That's funny -- I just took my car in to my independent mechanic a couple of weeks ago and while it was there, he called me to say that a recall was issued for the air bag system. He performed the recall fix at no charge to me. I think you're wrong about recall fixes having to be done at a dealership.
"Best Buy should have been perfectly able to function in a mixed market. But instead people use them as a show room- look at the products, and then buy online."
If Best Buy wasn't incredibly overpriced and a bit sleezy, they might might be able to land more of those sales.
And that last $17 is the entire point since that is where he breaks them and he wins.
This is the aspect of negotiation that makes me HATE negotiation. I just want the damned car (or whatever). I'm not interested in playing some sort of game where one of us wins and the other loses. It's one of the reasons I avoid dealers like the plague -- they price expecting that haggling will be done, which gives me a choice between two awful things: overpay for the car or engage in that stupid, unpleasant haggling "game".
You bought a car from a dealership and it wasn't stressful? I envy you. My experiences with dealerships have been nothing but horrible. So bad that I refuse to do it anymore. I now buy my cars used from individuals. It's a million times better and less stressful than hassling with a dealer.
I also have every benefit on your list -- no dealer needed. Most of those benefits come from my auto mechanic. Wait, I lied -- I don't have this one: "A specialist in the legal issues around buying a car", but it's not needed. The legal issues around buying a car aren't so complex that a specialist is required.
I would not be too surprised if Intel optimized the pants off their x86 native recompiler to convince Android developers to quit messing with the ARM NDK.
I'm sure that you're right. All I'm saying is that it's going to take more than that to get everyone to shift. There's no reason to for developers to change their workflow to accommodate anything special for x86 right now, because there's no compelling design or business reason to do so.
All of the above, as well as a web server, file server, VPN, and other miscellaneous oddities. Yes, I would get a power savings from upgrading the hardware, but not enough to be worth the hassle of doing that. The existing boxes work just fine. When the day comes that they fail, I'll upgrade.
But my underlying point is that these machines have more than enough horsepower to do these tasks. They're far from worthless.
Intel has to do more than provide parity with Arm, though. They have to provide a compelling reason to use their chips. "As good as arm" doesn't cut it at all, since arm is the defacto standard and developers will just continue to target that. What benefits do Atom chips bring that offsets the cost of supporting them?
Since we're all playing the age card, I'm 50 and have been actively developing software since I was 12 (using punch cards and the ultra-fast and modern paper tape!)
The x86 is a fine architecture, despite its numerous warts. However, so is arm. Each has distinct advantages and disadvantages -- and being able to operate in power-starved situations (such as with smartphones) is one of the main strengths of arm and one of the main weaknesses of x86. If my experiences has taught me anything, it's that there's no such thing as a single approach that works well in every situation. If all you have is a hammer...
"Intel designed the best architecture"
What is "best" depends on what it's used for. There's no such thing as a single architecture that is the "best" in every situation. Arm is hardly the "current fad". It's been around and going strong for a long, long time -- and it's being used in smart phones because it happens to be the best solution for that application currently on the market.
"to do a good job, it is often advisable to do everything in your legal power to accomplish that job"
This is rarely actually true. But it is never true for law enforcement. To do a good job there means that you must not to everything that you're legally empowered to do.
Tempting to blame law enforcement for their increasingly-Orwellian tactics, but -- in my opinion -- that's their job: to do everything they are legally allowed to do to put the baddies away.
I couldn't disagree more, for a bunch of reasons -- but here's the one at the top of the list: lawmakers are always passing laws that give the police far too much power (at the urging of the police), but then explain to us that it's OK because the police will exercise good judgement and won't actually do the abusive things that the law allows.
I blame lawmakers for passing those laws, and I equally blame law enforcement failing to exercise good judgement.
Yes, as TFA says, if you are running in developer mode you can install anything you like. Of course, it comes with all the downsides of developer mode (such as annoying warning dialogs).
