But I thought Plays For Sure was going to be the end all of music pod players? Until Microsoft decided to cancel Plays For Sure, abandoning it's DRM and introducing new Zune dripping with new DRM goodness. And then abandoning its DRM.
But if you're shopping for a new smart phone, you should trust Microsoft!
Last time I checked, my Android phone had:
1. A gazillion units sold. And in international markets.
2. A jillion Developers build apps.
3. A gazillion Apps available.
4. Dozens of OEMs competing with each other to build hardware to run Android.
As for Outlook, I find this on the Google Play store, but I've never installed it . ..
Meet Outlook for Android, the app that helps millions of users connect all their email accounts, calendars and files in one convenient spot. Newly redesigned, Outlook for Android lets you do more from one powerful inbox.
So I suppose if I were forced to use Outlook on mobile, I could.
Why was everyone cheering when Ballmer poked fun of the brand new iPhone in 2007? Lack of vision.
(Now, wait. Wait some more. Wait until the market is taken over by Android. Wait for it . . . Okay. Now . ..)
Windows Phone 7. Completely incompatible with Windows Mobile 6 and what came before it.
Windows Phone 8. Incompatible with Windows Phone 7 to the extent that you needed to build a new app.
Although the Nokia phone hardware was excellent, from all reports, that does not make up for the fact that it is running a Microsoft OS. The new UI. No apps except for a few high profile ones that Microsoft paid their developers to port. Developers don't want to write for a device that has no users.
To prop up the unpleasant Win Phone UI, Ballmer forced it upon desktop / laptop users with Windows 8. Whoever designed this had no understanding of how computers are used by people who do real work. But the thinking seemed to be if everyone had to learn this new UI on the desktop, then they would all flock to Windows Phone 8! Yea! Oh, wait. Didn't happen. Instead, a revolt against Windows 8. Windows 9 was cancelled. And Windows 10 largely functions like traditional UI's that we've been using for 30+ years.
And then the Surface tablets. At a single stroke, Ballmer pissed off (1) OEMs, (2) Developers Developers, and (3) Customers.
1. OEMs: Microsoft back stabbed them by competing directly against their own OEMs on hardware.
2. Developers Developers: The Surface had no customers. You had to use Microsoft's app store. You had to learn yet another API that Microsoft might lose interest in.
3. Customers: no software. The ARM processor Surface can't run legacy Windows software at all. The Intel Surface can run legacy software, but not using the new UI. There is precious little new software that exploits the new UI.
This allows the government to hack AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF COMPUTERS if they have a rubber stampped warrant from a judge who has no understanding of what they are signing.
But hey, if the government says they need something, then they should probably get it.
And there is this . . .
Meesa thinks a weesa should give the chancellor emergency powers. -- Jar Jar Binks
The government has decided it should not ban encryption.
This would make us all less safe.
Instead, the government has invested effort in developing the strongest encryption key.
The strength of this key will keep us all safe.
Everyone must begin using this encryption key immediately.
People who refuse are obviously up to no good.
The FBI's hacking would be easier if all systems were required to have a special port with a telnetd root shell running, exclusively for the FBI's use, of course.
Maybe people are finding games entertaining. Maybe fewer people watch cable TV. Get a computer with a large monitor and it can be a computer, gaming machine, surfing device, and netflix streaming device. Especially if more young people live with parents longer, and therefore have less personal space for both a big TV and a computer.
People once said that our "toy" microcomputers would never replace the mainframe.
There comes a point in the ever increasing processing power that even mobile will simply have more than enough compute horsepower to do what most every day people need to do. We might already even be there or very close.
There will always be comfortable desktop workstations. Mouse, big screens. But most people may one day use their mobile device as the "computer" for the workstation. Eg, the desktop workstation is little more than a docking station for the mobile device of whatever user is seated at the desk.
There will also always be people who need exceptional amounts of power similar in form to the tower boxes of today.
