This use case seems to be often ignored by the "HTTPS Everywhere" folks, yet we all constantly have to deal with it. While HTTPS probably is a good thing for all of these devices, someone needs to seriously take a step back, and actually give two shits about the certificate management problem presented here, before forging ahead and making our lives more difficult.
Its a name my in-laws spout 20 times whenever talking about any sort of grocery shopping activities. I'm starting to think its the only store they've ever heard of in the past decade. (Of course they don't live in the same state as me, so I've never seen one.)
Or because the car couldn't find the person's house.
I've lost track of how many times I've had human delivery people (usually ones from gig-economy delivery jobs) who couldn't find my house. Then again, I've never lived in a hard-to-find place, and Google Maps never had trouble providing usable directions. So maybe, this will actually be an improvement.
One category I love to call out, which doesn't fit these categories, is plain old end-user application software. You know, the things people (who aren't developing software themselves) actually own a computer to run, once you get past the web browser.
I still have yet to hear anyone present me with a viable business model that covers this area, which is why F/OSS rarely rises to the same level of quality as anything commercial in this area. (That being said, I'd gladly pay for commercial software that runs on Linux, when/if that's actually an option... But its not an option as often as I'd like.)
I've heard of Qt since the late 90's, and use it every day. Its an application development framework, not end-user application software. So yeah, Qt has a model to support itself.
But please tell me, again, how exactly one makes money off of F/OSS "end-user application software" built using Qt? I'm waiting...
One of the most common business models I see people talk about, is the good 'ole "give away the code, but sell support." There are many variations of this approach, but they pretty much all rely on an assumption that you're making software that's useful to large companies with cash to burn.
However, in the huge field of "end-user application software," I have yet to see anyone offer up a viable business model. You're not going to be selling any nebulous "support," and there's a pretty good chance that your users will never be contributing developers. Just about the only approach I can think of (besides donations) is to make said software "paid" on some sort of app store, and hope that only a minority of your users ever find a way to get around that paywall.
If Swift is to be considered a 'walled garden', then so should just about every other programming language out there.
No, just programming languages that are primarily used by a single platform, with very little real use outside of that platform, where that platform is controlled by a vendor big enough to encourage people to put up with it. In the present day, Objective-C might actually fit that definition too. Of course C# is probably an even better example of this.
Oh, they got up there quite quickly. But they had to make some bad architectural shifts to do it (the P4), which actually hurt overall performance. When they finally recovered from that, the march became a lot slower.
Stock prices have dipped *slightly* over the last month, but have largely recovered
Yet every time the price goes up a few points, we see an article about how its soaring. And every time it dips a few points, we see an article about how its plummeting.
Tech conferences often begin with big keynote presentations, at least part of which are full of marketing for whatever company is sponsoring. This is the part that all the tech reporters pay attention to, and want to write dozens of articles about.
Once the presentations shift to the actual technical content people like us came for, those people tend to wander off and stop paying attention.
So yeah, maybe tech conference no longer generate value for people who write articles on how tech conferences no longer generate value.:-) Doesn't mean they no longer generate value for attendees actually working with tech.
I'm pretty sure that coffee shop already has a prop 65 sign due to some other substance on the premises. The law is enough of a catch-all, and everyone is so numb to it, that I think the only hipsters who freak out are ones visiting from out-of-state.
Given the age of the study, I wonder how heavily skewed it is from how buildings were constructed in the 1950's-1970's. You know, before all of our modern regulations and standards, and back when a lot more people smoked. I recall "indoors" having a very different feel back then, especially in places where older people lived.
IMHO, the fundamental problem with biometrics is that they're a password you cannot change.
No mater how personally unique some characteristic of you may be, it ultimately has to be captured and turned into a data stream to be used for authentication. What exactly stops someone from simply capturing and replaying that data stream?
I got one of these new MacBook Pro laptops at work. Meanwhile, I still have an older model as my personal laptop at home. Lets just say that I have no present desire to upgrade my personal laptop.
That being said, I've always treated laptops as secondary machines, so I spend the majority of my day using a Das Keyboard on a desk.
You must also never use function keys, or the escape key. Okay, maybe if you only use software "beautifully designed" by Apple fanboys then this is probably the case. But if you're using cross-platform software with a broader audience, of which Apple is a minority, then its a very annoying issue.
