My thoughts exactly. Will the marketers of synthetic diamonds manage to establish them as "diamonds guaranteed to be free of imperfections and cruelty" or will the marketers of mined diamonds manage to establish synthetic diamonds as "not authentic"? BTW, I think the latter group will win. Nobody buys diamonds for the shiny effect (that's what cubic zirconia is for), they buy them to demonstrate they are willing to spend on something expensive but useless. Synthetic diamonds will be just as useless as real ones but -in the future- will fail at the "expensive" bit
No they can't, not if you have disabled automatic system updates. Google, on the other hand, can do quite some stuff on your phone simply by updating the Play Services app (which auto-updates on the background even if you have disabled auto-updating of normal apps from the relevant settting in the Play Store). This is simply a case of New Zealand's networks receiving a request to connect from Note 7 devices and replying "nope". The network could do that even on your Nokia 3310. Remember, the network knows your IMEI (or some other unique device identifier), not just the SIM identifier.
Android *is* a secure OS if you are a lucky Nexus 5X owner like, because the Nexus 5X gets monthly security updates as soon as they are released. For all the other folks out there running unpatched phones with well-documented vulnerabilities, not so much. For the billionth time: Google doesn't care about non-Nexus Androids and consider devices to have a usable life span of 3 years.
Considering how X.org keeps breaking gpu drivers with every upgrade and how easily "the community" inserts breaking changes to the desktop API (such as shipping pulseaudio in distros before it even got 100% compatibility with alsa), I 'd say no. Unless you show me a desktop linux distro that keeps the whole API and the ABI stable for years and can still run the newest desktop linux apps, I am not buying what you say. BTW, I agree wth you that the 40%-5% ratio won't hold. The really dumb users will get migrated last and change the ratio. What did those users need support for anyway (assuming Windows 7 or above) The thing pretty much updates itself and has its own antivirus (MSE, not great but better than ClamAV or OSX's Xprotect). Also, this is how PHB's spend billions without noticing. Some Mac fanboy wants the whole of IBM to go Apple, waves some fraudulent statistics and bang! the company is facing a full on desktop computer replace with expensive boutique hardware.
First time that a case involving marketing promises not matching with actual software product because of crippling bugs. Glad to see how this plays out. So far software vendors (boxed or embedded) got away with this because the cost of litigation vs cost of software was prohibitive, so they ignored customer complaints.
Good for them. ROI is good for the investor. You must know that here is no obligation (moral or otherwise) to fix other people's problems, or to develop technology that fixes other people's problems. All those people in the third-world failing at parenthood planning should not expect from venture capitalists to make magic technology that will fix the results of their decision to have 5 children when they can afford one or none.
Look, I am not one of those guys they say they pirate because they can't get the content as a DRM-free file. I would pirate music and movies anyway. But the ability to have my music and movies as plain mp3, m4a, avi, mp4 and mkv files and not having to tolerate problems like the above is definitely a plus. And if I want stuff on the clouds, there is always the Exodus plug-n for Kodi (not officially supported by Kodi obviously).
As a Greek, I agree with that statement. And btw Switzerland had a referendum and rejected UBI to prevent minorities from having too many children and then having those children live on everyone else's back.
Or, an OS which offers decent automation tools, so you won't have to hand cruft bash scripts as if it's 1989 again. There is a reason Windows Server still makes Microsoft money despite linux supposedly being the OS of choice for servers.
I think what the dude meant is that fracturing your installed base just 2 years after your console launched is an immensely dumb idea, no matter how it's done (blot-on or new system). The only way Sony can pull "PlayStation 4.5" off and succeed is to make those VR games compatible with the ordinary PS4, even at a lower-resolutions or non-VR functionality. Otherwise, if there are games that run only on the PS4.5, every developer is going to go towards where the audience is (PS4) for as long as it's "good enough". Also, VR took Sony and MS by surprise, otherwise they wouldn't have gone for so mediocre GPUs...
The University of Southampton is already doing this. Had to take my completely analog, ultra-basic watch out of my wrist and put it in a plastic transparent bag next to me.
No it's not, moisture will still be detected in the charging port, and the firmware will still react accordingly. I never understood this "X minutes of water resistance when submerged" thing. Does this mean water gets into the device? If I wait a minute and re-submerge it, do I get another X minutes of water resistance? If not, how long I need to wait between submersions? A phone with ports can't really be water resistant. The true water-resistant phone will be full wireless with inductive charging
I only use torrents (and torrents time) to download big buck bunny over and over and linux ISOs. But please no spoilers on the latest TV series because I haven't finished watching all my Linux ISOs yet.
