...and, with all accessories, costs more than a gaming PC and a good, modern smartphone... combined! The phone itself costs $1300+ and all accessories cost around $700+ more. See, this is another problem: the alternative is way more expensive than the status quo. More issues with it: requires a complex, overly expensive and specific dock to work. Would most likely not work with any of the existing USB-C port replicators out there.
I don't hate it at all, as a matter of fact I am saddened by its demise (to be, but still). As I stated earlier, the problem is nor the hardware, neither the concept. The problem is the software. Microsoft are (were?) one step forward compared to Apple and Google from a platform integration perspective, but three steps back from an ecosystem health perspective. With a horrible "Store" (this is an entire story of its own), lack of vision (again, software-point-of-view) and murdering of Nokia (rather than collaborating with them), they failed spectacularly at providing a viable alternative to Apple App Store of Google Play.
I am an user of their PC based Microsoft Store. It sucks. Microsoft knew they were behind, so they took desperate (and ineffective) measures. As such, the Store is full of crap - to the brim! My kids use it to download and play games, and the vast majority of those games are utter shit. They're just money grabbers - if the underlying ads platform worked, but it rarely does. Microsoft approved ANYTHING published to their store, hoping to offer "variety", and variety they did offer, but the kind nobody wants. It's also worth mentioning that their own Store application on the PC stops working, with errors ranging from hilarious to infuriating. I had to fully delete and re-add my kids' account on my PC twice because the Store stopped working.
Average Joe doesn't have "spite" or "ignorance". They just take whatever's available and they like. It so happened that, for PC, they collectively chose Windows (because it was there when they needed it), but, for mobile devices, they chose Apple or Google because those were there when they were needed. In the meantime Microsoft had Windows CE (I used both 5.0 and 6.0) which sucked hard compared to iOS or Android, despite having been available first.
Sorry but the mobile battle was lost by Microsoft, through Microsoft.
It was too early. I still vividly remember the Dell Streak. It was beautiful (for that time). Sadly, it was way ahead of its time, Android 1.6 was full of bugs and issues and the phone, despite its amazing hardware capabilities (for that time), suffered from "the market is not ripe enough" disease.
There's a shit ton of stuff that can still be added to a phone, but it's not "innovation", rather "improvement". Some time in 2017, mobile phones have reached a point (in terms of power) where they can indeed be used as "pocket desktops". There's enough raw power in them to act as such. All we need is the required improvements, and most of those are software-based, rather than hardware-based.
A couple months ago I played with a Samsung S9+ for a couple of days, and when I needed to charge it I once plugged it into the USB type C of a Lenovo port replicator. It so happened that I had an USB stick connected to the port replicator, and I was amazed to find out the phone detected the port replicator, knew it had audio output capabilities and also detected the USB stick. It could read data off the USB stick but errored out when writing on it. That got me thinking: the protocol worked. The hardware was compatible. The proper software implementation of all the possible features was missing. So there's the slew of opportunities right there: develop software to leverage your phone's power in the desktop application area. Yeah I sound like a marketing dude but I'm not, I just really look forward to see that happen. Unfortunately, politics and agendas might get in the way, but wouldn't it be cool to come hone, slam your phone into a dock and have a mouse, a keyboard and a couple monitors linked to that dock, complete with Internet access, LAN access, etc.
I already own all of them. It was never about that. It was about the ability to watch them from any device without having to set up my own streaming server and infrastructure. You don't "shop" at Netflix, you pay a subscription for a library, it's a service, not a store.
I'm well aware that Eastern European countries are well behind Western European countries in terms of development. However, people are people wherever they are. There's a difference between being behind economically and being treated like a half-animal.
Actually, nope. Here in my country, east of the Iron Courtain, Netflix is 7 bucks a month, cheapest tier. Tidal is 5 bucks a month. Same with Spotify. They're not too expensive. Geolocking does exist as a matter of fact, and it's one of the main reasons piracy still exists. We (my people) have been treated a second class people for far too long , and we won't have it anymore. So when Netflix comes and says "you can't have this content that others do because $bullshit_reason*", we don't like it, and stop using it. *$bullshit_reason could be, for example, a certain movie or TV series had their broadcasting rights sold to some asshole local company which sits on them trying to boost prices, or to an actual broadcaster which is only interested in maximizing profit. This results in many, if not most good movies or TV series being unavailable in my country. Anecdotal evidence: 10 of my top 10 preferred moviesw ere unavailable on netflix for my country (or at all!) due to broadcasting rights or movie owner not wanting to sell rights to Netflix. Hulu isn't available in my country, at all. Tidal has a "hip-hop problem", pushing their own music agenda despite the fact that I am a metalhead and for months I have only listened to metal on their platform. Yet, every fucking time I open Tidal, the main page and all their recommendation revolve around "JayZ's Playlist" and "Nicki Minaj" and other crap I simply DO NOT WANT. I perceive that behavior as being disrespectful - so I cancelled my subscription.
