My point is that plenty more are not having problems, but we don't hear about them because everything is working correctly. It's a kind of media reporting bias, but the selectivity is not deliberate.
Unfortunately, he would probably get far worse if he returned... and we'd never hear anything about it from any official channels... or at least not anytime soon enough for it to matter.
The headline would appear to direct the assessment it makes about those who read the article, but I read the story and I only watch about 5 hours a week. I may not be typical, but then the headline still uses the second person pronoun.
Having a machine that has been running fine for years suddenly decide it needs to change the operating system it's been running on is an accident waiting to happen.
I agree... but who said this upgrade was forced on me without my consent? I backed up all of my important data and then voluntarily initiated an update because I wanted to verify the horror stories for myself. I would have reverted back to Windows 7 if I had found it to be as problematic as people are describing.
If Windows is sending content intermittently enough, it is possible that I did not catch it trying to call home. I will double-check that tonight, but all of the information collecting options on my copy of Windows 10 at home are switched off, and it required no technical skill at all to do so.
Notably, Unity3D, which is a pretty major player in the game engine field today, started supporting Linux targets a while ago, and for that system, it IS just a recompile, unless you've written explicit platform-specific code which in my experience with Unity is never necessary. Unity has abstractions over most aspects of the hardware that can result in 100% cross-platform code, and the resulting game works exactly the same as a desktop game built with it that targets any other platform.
Having personally witnessed that it is entirely possible to upgrade a windows machine to windows 10 without a single incident, and also entirely possible (and easy) to disable all of the metrics and info that the software wants to send about you, I am thinking that these stories that we hear about Windows 10 and how awful it is are overblown.
It is often the case that we only hear about it when things go wrong, and so it is perhaps that we are led to conclude that this is the general state of affairs, but so few people report when things go right that we cannot make a meaningful and objective evaluation without trying it for ourselves.
Windows 10 is not anywhere nearly as bad as what these stories paint it to be. While it's true that by default it does want to do certain things that no sane person would want in a desktop OS, these things are actually extremely easy to disable... even at installation time, if you decide to not use the express settings.
If there is no extra effort involved involved in targeting beyond checking a radio button in their build system that says "Linux target" (which is about how much effort is required for some game engines to make s Linux port), what do they have to lose by doing that?
Why does nearly every single story on slashdot have to have some effing ignoramus making some entirely off-topic remark or rant about some aspect of US politics?
It sounds like it's only accessible from an app that specifically accesses the storage, and you can use it to back up data that you store on your phone, freeing up space on your main phone flash ram for other things.
It's basically like adding an external hard drive to your desktop computer. It gives you something to back up your data to, but in the general case, it won't typically increase the storage you have for regular use when all of your applications are only configured to use your main hard drive.
Those people that went to jail were not working for law enforcement, nor breaking into said computers as part of any duty to that effect.
There are, in fact, a few things that are entirely illegal for the layman to do, but are entirely legal for law enforcement, or agents acting on their behalf, when the specific purpose is to uphold the law. Speeding comes to mind as one extremely common example.
.... as long as I have the right to implement my own defenses on my network against such hacking attempts, and am not legally barred from securing my own computers as I see fit.
The AT keyboard and PS/2 mouse ports are still found in most motherboards made today. I noticed that there was a brief period where many motherboards were not made with them, but more recently, most motherboard manufacturers have started to include them again, possibly because the sales of those without those ports did not perform as well as those with.
The only thing in the remainder of the list you mentioned which probably comes anywhere near the ubiquity of the 3.5mm jack for audio is probably rs232 for data communication, and none of them were around for anywhere nearly as long as the 3.5mm jack before they started to get phased out... most of the others having barely more than a decade (if even that) of relatively widespread use before disappearing into obscurity (the parallel port being the most notable exception,..itself eventually being obsoleted by cheaper and faster uarts used for serial communication). The rs232 interface itself is not as ubiquitous as it once was, but the affordability of usb/rs232 interfaces offsets that disadvantage almost entirely.
And to that end, If Apple were going to charge less than a couple of dollars for a lightning port to 3.5mm jack adapter that current audio devices could be plugged in to, without needing an additional cable, I'd probably not be that bothered by this, but I'd be surprised if such a dongle didn't cost at least ten to fifteen times that amount.
