I am always amused by all those "Baby Microsoft Offices" apps that Microsoft puts out online and in various app stores. Everyone using Office knows that there is The Real Microsoft Office (the Windows Desktop app), which is guaranteed to open documents perfectly (macros, animations, binary blobs, scripts and whatnot included), and "Baby Microsoft Offices" which are not guaranteed to do that. And for that reason, most people use The Real Microsoft Office exclusively. BTW I am not in favour of putting junk (like the stuff I mentioned) above in documents, but if you are sent an important document having them, you have no choice but to open it. By not having a clear XML standard, Microsoft has painted themselves in a corner.
Wouldn't be surprised if, by 2023, the copyright code gets magically extended for another 20 years and Steamboat Willie "coincidentally" remains copyrighted for another 20 years. This is the problem with loaded language. Extensive use of the term "intellectual property" by companies like Disney and pro-Disney politicians (Mickey Mouse politicians) to refer to their copyrights has resulted in the public thinking copyrights are property, and, if a house or a car doesn't become public property after 90 years or whatever why should "intellectual property"? Vote fewer Mickey Mouse politicians in power I guess.
Exactly. I hate JavaScript. Everyone disliked Flash but Javascript is much worse because it spreads all over the page DOM. At least Flash was confined to a single DOM node (aka a single box in the page). The only benefit of Javascript is the client implementations are better, but the concept is much worse. Even if browsers prevent back-button hijacking, there is still the problem of pop-ups having come back in force by using javascript overlays. And pages that load ads dynamically when you just want to read the text.
Phones running alternative mobile OSes (aka not iOS or Android) are a waste of money in 2018. All text and voice communication is now dependent on certain apps officially available only for the big two OSes. Yes there are third-party clients, but it's not the same. SMS and MMS used to be OS-neutral, but the apps that replaced them are not. And then there is the whole content consumption problem with the content being tied to services, and these services may not even have third-party alternatives for alternative OSes. If you want to buy a Jolla phone and enjoy watching it gather dust, go ahead and do it.
I think the actual news is that the UI is peel-able using methods accessible to the average buyer, which could lead to all kinds of interesting and "interesting" (aka malicious) hacks.
Because there is no better alternative. If you think EVs will drop down to the $20.000 range to be as affordable as ICE cars, you are deluding yourself. And Lithium is already a rising commodity BTW.
Be careful what you wish for: Tesla has cut every corner they could with the Model 3 (worker wellbeing, worker safety, fit and finish, repairability and repair affordability), and they still can't make the darn thing at the promised $36.000 price. Which is a high price for a car already. An all-EV future could be a future in you, average middle class person, cannot afford to drive. Which can be fine if you live in New York City or some other densely populated area but not if you live in a rural or exurban area with crap public transportation.
Usually, even the "good" currency (aka the one not inflated as much as the "common" currency) isn't really pegged to any currency, and by that I mean it is not readily convertible back to US dollars by everyone who owns it, because the local communist dictatorship doesn't have enough currency reserves to support such a conversion at the semi-large scale. As such, even the "good" currency ends up in the black market, where tourists can buy it (with their USD) at a much more favourable rate than the official "pegged" rate.
"7CUC ($7) " Whaa? A Cuban Ultrainflationary Commietoken is equivalent to one US Dollar? On the real world or according to the Cuban government's exchange rates (which nobody uses if they can avoid it and instead buy the commietokens they want from elsewhere). Or is CUC some special non-inflationary currency pegged to the dollar via actual currency reserves and available only to those animals in the farm born more equal than the others?
But it's possible to put a digital photo on a website. If we were talking analog cameras, then your point would make sense. And anyway, Sammy could have done any colour correction they wanted. The practice of using a DSLR and try to pass it off as a photo taken with one of their phones reeks of massive scam. Intel tried to pull something with computer graphics once, when they had a videogame rendered backstage with a proper GPU and tried to pass it off as something that came out of their integrated GPUs. So the practice isn't new. God bless disclaimers...
Open source is a joint-development license where everybody can join at any time. It relies on copyright and freedom to participate (or not) and other fine capitalist ideals.
...it was about time. The reason RCA isn't making anything in the US anymore is because China slaps a tarrif on anything imported from the US but the US doesn't slap a tarrif on Chinese imports.
This. If HR wants to believe that the earth is flat, a man dressed female clothes and feminine makeup is a woman and that the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is Agile, they can do it. Disallowing employees from saying otherwise is not right IMO.
Because the moment identity "fluidity" becomes acceptable in one area, it will start becoming acceptable in others. We 'd have white people identifying as black for the race points (some already do), illegal immigrants identifying as war refugees, professional victims identifying as whatever will get them sympathy. And you will be forced to pretend it's all real, because if a man in drag can claim to be a woman why not them? And then those "I identify as" people will claim legal rights, because if a man in drag identifying as a woman can have the same legal rights as a woman why not them? Your little girl will be forced to pee next to a man in the public toilet, illegal immigrants will treated as war refugees with your tax money, then white special snowflakes can claim to be repressed minorities and receive grants. For the sake of sanity, let's stop the madness. At least when we are allowed to.
