Part of what we're seeing is due to there being too many of some kinds of stores in some areas. It's nice having a few electronics stores in town. I don't need 90 of them.
If it's failing, maybe there should be a qualifier around "iPhone-Killer" in the headline. Or, leave it out, because "...-killer" was played out five years ago.
Time for a chat client name change! * Messenger * Communicator * Lync * Skype for Business (as opposed to "Skype for Pleasure"?) ... and those are just the ones that are still in my Applications folder! I think there were a couple besides those as well. And those are just corporate clients -- I'm not even talking about MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, etc etc etc. And some were for both, before there was a big division between corporate and regular IM clients. ("MSN Messenger" came with Office X for Mac.)
Oh yeah, NetMeeting -- anyone else remember that?
And I'm sure I'm still forgetting one or two more.
By cutting pi off at the 15th decimal point... our calculated circumference of the 25 billion mile diameter circle would be wrong by 1.5 inches.
Which means I could work at NASA because one of my classrooms had a big PI banner in the front of the room and I memorized PI to 17 places from looking at it all year.:D
One of my favorite articles of all time from any source is the piece Neal Stephenson wrote for Wired about the Fiber Optic Link (around the) Globe, or FLAG, in 1996.
It went from England to Japan (about 28,000 km/17,500 miles) and carried "just under 8 Gbps of actual throughput". 21 years later, this new cable has TWENTY THOUSAND times the bandwidth. Nice.
"Following the announcement, EFF wrote a letter to W3C director, chief executive officer and team, in which it expressed its disappointment and said it was resignation [sic] from the W3C."
1. Your eyes have to be open for this to work. If a cop grabs your phone, close your eyes. If they try to get you to unlock it, open one eye, then the other, until it fails. If a cop grabs your phone, the first thing he'll do is look at it, thus triggering failure #1. It only takes 2 failures to trigger the passcode requirement. https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
2. As we are discussing right here in this very story, if it fails to unlock by face, IT THEN ASKS FOR A PASSCODE. And it WON'T OPEN AGAIN UNTIL THAT PASSCODE IS ENTERED. So you are just as secure as if you were already a passcode-only person.
This is actually MORE secure than the current thumbprint system, which can ABSOLUTELY be opened if you are restrained. There's no way to close your thumbprint when you're in handcuffs. As has been discussed elsewhere, you can not (in the U.S., generally, blah blah blah) be compelled to give your password but you can be compelled to put your thumb on a device.
If something is clickable, make it look clickable. If some items are clickable and some are not, they should look different.
But hey, we've only known this for 17 years. Maybe not everyone has caught up yet. https://www.joelonsoftware.com... (Scroll down to the "etrade" example.)
FUCK PALM. If you watch the intro video for the Palm Pre, it is FUCKING DISGUSTING. Yeah, they came up with a couple new things in webOS, but 99% of it was a total rip-off of iOS. The first thing Palm demoed was scrolling a contacts list -- with inertia, and with rubber-banding at the end. https://youtu.be/Dw3cHOEnwTw?t...
That was in January 2009. "Tabs" in Safari in iOS ("iPhone OS" at the time) were treated like cards from Day 1. Literally, Day 1. Here's the feature being shown in the iPhone intro video from January 2007. https://youtu.be/P-a_R6ewrmM?t...
So wow, Palm managed to introduce card-based app switching a mere TWO YEARS after Apple introduced card-based tab switching. What a staggering innovation. Quite a team of inventors they had over there.
> Lies, damn lies and statistics. 30% of a big number > is completely different to 30% of a small number.
Right back at you. They are small numbers in percentages, but you DO realize we're still talking about millions of people, right? Assuming there are a million desktop Linux users, do you really think 300,000 people picked it up in one month? And the number of Linux users is in the multiple millions, so your case just gets weaker and weaker.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... : "The Linux Counter uses an alternate method of estimating adoption, asking users to register and then using a mathematical model to estimate the total number of desktop users. In November 2014 this method estimated 73 million Linux users."
Let's just pretend those numbers are WILDLY optimistic and are off by a factor of TEN, giving "only" 7.3 million Linux users. So you're saying 2.2 MILLION people just spontaneously started using Linux last month?
