Most operators around the world, specially in developed countries, are planning to shutdown 2G and 3G services. The sunsetting is expected in most of the world between 2020 and 2025
Some operators on the loosing side of 3G (CDMA2000-EVDO and TD-SCDMA) are shooting down 3G first, and then 2G. Other operators are shooting down 2G first, keeping 3G to support Voice, in order not to pay for VoLTE Licenses. Yet others plan to keep 2G in a restricted mode for M2M Communications (think smart meters, IoT, etc.).
This is actually a Good thing. We had 3 standards for 2G (GSM, IS-54/136 a.k.a. TDMA and IS-135 a.k.a. CDMA2000), then we had 3 3G standards (CDMA2000-EVDO, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA). Then we had two (or three, depending on how you count) standards for 4G (802.16m a.k.a. WiMax, FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE ).
You can imagine how crowded a radio shelter is nowadays. How much electricity it consumes, how much heat it generates, and how costly the O&M contracts and logistics of all that gear is...
And how crowded the spectrum is as well since the spectrum tends to be very expensive.
With (hopefully) only one 5G standard, and sunseting of all 2G and 3G networks, more harmonization worldwide is possible, which leads to simpler radio modems (the end Game is TDD-LTE + 5G), and cheaper equipment. Also, spectrum that is currently used for 2G and 3G can be refarmend for 4G and 5G, leading to better service.
At least in mac, the menu bar is there by default all the time (os imposed), so there is nothing to restore in that front.
HAving said that, I like my tabs in the title bar (even with the 16:10 display of the mac, vertical space is at a premium these days).
On the other hand, I hate how firefox dicks around with the buttons on the interface. Lucky for me, I am in the ESR channel, so this happens only once a year, not every six weeks (chrome), or every six months (edge).
Having said that, at one time or another I have used Windows mac and Linux on my desktop, and better not tell you about the weird stuff I administered in my servers (Sinix or VMS anyone?).
So, I do not care what OS anyone uses, as long as they do not pontificate about it.
OSs and software in general are tools, use the best tool for the job at hand, and get done with it.
You never see people arguing if a screwdriver is better than a chisel... It should be the same about OSs
The wetware or carbonware that is put between the Keyboard and Chair is the main bottleneck in performance.
If you change many things in the browser, like the interface, or break a lot of plug-ins, the wetware/carbonware gets adapatation problems, and productivity suffers.
Chrome changes every six weeks or so. Edge changes every six months or so. Firefox ESR changes every year.
I did not have the pleasure to use the model M until I went to the university in 1989. Before that only model Fs. Not bad, but cramped... After I tested the Model M, I was hooked!. So, as soon as I could, I bought two.
I have two (2) Model M Keyboards from 1988.
Used them through and through (even flew one to Spain while doing my Masters, when every pound counted!). I find the sound helps me concentrate, and if the rate of typing is fast, is a good signal for my coworkers to not bother me.
But in 2009, I bought a Mac. I needed an USB Keyboard with a "Windows Key" to replicate Apple's "Command" Key (Flower). (until then I was able to use ctrl+esc to get by).
I went to a Keyboard I repurposed from an HP C9000 PA-RISC Workstation, which kinda-sorta kept my nerd creed...
Is decent (but a piece of crap in comparison to the M), and at least the Extra Key DOES NOT HAVE a Windows logo.
If I ever feel the need, and if they do something More interesting with the keyboard controller/software wise, I may get a Unicomp replica. But unicomp keyboards are boring. No backlight. No extra Keys for macros. The only interesting thing is the trackpoint/nipple mouse...
So, if I had to but a new keyboard, like *now*, I woild get something more modern, like a keyboard with Cherry MX switches, backlight (RGB not necesary), and macro recording functionality and extra keys...
Now, you are welcome to get on my lawn, ad admire my model Ms, type something on them, and marvel at the tactile and audible feedback...
Very few people want that. Focusing on them over the wide audience is how you go bankrupt.
Sad but true.
Luckyo, I think you are wrong, and maybe xack is into something. Is true that the wider audience does not want the thicker not shinny phone combo, but with a 68% sales slump, maybe the (diminished*) HTC phone division may be better financially by forgeting about blockbuster Flagship Uber-Phones that appeal to the wide market, and focus on a niche instead.
