Yes, every poster on here is some official liaison officer for some corporation. There's no such thing as personal interest articles anymore.
Does anyone disagree? Who's paying to shill against me?
Mind you I do like how Rei is rubbing the smug shits' on Slashdot who insisted that Tesla would be bankrupt next month (for the past 24 months running) noses in it.
nobody is throwing out games because they're four years old.
You're right. They don't throw them out. They throw them in a drawer and let them get dusty. Back in the real world console[currentgen+1] has just been released, along with awesomegame[version+1]. Now watch your fun game sit at the loading screen endlessly with the text "Waiting for other players" flashing on the screen endlessly.
Just because you're still able to throw a disc in and turn it on doesn't make it any less obsolete.
Except for the part where in the real world, barely anyone, ever, connects the Switch to a TV screen.
Errr You live in a different real world than the rest of the population clearly. Most Switches spend their home lives connected to the TV. Being portable is a bonus that many people ignore.
Now I truly admit there is a sense of irony that I wanted to play the Switch today, pulled out the controller, turned on the TV and... damn the wife took it to work.
The whole raison d'être of the Nintendo Switch and its success is the ability to seamlessly switch from portable console on the move to big screen in your living room.
No. The raison d'être of the Nintendo Switch is to play the latest Nintendo games. The fact that you can play them portably is a bonus.
Of course all of the above will come with an extra "Nintendo tax" in the price.
A tax worthy of paying for a decent and fun games library. Remember that word? Fun? You can keep your AAA garbage.
Well how do you know the domain name you want is unused?
Did you scan every port on the address it pointed to? Did you check all DNS entries to see if there is an active subdomain? Did you check the MX records to see if someone's getting email from it? Did you check with all products out there to see if someone didn't just block that domain because they produce a product that relies on hijacking DNS in order to configure, and they registered the domain to ensure they don't end up trampling on a legitimate site?
but is this the direction for your technology company?
Is this the direction for a company dedicated to the art of making money? I mean I understand what you're saying, but the share price is saying that the company is quite healthy.
I mean the last time Intel had a tech CEO was Barrett, and he left the company with a pretty damn poor shareprice compared to today. Those damn finance people seem to have done quite well (save for the 2008 market crash).
The board and share holders don't care about exciting new technology or faster and faster computers.
Windows 10 must be more than halfway through driving consumers onto a much faster student-oriented platform
If you define the half way point as only just becoming the most popular OS currently used (exceeding Windows 7 last month) then sure, they are driving people "away". In 2 years Windows has gone from 25% to 40% market share.
Incidentally Chrome OS is 0.32% down from 0.54% 2 years ago. Your superior OS is sitting at 2.7% down from a peak of 2.96% in 2017. And Mac's 10.6% while on a slow upwards trend is barely above the 10.1% it was a year ago when it suddenly reversed it's upwards trends and dipped down over a full percent.
Consumers have voted with their wallet. They didn't care.
You are not an audience. You are but an insignificant voice in a vast sea of consumers who happily continue using products that these UX designers produce and therefore clearly they must be doing something right because profits aren't down.
Nothing will change from isolated complaints, not when people keep using the software.
and picking up a little ROM cartridge with a full game on it.
Only to insert it into your console and have to download a 10GB "update" to say nothing of "don't forget the second half of the game is DLC" or the games which are episodic.
Welcome to the brave new world. Physical media means nothing and gains you nothing over the download these days.
How is paying teenagers to silently send over private communications without broadcasting that fact not a violation of existing privacy laws?
The internet is a public place. You have no expectation to privacy without encryption. If you send me a message I expect anyone to be listening if they want. If you send me a private encrypted message I expect the 3rd party to get nothing but garbage.
If you paid for the device before agreeing to the required "contract"
The location services are optional which provides the device additional functionality beyond it's core and must be expressly activated after reading the license. You paying for a mobile phone is entirely irrelevant.
Furthermore, cases wouldn't be "privacy" cases, that's a straw man.
Let me quote you the relevant part of the discussion: "I hope this practice get squashed under avalanche of privacy-related lawsuits."
