doesn't make it any less of a legitimate action a user should be able to take.
Well, the fact Apple's connector fits both ways is a big plus. However, I would rather have seen a new USB standard with that feature than a proprietary connector doing it, and I'm sure Apple could've joined the board to push that, so it most certainly doesn't excuse them.
Aliasing is an artifact caused by the discretization of a continuous signal, most often an image. If the discrete elements are small enough that they are beyond the typical human's visual acuity, then antialiasing techniques become unnecessary for the vast majority of situations. You can always construct an artificial scenario in which it would be, but that's irrelevant to typical use scenarii, which is all that really matters.
Considering how electricity is considered a luxury and vast swathes of land are in darkness, I think they'd have a hard time powering the damn things, let alone affording the whole deal.
I think certain specialties already make enough or too much money. Over here there's been talks about I believe ophthalmologists making 400k+ for doing basic, fast surgeries. Even accounting for auxiliary costs, they still pocket a lot. I'd rather take some of their cash and give it to emergency MDs, generalists or family docs. The problem's that there's a certain aura around specialists which means the MDs who matter most and who can actually prevent most issues instead of solving them are paid less. This ought to be corrected.
Also, while I'll agree that the salaries for CEOs and Wall Street manipulators are ridiculous, they're paid by private corporations unrelated to the state. Just like salaries for sports celebrities (which are even more bullshit), they're the private sector's own business and we can do nothing about it, nor should we.
The issue is that those new APIs and extensions are NEVER provided because the hardware manufacturers and software providers don't want to provide them. Providing deeper access to the software and hardware means you can do more things, including circumvent protections and such. They'd rather make it as hard as possible to do this, and rooting is harder than using a sanctioned app.
In an ideal world, we'd have all the functionality we need straight up and "rooting" wouldn't even exist as a term.
Except miligrams are not a comparable unit of measurement for lethal dosage. MiliSieverts are. Sieverts in general specifically indicate the effective dose of radiation which humans get, regardless of the kind of radiation or its source. Therefore 1 mSv in Denver is equivalent to 1 mSv in Fukushima.
I think it's depressing when our best and brightest are recommended to avoid science and engineering, things that can move us all forward, and to instead enter the ranks of "businessmen" and lawyers. Because what we need is more lawsuits and more Wall Street.
Note that I understand why you're suggesting it, I'm just saying it's a terrible thing for humanity in general and the US in particular.
Well then something is very broken, because in just about all the places I know the vast majority of people don't know their representative. They'll know the top people (or the president/prime minister alone, at worst) but that's about it.
I've yet to meet a single person who's been able to entirely replace their computer(s) with a tablet. Those who own one almost always have a "backup" in the form of a desktop or chunky laptop which they use when they want to do "real" work. Tablets are a novelty and will remain one until they can actually replace notebooks, which they can't right now, partly because of software limitations (lackluster multitasking, few office applications, etc.) and hardware limitations (keyboard, screen size, etc.). For most people they're entertainment devices which excel at browsing the web, watching videos, reading emails and so on; consumption, essentially. Production is still terrible.
Well yeah, but investors don't care about that. Reasons and explanations? Pah, just excuses I tell you! If you're not showing impossible growth each quarter, you're a failure. It's funny because Samsung, arguably Apple's biggest competitor by far, has had a similar backlash from investors because they didn't meet expectations despite showing something like 20% growth from the last year. Stock markets and investors are really absurd. Profit isn't enough, you need to make more than last year/quarter, and on top of that you need to beat expectations from often absolutely idiotic "analysts".
What scares me is that there's going to be a point where we just can't grow anymore. Exponential growth is unsustainable, anyone with a little bit of math knowledge would be able to tell you that. When Wall Street and co. realize that their expectations cannot be met anymore and investors start panicking, we could see a big market crash again, perhaps worse than ever before. I really hate how our entire economy rests on what is essentially a bunch of petulant children.