This rapper guy is obviously trolling to get publicity. Any model of flat-earth would dissect either the Pacific or the Atlantic, which would make some trans-ocean flights impossible in the time they are done.
There is no in-the-wild exploit to install apps on an Android device without consent. Much less on a Nexus 6, which regularly receives updates that plug any known security holes. The dude probably installed some (cr)app or game from the app store that pings ad servers even when not on foreground, or -since this is slashdot- used his "information wants to be fuh-ree" right and sideloaded pirare apk's.
I can't understand what the "author" is babbling about. iPhone's have the best LTS from any other mobile OS. Devices get upgrades for a long time (compared to many "open" Android phones like the relatively recent Galaxy Nexus which has no official support for the latest version of it's OS), and even after they don't receive upgrades, they do not stop working. I see people with iPhone 4 phones still using them. But if your lifestyle demands having the latest and greatest iPhone, Apple will offer you a service to "assist" in that. In no way is this an indication that "evil apple doesn't want you to own your device". But you see, most people here secretly hate people who can afford having the newest, and try to spin them as "sheeple".
Nobody freaking cares. You can't tax/fine people retroactively. And those "poorer nations" benefited from western technology, otherwise they 'd be still using leeches to cure illnesses and think a horse is the fastest means of transport. And BTW, nobody is created equal, there is no "right to equality", deal with it.
Whose Tens of Trillions of Dollars? The people who will see their properties and crops destroyed by the changing of the climate and the more extreme weather parties? Sorry, lawmakers are not interested in that demographic. Neeeext!
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My thoughts exactly. Will the marketers of synthetic diamonds manage to establish them as "diamonds guaranteed to be free of imperfections and cruelty" or will the marketers of mined diamonds manage to establish synthetic diamonds as "not authentic"? BTW, I think the latter group will win. Nobody buys diamonds for the shiny effect (that's what cubic zirconia is for), they buy them to demonstrate they are willing to spend on something expensive but useless. Synthetic diamonds will be just as useless as real ones but -in the future- will fail at the "expensive" bit
No they can't, not if you have disabled automatic system updates. Google, on the other hand, can do quite some stuff on your phone simply by updating the Play Services app (which auto-updates on the background even if you have disabled auto-updating of normal apps from the relevant settting in the Play Store). This is simply a case of New Zealand's networks receiving a request to connect from Note 7 devices and replying "nope". The network could do that even on your Nokia 3310. Remember, the network knows your IMEI (or some other unique device identifier), not just the SIM identifier.
Android *is* a secure OS if you are a lucky Nexus 5X owner like, because the Nexus 5X gets monthly security updates as soon as they are released. For all the other folks out there running unpatched phones with well-documented vulnerabilities, not so much. For the billionth time: Google doesn't care about non-Nexus Androids and consider devices to have a usable life span of 3 years.
Considering how X.org keeps breaking gpu drivers with every upgrade and how easily "the community" inserts breaking changes to the desktop API (such as shipping pulseaudio in distros before it even got 100% compatibility with alsa), I 'd say no. Unless you show me a desktop linux distro that keeps the whole API and the ABI stable for years and can still run the newest desktop linux apps, I am not buying what you say. BTW, I agree wth you that the 40%-5% ratio won't hold. The really dumb users will get migrated last and change the ratio. What did those users need support for anyway (assuming Windows 7 or above) The thing pretty much updates itself and has its own antivirus (MSE, not great but better than ClamAV or OSX's Xprotect). Also, this is how PHB's spend billions without noticing. Some Mac fanboy wants the whole of IBM to go Apple, waves some fraudulent statistics and bang! the company is facing a full on desktop computer replace with expensive boutique hardware.
First time that a case involving marketing promises not matching with actual software product because of crippling bugs. Glad to see how this plays out. So far software vendors (boxed or embedded) got away with this because the cost of litigation vs cost of software was prohibitive, so they ignored customer complaints.
Good for them. ROI is good for the investor. You must know that here is no obligation (moral or otherwise) to fix other people's problems, or to develop technology that fixes other people's problems. All those people in the third-world failing at parenthood planning should not expect from venture capitalists to make magic technology that will fix the results of their decision to have 5 children when they can afford one or none.