Linux on the desktop may be here or on the horizon, but not recognizable in a form we expected in 2000.
PC sales decline year after year, and as this article points out, continue to decline, just not as fast. At the same time Chromebooks (aka Linux) have outsold Windows laptops on Amazon for years now. While Linux Phones, Linux Tablets, and Linux "laptops" may not yet be dominant, the rate of new unit shipments far exceed that of new Windows PCs. A couple billion mobile phones get turned over every couple years.
In the early days of microcomputers, it was obvious that the progress in microcomputer development was vastly quicker than IBM's big computers. Would microcomputers replace mainframes? Well, yes, they did. But not in the way that might have been expected, behind glass windows. Instead it was managers who could order an Apple II with Visicalc within their own purchasing authority limits, and put it on their own desk, without talking to the mainframe guys. Just like how 15 years ago Linux servers were springing up like weeds, for similar reasons. No license or purchase hoops. And now Linux dominates servers. My point is that Linux dominating the every day man computing experience (aka, "linux on the desktop") may not arrive in a form we expected to see it.
Do the people who want to censor 'unconventional' acts have any idea what gay people actually do? Are there are any gay people here who could enlighten us?
If they don't like the videos, why don't they just not watch them. Self censor.
This news will upset global markets, impact national economies, and result in the turnover of various heads of state. The importance of this news cannot be overstated. Why is the BREAKING NEWS channel not covering this 24 / 7 ?
China will cripple American business with patent lawsuits. Then what will the people say who thought that patenting side to unlock was such a great idea?
It would be American robots building iPhones either way. It's just a question of whether it would be American robots on American soil, or on foreign soil. Trump will realize that Android phones are robots and therefore no manufacturing changes are needed.
What makes you so sure? He said he's going to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. No regardless of how you feel about whether that's a good thing or not, the real question is: How would he do that? Does he have the authority? Would he just declare it to be so and the rest of the world would go along? (Note: the name "Donald" means "ruler of the world", and this "donald" is the first I've ever heard referred to as "The Donald".)
It's not impossible. The drop in dementia could be related to the year over year drop in PC sales. As PC sales drop, so do the number of people afflicted with Microsoft Windows. And thus dementia rates decline. For several years now, Chromebooks have been the most popular laptops on Amazon. So there is hope.
No. Put the incentive where it belongs. Especially in this day of IoT. A company making an IoT product that is vulnerable to be easily exploited and recruited into a botnet should have liability in all of the damage done using their insecure IoT device.
Now just a clarification. I suggested this some weeks back in a different topic, and got a reply that seemed to think I was suggesting some sort of government regulation, licensing, inspection, registration, or other things. Nope. Just a law that makes companies financially liable for damage done with their insecure things. No inspection or any other such thing. The company should just make a good product. When you buy a home router you don't expect it to burn your house down. Similarly, I don't expect it to participate in bringing half the internet to a crawl.
Put the financial incentive upon the companies who make the products. Companies making the products may even end up working together to share some of the cost of the work. Maybe a common Linux base used in many different routers, etc. Securing everything by default. No easily guessed default passwords, etc. There might be 0 days. But there can also be patches quickly deployed. And building the infrastructure to update your product is a good idea. Or even better make it so that no such updates become necessary.
Remember when Red Light Traffic Ticket Cameras were a thing? I wonder if the person who shortened the length of the Yellow light in order to generate more revenue for the city is proud of the number of traffic accidents, injuries and possibly deaths they might have caused? Can that person say: just doing my job.
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But I thought Plays For Sure was going to be the end all of music pod players? Until Microsoft decided to cancel Plays For Sure, abandoning it's DRM and introducing new Zune dripping with new DRM goodness. And then abandoning its DRM.
But if you're shopping for a new smart phone, you should trust Microsoft!
1. A gazillion units sold. And in international markets.
2. A jillion Developers build apps.
3. A gazillion Apps available.
4. Dozens of OEMs competing with each other to build hardware to run Android.
As for Outlook, I find this on the Google Play store, but I've never installed it . .