Windows and my Nvidia card are complementary goods. And I get to have the latest versions of software without waiting for any repos to repackage them or having to compile them. And I use Windows 8.1 so I don't care what experiments Nadella and his hipsters do to Windows 10. Let someone else beta test their SaaS experiment.
This. Thank you. I can't believe my employer forces me to believe that a man in drag is a woman if he identifies as a woman, but after I posted that on the company Slack I was reminded that Slack posts have to meet HR directives on "diversity". At least I made my voice heard.
Every social media platform tries to eliminate the "like" button lately. You see, if there is a "like" button and no "dislike" button (which can be abused by the internet thought patrol to silence dissidents), all voices will be heard and most importantly their impact will be assessed (to a degree). Which isn't good if you are progressive CEO of a "hip" tech startup who believes in political bullying and the silencing of "non-progressive" voices.
But your phone went through a stage where it got apps but no security updates. This is the stage Lollipop phones are now. And there lies the security risk: These phones are perfectly functional and can run most play store apps but are unpatched, and the Google dashboard stats confirm that these phones are indeed active and used. Can't say it in simpler terms. Cheers.
Well duh. What makes those people think that the government, and by that I mean any of the 3 branches, will relinquish the power they spend billions every year to maintain? Even if they manage to find some hole in the law, which in itself is pretty unlikely because the legislative branch has made sure this part of the law is airtight, the law cannot be "hacked" like code can because judges are not robots and they will never set a precedent of "sovereigns", "footles" (freemen on the land - FOTL) and whatnot to secure a win and chose to not be bound by state it federal law. Even a nerd like me, with people not being my strong suit, can think as far.
Yes, I am sure this happens. But again, the official figures from Google show that there are KitKat, Lollipop and Marshmallow phones (with their factory unpatched ROM) in service in far greater numbers than you think. And that's a security problem. The Google dashboard doesn't measure activated devices but active devices.
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I am always amused by all those "Baby Microsoft Offices" apps that Microsoft puts out online and in various app stores. Everyone using Office knows that there is The Real Microsoft Office (the Windows Desktop app), which is guaranteed to open documents perfectly (macros, animations, binary blobs, scripts and whatnot included), and "Baby Microsoft Offices" which are not guaranteed to do that. And for that reason, most people use The Real Microsoft Office exclusively. BTW I am not in favour of putting junk (like the stuff I mentioned) above in documents, but if you are sent an important document having them, you have no choice but to open it. By not having a clear XML standard, Microsoft has painted themselves in a corner.
Wouldn't be surprised if, by 2023, the copyright code gets magically extended for another 20 years and Steamboat Willie "coincidentally" remains copyrighted for another 20 years. This is the problem with loaded language. Extensive use of the term "intellectual property" by companies like Disney and pro-Disney politicians (Mickey Mouse politicians) to refer to their copyrights has resulted in the public thinking copyrights are property, and, if a house or a car doesn't become public property after 90 years or whatever why should "intellectual property"? Vote fewer Mickey Mouse politicians in power I guess.
Exactly. I hate JavaScript. Everyone disliked Flash but Javascript is much worse because it spreads all over the page DOM. At least Flash was confined to a single DOM node (aka a single box in the page). The only benefit of Javascript is the client implementations are better, but the concept is much worse. Even if browsers prevent back-button hijacking, there is still the problem of pop-ups having come back in force by using javascript overlays. And pages that load ads dynamically when you just want to read the text.
Phones running alternative mobile OSes (aka not iOS or Android) are a waste of money in 2018. All text and voice communication is now dependent on certain apps officially available only for the big two OSes. Yes there are third-party clients, but it's not the same. SMS and MMS used to be OS-neutral, but the apps that replaced them are not. And then there is the whole content consumption problem with the content being tied to services, and these services may not even have third-party alternatives for alternative OSes. If you want to buy a Jolla phone and enjoy watching it gather dust, go ahead and do it.
I think the actual news is that the UI is peel-able using methods accessible to the average buyer, which could lead to all kinds of interesting and "interesting" (aka malicious) hacks.
Because there is no better alternative. If you think EVs will drop down to the $20.000 range to be as affordable as ICE cars, you are deluding yourself. And Lithium is already a rising commodity BTW.
* in you = in which you
Be careful what you wish for: Tesla has cut every corner they could with the Model 3 (worker wellbeing, worker safety, fit and finish, repairability and repair affordability), and they still can't make the darn thing at the promised $36.000 price. Which is a high price for a car already. An all-EV future could be a future in you, average middle class person, cannot afford to drive. Which can be fine if you live in New York City or some other densely populated area but not if you live in a rural or exurban area with crap public transportation.