Look at Blackberry Mobile (a completely different company from Blackberry propper) focusing on the Keyboard phone niche, or bullit (a british company licensing the CAT brand) focusing on HyperRugged phones. Maybe HTC could be the king of DualSim+MicroSD card at the same time + 3.5mm Jack + Remomable battery + 36 hour battery time niche. It will not restore their former smartphone glory, but at least, the phone division will not bleed cash.
Food for tought.
* Diminished because many of the top smartphone engineering talent went to Google a little while ago.
This is what happens when the guys who were in chrage of the MSCs and SS7 STPs of yore are put in charge of the Newflanged Diameter Servers and Routers of 4G and 5G
Do not get me wrong, those guys are very smart and briliant guys. But just as the Slashdot crowd would have a hell of a day trying to configure the 67 E1s of an STM-1 in order to Set up a set of SS& links, an Old School Telco switch guy would have hell undertsnading the nuances of security on Diameter...
Me, I had a feet in each camp for 5 years (1999-2004), but now I am looking from above in my (OpenStack) cloud...
Yes, for me is the Same, I bootcamp for games, and VBox for Project, Visio, and Various IPMI and iLO crap (using a rawvmdk of course). But each and every time, is a lithany of past due upgrades of everything microsoft and not microsoft. And twice a year, is the crap of feature upgrades.
Let alone when family and friends ask for "a little help with a little problem that ought not have to take more than five minutes" .
As of today (June 28, 2018 1630 gmt-4) TOR is working for me in TAILS 3.6 on a Vbox VM
Yes, not the most secure configuration, but I am busy with a few things rigth now, no BW to Torrent 3.8, and not rich to have multiple machines.
Every Time I torrent the latest version of TAILS, I take the time to fire up the VM, and connect to TOR, just to practice.
TOR and TAILS, not being the most user-friendly things to set up, give me grief each time I change version. Maybe that'spart of the problem that the other guys reported...
The other part is that the guys at CANTV (the government main ISP) have been conducting "internet censorship" experiments for weeks now (DNS blocks, HTTP filtering, DoS,). Highly uncoordinated, and semi-random... but Still....
Also, and this is anecdotic: Ping times to 8.8.8.8 have gone (at least for me) from a reasonable 90ms to a woping 150ms. Wonder what is being done with my packets those extra 60ms. Will ask some contacts (I was technical trainer for cloud computing to some of those guys, and have my fair share of contacts in Vz Telecoms Companies)
Having said that, for the time being, a change of DNS and a VPN is a the moment enough to evade most blocks (Unless you are a high value target).
Anyway, just to say that TOR is back to normal (if it ever was out).
PS: Not anon coward, because my position is widely known, here and elsewhere (and in meatspace too), no point in hiding it now.
Dear all: Tired of google changing the browser, moving the interface around and breaking things Every 6 Weeks? Tired of microsoft changing the browser, moving the interface around and breaking things Every 6 Weeks? Tired of using safari and not having support of big boy tools, like iLO, IPIMI and the web consoles of Orocle and SAP?
Welcome to the wonderful world of Firefox ESR.
Current ESR (60) will be supported for about a year, with no new features or UI changes, only security patches and bug fixes. It has the full power of Quantum (which means more or less performance parity with the other browsers).
The version released today is 60.1, which means that ESR 60 has been in the wild for a couple of months now, allowing time to iron any rough edges, and includes a Fix for tab_selected so it works when headerURL is not set (uplifted to 60)...
Also, since the "Great breakage" of PlugIns and Add-ons happened in FireFox 53, chances are most of your plug-ins and extensions already have been ported (or have suitable equivalents).
As we speak, I am downloading it, and will install it over ESR 52, after I delete as much as possible of all the NPAPI Plug-ins that litter my Computer (Citrix, saba-meeting, WebEx, iLO, Huawei IPIMI, etc).
ESR Is the best balance for people who use the Browser as a Tool to "get things done", and not as an entertainment/media consumption.
That way, you get a stable browser for a full year, that is widely supported on the internet and Big-Boy applications, and your browser is not changing:
Every Six months (Like Edge). Every 3 months (Like Firefox mainstream) Every 2 months (Like Chrome)
the journalist was wrong for posting an article about said unfinished product.
