Which comes back to my point: Unix's seconds since epoch does not account for leapseconds and thus isn't UTC compliant.
Though I disagree somewhat. Leaving it up to the UI layer results in different representations of time to the user for different applications. I get it time is hard to deal with but it should be hard for programmers, not hard for users.
Define "Android" and what it is you meant by public standard. The way you wrote I thought you were talking about the base OS. What I was saying is that the base OS is irrelevant as what people are solely interested in is the services on it.
Are you proposing that Google provide their Play Services as an open standard? Or are you proposing the conditions of adding the Play Services should be made public (IIRC they pretty much are, or at least were since I saw them a few years back, which is how they got into this legal issue in the first place).
Misunderstanding the point. People don't buy Android phones for Android. People buy Android phones for the ecosystem that is "Android". Android itself is irrelevant as you wouldn't buy a smartphone without the ability to use the Google Play Store and limited to manufacturer's shitty apps in their shitty app store.
However the problem is that the Play Store does not come at no cost to the vendors, they have to comply with a range of conditions, some of which are anti-competitive. Which is why you stopped seeing phones shipped with Bing as the default search engine despite MS paying good money for that privilage to a couple of vendors.
(which Google Play then nags me to update every time it runs)
You need to go to the app information screen and select "disable". This will uninstall updates and basically mark the app as non existant as far as the OS is concerned. You don't get free space back because they sit on a separate read-only partition, but you do recover the space from the updates, won't see the app work or any ability to launch it, and Google Play will not think its installed let alone ask you to update it.
Please learn what we are talking about. Android is most definitely free and open source too and doesn't come with any Google related connections at all. You are just not the customer in the slightest and neither your money nor your information is in any way related to what is being discussed.
What you are talking about not being free is Google Play Services which come default with nearly all Android phones sold in the west.
Android has the ability to "disable" any built in app since like version 5.0 or something like that. You don't need a 3rd party app to do it. Just long press the icon, go to the app information, or do whatever you need to do to get to the information screen about the app on your device, and click disable.
Pissed me off because I wanted the 127 mb of space back
You don't get the space back any more than you get some additional space on D: by deleting a file on C:. The partition layout is given by the vendor and often not actually completely filled. Pre-shipped applications sit on a read-only parition that you don't have access to.
Leap second support has been in Linux and other Unix systems forever.
This isn't an article about who coped with leap seconds first. Windows has done this for a long time too. This is an article saying that Windows is the first system to give a UTC complaint solution to the problem. Linux / Unix don't currently ever return 23:59:60 as a valid time for any normal time related system call.
Compared to what? 35mm film has a dynamic range of about 12-13 stops. That's in the order of 4000-8000:1 contrast ratio. Your typical cinema projector or TV for which the finals were mastered had a contrast ratio of 250:1 and the final masters were made with this in mind.
The original film has a much higher dynamic range than any final master of these old movies you have seen before, and a much higher dynamic range than any production produced to 8bit standards that pre-date the HDR specs.
That's a lot of words to basically say, they remastered something.
Good. Too long we have stupidfied ourselves by distilling a complicated process with highly varied results down to a single verb. We should be using a lot of words to describe complex processes.
and result is something that cannot keep up with its own engine
This is nothing new. There are a large number of devices on the market which thermally throttle. That said it is all Apple's fault since they were the ones that fetishised thinness. The Macbook Air performed horribly compared to laptops with the same CPU on CPU bound tasks for this reason. They aren't the only ones either. I get a 40% speed improvement on CPU bound tasks by pointing a fan at the back of my Surface Pro 3. The benefits are less good on the SP4 where I only get a 5% increase but none the less if your laptop is thin chances are you will thermally throttle.
The only real WTF is why anyone thought a chassis which already has problems should have an i9 in it. It's like putting a Ferrari engine in a Fiat 500 and keeping the original radiator.
If the ship was actually carrying that much gold, it would have been discovered years ago. I'm pretty sure Russia would like to have it back and would have started searching in 1905.
Why would it have been discovered? There's a lot of ocean out there, it's hard enough to find something when we know where to look, let alone something that disapeared before the age of GPS.
I'm pretty sure Russia would have been searching for it too. Do you have any evidence that they didn't?
