I still come across Flash from time to time, mostly for live streaming video. DASH works, but it's still a young standard, and a lot of people haven't switched over.
With respect, I don't think any of that's true, but it's one of these great assertions of utter donkeyballs that, if thought about, actually leads to the truth.
Wanting a more rugged phone with a decent battery life has nothing to do with "nostalgia", and battery life is actually one of the top complaints amongst smartphone users. So why doesn't the market support that?
Well, because the market is not the same as "most smartphone buyers". Most smartphone buyers do not spend $600 on a f---ing smartphone. Most smartphone buyers spend under $200 on a device with the biggest screen they can find, and then $10 on a "case" that makes it three times as thick.
Who doesn't do this? The people who pay $600 for a phone.
What's so special about $600 phones? Is it the innards? (No) Is it the screen? Uhm.... kinda, but you're looking at a screen that probably cost Apple or Samsung a cool extra $20 to incorporate. Better camera? Ditto.
No, what's special about a $600 phone, which cost maybe $50 more to build than the $60 BLU R1 HD in my pocket, is that has a very pleasing to the eye design.
That is it. That's the difference between a very good $150 phone, and a top of the line Galaxy.
This is why, more than likely, that under $200 phone will actually be more useful than the $600 iGalaxy. It may well have on bezel buttons, resulting in a less awkward UI. It may have a removable battery, or an SD card slot, or both. It may well have dual SIM support.
It may even have a battery that lasts more than eight hours before spluttering out.
The majority of smartphone users want better batteries, features, robustness, and we really don't care about how slim it is. But the majority of smartphone users are barely profitable, with tiny single digit percentage margins. So they literally don't care about us: they care about that minority that's willing to pay $600 for a phone with a build cost of well under $200.
And that minority is the group that wants paper thin phones.
The 68000 presented a 32 bit ABI, but was internally a 16 bit CPU and presented a 16 bit data bus. The 68000 Amigas (1000, 500, 2000, "1500", etc) used a 16 bit data bus, even when they had a "real" 32 bit 68xxx CPU card installed. As a result, it is reasonable to talk about the 68000 range of Amigas as 16 bit.
Technically, you could also call the A3000 a 16/32 bit hybrid, as the ECS side (complete with chip RAM) was still accessed via a 16 bit pipe.
It would have worked great at $200 (which was the intention, it was supposed to replace the C64, not A500+), at $400-700 (depending on country), it was absurdly overpriced.
I'm going to dissent on the memory protection thing for three reasons: first, technical: CAOS probably wouldn't have been as efficient, expandable, and pleasant as AmigaOS assuming it made a serious attempt to implement memory protection. AmigaOS was those things because it had a message passing architecture that relied upon each process being able to see each other process's data. This worked throughout the entire system, device drivers passing disk blocks to file systems ("handlers"), in turn passing that data to running programs.
The first Amiga designs also barely supported memory protection. The A1000 had hardware in it (which I don't believe was part of the core Amiga chipset) to write protect a block of memory, but that was it.
The second problem is that CAOS was ditched for AmigaOS with Tripos for a very good reason that would have also hit Atari - it was too big a project, and they had a deadline to meet.
The third is we kinda know what choice Tramiel would have made to deal with the deadline issue, because we know what he did for his own Amiga rival: he would have said "We don't need some Unix like system, people are using PCs, they're happy with single tasking and 8.3 filenames. Let's see what Microsoft's rival Digital Research can sell us"
And the Amiga would have run TOS - essentially a first draft of DR's DOS Plus operating system, with GEM.
I do agree that Atari's management would have worked better for it in the longer term, but I think Atari's Amiga A1000 would have been a whole lot worse than Commodore's.
Not exactly a useful suggestion. Most traffic laws aren't about intent and if they were, not seeing a stop sign is not the same thing as not intending to roll past one. I can totally see someone whose brakes fail getting stop sign violation tickets thrown out of court, for example.
