The curved edges are a pretty stupid design IMO based on my experience with the S8.
-It's hard to hold the phone without a case and not accidentally touch the edge (it's also hard to hold the phone at all without a case since it's made out of slippery aluminum and glass) -The image and colors are distorted on the edges, yet the fan boys say "Oooo, it feels like you're immersed in the content". A flat screen with this sort of distortion would be downrated. -To allow access to the sides, cases provide no protection for the sides.
Designs like this seem to appeal to those that go "oooo, shiny", but they are impractical to people that actually work and take their phone out in the real world, and aren't just tech bloggers.
How will it choose if it has to decide between killing 4 people or 1?
I assume it can just follow right of way laws.If 4 people that jump out in the middle of the road, and the car has the choice of hitting them, or 2 pedestrians lawfully on the sidewalk, or kill the driver by plowing into a concrete post, it should hit the 4 pedestrians in the road.
It's possible the car may misinterpret who has the right of way, but it should be the basis of the decisions of what to hit.
I think we're returning to the idea of a "Home Computer" vs a "Personal Computer / Workstation" Android and iOS really simplify things down. This to me is like the return of "Home Computers" C64, Apple//, etc. These systems you either switch them on and load right into ROM based BASIC, or you pop a cartridge or floppy in and start it up your application. Very limited functionality, but very simple to use. "Personal Computers", which are mote like workstations, are significantly more powerful, and flexible, but harder to administer, which most people aren't capable of, and have no interest in.
For most people, they want their computer to operate like an appliance. Can they open their email? Can they listen to their music? Take a picture? Watch Netflix / Youtube? Go on Facebook / Instagram / Snapchat / Whatever new trending social media app? Android and iOS are good for this. PCs (running Windows, macOS, or GNU/Linux) still offer more power when it's required... usually for business or power users.
Businesses aren't going to be sending people overnight in a car. People who travel for business overnight expect hotel rooms. Self driving cars are too slow for business too.
I can never get as good a sleep in a car or airplane as I can a bed. Hence the name red-eye flight.
"I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/g...) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation)."
Call me when even 1% of all hotel TV sets have a USB-C port. Go ahead. I'll wait. I expect to hear from you by 2030 or so.
The problem is, the people making the decisions about these things are assuming that people are buying computers to use with monitors, and dropped the feature because most recent monitors don't even have HDMI.
I did a quick check on Amazon for monitors. Tons of results for monitors with HDMI, and surprisingly, still VGA.
Even looking for 4K monitors returns lots of results for monitors with HDMI, in addition to displayport, where I guess USB-C/Displayport cables would be the option?
I agree HDMI is still a more ubiquitous video cable, I usually pack my mini-displayport to VGA/HDMI/HDMI cable to connect my laptop to whatever projector I will run across.
Another trend I see is overly complicated touch screen soda dispensers. WTF? Much simpler to use a soda fountain where every flavor had their own spout and push button or cup switch.
M-DISC are writable optical discs compatible with DVD / Blu-ray discs (boosting the chance of finding a compatible drive in the future) that claim to be "inert to oxidation", which is the cause of bit-rot.
Apple has a history of dropping old well established standards about 2 to 3 years before people can see they were right. It's actually a bit uncanny how good they have been done guessing correctly.
a few example: floppy drives
I feel they were way too early with dropping floppy support. The iMac in 1998 was the first one to ship without a floppy. They did not ship with a CD Writer, and USB flash drives had yet to be invented. Apple said they were obsolete because Internet, yet online "cloud storage" wasn't really a thing, and even "emailing files to yourself" was difficult because most email providers at the time had ridiculously small mailbox sizes. Plus although high speed residential internet was growing in popularity, it was by no means widespread.
On the positive side, between USB floppy drives, and replacements for the abomination of the "hockey puck mouse", helped to drive the market for USB peripherals, which helped support on the PC side.
