You forgot "Microsoft can access your machine and pull anything they want from it at any point in time without your knowledge and/or consent".
You also have zero control of updates. Unless you have a WSUS server, your machine WILL get updates on the schedule Microsoft forces upon you, and if those updates happen to hose your system, then too bad so sad.
I have a small pilot of Windows 10 machines at our company, and the last Anniv. update hosed *all* of them. Some were able to get up and running again by reverting to the previous version. One couldn't even revert, requiring us to re-image the machine.
The problem is that Microsoft wants all the control of your computer, but none of the responsibility. Maybe that's all well and good for home users, since the average home user wouldn't know what to do anyway, but for professional users and administrators who (for whatever reason) don't have the benefit of WSUS, that is *absolutely* unacceptable.
Tim Cook: Oh no! Hardware sales are falling! What can we do? exec: Stop making stupid hardware and go back to making stuff people actually want? Tim Cook: No no that can't be it. We've just saturated the market so we need to start doing something else.
Is it unsupported thought? The last time I looked a few months ago, Android 5 devices were still being sold, so you'd have to forgive people for thinking that their device *was* still supported.
Hell, looking at Google's own metrics (https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) Android 6 *still* has less than 30% marketshare. Android 7 is practically a statistical error despite having been out for 6 months now.
Knowledgable people like you and me can sort through the garbage and pick out the good stuff, but point remains that the watch phrase for the entire Android ecosystem is "Caveat Emptor".
I want to know what is going on over at Apple, and if the process has begun to get Tim Cook fired.
I want to know when is Apple going to resume making the excellent hardware they made a decade ago, or if they're just going to continue to slap silly gimicks onto otherwise substandard hardware, while raising the prices beyond all reason?
I want to know if Apple is going to make it simpler to develop iOS applications on non-Apple hardware, since it's becoming harder and harder to justify buying Apple's increasingly lacklustre hardware, and Mac OS itself has been (essentially) deprecated.
I want to know if Apple has outright admitted that they don't care about professional users anymore. Their behaviour has certainly demonstrated that fact beyond a shadow of a doubt, but I'm curious as to whether this is an official policy or just breathtakingly myopic incompetence.
You can't use that slur anymore. Putin thinks Trump is a great guy, so all is now forgiven and clearly the last 3/4 century of fear regarding commies was just a mistake.
Considering that something like this probably costs an order of magnitude more than the old version did, I can't see the scooby gang in one anytime soon.
Why would they want to lower the cost of a product if they can do something else that makes them more profit? Then then can just roll out a new marketing campaign to convince the masses that they can't live without their new doohickey.
We can't have that! Regulation gets in the way of innovation and profits!
And regulation contributes to BIG GOVERNMENT. LG should be allowed to do whatever they want, without any sort of impedance, and just let the markets sort themselves out. That's how these things work, right?
Those with the knowledge can simply avoid buying the products, or work around the issue. Those with the power can for manufacturers to change what they're doing. Everyone else will just have to live with any issues that arise.
The statement makes sense if instead of using the dictionary definition of intelligent, and think of it more as Dunning-Kruger Effect.
The fact is we are LOOOOONG past the point where science has been easy enough for a lay person to understand. An Apple falls on your head and you can shout "OMG Gravity!". The rest is just figuring out the details. At no point would anyone argue against you that Gravity exists.
But science in general is a hell of a lot more complex now. Now we're working with sub-atomic particles. We're using gravitational lensing to discover planets in far off star systems. The knowledge we are now gaining isn't even remotely within the grasp of the average person, but the average person by definition doesn't have the skill and knowledge to understand just how lacking in skill and knowledge they are. Hell, science is so complex now that you have no choice but to specialize up the wazoo just to avoid information overload. (Hint: Scientists in Joss Whedon TV shows are bullshit).
Unless an appropriate number of scientists that have *specialized in climate science* go out and say "Wait, no, AGW is wrong." I have to trust that the science was done to the best of their ability and concluded that AGW is real. If a biologist, chemist, mathematician, or heaven forbid an economist, stands up and waves their arms and says AGW is a hoax, their opinion means absolutely jack for the same reason that you wouldn't trust a heart surgeon to diagnose and treat pancreatic cancer. Experience and knowledge is not magically transferrable across even similar fields, let alone wildly different ones.