Why? Certainly if Atari is willing to give interviews on it, the reporter not only can but should publish about it. But even if Atari hadn't, why shouldn't the reporter report?
With Macs is always the same. As soon as a significant upgraded specs machine is anounced, you buy it, with max CPU and RAM (since those are soldered). Skimp on the (removable) SSD if you must.
When Updated machines just hit, they are price-competitive with whatever has similar specs in the PC world (apple uses their scale to get good deals from component suppliers, and pass a very, very little part of the savings to us).
then hold on to it for a Very, very long time. Because, after a couple of semesters without upgrades, thos machines stop being price-competitive with their similar specd PC equivalents. If you are "forced" to buy a mac ahead of time, buy 2nd hand.
When the next significant update hits, lather, rinse, repeat.
Since this tends to align with my personal tastes, I have no Problem, but some people can not (or do not want) to operate in that pattern, I feel for them.
My MacBook aluminum Unibody Late 2008 lasted me (with SSD and RAM upgrade) until 2015. Now I am rocking and Early 2015 Air (maxed CPU, Maxed RAM, Downgraded SSD). And by the looks of it, this Air will last 7 years as well...
Yes, I am not a pro. Nowadays I am just a lousy cloud (mostly openstack) trainer and architect.
How is an article from 2015 still relevant? Blackberry don't make Blackberry phones anymore. TCL does since buying the name in 2016
even the priv from 2015 (featured in the article) was designed by Blackberry in waterloo, canada and built by TCL. Based on that early experience, Blackberry and TCL made an agreement, were Blackberry in Waterloo, canada, Licensed the Brand, patents (PKB among them), manufacturing rights and Worldwide sales (Except for india, malasia and indonesia) to Blackberry Mobile (a division of TCL).
Blackberry in Waterloo, canada still writes/oversees/customizes the SW for said phones to this day, so TCL is not at liberty to slap any sw they chose on a blackberry phone. If the phone has a blackberry logo, it has to use Blackberry's version of android, brewed in Waterloo, canada (but of course, the phone is manufactured by TCL in china).
The Keyone, launched in july 2017 was the last phone designed by Blackberry in Waterloo (canada), and again, manufactured by TCL. So, up until may 2018, the article was still relevant... And since the KeyTwo has a version of android developed in Waterloo, canada, chances are the article is still relevant now in june 2018...
Blackberry mobile is one of the few android makers (if not the only one) which assigns a crytpo key *in hardware* to each device to protect it from tampering in the field. They do not use a Vanilla linux kernel, instead opting for a Hardened linux.
Running Snoopsnitch reveals a very, very green field, meaning that all the patches are "really" applied. And not like some other android phones, which report a patch level, but in reality do not apply the fixes...
It also has an app called DTEK, which lets you see in depth what your apps are up to.
When a new mac is spawn out of cupertino and unto the world, the linux crowd has not had enough time to adapt drivers and stuff to the system. Therefore the benchmarks always go the way of MacOS. Two years down the road, one needs to use a barebones IoT linux distro to get better performance than MacOS itself, because propper linux desktop distros do not cut mustard.
Do not get me wrong, I like linux a lot, I was a linux evangelist in the early 2000's, my beef is not with linux, is with the moron who wrote the article, and with editordave for summiting it.
And if users don't want a device traceable or directly reachable by ipv6 address you can still do NAT with ipv6 too if you want; you just don't HAVE to.
Originaly, the creators of IPv6 (and the IETF) did not want _anything_ to do with NAT.
Only because of pressure from users and vendors did they _finally_ gave in and defined NAT for IPv6.
Just look at the RFCs. IPv6 was declared a Draf Standard in 1997. The IAB emited an RFC (5902) "starting" to consider the Issue in 2010, and we got an experimental standard (RFC6296) in 2011, so, 14 years were NAT on IPv6 was simply NOT POSSIBLE.
Fact check first, say comments are ignorant latter.
And do not but that "this was an experimental network, we couldn't have known" weasel-talk.
You see, about the same time Vint and Bob were working on their little 4 Bytes in the Address Field protocol (1981), Other people were also working on similar protocols.