To be clear I was talking about the interface itself. I.e. the way a user will interact with applications (start, stop, manipulate, change, find files, etc) I fully agree the settings are an absolute clusterfuck for newbies and techies alike! They are getting better to the point that any reason you would now have for accessing the control panel is usually done via a link from the settings panel (rather than accessing the control panel directly) but still they have a long way to go. And when they are done that part will still suck because frankly the layout and text scheme of the settings panel is terrible. I fully agree for power users it regressed. If you thought I held this up as a good example then I wasn't clear. Windows is another example of bad compromises for power users.
What's a balanced meal? I just Googled it and got a bazillion results.
That's what a balanced meal is. a varied mix of things. No need to go vegan, or paleo, or keto, or any other bullshit. Just mix your mains with veges. Eat some fruits. If you're not intollerant get a bit of dairy in you.
Don't eat every meal with a maxi-sized fries. Don't only eat your protien and shun the greens. The idea of a balanced meal really hasn't changed in many years. It's still the same thing your grandma used to put on your table.
So even with so many results they are quite consistent. A lot of them repeat advice that has been standing for a long time: veges are important, carbs and protiens should be mixed in smaller portions. Even the sites which don't directly deal with these core parts of food will make recommendations that fit in there too.
But really the best advice you can probably get is go get your grandma to cook for you, but then resist the desire to eat the entire plate (because we all love grandma's cooking so much, and she knows it and will heap it on). Yeah shitty advice I know. I always put on weight when I go for a visit, but not because the food is unhealthy.
... care to list them? Because it has none of the problems in the context of the change MS is currently making to the commandline. It sounds like you're wishing for something that isn't being discussed.
Except that wasn't your response. Your response quoted a subset of the original message and didn't reply to all of it. Had you not quoted the text or had you quoted the entire requirement list your reply would have been in a very different context.
The end result is someone didn't understand the conversation. Regardless of how you defend it, someone didn't understand. You failed to communicate properly.
Google's _FREE_ Android implementation that can be used in any form
Yes in any form allowed by the very long contract you need to sign in order to make that _FREE_ implementation look anything like the one you see on a normal Android handset.
You clearly have never seen a raw build of the AOSP. I don't blame you. No one has. Every aftermarket ROM is in breach of the terms and conditions of the modifications they make in order to make it functional as a smartphone because AOSP is effectively useless without the very much not at all free strings attached.
The truth is that people are choosing Google because their competitors are shit
Which people? This has nothing to do with end users or customers. No Samsung, HTC, et al are choosing Google because they are forced to chose Google or else lose access to the core part of Android: the Play Store.
There is literally nothing that prevents anyone from setting up competing services
You can come up with the best search engine in the world, give free blowjobs to executives, and even pay them to include it (like Microsoft have attempted in the past (money, bit I assume)) but they still won't chose you because they can't due to the contract that Google is applying.
You can not understand the ruling all you want, that doesn't change the anti-competitive practices right up there with Microsoft destroying Netscape in the 90s.
Same with Safari and some other apps on iOS. I would like to have te EU make Apple change iOS so that I can choose another app as the standard, like on a desktop OS.
Not at all anything like Safari and iOS. Apple control iOS as the only vendor who manufactures the hardware and software. On top of that they are a small player with only 20% of the market share.
Furthermore Apple's actions aren't anti-competitive. You can go try and cut a deal with Apple and Apple can say no. That's not an antitrust issue. It's when you try and cut a deal with Samsung but Google as a 3rd party says no that someone is being anti-competitive.
Because they are afraid of laws being actually applied with a meaningful punishment to large corporations? Don't worry man, less than a year and you can go back to your peaceful life of being stomped on and screwed like the capitalists intended.
Like ensuring people follow laws? How horrible of them. Imagine what would happen in a world where corporations are held to the same legal standard as people. It would be madness!
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Which comes back to my point: Unix's seconds since epoch does not account for leapseconds and thus isn't UTC compliant.
Though I disagree somewhat. Leaving it up to the UI layer results in different representations of time to the user for different applications. I get it time is hard to deal with but it should be hard for programmers, not hard for users.
I am expression confusion now.
Define "Android" and what it is you meant by public standard. The way you wrote I thought you were talking about the base OS. What I was saying is that the base OS is irrelevant as what people are solely interested in is the services on it.
Are you proposing that Google provide their Play Services as an open standard? Or are you proposing the conditions of adding the Play Services should be made public (IIRC they pretty much are, or at least were since I saw them a few years back, which is how they got into this legal issue in the first place).
