My kids have an unfiltered but monitored Internet Connection. They also have a separate account than mine, on the PC (Windows) and laptop (Windows). They have no tablet or smart phone yet. I have analyzed the data gathered from their gaming and website accessing for the last 6 months and found one occurrence of questionable data, which was an ad to a zombie game. In fact, it was an image containing "other games from us", split in 4, and one of the quarters had an image of a cartoon character shooting a cartoon zombie. The most likely reason for the "cleanliness" of their data is the fact that major data providers (Microsoft, Google) have become so good at establishing and reinforcing the information bubble that it effectively protects them from accessing questionable sources, namely they don't see them in "recommended" data (be it other games, Youtube videos, etc).
OK, feel free to build an app which uses Google's API to overlay $LANGUAGE translated names onto Maps. After all, nobody's stopping you. Sell that app on the Google Play store and get rich. Start now and make the world a better place.
FYI yes, locals looking at local maps is far more likely than foreigners looking at the same maps for glaringly obvious reasons, with ONE exception: top tourist areas with small local population (e.g. Venice). And for those, it's BETTER to have labels in local language because you can cross-check them with real labels. If you see a sign called "Rue de Poisson" and your phone says you're on "Fish Street" you might get confused.
How many of the 10-year old cars or 15-year old washing machines are actually recalled in practice? How often does Average Joe check whether your $DEVICE is secure? I never see regular people scouring the Internet to verify whether their phone, smart watch, TV, router, you-name-it is secure or has an available firmware update.
"This especially applies to IoT devices where it is in their financial interest to make un-upgradable devices, forcing people to toss their 1.0 lightbulbs and buy 1.0.1 lightbulbs to fix a security issue, as opposed to making them secure in the first place, or having an upgrade mechanism."
It's actually more complicated than this. You need to factor in the customer. The vast majority of customers for above-mentioned devices are "IT security-impaired". In layman's terms, they have no fucking clue (I don't blame them by saying this, it's just the way things are). So they vote with their wallet.
If company A is very security-focused and produces aLightbulb with upgradeable firmware and active development for said firmware, but company B doesn't give a shit, you will end up with bLightbulb which costs 10 times less than aLightbulb. Guess which company would go out of business? IoT is filled to the brim with customers looking for the cheaper alternative, and security isn't a driving factor to motivate them to buy the more expensive product. Getting companies to agree on a security standard? Good luck with that, there's always going to be the profit-oriented company willing to sell their lightbulbs 15% cheaper, and have them cost 4 times less, undercutting and eventually buying off competition.
Not saying I agree with how things are, but then again, it's how they are.
No, they patented this so that they can make money through royalties if someone else uses it. That doesn't mean they're using it... and doesn't mean they're not using it either.
Whoa, wait a minute there, your "statistically speaking" is awfully flawed. You fail to take into account weighted values. It is way more likely for a Hungarian person to look at a Hungarian map than an American person looking at a Hungarian map (unless you're trying to invade Hungary too...). According to your assumption, I guess the USA map names should be shown in Mandarin... or Hindi... or Spanish, because either of those languages is above English as a native spoken language. If you also count totals, then Mandarin it is.
Google, are you reading this? We only need Mandarin labels in your Maps application.
That is because the number of locals looking at those maps far exceeds the number of non-locals looking at those maps. Pointing the mouse at the label works? Good, you have a workaround. Stop being lazy.
Some games have ridiculously long load times regardless if you put them on HDD or SSD, whatever it's waiting for it's not the disk. It's a bit annoying that games that take 50GB+ can't split their assets up over two disks for fast/slow access but it's not going to change so whatever, if you play it a lot make room on your SSD and put the more rarely played games on HDD if you run out of space.
...because most times it's not the disk. It's the fucking "always online" bullshit, together with horrible optimization. Game loads and grinds to a halt waiting for some crap server to respond to a shitty security check. When that happens 100 times during load... there's your performance bottleneck right there. That's why many pirated games load faster than their "official" variants.
