This just shifts issues around. If the menubar is at the top of the screen, it's easier to grab, yes. But what did it displace by being there? The window titlebar. So if you drag windows around a lot using the titlebar, it's worse for that.
But at the end of the day, a fight over menubar location is just fighting for second place, since keyboard shortcuts are far more productive than either placement.
That's trusting the code, not trusting the company. We still can't trust MS to not sue people making FOSS (even based off their own FOSS products) if they hold a patent over something.
I wonder if they could pull something like having it not ship with FAT support, but the first time you install a FAT-formatted storage device it would ask you if you want to download and install it.
Think about it this way: How is the Bay Area tech industry going to function when there's nobody left to staff their Starbucks'?
One of a few things happens, or some combination:
1. Starbucks raises prices, pays its workers more. This keeps them from getting gentrified out of the area. Win for the lower class.
2. Industry suffers due to lack of low-wage workers. Tech companies pull their head out of their asses and stop putting offices in high-rent areas. Since this was much of the source of rent inflation to begin with, rents go back down. Win for pretty much everyone.
3. It gets to the point where the backwards govt in the area finally allows new housing to be made. Everyone wins (but probably the least likely of the 3).
The problem is that it is theoretically possible to cheat without the phone being "out". I've always had an idea to make a smartphone app that uses the accelerometer and vibrator to make a crude telegraph, so that you could communicate by tapping on your leg. You wouldn't even need to use morse code, you could just develop a simple code like 2 taps+5 taps+3 taps means "the answer to 25 is the third option". I'm surprised it doesn't exist with how easy it would be to code (if it does, I can't find it).
It's pretty true. The Mac Pro used to be a high-end 2CPU workstation comparable with offerings from any business PC manufacturer. Now it's a little tin can with 1 CPU. The issue with Apple used to be that you would pay significantly more for the same performance. Now the issue is that no amount of money can buy that performance even if you have a blank check, other than nonstandard solutions like eGPUs.
But the tool wouldn't work on newer iPhones. I think maybe what the guy is trying to say is that it would make a better test case if Apple truly had no way into the phone.
I'd like to give Dell some credit for offering Linux preloaded (and it even shaves ~$100 off the price), but some of it is just moronic. I was playing with the configurator for one of their laptops, and it told me that the Ubuntu option wasn't compatible with the 4k screen option.
Isn't it great? Before, we had USB A, USB B, Mini A, Mini B, Micro A, Micro B, Micro B USB 3.0 edition, and Apple's various proprietary connectors over the years. Now we can add one more into the mix that will be deprecated in time, so you get to upgrade your stuff yet again in a few years. It's the same shit every time.
But even when driven from an analog input, an LCD still converts the signal to digital. So instead of digital to analog, using an analog connection makes it digital-analog-digital-analog.
Basic economics already went out the window when goods/services with next to no marginal costs started cropping up. In fact, capitalism itself becomes extremely wasteful in such an economy, because everyone who passed up a good where the price sat somewhere between the marginal cost of producing it and the asking price (which is quite a bit when the marginal cost is zero as is the case for a digital good) represents unrealized economic gains. The need for the producer to pay their operating costs is ironically what kills the economic gains.
Basic economics only really works when the vast majority of the cost is the variable part, such as in a factory or on a farm.
The problems with a lot of app store apps are:
1. Sometimes there simply isn't a good one, even paid.
2. Usually it's for completely basic stuff to the point where nobody should be paying for it.
Case in point: I was looking for a solitaire app for my iPad a while back. Every single one was either ad-riddled, cost money, or both. Yes, the game that's been included for free in every windows version for a very long time, and has plenty of FOSS replacements too. The app store is a total clownshow. In fact, there was even a chess app that existed before the days of the app store for free. As soon as the app store hits, they pull it from the other repos and throw it up on the app store for $5. Making it easy for people to charge for something just causes people to charge for things that they wouldn't have dreamed of charging for before.
To be completely honest, as much as I hate ads, I'm fine with the "acceptable ad" programs and the like. As long as I can still block the ads (and I can, since ABP lets you disable the acceptable ads stuff), then other people can fund ABP development and ad-supported sites. Call me selfish, but I have no problem with chumps paying for my stuff. Same thing with preinstalled crapware on PCs, I love it when other people subsidize my PC purchase when I'm just going to install a fresh OS anyways. Hell, the reason adblocking has worked so well up until this point is exactly the same: you get the ad-free experience, while the technically-inept bear the cost for you.
That being said, I actually browse with the "acceptable ads" turned on, and still haven't seen an ad except on sites I've personally whitelisted.