This case is typical of much of the anti-Clinton rumors we've seen lately. A germ of truth - that a Clinton employee might have asked Reddit for help to change email addresses on an exported file - has been whipped up into allegations that she ordered him to delete emails (not email addresses, emails), in some kind of attempt to cover something serious up.
Going back to the real allegation: OK, he asked to change email addresses on an export. So.... what's the scandal here? No seriously, those who aren't lying about what the allegation is are at least claiming it's evidence of evidence tampering - but what actually was tampered in such a way it would have materially affected an investigation?
What was he trying to do that would prevent Clinton from being criminally prosecuted? Anything at all? He's just changing email addresses in headers, not content. A single response to a message "From" Barack Obama that quotes the sent email as being actually "from" Colonel Gadaffi would be easily spotted.
The most likely reason the email addresses were changed was to prevent certain email addresses from becoming public.
Which is fine. No scandal.
We go through this bullshit every few months. Clinton's haters seem to be incapable of spending more than a few days without inventing some other crap. It sucks because we're probably going to spend the next four years seeing Clinton constantly investigated for non-issues, with government as dysfunctional as ever. It's part of why I'm reluctant to vote for her (but will, because I live in a swing state.)
That works/worked* in the car industry where a car that's twenty five years old isn't typically much less advanced than one twenty years old. But in our industry?
Commodore's problem was more that they took an age to substantially improve the Amiga and make those improvements available. The A500 was more or less an A1000 in a keyboard case and was still being sold as one of TWO Amiga models five years later. And the A2000, the other model, wasn't more powerful than the A1000 (or A500), it was just more expandable. In the same year they finally relented and released the A3000, a 32 bit Amiga, but priced it way out of consideration for most people.
None of this was the engineers' fault it should be pointed out. While it took a while to come up with a better base chipset to replace OCS/ECS, the engineers were still belting out some fantastic designs, most of which were squished by upper management. Commodore Management's response to the increasing obsolescence of their low end model wasn't to replace it with something better, it was to replace it, at the same price, with the A600, a machine that was worse in almost every respect (well, it did have an IDE interface...), and which had been designed as a replacement for the Commodore 64.
Had the A3000 replaced the A2000 in 1990, with a similar upgrade given to the A500, I think Commodore might have stood a chance.
* OK, there's a reason I put 20 years there and "worked" - the car industry is genuinely going through a development phase which is nice to see.
It's easy to gain a competitive advantage if you have more or less the exact same business model, but ignore the laws and regulations that govern your competitors.
The summary is fine. Pepe the Frog is a beloved meme, check. Pepe has been recently adopted by the far right, check. The only thing wrong is the headline, which can easily be misread as meaning the ADL has made a blanket "All uses of Pepe are examples of Hate".
The biggest thing that's wrong is... well, Slashdot's readers. Give them something you can easily misunderstand, and they'll launch half cocked, often with an interpretation even more stupid than the obvious misinterpretation.
And, BTW, to the OP of this thread: the ADL is one of the oldest surviving and famous groups that fights anti-semitism. It's hardly obscure, and a quick Google search would have given you the answer.
Yes, the Senate shouldn't ask for information before considering laws, it should just rule from the gut, right?
It would be so much better for the above Senators to simply propose the "Cut All Sysadmin's Goolies Off Act 2016", pass it, and then move on to the next thing...
In Android at least, only one application can be running at the same time (no background processing unless you program a service for your app)
Bollocks.
And the rest of what you say has nothing to do with Android or ChromeOS. You can have access to root in both. Android devices generally have it disabled but it can be enabled - of course, even CyanogenMod discourages root access these days, as it shouldn't be necessary. ChromeOS? Off by default, but every ChromeBook let's you reconfigure ChromeOS to allow root if you desperately want it. As for "Spyware", it's entirely up to you whether you use Google's services or not.
