Paying a with bitcoin is a bit like asking a vendor to give you a product based on winnings from a yet unplayed poker game. Companies these days (especially big ones like MS) are looking for any way they can to decrease their risk. Risk these days are only for employees and customers. Even insurance companies have done all the calculations and eliminate risk. They will reject anything less.
I'm not clear on how Amazon FreeTime is used or how it relates to Apple devices. I tried searching on it and found a lot of Amazon advertisements but no real information on how it would be used on an iPhone or Android phone.
Then you run into a situation where you're going out and you want them to have their phone in some capacity so you can reach them. Or is everyone expected to keep a landline so they can reach their kids when their phones are taken away? Generally there should be no need for a landline if everyone has a mobile phone.
Changing the sim card at least twice a day for each child isn't going to work. Too labor intensive and I wouldn't be surprised if the little clips that hold them in would wear if you tried that. I originally did do the firewall blocking thing but it became onerous to manage mac addresses manually for all the devices and plus manual starts and stops because of special situations. Again, in my router it is something that seems to have been given minimal effort so they could say it was 'a feature' but when you actually try to use it, it isn't very realistic. For example in my asus router I can only set the schedule to change state on an even hour boundary.
You can only restrict some applications that come with the phone. There is no way to restrict instagram and snapshat specifically while allowing a third party alarm clock app or organizer app. Also this seems to have to be locked or unlocked from the phone directly. It's a weak effort by Apple so they can say they did *something* while probably not being of much use to most people.
Because with video games and greater technology came a market that is catering to kids. Let's face it they are a juicy target because psychologically a kid doesn't have full impulse control yet. When I was a kid there was no way to bring a video game to school and if you had one of those hand held ones it was likely to be taken away. We can't even prohibit our kid from taking a phone to school because of all the teachers that ask their students to use them for in class research. There almost needs to be a 'school time mode' and a 'play time mode' in the OS.
There needs to be better ways for parents to limit *what* they can do on a device at any given time of the day. Being able to specifically lock down Instagram unless all homework and chores are done would be most welcome.
You're right of course, ultimately this is the job of a parent. However, I can think of a lot of features that could be added to mobile OSes to allow the kids to have access to their phones without having access to the time and attention sucking applications on their phones. As an example case, phone gets taken away and then they want to go for a bike ride outside. Well, I want them to have their phone on them if they are doing that! There should be a way to access the phone features while locking down access to apps. Another example, we can't seem to find a standalone alarm clock that is loud enough to wake my kids up. I would love for them to just be able to use an alarm app on their phones but if we give them their phones at night they'll be up late on them.
I've found some third party apps that kind of do things like this but a lot are expensive, some you even have to pay for on a monthly basis. It could be built into the OS.
I've made a couple highly dynamic javascript page with jquery. We're talking a lot of sliding panels being positioned nicely etc. The damn thing worked the same on every mobile device, every browser, anywhere we tried it. I can't see that happening without a lot of testing on native javascript.
Also they don't always clean up very nicely once you remove them, probably due to not everything being kept within their bundle directory. Too much smoke and mirrors, like 'specially' named directories. As parent mentions, there is not one standard way to install. Sometimes you run an executable, sometimes you copy a file into the app directory. Sometimes there are strange folders inside the install screen. It's kind of a mess.
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Paying a with bitcoin is a bit like asking a vendor to give you a product based on winnings from a yet unplayed poker game. Companies these days (especially big ones like MS) are looking for any way they can to decrease their risk. Risk these days are only for employees and customers. Even insurance companies have done all the calculations and eliminate risk. They will reject anything less.
I'm not clear on how Amazon FreeTime is used or how it relates to Apple devices. I tried searching on it and found a lot of Amazon advertisements but no real information on how it would be used on an iPhone or Android phone.
Then you run into a situation where you're going out and you want them to have their phone in some capacity so you can reach them. Or is everyone expected to keep a landline so they can reach their kids when their phones are taken away? Generally there should be no need for a landline if everyone has a mobile phone.
Changing the sim card at least twice a day for each child isn't going to work. Too labor intensive and I wouldn't be surprised if the little clips that hold them in would wear if you tried that. I originally did do the firewall blocking thing but it became onerous to manage mac addresses manually for all the devices and plus manual starts and stops because of special situations. Again, in my router it is something that seems to have been given minimal effort so they could say it was 'a feature' but when you actually try to use it, it isn't very realistic. For example in my asus router I can only set the schedule to change state on an even hour boundary.
Let's face it, iOS is basically an OS geared towards children.
You can only restrict some applications that come with the phone. There is no way to restrict instagram and snapshat specifically while allowing a third party alarm clock app or organizer app. Also this seems to have to be locked or unlocked from the phone directly. It's a weak effort by Apple so they can say they did *something* while probably not being of much use to most people.
Because with video games and greater technology came a market that is catering to kids. Let's face it they are a juicy target because psychologically a kid doesn't have full impulse control yet. When I was a kid there was no way to bring a video game to school and if you had one of those hand held ones it was likely to be taken away. We can't even prohibit our kid from taking a phone to school because of all the teachers that ask their students to use them for in class research. There almost needs to be a 'school time mode' and a 'play time mode' in the OS.
There needs to be better ways for parents to limit *what* they can do on a device at any given time of the day. Being able to specifically lock down Instagram unless all homework and chores are done would be most welcome.
You're right of course, ultimately this is the job of a parent. However, I can think of a lot of features that could be added to mobile OSes to allow the kids to have access to their phones without having access to the time and attention sucking applications on their phones. As an example case, phone gets taken away and then they want to go for a bike ride outside. Well, I want them to have their phone on them if they are doing that! There should be a way to access the phone features while locking down access to apps. Another example, we can't seem to find a standalone alarm clock that is loud enough to wake my kids up. I would love for them to just be able to use an alarm app on their phones but if we give them their phones at night they'll be up late on them.
I've found some third party apps that kind of do things like this but a lot are expensive, some you even have to pay for on a monthly basis. It could be built into the OS.
I'm old enough to have had an Apple ][+, was it older than that?
Correct. Now all we need to do is gather every possible psychedelic sticker possible to begin our training.
Oh no! Our spying may be tampered with!
What the hell is a Diamond Rio?
Exactly, sometimes higher level is better. It usually depends on precisely the problem you are trying to solve. Same for javascript frameworks.
It looks like a message that the user should activate javascript or they can't expect to use the highly dynamic part of the site.
I've made a couple highly dynamic javascript page with jquery. We're talking a lot of sliding panels being positioned nicely etc. The damn thing worked the same on every mobile device, every browser, anywhere we tried it. I can't see that happening without a lot of testing on native javascript.
C is just stupid, Assembler was fully functional on its own.
Sure, because why would anyone enjoy their lives now instead of waiting until a day they might be dead.
.. or wherever you can find a charger. I thought that went without saying.
It will be interesting to see how quickly corporations react to this. It could get expensive.
I dunno, it just seems all highly inconvenient to me. I hope for your sake those Supercharger stations are places you actually want to be.
There aren't many companies that want the employees using their dumpster!
I had the option, but with the kind of work I do a mac would have been lower powered and I would find OS/X way too inefficient.
Also they don't always clean up very nicely once you remove them, probably due to not everything being kept within their bundle directory. Too much smoke and mirrors, like 'specially' named directories. As parent mentions, there is not one standard way to install. Sometimes you run an executable, sometimes you copy a file into the app directory. Sometimes there are strange folders inside the install screen. It's kind of a mess.
A unix system is what you want, a unix system is what you get.