So I suppose if I were forced to use Outlook on mobile, I could.
Why was everyone cheering when Ballmer poked fun of the brand new iPhone in 2007? Lack of vision.
.)
(Now, wait. Wait some more. Wait until the market is taken over by Android. Wait for it . . . Okay. Now . .
Windows Phone 7. Completely incompatible with Windows Mobile 6 and what came before it.
Windows Phone 8. Incompatible with Windows Phone 7 to the extent that you needed to build a new app.
Although the Nokia phone hardware was excellent, from all reports, that does not make up for the fact that it is running a Microsoft OS. The new UI. No apps except for a few high profile ones that Microsoft paid their developers to port. Developers don't want to write for a device that has no users.
To prop up the unpleasant Win Phone UI, Ballmer forced it upon desktop / laptop users with Windows 8. Whoever designed this had no understanding of how computers are used by people who do real work. But the thinking seemed to be if everyone had to learn this new UI on the desktop, then they would all flock to Windows Phone 8! Yea! Oh, wait. Didn't happen. Instead, a revolt against Windows 8. Windows 9 was cancelled. And Windows 10 largely functions like traditional UI's that we've been using for 30+ years.
And then the Surface tablets. At a single stroke, Ballmer pissed off (1) OEMs, (2) Developers Developers, and (3) Customers.
1. OEMs: Microsoft back stabbed them by competing directly against their own OEMs on hardware.
2. Developers Developers: The Surface had no customers. You had to use Microsoft's app store. You had to learn yet another API that Microsoft might lose interest in.
3. Customers: no software. The ARM processor Surface can't run legacy Windows software at all. The Intel Surface can run legacy software, but not using the new UI. There is precious little new software that exploits the new UI.
Not Device Strategy surely?
It is called finding a judge who will "cooperate with" and "work with" the FBI.
This allows the government to hack AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF COMPUTERS if they have a rubber stampped warrant from a judge who has no understanding of what they are signing.
But hey, if the government says they need something, then they should probably get it.
And there is this . . .
Meesa thinks a weesa should give the chancellor emergency powers. -- Jar Jar Binks
The government has decided it should not ban encryption.
This would make us all less safe.
Instead, the government has invested effort in developing the strongest encryption key.
The strength of this key will keep us all safe.
Everyone must begin using this encryption key immediately.
People who refuse are obviously up to no good.
Can the government just ban encryption already?
And do we really need HTTPS ?
The FBI's hacking would be easier if all systems were required to have a special port with a telnetd root shell running, exclusively for the FBI's use, of course.
Yeah, yeah, right. Presidents have been able to do this for a long time. No big deal.
Why this is news is because in the past, presidents were sane.
(Idea: incoming administration should modernize nuclear launch system for the 21st century so it is possible to give launch orders via Twitter.)
You need to replace your PC when it wears out.
And "wears out" for many people means that the proprietary black sludge ball of an OS is borked with malware. Time to buy a new PC.
Business model idea(!): Proprietary OS vendor could increase it's sales if, somehow, for some reason, PC's were to "wear out" faster.
Maybe people are finding games entertaining. Maybe fewer people watch cable TV. Get a computer with a large monitor and it can be a computer, gaming machine, surfing device, and netflix streaming device. Especially if more young people live with parents longer, and therefore have less personal space for both a big TV and a computer.
I wouldn't be so quick to say never.
People once said that our "toy" microcomputers would never replace the mainframe.
There comes a point in the ever increasing processing power that even mobile will simply have more than enough compute horsepower to do what most every day people need to do. We might already even be there or very close.
There will always be comfortable desktop workstations. Mouse, big screens. But most people may one day use their mobile device as the "computer" for the workstation. Eg, the desktop workstation is little more than a docking station for the mobile device of whatever user is seated at the desk.
There will also always be people who need exceptional amounts of power similar in form to the tower boxes of today.
