Motorola's handset update track record was spotty — my wife had one. Lenovo didn't sell their handsets in the US, or I'd have bought one, as I get discounts on Lenovo hardware.
Android One wasnâ(TM)t around in the US until last year, and then only via Project Fi. Iâ(TM)d given up and switched by then. And Google still donâ(TM)t have anything like Android One for tablets.
I use both on a regular basis, and Face ID is vastly more reliable than the fingerprint reader.
Dry skin from ambient weather? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized. Damp skin from washing your hands? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized. Got out of the pool less than an hour ago? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized.
I was a happy Android user for 7+ years. But to reliably get OS updates and upgrades, and not have to put up with a botched Android UI and bloatware, that meant buying a Nexus phone and tablet. Which I did, every 2 years or so.
But then Google decided to give up on Android tablets entirely, and give up on mid-price phones. They jacked up their prices, and a Pixel 3 now starts at $799. Well, guess what, that's the same price as an iPhone XR. And Google's last Android tablet offering before they gave up was actually more expensive than an iPad. So I switched.
With computers, nobody else is even offering a good Unix-based computer. Linux isn't competitive -- I use it for work, but sound and video are still a dumpster fire and don't count on hibernation working as well as a Mac either. If I didn't need to edit 4K video and work on music, I'd probably buy a ChromeBook, and sales of ChromeBooks seem to suggest that indeed there's an underserved market there.
Basically, nobody is putting in the time and money to clean up Linux (or BSD) and offer systems where sound and video editing, hibernation, and all the other basic functionality of a Mac is right there and just works. If you want that, you either have to put up with Windows and its myriad deficiencies, or you have to buy a Mac.
I'm a little surprised that nobody's deliberately setting out to build laptops that have exactly the same hardware as a Mac and are perfectly suited to hackintosh use. Give me a laptop with a proper keyboard and hardware that all worked properly with macOS and I'd be very tempted.
They had an app which worked with others — Google Talk, using XMPP. They got rid of it, and eventually closed the XMPP gateway, at which point I stopped using their IM systems.
The same thing the USA has been doing for a few years, you mean? When I was a resident alien with a "green card" I was required to undergo an iris scan.
I used to find iTunes OK, back when DAAP worked and I could just access music from my music server. Then Apple broke that, redesigned the interface several times, and crammed in yet more junk I'll never use like iPhone app management.
I got so sick of iTunes and of having three different mutually incompatible proprietary cables for our iPods that I got rid of all the iPods and replaced them with MP3 players that just mount as regular disk drives.
Now I use Vox for music playback on the Mac. Bonus: It handles FLAC, unlike sucky iTunes.
And they're still doing the bulk phone surveillance, by exchanging data with GCHQ and the other members of the UKUSA pact. They just aren't doing surveillance of Americans directly themselves any more.
The two major Pascal implementations (Free Pascal and Delphi) are fairly compatible with each other so it's not as fragmented as you think.
It's isn't fragmented now, because it's dead other than those two non-standard compilers, all the other implementations having vanished along with their communities...
As I said, fragmentation is what killed the Pascal community. Or at least, that was my view as a participant. The fact that we still don't have a common Pascal standard today means it's not going to come back from the dead.
The Pascal community fragmented. The 8-bit systems carried on using ISO Pascal or UCSD Pascal, but Wirth and other key Pascal experts went off and created Modula-2, which was much more practical for real world programming. (I used Modula-2 on the Atari ST, it was a much nicer experience than trying to program GEM in C.)
But instead of Pascal or Modula-2, Borland went off and did their own thing, producing a proprietary "Pascal" that wasn't compatible with anyone else.
Then the Modula-2 community split into the Oberon (Wirth) and Modula-3 (everyone else) communities to add OO, and Borland again did their own thing and ignored everyone else.
Now we have Go, which takes C and adds in ideas from Modula and Oberon. And Free Pascal still isn't even compatible with 1982's standard ISO Pascal.
I've always wondered why those "flailing dead body" bugs are so hard for Bethesda to fix. Given that the game engine knows the body is dead, you'd think they could at least apply some heavy motion damping.
I have a Nexus 5X and some Monoprice A-to-C cables. The 5X correctly detects that it's connected to a legacy USB 2 connection via a type A connector, and tells me it's charging slowly.
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Motorola's handset update track record was spotty — my wife had one. Lenovo didn't sell their handsets in the US, or I'd have bought one, as I get discounts on Lenovo hardware.
Android One wasnâ(TM)t around in the US until last year, and then only via Project Fi. Iâ(TM)d given up and switched by then. And Google still donâ(TM)t have anything like Android One for tablets.
I use both on a regular basis, and Face ID is vastly more reliable than the fingerprint reader.
Dry skin from ambient weather? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized. Damp skin from washing your hands? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized. Got out of the pool less than an hour ago? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized.