> But it had only 2.53, so there's nothing suspicious.
LOLOL. You're such a dumbass.
> You do realise that it's just an in-joke, right?
Look at my UID. I've been here nearly 20 years. In the early days, it was said with sincerity. THEN it became a joke.
Here's a LATE example -- STILL almost ten years old -- when True Believers (tm) were still around. https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
"Over at Maximum PC, we're betting that Linux will pick up unprecedented momentum in the coming year. With phenomenal new distros, swelling international support, and a little extra momentum from Dell, we think Linux is poised to exploit the current atmosphere of doubt surrounding Vista and pick up serious traction in '08."
> According to Net Applications, the desktop market share of > Linux jumped from 2.53 percent in July to 3.37 percent in August. > There's no explanation for what amounted for this growth.
A 30% jump in one month, after two decades of "YYYY will be the year of Linux on the desktop!" ?
I'm going to dismiss this outright. Since the tech HAS been around for forever (I had a crystal radio set in the early 1980s, similar to the one pictured in wikipedia) don't you think companies would have used it by now if it were viable? What company WOULDN'T want to be able to advertise "OMGLOOK! Our phone doesn't need batteries!"
From your Wikipedia article: "... crystal sets produce rather weak sound and must be listened to with sensitive earphones, and can only receive stations within a limited range." Yeah. I'm sure the transition to supporting millions of people in a metropolitan area is a small hurdle to overcome.
You can make a very low-powered device like this. You are not going to get enough power to drive a multi-inch, multi-megapixel 60fps color display with a bright LCD and touch sensor and wifi and everything else we take for granted in modern smartphones.
Google is an almost 20-year-old company with about sixty thousand* employees. It is not the little startup we all fell in love with in the late 90s. All kinds of people work there now, many of them are *gasp* ordinary, average, humans, the same as you'll find in any large old company. It is not a pixie-dust-fueled fairyland where everyone always gets along.
In 1995 I drove 3,000 miles, from CA to FL, all alone, with no problem. In 1996 I drove back. My magical method: 1. Get paper maps BEFORE leaving. 2. Look at maps. 3. Drive. 4. When needed, call people (before leaving!) and ask how to get to their house from the highway.
It was tough, what with the long-distance phone charges and the dinosaurs occasionally blocking I-10, but other than that it was pretty uneventful.
Nice clickbait-y headline, Dan. Despite the fact that the FIRST SENTENCE says "with Apple adopting H.265/HEVC in iOS 11 and [emphasis mine] Google heavily supporting VP9 in Android", the headline only mentions Apple. Gee, I wonder why that is?
Hey, remember how happy we all were when Android overtook Apple in market share, and now they're several times larger? So wouldn't a more ACCURATE headline put the bulk of the blame on Google? Who, by the way, is ALSO a strong driver of video codec change via YouTube?
As other posts are pointing out, this isn't even a big problem. Still, nice to see that waving the Apple flag is alive and well.
I'm not saying DSLRs are going away, nor am I saying an iPhone will shoot as well as a DSLR in all conditions, but serious photography CAN be done with an iPhone, as these three magazine covers show.
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Part of what we're seeing is due to there being too many of some kinds of stores in some areas. It's nice having a few electronics stores in town. I don't need 90 of them.
If it's failing, maybe there should be a qualifier around "iPhone-Killer" in the headline. Or, leave it out, because "...-killer" was played out five years ago.
Time for a chat client name change!
* Messenger
* Communicator
* Lync
* Skype for Business (as opposed to "Skype for Pleasure"?)
... and those are just the ones that are still in my Applications folder! I think there were a couple besides those as well. And those are just corporate clients -- I'm not even talking about MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, etc etc etc. And some were for both, before there was a big division between corporate and regular IM clients. ("MSN Messenger" came with Office X for Mac.)
Oh yeah, NetMeeting -- anyone else remember that?
And I'm sure I'm still forgetting one or two more.
> 22/7 is a slightly better approximation to pi than 3.14.
VERY slightly.
22 / 7 = approx. 3.14285714285714
3.14285714285714 - 3.14159265358979 = 0.00126...
3.14159265358979 - 3.14 = 0.00159...