Linux on the desktop may be here or on the horizon, but not recognizable in a form we expected in 2000.
PC sales decline year after year, and as this article points out, continue to decline, just not as fast. At the same time Chromebooks (aka Linux) have outsold Windows laptops on Amazon for years now. While Linux Phones, Linux Tablets, and Linux "laptops" may not yet be dominant, the rate of new unit shipments far exceed that of new Windows PCs. A couple billion mobile phones get turned over every couple years.
In the early days of microcomputers, it was obvious that the progress in microcomputer development was vastly quicker than IBM's big computers. Would microcomputers replace mainframes? Well, yes, they did. But not in the way that might have been expected, behind glass windows. Instead it was managers who could order an Apple II with Visicalc within their own purchasing authority limits, and put it on their own desk, without talking to the mainframe guys. Just like how 15 years ago Linux servers were springing up like weeds, for similar reasons. No license or purchase hoops. And now Linux dominates servers. My point is that Linux dominating the every day man computing experience (aka, "linux on the desktop") may not arrive in a form we expected to see it.
Yes, probably.
Do the people who want to censor 'unconventional' acts have any idea what gay people actually do? Are there are any gay people here who could enlighten us?
If they don't like the videos, why don't they just not watch them. Self censor.
How would I know whether I have ever engaged in a 'non-conventional' act?
Exactly what is a non-conventional act? Would something that is conventional today have been un-conventional 100 years ago?
Maybe we should also ban eating unconventional foods?
What is the state's interest in doing this? Are people watching these videos out in the streets, or on the subway or something?
This news will upset global markets, impact national economies, and result in the turnover of various heads of state. The importance of this news cannot be overstated. Why is the BREAKING NEWS channel not covering this 24 / 7 ?
China will cripple American business with patent lawsuits. Then what will the people say who thought that patenting side to unlock was such a great idea?
It would be American robots building iPhones either way. It's just a question of whether it would be American robots on American soil, or on foreign soil. Trump will realize that Android phones are robots and therefore no manufacturing changes are needed.
You may be glad robots are big. But I would prefer that they fit inside my home where they can do useful things.
What makes you so sure? He said he's going to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. No regardless of how you feel about whether that's a good thing or not, the real question is: How would he do that? Does he have the authority? Would he just declare it to be so and the rest of the world would go along? (Note: the name "Donald" means "ruler of the world", and this "donald" is the first I've ever heard referred to as "The Donald".)
It's not impossible. The drop in dementia could be related to the year over year drop in PC sales. As PC sales drop, so do the number of people afflicted with Microsoft Windows. And thus dementia rates decline. For several years now, Chromebooks have been the most popular laptops on Amazon. So there is hope.
Does it count if I'm ashamed of a co-worker's code?
No. Put the incentive where it belongs. Especially in this day of IoT. A company making an IoT product that is vulnerable to be easily exploited and recruited into a botnet should have liability in all of the damage done using their insecure IoT device.
Now just a clarification. I suggested this some weeks back in a different topic, and got a reply that seemed to think I was suggesting some sort of government regulation, licensing, inspection, registration, or other things. Nope. Just a law that makes companies financially liable for damage done with their insecure things. No inspection or any other such thing. The company should just make a good product. When you buy a home router you don't expect it to burn your house down. Similarly, I don't expect it to participate in bringing half the internet to a crawl.
Put the financial incentive upon the companies who make the products. Companies making the products may even end up working together to share some of the cost of the work. Maybe a common Linux base used in many different routers, etc. Securing everything by default. No easily guessed default passwords, etc. There might be 0 days. But there can also be patches quickly deployed. And building the infrastructure to update your product is a good idea. Or even better make it so that no such updates become necessary.
Remember when Red Light Traffic Ticket Cameras were a thing? I wonder if the person who shortened the length of the Yellow light in order to generate more revenue for the city is proud of the number of traffic accidents, injuries and possibly deaths they might have caused? Can that person say: just doing my job.