About time. Why can't my phone be my PC? Plug in a monitor, wireless keyboard, and voila!
You are seriously asking? Seriously: because Android UI sucks for basically anything that does not resemble media consumption. I know what I'm talking about, I've been using Android this way for years, and it's a slit-your-wrists painful experience, with exactly one advantage: it runs on the tablet, with typically 3-8X battery life of a laptop, doesn't give you spinal curvature when carried in a backpack, and fits on an airline folding tray. Oh, and has touch screen, gps, etc... stuff that somehow didn't make it into Microsoft's PC revolution (well, touch screen kinda did, but only on stupidly overpriced laptops).
Android could have been fixed years ago to have something better than the ultra crappy, nigh-on useless cut and paste it has, and normal resizable/draggable windows. But the smart people at Google are apparently not smart enough to do that, or hey, maybe making you suffer so they can sell you as a product better is smart, if making Google richer is the only metric that really matters.
...Linux's filesystems have stagnated, with us still using the old and limited ext4 FS, while other OSes are getting excellent modern filesystems like ZFS.
You may think that ZFS is excellent right up to the point you side-by-side it with Ext4, and discover it makes your desktop run like a tablet and hogs all the memory. And if/when ZFS blows up, there is no such thing as e2fsck to bail your ass out.
ZFS always sounds great, to hear people talk, who never side-by-sided it with anything else. In reality, it's a giant creeping ooze of a grandiose exercise in system bloatware. For one thing, there is no way a file system should ever inhale the volume manager inside itself, resulting in the file system team taking over the volume manager project except doing it worse. Just to pick one glaring flaw off the top of a huge rotting pile of design flaws.
The fact is, 99% of users who think they need ZFS's new shiny and are willing to trade away some performance and safety for it, will be better off just sticking with the tried and true, boring, efficient and reliable system they already have, that has hundreds of man years of development and debugging investing in it, way beyond what has gone into ZFS. Better off and less likely to lose their data.
Let's turn a story about Apple fixing a compatibility issue with non-warrantied third party parts into a story about how Apple is evil and could make phones that use third party parts not work!
Well, "iPhones that had been repaired and were in perfect working order suddenly stopped working after Apple updated its software. Apple was then able to fix the problem remotely. Apple then put out a warning blaming the parts that were used to do the repair." Seems reasonable to conclude that Apple is evil.
Your spin doctoring is pretty much what I have come to expect from Apple and its hangers-on. First, Apple creates a problem where there is none, most probably by incompetence. Then Apple opportunistically attempts to capitalize on their crap QA with FUD about genuine Apple parts blah blah blah. Apple partisans jump in with victim shaming. No right to complain? Hah.
Actually, I agree, Apple users shouldn't complain. They should just never waste their money on that junk again.
Apple employees with mod points, busily spreading their decaying corporate culture to Slashdot. Please try to hold that pustulence inside yourselves guys! Does a lot to show why nobody should ever give money to that gang.
I was just thinking, at best this whole saga is indicative of fragile design, Apple itself being the party most at risk of getting bitten by it. And once bitten, twice defiant, that's Apple style all the way. Ah, maybe that's the deep meaning of the black apple with a bite out of it? Bitten. Black. Yessiree, it all falls into place now.
If the third party parts use workarounds to work, maybe something that is borderline an exploit because they don't know any other way to make it work, and Apple then FIXES that exploit, that means that yes, the third party part stops working and is to blame...
If.
And even if, Apple still comes out looking more than a little douchebaggy. Think: they could have boasted instead about how they went the extra distance to cover for their third party repair "partners". But that's not what happened.
OK, then I do not agree with the point of your example. Whether Apple screwed up its QA on the update or honestly misses something that was difficult to catch, there is no justification for it to cast FUD upon third party repair businesses. Which just makes Apple look evil, but then... haven't we known that since forever?
Apple is indeed under no obligation to do anything in particular, but we on the other hand are under no obligation to give Apple a pass on behavior that appears on the face of it to be self serving and... what was the word again? Oh... evil.
That Apple broke a third party part doesn't bother me. Such is the norm. What bothers me is Apple doesn't provide a means of undoing the change which broke the functionality of the phone. This means that Apple is the only one that can fix the issue, and that if Apple does not fix the issue then a phone or device is rendered unusable unnecessarily, and the cost of ownership of the device is driven through the roof.
I wonder A) what kind of Apple partisan modded your perfectly rational post "troll" and B) if that person ever feels like upchucking when seeing themselves in the mirror and C) if not, then why not.
What bothers me about Apple? Basically everything, but especially the jihadists, or salaried online forum slimeballs, I have no way of knowing which it is in this case, but it is one of the other.
Let's turn a story about Apple fixing a compatibility issue with non-warrantied third party parts into a story about how Apple is evil and could make phones that use third party parts not work!
Well, "iPhones that had been repaired and were in perfect working order suddenly stopped working after Apple updated its software. Apple was then able to fix the problem remotely. Apple then put out a warning blaming the parts that were used to do the repair." Seems reasonable to conclude that Apple is evil.