Yeah, they'd never have a slider on the charge settings screen where you can set the max charge level. Where they set it to 80% by default, and show that anything above is only for the roadtrip exception. Oh wait...
I'd argue the most annoying feature of Apple's iMessage is convincing iPhone users that "texting" has all these features, so they'll freely use them when communicating with you... Thus forcing you to experience the pain of crappy MMS when talking with them.
There were some articles about how Model 3 production was finally starting to ramp up. Also, their stock price was beginning to recover from the recent dip.
And speaking of that recall... Everyone else does those kinds of recalls all the time, and it never makes the news. It was a complete non-issue that only made the headlines "because Tesla."
Seriously, I once had a car that got a recall notice every other month. No one really cared, and it was just part of the normal routine maintenance.
Government websites like this usually have planned maintenance windows right in the middle of whenever you need to use them. They also tend to make the login process more arduous if you haven't logged in recently, which you always deal with because you haven't actually needed to use them since the last quarter or year's tax date. Oh, and if you have to do password recovery because of this? Good luck, you may have just missed your opportunity for on-time payment.
At least you can just "mail a check" to the IRS. In California, you actually have to use the web-based system to pay state taxes a lot of the time.
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
Because Tesla is a heavily shorted stock, and has started to return to the "good news" phase of the cycle. Whenever a stock is heavily shorted, good news that increases the stock value must be immediately followed by a series of damning articles to make the stock value drop again.
So if Model 3 production was completely on-track, and there was nothing else bad to report about the company, you absolutely would see a front-page article on the terrible toilet problems that were causing issues at the factory. (Often, but not exclusively, originating from a place like "Business Insider" or "Seeking Alpha" from an author who quietly admits to have a short position on TSLA and a long position on competitors.)
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This use case seems to be often ignored by the "HTTPS Everywhere" folks, yet we all constantly have to deal with it. While HTTPS probably is a good thing for all of these devices, someone needs to seriously take a step back, and actually give two shits about the certificate management problem presented here, before forging ahead and making our lives more difficult.
Its a name my in-laws spout 20 times whenever talking about any sort of grocery shopping activities. I'm starting to think its the only store they've ever heard of in the past decade.
(Of course they don't live in the same state as me, so I've never seen one.)
Or because the car couldn't find the person's house.
I've lost track of how many times I've had human delivery people (usually ones from gig-economy delivery jobs) who couldn't find my house. Then again, I've never lived in a hard-to-find place, and Google Maps never had trouble providing usable directions. So maybe, this will actually be an improvement.
One category I love to call out, which doesn't fit these categories, is plain old end-user application software. You know, the things people (who aren't developing software themselves) actually own a computer to run, once you get past the web browser.
I still have yet to hear anyone present me with a viable business model that covers this area, which is why F/OSS rarely rises to the same level of quality as anything commercial in this area. (That being said, I'd gladly pay for commercial software that runs on Linux, when/if that's actually an option... But its not an option as often as I'd like.)
I've heard of Qt since the late 90's, and use it every day. Its an application development framework, not end-user application software. So yeah, Qt has a model to support itself.
But please tell me, again, how exactly one makes money off of F/OSS "end-user application software" built using Qt?
I'm waiting...
One of the most common business models I see people talk about, is the good 'ole "give away the code, but sell support." There are many variations of this approach, but they pretty much all rely on an assumption that you're making software that's useful to large companies with cash to burn.
However, in the huge field of "end-user application software," I have yet to see anyone offer up a viable business model. You're not going to be selling any nebulous "support," and there's a pretty good chance that your users will never be contributing developers. Just about the only approach I can think of (besides donations) is to make said software "paid" on some sort of app store, and hope that only a minority of your users ever find a way to get around that paywall.
If Swift is to be considered a 'walled garden', then so should just about every other programming language out there.
No, just programming languages that are primarily used by a single platform, with very little real use outside of that platform, where that platform is controlled by a vendor big enough to encourage people to put up with it. In the present day, Objective-C might actually fit that definition too. Of course C# is probably an even better example of this.
Oh, they got up there quite quickly. But they had to make some bad architectural shifts to do it (the P4), which actually hurt overall performance. When they finally recovered from that, the march became a lot slower.