I thought Face ID was stupid until I used it.
I was a happy Android user for 7+ years. But to reliably get OS updates and upgrades, and not have to put up with a botched Android UI and bloatware, that meant buying a Nexus phone and tablet. Which I did, every 2 years or so.
But then Google decided to give up on Android tablets entirely, and give up on mid-price phones. They jacked up their prices, and a Pixel 3 now starts at $799. Well, guess what, that's the same price as an iPhone XR. And Google's last Android tablet offering before they gave up was actually more expensive than an iPad. So I switched.
With computers, nobody else is even offering a good Unix-based computer. Linux isn't competitive -- I use it for work, but sound and video are still a dumpster fire and don't count on hibernation working as well as a Mac either. If I didn't need to edit 4K video and work on music, I'd probably buy a ChromeBook, and sales of ChromeBooks seem to suggest that indeed there's an underserved market there.
Basically, nobody is putting in the time and money to clean up Linux (or BSD) and offer systems where sound and video editing, hibernation, and all the other basic functionality of a Mac is right there and just works. If you want that, you either have to put up with Windows and its myriad deficiencies, or you have to buy a Mac.
I'm a little surprised that nobody's deliberately setting out to build laptops that have exactly the same hardware as a Mac and are perfectly suited to hackintosh use. Give me a laptop with a proper keyboard and hardware that all worked properly with macOS and I'd be very tempted.
Kensington Expert Mouse.
Have been using them for 20 years.
Is her husband's name Hugh?
They had an app which worked with others — Google Talk, using XMPP. They got rid of it, and eventually closed the XMPP gateway, at which point I stopped using their IM systems.
Google Play Music is not integrated with Google Drive.
I tried Overcast for a while, but it didn't work for the way I listen to podcasts. I switched to Pocket Casts, which costs money but is awesome.
(No, I didn't write it.)
And CERT has warned against using your own internal made-up top level domains...
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... ...which is why there's an RFC listing reserved top level domains you can safely use:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
He addressed that point. As you'd know if you'd read the fucking summary, let alone his article.
XMarks kept duplicating my bookmarks and restoring old bookmarks I deleted. I eventually gave up on it and set up an instance of Shaarli to use.
Bingo. It was a closed proprietary system, just like Twitter, so nobody with any sense adopted it.
The same thing the USA has been doing for a few years, you mean? When I was a resident alien with a "green card" I was required to undergo an iris scan.
No, but he might start an SS in the United States.
Fitbit devices don't use electrical signals to measure your heartbeat. They work optically by sensing blood flow under the skin.
Yeah, my first thought on reading the summary was "Dude, just walk away from Wikipedia like the rest of us have".
I used to find iTunes OK, back when DAAP worked and I could just access music from my music server. Then Apple broke that, redesigned the interface several times, and crammed in yet more junk I'll never use like iPhone app management.
I got so sick of iTunes and of having three different mutually incompatible proprietary cables for our iPods that I got rid of all the iPods and replaced them with MP3 players that just mount as regular disk drives.
Now I use Vox for music playback on the Mac. Bonus: It handles FLAC, unlike sucky iTunes.
And they're still doing the bulk phone surveillance, by exchanging data with GCHQ and the other members of the UKUSA pact. They just aren't doing surveillance of Americans directly themselves any more.
The two major Pascal implementations (Free Pascal and Delphi) are fairly compatible with each other so it's not as fragmented as you think.
It's isn't fragmented now, because it's dead other than those two non-standard compilers, all the other implementations having vanished along with their communities...
As I said, fragmentation is what killed the Pascal community. Or at least, that was my view as a participant. The fact that we still don't have a common Pascal standard today means it's not going to come back from the dead.
The Pascal community fragmented. The 8-bit systems carried on using ISO Pascal or UCSD Pascal, but Wirth and other key Pascal experts went off and created Modula-2, which was much more practical for real world programming. (I used Modula-2 on the Atari ST, it was a much nicer experience than trying to program GEM in C.)
But instead of Pascal or Modula-2, Borland went off and did their own thing, producing a proprietary "Pascal" that wasn't compatible with anyone else.
Then the Modula-2 community split into the Oberon (Wirth) and Modula-3 (everyone else) communities to add OO, and Borland again did their own thing and ignored everyone else.
Now we have Go, which takes C and adds in ideas from Modula and Oberon. And Free Pascal still isn't even compatible with 1982's standard ISO Pascal.
I've always wondered why those "flailing dead body" bugs are so hard for Bethesda to fix. Given that the game engine knows the body is dead, you'd think they could at least apply some heavy motion damping.
I have a Nexus 5X and some Monoprice A-to-C cables. The 5X correctly detects that it's connected to a legacy USB 2 connection via a type A connector, and tells me it's charging slowly.