Your spin doctoring is pretty much what I have come to expect from Apple and its hangers-on. First, Apple creates a problem where there is none, most probably by incompetence. Then Apple opportunistically attempts to capitalize on their crap QA with FUD about genuine Apple parts blah blah blah. Apple partisans jump in with victim shaming. No right to complain? Hah.
Actually, I agree, Apple users shouldn't complain. They should just never waste their money on that junk again.
Mother Russia, such a fun bunch of guys. Icicles on your dick, vodka for breakfast, Vlad's cock for dinner. Pining for the old empire. Gotta love it. Too bad about those shrinking petro-rubles, hmm? Fun while it lasted. Just gotta get by on fewer fermented potatoes now, anything but honest work.
Yah, too bad about the stereotypes. You made that bed, enjoy lying in it.
I am more than a little mystified about how all the reported efforts to produce more coders seems to just result in more web script monkeys and turn-the-crank process junkies. From where I sit, the kind of "deep tech" developer who possesses the skills needed for improving the basic infrastructure underpinning the information economy seems to be a vanishing species. To put it concrete terms: massive increase in Javascript hacks. Gradual die-off of C/C++ hacks.
Anybody else notice the hordes of Russian shitposters on Youtube, posting the usual talking points (complete with foul language) to any video having anything to do with American politics?
I already decided not to get the Pixel, before this latest reason. It's really unclear where Google thinks they are going with this. Apple envy? Giving value for money, not so much.
It's irritating/embarrassing to see that major blunder just sit there for hours as search engines slurp it up and it embeds itself deeper in the sediment of the internet, to the eternal shame of Slashdot. Either a severe lack of attention by editors, or the code is too broken to allow revising the post? Either way it's a burning issue. Also note the typo in Pacific, as others pointed out. Posted without spell check? Why?
The article is otherwise fine, and confirms what we suspected all along: the internet is made of garden hose, not tubes.
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About time. Why can't my phone be my PC? Plug in a monitor, wireless keyboard, and voila!
You are seriously asking? Seriously: because Android UI sucks for basically anything that does not resemble media consumption. I know what I'm talking about, I've been using Android this way for years, and it's a slit-your-wrists painful experience, with exactly one advantage: it runs on the tablet, with typically 3-8X battery life of a laptop, doesn't give you spinal curvature when carried in a backpack, and fits on an airline folding tray. Oh, and has touch screen, gps, etc... stuff that somehow didn't make it into Microsoft's PC revolution (well, touch screen kinda did, but only on stupidly overpriced laptops).
Android could have been fixed years ago to have something better than the ultra crappy, nigh-on useless cut and paste it has, and normal resizable/draggable windows. But the smart people at Google are apparently not smart enough to do that, or hey, maybe making you suffer so they can sell you as a product better is smart, if making Google richer is the only metric that really matters.
And just like clockwork, the AC above was punish-modded by all the Fandroids and Linuxbots, because it praised Apple and denigrated Linux and Android.
And, just maybe, because of being a lazy-ass cowardly AC. Just maybe.
...Linux's filesystems have stagnated, with us still using the old and limited ext4 FS, while other OSes are getting excellent modern filesystems like ZFS.
You may think that ZFS is excellent right up to the point you side-by-side it with Ext4, and discover it makes your desktop run like a tablet and hogs all the memory. And if/when ZFS blows up, there is no such thing as e2fsck to bail your ass out.
ZFS always sounds great, to hear people talk, who never side-by-sided it with anything else. In reality, it's a giant creeping ooze of a grandiose exercise in system bloatware. For one thing, there is no way a file system should ever inhale the volume manager inside itself, resulting in the file system team taking over the volume manager project except doing it worse. Just to pick one glaring flaw off the top of a huge rotting pile of design flaws.
The fact is, 99% of users who think they need ZFS's new shiny and are willing to trade away some performance and safety for it, will be better off just sticking with the tried and true, boring, efficient and reliable system they already have, that has hundreds of man years of development and debugging investing in it, way beyond what has gone into ZFS. Better off and less likely to lose their data.
Why don't we ask an Apple employee, to be sure of getting an honest opinion?
Let's turn a story about Apple fixing a compatibility issue with non-warrantied third party parts into a story about how Apple is evil and could make phones that use third party parts not work!
Well, "iPhones that had been repaired and were in perfect working order suddenly stopped working after Apple updated its software. Apple was then able to fix the problem remotely. Apple then put out a warning blaming the parts that were used to do the repair." Seems reasonable to conclude that Apple is evil.
Your spin doctoring is pretty much what I have come to expect from Apple and its hangers-on. First, Apple creates a problem where there is none, most probably by incompetence. Then Apple opportunistically attempts to capitalize on their crap QA with FUD about genuine Apple parts blah blah blah. Apple partisans jump in with victim shaming. No right to complain? Hah.
Actually, I agree, Apple users shouldn't complain. They should just never waste their money on that junk again.