Stock prices have dipped *slightly* over the last month, but have largely recovered
Yet every time the price goes up a few points, we see an article about how its soaring. And every time it dips a few points, we see an article about how its plummeting.
Tech conferences often begin with big keynote presentations, at least part of which are full of marketing for whatever company is sponsoring. This is the part that all the tech reporters pay attention to, and want to write dozens of articles about.
Once the presentations shift to the actual technical content people like us came for, those people tend to wander off and stop paying attention.
So yeah, maybe tech conference no longer generate value for people who write articles on how tech conferences no longer generate value. :-)
Doesn't mean they no longer generate value for attendees actually working with tech.
I'm pretty sure that coffee shop already has a prop 65 sign due to some other substance on the premises. The law is enough of a catch-all, and everyone is so numb to it, that I think the only hipsters who freak out are ones visiting from out-of-state.
Given the age of the study, I wonder how heavily skewed it is from how buildings were constructed in the 1950's-1970's. You know, before all of our modern regulations and standards, and back when a lot more people smoked. I recall "indoors" having a very different feel back then, especially in places where older people lived.
IMHO, the fundamental problem with biometrics is that they're a password you cannot change.
No mater how personally unique some characteristic of you may be, it ultimately has to be captured and turned into a data stream to be used for authentication. What exactly stops someone from simply capturing and replaying that data stream?
Two reasons:
1) So you can read letters handwritten by old people
2) So you can sign your name on documents
I got one of these new MacBook Pro laptops at work. Meanwhile, I still have an older model as my personal laptop at home. Lets just say that I have no present desire to upgrade my personal laptop.
That being said, I've always treated laptops as secondary machines, so I spend the majority of my day using a Das Keyboard on a desk.
You must also never use function keys, or the escape key.
Okay, maybe if you only use software "beautifully designed" by Apple fanboys then this is probably the case. But if you're using cross-platform software with a broader audience, of which Apple is a minority, then its a very annoying issue.
Probably an artifact of the "full-size" hatchback design... The Model S has an unbelievable amount of cargo room for a "car".
No, normal people commute 500 miles with a fully loaded pickup truck every day... To a shack out in the hills where there is no electricity.
At least that's what at least one stereotypical hater usually comments on these threads :-)
Yeah, they'd never have a slider on the charge settings screen where you can set the max charge level. Where they set it to 80% by default, and show that anything above is only for the roadtrip exception. Oh wait...
I'd argue the most annoying feature of Apple's iMessage is convincing iPhone users that "texting" has all these features, so they'll freely use them when communicating with you... Thus forcing you to experience the pain of crappy MMS when talking with them.
There were some articles about how Model 3 production was finally starting to ramp up.
Also, their stock price was beginning to recover from the recent dip.
And speaking of that recall... Everyone else does those kinds of recalls all the time, and it never makes the news. It was a complete non-issue that only made the headlines "because Tesla."
Seriously, I once had a car that got a recall notice every other month. No one really cared, and it was just part of the normal routine maintenance.
Government websites like this usually have planned maintenance windows right in the middle of whenever you need to use them. They also tend to make the login process more arduous if you haven't logged in recently, which you always deal with because you haven't actually needed to use them since the last quarter or year's tax date.
Oh, and if you have to do password recovery because of this? Good luck, you may have just missed your opportunity for on-time payment.
At least you can just "mail a check" to the IRS. In California, you actually have to use the web-based system to pay state taxes a lot of the time.
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
Because Tesla is a heavily shorted stock, and has started to return to the "good news" phase of the cycle.
Whenever a stock is heavily shorted, good news that increases the stock value must be immediately followed by a series of damning articles to make the stock value drop again.
So if Model 3 production was completely on-track, and there was nothing else bad to report about the company, you absolutely would see a front-page article on the terrible toilet problems that were causing issues at the factory. (Often, but not exclusively, originating from a place like "Business Insider" or "Seeking Alpha" from an author who quietly admits to have a short position on TSLA and a long position on competitors.)
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla?
Experienced automakers wouldn't be going through that. They know how to deal with it.
Of course they would. It just doesn't make the news when they do.
You mean Kentucky and Oklahoma.
(albeit designed by engineers in Japan)