If a person's mailbox is not on their own property, I can easily see littering becoming a big problem, as people will often discard unwanted mail, which would end up becoming a major pain for those living in any private properties that may happen to be conveniently closer to the mailbox than those that are further away, because they surely don't want litter all over their lawns. It's only sometimes barely controlled in multi-unit building mailrooms, where I suspect the only thing keeping people from uncontrollably littering all over the place is the fact that the people actually *live* there, and may care about its appearance by virtue of that fact, while I can imagine that people in the places that are further away from a community mailbox are less likely to care about keeping up its appearance of the community mailbox than those that happen to live much closer to it, so the problem is not self-policing as it would be where everyone's mailbox is on their own personal property (rental housing notwithstanding).
I can also see that some people, especially those that might live near the other end of the block from where the community mailbox is, would lazily just get in their car to drive down the block to get their mail. Especially in inclement weather, increasing pollution and just generally wasting fuel.
Yes, sometimes the jack needs to be replaced. But the 3.5mm jack is so ubiquitous that it is extremely cheap and easy to replace. It contains no actual electronics, depending only on the appropriate placement of conductors touching its interior to function as intended, and essentially 100% of the cost of replacing one would go to labour, because the jack itself probably costs less a penny.
... being fucking compatible with the connectors for nearly every single audio device ever made in the past 40 years?
Yeah, they'll have a dongle to convert... but that dongle is still an additional expense that isn't likely going to be included with the iphone.
The 3.5mm jack is among one of the most ubiquitous audio connector form factors in the history of recorded audio. Breaking from it offers absolutely no perceptible benefit that is not accompanied by significantly greater expense and inconvenience for the consumer
2. Wireless headphones and speakers are fine, not great
Totally agree. But the rumor is that the new iPhone will ship with wired Lightning earbuds.
Which means that you can't plug your earbuds or other listening device in while charging.... oh, unless you have a dongle that will set you back at least another $30... something that will probably *NOT* ship with the iphone.
But then I also don't use OSX or Windows, and I do not ever directly open email attachments, or download and run random shit I find on the web, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be worried
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Its unmanned. Vhy would it need to float?
My point is that plenty more are not having problems, but we don't hear about them because everything is working correctly. It's a kind of media reporting bias, but the selectivity is not deliberate.
Are you unfamiliar with the notion of a bank vault?
You are right, he does deserve jail time.
Unfortunately, he would probably get far worse if he returned... and we'd never hear anything about it from any official channels... or at least not anytime soon enough for it to matter.
Of course, because "old people" can't possibly comprehend anything new or innovative.
I'm not sure what's worse... that you might have made a remark like that to troll, or if you actually sincerely feel that way.
The headline would appear to direct the assessment it makes about those who read the article, but I read the story and I only watch about 5 hours a week. I may not be typical, but then the headline still uses the second person pronoun.
I agree... but who said this upgrade was forced on me without my consent? I backed up all of my important data and then voluntarily initiated an update because I wanted to verify the horror stories for myself. I would have reverted back to Windows 7 if I had found it to be as problematic as people are describing.
If Windows is sending content intermittently enough, it is possible that I did not catch it trying to call home. I will double-check that tonight, but all of the information collecting options on my copy of Windows 10 at home are switched off, and it required no technical skill at all to do so.
Notably, Unity3D, which is a pretty major player in the game engine field today, started supporting Linux targets a while ago, and for that system, it IS just a recompile, unless you've written explicit platform-specific code which in my experience with Unity is never necessary. Unity has abstractions over most aspects of the hardware that can result in 100% cross-platform code, and the resulting game works exactly the same as a desktop game built with it that targets any other platform.
Having personally witnessed that it is entirely possible to upgrade a windows machine to windows 10 without a single incident, and also entirely possible (and easy) to disable all of the metrics and info that the software wants to send about you, I am thinking that these stories that we hear about Windows 10 and how awful it is are overblown.
It is often the case that we only hear about it when things go wrong, and so it is perhaps that we are led to conclude that this is the general state of affairs, but so few people report when things go right that we cannot make a meaningful and objective evaluation without trying it for ourselves.
Windows 10 is not anywhere nearly as bad as what these stories paint it to be. While it's true that by default it does want to do certain things that no sane person would want in a desktop OS, these things are actually extremely easy to disable... even at installation time, if you decide to not use the express settings.