Misunderstanding the point. People don't buy Android phones for Android. People buy Android phones for the ecosystem that is "Android". Android itself is irrelevant as you wouldn't buy a smartphone without the ability to use the Google Play Store and limited to manufacturer's shitty apps in their shitty app store.
However the problem is that the Play Store does not come at no cost to the vendors, they have to comply with a range of conditions, some of which are anti-competitive. Which is why you stopped seeing phones shipped with Bing as the default search engine despite MS paying good money for that privilage to a couple of vendors.
Utter fucking bullshit. No user WANTS this junk on their phone.
Just so we are clear we are talking specifically about Google Play Services, not some shitty game that comes pre-bundled on your phone.
(which Google Play then nags me to update every time it runs)
You need to go to the app information screen and select "disable". This will uninstall updates and basically mark the app as non existant as far as the OS is concerned. You don't get free space back because they sit on a separate read-only partition, but you do recover the space from the updates, won't see the app work or any ability to launch it, and Google Play will not think its installed let alone ask you to update it.
First, Android is not free.
Please learn what we are talking about. Android is most definitely free and open source too and doesn't come with any Google related connections at all.
You are just not the customer in the slightest and neither your money nor your information is in any way related to what is being discussed.
What you are talking about not being free is Google Play Services which come default with nearly all Android phones sold in the west.
Android has the ability to "disable" any built in app since like version 5.0 or something like that. You don't need a 3rd party app to do it. Just long press the icon, go to the app information, or do whatever you need to do to get to the information screen about the app on your device, and click disable.
Pissed me off because I wanted the 127 mb of space back
You don't get the space back any more than you get some additional space on D: by deleting a file on C:. The partition layout is given by the vendor and often not actually completely filled. Pre-shipped applications sit on a read-only parition that you don't have access to.
Leap second support has been in Linux and other Unix systems forever.
This isn't an article about who coped with leap seconds first. Windows has done this for a long time too. This is an article saying that Windows is the first system to give a UTC complaint solution to the problem. Linux / Unix don't currently ever return 23:59:60 as a valid time for any normal time related system call.
Ugh. Man, Give me a fucking break
There. I remastered your post. Looks a bit different than the original.
Compared to what? 35mm film has a dynamic range of about 12-13 stops. That's in the order of 4000-8000:1 contrast ratio. Your typical cinema projector or TV for which the finals were mastered had a contrast ratio of 250:1 and the final masters were made with this in mind.
The original film has a much higher dynamic range than any final master of these old movies you have seen before, and a much higher dynamic range than any production produced to 8bit standards that pre-date the HDR specs.
That's a lot of words to basically say, they remastered something.
Good. Too long we have stupidfied ourselves by distilling a complicated process with highly varied results down to a single verb. We should be using a lot of words to describe complex processes.
and result is something that cannot keep up with its own engine
This is nothing new. There are a large number of devices on the market which thermally throttle. That said it is all Apple's fault since they were the ones that fetishised thinness. The Macbook Air performed horribly compared to laptops with the same CPU on CPU bound tasks for this reason. They aren't the only ones either. I get a 40% speed improvement on CPU bound tasks by pointing a fan at the back of my Surface Pro 3. The benefits are less good on the SP4 where I only get a 5% increase but none the less if your laptop is thin chances are you will thermally throttle.
The only real WTF is why anyone thought a chassis which already has problems should have an i9 in it. It's like putting a Ferrari engine in a Fiat 500 and keeping the original radiator.
By definition GLASS BREAKS
What dictionary did you roll up and smoke?
If the ship was actually carrying that much gold, it would have been discovered years ago. I'm pretty sure Russia would like to have it back and would have started searching in 1905.
Why would it have been discovered? There's a lot of ocean out there, it's hard enough to find something when we know where to look, let alone something that disapeared before the age of GPS.
I'm pretty sure Russia would have been searching for it too. Do you have any evidence that they didn't?
To be clear I was talking about the interface itself. I.e. the way a user will interact with applications (start, stop, manipulate, change, find files, etc) I fully agree the settings are an absolute clusterfuck for newbies and techies alike! They are getting better to the point that any reason you would now have for accessing the control panel is usually done via a link from the settings panel (rather than accessing the control panel directly) but still they have a long way to go. And when they are done that part will still suck because frankly the layout and text scheme of the settings panel is terrible. I fully agree for power users it regressed. If you thought I held this up as a good example then I wasn't clear. Windows is another example of bad compromises for power users.