Some Guys at OSI were working at CLNP, and guess what? That has 20 (5 times more!) Bytes in the Address Field...
Some other guys at Xerox were working on IDP, which has, hear this 12 Bytes! on the Address Field...
Those guys at Xerox and OSI knew how to think big, and were real visionaries. Other people realized big address fields were needed. Too bad uncle Vint and Uncle Bob did not...
But, by luck of the dice and historic accident, IP emerged as "the" network layer protocol. Fair enough.
When world + dog realized that IP had not enough addresses, the IAB came up with a nice solution: Use CLNP. Good, that thing was _already_ implemented debuged and tested in most routers in the world, client implementations existed (and were debuged and tested) for most OSs in the world, and all the IP (pun intended, I mean, intellectual property, such licesinsing and patents) was already sorted out. There is even an RFC (1347). Work and migration could have started then and there in 1992!
But even if you dislike OSI, you could have used IPX (a decendant of IDP with 12 Bytes addresses). Again, IPX had rock solid implementations for pretty much all OSs at the time, was implemented in every single router, and had all the Licensing/Intellectual properties sorted out. There is also and RFC for that (RCF 1791). So, again, the migration could have started then and there in 1995!
But the IETF, suffering from a bad case of Not Invented HEre Syndrome, did what is called the "palace coup" and decided to disregard the orders of the IAB, and create IPv6. What were Vinton's opinions on that? I think he stayed mum (or even worse, cheered the move).
What we know now as IPv6 was voted as "the way to go" between 1994 and 1995 , and the firts implementation (on AIX) appeared in 1997. And was not until 2000 that most OSs had production quality IPv6. So, we lost between 5 and 7 years of transition time (depending of if you preffer using CLNP or IPX)... And countless man-hours were wasted reimplementing the Long Address wheel in every OS and every Router and Every modem, and.... you get the drift. And is a weird one at that which, for example, does not have a header checksum...
And after all this, old uncle Vint is pontificating on the need of migrating fast to IPv6? Get a grip!
PS: In NO way is this post intended to diminish the contributions of Vint and Bob to networking. Those contributions are huge. is just to point out the incoungruence of getting us in this mess in the first place and then pontificating for us to hurry up!
At some point, apple bet big on OpenCL on the mac, even by rewriting big chuncks of the OS to use it. Anyone remembers grand central dispatch?
But I guess they got tired of waititng for the standards bodies to deliver the functionality they needed, and just as they did with PCIe Solid state storage, they developed their own technology and went their separate way.
Still, sad to see this happen, as going metal only (no OpenCL, no OpenGL and no Vulkan) means less games for my mac, and less support for a true multiplatform standard
Back in the '90s, in the so called "long reign" of microsoft, you needed 100s of millions just to set up the infrastructure you needed for your startup.
Nowadays, with IaaS and PaaS, setting up and scaling your initial infrastructure, is a piece of cacke, and cheaper (and tax deductible) to boot...
So no, I think this is a great time to launch a SW startup.
Finally, if a big thech firm acquires you early on, that's a great way to get an exit, which, VCs shuld love...
Now, being out-compteded by a bigger rival, that's never fun.
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Most operators around the world, specially in developed countries, are planning to shutdown 2G and 3G services. The sunsetting is expected in most of the world between 2020 and 2025
Some operators on the loosing side of 3G (CDMA2000-EVDO and TD-SCDMA) are shooting down 3G first, and then 2G. Other operators are shooting down 2G first, keeping 3G to support Voice, in order not to pay for VoLTE Licenses. Yet others plan to keep 2G in a restricted mode for M2M Communications (think smart meters, IoT, etc.).
This is actually a Good thing. We had 3 standards for 2G (GSM, IS-54/136 a.k.a. TDMA and IS-135 a.k.a. CDMA2000), then we had 3 3G standards (CDMA2000-EVDO, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA). Then we had two (or three, depending on how you count) standards for 4G (802.16m a.k.a. WiMax, FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE ).
You can imagine how crowded a radio shelter is nowadays. How much electricity it consumes, how much heat it generates, and how costly the O&M contracts and logistics of all that gear is...