This! I don't agree with you often, but a lot of people utterly fail to realise that the audio signatures introduced by compression are completely different than those introduced by cheap drivers and that you can hear the results regardless of what you have on your head.
Furthermore the inability to create perfectly clean bass (for example) is far less offensive than a compression artifact garbling up voice and transients.
I hope this practice get squashed under avalanche of privacy-related lawsuits.
It won't, let me explain why:
1. You expressly agreed to this data being collected and also being used in far worse ways than this. 2. No data is being sold, only a aggregated results based on data is being sold, and even then only access to this data rather than the raw dataset itself. 3. No individuals can be identified from this data so there's no privacy related effects on anyone. 4. The high bar for privacy in the USA relies on someone being materially impacted. Far worse privacy breaches have gotten nowhere with lawsuits.
then they can associate it with your identity and sell resulting location data to the highest bidder in any form without you having any say in this.
5. Except Google has never and is not now selling any information or even provided information that individually identifies a specific person without that being in control of the user. 6. You have an express say in this through the use of a Google account with an Android device and your location services being active. Furthermore Google provides you complete insight and control over your location data including the ability to delete it from its timeline service.
They don't need to actually have any business relationship or agreement with you, it is sufficient that they can fingerprint and identify your electronic device to own your data.
Actually it's quite the opposite. Without the business relationship or agreement with you they would have fuck all location data that makes these services possible which is precisely why they expressly ask you to agree to this service when you first power on your phone.
What Evoogle doing
Now the real question is that statistically based on your UID you're an adult, however based on your speech patterns you more closely match those 13 year olds who used to think replacing the S in Microsoft with a $ was somehow "cool". Does your father know you're using his Slashdot account?
How many technical articles have you submitted this week and how many of them were rejected? Is the problem Slashdot, or is it that people are more concerned with complaining rather than fixing a platform that is essentially heavily reliant on it's own users deciding what defines good content?
Not sure why I am being modded down. The "ratings" on Rotten Tomatoes mean nothing.
It means that reviews liked something. Interestingly the some total of your comment can be summarised with: I disagree with a large group of reviewers on this case, which makes your post decidedly off-topic.
I'm more interested in this magic bloatware free base image. The key part about Android is that the bloatware is part of the read only image of the phone and the apps then download on first acceptance of play store conditions. That's the reason why there is only a "disable" function but you can't fundamentally uninstall it. You can only get the bloatware back to its factory shipped condition.
Obeying this ruling will require shipping a device with a different configuration than Android builds normally do.
At what point exactly did I agree for Microsoft to slurp down 1MB worth of my private data from my phone?
Woopse, someone didn't read the EULA that came with their device. Trust me, you agreed for the things shipped with your phone to slurp away.
In any case why would you not want that app to slurp down data? Would you prefer that you had to manually open every single app before they were allowed to download anything from the internet? Can you imagine the resulting unpatched security hole nightmare?... this is a Microsoft app afterall.
Basically, boatware is anything that doesn't need to be on a restore image to make the phone immediately functional and allow convenient re-installation of desired apps.
Except on Android the shipped bloatware is part of the read only portion of the image and thus specifically part of the core restore image.
Corrosive doesn't mean instant death. Things are corrosive at different levels. Did you know Cocacola used to contain phosphoric acid? Nowadays fruit juice is quite nasty. That wonderful caffeinated substance that has both bitter and sweet notes in it's flavour? Well those bitter notes are acidic and in combination with the water corrosive.
How much torque isn't the only function. Maximum torque possible is too, as your screws get smaller the amount of torque you can apply reduces dramatically.
But that's still no justification for pentalobe which offers no benefits over torx.
Slashdot Mirror
I always thought that, nice to see it official.
Yes, every poster on here is some official liaison officer for some corporation. There's no such thing as personal interest articles anymore.
Does anyone disagree? Who's paying to shill against me?
Mind you I do like how Rei is rubbing the smug shits' on Slashdot who insisted that Tesla would be bankrupt next month (for the past 24 months running) noses in it.
nobody is throwing out games because they're four years old.