Exactly: Since they don't have a clear definition of what is a troll, the message is "fall into the party line or we 'll ban you as a troll"
Clickbait-y headlines on Slashdot. It's a new world out there...
Look, I am not one of those guys they say they pirate because they can't get the content as a DRM-free file. I would pirate music and movies anyway. But the ability to have my music and movies as plain mp3, m4a, avi, mp4 and mkv files and not having to tolerate problems like the above is definitely a plus. And if I want stuff on the clouds, there is always the Exodus plug-n for Kodi (not officially supported by Kodi obviously).
Does Edge have a decent adblocker to block all that cpu-munching JavaScript ads? No? Then any power savings are theoretical only
As a Greek, I agree with that statement. And btw Switzerland had a referendum and rejected UBI to prevent minorities from having too many children and then having those children live on everyone else's back.
Or, an OS which offers decent automation tools, so you won't have to hand cruft bash scripts as if it's 1989 again. There is a reason Windows Server still makes Microsoft money despite linux supposedly being the OS of choice for servers.
As if "the rich" will idly sit by waiting to be taxed instead of becoming Luxembourgian, Panamese, Monte-Carlian, Liechtensteinian etc citizens taking all their property with them and their businesses. Just like it happened in Venezuela. And just look how Gérard Depardieu moved from France to Russia when Hollande tried to tax him.
I think what the dude meant is that fracturing your installed base just 2 years after your console launched is an immensely dumb idea, no matter how it's done (blot-on or new system). The only way Sony can pull "PlayStation 4.5" off and succeed is to make those VR games compatible with the ordinary PS4, even at a lower-resolutions or non-VR functionality. Otherwise, if there are games that run only on the PS4.5, every developer is going to go towards where the audience is (PS4) for as long as it's "good enough". Also, VR took Sony and MS by surprise, otherwise they wouldn't have gone for so mediocre GPUs...
The University of Southampton is already doing this. Had to take my completely analog, ultra-basic watch out of my wrist and put it in a plastic transparent bag next to me.
No it's not, moisture will still be detected in the charging port, and the firmware will still react accordingly. I never understood this "X minutes of water resistance when submerged" thing. Does this mean water gets into the device? If I wait a minute and re-submerge it, do I get another X minutes of water resistance? If not, how long I need to wait between submersions? A phone with ports can't really be water resistant. The true water-resistant phone will be full wireless with inductive charging
I only use torrents (and torrents time) to download big buck bunny over and over and linux ISOs. But please no spoilers on the latest TV series because I haven't finished watching all my Linux ISOs yet.
This rapper guy is obviously trolling to get publicity. Any model of flat-earth would dissect either the Pacific or the Atlantic, which would make some trans-ocean flights impossible in the time they are done.
Haha, yet another dreamer who doesn't understand how government contracts work.
Exactly. I 'd just drop a ratpoison-enriched steak on the neighbor's lawn. He had it coming...
And that stereotyping always happens by people who like companues that produce buggy software: Microsoft and the Linux companies.
There is no in-the-wild exploit to install apps on an Android device without consent. Much less on a Nexus 6, which regularly receives updates that plug any known security holes. The dude probably installed some (cr)app or game from the app store that pings ad servers even when not on foreground, or -since this is slashdot- used his "information wants to be fuh-ree" right and sideloaded pirare apk's.
I can't understand what the "author" is babbling about. iPhone's have the best LTS from any other mobile OS. Devices get upgrades for a long time (compared to many "open" Android phones like the relatively recent Galaxy Nexus which has no official support for the latest version of it's OS), and even after they don't receive upgrades, they do not stop working. I see people with iPhone 4 phones still using them. But if your lifestyle demands having the latest and greatest iPhone, Apple will offer you a service to "assist" in that. In no way is this an indication that "evil apple doesn't want you to own your device". But you see, most people here secretly hate people who can afford having the newest, and try to spin them as "sheeple".
Nobody freaking cares. You can't tax/fine people retroactively. And those "poorer nations" benefited from western technology, otherwise they 'd be still using leeches to cure illnesses and think a horse is the fastest means of transport. And BTW, nobody is created equal, there is no "right to equality", deal with it.
Whose Tens of Trillions of Dollars? The people who will see their properties and crops destroyed by the changing of the climate and the more extreme weather parties? Sorry, lawmakers are not interested in that demographic. Neeeext!