For the time being, but Mozilla keeps making Firefox worse and worse. If that trend continues even a little while longer, then FF won't be a viable alternative anymore.
Similarly with Chrome, you can still install extensions locally, just not from random web sites any more.
According to TFA, you won't be able to do this anymore. Any extensions that aren't in the store can't be installed, and any already-installed extensions that aren't in the store will be permanently disabled.
Keith Alexander was lying because he cannot release top secret information in a public forum
That he cannot release top secret information in a public forum doesn't mean that the only other option he has is to lie. He could also say "I can't discuss that in a public forum." If he'd done that, he might have a shred of credibility left now. However, that he is fully willing to lie to Congress means that it's unwise to believe a single thing he says.
With precious few exceptions, they are most certainly not our advocates. By and large, the are the advocates of corporate interests and the very wealthy.
I'll blame everyone who voted in favor of this travesty.
Rubbing salt in the wound is that people are saying that "it will still outlaw the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata by the NSA first revealed by Snowden". The implication is that the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata is outlawed, when in fact it's not. It's been further legalized. The change is just where the data is stored -- which is no real change at all.
"JJ didn't made a bad job with Star Trek (way better than any previous ST movie previously release than JJ ones)."
I couldn't disagree more. The Abrams Star Treks were, in my opinion, the worst of the lot by far. They were bad movies that often made no sense at all, but even worse (and unforgivable) was that they failed to even try to stay true to the established Star Trek universe.
I expect the same treatment of Star Wars. That is, a hatchet job.
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That's funny -- I just took my car in to my independent mechanic a couple of weeks ago and while it was there, he called me to say that a recall was issued for the air bag system. He performed the recall fix at no charge to me. I think you're wrong about recall fixes having to be done at a dealership.
The only down-side to the Tesla model is that you can't negotiate.
That's an upside.
"Best Buy should have been perfectly able to function in a mixed market. But instead people use them as a show room- look at the products, and then buy online."
If Best Buy wasn't incredibly overpriced and a bit sleezy, they might might be able to land more of those sales.
And that last $17 is the entire point since that is where he breaks them and he wins.
This is the aspect of negotiation that makes me HATE negotiation. I just want the damned car (or whatever). I'm not interested in playing some sort of game where one of us wins and the other loses. It's one of the reasons I avoid dealers like the plague -- they price expecting that haggling will be done, which gives me a choice between two awful things: overpay for the car or engage in that stupid, unpleasant haggling "game".
You bought a car from a dealership and it wasn't stressful? I envy you. My experiences with dealerships have been nothing but horrible. So bad that I refuse to do it anymore. I now buy my cars used from individuals. It's a million times better and less stressful than hassling with a dealer.
I also have every benefit on your list -- no dealer needed. Most of those benefits come from my auto mechanic. Wait, I lied -- I don't have this one: "A specialist in the legal issues around buying a car", but it's not needed. The legal issues around buying a car aren't so complex that a specialist is required.
I would not be too surprised if Intel optimized the pants off their x86 native recompiler to convince Android developers to quit messing with the ARM NDK.
I'm sure that you're right. All I'm saying is that it's going to take more than that to get everyone to shift. There's no reason to for developers to change their workflow to accommodate anything special for x86 right now, because there's no compelling design or business reason to do so.
Intel needs to provide that reason.
All of the above, as well as a web server, file server, VPN, and other miscellaneous oddities. Yes, I would get a power savings from upgrading the hardware, but not enough to be worth the hassle of doing that. The existing boxes work just fine. When the day comes that they fail, I'll upgrade.
But my underlying point is that these machines have more than enough horsepower to do these tasks. They're far from worthless.
Intel has to do more than provide parity with Arm, though. They have to provide a compelling reason to use their chips. "As good as arm" doesn't cut it at all, since arm is the defacto standard and developers will just continue to target that. What benefits do Atom chips bring that offsets the cost of supporting them?