Most Windows 2000 machines were corporate, and any corporation which doesn't firewall deserves to fail. Any corporation which doesn't firewall windows deserves to fail twice.
XP and Server 2003 were based on 2000 code. The 2000 code was leaked in 2004. It's very likely code for 2000 could be used to develop vulnerabilities that would affect XP.
This is normal of Microsoft; taking what now is a desktop OS and bolting on features to make a Server edition,
Examples:
Windows 2000 --> Server 2000 Windows XP --> Server 2003 and Server 2003 R2
Server 2003 was slightly different and more developed than XP. Server 2003 "SP0" was roughly equivalent to XP SP1.
When "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" for x86-64 bit processors was released, it was actually based on Server 2003, and had the same service pack level as Server 2003, not WindowsXP.
Other than that Microsoft kept NT Client and Server at identical kernels.
Windows 2000 wasn't that popular. At that time most people were using 98 or ME, and the operating system they upgraded to was XP. 2000 was a relatively obscure system, respected, but no more popular than its predecessor, Windows NT 4.
That said, WIndows was closed source. Significant parts of OS X are open source. I know less of iOS is open than, say, macOS, but it'd be interesting to know how much this really adds to the understanding of how iOS works.
Windows 2000 source code was leaked in 2004. At that point XP and Server 2003 were the flagship products, though there was a very good chance that vulnerabilities found in 2000 were still relevant.
Microsoft doesn’t completely rewrite their OS for every new version, they start with the source from a previous version. Consider “WannaCry”: Microsoft released patches for Windows XP through Windows 10. Consider that for every security patch, there’s usually a release for every supported version of Windows (with lots of patches still written and released for XP for users with service contracts, or running patched as POS2009, or as Embedded).
XP/2003 were only minor upgrades to 2000. Even though there was fairly significant refactoring for Vista/2008, many vulnerabilities are common between the platforms.
In 2006, there was Security bulletin “MS06-015”, a vulnerability in Windows Explorer which impacted Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Server 2003, though Microsoft elected to not patch Windows 9x due to the work required (and the product going EOL shortly).
Is Tesla going to set up locations all over the state or will they concentrate their sales and service operations in major cities?
It's very common that the less common the vehicle make, the more focused their presence is in large cities.
GM and Ford seem to be in almost every pissass village, but you need to go to a town, not a village to find a Toyota dealer. You then have to go to a city to get a BMW or Porche. You then have to go to a large city to get Tesla or Ferrari.
Especially for Windows 8 machines, why the hell should they be forced to run older and likely not updated ( or updated as fast ) versions of office when the OS itself is supported for 4 years yet when office 2019 comes out?
Note that LibreOffice dropped support for OSX 10.8 (2012) and required various Linux components (Kernel/GTK) from 2006.
I wasn't aware that LibreOffice was a large corporation that prided itself on backwards compatibility and being the default go to for an office suite. Here I thought it was a mostly volunteer Open Source effort that didn't have gobs of money to throw at people to keep maximum compatibility with different versions of operating systems.
By comparison when Office 2010 was released, XP (which was still dominant on business desktop, just like 7 is now) was supported, even though it was in extended support that lasted till 2014.
Office 2013 only supported 7 and newer, even though Vista was in extended support till 2017. Office 2016 likewise only supported 7 or newer.
Some people seem to need another car to guide them. You could be doing 68MPH in the right lane of the interstate with a 65 limit, with the left lane completely empty. The same people will come up really fast behind you, then follow you at about a 3 foot following distance. Even though there's plenty of room to go around.
If they do pass they will pull in with maybe 3 feet in front of you. Again left lane is empty so there's no rush to move over before building up a 2-second gap.
Traffic lights with sensors. They won't trigger unless you're stopped at the line. I've seen people stop like that and thought "what are you doing?" and sure enough they don't get their protected green arrow when the lights change.
If the choice is a 30% slowdown or a massive highly dangerous security flaw, the developers will pick the 30% slowdown.