I see climate change deniers being no different from people who are evolution deniers. They refuse to trust in the science because they have their own ulterior motives for not doing so, whether it's money, pride, or whatever. Evolution for example, is unequivocally true. There is so much overwhelming evidence that is corroborated by pretty much every field of science from biology to chemistry to geology, that to believe otherwise can only be considered a mental illness. And yet you have millions of people who refuse to "believe" in evolution. Because they don't want to.
If people can deny evolution is real just like that, despite the overwhelmingly solid evidence, I have zero hope that they "believe" in AGW since the science is so much more complex.
Which basically means there is no hope that we will collectively take the necessary actions to do anything about it.
I don't see what the issue is. If people want to buy an insecure device that will compromise their well-being, then they should be allowed to. I thought the whole point of capitalism was, "Do whatever it takes to make money", and regulation gets in the way of that!
Thankfully Trump will put an end to this "You need to put out a product that isn't shit" nonsense.
To answer my own question, apparently it's both. It is a new atomic-scale technology, but marketing still used a stupid term to describe it. (I consider "Quantum" to be a completely destroyed, nonsensical term, like "Cloud")
"A quantum dot gets its name because it's a tiny speck of matter so small that it's effectively concentrated into a single point (in other words, it's zero-dimensional). As a result, the particles inside it that carry electricity (electrons and holes, which are places that are missing electrons) are trapped ("constrained") and have well-defined energy levels according to the laws of quantum theory (think rungs on a ladder), a bit like individual atoms. Tiny really does mean tiny: quantum dots are crystals a few nanometers wide, so they're typically a few dozen atoms across and contain anything from perhaps a hundred to a few thousand atoms. They're made from a semiconductor such as silicon (a material that's neither really a conductor nor an insulator, but can be chemically treated so it behaves like either). And although they're crystals, they behave more like individual atoms—hence the nickname artificial atoms."
Okay, I'm not even remotely knowledgable about such things, but whenever I see Star Trek-like technobabble like this, my woo alarms immediately start firing.
Is this actually a thing, or most more marketing bullshit?
No amount of data will ever be able to satisfy anti-AGW people. They're just like the anti-vax people, or pretty much any other religious group that prides ignorance over reality.
They are emotionally dependent on their POV, and attempts to prove them wrong just make them dig their heels further. That has been proven as well.
Sorry, I meant on the iOS platform, Applications can ask.
Android, on the other hand, was *designed* to slurp as much of your personal data as it possibly could. Recent versions are finally making an attempt to close the barn doors, but in the mean time all the myriad developers had already long ago built a high-speed conveyor belt so that horses could shoot through at breathtaking speed.
I've been waiting since 2011 to upgrade but every model they put out has been more and more retarded. Soldered memory. Proprietary storage. Removing ports even when it destroys compatibility between the few products in their own meagre lineup.
Apple has basically abandoned the professional market, and are now exclusively catering to rich people who sit all day in Starbucks looking at Facebook. I can think of no other reason for their direction in the last few years.
AFAIK, they already do. Any app you install needs to require explicit permissions from you to access things like location, contacts, etc, and you can change your mind either way, at any point in time.
And AFAIK, Google has *finally* pulled their thumb out and added privacy controls to the latest versions of android. I haven't used Android in a while so I can't remember exactly when they did that. I think it was v6. But since the overwhelming majority of people use 6, that doesn't mean much.
The whole smartquote thing is a bloody nightmare. One app did it, another app didn't, and when you copied data from one to the other, all hell would break lose.
It didn't matter for print. Print was print. You did whatever you wanted, and people would generally figure out what you were trying to do.
But on digital devices, everyone has to agree on every miniscule little detail so things get transferred properly, get displayed properly, etc. And unless you were literally born yesterday, you would know that people can't agree on a single blessed thing, or even if they do, they can't be trusted to *implement* it properly.
So you are forced to live with the minimum viable product for virtually anything, cause anything else is bloody difficult, and you eventually realize that the hassle just isn't worth it.
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You forgot "Microsoft can access your machine and pull anything they want from it at any point in time without your knowledge and/or consent".
You also have zero control of updates. Unless you have a WSUS server, your machine WILL get updates on the schedule Microsoft forces upon you, and if those updates happen to hose your system, then too bad so sad.