Apple employees with mod points, busily spreading their decaying corporate culture to Slashdot. Please try to hold that pustulence inside yourselves guys! Does a lot to show why nobody should ever give money to that gang.
Most insightful/informative post of the thread!
I was just thinking, at best this whole saga is indicative of fragile design, Apple itself being the party most at risk of getting bitten by it. And once bitten, twice defiant, that's Apple style all the way. Ah, maybe that's the deep meaning of the black apple with a bite out of it? Bitten. Black. Yessiree, it all falls into place now.
If the third party parts use workarounds to work, maybe something that is borderline an exploit because they don't know any other way to make it work, and Apple then FIXES that exploit, that means that yes, the third party part stops working and is to blame...
If.
And even if, Apple still comes out looking more than a little douchebaggy. Think: they could have boasted instead about how they went the extra distance to cover for their third party repair "partners". But that's not what happened.
OK, then I do not agree with the point of your example. Whether Apple screwed up its QA on the update or honestly misses something that was difficult to catch, there is no justification for it to cast FUD upon third party repair businesses. Which just makes Apple look evil, but then... haven't we known that since forever?
Apple is indeed under no obligation to do anything in particular, but we on the other hand are under no obligation to give Apple a pass on behavior that appears on the face of it to be self serving and... what was the word again? Oh... evil.
That Apple broke a third party part doesn't bother me. Such is the norm. What bothers me is Apple doesn't provide a means of undoing the change which broke the functionality of the phone. This means that Apple is the only one that can fix the issue, and that if Apple does not fix the issue then a phone or device is rendered unusable unnecessarily, and the cost of ownership of the device is driven through the roof.
I wonder A) what kind of Apple partisan modded your perfectly rational post "troll" and B) if that person ever feels like upchucking when seeing themselves in the mirror and C) if not, then why not.
What bothers me about Apple? Basically everything, but especially the jihadists, or salaried online forum slimeballs, I have no way of knowing which it is in this case, but it is one of the other.
Let's turn a story about Apple fixing a compatibility issue with non-warrantied third party parts into a story about how Apple is evil and could make phones that use third party parts not work!
Well, "iPhones that had been repaired and were in perfect working order suddenly stopped working after Apple updated its software. Apple was then able to fix the problem remotely. Apple then put out a warning blaming the parts that were used to do the repair." Seems reasonable to conclude that Apple is evil.
Your spin doctoring is pretty much what I have come to expect from Apple and its hangers-on. First, Apple creates a problem where there is none, most probably by incompetence. Then Apple opportunistically attempts to capitalize on their crap QA with FUD about genuine Apple parts blah blah blah. Apple partisans jump in with victim shaming. No right to complain? Hah.
Actually, I agree, Apple users shouldn't complain. They should just never waste their money on that junk again.
Mother Russia, such a fun bunch of guys. Icicles on your dick, vodka for breakfast, Vlad's cock for dinner. Pining for the old empire. Gotta love it. Too bad about those shrinking petro-rubles, hmm? Fun while it lasted. Just gotta get by on fewer fermented potatoes now, anything but honest work.
Yah, too bad about the stereotypes. You made that bed, enjoy lying in it.
I am more than a little mystified about how all the reported efforts to produce more coders seems to just result in more web script monkeys and turn-the-crank process junkies. From where I sit, the kind of "deep tech" developer who possesses the skills needed for improving the basic infrastructure underpinning the information economy seems to be a vanishing species. To put it concrete terms: massive increase in Javascript hacks. Gradual die-off of C/C++ hacks.
Winter vacation in the gulag
Igor weighs in.
You said it Ivan.
If you actually see Youtube Russians or experience other unlikely events, perhaps you also have a similar problem.
Da comrade, maybe I haff seemilar probe-leem!
That would be Carsten, aka Rahstahmahn
These people do realize that $10k to $100k, compared to the $1.2 billion spent on the election is chump change...
What makes you think that the forensic accounting is complete?
If true it doesnt seem like anything new.
The new thing is, it threw the election.
Anybody else notice the hordes of Russian shitposters on Youtube, posting the usual talking points (complete with foul language) to any video having anything to do with American politics?
Google Pixel in one soundbite: excessive resolution for an excessive price.
I already decided not to get the Pixel, before this latest reason. It's really unclear where Google thinks they are going with this. Apple envy? Giving value for money, not so much.
This press release from January the year. Same university. Not to say that it isn't interesting research, it is, but it is not news.
It's arguably not more useless than stamp collecting...
It's irritating/embarrassing to see that major blunder just sit there for hours as search engines slurp it up and it embeds itself deeper in the sediment of the internet, to the eternal shame of Slashdot. Either a severe lack of attention by editors, or the code is too broken to allow revising the post? Either way it's a burning issue. Also note the typo in Pacific, as others pointed out. Posted without spell check? Why?
The article is otherwise fine, and confirms what we suspected all along: the internet is made of garden hose, not tubes.