The difference in the differences is about 0.000328 in favor of 22 / 7.
In other words, either will do for casual work. Even NASA only uses Pi out to 15 decimal places. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/n...
By cutting pi off at the 15th decimal point... our calculated circumference of the 25 billion mile diameter circle would be wrong by 1.5 inches.
Which means I could work at NASA because one of my classrooms had a big PI banner in the front of the room and I memorized PI to 17 places from looking at it all year. :D
One of my favorite articles of all time from any source is the piece Neal Stephenson wrote for Wired about the Fiber Optic Link (around the) Globe, or FLAG, in 1996.
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/...
It went from England to Japan (about 28,000 km/17,500 miles) and carried "just under 8 Gbps of actual throughput". 21 years later, this new cable has TWENTY THOUSAND times the bandwidth. Nice.
... 10% off a product that nobody gives a shit about (or even knows existed) is news?
Shouldn't you get the facts before you comment?
"Following the announcement, EFF wrote a letter to W3C director, chief executive officer and team, in which it expressed its disappointment and said it was resignation [sic] from the W3C."
Way to bury the lede, editors.
This is not a dupe. This is a new story (from Sept. 13) about the "Sharif" incident AND OTHERS.
RTFA.
... if everyone ate better, 20% of the population wouldn't die? o_O
1. Your eyes have to be open for this to work. If a cop grabs your phone, close your eyes. If they try to get you to unlock it, open one eye, then the other, until it fails. If a cop grabs your phone, the first thing he'll do is look at it, thus triggering failure #1. It only takes 2 failures to trigger the passcode requirement. https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
2. As we are discussing right here in this very story, if it fails to unlock by face, IT THEN ASKS FOR A PASSCODE. And it WON'T OPEN AGAIN UNTIL THAT PASSCODE IS ENTERED. So you are just as secure as if you were already a passcode-only person.
This is actually MORE secure than the current thumbprint system, which can ABSOLUTELY be opened if you are restrained. There's no way to close your thumbprint when you're in handcuffs. As has been discussed elsewhere, you can not (in the U.S., generally, blah blah blah) be compelled to give your password but you can be compelled to put your thumb on a device.
3. Also, there's this: https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
> 19% luck.
Don't sell yourself short. Luck IS work. It's just work that you did in the past that's paying off now.
"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur, 1854.
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca the Younger (maybe - disputed.)
It doesn't matter who said them or when -- other than "I found a million dollars on the sidewalk", most "luck" meets those descriptions.
And to the GP -- that's also the "luck" you're complaining about other people having.
If something is clickable, make it look clickable. If some items are clickable and some are not, they should look different.
But hey, we've only known this for 17 years. Maybe not everyone has caught up yet.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com...
(Scroll down to the "etrade" example.)
FUCK PALM. If you watch the intro video for the Palm Pre, it is FUCKING DISGUSTING. Yeah, they came up with a couple new things in webOS, but 99% of it was a total rip-off of iOS. The first thing Palm demoed was scrolling a contacts list -- with inertia, and with rubber-banding at the end. https://youtu.be/Dw3cHOEnwTw?t...
That was in January 2009. "Tabs" in Safari in iOS ("iPhone OS" at the time) were treated like cards from Day 1. Literally, Day 1. Here's the feature being shown in the iPhone intro video from January 2007.
https://youtu.be/P-a_R6ewrmM?t...
So wow, Palm managed to introduce card-based app switching a mere TWO YEARS after Apple introduced card-based tab switching. What a staggering innovation. Quite a team of inventors they had over there.
> Lies, damn lies and statistics. 30% of a big number
> is completely different to 30% of a small number.
Right back at you. They are small numbers in percentages, but you DO realize we're still talking about millions of people, right? Assuming there are a million desktop Linux users, do you really think 300,000 people picked it up in one month? And the number of Linux users is in the multiple millions, so your case just gets weaker and weaker.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... :
"The Linux Counter uses an alternate method of estimating adoption, asking users to register and then using a mathematical model to estimate the total number of desktop users. In November 2014 this method estimated 73 million Linux users."
Let's just pretend those numbers are WILDLY optimistic and are off by a factor of TEN, giving "only" 7.3 million Linux users. So you're saying 2.2 MILLION people just spontaneously started using Linux last month?