As it is it seems a lot of developers choose "30% slowdown" over "spend some time to write not shit code".
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" gets turned to "Do no optimization whatsoever, have no understanding of underlying hardware, and pick the latest trendiest framework that runs on top of 5 layers of framework to provide 6502 performance from an i7."
The real way to do it is to put a big screen TV in it, and play ads for the duration of the trip. You could even do games (for a fee) while en route. Play against the car next to you.
I've already seen taxis with video ads, while I'm already paying for the service.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
You don't WANT that many fast chargers. In fact, there's at least three reasons why you want fast charging to be the LEAST frequently used charging option.
And those three reasons are ?
Not the GP, but that I can think of:
-Fast charge is harder on the batteries than a trickle charge. So your batteries won't wear out as quick.
-Trickle charging overnight can help stabilize the peak demand from the electrical utilities (usually demand is highest during the day, low over night). In a fictitious Utopian world you could charge at a discount rate where the utility could switch on and off your charger based on total grid supply vs. demand, especially with unreliable renewables like wind. If you're arriving home for the night, you don't really care when over the next 12 hours your car charges, versus having to get a full charge in the next half hour at a super charger.
And windshields - seriously. It won't be long before it will be cheaper to paper the inside of the car with displays, and we'll just be able to display whatever scenery or videos we want. Myself, I'll have to have scenery to avoid sickness.
Which is why passenger trains, busses, and passenger jets don't have windows...
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The curved edges are a pretty stupid design IMO based on my experience with the S8.
-It's hard to hold the phone without a case and not accidentally touch the edge (it's also hard to hold the phone at all without a case since it's made out of slippery aluminum and glass)
-The image and colors are distorted on the edges, yet the fan boys say "Oooo, it feels like you're immersed in the content". A flat screen with this sort of distortion would be downrated.
-To allow access to the sides, cases provide no protection for the sides.
Designs like this seem to appeal to those that go "oooo, shiny", but they are impractical to people that actually work and take their phone out in the real world, and aren't just tech bloggers.
How will it choose if it has to decide between killing 4 people or 1?
I assume it can just follow right of way laws.If 4 people that jump out in the middle of the road, and the car has the choice of hitting them, or 2 pedestrians lawfully on the sidewalk, or kill the driver by plowing into a concrete post, it should hit the 4 pedestrians in the road.
It's possible the car may misinterpret who has the right of way, but it should be the basis of the decisions of what to hit.
In some ways, what was old is new again.
I think we're returning to the idea of a "Home Computer" vs a "Personal Computer / Workstation" Android and iOS really simplify things down. This to me is like the return of "Home Computers" C64, Apple //, etc. These systems you either switch them on and load right into ROM based BASIC, or you pop a cartridge or floppy in and start it up your application. Very limited functionality, but very simple to use. "Personal Computers", which are mote like workstations, are significantly more powerful, and flexible, but harder to administer, which most people aren't capable of, and have no interest in.
For most people, they want their computer to operate like an appliance. Can they open their email? Can they listen to their music? Take a picture? Watch Netflix / Youtube? Go on Facebook / Instagram / Snapchat / Whatever new trending social media app? Android and iOS are good for this. PCs (running Windows, macOS, or GNU/Linux) still offer more power when it's required... usually for business or power users.
Businesses aren't going to be sending people overnight in a car. People who travel for business overnight expect hotel rooms. Self driving cars are too slow for business too.
I can never get as good a sleep in a car or airplane as I can a bed. Hence the name red-eye flight.
once i paid my time warner bill using the wrong expire date.
My bank issued me a new credit card number as a "security precaution".
I logged into Paypal to update my number and it already had the new number. . .
Plus it seems if a reader can't read the chip after 3 attempts, it will let it go through as a mag strip tranaction.
What next? Making computers where the bits and pieces are welded on so one can't upgrade it?
Isn't that basically what Apple has been doing for years?
The IT world needs your commentary, Mr. Stallman.
