That's what I wonder about the others. If Apple, and later Microsoft (they're likely to follow) start producing media content, then media companies might wanna consider getting into hardware of their own. Companies like Echostar, Charter, Comcast (ugh) et al should look into making their own branded computers. There is plenty of hardware, and plenty of software (Linux and BSD based) to choose from.
I'd like to see more competition in hardware, not just in shows that I don't watch
This is weird. At work, we have Comcast Business, and it's IPv6, but at home, I have Comcast Home, and it's IPv4. Go figure. But I agree that Comcast is horrible. I pay $40/month for what's supposed to be 50Mbps, and I actually get somewhere ~5Mbps
With most 'free' WiFi flight plans, the way one can access it would be by registering - be it giving them one's email, or somewhat better, giving them one's seat number. Is the same thing needed here, or is it just like accessing any real 'free' WiFi? Or do they have a password that enables this to be somewhat secure?
Plenty smartphones can receive FM radio, it's a standard feature unless the carrier demands it be disabled so that they can sell more megabytes to their poor "customers". Or the phone is made by Apple and they want you to run Itunes, or the phone vendors is run by idiots who think removing features like the SD card is hip and cool. Or sometimes it's just not there. So you just have to check before buying. No "older phones" in there.
They can receive FM radio, but usually, they require an antenna, and they use the 3.5mm connector as the antenna. And I'm talking about the 1G and 2G phones that were there, like the various Nokia and Ericsson phones that had a few custom apps on the phones.
I know what's been invested into the x86 infrastructure: however, the point I was contesting was that the existence of dual sources for the x86 is essential for the market
As Apple illustrated some 10 years ago, they could switch from PowerPC to the x86 pretty smoothly, when they weren't happy w/ the architectural roadmap of the former. The same is true for x86 vs ARM, or even other CPUs. Simple reason for that: while in Apple's case, they had dual ported NEXTSTEP to not just PowerPC but x86 as well while creating OS X, the same is true for most of the OSs in question, and the only exception is Windows, which has frankly been struggling the last couple of years.
Note that for things like ARM, they already have Linux and BSD, which are the 2 main widely ported platforms, which makes a migration in case of a weakening of the x86 infrastructure not as bad as it used to be in the 90s. During that time, one would have had to migrate from not just one CPU to another, but also one OS to another e.g. Intergraph CLIX/Clipper to Sun Solaris/SPARC. Which was typically a pretty major undertaking. In sharp contrast, not only does one have a common OS, w/ open sources to handle any wierdness in the CPU instruction sets themselves, but there are also things like bytecode and virtual machines that didn't exist 20 years ago. Making the migration process a lot smoother.
The only case where it can be argued that portability would be a problem would be Windows, but even there, they've had Windows RT, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 IoT. So it can be argued that all 4 major platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS and BSD - are there on both x86 and ARM, and if Intel tries to horn in on AMD's decline, they'd get slammed by the likes of Qualcomm, NVIDIA, NXP and everyone else. Which is why x86 is not the priceless gem that it was even 10 years ago, when AMD sabotaged Intel's Itanium plans by extending the x86 instruction set to 64- bit
Also, Intel's biggest competitor is not even AMD, nor is it ARM. Over the last several years, their biggest competitor has been their own installed base. They have made CPUs that are so good that there ain't a compelling reason to upgrade, and it's that which has caused a relative period of stagnation for them. So they need to explore which new markets to enter and using which vehicles, and they need to make that vehicle competitive enough to take care of both their top and bottom lines
The x64 is no longer the only game in town. Aside from ARM, which has been gaining traction, there is also RISC V coming along, and so there will be alternatives in the market. What's more - since Android seems to be in the driver's seat, rather than Windows, x64 has even less clout going forward.
The fact that more semiconductor houses can make ARMs or RISC Vs, but only Intel and AMD the x64 means that those CPUs would be more attractive to vendors to support than x64. Don't be surprised to see even Microsoft migrate to these alternate platforms
Not just that, it even acts as an antennae for some older cellphones if one wants to play FM radio on them. But aside from that, if space was so critical, 2.5mm jacks are also standard, if less common
Oh, just fuck yourself!!! As it is, we've had enough of Trump coverage. Slashdot is (or at least was) a tech site, and Apple headphones are certainly more relevant to tech than some stupid Buzzfeed story on the PEOTUS
One could play the iOS or Android versions of the game, where the bank never runs out of cash
About the pieces, one thing I don't like in the newer versions of the game - where the car (called Prius in the game) is replaced by a cat. I wouldn't mind if the cat was simply added, but wasn't too thrilled at Prius gone
Also, the game itself varies the difficulty level by loading the dice: even if one manages to get all the properties, it can still take a while before an AI opponent is taken down
Shouldn't really comment and give this article the air of publicity, but WTF? Perhaps they should change the name from Slashdot to 'things we read in the news section of our Hotwheels comic'. The headline isn't even true (except in the vaguest lying marketing bastard sense). Its the worst kind of 'regurgitate press release without activating brain' article.