While I'm not sure that every *buntu "distro" needs to actually be a discrete distro, we're in this mess to begin with because DEs just love to shoot themselves in the foot. KDE 4 (at least they've improved somewhat), GNOME 3, Unity, you name it.
Great! I'd rather have something that goes nowhere at all than something that goes downhill. Software that improves itself while avoiding the eventual downhill part is extremely hard to come by, which is backed up by all the examples you posted. Putting a bunch of developers on a project yet managing to make it worse is just a waste of human resources.
Hey, show me a good web developer and I might pay them. But modern web development tends to be something along the lines of:
1. Use whatever backend stuff hipsters are using nowadays. Backend javascript is great because now you can use the same awful language on the frontend and backend.
2. Use whatever frontend javascript libraries are hip regardless of how slow they make the client. If you're using one function out of a huge library, just toss the whole library in.
3. Throw in even more javascript for shits and giggles, because anyone who doesn't have the latest and greatest CPU doesn't deserve to look at your web page.
4. Put in tons of client-side tracking.
5. Throw in adverts from a third party who doesn't adequately vet their ads to make sure they're unobstrusive and don't have malware.
6. In case someone has the gall to block your javascript masterpieces which were 99% copy and paste anyway, make sure the site fails spectacularly if scripts are disabled.
Did I miss anything?
or 2) they'll charge you for the same windows 10 once you need to buy a new device (which, if you want to put your tin foil hat on, they can control by forcing patches on you that decrease performance for your old hardware).
This makes me wonder: what is the identifying factor for a "device"? Surely someone could find a way to clone identifying bits onto a new device so you can use the same windows license.
Let's say I encrypt my data with a disk encryption system of my choice. Assume it's not backdoored. The government can't access that data with or without a warrant, because nobody has a backdoor to it. If an encryption system is known to be backdoored, people will just use a different one. ISIS et al could write their own encryption software at which point we'd be back to square one.
It will probably break stuff, but on the plus side this will probably force more content to move to HTTPS. With services like CloudFlare stuffing tons of sites onto the same IPs, IP-based blocking isn't even useful there.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but Netflix would also make much more profit by having customers around the globe rather than only one customer area.
This just shifts issues around. If the menubar is at the top of the screen, it's easier to grab, yes. But what did it displace by being there? The window titlebar. So if you drag windows around a lot using the titlebar, it's worse for that.
But at the end of the day, a fight over menubar location is just fighting for second place, since keyboard shortcuts are far more productive than either placement.
That's trusting the code, not trusting the company. We still can't trust MS to not sue people making FOSS (even based off their own FOSS products) if they hold a patent over something.
I wonder if they could pull something like having it not ship with FAT support, but the first time you install a FAT-formatted storage device it would ask you if you want to download and install it.
It's unclear how developers are supposed to deal with duplicated PlayStation Network and Xbox Live screen names.
The same way Steam does it, i.e throw out the assumption of unique names entirely.
Think about it this way: How is the Bay Area tech industry going to function when there's nobody left to staff their Starbucks'?
One of a few things happens, or some combination:
1. Starbucks raises prices, pays its workers more. This keeps them from getting gentrified out of the area. Win for the lower class.
2. Industry suffers due to lack of low-wage workers. Tech companies pull their head out of their asses and stop putting offices in high-rent areas. Since this was much of the source of rent inflation to begin with, rents go back down. Win for pretty much everyone.
3. It gets to the point where the backwards govt in the area finally allows new housing to be made. Everyone wins (but probably the least likely of the 3).
I for one have never used it, because there already was a way to make separate groups of related tabs: having multiple windows.
The problem is that it is theoretically possible to cheat without the phone being "out". I've always had an idea to make a smartphone app that uses the accelerometer and vibrator to make a crude telegraph, so that you could communicate by tapping on your leg. You wouldn't even need to use morse code, you could just develop a simple code like 2 taps+5 taps+3 taps means "the answer to 25 is the third option". I'm surprised it doesn't exist with how easy it would be to code (if it does, I can't find it).
It's pretty true. The Mac Pro used to be a high-end 2CPU workstation comparable with offerings from any business PC manufacturer. Now it's a little tin can with 1 CPU. The issue with Apple used to be that you would pay significantly more for the same performance. Now the issue is that no amount of money can buy that performance even if you have a blank check, other than nonstandard solutions like eGPUs.
But the tool wouldn't work on newer iPhones. I think maybe what the guy is trying to say is that it would make a better test case if Apple truly had no way into the phone.
I'd like to give Dell some credit for offering Linux preloaded (and it even shaves ~$100 off the price), but some of it is just moronic. I was playing with the configurator for one of their laptops, and it told me that the Ubuntu option wasn't compatible with the 4k screen option.