Give him some time. He needs to wait for his cron job to finish. He surfs the internet as follows:
"I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/g...) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation)."
Call me when even 1% of all hotel TV sets have a USB-C port. Go ahead. I'll wait. I expect to hear from you by 2030 or so.
The problem is, the people making the decisions about these things are assuming that people are buying computers to use with monitors, and dropped the feature because most recent monitors don't even have HDMI.
I did a quick check on Amazon for monitors. Tons of results for monitors with HDMI, and surprisingly, still VGA.
Even looking for 4K monitors returns lots of results for monitors with HDMI, in addition to displayport, where I guess USB-C/Displayport cables would be the option?
I agree HDMI is still a more ubiquitous video cable, I usually pack my mini-displayport to VGA/HDMI/HDMI cable to connect my laptop to whatever projector I will run across.
Another trend I see is overly complicated touch screen soda dispensers. WTF? Much simpler to use a soda fountain where every flavor had their own spout and push button or cup switch.
Optical discs have been plagued by bit-rot.
M-DISC are writable optical discs compatible with DVD / Blu-ray discs (boosting the chance of finding a compatible drive in the future) that claim to be "inert to oxidation", which is the cause of bit-rot.
Apple has a history of dropping old well established standards about 2 to 3 years before people can see they were right. It's actually a bit uncanny how good they have been done guessing correctly.
a few example:
floppy drives
I feel they were way too early with dropping floppy support. The iMac in 1998 was the first one to ship without a floppy. They did not ship with a CD Writer, and USB flash drives had yet to be invented. Apple said they were obsolete because Internet, yet online "cloud storage" wasn't really a thing, and even "emailing files to yourself" was difficult because most email providers at the time had ridiculously small mailbox sizes. Plus although high speed residential internet was growing in popularity, it was by no means widespread.
On the positive side, between USB floppy drives, and replacements for the abomination of the "hockey puck mouse", helped to drive the market for USB peripherals, which helped support on the PC side.
Most Windows 2000 machines were corporate, and any corporation which doesn't firewall deserves to fail. Any corporation which doesn't firewall windows deserves to fail twice.
XP and Server 2003 were based on 2000 code. The 2000 code was leaked in 2004. It's very likely code for 2000 could be used to develop vulnerabilities that would affect XP.
This is normal of Microsoft; taking what now is a desktop OS and bolting on features to make a Server edition,
Examples:
Windows 2000 --> Server 2000
Windows XP --> Server 2003 and Server 2003 R2
Server 2003 was slightly different and more developed than XP. Server 2003 "SP0" was roughly equivalent to XP SP1.
When "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" for x86-64 bit processors was released, it was actually based on Server 2003, and had the same service pack level as Server 2003, not WindowsXP.
Other than that Microsoft kept NT Client and Server at identical kernels.
Windows 2000 wasn't that popular. At that time most people were using 98 or ME, and the operating system they upgraded to was XP. 2000 was a relatively obscure system, respected, but no more popular than its predecessor, Windows NT 4.
That said, WIndows was closed source. Significant parts of OS X are open source. I know less of iOS is open than, say, macOS, but it'd be interesting to know how much this really adds to the understanding of how iOS works.
Windows 2000 source code was leaked in 2004. At that point XP and Server 2003 were the flagship products, though there was a very good chance that vulnerabilities found in 2000 were still relevant.
Microsoft doesn’t completely rewrite their OS for every new version, they start with the source from a previous version. Consider “WannaCry”: Microsoft released patches for Windows XP through Windows 10. Consider that for every security patch, there’s usually a release for every supported version of Windows (with lots of patches still written and released for XP for users with service contracts, or running patched as POS2009, or as Embedded).
XP/2003 were only minor upgrades to 2000. Even though there was fairly significant refactoring for Vista/2008, many vulnerabilities are common between the platforms.