In/.'s brave new world, emojis and hashtags are now what pass for 'tech' as well as 'stuff that matters'
Their name makes them sound like they're the sort of experts one expects here on/. Except that once one talks to them, they really don't have much of a clue about anything other than the most mundane of tech issues
From the cited article, where exactly is it written that privacy is an inherent human right? It's not that I'm anti-privacy, but I'd really like to know where either in the US constitution or in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is Privacy one of those rights?
If I'm using a web based console to change my local OS privacy settings, I'm guessing I'm telling some server that's already collecting the info just not to use the info it's already collecting.
The only advantage of this that I can think of is that if you're getting your Windows on a new computer and don't wish to redo all the initialized settings but just pick up where you left off, then this OneDrive based settings would work well
Otherwise it's just an ironic way of being flippant about the issue
You can bet, the only thing this will do is put our military in danger.
The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. It's just
that simple. Quit screwing around with these stupid "green" things when
it comes to the military.
As usual, the flowers & beads decked SJWs modded you down, even though what you wrote is correct. What they overlook is that none of our enemies - ISIS, the Iranians, the Syrians, even the Russians bother about any of that stuff. You won't see bullets decompose and sprout plants.
This program is pretty much on the lines of glutein free MREs, transgender commanders and so on. We should export the SJWs who gave us this to Raqqa, so that they can train ISIS on how to get these things. Maybe work on biodegradable swords for them that they can use in their beheadings, and so on.
Thankfully, in 2 weeks, the Obamanation will be behind us, and such programs can be the first put to.... biodegradable bullets of their own. So that no more cash is wasted on such things when we're scratching our heads on the $20T debt.
In the timeframe we are discussing, while iOS had FaceTime, Android had nothing equivalent. Now, Android has Duo, but previously, things like Hangouts were hardly adequate
A few weeks ago, WhatsApp introduced Video calls, which solves the problem across 3 platforms - Android, iOS and Windows Phone. FaceTime, as you point out, is iOS only, and Duo is there on Android and iOS but not on Windows Phone. Now, of course, the Lumia line is pulled, but assuming that the Windows 10 Mobile platform itself ain't yanked, WhatsApp does level b/w all 3 platforms.
For that, everyone else one is talking to has to have Skype on their phone, and it doesn't come automatically preloaded. Whereas FaceTime comes w/ it, and WhatsApp is popular enough and common to enough people
I'll second this. I bought a couple of music videos some months back, and recently could not download them after making space on my iPad.
Actually, Windows 10 is almost the ideal platform for music - except when you are driving. I had an app Hyper (it's no longer in the Windows Store) which I'd use to download YouTube videos. If the volume was low, I'd use FormatFactory to amplify it so that I get what I want. Over the last 2 years, I've collected a whole bunch of videos this after first hearing them on Sirius XM, and then processing their volume when needed, and finally saving them both on my computer and on OneDrive, so that I can access them from my phones or tablets. It works just great.
Only twist comes when I'm in the car. My car stereo has a system for playing iPods, which I can seamlessly control from my steering wheel, and Apple's Music app allows one to do something that Groove (on my Lumia) doesn't do: include music videos in playlists. Only problem: my iPad doesn't recognize songs downloaded from OneDrive, even though it can play it when connected to that site. While Windows 10 Mobile doesn't have playlist support in their Movies app (which is currently the default for playing music videos) and doesn't have video support in Groove (which does have playlists. So even if I have a group of videos that I'd like to listen to, I can't do it in the car w/o getting distracted, since playlists ain't supported. Oh, and one more thing - when I had a Winbook, the car navigation system wouldn't recognize its Bluetooth, or even if it did, it couldn't play stuff from there.
But other than that, if I'm not driving, then YouTube downloads followed by listening on Windows 10 is the ideal way to do it
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That's a pity. They oughta provide support for Steam in this mode - that would make a whole lot of more sense
That's what I wonder about the others. If Apple, and later Microsoft (they're likely to follow) start producing media content, then media companies might wanna consider getting into hardware of their own. Companies like Echostar, Charter, Comcast (ugh) et al should look into making their own branded computers. There is plenty of hardware, and plenty of software (Linux and BSD based) to choose from.