The pirate alternative: Torrent websites (private trackers): - have a much wider selection of content - have HIGH QUALITY content (Blu-Ray, 4K, etc) - Are very fast (5-10 minutes) to download pretty much anything (local peers abound) - Don't push their own agenda - Have most content available IMMEDIATELY after release (especially music and TV series; for movies you generally need to wait a month or so for highest quality) - Have a large variety of good subtitles in a myriad languages, readily attached to movies and series - Do carry obscure and "rare" content (which I can't legally buy, stream or rent from anywhere)
I am all for legal methods of consuming content, and I am ready to pay for it. But when, for example, the FIFA World Cup 2018 took place this summer, I was unable to find an easy way to legally livestream matches. I was ready to pay-per-view or subscribe to bundles, but none were available for my country. The official broadcaster for my country had horrible service, thir website was down or locking up most of the time, it was unusable. And there was no alternative... except watching pirate livestreams which worked perfectly.
Life finds a way... so does consuming media content in a timely manner.
We don't know what those files are. They could be vacation pictures for all we know. Also, that happened in 2014. Don't tell me GE waited FOUR YEARS to hand that info to the FBI.
I won't buy a car that requires me to take my eyes off of the road to operate a touchscreen in order to use basic features.
They have also enabled drivers to do just that, safely. Unfortunately many drivers mistook that help with a full auto-pilot and... well we all know what happens when you trust automation more then you should.
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...and, with all accessories, costs more than a gaming PC and a good, modern smartphone... combined! The phone itself costs $1300+ and all accessories cost around $700+ more. See, this is another problem: the alternative is way more expensive than the status quo.
More issues with it: requires a complex, overly expensive and specific dock to work. Would most likely not work with any of the existing USB-C port replicators out there.
I don't hate it at all, as a matter of fact I am saddened by its demise (to be, but still).
As I stated earlier, the problem is nor the hardware, neither the concept. The problem is the software.
Microsoft are (were?) one step forward compared to Apple and Google from a platform integration perspective, but three steps back from an ecosystem health perspective. With a horrible "Store" (this is an entire story of its own), lack of vision (again, software-point-of-view) and murdering of Nokia (rather than collaborating with them), they failed spectacularly at providing a viable alternative to Apple App Store of Google Play.
I am an user of their PC based Microsoft Store. It sucks. Microsoft knew they were behind, so they took desperate (and ineffective) measures. As such, the Store is full of crap - to the brim! My kids use it to download and play games, and the vast majority of those games are utter shit. They're just money grabbers - if the underlying ads platform worked, but it rarely does. Microsoft approved ANYTHING published to their store, hoping to offer "variety", and variety they did offer, but the kind nobody wants. It's also worth mentioning that their own Store application on the PC stops working, with errors ranging from hilarious to infuriating. I had to fully delete and re-add my kids' account on my PC twice because the Store stopped working.
Average Joe doesn't have "spite" or "ignorance". They just take whatever's available and they like. It so happened that, for PC, they collectively chose Windows (because it was there when they needed it), but, for mobile devices, they chose Apple or Google because those were there when they were needed. In the meantime Microsoft had Windows CE (I used both 5.0 and 6.0) which sucked hard compared to iOS or Android, despite having been available first.
Sorry but the mobile battle was lost by Microsoft, through Microsoft.
It was too early. I still vividly remember the Dell Streak. It was beautiful (for that time). Sadly, it was way ahead of its time, Android 1.6 was full of bugs and issues and the phone, despite its amazing hardware capabilities (for that time), suffered from "the market is not ripe enough" disease.
There's a shit ton of stuff that can still be added to a phone, but it's not "innovation", rather "improvement".
Some time in 2017, mobile phones have reached a point (in terms of power) where they can indeed be used as "pocket desktops". There's enough raw power in them to act as such. All we need is the required improvements, and most of those are software-based, rather than hardware-based.
A couple months ago I played with a Samsung S9+ for a couple of days, and when I needed to charge it I once plugged it into the USB type C of a Lenovo port replicator. It so happened that I had an USB stick connected to the port replicator, and I was amazed to find out the phone detected the port replicator, knew it had audio output capabilities and also detected the USB stick. It could read data off the USB stick but errored out when writing on it.