> But it had only 2.53, so there's nothing suspicious.
LOLOL. You're such a dumbass.
> You do realise that it's just an in-joke, right?
Look at my UID. I've been here nearly 20 years. In the early days, it was said with sincerity. THEN it became a joke.
Here's a LATE example -- STILL almost ten years old -- when True Believers (tm) were still around.
https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
"Over at Maximum PC, we're betting that Linux will pick up unprecedented momentum in the coming year. With phenomenal new distros, swelling international support, and a little extra momentum from Dell, we think Linux is poised to exploit the current atmosphere of doubt surrounding Vista and pick up serious traction in '08."
Ah, nice. Yeah, if you graph their data on a reasonable scale, this is what you get: http://i.imgur.com/bzLMMX5.png
> According to Net Applications, the desktop market share of
> Linux jumped from 2.53 percent in July to 3.37 percent in August.
> There's no explanation for what amounted for this growth.
A 30% jump in one month, after two decades of "YYYY will be the year of Linux on the desktop!" ?
The explanation is obvious: bad data.
I was looking at a book on Amazon. One reviewer gave it one star. Their review: "Cover was torn."
I'm going to dismiss this outright. Since the tech HAS been around for forever (I had a crystal radio set in the early 1980s, similar to the one pictured in wikipedia) don't you think companies would have used it by now if it were viable? What company WOULDN'T want to be able to advertise "OMGLOOK! Our phone doesn't need batteries!"
From your Wikipedia article: "... crystal sets produce rather weak sound and must be listened to with sensitive earphones, and can only receive stations within a limited range." Yeah. I'm sure the transition to supporting millions of people in a metropolitan area is a small hurdle to overcome.
You can make a very low-powered device like this. You are not going to get enough power to drive a multi-inch, multi-megapixel 60fps color display with a bright LCD and touch sensor and wifi and everything else we take for granted in modern smartphones.
Also, @msmash, the link is wrong. There is no info about phones at http://www.reuters.com/article...
The main problem with modern cellphone batteries is that everyone makes them too thin. Dear everyone, please make smartphones 3mm thicker plskthxbye.
Google is an almost 20-year-old company with about sixty thousand* employees. It is not the little startup we all fell in love with in the late 90s. All kinds of people work there now, many of them are *gasp* ordinary, average, humans, the same as you'll find in any large old company. It is not a pixie-dust-fueled fairyland where everyone always gets along.
* 57,100, according to Wikipedia, as of Q2, 2015.
In 1995 I drove 3,000 miles, from CA to FL, all alone, with no problem. In 1996 I drove back. My magical method:
1. Get paper maps BEFORE leaving.
2. Look at maps.
3. Drive.
4. When needed, call people (before leaving!) and ask how to get to their house from the highway.
It was tough, what with the long-distance phone charges and the dinosaurs occasionally blocking I-10, but other than that it was pretty uneventful.
I think I first heard that joke about AI, maybe 15-20 years ago, and it was an old joke then.
Nice clickbait-y headline, Dan. Despite the fact that the FIRST SENTENCE says "with Apple adopting H.265/HEVC in iOS 11 and [emphasis mine] Google heavily supporting VP9 in Android", the headline only mentions Apple. Gee, I wonder why that is?
Hey, remember how happy we all were when Android overtook Apple in market share, and now they're several times larger? So wouldn't a more ACCURATE headline put the bulk of the blame on Google? Who, by the way, is ALSO a strong driver of video codec change via YouTube?
As other posts are pointing out, this isn't even a big problem. Still, nice to see that waving the Apple flag is alive and well.
I'm not saying DSLRs are going away, nor am I saying an iPhone will shoot as well as a DSLR in all conditions, but serious photography CAN be done with an iPhone, as these three magazine covers show.
http://nypost.com/2017/04/15/c...
http://bgr.com/2017/02/17/ipho...
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04...
As always, the talent matters more than the tool.
> Such things are driven by emotion and ideology rather than any serious concern for health.
How about plain old respect? Healthy or not, I don't want to smell a giant plume of disgustingly-scented vapor, no matter what's in it.