"Who needs iTunes to copy a file?" - I was talking about copying a sound file to use as a ringtone using drag-and-drop from a PC. It still won't work.
"What are "approved headphones"?" - those who work with Apple's Bluetooth stack. Every other device (not only headphones) that connects to Android devices but no Apple are arguably "not approved" through the Apple Bluetooth stack. I remember an OBD II device made for an Opel Zafira. There were two readily available on the market. One was around 40-ish dollars but was not compatible with Apple phones (worked under all three Android phones I tested), and the "Apple compatible" device was 120 dollars and had similar feature set.
"What do you mean "Sync with your PC"? Sync WHAT?" - anything really, you name it. Ringtones, music, documents, pictures, whatever. I plug my Android devices to my PC through USB and I can do whatever I want on its storage, even advanced stuff if I enable Developer mode. I wasn't talking about e-mail really.
As for transfers between iPhones and Android devices, forget bout trying that. I lost count of the times I had to resort to alternative transfer methods to send some documentation from my phone to a colleague's phone. really, the two devices were next to each other and we had to upload the files to the cloud and share links.
You can't be seriously choosing Apple because they prevent you from copying a file without iTunes. You can't be seriously choosing Apple because they only allow you to connect to approved headphones through a gimped Bluetooth stack. You can't be seriously choosing Apple because it can't sync with your PC seamlessly unless it's a Mac.
Come on, I've heard plenty reasons to choose Apple, some good, some not so good, but yours makes top 5 worst easily.
I think it's quite the other way around. See, I can pair an Android with another Android, Linux or Windows machine (through Bluetooth, NFC, Wireless etc) and copy files from one to the other. Bring an iPhone and it's the only one that doesn't sync, unless you have that dreaded iTune or 3rd party alternative installed.
As someone who lives in a country from the former Eastern Bloc, I totally agree. It's exactly what happened: forcing locally-produced stuff rapidly decreases their quality (no competition, why should they bother with quality), keeps or increases their price and the customer is screwed. There was a point in time when smuggled goods (razor blades) from the Western Bloc were better still cheaper than locally-produced ones (which you couldn't find much of anyway), eerily 1984-esque.
I never heard of the companies in TFS. So if I go to Amazon to get an under desk headphone mount, I won't be able to know which company makes the "original" one. I just look at prices, compare features, then pick whichever seller seems better to me.
The stores' host (Amazon) must ensure the right company sells the right product, and eliminate fake/counterfeit sellers.
Oh sorry but I simply stopped giving a shit, if I see a post such as the entry I previously responded to. When someone comes and vomits wrong information all over the place, which can easily be proven wrong with a simple Google search and 5 minutes of attention, I won't spend any time doing the work for them. It's common courtesy to enter a discussion with a minimum of knowledge. If you don't show it tough luck. I call what you wrote "retarded" (because it is) and move on.
I'm going to give you the honorary nickname of "Walking Eagle" - because you're like a bird so full of shit it can't fly. Pretty much everything you said is incorrect. Wow.
Not much I guess, but at least word would go out and people would be able to plan ahead. I for one am thankful for this article, otherwise I wouldn't have known.
I disagree, and here's why. While it's true that this is a nightly build, it's false to say "wait". The sooner the customer base reacts, the greater the chance this functionality change will be looked at and changed BEFORE it goes into release. I'm past the "let's hope they don't do it" hope, that mentality died years ago. And yes, I would be one of the affected users, there's a corporate product that I use all the time (part of my job) that consistently mangles cookies, and the simplest solution is to delete cookies related to that environment only. This happens once or twice a week. Now, losing all my logins to 50-ish different websites which I am supposed to have easy access to at all times is a big no-no, a loss of productivity and increased frustration is what it's going to give me instead.
They want to reorganize settings? Cool! Fork the code and knock yourselves out. Or give me a "classic mode" alternative. But really, removing functionality was never a good idea.
Wait, wait... Currently you have the movie on the disk AND the download code. In the future, you will just have the movie... or just the code, but not both. Therefore, you, the customer, lost something.
I admit I should have brought up more detail, or better defined what I was thinking. I defined "copiers" as the small companies which create cheap, similarly-tasting drinks with generic names containing "Cola" in them. I was also focusing on Coke and its derivatives, rather than take into consideration market share of someone like ARC who produce other beverages as well. In 2015, worldwide, CC had 48.6% market share, with Pepsi around 20.5% and everyone else at 30.9%, but that's for all drinks.
Anyway, since it's difficult to ascertain what's what, I accept your numbers and move on.
