Android makers are also worried about possible patent infringement
Good thing they're not worried about mindlessly copying everything Apple does though.
I'm not even saying this as an Apple fanboy, just an Android user who really doesn't want to see every random idea Apple has cloned badly into Android. It's bad enough when Firefox mindlessly copies everything Chrome does, I don't want my phone to fall into the same braindamage path.
Also, most (all?) backup software already addresses the problem that R2D2 does, in a much less complicated way. First, there's generational backups, if your data gets cryptolockered or whatever you just go back to the pre-encrypted form. Secondly, some backups will detect major changes to a file, e.g. due to overwrite or encryption, and save an alternative copy of the unchanged data in case the major change was caused by malware.
So it's really an idea that's (1) not new by a long shot and (2) not very useful compared to the alternatives.
They would have fixed it years, but they were all occupied making Firefox look like a crap copy of Chrome and adding "features" no-one ever asked for or wanted.
There's another reason, which TFA completely omits to mention: That in many cases Wikipedia is the first hit, or the first non-marketing-sponsored hit, for pretty much any noun you type into a search engine. You just end up there by default, like a Starbuck's.
Conversely, for pretty much everything that's built, someone is going to point out that it'll fail/collapse/sink/burn down/whatever. It's easy enough to fish out the 1:1 correlation after the event, but that's because you have the luxury of ignoring the 9,999 false-positive warnings given for other engineering structures.
But it's just the Google children's universal excuse each time they reinvent the wheel, either "we haven't even bothered checking whether this has been done before, look how clever we are" or "we know this has been done a dozen times before but we're much more cleverer than anyone else who's done it".
The only reason this is even news is because Google did it. Anyone else and it'd be a giant ho-hum.
Friend of mine used to work for GM and this sounds pretty familiar, he said they'd have piles of parts with defects lying around next to assembly lines awaiting rework or perhaps reuse without rework when they were in a hurry and needed a part. There was little to no accounting, parts just ended up shunted off to the side somewhere where they'd be held indefinitely until something could be done with them.
I guess the advance with Tesla is that at least they can track their defective/in-need-of-rework parts.
It's also only a "success" if you report it as a percentage. The WHO PM2.5 limit is 10 micrograms, China's average was around 40 micrograms. So with a 30% drop it's gone from four times the WHO's worst-allowable value to 2.4 times the worst-allowable value. It's still absolutely terrible, just slightly less terrible than it was.
Same. Pitch black rooms drive me crazy, I need a minimum of some light, maximum I can sleep in direct sunlight. The only thing that upsets my ability to sleep is complete darkness.
Yeah, but look at what the 121GW ended up costing when it was released, unless you insist on getting a Fluke you can get something similarly featured for a third the cost, even less if you don't mind a no-name model. Or the Novena. And that's the thing with ekr's UPS, if, and that's a big if, it ever gets produced, it'll be $1K or more for a $150 UPS.
Already exists, it's called OpenUPS and NUC-UPS. In fact OpenUPS is pretty close to what ekr is proposing, only it already exists as a finished product. Guess he didn't do much Googling before he came up with his one...
There's already a product that does this, it's been around for years. Actually there are lots and lots of things like this out there.
The killer isn't designing the thing, that's relatively straightforward ("relatively" meaning you need a couple of experienced EEs, 6-12 months, and $50K or so to get the kinks worked out). What's not straightforward is getting it manufactured in quantity and UL rated. Open source works OK for software where the "manufacturing" cost is zero and there's no need for any safety certification, but less well for anything else.
That said, material design sucks. It's obvious to anyone with an inkling of art history it was created by a bunch of engineers
It was? From reading the guidelines, it seems to have been created by the sort of people who dreamed up third-wave feminism and intersectional social justice and developmental studies and a whole pile of other things for which the most appropriate collective noun I can think of is "wank". It's just a huge pile of wank that tells you nothing about how to actually design a usable UI. Just wank.
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My feelings as well. Mind you that's mostly because almost anything is a better investment than a degree in comparative English literature.
Simple: Hardware got more powerful.
Simple: Graphics card vendors required some new buzzword to sell their most expensive hardware.
Android makers are also worried about possible patent infringement
Good thing they're not worried about mindlessly copying everything Apple does though.
I'm not even saying this as an Apple fanboy, just an Android user who really doesn't want to see every random idea Apple has cloned badly into Android. It's bad enough when Firefox mindlessly copies everything Chrome does, I don't want my phone to fall into the same braindamage path.