Yeah, it's a bit weird to take HP as an example considering they've been a monumental failure in the mobile space. If anything, it shows that fire sales can recoup some loss on the short term but do not help at all in the long term.
As others have said, bandwidth is an extremely important element. The thing to remember is that for the specific task of video compression and decompression, hardware vendors aren't shy about integrating specialized hardware that can run the algorithm at a much higher speed and at a much lower energy cost than general purpose processors. While it's too early to say whether H.265 will take more CPU power to compute (this is, after all, an alpha implementation), even if it were, it probably wouldn't matter that much once hardware implementations start to appear.
It's open source with unclear licensing, it's got no comments whatsoever and there's more dead code than you can shake a stick at. Sounds like your average SourceForge project then:)
I'm sure that scientists get money from movies and books about global warming. Totally. Sure.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if anyone's getting money from climate change research, it's oil company-funded research denying that anything's happening.
We "fully understand" very little. This hasn't stopped us using our partial understanding to do something. If we had to wait to fully understand something before doing anything about it, we'd still be living in caves.
Oh it most certainly is cyclic. The question is whether what we're seeing right now is part of that cycle or not. Many think that it's too fast to be part of it, or at the very least that it's a combination of a cycle and something else (ie. humans).
Plus, regardless of the cause, if things do indeed heat up so much so that water levels raise dramatically, we're in deep shit. Just look at how much of the population of the world lives on a coast.
If an entire field may be distrusted because of a single incident, then we should distrust just about every field on the planet, starting with journalists, lawyers, politicians and celebrities.
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Yes, because going "You first!" is sure going to convince China, India and others to cut their own level of life so that we may preserve our own.
Engadget's preview claims that any custom Moto X ordered from their Moto Maker site comes with an unlocked bootloader. I'm guessing carrier-sold phones would have a locked one.
Why exactly is that "right"? In what way is stopping users from using their devices in the way they desire a good thing? One of the best things about Android, especially Google's Nexus phones, is that rooting is just about always possible. For Nexus phones, it's downright trivial and supported by the OS and hardware. Sure, it might not be necessary for 99% of users. It doesn't make it any less of a legitimate action a user should be able to take.
Well, the fact Apple's connector fits both ways is a big plus. However, I would rather have seen a new USB standard with that feature than a proprietary connector doing it, and I'm sure Apple could've joined the board to push that, so it most certainly doesn't excuse them.
Aliasing is an artifact caused by the discretization of a continuous signal, most often an image. If the discrete elements are small enough that they are beyond the typical human's visual acuity, then antialiasing techniques become unnecessary for the vast majority of situations. You can always construct an artificial scenario in which it would be, but that's irrelevant to typical use scenarii, which is all that really matters.
Considering how electricity is considered a luxury and vast swathes of land are in darkness, I think they'd have a hard time powering the damn things, let alone affording the whole deal.
I wonder whether AMD's next up with their Radeon Sky brand.
I think certain specialties already make enough or too much money. Over here there's been talks about I believe ophthalmologists making 400k+ for doing basic, fast surgeries. Even accounting for auxiliary costs, they still pocket a lot. I'd rather take some of their cash and give it to emergency MDs, generalists or family docs. The problem's that there's a certain aura around specialists which means the MDs who matter most and who can actually prevent most issues instead of solving them are paid less. This ought to be corrected.
Also, while I'll agree that the salaries for CEOs and Wall Street manipulators are ridiculous, they're paid by private corporations unrelated to the state. Just like salaries for sports celebrities (which are even more bullshit), they're the private sector's own business and we can do nothing about it, nor should we.
The issue is that those new APIs and extensions are NEVER provided because the hardware manufacturers and software providers don't want to provide them. Providing deeper access to the software and hardware means you can do more things, including circumvent protections and such. They'd rather make it as hard as possible to do this, and rooting is harder than using a sanctioned app.
In an ideal world, we'd have all the functionality we need straight up and "rooting" wouldn't even exist as a term.