And how crowded the spectrum is as well since the spectrum tends to be very expensive.
With (hopefully) only one 5G standard, and sunseting of all 2G and 3G networks, more harmonization worldwide is possible, which leads to simpler radio modems (the end Game is TDD-LTE + 5G), and cheaper equipment. Also, spectrum that is currently used for 2G and 3G can be refarmend for 4G and 5G, leading to better service.
this should be seen as a welcome development.
All this post processing is fine and dandy, as long as I can turn it off when I am watching a movie and want to hear it as the director indended.
Basically, think of every movie that has won an oscar in sound-related categories.
Of course, this improving dialogue and boosting volume of soft pasages will be nice for heavy dialogue material, like (melo)dramas, comedy, et al.
And also, the turning down sound of commercials is something I would pay good money for.
But for movies with no commercials (DVD, BD, Streamed), the best setting is the one that turns all this postprocessing off...
Amen.
At least in mac, the menu bar is there by default all the time (os imposed), so there is nothing to restore in that front.
HAving said that, I like my tabs in the title bar (even with the 16:10 display of the mac, vertical space is at a premium these days).
On the other hand, I hate how firefox dicks around with the buttons on the interface. Lucky for me, I am in the ESR channel, so this happens only once a year, not every six weeks (chrome), or every six months (edge).
Maybe nurd is a portmenau of nerd and turd?
Having said that, at one time or another I have used Windows mac and Linux on my desktop, and better not tell you about the weird stuff I administered in my servers (Sinix or VMS anyone?).
So, I do not care what OS anyone uses, as long as they do not pontificate about it.
OSs and software in general are tools, use the best tool for the job at hand, and get done with it.
You never see people arguing if a screwdriver is better than a chisel... It should be the same about OSs
The wetware or carbonware that is put between the Keyboard and Chair is the main bottleneck in performance.
If you change many things in the browser, like the interface, or break a lot of plug-ins, the wetware/carbonware gets adapatation problems, and productivity suffers.
Chrome changes every six weeks or so.
Edge changes every six months or so.
Firefox ESR changes every year.
So, logic dictates, go with firefox ESR.
With a Blockbuster sign in the background, you have to go to Oregon, or Brazil, or Australia...
I did not have the pleasure to use the model M until I went to the university in 1989. Before that only model Fs. Not bad, but cramped... After I tested the Model M, I was hooked!. So, as soon as I could, I bought two.
I have two (2) Model M Keyboards from 1988.
Used them through and through (even flew one to Spain while doing my Masters, when every pound counted!). I find the sound helps me concentrate, and if the rate of typing is fast, is a good signal for my coworkers to not bother me.
But in 2009, I bought a Mac. I needed an USB Keyboard with a "Windows Key" to replicate Apple's "Command" Key (Flower). (until then I was able to use ctrl+esc to get by).
I went to a Keyboard I repurposed from an HP C9000 PA-RISC Workstation, which kinda-sorta kept my nerd creed...
Is decent (but a piece of crap in comparison to the M), and at least the Extra Key DOES NOT HAVE a Windows logo.
If I ever feel the need, and if they do something More interesting with the keyboard controller/software wise, I may get a Unicomp replica. But unicomp keyboards are boring. No backlight. No extra Keys for macros. The only interesting thing is the trackpoint/nipple mouse...
So, if I had to but a new keyboard, like *now*, I woild get something more modern, like a keyboard with Cherry MX switches, backlight (RGB not necesary), and macro recording functionality and extra keys...
Now, you are welcome to get on my lawn, ad admire my model Ms, type something on them, and marvel at the tactile and audible feedback...
Very few people want that. Focusing on them over the wide audience is how you go bankrupt.
Sad but true.
Luckyo, I think you are wrong, and maybe xack is into something. Is true that the wider audience does not want the thicker not shinny phone combo, but with a 68% sales slump, maybe the (diminished*) HTC phone division may be better financially by forgeting about blockbuster Flagship Uber-Phones that appeal to the wide market, and focus on a niche instead.
Look at Blackberry Mobile (a completely different company from Blackberry propper) focusing on the Keyboard phone niche, or bullit (a british company licensing the CAT brand) focusing on HyperRugged phones. Maybe HTC could be the king of DualSim+MicroSD card at the same time + 3.5mm Jack + Remomable battery + 36 hour battery time niche. It will not restore their former smartphone glory, but at least, the phone division will not bleed cash.