And none of your objections have anything to do with the original point. You're complaining about the UI disabling certain features. The underlying operating system has those features. And, frankly, easy access to root was something that Windows 95 gave you by default that NT made a little harder to get...
What's interesting about it? Netbook/Tablet hybrids are widely available already! Most of them come with Windows 10, but you can install anything you like on them.
But, FWIW, Chromebooks generally have a feature, sometimes implemented in hardware, sometimes in software, that disables the TPM module so you can either access the operating system as a developer, or wipe the OS completely and put on a more usual desktop system.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but both Android and ChromeOS (presumably meaning the OS under discussion here too) are full blown modern operating systems with networking, permissions, memory protection, etc. They are both on a par with Unix in terms of features. They both, however, have user interfaces that block user access to certain features of the operating system.
Apart from the obvious-but-snarky ("Install Linux! hoho I'm so clever!"), you can indefinitely postpone all Windows updates on all versions of Windows 10 by stopping (and disabling if you find a way) the Windows Update service.
Of course, you lose the security updates if you do that too. Whether that's massively important to you depends on how often you run executables downloaded from the Internet, and what TCP/IP services you run on your computer.
Obviously "No security updates" is a bad thing, but if Windows insists on installing an update that actually breaks your PC in some way, no security updates might be the better of two evils, especially if you don't use IE or Edge, run any externally accessible services, and don't run every executable you download from the Internet.
I don't think either Yahoo or Twitter has to lose money, but the path to profitability is a horrible one: they're both heavily overstaffed for what they do. Twitter in particular, IIRC, has thousands of employees, managing what's actually a fairly simple product. You could reduce the headcount to well under a hundred people.
In that respect, being bought out is a preferable solution. The newly created division can set about reorganizing itself as a small focused team on the product at hand, while much of the remaining staff can be absorbed into the larger company over time. There'd still be redundancies, but they wouldn't be anything like as bad.
I wouldn't call it a "rumor": the person who allegedly had the conversation with Trump was the person who said it happened. If it's false, it's a lie, which makes it somewhat less likely that it's false.
Trump is Bush with more bankruptcies, less military service, and no discernible interest in anything about the job other than power.
And, if anything, you're still being unfair to Bush. Bush! Probably the worst President since Nixon. And pretty much any comparison of him to Trump makes him look like a peace loving world statesman.
I would vote for Bush over Trump in a heartbeat. People ask why I'm prepared to vote for Clinton, given I dislike her politics so much, and there's your reason.
Leaving aside the "OH NOES! TAXES!" BS, the statement you quote never suggests that supplying Internet access is "charitable" or "unprofitable". It says "the majority of the area does not present enough profitability to attract the private-sector investment", not "the majority of the area does not present profit to attract the private-sector investment".
The private sector generally doesn't invest in projects to make small amounts of profit, especially if they're expensive. There are many, many, examples of projects that would more than pay for themselves that you'll never see the private sector take an interest in, because the promise of a 10% return here for a medium risk is unattractive compared to the promise of 100% there, for little or no risk.
As for taxes, I personally like paying taxes. As a wise man once said, in return I get civilization.
Best Buy doesn't require people sign contracts when buying from them. He's almost certainly not agreed to an Arbitration Clause if all he's done is open the box and attempt to install GNU/Linux.
Cancer can be caused by anything that can cause a cell's DNA to be corrupted. Some types of virus do corrupt DNA in this way, and while normally it's not a problem (viruses need to ensure their corrupted cells survive so they can spread), typical minor random transcription mistakes can occur, and those can cause cancer, just as radiation or asbestos fibers can.
Worse still, AT&T is phasing out 2G for some reason (2GSM is pretty low on the bandwidth requirements, I believe it needs 600kHz, maybe less, for a basic service) so even if it did support US frequencies, you'd be stuck with T-Mobile.
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I still come across Flash from time to time, mostly for live streaming video. DASH works, but it's still a young standard, and a lot of people haven't switched over.