I'd like to see more competition in hardware, not just in shows that I don't watch
This is weird. At work, we have Comcast Business, and it's IPv6, but at home, I have Comcast Home, and it's IPv4. Go figure. But I agree that Comcast is horrible. I pay $40/month for what's supposed to be 50Mbps, and I actually get somewhere ~5Mbps
With most 'free' WiFi flight plans, the way one can access it would be by registering - be it giving them one's email, or somewhat better, giving them one's seat number. Is the same thing needed here, or is it just like accessing any real 'free' WiFi? Or do they have a password that enables this to be somewhat secure?
Windows already goes into the login screen if it's left long enough that the powersaver kicks in
Plenty smartphones can receive FM radio, it's a standard feature unless the carrier demands it be disabled so that they can sell more megabytes to their poor "customers". Or the phone is made by Apple and they want you to run Itunes, or the phone vendors is run by idiots who think removing features like the SD card is hip and cool. Or sometimes it's just not there. So you just have to check before buying. No "older phones" in there.
They can receive FM radio, but usually, they require an antenna, and they use the 3.5mm connector as the antenna. And I'm talking about the 1G and 2G phones that were there, like the various Nokia and Ericsson phones that had a few custom apps on the phones.
I know what's been invested into the x86 infrastructure: however, the point I was contesting was that the existence of dual sources for the x86 is essential for the market
As Apple illustrated some 10 years ago, they could switch from PowerPC to the x86 pretty smoothly, when they weren't happy w/ the architectural roadmap of the former. The same is true for x86 vs ARM, or even other CPUs. Simple reason for that: while in Apple's case, they had dual ported NEXTSTEP to not just PowerPC but x86 as well while creating OS X, the same is true for most of the OSs in question, and the only exception is Windows, which has frankly been struggling the last couple of years.
Note that for things like ARM, they already have Linux and BSD, which are the 2 main widely ported platforms, which makes a migration in case of a weakening of the x86 infrastructure not as bad as it used to be in the 90s. During that time, one would have had to migrate from not just one CPU to another, but also one OS to another e.g. Intergraph CLIX/Clipper to Sun Solaris/SPARC. Which was typically a pretty major undertaking. In sharp contrast, not only does one have a common OS, w/ open sources to handle any wierdness in the CPU instruction sets themselves, but there are also things like bytecode and virtual machines that didn't exist 20 years ago. Making the migration process a lot smoother.
The only case where it can be argued that portability would be a problem would be Windows, but even there, they've had Windows RT, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 IoT. So it can be argued that all 4 major platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS and BSD - are there on both x86 and ARM, and if Intel tries to horn in on AMD's decline, they'd get slammed by the likes of Qualcomm, NVIDIA, NXP and everyone else. Which is why x86 is not the priceless gem that it was even 10 years ago, when AMD sabotaged Intel's Itanium plans by extending the x86 instruction set to 64- bit
Also, Intel's biggest competitor is not even AMD, nor is it ARM. Over the last several years, their biggest competitor has been their own installed base. They have made CPUs that are so good that there ain't a compelling reason to upgrade, and it's that which has caused a relative period of stagnation for them. So they need to explore which new markets to enter and using which vehicles, and they need to make that vehicle competitive enough to take care of both their top and bottom lines
The x64 is no longer the only game in town. Aside from ARM, which has been gaining traction, there is also RISC V coming along, and so there will be alternatives in the market. What's more - since Android seems to be in the driver's seat, rather than Windows, x64 has even less clout going forward.
The fact that more semiconductor houses can make ARMs or RISC Vs, but only Intel and AMD the x64 means that those CPUs would be more attractive to vendors to support than x64. Don't be surprised to see even Microsoft migrate to these alternate platforms
Not just that, it even acts as an antennae for some older cellphones if one wants to play FM radio on them. But aside from that, if space was so critical, 2.5mm jacks are also standard, if less common
Oh, just fuck yourself!!! As it is, we've had enough of Trump coverage. Slashdot is (or at least was) a tech site, and Apple headphones are certainly more relevant to tech than some stupid Buzzfeed story on the PEOTUS
As others have pointed out, there are 4 ways one could listen to something:
1. Using the sound directly from the phone itself;
2. Using the lightning connector headphones that come w/ the phone;
3. Using an existing headphone or speaker via the aux to lightning dongle that comes w/ the phone;
4. Using a bluetooth speaker
One could play the iOS or Android versions of the game, where the bank never runs out of cash
About the pieces, one thing I don't like in the newer versions of the game - where the car (called Prius in the game) is replaced by a cat. I wouldn't mind if the cat was simply added, but wasn't too thrilled at Prius gone
Also, the game itself varies the difficulty level by loading the dice: even if one manages to get all the properties, it can still take a while before an AI opponent is taken down
Shouldn't really comment and give this article the air of publicity, but WTF? Perhaps they should change the name from Slashdot to 'things we read in the news section of our Hotwheels comic'. The headline isn't even true (except in the vaguest lying marketing bastard sense). Its the worst kind of 'regurgitate press release without activating brain' article.