I have a small pilot of Windows 10 machines at our company, and the last Anniv. update hosed *all* of them. Some were able to get up and running again by reverting to the previous version. One couldn't even revert, requiring us to re-image the machine.
The problem is that Microsoft wants all the control of your computer, but none of the responsibility. Maybe that's all well and good for home users, since the average home user wouldn't know what to do anyway, but for professional users and administrators who (for whatever reason) don't have the benefit of WSUS, that is *absolutely* unacceptable.
I can only guess that he took one look at the title, developed priapism, and died.
Tim Cook: Oh no! Hardware sales are falling! What can we do?
exec: Stop making stupid hardware and go back to making stuff people actually want?
Tim Cook: No no that can't be it. We've just saturated the market so we need to start doing something else.
Is it unsupported thought? The last time I looked a few months ago, Android 5 devices were still being sold, so you'd have to forgive people for thinking that their device *was* still supported.
Hell, looking at Google's own metrics (https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) Android 6 *still* has less than 30% marketshare. Android 7 is practically a statistical error despite having been out for 6 months now.
Knowledgable people like you and me can sort through the garbage and pick out the good stuff, but point remains that the watch phrase for the entire Android ecosystem is "Caveat Emptor".
Not if their phone isn't the latest and greatest. Android only introduced permissions control with v6.
Elaborate?
I want to know what is going on over at Apple, and if the process has begun to get Tim Cook fired.
I want to know when is Apple going to resume making the excellent hardware they made a decade ago, or if they're just going to continue to slap silly gimicks onto otherwise substandard hardware, while raising the prices beyond all reason?
I want to know if Apple is going to make it simpler to develop iOS applications on non-Apple hardware, since it's becoming harder and harder to justify buying Apple's increasingly lacklustre hardware, and Mac OS itself has been (essentially) deprecated.
I want to know if Apple has outright admitted that they don't care about professional users anymore. Their behaviour has certainly demonstrated that fact beyond a shadow of a doubt, but I'm curious as to whether this is an official policy or just breathtakingly myopic incompetence.
It's Chinese so it's shit LOL
Trumps gonna revert them to Stone Age ;)
Slashdot needs a "So inane you feel stupider for having read it" mod.
Great, now I'm imagining a laptop with multiple vibrating screens that ooze aloe gel when you touch them. Eww.
You can't use that slur anymore. Putin thinks Trump is a great guy, so all is now forgiven and clearly the last 3/4 century of fear regarding commies was just a mistake.
Considering that something like this probably costs an order of magnitude more than the old version did, I can't see the scooby gang in one anytime soon.
Why would they want to lower the cost of a product if they can do something else that makes them more profit? Then then can just roll out a new marketing campaign to convince the masses that they can't live without their new doohickey.
We can't have that! Regulation gets in the way of innovation and profits!
And regulation contributes to BIG GOVERNMENT. LG should be allowed to do whatever they want, without any sort of impedance, and just let the markets sort themselves out. That's how these things work, right?
Those with the knowledge can simply avoid buying the products, or work around the issue. Those with the power can for manufacturers to change what they're doing. Everyone else will just have to live with any issues that arise.
What if it IS "Advanced Security", but just not advanced enough? I mean, compared to what we had in the 90s, it most certainly is advanced. :)
The statement makes sense if instead of using the dictionary definition of intelligent, and think of it more as Dunning-Kruger Effect.
The fact is we are LOOOOONG past the point where science has been easy enough for a lay person to understand. An Apple falls on your head and you can shout "OMG Gravity!". The rest is just figuring out the details. At no point would anyone argue against you that Gravity exists.
But science in general is a hell of a lot more complex now. Now we're working with sub-atomic particles. We're using gravitational lensing to discover planets in far off star systems. The knowledge we are now gaining isn't even remotely within the grasp of the average person, but the average person by definition doesn't have the skill and knowledge to understand just how lacking in skill and knowledge they are. Hell, science is so complex now that you have no choice but to specialize up the wazoo just to avoid information overload. (Hint: Scientists in Joss Whedon TV shows are bullshit).
Unless an appropriate number of scientists that have *specialized in climate science* go out and say "Wait, no, AGW is wrong." I have to trust that the science was done to the best of their ability and concluded that AGW is real. If a biologist, chemist, mathematician, or heaven forbid an economist, stands up and waves their arms and says AGW is a hoax, their opinion means absolutely jack for the same reason that you wouldn't trust a heart surgeon to diagnose and treat pancreatic cancer. Experience and knowledge is not magically transferrable across even similar fields, let alone wildly different ones.