Issue #1: The game called Shadow of War has a disk footprint of 97 GB. Doom occupies 45-50 Gb. Latest Gears of War occupies cca 100 GB and Ark: Survival Evolved can balloon to over 150 GB with a few mods and maps installed. Battlefield 1: 50 GB. GTA5: 65 GB. Mafia 3: 50 GB. Far Cry 4: 34 GB.
Get 15 such games and your 1 TB drive explodes.
You could argue "gamers are not general audience"; maybe, but if you ever want to start playing new games, you'd appreciate larger HDDs.
Issue #2: If you get married with a wedding, that 4K, 12 hours long footage your wife absolutely wants to keep and watch all the time would eat space like the wedding cake.
Issue #3: God Forbid you want to back up some Bluray movies.
Issue #4: crap balloons on HDD in time. Windows is a good prime example.
Neither of these categories is likely to be "general audience", but all of them combined make up for a pretty large chunk of genpop.
No. It's loosely structured. There are links to similar subjects or related subjects, but it's an ENCYCLOPEDIA. Encyclopedia != manual Encyclopedia != class Encyclopedia != science branch.
It is unreasonable to go to Wikipedia and expect to learn and understand any subject in its entirety, or be able to track back from an advanced subject to its starting point. There's another problem too. There are subjects which are, for lack of a better analogy, like the mid-point of a double genealogy tree. The topic is both a little branch of a certain main subject (say, math) so you could argue "Wikipedia should help me trace back to a point in the main subject I'm comfortable with", AND an intersection (root) of several main subjects (say, math, physics, chemistry, biology), when tracing back actually means branching out until you're proper lost.
That's why classes and courses have a specific learning method, whereas an encyclopedia usually gives you specific information about a certain topic and expects you to be familiar with the steps leading to it.
TFS author whines "Wikipedia sucks, it didn't teach me about $SUBJECT!". Well, it's not supposed to, dumbass!
Its structure could be clearer but then again, it's not a manual, or a course, or a class. it's a compendium made by random people, therefore loosely structured. So if you want to learn a subject properly, take proper classes.
That's because Wikipedia isn't a manual. It's a knowledge compendium. So in order to understand those math equations, maybe you would need to learn the simpler equations leading to them. Going to certain Wikipedia pages is like opening a science manual straight at Chapter XXXV and whining you don't understand it. You would, if you learned the previous 34 chapters.
I admit I never had to go to a delivery office, unless you count the one time when I knew I would spend a lot of time at work (it was a work-heavy period) and chose a pick-up office nearby. It was a 5-minute walk away from my office and it was open 7-11. There was no extra charge, though, I guess the online store had a flat-fee contract with them or something.
Well that's your problem, then. Here where I live they usually give you a window of 2h. First they text you telling you that tomorrow between, say, 10:00 AM and noon they will deliver your parcel. Then, about 30 minutes before, the delivery guy calls you to see whether you're home. If you're not and nobody else is, they ask you if you're within reasonable distance, and if so, you agree to meet somewhere. If that's not possible either, they can delay by a day, up to three times, at which point they tell you to go to their local delivery warehouse, where the parcel is waiting for you to pick up for a week. Heavy competition helps, I think we have over 15 different delivery companies in my country's Capital, and at least 3 or 4 in every town over 20K people. There are various services available, such as 3rd party delivery spots or 2h delivery service for select products (that's 24/7, by the way). If I want to buy a PC monitor right now (2:34 AM local time), for 10 dollars extra I could have it delivered to my door by 4:30 AM (but usually within the hour). Yes I used it once just for kicks:)
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My kids have an unfiltered but monitored Internet Connection. They also have a separate account than mine, on the PC (Windows) and laptop (Windows). They have no tablet or smart phone yet.