That got me thinking: the protocol worked. The hardware was compatible. The proper software implementation of all the possible features was missing. So there's the slew of opportunities right there: develop software to leverage your phone's power in the desktop application area. Yeah I sound like a marketing dude but I'm not, I just really look forward to see that happen. Unfortunately, politics and agendas might get in the way, but wouldn't it be cool to come hone, slam your phone into a dock and have a mouse, a keyboard and a couple monitors linked to that dock, complete with Internet access, LAN access, etc.
Wasn't it a corral?
I already own all of them. It was never about that. It was about the ability to watch them from any device without having to set up my own streaming server and infrastructure.
You don't "shop" at Netflix, you pay a subscription for a library, it's a service, not a store.
I'm well aware that Eastern European countries are well behind Western European countries in terms of development. However, people are people wherever they are. There's a difference between being behind economically and being treated like a half-animal.
Actually, nope.
Here in my country, east of the Iron Courtain, Netflix is 7 bucks a month, cheapest tier. Tidal is 5 bucks a month. Same with Spotify.
They're not too expensive.
Geolocking does exist as a matter of fact, and it's one of the main reasons piracy still exists.
We (my people) have been treated a second class people for far too long , and we won't have it anymore. So when Netflix comes and says "you can't have this content that others do because $bullshit_reason*", we don't like it, and stop using it.
*$bullshit_reason could be, for example, a certain movie or TV series had their broadcasting rights sold to some asshole local company which sits on them trying to boost prices, or to an actual broadcaster which is only interested in maximizing profit. This results in many, if not most good movies or TV series being unavailable in my country. Anecdotal evidence: 10 of my top 10 preferred moviesw ere unavailable on netflix for my country (or at all!) due to broadcasting rights or movie owner not wanting to sell rights to Netflix. Hulu isn't available in my country, at all. Tidal has a "hip-hop problem", pushing their own music agenda despite the fact that I am a metalhead and for months I have only listened to metal on their platform. Yet, every fucking time I open Tidal, the main page and all their recommendation revolve around "JayZ's Playlist" and "Nicki Minaj" and other crap I simply DO NOT WANT. I perceive that behavior as being disrespectful - so I cancelled my subscription.
The pirate alternative: Torrent websites (private trackers):
- have a much wider selection of content
- have HIGH QUALITY content (Blu-Ray, 4K, etc)
- Are very fast (5-10 minutes) to download pretty much anything (local peers abound)
- Don't push their own agenda
- Have most content available IMMEDIATELY after release (especially music and TV series; for movies you generally need to wait a month or so for highest quality)
- Have a large variety of good subtitles in a myriad languages, readily attached to movies and series
- Do carry obscure and "rare" content (which I can't legally buy, stream or rent from anywhere)
I am all for legal methods of consuming content, and I am ready to pay for it. But when, for example, the FIFA World Cup 2018 took place this summer, I was unable to find an easy way to legally livestream matches. I was ready to pay-per-view or subscribe to bundles, but none were available for my country. The official broadcaster for my country had horrible service, thir website was down or locking up most of the time, it was unusable. And there was no alternative... except watching pirate livestreams which worked perfectly.
Life finds a way... so does consuming media content in a timely manner.
If the registry gets corrupted, your whole OS ids history!
Same if your house explodes. I think houses explode more often than registry gets corrupted, statistically.
"From now on thou shalt be called YASSHLE!"
Luckily I am not American. My country, although 3rd world and with a plethora of issues, at least doesn't oppress its citizens with idiotic things.
I just exited No Man's Sky Edge, it's 03:09 local time. No, I didn't mean "PM".
Please look up when TV programme ended before the digital era.
Why can't people fucking read TFS is beyond me.
DIFFERENT ACTIONS!
The download happened in 2014 and the encryption happened in 2018.
Can you read?
The 2018 steganography action is different from the 2014 19K files download action. It's in TFS, no need to even leave Slashdot.
Source?
I store about 30K personal pictures on my work machine, the employer is OK with it. Yes the machine is within the internal network.
We don't know what those files are.
They could be vacation pictures for all we know. Also, that happened in 2014. Don't tell me GE waited FOUR YEARS to hand that info to the FBI.
Yes, by choice. Big difference.
Same here... but it happened 12 years ago, not sure if it still counts.
There's an excess of energy according to TFS and TFA. So what exactly are we wasting here?
I'm sorry but if you're bursting with unused power, just cryptomine it.
Don't worry, it's not visible from Bucharest, Romania either. Thanks and fuck you, clouds!
Do they come in cock ring variants?
I won't buy a car that requires me to take my eyes off of the road to operate a touchscreen in order to use basic features.
They have also enabled drivers to do just that, safely. Unfortunately many drivers mistook that help with a full auto-pilot and... well we all know what happens when you trust automation more then you should.