I see climate change deniers being no different from people who are evolution deniers. They refuse to trust in the science because they have their own ulterior motives for not doing so, whether it's money, pride, or whatever. Evolution for example, is unequivocally true. There is so much overwhelming evidence that is corroborated by pretty much every field of science from biology to chemistry to geology, that to believe otherwise can only be considered a mental illness. And yet you have millions of people who refuse to "believe" in evolution. Because they don't want to.
If people can deny evolution is real just like that, despite the overwhelmingly solid evidence, I have zero hope that they "believe" in AGW since the science is so much more complex.
Which basically means there is no hope that we will collectively take the necessary actions to do anything about it.
"fucknuckle"
"needledick"
I hope this argument keeps going. I'm learning all sorts of amazing and creative new curses that I've never heard before!
I don't see what the issue is. If people want to buy an insecure device that will compromise their well-being, then they should be allowed to. I thought the whole point of capitalism was, "Do whatever it takes to make money", and regulation gets in the way of that!
Thankfully Trump will put an end to this "You need to put out a product that isn't shit" nonsense.
To answer my own question, apparently it's both. It is a new atomic-scale technology, but marketing still used a stupid term to describe it. (I consider "Quantum" to be a completely destroyed, nonsensical term, like "Cloud")
from http://www.explainthatstuff.co...
"A quantum dot gets its name because it's a tiny speck of matter so small that it's effectively concentrated into a single point (in other words, it's zero-dimensional). As a result, the particles inside it that carry electricity (electrons and holes, which are places that are missing electrons) are trapped ("constrained") and have well-defined energy levels according to the laws of quantum theory (think rungs on a ladder), a bit like individual atoms. Tiny really does mean tiny: quantum dots are crystals a few nanometers wide, so they're typically a few dozen atoms across and contain anything from perhaps a hundred to a few thousand atoms. They're made from a semiconductor such as silicon (a material that's neither really a conductor nor an insulator, but can be chemically treated so it behaves like either). And although they're crystals, they behave more like individual atoms—hence the nickname artificial atoms."
Okay, I'm not even remotely knowledgable about such things, but whenever I see Star Trek-like technobabble like this, my woo alarms immediately start firing.
Is this actually a thing, or most more marketing bullshit?
No amount of data will ever be able to satisfy anti-AGW people. They're just like the anti-vax people, or pretty much any other religious group that prides ignorance over reality.
They are emotionally dependent on their POV, and attempts to prove them wrong just make them dig their heels further. That has been proven as well.
Sorry, I meant on the iOS platform, Applications can ask.
Android, on the other hand, was *designed* to slurp as much of your personal data as it possibly could. Recent versions are finally making an attempt to close the barn doors, but in the mean time all the myriad developers had already long ago built a high-speed conveyor belt so that horses could shoot through at breathtaking speed.
Oh FFS...
I've been waiting since 2011 to upgrade but every model they put out has been more and more retarded. Soldered memory. Proprietary storage. Removing ports even when it destroys compatibility between the few products in their own meagre lineup.
Apple has basically abandoned the professional market, and are now exclusively catering to rich people who sit all day in Starbucks looking at Facebook. I can think of no other reason for their direction in the last few years.
AFAIK, they already do. Any app you install needs to require explicit permissions from you to access things like location, contacts, etc, and you can change your mind either way, at any point in time.
And AFAIK, Google has *finally* pulled their thumb out and added privacy controls to the latest versions of android. I haven't used Android in a while so I can't remember exactly when they did that. I think it was v6. But since the overwhelming majority of people use 6, that doesn't mean much.
The whole smartquote thing is a bloody nightmare. One app did it, another app didn't, and when you copied data from one to the other, all hell would break lose.
It didn't matter for print. Print was print. You did whatever you wanted, and people would generally figure out what you were trying to do.
But on digital devices, everyone has to agree on every miniscule little detail so things get transferred properly, get displayed properly, etc. And unless you were literally born yesterday, you would know that people can't agree on a single blessed thing, or even if they do, they can't be trusted to *implement* it properly.
So you are forced to live with the minimum viable product for virtually anything, cause anything else is bloody difficult, and you eventually realize that the hassle just isn't worth it.