With respect, I don't think any of that's true, but it's one of these great assertions of utter donkeyballs that, if thought about, actually leads to the truth.
Wanting a more rugged phone with a decent battery life has nothing to do with "nostalgia", and battery life is actually one of the top complaints amongst smartphone users. So why doesn't the market support that?
Well, because the market is not the same as "most smartphone buyers". Most smartphone buyers do not spend $600 on a f---ing smartphone. Most smartphone buyers spend under $200 on a device with the biggest screen they can find, and then $10 on a "case" that makes it three times as thick.
Who doesn't do this? The people who pay $600 for a phone.
What's so special about $600 phones? Is it the innards? (No) Is it the screen? Uhm.... kinda, but you're looking at a screen that probably cost Apple or Samsung a cool extra $20 to incorporate. Better camera? Ditto.
No, what's special about a $600 phone, which cost maybe $50 more to build than the $60 BLU R1 HD in my pocket, is that has a very pleasing to the eye design.
That is it. That's the difference between a very good $150 phone, and a top of the line Galaxy.
This is why, more than likely, that under $200 phone will actually be more useful than the $600 iGalaxy. It may well have on bezel buttons, resulting in a less awkward UI. It may have a removable battery, or an SD card slot, or both. It may well have dual SIM support.
It may even have a battery that lasts more than eight hours before spluttering out.
The majority of smartphone users want better batteries, features, robustness, and we really don't care about how slim it is. But the majority of smartphone users are barely profitable, with tiny single digit percentage margins. So they literally don't care about us: they care about that minority that's willing to pay $600 for a phone with a build cost of well under $200.
And that minority is the group that wants paper thin phones.
The 68000 presented a 32 bit ABI, but was internally a 16 bit CPU and presented a 16 bit data bus. The 68000 Amigas (1000, 500, 2000, "1500", etc) used a 16 bit data bus, even when they had a "real" 32 bit 68xxx CPU card installed. As a result, it is reasonable to talk about the 68000 range of Amigas as 16 bit.
Technically, you could also call the A3000 a 16/32 bit hybrid, as the ECS side (complete with chip RAM) was still accessed via a 16 bit pipe.
It would have worked great at $200 (which was the intention, it was supposed to replace the C64, not A500+), at $400-700 (depending on country), it was absurdly overpriced.
I'm going to dissent on the memory protection thing for three reasons: first, technical: CAOS probably wouldn't have been as efficient, expandable, and pleasant as AmigaOS assuming it made a serious attempt to implement memory protection. AmigaOS was those things because it had a message passing architecture that relied upon each process being able to see each other process's data. This worked throughout the entire system, device drivers passing disk blocks to file systems ("handlers"), in turn passing that data to running programs.
The first Amiga designs also barely supported memory protection. The A1000 had hardware in it (which I don't believe was part of the core Amiga chipset) to write protect a block of memory, but that was it.
The second problem is that CAOS was ditched for AmigaOS with Tripos for a very good reason that would have also hit Atari - it was too big a project, and they had a deadline to meet.
The third is we kinda know what choice Tramiel would have made to deal with the deadline issue, because we know what he did for his own Amiga rival: he would have said "We don't need some Unix like system, people are using PCs, they're happy with single tasking and 8.3 filenames. Let's see what Microsoft's rival Digital Research can sell us"
And the Amiga would have run TOS - essentially a first draft of DR's DOS Plus operating system, with GEM.
I do agree that Atari's management would have worked better for it in the longer term, but I think Atari's Amiga A1000 would have been a whole lot worse than Commodore's.
Not exactly a useful suggestion. Most traffic laws aren't about intent and if they were, not seeing a stop sign is not the same thing as not intending to roll past one. I can totally see someone whose brakes fail getting stop sign violation tickets thrown out of court, for example.
