There are plenty of chip assembly plants in China, looking at the PCB in front of me now, I see 3 out of 6 ICs on the board have "China" printed on them, the other 3 don't say any country's name so could be made anywhere. What they may not be doing much of in China of is wafer fabrication - this generally requires higher tech factories, and tends to be kept in US, Europe and Japan where the risk of leaks is lower.
Use the Back button. Since Apple never put more than one button on a device (unless its a keyboard), they won't have covered that in their patent application. Having more than one physical button available to enable multiple tasks is probably what the submitter means by "clumsy".
But then it's the same kind of issue that's been blamed on an Air France jet crashing into the ocean - malfunctioning sensors, in that case ice buildup or so iirc, and as all sensors were of the same design this caused all of them to fail.
The official report for that came out a week or so ago. The only effect that the malfunctioning sensors had in that case was to put the copilots back in control of the plane so they could proceed to attempt to climb above the limits of the aircraft, and continue to pull back on the stick all the way down to sea level after the stall warning started blaring.
Right, because differentiating yourself as a premium provider with a better than industry norm warranty wouldn't work.
Being a premium provider is a niche market. The mass market is all about price, and offering a longer warranty period than your competitors pushes yours up unnecessarily.
Whats really disturbing is the sense of entitlement from companies who got their business model wrong at launch. If you offer a free service, and then take it away in an attempt to monetize your service, of course users are going to get upset.
I would have thought that on Slashdot of all places, people would understand how it goes.
Samsung salesman sees Google's announcement that ICS is in testing and decides he wants to announce that all Samsung phones will have the production ready update by next week to drive sales. Management agrees this is a good idea, but engineering points out that the timeline is unrealistic and all their engineering capacity is busy on new products. This just reinforces management's belief that engineering is lazy and difficult and they need to accelerate their plans to outsource to Elbonia. But just in case they hold back on announcing a concrete date.
For developers, that is. Android is a one size fits all approach, but not all Android phones can run all games, some are too weak. This causes developers headaches, bad reviews on their games, etc
This is also the main reason why noone ever develops games for the PC platform, only for consoles that don't suffer fragmentation... oh wait.
You said it yourself; BIOS magic. As long as the thief or his customer reinstalls the same popular consumer OS used on stolen laptops worldwide, the tracking software can reinstall itself and phone home.
Google, on the other hand, supplied nearly all of the software on the phone and is clearly responsible for the ad-hoc unfinished way lots of stuff works. For example, why are there two email applications (Gmail and Exchange) and they are so completely different?... And why would the Gmail email client look so much better than the one for other transport types?
Because Samsung wrote their own Email client. And you're blaming Google.
I don't think poor regulation is the problem so much as the fact that Amsterdam has become a sex tourism destination because of its early legalisation of prostitution, so demand exceeds supply. This leaves room for criminal gangs to continue to operate their people smuggling rings, bringing illegal immigrants from the ex-Soviet countries and Africa over into slavery. If prostitution were to be legalised and open everywhere, this side of Amsterdam would lose its attraction leading to a more natural balance between supply and demand.
Its usually not done by turning the volume up, as that would break the law. Its done by compressing the dynamic range, so the maximum volume of the commercials is the same as the maximum volume of the programs, but the average volume is much louder.
CB radio was always expected to be two-way simplex communication with pauses between one end talking and the other replying. Telephones on the other hand bring an expectation of duplex communication with no pauses, as if you were having a conversation in person. So if a CB radio user saw an upcoming traffic situation which required more attention, they would just delay responding. If such a pause is heard in a telephone conversation the other end is going to start saying "Hello? Hello, are you still there?" and demanding an immediate response.
It's the web equivalent of all the VB applications in the late 80's-90's.. though VB is actually a better language than PHP.
VB now, maybe. It might be going a bit far to say PHP is worse than the pre.NET VB that was used to write all those applications in the late 80's-90's though.
Most of your Window users are technologically illiterate. IE is there it works why fart around with it.
Yes, but... I'd have expected the opposite result myself - technologically illiterate people who are risk adverse would be more likely to not try installing third party software on their PCs. Overconfident types would install every browser from everywhere without consideration for where it came from and what trojans it might harbour.
Of course, it could be that this study is just as much of a hoax as the original.
Or the very worst crashes these days happen in cars with electronic ignition, therefore cars with distributor rotors are safer.
I'm not convinced that whether your core product is open source or closed source has any bearing on the future success of your company. There are fewer open source companies, so there are fewer examples of successful ones, but they do still exist. What I do know is that when an open source startup fails, its product still has a chance to live on if it is useful. Closed source failures are almost universally lost forever.
The one challenge people with wanting to make the web server accessible from IPv6 clients are hosting centres that don't provide IPv6 yet. It is certainly possible to get around this by using a tunnel, but this is really far from optimal.
IPv6 tunnels are only an option if you have a dedicated server. If you are using virtual machine hosting, you are stuck with the kernel and modules from the VM, which usually does not include IPv6 support.
Why would an anti-Christian troll be upset by a pagan winter solstice celebration, even if Christians have deluded themselves into believing it is celebrating something else?