In 2006, there was Security bulletin “MS06-015”, a vulnerability in Windows Explorer which impacted Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Server 2003, though Microsoft elected to not patch Windows 9x due to the work required (and the product going EOL shortly).
Is Tesla going to set up locations all over the state or will they concentrate their sales and service operations in major cities?
It's very common that the less common the vehicle make, the more focused their presence is in large cities.
GM and Ford seem to be in almost every pissass village, but you need to go to a town, not a village to find a Toyota dealer. You then have to go to a city to get a BMW or Porche. You then have to go to a large city to get Tesla or Ferrari.
If the fucking OS is still supported why wouldn't Installing the latest damn office suite still be available.
Support ends:
Win 7 - Jan. 14 2020
Win 8/8.1 - Jan. 10 2023
Server 2012R2 - Oct. 10 2023
Especially for Windows 8 machines, why the hell should they be forced to run older and likely not updated ( or updated as fast ) versions of office when the OS itself is supported for 4 years yet when office 2019 comes out?
Note that LibreOffice dropped support for OSX 10.8 (2012) and required various Linux components (Kernel/GTK) from 2006.
I wasn't aware that LibreOffice was a large corporation that prided itself on backwards compatibility and being the default go to for an office suite. Here I thought it was a mostly volunteer Open Source effort that didn't have gobs of money to throw at people to keep maximum compatibility with different versions of operating systems.
By comparison when Office 2010 was released, XP (which was still dominant on business desktop, just like 7 is now) was supported, even though it was in extended support that lasted till 2014.
Office 2013 only supported 7 and newer, even though Vista was in extended support till 2017. Office 2016 likewise only supported 7 or newer.
Some people seem to need another car to guide them. You could be doing 68MPH in the right lane of the interstate with a 65 limit, with the left lane completely empty. The same people will come up really fast behind you, then follow you at about a 3 foot following distance. Even though there's plenty of room to go around.
If they do pass they will pull in with maybe 3 feet in front of you. Again left lane is empty so there's no rush to move over before building up a 2-second gap.
Traffic lights with sensors. They won't trigger unless you're stopped at the line. I've seen people stop like that and thought "what are you doing?" and sure enough they don't get their protected green arrow when the lights change.
In dense European cities, parking is so tight that I've heard "bumpers are for bumping", and there were a lot more cars with scuffed bumpers.
There's a reason why people spend countless hours on youtube and the endless videos of exactly that often have 100k+ views each.
Russian dashcam videos?
If the choice is a 30% slowdown or a massive highly dangerous security flaw, the developers will pick the 30% slowdown.
As it is it seems a lot of developers choose "30% slowdown" over "spend some time to write not shit code".
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" gets turned to "Do no optimization whatsoever, have no understanding of underlying hardware, and pick the latest trendiest framework that runs on top of 5 layers of framework to provide 6502 performance from an i7."
The real way to do it is to put a big screen TV in it, and play ads for the duration of the trip. You could even do games (for a fee) while en route. Play against the car next to you.
I've already seen taxis with video ads, while I'm already paying for the service.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
You don't WANT that many fast chargers. In fact, there's at least three reasons why you want fast charging to be the LEAST frequently used charging option.
And those three reasons are ?
Not the GP, but that I can think of:
-Fast charge is harder on the batteries than a trickle charge. So your batteries won't wear out as quick.
-Trickle charging overnight can help stabilize the peak demand from the electrical utilities (usually demand is highest during the day, low over night). In a fictitious Utopian world you could charge at a discount rate where the utility could switch on and off your charger based on total grid supply vs. demand, especially with unreliable renewables like wind. If you're arriving home for the night, you don't really care when over the next 12 hours your car charges, versus having to get a full charge in the next half hour at a super charger.
And windshields - seriously. It won't be long before it will be cheaper to paper the inside of the car with displays, and we'll just be able to display whatever scenery or videos we want. Myself, I'll have to have scenery to avoid sickness.
Which is why passenger trains, busses, and passenger jets don't have windows...