Usually, even the "good" currency (aka the one not inflated as much as the "common" currency) isn't really pegged to any currency, and by that I mean it is not readily convertible back to US dollars by everyone who owns it, because the local communist dictatorship doesn't have enough currency reserves to support such a conversion at the semi-large scale. As such, even the "good" currency ends up in the black market, where tourists can buy it (with their USD) at a much more favourable rate than the official "pegged" rate.
"7CUC ($7) " Whaa? A Cuban Ultrainflationary Commietoken is equivalent to one US Dollar? On the real world or according to the Cuban government's exchange rates (which nobody uses if they can avoid it and instead buy the commietokens they want from elsewhere). Or is CUC some special non-inflationary currency pegged to the dollar via actual currency reserves and available only to those animals in the farm born more equal than the others?
But it's possible to put a digital photo on a website. If we were talking analog cameras, then your point would make sense. And anyway, Sammy could have done any colour correction they wanted. The practice of using a DSLR and try to pass it off as a photo taken with one of their phones reeks of massive scam. Intel tried to pull something with computer graphics once, when they had a videogame rendered backstage with a proper GPU and tried to pass it off as something that came out of their integrated GPUs. So the practice isn't new. God bless disclaimers...
Open source is a joint-development license where everybody can join at any time. It relies on copyright and freedom to participate (or not) and other fine capitalist ideals.
Microsoft is a monopoly now. Apple doesn't exist. Sure. Microsoft just has the majority share because they are cheap compared to Apple.
...it was about time. The reason RCA isn't making anything in the US anymore is because China slaps a tarrif on anything imported from the US but the US doesn't slap a tarrif on Chinese imports.
Which means Facebook employees have to use the Facebook App for Android, right? Maybe this will motivate them to fix it.
This. If HR wants to believe that the earth is flat, a man dressed female clothes and feminine makeup is a woman and that the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is Agile, they can do it. Disallowing employees from saying otherwise is not right IMO.
I don't care what's in my co-workers' legs as long as for legal purposes they cannot change identity on a whim. See my post above for why....
Because the moment identity "fluidity" becomes acceptable in one area, it will start becoming acceptable in others. We 'd have white people identifying as black for the race points (some already do), illegal immigrants identifying as war refugees, professional victims identifying as whatever will get them sympathy. And you will be forced to pretend it's all real, because if a man in drag can claim to be a woman why not them? And then those "I identify as" people will claim legal rights, because if a man in drag identifying as a woman can have the same legal rights as a woman why not them? Your little girl will be forced to pee next to a man in the public toilet, illegal immigrants will treated as war refugees with your tax money, then white special snowflakes can claim to be repressed minorities and receive grants. For the sake of sanity, let's stop the madness. At least when we are allowed to.
Windows and my Nvidia card are complementary goods. And I get to have the latest versions of software without waiting for any repos to repackage them or having to compile them. And I use Windows 8.1 so I don't care what experiments Nadella and his hipsters do to Windows 10. Let someone else beta test their SaaS experiment.
It's always 1999 in Slashdot. Wait for the next "Year Of The Linux Desktop" article if you don't believe me.
This. Thank you. I can't believe my employer forces me to believe that a man in drag is a woman if he identifies as a woman, but after I posted that on the company Slack I was reminded that Slack posts have to meet HR directives on "diversity". At least I made my voice heard.
Every social media platform tries to eliminate the "like" button lately. You see, if there is a "like" button and no "dislike" button (which can be abused by the internet thought patrol to silence dissidents), all voices will be heard and most importantly their impact will be assessed (to a degree). Which isn't good if you are progressive CEO of a "hip" tech startup who believes in political bullying and the silencing of "non-progressive" voices.
But your phone went through a stage where it got apps but no security updates. This is the stage Lollipop phones are now. And there lies the security risk: These phones are perfectly functional and can run most play store apps but are unpatched, and the Google dashboard stats confirm that these phones are indeed active and used. Can't say it in simpler terms. Cheers.
Well duh. What makes those people think that the government, and by that I mean any of the 3 branches, will relinquish the power they spend billions every year to maintain? Even if they manage to find some hole in the law, which in itself is pretty unlikely because the legislative branch has made sure this part of the law is airtight, the law cannot be "hacked" like code can because judges are not robots and they will never set a precedent of "sovereigns", "footles" (freemen on the land - FOTL) and whatnot to secure a win and chose to not be bound by state it federal law. Even a nerd like me, with people not being my strong suit, can think as far.
Yes, I am sure this happens. But again, the official figures from Google show that there are KitKat, Lollipop and Marshmallow phones (with their factory unpatched ROM) in service in far greater numbers than you think. And that's a security problem. The Google dashboard doesn't measure activated devices but active devices.