I have analyzed the data gathered from their gaming and website accessing for the last 6 months and found one occurrence of questionable data, which was an ad to a zombie game. In fact, it was an image containing "other games from us", split in 4, and one of the quarters had an image of a cartoon character shooting a cartoon zombie. The most likely reason for the "cleanliness" of their data is the fact that major data providers (Microsoft, Google) have become so good at establishing and reinforcing the information bubble that it effectively protects them from accessing questionable sources, namely they don't see them in "recommended" data (be it other games, Youtube videos, etc).
Any great tits in your backyard?
That's 1161 great women.
I recognised some dangerous emotions.
Lack of erection?
I can sell you a turd as a chocolate. based on the above, I expect you to put it in your mouth.
Yes, because people would treat a tablet-like computer in similar ways to a standard tablet. Of course it's less reliable than a regular tablet.
Could it be... United Arab World? :)
OK, feel free to build an app which uses Google's API to overlay $LANGUAGE translated names onto Maps. After all, nobody's stopping you.
Sell that app on the Google Play store and get rich. Start now and make the world a better place.
FYI yes, locals looking at local maps is far more likely than foreigners looking at the same maps for glaringly obvious reasons, with ONE exception: top tourist areas with small local population (e.g. Venice). And for those, it's BETTER to have labels in local language because you can cross-check them with real labels. If you see a sign called "Rue de Poisson" and your phone says you're on "Fish Street" you might get confused.
How many of the 10-year old cars or 15-year old washing machines are actually recalled in practice?
How often does Average Joe check whether your $DEVICE is secure? I never see regular people scouring the Internet to verify whether their phone, smart watch, TV, router, you-name-it is secure or has an available firmware update.
"This especially applies to IoT devices where it is in their financial interest to make un-upgradable devices, forcing people to toss their 1.0 lightbulbs and buy 1.0.1 lightbulbs to fix a security issue, as opposed to making them secure in the first place, or having an upgrade mechanism."
It's actually more complicated than this. You need to factor in the customer.
The vast majority of customers for above-mentioned devices are "IT security-impaired". In layman's terms, they have no fucking clue (I don't blame them by saying this, it's just the way things are). So they vote with their wallet.
If company A is very security-focused and produces aLightbulb with upgradeable firmware and active development for said firmware, but company B doesn't give a shit, you will end up with bLightbulb which costs 10 times less than aLightbulb. Guess which company would go out of business?
IoT is filled to the brim with customers looking for the cheaper alternative, and security isn't a driving factor to motivate them to buy the more expensive product. Getting companies to agree on a security standard? Good luck with that, there's always going to be the profit-oriented company willing to sell their lightbulbs 15% cheaper, and have them cost 4 times less, undercutting and eventually buying off competition.
Not saying I agree with how things are, but then again, it's how they are.
No, they patented this so that they can make money through royalties if someone else uses it.
That doesn't mean they're using it... and doesn't mean they're not using it either.
Whoa, wait a minute there, your "statistically speaking" is awfully flawed.
You fail to take into account weighted values.
It is way more likely for a Hungarian person to look at a Hungarian map than an American person looking at a Hungarian map (unless you're trying to invade Hungary too...). According to your assumption, I guess the USA map names should be shown in Mandarin... or Hindi... or Spanish, because either of those languages is above English as a native spoken language. If you also count totals, then Mandarin it is.
Google, are you reading this? We only need Mandarin labels in your Maps application.
It seems to be doing an awfully-good job at maintaining that...
Too bad that means sucking at most of the other things.
That is because the number of locals looking at those maps far exceeds the number of non-locals looking at those maps.
Pointing the mouse at the label works? Good, you have a workaround. Stop being lazy.
Yes, and I will rule over its tattered remains because I sign my posts :)
HURRAY!
What is an iCore, again?
Some games have ridiculously long load times regardless if you put them on HDD or SSD, whatever it's waiting for it's not the disk. It's a bit annoying that games that take 50GB+ can't split their assets up over two disks for fast/slow access but it's not going to change so whatever, if you play it a lot make room on your SSD and put the more rarely played games on HDD if you run out of space.