Funny you say that. Hi-Rez has recently dropped support for Tribes: Ascend, barely a year after it came out, in order to focus on their newer games.
Except miligrams are not a comparable unit of measurement for lethal dosage. MiliSieverts are. Sieverts in general specifically indicate the effective dose of radiation which humans get, regardless of the kind of radiation or its source. Therefore 1 mSv in Denver is equivalent to 1 mSv in Fukushima.
I think it's depressing when our best and brightest are recommended to avoid science and engineering, things that can move us all forward, and to instead enter the ranks of "businessmen" and lawyers. Because what we need is more lawsuits and more Wall Street.
Note that I understand why you're suggesting it, I'm just saying it's a terrible thing for humanity in general and the US in particular.
Well then something is very broken, because in just about all the places I know the vast majority of people don't know their representative. They'll know the top people (or the president/prime minister alone, at worst) but that's about it.
They've killed XNA and haven't announced any .NET-based replacement, so I'd be very surprised if that were the case.
I've yet to meet a single person who's been able to entirely replace their computer(s) with a tablet. Those who own one almost always have a "backup" in the form of a desktop or chunky laptop which they use when they want to do "real" work. Tablets are a novelty and will remain one until they can actually replace notebooks, which they can't right now, partly because of software limitations (lackluster multitasking, few office applications, etc.) and hardware limitations (keyboard, screen size, etc.). For most people they're entertainment devices which excel at browsing the web, watching videos, reading emails and so on; consumption, essentially. Production is still terrible.
Well yeah, but investors don't care about that. Reasons and explanations? Pah, just excuses I tell you! If you're not showing impossible growth each quarter, you're a failure. It's funny because Samsung, arguably Apple's biggest competitor by far, has had a similar backlash from investors because they didn't meet expectations despite showing something like 20% growth from the last year. Stock markets and investors are really absurd. Profit isn't enough, you need to make more than last year/quarter, and on top of that you need to beat expectations from often absolutely idiotic "analysts".
What scares me is that there's going to be a point where we just can't grow anymore. Exponential growth is unsustainable, anyone with a little bit of math knowledge would be able to tell you that. When Wall Street and co. realize that their expectations cannot be met anymore and investors start panicking, we could see a big market crash again, perhaps worse than ever before. I really hate how our entire economy rests on what is essentially a bunch of petulant children.
Yeah, it's a bit weird to take HP as an example considering they've been a monumental failure in the mobile space. If anything, it shows that fire sales can recoup some loss on the short term but do not help at all in the long term.
As others have said, bandwidth is an extremely important element. The thing to remember is that for the specific task of video compression and decompression, hardware vendors aren't shy about integrating specialized hardware that can run the algorithm at a much higher speed and at a much lower energy cost than general purpose processors. While it's too early to say whether H.265 will take more CPU power to compute (this is, after all, an alpha implementation), even if it were, it probably wouldn't matter that much once hardware implementations start to appear.
It's open source with unclear licensing, it's got no comments whatsoever and there's more dead code than you can shake a stick at. Sounds like your average SourceForge project then :)
I'm sure that scientists get money from movies and books about global warming. Totally. Sure.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if anyone's getting money from climate change research, it's oil company-funded research denying that anything's happening.
We "fully understand" very little. This hasn't stopped us using our partial understanding to do something. If we had to wait to fully understand something before doing anything about it, we'd still be living in caves.
Oh it most certainly is cyclic. The question is whether what we're seeing right now is part of that cycle or not. Many think that it's too fast to be part of it, or at the very least that it's a combination of a cycle and something else (ie. humans).
Plus, regardless of the cause, if things do indeed heat up so much so that water levels raise dramatically, we're in deep shit. Just look at how much of the population of the world lives on a coast.
That last link is scary, especially the comments section.
If an entire field may be distrusted because of a single incident, then we should distrust just about every field on the planet, starting with journalists, lawyers, politicians and celebrities.