You're right. They don't throw them out. They throw them in a drawer and let them get dusty. Back in the real world console[currentgen+1] has just been released, along with awesomegame[version+1]. Now watch your fun game sit at the loading screen endlessly with the text "Waiting for other players" flashing on the screen endlessly.
Just because you're still able to throw a disc in and turn it on doesn't make it any less obsolete.
Except for the part where in the real world, barely anyone, ever, connects the Switch to a TV screen.
Errr You live in a different real world than the rest of the population clearly. Most Switches spend their home lives connected to the TV. Being portable is a bonus that many people ignore.
Now I truly admit there is a sense of irony that I wanted to play the Switch today, pulled out the controller, turned on the TV and ... damn the wife took it to work.
The whole raison d'être of the Nintendo Switch and its success is the ability to seamlessly switch from portable console on the move to big screen in your living room.
No. The raison d'être of the Nintendo Switch is to play the latest Nintendo games. The fact that you can play them portably is a bonus.
Of course all of the above will come with an extra "Nintendo tax" in the price.
A tax worthy of paying for a decent and fun games library. Remember that word? Fun? You can keep your AAA garbage.
Well how do you know the domain name you want is unused?
Did you scan every port on the address it pointed to?
Did you check all DNS entries to see if there is an active subdomain?
Did you check the MX records to see if someone's getting email from it?
Did you check with all products out there to see if someone didn't just block that domain because they produce a product that relies on hijacking DNS in order to configure, and they registered the domain to ensure they don't end up trampling on a legitimate site?
hahahahahahahahahhahahahahah. Good luck
Signed
The Internet.
It is important for the population to understand how trade effects your personal life.
Yes, especially "free trade". You know the exact opposite of what such a VPN would achieve despite "free trade" being in the title.
No you're not. It took me a while to figure out what Taco Bell had to do with VPNs.
but is this the direction for your technology company?
Is this the direction for a company dedicated to the art of making money? I mean I understand what you're saying, but the share price is saying that the company is quite healthy.
I mean the last time Intel had a tech CEO was Barrett, and he left the company with a pretty damn poor shareprice compared to today. Those damn finance people seem to have done quite well (save for the 2008 market crash).
The board and share holders don't care about exciting new technology or faster and faster computers.
Windows 10 must be more than halfway through driving consumers onto a much faster student-oriented platform
If you define the half way point as only just becoming the most popular OS currently used (exceeding Windows 7 last month) then sure, they are driving people "away". In 2 years Windows has gone from 25% to 40% market share.
Incidentally Chrome OS is 0.32% down from 0.54% 2 years ago.
Your superior OS is sitting at 2.7% down from a peak of 2.96% in 2017.
And Mac's 10.6% while on a slow upwards trend is barely above the 10.1% it was a year ago when it suddenly reversed it's upwards trends and dipped down over a full percent.
Consumers have voted with their wallet. They didn't care.
of listen to what your audience wants
You are not an audience. You are but an insignificant voice in a vast sea of consumers who happily continue using products that these UX designers produce and therefore clearly they must be doing something right because profits aren't down.
Nothing will change from isolated complaints, not when people keep using the software.
and picking up a little ROM cartridge with a full game on it.
Only to insert it into your console and have to download a 10GB "update" to say nothing of "don't forget the second half of the game is DLC" or the games which are episodic.
Welcome to the brave new world. Physical media means nothing and gains you nothing over the download these days.
How is paying teenagers to silently send over private communications without broadcasting that fact not a violation of existing privacy laws?
The internet is a public place. You have no expectation to privacy without encryption. If you send me a message I expect anyone to be listening if they want. If you send me a private encrypted message I expect the 3rd party to get nothing but garbage.
If you paid for the device before agreeing to the required "contract"
The location services are optional which provides the device additional functionality beyond it's core and must be expressly activated after reading the license. You paying for a mobile phone is entirely irrelevant.
Furthermore, cases wouldn't be "privacy" cases, that's a straw man.