What's a balanced meal? I just Googled it and got a bazillion results.
That's what a balanced meal is. a varied mix of things. No need to go vegan, or paleo, or keto, or any other bullshit. Just mix your mains with veges. Eat some fruits. If you're not intollerant get a bit of dairy in you.
Don't eat every meal with a maxi-sized fries. Don't only eat your protien and shun the greens. The idea of a balanced meal really hasn't changed in many years. It's still the same thing your grandma used to put on your table.
Also you got a bazillion results, I got 459 million. But let's look at them sequentially:
https://www.alimentarium.org/e... - Quarter carb, quarter protien and half veg/fruit
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/e... - this one has a slightly larger carb portion at 2/5th
https://www.verywellfit.com/an... - this one discusses in a different context but mentions you should balance fats, fibres and protiens
https://www.health.com/nutriti... - same story, don't forget your veges in every meal and don't be afriad of fats
https://www.birdseye.co.uk/nut... - what's a balanced meal? Protien, carbs, and veges
https://www.gousto.co.uk/blog/... - quarter protien, quarter carb, half veg
https://www.chicken.ca/health/... - this one says you should have a mix of protien carbs and veges but doesn't give you ratios.
https://www.realsimple.com/foo... - google tossed a few recepies into the results too but you'll see they fit the above advice.
So even with so many results they are quite consistent. A lot of them repeat advice that has been standing for a long time: veges are important, carbs and protiens should be mixed in smaller portions. Even the sites which don't directly deal with these core parts of food will make recommendations that fit in there too.
But really the best advice you can probably get is go get your grandma to cook for you, but then resist the desire to eat the entire plate (because we all love grandma's cooking so much, and she knows it and will heap it on). Yeah shitty advice I know. I always put on weight when I go for a visit, but not because the food is unhealthy.
... care to list them? Because it has none of the problems in the context of the change MS is currently making to the commandline. It sounds like you're wishing for something that isn't being discussed.
Oh I fully agree. Just because it's not anti-trust related doesn't make the modern forced defaults an anti users shitstorm.
Except that wasn't your response. Your response quoted a subset of the original message and didn't reply to all of it. Had you not quoted the text or had you quoted the entire requirement list your reply would have been in a very different context.
The end result is someone didn't understand the conversation. Regardless of how you defend it, someone didn't understand. You failed to communicate properly.
Google's _FREE_ Android implementation that can be used in any form
Yes in any form allowed by the very long contract you need to sign in order to make that _FREE_ implementation look anything like the one you see on a normal Android handset.
You clearly have never seen a raw build of the AOSP. I don't blame you. No one has. Every aftermarket ROM is in breach of the terms and conditions of the modifications they make in order to make it functional as a smartphone because AOSP is effectively useless without the very much not at all free strings attached.
The truth is that people are choosing Google because their competitors are shit
Which people? This has nothing to do with end users or customers. No Samsung, HTC, et al are choosing Google because they are forced to chose Google or else lose access to the core part of Android: the Play Store.
There is literally nothing that prevents anyone from setting up competing services
You can come up with the best search engine in the world, give free blowjobs to executives, and even pay them to include it (like Microsoft have attempted in the past (money, bit I assume)) but they still won't chose you because they can't due to the contract that Google is applying.
You can not understand the ruling all you want, that doesn't change the anti-competitive practices right up there with Microsoft destroying Netscape in the 90s.
Same with Safari and some other apps on iOS. I would like to have te EU make Apple change iOS so that I can choose another app as the standard, like on a desktop OS.
Not at all anything like Safari and iOS. Apple control iOS as the only vendor who manufactures the hardware and software. On top of that they are a small player with only 20% of the market share.
Furthermore Apple's actions aren't anti-competitive. You can go try and cut a deal with Apple and Apple can say no. That's not an antitrust issue. It's when you try and cut a deal with Samsung but Google as a 3rd party says no that someone is being anti-competitive.
This just an example of why the UK voted Brexit
Because they are afraid of laws being actually applied with a meaningful punishment to large corporations? Don't worry man, less than a year and you can go back to your peaceful life of being stomped on and screwed like the capitalists intended.
Like ensuring people follow laws? How horrible of them. Imagine what would happen in a world where corporations are held to the same legal standard as people. It would be madness!