Isn't it great? Before, we had USB A, USB B, Mini A, Mini B, Micro A, Micro B, Micro B USB 3.0 edition, and Apple's various proprietary connectors over the years. Now we can add one more into the mix that will be deprecated in time, so you get to upgrade your stuff yet again in a few years. It's the same shit every time.
But even when driven from an analog input, an LCD still converts the signal to digital. So instead of digital to analog, using an analog connection makes it digital-analog-digital-analog.
Basic economics already went out the window when goods/services with next to no marginal costs started cropping up. In fact, capitalism itself becomes extremely wasteful in such an economy, because everyone who passed up a good where the price sat somewhere between the marginal cost of producing it and the asking price (which is quite a bit when the marginal cost is zero as is the case for a digital good) represents unrealized economic gains. The need for the producer to pay their operating costs is ironically what kills the economic gains.
Basic economics only really works when the vast majority of the cost is the variable part, such as in a factory or on a farm.
The problems with a lot of app store apps are:
1. Sometimes there simply isn't a good one, even paid.
2. Usually it's for completely basic stuff to the point where nobody should be paying for it.
Case in point: I was looking for a solitaire app for my iPad a while back. Every single one was either ad-riddled, cost money, or both. Yes, the game that's been included for free in every windows version for a very long time, and has plenty of FOSS replacements too. The app store is a total clownshow. In fact, there was even a chess app that existed before the days of the app store for free. As soon as the app store hits, they pull it from the other repos and throw it up on the app store for $5. Making it easy for people to charge for something just causes people to charge for things that they wouldn't have dreamed of charging for before.
To be completely honest, as much as I hate ads, I'm fine with the "acceptable ad" programs and the like. As long as I can still block the ads (and I can, since ABP lets you disable the acceptable ads stuff), then other people can fund ABP development and ad-supported sites. Call me selfish, but I have no problem with chumps paying for my stuff. Same thing with preinstalled crapware on PCs, I love it when other people subsidize my PC purchase when I'm just going to install a fresh OS anyways. Hell, the reason adblocking has worked so well up until this point is exactly the same: you get the ad-free experience, while the technically-inept bear the cost for you.
That being said, I actually browse with the "acceptable ads" turned on, and still haven't seen an ad except on sites I've personally whitelisted.
You don't have to do it for every single PC purchase, just once for each model.
Bad analogy. With hair like that, not even goats would want to fuck Trump.
While I'm not sure that every *buntu "distro" needs to actually be a discrete distro, we're in this mess to begin with because DEs just love to shoot themselves in the foot. KDE 4 (at least they've improved somewhat), GNOME 3, Unity, you name it.
Xfce has stagnated.
Great! I'd rather have something that goes nowhere at all than something that goes downhill. Software that improves itself while avoiding the eventual downhill part is extremely hard to come by, which is backed up by all the examples you posted. Putting a bunch of developers on a project yet managing to make it worse is just a waste of human resources.
Hey, show me a good web developer and I might pay them. But modern web development tends to be something along the lines of:
1. Use whatever backend stuff hipsters are using nowadays. Backend javascript is great because now you can use the same awful language on the frontend and backend.
2. Use whatever frontend javascript libraries are hip regardless of how slow they make the client. If you're using one function out of a huge library, just toss the whole library in.
3. Throw in even more javascript for shits and giggles, because anyone who doesn't have the latest and greatest CPU doesn't deserve to look at your web page.
4. Put in tons of client-side tracking.
5. Throw in adverts from a third party who doesn't adequately vet their ads to make sure they're unobstrusive and don't have malware.
6. In case someone has the gall to block your javascript masterpieces which were 99% copy and paste anyway, make sure the site fails spectacularly if scripts are disabled.
Did I miss anything?
or 2) they'll charge you for the same windows 10 once you need to buy a new device (which, if you want to put your tin foil hat on, they can control by forcing patches on you that decrease performance for your old hardware).
This makes me wonder: what is the identifying factor for a "device"? Surely someone could find a way to clone identifying bits onto a new device so you can use the same windows license.
Let's say I encrypt my data with a disk encryption system of my choice. Assume it's not backdoored. The government can't access that data with or without a warrant, because nobody has a backdoor to it. If an encryption system is known to be backdoored, people will just use a different one. ISIS et al could write their own encryption software at which point we'd be back to square one.
It will probably break stuff, but on the plus side this will probably force more content to move to HTTPS. With services like CloudFlare stuffing tons of sites onto the same IPs, IP-based blocking isn't even useful there.
When I saw the "entertainment" tag on the story, I thought it referred to how entertaining it is to watch people try to take action against TPB.