In /.'s brave new world, emojis and hashtags are now what pass for 'tech' as well as 'stuff that matters'
Their name makes them sound like they're the sort of experts one expects here on /. Except that once one talks to them, they really don't have much of a clue about anything other than the most mundane of tech issues
From the cited article, where exactly is it written that privacy is an inherent human right? It's not that I'm anti-privacy, but I'd really like to know where either in the US constitution or in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is Privacy one of those rights?
If I'm using a web based console to change my local OS privacy settings, I'm guessing I'm telling some server that's already collecting the info just not to use the info it's already collecting.
The only advantage of this that I can think of is that if you're getting your Windows on a new computer and don't wish to redo all the initialized settings but just pick up where you left off, then this OneDrive based settings would work well
Otherwise it's just an ironic way of being flippant about the issue
No, it runs from the cloud
Yeah, that's the thankful part. After Jan 20th, all these things can be put in the shredder
You can bet, the only thing this will do is put our military in danger. The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. It's just that simple. Quit screwing around with these stupid "green" things when it comes to the military.
As usual, the flowers & beads decked SJWs modded you down, even though what you wrote is correct. What they overlook is that none of our enemies - ISIS, the Iranians, the Syrians, even the Russians bother about any of that stuff. You won't see bullets decompose and sprout plants.
This program is pretty much on the lines of glutein free MREs, transgender commanders and so on. We should export the SJWs who gave us this to Raqqa, so that they can train ISIS on how to get these things. Maybe work on biodegradable swords for them that they can use in their beheadings, and so on.
Thankfully, in 2 weeks, the Obamanation will be behind us, and such programs can be the first put to.... biodegradable bullets of their own. So that no more cash is wasted on such things when we're scratching our heads on the $20T debt.
In the timeframe we are discussing, while iOS had FaceTime, Android had nothing equivalent. Now, Android has Duo, but previously, things like Hangouts were hardly adequate
A few weeks ago, WhatsApp introduced Video calls, which solves the problem across 3 platforms - Android, iOS and Windows Phone. FaceTime, as you point out, is iOS only, and Duo is there on Android and iOS but not on Windows Phone. Now, of course, the Lumia line is pulled, but assuming that the Windows 10 Mobile platform itself ain't yanked, WhatsApp does level b/w all 3 platforms.
So essentially, this is metal furniture that is somehow passed off as 'High-Tech' due to some connector that may be there b/w the racks?
If one has an iOS toy - be it an iPod/Pad/Phone, then that's the only way one can transfer content from the laptop to one of those toys
For that, everyone else one is talking to has to have Skype on their phone, and it doesn't come automatically preloaded. Whereas FaceTime comes w/ it, and WhatsApp is popular enough and common to enough people
,,, but iTunes is an interface abomination.
I'll second this. I bought a couple of music videos some months back, and recently could not download them after making space on my iPad.
Actually, Windows 10 is almost the ideal platform for music - except when you are driving. I had an app Hyper (it's no longer in the Windows Store) which I'd use to download YouTube videos. If the volume was low, I'd use FormatFactory to amplify it so that I get what I want. Over the last 2 years, I've collected a whole bunch of videos this after first hearing them on Sirius XM, and then processing their volume when needed, and finally saving them both on my computer and on OneDrive, so that I can access them from my phones or tablets. It works just great.
Only twist comes when I'm in the car. My car stereo has a system for playing iPods, which I can seamlessly control from my steering wheel, and Apple's Music app allows one to do something that Groove (on my Lumia) doesn't do: include music videos in playlists. Only problem: my iPad doesn't recognize songs downloaded from OneDrive, even though it can play it when connected to that site. While Windows 10 Mobile doesn't have playlist support in their Movies app (which is currently the default for playing music videos) and doesn't have video support in Groove (which does have playlists. So even if I have a group of videos that I'd like to listen to, I can't do it in the car w/o getting distracted, since playlists ain't supported. Oh, and one more thing - when I had a Winbook, the car navigation system wouldn't recognize its Bluetooth, or even if it did, it couldn't play stuff from there.
But other than that, if I'm not driving, then YouTube downloads followed by listening on Windows 10 is the ideal way to do it
Wiki is better - they provide whether they are married or not, w/ kids or not, so that one (almost) knows whether they are virgins