Food for tought.
* Diminished because many of the top smartphone engineering talent went to Google a little while ago.
This is what happens when the guys who were in chrage of the MSCs and SS7 STPs of yore are put in charge of the Newflanged Diameter Servers and Routers of 4G and 5G
Do not get me wrong, those guys are very smart and briliant guys. But just as the Slashdot crowd would have a hell of a day trying to configure the 67 E1s of an STM-1 in order to Set up a set of SS& links, an Old School Telco switch guy would have hell undertsnading the nuances of security on Diameter...
Me, I had a feet in each camp for 5 years (1999-2004), but now I am looking from above in my (OpenStack) cloud...
Yes, for me is the Same, I bootcamp for games, and VBox for Project, Visio, and Various IPMI and iLO crap (using a rawvmdk of course). But each and every time, is a lithany of past due upgrades of everything microsoft and not microsoft. And twice a year, is the crap of feature upgrades.
Let alone when family and friends ask for "a little help with a little problem that ought not have to take more than five minutes" .
So, yes, is Annoying
And yes, Your comment should be modded funny
No matter where it comes from.
Thanks to Microsoft for this contribution. Hope to see some more out of the USoA (where I am from).
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PS: Now, if you guys could also Fix Win10, would be even better.
I use MacOS, but still have to go back to Win10 from time to time, and get an awful experience each and every time.
As of today (June 28, 2018 1630 gmt-4) TOR is working for me in TAILS 3.6 on a Vbox VM
Yes, not the most secure configuration, but I am busy with a few things rigth now, no BW to Torrent 3.8, and not rich to have multiple machines.
Every Time I torrent the latest version of TAILS, I take the time to fire up the VM, and connect to TOR, just to practice.
TOR and TAILS, not being the most user-friendly things to set up, give me grief each time I change version. Maybe that'spart of the problem that the other guys reported...
The other part is that the guys at CANTV (the government main ISP) have been conducting "internet censorship" experiments for weeks now (DNS blocks, HTTP filtering, DoS,). Highly uncoordinated, and semi-random... but Still....
Also, and this is anecdotic: Ping times to 8.8.8.8 have gone (at least for me) from a reasonable 90ms to a woping 150ms. Wonder what is being done with my packets those extra 60ms. Will ask some contacts (I was technical trainer for cloud computing to some of those guys, and have my fair share of contacts in Vz Telecoms Companies)
Having said that, for the time being, a change of DNS and a VPN is a the moment enough to evade most blocks (Unless you are a high value target).
Anyway, just to say that TOR is back to normal (if it ever was out).
PS: Not anon coward, because my position is widely known, here and elsewhere (and in meatspace too), no point in hiding it now.
Dear all:
Tired of google changing the browser, moving the interface around and breaking things Every 6 Weeks?
Tired of microsoft changing the browser, moving the interface around and breaking things Every 6 Weeks?
Tired of using safari and not having support of big boy tools, like iLO, IPIMI and the web consoles of Orocle and SAP?
Welcome to the wonderful world of Firefox ESR.
Current ESR (60) will be supported for about a year, with no new features or UI changes, only security patches and bug fixes. It has the full power of Quantum (which means more or less performance parity with the other browsers).
The version released today is 60.1, which means that ESR 60 has been in the wild for a couple of months now, allowing time to iron any rough edges, and includes a Fix for tab_selected so it works when headerURL is not set (uplifted to 60)...
Also, since the "Great breakage" of PlugIns and Add-ons happened in FireFox 53, chances are most of your plug-ins and extensions already have been ported (or have suitable equivalents).
As we speak, I am downloading it, and will install it over ESR 52, after I delete as much as possible of all the NPAPI Plug-ins that litter my Computer (Citrix, saba-meeting, WebEx, iLO, Huawei IPIMI, etc).
ESR Is the best balance for people who use the Browser as a Tool to "get things done", and not as an entertainment/media consumption.
That way, you get a stable browser for a full year, that is widely supported on the internet and Big-Boy applications, and your browser is not changing:
Every Six months (Like Edge).