...because most times it's not the disk. It's the fucking "always online" bullshit, together with horrible optimization.
Game loads and grinds to a halt waiting for some crap server to respond to a shitty security check. When that happens 100 times during load... there's your performance bottleneck right there. That's why many pirated games load faster than their "official" variants.
Issue #1:
The game called Shadow of War has a disk footprint of 97 GB. Doom occupies 45-50 Gb. Latest Gears of War occupies cca 100 GB and Ark: Survival Evolved can balloon to over 150 GB with a few mods and maps installed. Battlefield 1: 50 GB. GTA5: 65 GB. Mafia 3: 50 GB. Far Cry 4: 34 GB.
Get 15 such games and your 1 TB drive explodes.
You could argue "gamers are not general audience"; maybe, but if you ever want to start playing new games, you'd appreciate larger HDDs.
Issue #2: If you get married with a wedding, that 4K, 12 hours long footage your wife absolutely wants to keep and watch all the time would eat space like the wedding cake.
Issue #3: God Forbid you want to back up some Bluray movies.
Issue #4: crap balloons on HDD in time. Windows is a good prime example.
Neither of these categories is likely to be "general audience", but all of them combined make up for a pretty large chunk of genpop.
No. It's loosely structured. There are links to similar subjects or related subjects, but it's an ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Encyclopedia != manual
Encyclopedia != class
Encyclopedia != science branch.
It is unreasonable to go to Wikipedia and expect to learn and understand any subject in its entirety, or be able to track back from an advanced subject to its starting point.
There's another problem too. There are subjects which are, for lack of a better analogy, like the mid-point of a double genealogy tree. The topic is both a little branch of a certain main subject (say, math) so you could argue "Wikipedia should help me trace back to a point in the main subject I'm comfortable with", AND an intersection (root) of several main subjects (say, math, physics, chemistry, biology), when tracing back actually means branching out until you're proper lost.
That's why classes and courses have a specific learning method, whereas an encyclopedia usually gives you specific information about a certain topic and expects you to be familiar with the steps leading to it.
TFS author whines "Wikipedia sucks, it didn't teach me about $SUBJECT!". Well, it's not supposed to, dumbass!
Not sure why you assume I make any changes there :)
Its structure could be clearer but then again, it's not a manual, or a course, or a class. it's a compendium made by random people, therefore loosely structured.
So if you want to learn a subject properly, take proper classes.
That's because Wikipedia isn't a manual. It's a knowledge compendium.
So in order to understand those math equations, maybe you would need to learn the simpler equations leading to them.
Going to certain Wikipedia pages is like opening a science manual straight at Chapter XXXV and whining you don't understand it. You would, if you learned the previous 34 chapters.
They sure are more than willing to ask for my money!
I admit I never had to go to a delivery office, unless you count the one time when I knew I would spend a lot of time at work (it was a work-heavy period) and chose a pick-up office nearby. It was a 5-minute walk away from my office and it was open 7-11. There was no extra charge, though, I guess the online store had a flat-fee contract with them or something.
Well that's your problem, then. Here where I live they usually give you a window of 2h. :)
First they text you telling you that tomorrow between, say, 10:00 AM and noon they will deliver your parcel. Then, about 30 minutes before, the delivery guy calls you to see whether you're home. If you're not and nobody else is, they ask you if you're within reasonable distance, and if so, you agree to meet somewhere. If that's not possible either, they can delay by a day, up to three times, at which point they tell you to go to their local delivery warehouse, where the parcel is waiting for you to pick up for a week.
Heavy competition helps, I think we have over 15 different delivery companies in my country's Capital, and at least 3 or 4 in every town over 20K people. There are various services available, such as 3rd party delivery spots or 2h delivery service for select products (that's 24/7, by the way). If I want to buy a PC monitor right now (2:34 AM local time), for 10 dollars extra I could have it delivered to my door by 4:30 AM (but usually within the hour). Yes I used it once just for kicks