If there is no extra effort involved involved in targeting beyond checking a radio button in their build system that says "Linux target" (which is about how much effort is required for some game engines to make s Linux port), what do they have to lose by doing that?
Because it's been shown that they will pay.. From a fiduciary standpoint, it is probably has the highest profit-to-effort ratio.
Why?
Why does nearly every single story on slashdot have to have some effing ignoramus making some entirely off-topic remark or rant about some aspect of US politics?
That being the case, why would one supposedly get banned from Netflix then?
How are you proposing that they could even hope to find out that you had somehow broken the encryption?
Nope. Or at least, I don't think that's correct.
It sounds like it's only accessible from an app that specifically accesses the storage, and you can use it to back up data that you store on your phone, freeing up space on your main phone flash ram for other things.
It's basically like adding an external hard drive to your desktop computer. It gives you something to back up your data to, but in the general case, it won't typically increase the storage you have for regular use when all of your applications are only configured to use your main hard drive.
Those people that went to jail were not working for law enforcement, nor breaking into said computers as part of any duty to that effect.
There are, in fact, a few things that are entirely illegal for the layman to do, but are entirely legal for law enforcement, or agents acting on their behalf, when the specific purpose is to uphold the law. Speeding comes to mind as one extremely common example.
.... as long as I have the right to implement my own defenses on my network against such hacking attempts, and am not legally barred from securing my own computers as I see fit.
The only thing in the remainder of the list you mentioned which probably comes anywhere near the ubiquity of the 3.5mm jack for audio is probably rs232 for data communication, and none of them were around for anywhere nearly as long as the 3.5mm jack before they started to get phased out... most of the others having barely more than a decade (if even that) of relatively widespread use before disappearing into obscurity (the parallel port being the most notable exception,..itself eventually being obsoleted by cheaper and faster uarts used for serial communication). The rs232 interface itself is not as ubiquitous as it once was, but the affordability of usb/rs232 interfaces offsets that disadvantage almost entirely.
And to that end, If Apple were going to charge less than a couple of dollars for a lightning port to 3.5mm jack adapter that current audio devices could be plugged in to, without needing an additional cable, I'd probably not be that bothered by this, but I'd be surprised if such a dongle didn't cost at least ten to fifteen times that amount.
If a person's mailbox is not on their own property, I can easily see littering becoming a big problem, as people will often discard unwanted mail, which would end up becoming a major pain for those living in any private properties that may happen to be conveniently closer to the mailbox than those that are further away, because they surely don't want litter all over their lawns. It's only sometimes barely controlled in multi-unit building mailrooms, where I suspect the only thing keeping people from uncontrollably littering all over the place is the fact that the people actually *live* there, and may care about its appearance by virtue of that fact, while I can imagine that people in the places that are further away from a community mailbox are less likely to care about keeping up its appearance of the community mailbox than those that happen to live much closer to it, so the problem is not self-policing as it would be where everyone's mailbox is on their own personal property (rental housing notwithstanding).
I can also see that some people, especially those that might live near the other end of the block from where the community mailbox is, would lazily just get in their car to drive down the block to get their mail. Especially in inclement weather, increasing pollution and just generally wasting fuel.
Charging wherever you can get power is not an issue if you have a dedicated charging cable that doesn't carry data.
Yes, sometimes the jack needs to be replaced. But the 3.5mm jack is so ubiquitous that it is extremely cheap and easy to replace. It contains no actual electronics, depending only on the appropriate placement of conductors touching its interior to function as intended, and essentially 100% of the cost of replacing one would go to labour, because the jack itself probably costs less a penny.
Yeah, they'll have a dongle to convert... but that dongle is still an additional expense that isn't likely going to be included with the iphone.
The 3.5mm jack is among one of the most ubiquitous audio connector form factors in the history of recorded audio. Breaking from it offers absolutely no perceptible benefit that is not accompanied by significantly greater expense and inconvenience for the consumer
Which means that you can't plug your earbuds or other listening device in while charging.... oh, unless you have a dongle that will set you back at least another $30... something that will probably *NOT* ship with the iphone.
But then I also don't use OSX or Windows, and I do not ever directly open email attachments, or download and run random shit I find on the web, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be worried