Every 3 months (Like Firefox mainstream)
Every 2 months (Like Chrome)
The new ESR 60 is Fingerlicking Good.
Why? Certainly if Atari is willing to give interviews on it, the reporter not only can but should publish about it. But even if Atari hadn't, why shouldn't the reporter report?
The reporter was INVITED by Atari.
'Nuff said.
With Macs is always the same. As soon as a significant upgraded specs machine is anounced, you buy it, with max CPU and RAM (since those are soldered). Skimp on the (removable) SSD if you must.
When Updated machines just hit, they are price-competitive with whatever has similar specs in the PC world (apple uses their scale to get good deals from component suppliers, and pass a very, very little part of the savings to us).
then hold on to it for a Very, very long time. Because, after a couple of semesters without upgrades, thos machines stop being price-competitive with their similar specd PC equivalents. If you are "forced" to buy a mac ahead of time, buy 2nd hand.
When the next significant update hits, lather, rinse, repeat.
Since this tends to align with my personal tastes, I have no Problem, but some people can not (or do not want) to operate in that pattern, I feel for them.
My MacBook aluminum Unibody Late 2008 lasted me (with SSD and RAM upgrade) until 2015. Now I am rocking and Early 2015 Air (maxed CPU, Maxed RAM, Downgraded SSD). And by the looks of it, this Air will last 7 years as well...
Yes, I am not a pro. Nowadays I am just a lousy cloud (mostly openstack) trainer and architect.
Will google allow to save this NMT translations (@40Meg a pop) on the SD card?
Currently, they DO NOT allo to save these translations to the SD card in android, while Microsoft Translator does.
Is the only reason I use the Microsoft app and not both (for the languages I care about both are about the same, so I'd be delighted to have both).
How is an article from 2015 still relevant?
Blackberry don't make Blackberry phones anymore. TCL does since buying the name in 2016
even the priv from 2015 (featured in the article) was designed by Blackberry in waterloo, canada and built by TCL. Based on that early experience, Blackberry and TCL made an agreement, were Blackberry in Waterloo, canada, Licensed the Brand, patents (PKB among them), manufacturing rights and Worldwide sales (Except for india, malasia and indonesia) to Blackberry Mobile (a division of TCL).
Blackberry in Waterloo, canada still writes/oversees/customizes the SW for said phones to this day, so TCL is not at liberty to slap any sw they chose on a blackberry phone. If the phone has a blackberry logo, it has to use Blackberry's version of android, brewed in Waterloo, canada (but of course, the phone is manufactured by TCL in china).
The Keyone, launched in july 2017 was the last phone designed by Blackberry in Waterloo (canada), and again, manufactured by TCL. So, up until may 2018, the article was still relevant... And since the KeyTwo has a version of android developed in Waterloo, canada, chances are the article is still relevant now in june 2018...
First, TCL+Blackberry=Blackberry mobile.
Blackberry mobile is one of the few android makers (if not the only one) which assigns a crytpo key *in hardware* to each device to protect it from tampering in the field. They do not use a Vanilla linux kernel, instead opting for a Hardened linux.
Running Snoopsnitch reveals a very, very green field, meaning that all the patches are "really" applied. And not like some other android phones, which report a patch level, but in reality do not apply the fixes...
It also has an app called DTEK, which lets you see in depth what your apps are up to.
More info in this old but still relevant article:
https://www.engadget.com/2015/...
Of course, if you do not want a PKB, then you are equaly (or more) secure, and have a longer SW support with an iPhone.
When a new mac is spawn out of cupertino and unto the world, the linux crowd has not had enough time to adapt drivers and stuff to the system. Therefore the benchmarks always go the way of MacOS. Two years down the road, one needs to use a barebones IoT linux distro to get better performance than MacOS itself, because propper linux desktop distros do not cut mustard.
Do not get me wrong, I like linux a lot, I was a linux evangelist in the early 2000's, my beef is not with linux, is with the moron who wrote the article, and with editordave for summiting it.
Slow news day...
And if users don't want a device traceable or directly reachable by ipv6 address you can still do NAT with ipv6 too if you want; you just don't HAVE to.