Exactly. They operate at 2.4GHz to sweep out the airspace and clear it for WiFi operation. Everyone knows that.
Also, most (all?) backup software already addresses the problem that R2D2 does, in a much less complicated way. First, there's generational backups, if your data gets cryptolockered or whatever you just go back to the pre-encrypted form. Secondly, some backups will detect major changes to a file, e.g. due to overwrite or encryption, and save an alternative copy of the unchanged data in case the major change was caused by malware.
So it's really an idea that's (1) not new by a long shot and (2) not very useful compared to the alternatives.
It's all the Yellow Peril's fault. Pay no attention to the (US) Facebook or (UK) Cambridge Analytica, everything's the fault of the Chinese.
It's actually kinetic energy poisoning, you can be affected by it whether it's lead, DU, steel darts, glass, or any other matter.
They would have fixed it years, but they were all occupied making Firefox look like a crap copy of Chrome and adding "features" no-one ever asked for or wanted.
There's another reason, which TFA completely omits to mention: That in many cases Wikipedia is the first hit, or the first non-marketing-sponsored hit, for pretty much any noun you type into a search engine. You just end up there by default, like a Starbuck's.
Conversely, for pretty much everything that's built, someone is going to point out that it'll fail/collapse/sink/burn down/whatever. It's easy enough to fish out the 1:1 correlation after the event, but that's because you have the luxury of ignoring the 9,999 false-positive warnings given for other engineering structures.
Actually black powder and gunpowder are very sticky legal subjects in the US.
If you think black powder is bad, you should see how the police react when they see you playing with white powder.
But it's just the Google children's universal excuse each time they reinvent the wheel, either "we haven't even bothered checking whether this has been done before, look how clever we are" or "we know this has been done a dozen times before but we're much more cleverer than anyone else who's done it".
The only reason this is even news is because Google did it. Anyone else and it'd be a giant ho-hum.
Friend of mine used to work for GM and this sounds pretty familiar, he said they'd have piles of parts with defects lying around next to assembly lines awaiting rework or perhaps reuse without rework when they were in a hurry and needed a part. There was little to no accounting, parts just ended up shunted off to the side somewhere where they'd be held indefinitely until something could be done with them.
I guess the advance with Tesla is that at least they can track their defective/in-need-of-rework parts.
It's also only a "success" if you report it as a percentage. The WHO PM2.5 limit is 10 micrograms, China's average was around 40 micrograms. So with a 30% drop it's gone from four times the WHO's worst-allowable value to 2.4 times the worst-allowable value. It's still absolutely terrible, just slightly less terrible than it was.
That's still useful if that 0.001% was the DNC's internal email, just to take a random example.
like asking whether someone is from New Zealand or Australia.
Well that's easy to find out, you just have to ask them whether they prefer Romney or Merino.
He's also most likely a Rattus norvegicus, probably a Wistar rat.
Just use Liquid Electrical Tape (black rubber in liquid form). Fabulous stuff.
Same. Pitch black rooms drive me crazy, I need a minimum of some light, maximum I can sleep in direct sunlight. The only thing that upsets my ability to sleep is complete darkness.
Is "wife" that iPhone app that checks your wifei connectivity? I think I've heard of that.
It's esr's evil twin who lives under the stairs.
Yeah, but look at what the 121GW ended up costing when it was released, unless you insist on getting a Fluke you can get something similarly featured for a third the cost, even less if you don't mind a no-name model. Or the Novena. And that's the thing with ekr's UPS, if, and that's a big if, it ever gets produced, it'll be $1K or more for a $150 UPS.
Already exists, it's called OpenUPS and NUC-UPS. In fact OpenUPS is pretty close to what ekr is proposing, only it already exists as a finished product. Guess he didn't do much Googling before he came up with his one...
There's already a product that does this, it's been around for years. Actually there are lots and lots of things like this out there.
The killer isn't designing the thing, that's relatively straightforward ("relatively" meaning you need a couple of experienced EEs, 6-12 months, and $50K or so to get the kinks worked out). What's not straightforward is getting it manufactured in quantity and UL rated. Open source works OK for software where the "manufacturing" cost is zero and there's no need for any safety certification, but less well for anything else.
That said, material design sucks. It's obvious to anyone with an inkling of art history it was created by a bunch of engineers
It was? From reading the guidelines, it seems to have been created by the sort of people who dreamed up third-wave feminism and intersectional social justice and developmental studies and a whole pile of other things for which the most appropriate collective noun I can think of is "wank". It's just a huge pile of wank that tells you nothing about how to actually design a usable UI. Just wank.