I use several PIII machines, and one PII, regularly as servers in my LAN. They perform very well in that role.
Since we're all playing the age card, I'm 50 and have been actively developing software since I was 12 (using punch cards and the ultra-fast and modern paper tape!)
The x86 is a fine architecture, despite its numerous warts. However, so is arm. Each has distinct advantages and disadvantages -- and being able to operate in power-starved situations (such as with smartphones) is one of the main strengths of arm and one of the main weaknesses of x86. If my experiences has taught me anything, it's that there's no such thing as a single approach that works well in every situation. If all you have is a hammer...
"Intel designed the best architecture"
What is "best" depends on what it's used for. There's no such thing as a single architecture that is the "best" in every situation. Arm is hardly the "current fad". It's been around and going strong for a long, long time -- and it's being used in smart phones because it happens to be the best solution for that application currently on the market.
"to do a good job, it is often advisable to do everything in your legal power to accomplish that job"
This is rarely actually true. But it is never true for law enforcement. To do a good job there means that you must not to everything that you're legally empowered to do.
Tempting to blame law enforcement for their increasingly-Orwellian tactics, but -- in my opinion -- that's their job: to do everything they are legally allowed to do to put the baddies away.
I couldn't disagree more, for a bunch of reasons -- but here's the one at the top of the list: lawmakers are always passing laws that give the police far too much power (at the urging of the police), but then explain to us that it's OK because the police will exercise good judgement and won't actually do the abusive things that the law allows.
I blame lawmakers for passing those laws, and I equally blame law enforcement failing to exercise good judgement.
Trademark, not copyright. Different rules apply.
Yes, as TFA says, if you are running in developer mode you can install anything you like. Of course, it comes with all the downsides of developer mode (such as annoying warning dialogs).
The problem with being required to use the store isn't the cost of doing so. Even if it were 100% free, it would still be a bad thing.
For the time being, but Mozilla keeps making Firefox worse and worse. If that trend continues even a little while longer, then FF won't be a viable alternative anymore.
Similarly with Chrome, you can still install extensions locally, just not from random web sites any more.
According to TFA, you won't be able to do this anymore. Any extensions that aren't in the store can't be installed, and any already-installed extensions that aren't in the store will be permanently disabled.
It's not aimed at people who have the know-how to manage their own plugins/apps.
So they're just collateral damage, then?
...and yet another good reason to avoid using Chrome.
Keith Alexander was lying because he cannot release top secret information in a public forum
That he cannot release top secret information in a public forum doesn't mean that the only other option he has is to lie. He could also say "I can't discuss that in a public forum." If he'd done that, he might have a shred of credibility left now. However, that he is fully willing to lie to Congress means that it's unwise to believe a single thing he says.
Representatives ARE our advocates.
With precious few exceptions, they are most certainly not our advocates. By and large, the are the advocates of corporate interests and the very wealthy.
I'll blame everyone who voted in favor of this travesty.
Rubbing salt in the wound is that people are saying that "it will still outlaw the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata by the NSA first revealed by Snowden". The implication is that the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata is outlawed, when in fact it's not. It's been further legalized. The change is just where the data is stored -- which is no real change at all.
"JJ didn't made a bad job with Star Trek (way better than any previous ST movie previously release than JJ ones)."
I couldn't disagree more. The Abrams Star Treks were, in my opinion, the worst of the lot by far. They were bad movies that often made no sense at all, but even worse (and unforgivable) was that they failed to even try to stay true to the established Star Trek universe.
I expect the same treatment of Star Wars. That is, a hatchet job.
"Honestly most Star Trek movies were bad"
Half of them were. The Star Trek movies seemed to have the same weird "every other release is crap" bug that Microsoft has had since forever.
After the unforgivable hatchet job he pulled on Star Trek, I don't trust JJ Abrams with any more of my childhood playthings.