Originaly, the creators of IPv6 (and the IETF) did not want _anything_ to do with NAT.
Only because of pressure from users and vendors did they _finally_ gave in and defined NAT for IPv6.
Just look at the RFCs. IPv6 was declared a Draf Standard in 1997. The IAB emited an RFC (5902) "starting" to consider the Issue in 2010, and we got an experimental standard (RFC6296) in 2011, so, 14 years were NAT on IPv6 was simply NOT POSSIBLE.
Fact check first, say comments are ignorant latter.
And now is up to us to pick up the pieces.
They simply made the address field too small.
And do not but that "this was an experimental network, we couldn't have known" weasel-talk.
You see, about the same time Vint and Bob were working on their little 4 Bytes in the Address Field protocol (1981), Other people were also working on similar protocols.
Some Guys at OSI were working at CLNP, and guess what? That has 20 (5 times more!) Bytes in the Address Field...
Some other guys at Xerox were working on IDP, which has, hear this 12 Bytes! on the Address Field...
Those guys at Xerox and OSI knew how to think big, and were real visionaries. Other people realized big address fields were needed. Too bad uncle Vint and Uncle Bob did not...
But, by luck of the dice and historic accident, IP emerged as "the" network layer protocol. Fair enough.
When world + dog realized that IP had not enough addresses, the IAB came up with a nice solution: Use CLNP. Good, that thing was _already_ implemented debuged and tested in most routers in the world, client implementations existed (and were debuged and tested) for most OSs in the world, and all the IP (pun intended, I mean, intellectual property, such licesinsing and patents) was already sorted out. There is even an RFC (1347). Work and migration could have started then and there in 1992!
But even if you dislike OSI, you could have used IPX (a decendant of IDP with 12 Bytes addresses). Again, IPX had rock solid implementations for pretty much all OSs at the time, was implemented in every single router, and had all the Licensing/Intellectual properties sorted out. There is also and RFC for that (RCF 1791). So, again, the migration could have started then and there in 1995!
But the IETF, suffering from a bad case of Not Invented HEre Syndrome, did what is called the "palace coup" and decided to disregard the orders of the IAB, and create IPv6. What were Vinton's opinions on that? I think he stayed mum (or even worse, cheered the move).
What we know now as IPv6 was voted as "the way to go" between 1994 and 1995 , and the firts implementation (on AIX) appeared in 1997. And was not until 2000 that most OSs had production quality IPv6. So, we lost between 5 and 7 years of transition time (depending of if you preffer using CLNP or IPX)... And countless man-hours were wasted reimplementing the Long Address wheel in every OS and every Router and Every modem, and .... you get the drift. And is a weird one at that which, for example, does not have a header checksum...
And after all this, old uncle Vint is pontificating on the need of migrating fast to IPv6? Get a grip!
PS: In NO way is this post intended to diminish the contributions of Vint and Bob to networking. Those contributions are huge. is just to point out the incoungruence of getting us in this mess in the first place and then pontificating for us to hurry up!
At some point, apple bet big on OpenCL on the mac, even by rewriting big chuncks of the OS to use it. Anyone remembers grand central dispatch?
But I guess they got tired of waititng for the standards bodies to deliver the functionality they needed, and just as they did with PCIe Solid state storage, they developed their own technology and went their separate way.
Still, sad to see this happen, as going metal only (no OpenCL, no OpenGL and no Vulkan) means less games for my mac, and less support for a true multiplatform standard
Back in the '90s, in the so called "long reign" of microsoft, you needed 100s of millions just to set up the infrastructure you needed for your startup.
Nowadays, with IaaS and PaaS, setting up and scaling your initial infrastructure, is a piece of cacke, and cheaper (and tax deductible) to boot...
So no, I think this is a great time to launch a SW startup.
Finally, if a big thech firm acquires you early on, that's a great way to get an exit, which, VCs shuld love...
Now, being out-compteded by a bigger rival, that's never fun.
Let's hope that, among those "re-imagined" clasics, they are able to port the games on the "Atari Arcade" to the browser of that machine.
I played those games back in the day while I was still using Windows (on MacOS since 2009) and those were good fun.
You can try them (with variable sucess, depending on browser) even now:
https://atari.com/arcade#!/arc...