You might not be aware of the fact that Coinhive scripts can run in your browser even if you have AdBlock - because they are not ads. Disabling JS will help though.
Coca-Cola is a multi-billion dollar company and they have a product that is ridiculously easy to knock off. But their business execution is second to none and for most products that is what really matters.
No, in your example, Coca Cola is big enough to crush any copier to dust by simply having their lawyers march in the immediate vicinity of the offender. As a matter of fact, there are zounds of similar beverages out there, all over the world, but CC is so entrenched that all copiers combined have maybe 1% marked share compared to CC.
If you're the Sun, you don't care about the new comet drifting in the Solar System, but if you're Earth and that comet comes your way, there's not much you can do about it either.
You're saying "hey, it's true, what's the fuss?" - well, Poland is in the EU, and the EU has strict regulations around paid advertising. Any advertising that's paid for MUST explicitly be identified as such.
For example, I could, as a Youtuber, make a video exactly like the one discussed in TFS and not be paid by anyone. I could express my own opinion, using my own resources (time, money) and monetize the content, earn money out of it, form opinions in my followers, etc. That's fine. Similarly, I, the Youtuber, could be paid by a bank to make a similar video, and it's also fine as long as I explicitly mention in my video that it's advertising paid for by the bank, with the bank's name and everything.
I am not allowed to make a video, be paid by the bank, and not mention that anywhere.
Not sure which was the case because TFS is paywalled and I am not turning my adblocker off for that site.
Another fine example of how developers think. They take a FUCKING EXAMPLE and turn it into a single, nothing-else-possible case. Jesus...
0.02/page could be 0.02/minute. Actually, considering you can mine Monero of about 1 dollar per day on an average quad-core CPU, the income for the website is 0.07 cents per minute. Your actual cost may vary depending on your CPU power consumption and electricity cost.
Slashdot Mirror
I just checked today, with a friend's iPhone 6.
"Who needs iTunes to copy a file?" - I was talking about copying a sound file to use as a ringtone using drag-and-drop from a PC. It still won't work.
"What are "approved headphones"?" - those who work with Apple's Bluetooth stack. Every other device (not only headphones) that connects to Android devices but no Apple are arguably "not approved" through the Apple Bluetooth stack. I remember an OBD II device made for an Opel Zafira. There were two readily available on the market. One was around 40-ish dollars but was not compatible with Apple phones (worked under all three Android phones I tested), and the "Apple compatible" device was 120 dollars and had similar feature set.
"What do you mean "Sync with your PC"? Sync WHAT?" - anything really, you name it. Ringtones, music, documents, pictures, whatever. I plug my Android devices to my PC through USB and I can do whatever I want on its storage, even advanced stuff if I enable Developer mode. I wasn't talking about e-mail really.
As for transfers between iPhones and Android devices, forget bout trying that. I lost count of the times I had to resort to alternative transfer methods to send some documentation from my phone to a colleague's phone. really, the two devices were next to each other and we had to upload the files to the cloud and share links.
You can't be seriously choosing Apple because they prevent you from copying a file without iTunes.
You can't be seriously choosing Apple because they only allow you to connect to approved headphones through a gimped Bluetooth stack.
You can't be seriously choosing Apple because it can't sync with your PC seamlessly unless it's a Mac.
Come on, I've heard plenty reasons to choose Apple, some good, some not so good, but yours makes top 5 worst easily.
I think it's quite the other way around.
See, I can pair an Android with another Android, Linux or Windows machine (through Bluetooth, NFC, Wireless etc) and copy files from one to the other. Bring an iPhone and it's the only one that doesn't sync, unless you have that dreaded iTune or 3rd party alternative installed.
Slashdot, on the other hand...
There are many websights that don't support ASCII...
As someone who lives in a country from the former Eastern Bloc, I totally agree.
It's exactly what happened: forcing locally-produced stuff rapidly decreases their quality (no competition, why should they bother with quality), keeps or increases their price and the customer is screwed.
There was a point in time when smuggled goods (razor blades) from the Western Bloc were better still cheaper than locally-produced ones (which you couldn't find much of anyway), eerily 1984-esque.
I never heard of the companies in TFS. So if I go to Amazon to get an under desk headphone mount, I won't be able to know which company makes the "original" one. I just look at prices, compare features, then pick whichever seller seems better to me.
The stores' host (Amazon) must ensure the right company sells the right product, and eliminate fake/counterfeit sellers.
Oh sorry but I simply stopped giving a shit, if I see a post such as the entry I previously responded to.