This case is typical of much of the anti-Clinton rumors we've seen lately. A germ of truth - that a Clinton employee might have asked Reddit for help to change email addresses on an exported file - has been whipped up into allegations that she ordered him to delete emails (not email addresses, emails), in some kind of attempt to cover something serious up.
Going back to the real allegation: OK, he asked to change email addresses on an export. So.... what's the scandal here? No seriously, those who aren't lying about what the allegation is are at least claiming it's evidence of evidence tampering - but what actually was tampered in such a way it would have materially affected an investigation?
What was he trying to do that would prevent Clinton from being criminally prosecuted? Anything at all? He's just changing email addresses in headers, not content. A single response to a message "From" Barack Obama that quotes the sent email as being actually "from" Colonel Gadaffi would be easily spotted.
The most likely reason the email addresses were changed was to prevent certain email addresses from becoming public.
Which is fine. No scandal.
We go through this bullshit every few months. Clinton's haters seem to be incapable of spending more than a few days without inventing some other crap. It sucks because we're probably going to spend the next four years seeing Clinton constantly investigated for non-issues, with government as dysfunctional as ever. It's part of why I'm reluctant to vote for her (but will, because I live in a swing state.)
That works/worked* in the car industry where a car that's twenty five years old isn't typically much less advanced than one twenty years old. But in our industry?
Commodore's problem was more that they took an age to substantially improve the Amiga and make those improvements available. The A500 was more or less an A1000 in a keyboard case and was still being sold as one of TWO Amiga models five years later. And the A2000, the other model, wasn't more powerful than the A1000 (or A500), it was just more expandable. In the same year they finally relented and released the A3000, a 32 bit Amiga, but priced it way out of consideration for most people.
None of this was the engineers' fault it should be pointed out. While it took a while to come up with a better base chipset to replace OCS/ECS, the engineers were still belting out some fantastic designs, most of which were squished by upper management. Commodore Management's response to the increasing obsolescence of their low end model wasn't to replace it with something better, it was to replace it, at the same price, with the A600, a machine that was worse in almost every respect (well, it did have an IDE interface...), and which had been designed as a replacement for the Commodore 64.
Had the A3000 replaced the A2000 in 1990, with a similar upgrade given to the A500, I think Commodore might have stood a chance.
* OK, there's a reason I put 20 years there and "worked" - the car industry is genuinely going through a development phase which is nice to see.
It's easy to gain a competitive advantage if you have more or less the exact same business model, but ignore the laws and regulations that govern your competitors.
The summary is fine. Pepe the Frog is a beloved meme, check. Pepe has been recently adopted by the far right, check. The only thing wrong is the headline, which can easily be misread as meaning the ADL has made a blanket "All uses of Pepe are examples of Hate".
The biggest thing that's wrong is... well, Slashdot's readers. Give them something you can easily misunderstand, and they'll launch half cocked, often with an interpretation even more stupid than the obvious misinterpretation.
And, BTW, to the OP of this thread: the ADL is one of the oldest surviving and famous groups that fights anti-semitism. It's hardly obscure, and a quick Google search would have given you the answer.
Yes, the Senate shouldn't ask for information before considering laws, it should just rule from the gut, right?
It would be so much better for the above Senators to simply propose the "Cut All Sysadmin's Goolies Off Act 2016", pass it, and then move on to the next thing...
Bollocks.
And the rest of what you say has nothing to do with Android or ChromeOS. You can have access to root in both. Android devices generally have it disabled but it can be enabled - of course, even CyanogenMod discourages root access these days, as it shouldn't be necessary. ChromeOS? Off by default, but every ChromeBook let's you reconfigure ChromeOS to allow root if you desperately want it. As for "Spyware", it's entirely up to you whether you use Google's services or not.
And none of your objections have anything to do with the original point. You're complaining about the UI disabling certain features. The underlying operating system has those features. And, frankly, easy access to root was something that Windows 95 gave you by default that NT made a little harder to get...