You want to know why it's so dangerous to jog or walk or cycle along the road? Look in the mirror.
I do that every morning while shaving on my way to work. I assure you that it didn't help me avoid all the joggers and cyclists that stupidly got in the way of my car though.
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There are plenty of chip assembly plants in China, looking at the PCB in front of me now, I see 3 out of 6 ICs on the board have "China" printed on them, the other 3 don't say any country's name so could be made anywhere. What they may not be doing much of in China of is wafer fabrication - this generally requires higher tech factories, and tends to be kept in US, Europe and Japan where the risk of leaks is lower.
Because we really need to know when we're using gopher, not http. If you meant https vs http, then that information is still there.
Use the Back button. Since Apple never put more than one button on a device (unless its a keyboard), they won't have covered that in their patent application. Having more than one physical button available to enable multiple tasks is probably what the submitter means by "clumsy".
The official report for that came out a week or so ago. The only effect that the malfunctioning sensors had in that case was to put the copilots back in control of the plane so they could proceed to attempt to climb above the limits of the aircraft, and continue to pull back on the stick all the way down to sea level after the stall warning started blaring.
Being a premium provider is a niche market. The mass market is all about price, and offering a longer warranty period than your competitors pushes yours up unnecessarily.
Then again, I might be looking at the wrong GP, a post about the Leidenfrost effect appeared above the GP when I was reading this.
I thought the GPs post was more about deep fried ice cream than putting hands in the oven.
Whats really disturbing is the sense of entitlement from companies who got their business model wrong at launch. If you offer a free service, and then take it away in an attempt to monetize your service, of course users are going to get upset.
I would have thought that on Slashdot of all places, people would understand how it goes. Samsung salesman sees Google's announcement that ICS is in testing and decides he wants to announce that all Samsung phones will have the production ready update by next week to drive sales. Management agrees this is a good idea, but engineering points out that the timeline is unrealistic and all their engineering capacity is busy on new products. This just reinforces management's belief that engineering is lazy and difficult and they need to accelerate their plans to outsource to Elbonia. But just in case they hold back on announcing a concrete date.
This is also the main reason why noone ever develops games for the PC platform, only for consoles that don't suffer fragmentation ... oh wait.
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, ... Austria, Azerbaijan, ...
You said it yourself; BIOS magic. As long as the thief or his customer reinstalls the same popular consumer OS used on stolen laptops worldwide, the tracking software can reinstall itself and phone home.
Because Samsung wrote their own Email client. And you're blaming Google.
It seems like being delusional is not the exclusive domain of Nokia execs either.
I don't think poor regulation is the problem so much as the fact that Amsterdam has become a sex tourism destination because of its early legalisation of prostitution, so demand exceeds supply. This leaves room for criminal gangs to continue to operate their people smuggling rings, bringing illegal immigrants from the ex-Soviet countries and Africa over into slavery. If prostitution were to be legalised and open everywhere, this side of Amsterdam would lose its attraction leading to a more natural balance between supply and demand.
Its usually not done by turning the volume up, as that would break the law. Its done by compressing the dynamic range, so the maximum volume of the commercials is the same as the maximum volume of the programs, but the average volume is much louder.
CB radio was always expected to be two-way simplex communication with pauses between one end talking and the other replying. Telephones on the other hand bring an expectation of duplex communication with no pauses, as if you were having a conversation in person. So if a CB radio user saw an upcoming traffic situation which required more attention, they would just delay responding. If such a pause is heard in a telephone conversation the other end is going to start saying "Hello? Hello, are you still there?" and demanding an immediate response.
VB now, maybe. It might be going a bit far to say PHP is worse than the pre .NET VB that was used to write all those applications in the late 80's-90's though.
Yes, but ... I'd have expected the opposite result myself - technologically illiterate people who are risk adverse would be more likely to not try installing third party software on their PCs. Overconfident types would install every browser from everywhere without consideration for where it came from and what trojans it might harbour.
Of course, it could be that this study is just as much of a hoax as the original.
You mean you rearranged Photoshop to make it look more like The GIMP? Most people around here seem to complain about the opposite problem.
Or the very worst crashes these days happen in cars with electronic ignition, therefore cars with distributor rotors are safer.
I'm not convinced that whether your core product is open source or closed source has any bearing on the future success of your company. There are fewer open source companies, so there are fewer examples of successful ones, but they do still exist. What I do know is that when an open source startup fails, its product still has a chance to live on if it is useful. Closed source failures are almost universally lost forever.
IPv6 tunnels are only an option if you have a dedicated server. If you are using virtual machine hosting, you are stuck with the kernel and modules from the VM, which usually does not include IPv6 support.
The same applies to closed source startups. A few make it big. Most close down within 3 years.
Why would an anti-Christian troll be upset by a pagan winter solstice celebration, even if Christians have deluded themselves into believing it is celebrating something else?
I do that every morning while shaving on my way to work. I assure you that it didn't help me avoid all the joggers and cyclists that stupidly got in the way of my car though.