When someone comes and vomits wrong information all over the place, which can easily be proven wrong with a simple Google search and 5 minutes of attention, I won't spend any time doing the work for them.
It's common courtesy to enter a discussion with a minimum of knowledge. If you don't show it tough luck. I call what you wrote "retarded" (because it is) and move on.
I'm going to give you the honorary nickname of "Walking Eagle" - because you're like a bird so full of shit it can't fly.
Pretty much everything you said is incorrect. Wow.
stop ogling that mirror.
You have to assume they're all very intimidated by the main character's whatever-should-intimidate-them :)
Maybe that's what FX development want... to externalize all shit to 3rd party addons.
Not much I guess, but at least word would go out and people would be able to plan ahead. I for one am thankful for this article, otherwise I wouldn't have known.
I disagree, and here's why.
While it's true that this is a nightly build, it's false to say "wait". The sooner the customer base reacts, the greater the chance this functionality change will be looked at and changed BEFORE it goes into release.
I'm past the "let's hope they don't do it" hope, that mentality died years ago.
And yes, I would be one of the affected users, there's a corporate product that I use all the time (part of my job) that consistently mangles cookies, and the simplest solution is to delete cookies related to that environment only. This happens once or twice a week. Now, losing all my logins to 50-ish different websites which I am supposed to have easy access to at all times is a big no-no, a loss of productivity and increased frustration is what it's going to give me instead.
They want to reorganize settings? Cool! Fork the code and knock yourselves out. Or give me a "classic mode" alternative. But really, removing functionality was never a good idea.
Which animal has a memory span of less than 6 hours?
The Slashdot Editor.
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
Trumptin.
(the alternative was Pump”)
Wait, wait...
Currently you have the movie on the disk AND the download code.
In the future, you will just have the movie... or just the code, but not both.
Therefore, you, the customer, lost something.
While I agree with you, holding the decision would simply mean that all future DVDs and games will come withOUT download codes. Customer loses anyway.
I admit I should have brought up more detail, or better defined what I was thinking.
I defined "copiers" as the small companies which create cheap, similarly-tasting drinks with generic names containing "Cola" in them. I was also focusing on Coke and its derivatives, rather than take into consideration market share of someone like ARC who produce other beverages as well.
In 2015, worldwide, CC had 48.6% market share, with Pepsi around 20.5% and everyone else at 30.9%, but that's for all drinks.
Anyway, since it's difficult to ascertain what's what, I accept your numbers and move on.
You might not be aware of the fact that Coinhive scripts can run in your browser even if you have AdBlock - because they are not ads.
Disabling JS will help though.
I wanted to say exactly that.
Twitch Creative it's called.
https://www.twitch.tv/director...
Coca-Cola is a multi-billion dollar company and they have a product that is ridiculously easy to knock off. But their business execution is second to none and for most products that is what really matters.
No, in your example, Coca Cola is big enough to crush any copier to dust by simply having their lawyers march in the immediate vicinity of the offender. As a matter of fact, there are zounds of similar beverages out there, all over the world, but CC is so entrenched that all copiers combined have maybe 1% marked share compared to CC.
If you're the Sun, you don't care about the new comet drifting in the Solar System, but if you're Earth and that comet comes your way, there's not much you can do about it either.
Sure they are.
If I pay you to convey $information to your readers / followers / crowd, it's advertising.
There are aspects that make or break this thing.
You're saying "hey, it's true, what's the fuss?" - well, Poland is in the EU, and the EU has strict regulations around paid advertising.
Any advertising that's paid for MUST explicitly be identified as such.
For example, I could, as a Youtuber, make a video exactly like the one discussed in TFS and not be paid by anyone. I could express my own opinion, using my own resources (time, money) and monetize the content, earn money out of it, form opinions in my followers, etc. That's fine.
Similarly, I, the Youtuber, could be paid by a bank to make a similar video, and it's also fine as long as I explicitly mention in my video that it's advertising paid for by the bank, with the bank's name and everything.
I am not allowed to make a video, be paid by the bank, and not mention that anywhere.
Not sure which was the case because TFS is paywalled and I am not turning my adblocker off for that site.
Another fine example of how developers think. They take a FUCKING EXAMPLE and turn it into a single, nothing-else-possible case.
Jesus...
0.02/page could be 0.02/minute. Actually, considering you can mine Monero of about 1 dollar per day on an average quad-core CPU, the income for the website is 0.07 cents per minute. Your actual cost may vary depending on your CPU power consumption and electricity cost.