What's interesting about it? Netbook/Tablet hybrids are widely available already! Most of them come with Windows 10, but you can install anything you like on them.
But, FWIW, Chromebooks generally have a feature, sometimes implemented in hardware, sometimes in software, that disables the TPM module so you can either access the operating system as a developer, or wipe the OS completely and put on a more usual desktop system.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but both Android and ChromeOS (presumably meaning the OS under discussion here too) are full blown modern operating systems with networking, permissions, memory protection, etc. They are both on a par with Unix in terms of features. They both, however, have user interfaces that block user access to certain features of the operating system.
This is nothing like the jump from 95 to NT.
Maybe this Google query will give you a hint as to why they have an office in Santa Monica.
Hint: It isn't because top networking specialists and PHP programmers are best found in Los Angeles.
Apart from the obvious-but-snarky ("Install Linux! hoho I'm so clever!"), you can indefinitely postpone all Windows updates on all versions of Windows 10 by stopping (and disabling if you find a way) the Windows Update service.
Of course, you lose the security updates if you do that too. Whether that's massively important to you depends on how often you run executables downloaded from the Internet, and what TCP/IP services you run on your computer.
Obviously "No security updates" is a bad thing, but if Windows insists on installing an update that actually breaks your PC in some way, no security updates might be the better of two evils, especially if you don't use IE or Edge, run any externally accessible services, and don't run every executable you download from the Internet.
I don't think either Yahoo or Twitter has to lose money, but the path to profitability is a horrible one: they're both heavily overstaffed for what they do. Twitter in particular, IIRC, has thousands of employees, managing what's actually a fairly simple product. You could reduce the headcount to well under a hundred people.
In that respect, being bought out is a preferable solution. The newly created division can set about reorganizing itself as a small focused team on the product at hand, while much of the remaining staff can be absorbed into the larger company over time. There'd still be redundancies, but they wouldn't be anything like as bad.
I wouldn't call it a "rumor": the person who allegedly had the conversation with Trump was the person who said it happened. If it's false, it's a lie, which makes it somewhat less likely that it's false.
And, if anything, you're still being unfair to Bush. Bush! Probably the worst President since Nixon. And pretty much any comparison of him to Trump makes him look like a peace loving world statesman.
I would vote for Bush over Trump in a heartbeat. People ask why I'm prepared to vote for Clinton, given I dislike her politics so much, and there's your reason.
I'm expected to carry around my citizenship papers now?
(That said, I'm guessing not, because I'm white. Right?)
Leaving aside the "OH NOES! TAXES!" BS, the statement you quote never suggests that supplying Internet access is "charitable" or "unprofitable". It says "the majority of the area does not present enough profitability to attract the private-sector investment", not "the majority of the area does not present profit to attract the private-sector investment".
The private sector generally doesn't invest in projects to make small amounts of profit, especially if they're expensive. There are many, many, examples of projects that would more than pay for themselves that you'll never see the private sector take an interest in, because the promise of a 10% return here for a medium risk is unattractive compared to the promise of 100% there, for little or no risk.
As for taxes, I personally like paying taxes. As a wise man once said, in return I get civilization.
Best Buy doesn't require people sign contracts when buying from them. He's almost certainly not agreed to an Arbitration Clause if all he's done is open the box and attempt to install GNU/Linux.
Apple is not a fast food company. When MacDonalds patents a new type of smartphone, we'll accept the GP's anecdote was of no interest.
Cancer can be caused by anything that can cause a cell's DNA to be corrupted. Some types of virus do corrupt DNA in this way, and while normally it's not a problem (viruses need to ensure their corrupted cells survive so they can spread), typical minor random transcription mistakes can occur, and those can cause cancer, just as radiation or asbestos fibers can.
Worse still, AT&T is phasing out 2G for some reason (2GSM is pretty low on the bandwidth requirements, I believe it needs 600kHz, maybe less, for a basic service) so even if it did support US frequencies, you'd be stuck with T-Mobile.