Let me quote you the relevant part of the discussion: "I hope this practice get squashed under avalanche of privacy-related lawsuits."
This! I don't agree with you often, but a lot of people utterly fail to realise that the audio signatures introduced by compression are completely different than those introduced by cheap drivers and that you can hear the results regardless of what you have on your head.
Furthermore the inability to create perfectly clean bass (for example) is far less offensive than a compression artifact garbling up voice and transients.
I hope this practice get squashed under avalanche of privacy-related lawsuits.
It won't, let me explain why:
1. You expressly agreed to this data being collected and also being used in far worse ways than this.
2. No data is being sold, only a aggregated results based on data is being sold, and even then only access to this data rather than the raw dataset itself.
3. No individuals can be identified from this data so there's no privacy related effects on anyone.
4. The high bar for privacy in the USA relies on someone being materially impacted. Far worse privacy breaches have gotten nowhere with lawsuits.
then they can associate it with your identity and sell resulting location data to the highest bidder in any form without you having any say in this.
5. Except Google has never and is not now selling any information or even provided information that individually identifies a specific person without that being in control of the user.
6. You have an express say in this through the use of a Google account with an Android device and your location services being active. Furthermore Google provides you complete insight and control over your location data including the ability to delete it from its timeline service.
They don't need to actually have any business relationship or agreement with you, it is sufficient that they can fingerprint and identify your electronic device to own your data.
Actually it's quite the opposite. Without the business relationship or agreement with you they would have fuck all location data that makes these services possible which is precisely why they expressly ask you to agree to this service when you first power on your phone.
What Evoogle doing
Now the real question is that statistically based on your UID you're an adult, however based on your speech patterns you more closely match those 13 year olds who used to think replacing the S in Microsoft with a $ was somehow "cool". Does your father know you're using his Slashdot account?
How many technical articles have you submitted this week and how many of them were rejected? Is the problem Slashdot, or is it that people are more concerned with complaining rather than fixing a platform that is essentially heavily reliant on it's own users deciding what defines good content?
Why not help fix the things you find wrong: https://slashdot.org/submissio...
Not sure why I am being modded down. The "ratings" on Rotten Tomatoes mean nothing.
It means that reviews liked something. Interestingly the some total of your comment can be summarised with: I disagree with a large group of reviewers on this case, which makes your post decidedly off-topic.
I'm more interested in this magic bloatware free base image. The key part about Android is that the bloatware is part of the read only image of the phone and the apps then download on first acceptance of play store conditions. That's the reason why there is only a "disable" function but you can't fundamentally uninstall it. You can only get the bloatware back to its factory shipped condition.
Obeying this ruling will require shipping a device with a different configuration than Android builds normally do.
At what point exactly did I agree for Microsoft to slurp down 1MB worth of my private data from my phone?
Woopse, someone didn't read the EULA that came with their device. Trust me, you agreed for the things shipped with your phone to slurp away.
In any case why would you not want that app to slurp down data? Would you prefer that you had to manually open every single app before they were allowed to download anything from the internet? Can you imagine the resulting unpatched security hole nightmare? ... this is a Microsoft app afterall.
Basically, boatware is anything that doesn't need to be on a restore image to make the phone immediately functional and allow convenient re-installation of desired apps.
Except on Android the shipped bloatware is part of the read only portion of the image and thus specifically part of the core restore image.
I would pay top dollar for a set of scissors not packaged in a plastic container which requires scissors to cut open.
Corrosive doesn't mean instant death. Things are corrosive at different levels. Did you know Cocacola used to contain phosphoric acid? Nowadays fruit juice is quite nasty. That wonderful caffeinated substance that has both bitter and sweet notes in it's flavour? Well those bitter notes are acidic and in combination with the water corrosive.
There's no such thing as a standard screw in the tiny electronics market.
How much torque isn't the only function. Maximum torque possible is too, as your screws get smaller the amount of torque you can apply reduces dramatically.
But that's still no justification for pentalobe which offers no benefits over torx.